Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1910-11-29
Assessment Levied on Boulevarding
District No. Heath Officer
Bond Approved.
ROOMING HOUSE CLOSED
Large Claims for Damages Turned
Down-City Engineer Asks That
His Resignation Be Accepted.

An adjourned meeting OF the city
council was held last night and sew
eral matters of more Or less i'm
portance were disposed Of
The first proposition claiming the
| attention Of the council was Resolu-
ton No lO7, lcvying an assessment
on the property included in BOule-
varding improvement District No. |,
known as the court house district,
The assessment was ordered levied
and the city clerk was instructed to
advertise next Monday night, the
next regular meeting night Of the
council, as time when any protests
against such assessment will be
heard.
| The bond of Dr.. A. C. Biddle for
81 900, as health officer, was filed and
approved.
| a committee, consisting of Alder
man Baker, Osweiler and Sutter,
were appointed to formulate a plan
Tor the handling Of the garbage and
scavanger work Of the city and to
submit same to the next regular
meeting. G. T.. Mathews. of the
board OF health, reported to the coun-
Gil that the work of the board was
progressing nicely, and submitted q
few recommendation regarding the
handling Of the city garbage, which
will be considered by the committee
appointed to devise plans along these
lines.
Want $500 Damages.
Louis Chan presented claim for
$500 damages, alleged to have been
caused from paper and other debris,
scattered over the grain fields and
other fields of claimant during the
year 1910, blown from the city dump
and other dumping ground used by
the city, and left unprotected" The
second claim for damages is that of
katerina Chan and the alleged causes
are along the same lines as those
set forth by Louis Chan, the only
difference being that the latter asks
for ST 900 damages. The council were
unanimous in turning down these
claims.
Bristol Rooming House Must Close,
Owing TO illness, Chief of Police
Bcbb was not present at the meeting,
but Alderman Baker informed the
council that the chief requested him
to recommend that the license of the
Bristol rooming house be revoked.
The Bristol roomng house is located
on Main street, over the Big Bear
saloon. The council acted on the
recommendation and the license was
ordered revoked Discussion brought
out the fact that there are other
roomng houses in the city which
will receive the attention of the
council i'll the way Of investigation in
the future.
The chief OF police was instructed
TO notify all saloons. including the
Bright hotel buffet, that the Sunday
and early closing ordinance must be
strictly observed. This was the result
of stories coming to members of the
council that the early closing law was
not being strictly adhered to by
some of the saloons of the city.
To Protect Crossings.
The fact that a number OF cross
ings have been broken down within
the past few weeks in the Fifth
avenue boulevarding district by the
big traction engines, was brought to
the attention of the council by Alder
man Baker 1t was the opinion of
| 1uy Attorney SOlcIlldl that untll
the present ordinance was repealed
and new one passed. these engines
could not be prohibited from passing
over the crossings. and the only re-
course left the city is civil action for
damages In view OF these facts, the
mayor appointed a committee to con-
suit with the city attorney and pre-
pare an ordinance to be submitted at
the regular meeting next Monday
night.
A. w. Gates appeared before the
council and requested that the city
order sidewalk built on Sixth
avenue between Cochrane and Vir-
ginia streets The walk was ordered
built
/ Wants to Resign.
CITY Engineer Wasmansdorff stated
that his resignation had been on file
for some time and that he wished to
be relieved from the city work He
said that he would prefer being re-
lieved at once. but would be willing
to finish up all work now in hand if
the council preferred to have him do
so. 1t was evident that Mr.. Was.
mansdorff would prefer the accept
ance OF his resignation at the earliest
date possible. but at the same time
has no desire to inconvenience or
embarrass the city by leaving any un-
finished work for his successor.
The council adjourned to the next
regular meeting. next Monday night.