The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-04

Grand total ........$ 34, 731.75 $34, 731.S5
The report of the street commissioner
showed that there were 34h days of la
Dor performed on the streets and mate
rial used to the value of s50.S5.
The report of the finance committee
recommending that the light bill be
paid was adopted.
Devine called attention to the fact
that the spring floods will soon be here
n that there r not enough culverts
under h Butte, Anaconda & Pacific
tracks in the Eastern addition to- let
the volume of water out, and said that
there was danger of great damage by
flood. On motion, the street and alley
committee was instructed to invest
gate the matter.
Fitzpatrick introduced n resolution
fixing the levy for special taxes in GER
ain sewer districts at $14 for each
$500 square feet. The districts includ-
ed under this lew are special improve
ments districts Nos. Z, s, 3 10, IL and
IL. The resolution was adopted unani-
mously and notice was ordered pub
lished.
Davidson then called up the matter
of the damage cases against the city
OF George Shook and w. Il. May. He
wanted to know what was going to be
done with them-whether they were GO
ing to be carried to the supreme court
or be settled. Everybody had some
thing to say on the question. Johnson
moved that a committee of three be
appointed by the mayor to decide upon
the better way of action. Fitzpatrick
moved an amendment that the investi-
cation be done by the judiciary COM
mittee. Devine moved an amendment
to the amendment to leave the whole
matter in the hands of the county at
torney. On the vote, the amendment
to the amendment was lost. the mayor
casting the tie vote, but the amend
ment to h original motion prevailed,
and thus the matter will be investi-
gated by the judiciary committee.
w. Il. Rodgers, the attorney for May
and Shook. was granted permission to
address the council He reviewed the
cases, and declared himself confident
that the judgment of the lower court
would be affirmed by the supreme court
and that the city would ultimately
have to pay a vast sum in costs and
interest. 1t would take two years,
said MIR. Rodgers, to have the cases
decided by the supreme court, and for
that reason his clients were willing To
compromise on what he deemed a fair
basis of settlement. The judgment
awarded Shook was 1000. to which arc
added costs amounting to s177.10 and
interest to date. amounting to s54, maxi
ing a total of 81, 232.1 IA. In the May case
the judgment was SO. 800 and the costs
s5l.n, while the interest to date is SSS.19.
The costs and interest in both cases IL
s372.64.
Mr.. Rodgers then made this PROPOSE
ton in the Shook case: He agreed 20
accept 81 900 i'm payment of. the whole
amount, knocking off s232.14. In the
May case he proposed to knock off the
costs n interest and 500 of the origi-
nal Judgment. II the city accepts, said
Mr.. Rodgers. II will save s472.64.
An ordinance regulating the cleaning
of sidewalks, amendatory of the pres
ent ordinance. was read a first and sec
ond time. and referred to the judiciary
committee. The ordinance provides
that owners or occupants shall keep
the sidewalk clean, and in case of
failure to do so. the city shall do the
work and assess the cost thereof to
the property abutting the sidewalk so
cleaned.
The council then adjourned until next
Monday night.