Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-02-02
City Trustees.

Tho BOARD of Cifv Trf1staas N, OF OF 10 ,
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NJ yesterday, all the members present.
Mayor Brown said there apparently was
a mistake on the part of the Chief of Police
of the ;p+ont of Tho rr,,,stoo. -, -
e' "Ne.i .neS
dsheo MN 10 enforce me CUBIC air law.
They meant, or at least he did, the arrest
OF the parties who owned the buildings
They should be arrested and convicted for
a violation of law the penalty for which
is fine OF $500. He said the fifteen Chi
namen convicted and sentenced to impris-
onment in the city prison were having a
fine time. They had at last found that
long-sought-for haven of rest, where labor
was not required, meals furnished them by
white servants free of cost, while they re-
cline upon downy beds of ease, where the
poll-tax collector was locked out, and the
bowling boycotter could not enter.
Bids were received for the furnishing of
fuel to the Water Works for one year, from
the Capital Gas Company, coke, S11 600 C.
Holland, lone coal, Sl1, 400. The contract
was awarded TO the gas company. The bid
for building a sidewalk on d street, between
Fourteenth and Fifteenth, at 60 cents per
ineal foot was accepted.
Sparrow Smith, and others, appeared and
asked what action, if any, had been taken
in regard to the petition of l 900 citizens
asking high license on the liquor traffic.
Mayor Brown said the matter would be
considered Immediately
The matter of opening Twentieth and Q
streets through Richmond Grove was
brought up and postponed until next Mon
day 1t is now almost an assured fact that
the grove will be cut up, majority of the
property-owners having signed in favor of
1t. Too much beer drinking on Sundays,
with its music and shoutings, is the prin-
cipal thing urged against it.
The Harbormaster collected for Deem
Der $40; Poundmaster, ST.. The Chief of
Police reported for the same time: Arrests,
POI; dodgers, 202; meals furnished, 1907
en- routes, % amount collected for en-
routes SIS 20; expense of office, Sc 50.
Mayor Brown, Trustee Jones and Street
Commissioner Nielsen all paid left-hand
compliments to certain reports that APP
peared in the Evenilg Bee during the week.
Nielsen SHE'D the first stone by explaining
his connection with getting two carloads of
granite ready to ship down the river on a
steamer at moments notice. in case of
break between this CITY and Sutteryille.
He rather sympathized with the party who
was not able to make more truthful state
ment or more sensible criticism. Trustee
Jones denounced the item, so far as it re-
icllSu " Hlll. dS dDSOlulelN untrue.
He, however, was aware that
the public did not believe
all they read, especially that emanating
from certain OuartprS Mavor Rro,rD
sa!yed over his wounds, made by the afore-
SAID paper, by saying the citizens are sati q
ned with the way the levees have been
manipulated Tor the last five or six years,
more SO than ever before. We are as safe,
sad ne, IN Sacramento, as we would be
upon side bill. BE regarded the acts of
trustees Jones and Nielsen in the light of
wise precautions.
City Engineer Bassett submitted a lengthy
document, covering several pages of legal
cap, recommending certain drainage work
which is S390S4 The document wo a.,
placed on file
A petition asking TO have a water main
extended to EIGHTEENTH and II streets Voc
referred to Trustee Jones A netition asi-.
ing for ditch alone T street from Eisbtb
to Thirteenth was referred n tba Street
The Trustees received notice that Georse
f. Bates attorney for certain bondboIdeTs