Omaha daily bee., 1896-04-07
NAMES THE new POLICEMEN
Mayor Carson Presents Some Little Sur
prises to the City Council.
JOHN TtMPLET0N TO BE FIRE CHEF
Appointive Omces All Filled and the
Accumulated Routine of n
Month Given Attention by
the Aldermen.

AT the council meeting last night Mayor
Carson appointed the police force for the
ensuing year as follows: Chief of police, Ed
Canning; captain of police, d. Maltby; Pa
trclmen, o. Il, Beswick. Charles Custer, John
Sharett, II. v. Slead. William Vandenburg,
Charles CLAIR, John Barhyte, j. M. Murphy,
II. Petersen; patrol driver, Andrew Neatly.
This is a change from the old force. Bes-
wick, Custer, Sharett and Neatly are new
men. The old officers who were dropped
from the roll were Chief scanlan, Sergeant
Gardiner, Patrolmen Covalt and Martin, and
Patrol Driver Sandel.
City Marshal Canning reappointed his pres
ent force. H.. L. Ward will be day jailer and
deputy; f.. Petersen deputy and night jailer,
and ]. T.. Anderson, bailiff of the superior
court.
These appointments were made early in the
session. After the transaction of the routine
business the council filled the elective offices
by naming John Templeton as fire chief,
Frank West as poll tax collector, S. Dobson
as pound master, DR.. Treynor as city physi-
clan, and w. G. Morris as street supervisor.
Prior to the appointments Mayor Carson
read a message to the council, in which
he reviewed the present financial situation
and made a number of suggestions for the
guidance of the body in the matter of
handling the various funds. He recon-
mended that no more paving be done except
on the petition of property owners and their
agreement to pay the cost of paving and in
tersections as we'll. Other suggestions were
made in line with the policy of the mayor,
as marked out in his inaugural address and
his public utterances.
The burnt Obstruction Pierce street will
have to be moved. A petition of property
owners was presented, calling attention to the
violation of the state law and asking that
the houses of ill-fame in that vicinity be
closed up. After some slight discussion, the
city marshal was instructed to require the
keepers OF such houses to remove from the
street at once.
The committee on water works was In
structed to have all hydrants of the city
tested for pressure and report the result to
the council.
WIRES TO GO UNDER.
Telephone wires in the business part of the
city are to go underground, according to the
terms of an ordinance introduced. The or
dinance provides that telephone wires in the
part of the city bounded by Willow avenue,
Sixth street, Washington avenue and Bryant
street, be placed underground before De-
cember 1 of the present year, and that no
franchise be granted to any telephone COM
pany hereafter that will not comply with
the terms of the ordinance and place its
wires in the business part of the city in
underground conduits. The ordinance was
read twice and referred to the committee Of
the whole.
The city marshal was instructed to pre-
vent the blowing up of plated streets in
the Fifth and Sixth wards.
The Chicago C Northwestern asked for a
rebate Of $50 on it's water tax, asserting that
it was taxed on property that was not within
the hydrant limit.
John Riley was granted authority to plant
a banana cart at the corner of Main and
Broadway.
A petition asking for the location of a
water main for fire protection on Sixth ave-
nue., between Eighteenth and Nineteenth
streets, was referred to the mmitt Of
the whole.
tract for feeding the city prisoners for the
ensuing year at II cents per meal.
O'Neill & Schicketanz were granted per-
mission to open a liquor dispensary at
Thirty-seventh and Broadway.
The street supervisor was instructed to
| grade Hall street, the new street opened con-
Meeting Harrison street with North First
street.
The city engineer was instructed to survey
ard the park commissioners requested to
fence Lake View park.
The chairman of the committee on streets
and alleys was instructed to purchase a car
load of oak lumber for use in building cross
walks.
The committee on police was instructed to
contract for the necessary work in charging
III CITY Jali III " INV eNNi'ioh "a "t
eight-foot extension on the east side of the
structure to make additional room for the
marshal's Office. The expense will be about
$500. The committee was also instructed to
have other changes in connection with the
cell arrangements made in accordance with
the plans suggested by City Marshal Canning.
An ordinance ordering the grading of the
alley in block IL, Grimes addition, was read
and referred to the committee of the whole.
On recommendation of the committee on
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John Sutton for S125. Mrs. Suitor was in
jured by being thrown from a carriage en-
Harrison street, the accident beng caused
by the defective condition OF the street.
The reports of the city officers for the
month Of March were received and given the
usual reference.
The bill of the Gas and Electric company
for March amounting to 1926 40 was referred
to the committee Of the whole. The bill Of
the company and the report of the police do
not agree and the committee refused to pass
the bill as presented.
CITY WAGE SCALE.
BY resolution the scale of wages for the
street supervisor and other workmen en-
ployed by the city was fixed as follows: Man
and team, $3.50 per day; laborer, S1.5O for
ten hours work; sidewalk inspector with
horse, 81 per day.
City Engineer ToStevin reported that he
had examined the Indian creek sewer and
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low Nineteenth avenue was below the top
of the twenty-four inch pipes through which
all the sewage is discharged. He recon-
mended that the creek bed be lowered to a
point below the pipe line. The recommended
ton was referred to the committee OF the
whole.
A committee from the Workingmen's
Friendly club presented a petition asking the
council to have Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh
avenues brought to grade by day labor, to
give work to the unemployed. They also
asked that the vacant lots of the city be
leased to the unemployed for garden work
on the Pingree plan. and that an appropria-
ton be made for the purchase OF sesd. The
pstitlon was referred to the committee of the
whole.
In his appointment OF committees at the
first nesting of the present council Mayor
Car5on made an error Of omission and cor
rected 1t last night by the appointment OF
Graham, Casper snd Pace as the committee
on bridges ard city property, and Brown,
Brough and Greolshields as the committee
on claims and printing.
The council will meet again on Thursday
evening as a board of equalization.
Uncle Sam After the O'Learys.
The federal officials are after the O'Leary
boys now. The two brothers were arrested