The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-01-23
$369,592 in TAXES
PAID BY DEC. 81
.SIXTY-ONE PERCENT OF TOTAL
IN LATAH COUNTY SHOWN IN
TREASURER'S REPORT.

Sixty-one and one-half percent of
the total tax payments for Latah
: county for 1921 were paid by Decem-
ber 81. 1921, according to the report
OF Miss lone S. Adair, county treas
urer, i'll reporting to the county COM
mlssloners the collection of $369,592.-
"a. The report was accepted by the
commissioners Saturday afternoon
and the money ordered distributed in
the various county funds
Under the Idaho law half payment
Oh taxes for the year must be made
before December 81 and, if desired,
the taxpayer can make his second
naf payment for the year up to the
fourth Monday in June before taxes
become delinquent.
county commissioners completed
the jury list of $50 names for the 1922
Terms OF court in the second judicial
district court for Latah county. Five
hundred dollars was ordered set aside
for a sheriff's revolving travelling
fund, as provided for in an act at the
last session of the legislature. On
the petition of John Nisbet, a prose-
cutting attorney, the commissioners
set aside $1,000 for the securing of
evidence and law enforcement. War
rants drawn on this fund must first
nave the approval of the district court
judge.
The name of A. H. Oversmith of
MOSCOW was ordered entered as as
soclate counsel for the commissioners
IN the case of the First National bank
OF MOSCOW versus the Latah county
commissioners, which comes up for
trlal IN the district court on Tuesday.
thls case is an appeal from the order
OF the county commissioners on the
assessment of bank stock. The plain
tlff bank claim that the commission
ers have not taken into proper con-
slderation the. reductions allowed
from the personal property tax for the
banks realty holdings.
Action of Homer E. Estes. Latah
county recorder, and L. p. Hunt. SUI
perlntendent of the county home. in
spending $10S.S9 for Christmas pres
ents for the inmates of the county
nome, was approved by the county
board. The money expended was
drawn from the Goswin Sievert fund,
set aside for the annual purchase of
CHRISTMAS gifts for the county home
inmates. OF the money available this
christmas $SS.96 remains as a bal
ance.
St ouiilluS VI MOSCOW was award
ed the bid for putting in cork linoleum
IN the Latah county court room The
accepted Samms' bid
of S122.50, which was the lowest bid.
commissioners placed an order with
he J. l. Case company for the pur-
;hase and delivery in the near future
If a Case road tractor The county's
Did tractor was traded in for $500 and
he new machine purchased for S125O.
The machine will be available for
spring work on county roads.
Elections were ordered called bv the
commissioners in school districts 81,
%, lOl, 81, 33 and 1. The elections
Will involve the proposed changes in
boundaries of the school districts.
The proposed changes have been ap-
proved by Miss Lillian Skattaboe,
county superintendent, and by the
commissioners The final disposition
II the proposed boundary changes
VIII be made by vote of the people
n the district at the school elections.
The commissioners issued their an
lual order for the destruction of noxi-
'us weeds in the county This order
S the same as the order issued for
920 and 1921.
Following the acceptance of Miss
one S. Adair's report of total collec-
ions for the first half of the payment
II taxes for 1921 of $369,59224, the
commissioners ordered the distribu-
ion of the money into the various
unds as follows:
'tate of Idaho. o............S S 72,274.96
'ounty Current Expense. 31,62699
'ounty Road. IS 5,059.41
Highway Districts 7O,63172
Common Road Dis
trlcts ....... 1,374.69
Total to Highways S 77,O65.82
'ounty School $53, ,12375
School
Districts - 29,7389O
Common School
Districts ... 59,80S41
Total to Schools $145,272 80
tiles and Villages ..... 43,35157
Total Collections S369.592.24