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Show " - Sslt Laka City. March SSv' - Editor Eveaing Telerraa: .-. ' I la last evening 'e iastie of year paper -I aotiee ia large keadlines tke follew-ingi follew-ingi Cruaada to Cleaa City Is. . Piaaaed." If tba city health depart- , raeut can compel resideata to cleaa an ' their back yards, I wish you could toll y n)e soen mean by arhieh reeidents aaa -compel tks sitr health department to cleaa sp its asm back yard; I bava special reference te the old bed of Par-ley' Par-ley' creek aa lbs aorth sids sf Twelfth t Houth at -oct, betweea Teatk and Eler- ' : sath East streets. Last spring tba waters af Parley ' ' creek were turned into toe now eon ami - . constructed at tbat time, leaviag tke . old ereek bed practically dry, excepting for a few pools of stagnant green water, wkiek stood aad stank during tka uns. . atef. v . Is ths meantime, this ereek bet) kss i become a veritable damping ground for all tho old ,junk nnd offal af tba Bug. - - . rounding neighborhoods . Last fall resideata of tbi district repeatedly appealed ta Dr. Past, head - -of ths health department, for the abate- -meat .of thia nuisance. A. J. Davis, . ekairmaa nf ths council committee aa streets, wss also repeatedly appealed to, ' i aad each time, ia tho case of both gea- . . tlemea. the appealers received the soma aiee. bland, gentle promise thnt tbs mat- i tea would be " attended te right away, " ths propoaitios beiag to have tha health -department fill in tke old creek bed-with the cinders snd aehea which ara gathered gath-ered en bv He wsgone. Twelfth &outh Btreet is saa of tka V moat extensively traveled mi barbae streets of the city. The opea ereek bed, from eia to tea feet deep, forms the aorth bossdsry of ths roadway, -leaviag ao room far sidewalk, sad rt is '.. difBeult to imagine a awrs anstghtlr, dense rous. dtsgraceful and duatto -' breeding sight. t v v This pereiateat . negligence sf ths . -health depsrtmeat ie wholly BaraJled; -w for. sad I hope some action will bo 7 takea in the near fatars to relieve tba ' V. people of this district, whs ara d'aBetd -' with rottoa proauBOa. . .- - -. A CITlZEX.. UBStTMB TawaASEKQlOK TBjLFTTOL tf Paaaonffor awrriea oa tha W oat era Pa-ei6 Pa-ei6 witl b roaumad tomorrow. Tra.a No. 1 will taaro this eitr at t A5 a. aa. aad train No. 4 wtll Iaro Oaklaaq. |