The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-04-16
COW HAY HAS MANY POSI-
TONS TO FILL BY
APPOINTMENT.
c;vtv New Ones Were Created by
Last Legislature Some Garry
Salaries and Others Only Elk
,enses-Some of the Positions
Enumerated.

he tlll6u ny "pp
, W we're created by the last legislature,
~ ~ which but ten have so far been dis.
~ oosod Of In addition, terms of about
pC score of other appointive officers
a %ave expired or will expire this spring.
~ Some of the positions carry good
.olaries In others only expenses are
Flowed. With all more or less honor
o. on element, and most of them con-
trol expenditures of moneys. and for
This minor patronage. When Gov.
uov gets back from Spokane next
unek he will probably take up the dis
+ribution of the offices. Some of the
host anpointments in the state are on
tbn list. For instance, Eugene Lor-
ton Gov. Cosgrove's appointee as
chairman of the state board of control,
is said to be preparing to resign. He
;s q candidate for appointment as fed
oral collector of internal revenue, the
POSITION held for years by D B.
rrocker. of Tacoma, whose position
has expired. His position on the board
navs only $4,000 year year and
pxnenses, while the other two members
oct 81, 900 each, but as the board con-
trolls about 800 appointments, there will
he many willing to accept the place.
OF the big old positions where terms
soon expire are those now held by
Jesse S. Jones, of Tacoma, member of
tbp railroad commission, and Tax Com
missioners T. D. Rockwell, of Spo-
kane J. E. Frost, of Ellensbrug, and
A.E Cagwin, Of Kelso, whose COM
missions carry only until next June.
Other appointments which expire in
June are J. A. Veness, of Winlock,
and Joseph Irving, Of Snoqualmie,
members of the state forestry commits
sion; Coal Mine Inspector D. G. Bot
ing, of Black Diamnd; Rev. J. A. LIE
Cornu, chaplain of the state peniten-
tiary; Alfred Lister, Tacoma, member
of the state board Of accountancy. and
0. Hartnagil, of of Seattle, Of the
veterinary examining board.
Those whose terms have already ex-
pired and who are simply holding over
until they are commissioned or 9TH
ers are named include Labor Commits
sioner Charles F. Hubbard, of Tacoma;
State Geologist Henry Lands, of Seat
tie; H. D. Brand, of Tacoma, and A.
W. Burns, of North Yakima, who are
members of the board of dental exam
iners; John P. Hartman, of Seattle,
university regent; DR.. J. S. Anderson,
Of Asotin, regent of the state college,
and Mrs Kate Turner Holmes, Of Sc
attle; c. W. Smith, of Seattle; ]. A.
Gabel, of Centralia, and L. W. Pratt,
of Tacoma, who are the advisory board
Of the state library commission.
The terms of the members of the old
state board of education have expired,
but new appointments will be made
under the new CODE
Of the sixty places provided by the
new legislature, there have been ap-
pointed the two extra supreme court
judges, superior judge each for the
counties of King, Pierce and Spokane,
three members Of the capitol building
commission, adjutant general and a
state horticultural commissioner.
In the order in which the bills ap-
pear in the 1909 session laws, the
places yet to be filled follow:
A state Inspector of hotels. with a
salary of $1,000, who has three depu.
ties
A nurses examining board to consist
OF i've graduate nurses,
A superior court judge for Chehalis
county.
Three instructors as members of the
state board of education, in addition
70 those named there by law.
A grain inspector, who is to be ap-
pointed by the railroad commission
with the approval of the governor. :"
a Washington insurance code COM
nisslon OF five to draft new insurance
'oae' A new board of medical ex-
"nllnesr OF five members.
An embalmers' examining board, of
mnlch the governor names two mem
OeIs' Three electors to serve with
-. y'lier officers in selecting and buying
s sne SITE In Skegit county for the branch
.ainl Tor the Western Washington hos
pi.al Tor the insane.
lhe Columbia river improvement
commission of five to han lie the APP
ta of $50, in improving
tIlal stream between Bridgeport and
Kettle Falls.
80 a board of examiners in optometry
Vi three members.
MIS- "a southwest Washington fair com
a. commission of three to look after
m rne spending of $4,000 for improve
T OF Puyallup and Stuck rivers.
sta - addition the legislators created q
snoS, historical building commission to
tb bouu ga, 900 at Tacoma, but named
~ commission in the act.
ANY uoV. Hay has already a desk full Of
a ppaicatlons and recommendations for
tho paIIi ia and every mail adds to