The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-03-17
NEGLIGENCE REBUKED.
The Council Unanimously lnStructS
the Board of Health to Carry
out the Health Ordi=
nance.
Arrangements rlade for the Coming
Municipal EleCtiOn==Fifth st.
Sewer Probably Knocked
Out.


special meeting of the council Satur-
day night, and Aids. Fowler, Longini,
Peterson and Schlingerman answered
to their names. The meeting was not
called to order until nearly nine
o'clock, as Aid. Fowler did not arrive
from ST. Paul until S:45 o'clock.
An application from Becquette X
Ford for permission to remove their
saloon from 32S S. Front street to 80
S. Front street was granted.
Applications for liquor licenses
were received from Louis Johnson, 32o
S. Front street, Louis Wolff, 529 n.
Front street, and Andrew Hartung,
12S e. Main street April 3rd was APP
pointed the day for hearing.
A petition to have a water main
laid on w. Jackson street was receiy-
ed and referred to the water commit
tee.
A protest against the proposed Fifth
street sewer was received, signed by
% property owners. The petition for
the sewer had only the name of one
Individual and two corporations.
Engineer Haynes stated that he
was not ready to report upon the ex-
pense of building it.
The engineer reported that the cost
of paving S. Second street would be
Sl.S7 per square yard for brick paving,
or SILL per lineal foot where the
street is curbed and guttered or S5.42
per lineal foot where there is no curb
or gutter.
Aid. Schlingerman favored paving
Main street with Mankato stone as an
experiment.
\ report was received from the
Board of HEALTH the substance of
which has already been published in
these columns.
The report OF Chief Yates for Feb
ruary showed five arrests and nine
dodgers.
The Board of Public Works report
ed the bids on the Warren street cul-
vert, and the award to w. B. Craig
was approved.
The Board also reported the bids
for furnishing 10000 feet of oak plank,
and the award to w. NJ. Farr was ap-
proved.
The following judges of election,
submitted by the Republican, Demo
cratic and Prohibition city commit
tees, were appointed for the coming
city election:
First ward-JOhn Dahlen r, Geo.
MaxfeId d, Byron A. Carpenter p.
Second ward-Christian CCrrell r.,
@. Leonard D, B. S. Weymouth P.
Third ward-Clark Keysor r, Byron
Hughes D, Chas. A Sanborn P.
Fourth ward-O. O. Pitcher r, A.
Anderson D, E. Austin P.
Fifth ward-C. P. Williams r, VIM.
r. Hughes d, S. H. Rouse P.
Sixth Ward-Geo. Blake r, G. F.
Mailman d. Ed III. Barnard z.
The following polling places were
designated:
First ward -Maxfield & Coughlin's
office.
Second ward SaIfer's meat market,
COS n. Front street.
Third ward--City hall.
Fourth ward-Mills' building, $40 S..
Front street.
Fifth ward-Hose house, Byron ST.
near Fifth.
Sixth ward-HoSe house.
The treasurer's report for February
was received, giving the following
totals:
On hand Feb. 1St, ........... 81, 292. 70
Receipts. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 3,946.2S
Expenditures. 1896. 81
On hand March lSt.... -. BALI
Mayor Willard stated that it did
not sound we'll to have SO many funds
overdrawn, and that they would pro-
badly be adjusted before his term of
Office had expired.
A number of bills were allowed.
WE'LL SHAKEN UP.
Aid. Peterson asked why the Board
of Health had not compelled people
to make sewer connections.
City Attorney Young stated that
it was the Boards duty to make
complaints. None had been made to
him.
Mayor Willard stated that COM
. plants should be made.
Aid. Peterson seconded this and
thought that zone should be served
like another.
Aid. Longini stated that the Board
should remove the nuisanceS and
charge the cost against the property.
Mr.. Young read the ordinance, to
refresh the minds of the aldermen.
He stated that the state law gave the
Board sufficient power, and that the
ordinance was passed more to show
that the council was interested in the
matter.
Aid. Longini said that something
muSt no done aS matters col1ld not he