Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1893-12-07
ROUTINE BUSINESS.
Conducted by the Council at
Their Regular Monthly
Meeting.
No Action Taken in the Pur.
chase of the Electric
Light Plant.
Election Of Officers by KNIGHTS
of Honor--Justice Court .
Notes.

At the meeting OF the council Monday
night there were present Mayor Steel,
Aldermen Adams, Blood, Fletcher, John.
son and Mason, City Clerk Blewett and
City Attorney Conklin. Aldermen
Porter, Wells and Lleber absent, the
two latter on the sick list.
A petition was received, and referred
to the license committee, asking that the
license of $50, in regard to public resorts
be reduced on account of hard times
The matter of the reduction was dis
cussed at some length, but no conclu-
sion arrived at and so referred to Alder.
men Lieber, Adams and Wells.
Alderman johnson, chairman of the
electric light committee, reported in re.
gard to the petition for light at the
corner of Fifth avenue and Main street,
stating that so far, he had been unable
to get the committee together to take
action on the matter, and asked for more
time to consider. This was granted.
City Attorney Conklin reported as fol-
lows in regard to the bill of The Alert
for printing sidewalk notice: 'Regard-
ing the above bill which was referred to
me l beg to report that the rates charged
are the legal rates. Section one, OF or
clnance No. 10, requires such notices TO
be published daily for four consecutive
,, weeks. This, it seems to me, ls unneces-
sary and that such ordinance should be
remedied, limiting the publication to
once each week for four weeks" The
bill was accordingly allowed.
The report of the city treasurer, which
was referred to the finance committee,
showed cash balance Nov. Both, of 81,
OO9.92. .z ..-........-
Water Commissioner Pierce reported
! collections for the past month of 1910.
The city clerk reported the collection
during the past month, from licenses, of
$204.75. The drsy and opera house Ii
censes, he reported, have been due since
Nov. lst, an3 have notified parties inter
ested but up to date neither has been re-
ceived. The excuse for the non-psyment
of the SAID licenses is, wanting to wait
until the council met.
A lengthy discussion followed of the
benefits and evils Of the present system
of license generally, of the dray and
saloon licenses IN particular, and of the
matter of the rebate to the opera house,
OF 5000 on the first years license. John
Knauf, representing s. L. Glaspell, man
ager OF the opera house property, ap-
peared before the council and asked that
the rebate Of $50 be granted. As there
had been an understanding between the
council and the Lloyds in regard to the
rebate OF portion of the annual license
for tho first year, on account OF
the erection of new opera
house, rebate Of $50 was accordiningly
granted, for the six months commencing
Nov. lst, 1893. Alderman Blood made
the following motion, which was carried
That this matter of the amendments ol
the ordinance relating to licenses be re.
ferred to committee of three blood
Adams and Johnson) to draw up an or.
dinance and report at the next meeting
of the council.
The city attorney was instructed tC
prepare an ordinance for the assessment,
OF the sidewalk tax.
Josiah Pierson was employed at the
rate of s6 per month for the next year
to keep the crossings of the city free
from snow-and do other work OF gen
eral character.
The water committee, to whom was
referred the matter, reported that q
rebate be allowed to o. l.. Churchill and
the North Dakota Capital on water rent
but in the case OF the North Dakota
Capital and G. d. Herbert no rebate be
allowed for the time that they did not
use water. Each to stand the loss, az
the city was not to blame IN any man
ner for said loss.
BILLS ALLOWED.
Under suspension of the rules the
following bills were allowed:
The Alert, printing sidewalk
nOClC0 ~ % II
Geo Farnsworth, hauling gravel
on streets. -. IS sc
Montgomery & Flint, repairing
| Cu6lI0 i "
Gull River Lumber Co., fuel to
police station. /. :. II s.
Gieeeler, Blewett & Co., hardware g.
Strong l. Chase, lamp for council
l TOOu6 n
Telephone Co., rent OF two instru-
ments. :. 49,. soc
jamestown Machine Shops, labor
| on water mains. ns............... U