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Show CITY COUNCIL DOINGS. The city council wet in special session ses-sion Saturday eerjiog, Major Knighton Knigh-ton and each of the couaoil present. The Gunnison Irrigation company's control over the water that will be necessary to utilize for the proposed city waterworks, will necessitate an understanding between that company and the oity authorities. To meet such requirement Counoilmen Beauregard Beau-regard and Swalberg were constituted of oity marshal were read from A. A. Ferre and A. J. Christensen, but neither was considered. TO RENAUS STREETS. It has been found epeeesary to make several changes already in the new compiled ordinances, and some of these were considered. By iuadver-! iuadver-! tence the fire limit is fixed at a place not intended. Connected with the correcting of this it was decided to rename the streets, designating them in numeral order north and south, east and west, with Main and Center (bftnk) streets for initial points, instead in-stead of by alphabet and numerals. a special committee . for conferring with the irrigation board. DEEDS NEED SIGNING. It was reported that a number of deeds were in readiness for certain parties to sign, conveying to the corporation cor-poration right to certain streets, as had been verbally agrepd some time since. Some of these parties have seemingly changed their mind upon the question and now refuse to attach .their signatures. Beauregard and Childs were siugled out to see those concerned and endeavor to get their signatures. POOL TABLEB ' UNDESIRABLE. Then came a puzzler in the shape of an application for liquor license. A question arose about the legality of fflUBK UUHT. The mayor recommended that the lighting on Main street be extended to Depot street, and it was so ordered. Claim of Skelton & Co. for special election supples was allowed, $9.75. LIQUOR LICSH8E GRANTED. Council met again, Monday forenoon fore-noon specially to oonsider arf application applica-tion for liquor liceuse, from Frank Carroll. The license was granttd on payment of $300 for the quarter and the saloon commenced businee very shortly after. t TO SUIT SURVEYOR, Section 116 of the compiled ordinances, ordi-nances, pertaining to city surveyor's fees, was up for consideration and finally fi-nally an agreement reached to amend it. The section rsads : "The sur vey or shall, upon tender of his legal fees, determine the corner and boundary of any block, lot or part thereof, within the city, when so required to do by any person." The local surveyor sur-veyor declines appointment under this section, which requires his Bervice for private parties at oity fees. It was voted that the city attorney be conferred with immediately, upon the changes necessary to be made in the compiled ordinances, and the mayor was appointed to that duty, censed for a pool table, section 179 forbidding to be kept in a place of biifioess where intoxicating liquors are sold,' any pool, billiard, or any other kinds of table or devices upon which any gan e or games are usually played " A lot of talk ensued upon the pool tables being licensed at all. Some of the com cil held that the pool hall is a worse den than a saloon aud had so proven iu the short time tbe saloon had remained olosed. The mayor and part of the council held it would be better cot to license pool tables but reduce the liquor liceuse, Others held ths liquor license Bhould stand at the present figure and pool tables the same. A lengthy discussion took place in considering the application, which was presented by L. Ludvigion for Frank Carroll, No action was taken. NOT 17 ANTED. Applications for tbe appointment |