Show COUNCL COMMITTEE ACTION Proposition of 33 Y Trust Company as to Strip of Ground D H Wells Jr appealdd last night before l the Council Committee I4n Laws with regard to the desire of the B Y Trust company for a settlement of the citys suit to compel the trust com j I pan > to widen Commercial avenue In 1SOO the trust company agreed to deed twentyfive feet of lIst property on the f tho south sIde or the avenue then thirtyone feet wide provided the city would remit the paving tax lhe city I remitted the tax but the deed to the city was never executed hence the present suit The trust company offered of-fered to pay the taxes with Interest and any reasonable damages In order to retain the strip of land which It I values at 10000 Mr Wells explained that the agreement was made in the boom days when it was the Intention of the trust company to erect business I blocks on the widened street The policy of the company had changed the value of the property had decreased and there was now he said no public I need for the street After hearing the i attorneys side tho coninilUee decided to decline the offer and to prosecute the suit The Waterworks committee decided I to recommend that the Board of Pub lie Works call for bids for new flumes i of vitrified pipe for the intakes of the highlino and Twentieth ward tanks I The Committee on Jordan Canal and I Irrigation decided to plant timothy and I redtop In Parleys canyon It will snrvn the double niirnn i of nrnvlrllnjr i I I a moisture and retaining sod a cij pro duclng a hay crop for the city I j The Claims committee will recommend recom-mend the payment of 50 to O P Pratt who was shot In the leg while pursu lug a robber during the recent stock convention The Law committee will recommend the passage of an ordinance prohibiting the operation of carpetcleaning plants 1 In the city r The pay of the patrolmen employed I by the Irrigation department has been fixed at 250 per day |