, 1897-11-12
As To STREET LIGHTS
THE COUNCIL AND THE COMPANY
DICKERING ON A NEW
DEAL ALL ROUND.
Another Concern Said to Be Figuring
With the Council-lt Makes Fig
ures a Tritie Lower Than the Home
Company-The Home Company's
Figures are Lower Than Cheyenne.


Mayor A.. Z. Miller has returned from
Denver and it is understood that he
has a proposition from a Denver con-
Germ to light the city for something less
than the amount asked by the Laramie
light company. In fact the council has
had such a proposition in its possession
for several days. The men who are to
put in the plant. in case the bargain is
made. are said to be young men whose
parents are anxious to start them in
some lucrative business. and rave made
this proposition with that End in view.
The proposition made by these peo-
pie is to put in 80 incandescent street
lights for S1.50 per month each and IL
are lights at Sl2 per month each, being
$3.50 per month lower than the offer
for the same service made by the Lara
mic company. The Laramie company's
offer was $50 for the incandescent
lights and SIZE for the arc lights.
Should the offer made by the Denver
people be accepted. they would put in
a high voltage system. adding that ele-
ment of danger to the lighting Of the
city.
The Laramie company contends that
the figures made are just about cost:
that they are 10 per cent lower than
the people of Cheyenne pay. and that
at that place a larger number of lights
are contracted for. The local company
believes it unfair to compare the rates
here with rates of other cities unless
similar conditions exist. For instance,
at Salt Lake City a large number Of
electric lights are used and the city
is given the benefit of the cheaper pow
er obtained from mountain streams. At
Boulder, Colo, water power is secured
at a very low rate. Here. however. the
company is obliged to buy coal at 1928
per OF The board of directors say
2 per cent and that their stock can be
purchased as low as % cents on the dol.
lar. They admit that the service has
not been just as they have desired. and
state that if their proposition is accept.
ed by the city they will spend S., 900
in improving the plant. The present
municipal system was put in at a cost
Of $4,000. at the solicitation OF the city
council.
The Laramie company presents the
further argument that it has given the
people in general lower rates than those
Of any western city: that it has given
employment to a number Of citizens
to whom good wages and steady EN-.
ployment have been assured: that the
stockholders are home people whose
interests are identical with other citi.
zens of the Gem City. and thai they
therefore have some claim upon the
people here from a mutual aid and pro-
lection standpoint.
The Republican would like to say
to the council that they are the serv-
ants of the people and that their actions
should be made as public as it Is posi-,
BILE to make them. Secret meetings
and whispered consultations behind
closed doors are not democratic nor
calculated to get the best results for
the people in general. When special
sessions of the council are held, the
people have a right to know OF them
in advance. and all acts should be open
and above board.
EVERETT INDICTED.
The grand jury of the second judi
cial district of Colorado. has returned
an Indictment against Thomas B. Ev-
erett, a mining promoter well known
in Laramie. The Indictment charges
Mr.. Everett with obtaining money I'M
der false pretenses. The allegation is
that Mr.. Everett organized the Mo-
hawk Belle Mining company and sold
stock before his articles were filed with
the secretary Of state. Another allega-
ton is that the stock was sold when
the company had no property of any
kind, although claiming to have a lease
on the Mohawk Belle mine. Mr.. Ever
ett's operations in Laramie were con-
fined to the Mill Creek placers, and he
got no further than to make an elab-
crate report upon the richness Of the
ground.
The young people of the Baptist
church will give a social in the base
ment of the church Friday evening.
A program has been prepared and light
refreshments will be served. Admis-
sion Is cents. VT,
Good times have come to those whom
Hoods Sarsaparilla has cured OF scrof-
nla. catarrh, dyspepsia, rheumatism,
weak nerves, or some other form Of i'm
pure blood.
Hoods Pills are the only pills to take
with Hoods S~arsaparilla. Easy and yet
efficient.
Lot Of Furniture for sale. Call at
Baptist parsonage.
MRS. WARREN McCORD.