The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-10-14
G-STANDlNG EYES0RE
TO Be REMEDIED AT LAST
Ounham Takes a Whack at
MayoT--HIggins Finds Trouble
in Hill Bid

Following partial elimination of a
large-slzcd Joker In the bid OF j. f.
Hill the city council last night author
Azed contract for the paving OF Vine
street from Oklahoma avenue TO War
ner avenue The paving Is to be Of
vitrIIied brick ard is TO cost s2.l5 4
square yard
President Higgins scented a whole
drove OF scnegambins IN the fuel sup.
10 y, and called attention to the inter
.est provisions IN letter attached 10
aud made part OF the bid This pro-
Aon was for interest aud assess.
ment from the time Of The laying OF
the curb. This appeared to several
members OF council TO be a dangerous
proposition in that the Hill concern
and the city and the Rock Island
road nigh, get into legal tangles and
keep up fighting for years; mean.
while the property owners would bo
paying double interest on paving they
could not see, feel nor hear It Is
believed the paving concern Was try
ing in this instance to set preced
ent.
Lawyer Jumps in.
Harry Levy. attorney for Hill, got
into the center with large bluff. lie
said htat council had been bombarding
the firm aud begging 1t TO pave Vine
street If council would quit lombard
Ing and forget about II The concern
would be glad to draw down It's bit
and quit. He offered council $3.50 to
let the whole thing drop Later the
affair vas patched up and the paving
concern waived the the interest proDO.
sitiOn
II has been discovered tnat a state
law protects paving concerns In charg
ing interest and levylne assessments
for paving that may on may not there
after be built Somebody evidently
loaded the statutes with q bomb for
councils There Is law for Just
such performances as the HUI people
wanted to put on IN Vine street
In the language OF that lntlamma-
tofy statesman from the Fourth ward
MIR Morrison. that damnable old
ditch right In the middle OF town Is a
Disgrace to Guthrie He last night
made plea for waving OF objections
and proceeding with the paving while
there Is chance.
Durham Lambssts Mayor.
Durham, ike Higgins, was In the
position OF Br'er Rabbit when the
creek got its back up and kept him
away from the other crtters--"De mo
he study bout it. dc wus' he lax 1t. !"
Mr. Dunham was reminded that the
mayor had asked and practically beg
ged the HILLS TO pave Vine street. Re
plying he said
1T Is a matter OF record that our
mayor has asked several things that
were not right.
More Apprasements.
Resolutions appointing appraisers
for paving portions Of Noble avenue
at Drexel boulevard and Fifthteenth
street were passed The appraisers
are W II. Merten. Gaen Grow and
T.. A. Johnson. For Warner avenue
from Fifth to Fifteenth the appraisers
are W. II. Merten. w. II. Humphrey
and Grant X. Hanford
assessments Oroefco.
Assessing ordinances we're passed
for the following streets paved this
year
Nineteenth from Cleveland to War
ner.
Noble from Fifteenth to Nineteenth.
Warner from Broad TO Nineteepth.
Warner from Broad 70 First
Thirteenth from Cleveland to Noble.
Thirteenth from Noble to Warner.
Fifth from Noble 10 Warner.
Pave Capitol Avenue.
New paving Sas broached IN the
resolution for Capitol avenue from
Harrison to Villas and Park avenues
fro mHarrisOn 10 Villas. Several other
streets in that vicinity and about the
new fire station are proposed for pay'