Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-08-04

Section 2. Section $3.50 Of the
statutes Is amended to read: Section
925-66: No justice of the peace in any
city wherein there shall be police
court under this chapter shall have any
crimina! jurisdiction of offenses com
mitted in such city, nor any authority
to issue warrants for the apprehension
of any alleged offender for an offense
committed therein, nor to examine or
commit or hold to bail any such Of
fender charged with any crime or mis-
demeanor committed in said city. Civil
actions, except actions under city ordi-
nances, may be removed from police
court for trial before justice Of the
peace for the same reasons and in the
same manner provided by law for re-
moving such actions from one justice
of the peace to another. No criminal
action and no action under any ordi-
nance Of the city shall be so remov-
able; but in case Of the absence, sick
ness, or disability of said police JUS
tice, he may, by an order in writing to
be filed in said court appoint q justice
of the peace or court commissioners In
said city to discharge his duties during
such absence, sickness, or dtSa bility,
and the person so appointed shall have
all the powers Of said police justice
while administering such office:
Section 3. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after its pas
sage and publication.
Approved June 80, 1911. Copy Law.
No. c I'll 49, nuf nAMs OF 5Hly 1911 E 1911
AN ACT to amend section 1494-57 of
the statutes making provisions for
all engines operated in, through. or
near forest or brush land.
The people of the State of Wisconsin,
represented in Senate and Assembly.
do enact as follows:
Section l. Section 1494-57 Of the
statutes is amended to read. Section
1494-57. 1. Between March 1 and De-
cember it shall be unlawful for any
logging locomotive, donkey, traction,
or portable engine
and all other engines, boilers, and To-
comotives.. except railway locomotives.
brush, or grass land. which do not
burn oil as fuel, to be operated without
a screen or wire netting on
top of the smoke stack and so con-
structed as to give the most practical
BILE protection against the escape Of
sparks and cinders from the
smoke STACKS thereof, and each such
nraoticab1e dew devices w5' to me nJe 1oHt
the escape of fire from ash-pans and
fire boxes. The term logging locomo
tive as used in this act shall be con-
strued to mean any locomotive oper-
ated on a railroad branch, line, or d.
vision, the chief or main business of
which Is the transportation of logs,
lumber, or other forest products.
2. All locomotives operated on any
railroad other than logging railroad
shall be equipped with the most prac
ticable shark arresters so constructed
ton against the escape of sparks and
cinderS from the smoke stacks thereof,
and each such engine shall be provided
with the most practicable device to
prevent the escape of live Goals from
aSh-panS and fire-bOXes, and said de-
vices between March l and December 1
shall at all times be maintained in
good repair. 1t shall be the duty of
the superintendent of motive power or
equivalent officer Of each such railroad
to designate an employe of such rail
road at each division point and round
house who shall examine each locomo-
tive each time it leaves the division
point or round house between March l
and December 1, and such employee
shall be held responsible for the proper
carrying out of the provisions of this
section, but without relieving the COM
pany from it's responsibility hereunder.
8. Any locomotive inspector deSig-
mated by the state board Of forestry
shall have the power to reject from
service Immediately any locomotive,
donkey, traction, or portable engine
which, in. the opinion of the said in
spector, is deficient in adequate de-
sign, construction, or maintenance Of
the fire protective devices designated
any such locomotive. donkey, traction,
or portable engine so rejected from
service shall not be returned to service
until such defects have been remedied
to the SatiSfac ton Of the state board Of
forestry. In case Of disagreement be-
tween said inspector and the owner of
the locomotive, donkey, traction, or
portable engine so rejected from SerV-
iceas to the efficiency or proper main
tenance of said protective devices, then
the owner of said locomotive, donkey,
traction, or portable engine may APP.
peal to the railroad commission of
Wisconsin for a decision of said mat
ter, but pending such decision the said
locomotive, donkey, traction, or pOrta-
BILE engine shall not ba returned to
q. 4. Every corporation main
tanning and operating railway shall,
at least ,, once In each year year, 80 r,aht
OF way all grass and weeds and burn
or remove therefrom all brush, logs,
refuse material, and debris within
reasonable time. and whenever fir fires
thereof from the right of way.
s. No such corporation shall
permit Its employees to deposit fire. live
Goals, or ashes upon their tracks out
side of the yard limits, except they be
Immediately extinguished.
or trainmen who discover that fences
or other material along the right Of
way or on lands adjacent to the rail-
road are burning or in danger from
or person in charge at their next stop
ping place at which there shall be
telegraph station. Corporations main
tanning and operating railways shall
section employees for the prevention and
prompt eXtinguishment of fires, cause
notices, which shall be furnished by
the state forester to be posted at their
stations, and when q fire occurs along
the line of their road or on lands ad
jacent thereto, for which fire they are
responsible, they shall concentrate
such help and adopt such measures as
shall most effectual1y arrest its prog
=. 7. All such corporations,
during g. danger ously dry season, and
when so directed by the state board Of
forestry, shall provide fire patrols for
duty along their tracks. .
Whenever the state board Of forestry
shall deem it necessary they may order
such corporations to provide for patrol
men to follow each train throughout
such districts as may be necessary to
prevent fires. When the state board
Of forestry has given corporation
such notice that in it's opinion the con-
ditions require such patrol after trains,
the corporation shall Immediately COM
ply with such Instructions throughout
the districts designated; or in their
failure to do so, the state board of for
estry may employ patrolmen, and fur
nish them with the necessary equip
ment to patrol the rights of way OF
such CORPORATIONS, and the expense OF
the same shall be charged to the cor
poration and the same may be recoV-
cradle in a civil action in the name Of
the state of Wisconsin, and In addition
thereto, the said corporation shall be