The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-06-04
CITY FATHERS nEET.
Raise the City Taxes Thirty Cents
Dog Law Found.

SoA auu OIL tue dlutEutu present.
The finance committee read their
report, showing that they had re-
ported iavOrably on 1857 80.
The report Of the tax collector.
amounting to s7373o. was re
terred to the finance committee.
Report of the street and alley
committee showed Sl6S. so co.,
lected from parties for working
the streets. Referred to finance
committee.
The financial report of the
school board was read, showing
total receipts for the year ending
May %, 1901, to be IS. .66s37, and
the expenditures to be SS,052 6S,
which leaves a balance of $2l5. 90.
ln addition to this, there is about
$500 IL the hands Of the city
treasurer and collector. showing a
balance of about Sis 60. Re
ferred to fuance committee.
Paradise alley, its stencil, its
connections, etc, were brought up
by Alderman Best. He read pc.
tition from the merchants adjacent
to it, asking the council to have
the sewer connections cut off.
Alderman Eddleman suggested
that those using it be instructed
that they could keep on using it,
provided they would repair the
pipes now in use aud extend the
pipe below Caddo street to a point
where it would cease to be a nuis-
ance. This was put into the shape
of a motion and carried.
Moran Scott's underground
pipes for lighting and heating the
city passed to its third reading
II. c. Potterf appeared befort
the council in behalf of the public
schools, and after showing the II
nancial standing of the schools, b,
explained that he did not see how
they could even run the school,
six months with the money appro
priated at present.
Mr.. Potterf said that if the boarC
could receive eight mills from til.
city instead of six mills as at pres
ent, he believed they could run tn,
schools eight months in the year
The city tax has been heretofor,
six mills for school purposes, anC
five mills for general purposes, anC
this amount was raised to eigh
mill and five mills, with a pol'
tax of 81 against every male adul
which would go to the public
schools.
The rules were suspended anC
the ordance put upon its passage
Alderman Pennington took the
floor and in stentorian voice op
posed the raising of taxes, ant
said we would soon have to pay
out from three to eight hundred
thousand dollars for our property
to the government.
Mr.. Eddleman said that ht
thought it ought to pass. Thai
we were not paying taxes on rea
estate when in fact we had reaI
estate, and if you don't think sc
try to buy a piece of Main street
property with a common shack on
it. and you would see how the real
estate figured.
Mr.. Potterf stated that he knew
one man that paid $3.50 yea,
taxes on piece of property which
was bringing $50 per month rent
money.
1t was put to vote and carried
j. K. Pennington voting against it
By motion the treasurer was in
structed to turn over the schoo
money on hand to the school board
Alderman Noble brought up tn,
cemetery fence question and sale
tn ey could not get the lines; tina
he had spent So 70 in telephoninl
Hugh Johnson, the city engineer
about the matter; that he haC
&C tually been here and didn't come
to see him.
Mr.. Pennington moved that III,