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Show LICENSES GIVEN TO 27 SALOONS Salt Lake, July 4. When the city council met Monday night to canvass the returns of the recent special liquor li-quor election, Citj Recorder B. S. Rives was Instructed to open the packages and tabulate the vote and present the same to the council a( au adjourned session next Thursday night The council had a large routine rou-tine of other matters and this was deemed the most expedient way to dispose of the question. Twenty-seven more liquor licenses were ordered issued by the council under the order of the Third district court, where they had been granted This now completes most of the bulk of applications for renewals which were filed, and temporarily, at least, settles the fight over the procedure of the new liquor law. M- E. MlllVPV WflTlto1 thn HTor- referred to the license committee for a report before their passage In the council, but as the matter of licenses has had considerable delay as It is and many of the saloons "are being compelled to run unlicensed if they ran at all, It was decided to grant the licenses and dispose of the matter mat-ter last night. J. W McKinney's resolution providing pro-viding that an ordinance be drawn amending tho present ordinance to close the saloons at 11 o'clock Instead of 12 o'clock was referred to the municipal mu-nicipal laws committee. Councilman F. S. Fernstrom presented pre-sented an ordinance amending the present liquor ordinance providing that it shall be the duty of the chief of police to Inspect all saloons at least four times a year and that if a proprietor of a roaming house, or "hotel, shall be convicted twice of selling liquor unlawfully the place shall be declared a public nuisance and cannot be licensed to run The matter was referred to tho municipal laws committee. The west side viaduct matter went over for one week, when all matters pertaining to viaducts will come up for consideration. The contracts with the Kennedy Construction company for two sewer extensions also went over for one week. nn |