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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1901)
> / * ' " ' "V tA \r\ \ ' " ' / Conservative * ul factors in Darwin's life. The im- incnso detailed labor of this work was of great value as systematic training , and it took the place of the absence of early education in biological soieuce. His indifferent health , however , seems to have added greatly to the labor in volved , for when the book was finished he wont so far as to say that had he known what an enormous amount of labor it would involve , ho would never have undertaken it. it JOY MORTON. FROM THE SUCCESSFUL AMERICAN. Of the subject of this sketch it may be truthfully said that there is no man that stands higher in the commercial and financial circles of the country than he. Particularly in the salt trade is Joy Morton well known , and his firm is probably the largest one of its kind in the country. Not alone in business is Mr. Morton distinguished , but as a pub- lip-spirited citizen he has earned an en viable name for himself , and his ex ample is worthy of emulation by every young man in the land. Mr. Morton did not have an easy road to the top of the ladder , and now that he has achieved success he is as unos tentatious as he was in the times when he was making his way upward. Mr. Morton is a native of Detroit , Michigan , where he was born September 27 , 1855. His father , J. Sterling Mor ton , was a member of President Cleve land's cabinet during his second term , and held the portfolio of Secre tary of Agriculture. His mother , Caroline line ( Joy ) Morton , died in 1881. The Morton family can trace their ancestry back to 1620 , when the first represeuta tives arrived in America from England and settled at Plymouth , Massachusetts. Members of the family took an active part in the early colonial affairs , and were participants in the struggles for American independence. On his mother's s 'de Mr. Morton can also boast of a long line of American ancestors. The Joys came from Eng land and settled in Boston in 1G82. With such blood in his veins , it. is little wonder that Joy Morton has risen to the high position he occupies in the commercial world. In 1854 J. Sterling Morton and bride wont from Detroit to Nebraska , and settled on what has since been known as the family homestead near Nebraska City , and which is called Arbor Lodge. Joy Morton's early life was that of the usual frontier experience , and full of adventure unknown in the present day. His early education was obtained in a little Episcopal boarding- school near Nebraska City , called Talbot Hall. At the age of sixteen , he entered the employ of the Merchants' National Bank at Nebraska City as an errand boy , and during his five years' connect ion with this institution was steadily promoted until he had reached the re sponsible position of teller and had also acquired an interest in the business , which he still retains , and is at the present time a director of this bank. He next entered the employ of the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad , becoming the only clerk in the treas urer's office at Omaha , where now are employed a large force of accountants and clerks. At this time the Nebraska lines of tiae Burlington Railroad were less than 200 miles in length , and after two years' service Mr. Morton was transferred to Aurora , Illinois , as Sup ply Agent of the Chicago , Burlington & Quinoy Railroad. He remained here but a short time when , having arranged to engage in the salt business in Chicago cage , as a member of the firm of E. I. Wheeler & Co. , ho moved to the last named city. The firm was the largest and oldest in that line in Chicago , and upon the death of Mr. Wheeler , the last of the original members of the firm established by Dean Richmond and Erastus Corning , of New York , Mr. Morton became the head of the house. In 1885 he and his brother , Mark Mor ton , secured complete control of the business , and the name was changed to the present one of Joy Morton & Co. The firm has not alone maintained its original high position , but has greatly increased its business under the able guidance of Joy Morton and his brother Mark , until today it is the largest con cern of its kind in the country. The warehouses are situated both at South Chicago and at Pier 1 south of the en trance from Lake Michigan to the Chicago cage river , and they cover an area ex ceeding eighteen acres. The equipment is the most modern and the receiving and forwarding capacity is 500 car loads of salt in twenty-four hours. The firm is agent for the National Salt Com pany and for the Retsof Rock Salt Min ing Company , of New York. Besides being a member of the firm of Joy Morton & Co. , Mr. Morton is con nected with a number of other largo commercial enterprises. He is chair man of the board of the National Starch Company , of New York ; treas * urer and a director of the Western Cold Storage Company , of Chicago , the larg est institution of its kind in the United States ; president and a director of the United States Sugar Refinery , of Chicago cage ; vice-president and a director of the Great Western Cereal Company , of Chicago ; vice-president and a director of the Indiana , Illinois & Iowa railroad and vice-president and treasurer and a director of the Morton-Gregson Com pany , pork packers , of Chicago ; vice- president and a director of the Ameri can Trust and Savings Bank , of Chi cago. Thereare other concerns and cor porations , but these give an idea of the vastuess of his interests. Mr. Morton is a member of the Com mercial Club , the Chicago Club , the Iroqnois Club , the Caxtou Club and the Chicago Historical Society , all of Chicago cage , and the Lawyers' and the Trans portation Clubs , of New York. Mr. Morton was married in 1880 to Carrie Lake , daughter of the Hon. George Lake , of Omaha , for sixteen years Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the state of Nebraska. They have two children , Jean , born in 1888 and Sterling , born in 1885. ALFALFA AS WINTER FOOD FOR PIGS. Editor The Conservative : I recently caused to be printed in the World-Herald of this town an account of successful experiments made by me in feeding pigs in the winter season ex clusively on alfalfa hay. I ask short space to merely mention the fact in The Conservative. Two years ago Manager Holdrego brought in from Colorado a few bales of green-cut and green-cured alfalfa to Seymour Park. Scores of pigs were fed upon it for weeks. No other food was given them. They flourished upon it in every way. I am now feeding eighty pigs on al falfa almost entirely. Some of them have lived on it during weeks of our coldest weather , and are in fine form. None of them is fed more than two ears of corn apiece per day , except such as are being fattened for market. Perhaps The Conservative will not complain if I pass beyond mere mention far enough to add that it is my medical opinion that the starch of corn danger ously predisposes , if it does not actually and directly cause , "hog cholera. " By feeding pigs on alfalfa , the richest of all food plants , for growing purposes , I believe danger from that fell disease may bo largely averted. GEORGE L. MILLER. Omaha , Neb. , Dec. 23 , 1901. PAWNEE EPISODE. Wo take the following interesting episode , clipped in turn from an an cient New York paper , from the Ne braska News , published at Nebraska City , N. T. , on Saturday.May 8 , 1858. Visit of the Pawnee Chiefs to the City of Gotham. We last week noticed the return to our city of Major Deuuisou with the delegation of chiefs from the Pawnee nation who have been on a visit for the past few mouths to Washington to see their great Father , the president. During their trip they visited New York and other of the large cities. We clip from the New York Herald an interesting account of their visit to the Gotham city. PAWNEE INDIANS IN THE CITY. THE RED MEN IN THE METROPOLIS WAK DANCE AT THE ASTOR HOUSE SKETCH OF THE TRIBES DOINGS IN THE CITY FAST RUNNERS , ETC. Petauasharo ( a man and a chief ) , Nasharota Leitsanasharo ( a little chief ) , and Nasharoladoo , ( big chief ) , respectively chiefs of the Grand Paw nee Republicans , Loups and Tappahs , bauds of the Pawnee Indians , have been for several days on a visit to this city , in company with eleven braves of the different bands under charge of Major W. W. Denuisou , the United States agent of the Pawnees. In view of the fact that the location of these Indians is directly on the California and Utah trail , being situated on the plains of Nebraska Territory , near Platte river , to the number of 4,000 , and from the continued depredations for many years upon emigrants to Utah and California , and more espec ially irom the present aspect or the Mormon war , it became necessary for the general government to enter into some understanding with them im mediately. It is well known that the Mormons had already made ad vances to them when Major Denuisou was sent out , about fourteen months since. The government had endeavored for many years to enter into treaty stipulations with them , but they would not consent. They had a novel idea , from the extensive emigration from east to west through their coun try , that all the people of thoAtlantic states were emigrating to the Pacific , and that they would soon be enabled to come here and take possession of their old hunting grounds to bo abaud- .oned by the white man. When they were told that the great father , the president , could bring troops to bear upon them and exter minate them at any time , they