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Washington Post

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Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America

Date

Oct 21, 1905

Page

27

District Budget Calls For 11.4 Million General Funds And 164K Water Funds

District commissioners present estimated appropriations for the next fiscal year ending June 30. They request 11 433 070 from general revenues and 164 166 from water funds, with projected revenues of 5 567 549. The plan separates current expenditures from extraordinary projects and includes street work, staffing allocations, and notes on district buildings and office conditions. They warn funding may fall short if Congress does not establish a separate extraordinary improvement account and detail expected Treasury advances and debt obligations.

Secretary of the Treasury Water Department United States Treasury Treasury Congress Treasury Department Connecticut Avenue Anacostia Washington, Aqueduct War Department

Beaten Wife Urges Mercy in Police Court Plea

Edward Horan, forty five, faced Judge Kimball after allegedly striking his wife near their home. The wife testified she lent $40 for groceries, the couple argued, and a police officer stopped the assault. She asked the judge not to jail him more than three years. He was fined twenty five dollars or sixty days in the workhouse.

Edward Horan Edward Horan Kimball Boyle Tenth Precinct

Trial of Anacostia Policeman Continues

Police Sergt. Thomas W. Anderson of the Anacostia substation faced the police trial board at the First precinct station house. Prosecution witnesses testified about the woman and Anderson's relations with her, though much testimony was ruled inadmissible. Charges were brought by Private Crouch of Anacostia station. hearings paused until morning for defense witnesses.

Anacoatia Thomas W. Anderson Anacostia First Precinct Sergt. Anderson Beret Anderson Crouch Anscostia

District Building Notes

The well at the corner of Thirty second Street and Dumbarton avenue has been ordered abandoned and filled. The resignation of Ida M Wright, clerk in the record division of the engineer department, has been accepted. $350 has been allotted from the appropriation for repairs to roads for macadamizing a portion of Canal road. Orders issued for the subgrade and macadamizing by day labor of a portion of Bladensburg road at a cost of 3690. The order directing cement sidewalk on the south side of C street between First street and Arthur place NW has been canceled. A 25 by 4 foot channel will be dredged from the boundary sewer outlet to the Anacostia River channel at an estimated cost of $900. Fire hydrants will be erected at Ninth street and Michigan avenue, Twelfth street between Otis and Perry streets, and at Thirteenth street and Rhode Island avenue. Frank Stowell, water department inspector, has been sent from Lynchburg to Burlington, NJ to inspect material for department use.

Thirty-second Street Dumbarton Avenue Ida M. Wright Engineer Department Canal Road Bladensburg Road C Street First Street Arthur Place Anacostia River Ninth Street Michigan Avenue Twelfth Street Otis Perry Streets Thirteenth

City Bulletins and Local Ads in Brief Form

Arrests listed before Justice Gould include Robert Able Nannie Cooper Frank Cushing Jessie A Legge Lizzie Lowe Hattie Middleton and John W Perry. Also ads for garden plants fixtures rugs furniture and groceries plus Hebrew Literary Society reopening and various shop offers across 9th Street to Conn Ave and G Street areas.

Gould Robert Able Nannie Cooper Frank Cushing Jessie A. Legge Lizzie Lowe Hattie Middleton John W. Perry Enix Gessford Pfister’s Conn

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