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Show thinking a bargain could be nailed at this time of year. The council instructed in-structed the agent to secure the bids and refer them to the Fire committee The council adjourned for one week. 1 CITY FATHERS' SHOITJESSIOI The city fathers aseinW-'d in council coun-cil sessiou last evening at an early hour and quickly attended to. the matters mat-ters at. hand, there beinj but littls business to be bandied. The report of the law committee Knd the chy attorney tbat the sum of $61. -M. claimed by the Wheelwright Construction company as a rotund on sidewalk permit fees, was unanimously unanimous-ly adopted and the amount was ordered order-ed refunded. The license committee and the city attorney recommended that Henry Wessler be pranked an extension or 13 days on his liquor llcocte. by virtue vir-tue of the fact that his saloon business busi-ness bad been Interfered with thot length of time by the action of tho council in the opening of Hudson avenue. ave-nue. The waterworks committee recommended recom-mended that the new sanitary drinking drink-ing fountains be placed ns follows: At Washington avenue and Twenty-fifth Twenty-fifth street on city hull corner. Twenty-fourth street and firant avenue, '. near the corner of the postofflce build In-i : at Wright's corner on Wash-iiKro'i Wash-iiKro'i avenue; at Five Points on W.u! Virion avenue aud at the depot on Wsil avenue and Twenty-fifth street. The recommendation was adopted. The sidewalks committee and the 1 city engineer reported that the slde-' slde-' walk erade on Jackson avenue, from ' Tweufy-slrth to Twenty-seventh streets, should not. be changed. The renort. was adopted. The report of the waterworks committee com-mittee the mayor and the city attorney attor-ney regarding the merits of the pro-1 posed boud election for the Improvement Improve-ment uu-l extension of the waterworks system was adopted ami ordered published pub-lished at the expense of the city Tho report slated briefly that the present waterworks system Is Inadequate for the needs of the people, rnd that K will have to be enlarged before the city's success-fill growth can be assured. as-sured. 'Ihe committee rails attention to toe fHct tbn tho bef way to make the needed improvements Is by rairt-ng rairt-ng funds through bondinc, and thai Ibe revenues from the system, under its improved condition, will easily pav the $100,000 in four vc.ts. together with the interest. It is further stnfeil lhat if the improvements are mode through direct taxation it would Increase In-crease the taxation over TiO per cent i for two year?. The needed Improve- j meats are rehearsed in the renort and i the demand for water mini extensions ' lo reft rrcd lo. Attorney D? Vine reported that the i statement in the ra'.o agreement, heretofore here-tofore cuti red iDto between the ffv , and the Salt Lake rnd Cgd"n TCM!- j v. ay company, "that there .shall be j charged a rale of one and one-half f.iir imni ir.ternrodlnte points" should j lead "one and oi-r-b ilf tare to and nom all llennr-f!;.ito points to Og-ilMi Og-ilMi as far so-jt'n as Rounl!ul" The i--oMi(ie"H:H change w?s adopr-d -r.i ' c ;iiii ,ori:'r d to be inrorpn- The miscellaneous claims of E. L'rowu of the fire department, for $.-.O.S2' snd John Itoyle and David E Drowning of the police department f.ir f?S and respectively, wero allowed. ' - - ' Chief of Police Thomas K. Browning recommended that tho salary' of Desk Sergeent William Sbaw bo raised from $75 to $90 a month and that It be Incorporated 1 the proposed ordinance or-dinance for the raising of salarios of patrolmen. The matter was referred to the law committee and the cltv attorney, to whom the salary ordl- nance, introduced by Councilman Aus- t!n. has heen referred before its third and final reading. The request of the Stale Industrial school for the extension of water mains from Washington avenue to tho school buildings, was referred to the waterworks committee. Tho trustees of the school agree In their communication communi-cation that If the proposed extensions are made by the city, the Btate institution in-stitution will do the trenching and backfilling, and that they would alGO guarantee the city S per cent Interest Inter-est on the cost of putting in the extorted ex-torted niaina Contractor Bills was granted tb privilege cf using the west side of Lincoln avenue, In front of the Marion hotel, for building purposes. It being stipulated, however that a space of twelve feet west of the Ba ruborger track be kept open for traffic. The matter of releasing the bond of the Wheelwright Construction com- 1 pauy on sidewalk district No. 10S was referred . to the sidewalk committee and the city engineer. The Becker Brewing company and J other property owners on Grant and Lincoln avenues, between Twentieth and Twenty-first streets, and between Washington and Wall avenues, petitioned peti-tioned the council to open those avenues ave-nues that they might have free ingress to the city. The petition was referred to the special committee on the open-; open-; ing of Lincoln avenue and the street i committee. ( The petition of property owners on i Stoddard avenue for an extension cf I the water mains was referred to the waterworks committee, and the. mat ter of building sewer on Thlrly-tblrd ctj-pt nnd Goildard avem-e was sent ! to ihe sewer committee and the city I .i:;;iiieei loi conyiilera'ion. i The request of Ihe Rocky Mountain j Bell Telephone company for an ex I tension cf 9o d.:ys in which to remove i Its poles from the center of the 9trcets ' was granted It was represented by the coiupntiy lhat they had been de-I de-I li'vej In the work of removing the poles becauve of failure to get cable and other material when needed I 'Property owners along the proposed ! loop of the Rapid Transit company : stated In a petition that they under-I under-I stood that the ear company centem-' centem-' plated making a loop of stpel from ' Tv.entv -second to Twenty-third street by way of Polk avenue, and the petl-i petl-i tloners thought it should reach as far I cast as Fillmore avenue. This q-jes-I lion was sent to the street committee for coneiiler?lion. On niotlop of Councilman Austin It j was ordered that the street supervis-I supervis-I er proceed to remove Inflammable j matter that is found on the viaduct. j i Councilman Dana called the attn- I t!on of the council to a rommunlca j J tlon from Fire Chief ('pnflelrl n !.-' it I ) that the purr'- li" - ii --'- ; ;:cd to ret bids on 2.ri,000 pounds of oat? ani ' |