Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-08-10
PROPERTY OWNERS
KICK ON ASSESSMENT
Object to Special Assessment for
Parking and Curb Work
Done.
AUTO ORDINANCES
TO BE ENFORCED
City Commission nefuses to Get
Mixed Up in Ferrymen's
Squabble.

"a lS lSSuA0A NtShiJ HlVClillS VI
the city commissioners last night the
following petition was presented to
the commission. ". a. F%alconer,
Mrs. E. Cordner and A. J. Henks APP
peared before the board personally
and registered their complaints.
Honorable City Commission, Bis
marck, N. d.
Gentlemen: We, the undersigned,
owners Of property situated in the
Northern Pacific and Mckenzie Add
tons to the City of Bismarck, North
Dakota, hereby object and enter a
protest against the special assess
ment which has been returned against
II property by the special assess
ment commission for certain curbing
and parking alleged to have been COM
pleted in front OF oar several proper
ties, and which assessment purports
to be a benefit to said property in the
fall of said assessment.
In filing this protest with your hon
orable body we desire 70 state that
we are not opposed to any public I'M
; provements that are within reason,
or to paying any special assessment
! that is fair and just, but we do siren
uously object to having this assess
ment charged up against our property,
for the reason that the assessment is
excessive and Unjust, and that the
assessment, as returned by the spe-
c;al assessment committee for curb
ing and parking, represents an
amount at least twice greater than
what it should cost to construct said
iurbing and parking, and that said
property is not benefited in proportion
tot he amount of the assessments, and
further that the work of constructing
the parking and OF planting trees, has
not been completed according to on
tract.
We therefore, respectfully request
that a thorough investigation be made
of this curbing and parking assess
ment, to the end that a more just and
equitable assessment may be return
ed against the property described in
the notice of special assessment, as
returned by the special assessment
committee of the City of Bismarck,
North Dakota.
The commission named Commits
sioner Bertsch as a committee 90
meet with a representative chosen by
the property owners to try and az
range an amicable adjustment of the
matter.
"A petition was also presented by a
number of property owners living on
the north side of Avenue c, between
Ninth and Eleventh streets, asking
that , rnr,npt c;Io,rp11y iD nnSf,IIptn
in front Of their proptry.
The report Of the chief of police
was read. During the month of July
IS calls were answered by the police
department. and 80 arrests made for
various Offenses.
The report of the city auditor was
also read and ordered placed on file.
Attorney f. j. Murphy appeared be-
fore the commission and made appli-
cation for a ferry license for Frank
Rhud, and also demanded that the IL
cense given to Walter Gossard, the
other ferryman, be rescinded for VIC
lations Of it's provisions.
The commission refused to act in
the matter and left it entirely in the
bands of the city attorney. The fight
between tn river ferrymen has deVel-
oped a number of legal tangles which
members of the commission we're I'M
able to straighten out.
The city attorney was ordered to
draw up an ordinance relating TO the
disposal of garbage. At present con-
siderable trouble is being experienced
in all parts of the city and a number
of complaints have been registered.
The commission ordered the police
force to enforce the city traffic regula-
tons to the last letter. Automobile
drivers are becoming very careless
within the city limits and a number
of serious accidents have been mar
rowly averted within the past few
weeks. 1t is likely that a number Of
arrests will follow the enforcement
of the traffic regulations. Owners
who leave their cars standing at the
curb nights with NO lights On will be
subject to arrest.
Action will also be taken in regard
to the auto headlights, which are
practically binding to pedestrians at
night, as well as to other drivers.
Drivers will be compelled to use dim.
mers when driving in the city limits
and when passing other cars on the