The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-01-14
1910 CITY COUNCIL AT WORK
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owe to my friends, to the citizens Of
Leavenworth, and to you, that l make
a statement regarding my position and
in this matter.
l have taken the opinion Of an at
torney and am advised that there is
some doubt as to the decision of a
court if the matter as to who is mayor
should be litigated, for the reason that
there is possibly conflict between the
statutory law and the constitution of
the state regarding the holding over Of
appointed public officers beyond gen
eral election.
Being a man who prefers peace to
strife and not wishing to involve the
town in a lawsuit or to become in
volved in one myself, and not wishing
to place the present mayor and council
in an embarrassing position, and having
fully considered the matter, l have con-
cluded that the best interests of the
people of the town will be conserved
by allowing the matter to drop without
contest. l therefore tender this as
my withdrawal.
Assuring you of my best wishes for
a prosperous year, remain,
Yours respectfully,
F. J. Brady.
Councilman King moved that the
withdrawal be accepted. On sugges-
ton Of City Attorney King a vote of
thanks for Mr.. Brady being such good
citizen was tackled onto the motion,
and so passed.
The committee who had the Frank
lin plat in hand reported through
Councilman King, who said the plat
did not look good to him because Of
no alley through the property.
Mr.. Nelson, attorney for Mr.. Frank
lin, said the latter was merely dividing
his own property into lots, and that the
city could not force him to give land
to the public, and that the presenta-
ton Of the plat to the council was
mere matter of formality. He desired
to leave the matter to the city attorney
and rest on his opinion.
The new councilmen seemed more
or less bashful about making motions,
and so Councilman King, in line with
expressed sentiment, moved that the
plat be accepted, which was done
unanimously on roll call.
H. E. Carr, Of Adams & Carr, who
had sold a residence lot to Mrs.
Ellis, explained that the new sidewalk
along that property had been built
diagonally across the front corner, cut
ting down the size Of the lot and 9TH
erwise injuring the property as we'll as
the looks of the street.
On motion of Mr.. King the matter
was referred to the street committee,
with power to act.
The various ordinances on fire limits,
sidewalks, signs, itinerant merchants,
etc., which have been hanging fire
for the past two months, were read for
the second time. For the benefit OF
the new councilmen the ordinances
were read in full.
The various matters covered by the
ordinances will mean warm discussions
when the third readings come up at
the next meeting. AS it was, the
council narrowly escaped a warm dis
cussion on the proposed fire limits.
Mr.. King strongly opposed including
the buildings on the north side of Com
mercial street in the fire limits. He
was afraid it would hurt the growth Of
the town. Mr.. Carlquist just as
strongly supported the ordnance. He
said he did not want to see CONNER
cial street filled with cheap and un-
slightly shacks, from which the width of
a narrow alley would be no fire protec-
ton at all.
From present indications the new
council will be sadly at loggerheads in
the disposal of this question next
month.
In regard to the proposed regulation
of the street signs Judge King called
the attention of the council to the fact
that if the height limit was fixed at
not less than fifteen feet, he and many
others would have to put another story
on their respective Office buildings and
stores.
The annual report of the town treas
urer was read as follows:
Receipts
Balance, Dec. 81, '08$ 955.74
Fines collected --- 465.45
Saloon licenses $500 7,150.00
Other licenses --- 204.00
Tax collections ~ 2,005.19
Miscellaneous 1890 25.72
Special sidewalk tax $3.50
Total receipts 49, $l0,844.
DISBURSEMENTS
Election expenses IS 1900