Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1907 — Board Favors Octopus. [ARTICLE]

Board Favors Octopus.

The Naval Submarine Board, which conducted competitive tests ht Newport, has reported unanimously that the Octopus isthe superior of the boats tested and the equal of the best now owned by the United States or under contract. The opinion is also expressed that a bhat simT- 1 lar to the Octupus. but larger, would be a superior naval weapon. The Oregon Trust and pavings bank. Portland, with deposits, of $3,200,000 and liabilities of $3,200,000, closed its doors. 4+

NELSON MORRIS "DIES;' -~H Pioneer Chicago Packer and Million! alre Passes A wap. Nelson Morris, pioneer Chicago packer and multimillionaire, died Tuesday. Nelson Morris was the third member of tbo famous “big four” packer!, Philip D. Armour aad Gustavus F. Swift preceded him to the grave, and Michael Cudahy is the only survivor of the city’s pioneers in the packing industry.- Mr. Morris* death was due to chronic affection of tha heart, with a kidney complication, which had its origin some time ago. Nelson Morris was born in the Black Forest, Germany, Jan. 7, 1840. His father originally was a wealthy cattle dealer, but he became reduced to poverty after joining the revolutionary movement to unite the Black Forest to Switzerland. The father was an exile until the non paid his ransom twenty years ago. Carl Schurz was a fellow exile of young Morris, who, when he landed in Philadelphia penniless was 11 years old. The young man walked to New York, where he hired out to haul charcoal in Lakeville, Conn., for $5 a month and board. Later he worked his way on a canalboat to Buffalo, thencs walking to Chicago. Here he went to work in the old stockyards. Five dollars a month was his salary the first year, increased to S4O the second year. All he saved from his earnings he sent to his relatives across the ocean. He began to buy hogs when he was 15, making enough to start himself in the cattle business a year later. The packer used to tell how at first he killed and dressed his own cattle. He slept on the slaughter house floor at night in order to be on hand early dn the morning with his beef and pork. His first financial reverse came when he was 18 years old. When he was 25 years old Morris suffered another reverse. H* indorsed papers for creditors who went back on him. Within a year, however, he had recovered from his loss. He started his packing house in 1862 and during the latter part of the war supplied the army of the West with beef. Mr. Morris was the first to export live cattle from this country to Europe. He received the first contract ever given to, supply a government with beef... He ot>tained important and profitable contract# with France, England and Germany.