The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-03-01
Council Votes That rs is
Enough.
LAW VIOLATION REFERRED TO
Contract and Bond for the Cous rue
tioa OF the New City Well
Approved.

From MONDAYS Daily.
The council transacted two or three
important items of business Saturday
evening at its special session. All of the
aldermen We're present and Mayor Tay
Tor presided. The first matter taken uI
was the contract and bond with j. f.
Mccarthy of Minneapolis to put down
new artesian well for the city's wa.
ter supply. The contract was read, and
provides that the well is to be sunk
with diameter of fourteen inches to
the rock, about ninety feet, and that a
ten inch inner casing is to be put down
200 feet further, to the first flow, OF
not so far down if the majority of the
waterworks committee decides, and that
the space between the two pipes will be
filled with sand and cement. The city
is to furnish the pipe and material and
also steam or coal. The well is to be
completed within four months. The con-
tractor is to receive $2.75 a foot, and is
to forfeit So a day for each day that
, the well is not completed after the four
months has expired.
On motion of Aid. Atchison, the con-
tract and bond were approved and the
VI anu IStoluCI otiIlioibLCl W Si2Il
the same. These officials Immediately
signed the contract and bond in dupli-
cate and they are now in force. The
bond is for 81 $50 and is furnished by
the Metropolitan Surety company of
New York.
Alderman HeinZe stated that he had
an important matter to bring up under
the head of licenses that would be of
interest to the council and to every citi-
zen of Mankato. There is an overplus OF
saloons in Mankato today, there being
twenty eight. Competition is so strong
that they are obliged at times to over
step the law as to time for closing and as
to the sale of liquors to habitual drunk
ards or those attending the schools and
colleges. He wished to introduce a reso-
luton limiting the number of saloons in
the city. He wished that he could re-
duce the number to twenty-five, but it
would be hard to discriminate, so he
wished to limit it to twentyeight UNI
til some future council makes a change.
The growth of the city later may make
it desirable to increase the number to
twenty-nine or thirty. If any saloons
do not take out licenses he wished that
their places would not be filled. He in
PRODUCED the resolution officially pub
lished in another column of this issue of
the Free Press and moved to adopt it.
Aid. Atchison asked the city attor-
ney whether the council could pass such
a resolution and make it hold.
Mr.. Daley replied that it could. The
council is the sole Judge to decide wheth-
Ell an application for a license shall be
granted or not, and no court can compel
it to grant one.
AID Atchison said that it afforded him
more pleasure than anything that had
happened in long time to second the
resolution. He believed that : if the
number of saloons was cut to twenty
five it would be better, but to make
a selection. would be an injustice to those
now doing business. There is a strug-
gle going on to buy property and start
saloons.
Aid. Heinze said that no saloon in the
city is laying up money. They are bare
ly making a living by taking the risk
of violating the law.
The resolution was carried by unan-
imous vote.
Aid. Hampl called attention to the
condition of the Majestic theatre in re-
gard to fire escape facilities. He moved
that the matter be referred to the COM
mittee on fire department and the chief
of the fire department and this was car
rpd