The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1902-05-06
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
Street and Ditch Committee Reports FavorabIy
on Front ana First Streets Work.

Street ana Dten COmmttee kep0rtS Fav0rabIy
on Front and First Streets Work.
All the members were present at the
last meeting of council, and considerable
business was transacted. The matter
of extending the sewer system was held
in allegiance until it can be ascertained
by the city engineer whether extension
can be made to the present system with
out laying new trunk line. The ques-
ton has been up for discussion at many
different times, but when council was
ready to act it was discovered that ex-
tensions would perplex the most expert
engineer because of the fact that sewer
to be extended any distance would soon
run to the surface.
Hugh Sinclair made motion that the
saloons and gambling halls be closed
! from IL o'clock at night to 6 in the
morning. The question was voted down
because the majority OF council think
the county officers should enforce the
law regulating the saloons.
The BARRIERS presented a petition,
signed by -. asking that an ordinance
be passed against keeping shops open on
Sunday. Attorney Snyder rendered an
opinion to the effect that the supreme
court, in case taken up from Seattle,
had decided that barber shops could not
be forcibly closed on Sunday. Where
| upon no action was taken upon the
petition.
Tenant & Miles of the Bartholet
hotel were granted liquor license.
A petition was granted permitting the
property owners in blocks AZ and 4S on
Second street to build macadam side
walk to be not less than six feet wide.
Also similar petition for similar walk
on South Sixth street.
The petition for railway crossing at
Ounce street was referred to proper
committee.
Permits were granted to Frank Shard-
low, the Seattle Brewing Co. and to the
Mennonites for their new buildings.
The plumbing ordinance was unani-
mously passed.
An ordinance fixing the compensation
of police justice at $35 per month and
sexton at $40 was passed, to go into
effect after the terms of the present
officials expire.
The city marshal reported 81 arrests
during the month of April and s5O6.s5
collected in fines. The police Judge
reported the same collections. The
street commissioner in his report sug
gested that an ordinance be passed re-
quiring those who dig up the streets in
any part of the city to lay water pipes
or sewers to obtain a permit before
doing such work. The chief OF the fire
department reported that 500 feet of
new hose and smoke protectors were
needed. The sexton reported y burials
during April, and $40 collected.
The bid of A. f. Larson to furnish
lumber to the city at $13.50per thousand
feet was accepted.
The city attorney was directed to draw
up an ordinance compelling people to
clean up their premises. The measure
will lie a strict one.
The sidewalk on c street between
Natchez avenue and Sixth street was
ordered lowered, as it is in dangerous
condition.
f. c. Burlingame presented the city
with the crushed rock near the Selah
bridge. He had been notified, so it is
said, by the commissioners to remove
the aforesaid rock from the roadway.
Marshal Grant brought up the matter
of enforcing the dray license. He said
many of the draymen refused to pay
their license. Hugh Sinclair was in
favor of enforcing the ordinance, but it
seemed to be the general opinion that it
could not be enforced, as it created a
monopoly for few and prevented the
poor man with team from doing haul
ing about the city.