| Show THE COUNCIL committee on oil water report ballot for water agent city council met last wednesday evening in the basement of the tabernacle at the usual time of meeting all of the council the mayor recorder attorney and marshal being pres pre ent an ail application for a license to sell li liquor was presented to the council but owing to the applicant haying failed to secure bondsmen wa was s laid over for one week the bountiful bountis ill lumber building also applied for a license which was granted committee on water reported the respective prices oi of piping and flaming the water ordinance found elsewhere in this issue isme was passed considerable was said about the duties of ta the c respective water mas masters As ag the ordinance was designed 0 to have the marshal also act as licad lead to cut down expenses the rules of the council were suppell suspended dod to allow marshal arshal ajol b brook r 0 0 k aso 1 0 e express x p r c s h himself i in 9 c I 1 f as to sd whether w h e t e r h he e w donld 0 u I 1 b be e willin willing cr to accept the office lie ile stated that tho the office would seriously interfere with his ba business bagginess giness and unless the council could pay him a certain salary ile he could not accept it several nominations f for or head bead were made but when voted upon no one was elected as no one received a majority in a bority of tile votes cast A question that came up early in the evening and which called forth considerable debate was the one regulating or ordering how the water should be carried passed yards yard I 1 stables etc some held that stables should be at least fifty feet from any an public ditch while others held to the fact that some of the people owning city lots would have to buy land to place their yards and stacks on the attorney stated that lie he ba had d been very verv careful in drawing up the ordinance orJi nance e so go as to make the citizens the least bother and still to have tile the best results councilman hatch was very much in favor of taking 0 steps to prevent tile the drinking 0 water from becoming polluted by animals or yards it was his opinion that many diseases came from bad water ile he did not lot feel like working in any liar hardships 01 on the alie people but had been jean informed that in the winter at various points on various creeks the cattle are arc allowed to stand by watering places for hours and for yards around the life creek appears to be regular cow yards lie ile regarded the health of the citizens something very important por tant aud and thought 0 such matters should be looked into council adjourned to leei meet on oil thursday next |
