San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-09-22
MUNICIPAL NEWS.

Collected From the Offices and Cor
ridors OF the City Hall.
City Collector Umscheid yester-
day had warrants sworn out for the
arrest Of thirty merchants for fail.
ing to pay occupation taxes. The
parties got wind OF the intended ar
rests and paid up with the collec-
tor yesterday morning. A list of
delinquent lawyers is being made
out and warrants Of arrest will be
served on them Monday.
For the week ending yesterday,
fines to the amount of $21O were
assessed by Recorder Shields.
The following changer In the
personnel Of the garbage cart brig
ade has been made: In the place
OF A.Saladana, Mrs. W.L.Smith has
been appointed, and in place of
Margarine San Miguel, a colored
man named Henry Shoop has been
employed.
The city health office death GER
tificate file shows up we'll for the
health Of the city for September.
Up to o'clock yesterday afternoon
only thirty.six death certificates
were filed, which promises an ex-
ceedingly light death record for
the month.
Health Office Clerk Roberts re-
ports a decided falling off in COM
plants about garbage on the
streets since Contractor Burns
carts have been superseded by city
carts. Where in the past under
the contract system as high as fif-
ty complaints were filed daily,
now the average is between one
and two a day, and most OF these
are for dead animals in the irriga-
ton bitches or yards. During the
past week the complaints aver
aged one per day. The garbage
men have certain streets assigned
to them and according to the size
of their respective districts and
the distance to the dumping
grounds, they are expected to
make at least two trips per day.
Being anxious to hold their jobs,
they generally cover the ground
well, and thus the city gets better
service than under the contract
system.
1t was good news to Representa-
tive John O'Connor, that Of Alder.
man Hollis proposed police reform
bill. at is strange" he said, in
speaking to LIGHT reporter yes
terday, "That Alderman Holt, who
so ardently opposed the reform
bill that L introduced in the House,
should introduce an ordinance
himself having in view the reform
ing OF the police department on
civil service lines. / was willing
to amend my bill in the house in a
way satisfactory to the men,
bers of the city administration,
and after Alderman Robards
expressed his satisfaction over the
amended form Of the bill, he went
straight back on it. II the bill had
passed, our fire as well as police de-
partments, would be under civil
service rules today"
The city collector reports collec-
tions for the week up to and in
Guiding Friday as follows:
Sept. 16, $l,5SS93; Sept. II, ST.
$3.50; Sept. Is, $296.74; Sept. 10,
$54l.33; Sept. 20, $26l,3S; Sept. 81,
not reported.
The suit of Victor Cruz against
the Elmendorf campaign commit
tee, for printing, was the subject OF
considerable discussion about the
city hall yesterday. A member of
the committee says that the print
ed matter consisted Of quantity
OF printing in Spanish about which
the members of the committee
knew nothing. No one knows by
whose orders the matter was print
I'd or how much printing was done.
and that is the reason that CITY,
printing bill has 80 4
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