Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-25

Bishop Of Minneapolis wrote to the city
clerk offering to furnish complete plans
end specifications and to bid ON the pros
pective contract for a municipal plant. The
city clerk has prepared a reply to his in
quiry which probably will be a great sur
prise to the contractor. He will be Informed
that South Omaha proposed to contract for
the power plant without any such formali-
ties, and finding some legal objections in
the way has appealed to the state legisla-
lure to pass an enabling act to make such
a course possible.
other side Of Grading Question.
James w. Murphy, who began injunction
proceedings against the o street grading
proposition. takes decided issue with T. j..
O'Neil and DR.. W. J. McCrann, who have
given public explanations. The following
letter explains his position:
Evidently my injunction has hit the right
parties, our dear friends, the enemy, the
old o street guard"
Anyone who will read Mr.. O'Neils article
in The Bee of Friday morning can plainly
forsee the plan and method which Is to
shove the proposition through the council
and proceed with the deal, right or wrong,
for the benefit of the o street syndicate,
then let the cost thereof fall upon the city
That this method has been successful. he
undertakes more of II, while / believe in
time that his method and operation should
cease, and he and his faithful associates
who have enjoyed quite a little publicity
regarding o street, should stop or be
he gives some figures Of cost. He can
not tell why the engineer estimated S21,OOO.
In one statement ne says that the sbut-
ting property within said district Is valued
at at @:S1, ar. and w IN a dSS6tI,T lie s brySe t4 lnto s tbs
taxlist property that is now untaXable. !
deny that the abutting property can take
care of the said Improvement. On all prop
o~sitions of this kind the city attorney must
pass his opinion, and in this case the rec
ords Of the city clerks office. show that
Mr.. Winters, in passing upon the proposed
Improvement, used the following language
and issued the following warning to the
mayor and council in substance:
You cannot levy the cost of this i'm
provement upon the taxable property within
said district, for the reason that you would
be confiscating the property within said i'm;
provement district, and It would then fall
upon the people at large"
And it must not be overlooked that the
cost Of this Improvement does not include
the damage suits that will eventually follow
by reason of such grading.
out. He makes the declaration that the en-
gineer Is wrong in bis estimates, and that
Work can be done for Is cents. The latter
part Of his statement must be inside in
formation.
Mr.. O'Neii's ARITHMETIC is. to say the
least, very misleading. For INSTANCE, the
distance to be improved Is but go feet
long; He says that SIC viii be dedu uSHsa
against the abutting property.
The intersections are but 100 feet, and IL
close to $1,000 for the $50 feet7
entitled to &; brown Park Is not within
merchants nedy any interest whatever in
said Improvement.
There are forty. lots within this proposed
i'm nrOVernent district. One-halI or these
city at SIS a lot.
Ruling on Postal Cards.
Postmaster e. l.. Howe calls attention
to the following section of the latest postal
rules which forbid the mailing Of postal
cards other. than those of plain paper I'M
less they are securely sealed in envelopes.
The section Of the rule provides:
That cards bearing particles of glass.
metal, mica, sand, tinsel or other similar
substances, are unavailable. except when
enclosed In envelope tightly sealed to pre-
vent the escape OF such particles, or when
treated in such a manner as will prsTent
the Objectionable substances frop~r being
rubbed off or injuring persons hshdling the
mails.
Association Leinads, teorganize.
The Boys club of the local Y. NJ. C. A..
known as the Leinsa!s. held a meeting in
the rooms SaturdsJ noon for the purpose
Of q reorganization. Luncheon was served
and at the close under the supervision OF
]. T.. Ringer the reorganization was ef-
fected and the Leinads are now again a
working force Of the association.
Officers were chosen and the member
ship proposition discussed. 1t was decided
TO divide the members of the order In two
teams for the purpose OF contest in mem
Der getting. The contest is to close and
the winning team Is to be announced at
8 p. m. February 6. Initiation and a BAN
quet will follow Thursday evening. Feb
ruary IL. The teams will be known as the
Reds n the Blues. the former having
Gordon Inghram for captain, and the latter
Paul Shields.
south Omaha Loan and, Building As
~sOci0tiOn, January. 1, 1906