Show SATURDAYS LOCAL CUT conrell the reports ani kills for one fard the city at liers met in regular session last evening mayor kiel in the clifair alderman fell and councillor were absent after reading the minutes the first business attended to was W 8 petitioned tor a retaining wall to be built in front of bis lot on twenty fifth street hill where the street baa been cut down referred to committee on streets B N asked for 20 the unused portion of bis billiard license committee on licenses thomas agaby ind numerous citizens asked that the taxes of cornelius laborne be remitted be being very old A similar petition from A D on account of sickness was read committee on finance airs 0 J license wag transferred to her successor in business A communication from the union depot company represented represent od anat a tine flag walk had been laid from the depot building to the street and asked the council to make walks from each side of fifth across wall avenue to join it committee on streets W W funge and other citizens represented that a house of prostitution existed on twenty eighth street between lincoln and wall avenue to the great annoyance and disgust 0 the respectable citizens of the neighborhood the mayor said that the marshal bad already received in to order the business to be stopped or arrests would follow councillor turner suggested that a policeman be instructed to patrol that v ay and watch the place and raid it if a chance offered alderman Jr eshaw considered that the petition had come in too late action having already been taken as reported by the mayor the petition as referred to the city attorney tor action COMMITTEE reports on laws the draft of an ordinance on streets alleys and public grounds amending a similar ordinance passed in 1882 was presented and laid over for second reading the committe on laws recommended that the marshal be in to relieve Z C M I 1 of the street bakers fakers and itinerant dealers that block the thoroughfare leading the council went further instructing the marshal to keep twenty fourth and twenty fifth clear down to grant avenue and washington avenue from twenty third to twenty fifth ON the unused portion of mrs brewer license was ordered to bo refunded on water to permit certain parties to extend the water mains at their own expense adopted on streets sir said that no word had been received from judge bosenbury Dosen bury who was to put utah as on agdens sidewalks now the ordinance would have to be amended to meet tl altered circum cum stances must be done to replace the old plank sidewalks leading to the union depot councillor favored having the sidewalks on twenty fifth down to union depot made of tar aspdal turn being the beet that could now be obtained public grounds liberty park and the cemetery bad been attended to and the weeds cleared off ciu s city engineers pay roll CO jo odale tracing water pipes city marshals pay roll 00 janitor and laborers on public grounds street supervisors pay roll water works pay roll 50 A weber canal 25 00 sprinkling streets hoarding prisoners janitor fir emens hall 18 60 marshals sundries other bills w ere referred and some ordered paid the committee on clitius recommended that 40 be paid to I 1 E brown tor those new patent tramway cars and that the ork in future be let by contract the new cars cost each and were a great improvement on the old ones the committee on finance recommended that the petition of E W for a city appropriation toward hia history ot utah be not granted on the grounds that the council had no authority to appropriate public funds tor private purposes they looked with great favor on the professors work the committee recommended numerous remittances and redactions in the taxes of poor widows and poor people as petitioned for by them the financial statement of ogden city for the last quarter was read by he recorder Ke corder and referred to th tom cittee on finance A recommendation was read that the city engineer be called upon to give plans and estimates for constructing ting bevera on Waa hogton avenue between twenty fourth and twenty fifth streets and down twenty fifth and twenty barth to wall avenue the owners of the property benefited to pay the entire cost of the same councillor driffin waa in favor of having the entire city do a portion ot the work so as to have the sewers extend over more territory the recommendation aa introduced was adopted fire alarm system A proposition was read the adoption of the system by oden city and giving a list of alie and material needed mr II 11 II 11 whitacre the legal representative of the fire alarm company addressed the council saying tie had been recommended by mayor armstrong of salt lake to come to ognjen HB offered to net up borne idstrom at Fir emens liall to be inspected by the council referred ua committee tha committee on streets recommended that those parties living in the benth oden survey whose lines are not correct bo called upon to correct them and make them with other and blok 1 councillor in a limn orous little addrena reminded the members of the council that it was about time for them to fix the amount and make an appropriation to pay hem delves for their farat half yearb service laughter AB the licens ca and taxes biad not yet rolled into the treasury in bull dent forcel the delicate subject waa waived for the present the council adjourned for one week |