Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-06-05


city council meeting last night, and
though it took nearly two hours for
the members present to get walked up
! to the hustling point, they did pretty
we'll after they got warm under the
collar. :.-+ = .E.., %al. v
| 1t is the first time in the history of
the council that the old ordinance
empowering the council to compel the
attendance of absent members was
invoked, but though the ordinance
was rusty it worked like a charm
when Policeman Carr was instructed
to find his man. He got the man and
although it was then 10:3O D. m. the
ball was opened and the business for
which the aldermen were elected was
transacted. There was one man in
the bunch, however, that was warmer
than the cool night seemed to war
rant. Ill.,, -. W.. :...4 ,r -.
This monkeydoodle business must
stop" i. -. -
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the six aldermen who sat from $3.50
p. m. last night until 1890 waiting for
lanother alderman to show up so that
the councils business could be at
tended to:
! Arrested Alderman Peterson.
!, At $3.50 Mayor Webb and Aldermen
1 C1otfo,yr Da43 rrotIou Mo-
4 Kenzie, Horner and Mccormick had
]arrived at the council chamber. AT
9:15 the chief of police was sent out
to hunt up the balance of the mem.
beers but returned emptyhanded.
j Several of the absentees had been met
Iby various parties on the street and
told they were needed at the city hall
but failed to respond, so at 10 p. m
Alderman Patterson moved a call OF
the house, as povided for in the ordi
nance, and the roll was called and the
mayor instructed the police to find an
d alderman or die in the attempt
Policeman Carr took hack and went
!,
and hailed him before the bar of the
council where he was informed he
a was under fine of $40. The roll was
! again called, and quorum being
present, the meeting was opened, ant
further proceedings under the cal
were dispensed with. ,
| Tribune Made Official Paper.
: Alderman A. T.. Patterson opened
the ball by moving that the Bismarcl
:, Tribune be made the official paper o
a the city for; the ensuing year. Thi
was seconded by Alderman Tatley ant
I Messrs. Slattery, Patterson, Mckenzie
Tatley,s Horner and Mccormick votet
: yes; Alderman Peterson voting nc
$ land the Tribune was declared tn
4 Iohcial paper. H.. .-.4@.. = T. y.
), The selection of an official pape
/ Ifor the coming year was the niger il
) the woodpile that had apparently KEEP
!, the other y six members from tn
council room on the theory that i
! there was no quorum no action coult
4 DE taken on that matter, but thu
I drastic action Of the mayor ant
I council had not been anticipated ant
+ 1.-the. deal fell through. With a de
q termination on the part 1of half thu
i council that the city's business shall
j |be promptly attended to and tn
ordinances giving the power to compe
$ attendance, it is probable the, SAM
4 tactics will not again be tried.
r. Appointed a Poundmaster.
!. After the dreadful responsibility o
1 lselecting an official newspaper, hat
8 Ibeen disposed of and the reading o
1.-THE minutes 4 dispensed with tn
: mayor appointed Chief of Police Nc
i Donald poundmaster, which appoint
s Iment was confirmed.
3 A request from Ed Barrett was rea,
i asking that the city lease him lots i
4 and IL in block 81, original plat, TO
ii five years at a nominal rental. o.
81 motion OF Alderman Tatley the audito
n y" dS III CSlNut ~ spA SpdIS ~ uGn d. lSdS
n at S. per year, conditioned upon tn,
d sale Of the property. !
Sidewalks were ordered built ii
III front OF lots I to ID inclusive il hlocl
ia 13. McKenzie's addition and on tn
east side Of lot I same block, ais,
along the south side Of the lots lol
{ Avenue 3 from Fourth to Seventh
!, street. Owners were given until Jul.
to do the building.
i The bills Of Louis Bureau for re
pairing the snrinkIerS last year. $3.50
Piatt Dunn for police sduty,s sss, an,
Mott & Co. for flremen's supplies. $40
/ we're allowed.
The Cattle Ordinance.
) Alderman A. n Patterson intro
!, duced the following ordinance for tn
control Of cattle, etc, IN the puDli
4 streets:
Section II # shall be unlawful 10