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Show Mayor Makes Appointments 4 Various Other Doings at Council Meeting. At the meeting of the city council coun-cil Wednesday evening, Mayor Edwards submitted the following appointments and they wore confirmed: con-firmed: Street Supervisor, Robert Kew-ley. Kew-ley. ' City Sexton, Joseph L. Mair. City Engineer Edward Hanson. Han-son. ; Inspector of Building and Electric Elec-tric Wiring, Chris Jacobscn. Chief of Fire Department and Day Groom, Wm, llobbins. Fire Chief Benson will not vacate va-cate his position nor the building until February 1st: Nor willl a watcrmaster he appointed before March 1, perhaps not then. Past experience indicates that a change in watermasters during the severe winter season is far from advisable. Tho City Auditor's report was submitted and is cspecialy interesting in-teresting for the desired information informa-tion it does ont contain about tho light. . This is not Miss Egbert's fault, but is due to unavoidable conflict in the different methods of keeping books at tho Recorder's Record-er's office and tho Electric Light office. Her report shows that the receipts of the light plant for 1907 were 23,000 and the exxpen-ditures exxpen-ditures $24,00, hut those figures do not convey a semblance of tlie truth. Tho actual expenses of the plant, including retail business busi-ness of tho light office were hut $12,000 but 'what's the use. Perhaps a lucid statement can be made some day, and then we will know. Prof. Bexell who audited the city books recently, submitted a report of the effect that everything every-thing is nil right, ,except that the system of bookkeeping in vogue makes it impossible for anybody but an expert to know anything about the city's finances, and even ev-en an expert is puzzled. lie made a recommendation that a new system of bookkeeping zo instituted, insti-tuted, and mado the statement that many values are fictitious. His report bears out tho conclusion- of more than one that the real status of the city financially is unobtainable at this time. The Tellurido Power Co. deposited de-posited $25 and asked for the right to erect, nineteen poles in tho city. Tho petition was referred refer-red to the committco on public grounds. The Committco on Finance, with Mayor and President associated, asso-ciated, was ordered to investigate tho advisability of adopting a new, system of accounts and was given power to net. The president of the council was authorized to appoint Mayor Edwards ns a member of the Electric Light committee. |