The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1909-02-06
Mr.. KlMBALL OFFERED TO SETTLE
THE CASE FOR $z.S5O
PERPETUAL RIGHTS INCLUDED
That Is About What the judgement and
interest Amounts TO at The
Present Time.


tion from Ray Kimball was presented,
offering to accept S., $50 for his Judge
ment and perpetual rights Of fiowaRe.
This amount 10 practically what the
judgement amounts 10 at the present
time. The bare judgement is 81. 500
and the interest upon it and the for
mer judgement will bring the amount
to about the sum demanded by Mr.
Kimball for an immediate settlement.
BY the perpetual rights" Mr. kim
ball means this. The damages assessed
against the city compensate Mr.. Kim
ball only for the years up to the time.
the suit was Signed. He has the right
70 sue the city each succeeding year
from that time on until the end Of all
things for it is supposed that Mr.
Kimball will have possession OF lot .
until the exciting period which pro.
phecy tells us will precede judgement
day.
The proposition looks Ike an advan-
tageous one TO the city but the council
looked upon il as &c @. d. sign
on Mr.. Kimballs part and refused TO
give il any serious consideration.
The condition that Mr. Kimball
made was that an immediate cash
settlement be mads The city treasury
is not Hush just now and even had the
proposition been accepted ii would
have been hard for the city TO pay over
the money without borrowing il.
Mr. Kimball says that he felt quite
sure that the council wouldn't accept
any compromise when ne made the
proposition but he wanted to show the
pepole that he WASH asking for the
whole pound OF flesh
After canvassing the matter thor
oughly the council decided 70 state
privately 20 one member Of the council
the amount that the city will pay in
settlement and let tnat member 20 20
Mr. Kimball and try Co effect a settle
ment at that price Failing 20 get a
settlement at the figure named the
council will not settle The member
selected was Alderman Nesbitt and the
figure nas been kept secret
The matter Of auctioneers license
was considered at great length by the
council Many of the councilmen |
were adverse TO allowing man to
come in from outside and sell stock |
of goods 20 the detriment OF the mer-
chants who are residing here and pay
ing taxes and they wished just as
heavy a license to be assessed against /
such itinerants as possible.
The work at the power plant was 10.
ported 60 be in very satisfactory
shape. The machinery is all in and
the floor has been laid As soon as the
awitch board arrives and change Is
made in the belt the new plant will be
ready to turn over
The settlement with the Falkenau
people has not been made yet and IL
looks as If the matter will drag along
for some time. The last adyices from
the Chicago Office were that Mr.
Strauss is out OF the city and az soon
as he returns something will be done.
Mayor Webb read letter from the
Falkenau people IN which they say
that the city Is doing them an inius-
tice in not paying up what they ask
FOR They also want 10 know II the
sjSs order which they hold will be
paid II presented This is the order
that was given them 20 pay the labor
when Walker left and which they did |
not pay. Later on the city paid the
labor and expected 20 mold IL out of \
this order
In conversation with Captain Bosan-
ko. who has an unpaid bill for material
furnished the contractors. we learned
that his bill yet remains unpaid al
though the city has paid the contract.
ors the money with which to pay IT,