Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-17
WATER COMPANY TOFILE BOND
Corporation Decides to Give Imdemnifying
Surety to Secure Warrants,
MURDER VICTIM WELL KNOWN At cAPrTAI
james o'Meara, Slain I'm New Mexico,
Former Clerk in Governors Office
-LabOrer Drops Dead in
Des Moines.
(From a STAR Correspondentl

NfTOm q stan correspondent
DIES MONIES, June 16.-(Speciai.)-The
Des Moines water company will soon file
an indemnifying bond with the city Of
Des Moines in the sum Of 500, 900, to hold
the city and city officials free from any
liability on any suit which may be brought
calling in question the legality OF the pro-
posed loan Of $50, 900 Of the city funds with
which the company Is to build a water main
to the site of the army post outside Of the
city limits.
The filing OF this bond Is required by
the city auditor and city treasurer before
they will issue the warrants which have
been ordered issued by the city council.
There are suits pending to test the right
of the city to make use OF the money in
this way and until they are disposed of
the city officials feel that they would be
unsafe in issuing the warrants.
The city council has agreed to the con-
tract and the legislature .legalized It in
advance. But the contract as agreed to is
not in accordance with the agreement which
the legislature passed on and not what
was supposed to be the situation. The city
solicitor is drawing up a new contract.
In the meantime the water company has
distributed the iron for the water main all
the way out into the country to the site
Of the army post and will soon be engaged
in laying the main. The company at first
refused to give any indemnifying bond, but
the city officials refused to act and It has
become necessary.
Murder Victim Former Des MOInes Boy
James o'Meara, the man killed in Cerril-
los, N. M, in a quarrel, was we'll known
In Des Moines. When he was a boy he was
taken into the office of Governor Sherman
as a messenger and remained during the
term Of that official.
At first he was only a messenger boy,
but he was bright and steadily increased
his usefulness and he remained all through
the terms Of Governor Larrabee, and after
ward remained and was clerk under Gov
ernor Boies. He continued under Gov
ernor Jackson, and at one time was one
of the best known men Of the state house.
He became dissipated and lost his posi-
tion and went to New Mexico some years
ago to become bookkeeper for a mining
company.
Drops Dead in "a Park.
CUTLER C. Carr, a laboring man, dropped
dead suddenly in a Des Moines park, sup
posedly from heart disease. He was about
40 years old and leaves a wife and one
child.
He had rode on a bicycle to the park and
was quite warm and had stopped to talk
with a man when he suddenly expired. 1t
was not regarded necessary to hold a cor
oner's inquest.
Executive Council Meets.
Three. members of the state executive
council, Messrs. Cummins, Gilbertson and
Martin, were in the city today and held a
meeting of the council this afternoon for
the transaction Of regular business. They
took up routine matters and only inform
ally considered the reports from the rail-
roads. Senators Healey Of Fort Dodge
and COPYRIGHT Of Waterloo called on the
members Of the council.
The Cedar County Lumber and Manu-
featuring company Of Lowden was incorpo-
rated today with $40, 900 capital by ]. H.
Brownell and others.
The o. S. Kelley Western Manufacturing
company of Iowa City was incorporated
today with $3.50, 900 capital.
Judicial Convention to He Called,
The judicial convention for the Fifth dis
trict is to be called in a few days and 1t
will be held at Stuart or Dexter on the
Rock Island, about the second week of
July.
The county convention in Adair county
oaIuIudy TeIuSeu 10 lndOrSe any OF the
candidates for district Judge, and it is un-
that while the county is for both
Gamble and Apologize, the old judges, 1t
Will be divided as between Nichols and
Guiher, who are both candidates for the
place on the bench made vacant by the
declination Of Wilkinson to have another
term. An effort was made to secure the
county for Guiher, but 1t failed.
N affannRx r--4
Senator J. A. Young of Washington first
named on the commission to build the Iowa
monuments on the Chattanooga park, will
call the commission together probably at
the time the republican state convention
when the commission will be organized.
The governor has left this matter in his
hands.
The commission has four members who
were of the commission which was appointed
in accordance with a law of the Twenty
NTH general assembly to locate the Iowa
battle lines on Missionary Ridge and Look
out Mountain. This was done several
years ago and the plans for the monuments
in general agreed upon.
Nail WAIIkEE SH0PMEN STRIKE