, 1885-01-07
NEARING The END.
The City Council Partially Closes
The Years Business.
An Interesting Exhibit of The Mu-
nicipaI Expenses.
Judges of Election Appointed and
Polling Places Selected.

door at various times. but it was quite
late before a quorum was present. The
lobby was well filed early in the evening,
however, men with bills being numerous
It was evident that considerable private
caucusing was being done, and Indeed
it was asserted that the meeting would be
an exciting one. The Council was finally
called to.order by Mayor Careyand Messrs.
Dyer, Riner, McGregor, Warren, Harring-
ton, Ennegan and Griffin answered the
roll call. City Clerk Jeffrey, Treasurer
Bergman. Attorney Riner, Engineer
provinces and Marshal Schnitger were also
present.
A petition was presented by d. Kline
asking for a rebate of taxes. Referred to
the Finance Committee.
The City Marshal made a report that
twenty-five electric lights went out during
the month of December. Most of these
failed to burn from l O'Clock a. m. until
daylight.
The report of the City Marshal was
submitted and the report of City Clerk
Jeffrey was also made The report
shows that the city's employees were paid
$l2, 7l4.46. The City Marshal received
81, 1884. IA, and the remainder of the
police force cost 80, 1856. 80. The sum of
81 .294 was expended on the park. The
streets cost about $4,000. The Fire De-
partment expended s3.96s. IS. The
water works cost $50, 407. So, and warrants
at present outstanding amount to $ls,-
1856.
The report of the City Treasurer was
read. The bonded indebtedness was
stated as $l47, O00.0 0 the total indebted
ness being being $40, ISs. 10. The cash
in the treasury is just $2l ,679. 90.
The report of the Chief Of the Fire De-
partment gave an invoice of the material
on hand The leading feature of the re-
port was a protest against the sale Of the
of the Durant engine, as it had been pur-
chased by subscription and was needed by
the city.
The Mayor appointed Messrs. Warren
and Riner as a committee to examine the
vouchers Of the year and the bills were
read. These amounted to s., 545. 40.
The Standard Cattle Company asked
for a rebate of taxes on personal prop
erty. and Mr.. VIM. H. Jarboe applied
for the position of engineer at the pump
house. Supt deuel. asked that James A
Bean be appointed special policeman at
the depot. The Mayor stated that Mr..
Bean was already serving as an officer
and it seemed to be understood that no
further action was necessary.
An ordinance was introduced providing
hat the City Clerk, or his deputy. shall
have an ofico in the City Hall and shall
stay in his Office from 9 o'clock a. m. un-
til 5 O'Clock p. m. The enacting clause
Of the ordinance provides that it shall
take effect on the Goth day of January.
At the request of Mr.. Riner the rules
were suspended and the ordinance was
passed
The Mayor stated that he had ordered
the City Attorney to compile the ordi-
nances enacted during 1884. These will
be published and attached to those al
ready published in book form.
Mayor Carey stated that under the
charter the city had a right to suppress
gambling houses and he was in favor of
placing a city license on gaming houses
in addition to the county license, to the
end that some of these houses might be
suppressed. He called the attention of
the council to the matter, but the council
received the communication with appar-
ent apathy.
The Mayor further recommended that
a large and commodious building be
erected for the use Of the Durant and
Pioneer fire companies, and that the
Alert House be repaired. AT present
there is no place for the new Pioneer
truck. which cost 81, 200. and which now
stands out in a yard subject to the
weather. No action was taken with ref
erence to these recommendations.
The bills of the Councilmen for their
several salaries we're presented and were
allowed.
Mr.. Dyer, from the committee ap-
pointed to investigate the sobriety and
and competence of the engineer at the
pump house, reported that he thought the
engineer was competent, and advised hat
the matter be passed to the new City
Council. He also stated that the fencing
of the lakes had been temporarily sus-
pended during the cold weather.
Mayor Carey stated that the contract
between the government and the city had
been signed by General Mason and him
self. The contract gives the city the right
Of way across the reservation for bitches,
lakes, fences, etc. At present the city
water will not be used at Fort Russell, as
the post has a good supply.
Mayor Carey stated it had been sug-
gested to him that the City Council
should remember that a week from Tues
day a new Mayor should be elected, in
case one was nominated-he was anxious
to retire and hoped he would not be
obliged to attend another meeting. He
further hoped that the great Demo
cratic party and the small Republican
party would make nominations. He
asked Mr.. Harrington if he could not
''stir 'em up" That gentleman replied:
THE community wanted to get rid ofyou
so bad that they sent you out of the city.
1t would be better for the city if alotmore
of its officials were sent out of the
country. too" The Mayor thereupon
promptly announced a recess for fifteen
minutes. pending the conclusion OF the