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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1909)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 24. 10W. Gedar County, an Indian Paradise, Now Pours Wealth on White Men D J f I 'I i ' X r 1 f i ) - ' ' - !f , " - : . " j! ; : ! it . ' I i I ' III III II II III III!' n mmnMurm ii ,. i n ii. ' " HA was organised In ism. It. atner Parsrher. ' a Catholic miFsloreiy from Covr-IT Uluffs tlnc the first t. Ft- Helena m Incrirrorated In 1K71 The Cedar County Advocate was started in St. Helen in lw 4 by U W. Chend'er. At th preent lime) this county has a population of KOno people. ith a valua tion of over K'.W.O'fl. TM coun'y at the In 1C many oxen were stolen by the Indians. In 1S".1 fifty citisns of the ccuety banded totrether for protection aralrst the Indians. In the year occurri v. hat la called the Great Stamp Je The kioux, Cheyenne and other hostile tribes tnreetened the annihilation of the frontier settlement. The first election lr. tha county was he:d In the fall of V. Tim oiintV m-aa renrpnt In IS trrl tortal legislator- by Grge A Hail, elected Pre-wnt tlm hs.s seventy-two mile, of rail In 1. The first children bora in the rw"S lln Mvcn Incorporated tovns on eounty were twin, a son and daughter, to " rmilroals. All of these are thrifty Mr. and Mrs. George A. Hell la an early trading point for a rich surrounding day there were several saw milla located In 'arming country. Fordyce. Oberton and the county, the f.rst being- located by the Warehorn are thrifty railroad towns, but Bow Valley Milla, below St. Jamea, unincorporated Incorporated railroad The population of CeJar county in 15-10 towns are Hartlngton. Colrldee, Laurvl. , In 1ST It waa tOSi In It ru Belden, Randolph. Magnet and Wy 1700. SL Hf:va. on the bank of the Mia- not. The county alao haa i4 tnilo c( eourl. waa once the county seat of Cedar telephone line and four first-class flouring county. The placa waa selected for a mills. The entire county receives excellent town by C. I. Neyer, nho arrived In 1ST.S. service from the net work of the free rural Early la 1S two log houn were routes. Last year the farmers of Cedai utlt at ft. Helena. P. C. Kiseen, county sold and ehlpped out of the county who arrived here In IS.'., built the 25.700 beef cattle. 9 A fat hogs, TOO well first store uV 1X61. A three months bred horse and 1900 mutton theep. I le ech ool was taught In ISaS, In a log nous?, sides, this tl-ete farmers sold and shipped by Dr. Burping. This was the first school out 909.009 bushels of corn. 22.0M bushels o! taught la the county. The Catholic church wheat aod tC'3.000 bushels of oats. It U ' r: i 1 ia .f I i J Tram Left to Right Z. M. Falrd. E. H. Collins. A iAibeley. T. W. Oermatn. J. Albert Olsen. C. H. Whitney, Prans Xalson, W. 8. Weston. Louis Goeta. jjirbcTORS OF HARTINQTO.VS COMMERCIAL CLVB. m CEDAR COUNTT COURT HOUSE AT HARTTNOTON. .y the minds of roost of the old the Logan creek In the southern part, are residents of Cedar county, the Uie principal valleys. In extent the val- beginning of the growth of the leys comprise nearly half the surface, and county dates back but few In some places are as level as a floor for, years, when there was nothing miles. The uplands are composed prtncl- to show that the county and Pally of gettly rolling prairie, but along tha many thrifty villages claimed a place the Missouri river the hills are higher, but on the map of the state. The prosperity very seldom axe they too much so to admit of this county from the very beginning cultivation. The subsoil Is well adapted haa bad Its foundation In the splendid rich, to bo,h eioeastve wet and exoessiva dry on. and It U upon thla foundation that weather. In many places on tha surface the live stock Industry haa become and Is Ttmt numerous boulders of considerable birltur one of the most substantial In- Thera Is aa Immense amount of chalk duJTries cf the county. The great source rck In Cedar county which makes excel, of the continued fertility of the soli has ,ent boUdl" stone. Good brick clay la ben Id the past and will be for years J, found ta. abundanos. to coma, live stock. So while live stock Originally there was a Considerable quan- ralslng. in Itself a great Industry, depends utT et Umber along the Missouri river upon the soil for support, it stands In a bottoms and along some of the creeks, peculiar relation In that It supplies the EInl wood, box elder, ash, hickory, means of Its own perpetuation, and In- ,oft niaple, black walnut and red cedar urea besides aa abundant production of ww found ln abundance. The same kind food stuffs and cereals. ' arasaes grow here as ln other counties In , ,, ' northeastern Nebraska, blue Joint being: the Few Nebraska people realise the enor- prlnclpal , abunda. of J"OU" ' tn " t.OC.ltJndU!lrT " wt.r Cedar county. The Mlawurl river It allied trades. Over tii.O0OO00.0no wera ft on the nortn M tn. Involved In this single line of production. wMr ttom th, Mst, miaa, ftna welt Bow a sum equal to five-sixths of the total of creeks, besides other small streams. all other tadustrlea. In this great Industry Th. ,ndllLn, , cauw)d th, the Ate of Nebraska plays no lnoon- ppi, of Cadar county considerable troubls. splcuous part. A farming state, embracing a wide area of fertile country. It has for Tears devoted Itself principally to agricul tural, but to discover that land and live stock are Indlssolubly linked. Now It Is turning Its attention more and more to stock raising until new few farms are " without herds or droves or flocks. With the growth of the Industry has come the growth of the slaughter industry. But ln the years to come the dairy Industry Is bound to stand out aa one of the most prominent ln the state. Cedar county Is located In the north eastern corner of the state. The county baa S7.M acres In farms, with 221O0O acres tinder a high state of cultivation. Tha county was organised by act of the terri torial legislature, February 12 1V57. Tha surface of the county 'consists principally In gently rolling prairie. Valleys are numerous and some of them are of con siderable extent. Those of the Antelope and Beaver In the northern, of Bow Creek In the central, and of the north fork of f - i - ,W ). - 1 - i 'J wV ' '- -1, v. : s V C"t: 'J: 7- --- -- LSLL v - .. V.7-. if-- r. t the deep Interest that the farmers are tak ing ln the growing of alfalfa that Is bring ing Uils county to the front as one of the prominent dairy sections of tie state. At present the farmers of the county hare 1S4 acres seeded to alfalfa. This accounts In a large part for these farmers having on their farms at the present time 1.700 "head of milk cows, and they .used last year 631 hand separators. It also accounts for these farmers shipping out of the county last year over l&,o pounds of butter and 131.00 gallons of cream. The farmers' wives have also made a good ahowlng In the poultry Industry, ss they marketed last year Si. 700 county, is one of the peculiar little cities of the state. It Is unfortunate for a Iowa to be forty or fifty years In the building, for It Is quite apt to lar-k uniformity, but Darlington Is of rectnt growth and devel. opment. Almost any city of Its slse haa aoma good substantial brick Mocka. but th business portion of Hartington la universal of good, modern brick building. There Is nothing of the small, old shabby type to mar the better portion of the city. It Is a clear and self-evident fact that the bust, ness men of this city take more than the usual amount of interest In the general dosen of eggs and 146.000 pounds of poultry, appearance of their city. This w think, Mors snd more each year the farmers of this county are devoting more or leas at tention to the fruit Industry, largely for home consumption. It la almost univers ally th case that these farmers have a has come largely from the present Com mercial club, which has a membership of over fifty progressive, thrifty, intelligent hustlers. The club has been organised for mora than five yean, and Its Influenoa HENRY WISEMAN. CEDAR COUNTY PIONEER, WHOSE FAMILY WAS MASSACRED WHTLE HE WAS WITH THE ARMY IN DAKOTA- HE 18 6AID TO HAVE TAKEN A TERRIBLE VENGEANCE ON THE TRIBES WHO BLEW HIS LOVED ONES. HE IS STILL AN ACTIVE AND HONORED CITIZEN OF THE COUNTY. - . . . K ,:f f-rr" v--. -- ' . ' ' 1 - ' . "f lli lr " - i . f-1 ' . .- . .- . -'.... I. - .7 V , - v- LOOKING SOUTH ON BROADWAY FROM MAIN STREET IN HARTINGTON. DELIVERY DAY ON CORN CULTIVATORS SOLD BY ONE HARTINGTON DEALER. nice patch of strawberries, and ln many reaches far beyond tha city limits of Hart cases several other kinds of berries as lngton. They seem to have a wonderful well. At the present time there are grow- faculty of getting at tha different read tog and In full bearing ln the county 37,000 districts and creating good road sentiment apple, 1.000 pear, 1,300 peach, plum all through the county. Wherever there Is and 10.000 cherry trees a poor piece of road ln the county there Cedar county Is proud of Its thousands they send a man to Investigate and report. Upon thousands' of acres of farms. Its many Many hundred dollars are spent each year thrifty well painted, cosy farm homes. Its by this club In the betterment of th publla rillagea scattered over th entire county, highway. yet It takes a deeper pride in Its public PubUc buildings of Hartlngton, such aa schools than ln all these. Th county at the schools, churches and court house, will th present time has ninety-three schools raak among the best ln th stata II art - districts, with 106 school buildings, where Ington's financial strength may be eali- 128 teachers are employed. The county has mated to some degree by Its on Stat 6.100 pupils enrolled. Number of new and two national banks, whoae capital and. school buildings erected ln 1908 and 1901 surplus aggregate fitt.000. with deposits thus far has been five. Th school build- amounting to almost SSO0.O00. Ings of the county as well as the grounds The business portion of the town Is axe ln good repair, and the average, salary solidly built up of brick and a ton. Th of th teachers will run from $40 to (7i per residence streets' are well laid out, well month. W. E. Miller Is serving his fourth kept lawns, beautiful shade trees, and year a county superintendent, and to him many fine residences affording a pleasing much credit la due for th excellent con- a'K"t- Hartington Is notable as a city if dltton of th schools of th county. homes, there being proportionately very HarUngtoa, tha county seat of Cadar trN reuttd properties. This condition la In a large tmasure due to th Hartlngton Building and Loan association, which af fords an opportunity to the family of smalt income of buying a home and pay ing for it by degrees. This association. In th fourteen years of Its existence haa Issued tlOO.CMi of uch loans, and haa neves foreclosed a loan. Progress beiig the watchword of th. people, civic lri.piovciiifnis hsve not lagged. Hartlngton has eight mites of cement walks. The sirc-ets are illuminated by gas from a cold pressure gas plant owned by the city. Four miles of gas mains supply the business houses snd residences wltht gas for illuminating and cooking purpose. The water morks system Is owned by th city, the water bulng pumped from wells to a tank of 7,0(4 canons capacity. Th pumps have a capacity of S35 gallons per minute. There sre three miles of water mains and tmeuty double fire hydrants, Hartington la on the C:i cao. ti Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railway, has threa leators, large slock y cutis, and affords an excellent grain and stock market. y.r Electrical Science and Practical Application Growing in All Directions Eleotrtfytaa- Asaartea. ORE than 15,000,000 miles of single wire Is used by the people of th United States to communi cating with each other. Of this amount about U 000.040 miles is operated by telephone systems. V west by th telegraph companies. The lWTtfth la enough to encircle the glob at IMJ arrest th lightning at all it merely con ducts it safely to a point where it can escape without doing any damage, a method well known la modern polic circles. Lightning Is so quick, so big and strong that nothing of human design can b made to capture It or keep It ln confinement. Therefore It Is only a question of letting it escape In tha best possible manner for all concerned. the equator 000 times. In fact It must b even greater by this Ome, as the above figures, though recently pub)ihtd by the- census nffic refor tn lr. At the 1SS0 census the telephone com- freKnll3r termed by lightning, may be all paniea reported 14.306 miles of wire about y trm l W'" "1U nd wtUx n-ninth of the mileage of the telegraph companies. In LR th telephone miieaira ' was eight times as great as the telegrsph. In th amount of business done, the sum paid tn salaries and wages and the capital Invested in VK th telephone busineka waa a little over three and ou half times as extensive as th telegraph Industry, and during that year It fur nished employment for mors than five times as many persona Between li and 1W7 there was an addi tion of a "lea of wire for the use of the telephone systema, as compared with an Increase of bjt SS.Gll In the mileage of owned and leased wire for commercial tele-graph purposea The increase ln tbe wire mileage of the telephone systems dur ing the five years referred to was more than six times as great as tha total amount of wire adJed to th telegraph business since 1SSQ. The use of telephones by railroada exciusivcly in connection wlia the opera tion of the roads baa Increased rapidly (luce Mil Although the electric Intern r biui roads early recognized the advantages if the UJiphcn for dispatching purposes the larger steam railroads have been dis inclined to substitute the telephone for the telegraph. The bulletin points out that It gives the first statistics for the commercial wireless jttnj airctdy established, and atatea that they mere operated at a loae of ei7.f-"S In vT.. Thei er six commercial wireless tele graph ui.i tn operating 13 tower stations. l.K.ied at most of the large ports of the Atlantic and Pacific oceana, the Gulf of Mexico, the great lakes and in Hawaii. They transmitted 1(3.617 wireless message Over the telegraph wires in Vn there were flashed iS t:0.M messages, of which I;s,a7 were cablegrams It U shoaa that 0 p,r cent of tbe ciUes r.a a peculation of at least HVOJO la la wer equipped with electric fire alarma. It appear that for 117 there ere 1J0 71 fire ah-rroa received. Concern I r,g polic patrol signaling th buIleUa says i that there acre i.vl.t calls ArtvstlaeT th Light!:. la the first place th electrical devte kxavrn aa a Utktaiug axrwur does not this enormoua pressure the electricity Is always striving to reach the earth. The ordinary lightning arrester, such ss is used on telephone litiea, would b useless because it - could not hold bsck this enor mous p J ensure. Therefor th high ten sion lines must be carefully insulated with the best kind of Insulating material. Thee insulators are tbe very best that can b made and they do the work all right until tbe lightning begins to break things up The voltage or pressure of Ion' distance and commit crimes along the Lin until It U-ctrio transmissi m lines, which are most has to be arrested. Among the numerous types of lightning arresters for high tension lines recently in vented by the engineers of tbe General Electric company, Is one which is known as the electrolytic, the operation of which Is very Interesting. This arrester consists of a number of aluminum trays mounted on a central rod and stacked one above the other as dinner plates might b stacked. Tbese trays are filled with an electrolyte or liquid which forms a very thin film between each pair of plates. The trays are then placed in it cylindrical casing which Is fulled with oil. and are mounted on a pole. One end of the series of trays Is con nected with the earth. The other end is connected with a "heavy metallic strip which leads up to a horn-shaped wire placed close to the line aire. Th open space between the horn and the wlr Is known as tbe spark gap. Ordinarily the line voltage cannot break down th air resistance of th gap and leap across, but when lightning strikes the line the surging which Is set up Is so powerful that the discharge leaps the gap and passes down Into the arrester. Here a peculiar action take place. Tbe elec trolyte, under ordinary voltages. Is of very high resistance and could not be broken down by the line voltage. But the ex- Two Leading W. C. T. U. Workers Vn4 MRS. MARTHA M. ALLEV. National Superintendent of Department of Medical Temper oca . - - . ! .. r :'-) VP-oc1 tremely high voltage of tha lightning discharge, which lasts only an instant, punctures th electrolyte in a myrald of places, and for the moment allows the current to flow to earth and relieve the stress oa th system. As soon as this is over, th punctures close up and pre vents the line voltage, generated by the distant dynamos, from following up tha advantage and forcing current to tha earth through an arc of conducting vapor which would be formed in the gap. A a double precaution against the formation of such an arc, th gap is made with two diverging horns. An arc formed down la the narrow part spreads upward and out ward In a fan shap and Is eventually "blown out" of Itself. MRS. EDITH EMTTH DAVI8. National Superintendent of Department of fcelenufie Temperance Instruction, Now Wireless Appeurataa. Mr. Marconi has invented a new form ot apparatus for stations for duplex wireless telegraphy. In which a commutator Is ro tated synchronously with the studded or toothed disc before employed. Vhich disc causes groups of electrical oscillations to be generated at regular short Intervals. The eommu'alors and studded disc are coupled mechanically, and the combined apparatus causes the receiver to be oper ative only during the Intervals between th discharges, and to be rendered inoper ative during the short periods when th discharges are taking plaoa Each com mutator has th sam number of bars as there are studs n th disc, and each Is provided with pairs of brushes connected together at regular Intervals by tha com mutator bars The result Is that the aerial is oontMUed through th secondary to arth and disconnected from the receivei during th time a stud Is passing between the side disc contacts that Is. during th time of discharge and connected through th aeoondary to th receiver during the In tervals bet woe n the discharges. Th opera tive periods of the transmitting apparatus are considerably shorter than thoaa of th receiving apparatus, so that th making of each sign oocupla aeveral operatlv period. Tlshaaa Has) a ad Akrsal. Th London Times gives figures that Illustrate urtklogly th wide difference be tween th development af th talepbon ln this country and tn Europa. In all Europe, with ttom 40O.OOt.OM ot population, tii ere wer. at th beginning f TSs. approxlmatsly LKS.IM) telephones. Her, with sti.0u0.000 of population, ther wer at th sam date nearly 7,000 Out tele phones. With one-fifth th population at Eur op w bav tor times as many tele phones as Europe, and ln proportion to population ther are fifteen telephones her to on la Europa. A few concrete Illustrations mak th Minparisoo even dot atrtklnv la all Fran Outre wer at January L UOt, anly UsU&s Waphoaaaj New York had 134.1, Chicago 184.iC2. Aus tria can muster only SO.yrg telephones and la handsomely beaten, not only by New York and Chicago, but also by Boston and Philadelphia, each with over 100.000 tele phones European countries, such as Italy, Hungary and Belgium, bav fewer tele phones In service than American cities of the second rank, such as St. Louis, pitta- . burg, Cincinnati and San Francisco. Eva Great Britain, where tbe telephone Is mor higrly developed than ln most continental countries, has a total number of telephone Inferior in th aggregate to service to New Tork, Chicago and Boston, thro cities with an aggregate population about qua to that of Creator London. Th reason for this great difference be tween th development of th telephone In th United States and In Europ Is that her th telephone servloas has been brought to a high pitch of both technical and commercial efficiency by privet en terprise, whereas, in Europ It has bees practically suppressed by government monopoly. It cannot be seriously argued that th public of roost European coun tries is leas desirous of availing Itself . of rapid means of communication than, th American public, or la leas generally "civilised." Tbe business man. whether he be British, Belgain, Dutch or French, wants to get his business don quickly and economically. The telephone aervlos . Is th most rapid means of communica tion ther is; It does th work of two telegrams la a sixtieth of th tint and does It better and cheaper. It th Aua train or the Frenchman, comparatively speaking, does not use the telephone, it is not bocaus be does rtot want to lux It, but because his government does not allow him to do so. His government virtually says to him: "I arrogate to my self lb sol rltiht to supply you with talepbon service. It will be sufficient, slow, inaccurate, and exasperating; Its supply will b surrounded by all th ar bitrary and unnaceaaary ragulationa, which my officials can devise ; no im- . provemeiits will b adopted except under xtram compulsion; additional facilities will b provided so slowly that new cus tomers must b prepared to wait years before securing a telephone, and lung -distance calls will take from on to seven hour to oompiet. But yeu must tax th kind of talephona service I give you, for that to all yeu will gsu" hit very TfcrawLae Oft m Thrill. "Th welvea war tepon a,- h related to th girt he was trying to impress. ineir bowuatT penetrated to marrow. W fled for ur Uvea. Bat second we knew that tha rereauiu was gaining ea ua Closer, closet1 at they ware so el use that w could feel their muasles against our tecs so that "Ah," sighed the weoaaa, greatly re lieved. How (led you must have beea that they bad that auaaies !' J very dya M -! no.