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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1913)
A Vote for the Y. M. B. C. Is a Vote for a Y. M. C. A. Four Reasons Why You Should Vote for Them: 1. It has been stated that both Central and Emerson Schools will have a piano. 2. The Club is a self-supporting organization, whereas the school is supported by both county and state. 3. All persons will be granted full privilege and use of the piano at all times. 4. The piano will be given to the Y. M. C. A. when fully organized. VOTE FOR Y. ' M.- Bo C Norton-Stearns Piano Contest. ef I keep teoketit fr the mur derer. POSSES ARC SEARCHING heriff Cal Cos, ChUf of Police Chat. Joffers, night polico L. W. Curtis, with number of deputies, ar thcoughly searching ths rai road yards during ths night. . All outgoing passenger trains are being stopped at the edge of the city and thoroughly searched. A deputy is also being sent with each train. to the nearest town. These depu ties are Instructed to thoroughlp search the train before gegttin off. During Thursday deputies will scour the hills In automobiles and the search will not be given up until the murderer is located. SENT DESCRIPTION BROADCAST The following telegram was sent to the authorities at Bridgeport, Sid ney, Rushville, Chadron, Crawford, Ellsworth, Lakeside and Oshkosh, during the night, "Look out for col ored man named Archie Edwards, five feet eight Inches, 13S to 140 pounds, white shirt, no cap, no coat, two teeth out in front. Blue pants, hole In seat, very thick Hps. Wanted for murder. Wire any Irv formation, C. M. Cox, Sheriff." The house In which the couple were living was vacated a short time ago by Mabel Aaron who Is now at Mitchell, S. D., and who will be wired this morngin and asked to furnish the address, If she can, of relatives of the dead woman. HORRIBLE MURDER (Contlued from page light) She said, 'My husband is going to work In the morning for the rail road.' He did not go to work how ever. "Tonight I saw her at the corner of Niobrara and First streets. She went from there to the depot. I then saw her next talking to a man, a white man, in the depot. He came out and went alogn the walk to the hotel corner and started to walk east. She came out and cut across the street, meeting him near the rear of the hotel. I went, east from the depot to the viaduct and turned north. I saw them meet at the Barry House corner. She saw me coming and spoke to him. I did not get to see him dis tinctly but think he was a white man. He went east and she stood still until I came up. I took her by the right arm with my left arm and started up Niobrara towards the police station. We had to go past her house. She said, 'Where are you taking me?' I told her to the police station. She said, 'I want to give my keys to my hus band.' I told her that there would he plenty of time in the morning for that. "When we came to within forty feet of the house in which they were living she called, 'Arthur, Ar thur, Arthur" at the top of her voice. We walked on up the street to the house when he came out the west door of the house in the front, ran out through the gate an,d past us, where he stopped in front of us. I had my billy in my right hand and was holding to her with my left. We stopped and he said to me, 'What are you going to do?' I told him that I was going to take her- to the police station. He said, 'No, you won't, you j , and fired two IMPORTANT NOTICE. If you owe Norton, pay it before nine o'clock Saturday night and get votes in the piano contest. W. W. NORTON. shots at me while I was still hold ing to the woman. do not know if he hit her then or not but she did not fall. At least I did not see her fall. I got ten or twelve feet away and then felt his shots strike me. He shot four times in all. I couldn't stand up and fell In the street. "I got the cord which held the billy to my right hand off and got my gun out of my hip pocket. I got up to a sitting position ryd shot at him six times. The smoke was so thick that I could not see plainly. My hand and leg did not hurt then. Just felt numb. Be cause of the heavy smoke I could not see him run and did not know when she had fallen. He crouched to the ground while I was shooting and I thought that was him lying there until they told me that it was her. "I laid In the street until Dr. Curtis, the night marshal, acccom panied by some other men, ran up. One of the men started to take my gun away from me but Curtis said, 'No let him keep that gun. He is a regularly appointed officer." They then took me In the auto and brot me to the hospital." TRUANTS CAUGHT Father of Boy, Chief of Police an. Herald Reporter Chase Truants Into Country before Arrest William Dunbar, 16, and Orvllle Lewk, 13, the two truants and general bad boys on. whotte trail the police officers have been for several day, were caugM after a lon ohane this morning in which Mr. Dunbar, father or the ftnt boy, the chief of police and The Herald' re porter participated. The boya have been hiding out for several daya, sleeping in box cars and empty bulkUaga, eating some times and more often going without their meals. Tuesday they wander ed several miles Into the country and were given a meal at a farmhouse. This morning the boya were near the vinIuct under the railroad tracks In the east part of town. When an auto passed they ran and crawled into a large tile under the track. They were seen by the father of the Dunlmr boy, who took after them. The chief of police was no tified and with The Herald reporter, followed on the trail. The boys were finally captured at the slaugh ter houHe southeast of town. They were placed In confinement until this afternoon, when they were to be taken before the arhool authori ties and decUion mnde as to what is to be done with them. BODY IS FOUND Aged Lakeside Woman's Body Lies Iff Field Two Days and Nights Be fors Found -Not Murdered The body of liar burn Adams, woman 4(Chty-three years of age, Uf for two days and nights on tk prairie before being found. The wo man had a homestead seventeen miles northeast of Lakeside. SM lived three miles from her son, Elisuf Adanw, who also has a homestead. Dr. Z. T. Daniels, a colonel Oft the staff of Governor Morehead, whose office is t RuehvMIe and who is coroner of Sheridan count, came down Friday to Lakeside via Alliance and held an Inquest. It was rumored that the old lady bvd been murdered but Dr. Daniel ftat ed to The Herald reporter that there was nothing to subataottate) the rumor and that from all ap pearance he had become lost. The woman was deaf and partially blind and has been accustomed to wandering about the prairies. Her body was found three miles from home Thursday da the field at ft neighbor's farm. She was slightly demented at times. PREACHING AT LAKESIDE Pronchlng services at Lakeside) next Sunday evening. Of fie foil mem bers pleaee be present. A cordial Invitation to all. In a Grave Emergency Telephone A word of distress into a Bell Telephone will bring help sure and speedy. When quick communi cation is needed near or far the Bell Telephone is a dependable and al most instantaneous mes senger. If you are still without this safeguard in your home, why not NOW re quest a telephone in stalled? Have you a telephone? to California, Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, one way, from principal main line towns, proportionate rates from other towns Through tourist sleepers to the Coast THROUGH THE NORTHWEST Dally through sleepers over the NORTHERN PACIFIC and GREAT NORTHERN LINES to Portland. Puget Sound. TO CALIFORNIA Through tourist sleeper service from or Tla Denver through Scenic Colorado, Salt Lake City, dally via the SALT LAKE ROUTE, to Los Angeles, via the SOUTHERN PACIFIC and WEST ERN PACIFIC to Los Angeles via San Francisco. WINTEH TOURIST RATES These will be announced In September, to California, Southern and Gulf resorts; a very attractive scheme of Homeseekers' and Winter Tourist rates will be arranged for those desiring to make a tour of the New South. " Let me help you plan any kind of a trip you have In mind, and make your travel arrangements. -MURDERER IN SHIRT SLEEVES On being further questioned, Jor dan stated that Edwards when he ran from the house, had no hat and was in a white shirt without a coat and that he had on blue trous ers. He had observed Edwards sev eral times before dressed in the same trousers which he stated had two holes in their seat and were badly worn. mm J. KRIOELBAUQH Agent, Alliance L. W. Wakeley, Gen. Passenger Agent, Omaha JORDAN'S INJURIES PAINFUL BUT NOT SERIOUS Jordan's wounds were dressed at the hospital. He was shot In the left thumb and through the fleshy part of the left leg, just below the knee. Although he suffered Intens- ly it Is believed that unless blood poisoning results he will soon re cover. DESCRIPTION BEING WIRED Joe Westover, city attorney, spent a large part of the night wiring and phoning descriptions of the murderer to adjacent towns. Every farm house surrounding Alliance was not ified fey phone from the Herald f fice before midnight and were ask' NEBRASKA TELEPHONE COMPANY VOTE FOR Young Men's Bible Club FRANK WOLVERTON, SiOMTinr Will go tc Y. M. C. A. when Building has been Erected Norton and Steam's Piano Contest Public Sale y First-class short order RESTAURANT in Hemingford Bestrooms in town in connection Prices right J. F. Knight, Prop. On "Troiax Trip take with you a box of good and a late vSLgTCLZilri. Get them at up town news stand or at depot 2villcr Bros. Bones Wanted We pay cash market price for good 4ry lone, Immediate shipment Union Stock Yards Co., South Omaha, Nebr. The undersigned will sell at public auction, at the B. C. Fenner ranch, 3 miles northeast of Dunlap, 23 miles northeast of Hemingford, 27 miles south of Chadron and 27 miles north of Alliance, on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 1913 commencing at 10 o'clock a." m., the following de scribed cattle, horses, machinery, etc: 120 Head of Cattle 120 consisting of 60 head of. 1, 2 and 3 year old steers, 40 head of 1, 2 and 3 year old heifers in calf. 19 head milch cows and calves, 1 Red Pole bull coming 2 years ' old, 1 registered Black Aberdine bull 3 years old. 8 Head Horses and Mules 8 consisting of 1 span of good geldings, 7 years old, weight 2900; 1 mare 8 years old, weight 1550; 1 mare 8 years old, weight 1050; 1 three-year-old gelding, weight 1 100; 3 yearling mules, good ones. MISCELLANEOUS 25 head of sheep, mixed. One brood sow and five shoats, Poland China. 100 bushels of prime alfala MACHINERY i John Deere mower, nearly new; 2 corn cultivators; 1 two-section harrow; 1 disc; 2 heavy farm wagons; 1 single seated top buggy with pole and shafts; 2 sets double farm harness; 1 set single harness; 1 set light driving harness, and many small articles usual to the farm and ranch. . All parties from a distance, coming the day ahead, i will be cared for at the ranch. FREE LUNCH SERVED AT NOON TERMS 9 months time will be given on approved security, notes drawing 10 per cent interest. Sums under 10, cash. JOHN O'DONNELL, Owner COL P. 6. COOPER, Auctioneer C. A. MINICK. Clerk