Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-09-15
WASHINGTON ITEMS

is extending it's electric service into
the rural districts of the county.
Sessions of the Washington State
association of County Commissioners
and of the Washington State Asso-
citation Of County Engineers was held
at Tacoma this week.
Glasses will be resumed Septem-
Der 18 at Washington State college.
That the new term will open with a
record enrolment is the opinion of
President e. O.. Holland.
Eva Holmquist, age 4 years, was
shot and killed at her home near
Clearbrook recently by rifle held
in the hands of her 9-year-old broth
er. He didn't know it was loaded
Fires were started in nine different
localities, church roofs splintered,
homes put in darkness, and traffic
on downtown streets stopped Friday
when a violent electrical storm Wis
tied Seattle.
w. I. Long, a prominent farmer of
Walla Walla, lost his life at Avon,
Mont, recently in an auto accident.
He was in Montana looking after a
200-acre ranch he recently bought.
He was so years of age and a mem
Der of a prominent pioneer family of
Dayton.
A special railroad policeman, nam
ed by the governor, may have juris-
diction over more than one division
or over the entire line of the COM
pany within the state. The number
of officers to be named is limited
and not the Jurisdiction of such Of
ficer by the law.
Confidential reports made by rail
roads and other public utilities as
required by law to the public ser
vice commission which it is provided
can not be used in any court against
the company supplying the same are
not public records. So rules the pub
lie service commission
With the 1917 budget of expendi-
lures submitted by public officials of
the city, county, school district and
port 0listrict combined exceeding that
of 1916 by over $800,000, and with a
$9,7O6,000 decrease in assessed val
uations in the county, taxpayers face
the highest tax levy in the his
tory of Seattle and King county.
Wheat was more active at Walla
Walla Saturday, farmers enticed by
highest prices since wheat sold at
$1.50, disposing of more than 100000
bushels. AS high as $1.36 was paid
for Turkey red wheat by millers, but
prevailing prices were $1.341A and
lower and club bringing around $1.26.
A Great Northern employe Satur-
incorporation of the Methow Valley
& Eastern railroad, which is to run
from Pateros, on the Columbia river.
up the Methow river valley, dis
tance of So miles, opening great
fruit and cattle region with mineral
deposits in the mountains at the
headwaters of the river. The con-
struction will cost $1,000,000.
Figures given out by the state
board of equalization show that the
total valuation of all personal prop
erty in the state is $124,607,643, as
against $122,756,42S last year, while
the real estate values at this time
total $7O1, 1,701,177, compared with
$741, 1,241,062 a year ago. This shows
an increase of personal property de-
spite the big slashes in some coun-
ties, while the real estate in the
state fell off $4O,OO0,OOO. The 1916
figures for all property, exclusive of
railroad and electric property, are
$826,508,820 this year, as against
$S62,995,4 400 last year.
Valuations Reduced.
The indications are that personal
property in the state has fallen off
anywhere from $1O,000,O0O to $4,000,
900 and that real estate values have
slumped close to $4O,O00,O00, accord.
ing to figures being compiled in the
office of Land Commissioner Savidge
for the use of the state board of equal
ization. King county, which is known
to have made reduction, has not yet
sent in it's report. Spokane, Pierce
and Grays Harbor all show big reduc-
tions.
Klickitat, on the other hand, has al.
most doubled it's assessed valuation.
Last year Thurston county got ratio
that caused it to pay bigger share
of the state taxes than it thought
proper, so this year it has increased
it's valuations and will contend this
time that it has assessed everything