Show CONVICTS ON ROADS City Prisoners to Be Sent Out Oat Under Guard to Work i e 1 YON ROAD MAKING 3 WATER TOE FOE io LARGE TARGE BY E Et En n t Pleasant View Farmers Want the Water to Run Bun is in Open Ditch Bitch W JL 2 Jones Gets Crete a Good Thing Prom From tile tie City Par For a Minute Job Fora For a lawyer wyer Chief Hilton arr with the coun council council cil cli committee committe on pollee police and prison last evening to impress the city prisoners into hard labor commencing g next week as provided by the recently en enacted enacted enacted acted ordinance Quite a B problem was waa presented to the committee on how hew to get the best results from prisoners work at the least cost St to the time muni municipality municIpality It was was agreed aneed that the con eon convicts convicts could be set get to work under guards cleaning ng out canals and ditches making good roads in Liberty park and ana an repairing the streets but the th objection was vas raised that thet their labor in these those directions would come into direct competition with honest honEt toil However it was wag concluded conclude that until the council orders otherwise ee the pris prisoners prisoners otters will be he set to work a permanent roadway of great excellence along the City Creek canyon nyon boulevard and the chief was wa authorized to ap q point two guards whose duties when otherwise engaged ed shall be re directed by the head of ot the police department The committee agreed fo t report fa favorably favorably a on Chief Chiet Hiltons recommend recommendation recommendation atlon that the office of ot detective be created in order that Detective Sheets salary might b be Increased front from patrol mans pay to a month rn Preventing less of Water Joseph Lippman E B B Wicks and other farmers tanners owning land under the Pleasant Pie ant View ditch appealed to the irrigation committee for a recon reconsideration of the councils action in l to abandon the use u of or the time open ditch dUch and amid making makl Parleys Parley con conduit conduit duit dult do the duty of at the canal tar for turn furn the tho eastern and northern ports parts of ot the city with irritating water wat The committee decided to have City Attorney ney fey Stephens look Into the legal points raised before reporting to the council During the discussion it was brought out that while the farmers on the tho southeast bench pretend not to object to the city wanting o 0 Increase its ite supply of water by preventing the great loss from seepage theft and evaporation from tram the open channel they insist that according to the con COIl contract contract tract the municipality shall restore tore r the canal to the condition It was in before 1888 Formerly the farmers claimed only surplus water rights rl from tram Par Parleys Parleys leys bys but now they assert prime rights rI adverse to the city The waterworks committee agreed as recommended by to advise the purchase of meters to be Installed In the connections of large anti and wasteful con umen The Them meters m will measure the amount of o water which must be paid lot for at meter rates Consumers must deposit t the cost of ot meters which w h will ill be In Installed installed stalled before July 1 The be meters to be purchased will cost oost it is s estimated and the board of ot public works will advertise for tor bids for tor them I William Jones Jonas Graft W R It Jones and Thomas Hull talked the irrigation committee Into Te lag ins the formers claim of 3 for the tha loss IDes of a flowing lowing well on Second South street which is 18 alleged to have been tapped in the construction of ot the gray grav gravity ity sewer on en Third West street Not Notwithstanding withstanding with taMing that former administrations have hae repeatedly rejected the clain clai on a showing that the city was waa not legally le any liable for fer the drying up ot of the well the committee decided to allow Jones free tree water for tor ten ton years from the pipe system in full settlement The worthy two went away satisfied but later the committee reconsidered its action and it anything IB is done for tor torM forMy Mr My M Jones the tha council will hAve to Initiate the authority Upon being bains advised ed that the clerical work of or revising and compiling for tor the printer the city ordinances or in force would cost 2600 2500 the committee on municipal laws just whistled It was decided to defer action until the com corn committee committee could hear from some capable young Republican attorneys who want ant antto to make some easy money but in the aggregate way under 2600 2500 for the job The Time committee on markets decided ld to report adversely on the petition of or ort taxpayers t payers for the establishment of a pound near Jordan river rivet Supervisor Condle Condie was directed to use nse poll tax t labor IR In cleaning out the Seventh West street t canal |