The Daily Missoulian., 1912-08-08

women had been seated on the bench
at the rear OF the chamber. They
were flanked on. the left by Leonard
Coleman. who arose at this juncturt
to act as spokesman for the Humane
society. which was represented by the
women present. Mr.. Coleman was
soon superseded by Mrs. Myers, how
ever and she proceeded to call the
witnesses and conduct the investiga-
tion. 1t appeared for time as II the
"doings" were to be coed but Mayor
Rhoades refused to let the society in
criminate Commissioner Price and the
Investigation was most ladylike there
after.
fhe entire nvest'gation hinged on
one dog. who was XII ! d on the south
end OF the bridge by CITY Herder
Paisley. An explanation of this event
was given by City Herd r Paisley re-
Gently, but here II goes again. MIR.
Paisley had the dog roped, as he
isn't sprinter en- ugh to gather the
dogs in by marathoning them. He
shot the dog and he fell into the river.
| The water revived him and made 1T
necessary for Mr.. Paisley to pull him
up and fire two more shots. This
| led to the theory that he was hang
ing dogs under the bridge and shoot
| ing them. Two witesses. Mrs. Bryant
Smith and and +. II. Grant, testified
| to the number Of shots and seeing the
dog dangling from the end of the rope.
The society did not ask for any
drastic action, so the matter was
dropped after Mrs. Tylar Il. Thompson
had suggested that some other means
be employed to remove the dogs to
their home above. Miss Alice Woody
suggested that the state veterinarian
! he asked for his opinion In the mat
ter OF killing dogs and II was decided
to do this. Mr. Paisley stated that
he didn't want 10 torture the dogs
and was willing to use any means sug-
gested, provided +, produced the de-
sired result This seemd satisfac-
tory TO everyone concerned.
South Fifth Street.
Major Duncan and T.. G. Hall were
before the council to wage war to
the end against the South Fifth street
improvement district city Clerk
Smith announced that he had pc
tition against the Improvement with
about 200 signers. 1t was referred
to the city attorney to check up the
frontage and was brought before the
council again shortly after luncheon.
The details Of the second conclave Will
be rehearsed later
Other Business.
Bids for the new fire alarm sys-
! TEN were received by the council. The
| Gamewel Fire Alarm company was
the only bidder on material. Its bid
for the l6 boxes and necessary ac-
couterments was about 50 600. T.. S.
Kirkpatrick. local telephone man,
bid on the work of installing the sys-
TEN. The bid was referred to a COM
mittee consisting of Commissioners
Houston, Fire Chief Fox and City
Engineer Buck. They are to report
at this mornings meeting.
The bids for the city printing We're
opened. The Missoulian and the
Sentinel We're the only bidders. The
city attorney Is To go over the bids
and the contract will be awarded on
Saturday
| The matter of opening Jackson
street was discussed and the city at
torney was instructed to confer with
Mrs. L. l.. Greenough In an effort
to make some arrangement for the
opening of that street. In case no
satisfactory arrangement could be
made. he was told to bring condemna-
tion proceedings
The city physician's monthly re-
port was read. II showed 10 births
and l3 deaths during the past month.
A large number of inspections have
been made during the past 30 days.
The official garbage gatherers were
appointed by the council yesterday.
They are John G.. Anderson for the
south side. William Broderick for the
middle district and Charles Ranch for
the north side.
J Mayor Rhoades announced that Au-
gust II would be the city's official
cleanup day. Commissioner Price Is
to look after teams for hauling away
the results OF the cleaning efforts
and DR.. Bryant Is to have charge OF
the performance.
The matter of the Cedar street i'm
provement was brought up and the
mayor said that 1t would not be al
lowed to so over until next spring.
The work viii be hurried as rapidly
as possible.
The city clerk was instructed to
write the Kennedy Construction COM
pany In regard to the matter Oh the
charge for fixing up tho streets OH
account Of the sewer construction
The Kennedy company Is disputing
this bill.
Cement sidewalks were ordered 10
on lots and OF b ock IS, School
addition and on the south side of
block 81 and the north side Of block
20, School addition.
The Afternoon Session.
In the afternoon the council re-