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Show Will Investigate . Freak Sidewalks Council Committee Plans a Tour of Inspection Ladies Want Public Baths. In order to make a complete Investigation Investi-gation of the freak sidewalk grades that have been put In all over the city by the City Engineer's office, the Street committee of the City Council will make a tour of the city and look Into the many complaints which camo to the Council at the last two meetings. Loot night they filed the petitions of the property owner on East Fourth South to have the street graded to the level of the sidewalk. Between Eighth and Ninth East streets the sidewalk is from two to five feet below the level of the road. The same committee will also Investigate Investi-gate the alleged closing of Goodwin street by the Oregon Short Line railroad, rail-road, which has caused a protest from property owners. On Monday night a petition came in from the Ladles' Literary club asking-tho asking-tho Council not to lease the Warm Springs, but to equip them for a public bath. Last night the Committee on Public Grounds filed this petition without with-out remark. Property owners on Tenth East, be- . twecn Tenth nnd Eleventh South, were told last night that If they wnnted Tenth East opened they would have to buy the necessary land. These properly owners had sent in a petition asking the city to have the street opened. The petition was filed, as the cdmmlttee decided de-cided that the city could not buy the land. |