Show new city council 4 held first meeting mayor Dep rezin and all members were present at session on friday evening considerable business transacted the first regular meeting of the new city council was ass held beld at the city hall ball on I 1 inday even if n of last week mayor D 1 brezin was in the chair and councilmen william boug doug lass arthur irois deorge george T castle ton J E 0 connor and J P griggs were present the secretary of the lureka vol gunteer lire U D part nent notified the council of the election of john J bul but livan and frank cook as chief and assistant ch eh ef of 0 the department the council upon motion of J I 1 griggs confirmed the election of these two officers mayor dei del rezin appo anted A N wallace aa as city sexton the appo nt ment to become effective on 1 abru ebru ax ary ast 1st and the appointment was mas by unanimous unan vote of the council councilman castleton introduced a s new 0 denance creating the office of city attorney and defining the du da ties of th a official the ordinance was read the r ramrod number of 0 ti ties and adopted it wiil will be come a effective after its publication x in this issue of the reporter recorder bacon icon read a number of claims against the c ty and also a communication frum from the library board askina that the aim sam of be turned over to th library as its share of tae toe taxes the var LOIS 10 is claims were first audited ant then the recorder was as instruct ed to draw warrants for the amounts the total disbursements of the evening including the sum which has been put to tha th credit of the public library were 2 61 43 james creighton pre dented a request for a portable lorge and other supplies in the operation of tae the water system and upon motion of the council he be was given authority to purchase these articles A communication was the he state municipal league asking the he city to send a representative to he the annual convention which will bi be held at lo logan loan an on january and is to be held or the purpose of disc mat of p public ablie policy social evils on regulation of water ays terns enas uni uniform lorm city es etc rhe the communication was tabled with out any action being taken upon it the mayor ani and council dis discussed eissed the he matter of providing another large water talk taik to b used in case of y fjar fire ire it was stated that the city might be able to bet i permission ler emission mission to connect up with tae coe large reservoir v at the eureka hill mine plying paying only lor tor water that may be used in case ol 01 tire fire TAIL coit cost of making this connection would b very small but it would not 1 be advisable ti take definite action until spring mayor Ue Dep prein rezin ed the ap po of his standing committees as follows fot lorts claims and accounts geo T cas leton william douglass and arthur lions ioas lire 1 ire and water willaam will douglas arthur irons and geo T castleton sanitary J I 1 griggs joseph 0 connor and arthur irons streets alleys and bridges will am lam douglass J P 13 griggs and geo I 1 L castleton Cast lelon auditing and Finance Geo T castleton william douglass and J I 1 griggs las joseph 0 connor oconnor arthur ir ia and geo 1 castleton city property Pio pi perty arthur irons J I 1 griggs and joseph 0 connor oconnor building within lire L m jos eph ph U 0 connor J P griggs and ar hur thur irons licenses william douglass Bou glass geo I 1 castleton and arthur lions loud of healtha mayar depre n dr r L B laker and joseph oconnor 0 con nor |