Show CITY OTY Cl COUNCIL REfERS I fOOD TRUST MATTE X V DISTRICT I I The communication from the Salt i Lake Real Estate association to the City I Council asking that body to assist Inthe in inthe inthe the light fight upon tho food trust of or tho the city went before the Councilmen last even ing lug Councilman F. F S. S took too the floor in fri defense of the tho Butchers and Grocers Grocers' association and bitterly arraigned ar ar- ar the realty men for tho the present high rents In the tho city I high rents In the tho city lie He hotly declared that rents Tent in Salt Lake Lale City are arc three times as hi high h as ns in Chicago In the last few years cars Le be contended con con- tended they have hac more mort than doubled Councilman an J J. H. H coincided with Fernstrom's vie views view M that the Real Keal association on should meet with the committees committee of the City Council to which thich the communication wa was referred and explain ex cx- I plain the reason for hi high h rents rent I I Councilman A S. S F F. Barnes who was the president tern tem referred referred th the pro communication i to the Li License cn e committee co and the Finance committee Moro More Territory Annexed I Upon tho the re recommendation of the Municipal Municipal Mu Mu- J Laws a s committee the Council I granted the the petition petition of ot E. E E. E Witbeck I and others that territory lying between Fifth and Seventh East Enst streets and from Tempest avenue Il to Twelfth TJ South Routh street tr et I bo be annexed to tho the city As the plats pints I I are on m file with the C City ty ED Engineer the tho i City it Att Attorney rne had liati J drawn Mawn up an ordinance j I I nance annexing the property and this this' 1 was passed I In this F paw eoll trouble He lie I In n asserted that the tho people living in tho the I I district would bo be given cn the same rj rights I and Ind pr privileges es as others in the cit city an and that on account of the nearness o of clec ele tion matters might be complicated He I endeavored to have hayo the annexation become be he- come effective at midnight December 31 The Tho report of Auditor Alff AUT that peti petitions Hons for the refund of or sidewalk exten son sion payments amount to was wae referred to o the Finance committee i ij j The ThC proposition of oC tho the I Street Sheet Lighting company and the fran franchise I Ii i chise chiae of the Utah J ight and anti Railway Rail com company pan were laid over T for on one week i i The motion of Councilman Martin for forn fora or I a n reconsideration of the action of the Council in refusing nJ to in install an m Independent Inde I pendent telephone at Parleys Parley s 's s re reservoir ef was 31 lost Councilman marks Blacks s motion for a n reconsideration reconsideration re rr- re- re I I consideration of the bi bid of A. A C C. C Ellis of for five lots lols in n City Creek canyon canyon ennon can enn yon on was as also aho lost I Mr Thompson Reimbursed I A resolution was presented by Councilman Coun Coun- cilman Black and aDd unanimously passed reimbursing former Mayor Ezra Elra Thompson Thomp ThomI I son for or tho fine he pail paid out of hi his own pocket in iu eD endeavoring Ca to protect I the city city's cit's S 'S interests in th till tho suit flIed filed I I against I it by bv the Progress company for foran foran I I an m injunction against the tho u use C of oe Bi Big I Cottonwood water The Council passed the payrolls for forth forthe forthe I th the half month amounting to D. D An ordinance was as read rN and referred c I which limits ts the speed of f pl passenger gen er trains to ten miles an and freight trains to six miles mile an au hour hens in iu tho tue territory bounded bound bound- ed td by bv the thC cast east boundary of Tb Third ld West Vest street streit an and to the tho west and anil from m Eighth South to Third North streets This his extends ex cx- tends the old limits from front Fourth South street treet to Eighth South str strict et and curtails the speed of trains from twelve miles an hour to ten miles an nn hour |