The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-05-28
Stirred His Honor;
Mayor Was Hostile
From Monusy's DAILY.

". !. Merchant. as he presented at
this mornings meeting of the city
council list of proposed election
Judges for tho coming poll day ON
the county option issue.
This made the mayor mad Judge
Lorln Cray had just spoken on the
same matter. Both the Judge and
Mr.. Merchant suggested that the
council use this list of names TO some
"NtCnt I'm making M the list of
Judges. They suggested that II would
he only fair To have. MS far as pos-
siblC. one dry Judge. one wet
Judge and one judge that was ncu-
trail. In each of the polling places.
This. they said. would hrip To in
sure a fair election
Tho mayor informed the dry
delegation that the council ought To
he trusted TO put In Judges that
would do the fair thing. He took
the position that the council was
perfectly competent To appoint judges
that would carry on an honest cleo
O." iI"HCyCr. the delegation was
m'ird - leave the list there. and
! long afterwards. when the Coun-
Cil came tu make up its own list. the
suggested list was referred To from
time 10 time.
Selected the Judges.
Tho names that The dry dclrga-
ton left were as follows: First
ward. Zen Drikc. Nlcx Bashaw aud
Carl 4 Swanson: second ward. w
\. Weber aud J. \. IIacnZc: third
ward Walter Samhoru. y. Landmark,
Grnr2c Sshrrcr and Waldcnar SCher-
rr. fourth ward. :. w. burgess anh
a. T. Jones: fnh ward. Hugh Jones.
T. n Rnwcn aud GcnfgC Pond: sixth
ward. Swan Juhnron and T.. &. VII
lard
FnlInNinE ia the list that thC coun-
Gil adopted.
First Ward Joseph IIampl. Prod
DCikr. q. G. Olson.
Second Ward-II. +. Leonard. Fred
Nii7k0wski. Joseph Stein.
Third Ward-Clifford Thrn. Martin
NlU0rth Ernest FallCnstrin.
Fourth Ward Fred Bcqmcttc. s..
r. Wallace. Charles OF.
Fifth Ward--lIurn Jones. Orang"
Little James IIodsOn.
Sixth Ward Anton ENr"r. T.. e.
Willard W. +. PolZin.
: w Burgess. In addressing The
council remarked on the many times
that he had acted as election iuhg"
and hc had never known any crooked
work Ia be done nv any.
II appeared that the council mem
hers in appointing tho judges. were
Cndrayoring To make a Distribution
among advocates of tho two sides.
I'm recommending The three for tho
4
This man is dry. this man is neu
trail and This man Is In the lake
clifford Thro later i'm the the day
Withdrew his name. as judge Of the
third ward. Martin Walscrs name
was put In it's place.
Tho same resolution named the
polling places with the exception pf
The ono In the fourth ward. The old
pUIIing quarters in that ward have
boon rented out and new ones will
have To hc foHnd. Tho others are az
follows First ward. Dukes addition
husr house: second. cos North Front
street: third. city hall: nth. T2G
South Front street: sixth. West Man
katO hnSc hous".
Can't Pay Assessment At Once.
Mayor Meyer brought Ia the atten-
tiCn nf the council tho fact that Frank
Dcnman and Charles IIrEg had made
complaint that they were not able tn
paw. all AT once. their full assess
nents for tho Fourth street improve
mpnt In each case tho assessment was
in the ncighborhood Of 5000. II was
found that neither nf these men had
notified tho Citv clerk that they dc
sired to avail themselves Of ihr priv
ilOr" Ot paying tho assessment In in
StailmCntS. The result WIS that the
matter had boon certified tn tho cOun-
~ auditor and wPs now In tho hands
80 tho county Hence. u was plain
that IL was too late for In" council to
do anything about IL.
civ Clerk Rates remarked that
ihcrc were many people IN tho city
who did not seem Ia rr1lizC tho ne
rcsEitv 81 giving notice that they
wanted tn pay in miscellaneous. II they
desired Ia do So. although tho asscss-
inRnt notices themselves told abont
this. Mr. Rates said In many in
rtau"rs people had bcrn called M and
warned by telephone that they would
hav" Ia give notice Ia the city II they
desired 10 take advantage Of the
privilege of paving In installments.
Councilman Jack stated that the
tower roof of tho Central fire station
needed tn he repaired. lie RECON-
m"ndcd asbestos shingles. Tho coun-
I'll passed n motion leaving the mat
tor IN his hands.
Judge I.nrin GRAY spoke -irrv 10
III" council an tn" m"ifer nf allow
ing any more otrrEt c1rnivals in M?u-
k9tn. lie said the Commercial club
had taken a position against this aft
or tho last street carnival.
The council received petition
s'Encd by Jacob IIilgcrs and fourteen
other property owners. asking for q
concrete pavement on North Second
street from Plum to Spring street.
The matter was referred.
Bids Were Opened.
TI'ds wer" opened on the new water
main on Warren street on Bunker
hill They were as follows: C.. NJ.
Masters. sS77 for six inch main and
ESQ lrss for four inch: North Man
tain Plumbing and Heating company:
l.2Si tnr six inch main: MrLaurin
e. Norihrop. sSI? for six-inch main
aud si26 less for four inch: John Nc
Call sS6i for siV-inch main. II was
decided at length to let the contract
io McLsurin & NorthroD for four
inch main Mt sT17. City Engineer
Rlom1uist said fop--inch main was
enough for the needs Of the Deoplr