The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1911-09-22
WHITMAN COUNTY
LEADS IN VALUE
IMPROVED LANDS AGGREGATE
SlS,4O3,76S SAYS STATE
TAX COMMISSIONER.

The total value on the improved
lands of the state, according 10 fg-
ures prepared by the state tax com
missioner, is $144, ,922, ,254, and the
average eQualiZed value per acre for
the state is $22.72. Whitman coun-
ty leads all other counties in the ag-
gregate value of it's improved land
with a total of SIS, ,4O3,767, while
King county is second with an aggre-
gate of $13, 100000. The average
euualiZed value per acre in Whitman
coountv is $19.48. King county has
the highest acreage value per acre of
any county in the state, its figure be-
ing S1S5.24. Franklin county has
the lowest average value il the state,
$5.O3, while Wahkiakum county has
the lowest aggregate value, $36, ,7S6.
Teachers Get Certificates.
From the office of H. B. Dewey,
state superintendent of public in
struction, the following names have
been made public as having been sue
cessful in passing the recent teach
ers' examination in Whitman county:
Mrs. c. F. Arland, Garfield; kath-
crime Brownell, st. John: Mrs. r. A.
Brownson, WinOna Eletha Bats,
Oscar Earl Barbee, Mrs. Gertrude
Cotton, Pullman; Florence Cox, Gar
field; Alice K. Chapman, COlfaX;
Blanche Dobson, St. John; Frieda
Faeber, Ella Faeber, Lucy Guerret-
taz UniontOwn; Frances Colds
worthy, Rosalia; Myrtle Gray, Gar
field; Nellie Hughey, Garfield; Irma
/. Harrison. Potlatch; n. Lou Hardy,
Endicott; Iva Haines, NJ. E. Habel,
Pullman; Cordie Hall, Garfield; Les
ter E. Harrison, Palouse; ]. NJ. Ham
mond, Cotton; Anna NJ. Johnson, Pa
louise; Lila Johnson, Moscow: T. F.
Kabler, Steptoe; Linnie L. LeTwell,
Thornton; Bertha Lee, EndicOtt;
Ruth Lowell, ]. z. Marsh, Palouse; F.;
Lillian McAmis, ColfaX; Lewis j..
Neidert, Oakesdale; Frank Newman,
COlfax; Mamie Porter, Lancaster;
Anna Stinson, Colfax; Camelia So
dorff, Johnson; Ethel Smawley, Pull
man; j. Z. Severns, Oakesdale;
Junita Stout, Pullman; Faith Z. Wit
mer. Florence S Wilmer, Palouse.
Lee Talks on Compensation.
Washington's new workingmen' s
compensation law will he the subject
of an address to be delivered by
chairman George A Lee OF the in
dustrial insurance commission before
the American Mining Congress at
Chicago, during the coming week.
Governor in East.
Governor NJ e Hay is now at
Spring Lake, New Jersey, where he
is in attendance al the annual con-
ference of governors of the United
States.
Rate Decision.
An important decision has just
been rendered by the supreme court
affirming the superior court OF Thurs
ton county in upholding tie order OF
the public service commission re-
storing the old rates in the Tacoma
Seattle zone of the Puget Sound Elec-
trio Railway, operating interurban
lines between Seattle and Tacoma,
Seattle and Renton, and Tacoma and
Puyallup. The suburbs OF Seattle
and Tacoma for a distance OF about
twelve miles out are principally af-
1ecteO DE the occasion.
Railroad Values Increase.
From statistics compiled by the
state tax commission it appears that
the actual value of all the railroads
in the state is $345, ,165,52S, which
is an increase over the 1910 valua-
tions of SS7,759,SS2. The total val
uations of all steam railroads in the
state for 1910 was placed at S257,-
405, ,646.
Records Broken in Clearing.
That more land has been cleared
for cultivation during 1911 than in
any preceding year is indicated by
an announcement from state fire
warden John R. Welty, who reports
that three times as many permits for
burning and slashing were issued in
1911 as for any previous year.