Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 1, 1883, Page 7

| v " 2 F oo £ - AT~ Harkness Bros, COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA. R EOLRILY B D A CHOICE ASSORTMENT OF RUSSIAN GIRGULARS | oodos W THE DAILY BEE--SATURDAY. DECEM! GOUNCIL BLUFFS, ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS, \ oOUK Bwes, [ The GroaRaibwly Conter of thel souri Valley, A Brief Outline of Her Railway and Commercial Facilities, Her Part in the Inauguration of the First Trans-Continen- tal Railway, An Interesting Paper, Contributed by Hon. . ¢, Bloomer. It was the vision of an approaching railway train that loomed up continually before the eyes of ihe carly sottler of Council Bluffs, making their way hither, sither by stage ¢oach across tho state, or toiling slowly up the Missouri through snags and over sand bars, their hopos steadily looked forward to the day when the whistle of the locomotive would bo heard among the blutfs and they could seat themselves in the cars for a spoedy visit to their old homes in tho cast, The passage of the railroad law by congress, in the spring oi 1856, providing for the construction across the state of four dis- | tinet lines of railway, gave fresh impulse to these aspirations and renewed the hopes of their early civilization. Only one of these roads was originally designed to strike the Missouri river at this point, but instead of one, three of them were finally construoted to Council Blutts, But we had to wait a long time for their iron fracks to reach ws. ' The first cars New Markets, Cloaks: IDolmans Latest Style for $75.00, priced elsewhere $125.00. * (1] “« “ : 50.00’ [{3 o ¥ 75'00. [ {3 {3 5 6.00, [{3 ({3 9.00' 10 Do=zen BlaclzslJersey Jaclkets, we will offer at $2.50 cach, sold elsewhere for $4.00. v CARPETS. Carpets at 18c, worth 30¢ per yard. ~from the eastgame into the'tity over the ilin a year or two later, and finally the ,niuawim‘nuuuthedfl rtups an i|of five separate trajns of cats over as Northiwestern, rond January 22, 1867, The cars over the Burlingten route came third, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific was finished and its first cara rolled into the city ort the 12th day of May, 1869, which sas made a gala day. in Council Bluffs.. _Since then the wun of railroad extension from the east, north and south has gono steadily for- ward, until now each jmorning andf eve- ival different roads fromwChicago, two from St. Louis, and one from Sioux City and St. Paul.” . But to the west! the great west! the sights and thoughts of the residents of Council Bluffs were constantly. turned, and the inquiry was constantly’made, shall we ever have o railroad across the continent uniting the east and west in iron bonds of commuinication. Many hardly darod to fhope for so wonderful a consummation, while with others the vis- ion of its fulfillment loomed up brightly before them. * But it came more rapidly than many dared to hope for. In 1854, Gen. Dodge, then & young engineer, traced a line for a railroad far into thel’ mountains, and he emjoyed the great felicity of seeing that very line ere a little more than a decade had passed vay, adopted by the great continental railway to the Pacific ocean. In 1836 General Samuel S, Curtis was elceto representative in congress from the Southern district of lowa. He was an earnest and persistent advocate of a rail- road from the Missouri river to the Pa- \ Ingrain Oarpets at 45¢, worth 60c. Tapestry Brussels at 60c, worth 90c. Best quality Body Brussels at $1.15, % worth $1.40. | 1,000 yards Canton Matting, at 20c, | worth 80c, less than can be imported to-day. ..., Ingrain Carpets at 22c, worth'35c., . OUR NEBRASKA CUSTOMERS 'WILL FINDITT0 THEIR INTEREST T0 EARLY EXAMINE THESE G00DS:| Qur Bkilled Workmen will Make and Lay ‘Carpats in Omaha ‘at the sams Price ag in Council Bluffs, OUR STOCK I8 COMPLETE IN EVERY DEPARTMENT OF SIE, Dress oo, ogs P, Ve, &, L AT PRICES THAT WHI DEEY GOMPETITION . ‘ Omaha agnd No_l)rasku customers purchasing bills of $10 and 3 upwards, will receive bridge transportation ‘both ways. Towa customers will save their transportation by salling at citic. Me continued to press its con struction upon the attention of the na tional Jegislature., Iy was 1hade chair- man of a special committee charged with its consideration, and veported the bill in a subsequent congross, which finnlly F’uwd both houses, by which the Union acific railroad was incorporited, and he _ | whole R 1 1883, wuld start from the wostern 1 { of Towa has beon complicd swith to its {Tallest oxtont. And the - result of transaction n that we now within the limits of city a_mag Union dopagy Frofy “VV:FT\U\ pars over this grodt highWhy s/ and starts ard on it ourney. 4 The fbroad! & of lovel land $leading . to and on cither side of this depotis covered with iron tracks made necessary for the transaction of its business, and near by are oxtensive freight depots, stock yards, in which thousands of live stock are pro- vidod for and shipped for enstern mar- kets, and the largoest elovator for the con venient handling of grain in vast quan tities, in the wholo country. From this depot passenger and freight trains leave almost hourly for Denver, Ogden, Great Salt Lake, San Francisco and nearly every point in the vast regions, two thsusand miles broad, lying beyond the Missourl. Lot any one take his position at tho Union Pacifio depot on the after- noon of any of theso glorious autumnal days, and he will see one long train of the Union Pacific well up to the depot from the west with its hundreds of pas- ndary the sengers from overy town under the sun. On the castern side of the depot stands five long trains ready to receive theso travelers for tho cast, another for tho south, and still another for the north, The work of transfer goes busily forward. It is an animating scone. Uno seos rmlvlo of al most every nationality under the aun pass before him, whilo the piles of bag gage, the big loads of express. goods, in- cluding doz of sliver and gold bricks from the western mines, heaped upon drays and rolled through the depot for tho castern trains add animation to the sceno. And when the numerous trains from tho east, south ana north arrive at the same point, tho same scene is pre sented, only that the erowd and the rush is reversed, being from the east to the west, tho crowd being sometimes even greater, owing to the great number of cmigrants from our own and forcign countries who are seeking homes in the wost. Rocently the track and cars of the Union Pacific have been extended for nearly a mile up to Broadway, right in the businesifcenter of the citg, thoreby adding greatly to the convenichce of our citizéns wighing to use theroad, eitherfor the purposacof travel or the transmission ?fl roighb. ;' Anothir ling isssoon | to be extended east from the depot to Main street, a point right in the midst of our great agricultural warehouses, so that their proprietors can ship their goods right from their very doors to supply the vast regions of the west with imple- menta for their rapid development and cultivation. Thus at the expiration of Gientiles first bogan to tdke the plage of the oziginal, Memnon ettlers, Colinieil Bluffs has bacome a grest railroad centre —one "0f 'thé greatest In the countdy, ith trains of cars numbered by hun- dreds, leaving ocach day enst, west, north and south, for every part of the union. Verily, on this glorious Thanks- giving day have the people reason to re- turn abundant thanks for the many favors and blessings vouchsafed to them by the giver of all lm’dfi . Broomgr. — A Onse Not Beyond Help, ~Dr. M. H. Hinadale, K ut of drey advison He “'A nefghbour's i with t lung dineaso, and pronounced beyond p from Quick Consumption. As n last ro- w porsundad to try DR. WM. THE LUNGS. nt of all, by the sho had need one half dozon bottles she was about the houso dving hor own work. T saw her a her worst and had no idea she could recover.” To the astoni S Seo the slaughtered prices on millinery at Bliss', R — We have'a very fine lino of builders’ hardward. Come and sce us hefore finishing your house. Cooper. & Mctice, 41 Main strect. Jut eceived @ Cooper-deMcGee's, 41 Main nLcm, » largd invoice of .skhtes, all sizes and kinds, and at prices to suit all. o — We argclosing out our heating stoves lived to see the great work, of which he had 80 long been the earnest defender, well under way toward its completion. The Union Pacific raitroad act provided that one branch or line of the road should start_from the western boundary of lowa, and President Lincoln by proc- lamation, on the 17th day of November, 1863, fixed its point of Xo]mrlure within thé limits of the townsllip im Towa, op- posite the town of Omaha, in Nebraska. This point However, was soon found not tofbe sufligiently specific, and thérefore i the Tthiday of March, 1864, President Lijcoln idsued a s order fixitig dhe point of de > ern boundary of the state of Towa, of and opposite to the line of s township 15, range: 13, in territory of braska, - This point, 5o fixed was it ted nearly due west of the husiness oon ter of the city of Council Blufls, and it necessitated the construction of a high bridge across the Missouri river. It gave general satisfaction. The announcenent WA mmlu‘fieru on the last day of Marchy and en the evening of the 2d of April a large meeting was convened in front of the Pacific house, at which & number of congratulating;addresses were, made and general . joy was exprossed over the bright prospects for the city in the near future, The work of building the great high- way went rapidly forward, Peter A. Dey was the first chief engineer of the Union Pacific railway, Ho was an lowa wan, and he was succceded by Gen. G, M. Dodge, of our own city, who cont ucd to fill the position until the road was finished. The construction of the great bridge across the Missouri river was com- 1 menced in the fall of 1 Boomer, of Chicago, General ing the superintendent in plans prepared by General Dodge. It went forward steadily from this time until finally, on the 224 day of - March 1872, the tirst pagscuger car drawn by an engine of the Union Pacific road crossed the bridge dnd mo: | Rock Tsland rod, whero | witnossd bw /= e number of the citi coms of Coungil Bluffs, Thus the great work was accomplished, and the most sanguine hopes of tho early setflers of the two cities had been fulfill d, and thenceforth the journey across the conti nent, through valley and over mountain, could bo made with the greatest comfort and satisfacticn over the greatast live of railroad then built in the world Then followed the contest over the manner in which the railroad should be operated across the new bridge, the loca- tion of the new depot and the point from which the trains from the west should be HARENESS BROTHERS, 401 Broadway, Council Bluffs, Towa, L started. TInto the particulars of that con- tost— attended, as 1t was, with not a lit- tle bitterness—it is unnocessary to enter, Butlice to say, that every point raised has been decided in favor of "Council Blu; and the original order of President Lin: coln thet the Union Pacific railread v advent wis | for tho season, It will pay you to call and ;8o ghem. Coopor & McGee, 41 Main strdet. Fi b ——— PROSYEROUS HAMBURG, what a Bee ll:lu (or Suw and Learncd ere, Hameuna, Tn., November 30,—This is # prospérous town, of bout 3,000 inlwbi- tang, located infho oxtremo (gouth west- ernicorner of thil state, Mithin #ger. short, distance—a littly more than stono ¥ tifow—fromfio corporatio cbraska, Missouri and Kansas Jedides the natural advantage of being situated in _the rich Missouri valley, Hamburg is favored with -~ various other advantages, prominent among whichare its railroad facilities. Situated on the K. C., St. J; & C.'B. railway, fifty miles south of Couricil Bluffs, at the. juncture of the Nebraska City branch of the C., B. & Q.. which connedts with , the main line of the “*Q.” at Red Oak, . the ship- ping facilition of Hamburg are excellent. 1t is decidedly the best point on the main line of the K. C., St. J C. B. road between Council Bluffs and St. Joe, Mo.; and also one of the most prosperous towns in southwestern lowa, The churches sustained here are the Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist both north and south, Christian, - Cathol German, and Latter Day Saints, public school building is a fine brick structure, located on a prominentand beautiful magni 3 & commanding o it view of the country for miles and.miles around. elovation, Hawmburg ds fully up to the times also in theamusement line, g it has a wel auged and tasty epera house, with a seating - capacity for, 500 people on the first floor, and fitted up with the latost appurtenances. In the bascient is now running one of the best managoed skating rinks of the scason, Here 15 also head quarters for the “Inter-State Fair associ ation," embracing four states lowa, Ne braska, Missouri and Ka.sas. The as- sociation has extensive interests adjacent to the town, where each year is held a grand exhibition of the products of these four states. Two excel- lent weekly newspapers— The Times and The News flourish, Your news- gatherer found the best of hotel accom modations und the kindest of attention at the Commorcial house, kept by that genial landlord, K. Storey. The private business enterprises of Hamburg are first class, and among the number 1 mention some, — - m— 6, block 11, Hall’s add— 8500, A. D. Howe to Rhoda Billups, lot 7y Toedt Bros eneral hardware [ block 21, Howard's add- 8800, | dealors, woll established, carrying a tine [ Total sales, $13,617. wnd varied gfock, and enjoy a_very 1) — 2 T tr e ' wa U Dougias jguin Lpugh Dry » A. 1 Noble¥ the Becognilkd musical ) :“,, "T"“;f."",'”'*n';%l. dpale this unfl\nu:*nm{ ries a full sfock, §from afjowsharp t§ the finest o plano. yi A A N, + T ately 1dcated nck-of groce s, is already foeling at W. R. Calkina koeps a_grocery store, well filled With plain and fancy grocories, and enjoys a_splondid trade ambng the farmors of this section. Mr. Calkins has been a resident of Hamburg for the last thirty years. The pioncer merchant hero is W, N Smith, who has been doing business here for the last twenty-one years. He is located in the opera m..cfl, with a full line of gencral merchandise. Four clorks aro kept busy walting on the numerous customers of this ostablishment. F. W, Hill, the dentist, isa young man ot fine education and oxperimental practice; ‘has been'located hore for the past two years, and ¢hjoys a liboral patronage in his line, I, B. Rumsoy, M. D., a graduato of tho state univoraity, also of Cleveland, Ohio, and lately a practitioner of Towa city, is comfortably at home in this thriving city. The legal profession i well and ably represented liere, prominent among the reprosontatives is M. I'. Harris, who is also a Nestor of no small note. Stowe &\ Hammond have here a branch of their Omaha oft I'his firm is too well and succossfully knowit to-Tequire any ex tonded newspaper pufl. Frkw, —— Some Doubt the Bible And the motives of its anthors, hut none whao have used them doubt the eth of Hundock Llowd Bitters, s splendid Dlood tonic is still without a peer, e— Two dol- Why let your children die? lars worth” of Dr. Jeflories’ (Counoil Blufls) preventive and o - therin “will afford ' per protection, Send at quited. once for it. Nophysician re. g Tt costs only twenty-five cents to sce the great paintings of the world by going to the Baptist charch this evening, e Whata Beo Man Fo Thompson & C¢ The large brick building on Wourth streot, near Broadway, with its hand- about thirty yeats from the time the [some front, is familiar to our citizons, | plaint, wnd tne and its imposing ‘appoarance always at- tracts the attention of strangers. Every- body knows that it is Van Brunt, Thompson & Co.’s, but many do not know the full oxtont of that establish- ment. In fact one needs to go through it—up-stairs, down-stairs—and sce the variety and quality of agricultural im- plements being handled thero. Tue Brk man tried it the other dny, and was more than ever convinced that Council Bluffs must continue to be more and more the great western hoadquartexs for this line of goods, 8o long as such establishments are permanently located here. Thi¢ main. building is, about seventy fect square, three stories and basement, and is certainly complete in all respects, with e and ol conveniences for handling sily and quickly. The first floor s devoted to the oflices and the display largo o other Jf samples, making a showing almost as Tho second i i interesting as an exposition (foor is filled mainly with carriages, bug- The third gies, etc, in great vaviety floor and the roows, the lighter coods being on thetop ment is filled with such heavier goods as farm wagons, powers, mills, otc. But even this large building is not enough,. Adjoining it 14 » large frame warehotse, about 50 feot square, and near the Northwestern depot thefirm has another warehouse, n {wo-story frame structure, ahd they are building still an- other. There is too large a variety of imple- ments to attempt s full enumeration. The chief goods handled are of the N. C. Thompson make, and i cludg reaper hay frakes, fedders'fstalk cut- ters, cultivators, JBdrrows, jand plows, The reputatioh already gaids theso goods ensuresa conitant ‘de and le and™ yet cach yoar seds im. pr This year therd is especially noticeable. what is known as the No. 2 .mower, which has -a - chain gear, seme- thing entirely new, making great light- ening of draft’ and ease of rurhing. A tongueless cultivator is' also one of the lines, which has some decidedly vel points aud great advantages. Bosides the N. C. Thompson goods, the firm handle the Challenge planter, manufactured in Grand Haven, Mich., an old and popular planter, and which has been still further im'qrn\'&d this year. Targefnumbers of the Ketcham w made nt Marshalltown, are handled by the firm, and a variety of buggies and carriages, noticeable among which are those made by the well kpown firm of Davis Gould & Co., Cincinnati. The Trabern iron pumps and cylinders, are also handled by the firm, and a greal va- rioty of other goods of vavious makes, the firm doing o large transfer busin for other manufacturers, They also keep a full supply of repaire, and parts for all the machinery handled by them, s0° that the dstablishment may well be said to be comple 1t need hardly be gaid that the enter- prise of this hiuse and the superiority of wany oods handlod by them, haye | not only won past suceess bat insurcs future succpas as well, . Togother with theeo is & prompness in filling ordess, gnd a satisfilct ory treafmen of istoers, | which gives Van Brunt Thompsen & Co astreng hold in'the west. no SR Holiday goods received daily at Bliss', e Ieal Estate Trapsfors The following deeds were filed for re- cord in the recorder's oftice, November 40, reported for the Bie by P. J. M- Mahon, real estate agent: Rebecea Lindsay to Vincent Cleveland, of swd of 27, 77, 38--82,017. William Doud to Vincent Cleveland, s} uwj of 4, 77, 388,100, Margaret Hamilton to Johin N. Bruin, sw} and swj nwg of 1, 76, 39— $4,200, Eridget larkin to Horage Kverett, sw| nwi and wh ewd of 27, 76, 42— $4,000, g Ibert Sebrosder to ¥Fmank Lange, lot A fo with a|" sement are used for store floor, such as plows, ete., whilo the base-}' on, | Wheat—No, 2 spring, j Bo; good deman % aro paying 32c for old_corm for new, In good domand at 200 oo Hay 4 00@6 0Dper ton; 50¢ pex balo, Ryo—40c; light supply: Corn Moal—1 25 per 100 pounds, Wood—Good supply; prices at yards, § 00@ 600. Coal—Delivered, hard, 1150 per tonj soft, 600 per ton Buttor—Plenty and i falr demand at 25cz creamery, 85, Fags — Ready sale at 20¢ per dozon. Lard Falrbank's, wholesaling at 11c. irm; dealors are paying for ¢ live, 2 50 por dozen. Vegotables ~ Potatoes, 50c; onions, 40c; cab- bages, 30@400 per dozen; apples, 3 00@3 H0r per barrel Flour—City flour, 1 60@3 40, Brooms—2 00@3 00 per doz, LIV H100K, Cattlo-8 00@3 50; calves, 5 00@7 50, . Hog al packers have commenced huy- ing now and there is p good demand for all grades at 4 00@4 . — y Just “think of it! Only twenty:five cents will give you a life-like view of the wonderful Colorado scencry, the great cities of both continents, art, paintings, fun and instructive. Bo sure to gp to the Baptist church this evening. FOUNDIN A BOX. Mr. John Kinsm ot Augists, Me., writde, May 10,1853, aa follows: “1have been affictod for ome yoars with a s Kiduey trauble, and having notfeed. an articloin one of our papers of the wonderful cures Hunt's Remedy bad performed in many casgs of drop- 4y, bladder and kidney troubles, and findink s bottle ina box of straw packing, T concluded T would try ity and commenced to take it, when, to sueprise, T fouhd that the first bottle benefited mo so much that 1 de- cided that T would continue itause, and I kept on it until 1 had usodin all six bottles, and; my ot good, all paing in the back and side disap. peared, and forone of my years am now 80 years old) I am able to attend to my business, and am strong nd vigorous, as many of my friends ahd neighlors an testity that know me well. T beg to state also, hat many of our neighbors have used Hunt's Rem dy with equally a8 good resulte, and ene who haa just purchased a bottle of Gup} 3 man & Alden, of Portland, says ho ‘would pos be without it at any price.” THE;BARER'S|WAY. Mr. Altred Nadean, No. 02 Lincolu street Lewiston, Mo., writos us, M: ‘Lhave been soverely aflicted for a long time with Indigestion and | ver complaint, and at times all that T ato wo distrossed methat | could not bear the sight of foed. 1 had tried a good many different remedies for my come all falled, until one day Mr. Martel, one of our druggiste 10 Lewlston, recommended Hunt's Reniedy, as be knew of 80 many who had used 1t here with great succesa for dney, Tiver, and ur- inary troubles, as well a8 ndigestion, and upon. recommendation 1 finally concluded to try a bottle, andcommenced taking, with very Httld faith in i The first bottle helped me so much that 1 purehased two more, and it hasdone me & wonderful amount of” good, and cured me of ‘Indigeation:™1 can eat all kinds of food now, and‘can truly redommend Hunt'g,, Remedy as a sure cure forindigestion, liver and kid- noyjliscases.” PRACTICALIJEXPERIENOE. Mr. Geo. D. Bates, of No. 32Cottage Street, Lewis— ton, Me., & reiiable and” prominent citizen, imparts the following information, May 14, 1888:— =~ “1iaving learned of the valuable qualities of Hunt's Rémedy in & practical manner, I beg to'state that I consider it & romedy of great merit, and can most checrfully rocommend it to say one troubled with —WITH— 00 FALLS GRANITE. M«l yefur workjs dog#for all time & ‘ito (iml'%{('nlm'. B i HALLENGE to produce a more durable m: for street pavement than t Sioux Falls Granite. rial ORDERS FOR ANY AMO! T OF Pag - Bloeks —OR - MACADAM! filled [flvqnl:u‘ ly. S‘uiny‘flnfiz sent and estimutes given uponapplication. WAL McBAIN & €O/ JBroux Falls, Dakota. GOLD MEPAL, PARIS, 1878, BAKER'S Broakfast Cocoa, Warrauted absolutely purd Cocoa, from which the cxiscss e Ol Lian beeit removed. 1had threa Limesthe strength of Cocon mized with Btarch, Arrowroot or Sugar, ind Iy irgfore far more cconombs cal. 1t iy delftlous, uurishing, sirengihentng, caslly digested, and admirably adapted for invalids s well as for persons in health, = - Bold by "i”.fl'."‘"""’ V. BARER & C0., Dorchester, Mas: