The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-01-12
Council Approves Award of
North Broad Contract.
SNOW LAW TO BE ENFORCED
Awnings Must be Raised Above PEG.
pies Hats; No More Free Water
10 Hospital and Y. N. c. A.
From Saturdays Daily.

The council meeting last night was
presided over by Mayor Taylor, and all
of the aldermen were present except Aid.
Heinze, vino is i'll. Work was pushed
along, and there were no idle moments.
The remonstrance against the extern
sion of the sewer to Tourtellotte hos
II bases the objection on the ground
that the property is not of sufficient
value to warrant the improvement, and
was signed by a number of property
owners. 1t was placed OH file.
The hearing on the vacation OF part
of the alley through block one, Warren's
addition, was had. This is the alley
want opened through the block where
its yard is located. The district court
lowed the company so greatly that the
property owners who wanted the alley
opened are now said to be opposed to it.
City Attorney Daley presented the res
olutions necessary to vacate the alley
and put the matter back to the point
where it was before any action was
taken toward opening the alley. The
council adopted resolution vacating the
portion of the alley in question, and also
a resolution binding the present council
not to attempt to open the alley again
This is i'm accordance with the agreement
with the Laird Norton yards whereby
the action in court was dismissed.
Aid. Atchison said that there is great
complaint because the lumber company
keeps gate closed on the portion of the
alley that is open. The alley is closed
like the private proptrey. The people
feel that the company has fought their
wishes and won, when an alley ought
to have been opened through the block.
They therefore feel that the company
should not be allowed to enclose the
portion of the alley that the city now
would like to buy the alley. If peo-
pie would sign petition to have the
council sell it, it would be done. The
people upon whom the burden placed by
the district court falls are poor and not
able to carry on litigation.
City Attorney Daley brought up thu
matter of a couple of city judgments
against certain lot. He said that un
fortunately Mankato's charter gives The
states judgments preference to city
judgments, and parties have bought lit
tie from the state. Mr.. Daley said that
when i'm st. Paul recently he had con
suited with city officials there and had
learned that that city got bill
through the last legislature making the
judgments of the state and city concur
rent. Mr.. Daily said that Mankatc
should get similar bill through, to ap.
ply to cities of the size of this one. On
his recommendation the council voted to
ACCEPT $50 for a $26 judgment and in
terest and avoid litigation with uncer-
tain outcome, as an error in descrip-
ton.
Aid. Hampl reported that Windmiler
Bros. have the new city well down eigh-
ty-five feet, and the outside casing is
down seventy-two feet and eight inches
and is in the rock and will go no fur
Their. The firm expects to go faster now
CITY Attorney Daley asked the COM
mittee on ordinances to think over what
kind of an awning ordinance is needed
Mr.. Mayer, the awning man, had sug-
gested that the iron braces be placed
seven feet, eight inches, above the walks
and that a fourteen inch drop on the
outside be allowed. The present Ordi
nance provides that the awnings be fiji
teen feet above the walk and twelve feet
out The council last fall ordered that
the awnings be placed seven feet above
the walks. The matter was referred to
the ordinance committee. se
Aid. Hampl- called for the reading OF
the ordinance requiring that snow be re.
moved from sidewalks by 10 a. m. This
was done, and the aldermen remarked
that it ought to be enforced.
Aid. Atchison moved that the chief of
police be authorized to arrest few of
those who do not clean their walks. This
was carried.
City Attorney Daley was asked
whether walks could not be cleaned by
the city and the cost assessed against
the property. He replied that the city is
better off in this respect than st. Paul,
as It has a charter provision authoriz-
ing this, while st. Paul has not. Wheth-
err the ordinance is any good, he did not
know
AID Atchisen said that the proper
place to begin is with "the lot owned by
Hon. James Thompson McCleary," which
he said had sidewalk in poor condition,
and the snow not cleaned off. If a poor
man owned tho lof he would have been