Omaha daily bee., 1912-06-23
AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA
Contest for City Offices to- Follow
Commissioner Decision.
TRAINoR WILL BEGIN SUIT
City Officials May All BE Involved
I'm Controversy that Pends--
Services to Be Held in
"a Open Air.

FIRE commissioners John j. Ryan and
Joseph Pivonka will have to stand trial
for malfeasance in office according to
the opinion handed down yesterday by
the supreme court. AS an inference from
the same opinion, Mayor Hoctor and the
present city administration may be
ossted in favor of former Mayor P. j.
Trainor and his council who were beaten
at the election called last spring on
order of the court.
The opinion of the court merely states
that Commissioners Ryan and Pivonka
are still serving the three year term for
which they were elected. 1t declares the
extension clause constitutional ard in
conclusion appoints Judge Holconlb Of
preme court justice to be referee in the
case against the accused commissioners.
AS soon as the news was flashed from
Lincoln, former Mayor P. ]. Trainor an
nounced his intention to begin suit
Monday for the seat of Mayor Hoctor
With Trainor will also be aligned former
Councilmen Franek, George Hoffman,
August Miller, Mat Peterson, Tom Peter
son and Former City Clerk Frank Good.
Mayor Hoctor, who has been expecting
the court decision for some time, de-
clared that he was In no wise worried
over the situation. He contends that the
election was held by order of court, and
that in any case the former officials
did not protet the election but partici-
pated in it and accepted the results in
surrendering their seats.
The whole affair will, it is expected,
precipitate a bitter fight between the
ms and outs with annexation as the
probable final settlement.
AS far as the custer suit brought
against the fire and police commission
Dean Ringer and the men who stood
with him in his long fight against the
board. Il am delighted at the news"
said Mr.. Ringer last night. 1T is what l
expected Of the supreme court of the
state. Now that the referee has been
appointed the case will come to trial and
some startling evidence will be brought
to knowledge of the public
Open Air Church.
How would You like to go to church
in the park on Sunday? That is the new
departure in church cult to be adopted
by the United Protestant churches of
South Omaha during the summer. The
open air services will be called union
services and will be held by the united
congregations Of all the Protestant
churches of the Magic City. 1t has been
decided to hold services in the different
Highland park has been decided upon
as the scene of an open air service by
the united churches in the near future.
The Union services were carried on sue
cessfully last winter when the different
congregations assembled at neighboring
churches on appointed nights.
Cats Cause Rupture.
/ Disturbed in his slumbers Friday night
by the amourous yowlings Of a feline
Romeo and Juliette, Anton Lapinus of
his uneasy couch and hurled a conven-
lent lamp through his window into the
night He missed the cats, but Joe Sex
orisko, a neighbor asleep beside his open
window, bears testimony by cash on
the forehead that Lapinus aim was not
wasted. Naturally, II neighbor passed
you the time of day by hurting a lamp
into your boudoir at 10 o'clock at night
you would be peeved. Sekorisko jumped
from his bed with a howl and took
after Lapinus. Lapinus hastily erected
barricades and called for a parley with
his irate neighbor. Sekorisko, however.
had passed the time of parley and in
sistently invited Lapinus to come out
and do battle. Then he sought the as
sistance of the law, but friends pre-
vailed upon him to follow a milder
course. At present all communication is
cut off between Lapinus and Sekorisko,
there being an armed neutrality, so to
speak.
Suit for Price of Shave.
Steve Gravich, tonsorial artist with
parlors at Thirty-ninth and Q streets. has
begun suit against Peter Sar for the price