The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-27

ing the final estimate filed on the
Improvement of Fourth street bridge,
and recommended that local improve
ment bonds be issued to pay therefor.
The report was adopted.
+. The street lighting committee, after
/ having considered reports referred to.
! it at the last meeting, recommended
that lights be placed in the neigh
borhood of Thorne. First and Walnut
streets. Both reports were adopted.
| A petition asking for a light at the
east end of Locust street was referred
| to this committee.
Want Street Graded.
! Property owners interested in the
/ proposed Improvement petitioned the
council to create an assessment dis
| trict for the opening. widening and
| grading of East street from Poplar to
/ Birch street to a width of so feet, and
| to permit property owners to use the
! surplus dirt as them may see fit in
! the Improvement of their realty. The
matter was referred to the street COM
mittee.
| On motion CT Councilman c. H.
! Cummings the Northern Pacific COM
pany was notified to improve its
! tracts on East Main, East Rose and
Isaacs avenue either with vitrified
brick or with asphalt pavement, the
work to be done in accordance with
| the specifications governing that va
riety of work This action was taken
! in response to a communication from
| j. c. Cutler asking information as to
the method in which the company's
! tracts should be improved.
| But one bid, that of the Barber AS
phalt company, was submitted in re-
/ Spouse to- the call for figures on the
paving of North Palouse street local
! improvement district No. 81, and after
| a brief recess for the consideration of
| the bid, the street committee recon-
! mended that the same be accepted.
| The Barber company bid $40 per
! square yard for pavement and offered
| a maintenance fee of IL cents per
square yard for period of five years.
] The bid is Identical with those sub
mitted for other districts.
Extend Water Mains.
The water committee recommended
that a pinch galvanized water main
be laid on Division street from Lin
coin to Newell street, and the report
| in the neighborhood of $95.
The sidewalk ordinance, which was
given first reading at the last Tues
day night meeting. was taken from the
calendar last night and given final
! passage. 1t provides that walks laid
| within d prescribed district hereafter
shall be six feet in width, though the
width may be reduced to five feet in
thinly settled sections upon consent
from the council.
Ordinance No. 1899, providing for
the construction of a sewer on Col
lege avenue from Figueroa street to
Alvarado Terrace, was given final
passage. An assessment district is
created for the payment of the i'm
prOVement.
Bid Rejected.
By a resolution presented by the
water committee, the bid of the G. IL
Sutherland company for the construc-
ton of a sewer line on Oak street
was rejected, the committee having
determined that the city could do the
work at a cost of $1,000, with $3.50
incidentais. The resolution was to the
effect that the city should take up the
work, and was unanimously adopted
In view of the fact that the city or
dinance No. 1895, licensing astrolo-
gers, soothsayers, clairvoyants and
others engaged in that line Of bust
ness, was in conflict with the state
statutes, an ordinance was last night
presented by Councilman Bachtold re-
healing the former law. The new or
dinance is No. 400, and was given
final passage.
Councilman J. F. Stack reported
that the sewer constructed by the
water committee had been completed
at q cost of $15344, while the estl-
mated cost was placed at $3.50.
Adjournment was taken to next
Tuesday night, when the regular
will he held