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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1901)
iNKHf iNiON pacific fxcirsion. TIi# Oollglitfnl Nn ui ry Afforded by a Trollry Kirlo Arroti th« Kordilre. A unique excursion was recently ar ranged by the Union Pacific Railroad company. About sixty newspaper men, representing the leading metro politan Journals of the country, were invited to meet at the Brown Palace hotel, Denver, Colo., for a trip on the Wyoming division, "The Overland Route,” for the purpose of viewing the stupendous engineering achievements recently made on that line. The train was made up of two pri vate cars, three Pullman palace sleep ers, a dining car, drawn by one of the new compound engines, with an obser vation car—constructed on the same plan as a trolley ear—ahead of the engine. No more striking example is afford ed of the progress of today than the stupendous undertaking of the Union Pacific. One hundred and fifty-eight and four-tenths miles of new track laid, reducing the mileage between Omaha and Ogden by 30,47 miles, and reduc ing gradients which varied from 45.4 to 97.68 feet to the mile to a maxi mum of 43.3 feet, and curves from 6 to 4 degrees, while a great deal of bad curvature has been eliminated en tirely. A mountain removed and lost into a chasm; huge holes bared hundreds of feet through solid granite; an under ground river encountered and over come; an army of men, with all sorts of mechanical aids, engaged in the work for nearly a year; the great Un ion Pacific track between Omaha and Ogden made shorter, heavy grades eliminated, old scenery changed for new, and the business of the great Overland route flowing through a new channel, without the slig*"**st inter ruption. Millions of money have been spent to reduce the grades and shorten the distance. This reduction is the result of straightening unnecessary curves, and the construction of several cutoffs be tween Buford and Bear river, Utah. Buford is on the eastern slope of the Black Hills, 545 miles west of Coun cil Bluffs and twenty-seven miles west of Cheyenne. The cutoffs required the construction of 158 miles, of which 29.63 miles are between Buford and I.iaramie, 15.34 miles utcween Howell and Hutton, saving 3.11 miles; 3.9 miles on the I^aramie plains between Cooper's l^ake and Lookout, saving .38 of a mile; 25.94 miles between Look cut and Medicine Bow, siill further west, saving 12.03 miles; 8 15 mi)P3 between Allen Junction ar.J Dana, sav ing 3.87 miles; 42.83 miles between Rawlins and Tipton, saving 1.44 miles; 10.64 miles between Green River and Bryan, saving .45 of a mile, and 21.56 miles between Leroy and Bear River, saving 9.56 miles. The curvature saved is about one half, the griding about the same, wtiilo the angles are reduced nearly two-thirds. The superiority of these changes is apparent te the practical railroad en gineer. It is also apparent to the op erating department in the reduction in operating expenses, and to the trav eler in the increased speed the trains can make. The change in alignment of the line is marked. West of Bu ford the track ran' northwest ward to the Aracj monument, near Sherman, and then took a sharp turn to the southwest over Bale creek, crossing it by a bridge 135 feet high—an ele vation trying to the nerves—and from thence due north to Laramie. ‘ The newr line runs due west from Buford, avoiding the high hols and eighty eight-foot grade from Cheyenne, and piercing through cuts and the big tun nel, crosses the Black Hills at a grade of less than one-half (.43.3 feet) over mountain altitudes. From Leroy the country is literally a coal bed. Here the new line makes another reduction and enters the Bear river valley on an easy grade. From a constructive standpoint the line is remarkable for the amount of material required in tiie construction of immense embankments and the building of large tunnels through solid rock. The construction of the new line between Buford and Laramie alone has involved the excavation of 500,000 cubic yards of material, one third of which (exclusive of the tunnel excavation) has been solid rock, or something over 160,000 cubic yards per mile. Some of the embankments of the new roadbed have been remarkable for their height and the large quan tities of material to construct the same over seemingly short distances. The two most difficult embankments were at Dale creek, southwest of Sher man. and across the Sherman branch of tne Lone Tree creek, southeast of Sherman. The embankment at the crossing of Dale creek is 120 feet high. 900 feet long, and involved the handling of 500,000 cubic yards. At the crossing of the Sherman branch of Lone Tree creek the embankment is 125 feet high at Us point of great est heightli and involved the handling of over 290,000 cubic yards. Too much credit for this work can not be given to Horace O. Burt, pres ident of the Union Pacific railroad, for boldness of conception of these im provements; for ability to convince the company of the wisdom of the out lay, and following the necessary ap propriation by the company, for the execution of the work in a phenome nally short time. Deputizing his lieu tenants, Mr. E. Dickinson, general manager, and Mr. J. B. Berry, chief engineer, to commence and complete the work, under their direction the contractors assembled a large army of laborers and gathered a vast array of modern, machinery, much of which was used for the first time in railroad building. Thus, without stopping for a day the ceaseless flow of an enor mous traffic, the Union Pacific offi cials in less than two years completed a great work which ordinarily would have required five years. The excursion was replete with many interesting incidents, and the splendid hospitality of the Union Pa cific officials was a revelation. The newspaper men evinced tueir appre ciation in many ways, particularly in a resolution of thanks to the Union Pacific officials while the train was stopping near the Devil’s Slide in pic turesque Weber canyon. LITTLE. BUT MIGHTY. Fenti of Strength „f the 1'lrete of the Iaeet t World. The flea possesses all the piratical Instincts—thirst for blood, rapacity, cruelty. He is, further, as ingenious : in devising tortures as he is untiring | in the torment of his victims. The flea is built upon the lines that make him forever hungry. But his contin uous performance appetite is far from being the oldest thing about him. Pro portionately to size he is the Samson of the uuiverse. If the elephant had the same relative strength he could come pear to oversetting a steel framed skyscraper. A flea, wingless, with a body out of all proportion to his head, and all oyer less than the sixteenth of an inch in length, will leap upon a plane surface more than a yard. This, too, when he has been hatched in hair, or straw, or sand, and never known what it was to have a full meal. More marvelous still, he will spring perpendicularly upward from one to two feet. Fancy a man or boy standing flatfooted and all of a sudden leaping over a church spire. Wonderful things have been done with fleas. They have been put into gold collars and set to drag about lengths of gold chain at least 10 times their own weight. Further, an ingenious goldsmith back in the leisurely seven teenth century made a coach and four in ivory and gold, with a coachman on the box, postilion and outriders, yet all so tidy it was dragged by a pair of fleas working in gold collars. Tiiey worked under a bell glass and wore exhibited in London and Paris. To fight like cats and dogs is the synonym of continuing strife, but even cats and dogs do not fight so bitterly as cat fleas and dog fleas. Oddly enough, the cat fleas are bigger than the dog fleas, so should be always victors. But here as elsewhere condition tells. If the cat fleas are lazy and luxurious—fat they can never grow—the small, lean, keen beaked dog fleas kill them out. A flea's beak is sharp and hard, some thing like a bird’s, only more pointed. A flea bite is not poisonous, save and except in rare cases where a flea has previously been biting infected tissue. Certain French scientists have shown that both fleas and bedbugs could thus carry tubercular infection. Further, rats and rat fleas are greatly dreaded as helping to spread the fearful bu bonic plague.—Washington Evening Star. LATEST IN BRIDE’S CAKES. What Fashion IJeoreos to he 15e»t I'ji-To-liate Form. Wedding cake boxes are in any de sign which the bride is pleased to or der, if she gives the instructions long enough in advance. At present, how ever, there is a tasteful preference for severe shapes, with dependence upon the best materials for distinction. Heavy “white water color” papers are the proper sort for the covering of boxes, on the tops or sides of which the monogams, usually of both bride and bridegroom, are blended in relief, either iu white or in gold and silver. Ribbons for tying the boxes are of moire, taffeta or satin. The bride’s cake is exclusively the bride’s. What ever the amount of cake previously stored in boxes for the guests to carry away as they pass out, there is always an especially decorated cake among the goodies served to the guests. It is intended frequently that the bride herself shall cut the cake in the pres ence of the guests, especially her maids, who expect to find in It a gold ring or some other article foretelling the marrying within a year of the finder. A bride lately took high handed hold of tradition and substi tuted a heart for the ring of our fore mothers’ superstition. Some persons account for the bride’s cake by saying that it originally was a sample of what she could do in the way of fanciful housekeeping; her wedding cake was her chef d’oeuvre. Whatever it may have been, the confectioner takes the hazard now. and the dear girl is re lieved of any posssible last-minute dis satisfaction with her accomplishments. Wedding cakes are sent any distance. One New York maker of cakes whose pastry has long been famous, shipped an ornamental bride’s cake with dis tinguished success 6,000 miles to Libre ville, Gaboon, West Africa. Alphabetical Abo.c. The prosecuting attorney in a law suit had waxed especially indignant at the defendant, whom he character ized as an “abandoned, baneful, cyn ical. diabolical, execrable, felonious, greedy, hateful, Irresponsible, jaun diced, knavish, lazy, meddlesome, nox ious, outrageous and profligate row dy.” “The learned counsel on the oth er side,” said the attorney for the de fendant, when he rose to reply, “should j have put his adjectives in a hat and | shaken them up a little before using. | You must have noticed, gentlemen of j the jury, that they were in regular al- j phabetleal order. This shows that he ; selected them from a dictionary, be- j ginning with ‘a.’ He stopped at ‘p,’ but in his manner of reproducing them he has given us the ‘cue’ as to how he got them.” This turned the laugh against the other lawyef and he lost the case.—London Tit-Bits. ___ «4 P«ttllDff In North weat Territory. Canada is now the only country in the world offering free land to home seekers of limited means. Fifty thou sand immigrants are each year enter- I ing her ports, and 75 per cent of these people go at once to the Northwest territory. The very latest novelty in corsets ! for bathing purposes, is made of per forated rubber mysteriously stiffened 60 that it answers all the requirements of a genuine corset. to Trac li I’rnt timl lloaNkcrplag Mrs. St. Justin Beale is soon to open a school in New York to teach girls of all nationalities how to cook, wash, sweep, dust and perform all the prac tical duties of the household. A strong effort will be made to instill in them tact, politeness, patience, tidiness, kindness and silence. Lunch es, fashionable dinners and ball sup pers will be served on the shortest notice. Dressmaking, millinery, hair dressing and other things in this line are to be put iu. I.ovlng Cap for Cerver*. Arthur Bird, a wealthy resident of Sidney, N. Y., has inaugurated a move ment among school children to present a loving cup to Admiral Cervera, the Spanish naval commander. Mr. Bird is an enthusiastic admirer of Admiral Schley, but thinks the American sail or's counterpart in the Spanish ser vice is the man who steamed out of Santiago knowing he went to destruc tion. little Duo mow ’« Odd Custom. At I.ittle Dunmow, in Essex, a flitch of bacon is given yearly to such mar ried couples as can declare upon oath that they have not quarreled and have not wished themselves unmarried for a year and a day. The custom was established in 1444. WabaNlia Hears Ciood Now*. Wabasha, Minn., August 19th: — George Huber of this town suffered from Kidney Trouble and Back-Ache. He was very bad. Dodd’s Kidney Pills, a new remedy, has cured him complete ly. He is now quite well and able to work. He says Dodd’s Kidney Pills are worth their weight in gold. News comes to hand almost every day of wonderful cures by Dodd's Kid ney Pills, which, although but recently introduced in this country, has already made many warm friends by its splen did results in the most serious cases of Bright’s Disease, Diabetes, Dropsy, Hhi.nm.eim and Back-Ache. No CSood Codes a » Cricketer. An illustration of the growing de mand for athletic clergymen was re cently given by a country curate, who. says the London Telegraph, received notice to quit because he was not a good cricket player. Though unexcep tionable in other respects, his vicar declared that “what this parish really needs is a good, fast bowler, with a break from the off.’’ MADE STRONG AND WELL A Prominent Lady Raised From a Sick Bed by Pe-ru-na— Entirely Gored in Two Weeks. '\ vn ' - n \// MRS. R A. CROZIER. rTTTTTTTTTTfTT»Tt/*TTi Mrs. E. A. Crozier, Senior Vice Presi dent of the James Morgan Post, W. R. C„ the largest corps in Minnesota, writes from “The Landour,” 9th and Nicollet,Minneapolis, Minn., as follows: ••Please accept hearty thanks on behalf of Peruna, that wonderful med icine which raised me from a sick bed and made a stmng and well woman of me in two weeks. I suffered with bearing-down pains, backache and con I tlnual headache, and found no relief until / tried Peruna. It cured me com pletely, and I feel as young and well | as when IS. I wish every woman i knew the merits of the medicine, and no home would be without it ”—Mrs. E. A. Crozier. Mrs. ffm, Henderson, Bordulac, N. C., writes: “I was troubled with very serious female weakness; had spells of flowing that exhausted me so that 1 feared I would lose my mind. I suffered un told agony with my back, the pain ex tending down my left leg. My pain was so severe that I would have wel comed death at any moment—so no one need wonder that I recommend Peruna so highly, for it cured me entirely of that. Not a sign of pain has returned, and that will soon be two years now. "I am glad that there is a way I can speak,trusting that raanya sufferer will read my testimonial, and not only read but believe.”—Mrs. Wm. Henderson. FOR WOMEN ONLY. Free Treatment During Hot Weather by Dr. Ilartuian. Hy the assistance of an experienced staff of physicians, Dr. Hartman pro poses to direct the treatment of sev eral thousand women, who, for one reason or another are ailing. Each patient sends name, symp toms, and a short description of previ ous treatment, and are entered in the doctor’s books as regular patients. Tho treatment Is directed from time to timo as may be fouud necessary by the doctor, without charge. Every letter and namo is held strictly confi dential, and in no case will any one be published except by the express wish of the patient herself. These cases are treated with the same care and fidelity as the private patients of a regular family physician. During the past year a large number of cases have been cured. Every Item of the treatment is directed for which no charge whatever Is made. Address Dr. Hartman. President of Tho Hartman Saniturium Columbus, Ohio, for free treatment. 1/Ove Is the only lever long enough to reach the heart. DO YOrtt CLOTHES LOOK YELLOW? If so. use Hed Cross Ball Blue. It will make thorn white uh snow. 2 oz. package 5 cents. Belgium, according to the census just taken, has 6,800,000 inhabitants. Montreal has over a hundred miles of electric road. First-born children excel later born in stature and weight. Mr*. Winslow * (soothing Syrup. 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I'ricea for farm help will he excellent Splendid Ranching Lands adjoining the Wheat Belt. Excursions will lie run from all pointa in the United States to the Free (irant Lands. Secure n homo at once, and if you wish to purchase at prevailing prices, and secure the advantage of tbo low rates, apply for literature, rates, etc., to F. Pbiii.st, {Superintendent Immigration,Ottawa, Can ada, or to W. V. Bennett, Canadian Gov ernment Agent, 801 New York Life Bldg., Omaha, Neb. When visiting Buffalo, do not fall to see the Canadian Exhibit at the Pan-American. 0 Don’t let your grocer sell you a 12 oz. package of laundry starch for 10 cents when you can get 16 oz. of the very best stevrch EXACT SIZE OF IO CENT PACKAGE. 72 PACKAGES IN A CASE. made for the same price. Orve-third more starch for the same rrvorvey. To the Dealers: GO SLOW—In placing orders for 12*oz. Laundry Starch. You won’t be able to sell 12 ounces for 10 cents while your competitor offers 16 ounces for the same money. 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