The Nome nugget., 1901-10-08
lumber Men Want Pay for . Materidf Furnished
FOR STREET REPAIRS
Council Will Hold Adjourned Meet. jag tO Devise Ways and Means What Shall Be Done With the ffobos, Asks Mayor Giese.

The regular meeting of the city council last night was marked by a discussion over the tangles which have arisen over the plankin. of Front street east, aud especially that portion east of Courtnev's. The discussion arose over $l2O0 bill of Nes,or X Lyng for lum- Der furnished for the planking of Front street, east of the N. A. T. & T. Com pany. Sandwiched in with it was the similar bill of Durand X Weir, and in cidentally that of Scott X Stewart
 Durand X Weir bill was finally ad- : justed to the satisfaction of the council and Attorney w. Y. Rinehart, who represented the former.
 Attorney Bruner appeared for Nestor ; X Lyng, and, after long discussion, the latter's bill went over until tonight at 7:30, when an attempt will be made to devise ways and means of collecting the amounts due from property holders along the line of improvement.
 When the council met the mayor and all the councilmen were in their places
 Permission was granted to x. B. Solner, of the Bank of Cape Nome, to move the banks uptown building to the lot immediately west of Glese's hardware store.
 The resignation of John Stanley as chief Of the fire department was read xnd accepted. Chief Stanley recom- pended that Jos F. Palmer be ap- pointed as his successor. Gei.er wanted Chief Engineer Stetson appointed fire chief, but it was finally decided 10 allow Palmer to fill out the present month before taking any action.
 The city treasurer'S weekly report WsS as follows:
 DISBURSEMENTS
 Paid geuera fund warrants ..... ...... q 552. 26 Paid special street fund warrants. S3U 10 Pad school fund warrants 2,72l 74
 CASH IN TREASURY.
 General fund ........... .... .......... q, 0Ds7 Scbooi fund ...... .. 20l3 26 special street fund. 1l91o General fund warrants not presented la075 Specialist fund warrants not presented llY15 Arlountavailable in general fund l,iSO.l2
 Int city clerk reported that he had Issued warrants to date amounting to S43 Ssl.72: warrants amounting to s3S,- 734.20 had been paid, and s5,l47.40 wore still outstanding.
 The salaries of the school teachers for. August were ordered paid.
 Ordinances to provide for the use and expenditure of moneys raid into the , city treasury by the municipal court, and repeating section 10 of ordinance : No. 50, and providing for the appoint mont of city attorney and an assistant city clerk were laid over week.
 The mayor was instructed to receive the resignation of City Assessor Wat son, Hoxsie explaining that that official wished tO resign as soon as the de- linquent tax list was completed.
 The suit of the school board against the city council was discussed, City Clerk McGinnis explaining that it was friendly affair, as it was brought for the purpose of determining the respec- tive powers of the two bodies.
 Hoxsie referred to the desirability of formulating some idea of Legislation needed for this section. He thought it would be good plan to give some per- son who was going to Washington credentials and also outlining the kind of legislation needed. He suggested George Murphy as desirable repre- sentative and referred to the work done by Mir. Murphy last winter.
 The council will meet on Thursday aftSrnoon at o'clock at the clerk 's Dn1ce to consider the matter.
 Mayor Giese brought up the question Of getting rid of the hobos of Nome. Stevens thought it was too late to ship them out, as all outward bound l steamers were Oycrcrowded.
 Harris made a statement to tho | snect that the Golden Gate hotel didn't want to feed the city prisoners if any cue else wanted the job.
 The matter of a rebate of taxes te those who had last fall contributed toward the purchase of the fire engines vas laid over for six months.
 Taylor k Butlcr's Cough Cure cures: shst Is more than cap bs said of many