Show SIGNED TWO MEASURES SprinUIinfi Contract and Bund Ordinance Ordi-nance Amendment Approved Mayor Baskin yesterday signed the sprinkling contract with J H Griffin which provides for the payment of the original amount for the sprinkling of the streets in the business districts and albo the ordinance amending tile bond ordinance by creating a sinking fund at the end of ten years Both of these instruments i reached his honors desk during the afternoon and were the only ones considered by him yesterday XJttes it Pay Days Changed I Hereafter all pay days for departments depart-ments Bother than the fire and police will occur on the 5th and the 20th of the month instead of at the end of each week The rolls will be made upon up-on the let and 15th and will then be sent to the finance committee for approval ap-proval This work will require at least live days and the ray days will therefore there-fore not occur until the daya mentioned men-tioned Street Departiienf During the week the street department depart-ment has been engaged in cutting down the hill at the intersection of Tenth East and Fifth South streets in order to make an easy incline to the bench The soil which is being removed goes onto Seventh South as filling EUt twenty men have been employed buta large terse of poll tax people was engaged en-gaged in making numerous general repairs re-pairs I Health Department No new cases of contagious diseases reported by the health were depart j meet last week and no deaths resulted from either diphtheria scarlet or ty phold fever The department issued I eleven burial and three shipping per j mils There were seven births during I the week four males and three females I The provision inspector closed one dairy during the week on account of unsanitary surroundings made elgh teen tests of milk and fortyeight general gen-eral inspections |