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e A — L — . ——————— - THE OMAHA BEE. | COUNCIL BLUFF CI'FICE: No. 12 PEARL \\u--v by Carvier in any part of the City. w H, TITON MANAGER. TELEPHO e, No. 43 Jditor. No 110y, nver Co., coal. & Craft's chattel lonns, 204 Sapp block. 1 you want water fn your yara or house £016 Bixby's, #02 Merriam block. A game of bail will ba played aftornoon by the Lone Stars and M cluos at the driving park Born--To Mr. and_Mra. B, B. Coons terday, ab 510 South Sixth street, woight nine and one-haif pounds. Miss Mamie Fauble entertained thirty of hor youug friends night b at hor home on Littie Curtis stree Yostorlay was one of the hottest, if not the nottest, days of the season, the ther mometer standing at 95 = 1w the shade during the afternoon In police court yester Parker was sentenced to 8 inty Jail for vagrancy, K was fined £15.50 for nkenue Bull §10.70 for drunk and conduct Newton Nelson fs confined to his home near tho stock yards by an injury which he received while working on ashed. He fell to thy und and had broken. He was taken to his home and Dr. P. J. Moutgomer wnded him, His njury will keep nim in 4 & ouse u fow days, but is not serious s officials of the Northwestern rond arrived in the city yesterday afternoon at 2540, tho teain having been delayed for six hours by a w Ity at once 100k otor train for Omaha, where they were to hold a meeting with the ofticials of the Union Pa- cific company relative to changes which it is said are to b made in depot facilities. An onjoyable socinl was given last ov, {n'the parlors of the Rifth Avenue M church. A musical programme was oue the attractive features of the evening, Prof. Rutter rendering several selections’ in an excellont manner. The phonograph was also Called in to furnish entectainment. A laree crowd was 1 attendance and & pleasant time was had. Superintendent H. W. Sawyer has boeu busily engaged for some days pust in _going _ovor the samplo school books left with him X for examination by various wholesalers and will have his report reaay for the school board at its weeting next Monday evening, at which time the selection of books for use 1 the public schools buring the coming year will bo made. An alarm of Council tomorrow arcus yos- boy ; about ore last ir «y morning Johin n days in the ' Johnson s and W, disorder! 038 K. ning hodist of fire was soundod yvesterduy morning at 0 o'c %k from the corner of Mill and Seventh stree A blaze had startod in o small house, 615 Mill streot, oc- cupied by a family named Eppem Tho fire 1 suceeeded in extinguishing it before ch damage was done, the only 10ss being a bed wnd vedding, a dresser and ~some cloth- fug. The occupunts thougnt the tire origi- ated from the explosion of & lamp, but K. Lauberscheimer, who owns the ouildi claims in wus a case of incendiarism. Joseph Auvenmark, a young Swedo just from the old country. is in tho ity for “the urpose of giving un exhidition of ‘his juimp- ug powers at Manawa this afternoon. A tower has been erected in the lake sixty feet byeh, aud from this he jumped head fore- Alost last evening into the water, The tower is to be built up twesty feet higher toda, and he will make the flying lean ot feot into the water, He has a great v tion as an acrial performer and wiil entertainmont by performing a double sum ersault in thoair. He will doubtless at- tract a large crow William MeGuire, who lives about three miles east of the eity, in Garner township, was arrested Thursday night on an inform tion filed in Justico Harmer's court churging him with threatening to kill. The informa- tion was filed by his wife. According to her story, there has been a good deal of war in their household lately. McGuire became un- managoable, and wont so far from the stand- ard of maritial perfection as to draw w butcher knifo on his wife aud threaien to kill her. He xpent one night in the county Jail, beiug unable to zive bonds, and yesterday morning Mrs. McGuire reappeared in court and withdrow tho information, paying the costs of the case. Her husband was released and weat home. HI PRICE 8 MK 3 THE BUSINESS Only Five Days More. temember Surgent’s great discount gule lasts but. five duys moro, and if you 1 stop and think a moment you will 506 that it will pay you to take advan- tage of it. Think of this. dwin (. Burt’s $5.00, $6.00 and $7.00 shoes for $3.75 to close, Wright Peters’ cloth tops and all #5.00 shoes, $4. John Kolly shoes, $3.40. Johu Kelly fine $3.50 sho John Kelly fine $3,00 shoes, wverybody knows these goods. nt cloth top and patent tip # shoes, $2. Surgent turns and welts #4.00 A misses’ school shees, $1.77 shoes, $1. Pho best made. trent missos’ kid, spring heel $2.50 shoos, ¥ Sargent oxford ties at your own pricos. The best men’s $3.00 shoe in the state for Kverything in the store roduced. Re- member this is to and mako room for fall goods, and positively will not last but five days more. The old I’hillips Shoo Store. B. M. SARGENT. PERSONAL {RAGRAP IS, John N. Baldwin has returned from a trip to Chicago. Mus, J. W, Squire and daughter have re- turned from a visit at Colfux. Charles T Stewart has returned from a threa woeks' trip to wostern Nebraska. Al Parkinson left for California yesterduy, where ne will mako his home in the futur: Mrs. Dr. . Thomas and children have returied from a visit of soveral weeks with friends in the eastern part of the state. Drs. Woodoury, dentists, 30 Pearl street, next to Grand hotel. lephone 5. High grade work a specialty. Try Duquette & Co.’s Pomona cough tablots. . Thay are delicious. An Expensive Hotel, A well known tmlor who has been in the habit of patronizing the cup that cheers, and who was brought up to the police station @ number of times lately for drunkeuness, met fruit with an expensive experience night before last. He was on his way from Omaba whero he haa been rounding up the city, to his home, when his jug commended o get too heavy, und he lay down to rest in a clump of wecds near the motor power house. W bo came to himself yesterday moruing he was minus a coat, & hat and a watch. Someone tad ovigently found him and_relieved him of all his surplus property during his deunken stupor. His total loss wus about # Rirthday Celebration. Mr. Paul Kodweiss entertamed ubout twenty of his friends Thursd the residence of Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Mathis, 1100 Fourth avenue, the occasion bein his twenty sixth birthday. Awmong those presont were Mr. aud Mrs. Rettige, Me. and Mr Mitchell, Me, and Mrs. Smith, M. and Mes. Scanian, Mr. and Mes. Rutter, Misses Bull and Boudfuot of Omaha, Messrs. Gullagher and Boudinot. Music and cards were the enjovable features of the eveuing. About 11 o'clock an elogant luneh was served, after which the guests departed, wishing M. Kodwelss wany buppy returus. —— s, Stewart & Patty, veterinary sue- oons, 45 Fourth street,Council Blults, Lu. evening ut asoline and oil; cobs, wood and coal; prompt delivery. L. G. Knots, 27 Main; telephone 2 THE £, NEWS FROM COUNCIL BLUE nefi's Accraing from the Deoision in the Bridge Case. BRINGING PEOPLE TO THE BLUFFS OMAHA Rock Tsland Has Estiblished Division | Heudq crs and Many Bmployes Will Make Their Homes Here After This. Since the decision of Judge Brewer in re gurd to the Unfon Pacific-Rock Island con- troversy, consiaerable has been said about the ruinous effect that the decision would and, in fact, had alreaay commenced to on the business interssts of tho Bluffs. The oMcials of the Rock [sland state that, s0 far from injuring tho Bluffs, tho changd brought about by Judge Brower's decision is huving a beno effect in many ways, 80 r s their lino is concerned. Superintend- ent D. Burleigh of the eastern division, witn his force of clerks, moved from Topzka some time ago 10 anticipation of the present stats of affairs, and has jurisdiction of that part of the line bety Council Bluffs a4 Beatrice, Neb,, The dispatcher's of- fi has been removed from Atlantic to this vity, ard has been given guarters in the loeal depot. Tho dispatching force con- sists of C. (. Linder, chief dispateher, and his assistants, M. Cromin, W. C. Westlake and I, J, Bozdock, together with I, \W. Bru- ington, the operator, After the 16th of this month the flyer will run through from Chicago to Denver. Under the new regime Council Bluffs will be a di- vision station, und all crews and engines on all the trains will be changed hero. This one fact will result in at least forty amilies beng brought to this city to live. There will bo six freight crews and SIX passenger crews w extra which will doduty on a local traln between this ity and South Omana. Most of the freight and passenger traftic ter be handled from’ the local a re- sy w0 { the transfer, and Jably be found nec it depot facilities. Last Few Days. sult it will pr enlarge the pros Monday, August 10, is the last day of the greaf cost sale at the Boston Stove, Couneil Bluffs. Ladies, take timely rning, muke your dry goods purchi just now, although not in absoluto nec of them, for certainly such un offering not to be had every day. The choice of such a vast stock of dry goods at actual cost price, something never heard of bo- fore in the dry goods trade. Today Saturday) and Monday all our summer roods must go, cost eatting no figure on such s, wo muke the prices that th ] to sell. Bolow are only few of the itoms included in this er sale: 8%1nch Sc and 10¢ summer cashmeres and challies, all_in one lot, 7 benutiful dresses and for < you can find nothing better. 23¢ plaid suitings, sale rench satoens, regu beautiful designs, half sule, 1lc o 5,000 cloths, fan ys and that sold for 10 and 12¢c, sale p) All our 6e davle prints for 4fe. O se. Best light We show onc of in table linen ever utiful quality 70 inches wide, indigo blue calicoes for shirting prints for 4 the greatest birgains shown on a counter, a be unbleached table linen, at H74c, worth Sie. At we show a line that is usually sold at 7 e and G0¢ in bleached, unbleached and Turkey red. Iiverything in linens, napkins, flan- nels, musling, sheetings, blankets, ete., ote., at actual cost. In short, ever thing in the store at actual cost, with only two exceptions, which is one or two makes of Dr. Warner's and Dre. Ball's corsets; we don’t muke the price on them and therefore cannot break it. Ladies’ ribbed vests, 7e veats for de. Ladies’ ribbed vests, 124¢_vests for 9e. Ladies’ vibbed vests, 17¢c vests for 124c. Ladies® ribbed vests, 25¢ vests for 10¢. Ladies’ ribbed Lisle vests, 45c vests for 274, Hosie as is a widely known fact, we the most complete line in Council and the bost brands in the world; are all included in this great cos sule; our 17¢ hose for our 2i¢ hose for 19e, our 30¢ for 39c and 42c. Remember today #nd Monday are the last two d eat cost sale The following is a statement of the finunces ity for the past mouth, ending August 1, according to the report of City Treasurer Kinnehan: On hand. Overdrafts, General fund fund, 1 fund A fon puving und ading “e tassen section sewer slnking fund s ant fund I Water fund Park fund Litrary fund ind sidewalk n sower Curhi Intersect Speclul assessment gr Bademption fund. .. Sewer district No. y brid 4. Funded d General sew #2108 FI8.800 56 Pianos, Broadway. ovgans, C. B. Music Co., 5 o company, 335 Broad- Swanson mus! ur furniture, ecarpets, stoves and hovsehold goods of Mandel & Klein, Council Bluffs. P ry low; freight prepaid to your city. Bound for the Pen. 3. S. Fogley's caso was resumed in the po lice court v morning. The city at- torney commenced operations by changing the charge against the defendant from as sault with intent to do #reat bodily injury to assuult with iutent to commit murder.” Feg- y bad been granted a continuance in order to get an attorney, but ho had evidently failed to find any one who would defeud him us he appeared for himsell, Ho wus v penitent, but bis penitence failed to mov the court i his behalf, and ho was bound over to uwait the action of the grand jury, His bond was fixed at 00, in default of which be was sent to the county jail. Buy Rush Job I gulur work for Om or Council ity part or anyone else, done promutly and properly” at Pryors Bee job oftice, 12 Pearl street, Council Blufls, Prices ave always us low s is consistent with good work € Store building, 400 Central C. Do Haven. Towa's Farmer Candidate. H. C. Whoeler, ropublican caudidate for governor, spent vesterday in the city, and was the observed of all observers. He wus taken {n hand early in the day by promivent merbers of the republican league, who mude 1t their duty to see that Lo took away WIth For Rent Broadway. DAILY BEE, him a favo impression of lowa's west ern metrope Tn the morning he was at | the office of Colonel D, 8. Dailey, where ha | was calied upon by & number of citizens of both parties--by republicans who wanted to s00 what Vs next governor looked like, | rats who wanted m sor thing out of him that might injure tho pros ans next fall. So far w's florts of the democrats were not attended U artling rosults. Several nowkpaper men were amony those and while he was affublo with all he took 1 a to conceal the fact that he did no! s to talk much about any political subject upon which there is much discussion In the afternoon he was given a ride who called on b the city by J. J. Brown, Hon. Walter L Smith, Colonel D. B. Dailey and I M. Trey- {10 was muc £ with the appear- ft last evening for his Made a Cood Haul. The Woudbine, a saloon in the Key build- ing on Broadway near the corner of Sev teenth street, was entored by burglars ye terday morning. How the burglar made his entrance is a mystery, a8 nothing was disar- ranged about the building, and it is supposed that who ever did the deed must have had a key that fited the lock of the front door. The burzlar evidently knew just what he wanted, and took it. A silver watcen, a gold chul gold nuggat, gold ring and $50 in cash w among tho booty. The case was reported to police, and a description of the stolen pperty was given, but there is no clue, so to the perpetrator of the crime. Died from the Effects. Walter Beebo died at 7 night from o Mrs, Thursda 30 o of ik the ssion brain, caused by her fall from a She never vegained conseiousness. a sister of Miss Hattio Davis, & the puolic schools, and of Mrs. J v and ar; beck. ‘The latter is outof thec ranzements for the holding the funeral can- not be mude until she is heard from. Pienic nhattan beach. Round from Omaha, ineluding hoat trip tick vide, 50e; on sale at news stands at Mil- lard and Mureay hote The C. M. & St. P. ticket office has been removed from 506 Broadway into the olegant now quarters in the new Baldwin block, 5 Pearl street. Union Park races, Ov ha ands Coun- cil Bluffs, #4 ‘ptember 8-11, W; Oc- tober 20 1,000, For programmes address 1 Brown, Merchants hotel Omaha. - smoke or sing. Chicago Herald : That man was in the best of humor when he climbed on the cable car. He was smoking a cicar. Now and then Le would lift the seed Havana from s lips and strike up two or three bars of a song. ~Then he would drop the song and take anotber draught or two from the cigar. A woman sat at Lis side, fidgeting under the smoke and fairly rebelling at the son All the passen- gers suffercd, but they suffered in silence till at length the huppy wan struck uy ©0, Genevieve, sweet Genovieye—when lie woman interrupted: 40, smoke -smoke,’* she cried impatiently. I would ratner smell your cigar than listen to your song.” A CINCINNA Real Komance in the Classic Shades Over the Rhine. 1 IDYL. It was late, and the two strolled slowly and ecstatically along the side strt over the Rhine, 83 the Cinein- s evident that they were two souls with but asingle thought to agitate their think wis now thre « of an hour since they had seen *IRomeo and Julict the Grand opera house, and their minds still thrilled by the pathos of the ¢ whose swoetest steains were ing themselves over and over in their two young loving hearts, an old, old story, ever new. Phey puused by the entrs nati Commer nce of a bril- Jiantly lighted _apartment, entered, ro- mained but brie emerged thought- iped the last flecks fully and lovin pe youns lips. of foam from their "Twas but half 4 square to. the door- way of the home. Close in its shelter- fng shadow they paused an instant an guzed rapturously into one another’s os with that gaze which needs no word or interpreter anywhere under the sun and moon. Oue strong, manly stole, unresisted, anout a delicate, taper waist. A sunny head sank softly upon a heaving bosom with asigh. One mo- ment they stood so, their thoughts too deep for utterance. Then, in a tone of suppressed emotion, he whispered: “Pilly, you know beer?” “Uh-—huh, beer! “You're better’n beer.” Pulsing with the fire of a young maid- en’s love, she pressed so elose to him that they scemed but one sensute body, and clasping her soft arms about his noek, she pressed one_burning kiss upon lips and murmured, as a dove might rmur to its mate: “Billy, you know Romeo?” *Uh-—huh, Romeo. 4 »u know you?” “Uh-huh,” “Woll, Rome; he isn’t in it!” With d ¢ hestrained her slight form to his bredst and imprinted kiss after kiss upon her vich emollient lips, they quivered together in the dearest cestacy of passion. Suddenly he eaught his breath and eav ulp of agony, tore himself desperately from her palpitating arms and ran the mountain wind, down the dusky street. Up, up toher forlorn couch erept the pain-racked girl, eclutehing her bosom as if in aoguish and vestraining by a bitter effort the huge, burning sobs that shook her slight form in a convulsion of blind ef — forsuken — forsuken forsake . for wway the torn mountain of a man’s inner soul labored and brought forth. Clinging to a streot-lamp, death- ly pale, his long, dishevelod hair elus- tored over his clanamy brow, Willinm swuyed to und fro asa wountain pine in the storm that overwhelmsit. Atlast his writhings of pain were stilled, and lift- ing one hund to the blue-viulted heaven, he cried in quivering tone: “May I be everlastingly dod-gasted if e [ swaller aw of terback- or fer anybody’s kis - Blue Monday. An explanation of the much dreaded “hlueness’ y has boen atlorded by an crudite ich observor. Ho gives it as the result of extended ot vation that the only nation in wh Monday-is n duy of poor lessons, hoad- ches, © serateh ponmanship and that ired feeling” generally is the United Here he no that people accustomed to great regularity in eating and other poysieal hubits duving th weck, m v practice of oating a lato and unusually large dinner on Sunc and lounging lazily around the house a great portion of the du instead of taking necessa exorsis ‘This, of course, leuds to tempc dyspepsii on Monduy. The the The A faney of the hour for men is a “lucky” seuefpin, This may be u four- leaf clover, with the tiniest diamond or moonstone resting on one leaf; a horse- shoe with soven jowelled nails; or asoli- taive stur sapphire or moonstone forming the kuob of a pin. _All and any of these b desirable be pins to must ex- ceedingly small and dainty, When profusely jewelled, such pins are more suitable, small as they are, for my Lady’s Ascot tie, worn with her Marlow shirt, than for gentlewmen's | SATUKRDAY IAUGUST For the Treatment of all Ghronic and Surgi- tendance Medical and and Harney Council Blutfs, . 1801-TWELVE PAGES ‘AR cal Diseases. Perfectly equipped with every facility, apparatus and for the successful treatment of every form of disease ing medical or surgical treatment. MOST COMPLETELY ANTI-SEPTIC OPERATING ROOM, and best hospital accommodations in the west. Board and at- The business of the Omaha reasonable rate Surgical Institu streets, by the at la.,, where every 1te, late formerly conducted We refer by permission to patients we have cured. Write for circular on Deformities and Braces, Trusses, Club Feet, Electr tarrh, Bronchitis, 3 Inhalation, operations, Deformities of the HMuUman Bodu. BRACES. TRUSSES, an ber, who was Dr. McMenun United State DISEASES OF WOM blood d os successfully treated. to visit us may be treated at home b marks to indicate contents or sender. BOOK TO AMEN, FREB; upon priva e iner of sur, s brice mak ry, and have all A SPECIALTY. Syphilitic Poson remoy Ccorrespondenc Oue personal int secial or nervou MEDICAL AND SU city, Paralysis, Epilepsy, appliances, manufactured to or In this department we are especially successful. claims for superiority over all others the latest for years, and who is unreservedly Kidney, Bladder, voand o fit goaraateed. T ymmended by the medical the fact that this is the only medical establishment manufacturing surgical braces and appliances for each individual case, We have three skilled instru- ment makers in our employ, with improved machine- inventions, as well as our own patents and improvements, the result of twenty year’s experience. 144 PAGE BOOK, Illustrated, r requir- Dr. J. W. McMenamy, has been removed across the river to 26th street and Broadway case and any and all con- tracts, old or new, are receiving prompt and skillful attention Curvature of the Spine, Icar, Skin and B ood, and all surgical Brace Dept. o brace department is profession as heing the best br Our are based upon [EDICAL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE NFIRMARY. emedy at 9th Piles, Tumors, Cancer, Ca- under the chargo of J. PP, Webs co maker v the Sent Free to any Address 13ook on Discases of Women Free a from the system wi Al commuuications iow preferved. ¢ . disenses, Impoteney. . Only Rel confident RGICAL ble Medieal New resto It titute ive treatment thout me il nsult i, us or send history s, Gleet and Varicocel king a Spec Medicines or instrumoents sent by mail or e of your casc, wvith question list. INSTITUTE, 26th and Broadway, Council Bluffs ty of @ 154 te Di: for loss of \ Power. Persons unable] 53, securaly packol, no nd we will send in plain weapper, our Address s, Al lowa. wear. As a rule, men prefor a pin tyy cal of their tastes. For yachtsmen there are tiny crossed fings, anchors and vari- ous designs of the sea; for those fond of the turf theve are horses, some of them painted in enzmel from fumous racers, whips and jockey caps; and for sports men with the reel and rod or gun the ave tiny trout in enamel and squiry brushes. PAN- BEs il MEGICAN RIILWAY, ibility ot the Project for a Rail- way Union of the Two Americas. in the Bngineering Maga- “The feasibility and practi- cability of this voad is appurent to every one wio has any knowledge of Spanish Amor While we are thinking about it, the seheme is slowly but surcly de- sloping in the natural course of events. The Mexican Central_annihiluted 1,224 mntes. The Mexican Soutkern will, in a fow duys, mako the distance 4530 miles shorte wn enter a Pullman at Buenos Ay 1d vide 1,000 miles to- wards New York. While the obstruc- tionists are shaking their heads, the 17,000 miles of rai 1 in Central d South America are handling Eurapean merchandise, and pouring the products of the country into the holds of the sub- sidized steamships of England, France and Germany, ) total imnc 'ts of Central and South Amevicn the ‘st _and foremost na- tion on earth’ contributes 7 per cent. Of the wet about 20 per cent. These « undeveloped eoun- tries, with an two and on uf times that of United States and Alaska, hav e at the prosent time wmounting to #3690, 4 )5, Is it not worth while to assist in the con- struction of 3,000 miles of railroad to ot tain this trade? ‘The action of the 1% American conference has made the con- struetion of the road an interaational af- fuir and has put the project on a hette Ditsis than if it wore to be attempted by independent parties About Spe o, Tho honor and credit of po the benefit of glasses toaid de! ion belongs to 120, Bacon, from 1214 to 1202, Speetacle tually invented in the year 1250, the man who conferred this greatblessing on suf- fering humanty being Alexander Bpina, a monk of Pisa, who died in 1313, In the early stages of tho art the spec- tacles mude were rude and crude, the o rough, though the 1 aia to the afllicted, At t ent time, an optician who underst: his business can, by Successive experi- ments, discover the actual defect of the eye and furnish a glass that will make the eye almost perfect. The perfection iing out tive vis- who lived were ac- T in tho ineans of assistanes is dus to the experiments and inventions of D Schefiler and Dr. Giraud of Paris. The latter scientist promulgated the idew and the former pructically put the the- ory in operntion. wsses ave comonly. ground with y on both side rial for their manufacture is both glass id a kind of stone called Brazilian peb- ble. It is veally a rock erystai of very fine quaiity and does not resemble a “pebble” in any particulur. Spectacles have allevinted more misery than all other human agencies, because there is no sorrow equal to that cuused by im- paived sight - A Remarkable ak. A remarkable freak of nature is found among the hills of Delaware county, N. Y., in the sunken lake covering about three acres of surfuce, whnich lies be equal convexit The mu- tween two parallel ridges not far from the New York, Ontario & Western rail- road, The whole surface of the lake is covered with a thick growth of moss, whose stems extend to an unknown depth, but certainly further than the arm can reach ) tuft of moss is of a different color from its neighbor, so that the surface looks like thatofa beautiful colored carpet. In walking ( over the velvety surface, the foot sinks down & few inches without encountering the water, which is at least two teet be- low the surface. ear the, shore in a few pl the water come: top. The bucied pond is a wonderful natural cuviosity. UNDERGROUND WIRES. The Established O lvery Prog Engineering Magazine says the test sufler by the burial of the wires are the telephone companies whose systems connect with the long-distance lines. A short length of underground cable has little or no elfect on tele phone transmission, but when a few miles of underground cable w e joined on to sev- eral hundred miles of overhead line, the effect is very marked, the speech be coming mufifed, thick and indistinet. hings in ty. Z All cities ought’ to make allowanee for this apparently insuperable difficulty and allow the wires of the long-distance system to be earried overhead. For local telephone work underground wires work admirably. The telephone system of New You from the Buttery to the Harlem round, ind there New York conside miles of wire munication. The type of underground cable now in ceneral use should h very long cr is_entirely unde bly more thi L 000 used for telephonic com- life. The lend covering is cally indestractible; if laid in ivon pipes it cannot bo affected even by anic e tion, bees slects Jead, and the iron would be As the insulating material i cally sealed within the lead cover is sifo from deterioration as long lead remains =ouad, 0 that found that the insulatin teriorate by reason of the action of the current, the depreciation on under- ground cables of this class should be low figure, In contrast, deprecintion of overhead lines is considerable, in_ towns whe the wired are exposed to the ue- tion of smolke and g besides the intlu- ence of extremes of w , In largo towns aud cities the under- grouna rystem 1s among the established order of things, while freedom must be conceded for overhend wires in the open country und on restricted routes. A Capital Barc The coffee cup is o capital barometer, After the sugar has been put in, if tho bubbles collect in the middle of the cup the weather will be fair; if thoy leave the center and adhere to the sidesof the cup, forming o ring of bubbles with a clear space in the middle, there will be 1 if they scatter themselves indiffer- on the surfi the weather wiil be voriable, whil er of bubblies on one side of the cup indicates use s 1t is ervials de- m «Don’t Moukey” with your Blood. n sk nost sensitiy A treatise on Blood and Skin Disenses malled FIER OB applis Druggists Sell It. BWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Drawer 3y Atlan Gae re today under the strects of | as the ! SPECIAL NOTICES COUNCIL BLUFFS, To be had at the driving y applying to Charles Grogory, PASTURAGE park Mitin stre R'\h'f!.‘f“.'f.‘x".:'f-y.. business: small o required. A 4 Tee: Council Ginfts. 0 A AN A R e o Blutfs. D Brown, 1332 Broadway. JROR SALE—Good tarn cil Blults, with very forrl ht man to enzage o, EL ity were far ne y ¥ 7 per e. Jol n & i Y ALET0 per inston & Van Patten, [OR Sale and surrey. house with free of CuLAIRVOYA ‘ter readings: )t hair £y ven i nond lock Ly lettor. Toups AGNIFICENT acre property In fi AMts o uiles from postofli | forsale on reasonable toris Some fine resi- co property for rent by Dy & Hess. MOR3ALE or Rant—darden houses. vy J. & tioa Wi Maln st Bluffs ro al with Qoumeld We have the <s not th le an i Tie Cotumbin Is worth its wels even with wilye Do Without a R Tn hot weat) is inipossi preserve your health and comfort. ot he preserved without dan zeros dot tion. 1 i Cooaed 01 P state, without (ion. You wil fin T Cmore impossible th oy Without this importaat adjunct when You look nt the North Star aud ) the Drices we will mitke for the noxt thirty days. | ine Stoves, Lnwn Mowers, 1 hose at lower figares than you wrtiele sold is the hizh- doors wnd window homes confortis 04 Brosdway. They Must Go at Cost. cere 1s no use of your endeavor ng o get along und economize by doing without s re- fuigerator. enlth i comfort cannot he mintained In the hot summ foud proper.y pres n we. ved without no W cool, dry ntmosphere y refricerator I8 the world beate Tal point, and from this tin s to put them Into yoar h of presce NOW Guerns 1 every oss on we pro wbsolute cost. Th s s bona fide offer that ILwi | puy you to Investizate, Window ens and Doors Go at the same price until our prese stock 15 exhiusic 11 18 your . o provide your homes with' th comforts, Al modern Hitle labor-savin = and comfort producing novelties in the harlware line for Snmer use will bo disposod of in- the siame nanner. Shugant & No. 11 Main street, Council il THE GRAND Council Bluffs, la. This Elegantly Appointa1 Hotal is Now Opsan, | N, Taylor, Managar Gas Heating Stoves. No Asnes! NO SMOKE Just the thing for bath rooins, bel roo as, Cull and sce OuT 18rZ6 a3s0rtnent. oty C. B. Gas and E 11 Peurl und 210 " C. A HAMMER, | JUSTI aln Str CE OF THE PEACE OFFIC] 3 415 Broadway, Councll Blufts, Ia | COUNCIL BLUFES STEAYM D& WORKS All kinds of Dying and Oleaning dono in th HighestStyle of the Art, Fudod and Stalnol prics mido to louk ws kood as new. HBed athers Cloaned 1y Steam, In [Pirst Clasa Manner. Work promptly done and dellvered in wll parts of “theountry. Senl for prics ifst, 0. A. MACIIAN, Pro ar Northwestora BLuwes. o A Summer Resorl Lake Manawa Hotel. Fine Fishing, T 1 Excellent Mineral Wate fiftee Motol of Counell Most delig htful plenic partiss TELEPHONE NO. 45. CITIZENS STATS BANK Biuffs. 1018 Broadway, N Coun, etions, 25 Bath- fr f hour, direct (O nahi n Counoll and Ceessiv.e plice for Or Counetl CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS AND PROFITS TOTAL CAPITAL AND SURPLUS . 1A Miller, £ O Glanson, B L E. 1tart 3 D Edmundson, Oharl; K. lannan Traosact generl King busi ness. Larcest capital and surplus of anp bankin Southwostern [owa INTERESTON TIM: DE2D3' TS Dr.M. . CHAMBERLIN Eye, Ear, Nosa and Throat SURGEDN. Council Bluffs, T Shugart-i3eno Blle, Room 1. 9to 12 m Tand S p.om. — — COUNCIL BLUFKS Iron Cornice Works, I GIRATIL & BON -$150,001 . 10,00 Dine T Bhucart. B Galvanized PROS, and 1017 Broadwaruy, o« furnlshed on all kinds of Galvanizeq Corniee Work. Iron Roofing, Store Fronts and Copper Work. Artlstle work a xpecialty. Corros o Holtod from polnts 50 wilzs from Coun First-:- National -:- Bank COUNOIL BLUFFS, IOWA. Paid Up Canital, « « =« - 109,000 od bank In the olty. Furelgn and ant 1004l 1 Ry Vil Aves 1t o ladiad A Crporatiaas UL Lo8 1dent. KMAN, Cashlar AL RICE, Assista t e D. H. McDaneld & Co,, Butchers' and Paciars' Suplins, Market Fixtures, Casings, piges,and, Sausnge Makers' Maohinory, 82 2 Muin st, Councll Blufa la Also Uealers o Hides sud Vurs