The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1881-12-24
Town Board Meeting.

The regular meeting of the Town
Board was held ON Monday evening,
10th inst. Present Messrs. Harding,
Lewis, Ferrier, Ashby and Skeele.
Absent, the Mayor. Mr.. Skeele pre-
sided.
The following bills were allowed
Anderson & Bandholdt. painting en-
aWno,Ss f,nS noHse ni..tsi;ns sns ho;,.s ~ %
Minor, costs in People vs. Jas
E Sell, grading 6th and Main sts -. los 50
~ Frazer, prisoners meals .-.---.. 9 . %
Hy Mack. lumber. lei ~
Harding Bros, hardware .......-.. % IS
A petition was presented from the
property owners In block Ii, Canon
City, to grant permission to W. s:
Lowe to erect a tent on lot IL, of
block IL, for six months from date.
Granted.
+. NJ. Carter, the assistant city
marshal, sent in a communication in
reference to the bill of Si02 for dog
killing, presented by him to the last
meeting of the board. Considerable
discussion was had over this bill and
the general feeling among the city
fathers seemed 10 Indicate that they
were SEINE hat skepticaf about so
many CANNES having been siaught-
cred in one month. None OF them
had missed any dogs, neither had
they noticed any marked deprecia1
tion in the number Running about,
nor in the price Of sausages, nor any
other of the well known ear marks
OF such great slaughter among the
dogs. Some of them even went So
fa= as to intimate that they would be
dog-goned if they could believe it. Is
L. Al II L. III II
that 102 dogs should be killed in one
paid the license of 50 each. 1t seems
almost incredible THAT there are only
that many dogs left. There seems to
be some nismanagement about this
matter on the part of some one and
it is not at all clear that Mr.. Carter
is to blame. II he killed the dogs
under the ordinance Of the Town
Board authorizing him to do so he
should be paid according to agret-
ment without any question being
raised now. The ordinance should
specify what kind of evidence they
would require of the canines' sudden
taking of but if they have left it to
the police officers to say how many
dogs they killed it was 3 very short
sighted arrangement. 1t calls to mind
the experience of one of our business
men; who promised boy he had, q
cent a piece for every mouse he
caught. Mice seemed to grow move
numerous the more that were
trapped. The number of dead mice
increased from 5 to 10 and 10 a day.
He thought he would investigate and
found that the boy was ringing in
the same old dead mice on him over
and over again. He stopped this
game by cutting off the tails of the
mice on which he paid bounty, when
the number fell of to three or four
day. The Town Board should have
provided some means of proving how
many dogs were killed and then it
would not have been necessary to
discredit the police officers account
or to cast any reflections upon him
by questioning his honesty. As the
matter stands the police officer can
say with Dogberry. 81 am Sir Oracle
and when ope my mouth let no
dog bark w
An ordinance establishing rules
and regulations for the government
of the fire department, was passed.
1t will be found ia our advertising
columns.
The remaining iinlocated hydrant
was ordered to be located on the
southwest corner of 7th and G SITS.