Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-30
AFFAIRS At SOUTH OMAHA
Prospect Of the School Levy Being Re-
duoed This Year.
DESIRE OF SOME TO MAKE IT EIGHT MILLS
Total Revenue Received by the Fund
from All Sources II One Hun
dred and Forty-Five
Thousand.

There is some prospect Of the school levy
being reduced this year. At the request
of Or. c. NJ Schindel, one of the members
of the Board of Education, Deputy City
Treasurer Gustafson is compiling a state
ment showing the receipts and expenditures
of the school district for the year of 1904
and for 1895 While the 1895 school year
does not close until today the figures de-
sired by Dr. Schindel will be available the
first part of next week.
For the school year closing June 3O 1904,
the South Omaha school district received
as revenue from all sources the sum of
$l45,S7s OF this sum $4,000 was derived
from liquor licenses. S40,4l from the l5-mill
levy asked by the board, S9,6O5 from the
state apportionment, S47s from the South
Omaha police court and from other sources
SS77.
DR.. Schindel says 1t appears to be the
desire of some of the members of the Board
of Education to reduce the levy for school
purposes this year to mills. The state
ment is made that the additions to school
buildings now under course of construction
are provided for and that there will be no
necessity for more than an S-mil levy this
year.
The Board Of Education will meet in
July and decide upon the levy needed and
make a return to the county officials. South
Omaha taxpayers will doubtless be greatly
pleased at the action Of Dr. Schindel in
this matter Of reducing the school levy.
Twenty-Fourth street Paving.
In a conference with some city officials
Thursday afternoon City Attorney Lambert
said the ordinance for the repaving Of
Twenty-fourth street. from A to q streets
could not be read for the third time until
July ~. city officials had expected this
ordinance could be passed next Monday
night but Mr. Lambert is not taking any
chances under the new law and the result
will be that this matter will have to go
over. 1t is understood in municipal cir
cles that all protests have been withdrawn
and there will now be no opposition to the
repavlng of the street with vitrifed brick:
AS the street is In bad condition those
who have occasion to use the thoroughfare
are in hopes that the repaving will be done
this year.
Stealing from Freight Cars.
OF late so many cars of merchandise In
the yards in South Omaha and vicinity
have been broken into that a special watch
is being kept with the expectation that the
! thieves will be captured. A special officer
in the employ of the Burlington is now To-
Gated at the yards at Thirty-eighth street
and remains on duty all night. Only few
nights ago a refrigerator car standing II
| the Burlington yards at Thirty-eightf
| street was broken open and 800 pounds OF
| bacon stolen. The Union Pacific is also
| employing special officers to keep track OF
| cars standing in the yards while trains
| are being made UP. Occasionally arrests
are made, but It appears that the leaders
of the gangs operating have not been cap
tured.
Planning New Church.
| Morgan Heafy Is authority for the state
ment that arrangements are being mad
for the erection of a fine Catholic churcl
at Twenty-sixth and streets, to TAKE
the place of the present st. Bridget
| church. 1t appears to be the understand
ing that the new edifice will cost abou
$4,000. This does not include the interio
furnishings. A building committee of twelv
men prominent in St. Bridget's church ha
charge of the raising of funds. This com
mittee states that 1t will not be a grea
while before the building plans are per
fected and work started. The church own
the property and during the constructio
Of the new house of worship the presen
structure will be moved TO the south POI
|
!, proposed building is completed.
, VIII Break Record.
The statement is made at the stock yard
that the present month Will break N
, record for hog receipts. So far this mont
J 12s5OS2 hogs have been handled at II
wards here and the month lacks one da
OF being out While the receipts for L
day are not expected TO be heavy, repor
! have been received to show that hos
enough will come In TO break previo,
, records, for any one month since II
q yards were established. Live stock deale
at the exchange say that South Omaha
the market to ship hogs TO.
a Appraisers Meet July 10.
. Notices have been sent out by the CT
! clerk to all property owners on Seventeen
q street from Missouri avenue 10 / stre
Q giving notice that the board OF appraise
\ will meet at 2 p, m. on July 10 to go ov
n the ground with the property owners IT
u appraisers are e. r. Leigh, H. NJ. Christ
n and ]. J. Ryan. AS the law now stan
II appraisers appointed to assess damages,
any, in grading districts must give noti
. of their intended visit two weeks befo
a the appraisment is made, This is done
n order that the appraisers may consider {
complaints of property owners and to pr
y vent litigation after the grading is done.
Securing the "MaISinEs."
A great many young men in South Omal
a who are users of cigarettes are laying in
n supply OF the ''mahngs" against the tir
II when the new law goes into effect July
n Most of the local tobacconists have abo
:. sold out their stock of cigarettes and t
:: tiny sheets of rice paper are having a raj
sale these days. Some OF the cigaret
N smokers have laid in supplies enough
n last for several months. By that time tn
IA expect that the law will be forgotten
m Tom Mccarthy Killed.
E. Jesse Mccarthy of Bellevue called
The Bee office Thursday afternoon a
7" stated that his brother Tom had been r