Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-05-14
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| pVIbcu tue eSllfnateu cost OF Certain
water main extensions. Adopted
and the advertising ordered to b
done.
A bill Of the Deseret Hospital fol-
Si2.9O.was presented.
J. A. Hamilton presented bill o.
$50 for damages 10 vehicle injureC
by getting mired where a sewer pipe
had been laid. Referred TO the com
mittee on claims.
The bill ofthe st. Marks Hospital
for Sl06.35 went to the same com
mittee.
The bill Of c. Handley of Sl72 fol
labor and material on Parley's Can.
yon canal was ordered paid.
The firemen had collected from
citizens SlS5 towards defraying an
expense for sprinkling amounting tc
si25. The balance Of 500 was or.
dered paid.
A balance Of sl1.25 due Mrs. Shell.
merdine, ex-pounakeeper, was or
dered paid.
The bill of Carroll K Kern Of S
for estimating the damage done TO
the Simpkins residence was ordered
pasd.
Coates & Corum asked that price
be put on the Warm Springs prop
erty. Referred 10 committee on
public grounds.
A communication from T. p.
Murray, urging immediate action
on his petition for an electric light
franchise, was referred TO the COM
mittee on streets.
A resolution authorizing the
Mayor 70 appoint additional census
enumerations, IL necessary, the num-
Der not specified, was agreed to.
Mr.. COhn offered a resolution in
structing the City Engineer to d.
vide the city into districts for street
paving purposes. City Attorney
Merritt explained that the resolu-
ton was in line with the Territorial
statute providing for paving bonds,
and il passed.
The contract made by the Mayor
with Mount and Griffin, for sprink-
ling the streets, was read and rati-
fed. u.
The following was then intro
duced: NJ ..-. ~ -r.."
Whereas, in an editorial article IN
the Salt Lake daily Tribune Of May
sth, 1880, discussing the action of this
Council in granting TO the Salt Lake
Rapid Transit Company certain fran
chises, il was distinctly charged that
four members OF this body were
stockholders or otherwise directly in
teTested in said corporation, and
further directly charged, That the
reason said franchise was granted was
because there are dishonest men in
this Council.
Therefore, Be Il TcsOlrod, That the
manager and editor of the Salt Lake
TiibHEe be and they are hereby re-
quested to send TO tbtz Council the
names Of any and all persons re-
ferred to in its said editorial; and
further,
That they, in some suitable manner.
place nj the disposal OF this Council,
or the city attorney, the proofs upon
which said charges are made.
NJ. X. PARSONS,
LOUIS COIN,
w. p. LYNN,
/. C. kARRICK,
Al. PENDLEToS.
W. p. NOBLE.
W. II. II. STAFFORD,
FREDERICK HEATH,
ID. WoLSTENHOLM,
L. T. HALL.
JAMES ANDERSON.
On motion, the resolution was
adopted, with Mr.. Pembroke only
voting against 1t.
A question then arose as TO
whether the auti-cobble stone or
dinance was passed at the last session
Of the Council. a number Of men,
bers insisted in the negative, but
Recorder Hyams refused to so back
on the record he had made OF its
passage. To make assurance doubly
sure II was taken mp n second time
and passed, being amended during
the process.
The following bids for the con-
Of the foundation Of City
and County Building were read:
". ]. Tgddenham & Co.-..-....-....... 500
". J. Coots.-- s5a5
Elias Morris --...-.-..-....--.-.-..-- teot
Each bid was accompanied with 4
certified check for per cent Of the
bid made, and on motion Of Council
man Noble they were referred 10 the
on improvements.
The following appropriations were
made TO cover the expenses Of the
month:
II. McMillan--.- -........-...-.. ....e J %
Department. 900 % !
Thomas JoDes---.--....-.---.. 100 GO !
Williams & GarTens.--...----.----... lS3 % |
Deseret Hospital. ~ ~
has. J. Handley..-...----.--..-- Ia 90
For sprinklinE purpOses,...-..-...... 29i %
* Pound Keeper --..-...-.-....... Il Is
Carroll & keTns-.--...-----.------ 90
Adjourned for one week.