La Junta tribune., 1907-04-20


forth and were sworn into Office by
Judge II. II. Clark. They are as
follows: Mayor. George Barr; city
CLERK. A. Mayors: aldermen, c. R.
Mapes, X. n. Kirkpatrick. A. c.
Draper. Matt Daimler. K. {. lnge.
K. Phillips.
Mayor Barr then announced the
appointment of the following COM
mittees:
Finance and salaries Phillips,
Draper. Inge.
Street and alley-Inge. Kirkpat-
rick, Phillips.
Fire and police--Kirkpatrick.
Inge. Daimler.
Water works and sewers-Dani-
her. Mapes. Draper.
Electric light and printing -Mapes.
Phillips, Daimler.
Mayor Barr then announced that
applications for the various appoint
ments would be taken up, the first
in order being the city marshal.
The city clerk announced that there
were two applications, Gus Wei
neke and P. d. Spencer, and the
vote resulted as follows: Weineke,
6: Spencer. o.
There were two applications for
the position of city attorney Clyde
Davis and Marion F. Miller. Miller
received votes and Davis none.
For the position of night marshal
there were two applications }.
Fred Funston and Albert Kennedy.
but the city clerk announced that
at the last moment Mr.. Kennedy
had withdrawn his name and Mr..
Funston was elected by acclamation.
When applications for the position
of fire chief were called for. the
CITY clerk announced that there
were none on file. G. w. Wonderly
probably overlooked the fact that
his job was in jeopardy. so he was
elected chief of the fire department
by acclamation.
There were three applications for
the position of street commissioner
j. w. Bosley, l.. o. Evans and j.
A. harrington. The vote of the
council resulted as follows: j. w.
Bosley, l: L. O. Evans, 5; j. A. Bar
rington. 0.
+. T. Lewis was elected city en-
gineer. Andy Mayors water commits
sioner and Gerald Daimler driver Of
the hose wagon by acclamation.
The most spirited contest of the
evening was over the appointment
of city health officer. For this po-
sition there were four applications
A. l.. Stubs. H. E. Hall, w. J..
Donlon and j. F. Kearns. 1t re-
quired three ballots to determine
the result. On tine first ballot Stubs
received three votes. Hall one and
Kearns two. On the second ballot
Stubbs received three. kearns two.
and one ballot was blank. On the
third ballot there was a tie. Stubs
received three and kearns three.
Mayor Barr cast the deciding vote
and DR.. Stubbs was elected city
health officer for the ensuing two
years.
For the position of pumper at
the new water works plant there
were two applications Charles Tug
gle and R. r. Nourse. Neither
George Abbott. the present day
man. nor Mr.. Murphy. the night
man, had in an application probab-
ly through an oversight. and it was
decided to postpone the matter Of
selecting a day man until some fu-
ture meeting. The two applications
in were considered for the position
of night man. Tuggle receiving five
votes and Nourse one.
r w. Burch was elected driver
of the city water wagon by acclama-
ton, while the matter of selecting
an official paper was deferred until
the council could get line on the
ante-eiection promises made. 1t
was vehemently asserted that there
had been ante-election promises
made in the matter of awarding the
printing contract and the council
was vehemently requested to live up
to the aforesaid promises. What