St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-07
THESE RUN THE COUNTY.
The Commissioners Find ana
Transact a Great Mass of Bust


Transact a Great Mass of Bust
ness.
All the county commissioners were
present at the meeting held yesterday.
A petition was received from residents
of Excelsior, asking that $50 acres of
the town be annexed to the village, and,
on motion, it was decided that an cleo
ton to decide the matter be held at the
Excelsior academy Tuesday, Sept. II at
10 a. m. E. E. Rogers, II. ID. Burch and
Charles Odell were appointed inspec-
tors of election. A petition signed by
l.. F. Sampson, Fred c. Pillsbury and
others asking that the county acquire
ownership to land at the outlet of Lake
MinnetOnka, in order to control the
stage of water, was received and re-
ferred to the county attorney to decide
whether or not the board had the right
to purchase land for such purposes.
The committee Oh roads and bridges
was authorized to advertise for bids for
constructing pile bridge across the old
narrowS at Lake Minnetonka.
Police Surgeon Kelly appeared before
the board and stated that at the present
time there is no place where persons
awaiting examination for insanity can
be confined. 1t was wrong, he said, to
send a man who was not insane to an
asylum or to place him in police sta
ton. Some place should be provided
where persons only temporarily de-
ranged could be placed and cared for.
The matter was considered by tine
board, and the result will probably be
that one or two rooms will be set aside
and fitted up in the county lail-.proba-
bly, the cells occupied by the Barrett
boys.
A new dredge to be placed in the new
narroWS was ordered purchased. The
clerk of the board was instructed to adj
vertise for bids for furnishing soft and
hard coal for the court house and jail
for the ensuing year. Permission was
granted the Anoka Street Roilway COM
pany to extend a single track through
the village of Champlin, upon the
county road, leading to Dayton, for the
distance of one mile, the permission to
expire Aug. l, 1898. The following per-
sons were allowed abatement Of taxes:
Michael Tracy, Anna Sein, G. A. Smith
& Co., Ole z. Granstad, F. B. Sheldon,
+. E. Crary, Hebrew Congregation and
the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran
church.
There was a nice little row when
Commissioner Erickson offered reSo-
luton recommending that the bill of l..
H. Chowen for Sl20 for labor on the
dredge at Lake Minnetonka be allowed.
Commissioner Lennon took the ground
that the man was not capable of earning
81 per day, as he had charged in the
bill, as he was not employed as a first
class engineer. Commissioner Barlow
sided with Commissioner Lennon, while
Commissioners Erickson and Swift ia
vored the payment of the bill, Com
missioner Chowen refused to vote, leav-
ing two in favor of paying the bill and
two in favor of not paying it.
An application of superintendent of
Schools, the board announced itself in
favor of allowing him S25 or $50 for the
purpose of hiring one teacher for the
institute soon to be held here.
The committee on claims reported
large number of bills, aggregating
about $40 900, which were ordered paid.
An effort was made to again bring up
the bill of l.. III. Chowen for S120, but
motion to adjourn until next Friday
knocked the scheme out.