Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-07-23
editorial Corrcspondence.)
4 COURIER EDITOR IN sOWA
VyHns We has Seen. and 10
He IN Enjoying Himself.
Crops. Politics sc.

brought us to the wicked town OF
Sioux City, where we upset four
bussmen, and ended up by taking
dinner at the depot hotel in company
with T.. w. Chandler, who by the
way, is going to talk neither garments
in the future.
At about two fifty, p. M, we step
ped aboard the the Sioux City d
Pacific train, with our baggage check
ed for Missouri Valley. The country
along the line of that road Is too
level to make aride real enjoyable,al-
though one is very deeply impressed
when looking across the pralrles at
the gigantic herds of cattle grazing,
with the wealth of the people who
dwell on the bottom lands OF the
"old muddy" and any one will read
lily conclude that stock raising IS the
| business to follow.
The towns along hat road are
small but bear evidences of prosper
itv. Onawa, the home of "Calen-
darn Oliver, late member of congress,
is a small but healthy looking town,
and is the capital of a county very
little larger than Virginia township,
At Mondamin Hon. d. NJ. Harris,
the venerable editor of the Mo. VAL
ley Times, got on the train. He rs
one of those unwavering democrats,
who think it an objectionable sin
to vote the republican ticket. MIR.
III. thinks the democrats are going
to sweep Iowa with an overwhelm-
ing victory for Trimble and the con-
federate cause, and when we sug-
gested that their votes would come
in under the head of scattering, he
remarked, Don't you suppose,
Young man, that the combination OF
ereenbacker and our party will scoop
the platter? Go Id slow III pre-
dieting" Being in earnest we did
not wish to throw him out of the
car window.
Changing arr at Mo. Valley, we
soon found ourselves in Council
Bluffs, besciged by hotel runners
enough to ell a new purgatory with
attentive officers. Right here we
wish to remark that the Legislators
o Iowa would show q decided change
for the good if they would pass a
law to hang every runner that cah
say more than eight hundred words
per minute. They ran loose at the
mouth so often that four men caught
the ague before they had moved a
rod from the train. We placed our
| .Jno. Hancock on the u. p. Depot
Hotel register. We have no fault to
| find with the looks of the building;
but the prices charged would make
a bondholder weep. Every time a
man takes the trouble to look at you
he wants a dollar. Council Bluffs
is a toll-gate on travellers. The no.
tel keepers catch every traveller that
enters the city in the evening, and
they make a fellow feel as if they
had been with them. For down
right square "bleeding," Council
Bluffs is a curse to travellers. Buss-
men charge three prices to take one
to an up town hotel, and by the
time the hotel-keeper gets through
with him he has to foot it out of the
city.
Early on the morning of the 18th
we got aboard the c. +. d g., and
in a little more than an hour found
ourself in Malvern. During the
last year this town has made wonder.
full changes. Right through its cen
ter is now seen the grade of the
Council Bluffs & St. Louis railroad,
on which the trains will soon be run
ming. The crops around this city
are good, and the corn is immense
Malvern is the home of several min.
ny politicians, who flicker around
the light of Glenwood politicians
long enough to get scorched about
once a year. One young nan ii
particular has become SO imbued
with the idea of getting office that
he has grown absent minded. His
is a sad case. The town contains
two papers, the Republicans and Letd.
or. The former is Just what it.
name indicates. is ably edited ano
prosperous, while the latter is {
pocket edition of the Oklahoma States
1t used to be republican paper, bu.
after turning a series of summer
saults found itself q fcathered on
democratic gull. This county will
a population of about 14,0o0 sup
ports six papers. 1t looks to us a
though the boys had slim pickinl
on general principles as a worthy
Union county politician would say
This section Of Iowa is noted 70
for its fine farms, good schools an,
general thrift. Politically the count,
is republican, but of late years tn
democrats have succeeded in gettin;
most Of the offices. The rcsul
should be warning to party fac