The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1911-07-21
WHITMAN ESTATES
CONTRIBUTE s3OO3
Inheritance Tax in the State
Amounted 10 $79,459.
State Aid Road Law ls Not Work
ing as Smoothly as Might Be De-
sired Other Notes from State
Capital.

Olympia, July 10 Inheritance taxes
from the estates OF the deceased were
collected by the state tax commission in
the sum OF SIS, ,459 20 during the nine
months period from October let, 1910
to June 3Oth, 1911, while the escheats
collected amounted to $3O15 80, MAX
ing a total of $S2.474 81, while the
estates OF the deceased we're appraised
at value OF $40. .391,427. In Whitman
county there was $3O0345 collected in
inheritance taxes on estates valued at
$299, ,O15, while there we're no escheats
from that county. From King county
alone came over OnG-haIf of the entire
inheritance taxes, or 500, ,125 So
More Road Trouble.
The new law passed by the last Iegis-
lature vesting the power of letting con-
tracts for state aid roads in the hands
OF the county commissioners does not
appear to be working as smoothly as
might be desired. as already complaints
against the new law are coming into
Olympia, and many think that the state
has something to do with these contracts.
In SnohOmisb county there is consider
able trouble as it appears that con-
tract has been let which is entirely un-
satisfactory, and Efforts are being made
to get the state to set the contract
aside, but as the law now is when the
county commissioners get into a squaL-
bic with the residents an appeal to the
state higway board is OF no use az that
board is absolutely without power to
act, the last Legislature having repealed
the old state aid law which gave the
board authority in such matters. Now
the only authority which the highway
board has is to pass upon roads after
they are completed and accept or reject
them. The friends OF the new law are
anxious to have the counties settle their
difficulties without involving the state
highway board and declare that the new
law has not yet been given fair trial.
Receipts Increase Rapidly.
In the office of the secretary OF state,
|. M. Howell, the receipts during the
fret elk months Of 1911 amouted to
SAG, l65 while during the same length
OF time in 1910 they amounted to only
$9S, ,437. Receipts from the collection OF
corporation licenses in the first six
months OF this year amounted to $780,
947, which is a big increase over the
revenues from this source in 1910, being
but SIS, 1875 during the first six months
OF that year. There was also a big in
crease in the sale OF auto licenses as in
1910 during the first six months $793O
was collected while in 1911 the increase
was SIS 1856.
Boat Owners Must Line Up.
An order is to be entered by the pubic
service commission requiring small boat
owners to file tariffs, and refusing their
petition that they be exempted. The
commission will also order the wharf and
boat companies which have been accept
ing freight either by weight or measure
ment as they saw ct, to discontinue this
practice, for the reason that it not only
permits them to charge higher rates but
also permits endless discrimination. They
will be required by the commission to
file schedules showing what classes OF
goods will be charged for by weight and
which classes will DE handled on the
measurement basis.
County Cannot Keep Interest.
According to an opinion given by the
attorney generals Office to the state
bureau Of inspection the interest on
back taxes collected By county for a
city, town or other taxing distr ct be-
longs to such taxing district, as well as.
the principal, and the county has no
right to retain such interest.
Heat Records Broken.