Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-08-16
CITY Commission
HAS Strenuous time
WARM CONTROVERSY between
sUPT. DAVIS, CAPT. BAKER
AND OTHERS.
City Attorney Says Bill for Changing
Grades Of Water Mains Should Not
Be Paid by the City.

The weekly meeting of the city com
mission was held last evening WIFI
President Williams and Commission
ers Marquett and Jackson present.
Commissioner Lucas being out OF the
city.
The report of the chief Of police for
June and July was presented, showing
twenty-six police calls in June and
forty-six in July with total OF twenty
three arrests in June and eighteen IN
July.
Bids for the construction OF the
sewers for surface drainage on Sixth
and Seventh streets were presented by
Gilbert w. Haggart Of Fargo and MIL
stad & Person Of this city IN the 1ol
lowing amounts:
Milstad & Pierson, 30-inch sewer pipe
in place, $2.15 per foot, 1S-inch sewer
pipe, in place, $l.1O per foot; lS.lnch
metal culvert, in place, $l.7O per foot;
catch basins, $13 each.
Gilbert w. Haggart, 3O-inch sewer
pipe, in place, 1920 per foot; lS.inch
sewer pipe, in place, $1.2O per foot :
18-inch metal culvert, in place, $l.oO
per foot; catch basins, $45 each.
The bids were referred to Commits
sioners Jackson and Marquett.
The city attorney reported on the
bill Of the water company for chang'
ing the grade of the water main on
Third street between Avenues A and b
in effect that it should not be paid by
the city. This is the first of these bills
to be presented against the city by
the water company for relaying their
mains where they had to be lowered
through cutting down the streets. 1t
is the contention of the city that the
company should pay for the work, and
the company claims, as usual, that the
city should pay for 1t.
Mr.. Register also gave verbal opln'
ion in the matter of the water COM
Dany and the electric light company,
charging consumers for the use OF me-
tiers. He stated that he found three
decisions in other states where the
public utility companies could not
charge the consumers for meters, and
he found one decision in this state, the
only decision in the state he could
find on the subject, where he thought
it might be construed that the COM
panies could charge the consumers
The North Dakota case was not ex.
actly parallel, but he thought 1t would
cover the ground. No action was tax.
en- in the matter, but there likely Will
be at later meeting.
H. C. Rhud and others presented q
petition asking that the water main be
extended on Front street from Fifth to
Third streets, and also asking That a
hydrant be installed at Third. and
Front streets.
Commissioner Marquett moved the
petition be granted. Commissioner
Jackson moved that the main be ex'
tended, but that instead Of ordering IN
a new hydrant one of those on upper
Ninth street be removed from its pres
ent needless location to the corner OF
Third and Front streets. No one sec
onded the motion and so the original
motion was put and carried, as com
missioner Marquett and President Will
liams voted in favor Of granting the
petition as presented and Jackson
voted no.
Superintendent w. r. Davis of the
Indian school urgently urged that the
commission take immediate steps to-
ward opening the road between the
city and the school. He stated that
Captain Baker, who owns land ad5o1n'
ing the school, would not abide by the
survey of the school land, claiming
that he owned some land really owned
by the school and would not allow the
occupants of the school to drive across
the disputed strip, though he allowed
everyone else to drive across it, thus
necessitating them to take the poor
and dangerous road along the railroad
track, where there is constant danger
of runaways, and also from the fact
that the road is rough and not kept up.
Captain Baker was present and re-
piled to the talk of the superintendent.
The matter was referred to Commits
sioner Jackson, the city attorney and
city engineer.
After allowing a small bunch of bills
the meeting adjourned to next Monday
evening at 8 o'clock.