The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-05-24
GOT THE ROLLER.
The Council Closes the Contract With
v8 the O. S. Kelly Company Fora 30
IL La Tenr Roller.
They Admit Purchasing An Inferior
Machine, But Attempt to Shift
Responsibility.

present. A
Aid. Bradley called attention to the
matter OF a sidewalk ordered laid in
front of the property of Mr.. Hegger-
ness, corner of Fulton and Marshall
streets. The walk was laid and proved
to have been below grade. aI
Mr. Heggerness was present and ad-
dressed the council few minutes, in
which he thought the city ought to
pay for raising the walk up to grade
as he had paid for it once.
Engineer Haynes said the sidewalk
was never put in according to grade,
and that he did not know about it be-
ing built. f oLH 7Let
Aid. Bradley wanted to know if it
was good policy for employees of the
city to lay sidewalks how they pleased
without reference to grade. He
thought there ought to be some order
about the matter, and something
known as to what is going on. Mr..
Haynes said he could endorse all Aid.
Bradley said He also said it was not
matter to come before the council,
but belonged to the board of public
works to rectify. .il9 9Esias
Fred Heinze, lot North Front street
made application for liquor license.
The hearing was set for June 10. 5li
w. L. Wilson submitted the terms
on which Martin Burmister, of Chi
cago, would sell four acres of land to
the city adjoining Sibley Mound for
$500. Referred to the committee on
parks. H1l--
The petition of the fire companies
to appoint the board of engineers of
the fire department fire wa1dens was
taken up. The mayor said he hardly
knew what to do with it as the
charter makes the chief of police fire
warden. aas..Eg
Aid. Bradley explained the reason
why they desired this. They thought
the said board of engineers would look
after the matters which should come
under the fire warden more carefully
than they could be by the chief of po-
lice, as they had more time.
Aid. Andrews moved that it be re-
ferred to the committee on fire de-
partment, which was done.
I Aid. Andrews, from committee on
sidewalks, reported that the property
owners on Hickory street between
Front and Second, were favorable to
the proposition for a uniform width
OF twelve feet for the sidewalks on
that street, and recommended that
such width be adopted, and a resolu-
tion was adopted in accordance with
such recommendation.
Bills to the amount of about 5000
were allowed.
E. j. Sheldon presented two bills for
81 Is each, for fees in a couple of suits
in relation to humane work.
Aid. Andrews explained that the
fees were turned into the city treas
urer, but belonged to Mr.. Sheldon, and
were ordered paid to him.
The bill of L. d. Saylor of S75 for
gathering garbage came up, but Aid.
Zimmerman said that the committee
was not ready to report on the matter,
but as Mr.. Saylor was present, he
would like to have him address the
council. Mr.. SayloI came forward and
stated his side of the case.
Aid. Bradley said that if the city
had made the contract with Mr.. Say
lor to gather the garbage he did not
see how it could go back on it's con-
tract, nor why it had not been paid.
A reference was made to the min
utes of the council during $685. and il
was found that he had been paid for
two months, June and July, and the
council ordered the discontinue
ance of garbage gathering at it's
tirst meeting in August. The
bill is for the month of August.
The matter was dropped for the COM
mittee to more thoroughly investigate.
The matter Of a sidewalk ordinance
was referred to the committees on
streets and alleys and grades, and or
dinances.
The city attorney presented an or
dinance to amend ordinance 10. relat-
ing to the running of dogs at large as
amended by ordinances 10 and %. The
matter not being in just the shape the
committee wished it, its consideration
was laid over for a time.
Aid. Bradley called attention to the
matter of the sidewalk on Willard
street, stating that the house next to
the alley on the W. r. Hughes prop
erty, was in the street.
Aid. Andrews moved that the street
roller matter be taken up, and the
recorder proceeded to read the con-
tract for the roller made with the @.
S. Kelly company. After some mo-
ments of delay, Mr. e. L. P. Staede. the
local representative of the Russell
company, of Massilon, Ohio, addressed
the council, stating that there had
been some Misrepresentation in the
matterOf the miller of hir cop,nonv.