THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH IB, mi.
Dan Gaines and Dave Baum
Buy New Apartment House
Dan W. Gains and David Baum
have bought tht Portland apartments
and the Portland Annex at tne soutn
uit rnnwr of Park avenue and Leav-
Aa Soon as Governor Signs the enworth ttreet of Jamei C Ish, the
Payne & Slater
BENSON, FLORENCE
IN GREATER OMAHA
Annexation Bill City Coun
ell Will Act.
COMMISSIONERS FAVOB IT I
negotiated
transfer. The consideration at
nounced a S 25.000,
This gives Mr. Gaines and Mr.
Baum the ownership of both the
Uintah and Portland apartments, the
A. nnn Twivcmor Neville sixns Uintah having been purchased by
the Benson-Florence annexation bill 1 them last year.
and the measure shall nave Decome a
law, the city council will pass the
necessary ordinance to merge these
tuburbs into Greater Omaha.
"I favor early action by the city
council. I have heard of no oppo-
lition and am of the opinion that the
:itizens of Benson and Florence favor
annexation," stated Mayor Dahlman.
The citv commissioners favor the
proposition and are willing to let the
mayor tatce ine initiative, ivcsiucm,
nf Rrnnn and Florence who oppose
annexation will be given a hearing
before the city council committee of
the whole.
Cheaper Now.
"I think this is a matter which
should he sriven careful consider
tion, to determine just what we are
getting. But I also believe that if we
are ever to annex Benson and f lor
rnr it would be cheaper to do it
row." laid Commissioner Tardine.
Commissioners Withnell and Hum
mel were outspoken in favor of annexation.
This annexation bill empowers tne
Omaha city council to annex oy or
dinance without action by the offv
i-laU nf tin- annexed territory. Ben
son will have an election on April 3
and the suggestion has been maae
th the. residents of that suburb at
that time cast a preferential vote for
the men they would have as nomi
nees at the next Greater Omaha city
election, this being on tne assumption
that annexation is a toregone con-
rlncinn.
Annexation of Benson and tiorence
and a narrow strip between Benson
and Omaha would give greater
Omaha an area of thirty-six square
miles, the present area being thirty-
one and one nan square miies. ruur
rhnnla would be added and approxi.
mately 1,800 school children woum De
brought into tne greater cuy.
Commercial Club
To Support Wilson
In Case of a Strike
The following resolutions were
adopted by the executive committee
of the Omaha Commercial club in
reference to the threatened strike:
tti Mronffiv orotflit fcninit th thlreaO
nd trik of miway mployei tt thii
timt, www tiw eisninour iaw w unnv i
conillrtion by tht tuprm court of th j
TTnttd utnta. Atid whll tha, country la :
facttif a rt erlala and nteda tha Co-op-
arfttioti at aa a pcriuiiB-vimhwib
available all Its reiourcea and transporta
tion faoltltlea to compute the .preparation!
for national defense.
We pledge our support to tha praaldent
of the United Statea in hta effort to prevent
thla threatened assault upon our commerce
nd rr arm nor tat Ion.
. Thla club oflera ita co-operation to tha
eltlxena of Omaha generally to protect tha
buelnees of Omaha, tha uninterrupted em
ployment of ita labor, to aonaerve ita food
ana zui mvppu n w
meana Of transportation ana commerce
Four Want Separation;
One Woman Gets Her Wish
decree granted in aivorce coun as iui-
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.Tnasmhinsi Norrla against James Noirla,
nonaupport altered. f
Maw B rmrnn art Inst Clarence H.
RmiiBh H. Qraen aaalnat Lester B, Green,
nonsjuppwis. im'
Mary Mudra against mn moon, M-uir
aiieseOi
Edna, BuforA from John H, Baford, da-
Business Men of
Omaha Take Action
on Railroad Strike
At a meeting? of the Executive
Committee of the Business Men'i
4.oi.tinn of Omaha, held Friday
noon, the following resolutions bear
ing on tne inreaienea ruinnu mm
were unanimously aaopusu.
WHEREAS, We we again con
with the threat, of a natlon-
hHHa rnilrnarl strike, lust at S time
vilion the transDortation lines of the
country are beginning to iree inem-
selves irom a serious ireigni, cunges
tion, and when industry throughout
the country is beginning to take on
new life and activity, and,
WHEREAS, This strike comes
when we may at any time expect a
decision from the United States Su
preme Court concerning the validity
of the so-called Adamson Eight-Hour
Law, and,
WHEREAS, This strike threatens
to crioDle the entire system of trans
portation of our country and paralyze
its resuurces, at a lmuc wiieu tuo veiy
life and well-being of our nation is
jeopardized by the probability of war
with a foreign nation, and wnen
every endeavor of the nation and its
people should be put forth in prepar
ing for the dangers confronting us,
now, therefore, De it
RESOLVED, That the Business
Men's Association of Omaha. Ne
braska, condemn the said strike
threat and plans as ill-advised, un
patriotic and subversive of the true
interests of our country at this criti
cal time, and especially in view of
the fact that the general managers
have offered, and still offer, the op
portunity for arbitration of the ques
tions at issue, and a peaceable and
orderly settlement thereof, and, be it
further
RESOLVED. That we hold that a
strike on the railroads of the country
at tnis time would, in effect, De giv
ing aid and comfort to those who are
plotting against and seeking the rap
ture of our national life, and, be It
further
RESOLVED. That this Association
tled?es itself that in the event said
strike is perpetrated, it will exert its
utmost efforts to preserve law and
order, so that the men who desire to
exercise their right and privilege to
work may be fully protected therein,
and so that cessation of transporta
tion and the injurious results there
David Cole Buys Young .
Property On West Farnam
Another big Farnam street real
estate deal has Just been closed in
the sale ol the Erastus Young prop
erty to David Cole (or $60,000.
This is the property at tht south
west corner of Thirty-third and Far
nam streets, 195x182 feet. It lies
on the south side of Farnam with 195
foot Farnam street frontage.
George & Co. handled the deal.
David Cole, in purchasing this prop
erty, breaks rather suddenly into the
field of dealing in city property as
such. Real estate men say he is a
new one on the horiton of possible
future dealers in high class city prop
erty in Omaha.
Teeth Final Identification
Of Body Taken from River
Examination of the teeth of a dead
man found floating in the Missouri
river proved that it was not the hus
band of Mrs. Jens Jensen of Yankton,
S. D who came here In search of her
missing husband. She remembered
certain filings in his teeth and, though
the body resembled her husband in
every way, the teeth caused her to
change her mind.
Wife Sues Street Railway
For Death of Her Husband
Forty thousand dollars damages are
asked by Louisa E. Menu, a stenog
rapher, 2618 Binney street, for the
death of her husband in a suit filed
in district court against the Omaha
& Council Bluffs Street Railway com
pany. Fritz F. Ments, a painter, the peti
tion alleges, was injured when a street
car on which he was a passenger
stopped suddenly as he was walking
down the i aisle. The accident oc
curred on March 9, 1916, and Ments
died on December 28. The wife as
serts that his life gradually wasted
away.
Grain Market Aggressive
In Spite of Strike Talk
Omaha grain men are of the opin
ion that the pending railroad strike
will be settled before the walkout or
der ever reaches the trainmen and
with that idea uppermost in their
minds thy pushed wheat prices up
J5H cents, corn ltjjiHa cents and
oi ti 1 cent a bushel.
The Omaha market was active and
all kinds of grain was in good de
mand, the tablea being cleared long
before the end of the short session.
Wheat receipts were twenty-four
carloads and sales were mad at $1.83
(pi 1.90; corn, sixty-one carloads, $1.06
(Ci1 1.06 14, and oats, twenty carloads.
5V4(RS8H cents per bushel.
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