, 1875-02-06
Triumph Of Mike Evans and
Slaughter Of Cleary.


lively l1#lcEB &Saeupi4&es IL Hhb INV tut4u1su-
OTIS. but simply farcteas. The meetiug was held
under the following circumstances: The Ia"
provides for M annual meeting Of the Town
Board in September aud \ semi.annua! meeting
In March. Ds general construction, the board, /
once having legally mot gu tho day named by |
ststute, may adjourn from time to time; |
tins Icing In sehsonably continuous seEslou |
Throughout. the year. Thu last adjourned meet
Ing was held on the first Friday In last Dccem-
ber. From That date an Adjournment WAS mads |
to tho frat FRIDAY in January As that happcn-
cd to DO Now yosrs dsy, Of course, in tho oh
seryAnco OF tho customary habiss thereof, tile |
memhers Of the Board could not attend to ofel- |
cial business, anl hence there wns no meeting. |
There being present III The room bnt ono mem.
ber ut tins, tls Supervisor At ono time aud |
tho Town Clerk at another. neithor called tho
other to order, and 90 even q minority Of tho |
Hoatd did not Offset hn adjournment to given
dato.
Dy this failure, and Tho lapss OF an adjourned
meeting it is held by tbs Supervisor, who Baya
lie has good legal opinion to justify his own SELF
interestcd Judgment and BY several Of tho Jus
tees OF tue Board. tfas
ao1rn.1,, MEETING sgat
could bo hcla uatit tile Remi-anuual meeting pro-
yidcd for By law on the 18th OF no1t March.
Ter CONTRA II is held by the Town Clerk and
othors interested on bis side Of tho pod5-tlloFo
tleslrous Of most spocdily securing the generous
sums allowed BY themselves to themEsses ,, .n t9F
| through tho Ingenious generosity of tha
| people In the pa:ient endurance Of q cumbersome
aud c1trsyagant Ift' wheel in municipal gov
virtue ct a resolution adopted At tho lust ID.
iourned meeting that tile Board should hold
meetings On the first Friday OF every month TN
til otherwise ordered.
in cansiEg yesterdays meeting, acting under the
rotcut inllnouce Of sclf-nterost. wns tho active
Town CIork, familiarly known as Little Joe"
To explain this IL only neceksary to htate that
tile TDwn Clerk holds claims ngainst the!towu to
the amount Of about $500 that the Town Colloc-
tor las considerable funds In ,s hands and he too
ha1 claims for services aud expenses, for salary
md clerk hire; that ex-town officials hold town
orders Of. Which they aro apxious to roallzc cash.
| aud that thnY funk this may soonest be touo by
| funtng of tho town debt, and tue authotiza-
tion Of q new loan to meet future as vol as
| present obligations.
The Ionn Clerk made diligent search for all
members Of the Ioard, End personal re-
aueft ct each member to 1e present in
his 0is01th' ,,oa ees ~ Of ,n 3usi:s itcrnooG nog-
Ey such persuas:on quorum Was obtained but
not Iii after 8 o'clock, whcn tie curtains Of
evening began 70 gather, and gas was needed TO
permit tha Council to see TO deliberate
| 1EsTlCEs HNNEs AND noIDEH
said by twa Of tie officials of the Board that they
tli! not care 10 lend tcir presoncs to an Illegal
,neo:iug pendiug thctr candldacy for reapaoint-
| lnent. .... ..
Soon after o'clock uuintette hastily entered
the office, aud took seats. Supervisor eclnnk
uaa presumably Chairman but without waiting for
the formally OF hls calling the meeting to orler,
Town-Cie5k Orucnhut proceeded to hasty read-
ing OF the miuutes Of the last adjourned meat
Ing, held Doc. /. which brief minutes, nfter
: questionable criticism BY Supervisor schank,
Tie lown Clerk at onco proceeded 10
THE BUSINESS
for which Tic meetiug hal been called, by tho
introduction OF resolution for borrowing soma
money. when ho was reminded of blu duty by
JuHtca DeWolf, who auEgoated tue propriety Of
roll-call in order to ascoltain II thcro waa d
quorum present.
Supervisor Schauk, Justices De Wolf, Iiing1alO,
and pagsett, and G1ueuhut answered. There
was = quorum present. and. modcstty rosirlnR,
on back aca. was tho smiling aud patzonizag
Town Collector, merely presept Is = lonher. on,
; but one most Interested. lilo aoon realized thai
''he who Aumbleth himself ahall be GRATED,
aud WAS shortly thereafter invited to partlcipa
ton In tho coupsels Of the council. to take TIL
! place Of an absent Just!ce.
< Justice De Wolf approved nothing that wa'
y done By the body. but By biz presence gave Ut
y lunt aeQuiescence, aa without hlm the1o Touit
> have been no quorum. .... ......
. Aftor the roll-call, Joatco Daggett opened
WHAT WAy THE DEBT
of the Town Of South Chicaso?
= The Clcrk responded HAT it was about $40. 900
and Eps about proceeding to tell WHO hhld til
orders When he vas INTERRUPTED by tho Chair
e man. wl1o told hlm he was mistaken,
= f;rrcnhnt-t Inov what Tin talkjng about,
+ Scbsnk-you know too much. You Amt run
70 ninr thin Board.
a Oruanhut went On to eay that the r,resent su
y peryjsor lad recuiyed Tor faxes Of lS72-3 abou
IL Mi 6i:I
|; t.,lnrt aoIl f,ruort,,t knew untl,inp ahnnt III
u mnttor. Eyerybody Knew that mol neatly all I'll
y taxes we're colieotcl,
70 ftruent,t anil that mt mara than 10 rer cen
ID NJ ira taxes wera jant to iho town. though =
IN wss nnt cnjfrctc1 inuii]e nj two years je Kue,
ut ,ybot S.,1snk hsll recaiye and could proYe il
10 tn bnoLs.
y ms Eunary,xtr aud clark indu,xed IN f,,rtht
4 t,jhnr wrsnrIa Which van an,i,siug. from i,
70 m,,d n.r.anafatiss
O. Tn. ;ca X" Wnir ont .ton tn II l,v re,nark,u
o, tbSt If tcra was nj h,trjnnna to romn bcfore Ii
10 Hn~I he wou1 ita to ieaya tiis ulece. aa
to haa tn,sinas. ~ bis avn to n,tn,ul tn!
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