Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-08
Council Refuses to Accept the 'sT"
Street Car Rails on Court Street.
CITY TO PAY $4,000 TOWARD PARK.
Those Interested in Park Sites Will
Be Notified-Attorney McNett's Bill
for $3.50 Settled-claims Allowed
and Disallowed-other Business.
IRON Tuesdays Daily.

City business received solid hour
mayor Monday night. All the mem
bers of the council were present and
Mayor Phillips presided. The minutes
of the last regular, adjourned and
special meetings were read and ap.
proved. A petition was granted by
which Janney street will be reduced
to grade at the point requested. The
council refused to accept the rails that
are being laid by the street railway
company on North Court street. The
claim of Attorney McNett for services,
amounting to $3.50 was allowed by the
payment of $3.50. A number of spec
ial bills were rejected. The clerk was
instructed to draw an order for the
amount of damages in the Biackhawk
street and Finley avenue condemna-
ton damage cases and to pay the costs
only in the other condemnation cases.
The city engineer was instructed to
prepare plans for a bridge across the
race on Blackhawk street, and the reg
ular reports of officers were read and
received.
Regular Session.
The reading of the minutes was a
tedious proceeding. Their adoption
had been deferred from meeting to
meeting until a series of them had col
lected for approval.
A petition was received signed by R.
L. Tilton and several others, praying
the council to reduce Janney street in
Janney addition to grade from Main
street to within 361 feet of the north
line of lot 10 in block /. The matter
was referred to the street committee.
Street Committees Report.
The street committee and committee
of the whole made the following re-
ports, which were received and the
recommendations therein made were
concurred in:
"Your committee would recommend
that the action of the street committee
in serving notice on the street railway
company that the rails proposed to be
used on their Court street line will
not be accepted, be concurred in by
Tie city council.
"Your committee would also recon.
mend that the southwest corner of
Second and Market streets be round
ed the steel curve similar to the one
at the Ottumwa National bank corner
be placed there"
Committee of the Whole.
''The committee of the whole would
recommend that the mayor be instruct
ed to notify the parties interested in
the park sites that the city will pay
$4,000 toward the award, their offer
to hold good until the next regular
meeting of the council"
An Old Bill.
The claims committee reported to
the council the bill of Attorney Nc
Nett, amounting to $3.50 for legal ser
vices, beginning in 1893 and extending
over several years, or up to Septem-
Der, 1898. The bill was for special SER
vices in number of cases. Solicitor
Jaques reported on the bill, it having
been referred to him. His report stat
ed that the city was morally bound to
pay the bill, but that the legal status
OF his services in the Morrison and
Baker cases were somewhat different
from the others, and that Mr.. McNett
would wave those claims, amounting
to $40. There was also bill of $155
for services in one of the Rock Island
cases, but this was not deducted Hnal-
~ The councilmen after debating
the question adopted a motion that Mr..
McNett be allowed $3.50, which was
the full amount less the $70
By the adoption Of the above resolu-
ton the city council commits itself to
paying $4,000 to apply on the purchase
Of either the Sunnyside or Anheuser-
Busch sites, the citizens to provide the
balance by subscription or other
means.
Bills Allowed.