| Show POINTS FROM PROVO Business Transacted at the Last Meeting of the Council PROVO WILL WELCOME HARRISON Two Sunday Liquor Sellers Go to Jail for One Month and Pay a Fine of Fifty Dollars and Costs At tho last meeting of the city council the following petitions and communications were presented and referred From the district court submitting a portion of the report of the grand jury calling attention to the sanitary condition of the Provo city jail and the city in general gen-eral The former was referred to the committee on police force and the latter to the board of health From William Hill tendering his resignation resig-nation as police officer Not accepted REPORTS OF COMMITTEES The committee on fire department to whom was referred the petition of Knight Brothers and others asking a reconsideration reconsider-ation of the appointment of John A Brown as chief and William Hill as assistant chief of the fire department recommended that i John A Brown be continued but that the resignation of William Hill which has been filed be accepted A bill regulating the keeping and storing of combustible material within the fire limits lof the city was taken up on its second reading and passed The mayor called attention to the fact that President Harrison would pass through Provo via the Rio Grande Western West-ern on May 9 and suggested that a committee com-mittee be delegated to confer with President Presi-dent Dodd of the chamber of commerce and President Smoot of the Utah stake relative to a welcome for the President to our city On motion of Mr Maiben a committee of one was appointed to confer with the gentlemen suggested by the mayor The council adjourned for one week I FIRST DISTRICT COURT Donald McPherson was arraigned on a charge of murder The defendant pleaded not guilty and his case was set for trial April 29 1891 Stanley Reed pleaded guilty to the charge of house breaking 4 committed at the store of John Kelly in Fillmore and was sent to the reform re-form school Harvey Warner pleaded not guilty to the same charge The boys are thirteen and fourteen years old respec tielv C W Coburn and Lute Maham were tried on a charge of selling liquor on Sunday Sun-day at their saloon at Clear Creek station The jury in the case returned a verdict of guilty as charged in the indictments They were each sentenced to one months imprisonment impris-onment in the county jail and to pay a fine of 50 and costs The Santaquin riot case was next taken tip for trial William Taylor Lars A Johnson Henry Boyle Frank Halliday and John DeSanger are accused of breaking up u ball at Albert Higgins dancing hall on February 11 1891 Mr Jarvis testified that the defendants had attacked him at the ball on the night named in the indictment indict-ment and called him pretty tough names and insisted upon having a row that two of the defendants struck him while in the I ball pursued him out of the door and gave him a severe beating breaking four ribs t and cutting some ugly gashes on his face A general row took place in which there was considerable fighting Case now on trial |
