Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-09-09
CITY WILL SUE
 DEFUNCT BANK Council Insttructs Attorney Wood to Prosecute Claim
 for S8,200. REEVES HAS PROBLEM C0unei! Will Not Lei Him Resign TreasurerShip to Qualify as Circuit Clerk-W EXterminaie
 Mosquitoes.
REEVES HAS PROBLEM

InStructine City Attorney Wood 0 hiring suit against the stockholders ol the Bank of Pine Bluff for $6,2o0 oi the citv's money on deposit with the institution when it closed it's doors, giving him the same authority to force the Iron Mountain railroad to comply with their contract with the city by raising the tracks on Wesl Fourth avenue about inches. ana placing on the calendar an ordinance which would create fund Whereby patrolmen would be paid in cash was the principal business of the city council last night.
 Alderman Sorrells made a motion that "the city attorney be in9ructed 10 take such action as it deeXled nec- essary to protect the funds of the city, today and that suit be filed against the stockholders if necessary to recover the money. A committee composed of Alderman Sorre,ls, Bahlau and Franey was appointed 10 work in conjunction with the city at torney in an effort to recover the city's funds.
 At the last meeting of the council an ordinance was passed requiring the city treasurer 70 make a new bond with surety company. This has not yet been done. Mr. Reeves was present at the meeting and said that the bond would cost $2o0 and that he did not feel that she should be forced to make a new bond at such an expense as he has only a few days yet to serve before he will enter the office of circuit clerk.
 Reeves Victim of Misfortune.
 When asked by the mayor what he had done towards securing the funds out of the bank, Mr. Reeves said thai ne had filed a claim for the amount on deposit. He asked the council whether he would be permitted tc resign as city treasurer if the money was not turned over to the city bA the time he should qualify as circuit clerk and was told that un,ess ht made a clean settlement with the citA , he could not resign.
 It was argued at the meeting that the Iron Mountain railroad hat failed to comply with it's contract with the city by laying only fix Or six | inches of rock on the tracks or West Fourth avenue, when the con- tract required that II inches of rock beplaced under the track. The city attorney was instructed to take what legal action was necessary to force the compliance of the law.
 An ordinance, read twice and placed on the calendar, would create a separate police fund so that the patrolmen would be paid in cash After lengthy discussion as to its legality a vote was taken resulting as follows: Ayes-Bahlau, Hutt and cor rells; nays-Francy, Johnson, Simp- sen and McGibbony. The ordinance would place the officers on the fol- lowing cash basis: chief of police Sll0; assistant chief of police, SS7.50 patrolmen, $60; patrol drivers, $40. Il would also amend sections 430 and 431 of Coleman's digest.
 Mosquitoes Provoke.
 The board of public affairs were ordered to purchase two barrels of ccal oil which is to be used On the stagnant water in the city to rid the holes of mosquitoes. The greater DOT ton of this oil vii be used on the water in the rear of the court house