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Show Tacoma Road Backs Up. TACuMA, Oct. 21. Next Monday 11 io Tae.nma Railway & Power roinpany will send to County Treasurer Met ha a certified certi-fied eheck for $3-',0.1U representing taxes for tho years Pi07. 100S and J90D. Of this amount. $20,000 is interest. The taxes for lOOIi will bo paid under protest, pro-test, because of tho assessment In that ye;ir of the franchise under which the eonipnny operates in this city. This question ques-tion has been decided in favor of the county by Pnlted States District Judge Ilanford. but probably will bo appealed by the company to the United States circuit court of appeals. Treasurer Mefha had threatened to soize tho lines of the traction company. |