Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-23
AFFAIRS At SOUTH OMAHA
Nothing to Do But Talk Thursday Around
the Various City Offices.
CITY HALL SITE THE PRINCIPAL TOPIC
Entire Matter Hung Up for Present ny
Injunction Petition which VIII he
Heard Before Judge Troup
Next Monday.

1t being Washington's birthday, there
was no regular business transacted at the
city hall yesterday. but the city clerk was
in his Office Strengthening up a few matters
OF business. While there he received sew
eral dozen calls over the telephone inquiring
into the action on the city hall site. He
uniformly answered that a restraining
order had been served on him. on the
treasurer, the mayor and the members of
the council forbldding them TO take any
action looking toward the purchase OF a
city hall site until after the hearing on
the dispositions fled before the district
court This hearing will be before Judge
Troup Monday, February Is at 10 a. m.
1t win be i'm court room No. of The Bee
building.
Mr. oNeil admits that he owns the
property at the corner OF Twenty-fourth
and o streets, but declares that his ONCE
is an exception by some construction of
the charter under which he was advised
by his attorney. and that II was legal for
him to offer the property to the city In
connection with the matter of ownership,
here is a little item. 1t viii be found
among the real estate transfers of Febru-
airy 20 that the Omaha Mercantile COM
pany made a transfer of title 20 f. J.
=, a,
Omaha. 1t is taken that Lewis had mort
gagged the lots to the Mercantile company
and had Strengthened up the obligation on
February 90 Just previous to the meeting
of the council of the same day. So IT is
also likely that the transfer was made to
ONeil during the same day. The title was
then clear and ready for the transfer to
the city, which they hoped to make COM
plete on the same day.
Law Concerning Tax Commissioncr.
Now that such a formidable number of
men are in line for the office of tax com
missioner 1t may be well to state one or two
of the conditions of the Office as required by
the city charter. One of the things which
has been to a greater or less degree ig-
nored heretofore is the requirement that
the tax commissioner shall give up his
entire time to the duties OF his office II
is likely that this requirement will be in.
sisted on as one of the conditions of noml.
nation at the primaries March s, and will
be the key to many votes at the election
There is plenty of work to keep the tax
commissioner busy all the year, and il
his deputy runs out of anything to do he
can be dispensed with. and that much OF
the salary saved. Aside from the duties
prescribed IN lhe Cnaftef inere If an or
dinance in the city of South Omaha, No
LOIS. section !, which prescribes that Tho
office hours of the tax commissioner bS
from a. m. to ~ m. and from l p. m. tc
5 p. m. of each working day in the year
legal holidays excepted, and that he shall
be in his OF g in person during all Of sale
hours of eacn day. Section of the sam,
ordinance declares the Office OF the ia,
commissioner shall be in the Office of tn.
city treasurer and that all the records
and papers belonging to his Office shall
there be deposited and kept. This ordi
nance has been ignored entirely. especial.
as to the provisions of the first section
and of the first clause of the second sec
| ton. -..-.a -. pee.
| Pair of Accidents.
David McBeth. one of the pressmen work
| ing for the Journal-Stockman, received al