Bisbee daily review., 1920-12-08
UNUSUAL AMOUNT IF BUSINESS
 TRANSACTED AT NEE TING LAST
 NIGHT BY THE CITy COUNCIL

Kempton, chief of police, announced to the council that he has secured a pound-master, and that he believes the burrO nuisance will be eliminat cd. The chief said that he gets more kicks on account of burrcs than he dCiss for any other one thing.
 Speaker Turned Down
 Milford Joseph, who purchased a license yesterday allowing him to tell fortunes within the limits of the city Of Bisbee. appeared before the council with a request that he be al lowed to make public speech in the city park on the subject Of ''Bethphany" The city aldermen were at loss as to what he wanted to talk about, and decided that it was some religious subject, or some thing mystical pertaining to fortune telling. Alderman Rosok declared that hn did not think the city cCnn- c.l much in favor of the business of telling fortunes. and offered q mo ton denying the resuest. Caretto and Beaton voted to let him speak and Rosok and Hicks voted against it. The mayor decitrd the tie and informed Joseph that he had better write anything that he has to say concerning 'Bethphany"
 Rev. C. T. Garnett of the Baptist church addressed the council with the anrounchment that the work that the city is doing on the subway above the Baptist church is a menace to the foundations of the church. He said that unless the concrete floor ing cf the subway be extended to point below the church, the founda- ten offs the building will be under mined by the water that washes ofF from the subway floor. He proposed that the city and the church should 70 50-50 in the expense of extending the subway. After some discussion he council voted to accept the prO posal.
 W G. Bryant city health officer that ttsere is one case cf in the city. and that two new cases of typhoid fever have started from an old case on Art Hill. 1 He said that in his opinion the ty- Dhoid comes from drinking water rom bad wells The sanitary in- | spector was instructed to take sam oles of water from the wells in the i 1eighborhood, and have them tested by Dr. Durfee, with a view toward | the water for household ! use
 J. A. K.empton, city marshal, re- ported collections of S5221 fer the month of October and $2636 for the ,,cO+b ne NcvoOohcr
 Adopt New Ordinance
 P. H. Halleck, ag city sealer of weights and measures. reported that bakers are putting 16 ounces or dough into loaves of bread, which turns out baked weighing from IA 1-2 10 15 ounces. As city engineer Hal leck reported that the flood/ control wall and subway bottom above the Baptist church are nearly completed and that he is readysto put on top to make a parking place. At this >oint the city council reconsidered motion previously made that this .op should be Of wood. and passed mother specifying that concrete hall he used in the construction of he parking place.
 O. B. Thomas, city sexton, report ,d IA funerals during the month ot November. He complained that he sometimes digs graves for 'emer-
 'ency" use, and that psople then 7Ome and buy the plot for the same mount as if the land had not been 70 improved. The council instructed Nim to charge fer the labor Of dig ing the grave in the future.
 Reports were read from Bert Gmehle, city sanitary inspector, and rom Chief Wilson of the fire depart -1ent.
 Under the heading of new business Councilman Caretto announced that 'e desired to bring E,efore the coun- ail the matter of rates charged to he city of Bisbee, by the Bisbee- Waco Water company for water. He declared that the ratCs are too high md are discriminatory. He said hat residents Of Warren are charg- ed $1.50 for the first 1000 gallons. S1 'or the second. 75 cents for 5000 to 5000 gallons, and 65 cents for all 'bove coco gallons. Residents of BisboIe, according 10 Carettc. pay e2.10 for from 1000 to 6000 gallons, g for from 5000 to 15.0OO gallons, with reductions on a sliding scale 'ntil the minimum charge is 50 cents Her thousand for 750,000 gallons and over It was explained by members 0f the cruncil that the townsite of Warren buys the water and distrib- 1tes it and that the Warren company loses money In the transaction. A motion was nassed requesting mem- bers of the Bisbee-Naco Water com panv Co confer with the city council on the subject.
 new ordinance conoSrnine the erection Cf street signs was adopted.
 yr HOLLY INN BURNED