The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-10-20
IT WILL ASK 100000
Said to Be the Price the Water
Company Will Ask for
It's Plant.
CITY WANTS TO BUY 1T
Matter Discussed at the Council Meet
ting-Business Transacted at
Tuesday Nights Session.
CITY WANTS TO BUY 1T

City council was called to order BY
Mayor Yegen and then but five of the
members were present, the remaining
three having come struggling in about
a half hour later. Three of the mem.
bers were in the hall at s o'clock ready
to do business. The meeting was long.
drawn out and the midnight hour was
almost striking when the mayor an.
nounced adjournment. Had he not
done so the bers would have sent
out for luncheon. There was plenty to
occupy the councils attention, but a
resume of the business finds that very
little wa accomplished. Mayor Yegen
thinks his boys talk too much and &C.
complish much less, whom in fact it
should be vice versa. His patience has
been worked up to the point where it
ceases to be a virtue and there bids fair
to be an explosion one of these nights
unless there is a great change.
The report Of the water committee
in favor of extending t6e water main
in the West fSids addition for two
blocks. instedd of f6ur, as prayed for,
was adopted. Thi<is the petition in
which W. B. de9kge was deeply inter.
ested, and which occasioned so much
discussion two weeks ago.
II. W. Nelson, ct al. had struggled
for two or three months todget a water
main laid for two BLOCKS, near their
property in Sbuth Billings, and the
committee reaortedM vorably at last
upon the petitikn, &hich was adopted,
o,l Me- NnI,oVyr1o Gk sla tall ---
man.
J. J. Walk and all the property own.
ers north of the Burlington track on
Twenty. seventh street Aetitioned for
the erection Of an yfc street lamp at
the corner of THAT street and Sixth ave.
nue.. The petitkoT twas referred to the
fire and light committee.
Another petition came in from the
Mccormick Mercantile company, ask.
ing to be allowed to widen their side.
walk at the northeast corner OF their
store building. This was referred to
the sidewalk committee, pending a re-
port on an ordinance which will permit
all sidewalks III the business district to
be widened.
LIN oANAAiolSC pei tAluluS " puNus
brokers was favorably recommended by
the committee on ordinances. Before
voting Oh adoption of the committees
report. there was considerable discus
sion On the ordinance. Every alder
man was in favor Of a stringent ordi-
nance in this particular, but they
wanted the matter covered completely.
Berky moved the ordinance be- amended
to so read that the pawnbrokers should
be compelled to furnish the chief Of
police each morning at q O'Clock with
a list OF articles received the day pre-.
vious. This is done so as to assist the
police in ferreting out robberies, etc.
The chief of police asked if the ordi-
nance had any bearing upon bottles
and sacks, which were being sold by
the wholesale by boys, whom, he was
confident, were entering rear buildings
and barns and stealing tho same. He
was told by the council that this ap.
piled to the sale of bottles, etc., as
we'll as anything else. The ordinance
was finally referred back to the com.
mittee to confer with the chief of police,
The liquor license of Swim & Lee
was approved by the finance Commute
and accepted by the council.
The license ordinance, which affects
travelling merchants, peddlers, hawk.
ers. bowling alleys. shooting galleries
and street entertainments which are
given to advertise wares, was favorably
reported on by the committee, the coun.
adopting the report unanimously.
The proposition of a sewer extension
N North Thirty-second street was dis.
'ussed. Several property owners had
'etitioned for it, but when the com.
in whose lhaYdS. ths petition 1
lad been placed, oalJed< them, they I
they did not 49, care for 1t.
here 10 no water upper end Of
bat street and the O6mmittee thought
! would be fQos4sh to construct the
3W0r under suOh circumstances q