The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-22
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
LITTLE BUSINESS OF IMPORT
ANCE TRANSACTED.
Soap and Towels For County Officials
Complaint Against the West
Side Canal Companies-Some Pc
culiar Applications For Aid-Hor-
ticultural Society Meeting.

| The county commissioners had very
| little business TO transact yesterday;
in fact the tables were clear, to use a
parliamentary phrase.
Recorder Jensen appeared before the
board and asked that his office be sup
piled with soap and towels at the
county's expense. After some discus
sion of the subject the clerk was in
structed to solicit bids for supplying
both the recorders and clerks offices
with the necessary articles.
D. n. Cook, a resident of the west
side, complained that the irrigation
canal companies were flooding him out
of his house and home. Under the
ruling OF the district court he dared
not run the water into the surplus
canal as the decision in the recent
parallel case was to the effect that no
water could be turned into the surplus
canal except from the Jordan river.
Mr.. Cook is but one of the many
who are suffering from floods caused
by the west side ditch companies. Hall
advised him to tear down the COM
pany's dams, but Mr.. Cook saw the
inevitable result would be arrest and
he had no money to spend in litigation
that might be prolonged for years
without relief. AS the county could do
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Cook was requested TO send in a writ
ten complaint to the board and the
same viii be referred to the county
attorney for an opinion.
Then into the presence of the board
walked a blind man, led by a boy, and
accompanied by his son-in-law. Poul-
son was the blind mans name and he
was in quest of aid. Thirty-two years
ago he lost his eyesight from an eX-
nlnGiOr1 This hoTnAnAd in Norway
Twenty-Five years ago he was brought
to this country by the church and for
is years has been receiving monthly
aid from his bishop. He has regularly
received S. per month in tithing scrip,
and two years ago he began to draw
81 per month from the county.
He has two daughters. both married,
residing in the city, and PoulsOn lives
with one Of the daughters to whom he
is obliged to pay $4 per month rent.
Either of the families is well able to
take care of him it is said, but as the
son-in-law said, we think it's the duty
of the county to take care of him.
Neither Commissioners hall nor Raw
Inns saw it in that light, however, the
former declaring that if the church
brought him over it was the churchs
duty to care for him. And so the
monthly allowance of 81 from the
county was cut off.
There was another application for
aid that deserves mention. Mrs. Barr
is q woman residing in one of Will
liam BeTkinshaw's houses on Fifth
South and about Fourth East. She has
been paying 81 per month rental which
has been furnished regularly by the
Mrs Bars husband is an in
mate of the county infirmary. She is
a sister of a well-tO-do sheep man, who
is considered to be worth $40 900. He
has at divers times furnished her a
little flour. The county has been doing
the rest.
Mr.. Berkinshaw presented the case
10 the board and as Mr.. Hall had in !
vestigated it the further monthly al |
lOWance of rent was cut off
n. Dan Jensen. secretary of the state I
board of horticulture, was present and /
asked free use of rooms for the So !
ciety's annual meeting next Tuesday. /
The request was granted.
The board then took an adjournment /
until o'clock next Monday.