The record-union., 1893-04-11
MUNICIPAL MATTERS.
Nuisances Receive an Airing During
the Trustees Session.
Fences That Encroach on the Streets
Ell Mayo Defies the Authority
of the City.

At the session OF the city Board of Trus-
tees yesterday communication was re-
ceived from the Board of Health announc-
ing that they had organized and elected
DIR. w. A. Briggs President, Dr. II. L.
Nichols Secretary and L. w. Mahoney
Plumbing Inspector. The election was
confirmed by the board.
J. Norton called the attention OF the
board to the fact that two horses were
roaming around in the neighborhood of
Fourth and K streets, damaging property
and making themselves nuisance gen.
orally, and the residents asked for relief.
STREET IMPROVEMENT.
The matter of improving the alley be-
tween Eighth and Ninth, and j streets
was laid over one week.
The resolution of intention to improve
the alley between 1 and J, Seventeenth
and Nineteenth streets, which had been
passed, was rescinded.
\ resolution ordering work to be done
on Sixth street from to q streets was
passed.
\ communication was received and
placed on file from the Sacramento Elec-
trio Power and Light Company, stating, in
relation 10 the proposed Improvement of
Iwenty-first street from = to y that the
GULL panty rails lIlGlT TOdu Oh twenty
hrst street were on their way and would
be here about August LIST. They said the
company would conform to the ordinance
and put in the gravel for the purpose of
making their share of the roadway Just as
If the track was already in position, on
condition that they did not have to put
down the gravel until the rails were laid.
RICHMOND GROVE.
In the matter of the petition for OPEN
ing the street through Richmond Grove,
the Street Commissioner asked one
weeks further time TO report, and it was
granted.
J. w. Richmond said the street was
only asked for by few persons for their
own convenience. He would not object
to the opening if it were extended clear
through to Y street, SO as to accommo-
date all the people in that vicinity.
FENCES IN THE STREET.
The Mayor gave notice to Elijah Com
stock, who was present, that he would
have to move his fence, which extended
into the street on Thirteenth, between n
and o, and that some others would have
to remove theirs likewise, notably on
Thirteenth, betweet Q and K streets. He
was determined that such fences should
be placed where they belong. He also
called attention to an open sewer at NJ
and \, Twenty-third and Twenty-tourth
streets, and the condition of Second street,
from the depot to l street.
The Street Commissioner stated that
Mr.. Palmer had promised to fix the latter
street as soon as material could be had.
THE GAS WELL.
DIR. Southworth, President of the Nat
ural Gas Company, stated that he had
heard there was some complaint about the
water from the gas wells. The company
wished to injure no one, and had flooded
no one above Fifth street. They had
capped the pipe and built a levee and
tank, from which a pipe led into the
sewer, and the water from the well ran
there The trouble was with the water
around the well, the sipage water from
the low ground there, and the condition
OF the sewers.
ALLEGED NUIsANCEs.
a complaint was made with regard to
the low lot at the corner of Sixth and NJ
streets, with the statement that no action
had been taken in regard to a former
complaint, and that the owner of the
property could easily afford to fill it up.
The Street Commissioner said that he
had reported at the last meeting that the
owner had promised to ill up the lot as
soon as the necessary material can be
had.
L. P. Gilman and others entered COM
plant against nuisance existing at 42I
NJ street, where the lot was low and filled
with stagnant water The matter was re-
ferred to the Street Commissioner.
Another citizen complained of the
water at Sixth and r streets, and said the
sewer had bursted.
The Mayor thought the nuisance should
be remedied.
City Engineer Boyd said that MANY
changes would have to be made in the
sewerage system in that vicinity. The
only way to take the water out faster is to
run the pump more hours.
Trustee Conklin moved that the board
take the MATTER under advisement and
that the City Engineer be instructed to
make map of the sewers.
Inc Mayor wished to know what such
map would cost before he voted for it.
and was informed by the Engineer that
the cost would be from $3.50 to $500,
The motion was carried with that I'M
derstanding.
MAYO AND HIS Low LOTS,
Eli Mayo stated that he had been noti-
fed to fiji in the low lots at Z and O.
Fifth and Sixth streets. He did not feel
like doing so. He attempted to read
come decisions of courts to the board. but
the Mayor cut him short with the an
nouncement that he must comply with
the order or stand the consequences.
Mayo said he would rather stand a
lawsuit, and then retired.
TO REMOVE BODIES.
s. S. Nixon asked permission, on the
part of the Exempt FIremen's Associa-
ton, to remove twenty-six bodies from
one part of the Exempt Firemen's lot in
the cemetery to another part of it, so that
they could sell the part from which the
bodies were removed.
The Mayor said that many were on
posed TO the removal, and requested that
the matter be laid over 1t was referred
to the Mayor, to report in one week.
Sanitary and Building Inspector Starr
asked that number of awnings which
he had reported unsafe be condemned.
snd the matter was referred to the Street
Commissioner for his action.
TREASURER's REPORT.
The report of W. Z. Gerber, City Treas
urer, showed $40, JOG 50 on hand March
LIST; April receipts, STA 81; total, S93.-
5I4 sc; warrants and coupons said, 81
$50 SO; balance on hand, S4S, $50 A.
BONDS APPROVED,
The bond of J. H. Wiseman as Harbor
master was presented and approved, with
w. d. Comstock and r. II. Petit as
suretes in the sum of $1,000.
J. Ii. McNulty also filed his bond as
Poundmaster, with Charles Heisen and
II. J. Dillman as sureties in the sum of
$1,000.
The petition for a bridge over the drain
age canal at Thirtieth and Y streets was
laid over for one week.
The $1,000 bond of the California
Petroleum and Asphalt Company. guar
anteeing the work on Tenth street. from
l. to \, for five years, was accepted.