Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 1, 1903, Page 6

v i the Great Northern. RAILROADS HAVE BUSY YEAR Mfl TImprovements the Order on “% All'Oniaba Lines- 1 < © MANY CHANGES MADE IN TWELVE MONTHS nt of Territory Served Re- Expenditure of Much Money Keep Roads Up to dn. ar 1902 leaves It an unprecedented of rallroad activity. The acme of ment n this line of industry was , and yet the phenomenal develop- promise to go on and even surpass selves within another yoar as a result of the irresistible tide of unparalleled ETOWth and prosperity that has been set in n. While the volume of freight and nger business was swelled to figures t before known, the comstruction, re- truction, acquieition of new lnes, bet- ent. and enlargement of facilities have pace and struck records all thelr own. oune of the ten lines converging in a but has played an.active part in this us drama; of expansion and prosperity, some have taken leading parts. One has actually doubled its total mileage the last twelve months. Burlington's Impro @ Burlington has done a great deal this toward completing its double track Chicago to Omaha. The western fhus is at Nodaway, fifty-five miles east of Pacific Junction. Continued wet wénther prevented the building of this track to Red Oak, but this work will be doBe In 1903 and completed so that full operation may be begun in the fall. The ol@line had three degree curves and sev- foot maximum grade, while the new ments. has one degree curve and thirty-five | All the culverts and | grades established along this track are of | foot maximum grade. permanent nature The Chicago, Burling- ton & Quincy has during the year bought the Quincy, Omaha & K: City, but h yet secured posssssion of it. It is st &mn by the former owners. The most fmportant acquisition of the B. & M. was that of the Kansas City & Omaba railwa It was operated almost exclusively in the interest of Kansas City and St. Joseph, and to the serjous detriment of Omaha jobbers. The result of this transfer {s that Omaha now controls a fleld almost exclusively which was formerly shut against it. Sur- veya ars belng made for the cut-off from Billings to Great Falls in connection with The work of construc- tion will be completed during 1904. The most important work of reconstruction of the B. & M. was its southern main line from Oxford east and the Atchison branch. ‘Rafsing of grades and ballasting was done a1l along these routes. The Deadwood- Lead line was transformed from a steam rallroad to an electric line. This line is three miles in length and climbs a grade of 560 feet. Overland’s A e, The Union Pacific has fts energles to éomplets its new $1,000,000 shops at Omaha and, has made. commendable pro ress in, thih direction, though the end of the year finds much work yet to be done. Bome of thé“largest of the rew shop bulld- ings are the machine and erecting shops, 160x400 feet in dimensions; boller, tank and locomotive carpenter shop, 150x244 feet; frelght car repalr shop, 176x175; power house, 80x150. The system of shops will_comprise éverything necessary to make one of the most thorough and ex- tensive establishments of the kind. In ad- fold"td A V'A':klr‘flrapqr'!nh sompany 14’ preparing "fo constriiéf & viaduét entrance 800 foet fong. The Union Pacific has done much ballastirig over its line and reduced grades materlally, through Wyoming espe- clally. It has bullt a large series of bridges and’ viaducts and ehds the year with a to- tal of 6,774.34 miles in operation, Its hold- | ings in' Bouthern ‘Pacific stock were in- creased from $75,000,000 to $90,000,000. A branch line was bulit from Cedar Rapids, Neb., to Spalding, a new town. The dis- tance {8 about thirty-five miles, Other bullding was done on the auxiliary lines in Oregon and Utah. Rock Island's Great Growth, The Rock Island has grown from a tem of 4,000 to & system of 8,000 miles t year. This is_ the largest per cent of growth in mileage made by any road in § the United States. It has acquired the [\ Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf, 900 miles; St ule, Kansas City. & Colorado, 116 mile " “'the Bufilngton, Cedar Rap'ds & Northern, Rock Island & Peoria, has buflt trom Enid, OkL; to Wairika, I. T., practically doubled its trackage through Indian Territory, let & contract for a Mne from Fort Worth to Galveston and projected a short line from | | Bt. Lopls to Kansas City. Construction ' work on a line fram Amarillo, Tex., to Tucumucari, N. M., glving a direct line grom Memphis to El Paso, is in progress, _Jas 8 rlsa work on a line from Tucumu | carl to Dawson, N. M., penetrating coal flelds, and a line from West Liberty, Ia., to Jowa Clity. It has lald plans for the build- fng 1n 1903 of a cut-off- from Falrbury, Neb,, to' Herington, Kah., a distance of pinety miles. This will afford a valuable outlet for Omaha to the southwest. figols Central's Double Track. The chlef work of the Tilinois Central has béén its entensive system of double tracking, although it has bought and bullt some minor lines. The Central has double track from Chicago to Fulton, Ky., with a line via, Memphis - and Jackson, Tenn., through to Grenada, Miss., which is equiv- alent to @ double-tracked line. The mct- ual double tracking begins agaln at Wes- son, Miss., and continues to a point within 125 mMes of New Orleans. The re- mainder. gf,the distance, this 135 miles, is now undler construction of double tracking and will soon be completed. This, then, will give the Nlinois Central a double track from Chicago to New Orleans, which will mean one of the most. potent factors in railzgad development in the country. A mew ling is now being bullt from Yazoo City fo Belgrade, Miss., and another one from Reevesville to Golconda, 11l During the year the line from Lyle, la., to Albert Les, Minn, was completed, which, with connections with the Miuneapolls & St. Louls, gives the Illinols Central direct en- trance into the Twin Cides from Chicago aad Omaha both. Milwaukee's Trafle Alllan, The most Chicage, Milwaukee & St. year is its traMic alliance with the Unlon Pacific whereby the Milwaukee gets through service to the Pacific coast on the same basis with the Northwestern. Milwaukee has reduced grades off the hicago and Council Bluffs division Mdowa, lne has been widened on part of the Min- nesota ‘division. A branch line has been comstrueted tragy Presion, Minn., to Green Island, a., and a second main track was built fgom Sabula Junction to Green Island and frem Preston to Browns, la. A line bBeen built from Farmington, Minn., to kate, Mion., ~aixX miles; from Zum- L hlrh‘ul Minn,, thirty-five miles, to Linten, N. D, forty- Lite dleyation of tracks on the luffs division was Authori‘y was given notable achievement of the Paul durlnfi the uf in in the river division and on the lowa and Minoasota Givislon. The guage of the THE _OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, JANUARY 1 The balance will be done in 1908. A very important plece of work was the buildifig of the Kan- sas City cutoff, whick materially shortens the line from Chicago to Kansas City. The ofe docks at Eecanaba, Mich., were doubled in eapacity. The Milwaukee quits the year with & mileage of 888142, What the ‘Frisco Has Done, The St. Louls & San Francisco has been busy acquiring new properties. It has in- creased its mileage from 4,824 to 6,581, and gone a long ways, therefore, toward the realization of President Yoakum's dream of being president of the longest raitroad in the country. Its acquisitions were: Ad- ditional properties of Fort Worth, Rio | Grande, Red River, [Texas & Southern, | Blackwell, Enid & Southwestern, Oklahoma western, Chicago & Eastern Illinols, St Louls, Memphis & Southeastern, and 1 miles of sidetracks. The aggregate mile- age of these acquired roads is 1,757. An- other 1,600 miles may be added to the ‘Frisco’s growing system, but at any rate will be, according to unofficial reports which, however, are held to be reliable. This new mileage will come through the acquisition of the Pere Marquette Rallroad and Steamship lines, whose total mileage 1s 1,600 miles, Elkhorn's Important Extension. The Fremont, Elkhorn & Missour! Valley has confined its construction work almost entirely to the completion of its braach from Verdigre, Neb., to Bonesteel, 8. D., a distance of 69% miles. This branch is commonly known as the Verdigre branch. It runs through Boyd county, Nebraska, and Gregory county, South Dakota, belng the only railroad to enter the famous Rosebud Indlan reservation, a large section of whick 18 to be thrown open for colonization, pre- sumably next spring. This road is now in operation and shows good results. A short spur line has been constructed from Dead- wood to Lead, a distance of three and a half miles. Northwentern's Double Track. The year 1902 forms an era in the his- tory and development of the Chlcago & Northwestern raflroads, for it marks the consummation of one of the largest and most important tasks ever undertaken by this ploneer line to Omaha since its en- trance into the Gate City via Council Blufts thirty-eight years ago. This s the com- pletion of the double trackage from Chi- cago to Omaha. It gives the Northwest- ern the only continuous double track be- tween these two cities and completes the long chain of double tracks which the, Vanderbilt line began bullding over a decade ago. It links Omaha to New York City by means of the Northwestern, Lake Shore, Michigan Southern and New York Central, all Vanderbilt roads, and there- fore practically one system. The North- western has done considerable improving of roadbeds, grades, bridges and depots at various places on its numerous lines in Towa, Minnesota, South Dakota, Illinois and Wisconsin. The completion of the Verdigris branch of the Elkhorn, which is covered in the resume of the work of the Elkhorn, may be included under the North- western improvements, since the Elkhorn is @ part of the Northwestern system of 8,833 miles of track. Missourl Pacific's Move. Among the more important steps taken by the Missourl Pacific during the year were the acquisition of the Denver & Rio Grande and the Rio Grande & Western. The Goull | road bullt a line from Scotland to Grandy and to Maear's mine, two miles beyond Granby; completed its river division from Jefterson City 4o Boonville, Mo., and has a great deal of construction work in progress. A new road fs belng built from Batesville fo Carthage under tbe nadhe of, {he ‘Whité | River rallway, and another from Halley, Ark., pear Arkansas City, to Clayton, La., which is on the New Orleans & North- western. It Is reconstructing its Little Rock & Fort Smith road and reducing grades and putting in detour.lines between Little Rock and Vam Buren, alsor from Carthage to Neck City. Achlevement of the Wabash, Al & cost of $25,000,000, which Involves the outlay for its new Pitteburg depot, the Wabash has gained an entrance to the Smoky City which marks a victory over the Vanderbilts. It is now building its line from Jewett, 0., to Pittsburg, which, when completed, with the Wheeling & Lake Erie, recently acquired, will give it through tracks from Omaha té Baltimore. In ad- dition to the Wheeling & Lake Erle, the Wabash has acquired the Western Mary- land, which skirts the scene of the battle of Gettysburg, penetrating a rich coal min- ing country. It has also bought the Ann Arbor road from Frankfort, Mich., to To- ledo, a distance of 291 miles. The most important developments on the line near Omaha was the relaying of the track from | here to Brunswick, Mo., with elghty-pound | steel rails, and the ballasting of the | with burnt clay and rock, thus repl the old trackage with one of superior qual- {ity. The Wabash has moved into new quarters at Sixteenth and Farnam streets in Omaha. Year's New Mileage. A careful preliminary estimate made by individual canvass of the railroads, and supplemented by the Railroad Gazette's own records, figures furnished by the state rail- road commissions and other sources of in- formation, shows that approximately 6,026 miles of new steam rallroad have been built within the United States between January 1 and December 31, 1902, The figures are ex- clusive of second track, sidings and all elec- tric lines. Rebuilt mileage is also excluded except where the work involved such ex- tensive changes In alignment that a mew route was established, as In the case of the Southern Pacific between certain points in Nevada: Rallroad bullding was reperted donme in forty-two states and territories, and Okla- homa leads the list with track laid on 570 miles of new line during the year. Texas comes second, with 496 miles; Arkansas is third, with 371 miles, and Indian Territory is fourth, with 363 miles. Georgid bullt 336 miles during the year. In addition to these, Hlinols, lowa, Mis- sour! and New Mexico show, returns of over 200 miles bullt, and Alabama, California, Florida, Louislana, Michigan, Minnesot Mississippl, Ohlo, Pennsylvania, Washing- ton and West Virginia built between 100 and 200 miles. No steam mileage was reported from Alaska, Delaware, Idaho, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island or ‘Wyoming. Returns recelved direct from practioally every locomotive and car building plant in the country show that approximately 164,547 cars have been built, including cars for use on elevated rallroads, but exclusive of street and other electric o This is consider ably the largest record which made in the country, the output for 1901. But these figures do not fnclude cars bullt by rallroads at their own shops. Of the cars recorded approximately 162,599 are for freight service and 1,48 for passen- ger service; 161,747 are for domestic use and ,800 are for export. Last year the total number of cars built was 144,267, which exceeded by 20,161 the recorded output for the year 1900. The 1901 figures Included also 5,262 street ca During the year 4,070 locomotives were bullt in the various locomotive plants in the country, as against 3,384 last year. The number for the current year includes 74 electric locomotives. The real meaning of In diverse and curious flelds the record- breakers were busy during the year 1902, Equally busy was the freak editor of the New York Sun, who compiled the record and kept tab on the record-breakers, The love-at-first-sight record was rut lessly shattered in the early springtime when Madison Ormsby, aged 59, went down to Kansas City from Omaha and met Miss Jessle Turner, who evidently still retained irresistible charms, notwithstanding that her forty-fifth birthday was wound up on Time's relentless reel. They met by chance | and were Introduced by a common friend, | whereupon they hiked away to the court house and were married just as soon as | they could get the license and line up in front of a judge. “It's just thirty minutes eince first we met,” sald Ormsby, as pleased as Punch, “‘and here we are with the knot tied."” ‘Whether the knot remained tied does not concern this history. It was in the early weeks of the year that the romance of Miss Mildrcd Deuel of Rich- mond, Va., set a new mark for those im- portant stages of life which most women reckon by years. In the brief space of ten minutes she was a mald, a wife and a widow. In & San Francisco hospital she became Mrs. Richard Miles Stanton while her hu: band was dying, a victim of fever con- tracted in the service of bis country In the Philippines. Clasping each other’s hand too late to summon a minister, the young people took the vows of matri- mony under a civil agreement, which was duly witnessed by relatives of both. and a few minutes later Lieutenant Stanton was dea The tinfest bride of the year appeared in St. Louis in April, when Miss Bertha Clark, scarce 16 years old, weighing only seventy-five pounds, and attired in short skirts, eloped with Frank McCoy, nearly twice her age, and became his wife. The year still was young, and eo were Miss Rose Mason and her flance, Michael T. MeGovern, when they appeared before the clerk In Chicago and established a new record as youthful applicants for a mar- riage license, which they obtained. The bride was 15 and the bridegroom two years her senfor, their combined ages being 82. The record for the oldest married couple in the United States was sald to have been made last March by Mr. and Mrs. Alex- ander Gunn of Harrington, Kan. They celebrated their diamond wedding in 1900, and, therefore, had seventy-seven years of wedded life to their credit. The husband thought he was 114 years old, while his wife was also past the century mark. The oddest record in this line, how- ever, probably belongs to Mr. and Mrs. John Jams of Washington county, Iowa, who, a few weeks ago, told their friend that after seventy-four years of married life they could look back and find they never had a dispute, much less a quarrel. They have ten chiliren, thirty-six grand- children and sixty-five great grandchildren. Justice Frederick Brown, known far and wide as the “marryin’ squire of Aurora, TL" has tled the nuptial knmot several pundred times but not on this score does he gspire to any pinnacle among the records of the year. His proudest boast is that his marriage knots stay tled, and upon this distinction he seeks a blue rib- bon, The secret of his success, he thinks, is that his form of ceremony, which is all his own, is short, sweet and simpl ting the obmoxious word “obey,” and fs generally prefaced by a recitation of the Declaration of Independence, which he’ regards as the corner stone of marriage in the United States. Divorce, he declares, ts_unknown among the couples he has spliced. Bpeed records in divorce cases are pot vnusual or startling in these days, but when grounds and speed both ‘e con- sidered the crackerjack of 1902 unques- tionably was the case of John W. Lang- ley of Columbus, Ind., who obtained a Uncommon Records of’02 decres in less than fifteen minutes sepa- rating him from his wite, Mary. He alleged that she had a habit of taking a darning needle to bed with her and-jabbing him with it when he fell asleep. When he pro- tested she would get out of bed, plant her- self in a rocking chair in the middle of the floor, rocking violently and bringing her heels down with a bang at each rock and for two hours would sing at the top of her voice: “Oh, won't it be joytul when we part to meet no more!" Strangely enough, it fell out that the champlon office holder whose fame spread over the earth in 1902 was not an Ameri- can, but an Englishman. Willlam Eaton of Tilbrook, Huntingdon, holds some fifteen places, public and semi- public, ranging from parish overseer to church organist, most of which have sal- aries attached. He Is not of the resigning breed, but has held office for half a cen- tury and has assisted in the work of every government census since 1850. To a Georgia clergyman belongs the proudest record in the work of the church. Rev. D. 8. McCurry of Galnesville, who is now 72, has been doing active work in the Baptist church for forty years. He ki preached 9,800 sermons; to reach his pointment and deliver these sermona he has traveled 50,000 miles, equal to two journeys around the earth; he has con- ducted 911 funerals, baptized 4,013 persons and married 621 couples. Who was the record-smashing drummer? B0 many traveling men boast of mighty exploits on the road that this may seem a hard question to answer. Yet few will hesitate to yleld the palm to Levin Lake, a citizen of the little village of Oxford, Miss., on learning of the big things he has to his credit. Mr. Lake is the oldest active traveling man in the United States, being still in the harness at $6. He represents Armour & Co. In Mississippl, making towns by day and night' trains, and covering an average of 2,000 miles a month. For thirty-four years he has represented this single Chi- cago hou: proved a bad account, was a traveler on the first raliroad train ever rum in the United States; never took a drink of liquor, played a game of cards or tasted tobacco; has mot eaten more than two meals a day for thirty years; is the oldest Mason in the state of Miesissippl. During thé year a story went the rounds of the press about a man who pretended to be the champlon smoker of the world. For twenty years he had smoked, he sald, one and a fourth pounds of tobacco a week, 80 that in the period named he had actually reduced to smoke an amount of the weed equal to ten times his own welght. A remarkable record, truly, but it must glve way to that of the champlon smoker of the British army, a private in the Third battalion, Royal Warwickshire regiment, who from his youth up regularly consumed one and a halt pounds of tobacco every week, until his regiment was drafted out to South Africa. His supply then was cur- tailed, which almost broke his heart. The principal of a school at Manchester, Conn., holds the record as a opanker. Armed with an ordinary ruler ‘he adminis- tered forty-seven spankings in thirteen minutes one day, thus turning tearful boys and girls away trom him at the rate of three and eight-tenths boys and girls a minute. It 18 scarcely necessary to add that he is a warm advocate of spanking uumpun-ry measure. In the month of September William Cran- dell of Deep Hollow, near Stifquehanns, Pa., killed thirteen wildcéts, and, although badly torn in flesh and clothing, earned not only a record, but the neat sum of $26 in boun- tles. The biggest eater to establish a new reo- ord was a Wisconsin farmer named Wil- liam Hafoer. He devoured fifty roasting ears In one day and passed on to that un- known country where green corn is mot supposed to be on the bill of fare. Indiana reported the youngest grand- Features of Life Lifted Above the Routine. father, Bdgar Willlams of Indianapolis, aged 39, who belongs to & family noted for early marriages. Among the novel records of the period must be included that held by James Stew- art of Leyden, N. Y., who announces that he bhas lived on this earth 104 years without over baving told a lle. He goes George Washington one better by saying that he can le, but won't. This remarkable cen- tenarian used alcoholio beverages and to- bacco freely until he was 90, when he took a new chute and swore off. The most extraordinary old person of the year was Signora Catelina Flores of Pasa- dena, Cal, who peacefully passed away at the age of 117, having continued her usual round of work until the day of her death. She had lived under the shadow of the San Gabriel mission for more than ninety years. The largest child ever born in Illinols saw the light of day In Waukegan in July, when Mrs: George Catlin gave birth to & daughter weighing twenty-one and a half pounds. St. Louls factorles eclipsed all com- petitors in the production of the dainty known as sauerkraut, using for this pur- pose 2,700,000 cabbages and manufactur- ing more than 100,000 half-barrels, which were shipped to all parts of the United States. Fifty persons committed suicide in Ohi- cago during the month of May, the great- est number ever recorded in a single month, according to the health depart- ment. The largest gun in the world, a 16-inch weapon, requiring years in construction, was completed at the Watervliet arsenal in June, this being the most powerful en- gine of destruction yet devised by man. May was the record month for immi- gration, the total number of steerage pas- sengers from forelgn countries passing through Ellls island being 88,500. The one-day record was broken on May 3, when 6,513 men, women and children from almost every country in Europe as well as a fow from Asia and Africa. The larg- est number of steerage passengers that ever arrived at New York in one vessel came in March on the Hamburg-American liner Batavis, the number being 2,692. Turning to great achievements in live stock, Shamrock, the champion steer of the third International Live Stock exposition, won the prize in his class. He was sold at auction, bringing 56 cents & pound on the hoot. His welght was 1,805 pounds, making his total cost $1,010.80. The Aberdeen-Augus bull Prince Ito sold at auction at the Chicago stock yards in February for the record price of $9,100. The largest shipment of cattle ever taken across the Atlantic went on the steamship Norseman in August, there being 1,179 bead of cattle and 1,398 sheep. On Baturday, September 7, the vaults of the United States treasury held $573,936,108 in gold, which, with one possible exception, exceeded the amount held at any previous time in the history of any country of the world. Henry C. Frick of Pittsburg deposited with the banking firm house of J. P. Morgan & Co. a certificate for 100,000 shares of pre- ferred stock in the United States Steel cor- poration, ylelding him $700,000 annually in dividends, this being one of the most valu- able slips of paper in existence. Mountain climbers succeeded in estab- Mshing a new record for violent deaths in this hazardous business. According to sta- tistics compiled by the Alpine club, Alpine accidents in 1902 resulted In a total of sixty- three deaths, which fs the record for any one season. F. M. McClintlo of Dallas, Tex., won the Andrew Carnegle diamond medal for the best all-round telegraph work. He sent 517 Senator Willlam E. Mason broke all rec- ords last spring in securing the passage of the postoffice appropriation bill. Under his guidance it took the e just fifty-five minutes to make the measure a law which authorizes the expenditure of nearly $150,- 000,000, this figure is perhaps best realized by cal- culating the expenditure involved, which would be mearly $48,000,000 1t the average cost per locomotive is assumed to be $12,- 000. CHURCHES HAVE GOOD YEAR ous Bodies and Charities Share in the Genmeral Activity and Progress. In the religious and charitable work of the city and to those educational institu- tions connected with the churches the twelve months just closed have brought much material advancement. Among all the improvements made the new building of the Omaha Theological seminary of the Presbyterian church involved the greatest expenditure, The building, a three-story brick, 150 feet in length and costing more than $45,000, stands on a six-acre plot of ground on Twentieth street between Em- mett and Spencer. The cornerstone was latd in May. The Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred | Heart at Twenty-second ‘and Binney streets was completed, furnished and dedi- | cated during the month of June, after two years' work. The church is of pinkish- gray stone, seats 800 and cost $24,000. The new Roman Catholic Church of St. Mary Magdaleno at the corner of Nine- teenth' and Dodge streets is nearing com- pletion. The cornerstone was laid in June and the dedication will probably take place in February, The building and parish house are of gray hydraulie brick and Bed- ford stone. The old church and lots were s0ld to Hayden Bros. for $60,000 and the new ground cost $11,000. The Polish Roman Catholic parish of South Omaha has erected a two-story frame church, with school rooms under the audi- torium, at a cost of $5,000. Work was be- gun September 6. Ground was broken late in the year for the new Grace Baptist church at Tenth and Arbor Streets. The old buflding was moved to the rear. The estimated cost of the sanctuary is $5,000. The Monmouth Park congregation of the Methodist Episcopal church in July dedi- cated a mew bullding at 3458 Larrimore street. which cost them $2,600 and which took the place of the former structure, de- stroyed by a beavy wind in the spring of the year. Brownell hall was much improved during the summer, the north wing being turnished with seventeen study rooms, reading rooms and library being ftted out and fire es- capes added. The Clitton Hill Presbyterian church wai moved from the center of the block to new lots at the corner of Forty-fourth and Grant streets, raised another story and practically rebullt, at & cost of several thousand dol- lars. The Bohemian Bretheren of the Presby- terian church rededicated their building at Fifteenth and Hickory streets in February after practically rebuilding it. Knox chureh of the same denomination was renovated to the extent of about $2,000. A parsonage was built for the pastor of the Walnut Hill Methodist Eplscopal church at Thirty-first and Charles streets. Hanscom Park Metho dist church was relleved of the burden of its $10,000 debt. Wise Memorial hospital was removed from its old quarters to 3208 North Sixteenth street, because of growing usefulness, and $2,000 spent on alterations and improvements to the new bullding. The headquarters of the Salvation Army have been moved from Seventeenth and Chicago streets to 1515 Capitol avenue, a location better suited to the work. The First Bap- tist church has opened the chapel on upper Farnam street as a mission. It no unforeseen difficulties arise in the future to delay, or perhaps prevent, con- struction now contemplated, the year 1903 will be remembered as a bullding year. The most important structures now planned, the Roman Catholic cathedral and the Methodist hospital, will of course not be completed during the twelve months. Work on the hospital will be commenced in the early spring on the plans of Archi- ' | tect Kimball, The committee has lots in Bemis park, with 472 feet frontage on Cuming street, west of Glenwood avenue. | It has in hand $20,000 in cash and $20,000 or $30,000 more subscribed. The building fully complete will cost between $200,000 | and $400,000 and will consist of a central building standing east and west, with octagonal structures at each end, from which will extend three wings, to the east ¢ wesi, north and southwest, and nerth | and southeast. There will also be an operating pavilion. The bulldings will be of brick and three stories high, with bas ment. It is the intention to erect only the central building and the west octagonal and southeast wing this year. The Roman Catholic cathedral project is still in a rather tentative condition and work may not be begun during the year. The proposed plan embodies many of the features, of course on a much reduced of the New Westminster abbey ot the church in, London. The ground at Fortieth and Burt streets, now occupled by the St. Ceecllia church, has been selected as the location of the building. The official board of the First Christian church has purchased the lot at Nine- teenth and Farnam streets as the location | of the mew church’ which will be begun early in the spring. The new church will at 1,200 and will, besides the auditorium and Sunday school rooms, contaln & read- ing room, gymnastum, baths, game room and department.of domestic sclence. The present First Baptist church will probably be sold and a new house erected during the year. The official board has several locations in view and negotiations are on foot for the purchase of one of them. | Plans for the new building have mot yet been accepted. St. Joseph's hospital has become too small for the number of patients treated and it is hoped to bulld an addition to the same during the year. No details of con- struction have yet been settled upon. Sacred Heart Roman Catholic parish has acquired, partly by donation and partly by purchase, ground diagonally across Twenty- second street from the church, on which will be bullt an academy and parochial school. The size of bullding and material have mot yet been decided on. A building for the nunnery of the Poor Clares, 2906 Hamilton street, will be m:-d Parsonages will be bullt by the tion of Benson Methodist Episco DAI church and St. Mary's Romsa Catholio parish of South Omaba QUEER FREAKS OF THE CLIMATE Reports Some Re- nomena for the Year, . The following summary of the weather for 1902 was prepared by Local Forecast Oficial Wel Among the unusual and more noteworthy weather conditions of the last year, the first noted was the small tornado that oc- curred in the early morning of March 11. {In the vicinity of Twentieth and Webster streets this storm assumed certain violent characteristics, and at Twenty-third and Cuming streets it had increased In force and violence, and at this point a small brick bullding was blown down, a number of tin roofs and cornices were torn from ! bulldings near by and considerable damaage | done to property at other points within the path of the storm. The month of April was remarkable for its unusual dryness, high winds and high temperature. The record for high tempera- ture for this month at this station was broken. The late afternoon and evening | of April 25 was one of the stormiest in the history of the local weather bureau Iomu All portions of the city bore evi- | dence of the destructive force of the storm !1n the demolished chimneys, unroofed | houses,” prostrate billboards, broken win- dows, etc. A number of people sustained severe injuries trom falling billboards, fly- ing fragments of sidewalk, etc. The most remarkable meteorological phe- nomenon of the year was the hot wind that continued for a few minutes late in the evening of June 10. The very sudden and abnormal rise in temperature that oecurred between 10 and 11 o'clock, with the high wind, was like the blast from a furnace. Another remarkable feature of the year was the large number of rainy days and large total rainfall during the summer months, but with nome of the excessive downpours that are expected, and usually occur, during the months of May, June and July. LITIGATION SHOWS DECREASE filed in district court during the year 1902 and prior to this week totaled 1,669. Of these there were on the criminal docket 309, or only 1562 less than during 1801, when the list was swelled by more than 200 grand jury indictments.. Of the 1,260 civil suits 314, or about 25 per cent, were for divorces; omly about 6 per cent at least 5 per cent for in- junctions; 15 per cent against the city as an outgrowth of old special ae: alleged to have been illegal cent transcripts from lower courts, and the rest miscellaneous, containing not a few petitions for leave to sell real estat: B 1901 the total number of suits flled was 1784 Of the 1,323 that were civil, 350 were divorce and 160 in foreclosure. [OVER ONE MILLION CATTLE Bouth Omaha Lin Btock Market Shows Bapid Growth for the Year. HIGH PRICES ONE OF LEADING FEATURES Local Demand from Packers Sufficient to Handle Recelpts of Fat Stock, Almost Nothi Being For- warded te Eastern Points. South Omaha's growth & live stock center has been something phenomenal during the year 1902. It may safely be sald that not since the stock yards were ablished has the development been more pronounced than during the last year. For the first time the receipts of cattle have passed the 1,000,000 mark, which is an increase over last year’s receipts amount- fag to about 190,000 head. In the sheep division there has also been an enormous gain, as the increase for the year amounts to over 425,000 head. In hogs, thers h: been a falling off in supplies, as well as at all other points. The reasons most gen- erally given for the decrease are the short corn crop and the high prices of 1901. Prices were not nearly as high then as they have been since, but they looked high &s compared with those that had been pald previous to that time. As a result farmers s0ld off thelr stock very closely to take advantage of the high prices, which they thought could not last. The same causes were at work during 1903, and as a result productfon has been materially reduced. Cholera in most sections has not been more prevalent than usual. It Is also interesting to mote that the combined receipts of cattle, hogs and sheep for the year amount to over 6,000,000 head, or almost double the receipts of ten years ago. Market for Fancy Stock. Another feature worthy of mention is the development of South Omaha as a market for fancy stock. Breeders now look upon South Omaha as one of the best points in the country at which to conduct their sales, for the reason that Nebraska farmers are beginning to give much attention to the breeding up of their herds. That is not only true of Nebraska, but of the ranchmen in the states farther west, as well as of the lowa cattlemen to the . The greatest benefit to South Omaha will be from the quality of the cattle recelved for slaughter. Each year the quality has shown improve- ment and the future {s expected to bring still better results. The range cattle In particular are getting better every year, and, In fact, the old style long-horned range cattle are comparatively scarce in the northern states. Real Tale of Receipts. Comparative receipts do not tell the whole story, for the true test of a market 1s the percentage of stock that is actually sold. A point where the stock is simply stopped for feed and water and then for- warded on to other markets is no market at all, but simply a feeding station. In the statistics given below a table will be found showing the exact number of cattle, hogs and sheep slaughtered at South Omaha and from that it will be seen that the de- mand on the part of packers is suficlently large to take all the stock that is offered. A large percentage of the cattle and sheep recelved are, of course, feeders and are shipped back to the country, 8o that they do not appear in the table below. The raflroad statistics show, however, that the amount of stock forwarded to eastern mar- kets 1s so small as to be scarcely worthy of mehtion. Each year the number for- warded has tapldly décreased, until it has reached almost the zero mark. Record Breaking Year. It may be sald that the year 1902 has been a record-breaker in almost every re- spect. The record for the largest receipts of cattle and eheep for one day, for one week, for one month and for one year have all been broken. Not only that, but the highest prices on record have also been paid for cattle. The following series of tables will show in concise form the growth and development of the South Omaha market during the last nineteen years: Recelpts of Stock for Nineteen Years. Hors Cattle. 603 TETLEERE Soe. BEES a0 0B e SEZBRIRSPREIRENE & oo -‘_F“ 3838 BETB oaome z= LARGEST RECEIPTS, Largest Stock Receipts in c-ttle. B!n(;mber 29, 1902, ‘June , 1903, Largest Stock Receipts in Ome Cattle, week ending Serlemberlo 1902, u.“t Hogs, week ending July . Sheep, week ending October 31, 1902 106 Horses and mules, week ending June Cars, week ending September 30, 192, . Largest Stock Receipts in One Month. Cattle, Beptember, 1902 Hog: 1898 By, Oetoper, 1902, Horses and mules, J Cars, September, 1502 Largest Stock Recel, Cattle, 1902, Hoy 1901 January.. February. Total. 1,010,815 2,547,428 Total Horlel Teul Months, Cattle, H Sheep. Mule January., W% ofl O.& u- ." Y2582 September Octover November 3 4® December 16,264 Totals.. 364,83 2,50 Driven Into 9 Horses and H Bheep, Mules. R e Months, Cattla January 1,43 February March 1,38 PualB2s: Months. Cattla B3a8TIEELE 28588% g2 H 2,862,008 ® Welght of Hogs. Btatement of the monthly average 236 2% F m\ 230 | 232 a) 4] 21| 3w ue 240/ Ba| 23 weight of hogs s0ld on this market for the Jan. | 242) 29] 194) mz 20| 267/ 262 257 m{ 208 finru 245 241) 215 260 247, July | % 1) %) bt m r-af 249 246| 253 oot w\ 210 u 6 20 28 last ten years: u}n'« qm.umnmnsmfi\aumumnm Feb..| 261/ 247, 200/ 2us/ 209/ 268/ 205 &l 281/ 211 Mar.| 235 2§ tm;yi 247| 48| 28] 2 ay | 248| 240| 217| 268| = Junel o) 341 22| 2 47 200 Aug. ‘ 253 209 Zl'\ Bept. 196, 238 ) n 2 Nov.| 263 219 0l 253 236( 263 Dec.. m\ m‘ 260 m‘ 268, z\.| 13|.. OPINIONS BY SLPREME COURT Tribunal of Last Resort in South Dakota Passes on Several Cases. PIERRE, 8. D, Dea 31.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Opinions were handed down by the supreme court today in the following cases: By Corson—Eing You, appellant, against Wong Free Lee et al, Lawrence, affirmed; August Anderson, appellant, against Don G. Medberry, sheriff, Beadle county, af- firmed; W. C. McGill, appellant; against F. Young and Millle Young, Spink, affirmed; Anton P. Phillips, appellant, against P. J. Swenson, Minnehaha county, affirmed; Alfred Smith, appellant, against Ell Jones et al., Minnehaha county; Amanda Harding against G. Harding, appellant, Lawrence, afirmed; Chicago, Milwaukes & St, Paul Railway Company against James E. Nyeld, appellant, Minnebaha county, affirmed; B. M. Allen against Alfred G. Richardson, ap- pellant, Spink, aMirmed; Enga Anderson against Don G. Medberry, sheriff, appellant, Beadle, affirmed; Plano Manufacturing Com- pany, a corporation, against Michael W. Murphy et al., appellants, Brown county, afirmed; W. H. Walling, as a taxpayer of Custer county, appellant, against 8. C. Lummis, treasurer, Custer, affirmed; E. J. Lounsberry, appellant, agalnst Peter Erick- son, Moody, dismiesed; State Bank of Gil- more against John = Hayes, -appellant, Hughes, affirmed. By Fuller—Francis Rickett, appellant, against A. M. Knight et al, Brown, re- versed; B, O. Sastad against George O'Brien, appeilant, and L. G. Lund against George Okeson, appellant, Roberts, afirmed; Eliz beth nheson against Y. W. Johnson, ap- pellant, Roberts, afirmed; Rosetta J. Hors- will against Emma B. Farnham, appellant, Hamlin, afirmed; Allce O, Reader and Charles Reader against Thomas Bellemare, pellant, Custer, afirmed; Joslah Thomp- son against Mrs. M. E. Roberts, appellant, Spink, afirmed. TOM HORN TAKES AN APPEAL Condemned Wyoming Stock Detective Secures Stay Execu- tion, CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 31.—Application for & writ of error in the case of Tom Horn, the stock detective who was sentenced to be hanged on January 9 for the murder of ‘Willle Nickell, was made to the supreme court today and a stay of execution was granted. This will prolong the condemned man’s life for at least six months. St. Louis Man Good Winner. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 51.—Thomas A. Cleage closed his big December corn deal at noon oday a heavy winner. He made settle- ments on all ‘deals this afternoon, which was 2c over the corn quotation at Chicago. He estimates that between 5000000 and 6,000,000 bushels of contract corn were in- volved in the deal, and that his average rofit was 6c to the bushel. This makes lmm;nua on the deal from 3$300,000 to Stomachs on Stils. fiemwhnpnmanmludoe-noth— crease his actual stature b; thehnd!ho( @ hair. He feels taller while he’s on the stilts, and when he’s off them he feels shorter than he ever' felt. Stimulants are the stilts of the stom- time being, but he feels a great deal worse for them afterward. iy k) Dr, Medical Dheo perfectly answers m.g need. It cures the dis- eases of the digestive and nntddve system which make the uom ge-dnn and the nmddonyon which depends its strength,