Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-09-11

Council meeting Tuesday evening.
Mcssrs. Ford. Mc3rathey and Percival
being absent Councilman Murphy
presided. The following accounts were
allowed
VI. J. Wifherbv. hauling earth .... $40 90
Wcstsidc Mill 90, lumber ..... ~, ~
Il. T. Jones & Co. blacksmithing ~ ~
J u. Starr, stationery ..-.. ......... 5 ~
\. farguhar. hardware -......... l l0l
John Hedges, services under City En-
einccr .......... 49,. rs o.
Frank NJ Brown, services under City
Engineer Il 80
puccf =. 800
Mcdonald Il Lndland. repairing long
Millad Lemon rcsurvcyiug Eleventh
street w 100
Willard Lemon, fitting up engineers of
nee - 935
4. J. Peterson. horse feed - IL
Milton Giles. g-ndiug ON Jegersou street II 20
!. l.. Cook painting .-.- : W
Neil. Anderson & Neil. blank book II %
Olympia I aiding CO.. cement 1 -
Olympia Trading Co.. hay ............. 81 %
Tclrnhonc Co. . 3 90
smell. IIeitschu & Woodland ....... y q
Total .......... s., 229 81
Payments were made on street grad
ing contracts as follows: |. III. Loom
is, Columbia street, $529.4l; Tim Sta
pleton. Fran kiln street, S4i3.75; |.
Liberman, Jackson avenue, 1920; Sher-
man avenue, 81 $50.
Charles ID. Garfield was reimbursed
for expense of making sidewalk con-
form TO change of grade.
The committee on Accounts and
Current Expenses recommended that a
warrant he issued to William Diggins
as partial payment for paving Main
street. The recommendation was lost,
it being claimed that the abutting
property owners had agreed to make
the payments direct. The matter will
be again taken up at IA meeting to be
held this evening.
Councilman Sickels announced that
it would be the policy of the Street
committee to keep large force of men
at work graveling streets until all grad
eel streets are graveled, so as to put
such streets in condition for winter use.
Resolutions were adopted directing
the street commissioner to gravel Thir
teenth from Main to Adams, and the
north half of Eleventh between Main
and Columbia, and to level up for
graveling the streets abutting on Gen
eral Stevens property near the hospit-
nj.
Councilman Ward asked that the
action taken at the last meeting, pro-
viding for the lowering Of the grade at
the corner of Sherman and Jackson
avenues five feet, be reconsidered, as it
would nCcessitate an extra cost of
81 1000 for grading those streets. The
owners OF property abutting on the
streets, he sail, were bitterly opposed
to the change of grade for the purpose
Of benetiting other peoples property.
In fact" Mr. Ward said, everybody
over there is red-hOt about it,"
The vote by which the motion to
change was carried. was re-cOnsidered.
O. c. White was invited to address the
Council on the subject. He declined
to discuss the matter, as an under
standing had been reached that it
would be deferred until next meet
ing, when J. II. Chaplin and others, ia
voring the change, will be present
Mr.. White, however, corroborated Mr..
Wards statements as to the strong OPP
position to the change of grade.
The matter was postponed until next
meeting.
The City Attorney stated that ne
was about to commence suits against
delinquent propcrty-owners for the col
lection OF grade taxes, and that he
would begin with Thirteenth street
propCrty-owners
Mr.. Murphy suggested that Mr..
Fitch institute test case for the pur-
pose OF determining whether grade
taxes can be collected on streets grad
ed under the old Organization, con-
corning which a doubt exists.
The report of the City Marshal for
August was approved.
Bills for the crawling of Fourth
street, from Puget to Central, amount
ing to $229.l Is, were audited.
Releases Of strips of ground in
Swans addition, for street PURPOSES
executed by J. :. Dobbins and wife and
the Olympia Collegiate Institute, were
accepted.
City Attorney Fitch reported the
collection of S34j.73 during August.
lie stated that the Seward street as.
scssment had been paid, with the ex-
ccption of the sums assessed against
two lots owned by non-residents.
Justice McReynolds reported his
August fines at Sill.
W. A. Botkin was authorized to
transfer his wholesale liquor store from
GOO Fourth street to 426 Main street