Show COUNTY COURT TRIP Geddes and Rob rts Will Visit the City of Chicago WILL INSPECT ELEVATORS STORY OF THE VARIOUS BIDS ALREADY V V AL-READY SUBMITTED City Board of Education Ulnlces it Demand For Money Due on Tax Sale Rcrtempf ions nnt the Cleric Ordered to Draw the Warrants Routine Business of the Selectmen V Select-men The Bee Inspector Resigns Because He is No Chinaman und Cannot Work For Nothing and Board Himself I Salt Lake countys ownest own county coun-ty court held a meeting yesterday morning at which the following resolution resolu-tion was adopted Resolved That Selectmen Roberts and Geddes be appointed a special com i mittee yL the county court to visit the city of Chicago and such other cities as may be necessary and to be present at the practical tests upon elevators for which bids have been received Provided that the company to whom the contract may be awarded stands the expense of said trip and said committee com-mittee is authorized to let a contract for an elevator providing the price does not exceed the present bid of any company com-pany whose elevator may be selected This resolution was offered by Chris topherson who didnot want to go to Chicago at this time owing to the fact that he is not familiar with its many streets and avenues and does not want to set lost until after his mileage suit has been decided Roberts seconded the resolution Geddes being in the chair and therefore helpless and then both voted for I There wouldnt be anything wrong perhaps is nothing wrong in the gentlemen gentle-men referred to taking a trip to the windy city but I appears odd that such a thing should be necessary under un-der the circumstances But there is a sort of a story in connection with the entire elevator transaction which needs some light One L C Davis a youth with black hair and blue eyes about five feet three and some fractions of an inch in height who has posed as a detective in the many Hayken cases it is claimed by those who are in a position to know was promised the elevator contract con-tract by somebody When the matter began to be considered consid-ered in good earnest he disappeared in the direction of the city by the lake where he now is or where he is presumed pre-sumed to be Davis represents the Winslow Iron works when he Is rest ingIn In due time bids were solicited and lo when those of the Chicago firms at least most of them were opened they began with the statement Your Mr L C Davis called upon us to say he had the contract for an elevator for the county building or words to that effect All of which would indicate that Your Mr L C Davis was play Ing both ends and the middle Well the bids were opened The Crane Elevator folks bid on an electric elevator in the sum of 4350 For hy draulic elevators the figures were respectively re-spectively 4473 18171 and 6157 the variation being caused by different styles with pumping plants for one or two lifts lfts V Brodesser offered a hydraulic elevator eleva-tor for the sum of 3850 Winslow Bros suggested they would place the machine in for the following figures Two hydraulic elevators 13 560 separate plants 13666 C R McKay of this city offered to place one PrattSprague elevator in the building for 5500 Then came L C Trent Co with a lower bid than nnyVone The firm quoted a hydraulic at 3335 and an electric at 3475 Trent Co didnt mention Your I Mr Davis at all and there are those among the dear people who are just I suspicious enough to intimate that this junket while it will be charged to the firm getting the contract is in the interest in-terest of the erstwhile defective The home firms bid Is a cool thousand thou-sand below that of the Crane company for the same elevator which is something thing to be wondered at I the Crane folks get the work at the bid they made they can well afford to pay the expenses of the trip to Chicago by the two selectmen mentioned The court awoke to a sense of responsibility re-sponsibility yesterday in the matter of the moneys due to the school districts dis-tricts on tax sale redemptions This was doubtless caused by the receipt of a letter from the clerk of the board of education of this city in which a demand was made for the money due the board amounting in all lo 3205783 This gentle request was iilrd after which the court instructed the clerk to draw special warrants in favor of the various districts for money due on tax sale redemptions up to August 20 I 1895 Stephen Hays of Bingham was granted grant-ed a license to sell liquor for the usual us-ual time three months tmetlree The state board of equalization sent in a letter in which the tention of the court was called to the fact that It is the duty of all counties to provide the assessor with plats and maps which was filed BEE INSPECTOR RESIGNS John C Swaner the bee inspector for this county is a man not to be trifled I with I will be remembered the county court refused to pay him in full for the services rendered by him in knocking I I knock-ing out foul broods etc last summer whereat John appealed to the legislature legisla-ture for an appropriation That body sat down upon John by denying his petition for relief Yesterday he filed with the county clerk the following curt decisive and especially emphatic resignation I hereby tender my resignation as bee inspector for Salt Lake county My reason for so doing is that 35 cannot work for nothing and board myself In other words I am no Chinaman and I have no reason to believe that if I work I will get my pay M > T experience exper-ience of 1895 leads me to believe that you will do nothing that will give me assurance of justice in the matter This document WAS not received in time for any action by the court and will be laid on the table awaiting the arrival from the east of the elevator inspectors |