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Show , B. Mahler Wants Main Street Sends Notice to Council. City Fathers Consider Many Important Matters. , '; ' , Tho Logan city council held a lengthy session Thursday night, wading wad-ing through countless matters of Im-, Im-, portancc. Pros. Llndquist was unavoidably una-voidably detained away and John Crawford filled the chair most acceptably. accept-ably. A brier report of matters up is as follows: Mayor Hoblnson submitted the name of George Dunbar as tho new Justlco of tho Peace to succeed Louis $M Cardon, resigned. The council tin- J nr anlmouslv conllrmed the appointment Mmw' of Mr. Dunbar. B. Mahler, the Interurban railroad promoter, gives evidence that he expects ex-pects to hold onto his franchise here. The franchise granted him August 10, 1004, provides that within 24 months he shall designate tho streets he proposes pro-poses to use, and on Wednesday night he presented a communication saying that ho desired the use of Main street from the south end of the city to the northern limit of the city. For Sewerage. Pros. Ilallard, of the Commercial Club, presented the need of a sewer-''ago sewer-''ago system, suggested the recent plan mentioned In the city papers, and asked ask-ed that the council appoint a commit-te commit-te to confer with those people who are now Interested in pushing the matter. mat-ter. On motion of McNIel, the chair appointed the Mayor, Stevens. Carlson, Carl-son, Evans and Engineer Hansen as this committee, Tho City Engineer had reported claims for asslstancelii'-jlU, Wrk ana when the aproprlatlop came up for consideration Hits was stricken out until the matter i Investigated. Some councllracn labor under tho Im-' Im-' presslon that the $500 salary must cover all expenses connected with the .engineer's oillce. . $j0 The committee appointed to investl-jgjpfv investl-jgjpfv gate the matter of guy wires to tele-"Wf tele-"Wf phone poles leported that those attached at-tached to Independent poles on 4th North and 5th East arc dangerous and recommended that tho company bo ."compelled to arrange things dlffer-, dlffer-, ently. This council acquiesced. , Mayor Hoblnson named Attorney ;Sncddon to revise the city ordinances and the council concurred. Mayor Uoblnson explained the constantly con-stantly Increasing duties of the Sanl-tory Sanl-tory Inspector and suggested that the salary of Inspector Fames bo raised. It was ordered that an ordinance defining de-fining the Inspector's duties be brought In with a blank left for the salary. City vyatermastcr Peterson made a report which showed 543 water users, with prospects of a large number additional ad-ditional before the end of tho year. There aro 67 tiro hydrauts and the waterworks generally are In good condition. con-dition. City Justice Cardon reported for tho quarter ending June 30. $10.50 was collected in tines, IB prisoners were brought into court, 17 were convicted and 8 sentences were suspended. Mayor Robinson suggested tho necessity nec-essity of taking further action in reference ref-erence to bicycle districts, and the same was referred ro tho Committee on Municipal Law. The committee on printing and advertising ad-vertising reported on the bids of The Journal and The Rktoiiucan and awarded the advertising to the latter up to Jan. 1, 1008. Up to date there has been but one application for the new ofllce created, that of Electric Light Inspector,hence no appointment yej. Don Benson, R. F. Rlter and John Nebckcr asked for certain grading on First East street. The same was referred. re-ferred. Clty'Trcasurer Thatcher was given a two weeks leavo of absence and Miss Ilattio Smith was named to 1111 tho vacancy. Poundkccper Gnelini reported 71 Impounded 'animals for the quarter with fees of $35.50. Fire Chief Benson reported two tires for tho quarter with a total damage of $150. A claim of Mr. OartI was not made proporly and was referred back to him. A report by City Attorney Sneddc'n was read and accepted. Watermalns Extension District No. 20 was created. |
