Show city council in regular session all members were present at the meeting held last friday evening considerable business was transacted bo ro 1 call at the meeting of the city coune I 1 I 1 held last friday fre pvc ning found all present as folio follo va vs mayor Dep rezin councilmen castle on griggs douglass Doi glass iron irons and 0 connor after the regular routine business had been disposed d of P J fennell and lawrence blackett 0 of he retail merchants Merci ants association per scented a communication in which they asked that th city council pass a new ordinance which will require the payment of a license by all ped clars A general discussion fol 0 ved the presentation of tais peti tion and mayor depremo Dep rezin and cally all of the councilmen express ed rhems lyes ives as a favoring suca an ordinance they believe that it is 11 hardly bight to insist upon a license rom a the merchant wha who is a real rest dent and in most cases a heavy tax ax payer 0 the city and then allow the peddler whose interests are elsewhere the privilege of selling goods v without any restrictions what ever at various times tidies I 1 n I 1 the past this question has been under consid a id no two set of 0 city cers have been of the same mind re gandng gard ng the Ic ensin of led ledi liars lars there nave b en times during tin last few year years when the city received a very good rec n me ie from the r red cd clars in the way of license mone money yand and there have been lenods when they vere admitted without the payment of 0 a license it if the license makes any difference in the cs es which the consumer pays for fruita fruits rege vege tables etc nobody has been able to discover it lor that keaim it is nore than likely that the present city admin will favor getting tome revenue from the peddlers lars recorder He corder bacon reab the usual budget of claims which were audit ed and then ordered paid upon mo lion cion of councilman douglass the total disbursements 04 0 tha evening called for 1 90 18 maor Dep rezin reported that t vo veils djs one of them located ot on the Iro property perty of mrs dora kohl near leadville ro ho v and the other in the southeastern part of the city were in dangerous condition condit nn the wells vill probably pe e condemned and the s tree tf suj given authority to fill them As soan soon as the weather will permit of such work the city officers in tend to install instill a conn action and use the water fro fron n the e ty well in flush ng the sewer system later the same water will be utilized in asprin kling the streets ane coit of oler abing a pump pu mp at the city well vill continued on list last page city council in regular continued Conti nied fron from first page not exceed 10 a month and in v ew of the fact the well contains ample water some of the city officers favor more inore extensive street spank cpr ling tak ng I 1 11 I 1 the apier eni end 0 main street portions fort rort ions of church street leadville boy rov and borne some of the streets connecting main and leadville rov bo v ith lih a matter will no doubt be dis cussed at some future meeting odthe of the council in the past tae chef ch ef ob ejection to add dional street ng rig has been tue tae cost of 0 vater but ii the water cai be secured secure with but little expense there is no reason why the streets should not b properly cared for at their meeting friday evenin evening the coun il also discussed the apropo bation of improving the water system and provid ng additional f re pro pi lection the matter of putting in the necessary equipment for the proper drying of the fire hos vi was as likewise brought brought up for discuss on recorder Be corder bacon was authorized to purchase night sticks whistles and flashlights tor the peace 0 fibers the council favors placing some re strict ions on the handl ng rig of po ader vutha the city limits or to at least aroh b t the careless bandit ig of explosives the mior major aid marshal marsh al wi I 1 I 1 work together on this apropo i tion and will request the people who have occasion to handle dynamite to guard against unnecessary delays as large quantities of explosives are be ng hauled through the city william houghto i who turned over the alfice of city sexton to A N wallace on the first of tae present month reported t vo burials at tae tle city reme cemetery tery dunn durin the month of january justice kryger hid but two cases during the past month fines to the amount of HO 40 ivere were levied and the sum BUM of 10 lo io was collected and turned 1 over to the city treasurer the road supervisor reported the collection of jjr 33 from poll taxes sand and the expend ture of 0 2350 23 50 for street and sanitary sam vork the money be being ing paid out to 11 II F gear jacob christ ensen and al pendray city I 1 physician hys ician laker a report sho v ed that thirteen tair teen cases of pneumonia had been reported during january with two deaths from th a s disease four cases of chicken pox were also reported and one case of pulmonary tuberculosis recorder bacon bacons s report showed show edthe the collection of SO the money from the following sources general licenses IS I 1 1 quor licenses WOO 1700 water rents JO cemetery property 20 2 ja and city scales the disbursements tor for the month ag gre gated 4 14 9 bao 33 of th a s amount go ig ng to the public library as the library board A s share of the 1913 taxes t mrs whitehead city treasurer sub a report vh ch shoved sho ved that on the first of january the city had a cash balance of 8 3 0 13 that the receipts for the month including 1500 received as a part 0 of the 1913 tax levy amounted to 4 42 that I 1 t 44 12 it V the disbursements disburse me ants for the month were 4 2114 14 leaving a balance of 6 41 in the c ty treasury on the first of february the next meeting of the c ty coun cil mill w ill be held on the mat i |