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Show THiRTElllLLl Such Should be the Citv Tax This Year. DR. PAKE'S JUDGMENT Of $500.00 Against the City Will be Paid The Woolen M.111 Company ttu Cover the Factory EiC9-Oion & Bosh's Boad Not Reduced. The following business was trans acted by the city couucil last evening. PETITIONS. By Wilson & Neibaurfor retail liquor license, peudiiU tue approval of the bund by tue mayor who is out of the By R. S, Ilines for the privilege of erecting ami maiutaiuina Eever pipe, eiuptviuj? lhe factory race. Ke-ferred Ke-ferred to tue comumte on streets and Alleys. . ..... By Oleou & Ross asking that the .bond to protect the city aainBt loss by damage that may arise in operating aireet rail ay be reduced to $5,0J0.Uu. Tabled. REJ'OHTS of committees. By the finAQca committee stat'uu that no d uble asss ueut has beii mde on Li e iloti 11 tberu property. Accepted. By the same committee setting fortti the f.jllowiojj: The present jnJebdne:s of th cit-lallinn cit-lallinn due in the preecu lineal year is. Oa prouii&sjry nus $ 7.102 07 hUUnea Uv B laid v.f priS.xieiS 150 00 Iutt;ist oo water uoudd . . . 7,5uO ou (jm third expense of cay hall l.OiK) 00 rnnunsr a;id Hdvertieinrf.... 4 1 n fcireets an 1 alleys 4 0(,0 0 Vi.selUuxms current hems 2,vt0 0 WarraiiUuO in circulation 4 W . 7 Total $3S:yo5 -.4 Tue pro abl" receipts Uuui licenses water rates, lires, eatray pou id aud dg tax will be 14,25JOO. Leaving S24,G5 44 to be raised oy taction. Eeuaj-ttinii the assessed valuation oi taxable property in the city to be $1, 0u,00 Oi it will require a levy of abou. 13 mitis on che dollar city taxeb to ralee this amount Keeler moved that when the council adjourns it be till Moodav evening. June lioth at 8 o'clock, at wt'ich session the special order shall be the consider stioa of this report, and the fixing of the rat of taxation. This motion carried. BEPOKT OF city officers. T5y the city attorney offering no hope of obtaining a new trial m the caee brought bv V. R Pike aaint the city bv gppealitiii, and big,eHliuic tUat p appeal toe caie onlj lucur expenses for no purpose as in his mind, it is questionable if a se3ond trial would not result in a larger judgment. judg-ment. The report was accepted and the matter left entirely in the city al-torney'c al-torney'c hands. The case will not be appealed, and the $500 00 judgment will be paid. MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS. Councillor Ilolladay was authorized to sell the water tank on F and Seventh streets for $15 00 in factory scrip, he having been offered that for it. The scrip will be used to buy blankets for the jail. , The sum of $25 00 was appropriated to be us'-d for cultivating, cleaaing up, etc. the city park. The matter of purchasing hay and grain in quantity sufficient to last a : year was referred. CLAIMS. By E. A. Fori, 110 UJ, Diiance aue on luneral expenses, burial of Ewing wai taoled. By the "Woolen Mills company, $42.25, for electric lights, was re erred Bv Daniels & Uoldaway, $8 06, for lumbsr was referred. By Smoot D'-ug company, $3 45, prescriptions pre-scriptions in diphtheria case, was referred. re-ferred. Sundry claims amounting to $22. 6a were allowed. MUST COVER THE DITCH. Councilor Ward arose for information, informa-tion, lie remem!red that some weeks ago the council instructed the marsh-il to request of the Woolen Mills c impiuy that the mill race b covered as far as the crossing on Center Cen-ter street and he had observed that thia has not been done as yet. He wanted to know the whys and wherefores where-fores of this thusaess. He was fearful that another damage suit might be nrougnt against the cit. , as thse are lovely fveuings for doctors and others t tak tueir lady loves a riding. M;irshil Knight reported that he had taken the resolution passed by the council over to the mills and read the -atne to Superintendent Heed Smoot nd Mr Bassett and requested them to oov-r the race at on;e. They replied t hat th-v would "se to it." On motion of McEwan thin matter was referred to th-i jilicury coinmit-let coinmit-let with the f.ity attorney added. Council a'j .orn f f week. |