Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-11-30
CITY Commission
met MONDAY EVE,
MUCH BUSINESS TRANSACTED
AND HARMONY RTlGNED.
SUPREME.
North Star Lumber Co. Objects to the
Opening Of Street Through Their
Retail Yards.

The Board OF City commissions
held another of those love feasts last
evening; everything lovely and SER
enc and all of one mind.
All members were present and the
minutes of the previous meeting were
read and approved.
Commissioner jackson reported
that in accordance with the instruc-
tions given him he had notified Capt.
Murphy to place ratings around the
basement windows of the armory
and that the captain had agreed to
do so at once.
Commissioner Jackson presented
the following letter which he had re-
ceived from Land Commissioner
Thomas Cooper, Of the N. p. Ry. Co.
"The North Star Lumber Company
one of our lessees, has sent me a
copy of your notice to them to remove
their buildings and other property
located upon our right OF way on
what would be Sixth street, If that
street legally exists. We cannot find
that the street in question has ever
been legally opened up across our
right of way by dedication of the
company or by use, or by proceed
ings taken by the city under the
law for opening streets. If you have
any information to the contrary, I
will be very glad If you will furnish
it to u.s. I may state that a crossing
of our right of way at this point is
very Objectionable and dangerous,
and we do not believe such a cross
ing to be necessary for the conven.
fence of the public.
The board, at previous meeting,
instructed Commissioner Jackson to
order the North Star Lumber Co. to
remove it's buildings, ETC., from the
grounds referred to by December 9Th
and the above letter Is in reply to
that order.
Commissioner Jackson was in
structed to reply to Mr.. Cooper calling
his attention to the act of the legis-
lature, passed in 1883 making the
plat of Edwinton the plat Of the City
Of Bismarck and the plat attached
to this bill shows that 9Th street is
opened across the N. P. right of way;
further, he was told to advise Mr..
Cooper that Sixth street is the natur-
al drainage of a large territory; that
the city must not allow a REPETITION Of
the food of last August; that the
railroad tracks we're the main cause
of this food as the tracks acted as
dam. to the water and 1t backed
IN into the Easements Of the bust
ness houses lining Main street and
that recurrence of this would
cause damage suits against both the
city and the railway company; also,
he was INSTRUCTED to send Mr.. Cooper
g COPY OF the report Of City Engineer
Atkinson under date of October 18th.
3 "A communication from Supt. Davis
OF the Indian school asking permits
sion to fence in certain lands around
the schools which would to an ex.
tent, interfere with the present road
to the river landing, was ordered re-
ferred to Commissioner Jackson and
City Engineer Atkinson for investi-
cation. :. s..
Health Commissioner DR., Smyth
presented q communication asking
that the board appoint city scaven-
ger as the condition OF the alleys
aseut the city was very bad and q
menace to health And property; that
the health department had always
had trouble with property owners re-
garding the proper cleaning Of the
city alleys and that q regularly app
pointed scavenger was q necessity.
The matter was referred to Commas.
Hsioners Marquette and Jackson for