Water Wrangle
In Council
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various engineering obstacles and ad
vastages
Councilman King in his best Penn
sylvania Avenue manner and with
that grave parliamentery air which
long experience at Washington natur
ally gives one, said, "I move that the
water works be not purchased at this
time’’, his motion was seconded by
Councilman Ericson and the .council
passed it before it dawned on the
spectators that there had been no re
solution before the body at all and so
far as King and Ericson were con
cerned the question so odious to* them
was closed, but the earnest and pro
gressive Mayor thought not so and
brought the question up at Friday’s
reguler meeting in a regular way
much to the surprise of Congressman
King and neighbor Ericson who both
showed bad temper because the friends
of the purchase were present to give
their views. Neighbor Ericson frank
ly and with great candor said, "noth
ing can be said to change my mind."
Mayor Stewart then called on Emery
Valentine, an avowed champion of
the purchase at this time, but Juneau’s
ex war horse Mayor refused to give
his opinion unless the councilman
w^ere agreeable, and facetiously re
marked, "What’s the use?"
George Forrest another avowed
champion was asked to talk but while
he stated he felt a good deal like Mr.
Valentine yet he did speak unquali
fiedly for the purchase. Then it was
that Attorney Robertson jumped into
the arena with classic lore and with
ringing oratory and told the council
that his opinion was a big NOW. Mr.
Robertson’s speech was acknowledged
by applause. City Attorney Helien
tnal stood behind Mr. Ericson a long
time trying to get the floor but even
after the Mayor recognized him Eric
son kept on talking and talking until
finally he discovered that Mr. Hellen
thall wished to speak and gave way.
Mr. Hellenthal spoke in favor of the
purchase from a purely civic econo
mic standpoint and if he had so spok
en on the night of the 24th ultimo
Mr. King’s motion not to buy would
have been defeated.
Councilman Morgan moved that the
resolution be laid on the table to be
brougnt up at an early date, to be
agreed upon, if Mayor Stewart could
get owner Lewis to extend the option.
Emmet McKenna seconded the mo
tion and the council at eleven o’clock
started in the prosaic business of pay
ing monthly bills.
Thus encJeth the second lesson.
What do you suppose Jack Lon
don ever did to John Troy?
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after we had turned the project
down.”
Attorney Robertson addressed the
council in an impassioned and able
speech, and cited the story of the
Ancient Roman lady—she may have
been an ancestor of eye-out-for-the
main-chance Lewis—who offered nine
priceless volumes to the Roman Sen
ate which contained all the secrets
of how to govern wisely. They re
fused, it will be remembered, and
the next year she returned with but
six volumes, and offered them for
twice the money. The Roman Sen
ate still refused,- and the third year
she came back with but three vol
umes, and the price again was mul
tiplied by two. By that time the
Senate and the people of Rome real
ized that that remnant of a library
was cheap at the price. And the
story fitted the situation like one of
Wolland’s suits.
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PARDON PAPERS
FOR ALICE COX
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sons in the vicinity; that Baker at
tempted to make a criminal assault
upon the woman, which she resisted,
and finally repelled; that Alice Cox
got hold of a rifle and shot Baker.
“Although the technical guilt was
proven, and it was shown that she
was in no immediate danger at the"
time of the shooting, the fact that
Alice Cox was a simple minded In
dian woman, and that she has now
been imprisoned nearly three years,
I believe that the ends of justice
would be best served by her release
from prison, and I therefore recom
mend her pardon.”
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Speaking of mice that play when
the cat’s away, we wonder what will
the pugnacious “Senator” Fahey say
when he returns to find that while
he was rusticating in some obscure
Lynn canal cove, the tide flats went
almost everything to nothing for an
nexation.
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