The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-12-18

AT the council meeting on Tuesday
night Mayor Starkweather vetoed the
resolution passed at the previous meet
ing for the payment of 800 to the ex-
perts employed by the Board of Asses
sors to estimate the amount Of coal IN
store in the different coal docks in the
city. As the employment of the men
referred to resulted in saving a larte
amount of taxes to the city, which 9th
wise would have been lost, the action of
the mayor and those aldermen who
voted to sustain him, seems to US not to
have been based on good reasoning.
1t might be that $500 was too much, bat
the experts are certainly entitled to
something for their services, besides
money ls being put to much less profit
able uses eyer lay ny the city govern
ment.
There is reason in the objections
raised by the grocerymen of the city to
the county authorities purchasing sup
plies for the poor farm elsewhere, if
the local business men can furnish those
supplies as cheap as outsiders. but not
otherwise. The county is in duty bound
To save every cent it possibly can. The
pity Is that ii did not adopt the cash
system long ago. ItwouId hayed saved
thousands of dollars BY doing so.
1t Is said that considerable anxiety
Is evidenced by one or two city officials
whose place of residence is not more
than thousand mites from the first
ward, regarding the location of the
hush money forced upon architect
CHISHOLM. Not but what ii is perfectly
safe with Mr.. Hughes, but some how.
don you know, it would be a little
hieasanter and more com Portable per
maps, 10 have it deposited somewhere
else. But we guess it will STAY right
where II Is for a while longer.
Senator l. Il. Mills has taken CHARGE
OF the office of deputy collector of Gus
Foms tor the port of Superior. Mr..
Mills succeeds to the position held by
Mr.. Ii. j. Shields the past four years.
Under the Democratic order of thinos
and he IS no doubt thankful that GOOD
luck and Influential friends, added 10
hls own political record, succeeded in
capturing the plum.
The venerable mother of the M
tton's Chief Magistrate died early on
funday morning last, and vas buried
on tuesday afternoon. many of the dis
tingushed men of the nation being
present ut the funeral Messages Of
confidence were received by the presi-
dent from the heads OF all the nations,
Through their ambassadors at Washiur-
ton, and other distinguished people.
We have received a copy of the
Engineering News, published in New
York City, containing dissertation If
the &. =. I. and NJ. 4 @. dock on Al
louez bay. The Engineering News stands
III the front rank Of journals of its class,
aud lis tiatterng reference to the d ok
IN question cannot fail to brin. Superior
more prominently before the public.
Z quote the article III fu!l elsew here.
senator Sagasta is reported 10 have
said that lie was treasured of the
The strength Of SPANS position bv the
tone OF the European newspapers. In
the event of war with this country il
Viii take something more than editorial
assistance 10 bring Spain 81 ely through
the ordeal.
Comp troiler J. II. Eckles saws this
nation stands ont from all lis sister M
lions IS having monetary and financial
Laws which invite pubile disgrace and
private disaster" II he could only con.
Vince congress q the truth Of that state
ment we might get some relief: but the
trouble is that lie can't.
a boy seven years old has been
granted a conditional license TO practice
law in the Supreme court Of Kansas
1t is said tia, he knows more abog,
law than any iavver IN Kansas. hui
that does not prove him Solomon by
several points.
-Durrant is to be hanged or the ill
Of January. This is the fourth time he
has been sentenced, and he now as the
distinction 81 being condemned to dp.-ii
u,ure si.nv- than any other criminal.