Show hundreds of women petition the council the city council met in regular session last night with mayor gunderson and all members present tho the matter of extending the cem ary limits was the first matter taken up and upon tho tion of the tile cemetery committee it was decided to ae agthen the enclosure both on the north and the south to the tho line of the cita holdings A representative of tho tile westinghouse electric company was present and addres jd dressed the council on a proposition offered by bis lils company comp aby to 10 change the present lighting system so that street lights could be shut off in the day time the tile proposition was a and nd the work w will III be done immediately A mr greenwood of american forks told the council about a reservoir site at carbonville Car bonville which ho lie wanted them to investigate alls lis proposition iv part was to turn tun the tile supply of water into this reservoir ab it as a settling basin he wanted the council to look over the site and if it looked good to them he lie had a more comprehensive offer tor to make nalce the tile mayor appointed himself and jim pace a committee of two to go up and look over the ground at this point in the proceedings a committee from the woman Wo manti betterment league consisting of mrs john H pace mrs sarah jane pow el mrs 0 J harmon mrs shiner mrs will pace mrs thos fouts airs mrs H P markferding Marf erding mrs J M whitmore mrs james ferguson mrs W J west mrs jos sharp mrs albeit t bryner mrs sandy mclean mrs isabell boner mrs cleveland mrs stanley ballenger and mrs birch seventeen of the leading ladies of price headed by mrs J 11 pace filed into the council chamber As soon as they were recognized by the mayor mrs pace on behalf of the committee presented a petition signed by of the women of price continue continued on page three hundreds of women petition the council continued from page one tho the petition mentioned the pitfalls that were spread in price for their sons and daughters and asked the council to suppress tho the flagrant rumbling gamblin gand and prostitution that existed here there was an embarrassed silence for a few minutes on tho the part of the the council and then kirkpatrick made a few remarks in which he accused the ladies of trying to ataw the council into a political fight and concluded with a motion that the petition bo be placed on file until such time as the council could investigate and ascertain whether conditions were as bad as the ladies represented them to be his HN motion prevailed pre councilman councilmen loofbourow pace and kirkpatrick voting in the affirmative the ladles ladies filed flied out one of their number i returning a few minutes later to inquire how much timo time the council required to consider their petition mr gunderson informed berthat her that the council had already acted and the incident closed it may be said here however that the ladies had anticipated the action that the council would take and already have bavo other plans afoot to bring about the redemption of price i geo ryland was authorized to dump the dirt he lie is excavating for the turner building at points to bo indicated by the street commissioner the city to pay a him at the rate of 10 cents a load the jewkes damage suit again popped up and tho the mayor and elev attorney were for tho the third timo time authorized to settle out of court on tho the best terms possible tho the marshal was instructed to get busy and garner the poll tax x crop councilman kirkpatrick introduced a sidewalk ordinance prepared by the city attorney and it as givon given its first this ordinance which is ir very lengthy is modeled after the one in force in the city of mt it pleasant it provide provides that sidewalk districts may bo be created at the discretion of tho council who will lay tho the walks by contract and assess tho the cost against tho the abutting property defended payments with interest t at 7 aro are provided for thus making the burden light upon the property owner who will bo be given ample time to meet his assessments plans for the now jail to cost in inn the neighborhood of drawn by miles bl miller iller were submitted by tho the mayor after considerable discussion cus sion it was decided to return the thee plans to the architect for modification the urgent need nead of a firo fire department was brought brou glit up and the fire commit committee tco was authorized to go to the tile extent of 50 a month in the formation of a volunteer fire department tho the park committee was instructed to purchase a hundred trees and were given authority to do some som work on the baseball grounds in th the hope that the butte baseball team would do its spring training hero the latter organization has been in correspondence with councilman mckinnon in regard to coming here and it is bell believed aved that they thuy may con elude to come coine tho the new schedule of prices for electric lights was as resurrected from th file where it was placed at the last meeting and passed mr dir manson of provo who was to have made the city a proposal for leasing the alart pl nt for a period of years is in the hospital suffering from appendicitis and the deal was called off it was wis moved seconded and passed that if all persons living outside the city limits who were beneficiaries of the light and water systems ss did not petition to have their prop berty taken into the city limits by the the first april A pul council meeting their light and water should be cut off bills amounting to about 2500 were allowed and council adjourned |