Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 22, 1889, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BH@: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1889 THE OMAHA BEE. COUNCIL BLUFFS OFFICE. NO. 12 PEARL STREET. Delivered by cartler {n any part of the City at ‘wenty Cents per Week, H. W, TILTON .. . MANAGER TELEPHONE: Businees Orvice No, 42, Nianr Epiton, No. 2 MINOR N. Y. P. Co. Gleason coal. Gouncil Bluffs Lumber Co., coal. Boston store, the leaders in dry goods. Carbon Coal Co, wholesale, retail, 10 Pearl. ‘The police court business yesterday was eonfined to the judicial adjusument of threo plan drunks, Mrs. John Bailey, of New York city, will give some select recitations and talk on sical culture Saturday afternoon at the sbyterian church. Another death from diphtheria vesterday sfternoon. The six-yeaar-old daughter of els Swanson, residing on the corner of nth street and Aveuue I, was the vietim. ‘The farmers and markot gardeners in the vioinity of Council Bluffs report 250 bushels 0 the acre as the average yield of potatces this yoar. In some instances 400 bushels have been raised on a single good-sized acre. The report of Brigade Inspector Davidson of the Iowa National guards, has been re- ceived by Licutenant Atchison, The ave ages of the light guards for 1880 were: D cipline, %0; instruotion, 80; military appear- ance, 80; arms, 55: accoutrements, i5; uni- forms, total average, 825, The report in various papers that Mrs. J. . Anderson, who was severcly burned a few days ago, received her injuries by the careless use of coal oil, was incorrect. S was burncd by an explosion of gas that had accumulated from soft coal used in the fur- nac oraco Bole candidnte for governor, adc we audience at the opera hotiso lust evening aud opened the campuign on the democratic side of the ques- ions before the Towa people this fall. Mr, oies spoke for an hour aud a half, chiefly on prohibition and the railway question. Letter Carrier Nichols was not required to report for duty yesterday morning, as his contract with the demoeratic administration had expired. D. R. Witter was advanced from substitute to a regular carrier to fill the yacancy, Mr. Witter was a carrier during Phil Armour’s administration, and 18 now one of the olcest carriers on the force. The residence of A. 1. Elwell, on the cor- ner of Willow avenue and Seventh street, was burglarized Sunday evening while the family wera visiting in Omaha, Mrs, Bl- well's five gold watch and a valuable pair of bracdlets that were rendered doubly valuable by associations were taken. Other rticles of less value were also taken. ‘The friends of Hon. N. P. Dodge will be somewhat surnrised to learn that the Massa- chusetts people regard him as a minister of the gospel. He is at present in Worcester, Mass., us a delegate to the National Congre- tional council, The Worcester Daily ‘elogram contains this paragraph: “The moderator then introduced ‘Rev.’ Nathan P. Dodge, and then apologized for giving bim the title.” ‘‘They makea ‘Qr.’ out of everybody, now,” he said, ‘‘and " they even made a ‘Rev.’ of me. Mr. Dodge is a lay- man; he's a respectable man.”” Mr. Dodge presented a report of the committee ap- pointed to memorialize congress on temper- ance." - The Pullman restaurant, 534 Broadway, - g Get Fountain be cigar, next to Eiseman's, o Dielling for sate on easy payments, Also vuilding lots at lowest market prices. Call and examine our i E. H. Sheafe & Co. T Bixby has removed to Merriam block. Bheet music 10¢, 538 Broadway. i< i g C. B. steam dye works, 1013 Broadway. Zalot Lot Rasmussen beautify your house in best style and cheap. 12 North Main. Tho Social union of the Presbyterian hurch have arranged a musicale to bo given esday evening, October 22, 10 the church arlors. Admission 25 cents, The following teresting programme has been prepared: ocal Duet... Misses Merkel and Porterfield Voca! Solo. .Mr. Thornton Becitation Miss Stephens ocal Solo. . Mrs. Mullis Vocal Duet. . Mrs. Stelling and Miss Palmer, Reading. . Mrs. Lyons, Vocal Solo. amie Oliver. At the close of the programme, supper wilk be served without extra charge. —_——— A Supposcd Horse Thief Caught. Deputy Sherift O'Conner arrested a cow- boyish looking fellow on lower Main street yesterday who answers very closely the de- scription of a horse thief who is wanted at Denison, Ta., for stealing a horse from Mau- rice O'Conner, an attorney at that place, a short time ago. The horse was sold to Peter Ferrall, at Neoln, la., and rccovered by Deputy Sheriff Sells, The description of thp man who left the horse in Neola is very ex plicit, He was twenty-four vears old, “light complexioned, blind in his left eye, ‘wore a grey suiv with red leather belt, cowboy hat, and carried two revolvers. The only discrep ency between this description and the man arrested was the unimportant one that he only had one revolver on his parson when ar- rested. He was taken to the county jail and will be held for identification by the Neola men, Tl BSwauson Music Co., 335 Broadway. - E. H, Sheafe & Co. give special attent on 1o the colloction of reutsand care of proporty 1n the city and vicinity, Charges moderate. Oftice Broadivay and Main streets. el il Stephan & Harmer, 52 Pearl. Meschendorf's popular meat market, flucst 1o the Twin Cities, - 583 Broadway. e Dempsey & Butler, candy M'0'g., 105 Main, RRGRN PRARY A2 Bteam and hot water heating, first-class Elumblng Work done 1n both cities. John Ibert, cor. Pearl st. and Willow ave. Cigar Store Burgiariz:d. On Sunday night, about the time that Ofticer Scott of the police force was engaged with his mistress i Beile Clover's house of ;rollilullml. burglars were at work at the ‘oun twin cigar store on Broadway, on that officer’s beat. They were not molested, aua succeeded in going through the establish- ment and making a careful search for valu- sbles, The money drawer was rifled of its contents and a quantity of fine cigars taken, An entrance was cffected through a tracsom in the rear of the store and from theuce into thie wain building by cutting a hole through the door and turning the key which remained an the lock., ‘I'ne burglary was perpetrated by some one appurently well acquainted With the premises. - Western Lumber ana Supply Co., 13th and 4th streets and 2d and 8d avenues, carry the argest stock of lumber, piling pole, ties, lime, cement and building material in tho west. E. W. Raymond, manager, Al 1 {ou wish to purchase a good and reliable watch 35 per cent less than club rates, and on easy terms, then call at once and make E)‘ur own selection at C. B. Jacquemin & s 27 Main street. ————— Desirable dwellings for rent at mouerate lces, E. H. Sheafe & Co., rentsl ugents, Erudwny and Main streets, up stairs, ————— Ris Sixtieth Year, Wells Cook was yesterday recciving the congratulations of his friends upon the cele- ‘bration of his sixtieth birthday anniversary. The day found Mr. Cook in the enjoyment of rugged health, with as much energy and ity for business left as most meu enjoy it forty years of age. He celebrated the l‘ by presenting his friends with cigars, and enjoying a fine dinper at the Pacific, ———————— Royal Arcanum, Special meeting Fidelity council this (Tuesduy) evening; {ivitiation and very im- portaut business. 1. B, WarNeR, Regent, — “B:Llu skating rink will open Wedngsd: THE NEWS ABOUT THE BLUFFS A Polico Officer In Oustody For Murdering His Miatress. PUSHING THE MOTOR EXTENSION The Burglars Again Heard From-— Nabboed a Suspected Horse Thiefl —~Notes of G:neral and Personal Interest. Police and Prostiture. Another shooting affaic occurred in this city at miduight Sunday night, ns the result of which Lottie Leeland, alias Irene, an in- mate of Belle Clover's bagnio, No. 800 Broad- way. lies at the point of death, with a bullet in her brain, and Police Oficer C. W. Scott occupies a coll at the city jail. No charge has yot been entered against him, but 1t is stated that he did the shooting, although this is denied by vthers, who believe that the woman shot herself with the officer’s re- volver, All that can be learned of the case is from the inmates of the house and the oficer, A Bee reporter visited the houso yesterday ovening for the purposc of ascortaiing the facts in the case, and the following is the story told by the landlady: “Scott came here about. 8 o'clock Sunday night and spont the evening in the parlors with the girls. He was drinking quite a good deal of whaisky from a bottle which he bad in his pocket. It was the fiest time I ever saw him drink, as he had always re- fused wine or beer which I offerad him, say- ing that he never drank a drop. It was about 11:50 when he and Irene went up stairs together. fn about five mioutes she came down for a pitcher of ice water, and when she went back she had hardly closed the door before I heard the report. 1 hurried into the hall as Scott came rushing down the stair- way with the gun in his hand, saying, ‘My Gol, Irene has shot herselt.’ When he got down to the hall he opened the gun and took out the cartridges, ‘Scott used to know Irene before either of them were married. She has a little mirl four years old in Chicago, where her mother has it. Her real name was Mra, W. Ladd, and her husband 18 now in Chicago. She sometimes gets letters addressed to Mrs. W. Ladd. She has had several names, among them Gortie, Stella and Dollie, but her house name here is Irene. Scott used to go with her years ago, 8o she told me. I came here in July, after Irene had gone away. Scott used to come here once in a while, but not near so often as he has since Irene came pack from Omaha. She has told me several times in the past weck that they were golng away together, and she_ thought they would Ro to Chicago. “‘Last evening she said that they had in- tended to go last night, but she decided to wait until this morning, Shedidn’t want me 10 tell Miss Bell until she was ready to go and could tell her herself. Scott is married and has a nice wife and baby. He hasubusel his wife and mistreated her shamefully. He used to work for the Union Pacific and was away a good deal, and since he has been on the force he has told her he was out ou de- tective work, when he was here with Irene. They have quarrelled quite often, buvalways made it up again. He was awfully jealous of her, and there was a row every time she went with any other party and froze him out. *Scott spent a good deal of money on Irene. I have frequently known of his giving her #15, and that cuts a holo in $70 a mouth. His wife was here this morning, and said that he provided well, but I don’t sea how he could, ‘after spending so much on this girl.”” One of the inmates, known as Daisy, was then scen. Said she: “Scott shot, Irene, and Tam sure of it. I was in my room across the ball, when the shot was fired. and I hurriea to the door. Scott was atthe head of the stairs, and he had the gnn 1n his right hand, and an empty shell iu his left. He ran down stairs, and when he got to the lower hall he opened the gun and took out two loaded cartridges. I saw it with my own eyes just as plain as day, for the hall was wel lighted. He pointed the gun at me as he came down the stairs, and 1 told him to stop it and run for a doctor. He went to Dr. Waterman's and soon came back with him. Afterward I went to the dummy depot for a policeman, but couldn’t find ono. [ don't know any- thing about who did the shooting. I would not go to the room _until the coroner came, but I sent in one of the giris to sce if she was dead.” What do you know about Irene's re- lations with Scott?? “Not very much. Irene came here on the 16th of April. I brought her down here from Kittie Edwards’ place when Miss Kittie was shot. She stayed until June 21, she went away. Scott took her and kept her privately at a private boarding house. She lived with him some time, and then went to Omaha, where she stopped at Pearl Mackey’s, Ollie Dauforth’s and May Cole- man’s, She came back here about the first of September, and has sioce remained here, Scott has been coming to seo her quite a good deal, and stayed hero very frequently. He would come about two or three thmes a week. He was here Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, Ishould suy be had beon drinking hard since Friday, but I never saw him use liquor before. He wasn't drunk Sunday night, but he was drinking quite hard. 1 don’t know how much there wus between him and Irene, “Did you hear anything about a proposed elopement ' . *Yes, I heard it last night and this morn- ing, but she didn’t tell me. 1 got it from one of the other girls.”” Another inmate, known as Blanche, was interrogated, and stated that she and Irene went 0 a dance last Thurslay night at the Central hbouse, @ road house on Lower Broadway. Scott was there, and wanted to come home with Irene, but she refused, and started off with someone else. Scott was mad, but the trouble was amicably settled. She could not tell who did tha shooting. An unusually iotelligent colored girl, who acts as chamber maid, told a rather sensa- tional story, which, if true, will place Scott 1w very unpleasant light. Sne said that she returned home late Sunday night, and was talking with her escort, when Scott came back through the honse, and asked if Irene had been out there to see bim. She said that she lud not, and he asked per- mission to go out through' her door, sayini that he would be back in a few minutes, an if Irene came to tell her to wait for him, When informed that she had not been there, he grew very angry, and stated that “'These —— —— ——got to talking too much.” Some of them had given him away, and he would play even. There was a couple 1n the Louse who had done him dirt, and he would get back atthem hard, \When a woman went against an officer she went against her best friend, and if he ever got a chance he would ivlm:h them, and pinch them d—d hard, 1e threw back his coat and showed his star, She aid not know what was the matter, but had beard that they intended to elope, and knew that Irene bad told it to some of the other girls, so thought that was what was the matter, Irene came and the pair went y together, Sho soon heard the report, and heard Scott say Ircne had shot herself, when she told her partner she knew better, and that Scott hud shot her. She went in and saw the girl on the floor, Scott is confined in the steel cell at police beadquarters, and talks very little, but reiterates that the girl shot herself. He insists that she took the gun out of his overcoat pocket, broke it and threw out the cartridges, then pointed it at the glass and suapped it. She then pointed it at head and again pulled the l.rigfar. He picked up the gun and ran down stairs, ‘The wouad is a little below and in front of the left temple, and the bullet is lodged at the base of the brain, As the woman was not left handed, the gun must have boen held in very awkward position if the woman shot bersell, The case will be carefully in- vestigated. Scott was regarded by the chiof s the best man on the force, notwithstavd- ing his shortcomings, of which it 18 alleged the chief was entirely ignorant. The doctors state that the wound must prove fatal. The woman has made scveral statements, which are of course uareliable. She says she did not do the shooting and does not know who did. Scott's wite called at the jail yesterday moeruin, d upbraided him for his faithless- ness. d she: “You know that 1 have told you time and ngnin to stay at home nights With me. Night after night you bLave been ay, we you were on duty, when 0w that you were with this woman, I warned you what the result would be, and you are in trouble, and so far I am con- corned you can get outof it the best you can.” Scott was very nervous, and at times cried bitterly. PU— ““The Famous’' cash bargain house, 200 B'y — Diphtheria Subsiding. “There has been a marked subsidence of diseases with a diphtheretic teadency within the last few days,” said a physician yes ter- day. “At the present time there are but few genuine cases of the dreadful disease in the city, and they are not of a malignant type and yield readily to treatment. In many cities oast of us I notice the scourge is not ouly unabated, but is assuming dangerous epidemic tendencies. I attribute the lessen- ing of the disease here to the public atten- tion called to the water supply by Tur Bek, When Tue 13ee called attention to the fact that the disease was chiefly located in fam- ilies where the.sunply of water for domestio purposes was drawn from wells I looked into the matter in cases under my own oare, and discovered but two cases whero the disense was contracted by contagion. The others wore in famities where well water was used exclusively. One family in the northeast part of the city who had been bereaved by the loss of a daughter, had their land- lord clean out, the well from which they had been getting water. The work was done upon_the recommen da- tion of their physician. The well was found to be in a terribly foul condition. *'he family had used it during the summer as o refrig- erator and had suspended their milk, meat, butter and other provisions in it by means of strings. The strings frequently broke, let ting tho stuff fall into the water. The work- men found chunks of putrid meat, rancid butter and vegetables in various stages of decomposition. The water was so foul that the men became sick while cleaning out the hole. The stuff taken up was simply & reek- ing mass of foul corruption, sufMicieut to con- taminato the soil for rods around ana cer- tainly suficient to poison anybody that used the water taken from it. It was not to be wondered at that a fatal cuse of diphtheria resulted from its use. “Swica Tne Ber's agitation of the matter the peovle who huve been using well water have ceased doing 80 to a large extent and the cessotion of the discase is the result. Thera are but few wells in the city used to supply water for domestic purposes, and those are cpiefly in the suburbs where the owners imagine the contaminations from the city vailts, cosspools wnd sewers do not penc- trate, butthe idea is a dangerons and delusive one, ' The hundreds of deep wells in the city that have long been used for cesspools have spread their potson throughout the soil down to the river level, the point to which all levels are sunk to obtain water. Owing to the friable character of the soil there are no dis- tinct water-veins, and the water seeps into the wells like lye is leeched from ashes. The consequence is, in my opinion, that there is not a well in the city, no matter how far out, but what 1s more or less impure, and the ma- jority of them deadly poisonous. The board of health perhaps cannot make an order that will prevent peoplo using well water, not- withstanding it breeds dangerous contagion, but the newspapers and physicians can lessen the evil by calling intellizent attention to the dangers of such a course. The hydrant water may not be good, not mearly as good as it should be, and what the consumers pay for, but in a choice of evils it is always wise to choose the lessor.” C— Fine dressed chickens. G. Mottaz, Tel. 173, g Finest market in city—J. M. Scanlan’s. ———— Motor Extensions. The overhead wire of the electric motor line on Upper Broadway received the finish- ing touches of the soldering irons Sunday evening and tho first cars were run over the new extension yesterday morning. The Main atreet cars will hereafter run to siding No. 7, nearly a mile above the Ogden bouse, and the remainder of the distance to the end of the line will be covered by horse cars. Work on the Fifth avenue line was recom- menced at the transfer yesterday morning with the largest force that could work to gooa advantage. The assurance is given by Superintendent Reynolds that the line will be completed and the cars runcing by No- vember 10, Ten more twenty-horse power motors were received by the Milwaukee yesterday morn- ing and switched to the Northwestern depot and unloaded. They will be used on the new lines and will enable tho company to give a uniform eight-minute service on all the lines. B J. G. Tipton, real estate, 527 Broadway. The New Hotel Scheme, “One-half of the bonus necessary for the new hotel has been raised, and if the peopto of Conncil Bluffs desire to have what they have so long clamored for—a really first- class hotel in all respects and in all its ap- pointments—they only need to chip in and raise the remainder of the sum necessary,” suid Messrs. Kimball & Champ last evening. CJf the amount is guaranteed we will promise to have at least 100 men at work on the building itself within thirty days, and it will be completed as quickiy as it can be. It will be a modern structure, ive stories high, and finer than any hotel in Omaha or Sioux City.” The matter has reached a definite shape, and there seems to be but little possibility that it wili fail. The committee in charge of the work of soliciting subscriptions reported Jast evening that five men had subscribed $6,500. If they bave confidence enough tu give their thousanas, it is surcly not too much to expect that other men shoutd con- tribute their hundred: e Personal Paragraphs. Steadman, who has been visiting , own for the past few days, re- turns home this morning. Dr. Longshore, of Philadelphia, ‘who has been visiting 10 the city for several days, re- turned home last night. S Money loaned at L. B. Craft’s & Co.’s loan office on furniture, manos, horses, wagons, rsonal property of all kinds, all ou articles of value, without removal. All business strictly confi- dential. T Senatorial Foker Players. San Francisco Examiner: Years ago Senators Jones, Vest, Stewart and Cam- eron wers playing a game of poker one evening, and although the stakes were not higlh the company was good and it ran until long after midoight. A few days afterward Vest remarked to Jones: “1 say, Jones, wasn’t that a nice game the other evening? Everything went along so well and no one at the game had to watch the other three. Ilike a a gentlemen’s game like that, where you don’t even have to cut the cards for square doal,” Jones, who is an incorrigible wag, suddenly conceived the idea of having some fun with Vest, 8o he manufactured a story to fit the occasion. “I'm glad you think so,” he said, "})ub ’1’5“1 Stewart.doesn’t have thatidea of it. “What,” said Vest, quite seriously, ‘*do you mean to tell me that Stewart thinks there was cheating 1n that game?” “That’s the idea he conveyed to his wife when he reached home, She spoke to me about it yesterday.” “I'm really sorry to hear that,” said Vest. ‘I feel hurt to hear he felt he hadu’t lost his money on the square.” I feel the same way,” replied Jones, “Ifeltas1f a thunderclap had struck me.” “What did he really say about it?” asked Vest. “Well, he came home about 8 o'clock and his wife noticed that his beard was all covered with tobacco juice—a very unusual thing for him—and she took him to task for it, He said he had been in a senatorial poker game,” g *‘Were there no cuspidorsin the room " ** *Yes, plenty of ’em.’ **Couldn’t you turn from the cards lonqenough to use them?’ **No, my dear; not in that game.’” THE LAND OF THE DAKOTAS It is the Richesf Soil This Side of Flaypt. S0 SAYS JOAQUIN MILLER. He Also Thinks There Arc Entirely Too Many Towns for the Couatry Just Yot a While. An Eden of the Fature, As you glide down the solid road-bed of the Northern Pacifie, down the grassy castern slopes of the Rocky mountains, on, and condnually on through the grass, the shoreless seas of grass, you can’t help thinking of old Italy and the storied time when the Goth and the Vandal and the Hun kept coming down the Alps, and kept com- ing until even Rome herself was over run and swept from the page of histor for centuries. Yet there is no relation or parallel at all. Only things are so grand and so vast here that they keop appealing to the grand and the won- drous things and incidents of oid, writes Joaquin Miller in the New York Inde- pendent. This cold, bleak north on the further side of Dakota must bé dismal enough for the best part of the year: but to-day it isa green and pleasant flower-land. Rains have fallen daily for a long time, and no land was ever fresher or fairer than is Dakota all along the northwest counties to-day. Houses are few and far between. The stations are miserable little places, marked by no notable feature at all ex- cept the many stout and extended stock-yards, for the purpose of shipping or landing stock. No trees at all except a few storm-torn cottonwoods, and now and then a long lino of willow woods along the course of some little trout stream, We j the muddy Missouri at Man- dan, witfTBismarck on the other ex treme of the long and lofty bridge that crosses the sinuous and swift river. I got off at Mandan and took a day to ride up and down and around the coun- try. It is not encournging. The farm- ers seem discouraged. Still they are better off than many others in this re- gion. Coal abounds here, comes to the surface on many farms: and the farmer when he has.nothing better to do digs out a wagon load of coal from his own land and hauls it to town and_sells it just the samo as men sell cord-wood in 50 many of the older states. The rail- road shops, having been removed from Bismarck across the river to Mandan, help maintain the latter place fairly well, and it may make a place in time. But the life of the immigrant is hard enough for the first few years at best, and I should hesitate a long time before advising anyone who is not well forti- fied with herds of stock, or other solid means of beating of the wolf, to pitch tent here. As for Bismarck, let mo say pointedly that it is u crime to continually urge people to settle there or anywhere near there. Bismarck is literally in ruins and is existing, or' trying to exist, on the reputation it had as a railroad town and a terminus and & substantial ship- ping point for the vast intorior beyond. But now that the railroad has passed on and the shops of the road have been taken away, why, Bismarck is merely a station, and a very sickly looking s tion at best. This place once had 5.000 inhabitants. To-dauy she has not half that humber. The houses are half empty and the place has an indescribable air of beggary and swagger about it that reminds one of some old southern towns just after the war. At best Bismarck, to my humble way of thinking, is a huge impertinence, and about the last place on earth for any honest man to settle in, I'or about one hundred miles farther on down toward “the states’” the same sort of abandonment and desolation ob- tains. But at Jamestown, a well-built town of brick with a pleasant fountain spouting high in the air by the way- side, things take a sharp turn for the better. The gravel stones that start from the ground and make farming almost impossible all the way back to Bismarck disappear here, and a rich black loam spreads over the undulating earth. We note no_more abandoned farms; no more abandoned and empty houses, as in and about Bismarck, while dash- ing on through the limitless fields of wheat toward the greav lakes. Still, the truth must be told that many a brave man along here may bo seen plowing up and turning under the wheat which he hoped now to be he vesting. It is like burying your dead after a bravely fought battle and a ter- rible defeat. And you can havdly keep your tears back as you watch these pa- lient, brave men steadily following the plow, far away as you can see, turning under the blighted flelds of short and sun-scorched wheat which they had sown in such abundant hope. But it is something to know that they will sure- ly have a double crop next year, For l{flu is only a sort of summer fallow,and nature will generously restore in her own good time and at her first oppor- tunity all thav she has had or has with- held from man. The whole secret of the misfortune is, the rains fell u tew woeks or, rather, a few days too late. Still, as will be shown long before this can be read, Dakota will do fairly well this year, the worst of years for her, Asinall other parts of the United States, there are entirely too many towns along here. Many of these, as clsewhere in the unjon, are miserable places of ubode at ‘best.” But at Fargo you sirvike something solid in the way of city building. 1 toted a huge yellow wall, almost as broad as a bluff of the Yellowstone river, with letters as large as a six-horse teaw, which read, Daily Argus, Land here is not nearly so high as on the Pacific coast. Good land, already in cultivation, can be had at $15 per acre, and from thas up to $30, this lat- ter figure including the very best land in the great wheat fields of the Red river. The plowing here is peculiar, and ?une flies in the face of of the Poor tichard precept, which says: “Plow deep, while sluggards sleep, And you shall have corn to sell and keep.” They do not plow deep in Dakota at all, They avoid plowing deep pur- sely, The first furrows are meant to be barely three inches deep, cuiting the grass roots about half-way down. After the first plowing of three inches they cross-plow. This time they set the plowshare one inch deeper. So that in this deepest and richest soil this side of Egynt, the final furrow before sowing is only four inches deep at the most, There no are fruit trees to speak of hereas yet. Many people tell melit would 1ot pay to bother with fruit, since they can get it so readily and cheap from Oregon and California. You can see some very considerable groves of forest trees, which break up the fearful mo- notony of continuous plain and prairie to right and to loft and front and rear as far as the eye can follow. There are no farms at all. As in California you must shut in your cattle, instead ot shutting in your fields,ns has been the custom the world over eversince man was shut out of Bden. It scems awfully odd to find a river in the brick-built city of Fargo. gliding away through the boundless velvet fields to the north pole. And strangest of all, alittle farther nlong we cross the Mississippi, going down_towards the warm waters of the gulf of Mexico. Singular as it may seem, in a very little distance farther on wo are crossing pleasant little trout streams that steal through the grass to the greav lakes, which find their outlet away out yonder onlya little way beyond ‘‘Greenland’s icy mountains.” And now good-by to the great plains of the north; to the boundless fields of inexhaustible fertility; to the wheat- fields that shall feed the world,as Egypt fed the world, As long as ie pitiless C:psars shall lead men to battle, or the petty Napoleons shali_ divide the maps of the world with channels of blood, maybo these big farms will remain as they are. But when peace is established on carth, and the sword 18 surely beaten into a_plowshare, then I think the people will coma here, and with a million perfect gardens mako the Eden of the north. —— Advice 1o Mothers, Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup should always be used for children teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pains, cures wind colic, and is tho best vemedy for diar- hoea. 25¢ a bottle. - Something to Remember, If you are going enst. remember the “Rock [sland Route” run the sleepers and chair cars of their solid ‘vestibule train to and from the Omaha depot, leaving Omaha at 8:45 p. m.,thus avoid- ing the transfer at Council Bluffs, Three solid trains daily, All chair cars are free. Dining carson all through trains. Our traivs make close connections with all eastern limited trains connecting in union depot at Chicago, avoiding a transfor across the city to parties en route to New York, Bostoit and other eastern cities, ‘‘and everything a little better than other lines e i) S. 8. Ticket office,1305 Farnam. ey Initiating a Tenderfoot. The manner in which George Swmith, a tenderfoot of Squaw Creek, was in- itiated in the mysteriesof the wild west, is related by the Harrison Herald: Smith, in colnsmly with the Dunn brothers, camped near Hyannis. Dur- ing tho night hovse thieves were di cussed freely, and when morning broke and Smith saw a siranger getting away with his horse he raised an alarm and started in pursuit. Suddenly the sup- posed thief stopped and using his horse as a breastwork ordered his pursuer to halt, which he did instanter, and being also bidden to get back to camp, he did so with alacrity. The Dunn boys com- ing up the chase was renewed, six-shooters being freely used. Suddenly the pursued fell bac on his horse erying, “I'm shot!” and volled to the ground. The pursuers came up, fired a couple of shots at the prostrate form, took his six-shooter and left him on the prairie. Smith observed the tragic end with bated breath and blanched cheel, but didl not venture He belioves the canyon now lifeless form of a desperate thicf, called suddenly hence by the action of the Dunn brothers. That it was a hoax concocted the night be- fore, and that after being apparently riddled with bullets, the maun supposed to be kilied had arisen and gone to the ranch, is not known to Smith and, for suke of romance, we won’t say the dead man was Frvil nuak, our young turf- :’nnu, who got back to town later in the ay. — Red Cross cough drops beats them all. 5 cents per box, sold everywhere. th GROSS It 18 conceded to be th best mage and most sdmired stove on tne American continent, 1t THE RE STOVES. 18 constructed on_the most approved scientific principles, to aevlop the, greatest degree o heut with the least amount of coal, 1t is the only stove in which the system of circulating ues i perfect, taking tiio cold air from tii floor and heating it. Every stovels convertible inio a double heater to warm the rooms with no difiiculty or expense, Anothe in their favor is the 1act that they are ch than any oth For sale tn Con SIU bove, poing iper rst-class stove on the market. 1 11uis only by R & CO, 11 Main Str SPECIAL NOTICES. COUNCIL BLUFFS. i_t_)jfi SALE AND insu'll'.» i ]7 8 on {th ave. and 10th st. isnaps, Bonson & Shepherd, 0TS on Brosdway, anywliere between Coun- fiu‘ Bluffs and Ouisha,” Beuson & Shepherd, 9 Main s Town my own propel 1 maKe terms to sult through an agent. Councll Bluff DELL BROS, & CO. loan noney. The most liberal terms offered, 103 Pearl st. ANTED—Furnished room witl ste furnace heat. Address, stating location and price, C. M. Mead, care of Russall & Co, + OH_RENT—New Louse of 7 rooms, hot_and 00l water, buth, closets, and all modern fm- provements, on Eourth ave. Inquire av bi2 Brondway. e JBUITEL than w savings banc By & hotse and lot of C. B. Judd on monthly payments, and by paying from 8 1 & more & month th ront i a fow years you will own your home free of debt, which {3 bound by thattime to be han double what you pay for it udd, 606 Broadway, Council Blutrs, 0 old and_ well estabiisiied biished in 13, Cash re- ‘Address A o0 koo vl al ostate. ired, ), balance real estate, 4" 5%e, Council Blufla, i 1 ARGAIN -4 lots (o Riddlo Grading all paid. #4)) o Foom 5, Everett bio: OT8 in Terwill PLllips, room b, ub, on Uth uv N, O Phillip Coall A. T. THATCHER, Chicago, 1lls. Coall H. A. COX, Western Sales Agent OFFICE: (14 Main Streat, Brown Bullding. Telephone 48. We will sell to consumers divect, SELE following reduced prices: GRATE AND EGG RANGE AND NUT CHESTNUT And the bost grades of Soft Coal. $83.60, Juckson $5, Ceda per bushel, or 87.00 per ton. TERMS—Cash with order. delivered. (D ANTHRACITE COAL at the $8,256 8.60 8.50 Wyoming Lump 87.00, Walnut Block 5, Cannel $6.50, Towa Nut $2.60, Gas House Coke 120 All conl fresh mined, woll serocned and promptly COUNCIL BLUFFS FUEL COMPANY, Denlevs in ALL RAIL CLEAN BRI NUT, OLIVE and TOWA LUMP and NUT COAL. = S GH T HARD COALualso ROCK SPRINGS, Lime Cement, Plastor, Hair. TWIN CITY STEAM DYE WORKS. | The Best nipped Esteblishment in the West Goods of Ty description and material Works on Motor Line, Gorner 2 . Does Dyeing ana Cleaning of Dry Cloaning Out of town orders by muil or oxpress, will recelve prompt attentton. rments and ot fine Garments a Specialty, 6th St. & Ave, A, Council Bluffs OMAHA OFFICE, 152 FARNAM STREET. GEO. SCHOEDSACK. H. BIRKINBINE Lyt and Sunitars PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY. \wineer. Plans, sion of Public Worlk. Building, Coucil Blufis, lowa. N. SCHURZ STONE & SIMS it Koons 7 —Justice of the Peace. Broadway, Council Bluffs, lowa. Office over American Express, No. 41 Practice in the State and Fed- and 8 Shugart-Beno Block, Council Bluffs, Towa. “Surgeon and Homapath. P. J. MONTGOMERY buil; Room 6, Brown ding. 115 Pearl St. Office hours, 9 to 12. a. m., 2o 6and 7108 p. m. Phillips, ro RGALN in West Brondway property. Phi Eyerett block. 8 in Terry addition. Monthly payme nts C. Phillips, room 5, Everott bloc ANDS for sale or exchange. N. C. Phillip iverett block, MPROVED farms in Towa and Kansas for Lexchange for city property. N. C. Phillips, room b, Everett block. F you nave any lots or other property that vou wish to trade for a house und lot, call B. Judd, 606 Broadway. On easy terms, chioice resiaence ham ave,, on moto line, * 80 uers fruit and ble farm 13 miles enst of Chautauqua geounds, A great baryain, Lasy terms, Only £ per acre, Kor sale, or will trade for Omaha or Council BLUITs property, 440 acres improved land; a fine corn and stock farm 1 mile from station, Im- mediate possession given, For Sale—7 ucres good fruit and farm land, well watcred, ' mile north of Chautwuqus grounds, 7 For Sule -0 acres cholce grove lands on Grand avenu per acre, For Sale—14) acres, good house, barnand out- buiidings, 1020 fruit trees, four mtles feom post- oflice, only $8) per acre, ‘easy terms; also 33 acres adoining, weil improved, at 850’ an acr one-third cash, balance on terms to suit, r Sale— Lot 4, block 8 Hanscom Omah: rs' timo at 7 per cont. tacy Koom 4, Opera Block. HAVE two elegant housss on 6(h ave.,, one Lblack from motor. L ots, Houses ' new, 8and 11 rooms eacli; modern improvements. For 8ule on payments to suit purchasers. These are fino bargains, splerdidly located and chica est proporty in Council Blaffs, J. B. Judd, 608 Broaaway. 3 FINE houses on Lincolu av orn improvements, all new, 2 fots ; A and the other 70x150. This_ property 1s ~finely located in the natural park portion of Conncil Blufts ks from Omaha and Council Bluffs motor. udd, 006 Broadway, T 'EE INSURANCE at actual cost. A. E. Dauglerty, Canning Bluffs, Place, Address Council . city water, Terms to suft. C. B, Judd, 006 houses ind o(s in all parts of Coun- 11’ Blufls, from £40) to #3,00), that I can sell on PAYIIGNES, OF 4Ny LoFms Lo Sull pur- This is of particular advantage to merchants, clerks, mechanics, or people who desire a liome near the business center of Omaha withont being comvelled 10 pay e tant prices. C. B, Judd, 005 Broadway, Council ufls ¥ YOU bty @ lionse and 1ot of 0. ¢ afterwards conclude to move awa; othier way not being desirou: property, T will sell it for yon f and property unsold L wiil 05t 10 OWBer. © of charge ent same without “rTmmxl\ deods given on all property sold by C. B. Judd when thore is & fair yment down. § i Cent Philll] lips. room ! )R SALE or Rent—(Giarden by J. K. Rice, 1 e ENUE A lots, cornsrs, great bargains, Henson & Shepherd, 9 Main st. on_4th avenue, unt & Riee's su chieap. Benson & 8nepherd, ¥ Main st. TOR SALE toet Inke trourago loc tween C_B. boat house and Manaw ‘Also a number of chiofce lots In Rogatta place co. Motealf, No. 10 Pearl st. OR REN oo business frout, 07 Bronds way. A fineretail point. In good condis tion. Tnguive K. E. Mayne, 610 Broadway, Couneil Blufia. o1 be banch COAL. COAL, T propose to give consur money in Coal, aud until prices are—ail vafl Anthracite: Grate #: No. 4 and Range, $.50; < hestuur, s 3 Tz 5 $1.50: Maplewood, } Tump. 81.50: Centerville, Towa, Tump, &.75; Wal- nut Block lump, $850: Haniilion fum Wiitebreust lump, §i.60: W Pea, 82.00; with order 615 South Main stre UNCIL BLUFFS Omnibus, Carrage an{ Transfer LIN WM, WELCH . The Finest Line of La Hacks in the C| £ 1 have u new s atin-lined carriage for priv atocall. 1o 1s the most elegant coach in the city. ...Proprietor, Coaches and S }l »clul attention given to commercial men and theatrical froupes. = Dest facilitics in the city for handling scenery. oK OGDEN HOUSE, “Telephone No. 53, BARN. Telephione No. 230, The only line authorizeed to answer calls turned in to Am. Dist. Tel. Co. PROF. WHIT PHYSIOLOGCAL MANIKIN Adapted to the public schools. The only complete thing of its kind in existence - Qispensible in the o1 room. School desiring the most perfect heip for the teschel are invited to examine this, Addross 1.4.BALLINGER, General Agent. B — — e THE LADIES 0f Couucil Bluffs and Omaha, and surroundin, country will find 1t to their ndvantage to deal with nie when they want any kind of HAIR GOODS AND ORNAMENTS. Tywo months ago I dctermined to close out my stock and quit busiiess, but the stock was (oo large to be disposed of, and 1 will continue the business with more goods than ever. kvery- thing I+ fivst class and made up in latost style, Mall orders recelve promnt attention. MRS. C. L.GILLETTE, N 29 Main St,, Conncil Bluffs, "GIVE US A CHANCE To Price Our Stoves. Fuller ana Warren's Splenald and Abraham Cox Radiant Novelty Bass Burners are too WaANT D—A neat young girl to help in gen- oral hiouse work. Mrs Jacoh Sims, 16 Platuer st, 3FSL corner on Lrondway, opposite power Louse' Beuson & Sneplierd v Main st. I'uu‘smnnun ave, genuine snaps, Bensol 4 shepuerd, ¥ Main st ifi'nsmm Tooms forrent at 117 Fourth st. 7OR BALT—) and slice) 2 conplete, v fi Inguire it Snyder's Counell Blutrs, g actory, Pearl st., 30 in_good cons Jnqul O18 on Manawa motor line, corue 10 dcash, balancs 810 per moath, Lonso & Shepherd, 9 Main st. L, KST. i—Mought and soll an’l ex- anged. Spoclal attention glvan to exam, ination of tifles. W. O. James, No, 1) Vearl st. © {OR SALE—Acre lots in Orchurd plage. This property s located fn the' itico nursery, Bouth of the main part of the city. 14 miles from court house, (ieo. Me If, 10 Pearl st. and lots; $10) cash, #2)) cash, §10 balauce easy. Benson & 8 nepherd MORBALE—On easy terms, some of the best arcanged modern houses (new) in Council Bluffs. All modern [ mprove LS, B c Call on 8. E. Maxon, Merriam block, M. BIEDENTOPF, KReal Estate, Special attention given to examination and ecor- ction of Litle to lands and lots in city and county. No. &, North Main st ]' { in Mullin's sub, 810 cash, balance $10 per Jmonth. Benson & Shepherd, y Maiu st. TPOR BALE-12) ac Towa, located operation. farm in Jasper count; near coal mines that are in Thero s a five foot vein of cosl under the farm. Geo. Motcalf, No. 10 Pearl st. I USINESS locations alnand roadwa, al groat argaias. - Geo, Metcalf, No. I Pearl st. V 7 ANTED- 8tock of furniture, groceries or hardware in exchange for 'land and city Address W. roperty, Will pay some cash. W RGuston, 200 Tivoad way. NORBALE - improved and unimpreved prop erty it overy part of the city. Raro oppor Tunitios for lnyestors who seek specuiations; splendid upportunities for those who dosire Bomes, Geo. Metcatt, No. 10 Pear) st. well known to requirs comment on_ them Leve, Homamber, we guarantee all Stoves, Cooks, Rangos and Heaters o glve perfect satisfag: tion or no sale, BARTLETT & NORTON, T4 Broadway. 108, OFFICER, W, . M. Pusey OFFICER & PUSEY, BANKERS. Corner Main and Broadway, DOUNCIL BLUFKS, IOWA, Dealers in foreign and domestic exchange Collections made and interest paid on time de- posits, D, J, Epmu. . Pré M CuAg, R HANNAN, Cashler, MTIIENG?! CTATE CITIZENS' STATE BANK, OF COUNCIL, BLUFFS, Paid up Capital :++.$150,000,00 Surplus . 35,000,00 Liability to Depositors....335,000.00 Dingcrons—1. A. Miller, F. 0. Glezson, E. Slhugart, Hart, J. D.' Edundson, Chas. R, Hannan, Gransact’ general bunking business Largest capital and surplus of any bauk in Northwestern lowa, lnterest on time deposi te Flower Pot Bomething entirely new, and the handsomest article of the kind th window ol and_ orpw res o Louse pla ntirely new an uro 8ol exclusively-in Conneil iy by us The Rustic'Pots aro highly orasmental” and will beautity any house, One grade is s polated in bright cologs ready for do by ladies Who paint, These handsome good are sold at prices commonly asked for vhfln e for patnied pot aud saucer, and plain ot cors responding pi UND BRO? s 2) Main Str. J. M. PALMER HAS THE CHOIEST LOT OF SUBURBAN & INTERIOR PROPERTY In the eity. Gilt edged opportunities to immes diite inyestors and home seekers,