The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-30
CITY COUNCIL.
Chief of Police Phillips Sub
mits His Report for 1888.

Chief OF Police Phillips Sub
mitS His Report for 1888.
Fire Department Deficiencies
to be Supplied.
The Weekly Routine Of Bust
ness Transacted.
The City Council convened last
evening at the usual time and place,
and disposed OF the following busl-
ness:
A petition from w. s. Slmpkins
and twenty six others was pre-
sented, protesting against the grant
ing of a certain petition OF one Ed.
ward Brain, Of the Twenty first
ward, wherein he &sks that deed
be Issued to him for certain
parcel of land lying in the
eastern cart of said Twenty
first ard, and which, the petition
ers alleged, was now and had been
owned and occupied for the past
eight years by Allied Gum, who
has improved and fenced said land
and whose dwelling house is built
upon a portion of the land asked
for by said Brain, the granting of
whose petition would utterly de,
stroy the value of said Alfred
Gums property, all Of which facts
the petitioners represented were
known to them, and they therefore
asked that the petition of Edward
Brain be not granted.
Referred to the committee on
public grounds.
Andrew J. Swenson and eight
others, property owners on Apple
street, plat E, Salt Lake City sur
vey, represented that said street was
in filthy condition and needed
cleaning and grading, and asked
that the same be at least cleaned
without delay and hereafter be kept
clean.
Referred TO the committee on
streets and alleys,
Pool s. Co. asked a rebate en- their
licenee TO transact business as lodg-
ing house and restaurant keepers at
No. II Com mercial street, on &C.
count Of having closed out said bust.
ness and vacated said premises. Not
granted.
The City Surveyor, Jesse w. Fox,
jun, presented for the considera.
ton of the Council profiles of side
walk and street grades In book form
of FirsG, Second and Fourth West
streets, from South Temple to Fifth
North, and of Third " est from South
Temple to Fourth North; also of
North Temple and First North,
fro n East Temple to Fifth West,
and Of Second, Third and Fourth
North, from First West to Fifth
Wet streets.
Referred to the COMMITTEES on
streets and alleys,
a communication from John G..
Cutler, county clerk, was submitted,
informing the Council that the
county court Of Salt Lake county on
the 21st day Of January, 1884, ordered
that the following roads inSa]tLake
City be known as county roads
Fifth South street running east and
west; First East street, commenc.
ing at North Temple and running
south; al, o Second West street run
ming north and south. The commu-
nication also requested that the
amount due the county from Salt
Lake City for poll tax be paid into
the county treasury.
Referred to the Mayor.
Application for license to transact
business as retail liquor dealer, from
n. d. Hodge, No. 4, Second South
street, East, was presented and
granted for three months from jan
usry 22d, 1884, subject to law.
Councillor Romney stated that
about twelve or fourteen months
ago a petition was presented to the
Council from D. o. Calder and
about forty others, asking for needed
improvements on Pine, now &C"
street, between First and Second
streets; that said improvements
were not at that time thought
necessary and the prayer of
the petition was not granted.
He now thought the improvements
much needed, as the street was in q
bad condition and almost impaas-
able; that it required little or no
gravel, but only some cutting down
and grading.
On motion the Supervisor was in-
structed to make the needed i'm
provements on said street as soon as
practicable,
The chief of police, VIM. G. Phil
lips, presented q tabulated report of
the number of arrests made and
nature OF crimes committed for
the year ending December 31sts
1888, which showed a total number
of arrests Of 1,736; other incarcera
tons in the city jail-inssne per-
sons, prisoners kept for other officers,
dodgers, working for board, etc., 144,
which added to the number of ar
rests msde total number of persons
in police custody for the year last
past Of 1880.
The report was approved and
filed.
The committee ON streets and al.