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Show EM CLAIM III EIiKE M1 Ordinance Annexing Waterloo to Cit.y Finally Passed by Council. DIG BATCH OF CLAIMS AGAINST CITY DENIED Temperature Clause in Nev Milk Ordinance Is Objected Ob-jected To. The special session of the council Thursday nilil. which was ordered at tho nioeliiiir Monday cvoninsr. promises to bo one of I he interesting variety. Ai, I hat time the claim of P. .1. -Moran for ?:i,(i.!oS.ti7 Jor repairs lo the wood stave pipe in connection wiih tho intercept in-tercept intr skewer will ho taken up. At. the nicotine Monday evening :t communication was read from three mem hers of the special commit Ice appointed, ap-pointed, to investigate this claim. The report was signed by Councilinon Foru-strom. Foru-strom. Ulack and Martin and Mayor Bradford. It vas stated that Mr. Dransford was not :i member of the special i-oinmittec and that, the- three oilier members. Murdoch. Kaybould nud Hall, did not. agree with the report. After much discussion, on motion ofd Mr. Kerry, tho matter was taken out of tho hands of the special committee commit-tee and referred, as a special order of bnsinc:s. to a. meeting of the eu-tirc eu-tirc council Thursday evening. The ordinance annexing Waterloo was liually passed. The annexation be.i-ouics complete at midnight December Decem-ber 31. flavor Bransford asked permission to be absent from the citv and state for a few days, and (Jonucilman T. . IHnck was selected by the council to act as uiavor pro tempore. At Iho 'request, of Dr. T. R Bcatty. secretary of the state board of health, the use" of the council chamber was granted for the convention of state health officers, which will meet this forenoon. Claims Denied. The committee on claims, which made a vearlv cleanup of claims against the citv alleged to be due to damages resulting re-sulting from floods.- recommended thriv .".'J.tjfJo.lo worth of these claims be denied. The grouud of denial was, in effect, that the rlaims wero not mcci-fic; mcci-fic; Ibat they were uot, filed within tho time required bv law. that the city is not liable. J Tho Fair association directed a communication com-munication to the council calling attention atten-tion to the claim of the city for .-rliS.;u for water furnished. This sum. the association as-sociation stated, should be stricken out. a it was the custom to otl'set the city s claim for "wafer bv Iho care andvstor-iiTo andvstor-iiTo of the citv's sprinkling carts during dur-ing the winter. The matter was referred re-ferred back to the water works committee. com-mittee. . A shed for the storage of hard coal for use in the gas-producing plant was authori7Cd. . .. . . The reported destruction ol street signs in the southern and southeastern southeast-ern portions of the city came before the council. The matter wa to! erred to the citv attorney, who was instructed instruct-ed to draw au ordinance providing for the punishment of the guilly persons Tho chief of police was authorized to install a drain pipe to carry of water which now seeps into Ihe city nail. The cost, of tho drainage is not to exceed ex-ceed ilOt). License Creates Flurry. The application, favorably recommended recom-mended bv the license committee, of Tonv Tedosco for permission to run a saloon al J -IS West Second South caused a little Hurry. , " am opposed to any more saloons, said Councilman Hollow "The city has enough - saloons now. and fii.rihermore I his application is for a. place where there arc alreadv a large number ot saloons. There are more saloons there, in fact, than can make money enough to pav their licenses. " ' Mr Slewari said he helteved the license should be granted. The chief of police had approved the license and the citv needed the revenue. So long as the saloons were properly conducted. Mr. Stewart said, they ought to bo given lice uses. The matter went over. . A communication was recei.ved from the ,!ensen Creamery company asking the council's opinion as, to the per-nianoncv per-nianoncv of the present dairy ordinance. The correspondent said that Ihe present law requires that milk shall not be above nTi degrees in 'temperature. a-fer. a-fer. the letter staled, ranges from ol to iiX degrees, and in order to comply with the ordinance special cooling stations sta-tions would have, to be erected at each of I in; three raliroad stations and at five places on the country roads. Kach one of these would cost about 'r'ioUO. representing a lotal investment of from $'20,000 lo .2n,000. Tt would cost .f-'JOO a month to operate them. This cost would iucrense the price of milk r, cents a gallon. The tempera I nre, said the letter, had liltl'' effect on the presence of disease germs, as there might be microbes in cold milk as well as in other mills. Tho correspondent did not fe.e.l disposed lo establish these cooling stations if there were a chance that Ihe ordinance will be modified. Tho coiiinmuicalion was referred to the city attorney and the sanitary commit- '"Auditor 'Rudolph Alff provided cali of the c.ouneilmcu with a copy of his statement of the city's finances for the ten months cuded Qelober ,"1. The statement did not come oflicially bclore the council. Councilman "Black presided at the Mondav night meeting in the absence of President Davis. Mr. Davis and Councilman O'Dounell were the only absentees. |