The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-23
are only about a hundred garbage

cans in the city now, and the WORK
of collecting garbage is much retard-
ed on account of this fact. 1t was
decided that the city attorney should
draw up a notice and have a num-
Der of them printed, and sent to
those who do not own garbage cans,
ordering them to purchase them
within a certain limit of time. II the
garbage collector reports, at the end
of this time, that the cans have not
been furnished him, the violators OF
the ordinance will be prosecuted ac-
cording to law.
Asked For Street Vacation.
G. o. Daily, Joseph Hampel and H.
F. Meese asked for the vacation OF a
portion of North Fourth street. 1t
seems that on this street there is
log of sixty-fve feet, which makes 1t
impossible to tell where the building
line on the street is. These gentle
men ask that the jog be Strengthened,
The matter will be investigated by
the council
Councilman Lack was given au-
thority to have light fixtures install
ed in the band room of the city
hall.
l. III. Pelton asked the council to
raise the sidewalk on the extension
to Pleasant street across the slough
I'm TO grade. He said that he was
willing to pay $500 of the cost of
this Improvement The council decid-
ed to visit the place and investigate
the matter thoroughly.
Councilman Gerlich was authorized
to order a car of road oil from the
Standard Oil company for use on the
streets this summer.
The ordinance amending sections
one and ten of an ordinance relating
to the department of public health
was given it's second reading and
passed. The amendment makes the
mayor the presiding officer at the
meetings of the health board. The
amendment to the ordinance relat-
ing to the duties of the poundmas,
ter was also given it's second reading
and passed, as was also the ordi-
nance fixing the fire limits of the
city. The former gives the pound
master the right to charge a fine of
81 when a dog is kept by him for
twelve hours, for non payment Of the
| license, and fifty cents for the ex-
| pense of keeping the dog.
Can Sell Dogs.
1t also gives him the right to sell
dog held in the pound after three
days, and keep the money he re,
ceives for the animal The latter Or
dinance establishes the fire limits of
the city by giving the streets as
! boundaries, instead of the numbers
| of the lots as before. An ordinance
to regulate the installation, opera
ton, and maintenance of electric wir
ing and apparatus, and establishing
rules and regulations for the contro
| OF electrical hazard, and for fXins
! penalties for the violation of the or
dinance as presented for it's frs
reading, but was laid over till thC
next meeting of the council.
e. ID. Wilmot was awarded the
contract for constructing the stairway
in Sibley park at his bid of 1884
Fowler & Pay made a bid of $26-
on the job, and the Mankato Side
walk company offered to build thu
stairs for 1887 bid of $40 wa
received from the Mar ito Sanitar.
Dairy company for the refreshmen
stand privilege at Sibley park, blu
the matter of rejecting or accepting
; tbs bid was laid on the table.
City Printing Awarded.
The Free Press and the Daily Re
view both offered to do the cit,
printing for the coming year at tn
, same price, seventy-fve cents pc
, folio for the first insertion and thirty
five cents for each subsequent insel
ton. The city printing was awarde
: to The Free Press.
Transfers of liquor licenses wer
Q granted to Henry Veigel from H. T
' Branz and to r. ]. holland from .
i. A. Persons. Philip H. McGraw wa
Q granted plumbers license. Marsf
Suddith, John Rhodes and w. T
t Dilley were granted junk peddler
t licenses.
# A building permit was granted
v J. J. and w. j. Flachsenhar on tn
s south four feet of lot four and tn
= north one-third of lot five, in bloc
e fourteen, Mankato. The building
n to be a one-story brick addition to tn
present building, and the cost is e
o timated at $1,000.
d A resolution was passed authori
II ing the issuance of certificates of il
Is debtedness to the amount of $500
h in anticipation of the June settl
I. ment of taxes to be made by I'll
,r county.
!. !. Pickle Man Agreed to Plea
ID Guilty to Arson CHARGE