The County That Forgot Its Southern Neighbors

Olympia, Dec. 16. — To the Editor: The people residing in Lewis county just south of the Nisqually river have become tired and disgusted with the unjust rulings of their county commissioners, who, it seems, for years have not recognised them. All petitions for the survey of roads have been rejected and Lewis county has never expended one dollar for the construction of roads or bridges in that portion of the county. No county commissioner has ever visited them since the people settled there. That section of Lewis county being more adjacent to Tacoma is naturally tributary to that city, and the county's commissioners are unfriendly to any section of the county that does not favor Chehalis, and have arranged their districts so as to place a small part of the county lying south of the Nisqually in the first commissioner district, making it entirely disconnected from the main part of the first commissioner district. The people petitioned to be placed in the third commissioner's district, but Commissioner Ferrier, of the third district, fought the petition, claiming that he did not wish to have anything to do with that part of the county. The people, being disgusted with such rulings, have given up all hopes of getting justice of Lewis county and will try to be annexed to Pierce county by the next legislature.