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LIFE of a western bad man. THRILLING \DVENTITIBS OF JOHSI WESLEY HARDIN. liJlloii a Sheri* to Prevent Him from Serving? a Warrant—Eiraped nod Turned l'p in* Gainesville. Fin., Where He Killed One or Two Ne groes Who Were Trying to Arrest Him—Hia Final Extermination by ii ’'inn He Threatened to Kill. From the Chicago Tribune. Historian* have traced the origin and g on < sis of the desperado of the American o, r os a type, novelists and story tvrhera have exploited him in fiction, newspaper writers have chronicled with L, or less accuracy his bloody and ex ftiaordinary deede, exaggerating his a vements, glorifying his meanness a . palliating his crimes. And yet the i iii:, about him, framed as it is with the r- ii growth and civilization of the west ern and southwestern states and terri tory is so much a part of present-<ioy atta rs, so near to the annals of every si ,■ . county and town west of the Mis sissipi river, that its telling needs no fa coloring, no deviation from the ti :tii, no straining heroics, to make it joi of the most fascinating as well as in -541 u five chapters in the history of the Sou rawest and West. The real “bad man” of the West has no p, a in criminal annals. He and the law f. dom came together. He was not a u n robber, a highwayman nor a pro fessional thief. To his contemporaries he mis best known as a good man—with a gun. Always he was a gambler, some times drunkard, and in few cases he de k ended to the strenuous outlawry of cat- He rustling. Fighting was both a pastime i A a passion with him, and he asked bo better sport, no more welcome un<ler taking. than the chance to get into a gun *Wrr with some redoubtable frontiersman of his own stripe whose reputation with a pistol or rifle made him a rival and a worthy antagonist. This being both the business and the P - ;re of his usualy nomadic life, it is n range that he seldom failed to find hi iost a better man and paid the penalty of his deeds. John Wesley Hardin, whose death at the hands of Constable John Sellman, of F Paso, is yet within the memory of newspaper readers, affords a striking type of the border bad man both in the story o: his life and in the manner of his death. Hr was the son of a Baptist preacher, but in spite of his home advantages he grew to be an unruly, shiftless and skulking number of the community before he was ;; tars old. He was born in 1851 near the town of Comanche. Tex., and began his wild career before he was Vi years old by ritling to death the only two horses his father had. He refused to go to school, was caught • ■ rating at cards when he was 15 years oi<l and in the same year put out the eye of a neighbor’s son in a quarrel over a cock tight. Preacher Hardin died soon af terward. and it is a tradition in Coman rhp c ounty that he died of a broken heart ever the wickednes of his favorite son. In 1872, being 21 yearn old. John Wesley, or “Wee.’ Hardin established himself on , e part of his father’s farm and began to assemble about his cabin a com pany of the wildest young men in the county. None of m had means; none of them seemed to ■*ork, and yet after a few months of mid night rides into adjoining counties their corrals were crowded with cattle and the townsfolk of Comanche began to fear or i suspect Hardin and his gang. Not sat i-fied with ranch solitude and led by Wes Hardin, the desperadoes soon began to make midnight raids upon the town. It bn, am-* their practice to gallop into Main str* > ; -wry night at 8:00 o’clock, “shoot up" the stores, carry off what they wanted | in the shape of liquor and sii|>plies and terrify into silence the protesting store j keepers. It is current history in Coman ! l 'he to this day that Wes Hardin and his men held the town almost in bondage i during the greater part of the year 1873. Many farmers who had suffered at the hands of rustlers then began to assem ble in Comanche for the purpose of “in vestigating” Hardin’s layout. Whether this visitation had anything to do with h: departure or whether store looting and ran h life became, too dull is not known, h a in August, 1873, he left home and iden tiri-d himself with the Comanche county of Taylors, then engaged in a feud wu- of four years’ standing, with the Fons 'cud friends of a man named Sut *"n - who was killed by one of the Taylor • *rmly in De Witt county in 1868. Hardin h i-l no personal interest in the feud, but he was chosen leader of the Coman h- Taylors, and during the short period of his leadership got “credit” for slaying f, iree of the Sutton faction. To show' how ineffective was The machinery of ’ law in punishing the perpetrators of ' *se border crimes, it is said that thir ’ “ight men, participants in the Taylor- ;tton feud, were killed within six years i’i Gonzales, I)e Witt and Comanche • ' irules and their slayers were neither punished nor positively Identified. Report Fives Hardin credit for shooting many of the Sutton party, but he boasted al ways of having “got” three, and as he was proud and Jealous of his man-killing record, it is probable that he killed no ni roof the Buttons. Feb. 15, 1874, Hardin reappeared sudden -1 in Comanche with n crowd of his fol lowers who immediately captured the ; inclpal saloon of -the town, barred the front door and proceeded to carouse af '• r the manner of their class. Some time ti" M afternoon Deputy Sheriff Charley M ebb of Brown county arrived in Coman che with a warrant for one of Hardin's nc who was accused of cattle stealing. He soon learned that the desperado and is fellows were embattled in the saloon. } H. nothing daunted, tied his horse and entered the back door, which was open. Hardin knew him and the moment he put his face in the doorway shouted: “Hello, Webb! What do you want here?” “I’ve a warrant for Cal Shelby,” the deputy was saying as he pulled the docu ment half out of his pocket. Rut Har din shot him through the heart, adding I sues you won’t serve it!” In the • rty with Wes Hat din when Webb was -hoi was Joe Hardin, a younger brother "f Wes, then posing as a lawyer, but following closely in the footsteps of his lawless brother, and with a growing rep utation in Comanche as a desperado and a rook. News of the shooting of Webb spread quickly over the town, and be fore dark the saloon was surrounded by e posse of volunteers. The enraged citi 7"iis stormed the locked barroom about dn*k end captured four of the inmates, including Joe Hardin. Wes escaped in Hi- confusion and rode to temporary lib erty on the horse of the man he had kill ed. The posse, determined to make n n example of somebody, hanged Joe to tho nearest tree and gave his com panions hours to leave the country. When Hi** coroner examined the effects of the den l young desperado he found the seals of thirteen counties which had been pro fit * tv used for months by the quondam Inwyr-r in the process of making out bills of sale for cattle stolen by nvunb.-rs of his brother’s gang. Hardin then fled toward Florida. In the suburbs of Gainesville he wan °vertnkon -by two negroes, Jake Menzel B,| d Robert Bo nip. both of whom had Worked for Hardin’s father. Impelled by (1 ' Hr* to obtain the SSOO reward offered * or Hardin’s capture, they attempted to • rrest him as he was leaving Ills lodg l"ir pin e *,trly |n the morning. They np- P r ’MCh-d him with leveled pistols. He non his thumbs In the waistband of his <rou*#ra nnd aasured them he was un • nned. As they attempted to el*e hint he whipped two pistols from under his vest and killed one of them. The other blinded and fled for Ulf Ml. Uf din was caught at Shreveport a few days ater, returned to Comanche and sentenced to twenty-five years’ imprisonment for the killing of Charley Webb. He was tet at liberty under the exemplary con < uct rule in 1592 and left the penitentiary with the reputation- of having perfected himself in the study of law during the seventeen years of his incarceration. Im mediately after regaining his liberty he clinched his reputation for being the “meanest bad man on the border” by bet ting s;> that he could at the First shot knock an innocent Mexican off a soap box where he sat sunning himself. He won the bet and left the dead Mexican in the gutter where he fell. That he was proud of his meanness is proved by a story which he boastfully told of on ad venture in Nogales. He said that in a hotel there he was annoyed by a heavy snorer in the next room. Without making an effort to caution the sleeper, he put his ear to the thin board partition till ho got the exact t>osition of his snoring neighbors head. Then he fired one for ty-five caliber bullet through the wall, fke enoring stopped. The corpse was found the next morning shot through the brain, but the bud man was permitted to ride away. W hatever he may have known of the theory of law, his grotesqued idea of its practice was manifest when he set out for El Paso wearing four six-shooters and carrying a Winchester rifle. It was dur ing the trial of the Miller-Frazier cattle conspiracy ease that he arrived. Accou tered as he was he went to the office of the El Paso Times and in a badly writ ten, badly spelled “card,” announced that he had come to El Paso “to practice law on a high PLAIN.” Ho meant plane, of course, but his spelling was as had as his later legal perlofinances. From the news paper office he called at the White Ele phant saloon, and at the point of a gun borrowed $lO3 from the proprietor. With this ready money he engaged in an open “crap” game in the Gem saloon in Texas avenue, lost all his capital, and then, with a pistol in each hand, compelled the play ers and the croupiers to pay him hack what he had lost. He collected about S2OO and went back to the saloonkeeper whom he had robbed, offering to buy a half in terest in the place for SSOO, and enforcing his proposition with his ever-ready weapon. He got his half interest, and before daylight all El Paso knew that Wes Hardin and his guns and nd had come to town to “practice law on a high plane.” For more than six months he terrorized El Paso. There was only one man there who dared cross his path at all times and under all conditions. That man was •John Sellman, a bad man, too. but of a different mould from Wes Hardin. After a bloody career ns a soldier, cowboy and border deputy and with a record of what he called “twenty-three justifiable kill ings. Sellman had settled down into the almost placid occupation of patrolling the streets of El Paso. It was placid enough till Hardin came, but a month later every man there knew that one or the other had come at last into the presence of sure death. The crisis came Aug 13, 1893. Old John Sellman’t* son, who was a policeman, had arrested Hardin’s friend, and Hardin at once announced that he would exterminate the whole Sellman family, beginning with the father. To this end the offended des perado armed himself with pistols and a quantity of whisky, and went looking for old man Sellman. The latter, who stated at his trial afterwards that he knew it was only a question of time when he must kill Hardin, traced him to the Echo saloon. With that peculiar and almost anomalous sense of fairness which char acterized many of his class, Sellman then sent word to Hardin that if he would come our of the saloon he, Sellman, would give him a “fair chance to exterminate or be exterminated.” Those were the very words of Sellman. as reported at the. trial. Af ter wailing an hour for a reply Sellman entered the barroom. Hardin saw his re flection in the giaas and had his pistol out in a second. Hut Sellman was sober. His first shot pierced Hardin’s head from hatband to hatband, and even when his victim fell Sellman continued to fire till he had placed five shots in vital parts of his enemy. “Good gun fighters like Wes Hardin sometimes shoot after they’re hit,” ex plained Sellman in telling why he fired so many “fatal” shots. TRAC KING lIIG GAME. Skill of Bormah Huntrm in ItenillnK Siature'n Slrii.. Correspondence London Field. It was once well said by a great sports man that killing a salmon in a Canadian river was a sport as superior to killing ono In Scotland as shooting a Hon in Africa was superior to shooting a stag in the Highlands. Probably to those who have had experience of it. tracking and shooting big game are in an equal degree a more exciting sport than having them tracked or shooting them off-hand. Yet ic is strange how few big-game shooters actually track for themselves the animals which they eventually shoot. Many are quite content to leave the tracking to the shikari, only taking a hand by using their rifles when they are finally brought up to the game. The art of tracking, for £uch it ie, is not by any means difficult to acquire. It consists cliifly in good powers of observa tion rather than in some occult skill, with which most young fellows seem only too ready lo credit the shikari. I do not wish to detract In any tva> from the use fulness and general advantages derived from the services of a good tracker, and, of course, a man who knows the particu lar country in which he is shooting is in dispensable. K Is rather to suppllment those advantages by inducing the sports men to take part in the operations that I venture to offer these remarks. An Eng lishman usually has better, eyes than a native, if he only knows how to use them from practice, and his power of obser vation, if only cultivated, will have a wider and deeper range than that of any native. This is a matter, however, to which the saying nascitur non fit most strongly applies, but, given a mail with ordinary intelligence, it may with care he greatly sharpened and Improved. In the forests of Burmah, where our scene is laid, I never cared about track ing big game except during the monsoon, for during the rainless months the ground did not take a sufficiently clear impression lo Indicate whether tracks of game were old or fresh. The beginning of the rains was the time; then, all the forests having been burnt over, there were no leaves on the ground to rattle like half a dozen kettle drums as one moved along, and the lots of deer or spoor of elephants showed freshly on the ash strewn ground or on the sprouting grass of the hillsides. This was tho time to get up on the hills which the bison then much then much uffected, and, camping among the pine forests at about 3.000 feet above tho piains. to keep a close eye on the ridges of the hills for tho tracks of bison, banteng elephant and smaller game, though the latter we usually shot as we chanced on them, without troubling to track them. A man who knew the Coun try was Indispensable, and if he could track well so much the better. Supposing trails of bison to have been found, the first matter to settle was how recent they were. We knew that it had rained on the previous night at about 11 o'clock. Wc could, therefore, easily deride whether the herd had passed along before or after this event. The veriest tyro could of course, decide that matter. Buddies In the hoof prints or a muddy deposit In the par t where the hoof cut deepest would be certain Indications of the herd having passed before the rainfall. To decide how iuug before Ihe rainfall would l>e a more difficult motor. nn<l we should be helped ta ii conclusion on this point by examin ing the grass growing along the path or track where the herd passed. This Is a mii.fi better elew than any I know. It ia hardly an exaw-tatlon to > ijiat, gium THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1900, ed the herd has passed within a few days, one can tell within a few hours. Careful ly take a piece of grass from which an animal has bitten of the top, and com pare it with a piece of grass freshly plucked and bitten off by yourself. You will immediately see the difference be tween the two. No microscope i required. You might also take another sample of grass. 1f it can be found, which you know to have been cropped by an animal some time previously. Now, on comparing the three, the piece freshly plucked is seen Cos be green almost to the end, where there is a slightly whitish mark caused by your teeth when it was bitten; the second pie/e Is dried almost brown for perhaps the sixteenth of an inch from the end; the piece last plucked (s In a similar state, but for about the eighth of an inch from the end, where it is dried and brown. I well recollect on one occasion coming on quite fresh tracks of a bison; unfortunately, there had been no within the previous twenty-four hours nt least, so that the tracks only told us that the animals had passed within that period. However, oil examining the grass from which the animals had grazed, as they passed, we came to the conclusion that they had gone along just in front of us; indeed, the shikari asserted that he could smell them, which was, no doubt, true. We did not go 309 yards further be fore we came upon two fine full-grown bison—a cow and a hull. This I felt to be a great triumph for our prescient power, and the occurrence has dwelt in my mem ory ever since. The experiment may be tried in any meadow where cattle are grazing, and any one who makes it will quickly observe what he may not perhaps have observed before. It is an advantage in tracking to noiice whether the animals are walking, trotting or galloping, the prints of the. hoofs being differently placed in each motion. One should have a good idea of the number of animals in a herd which one is following up. This may be arrived at In two ways; first, by noticing the tracks of each indi vidual animal where the herd has broken up to feed; secondly, by counting the number of forms In the grass where the herd has laid down to rest. The latter should correspond with the members at the, herd, though allowance should be made for one beast whi£h dors not lie down, but keeps guard, standing while tht remainder at ease. Knowing the number of the heard, it is at once easy to find out whether h part of it has di vided at any point from the main body, as is not at all unusual. The larger ani mals in a herd are very fond of breaking off from the main body, the old bull te tlring to himself sometimes, though it seems that the herd is always reunited within a day or two. Again, notice the size of the tracks, ns by these* both the size and the sex of the animals are indi cated. £ A reaff good shikari, up to his work, should be able to explain every sound which he may hear. Thus he should be able to distinguish the tapping of a deer’s horns against a tree from the friction of two boughs rubbing together; the fall of a branch from one voluntarily pulled down. The advantage of observing the smallest detail' when after game is very great, as perhaps the little incident shows. I once put a bullet through a huge boar (in Rurmah we sh£ot them) as he was grubbing in thick jungle. As we were following him up by his tracks the shikari, leaning on his bamboo stick, which seemed, to me always to have the power of a magic wand, divided the long gras’s in which we were and directed my attention to a hoof print. “Y'ou see,” said he, “this boar is very savage.” “How do you know?” 1 replied. “Oh.’’ said he, "look at his foot mark.” The foot mark was in such a position as to show that the boar while going along had turned to look back to see whether he was fol lowed or pursued. 1 did not notice it un til pointed out, but the shikari saw it at once. He had inferred from this that the beast was wounded, and ready to charge anything that came in his way. Few would perhaps credit that so much could be read from a single footprint, but the ex perienced eye at once detects it. In fact, as the tracker goes along he ought to be able to read as in a book every little de tail which may in any way assist him to work up to the final tragedy which he hopes for. He, above all. should be one who “finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones and good in everything.” CHICAGO’S FItOCw MARKET. Fishermen Purchase 80,000 Every Saturday for Unit. From the Chicago Journal. Thi3 is a tale of the frog. Fifty-thousand frogs are sold in Chi cago every Saturday, 359/00 arc sold every week; 2,450/00 are sold between May 1 and Oct. 1, 204.166 doz* n in one st ason. The average cost of each dozen is 29 cents, this means that $40,833.10 is spent annually on fr g.---Ashing frogs. These springy animals are used as bait for bass, pickerel, and pike fishing. If every frog caught a fish, but—aver age three frogs to each fish and on** car. then see that sportsmen catch 816.66<1 of the finny tribe during tho summer months, and figures and n’t He Frogs come from almost everywhere. But most of those used in Chicago are shipped from Michigan, Wisconsin, Min nesota, lowa, Mis o’irl, Tcnneife , Ken tucky, Indiana and Illinois In many of these states regular frog fat ms ar< ke ►*, but these are not needed the land is low and mais-hy. The means ct catching them ere many. Early in ihe season nets are ued; later, on as they multiply. thrstk-;ire roked in like grass. Then the small boy Is brought Into play. He is turned loor- In a large field wher* he grabs for a f’Og only to pft his hand and many Birrs find It gone He considers this rare po*t much better than carrying in the wood This fishing bait is shipped to Chicago in* boxtfl in which there is moist ned grass. Frogs ate a long-liv and animal— those that are not put on fishing hooks— and the department stores that handle th< m have frog farms on the roofs wher water runs over them continually. Here they live for a month without euing. It Is In tbe*e stores that so mmy of Chicago’s srorDmen ga’her on Saturday to buy bait for Sunday’s fishing. The frrg indu try is anew one to Chi cago. Only four or five years ago it was unknown. Som<* more* figuring will show that In this time—allowing for losses in many ways—lo.o>o,ooo frogs have gone to help entice the wary bass from the lakes. Now for the frog as an article of diet. C. N. Turner of the commisdcn firm o r George C. Callahan & Cos., 217 South Water street, says: “In my orlnlpn there are more bull frogs sold than the grass frrg-though the luge grass frog Is mere dcs’rable for table us* than hi'* cousin, the bull frig 1 cant say Just how many bull frogs we handle, but as you have the, figures cn the grass frog. I am sure there are more us <1 for edible purposes. We have handled as high as 5,500 dozen a day.” a The* e frogs are shipped a* for East as Boston, as far West an San Francisco, as far South as New Or cans and as far as Canada. The American people have changed con siderably In their op nion on frogs. A few years ago the French were the ones who no liked to nibble frogs’ figs. Americans called the Frenchman: "The - frog enter.” As It 1 I IK* tAtnerlcans are frog .ntprs and desists are unable lo fill j iheir orders. ’ —Apologies All Around—Mrs. Niblick— "You mustn't mind my husband. Mr. Von Hunker, If he awsnra terribly whl e he Is playing golf." Von Bunker—"And you mustn't mind me. Mrs. Niblick, If I take Ihe words out of hla mouth."-Brooklyn | Life. OFFKIAL. OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF COUN CIL. Savannah, Ga., Aug. 22. 1900. The regular meeting of Council was held this afteinoou at 4:00 p. m. Present the Hon. Herman. Myers, Mayor, pre siding; and Aldermen Dixon, HorrlganJ Doyle, Bacon and Jarre.l, Alderman Jar rel taking his seat during the proceedings of the meeting, a majority of the mem bers in the ei.y being present. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. City of Savannah, Aug. 22, 1900—The Com mittee on Accounts report that they have examined and found correct bills against the city amounting to seventeen thou sand three hundred and ten dollars and fifty-three cents, as per accompanying schedule and recommend that the same be passed for payment. J. G. JiARREILL Chairman Committee on Accounts. $17,310.53. Report received and accounts passed for payment. HERMAN MVERS, Mayor. Hoard of Health— Officers and employes ...1$ 1,257 50 W. N. Nichols v... 4 10 Western U. Tel. Cos. .. 78 John Lyons & Cos 17 20 Dr. W. F. Brunner 25 H. Logan 16 04 H. Logan 7 l. F. B. Purse 018 W. F. Reid 48 00 Time, of hands 1 60 Time of hands 5 25 Time of hands 3 90 Joe Jenkins 25 00—$ 1,392 95 City Lamps— Edison E. 111. Cos $ 3,024 CO Dispensary— Lippnnm Bros $ 62 05 The Gorrie Ice Mfg. C 0... 4 28 M. S. & D. A. Byck .... 60 Edison E. 111. Cos 300 Tho 9. West & Cos 1 75 Officers and employes .. 385 00 Common & Eanser 12 50 Columbia Drug Cos 108 99 The Mutual Gay Lt. Cos.. 3 78 E. M. Baker 1 00 Adam Kessel 40 00—$ 422 25 Dry Culture— Andrew Hanley Cos. $ 1 85 Palmer Hdw. Cos 90 Dixon, Mitchell & Cos. .. 49) E. Lovell’s Sons 14 83 Wm. Kehoe & Cos 8) Time of hands 326 67 349 95 Fire Department— J. E. Maguire $ 38 42 Jas M. Dixon & Cos. ... 309 49 - 347 91 Hospitals— Savannah Hospital $ 390 CO St. Joseph’s Infirmary ... 300 00 Georgia Infirmary 300 CO— 900 CO House Diainage (City)— C. B. Westcott $ 10 00 A. S. Bacon 38 50 Paul Plumbing Cos 145 49 95 llous* Drainage-Special Maintenance- Pay roll $l5O &) Incidentals— Mrs. Annie McStay $ 12 oo J P. Whi e 75 Edison E. 111. Cos 9 00 Thos. West & Cos 65 The Gorrie Ice Mfg. Cos. 9 75 Norton Frier.-on 3 75 C. S. Hardee, C. T 109 63- 145 53 Laurel Grove Cermtery— Time of hands $l6O 25 Market— Wm. Kehoe & Sons $ 12 59 A. S. Bacon Sons 18 50 John Davis 32) E. Lovell’s* Sons t... 3 05 M. J. Doyle 3 65 D. T. Elliott 2 25 Officers and employes ... 283 50— 322 74 Paving— W. H. Connerat $ 55 56 John McGrath 65 62 L. L. Burpee 2 50 M. S. & D. A. Byck .... 1 50 A. S. Cohen 9 00 Mingledorff & Cos 30 00 Syracuse Chilled P. Cos .. 8 00 John G. Butler 3 50 Plant System of Rys 39 Plant System of Rys .... 540 00 Goo. Lehwald 15 75 J. E. Stewart 10 50 J. P. Brown 35 75 Thos. MaoDowell 50 75 R. Fogarty 56 87 Time of Hands 272 11 Time, of Hands 192 73 1,328 53 Parks and Squares— 0 Time of Hands 242 68 Printing and Stationery— John Power, C. M., 21 20 Braid & Hutton 17 00 C. S. Hardee, C. T 84 15 W. N. Nichols 60 Braid & Hutton 18 00 M. S. & D. A. Byck 3 05 Morning News 8 00 Oliver S. Nichols 8 75 M. S. & D. A. Byck 40 C. N. Stern 1 50 W. N. Nichols 2 00 J. W. Fret well 8 10— 172 65 Publlc Buildings— Mutual Gas Light Cos ....5 574 Edison E. 111. Cos 8 96 The Ga. Te. Tel. Cos. .... 40 50 A. S. Bacon & Sons. 165 50 Lindsay & Morgan 126 00 Mutual Gas Light Cos 35 Electric Supply Cos 1 Oft E. Lovell’s Sons ......... 70— '348 75 Saaries— Cl y oitic rs and employes $3,029 98 Scavenger Department— * Young love & Sipole .....$ 50 00 The Georgia Tel. T. Cos. .. 25 00 Jas. M. Dixcn & Cos 95 Cohen-Kuhlman C. & W. Cos 57 80 D. J. Barry & Cos 24 30 E. Lovell's Sons 58 38 D. M. A. Morris 30 00 Painter Hdw. Cos 9 25 Time of hands 471 75 725 13 Sink Dtpat tment— J. \V. Fretwell $ 160 C. A. Pacetti 2 50— 4 10 Sttre's and Lanes— Geo. Lehwald $ 180 Thos. Hculihan ?.... 87 01 Jas. M. Dixon & Cos. ..... 95 A. S. Bacon 25 00 Too Chapman Mfg- C 0... 6 22 Ocean Steamship Cos. ... 1 99 R. J. McDaniel 55 fO Dr. M. A. Morr s 30 t.O Andrew Hanley 3 30 M. 8. & D. A. Byck ..... 3 00 K. Lovell s Sous 52 81 Loo Franke 25 The <ja. Tel. T. Cos 35 70 D. J. Barry & Cos 24 30 Smith & Kelly Cos 121 00 Time of hands 1.811 09 Sidewalks.— Chattahoochee B. Cos 739 30 A. S. Bacon & Sons 9 19 Plant System of Rys 50 35 John McGrath 10 80 D. T. Elliott 10 80 Geo. Lehwald 10 8*) Time of hands 121 00— 3,014 $6 Water Works.— K. Lovell’s Sons $ 260 Palmer Hdw. Cos 68 Vounglove & Sippie 25 50 Standard Oil Cos 14 e 4 Wm. Kehoe & Cos 18 75 Younglove & Sipple 150 00 Leo Franko 1 00 H. Mueller Mfg. Cos 28 26 J. C. Puder 30 00 A. S. Bacon 3 81 A. S. Bacon * Sons 54 A. S. Bacon & Sons 5 40 M. J. Doy> 1 75 Chattahoochee B. Cos .... 218 50 M. S. & D. A. Byck 25 Time of hands 308 73 # Time ol hands 327 73 1,117 52 Total ' $17,310 53 The Committee of the Whole, to which was referred the following |>etltiona to re tull liquor and to transfer llchnses beg to rtyr rt favorably to same. Herman Myers, Chairman Committee of the Whole, Petition of L. B. Mercer for permission to retail liquor at McDonough and East Broad streets. Adopted. v*elltion of E. V. I’acettl for permission OFFICIAL. to transfer his liquor license from No. 15 Broughton street*, east, to southeast corner of Houston and Perry street. Adopted. Petition of James Lane for permission to transfer his liguor license from No. 212 Price street to No. 15 Broughton street, east. Adopted. Petition of W. R. Fulton for permission to transfer his green grocery license at No. 1012 West Broad street to P. E. Mas ters at the same place of business. Adopted. Petition of W. T. Lynch, agent, for per mission io transfer his liquor license at the corner of Lumber and Bay streets to Mts. Mary Ann Farrell at the same place of business. Adopted. Petition of Charles Brickmann for per mission to tranter his liquor license from No. 34 West Broad to 615 Indian street. Adopted. The Committee on Finance, to which was referred the petition of M. Kassman, asking to bo relieved of an execution of s3l for license, as a tinner, now in the hands of the city marshal. Petitioner claims he Is financially unable to pay the license; beg to report unfavorably to to tal reduction, the petitioner carries a stock worth S2O to S3O. and we recommend that the license in his Instance bo reduced to SIO.OO, being thui of a small dealers license. Isaac G. Haas, Acting Chairman Committee on Finance. Adopted. The Committee on Finance, to which was referred the petition of G. H. Miller, for permission to make lots Nos. 55 and 56, Spring fled plantation, fee simple, and asking what discount will be allowed; beg to report adversely to the allowance of any discount, these lots being held differ ently from the ground rent lots in the city, they being held under leases with the rigt in the lessee to pay money and get a title to the lets. • J. J. Horrlgan, Acting Chairman Committee on Finance. Adopted. The Committee on Finance, to which was referred the. petition of J. C. Slater, asking the usual discount of 10 i>er cent., io make fee simple lot No. 21, Elbert ward; beg to report favorably thereto. J. J. Horrlgan, Acting Chairman Committee on Finance. Adopted. The Committee on Finance, to which was referred the petitions of T. S. R- Rivers, Albert H unches. R. Demere, Rob ert Mackey, G. A. Lord, M. B. McMillan, asking permission to have duplicate coat hack badges issued in place of ones lost, beg to report adversely to same. j. J. llorrigan, Acting Chairman Committee on Finance. Adopted. The Committee on Streets and Lanes to which was referred the petition of the Edison Electric illuminating Company, asking permission to lay a. spur track from the Central Railroad tracks on Bay street to the coal yard of the petitioner on the same street, beg to recommend (hat same be granted, work to be done under supervision of Director of Public Works. James M. Dixon, Chairman Com. on Streets and Lanes. Adopted. The Committee on Public Health to which was referred the following peti tions, beg to report favorably to same. J. G. Jarrell, Chairman Com. on Public Health. Adopted. R. J. Groover, for permission to trans fer lot No. 1635 Laurel Grove Cemetery to Mrs. S. A. Coats. Adopted. Harrison & Myrick representing J. A. Ferris, asking permission to transfer lot. No. 2204 Laurel Grove Cemetery to Mrs. E. A. Proctor. Adopted. 1 Mrs. W. H. Rose, for permission to transfer lot No. 2452 Laurel Grove Ceme tery to Mrs. L. A. Newton. Adopted. The Committee on Public Health to which was referred the petition of S. S. McFall for permission to dig a dry well at the southeast corner of Bull and Elev enth street lane, beg to rejK>rt favorably to same, conditioned upon connection be ing made to the new sewerage system as soon as available for use by this prop- Pi*ly > J. Q. Jarrell, Chairman Com. on Public Health. Adopted. PETITIONS AND APPLICATIONS. The following petitions to transfer licenses were read and referred to the Committee of the Whole: Mrs. M. A. Wise to transfer her green grocery license at No. 419 Harris street, west, to J. I). Hobbs at the same place of business. F. D. Hodges & Cos. to transfer his re tail dealer’s license to R. Clugman * Cos. at the same place of business, No. 141 Farm street. H. A. Fountain for permlfislon fo trans fer his green grocery license from the cor ner of St, Gaul and Zubly streets to No. 1212 West Broad street. Petition of Cornelius McKane. M. D., president of the Board of Corporators of the McKane Hospital, offering to turn over to the eity Its buildings, grounds and other property of the institution, condi tioned that the city will perpetually use the said institution for the benefit of the colored people and the training of colored nurses, the city lo assume Its present In debtedness of SI,OOO, was read and re ferred to the Committee of the Whole. Petition of W. H. Tarver, submitting proposition relative *o the establishment of a free library; was read and referred to the Committee of the Whole. Petition of Miss Margaret Arnold Cos ens, asking for a donation of SSO towards assisting ill the efTurl to provide u rofTee wagon for the serving of coffee 4o fire men White at fires; was read and referred to the Committee on Finance and Fire. Petition of the Parker Railway News Company, asking permission lo place a few penny weighing machines in the streets. Petitioner willing to pay SI.OO per year for each machine for the privilege; was reatl and referred <o the Committee on Streets and Lanes. Petition of M. X. Corbin, asking per mission to dig a privy vault nt premises, No. 25 (Brown ward; was read and tc ferred to the Commltfeo on Public Health. ORDINANCES. The following ordinance read the first time Aug. 8, 1900, read the second time, Aug. 22, end upon motion, laid on the table. By Alderman Dixon— An ordinance for Ihe improvement of o portion of Bolton street, under the terms ami provisions of an act of the Legis lature of Georgia, approved Oct. 1, 18s7. Section 1. Be It ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in Council ussembled, under the terms and provisions of an act of the Legislature of Georgia, approved Oct. 1, 1887. That the director of ihjullc worktt for the city of Savannah and the Committee on Streets and Lanes of the said city, he, ami they are hereby authorised and directed to build and construct on Bolton street, In the city of Savannah, beginning at the west side of Eust Broad street, and extending to the tracks of the Savannah, Florida and Western Railway Company, a road way of thirty-nine (39) feet in width of Augusta gravel, and they ate also author ized, and directed lo enclose the said road way with stone curbings, and to do all the work in the way of grading, the plac ing of catch basins, drains, crossings, ami all other things Incident to ihe con struction and completion of the said road way on the said portion of Bolton street. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained. That a railroad company having tracks running through the said pirtion of Holton street, to bo improved under this ordinance, Is hereby required lo pave the width of its trucks and two (2) feet on each side of every line of tracks of the said railroad company With Augusta gravel as he said work progresses, and. in the event this Is not done by the said company, the said director of public works and the said com mittee ahull see to Its being done at tho exiiemte of the said railroad company. Bee, 3. Be It further ordained, That af ter the total cost of the said work, ex clusive of that done by or for n railroad company, ahull have been ascertained, OFFICIAL. one-third of such total cost shall be paid out of the city treasury and the other two-thirds from the persons owning at the date of the adoption of this ordinance the real estate abutting on said porilon of Bolton street to be improved under this ordinance according to frontage, and the pro rata amount of the cost of such work Ik hereby assessed against the said abut ting real estate, and its owners as afore said. according to the frontage. The front age of intersecting streets and lanes is assessed as real estat* abutting upon said portion of Bolton street to be improved, and the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah shall be, for all the Intents and purposes of this ordinance, the owner of the real estate so abutting, and shall pay from the city treasury its just pro rata as such owners of the cost of said work, according to frontage, In addition to its one-third of the entire cost, as here inbefore provided. Sec. 4. Be it further ordained, That af ter the improvement hereinbefore provid ed for has been completed the director of public works for the city of Savannah and said Committee on Streets and Lanes shall prepare and submit to the Council of the city of Savannah a statement show ing the cost of the improvement herein provided for and also an assessment roll, showing ns to two-thirds of the cost to be apportioned, how’ it is apportioned among tho several abutting parcels, including tlie street and lane intersections and giving the sum charge able So each parcel, with the name of the owner. Upon the consideration and adoption of said statement and as sessment roll by the Council of the city of Savannah, it shall th-n become tho duty of the city treasurer to send to the abutting property owners their proper bill for the same as it may he ascertained by the City Council, and if such bill so sent be not paid within thirty (39) days after the presentation or sending of the same it shall then become the duty of tHo city treasurer to issue n execution for the amount, together with costs, against tho person and property aforesaid, which ex ecution shall be irarie and levied out of the property described th+rrin as are ex ecutions for e.ty taxes The said state ment and assessment roll shall also show the amount payable by a railroad com pany and should such company fail and refuse to pay a bill for the same thirty (30) days, ftfier the presentation or send ing of the same, it shall be the duty of the city treasurer to issue execution against said <•* mpany and property f-*r said bill, together with costs, which shall be made and levied as are executions for city taxes. See. 5. Be it further ordained. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances In con flict with this ordinance nre hereby re pealed. The following ordinance, read in Coun cil the first time Aug. 8, read the second time Aug. 22. amended, placed upon its passage and adopted. By Alderman Dixon— An ordinance to amend an ordinance, passed Feb. 18. 1891. and emtitjed “An ordinance to amend hii ordinance passed June 1, 1887, and codified in Section 759 of MacDonoll’s Code of Savannah..” Section 1. Be It ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, itt Council assembled. That Section 1 of the above-entitled ordinance, passed Feb. 18, 1891, Is hereby so amended that here after lt shall be the duty of every occu pant of any building, residence or place of business in the city of Savannah to place the boxes or barrels referred to in said section (In one of which shall be de posited all matters and material of a non combustible character, such as dirt, ashes, manure, tin cans, etc., and in the other matter and material of a combustible char acter) outside of the gate In lane at or be fore seven (7) o’clock a. in., city time, and where there are no lanes inside the prop erty line and within five (5) feet of a street entrance and Scavenger Department shall have free access to these barrels and lsaxes from seven (7) o'clock a. rn. to eight (8) o’clock p. m. of each day. Where there are narrow alleyways, on which abut three or more houses, it shall he the duty of the occupants of the said houses to provide a box or barrel at the point where the alleyway opens on the street. In which box or barrel it shall be the duty of the occupants lo deposit Ihe matter and ma terial for the said Section 1 and this amendment. It shall be the duty of the sanitary inspectors to sec to the cairylng out of this amendment. See. 2. Belt further ordained, That any person violating the provisions of the above-mentioned ordinance, or of the amendment thereto, or any one of them, shall be subject, u|x>n conviction before Ihe Police Court of the city of Savannah, to a line not to exceed fifty (50) dollars and to Imprisonment not to exceed ten (10) days, cither or both In the discretion of the coqrt, and each day's violation or neg lect of the said provisions or any of them, shall constitute a separate and distinct of fense. . ~ Sec. 3. Belt further ordained. That all ordinances and parts qf ordinances In con tlict with this ordinance are hereby re pealed. On Its first reading. By Alderman Horrlgan: An ordinance to amend an ordinance passed in Council, Dec. 18, 1899, entitled. "An ordinance to assess and levy taxes ami raise revenue in the city of Savan nah; for the regulation of certain kinds of business In the corporate and Jurisdic tional limits of said city; fixing penalties for the violation of the revenue ordinance of said city, and. for other purposes con. netted with taxes and revenue of susl city.” Section 1. Be It ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, In Council assembled, and it is hereby ordained by authority of the same, tout an ordinance passed in Council, on Deo IS, 1899, and entitled: "An- ordinance to assess and levy taxes, and raise revenue for the city of Savannah, for the regu lation of certain kinds of business in the corporate and Jurisdistional limits of said city; fixing penalties for the violation of the revenue ordinances of said city, and for other purposes connected with taxes and revenue of said eity,” be and ;im same is hereby amended by striking out anil repealing section 15 of said ordinance (Said section 15 relating to the appoint ment by the Mayor with the concurrence of the Finance Committee of a competen person, whose duty It is to report to the tax assessor nnd cky treasurer, respec tively, from time to time, all persons in said city required to make any return or take out any license required by said ordinance, etc., os will appear by refer cnee to said section 15. which Is printed on page 23 of the official published re- Itori of said ordinance.) Bee. 2. Be it furthr t ordained that all ordinances and parts ‘of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Communication from Ihe health officer and secretary ffiinltary Board conveying copy of resolution passed at a meeting of the Sariltaty Board he’d Aug. 21, 1900. Resolved, That the City Council be re quested to cut down and remove from the city limits all weeds now growing In the streets, lanes and vacant lots, this move being an immediate sanitary necessity, was read and referred lo the Committee of the Whole. Communication from A. M. Bell giving notice of delivery of fifty new city maps, in accordance with agreement, was read and received as Information. There being no further business, Coun cil look a recess subject to the call of the chutr. WM. P. BAILEY. Clerk of Council. —The Rev. W. H. 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