Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-17
AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA
Movement on Foot to Check Exten.
sive Street Grading Operations.
FEW PROPERTY OWNERS GAIN

sive Street Grading Operations.
FEW PROPERTY OWNERS GAIN
City Attorney Advises Council and
He is hacked by Mayer Trainor
aud Councilman Miller
City Engineer scored.
/ City Attorney II. C. Murphy. aided and
aoetted by Mayor Trsinor and Council
man Miller, advised the council last night
that the time had come 10 i.sn;t the policy
OF public Improvement that has been
carried on recently with such magnificent
disregard Of cost and expense to the prop
erty owners.
The matter came 10 an issue when the
| consideration Of two grading resolutions
came up for consideration. one@resolu-
ton referred to that part Of Twenty first
street lying between @ and F streets and
the other to Twenty-second street lying
between ID and F streets. City Attorney
Murphy interrupted the proceedings Of
the council Just at the time when the
clerk was about to read the resolution.
The attorney asked for permission to look
over the resolutions before action was
taken on them.
Upon his return to the council chamber
Attorney Murphy bluntly told the council
that in grading the streets in question
they were about to grade series of hills
and fills and incidentally saddle a debt
upon the city at large for the benefit OF
few individual property owners. Mayor
1rainor came 10 the assistance Of the at
torney and recalled that he had urged
the same course at the last meeting OF
the city council.
At this point August Miller turned on
City Engineer Roberts and asked him
why he did not make ii his business to
see that the council had become &C.
Quainted with such projects before draft
ing them into resolutions. Roberts said
he vas unable to do otherwise and Miller.
flaring with anger, told him that IL he
had the interests of the taxpayers at
heart he would see that the council was
furnished with all proper information In
regard to such Improvements.
Goes to Committee of whole.
Another denial from the engineer and
the council hurriedly agreed TO refer the
matter to the committee of the whole,
which will so oves the ground with the
engineer before the next session Of the
council
The claim Of J. NJ. Tanner for $50 and
the Magic City Printing company for S.
damages alleged to have resulted from
an overflow Of the sewer contiguous to
the building of the Magic City Printing
company was referred for reconsideration
after an adverse report by August Miller,
chairman Of the streets and alleys COM
mittee. Miller. upon information. fur
nished by the city engineer maintained
that the owner of the bulldog In question
belonged to no sewer district and paid
no taxes for sewer maintenance and that
therefore any connection with sewer
contiguous to his property was at his
own peril.
On motion Of John Riha the printing
supplies for the year viii be furnished
by oBrien & Butler, whose total bid
was the lowest offered. Miller introduced
a minority report giving the contract to
the Citizens Printing company. as the
safest and best bidder, His report was
not adopted.
The bids on stationery offered By the
stott Stationery company, on motion OF
Jack Walters. were rejected and re-
advertisement ordered. Walters asserted
that the kind and grade Of stock to be
supplied by the stott Stationery company
was not specified, Walters maintained
that the stuff can be bought at much
lower figure In open market.
The contract for surgical and medical
supplies was awarded TO C. p. s. Tobin.
Gypsy Justice Administered.
A curse from the drunken lips of
Giovanni Gobo, blow in the dark and a
woman's scream sent the police hurting
TO the gypsy camp at Tenth and Missouri
avenue last evening at O'Clock.
For frightened voice had come over
the phone to the station saying that muir
der had been done in the gypsy camp
over which Chief John Mitchell relgns.
Chief Briggs and Chief Of Detectives
James sheahan waited not on the order
OF their going but vsulted into the an
cient vehicle called the emergency buggy
and made for the river hank where the
gypsy camp was located.
Gypsy justice. however. IL free. is sure
and swift, and when the police arrived
Mitchell had already ordered the in.
generation of the hibulous Goho, who in
a drunken fit is said TO have administered
a ehastisement to his better half. Chief
Briggs of the imperial city of South
Omaha and Chief Mitchell Of the gypsy
camp and the open road conferred a mo.
ment and the prisoner was left to the
tender ministrstlons of his own people.
A few minutes later City Physician A.
H. Koenig. who had also been called 70
the scene Of the murder" was politely
informed by Chief Mitchell that the serv.
Ices of physician were unnecessary.
slate Charged with Gambling.
Walter Slate and six companions were
arrested in a police raid made last night
on a gambling Joint at Twenty-sixth and
streets. Slate was charged with being
proprietor Of a gambling house and his
companions with being inmates. The raid
was made by Chief of Police John Briggs,
Captain Henry Eisfelder and Detective
John zsloudek.
This is the second gambling raid made
by the police within the last few DAYS
and there Is much comment as to the