Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-05-24
THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING
Former Owners of Park Island Would
Like Either Their Money or
Land Back.
w. n. McCumber COnfrmed-Other
Nominees Are Left by the Vote
of Five to Three.

All the aldermen were present last
Monday when the clerk called the roll.
Health Officer Longeway reported sew
eral cesspools as being a nuisance, and
recommended that the property owners
be ordered to connect with the sewer.
referred.
The ordinance granting a franchise to
the Lewistown and Great Falls Iele-
phone company Was placed on its second
reading and passed, two aldermen alone
voting in the negative because the wires
were not strung high enough in their
opinion.
Permits were granted a. p. Curtin a
Co. and the Great Falls Carric-e works
to erect corrugated iron buildings at the
rear of their lots.
The petition for the opening of certain
streets near Tenth street north ana
Tenth avenue, now occupied ny the
Goodrich Lumber company, vas re-
lected on the recommendation of the
committee.
4 permit was granted to j. NJ. Nc
Donald to erect d SON post in fronto of
dbl Central venue
Henly Nogel Wps granted a permit to
mix cement under the supervision Ct the
city engineer or Central avenue.
The BOND of j.. A. { Jlilns for SID
was approved and a plumbers license
granted.
Jere Leslie appeared OF behalf of the
former owners Of Park ls. and and asked
that the council take : me action TO.
their relief. They had delivered d good
title to the city and had now held for
eighteen months warrants of the city
that were worthless and never would be
paid. He asked that either they be
given warrants that could be negotiated
or else deed them back the land. No
action was taken.
The city attorney announced that he
expected to bring the suit against the
bondsmen of City Treasurer Elliott to an
issue next week.
A permit was granted to put up a brick
addition on the real of the west one-half
of lot 10. block BIB, townsite.
A list of thee liable for city poll ia
was presented ry the city clerk and az
proved, although Alderman Willlsms
announced that Re we oppC7ed to its
collection. He said that for the last two
years little, if any, OF this tax had got
into the tree0ury. 1t had simply gone
into the 7 ,ckets of the collectors,
Mayor Webster hen announced the
following appointments and ordered the
roll called OF confirmation,
Fer city detective A. l. Hunt. lie.
3, iec,ed. I~eas-ioung. Fletcher, and
llolnus. Nays-Wiillams, Fitzgerald
Mcdonald, Dunn. and Mitchell.
For jailer--D, II. Young. REJECTED by
the eeme vote az above.
} For fcJd inspector-M,L. Brldgeman
F., Rejected, . To- ,, &C above.
For poundmAster-W. y McCumber
r Confirmed. Yeas Mitchell, Holmes
Fletcher, and Young. Nays-Wllliams
/ Dunn, Mcdonald, and Fitzgerald-l
r The m-yor cast his vote for confirmation
{ on the tie.
, Mayor Webster then announced tina
4 while be WIS not ready to announce al
@ the changes be desired to make on The
J., police force he would naue a man II
" place Of Officer ice Martin. He nom
| mated Edward falk. The noht1atlor
was rejected. ) to g.. He then nance
t for the place II. j. Bollinger. This nom
0 ination was also rejected by the SAINT
4 vote. Mayor Webster then nominated
: for Officer Martins place y. +. White
4 who was also rejected b! the same vote
This ended the nominations, and the
mayor remarked significantly that thert
would be "a vacancy Oh the police force
/ tomorrow.
q The city engineer was authorized t.
!, advertise for buds for repairing the IVES
SIDE street bridge, and the city a@ttOrne.
4 was authorized to appeal from the de
cision Of the court in the matter TO thu
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