El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-16
CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
An Informal Session Last Evening in
the City Clerks Office.


| The city council was called inform
ally together last night in the city
clerks Office to have little medicine
talk over the distri oution of aims, and
matters Incidental to the same.
Inc mayor officially reported the ar.
rival OF Captain DAVIS of the commits
sary department of the army, for the
distribution of the appropriation made
by the government for the flood suffer-
ers. Inc captain wanted a stOrekeeper
who knew Spanish and the Mexicaus,
and would prevent him from being i'm
posed upon. The mayor suggested
pushing Jake CAtlln in THAI place, and
| 1T va, decided to recommend Jake for
| the position.
Mr.. Vi lHOrd sa d there were doub.-
less Amer. can families VINO had suffer-
ed py the f3od, but who would be back
ward ABOUT coming fOrw ard. He adj
vlsec; some plan by VIII ,ch these suffer
erS could De reached.
The mayor said Captain Davis pro-
| posed issuing one dollars worth of
rat1ons for Gays work, and the mayor
thought The homeless would be willing
TO woi k on repairing the streets and
take DIVISIONS for their work; also,
| that the most trouble would be with
Mexlcans coming over from Juarez to
claim part of The diStri button
Judge COldweil held that one Next
Gao IN 5OO was an American citizen,
and failed to see how the CITY could
participate in the distribution: it Was
the business solely of the government
This O1strl button business was bound
% cause chickering's and heart burn
Ings, SO ne for one did not want to
have anything TO do with it. How
ever, the Judge was willing that the
mayor should appoint two policemen
to assist Captain Davis. This was
agreed upon and the mayor said he
would appoint Jake Catlin as store
keeper and George Herold as the as
slstlDg policeman.
In the matter of willingness of some
OF the Mexicans to work, Mr.. Scott said
an att mpt has recently been made to
get Mexicans from old Fort Bliss to
work at The smelter, and none would
90.
The mayor then said that citizens
bad requested him to stop the new
channel the river mad cut on the north
bank, as there was chance, if some
thing was not done. of the rivers cutting
anewchannei for Itself over by the little
smelter. for good. The mayor suggest
ed q wing dam that would throw the
water back lntO the cd channel. But
Judge Coldwell was afraid that mig hit
raise International questions. The
fasten barbed wire across the cap and
catching drift and brush there so i'm.
pede the flow that the diverted current
would be sent back to it's old channel
AT Mr.. SCOTS sue gestion, Consult
ing Engineer Toilette, of the boun-
Gary commission was called. He sa ID
the mayors pan lid not infringe upon
aoy Urea right, but at the same time
IL would be st to stop the flow lit
tie way back from the line of the river
front SO as not to give the Mexicans a
chance to object. The boundary line
any how remained where it was before,
as according to the treaty sudden
changing of the river bed did not car
ry with it the boundary line. Mr.. Fol-
lette would go with the mayor and look
the ground over. The matter would
come before the boundary commission
Adjourned.