Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-29
AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA
Missouri Avenue Paving Bonds Are Sold
TO Toledo BroksrA
MILE Of PAVING STARTS At ONCE
Hugh Murphy win BeEin the work
of Improving the ThorOuEhfare
from Thirteenth TO Twen-
ty-Fourth street.
lille OF PAVING STARTS At ONCE


After nearly years litigation, the Mis-
souri, avenue paving bonds have been sold.
Monday the city clerk received the blank
bonds from Hoehler & Cummings and the
mayor and clerk set to work at once to
sign the seventy bonds. The interest cou-
pons had the signatures of these officials
engraved on them in order 20 save signing
In letter to the clerk the buyers of
these securities requested that the bonds
be signed at once and shipped to the Surety
and Trust company of Toledo. Upon the
receipt of the bonds at the ONCE OF the
trust company the S35 900 will be paid and
sent here. After the bonds had been signed
Clerk Glllin turned the securities over to
Frank J. Moriarty, cashier Of the Packers
National bank, who shipped them east last
night. 1t will only be a few days now be-
fore the trust company will send the money
paid for the bonds to the Packers bank.
Contractor Hugh Murphy has agreed to
start the work on the paving just as soon
the money Is deposited to the credit OF
the city. The first work to be done will be
the setting of the artificial curbinE As
fast as block Of curbng is set the graders
can get to work and these will be followed
by the payers. The street car company
must pave between its tracks and II ia
understood that arrangements have been
made with Mr.. Murphy for this work 80
that when once started the paving can be
pushed right along.
The city officials are more than pleased
with the manner in which the buyers hur-
ried the bonds through. as It is now a
certainty that this street from Thirteenth to
Twenty-fourth will be paved this year
Council Pays Salaries.
A short session of the city council was
held last night Adkins was the only men,
bcr absent. August salaries we're ordered
paid and warrants will be drawn so as to
be issued on September I. The August pay
roll amounts to 1929, divided as follows:
Salaries of officials. S2,l5O; police depart-
ment, H.22s; fire department, $50.
City Engineer Beal and City Attorney
Lambert approved the petition for grading
Eighteenth street from Missouri avenue to
I street
Fire hydrants were ordered located on
Twenty-hrst street south Of Q and at
Twenty-hrst and streets.
sparger & Lindburg and w. ] Perry &
Co. filed written protests against a raise
in the 1905 tax assessment. The remon-
STRANGE was referred TO the city attorney.
An ordinance for the changing OF the
grade on Twenty-third street from d to F
street was read for the first time and re-
ferred
The ordinance providing for the sale OF
bonds for the grading of Sixteenth street
from Missouri avenue to l street was
passed and the city clerk will advertise
these bonds for sale.
Kiewit offered motion instructing the
permanent sidewalk contractor 20 lay
walks as per the list submitted by City
Claim Agent Barrett This was carried.
The council will meet on next Monday
night and adjourn until Tuesday evening,
on account of Monday being Labor day.
Electric Lights for FIT. Crook.
Today the Omaha Electric Light and
Power company will start setting poles and
strihsfhg wires from South Omaha TO Fort
Crook The start Is tn be made from the
companys substation on NJ street and the
fort will be entered from the west side of
the reservation. About 800 poles will be
needed to cover the distance, about five and
one-half miles. The wire is bare copper.
When this line is built the fort will be
lighted by electricity, something the troops
stationed there have desired for a long
time. Fifteen men will be put to work on
this line today.
Connecting Boilers with stack.
worlmen are now engaged in connecting
the eight boilers at the Armour plant with
the mammoth stack only recently COM
pleted, These boilers will be connected
one at time so that the plant will not
have TO shut down. As soon as the boilers
are connected the big steel stacks on top
OF the building will be taken down. These
eight stacks will come down one at time
A scaffold has already been built around
one of the stacks in order that It may be
taken down next week. General Manager
Howe said that smoke from one boiler
would be pouring out OF the new stack by
a week from today. He expects that 1t will
be fully a month before the connections are
completed and the iron stacks removed.
Tax Van Out Again.
Monday afternoon City Treasurer Howe
ordered out the tax van and with E. e.
Ridgeway in charge the van was driven
to the grocery store OF T. v. Allison. 2927
Q street. Allison owed S7A6O personal taxes.
the accumulation OF about ten years. For
nearly year Personal Tax Collector Ridge
way has been trying to get some sort of a
settlement out OF Allison. but always failed.
When the van backed up at the store the