The record-union., 1898-10-18

city is not tenable-not a legal claim
against the city.
Thereupon Trustee Devine moved that
the claim be rejected, and it was car
ried, Trustee Tebbets voting no.
On motion, the bill of $66 put in by
Contractor Brown for repairing
street sprinkling wagon was ordered
| paid.
CITY DUMPS A-FIRE.
The Clerk announced that numerous
complaints had come in that the city
dumps We're again burning.
Trustee Brown moved the matter be
referred to the Street Committee, with
instructions to have the fire put out.
Superintendent of Streets Touhey ad
v1sed that the fire be allowed to burn
itself out, and thought the city would
| be greatly benefited if the dumps were
burned up, and that the general health
would be better.
Trustee Devine thereupon moved as
an amendment that the matter be re-
ferred to- the Superintendent of Streets,
with instructions to use his best judg-
ment respecting the matter.
The amendment waa lost, and Trustee
Browns motion-referrink to the Street
| Committee-was carried
OTHER MATTERS.
On recommendation of Chief of Police
| DWyer, j. H. Vaughan was granted a
license to conduct a saloon at 701 J
street
The petition of HARRISON & Gilmore
to conduct a saloon at 1881 M street,
was accompanied by remonstrance,
signed by many property owners.1
| Trustee Tebbets moved the license
be granted
Trustee Dolan moved as an amend
ment that the matter be referred to the
Chief Of Police.
| Attorney H. G. Soule addressed the
board on behalf of the signers of the
! remonstrance, and Trustee Dolan's
| amendment carried.
The application of G.. Camenzind for
license to conduct a saloon at 1880
Twentieth street, was referred to the
Chief of Police
A communication from P. B. Johnson,
Secretary Of the Occidental Building
and Loan Association, was read, setting
forthlthat Stephen Crocker, who resides
on Eighteenth street, between P and
Q, was delinquent in the sum of SO for
/
on property owned by the association,
which had bound itself to give him free
rent until June 1899 and he asked. that
Mr.. Crocker be given free water until
| the expiration of his lease The mat
| ter was referred to the Water Asses
sor
| Jake Zemansky was granted license
| to conduct saloon at 2O9 j street.
| On do of e 4Ioo
Fire Department Guthrie the Fire De
partment Committee was instructed to
purchase a cellar pipe for putting out
blind fires in cellars, at a cost not to
exceed S15.
On motion of Trustee Dolan the Chief
of the Fire Department was authorized
to resurrect the old helmets stored in
the Corporation House, and instructed
to see that his force wore them while
fighting fires
THE ALLEY NOT BLOCKED.
| A communication was read from Will
lam Mclaughlin respecting complaints
made before the board by some person
whose name he did not know" that he
had blocked the alley at the rear of his
property, between Second and Third, P
and Q streets, by placing trucks there
in. He denied that the alley had been
blocked, and said it was to his interest
to see that it was kept open so that in
case Of fire there would be plenty of
room for the firemen to work He had
lived on the property twenty-five years
and in all that time none of the prop
erty owners had uttered a complaint
respecting the blocking of the alley
He concluded by saying that, in his
| opinion, the board had been insulted
by the man who laid the complaint, by
being obliged to listen to it. The COM
munication was placed on file.
Permissionwas granted to J. NJ Nor
risOn and T. J. Bohan, candidates for
county offices, to extend banners across
the streets
Trustee Devine of the Water Com
mittee made a partial report on the
proposition of securing the city's water
supply from the Fair Oaks ditch, which
taps the north fork of the American
River He found upon visiting the
ditch that the supply would not be
sufficient to supply the wants of the
city, and that the water would be unfit
for consumption even after filtration.