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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1908)
&v :? l"i -; ff Y Are You Buying Your Groceries Right ? If you want anything in fancy or staple Groceries, Fresh Fruits, Vegetables remember that we have the largest stock in the city and our prices are always right : Yours for fair dealing A. D. RODGERS : t NOTICE , Owing to the fact that our patronage has increased nearly one-third in the last 30 days, we would kindly ask patrons to give us their orders as early as pos sible. Phones 131a and 131b. Palace Meat Market S. h. DESCH, Prop. u t &.ZM 0 NELSON FLETCHER . FIREINSURANOE AGEN-W REPRESENTS THE FOLLOWING! INSURANCE COMPANIES. Hartford Fire Insurance Company. North American of Philadelphia. Phoenix ot Blooklyn. New York. Continental of New York City. Niagara Fire Insurance Com pan j. Connecticut Fire Commercial Union Assurance Co.. London Germanlu Klre Inn. Oo. Ktato of Omaha Palace X-j i tt e r 37 Barn C. C. S9IIIH, Prop. (Successor to S. II. Descb) onebi,ck west oh Good turnouts, strict attention to'our business, . the NEW zbinden an(j courteous treatment to all has won for us the BUILDING. 'Phone excellent patronage we enjoy. Try us. JBflLdH 1 J 1 fl vXkjL. xZuM3mH:re.'K.i&!i For TOP SALES, GOOD FILLS and PROMPT REMITTANCES SHIP TAOG BROS. Livestock Commission Company 107-109 Exchange Building South Omaha, Neb., ft am WW Liverpool. London and Globe Ins. Co. German American Ins. Co., New York. New Humpjihire Columbia Fire Insurance Company. Philadelphia Underwriters. Phoenix Ins. Co.. Hartford, Conn Klremaus l-'und Insurance Co. Koohuhtcr German Ins. Co. Office Cr-Stalrs.Vletcher Mock. Wallaces Transfer Line Household goods moved promptly and transfer work solicited. Phone 1 Frank Wallace, Pro'p'r. iATA-1SJVylM - TO Boards of all descriptions for any part of a house or barn. DierisLumber&Coal Co. PMene 22 D. Waters, Mr. rjttjV PIERCE TOFKETM Loses Court Fight to Prevent Extradition to Texas. Offence of Which He Is Accused Is Punishable by Term of From Two to Five Years In Penitentiary Has No Further Recourse. H. C. Pierce of the Waters-Pierce Oil company, whoso court fight to prevent extradition to Texas on a charge ot violating tho anti-truBt laws ot that state, was lost in tho supremo court, 1b in New York. The case against Mr. Pierce conies from. Travis county, Texas. Tho offense of which he Is accused is punishablo by a term ot from two to five years In the peniten tiary. Judge Barclay, who represents Texas In tho case, said. "The decision leaves Mr. Pierce without further re course. He will have to surrender and be taken to Texas or go there volun tarily to stand trial." The indictment returned Nov. 1, 190G, by the Travis county grand jury against Mr. Plorce charged specifically that he had made an affidavit May 30, 1900, in which he swore, among other things, that "tho Waters-Pierce Oil company was not then a party to any agreement or understanding with tho Standard Oil company or any other corporation to regulate or fix tho price of any article of manufacture." In de ciding against Mr. Plerco, Judge Ad ams of tho United States court of ap peals, from which tribunal the case was taken to Washington, declared that "technicalities must not bo per mitted to stand against nn Indictment when it contains the substance of a charge." In tho ouster suit brought by Mis souri, through Attorney General Hart ley, against the Standard Oil com pany, It was shown that that company owned two-thirds of the stock of the "Waters-Pierce Oil company. JAPS SHOW JOY FOR FLEET. Reception Is Heartiest Received So Far on the Trip. The reception accorded tho Amer ican fleet by the people of Japan Is conceded by the American naval offi cers to be the heartiest and most per fectly carried out of the many recep tions received by the fleet since it sailed from Hampton roads. Rear Ad miral Sperry said to the Associated Press that he was utterly unable to say how it had been accompllsehd, but that the welcome given the fleet and its officers and men here has been so carefully planned and carried out to the most minute detail that a last ing impression has been stamped upon the mind of every American who has witnessed It. The men of the Amer ican and Japanese fleets are fraterniz ing everywhere In Tokyo and Yoko hama. Every wish of the American sailors is anticipated. It is impossible to doubt the sincer ity of the Japanese. The American of ficers and sailors are beginning to understand the fact that the evident desire on the part of the Japanese for the friendship of America is not founded upon opportunism, but finds its source In efforts to show that friend ship, at least on the part of the Japa nese, has existed always, and that this visit of the fleet has merely af forded the Japanese an opportunity for the feeling. There can be no doubt that simul taneous visits of tho American expo sition commissioner, the Pacific coast business men and the Atlantic fleet are a part of an organized plan of the Japanese to finally wipe out all misun derstanding between Japan and the United States. THREE TROLLEY CARS CRASH. Failure of Airbrakes on Kansas City Hill Causes Wreck. Three trolley cars collided nt Thir teenth stieet and Troost avenue In Kansas City, Monday, and were badly wrecked. Que man was killed and KrSv.3" Were mre " The airbrake failed on one of the cars at Tenth and Tioost and It rushed back down the hill. There were two cars coming up the hill back of the first car and for two blocks these cars backed away In a thrilling attempt to escape. The cars were crowded with passengers bounded downtown, many of them prominent business men. For three blocks before the cars Anally collided, men and women jumped fran tically to the street, and many were hurt In this effort to escape. The cars came together with terrific force and all three were splintered. D. L. Smith of Nevada, Mo., was crushed to death when the front end of the rear car was crushed In. Canada Land Sale a Failure. An auction of 1,250,000 acres of Sas katchewan lands, which was adver tised extensively in western United States papers for weeks at a cost of $30,000, to be sold at Jteglna Inst week, turned out a failure. Few" per sons attended the sale, -and the com pany canceled the remaining daye. The attendance of American buyers was bllm. I Negro Slays Two and Escapes. At Llthouia, Go., Sunday, Charles Mitchell, colored", shot and killed T. I Peek, a bailiff, and C. F. Argo. a young white man, and after badly beating C. S. Elliott, deputy sheriff, over the head with. Ills pistol, made his escape. Cloudburst at Lamar. A cloudburst struck Lamar, Colo. Kearly four Inches of rain fell. TRADE REVIEW FOR THE WEEK Warm Weather and Approaching Eleo tlon Hamper Distribution. Bradstreet's says: Unseasonablt weather and the approach of tho na tlonal election tend to hamper dlstrl button of seasonable merchandise, tht purchaso of any but immediate neces sities, and tho projection of new on terprises. On balance, Industry ii slightly more active, somo branchei ef tho iron trade having Increased forces, while building is nioro brisk but at the same time drought or Ion water In various navigable stream! tend to affect such lines as coke, waterway navigation and paper mills Hallway tonnage 1b heavier, and cur rent gross earnings show smaller de creases than for any time In the past ten months. Summed up, caution still prevails, but confidence Is very strong and therefore natural conditions, togethct with light stocks, should produce a marked' degree of expansion, after the turn of the new year. Until then re pression seems to bo the policy, the hand-to-mouth buying movement Ii deemed to be tho part of wisdom, and new enterprises arc being held in abeyance, either by tho credit giving Institutions or by their projectors. Failures for tho week number 244, Wheat exports for tho woek aggro gate 4,458,227 bushels. Corn exports for the week are 62,683 bushels. CORNSTALKS GIVE PAPER POLP. Government Chemists Solve Problem to Do Away With Wood. Agricultural department chemists be lieve they have solved the problem 01 cheaper paper that will dispense alto gether with tho use of wood fiber. Tho new material from which flvo grades of paper already have been made Is tho ordinary cornstalk and tho offi cials predicted when the manufacture of the new kind of paper Is started on a large scale It will be at leaBt 50 per cent che'aper than tho print paper now made from wood pulp. The bureau hns been working on the discovery a number of years, but not until this week have tho results been So positively successful ns to per mlt any announcement The first prac ticable samples of the new paper have been manufactured by Dr. H. S. Bris tol and his assistants. Dr. Bristol has carried his experiments to the point of mnklng the paper'in five shades. The white paper Is made from the hard outside shell of the stalk and the yel low grades from the jplth. Millions of tons of cornstalks will be available for this new manufacture. TRIES TO KILL CHICAGO PRIEST. Would-Be Assassin Fires Two Shots at Rev. J. K. Fielding. - An' attempt to assassinate He v. J. K. Fielding, pastor of tho Corpus Christl Roman Catholic church, was made at Chicago Sunday. After twice shooting at the priest In the Sunday school hallway of the church, the would-be assassin, knocking down scoies of children standing in his way, ran into the street and escaped. The shooting and the screams of the chll dfen created wild excitement In one of Chicago's fashionable residence dis tricts. The culprit had been seen loitering in and about the church and was ob served writing upon a sheet of paper. He pla'ced the paper in his pocket. The police believe that the writing was an explanation of his Intended act and his identitj, which was to be found upon his body. In the event of his committing suicide after killing the priest. A letter of similar purport was found In the possession of Alia, who killed Father Leo Heinrlchs In Denver. CHICAGO GRAIN AND PROVISIONS. Features of the Day's Trading and Closing Quotations. Chicago, Oct. 1ft. A liberal Increase in the visible supply of wheat In tho United States and Canada caused n weak close lu the local wheat mar ket today, final quotations showing net losses of ybQ!'ic. Oats were weak, but corn and provisions were Ann. do-!T Pr'ce-: Wheat Dec. 983i9S'-c: MoV. .011.01; July, 96T(,c. Corn Dec, Mr3c; May, 63Vic. Oats Dec, 48c; May, COc. Pork Oct., 113.35; Jan., $15.05. Lard Oct., $9.37'v; Jan., $9.10. Ribs Oct., $8.67i; Jan., $8.05. South Omaha' Live Stock. South Omaha, Oct. 19, Cattle Re ceipts, 13,000; slow to 10l5c lower; native steers, $4.00'7.00; cows and helfeis, $2.754.00; western steers, $3.005.50; Texas steers, $2.854.40; canuers, $2.002.70; stockers and feeders. $2.504.C0; calves, $2.75 5.50; bulls, stags, etc., $2.00g3.10. Hogs Receipts, 4.000; 1520c lower; heavy, $5.205.30; mixed, $5.155.20; light, $5.005.20; pigs, $3.0005.00; bulk of sales, $5.155.25. Sheep Re ceipts, 28,000; 1520c lower; year lings, $4.254.75; wethers, $4.00 4.50; ewes, $3.50(54.30; lambs, $4.75 f5.30. , . , twim r Chicago Live Stock, Chicago Oct. 19; Cattle Receipts, 33,000; steady loXSc lower; steers, H407.60; cows, $3.25f5.25; heifers, $3.00 4.25; bulls, $2.504.50; calves, $3.50j8.50; stockers and feeders, $2.604.65. Hogs Receipts, 35,000; 1015c lower; choice heavy shipping, $5.85&'5.90; butchers, $5.755.85; light mixed, $6.1505.30; choice light, $5.3505.80; packing, $8.2505.50; mix ed, $4.5005.10; pigs, $3.5005.00; bulk of sales, $6.2505.30. Sheep Receipts, 33,000; 1015c lower; sheep, $3,500 4.85; lambs, $4.7605.76; yearlings, $5 8505.00. TAFT'S VOICE IK BAD SHAPE, Republican Candidate Cancels Many of His Speaking Dates. Now York, Oct. 20. That Judge Taft's voice Is In such bad condition that ho will have to cancel many of his dates for speaking was Indicated by Chairman Hitchcock on his return from a visit with Mr. Tnft at Newark, N. J. This menns a rearrangement of Mr. Taft's itinerary, but it will not affect his dates in New York. The re arrangement will cut nil of Mr. Tatt s day speeches and one of his night speeches. The latter Is the speech which had been planned for Chicago next Saturday night. Dr. Alexander, tho throat specialist, who is traveling with Mr. Taft, is of tho opinion that his voice has betn affected chiefly by his outdoor speak ing. By abandoning the day speeches, which were to have been out of doors, it is believed that Mr. Taft will bt able to meet all of his engagements w"lth the exception of that at Chicago. RED FIRE GREETS IRYAN. Nebraskan Arrives In Chicago In 4 Blaze of Glory. Chicago, Oct. 20. William J. Bryan arrived In this city last night in ri blazo or glory, after an nil-day trip through the state. Thousands assem bled at the Union depot to greet him as his special pulled In an hour and fifteen minutes late and In the crowd were a largo delegation from the Cool'. County Democracy, members ot the national committee and' all tho local Democratic candidates, Including the candidates for congress, who escorted him In fifty automobiles to Pilsen park, where ho addressed a groat throng. As ho emerged from the sta tion n great quantity of red flro and roman candles wero set off, tho crowd all the whllo wildly cheering. Ab tho long procession of motor cars passod down the street their occupants con tinued tho pyrotechnic display. From Pilsen park tho Democratic enndidato was escorted to Arcade hall, whero an othor big crowd wnB on hand and ac corded him an ovation. The feature of his journey through Illinois wns the accusation, repeated ly made, that the Republican party was now preparing to purchase tho election. The statement; first made at Alton, caused a distinct sensation. The Demuc .its, he said, were asking only for $100,000 with which to finish the work of the campalgu, while tho Republicans were asking for n mil lion. "What do they need the money now for?" he Inquired, and answering IiIb own question, he declared that it wns for use on election day, "as they have used It year after year." SOLVE FINANCIAL PROBLEM. " Woman Suffrage Association Gets Check for $10,000. Buffalo, Oct. 20. The problem cf financing the work of the National Woman Suffrage association cropped out and for a time clogged the smooth running machinery ot their conven tion. The question first come up In executive session, where It Is said President Anna P. Shaw talked to thn delegates in no uncertain way as to their failure to provide , the national organization with the means to carry on Kb work. It was finally decided tn make an effort to raise at least $5,000 by voluntnry subscription. The con tributions had reached $3,350 when n messenger handed President Shaw n letter from Mrs. Catherine B. Lewis of Buffulo, enclosing a check for 510 000. Mrs. Philip Snowden or England ad. dressed an open session of the associa tion. Mrs. Snowden presented the cause or the Englishwomen in such favorable light that the crowd rosi and cheered her for five tilnute. Resolutions extending sympathy and good wishes to the women or England were adopted with another rouslny t-necr, in which both men and women joined. MORE BLOWS STRUCK AT BRYAN. Taft Speaks In New Jercey, Delaware and Maryland. Baltimore, Oct. 20. Hitting straight at his opponent, Mr. Brynn, with even more rorce than in the north, west or south. Judge Taft carried his cam palgn to the very doors or New York city and gave a clear Indication or the character or speeches he will make in the Empire state next week. Mr. Tatt spent three hours In Newark, an hour In Elizabeth, an hour and twenty minutes In Trenton, an hour In Wil mington mid the entire evening In Bal timore. He encountered tremendous crowds and enthusiasm spontaneous and ample. "The real Issue or the campalgu Is." sain Mr. Tatt, "whether yon think tht Republican party by what it has dons In the last twelve years is entttlod to your confidence. Even If It has done something to displease you, Is it not to be preferred to the Democratic par ty under any circumstances, consider ing the history of that party and con sidering the peculiarities to use no more offensive expression of the leadership of. that party." Forest Fims Raging In New York. Albany, N. Y., Oct. 20. Forest flrou are raging fiercely In this state and threaten to "nssunie larger proportions than at any time this year. Two fires wero reported as having started again on state lands within the boundaries of the Adirondack park. The fires In the vicinity of Laife Placid are very threatening. An appeal for help waa received from Dannemora, where a fire Is raging about two miles from Clinton prison. IEWS OF NEBRASKA Wealthy Grain Broker Kills Girl and Himself. Double Tragedy Occurs In Young Woman's Homo In Omaha Small Tornado In Lincoln Omaha Aftei W. C. T. U. National Convention. Omaha, Oct. 19. Few tragedies which have been enacted' In Omaha and tbero have been many recently has attracted moro local attention than the killing of Eva Hart Saturday night by Sewcll slcuman, who then commit ted Bulclde, Developments slnco th shooting indicate that Slcuman wai insanely Jealous of tho young woman, upon whom ho had been recently lav ishing largo sums of money. Ho also upbraided her for spending so much money, tho sum reaching, ho bad stat ed to a friend, from $700 to $1,000 a month. This quarrel nad been going on for a week or moro and Slcuman had fully made up his mind to end it ail In just tho manner he did. This was shown In a note he wrote to J, P. -Comstock, his business manager, whom he told he had been planning to enact tho tragedy for a week.' Miss Hart's father came up from Lincoln and tho body of the dead wom an will bo taken to Regar, Mo., this nfternoon. The rnmlly Ib bowed in grler, and heap denunciation upon the head or tho dead man, upon whom they place all tho blame. Sleumnu's brother arrived from HastingB and, following tho inquest this afternoon, will take the body ot tho dead man back to that city for burial. Mrs. Sleuman, who has been separated from her husband' for sev eral months, resides In that city. It Is stated that tho business of Slcumnn will bo closed up at once. He has on deposit In Omaha banks sums aggregating $25,000, most ot which represents margins and customers' balances. Mr. Comstock Bays all ac counts will bo paid In full as soon as tho court will permit him to do so. y Mr, Sleuman's fortune was placed at $160,000 by his business friends. - He left a will, In which his widow and children are made the beneficlnrles. , BOTH CONFESS MURDER PLOT Man and Woman Conspire to Kill Hus band of Latter. Omaha, Oct, 19. Mrs. Emll Ruder, who, with a hired man named John Slager, planned' the murder Of her hus band In order that she and Slager might be married, will probably not be prosecuted. It is said the husband has forgiven her, and oh account ot Jier year-old ,baue 8n5 probably will escape a term In tho penitentiary. She has remained with her husband since the shooting, but friends declare there will be a separation. Singer Is In the county Jail here, having been brought up from Chalco, whero the crime was committed, Sat urduy night. He made a full confes sion, In which he admUted having been In lovo with Mrs. Ruser. Ho de dares she mude tho suggestion that her husband be put out of the way in order that they might be married. Ho went to the Ruser homo Oct 3 and fired five shots at Ruser through a window, only one of them taking ef fect. Ruser came to Omaha and placed the matter before a private de tective agency, who Boon sweated Mrs. Rusr and 81ager, from both oi whom tin; officers secured a confes sion. Small Tornado at Lincoln Uncoln, Oct. 20. Lincoln for scarce ly three minutes last evening experU enced the novelty or nn October tor nado, which did considerable damage in nn area or less than a dozen square blocks. The hea!eat lo'ss was sus tained by the Lincoln Electric Light company, when fifteen qr the largest poles, carrying the heavy feed wires, , ' were snnpped off at the .ground, stringing the wires along tho rlgnt-or-way or tho Burlington railroad and blocking trafllc In tho yards for au hour. The city was dark last night. A freight car on a bridge was picked up by the twisting wind and blown in to Salt creek. Other damage was done In the Burlington yards. There were no casualties. Find Body of Unidentified Man. Valentine, Neb., Oct. 19. Tho body or an unidentified man was found on a sandbar In the Niobrara river by a party of hunters and it is believed he was murdered. His pockets were turned wrong side out, and nothing was found on the body which would lead to his Identification. He was about thirty years or age. Physicians believe' he had been dead about twen-ty-four hours. A bad bruise was round ' on the side of his head. Which leads the authorities to believe it a case ot murder and robbery. Endeavorers End Session. Lexington, Neb., Oct. 19.- The state convention or the Christian Endeav orers ot Nebraska ulosed In one of the most enthusiastic meetings ever held In Nebraska. Nearly every so ciety in the state was represented by one or moie delegates, and all the state officers were present. About 5,- 000 Endeavorers were represented. Congregation Raises $17,000. Chester. Neb., Oct. 20. The mem bers or the new Christian church, which was dedicated Sunday, raised $17,000 within two hours and freed the edifice entirely from debt. Sjx mem bers gave $1,000 each. The building Is a handsome one and Is the best church la the county.