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Show TELEPHONE ORDINANCE IS SIGNEDJY MAYOR This, It Is Expected, Will Put an End to License Tax Squabble. Mayor John S. Bransford. upon his return re-turn from the Big Four fair at Ogden,-Thursday Ogden,-Thursday night, signed tho amended telephone tele-phone ordinance, passed by the city council coun-cil Tuesday night .and it will now becomo a law. Tho telephone companies have ton days from the signing of the ordinance by tho mayor to give notice of their acceptance ac-ceptance of It As It grants the Uell Tele-phono Tele-phono company a franchise, with few If any restrictions. It Is not likely that this concern will refuse lo accept tho measure. meas-ure. The mayor did not attach his signature of approval to the approval by the council coun-cil of Jnincs Konncdy's contract with the board of public works for sidewalk extension ex-tension 108, but this Is not delaying the work any. Mike O'Connor, general superintendent super-intendent for Kennedy, has forty or fifty mon busy moving apparatus for the work to the scone of Initial activities, Ninth South and Ninth Kast streets, and by Monday will placo between 50u and COO men upon the extension, unless tho mayor should permanently hold tho matter up. This is not likely, howevor, as tho chief executive of the city s'aya that ho merely desires to tnkc time to look Into the proposition prop-osition more thoroughly beforo passing It finally. |