El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-09-02
City Council.

Last night in regular session Mayor
Msgoffin called the council to order:
Badger, Drummer, Burton, Stewart,
and McDufie were present and Cliff
ford, Robinson, and Scott were absent
The clerk opened the entertaiment
by reading the minutes, which were
approved.
Chief of Police Lockhart old the
council about the sidewalks which he
had been instructed about on the west
side of Mesa Avenue between St. Louis
and Texas. The chief said: II asked
all of the property owners to tea up
their old walks and put ne"- ones down.
n. B. Stevens, who is agent for some
of the property, said that he was in
correspondence now in regard to the
matter. Messrs. Buchanan and Powers
said that they were willing to put q
new one down if the others on the
block would. '"rhe chief told the
Gil that the old board walk on the low
er end of the block had been torn up
and the prospects were good for a good
tar AND gravel walk.
DIR. Race, city health officer, mad
his report on the smallpox subject and
in substance said that the city had
three families at the pest house and in
those threelfamilies there are four pa
tients. If any other person should be
taken sick with the same or other on
tagious disease there would be nowhere
to put them as every bit of the pare
room was occupied. The doctor said
that he had ordered a lot of vaccine
points and would have a fresh supply
coming every day. and that as soon as
they began to arrive be was going 70
commence on hat lower settlement,
AXE q policeman along with him and
do the whole population.
Clerk Cstlin lead off the monthly
pay roll for August, the total of which
amounted to S2702. IS. 1t was moved and
seconded that the o of the pay
roll be paid.
A matter came up on the pay roll of
the fire department in regard to a bill
of 1873 for eleven days put in in July
by ar extra person as engineer while
Sherry Falkner was sick, but before
be had. been relieved of his duties
by the city. The amount was allowed
and the clerk told to pay it.
The finance committee was the next
called. There was only one bill, from
the street and grade committee for the
month of August, which amounted
to 1923. 1t was ordered that the
amount be allowed and a warrant be
drawn to cover the same.
The next was the building commit
tees report Chairman McDuthe said
that during the last week he bad visit
ed The pest house and had seen the
crowded state of affairs. AS he I'M
derstOOd that the city owned about five
acres down there, he would recommend
that two other sma | adobe houses be
built as far away from the pest house
as the ground which the city owned
would permit, and for the two houses
to be used as a place of detention, as
now, the way things are fixed, q per-
son who Is q suspect has to go the pest
house and If the suspicion is not well
founded and he hasn't small pox the
chances are then good for him to have
it.
Alderman Badger moved that the re-
commentator be carried out aud the
motion was carried.
The call for bills q communications
brought forth the usual batch of bills
from the city clerk, which were refer
red to the finance committee.
The clerk then read the following
communication from the Campbell
Real Estate company.
The Campbell Real Estate company
respectfully petitions yOur honorable
body to adopt an ordinance closing and
that portion OF Varnell street
lying between blocks 19l and 1872 and
blocks lS6 and 1877, and between the
stock yards of the Rio Grande * FL
Paso Railway company on IA south
east and the reservation of the South
ern Pacific on the southwest: also that
portion of Idaho street lying between
the above named blocks and the reserv-
alton of the Rio Grande * Ell Paso
railway OF the south and the Southern
Pacific railway reservation on the
north, as said streets appear on the
of Campbell's addition to the city
of Ell Paso, Texas. A map of these
portions of the said street $ which your
desires closed is attached to
this petition, n reference is hereby
made to 1t.
Your petitioner further shows that 1t
and those interested with it are the
sole owners of the property adjacent to
these sections of the said streets which
they ask to have closed: that the and
is down in a large sink between the
railroads above named: that the