Local option taxes alarm Colville county voters
The Examiner warns Colville Newport Chewelah and Kettle Falls voters that local option for alcohol licenses will raise taxes. It details refunds to saloon licenses in county and city units and projects a multi thousand dollar annual loss to school and current expense funds plus election costs. It urges taxpayers to review figures before voting.
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Option League
Taxpayer
Colville
General Fund
Chewelah
Kettle Falls
Local Option Law Tightens Shipments and Direct Sales
The act bans shipment or delivery of intoxicating liquor into units where sales are forbidden, with fines from fifty to five hundred dollars and possible county jail time on repeat offenses. Exceptions cover personal use up to one gallon, sacramental wine, medical or church deliveries, and transit to outside units, with separate offenses for each package seized. The manufacture from raw material remains allowed in no license units.
Stevens County Bond Election Urges 200000 Funding Plan
The Stevens County voters face a September 7 special bond election to approve 200000 to fund current indebtedness. The plan would convert existing warrants bearing 8 percent interest into bonds at about 4 to 4.5 percent, saving about 6400 annually and redeemable in 10 years, with two ballot propositions: validating warrants and issuing funding bonds. The county board supports the measure as a business savings move, not a political issue.
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Stevens County
Board of Commissioners
Democratic
Local option politics and temperance literature debate
The piece criticizes the Scratchman-Appendix for distributing temperance pamphlets during a time of liquor-tax debate. It questions motives, accuses former liquor supporters in leadership, and mocks the brewery editor’s shift from brewery interests to local option advocacy amid renewed calls for prohibition or changed local tax policy.
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C. W. Trickett
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Colville Brewery
H. H. Fordyce
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