The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1882-06-08
City Council

AID. Cuppett read the following Pc
tition
To the Hon. the Mayor and common
council of the city of Canton: Your
petitioners, Begina Soule and Elling OPP
sal, respectfully represent to your honora-
bic body that they are the owners oflots
1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, T, s, 9, 10, II, and II, of
block 6, of Rudolph's addition to the vii
lage, now city, of Canton
That when said lots were plated the
same were intended for business lots %
feet front and rear and on the west end
of each of said lot sufficient amount was
laid out and reserved for alley purposes
that in the present state the said alley so
reserved is useless and is damage to your
said petitioners that there is an alley
laid out across all of said block east and
west l6 fact wide, save between lots and
7 above mentioned that the former own
ers of said block, Messrs. Clifford Lawler,
Cuppett and Rudolph, reserved sufficient
to open through said alley across said
block and intend shortly to make ded-
icatory deed OF same to the city. That
such alley will be all that will be required
for convenience by the owners of said
block Or for general highway purposes.
Wherefore your petitioners ask that by
a resolution of your honorable body the
said alley running on the west said of said
lots |, 2, 3, 4, 5, g. I, s, 8, 10, II and -,
in block 6, of Rudolph's addition to the
village, now city, of Canton, be vacated
and discontinued, and your petitioners will
ever pray, etc.
The petition is signed byeBegina Soule
and Filing Opsal, and concurred in by Mr.
A. G. Huetson, owner Of block 6, and
joins in with the petitioners.
Also by the same Alderman.
TO the Honorable, the Mayor, and council
Of the city Of Canton:
Your petitioner, Geo. Sogn, by his at
torneys, Taylor, Russell Il Aikens, re-
| spectfully represents that he is the owner
of lots |, 3, 3, s, 9, and 10, in block | of
Fitzgerald s addition to the village, now
city, of Canton; that lots l, 2, and of
said property face on Fourth street and
lots s, 9 and 10 face on Fifth street that
lots and 10 run along Pleasant street;
| that between lots |, 2 and 3, facing Fourth
street, and lots s, 9, and 10, facing Fifth
street, there is, running east and west, an
alley; that said alley runs to the track Of
the Sioux City and Pembina railway, west
Of the property of your petitioner, divides
lots 4, 5, 6, and of said Fitzgerald's
addition; that said lots last mentioned are
the property of said Sioux City and Penn
bina railway company, and as your pc
titioner is informed and believes said rail
way company intends to use said last men
toned lots for railway purposes.
Your petitioner further shows that he
desires to have said lots so replatted that
they will all face Pleasant street, and he
asks that said alley be, by resolution of
your honorable body, discontinued and
vacated, and your petitioner, in considera-
ton of such discontinuance and vacation,
will dedicate and donate to the city an
equal amount of land off the west side Of
lots and to be used as an alley, should
they so desire, and your petitioner will
ever pray, etc.
Be it resolved by the mayor and common
council of the city of Canton
That the alley running east and west
through block of Fitzgerald additionto
the village, now city, Of Canton, be and
the same is hereby vacated and dlscon
tinued so far as the same divides lots /, 2,
I~and 8, and lots s, o, ard 10, Of said ad-
dition, in consideration that George Sogn,
the present owner of said lots, his heirs,
executors, or administrators, will dedicate
and deed to the city of Canton, an equal
amount of land off the west side of lots s,
and 8, of block | of said addition, for al
ley purposes.
Granted and Mr.. Sogn is to pay all ex
penses OF damages.
Be it resolved by the mayor and common
council of the city of Canton.
That the alley running north and south
on the west side of lots !, 2 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
s, 9, 10, II, and u, of block 6, Of Ru-
dol ph's addition to the village, now city,
of Canton, be and the same hereby is, va
Gated and discontinued.
Granted
Aid Hewitt then came in.
AID Cuppett read the following and
moved its adoption:
1t is hereby resolved by the mayor and
common council of the city of Canton.
That permission be and the same is
hereby granted to any who may be inter-
estcd as owners of property adjacent to
blocks 4, 5, and y, of Canton proper, and
blocks s. 9, and II, Of Fitzgerald's S and
Parmalee's addition, to dig and continue
a ditch or drain from any part OF said last
named blocks running the same on the
west side Of Cedar street to the north side
Of Third street; thence across Third street
east to the northwest corner Of block -,
thence along Cedar street on the east side
thereof to Fourth street; thence on the
north side of Fourth street east 50 that
the same shall intersect with the culvert
on Main street near the southeast corner
of block II provided, however, that the
ditch or drain so constructed as aforesaid
shall be so laid that it will in no manner
effect or impede the proper use of said
street as public highway and without
expense to the city, save for crossings or
culverts across Second, Third and Cedar
streets, which the city will, at its own ex-
pensc, construct when necessary.
Aid Brown introduced the following,
which was adopted:
Be it resolved by the mayor and common
council Of the city of Canton. That the
committee on sanitary affairs be and are
hereby instructed to make a careful inves-
tigation of the sanitary condition of the
city, and are hereby empowered to take
all steps necessary and proper for the COM
pie and effectual cleansing of said city, said
action to be taken at the earliest practical
time and report to be made at the next
regular session of this council.
The street commissioner was instructed
to put down a crossing on Milwaukee
street from the Naylor house to the Ex-
celsior block.
The following bills were referred to the
committee on finance
Filing Opsal, recording two deeds, ST. SO
NJ b. Rudolph l receipt book, SOC; J,
NJ. Zeller, marshal fees, $3.50; Oscar
Rea, surveying city, $500; James D.
Hornbeck, drawing up papers, 5000; N.
J. House, assessing the city, % days at
50 per day, s44oO; F R. Aikens, fees in
city cases, $500.
The following was received:
To the city council of Canton:
The following is statement of the re-
ceipts of money by me as treasurer, moi
otherwise receipted for up to and includ
ing June 5th, 1882:
2 j. B. Carpenter, exhibition license, So
e. II. Wilson, fine of j. D. Hornbeck
$500; A. Leverich, peddler's license, SOC