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Show A STORMY OUTLOOK, The City Authorities and the Deposed Officers View the Situation Tbro' ' Different Glasses. AWARDING THE CITY PRINTING. Substantial Suspicions That the Water Works Committee Overlook the Teach-u Teach-u ings of the Ordinances An Eccentric Eccen-tric Position. Fate is paving the way for troublous times down at the city hall, and whether the deposed de-posed members of the police force succeed in their right against the city or not they are determined to make a hard struggle. During; Dur-ing; Ihe day they have taken occasion to i onsalt counsel on their rights in the matter mat-ter and it looks now as if a livelj' nest of suits would have to be resisted by the local sires. .Marshal Janney himself feels confident of the city's tight to fire a man when it is tired ; his services, and that the term of office or Ihe officers dropped had expired when the ne w administration went in. The cx-officers ins'sL that they had a right to notice of at least thirty days, to a Irial and an impartial hearing before their dismissal was legal. There is a reasonable certainty that the council will be called upon to rescind the resolution by which all printing1 is sent to the two morning puDeis without reierenceto the hardship it may work uj ou their con, temporaries. It is understood, however, that the Xetrs is perfectly willing that its rights should go to the Herald a6 a consideration for efforts upon the latter's part to smuggle the territory into statehood or home rule. The liberals who vere elected at the last struggle, however, will insist that they are entitled to at least some consideration in the premises and that in giving ;he spoils to an organ that lias smitten them on all turns they are not getting the square tiling. It is the water works committee, at whose head Councilman Moran presides, which is responsible re-sponsible for the boycotting of the afternoon after-noon journals, and who are at least indebted to the "liberals of Salt Lake for an explanation explana-tion of their very eccentric conduct. There is an ordinance somewhere that the committee com-mittee on water works evidently overlooked in commending this arbitrary course to the council, which teaches a lesson on the lowest low-est bidder. The committee should hunt it up before their attention has been called to it Police Picking. Lux Sarde was arrested at the Union Pacific Pa-cific depot last evening and held as a suspect. sus-pect. Mary Johnson is held below to answer a charge of robbing an Italian of frjO in a State street saloon. John Hogelson is held below on a charge of mayhem, the prisoner having undertaken to chew a finger from the hand of officer Shannon. Night watchman Tom Dobson is congratulating congratu-lating himself upon capturing Louis Urad-ford Urad-ford and A. W. Wilcox while in the act of burglarizing Scbodes saloon. They were held to Ihe action of the grand jury. James llogle, James Rustler and Joe Murphy were the names given by a trinity who were arrested early this morning charged with stealing wine from the Garfield Gar-field saloon on West First South. mm |