Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1894-03-31
CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

Council met In regular session,
President Cooper presiding and
Councilmen Cooper, Clary and Pol.
ster present. Mayor Norton and
Councilman Tucker absent.
Minutes of meeting of Jan. 70
were read and approved.
Report of city marshal for month
of February was received and on
motion approved and placed on file.
The city clerk made the following
report:
To the Honorable Mayor and Common
Council
| herewith beg leave to report that on
Ian. 20, 1894, pursuant to your instruc-
lions of January 20. 1894. l served the
attached notice on Alexander Warner,
president of the Baxter Springs Light and
Power Company;
BANTER SPRINGS. KAN. Jan. 2e. 1894.
Hon. Alexander Warner. president OF the
Baxter Springs Light and Power Com
pany, Baxter Springs, Kansas:
DEAR SIR: You are hereby notified that
the city council adheres to the order OF
May ~, 1903 to run the street lights all
night. and have only allowed you SI2.I5
per month from May 20. 1885, the date OF
service of said notice. and they unani-
mously instruct me to notify you that they
will in future only allow you on the same
basis, and that you take notice and govern
yourself accordingly. Respy,
las T. RyoN. City Clerk.
also rendered him city warrant No.
I52 for SI7S oS as allowed by your honor
able body in payment for street lights
from Nov. /, 1902. to August l, 1893.
Said Alexander Warner, president OF the
Baxter Springs Light and Power Com
pany, refused to accept said warrant and
the same is now on file in my Office.
Respectfully submitted,
las T. RYoN. City Clerk.
On motion the report of city clerk
was accepted, approved and placed
on file.
On motion the city clerk was in
structcd To appear before the county
commissioners and request them to
have all county warrants issued Isl
payment of claims allowed for re-
lief of outside poor. and allowances
and old soldier burials by county
commissioners made payable tn
city clerk or order until further mo-
ticc.
On motion the following claims
were allowed and ordered paid:
ID. s. Mitchell. lumber for repair
ing penstock. $50.S2; \. Hamilton,
removing old lumber, 50; J. Bisch-
olsberyer. team to saw mill, 81: W.
NJ. Gill. marshal's salary. etc, Jam
uary and February, sol; ]. I. Ryon,
clerks salary. etc. Januarw and
February, SD; ]. G. Polster. sta
tioncry for election. SIC; George III.
Haines. lumber for pcnstock. Sli.i5:
l.. NJ. Davis. coal. SID; G. y. Dickic,
repairing pcnstock and discount on
vibrant. $207.9l: ". ". Scott. error
in sidewalk taxes. 500; W. III.
Hornor, legal services, drafting or
dinance. etc, SO.
Mr.. Cooper reported that a. acting
mayor he had requested the ciiy
treasurer to place the Sa.lo allowed
by the county commissioners to the
city on a count of relief of poor, to
u special poor fund. which report
was approved. and the city clerk
was instructed to draw warrants
against that fuEd for the following
claims az allowed by the county
commissioners Feb. ), 1894:
II. Cavanaugh, nursing McCo;-
II a X. Sill; Nellie Cavanaugh. wash
ing for Mccormack, $40; James
Bum. nursing Mccormack, Sis;
McFadden X Price, medicine to Me
Cormack and Narick, $40; W. NJ.
Gill. feeding state prisoners. $40:
Cooper Il Hodgkins, goods to Jerry
Anderson, S2.l5; Harvey X Son. I'M
dertaking in burial of Chester. II
pauper, Sl0Sn.
On motion adjourned.