Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-07
AFFAIRS At SOUTH OMAHA
City Council Meets with Only -Four Mem.
bers in Attendance.
PROPOSITION FOR OPENING OF o STREET
Committee Appointed TO Investigate
and Report ON Proposed Improve
ment - Typewriter Rt High
school are R~ePIevined.

The city council met last night. with
only four members present. Welsh is out
Of the city and O'Connor is on the sick list,
so It devolved upon the four members pres
ent to transact the business.
About all hat was accomplished out OF
the regular routine was the appointment
Of a committee to investigate the propo-
sition to open o street from Twentieth
street east to Thirteenth street. Queenan
suggested that the mayor appoint a com
mHttee to look into the matter and this
was done. The committee is composed Of
Councilmen Adkins, Queenan, Welsh. DR..
W. S. White Anton Kostal and Steve Volz.
No time is set for the report Of this com
mittee. but as the property owners are
anxious to have something done it is
thought that a report may be made by
next Monday night.
Reports from heads OF departments for
October we're read and placed on file. J. D..
Holman, who is in charge of the emergency
hospital, asked, through Councilman Quee-
nan, for material. lumber, brick, ETC.,
for a cellar. The council decided that It
would provide a good-sized shovel and per-
init Holman to dig his own cellar.
Another attempt is to be made to secure
the passage OF an ordinance regulating the
speed of trains through the city. The or
dlnance introduced some time ago was
laid away by the judiciary committee, as
It was considered defective. The city at
torney will be called upon to draft an or
dinance that will hold good in the courts.
The October appropriation sheet was al
lowed and then the council adjourned un-
til next Monday night.
High School Typewriters.
AS predicted in The Bee of Thursday
morning, the Oliver Typewriter company
yesterday replevined the twelve typewriters
at the high school building and removed
the same. The writ was served by a dep
uty sheriff, who carted the machines away.
Judge V~insonhaler will hear the case on
November Il.
1t is asserted that tlse alleged purchase
Of the machines in question entered largely
into complaints filed against four members
Of the Board of Education. While the
| claim Of the oliver company was allowed
by the board and the warrant was drawn,
President Miller would not sign 1t, as he
had been arrested for taking a bride. In
stead Of applying for a writ Of mandamus
to compel Miller to sign the warrant for
the payment OF the machines delivered the
oliver company decided to recover its
property and did so.
When a deputy sheriff removed the type
writer's from the high school building it lef.
the commercial department without any
work to do. Word was sent to Miller and
Kubat and an effort was made to rent ma
chimes for temporary use until arrange
ments could be made to purchase.
President Miller of the Board of Edu-
cation said last night to a Bee reporter
that he had heard the machines had been
removed. As for details he declined to
| aNNn~ s@NA anu HtCoV,aglAa IL 1I1 zn.v
however, that IL the company had any right
to take the machines, "let them have
them" a.
In connection with this deal the records
show that prior to the purchase by the
board Of the Oliver machines an order was
issued for the cleaning and repairing OF
the machines in the high school. This
was done, and then, when :he machines
were returned in good working order, the
board turned around and purchased a dozen
new machines, giving those on hand in
part payment, promising to pay the bal
ance in cash.
Should there be any delay in the renting
OF typewriters by the board the CONNER.
cial department will go by default for q
time. 1t was reported on the streets last
night hat none OF the agencies in Omaha
would either rent or sell typewriters tc
the South Omaha Board OF Education I'M
less the money was In sight, the money
to be turned over at the same time the
machines were delivered.
Fred stegemRn Fined.
In police court yesterday afternoon Fred
Stegeman was fined SIS and costs for as.
saulting E.. Kearskol. Both men we're en-
ployed at Armour's. There was an alter,
cation over a trivial matter and StegemaI
threw a cleaver at Kearskol, nearly cut.
ting of the left ear. At the trial yester-
day afternoon it was how that Stegemar