Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-22
AFFAIRS At SOLTH OMAHA
Suit Against Street Railway Company to
Enforce i'y Ordinance
TRANSFER SYSTEM BASIS OF THE ACTION

Charles VI. Tracy Lodges Complaint
with city Attorney and Action
VIII he Had to Test the
Law at once.
Charles NJ Tracy a carpenter living at
74l North Twelfth street fled a deposition
in the city attorneys office through whom
the Omaha d Council Bluffs Street Rail-
| way company will be sued under the ordi-
nance passed in South Omaha on July g.
1895. The object of the case is to test the
validity of the ordinance. and II possible
| compel the street railway company TO issue
transfers to its connecting lines within
! the limits Of South Omaha i'm each direc-
! tion. Mr.. Tracy is an interested party
I since he has to pay double fare from his
! home TO all points on Twenty fourth street
north OF Missouri avenue and double fare
in the reverse order when he returns home
Many complaints have been made TO the
street railway company, all Of which have
! been ignored. Not only this. but the COM
pany has never given the slightest heed
| to the ordinance passed last July. Mr
! Tracy has collected evidence which will
make his case good, provided the ordinance
is valid. The assistant city attorney will
! Omaha ordinance was copied from the
Chicago ordinances which have been
carried TO the supreme court of Illinois and
! proven valid. The second section of the
ordinance provides a penalty of from $50
to 800 for each and every breach Of the
ordinance as prescribed in the first sec
ton.
Maher aud Ford Held for Trial
The defendants to the charges of robbery.
James p Maher and Michael Ford. ap-
peared for trial at 10 o'clock yesterday
morning and both waived preliminary ex-
animation. They were bound over to the
district court. It is expected they will
have their trial in January. The bonds
were fixed at $500 in each of the three
charges filed against them. The case of
Ford and j. Morrissey, charged with hav-
ing robbed the Rybin saloon at Albright.
was brought to trial in the afternoon
John Rybin and a boy named johnson
testified against the defendants, and the
evidence produced was sufficient to have
the men bound over to the district court.
Morrissey was placed under $1,000 bond
and Ford under $780, The difference was
because of the other indictments standing
against him, making total bond for Ford
of 5000.
buyers "nnt the Bonds.
A flood of letters poured into the city
clerks office yesterday from eastern pur-
chasers of South Omaha securities. All
were asking for information with regard
to the sale of the city hall bonds to
Splitter & Co. last Monday night. They
wished to be enlightened as to the nature
OF the transaction. The clerk answered
IN all cases that the sale was made to
Splitter q Co. in accordance with the old
DID. splitter & Co. were third in the matter
OF favorable bids and as the other two
companies failed to appear to renew their
bid the bonds were contracted to Splitter
e. Co.
Northwestern Pays Taxes.
A representative of the Northwestern
railroad paid the taxes of that company
into the funds of the city treasurer yester-
day afternoon The amount was s27455
1t was paid without protest.
Wifc-Beater Fined
The case of Addie Lawer against her hus-
band, Frank Lawer was called again yes
terday morning and the evidence for the
oetonse was taken. The man failed t.
prove that he was innocent of the brutal
assault upon his wife and was fined SIS and
costs by Judge King
Held for Grand Larceny
Ed Demmitt and LOWE Terry, 131 North
Twenty-sixth street, who were arrested
wednesday night on the charge of va
grancy, were held yesterday on the COM
plant Of Tom Minis of the same address
He says that the pair entered his apart
ments Wednesday night and stole 500 in
cSsh, three suits OF clothes, his watch and
other jewelry. The estimated cost of the
articles taken was sll5 The pair will have
TO race the charge of grand larceny
Program Mt High School
An excellent program was rendered NV
the students of the high school yesterday
afternoon. The occasion was the formal
presentation of a number of fine pictures
ana engravings and two companion busts
of Venus and Apollo to the school by the
Latin depsrtn 1t. The efforts of the young
people were finely applauded by the lis.
teners Outside e the high school itself
, the violin solo by Miss Edna Rudersdorr
, accompanied by her sister, was highly an.
preciated The two young women are
alumnae of the school and are now i'm the
State university. Mrs. s. r. Towne of
Omaha gave pleasant talk on the SUBJ
Ject OF art, and one of her statements was
: that the American school should be dated
. from the Centennial exposition in Phila-
: delphia, In 1876. Since that time it has be-
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character all its own.
Plans for Poultry show
c. II. Grundy, superintendent of the Tri-
City Poultry association, makes the an
nouncement that the people of South
Omaha are to be treated 10 the finest ex.
hibtion of up-to-date poultry that has yet
been presented, during the time from Jan
, uary to 5. This exhibit will be I'm the
Ancient Order United Workmen temple
over 1000 birds will be entered besides
. numberless cats and few dogs warranted
not TO bark. Judge Thompson of Amity
Mo, noted judge of good birds. will di.
, rect the awards. Many towns besides
: Omaha, South Omaha and Council Bluffs
will be represented Special medals and
,, ribbons have been offered by the various
! poultry clubs There will be plenty OF
music around the temple. II. 3. Fleharty
says he would not be surprised il some
, OF the game cocks broke loose during the
r exhibit. on the evening of January 4 q
. great banquet will be served as a fitting
close Of the entertainment It is not SUP.
posed however that the guests will eat
all the birds
why McPhersoa ResiRned.
| 1t is stated that the reason of IT II