The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-04
THE COUNCIL MEETING.
The City Dads Busted themselves Mostly
About Saloons.


came up for consideration related either
to the licensing, transferring licenses
or prescribing bounds beyond which
saloons shall not go.
The ball opened by the request of F.
j. Gottfredsen that the license recently
held by F. j. Dunnebacke be trans
ferred to him and then transferred from
him to G. w. Nellis. Both requests
were granted and that without Aid.
John T.. Yule there to kick about it or
vote against it. In fact Aid. Yule was
the only alderman who was not in his
place. And that is strange thing to
say of him for he is usually the most
punctillious of men about being around
when the trouble is at any time liable
to begin.
, Next came the application of Mrs.
Emma Bauer for retail liquor license.
Mrs. Bauer has a store on West Main
street and it was from her very neigh
borhood that the council refused a
license two weeks ago, so the matter
was referred to the judiciary committee
and there it will be quietly allowed TO
go to sleep.
Matthias Schlader applied for ii license
and had better luck about it for it was
granted at once. Then Joe Orth's Ii
cense, which he has been using at No.
100 Union street, was transferred to
800 Market street, and G.. M. Lewis
license was transferred from No. IL
North Main street to 80 Elizabeth
street.
Fl. A. Behnke also asked permission
to sell liquor in homeopathic doses and
his burning desire was granted. This
done and the council was given a slight
respite in that direction.
The next matter referred to phar-
macist's license. w. S. Lamb had one
he couldn't possibly use more than six
months before he would haYe to have
another. He had paid for its use a
whole year, so he wanted six months
on it rebated and that was done.
Mrs Joseph Hoffman notified the
council that she believed that she had
been taxed too heavily on her property
and so asked for a rebate. The matter
was referred to the committee on fin
ance.
A communication from w. I'll, Schott
asked similar favor for the KenOsha
Electric Light and Power company.
He wanted a rebate of $75, and recited
something about how well he had
treated the city. The council could
not see that he had done anything but
live up to his contract and so refused
to grant the request.
A petition for a sidewalk on both
sides of Rowland avenue from Market
street to Prairie avenue and for an
electric light at the corner of Rowland
avenue and Market street. The latter
was referred to the committee on gas
and light.
Then came up the ordinance which
had for its object the combining of sa
looms within prescribed limits. The
limits fixed are as follows: In the Sec
ond ward the line begins at the north
west corner of the ward, runs to the
lake shore, thence to Broad street, to
North Chicago, to Middle, to Pike
| creek, to North Main, to point of be-
ginning.
In the Fourth ward all the territory
west of West Main street and north of
Pearl street.
In the First ward all that part
bounded by Prairie avenue on the
south, Rowland avenue and Ridge
street on the west, Pearl street on the
north and Chicago street on the east,
except the building now occupied as q
saloon on the southeast corner Of West
Main and Pearl streets and that part
of Market street, between Rowland
avenue and Ridge street.
In the Third ward all the ward ex
cept that portion bounded on the east
by West street, on the north by Eliza
beth street, on the west by Fremont
avenue and on the south by the city
limits.
These limits are not without their
loophole, for saloons can be established
within them if three fourths of the
owners of the property AUDITING on
both sides of the street where it is
proposed to establish the SALOON, for a
distance of 800 feet, give consent and
sign petition for such an institution,
or in case the saloon is to be situated
on corner the petition and consent
must be obtained from three fourths of
the property owners for 800 feet on
both sides of the street on which the
entrance is placed and for 800 feet on
the intercepting street.
The bids for wood being opened, the
contract was awarded to John Moran
and Henry Soens at So 80 per cord.
a resolution was offered and passed
providing that hereafter all moneys re- 1
ceived by the city or which may now
be on hand collected from water rents,
meter rents or sales are to go into a.
water fund at the disposal of the water
commissioners. who are to report to the