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Show SAUCE FBR GOOSE, SAUCE FOR GANDER I Wui Not When Hierarchy Car Company Is Taken Into Consideration. KM OSKN IS FOUGHT THROUGH THE COURTS Administration Does Not Try to Secure Water Except by Law. The City Council Monday evening received re-ceived u communication from Mayor Morris Mor-ris recommending that tho Council instruct in-struct tho City Attorney to Institute condemnation con-demnation proosodingsj ngaiiist Knudsen :iinl Hag-ley to eecur the water rights owned by tlioni In the Big f.dtonw 1 WatsrS, These eame rlfrlits were, entirely Ignored lv the city administration until The Tribune 1 1 -- v r-1 r. I them, and the rul-mlnlatrutlun rul-mlnlatrutlun luisi consequently changed Itx tai tlOS from ridiculing tlu- Knudn,-n mutter mut-ter to a law suit reality, and by mm ihiliiu tin- officials uc-kDowledge that their previous previ-ous brugn ;us tn what had be-r.-n dOM With the Big Cottonwood water have been hot nlr and campaign material, sometimes known as "dope." First Refusal to Spend. II will bo remembered that Mr. Knudsen Knud-sen nks JLoO.uOO for his mill rights recently recent-ly Investigated by the. Mayor and hin lutchon cabinet This price apparently Is too much for the .-cdnilnlsitratlon to swallow, su It ha In- n determined t,, M Ize Mr Knudeen's and Mr. Buglcv's property, trusting to the courts to place :. r.-.tnonabl price upon It. For once, the city administration baa moved to pur- ChaBfl Big COttOnWOOd water, although by questionable msthods. Why Not Condemn Hiemrch's Lights At this lime and In the face of the recent re-cent move in the Knudsen- matter, people peo-ple arc wondering why the administration did not proceed along the same lines when they were dickering with ths hle- rnrch's street railway company for what tho company alleged that It owned In Big Cottonwood if condemnation pro-eeedlnn pro-eeedlnn will hold against tho Knudeen property, why did it not applj at the time when the car company of the hlerarch hud something to sell, bad condemnation proceedings, been Instituted, granting that such an action would legally sofllce, ths i,eople would have had an opportunity to near from the courta whether or not the company really had uny rights In the Big I'oltonw I stream II liur, Imm-h sni,- gestsd that ths noii-usi-r has no rights, and that the company wits really a non-user, non-user, but whether this' Is true or otherwise,, other-wise,, the administration failed to act uc-cui'ding uc-cui'ding to their last programme. Sauce for Gander Changed. Mayor Morris stated to The Tribune Monday afternoon that there wils no necessity ne-cessity for condemnation proceedings iiKalnst the company, a the consideration considera-tion for the transfer of the company's property and rights to the city was the granting of the franchise It Is understood under-stood that th invpany valued their property at $lii.'i). People axe doubting whether the companv really had any t'Khts In the premises), yet the administration adminis-tration boand the present nnd future c;.-n-eratlons of Salt Lake City b granting a franchise worth millions lo the street car company without Investigating and without with-out a murmer except from the taxpayers. Now when Mr. EnUdsen comss In with a bona fide right, his claims are doubted end rolled into court for adjudication. Kiiucc for the k,k,h,- is sauce for the can-der, can-der, but not when the officials now controlling con-trolling Salt Lake are ai ling as COOkl Programme of Officials. Had tho city administration started off on thu right fix't when In the alleged search for Bin Cottonwood waters, tic-y would have silenced such claims ok Knudsen Knud-sen presents from thn very first. The programme, pro-gramme, however, was to grease, thsi street car company's rails wllh the money supplied by the people, tn spend thousands thou-sands upon thousands of dollars con-sti con-sti uctlng the conduit nnd purchasing ' sprlne; rights." and when tho bulk of the million dollars was koiic to start on the search for the water. Weeks WON spent lighting the real donatOTB of that million rfollnrs in order that the hlerarchy get what It wanted, and now months. If not years, will bo spent fighting Individuals Individ-uals In order to secure what was originally Intended which Is simply water. And yet the administration i-onies hrl'ore the hit: '-nCSSJ '-nCSSJ men and women of Salt Iik,- asking ask-ing for their support In order that the Bj Cottonwood fane may bo continued for another two years! |