Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-03-07
A VERY UNIQUE CASE.
"UNSIGHT AND UNSEEN" NO
TAXES Between.

Prominent lawyers Brain and Discovers
Mares Nest With a Full Setting Of In
hatched Esss-The Matter Still Undecided.
The old reporter had just been pre-
sented with an old Virginia stogy,"
and so was feeling pretty good. As
he elevated bis feet on the office desk
and drew great draughts of content
ment and sent the fragrant odor in
wreaths of smoke above his head, true.
ly it seemed like halo and you could
almost imagine that he needed no
" Thinker Tube" to enable him to
hear things almost anywhere.
"Say, tapped Georges thinker just
now" said he, IL never would do it
before; he always thinks so hard and
l don't like to get tangled in the
mazes of the law-replies, and rejoin-
ders and rebutters and surrebutters.
The experience l had with Scully's
goat gave me all the butting l want.
But George was thinking in plain fig.
ures, so got him pretty clear. Said
he:
"Well this is complex and ambig.
uOus matter, and l don't see just how
to reconcile it with the facts. Now
the facts are that the personal property
assessment rolls show about like this
1898 1899 1900 1901
500 5000 $2,3sO $2,O35
1t is evident that in 1899 things
were pretty blue; but in 1900, returns
from Alaska came in with no improve
ment; in 19O1-but evidently another
diamond ring was brought, and as
the ring was bought, OF course the
money was spent and it couldn't be
taxed
" Well" suggested one of those lit
tie imps that are always putting tire.
some questions to a weary brain, But
the ring and diamond could be taxed,
couldn't they?'
"Shut up" said George, You little
fool; don't you know the ring could
be hid in an old stocking and was not
subject to taxationr
"But,' continued the thinker,
here's the rub; the inventory shows
about $4,000 personal property, and
only $2.O35 Listed; evidently this trifle
of 81, 900 was overlooked. Now Sec.
&c Revenue Law says that the Treas.
urer shall list any property omitted
and here is an evident omission, as no
Klondike boat has come to Olympia
for several years, and it happens that
the Treasurer is one of the executors
and 80 has personal knowledge of this
property and OF this erroneous assess.
ment. But the property is now as it
were in the hands of the court. Will
. motion to order the executors to list
and pay, reach the case? And will !
have to ascertain how far back this
little item Of ri, 900 has been omitted?
What is what, anyhow
And the thinker continued in
Georges active and legal Uranium:
=" l hope the taxpayers won't get impa-
tientl It's pretty snug sum, and il
l can get the tax ON this 81, 600 for
several years it will ease up our affairs
CONSIDERABLY. l wonder how many
others there are in town that little
hunting might revealf"
"Just them" said the o. R., "my
little tube slipped and / lost the con.
nection. I tried it on the Treasurer.
but he evidently had not got the clue
yet. But hope to hear from him
later"
Biggest rain OF the season, Monday
night; pretty nearly filled the bay.
Water was clear up to the top Of the
piles Tuesday morning"
And as he started out he called
back
"Say, don't mention that tax mat.
ter. I've got about 81, 900 in Conied.
crate bills, and I'll be hanged If
want to be taxed on them. So long"