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THE OMAIU RUNT) AT IVEE: JUNT5 16, 1007.
TIMELY REAL ESTATE TALK
Examples of Fine New Homes That Are a Feature of Omaha's Growth
TEST FOR KOUNTZE ESTATE
Suit Filed to Determine Whether it
Escapes Inheritance Tax.
Lait Week Another Period of Quies
cence in Local Market
WAS A USirUl BREATHING SFELL
APFRAISES ASKED OF THE COURT
County Want to Be gore Before l.et
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Last week wan another period of
ulesenc In the local real estate market,
that is. of comparative qulesence. Sev
eral observations were made by local deal
erg whlrh are worth recording In regard
to the situation. One was that the few
days of quiet only allowed dealer and
contractor to catch up with the big busi
ness transacted prior to laat week.
'It la Just a breathing spell." said one
mfcn. And others agreed with him. An
other observation was that what la this
year considered a quiet week would have
been considered a very active week a few
years ago. Omaha dealers have become
used to phenomenal weeks of business dur
ing the marvelous period of growth
through which the city has been going re
cently. Kach week has been more won
derful than the one before and therefore
a fair week Is considered extremely dull.
Of course the weather was obtuse. Only
one or two balmy days appeared In the
week, and It Is a well known axiom or
the real estate business that people will
rot go out to look at property, much less
buy It when the sky Is overcast. Old Sol
la decidedly the ally of the real estate
tnen and of the home buildera.
people are Just like these bugs that
eome out In spring on the sunny side of
wall." said a man. "When the weather
Is cloudy and the wind la blowing , they
don't aeem to reollao that tomorrow the
run may be shining and all the world be
tirlght. It generally takes two or three
days of pleasant weather to relieve them
of the feeling which the clouds have set
tled upon them and to bring them Into
the mood to buy."
Th week has seen the pushing of work
en all the buildings now In course, of erec
tion. The weather has In no way delayed
th contractors and builders and they are
catching up with tha architects, who have
been far In advance for monthe. The foun
dations of tha big Cohn building on North
Sixteenth atreet have been built nearly
lerel with the ground. No building permit
has been taken but yet for tnia atructure.
but It win probably be applied for during
thl week. Tha Toung Men's Christian
Association building waa completed and
opened during the week. Work was begun
on the new Independent Telephone build
ing. The contract for the latter waa let
en the percentage basis, and an odd fea
ture of It la. according to local contrac-
tore, that no bids were asKea ior. in
contract went to the Capital City Brick
and Pipe company and calls for the com
pletion of the two and a half-story fire
proof atructure within ninety days from
date. The contractors were at work on
the building tha tame day tha contract
was signed.
Mora and mora buildings are being
erected on tha percentage plan In Omaha.
This plan la most popular wtlh both
buildera and contractor!. Neither aide
runs any risk. By the terma of the eon
tract tha capitalist may buy the material
for the structure if ha want to. He
merely agrees to pay tha contractor a cer
tain percentage of the cost of the struc
ture for hla service. The contractor
merely appear In the market as an ax
pert employer of labor and an expert
executor of plana drawn by an architect
Vnder tha old system where the contractor
agree to build for a certain um a car
tel nbulldlng. It la more or less of a
gamble whether he can do It or not. He
may bid too low and then be loae money
or ha may bid too high and then the capl
taln building, It la more or less of a
system. It Is claimed, neither aide run
the least risk, the contractor make a fair
profit and' the capitalist get everything
he pay for.
The building record for 1907 Is, up to the
present, far and away In advance of the
building for the same period laat year. Par
ticularly la thle true with regard to cot
tage and the modest Swelling of the
great substantial middle class. In 1906 709
dwellings were erected In Omaha. In 1907
there will be more than 1.100 erected If
the present rate keep up making due al
lowance for the fact that the spring and
eummer are the time of greatest activity
In building.
The largest property deal of the week
was the sale by Dumont ft Son for R. S.
Hall of a lot at Thirty-eighth and Cali
fornia street to R. B. Buach of the firm
of. Crane ft Co., for $8,600. Mr. Buach will
make arrangement to bulld'a home there.
The property la 190x188 feet and wa bought
by Mr. Hall a few yeara ago for the pur
pose of building a home. He decided later
to, buy the John H. Evans place on Far
nam street and therefore did not build. Mr.
Busch recently aold hi home In Kounti
place.
Tha Influx of new resldenta of meat te
make their homes In Omaha continues to
be felt and Indicated on the real estate
barometer. .The expansion of Omaha'
enterprlsea and the reaching out of It
commercial arm la moat surely felt In the
great acarclty of houses In the city despite
the great number of new dwelling and
fat that hare been erected In tha last
few yeara. The Thomas Brennan company
aold to Mr. Clark, a newcomer to the city,
the former- home of Henry Bolln. ex-clty
treasure, at Nineteenth and Wirt street.
The consideration waa 17.600.
T.iat there 1 a large part of the bu ti
neas district of Omaha down on the river
bank below the Burlington tracks and
south of Leaven worth- street 1 not gen
erally known to Omaha people. Paint and
brick factorlea are flourishing there and
two new enterprise are building at tha
present time. These are tha Standard Dis
tilling company and the Haskln Bros, ft
Co. The lat,er' are erecting a two-atqry
brfck building at Second and Hickory
treeta. The expansion of the wholesale
district haa been decidedly along tha banks
of the river. Why Is this thus? Observant
mei aay It point to the time which surely
must come whan big eteamera will ply up
and down the river and will carry cargoes
to and from the wholesale houses. It will
then be of advantage to be located on the
river bank. The expanalon of the whale!
district In late year haa been both south
and north of It former center on Harney,
Howard. Jackson and Jonea street and It
x lias moved decidedly nearer tbe river.
Patrick addition. lying between Twenty-
fourth and Twenty-elxth and between Lake
aad Miami streets, ha been opened dur
ing; the last week by George ft Co. Among
those who bought lot with the Intention
of building immediately are William Gen
tleman, who will build a grocery store)
A. C Kulp, who will build a store for
hi cigar and new business, and Maud
Mogge, wno win erect a residence on a
lot facing Lake street.
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of Omaha' retail business district Is shown
In the skirmish made last week in search
of a building In which a retail ladles'
ready-to-wear garment store could be es
tablished. The Commercial club read a
communication from M. A. Alexander of
Detroit on ' Wednesday stating he was
ready to open a store here and could use
one, two or three large floors In the heart
of the business district. Efforts to find a
suitable location for the house have failed
so fnr. There are several luilldnga In
process of erection, the completion of
which will relieve the congested condition
in the retail part of the. city. These, how
ever, will not be ready for occupancy be
fore fall.
Among the week'a sales by Shlmer &
Chase are these: William F. Murphy of
the I'pdlke Grain company to W. W. Mc
Brlde of McCoy & Co., eight-room modern
frame dwelling at Forty-first and Farnam
streets, (5,70; Anna Phillip to C. E. Swan,
modern cottage at 1733 South Twenty
eighth atreet, $2,200.
Fred G. Eckstrom of Denver has sold
the seven-room modern house at 3039 Marsy
trcet to George Victor of C. B. Liver &
Co. for V3.4O0.
A contract for considerable of the flooring
In the Cudahy Packing company fine new
plant at South Omaha has Just been com
pleted by F. B. Burncss; also the addition
to the Hasklns soap work. The Carpen
ter Paper company's new building Is nearly
completed, work being begun on the eighth
and last floor during the last week.
Taxei In Omaha are said to be exceed
ingly low compared with other cities of
similar size, and even smaller. A visitor
from Sioux City recently pointed but that
while' a business property In Omaha rent
ing for $18,000 would pay taxes of consid
erably less than $3,000 per annum, a similar
property In Sioux City would have more
than $8,600 to pay each year. Similar con
dition are known to exist In other cities
of thl country, and, of course. In foreign
countries the taxes are very much In
excess of what they are here. Therefore,
Omaha can claim a low taxes a any city
on the face of the globe.
A Lincoln real estate man called on an
Omaha brother last week and pointed out
that the real estate transfer In the Capital
City were more than the transfer In
Omaha. And then, the Omaha man pro
ceeded to tell the Lincoln man why wa
thl.
'Here In Omaha." be said, "aoma of the
dealers are getting Into the habit of giv
ing the nominal consideration, while In
Lincoln the provincial custom still pre
vail of giving the actual value In the deed.
Thu In Omaha, we make a transfer for
'$1 and other valuable consideration.' Of
course, If you take 41 a the value of a
tranafer which may be $50,000 or more,
Lincoln' transfers would beat ours.
Papllllon'a might do the same If we all
followed the practice as they do In eastern
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cities of nearly always giving only the
nominal consideration In a transfer of
property."
Hastings ft Heyden last week sold the
two modern flats at the northeast corner
of Twenty-ninth and Harney streets for
W. K. Potter to Daniel M. Hlldebrand for
$18,500. These flats are considered a splen
did Investment proposition. They also sold
the six three-story brick house at the
northwest corner of Twenty-first and Bur
dette streM for $10,000 for W. B. Melkle,
agent to William C. Norrls. ' These flats
are to be entively remodelled and made
Into thoroughly modern, nicely finished
apartment.
They also aold the large tract of vacant
ground at the northwest corner of Twenty
fifth and Franklin streets to Dr. Paul H.
Ellis, who will Improve It by an expendi
ture of over $16,000.
PIECE OF NO MAN'S LAND LEFT
Little Strip of Unidentified Real Es
tate Let Loose by Re
cent Deal.
An announcement Is made at the city hall
that at the recent meeting of the council H.
B. Palmer ft Son were sold a strip of land
they did not want and the city has dis
posed of a mall tract It can illy spare. .
The sale came In connection with the
proposed construction of a building at
Twentieth and Farnam atreet. A careful
survey show there are eight feet of land
abutting on Twentieth street at that point
for which no one hold title. Four feet of
the land 1 Inside the fence at the north
west corner and the other four feet la
under the sidewalk which run along the
fence.' It la now alleged the resolution by
which the land was sold specifies the four
feet: under the sidewalk, while the other
fotrr feet, that which connect with the
property of Captain Palmer I still "no
man' land" so far a the record show.
The matter wa called to the attention
of the councilman who introduced - the
resolution, but he would not be convinced
of the error In the resolution. The fact
waa not mentioned to other and It was
allowed to go through. The mayor signed
the resolution, although hi attention wa
called to the error. Considering the re
lations between the chief executive and
the majority of the council It 1 thought
he may have winked the. other eye when
attaching his name, but the resolution is
now a law and a new one will be required
to get matter In proper fhape, according
to the statement of those who have In
vestigated. SEIZED FISHING SCHOONER
Canadian Ornlaer Take American
Vessel Near Halifax, Inside
Tbree-lflle Limit. .
HALIFAX. N. 8., June 15. The govern
ment -cruiser Canada today seized the
American fishing schooner Fannie E. Prea
cott on the charge of fishing Inside the
three-mtle limit. The Canada 1 towing the
Prescott to Halifax. The Prescott I owned
In Boston.
W. Lininger Was Laid to Rest
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POINTS OF CniLD LABOR LAW
Summary of New Statnte by Deputy
State Commissioner.
OF INTEREST JUST AT THIS TIME
Provision Whipped Into Form for
Employer, Km ploy e and Guar
dian Who Are Anxious to
Know Them.
Monday morning, marking the beginning
of the first business week after the close
of the schools for the year, will no doubt
find a large demand on the part of children
and their parents for permits for the child
to work during the months of vacation:
For the benefit of all persons interested,
either a employer or guardians of chil
dren, the following summary of the child
labor law has been prepared by the
deputy labor commissioner:
1. Places where employment la prohibited:
No child under 14 years of use shall be
permitted to work In any theater, concert
nail, or place of amusement, or any place
where Intoxicating liquors are sold, or In
any mercantile institution, store, office,
hotel, laundry, manufacturing establish
ment, bowling alley, passenger or freight
elevator, factory or workshop, or as a mes
senger or driver therefor.
2. Employment during school hours: It
Is unlawful to employ any child under 14
yearn of age during the hours when the
public schools are In session:
3. Certificate must be kept on file: Chil
dren between 14 and 18 years of age may
be employed In the places named above In
No. 1, providing the employer keeps on Ale
and accessible to the commissioner of
labor, or hi deputies, the truant offlcera,
and numbers of the State Hoard of In
spection, a certificate from the uperlnten
dent of schools giving the age of the
child and ahowlng that he or she has fin
ished the eighth grade of the public schools
or It equivalent, or as a regular attendant
of a night school.
4. Employment dangerous to health or
morals: No child under 18 years of age
shall be employed In any work which is
dangerous to life or limb, or In which It
health may be Injured or Its morals de
praved. Penalty of $50 or Imprisonment
not exceeding ten days for parents or
guardians who permit children under their
care to engage in any employment tn vioia
tton of thl section.
6. List of children employed: Every
employer of child labor must keep two
complete lists of ml such children em
ployed, one on file and one conspicuously
posted near the principal entrance of the
nuiiaing wherein the children are em
ployed.
8. Certificate must be surrendered : Upon
the termination of the employment of a
child so registered, and whose certificate
1 bo filed, such certificate shall be forth
with transmitted by the employer to the
city or county superintendent of schools
who shall surrender same to the child
named therein upon demand.
7. Limitation of hours to be employed
and notice thereof: No child under 18
years of age shall be employed or com
pelled to work more than forty-eight hours
a week, nor more than eight hours a day,
nor before 6 o'clock a. m., nor after 8
o'clock p. m. Employers must post in a
conspicuous place In all rooms where chil
dren are employed, a printed notice stating
the hour required of them each day of
the week and the time allowed for each
meal.
8. Certificate required by law: Three
certificate are provided for in this law,
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via: "School Attendance Certificate," Form
M-No. 1; "F.venlng School Attendance Cer
tificate," Form M-No. 3, and "Age and
Schooling Certificate," Form M-No. ii,
otherwise referred to In the law as the
"Employment Certificate." In case a child
Is an applicant for an employment certifi
cate permitting him or her to work, and
has finished the eighth grade of the public
school, lie or she should fill out tnd file
certificate Form M-No. 1, with the superin
tendent of schools, who will then issue
certificate Form M-No. 2. In case, how
ever, that the child has not finished the
eighth grade of the public schools, but Is
regularly attending an evening school, he
or she should fill out and file certificate
Form M-Np. 3 with the superintendent of
schools, who will then lssiw t lie employ
ment certificate, providing Instruction is
given . In the evening school at least
twenty weeks each year and three even
ings each week and two hours each even
ing. . Weekly certificate required of child at
tending night school: When a child secures
an employment certificate hecaue of at
tendance at an evening school, lie or she
must furnish to his or her employer a
weekly certificate showing continued regu
lar attendance each week while said school
Is In session. Penalty: Whoever employs
a child In violation of thl section shall be
fined not more than $50 for each offense.
A parent or custodian who permits em
ployment of a child under his control tn
violation of till section shall be fined not
more than $20.
10. Py whom employment certificates
must be approved: An employment certifi
cate shall be approved only by the super
intendent of schools or by a person spe
cifically authorized by him, or where there
Is no superintendent of schools, by a per
son authorized by the school district offi
cer. 11. Evidence of child's age must be pro
duced: Where a child apparently under
16 years of age is employed and no cer
tificate for said child Is on file the com
missioner of labor, the truant officer, or a
member of the Board of Inspection may
demand that the employer furnish, within
ten days, evidence that said child Is over
18 years of age, or shall cease to employ
such child. Failure to so do will be prima
facie evidence that said child is being em
ployed In violation of the child labor law
and the employer shall be prosecuted
therefor.
12. Penalties: (a) Whoever employ a
child In violation of aectlon 8 of the act
hall be fined not more than $50 for each
offense; and any parent or custodian per
mitting a child to be employed in viola
tion of said section shall be fined not more
than $20. (b) Whoever employ a child
under 18 years of age, and whoever, hav
ing under hi control a child under such
age, permits such child to be employed In
violation of section 1, 2, 10 or 12 of the
act shall for each offense be fined not
more than $50; and whoever continues to
violate the provisions of the foregoing sec
tions, after being notified by a truant offi
cer, a deputy commissioner of labor, or a
member of the Board of Inspection, shall
be fined from $5 to $20 for each day of vio
lation, (c) Any employer retaining em
ployment certificates In violation of section
2 of the act shall be fined $10. (d) Every
person authorized or required to sign any
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A new Sub-Division at the northwest corner of 24th and Lake Sts. Most of the lots are cov
jred with fine, large trees; 25th street from-Lake to Miami and Ohio street from 24th to the west line
of the Sub-Division will bo graded. '
"Lots from $300.00 up, terms M cash, balance at 6.
Cut this plat out and look over the property today and pick out the lots yon want, then see us
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certificate or statement prescribed by sec
tions 4 or 6 of the act, who knowingly
certifies or makes oath to any material
false statement therein, or who violate
either of said sections shall be fined not
to exceed $00. (e Any person obstructing
officers authorized by the act to enforce
It, or who shall fall or refuse to produce
all certlilcates or lists when called for,
shall be fined not to exceed $50: or Impris
oned not to exceed thirty days. (f) Any
person violating section 13 of the act shall
be fined not to exceed $Ti0 or Imprisoned
not exceeding ten days.
13. To whom violations must be reported:
All violations of the act must be reported
to the commissioner of labor and the
county attorney.
14. Superintendent of schools must end
lists: The superintendent of school or
the school directors of any village, town
or county, shall transmit between the 1st
and loth of each month to the office of
the state commissioner of labor a list of
the name of the children to whom cer
tificates have been Issued.
15. Certificates, blank forms, etc., fur
nished by: All certificates, blank forma,
copies of the law, etc.. will be furnished
by the commissioner of labor, Capitol
building, Lincoln, Neb.
COMPLAINT OUT FOR DE WITT
Warrant Issued t'hsrglsg Hotel Clerk
with Taking; Money of
Employer.
Complaint was filed In police court Satur
day and a warrant Issued In the case of
William H. De Witt, former clerk of the
Bachelors' hotel. Twentieth and Farnam
streets, the complaint being signed by At
torney William M. Glller. It waa cited In
the Instrument that De Witt had taken a
sum amounting to $83.90 belonging to Mary
H. Counant, and the warrant waa placed
tn the hand of the police for service.
Nothing further haa been heard from De
Witt, though the police have auoceeded on
getting on hi trail.
BIG DAM LETS WATERS LOOSE
Alarm Felt In Colorado for Resldenta
Alonar Cache La Pondre
River.
FORT COLLINS. Colo., June U.-Qreat
alarm 1 felt here over a report from up
the river that the big dam at Chamber'
lake, which ha been holding back 70,000,
000 cubic feet of water, ha gone out and a
wall of water five feet high 1 now rush
ing down the Cache la Poudre river. It
Is believed that all people living In the
lowland and on the river bank have es
caped, but it I feared that many fisher
men have been caught In the flood.
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To teat the otiefction whether or not
the greater part of ihe Herman KounUe
estate shall escape taxation under the
Nebraska Inheritance tax law Deputy
County Attorney Elllck Saturday morn
ing filed an application with County Judge
Leslie for the appointment of an appraiser
to appraise the stock and bonds in
cluded In the Instrument of trust from
Herman Kountze to A. F. Kountse. Thl
Instrument conveyed the bulk of the per
sonal property and Indirectly the real
estate to A. F. Kountae In trust to be
administered by him Tor the benefit of
Herman Kountze during hi life. At
hi death under the term of the Instru
ment the trust property waa to be divided
Into seven parts, equal shares going t-
the widow and the six children. The
face value of the stock and bond thu
transferred 1 about $2,000,000.
The real estate belonging to Mr. Kountze
1 Indirectly represented In theee stock
and bond a It waa transferred to the
Texas Land company and the United
State Real Estate and Trust company.
Answer ia F"IIetf.
Isaac Congdon, representing Charte TTA
Kountse, filed an answer to the application
of Mr. Elllck, denying fhe property I sub
ject to taxation In Nebraaka. He says
when the trust Instrument was signed Au
gust 15, 1904, all of the property represented
by It waa transferred from Nebraska to
New York. After Mr. Kountze death
he say the property was appraised under
the New Tork Inheritance tax law and as
sessed there. He contend It la not sub
ject to taxation In Nebraska, being outside
the state. An attempt will be made to
have a speedy hearing In order to de
termine the question.
The property listed In the Instrument of
trsut referred to I:
6,600 shares stock, par $100, Texas Land
company.
t,:24 share stock. United Real Estate and
Trust company.
1,600 share stock, par $100, Northern Coal
and Coke company.
90 first mortgage S per cent bond of
$1,000 each In Northern Coal and Cok
company.
60-800 of 800 first mortgage 5 per cent
bonds, $1,000 each.
1.Z.8 share stock, par' $100, Ohio A Big
Sandy Coal company.
1.043 shares stock, par $100, The Ken
tucky Coal company.
TWO BETRAYALS OF TRUST
W. H. Holme Bound Over and W. B.
Joaee Arrested for Alleged
Emheaalement.
William H. Holme, the Omaha attorney
who waa arrested at Ogden and brought
back to thl city to stand trial on a
charge of embezzlement from a client, wa
arraigned In police court Saturday morn
ing. Holme waived examination and wa
bound over to the district court, bond be
ing set at $3,000.
Another instance of alleged betrayal of
trust cam to light Saturday morning
when officer of Wells, Fargo aV Co. aworel
nut m. MfnnUInt .r.ln.l n'M.HH 771 Taii.i
a former emp'oye, charging him with the
embezzlement of $138,63 and a warrant wa
Served on Jones by Officer Hell. Jonea
cam to Omaha from the De Molne of
fice of the express company and rose to
tha position of cashier of the OmaWa
branch, but a few week ago resigned and
went with the Waterloo Creamery com
pany in a similar capacity. The embezzle
ment waa committed In April, according to
the complaint. Jones 1 married and live
at 628 South Twenty-fourth avenue.
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