Show CITY the city council met in the city cioll yesterday at mayor L J II errick presiding minutes of last meeting were read and approved petition of T J stayner representing that adjoining a piece of property juit purchased by him on the west aide of main street were four feet of surplus ground which had been used by the former proprietors prie tors of his piece of land for about eight years and asking the council to deed the said to him was referred to the committee on public grounds petitions of walker brothers per representing that their license as wholesale grocers was both burdensome and discriminating and asking the council to i educe said license from forty to thirty dollars per quarter was laid on the table for the reason that as compared with the amounts paid by other firms carrying on the same class of business their license was fairand equitable the following licensed lic ensen were granted W II 11 son general merchandise win vandyke produce sidney stevens wagons agricultural ri machinery and produce aeo morrison merchandise kuhn bros merchandise and hides J sanders ice arsam and summer drinks A greenwell Grcen well meat market H biel slaughter house quon din ling green groceries and tea P ord and C S browning each job wagon the committee on water supply reported that they had considered the propriety of in connection with the junction printing association who had a grant of water for printing purposes in the dooley block tank on corner of main and third streets into which to run the water from adjacent springs for public use and becom mended that thai by means of a four inch iron pipe the water from the tank be conveyed to the corner of main and fourth street there to supply a drinking fountain and a hydrant for extinguishing fires all the piping to be so arranged that the whole amount of water in the reservoir can be mido available at any one point in case of alre adopted the committee on streets had ex the water sect on eighth street complained of by P I ord and T purdy at a former meeting and recommended that the sect be loveil from the sidewalk and continued down the centre of the street adopted TUB committee on public grounds recommended that janet jaisson be granted a deed for a part of lot 10 in block 38 plat A according to her petition presented at the last regi far meeting and that lots C in B 55 P A bo sold to robert and andrew martin for one hundred dollars each adopted A a fr precautionary measure it was deemed prudent that by proclamation of the mayor th e salting off of rockets squibb squibs crackers or other fireworks in the business por of the city in celebration ot the fauri of july bo forbidden and the police waie to bo in suppressing ahe use within the fire u he articles named bills for public libor were allowed the council adjourned to meet in tabe daff kail july 1880 at J |