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BURLINGTONIANS IN LINCOLN Who and What the “Hawkeye” Saw and Heard in the Capital City of Nebraska. Burlington Hawkeye. Nebraska is about as full of Iowa peo ple as Iowa is of Ohio people. Scratch a Nebraskan and the chances are you will find an Iowan, and with a fair prob ability that he once lived in Burlington. In a recent visit there we found an un expected number, and doubtless there are others unknown to the writer. Charles E. Yates was for many years a Burlington boy, and used to handle the electric key for the old Illinois and Mis sissippi telegraph company when they had their office over Hosford’s head uarters for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, corner of Water and Jefferson streets. He was afterwards superin tendent of the B. M. R. telegraph lines, and now has charge of the Nebras ka company’s wires, and has made for himself an enviable reputation as a faithful, zealous, and skilful operator. E. B. Slosson, another Burlington tel egrapher, has been in Lincoln long enough to get acclimated, and affirms his belief that dust is healthy. Charley Morton, who used to beat Lincoln, is now in Omaha. John G. Floyd is still in the B. M. R. land department. Mr. Warnick, formerly with Liebstad ter Bro, is now with S. Schwab, clothier. B. Baum, wholesale hardware mer chant, used to live in Burlington in pro neer times. He married a daughter of Isaac Leffler, a sister of E. G. LefBer. Mr. Baum reports that the latter gentle man is disposed to leave us and settle in Nebraska. P. Markwalter, formerly in the mar ble business, is in the same line at Lin coln and notwithstanding the healthy climate appears to be doing well. Prob ably the doctors help him out. Dr. 8. F. Rouse, general agent of the Whitebreast coal and muising company, has a fine office in the centre of business, connected by telephone with the yards adjoining the railroad tracks and with the central telephone exchange. He is supplying over 150 points in Nebraska with Iowa and Eastern coal, and is evi dently the right man in the right place. He tells a story at his own expense over which Lincoln was laughing last Mon day, and so it is public property. A decent appearing man, hearing that a citizen wanted to buy a cow, represented that he had one in the country which he could deliver the next day. A bar gain was made and the next morning the man, who claimed to be a brother of Dr. Rouse, appeared with the cow and got his money and departed. Mean while, the owner, from whom she had been stolen by the tramp turned up, and there was a tableau, in which Dr. Rouse held a levee of citizens, who called to
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Lincoln Semi Weekly State Journal
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Fri, May 14, 1880
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