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FRIDAY HABBOB, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBEB 28, 1908
The Legal Aspects
Of Incorporation
Practically all of the legal points
involved in the question of incorpor
ation are clearly covered by a well
known firm of Seattle attorneys in a
letter to Gene G. Gould in resDonse
to a number of inquiries submitted
by bim. Nearly every point touched
upon in the attorneys' letter has been
brought out in the Islander before,
when tha question of incorporation
has been under discussion, but as the
legal aspects of the matter are not
now fresh in the public mind it may
be well to le lew them briefly again.
Section 3387 of Pierces Code says:
"Not more than one square mile
shall be included within the corporate
limits of a municipal corporation of
the fourth class, nor shall more than
twenty acres of unplatted land
belonging to any one person be taken
within the corporate limits without
the consent of the owner."
Section 3371 provides that the
Board of County Commissioners may
strike property out of the limits
proposed by the petition but shall
not include any not included in the
petition.
The governing power in an incor
porated town of the fouith class is
vested in a mayor and five oounoil
men. Such towns are not divided
into wards, all councilman being
elected "at larue." They must serve
without pay and are prohibited from
bidding upon or becoming financially
interested in any town contract or
from furnishing any supplies to the
town. The compensation of the clerk,
treasurer, marshal, attorney and
police justice, or other employees of
the town, is fixed by the council,
there being no minimum or maximum
limit.
The tax levy for all purposes can
not exceed ten mills on the dollar
for any one year.
The council may or may not grant
liquor licenses. If such licenses are
granted the annual fee shall not be
leaa than $300 nor more than 91,000.
and whatever the amount ten per
cent, goes to the state and ninety per
cent, to the general fund of the town.
Road taxes collected upon property
within the corporate limits would be
paid into the town treasury for street
improvements and repairs.
Towns of the fourth class are
expressly exempted from the provis
ions of the direct primary law in the
matter of the nomination of candi
dates for elective offices. They are
chosen by political party or mass
conventions called for the purpose.
A majority vote only is required
to decide the question of incorpora
tion when submitted and any quali
fied elector may vote. There is no
property qualification for voting at
any election in this state.
Country Life Meetings
Editor Islander:
1 am iv receipt of a letter from
the Spokesman-Review, of Spokane,
relative to the public meetings to be
held December sth in the school
houses in rural districts over the
entire United States. Editor Smith
asked my opinion of this simultane
ous meeting and submitted to me
twenty five questions for my choice
of five and asked me to give this
communication as wide publicity aa
possible.
I heartily endorse this idea and
have selected the following as my
choice of topics:
Pricea of farm producta—Mutual
buying and selling.
Farming as a business —Banking.
Credit, Insurance.
Organizations for mutual improve
ment and social pleasure.
Legislation in behalf of the farmer.
Thought as farm capital.
If the farmers of the country will
rise to the occasion thin country life
commission will result in the greatest
and most far reaching good, perhaps
not directly, but certainly it is
! suggestive and a move in the right
direction. Please publish this and
call the attention of the public as far
as possible to the same and urge that
interest be taken by school officers.
|teachers, ministers, tec. and oblige,
Ben E. Harrison.
East Sound. Nov. 24, 1908.
White Salmon. Washington, the
I apple center of the "North Bank 1'
' road, holds the record for liberality
in raisins an advertising fond. The
entire population of the village and
valley of White Salmon doea not ez
oeed 600 people, and at a recent
meeting they raised $2200.
A Unique Hotel and A. Y. P. Advertisement
Among tbe original advertisements
gotten out in Seattle, advertising the
A laska- Yukon -Pacific Exposition,
there is none better or more appropri
ate than that being sent out by the
Antlers Hotel, Corner of Fourth Aye-
nue and Union Street.a oat of whioh
aopears in this issue of the Islander.
It shows tbe oentral porton of exposi
tion grounds, machinery hall,aKricul
tural building and fountain. In tbe
background is shown beautiful Lake
Washington, on the shores of which the
exposition will be held, and snow-
County Teachers' Meeting
The teachers of the couuty are to
meet at the court house next Friday
afternoon and evening, Deo. 4. for
the discussion of professional topics
and for social intercourse. Follow
ing will be the program:
Benefits of teachers' meetings,
Miss Anna Trafton
How may we secure better attendance.
Miss Ruth Johnson
Ideas for busy work.
Miss Mary Kennedy
How may we have fewer classes and
longer periods in the rural schools,
Miss Ericka Nordberg
School libraries,
W. R. Nichols
School yards,
C. W. Guibor
Spelling: Results to be kept in mind.
How to teach it,
Misß Lizzie Hicks
Writing: Objects and method.
Miss Julia Frits
Short intermission.
Value of dictionaries. In what grade
should use of dictionaries begin?
Miss Sarah Armstrong
Drawing in rural schools,
Miss Juanita Barry
Should much time be spent upon
stocks and bonds in the eighth grade
and why?
Mrs. J. C. Myers
History: devices and methods.
Miss Ora Strowgerand
Miss Orel Handy
Reading: aims and methods.
Miss Charlotte Andrews
Analysis as applied to giammar and
arithmetic.
Miss Margaret Warren
Parent, pupil and teacher.
Mias Hildred Davles
Athletics,
Miss Cora Scribner
Ventilation,
Mr. Charles Sudweeks
Muscott-Rushton
Dr. Brayton Muscott and Mias
Nellie Rusbton were married at the
Friday Harbor hospital Wednesday
afternoon at 5 o'clock. Rev. Herbert
Jones officiating.
The wedding was a complete sur
prise even to the doctor's most inti
mate friends. His bride, who is a
trained nurae, has been here only a
short time. She came here from
Denver, where she graduated from a
training school for nurses. Her
former home was in Oloud ■ county.
Kansas. Her hospital duties since
her arrival have kept her so closely
confined that she haa made but few
acquaintances here, but she is most
highly esteemed by those who know
her.
The doctor's numerous friends
here and throughout the county
extend to him and to his bride their
most cordial congratulations and best
wishes.
The local teachers are spending
their Thanksgiving vacation at their
homes. Mr. Nichols left Wednesday
afternoon to go to the borne of his
parents at Van Buren. Whatcom
county, and Miss Barry and Miss
Kennedy went to Seattle.
capped Mount Rainier in the distance.
In the upper corners is a represen
tation showing that commerce by
land and sea meet at Seattle. An
Alaska miner mushing in over tbe
snow with his dog team and a miner
washing gold from a creek with his
gold pan are typical scenes in Alaska
and on the Yukon, while in the cen
ter is h cut of the Antlers Hotel and
street scenes in Seattle. The catchy
phrase ,"I say. Hello. Bill, meet me
at the Antlers Hotel, "will be a by
word with many who visit Seatle and
tbe exposition.
A Hospital Suggestion
Editor Islander: In my work
among the people of the islands I
have been told that there is an effort
being made to establish a hospital at
Friday Harbor and believing this is
something we need I should like to
assist in the establishment of a hos
pital where any of our physicians
may wait upon their patieuts or
perform an operation without the
neessity of taking theaa to Seattle or
Bellingbam.
If those having the matter in hand
will give assurane that the hospital
will be open to all patients and
physicians on the same terms, and
some of our papers will print the
tags free, I believe we can have a tag
day throughout the county that would
materially help. By sending the
tags to several postoffiues and schools
throughout the county, I believe the
people will all help. The steamer
Islander will carry any donations of
fruit or anything that is for the hos
pital free.
I think the people of Friday Har
bor will see the need and will
respond.
I will be glad to hear from other
ministers of the Gospel who are
interested in caring for the dick.
Rev. James D. Hudson.
Beach. Wash.
In connection with the above
excellent suggestion of Mr. Hudson's,
it may be well to say that the Friday
Harbor hospital, established by Dr.
Muscott, is open to all physicians
and their patients. All hospitals
have a "house physician" in general
charge, who attends to patients unless
a preference is expressed for other
attendance, but all reputable doctors
and their patients are welcome.
Mrs. Muscott is a skilled nurse, a
graduate of a Denver training school
for nurses, and all patieuts have her
watchful care and attention.
What Whatcom Hunters Wantl
Sportsmen over in Whatcom county
have declared themselves in favor of
changes in the game law as follows:
"Opening the season for ducks,
Chinese pheasants, native pheasants,
quail and grouse at the same time-
October 1; limiting the bag to five
birds of each kind or ten all told;
letting the law permitting the hound
ing of deer stand; forbidding the
killing of deer in water; protecting
Golden. Hungarian and Reeves
pheasants for live years; changing the
trout fishing season in lakes from
April to November to .from May to
December and the placing of the
protection of game under state
instead of county jurisdiction and the
placing of the hunting license to be
good in all parts of the state at $2."
The Whatcom sports can count npon
active and earnest opposition in tbia
county to the hunting of deer with
dogs and to a state license fee of
12.U0.
Mr. aud Mrs. C. M. Tucker, Mrs.
Martin and Miss Nella Jensen were
Thanksgiving guests of the ladies' pa
, rents, Mr. and Mrs. B. Jensen.
HU. 44
Origin of Name
Of Friday Harbor
The Bellingbara American-Re-
Teille, of last Sunday, declares in
lame type that "Friday Harbor Wants
1 3 Ofaant* Its Name.*' The bead aed
is not justified by tbe tale tbat is
told beneath it Ab a matter of fact
Friday Harbor does not want to
ohange its name. There is practically
no aentimeut here in favor of ■nob a
proposition and if the question of •
change to 4 'Corbel 1." or any other
name, were to be submitted to a
vote it is doubtful if it would have a
doz«tn supporters at tbe polls. The
Islander has interviewed a consider
able number of people on the ques
tion during tbe week and finds thai
publio opinion is practically unani
mous against any ohange. In Its ar
ticle touebing upon the question of
incorporation, as well as name, oar
esteemed Bellingham contemporary
says:
"A pioneer of San Juaa County says
tie Dame Friday Harbor wag given by
the Hudson Bay Company. Aooord
inn to his version, one of the com
pany's Teasels landed in the bay at
that point and found one of the com
panys' sheep herders, a Kanaka, who
was imported from the Sandwich Is
lands, as oaretakw of the sheep. One
of the officers on the boa t asked the
Kanaka to tell his name. His reply
was a word that sounded like "Fri
day", and thereupon the ship's crew
designated the landing place as Fri
day Harbor, the name that it haa
borne more than fifty yearn."
While the above story is substan
tially true it is incorrect in some de
tails. The vessel referred to as bavins
visited the harbor some fifty years
ago was a British gunboat and not a
vessel belonging to the Hudson Bay
Company. The officer in command
asked a Kanaka known as John Fri
day, who was the only man here, the
name of the harbor. John did'nt
understand English very well and
thinking that tbe officer inquired his
name he told him. Many soundings
along the various island channels
and in tbe harbors were taken by tbe
British naval officers and upon tbe
first ohart of the archipelago, issued
by the British admiralty, the name
of Friday Harbor appeared. When
the boundary controversy was settled
and county government established,
Friday Harbor was chosen by the pio -
neers, at the instance of Captain War
bass , as the county seat, by reason of
its central and oonveninent location
and fine harbor. Captain Warbaae, aa
the hrst auditor of the county, took
advantage of a Federal law which per
mitted counties to locate and obtain
title to 160 acres of government land
for county seat purposes and filed, in
the name of tbe county, upon the
quarter section upon whioh the great
er part of the town is built. A few
years later bis successor as auditor.
Judge Bowman, purchased from the
county commissioners for SIOO for
ty acres of tbe best land including
what is now the Nichols addition and
the property along Argyle Avenue,
paying for it in installments out of
bis fees as auditor. Capt. Warbass
was incensed at tbe commissioners for
making tbe sale and once told the*
writer that was tbe reason be never
acquired so much as a single lot in
the townsite. although he filed upon
160 acres of land adjoining it on the
east, the greater part of which he re
tained up to a short time before his
death, when he sold it to Andrew
Newball, whose elegant house now
stands upon tbe site occupied for a
third of a century by tbe historio
home of the old pioneer.
State Lands Under Contract
October 1. 1908, which is tbe
date of the biennial report now being
prepared by Commissioner Roes.
there were 214,355 acres of state
lands held under contracts of sale.
These lands were sold during past
years at public auction for gross
considerations of •4,776.108. Most
of tbe land was sold under the ten
year payment plan. So that now
there is doe $3,733,217 on the par
chase price, on which deferred pay
ments tbe state is drawing 6 per cent.
per annum interest.
October 1, 1906, the aggregate of
state lands under contract of sale
was but 90.466 acres. In 1904 it
was 68.368 acres; in 1902 it was
but 45.353 acres. These figures are
exclusive of the large area sold under
contracts where final payments have
been made and deeds have been
issued.
