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Show Water Works. We --i"ued yester-, yester-, day, with considerable pleasure, a petition pe-tition to the mayor and city council praying for the establUhment of water works to meet the necessities of the city. Wc have said little about this Buct sioce last fall, knowing the comparative com-parative uielessncss of agitating such a question during the winter moDths; but now that spring 13 here with a multiplicity mul-tiplicity of "fircrtraps'' growing up, in the shape of numerous wooden structures struc-tures in different parts of the city, a necessity ne-cessity exists for steps being promptly taken to have an available supply of water for any emergency that might arise. The petition bore the signatures of a number of our first citizens and business men, and will undoubtedly be numerously signed and receive due consideration by the municipal authorities. author-ities. There baa been considerable howling concerning improvements not being made by the city, which came with a very bad grace from those who were its principal mouthpieces. Not only refusing to pay their honest taxes themselves, they, have sustained others in setting municipal authority at defiance, have compelled needless and vexatious litigation, and have endeavored en-deavored to increase the burden of taxation upon the honest and law-abiding portion of the community com-munity whose money has made the improvements which these howlers have enjoyed in common with others, yet have ever endeavored to retard. If all parties will promptly d-iv their taxes and licenses, the city treasury will be in a condition to make many necessary improvements, and then taxpayers tax-payers would have legitimate grounds for grumbling if they were not made. |