Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-03
AFFAIRS At SOUTH OMAHA
layer Koutsky HssitatW TO Call Mass
Meeting on Sewer Problem.
MAY BE HANDED BACK TO COUNCIL
Letter from Attorney BrogRn Serves
Notice that No Delay VIII BE Toll
Grated by Guy Q. Barton
After April I.

Although authorized by the city council
to set a time and place for the holding
| Of a mass meeting for the discussion OF the
| sewer problem, Mayor Koutsky has not
taken any steps yet to follow out the re-
quest Of the city fathers. In speaking Of
this matter yesterday the mayor said:
Il have been busy all the week and
have not given the matter of calling a
mass meeting much thought. 1t is not
Just to my liking to have the responsibility
of this affair thrown onto me. l should
dislike very much to call mass meeting
and have the affair turn out fzzle Per
haps so few people would attend that no
good would be accomplished"
Continuing, the mayor said that more
than likely he would call the attention of
the council TO the matter Monday night and
suggest that the governing body make ar
engagements for hall and set date for
the proposed meeting.
w. p. Adkins. president Of the council
who suggested the holding OF a mass
| meeting, after the letter OF F. A. Brugan
had been read, is still of the opinion that
an opportunity for an open discussion OF
the question should be given the property
! owners. At n mass meeting the letter of
! Mr.. Brogan would be read. showing that
| Guy c. Barton will insist that steps be
taken prior TO April / to abate the Mud
| creek nuisance No postponement OF judg-
ment will be tolerated, declares Mr.. Bro
+ gan, after Aprill unless active work on
| the building of a sewer has been commenced
and funds provided for completing the
| work
Since the sewer bonds were defeated at
| the November election the question Of
building a general sewer system and also
a large brick sewer to the river has been
one of the topics OF discussion at every
council meeting. It seems TO be the desire
OF the council to have the contract now
existing between the stock yards company
and the city and the opinion of City At
torney Lambert read and discussed.
Those who have all along favored the
issuing OF bonds for the construction OF a
| general sewer system want mass meet
| ing called so as to place the matter before
| the public and those who are opposed TO
| the spending of so much money on sewers
also want chance of having their say and
| assert that they will willingly attend a
| mass meeting.
Since the opinion Of the city attorney has
been given to the public an entirely new
! light has been thrown on the contract be-
tween the city and the Union Stock Yards
| company and the prevailing sentiment
seems to favor a meeting of taxpayers,
| where the question be discussed.
| Should the people desire the opportunity
| of reconsidering the matter a special cleo
| ton will be held early next year in order
that steps may be taken toward the build
ing OF a sewer before April 1.
Teachers Employ Attorneys.
Miss Matte Campbell. Miss Mary Fitz-
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lie schools have employed Mccoy & Ohm
stead of Omaha to look after their inter-
ests before the Board OF Education. When
the board meets on Monday night these
attorneys will appear and make request
that these teachers be paid the amount of
| salary that goes with the position. Ever
| since the schools opened on September II
! these teachers have declined to accept their
salary warrants for the reason that the
warrants did not call for the full amount
! and were not issued I'm accordance with
| resolution adopted by the board fixing
| the salaries of principals OF the schools.
\ In case the Board OF Education refuses to
| straighten the matter out court proceedings
are to be started TO compel the board to
pay the salaries that go with the posi-
! tions held by the teachers in question.
Reserve Money Due.
The 10 per cent reserve on the paving OF
| Thirtieth street and o street fell due
yesterday and will be paid by the council
| on Monday night. Parks, Johnson & Parks
paved those streets and also the alley be-
tween Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth
street and y and o streets. The reserve
! on Thirtieth street amounts to 2221 on
o street the reserve is 1851, and on the
alley S2l5, This makes a total of $39S3
which will go to the contractors At the
| time the reserve was held back the money
was deposited in one of the banks at in
| terest for one year. With the paying OF
the reserve the paving question is settled
/ as far as the contractors az. concerned.
/ On December 80 of this year Dan Harmon
will be paid the reserve on the South
! Twenty-fourth street and Railroad avenue
paving. This amounts to sass. Like the
other reserve funds this amount was placed
at interest for one year
street Force Dismissed.
! Saturday noon Mayor Koutsky paid the
street department force for the week and
laid OF all but two men The weeks pay
roll amounted TO 1851. The mayor said he
/ would retain Foreman Tom Irwin and one
man to use in emergency cases The road
machine has been laid away until spring
J
| roundup the unpaved streets Before the
| last rain the streets were in frst-cIass
! condition, but the freeze coming on after
| a muddy spell makes all Of the roads
| rough and hard to travel.
EnriEht and Berry Bound over.
Mike Enright and John Berry were given
! a preliminary hearing in police court Sat
| urday on the charge of holding I'd a sa-
/ loon and drug store on . street. Judge
/ King held both prisoners 20 the district
/ court and fixed the bonds at $3.50 each.
! one evening about ten days ago these men,
| both ex-cOnvicts, entered a saloon at
! Thirty-frst and Q streets and after driving
out the customers locked the bartender
] and proprietor in the ice box and rined
! the till Of So. A few minutes later the
] pair held up the drug store at Thirty
4 sixth and . streets and secured s.. Identi-
/ ication in both cases was complete, as the
/ robbers did not wear masks Assistant
/ County Attorney Murdoch prosecuted the
cases against the two holdups and feels
/ confident Of securing a conviction in the
! criminal court.
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