The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-02-23
NEW WEST SIDE
DRAIN QUASHED
Bids All Found to Be Too High
and Council Rejected
Them.
LIQUOR LICENSE GRANTED
TO NEW SYDNEY HOTEL
Expected That This Will Rails
Ire of Business Men-Dr
Nywening Succeeds Himself as
Health Officer.

! The west side drain will not h.
built, at least not just at present he.
cause of the depleted condition of tn,
city excheque". The bids for the con
| struction. according to plans an,
specifications submitted by City EN-
gineer Doolittle were opened at tn,
meeting of the council Monday night
lnasmuch as the warrant fund ou'
of which tie drain was to be built
could be utilized only to the extern
of $4,000 for this purpose, II wa,
found impossible to entertain any OF
the bids offered. The bids and tn.
| bidders follow:
Rich-Harris Construction Company
entire construction including sche.
dulles A tf"rms, and Il CONSTRUCTION
of drain) $47.880.
Cement Products company, sche.
dule A. forms only. $21.376.
Felton-Wimer Concrete company
schedult A. forms only. $15.ss6.
Pettijohn Contracting company
Schedule B, construction only, SEA.
900.
The latter bid was not considered a,
all because tho bidder refused L.
agree to construct the drain within
the time limit of 80 days provided
for in the specifications.
As any arrangement of the bid.
proposed would extend the city In
debtedness beyond the legal limit tn,
council decided to reject any and a.
of them.
Saloon License Granted.
The much mooted question OF
granting a liquor license to the sgd
ney hotel at the corner of A AMI
Front streets, is finally settled in
taNor of the saloon, the report of the
police committee being adopted by ~
to vote. Those voting in favo
of The license were Null, Smith
Schorn and Pease Those voting
against it were Councilman Wenne"
Culver and Shaw. Inasmuch as th.
proposed new saloon is to open al
most directly in front of the new n
p. passenger station entrance, wher.
all of the people bound each way
rom the station must pass, it Is an
ticipated that one of the bigcesr
bowls that has ever emanated from
the business men, will soon be In
evidence.
flic SEimS Against City.
Notice of two claims against the
city were read to the city fathers
One of them is by Is. Louise Black.
man, who asks damages in tho
amount of $4,000 for alleged injurip,
received while riding home in a taxi.
cab which ran over a hummock il
t1e second block of south Third stree,
| recently. Mrs. Blackman alleges
that she WAS thrown violently about
n the taXicab and has sustained per
manent injuries to her spine and
"cereb nj vertebrate"
The other claim is fo~ alleged dam.
ages to property owned by Mrs. Anna
! -. Gordon from the overflow of =
city ditch the damages asked
! amounting to S435. Mrs. Gordon
asks also that the city repair tn,
ditch to prevent recurrence of the
past trouble. Both claims were re-
fer'ed to the claims committee of the
council composed of Councilmen Mil
| Wenner and Pcase.
Council Routine.
Mayor Armbruster appointed DR.
| John Nywen ng as health officer and
the appointment was CONFIRMED a.
also was the appointment of H. Row
| nSky as plumbing Inspector.
An ordinance passed AUTHORIZING
the relaying of city pavement az
cording to plans and specifications
outlined by the city engineer. Ais
IN o d'nance requiring the heads OF
zach city depa ~tment to take an in.
ventory of all city property once each
month and file the same with the cit.
clerk.