Show A HYRUM CONUNDRUM meeting of the tha city council A dog tax case thursday while working on my out buildings justice 11 II came to the gates and called out say do 0 o you know why our city council resembles a hand organ I 1 replied 1 I certainly dol do not buess wess then said he maybe it has a monkey attachment oh no give it up till vall envell replied attic judge because it is run by a 11 cran crank k I 1 promised this limb of the law that next meeting 0 THE that is our department of it would attend a and ill ascertain the truth or falsity of this prattle bishop i ell th aliis is space will bo be tilled filled out in our next we lve have had chicken cat and do dog trials I 1 galore alore of if late on oil saturday morning another burp case came up before judge judge lomax appeared appe ired for the defense D andrew J andar andersen on who resides outside of town was charged ta with lic keeping a dog a mr air lomax said this was ivas not an an offense off cne for which a man bo be art arrested ested the ordinance under which the case was taken was faulty as were the papers paper in the case the last section of the lie ordinance neade it the duty of the city marshal to destroy all unlicensed dogs 0 the case was dismissed on oil saturday afternoon the sixty second quorum of seventies held a district ine meeting eting ia resident fjeldsted and a large number of the members of s said aid quorum were present A number of young nien men were ordained Se seventies geventie ventie anti and valuable instructions were t given saturday evening an all entertainment was given in the alansen opera house for the benefit of the sunday school there was a i large atten attendance lance the play of ll hitter itter cold and the operetta the wedding 0 calic cake 22 were given by a number of youk g people hoople from froin the theological lo ical and other sunday schools during the first piece the prompter was painfully present otherwise the pieces were fairly played our warbler mr jaimi jamus s molen san sang 11 several clero in melodies clodies answering in three encores james was really tile the lifo life of the evening 0 tha funds for far the schools were largely augmented and that is butter better than than all sunday was the coldest day tins this winter wider the south wind drifting the falling snow all day in ili tile the evening tile the wind veered to the west then north which for about two tio hours brought a blinding now storm the thermometer went down to four above zero and remained there till monday morn ings sunshine Mins hinc raised the mercury tien ten decrees above zero the men with snow plows were out earl early and did lidid sonic some excellent road making tile the city council mot met at 70 7 p ill T monday evening 6 in ill the ib ab cence of the mayor councilor sorensen was called to the chair the usual opening C formalities were gone one through tb roub the following 0 petitions were then considered joseph frederickson Froderick eon asked that a reduction of 10 lie be alloi allowed cd on his bis license fur for the billiard liall hall lie ile had bad paid 45 per qua iter but lie had been promised a lu 10 reduction granted mr ifan hani cn asked for a sixty days license in lieu of quarterly for the opera giouse II ouse granted several bills were presented and sent to tile various committees committee councilors councillors Counci lors wilson and jensen presented tv a lill bill of ninety cents each cacti for extra committee wo work rk it ila liaa itcan cell understood that eliat the salary allowed should cover all ruch puch labor after much discussion the was allowed the mayor came anic in ill and took the chair marshal melaide mc Mel ride presented a petition from andrew J And andersen cron the defendant in thedo the dog case asking for an all appropriation n of 25 to reimburse him for hi liis trouble and am ex expense in said enid cae cac the mayor favor sai said I the council should pay no attention to this mutter matter anol and lie he would recommend thal jui tice lie bo removed removed front froin liis his office of justice of tile the peace c is ho he the lie mayor calls considered il ered bini incompetent that ilai borson tail been elected as a joke and this city could not nor would not tolerate any such jokes lie ile would therefore alc ak the council for his resignation the mayor mavor further slated anted thit that lie had given justice full instructions how to proceed in hi the case but that lie failed to carry out such instructions chiolis in all and all 0 very every particular I 1 a I 1 find and therefore was incompetent and that the said dog doff case would I 1 t in the near future be taken up again V new assessment rolls and blanks were ordered for tile the use of tile the city assessor for tile year 1891 the assessor report for the year ISM aias then read and approved A k special committee reported that they had consil considered ered tile accounts of the new entry for the city by the old council and there was a balance due the treasury of iG A bill of 22 for printing I 1 had biad inco sinco s been allonen aliened ali allo ened Ned so a no now the balance was owing tito auditor presented his report in detail anol and your reporter left the ei city t 3 fathers wrestling with that instrument C C 1 13 feb 0 3 3 1801 1891 |