The Daily Star-Mirror
MOSCOW, LATAH COUNTY, IDAHO. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1917
TOLUME VI
A'UMBER 293
KOOTENAI
SHY $5564
Asks County Commissioners to Turn
Over That Amount on
State Error
County Commissioners Lyon, Woody,
and Cone are wrestling with a claim
from Kootenai county for $5664.40
cash. Today they received a communication from the county to the north
asking them to turn over this amount
at their early convenience.
In the communication it is set forth
that the state board of equalization
last year made an error in apportioning
the taxable property of the Washington
Water Power company, that
$428,931 was apportioned to Latah
county when it should have been
$175,335, an error of $253,596. This,
it is claimed, gave Latah county an
excess of $6564.40 in taxes on this
property that should have gone to
Kootenai.
Let State Officials Fix It
The county commissioners feel that
it is not up to them to correct mistakes
made by state officials. The $5564.40
was apportioned out to the state,
county, city and school district and they
see no way now of correcting the error
from this end. They will advise
the Kootenai county authorities to
look to the state for relief.
Other Work Done
The commissioners let four small
bridge contracts today. Contract for
three wooden bridges went to Frank
Stevens of Moscow for $1285, less $126
for roads furnished by the county.
These bridges are on the Little Pot
latch and the  Big Bear. The contract for the concrete bridge across the Palouse above Harvard went to O. B. Anderson of Harvard at $11 a cubic yard.
Three bids were submitted for the tax roll blanks for 1918—Sims-York of Boise, $295.50; Caxton of Caldwell, $240, and Barnard of St. Louis, $187.50. 