AN OFFICIAL REVIEW OF CITY government of the nf tho city likic choun ft marked improvement pro under alii administration and the beada of alic now in office A brief of the work of some of them may ho of interest the sanitary inspector it ports alie health of the city to bo in belter condition than for any time ir years this lias lican brought about by hard and conscientious work on the part of the sanitary inspector and the city ilia report shows that in tho past eleven hontas there haie been about deal hi a very good sh otting when the number of transient laboi cri lire considered on the other hand there have been births female and male the city crematory has been worked the year through in destroying the dead animals nd refute of jhc thc city in the past eleven months there have been aco horses 33 cows 15 hogs 63 sheep dogs 22 cats and loads of garbage 0 from alie records of the recorders office it appears that during the eleven ending nov 30 tho city council have held 42 regular 7 adjourned and f meetings sixteen ordinances c passed and 1131 paper were filed 2531 warrants countersigned counter signed by the recorder which aggregated lag there have been business li honses issued and collected by the re amounting to and liquor licenses amounting to there were dog ta licenses collected mounting to and miscellaneous fees amounted to making a total collection of alio record of the supervisors chow that one block ha been fixed oil I 1 avenue with grai el two and one halt blocks of brosi street have been graveled twentieth has been opened from wall avenue to wil ions lane two blocki on lincoln lave been graveled two on twenty icv lath two on washington one on grant t block fluid a half on awen ty fourth and one mock on wall besides chii there have been hauled and distributed over load of gravel in repair of streets walks have been repaired all over the city an innovation has been the putting in of tiling instead of wooden vert and replacing rep laing wooden culvert with tiling scores of bridges nave been the been short instance court iw trial 0 n the nature of an experiment the leccesi of it is told best in the language f judge lion ell in an interview nith a as TUE the municipal court came into existence on the first this year ag a result of an act of the legislature its wai brought about by tho manifest need of the people of a growing sity like ogdan for a more adequate in court than they had had before alio llio judge of this new court is required to be a member of the supreme court bar hence supposedly trained in the law and lie in paid a fixed salary in order that ho may be free from all influences the court wn meant to take the place of the old city justices court and also the ou precinct justices courts within the cita the former city justice was paid a fixed salary but he was not required to be an attorney at law the precinct justices were neither required to be attorneys nor were they paid a fixed salary but acro absolutely dependent on the ir fees it wag to avoid having a city justice who might be unlearned in the law justices who were likely not only to be lacking in a of the law bilut were biased in favor of those who brought cafcas before them and thus enabled them to earn their fees that the court was established then have been tried in the municipal court during the eleven months of its existence 1002 city criminal cases that is prosecutions for the violation of city ordinances 57 state criminal cases that is prosecutions for the violation of the penal code and CO civil cases including actions on the part of the city to collect poll tax there has been paid into the city treasury by he clerk of alio court the sum of fines and forfeitures in city criminal cases as against thu uni funi f of for the mine months of last year in addition has been paid in the um ot fee in bivil cusce and there is now due from the county to the city the sum of 2670 5 fees in state criminal cases and this i the first time that fees in either class of cases will go into the city treasury there has besides the agent of alie state humane society the sum of aa a result of prosecutions for violation lio lation of the laws against cruelly to as provided by an act of the last and there has been paid into the county treasury the sum of fines in the total receipts of the court have amounted then to after I 1 took office in january the constitutionality of the act creating the new court wai attacked the law was held in the district court and an appeal 11 now pending in the su court the district court decad however to ja it ilgis litigation chaa was w pecked of it but hampered as it has been by the doubt raised as to its status its brief existence hai nevertheless demonstrated st I 1 think that it is a step in the rihl direction and if it be held constitutional tut ional and is no amended as to complete tho reform intended it will accomplish nil that aa hoped for it LEGAL OP cm elds department is conducted by J E bagley iho present city attorney who came into office alio ast 1st of january 1902 there are at alio ahne pending two suits in the united states circuit court for the district of utah at salt lake city ono is the case of the ogdan waterworks Water works company va ogdan city this uit wa brought for alic al of quieting the title of the company ya alie city and mill be tried probably during the month of january 1003 the other auit in that court is an application for an injunction on the part of ogden waterworks Water works com 1 B balch street supervisor thoe tho E browsing browning chief of police chief engineer fi fire nsf staI m as w J 1 asic 3 l aS fc IM via il v B LI i ditl i ii amii it tf fram sag method of distributing etc before the present took his case wag tried paid court and a preliminary older made granting a temporary injunction in the caad since which time alii matter has not been taken up there i also pending in ali aird judicial diarist court in lt lake city an action by ogdan city VB idear lake waters oran irrigation co et al this action ii ui accounting as the city aka abe for unlawfully taking of the old waterworks water works of city and to a lioi on tho of tho defendants haid their in interest for tho amount of darolyn the city has sustained by reason thereof tah suit has been tried before hudso biall of salt lale and is now under advisement vi the suing aboc mentioned instituted before the of the present administration for thia city the lacot having becci in 1897 ogdan atty r this action instituted for the purpose of settling alie question as to which corporation shall tiac of the indigent poor found within the city limits there are other matters of minor ain pending in the the business of the municipal court of ogden city H much than at any time in its hi atory the anny abil penal tie in that court range bioni 2500 to 2700 month it i the duty of tin city attorney to attend brought ill the municipal court t h alft al ft nig duty to attend tho meeting ot the city council id to faive and counsel as t alio leaah alias of thai may come before tt and other of the rity and to attend to nil litigation on of city m oil the alio italian deputy ho the monroe doctrin fe ahng ixon knocked V high liae another think coniing during the eleven ending DP 1 ohp kofl cr aap inide 1 3 against lt 0 made lor the entire twohy months of list year As a taut of these there paid into ahn cai v treasury for and in ibe eleven montha ending december 1 the sum 1 I to bow the immense increase in the revenue of this ince the present came into power it is but eMary to tae that the revenue for the aanie months jivu it ran onar H clr ot loans the ut v jail durin ahe cleben of this cur idaa liron 41 besides the actual etli to tho city attlio h r nerved ti nf anc broken carpe of shirli lias hern in alie paving of the ts As ut present the depart mant of chief T Y caption C bidun detective jameli bolm fra FIUT n preil meaner rob eil A B B wil inn tai dpn di burke charlea tick D sih ey ap of alic ret improvements that lini bv hp ent i alic of n of awl light hr ly can ie established almost ht H moments notice with the patio linen the Mii H atta cf the city thi lie extended to reach all the princel princ ll parts ul tho deiy