The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-05-11
CitV Cornell

Although we had reporter at the meeting of
the city council on Tuesday evening, the official
record in another column, which now that the
FREE TRADER has been selected as the official pa
per of the city we are obliged to publish leaves
little for the reporter to add.
few incidents, however, are worthy of men
ton. The chairman Of the street and alley COM
mittee having reported verbally at some length
against claim put in at the last meeting for pay
for certain stone used years ago in building
bridge in South Ottawa, the report was objected
to on the ground that it was not in writing The
Mayor decided that the mere act of the council
accepting and acting on verbal report ipso tacto
suspended the rule requiring it to be in writing,
so that virtually the rule amounts to nothing.
Hoban, chairman Of the street and alley COM
mittcc, reported that he had agreed with 7. j.
Wade for the purchase in behalf of the city of an
acre of ground on the flat" in East Ottawa as
gravel bed for $50. The council agreed to ratify
the purchase on the survey of the ground and
the making of good deed to the city. The sug-
gcstons, however, were made, whether Il good
deed can be made to piece of ground cut up by
streets and alleys; and secondly, has not last
winters experience shown that gravel is a Who'll
~ unfit material for street making, and would it
not be altogether more sensible for the city to
make use of the refuse stone at the lime stone
quarrics west of the city for street purposes.
In reference to the judgment recently obtained
against the civ by Mr.. Jekyl for balance due on
rebuilding the city.hal Logan expressed his re-
grct that the suit had been allowed to 20 against
the city by default. The judgment was for $685.
81, while Jekyll himself had agreed to take s2lj,
a sum which the city had resisted on account Of
its being too large.
A motion of Aid. Murphy to fix liquor, billiard,
auctionecr and other licenses for next year at
same rates as during the past year was ruled out
of order, on the ground that the motion involved
a repeal of the present ordinance on the subject.
The invitation for bids for the city printing
drew out but one bid, which came from Nattin.
ger, of the Daily Times, who offered to do the
work at the prices fixed by ordinance, except
that he wanted g.. 80 in addition per column for
publishing the minutes. AS the ordinance re
quired the city paper to be weekly paper, pub
lishcd in the English language-neither of which
recruitment is met by the TmeS-the bid was ig-
nored, and the council proceeded, by vote of
to 5, to designate the FREE TRADER as the official
paper of the city.
The dog shooting question received slight
ventilation, on the objection Of Dean to paying
policemen, whose whole time belonged to the
city, extra for shooting dogs. Catlin made no
objection to the pay if the shooting was also
made to apply to pigs which doubtless the city
had as much right to shoot as dogs There the
subject was dropped
Among the bills allowed was one of ISL to Nat
finger for publishing notice in the Times for
which the city printer gets about 80 cents. The
Mayor said he had directed the notice to be pub
lished as he supposed once, but acknowledged
he was bit, and there was no help for it. SO the
bill was ordered paid.