Omaha daily bee., 1908-03-01
. 81 HOUSE BONDS
; Secial Election Recommended BY
County Board for May 8.
ISSUE OF ONE MILLION DOLLARS
Commissioners Are Unanimous in
Taking This Action.
MARCH IA FOR FORMAL ORDER
People May Discuss Proposition in the
Meantime.
ARCH IA FOR FORMAL ORDER
JAIL INCLUDED IN BUILDING
BruninE Offers Resolution for Bonds
10 Remodel Present Structure
and IL IL Promptly
Voted Down.

A special election. TO ne held May 5, for
the purpose Of voting on 100000 bonds for
the erection of new court house and tall
was recommended by the county board by
unanimous vote at it's meeting Saturday
morning. The resolution was offered by
Solomon and It set March IA, as the date
for the meeting at which the formal resolu.
tion to be prepared by the county attorney
shall come up for consideration. In the
meantime the public is invited to discuss
the proposition.
The resolution as adopted is as follows:
Resolved 1t is the recommendation of
this Board of County Commissioners that a
special election should be held on May 5,
1908, for the submission of the proposition
of the voting of I,0O0,O00 bonds Tor the
building of court house and jail on the
present court house square and that the
resolution now being prepared by the
county attorney covering the legal aspects
of the proposition should come up for adop-
tion or rejection on March IA, 1903, and that
in the meantime we invite discussion of the
proposition by the public and press of this
county.
After its passage Bruning offered an
other resolution providing for the submis-
sion also of an alternative proposition for
a 10000 bond issue for the remodeling of
the present court house, but It was voted
down by a vote of to 3, Trainor voting
bers voting against it. The action of the
board practically assures that the special
election will be held May and that only
one bond proposition will be submitted.
New Detention school.
Eight propositions were received by the
board for a new Detention school. Some
Of them were for sites, others for the sale
of buildings and still others for the rental
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out reading to a committee, which will re-
port on them later. Those submitting
propositions were the McCague Investment
company, w. T. Graham, Dan ]. Bailey
A. p. Tukey & Son, Charles II. Brown, ].
II. Dumont & Son and Theodore Vogel
The board authorized the sanitary inn
provements recommended by Chairman
Solomon of the court house and Jail COM
mittee and he will prepare plans to be
submitted by the hoard Saturday. The
principal changes include the tearing out
of the closets on the main floor and the
removal of Judge Rediok's court to the
Bee building.
Delegations from Waterloo, Elkhorn and
Valley and representatives from the Forest
Lawn Cemetery association appeared before
the county board Saturday morning and
asked for a share in the permanent road
work which will be done next summer
w. @. Whitmore of Valley, John W. Hall
of Waterloo, and Charles Witte headed
their respective delegations and all three
asked for the paving of the Dodge street
road from the end of the present pavement
to the edge of the county. The road would
pass through all three towns. Oscar j.
Pickard Of the Douglas County Good Roads
club also advocated the paving of Dodge
street and asked that the Center street
road be extended to Millard.
]. Y. Craig and II. S. Mann of the Forest
Lawn Cemetery association asked the
board to pave the road leading from Thirty
first street TO the cemetery. The road is
about three-quarters of a mile lang.