The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-09

Board Himself.
Salt Lake county's ownest own coun-
ty court held meeting yesterday
morning at which the following resoll-
ton was adopted:
Resolved, That Selectmen Roberts
and Geddes be appointed a special com
mittee or the county court to visit the
city of Chicago. and such other cities
as may be necessary, and to be present
at the practical tests upon elevators,
for which bids have been received
Provided. that the company to whom
the contract may be awarded stands
the expense of said trip, and said COM
mittee is authorized to let a contract
for an elevator, providing the price does
not exceed the present bid of any COM
pany whose elevator may be selected.
This resolution was offered by Chris
topherson, who didnot want to go to
Chicago at this time, owing to the fact
that he is not familiar with its many
streets and avenues and does not want
to get lost until after his mileage suit
has been decided
Geddes being IN the chair and therefore
helpless, and then both voted for it.
There wouldn't be anything wrong ;
perhaps is nothing wrong in the gentle
men referred to taking a trip to the
windy city, but it appears odd that
such a thing should be necessary I'M
der the circumstances. But there is a
sort of story in connection with the
entire elevator transaction, which needs
some light.
One L. c. Davis, a youth with black
hair and blue eyes; about five feet,
three and some fractions of an inch in
height, who has posed as a detective in
the many Hayken cases, it is claimed
by those who are in a position to
know, was promised the elevator con-
tract by some body
When the matter began to be consid-
cred in good earnest he disappeared in
the direction of the city by the lake,
where he now is, or where he is pre-
stunned to be. Davis represents the
WfnsloW Iron works, When he is rest
ing. ~
In due time bids were solicited and 10
when those of the Chicago firms, at
least most of them, were opened, they
began with the statement: Your Mr.
l.. e. Davis called upon US to say he
had the contract for an elevator for
the county building" or words to that
erect: All OF which would indicate
that Your Mr.. L. c. Davis was PLAY
ing both ends and the middle.
well, the bids were opened. The
Crane Elevator folks bid on an electric
elevator in the sum of $4,35O. For hy-
draulic elevators, the figures were re-
spectively, $4,473. SSH and $6157, the
variation being caused by different
CtUI6C TliY1 .11o 4f, g.,
two lifts.
Brodesser offered a hydraulic eleva-
tor for the sum of $3.50.
Winslow Bros. suggested they would
place the machine in for the following
figures: Two hydraulic elevators, S13,-
$50; separate plants, 1855.
c. r. Mckay of this city offered to
place one Pratt-Sprague elevator in the
building for $500.
Then came L. c. Trent & Co, with
lower bid than any one. The firm
quoted hydraulic at SO, 1885, and an
electric at SS,475.
Trent & CO. didn't mention "Your
Mr.. Davis" at all, and there are those
among the dear people who are just
suspicious enough to intimate that this
junket while it will be charged to the
firm getting the contract, is in the in
terest of the erstwhile detective
The home firms bid is a cool thou
sand below that of the Crane company
for the same elevator, which is some
thing to be wondered at. If the Crane
folks get the work at the bid they
made, they can we'll afford to pay the
expenses of the trip to Chicago by the
two Selectmen mentioned.
The court aWoke to a sense of re-
sponsibility. yesterday in the matter
of the moneys due to the school dis
tricts on tax sale redemptions. This
was doubtless caused by thu receipt
of a letter from the clerk of the board
of education of this city, in which a
demand was made for the money due
the board, amounting in all il g, G57.S3.
This gentle request was filed, after
which the court instructed the clerk to
draw special warrants in favor Of the
various districts for money due on
tax sale redemptions up to August 20,
1895
Stephen Hays of Bingham was grant
ed license to sell liquor for the US
ual time, three months.
The state board of equalization sent
in a letter in which the attention of
the court was called to the fact that 1t
is the duty of all counties to provide
the assessor with plats and maps,
which was fled.
BEE INSPECTOR RESIGNS.
John C. Swaner, the bee inspector for
this county, is a man not to be trifled
with. 1t will be remembered the county
court refused to pay him in full for
the services rendered by him in knock
ing out foul broods, ETC., last summer,
Whereat John appealed to the legisla-
ture for an appropriation. That body
sat down upon John by denying his
petition for relief. Yesterday he filed
with the county clerk the following
curt, decisive and especially emphatic
designations:
Il hereby tender my resignation as
bee inspector for Salt Lake county My
reason for so doing is that cannot
work for nothing and board myself.
In other words, am no Chinaman, and
have no reason to believe that if I
work | will get my pay. My eXper-
fence of 1895 leads me to believe that
you will do nothing that will give me
assurance of justice in the matter
This document was not received in
time for any action by the court, and
will be laid on the table awaiting the
arrival from the east of the elevator
inspectors.
If you have a troublesome cough,
don't keep nibbling sweets and so ruin
your appetite. A dose or two of Ayers
Cherry Pectoral will do you more good
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