The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-05
COUNCIL TAKES
ROUTINE WORK
CITY LAWMAKERS PASS UP BIG
MATTERS AND TRANSACT
REGULAR BUSINESS.
Reports of City CfficcrS-Eiks Ask Re-
bate-City Attorney Says Paving
Pan Is Legal.

Members of the city council were
evidently of the opinion last night
that small things well done were as
important as big transactions careless
by looked after, and for more than an
hour a long list of little routine BUSH
ness occupied the undivided attention
OF the city dads.
Committee Reports.
The judiciary report, recommending
that the petition of Henrietta Stone
for the annexation Of Stones addition
TO the city of Wa1la Walla, was adpot-
ed Later the plat of the addition was
approved. and an ordinance anneXlng
the territory was given final passage.
John Freis, by a report of the street
committee was awarded the contract
for grading Merriam street from East
Alder to Mill creek, his bid OF $299
having been found to be the lowest
and best. He was also gwen the con-
tract for the grading of Otis street
within the same bounds, for which
his bid was $479.
The water cOmmitte recommended
. I'm an adopted report that the water
superintendent in conjunction with
the water committee, look after all
water mains and sewer mains in those
districts where paving is contemplated.
Property owners in the upper por-
ton of the city, who filed a remon-
STRANGE against the petition of the
H. P. Isaacs company and others ask
ing for the abandonment of the old
Esaacs mill race from Bellevue avenue
10 Mill creek, were granted the prayer
OF their communication through the
report of the water committee that the
prayer of the Isaacs petition be not
granted The G. H. Sutherland COM
pdny, by the water committee report,
was awarded the contract for furnish
ing supplies and fausetS to the de-
partment, their bid having been found
90 be the lowest and best.
Although it may be somewhat I'M
usual for a batfItub to Fay water rent
of any kind, the water committe rec
commended in a report that hereafter
all bath tubs connected with sewers
shall pay the water rate fixed for bath
tubs, whether they are connected with
the water service or not.
Renewals of liquor licenses were
unanimously granted the following:
Hinton & Williams. for the Enterprise,
Ct East Main street: Samuel Finn, for
the Pullman, 118 Main street; John
Kelly for the Orient, Second and
Alder streets: and Andrew Motel, for
The Office saloon, ia Main street
The water committee was given
charge of the communication of prop
erty owners in Green's Park addition.
I'm which they Ggreed to take water
for lawn and domestic purposes as
soon as extensions of the pipe line
can be made.
Ask License Rebate.
] J. Kaufman and Herbert c. Gregg
In behalf of tie local lodge or Elks
appeared before the council and asked
the rebate of the license for the
Norris Grove circus, which will be
here Saturday. The gentlemen said
the remission of the tax would be a
favor upon the lodge, and as they had
plans almost completed for the erec-
tion of four STORY building for
WalIa Walla the council might assist
them to some extent, especially so as
a portion of the proceeds of the circus
are to be turned over to the Elks. The