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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1903)
V i r RAILROADS HAVE BUSK YEAR neaa-a-sana-n ' rtrji!ous and Improvements the Order on All Omaha Lines- - MANY CHANGES MADE IN TWELVE MONTHS Develeameat of Territory Serve Re a. a Ires Kipeao'ltare nf Mach Hoiff to Ktrn Roads l'p la . Demands. Til year 1901 leaves It an unprecedented fworJ of railroad activity. The acme of achievement lu thin line of Industry tn reached, and jet the pbeaomenal develop ments promise to go on and even surpass themselves within another year aa a mult of the Irresistible tide of unparalleled growth and prosperity that has been net in motion. While the volume of freight and passenger business waa awelled to figures ' never before Known, the construction, re construction, acquisition of new linos, bet terment and enlargement of facilities have kept pace and struck records all tbelr own. Net one of the ten lines .converging in Omaha but has played an active part In this famous drama-, of expansion and prosperity, and! aome have taken leading parts. One road haa actually doubled Its total mileage wiy the last twelve months. . r)arllna;ton'a Iraprorrmrsti. The Burlington his dbne a great deal this year toward completing Its double track from Chicago to Omaha. The western terminus is at Nodaway, fifty-five miles east of Pacific Junction. Continued wet weather prevented the building of this track to Red Oak, but this work will be dose In 1903 and completed eo that full operation may bn begun In the fall. The define had three degree curves and sev enty foot maximum grade, while the new line hss one- degree curve and thirty-five foot maximum grade. All the culverts and grades established along this track are of permanent nature The Chicago, Burling ton & Qulncy has during the year bought the Qulncy, Omaha Kansas City, but has not yet secured possession of it. It Is still operated by the former owners. The most Important acquisition of the B. ft M. was that of the Kansas City ft Omaha railway. It was operated almost exclusively In the " Interest of Kansas City and St. Joseph, and to the serious detriment of Omaha Jobbers. The result of thla transfer is that Omaha now controls a field almost exclusively which was formerly shut against it. Sur veys are being made for the cut-oft from ,A, Billings to Great Falls In connection with , the Great Northern. The work of construc tion will be completed during 1904. The most Important work of reconstruction of the B. ft M. was Its southern main line from Oxford east and the Atchlsnn branch. "Raising of grades and ballasting was done .11 along these routes. The Deadwood Lead line was transformed from a steam railroad to an electric line. Thla line Is three miles In length and climbs a grade of 50 feet. ' .' ? ; Over land's Advance. The Union Pacific has bftnY Ita energies to complete Us new fl.OOO.OtiO shops at Omaha and, baa made . commendable prog ress in, thfa direction, though the end of the year finds much work yet to be done. Borne' of theiargest of the new shop build ings are. the .machine and erecting shops, 150x400 feet In dimensions; boiler, tank and locomotive carpenter shop, 150x244 feet; freight : car repair shop, 175x175; power house, 80x150. The system of shops will, comprise everything necessary to make one of the' tnoBt thorough and ex tensive establishments bf the kind. In ad dition "td steps' 'flrflpcr 'file company Is.'. preparing to construct, a viaduct entrance 800 feet'tong.' The I'Dlon Tactile has done much ballasting ' over Its line and reduced grades materially, through Wyoming espe cially. It has built a large series of bridges and viaducts' and 'ends the year with a to tal of 8,774.34 miles In operation. Its hold ings In' Southern 'Pacific stock' were In creased from ITS.OOO.OOO to $90,000,000. A branch line waa built, from Cedar Rapids, Neb., to Spalding, a new town. The dis tance It about thirty-five miles. Other building was done on the auxiliary lines In Oregon and Utah. ' 1 ' Hnck Island'a Great Growth. The Rock Island has grown from a sys tem of 4.000 to a system of 8,000 miles this year. This Is the largest per cent of ! growth In mileage made by any road in .; the United States. It has acquired the Chodtaw, Oklahoma ft Gulf, 900 miles; St. Louis, Kanaus C4tw ft Colorado, 115 miles; , the Burlington, Cedar Rap'ds ft Northern, Hock Island ft Peoria, has built from Enid, Okl.,' to Wau'rlka,' I. T., practically doubled Its trackage through Indian 'Territory, let a contract for a line from Fort Worth to Galveston and. projected a short line from I St. Louis to Kansas City. Construction work on a Hue from Amarlllo, Tex., to Tucumucarl. N. M , giving a direct line i from Memphis to El Paso, Is In progress, Y. , la rlsq work, on a line from Tucumu T f carl to Dawson, N. M.. penetrating coal IJriuB, MUU p IIIIO IIU1U TTCBl Ldivmj, JS-, Q Iowa City. It has laid plana for the build ing in 1903 of a cut-off' from Falrbury, Neb., to'Herlngton, Kah., a distance of ninety miles. This will afford a valuable outlet for Omaha to the southwest. Hllaola Central's Doable Track. The. chief-work of the Illinois Central haa been Ita entenslve system of double tracking, although It has bought and built some minor lines. The Central haa double track from Chicago to Fulton, Ky., with a line via , Memphis and Jackson, Tenn., through to Grenada.' Miss., which Is equiv alent to a double-tracked line. The act ual doublo tracking begins again at Wes son. MIhs., and continues to a point within 125 miles ' of New Orleans. The re. maindor ths distance, thts 1X5 miles. Is now under construction of double tracking and will soon be completed. This, then, will glve'the Illinois Central a double track from Chicago to New Orleans, which will mean one of the most, potent factors In railroad development In the country. A new line Is now being built from Yazoo City id Belgrade, atlas., and another one from Reevesville, to Golconda, III. During the year the line from Lyle, la., to Albert Lea, Minn., was completed, which, with connections with the Minneapolis ft St. Louis, gives the Illinois Central direct en trance Into the Twin Cities from Chicago and Omaha both. Mllwaakee'a Treffle Alliance. The most notable achievement of the Chicago, Milwaukee ft St. raul during the year la Its trafflo alliance with the Union Pacific whereby the Milwaukee gets through service to the Pacific coaat on the same baa la with the Northwestern. The Milwaukee haa reduced gradea on) the Chicago ' and Council Bluffs division in Iowa, la ths river division and on the Iowa and Mlnooaota dtvlalon. The guage of the line haa been widened on part of the Min nesota 'division. A branch line has been constructed fnnm Preston. Ulna , to Green Island, 'la., and a second main track waa built from Sabula Junction to Green Island and frem Preston to Browns, la. A line baa been built from Parmlngton, Minn., to SJackato, MluB . fifty -six miles; from Zum- brota t Foirbault, Minn., thirty-five miles, Eurki to Linton. N. D , forty- Y in.lvilee, , ' Chic. t and , Th elevation of trarka on the isd Council Bluffs division was conn te-jMhla fall Authori-y waa given for I'M eenatructloa of a second msia lraf 'oa" tie' LaCrose"" division"' from ... ' is . - ' Brookfield . to Crosse and half of the Vork completed this year. The balance will be done In 1901. A very Important piece of work waa the building' of the Kan sas City cutoff, which materially shortens the line from Chlcsgo to Kansas City. The ore docks at Escanaba, Mich., were doubled In capacity. The Milwaukee quits the year with a mileage of 8.8U.42. What the 'Frisco lias Done. The St. Louis ft Bsn Francisco has been busy acquiring new properties. It baa In creased Its mllesge from 4.824 to 4,61, and gone a long wsys, therefore, towsrd the realization of President Toakum's dream of being president of the longest railroad In the country. Its acquisitions were: Ad ditional properties of Fort Worth, Rio Grsnde, Red River, .Texss ft Southern, Blackwell, Enid ft Southwestern, Oklahoma City ft Western, Birmingham Belt railway, World's Fair Belt railway, Kansas South western, Chicago ft Eastern Illinois, St. Louts, Memphis A Southeastern, and 117 miles of sidetracks. The aggregate mile age of theae 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 w-hlch, however, are held to be reliable. This new mileage will come through the acquisition of the Pere Marquette Railroad and Steamship lines, whose total mileage la 1,600 miles. Elkhorn's Important Extension. The Fremont, Elkhorn ft Missouri Valley has confined Its construction work almost entirely to the completion of Its branch from Verdlgre, Neb., to Bonesteel, 8.D., a distance of 69 miles. This branch is commonly known as the Verdlgre branch. It runs through Boyd county, Nebraska, and Gregory county, South Dakota, being the only railroad to enter the famous Rosebud Indian reservation, 'h large section of which Is to be thrown open for colonization, pre sumably next spring. This road Is now in operstlon and shows good results. A short spur line has been constructed from Dead wood to Lead, a distance of three and a half miles. Northwestern' Doable Track. The year 1902 forms an era In the his tory and development of the Chicago ft Northwestern railroads, for It marks the consummstlon of one of the largest and most Important tasks ever undertaken by this pioneer line to Omaha alnce Its en trance into the Gate City via Council Bluffs thirty-eight years sgo. This is 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. Vanderbllt line began building 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 Vanderbllt roads, and there fore practically one system. The North western haa done considerable Improving of roadbeds, grades, bridges and depots at various places on its , numerous lines in Iowa, 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 a part of the Northwestern system of 8,833 miles of track. Missouri Pacific's Move. Among the more' Important steps taken by the Missouri Pacific during the year were the acquisition of the Denver ft Rio Grande and the Rio Grande ft Western.' The Gould road built a line from Scotland to Grandy and to Maear's mine, two miles beyond Granby; completed Its river division from Jefferson City to Boonvllle, Mo., and has a great deal of construction work in progress. A new road Is being built from Batesvllle fo Carthage under the Baffle ro tpo'Whlle' River railway, and another from Hajley, Ark., near Arkansas City, to Clayton, La., which Is on the New Orleans ft North western. It Is reconstructing Its. Little Rock ft Fort Smith road and reducing grades and putting In detour .lines between Little Rock and Van Buren, . also from Carthage to Neck City. - Achievement of the Waihaah.. At a cost of 3:5,000,000, which Involves the outlay for Its new Pittsburg depot, the Wabash haa gained an entrance to the Smoky City which marks a victory over the Vanderbllts. It Is now building Its line from Jewett, O., to Pittsburg, which, when completed, with the Wheeling & Lake Erie, recently acquired, will give It through tracks from Omaha to Baltimore. In ad dition to the Wheeling ft Lake Erie, the Wabash haa 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 eighty-pound steel rails, and the ballasting of the same with burnt clay and rock, thus replacing the old trackage with one of superior qual ity. The Wabash has moved Into new quarters at Sixteenth and Farnam streets in Omaha. Year'a 'Hew 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 railroad have been built within the United States between January 1 and December 81, 1902, The figures are ex clusive of second track, sidings and all elec tric lines. Rebuilt mileage la alao excluded except where the work involved such ex tensive changes In alignment that a new route waa established, as In the case of the Southern Pacific between certain points In Nevada. Railroad building was reported done in forty-two statea and territories, and Okla homa leads the list with track laid on 670 miles of new line during the year. Texaa comes second, with 496 miles; Arkansas is third, with S71 miles, and Indian Territory Is fourth, with 368 miles. Georgia built 336 miles during the year. In addition to theae, Illinois, Iowa. Mis souri and New Mexico show, returns of over 200 miles built, and Alabama, California, Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washing ton and West Virginia built between 100 and 200 miles. No steam mileage was reported from Alsska, Delaware, Idaho, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island or Wyoming. Returns received direct from practically every locomotive and car building plant In ths country show that approximately 164.547 cars have been butlt. Including rara for use on elevated railroads, but exclusive of street and other electric cars. This is consider ably the largeat record which has ever been made In the country, and exceeds by 25,541 the output for 1901. But these figures do not Include cara built by railroads at their own shops. ( Of the rsrs recorded approximately 162,599 are for freight aervlce and 1,948 tor passen ger service; 161,747 are for domestic use and 1.800 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 alao 5.26 street cara. . During the year 4,070 locomotives were built In the various locomotive plants In the country, as against 3.384 last year. The number for the current year Includes 74 electrlo locomotives, "The real messing et THr OMAHA TAT1YV TIKTa TirTTnSDAV, Uncommon In diverse and carious fields the record breakers were busy during the year 1902. Equally busy wss the freak editor of the New York 8un, who complied the record and kept tab on the record-breakers. , The love-at-flrst-slght record wss ruth lessly shattered In the early springtime when Madison Orm-by, aged 69, went down to Kansas City from Omaha and met Miss Jesnle 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 ana 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 since first we met," said Ormsby, as pleased as Punch, "and here we are with the knot tied." Whether the knot remained tied does not concern thla history. It was in the esrly weeks of the year that the romance of Miss Mildred Deuel of Rich mond, Va., set a new mark for those Im portant atagea of life which most women reckon by years. In the brief space of ten minutes she waa a maid, a wire and a widow. In a San Francisco hospital she became Mrs. Richard Miles Stanton while her hus band was dying, a victim of fever con tracted In the service of bta country in the Philippines. Clasping each other's hands, when It wss 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 waa dead. The tiniest 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 so were "Miss Rose Mason and her fiance, Michael T. McOovern, 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 yeara her senior, tbelr combined ages being 82. The record for the oldest married couple in the United 8tates was said to have been made last March by Mr. and Mrs. Alex ander Ounn of Harrington, Kan. They celebrated their diamond wedding In 1900, and, therefore, had seventy-seven yeara 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 thts line, how ever, probably belongs to Mr. and Mrs. John lams of Washington county, Iowa, who, a few weeks ago, told their friend that after seventy-four years of married lire tbey could look back and find they never had a dispute, much less a quarrel. They have ten children, thirty-six grand children and sixty-five great grandchildren. Justice Frederick Brown, known far and wide as the "marryln" squire of Aurora, 111." has tied the nuptial knot several hundred times but not on thts score does he suspire to any pinnacle among the records of the year. His proudest boast Is that his marriage knots stay tied, and upon this distinction he seeks a blue rib bon. The secret of his success, he thinks, is that his form of ceremony, which ia all his own. Is short, sweet and simple, omit-,! ting , the obnoxious word "obey," and is generally prefaced by a recitation of the; Declaration of Independence, which ' he,' regards as the corner atone of marriage In the United States. Divorce, he declares,' Is unknown among the couplea he . has spliced. Speed records In divorce cases are not cnusual or startling In these days, but when grounds and speed both are con sidered the crackerjack of 1902 unques tionably waa the case of John W. Lang ley of Columbus, Ind., who obtained a thts figure Is perhaps best realized by cal culating the expenditure Involved, which would be nearly $48,000,000 If the average coat per locomotive la assumed to be $12,- 000. CHURCHES HAVE GOOD YEAR Religions Bodies and Charities Share In the General Activity and Presrresa. 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 aemlnary 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 alx-acre plot of ground on Twentieth street between Em mett and Spencer. The cornerstone was laid In May. The Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart at Twenty-second ' and Blnney streets waa completed, furnished and dedl-' 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 Magdalene at the corner of Nine teenth' and Dodge streets is nearing com pletion. The cornerstone was lsid in June and the dedication will probably take place In February. The building and parish house are of gray hydraulic brick and Bed ford stone. .The old church and lots were sold to Hayden Broa. 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 waa be gun September fi. Ground was broken late in the year for the new Grace Baptist church at Tenth and Arbor streets. The old building waa moved to the rear. The estimated coat of the ssnctuary Is $5,000. The Monmouth Park congregation of the Methodist Episcopal church la July dedi cated a new building at 8458 Larrlmore street which cost them $2,600 and which took the place of the former structure, de stroyed by a heavy wind In the spring of the year. Brownell hall waa much Improved during the summer, the north wing being furnished with seventeen study rooms, reading rooms and library being fitted out and fire es capes added. The Clifton Hill Presbyterian church waa moved from tbe center of the block to new lots at the corner of Forty-fourth and Grant streets, raiaed another story and practically rebuilt, at a cost of several thousand dol lars. The Bohemian Bretheren of the. Presby terian church rededlcated their building at Fifteenth and Hickory afreets In February after practically rebuilding It. Knox church of the same denomination was renovated to the extent of about $3,000. A paraonage waa built for the pastor of the Walnut Hill Methodist Episcopal church at Thirty-Bret and Charles streets. ' Hanacom Park Metho dist church waa relieved cf the burden of Records of decree In less than fifteen minutes sepa rstlng him from his wife. Mary. He alleged that she hsd 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 Joyful when we part to meet no morel" Strangely enough. It fell out that the champion office holder whose fame spread over the earth In 1902 was not an Ameri can, but an Englishman. William Eaton of Tllbrook, 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. S. McCurry of Gainesville, who is now 71, has been doing active work In the Baptist church for forty years. He has preached 9,800 sermons; to reach his ap pointment and deliver these sermons be has traveled 50,000 miles, equal to two Journeys around the earth; he hsa con ducted 911 funerals, baptized 4,011 persona and married 621 couples. - Who was the record-smashing drummer? So many traveling men boast of mighty exploits on the road that thts may seem a hard question to answer. Yet few will hesitate to yield the palm to Levla 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 aetlve traveling man In the United States, being still In tbe harness at S6. He represents Armour ft Co. In Mississippi, 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 house; has never made a sale that proved a bad account, was a traveler on the first railroad train ever run in the United States; never took a drink of liquor, played a game of cards or tasted tobacco; has not eaten more than two meals a day for thirty years; Is the oldest Mason In the state of Mississippi. During the year a story went the rounds of the press about a man who pretended to be the champion emoker ' of the world. For twenty years he had smoked, he said, one and a fourth pounds of tobacco a week, so that in the period named he had actually reduced to smoke an amount of the weed equal to ten times his own weight. A remarkable record, truly, but It must give way to that of the champion smoker of the British army, a private In the Third battalion. Royal Warwickshire regiment, who from his youth up regularly consumed one and a half pounds . of tobacco every week, until bis regiment was drafted out to . South Africa. Hla supply then was cur tailed, which almost broke his heart. Tbe 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 from htm at ths rate of three and eight-tenths boys and girls a minute. It Is scarcely necessary to add that he Is a warm advocate of spanking as a. disciplinary . measure. - . , -. In the month of September.WlHIam Cran dell of Deep Hollow, near Susquehanna, Pa., . killed thirteen wildcats, and, although badly torn In flesh and clothing, earned not only a record, but the neat sum of 826 In boun ties. . (; ' ; ' The biggest eater to establish a new reo , erd was a Wisconsin farmer named Wil liam Hafner. He devoured fifty roaatlng ears in one day and passed on to that un known country where green corn Is not supposed to be on the bill of fare. Indiana reported the youngest grand-- 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 tbe new building. The headquarters of tbe Salvation Army have been moved from Seventeenth and Chicago streets to 1615 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. If no unforeseen difficulties arise In the future to delay, or perhaps prevent, con struction now contemplated, the year 1903 will be remembered as a building year. The most Important structures now planned, the Roman Catholic cathedral and the Methodlat hospital, will of course not be completed during the twelve months. Work on the hosDital will be commenced In the early spring on the plana of Archl- 1 tect Kimball. The committee has lots In j uemis park, witn 7Z feet frontage on Cuming street, west of Glenwood avenue. It haa 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 an" west, north and southwest, and north and southeast. There will also be an operating pavilion. The buildings will be of brick and three stories high, with base ment. It is the Intention to erect only the central building and tbe weat octagonal and southeast wing this year. The Roman Catholic cathedral project is atlll 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 scale, of the New Westminster abbey of the church In London. The ground at Fortieth and Burt streets, now occupied by the St. Cecilia church, has been selected aa the location of the building. The official board of the First Christian church has purchased tbe lot at Nine teenth and Farnam streets as the location of the new church' which will be begun early in the apring. The new church will seat 1.200 and will, besides the auditorium and Sunday school rooms, contain a read ing room, gymnasium, baths, game room and department. of domestic science. The present First Baptist church will probably be aold 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 tbe new building have not yet been accepted. St. Joseph's hospital has become too small for the number of pe'ieuta treated and It is hoped to build an addition to the same during the year. No details of con struction have yet been aettled upon. Sacred Heart Roman Catholic pariah has acquired, partly by donation and partly by purchase, ground diagonally across Twenty, second street from the church, on which will be built aa academy and parochial school. Tbe size of building and material have not yet been decided on. A building for the nunnery of the Poor Clares. 2'jo5 Hamilton street, will be reeled. Parsonages will be built by the congregation of Benson Methodist Eplsoo. pal church and St. Mary's Rouaa Catholic, parish ef South Omaha. JANTTAHY 1, 1f0.1. '02 Features of Life Lifted Above the Routine. father, Edgar Williams of Indianapolis, aged 89, who belongs to a 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 has lived on this earth 104 years without fiver having told a lie. He goes George Washington one better by ssylng that he caa lie, but won't. Thts remarkable cen tenarlan used alcohollo beverages and to bacco freely until he was 90, when be took a new chute and awore off. Tbe most extraordinary old person of the year was Slgnora Catellna Flores of Pasa dena, Cal., who peacefully passed away at the age of 117, having continued her usual round of work until the dsy of her death. She had lived under the shadow of the San Gabriel mission for more than ninety yeara. The largest child ever born la Illinois ssw the light of day in Waukegan in July, when Mrsk George Catlln gave birth to a daughter weighing twenty-one and a half pounds. St. Louis factories 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 persona committed sntctde In Chi 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 construotlon, waa 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 foreign countries passing through Ellis Island being 88,500. Ths one-day record waa broken on May S, when 6,513 men, women and children from almost every country In Europe as well aa a few 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 Batavia, the number being 1,692. Turning to great achlevementa In live atock, Shamrock, the champion steer of the third International Live Stock exposition, won the prize In his clasa. He waa aold at auction, bringing 56 cents a pound on the hoof. His weight waa 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 tbe steamship Norseman In August, there being 1,179 head of cattle and 1,398 sheep. On Saturday, September 7, the vaulta of the United States treasury held $573,936,193 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. Prick of Pittsburg deposited with the banking firm houae of J. P. Morgan ft Co. a certificate for 100,000 shares of pre ferred stock in the United States Steel cor poration, yielding him $700,000 annually In dividends, this being one of tbe most valu able slips of paper In existence. Mountain climbers succeeded In estab lishing 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 Is the record for any one season. r F. M. McCllntio of Dallas, Tex., won the Andrew Carnegie diamond medal for the beat all-round telegraph work. He sent 617 words In ten minutes, establishing a record. Senator William E. Mason broke all rec ords last spring In securing the passage of the postoffice appropriation bill. Under his guidance it took the senate Just fifty-five minutes to make the measure a law which authorizes the expenditure of nearly $150, 000.000. QUEER FREAKS OF THE CLIMATE Weather Bareaw Reports Sense Re markable and Vnnsaal . Phe nomena for the Year. The following summary of the weather for 1902 was prepared by Local Forecast Official Welsh: Among the unusual and more noteworthy weather conditions of the last year, the first noted waa the small tornado that oc curred in the early morning of March 11. In the vicinity of Twentieth and Webster streeta thla storm assumed certain violent characteristics, and at Twenty-third and Cuming streets it had Increased In force and violence, and at this nnint m ' amaii brick building waa blown down, a number or tin roofs and cornices were torn from buildings near bv and considerable Hinun 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 ior mis month at this station was broken. The late afternoon and evening of April 25 waa one of the stormiest in the history of the local weather bureau office. All portions of the city bore evi dence of the destructive force of the storm In the demolished chlmneya, unroofed houses prostrate billboards, broken win dows, etc. A number of people sustained severe injuries from falling billboards, fly. ing fragments of sidewalk, etc. Tbe 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 audden and abnormal rise In temperature that occurred between" 10 and 11 o'clock, with tbe high wind, waa 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 none of the excessive downpours that are expected, and usually occur, during the months of May, June and July. LITIGATION SHOWS DECREASE Falllac Off la Hamber of Salts Broacht la the Doaclaa Coaaty District Coart. Cases 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 152 less than during 1901. when the list was swelled by more than 200 grand Jury Indictments. . Of the 1,260 civil suits 814, or about 25 per cent, were for divorces; only about I per cent In foreclosure; at least 6 per cent for In junctions; 15 per cent against tbe city as an outgrowth of old special assessments alleged to have been Illegal; 10 per cent personal injury, or damage suits; 15 per cent transcripts from lower courts, and the rest miscellaneous, containing not a few petltiona for leave to aell real estate. Between January 1 and December 28 of 1901 the total number of suits filed was 1.784. Of the 1,3:3 that were civil, U0 wcrt divorce and lit la foreclosure. OVER ONE MILLION CATTLE Eolith Omasa Lira 8tock Market Bhowi fiapid Growth for th Tear. HIGH TRICES ONE OF LEADING FEATURES Local Demand from Packers flaffleleat to Handle Receipt of rat Stock, Almost Nothla- Belaaj For warded to Eastern relate. South Omaha's growth aa a live atock center haa been aomethlng phenomenal during the year 1902. It may safely be said that not since the stock yards were established 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 la an Increase over last year's receipts amount lag to about 190,000 head. In the sheep division there haa alao been an enormous gain, as the Increase for the year amounts to over 425,000 head. In hogs, there haa been a falling off In supplies, aa well as at all other points. The reasons most gen erally given for the decreaae are the short corn crop and the high prlcea of 1901. Prices were not nearly as high then as they have been since, but they looked high as compared with those that had been paid previous to that time. Aa a result farmers sold off their stock very closely to take advantage of the high prlcea, which they thought could not last. The same causes were at work during 1902, and aa a result production has been materially reduced. Cholera In most aectlona haa not been more prevalent than usual. It Is also interesting to note that the combined recelpta of cattle, hogs and sheep for the year amount to over 6,000,000 head, or almost double the recelpta of ten yeara ago. Market for Fancy Stock. Another feature worthy of mention Is the development of South Omaha aa a market for fancy atock. Breeders now look upon South Omaha as one of the beat 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 statea farther west, as well as of the Iowa cattlemen to the east. The greatest benefit to South Omaha will be from the quality of the cattle received for slaughter. Each year the quality haa shown Improve ment and the future Is 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 atates. Real Tale of Receipts. Comparative '' recelpta do not tell the whole story, for the true test of a market Is 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 sufficiently large to take all the atock that Is offered. A large percentage of the cattle and sheep received are, of course, feeders and are shipped bsck to the country, so that they do not appear In the table below. The railroad statistics show, however, that the amount of stock forwarded to eastern mar kets Is so small aa to be scarcely worthy of mention. Each year 'the number for warded has Rapidly decreased, until It has reached almost the. sero mark. . . ,. Record Brcaitlnn Tear. It may be said that the year 190 J haa been a record-breaker la almost every re spect. The record for the largest receipts of cattle and sheep 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 tablea will ahow In concise form the growth and development of the South Omaha market during the last nineteen years: Receipts of Stock for Nineteen Years. Horses, Cattle. Hogs. Sheep. Mules. 1M4 88,61)3 8,6x8 5.5:3 49 ltt 11!Wi 152.54 19.4X4 2.0J7 1RS6 14S.R15 147,019 41.4HO 2,99 lsl7 239,377 1,066,524 79.422 8.844 ltiMt 36.923 1.262,647 172,138 6,271 im 473,l4 l,224,bHl 152,517 7,650 1SS0 .615,3:17 1.702,723 1M.K73 6.0H9 1M1 601,002 1,S37,S7 169.865 8.751 1S92 755,069 l,lil3.384 18X.&XS 14,113 lt3 8f,2,46 1.406,461 262,273 12.248 1XM 821,512 1,832,077 243,945 8.2S4 1K16 5x3.1(18 1.1H6.726 204,870 7,077 lt. 6X6,678 1.216.370 858,005 9.847 1S97 812,949 1,610,921 627,160 8,572 1XDS S12.244 2,101, R07 1,06,136 10,392 1S99 827.533 2.218,42 1, 086,319 34.255 ltMiO 828,204 2,200,926 1,276.776 69,646 1901 818.006 2,414,062 1,314.841 86.31 1902 ...1,010,815 2.247.428 1,742,539 42,079 Shipments of Stock for Nineteen Yeara. Horses, Cattle. Hogs. Sheep. Mules. 1RS4 83,459 753 2,009 41 1R86 82,844 76,213 8.818 1,608 1886 74.617 18KJW 19.146 1,8'4 1887 156.275 164.874 69.468 1,835 1888 , 212,263 819,096 128.716 4.0A4 1889 226.767 178,218 98.568 6.850 1890 289.667 288,763 90.681 4,660 1891 260,673 238,850 87.222 ' 8.181 1892... i 27,468 8x3.887 3.2pO 12,009 1W3 806,889 863.M8 96.279 9,112 18?4 820.656 401.281 112.181 ,m 1895 274,627 98,673 112.617 6.690 1896 241,224 70.460 140144 4,613 1X97 866.176 83.061 206,617 2,4.'3 IK 823,194 172,024 483.171 7 646 1899 28,474 25.9tf9 342.247 80,191 19"0: 274 479 36.996 662f.4 64 846 1901 239.260 48iKl 662,601 S4!29 19U2 - 364,823 169,708 863,260 39,96 LARGEST RECEIPTS. scarcest - Stock Recelpta In One Day. Cattle, September 19, 1902 Hogs, July 31, 1894 Sheep. November 8, 1903 Horses and Mules, June 23, 1900. Cars, September 16, 190 . 18.223 . 20.684 . 83.884 . 2.274 683 I.arceat Stock Receipts la O ao Week. Cattle, week ending September 30, 1903. 66.464 Hogs, week ending July 31. 94 113.837 Hhet-p, week ending October 81, 1902.... 106,668 Horses and mulea, week ending June 30. 1900 6 419 Cars, week ending September 80, 1902.. 2,021 Largest stock Receipts la One Month. Cattle September, 1908 Hogs, 'December, 1898 Bheep, October, 1902 Horses and mules, June, 1800.. Cars, September, 1902 Largest Stock Receipts Is Cattle. 1902 Hogs. 19 Jl fiheep. 19.12 Horses and mules, 1900 Cars, lri 165.129 2x2,24 824.882 11,389 8,670 One Year. 1. 010. 815 2.414052 1,742. 539 69.646 79,693 RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS. Total Receipts for the Year hy Moatha Horses and Sheep. Mules Total No. Cars. 6.293 6,118 6.773 6.799 ,4" 6.7:i6 6.897 7.064 8.670 8.64 7.232 7.448 CsUle. Hogs. 2W.879 348,941 2"2.624 19.t.7l 222.246 241.437 173,214 16D. :4 90.761 16.994 166.896 2J6,is January. 73.9118 61, 4 63.K97 67,497 61,8.5 71,673 1.312 1.843 February, March ... April May , June July , AuKuat . 106.361 61.743 45.67 0.7"1 115.633 198, 638 25.176 834.883 221.942 ltu.878 2."U 1.672 l.N'4 4.820 7,96 4.846 8,123 6.613 1,599 l.M . 6.646 . 47.437 . 65.626 . 96 U i .166.129 Sept .... October .148.03 Nov'mb'r 103.607 Decomb'r 87,641 Total..l,010,815 2.247.428 1,742,639 42.079 79,693 Total Shipments for the Year. Horaea Total and No. Months. Cattle. Hogs. Bheep. Mules.Cars. Jauuaxy,, 14.79a LU tW l,m ,71 11 TO I. i :-i 23. 7! II, 491 1S.F98 14.4114 4.V JV"! 77.2:7 74. 991 36 4 16.264 4.9M 9 ) 77. (M 33.61 .17.949 29.59 21.9" IB. MR 2H.1' 2ti.'1 1977 11.S74 46.4 19 lVvltl ' 2'7,9iO 131.316 .) l.ora i.ft'i 1.4.- M 9-5 1 S?9 l.Sll S.7.s .l irta 7.9'M 11 2.f4 4. 4.661 6.918 6,274 1.669 1.1H6 SA'.a 1.8. '3 8J6 TOU1B...364.K3 169.70 863.260 29.96S ll.4 1801 .....239,250 48,601 663,801 34,26 1x073 Driven Into Yards. Horses and Months, January .. February , March .... April ...... May Jure ...... July August September October ... November December . Totals , 1801 ..... Cattle, .... 1.243 .... 1.3S4 .... 1.6L3 .... 2.673 ... 1.291 .... l-4 .... 6T9 eeee 4!t .... 61W .... KJ) .... 1.690 ....18.775 ....14,337 February Mitrvh ... April May J.ine July ..... Ausnim .. September October .. November December Hog. Sheep. Mulea. 8.536 8,9 ft 8 9S 6.1 8,769 1.240 4. 4.276 1.61.) 61 8.607 1.334 34 S.ft-'l 9 9.313 44 6 2 874 6.T7 1.643 3-6 64 2.l'l 1,183 It 1.633 8.126 2.670 7.4 1 86,829 22,315 ' 261 89.263 21.466 1,230 City Vso aa4 Sonth Omaha Iacklnr. Horses and Mules. 21 64 164 60 . 129 ' 63 4S 16 144 16 800 Months. Cattle. .. 61.363 .. 49.619 .. 42.240 .. 44.560 .. 31.188 .. 83.363 .. 40,177 .. 60.806 .. t.471 .. 78.461 .. 70.846 ... 68,033 2-.-9.fS 193.644 163, 8J7 189.561 20(1,646 14.VM 139,398 87,768 109. 86 156.445 X26,6j Sheep. 4S.210 66,624 75.735 65.345 37,643 42.040 67.3S3 89.478 87,640 101.154 93,076 88.691 January .. February ,, March ..... April , Mar , June , July , Auguwt .... September October .., November December TotaJa ...642.104 8,075,743 851.918 101 . 672,131 2.862,098 738,447 8,063 2,031 Averasre Weight of Hoes. Statement of tbe monthly . average weight of hogs sold on this market for the last ten years: 1893189418951896!1897;i898lS9919001901190a Jan. ran. I 242 Feb..! 261 Mar. 2351 2fi2 257 234 MS 211 220 22J1 230 232 281 243 25.1 2i.9 263 F 281 Mar. 232 23a 234 Aprill 245 May 248 june Z49 242 231 July 2531 AUg. Sept. 2.16 258, 2461 Oct. 2631 2631 268 2.iO Nov. Deo.. 236 212 OPINIONS BY SUPREME COURT Trlhnnnl of Last Resort In Sonth Dakota. Passes on Several Caaea. PIERRE), 8. D., Deo. SI. (Special Tele gram.) Opinions were handed down by the supreme court today In the following cases: By Corson Blng Tou, appellant, against Wong Free Lee et al., Lawrence, affirmed; August Anderson, appellant, against Don O. Medberry. aheriff. Beadle county, af firmed; W. C. McQlll, appellant against F. Young and Millie Young, Spink, affirmed; Anton P. Phillips, appellant, against P. J. Swenson, Minnehaha county, affirmed; Alfred Smith, appellant, against Ell Jonea et al., Minnehaha county; Amanda Harding against O. Harding, appellant, Lawrence, affirmed; Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Paul Railway Company against Jamea B. Nyeld, appellant, Minnehaha county, affirmed; E. M. Allen against Alfred O. Richardson, ap pellant, Spink, affirmed; Enga Anderson against Don O. Medberry, sheriff, appellant. Beadle, affirmed; Piano Manufacturing Com pany, a corporation, against Michael W. Murphy et al., appellanta. Brown county, affirmed; W. H. Walling, as a taxpayer of Custer county, appellant, against B. C. Lummls, treasurer, Custer, affirmed; E, J. Lounsberry, appellant, against Peter Erlck aon. Moody, dismissed; State Bank of Oil-' more against John r Hayes, appellant. Hughea, affirmed. By Fuller Francis Rlckett, appellant. against A. M. Knight et al., Brown, re versed; S. O. Sastad against George O'Brien, appellant, and L. O. Lund against George Okeson, appellant, Roberts, affirmed; Elisa beth Manheson against Y. W. Johnson, ap pellant, Roberts, affirmed; Rosetta J. Hors- will against Emma B. Farnham, appellant, . Hamlin, affirmed; Alice O. Reader and Charles Reader against Thomas Bellemare, appellant, Cuater, affirmed;. Joslah Thomp son against Mrs. M. E. Roberts, appellant, Spink, affirmed. TOM HORN TAKES AN APPEAL Condemned Wyoming Stock Detective Secnrea Stay of Eiecn. tlon. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec, SI. Application for a writ of error In tbe case of Tom Horn, ' tbe stock detective who was sentenced to be hanged on January 9 for the murder of Willie Nlckell, waa made to the supreme court today and a atay of execution was granted. This will prolong the condemned man's life for at least six months. St. Lonls Man Good Winner. ST. LOUIS. Dee. 81. Thomas A. rieuva closed his big December corn deal at noon today a heavy winner. He made settle ments on all deala thla afternoon, which was 2c over the corn quotation at Chicago. He estimates that between 6.000.000 and 6.OJ0.000 bushels of contract corn were in volved In the deal, and that hla avers go proui was oo lo ne ousnel. This makes him ahead on the deal from SaoO.OuO to 8360,000. StC!?.3CiS0! S!!!!S. Tbe man who puts on stilts does not in-1 create his actual suture bv the breadth of a hair. He feels taller while he'a on the stilts, and when he'a off them he feela ' shorter than be ever' Q I the stilts of the stom- f M I ach. The- nulm m man feet better for the . time beine. but he feela a great deal worse , for them afterward. The need of tbe man , whoae stomach ia i "weak" ia not stimu- . lation but strength. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical 'Discovery perfectly anawera that need. It cures the dis eases of the digestive and nutritive system which make the stom ach "weak." 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