The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-27
SUGAR House CANDIDATES.
Warm Contest Over the Appoint
ment of Road Supervisor.
WORK OF THE COUNTY COURT
II Agrees TO Purchase the Worlds Fair
Relief Map.
The Utah Centraps Ditch Complaint-Sub.
division PIats Wanted by the Recorder
"A Case of Destitution-Action
on Petitions.

The county court met yesterday morn
ing and remained in session until late in
the afternoon. All the selectmen were
present, and after electing Selectman Ca
hoon chairman, business was proceeded
with as follows:
Ex-County Clerk Allen was present and
presented petition in favor of the reap
pointment of Joseph Muir as road SUPER
visor of district No. II, Sugar House pre-
cinct. Mr.. Allen said the petition was
signed by about one hundred of the prom
inent residents OF the district and also by
q number of Salt Lake people. He stated
that Mr.. Muir had done good service dur
ing the fifteen months he had served the
county, and that out of fourteen Liberals
in the district, twelve had signed this
petition. The petition was filed and laid
over.
w. G. A. Smoot appeared TO urge the
appointment of John bearing for the
same position. Mr.. Smoot thought Lib
eral should have the place and stated that
Mr.. bearing was such man from the
ground up. The petition was filed.
COMPLAINT AGAINST A DITCH.
7. S. Mackintosh of the Utah Central
railway appeared with reference to an ir
rigation ditch on the west side of the pen
itentiarY which was in the habit of 'slop-
ping oYer'' and damaging his roadbed.
The water from the ditch had also dam
aged the track of the Rapid Transit
railway. The supervisor OF district No.
II was instructed TO notify the peniten
tiary authorities to carry the water from
the ditch st the intersection of Twelfth
South and Thirteenth East streets.
1t was ordered that SOL 80 OF the general
fund in the hand of the treasurer, col
lected upon the eStray account, be turned
over to the school fund as required by
law. 1t was also ordered that the S639. SO
in the treasurer's hands to the credit of
the estray fund be transferred to the
county revenue fund.
In the matter of the petition of Joseph
Bull, jr., asking that certain lands, the
title to which is in the county by virtue
of his failure to redeem the same in 1886.
be advertised for sale as provided by law,
Selectman Morris recommended that the
clerk be instructed to advertise and sell
the same. The report was adopted.
DR.. G. W. Foster sent in an application
for the position OF county physician. Laid
over.
THINKS DEARING WILL Do
The following letter was received and
read from w. Q. A. Smoot, ST.:
To the Honorable the County Court:
NIENTLEMEN:-1n your CONSIDERATION OF rOau
supervisor for Sugar House precinct. ] trust
you will make thorough canvass OF your Pc
titioners who recommend their several appli-
cants for this Office. Upon general principles
object as a resident.and taxpayer. TO the 8p-
pointment of a partisan who, by virtue of his
. appointment handles the means OF the taXpay-
ers for the beneft OF his own XIII and personal
friends, to the exclusion of the great majority
OF the taxpayers in the district
This has been'done IN the past and will be
continued in the future unless a wise and i'm
partial man is appointed by your honorable
body I am thoroughly convinced that should
you appoint John bearing the man who is en-
dorsed by the heaviest taxpayers in the district,