Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-10-25
AFFAIRS At SOUTH OMAHA
Missouri Avsnus Stands Good Chance Of
No Paving TAis Winter.
TOO MANY OBSTACLES IN THE WAY
street is sOreIy I'm Need OF ImProve-
ment, but Engineers Are sure
winter wnI Head on
the work.

Residents on Missouri avenue may just |
as we'll make up their minds now that no |
paving will be laid on that thoroughfare |
/ this year. New obstacles come to light |
every day. At present the Omaha Water |
/ company is moving fire hydrants to loea- |
/ lions inside the curb lines and the tele- |
/ phone and motor companies have not !
moved all OF their poles yet. The electric |
| light company built an entirely new line |
down the avenue and this work is COM
| pleted. Contractor MCGOWAN has only !
| eight men at work setting the curbing |
and declares that he positively cannot find |
men. On account of the condition OF the |
| roadway every rain washes out some of !
the boxes built to mold artificial stone |
eurbing and up to date only about half a
block of curbing has been set.
In talking with one OF the engineers en- |
| ployed by the city Contractor MCGOWAN
said he would be doing well II he sue
ceeded in setting the curbing to Twentieth
street before outdoor work has to be sus-
pended Hugh Murphy, who has the con-
tract for paving, does not have to have the
! paving finished until ninety days after
the curbing is set. Murphy does not want
| to get material on the ground and then do
ter. When he starts he wants to be In
position to push the work through to com
| pletion Another cause for delay is the
inability of the street car company to Sc
cure heavy steel rails and other materials
needed to lay a new track before the paw
ing is done
General Manager Smith expects to get
this material during the winter and be
ready TO put down new track when the
PAYERS begin work in the spring. Should
a heavy track be laid now the ground is
so soft that the track would not remain
in place and would be the source Of con-
slant annoyance during the spring when
the frost is coming out of the ground.
With all winter to get material together
in the contractors and the street car ON
GERS think that there will be little II any
delay when the real work Of paving starts
In the spring.
Freight Car Thieves.
Monday night freight car standing IN
the yards near Thirty ninth and l. streets
was broken into and quantity OF mer-
| chandise stolen. The police have arrested
Tom Corbett, Ted Sullivan and Ed. Downey
on suspicion of knowing something of the
robbery A thorough search of the homes
| of these men was made by the police
but none Of the stolen property was found.
Captain Shields Is confident that the
plumber Is hidden in the vicinity and iSro-
. poses TO continue the search. Railroad de-
tectives patrol the yards every night but
in spite of all precautions cars are fire.
quently broken into and goods carried
away.
Damage Case Continued.
The suit against the city brought by
, Leonard G. stearns to recover $4,000 dam
, ages was called in the district court yes
; terday and postponed until the February
: term of court The illness of Mrs. Stearns
was the cause of postponement Stearns
; did not announce to the court and the
attorneys that his wife was Ill until after
the Jury had been secured. Stearns al
leges that on a dark night he fell OF an
embankment in the alley between Twenty
: third and Twenty-fourth streets between
o and p streets and was permanently in
jured. When called from the rear of the
court room to the attorneys table yes
terday Stearns walked rapidly and without
the aid of cane or crutches, much to the
{ disgust of the attorney for the plaintiff
5 and to the amusement of the attorneys
: representing the city.
Mcintosh Bound over.
= II. L. Mcintosh, colored, was given
preliminary hearing in police court yes
. terday on the charge OF shooting r. c.
: Morgan with intent to kill. After the hear
ing Judge King held Mcintosh to the dis
trict court in 1900 bonds. The shooting
. occurred on the afternoon of october IL
at the Armour plant where both men were
employed. The pair became involved in an
alteration about a colored woman and
Morgan chased Mcintosh with a cleaver
| II was when cornered that Mcintosh shot
twice, one bullet entering Morgan's groin
= the other going wild. AS Mcintosh cannot
secure bail he will be confined in the county
iail until his case is called in the criminal
a court.
Printing Poll Books.
The poll books for the sewer bond cleo
ton are being printed. Great care has been
I. taken in preparing the copy for these books
in order to prevent errors that might in
validate the bonds IL the proposition Is
= looked upon favorably by the voters. There
= Is room in each book for 700 voters in each
: precinct The oaths OF the three judges
. and two clerks of election is printed on
the first page and also copy of the
proposition. As each voter casts his ballot
= for or against the sewer proposition the
. name will be written In the poll books.
a OmciaI Labels Ready.
a Ohhcial labels for the voting machines
: are ready and Custodian Hendricks is
placing these labels in the machines at
pleted by the next day OF registration in
! order to give voters Idea Of the ar
rangement OF the tickets. On Monday,
the day before election, all of the twelve
machines will be gone over and properly
set and locked. On election morning the
judges will be given the keys TO release
= the machines and the voting can start
$ with little or no delay. Voters are con-
$ tinually practicing on the machines now
: that they have been taken to the places
Z where the election will be held, and a
: large proportion OF voters are already ia
t miliar with the working Of the machines
n Gathering in Registration Books.
= City Clerk Gillin employed a man Tues
:, day, TO go out and gather in the books used
= on the first day OF registration in order that
the names might be copied. Several addi-
tional clerks are now engaged In straight
ening out these books and copying the
4 names. After the second day OF resistre-
: ton the same thing must be done again
q, / and alaO on the last MANNERS ~