The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-27
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
Telephone Ordinance Passed After Some Dis
cussion-Information on the Chisholm
Creek Ouestion--Routine Work.

to S349 received and placed on file. Pro
posed improvement on South Market
street from Lincoln to Kellogg estimated
| by city engineer to cost $500.
| 4 petition asked for alley near Water
street and Lincoln to be improved where
the sewer main interferes with the alley
owing to its elevation. 1t was referred to
sewer committee and city engineer with
| power to act.
The First ward councilmen were en-
trusted with some very important side
walk complications.
Henry Schweiter, by petition, asked that
valuation on one of his lots be reduced,
not wishing to pay so much for alley paw
| ing.
George Washington Gay appeared in the
council for some sidewalk on Oak street,
near Ohio
Some lights were reported located and
the committee was instructed to investi-
! gate.
The council was invited to attend the
! Southwestern Fair association at Fort
Scott, which was accepted.
The Thompson Houston submitted bid
for 50 per light per month, for all might arc
| light service for forty lights, to commence
with and TO get half the lights ordered in
the future, and contract to last for five
years.
The mayor announced that he'had had a
| talk with Colonel Lewis about the CHS
holm creek question and invited him to be
present at the meeting and give something
| of the history of the mill race and CHS
| holm creek.
| Colonel Lewis said he had had a CONVEX
sation with the mayor about the matter.
| He would give what information he knew.
| In IA Thomas Wheeler & Co. had secured
! the right to put in race and the proceed
/ ings were regular. The mill was built
and in '76 he lewis started a bank,
| loaned money to Wheeler, and,
through this, got hold of the mill.
Afterward it burned and later
the Deffenbaugh Bros. went in with him
and put up the present mill. He went
over the Colonel Woodman litigation with
him. The business today amounts to
half million a year, and with twenty
names on the pay roll. Most of the trouble
had come from the people on the Little
river. The mouth of Chisholm creek was
in the same disagreeable condition. Some
three years ago he had been wanted by the
council to give an estimate of the value of
the dam and it had been made, being
about 81, 900 worth of power from the dam
per year. Figuring at 10 per cent, this
would make basis of $4,000 the real
value of the power The investigation
ended here, and year afterwards Engineer
Rudolph Herring, figuring on sewer flush
ing, suggested using Chisholm creek. He
proposed then to take ,00J for the
dam, and then said if that was
not satisfactory he would abide by the
decision of >three disinterested men to
place an estimate on the value of the dam.
That proposition is yet on file, or ought to
be in the city records. The packing houses
had caused trouble. Over a half million
dollars had been given the packing houses
by the city, and they. did not pay taxes to
the city, and he thought it not fair play to
allow the packing houses to crush out or
attempt to annihilate a business in the
city, paying taxes, and part of the city,
to accommodate something outside of the
city.
a number of questions wer e asked, and
the question was dropped and Colonel
Lewis and his attorney, Mr.. Dyer, left the
hall
Miscellaneous bills were read amounting
to 81, lbs and referred to committees. Fire
department bills and police bills amount
to So 1865 were read and allowed.
An ordinance was placed on its passage
to remove the telephone poles on Tenth
street, and when read the attorney for the
telephone company, G. V. Ferguson, was
given hearing. He assured the council
that the telephone company did not want
litigation with the city. The city received
service from the company amounting to
over S425, to this also add the fire alarm
circuit. Thought company would remove
poles under directions without trouble
provided the change would not interfere
with the service and the change was not
from one street to another. If the council
wanted to cut down poles there would
probably be no injunction but look to the
city for damages. He added that the city
attorney was mistaken when he said that
there was no injunction before the courts,
for there was.
The city attorney thought that he had
the matter properly and Mr. |
Ferguson replied he would stand by every
thing he had said. The mayor jumped |
in at that point, saying the remark, |
said was not the proper thing /
TO say to IAN official of the city" Mr. Will |
son being the official being protected"
Mr.. Fred Bentley, attorney for the tele- |
phone company, said that possibly little |
animus on the part of some one might re- |
suit in expensive litigation. The ordi- |
nance was in violation of the contract be- /
tween the city and telephone company /
He went over the alleged injunction case |
and the history of the trouble. He sug-
gested that an ordinance pending should 1
be investigated before passed.
The ordinance passed with Mr.. Mckee in
the negative.
An ordinance was passed to protect the
water in river and lakes about the city
from being polluted.
The fire limits of the city were widened
out two blocks on East Douglas
An ordinance was passed allowing ex-
press wagons to stand on any streets not
paved.
Buckeridge suggested the grocery stores
be allowed to keep open until 10 O'Clock
Sunday morning. the object being 10 &C
many who were unable to visit
grocery stores on Saturday.
Caswell offered an amendment TO allow
such stores to remain open until noon sun
day But he withdrew, after some discus
sion. and the motion itself failed
The light committee wanted one hun
lred and i've more vapor lights, and Glaze
observed the city was now paying $4,000
for lights and the report would call for
:. 600 more. The report, however, was
adopted.
1t was decided TO advertise for bids 70
pave Market, Main and Douglas where oc-
;upied by street railways II was decided