Show ate bays FAVORITE city council gives atvea I 1 iro fro in almela invest bidder lUdt ler thera was am a adjourned meeting ot of the ity council last saturday evening avith tho the mayor and all present except lowb ahn belne being especially lo 10 consider ithe the placing ot of tour four thousand fire insurance for or a lim n hearp on the city hall u t d five Is clea cles wera represented in person by written bid it R W crockett co were the lowest bidders offering the tour four thousand dollars insurance for the term of four yeats for sixty dollars dollar 9 notwithstanding this fact the busl bul ness nas placed with a firm lin in which councilman tole tobe la is a stockholder dL director and an officer and in whose profit he sharee shares so the whitmore Whit mare insurance coats costs eight dollars more than it could have been bean obtained for elsewhere during discussion discua slon of the mitter which was heated at times tobe toba whitmore told the council all about what he doe docant sixt know of tira fire ansur ance ain general com panli la in particular ticul ti arl and eo so forth and so on me too was johny on the spot to help his boas out and was from time to time coached reached by the nayor mayor in the main the whole thing was to favor the whitmore agerty during the evening there came near being a knock down and drag out ont fight between two loca local alejita he lie was passed and chain chaim threatened for a time to be wielded over each others heads A member of the council however interfered |