The Nome daily nugget., 1916-07-18
COUNCIL TO RAISE FUNDS
 FOR IMPROVEMENTS

With one exception of Councilman Charles Thompson. who is far away in the remote quietness of Council the city dads were all in their accus- toned places when the clerk called the roll at the regular i-monthly meeting last evening. The minutes were read and approved without com . ment.
 A communication from the Loyal Order of Moose asking the council to grant a portion of the city cemetery to the order for burial purposes was read.
 Councilman Rose, reporting for the police committee stated that&'atrol- man Eddy has been on the sick list and the firemen have been looking af ter his duties pending his recovery.
 Claims and accounts againt the city in the sum of $32.47 were read. Coun- = clman Burgh moved that they be paid if endorsed by the finance committee Mayor Blake stated that the motion had best be uttered to require imme diate payment of the labor bills Burgh said that owing to the long pe- riod between meetings of the council such action would force creditors to wait a long while for their money The mayor replied that the council sometimes had to wait long time for al of the motion. Burgh then chang cd the motion and the labor bills were orderd paid.
 Councilman Burgh then presented a resolution authorizing the mayor to borrow ten thousand dollars for the purposes of building the proposed city pumping plant, and granting him pow CT to give mortgage on the property purchased for that purpose and also on the pumps, pipes and other equip ment belonging to the city as secur- ity for the loan. The resolution re- 'l''i'' 'i'At tit I'i ii1II'li bt ItItlu dt the rate of $3.500 per annum with in- tcrest. Councilman Rose moved that the resolution be laid on the table. stating that committee had been appointed to look up the matter of plans and costs and he thought no borrowing should be done until that committee had reported. The mayor would have none of it, however, and called for second to the motion. Ross answered the bell and the resolution passed with Rose alone voting no. In answer to q question of the legality of such action by Rose, City Attorney O'Neill stated that the city could bor- TOW not to exceed the sum of it's annual revenues and the action of the city was in good and regular order
 Councilman Rose then introduced an ordinance granting to w. A. Oliver a franchise to establish an electric lighting and heating plant in the city with power to erect poles, lay heating mains, etc, and also allowing the grantee the right to dispose of the same to d corporation. The period of the franchise was twenty five years Councilman McAllister did not ap- prove of giving anyone franchise for lighting station or anything else in that line for d twenty five year period and hastened to put in his objection. The mayor remarked that the ordinance would be placed on file and taken up at a later period.
 Councilman Rose stated that the various fraternal orders of the city have agreed to gravel the roads in side the cemetery and also to dig drains and ditches and he thought that the city should make some i'm provements in the section of road be- tween the main highway and the cemetery gates. He mentioned the cost at about sixty dollars and offered | motion that the council appropriate