Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-11-19
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MEairEp CoMpL,MESr.-Thatw wiie-awake
publication, the Shoe C Leather Reporter,
the accredited exponent of the Boston, New /
YORK and Philadelphia shoe and leather !
trade, presents in its issue Of the current |
week a shor: but excellent biographical
sketch and carefully engraved portrait Of
OR esteemed fellow citizen, w. G. Warri
ner, Esq, who FOR several years past has
held Leading position among our business
men, and particularly in the boot end shoe
trade. which is his peculiar forte.
The Reporter says:
1.-The msrvslously rapid growth Of some
of some Of our western cities has become
SO familiar to the. reading public that II is
almost impossible to call upon the imagina-
ton for more striking proof OF the enter
prise and vitality OF the American people
than We have actually seen in the setting
aud development OF our territories. Ihe
men who have been the leaders OF this stu
penaoas march ot ci,izstlon which sun
ezrites the wonder Of Europeans long after
| lt ceased 10 call forth especial remark here,
u,av almost he said 10 helon, TO anew race,
wra neculiarltirs In many particulars dis
tinet from those existing la any other coun-
,rt and theif individual and general sue
ces has been such as to rapidly advance
tt. ed States to the front rank among
the nations of the world. To say ths; those
c.unected with tn leather tiadc have been
ably represented in this great army OF pio-
| neers would be simply repeating what is
eady acknowledged on evofy hand.
the subject OF the present sketch was
born u the town OF Wilbrsham, Mass, in
the gear 1888. While quite young his pa
rents removed to Hers inner Co, New York,
where his father engaged in the leather ma
king business. and where William c learn
cd his first lessons n tae trade. Ten years
subsequently his father removed to Utica,
in the same State where he attended sch ool
and learned the trade Of manufacturing CT
gars.
When about twenty four years OF age, he
married, and two years afterwards went to
Davenport, Iowa. where be has ever since
resided
His first acquaintance with the boot and
shoe trade excepting what he picked up
when lad in his fathers shop in He1kimer
; Coz Was in that city, where he was for the
period Of one year and half . clerk in .
store. He afterwards entered into part
nership with II. s. Welton, which termin-
ated in 1862, when he bought out tho inter
est Of his partner, who then removed to
, Iowa City.
: Since that time, Mr.. Warmer has con-
ducted the business alone. AAd il hal
prospered under his management. His first
years. sales amounted 20 about &14 900
the next years were nearly double that sum
4 and now his business reaches to about $65,
p 900 per annum.
I'll Comparatively young az he is, he 10 ont
Of tho oldest merchants in the Furnishing
city in which he resides, and ~ such is ar
example of the success which SO often at
. tends persistent eilorts and thorough integ
4 ,ity."
n The above compliment, though richly de
r served, must be very iiattering to Mr.. War
: riner, particularly SO since it came unso
G lcited and unsought We know he nerit
0 all tn, Reporter is pleased 10 say of him
and coed dca more.
RIvEa.-A steamer is 10 leave DubaQu
Within day or two for New Orleans, tow
1 ing barges containing nearly . hundre,
n thousand bushels Of wheat for New Yorl
and Liverpool. This consignment is mad
II as a trial ss to the feasibility Of using tn
Il entire water route, instead of rail and waite
., as heretofore
!. The weather continues bne aud ship
men,s OF grain at all important points OF
the river are unusually large. River mel
n predict an open channel until the 1st Q
Of December, and are delaying preparations I
1t go into winter quarters while the supply q
N freight continues heavy.
ic The st. Joseph Herald, Of the 18th. ha
IT the following cf interest from the Uppe
re Missouri:
If The mountain steamer Deer Lodge q
) rived at this pcr, yes.erday morning, direc
from Fort Rsr,eo.d, iion whence she sale
= on the 25d ut. Durlns the entire trip sh
- experienced the usual difficulties, owing /
II tie low ssrFe Of water Her trip was d,
< veid If any c1ea.e of Importance. Sh
pc I'd W. al diisei ent pieces on the rivei
\ from Maekimaw boats, large number
u passengers. From passenger who left he
-e az this point, aud VINO came pars of th
d way down on hackinaw boat, we lear
thst the Ie;iyg Mas five usi g above MI,
IVY. aArd aground and VITA no pFobabil
&c - Il getting eli, without tie assi-tance {
!e steamer. She h.d on board four hnndre
II ps~sanseIs. The Imperial was mct On
al hundred aud Thirty mi.es above Fort Bel
thcld, aground. bat is likely TO get eff.
!" was reported that she had on board on
Il hundred passengers, and that they wer
he sabsis ing on wild game and crackers. Ia
NJ men belob gng TO the bJaE went asacg e on
hunt. whlIc she was on = sand bar, and nc
u returning ct the iime they started Sc, iou
approximations Of their being IN danger Wa
entertained by the passengers, and part
n. started in search when one Of the men wa
30 found q short distance from the river bar
in the timber, dead, having been shC
- through the body, scslped, with his COZ
at and gun missing. lie Was conveyed to III
ls river and buried. The other, shortly aftt
II, getting on the river bank, separated frol
. his companlon and otter proceeding som
- distance became aware that hostile Indar
I were on the ground, commenced retraciu
6 his steps, but before he could gct ont Of II
70 timber he Was fired upon and wounded, an
barely managed to make his escape to q
boat
=. The Amanda. the packet plying betwce
,g Omaha and Sioux City. was met fifty mill
IL above Fort Berthold, going to the assistan,
Of the two boats.
A paassnger from Fort Stevenson sspor
ed fight with the Indians ,on the 2lst oil
- near the fort. A company OF United Stat,
n troops. while on detached duty, cuttin
= timber, were surprised and attacked By
party OF Sioux underj' Big Medicine, retur,
- ing from trading expedition The dgl
1t. lasted about three hours. The soldiers hs
ur two men killed and two wounded, On
k. were driven within the protection Of Il
fort. Fears were entertained by the gsrI
10 scn that the Indians would attack the for
~ The rnountaineers are all Of the opinie
ch that the Indians along the Upper Nilsson
=. are bent on hostility, and that they will
more daring and troublesome during Il
coming winter than during sny prsvio,
-. season. They declare that il is the du
Of the government to strongly reinforce
"' the military posts on the upper river.
ID,
I'll Real Esento Transfer.
ies Filed in the Recorders ofhce, Scott couu,