Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-16
AFFAIRS At SOUTH OMAHA
iiy Council Trsusaots Large Amount Of
Routins Business
SEWER BOND ORDINANCE PRESENTED
Companion Ordinance Authorizing
Contract with Union stock Yards
Company Also Read the
FIRST Time.

The city council met last night in regular
session and took up the usual business, of
which there was much completed. The
city engineer reported the completion of
the invoicing of all the city property, and
the council ordered the filing of the invoice
as part of the records. A communication
from the attorneys of II. NJ. Henley, owner
OF lot 3, block TO- in Brown Park addition
asking that the council remit the scavenger
tax against the property, which includes
the greater portion of the sSi.75 which Is
held against the property, was read and
referred to the city attorney. The city
treasurer's report was presented and filed.
In the paving fund and the intersection
fund is included the s216952.45 net bal
ance and one other item Is of peculiar In
terest, that of sl,34ls7 which was turned
into the treasury by Mr.. Howe as interest
on deposits. 1t is stated that he is the
first and only treasurer who ever turned
in any such item.
The arrangement of the South Omaha
transfer system as now in effect was read
and later repeating act was given first
reading to do away with the former regu-
lating ordinance passed last summer.
Ordinance 1442 was given its first read
ing 1t is an act authorizing the mayor
and the city clerk to contract with the
Union Stock Yards company QimitedD for
the transmitting to the city of the brick
sewer system and the purchase of $4,000
in bonds of the proposed issue of s25OcOO,
the same as has been discussed in the mass
meeting held recently in the city.
sewer Bond Ordinance Presented.
Ordinace No. 14n was also read for the
| first time and is designated as the
| emergency ordinance declaring the neces-
sity for the issue of 100000 in bonds for q
sewer system in South Omaha after the
plan discussed in the recent mass meet
] ing.
motion was made and carried to the
| effect that George & Co. of Omaha. own
ers OF the city hall building, be asked to
construct new stairway leading to the
city Jail or to safely repair the old one,
which is really dangerous in its present
| condition.
| The city engineer was ordered to estab-
fish a new grade on Thirty-frst street. be-
| tween Jefferson and Harrison
Bids were received from Cash Bros. and
from Dan Harmon for the grading and Inn
provement OF Eighteenth street between
| I and Missouri avenue. lannon's bid was
found to be the lowest, being 1898 cents
per cubic yard for grading and 80 cents
| per linear foot of twelve-inch sewer pipe
| He was awarded the contract
Edwin c. Bennett & Co. was awarded
the contract for the wiring Of the new frs
hall on a bid of s675.50 as against the bid
of the South Omaha Electrical company
which bid s725. and several others whose
bids ranged as high as H,125.
| r.. r. Leigh, ]. NJ. Tobias and j. j
FITZGERALD were named as appraisers OF
damages IL there be any in grading dis
trict No. u and improvement district No
25, including the grading of T>wenty-secont
1 street from s to Y.
An ordinance was introduced making
Twenty-ffth street and also Twenty-thirt
street as far south as f part of thu
boulevard system Of the city. The pro
posed boulevard will include the portion
OF F street between the two streets 81
designated. ....
gacttau Man Iniured.