The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-28
a uniform rate of tax of SO cents year
on telephone instruments.
MIScEII AN-EOIIS RIISINESS


President George Y. Wallace of the
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone COM
pany presented a communication, stat
ing in effect that "if, in the judgment
of the city council. the privileges and
favors which the company is extending
TO the city do not represent a license,
the company is willing to pay a rea-
sonable, fiat license for doing business,
when the amount of the business is
considered and the license made pro-
portionate with other business enter
prises. The communication was filed.
Stephens & Smith, attorneys for non
resident clients, offered to sell 240
acres OF land in section &c. township
north, range 1 east, at the forks of City
Creek canyon. Referred to the COM
mittee on public grounds to ascertain
the price asked and the deSirability of
the purchase.
State Fish and Game Warden Sharp
requested the council to signify wheth-
er it would grant the use of about four
and a quarter acres in the southeast
corner of Liberty park as a site for a
state fish hatchery, in the event the
legislature makes an appropriation for
its construction. The. petition was en-
dorsed by j. 2. Dolly and a number
of other prominent citizens, who con-
CURED in the belief that the plan to
restock the trout streams of the state.
as proposed, is a meritorious one, and
that the site desired is the most suit
able one on which to erect the hatch
cry. The matter was referred to the
committee on public grounds.
On recommendation of the commit
tees on Waterworks and irrigation, the
city. engineer was directed to ascertain
the necessary number and the cost Of
measuring-weir intended to be placed
in the streams of water in which the
city has an interest
City Recorder Backman reported that
since the last report 100 unlicensed dogs
had been destroyed.
On recommendation of the street
committee, the new supplement- con-
tract with A. L. Hobson. for the reten-
ton of $1,000 out Of the special cash de-
post Of $4,000 TO guarantee the West
Second South street asphalt pavement
for two years longer, was approved.
The city attorney reported that the
draft of an ordinance authorizing the
chief of police to commit, after convic-
ton in the police court, any female
prisoner to the custody of the Woman S
Home or to the city jail, as he NAV
deem best. It was referred to the COM
mittee on municipal laws.
Judge W. S. Arnold presented an old
claim in the sum of $50 for damages
NaC-4N ~
legged carelessness of a city employee
AT the same time the claimant took oc-
casion to pay his compliments to Coun-
Gilman Romney, who he said had arbi-
trarily disallowed the claim and had
neglected and refused to report to the
council what action, if any, the claims
committee of the former administration
had decided to take upon it. The COM
munication was referred to the COM
mittee on claims.
The committee on municipal laws
recommended the payment of the fol-
lowing unappealable judgment claims:
A. H. Raleigh ct al, 81, 1854; Eliza Cox,
S1.450, and Rollin G. Scoville, 1925. The
appropriations were voted without dis
sent.
A resolution offered by Councilman
Calister was adopted. It directed the
committee on municipal laws with the
mayor and city attorney associated, to
engage additional counsel to defend the
citys interests in the Susan Dudler
water case, which comes to trial on Jan.
8, if, in their Judgment it is deemed
necessary.
Another resolution, offered by Coun-
Gilman Diehl, directing the chief of DO
lice to enforce the ordinance relating
to the removal of snow and ice from
the sidewalks, was adopted.