Show BUT FEWREDUGTIONS Balmacecla Clute is Sustained bjr the Board WIDOWS AMONG THE FAVORED Tho Usual Remittances Made to the Infirm Indigent and Uereayed Plenty of Work Ahead Yet Tho city board or equalization met again last evening to pass upon complaints that had been lodged during the ten days recently allowed tax payers in which to protest Those present were Lynn Anderson An-derson Young Hardy Hyde Folland I Tuddenhain and Spafford Anderson thought no one who owned more than 62500 worth of property excepting ex-cepting widows should be allowed a reduction re-duction in any case Ho simply didnt propose to exempt people from paying taxes when they had property valued all the way from 5000 to 10000 His motion mo-tion however failed to receive a second The business of the evening is given below be-low A few complaints were held over in order that the opinion of the city attorney might be had as to whether or not houses or other improvements not on the ground on the 1st of January could bo assessed for the current year It will be noticed that the board stands Valiantly by the assessor the reductions being comparatively few and tho major I portion of them save widows indigents etcare on account of double assessment and clerical errors The assessor lays I great stress upon the fact that section 203 of the revised laws bars all objections unless un-less the propertyholder had tilled out tho blanks and returned them to the assessor within twenty days from tho time they were received AMOUNTS REMITTED Martha Ellis widow Unu 5 0 John Wart infirm 50 Richard Provis illness 5 00 Christ Hannlral illness 500 John Larsen Widow n 5 00 Ellen Smith widow uu 500 MS Stenscn illness 5 00 A Madsen Illness 5 0 Jens P Olson Indigent 3 ID Pet r Larsen infirm 5 tO Sarah White widow nn 5 CO William Wheeler illness 5 0 ASSESSMENT CANCELLED Emma Davis error J6270 ASSESSMENT REDUCED Assessments were reduced in amounts given below W E Pack jr S SCO Hannah Asque 550 0 Timoney 200 L E Wiseman 445 S W Alley 1000 E A Kessler 1500 1 M Fisher 250 H P Hansennu 2000 Lydia Alder error 3500 William Wheeler 19JO ASSESSMENTS CONFIRMED The following applications for reductions on account of excessive excess-ive valuation were refused Mrs Ann White Maria Schneitter Ann VhVtA Mrs E P iigKsA J Higgs Thomas Higgs Samuel A Woolley E F Sheets Maria Schuler L H Woodmansee E Braby Emily E S Squires R J Johnson E A Kessler J W Carrigan et al M Kingsbury Joseph Woodmansee Kelsey Gillespie Moses Hallett et a1 J K Gilles pie Helen C Beatie H F F Thorup Charles Halstrom H H Harris J H Rumel Charles Omnseit Anna Schwinn F G Peterson George Stringfellow P A Nielson James Leach Soren Iverson Paul Olsen Neils Jensen A H McGregor John Johnson Haker Johnson C H Blanchard Amelia Y Schweitzer Jane Pope NOTES Clute thinks widows with full city lots should be compelled to pay their taxes The board meets again this evening at 730 Judging from the manner in which the work was disposed of last evening it will be at least ten days before the labors of the board are comploted to say nothing of the meetings of the committees on banking bank-ing and building associations telephone and other cororations charitable and benevolent ben-evolent organizations railroads etc before be-fore whom extensive arguments will be made Spafford seems partial to widows Anderson is inclined to be severe tion Lynn listens with a good deal of atten Young has his pencil and paper ready and in quick to report how much per rod or foot the property named is valued at I is safe to predict that there will be but merely little notice overvaluation taken of complaints alleging |