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Show Bond Market Sluggish; Walk Paving Deferred of the outlet of the sewer will be investigated in-vestigated by the health board and the evil will be remedied. A protest was also made about the use of the sidewalks for bicycles. Marshal Tollestrup was instructed to enforce the ordinance, which prohibits pro-hibits riding on the walks with bicycles. bicy-cles. Owing to the fact that the records of the city are in such a "Jumbled" mess and with a view to establishing establish-ing a thorough system of book-keeping, it was voted to employ a public accountant to go over the books and have them straightened out. Heretofore Here-tofore there has been no system and the records are in very bad shape, and with a view to ascertaining just how the city stands it was deemed best to have an accountant go over the entire set. Cenlerfield. On account of the municipal bond market being at a low tide at the present, the sidewalk paving in Gunnison Gun-nison will be delayed temporarily at least. It has been planned by the contractors to resiinie the work by the middle of this miuth but owing to the fact that there is no demand for the bonds at any reasonabls price, the members of the city council coun-cil at the regular meeting last Saturday Sat-urday night, voted to delay starting for thirty days at least. Solicitations Solicita-tions for the sale of the bonds had been made to some of the bond buyers, buy-ers, but a price of 85 cents was the highest offered and rather than sustain sus-tain a loss the council ' will defer work for the present. It is likely that the bonds will, be placed with some individuals in the valley, as it had been intimated that men with means desired to secure the holdings as they would be gilt edged securities. securi-ties. The crossings at Second South, which were incomplete last fall owing to the early frosts, will be finished fin-ished and Contractor Peterson stated stat-ed that the work be started just as soon as the freezing season had passed. Complaints from the westsiders were heard about the bad condition at the sewer outlet. Many residents of the town have been using that portion for a dumping place for rubbish rub-bish and an order was issued to have the habit stopped and to this end notices no-tices will be posled at the place forbidding for-bidding the practice. The condition |