The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-01-19
Cost Of Paving Broad Street
Charged to Property.
THE COUNCIL TAKES ACTION.
Ordinances For Testing Dairy Cows,
Removing Snow From Walks, Reg.
uIating Awnings Proposed.

The council held a special meeting last
evening, presided over by Mayor Tay
lor, and attended by all of the members
except AID Heinze, who is not yet able
to De out. Steps were taken to reas-
sess the cost of the Broad street paving
on the property benefited, in compliance
circuit court and sustained by the Unit
ed States court OF appeals. Other i'm
and will come up for action at a future
meeting.
When the meeting opened, City At
torney DALEY remarked that the city
treasury is low, and said that he had
seen the attorneys for the Barber AS
phalt Paving company and that they
are anxious to get the money for the
paving as soon as possible. They seem
to be in rush, and the sixty days re-
spite which the city has expires Feb. 9th.
After that they can apply to the court
for an order requiring the council to
levy a general tax to pay for the
amount of the judgment Mr.. Daley
said that he did not think that the al
dermen wanted to do this, so he had
prepared resolution to meet the case.
The resolution is officially published
in another column of this issue. 1t re-
fers to the fact of the pavement having
been laid and the curb and gutter and
boulevard put in, at the contract price
of $40,O65.95, and the contract having
been declared invalid by the state court
and valid by the United States courts.
1t refers to the fact that the board of
public works has been unable to make
the assessment because of the attitude
of the supreme court, and quotes state
law to the effect that where for any
cause the proceedings of the council,
| board OF public works or city officials
| may be found irregular or defective, the
council may order new assessment.
| The council therefore instructs the board
Of public works to proceed at once to
make new assessment to pay the
costs, damages and expenses for the
making of said improvement on Broad
street between Vine and Warren streets
| on the property benefited.
Aid. Atchison moved that the resolu-
ton be adopted, and the motion was
carried unanimously, without any speech
| making.
Alderman Atchison brought up the
matter of the need of having the cows
in the dairies supplying milk to the city
tested for tuberculosis. He said that
| the twin cities have ordinances requir-
ing that the dairy herds be tested for
| this disease. Only the other day, he
said, a dairyman slaughtered one of
his dairy COWS and brought the carcass
| to Mankato to SELL 1t was found to be
| so full of tuberculosis that the man was
| required to go and bury the carcass. 1t
| would be for the benefit of every man,
woman and child in the city to have
such an ordinance in Mankato. Undoubt-
edly three fourths of the babies of the
city are raised on cows milk. DIR.
Phelp can get tuberculin for the purpose
| of testing the herds.
Aid. Schroeder spoke of the good
| which the ordinance does in the cities,
and said that dairymen often do not
| know that their cows are diseased
Aid. Atchison explained how the plan
| operates. Twenty-four hours after the
tuberculin has been injected, it can be
| told from the amount of fever that the
| cow has whether she is afflicted with
tuberculosis or not. -
| Aid. Hampl moved that the city at
torney be instructed to look the matter
up and prepare an ordinance if neces-
sary for the inspection of dairy cows
for tuberculosis. This was carried.
| Aid. Atchison said that since a gov.
eminent Inspector has been stationed at
the packing house the latter cannot buy
slaughtered animals, but must kill and
dress there all that it receives. The in
spection is grand thing. DR.. Dell is a
bright and reliable man.
| Aid. Schroeder said that the inspection
was also a good thing to guard against
the killing of hogs afflicted with hog
cholera.
City Attorney DALEY presented infor-
mally two ordinances, one relating to
| the removal of snow from the sidewalks
and the other relating to the height of
awnings above the sidewalks. He had
been looking the matter up at st. Paul,
and had prepared the ordinances for the
aldermen to consider and amend in any
particulars that they desired.
! The snow ordinance requires that ten
ants and owners of vacant property shall