Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-03-17

All members of the city council
were present last evening at the reg
ular session, save Councilman Bodler.
The first matter presented to the
council was the revision of the COM
mittees by the mayor. The mayor
announced to them that he had made
the following appointments: Streets
and alleys, Sullivan, McEuen, Bedell
and Landt; finance and Judiciary,
Hamilton, BodIer and Landt; lights,
fire and water, Bodler, Hedal and
Ransimer; sewer, Bedell, Bodler and
Landt; cemetery and parks, Hedal,
Ransimer and Sullivan; public prop
erty, McEuen, Hamilton and Sulli-
van; license and printing, Landt, Be
dell and Hamilton; docks and
wharves, Ransimer, Hedal and Nc
Euen; rules and ordinances, Hamil-
ton, Sullivan and Bodler.
President McEuen then took the
chair and the councilmen were asked
to approve the appointments. Coun-
Gilman Hamilton moved, and it was
carried, to make an amendment to
the appointments made by the may
or, substituting in the stead of cOun-
Gilman Landt on the sewer commit
tee Councilman Sullivan. A discus
sion of the matter followed, with the
result that a motion was made, and
on vote carried, to reconsider the
above motion. Councilman Hamil-
ton then moved that Councilman
Sullivan be substituted on the COM
mittee of sewers instead of Landt,
and that Councilman Landt be placed
on the committee of public property
made vacant by the substitution of
Sullivan. The motion carried.
The reports from the different
committees was then asked for by
the mayor. The committee on
streets and alleys asked for more
time in reference to the numbering
of the houses in the La Crosse addi-
ton. 1t was granted them.
Councilman Ransimer on behalf of
the committee on fire, light and wa
ter reported that the hydrant on
Ninth and Indiana street was so far
below the ground that a hose could
not be attached, and asked that ac-
ton be taken with reference to it.
A motion was made and carried in
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curb the hydrant and otherwise so
make arrangements that the diff
Guilty might be removed.
The finance committee made its
report upon a number of bills, which
were allowed, and the clerk was or
dered to draw warrants for their
payment.
The sewer committee had no re-
port to offer.
Councilman McEuen on behalf of
the committee on public property
asked if there was any correspond
ence from the firm of Mason, Lewis
& Co., to whom the bid for the city
bonds for the construction of city
hall had been let. Charles Leeper
on behalf of the company stated that
he was in possession of letter from
the company, and an ordinance COW
ering the matter. An ordinance COW
ering the issue of the bonds, pro-
viding for their payment as to inter
est and principal and their proper
form and Authorization, was then
read and passed its first reading by
a unanimous vote. The rules were
suspended and the ordinance passed
its second and third reading. A mo-
ton was made that due publication
of it be made in a weekly journal.
Councilman Hamilton announced
that the company in its eommunica-
tions stated that the bonds could be
printed in New York for 500; that
prices had been secured from the
Autograph companies in Spokane
and that the least bid was $3.50. A
motion was then made and carried
that the bonds be sent to New York
to be printed for the price named
by the company.
Petitions and communications were
then called for by the mayor and the
first one read by the clerk was a
petition signed by more than 200
citizens asking the council to require
the Interstate Telephone company to
live up to the provisions of its fran
ehise. The matter was more or less
discussed and it was finally decided
to refer Il 10 the finance and Judi