Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-07-29

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! Upon motion thesboard adjourned to
meet Tuesday, August 1, at 10 a. m.
| Attest: 1. w. HEALY,
| County Auditor.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
RURLEIGH, COUNTY, N. D., IN
THE MATTEReoFi EQUALIZATION
OF TIE ASSESSMENT FOR THE
YEAR 1905.
| On motion. Rev.. Helmstetter was
notified that his house in Baldwin
| (Crofte township was added to his
assessment at $4,000.
The following affidavit was re-
ceived:
Bismarck, N. D., July 5, 1905.
M. Spangberg being first duly sworn
deposes and says that at the time of
assessment of personal property in
Crofte township, he owned twenty one
year-old and twenty two-year-old cat
| tie which should be assessed in Crofte
| township; and ten COWS which should
| be assessed in Ecklund township and
no more. Deponent further states that
he owns no agricultural tools in
Crofte township. (Signed),
M. Spangberg.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 5th day of July, 1905.
I. w. HEALY,
(SeaL) County Auditor
After consideration of which the fol-
lowing stock was stricken from Eek
lund township: Two one-year-old
horses, one two-year-old horse twen-
ty one-year-old cattle and ten two-year-
old cattle, total value 1892. Depon-
ent's assessment in Crofte township
was corrected to read as follows:
Two one-year-old horses, one two-year-
old horse, twenty one-year-old cattle,
and twenty two-year-old cattle.
The following affidavit was re-
ceived:
State of North Dakota, County of
Burleigh, IS.
Andrew Halver being first duly
sworn deposes and says that he is
now and has been for about the period
of three years last past a resident up
on the northwest quarter of section 26,
in township IA, north of range rs,
west 5th p M, on which he now has
a homestead entry; that the said
township and range in which affiant re-
sides has never been organized; that
affiant and four others are partner
ship and now and have for more
than one year last past owned the
cattle numbering about 120 head sub
ject to assessment for the year 1905;
that said partnership is known as the
Chester & Hampshire ranch; that this
affiant owns a majority and controll-
ing interest in said partnership and is
the manager thereof; that the said
partnership controls three sections of
land in the immediate vicinity of
atlantis homestead and have controlled
the same for about the period of three
years; that all of said land is in the
unorganiZed township IA, north of
range rs west; that the cattle owned
by said partnership before referred to
were kept and ranged in said town
ship and range during the past year
at all times or about all of the time,
except during the cold weather when
it was necessary to shelter said cattle
from storm and to feed the same; that
the said partnership owns less than
one quarter section of land where
said cattle were wintered and fed up
on section Is in township IA, north of
| range Is west. known as the Hazel
| grove organized township; that the
| land last named is used for the pur-
pose Of sheltering and feeding said
| cattle in the winter time and not as a.
range for said cattle; that the home
| ranch of this aff1ant as the manager
and owner of the controlling interest
in said partnership and in and to said
cattle is in the unorganized township
IA, north of range 76 west 5th p. M;
that said cattle owned by said partner
ship were assessed during the year
1904 in said unorganized township
l44, north OF range 76 west, and taxes
were and have been PAID on said as
| sessment; that during the present
year 1905 said cattle have been as
! sessed in the unorganized township
OF LA, north of range rs west, where
said cattle have been sheltered and
fed during the cold weather of the
winter of 1904 and 1905; that affiant
| believes the said cattle should be as
| sessed in the unorganized township of
his residence where his home ranch
Is and in no other place or otherwise
for the year 1905; that affiant asks the
Hon. Board of County Commissioners
OF Burleigh county, North Dakota. to
cancel and set aside the assessment
made by the assessor Of said Hazel
grove township of said cattle for the
year 1905, on the ground that the
same have been assessed at the wrong
location and because they are other.
wise property assessed in the township
OF atlantis residence which is his
home ranch during the present year
and which has been his home ranch
TOR more than two years last past.
Further afiant says not. a.. f.
| Andrew Halyer.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
On this 4th day of July, 1905.
/ Geo. M. Register.
Notary Public for North Dakota.
! My commission expires on March
| Ia, 1910. ,s. fl ''-s Ds." 4.
! After consideration OF the forego.
ling affidavit the item OF assessment Of
Andrew Halyer was stricken from the
list In Hazelgrove township ana LEFT
on the list in the Third Commissioners
district.
Upon motion the item Of threshing