Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 1, 1891, Page 3

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TH DAY, JANUARY 1, 1801.-SIXTEEN PAGES THE OMAHA BEE COUNCIL BLUFFS, OFFICE, NO, 12 PEARL ST. Felivered by Carrier in uny part of the City H, W. TILTON, - - - MANAGER TELEPHONE! Rusiness Office, No. i1 Night Editor, N —_—m MAINORE MENTRON, N.Y. P.Co. Council Bluffs Lumber Co.. coal. Judge Carson held courtfor a short time esterday mornig for the purpose of listen- ng to motions, The first ball of the Calanthe assembly, Pythian sisterhood, takes place in the Ma: sonic templo hall this evening. Dan Carrizg his witharawn from the bond of Charles Young, charged with robbery, and Young has in consequence been locked up. Bubscriptions to periodicals at wholesalo prices, Drop me a card and I will call on you, F.J. Hoagland, No. 1009 Sixth avenue. T'he ladies hiave arranged to hold open hiouse for the Young Men’s Christinn association at its rooms this afternoon and evening, begin- ning at 5 o'clock. The board of conity supervisors meets next Monday. The bonds of the new ofcors will then be passed upon, and the officers will take their places, Foedisch, the saloonkecpe by claiming that the poli him and ms that ie has not been harbor iz crooks about his place, John M. Wickersham of Nebraska and Miss Lizzio Lieb of Council Bluffs were marricd by Justice Schurz_at the residence of the bride's brother, 127 South First street, last evening. Conductor William Kinnan_of dining UG,V on the Milwaukee, will receive his friends aboard the car at the transfer this evening between b and 6:40 and will enter- tain them royally. Colonel J, J. Steadman goes to Harlan to- nightto address a campfive made up of Grand Army men, the Women’s Relief corps and the Sons of Veterans. Officers of tho post are to be installed by Colonel Consigney of Avoca, William Kineald of Cut-off island appeared before Justice Barnett yesterday in o sadly dilapidated condition, and asked for a wi rant for the arrest of his son, who did the assanlting which caused his sorry appearance He got it. Switch engine No. 306, drawing a Wagner dining car, crashed into the Chicago limited passenger’ train in the Northwestern yards Jeaterday, Tho dining car was dumiged o ittie and the pilot was knocked off theengine on the limited. “Che postofice will be open only from 7:90 to 11 8. m, today. Al carricrs will make ono delivery and coll am A sec ond delivery and collection will be made on business routes only at11 o'clock a. m, Ono collection of mail on business routes will be made in the afternoon, Justice Barnett occupied the greater part of the day yesterday in hearing the evidence in the cato of the state against Wilson, charged with assaulting A. W. Torner with fntent to commit murder at the Coyle farm lost summer. A great deal of conflicting tes timony was introduced, and the justice de- ferred his opinion untii Saturduy. The ball of Calantho_assembly P. S, takes lace this evening at Masonic temple. The ndies have spared no pains to make the af- fair an enjoyable one to all that attend, Tickets for the Pythian Sisterhood ball can be obtained at the door of the committee. For Sale—415 acres, one mile from market; finest grass or stock farm in Pottawatamie county. Very cheap. Most oiground has been n tame grass from five to ten vears. or articulars see Ohio Knox, 9 Main street, Jouncil Bluffs, T, iating car Notice of Disso'ution. Notice is hereby given that the copartner- ship heretofore existing between the under- slgned, under the firm name and style ot B, H. Sheafe & Co, conducting business of real estato and loan brokers, at Council Bluffs, Town, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. The business of the firm = will be conducted by and in the name of E. H. Sheafe, by whom all liabilities will _be paid and all debts owing the firm collected, and to whom all the assots of tho coparthership bave been transferred. Dated at Council Bluffs, December 81, 1890, 3. H._SHEAFE, 5. B. Wanswonrn, C. D. Ersvre, W. H. GuiLrorn, DaviD EINyRE, Why pay $1.50 when you can get jnst as fiod fare and oot sk the Soou housa for 1.00 Books. Charles Dickens' works, 15 volumes, bound n cloth, excollent type, $3.85, Boston Store, Council Blufts, e ‘Wae have just received 100 pairs cured live geese odoriess feathers in pillows of 21§ 1bs each, bl bs in the pair. The price while they Tast, $2.25 a pair. We also keep on hand a full 'stock of feathers in bags from one to tive pound bags from o medium to the finest live geese cured odorless feathers, Boston Store, Councll Blufls. — See the Boston Storeadvertisement and sce what they are offering in coats for this week. Boston Store, Council Bluffs, First-class fresh candy made for the holl- day trade,at A. C, Dempsey’s, 105 Main st. The American District Telegraph Co. has been reorganized and is now prepared to give prompt serv Special attention to express and parcel delivery. —— Foys Wanted. Wanted—Boys at Ameriean egraph office. District Tel- 2ol AR Get our prices on ladies’, misses' and chil- dren’s coats. Boston Store, Council Blufls. J.C. Bixby, steam heating, sanitary en- gineer, 043 Life building, Omaha; 203 Mer rz::‘\wk, Council Bluffs. o iiiad our prices on coats in another column, ‘Whoston Store, Council Bluffs, The Manhattan sporting headquarters, 413 roadway. ®) Horse blankets and lap fil'heo. Beckman robos at cost at Main street. pur coal and wood of C. B, Fuel Co., way., Telephone 135, All our toys just half price for the weel. Prices cut in two, sverything in the toy line marked in plain figures, you can half it for yourself. 81,00 for 50c, The goods for 3S¢ and soon. Boston Store, Council Bluffs, ——— Great reduction on ladies’, misses' and chil- dren’s coats to clear at the Boston Store, Council Blufts, Buy 59) Brol The Boston Storc never docs anything by halves, They have putthe kuifein ladies’ misses and childron’s coats. See advertise ment in another column for this week. Bos- ton Store, Council Bluffs, ——— Books. Thackery, 10 volumes, bound in cloth, bea tiful clear type, .85, Boston Store, Council Bluffs. e ©. A. Beebe & Co. are going out of the re- tail trade and will close out their fine lice of ladies’ writing and office desks, book cases, chiffoniers, parlor tables, parlor and chamber suits, folding beds, plain and fancy rockers, cabinets, mirrors, etc., ete. for less than cost. — $10.00 coats for §.00, $12.00 coats for .00, $17.00 coats for $9.00, at tho Boston Store, Council Bluffs, e All our §30.00, $33.00, $15.00 and $30.00 plush coats reduced to $25.00, Now is the time to ‘buy your plush coats, all guaranteed Walker ushos, beat London dye, st the Boston tore, Council Blufls. Great success, Reliable goods, Fair deéaling. Bouom prices. At 0. B, Jacquegnin & Co, No.27 Maln street BLUFFS AND THE OLD YEAR. They Part Company With a Smile, Having Mado a Good Record. THE FACTS AND FIGURES TALK, Views of Dusinsse Men on the O1d and New-Their Plans and Purposes —The News of tho Last Day. The year just closed has bronght with it much prosperity and growth to Council | Bluffs, despite the seeming adversities which have characterized the history of all cities, though in amuch larger degree than this, | Council Bluffs has been es pecially favored in one respect. 'The surrounding agricultural country, tributary to the city, has had more than average crops, and with the bigh price | pmd for prolucts, much money has from this sourco flowed into this center, while many others have been complaining of impover- ished farms and blighted harvests, The prosperity of the agricultural classes in this vieinity = bas beeu gt help in alleviating the commercial distresses everywhere complained of. The city itself bas grown in population, not as rapidly as was hoped, but still a growth which compares most favorably with the adstill condition of other cities which do more boasting. The results of the official census were far from satis factory, but fortun- alely the figures were o ridiculously low as prima facie evidence of their unreli The data gathered by the postoftic embracing the mames of all who get nail in the city, thecanvass of the directory men, the number of voters registered, the ‘census of the school chiliren, all these point with clear and unanimous proofs to the fact that Council Bluffs has about thirty-five thousund eople. M Without attempting to g pen pictures of the growth Council Bluffs, T Bee presents o number of interesting ' facts and important figures which have been gathered from oficial and reliable sources Council Bluffs covers an arca of seventeen and one-half square miles. It is indeed a city of parks, there belonging to the city and under control of the park com- wissioners, 615 acres. e city is lighted at night by the tower system, and there are now 105 public arc lights. ' Theexpense is §10,00) a year. The gasoline street lights used’ in the outlying districts now number but 125, and_they will soon give way, as have the gas lights, to the blaze of eleetricit ere are four miles of steam motor in the city and fifteon miles of clectric motor lines, 'he assessed valuation of the city has in- ed about half a million, the ossessed valuation of real estate 1g the same as the fous year, an assessment being made in two years. The assessed valua- tion is #,200,000 and_the assessed valuatlon of personal property is 00, making a total of 00,400, This is based on an assessed valuation of only 30 per cent of the real valuation The tax for city purposes is & The total debt of the city is §146,400, There are besides this, city bonds issued for special improvements, which aretaxed up tothe abut- ting property, and this has been decided by the courts to be a debt against private prop- erty and not ag: e city. During the have been forty miles of new Streets opened, making a total of 200 miles of s ¢ During this year there has been two-thirds of a mile of paving done and two miles more arc under contract. This makes nearly seventeen miles of paved streets in this ci There has been added in'tho year two miles of main sewers, making now in all twenty- five i he gas works has laid three miles of mains, making a total of twenty-two miles. There ave in the city seventeen public school buildings, with seventy-seven teach- ers, The school census shows 4,503 chil- dren. The $220,000, The other publio buildings, including the county court house and jail, government building, fire department and city buiidings, and the state institution for the deaf an dumb, swell the total to 81,820,000, The' wholesale trade of the city 'has been figured out for 1860 by Colonel Abbott, who has been gathering statistics for the' city under direction of the officials, and to him Tur 1EE is indebted for much 'information contained in this showing. He figures the wholesale trade and manufacturing for 1360 as amounting to §13,560,500, a slight increase over the preceding year. The retail trade amounted t5 §18,495,000, An attempt has been made to keep a build- ing record by having permits issued for all such improvements, Many have neglected this requirement; so many, in fact, that the record is of little value, it showing but a fragment of the truth. Still the fragment is of some interest, as it Shows 222 permits to have been issued, the valuation of the buildin tho appii 5,470, docs not include the new hotel, the fine Bald- wil block, and other notable buildings, and there are many smaller ones which are not in the list,so that only an estimate can be it is safe to put the actual building ements at being nearer §1,000,000 than shown by the few building per- s which have been taken out. It is to be tted that the city does not seek to en- force its building permit law with sufficient strictness to maks the record of some value. The moral'ty of the caty has apparently changed somewhat for the better, not only as shown by the increased generosity and enter- prise i church building, of which the new 0,000 Methodist church is one, but also shown by the police records, During ISs9 there were 1,015 arrests made by the police. The year just closed gives the figures as 1,705, there belng more than 10 per cont less arrests than during the previous year, which is worthy of nate in view of the fact that the population is larger than a year ago, ana the police force hasbeen increased to twenty- three, sothat offenders had less opportunity for escape from punishment. The city has, during the past year, paid oft $100,000 of the bonds issued for special im- provements. New bonds to the amount of 48,000 have been issued and sold. “This makes the net reduction of the special improvement bonds §2,000. The finducial showing of the city 18 encour- aging iv spite of the financial stringenc; which is felt everywhere, Th bauks in the city, ‘three of which oues. The total capital stock reaches aboat $1,000,000. The deposits reach over 2,500,000 and the increase 1n deposits has been from 20 to 25 por cent, The fire record for the year is remarkable, The department has bad to make seventy- nine runs, but the total loss reaches onl 21,730, It is doubtful _whoether any city in the country, having 835,00 population, can make as favorable a showiog' as this. Much is due to the com- pleteness and efMciency of the department, which is recognized as one of the best in thé land. Auother cause of such a showing is the abundan) and excollent watcr supply, The largest damage at any one fire was thatat the oil tank yards, that being £,000, the nature of the combustibles being such as to make a blaze_almost beyond suppression by any force, The previous yeur there wero ninety-five alarms, there being but one large fire, that of Stewart's packing houses, the other losses footing up about #50,000. Council o any graphic id prosperity of per $100. value of the school property is | calls if we did not frankly Bluffs may well take prido in its fire depart- ment and the water works, The real estate market has felt the same lethargy which has made so many other cities a little sieepy. In Council Bluffs there s been 1o boom nor any great advance in but the year has been marked by no everal important additions coessfully opened and improved, Property throughout the city has been held firm and owners have preferred to wait rather than sell at any deeline. One re- makable feature in the real estato market is the low per cent of incumbrances. Of vacant property it is estimated by those conversant with the situation lhnl not one out of fivelots has any mortgage on it what- ever, Many owners have cleared up their property during the past two years, The foau companies have had wvery fow foro. closures, and viewed from any and every standpoint Council Bluffs really is consid- ered in a very healthy condition, and the Pprospects are so good that property owners seew uuunllnu\ull'u the determ iuation t hold for further advances. Most of the activity [ of late has been in the gardening lanas and fruit farms which lie adjacent %o the city, Such property has been very profitable of late, there belng o ready cash market for frutt and garden stuff, two cities lying so near and being such_large consumors, and shipping facliities being so excellenc, 'The business proving profitable, and the land | especially adapted for big returns, thero has been much demand for this class of property. The Pulse of Trade. The followlng fnterviews with well known business men indicate somewhat the feelings, experiences and hopes of thoso whose inter- ests aro closcly idenufied with thoso of | Council Bluffs: THATCHER'S COAL TRADE, “We know that the year 1800 has brought us a rush of business that fully justifies us in the belief that we made no mistake when we located our general wholesale yards in Coun- ol Bluffs,”” said Mr, H. A. Cox, the western sales agont of A. T, Thatcher, the great coal merchant. The output has exceeded our ex- ectations to such an extent that we ought to o denied the privilege of eating our_ New Year's dinner and making our New Year's admit it Whil matters ssing offect upon all there has been a stringen that has had a dep brauches of trade during the last sixty day and we have had the most unprecedently warm winter in out history, yet the volume of our trade has not only kept up the pace in what was supposed Lo be & more prosperous year, but has excecded it. This can only bo uccounted for by admitting a remarkable growth of the city itself and the great surrounding territories that fs tributars to it. Thecoal business isa mighty good baro- moter to inJicate the state of conmercial and industrial prosperity. 1f business is stag- nated the coal trado will show it first, caused by the shutting down of the manufacturies, the furnaces of which consume the largest quautity of the output of the coul mines. We ve located yards here that are as extensive as any in the' west und we have as complete facilities for handling coal for the wholesale trade as unlimited mens and a thorough knowledge of the business in all of its details can give. We arc satisfied from our ex- periences during the yenr that Councll Blufts siua position to dominate the wholesale coul trado of the Missouri valley. We are mine owners and _operators and solo agents for the largest coal companies in the world. We havesome of the best anthracito mines thi o ever been developed. We have pushed our business in suchan energetic, Council Bluffs sort of way, that whenever the dealers and large con- sumers throughout the think of coul and coke the mame Thatcher ap- pears as the natural sequence of tie thought. No order is too big o too small for us to fill, and fill promply. Let the blizzards come and block the railronds between here and the castorn sources of coul supplies, and it will not produce even the possibility of famnine, for we have right here in Council Bluffs the largest stock west of Chicago, and you know that a snow blockade is 8o Temote a contin- gency in this country that it is scarcely worth constdering. We have held all of our old trade and entered new fields, aud T can perceive no new obstacles likely to get in our way during the coming year tha call for any more than our every day enterprise to surmount, Our grades of coal'include all the prize fuels known in the market. For do- mestic use our anthracite, including eve size, leads them all in quality, and we give the trade Chicago prices with the sim- pleaddition of freight charges, - We don't own many railroads, and only get tho usual margins given larée shipp Among our bituminous coals for domestic heating and steam purposes you will flud only the best grades, known to meet the wants of the cade. The Wainut block and the Enter- o lump are the highest grades of Towa and we handle such quantities of it that able to give the dealers the bost fig- ures to be obtained. A little higher priced coals for domestic use_are the Jackson lump from Illinois, and the Jackson Hill from Olio, butif the t vants somethiog still botter, we can supply any quuntity of Wyoming lump. Besides thése grades” we carry heavy stocks of [owa uut, pea, steam, gus houso coke and blacksmith coal. “As an indication of the business we haye transacted take this little straw: Our books show an output of over two thousand five hundred tons in the last sixty days and our contracts more than double that. We are satisfied with the old year and not anxious | city general to discount the future. *We have a retail trade which we confine exclusively to Council Blufs, We are satis- fied with it and so are our customers’, MUELLER ON MUSIC. “With the best Xmas trade we have ever had in all our business experience in Council Bluffs, with a steady volume of trade throughout every. month in the year, and with a grand aggregate that exceeds any year, is the record of 1590 with us,”” said Mr. ueller, of the Mueller Music company, one of the 'oldest and largest establisnments of the kind in the wi he year has been one that has been fruitful for ‘us in other re- spects thun in pronises to pay, for we havo done a larger cash business than heretofore, and we are more than satisfied with the year's record. Taize our record of sales for the month of December and examine it care- fully. I think it will compare favorably with that of any other house that does business in our line west of Chicago. Up to Tuesday night we had sold thirty-one pianos and six- teen organs from this Council Bluffs estab- shment, and our Omaha houso got away with a business tnat greatly surprised us, Here 1n Council Bluffs, at 103 Main street, we have one of the largest buildings in the city, and the larg- est in the west fitted up for and devoted to the exclusive specialty of mu- sical instruments. Including the basement it five stories high, and has a total floorarcage of just even 10,000 feet. Besides this wo havein Omaha, located at 107 South Six- teenth street, another building almost as large und fully stocked to meet the demands of our growing traac in that bustling city. Much of our success, of course, is due to the fact that we handlo only the best grades of musical instruments, and deal straight, fair and square with everybody. In somo localities the. musical instruinent business has been degraded by irresponsible agents, not strictly dealers, and they will resort to' the same dishonest practices and trickery to ef- fect a sale of & worthless article that a confl- dence man or @ patent right shark will to fleeco his victim. Such fellows only sell grades of instruments - that reputa- ble dealers will not handle or permit to come into their houses. All our trade is not in the finest grades and highest priced instruments. Wo have calls for instruments within the means of mechcnics and peoplo whose incomes are not large enough to war- rant the expenditure of large sums, and we are compelled to keep them to meet the de- mands of this class of trade, but when we sell such an instrument we tell the purchaser just exactly what it is, Flealways gets the worth of his monoy, for our lower grade in- struments differ from some of the higher priced, largely inthe style aud finish of the case. *‘Our every-day, all-the year around piano is the Hardman, which has had the greatest run und become'the most, popular instrument on the market. 1t has all the qualities of a desirable houschold instrument, strength, smoothness aud beauty of tone, and i3 not high priced. Our other specialties are the Fisher and Everott pianos and the Royal and Century organs. Then add to this every other kind of an instrument that is known to civilization and a stock of musio supplies of every kind and the largest stock of sheet music to be found west of Chicago, and you can realize why it is that we have been able to extend and increase our trade. *“With sales of over $10,000 for one month and an excellent prospect of a continued marked increase of our trade, we feel like wo were on top and welcome the new year with genuiue enthusiasm, confident that we will make many more happy homes before it ends, If all other dealers have been as successful as we have I see noreasoa why Council Bluffs should nov malse this the best year of her his- torwill A PLUMBER'S VIEWS. ‘I am to0 busy closing up the most success- ful year's business of my whols life to per- mit much of a business interview,'" said J, C, Bixby, the leading plumber of this section of untry, *4Just say that I notonly have every confidence in the future of Council Bluffs and fuith in the new year, but that I koow I will have all the business I can ta care of. 1 have established @& plumbing business that takes in all the surrounding country, aud every town and city within 200 miles. I base wy success simply upon two or three things; first and primarily, the prosperity of the city aud country, and sec- oud, upon my ability to do good sanitary work and first"class steam heating, and lnel- dentally upon my rmination neve misrepresent. My office here in the Merri block that occupies one of the finest rooms in it and my store rooms that take up a large part of ‘the basement, are stockedgwithjthe best and largest line of plamber's goods in the Missouri Valley, reprasenting tho com bined skill of the best mapyfacturers and in: ventors in the busin I bave only good and cheerful words for #iy fellow business. men for tho coming year, ad extend them | the compliments of the season with the hopo that they will be even more successful than L. A GREAT MPAT, TRADE, “Who's complaining of dull trade!" in- quired George Meschendorf, with an inflec- tlon of voice that indicated 4 very strong de- sirenot to be included fit the number if therowereany. “During the year of we transacted a nice littlo business that my balance sheets here have just informed mo amounted to udwards of §152,000, and if that is not a pretty good sh meat market in any city in the world I would like to be informed ‘what would con- stitule a favoruble showing. A provision market may not be the best business to show the state of geneval trade, for people are bound to eat. ~They won't go hungry, even if they arenot making fortunes out of their business, but I believe the splendid busin: that | have transacted during the year m be taken as a mighty good indication of the rosperous condition of the people of the Taxe the monthly bills of my customers generally, and you will ind that many of them reach &3 ov $10 for cach calendar month, and the bulk of them exceed £10. People cannot pay this amount for the single item of meats unless they are in a prosperous condition. 1 more than doubled last year, aud I am ihuch year will show equally & . 1 draw my balance sheets next Decomber, To do this business I have @iven constant em- ment toa dozen men and have oceupied omfortable little space of 6,120 square feet of floor areage, Aud if you will just take the trouble to look around a little you will seo that it is fully occupied. Thero ‘are fifteon of as fine beeves on the hooks there as Towa ever produced, fat, young, two, three and four old steers’ every ono of them. Of course, much of my phenomenal success depends’ upon the fact that I have nothmg but first class stock here, and I have taken pamns to let the world know it through the c umns of Tie Bee, T furnish all the lary consumers who get their supolies from this oint. This includes all the hotels, all the dining cars, the deaf and dump institate ana other institutions located in ana nearthe city. Inever hang anything on my hooks that I do not know to be zood, and all that T use Swift & Cudahy siaughter for wo at South Omaba. 1 have the privilege of in- specting all the stock slaughtered for me, and my years of experiencein the business ena- bles me to get the best, the fat of the land. for my trade. I have a great many customers in Omaha, and my wagons make daily trips there, “Yes, Tam thoroughly satisfled with the outlook for tho new year, and my knowledge of the business affairs of my fellow merchants convinces me that they aré equally prosper- ous, uad enables me to assurc the world that Council Bluffs has a greater per cent of strong, safe and financially sound merchants than gy other city T kuow of. With this be- liof, and with this enthusiasm I eoter upon the' work of the new year, confident that I will double my business before the ides of next December. ! THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK, “Wo increased our capital during the year by doubling it,” said_President George P. Sunford of the irst National banl, “‘and we did s0 with the clear understanding that the future warranted it, while our business at the time demanded it. Theincrease was made in Septem ber, at_ which time 1 became wentified with the bank. Our business smce then has fully justified our_actions and ful- filled our anticipations, I do not know of a better statement to make in regard to our ex- pectations for the future than to tell you that we are arranging fora still greater increase of our working capital by the addition of £0,000. Our [ast official state- ment to the comptroller of the currency stiowed loans and discounts amounting to #423,502.28 1 due from approved reserve agents, 46, and total resources amounting to $734,047.43. Our average deposits aggregate $000,00. The stringency in the mouey mar- ket hus made capital somewhat timid, but the Flirst National has been liberal eaough for the accommodation of its patrons consist- ot with a safe banking business. Iam bighly pleased with Council Bluffs. Her natural *resources and the magnificont country around her gives me every coufidence in her future.” The First National is not only one of the strongest butit is one of the oldest banking institutions in the city, and is the pioncer national-bank in the northwest, haying been organized in 1865, and at the expiration of its charter in 185 it was renewed as_a national bank. Mr. Sanforl succeededJ. K. Evans to the presidency, who had been at the heud of the institution for the previous twenty years. and who has now retired from active busi- ness. Vice President Farnsworth ana Cushier Reilkman are among the old- est citizens in the city, and their names are synonymous with good, sound financiering. Mr. Sunford is one of the most aile and popular business men of the nortn west. He was boru at Byron, Ogle county. 1llinois, on December 24,1843, so that ho 18 scarcely yet 1 the prime of lifo. But he has accomplished more than most men do in the allotted “threo score years and ten)’ For the last quarter of a Century he has resided at La Valle, Wis, und everybody there knows bim and his ¢redit there and financial standing are very high. He is a large stock- holder in the ~Omaha National bank of Owana, Neb,, and the First National banl of Chicago, 11L,to the valuo of about §150,000. He is also ' stockholder in the following banks : The National Bankof Iilinois, Chicago, the Commercial National bank, Chicago: the Merchants® National bank, St. Paul, Minn,; the National bank of Kansas City, the Citi- zens’ National bank and the Kansas City Safe Depositand Savings bank, all of Kansas City, Mo.; the Peoples’ National bank and the Peoplés’ Saving bank of Denver, Col., and the Consolidated National bank of San Diega, Cal. He is a largo property owner in TLa Valle, Wis,, consisting of houses and lots, vacant lots, farm aod tumber lands. He also holds notes, mortgages and other personal property of great value. He intends to make Council Blufts his home for the future, SAVINGS BANK BUSINESS, “We organized the State savings bank be- cause we believed there was not only a field forsuchan enterprise in Council Bluffs, but that it was needed as a means of enabling people whoso earaings were small to have a sufe depository where they could deposit small amountsand get something for it,” said President John Bennett of the new sav- ings bank located at 415 Broadway. *I re- gard thesavings bank as being of equal im- portance in_the moral education of the com- munity as the churches and schools. Itisthe school that educates people in economy. We do an exclusive saving baok business and since we organized March 21, 1858, we have had working people for our depositors who have now accumulated snug lit- tle sums who previously spent all they earned and were in debt. This is true of clerks. Come in any Saturday afternoon and look at our depositors and you will be cony a wo are affording all classes of poople the best means of saviug their money and making it earn them something, = Our business has gained very satisfactorily to us. We have had a gradual increase from the beginning, and while the growth “mlfst necessarily be slow, we feel that we can build up a very fine business by close attention and careful man- agement. We have nearly forty stockholders, who are among the best businéss men of the country.” Mr, Bennett ccased speaking to receive o deposit from one of Tie Ber news boys, who supports a mother and sister and never fails to make o weekly doposit. M, Bennett is one of the oldest citizens of the city, and has held every, jmportant place of trust his fellow citizens eotld give him in the county government. Tho cashier, William Arud, is one of the most popular young men in the city. THE CIGAR TRADE, No complaint to make of our trade for 180, said Gus Bergman of T. D. King & Co., one of the largest eigar manufacturing firms in the city. "I have just finished our aunual report and find we have made 301,00 ars during the year and moved our factory in the bargain from Broadway to our new quarters here at 209 Main street. To do this we have consumed a great many pounds of tobacco and given employment to a large number of men. We have paid §10 a housand to our men for making these cigars and the wages paid to their bolpers will increase the amount of cash for wuges we have paid oat during the year to about $,00, In addition to the go:ds of our own make we bave handled 500,000 astern made cigars, ‘The average price of our own goods has been 315 per 1,000 and our eastern stock about §20, We have built up a splendi | trade on our own goods, for we do not makea single cheap cieas grades we handle are all castern made. expect W double our We business during the 1890 | ing for retail | The cheaper | coming year, and base our expectations unon good, substantial business propositions. The trade is somothing of a baromotor of the gon= eral_prosperity, for people dont smoke fine cigars unless thoy can afford to,” STATE OF THE WALL PAPER TRADE, “Well, I don't know but what the wall paper trade is o protty good thing to indicate the pulse of trade,” said C. L. Gillette, pro- prictor of the largest wall paper and decora- tivo establishment in_Council Bluffs. T have just moved from 28 Pearl strect to this place, 45 South Main street. | took what is generally supposed to be the dullest time to move, but the demands of my customers have @iven me littlo time. I have had a very sat- isfactory business during the year, and Iam thoroughly convinced that the coming yoar will be miich bet People do not as a gen- eral thing indulge in fine room decora- tions unless thoy can afford it, for modern apering must bo classed’ among the uxuries, The fact that I have been justified in putting in the largest and most expensive stock of papers and decorative materials ever brought (o the city is good evidonce that the town and the people are not hard up, 1 have also the best appointed sign room in the city, and am better prepared than ever to turn out all kinds of sign work. Another thing that indicates thrift and progress is the numbor of orders I have reccived for brass sigus, which have been sufficient to induco me to make that kiud of work a specialty. ~Another thing that 18 worth mentioning, is the foct that thero has beenn decided departure in the styles of papers. Stocks bought last year will be no good this year. My stock is all new and the latest patterns. 1 am sure of a prosperous and busy r, and predict the samo for all of my business friends.” HOTEL GORDON nt t the pulse of learn just exac strong it1s, you must como to the hotels,” said Colonel 8. W, C of the popuiar hotel Gordon. _ *We meet the commercial men every hour of the day repre- senting every business under the sun, and tho information ~we get from them is fresh, straight and reliable, At the present timo there is undoubtedly a tendency toward stag- nation, but I am certain that it is not more than should be expected at the close of any year. Ihave for my guests the best class of commercial men that como to the city. I treat them well and they talk to mo very freely. From what I hear | am sure the cc ing year will be a prosperous one. hotel busness has been splendid ing the portion of the year that I have been connected with it in Council Blufls. 1 have completely remodeled tho houso and have made the Hotel Gordon one of the nicest littlo hotels in the country Have refurnished it completely throughout and brought the finest French cook to be had The hotel is located right in the heart of busiuess, with all the electric motors in the city passing it at intervals of w o minutes, guests are highly pleased with their en- tertanment, and I am getting a novel ex- perience each day when some of my depart- ng puests grasp my hand affectonately and bid me a hearty farewell until they see mo again. For the coming year I will make tho Hotol Gordon more than ever a home for the itinerant public. I am thoroughly satisfied with Council Bluffs and notat all sorry that I located here.” A SATISFACTORY MONUMENT. “Wo have certainly erected & substantial monument to our faith in the future of Coun- cil Bluffs," said Mr. J. F. Kimball of the firm of Kimball & Champ. *We have built one of the most beautiful hotel butldings between Chicago and the Pacific coast, in addition to the many other substantial improvements we havebeen interested in. We believe that splendid structure we have erccted o1 the corner of Pearl street and First avenue, overlooking Bayliss park, with its beautiful fountain and the fluest spot of shade and green in this count; not erected one minute too soon, and is not a particle in ad- vanco of tho city. It sumply calls for other buildings, nov only like it but much finer, and marks the commencement of & new erea in_our commerel prosperity. “Our business for _the that wnight has been A GOOD REPUTATION, “tAn established reputation is the best cap- ital a business man can have,” said Charlio Sherraden, the proprietor of the leading photograph gallery in Council Bluffs, “All [he monoy n thewdrld could not attract trade to him without that essential point. 1am a photographer who has been in this city for vears, and the work I get out suits every time. These aresome of the reasons wh can say that the past year contained nothing for me to regret in & business way. It has been a prosperous year with me, and I take that as asplendid indication that it has been a prosperous year with everybody clse. People wall do without photogaaphs before they will food and clothes, and the fact that I have had all that I could do tells mo there is a lot of surplus cash in Council Bluffs. No, we don't get the prices forphotographs that' we used to. Imakea finer cabiuet photograph for £ adozen now than Idid whon Igot #10. I mako the best that can be made for I have kept abreast of the times and have all the ap- proved processes and discoveries, 1801 is all right and so is Council Bluffs, and I expet to do a_great doal more during the next yea and I'will just usk Tue BEe to tell the peo- ple tocometo South Main street when they want first-class photography at popular ] de and dur- year dies good,” e L A MONSTER SHIP, The Shenandoah Carries More Sail Than Anything Afloat. A flag-adorned Yankee ship, that made the old-time shippers hereabouts marvel came up the hnfr the other day. She was the Shenandoah, and she spread 1,100 square yards of canvas, or more than any other sailing vessel in the world, says a New York special to theSt. Louis Globe-Democrat, There is only one other ship bigger than = the Shenandoah, a steel five master, the France, built on the Clyde and owned by a French company, byt not what navi- gators calla clipper, The Shenandoah is not an extreme clipper—that is, her lines are not those of a boat built pri- marily for speed. But she is shapely and swift, and has loftier spars than any vessel in the world. She has four masts, fore, main, mizzen and jigger. Her mainyard is ninety-four feet long. From the deck tothe truck of the main royal is 190 feet. The Shenandoah is three times as big as the Yankee re makers of thirty years ago. The Dreadnaught, which made the fastest voyage of any sailing vessel to Liverpool, measured only 1,200 tons. The Shenandosh measures 8,409 tons, and 8,258 tons net. She is 325 feet long over all, 808 feeton the water line, 49 feet wide and 29 feet deep. She draws 27 feet, or about as much as the City of Paris, He rying capacity is 5,000 tons, or more than some of the largest freight steamships. She was constructed of oak and launched from the yards of Arthur Sewel & Co., a% Bath, in No- vember., The Shenandoah will sail for San Francisco on Janu- 2. She will take a cargo of tthence to Liverpool, She has crew of twenty-four able seamen, six boys, three mates, ono boatswain, a stewart and a cook. Felix Stinson is chief mate, Captaln Murphy brought s family around from Bath with him, but they ‘will not accompany him on his voyage westward, The part of the ship which pleased Mvs, Murphy and her children most is thecabin, It iss and is finished in polished qus The floor is oiled and cov There are eighteen staterooms, all which are us fino as those on a first-class ocean steamship, The ship is to be lighted by clee ——— MEDICINE ME\'S TRIOKS, The Davenport Br vs' Dodge isan | Assinil The Rev. ian Indian Cer 3. F, Wilson of § Marie, Ont., has recently taken a prom- inont part in the organization of the Canadian Indian Research and Aid so- clety, snys an Ottawa, Oat., special to the San Francisco Examiner. He isas- sociated with prominent Canadians who ropose to promote the wel of the ‘Inlum- and preserve thelr history tra- ditions and folk lore, as well as diffus information with a view toc ing mor general interest in both their spiritual and temporal progress, Among the Indians of Moose wountain, in the province of Assiniboiw, ny. wlt Sainte Crec | AFINE LINEOF HOLIDAY Boots, Shaoes —AND— WINTER FOOT W EAR, At pricesthat will sur- prise you. The best goods atlowest prices In the city. Consult your own interest and buy your Winter Foot wear at the BOOT UPSIDE DOWY SIOE STORE, 28 Main Street. market. any other lowa coal. All kinds of Wood and Coal. Northwest territory, thove ex Mr. Wilson, & custom strangely v Dbling the performance of the Davenport brothe It waswitnessed in the spring of 1889 Campbell, the Indian agentat that place. An Indian named : s sicls, and the medicine man, pechegahbowh, at that time vighty years of age, undertook to ain from the great spirit whether wtient should live or di When Mr. Campbell arrived at the sick man’s tepee, T T e oning, he found it crowded with In- dians, and in the center re four up- right’ stakes planted firmly in the ground in the form of a square about two fect and o half ap: Around the framework we wrapped prepared skins, dry and without any hairon them, to about six fest from the ground. Kapechegahbowh then appeared on the scene, divested of all his clothing except his breech-clout, and, after lighting the sacred pipe at afire in the tepee and presenting it to the four points of the compass and offering a prayer, which lasted ten minutes, he went outside and called loudly on the Great Spiritto come down and converse with him, Then, at a given signal, Kapechegah- bowh was taken and hound hand and foot, by several young men inattendanco, First his hands and fingers were socured news, then his feet, then his arms were bound behind his back with half- inch ropes well knotted; his knees and ankies were bound in the same manner, then with other ropes he was drawn and held together in a squatting position, his knees dvawn up to his breast. In this utterly helpless condition | was placed inside the narrow chimney-like enclosure in the center of the tepee, the lower skin covering being telescoped upward to allow for his entrance. There was only room for him to squat inside, The skin covering was then drawn down, the fire in the tepee was put out. all smoking was forbidd silence was enjoined, but the tomtoming of the drums was kept up at intervals, In the center of the narrow inclosure, where Kapechegahbowh was confined, the sa- cred medicie stone—a smooth, ovi shaped stone about eight inches long— had been already deposited and the bound man had a bone whistle placed in his mouth. He kept alternately blowing on this whistle and calling on the Great Spirit to come down to him, and in a very few minutes after he had been shut up ihero began a rapid scrambling up and down upon the inside of the skin walls of the little prison, accompanied by a sharp barking sort of noise and in another moment one of the ropes was thrown over the inclosure, then another rope, then another, and the old man was heard calling loudly, first for the great spirit, then for the spirit of the sick man to come to him. His prayers, it appeared, were an- swered, for soon after he washeard talk- ingand expostulating with the Great Spirit, and then the spirit of the sick man started up a i coversation with the Great Spi and the end of it was that the G Spirit consented toremove the sickness from the sick mun. It was nearly 2 o’clock in the morning before the per- formance was over, andothere being no fire allowed the white persons who had been allowed to be present were getting very stiff and cold, and were glad to get e kite e oo mfona a ket R B Me. Campbell, upon inquiry, found that this custom had been in vogue among those Indians for many genera- tions A pioncer Jesuit priest mentions having seen the sume performance many years ago, named K: near! asce e Curious Customs About Women, Although amony the Bedouins u wi is consideved as a slave, singleness is looked upon as a disgrace. Persian women have little education, veared in seclusion and igno . lnowing nothing beyond the walls houses Jewish women of the higher classes ludod from public life, and their time with the distaff and At m: uge the cercmonies In China u wife is never seen by her future mus Some relative bargains for the girl, the stipulated price is paid, and she is atterward a submissive slave, The women of ancient Rome were treated with greatest respect. Still, theywerenotallowed toinherit property, and could be dive by their hushands for counterfeiting their keys and for wine drinking, In Turkey woman is held rigid seclusion. She appear veiled, With p she is forbiden toentern the Koran declares unmarried to be in bation In the most must always ws and dogs mosque, and a woman who I a state of repro- Siberian women are raised slaves, untidy in dr with money or cattle. The most cap: ricious whim of her husband is law, and should the latter de 1 divoree he hasonly to tear the cap from her head, Among the congo negroes when a man wishes & wife he sccures one and ke her on probation a year, If her tem por und deportment are’ satisfuctory, he at he AR o yenr formally” marries | her, But should she prove an in- cumbrance hesends her back to the parental roof. as ub, s, and ure bought it 011 Itlasts longer, produces more heat and burns up cleaner than 1 One ton will the ordainary stuff, and it costs no morethan thecheap, unsatisfactory grades commonly sold. Try it for cooking and heating, Sold only by L. G. KNOTTS, FUEL MERCHANT, go asfaras aton anda half of Cobs a specialty. Full weight and prompt delivery. 29 South Main St. Telephone 808. SPECIAL NOTICES. COUNCIL BLUFFS, D_Good man as_general agenty per month, #40 seourity roe ary 6 orh, 607 Willow ave, ¢ Blufrs. VVANTED A work in tamil the ri »od girl for general houses of three; n good place for Wt glrl. Call a Avenue B, OWA farms for sale. a'so choieo garden and fi 1 near Council Bluns. Johnston wten, Everott biock, NOR RENT or For Sale 10w EEom tho ol | 1d Just south of o Good Bowss, biru and il well a spring of living water. cres in Jdtivation. Sultable for nd dairy o Ront is H00 per year, Apply to Loonurd Everett. W aNTE wood in 17 ard E t BARGAIN stablo Tands. or silo, 05,8 rods north of Ohuue tauqua grounds; eastorn slono, line springs fine spring brook, lnnd very rich ; will sell in 1) > Tots at $30 per acere, or §7) per uere for acre tarm »winas the op tarm Men to cut Lont co and ity. Apply toLeor wed Mynster 3030 por acre. djolning city limlits, two' stor Darn, fino orchard’ and small Prico, 5,00, rund uvenue, 1% 10 e house, miles from Py , threo miles from oity llmits, good barn and out bulldinss, §) biaring nd small trates, Price 86,00 weres, fine Impro n| y one intlo from station, ) un iere If taken soon. Basy terms, Farm and city property for sile. W. O room 4. Opera house bk, Council Blutrs. TOURNISHED well ARMS For & A long List, many of them at low prices; also S e garden and fruit land near the city limits, liouse, barnand other fmprovements: nlso 4 acr fraitand garden land just outside the city ol £,50). W. A, Wood & Co., 520 Main stroet. “()Il RENT I brick blo 1. W. Squire. i OR SALE or Rent—Garlon Iand, houses, by J. k. Rico, 104 Main st., Gounal Blufrs Malion _threestory No. 45 8. Mulnst, with elovator A appy New Year Talkc about Home Dressed Beef! I have had 156 corn fed cattle—1,600 weight euch ~dr sied by the Cudahy Packing Co. of South Cmaha. The artistic work was done by Larcy Nooman, the champio: bee dresser of the United States, who took the honors both here and Chicago, -in dressing beef on exhibition. Come and judge fo# yourself if these cattledon't beatsny home dres sed cattle advertised yot or killed in our city for New Years or any other time, which Iwill sell for cash at my market, 888 Broadway, At the following prices, which mean cash or C, O. D. only. Porterhouso . Round Stou Corned Boof . Shoulder Ronst Mutton Legs... Mutton & P Ops Boiling 'f Prive 1R1Y Ro Mutton Chops Pork Roast... |8 and 11 8o and 10 10 ek Bt eain Frije Poultry L= [Eges ... L= nd Butter. )18 |Rater 10ih iots 10 124 |Apple Butter i0 Canned Goods, Canned Goods, Geo. H. Meschendorf. Finley Burke, Geo,W. Howitt. J. N.0asady. jf Burke, Hewitt & Casady, ATTOREYS-AT-LAW Offices Brown Building, Coun=- cil Bluffs, lowa, Take elevator to second floor, CITIZENS STATE BANK Of Council Bluffs, PAID UP CAPITAL,... SURPLUS AND PROFITS LIABILITY TO DEPOSITORS, DinectoRa -1 A, Miller, ason, E. Ta E, Hart, J. D, son, Cliarkss Transict general banking busis st eapital and surplus of any banlk in Southwestern owa. INTEREST UN TIME DEPOSITS, OFFICER & PUSEY, BANKERS. Carner Main and Broad way, COUNCIL BLUFFS, I0WA, rs In forolgn domostlo xchunge fon made and lnterest pald on Ume 115 W.C. ESTEP, . orth Main § and Embaln $150,000 50,000 350,000 neral Directo D. H, Mc¢Daneld & Co., Butchers’ awd Paskers' Supyliss, Market Fixtures, Casinzs, Splecs and Sausago Makers' Machinory. §20e 2 Maln st., Council Blulls, la Al déslons in Hides wnd Furs “ —— PEERLESS BIACK PEERLESS. Is in every respect the best Coal for domestic purposes in the ' et ® TR OF AEETRENES w CnwmmT -