SEATTLE APPROPRIATIONS.
The estimate allowed by finance committee of Seattle, Wash., city council for expenses of the fire department for 1905, is $196,724, of which $132,374 is for salaries; $9,900, for new apparatus; $6,000, for new hose; $6,700, for maintaining and extending the fire alarm system; and $19,000 for new engine houses For the water department the estimated expense is $,375,000. These figures were allowed by the council on November 28, and the tax rate was made fourteen mills.
James Todd is the new chief of the Yankton, S. Dak., fire department.
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