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Show H HOT ! Property Owners Within 400 Feet Reached by Ordinance Just Passed. COUNCIL WILL FIX CITY TAX LEW TONIGHT Refuses to Reconsider Passage of Ordinance Limiting tho Amount of Garbage. Threo important ordinances governing govern-ing sewer conncclious were passed by the City Council at itn meeting Monday nigltl.. Construed together, two of the ordiuanc.es require that all buildings of every description, where thero is auy wasto wator or other sewage, which buildings nro within -100 feet, of a sewer, must be connected with that sewer within twenty days after the owner or agent of property is notified by the hen I tli department to make such connections. The other ordinance provides that whore a permit for I ho erection of a new; building is applied for, it cannot be issued until tho sewer connection is brought, within six foot of tho proporty lino, provided the proporty is withi'u 400 feet of a sower. The throe ordinances were introduced- by Councilman Council-man E. G. O'Donnoll some weeks ago. They were passed by unanimous vote. Fix Tax Lov'y Tonicht. At the conclusion of its meeting Monday night tho Council took a recess re-cess until tonight, when a meeting will ho held to fix tho tax levy for this year. This matter was up beforo tho Finance committee at. a mooting held Monday afternoon. Another meeting of the committoo will bo held twduy. In this connection tho Stroet committee com-mittee recommended Mondav evening that a special levy of ono mill be made to build a conduit on Nortli Temple street, from Fifth West to Ninth West. The conduit is designed to carry off the waters of City creek, which overflow over-flow tho banks of that stream during tho high water periods. Tho Street committee 's recommendation was referred re-ferred to the Finance committee, and will be brought up in connection with tho general tax levy this afternoon. Will Repair Ditch. James Story, who lives in Camp's Lane, northwest of tho city, sent a communication to the Council, saying that if a ditch which passes liis place is not cleaned out it will be his "painful "pain-ful duty" to sue the city. Story declared de-clared that since last January, by reason rea-son of tho overflowing of tho ditcli in question, he has not been able to approach his house "except by raft." Thero was a long discussion of this matter. Elder Fernstrom placed tho blnmo on the street department, saying that it repeatedly had been instructed io clean out tiie ditch, and that it was "not wort' fi ' cents." Councilman Carter, chairman of the Street committee, com-mittee, said the fault was with the County Commissioners, and that the place "where tho ditch was stopped up was outside the city limits. The street department finally was authorized to clean out the ditch and build flumes whero wagons cross the ditch, at a cost, not to exceed $100. Garbage Ordinance Stands. Tho Council refused to cousider tho passage of the ordiuance limiting the amount, of garbage which tho city shall haul away from places of business and residences. Tho motion to reconsider recon-sider was made by Councilman Hobday, nnd the voto was a tie. Tt is believed that Mayor Thompson will veto the ordinance. Another $1000 was appropriated to bring Second West street down to a levol with the curbing and guttering placed on that street. Under the direction di-rection of the street supervisor .$1000 has already been expended in this work. The Council authorized Urn City Attorney At-torney to settle for 1750 a suit brought by Mrs. Hannah L. Anderson for damages to her property on IsTorth Main street, which damages were caused bv a chango of grade. Councilman Council-man Mulvcy opposed tho payment of the amount', but was voted ((own. IIo made a vigorous speech, pointing out that the present administration was not responsible for the duiuage to tho proporty. and insisting that such matters mat-ters should be fought out in court, so that the responsibility for tho damage may be fixed. |
