Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-21
AFFAIRS At SOUTH OMAHA
Council Takes Only Four Minutes to Buy a
City Hall Site.
VOTE on THE QUESTION IS UNANIMOUS
oven Property IL selected. hut David
anderson serve. Notice lie VIII
Ask an Injunction 60 Pre-
vent Transfer.


The city council. in a session lasting
only two or three minutes, reported as
committee Of the whole on the examna-
lions of sites for city hall. and moved
to purchase the property belonging TO T.
j. oNeil at Tventyfourth and o streets,
which motion carried unanimously. This
motion was introduced by Queenan. BY
II the. city agrees to pay $l2.sOo for the
site. This was not the lowest bid, there
being two others lower, namely. the prop
erty, offered by David Anderson at TWEEN
ty-fifth aud N streets, at 5000; and the
property offered by II. NJ. Christie for
$500. at sTwenty-fifth aud. l. streets. In
addition to the cost price the lot pur-
chased will have TO be graded at cost
Of 1900 or more. The other two properties
are already at grade. The following is the
wording OF the motion as IT was passed
1t had been signed previous to converting
the meeting so that the motion could be
passed in the briefcst possible time. 1t
was:
Mr.. Mayor: Your committee of the
whole council, to whom was referred the
carefully examined each site submitted,
and after due consideration of location and
price aud the general expression of the
voters at the previous election, would rec
ommend that the city purchase the east
south twepty-four feet sof lot two of block
eghty-four.i being situated on the SOUTH
west. corner OF Twenty-fourth and o
streets, having n frontage OF ninety-siX
feet on Twenty-fouFt Ii. street. and lO5 feet
on o street. and containing 10.OSO square
city clerk be and is hereby instructed 10
draw a warrant on the city hall fund I'm
the amount Of s12,Soo to be paid on the
approval OF the contract and title.
anderson Files Protest.
This report, was signed by every member
OF the council. At this point David Ander-
son, who submitted a proposition. above
stated. approached the clerk with a COM
munication, but before he could present It
the council moved TO adjourn, after having
L been in session only four or Ave minutes.
sand Immediately filed out the back door of
the council chamber and entered the city
clerks Office Here, while the city clerk
was detained by the communication of Mr.
Anderson, 1t was proposed to the mayor
that the warrant be drawn last night and
the mayor agreed to the suggestion. But
when the clerk arrived In his office 1t was
discovered that Mr.. Anderson had served
him with notice that Injunction proceed
, ings would, he Immediately begun to stop
the payment of this purchase price, stating
that the grounds of this injunction would
he that the bid accepted was not the low
est and the best bid. and that the manner
nIished nv fraua, IN that a. acti,,ous vaIua
wa. nut On, tbe oronsy,,, under tho exnec-
tauon of selling the same to the city by a
previous understanding.
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