Show WHO IS BLACK the committee on law will investigate TWO TO ONE IN FAVOR of granting franchise to the independent telephone company both perplexing questions laid over to next meeting ball boya given lease on grounds the city councilmen assembled wed for the second session ol 01 the which prove to be somewhat brief interesting dent telephone company franchise was brought up again bat no definite action was taken henry shielda also lad l ad another bond before the council a provided ly the lighting and heating franchise recently granted him which is at any rate much more sensible and reasonable tl ao the first instrument presented by him and refused by the council the city attorney now lias the bond under investigation anul the next regular meeting of the council and if it r lound entirely satisfactory it will be accepted and mr shields moat then have work commenced aa required by the ordinance the council wai called to order by president sherman fargo mayor wilson not having yet returned from the east councilmen Raa band dailey johnston and answered the roll call and the minutes of the last meeting were read a blight correction made and approved PETITIONS FOR LICENSES there being no bill nor accounts bo tore the council applications for liquor licenses from aaran deenan and II 11 M con ion were examined found lo 10 be in proper form and on motion of dailey and ordered granted city attorney wight who was appoint ed at the last meeting to look nto the matter of the contract with the ro gracile granile western railroad raili oad compan re garding the flames placed under tl e tracks at wye un lower park avenue reported that he had notified the corn pany that their contract was not satis and had not been accepted but hd as yet received no answer unfinished under this bead aba bond of henry was presented and read by the city recorder the new bond i made out in buu legal form W I 1 snyder the well known mining brian and actor ney and J B black salt lake cita councilman are the sureties and the bond is dated april logli the COD editions bodur which the bond Is are enumerated and the Is sworn to before joanah notary public in salt lake city after several in quinea as to who this man black is the bond was turned over to the city actor ney for proper investigation until the next meeting on motion of johneton Johng ton and belau manager win of the ball dab J M lockhart A 11 weeter and J W quinn members 0 the committee having the affairs of the club in liand were present and under the bead of new mr lockhart made known the object of their lie stated that ti e ball club management was delirious of having the city council give ibm boobe assistance in having the base ball grounds leveled off and put in proper shape for good playing daring the corn ing season A large part of the money collected from mhd business men last week would have to RO towards the pur chase of new toils securing players and meeting expenses until the opening of the season manager spoke next and stated that it was the intention of the management to put some of the players who are already la town at work on the necessary improvements at the grounds and to pay them out of the money which had been collectte td and he that the city might give them the ose of the city team tools etc and help them in whatever way they might be able A R weeter called the attention of the council to the necessity 0 issuing the ball team a lease on the grounds which now belong to the city and which as public property may be used by any persons at any time it would also be illegal to charge admission to the grounds unless some each lease was given on motion of and welsh the street commissioner waa instructed to give the bale ball baya whatever aid he debould deem proper and the city attorney was asked to draw op a lease lor the boy for the alagon ot 1905 IT log them the exclusive right to grounds whenever the home team desire to play aba consideration being 1 00 the following bids or treet sprinkling doing the coming um mer were then presented E F BOD per day jeaan mccarroll Mi Carroll Jed wood ward ta 00 on motion of aad dailey the bida were referred to the committee on streett alley and bridge tor investigation and with power to act the bid will be awarded to the one who the committee khinki will beet do the work and then it will hold only during service committees EE 0 the committee on laws that if any one bad to gay on the telephone franchise matter they after the council would go into live ai no one responded the council chamber wa cleared and tor thirty the councilmen were ID executive committie when regular council wag opened again kaaland read the majority report of the committee which recommend ed that the petition tor the franchise be granted tor a dumber of reasons which be did oot enumerate thi report was signed by and johneton Joh niton the city recorder read the minority report of the committee which recommended tint the petition be not allowed ag U would benefit the few at the expense of the many and because DO offer of lion of was made by the company be granted in cabe the franchise the report hated alao that the granting of the franchise would be a valuable gilt to a corporation from the city this report wag by councilman batley councilman haarand Haa hand by bovea tha bath 0 he be laid i n the table the motion prevail no further business appearing ad journ ment was taken antil the first wednesday in may |