Weekly journal-miner., 1915-02-03
HE|SLER ID. HOLD TIGHT ID CHIEF
 POLICE JOB
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 time this city has had no lawful chief
 of police. He said that the very fact
 the office had been so long filled by
 election was proof that the city coun- Gil had based its action on some law and that the law was the same now as 1t ever had been on the subject.
 He said he appeared not so much in
 the capacity of an attorney for Mir.
 Heisler as for himself as a citizen
 of Prescott, who desired to avoid all radical and unwarranted things, be-
 lieving that the office should be main tained as an elective one as the law plainly, to him, contemplated.
 MT. Mitchell replied that he took upon himself the whole responsibility for the changes which had been made recently with reference to the status of the city government, and was just as fully convinced now that | he was right as he was when he ad- vised the appointment of a chief of police, and said that he still advised the council to confirm the appoint ment of MT Robbins.
 Mayor Timerhoff assured the at torneys for MT. Heisler that it was the desire to go according to law and do the very best possible for the welfare of the city, and that if the appointment was not lawful he wanted to know 1t. Ut seems to be a matter of difference of opinion be- | tween the attorneys for Mir. Heisler and the city attorney" said the may or, to which Mir. Morrison replied, it takes difference of opinion to cause a horse race, and I guess we will have the race"
 The mayor re-appointed all the old standing committees, by unanimous consent of the members of the coun- cil. These appointments and the au- thorization of the clerk to publish a notice for bids for city supplies con stituted the sum total of business transacted by the new organization, the personnel of which is exactly the same as II was last year.
 Routine Business.
 The passage of the regular month ly bills and reading of the monthly and annual reports of the officials, constituted the routine work of the old council
 Ed Wager appeared with the re- quest that the council remit the tax penalties on two pieces of property which he owns, the taxes on which have been delinquent for a number of years, as he stated, without his knowledge, his wife, who recently died, having had the business in charge and the delinquencies occur ring without his knowledge. The matter was left for future considera- ton.
 Dr. J. w. Finn appeared with the request that the council donate him forty feet of the street on Gurley avenue, West Prescott, adjoining his property, for the purpose of enabling him to build two new buildings in connection with his sanitarium, which are to cost $7,000. Substantiative of the justice of his request he stated that the street was now one hundred feet wide and that after the donation it would still be sixty feet wide. He said that his sanitarium was a semi public affair and represented an an nual public benefit to Prescott. his books showing that last year S6OO0O had been spent among the business people of the city by those who had been brought here by his institution; also that it had gained lot of ad- vertising for the city all over the country. The matter was referred 10 the street committee, city survey or and city attorney, with the mani estation of disposition to grant he request.
 Ben Hilton represented the fire de- ,artment in a request for the pay nent of sixty dollars to each of the our fire companies for services the 'ast year, and the council unanimous y voted the amount asked.
 A request by letter from Hon. A. A Johns, member of the legislature, hat the council give him an opinion $ to the value of House Bill No. g, ,hich provides for the establishing f city court with jurisdiction CO., xtensive with that of justice of the eace and the Superior court to the mount of $1,000 was read, and the Jerk was instructed to notify Mr. ohns they considered the measure ltirely out of place.
 It was tacitly agreed to pay the ty band for its plaza concert ser ces last year and continue the ar lngement for the coming season. he council was complimentary in ex- -ession concerning the services of e band, although the formal act of e body will be embodied in a future port of the street committee. to hich the letter from the band lead
 was referred.
 BUYS JUDGMENT.