The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-05
COUNCIL DOES NOT
WANT THE BILL
AMENDED
Adopt Resolution to This Ef-
feet in Session Held on
Monday Evening.
REJECT CANNIFF CLAIM
Hack Ordinance Amended
Routine Business Transacted
Garbage Ordinance.
cANN1FF CLAIM

At the meeting of the city council
held on Monday evening resolution
proposed by Alderman Joy was to the
effect that the council wished the
municipal bill, which passed the SEN
ate at Bismarck as recommended by
the North Dakota Municipal league,
enacted as law without the amend
ments proposed by the house, or that all
except that allowing cities to advertise
for different kinds of paving be cut
from the bill before it is passed. The
resolution was adopted.
The house has proposed the making
of several amendments and it is figur-
ed that if these amendments are made,
it will practically kill the. purpose OF
tho bill.
The committee of the council on
claims reported in the matter of the
Mrs. B. Canniff claim for $1,000, who
claims to have been injured while
walking on University avenue. She
slipped and broke her arm, and holds
that the city is responsible for the con-
dition of the sidewalk, alleged to have
been slippery. The committee report
ed against the allowing the claim.
The hack ordinance came up again
last night, and passed its final reading
with few amendments. The amend
ments provide for the filing of bond
by the hack men in the sum of $500
for each vehicle. A license Of IS for
each two horse vehicle and So for
each one horse hack will be collected
according to the amendments. The
licenses may be revoked by the mayor
for any cause. Each hack shall also
display its number.
Another ordinance of considerable
interest is the garbage ordinance, in
troduced last night, and which passed
its first reading. The ordinance div
ides the city into two districts, the
First, Second, Third and Seventh
wards are included in the first district
and the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth wards
are included in the second district.
The garbage is divided into four clas-
ses. The first includes kitchen gar
bage which shall be removed from
residences not more than every two
weeks, and which will not be allowed to
accumulate during the winter, board
ing house garbage shall be removed
each week; hotel garbage, in which
hotel there are over twenty rooms,
shall be revomed not less than very
two days. The second class is that of
garbage in vaults, which shall be re-
moved when the vault is full, or at
least once a year. The third class is
dead animals, and these shall be re-
moved as soon as possible. The fourth
class covers old cans and bottles. This
garbage may be removed by anyone,
but if allowed to accumulate it shall be
the duty of the garbage collector to
remove it. Kitchen garbage shall be
placed in compartment not holding
more than twenty gallons. The price
for the removal of garbage is to be
fixed later and a failure to pay relieves
the collector from doing the work A
penalty of SIS to $25 fine for the first
offense and fine of from $40 to $50
for the second offense in case of fail
ure to have garbage removed is also
provided.
R. A. Sprague petitioned to be allow
ed to place an iron stairway on the
outside of brick building to be erect
ed by him next spring on a lot in the
rear of the Union National bank build
ing.
Health Officer Woutat was authorlz-
ed to purchase cabinet in which to
keep books and records, and also TO
| purchase one twelfth immersion lens
to b eused in city psychological work.
A petition for waterworks extern
sion on Cottonwood street and Cherry
streets was referred back for more
signers. A petition for an extension
on Woodlawn avenue was also referred
back, two lots being improperly ies-
cribed.
An ordinance requiring sewer con-
nections to be made when ordered by
the health department was given Its
first reading It also provides that no
vaults or cesspools shall be made any
where in Grand Forks, except where
there is no sewer accessible.