| Show from our special corres ancient UTAH LIGHT FRANCHISE civo changes in the utah light railway company franchise aro requested before the company will be willing to accept the franchise that was passed by the city council two months ato the question will be decided at a meeting of the city council next thursday naghi the council has received a communication from mayor morris staling that at a conference of tho mayor and city attorney and the gendral gen cral manager and counsel for the railroad a number ot changes in the franchise had been agreed upon the alve points on which the council will decide next thursday are first reducing the present maximum price tor supplying electrical energy for lighting and heating and for power for city purposes as provided in the franchise you passed with a small additional reduction tor incandescent lighting second providing tor a change in such prices hereafter only by agreement or arbitration third obtaining the necessary land for a reservoir intake in take works and conduit at cottonwood creek and a re of the alleged power rights claimed by said company to the waters of cottonwood creek fourth providing for fafty street railway tickets for 2 fifth limiting use by other companies to interurban railroads ONE FOR CITY ENGINEER A letter from col E A wall chairman of the board of public works hits back at the city engineers office through an ordinance that was passed tor the purpose of quieting matters between the city engineers office and the board of public works councilman presented a resolution compelling the city employed to conform to established grades made by the city col wall asks that council ascertain it the grade in brigham street established on september 21 1904 has been carried out in the pacing of the street he further declares that has been wasted in an attempt to establish an inconsistent grade should this be found true he declares the expenses ought to be charged against the city or the bondsmen bonds mea of the city officials responsible on account of trouble between the board of public works and the city engineers office the council is asked to finish the work along brigham street according to col wall the city engineers office refuses to furnish necessary lines and grades without a durec order from the council the board asks that it be employed to secure an engineer the communication was laid on the table by a alv voce vote WEY COMES HOME A fred wey proprietor of the new wj son hotel has just returned from a trip through washington oregon and california during tho time he was away he visited portland puget sound san francisco and los angeles the weather was simply grand every evening except one I 1 wore my overcoat the portland fair was up to my expectations some of the buildings are truly while the natural environment of the country renders the scene doubly attractive there is a dally attendance at the fair of to mr wey is fascinated with los angeles he came across scores of utahna who are spending the summer there and felt at home in less than no time he thinks he never visited a more beautiful city mr wey says travel all along the coast is very heavy the hotels are doing a rushing business and the railroads report the heaviest tourist travel ever known UINTAH SCHOOL TO CLOSE owing to a suit commenced in the district court the uintah school will be closed this was decided upon at a of the board of education yesterday afternoon the suit was a condemnation brought to obtain possession of a strip of ground occupied by the school the school was willing to sell the entire grounds but not abo piece the suit resulted at a meeting of tho city council monday a protest was filed by the residents of the neighborhood requesting that the san pedro los angeles salt lake road which wants the land he restrained from using the place by the council refusing a franchise the action of tho school board will probably settle matters ESTATE OF MRS MITCHELL judge armstrong has appointed attorney frank J gustan administrator of tho estate of susannah matchell Ml who was killed by her husband on july 10 gustan was appointed on the petition of the security investment trust company one of the creditors the bond was placed at 1000 the application of mra roseannah Rose annan hubbard halt slater of the deceased for the appointment of her husband isaac hubbard as was denied crutchlow IS SLATED city recorder john S critchlow Is slated tor the position of city purchasing ageal will bo established at a meeting of the city council monday evening after several hours wrangling the ordinance has been passed but notices for a recommendation have been given by councilmen hewlett and wood the ordinance 9 fathered by councilman hartenstein provides that the mayor by and with the consent of the council shall have the appointment the duties of the purchasing agent shall be to purchase all supplies for the city A bond of a required the salary for the office s a month GHOST FAILED TO WALK because tiro ghost tailed to walk or the pay angon never camo around in the alve years that james hayton has worked as watchman for the firm of bailey and sons he has fulcd suit in the district court during the entire tinier ho declares ho has only received 5 although working every day hayton declares hot hanot receiver his salary in nearly sf decade yesterday hs filed suit in the district court against bailey and sons CO as north third west street lor his services which he declares were reasonably worth hence with the 5 deducted leaves a balance of the per lod of services extends from march 15 to ma 22 1905 WILL DEAL IN SALT another firm Is about to enter the held of the salt industry at groat salt lake A deed of john beck to the beck salt company has been placed on record conveying acres of land on the great salt lake to tha company the named is the sale was practically made two years ago the deed being placed in escrow pending the meeting of the provisions thereof by the purchasers SALT LAKE NOTES moylan fox Is the defendant in a suit filed in the district court by the montezuma silver mining company of utah to quiet title to somo alires v mrs evelyn lister has applied to the district court tor a divorce from stanley lister who she declares deserted her on february 2 of this year according to the bill they were married april 3 1902 judge wallis brown of the juvenile court will address an audience at the nineteenth ward meetinghouse at sunday evening tha address will be along the lines of the training of children and also directly addressed to them under a suspension of the rules the ordinance fixing the tax levy at 11 mills has been passed by the city council as was agreed at the previous meeting the contingent expense levy Is fixed at 6 mills for irrigation 75 mill tor sewer 5 mill for library 25 mill A communication sent to city council last evening by caty treasurer harris states that the money from the bond issue Is on deposit at several of local banks and drawing interest at 2 12 1 2 percent he asks that the interest ae used for the high iane boulevard the communication was receive ed and filed R P vandyke a writer of considerable sid erable note died suddenly at his home 35 canyon road at 1 a m yesterday death was due to rheumatism which has affected him for several years for a number of years mr vandyke hai bean associated with A kenner ina number of busl ness enterpriser an exchange of courtesy was made in judge diehls court when joseph warren was fanet with the alternative of working days at the rock pile tor taking little wlllie little into a saloon and treating her to intoxicants the girl Is a minor and warren was beverly rebuked for taking her into a saloon the Ds Golyer residence at south fifth east street has been purchased by thomas R cutler the consideration including certain of the furnish birgs Is david evans was the most recent owner of the property at other times it was owned by james chipman john beck and mr degolyer a mining man who erected the famous residence an angler returned from the weber river district yesterday with the statement that fish along that stream and its tributaries tributa ries are dying by the hundreds he declared that this was due to the hot weather trout in the vicinity of rockfort rockport Rock port and down to echo have encountered heat that Is far grether than they can stand and live the same conditions are reported at chalk and lost creek |
