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Show a A, Salt Lake city survey, or any portion por-tion thereof, or ihat would create any liability or contract ou the part of the defendant corporation or its officer to in tbe future sell or dispose of said premises, or any part thereof. That pending the hearing on said notice no-tice that thu defendants, and each of them, be restrained from signing or executing ex-ecuting any writing or contract that will in any mauuer cloud or encumber the tit lo of said property or render the defendant corporation 'liable by contract con-tract or otherwise to dispose of the same, with such other and further relief re-lief as to this court may seem meet and just, and that the plaintiff and his associates asso-ciates may recover from tbe defendants .the costs expended in this behalf, and that on the final hearing the said restraining re-straining order be made perpetual. Fkaxk Hokkmax, Plaintiff's Attorney. PIfflARD JFENS FIRE. Under the Hautle of a Taxpayer He Starts Forth to Block tbe Council's Action ON THE OLD FORT BLOCK, He Insists That the "Paradise" ba Be-tailied Be-tailied as a Poor Man's Breathing Breath-ing Place. All yesterday the reporters kept an eye on the threshold of the district clerk's office. Not until night began to wrap its mantle about the Wasatch block did they begin to relax their vigilance. It had been stated through the "official organ" of the anti-Deep creek contingent in tho city council that Alderman Pickard would "shy hit castor," and the .scribblers waited for tho procession. It was 0 o'clock when Frank Holl'man, the arch counsellor for the "antis," came laboring up the tortuous stairway, and, with a big document clutched in his' fingers, passed on into 'the clerk's oflice and cast it on the desk. It was tho voice of processiou, and on its back bore 'the ) following title: V. I-. Pickard, plaintiff, s.Salt Lake City, a municipal corporation, George M. Scott, mayor of said Salt Lako City, and James F. Jack, recorder of said city, defendants. The plaintiif brings this action in behalf be-half of himself and of all other taxpayers tax-payers residing in said city who may hereafter choose to unite with him in this action. Flartitiir alleges that at a regular meeting of city council held iu the council chamber at the city hall, tSalt Lake city, Utah territory, on tho 3d day of March, the following resolu tion was adopted by a vote of said city council, and by the mayor, the presiding presid-ing officer thereof, declared to have t bceu passed, to-wit: To the lloiinral'ln Mavnr ami City Council ot Salt Lake City. L't Hi- Uimtlemeii :. our coiti-Tiiitteii coiti-Tiiitteii ou puiilie grounds ti whom va r-terreil r-terreil the petition nf .lame- II. Huron. re.aUve to t it pun ha-e from the rity of I'.onerr or Sivth want H'iite lor the sum of one hundred unit nfty thousand (MuMJ dollars when and miles 01 railroad shall luivn hoen c eiipli'ted west from this cltv. extending tut tic ntat of Nevada the lime for thu Inilldilltf liefm? - limited to two year-. Wit iveoiiimend turn lhe petition lie itranie I. hut that, t .e title, t and the poss"fion 01 -a d bloek retea n In and with the city until the. -jki miles of r. ad are built, and the roa 1 operated for the entire dts-tmee: dts-tmee: that in) extenKioii of thn limn within whleh work tihall liecomuiencudand completed be. made. That the petitioner bind himself to hold lhe rltv liarmle-s aitumst all c ists. In i .n Hie rluht of tho r;ty to e-mvey said property nhou)d he mutest d la the courts or otherwise; ami - rei'o nmenil In easo tills report Is adopted and lhe pititlm Kranteil. that the city attorney preimni the tie -eisary papers and submit thein to this council at thu neit regular regu-lar meetl iK. Plaintiff alleges that the said defendant, Salt Lake City, has for a long time past been the owner in fee simple of block 4H, plat A, Salt Lake City survey, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake county, Utah territory; the same comprising ten acres of land, and known as "Pioneer square;" that tho same has been dedicated and appropriated appro-priated for tho uses and purposes of a jiublic park for the benefit of the residents resi-dents ami tax payers of the defendant. Salt Lake City. That the resolution of the city council above referred to aud adopting the majority report of the committee above set forth was on the petition of oue James IL Bacon, a copy " of which said petition is hereby annexed, an-nexed, marked "exhibit A," and made a part of this complaint. That the saitl James H. Bacon and others, whom plaintiff alleges aro the employers of said James H. Bacon, are pretending to incorporate and are pretending pre-tending to build tho railway referred to in the petition of James II. Bacon, "exhibit A," and iu tho report of the conimittae of said council purely on a speculative enterprise, and for their own private and individual gains. And that the action of tho mayor and city council is in direct violation of their trust nnd authority. That the council iu adopting the report of that committee, commit-tee, as above set forth, are attempting to loan the property of the defendant corporation, Salt Lake City, to the said James II. Bacon, aud his co-owners iu their private enterprise, which is contrary con-trary to au act of congress of the United States, approved July 30, 1M0, entitled ''An act to prohibit the passage of local or special laws in the territories of the United States, to limit territorial indebtedness in-debtedness and for other purposes." That tho price offered by the said James II. Bacon and agreed to be accepted ac-cepted by the vote of the council adopting adopt-ing thu majority report of the committee, commit-tee, is entirely inadequate. That the property is of far greater value thau the sum of $150,000, to-wit. of the value of $,-)O0,000. This plaintiff further alleges that the difference in the value of the property between $liiO,000, offered by the said Bacon, and the actual value of the property, would be a simple gift from the city to tho said Bacon of the difference between the price offered by said Bacon aud tbe actual value of the property. Plaintiff further alleges that the said property is of great value to the city for the uses and purposes of a public park, to which the same has beeu dedicated. That long since the city has been the owner of this particular block or park; it has been compelled by the sanction of all tho residents of the city and council coun-cil and the mayor to purchase other property and dedicate the same for the use and purposes of parks: to sell or dispose of this particular park and premises described in tho complaint would necessitate tho city to purchase other and different tracts of land at other ami different and largely increased in-creased prices. Plaintiff alleges that the mayor, Georgo M. Scott, and the recorder, James F. Jack, are the only parties who can bind the city by executing t'-ie contract authorized by the mayor and saiil council to be executed to tho said James 11. Bacon, and that he is informed in-formed and believes that unless a restraining res-training order of this court be granted against each of them as well as said Salt Lake City, .- i d defendants will so execute said contract; that the same, if executed, would bo a cloud" upon tho title of the properly, aud bind the defendant. de-fendant. Salt Lake' City, to convey the same upon the fullilliiient of the terms in said petition and resolution agreed to be performed and fulfilled by said James H. Bacon. Whereof, plaintiff prays that any and all taxpayers aud lesideutsof Salt Lako City w ho demand' in writing to be allowed al-lowed to become associated with this plaintiff as plaintiffs in this action, be' allowed to become plaintiffs herein. That an orilr issue out and under the seal of this court, direct to the defendants de-fendants and each of them, commanding command-ing theru t be and appear beforo this court on a day to be designated by tho court, and snow cause, if any they have, why they, and each of them, should not be restrained and enjoined from signing or executing any contract that would in any manner cloud or en-Cumber en-Cumber the title of said block 48, plat |