Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-03-03
OUNCIL TRANS
FERS FUNDS
ders Investigation into Tax
Collections

taken Monday evening, the regular
meeting night. While considerable
business was transacted it was i'm
peded to a great extent by informal
discussions upon irrelevant matters
and this heightened the session
made 1t drag along into hours.
Mayor Scallon had not returned from
his visit to California, and President
McEuen occupied the chair. and all
the other councilmen, save Ransimer
and Delaney were present.
Grant Liquor License.
The first matter acted upon was
the APPLICATION for a liquor license by
Harry Higgins and Eugene Hanson
for the Cob Web Bar. Council
man Hedal moved that the petition
be granted, and a second was Sc
cured, but before the vote was taken
Councilman Bodler desired informa-
ton as to whether the saloon was
being installed, and was to be oper
ated by those making an application
for the license, or whether they
merely represented some one of the
Spokane breweries which are doing
business in the city. Mr.. Hanson
was present and stated that they
were not backed by any brewing
concern, but that they owned the
business, and that as soon as the Ii
cense was secured, and arrangements
could be made he would move from
his present quarters, and open up in
the new Cob Web.
Light Petitions Granted.
The petition of Harry Houck for
the privilege to construct stairway
to his building in the alley between
Indiana and Occur d'Alene street
was granted on condition that the
council would have the right, should
it see fit at some time in the future,
to tear it down. A petition for lights
on Summit and A streets was grant
ed, and also for lights at Twelfth
and Lakeside and Thirteenth and
Lakeside.
Councilman Bodler stated that he
understood that the clerk had grant
ed a permit to l. NJ. Busbyy who is
outside the sewer district, to make
connections with his property to the
sewer, and made motion that the
permit be revoked and it was grant
ed The motion carried, and the
councilman then made another mo-
ton which was also carried, directing
the sewer committee to make an as
sessment of all those residing out
side the sewer district, and whose
property had been connected with
the sewer.
Gardner On Full Pay.
Councilman Hedal on behalf of tht
committee on cemeteries and parks
stated that the gardner had beer
working through the winter month!
for $25 a month, and that the spring
was now arriving and there wa
much work to do, and he moved tina
he be restored to full pay-$70 ;
month, and the motion prevailed.
Councilman Bodler desired t
know as to whether or not in com
pliance with a motion at a forme
meeting ]. C. White had been mott
fed to remove the hull of the Bone
ia from the park shore, and was ad
l vised that he had been notified, bu
that he had failed, and the city at
torney was again instructed to mott
fly him that the hull must be movel
Immediately.
n New Wards Established.
An ordinance was introduced an
passed, changing the ward lines Il
q the city. and taking in that territor
which had been left out in a forme
Ordinance In the Fort ground dis
tricts. The ordinance divides tn
city into four wards as follows:
First ward. all of that territory ly
q ing south of Garden. and west G
! Fifth in the town Of Occur d'Alens
/. and west of Second street in the cit
. of Occur d'Alene. and also Sherma
Park addition. Second Ward-ail @
that territory south of Garden and il
u continuation to the east line of tn
corporate limits of the city. and cas-
e of Fifth. in the town of Occur d
d Aleue and east of Second in the cit
of Occur d'AIene. Third ward-ail c