Omaha daily bee., 1915-07-25
HAPPENINGS IN
THE MAGIC CITY
Objections to Stringent Rule Clear
ing Railroad Right-of-Way
Near Packing Houses.
LABoRER MAY DIE OF STAB

Railroad special agents and detectives
are coming in for n measure of criticism
by citizens and members OF the police
department for the stringent methods
they have adopted in past months in
clearing the railroad tracks Of pedes-
trains I'm the vicinity Of the packing
houses. IT has been privately charged
in several instances that laborers arrested
for trespassing while on their way to
work in the morning, have lost their
jobs. because Of a day and nights lodg-
ing in jail
Cases Of this kind date back several
months into the old South Omaha ad-
ministratlon and have given rise to more
or less dissatisfaction among members OF
the department. The policy Of filming
all men arrested on such charges, is
partly blamed for the existing conditions.
OF late weeks complaints have come
from uptown county officials to the eff
feet that the county has been handling
too many such cases lately.
The police believe that warning
foreign-born laborers, who trespass on
railroad property. ignorant OF the law.
would be far better than throwing an
added expense on the city or county In
keeping them lodged in Jail or out Of
their Jobs.
MerRvicIr Seriously stabbed.
Steve Meravick. Austrian laborer. liv-
ing at Twenty-fourth and s streets. Is
confined to a bed at the South Omaha
hospital not expected to live, and Mike
Monda, also an Austrian laborer. is
lodged in Jail booked on a charge OF
assault and battery. because of cutting
Ecrape that eliminated from an argument
over a board bill last evening at o'clock
at Twenty-fourth and 3 streets. Monda
admitted, after long questioning at the
station last evening. that he had stabbed
Meravick I'm the back with knife. DIR.
r.. II. shanahan, who attended the
wounded man, said that Meravick was
sufferinK from profuse internal bleeding
In the left lung. and had little chance
OF recovery.
Monda said that when Meravick and
himself and his partner had failed to
agree on an alleged board BILL" fight
had followed In which he had drawn
knife and stabbed Merayick in tho back.
AT late hour last evening hospital
authorities had strong hopes for Mera-
vick's recovery
"Tooter" Finances Reported GOOD
I'VE will Just about come out even'
with little or no surplus for the start
next year" James Northrup. managing
editor of the Tooter. the high school
publication, said last evening in speak
ing OF the finances OF the paper after the
close Of the year.
II is not known whether the paper Will
be continued after school has started in
September.
Principal q. w. Moore OF the South
Side High school is in favor OF Installing
a complete printing apparatus, including
a press. and introducing the study OF
printing. The cost OF such plant vii
make the proposition practically impossi'
BILE for at least a few years, however
Magic City Gossip.
Frank Sutton OF Willard. Neb., was
pulled from the bottom OF a twenty-fool
embankment between Twentieth and
Twenty second streets on NJ street last
evening about $3.50 o'clock and brought
TO the police station In the patrol
Antoine Blazawitz, Thirty-elghth and
Madison streets. attempted to beat up
friend in the vicinity OF Thirty-siXth
and jackson streets, last evening at
o'clock when Captain Briggs and Ser
geant Sheahan arrived on the scene
BlaHawltz was jailed on charge OF as
sault and battery.