The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-31

| interest IN regard To lana ana water
! rights owned by it, and prevent the
destruction ct timber.
The resolution was adopted by a vote
of II TO 3. and the city attorney was
| instructed TO draw up the ordinance as
soon Is possible.
SPRINKLING FLUID.
The report OF the committee on the
proposition to erect stand pipes ana
make provision for bringing water from
| the Jordan river for sorinkling pur-
! poses was received. 1t recommended
| that the proposition be carried out, at
a cost not exceeding $1,000
! Consideration of the report was post
/ Doned Cor one week.
| UTAH POWER COMPANY TO SHOW
CAUSE.
Callister presented a resolution set
! ting forth that the Utah Power COM
! Pany was granted a franchise on Dec.
] 20, 1896, authorizing it TO erect and
maintain poles. wires and other aDDli-
/ ances for the distribution and sale of
| electrical energy, subject, among other
conditions. that the company erect
sufficient number of poles in the streets
! to admit OF lighting the city with 400
arc lamps, TO be placed at the intersec
| ton of the streets. or elsewhere. 1t is
| claimed that the company has failed
| to carry out that condition. and Calls
| ter's resolution was to. the effect that
1T is against public policy to permit a
! corporation OF this character" to do
! business within Salt Lake City and the
! corporation having failed to erect the
| poles; therefore, be it resolved, that
! the Utah Power company be notified to
/ appear by its proper representatives
before the council at its next regular
meeting. and show cause, if any there
- III CHI lnt no
VCl-ed.
Action on the resolution was deferred
for one week
HIS FRUIT TREES DYING
Peter Moore, a market gardener at
Parley's canyon, petitioned the council
to order turned into Parley's canal suf-
flcient water to allow him to get
enough to irrigate his garden and or
chard, which, he says, are dying for
want of water, since the canal was
abandoned. The petitioner claims that
he and others in the vicinity have some
title to sufficient irrigation water for
their purpose.
They bought their land, it appeared,
from the city, with the understanding
that they should have water as long
as the canal was in use, but when that
was abandoned their rights ceased.
The petitioner represented that he is
73 years of age, in poor health and Will
be utterly ruined If the water is denied
him this season. Referred to the COM
mittee on irrigation, with instructions
to report at the next meeting of the
council.
H Rosenberg, 131 West Second
South street asked for a refund of Ii
cense paid by him for permission to
operate a nickel-in-the-slot machine,
the operation of which the city au-
thorities have stopped. a similar pc
tition was received from A. H. Mere
dith, who has been operating seven
machines and wants a refund Of 81.
Referred to the committee on license.
David f. Walker, by b. G.. Raybould,
agent, asked permission to erect a
scaffod and platform in front of the
Alta block while certain alterations
are being made on the front of the
building. Referred to committee on
streets with the city attorney aSsoci-
ated, and with instructions to get a
bond from Walker, indemnifying the
city in case of accident to passers-by
arising from the erection of the scat
fold
H d. Folsom asked the council to
reconsider its action in deducting s95
from his bill for constructing sewer
lateralS. The amount was deducted
because the work was not done on
time, and the petitioner urged that
lllS uCtdN MdS CduStu ny IJldllcIS over
which he had no control.
On motion of Morris. the amount was
unanimously appropriated to Mr.. Fol
som.
CLAIMS $4,000 DAMAGES.
Charles II. Parker sent in a claim
for $15, 900 damages for personal in
juries sustained by him while he was
at work for the city on Aug. II, digging
a trench at the mouth of Emigration
by a large quantity of earth and gravel
falling upon him when he was in the
trench, by which mis- right shoulder was
broken and the left fractured and |
other injuries inflicted, so that he has
been in the hospital since, and is un-
able, therefore, to support his wife and
five children. He says the accident
was caused by the negligence of the |
city in not providing a safe place for
him to work. Referred to the commit
tee on claims.
DELAY IN TAKING UP THE BONDS
City Treasurer Morris reported that |
he was unable yet to take any action |
in the matter of the $500, 900 refunding /,
bonds, because the check for the de- |
post of $4,000 had not reached him |
from Rollins & Sons, the purchasers of !
the bonds. The treasurer referred to !
a communication from Rollins stating !
lndL lHGE BelI dlISCQ Will w ellis,
Fargo d Co. to take up the old bonds, |
present them to the treasurer for pay |
ment and cancellation and obtain a like |
amount of new bonds for which the |
bank is to pay $1,005.75 for each 81. 900 |
bond deducting a proportionate |
amount of Rollins deposit of $26, 900 |
when the deliveries aggregate 500, 600 |
or more.
The matter was referred to the |
finance committee.
The Utah LIthograDhing company |
finished printing the 600 bonds and de-
livered them to the city treasurer yes |
terday afternoon. Four hundred of the |
bends are of the denomination of 81, 900 !
each. and 200 of $500 each. They are |
very handsome documents. The work
manShip is firSt-claSS. and the company !
Is TO be congratulated on the excel |
lency and dispatch with which it |
executed the order. Councilman Howe |
moved that the amount of the bill, $500, |
be placed on the appropriation list, as
it was understood it was to be cash |
transaction. Other members objected !
to haste. and the matter went over for
a week
ANGELL CONFIRMED.
The mayors appointment of Frank
Angel as a member of the fire depart
ment WAS confirmed. on recommends
ton Of the committee on police and
fire
N1TCfET NEOITS MATvTEuc