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The Alliance He The Leading Paper of Western Nebraska RALD EXTRA! a READ BY EVERY MEMBER NEBRASKA STOCK GROWERS ASSOCIATION. ALL THE NEWS OF ALLIANCE AND WESTERN NEBRASKA OFFICIAL ORGAN NEBRASKA VOLUNTEER FIREMEN'S ASSOCIATION. IT REACHES HEADQUARTERS FOR 15,000 FIREMEN VOLUME XXIII ALLIANCE. POX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBll ASK A, MONDAY. MAKt'll fi. 191f. NUMBER 1ft A BANQUET AT LEXINGTON OF DEPARTMENT BOYS Chief Tillery Acts ns Host ami Toast master at Banquet That Shows "Pep" in Islington lept. On Tuesday night, February 29, 1916, the Lexington Volunteer Fire Department pave their annual ban quet at their hall. While the crowd was not as large as had been antici pated on account of several conflict ing dates, a fine crowd of representa tive firemen and their wives or lady friends and guests were present to enjoy the evening. After several games of cards and checkers every body marched to the tables under the beautiful strains of music furnished by Maher's orchestra. After a short talk by Toaatmaster Chief Tillery, iu which he bade everyone welcome, and extended the Invitation to 'eat, drink and be merry" to one and all, he asked his guests to be seated. "His guests' they certainly were in a full sense of the word, for it was through the liberality of our esteem ed chief that we were able to enjoy this banquet. Judging by the amount of extra "helpings" brought out to the diners they undoubtedly enjoyed what was set before them. The menu consisted of sandwiches, coffee, Ice' cream and cake. When theapprl-H,esaf one and all had been appeased they repaired to the club room where Chief Tillery announced that Invitations had been extended to State Fire Commissioner Rldgell, and Lloyd C. Thomas of Al liance, N. S. V. F. A. publicity secre tary, as speakers of the evening, but regretted that neither of these dis tinguished gentlemen were able to be present, not having been able to hear from Mr. Kidgell, and reading a telegram from Mr. Thomas express ing his regrets at not being able to be present. We highly appreciate the consid eration shown us by Mr. Thomas in sending us this .telegram- of three hundred words, which was a small speech in itself, but one and all of ua would most certainly have been overjoyed to shake the hand that has been such an outstanding factor writing out "Publicity Stuff" for our great association. Mr. Tillery then announced that he would call on some of the guests for speeches, calling first on Assistant Chief Roudebaugh for a report of the proceeding of the convention of N. S. V. F. A. at Crawford, which re port was given In detail. George C. Gillan then addressed his audience on the value of a com petent tire department and compe tent fire lighting apparatus, making an appeal for a new city hall with ad equate quarters for firemen and tire , apparatus, and pledging his personal support for a move to build a new fire hall, and complimenting the vol unteer firemen of the entire state for acts of bravery displayed and th willingness shown by them to turn out to fires day or night, regardless of extreme weather conditions, with out pay or recompense of any kirn! Prof. Streeter of the Lexim- ;i high school brought down the ! u.-t with applause by his humoro-i talk on firemen and their wt . whlih space unhappily forbids ir u rcpoit. Mayor James A. Byrne impressed upon his audience the dir necessity of a new city hall for the it of Lex ington, and pledi-id his support of the movement started hy the depart ment for a new halt. Isaac N'isley, department counsel lor, cor pliuiented the department on the past and present recoid "f the Lexington Fire Department, and the standing in regard to other lire de partments throughout the state of Nebraska, its ability to fight tires and honors won at state tournaments, al so the good effort of the boys to maintain such a good body of men when compelled to rent their own hall, and rely to a great extent on their own resources (or what has been accomplished. Chief Tillery then read an article from the Firemen's Herald on tire prevention, and made some timely and interesting personal remarks on fire prevention. The reading of in surance companies and lire commis sioner's report on standing of this department and equipment, and an earnest appeal for the assistance of all present for a new city hall by the chief, closed the evening's pioirram. Respectfully, FRED W. KOCH, Publicity sec. pro tern. BRYAN IS FOR WILSON SAYS JUDGE THOMPSON mtrxxratic State Chairman Urines Message- from llrynn at Miami, Florida Judge W. 11. Thompson, of ('.rand Island, democratic state chairman of Nebraska, who has Just returned from a trip to Miami, Fl.i., has given out the following as a result of his interview and visit with Col. W. J. Bryan : "People misunderstood Mr. Ary an's position regarding his relations with the president. "They differ only on a few princi ples resulting from the war. These do not affect their principal relations. Mr. Hryan will most likely be one of the Nebraska delegates-at-large to the St. Louis convention. The entire delegation will be for the president's renomination. Whether pledged or instructed, Mr. Bryan will probably be among the Nebraska delegation, which will be for the president, to a man. "Nebraska is for President Wil son. One-Term Plank I)iosed of Regarding the one-term presiden tial plank, Mr. Thompson said he be lieved Hryan would not raise it against the president. Bryan be lieves the plank should be again enunciated in thfc-St. Louis' platform, but made applicable only to a presi dentVfctcd' after laws are enacted putting it into effect. That no resolution will be urged by Bryan in the St. Louis platform which would embarrass the president or repudiate any of his policies was the substance of the sentiment ex pressed by Mr. Thompson. It is Mr. Bryan's belief the Wilson renom ination is assured. ii60O HANKED IN CATAIAXJ Bl'IlNEJ) IN HOUSE CLEANING Decatur, III., March 3 Noah Lun- dy, a farmer living near Areola, to day is mourning the loss of $2,650 in crisp United .States currency. .- Lundy had secreted the bills In a mail order company's satalog and while away from home his wife, while cleaning house, burned the book along with other waste papers. liOrtUIT SECTION OF LAND John KrauBe, of Krause Brothers, the big ranchmen northeast of Alli ance, was in the city Friday closing a deal with James Potmesil for the latter's section of land which ad joins the Krause ranch. Krause Brothers have added desirable lands to their ranch year by year until they now have one of the finest cattle ranches in the country. MANY INQUIRIES FOR LANDS Over three thousand inquiries have been received by the I'nited Stated land office in Alliance regarding the big land opening to be held here the latter part of March. Register O'Keefe and Receiver Morrow have had th'ir r-nds fvill attending to the corrr -i-ondence created by these in-qui:.-s, which come from nil parts of ?' e lour.try. as far e;st as New York nd ;! far w st as California. v. mi: r;ixi:s now in SERVICE ON Ill'RLI NGTON Ti.e Chieato. Omaha and nenver paM-i.gei run on the Burlington has been equipped with the enormou new engines recently put into serv ice. Fifteen of the gigantic machines have been purchased. The new passenger engines put on to the Burlington are each seventy five feet long and weigh 4,2'jO.OOO pounds. The cylinders are so large that an ordinary sized barrel could be slipfied into any one of them, and a man. six feet tall and wearing a plug hat, could stand erect inside the small end of any one of the boilers. TEDDY WITHDRAWS NAME FROM ILLINOIS HAL LOT New York. March 2 Theodore Roosevelt's determination not to al low the use of his name as a candi date for the presidential nomination in the spring primary elections was emphasized today by the announce ment that his secretary. John W. Me- Grath. has directed the withdrawal of Mr. Roosevelt's name from the Il linois primaries. This is the fourth state in which Mr. Roosevelt has refused to allow the use of his name. The others are Nebraska. Minnesota and Michigan. Mr. Roosevelt is now on a trip to the West Indies. 1( you will have the Alliance Her aid sent regularly you can keep post ed on many .opportunities that this fine western country affords. $1.50 GOVERNMENT EXPERIMENT PLANT MAY ELIMINATE BIG SPUD WASTE An experiment plant, for the pur- pose of investigating the possibility of saving a part of the potato crop which often goes to waste, has Just been completed at Arlington, Va. Inasmuch as Box Butte county ami western Nebraska is one of the lead ing potato growing sections in the vorld, our readers will no doubt be Interested In the following. In years of over production. Wal lace's Farmer says, thousands of farmers have had to haul their en tire crop out for manure. The aggre gate waste of this, year In and year out, amounts to millions of dollars, and the government hopes to work out a practical system for saving it. The present plant has machinery for drying the potatoes, and already a satisfactory product has been turn ed out. The process is said to be much simpler than that practiced In Germany and other European coun tries. The original bulky, highly perishable product is manufactured into a product which is concentrated, non-perishable, and which can be shipped long distances. The present plant is simply a starting point, and efforts of those in charge will be to develop something which can be op erated without a burdensome invest ment. If it works out as planned, it is predicted the potato plants will be as common in potato districts as corn canneries are in sweet corn districts. Both would have about the same ob ject. When Eugene Grubb was in Eur ope, making an investigation of the potato industry there, he made quite a study of Germany's potato facto- rlaa Tn nno nf t ) nua whinh wua us extensive as a million dollar beet I plant In this country, the potatoes I come in car lots at digging time. Ev ery by-product is saved. First, the potatoes are sliced or pulped for starch extraction: The waste pulp is dried, and may be kept in good con dition for a year or more for Mock feeding. At this plant, the economy went so far as to include a pipe line to carry water, which had been used for starch extraction, to a field two miles distant. Here is was building up the fertility in a 200-acre field, which furnished grazing for 300 head of stock. oBth the high-class products and by-products are thus saved with machinery that German Box Butte the Banner County (Statistics from Nebraska State Bulletin) Another Nebraska county bears the name, of Uanner, but in sever al respects Box Butte is the banner county of this great state. Bul letin No. 1G6 of tiie Nebraska State Board of Agriculture, issued .Jan uary 15, .15)16, contains information regarding the crop yield of Ne braska counties for last year that is, no doubt, approximately correct. According to the above mentioned bulletin, only one county in the state exceeded Box Butte in tin average yield per acre of oals in l!)l.r. That, was Dawes county, with an average of 5!).fi bushels, to Box Butte's average of 56.2. Saunders county came in third with 55.;!. The average for the state was IJ4.7 bushels per acre. Forty-six of Nebraska's ninety-two counties are credited with a larger yield per acre on corn; forty-one are reported lower, and four others reported the same as Box Butte, IJO bushels per acre, which is 2.6 bushels below the average for the state. Not so bad on corn, for a county that is not in the "corn belt." With ati average of 26.2 bushels per acre, Box Butte stands above eight v-six other counties on w inter w heat, ami well above the average for the state, which is 15).7 bushels. Western Nebraska has eastern in yield of spring wheat, and Box Butte is the banner county of the whole state, with an average of 25.5 bushels. Cheyenne county is second with 24.2, and Dawes third with 23.8 The average for the state is 18.2. Hn rye Box Butte's average of 25. s bushels was more than titty per cent above the average for the state, 16. .'I bushels, and was exceed ed by only three other counties, Washington with Ml. 5, Colfax 27.6, and Seward 26. Box Butte's average yield of barley is 40 bushels, which is 10. 5) above the average for the state of 20.1 bushels. Three other counties, Dawes, Deuel and Pawnee, had the same average, and only one, Seotts Bin IT, exeecded it, having an average of 51.4 bushels. On alfalfa Box Butte falls a little under the average yield for tin state, but at the slate fair took first prize on equality for the westeii section, the stale being divided into three sections for the cxhibitioi of agricultural products, eastern, middle and western. The past yeai was a good one for alfalfa tonnage in eastern Nebraska, which beat western Nebraska a little on amount, but could not equal in quality. But it's in potatoes where Box Butte shines hri?htcst of all the ninety-two' Nebraska counties not only in the 15)15 crop, but evcrv year. And we want to say a little something about spuds that read ( rs of this paper should remember. One other county reports inon bushels, bul for all that this is the banner potato county, as we will quickly show you. Last year 7M7.550 bushels were grown in thi county: pretly good, don't you think, for a sparsely settled county in which less than sixteen per cent of the land is under cultivation? One other county, Cherry, had a larger number of bushels, 1 ,015,.'!!): ; but Cherry county is nearly six times as large as Box Butte, so that in proportion to size Box Butte grew mote than four times as many as Cherry. In proportion to size, Box Butte had from two to forty time hs many potatoes as the other counties of the state. The average yield per acre for Box Butte count v was 1.17.5 bushels; for the state. 107.6 bushels. scientists inv ed for the purpose. If a fart r 1 es a long distance from one t. these German factories he makes a crude product on the farm, saving the pulp for his stock, and shipping the unrefined Ptarch to the plant. Potato Hour findH many uses in Germany, and now it Is being used largely as a substitute for wheat flour. At the recent Iowa potato show, samples of bread made mostly from potato (lour were exhibited. The flour, when mixed with wheat or rye flour, is said to make excellent pud dings and cakes. The usual price is about J2.50 per hundred pounds. An other product which Is made at the starch factories is glucose, this being superior to that made from cereals, and commanding a higher price in Ixindon, Paris, Berlin and other large cities, where war does not con flict with commerce. Germany has startled the world by Its ability to endure upon its own re sources, and its etliciency Is praised even by its enemies. Economists es timated that about five million bush els of potatoes went to waste from decay, freezing, etc. They saw where the country paid out annually about $72,000,000 to foreign countries for cattle fodder. They estimated that at least 40 per cent of this could be saved hy utilizing the entire potato crop, instead of letting the odds and ends go to waste. Prizes were offer ed for methods of treatment and as a result the Industry has been devel oped to a high state of efficiency. In dried or desiccated potatoes, most of the water is extracted by a pressure and vacuum machine. The potatoes are then further dried by artificial heat, and finally transfer- red into storage rooms. Potato meal weighs less than a fourth of Its orig inal weight in raw potatoes, and it occupies about orie-el ghth te' space! Sometimes it is pressed into cakes which can be broken up easily by hand for stock feeding. The water extracted from the potatoes is kept in vats until all the starch settles. Then the clean liquid is boiled, and a clear precipitate of crude protein is obtained. The protein is made into albumen, which has a big sale in German markets. After the protein precipitate is obtained, the liquids contain small amounts of sugar, nit Nebraska ' ' skinned forty ways EFFICIENCY AS IT APPLIES TO FIREMEM Interesting Artlcl I :ili ciic . by MciiiImts of Sidney Fire Department (Hy E. J. Hreniian of Sidney) Efficiency is a quality producing! results. Not all persons have it. This is the renson that there are ef ficiency wages as distinguished from day wages. Some are capable of earning only day wages and others are in possession of that Quality which enables them to earn etliciency wages. Some are born with that quality and have developed it to its highest possibilities. Some are born with natural tendencies toward ef ficiency yet do not advance through life much farther thau their natural endowments. Again there are others with very little natural direction toward efllci enry yet they are so placed and so trained that a considerable degree of this desirable quality is developed. There are people who accomplish very little with the best possible equipment and every golden oppor tunity. Such persons are out of their class and should be reduced to the most routine mechanical tasks, sup ervised by those persons of greater etliciency. On the other hand, oftentimes the man possessed of efficiency and hav ing opportunity and equipment avail able, will bring forth the most satis factory results. And this man will even make his opportunity and with the most meager tools can be count ed upon to produce a something very much worth while. Many who are properly endowed with mental capacity and have by education and training reached a very desirable standard of etliciency dissipate their energies In following U'inece88ary lines which get no where. This is seen In men who talk too much; men who procrastinate; men who dissipate slightly or occas ionally, depending on their talents to get them back on a solid working basis. All of these things impair the natural abilities and weaken tlx man's worth to the community. You will often hear it said that a certain man is a dandy good worker when halsut.lt. - No -doubt lie Is, but wbai is his efficiency worth to the fellows whom he keeps waiting? Keeping everlastingly at a thing is what often Bets a plain plodding man above a brilliant worker who works only by spurts, while under Inspiration. In spiration is such a fleeting and rare emotion that it is a poor dependence for those who must do the world's work. The tire department has some few little Irritations concerning the mat ter of not having the proper appara tus with which to tight tire or per haps they have men or otftcers who are disappointing. Some times the property burning belongs to tin worst kind of a knocker and tight wad, who directs operations of the boys as though he belonged to royal ty and the firemen were his serfs. These things are hard to bear, es peclally if the department is a volun teer one whose sole reward is a suit of ruined clothes and the thanks of a few grateful people. Rut these unpleasant things should not be con sidered nor should work be any the less energetic because of imped! ments. The more obstacles in the way the harder the department should work to get to the scene ear ly and the greater should be the de termination to quench the Haines. Any one can check a conflagration under favorable conditions, with plenty of water and the wind th riL-lif wav. lint it takes efficiency to work with poor apparatus and excit ed officers and the criticism of those who wouldn't do the unpleasant work which the boys encounter. And, thank God. the latter are the kind of boys who make up the hie depart ments all over tin- stale of Nebraska. Those who do not meet the test of aecoMiianyiou hardships are soor. weeded out and only the survival ot the fittest is possible. You cannoi if you remain a fireman. waste any breath kicking about the manage ment or the equipment. You have to be ready on a second's notice to put on every ounce of your individ ual steam and work furiously till the enemy is conquered and the property and lives are saved. "To do the hard thing in the face of da nver. To forget self, your fellow man to serve. To work with will for dearest friend or stranger. This is the task of men with iron nerve." logenous matter and salts. This 1b used for irrigation. The cost of ban ning the potatoes in this way is said to be about f,0 cents u ton for pota toes, it takes nearly four tons of raw potatoes to make a ton of the desiccated product. The government plant at Arling ton, Va., will work alot.g lines sim ilar to the (ielinan method, except that an attempt will be made to de velop a simpler process, and less cumbersome machinery. The direct um hope to work out a practical plan jf savint the culls us well us the tub- m of good quality, when, for lack of a market, they can not be saved. 75,000 ACRES TO GO AT PUBLIC AUCTION ,MM to I,mo ii(oiM Evpected la Alliance YV.vk if North Piatt Project, liiind 0Hiilng In this section of The Herald wilt be found a double page advertise ment of the big public auction of Box Butte county land which takes fpUo In this city beginning March 22. This sale in being put on through. the co-operation of the Burlington. Hail road Company, the- Alliance Com mercial Club, the Alliance real estate- dealers and Alliance merchants, with the assistance of Box Butte county: and owners, who are cutting up their large ranches and tracts of land Into quarters and halves for the benefit of eastern people who are seeking land worth the money, the original price of which Is now almost prohibitive. There are hundreds of land owner In this section who will testify that In actual experience they have produced more revenue per acre than many of the eastern farmers have been able to produce on land worth $109 to $400 per acre, while this land Is priced at a mere fraction of those figures. Seventy-five thousand acres of western Nebraska land will bo offer ed for Bale and in being listed at prices and terms that will undoubt edly permit of its ready Bale over tha block. The sale has been and in. be ing widely advertised all over the United States. Nearly ten thousand inquiries have been received locally; concerning the auction sale and North Platte project opening, and many hundreds of home seekers com ing to Alliance for the land opening will take advantage of thtssalo to buy some of the best land at the price to be found In the United States. Local officials of the Burlington Railroad Company have, following an Investigation of the conditions, been Instructed to make preparations to handle a crowd of at least 3.GQ0 pec pie during the land opening and auc tion, which shows what people who are in a position to judge of such events, are anticipating. IH'ltKETT FILES HIS NAME AT DES MOINES Des Moines, la., March 2 E.. J. Burkett of Lincoln, Nebr., former senator, today tiled with the Iowa secretary of state his affidavit of con dldacy for the republican nomination for vice president of the United States. DISASTROUS FHtE BURNS . WHEAT AND FLOUK Fulerton. Neb., Feb. 28 The Ful lerton mills, its elevator and a Ful lerton electric light plant were de stroyed here by tire Saturday night. Fourteen thousand hushelss of wheat and three carloads of flour burned with the mill. The sharp north wind fanned the fire and carried it to the' power plant adjoining. This was al so destroyed. Another plant ot the electric company is furnishing lights, for the city. The mill was valued at $20,000, and the power plant at $5,000. Tht larger structure was owned by the Farmers' Stock company and the city owned the power house. Both build ings were fully insured. Rebuilding' operations will be started at once. People Read This Newspaper That't rvhy it would bo rfc profitable for you to U advertise in it If you nuani a job If you want to hire somebody If you want to sell something If you want to bay something If you want to rent your bouse If you want to sell your house If you want to sell your firm If you want to buy property If there is anything that you want the quickest and best way to supply that w.nt is by placing art advertisement in this paper The results will surprise and please you