Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-27
# SIS semi-annually on ticket scalpers.

| extended six months.
A hack ordinance was presented givint
25 cents per mile for hacks from a. III
until II p. m. and afterwards receiving 81
| cents per mile. The ordinance was re
| ferred
The petition to remove trees on Market
street from Douglas to Central was which
| had been referred to committee was re
ported unfavorably upon and report
adopted. Permission was granted all who
desired to remove trees to do so.
Mr.. Derby reported twenty-five vapor
lights located in Burton car works addi
ton.
Mr.. Kenyon, when called on for repor;
on finance committee, said it was his last
report and he woald donate his salary &c
improvement of sidewalks in the Fifth
ward. Bills now on hand in the city and
should be paid amount to $4,000. A
heavier tax would not have let us out foI
we seemed bound to run short. We
would have run short if we had had $50,
coo. We should meet debts the same as q
private individual. a poll tax of g per
head would give US several thousand dol
lars that would come handy. We now
have about g, 600 in the treasury in the
face of $4,000 bills.
The report was adopted.
Healy, on public Improvements, said he
would like to increase the force but it was
impossible, owing to condition of the treas
ury. We have been spending very little of
late, not as much as we needed. OF this
$4,000 debt Improvements call for seven
or eight hundred. That Linwood park
should be fenced SO that the city will not
violate the conditions on which it was ac-
copied and thus lose it. We should make
some other improvements.
Derby-I believe that Mr.. Schweiter has
threatened to take the park if we don't
improve it. We amt in condition to lose
$4,000 Of park. We should fill the condi-
tons.
Harris-I move the conditions ofthe park
be complied with.
The motion was seconded and after little
discussion passed.
The board of health reported the small
pox out of the city. Whole number of
patients sixty, deaths ten. Of whole num-
Der forty-one colored and eight died. The
council was glad to hear Of the end OF
smallpox.
Healy presented a petition from First
ward over six hundred strong asking that
the ward be divided.
Mr.. Derby said that the Fourth ward
was composed Of one-third territory of the
city and would very soon have more peo-
pie in it than the First, The Fourth ward
is the one that should eventually be di-
vided. / move to amend Mr. Healy's pc
tition making the Sixth ward composed of
all the Fourth ward east of the railroad.
Neutrality-suspicious. waiting until can
have more than six wards in the city.
Harris-I understood that this matter
was to go over until the crisis now near at
hand; so think it should be postponed.
Derby-This does the Fourth ward
great injustice They shonld have larger
in this council.
The motion to postpone was decided in
order and English favored extending
Third ward to Third street and then
figure on the Sixth
Kenyon-We don't need to do this now,
so let it go over.
Healy-Here is petition of six or seven
hundred legal voters, as many as regis
tered in the Fourth ward, and to postpone
it would do great injustice to them.
Harris-It has generally been considered.
that this would be postponed until after
the election.
Derby-You, Mr.. Harris, are about to
leave the council on your own will, and l
would hate to think in after Years that
your last official act was to do the Fourth
ward an injustice. That railroad ques-
ton has give up all our medicine.
Harris-I have said nothing about the
Fourth ward. am talking on the First
ward petition.
Dorby-I misunderstood you; beg par
don.
The vote showed Healy, English, Stone
and Derby in the negative and
the other four members for it, which
knocked in the head for the present.
English moved that the city attorney
lraw up an ordinance creating a Sixth
ward of all the city east OF Fifth avenue
md going north to Third street for the
Third ward. The motion was duly sec
,nded and Mr.. Harris opened debate by
opposing the ordinance, thinking Third
ward was too small. He was assured that
he division could not be made before the
coming election.
The vote showed Healy, English, Stone
md Derby in the affirmative and the other
i've members in the negative.
A petition dated at Perkipsville asked
police protection
Mr.. Derby spoke in favor of the petition.
lie also said they should have some rail
Dad crossings. | insist they shall be
reated right. l desire the prayers of the
petition be granted.
Healy-When Perkinsville builds side
walks we can put in railroad crossings.
street. crossings without sidewalks is not
he proper thing.
The question was referred to the public |
Improvement committee.
An ordinance was read calling on ticket |
brokers' for a license tax of S25 semi-an- |
lually.
The market house proprietors presented |
n ordinance for exclusive right of that |
business in the city. 1t was referred to the |
mayor, city engineer and public improve
nent committee.
Mr.. Derby stated that he had been |
harged two fares on the Wichita & Val |
ey Center road within the city limits. |
Ir English had met with the same expert |
nee, and there was some figuring notify |
az the company to comply with the
An ordinance was read from the |
Wichita Street railway company !
skiing that that company be allowed to /
uild extensions with the commonly |
nown I rail- north OF; Fourteenh street, |
asst of Hydraulic avenue, south of kellogg |
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hat the ordinance be placed on its passage.
he motion was discussed for some time |
nd the mayor said that he had nothing
gainst the company, but thought that /
-ere continually coming in with ordi-