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Show r OBJECT TO ALIENS DOING CITY WORK At the city council meeting last night tho water supply committee recommended that five sprinkling wagons be purchased of the Austin-Western Austin-Western company at a cost of $315.20 each. The recommendation was adoptod. The recommendation of the law committee and the city .attorney that no appropriation be made for the pnyment of a claim presented to the council by the law firm of Halvor-son Halvor-son & Pratt for $5,000 claimed to be duo for certain property rights in Willard canyon, was adopted. Upon the recommendation of the law committee and the city attorney the Oregon Short Line company was granted tho privilege of building a spur track to the yards of the Ogden Lumber company on Wall avenue and Twentloth street An ordinance providing for the spur passed its third and final reading. j Waterworks payrolls amounting to $1,102.35 aud claims amounting to $2,369 were allowed and ordered paid. The engineer was authorized to ad-vortise ad-vortise for bids for the building of curb and gutter district 104, it being reported that tho city had gained Jurisdiction The engineer recommended that the paving of Fowler avenue be deferred de-ferred until a larger district could be established. The second estimate of an amount duo the J P O'Neill company for work on the Cold Water Canyon conduit, con-duit, amounting to $23,663.47, was allowed al-lowed and ordered paid To Grade Wllaon Lane. The street department was Instructed Instruct-ed to grade Wilson Lane west of the Twonty-fourth street vladucL The committee was given power to act as It may deem proper regarding the extent of the improvement. In the matter of establishing sewer, curb and gutter and sidewalk districts dis-tricts on South AVashtngton avenue, the council decldod to withhold the building of the feewer for an indefinite indef-inite time, but that the other Improvements Im-provements should be made The engineer en-gineer reported that jurisdiction had been gained Upon the report of the city engineer engi-neer that Jurisdiction had been gained gain-ed In sidewalk district 110 the engineer engi-neer was authorized to advertise for bids for the work. Tho matter of building a conduit to Twenty-sixth street to drain Adorns Ad-orns avenue, between Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh streets, was referred re-ferred back to the engineer to prepare pre-pare planB and specifications and get bids on the work. It being reported by the engineer that Jurisdiction had been gained in curb nnd guttor district 103 the on-gincering on-gincering department was Instructed to advertise for bids on the work Tho city recorder was instructed to advlso tho Rapid Transit company that they must grade tho car track on Washington avenue. between Twenty-second street and tho Ogden river bridge The matter of the company com-pany removing Its poles from the center cen-ter of Twouty-flfth street nnd Washington Wash-ington avenue was handed to the city attorney for consideration. An estimate of tho amount due tho Moran Construction company for work dono on tho concreting of tho city reservoir, nmountlng to $,1700, was allowed and ordered paid. Piano for the Conduit. The plans and specification for tho Wheeler canyon conduit, presonted b the onglneer, wero referred to the waterworks committee. Payrolls amounting to $2,796.50 and bond interest amounting to $2,008 75 were ordered paid, and the sum of $1,23440 sent in by Clerk Fulton of tho municipal court was accepted and ordered turned over to the county treasurer. - Tho matter of granting a fror 11- cense to F .7. Ross to sell fruit on the streets was referred to tho license committee Ross Is partially blind and he petitioned the city fathers to permit him to vend his wares free of charge. The street department was authorized author-ized to grade Grant avenue, between Seventeenth and Nineteenth streets, and the protests against the curbing and guttering of Monroo avenue, between be-tween Twentieth and Twenty-first streets was referred to tho city engineer en-gineer for computation. To Raise Salaries of Firemen. Tho ordinance providing for the increasing in-creasing of the salaries of flrqraen, Introduced by Councilman Dana, passed pass-ed its first and second reading and was referred to the law committee and the city attorney The ordinance provides a raise of $10 each for the assistant chief, captain, electrician, and all other firemen who have been in the service throe years or moro. Councilman Dickson recommended that the "dumps" on West Twenty-eighth Twenty-eighth street be abandoned and that the garbage hereafter be deposited on West Thirty-third street. It was unanimously adopted On motion of Councilman Dickson It was also ordered that the street department proceed to grade Qulncy avenue, between Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh streets To Repair 24th Street Asphalt. Councilman Barker moved that tho P. J. Moran company of Salt Lake be advised that It Is necessary for them to repair the asphalt pavement on Twenty-fourth street, between Grant and Washington avenues. The mo; tlon was unanimously carried Councilman Austin stated that ho understood that aliens are being em-plojed em-plojed to do the work In the city parks and he moved that It be the sense of the council that taxpayers and citizens of this country be employed, em-ployed, and that the city park commissioners com-missioners be notified of the action of the council There was no dissenting dis-senting voice and it was so ordered terday wore largely Greeks and Italians. Ital-ians. The latter wero practically of the one opinion that the dead man Is not of that nationality. Tho Greeks, however, wero about equally divided as to whother or not he 1b a Greek. By some few it is thought that ho is an Austrian. Another careful search of every garment worn by the man failed to reveal a name or other clow of any description which would assist In do-termlnlng do-termlnlng who the man was or whore he resided. So far the pollco havo received no information concerning a missing man. Tho body will be held at tho undertaking rooms as long as posslblo pending a solution of the mystery. |