PUBLIC SALE!
I will sell at INiblic Auction on my place, 1 mile north of HoflutiHl
nnil 12 nillen oast of Alliance, on
MONDAY, APRIL 30, 17
Tlie Following Inscribed I'mpertv
47 Head of Cattle 47
19 milk cowb, nearly all fresh,
4 range rows with calvea at
Bide,
1 row with2 calves.
19 yearlings,
2 two-year-old steers,
2 three-year-old steers.
Head of Horses
1 black mare with foal, 6 years
old, weight 1100,
2 saddle horses,
1 pair black driving horses,
weight 1000 pounds each
Farm Machinery
1 Moline Lister, good.
1 John Deere Stag Plow
breaker attachment.
1 Moline Cultivator, 6 shovel.
1 3 -sect ion Steel Harrow.
1 7-foot Disc.
1 Rod Breaker, 14 inch.
1 McCormick Mower. 6-foot,
with nearly new.
1 Deering Mower, 5-foot.
1 McCormick 12-foot rake.
1 McCormick Hay Stacker.
2 Sets Work Harness
1 Saddle.
lOO chicken, all but year's hen's; 1 hog, about 800 pound; 1 Bo
at rice cream separator, good; blacksmith outfit; some house
hold goods and other articles too numerous to mention.
Sale will begin immediately after Free Lunch at Nmii
TRKMS: All sums under $10, cash; over that amount six months
time on bankable paper drawing 8 per cent.
Mrs. B. E. Hoffland
Col. II. I. Omwy Auctioneer
Alliance, Nebr.
K. W Harris Clerk.
Alliance Nat'l Hank
elation, had the pleasure of being re-Jons and Taylor counties were later
warded by seeing House Roll 222, ' consolidated Into Cheyenne county,
the partial suffrage bill, pass the Monroe county occupied the land
Nebraska senate this morning by a where now is found Keith, Arthur,
vote of 19 to 10. Mrs. Barkley had Orant and part of Hooker, MrPher
patiently watched and waited for son and Lincoln counties, weal of the
this event for seventy-five days, mias-! Fourth Guide Meridian,
ing only one afternoon. She had 1 Harrison county waa aeventy miles
come to be regarded aa a fixture in long, taking In part of Hooker,
the senate chamber. Thomas. McBherson, Logan and Lin-
Mrs. Barkley was on the Job coin counties. Dawaon county ex
throagb a host of the bill's viciasl-( tended from Brady Island to Klin
tudes. She saw the senate bill. S. Creek and from the Platte north to
K. 78, report. mI out by the chairman the Middle Ijoup. then called Pawnee
of the commitice. recalled by the Ixiup or Wolf river,
'lections committee, reported Owl I The north fork of the loup river
again to reduce suffrage to munici- is known as Warren'a fork. The
lnl elections.
She saw it linger untouched on the
general file, untouched on the sift
ing file, and finally buried when the
sifting committee refused to lift it.
And she saw the house bill tied up in
South Loup was called Carrey's fork.
"Ancient ruins'' are Indicated few
miles north of t ho present site of
Bridgeport. No one haa since been
able to find them. "Dancera Hill" ia
found on White river, near where
the Hlfting committee, where it re-. Crawford now stands
nuiliicd until early the present week, A proposed wogan road whs out
Then the committee reported it out lined from St. Paul and Minneapolis
through the influence of the sentl-' to Fort Laramie paralleling the
menl growing out of MrB. Barkley's ; White river through northwestern
work. Nebraska.
Among the senators who changed I (;. R, Warren, who took observa
thdr views on suffrage Wore Senator tloni and elevations on his way,
llusheo. floor leader of the republic- made a trip from Fort Kearney to
an minority, Senator Samuclsou and Fort Pierre, S. D.. In 1885, crossing
Senator Haase. Senator Robertson, (he Niobrara, a short distance above
opponent of the measure from the the mouth of the Long Pine Croek.
start, kindly absented himself from A year later he made a trip from
the chuinbvr during the few momenta ( Fort Pierre to Fort I,:. ramie, going
the vote was being taken. Senators through northwestern Nebraska.
Howell and Soost did not vote. BireSV'near the White river. Karly survcy
low waa absent, ora tell us this nartv ascended the
This is the vote on the bill:
For Adams, Albert. Ileal.
loup from Columbus instead of coui-
Ben- inn directly across the country from
Fort Kearney
ii ; . . , . . . ,
I j lie suivt-jiiiK ui me territory in
nett. Bushee. ('happell. Douthett
dates. Haase. Ifager. Hammond, Mi
Allister. McMltllen. Neal. OberlleK. Custer county occurred In the closing
Samuelson. SMidcll. Sawyer. Wilson epochs of Indian warfare and had Ha
of Frontier. perils and dangers. Robert Harvey,
Agmlnat Bulimia n. I)ot. Henry, n,,. present state surveyor, was work-
Kolil, l.ahners. Mattes. Moriart.v, jg up the Middle Ioup In the sum-
1 ! 1- rTV. mm mm 1 It ' . i I . I.... m a
npirit, unmet aim m unoe in ii"- ,m(;r ot 1 Hi wncn lie came to a
The Nebraska legislature has giv
en the women the right to vote on
all offices except constitutional of
ficers. This power niUHt be given by
the voters of the state.
HISTORY OF THE
PROHIBITION BILL
Omaha Daily News Tell, of Fight
Which Finally Knded In Passage
Of .Nebraska Prohibition Bill
The following article regarding
the history and passage ot the Nebr
aska prohibition bill appeared in the
Omaha Daily News of Thursday, Ap
ril 19. It was written by Fred Car
ey, the well-known political writer
on the staff of that paper. The arti
cle reads as follows:
Passage by the senate Wednesday
of House Roll No. 793, the prohibi
tion bill in amended form, marked a
decided victory for the dry forces in
the senate, and for the house of rep
resentatives. For the first time this season the
.senate machine was wrecked, desert
ed by all but three senators, and. so
far as liquor legislation is concerned,
shattered so completely that it is
very doubtful if a machine of the
kind will ever be seen again in a
Nebraska legislature.
The victory is due largely to Rep
resentatives Norton. Thomas and
Flansburg, who. as the house con
ferees, fought unyieldingly for an
effective prohibition bill and refused
to agree to any compromise that
would emasculate or weaken the
measure.
The house members stood solidly
behind the conference committee, re
fusing to weaken at any stage of the
tight and insisting almost to a man
that no law would be passed that
would not absolutely bar the boot
legger and the manufacturer of
"near beer."
It was the unyielding attitude of
the house members, their willing
ness to go home to their constituents
. . . . i i . i . i , ,i .. i
Wimoui a proamnion law tainei
than agree to a weak measure, cou
pled with the pressure from the con
stituents of numerous senators, that
caused the wrecking of the senate
ii achlne and the passage of the dry
bill.
Various senators in lengthy expla
nations of their vote for the amend
ed house bill endeavored to make it
appear that they, in supporting the
en. it.- amendments two weeks ago, i
desired only to make the law more
drastic and workable.
The facta are that at no time was
the senate majority willing to accept
the house bill in its original form or
m any other form, other than aa it
was amended by the senate machine,
until the senators realized the house
was not bluffing and that no influ
ence could be brought to bear to
make the repreBentative8 recede
from their position further than to
agree to possession of liquor in pri
vate homes after May 1.
Here is the history of the prohibi- (
tion bill from the opening of the
session.
When this session of the legisla
ture flrBt opened several prohibition
bills were introduced in both houses.
None was satisfactory, and to save
tune the house and senate named a
Joint special committee on prohibi
tion to draft a law.
This committee waa composed of
Senators Beal. Sandall, Chappell,
Howell, Kohl, Mattes and Moriarty,
and Representatives Norton. Thom
as. Flansburg, Hosteller and Walte.
The committee worked almost day
and night for two weeks and finally
reported a bill, which allowed the
shipment into the state of limited
quantities of liquor each thirty days,
but was drastic in its enforcement
provisions, particularly against boot
legging. Before this measure could be con
sidered by either house the Reed
federal amendment was considered
in congress and passed, prohibiting
the shipment into any dry state of
intoxicating liquors.
The prohibition committee then
redrafted several sections in the bill
to make it conform to the federal
kiw, leaving it a "bone dry" meas
ure. The committeo refused to put
in a possession clause at that time,
though realizing that such an amend
ment probably would be made in the
senato-and probably would be adopt
ed in conference.
At no tima. did a member of the
dry committee believe the bill as
drawn would go through both hous
es without amendment. It did go
through the house without change,
and then went to the senate.
Senate amendments numbering
about 100 were introduced by Senat
or Robertson; on behalf of the eight
een senators, and supported by them.
The dry senators opposed aections
allowing unlimited possession of li
quors, without any restrictions what
ever, and also changes which would
have opened the way to tlie making
of near-beer. These were the chief
points of difference, and when the
machine leaders forced those chang
er, over, the other amendments were
adopted in a body.
The house refused to accept the
senate amendments, on the ground
that they would make the bill a joke,
and conference committees were
named. House conferees stood firm
for the house bill with the exception
of a possession section, which as
drafted is radically different from
the senate possession clause.
House conferees also refused to
accept the senate near-beer amend
ment and other important changes,
bu'. did accept about forty minor
change.
The title and first section were
amended by the house committee
when it became evident that senate
conferees regarded the original
wording as affording an opening for
near-beer manufacture.
The house committee submitted its
report to the house after waiting
two days for Senator Robertson to
sign it, as at one time he had indi
cated he would do. At no time wre
Senators Mattes and Moriart.v willing
to sign the committee report.
After the house had adopted its
committee report unanimously and
there was no hope of that body
changing front, the senate graduallv
began to weaken.
Senator Robertson asked for an
other conference with the house
committee, but even then balked on
signing the report, containing the re
vised till" and first section. When
two house conferees 'declared they
would wait no longer the senator
signed the report, with very slight
chinges. none of any importance, and
the report was submitted to the sen
ate and passed.
The bill passed by the senate on
Wednesday is the house bill amend
ed by the house conference commit
tee, and including a number of the
minor senate amendments. Senate
conferees, with the exception of Sen
ator Robertson, had nothing to do
with revising the bill, and Robertson
had very little to do with it.
In brief, the senate majority won
a partial victory on the question of
possession of liquor, and on no other
point of importance. The senate waa
forced to recede from the near-beer
provisions, the amendments giving
the dealers time arter May l in wnicn
to dispose of their stocks, the amend
ment permitting the advertising ot
liquor, and from all the important
proposed changes which would have
weakened the enforcement provis
ions of the original bill.
IN EARLY DAYS OF NE8R. '
(rant Miiimwa), State Land Com
missioner, oni i -ihute IntcreM
Ing Data on lot i History
PARTIAL SUFFRAGE
NEBRASKA WOMEN
House I toll 299 Passed State Senate
Saturday Afternoon by a Vote
of Nineteen to Ten
Lincoln, April 21 After seventy-
five days of watchful waiting, Mrs.
W. K Barkley of Lincoln, president
of the Nebraska State Suffrage asso-
Grunt Shuinway, state land com
missioner, has long been recognized
as the leading stall! historian, so
far as Indian history is concerned.
The following bit of state history,
contributed by him. is of especial in
terest to those of us who live in
northwestern Nebraska:
Across the river from the present
site of Comstock, Custer county,
aboui four miles up the river, are
what were locally known as "Burnt
Willows."
In this vicinity there are. or were,
some extensive evidences of an early
fortification possibly made by the
military party, under (I. K. Warren,
which went up the a3iv river over
the present Bite of St. Paul, Dunne
brog and Ioup City about 1855. The
excavationu were likely temporary
defenses used as a sort of rendezvous
for a few months.
Later this military parly continued
in a westerly direction, strlkinu the
Dismal river near where Dunning
now stands, then up the Dismal, then
north across the sand bJUs. Why
they made the stop on the loup riv
er, or how long they were there, or
the purpose of the rifle pit:-;, is not
explained, perhaps It was some other
party entirely. Busty tin plates were
found lying about the old excava
tions In 1872 when Custer county
was surveyed, and In the pigeon
brush below were the rusty rem
nants of some hay scales. For whai
use they could have been, at that
early date, is problematical.
The surveyors of 1876 struck the
trail made by this expedition twenty
one years earlier, on the bluffs above
the tortuous channel of the Dismal
river, some miles west of Dunning.
Where the river swings from side to
side in the gorge that it has eroded
in the sand hills. This meandering
of the stream and quicksands made
it necessary for the expedition to
leave the river and follow the bluffs
and higher .elevation.
Surveying started the moderiihis
tory of Nebraska, and then battle
fields, massacres, and all he early
events fort Hit-ai ion.-; become localiz
ed. An old map in the land commis
sioners' office shows some strange
lines ami names that are now strang
er in Nebraska; forgotten In the
rusk of the reconstructing dreamers
of the last half century. Knox coun
ty was then called the L'beau Qui
Court county, ami Merrick county in
cluded a part of Boone with Pawnoe
reservation thrown in. Holt county
was farthest west in the northern
part of the state and included a por
tion of Boyd.
All of northwestern Nebraska
which now contains Sioux, Dawes,
Box Butte. Sheridan, Cherry. Brown.
Rock, Keya Paha, Custer. Sherman,
Valley. Greeley. Antelope, Garfield.
Wheeler, Ixiup, Blaine and parta of
Boone and Nance, waa unorganised
territory designated as the "Great
Sand Hills." In the extreme south
western corner of the Btp.te was
Jackson county which included all
the territory south of the Platte
west of the Fourth Guide Meridian,
in which now are Perkins, Chase,
Dundy and parts of Lincoln, Hayes
and Hitchcock counties.
' Grant county extended from Kan
sas to the Platte river between the
Third and Fourth Guide Meridians.
and took in Red Willow, parta of
Hayes. Hitchcock, Furnas, Frontier
and Dawson counties. All between
this and Kearney and Franklin coun
ties was known as Lincoln county.
The territory now contains Harlan,
Phelps, Gosper and parts of Dawson
and Frontier and the greater part of
V urnas county.
Thayer county was then a part of
Jefferson. Howard county was a
part of Hall. Lyons county occupied
the territory where we now find Ban
ner, Kimball, Scotts Bluff and partB
of Morrill and Cheyenne counties.
Fort Sidney was in TaylOnVcounty
which took In Garden. Deuel and
parts of Cheyenne and Morrill. Ly
beautiful oak grove. It wna one of
the finest bodies of native oak ever
found in Nebraska. Trees from eigh
teen to twenty inches In diameter
and straight and reasonably smooth.
Tills grove was early reputed to have
been used for caching many barrels
of whiskey by the military nxnodi-
lon of 1885.
Nicholas J. Paul, an uncle of Col
onel Paul, used to tell manv anoc-
"Hoten of ,the earlier years and one
concerning the cache and of the
many searches for the buried bar
rels which if ever found, would be
excellently ripe. Perhaps with Ne
braska dry. the efforts to find them
will be renewed. Perhaps this story
leads to Buffalo Bill's viait there in
or about 1870 or 1871, for Colonel
Cody was not averse to that kind of
nourishment. At any rate, the sur
veying party of Mr. Harvey found in
this grove four logs laid up In the
foundation for a house, and on the
face of a standing blazed oak near by
was the notice of Buffalo Bill's inten
tion to claim the tract as a pre-emption.
A report had been that a short
distance up the Loup there was a
nice spring, and the surveying party
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Nebraska Will Do Its
"Bit;" What it Ex
pected of Farms
Nebraska farmers are mobilised to do a double duty.
Flrat of all, they will do their "bit" In preparing to feed a hun
gry world.
Second, they will retrieve the disaster that fell on the winter
wheat crop.
In 1916 the principal crops of the atate were:
Acreage Yield
Qf 6,710,808 190,070,440
Winter wheat 8,068,756 65,865,601
Spring Wheel 246,5117 8,407,690
nta 2,174,280 88,791,558
Alfalfa 1,127,612 8,419,468
Wiltl hay 2,OW8,l92 9,454,980
Tame hay 159.4IO 882,612
Potatoes 71. TOO 5,999,279
Alfalfa and hays In ton; others In bushel.
Alfalfa, hay, barley ami rye In tons, others In bushel.
Sixty per cent of the winter wheat crop of the state this year is
beyond hope. A larger acreage than usual had been planted, au1
the yield now expected will be In the neighborhood of 25,000,000
bushels.
This loaa will be made up by Increased planting of corn and
oata and in some extent by added acreage of spring wheat. Barb v
and ,-ye will yield as usual, but they are listed among the minor
crops of the state. However, this Is a year when everything counts.
More potatoes than ever will be raised, and an increase of at
least 60 per cent is expected. This will bring the potato crop up to
the neighborhood or 9,000,000 bushels.
Farmers aYe being urged to give especial attention to corn. If
they Increase the yield but 2B per cent over that of last year, which
waa not a bumper crop, It means 250,000,000 bushels of corn.
Half of Nebraska's arable land was Idle last year.
Not an acre should be allowed to remain unproductive this year.
In 1916 the principal crops of Box Butte county were:
Acreage Yield
Potatoes 5,677 680,875
turn , ... 11,158 267,672
Winter wlient 1,400 25,188
Spring wheat 9,844 88,506
ats 10,900 247,229
Alfalfa 4,286 6,000
Wild hay 7,611 4,567
Hnrley 1,820 86,960
8.660 56,864
r
It
sought to find It.
They were between the river at a
branch, called "Rock Croek" that
came in from the west side. Above
this creek. In many places, were
marshy flats full of tall bull-rushes.
Crawling along the river's bnnk, the
thought occurred that it would be a
good thing to camp opposite tho
marshea with the river on the other
aide, aa a protection from possible
hostiles. A man on horseback ap
peared silhouetted against the west
ern sky. "An Indian," and the camp
was thrown instantly Into protective
measures. Men commenced impro
vising rifle pita aa two. three, four,
and then five, horsemen appeared on
the skyline. Suddenly one of the
party was found to be missing.
had become of Scott! J. P.
who still lives in the Grand Va
of the Loup. A few moments
he waa discovered behind tho river
bank casting aside his worn old g9f
ments and donning new overall. Ha
explained his action, saying that
did not want to be found dead
such garments as those be had
aside.
k The horsemen had dropped
the shadows from tho ridge, b
seemed slow In approaching, and t1
or three men were detailed to si
lions in the rushes to moot
while floundering through
slough. Nothing appeared, and t9sv
(Continued on page 4, this aecttotHT-
200 COWS AT
PUBLIC AUCTION
Owing to change of plans, 1 have decided to dispose of mv
entire herd of Breeding Cows consisting of 200 head, 50 w.t!v
calves by side, balance due to calve this spring, runnirgabou
twenty per cent white faces, balance reds. Sale to be at the
stock yards at Antioch, Nebr.,
Wed., May 2, 1917
Sale to commence at 1 P. M. sharp
TERMS
Six months' time will be given on bankable pa
per drawing 8 per cent.
F. ROGERS & SON, Owners
Col. H. P. Coursey,
Auctioneer
C. H. Brittan, Clerk
First State Bank, Alliance