El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-10-14
Council MEETING.


Last night the city council met in
regular weekly session. with mayor
Mag offin in the chair and all the alder
men present, some thing which has not
happened before for long time.
After the roll was called the clerk
read the minutes of the last regular
meeting, which stood approved. He
stated that he had been unable to get
up the minutes of the called meeting
of the council of Oct. 9Th, and there
fore reading of same was dispensed
with.
A message from the mayor was then
read, as follows:
To the Honorable City council:
Gentlemen-At your last meeting,
the school board asked your honorable
body the issuing of thirty Thousand
dollars worth of bonds for school pur-
poses, such as erecting school house
in the second war, and the gen
ersl improvement of the other
school buildings throughout the city,
as we'll as purchasing ground and nee
essary supplis for the same. [ recon-
mend that the council grant the same
and to make these bonds run for thir-
ty years, optional after fifteen, and to
bear five per cent, interest per annum.
also recommend to the council to
authorize the opening of eleven thous-
and twenty year per cent bOnds-op-
| tional in ten to replace that amount of
artesian water bonds now on hand and
| held by the city in trust for the tax
payers who paid taxes GU the sinking
| fund and interest upon the water
| works bonds and which bond
have been cancelled. Said sinking
fund and interest paid upon the water
works bonds having been used in sink
| ing the artesisn well. The artesian
bonds held by the city amounting to
$14 600 can not be sold on account of
the short time they have to run.
If the IL, 900 recommended is author
| lied it will enable the Taxpayers who
hold the city script for the amount paid
in, and for which we hold the bonds as
| collateral, to use the same in the pay
ment of their taxes, which is an i'm
| portant matter to those holding said
ertificates. Besides IL will enable tn e
city to cancel sl4 900 OF bonds and only
| tax the people upon Sill 900 in the flu
ture. The difference between the Sl4,-
600 and the S1l 900, asked to be paid,
| will soon be on hand to pay that out to
| the taxpayers, also.
| I also recommend the issuing of SO,
600 Jail and city hall bonds, to run for
| thirty years, optional after fifteen
| years, to bear percent interest. This
amount will ensbl the city to cash it's
/
ing for the fire department and Jail
building: and TO help out in finishing
properly our city hall. Respectfully
submitted.
JOSEPH MAGOFFIN, Mayor.
Alderman Clifford said that he
thought per cent was too much inter-
est to pay on these bonds that . per
cent would be plenty.
Judge Edwards addressed the council
4 ~F h. Ill Ha y ol
talked of the school bonds to different
citizens and all seemed to think as he
did, that the city needed more school
buildin and the bond sy stem was the
best way to get them. The Judge was
in favor of the other bonds, but said
that he didn't know that the people
would do about them.
Alderman Clifford said that he
didn't think that it was necessary TO
act on the matter of ordering an cleo
ton at once, as it would be about i'm
possible to have the school building
finished any length of time before the
end of the present term of school. AL
derman Badger msde motion that
the message OF the mayor be received
and filed and that the council take &C
tion on it next Thursday night. This
motion prevailed.
The reports of officers was called for
and under this call Chief Lock har tol d
the council that he had been after the
T. P railroad people about their cross
ing on Myrtle street and they said tn at
they would f K it as soon as their lum.
Der arrived, that they were short on
the kind needed for this work.
| DR.. Race stated to the council that at
present he had four patients at the
pest house. One of them was little
girl of the same family that the boy
who is about well belonged to: the man
McMurray from Brandon. Texas, and
w. w. Perry the lineman FROM the G
Fl. The doctor said the two men seem.
ed to be real nice men. When McMur.
ray was taken sick he had SIS, and as
soon as he notified his home people at
Brandon, Texas, they sent him S2C
moe, and that would be enough to pa
for his medicine, and all the city would
have to do for him would be to give
him his board. Perry hadn't any
money, still be was due the rights OF
the railroads hospital fees, and DR..
Turner has written the chief surgeon
of that road, telling of the mans posi-
ton, so as to have the road send the
necessary amount for his medicines
| CITY Attorney Kemp made a report
on the matter OF the window of the
LOOMS building on the corner of Mesa
Iavenue and San Antonio streets. The
report in substance was tb at as soon as
he was notified that Mr.. Loomis had
p otested against the action of the
police in stopping the work he went to
see Mr.. Loomis and told him that the
work was an encrOschment on the
lstreet rights of the city and would have
to stop, unless the consent of the coun-
ell could be had to place the window
there. The city clerk was ordered to
notify Mr.. Loomis that the window as
contemplated could not be put up and
tn at the frame work now there would
have to be removed.
| The clerk read the report of the
city tax collector and assessor for the
month of September which showed
hat he bad collected S4397 90. The
city clerk then read his report for the
month of September of building per-
mits issued. 1t showed that there had
been issued JweDty-seven permits and
that he had paid over to the treasurer
$50 % being the amount due the city,
IS having been retained is the rs
commission by the clerk.
The report of the Chief of Police was
read and showed thot during the month
of Septarn ber thera had heep 3l2OS in