Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-28
COMPTROLLER FILINGS co
Accepted by City Clerk Since Gov
ernor Signs Bill.
BAEE STILL ON POLICE BOARD
Long List OF Applications Go In for
the City CounciI-Last Call st
Five O'Clock This Az
ernOOB

since the governor filed tine bill rein
stating the office filings for city comp
,roller are Being accepted by the city CLERK
hut no filings for membership on the Fire
and Police commission board OF for city
engineer will be accepted by that Official
However. he allows candidates for the
questioned offices TO hard in their filing
applications II they so desire. writing upon
the back Of them. Refused. In accord
ance with opinion Of the city attorney
CITY Attorney Burnam advised the city
offices not as yet countenanced by the
state legislature. and the attorney general
told the clerk Friday at Lincoln that the
clerk that filings could not be ACCEPTED for
legislature could amend the law and permit
the acceptance Of filings for these offices
at a later date. providing the legislature
Masses the charter bill az II now stands
ana renuirinR the election OF fire and police
commissioners and a city engineer.
None for E~nEipeeP.
None has as yet s~ignified his intention OF
filing for the office Of city engineer but
eight candidates, four republicans and four
democrats. have paid their money ana
handed in their filings for membership on
the excise board. The republicans are
William I. Kierstead. 1902 Florence boule-
ward; Fred II. Hoye. 20l0 Oak street
Charles I. Karbach, 220S Poppleton avenue,
and William J. Hunter, 21s Miami street
The democratic candidates are John Power,
1914 South Tenth street; NJ. ]. Lacy, 1874
Popple.on avenue; Julius Meyer, 12 Far
nam street. and William Neve, G6 South
Eleventh street.
twenty-five candidates aside from the
two mayoralty aspirants. II. b. zimman
and ]. p. Breen, filed between noon Friday
and noon today. Most of these are for
council positions and for the greater part
on the republican ticket. For POSITIONS
other than the council John 8. Helgren,
1921 Davenport street, filed on the repub-
Iican ticket for comptroller; j. j.. Haley
53s South Twenty-seventh street, filed on
the republican ticket for city attorney; c.
o.. I.obeck. 1911 Spencer street, filed on the
democratic ticket for comptroller, and
Harry c. Pettingill. 1913 North Seventeenth
street. filed on the socialist ticket for build
ing inspector.
For the Council.
The filings for the day FOR positions as
councilmen are as follows:
Republican 49, Second ward, George f.
Grade. 249O South Fifteenth street, and Will
liam n. Heinbuch, Sl72 South Thirteenth
street: Fourth ward, A. II. Comstock,
lSl2ls Fsrnam street; j. A. Tuthill, 20S
South Twenty-fifth street, and John A.
Dempster. i'll North Twenty-fifth street
Fifth ward. Harry Asher. 1917 Maple street;
David II. Christie. 1n7 Henderson street,
and Ed LaPage. 1902 Burdette street: Sixth
ward. Hugh Noone. SS44 Franklin street,
and II, s. McAllister. 1855 Franklin street
Seventh ward. Fred Schamei, PAPA Pierce
street: Eighth ward. Esau Freshman, 1915
Burt street: Ninth ward. John j. Ryder.
III North Twenty-eighth avenue: Harry
Fischer. 1906 Lafayette avenue; Van B,
Lady. 1908 Dodge street. and James Allan,
S9ll Seward street; Eleventh ward, John o
Palmer. 1912 North Forty-fifth street, and
Louis Lindblom, COZ North Forty-first ave-
nuo
Democrat-Twelfth ward, p. II. steyer,
&2S Bristol street.
Soc!alist-Fourth ward, Harry o. Davis
45 South Nineteenth street: Seventh ward,
n. p. Sackctt. 25S3 Poppleton avenue; EIev.
enth ward. Samuel Gdousky, $40 South
Twenty-fifth avenue.
The offices OF the city clerk and the city
treasurer will be kept open until s O'Clock
this afternoon to accommodate the tardy
candidates who wish to file for office. TIL
treasurer's office has to be kept open. a,
a candidate canno file until he can pre-.
sent a receipt showing that he has paid
the treasurer the required S fee.