The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1898-03-11
GIVEN TO THE CHIEF
Y. VI. c. A. Petition Con-
cerning the Two Vices
in Town
Was Referred to the Chief
Of Police to Get Testi-
mony.
He ENDED HIS OWN LIFE
HE ENDED HIS OWN LIFE
Bert Tobey Hung Himself
Friday While Slightly
Deranged.
CITY COUNCIL MATTERS.
What Transpired at tho Council Meeting
Monday Evening.

Monday Evening.
Several matters of an interesting ma
ture were brought before the council
meeting Monday evening. Aldermen
Levinger, Johnston, Kock. Grace, Nc
Laughlin and Beckwith were present
when Mayor Fullerton called the ses.
sion to order. Auditor Smith read the
minutes OF the previous meeting which
stood approved.
Among the first things which were
presented to the council was letter
from F. B. Ellis, of Parker, who had
been in the city several days of the
past week looking up the matter OF es-
tablishing telephone system in this
city. Mr.. Ellis had prepared an ordi-
nance and sent it to the council asking
it's adoption. MIR Ellis proposed put
ting in a complete telephone system
and asked the council to grant him a
franchise for twenty years. Just at
present the council is not granting any
twenty year franchises for telephones
or anything else in that line, and the
best the council could do with the
proposition of Mr.. Ellis was to lay it on
the table, without going into a discua-
sion of the matter, Mr.. Ellis owns
telephone system at Parker which is
operated at a very small cost to sub
scribers, and while the council would
be glad to have a system established
the members did not feel like granting
the gentleman franchise.
The petition formulated and adopted
at a recent meeting of the Y. M. G. A..
and published in The REPUBLICAN,
was read to the council. The petition,
which was signed by 80 members of the
association, held that it was common
knowledge among people in this city
that the vices of prostitution and gam
bling were open and notorious in this
vicinity. Mayor Fullerton stated to
the council that he asked one of the
signers of the petition what he knew
personally of the charges made in the
petition, and the gentleman replied
that he knew nothing whatever about
it, that he was asked to sign the petit
tion and did 80, just as he would sign
any petition. Mayor Fullerton, desir-
GUS of getting at the bottom of the
matter, called Chief Reierson
before the council and asked him
what he knew of these vices being
practiced in the city as charged in the
petition. The chief said he had no
knowledge that such houses were in
operation as stated and that if he had
had they would have been closed up.
The council passed resolution in
structing the chief of police to visit all
signers to the petition and secure all
testimony they are able to give, over
their own signature, in reference to
theses vices, when the city officers and
city attorney will be ready to prosecute
the offenders, if such evidence given by
the signers is sufficient to make out q
prima facie case.
A petition, signed by several resi-
dents along west Third street, was pre-.
sented asking that sidewalk be con
structed in front of lots 1, and 3
block 50. The auditor was instructed
to notify the owner of such lots tt
build the walk in two weeks. and {
failure to comply the city will follow the
usual custom in those cases.
The report OF Judge Abbey was reat
and had but one drunk and disorderly
and in fact this the first case of tn,
he has had in three or four months. 4
report of this kind speaks we'll for tn
city, which has five places where liquo
is sold.
Treasurer Kibbee made his financia
J report for February, and after paying
, off $500 bond and paying the interest
he reported a balance of S1,215 in tn
general fund. It is matter OF con
graduation among the councilmen tina
the present administration is paying Of
i the Indebtedness of the city, and it is
move in the direction of lower taxes.
: The following bills were audited an
, allowed and warrants were ordere
, drawn for the same: