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VOLUME XXIII
ALLIANCE, BOX HUTTK COUNTY, NKHKASKA, TIU'KSDAY, AUOUST 1916
NUMBER 35
GERMAN SUBMARINE
ESCAPES WARSHIPS
A RADIO STATION
TO BE AT ALLIANCE
Big German U-Boat Eludes Allied Warships Wait
ing for Her off Virginia Capes and Passes
the Three-mile Limit
EIGHT WARSHIPS ARE LOOKING FOR BOAT
Norfolk, Va., Aug. 3 "With her crew lined, up on
deck and cheering for Aiucriea and its people, the
Gorman submarine Deutschland passed out to 6ca
at 8:10 o'clock last night on what may prove a voy
age of death for all on board. Thirty minutes later
-the Deutschland crossed the three-mile limit and
immediately submerged. The cruiser North Car
olina andlhc destroyers Sterctt, Flushing and lleid
were outside the Virginia capos "To see that the
Deutschland crossed the. three-mile limit without
being molested. The Sterctt was first to sight the
Deutschland and reported her crossing the three
mile limit safely.
The tug Thomas F. Timmins accompanied the
Deutschland almost to the three-mile line and Capt
ions Hinseh, himself a Gorman skipper, of note,
bade goodby to Captain Koenig of the Deutschland
as the latter commander and the crew of the under
water craft stood on the deck of the submarine.
Captain llinsch said the voyage of the Deutsch
land from Baltimore was uneventful. Two hours
before she made her dash for the sea the Deutsch
land submerged in 40 feet of water.
When the Deutschland took the plunge, outside
the Virginia capes at least one allied cruiser was
within four miles of her.
As the Deutschland approached it was apparent
she was carrying false, superstructure,' slightly low
er than her conning tower. It was straw-colored
and blended with the oilskin coats worn by her
crew, Who crowded the deck.
"When about a mile fro mthe press boat the sub
mersible began to clear away th efalse superstruc
ture and take soundings, as if preparing to dive
Just as the superstructure was clear
ed, the Timmins moved ahead of the
undersea liner and signalled that the
boats Intended to pass on the star
board side. Immediately both ves
,els .Increased their speed and put
over to the starboard.
As the Timmins fame alongside
the press boat at ax distance perhaps
of 100 feet and with the Deutschland
moving slowly close to her starboard
aide. Captain Hinsch of the German
war-bound steamer Neckar, who had
charge of the clearing of the Deutsch
land, shouted thru a megaphone,
"Who Is that?"
Upon being advised that it was a
newspaper boat, he shouted this in
formation to the Deutschland and
then both vessels puton speed, mov
ing ahead rapidly.
Sailors on the Deutschland paid no
attention to salutes from the news
paper boat. They gazed at her si
lently for a while and then began put
ting on their blue uniform coats.
The Deutschland was displaying
red and green lights set flush on the
two sides of her conning tower. As
he passed the newspaper boat she
put out these lights.
The TlmrIns then moved over to
the port aide of the channel, about
ISO feet from the Deutschland, and
they continued In these relative pos
itions foi a considerable distance
down the bay.
By this time the sun was setting
over the water in which the Deutscb
lard stood out clearly.
The Timmins carried her regular
running lights and for the next ten
miles the Deutschland could be locat
ed only by her convoy. On these ten
miles, however, the vessels had a
clear path and they might have burr
ed all their lights without endanger
ing themselves. Only one vessel, a
tramp steamer, passed them, and she
was far awn. Her attempts to sig
nal the Timmins met with no re-
sponse.
When they were within two miles
of the Cape Henry liphthousn the
submprsible hud movd over well to-; rolled in the school gardening work
ward the shore and her outlines sel- within the last month. Mr. McShane
dom could be seen. stated that we may well fel proud of
Decrnslng hr speed, the Deutsch- some of our gardens and gardeners
land hugged the shore line as closely as their work compares very favora
as was possible, while the Timmins bly with that In other parts of the
passed out of the capes a short dlst- gtafe. Durlnr his stay here he gave
ance to determine whether the allied two talks to the garden club uQeuilx-ru
warships were there to block the sub- which were very instructive.
mar'ne's progress. In less than fif-j
teen minutes, or shortly before 9 ; Sold 1 Ford Autos
o'clock, she signalled the Deutsch-' The Keeler-Cou rsey Coif pa ny, Al
land that she had a clear path and nance agents Tor-the Ford autoiuo
the under-sea firelghter quickly has- blle BoM a tot(a, of 108 car, dnrlnK
tened down the channel and to sea. the last Dgca, ywjr from Aupust j
On her way the submarine signal-, 191S to Aueust 1, 1916. With the
led briefly to the Timmins with her reduction in price of $80 made on
poi iecope lUht. The signalling com- August 1. announced in Th- li'ersld
plete-1. the licht disappeared and thIg weki the conipany expfota to
wlh It the pputschland. , Beu double that number during the
The voyage of the Deutschland coming fiscal year. The question
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UNION TEMPERANCE
MEETING SUNDAY
Alliance Churches will Unite In Meet
ing at Christian Church at 8
O'clock Sunday Evening
Union temperance services, under
the auspices of the W. C. T. U.. will
be held at the Christian church. 9th
and Box Butte, at 8 o'clock Sunday
evenlnp, Augut 6. The program
will be as follows:
Song, union choir.
Song .congregation.
Opening prayer, Mrs. J. W. Thom
as. Scripture reading, Mrs. W. E.
Cutts.
Song, congregation.
Reading, Mrs. A. T. Lunn.
Special song.
Address. Mrs. A. A. T.aytoc.
Vocal Duet, Misses LaRhea Lunn
and Vera Dow.
Readlne. Miss Madeline fcediker.
Paper. Mrs. J. W. Read.
Collection.
Closing song, "Dry clean Nebraska
WiVr You Are."
Closing prayer. Mrs. Lewis Mcln
tyre. A cor3l Invitation is extended to
all to attend.
FXOELLENT GARDENS
State ani Stipervlwr MrKluuM1
Compliments Alliance oo the
School Gardens
L. F. McShane left Wednesday
noon for Crawford and Chadron after
spending two days in Alliance in con
nection with the school gardening
work. Mr. McShane is the state
garden supervisor and has visited all
of the towns in the staje that are en-
with them Is to get the cars to supply
the demand.
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YOU SHOULD
NEW STOCK TRAIN
STARTS SATURDAY
Burlington Railroad Will Inaugurate
HKM-lal Train Service to care for
the Stock Going East
W. M. Weldenhamer, division sup
erintendent of the Burlington on the
Alliance division, has issued the fol-
lowing announcement regarding the
new stock trains which will start on
Saturday. August B:
Effective Saturday August B. and
continuing through the stock chip
ping season, probably until Sunday,
October 29, stock pick up extras will
be run out of Alliance on Saturdays
and Sundays of each week to handle
stock, Alliance to Dunning, inclusive.
When needed to handle stock, a train
t ..in i f i. j, ,
, ill be run on Mondays during the'
'above period, on the same schedule
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as the Saturday and Sunday trains
W will not schedule this train east
of Seneca but it will be understood
the train will pick up stock as fur
enpt as Dunning.
Saturday, August 5, until Sunday,
Aurust 20, schedule will be as fol
lows: "
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Alliance 1:45 pm
Antloch 2:24 pm
Lakeside 2:50 pm
Ellsworth 3:15 pm
Bingham 3:50 pin
Achby 4:30 pm
- Hyannis 5:20
Whitman 6:15
Hecla 7:05
Mullen 7:40
pm
pm
pm ,
pm ;
Arrive
. Rpnt-ct 8:30 pm
Iietive '
Seneca , 8:45 pin
Commenclnr Saturday, August 26.
the schedule will be as follows:
Leav
.Mtince 11:00 am
Antloch 11:39 am
Lakeside 12:10 pm
. Ellsworth 12:43 pm
Bingham .
Ashby . . .
j. U pm
1:48 pm
Hyannis 2:34
Whitman 3:40
Hecla 4:20
Mullen 4:55
Arrive
Seneca 5:45
Leave
Seneca 6:00
pm.
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pm
pm
pm
TAItn OF THANKS
We wlh to express our heartfelt
thanks to the many friends and
neighbors for their beautiful floral of
ferings and kindly deeds and words
of sympathy during the loss of our
beloved wffe and mother.
MRS. WM. MITCHELL.
WILLIAM BIGNELL.
JOSEPH BIGNELL.
WORRY. WOODROWl
(Portland
ROBBER KILLED MAN
IN COLD BLOOD
Held Farmer an Mlileld Iktween Self
ami Por.Hr after Robbing
Rank of 917SO
At noon Friday, July 28, a robber
entered the State Bank at Sunol,
Nebr., west of Sidney on the Union
Pacific railroad, and after tying the
cashier, C W. Smith, and locking
him in the vault, robbed the bank of
$1750 in cash. The robber, J. W.
Cornell of Denver, was captured with
his accomplice, R. O. Loukens, also
of Denver, the same afternoon by
Sheriff McDaniels of Sidney and are
now lodged In the Cheyenne county
Jail, charged with the murder of two
members of the posse killed by them.
Mrs. u. w. smitn, wue or me casn-'
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sister of Mrs. T. A. Smlthberg of
Mrs. C. W. Smith, wife of the cash-
Alliance, whose husband Is employed
by The Famous. A large number of
varied accounts have been given in
the newspapers of the robbery. On
Wednesday Mrs. Sinithberg received
a letter from Mrs. Smith giving a
complete account of the affair es ii
actually happened. Mr. Smith bad
been In Cheyenne the day before the
I robbery attending a bankers' conven
; tion and It is their opinion that the
; robbers had not expected htm home
so soon. Mrs. Smith usually took
' his place in the bank while he whs
absent for a short time, and they
probably expected to find her there
alone.
The letter, giving the account of
the robbery, follows:
This has been one horrible experi
ence. I will begin at the very flr-t
and tell it as best I can. Have bten
trying ever since it happened to find
time for a line -but Friday all day
was excitement. Saturday morninn
people were running In, then Aunt
Gertrude and Uncle Moses came to
dinner and stayed until about 3:30
o'clock. Then as soon as I could
Jump into some clothes Curt (Mr.
Smith) and I had to go to Sidney to
Identify this fellow. Early Sunday
Curt went to Sidney for the flowers
that we ordered for each bereaved
family for the bank and personally
and then I had othT flowers to ar
range. Then later, before dinner,
we went to Ira C. Paup's funeral (he
was the deaf farmer killed by tb
robbers) at Lodgepole. Then we
came right back home and went out
to Paul Vacek's funeral at 1 o'clock.
It iraa S:S0 when we got home and
then I fixed dinner quickly.
W wre jii .t reaily to sit down
when the lawyer representing the
robber, and the sheriff, came. Well,
It was 6 when they left. Then other
visitors came and back came the rob
ber's lawyer with the mother of the
Wchn Cawlcy,
tendent ami a
written to Cnrl
In his letter he
Keeently the
Eastern Argus)
fellow. Poor thing, the lawyer want
ed us to meet her. I am so sorry for
her. They toon left so we finally got
started eating. Another visitor came
but we ust ate on.
' This morning (the letter was writ
ten Monday, July 31) other visitors
came and have just left. It is now
11 o'clock. We can't eat or sleep
since the awful tragedy. Now for
the story:
You see, Mr. Smith got home from
Cheyenne Friday morning. He felt
bo poorly that I told him to go to the
house and sleep until noon and that
I would stay in the bank. He went
home and about 11:80 o'clock I lock
ed the door and went over after the
mail. I Just had stepped In when
the clerk said, "Mrs. Smith, someone
wants Into the bank." So I hurried
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i urounu in corner 01 me Dana ana
was seated In the shade of the bank.
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I stepped up and asked him if h
wantJJ in the bank. He said. "Yes.
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he
My first thought was to let him in
and wait on hlmr Then I said, "Well
I was just going up to the house any
way so I will have Mr. Smith come
right down." He answered. "All
right."
Mr. Smith got up quickly and went
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down. The fellow was still sitting
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iu.Tr uui noi ui mm wriu munK wmii
Mr. Smith Just as snyone would do
He banded Mr. Smith a check and
apked him If he could do anything for
him. When Smith looked up to ask
him If he could get someone to iden
tify him he looked into the muzzle of
a gun. Before he thought he struck
the fellow in the face with his fist.
The fellow said. "Here, I don't want
to kill you,, but I'll spatter your
brains all over the wall if you don't
put up your hands and do as I say."
Cornell, for this was the-robber's
name, made Mr. Smith turn around
and rubbed the gun up his back.
Cornell closed the front door (It
locks Itself) and pulled down the
front shade. Then marched Mr.
Smith in the back room and tied his
hands back of him with rope. Then
he stuck bis dirty handkerchief in Mr.
Smith's mouth and tied a cheese cloth
across his mouth and twisted it tight
with a stick. He then tied his legs
togcth er and carried him over and
tied him to the stove leg (the stove
sits in the corner of the back room.)
Cornell then went out and cleaned
the cash drawer and silver tray and
helped himself to the currency and
silver la the bottom of the safe. He
decided that be didn't find as much
money as he had expected so he came
back and cut the rope holding Mr,
Smith to the stove and drug him into
the vault and demanded that he open
the top compartment In the safe,
thinking the gold was there. Wben
he found that It was not he said,
"Where Is the gold?" Mr. Smith,
thinking that the robber must already
United States Government Giving Encouragement
to Local Amateur Radio" Station Es
tablished by Local Man
WILL ADD ANOTHER LINK TO THE CHAIN
In ortlor to MronRthcn a chain of amateur radio
wireless stations which covcru twelve states, in the
Great Lnlus territory, the United States govern
ment is lending its encouragement to amateur sta
tions. Western Nebraska has been a weak link in
tho chain, until tho establishment of a station here
by J. Carl Thomas, who is an amateur wireless op
erator. Carl Thomas has, at considerable expense and
with the expenditure of a large amount of time, es
tablished a station which will be one of the chain.
of the U. S. Naval training sta
tion at (Ireat Lakes, Illinois, district radio superin
lieutenant in the U. H. Navy, has
Thomas regarding the. local station.
writes as follows:
amateur radio stations in the Mid
dle West have been organized into a chain of com
munication covering twelve states. The govern
ment is anxious to give this organization every' as
sistance and drills are held several times ( a week,
messages originating at Hie radio station at Great
Lakes, a 5 K.W. spark set being used.
,Onc of our principal difficulties in the fact that
our radio chains are weak in certain points where
we cannot find radio stations to fill the gaps and
communication is thus not assured between some
stations. For this reason we are writing to yon to
ask your active co-operation.
If this is done you will help us considerably and
will be doing the government of your country serv
ice of real value.
Carl Thomas has taken the necessary steps to
Join the organization and to equip
bis station to conform to the rules.
Alliance will then be a relay point
for the transmission of messages or
iginating at the radio station at
Great Lakes.
have it, motioned as best he coula.to
the sack in which the robber had
placed the money already secured.
Tb fellow said. "Oh, it it in there
lis ttT" Mr. Smith motioned "yea."
The robber left him In the vault, shut
the door and turned the bolts but neg
lected to turn the combination In his
hurry. He marched out tho front
door, and out across the corn field
whlcd adjoins town.
As soon as Cornell was gone Mr.
Smith began to tear at the ropes
whic held his hands and soon freed
himself. He pulled back the bolts
and was out, giving the alarm at once.
Everyone ran for their autos and
piled in with guns and were right afte
the robber but no one had a long
range gun and Cornell had two. One
was a 38-40 which carried a half-mile
he shot both nt our mn right thru
the heart.
Paul Vacek, who was killed, was
sitting beside John Dftners in his au
to when he was shot John was drlv-
j ,n- Tn fe,,ow frabbwi Ira C. Paup
, the deaf farmer, and took him along
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as a shield kept holding Paup be-
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ween himself and
the posse who
were after him. No one dared shoot
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PH. RAY KIHKK FRIDAY
Former Pastor of Alliance Methodutt
Cliurch Spoke to (imh1
Crowd Friday
Herewith is given a photo of Dr.
C. W. Ray, who spoke to a good
crowd at the Methodist church last
Friday evening on the subject. "Tra
vel Experiences In Arabia. Turkey,
Egypt and the Holy Land."
A good crowd attended the lecture,
which was very Instructive.
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