The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-09
Members Take i Easy and Act
Like Doves.
BUSINESS TRANSACTED IS ROUTINE
BREEZY TALKS AND PUNS ONLY
ENLIVENlNG FEATURES OF A
DULL SPECIAL SESSION.


Harmony and listlessness were the
characte ristics Of the council meeting
last night Little was done, but that
little was done without, the custom
airy haggling.
For the first time in a long time
every member present seemed to be
willing to let affairs of state drift and
go home.
The decision to cooperate with Wal
la Walla county Strengthening Mill
and Garrison creeks and the passage
of an ordinance to licerse skating Kinks
were the principal acts of affirmative
legislation passed at this mild gath
ering Of the city dads
The council did no. even want to
hear the monthly reports of the city
officials but left them on the clerks
desk until some buster meeting.
The report Of the landscape archi-
tect, Mr.. Olmsted which has been
weeks also met like fate. 1t was Or
dered returned to cold storage" on the
suggestion of a councilman that it
might be dangerous to open it lest it
contain a bomb in the shape of bill
for $125 or some such amount.
kirkman Brings Breeze.
The only breeze that stirred the 9TH
erwise unruffled calm of the meeting
was the suggestion of Kirkman that
the proposition of the county commits
sioners to pay half of the expense of
restraining Mill creek within it's proper
boundaries was a hold up game instead
of an act of special consideration on
their part.
He thought the commissioners had no
more right to say that a county road
would not be opened unless a farmer
who benefited paid half Of the expense
than it had to refuse OF make the need
ed repairs on Mill creek unless the city
should pay half Of the expense
If a Eureka flat farmer did not ben
eft by the proposed improvements
neither did a citizen of Walla Walla
by a new bridge built in Eureka fiat
although he paid good share Of the
taxes which paid for it.
Mayor Kellough and Councilman
Tausick, of the special committee which
met with the commissioners, express
ed themselves as much of the same
mind as Councilman Kirkman but said
that the making of the repairs was
imperative and that the committee
could get no other terms from the
county so had made a virtue of neces-
sity in the matter.
A Little JoIIity.
Attorney Blandford. created consid-
cradle amusement by explaining how
Mil creek had followed it's own sweet
will until brought beneath the juris-
diction of the city council and of it's
exemplary behavior since it came under
this wise control.
He recommended that Garrison creek
also should be brought under the guard
ianship of the city government, in order
that the boundaries might be defined
where it went through the city so that
it could be kept in these boundaries
and not damage property owners
There was no established course for the
creek under present conditions.
The specia committee consisting of
Kellough, Tausick and Durham report
ed in favor of fixing the creek so that
the work would be reasonably perma-
nent Especial attention was called in
their report to the bad condition OF
Garrison creek from the Division street
bridge to Park street 1t recommend
ed that the crooks and turns be taken
out so that the creek would not over
flow during a freshet as at present and
damage adjacent property.
The offer of Mordo Mcdonald. who
has purchased a small tract of land nj
the vicinity of the creek in the neigh
borhood of Fourth street and Chase
avenue to donate this to the city sc
that a big bend in Garrison creek might
be cut out, was accepted. The pro-
posed improvement will only cost the
city in the neighborhood of $50.
The report of the committee was
accepted and the committee was made
a commission to superintend the i'm
provement of the creek.
License Getting Skates On"
An ordinance was introduced by
Councilman Glasford providing for the
licensing of roller skating Kinks at SIS
quarter. with penalty of s25 and
costs for failure to procure such a Ii
cense. The ordinance was read three
times and passed.
Resolutions for the opening of Mar
Gus street from Boyer avenue to Mill