Rock Island Argus., 1899-11-21
Ar TER SLOT DEVICES.
Aid. laWhead introduces Ordi-
nance in the City Coun-
Gil.
THE MEASURE FAILS TO PASS

| Referred to a Committee by the Vote of
the Mayor-CentraI Union to be Asked
for Reduction in Rates-ToIedo, Ohio.
Banking House Buys the waterworks
Bonds-Other Municipal Affairs.
Aid. j. W. Lawhead, at last nights
meeting of the city council offered
an ordinance to prohibit the use of
clock, tape, slot or other machines for
gam bling purposes in the city of Rock
Island" The ordinance conforms in
part to the state law on the subject.
and provides: Every clock, tape
machine, slot machine or other ma
chine or device for the reception of
money on chance or upon the action
OF which money is staked, haZarded,
bet, won or lost, is hereby declared 4
gambling device, and shall be subject
To seizure, confiscation and destruc-
ton by any municipal or other local
authority within whose Jurisdiction
the same may be found. Every own
er, occupant, lessee, mortgage or
other person in possession of any
premises upon which any gambling
device may be located, any and every
person in the use. operation, lease or
other possession of the same, shall be
fined for the first offense not less than
500, and for the second ofTense shall
be fined not less than 5000, and be
imprisoned until the fine and costs
are fully paid" Aid Lawhcad called
for the immediate consideration of
the ordinance, but an amendment,
offered by Aid. Winter, that it be re-
fcrred to the ordinance committee,
was carried by the deciding vote of
the mayor, the aldermen voting as
follows: Ayes-JOhrsOn, Heide-
mann, Winter, Aster, Wheelan, PEN
der. Elwell-7. Noes-Beck. Con-
cannon, Freed. Willis, Gall, Lawhead,
Soderstrom--7.
Aid. Willis introduced an ordinance
creating a purchasing committee,
whose duty it shall be to buy all
the city supplies. 1t is provided
the com mittee shall consist of three
aldermen. The ordinance Will come
up for consideration at the next meet
ing of the council.
The issue of $50 900 waterworks
bonds was sold to the banking house
of Splitter & Co., of Toledo, Ohio, who
made the best proposition, Offering a
premium of 81 23S. Other bidders
were A. Kean, Chicago; Meyer &
Kiser, Indianapolis; Seasongood &
Mayer, Cincinnati; Rudolph Kleybolte
& Co, Cincinnati; w. j. Hayes "
Sons, Cleveland, Ohio.
Claim for Damages.
Henry Fluegel, proprietor of gro
Gerry on Twelfth street, presented a
claim for $75 damages. He states
that during recent rain water that
the Twelfth street sewer was incapac-
itated to carry off backed into his cellar
and ruined a large quantity of pota-
toes he had just purchased. Other
property holders in that neigh
borhood petitioned the council to
have Black Hawk addition cut
off from the sewer, which they say,
when constructed, was not intended to
drain the water from that locality,
and the consequence is that it is not
equal to the demands made upon it.
the result being that it overilows
every time there IS heavy rain.
The following, offered bv Aid. Pen
der, was adopted: "ResOlved, That
a special committee of five, includ-
ing the mayor, be appointed to
confer with the officers of the Cen
Iral OHIOh IeiepnOne com panN Tor the
purpose of arriving at some amicable
arrangement towards the reduction of
rates to subscribers and also the i'm
prOvement of the service Aid.
Pender added that the business mems
associations had been struggling with
the proposition for weeks without
tangible results, and he believed the
council was the proper body to dis
pose of the question, anyway. Aids.
Pender, Lawhead, Aster, Freed and
Gall were named as members of the
cOmmittpp