The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-01-28
cITY ooUNcn Proceedings.
Lengthy Business Meeting Held BY
City Fathers Monday.

ring the application for street car
franchise reported yesterday. the city
council at Mondays meeting, consid-
cred a number of other matters.
The following bills were presented
and ordered paid:
Brownsville Hardware Company,
s5.65; Jacob Porter. for shoeing the
city's mules and repairing carts.
s19.45; Frontier Lumber Company,
$246. A bill for $3.50 from Bernt-
sen and Oberle for screening the new
market house was referred to the
committee on claims.
Mr.. Crixell stated that he thought
that the reports of all committees
should be published each month, that
in nearly every other city of this size
in the state it was done, and that the
people ought to be informed as to
just what the city council was doing
as it was their right
petition signed by all of the
members of the city police force ask
ing that their salary be raised, was
presented. 1t stated that it was al
most impossible for the policemen to
live on the salary that they were
getting and dress as they should.
This was referred TO the police COM
mittee.
Mayor Combe stated that the coun-
ell must take up the matter of fence
for the new slaughter house. Alder
man Browne stated that E. Garcia
had stated to him that he would
build the necessary pens for $50 if
the city would furnish the lumber;
that the lumber of the old slaughter
house was too rotten to be used and
that the old fence posts were of ebony
were now so hard that a nail could
not be driven into them, but that he
would take the old ebony posts and
give in exchange for them mesquite
posts. The lumber for building these
pens would cost the city about $3.50
and he thought some of the lumber
from the old slaughter house could
be used in erecting some kind of shell
ter over the new pens, which should
be done, as often during summer cat
tie would be confined in the pens for
several days at time, and they
would be exposed to the sun without
any shelter. MIR. Browne was. upon
motion, authorized to close the deal
for building the pens.
The unsanitary condition of the al
legs, due to people throwing trash
and slops on them, was pointed out
by Mr.. Crixell, who advocated an or
dinance forcing people to throw such
refuse into boxes or barrels. Chief
of Police Conner informed the coun-
Gil that more than the four scaven-
gel. carts now employed would be ne
cessary to keep the streets and al
legs properly cleaned. Mayor Combe
said that the scavengers- are in the
habit of hauling material which they
have no business to haul, carrying
refuse from stables of private par
ties for money, instead of devoting all
of their time to the city work. 1t
was finally decided to have the scav-
enger work done by contract, which
should be let by bids, to be advertised
for in The Herald.
The matter of stock ordinance,
which the city attorney was request
ed several months ago to draw up
for the councils consideration, was
discussed at length. The city attor-
ney not being ready to report the
mayor stated that he would have
that official to attend to the matter at
once.
superintendent Cowan of the wat
er and light plant presented petit
ton by E. E. Martyr, asking permits
sion to erect an electric light on the
corner of the San Carlos, he to pay
all expense of erecting the said light
and to pay for its maintenance for a
year, which was granted.
A few other minor matters were
attended to, before the council con-
cluded this rather lengthy business
session. The meeting was attended
by Mayor F. J. Conbe, City Secretary
F. Champion. and Aldermen Browne,
Dworman Tucker. Crixell. Putegnat
and AlOnzo.
Citrus Fruit Culture in the Arid
Southwest.
Is the title of bulletin No. So recently
published by the Arizona Experiment
Station at Tucson. The author dis
cusses the growing of citrus fruits
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