The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1913-12-06
OO|NCS OF CITY 4. J. !
AND COUNCIL

The city council met last Tues,
day night in the Offices Of Jesseph
& Bourland but no official busiS
ness was transacted on account
of lack Of q quorum.
But little interest was shown
in the city election last Tuesdsy
there being but 256 votes cast out
of the 555 registered. In. the
contest for mayor. Jesseph re-
ceived 1877 votes, Sax 26; the re-
naming 33 votes were divided
between D. ]. Burk, A. B. Sans
burn, Mrs. Eunice Sans, F. ~
Savage, George Thomas, G. H.
Beaumle. Hi Jonas and Pete Hses
sci. The only contest of interest
was on the councilman tor the
third ward, in which James T.
English defeated Barney Smith
by a vote of SO to Is. The new
officers as elected are: Mayor, +
C. Jesseph; clerk, Carl Hard; a.
torney. F. Leo Grinstead; treas
urer, Lee Mantz; councilmaII
from LIST ward, E. C. Conner; "a,
ward, W. H. Graham; Sd ward,
James ]. English; councilman atl
large, Dan Droz. st. Clair, Dods
son and Ide are holdover council
men. &
The cases of F. B. Goetter and
]. H. Mason against the city Of
Colville, commonly known as the
sewer cases, being the appeals Of
those parties from the action Of,
the city council in confirming
their sewer assessments, came on
for hearing in the superior court
on Tuesday, before the Hon. H.
L. Kennan of Spokane. Upon
the opening of court the attor-
neys for Goetter and Mason
moved that the cases of the ap-
/. pel)ants be consolidated and upon
the objection 81 attorneys i6f the
city the motion was denied. The
court then announced that the
city having objected, the cases
would be tried separately and the
case of F. B. Goetter was called
for trial. The city attorneys
moved that the appeal of Goetter
be dismissed for the reason that
the appeal was not in compliance
with the law, that the transcript
was not complete and that the
action of the city council upon
the Goetter objection was not in
cluded in the transcript as re-
quired by law. After argument,
the decision on the motion was
held in allegiance pending pro-
duction of authorities to sustain
the appeal, and Judge Kennan
viewed the various properties
owned by appellants and the
general plan of the sewer system.
Upon the convening of court in
the afternoon, the attorneys for
Goetter attempted to show that
the appeal in substance complied
with the law and the court de-
Gliding against them, they then
moved for permission to amend
their proceedings by including
the omitted matter. After an
extended argument by the attor-
neys, the application of Goetter
to amend his proceedings was
denied and the motion of the city
to dismiss the appeal was grant
ed. AS the Mason appeal was
subject to the same objections,
the trial of that case was vacated.
A young man from somewhere
got very busy on Main street
Thursday morning selling PEN
nants, and finally called on Gro
yer Graham with an armful of
his goods with a view to selling.
After looking over the strangers
stock, Graham stated II am the
city clerk and we have an ordin-
ance that provides that peddlers
must pay SIS per day for selling
goods that are sold by Colville
dealers. No more pennants
were sold by the stranger.