Show MACHINES ARE OUGHT ROUGHT BY CiTY Contract for Mechanical Voting Devices Is Agreed Upon and Closed Up WILL BE USED NEXT FALL PRIZEFIGHTERS ASK FOR RE REFUND REFUND REFUND FUND OF LICENSE FEE f J The city council last night approved a contract for the ilie purchase of eighteen United States Standard voting machines for This is 3 on the basis ot of o OO for each machine with 5 6 per pr p r cent in interest interest terest on deferred deterred payments The rhe city has five years to pay Day for the machines and a discount of 5 per cent per annum is provided for tor in the contract where payments are made In advance of their coming The county commissioners yesterday signed a contract with the representative tive of the tho company on the same terms as those prescribed in the contract The machines provide for seven full tickets with fifty names on each ticket The machines are to be placed on the cars at Jamestown N Y T where the factory is located on or before Sept 1 t It Is 18 the intention to have them here by Oct 1 The entire machines will be used in the city City Attorney Ogden HUes approved the form of contract adopted by the coun council council cil elI last night and the mayor ma or will probably probably ably approve it today or tomorrow S A Hamilton the representative of the com corn company company pany will then go to Ogden and en endeavor endeavor endeavor deavor to sell selI machines to that city and to Weber county count Prizefighters Ask for Money Last nights session of the council was devoted largely to routine business In Inthe Inthe Inthe the absence of President A X T J Davis Councilman h W J Tuddenham presided J M Donaldson representing the pro promoters promoters promoters of the prize fight petitioned that inasmuch as the fight here was stopped the 25 license paid for it be refunded The petition was re referred referred referred to the license committee Mayor Thompsons veto of the appropriation for the benefit of the San Francisco sufferers was laid over one week Similar action was taken on his veto of the permission given the tho See SeeIng SeeIng Seeing Ing Salt Lake automobile concern to place a sign on a L pole on Second South street The council passed over the thc mayors mayor s sveto veto the appropriation of to Eline Esterholt for breaking her arm in a fall fallon fallon fallon on a sidewalk The mayors ma ors veto eto of a similar appropriation of 50 for M 11 L Cummings was sent back to him with an amendment t making the appropriation 3 Asks for Horse and Buggy The board of public works asked for foran foran foran an appropriation of for a i horse and buggy for the boards chief inspector The Tho communication was referred to the committee on finance and engineering The council turned down the report of the public grounds committee recommending recommending recommending mending that the thc offer of C L Rood of be accepted for a piece of ground rods in dimensions at Thirteenth East and Second South streets Fernstrom Wells VeIls and Martin took the position that the city should hold the property in Jn view of the general outlook for an increase in real estate values Mayor lra Thompsons veto of the contract for fire station No 5 on the ground that the city engineer would have no voice in its construction was concurred in inand inand Inand and the contract amended In accordance with the mayors suggestion Puts Wires Underground The offer of the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company to put the wires of the police and fire alarm systems under underground underground underground ground in the business b siness district was ac accepted accepted The rho city will have to pay pa the cost of the wires and pedestals about 1059 and the company will wiIl do the work free of charge Councilman introduced a reso resolution resolution lution which was adopted directing the park keeper to open Pioneer park and instructing the chief of police to see that an officer looks after it The council adopted a resolution by Mr Mulvey expressing sorrow over the death of 01 E B M 11 Le Lc Ordinances Passed Ordinances were passed as follows Granting the Western Vestern Pacific a fran franchise franchise franchise chise for a a spur track on Tenth West Vest street to connect with the proposed new ness w r plant of the Utah Itah Gas Coke com corn company company pany Levying a tax for paving Second street jt and C street Levying a tax for a sewer on Male Main L street between Fourth and Ninth South streets Levying a tax for tor a cement sidewalk on Fifth South street Levying a tax 10 for a sidewalk Ik on Tenth East street Levying a tax for a sewer on Fourth South So th Seventh South and State streets Confirming the assessment of proper property ty 13 on S street for sewer purposes Confirming the assessment of property on Eleventh East street for sidewalk pur purposes purposes purposes poses Councilman Black Introduced an ord ordinance ordInance ordnance nance defining the duties and the com corn compensation compensation of the dog catcher |