Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-04-03

Routine business was the feature Of the regular meeting of the city council Monday evening" IL being the first meeting of the month. the regular payroll was allowed. and bills against the city for the current month were ordered paid. Paving matters occu- pied some time, and a large number of jobs were laid out for the new city engineer, who was present and was sworn in by Mayor White.
 Mayor White and Aldermen Fox, Nlchol, Clement, Jordan, Riley, Boyce and Hightower were present, Alder man Veil being absent on account of vious meeting had been read and ap- proved the bond of Vim. J. Parkes, as city engineer, was read and approved the signers of the bond being Wm. J. Parkes, Wm. Nichol, Fred Fox. H. Riley and J. A. Clement. The oath of office was then administered by Mayor White, and MT. Parkes took his place as an officer of Pine Bluff.
 The report of the finance commit tee was presented, and upon it's recom mendation s5000 was appropriated to pay the current expenses and salaries O. the city government. An ordinance appropriating 5000 for the board of public affairs. 5000 to be devoted to the payments due on the Main street bridge and 5000 to the current ex- penses of the board, was read and adopted On motion of Alderman Jor. dan
 Cemetery Matters.
 As a result of the report of the cemetery committee the city engineer was instructed to make a survey of the district surrounding the cemetery and to build an open drain. The street commissioner was ordered to repair a number of bad places in the streets leading up to the cemetery as soon as possible. The report of the sexton showed that s132.75 had been received and s101.S0 had been disbursed dur ing the past month.
 Sanitary Matters and Streets.
 The sanitary committee reported a number of places where unsanitary conditions prevailed. and one where a lot of paper had been piled up in d manner which made it dangerously apt to take fire. These nuisances were ordered abated The public works committee reported number of bad places in streets, alleys, sewers and catch basins. and these were or dered attended to. It was reported that the paving on East Sixth avenue was being undermined by the bayou, and this was ordered permanently re- paived. A resolution requiring the Citizen Light and Transit company to place it's tracks on Main street and Harding avenue to grade to be estab- llshed by the city engineer was adopt ed. as was also one requiring the Pine Bluff Light and Water company to place it's mains on these streets at a grade to be established by the city engineer. The city engineer was in. s'ructed to look after numerous bad places in the streets.
 Police Report.
 The police committee reported. turn. ing in the annual report of Chief of Police Al. l. Stewart, which was pub. lished in detail in Monday evenings Graphic. and which shows very satis- factory increase in receipts over that of the previous year. This was read and approved:
 The sum of $50 was then appropri- ated to send Chief of Police Stewart and City Detective Ed Cheek to the national convention of chiefs of po- lice. which meets in Hot Springs next week. beeinning Monday and continu. ing till Saturday. Some of the alder r,en wore opposed to this at first. but after tha benefits which would accrue to the police department by reason of two of it's most prominent members hei~r in attendance at the convention we"n noirted out. the motion to ap- r"crr+"te this sum was adopted.
 
 City Electricians Report.
 "''" w'ter and light committee sub- r'itt"d the report of the city elec- trieian anDroved and the same was aac~ed and placed on file. The