Show THE AJ W TO THE CITY OP OF VERNAL continued from froin page 1 tho the saloon business before vernal was voted dry claimed damages dobbie mccarroll transferred trans foi red their claim to erekson and lie be brought suit the case was waa tried before judge A B morgan at the last juno june term of the district court and hla his decision was waa that the search and belzura belzere bel zure clause was invalid and rendered two judgments against the city officers ceis one for 1000 and one for the liquors which had been confiscated were in a store house in the rear of the old thorne studio the court gave the city officers permission to dispose of said bald liquors at ah best they could later most of it was sold to the lyons boys boye at myton and the sum of was realized and applied on the judgment shall poster foster and king pay the balance of this money or shall the city pay it was the cry the ordinance dundei which the offic officer eig acted in good faith in the discharge of their duties was enacted by the city co council unIl in good faith the council could not legally pay the money out qt the treasury morally tile the city should be hold ble was the opinion of a great many people but buc legally not so on the other hand it was as thought a hardship for king and poster foster to pay it the city ordinance passed by the city council was behind them the question as who should pay came up as an issue in III tho the last municipal campaign at the last session of tho the city council tile the matter was discussed and the general opinion prevailed that the city could not legally pay the balanco balance of the judgment finally I 1 it was agreed that the sum of 1000 be appropriated to the mayors contingent fund to lie be used in payment of costs in connection with the prosecution of violators viola toia tois of the lequoi laic la A ren te weeks ago pardon dodds jr filed a protest against paying this judgment out of city funds tile the pi pio 0 test was tables tabled the to 1125 Inte interest iest from june 13 to october 11 making 1360 34 paid from proceeds of sale of liquor to lyons leaving int feilest for 26 days on that mount amount making alto a total of costs of suit for damage 1360 making a total of paid over to henry erekson no vember 7 1913 there Is now a merkley addition to vernal and it is 18 to the westward stward the petition fol foi this addition wa was signed by more than three fourths of the property pio perty own orb erb this addition lulls inns west one half mile and a block deep on the north from the red planer and includes the william property prop eity on the south side of uintah avenue coming back east it takes in two and one halt blocks then goes south from uintah avenue one eighth of a mile taking in mrs Grif griffins flus property this thin new addition adds to the population of the city 63 people 30 of whom will be at the next election included in the new population are the families of ellis merkley william A J johnstun S D colton ward white mrs shepherd aunt deb johnson Joh naon albert mccurdy McCu idy mrs griffin arthur watkins byron eaton croser the increase in the assessed assesse assessed i valuation of the city property has not yet been figuried out but it will be considerable it lias has been suggested that a quai ter of a mile all the way around the city be included in the corporate limits but the chances ale aie that a of the property pio perty owners would not be in faaoi of such a plan it ft was thought that to deprive those just outside the city of the use of the city gatei might be an inducement to bi ing them in |