The Nome daily nugget., 1916-08-15

establish a city plant, the city dads faced the firing line like heroes and il was of with the old and on with the new" without a moments hesita- tion.
 The council is now definitely com- mitted to the policy of paddle your own canoe" with respect to city pump- ing. All of the members were present except the absent Thompson, when Mayor Blake announced that the meet ing come to order and business was carried through on the swift and easy plan throughout.
 The minutes of the previous meet ing being duly read and approved, the city attorney reported that he had in- terviewed one Blackwell relative to his failure to pay an itinerant mer- chants license for conducting a fur trading establishment and curio store and had given the gentleman an ex- tension of time so that he might place 1 the matter before his associate l.. L.. Lane when the latter arrives here.
 Councilman McAllister reporting for the fire and water committee said that there was nothing to report as the councilmen had witnessed the test of 1 the fire engine and knew the results Bills in the sum of $114,70 were ordered paid under a suspension of the rules on motion of Councilman Burgh.
 Additional bills approved by the finance committee and totaling $304.14 were read and ordered paid on motion of Councilman Rose.
 Under the head of new business the mayor remarked that the power com pany should be notified relative to a further extension of the pumping contract. Rose wanted to know if it was the desire to continue the con- tract
 Ross remarked that he had made 8 personal investigation of the possbili ties of raising the necessary money and had found that the business men would lend their support. A small discussion ensued Then Ross, girded up his loins, figuratively spit on his hands" and commenced to make his tory.
 In the midst of intense silence brok- en only by the rafting gurgle of a pipe in the mouth of a spectator, he moved that the council notify the power company that their pumping services would not be required after was seconded instantly by McAllistel and the fearsome deed was done. Witf 1 one swuup or the axe Ross had severed the last rope and the ship was em- parked on the sea of promise. All voted aye on roll call. Councilman Ross then offered the opinion that the city should purchase a sixty or eighty horse power gas engine and establish a regular pumping plant as there was little question about getting the money and he believed that the city should start right by putting in a plant that could be ultimately made to include lighting and heating plant if it was so desired. Mayor Blake said that l he figured the council should act as a | committee of the whole and all assist in raising the needed funds. Poss remarked that time was short anI the council must make up its mind what was needed and get it.
 McAllister remarked that as Ross l found it so easy to get the money he 1 thought the council should leave it ;o him to go ahead and arrange matters. The mayor said that the council should all act together and not leave f. to any one member alone. Rose suggest : ed that the council had best wire out lOf pilceS III the event that they could not be ascertained in Nome. The mayor accepted the suggestion but thought that much of the necessary | Information might be obtained here. That was all there was to it and the council turned to other matters. Councilman Rose wanted to know if the clerk had done anything toward collecting rentals from persons occu- pying property which had been pur- chased by the city at the delinquent tax sales. Clerk Grimm remarked that he had not. The city attorney rose to remark that he could save Judge Grimm some embarrassment in that matter by stating that owing to the fact that the city does not possess full title until after the redemption period has passed he thought it better to lay