The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-08
FIRE AND POLICE MIDDLE.
CITY COUNCIL CREATES THE
DEPARTMENTS.
Ordinances Signed By the Mayor and
Appointments Sent In and Tabled
Routine Business.

The council held short session last
night, with all members present, but il
the mayor and council were any nearer
one mind on the question of appoint
ments, this did not appear in their pro-
ceedings.
The regular session was preceded by
a long secret caucus with the mayor
and It was $3.50 before the public were
admitted to their deliberations. 1t was
evident that a number of things had
been agreed upon. for in the regular
course of business the council passed
the ordinance creating the fire depart
ment. and prescribing its duties and
naming it's officers. 1t was passed three
times and it did the same thing with
the ordinance defining and creating the
police department. These ordinances
were thought necessary, as they believ-
ed the departments did not legally ex-
list
After passing these ordinances. the
council took an adjournment of Is min
utes When they recOnvened the mayor
Informed the council that he had signed
the ordinance. He then submitted a
list of appointments as follows:
Chief OF police, J. e. Davenport; chief
of the fire department, Orson Reiser;
night jailer, w. +. CritchlOw; day
jailer and police court clerk, Ben
Ternes; sexton, w. l.. Porter; patrol
men, c. F. Lynne, Ezra FAIR, w. A
Brown, J. p. Strunt, d. A. Murray,
Fred Garner. H. L. Gaut; captain of
police, Steve A. Captinger; detective,
J. +. Fender.
Councilman Jones moved to table the
communication from the mayor, and
this was promptly done, Cullen, Ash
and Brewer voting against the motion.
After the adjournment there were some
warm words between a number of the
councilmen over this action, but the
dispute did not last long. The impress
sion is that the mayor is in stronger
LCsitiOn now than he was before the
passage of these ordinances.
The appointments that he made about
three weeks ago have been confirmed,
and if there is any contest, those bring
ing the contest cannot plead that these
offices do not exist.
The other business of the session was
as follows:
TIE claim Of Eva F. Corey for 800
for a horse killed on city bridge was
denied, on recommendation of the COM
mittee Oh claims.
Similar treatment was given to the
claim of e. G. Hulaniski. for salary as
police justice, based on the old fee sys-
tenn.
ne Oh fdWS reported lUdL
II. II. Henderson had been employed to
conduct the appeal in the telephone
case.
The petition of Lingerman and others,
regarding the lessening of their dog tax
license was fled, pending the passage
OF dog tax ordinance
The chief of the fire department ask
ed Tor a number of supplies, and the
matter was referred TO the proper COM
mittee.
a claim was received from ex-Chief
Binford for $44.S9. the remainder OF his
salary for January. This, together with
the formal notification that he still
claims to be chief of the fire depart
ment went to the committee on claims.
James n. Kimball entered a claim
Of $35 for his opinion in the telephone
appeal case.
Thomas d. Dee, the receiver for the
submitted a claim of
$3.50 for hydrant rent for last year
Ed p Morton, formerly city audi
tor, claimed $3.50 for extra work while /
he was auditor. and there were claims
aggregating $l,325.7S on account of paw
ing tax refund. These were all re-
ferred.
An ordinance defining the crime of
was introduced by
Woolley and read the first |
time.
The Union Light and Power company
sent in bills for December and Janu- |
iry aggregating $1,Ss4.66, and for light
ng up the Jail in November and Deceml
Der, S63.6S. Committee on claims.
Attorney Mckay, attorney for the |
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone COM |
1any, was given the privilege OF the
ioor and wanted to know wherein the |