The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-06-04
A COUNTRY TELE PHONE FRANCHISE.
Granted to the New Company for
Two Years.
People Outside the City Complain OF
Dusty Roads What the SUPER
visors Say of the Matter.

Slsof6 say OF the Matter.
The Board OF Supervisors met in regu-
lar monthly session yesterday. There
were present brennan. Curtis, Todd,
Jenkins and Chairman Morrison.
Health Officer Everson of Elk Grove
submitted his monthly report, which
was ordered filed.
Supervisor Curtis said the entire board
ought to take a trip TO Folsom either this
or next week and inquire into the vari-
GUS needs of that locality.
The Supervisor said many complaints
had been made to him about the bad con-
dition of the rock road which runs along
the line between Sacramento and Placer
Counties. and which has caused many
accidents. The matter was taken under
advisement.
TOO MUCH DUST.
DR.. Wizard of Oak Park said that the
residents of that progressive little COM
munity on windy days suffered greatly
from the dust, so much so at times that
they can hardly see. He was OF the
opinion that the county should sprinkle
the roads out there. He said if the dust
is not laid many of the residents of Oak
Park will be compelled to move away
from there.
DR.. Wizard also complained Of the bad
condition OF the Y-street canal. IL is
choked up, he said, and needs immediate
looking after.
Chairman Morrison said it was the
duty of the city to correct any evil that
might exist from the bad condition of the
canal. He was informed by Superin-
Of hat fI,o oft
intended constructing bridges across the
canal.
AN OFFENSIVE SLAUGHTER-HOUSE.
DR.. Wizard, who is Health Officer at
Oak Park, had another complaint to
make. He said the stencil FROM the
slaughter-house northeast of Oak Park
was simply unbearable. Hogs and cat
tie which died there were taken to an
open field adjoining the slaughter-house
and left there to rot and decay in the
sun. lie said he had notified the
owners OF the place repeatedly to abate
the nuisance. but they paid no attention
whatever to him.
Supervisor Curtis said he had secured
steady sprinkling of the Riverside road
by the subscription method. He him.
self contributes $40 month for that pur-
| pose by furnishing feed for the horses
drawing the sprlnkllng wagon.
OAK PARK DUST AGAIN.
Mr.. Curtis then brought up again the
complaint of the residents of Oak PARK
about the dust out there. Most of the
people, he said, are poor, and it is hard
ship on them that they must suffer from
the dust The board should grant them
some relief before the 1st of July. lie
moved that $50 be appropriated for
| sprlnkling purposes. The motion was
not seconded.
Chairman Morrison said that while Oak
Park was a nice place to live in, most of
! those living there do SO to avoid paying
| city taxes. 1t appeared to him that Oak
| Park is large enough to raise the money
| necessary To sprinkle its own roads.
| Those who provide amusements there
should subscribe literally to a fund for
sprinkling purposes. 1t should be the
same as on tho Riverside road, which is
maintained for a few persons to drive
over.
DIR. Wizard said the residents of Oak
Park did not locate there just for the pur-
pose of avoiding the payment of city
taxes. Property was purchased there be-
| cause it was cheap.
Chairman Morrison said Oak Park was
| large enough to incorporate, and by so
doing those living there would not have
| to pay the 81 road tax. They would also
then pay city taxes, which they do not
now pay.
| Supervisor Curtis said be wished to
deny the assertions of Chairman Morri-
son that the inhabitants of Oak Park To-
! Gated there for the purpose of evading city
| taxes. Even if they did, said he. it was
| their right to do so. The time has not
yet arrived for the village to incorporate.
| DIR. Wizard said Oak Park derived no
| benefit from the travel to that place from
| Sacramento. Last Sunday, he said, a
| mum Der of the rough element from this
| city carried on in q disgracetul manner
| there.
Supervisor Jenkins said he was at Oak
| Park on Sunday, but he saw none Of the
rough element spoken of by DR.. Wizard.
| Oak Park. he said, surely must derive
some benefit from those who go there
| from this city. They have more roads
there than anywhere else in the county of
proportionate area. Residents OF other
| towns have petitioned for the sprinkling
| of roads in their respective localities, but
| they have not been accommodated be-
cause the board had decided that there
should be no sprinkling of roads until
after July LIST. There should be no dis
elimination between other towns and
! Oak Park.
There the matter rested without any
action being taken by the board.
A WoMAN's WARD.
Sheriff Johnson then presented a num-
Der of petitions which had been circu-
lated by Mrs. Schadt. Mrs. DR.. Wag-
goner, Mrs. Merrill and Mrs. Hutchinson
of the Womens Christian Temperance
Union, requesting the board to provide
a women's ward in the County Jail for
female prisoners.
Sheriff johnson Endorsed the PROPOSE
ton, and said it was all Unpleasant state
of affairs to have the women and mon to-
| gether in the jail.
Mrs. Schadt said she had been informed
| that this was the only city in the country
where there is not place for women in
our jails. AS they now are the men and
women when not locked up in cells are
together in one large room.
Mrs. Hutchinson said that although
she is only visitor to this city she owns
property here. Sacramento, she said, is
| a beautiful plsce to live in, but the lack
of proper necessities in the jaIls and the
| morals of the city are against it. 4 per-
son from the East would hesitate about
bringing his family here to live because
| there is no Sunday law.
i Mrs. Waggoner said there were too
! many prisoners confined in one cell,
Seventeen prisoners. she had been in
formed, occupied one cell, which is not
| large enough Tor so many.
| Mrs. Schadt said men and women who
break the law should be made to suffer