Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-21
BOND AND JAIL DEAL MADE
Million Dollar Issue Ordered Adver-
tised by County Board.
PRISON PACT SEALED WITH CITY
Arrangements Are Perfected fer Tenn
pOrary Structure Pending Conn
pIetIon of the New Douglas
County Court House.

By passing q resolution directing the
county clerk TO advertise the sale Of the
81, 200. 900 Issue az court house bonds and by
adopting an agreement with the city council
for the erection of q temporary county jail
the county board Saturday took a long
step toward realizing the plans for the new
court house. 90
The board authorized the advertisement
Of the bond sale in The Evening Bee and
financial papers In Chicago. Boston and
New York. The bids will be opened on
October is. II Is hoped 4 large number of
bids will DO received. in order that the
board may determine whether or not 1t
would be TO the interest of the county to
SEQ the bonds to bond dealers or to the
- %. as an Investment for the permanent
school iund.
The agreement with the city for a tenn
puidry SAIL has been practically concluded.
Ilc county board accepted the proposition
submitted by Harry zimmsn Of the council
committee and It is believed the council
will ratify 1t at it's NEXT meeting.
Under the terms Of the agreement the
city will erect an $4,000 addition to the
city Jail, to be completed by December 1.
The county will advance the $4,000 and the
lily will pay back 5000 of this as soon
as the funds are available next January,
retaining 5000 as rental for the time the
county will use the building. The county
will also pay 5000 for the heating of the
wing and Will pay for the water and light
used and will stand all the expense Of
feeding the county prisoners. The city at
The end Of the term will buy the cells in
stalled by the county at the appraised
vrlue. When the county moves out the
city will use the addition for its own
prisoners.
viii Help Out the City.
While some Of the commissioners be-
lieved they could have secured terms some
wat more favorable from private indi-
viduals, they were influenced to adopt the
proposition by the fact all the money ex-
pended by the county would go toward
providing the city with needed additions
to the city Jail.
The county board accepted the decision
OF Judge Day in the case involving the
pay OF clerks and judges of the special
bond election held last Nav and allowed
the additional S15O the court held was
coming to the election officers. The cleo
ton board for the primary election were
also paid, those in Omaha being allowed
81 each by the CITY. the remaining "a to
come from the city and the school district,
50 in South Omaha. where but one election
was held and 81 IN the country.
A resolution introduced by Riggs provid-
ing for the repair of the Dodge street road
caused a "spat" between IRE and Ken
nard. Tire objected to giving the contract
to e. D. Van Court at IS cents a lneal
foot for spreading tarvia over the road
and $50 a ton for all stone used in re-
pairing holes. declaring the county might
be able to do II much cheaper. He also
said IL this work was done the condition
of the road fund would require that all
side graders working on the country roads
be stopped and that road work in the fu-
ture would be hsmpered.
Mr.. Kennard spoke in favor of doing the
work on Dodge street and his remarks led
to some heated words between him and
IRE. At the request OF IRE the resolution
went over urtil the next meeting.