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Show UTILITY TAX IMPOSED ON BIG CORPORATIONS Special to The Tribune. POCATELLO. Idaho, Aug. 9. The city council last night, under suspension of the rules, passed ordinance No. 511, providing pro-viding for the paying by public utilities of an annual tax as follows: Telephone companies, $600 a year; gafl companies, $600 a year, and electric light and power companies, $1200 a year. In Pocatello the Mountain States Telephone Tele-phone & Telegraph company, the Idaho Power company and the Pocatello Gas & Power company are affected by the ordinance. ordi-nance. A motion by one of the councilmen to include telegraph companies and commission commis-sion houses failed to carry. |