The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-03-23

The state Library.
At the morning session Thursday the
senate committee on renting state
Offices reported that it had contracted
with T. /. MoKenny, the owner of the
block now occupied by these Offices, for
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 48 and 80, 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
] 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 a. system Of improved roads in
counties; Extending the power of emf
nent domain to electric power COM
panies; amending certain sections OF
the law of 1893 relating to proceedings
supplemental to execution; declaring an
emergency; amending Ballinger's code
relating to decrease in the capital
stock of corporations; the emergency
clause failed to carry; for the punish
ment Of persons stea 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 $1,000 q
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 ohattel
mortgages, and the fling thereof, and
repeating all laws in conflict there
with; for the appointment of state in
spector at a salary of S. day while ac-
lively engaged in the duties Of inspec-
ton; amending section 8 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 tho
board OF regents of the agricultural COL
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 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 tho House.
The house passed the following bills:
Reducing the rate Of interest to per
cent on state warrants; requiring horse
shoers to pass an examinations; relating
to the filing of mortgages, etc.; relating
to the states title to certain lands;
submitting a constitutional amendment
relating to taxation; relating to the
protection of sturgeon, ETC.; relating to
municipal corporations; changing the
name of Hangman creek to Latah
creek; relating to the validity of the
organization of m unicipal 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 10 to Sep
TENDER 10 of the following year, and
make it misdemeanor to hunt large
game with dogs. was carried.