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NAME. - - -
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NEW U. S. HOMESTEADS
Secretary Iane Issue Detailed He
port of l'ublir Land Classifica
tion for Month of May
Secretary Lane announces that
during May more than 3,300,000
acres were designated as non-irrlga-ble
under the enlarged-homestead
act, tbroug which the entryman may
acquire homesteads of 320 acres. If
a filing under the old homestead law
lias been made by the Bettler on 160
acres, he may, under this act, ucqutre
an additional 160 acres If there bo
available adjacent vacant land of the
-nnnlrnil rhnrnrter. The lands made
available during the month for these
larger homesteads have ull been
classified by the Geological Survey
as non-irrlgablo, but many of them
have already been patented or en
tered or at least applied for under a
law which gives the applicant the
first right to enter them. To deter
mine what particular tracts, if any,
.exist in a particular .district, are
available for new settler, necessi
tates an examination of the records
at the local land office.
In Colorado. 197,000 acres, dis
tributed over 11 counties, were des
ignated as non-lrrlgable. In addition
to the specific areas requested by
homesteaders general classifications
were made in the following counties:
Larimer county, 50.&00 acres; Mor
gan county. 35.800 acres; Routt
county, 26,000 rcros; and Boulder
-county, 23,000 acres. To determine
what portions of these arease are
available for entry necessitates refer
ence to the local land offices.
In Idaho, 200,000 acres were des
ignated. These designations Include
general areas, in the following coun
ties, tn which there is doubtless some
land still available for new settlers:
Ada county, 149.700 acres; Bonne
ville county, 13,400 acres.
In Montana. 144.000 acres were
designated In 22 counties, the greater
proportion of the land being already
filed upon. General classifications
were made, however,' In the follow
ing counties: Teton county, 52.500
sen; Custer county, 20,000 acres
In New Mexico. 1.320,00 acres
were designated in eight counties.
In North Dakota, 154.000 acres
Were designated in 16 counties in the
out hern and western parts of the
attate. General classifications .were
made In the following counties, but
It is believed that only a sa.all pro
portion of these areas is available
for new settlers: Morton county, 64.
00 acres; Montrall county, 23,000
acres; Oliver county. 20.400 acres;
-MceKnzle county. 16,600 acres; Mer
cer county, 5.000 acres.
In Oregon, 145,00 acres were des
ignated In 15 counties in the eastern
auu central parts of the state. Gen
eral classifications were made in the
fi.. owing couuiiea: Malheur couu-
ty, 3,oo0 ai-ivs; Harney county. 23.
Owv acres, uuuaui county, 21,000
anis; Gram eouniy. 12,000 acres;
Ytt.towa couaiy, b.iOO acres, l'rob
ab.j uoi mute taau one-fifth of this
lb.,.., is avauubie lor ikw settlers.
. Souiu uukoia, 0,000 acres were
dt-o.tnatea .u routines, nS.uoo
ol WUivti is in UUue luum) ami
p,.wbi iiit.ujo.s a considerable area
oi unentered laud.
.t i.Jt. 4S,0 ttOt- were
d. -..uuueu iu vuiyitig acreages In the
following cou.ii.e-j: v. .am county.
lo ... -
7om acivb, ... uu kuiuy.
,u..i; rraiittiiii coumy,
ac.us; Columbia county
n-i.i- oanouaii county.
-,;uo
20.000
16,000
12,b00
.acres. The greater proportion oi
these lands has already been enter
ed. In Wyoming, half a million acres
were designated In 17 counties, much
of which is probably still open to
entry. The land Is located in the fol
lowing counties: Natrona county,
9.600 acres; Watte county, 67.200
acres; Converse county, 65,300
acres; Niobrara county, 63,400-acres;
Johnson county, 37,800 acres; Camp
bell county. 3 5.800 acres; Albany
county, 35,200 acres; Lincoln coun
ty, 18.000 acres.
As a result of the normal work of
classifying lands, continued during
the month of May, 1916. there has
been effected a restoration of some
a bat over a half a million acres here
tofore Included in withdrawals. The
largest single restoration was one of
345,000 acres of lands in North Da
kota that prior to this month had
been a part of the coal reserves of
that state. By the completion of
classification, however, those lands
have been eliminated from the re
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serves, thoce which contain coal be
ing opened to purchase under the
coal-land laws, and the remainder to
unrestricted entry under the agricul
tural land laws.
In California, as a result of exami
nations by geologists of the Geolog
ical Survey, conducted during the
past season, It has been determined
that nearly 150,000 acres of land
that had bene temporarily placed In
oil renerves awaiting examination are
not oil lands, and thene tractB have
alBO been restored to entry. Similar
action, involving approximately 75,-
000, acres of lands heretofore includ
ed In temporary phosphate reserves
In Wyoming, has likewiao been taken
and these areas restored to entry,
Other minor restoration bring the to
tal area restored during the month to
nearly 569.000 acres, but dlnce a lit
tie over 62,000 acres of prospective
oil lands in Louisiana have been
withdrawn, the net restorations for
the month amount to about 516,000
acres.
Total classifications that have been
made, including 3,300,000 acres
classified as non-irrigable and desig
nated for entry under tho enlarged
homestead act during the month,
to somewhat more than 368.572.000
acres.
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ADMINISTRATION UPHOLDS
INTEREST OF FARMER
legislation iu IWhalf of Grain and
Cool l on Growers 1 a Hlg Aid
t Agriculture
Democratic deeds, in the interest
of the American farmer, as coantrast
ed with Republican inactivity or
empty promises, are strikingly anal
yzed by the St. Louis Kepublie in the
following survey of what has been ac
complished under the Wilson ada in
iKtraition :
The country's greatest business is
that of farming. More money is in
vested in farms than in railroads or
factories. Yet near to 50 years of
Hepublican domination in the field
of Federal government went by with
out any attempt on the part of the
government to take any account of
the farmer's business problems, ex
cept to try to persuade him that he
was benefitted by a tariff on wheat,
potatoes, etc., which never operated
at all on account of our great sur
plus of these products except when
our crops failed and it became neces
sary for the farther to buy seed
abroad. In which case he paid the
tariff himself.
Agricultural Program
Today the Democracy has been in
power for three short years. It has
formulated a program of agricultural
legislation consisting of eight items.
It began with the intention of giving
the farmers of the United States
The opportunity to borrow money
for short terms on nonperlshable ag
ricultural products This is theirs
through the Federal Reserve Act.
A system of farm agents to devel-
n r oDfiiintlnrii Til I vrna anfn m '
plished through the Smith-Lever Act,
which is In harmonious operation in
4 8 states. Slate and Federal authori
ties co-ope.atlng perfectly.
A Division of Morkets In the De
partment of Agriculture. This is to
day a reality. For the first time In
the history of the nation, machinery
is at worn to organize ine uistriDui-
Ing agencies through which 100,-
000,000 people get their food sup
ply.
A Rural Credits Act. This has
now passed both houses of Congress
and is in conference.
A Cotton Standards Act. This ia
already law. It establishes definite
standards for the grading of coton,
so that buyers may be protected and
commercial paper secured by ware
housed cotton may be bankable ev
erywhere.
(rain Grades Act
A Grain Grades Act. This will do
a similar service for grain, making
one set of grades for the nation, so
that buyers and sellers may know ex
actly what they are dealing in and
warehouse certificates may mean the
same thing everywhere. The bill is
now in Congress.
A Permissive Warehouse Law. A
bill is now before Congress provid
ing for Government supervision of
warehouses, where desired, bo that
the purchaser of commercial paper
secured by their warehouse certifi
cates may know that the products
named In the certificate are In a
storage, are safe against deteriora
tion, and are of the quality certified.
A Federal good roads law, provid
ing for co-operation between State
and nation, after the precedent sot
in the Smith-Lever Act, in the con
struction of good roads. The bill
is an admirable one, and is now In
conference.
This program Is before the Amer
ican people. Enough of it has beejn
put through already to enable the
public to Judge of its practical char
acter and sanity. Its different parts
hang together like the links in a suit
of chain mail. In view of its char
acter, what are the deserts of the
party which has originated It and re
alized a great part of It at tho hands
of the American farmer?
Alliance Herald
A WORD FOR MOTHERS
It is a grave mistake for mothers to neg
lect their aches and pain 9 and suffer in
silence this only leads to chronic sick
ness and often shortens life.
If your work Is tiring; if your nerves are
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depressed, you should know that Scott's
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It possesses in concentrated form the
very elements to invigorate the blood,
strengthen the tissues, nourish the nerves
and build strength.
Scott's is strengthening thousands of
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Alliance Herald
NEBRASKA DEPOSITS
INCREASED 35 MILLION
826 Hanks Doing uHsIiicnh In
braka, an lncren.se of ."VI
Oor a Year Ago
( Hy Ayres and Cooper, correspond
ents.) Lincoln. Nebr., July 5. The dis
trict court of Iancaster county has
handed down a decision in which it
takes the position that the state
banking board has no Jurisdiction
over the number of bnnks that can
be established In a community. The
case, however, will be carried to the
supreme court by the board.
A large force has been at work in
Secretary of State Tool's office the
past week addressing envelopes in
which a copy of the prohibitory
amendment as proposed by the peti
tion on file In the secretary of state's
office, un o'er the initiative and ref
erendum law, will be sent to each
voter In the state. Something like
250.000 copies will be mailed out. j
While Adjutant General Hall
could not go to Mexico as a brigadier j
general, owing to the fact that it
takes three regiments to make a
brigade, and only two will likelly go,
from Nebraska, he has decided to go
anyway; as a minor officer. Accord
ingly at the urgent request of the
boys of company H of the Fifth reg
iment, he has consented to go as
their cantaln after they had unani
mously elected him to that position.
Every time the opposition sets up
a bogy man and points to it as a hor
rible example of democratic rule In
the state or nation Old Dame Pros
perity comes along with her 72 cen-ter-merter
guns and blows it to
smithereens. For Instance republi
can politicians for bo me time past
hsve been telling us that the coun
try under a democratic administra
tion has become impoverished and
panic and starvation stares us in the
face. Here Is a concrete example:
In the thirteen months Just passed
up to May 26, 1916. deposits in the
banks of Nebraska have Increased
$38,000,000. Such an increase has
never before been recorded in the
history of the sta'e. There are now
826 banks doing business in Nebras
ka, or an increase of 54 over a year
ago. The report shows that in April
1915. there was deposited in banks
the sum or $103,828,810. In May,
1916, this had increased to $141,
557,106. In this same period the
number of depositors had increased
more than 70,000, the number now
being 408.828. or nearly half of the
population of the state. Democrat
ic officials are greatly pleased over
this showing and Governor Morehead
thinks that the figures Justify what
he has repeatedly said, that Nebras
ka and tho country generally Is en
Joying a greater prosperity now. un
der a democratic administration,
than at any time the opposition can
point to when it had control of the
government.
Lincoln progressives are not en
thusing to any great extent over
UooBevelt's endorsement of Hughes.
As a matter of fact some of the more
earnest of the progressives frankly
accuse the ex-president of selling
them out. They reason that the Old
Guard stands Just where It did in
1912, In the national convention.
They say there is no more difference
now, and no more reason why they
should support Hughes at thin time
than there was for them to support
Taft In 1912. It is openly avowed
by them that the Chicago convention
was controlled b ythe Wall Street
Interests, and that the present cam
paign in resolving itself into con
test of these Interests against the
president, adopting as their war slo
gan. "Anything to beat Wilson."
These progressives point to Mr.
Hughes' record to substantiate their
claims that he is not a progressive.
As governor of New York he vetoed
the 2-cent passenger law passed by
the New York legislature; while as
such governor he recommended to
the legislature that It vote against
retlfying the federal Income tax
amendment, a measure that since its
adoption has brought hundreds of
millionsof dollars Into the national
treasury, and which was passed by
a democratic congress and signed by
a democratic president. With these
self-evident truths staring them in
the face the progressives are Inclin
ed to see In President Wilson a man
who more clearly represents their
views than does Mr. Hughes. Thi
Reems to be the feeling of most of
the progressives with whom the wrlt
erxhas come In touch.
Alliance Herald
INSURE your crops In the Old He
liable Phoenix Insurance Company.
28-41-7340 p. E. REDDISH. Agent.
Alliance Herald
Mr. and Mrs. William Niemann
were called to Beatrtce Friday night
by a telegram announcing the serious
illness of his father.
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BUYING MORE AUTOS
Secretary of State Pool Has Issued
. More Than 81,000 Auto Id- ..
cense Tug Tills Year
In order to meet the unprecedented
demand for automobile license num
bers In Nebraska, Secretary of State
I'ool has been compelled to order two
extra lots of 10,00 each of number
plates for the current year. He or
dered 70.000 to start with, that be
ing 11,000 more than were Issued in
1915. These soon ran out and an
other 10,000 were sent for. Now this
supply has been exhausted, and 10,
000 more have been secured, making
90,000 in all an Increase of 68 per
cent over last year.
"There appears to be no let up in
the demand for automobiles," says
Secretary Pool. The department is
Bued during the month of June 3,944
$250,000.00
TH
LOAN ON REAL ESTATE
IMTEflEST
AND
COMMISSIONS
CALL OR WRITE
INVESTMENT
Cavalry . .
Light Gunners .
Heavy Artillery .
MULES
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Alliance, Nebr.
licenses on automobiles and 250 on
motorcycles. Up to July 1, there had
been issued for 1916 a grand total
of 80,969 automobile licenses and 3,
266 motorcycle licenses. The ex
pense of operating the automobile de
partment for the month of June
which Includes salaries, postage,
books and printing, extra help, tele
phone and telegraph and office sup
plies amounted to only $719.47.
During June the cash receipts com
ing into the office of Secretary Pool
footed up a grand total of $40,441.66,
as against $30,051.31 In 1915 and
$24,390.50 in 1914. The increase in
the cash receipts during the month of
June amounted to $10,390.24, every
cent of which has been deposited In
the treasury of the great state of Ne
braska. Lincoln Star.
-Alliance Herald-
Mrs. Ella Hawkins and daughter,
Martha, who are making their home
at St. Joseph, Mo., arrived Saturday
noon for a visit with her daughter,
Mrs. Harry Thlele.
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