Show CITY COUNCILS LAST SESSION reports of city officers read and accepted gentlemen who guided the destinies of the city the past two years pass into history the city council met last thursday night and began the closing of the cites affairs for the year 1909 the principal business of the meeting was the reading of Inert them ports of the various city officers geo A beal applied for the purchase of a fraction of lot 4 block 37 and this was granted with the price tied hed at the rate of pr p r acre J C anderson appeared and pre dented a detailed report of the sidewalk construction andthil and this report with the claim of the construction firm for the unpaid amounts were referred to the committee on sidewalk construction wm win johnston presented a report of having paid fisher anderson 93 as hn hii portion of the cement side walk in front of his property and asked to be released from further obligation which was granted tills is a piece of walk where cement walks had already been installed by mr air johnston on the level given by the city and when the work was begun last tall fall it was found that this walk was below the rew lines established an agree agreement as an entered te red into whereby the city was to pay half of the cost of the new sidewalk joseph peterson as superintendent of waterworks water works and street supervisor presented his yearly reports which va were ere referred to the proper committees an extended and complete report of the city justice C B jensen was read and referred to co ancl on inc cl iraln n christensen the report set forth the cases filed in the city court with the disposition thereof A total of 79 was given as the amount of money collected in fines during the dear the report showed a number of eases cases which had been started and no final disposition made of them the city pound keepers report for the year was presented and accepted morten jensen and frank ogden reported 69 13 expended for material in an extension of the waterworks water works and chiq thi was ordered paid as soon ds as the city finances will stand it for curfew services cervices ser vices 1 25 was ordered paid to the M E church and the committee commit tep on street was instructed ted to arrange for the ringing of the curfew for 1910 the sextons sex tons books for tho the year were reported to be correct by mr coons of the committee on cemetery an appropriation of was ordered as a contingent fund for extra police pa lc c service ser Nice I 1 MONDY MOND Y MORNING the council met inet iain again on monday mo mornine riling to heir bear further reports and close up the business for the near ear the council members all present except martin christensen aho vho was ill at his home committees to whom nhom were referred tho the city olli cl licer cers reports reported them baik back bai k as correct and ami they were accepted the city treasurer ind and city health offices did not present reports is as expected on the matter of sidewalks A K hansen reported the work is comp et ct ed this shows the original contract to have been 1061 61 which included pirt of the street crossings additional work on the cro sings amoun ed ad to 08 and additional cement w work ork foi private property holders hol dersi amounted to 1528 96 for more than six feet width of sidewalk till this makes a total of 65 for the sidewalks as COMIL ted to date the council then adjourned sine dle die and the council that has guid guided d the destinies of the city the past two tao bears anait has been a good I 1 conservative serva tive and ive council too passed into hi history tory at exactly 11 II boon 30 on the morning of january 3 1910 tho the thaw which set in last friday pitied pluto situ site the melting snow filled up the river riner channel the temporal dam was washed out and the excavation for the core of the dam a inch the western construction company i it t working on was ras filled up with sand and gravel the enaire used lit in pumping operations was wab almost submerged by ane flood that came down the river |