The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-06-21
ADJOURNED MEETING
OF TOWN COUNCIL
Engineer Brown Given Thirty Days to
File Estimate of Cost of Water
Supply

large crown OF ClllZeuS WSIc III
the council chamber Tuesday night
when the council met in adjourned
session, to take up the water question
and other emergency matters. All the
members except Attorney Nelson and
Engineer Brown were present, the
latter having been called to Spokane
the day previous on account Of the
sickness of his wife.
The following communication was
read by the clerk:
Leavenworth, Wash. June 18th, IL
To the Honorable Mayor and City
Council:-
Gentlemen:-We, the undersigned
petitioners, hereby request and petition
that you pass an ordinance or resolu-
ton, closing all saloons OF Leavenworth
at the hour of twelve o'clock midnight
and keep the same closed until the
hour of five o'clock a. M, this to in
no way interfere with the present or
dinance closing all saloons at the hour
Of midnight Saturday night and keep
ing them closed until midnight Sun
day night other than that they remain
closed until the hour of five o'clock
Monday morning.
Thanking you for your consideration,
we beg to remain.
P. H. Hutchings, J. B. Violet,
VIM. C. Roach, Churchill & Richie,
Mischke & Blake, ]. B. Tholin.
For some time the matter of closing
the saloons from twelve midnight to
FIVE in the morning has been discussed
by the council. The council could
not agree because some of them ia
vored including the pool rooms in the
closing order while others opposed in
cluding the pool rooms. Now the
saloon men themselves ask that the
saloons be closed, which will probably
be done, but whether the pool rooms
will be included in the order will de-
pend on the action of the council.
A letter was read from c. H. Green,
OF Spokane, acknowledging the re-
ceipt of $50 in payment for preparing
the plans for the water system pro-
posed last fall.
! The water question came up on a
discussion of the article which appear
ed in last weeks Echo under the head
of "A Skin Game on the Public"
Mayor Carlquist and Councilmen
Mischke and Campbell took the
ground that it was an attack on their
integrity, an intention which the other
councilmen disclaimed. Councilman
Weigand said he had not read the
article before it was printed and did
not sign it.
A motion was made and carried Civ
ing Engineer Brown thirty days time
in which to prepare and present plans,
specifications and estimates of the cost
of a gravity system from the Icicle
river and a pumping system from the
same source.
]. w. Corcoran made statement
before the council that the printing OF
the city should be let by contract, and
said that the city was saving 90 per
cent on its advertising since it was let
to the lowest bidder. That previous
to that time the city paid the legal
rate, rs per square for the first inser-
ton and 371a for subsequent inser-
tions Of the same matter.
Deed H. Magyar stated that Mr.. Cor
coran was in error about the city hay
ing paid the legal rate all the time, and
since Mr.. Corcoran had limited at graft
he would state facts: For the first two
years, when there was no reason why
he should not have charged and col
lected the legal rate he in fact charged
the city less than half the legal rate,
but when he found that every mer-
chant, every workman and every other
man who did any work for the city OIL
sold goods to the city charged the reg
ular rates, he concluded that he also
was entitled to the legal rate. He also
stated that since Mr.. Corcoran had
raised the graft question he would re-