DEBATE EXTENSION OF SURPLUS CANAL Matter Is Referred to City Attorney After Complaint of Citizons Along the Waterway., Whether Salt Lako City is liablo fflfr any damage arising from tho surplus CJiiial. and whether it is incumbent Upon Up-on tho city to oxtond tho canal wnn necessary, was debated to'0 commission vestorday and tho maimer was referred to the city attorney for ilu opinion, A delegation of proporty ofnors along the canal, headed by AUorucy M. E. Wilson as spokesman, appeared and complaiuod against tho rTCaont condition of the canal, asking that tho city extend it two miles further west. Thev declared that property alioiig l:o canal is being flooded because ot lacic of a propor outlet for tho wtatcr. Tho city attorney has horctlore advised ad-vised tho commission that tho: city had no right to construct the rnsal in tho first placo and has no .iurifjdiction in tho matter. However, in vnow of the fact that tho city did build tho canal somo of tho commissioners, believe it is tho duty of tho city 16 take care of it. . k. . Action on tho ordinanco granting the Utah Light & Railway company a frnnchiso to carry small freight, express ex-press and produce on 'its luterurban linos was postpoued one week. Tho ordinanco creating a public market under tho supervision 'of a city market master also -vent over until next Mondav night, when tho retail merchants wall proLcat somo ,of tho provisions of the measure, which they declare are prejudicial to their interests. MEASURE FRAMED TO BAR NECROMANCERS Votaries of All Mysterious Arts May Have no Standing in Community Hereafter. Professional practice of nearly all the occult sciences is. put under ban by the terms of an ordinance drafted in tw law department, yesterday for presentation presenta-tion to the city commission Mondaj night. , -, fortune tellers, astrologers, mind readers, spiritualists, phrenologists and palm readers aro forbidden to prae-fiM prae-fiM under neualtv of $200 fmi or six months in the city .iail. The ordinanco providing for licensing fortune tellers is revoked by tho now measure. . . , . Last week the commission voted to instruct the city attorney to draft an ordinance against fortune tellers, it being be-ing tho aim of the city to get rid ot tho numerous gypsies who aro ptonjer that trade in the city at present. Whether tho sweeping measure drafted, yesterday, however, will meet with approval of a majority of the commission is considered consid-ered doubtful.