The Dickinson press., 1908-11-14
appoint
ALDERMAN

Col. Alf White to Succeed Frank
kihm as Member of City Faith
ers. Office of Official City
| Scavenger to be Created.
The city council held the regular
monthly meeting Monday, November 9.
Mayor Frye was in the chair and Alder
men, Roquette. Johnson, Tear, Stewart
and Turner were present.
The report of the last regular meeting
was read and adopted and the usual
monthly bills were audited and allowed.
City Magistrate van der Las report
for the month ending October 31st was
read and adopted and showed as follows ::
Total number of cases tried, all for
violation of city ordinances. 81: total
amount of fines collected. $1.1S5; paid
jailor fees and sustenance, $5.25; paid
magistrate fees. $35; paid city treasurer
to balance. 81. 144.75: total 81, 1s5.
The report of City Treasurer j. S.
White for the month of October showed
as follows: Receipts-Pat Walsh, poll
tax. $36; John Riessbeck, taxes,
$363.31; j. van der Las, collections,
ST. 144. IS; A. j. Osborn, pool table
license IS; payment on sewers $50,
sidewalk assessment $35. rs, circus
license $50, fortune teller's license
81. so; cash on hand October list,
81. 666. 13. Payments warrants on
waterworks fund. $202. 06; warrants on
general fund 81. 3S2. 2S: cash on hand
to balance. 50, O5S. 10; grand total
81. 642. "A. The report was adopted and
ordered filed.
City Auditor A. j. Osborn submitted
the following semi-annual report for the
period ending August 31st, 1903: Cash
on hand March 1st, $13, ,039 81. Receipts
general fund. $sO23 43 interest, $3.50;
water-works fund, $3.50; sewer fund,
$666. g.; sinking fund, $27, 1888.
Payments-warrants on general fund
paid $11,837.45; interest on bonds,
81. 493. 81; waterworks bonds, 81, O95. OF;
sewer bonds and interest, $5.915. AZ cash
on hand $5. 977. 90: total, S27,319.
Assets August 31st. 19O8-uncollected
taxes, 81. 42i.4S; city buildings, So. O0C;
fire apparatus. So, 600; road machinery,
s175; real estate; $40, 500: pump. air
compressor, ETC., water mains and
tower, $50, 600; trunk sewer 50 900;
septic tank and lateral sewer, $22. 600;
cash on hand in all funds, S5,e77.so;
total, STA, STA. 38. Liabilities-balance
due on waterworks contract, $5O1 sewer
warrants outstanding, $4,000; water
works bonds, $49, 1000: general fund
warrants outstanding. $1261 49, total,
$66. 627. IS The report was approved and
ordered placed on file.
to fill the vacancy caused by Alderman
Frank Kihm' change of residence was
taken up by the council and on mott on
the office in the second ward was de-
clared vacant. Mayor Frye then ap-
pointed Alf White as alderman in the
second ward to serve out the unexpired
term of Mr.. Kihm. The appointment
was confirmed by the council and the
auditor was instructed to notify Col
White to be on hand at the next meeting
with a box of cigars.
Another question was in regard to
creating the Office and appointing an
official city scavenger. During the past
eight months the committee on streets
and alleys has put in good many hours
in making the rounds of the city and
trying to induce people to ''clean up
and keep clean but, after all the hard
work and good advice, the conditions
in the alleys and some of the streets are
far from satisfactory, in fact, but very
little has been accomplished and the
committee realizes that it is not all the
fault of the property holders. In many
cases the property owners have been
unable to find anybody who was willing
to haul away the refuse and all kinds
of rubbish has accumulated during the
past six months, making very bad
state of affairs just as winter is coming
on. 1t seemed to be the sense of the
meeting that an ordinance be drawn up.
creating the Office of city scavenger, and
determining the duties of such an Office
A scavenger should be bonded and
compelled to keep the streets and alleys
clean, and minimum and maximum
rate per load should be stated in the
ordinance so that everybody be treated
alike. The scavenger should notify
every property holder or renter that the
rubbish and filth must be removed with
in specified time and if the refuse is
not taken away it should be his duty to
remove it at once and charge it to the
property holder. to be collected the same
as delinquent taxes or sidewalks assess
ments. The property holder would not
be Obliged to employ the official city
scavenger but it would be the latter's
duty to see that everybody keeps things
cleaned up, and to remove ali rubbish,
ETC., when requested. After some discus
sion. the matter was referred to the
ordinance committee.
No action was taken in the matter of
remaining the streets. changing or
creating wards. and the ordinances in
regard to naming the streets and num-
berine the houses were not given the
third reading at this meeting because the
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