Show THA OITT COUNCIL COUNci i the city council of bountiful city met last evening in regular session fill all the councilmen except heywood being present and mayor holbrook presiding the peoples committee reported to tile the council that they had asked attorney pearson if he be would answer to the complaint of the walker wal ker estate company suit stilt in behalf of the water claimants on mill creek next satur 8 adur atur then leave the committee fr free ee to hire bim or some else che to finish the suit but the attorney said lie lid did not care to make the answer unless he be could carry the suit clear through the committee said that they consulted with other attorneys and found one whom conceited concen ted to make the answer for 25 and then the committee or tl the ile people could engage engage him to finish the suit or get sone so ne one else so ao he was employed now tile the council was left in a bad shape as ai the committee which was appointed to see whether any one could be secured to give the council legal advice through the term cheaper than the then acting city t ity attorney had offered to do led had not lot coti convened and prepared a report for the council aud and some ont oab must represent tile the city next saturday the rhe attorney had asked special pay for district court work but he be said thallia tho city employed any one else to answer for the city lie he would not act for the city at all the matter then presented itself to tile the council as a to whether mr pearson should be the city attorney for the coming term or not but as ill the committee ou on securing all a attorney had not reported the council was slow to 66 act on oil the matter so tile the attorney said he would settle the matter by tendering his resignation which he did while tal talking kingon on the acceptance of the resignation councilman hatch said that perhaps the attorney b had rd taken offense at their prolonged action upon tho the matter but that it was not his intention to drive him to any such action as the attorney had worked very faithfully during Z tile the past year was always on hand to give advice and to help and did it for nothing and now that there was good prospects for considerable work in the near future for or an attorney lie he did not think it just to go and employ another it if the present attorney would do the work some where near the price that other attorneys would ask for pre forming n the same work the mayor confirmed councilman hatchs hatcha remarks the resignation was accepted to take effect at once four petitions were handed in two asking for water rights to be put on record one to have water tax sale postponed and one asking for transfer of water referred to respective committees connell adjourned to next wednesday evening 7 p m |