Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-05-14


| residence on the property and wished
| to trade to the city a certain portion Of
| said lot lying under the hill for an
equitable amount of grounds adjoining
this lot and lying on the brow of the
hill. After considerable discussion the
| matter was referred to the street COM
mittee. Mr.. kettenbach stated that if
the council did not feel that an even
trade was equitable that he would pay
any reasonable amount for the ground
desired. An ordinance was introduced
covering the proposition of convey
ance and read the first time and re-
ferred to the judiciary committee with
the understanding that after eXamna-
ton by the street committee the propo-
dinance could be rejected on it's final
passage
Engineer Maxon presented plat of
the proposed grade extending from a
point on H street near Snake river
avenue to a point entering Fifth avenue
cuts off from the rear small portions Of
lots fronting on Snake river avenue,
belonging to Damas estate White es-
tate. Pearcy estate and Eakin property.
Two ordinances were placed on the
first and second reading, one being an
ordinance imposing license on for
tune tellers, clairvoyants and palmists
OF SIS per quarter, providing fine in
event there is a failure to comply with
the ordinance. The other ordinance
provides a special order for the pay
ment Of the bill OF the Union Water
Meter company, of Worcester, Mass.
by issuing a warrant out of the water
works fund for $673.SO. Also for the
payment Of the bill of the Crane COM
pany Of Portland amounting to $243.S4.
warrant to be drawn on the water
works fund, the amounts to be replaced
in the fund on the sale of the water
works bonds.
On the latter ordinance the rules
We're suspended and the same placed
on it's last reading and passed.
Mayor Kress advised the council that
Mr.. Lewis had been engaged to check
up the records. make plats and set
stakes for each lot in the city cemetery
and to advise the council what lots had
been sold and what lots We're still un-
sold. A motion was carried authorizing
the city clerk to have made voucher
book OF cemetery deeds so that when a
deed was Issued to certain lot that
through mistake the deed could not be
reissued to lots already sold. This step
was deemed advisable owing to the
fact that through error one lot had
been sold to two different parties.
The Lewiston Foundry & Machine
works were given permission to raise
the roof Of the foundry room sixteen
feet to be covered with corrugated iron
and to raise their cupola stack thirty
feet higher in order that the firm may
be enabled to cast the iron work for
the new Weisgerber building.
The matter was brought up requir-
plying with the regulations Of the post
office department before an additional
mail carrier can be placed in the serv-
ice of the postofIice here.
A motion was carried authorizing the
street commissioner to build a sidewalk
in front Of the property owned by Mr..
w. H. Skinner and Mrs. Franzman on
Seventh avenue east OF Tenth street.
The matter OF having the Northern
Pacific railroad track removed from
First street to rear Of the buildings on
the west side Of the street and along
the banks Of Snake river. The matter
was passed up to the street committee
with instructions to communicate with
| the railroad company.
The matter Of settling the damage to
property by the recent break Of the
reservoir was brought up and it was
decided that the damages to be allowed
Mr.. Clifford be placed at $50 and the
F., street commissioner to make the fills on
such private DrOperty as was washed