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THE SHIRKING COUNCILMEN
Still Absent Themselves from Council Meetings-Probably Meet on Monday.
Big Damage Suit and Other Cases in District Court-Ogden News Notes.
The city council is still in continuous session with only the five "Mormon" members present, they have been unable to get either of the three councilmen, Jones, Powers or Brown, who are in Salt Lake, to come back to the city. The councilmen at home are determined to stick it out and to hold session indefinitely until they can get some one of those absenting themselves from the meetings to be present, and just as soon as a session can be held with a quorum present some appointments will be made, and one of them is D. A. Murray for chief of police. The situation is becoming quite serious and unless something is done soon it is said that steps will be taken by the mayor to force the absent members to come to time. There has been some talk of warrants being gotten out for their arrest, but whether such a step can be taken legally is a question of doubt. Mr. Carr, the councilman who is sick at his home in Ogden, is improving, and it is thought that he will be able to attend council meeting on Monday and if this be the case then all of the councilmen will be present at the time, for the members in Salt Lake have said that they will be at meeting just as soon as Carr can be present. Many of the citizens are becoming very indignant over the affair, to think that some of the council would absent themselves from meetings just because they cannot have all their own way. In last evening's Standard an article appears which is said to be an interview of Dr. Powers, and in that article some statements are made which are pronounced as utterly false. Dr. Powers is quoted as saying that Joseph Streng and Peter Madsen, two of the jurors in the Erdman inquest, told him that they would stay by him if he would stay by them and vote for D. A. Murray as chief of police, and that Streng and Madsen, with Thos. Mercer, Fred Tout and Chas. Rapp, were persistently after Dr. Powers to have him promise to vote for Murray, but that he did not make any promise. Our representative saw Mr. Streng and Mr. Madsen last evening and asked them with regard to the charges that Powers had made against them, and they both denied having had any conversation with Powers either on Monday or Tuesday, and that they did not make any promise to Powers if he would vote for Murray everything would be alright in the inquest, and these gentlemen doubt very much whether Dr. Powers made the statement as quoted in the Standard, because the gentlemen say if he did, he fabricated the truth. Mr. Mercer, and Adam Patterson and a number of others say that Powers did positively promise them to vote for Murray, and now he (Powers) denies ever having made such a statement to anyone, and that he intends voting for Davenport when he meets with the council. Just where this council matter will end is a query among the public in general.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT.
C. T. Beggs vs Hattie E. Morton and Edward T. Morton, is the title of a suit for a mortgage foreclosure; the sum involved is $7,500.
In the divorce suit of Nancy Martin vs James E. Martin, the defendant failed to appear, so a decree of divorce was granted as prayed.
T. C. Ford vs Union Pacific Railroad company; plaintiff was granted ten days' additional time in which to file amended complaint.
W. J. Menzis vs Citizen's bank et al; the receiver of the Citizen's bank was ordered to set aside all rents and profits from the property sought to be foreclosed in this action, until further order of the court.
Deming vs Toponce; the defendant not appearing, the court ordered that judgment in favor of plaintiff be granted and an order of stay of execution for ten days was entered.
BIG DAMAGE SUIT.
In the case of A. H. Arnett et al vs Southern Pacific Railroad company; amended complaint filed increasing the amount sued for from about $2,000 to $3,000. The plaintiffs allege as the cause of action that they were shipping a number of cattle from California to eastern markets, and the stock was delayed in transit, many of them dying. The cattle that did not die became sick and poor because of said delay. The first complaint filed was for $3 per head loss on the cattle. Explanations were made in the amended complaint that the first suit was filed under misapprehension, and the facts in the amended complaint states that $15 per head was the loss sustained. The attorneys for the defense objected to the proceedings, and ten days' time was granted in which to file answer to amended complaint.
IN THE POLICE COURT.
Olle Hansen and Oskar Mortensen, the two boys charged with robbing the Five Points store, were both fined $10 each.