Bisbee daily review., 1906-10-03
Various Matters of Importance to City Are Taken Up and Disposed of at Meeting of City Fathers.

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 At the regular monthly session of the City Council which was held last evening many matters or iIoporlance to the city were taken up and disposed of in one way or another.
 The meeting was called to order by Mayor Cayen at 7:5O o'clock, and the finance committee immediately took up the matter of auditing the various claims against the city. The minutes of the last regular meeting and the special meetings were read and ap- proved, and the different committees were called upon fer their reports.
 The city marshal submitted his re- port. which showed that sS0S9.sa had been collected for licenses; sl09 for fines. and SC for dog tax. The report of the marshal was accepted.
 Assistant Superintendent Sherman, of the Copper Queen company ap- peared before the council and asked on behalf of the company for a deed to the property on which the old fire house stood, and for which the com pany had given the site of the present city hall. An ordinance directing the former mayor and city clerk 10 attend to this matter had been passed but the deed given at that time did not cover the property. Mayor Caven and the city clerk will take this matter up and furnish the company with a deed for the property in exchange for a deed to the present site of the city hall.
 Attorney Shelley appeared before the council on behalf of some local merchants, and asked that the license charged for peddling certain products be raised to s90 per month, or $5 per day. The matter was referred to city attorney for his opinion as to the sdvisability of changing the ordin- ance.
 E. F. Flames appeared before the council and asked that the license charged the transformer be reduced to $15 per quarter. On the motion of Councilman Hughes the license was reduced to $20 per quarter. This will probably remove all cause for the law suit which the transformer have threatened to bring against the city in an endeavor to have the license ordinance set aside.
 The license was made payable twice year in advance.
 road was asked for by the raii- dents of Laundry Hill and the city engineer was instructed to look into the matter
 X petition from the business men to the effect that Tombstone Canyon be sprinkled was presented and spoken on at length by F. R. O'Brieu, but IT. council is unable to remedy the matter at the present time, so the petition was referred to the street committee.
 A petition was presented to the council signed by the committee of business men who were appointed at the mass-meeting held some time ago for the purpose of securing better roads. The petition asked that the city council appropriate the sum of 5000 towards defraying the expense of oiling Naco Road. Several of the councilmen were in favor of waiting until the committee had solicited sub scriptioDs from the different business houses, and arrived at some definite estimate as to what would be the Icity's equitable share of the expense. For this reason the petition was not granted. and the council will await
 
 the matter.
 sidering the proposal of the Inter- national Gas and Light company for Ia lighting franchise. The ordinance submitted by the attorneys fo= the lighting company was again taken I'D and read, The changes suggested ty the council and city attorney had been embodied in the ordinance. an1 the resolution calling for special cleo tion was adopted. The election will be held on the 18th of November, aid all of the cost of holding the election will be defrayed by the company. The company will be required to deposit the sum of $500 with the city clerk to cover all expense of the election.
 The next matter taken up was that of securing a new charter for the city. Mayor Caven called upon City Attorney Merritt for an expression of opinion on the matter. Merritt stated that he had been talking the matter over with the city attorney of Douglas. and learn ed that the citizens of Douglas also desired to get new charter and that this matter could be accomplished by applying to the next territorial legis- lature for general incorporating law. under which both cities would obtain the benefits for which they seek
 A motion was made to the effect that the mayor and committee from the council. together with the city at- torney take the matter up with cor responding committee from the Doug las municipal government and discuss ways and means of accomplishing the end in view.
 The next matter taken up was that