| Show I T LOGAN IU PROPOSITION Mayor lI or Hansen heusen and Com Coin issue Statement Special Sr olal Logan Co C Jan M Mayor Lorenzo Hansen and Councilors U g 1 W Robinson and N M I Hansen Bansen the com colts committee chosen by li the th city council to look after niter the matter ilia tte r have Issued Issue the following statement concerning the tha present nt status of or the municipal electric light proposition Inasmuch as ns there seems to bo be an nn unsettled condition In the tha minds of ot tho concerning the tha present status of ot the electric light proposition the com cons e In whose hands the matter has been lIeen placed feel tee I U It wise to make a n of ot the progress S of at their work tin un In tn this IMn time iliac We i believe that as IlS soon as ns the Hie facts tire fare Understood the tho people will see p e that hue has been b cn done that Cnn can bo he helone done lone and that nobody laa lias been neglect neglectful ful Ui In the matter As an tie the election was over the requisite time tUne was taken for tor adver lining for tor bids bitle When that time was up We se had hall three bids two from Crom parties In the tho enst and one from the tho state Ono One of or the lie eastern en lern bids offered to take lake the bonds nt at 4 per cent provided We c ray pay nh on additional 2 per cent to them theft With Mth which to test the legality of at the hattie The other eastern parties of ot offered to take the bonds at ot 4 per c cent nt but refused retus d to accompany the bid with witha a chock check covering 2 per ler er cent to show good faith as required by law In until the Ito legality of ot the lIsue should bo be deter determined determined mined The bid of ot the state was Wn to 10 take the bonds at III 4 per cent cont this being accompanied by a n certified check ch ek of ot 2 I per cent to sho good faith Their bid also 0 was taS as made subject to the Ilia legality of or orthe the tho Issue I sue It Is plain 1 that the proposition of at the state was lOS the only one we could The council therefore accept II hl tile the Mutes offer otter anti at nt once nu an the committee to proceed In III I tho thi matter had and help the hue state to sails fy ty Itself concerning the tIght right to issue I bonds The state authorities refused to for forward ward sard the this money without the question being decided by li the supreme mo court courtIn In order ord r to matters nn an nt at attempt tempt WM sas 18 made mil de to Ret Fret the ca liRe e before lw the supreme court without MS ts first hay hav hn gone rone through the district court Tills This the former refused 11 to allow and referred It U back to o the district court Within a n week from that time we had the decision d of ot the latter In the tho city favor On the t e of the case war wall wa placed lac d on dun n the tM supreme calendar to come Up Feb 1 b 16 IG Re no Repeated Reheated heated efforts have Uie been heen made to have haveit ha haIt it advanced on the calendar but with without without without out In fact there has been no regular sel lon of ot the tile court since that time and will hII not be ho until Feb t P There Is no opposition in Iii this title case The city Is both bolh prosecuting and de tie defending fending It II aria it In is only oil nn nil Inexpensive suit We believe b lIoe that It would be tue from a II 1 u lne s standpoint to expect eastern parties to forward lo to any city without a thorough Investigation of ot the legality of or the tho is title Uc We do sin not want t to be parties to the tho sole sale of ot tin Illegal bonds that will throw L City Into inte endless s lion iota ns nit tans M the he case calle with the lie city of ot lIel ha Their law la suits occasioned by b bluch such luch a step have hild cost them twice the theae face ae value of ot their bonds bond II and their ems caFe la is I still In court If It the decision d ROO S against Logan we to e still can rAn borrow If Ii In Its It favor We can eM borrow tile the Us sz without reaching the limit of In Indebtedness In question It Is ii tho the mean trig ld of o C the tile council to put In a it plant In ha cither case cate but until the decision Is I given glen we do not know on which basis to proceed We do not want to start starton on a 1 basis with nor on a n It U f wo wC w have at nt our com corn Tho The committee can cnn give giN an nn account of ot eNery ery days Into since Ince the th lighting proposition was placed in their hands and und can cun show that no time has been li ell I lost I IWo Wo Ve trust the tho people leople will bo ht patient anti and consider us sincere In the thu matter We wish to assure them theta that we will Viti do everything In tn our power to 10 Install nn nfl electric lighting plant 1 1111 t tot for Logan City CIt CANAL CAZAL CASE COMPROMISED CO The Tho case casu of or tho ho Logan antI and Richmond Irrigation company vs ss s John c clime m s to nn an end cuss In the tho First I district court Thursday when h n it i was announced l that a II compromise had bad been b en effected An Alt 11 adjournment was SYria taken and md the tIle thet respective t attorneys are preparing pl the agreed l stipulations to bo be submitted to th the hll lInd entered ns us a dance It Is IB understood that the conditions cure are the lie removal of ot the fence fento o owned 1 by tho th defendant to tho ho distance of ot 20 feet teet from roust the lie lower side of ot tho the canal The Tho compromise will have an Important effect on the subject of r canal fences throughout the county c |
