Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-16
River Ktplets.

The clipper. Mary Morton. Capt. Cab
berly master, will be up Friday evening.
The steamer st. Paul, Capt. Wood.
will arrive on her way down at ~ o'clock
tonight
The Sidney. Capt. Boland, touched the
landing here yesterday afternoon, bound
for down river ports.
The flagship Pittsburg. Capt. Killen on
the roof, will he the next south bound
Diamond 10 packet.
The new rafter, Borealis Rex. owned
by Durant & Wheeler and d. M. Swain,
made a great run id her recent trip from
st. Paul and Montrose, Ia. The trip was
made in thirteen and half days, while
she was detained one day by taking a
barge from Muscatine, Ia, to Alma, Wis.
In the twelve and half days from Hud>
son bridge to Montrose. she made 1,240
miles, and she made the trip through
Lake Pepin, thirty miles, in an hour and
twenty-nine minutes. Her fuel cost only
80 per day. She will be after the
brooms now won by some of the other
fast runners.
A year today the Mississippi river at
this point was away above low water
mark and all the low lands were sub
merged. levees were broken and incalcu'
liable damage was done to growing crops
Today the river is barely four feet above
low water mark, and the prospect for an
immense crop in all sections overlooked
last year is most fiattering. An old river
man at Galens makes the statement that
the upper Mississippi has not been so low
in twenty-five years at this season, as it
is at the present time.
A dispatch from Eau Claire, Wiscon,
sin. says that reports come from Wabashs
of serious obstruction to navigation on
the Mississippi by Wyerhauser's new sys.
tenn of running logs destined for Missis.
sippi river mills into West Newton slough
on the Minnesota side instead of rafting
them from the Wisconsin side. During
the floods of the past two days millions
of logs at time have been rushing out
of the mouth of the Chippewa with great
velocity. Steamboats, have been hung
up at Wabasha, the owners being afraid
to venture out among the masses of logs
The Milwaukee and st. Paul pontoon
bridge on the Mississippi could not be
closed. and trains we're delayed five hours
A dispatch from Aitken, Mimi, says tina,
navigation in the upper Mississippi. from
Grand Rapids to Aitken, is completely
blocked by large cedar jam, which ex'
tends for miles in tiers ten feet high. Al
drives are hung up, and it will take sew
eral hundred men a week or more to
break the jam.
Not long since two rapids pilots board.
ed the same train at Port Byron, Ill. with
the common object of meeting q raft
boat and engaging a trip over the rapids.
Both pilots got off the train at Clinton.
when No. /. intending to give No. 2 the
slip, took street car for Lyons, three
niles lArtner nortn, DuJ 10 MS surprise,
upon arriving there, found No 2 intent>
ly gazing up the river, to see if boa,
was not coming. 1t was now No. 2's
turn to give No. the slip. which he did
most successfully by quietly boarding
a passing raft steamer, and was enjoying
the MONDAY meal, when No. appeared
on the scene, only to find that the cap.
tain of the boat had given the trip to No
2, who was credited with the first knock
out Round two occurred the following
DAY, when No. retaliated and walked
of with the honors. 1t is to be fight to
the finish, rapids pilots rules to govern
and the various steamboat captains 81
referees and Stockholders. 1t is a con
test, not of muscle. but of brains and
deepest strategy.-Davenport Times.