Show MORAN WINS 6 IN PAVING RACE 1 Completes Work on on Hill on First Street PROPERTY OWNERS OBJECTED C 1 1 THOU THOUGHT HT ASPHALT WOULD BE BEt t TOO SL SLIPPERY PERY t By working overtime Sunda Sundays s an holidays with an extra force of inca Inen P J Moran has has finished the pavIng of lowr First street beo the c urt had a chance bance to act In ul the restraining suit sul brought against th theft the eft city to enjoIn the work vork Now that the is ig finished the suit will be dro dropped May 3 1903 a notice of intention to pave FIrst street between A and State streets was published The work W wart commenced last fall the contractor bd ba Ing given ninety days das to complete the work S Aug 25 T W V Jennings Byron Groo Arthur Brown George Derr L C Young L W V Snow Robert i and others owning property on the First street hill bill filed a complaint with the clerk of the district court a suit against the city and Con tractor Moran to stop the pavIng of the street VarIous reasons were given why shy the pavement should not be laid One was that on a bill hili asphalt would prove too slippery and dangerous asphalt was not given as The kind of material with which the street was to be when the notice of intention int was or ordered ordered dered published so th the allege they had no opportunity to pro pyo protest test It inasmuch h as no ma material was named at the time the property owners declared too long a time elapsed between th the notice of In Intention and the letting of the contract the number of feet represented by the petition for the p pavement was consider less than those hose against it and fo r who originally had signed the peti petition petition tion later signed the protest against h i Case Has Dragged Dragge Along What hat with an amended motion molion to strIke out arguments and demurrers thE case has dragged along in iii the court the last entry in the blot biot blotter ter being Dec 20 when a demurrer was as overruled and proceedIngs postponed twenty days to give the attorneys time timeto to file an answer MeanwhIle P J Mo Moran ran who had been awarded the con contract contract tract for the wort pushed things as fast as he could finishing the pavement a few days ago The abutting proper property ty owners lust last summer wanted the court to issue an injunction forbidding the paving of the street The residentS however refused to put up the necessary necessary sary bond borni so no injunctIon was issued |