Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-25
AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA
Saloon Men and Butchers to Form lnde-
pendent Ice Company.
WILL GET SUPPLY FROM JETTER LAKE
District Court Decides One of the n
street Sewer Cases in Favor Of
Municipnlity-MaEic City
Gossip.

An independent ice company is being or
ganized in South Omaha. The plans are
already laid out and the details, so it is
stated. will be worked out this week. This
time il is the saloonkeepers and the butch
ers who propose going into the ice bust
ness.
A temporary organization has been
formed by BalthAs letter, Frank Thompson
and Joseph Duffy. Later in the week q
meeting Of s~aloonksepers and butchers Is
to be held, when It is expected that a COM
many will be formed and articles OF incor-
p~oration filed.
This company. providing the deal goes
through. will lease the letter lake and VIII
supply Toe to all sAloonmen and butchers
in the organization at cost price. One OF
the promoters OF the new concern said
that the lake would yield about 1000 tons
of ice. This amount. he said, would be
sufhcient 10 supply saloons and butchers
through the summer, providing the tenn
| perature was not extremely high. AS some
Of the liquor dealers have contracts with
other companies which carry over for q
wear. IL is not expected that all Of the
eirhty-pine saloons in operation now viii
come into the organization this year.
wagons and horses will be purchased by
the new company and ice houses will be
erected soon In contemplation OF harvest
ing a large crop this winter.
Boston Store Burns.
At 4 O'Clock Monday morning the Boston
store. located in the Vanous block, Twenty
fourth and n streets, was discovered TO be
on fire. II is expected that the contents ol
the building will be a total loss. The
smoke poured into the fats above the store
ana aWoke the occupants. BY the time al
alarm was turned in the goods on tbs
ground floor were ali ablRse and 1t looked
as II the block might be burned. Very sooI
after the first alarm was sent in Chief Ettel
and three hose companies responded. and !
was only by hard work and plenty Of watei
that the building was saved from beinl
damaged to any great extent.
william Priesman is the proprietor Of III
store. He lives in Omaha. In speaking o
the FIRE Mr.. PriesmAn said TO newspape
men that recently his stock invoiced a
So. 600. He carried SIS. 500 insurance on IN.
stock and $3.50 insurance OF the fixtures
making a total insurance OF So, ESQ. Will
Mr.. PriesmEn seems 10 him that his stOcl
is 2 total loss insurance men who locke
into the storeroom incline to the opiniol
that there will be considerable salvage.
Chief Btter had TO night the fire from tn
rear Of the building and the fact that tn
fire was not permitted to spread shows ex
ceIlent work on the part Of the Soutl
omaha FIRE department The chief say
that from an Investigation the IRE probsbl
started IN the once on the Northeastern
mart Of the store. No cause Is given. as III
chief said that he had not completed his in
J vestiEHtions. When asked II he would re
2 sumo business. Mr.. PriesmRn said that b
would not decide that question until IN
insurance adjusters had completed thei
lRbors.
l While the smoke was pouring from N
rear windows and into the fats above SON
: OF the weller in the fats became 80 "a
? cited that they rushed into the street Wit
E but little clothing on. AS soon as II va
o found that the IRE was under control n
: residents in the fiat returned 10 the
E quarters
While hose company No. 2 WAS WorkiI
at the IRE thieves entered the FIRE hall al
n carried away some change the men had lie
D in their clothes al the house and a numb'
o. articles Of but little use TO anyone but
IRE company.
city Wins sewer Cases
= City Attorney Murdoch was yesterday n
3 tined that the district court had decidi
in favor OF the city In the n sire
y sewer cases, which have nov been psndiI
e for a year. The cases were tried on d
murrer, and while the decision hand
down applies 70 only one case. yet N
4 Murdoch seems 10 think that IL Is co,
elusive Of All Of the rest Of the n sire
sewer cases
when tbess cases were Instituted about