The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-09-19
Council Proceedings,
IReported for the Kenosha Telegraph

The City Fathers were in full counsel again
on Monday evening last. Aid. Crosit, in the
absence of the Mayor, was voted to the chair
After preliminary matters, the Special Com
mittee upon the question of alley or no alley
in block SO, Aid. Bailey and Stebbens, report
ed the title of Mr.. Chase to the alley perfect,
and recommended the city to lay out an alley
through said block, upon the petition already
before the Council, asking that said alley be
opened, and that commissioners be appointed
under the charter for that purpose. This
elected discussion as to the legality of
such proceedings, which was decided in favor
of the committees report, and the commits
sioners were appointed to assess benefits and
damages.
Mr. L. B. Nichols, in behalf of Unitarian
Society, appeared and asked a resolution of
the Council, giving permission to occupy
portion of Chicago street, for building mater
ials, during the erection of their church edi-
flee. Mayor Petit said he had already given
q verbal, and would give a written permits
sion-thought that sufficient. Permission
granted. Aid. White, in behalf of Peter
Christman, asked permission to have street
in Jennie's addition temporarily closed
which was granted. Aid. Bailey asked per-
mission to remove the clay from the Kimball
| reservoir to the Park reser soir; Aid. Stebbins
| objected that this was in conflict with the or
| der of the last meeting of the Council, that
the clay should be put upon the streets con-
tiguous, but the motion prevailed over the
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as member of No. 1 Engine Boys.
Marshal Buddle, having an eye single to
the right of eminent domain" in the city, to
all her broad streets and alleys, arranged
certain denizens of the End Ward with having
made daring enroachments upon the sacred
soil over which he, as their distinguished rep
Preventative, held the baton hay stacks, cab
Ibage yards, and pig-pens held high carnival
to the central point of some of her proud
streets and thoroughfares. He called for a
surveyor, that the boundaries be settled be.
fore rights are impaired. Aid. Hoffman ably
supported our energetic and public spirited
Marshal, in his onset upon the intruders, ant
said the constitution and the laws must b.
sustained; the Marshal and Street Supervisor
still, until the Council asserted and main
tanned the dignity and majesty of the law,
by declaring that "street was a street, a 10
was lot, and a potatoe patch was potato
patch )" he disclaimed planting his own pc
tatoes in the street.-the individual was de
meaned thereby and the city outraged T
the sly suggestion of Aid. Glover that ha
stacks were formidable obstacles to remove
that if we would only wait till spring, til
cows will have performed the Marshal's dut
s in demolishing them, and the belligerant der
: liens will have slaughtered their hogs and ca
. up their cabbages, and thereby great labC
t saved. The orator still insisted that this Wa
: a dodge, Sinking of the responsibility
. that lay heavily upon the shoulders of IL
I city fathers, asking inferior agents to perfor1
a aldermanic duties besides the COWS migl
d leave greater obstruction than they +
: moved. Here Aid. Crosit came to the su
+ port of the motion, he was Street Supervise
o. and had been called on duty to the task
clearing those streets last spring, but he h;
found that crops had already been sown IN t
Of streets, that two streets had been almost e
10Y mus ouslIuClcu, anu hO Ast~ yANiNSN
Ae the earnest cntreaty to let the matter rest
" the crops were off but now new obstructio
KS We're obtruded. "Ossian on Pelion arose
OF they'd better take the bull by the horns a
On back him of from the bridge at once, and
an TINS appeal the city fathers assented with
~, requisite "ayes." The Marshal and Sire
Supervisor were duly empowered, and V
orous winter campaign against the bellig
ms ant I'd Warders is promised Methinks l
oi the Marshal on his winding way, duly arm
et- and equipped, ready for the fierce attack {.
M flank, on front, on rear''
tel with trumpet shawn. and attabal:
We And TO the fre-eyed maid of smoky war
- All hot, and bleeding. will he offer them
len The mailed Mars"
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