Show council meeting last week report on the water system mayor mitchell councilmen nelson gnowles joslyn griggs and bauer dauer mere nere present when recorder bacon called the roll at the meeting of the council last friday evening after d a of the in of the previous sess on the co mo atee on licenses reported favorably 01 11 the re kreinest auest of S J schneiter for fr a re bate in his saloon heense 1 cense co covering verin the time that the place was closed the recorder was instructed to draw a warrant in mr schneiter a favor in the sum of 50 councilman rno knowles lea stated that the members of the water committee had held a meeting for the purpose of authorizing improvements to the dutch to section of the water tern tem he ile stated that ohp th work of putting down new two inch pipe to a depth where there would be no danger of it freezing up was al ready under way and that the work would be finished within a few days the committee on streets ask asked edior bior further time in wh ch to report on the matter of placing a new I 1 on the street near tw th residence of thomas dark clark res residents dents of that part of town recently petitioned the council tor for another street I 1 cra g was present at the meeting and submitted a corn com report on the recent improve ments to the water cyst in new lines baling been installed on aldave eld ave nu and railroad Kail road streets ahe cost of these two new lines was 1 96 the vater mater masters report was ac ae c pt d and ani placed on file claims against the city amounting in all to 73 were read and after receiving the endorsement 0 theand the aud ting committee they were ere order d paid of this amount was basfor for water purchased from the eureka hill mining co the council took up the matter of the appointment of judges for the coming city election appo three judges from each precinct at t the e request of the city committees of the two to parties having tickets in the field A list of these judges is pub dished in another part of th a issue A majority of the people living to the north of the gemini spur near the residence of N A peterson and also a majority of the property own ers on the north end of churchstreet church street petitioned the council asking that an ordinance be passed annexing their property to the corporate 1 I 1 in ta ts of eureka city their pet tion was ac comp companied amed by a mao man showing the property in question this property was designated on the map as tract one and tract two tm 0 councilman knowles made a motion that the pe be le referred to the comm atee on city property with instructions to report at the next meeting oi 01 the council but the motion did dil not get a second it was quite evident from the d scission which followed that councilmen nelson griggs bauer and joslyn were in favor of taking im mediate action on the pet tion in or der that the petitioners in be brought into the city in time for the coming city elect on mr knowles opposed this and stated that it wo lid ad be illegal to bring 7 th a s property into nto the city without the usual in tion councilman nelson a mot on that the petition be granted was car ned ried but mr knowles voted aganet aa net it then mr nelson introduced an ordinance providing for the exten sion of the city I 1 mits taking in the property owned by the petit boners and this was carried through to its second reading and then left in the hands of the city council as abole a whole ahole |