Show COUNTY COEnvnSSIONEKS Browning of Burch Creek Replies to Critics Eeports Piled Commissioner Hammon reported that the road boundary troubles at West Weber and Taylor had been settled by mutual consent The report of the county surveyor in regard to the Warren War-ren bridge was filed Report of Fruit Tree Inspector FoIer was read and ordered filed The reports of road supervisors from various districts were read and filed The matter of the petition of 33 residents resi-dents of Burch Creek for the removal of J A Browning road supervisor was then taken up Phyl Gainer Al Herrick Her-rick and J Thompson appeared in support sup-port of the petition They complained that Browning had so distributed the work as load supervisor working only a fen teams at a time as to bring himself into a position as foreman much oftener than was necessary that he took teams and men from one end of the district to the other and was otherwise wasteful of the count s poll tax labor Mr Browning appeared In his own defense saying that he had notified men to come but they persisted in coming at their own convenience His report for the year showed that his entire bill for labor as foreman was less than 11 The matter was taken under advisement County Attorney Peery was empowered empow-ered to employ assistant counsel in the tax contested cases brought by the banks Adjournment was taken for one week TELEPHONE FRANCHISE Company to Pay One Per Cent of Its Income The regular meeting of the city council was held last night In the absence ab-sence of President Wadleigh who was ill Councilman Hash occupied the chair The resignation of H W GwiHIam as street supervisor was accepted and the mayor appointment of C B T > lee to fill the vacancy was confirmed Claims aggregating 350C 9S > were ordered or-dered paid and pay rolls amounting to SI 400 were allowed Councilman Pierce introduced an or dinance granting a franchise to the j Rock Mountain Bell Telephone com1 pany m the form of a lease l for 20 years The company will pay > n elate of a license 1 per cent of its Ogden n come to the city besides furashefg three telephones to the city free and giving the city the use ot its poke foe the police and fite alarm sstfrj > tee franchise to be accepted b > the company com-pany within ten days after In i approval ap-proval by the mayor ThIs ordicence was referred to the appropriate coin mtee George W Jones introduced a esoa I I lion providing for the corente in I lighting to arrange uih the Imon I Light and Powei conrpacv i > r any either responsible company to furnish tiet lights for Ogden the contract to be ft one and two yearn and rot ta xued 101 lights on a moonlih cNciul The lighting is to be subj 11 to 11 ap proval and inspection of the ety er gineer and lights are according to lie resolution to be furnished to th pub lie building free SUIT PILSD Idaho Liability Law Invoked Court Orders GeorgeC Mills filed an action against Joseph Clark to recover 0467001 being the amount plus Interest of a judgment judg-ment secured by plaint < against the Independence Mining a Milling corn pan in July of this year The com pan Is organized in Idaho and the judgment was secured there Clark was a stockholder and the laws of Idaho it is claimed make IndivIdual stockholders liable Sidney Stevens Implement company vs the South Ogden Loan Building Improvement company attorney for plaintiff ordered to return pleadings John Boyle vs the General Electric company action dismissed at cost of plaintiff James C Armstrong administrator vs James McFarland et ai evidence heard in part and hearing continued till today C C Richards filed an application on behalf of James Snodprass against the Pioneer Electric Power company to recover 1000 damages alleged to have been suffered on account of the defendant permitting the Four Mile creek to flood and spoil his crops Board of Education The board of education met in special session yesterday at noon to canvass the returns of the recent election The canvass showed the tarns as published pub-lished the day after election to be correct cor-rect At the evening special session President Presi-dent Dee of the finance committee reported re-ported that 7000 bad been received from the county treacnrec since the last meeting The treasurer report showed a balance for November of i 5158881 Receipts from the county treasuicr during the month of November Novem-ber 22000 Total 523 bS3 84 The disbursements dis-bursements for November were 318 980 31 Balance 4 608 jO The salaries of nine teachers in the public schools were raised on an average aver-age of 5 each Bills aggregating 9SO were allowed Local Briefs C K Bannister is recovering rapidly from the injuries received in his recent re-cent runaway accident The Hofemer Kos = 5 Dramatic company appeals here three nights add a matinee mati-nee this week On their repertoire is Faust Down the Slope and other strong pieces They open Dec 9 On Friday night next in the First ward amusement hall a part will be given in honor of Joseph Belnap jr who leaves Dec 13 to labor in the miccinnnrv field in the southern states I Philip Wright received word recently from his son William well known asa as-a railroad man in Ogden stating that he was in Daw son City and was pros poring there He left for Dawson on Oct 10 and is now part owner in the Murook claim |