The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-11


ditor. The communication was tabled
by a strict party vote of to 8, Coun-
Gilman Jones being temporarily alb
sent.
The petition of Patrick Martin ct al
to widen Twenty-eighth street was
denied on tie ground that the street
was as wide as it was originally in
tended to be-eighty feet.
The committee on water supply re-
ported they could not get any further
reduction on tae water bill, and the
amount 1855, 0OO) was ordered paid.
The report Of the chief of police fol
rests. 46 convictions, q discharges and
l turned over to the sheriff.
w. I. Beardsley, to whom was re
ferred to the complaint of F. H. Reed
eT for erroneous tax sale of properly
reported that the city was not tc
blame and that Mr.. Reeder had sus-
tanned no loss. Filed.
Communications were received stat
Ing that the delegates to the Inter
pass through Ogden on Thursday, eI
route, but could not stop, as they
wanted to visit Garfield Beach. They
promised to stop at Ogden on theil
way back and the city council was ap-
pointed a committee to meet and en-
terrain them.
The board of fire and police com
missioners recommended that the sal
airy of the assistant superintendent oil
fire alarms be increased $40 month
that the f1remen and members of the
police force, one at a time, be given
weeks vacation with pay. Referred
to the committee on fire and police.
The electric light company asked
permission to remove their poles from
the curb of the center of Madison
avenue between Twenty-second and
Twenty eighth streets, and Jefferson
avenue between Twenty and
Twenty-ffth streets. Committee on
streets with power to act.
William Redfield and thirty other
residents of Lynne asked the council
to consider a better location for the
Five Points fire department than the
one where it is about to be moved to
Committee on fire and police, with
power to act.
]. A. Smith and eighty-ore Others
asked the council to continue the i'm
provements on Harrison avenue and
also to sprinkle that thoroughfare from
Twenty-fourtfl street to the mouth OF
Ogden canyon. The county commits
sioners have the road sprinkled all the
way up the canyon, and by the city
extending their sprinkling as requested
it would give ten miles of sprinkled
road. Referred.
A PRINCELY SALARY.
An ordinance introduced by c. w
Jones, fixing the compensation of the
city auditor at $50 year, payable
monthly, was read first time and
passed.
The same councilman introduced a
resolution empowering the recorder to
employ an assistant at a salary of $50
a month, which was adopted by a vote
of s. to 4, but the president being in
doubt whether or not it required a two
thirds vote to pass such a resolution,
the matter was referred to the commit
tee ON laws.
A resolution also introduced by G..
w. Jones was passed making it a mis-
demeanor for occupants, owners or
lessees of property to fail to cut the
weeds ON their property when the same
have become a nuisance and when
three days notice have been given.
The penalty is a fine not exceeding $25.
The committee on municipal laws
presented a resolution empowering the
Reform school trustees to transfer the
Reform school property to the state
institute for the deaf, dumb and blind.
A resolution was presented by Ward
leigh granting the city treasurer SITS
as compensa tom for services as special
tax collector for the last seven months.
The ordinance fixing the salary of
the city physician at $500 year passed
its second reading.
Mr.. Jones of Wilson precinct COM
planned that the pound-keeper had sold
his horses without advertising them,
and the matter was referred to the
sanitary committee.
Claims and payrolls amounting to
81. 800 were passed.
The mayor called attention to the
fact that the state board of equaliza-
ton intended to raise the valuation of
Ogden City property 20 per cent, MAX
ing an increase of $2,0O0,0O on the
present valuation. Messrs. Ash, Tay-
lor and Wardleigh were appointed a
committee to go before the board with
a, like committee of the county COM
missioners to protest.
Council adjourned for two weeks, but
before going home the members went
into committee Of the whole to con-
slider Mrs. Barlow's claim of $500 dam
ages for personal injuries, and other
matters, on which no report was made.