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Show A PRONOUNCED NUISANCE. The Citizens Take np Amis Against the Old Time CanaL Complaints are reaching police headquarters head-quarters in volume against the Salt Lake and Jordan canal that become a superfluity, if not a nuisance, when the water mains were laid in the localities through which it wound its way. Since its nsefulness expired the canal has been made tho repository for every kind of 111th. The carcass of the feline that got iu the path of a bootjack lies bleaching in the generous sun. The dog that got within range of the mule's heels shares the furrow and everything known to tbe kitchen sink has found its way to it. The result is the breeding of an effluvium that leaves the stamp of death upon its surly cres and unless something is promptly done to abate it, disease promises to prevail with dreahful effect along the entire course of tbe canal. The matter should have the prompt attention at-tention of the authorities and prompt action taken to correct the nuisauco. It is a source of general alarm among parents, and the council can give iis attention to no more deserving subject at its meeting tomorrow night. Pestilence has no stronger foothold in the ci y than in this ditch or cana! and its suppression sup-pression w. I be the' signal for much Joy among .til who.p.re now exposed to its desolating stench. |