The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1911-03-23
KELLER BROS.
DEMAND BONDS
WILL CONSIDER CHARTER REVISION
Call Special Election to Vote on Heights
Addition Ordinance Provides
for Light and Water Fund.

The greater portion of the time of
the Monday night meeting of the city
council was taken up with the consid
Grafton of routine business. The two
most important matters coming before
the body were the question of the re-
vision of the city charter and the man
ner of settling the impending contro-
versy with Keller Bros, the Denver
brokerage firm that purchased the
$50, 900 bond issue last August.
The advisabiity of amending the
charter has been discussed at length
by different organizations of the city
during the past week. A meeting of
the Heights Push Club was held Friday
night in the reading room of the Bap-
tist church on the Heights in regard to
the matter. Judge A. j. Derby ad-
dressed the meeting and explained the
provisions of the old charter. Judge
Derby stated that he did not believe it
necessary to adopt a new charter, but
that revision of certain of its proVi-
sions relating to street improvement
would be advisable. He also thought
that the city would find that one of the
most benficial decisions relative to city
government that it could make would
be to change the method of choosing
all of its city officers. He advised an
elective system or the choice of all
officers, thus doing away with appoint
ment by the mayor. Attorney S. W.
Stark, who was also present at the
meeting, however, took the view that
the city should adopt an entirely new
charter. A committee of the members
of the club were instructed to secure
number of the copies of the old charter
that they might be studied by the
members. This committee was also
instructed to ascertain what provisions
of the charter should be changed and
make a report of their findings at the
next meeting of the body tomorrow
night.
At the council meeting Monday night
Henry l.. Howe, chairman of the judi
ciary committee reported that the
committee had met Monday morning
for the purpose of considering charter
revision. Judge Derby and Mayor
Hartwig were present, being eX-otlicio
members of the committee. However,
no action was taken, except that 1t
was decided to add the names of the
following citizens to the committee:
l.. N. Blowers, Chas. T. Early, A. d.
Moe, P. M. Morse, p. S. Davidson.
The next meeting of the above named
body will be held at 7 7:45 tomorrow
evening at the rooms of the CONNER
cial Club.
In answer to letter recently writ
ten by Recorder H. r. Langille to
Keeer Bros, concerning the return of
certain papers that had been seut them
last year in connection with the at
tempted sale of the 500, 900 water bond
issue, a communication was received
from the brokers stating that they con-
sidered it within their legal rights to
hold the city to the alleged sale. AS
it will be remembered by those who
are familiar with last years history of
the bond issue, the bonds were twice
advertised for sale during the summer,
but it was a dull season and no pur
chasers were found. However, at a
later date a private sale was negotia-
ted with Keeler Bros, who said that
| they thought the sale would not be
invalid for lack of advertisement. 1t
was agreed that the sum Of $780, 900
would be paid for the issue. However,
an Injunction restraining the sale was
procured by Burt Van Horn, as plain
tiff, who claimed that a greater sum
could be secured if the bonds were fur
ther advertised and such was the
opinion of Federal Judge Bean. The
communication received by the council
Monday night was filed without any
further action on the matter. Keeler
Bros, since they would have to begin
their proceedings in this district of the
Federal Court, will find that they will
have a hard problem to face if they
attempt to hold the city to the sale, as
they claim in the face of Judge Bean S
opinion, although it may not have been
handed down from the bench.
A communication was received from
II. M. Aguchi, praying that the city
secure some proper place for the dis
position of garbage and allow HIM
franchise and license to remove 1t.
The communication was referred to the
health committee.
A communication was received from
the W. G. Aldred Co. asking that the
council grant them the privilege Of
leasing the city roller that they might
use it in certain street work being done
for the city by them. The public
property committee was instructed to
investigate the matter and report con-
cerning it at the next meeting OF the
council A report was submitted to
the council stating that the W. g.
Aldred company had satisfactorily fin
ished the grading and improvement Of
blocks 3 and on State street between
| First and Third streets. The work had
received the approval of City Engineer
| p. M. Morse and Street Commissioner
Robt. r. Lewis.
The petition that was recently sub
mitted by the Hood River Spray Mfg.
Co. was returned by the fire and water
committees, to which it had been
referred, with their approval, and the
petition was granted. The judiciary
committee reported that after an in
vestigation they had found it impossi-
BILE to purchase at any price lots 3, q
and s in block 2 of the Erwin and Wat
son addition, which the city desired to
procure as a location for garbage pit
Ordinace 277, providing for the hold
ing of a special election in the city and
the sterritory affected for the purpose
of voting on the question Of taking
within :the city limits that part OF the
Heights contiguous to the ball park,
passed the first reading. The date Of
| the election was left blank. 1t was
recommended that the following
citizens be appointed as election Off
GERS: Judges, E. M. Miller, Jesse
Holman and Allan Hart clerks, Henry
Shields and W. Waddel.
The report of the finance committee
as compiled from the recet auditing Of
the city books was referred back to the
committee with instructions to investi-
gate the possibility Of collecting assess
ments levied for street work, as shown