Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-03-16
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a lease during the ensuing two years.
The state library will be removed to
the ground floor, where there is ample
room for the rapidly increasing num-
Der of volumes. The report was adopted.
These bills were taken from the gem
eral file and passed: Amending sec.
tions AZ and so, providing for the selec-
ton, survey, lease and disposition of
the states granted school and tide and
other lands; providing for the dissolu-
ton OF irrigating districts and the
liquidation of their indebtedness; de.
claring an emergency; for the adoption
and use of school textbooks in all
school districts. including or included
within cities and towns maintaining
high schools. This bill allows cities
to select their own textbooks, with
out regard to state uniformity; provid-
ing that where timber on state lands
is too sparse for the lands to command
the $40 per acre required by law, these
lands be sold for less; amending section
J OF the act authorizing cities to con-
struct and operate waterways and other
public improvements; amending Ger.
tain sections of an act for the establish.
ment of system of improved roads in
counties; extending the power of emil
nent domain to electric power COM
panies; amending certain sections of
the law of 1898 relating to proceedings
supplemental to execution; declaring an
emergency; amending BalIinger's code
relating to decrease in the capital
stock of corporations; the emergency
clause failed to carry; for the punish
ment OF persons ling rides on cars
and defining negligence relative there.
to. This bill authorizes trainmen to
arrest offenders against this act-emer-
gency clause; fixing salary of the head
warden at the penitentiary at 800 a
year; relating to the appointment of
guardians ad Item of infant persons;
amending section IL. law Of 1898. pro-
viding for liens on sawlOgs and other
timber. This bill provides the method
to secure such liens; relating to chattel
mortgages. and the filing thereof. and
repeating all laws in conflict there.
with; for the appointment Of state in
spector at a salary Of IS day while &C.
lively engaged in the duties OF inspec-
ton; amending section of an act pro-
viding for the establishment Of dixie
districts and the construction and
maintenance of a system of dikes; for
compulsory attendance Of children in
the public schools in cities Of more than
10000 inhabitants: to regulate. con-
troll and license insurance companies:
providing for condemnation porceed.
ings for right of way for irrigation
bitches and fumes for agricultural and
mining purposes; to punish persons for
the injury or destruction of property
and records upon public lands. This
bill was instigated by the Mazamas,
who have been much annoyed by acts
of vandalism in regard to records. etc.,
left in boxes on mountain peaks and
places Of interest; providing for right
of way for logging purposes, and for
conveying timber; empowering the
board OF regents of the agricultural coll
lege to give bonds for the safe keeping
of the arms and ordnance stores loaned
by the United States to the college
emergency clause; for a reappraise.
ment OF tide lands in front of Belling.
ham bay cities; for the promotion of
the fruitgrowing and horticultural in
terests of the state; authorizing cities
and towns to construct sewers and
drains; to provide for laying out and
establishing private bitches and drains.
In the House.
The house passed the following BILLS
Reducing the rate Of interest to per
cent on state warrants: requiring horse
shoers to pass an examination; relating
to the filing Of mortgages, etc.; relating
to the states title to certain lands;
a constitutional amendment
relating to taxation; relating to the
protection of sturgeon, ETC.; relating to
corporations; changing the
name of Hangman creek 20 Latah
creek; relating to the validity of the
organization of municipal corporations;
relating to the removal Of improve.
ments from mortgaged property.
The house bill by the committee on
game and fish, which sets the close sea-
son for deer from December Is to Sep.
tember 10 of the following year. and
make it misdemeanor to hunt large
game with dogs, was carried.
Big Sum for Tax Certificates.
Attorney Frank Graves, Of Spokane,
recently paid into the county treasury
of Klickitat, Wash. IS, SS750 for tax
certificates on the right-of of the
portage railroad along the Columbia
in Klickitat county. MIR. Graves is
the former law partner of Senator
Turner, and friend of Paul Mohr.
Coal Bunkers Collapsed.
The coal bunkers Of the Anchor Coal
Company, located on the banks Of the
just below Ostrander, Wash,
collapsed during wind storm recently.
The bunkers contained at the time |
about 200 tons Of coal, all of which.
together with the bunkers. went into
the Cowlitz river.
Captured n White Coyote.
A white coyote was captured in
tran near tha hOma IF f. 6 Combs /