Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-26

weeks ago. has passed the $1,000 mark.
Inc Benson Eagles have subscribed $40
TO the fund and this. added to IS given
py HUNT 4 Elliott. a recent subscription.
brings the total up to S1.511.15. Mayor
DAhiman. who has charge OF the fund.
intends TO close IT within a few days.
Perez, orsatoSt Draft Horss-rhe center
OF attraction around Union station Sunday
afternoon was Perez. the greatest draft
horse in the world. He weighed $500
pounds and has been sold to a party in
Portland. Accompanying the horse to the
Pacific coast were five Belgians, three
Percherons and four German coachers.
These beautiful horses came from the i'm
porting stables of j. Crouch and Son at
Lafayette, Ind. and they were all beauties.
Fasteners watch Omaha Invention
william II. Wilcox. chairman Of the Public
Service company of New York and Francis
w. Johnson, claim agent of the Philadel-
phia Rapid Transit company nave re-
quested the Meyer Saftey Guard company
to keep them Informed Of the results Of
the tests which will be made of the new
guard manufactured by that company. The
tests will be made this week by the Omaha
& Council Bluffs Street Railway company
for the first time.
South Omaha Freed from 1estraint-A
temporary restraining order against the city
Of South Omaha was dissolved by Judge
Estelle OF the district court Monday morn
ing and the case OF Daniel Harmon dis
missed. Harmon, who is a contractor,
claims that he underbid c. z. Fsnning and
the National Construction company for the
contract to pave / street from Twentieth
to Twenty-fourth. He brought suit as a
| "a ~ En- ro.fr,g, Nba National Cnnofr51c
ton company from proceeding with the
work, but lost his suit Monday.
Judges Oppose Butts Bnl-The judges
Of the district court Of Douglas county are
preparing vigorously to oppose the passage
of the Butt bill. which transfers regula-
ton of the juvenile court to the county com
missioners. They declare that appointments
of probation officers and so forth by the
commissioners will take the Juvenile court
into politics. Possibly all the members of
the bench Of Douglas county will appear
before the committee having the bill in Gus
tody. and at any rate Judge Bstelle pur-
poses to talk on the matter at Lincoln.
Candidates for xigh sohool-The present
week closes the first semester In the Omaha
public schools and Superintendent Davidson
says that about go promotions from the
grades to the high school will be made. OF
this number he estimates about 100 will
enter the higher grades. Other years
showed that many children dropped out OF
school upon the completion of eight years
Of work. The senior class of the high school
will this year be composed Of from 1I to
100 pupils, though the exact number will
not be known until about the middle Of the
second semester.
Car Barn Work Starts April 1.-The
Omaha g. Council Bluffs Street Railway
company has secured a cancellation Of the
lease with the Omaha Bottling company
upon the and on which the street railway
company expects to build Its new car house
at Tenth and Pierce. The lease was to ex-
pire July /, but the firm now agrees to va
cate April /, when the wrecklng process
will begin. All the buildings on the site
have been sold. The frame buildings will
be moved and the brick buildings torn
down. The company will let contracts fol
grading and have everything in READINGS:
to begin work April l. The new site will
| require an immense amount of grading az
O cut of over twenty feet will have to be
made at the southwest corner.