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Arizona republican., 1912-10-05
CHAPTER XVI. DepartmentaI Divisions

Section | For the purpose of sIm- phfying and conveniently conducting the government of the City of Phoe- nix under this charter, the business affairs of the City shall be divided into three divisions, which shall be designated as follows:
 A Division of Public Safety; a Division of Public Finance, and a Division of Public Works, all of which shall be under the supervision and control of the commission.
 The mayor shall have charge of the Division of Public Safety and he shall designate the commissioner to have charge of the Division of Public Finance and the commissioner to have charge of the Division of Pub lie Works
 In the Division of Public Safety shall be included the Police Depart ment, the Fire Department and the Health Department, together with the equipment, apparatus and parapher- nalia pertaining to each of said de- partments and necessary to operate the same. In the Division of Pub lie Finance shall be included the Tax Department, the License Department the Accounts Department. and Lii braries; together with the equip ment, apparatus and paraphernalia pertaining to each of said depart ments and necessary to operate the same. In the Division of Public Works shall be included the Street Department, the Water Department including the city's irrigation sys- tenn, the Sewer Department, the Building Department, Public Build ngs and Parks. together with the equipment, apparatus and parapher- nalia pertaining to each of said de- partments and necessary to operate the same
 Section 2. The commission may, by ordinance, include additional de partments in any of the said divi- sions, or transfer any department from one division to another
 Section 3. The mayor and each commissioner shall devote all the time necessary to fully and faithful ly discharge their respective official duties.
Arizona republican., 1912-10-05
CHAPTER XIX. Franchise and Public Utilities

Section l. No franchise shall be granted by the city, except upon the ma jority vote of the qualified tax paying electors voting in favor there of, and the question of it's being granted shall be submitted to such vote upon deposit with the city clerk termined by the Commission) of such submission by the applicant for said franchise.
 Section 2. All franchises or privi- leges hereafter granted shall plainly specify on what particular streets, all leys, avenues or other public proper ty the same shall apply; and no fran chise or privilege shall hereafter be granted by the city in general terms or to apply to the city generally.
 Section 3. The power to regulate the rates; fares and charges for ser vice by public utility corporations is hereby reserved to the people, to be exercised by them by ordinance of the Commission or in the manner herein provided for initiating or referring an ordinance. Any right or regulation shall further include the right to re- quire the uniform, convenient and
  adequate service to the public and reasonable extensions of such service and of such public utility works.
 Section 4. No franchise, right or privilege or license shall be consid- cred as granted by any ordinance ex- cept when granted therein in plain and unambiguous terms, and any and every ambiguity shall be construed in favor of the city and against the claimant under such ordinance.
 Section 5. Every ordinance grant ing any franchise shall prohibit the issuing of any stock on account there of by any corporation holding or doing any business under said franchise, to an amount in excess of the sum which shall be fixed for said purpose by the Commission whenever requested so to do by the holder of said franchise; the said sum as fixed by the Com
Arizona republican., 1912-10-05
CHAPTER XIV. Meetinqs of the Commission

Section | The commission shall meet for the regular transaction of business at least once every week; the day of meeting shall be fixed and determined at the first meeting of the commission; said first meet ing shall be called by the mayor elect as soon as he and the other commissioners shall have been duly elected and qualified.
 Section ?. Special meetings may be called by the mayor. or by any two members of the commission.
 Section 3. Any citizen of this city may have access to the minutes up on application to the city clerk.
 Section 4 Any citizen of this city may appear before the commis- sion at any of its regular meetings and may present a written motion; such motion shall be acted upon by the commission, in the regular course of business, within fifteen days.
 Section 5. Two members shall constitute a quorum to transact busi- ness, but a smaller number may ad- journ from day to day until quor- um can be obtained.
 Section G. A majority vote of all the members of the commission shall be necessary to pass any ordinance resolution or motion.
 Section :. No member shall be excused from voting except upon mat ters involving the consideration of his own official conduct. In all other cases a failure to vote shall be en- tered on the minutes as a negative vote
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such authority as 1t may deem ad Visable. provided that the commission shall in it's judgment, consider the appointment necessary.
 Section 4 The compensation of all city officials shall be by salary to be fixed by the commission The commission shall also fix the com pensation of all other officers and employees of the city, except as in this Charter otherwise provided. No officer or employee shall be allowed any fees, perquisites, emoluments, rewards or compensation aside from the salary or compensation. as fixed by the commission, but all fees re- ccived DY him in connection with his official duties shall be paid ly him into the city treasury.
 StLtIon ,. Each of the ch. If off, ciaIs shall make reports of all opera tiOns ir ana the condition of the ac- counts and things under their several jul yuisdictiINs and control, as often as may be required by the commission, and as may be designated and deter mined by resolution or ordtnan.e of said commission.
 Section 6. The commission shall provide for the publication Os the am uual reports of th4 mayor ard If the seN eral chief officials whenever the commission shall deem it wise so to do.
 Section '. No member of the com mission shall hold any other public office or have other employment in the municipal government or any subdivision thereof, the compensation for which is paid out of the munich pal moneys; or be elected or appoint ed to any office created or the com pensation of which is increased by the commission while he is a mem Der thereof; until one year after the expiration of the term for which he was elected
 Section 8. No officer or employee shall be directly or indirectly inter- eSted in any contract, work or busi- ness of the city, or in the sale of any article, the expense, price or consid- eration of which is paid for from the treasury or by assessment levied l by any act or ordinance; nor in the purchase or lease of any real estate or other property belonging to the city or which shall be sold for taxes | 1 process at the suit of the city. No officer shall be in the employ of any public service corporation in the city
 or of any person having any contract
 with the city or of any grantee of a
 franchise granted by the city. Any contract or agreement in con-
 travention of this section shall be
 void.
 Any violation of the provisions
 of this section shall be deemed a mis-
 demeanor
 The commission shall enforce the
 provisions of this section by appro-
 priate legislation.
 Section g. No appointment to po-
 sition under the city government shall be made or be withheld by reason o1
 any religious or political opinions or affiliations or political services, and nc ! appointment to or selection for oI removal from any office or employ ment, and no transfer, promotion, re-
 duction, reward or punishment shall be in any manner affected by such opinions, affiliations or services.
Arizona republican., 1912-10-05
CHAPTER XVII. Finance and Taxation

Section | The fiscal year of the city shall commence upon the 1st day of January of each year.
 Section l. The commission shall by ordinance provide a system for the assessment, levy and collection of all city taxes, not inconsistent with the provisions of this charter.
 The commission shall have power to avail itself by ordinance of any law of the State of Arizona, now or hereafter in force and comply with the requirements thereof whereby assessments may be made by the assessor of the county in which the City of Phoenix is situated. and taxes collected by the tax collector of said county for and in behalf of the said City of Phoenix. Other provisions of this charter concerning the assess ment, levy and collection of taxes shall be subject to the provisions of any such ordinance while the same shall be in force.
 Section g. On or before the first Monday in November in each year or on such date in each year as shall be fixed by the commission
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ing of the commission held not less than one day after the meeting at which such motion was made.
 Section 13. All ordinances shall be signed by the mayor and at tested by the city clerk, transcribed in the book of ordinances and pub lished in the official newspaper not less than ten days before taking eff feet
 Section IA No ordinance shall be revised. re-enacted or amended by reference to its title only; but the ordinance to be revised or re-en- acted, or the section or sections thereof to be amended or the new section or sections to be added there to. shall be set forth and adopted in the method provided for in this chapter for the adoption of ordi- nances.
 Section 15 No ordinance nor sec tion thereof shall be repealed or sus- pended except by ordinance adopted in the manner provided in this chapter.
 Section 16. A true and correct copy of all ordinances and resolu- tions shall be kept and certified to by the city clerk in book marked City Ordinances; such record copy, with such certificate, or the original ordinance. shall be prima facie evi- dence of the contents of the ordi- nance or resolution, and of the due passage and publication of the same, and shall be admissible as such in any court or proceeding. Such rec ords shall not be filed in any case, but shall be returned to the custody of the city clerk Nothing contain ed herein shall be construed to pre- vent the proof of the passage and publication of an ordinance in any other way provided by law.
 Section r. The commission shall. within one year after its Organiza- ton under this charter and from time to time thereafter. cause all ordinan- ces and resolutions at such time in force to be classified under appTo- priate heads. and together with or separately from the charter of the city and such provisions of the Con- stitution and laws of the state as the commission may deem expedient to be published in book form: pro- vided. however. that the said com mission may cause to be omitted from such publication all such or dinances or resolutions which have been enacted for temporary purposes and have become for all practical purposes imperative or of no prac- tical value.
Arizona republican., 1912-10-05
CHAPTER xV. Executive and Administrative De-
partments

Section l. The executive, admin istrative powers, authority and du- ties of the city, not otherwise pro- vided for shall be distributed among the chief officials of the city, here matter referred to, who shall have charge of and be responsible for the proper administration of the duties of their respective offices or depart ments and who shall be subject to the supervision and control of the commission.
 Section 2. The chief officials of the city shall be a city clerk, city assessor, city treasurer. city collec- tor, city attorney, city engineer. chief of police, fire chief, street superin tendent. and such other heads of de- partments as may hereafter be ere ated or designated by the commis- sion. All such chief officials shall be appointed and may be removed by a majority vote of the commission. The commission, at any time when in it's judgment the interests of the city so demand, may consolidate and place in charge of one such officer the functions and duties of two or more of such officers. The commis- sion shall by ordinance prescribe the duties of all the chief officials.
 Provided, however, that until such designation is made, all of such chief officials shall perform the duties and have the rights now vested and inn posed in them by law or existing or dinance, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Charter.
 The Commission shall at the first regular meeting after the election of tts members, or as soon thereafter as practicable proceed to the appoint nent of the chief officials of the city and the determination of their duties as provided in this chapter.
 Section 3. The commission shall have power by ordinance to create. and discontinue offices, deputyships, assistantships and employments other than those prescribed for in this Charter, to provide the modes of fill- ing them, to prescribe the duties per taining thereto, according to its judg- ment of the needs of the city, and to determine the mode of removing any such officer, deputy, assistant or eln- ployee. except as otherwise provided fin this Charter.
 The Commission may by ordinance appoint an officer who shall be z head over the appointive officers ant departments; and delegate to hin
Arizona republican., 1912-10-05
CHAPTER XVIII
Contracts

Section 1. All contracts shall be drawn under the supervision of the city attorney; all contracts must be in writing, executed in the name of the City of Phoenix by the mayor, and must be countersigned by the city clerk, who shall number and
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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1912-01-18
THRONE
TO LEAVE PICKING
Manchu Princes Advise Emperor
to Go to Jeh0l.
U. S. TROOPS BEGIN VOYAGE
Transport Logan Departs From Ma
Mia for Chin Wang Tao Where
Soldiers viii Guard
Railroad.

Picking, Jan. 13.-The Manchu
princes of the imperial clan met and
resolved to advise the throne to retire
to Jehol, about 120 miles
to the northeast of Picking, where the
members of the imperial family have
usually gone during the summer.
Imperial Army on Move.
The whole of the irsperial army at
Hankow has started on the way to Ho-
Nan with the object of destroying a
revolutionary column operating there.
The imperial troops intend to reoc-
cupy several towns in the Province Of
Ho-Nan and southern Chilli, which
had gone over to the revolutionists.
The imperial troops at Lanchow are
acting with fiendish brutality. The al
legation is made that they captured an
officer of the republican troops, whom
they first tortured and subsequently
skinned alive. They also shot a Red
Cross assistant.
United States Troops Leave Manila.
Manila, Jan. 13-The United States
transport Logan left here with a bat
TALON of the Fifteenth infantry and
other details on board on the way TO
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1912-01-18
SUGAR FAMINE THREATENED.
Bottoms Of Sacks Seen in all Grocery
Stores in Marshalltown. -.

Times-Republican: A shortage of
coal is not the only thing that is
causing the grocer to worry The
sugar supply is giving out. Almost
every grocer in the city has been
able to see the bottom of the sacks,
and the local Wholesale house has
been unable to afford relief.
Although sugar-cars of it-have
been in transic several days, the Let's
Fletcher company has not been able
o land anything nearer than Oelwein
md Mason City. One car consigned
% the wholesale house here has
been at Oelwein for six days. Anoth.
n car left Mason City last Monday.
Several cars are somewhere between
Marshalltown and Chicago
Because the supply of sugar was
o low the Letts-Fletcher company
tired Cedar Rapids for a small or,
Ter of 300 sacks. or 10000 pounds,
and it was rushed 10 this city by
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1912-01-18
U. S. G. A. IN ANNUAL SESSION
Golf Club Delegates From All Over
the Country Attend the Meeting
in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia, Jan. 13-The annual
meeting of the United States Golf as
ociation is being held this afternoon
at the Bellevue-Stratford, and is
marked by large attendance of dele
gates from all parts of the country.
Secretary Watson announced that
ne had received applications from the
following clubs for the championship
events of 1912: For the amateur cham
pioGship, the Chicago Golf club. Whea.
on, H.; the Country club. Buffalo;
he Cincinnati Golf club, Cincinnati,
o., and the Essex County club, Man
hester, Mass. For the open cham
nionship, the Essex County club, Man
chester, Mass The Essex County club
md the Buffalo Country club made
DUPLICATION for the women's champion.
Zip event
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1912-01-18

Chin Wang Tao, in northern China.
The American troops are to be en-
ployed in guarding a section of the Pc
king railroad from Tang.S to Ian
chow against the possible attack Of
either imperialists or republican
troops.
The departure took place in the
presence Of throng of civilians and
soldiers of other regiments, while
women crowded the quay bidding tear
full farewells and wishing godspeed to
the troops. No women We're allowed
to accompany the expedition.
Bell Gives Parting Advice.
Maj. Gen. j. Franklin Bell, COM
mander in chief of the army in the
Philippines, made short parting
speech TO the officers and men of the
expedition just before the transport
sailed.
General Bell urged the troops to
show pride in their American citizen
ship while they were pm foreign soil.
The Chinese. he said, were worthy of
a square deal. and he expected the
American soldiers to treat them in a
worthy way.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1912-01-18
MANY HURT IN RIOT
LAWRENCE (MAss.) POLICE FIGHT
10000 STRIKERS.
Woolen Employees March on Mills,
Force Operatives to Quit Work
and Wreck Rooms.

Lawrence, Mass, Jan. 13.-Rioting,
in which many persons were seriously
injured, followed strike of the l2,-
900 employees of the American Wooden
company.
p, The entire police force was unable
10 cope with the situation until cool.
er heads among the strikers persuad-
ed the rioters to retire. The strike
grew out of the refusal of the COM
pany TO grant an increase of wages.
More than 1000 men marched from
the Washington TO the Wood mill,
where they smashed the gate and took
possession. The mending room, one
of its largest departments, was total.
iy wrecked. The strikers marched
from room to room. urging all the OPP
eratives to leave.
While the trouble was still in prog
ress at the Wood mill almost the en-
tire force of 5000 operatives quit
work and fed to avoid further vio-
lence.
A mob marched to the Aver mill
carrying banners and forced a big
iron gate leading into the mill yard.
The plant was cleared in a short time,
but most of the operatives had fed.
The crowd then went to the Lawrence
duck mills, where a police squad was
on guard.
Fifty men attempted to force their
way in. One man scaled the gate.
Encouraged by his act, others started
to follow, and the police brought their
clubs into action and blood began to
flow. After six arrests the mob dis
persed.
1t was decided to call out the militia
should the situation become more
serious.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1912-01-18
LITTLE CHILD IS SHOT
Accidental Discharge of Gun in
Hands of Brother.

Little Louise Kentfield, the sixteen
months-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Webb Kentfield, residing about four
miles south of town, was probably ia
tally shot by her brother, John Kent
field, aged fifteen, Sunday evening
about five o'clock. A charge of shot
from twelve gauge shot gun passed
through the thigh OF the little girl,
carrying away the bone and the
greater part of the leg
The baby was brought to the Will
liams Hospital in Oskaloosa where
the remaining parts of the limb were
cut away. The outcome of the un.
fortunate accident is in doubt.
Young Kentfield was handling his
shot gun which was of the magazine,
pump gun type, and was engaged in
dslodging the loaded shells. He was
behind the little sister, who was
standing on chair, her back toward
the muZzle of the gun. In some I'M
accountable way the trigger caught
and the gun was discharged when the
muZzle was possibly less than a foot
from the child. Had she been a lit
tie farther away the charge would
have cut the leg off entirely. The
charge of shot ranged downward and
while it entered the leg near the top
it tore away the knee cap. Amputa-
ton was necessary almost at the hip
joint. Prompt action on the part OF
inmates Of the home prevented hem
Orrhage and the baby rallied from the
shock during the night. The child
was brought to OskaloOsa and the
amputation was accomplished during
the noon hour today monday. Fol-
lowing the removal of the leg the
baby came from under the influence
OF the anaesthetic in a way that sur
prised physicians and nurses. Heart
action, although stimulated, is strong
and the baby has a chance for life
Although the case is almost hope
less, the child may pull through all
right.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1912-01-18
NULLIFY WILL OF r. WORK
Heirs of Millionaire Agree Not to
Profit by Violations by Burke
Roche Children.

New York. Jan. 13.-The sailing this
week for Europe Of Maurice and Frank
Burke-Roche, grandsons and heirs Of
he late Frank Work, in direct viola
ton of their grandfather's will, has
made known the existence of an agree
ment between the late multimillion-
aires heirs which nullifies the proyi-
soins in his will
After his daughter and Burke Roche,
an Irish soldier of fortune, were d.
vorced, Frank Work, who died March
l6 last in his 93d year, expressed his
opinion of the Irishman by adding four
caustic codicils 10 his will. He was
accustomed to declare to his friends
that, in his opinion, international mar
riages should be punished by hang,
ing
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1912-01-18
}EDMANDS IS RICHESON AID
Father Of Fiancee Financing Fight
for Communication Of Sentence Of
'-.. Confessed Slayer.

Boston, Mass, Jan. 12.-It is ex.
pected that within the next two weeks
an appeal will he sent to Governor
Foss and the executive council in an
effort to save the life of the Rev
Clarence V. T. Richeson, condemned
to death for the murder of Avis Lin
nell.
The fight for Communication of the
sentence will be financed by Moses
Grant Edmands. father of Miss Violet
Edmands, the former fiancee Of Mr..
Richeson. He has retained faith in
the minister, believing him mentally
unbalanced when he gave Miss Lin
nell the poison which caused her
death.