Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-05-10
RESIGNATION REQUESTED
. FROM CHIEF OF POLICE
REPORTS TREASURER AND AUDITOR SHOW THE CITY TO BE
EXCELLENT SHAPE FINANc ALLY WATER comPANTs
FRANCHISE DISGUST AGAIN USUAL e'sT or
ALLOWED.

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| All the members We're present last
| evening at the meeting of the board
! of city commissioners.
The city attorney held that the
| commissioners were entitled to $500
for each meeting actually attended by
them during the past year, and az a
| result of this opinion they drew the
following amounts for their years
! services: Geiermann, sos; Jackson,
$102; Lucas, 1922; Marquett, $13; WILL
liams. SAB. up to the first of last
September.
A petition from various residents
from the east end of town, complain
ing that contractors were excavating
for sand on Broadway and 18th and
18th streets, and asking that the city
stop them, was presented and REFER
ed to Commissioner Jackson and the
city engineer.
The quarterly reports of the city
treasurer and the city auditor were
presented. These show that the finan-
cial condition of the city is t/scellent.
The total Indebtedness of the city is
$54,591.91, and the cash on hand is
$38.6O7.47; the cash on hand not in
Guiding some $500 in the various
special assessment funds. and the liza
bilities including the $1,000 city bonds
outstanding. There is over 100000 on
deposit in the banks of the city which
is drawing per cent interest.
A petition from the Bismarck De-
velopment company, asking that the
city request the water company to ex-
tend its mains down certain streets
in the Riverview addition. and to
place a hydrant on one of the cor
ners there. was presented and referr-
ed to Commissioner Lucas.
A petition from some of the resi-
dents of west ROsser street. asking
that no sidewalks be laid until the
street was graded, was referred to
Commissioner Jackson and the city
engineer. It was stated that one of
the petitioners was afraid that If the
walks were laid now. that when the
street was later graded some care
less workman might run the point of
the pillow into the sidewalk, but twen-
ty feet from the curb line to the side
walk would be very long jump for a
plow to make.
The special committee appointed to
investigate the charges against the
police department., made the following
report:
To the Honorable Board Of City Com
missioners, Bismarck, N. D.
Gentlemen: We, your committee
appointed at the request of the COM
missioner of police to investigate his
department., after an investigation,
recommend that for the good of the
service, he ask for the resignation of
the chief of police.
Respectfully submitted.
J. P. JACKSON,
A. w. LUCAS.
H. J. GEIERMANN.
The report was ordered referred to
Commissioner Marquett and the city
auditor was instructed to write the
chief of police and notify him of the
findings of the committee and to state
that his resignation was requested,
but that according to the law he could
first be heard in his own defense at
which hearing the committee would
formulate it's charges against I'm, if
he so desired.
The members of the committee
stated that they all had the friendli-
est feelings for the chief, that he was
always obliging in everything, but the
evidence they had of the conditions
in the city was such that they could
do nothing else but ask for his resig-
nation, in justice to themselves. No
personal charges were insinuated in
the verbal statement made by the
committee.
The city attorney was present and
stated verbally that the. city had a
perfect right to close the alley be-
tween Fourth and Fifth streets north
of Main, and that if the city did close
it the alley reverted to the owners of
the abutting property. in this case
being Mr.. Patterson. But that before
closing the alley the commission
should see that it did not interfere
with any rights granted by franchises
issued by the city to the water COM
pany, telephone, electric light or 9TH
er companies.
The auditor was instructed to write
Mr.. Patterson and instruct him to
have drawn up the proper ordinance
in the matter and to have the ordi-
nance cover this point, as we'll as to
have filed with the city, releases from
the parties having franchises from the
city to use its streets and alleys.
Commissioner ackson moved that
the auditor have printed 300 copies
of the contract between the city and
the water company, together with the
ordinance vetoed by Mayor Register
and as passed over his veto, together
with his veto message, these copies |