Show MARTIN ROASTS REALTY DEALERS First Ward Councilman Be Becomes Becomes Becomes comes Excited and De Denounces Denounces Denounces Firm COUNCIL HAS WARM TIME i UNFINISHED BUSINESS IS PUT P T TOVER OVER THREE DAYS With City Recorder John B Moreton back from hi holiday hollday trip and Council Councilman man J J 1 Stewart back baek in his seat lent at the council early closing of sessions of that august body are a thing of the past Last evening the council sat until after 11 and beyond listening to an elo do eloquent eloquent quent speech from rom Councilman I L D Mar Martin Martin Martin tin In denunciation of a local real estate firm did little more than to lay important matters pending over for periods of time running from a 0 week to three weeks Among these are all the Improvement which are asked advertised and carrie 1 by the property owners The saloon ordinance ordinance ordinance nance got another delay of a week In the hope that the legislature by that time will have adjourned without passing any radi radical radical radical cal liquor legislation The budget also went over indefinitely having been referred to the board of esti estimates estimates estimates mates and which sent It in inThis InThis inThis This was done on motion of Councilman Fernstrom without explanation exp The re report report report port of the fire committee recommending a new station went over until the new budget Is reported A request of or the Real Estate association that the paved streets be repaired met et the same fate Mr Martins Tirade Councilman Martin broke loose when the report of the streets committee that the thc request of Glen R H Bothwell and others to open Tenth East between Eighth and Ninth South be filed was opposed by b Councilman J J 1 Stewart He began an oration which became carne vehement before he closed The firm he said were Land sharks Swindlers and had bulldozed their customers in that locality Councilman Black managed to get in a word to the effect that he had known the tile members of the firm for many years and had found them always honorable gentle mr This aroused Martin to a frenzy He called upon the newspaper reporters to nien and then began a tirade of abuse of thE firm Sharks The biggest swindlers that ever did business In Salt Lake Shysters ard ald robbers were the thc mildest of the epithets he applied to them He said this firm had built houses of and Md that some of oC their houses bpi 1 i or four years ears ago were already down j As far as this proposition was concerned they had deluded pur purchasers purchasers purchasers chasers of houses and lots on this so called street to buy lots and then came In to get the city to help them out of the hole by making R II street where they had opposed a street a few years ago The other members membern of the council listened to the remarks and on motion of Councilman L E Hall set the whole matter over for a week Refunds Are Refused Nick Tedesco and D whose liquor licenses were recently revoked were refused refunds of the money they the had paid for such licenses and the council went on record against granting any re refunds refunds refunds funds of this nature Jake Take T Raleigh street supervisor was Instructed to at once commence to spend the to strengthen the defenses of the River RIer Jordan Jorda against floods The waterworks committee report rec recommending that the bid of the Trident Meter company represented by D C U Dunbar to furnish meters be accepted and worth were ordered The city recorder was Instructed to solicit propositions for the furnishing of steel street signs Councilman Halls halts resolution that the city establish a supply department which will act as a city purchasing agent went over for a week though the finance com corn committee committee requested that It be filed flied Bad for the Bow Wows An ordinance respecting vicious dogs was finally passed This gives the chieT chie of police the authority tto to kill vicious or mischievous dogs wherever found and to enter the premises premise and take such animals from any anyone one harboring them The chief also has authority to shoot all dogs found without a collar to which is attached a license check It also makes it a misdemeanor misdemeanor misdemeanor meanor to keep a vicious or mischievous dog Someone asked where the dog catcher came In but nobody could answer The ordinance seems to abolish that office though it fails falls to mention it itAn ItAn itAn An ordinance granting a spur split track to the Oregon Short Line on Third Vest West to Fifth South to the warehouse i iwas was passed Considerable discussion arose concerning the franchise asked by the Salt Lake Los Us Angeles railway An amendment was wasat wasat wasat at first proposed that the railway should be required to pave the streets over which it wants to run This seemed to meet with approbation and the ordinance was sent back to the municipal laws committee to embody some such clause The fran franchise franchise franchise chise asked Is for single track from Sec Second Second ond South and Third West Vest to First South and nd Fourth West Vest thence along First South to the city limits The business of the council was by no means finished despite the lateness of the hour and adjournment was made until Thursday evening |