Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-08-28
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hunting and fishing. nnd expects to ~.
turn Sept. I. Assistant Chief Of Police
Lewis will liz acting chief Of police
during Chief Klplcy's absence.
Kc,lxIc avenue property owners nr
bound to have street eur service. and
Andy Graham. the ObstructiOnist. will
therefore l1 squclched agnin.
should Rector and Mccarthy make
n dozen combinations. they cannot fool
or hoOdwink the people. The voters
care nnught for these altlermanic trick.
sters. Hon. ID. W. Alderman will In
the next alderman from the Twenty
eighth ward II he lives until next April.
no matter whether Rector nnd Nectar
thy set up the pins against him or not.
The good people Of the Nineteenth,
Wnru are all for Pat Morris for Alder
man: they propose to elect him. too.
Rivers Mcneil can be the next Alder.
man from the Twelfth Ward II he de.
citlcs to become u candidate for the Of.
tice.
Chicago ln,stOtticr officials have re-
cpivel from the Postmaster General u
new opinion regarding the sending 0f
tunning postal cards through the malls.
The opinion II by james y. Tyner. IN
sistant Attorney General for tho Post.
office Department. In which he states
that curJ on which creditor writes
"l'lc,lse cnll and settle account. when
In long l,nst due and for which our col
lectOr hns called several times" II mall
able n the words nrc written without
display. Hut II IRE added the words.
III not paid ut once. We shall place with
our law agency for collection or III
not paid at once. we shall place the
same with our lawyer for collection,
tho card II unavailable. Judge Tyner
says u card to In mnilnble must not
contain language Of threatening char
meter or language calculated to reflect
iniurIo,,sly upon the character or con-
duct Of the person addressed.
An investigation In the sewer depart
ment started recently. anu then, iikr
the Mccarthy Il Newman "illling In
School Board investigation. suddenly
stopped. The firm OF Gnlmn \ Byrne
was mentioned In connection with Inc
investi gatiOn. Both Mr.. Gll,an una MI.
Byrnc drew deep water In the Demo-
cratic pool. Commissioner McGann
looked Into the discoveries made IN the
sewer department AMI declared that It
was political buncOmh". that tho work
was all right. ami the ,alk stopped hy
his order.
Cook County is sure to have :rs as
sessed valuation raised 10y the S'ate
Boarl Of Equalization. The mrmbers
always rap Cook County good anu
hard. For that purpose was the board
itself createu. Since its creation. how.
ever, the board has had IT. powers en-
larged. ana now its really most import
ant work IN the assessing ut corpora.
lions, especially railroads. Que Of the
new members. Mr.. SimOns. Of Chicago.
offered a resolution, with long list Of
whereases. creating a cOmmlt.". OF five
persons to visit Cook County ana O,ner
counties to investigate the property
subject to direct assessment by Tho
board. hut It has divided tina: work he
tween two committees, a railroad COM
mittee and a committee on general cor
pOratiOns. These committees have only
Just begun their work, and 1t would be
unreasonable to cover the same ground
by another special committee.
Alderman Frank Mccarthy, the well.
known coal and dirt contractor, EVIL
IDENTIFY stands high with the Board OF
Education.
HIS prof" Andy Graham. the lone
Democrat on the West Park Board.
hypnOtixed his Republican cOllea guess
Another indignant citizen complains
of the Chicago dog catchers' propensity
for gathering In all the valuable dogs
and ignoring the really dangerous and
homeless ours. 1T Ii rather late In the
season to effect any radical reforms
this year, but this subject should he
given early consideration next spring
with view Of putting an end to the
manifest imposition. The complaints
have been 80 numerous and from such
responsible persons that It IL not Sup
possible they represent merely isolated
cases. The fact seems to he that the
dog catcher exists not to protect the
from vicious dogs that may
be at large In the heated term, but to
sandbag owners of pets or other yalua.