Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-10-08
500 ROAD GIVEN
FORTY FEET ON
BROADWAY

night and at the same time there was
much to interest the onlooker in the
several passages at arms Of the mem
bers over the questions before the
house. Il s.
That ghost which has been the
nightmare of this and the last admin
istration, the dirt bills, was finally
embalmed by allowing the bills, but
it remains to be seen whether the
funeral rites will ever be held Al
derman Slattery says there will be
no funeral Of this kind, and there
you are. @*
The council voted to give a quit
claim deed to Sullivan for the sum
of 50 for the two lots and to William
Pye for eight lots for $40.
After a years travail the council
has finally agreed to donating the
use of 40 feet of Broadway for the
500 round house. 5S# II
| Mayor Smith presided and the al
dermen present were: Slattery, A. T..
Patterson, Mckenzie, Peterson, Mar
guett, Horner, Richholt, Fisher and
Wilcox.
4 "A request from the German church
/ people was read asking for certain
lots for church purposes, which was
received and filed.
/ A communication was received from
i the county auditor, saying the county
/ commissioners desired to move the
] stables on the court grounds to the
lot Just south of VIM. LASTS home
as they wanted to seed all the court
house grounds to grass, and offering
to rent the east 40 feet of the lot foI
j term of ten years. This gave Al
i derman Slattery a chance to get sar
Il castle at the expense Of the commits
A sioners and he did it to a finish. a
4 number of surrounding property
! owners protested and the request was
4 buried. II; ,5l !
4 The bond of Assessor q. e. Morris
was approved in the sum of 81 ,O00
4 The auditor announced that So, SOC
4 had been spent on the streets and
j that exhausted the appropriation fol
the present.
Policeman Ely reported $6 collect.
ed for pound charges. III
Street Commissioner McCrorie re
ported the collection of $124.5O ii
, poll taxes since the last report.
The special arbitration committe,
to settle the dispute over damages
/ done to the property of Messrs. I'D
lex, Mandigo and Boucher, reported
damages to the amount Of $293.25 t,
, the property by the change of grad,
in Ninth street after the sidewalk
) had been laid by the parties at in
81 terest. The report was adopted ant
the expense Of changing the grade D
the walks was authorized under TIL
direction Of the city engineer.
The special committee on the Sui
Ivan lots reported in favor of givin,
him q quit claim deed to his two lot
upon payment of $172, which sun
) was arrived at by taking 40 per cen
of the amount that he should hav
paid in taxes had the lots been ais
sessed to him as they should hav
beenbut were not, owing to the fac
4 that for % years everybody has bee
under the impression the lots belong
! ed to the city. 1t will be remembers
; that these lots were squatted upol
I by Sullivan before the townsite wa
plated and were awarded him by th
TOWNSHIP commission in 1874 and tn
Y city gave him a warranty deed, Wfic
. deed was not recorded until recently
There was a great deal Of discussion
over the report, the question beinI
whether the city had any title t
charge him anything whatever, bot
: sides Of the question having warn
advocates. Finally after numbe
j Of motions had been made a substi
!. tute by A. n. Patterson to offer Sui
Ivan a quitclaim deed for the sum q
i SO carried, to 2.
+ The matter of the William Pye lot
then came up. These lots were /
practically the same class as the Sui
Ivan property with the exception
that although the townsite commits
sion awarded the eight lots in aues
ton to Mr.. Pye, he had never receis
!. ed q deed for them and was now aT
plying Tor q quitclain. AT the las
meeting Of the council It was unan
mousiy agreed to grant warrant
deed but at anadjourned meetin
this action was rescinded Alder
man Patterson moved that the dee
be granted upon the terms ordere