East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-05
Council Passes Ordinance Pro-
hibiting Indiscrimate Deal
ing in Intoxicants'
sALooNSiEN COMPLAINED
OF PRoMIsCUOUs SALES
New Ordinance Provides Heavy Pen-
alty--steps Taken Towards Erection
OF New City Hall-Benetti's License
Transferred TO Brewery-Cemetcry
Committee Reports-Auto Owners
Before COUNCIL With Request Tor
New Speed Ordinance.

Hereafter the drugstores OF Pen-
dleton will not be allowed to sell al
coholic liquors except In filling wri'-
ten prescriptions from physicians ana
then they will he allowed to make
but one sale for such prescription
The penalty for doing otherwise
ranges from a fine OF from $40 10
500 or Imprisonment for from i've
to 40 days.
An ordinance providing for the
above was passed at the councii
meeting last night by unanimous vote
OF those present. II Is now law Oh
the city.
IL is charged by saloonmen that
their business has been greatly In
terfered with by drug stores who nave
been selling liquor promiscuously'
though they have no retail licenses
II was largely at their instance that
the ordinance was passed.
For the City Hall.
A city hall building committee was
named by Mayor Murphy last even>
ing and the act was the first recent
step taken towards the construction
OF the proposed city building. Messrs'
stroble, Montgomery and Mumm
were appointed upon the committee
and they are authorized to proceed
with the work of securing plans and
making other preliminary arrange
ments for the building. The same
committee will likely have charge of
the building work when II Is taken
up.
Ronettrs License Transferred.
BY vote of the council the liquor
license held by C. Bonetti was trans
ferred to Shultz & Stricken, proprie-
tors of the brewery. Bonetti has been
proprietor of the Merchants Bar In
the Association block.
Report on Olney Ccsne<eEy.
In behalf of the cemetery COM
mittee Chairman Hinkle made a re
port last night saying that two meet
ings had been held and the subject
of watering Olney cemetery discuss
ed. w. j. Clarke, the hardware man,
who had drafted plan for watering
the cemetery. was then asked to ex-
plain the same and did so. His
scheme provides for the establish
ment of q pumping plant on Tutuilla
and a reservoir to have a capacity OF
100, 900 gallons OF water. Under his
plan the motive power is to be pro-
vided by gasoline engine, which II
is estimated will cost 81 for 10
hours OF operation.
To install the plant outlined by Mr..
Clark would cost $500 and as there
is but 1926 of city money now avail
able. and $4,000 from the Fgg-
Thompson estate the remainder will
have to be raised from other sources
H the scheme is carried out.
Autoists Want New Ordinance.
1t was expected to have an auto
mobile ordinance up for consideration
last evening, but owing to the non.
arrival of the Portland ordinance no
action was taken. However, W. L.
Thompson, who with other autoists.
was present, addressed the council in
favor OF an ordinance providing for
a maximum speed of 20 miles an
hour in outlying sections of the city
and Is miles an hour in the central
portion.
More Street Grading.
At the meeting last night resolu-
tions providing for the grading OF
nine more blocks in the residence dis
tricts of the city were presented and
passed. Ash street is to be improved
from Court to Alta; Garfield street