Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-29
new CITY HALL FOR LINCOLN
Council Buys Old POstcfioo from the Fed
sral Government.
TRANSFER TO BE MADE TONIGHT
city 20 PAP s5O,COO for BuildinE and
Lot, which Arc 20 BE Used
Exclusively for Munici-
pal Purposes.
LION a staf correepondentO

be transferred being the old government
pOstofhce on q street. For many years
the city has managed to get along with
| two-story brick structure, which contains
small Offices for the city oflcials one fire
station and a small and poorly kept city
Jail The city council chamber Is also In
the little building. The old postoffict,
which will become the property Of Lincoln.
Is well built four-story stone structure.
For this building and a small plat Of
ground surrounding II, on the south side
OF Government square, $4,000 is 70 be paid.
When Senator Burkett secured an appro-
priation for $4,000 postofhce congress was
/ asked to pass an act giving the city Of
/ Lincoln the right to buy the old postof-
flee for $4,000. the property TO be used eX-
I olusively for city purposes and to revert
to the government whenever It shall cease
TO be used for such purpose The new
building was completed and is now occu-
pied. The city has the cash to pay for the
old building and the transfer will probably
me made Monday night at the council meet
! ing. The deed will be executed by Gus
! todian L. L. Lindsey without delay and
the money will be sent to st. Louis to be
! deposited to the credit of the government.
| AS the building is to be used exclusively
/ for city purposes, the council hesitates TO
| comply with the request of the Grand Army
and other organizations for rooms in the
hall Several organizations, including the
school board, have asked for quarters.
Traction ordinance to Come Up.
At the meeting Of the city council Mon
day night lively time is looked for over
the proposed agreement to be entered into
between the city and the Lincoln Traction
company, which has been pigeonhOled for
several months. The council passed an
ordinance requiring the company TO sell
! six tickets for 8 cents, but 1t was not en-
! forced pending a proposition Of the COM
| pany to pay TO the city 8 per cent Of its
gross income for certain number Of years
and thereafter an increased percentage of
! the receipts.
Kansas Farmer Paid Money.
Mrs. Daisy Richards, recently arrested
for keeping a dlsorderiy house at the cor
ner OF Tenth and streets, Is charged with
| having induced Simon Bauman, a farmer
Of Bern, Kan, to send her S,OoO to be
used by her as agent for the purchase Of
the building in which she lived. Bau-
man reached lincoln before the draft was
received in the postof8ce and when he
asked Mrs Richards to go with him and
get the money and give it back to him,
she is said to have sent her maid to him
! to tell him that her husband, with whom
she had not been living, was after him
with a gun. He left town. He had pre-
viously sent her $1,000 to be used In pun
chasing the building Later Mrs. Rich
| ards husband and Lincoln lawyer Wis
tied Bauman at his home and told him
big damage suit was likely to be filed
against him. He said he gave the men
5000 and they went away. 1t is reported
that Bauman has received back most of
his 1900 and that he does not intend to
prosecute.
l Bryan's Dates in Nebraska.
William J. Bryan will conclude his po-
litical canvass in his home state beginning
Tuesday next. Mr.. Bryan VIII make
whirlwlnd campaign throughout Nebraska,
visiting large part of it, and making
between forty and fifty speeches, the last
one to be at Plattsmouth on the night Of
November ). Preparations are being made
for a great reception to Mr. Bryan at Lin
coin, where he speaks next Saturday even
ing.
Terminal Taxation.
There is no use to discuss the reports
put in circulation by the fusionists that
the republicans intend to take from the
people of the western part of the state
any part of the tax now derived from rail-
road terminals in Omaha" said poll
tclan. THE discussion as to whether or
not terminals are distributed over the lines
OF roads IL also immaterials. The plank in
the republican state platform contemplates
no change In the present method Of taxing
terminals for state, county and school dis
trict purposes. The platform endorses that
method. but merely asks for an additional
tax on terminals for city and village pur-
poses, The attempt OF the fusionists to
deceive the people surely cannot be sue
cessful when the plank in the platform is
so explicit"
The following is the platform plank re-
While We believe that the present
method Of assessing railroad property in
cities and villages, and distributing
ties is just and fair 50 far as 1t relates
TO county, state and school tax, we demand
that the revenue law be so amended that
the railroad property within cities and VIZ
lagos shall also be assessed and taxed the
same as other property for village and city
purposes.
why He iS supporting sheldon.
In letter to a friend, d. ]. Poynter, a
well known popuist writes
Argus Printing House, D. J, Poypter,
REORGANIZATION, Neb., oct. q f906-Dear
Sir: In replying to yours of recent date as
20 why 1 am supporting sheldon in the
Argus, would say that was not pleased
with the way medicine was mixed at the
popo-demo convention at Lincoln. have
taken my medicine quite regularly without
much grumblng for some time. but this
dose was a little too big for me- There
was no good reason that / could see why
Berge should not have been nominated.
was at Grand Island once when some in
fuence played horse with US all night
This influence or some other played the
same game al Lincoln, wTested Berge from
us and gave us shalienberger. The in1u-
ence that played the game this time was
apparent to all that were there.
Sheldon fought his fight manfully and
won out In spite OF the railroad influence.
He tells a straight story about his pass
I experience without suffering. He seems
honest in his actions. ] believe he will
, make an honest effort to do what he says
. he will. So having confidence I'm Sheldon
and not proposing 10 swallow any kind OF
a dose INSCRIPTIONS leaders may mix for
, me, I decided to support him.
have talked with a good many pops
and they all talk about alike. They feel
like all the interest they had in the cam
: paign was lost when they lost Berge. He
was the logical candidate and the place
was due him. II they vote at all, many
OF them win support Sheldon. Very re-
speetf,Ily, d. J. POINTER.