The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-03-01
FOR THE nEN REGIME.
Final Meeting Of the Ola County
Commissioners.
LieH Lzads-Nho Did the Cutting
The Csunsy.s rinances-The
New Beard.

Mess nAes rs board Of county COM
Hissioners FOR King county for Ehe
last time yesterday Considerable bus
iness Of importance was transacted As
the board was anxious 70 get every
thing in shape so the incoming beard
wonld have none OF their old matters
10 trouble them
The matter of opening tie road'to
the north end OF the new Fall City
bridge was brought up. and j. 4.
Sharkey. owner of the Land through
which the approach must be made,
appeared before the board and offered
TO release the land to King county for
road purposes for consideration of
$50. fhe supervisor was authorized
10 pay Mr.. Sharkey the amount asked
and 70 condemn and conEscafe all
other lands needed for the purposes
of the road as shown by plat OF Sur
yeyo- Anderson.
raE BOARD Is rAeETHsrs.
Among the bills presented for con-
sisleration was one reading rs follows
SEATTLE. W.T., Feb .. 1850.
King county 10 Drs. Miller & Brown. DR..
To services rendered aad dressings
furnished TO John Bengard, at Ia
coma, while sick, having bes,n eat
by prisoner of King county. IS
per order OF the sheriff OF King
county O.
The bill was marked 20. K BY
William Cochrane, sheriff. and bore
the approval of ]. II. Ronald. prose
eating attorney. A memorandum on
the margin conveyed the information
that the grand jury failed to find an
Indictment against the prisoner that
did the stabbing.
The board was in a facetious mood
when the bin was under consideration
and Clerk Twitchell was directed TO
make the following order in relation
TO it:
Ordered: That the claim OF Drs Miller
and Brown for medical abundance on
county prisoner cut at Tacoma, be rejected,
as the cutting was unauthorized.
Drs. Miller and Brown may possibly
collect their claim If they amend
their bill, so that the board can I'M
derstand which was authorized by the
sheritf-the cutting or the medical at
tendance.
cNliOoL LAME.
Last summer the board, acting
jointly with the board of commission
ers for Pierce county, appointed w.
b. Coiner of Tacoma, agent; TO go 70
Washington TO ascertain from the
general land Office there the exact
amounts of land TO which the two
counties are entitled through selec-
tons of lieu lands, and TO learn also
which selections previously made are
valid. This appointment was kept Sc
cret by both boards, and the under
standing was that each county was 10
bear half OF the expenses of the inves-
tigation. Mr.. Conner presented his re-
port in relation to the school lands of
King county yesterday, arid viii be
pre- sent at the meeting OF the new
board next Monday 10 explain the
matter more fully.
The county now has in this report
what it has never before been able to
procure-an accurate list of school
lands belonging to King county, and
the result viii De a greatly increased
school fund from leases of lands the
Board has heretofore been afraid to
grant leases to. A warrant was or
dered drawn in Mr.. Corners favor for
$500 yesterday, to pay King county
half of his fees and the expenses of his
trip to Washington.
ROAD AND BRIDGE FUND.
]. III. Parsons submitted u report of
the expenditures during the past two
years from the road and bridge fund,
together with a statement of the roads
established and bridges built, and the
locations of the same.
According to this report 80 roads
have been laid out, relocated and es-
tabiished since March Z, 1887, when
the present board went into Office. The
amount of warrants drawn on the
road fund is $794S 81, and tie amount
of tax refunded sos 50, making the
total amount drawn from the fund
$Si54 90.
The disbursements among road dis
tricts amount to Sc, 62i so. OF this
$685. 70 was disbursed To districts in
the territory lying on the north of
Cedar river and S32,3l1 So 10 those on
the south side of the river. The two
districts on Vashon island received
$3.50 IS.
Eleven bridges have been built by
order of the board at an aggregate
cost of SIS, 0T0 0S. The locslLitions of
these bridges, dates OF building and
cost are as follows: