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Show A RECORDER ELECTED. j. F.'Jaca. tie Real Estate Mu, Captures tha CoieUd Prize: STREET aUlLiTAT FB1XCHISE ('ranted (o the Grra( Salt Lsle sad Hot Sjirin ji Kjr. Co.-South East Corner Temple Block the Initial Point. The City Council met last evening even-ing in regular session. AU the members were present except Councilman Coun-cilman HaU, Mayor Scott in the chair. After the reading of the minutes and tho disposition of preliminary matters tha meeting was conducted in the usual manner. i'ETITIONS. Petition of the Cold Storage an J Mountain Ice Company represented that they had recently erected at a great expense a cold storage building build-ing on the corner of Third South and Fifth West streets, and asked permission to coutruct a railway track from said building totbeltlo Grande Western depot. Committee on streets. Petition of George Itliuke, asking that a grade be established on First East and Ninth Soutii streets. Engineer En-gineer instructed to establish the grade. rctitlonofFre-l Trimmer protest ing against tho city u-lng gravel taken from the City Creek Canyon. Committee on public ground;. Petition of Bock Springs Coal Comjauy to lay a switch from the Union i'jnllc itiilway Comjany'e track on Third West Street between Fifth aud Sixth t'oath streets. Committee Com-mittee on streets. Petition of Lorenzo D. Young and others asking for electrict lights at at the intersecliou of Ninth South and Eleventh Eastand Tenth South and Eleventh Eaststrtets. Committee Commit-tee on improvements. Petition of lxireuzo D. Young and twenty others, asking for the extension exten-sion of uat?r mains on Eleventh East Street south as far as Tenth Soutii Street, Committee on water-work-. Petition of thu Security Abstract Comiuny, rcprrentcd that there was an error iu the deed- of lots 1, 2 aud 4 lu block 5S, plat D, anil ask--d that the necessary cuirectlons be made. i'etttion of JcbnX. rikea-klug that he bo remunerated iu the sum ot $45 tor rearranging certain records rec-ords city water rccurus. Committee on waterworks.. lti:iORTE. Ilejiort of the city engineer stating stat-ing that Pratt & Breakous map contained con-tained much information that would bo vnluvble to his nlllcd and that he would like a copy of the same. Granted. file same ofticer reported thatSSO was due Mr. Morrl-ou for laying a drain from the new engine nouse, and asked that the amount bo allowed. al-lowed. Appropriated. A report from the same officer stated that the Utili Central 1U1I-way 1U1I-way Coraiiany, the Silt Lake City Railway Company, the Salt Lake Rapid Transit Compauy, hater-ach been granted the right to construct and operate tiacksat the Intersect ion of Fifth South and Tenth East streets, and that the work so far done aud now being done, under their respective franchises was without reference ti the joint rights of the several companies but that each company orales to it own articular artic-ular advantage regardless of the ellect upon the other companies or thu public, for the expiess purpose of precluding all others. In order to prevent this in the future head-vised head-vised that some action which will take tlie option of location out of the hands of these companies entirely, en-tirely, and place it with some deslg-n deslg-n ited committee or efllcer of tlie city. Granted. lleport of the committee on cemetery ceme-tery to whom was referred the bill of Igo & Carthey, for plumbing done at the lodge in the month of September Sep-tember amounting to $72.23, recommended recom-mended that the same be uid. Amount appropriated. .Report ot Wateruiaster Harvey submitted the exenditures of his department for the quarter ending September 30, as fulfou s: WiUrmaticr, eostrollicx Inigat inr waien ItOjM a Ionian ana -alt lata Can! SJ23 ! farlej's LTMk Caul..... su ss Total ...,..Itaj7 ZC City Attorney Merrlt reported as follows: That in view of tbe vacancy in the olllw ofeily recirder, ho kubuiiitcd a bill for "aa nnlimncc prmMin.; for tilling vacancies that may cxit In nnv electl c ollii-e of salt Lako fitv." Tub oliailcraulhonrfd ihoouncif to pro-ilcfirgucharancMM pro-ilcfirgucharancMM as ml;lit occur oc-cur in any elective office, etc. He found upon cxandnation tiiat there ws no nnlinaneo protKling for toe fidIneorsucliacancy, and therefore reported the lull and ko.I it inssai-o before tiw Council pniceedeuto nil such vaeancc. Ailommf. I The same officer reported that In matter of the thecommuuicalion of E. lt.Clute, ussetsorand collector, In regard to tho special assessment, for the extension cf tho water m.ilu, assessed against the Desri-et University, rejunel that he had examined the question aud is of the opinion that said assessment cannot can-not tie enforced agalist thr prnrty of the said . University, Uni-versity, for the reasons that the title to said property Is held by the Territory for the uses named in the deed couveiiiig said property, in trust for educational purises. and that the city made the couveynuce, anl thattl'e Uuivcisily Is a Tertl-torial Tertl-torial Institution, supports! by tbe Territory, by legislative app.opria-tions, app.opria-tions, aud ss such cmuel be a-ses-ed or taxed for local iurne.. Adoj ted. Commitli-o on streets reported as follows: ' That i be bill of W. J. Ti'ddcnham for SIJl.2i boi .-anlcJ; that llic ulatuf lleartr Place l)j n m-uvrd; Hut the al'ev wct of Cnnmie.ciV &irr;t lie made to m.'m n to i;,e Liwle of foui-ni-jcial&lrce; tbatibc jiem -m of J Warburam and otbcix, a-Li-? lbt Rop-'&i.-eet bOKiiied. t oot'-.-nTi-cd; tbattlie raw engineer be torurrd io lort) Mi d iinoiea of ciu -i rud filling lieecssaiy to open SaoSUcct lothe lpu-d 1IIII ciuuuils ttciaceo NoithTeiuilcanil Capi'ul mu. ami that too board of p.iln? koiLs l autlioriicl to let acoj iatfof wo.K to tho lowest rc-pou-ILIe bidder. Adopted. City Assessor and Collector Clute reported that be was Iu need of a complete set of maps of the various blocks and su'iuiviilous ot the cuy and asked that the ciiy engineer be instrm ted to furnish them a. the earliest cunveclciu-o. Adopted. A bill of the Salt Lake Uuildlug and Manufacturing Conijany amounting tu S:J!1 for feuciug doneat the City Cemeteiy wasteau. Committee ou Cemeleiy. The ordinanco for tilling vacancies vacan-cies that may occur in any elective office of Salt Lake City was then taken up and aied. The ordinance is as foils wk An ordinance providing for filling vacancies that may exist in any elective elec-tive offlce offcUIt Lake City. Section 1. That hi cam anv-acanev may exist In any c'edi vc oilico of ihb cuy, the city c unril shall appoint a sui able pciMin to nil said i a -ancv, who shall qualify aud ch bbtids In tbe same mauiicr, perform lliCtamo duties, and be subject to the lame liabilities, as tbe oilicfr wboso office shall become v-cant, aud I ohliall hold oni.-e until his successor shall be duly elected and nualitied. unless sooDer Rmoted by tho Cnv Council for cause. Sections. Thi ordioanca to be In force from and after Its passage. The cemetery ordinance providing provid-ing for tbe narrowing of a certain avenue in the City Cemetery then came up. On motion of Councilman Cohu action was deterred for one week. ' Mr. Cohn said: That after dun conilderatioo.and Consultation with I tlie people mnst Interested Jn u,c I matter,tbe Committee on Cemetery would, at the next e!',n of the Council, introduce a HiUlUute bill which would take one rdd from the center "of 'the avende trientlonrd, Instead of detaching it front tbe sjde, maJIpft.twd dde-fod strteU instead of one two-rod street. . The request was compiled with and the. matter deferred another week. An ordinance providing for the assessing and collecting of aside-walk aside-walk tax from property on either side of Second South Street, ln District Dis-trict No. 4, was read. Committee on Street. At tills juncture of the proceedings proceed-ings Mayor Scott said: "There is a vacancy in the offlce of recorder, shall wu now proceed to All It?" An affirmative reply was given and the nominations were ahnOunc' ed as followt: (,'. O. Farnsworth nominated himself. Couucilman Cohn nominated J. F. Jack. Councilman Pembroke nominated S. T. Pearson. The election was conducted by ballot, Councilmen Wolstenbolme and Armstrong acting as tellers under un-der appointment by Mayor Scott. The result of the vote was: Jack v 7 1-eara a.. 7. raraworth 0 MayorScott Mr. Jack istbesuc-cessful istbesuc-cessful candidate. I 'declare him elected. Councilman PIckard In my opinion it will require at least eight vntr tu elect, that number being a majority. alajor Scott A majority of the tuembcra present is sutllcient. Councilman PIckard I think not. I iuslsttbatlt requires a imjority of all the members of the Council to fill any vacancy. Mayor Scott That is a mistake. Councilman Pickard I call for tho reading of the law on the mitten mit-ten This demand was granted, by the city attorney referring to theordi-Lance theordi-Lance bearing on the question. Mr. Merrill took sides with the mayor, and tbe result remained unchanged. un-changed. RESOLUTIONS. The resolution granting a franchi-e totlicUreatbalt Lake A Hot Spring Ilailroad Company was then taken up. Too resolution grants the company a franchUe to build ard operate a single ordonhle track railway, to be operated oper-ated by steam, durum v, horse, cabin or lectr!citv,on tho following streets: Ucginning at the lnlcrsctlon or South Teinolo and East Temple Strots, and running thence north on East Teraole over tlieaqtlfluct,,h nee west onVorth Tniiplo to Third West; alm a single Hark only from the intersection of Xor-bTemploandlhinl West Street to Ninth North ibenre northwe-terly along Monroe Mrcet to tbe boundary line of llarnil on Street, thence west along Hamilton to the westerly boundary bound-ary of th city llinils. Aim a sinslc ami double track, besimdng at the south b-iumlaryof Oak Street of Fol-som's Fol-som's addition, at a point opposite an alley between lots 1 and 35, block 17; Ihciice northerlvtbl'lcveland Avenue: llicnca northerly al -n CIcvel mil A inuo and tbe county road I3.TJ feet Io a point on tho wcscrly boundary llnonf the county mad. Thecoiiipany is required io kc-, In good repair the space insldeand between llic tiiu-kH t r aspaccof two feet on each sido of the same; they arc to run cars as of en as public convenience shall require: the raj -f spccil is not to exceed twelve miles an hour and the price of a sinelo jus-aac shall not exceed 10 cents, and the cnmpanv shall pav a per capita tax of 1!. mills on each faro collected. Into ihecitr treasury. The franchise is granted or a term of twenty j ears. Councilman Pembroke I move to strike outlhe words steam dummy. dum-my. The motion to thus amend was dtfeated, and ill lieu thereof the franchise was recomended so as to vest in the city the right to order a change of motive powerat any time. Councilman Pembroke then moved to strike out the enacting clau'c This did not receive a tecond, and Mr. Pembroke said: "As a citizen of Salt Lake and in !ehalf of the citizens of Salt Lake, i beg to euter a protest against this Council's granting to any company the right to enter North Temple or any other streets by usecf a steam dummy. I move that action be deferred for one Week." The motion to defer was lost. The bill was then placed on ltk passage, all the members voting In fi cor of It, but Pembroke and Kar-rick. Kar-rick. ArriiorKiATio.ss. The follow ingappropriatlons were made: Mr. Sfomton S (O e u. r. itaiinud mi i: ' W J InSdtnliain. Ill In & Ganssf 12 Ti e aiarL'a IIwplUI IU S3 T O. Uoodl dre JJ CO |