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Show flity Officers Hand in Their Annual Reports. COST OF- .DETECTIVES Five Dollars Tor jch Drug- Store Case-Property Case-Property Owners to be Compelled by Ordinance to Level np aud Gravel SidewalksOther Side-walksOther Matters , The ciiy council met last evening and transacted an uLustially big batch of routine business. , Five petitions for Abatement and re mittance of 'taxes wo e granted, amounting in all o $15.65. Petition from F. II Simmons asking ask-ing for for footbridge acroas factory race comer Eleventh and H street. , Referred. ! Annual reports from the following cily flicers wero received, accepted and died: David Loveless, pound Keeper. J. C. Withers, lire department, Hyrum Hatton. dog tax collector, Eph Homer, collector of water Tates. Eph Homer,superintendentof waterworks. water-works. Newel Knight, marshal. PvBports of Sexton duff and Water-maater Water-maater Allred wete referred Cash received trom estrava,' $241.10; from dog tax, 1395. S53.G0, 189 i, $22 00, total $75.00; for water rates ?2 443.59, fifteen eerviees V. t to be collected froin, eight of which have been -turned off; fceven delinquent owing $30; collected on fines, cash $89J.5J, labor S3 10.00, amount of fines involved in cases on appeal $220 00. , Wu'ermaster Ad recommended a number of lemiUuTcea of atir tax. xlll but five were granted. Total M6.25. Chiet Withers' report set forth that there havo been seven a'arms of lire in the year with an estimate loss of prop eriy $1,290 00; psud to department $50.25. The department i'b entirely satisfied, working .harmoniously with gooo average attendance at drill. Eph Homer's report on the condition condi-tion of the waterworks r-ystem is voluminous. vol-uminous. The system is in excellent condition. Screens lor the further protection ot the mouth of the system were asked for and granted. Forty seven new takers have bgen added dining tne year, a total of 301' services with eighteen cut out. The system in cemetery is in pood -condition with twenty-eight taKerD, all shut off for the winter. Marshal Knight reported paid out of hiB contingent fund for detective work: ines case $ 5 00 Excelsior Dru company, sever. ca-es 35 00 Smoot Drug coaipany,six cases. 30 00 Gambling, twenty caBes 30 1 0 Smart & Co., three cases s 15 00 Telephone messages 3 50 Totafc $118 50 Ward, McEwan and Holladay, special spec-ial committee on giayeling dis ricts re ported, tec mmendinz that an ordinance ordin-ance be drafted making it obligatory on property holders ti clean up, level and gravel their sidewalks. Adopted. Bills in total amount ot $136 00 were allowed and council adjourned till Monday evening next. |