Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-19
WASHINGTON ITEMS
Grain dealers report less buying
than since in July.


More than $12O,O0O has been invest
ed in public improvements in Pome-
roy this year.
Owing to increased business for
the last six months the Marcus post
office has been raised to third
class office.
Tony Pashini, an unmarried miner
working in the Gle Elum mine, was
electricuted Saturday night, death
being instantaneous.
The grand jury will Investigate
wholesale bootlegging, charges Of
graft and bribery, gambling and com
mercialized vice at Seattle.
Fiftfy-five union longshoremen ap-
piled at the Pacific-Alaska Naviga-
ton company's dock,at Tacoma, Sat
urday for work and were hired.
The Great Northern railway will
spend $150OOO in improvements in
the terminal yards at Leavenworth
within the next year, increasing the
trackage facilities and building new
roundhouse.
Charles Stilwell, age 46, rancher,
was held up near Spokane Saturday
night by two men. When he refused
their demands to stop his team they
shot him in the righ hip and abdo-
men, He may die.
Leonard o. Meigs of North Yakima
was reelected president and DR.. Her
man A. Brauer of the University of
Washington secretary-treasurer of the
League of Washington Municipalities
at the closing session of that organ
ization at Everett Saturday. Tacoma
was selected for the 1917 convention.
Of the total of $7,6O2,515 to be paid
into the state treasury next year by
the counties Of the state on the ba-
sis of the 1916 levy of II mills, Spo-
kane county will contribute 1898, ,4O7,
or little less than one-eighth Of the
whole, according to figures given out
by the state tax commission. King
county leads with $1,S17,901. Spokane
is second, while Pierce comes next
with $62O,431.
Recording to census taken by the
state agricultural department., this
state has a total of 2O7,964 horses and
mules valued at $24,9O7,251 and as
sessed at $10,553,916. The cattle cen
sus runs to 454,62O head, valued at
$19,317,1 ,121 and assessed at $780,
9SS; 502,152 sheep and goats, with a
value of $2,S21,419 assessed at ST.
533, Ia; and 156,33S hogs, worth ST.
201,478, and assessed at $509,101, the
assessed valuation running at about
so per cent.
SeattIe's Tax Levy.
Seattle taxpayers will pay $173,768
less in city taxes in 1917 than in
1916, or about Il mill less, and in the
old city limits the 1917 levy will be
20.72 mills as compared with 21 mills
for 1916. In other subdivisions the
levy will be slightly higher than for
the present year, but reduction in as
sessed valuation will more than make
up the difference.
Seattles tax levy for 1917 for all
purposes, including state, county, city,
school and port, will be 45.791 mills,
as against 44.560 mills for 1916, an
increase of 1921 mills. This is bas-
ed on an assessed valuation in King
county of $262,556,99S, against a val
uation of $273,677,092 for this year,
decrease of $11,12O,O94, and an as
sessed valuation in the city of Sc
attic of $212,S6S,7O7, as compared
with $221,239,1O3 for 1916, decrease
in the city of $S,37O,396. This levy
will raise $1,829,018 for state pur-
poses, $3,O12,563 for county purposes,
$4,376,036 for city purposes, $1,581,380
for school purposes and 1881, 1852 for
the port of Seattle, or total of $11,-
180,461, as compared with $10,678,770
raised for all purposes in 1916, an
increase of $5O1,6
State Commercial News.
Nelson Bros have purchased the
general store of E. A. Locke at lone.
P. l.. Zimmerman has purchased
the general merchandise business of
w. w. Wagner at Ralston.
w. d. Miller of Kettle Falls has
leased the William Page building at
Republic and will open a harness
shop about November 1.
Burglars broke rear window in
the store of the Addy Mercantile Co.
at Addy last week and carried away
small amount of merchandise.
E. N. Guertin, formerly in business
at Chewelah, has purchased the gen.
oral store of T r Camnbel] at Che