Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-05
Iowa Items.

iowa ItcmSs
Sanborn is free of saloons.
Burlington claims population OF
81 900.
Coal OF the lower grades, for manu-
featuring purposes, Is delivered at Bur-
lington for GO cents per ton.
The number Of hogs packed at Cedar
Rapids this year is $4,000, against 1867
800 for the previous year.
The total number of arrests made at
Cedar Rapids for The year just closed Is
800 less than the one preceding it.
Fifteen hundred head of cattle have
been dishorned in the southern part of
Osceola county during the present win
ter.
The agricultural department fixes the
average OF lowa's corn crop at a fraction
over twenty-five bushels per acre and
that of Nebraska at twenty-four.
A Charlton man had u carload OF
broom-corn from Nebraska, upon which
the freight was SO per ton, the same as
he had been paying from Chicago, at
which he complains bitterly.
Davenport Masons are feeling good
over the completion of their new tenn
pie. 1t is supposed to be among the
finest in the state, and is 65xl50 feet,
and four stories high. Its cost was $751;,
900.
A Washington county farmer gave his
hogs so much salt and water on starting
to town with them that nine of them
| died on the road, end five after he got
there and before they were weighed.
HIS little piece of rascality cost him
| about $3.50.
The past year was prosperous one in
Davenport. Factories costing $3.50, 900
were built; business blocks S423 600 and
| residences 1894, 700. The Second street
| railway expended 1000, and ten miles
| of the Davenport, Iowa 81 Dakota rail
road were completed at a cost of $780,
| 600.
The biggest holiday excitement at Des
| Moines has been created by IL bloody
butcher. A large cattle firm thought
| that the butchers should either pay a
| better price for the beef they were buy
ing or sell lower. They refused, and so
| the cattle firm has put in II iirst-class
| market and sells meat at cost, at from 3
to cents per pound for best-the loss
being cut of cents per pound. AS
| the cattle firm has herds of its own, and
| plenty of capital, an era of cheap meat
is on the people OF the capital city, with
no signs of rebellion on their part.
| DuAotos
| 'POssum and deer are getting COM
mon in Deadwood.
Rapid City's building improvements
for the past year amount to 81 ,OOO,OOO.
| The actual valuation of Yankton city
is s., ,25O 900, and of Yankton county
| $50 900, and both will double in 1883
unless all signs fail.
The Manitoba road has carried to the
| nlt NJ tNH, Il
Dakota ranges, II 900 head of beef cattle
and $4,000 head of sheep.
| Yankton has one artesian we'll which
flows over $500 gallons minute and
another which flows l,5OO gallons amin
utes, the water supply being tapped 600
| feet down.
The farming lands of Dakota are said
to be passing into the hands of actual
settlers at the rate of 4,000, 900 acres
each year. Twenty-Five per cent of the
entire territory still belongs to the gov
ernment.
The noted ex-Indian agent, DR.. V. r..
McGillicuddy, has been notified that his
accounts as agent have been thoroughly
examined by the government and dis
crepency of only Sl29.56 found. The
doctor now resides in Rapid City.
Yankton is the cathedral city of the
| CathOllc diocese OF south Dakota under
the dlspensation of Bishop Marty. Plans
for buildings which will cost So 600 200
are being made. These will be con-
structed during the next few years. The
site for schools and hospitals has already
been selected, and the bishops resi-
dence and convent were built several
years ago.
Lackwanna is the name given to the
new coal fields in the Black Hills. They
are ten miles southwest of Hot Springs
and cover an area of twelve square
miles. The coal is of bituminous
| character but there are thin stratas of a
hard. bright and extremely black coal
which is believed to be anthracite. II
struck with hammer it breaks up into
cubes and is remarkably clean. To the
south and between the coal fields and
the Cheyenne river is n wide and beau.
tiful stretch of valley comprising about
5000 acres. The b. & M. survey crosses
the Cheyenne river from the south com
ing down Cottonwood creek, and almost
touching some of the coal locations.
Colorado.
Denver turned out 14,OOO,OOO cigars
last year.
The authorities OF Denver are wagine
war on the gamblers.
The San Juan country turned ou
1904 tons of mineral last year.
The government mint at Denve
handled last year 81 .673, ,453 in gold ant