The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-22
THE RAILROADS. TAX
The Northern Pacific Appeals
Against Higher Assessment.
RECEIVER BAKERS PROTEST.
ma says Merchants Bank stock Il
WORTHLESS Winding Up the Sc
mon Rumpf Litigation.

rra board os equalization yesterday
.r.r,t much tine IN considering the as
s.senert Of Northern Pacific railroad
.-oaerfv and OF the bankrupt Merchants
xa;ssnsl bank.
rsv sesigwsck, tax agent OF the Northern
parsfss. railroad. appeared IN response TO
fsfre~ from the board abosi; raising the
az on the old Seattle transfer barn prop
s-sv from $1,000 10 %5s.0oo. The board
..se,teally admitted before the close OF
- ds,ctssion that under the present con-
Ss.ians The Increase would not be eauable
NJ sedewiek also objected 10 the aSsess-
-1nt Of 900 on the Yesier wharf prop
srty. and asked tfsat Ii be reduced 10 $40
a. he also claimed that there was no
rsason Why sections u and .. township
= range 6. should be assessed at Si2.s 80
ana IL go, and requested that each he re-
aaeed 10 sl.1S0. lie said he thought the
..-esxment had been made simply because
sha lands were near coal property.
Receiver Baker. of the Merchants Ma
,.enai bank. asked that the assessment on
80 hank capital amounting TO SIS, 3ss be
reduced to nothing. for the reason that
vhan the assessment was made the stock
was worth nothing, after the real estate
xalue held By the bank had been SUBJ
fracte6.
Ar old gray-haired man asked to have
h,x assessment reduced. One OF the men,
her. asked him what IL was. and he re-
ns,ed that be did not know. but knew IL
,unst be TOO high. This lis only one out of
4 hundred just such cases.
Another man from Squak slough wanted
an assessment OF s. per acre reduced.
sis the assessment excessive?" asked
Mr. Heaton.
.No." replied the man. but II Is too
high
The following petitions to reduce were
recs.yed:
Union Electric Company lots 7 and s.
block z. Heirs OF s. A. Bells add, improve
nents. SEQ, to sicee.
yitus Schmidt. lot g. block u. Terry's
Second add s. 90 to 800: compromised
n, 1850. lot z. block ". 800 70 $500,
compromised at 100.
c. II. Baker, receiver Merchants Ma
tional bank, reduce stock to nothing.
n. c. portway. lot 4. block -, Central
Seattle $50 10 $3.50; lot 8. $40 10 ss00. lots
and s. block II. each 500 10 500: lots
is and 10. block II. each $40 10 $3.50.
lots and 2, block 20. each $500 to 500: lot
Z. block q 500 70 $50: lots and 2. block
n. each 500 to $50. lot G, $3.50 10 $50. lot 6,
block q. $50 to $50
Seattle Turnveren, east half lots and
!. block IS. Borcn's add. Improvements,
roo TO 8 800.
8 Toby, IT.. lot L. block u. s. A. Bells
First add. improvements. sioo to 500.
James stephens. north half lots 4 and
Z, block a. Brighton Beach. improve
ments. 500 TO $3.50. compromised at $50.
n. r George lot u. block y. A. A. Den
ny's addition. 8. 10 to $1,000; 13.ss acres in
swlt OF nell. sec Is. 10 "A, 3, 1850 to
r. Evans. lots 10 to IL. block 2 Fairview
Homestead strike improvements.
F.x. Prefontaine. lot s. block II. Bor
ems addition. VIZ lot :. block IL. exempt
entirely.
Esther NJ. Cowden. lots to S. block 50.
Woods South Shore division of Green
Lake. each $50 to 500 lot Z, improvements
sha to 500.
John b. Agen. sIs of swls of swi4 of
sell, sec T. tp 2s, r 4. $3.50 TO $3.50 and strike
improvements.
Oregon Manufacturing Company, lot 4.
block ?, Bakers addition. Improvements
500 10 500. compromise az $500.
Daniel 0I.eary. metz Of nell. sec Is. tp
fri $500 to si5a; nwiZ OF nei4. $500 TO $500.
nwE OF nwA, $3.50 10 $50.
Mary f. Mcpherson. 30 acres in sell of
nwi.. SIC ~, IN 81, 3. $500 TO $3.50. COM
pro used at sieo.
Northern Pacific Railway Company. sec
H. 10 @. 6. 81. 500 10 81 80: sec %. tp q.
re SlseS1 10 1880. Yesler wharf proper
~. Sc 600 10 $1,000
Personal assessments were raised I'm the
following ease1
SEATTLE Gas and Electric Light Compa-
ny ses000 10 sts, 600
Union Electric Company. -siS,so0 20
$500
L. A. Treen. $4,000 10 $4,000.
The following petitions were granted:
c. ". Dost, improvements on lot 6. Stein
les tracts. sts0 to so.
Tie following petitions 10 reduce assess
ments were rejected:
Andrew Knox. G. c. Strong, John III.
White, l.. w Ballard.