St. Paul daily globe., 1893-06-20
COUNTY LEGISLATU RE
w. G. Mulligan Is Awarded the
Contract for Extending
Rice Street.
County Commissioners Tranact
Good GriSt of Business
at Two Sessions.

The board of county commissioners
did but little at the morning session
yesterday except to open bids for the
Rice street extension. An adjournment
was taken until evening, when pro-
longed and wordy session was held.
The bills for the Rice street road i'm
provement, which had been classlhed
by County Surveyor Curtice and the
committee on roads and bridges, showed
that several bids were not in proper
form, and that statement was ap-
pelried to the effect that some OF the
bids were for amounts lower than the
work could be properly done for; and
that this was especially true Of the BID.
of w. &. Mullgan. This gentleman
was present, and insisted that he
knew what he was doing, and
would give a good bond. He said
that ne bid low so as to get
the work to furnish days hire for his
teams. The contract was let to Mr..
Mulligan at his bid of $2,S60.9S. The
olher bidders were as follows: Thomas
Zimmerman. SO. ia 971a; NJ. LUX. So, 044.26;
John w. Maloney, s3,379.4l; Cooper d
Phillips, S3.54S.62; James Mcdonald,
81, ,065 .6s; p. II. Thornton. S5.143.23;
DAVID SWank, So,9l9.0o.
James NJ. Dean made application to
have taxes on real estate refunded Tor
the past five years. The Hands referred
to are strips that have been taken Tor
railroad purposes and the taxes amount
TO $l4.20. John E. EiSenmenger was
also refunded Sl0.70 taxes on land taken
for railroad purposes. ;
The petition of Joseph Lang and
others for damages occasiOned by re-
moving fences because of extending OF
Lake Josephine road was considered,
and reasonable damages to each person
interested. were allowed.
County Surveyor Curtice submitted
an estimate aS to the cost of construct
ing part of Long lake road, which he
placed at $2.26450.
On recommendation of the chairman
of the committee on roads and bridges.
former resolution approprlatlng S4,0o0
on the Mississippi street road was recon-
sidered and proposition considered
appropriating $500 to each OF the two
districts east and west Of Rice street or
OH the Long lake road and the Edgerton
street road and was adopted.
A resolution of Commissioner Nc
Carvar providing for bids for making
improvements on Long lake road, ac-
c0fQlnS tO SpeclnCdlloilS ou HlO i' oiAS
county surveyors office, was adopted,
A resolution by Commissioner Daily
providing that Commissioners Nc
Carren, Sauer and Daily take charge of
District No. during the working sea-
son and supervise repairs, and that
Commissioners Hanna, Sing and La
vallee do the same for District No. 2,
was discussed, and was withdrawn.
Commissioner LaYalle asked the adop-
| ton of resolution authorizing thecounty
auditor to transfer license from David
| Greenbaum to William Leip, emitting
| him to sell liquors in White Bear town.
In lieu Of that proposition it was
| deemed advisable to refund on the
license to Mr.. Greenbaum, in view of
the tact that Irondale burned down
after the saloon had been run but four
teen days by MI. Greenbaum, and it
was ordered that a refunding OF the
license money to the amount OF S400 be
made to Mr.. Greenbaum.
The county surveyor made report
OH a survey made of the Josephine Lake
road and the profile was adopted.
| A number of bills were ordered paid
The board acting as committee OF
roads will meet Thursday to view roads