Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-01-30
Will Accept Offer of Glucose
Sugar Refining Company as to
Amount of Assessment
WILL THUS AVOID LITIGATION
Councilman Are Sarcastic at Monday
Nights Special Session, and All
Take "Rap" at Judge Burnham
For His Course in the Recently Ar
btrated Paving case-EIzy & Dunn
Bill.

A special meeting of the city council
, appeal of the Glucose Sugar Refining
! Company. A proposition for COM
promise was submitted by Binford q
Farber, attorneys for the glucose COM
pany, in which the company offered to
drop it's appeal if the city consented
to reduction of the assessment from
ed the resolution to accept the propo-
sition, and in this way avoids any llti-
cation over the subject. The plaintiff
company agrees to pay all costs OF the
proceedings up to date.
| In reducing the assessment of the
actual valuation, as returned by the
board of review, and now on appeal
to the district court by the company,
| the city accepts a taxable valuation Of
$4,000 instead of $4,000. In making
the proposition the attorneys claimed
that they did not admit the property
to be worth 100000, but were willing
| to consen. to that valuation by way Of
| compromise.
Sarcasm Order of the Evening.
Sarcasm appeared to be the order OF
| the evening when members OF the coun-
| ell arose to discuss the resolution. MIR.
Webster said that in view of recent
| developme nts he considered that the
council had better do it's own arbitrat-
| ing hereafter. Mr. PSenicka thought
| the recent decision in the arbitrated
case had put a sufficient "crinp' in
the council so that the members had
better transact the councils business
when it could out of court.
Another Ely G. Dunn Bill.
A bill of Ely & Dunn, for Shops
for certain guttering on South First
avenue, came up for discussion, and
the council decided to pay it provided
Ely & Dunn would refund $21S.17
which, it appears, has been allowed by
Judge Burnham's arbitration. This
item it seems, was never claimed by
Ely & Dunn, and should not have
been included in the schedule at ALL
Mr.. Dunn has already rendered a check
for the difference to Clerk Derby, but
Mr.. Derby did not accept it, for he
z wanted lQSIruCIlOuS. NIL SldIh lllou5lA1
| that committee should be appointed
| to see if there were any more con-
cessions to Ely & Dunn that the city
could make and Mr.. Webster suggest
| ed that the council employ Judge Burn
ham to arbitrate the Barber Asphalt
Paving Company cases.
Will Plat City Lots.
| A resolution by Mr.. Webster, which
was adopted, called for the city engi-
neer to lay out and plat, under the di-
ERECTION of the committee on buildings
and grounds, the east and south por-
| ton of the citys land that will abut on
| the extension of North Fifth street
from Park to Center. Twenty-one lots
will be, made available here, and 1t is
thought they will average 5000 each.
Mr.. Webster made verbal report, as
chairman of the water works and cleo
trio light committee, on the sale of the
old dynamos to a New York concern
for s400 The committee has now sold
second hand machinery in the sum OF
s1,65O, and still has $500 or $500 more
in sight. This will reduce the cost OF
the new dynamo very materially.