The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1908-10-07
News of the
State.
STATE TAXATION
LEv|ES FIXED
TOTAL AMOUNT IS s3,593,25o
Broard of Equalization Finishes Its
Labors-The School Fund Is
$1,S7 I ,484.


Labors-The School Fund Is
$f,S71,4S4.
Ola MPIA.-The state board of
equalization Monday completed the
levies of state taxation and the APP
portionment of the amount by coun-
ties. The total amount to be raised
for state purposes on levy OF 4 $40
mills is y3,593,25O. This is made up
as follows.
General fund. s1.197.75o; school
fund, $1,S71.4S4 military fund,
s149,720; road fund, $374,296.
The total state valuation as equal
lied by the state board is $74S,593,-
942. King county's valuation is
s2O3,16S,6S0.
OF the total levy. King county pays
as its proportion $975.210. This is
a reduction from last year of $224,-
500. Last year King county paid 81
per cent of the total taxes. This year
it nays but 81 per cent.
The apportionment by counties, of
the total state taxes, is as follows:
Adams, $77.S52: Asotin, s12,779;
Benton. $40,420 Chehalis. s131,-
$50: Chelan. $49.299; Clallam. s2s.-
$50: Clarke, $49,123; Columbia
s30.329: Cowlitz. $4,000; Douglas
sS1.524; Ferry, s10,453; Franklin,
.33.2S9; Garfield, s19.692; Island,
$7,1S6: Jefferson s22,130; King
s975,21O: Kitsap, $l7.606: Kittitas,
s57,3o1; Klickitat. 1924; Lewis
sS7,4S0. Lincoln. s11O.3SS; Mason
$21,s02: Okanogan, $15.51S; PACT
fic, $4,000: Pierce. $392,S94; San
Juan. 1924: Skagit. $SS.410; Ska
mania. $14.472 Snohomish, $780,
069: Spokane. $357,195; Stevens,
s43,323: Thurston. $54.S3s: Wah-
kiakum. 5000 Walla Walla, s112.-
O67; Whatcom. $11O.644; Whitman,
S13S,2O0; Yakima, $10S,4S7.
SEATTLE.-While trying to steal
a ride on a Columbia & Puget Sound
train at Black Diamond Sunday. Cliff
ford Burris. aged eight years. was
run over and fatally injured.
TUKWILLA.-A $4,000 stone
quarrying plant is to be put in here
by the International Contract COM
pany.
OIL. MPIA.-The state ticket NOM
mated by the prohibitionists Septem-
Der 10 has been filed with the secre-
tary of state.
WALLA WALLA.-The plan of
opponents of the direct primary law
to nominate second county ticket
has been given up. The ticket NOM
mated at the primaries will stand.
PORT ANGELES. Residents and
nonresident property owners OF Port
Angeles are organizing to promote
street Improvements.
ABERDEEN.-Fr Rudstrom,
logger, age "a years, was caught be-
tween a large log and a stump Sat
urday and so badly crushed that he
died in few hours.
POKANE.-James Hopkins. one
of the Oldest members of the Spokane
County Bar association. has been dis
barred One of the charges was that
of making false certificates as no.
tary public.
ABERDEEN.-Elm Buumen,
Russian Finn, was arrested last night
charged with attempted murder. He
is said to have shot at a countryman
during quarrel.
SEATTLE.-Several socialists who
attempted to take advantage Of the
charity tag sale by disposing Of tags
for the benefit of the King county
socialist campaign fund, were arrest
ed Saturday night for violating the
peddlers' ordinance
COLFAX.-Dr. T. D. Ferguson,
age SO years. one of the most widely
L. nh fpt v,1 IN CT ach
ington, is dead. He was a Mason
and prominent member of the
Methodist church.
OLYM.'IA.-In an opinion given
the board of regents of the State
University Tuesday, the attorney gen.
eral holds that the purchase of
pipe organ out of the 5000 900 ap-
preparation for building, granted by
the last legislature. will be a lawful
expenditure. The board has an op-
portunity to buy at reduced price
fine organ which 1t wants to install
in the new Auditorium building. The
organ will be bought for $4,000,
the manufacturers reducing the price
for the benefit they expect to receive
from the advertisement during the
Observation-Disclosures exposition.
BELLINGHAM. - Two hundred
women from all the federated wo-
mems clubs in the state of Washing
ton will arrive in the city Wednesday
afternoon and evening to attend the
twelfth annual convention of the
Washington State Federation of
clubs. which will be held in the First
Congregational church, beginning
Wednesday evening and continuing
until Friday afternoon. Arrange
ments for entertaining the visiting
women have been completed by the
committees from the local clubs, and
Il is planned to make the meeting
one of the most interesting that has
been held in the history of the organ
ization.
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