Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-26
AFFAIRS At SOUTH OMAHA
City Council Ia, Sewer Bond Ordinance
Before II Now.
oUAETta OF A MILLION ASKED FOR
Cfty AttOFney Recommends that Three
Recently FILLED Personal Damage
Claims Ne Ignored by
the City.

While the city council transacted a great
deal Of routine business last night. the
feature Of the meeting was the introduction
Of an ordinance declaring the necessity for
a general sewer system and providing for
the submitting to the voters OF a PROPOSE
thon to issue bonds In the sum OF s25O,O0O.
This proposition is to be voted on at a
special election to be held on November Z.
The route of the main sewers to be
built is designated in this ordinance which.
after its first reading. was referred to the
judiciary committee.
City Attorney Lambert reported on three
damage claims and in each recommended
that the city pay no attention to the claims.
In the personal injury claim of Anna Kelly
the city attorney declared that the woman
was not injured at Eighteenth and o
streets ON the date mentioned in the claim.
The Recommendation TO ignore the claim
was adopted ..,...-.r.
Swan johnson had claim for personal
injuries alleged to have been caused by a
hole in the street. lambert declared John
son was not entitled TO any damages
The claim of j. Besk a fruit peddler, was
also turned down.
Belthas@ letter asked permission to move
d frame building at Twerfty-fourth and Q
streets into the street while brick build
ing is being erected. The request was
granted with the understanding that the
street was to be occupied for only sixty
days '. ........
In a report regarding the proper manner
TO enforce the street car transfer ordinance
passed some time ago the city attorney
asserted that a passenger could demand
a transfer and II not given one could take
the case into the courts and test the or
dinance. This report Is of very little con-
ISOLATION to a passenger but was handed in
at the request of Councilman Kewit, who
introduced the new transfer ordinance.
A superintendent of the new fire engine
house building was to have been appointed.
but the matter went over, for one week
at the request of Kiewit.
The finance committee will what can
be done towards insuring the voting ma
chimes while in use or in storage.
Clerk Gillin was instructed to draw
warrant for 1890 the first payment on
the machines.
An ordinance was ordered drafted for the
laying of a permanent sidewalk on the
south side OF d street between Twenty
NTH and Twenty sixth streets.
At the request of property owners
ordinance was Introduced for the grading
OF Eighteenth street from Missouri avenue
TO / street.
Union Pacific Surveyors.
A party OF Union Pacific surveyors. in
charge OF George +. Davis, is working in
the northern portion OF the city on the
proposed Elkhorn cut-off The start is
made at the summit, at the northern city
limits, and the line is being run almost due
west and parallel To the Northwestern Elk
horn line. Just now the surveyors are
working through city blocks 2l0 to 21s in
elusive. The line as proposed will run
straight to Lane, three miles this side of
Elkhorn, and will not have a curve in
1t, Temporary, surveys give the distance
as ten miles, while the old line is twenty
miles in length In the northwest portion
Of the. city there will be cuts forty and
fifty feet IN depth, and the deepest cut on
the line will be ninety feet deep. There
is to be filI across the Pappio. Of eighty
feet in height and one mile in length. The
grade is remarkably easy one, being
twenty-six feet to the mile.
It will be necessary later on for the
Union Pacific to secure a right-of-way
through the CITY limits and the council
will be asked to vacate some streets This
portion Of the city is sparsely settled, 50
tlVtt the vacation will not work any hard
ship on residents The South Omaha Land
company owns the property where this new
line is to be built and has withdrawn the
property from the market.
-.,, .Niaduct Needs RepairiBE.
The flooring Of the Q street viaduct is
badly in need Of repairing. During the
early part of the summer the west end Of
the bridge was repaired. but the middle
and east end were not touched. The floor
, ing is so rotten that drivers of teams are
very careful. Patches have been put down
80 OFTEN that The floor looks like delapi-
dated crazy quilt AS matters now stand
the railroad companies are compelled to
keep the bridge in repair. Althoueh the
street railway company uses the bridge II
pays no part of the cost of repairs. The
railroad companies do not like this, but
cannot help themselves. as It was agreed
bstween the city authorities and the street
railway oficials when the line was ex-
tended west on Q street that the company
was not to be compelled to pay any por-
ton Of the cost Of repairs TO the bridge.
johnson a SkOw start work.
Monday morning Contractors Johnson
skow OF Omaha started to work on the
nrs department headquarters building at
Twenty-hfth and l. streets. Excavating
has commenced and some material is al
ready on, the ground. The building is to
be forty-four feet wide by 100 feet in
length. Under the terms OF the contract
johnson, s. Show have until February 10,
1906 to complete the building, which Is to
cost the city Si2eS0 -
City Han bond Case.
Judge Sears handed down a decision in
the city han bond case Monday. The judge
denied the application for a permanent in
junction TO prevent the mayor and council
from issuing bonds for $4,000 for city hall
purposes. He also dismissed the action
after denying George Parks the right e
intervene. Madeline Pivonka and Others
interested win now take the case 10 the
supreme SQUIRT Attorney Breen. who rep