Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-29
AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA
Probably Fatal Shooting hfftay at a
Sunday Night Dance,
YOUTH WHO DID THE SHOOTING ARRESTED
Those who Failed to Vote at Last
Fairs Election May He Denied
Privilege of Participating
In Coming Primaries.

Joe Roebeck a Polander living at Twen-
| ty-eighth and streets. was shot and
probably fatally wounded last night by
Tom Koziel, also Polander, who lives at
Forty-fourth and n streets. Koziel who
did the shooting, is only about 10 years OF
age. He was arrested and is now in the
| city Jail lie confesses to doing the shoot
/ ing
There was a dance in progress near the
western limits Of the city and a saloon
| outside the city limits near the scene of
! the dance was running wide open. Roe
| beck. as near as could be ascertained last
night. went out to the saloon TO secure
| the beer which was denied him by reason
of the city saloons being closed up. and
while in the neighborhood visited the dance.
! He became involved in a quarrel and lett
without his hat. He returned for this and
| it was then the shooting occurred. 1t is
stated that a woman at the dance told
| young Koziel to shoot and the latter, Sc
| curing shotgun, fired the charge taking
! effect in the chin of Roebeck badly lascer-
ating the lower part of the face and in
! ficting injuries from which it is thought
| he will die.
some May He Denied Vote.
| The registrars selected under the new
charter will sit for a revision of the poll
] ing lists on the first Saturday before the
! special election. This election comes on
/ February Is, in accordance with the mayors
notice and proclamation, which was pub
lished last Friday. In that proclamation
all the points considered by the mass meet
ing of the citizens last month, and of jan
uary g. 1906 were set forth. In fact. the
proclamation is the same as the body of
! Ordinance No. 1441. That the poll books
| may be in order for this election, the
| boards of registration will sit on Satur-
! day, February 10. 1t is stated that this
| revision will be the only one before the
! primary election of March 6. second
| revision will occur just previous to the
regular election. There will be some peo-
pie who will be greatly surprised on going
| to tie polls to vote at the primary, to
discover that they are not eligible for the
simple reason that they failed to vote at
the general election last fall. The law is
that any qualified voter will be barred
from the primaries If his name does not
appear on the pol-books of the previous
regular election. If a man has come of
age since the last general election then
his name will be allowed to go on the
! revision lists and he will be qualified TO
vote at the primaries. 1t Is believed that
the same will hold true of any person who
has moved into the city from some other
place. He also will be registered and al
| lowed to vote under the class of new
voters" The only class then who will be
barred at the primaries are those who
were residents of the city last fall and
had the opportunity to use their franchise
! and for some reason failed to exercise 1t.
1t must be understood that this does not
deprive the man OF his vote at the regular
election of April g. A glance at the poll
books of last November's election shows
that the vote was much short of the full
voting strength of South Omaha There
! were 1.746 republicans, 1852 democrats and
about sixty socialists. This brings up the
total vote to 3,2ss, which should have been,
II It represented every qualified voter of
the city. above 1900. So there from
leo TO 400 voters in South Omaha who
are barred from the primaries.
Work for City Council.
The principal business which is to come
before the city council tonight will be to
pass on the payrolls for the month of jan
uary of which the items will include the
salaries for the fire department amounting
to $780, and the police department, 1880,
and the salaries of the city officers and
their appointees, amounting to $2,02s32 This
last item does not include the salary of the
city engineer, Herman Beal
The petition for the grading OF + street
from Twenty-sixth west to the Union Pa
cinc right of-way will come up again for
consideration. This petition was rejected
January on the ground that the sigma
lures of parties who signed for the property
on which ct. Bridget's Catholic church
stands was not legally authorized. Since
that date a letter granting the authority
has been procured from Bishop Scannell of
"a ha dincogp EN-on the DnfitiOn
may not he received on the ground that the
petition is not subject to a correction and
,he whole business will have to be started
afresh, The Highland Park Improvement
club Is anxious to sec this petition go
through and has spent much time getting 1t
in an acceptable form
Talk Among the Politicians.
City Clerk ]. j. Gilln will find the appli-
cation of John r. Becker, 1923 r street lying
on his desk this morning as a candidate OF
p the democratic faith for the office of tax
commissioner subject to the choice Of the
: democratic party at the approaching pri-
. maries.
:, Among the democrats 1t was expected
= that the rally of the German-Amer
q Democratic club held yesterday afternoon
r at their headquarters on Twentyfourtt
i street would lead to some developments Of
IL 3
y brought into the field for the ONCE OF city
c treasurer who would be able to hold al
o even race with F. L. Howe the republican
n candidate There a rumor out to tn,
z effect that IL +. J. Freitag came out
candidate for mayor w. J. Bremen would
resign in his favor and then the democrats
would center G. A. Melcher for TN
e treasury, or perhaps s. c. Sehrigley woul,
L change his filing from that of councilman
d hack tn the ONCE NJ treasurer. But all sucl
y plans went giimmcTing apparently, for tn
20 club adjourned yesterday afternoon withou
i coming to any definite agreement. II seem
/ that II the proposed candidates enter tn
race they will have to do it on their own lie
= sponsibilty and not depend on any OF
ganised support until after the registration
close.
street Cars Collide.
There was collision of street cars yes
terday morning at Twenty-fourth and ;
streets Ii occurred at the switch whic
the Albright cars use in turning at
street, a quarter of block south from ia
corner. One of the early cars had use