Show PROVO IS PROSPERING The Chief Events In the Garden City of Utah OTho married folks tripped the fantastic I fantas-tic and seasoned thfjir palate with ice cream at the opera house on Wednesday night Tho ball was under tho management manage-ment of Mr and Mrs Reed Smoot Mr and Smoot Mrs S S Jones Mr and Mrs H E Giles and Mrs Annie Atkin and was a huge success suc-cess in every respect A good many of our citizens will go t Ogden on Thursday next and return to Salt Lake to spend the Fourth At a special meeting of the city council last night the water works franchise was granted and all that remains now to make the contract a binding one is tho signature of the mayor on the part of the city and that of Witcher Joues on his own behalf and this formality will bo attended to on > Monday Mon-day The franchise is a loagtby document and when it is known that it was drawn by Judge Powers attorney for Mr Jones and I S U Thurinan representing the city r Jn l ii tr ller f it need I not bo said that it is carefully and ably done The city on its part grants to Wither Jones his successors success-ors ant assigns tho right such as the city I now possesses to tho use of sufficient waters from Timpanogas river t supply the waterworks and tho use of all streets and alleys to lay the same for a period of fifty years from July 1 ISO The city council is to fix the rates at all times upon a fair and living basis and at the end of twenty years tho city shall have the option of purchasing the works Mr Jones agrees to at once organize a corporation to which he will assign this franchise to procjd to the work without delay and to compete the same by May 1 1801 Provision is mae for forfeiting the franchise in case the covenants are not welland truly kept on tho part of Mr Tones and his assigns During tho consideration con-sideration of the question last night n Mr My ton a real estate man and an alleged attorneyatlaw asked permission to speak He was allowed tho floor and he at onco proceeded to roundly denounce tho scheme of Mr Jones and his associates He thought the estimated cost 192000 altogether out of reason 73000 he said was a top estimate and he warned the city council to beware Ho intimated that some prominent prom-inent citizens of our city were being bribed with stock in the concern for their influ once and that boodle was in tho air Asa As-a legal proposition he held that the city had no right nor authority to grant such an exclusive ex-clusive franchise These insinuations rather ra-ther riled Mr Jones who turned upon his antagonist and completely demolished him He resisted the insult offered to this court cil and to himself that any undue influence was being used Ho said ho had been told during the day that there was some man in town that he had bettor flx but he was not in the fixing business busi-ness Some hot words passed between the two men and finally the former withdrew no doubt to consult with the citizens ho represented re-presented After tho meeting Mr Jones invited all over to the soda fountain to partake of a cooling beverage The general verdict is that the step taken is a wise one The agreement appears very fair and It would seem that the interests of the city aro thoroughly guarded On Tuesday night last tho city council appointed census enumerators t ascertain the number of inhabitants that we might bo declared a city of the second class in time for the coming school election Last night they mode their returns which showed 1 population of 52GS This is considerably con-siderably lower thurfhacl been estimated and it is thought the United States census will bo in excess of this number Some of the remote corners of tho corporate limits were not visited and several say they were omitted The inmates in-mates and attendants of the asylum woro also omitted Anyway there are enough to bring Provo up to a city of the second class Today the mayor certified the factor fact-or the enumeration and the number of residents to the governor with a request that he proclaim us a second class city and so you may listen for the proclamation followed by the bray of the tumpet and general jollification here Last night an old lady named Shaw whose husband is addicted t the use of intoxicantswent into tho West End saloon and illumined the place with blue blazes She remonstrated with tho keeper for selling sel-ling her worser half stimulants She was interrupted by some of the patrons and she sailed into them right and left armed with a chair For a few minutes arme excitement high but finally the storm assuaged and now all is calm Provo CIT Juno 23 ISJO W |