Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-11-04
CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
City Council Holds Its Regular Monthly
Meeting Last Night and
Transacts Business.
Various Matters Come Before the
Council for Action at Last
Nights Meeting.

SOuuSu lOI xCtlOu at AaSC
Nights Meeting.
The City. council held it's regular
monthly meeting last night and dis
posed of routine business.
AApetition of J w Millet, asking for
reimbursement for damages done to
his garden on the bottoms below town
by sewage, and Enclosing an itemized
bill for $417. so was referred to the
committee on claims.
A long petition, n~umerously signed,
was presented, asking the council to
enact into an ordinance the state law
with reference to Sabbath breaking.
The matter was referred to the com
mittee on ordinances. ." H. 4
A letter was STATED by Mayor Reg
lister to have been received from the
N. w. Harris Company, stating that
unless the cancelled warrants for $1,UOO
were received by NOV. Is, the last bond
OF $1,000 to have been issued by the
city of the total issue of $4S, 600 would
be deemed to be Cancelled. Upon the
suggestion Of City Auditor Thistle
thwaite the city treasurer was in
stlucted to take the matter up with the
bond company, stating that about $500
of warrants had been paid and that the
City would establish a redemption To
fund to take n of the surplus of
5000.
The several claims of City Engineer
Harold for work done in giving grades
and lines were ordered allowed by the
council.
The following other bills We're al
lowed:
Frank Scott ) 500
J. F. Fort ................... Ito
Capital Book Store ....... so
Hughes Electric Co. .......... 40. 90
The bills of the Hughes Electric
Company for lights for June, July and
August were referred to the city attor-,
ney as to the power of the city to pay
them. ",f
The bond of Ole Johnson for his
sidewalk contract with the city was
fixed in the sum of $3.50.
The question of covering the Fourth
street, mains wa taken up and gener-
ally discussed. The committee on
streets, grades and additions was au-
thorized to take steps to cover the
mains, and to draw on the emergency
fund to pay expenses incurred.
The following bills were presented:
Settler Publishing 90. ....... $24 90
G. C. Wachter. ............. $50
Hughes Electric Co. -. ... 40. 90
The mayor presented the appoint.
ment Of c. e. Hastings as poundmas-
ter and his bond was fixed in the sum
of $500. .s
A special committe was appointed
on the proposition of citizens to purL
chase city lots. ~ r..
The ordinance for the repeal of the
ordinance providing for the ringing Of
the curfew bell was read the third time
and defeated by a vote of four to one.
Alderman Reade voted for the repeal
of the ordinance, stating that the fire.
men of the city desired the repeal.
Ordinances providing penalties for
expectoration on the walks and penal
ties for Sabbath breaking We're laid
over until the next meeting.
The question of punishment for the
vandals who on Halloween night
damaged property came up. Mayor
Register stated that the authorities
were on the track of the perpetrators
of the deeds in question and he believed
punishment would be melted out.
Mayor Register suggested that the
committee on ordinances present an or
dinance providing heavy penalties for
persons who drove over stone or tile
sidewalks. 4 %~
The question of the opening OF the
Twelfth street crossing over the 500
road was taken UP and a special com
mittee appointed to consult with the
500 authorities and see if a crossing
would not be built. !
The council then adjourned.
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