The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-19
IN The COUNCIL ROOM
Ordinance TO Improve the Sanitary
Condition Of the City Passed.
Granite Street to be Straigh tened
New Streets That viii be Opened
officer McLagRan Put On the
Police Force Again.
by the Standards Special Wire.

by the Standards Special Wire.
BUTTE, June 1s.-The ordinance for the
protection of public health was reported
favorably by the Judiciary committee at
to-night's council meeting and was
adopted without a dissenting vote. The
city attorney was instructed to have IL
typewriter. The new ordinance means
much to the city, as it cannot fail TO
greatly lessen sickness and death in the
city limits.
A proposition wal received from the
Engle Sanitary and Cremation company
of Des Moines. Iowa, for the establish
ment of a crematory in Butte for the de-
struction of garbage, town refuse, night
soil and dead animals. The plan
is TO burn all the garbage
in a closed furnace by the
application of two fires and by the use of
q system of fiues and hampers which util-
ize the smoke and gas of combustion as
fuel to assist in burning the material
itself. The company is willing to build a
furnace at its own expense, submit to a
thoroughly fair test and trial, payment To
be conditioned upon a satisfactory per
formance. Englc crematories are used at
Des Moines, Minneapolis. Coney Island,
jacksonville, Brunswick, Findlay, Ohio,
New York n other cities. The matter
was referred to the health committee.
Alderman Cowan, of the street and al
ley committee, reported i'm regard 10 Rem
shaw alley, advising that the city attorney
draft an ordinance condemning eighteen
feet of b alley next TO the Renshaw
block, through to Galena street. Atten-
ton was also called to the fact that Gram
its street, between Jackson and Crystal,
is spoiled by n piece of ground which juts
out. Granite street for a short distance Is
made a twenty-foot alley. The committee
could see no way of remedying this matter
except by condemning the jutting land.
Tins would require the tearing down of
mended that this be done and that the
cost be charged To the property benefited.
The report was adopted.
The city marshal was instructed to reg
ulate the %sprinkling of the streets $ that
the streets would not be left in a muddy
condition. The Lawler and Kemper and
KIM additions to Butte were accepted.
II was decided to revive the office of
poundmaster and Charles Sim of Helena
was appointed to the position. Mr.. Sims
was recommended as an expert in his
line of business and able to impound any.
thing straying about the streets.
A petition was received from 20 citi'
zens asking for the reinstatement of John
McLaggan as policeman. On motion ol
Alderman Barrett, the officer was replaced
on the force by a vote OF 3 Ia =.
The bill of he electric light company
of $3.50, for lighting the city during May,
was cut down S25 IN account of lights
which had been out, m was ordered
paid.
The report of the police court clerk for
the past two weeks showed the receipts ia
lines to have been Si19.30. The sum oi
5000 was transferred from the interes
fund to The general fund in order to pa,
contractor Winters the sum of S3,011 dut
him.
p.,;t;,nu for l;capses INDIAN tho nov
plumbing were received from
A. Lombach, Van Buskirk a Co. ant
Gould Bros.
The council adjourned early i'm order I,
meet Bozeman citizens in a conference a
the McDermott.