Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-14
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS :jIjIl : .
Report Of Regular Meeting last Mon
day Hieht.-hssring Of Petition L
for vsc1tinR Streets.


meeting were read and approved as
read. |.- g.
The following bills were on motion
referred to the Finance committee:
Peterson & Wellin, M dse for DOOR. .S12.56
Sletten g. Strand, Mdse. for poor...... 2.4O
J. S. Robbins, wood for poor.........."... 500
WATER AND LIGHT FUND.
Westinghouse Electric and Mfg. Co.,
Rrvan.M arsh e. ,a n;.s a0e0 ~
!. +. Otos, paid freight and express. 9.3s
Jallrner Pearson, labor. 375
J. S. Robbins, cement and lime. ............ 1.sO
ben Benson, labor and supplies....... 7.1O
GENERAL FUND.
Hook and Ladder Co. No. /, service
Peterson & Qvale, lumber. so
Thompson & Craswell, 1ivery............ $50
P. E. Parson, REPAIRS rs..,, 795
Peterson & Qvale, lumber. 1923
PERMANENT IMPROVEMENT FUND.
o. S. Smith, labor on stone crossings $50
The Finance committee reported tho
foregoing bills back approved and on
motion the report was accepted.
Alderman Holt offered the following
resolution which was adopted by the
following vote: Ayes, Z; noes, none.
RESOLUTION.
Be it resolved by the city council of the city
of Wilma ar that the city clerk be and he Is
hereby authorized to issue warrants against
the respective funds !ls in payment of the fore
Approved February -. 1906.
S. B. QvALE, Mayor.
Moved and seconded that "An Ordi-
nance Authorizing the Issuance and
Sale of Certificates of Indebtedness in
nticipation of the Collection of Taxes
Levied for the Year A D. 1905 for and
on Account the General Fund" be
given it's second reading. Carried.
The said ordinance was then read.
Alderman Holt offered the follow
ing resolution which was adopted by
the following vote: Ayes, 7, noes,
none.
Be It resolved by the city council of the
city OF Willmar that the city clerk be and he
is hereby authorized to issue a warrant
against the Permanent Improvement Re-
yolving fund for $1o9.s4 in favor of the
account of water for sprink1ing.
Approved February ~, 1906.
S. B. QvALE, Mayor.
Surveyor Day appeared and asked
for information as to whether or not
the ditch to enter the city should be
tiled. On motion the matter was re-
ferred to the street committee and the
street commissioner with full power to
recommend to Mr.. Day the size of pipe
and the distance of ditch to be tiled.
Pursuant to notice for the hearing
of petition of the Willmar g. Sioux
Falls Railway company, and others,
for the vacating OF certain portions Of
certain streets and avenues, the said
petition was taken up for discussion
and several persons heard.
Alderman Holt offered the following
resolution which was adopted by the
following vote: Ayes, 7; noes, none.
RESOLUTION.
Whereas, petition in due form has here
tofore been presented to the city council of
the city of Willmar, signed by majority of
| the owners Of the property on the line and
! described and for three hundred feet in each
| direction from the end and ends of said
streets ST. t,e and avenues praying for vacation
and avenues herein after described, and
Whereas: The city council has heretofore
determined that it was expedient to proceed
| to a hearing upon the said petition and has
| heretofore ordered the said petition filed with
| the city clerk Of the said city, and the city
clerk of said city has caused notice, setting
! forth the time and place when and where the
| said petition would be heard, to be published
| 90 provided by the charter of the said city,
and
Whereas, A hearing upon the said petit
! ton was had at the council chambers in the
said city on this 18th day of February, 1 19O6,
| as in said notice provided, and
on the said petition that it would be for tie
| best interests of the city that the prayer of
| the said petition should be granted,
| of the said petition be granted and that the
following portions and parts of the follow
ing streets and avenues of the city of Will
| mar, be and the same hereby are vacated,
that is to say; all Of Fourteenth 4 4th) street
lying south Of the north line of block one
hundred and twenty;th1ee g2a) and north
portion of Twelfth (12th) street lying be-
tween blocks one hundred and five. (1O5} and
one hundred and six (1O6), and between
hundred and seven 900 as shown upon the
plat filed with the said petition; all Of Elev-
| enth (11th) street lying between blocks thir~
all Of Pacific avenue lying between blocks
one hundred and twenty-five (122) and one
hundred and twenty-three (123), and be-
tween blocks one hundred and six (1o6) and
| blocks one hundred and four 1O4) and one
hundred and five (1O5), except the south
~ to seven O. both Inclusive Of said block
one hundred and four (1O+); and all that
part of Benson avenue lying between blocks
one hundred and twenty y-one (121) and one
tween blocks one hundred and seven (1O7)
and one hundred and eight l1OS); except the
| south nan OF Sa1d avenue lying north OF lots
| one %, two (2) and three 90 OF said block
| one hundred and eight (1OS).
| Provided, however, that this resolution
shall not take effect until the Willniar &
Sioux Falls Railway company and the St.
Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway
! company shall have filed in the Office Of the
city clerk of this city its agreement in writ
ing to donate a strip of land for road pur-
poses to the city of Willmar seventy feet in
width lying north Of the right of way Of the
Willmar & Sioux Falls Railway company
across lot 5 of block of 4th Railroad addi-
Litchfeld avenue across the right Of way OF
| the Willmar & Sioux Falls Railway com
pany, and further to agree to give and allow
| Louis Moberg private right of way over
block of 4th Railroad addition to Litch.
de1d avenue 80 long as he may own the said
| lot Of said block 1 of the 4th Railroad ad.
dition to the city of Willmar.
Adopted by the following vote: Ayes, z;
Approved this 10th day of February, A.
Mayor Of the City of Willmar, Minnesota
The Fire Department committee
made a verbal, report recommending
that the city purchase a hose wagon.
On motion Alderman Selvig was in.
structed to investigate and get speci.
fication and report as to kind and
style: of hose wagon advisable to pur.
chase.
On motion the Council adjourned.
Attest: S. B. QVALE,
J. T. ;Oros, Mayor.
| City Clerk.