The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1910-08-19
COMMISSIONERS IN
SESSION LAST MONDAY
Mostly Business of Routine Ma
ture Was Transacted.
Orders as TO Taxes, Road Matters,
Etc, Disposed Of Order Made
Disseminating Deputy and Clerks
in Assessors Office for 1910.

Pursuant to adjournment the board
OF county commissioners OF Whitman
county met August IS, with the follow
ing members present j. r. Ruply,
county commissioner and chairman of
the board, and Samuel Ellis, county
com missioner.
Orders as to Taxes.
The application of W. c. Brandon sets
forth that he was the head Of family
and was not allowed exemption for 1909
and asks that the exemption be allowed
him. Granted.
The application of Annie F. Bush sets
forth that for the years 1906 and 1907
a five acre tract in the EA of the NEA of
section S-14 40, was doubly assessed;
that she has paid the taxes on one assess
| ment for each year and asks that the
taxes on the other assessment be can
celled. Granted.
The application OF George A. Griffith
sets forth that for the years 1908 and
1909 lots and in section 1-2O45
were assessed at valuation in excess of
what it should have been and asks that
it be reduced to the valuation placed
upon it in 1910 r. tjected.
The application OF r. W. Gwinn sets
forth that for the year 1909 E. A. Stov-
all was assessed With personal property
to the value OF $2460. That later Stov-
all sold said personal property, and that
the applicant bought combined har-
vesting machine which was part of said
personal property; that Stovall failed to
pay the 1909 taxes on said personal
property and said applicant asks that he
be relieved from paying any OF said
taxes except such as would accrue on the
assessment of the combined harvesting
machine, which he is willing to pay.
Granted.
The application OF T. J. Welty for NJ.
D. Henry. sets forth that by error the
valuation on the improvements on the
west 90 feet OF lot 4, block z, original
town OF Pullman. were for the year 1909
raised from 800 to $3.50, and asks that
the 1909 taxes be cancelled on the valu-
alton Of $50. Granted.
The application OF w. NJ. Mattoon sets
forth that for the year 1909 he was the
head of a family and was not allowed
exemption on his personal property as
sessment and asks that the proper ex-
emption be allowed him. Granted.
The application OF II. J. Wilcox sets
forth that sections %, % and "a of
township 10, range ~, were assessed in
school district 26 and should have been
in 126, and asks authority to make the
proper correction. Granted.
Miscellaneous Business.
The following warrants were ordered
cancelled: Current expense fund war
rants Nos. 1OS2S for $25, 12643 for
| $25, 1854 for $50 and exposition fund
warrant No. SO for So.
On petition Of Will R. Heglar and
others, Walter W. Pontious was ap-
pointed justice of the peace for Lamont
precinct No. 68.
An order was made dscontinuing the
employment OF deputy and clerks in the
assessors office for the remainder OF the
year 1910.
The following road foremen's bonds
were approved: s. s. Bailor, road dis
trict No. 1; John G. Dodge, road district
No. 3; J. A. Wood, road district No. 3.
The report OF the Florence Crittenden
Mission was approved.
The report on the expenditure OF an
appropriation made June 20, for the cur
rent expense of the auditors Office, was
approved.
An order was made appropriating 5000
for the current expense OF the auditors
Office.
Road Matters.
The order for hearing on the Parkmen
change in the Morris road was set for
the 10Th day OF September at 1:30 p. m.
The order for hearing on the Black
change on the 6. n. Clark road was set
for September 10 at 2 O'Clock p. m.
The order for hearing on the Weber
road was set for October at 2 o'clock
p. N.
An order was made granting permis-
sion to the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget
Sound Railway Co. to make a small
change in county road in the NJ of
section 26-2O-44.