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Show THE CITY ADMINISTRATION. Doings of the Municipal Department tbe Past Wek. Twenty-five prisoners arc now confined la the city jail. City hall attaches are congratulatingthem-selves congratulatingthem-selves on the fact that a new city jail is to be erected. During the present week seventy cases were disposed of. Farmers are still utilizing irrigating water, and even for this season ot the year there is an ample supply of water for them. At the present time thirty-two mea are employed in the department. License Collector Reese anticipates a lively collection season from this time on. Many merchants, lodging-house keepers, etc., are in arrears and to all such the order will be "Step up and see the captain or take the consequences I" The street department is still hard at work transforming Sixth South street into a boulevard aud in grading Center street, besides be-sides attending to the usual large grist of routine work, such as graveling streets, filling fill-ing depressions and repairing crosswalks. The city council will tonight resume consideration con-sideration of the ordinances. The solous have two weeks' steady work before them. . Deputy Dog-tax Collector Galleazi during the week impounded 52 canines and slaughtered slaught-ered 32. The others were redeemed. The irrigation department during the week just past constructed twenty-four Humes and nine foot bridges, and cleaned twenty-four miles of ditches.-At present thirty -three men and three teams are employed. The waterworks department is extending water mains on Eighth West street, between Seventh and Tenth South, and pushing the work of excavating the great Highland reservoir. Superintendent Ryan now has US men at work, and unless all signs fail an additional number will be employed in the near future. fu-ture. , Parley and City creeks are being put in thorough condition to cope with the expected ex-pected freshets of winter. "Watermains are arriving from Colorado at the rate of three carloads a day now and as a result the long delayed waterniain extensions exten-sions will be completed as fast as it is possible possi-ble for men to work. .Plumbing Inspector Lapsley has issued during the week nineteen plumbing permits and three sewer permits, condemned two pieces of defective plumbing and inspected thirty-six jobs. One hundred and eighty men are now employed em-ployed by the street department. Seven cases of diphtheria (three being in one house) and two cases of scarlet fever were reported to the health department this week. Four of the diphtheria cases are in the Twenty-first ward aad one in the Eighteenth, whi.e the Second ward is responsible re-sponsible for the scarlet fever cases. Clerk Brown of the health department issued is-sued fifteen burial permits this week. For a city of over 60,030 population the record is gratifying. The physicians of the city pay but little attention to the regulations of the health department and inconsequence Clerk Brown experiences great d.friculty in keeping the records straight. All reports should be mad ; at the health office, and not to Dr. Beattie, and on blanks which are furnished by the department and which if properly used simplifies tbe arduous duties of the recorder of the department. Sanitary Inspector Showell disposed of nearly 700 loads of garbage this week. The work of constructing the sewer on East First South street is now under way, aud the other districts will be attended to ia due time. One fire is the record of the fire department depart-ment this week. Loss, $300. Building Inspector Hamlin issued sixteen building permits this week which call for an expenditure of $17,920. The claim is made that Mayor Baskin has exceeded his authority in withholding his approval of the liquor bonds of certain saloonkeepers, and that he has no other recourse re-course but to approve when the council grants the licenses. There was a balance of $191,90470 in the city treasury on the 1st inst. Treasurer Duke today disbursed $5076.45 as follow: Street department, $3055. So; water, $1715.S5; health, $304.75. Seventy deaths were recorded in thit city during the month of September. There were ninety-three births in this city during the month just past, while the marriages mar-riages aggregated fifty-seven. |