Show MORE SPECIAL TAXES IT WILL be seen by those who read the minutes of the proceedings of the city council that an ordinance has haa been passed for of sidewalks sid ald walks nearly all agthe city where they are not at present extended it is should be understood that special fixes will be assessed upon the property by which these there sidewalks are to be con strutted ted in oner to fay y ay the expense they will be in all probability of cement like those that have hare been alre already atly laid there to is no objection to tad the material there may be objection to the payment of the special taxes which will have to be assessed to construct the sidewalks it is to this that we call the attention odthe public hundreds of the owners of small pieces of property on the streets distant from the t he business portion tion of the city are poor people who now find it almost impossible to raise the money to pay the taxes with which they are already burdened tho the only way to abod this new drain upon their resources its in to decide that they do not want the sidewalks if they want them they must pay for them it if they do not thy they th y must protest against their heir L construction the ma majority arity of these people never see the p paper r in which the Intent intentions iong of the C city ty council are published those who do should take the trouble to inform their neighbors as to what is to be done so that they may not be taken unawares we do not want to stand in the way of improvements neither do we I 1 wish our friends to be saddled with a big tax which they cannot pay or of which they have not dot been informed zook out for the extension extrusion of side valba alks to the outskirts of the city I 1 |