The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-05-14
CITY WORK STILL HELD IN ABEYANCE
,ouno Fopone Sewer Matter and Spring Street Ordinances
Passed And franchise Granted

The Friday Harbor town council
met in regular session Tuesday even
Ing with the mayor. clerk and all
members o; the council present. Min.
utes Of the previous meeting we're
read and approved.
Under the head of unfinished busi-
ness the mayor read communications
from three Seattle engineering firms
Cottrell & Whitworth. Seattle EnRi
neering Company. and Dunn & Dunn,
in reply to his letter asking for the
probable cost of preliminary survey
and estimate of the cost of the propos-
ed sewer system. The letters were
hled and the matter laid over until
the next regular meeting of the coun-
Gil.
r. e. Morris. counsel for the Vest
ern Mills & Lumber Co.. came before
the council aud requested an explana-
tion regarding the mayors refusal to
sign the franchise for operating an
electric lighting system. In reply
the mayor stated that he had done SO
after having received written request
from the council. The matter was
discussed at considerable length and
it was fnally decided to lay on the
table the ordinance passed, and re-
quest the petitioners to prepare and
present at the next regular meeting
Of the council new ordinance. To
this council for petitioners agreed.
The nter-Island Telephone Co. was
granted franchise to operate and
maintain telephone system.
The ordinance granting to the In
ternational Telephone Co. franchise
was indefinitely postponed. the COM
pRny taking the position that their
wires simply pass through the town.
that they used but the one line Of
noles and would not at any future
r.Ee be likely to exterd their system
SD Is to use streets not alrea " occn-
pied by them. Under their county
franchise. which has 47 years yet to
run. they are lawfully permitted to
do business, therefore will operate
under it and take out no other.
In the matter of the proposed i'm
provement at the foot of Spring street
the streets and alleys committee re-
ported that the survey had been made.
and plans and specifications drawn.
A letter from the Puget Sound Bridge
& Dredging Co., of Seattle. was read,
asking that plans and specifications
for this work be sent them. The let
ter was filed and the entire matter
laid over until the next regular meet
ing of the council.
The bill of E. Ed. Allen. 1878,
for making survey. plans and specifi-
cations of the proposed improvement
at the foot of Spring street was allow
ed and ordered paid.
The bill of John L. Murray. SIS. 90,
for costs in the case of the Town of
Friday Harbor VS.. ]. L. Murray was
referred to the city attorney. In re-
ply to an inquiry made by the city
attorney as to what the bill for costs
covered, r. e. Morris, counsel for
Mr.. Murray. stated that it was for at
tcrney's fees There appears to be
some question as to whether or not
the claim is a legal one and for this
reason the matter was referred.
A petition signed by eoodly num-
Der of the residents of the town ask
ing that the marshal be instructed to
patrol the streets until 800 a. m.
was presented sad ordered fled.
A question as to the right of the
council to remove from Office an ap-
pointee of the mayor was brought up
by Mayor Gould. who asked the city
attorney to pass upon this point. In
doing so the statute was quoted, and
the opinion given that the mayor's
appointees could only be removed by
himself, the sole authority in such
cases being vested in him.
Two ordinances were presented and
passed, one providing for the pay
ment of an annual poll tax and the
other for marshal. and defining his
duties. Following is the full text OF
both:
Ordinance No. %.
An ordinance providing an annual
street poll tax for the Town Of Friday
Harbor, and for the collection there
OF, and providing penalty for the
violation thereof. and repeating Ordi-
nance No. 16. and all other ordinan-
ces or parts thereof in conflict with
the provisions OF this Ordinance.
Be it ordained by the council OF
the town OF Friday Harbor:
Section /. That there be. and
there hereby is. imposed upon each
and every male inhabitant Of the town
Ct Friday Harbor, over the age Of
twenty one years an annual street