The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-08-12
COMMISSIONERS
PROCEEDINGS
ASSESSMENT ROLL OF 1905 IS
EQUALIZED
Jensen Application for Lease of Site
Tor Wharf Granted--County Re-
funding Bonds Sold to State
ton on Stock Petition Postponed.

The county commissioners met as a
board of equalizat tion Monday and ad-
]ourned Tuesday, at 5 p. nj. without
making any changes in the roll as re-
turned by the assessor, except to re-
duce the assessment of George H.
Hastings, of Lopez, 500. No bne
appeared before the board to ask a
reduction of assessment and no writ
ten protests were filed. The total
assessed valuation of all property in
the county as equalized by the board
for purposes of taxation is 81 1854, ,697.
Lands are assessed at $616, 496; i'm
provements on land, $218,715; tide
lands, So, 12O; improvements on tile
lands, 81, 43O; personal property, less
exemptions, 1929, ,486.
Wednesday the board met in ad-
journed session as board of com
miSsioners, for the transaction of un-
finished business.
The application of p A. Jensen for
lease of certain tide land at the foot
of Spring street, Friday Harbor, for
wharf purposes, was granted, it be-
ing stipulated that a waterway thirty
feet in width must be left between
the proposed wharf and the wharf OF
the Sweeney Mercantile Company.
The amount of the annual rental is
fixed at $12 year and the term of
the lease is from August 9, 1905 to
April Z, 1913.
County refunding bonds to the am
cunt of So, 500, to bear interest at the
rate of A per cent. per annum, were
sold to the state at par, the money to
be used to make up the amount ap-
propriated from the county bond fund
to pay off the county bonds now out
standing and which become payable
September l, 1905.
The appeal of Geo. B. Mead and
others, of Port Stanley, from the de-
cision Of the county school superin-
tendent, consolidating districts Nos.
and 19, was heard and sustained
and the action of the. superintendent
reversed for the reason that it appear
ed conclusively from the evidence sub
mitted that public sentiment on the
question in the two districts has large
ly changed since the superintendent S
action was taken and that it is now
opposed to the union. 1t was the
opinion of the board, however, that
the superintendent order of consoi-
dation was fully justified at the time
it was made.
The plat of Gould's addition to the
town of Friday Harbor, as filed with
the county auditor, was approved
and accepted.
Action on the petition for the en-
forcement of the new stock law on San
Juan island was deferred until the
October meeting.
Warrants were ordered issued ON
the county current fund in payment
of l,;l1c allowed aS follows:
VIM. Cooper. digging grave for -
Friday ,and assisting undertaker 6.OO
| J. L. Blair, undertaken IN Frluay
case, and searching body and
nra,n;Sas 1000
Nrrs Earnsworth. coffin....... 100
w. J. Court, assessing. ..................... $500
Inter-Island Telephone Co., long
distance service ....... 49,. 5aU
y d Hill 18th grade examirer... 800
G.aoo Sharn 9Th grade examiner. 4.50
WIN. Fowle. Office supplies. ............ 1.45
reueI,or osssor ....... 2O.OO
Mrs. Nelson Labar, damages 70 =
stock ck................. ....-............. -6.ot
Of this amount the county received from
sale of injured animal, $l7.65
r r. Hill. per diem and mileage as
member ofcounty board of edu-
HlellDo' = ..... 1900
:, y I.t,o.. 90 ma as above. 1890
-. s. i,,e,, .s,na ....... 1920
G.nan r,,Iraf same 12.30
Commissioners, per diem and mile
| age:- - en-
" ~ u. a. nnrah.,o 17.60
7 e; $500, 2. Ius,H.uo 1920
FORCE OF HABIT
They got walking delegate
To umpire while they played;
He said he'd give it to them straight
But what mess he made.
Nobody ever got to first
The players were appalled,.
They said he surely was the worst,
Nor strikes we're all he called.