The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-02

So - atIov fund 1929 80
- haI f,nd 514 IS
pa ;n,arast fnnd :, 264 81
Improvement district No. L.. ~ 90
Improvement district No. go. 20 o
Cash in bank S5'6sZ ~
Less outst'ding checks. l4Z 10 o'9os 80
Cash on hand .........."''..' olS OF
ro,a, SIZES 90
The chairman Of the light committee
recommended that the light now AT
the corner of Fifth and Elm streets pc
removed to the corner OF f1tth anu
Pine streets. The report was
J.. s. McGroarty. superintendent OF lhe
Electric Light and Water wac
granted permission TO address the couh-
Gil. He said tina he had been spoken
TO Iv sev,ral gldu:n en- N regard 10 IN
a~dvisabilit.r Of ert,ring into a cohtra'-
with the city To furnish lights ana wa
tel for the city for a term OF years iic
said that the company was redus anu
willing to have this done, but ne mao
been advised by the company's attorney
that i'm order To do this legally 1t would
he necessary for the council 10 adNel-
tise for bids, as the law required that
all contracts exceeding $50 In amount
must be advertised for. He said that IL
was true that the ompany was ready
to make a proposition Immediately but
that the ompan did not feel ike en-
terins into a contract unless all leSal
requirements were compiled win.
He therefore suggested that the coun-
ell advertise for bids. y resolution was
accordingly introduced and unanimous
ly carried that the clerk be instructed
TO advertise for bids for furnishing the
city with lights and water.
The judiciary Committe reported Ia
vorably upon ordinance 1853, creating
he office of city detective and kin
his salary at 1925. The report was
adopted, all the aldermen voting In IA
yor of il, except Alderman Devine, VINO
was opposed to creating any more new
Offices.
The street and alley committee re-
ported hat the Sheep gulch drainage
ditch matter. which a been referred
To it, was not within the jurisdiction OF
the city. but that the county ofilcers
had to look out for that. The county
had assured the that they
were going to fix 1t.
DIR. Mckenzie. chairman OF the COM
mittee on health, reported that ne had
visited every part of the city, ana that
the sanitary condition was better IMAM
IL had ever been. He had inquired INTO
the alleged nuisance existing at the
rear of the Warm Springs livery barn,
and found tina everything had been
done tina was possible to do.
Clerk O'Leary reported that the cost
of finishing up the engraving OF the
Hearst memorial resolutions, to be pre-
scented To Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, IN recus-
milton of her splendid gift to the cry,
would be $500. \ committee, consist
ing of Aldermen DeVine, FitzPatrick
+, and Hamill. was, upon motion appoint
! ed to carry out the work.
. FITZPATRICK moved that the plans anc
= specifications for improvement districts
Nos. I, S, 10 and IL be adopted. Car
ried. FitzPatrick then introduced &
$500 Al g,.,,,,,tfnu tho clerk Ia adj
. vertise for bids for the construction o
u the sewers i'm those districts, which wa
: passed.
; A petition was received asking that
sewer be built I'm district No. 2, embrac
a ing the alley between Maple ana Fin
streets, against which "A protest ha'
been entered at the last council meet
A ING. The PRAYER Of the petitioners wa
granted unanimously, and the enginee
4 was instructed to draw up plans an
6 specifications.
4 sewer district No. -, embracing tn
6 alley between Hickory and Locus
6 streets, was also ordered established
Notwithstanding a protest eh'elc
| against it's establishment at the pre-
90 vinus meeting, and the engineer wa
Is ordered to prepare plans and speclica
tons.
= Collins moved that the sewers in dis
x triCts 3 and I be accepted Carried. IN
Ie sewer committee was instructed To al
e portion the amount of the cost of III
ne sewers that the city will have 10 pa.
"a Collins called up the question
sprinkling the streets west of Main dul
" ing the race meeting. Referred To II
~ street and alley committee win poW'
" to act.
Collins introduced a resolution pr
% viding for the building of sidewalks {
n both sides of Park avenue from III
IN street to the western limits of the cit
oo The resolution was passed.
90 Fitzpatrick wanted TO know why Il
90 little shack at the corner of Park aN
nue. and Oak streets, used as an i
cream stand. had not been removed
accordance with the ordinance. The
was a long discussion about this,
there always is when the question
these stands comes up 1t was the ge
eral opinion that none of them shou
be allowed within the fire limits. al
there will probably be a general raid
the ice cream stands by the police.
Mayor Lesser called attention 10 l
- fact that special policemen would
~ needed during the race meeting, a
upon motion he was authorized TO a
% point four additional officers.
W. The petition of Eugene Mccarthy
erect an irorclad kitchen in the rear
his building on Commercial avenue j.
= east Of the city hall, again called
90 the shack proposition. The mayor rul
that. as the question was one oVerridi
~ a part of an ordinance, II would requ
a majority of the entire council-seN
II to grant the petition. ON the vote
grant the petition five voted in its
"a yor and three opposed IL. The petit
was therefore denied.
The council then adjourned TO N
Monday night