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Show BOND ELECTION CALLED. Residents of Price Will Vote on $10,000 Issue Is-sue for Water Stock. Special to The Tribune. PRICE, Feb. 3. At a meeting- of the city council last evening a resolution was adopted calling a bond election for March t to vote on a 110,100 ti per cent bond Issue with which to purchase additional water stock for the city. Another resolution j calls for an election of property owners at the same time to decide whether or not the council shall lease the electric light and power plant to the highest bidder. The council some months since leased the plant without consulting the people, and B. R. McDonald, for himself and other taxpayers, brought suit n the district court to compel cancellation of the lease. The taxpayers won and the case was appealed ap-pealed by the lessee. Last week the supreme su-preme court affirmed the decision of the distrii.-t court and the council is now' going go-ing about the matter as provided for by law. |