Show WAR fOR CONTRACT TO LIGHT STREETS Electric and Gas Companies Continue to Spar for Patronage EMPTY TREASURY A BAR Another Exhibition to Compete With Lamps on Second South Ti Tho t fight for lor a a. street lighting contract contract contract con con- tract tract la Js on In earnest nn and l between between two t competitive o companies stands th tho spectral emptiness of the city tr treas- treas asur as- as ur ury which ma may in the end decide thano that that tha no 00 additional contract shall shall be let With Ith the consummation of oC a three thre i- i year contract contra t with the U Utah a- a aLight Light an and Railway company for or more arc lamps of or the present style tho the city courted urther further negotiations with the Utah Light and nfl with the tho Utah Gas and Coke company compan b by hinting that an additional nd nd- c cOntract would probably be belet let At t the me meeting of tho the city council last night residents of East Second Seend Sec See ond nd South street petitioned tho the council for a n continuance of ot the gas ns lamps now In use between Sixth and Seventh I East Kast R t str streets ets They Thoy further asked that tho tim whole street from State to Tenth East Dast street bo be lighted with gas gns street lamps Second VIO tN Cm Em Residents of or Second avenue also pc pe- pe- pe for the gar gan lamps Then the council referred the petitions to the thc committee on estimates and apportion apportion- ment meat which will find out where themon the tho mon money y Is coming from To show that the tho Utah Light ht ant and Railway company compan Is still in the fight a communication was read from that tha concern calling attention to an ex exhibit exhibit ex- ex I hibit of or electric street lamps that willbe willbe will wll be e shown on 01 Second South street b be be- twe n Sixth and Seventh East streets next Monday ronda night These lI lights wilbe wIllbe wIll wil HIbe be run In competition to tho the gas lamps lamp now in use Rowland Hall Hail Gordon academy the Collegiate Institute St. St Marys Mary's acad acad- my an and All 11 Hallows college Joined In tn Ina ina a protest a against the tho raise in water rates sa saying that they not self self- sustaining Institutions and that the minimum rate of 3 31 cents ft n. thousand feet foet fixed d b by the board boar of 0 equalization Uon of oC water rates la last t August should prevaIl prevail prevail pre pre- vail until June 20 10 30 and should not be he raised thereafter Thero There is a disposition dispo dispo- on the part of ot tho the city to raise the tho water ater rates and nd the Institutions Institution protested against tho the proposed action Tho council finally voted to Lo lot let the matter rest as os It stands and to put I It up to the tho next board hoard of ot equalization for adjustment Dr T. T B. B Beatty of oC tho the state board of or health called attention l to o the thc fact that tho the birth and death deal record is not being kept properly b by bythe the health department The waterworks department was granted six assessors at nf 3 n. n aday I dart II 5 Sp pul l n x ft m dt S sa Alfred Johnson and amid W. W J. J Llo Lloyd d were appointed to the lire fire department b by Chief Chile Vail and tho the council confirmed Chief Pitt named Alfred C. C Miller a as special policeman without pa pay to work In n the tho neighborhood of the tho Hamilton school chool The Denver and Rio Grande asked naked for two new special tp to 0 do Ilo duty in the tho yards on account of ot the strike and E. E O. O Franks and J. J P. P Clawson Were er appointed The proposition to pa e street from First to Third avenue venue with n asphalt and from front Third to Sixth streets with macadam mac was referred to tho the committee commit commit- tee ee on estimate and apportionment J. J P. P Mahan lives on Eighth South street and anti wants to la lay his own side side- walk valk He Re says he ho can cnn save ave 90 by bj I doing the work worl himself Acting Mayor I Ferry had vetoed the order allowing tg him him lim to do It and tho tim council sustained the ho veto The work worl comes within ono one of ot the sidewalk extensions |