Show CITY COUNCIL the solons la in session nil MI ciscelia celia scelIa leous business and committee reports council met as per adjournment at four pm p dec 2 kb mayor D H 11 peery presiding after the reading of the minute of the last regular together with those of two special meetings the regular routine of business waa wa taken up beginning with 11 atten asten asked the council to 64 sel li librn ini lot 2 block 29 plat C of t the he city survey referred to the committee on public grounds thomas doxey informed the council that tol qi were due him hini for services as water master during the year 1885 and he respectfully asked that the same be paid ordered that the present water master use what surplus funda funds he lie had on hand haud toward towards paying the debt STANDING alderman dirman Al dee on law gaid said that the bill of costs sustained b by or the city in the trial of quon dan lung had been examined endorsed and ordered to be paid report accepted alderman eccle eccles of the committee on water supply reported the water works all in good condition at present A short time ago it had bad been discolo dia covi red cred that some of the allut meats near ar the river were in danger of bein being wept swept eway away when high water came and somer men roen had been sent up and the necessary repairs were made report councilor councilor accepted driver reported the work done on the streets etre ete gravel had been hauled and a number of crossings r re paired in the lane hine leachie east from the mound fort schoolhouse school house A ditch had been dug to drain the sloughs at the depot and two bridges bad had been built on spring Sp rin between seventh and eighth streets tho grading on third street Is about completed and one block has been graded on fifth street there are five tram cars now running runn inc accepted councilor folker of the C committee ee on public grounds said that the committee were in favor of granting cr the petition of cole Willium sou ask ing to purchase a certain city lot report accepted and recommendation adopted alderman dee of the committee on sanitary reported two yellow out at present he ile thought there was nothing very alarming and said that the quarantine physician was taking every precaution to keep the contagion under control SPECIAL committees in behalf of the tramway C committee om mr eccles said that six pair of had been sent to salt silt lake on account of their becoming csele s and that he bad had conferred with the master machanic aking him to re te turn others at the earli earliest eat opportunity also that four pair of wheels had been ordered fro from a company in the east that they might be able to test them and find out where it would be betito purchase wheels in the future alderman dee represent representing in the committee to look after the baying laying aside of the injunction said that the committee had consulted with some of the most prominent lawyers in the city respecting the matter and had bad been informed that the proper course had been pursued thus far and that they had empowered mr air emerson to conduct the case to have the injunction et set aside accepted the same gentleman reported further that the street committee had looked into the advisability visibility ad of raising the treat street rail railway ay on ath direct the they bad consulted the M and it had hid been agreed that in consideration of the jact that the company had already sustained the expense in once raisin raising the track each party shou I 1 d sustain sus t ai n one half of the costs jn again raising it the report was accepted MISCELLA A telephone had been put in at the Fire mene hall to connect with the W watchman atch mans in the tower and the Coul itil il authorised authorized the mayor blayer to sign the contract on the motion of alderman eccles henry gibsons Gib eone licence li centle to alie amount of 10 was remitted mr gibson having retired from business bu sinos the petition of A 11 nelson for the extension of several of the streets running north and a distan distance ce of two blocks further south and of adding two more streets running eat and west to ibo the south of the city was reconsidered and laid on the table the usual bills were then allowed and the council connell adjourned |