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Annual Report of County Auditor (Continued from Second Page) Wild Animal Bounty 42 00 Tax Rolls —Equalization 175 80 indigei L t Relief— Expense * 3Q 5Q Dry Goods and Groceries 169.74 Drugs and Medical Attendance 2.50 Nursing • 70 15 Railroad Fare 21.00 Burial 75 00 Contg. Diseases 101.25 Total 470.14 Advertising (Newspaper Publication onlv) $ 305.42 Premium, County Treasurer and other Officials' Bonds 346.00 Insurance—Court House 56.00 Miscellaneous 3.00 Total 710.42 Freight and Drayage $ 190.97 County Stenographer 600.00 Refund (Estray Sales) 28.05 Horticultural Inspector 140.95 Payment of Bridge Claim 364.00 Total 1,323.97 Transcribing Records $ 12,208.93 Exp. Incident to Organization 9,174.75 Total 21,383.68 Adjustment of Debt with Stevens County 69,082.26 Total Current Expense $118,110.00 Game Fund —Expense 23.35 County Institute Fund 180.35 County Road and Bridge Fund — Right of Way and Damages - $ 300.00 Labor and Teams 241.00 Material 352.25 Contracts 320.10 Total - 1,213.35 MEMORANDUM ACCOUNT OF SCHOOL FUNDS. GENERAL FUND. Receipts— Detail. Totals. •Special Tax $ 17,519.09 County Apportionment (Transferred) 1,568.60 ,State Apportionment (Remitted by State) 869.41 State Apportionment (Transferred) 49.47 Miscellaneous Sources 1,661.79 Transfer - 10.00 Total $ 21,678.36 Disbursements — Warrants Redeemed - $ 10,319.41 Interest on Warrants Redeemed 249.27 Remittances - 35.26 Inv. Fund (S. D. No. 33) 1,799.41 Total 12,403.35 Cash Balance December 31, 1911 $ 9,275.01 BOND INTEREST FUND. Receipts — Special Taxes $ 1,118.44 Total $ 1,118.44 Disbursements — Interest Paid (Transfer to S. D. No. 20) $ 10.00 Interest on Bonds 621.00 Total 631.00 Cash Balance December 31, 1911 $ 487.44 CASH DISBURSED BY TREASURER OTHER THAN COUNTY WARRANTS REDEEMED. Schools —• Genera] Fund Warrants Red. and Int. on Bonds and Warrants $ 11,224.94 Inv. Fund (S. D. No. 33) 1,799.41 Cities and Towns —- Newport $ 306.13 lone 82.35 Total 388.48 Interest paid on Warrants (except School) 101.24 MEMORANDUM ACCOUNT OF TRANSFERS Date. Reason for Transfer. From Fund To Fund. Amount. Oct. 31 To pay exp of institute Cur. Exp. Institute. $180 00 Nov. 30 To pay overcall of warrants D. R. & B. D.No. 3 D. R. & B. D. No.l 275 00 Nov. 30 To pay overcall of warrants D. R& B.D. No. 3. D. R. & B. D. N0.2 100 00 Nov. 30 School Dist. App State School. General School. 918 88 Nov. 30 School Dist. App County School. General School. 1568 60 Dec. 30 To pay overcall of warrants Bond Int. General School. 10 00 Dec. 30 To pay above R. D. Transfers D. R.&B. D. No.l D. R. & B. D. N0.3 275 00 Dec. 30 To pay above R. D. Transfers D. R.&B. D. N0.2 D. R. &B. D. N0.3 100 00 Dec. 30 Taking up warrants. Sinking Fund. Cur. Exp. 725 04 Dec. 30 Cur. Exp. Wt. should have been R. &B . Road & Bridge. Cur. Exp. 364 00 Dec. 30 Cur. Exp. Wt. should have been Hort.. . Hort. Fund. Cur. Exp. 140 95 Dec. 30 Cur. Exp. Fee instead of H. License Game. Cur. Exp. 1 00 Total $4658 47 COUNTY JAIL Average cost of maintenance daily per capita Fifty Cents Accommodations for how many Eight Number of inmates January 1,1911 None Number received during the year Thirteen Total Thirteen Number discharged Thirteen Number remaining None Number of employes, jailers, etc One General Remarks—The one regularly employed deputy sheriff takes care of the jail. As She Figures It. "This Is the first time I have seen four wile in ten years." "Yes?" "Yes. She is considerably changed." "Well, you must consider that she is a year older than she was ten years ago."—Houston Post His: Delightful Bull. An Irish editor in speaking of Ire land and her woes said: "Her cup of misery has been for Jges overflowing and is not yet full." Served irrorr, He—They have dropped their anchor. She (on her first trip)— Serves them right. It has been hanging over th* side all day long. Tis not your posterity, but your ac tions, that will perpetuate your mem* ory.—Hutchinson. It Is difficult to believe than ants will kill snakes, but such is the case, and scientists have discovered that in cer tain regions this class of rep'tile has no more persistent enemy. The large red brown forest ants are the most im placable, and a curious thing about the attack of these tiny creatures on the reptiles Is that they kill it for food and not on account of natural antipathy. When some of these ants catch sight of a snake they arouse the whole com munity at once. In platoons and bat talions the little fellows wst upon it. striking their "nippers'* Into its body and eyes at thousands of points at once. So rapidly Is this done that the snake has no chance of escaping. He soon becomes exhausted and dies lgno miniously. The ants then tear off the flesh, gradually stripping off the skin and working inside it. Not until they have carried away everything except the bones and the skin do they abandon their prey. SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT Rate and Amount of Levies for the Tax Roll of 1911. Payable 1912. It has been held by the Bureau of Inspection and Supervision of Public Offices that the levies of 1911 provided for the estimated expenses for 1912, and, not being payable until February, 1912, cannot be classed as a county asset in our Resource and Liability statement. This supplemental report is submitted for the information of interested tax payers desirous of knowing the condition of the taxing district to which they contribute. „ „ H. H. MURRAY, Auditor. STATEMENT OF 1911 TAX ROLLS. Tax Levied on 1911 Tax Rolls. fund valuation levy tax State General 4,802,703 2.6 12,487.03 State School " 2.48 11,910.70 State Military " .25 1,200.67 Permanent Highway - " 1.25 6,003.38 Total State Levy and Tax 6.58 31,601.78 County Current Expense 4,802,703 8 38,421.62 County School " 3 14,408.11 County Road and Bridge " 2 9,605.40 County Indigent Soldiers " .05 240.13 County Sinking Fund and Interest " 1 4,802.70 County Horticultural " .32 1,536.86 Bureau of Inspection and Supervision " .05 240.13 12& Total County Levy and Tax 14.42 69,254.95 District Road and Bridge No. 1 1,733,047 10 17,330.47 District Road and Bridge No. 2 1,150,918 10 11,509.18 District£Road and Bridge No. 3 1,316,204 10 13,162.04 Total 4,200,169 42,001.69 Municipal Tax Cities and Towns — Newport.... - 362,939 10 3,629.39 lone 158,785 10 1,587.85 Total 521,724 5,217.24 DIKE TAX Dike District No. 1 —3,323.85 acres Tax, $4,591.64 1911 TAX-SCHOOL DISTRICTS District No. Valuation Special Levy Tax 1 681,110 12 8,173.32 2 465,166 9 4,186.49 3 28,295 10 282.95 4 35,437 11 389.81 5 545,639 10 5,456.39 6 155,548 10 1,555.48 7 ;27,294 11 300.73 8 19,533 10 195.33 9 191,068 10 1,910.68 1 512,565 8 4,100.52 1 147,391 9 1,326.52 1 148,928 9 1,340.35 1 67,875 10 678.75 14. 159,518 10 1,595.18 1 139,493 10 1,394.93 1 69,767 10 697.67 1 38.384 11 422.22 1 23,795 20 475.90 1 66,099 10 660.99 2 150,448 8 1,203.58 2 168,678 11 1,855.46 2 114,951 10 1,149.51 2 42,610 10 426.10 2 25,286 10 252.86 2 47,062 11 517.68 2 13,000 10 130.00 2 16,285 10 162.85 2 78,690 10 786.90 2 103,661 10 1,036.61 3 113,928 10 1,139.28 3 89,776 10 897.76 3 133,601 9 1,202.41 3 168,998 5 844.99 3 12,824 14 179.54 4,802,703 46,929.24 Grand Total 1911 Tax, $199,596.54. Auditor's Office, Pend Oreille County, State of Washington, I, H. H. Murray, Auditor of Pend Oreille County, Washington, do hereby certify the foregoing report to be correct. H. H. MURRAY, Auditor of Pend Oreille County. Handy With His Fists. Admiral Wilson of the British navy won bis Victoria cross at the battle of El Teb in 1884. There was a gap in the square, and live or six of the en emy made a vicious rush forward, at tempting to get inside. Captain Wil son, who was present with the naval brigade, advanced to meet them aloue. but his sword broke Id the endeavor to cut one of the intruders down. Here upon the officer. Instead of beating a hasty retreat, stood his ground and be gan bowling over the enemy with his fists. Either from the nature of the ground or. as the record puts it. "the surprising nature of his attack." Cap tain Wilson escaped with a few wounds and was rescued by the square closing up round him. Sir Redvers Buller described the act as the most courageous he ever witnessed. Not Likely. Mrs. Morton (angrily)— Tommy Hor ton. what made you hit my little Johnny? Tommy Horton—He struck me with a brick. Mrs. Morton (angrily)— Well, never let me hear of your hitting him again . If he hits you you - ome and tell me. Tommy Horton isneeringly)—Yes; and what would you do? Mrs. Morton—Why, I'd whip him Tommy Horton (in disgust)-What: He hits me with a brick and you have the fun of licking him for it? Not much!— London Telegraph. Matched. Towne—Met Grabble and Perkins at a smoker last night and introduced them to each other. Browne —Oh. say. It's a shame to introduce a bore like Gabble to anybody. Towne —It's evi dent you don't know Perkins or you'd see the humor of it. The Proper Head. Husband (studying his wife's ac counts) —There are several items you haven't entered here: Doing up the furniture, yoyr hairdresser, dentist, trip to the sea, for instance. Wife— Oh, those all come under "repairs."— The First Japanese In America. The first Japanese who ever came to America as far as is known was Man jiro Nakahama, a fourteen-year-old lad, who was picked up by the captain of an American fishing vessel in 1841, twelve years before the coming of Commodore Perry to Japan. Naka hama, with four companions, had sail ed out into the ocean on a fishing ex pedition, their boat had been wrecked by a storm, and they were finally washed ashore on a desert Island in the northern Pacific. Three months of dire privation were passed on the Island before the little party was rescued by the American vessel. His companions were left in Hawaii, but Nakahama, who became a great favorite of the captain, was brought to the United States and sent to a New England school. And when Commodore Perry came to Japan, Nakahama was able to act as interpreter in the negotiations carried on between the American en voys and the Japanese feudal govern ment authorities. —Dr. Jokichi Taka mine in Oriental Review. Beavers' Work. The beavers not only cut down trees for the purpose of making dams, but also use the smaller upper branches as a storage supply of food for winter use. These branches, from two to four inch es in diameter, are cut into lengths of two or three feet and then by wonder ful engineering ability are carried be neath the water and into the beavers' houses, or the burrows, with which the bank of every beavers' dam is honey combed. Here they are carefully stor ed. The green bark is the staple arti cle of food throughout the winter. The dams are of varying height and length, according to the particular lo cation. I found a dam in Mesa county, Colo., which was Just six feet from bottom to top and impounded a body of water six feet or more in depth and covering an area of several acres. This dam was perfect in construction. It was composed entirely of willow bush es, as no large timber grows in the vi cinity.—Our Dumb Animals. 54 MEN ARRESTED FOR DYNAMITING Government Will Use Speed in Prosecuting Cases Against Dynamiters. Indianapolis.—The long-drawn-out investigation by the government grand jury at Indianapolis culminated in the arrest by the government of virtually the entire official staff of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Ironworkers, including President Ryan, Secretary-Treasurer Hockin, all the members of the execu tive board and about 20 business agents and former business agents. With the arraignment of the 54 de fendants set for March 12 and a prob ability of trials early in May, it was announced that the government will use all consistent speed in prosecut ing the dynamite conspiracy cases. The evidence chiefly is about 40,000 letters and telegrams from the head quarters of the International Bridge and Structural Ironworkers, which, ac cording to charges in the indictments, tend to show that President Ryan, Secretary-Treasurer S. Hockin and ex ecutive board members corresponded for six years with business agents of local unions about "jobs" to be blown up. The fact that for days the govern ment has had a dictagraph in the of fice of the International Association of Bridge & Ironworkers here, and has taken reports of conversations of President Frank M. Ryan and others in connection with the dynamite con spiracy has become known. Beattle Men Summoned In Land Cases Seattle, Wash. —The colossal finan cial manipulations perpetrated by W. E. DeLarm and Allen J. Biehl, pro moters of various irrigation schemes in the northwest which caused upon their collapse in this city two weeks ago a country-wide sensation, were brought home again in an unexpected manner when at least 11 and probably 15 lawyers, brokers and real estate men of this city were summoned to appear in Portland before the federal grand jury. Pastors' Jobs in Balance. Topeka, Kan. —A movement is wide spread in Kansas that promises to put several thousand preachers out of business. Appeals are being made to bring members of all churches in the small towns of the state into one com pact religious movement. The union of churches would eliminate several thousand local preachers who would have no other means of support. RESIDENTS CONVINCED BY GOMEZ' AVOWAL Mexico City.—Emilio Vasquez Go mez' frank public declaration that he will accept the provisional presidency in case the rebels succeed in forcing F. I. Madero from the national palace, has gone far toward convincing un official residents of the capital that a general rebellion is in progress. Mex ican officials, however, continue to characterize as local disorders every insurrection in the country. Although rebels are now operating in 18 states, the Department of the Interior continues to give out news denying trouble in a great part of these. At present there appears to be no one who is directing the various bands of the rebels, but from almost all quarters of the republic where the rebels have appeared Vasquez Gomez has been proclaimed their chief, even Zapata having announced that he will cease only when the fugitive ex-cabin et minister is placed in the presiden cy. Plan to Curb Appeal. Salem, Or.—Suggestions which have been made by Salem attorneys which may lead to legislation at the next session, it is asserted, if passed, will obviate the necessity for creating any additional justices of the supreme court The suggestions are simply to place a limitation on the class of ac tions and suits which are appealed to the higher court and to make the cir cuit courts courts of last resort in these causes. British Interested in Our Politics London.—The British public is tak ing an unusually keen interest in the presidental situation in the United States. The papers are printing daily Dispatches from their correspondent. 5 } on the subject, many of them detaU bg at length the developments of the preconvention campaign. Ex-State Senator Arrested. New York.—Ex-State Senator Gard ner of racetrack legislation fame, was arrested and locked up, charged with conspiracy to gain control of the half million-dollar estate of Samuel E. 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