| Show LIBERAL RULE IN OGDEN last evenings session of the ogden city council was marked by two or three interesting features to which we beg to call the attention of the public in general and the taxpayers and workingmen in particular they they pertain to the domain of finance a subject which has had its share of discussion and which in view of the increased taxes with a fair prospect of heavy and various local taxes is not likely to be soon forgotten city attorney heywood hey wood came in with a little bill for clerical assistance in drawing up the bothwell water contract and the amouel to py pay it was promptly appropriated mr heywood it will be remco bared is 00 gentleman who draws 1800 a year for doing the work which has heretofore been done for but he we have been told would not make any claim for extra bompensa com pensa tion for extra services being him self altogether an extra man A careful scrutiny however of his brilliant services since his elevation to this post of honor and emolument does not show anything of importance until we come to this very bothwell water contract simultaneously with which as stated appears an item of extra expense the present surveyor enjoys a salary of 1800 per year while his predecessor performed the work at a merely nominal salary now comes forward the now new and favored official to receive an extra reward of 10 for the use of his valuable instruments comparing the price of the man at 1800 with that of the instruments st at it will be generally agreed that the latter are much the better instruments for without instruments the engineer would be a costly luxury at almost any price at the same session which witnessed these two extra grants it was decided that some of the city departments reduce expenses by workmen we understand that the and street supervisor are two in whose departments this retrenchment will be made if salaries go on increasing it will only be a short time until there will be no money for laboring men at all relieved believed of employment and burdened with taxes their outlook cannot be a very hopeful one ogden standard THE QUESTIONS ANSWERED has not the old junction building on twenty fourth street been occupied as a bagnio for the past ast eight years are and was it not owned by Irl thomas homas D we dee and N tanner jr during all the time they served as police austice justice and city attorney of this municipality and has not this den of vice been broken up only sines since the liberal party got control here union As aa to his honor thomas D dee or N tanner jr having all to do with the alleged bagnio 4 twenty fourth street this thia vile i so far as it relates to tanner is contradicted b by him last evenings issue of the the editor of that paper now adamita 1 I that it was in error relative to ah atel honor thomas D dee he no not says that the building was and rented by another thomas dee and a member of the liberal party in answer to the other inquiry d x the union Is not C C richar richarda Bic harda da the county prosecuting attorney attorn of this county and ian ean he gj give y 1 any reason for his failure to prowl cute the acts of immorality f ehia i he professes to have knowledge 1 we are authorized to say that shortly after these dens and dives wem i started mr george 8 peters states district attorney wh whiter conversing with mr AA distant county attorney learnes that sheriff belnap was hunting w UP cases on these people an and a tam prosecutions would be im immediately media commenced against thern them M ma 4 peters thereupon requested g not to commence proceed i ings but to leave the matter entirely to him and the grand jury ing as his reason for the that he desired to show the MM mon people that the laws of con gress grass of the territory prohibiting gambling licentiousness and other immorality would be enforced I 1 bay r the district court as rigidly as the law against pol polygamy amy and unlawful cohabitation anoa 0 this request and with this this dundei standing the matter was left WM mr peters and the grand jaray the charge of judge 1 Henderson fc the jury and the failure of that body to find fand any other indictments thab r the one against mr maden for k keeping beeping I 1 a ga gambling abling house are ar fresh in the memory of our read that we deem in unnecessary to tore view them at this time standard rs |
