Rocky Ford enterprise., 1900-10-19
Town
Council
Meeting.
a Series OF Unusually Interesting
Sessions OF the City Fathers.

| Tors made another hDoFttSo Effort 10 sct
down to business Friday evening. but Oh
the score OF wanting 10 attend tho Teller
Bell meeting it adjourned Immediately
after deciding to meet the following
evening. The question OF u renewal OF
license TO Dye & Foley WAS the matter
Of chief import, Ms their current license
lapsel at ~ o'clock Saturday night.
Somebody suggested that i, could he
perfectly safe to adjourn till Monday
night aud leave the saloon closed over
Sunday nnd Monday, but this did not go.
The honorable body was rather late in
getting together Saturday night but they
made II about . o'clock. with the exc-p.
tion Of Mr.. Wilson aud Mr.. Lance. Their.
were several members of tho Law and
Order League present also.
A large number Of bills had nccumu.
lated and these wero taken up. Tho bull
Of Schuyler x Lnwton for construction
Of pump house Mt Well No. 2 was indeiln-
ito and on motion OF Cor ncilinnn Daring
ticninrs.
Water Com. Dsweese was asked 10 o.
X. bull for paint for pump hous- before
II Ins passed.
Marx Denson's bill for labor aud snip
plies was not properly vouchcd and WAS
laid on the table.
Tho bill Of tho English Lumber Co.
for material for pest house WAS mixed up
with TINT Of material for pump house.
aud TINT Ind to bs aiHiiicnv>i out aud
made in duplicate, 50 ns 10 bc presented
to county commissioner, who pa! half
tho costs connected with tbs late small
pox cases.
The mayor ngsestcd that there seemed
TO be need Of mn auditor Of accounts IN
order to have them straight before the
council.
Mr.. Hall said tho clerk oughi 10 sec
that the bills wcro in proper form when
lie received them.
A long string OF bills Incurred in con.
ncction with case Of small pox patients
were presented aud aroused some discus.
sion. Amongst them was Mrs. Cous Lrcn's
bill for feather bed anI bcl cioiliing
destroyed by order OF tho health officer.
Councilman Rocker wanted to know II
tho town was in tho habit of furnishing
$40 feather beds for town patients. and
protested against payment 81 tho Cough.
rem bill on the ground that tho bcidin.
wis previously Infected while in private
use md would have had to be destroyed
IN amy case.
Councillor Hall said tho bedding took
the place Of now that would liavs had To
10 furnished by the town anI he though:
compensation equal to the cos; OF other
beds furnished by the town should bc
allowed.
As to tho actual cost OF fitting up
other beds wns not known the bill went
over to next meeting.
A bill OF 81 per night for night mar.
shnl was objected to by Mr.. Rocker ON
the ground that $50 per mo. was III, rate
paid.
The mayor said this was for special
employment, not at monthly rate. and
the bill was paid.
Hubert Cinrk's bill as engineer ut
pump house did no, show for what period
the claim was made. 1t was corrected
aud then passed.
Tho bill from tho Electric Light Co.
showed ID incandcscent lights charged
for, aud after soms inquiry 1t was found
that the 18Th light was Mt the lookup.
There had been no regular order in
council for this light, but 1t seemed to be
the general opinion that there was great
need OF more light on tho calaboosc
premises, md the bill was passed.
few more bills in connection with
smallpox quarantine were read. and Mr..
Rocker wanted to know il them bills
weren't pretty near all gone.
The estimate wns that bills on small.
pox account wonld foot up fully $500,
and somebody suggested that they be
taken ms Christian Science claims-ex-
istiug only in the imagination OF the par
ties filing them.
A bill for the towns share OF new head.
gate connecting High Line canal with
town reservoir was ordered paid.
Building permits were granted to G.
Il. Gerbing for addition to his Main st.
block and to Isaiah Denness, W. W,
Mcclellan, M. O. Medford and Andy
Nichols for the erection OF dwelling
houses.
The clerk announced that he had an
application for saloon license from Dye
Il Foley.
The mayor called for the reading OF
application and petition.
Councillor Smith moved that the Ii.
cense be granted.
Councillor Hall objected on the
ground that the petition did not comply
with the ordinance in that it did not con
tain the assent of the property owner
next adjoining the premises 10 be used
as saloon, and quoted from the ordin.
ance in support Of his objection.
| The mayor refused to entertain the
motion to consider the application.
Lawyer Cameron of La Junta was
present in behalf of the applicants and
asked permission to address the council.
He said that the ordinance was uncon.
stitutional in that it was ut variance with
the well understood principle of majority
rule. The petition contained the sigma.
lures OF majority of the property own.
ers in the block and it was putting too
much power in the hands of one indvid.
ual to enact an ordinance which permit
ted one man to say what his next door
neighbor should do with his premises.
| Mr.. Hall said in answer to Mr.. Dam.
eron that whether the law was n bad one
or not 1t WINS on the statute book and the
proper way was to proceed to the repenl
OF the ordinance not to violate it or over
ride it,. As to it's constitutionality he