The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-06-02
ENJOINED.

Against Using Vine street Dttch.
The expected has happened. Yester-
day afternoon an injunction from
Judge Burfords court was served upon
). M. Brooks, Mrs. Nettie X. Reppeto
proprietress of the Hotel Royal; David
Weinburger; James Hill, proprietor of
the Phillips house; Charles Pond, pro-
prietor of Ponds laundry; Joseph
Rhodes, Jacob Weinberger and Harry
Gray, enjoining them from using the
Vine street ditch for drainage pur-
poses. The restraining order is inn
perative for the next twenty days,
when 1T will be heard. 1t is brought
by County Attorney Jones and City
Attorney Hughes in the name of Logan
county and the city of Guthrie.
The order has stirred things to fever
heat. For twenty days it shuts up all
the drains into the ditch except those
from the Lyon block, which property
is not mentioned in the order. The
sewer in question is laid in the base.
ment Of the Lyon block, and follows
the alley east across Division street to
the Vine street ditch.
In interviews with some of the de-
PENDANTS to the action they say that
Charles Pond, the laundryman, has
been using the ditch for draining his
waste water away. He says unless he
can use the ditch he must close up his
business until the matter is remedied.
Mr.. Brooks, proprietor of the Hotel
Royal block, says that the drainage
from this place is taken care of by
draining into a cesspool and then dis
posed OF by the scavenger. He denies
draining the hotel into the ditch.
Harry Gray, who is joint proprietor of
the Gray block, says that his property
is attached to the sewer that empties
into this ditch. The sewer belongs to
the Lyon block and that with the con.
sent OF the proprietor, he connected
with 1T. All the rain water from the
roof and the bath water from the bar
ber shop run into this sewer. He
blames the city council for consider
able part Of the mundle, The city
has no money to put into a sewer in
this ditch, he says, ana that when pri-
vate parties went to that body and
offered to lay the pipe, the city coun-
Gil took no notice of them Mr.. Gray
mentioned that the city has $500 COM
ing to 1T from the county but the
county commissioners will not paw it
over to the city from the fact of the
Noble avenue bridge matter, which
never was Strengthened out satisfac-
torily to the county commissioners
when they paid the city the 81 900
claimed to have been misappropriated
He says that he went to the commits
sioners with a plan to remedy this
ditch muddle and laid it before Mr..
Johnson, who has always stood ready
to do what he could to abate this
nuisance. He suggested to Mr.. John
son that this $500 be turned over to
the city, who would buy sufficient
sewer pipe to fill the ditch. Mr.. John
son refused to do so, saying he did
not like the Noble avenue bridge
matter, but he would consent to
the county furnishing tho pipe and
let the city put it in, This suited the
board, Mr.. Gray says, and it would
have been done at the session of the
board on the card, but the chairman
OF the committee on improvement
interfered and the commissioners took
no action. Other persons who drain
into the ditch are complaining accord
ingly, blaming the council to just ex-
tent,
This Vine street ditch muddle has
been topic for investigation and CAB
through two city council organiza-
tions. 1t has now come to a show
down for some. The amount of money
invested in the buildings that could
use this natural drain, if properly i'm
proved for drainage, is no small thing
The property owners claim the coun-
Gil stand in the way and now insist
that it get out of the way; for going
long under present conditions there
the damage will be great, They fail
to understand why the Lyon block
wss omitted from the order claiming
that the saloon and restaurant drain
all their slops into this sewer.
Notice on top of notice that unless
nuisance was absted residents along
the way of the ditch would sue the
city for damages The stencil coming
from it has been wholly unbearable at
times and in this condition is nothing
but disease breeding nuisance.
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