The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-28
ORDINANCE IS A GO
COUNCIL LAST NIGHT SIT DOWN
ON ALL PETITIONS.

COUNCIL LAST NIGHT SIT DOVE
ON ALL PETITIONS.
Ordinance Passed I.evying a License OF
Different Kind of business In the City
Held to be in Full Force and Effect and
Collections VIII be siade-J. +. Craig
Presents Proposition to supply the
City With Telephone Service at Reduced
Rates-Labor Commissioner Bird Wants
to Fire Employment Agencies.
The council meeting last night was a
drawing card.
Not only were all the counclmen.
who were in the city. present but Mayor
Cox announced in his opening address
that there was a large amount Of bus
mess 10 be transacted OF great impor-
tancs 10 the city and he hoped that the
members would expediate business as
promptly as possible.
Routine business was transacted IN
I'll it came TO a report Of the commit
tee on public improvements when DR..
Snultz arose TO inquire as 10 the reason
Of an attempt having been made to
fence up the north part of the city.
This brought out some discussion and
the reply by AIessrs- Throclzmorton and
Minnick was not what might be called
a love spirit. The mayor, however,
came to the rescue of the councilmen
engaged in the dispute by referring
the subject on his own motion 10 Tiger
Bill and the committee of fifty.
The committee to whom was refer
red the subject of meeting with Mr.
Stanley upon the subject of the tele-
graph and express companies, report
ed that they had met and concluded
that the ordinance must stand as pass
ed by the council.
Attorney Tom Wilson was then given
an opportunity 10 address the council
with reference 10 the unjust tax levied
by the ordinance. which ne declared
would raise the price and drive certain
companies from the city.
The following communication was
handed to the clerk asking that if the
ordinance, or an occupation tax, was 10
he enforced, that all the business nam
Cd should be charged the rate suggese-
Architects, two at S15........$ 5000
AuctiOneerS, two at $20........ 1000
Banks. four at Sl00......... 10000
Billiard halls, four at $25....... 10000
Barber shops. Thirty at $10...... 10000
Bath rooms, two at $l0......... 1000
Business colleges, two at $50.... 10000
Blacksmiths, fifteen ut $10... 5000
Bill posters, one at S50..... 5000
T09 rdiuor boucaS twenty AZ SIN o10 90
Coal yards, twenty at $S0...... 1900 90
Commission houses, eight at $40 35C.0G
Drug stores, twenty at SOL. 100000
Express companies, three at 800 10000
Electric light plants, two at 800. 10000
Express wagons, two horse,
thirty at NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1880
Express wagons, one horse, fff-
teen ait $3.50. $3.50
Fish dealers and psddlers two
at Observation-Disclosures. 1000
Fruit and news stands, four at
SO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 10000
Flour mills, three at SOL. 10000
Factories. thirty at $25....... 5000
Grain and merchandise brokers.
ten at $50 Observation-Disclosures. 10000
Gas companies, one at $780,. 10000
Grist and feed mills, six at $50. 5000
Hacks, twenty at 5000. 210.00
Hotels, three at $5O....... 5000
Hay and feed stores, fifteen at
$40 ................ 5000
Hucksters, six at $10............ COCO
Ice dealers, three at $50. $4,000
Insurance agents, for each COM
pany, eighty at $10.... 10000
Junk shops, one at $10.. 1000
job printing and lithograph
companies, five at $25.... 5000
Lawyers, fifty at $25............ $4,000
Live stock and commission COM
panies, ten at $10......... 10000
Loan agents, ten at $25..... $4,000
Livery stables, ten at S20........ 10000
MIX wagons, fifteen at 5000. 1880
Meat shops and peddlers, TWEEN
" at OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 10000
Newspaper unions, two at 500. 10000
Newspaper companies, weekly,
seven at $25...........--.-.-... 175 ~
Newspaper, dalies, two AT $50. 10000
Opera houses, one at S200........ 10000
OIL agents, two at S50...... 10000
oil peddleTs. five at $1O....... 5000
Photographers five at S90....... 5000
Physicians, thirty at $10..-...... 30O.0a
Pawn brokers. one at S15O..... 5000
Peddlers, merchandise, etc, two
aL S-0..-- -.-..-.--.--.- oV-V0
Produce and poultry dealers,
I'M tt dL Stv..-.-- .ss-.---.-s l-V.Np
Lumber companies, seven at $50. $50 20
Planning mills, two at s20........ 1000
Restaurants or lunch counters.
twenty-five at s2O.............. 10000
Real estate agents. thirty at so $1,000
saloons. ten at SSO............... S00G0
Stores. five hundred at So. 5000 90
Steam laundries. three at $50. 5000
Chinese laundries, three al S25.. 1900
Street sprinkIers. five at S25... I25.0O
Second hand stores. ten at $50. 10000
Stove foundries. two al S25...... 5000
Shoe makers. fifteen at $5...... 800
companies, three al s25 1890
Telegraph companies. two AT 800 20000
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