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Show THE CITY COUNCIL. The Business Transacted at Their . Last Nints Session. fMayor Sharp presided at a full attendance attend-ance of the City Council last night. John Walsh presented a petition, signed by fifty-six residents, calling the attention of the Council to the bad condition con-dition of the' sidewalks on Fifth South street between Tenth and Eleventh East, and Tenth East between Fourth and Fifth South streets, and states that the walks were being monopolized for private purposes and not open to the public; referred re-ferred to the impaired condition of Fourth street from washouts, and the use of the whole street by the brewery on Tenth East in pitching casks. The. petition of John Walsh and a score of others, presented pre-sented last August and favorably acted upon, had never been enforced, and it was asked that such aid as could be given them be rendered as soon as possible. Referred to the Committee on Streets and Alleys. George Y. Wallace and others called attention to the exposed condition of the water mains on Fifth East street, and asken that they be replaced by larger ones and placed below the reach of damaging frosts.- Referred to the Waterworks Water-works Committee. W. B. Barton and others asked that street lamps be placed on First South street east as far as A street, as this street J is the principal thoroughfare for pedestrians pedes-trians in the -Eighteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-first wards, and the gas mains are now in place. Referred to Improvement Improve-ment Committee. Samuel -Seddon. Mr. Madsen .and others asked permission to turn water from the canal into a pond for ice purposes. pur-poses. Referred to the Watermaster. E. Pitts, of Pitts, Watson & Co., asked permission to turn water on a piece of land just west of the D. & R. G. depot for a skating place this winter, as they have run a skating pond there the last ten years. Referred to the Watermaster.. Joseph Warburton presented a petition with eighty-three signers 'from the First ward, stating that they were afflicted with noxious cess pools belonging to the Salt Lake brewery, which depreciated the value of their property and spread disease. Immediate investigation . was asked, and the matter referred to the Sanitary San-itary committee. Christian Karrish. and wife, of the Tenth ward, stated .that they were comparatively com-paratively invalids and only able to make a living by peddling notions, and consequently conse-quently asked for free licenses. A. M.; Musser certified that the statement was true, and the matter wa3 referred to the license committee. , Rebecca Waterfall asked a remission of her store license, as she is poor and unable to work. Granted. ' ' A. T. Case offered $100 rental for the Tenth Ward Square for one year if he could take possession at once "in order to plow thia fall. Referred to the Public Grounds committee. D. C. Tufts, Condie & West and George Lawrence were granted renewals of liquor licenses. The City -Marshal's expenditures for October were reported to be $545.55. Referred Re-ferred to Police Committee. John Allen, David James and John H. Rumel were appointed a committee to levy and collect $595 from the property holders' fronting, to. defray the cost of laying an asphaltum sidewalk on Third South street, from the Clift House to the Metropolitan. ' .A. N. Hamilton was granted permission permis-sion to lay. off the land about the Nichols smelter by the Warm Springs into lots, a3 he saw 'fit. Alfred Gunn was not granted $500 damages dam-ages in consequence of a dug-way through lots 4 and 5, as the title was not in petitioner's peti-tioner's name. ' The Street and Alley Committe reported in favor of granting tlie Denver & Rio Grande Western Railway Company the right of way along South'Temole street on condition that the railway company do some graveling along the streets in that section. ' T. W. Taylor was appropriated $50 for services the past month in the Assessor and Collector's office. The City Attorney will draw up an agreement between the city and D. & R. G. W. in accordance with the resolutions adopted. Adjourned. |