Arizona republican., 1895-10-11
A Lengthy Session Held
 Last Night.
Complaints Over the Santa
 Fe'S Noise.
Olsputing Over New Cement Side walk on East Washing
 ton Street.

The city council met again last night for the transaction of the over flow of business The matter of the revised ordinances was passed upon and a committee appointed to confer with the printer in regards to style, type, etc., to be used in the printing of ordinances in book form
 M. H. Williams appeared before the council on behalf of the property owners of Jackson street to petition the council to take some decided stand in regards to the north and south road. They assert that the com pany has been full of promises to fix the street by lowering the track to the street grade and otherwise improving that thoroughfare, but the promises amounted to nothing. They did not want to establish a record as kickers and have been very patient for several months and now they want some defi- nite action in the matter taken up. They further say their property is in great danger of being set afire by sparks from passing locomotives. The whistling of the trains in the dead of night keeps them awake, but they can stand that if the street is properly fixed and the raining of so many sparks regulated. A committee was appointed to wait on the railroad off cials in regard to improvement. City Attorney Evans was also requested to draw up an ordinance in regards to smokestacks and their regulation. | The fun of the evening began when | Lowell & Horner, the sidewalk con tractors, presented a petition from property owners on Washington street 1 from Second to Seventh, to pass an or dinance compelling the laying of ce- ment sidewalks within these. limits. l The petition had been presented some time ago, but the law said that it would have to be signed by a majority of property owners. They had secured
 the names of the majority on one side of the street only, but it would
 have stood good show of becoming
 an ordinance but for the fact that Dr. Lightburne was present. He
 stood up and said that the petition
 was faulty and improperly drawn up;
 in fact, wouldn't hold water in court.
 He had evidently been looking up the
 law, for he carefully went over the petition, pointed out the apparent de- fleets, then pulled a document from his
 pocket and showed how the petition should have been drafted. The word
 contiguous" he stated as the fun
 damental principle of his attack. The
 word, he said, as given by Webster,
 meant adjacent, attached and in posi-
 tive contact. City Attorney Evans
 had an opinion of his own in the defi-
 milton of the word as used in the mat
 ter of laying cement sidewalks. His
 interpretation was that in this case
 the law referred to the majority of
 frontage owners and that the property
 was on a line and it was not material
 as to it's contiguity. The discussion
 waxed warm.
 Dr. Lightburne owns 150-foot front
 next to the Lemon hotel and he did , not like the idea of being compelled
 to lay cement sidewalk and was de- ! termined to offset the whole proposi- tion. It is needless to remark that he was not one of the signers of the pe- , tition. He thumped the council ta- ble with his fist and swore that Low ell was running bluff and was trying
 to bulldoze his petition through the council.
 The argument reached the danger
 line for the doctor turned blue, then
 purple and stroke of apopleXy ? seemed imminent He choked his
 wrath, however, for Attorney Evans gave his legal opinion of the matter } and that settled it.
 The council postponed pressing the ordinance until Monday night to give Lowell the opportunity of interview ing the petitioners as to whether they wanted the sidewalk laid on their : side of the street whether the other side of the street did or not.
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