Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-07
THE CITY COUNCIL
Only Routine Business Trans
acted Last Night.
THE QUARANTINE CLAIMS
Are Beginning to Come in-Many
Minor Matters Were Dis
posed OF.

Business transacted at last nights
meeting of the city council was very
largely of a routine character. There was
but one enlivening incidental clash over
a claim of Captain Weller. late assistant
city treasurer. for $500. The claim was
for services from May l to May 20, during
which time Mayor McCarthy's appoint
ments were hung up high and dry by the
votes of a majority of the aldermen, who
refused to confirm his appointees. The
council refused to allow the bill.
DR.. H. NJ. Halls claim for damages
amounting to 1885 was aid on tn. table
and Mrs. Pryor's damage claim for $685.
was referred 10 the judiciary.
The board of education, in a
cation, notified the council that it's offer
Of $3.50 for lot No. IL in block 9 Of the
Noyes & Upton addition was accepted.
Mrs. 5. Kelson was granted an extern
sion Of time in the matter of sewer con-
nections.
Joseph Ethier's claim for damages
$255-for driving into a hole in the street,
was referred to the judiciary.
Petitions for lights on Virginia and
Jackson streets went to the building and
light committee.
Mrs. Jessie Ingerson's petition for tax
rebate was referred.
Mrs. Patrick MADDEN requested the
council to refund her 1923 for groceries
purchased while her husband was con-
fined in the pest house. The claim was re-
ferred.
A humble of requests for the refunding
of taxes We're referred.
A petition from w. c.. Siderfin, pray
ing for the construction of q sewer on
Excelsior avenue, was referred.
c. F.. Leach's petition for a s~cavenger
license was referred.
Chief Sanger'S recommendation that an
indicator be put in the new fire station
at once, was referred to the fire COM
mittee.
White & Bisnell. architects of the new
fire station, in. a communication notified
the council that the defect in the wall of
the structure had been remedied and
suggested several alterations in the
plumbing plans. The communication was
referred.
Mrs. NJ. Smith. ~landlady Of the Maule
block. estimates that her business was
damaged to the extent of S437.50 by rea
son Of the place being ~quarantined. The
claim was referred.
City Attorney Lamb stated that Mae
L4athrop, who began Il damage suit for
$11. 900 some time ago, for injuries alleged
to have been received by being struck
by a falling bill beard, had Offered to set
tie her claim for $500. Referred.
A petition for q light at the corner of
OldIl avenue anu GeCOllu street WAS IT,
ferrcd to the street and light committee.
DR.. G.. w. Monroe's bill for $3.50 for SER
vices as smallpox physician was referred.
The estimates of Thomas Rowan, for
work on the Missoula gulch sewer,
4,052. SO; James Farrell, for curbing,
$571.13: Thomas Kinds, paving. SIG, 566.G OF;
Owen & Bordesen, wooden sidewalks,
81, 6SS. 95. We're ordered paid.
The report of the police commission,
recommending the purchase of the
Wayne Sulkeyette patrol WACO was
adopted.
The reports Of the ways and means
committee and the light and building
committee were adopted. The reports
have been previously published in the
Inter Mountain.
The report of the judiciary committee
was as follows
Your committee on judiciary beg
leave to submit the following as their
report:
the petition of Mrs. Flora Mcdonald.
Peter Wastl, Mrs. Augustus Winberg
and Mrs. Barbarac Pryor in reference
to the cancellation of certain taxes due
by the several petitioners on account OF
the poverty Of the petitioners, and rec
several petitioners be denied, for the
reason that we are of the opinion that
the city council has no power to cancel
valid taxes, but in this connection we
Recommend Ina lhc NilS tCo0ti1i ~
directed to accept the amount of the
taxes without the penalty from these
various petitioners IT paid within a
reasonable time.
In reference to the claim OF Mrs.
Maggie Symon We ask for further time
in which to report
W. have had under consideration
council bill No. 81. prescribing the regu-
lation Of secondhand stores, and rec
ommend that the same do pass.
sEv>hat wa haN va bod under rnnSiHnrQ ion
council bill No. "a. a bill for an Ordi-
nance extending Placer street in the
city OF Butte and to condemn private
for the opening of the same.
and recommend that the same do pass.
THAT We have had under considera-
ton the petition of Mrs. Isabella