Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-02
AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA
Mayor Trainor and City Officials
Unite to Fight Merger.
SAY ANNEXATION 1MPRUDENF
Committee Appointed 90 Conduct
Campaign Atoms These Lines
John smith Found Dead
TN Alley.

John smith Found Oead
Tn AIIey.
Representative business men ~ South
Omaha yesterday volunteered their serv.
ICES 20 the nsvor ana city officials as a
compact organization to defeat the
agttated merger plan OF Omaha and
South Omaha. These men sssert that
annexation az this time when Omshs is
about to try new experiment in tho
form Of government would be imprudert
and a risky proposition on the part Of
The local mum cipslitv. Protesting
further thai the charter Of Omaha makes
no adequate provision for the additional
expense incident to maintenance or a
greater Omaha. they assert that the To-
ca police and fire departments world be
aunulled until the merged cities could by
proper legislation provide for an in
creased roster In both branches Of the
public service Large real estate holders
Of this section insist that annexation
would depreciate the value OF local prop
erty to a negligible quantity that would
make the southern section Of the pro-
posed greater Omaha a drearv waste or
dumping ground for the submerged
tenth of Omaha.
Mayor Against Merger.
The MAYOR acting In conjunction with
the business men and city officials yes
terdav declared formally against the
merger. He stated that neither the Com.
mercisl club nor the Real Estate ex-
change Of Omaha is verv anxious for a
merger at this period The Ad club, II
is said vigorously denied any Coop
Grafton with the local committee OF an
nexationists, the result OF all conferences
to date being that Omaha would require
petition Of 200 or 200 names OF those
in South omaha anxious for the merger
before any further cooperation was
shown by the uptown clubs.
Councilman Jack Walters Of Union
stock Yards said he was against any
merger that would amount to a promis-
sorry note on the part OF Omaha, When
Omaha and the annexationists can show
me In black and white a binding agree
ment good In law. that we viii have
the proper representation in the counsels
of the greater city. then will vote for
annexation" said MI Walters. II am
here twenty-five years and I have my
home here. can not now stand to see
this section OF the city made a moral
dumping ground for our uptown neigh
bors. When Omaha offers terms that
will make US partners to a pact and not
beneficiaries Of its arbitrary will. then
l am for annexation and not before"
Committee t. Named.
Mayor Trainor after having considered
plans for conducting an anti merger
campaign made a public statement of
the platform on which the opposition TO
the merger was based. He also APP
pointed the following business men to act
as an executive committee for the con-
duct of the campaign: Joe Pavlik. paint
and paper dealer; Joe Pipal, hardware
dealer; p. J. McGoldrick. grocer; James
w. Murphy, commission merchant; John
Flynn, clothier; Jerry Fenton, druggist;
Frank Koutsky. lumberman: Petersen g.
Nicholson. hardware dealers; Morris
Yost, teweler: Fisher McGill, Statonsrs;
Frank Belding grocer; ]. F. o'Leary,
shoe dealer; P. j. Lennahan, master
mechanic Omaha Packing company. and
j. G.. Blessing. hardware dealer.
Negro Falls To Death.
John smith, a negro 80 years old. was
found dead at l1:15 o'clock last night in
an alley beside a hotel at BIB N street
II dppSdItu ne Hdu ldllNl AlpIl lllb Win
dow Of his room above. His neck was
broken and his skull fractured.
Smith had been employed in the fer
tilzing department at Armours packing
plant The body was taken by Deputy
Coroner Bernard Lsrkin.
BondhOIders Get Busy.
New York attorneys acting In the in
terests Of certain clients who claim that
city bonds held by them were repudiated
by South Omaha yesterday communi-
Gated with Attorney Dean Ringer. who
will act as the local representative OF
the New York law firm in investigating
the matter.
The New York people who hold the al
legged spurious bonds want 10 know spe-
officially why South Omaha has refused
to honor the bonds held by them. II the
certificates held by them and the ones
in the office of the city treasurer arc
similar then the question will be TO de-
termine who holds the counterfeits II
was said that unless the city would make
q settlement New York attorneys would
start suit against the city
The matter Is working out in the way
in which the council and city attorney
indicated at the time when the matter
was discussed At that time the local
officials notified Kountzs Brothers fiscal
agents at New York. that the city had
already paid the 1890 amounting 10 the
principal and interest Of the bonds In
question. The bonds OF similar ones are
in the office OF the city treasurer and
are signed by the then mayor and city
clerk The city officials determined that
II the bonds had already been paid by
the city II remained for the New York
holders OF the doubtful issue to take the
initiative and show how they obtained
| the paper.
Hog buyers at the local market find
that with a % per cent crop increase
over the corresponding months Of last
year. hogs are lighter in weight from
10 10 % per cent and selling at cents
with the probabilities that the price will
go lower by February.
The old crop is cleaned up and It IL
generally admitted among the buyers that