City of Seattle Records

June 13 1890 18 Petition To Mayor and City Council of Seattle to Equalize Assessments for Street grade Taxe [sic] on Mill Street [?] Yesler Avenue Samuel French and others

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A. C. McClure & Co., Chicago, Ill. To His Excelency the Mayor; and the City Council of the City of Seattle in the County of King in the State of Washington; - Gentlemen;We the Subscribers Inhabitants and Resident Citizens of the City County and State aforesaid;Do most respectfully represent to your Hon Body - that we and each of us now are and for sometime past have been the owners and the holders of Real Property - within the Limits of your City; That we and each of us are now at this time owners and holders of Real Property upon Mill Street or Yesler Avenue between 12th and 16th Streets in the City of Seattle; That the Valuation of our Said Real Property was the Taxes Levied thereon by Virtue of Such Valuation for Street grade purposes; Are not by any means in [proportion?] to the Valuation or the taxes Levied on other Real Property for such purposes in our emediate [sic] vicinity; We farther respresent also - and we think that your Hon Body by a proper and a usefull examination into this matter will find that our Real Property Although far less in Amount - and Quantity - and also very inferior in Quality and Value - Is by virtue of Said Valuation and Assessment for Such purposes taxed more than 4 times over as high as Larger Quantitites And Supirior [sic] Quality of Real Property are Valued and Assessed in our emediate [sic] Vicinity; Wherefore we the undersigned your Petitioners do most Respectfully but Earnestly Ask and Pray that your Hon Body do emmediately [sic] proceed byordinance or in Some other proper And Appropriate Manner to examine into the conditions of this matter and to At Once [correct?] Such Errors As may be found there to exist-And to Equalize Such Valuation And Assesments as may be found to be exce[s?]sive

To the Honorable the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Seattle.

Your Petitioners, beg leave respectfully to represent that they reside in the neighborhood of Ash, and John streets in said city, and that said neighborhood is thickly settled and that much travel takes place over the said streets, that there is a street lamp at the intersection of Depot and Ash streets which is the only lamp within several blocks of the point named. Your petitioners therefore request that a street lamp be placed at the corner of Ash and John streets which will be of great advantage to the public particularly to residents in that vicinity.

J. W. Hall L E Hixson Jno. Hixson M. Keating L A Wilmot A. Johnson J O Burns E Storrs C Teclersen L A Kinney S. F. Hall J. D. Erikson

J B Bange W X Wright F H Bangs T. J. South C. Brown John T Jenkins Con. Bieber Elisabeth Bieber August Engeland John N. Bettinger George Relland

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Seattle, Wash. Nov. 21st, 1889

To The Honorable, The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Seattle.

We the undersigned petitioners represent to your Honorable body that we are property holders on Depot St. in the vicinity of Ash and Willow Sts., that we are without adequate facilities for protection against fire, in that the nearest fire plug to our property is at the corner of Front and Wall Sts. at a distance of six (6) blocks, that the rapid growth of this part of the city requires better facilities for protection against fire. Wherefore your petitioners pray. That water mains be extended from the nearest practicable point, to and along Depot St. between Ash and Willow Sts. and that fire plugs be placed at the corner of Depot and Ash Sts. and at the corner of Deoot and Willow Sts.

G E Plimpton Thomas Webb J A McAuslan [TWC?] Lovering Mr Frank King Phillip King Fred Kelly B. A. Anderson

D R Judkins D Rohlfs G H. Woodhouse D. L. Ballard R E Crook F. J. Johnson Wm L. Green R. Byrne Albert Wilton

NOTICE OF SALE OF UNCLAIMED PROPERTY

WHEREAS, on, to-wit, the 7th.day of June, 1889, after the conflagration in the City of Seattle, a large amount of unclaimed property the owners of which being unknown, was taken and stored in the Armory, in the City of Seattle, and ever since has been therein, to-wit:

Notice is therefore hereby given that, if the above described property is not claimed by the ownwers thereof within fifteen days from the date hereof, that said property will, on the day of , 1889, be duly sold at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, between the hours of 10 A.M. and 4P.M. of said day, at the front door of the Armory in the City of Seattle, on Union street, in said City and that the proceeds of said sale will be turned in and appropriated to the relief fund in the hands of the relief comitee of the City of Seattle.

Dated this day of , 1889.

Mayor.

City Clerk.