The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-29
PROVO is PROSPERING.
The Chief Events in the Garden City of
Utah,

1.-THE married folks "tripped the fantas-
tic' and seasoned their palate with ice
cream at the opera house on Wednesday
night. The ball was under the manage
ment of Mr.. and Mrs. Reed Smoot, Mr.. and
Mrs. S. S. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Giles,
and Mrs. Annie Atkin, and was huge sue
cess in every respect.
A good many Of our citizens will go to
Ogden on Thursday next and return to Salt
Lake to spend the Fourth.
At special meeting of the city council
last night the water works franchise was
granted, and all that remains now to make
the contract binding one is the signature
OF the mayor on the part of the city and
that of Witcher Jones on his own behalf, and
this formality will be attended to on Mon
day. The franchise is a le5gthy document,
and when it is known that it Was drawn,
by Judge Powers, attorney for Mr.. Jones,
and 5. K. Thurman, representing the city,
1t need not be said that it is carefully
and ably DONE The city on its
part grants to Witcher Jones, his success
ors and assigns, the right, such as the city
now possesses, to the use of sufficient
waters from Timpanogas river to supply
the waterworks, and the use of all streets
and alleys to lay the same, for period of
fifty years from July l., 1880. The city
council is to nix the rates at all times upon
fair and living basis, and at the end of
twenty years the city shall have the option
OF purchasing the works.
MIR. Jones agrees to at once organize q
corporation to which he will assign this
| franchise, to proceed to the work without
delay, and to comp etc the same by May l,
1891. Provision is made for FORGETTING the
! franchise in case the covenants are not
! well and truly" kept on the part Of Mr..
Jones and his assigns. During the con-
sideration of the question last night Mr..
| Myton, a real estate man and an alleged
attorney-at-l asked permission to speak
He was allowed the floor, and he at once
proceeded to roundly denounce the scheme
OF MIR. Jones and his associates. He thought
the estimated cost, $780,, COO, altogether out
of reason; $4,000, he said, was top
estimate, and he warned the city council
to beware. He intimated that some prom
inent citizens of our city were being bribeG
with stock in the concern for their infiu
ence, and that ''boodlen was in the air. AS
legal proposition he held that the city hat
no right nor authority to grant such an Elk
elusive franchise. These insinuations "a
Their riled Mr.. Jones, who turned upon hi.
antagonist and completely demolished him
| He resisted the insult offered to this eoun
Gil and to himself, that any undue influence
was being used. He said he hal
been told during the day tina. there
was some man in town that he had better
Elk" but he was not in the ''ixing'' bust
ness. Some hot words passed between the
two men and finally the former withdrew
no doubt to consult with the citizens he re
presented. After the meeting Mr.. Jone.
invited all over to the soda fountain tt
partake of cooling beverage. The genera
verdict is that the step taken is wise one
The agreement appears very fair and i
would seem that the interests of the cit,
are thoroughly guarded.
On Tuesday night last the city council
appointed census enumerators to ascertain
the number of inhabitants, that we nigh
be declared a city of the second class il
time for the coming school election. Las
night they made their returns. which
showed population of 5.26S. This is con
siderably lower than had been estimated
and it is thought the United States censu
will be in excess of this number
Some of the remote corners of tn
corporate limits were not visited, an,
several say they were omitted. The in
mates and attendants of the asylum wer
also omitted Anyway, there are enoug
to bring Provo up to city of the secon
class. To-day the mayor certified the fac
Of the enumeration and the number o
residents to the governor with reques
that he proclaim us a second class city
and so you may listen for the proclamation
followed by the bray of the tumpet an
general jollifcation here.
Last night an old lady named Shaw
whose husband is addicted to the use G
intoXicants, went into the West End saloo
and illumined the place with blue blazes
She demonstrated with the keeper for Sc
] lin har holf Off 20
was interrupted by some of the patron
and she sailed into them right and lief
armed with chair. For few minute
excitement ran high, but finally the storr
assuaged and now all is calm.
Provo CITY, June IS, 1890. w.