The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-10
Pursue a "Save at the spiggot" Pol
lev in the Street Department.

Park City, oct. 9.-The city council held
the first regular meeting Of the month
last night. The meeting should have
been held che night before, but the Re
publican caucus being of so much more
/ Importance, the interests Of the people
| were postponed for twenty-fOur hours.
Council was called to order at q. clock
| by Mayor Wilson, and Aldermen Getsch,
Sutton, Williams and Rasband answered
I to their names at rOllcaN. Kelly was
absent. After the reading and adoption
bills against the city amounting to 5000
were read and ordered paid The CITY
I payroll, including the streets, alley and
B bridge account and the sCaVenEer and
sprlnkGng contracts amounted TO $l.b50s7
/ These, too. after regular routine. were or
dered paid.
J The city receipts from the various
sources. as shown by the different re-
ports, were a,709.50 Of which amount the
city police court contributed SdO Inc
entire amount OF disbursements Tor the
month was S210235. So. as the reports
show Park City has $2,60714 in her treas
At the present time the city is being
Geluged with new ordinances. The pres
ent administration has new laws on the
way now which cover almost every I'M
aginable point which IS not really neces-
sary to be touched. but they rather hesi-
/ tate TO touch the real wants in the or
dinance line
street commissioner and receives sal
airy Of s. per day In an economical mo-
ment the council decided to Tetrench on
/ expenses and read q mOney-saving Ordin-
ance whereby the marshal was to be no
longer street commissioner and was to
have a cut in wages of ST per day. They
/ then go on to provide Tor the appoint
ment Of street commissioner. whose
salary shall not exceed a per day. This
makes an additional expense Of 50 per
day 20 the city
A petition from J. V Murphy and
fOrty-five others was read. asking for a
sidewalk and light to be put on Wood
side avenue The request was granted.
While the light subject was up, attcn-
tlon was called to the condition near the
| Catholic church and IL was decided to
put a light there, too.
The various committees on the city
park question and other late election
schemes of the present administration,
| all asked for more time. The request
Some bills were contracted by the city
| for the county during the smallpox cpl
demic last year. These have not been
paid and it was decided TO collect them
Immediately.
All i'm all the meeting was pretty bust
ness-like one. The council then ad-
journed to meet AGAIN the Dist inst.
The ticket nominated by the Demo
Gratis has been the topic Of general con-
versatiOn here today. This ticket seems
20 have struck a harmonious chord with
al and there are no complaints being
made. The platform. too, has been under
fire Of talk and there is no fault TO be
| found The indications are that the en-
/ bic in being elected. for. as is generally
said. THE ticket is good. the platform is
good and we want no more such govern
ment as the present administration has
given us.
The statement recently appeared fin a
morning contemporary that the Demo-
cratic marty went out Of office here I'm
debt. This statement came from Repub-
hcau headquarters, but the true state
Of affairs was that the retiring Demo
Gratis left 81 900 in the treasury with no
outstanding bills and a record Of having
made more improvements in the city than
any administration before or since.
W. Mont Ferry is in town today on
mining business.
Mike Hennessy OF the Silver King Con-
sohdated came up this morning and went
at once 10 the mine.
Peter krass was a passenger to Park
this morning.
Dan Lambert is in Park today, en- route
to kamae-
NJ NJ Smart. prinoiDal Of the Wood
land school. spent Thursday i'm town.