Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-11
AFFAIRS At SOUTH OMAHA
Council Meets to Listen 70 Reading Of
Department Ordinances
WORK TO BEGIN WHEN ORDINANCES PASS
City Treasurer Runs Against n
Novel scheme TO Defraud
the City ont of
Taxes.

This evening the city council will meet In
adjourned session for the purpose OF listen
ing to the reading Of three ordinances per-
tanning to the contemplated Union Pacific /
improvements here. These. ordinances have
been mentioned in detail, and as there
seems TO be no opposition, the council will
pass the ordinances at the meeting next
Monday night Just as soon as the or
dnances are passed the Union Pacific in
tends starting work on the passenger sta
tion and on the freight depot. There will
also be some Encouragement OF tracks. With
the commencement Of this work artisans
OF various kinds will be brought 10 the city
and as the work will consume some time
the business men Of the city will be bene-
fitted. Business men on n street are anN-
ious to have the two depots spoken OF built
even II the city has to give away a portion
Of street near the tracks, which is not
used a great deal. Nearly everyone In the /
city wants to see improvements so ahead
and there is a prospect now of the Union
Pacific spending large amount OF money |
within the corporate limits of the city.
II is expected that with fine passenger |
station and commodious freight depot !
and an increase in trackage the business |
OF the city will increase materially.
Initiates High Diver.
Jim, the young son of Perry Jones' tried |
Thursday afternoon to initiate the high |
diver at the recent carnival and the result |
is that he is in the repair shop. The young |
ster secured a ladder about a dozen feet In |
length and, burying one end in the ground |
guyed the top with baled hay wire. Then |
he hustled up some bed springs and an
old mattress and was ready for the dive. |
As the ambitious youngster reached the !
top Of the ladder to make his initial dive |
one Of the guy wires parted and the ladder !
tilted. Young Jim landed on the mattress
before he expected to. His father says
| that a dentist will have to fix four teeth
and that doctor spent several hours
dressing wounds. Jim is not at all dis
| mayed at the mishap and he told his father
last night that he was going to try 1t
| again. His father thinks that he will not.
supply short and Demand Heavy.
| There is a big demand at the South
Omaha stock yards for sheep and for two
| days the receipts have amounted to but
| few head Now buyers beginning to
| get anxious and there is an expectation
that prices to shippers will be raised. What
| the packing house buyers want is fat sheep
and plenty Of them Inquiries are being
sent into the sheep country to find out
when sheep Of the kind desired will be
shipped. Up to the present time there is an
increase in sheep receipts as compared
with the same date last year Of l25.s6s head.
ArmOur's stack Completed.
The dome on Armour's big smoke stack
was completed yesterday and the walling
of the interior with fire brick is now going
on Work has also been started on the
transfer of the outlets from the eight steel
| ,r{rt Ao ao
this work is completed. which will be about
September l, the eight steel stacks will be
taken down The agitation for higher
stack at Armour's was started when p. ].
O'Connor was in the city council He Sc
cured the assistance OF the mayor and
council in making request to the Armour
company to construct stack high enough
to prevent smoke settling over the city.
Now that this has been done Mr.. oConnor
is entirely satisfied, though he is no longer
a member of the council.
Schemes to Beat Treasurer.
CITY Treasurer Howe is using every effort
TO collect delinquent personal taxes. In
many cases he runs up against snag but
generally wins out. Within the last week
several South Omaha men have been asked
to call and settle back taxes and they as
sert that they were not married at the
Howe hikes himself to the county court
and gets a record of the date of a number
OF marriage licenses and the return of the
minister performing the ceremony When
these people call at the treasufers office
again they will be confronted with evidence
that they cannot weh get around
want street Car Changes.
petition is being circulated to be pre-
sented to the officers of the Omaha and
Council Bluffs Street Railway company
asking that a reverse be made on the loop.
Merchants on N street expect that II this
} is done there will be a revival OF business
on the street which is now rapidly falling
into decay. The idea is to have Omaha
cars run south on Twenty-fourth street to
Q, thence north on Twenty-sixth street to
N and east on N to Twenty-fourth street
, Merchants on Twenty-fourth street and
on street declare that many persons who
might make purchases now get on the
street cars at Twenty sixth and o streets
or Twenty-sfxth and Q streets and ride
, direct to Omaha, where they do their trad
ing BY reversing the loop the merchants
/ say that there would be a possibility Of
getting some business.
, 1t is hardly probable that the change will
i be made as the grade on street is greater
? than on Q street.
! street Car Rails Spread.
Street car rails on the q street viaduct
spread Thursday forenoon and let car
down on the planking Traffic over the
4 transportation line was delayed for the
' greater portion Of the day and It was not
until evening that temporary repairs had
been made. Passengers bound for West
0 Q street were given transfers and walked
across the bridge where one car made
: trips every now and then.
The planking on this viaduct is worn
out and for some reason the railroad com
Z | pauies do not take hold OF the matter and
4 make repairs as formerly. Unless repairs
Z are made shortly the bridge will have to
J be closed as the holes in the planking ap-
0 pear 10 be increasing in number every day,
Magic city Gossip.
= ! John Wood, Twenty-second and Jefferson
: | streets, reports the birth of son.
} Mrs. o. J. Winegard has gone TO Atchi-
= | son. Kan. TO spend a couple OF weeks with
. friends.
= The remains Of NJ GumD who died Wed