Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-01
AFFAIRS At SOUTH OMAHA
Lower Water Rates Demanded in Accord
with Contract.
ADKINS STARTS MOTION IN CITY COUNCIL
water COmpany's Manager Announces
. His instructions to collect old
Rates Until the Court
Finally Decides.

rates. MT. Adkins, who is president or the /
council, stated that the contract with the
water company provided that the rates pre-
vailing in Omaha should maintain in South
Omaha. Charles Collins, local manager for
the Omaha Water company. was called !
upon and he asserted that he had been in
structed to collect water rentals at the same
old rate until the courts give a final de-
cision. This did not seem to be satisfactory |
to the mayor and council, and Adkins Of !
fered a motion that the city attorney be !
called upon to advise the council as to |
what action would be necessary to secure |
a lower rate This motion prevailed.
Adkins insists that the contract with the |
water company must reduce rates when a |
change is made in Omaha water rates.
City Clerk Gillin was instructed to adver- ,
tise in The Omaha Daily Bee for the sale Of |
general bonds to pay the cost of paving. !
curbing, etc, on Missouri avenue. Bids |
for the sale of these bonds must be re- |
ceived by the council on Monday night. |
August H. Each bidder must send a certi- |
fed check for 81, 900 as guarantee OF good |
faith.
A petition was presented signed by a num- |
ber OF residents asking that the street !
arc light at Thirteenth and Polk streets be |
changed to Thirteenth and Harrison streets !
This petition was referred to the committee
on lighting. The petition to grade Twenty
third street from to Railroad avenue
received a setback by the withdrawal Of
quite a number of names The petition was
placed on file after the names Of the pro-
testants had been erased.
Building Inspector winegard reported that
sixteen building permits were issued in
July and that these amounted to {1eI75
Eight buildings were condemned during the
month.
The two-plank sidewalk feature was ended
last night by allowing ]. B. Watkins $3.50.
No more two-plank sidewalks will be
laid
The appropriation sheet amounting TO
several thousand dollars was passed. Today
the city will start in on a new fiscal year.
Another meeting of the council will be
held on Monday night to receive bids for
paving Twenty-fourth street.
Rollins Inquest Today.
Coroner Bradley visited South Omaha
Monday to investigate the killing OF VIII
liam Rollins colored. The coroner an
nounced that an inquest would be held in
the police court this afternoon and police
officers were requested to secure witnesses
DR.. John Koutsky, the city physician per-
formed an autopsy on the remains of Rol-
Inns at Brewers undertaking rooms and
found that the bullet fired by John KoE-
lowski went through the heart.
Kozlowski, in talking with Chief Briggs
and Detective Elsfelder. declared that when
the negro started for him he fired first in
the air as warning. AS Rollins kept on
coming he dropped his gun little and fred
the shot which put stop TO the row.
The police have ascertained that Rollins
has been working in the tripe picking de-
partment at Cudahys. Some friends of the
dead man have been found who assert that
they tried to prevent the fuss but could
not. About a dozen witnesses will be called
upon to testify at the coroner's inquest
| today
watching Camp Followers.
Chief Briggs and Captain Shields are on
the alert for grafters that usually follow
show. Quite a number OF camp followers
showed up In South Omaha yesterday to
work in the neighborhood of the carnival
grounds. Manager Edwards of the Parker
Amusement company had a talk with the
chief and captain yesterday and he as
sured them that he would give all assist
ance in his power to keep the carnival
grounds free from pickpockets and the like.
Several petty thieves were taken to police
headquarters yesterday and told to leave
the city at OHCS VI Aldilu lOI NtIill Oh NiS
rock pile The police are anxious to make
1t known that the rock pile is In good work
ing order and that suspects will be given a
chance to break rock unless they move on.
stock Receipt Totals.
Monday being the end of July the totals
for live stock receipts were made public
along with comparison with 1904. The in
crease in cattle for the year closing last
1aNA
year ago. shows 1909 head. Hog receipts
show an INCREASE of 5000 head and sheep
show up with an increase Of 1O7,455 head.
These figures give live stock dealers at
| the yards considerable encouragement and
busy time from August l5 to the close OF
the year is expected. Last summer the re-
ceipts we're curtailed to a great extent by
the hacking house strike, but no trouble is
looked for this year and growers of live
stock expect to ship heavily later on.
workman Carnival Opens.
The carnival given under the manage
ment of the Ancient order OF United Work
men Carnival club opened at Twenty-hfth
and NJ street last night. The Parker
Amusement company put up a very good
show for the nrst night The show will
be opened at noon each day and will run
until about midnight. BY this afternoon
all Of the arrangements will be perfected
and a fine entertainment is promised for the
balance OF the week,
Exterior of stack Completed.
The exterior OF the big smoke stack at
Armour's was completed Monday afternoon.
From the base the stack is 237 feet in
height. Fire brick must now be laid in the
| inside OF the stack and at the base This
work will take some little time, but the
contractors assert that the stack will be
ready for use inside Of thirty days. Just
as soon az the stack is in use the eight
large steel smoke stacks will be taken down
and the smoke from all the furnaces will go
out through the big stack.
Magic City Gossip.
Theodore Volz has returned from an
| eastern trip.
| Claude Armstrong, .Twenty-ffth and o
streets, reports the birth OF a daughter.
| The birth OF daughter Is reported at
the home of William BToderick Thirty
ninth and p streets
The negro crap shooters arrested satur-
day night paid fines in police court yester-
day amounting to $50,