The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-01-09
FORTY men ARE
DISAPPOINTED
No Excitement Attends Inaugural
ton of New City Executive
Richardson

Some thirty or forty citizens were
present at the council meeting Tues
day night, atten ding in the expec-
tation of witnessing some vocalistic
fireworks in the matter of police ap-
pointments and the like. They
were doomed to disappointment,
however, for the Judge forstalled
them by calling a meeting of the
council behind locked doors at the
Commercial Club rooms in the after
noon.
At that meeting it was decided to
cut down the wages of the police
force, and to combine the office of
street commissioner with the police.
The street commissioner will have
the care of the streets and the irri-
cation and will also be invested with
police authority. But as to giving
him the powers of city marshall,
there seems to be some dissention in
the council. To make the street
commissioner marshall would, in
effect, be giving him the office of
chief of police as well-which seemed
to be the Judges idea.
AS result of the new arrange
ment the two regular police officers
will be expected to stand twelve
hour shift each. This, the two men
who have been considered by the
council in their secret session, have
agreed to. 1t is likely that the ap-
pointments suggested by the new
mayor will be confirmed. The un-
official report has it that Mr.. Leak
will be made street commissioner
and c. E. Copeland and J. B. Hay
don as the other two city employees.
None OF the succeeded officers of
the city council, with the exception
OF the city clerk, were present at
the last meeting in their terms.
Councilman Huntington took the
chair in the absence of Mayor Kolb
and the regular routine business of
the meeting was quickly cleared
away. Councilman Huntington,
Sercombe and Olbrich had taken
their oaths of office previous to the
meeting, and Mr.. Richardson as
mayor and HI. r. Vibber as coun-
Gilman for the second ward, took
their oaths before the assem- blage.
D. L. Taylor was also sworn in-he
having discarded his wad of Bee
mans in the meantime.
Then the new city executive arose
and addressing the council, spoke
at length to the assent bled specta-
tors; told 'em what he wanted to
do, what he wanted the police to
do and what everyone else should do.
He had no quarrel with the saloons,
he said, as long as they complied
with the wholesome laws of the city.
The police should be diligent in
chasing the undesirables from the
city limits and grab the beggars and
get rid OF the dogs that are not
licensed. He advocated the paving
OF the principal streets of the city,
and by home labor, if possible.
After the announcement of his
platform the new mayor announced
his appointments-with the excep-
ton of the police force. Staser was
re-appointed police Judge and S. R.
Harper, plumbing inspector. He
announced the appointment of F.
M. Crosby, M. D., as health officer,
but found that the office would not
be vacant for another month.
His standing committees were as
follows: Finance, H. E. Hunting
ton, II. R. Vibber and J. w. Behr-
man; Ordinance. J. Sercombe, Vib-
ber and r. H. Anderson; Street and
Alleys, H. W. Desgranges, Sercombe
and Huntington; Light and Water,
Behrman, Sercombe and Olbrich;
Public improvement, Vibber, Des-
oranges and Huntington; Fire and
and Fire Limits, Anderson, Des-
ora noes and Olhrich. Pr;nt;no Ol