Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17
AFFAIRS At SOUTH OMAHA
Mayor KOutsky viii Issue Proclamation for
Holding Special Election.
HIS HONOR SELECTS DATE OF JUNE %
Electors WIN Vote on Proposition,
TO Issue Bonds for Overlap
and Public improvements
Magic City Gossip.

Mayor Koutsky announced yesterday
afternoon that on Monday he would sign
a proclamation for the special election to
be held in South Omaha on June %. This
proclamation will designate the voting
places and will define the object and the
amount Of the bonds. City Attorney Muir
dock is now drawing up the proclamation,
which will be given to the public on Mon
day. The proclamation will call for the
people to vote on an issue of $4,000 to take
up the present overlap. Then there will
be a request for bonds i'm the sum of $685. 900
for an extension of the sewer system in
the eastern portion of the city. City hall
bonds to the amount of $4,000 are to be
voted on also.
In a separate proclamation will come a
call upon the voters to express an opinion
as to the construction of a high school
building to cost 800, 900. The total issue
amounts to S255,OO0. Bonds to be issued by
the city will draw not more than 5 per
cent interest and the same can be said of
the school bonds. 1t is thought that the
school district bonds will sell for about 4
per cent and the city bonds for about ~
per cent. Bids will be received for both
issues providing the propositions carry.
The interest on both issues Will amount to
about $1l, 900 a year.
II the bonds do not carry the obligations
of the city will have to be paid anyway.
1t will be necessary to make a special levy
and pay the threatened judgments. Should
judgments be secured for outstanding
claims an increase in taxation would have
to be made, which would make 1t hard on
many small property owners, as the debt
would have to be paid in one year. With
a bond issue the property owners would
have twenty years in which to complete
the payment.
Already some opposition to the proposed
bond issue has developed. A certain clique
is working to defeat the proposition. The
city officials say that they have no interest
in the matter. IF the people of the city
want public improvements and want to
avoid a high rate of interest on the over
lap" said a city official last night. 'let
them vote bonds. II they do not want the
improvements suggested, let them go ahead
and continue paying interest on the over
lap"
Feeling seems to be divided in relation
to the bond issue and little, II any, opinion
can be formed at the present time as to
the result of the coming election.
President DOnneIIy Departs.
NJ. Donnelly, president of the interna-
tional organization of the packing house
employees, left for Kansas City yesterday
and will depart from the latter place to-
night for Chicago. where he will meet with
representatives of the Chicago and South
| Omaha packers at the office of Nelson
Morris at 10 o'clock Monday morning. The
hconference to be held in Chicago will be
informal, but then and there arrangements
will be made for a formal meeting, at
which the scale of the packing house work
ers will be acted upon. President Donnelly
does not look for any trouble between the
employees and the packers.
Temporary Auditorium.
In view of the fact that the state con-
vention of the Ancient Order of United
! workmen will be held here in 1905 a move
ment is already on foot to secure funds for
the construction of a temporary auditor
ium. 1t is stated that ground can readily
be secured and that a building capable of
seating $500 people can be erected for from
5000 to 5000.
such a building" said one of the inter-
ested parties, will last a number of years
and the rental from It will go a long ways
towards paying for the original cost of
construction and the ground lease"
1t is thought that there will be a meet
ing OF business men called before long to
talk over the proposition and to determine
what is best to be done. c. w Miller and
other prominent Workmen assert that there
will be not less than 800 delegates at the
next convention and possibly as many Wis
itors. There is also some talk of making
arrangements for additional hotel accom-
modations.
Miller sues City.
August Miller has brought suit against
the city to recover SIG, which he alleges is
due him for services when he worked In
the street department. The city council
paid Miller on the basis of a street fore
man. according to the statement Of the
mayor that Miller had been appointed fore
man of the street gang. Miller, however.
insisted that he was street commissioner
and entitled to SIS a month. As foreman he
was paid $50 a month. The case is now
pending in Justice Levy's court.
Hospital Wants Help.
The South Omaha hospital is in need NJ
assistance. Those who have money to
spare are asked to send cash. There is
constant demand for delicacies, old linen.
table and bed linen, as we'll as towels. etc.
Those who are in charge OF the hospitaI
ask friends OF the institution to donate sun
plies Of the kind mentioned and due ac-
acknowledgement will be made.
Bishop Shaner VIII Speak.
Bishop c.. T.. shaffer of the African Meth
odist Episcopal church. whose headouart-
ers are at Kansas City. will spend today