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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1911)
The Working-Man's Telephone "What't that ten days' Work? Ship, I can start In tht morning." "It's lucky wo put in ft telephone t" Mid the work inn man to his wife. "Mr. Hrown has a bitf jot) for DM tomorrow. That was his foreman at the telephone." Ijoeal and lontf distance Hell Telephone con nections open the way to opportunity for the work man by keeping him In touch with those who en ploy labor. () NEBRASKA TELEPHONE CO. T.H. BEESOIS, Alliance Manager i ! Old Trusty Incubator I and Brooder i i H Made of Galvanized Iron, Asbestos j and California Redwood. Every- j thing so simple that a child can ma e big hatches. p .... m Newberry's Hardware Co. GOOD STENOGRAPHERS Are Always in Demand. Careful attention is given to the welfare of each pupil in the ( n medal Department ST. AGNES ACADEMY ALLIANCE. NE BR. Call sr Write for lattrmatiti S ift8S il Olivtr tut L. C. Smitti Typawritirs Ustd HOTEL ALLIANCE EUROPEAN FULLY MODERN Equipment and service, first-class in every department Cafe in C:nnection---Open Day and Night On the left and across the street from the Burlington station Boards of all descriptions for any part of a house or barn. Dierks Lumber Coal Co in. j a iS Phone 22 0. Waters, Mgr. BIG DAM FINISHED Will Water Qjarfer Million Acres of Arid Waste. CONDENSED NEWS ill il 1 si 1 si J im ! it CONSTRUCTED BY GOVERNMENT Former President Touches Button That Starts Machinery at Great Res ervoir in Arizona Forma Largest Artificial Lake in the World. Roosevelt, Ariz., March 21 Standing on top Of the great storage dam which hears his MM, former President The odore RoOSSrelt pressed an dec trie button which net In motion a mass of grinding machinery, which In turn raised three of the tux massive Iron gate, weighing 6,00(1 pounds apiece. By this act he officially opened the Roosevelt storage dam, a part of the Salt river Irrigation project. The motor, which raises tbe gates, had hardly begun to turn before thre" raging torrents of water came rushing through the three openings at differ ent levels and ran madly down the val IJT where, afler racing fully sixtv miles, making the largo Si artificial lake in the world, it will be used In the irrigation of about 130,06 Ben of land. The scene Irom the dam WS R tt IV ng one. The motor cars in Willi a lit many people btstdea the Rooseve I party made the seventy five mile Jour ney faon Phoenix wcie par .1 alcnj the road above the artificial lake, CO b with its roll of bedding strapped u it, as the guests spent tbe night her. On the hills hundreds of saddle horse grazed. Along the top of the tower several hundred people were crowded and when Mr. Roosevelt came In sight on the twisting road a tremendous salut" of dynamite greeted the former presi dent. Ceremonies were oDened bv President Orme of the Salt Klver Val ley Water Users' association, after Mr. Roosevelt had mounted the stand and Mrs. Roosevelt, Archie and Mias Ethel had grouped themselves below. President Orme introduced Governor Sloan as chairman and the latter in turn presented all speakers. Colonel Roosevelt Speaks. Colonel Roosevelt said in part: "Tt is a year ago, when I first cam out of Africa, that I received your re quest to take part in the dedication exercises of this great project, and I accepted at once. "This great project, as part of the natlona' irrigation policy, was the first bit of serious work which I undertook as president. I knew the utter inipos sibility of expecting the larger sciiemes to ne developed ly private , enterprises unless we were content to have the larger schemes become private monopolies, which I was not content to have, and was therefore al leady anxious to have this piece of work done by the only Individual that could do It Uuda Sam. Perfectly nat "'al, it was the same difficulty that was encountered by those who pressed forward the homcstt ad law. The reclamation act, like the homestead law, was a law for the small man a J law fur the twenty ac re farmer a law 1 for the man who farm his own land "I want to thank you for having named the dam after me. If there ceuld be any monument which would appeal to any man, surely it is this. 1 and I thank you from my heart. The two material achievements connected with my administration of which I am proud ai this reclamation work in the wi st and the Panama canal." SUFFRAGE CAMPAIGN OPENS Miss Sylvia Pankhurst Urges Kansas Women to Use Moderation. Topeka, March 20. Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, the English suffragette, opened the Kansas campaign for wom an suffrage with an address in the First Baptist church. Miss Pankhurst neither looks nor ac ts like a real fight lag politician but when she talks she shows there is a great deal of force in he; make up and that she isn't afraid to go to jail or anywhere else in a good cause. , .Miss Pankhurst insisted that tht English women would be given the . i lit to rots within a year. She told In great detail her experiences as a militant .suffragette in london. She urged th. Kansas, women to campaign as effectively as they could and conn seled moderation. HIS RAGE FATAL TO TWO An Ohio Man Shot and Killed His Son and Himself. tenheavitle, o., March 20 in rags .lo.-i ph Helm, forty-five years old, shot and killed his son, Joseph, Ji nd then shot himself. Heim k( - 1 grocer store. After he had shoi 1 he son he set fire to the place Bad then killed himself. Firemen ex tinguished the flames and found the bodies Helm had trouble with his SrifS about two years ago and they separated They were recently united LAUNCH WILSON BOOM Colonel Harvey Declares Him Logica Democratic Choice for 1912. Savannah, Oa , Marc h 18 The first note in the campaign of Wood row Wilson for the Democratic nomina tiou for president in 1912 was made here by ColoSM I (ieorge Harvey oi New York The keynote of the cam paign. as expressed by Mr. Harvey, it inc. me ta sr.d inherlt.-nce tax, wii'i the (aril Is. t'ie bacl.vroind Former Governor William R. Blox ham died at Ii is home In Tallahassee, ! Fla. David Hi Moffnt, the "silver king" of Colorndo, Hi Ht the Hotel Belmont, New fork, Five men are J ad as the result of i an explosion of blackdamp in a coal mine at Mineral, Kan. Plague has appeared at Port au ipaln, TriBidad, Only one c ase of the disease has so far developed During the month of February the deaths from the plague In India reached the enormous total of 88,498. Two million, in round numbers, is the approximate Irish born population at present living in the United States. A shutdown of all the coal mines in the Crow's Nest district of British Co- I 1 I . ...... ... .. .. O ...... 1 ! i 'tin i. i.i. NHPIV "K 111 II. ja CA- ; peeled to take place soon. The pantaloon skirt has reached Rio Janeiro and two girls who were en gaged to popularize the curious gar ment were mobbed in the street. Mrs. Kdith Melber, convicted of mur dering her child, was taken to Auburn (N. Y ) prison to begin a minimum cutanea of twenty years' Imprison ment. The Danish government is sending warships to Greenland with instruc tions to arrest foreign walrus hunters, chiefly Amerirans, who are reported to be killing thousands of walrus an nually. Thirty thousand copies of three volumes of the last edition of Tolstoy's Collected works have been confiscated by the Moscow police. Countess Tol Moy has protested against the con fiscation Workmen making alterations in the subst reasury at Philadelphia found beneath the flooring $1,400 that had been lost for three years. The money was in $10n bills, mildewed and cov ered with dust. The Rev. Isaac Amada Cornellson, for sixty years pastor of the Presby terian church at Washington, 111., and with one exception the oldest living graduate of Princeton college, was found dead in bed. Excellent results are being accom plished in the fight being waged in the south against the hook worm in fection, according to reports from the commission established by John D. Rockefeller's $1,000,000 donation. The waters of Central park's lakes, New York city, billed to give up the body of Dorothy Arnold, the missing heiress, when searchers finished the last big pond. The result disappoint ed thousands who lined Ihe shores. The old passenger coach used by president Lincoln and which after waid conveyed his body from Wash ington to Springfield, 111., burned in a fire in the railroad yards at Colum bus Heights, a suburb of Minneapolis W. J. Jackson, vice president and general manager of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois road, was elected chairman of the General Managers' as sociation and the Association of West ern Railroads, comprising sixty-one railroads. In a report filed with United States District Judge Hollister at Cincinnati the late James Buck of Iafayette, Ind . is charged with having appropriated 167,000 belonging to the estate of Job .M Nash, of which Buck was one of the trustees. Higher wages were paid to Amer ican farm laborers during 1910 than at any time in the last forty-five years, according to statistics just made pub lie by the department of agriculture. The average wage for the country was $27.50 a month. Complaint that Duluth is being dis criminated against by the railways of the northweste in favor of Chicago, Minneapolis and Milwaukee, as grain handling ports was made to the inter state commerce commission by the Duluth board of trade. Information that Herbert de Cou, of ficial excavator of an expedition of the Arehaelogical Institute of America, on the north coast of Africa, was mur dered recently by Arabs, has been re eeived in a cablegram by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts As the first direct result of the gov ernment's anti trust suit against tht "electric lamp trust," the department ')f justice has received intimations that the prices of all electric light bulbs will be reduced 33 1-3 per cent i ll over tue United States. Judge l.andis sentenced Edward S Nicholas, who was convicted of having enticed Elsie Ferrier, thirteen years old, to Hammond. Ind., a violation ot the Mann "white slave" statute, to ten years' imprisonment in the federal prison at Fort Ieavenworth. Cable advices tell of the death in the ring of the National Sporting club of London of Tom Dovey, a well known English middleweight boxer He dropped dead of heart disease at the opening of a bout with a chain plonship aspirant named Cooper. Mystery surrounds the death at Chi cago of Miss Fanny C. Wright, who inherited her father's estate of $150, tiOO. She expired in her apartments at the Brewster hotel a half hour after Scott Wallace, twenty years old, had called to accompany her to a theater. When ihe confederate reunion is held in IJttie Rock in May records will be placed before the historical committee which will undertake tc prove that he first shot of the civil war w9 fired near Pine Bluff, Ark i d i 'it i t Or.ark -ton, S C., as ac credit) i ly bistorts an Resident Meat Market DRAKE & HARM. Props. 5 1 7 Sweetwater Ave. J PHONE 50 ALLIANCE, NEBRASKA Fresh and Cured Meats of all kinds Beef, Pork, Mutton, Poultry and Fish. Also, Creamery and Country Butter, Lard, Sauer kraut, Pickles, etc. A Reminder We wish to remind you that when we opened our Market we furnished better meat than you had been getting and at lower prices than you had been paying. We believe we are entitled to a liberal share of your trade, and respectfully solicit the same. Prompt Delivery Telephone orders delivered promptly to any part J r i . a . . oi the citv. Knone 5U. in 1 1 1 1 ii 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 m i ii i ii I I I I 1 I I 1 1 n I Farm Machinery car loads just in for coming season. Wagons, Buggies, Plows, Discs, Monitor Drills. A complete line. Call and see them on our floors. I. L. AC H ESO N 2 ALLIANCE Received Highest Award World Pure Food CALUMET is. m mmmm.m BAAING powder I he wonder of bak ing powders Calumef Wonderful in ire BsaZa.!aaLM iswwcia ire m ,t,,rr,. f. " """" ""JIUHkj its never failing results, its puritv. Wonderful in ire , . it costs less than the hi-h-price trust brands, but it is worth as urn J. II t: K j nf .. . .1 """. IJ1CIIC ll'.JJl um cm ap ana big can kinds it is worth n.orc. But prov es its economy in the baking. UN CALUMET the Mode - onucr. At all Grocers.