The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1905-11-09

ter, 366 90
Amount paid out, 40 4S
Amount now overdrawn, $40 4S
Summary.
Total cash on hand at last re-
port, Sl49l 70
Total cash received during
quarter, 486 10
Total, Sl97S ~
Total disbursements during
quarter, 1878 "a
Total cash on hand, 500 18
Report accepted.
The matter of the local telephone
company signing contract prohibit
ing it from raising the rates for TWEEN
ty years was then taken up.
MIR. Wood, represent ,ng the tele-
phone company, was present and said
chat the company was not willing to
sign such an agreement as they
thought it was unjust to ask them to
place fixed rate on telephone ser
vice for twenty years hence. He
thought that the city had been treated
very generously by the company, which
gave it the free use of its wires for
both telephone and fire alarm service.
We're perfectly willing to enter into
competition with another company
here.
Moved and seconded Ey Early and
| Moe that the matter be referred to
the judiciary committee. Pas sed.
The report of the judiciary COM
mittee ON the library, containing
some matters of more Importance was
accepted.
A petition addressed to council was
then read by Recorder Nickelsen,
which was as follows:
Hood River, Nov. 3, 1905.
To the Honorable Mayor of the City
of Hood River:
We, the undersigned residents and
legal voters of the city of Hood River,
have good reason to believe that there
are members of the city council who
are not eligible to hold office in said
council, and whose acts are illegal.
Would respectfully ask you to inves-
tigate the truthfulness of the above
supposition.
T. d. Tweedy, W. II. Perry, o. L.
Stranahan, j. I. Holman, Fred @.
Larwood, II. W. Chapman, L. G.
Baldwin, A. L. Carmichael, G. +.
Sumner, John G. Zolls, W, I. Chap
man, o. b. Evinger, L. @. Stephen
son, j. l., Walker, G. J. Hayes
Joseph Frazier, f.. P. Brown, j. l..
Hershner, John Donohue, W. Ii.
Peugh, Geo. I. Crowell, j. L. Ian
gille, Il. c. Mooney, j. M. Wright.
Mayor Blowers stated that he was
not aware that there we're any illegal
members of council and that the mat
ter would be investigated
Referred to judiciary committee.
Mr.. Mayes reported that obstruc-
tions had been removed from Lincoln
avenue and asked permission of coun-
Gil to cleat that street from Sherman
to State street or build stairway.
Mr.. Mcdonald thought it would be
better to cleat than build stairway
and made a motion to that effect.
Carried.
Mr.. Early then gained the attention
of the chair and said that the report
| of the sewer committee was complete
and that it was ready to have an or
dinance framed giving council power
to make an assessment for the con-
struction of the proposed new sewer.
He understood, however, that there
we're a number who objected to the
assessment on their properties, and
before they wont any further with the
| matter he would like to hear from
them.
Mr.. Prather then stepped forward
and said that an assessment had been
made on Il lot owned by him in Blow
ers' Addition-lot 7 block 3-that he
could not see how it would be bene-
| fitted by the sewer, either directly
or indirectly that it was in deep
ravine far below grade and he did not
think that it ever could be severed.
Was willing TO help build the outfall,
| but that the assessment of $40, 80 on
this piece of property or any assess
ment at all ON it was unjust.
Mr.. Early in reply to this said that
the committee had the advice of OK
perts and that in time it could be sew
cred that the lot would have to be
| filed and eventually the sewer would
reach it.
Mr.. Mcdonald explained that the
property had to be assessed, that they
had had the advice of Mr.. Paget in
the matter and that the committee
had followed the precedent tablished
in Portland and other cities.
In answer to this Mr.. Prather said
that he had been member of the
sewer committee fol three years, that
at one time he had consulted Mr..
Paget and had been told by him that
the lots could not be assessed. He
then called councils attention to the
fact that be owned other property in
town which had been assessed for