Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 23, 1882, Page 9

- ‘a4 STEELE, JOHNSON & C0., WHOLESALE GROCERS AND JOBBERS IN Flour, Salt, Sugars, Canned Coods, and All Grocers’ Supplies. A Full Line of the Best Brands of CIGARS MANUFACTURED TOBACCO. Agants for BRNWOOD NAILS AND LAFLIN & RAND POWDER 00, TI"IE JELM MOUNTAIN G-OLD AND SILV HR Mining and Milling Company. - $1,000,000 Par Value of Shares, = - - - 926,000, STOCK FULLY PAID UP AND NON-ASSESSABLE Mines Located in BRAMEL MINING DISTRIOT. OFEFICEHRS: DR. J. L. THOMAS, President, Cummins, Wyoming, W)L E. TILTON, Vice-President, Cummins, Wyoming E. N, HARWOOD, Secretary, Cummins, Wyoming. A. G. LUNN, Treasurer, Cummins, Wyoming, TRUSTERERS: Louls Miller W. 8. Bramel, Francls Leavens. Geo. H. Falos. Dr. J. C. Watkins, GEO. W, KENDALL, Authorlzed Agent for Sale of Stock: Bov #4¢ Omaha. Neb, A. G. Dunn. Dr. J. 1. Thomas. E.N. H; Lewls Zolman, arwood, n022mesm FOSTER &GRAY, —WHOLESALE— LUMBER, COAL & LIME, On River Bank, Bet. Farnham and Douglas Sts., ONIAXETA - - = NEBE. PP. BOYER & O ——DEALERS IN— HALL'S SAFE AND LOCK GO. Fire and Burglar Proo S A E E S VAULTS, L.OOCK'S, & C. 1020 Farnhamii{Street, NIER" g S. CAULEIELD ~——WHOLESALE— BOOK SELLER AND STATIONER —AND DEALER N— Wall Paper and Window Shades. 1304 Farnham 8t. Omaha Neb. F.C. MORG.AN, WHOLESALE GROCER, 1213 Farnham St.. Omaha, Neh. J. A, WAKEFIELD, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN =W IR TER S R, Lath, Shingles, Pickets, SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, MOLDINGS, LIME, CEMEN PFPLASTERR, ETO. SWBTATE AGENL FOR MILWAUKEE CEMENT COMPANYY Near Union Pacific Depot, OMAHANE: DOUBLE AND SINGLE AOTXNG 'POWER AND HAND B U DK ESS ) 8team Pumps, Engine Trimmings, MINING MACHINERY, BELTING, HOSE, BRASS AND IRON FITTINGS Pl " PAGKING, AT WHOLESALE AND RETAILg =y = ' o 9TES) HALLADAY. WIND-MILLS, CHURCH'AND SCHOOL BELLS A. L. BRANG, 205 For~h~m 8t, Omaha PILLSBURY'S BEST | Buy the PATENT PROCESS MINNESOTA FLOUB. always gives satisfaction, because it mskes superior article of Bread, and is the Chear est Flour in the market, Every sack warranted to run alike or money refunded. W. M. YATES, THE MISSISSIPPI. | The Father of Waters and the Oause of the Overflow, Slickens is What Ails Him—The Fature a Conundrum—What Can the People Do? A Californian who navigated the Mississippi forty the Los Angelos Times concerning the present flood: The nowspapers are full of distross- jears ago writes to ing news of the overflow of the Mis- sissippi river. No one who has not seen this great river with his Sunday clothes on has but little idea of the suffering and hardships brought upon the people living along its banks in consequenca of these terrible floods, such as they are having down there now. These poor suffering souls are entitled to the sympathy of every man, woman and child in the country, and now is the time for Uncle Srm to show that he is as benevolent as he is powerful. In no other way can every- body lend a helping hand than throngh government, For the last thirty or forty years there has been more or less sutfering on the lower Mississippi. Of course this suffering is intensitied s hundred fold in seasons of unusual floods, such as occurred in 1832, 1846, 1867, and 1882, In 1832 the Ouiv river rose to the height of 65 feet. Proba- bly not more than 4 feet difference in the height of the water in those years. It may be interesting to the readers of The Times to know some- thing of the cause of the trouble down there, and what it is that ails the old father of waters that he behaves him- self 8o badly in ordinary years. Slick- cns 18 what ails him, Not the kind that is troubling the Sacramento river; but slickens, nevertheless, brought down by the turbulent cur- rent of the great river. It is pretty evident that the Missiesippi, at one period in the history of this country, poured its waterinto the Gulf of Mex- ico at the mouth of the Ohio. All the interval or bottom land from the mouth of the Ohio tothe present mouth of the Mississippi is _composed of these slickens. There is an m- mense amount of this debris taken down by the current at all seasons of the year, whether the rain be high or low. The Mississippi from the mouth of the Missouri is always muddy. It is a curious fact that the old father of waters flows all the way from Cairo to the Balize ona ridge considerably higher than the bottoms a little way from his banks. Before the dykes or lovees were mace along the banks of the river the overflows were not very deop along its banks, and for somo distance out into the bottoms, for there is a large extent of land on the western side. No high land can be 1.JE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TH‘TY\S‘UAYi MAKCH 23 188x. 7 { PACIFIC RAILROAD FINANCES —— An Official Statement of Earnings, Operating Bxpenses and Govern- ment Expenses The secretary of the interior, in re. sponse to an inquiry from the house, gives n detailed statement of the financial condition of the Pacific roads. Tre totals are as f a: Central | branch of the Union Pac from Oc- ber, 1868, to December 31, 1881: Gross earnings, 86 expenses, 83 581,600.10; net earnings, £1,461,191.90. The interest on first mortgage bonds, amounting to 806, 000 per annum, is not included in the operating expenses. Union Paafie, f 1869, to December earnings, 8167,800,1 November, Gross net earn he annual - | exponses, g ings, §70,685,454 19, torest on the first mo the Unicn Pacific ar to 81, 740. Sinco the consulidation th bonds amounts to $2,480,640, and is not included in the ¢ ponses in this statement ment, however, includes the Kansas idated with the Union Janua 20, 1880. The Kan- 8a8 r{‘ncnic, from subsidized with bonds; gross earn- ings, $25,607,095.18: operating ex- gemva, $14,686,720.14; net earnings, first mortgage bonds, amounting to $378,180 per aunum, is not included in this statement of operating ex- penses, of this road, subsequent to December, 1879, are included 1n the statement of the Union Pacific. Contral Pacifie, November, 6, 1869, to December 31, Gross earnings, i ; operating expenses, 8119,873,- 378 88; net earnings, $£64,507,715.- 76. Toterest on the first mortgage annum, is not included in the opera- ting expenses. Swux City and Pacifie, operating net earn Tuterest on the earnings, oxpenses, $3.279. ings, $1,191,003 807,680 per annum, s not included in the operating oxpenses. The letter of trunsmission states returns were furnisied the depart- ment, but the dates are believed to be reliable, Bradford, Pa. Thos, Fitchan, Bradf I enclose money for Sri 1 said I would if it cured me, My dyspep- Pa, writes: s BLossoM, a8 in the house,” Price 50 cents, tles 10 cents, 1w OF CO! Of all medicines advertised to cure seen on the western side of the river from Cairo to the gulf, except in one place, in going up or down the river on a vessel. The whole ex- tent of country, a thousand miles long, and from five to fifty miles wide, was overflowed, more or less, every time the river brimmed over., Aslong as the rain was per- mitted to overflow these bottom lands, the bed of the river was never ma- terially changed, so far as raising it was concerned. The current over- flowing its banks took along an im- mense amount of debris, and as soon as the water was well over the banks, it became almost standing water, giv- ing the debris an opportunity to settle into fearful mud banks, as many a poor fellow has found to his sorrow. The intervals on the east side are numerous, but not 8o extensive as on the others, for the river makes its way to the bluff or high land in many places. Theseintervals are rich and wonderfully productive, and it was natural enough that the owners of these rich lands should devise means to keep the overflow of the river off these lands, A system of dikes or levees was devised and gone into, and just here is where theretroubles com- menced. They did make dikes, high and strong enough to keep the river within its banks for a time, except in such terrible cases as mentioned. But just as soon as the river was confined within its banks, the bed of the river began to rise, for the debris had to settle somewhere, and so the dikes had to be raised, and now at an or- dinary spring freshet there flows by those large cotton and sugar planta tions on the lower Mississippi an im- mense body of water twelve to fifteen feet higher than the main land. Standing on the boiler deck of the steamer as we passed up and down the river, it looked asif the deck of the steamer was abont even with the tops of the houses along shore. When such a hody of water cuts a gap through one of these dikes two or three hundred feet long, is it any wonder that the adjacent plantations are soon delug- ed! Forty years ago I wasup and down the river frequently and notic- ed what was going on and I turned prophet, as it was, on my own private account and said to myself, these fel- lows may, for a ¢ime, keep this great river between these dikes, but by and by the river bed will get full of mud and sand, and then the old father will break through these temporary banks and ruin the plantations, The plant- ers down there might have put off the day of their calamity a few years, had they, at the start, allowed the river at least five miles in width in which to flow by, but instead of that they did not allow one-third that distance in places. The bed of the river is now 0 high that it requires about the profits of th - plantations to keep the dikes high enough to keep off the water in ordigery high water, much less such awful floods as they are now having. Another decade aud it will take all they can raise to pay for keeping up the dikes. Some of those large cotton and sugar plant- ers have bean squealing for several ears. ~They say it 1s the duty af ncle Sam to come to the rescue,and keep up the dikes for them, That is about on a par with our slickens gen- tlemen up above Sacramento, apply- ing to the state to take off the slick- ens that they may continue to make mouey by washing down the moun- tains into the Sacramento river, rais- ing its bed until no dike can be made that will keep this water off the farms and cities along its banks, May be Uncle Sam will do it—may be he won't any aftection of the Throat, Chest or Lungs, we know of uone we can rec- ommend 8o highly as Dr. KiNg's New Discovery for Consumption Coughs, 801; operating | { bonds of | ¢ nual interest on the first wmortgage CHIOAGO ROCK ISLAND & PA |( Stearns & Runner, rating ex- 18 the only line from Chicago cwning track In ! This sate. | Kansas, Rolnta above namied. No tusxarks bt C and Denver Pacific, whi h was consol- | ventilated or unc! ger Pacific | earried In roomy, clean and vontilated ooaches I November, | PAuAox Surrrixo Caws, and our 1808, to Docember 31, 1870, 304 miles [ I8 OAks, pon which meals arc 11,081,276.04. The intercst on the | nections at all pointa of n; The earnings and expenses | and A $184,381,- | oficos in the Urited States and Vice Pres't & Gen. 117,42 miles, from September 50, f oy 3 1808, to Dogember 01, 1821: Groms kit Jng& Gmmc]l Blufis first mortgage bouds, amounting to Direct Line to ST. LOUIS that prior to July 1, 1878, no official | %o changs of car b AN HONEST MEDICINE FREE | "5 f Wb 8" amon stattons to the . F, BARNARD, —— e —— —— C ( 1 CIFI0 RATLWAY s, oF which, by {ta own road, reaches th | 1 (« No w1ssiNa conNmeriona! No huddlin 1 CATS, 09 every pase: upon Fast Expross Traine DAY OARs of unrivaled magn! Poiusar | rid faciour | ¢ un urpassed oxcollonce, at the low Fixn Cxxrs waci, with ample 4 anjoymont. hrough Car botwoen watikoe and Missour) RS v w healthtn | road: W Hokeot (do u flace ot importance in Kunean Hills, Wyoming, Idaho, Nevadn, Oregon, Washington Territory, (' o forgat this, o Joo Johns W. C. Maxwell W. N. Malor e en | Landon & Linderholm "' [ Amos & Malcne A. H. Dray, A. A Borden, A. Blodgett. J. F. Kinr S, AL Cullfi‘ BUSINESS DIREOTOYR. or BSSEN, FPAGEH COUNTY, TOWA. HAMBURG BRANCH OF THE O, B, & Q. . M. Wilson Cashier, B, M. Webster's Bank [ Nye & Moore Ciile General Merchandise | A, M. Jones .General Merchandise Iohn Linderholm Easiman v & Donaldson ph Taverner on Bros .General Merchandise .General Merchandise ..General Merchandise vigie .Groceries Groceries & Meat Restaurant and Confectionery Restaurant and Confectionery Restaurant and Confectionery . Hardware and Farm Tmplements Hardware and Farm Implements Jharles Hemenover ), E. Brooks doLee & Ross C. Nichols .Drugs M. Barlow ....Drugs N. 8. Gromberg W ..Drugs 0 Owant, the' Covuwneras | James Martin ... Packing Houso TRRS from which sdiate Pearson & Hartman. . .. ‘e ?lnrncu EVERY LINE OF ROAD )i D, v ici; - [ that penatrsteathe Gominca tom: the Misonr | 1o O Mogre, M. D. - Ehysician RIver to the Pacific Slope, 5. Bokerson, M. D..... - Physician ). M. Burhank, M. D vedbiens Physician meopathic Physicians .............. Law . Essex Index Lumber and Coal Lumber and Coal .......... Elevator team Elevator and Mill i, B. Jennings 1. W. Churchill ), A, Poe.... 100, Palmer & Pendleton & Co. . 3 M, Folk....... . . W, Churchill . Nursery Russell . Nursery 1. C. Kiester. ....Coal s B Day. .. . Lindell House Boots and Shoes Livery J. C. Thorp. arber Dogo and tackls of sportemen fre Goorge Stitt. Barber Tickets, taaps and folders at al clpa D. W. Jones .Creamery R. R. CABLE, ST, JOHN, [ Gon, Tht and Pass'r Ak Manager, Chicaco bonds, amounting to 81,717,080 per 1880, SHORT LINE. 1880, KANSAS CITY, IRATLIRO.AD 8 THE ONLY AND THE EAST From Omahaand the West. and but one_between OMAHA and NEW_YORK B =X o Daily Passenger Trains SAonNG Al EASTERN AND WESTERN CITIES with LESS CHARGES “’Fd I AHV‘CNL‘H of ALL OTH NE 3, £dr=c0 that your tickod reads VIA nANSASE OITY, ¢ T. JOSEPH & COUNCIL BLUFFS Ba ! Wost. A C.DAWES, Gon. Josoph, Mo Gon, Pass, and Tickes Agt., St. Josoph, Mo, ANDY BORDRS, Tickot Alent, 1020 Farnham A. B, Bammawp General Agent, OMAHA,'NE Colds, Asthma, Broneitin Hay ¥o'| IO Gty & Pacific Throat, loss of voice, ete. This med- icine does positively cure, and that where everything else has failed. No medicine can show one-half so many positive and permanent cures as have already been effected by this truly wonderful remedy. For Asthma and Bronchitis it is a perfect specific, cur- ing the very worst cases in the short- est time possible. We say by all means give it a trial. Trial bottles free. Regular size 81.00. Forsaleby 3/1)1y Isa & McManow, Omaha, Real Estate 5,000 PIECES PROPERTY! For Sale By JOHN M. CLARKE, 8. W. cor. Douglas aud 14th Sts. fobS-cod-tf FAST TIME! In golng East take the Chicago & Northwest- ~Trains loave Omahs 8:40 p. m. and 7 For full information call on H. P, DU Agent, 14th and Farnham St B Railway Depot, or at JAMES T. CLA Awens, Omaha. 1a17m&e tf BOSTON MARKET, Cuming Street LA N flfiS, Propr, Fresh and Balt Meats of all Kinds, Poultry, Fish, &c., in Season, CCDIE ATIT =¥ M. R. RISDON, Gen'l Insurance Agsnt PhomE bt oy o Loy, I Cash Assctt, ., . 86,804,604.00 Westchesser, N, Y., Capital .+ 1,000,000,00 The Merchants, of Newark, N, J., Capital, ... + 1,276,000.0 Glard Fire, Philadelphis, Capital. ... 1,200,000.0 Firemen's Fund + 1,280,916.0 ""Ofos, Boyd's Gpora House, John @G, Jacobs, (Foruerly of Gleh & Jacobs,) "' “ERTAKER DexterL. ThomaséBro, WILL BUY AND BELL REAX. BST.ATE AND ALL TRANHACTION CONNEOTHD THEREWITH, Pay Taxes, Rent Houses, Hto. ¥ YOU WANY 10 BUY OF SKLL 0 Ofce Room & Orelyh'on ok, Ouaba fllmfl" J. L AXLIRO AT, THEII‘éIOUX OI?Y ROUTE Runs a Rolld Train Through from Oouncil Blufts tc St. Paul Without Ohange Time, Oniy 17 Hours 1OO MILES TBII'H_HORTE!T ROUTE GOOd Goods ! aou OOUNOIL BLUFFS8 TO 8T, PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS DULUTH OR BISMARCK and all pointe in Northern Iows, Minnesota and Dakota. This line 1 equipped with the improvea Westinghouse Automatic Air-brake and Miile Plattorm Coulor and Buffer: aud for BPEED, BAFETY AND COMFORT Omaha and de, Louls, I |08 FARN AM ST. ) - 'HENRY LEHMANN, JOBBER OF WALL PAPER, AND WINDOW SHADES, EASTERN PRIGES DUPLICATED, ‘ W‘;_OMAHA. BASWITZ & WELLS, ] LINES, d R aquipped w sia has vanished, with all ifs symptoms. |, Thi® Sntiee lioe ta squipped with Balmans 0 P ERA H 0 USE s H OE s I ORE Many thanks; T shall never be without it | Sajoty Platlors and Couplor, and the cetebrted y bot- | Westinghouse Atr.brako. Under Boyd’s Opera House. Are noW daily receiving large Stocks of SPRING GOODS ! And invite the people to.call and examine Goods. Low Prices ! AND SQUARE DEALING AT THE “Opera House Shoe Store.” jan81-d3m 1o unsurpassed. Pullman Palaco Slooping Car run through WITHOUT CHANGE botwoon Kan sas City and St. Paul, via Council Bluffs and Sloux City. Trains leave Union Pacific Teanstor at Coun- cll Blufle, ot 7:36 p. m, daily on arrival of Kaneas City, St. Josoph and_ Councl Bluffs train from the South. _Arriving at Sloux City 11:35 p. m., and at the New Unlon Dopot at ¢, Paul at 12:50 noon, TEN HOURS IN ADVANCE OF ANYJOTHER ROUTE, jornemmbe s i i s sk | HAVE DECLINED SLIGHLTY the Quickest Time and o Comfortable Rido o the Through Cars between COUNCIL BLUFFS AND ST, PAUL. £ar o that your Tickets read via the “Bloux City and Pacific Rallroad 7.8, WATTLES, 3. R. BUCHANAN Suporintendent. Gen'l Pass, Ag P. E. ROBINSON, Ass't Gen'l Pass. Ay Missour! Valloy, I J, H. O’BRYAN, Southwertern Ag Councl Blufls, Iowa |THE OCCIDENTAL | ——— Proprietor Corner 10th and Howard Btreets, OMAHA, NEB Ratax .Two Jollars Per Day. BTATEMFNT OF THE AMERICAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA Januvry, 1st. 1882, Cash Copital, 00,000 00 Reservo for Ko Ins 016,240 66 Kasorvo for Unpald Loans and other claims Net Burplus 42,627 82 282 89 $1,620,307-38 SUMMARY OF INVESTMENT, Roal lflnutlls o 1l ‘%E\:'lxfi % Mo s 1ot llens, X Foun o Cotlaterats 118,762 41 Socks and Bonde 445,160 26 U. 8. Bonds 620,100 Ground Rents 19,520 01 Premiums in course of Collection 10,868 67 Accrued Int, and Rents 18,217 91 Cash on band and in Banks 85,408 63 $1,620,807-87, Tuios, R. Manis, Tuos. A. MONTUOMERY, Prosidont Vice-President. A, C, L. Chawrokp, Becretary, 1cHA kD MAKIS Ass't Becrotary, BRABKA, INSURANCE DEPARTMENT, Fob.1,1882. AUDITOK'S OFKICK. BTATE OF D Lixc 1t is her y cortified that the American Fire a8 of Fire Insurance in this State for the current year, Witnoss niy hand and seal of the Auditor of 'Public Accounts the day and yoar above wiit en. JOIN WALLICHS, Auditor of Public Accounts, In Charge of Ingurauce Departmient, ~————AND———— J. B. Detwiler the first to make the announce- ment to his customers and the general public. PAYNTER, MATTINGS, OIL GLOTH AKD WINDOW SHADES, Always sold at the lowest Market Prices. We carry the largest stock and make the Lowest Prices. Orders promptly filled and every attention given to patrons. J. B. DETWILER)| 1813 Farnham Street. OMAHA, - - - - NEBRASKA. ROTH & JON HS, Tuwuraee G of Uuliadsipica, i the Bato of Ponnsy|vania has complied 'withithe Insuranc o e s a e u 3 tate, and {8 authorized to transact » No. 1408 Farnham Street, Omaha, I‘lgl‘); {