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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1912)
OVER ONE BILLION Exports of Manufacturers Sur pass Estimates. GREATEST IN ALL HISTORY. Figure From the Department of Com. merce end Labor Show Stupendous Total of Salee Abroad of American Factories. Washington. July 2 Kxportatlon Of manufactures in the fiscal year just ended more than Justified the es timate of the bureau of statistics, de partment of commerce and labor, that tli" total value would In 1912 for the first tlnr cross the billion dollar linn. That bureau, which has Just completed Its figures showing the exportation of manufactures, states the total value of manufactures exported In the fiscal year at $1,021 .753.918, of which $i!74- 802.90,1 was the value of manufactures n inly for c onsumption and $347,451, 015 thai of manufactures for further use in manufacturing This does not include foodstuffs which have undergone a process of preparation for manufacture, since tin bureau groupr, articles of that class under the general bending of "food Bluffs" exported. This $1,022,000,000 worth of manufactures exported In the fiscal year 1912 la more than double that of 1903. three (ImeB that or 1898, four times that of 189f, five times as great as tn 1894, practically six times as great as In 1890, and ten times as great as tn 1876, the value of manu lartures exported tn a single year never having reached as much as $100,000,00 until the year 1873. This growth In the exports of manu factures Is more rapid than that of thf other classes of merchandise Manufactures formed 47 per cent of the exports of 1912, against 33K per cent In 190?. This Increasing share which manufactures form of the ex ports occurs chiefly at the expense of foodstuffs, which formed but about 20 per cent of the exports of 1912 against 88 per cent In 1902. The principal articles forming this billicn dvdlars' worth of manufactures exported arc- iron and steel, copper, mineral oil. manufactures of wood. leather and manufactures thereof, cot ton manufactures, cars and carriages automobiles and manufactures thereof. 0ARR0W TRIAL NEARS END -Evidence Will Be Conduced In Brib ery Case This Week. Is Angeles, July 29. The end of the Harrow bribery trial now Is In eight. For the first time since the trial of the noted: (Jnicago lawyer ne gan on May 15 the submission of the esse to the Jury can be determined with some degree of certainty. Both sides agree that less than a week will be required to complete the evidence and that with a reasonable time limit established for arguments the jury will retire Anally early In the following week. Clarence 8. Darrow, the defendant Is expected to occupy the center of the stage at the trial for the greater part of the Intervlntng time, first as a, witness and then as counsel In the arguments. Sheppard Leading in Texas Primary. I alias, Tex., July 29. Returns from the Democratic state primary election, the results of which are equivalent to an election, show that Congressman Morris Sheppard, candidate for the Vnited States senate to succeed Sena tor Joseph W Bailey, Is leading Jacob P. Wolters of Houston Congressman C. B. Rendel and Matthew Zollner ot Rockwell county, the other candidates. Claim Murder by Mechanical Device. Cincinnati, July 29. -That Dillard McCandless. insane patient at l,ong view asylum, whose nude and bruised body war found In the violent ward by an attendant, was murdered by a mechanical device resemb'lng a vise. Is the opinion expressed by Coroner Coe. Coe said the marks on McCand les6' head and face couldn't have liet n Inflicted bv human hands I CONDENSED NEWS j ANOTHER LETTERj FROM ARKANSAS Gideons Re-elect lowan President. Atlanta. July 29 . - Toronto was chos en us th" meeting place for the 1913 convention of (iidcons. a religious or ganization. A. B. T. Moore of Cedar Ra ids, la , was re elected president. Other officer named were Edgar OH Ter. tlanta, vice president; Nels Ry lander, Chicago, treasurer, re-elected; the Rev U C S alth, Wisconsin, chap lain, re elected or Man Burned to Death. Omaha, July 29. Oliver Stafford resident of York, Neb., for many years lost his life in a fire that destroyed the farm home of Mr and Mrs. Oscar Craven, near Missouri Valley. Ia. is believed that he wa asleep when t' f:e .titled and was overcome by the smoke and flames before he could make anv attempt to escape His body war ounied to a crips. Masked Men Shot Two Women. Chicago, July 2. -Five masked ni i: etitcitd the saloon of Mrs Heler Ba'iman a widow, shot the woman 1 1 1 1 baftly iatally. and her daughter The burglars fired at a sou who at tempted 'o defend the place. Four Persons Drown. Kankakee, III., July 29 .Four per ons, l.;iuis Hurklialter oi Kankakee ami Mrs Paul Mastello. Miss Vtda Hem Stock and Walter Webster ol Hammond Ind were driwu-d n si b re in the Kankakee river. Kermlt Roosevelt, second son of the ex-president , sailed from New York for Brazil, where he Is to enter busi ness as a railroad man. Ernesto Msdero, minister of finance of Mexico, with several members of his family, lelt Mexico City for a two months' visit to the United States Thomts Ayers of Pierre has made formal announcement of his candidacy on the Democratic platform for United State senator from South Dakota. Miss Marion Croc ker of San Fran Cisco has established a new eques- rlan record for women by riding on horseback 102 miles in fourteen hours. Anna llnffart. a manicure, thirty-one years old, war, arrested at Chicago on a charge of having kidnaped the six year-old daughter of Joseph Daniels, a tier. The British government was nearly turned out of OftleS liy n snap division in the lions" of commons, the small margin of three votes savins It from defeat Claude Allen, one of the Hilisville (Vs.) outlaw.--, was convicted of mur der In the I rat degree for the killing of Commonwealth's Attorney William M. EOoetei Wiiliam Kendall, u young South Af rican pitiiiiwt, broke the world's record for piano playing at Potchefstroom when he completed seventy-four hours' continuous playing. W. W. Baxter, who received word that he had fallen heir to $250,000 through the death of a relative at Syracuse, N. Y., dropped dead on the street at Meadrllle, Pa. Queen Wllhelmina, the much be loved queen of Holland, endangers her life by jvereatlng. according to state ments made by reputable physicians, who are in a position to know. Frank T. Seabright. humorist and Journalist, and formerly president of the American Press Humorists' asso ciation, Is critically 111 at the Clara Barton hospital in Ijos Angeles. The aeroplane of a German aviator named Fischer, who was carrying as a passenger a mechanic named Kug l r. fell from a considerable height near Munich, causing the death ot both. In the hop of alleviating conditions among the Peru Indians in the Putu mayo rubber country, the British gov ernment has concluded to aid the ex tension of the Roman Catholic c hurch In that section. American railways carried more passengers during the fiscal year end in a June 0, 1911, than In any single previous year, but considerable less freight than was carried daring the nrevlous veir Orace Oossreau outdistanced all competitors In a swat fly campaign at St louls by turning In 839 pints of flies. She won a prize of $25 and earned $83.90 for her work at the rate of 10 cents n pint. Denver was chosen by the North western Saengerbund for Its next saencerfeat, The old officers were all re-elected. Tne next meeting was postponed for one year and will be held tn 1915 Inst ad of 1914. Inciease in potato rates amounting to from to cents per cwt. from Wyoming South Dakota and Nebraska points to St Louie, Peoria ail Chicago were suspended by the interstate com merce commission until Nov. 29. Kansas City was chosen as the next place of meeting by the Photogra bars' association of America, which concluded its annual convention ia Philadelphia. Charles Townsend ol Des Moines was elected president Forty new born babies In every sec tion ol t'i"" 1'nited States have been named for Woodrow Wilson since his nomination for the presidency. Every day adds to the number of letters telling him he has been "honored" by new namesakes. Former Senator A. J. Beveridge ol Indiana ha been chosen temporary chairman of the national convention of the progressives In Chicago, Aug 5 James R. Gentry, the actor, mur derer of Madge York, was found d ad In a New York hotel An unprecedented situation con fronts the United States treasury With millions Ir. currency piled In Its vaults and a crying demand for throughout, the country, the govern ment has practically no funds with which to pay for Its transportation. The killing of Dr. James W. Walden a prominent Democrat, by Perry Wal lln, a Republican leader, has fanned to a threatening outbreak the smold ering political feud In the Black Water Va.) district. All through the? mountain district the clans are lining up. If present plans of the department of agriculture are carried out, Pro fessor C. F Curtiss of Ames will bf the supervisor from Iowa of the plan of federal aid to farm management This plan is provided for in the agrl cultural bill which will soon pass con grans, The principle of equal pay for equal work irrespective of sen was recog nized bv tie- Loudon education com mlttee tor the first time when they appointed Miss Morton and Mr. Peplei ss principal organizers of the chil dren's care department at s salary ol $1.7'. i e c, h Pa&cusl OtozvO. commander in ehlet of the afexlesn revolutionists, is con fronted with a curious problem. If he does not hasten his long delayed evac 1 uation or the Juarez, he may be unable i to evacuate with no other than him mm and staff officers. His army U rapidly dwindling i. D. Weir, Former Nebraakan, Writes Interestingly from the "Land of the Big Red Apples" SETTLERS GOING FROM NORTH Weal Fork. Ark., 7 2012. Editor Herald, Dear sir; Owing to our getting settled In our new house I have been delayed In keeping my word to you and my friends In Nebraska, but) will write Cully of the country as I find it to day as I can. Severnl letters have come to DM from people who read my last letter in The Herald making inquiries a bOttl this country, and I will try to answer their many questions as I am tOO busy to write them person Ally. One man asks. "Do you think It is a good place to make a home?" I cc itainly do, for the following rea sons: The climate, water and health are the finest I have ever found any place, with no mosquitoes, no malar ia, no hard storms or cold weather, no rheumatism, heart or nervous troubles, but restful, balmy air, cool niulits, fine people and fruit, vegeta bles, and crops such as I have nev er seen anywhere. I am writing now of Washington and Burton counties, or Nort h-western Arkansas. There is no lack of fine fuel, for as yet two-thirds of the country Is covered with hard timber. Beautiful streams abound everywhere, most of them formed by springs; the White river and its three branches being the principal one In these parts. Lots of good fish bass, perch, trout, oat-fish, etc., can be caught with hook and line. I am arrranging to put a fish pond on my place at a small expense. Squirrels, coons, possums, fox, quail, geese and ducks are plentiful in their season and further south some wild turkeys. Many of the "natives" here do nothing for a Uvtlhood but hunt and trap in winter and gather wild fruits in summer. One man has a bunch of 4 fine fox hounds and ia a breed er of $50 hunting clogs. He is a t dapper. Unimproved lands from two ro five miles from town can be bought for from eight dollars to ten dollars per acre. Most of them will make good farm land and are rising tn pries rap idly. Improved farms will cost from ten to Thirty dollars per acre. I have some neighbors who will sell good farms wirfiin three or' four mil of town for $10 per acre. The roads are decidedly rocky t i the bills, and the day Is oofl far o.'f when by menus of rock crushers and a good-roads movement this country wfll be traversed by the finest ma cadamized rod in the United States . PERPETRATED BY WALT ZAcPOUGALL: the Bible down here, and one finds that the secret of the true hospital ity of these southern folk is their faith In and loyalty to "The Old Book" and its author. The water for drinking cannot be purer unless you can purify the sparkling mountain springs, fresh from mother earth. The country around here Is moun tainous, traversed by Taileys and gently rolling slopes along the and land that is now offered for ten streams and between the mountains, dollars an acre cannot be boitght for The Ozarks are not mountains like less than fifty dollars. The Frisco the Rockies, but rathier are great R. R. Is pushing this good-raoefs cam- sweeling, timbered hills, most of the paign. Hand making fine farms when clear Yes, there aTe poisonous snakes e off. here- the copperCread being the worst The railroad fare fn;tn Alliance to one, but I am convinced that they 'est Fork over the Frisco road are not so many or so dangerous is between $18 and $l! one way. as is the rattle snake in Nebraska. One man writes me he h:is been I have never sceen any except the writing different real estate agents blue racer and Hie black snakes. a&ou; the country, and that some of There are ticks here. They bother them tell him anythinx to sell him no more than the fleas or cattle lice land. Just here let me drop a few in Nebraska. words. "The woods is full of 'em". No yellow fever nor malaria in real estate men, I menu, and they this part of t lie state. I understand become troublesome and are eyesore one can find plenty of the iatter af- to straagers from the North. How ie r he crosses the IJoston mountains ever not all land men are liars, and south of us. The altitude is from tli 're are those who will give the 110O to 1500 feet. The heat. I no lit;tue-aeeker a square deal. But to more Oppressive than On the prairies my Nebraska readers let me say. in Box Butte and Sioux coi-ies, t he tfjcre are plenty of men aroun 1 here' thermon. :or rarely going ahave S6 Who will sell their farms, but who to 90. hsve not placed tbeai tn the hands Corn a :li yield from 40 to 80 bu. of a land man. aod the safest way per acre l measured corn on my for you. if you are lookinf for a place a f w days ago 12 feet high. I home here, is to come down and go Will be -'.lad to furnish picture o f around among these people and see this corn to any of my renters who for yourselves. Bring your roll of will write to me for it. bedding, and after you get here pro- Every kind of grass ever planted, vide yourselves with a little food, grows. It is a fine country for tim- and perhaps a tent, a shot gun and othy. clover, alfalfa, orchard grass, fish line, then stay away from town red top, blue graBS and Buriuuda and the hotels, take your time, and grass. Japanese clover abounds In deal with the tand owner direct, the wooded lands. W ith this end In view, If vou want It Is asked me. "Are the people to come to our little house one and prosperous?" Yes, Just as far as one-half miles from West Fork, and they care to be. People here are camp out or live with us on our tit- not killing themselves to get ric h tie so-acre farm, so grab this as an as in the north, but all are happy, invitation and you will be welcome and prosperous according to their am as long as the room lasts. While we bltion. It is contedtd by everyone were looking around Mrs. Weir and I have talked with that in no coun- I talked with eighteen or twenty land i, try can a man make a living and num. some oi tnem were ininwa enjoy a home wltti plenty, easier ami snoweu tneuisenes unuj than' here in Arkansas. Men are our esteem, but some of them prov- getting rich here as elsewhere, if ed themselves to be liars and lacking that Is all they are striving for. but principle. Ihuv think more cnnifnrr unci tile No. the country in t lie Ozarks is tov nf llvlns; down here than not healthy everywhere. Along the of getting rich, and In this sense are Arkansas. Illinois and others south trulv a prosperous people. of the Soston mis. ana in bvmiwi The old Arkansas native g giving in the eastern part of the state way to the northern man with his there are plenty of chills and fevers, vigor and his bran, and all this and In the eastern part where there count rv needs to make It an equal la water abundant enough to raise with California or the BOrthWeeters rice, 1 am convinved you will find countries Is northern blood, and this mosquitoes, and when mosquttcea a- is being infused into Arkansas veins bound m tne houm you iu .wo with the coming of every train. It malaria. r-very uaj beats California. Oregon. Washington thru here from tnese aiscnci .cu and other states because the land, malaria. c limate, fruit, crons etc.. are as good Hogs tnrive nere o. me mmm i...,,..,. oa rh i i from RO to the timber. I have inquired oi , i . ' - I . . . i .. In 150 per cent cheaper than in the ov- hog cnoiera mu ch ,,TOr. """" ' er-boonuMi West and Northwtst. tne country. mm -- This I get from talking much with country, and owing to che mild cil- men who have left these high priced mate laiuus can nn lands and states behind to conn- to mouth in the year avrv,14r, the Ozarks for a home. Wild fruit abound, everywhere. TS" r tel I ,nu,h about the schools Mrs Weir has put up . over one hu m vet Z thev are all closed for the dred quarts of plums and bernea and summer In West Fork we have Over fifty glasses JW io. ..mcth. of sc lioo w t i three or peac n, pern, .ifi"' m'r is yet to cuui- uii house and will sell for $10 an acre. The chiggers have annoyed me down here, but I brought a good bunch of them down from one of the parks in Kansas City, and while they have been gnawing me I have remembered the busy fleas and tl? flying ants in Sioux county, aaid we don't have them here. Now in this letter I have simply answered questions that have come to me by tratil. and have tried to do the normal fly, der and prospects around and sa.m- pies the goods, he Invites all hist friends and the news goes about un-" til all the flies within a block have got wind of the free lunch and thety all go to it with great g3ee. But here is where the Insidious work of Mx. Hamilton begins to man ifest itself. His knowledge of the disposition, character and habits of the fly Is perfect. He knows that. so intelligently and truthfully. I am returning to Nebraska this week and will get my mall at Mars land, while there, and will be glad to answer any inquiries addressed to nia there or at my home hero in West Fork. Expect to be in Nebras ka for two or three weeks. Yours, etc., A. D. WEIR having satis tied the immediate demands of his. appetite, allows his inborn curiosity to assert itself and he goes strolling about investigating. As a fly pre fers to walk upside down, Mr. Ham ilton has arranged for him two belly ing and converging wire surfaces, forming sort of loos,? linings for the main trap. Of course the fly pokes along uo i and up until he finds there is a (crevice between the wire flaps thru I which he can barely squeeze himself. Well, everybody knows with what Jay a fiy wiggles thru places not built for passageways, and when ho gets in he finds room enough foe . , , exactly 5.7t0,!8i flies and a couple Denver Post Gives Hamilton's Trip-,.- . u . nnv ., . ' CT" '"f I'. - U1, aft?r walking on wire till hi COMMENDED BY METROPOLITAN PAPER licate Fly Trap Interesting Writeup HUMOROUS BUT CORRECT in a I). mi the crop Hundreds of gal- The Denver Post of recent, date printed a lengthy article giving a de scription of Hamilton's triplicate fly trap which explains how it works The article is written in a humorous vein which makes It all the more in teresting for the description is ac curate and the statements are liter ally correct except perhaps the one that says 5,760.98t flies and two gnats can be captured in one set ting of the trap. The trap may hold that number of flies at one time but we doubt if there would be any room for the gnats until the trap was emp- ticej We wish to say, however, as a matter of news that Mr. Hamilton is preparing to manufacture the traps on a large scale and the prospects are good for disposing of an i m mense number of them. He is now manufacturing them as rapidly a s possible with his limited facilities. Although the demand now exceeds his factory capacity, he has had some circulars printed to increase the de mand by the time he lias increased his factory capacity. Following Is the article in the Den ver Post above referred to: There was found on the editorial table of The Post this morning, a fly trap, about the size of a dog houcse, that looks like a sure enough jo dandy It is the gift of the in ventor, W. J. Hamilton, who sent it under separate cover. Mr. Hamilton wants 1 tie Post to give the trap fair trial and that will be done; that is to say. it will be fair to all bu. the flies. They won't have any more show than a snowball in oh. well you know what place for this trap. if appearances are to be relied upon has t lie fly "bunked" for fair. The trap is made of woven wire. of fine mesh, enclosed in a box of slatted wood. There Is a suace of two in. lies between the tray and whatever surface it Is placed upon feet, are sore and Ids apietire gets -'rong again he thinks. "Well, l il go back thru the crevice and down below with the rtsf of the boys and load up again." "Horrors! There Ain't no Crevice!" But when he goes to seeJc tha crevice horrors! There "ain't no" crevice! He goes up and down and around and around, growing more ex cited every moment. "It ought to be here." he says to himself. "It was somewhere about here that I left tt." And so he goes on worrying u p and down until finally the horrid truth bursts upon him. Somebody's stolen that crevice and he's a prison er! Wow! What a buzz he put up! And then the other flies, prospect ing around, come piling thru the creviee to find out what's the matter, and they, too, lose the crevice and can'fl get out, and so do the thous ands that follow. That's all there is to it. except that when the trap Is quite full of deluded victims .so that the are some eight or ten pounds oi them. nhuman rn:in r 1 1 r- 1 . fin tha -.1 1 -,l. , . fumes, or whatever it is that puts tliem out of their misery. enwties them out and sets the seducive trap again. M . U , . . tour tea . . . . . aIV drying up on ..ertainlv mere in keeping with the the vines along the roads and in itfco j and it is under there that the tempt cer alnly more 11 k P k neighbor two mile- from laK sllltar aml 8tuK that flies are III' 111 ' I l 1 I P. w .V i-ii- ru..,.n.liuBrlii;1 I 111c sulci the comuierciaii.t-ii. ,ki..,. .h f,nv North, where the c nurt n anu ''" - - - . Looks Nice and Hospitable to Mrs rsort 1. wiieie 1 m- - - 1 ,. I,- 1.,.- .. ,. . loom are buried beneath Ike TSe4 and the cents a U. I as h00 -ppto (y Aiong of the commercial spin. ;eu - lniber Tuu looks a,, lUce hospitable lJ,CTr - four-room(to the fly and of course he goes un STALLION REGISTRATION LAW UNCONSTITUTIONAL A case was decided in the district court at St. Paul. Nebraska, on Tuesday of last week that will inter est Nebraska horsemen. It waa the case of Frank lams against. W. R. Mellor, et. al.. declaring the law es tablishing a stallion registration law in Nebraska to be unconstitutional and making the temporary injunction peruiaueut. The Attorney General filed a motion for a new trial which was overruled and the case will now go to the suprerme court of the state. If the decision of Judge Paul who rendered the verdict. Is suitained by the supreme court, the stallion regis tration law of Nebraska will be in valid T f ti'.. ..1 ee . salesman for the Schmoller & Muel ler piano house, of which Mrs. Ida M. Ross is the local representative in Alliance, was ia the city the first of the we.k.