Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-05


Com. on streets and public prop
erty reported as f, lIows:
That +. b. Suuthwlck and others
with Mr.. SOuthwick on blocks
IL and II on Marion street be al.
lowed TO connect. Adopted.
That petition of G. b. Brown and
others for a sidewalk on north side
IF Leslie street be granted and
street Com'r supervise construction.
Adopted.
That petition l.. S. Winters and
others for side walk on Ferry street
be granted. Same order.
The street mmIssioner reported
on bids for supply pipe Tiger
Engine house and bid was awarded
to Dugan Bros, at S162 The hy-
drant is to be set on the alley and
will answer for fire as well AS supply
the engine house.
City Engineer McCAusland re-
ported tn the sewers through
blocks 70 and so was completed by
Contractor Smith in satisfactory
manner. The work was accepted
and the bill ordered paid.
THE FREE FOR ALL.
Mr.. r R)rk spoke of the bad con-
dition of Chemeketa street, Refer
red to the street commissioner and
engineer and clmmissioner,
Mr.. Pratt, appearel as counsel for
Barrows & Rosgen, 2j4 Commercial
ST., who desire to sell out to AAder
son & johnson asking transfer of
saloon license; granted, parties talk
ing possession to give new bond.
PETITIONS.
That VIM. King be declared a
common drunkard; granted.
That there be erected an are light
at intersection of Leslie aud 18th
ste To committe, on streets.
For privilege of erecting porta-
BILE gallery. To committee on fire
an water.
Fors a railroad switch on Trade
street commencing at Winter street.
To committee on streets. This petit
ton was from Squire Farrar q Co.
for switch on their own land.
For corrugated iron building on
lot on Liberty aud Ferry, by Mark
S. Skiff. To committee on fire and
water.
From s. P. company asking that
penalty on deliquent taxes not be
collected. To committee on ways
and means.
PAVING.
The plans and specifications of
the citizens committee for street
was now read by the
reading Gle rk.
Mr.. Brown presented the follow
ing: "That the committee on ordi-
be instructed to revise
the specifications of the property
holders to make them conform to
the charter and the interest of the
city, and that the city surveyor be
to Immediately COM
mence work aud cross section Com
mercial street from the bridge across
Mill creek to Union street, aud State
and Court streets from Commercial
to 18th street under direction of the
street commissioner and city attor-
ney, aud that upon completion OF
the plans and specifications and
cross-sectioning, the city recorder
advertise for bids
for said work and that the com
mittee on ordinances prepare an or
dinance therefor"
Upon question If adopting the
resolution there was di> ision as
follows: Johnson, Lafore, Brown and
Lamoreaux voted aye; Gray and
Hutton voted no. The mayor de
clared it carried.
Mr.. Hutton offered motion that
the rules be suspended and bills OF
Willard Martin and Contractor
Smith be paid. The city attorney
stated that this contract was so
drawn that it could only be paid out
of the money collected from prop
erty owners. Carried. IThe warrant
was ordered drawn payable out of
the sewer fund. and the recorder
was Instructed TO advertise the
and collect them at
once.
The street commissioner submitted
a plan for construction Of wooden
sidewalks. Referred to committee
OH streets.
Mr. Gray moved that tire plan of
the Portland Bituminous contractors
be referred to committee on streets.
Carried.
The street, commissioner reported
bridge ON 18th street In dangerous
condition; also the bridge TO Mr.
Bush's on Church street; also the