Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-20
CITY TRUSTEES.
THEY CALL AN ELECTION FOR SCHOOL
SUPERINTENDENT, ETC.
Contracts Awarded for Street work-An
Appeal to Have the Seventeenth
Street Sewer Fixed.

The Board of City Trustees met yester.
day fer regular weekly session. Present
Trustees Mclaughlin and Wolf. Mayor
Gregory was absent, owing 10 illness.
The report of the Engineer of the Water
Works showed that during the past week
2J,743.0 600 gallons of water was pumped
the Holly pump running 173 hours, and
the Stevens pump 81 hours.
A committee from the Improvement As
ISOLATION, composed of G. A. Luhrs, DR.
Parkinson and Felix Tracy, appeared be-
fore the Board and urged that action be
taken looking toward the improvement Of
the condition of the Seventeenth-streei
sewer canal, in accordance with the sug.
gestions embraced in the report made by
DIR. Parkinson last week to the Improve
ment Association, which were published in
the RECORD. UNION at that time.
DR.. Parkinson, on behalf of the commit
tee, reviewed the subject at some length,
giving bis reasons why certain institutions
should not be permitted to run their sew
age into that canal. The Thirty first street
canal, he said, should be maintained as an
Slough, but should not be allowed to be
converted into a sewer.
The Board requested the committee to
call again at the next meeting, and lay the
matter before full Board.
A Mrs. Murphy appeared before the
Board with complaint that her yard was
flooded Dy water from an adjoining barn.
The RosTd suggested that the Courts might
grant Der the desired relief.
A numerously signed petition from resi-
dents in the vicinity of Twenty eighth and
NJ streets, for an electric light at that point,
was referred to the Street Commissioner.
Bids for improving Fourteenth street,
from G to D, were received from Antonio
King, B. Labs and D. NJ. Coz The con-
tract was awarded to King.
Henry Dehn received the contract for
improving Twenty-eighth street, from ]
to K.
Street Commissioner Mclaughlin re-
ported in relation to the remonstrance
against the improvement of Fourteenth
street. from K TO L, recommending that the
work be done. So ordered.
The remonstrance against improving II
street from Sixth to Seventh was laid over
one week for consideration.
Resolutions were adopted of the Board 8
intention 10 order improved K street from
Twenty-siXth to Thirty-frst.
A sewer was ordered constructed in the
alley between H and 1. Sixth and Seventh.
Mr.. Carlaw appeared and asked the
Board 10 grant him a deed to a cemetery
lot which he claimed to have fully paid for,
but over the price to which a controversy
has arisen.
He was told to call at future meeting
and explain his case to a full Board.
A Mr.. Jacobs asked that the alley be-
tween T and Z, Tenth and Eleventh be
opened. Referred,
The Clerk was directed to give ten days
notice that an election would be held on
Monday, December I'd, for City Superin.
tendent of Schools and one School Director
in each ward.
Polling places and officers of election
were selected as follows:
First Ward-Polls on Fourth street, be.
tween and X. Inspector, William Miner
Judges Tony Wertheimer and H. Mier.
Second Ward-Polls at the southeast
corner of Third and K streets. Inspector
William Coyne; Judges, W. D. Stalker and
&c. Kelly.
Third Ward-Ninth and ] streets. In
spector, NJ. Burke; Judges, W. B. Miller
and Robert Barry.
Three and One-half Precinct-Polls al
Twelfth and II streets. Inspector, r. o
Cravens; Judges, F. A. Shepherd and H. D
Nash
Fourth Ward-Polls at Eighth and N
streets. Inspector, George Johnson; Judges,
s. w. Butler and Captain Thomas Dwyer
Four and One-balf Precinct-Polls at
southeast corner of Fifteenth and n streets
Inspector, T. W. O'Neil; Judges, George
Murray and George Toland.
After allowing a number of claims the
Board adjourned.