The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-15
OF The COUNTY
Meeting of the Board of Commits
sioners Yesterday.
BUSINESS TRANSACTED CHIEFLY
OF 4 ROUTINE NATURE.
Farmers Ward Wants Deputy
Sheriff - Ben Stewart Succeeds
Deputy Mahan-A Large Number
of Minor Petitions Filed.

The board OF county commissioners
held it's regular meeting yesterday,
transacting business principally of a
routine nature and auditing a large
batch of claims.
Reports of road supervisors from the
Ninth. Twenty eighth and Thirty-sec-
ond districts were placed on file.
FARMERS WARD WANTS AN Of
FICER
number of residents in Farmers
ward DetitiOned. for the appointment
OF Frank Yeager as deputy sheriff for
that locality, representing that many
burglaries were being committed and
that the section is entirely without
police protection. Sheriff Hardy was
instructed TO furnish the protection
asked for without any increase in his
force.
STEWART A DEPUTY SHERIFF.
Sheriff Harvey Hardy notified the
board of the appointment of B. F
Stewart as deputy sheriff in place of
j. P. Mahan, resigned Appointment
confirmed. Geddes voting against it,
A BOUNDARY DISPUTE.
E. G. Lunnen and others petitioned
for the establishment of the south
line of Crescent school district No 81,
so as to correspond with the boundary
line between Crescent and Draper &C.
clesiastical wards. n. A. Nelson aD-
peared for the petitioners and urged
that the prayer be granted.
d. o. Rideout, jr., appeared in oDpo-
sition to the proposed change, con-
tending that it would be a great in
justice to Draper precinct. and, fur
thermore, most of the people were oD-
10 l. .x.1,
would not be of any special benefit
even to the people of Crescent.
Superintendent Of Schools Van Colt
was sent for and informed the board
as to the relative valuation of tax
able property in the two districts, from
which he made the deduction that The
change should not be made and adj
vised the board to that effect.
The petition. however, was granted
and the boundary of the school dis
trict as well as the political precinct,
was changed.
THIS ONE DENIED.
Another petition for the annexation
of a portion of school district No. 50 to
district No. 80. Mill Creek, was denied.
Christopherson voted for the change,
hut Roberts and Geddes sustained the
protest, which was signed by SO tax
payers as compared with 81 favoring
the division.
MANY PETITIONS.
The following were among the petit
tions received: From II. J. Rivers for
delivery of the quit claim deed from
the county to Rachael Reed to lot 81,
block l, Heath's subdivision of block SO.
plat C; William n. Cook for refund of
$1,000 paid on an alleged enormously
assessed tax on mortgage; Alexander
Brown, for quit claim deed to lots %
and "a. block 10. Buena Vista addition;
Martha ]. Prey to block 4, Asbury
Park.
The verdict and testimony of coro-
ners jury before Justice Turnbull OF
Bingham on the body of William H.
Cotton was placed on file.
Retail liquor licenses were granted
to o. S. Olson of Murray and L. c.
Warenski, also of Murray.
Two insurance policies of 81, 500 each
in the National of Hartford and the
Springfield of Springfield, Mass, on the
county Jail, were approved.
Justice of the Peace-elect Morris
Sommer sent in a reuuisition for a
criminal and civil docket for the use
of his court when he shall finally Ice
installed. The matter was referred to
the next board of county commission
erS.
CAHOON'S CLAIM
Relative TO the letter of Powers,
q I h.,