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Show PROVir MISSOURI IS NAVIGABLE Arrival of Lora From St. I Louis After Safe Trip of Missouri River Creates Enthusiasm. KANSAS CITY, Sept. 24. With the blowing of whistles, tho dancing of bells and the glad acclaim of thousands of persons who had gathered at the river shore, the renewal of steamboat traflic on the Missouri river, after a lapse of'moro thim & decade, was celebrated cele-brated 'today, when the steamer Dora, laden with freight from St. Louis, docked at the wharf in this city. The successful trip of the Lora. under tbe most unfavorable circumstances, the river- being exceedingly low and it channel unexplored for several years proved conclusively that the Missour. 13 a navigable stream. Tho movement to inaugurate a boa.', line on the Missouri river originated ii tbis city 'four months g add grew out of the fight of Kansas City merchants for reduced freight rates. Regular traflic will bo instituted ou the river between here and St. Louis just as soon as suitable boats cau be obtained. |