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Show THE COUNTY COURT. The county court mot in full session thla morning at 10 a. m. Attorney Dinning, who represents tha property holders on the Kapid Transit line outside the. city limits, who, some time ago, filed a petition asking the court to regulate the fares to be charged, and on which County Attorney Murphy Hied an opinion last Monday, appeared t: find the boat method to bring this mailer up before tho court. His honor thought the best way would be to file a petition stating the facts of the case, and then they would be in a position to hear both sides of tho question, and to come to some dechdon. Frank J. Haluey, who has been in the hospital and infirmary since the first of tho year, appeared before the court ami askod to be sent back to Canton, Ohio, his home. He has been here sinco last Novoniber aud hasn't been able to do a day's work. He la dying of lung trouble. Order made that the sheriff be. Instructed to buy him a ticket to Canton and to furnish him (In for ex-penses. ex-penses. His honor recommended that ii poor woman by the name of Mrs. Miller be furnished fur-nished a ticket to San Francisco. She had received a dispatch from her husband in San Francisco that he was dying, and she bad but $H in the world. W, T. Arglie, a man of about 5fl yeari of age, who has been in the territory for Iwenty-sx years, appeared before the court and asked for assistance. He was sworn aud testified that he had the heart disease and other ills that interfered with his earning earn-ing a living. Case referred to county physician. A petition which was presented some time ago to the court In regard to the opening of Main street from Tenth Uouth to Twelfth South by J. W. Ross et el., and hi which they agreed to pay one-half of the actual C2- peose, was taken up and discussed, but no action wn rendered on It. Clerk Allen then read a letter in regard to the title of the fifty-two taxes sales that he would soon have to give a deed for. He wanted to have the records examined so that the property holders could not come on him for damages if everything wasn't right, and asked the court to appropriate some money for this purpose, as he didn't think he should staud all the cost. This caused a good deal of discussiou and was at last referred re-ferred to County Attorney Murphy. A. F. Hurd, a man about tiO years of age, made a request to be sent to the infirmary. He stated he had been there for several months, aud was discharged about March 11th. That he had always done auy work that they had requested him to do, but ho had not been requested to work from January first to March first, so he hadn't done anything and that was the reason he was discharged, aa tho weather was bad and was scarce, the court made auother allowing him to go to the iuttrniray till further orders and for him to do any work that he is order to do. A petition from Dr. A. B. Dunford, to be, allowed to use water out of city tank, lo. Cftted on the corner of eleven South and West Temple, iu sprinkle his large treei etc. was referred on the grounds that the city would need all tho water they had foi spriukling purposes. Dr. A. 0. MjLean reported that on the 36th inst. there wore eleven county patients at the different hospitals in the city: St. Mirks hospital, 9; St. Marys, 1; Deseret, 1. The resignation of J. C. Morrissey, justice of the peace at Bingham city, was accepted. Mr. Morrissey having found there was more money in the saloon business tiled his bond for that purpose this morniug. A petition was presented from the board of directors of the Orphan's Homo and Day Nursery that they had been organized aud hap carried on charities for the past seven and a half years. That the object of said home is to take care of indigent pauper's children of the territory, and that the greatest great-est number of them came from Salt Lake county; and that if it was not for the institution insti-tution they would lie a charge on the county, coun-ty, the exact number of said children it would be impossible to state, as they are cokstantly coming and going. At present there are about twelve who would be a charge upou the county of Salt Lake were it not for this place, and perhaps that would j be a fair average of the number there during ' the year. . .. Under the circumstances your petitioners s respectfully request that you will examine into the circumstances and make some monthly or yearly allowance to the Orphans I Ionic and Day Nursery lor the support of .lie poor i hildren under their charge, w hich belongs to Salt Lake county. The. court discussed the question, and then decided that they had better put in a bill, aa that would be the best way to get at it. The following bonds were read and ap- proved: Alen Hall, to carry on the business of a retail liquor dealer at West Jordan; se. curity, James Hilton. S. ( '. Pender and O. F. Walton, to carry on the business of retail re-tail liquor dealers at Sugar ward, Eleventh East between Eleventh and Twelfth Si.uth; securities, Charles Thclson and Henry Den-halter. Den-halter. J. C. Morrisey, to carry on the business busi-ness of a retail liquor dealer nt Bingham City; securities, II. Kayscn aud F. Muller. |