Show BOWMAN MUST TAKE IT The Joint Committee Terminates the Old Arrangement Exchange of Water Between the City and the Farmers Mayor Baskin After That Bonus Tho joint city and county building committee met yesterday afternoon in executive session with a full attendance The sum of 34767 was appropriated to pay freight on stone to the Rio Grande II Western railway The mayor was authorized au-thorized to make some satisfactory arrangement rangement to pay the freight on five or I I six carloads of stone now at the depot so that delivery of the same may be ob tamed Then the real business of tho session was taken up viz the arrangement which the city had entered into with Mr Bowman for the former to pay the labor bills and architects estimates After a long discussion the following resolution cancelling the arrangement was passed Resolved That the arrangement recommended recom-mended in a report by a subcommittee of the joint committee ot the city and county building regarding estimates of architects and the mode of paying the same adopted by the joint committee in Hay 1893 and accepted in writing by J H Bowman contractor May 12 1893 be and the same is hereby terminated provision pro-vision for such termination having been made in said report and that the said Bowman be notified by the clerk of the joint committee of the action of said joint committee regarding the termination of said arrangement This throws Mr Bowman on his own resources again and will doubtless force a crisis i Just what the future action of the committee com-mittee will be is hard to surmise but its possible the city will take the whole affair into its own hands if the contractor is unable un-able to perform his part of the contract |