The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-28
OGDEN CITY COUNCIL.
Their Doings in Session Last Night-Citizens
Petition for Government Building

Their Doings in Session Last Night Citizens
Petition for Government Building.
The Ogden city council met last night
and was called to order by Mayor Kiesel
at $50 o'clock. The absent members were
Councillors Chapman, Corey and Griffin.
Mrs. N. E. Ford, widow, asked to have
her taxes for 1889, amounting to s., re-
mitted. Referred to finance committee.
Richard Watkins, an old man suffering
from the effects of paralysis, old age and
general debility, asked the council torenew
his free peddler's license. Granted.
A. w. Wertz, L. r. Rogers, r.
]. Hill and fourteen. other citizens
and property owners on Twenty-hfth street,
between Madison and Quincy avenues,
asked the councils favorable consideration
of grading said street, which they repre-
scented as being almost impossible. Re
ferred to committee on streets.
The Coop. Wagon and Machine com
pany petitioned for the privilege of placing
public scales in front of their premises on
Twenty-fifth street. Referred to the com
mittee on streets.
The committee on laws presented reso-
luton for an ordinance to amend the ordi-
nance relating to stray animals. The
amendment consists in increasing the fee
by so cents to the person taking up estrays
and DELIVERING them to the poundkeeper at
the city pound.
The committee on laws reported on
the establishment and extension of
the fire limits, including certain blocks
and parts of blocks in plat A.
The Joint committee to whom was re-
yferred the matter of building bridge over
kShe Weber river at the foot of Thirtieth
street reported fsvorably and recon-
mended that the city pay three thousand
seven hundred and fifty dollars toward the
expense. The report was adopted, only
Alderman Snyder voting no. The com
ni1ttee on public grounds recommended the
adoption of FelPs assessment chart. 1t
was stated that by the adoption of this
chart the city would save great deal of
money and make the assessors duties merely
clerical. The report of the committee was
unanimously adopted. On motion, the city
engineer was instructed to prepare the
plats of the blocks in the city by the first of
April.
The citizens petition for an appropria.
ton to erect government building in Og-
den, was read, and on motion adopted, and the
mayor was authorized to select suitable
person to go to Washington and work for
it. Following is the full text of the petit
! ton:
Your petitioners, the mayor and city
council of Ogden city, Utah, repre-
senting the city, and by the ex-
pressed wish of her citizens, show that
Ogden is city of 10000 inhabitants, stu
ated between and on the banks of the
Weber and Ogden rivers and is on the
great higway across the continent at the
junction of the Union Pacific, Central Paci
fc, Denver & Rio Grande Western, Utah
Central and Utah g. Northern railroads
and the western terminus of the Pacific
Short .iDn mn n Of
from Sioux city, Iowa, here. That she is
the commercial capital OF all the,country ly
Nkng between Denver and Omaha on the east
and Portland and San francisco, on the west
and is the central point of the Rocky
Nyh0untains from which all roads dlverge
and through which all who go in or out
must pass. That the city is growing
rapidly and greatly needs suitable accom-
modatlon for the United States district
court now holden here, the supreme
court, postofice and other governmental
purposes. Wherefore your petitioners
pray that an amount be appropriated to
erect building of sufficient size to accom-
modate all the government business at
this point
Alderman Preshaw, of the committee
who went east to investigate Kalomien
water pipe, presented written report, and
a II otion was made to adopt it. This led to
prolonged discussion, Preshaw champion
ing the cause Of Kalomien and Turner
standing up for the old, reliable cast iron.
The report was finally adopted and Or
dered placed on file
OTHER NOTES.
H. j. Hurd, of the Nebraska State
Journal, is in the city, with view of To-
eating here.
Deputy Sheriff James Jemmett of Box
Elder county, came in on the Utah &
Northern last evening in charge of de-
serter and took his prisoner on to Camp
Douglas.
Last winter Mr. H. E. Kinkade, col
lector for the United States Express com