Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-22
AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA
Toledo Bankers Purchase the Latest
Issues of Paving Bonds.
ORIGINAL BUYERS TRANSFERRED
Street Car Company Promises TO Lay
Track on West l. street as
Fast as the Paving II
Pat Down.

City Clerk ]. ]. Gillin reported yesterday
that the firm of Splitter & Co, bankers
and brokers of Toledo, o., has purchaseu
the latest issues of paving bonds from the
Security Savings Bank and Trust company
which company was the successful BIDDER
The firm of Splitter q Co, has been a
heavy dealer in western securities FOR
many years and has bought up most of the
South Omaha bonds. For some reason they
did not appear in the bidding. They inn
mediately assumed the contract. The city
clerk is ordering the history of the bonds
recently sent to the first company In the
transaction turned over to Splitter & Co.
In every way the transfer of the contract
will be satisfactory to South Omaha.
Tracks to Follow PAYERS.
The management Of the Omaha & Coun-
ell Bluffs Street Railway company have
promised to lay tracks for the extension
of the street car service on West l. street
as rapidly as the paving on that street is
laid. II is proposed to run cars over the
Q -treet viaduct and through the private
property of the Union Stock Yards com
pany. This is made necessary by the
present condition of the l. street viaduct,
which has been condemned to heavy
traffic. The o street viaduct is a very
strong and modern structure. The Union
Stock Yards company would rather permit
cars to run to the exchange building than
to reconstruct the l. street viaduct. The
inconvenience of the cars on the private
streets OF the company will not be very
great. There is only one point of possible
congestion and that is opposite the horse
barns west of the exchange building. 1t
has been customary to practice the teams
IN aAIa - Tho I'm ~ FhaN gNana II
will require wstchfulness to continue that
practice.
FrRternaI Folks In Opera.
The Achates lodge of South Omaha gave
a comic opera last night at the auditorium
of the South Omaha High school. the OBJ
ject being to raise money for the bene-
ficiaries Of the order. The members nav
been preparing for several months and tn
arduous drilling showed in the good quail
ity of the entertainment. The title wa
Merry Farmers and Milkmaids." and wa
In every way a rustic theme. Much OF tn
humor of country life was woven into tn
! original characterizations A few of tn
scenes would require a stretch of the i'm
agination to attach them to any eountr,
nearer than South Africa, but the audienc
was not critical and cheered impartially.
Numerous Deaths Noted.
Nine deaths in the city within the las
forty-eight hours Is considered the laTges
number known in so short a time. Most @
the number were children or aged peoplr
One Only, Joseph Trecek, was due to
life tragedy. He committed suicide, as wa
apparent, and the case was so adjudge
by the coroner's jury, which held an II
quest over the body at 10 a. m, yesterda!
His funeral will be conducted from the re,
idence, 26li z, at 3 p. m. today. The burii
will be In Laurel Hin cemetery.
Mrs. Katherine jain, living just over II
ssFpy county ltte in Albright, died yestsi
day morning. she was a pioneer of n
city and was Sc years old. The funeral wi
be held Saturday at Sis from the residence
TO the Church of, the Assumption. III
burial will be In ST. Mays cemetery.
W. c. Kohl, aged So years, died Al N
South Omaha hospital Wednesday evening