Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-04
AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA
Driveway Through Two Cities win
Soon Be Completed.
SOME WORK YET ON OMAHA END
Engineers Are Awaiting Finish OF
Paving on observation-disclosures In
CrIcek's Darroom Ends In
shooting.

with the completion OF the paving cork
between the boulevard in Omaha and the
north line of the city limits. South Omaha I
citizens will have opened to their use one
continuous paved drive extending from
the south line OF South Omaha TO the
north line OF omaha.
City Engineer George Roberts has long
since put the finishing touches to the local
end Of the new street and is now waiting
impatiently for the Omaha engineers TO
complete their work
On the Omaha side Twenty-third street
has been built along a curve extending
between the north line OF South Omaha
and boulevard The city engineer. II IL
understood has been for some time en-
gagged in strengthening the course OF the
drive between the two points above mem
toned. City Engineer Roberts and indeed
the whole city are tubilant over the fact
that the remodelled street will open
through driveway between the two cities
and one especially adapted to the use OF
motorists.
school District Finances.
In the absence of the city treasurer, who
is away on a two weeks vacation. Deputy
Treasurer E. p. Roggen has prepared q
monthly statement covering the recelpts
and expenditures Of the school district FOR
| the month of July.
The expenditures for the month amounted
TO sS542.s1. The receipts together with
the balance brought over from the proceed
ing month amount to S1eSs2,49 which. with
Ss.oe2o7 from the interest fund and slco5l
from sites and buildings, make Up the full
| total The actual balance is represented
by $117o5.S9 ..s
| Dispute I'm BarrOOm.
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bright yesterday afternoon Tom Beadle Of
Sarpy county was shot through the right
arm by James Cricek, proprietor of the
saloon.
1t is alleged that the dispute was over a
nickel which the bartender refused TO
return to Beadle for the reason that the
money had already been consumed In
drink In the fight that followed the sa-
loonman is said to have drawn a gun upon
Beadle. who was wounded In the muscle
OF the right arm near the shoulder.
| The wounded man was taken to the office
of DR.. A. H. Koenig, where his injuries
were dressed. The shooting is said to
have been accidental.
Orderly Circus Day.
Though the circus grounds were some
what remote from the populous part OF the
city there was an immense crowd gathered,
!
Of the Forepaugh Sells Brothers per
| Torrance.
| All afternoon thousands came into the
city from Omaha and the surrounding
country and the streets were fairly
crowded as the hour for the performance
approached.
Chief Briggs had his men detailed at
different vantage points and up to a late
hour no disturbance or crime was re-
ported. The chief kept a strict lookout
for pickpockets and dips" about the
| circus grounds.
Magic City Gossip.
Desk Sergeant Bill Corrigan was In his
old place Thursday afternoon.
Judge Dickinson, republican candidate for
district Judge, was in the city yesterday.
Jake Klein left today for a trip to Lake
Okoboji, where he expects to join his wife
and family.
have returned home after an enjoyable trip
| to Kansas City.
Work on the letter creek is under full
steam, the whole force Of the city engineer
being engaged thereon.
Dude Oakley has disposed of his saloon
on Twenty-fourth street and will open UP
new place in Albright.
Mrs. Deckert of Seventeenth ard NJ en-
| tertained the women of the Lutheran
church yesterday afternoon.
| State Senator Jerry Fenton, who has been
! visiting in South Omaha, returned yester-
day to his home in Dawson.
There will be a meeting Of Sr. Mary's
court. w. c. o. F., Friday evening, August
4, at 11S North Thirty ninth street.
The Letter South Side Aid society will
hold home baking at Mrs. knights home,
1861 South Thirteenth street. on Saturday.
Rev. James P. Mcmahon OF ONeill. Neb,'
Is In the city for few days, the guest of
his parents. Mr.. and Mrs. p. J. Mcmahon.
Mrs. c. ]. Clinchard og S5 North Twen-
ty-first street has returned after q months
visit to her brother, Michael O'Donnell, OF
st. Paul, MINI.
Miss Laura Rudersdorf and her sister,
Mrs. II. G. Woods returned yesterday
from Boulder Colo, where Miss Ruders-i
dorf has been spending the vacation with
Mrs. Woods After a two weeks visit
with her father J. II. Rudersdorf. Mrs.
Woods will return to her home in Boulder
Mar noonI Gon Va