Leading Newspaper of Western Nebraska The Alliance Hera "on OFFICIAL ORGAN NEBRASKA STOCK GROWERS ASSOCIATION AND NEBRA SKA STATE VOLUNTEER FIREMEN S A SSOCIATION VOLUME XXIV ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, AUGUST 9, 1917 28 Pages 3 Sections NUMBER 36 BOX BUTTE TAX LIST FINISHED Total Actual Valuation of Real and Personal Property Almost Twelve Million Ki t . COMPLETES HIM TASK Total of 471 Autos Mated 400 Dors Have Owners Wealth in the Live Stork Interests b The total actual valuation of the real arid personal property in Box, Butte county as shown by the report of County Assesssor J. A. Keegan is fli, 523.39!".. The assessed valua tion of the real and personal prop erty is $2,304,679. It is on the as sessed valuation and not the actual valuation that taxes are paid. The assessed valuation is one-fifth of the actual valuation. In other words, if you own a dollar's worth of property and you turn it in to the assessor as worth a dollar, you pay taxes on one fifth of that dollar or twenty cents. If you happen to turn in your dol lar's worth as worth fifty cents and get away with it you pay taxes on one-fifth of the fifty cents or on ten cents. The assessment figures on the var ious properties reveal some interest ing conditions. The banks of the county, according to the assessment, have deposits totaling $154,135, as compared to $89,090 lust year. From these figures two conclusions may be arrived at either the deposits have increased almost 100 per cent dur ing the past yaar, or the assessor was more successful in getting the money listed. While it is undoubtedly true that bank deposits have increased, it Is also true that Mr. Keegan has suc ceeded in unearthing considerable more money than some believed they had. It will no doubt surprise the aver age citizen to learn that the assessed va'v.ation of all the gold and silver jewe'ry in the county amounts to $11; 7. The actual value is given as 91 3 5. The assessed value of all the diamonds in the county is $1,414, the actual value being placed at 97, 070. When it comes to automobiles ihere is something doing. The total number of automobiles listed this yej.r is 471, as compared to 353 last year, a gain of 118 cars. The actual value of all the automobiles owned in Box Butte county is placed at, $1C. 890 with the assessed valuation st $::' 37X The assessment is as of April t. There have been many cars sold since that date, but they of course are not listed in this assess ment. The automobiles number more than one-half as many as the total number of carriages, wagons, coach?, hacks, drays and other ve hicles in the county, there being 931 of these listed. People seem to be more liberal in listing t'.ogs. as 499 out of all the dogs tn thf county are claimed by some one The dogs are listed with :.n actual alue of $2,400 or a little better than $5 each This total is Irought up, however, by the listing Of some aluuble dogs as hiuh as $4 0 and ."0. The hi", noise in Box Butte coun ty's wealth lies In Its wonderful live stock interests Its actual valuation .f horses, mules, cattle and hogs is $l8..,ir,2. The following figures laken from the iveently completed abstract of assessment totals will be of interest: bands. 35.798 acres listed at an average actual value of $6.38 per acre ih total actual value being placed at $4,068,375. Lets: 3.049 lots listed at an aver age actual value of $666.77. the to t.i! actual value being placed at 92. 0M.005 In the list below only the total as sessed valuations are given. The to tal actual valuation in each instance may he determined by multiplying ih an-essed valuation by five, the assessed valuation being one-fifth of the actual valuation. Assessed Value $90,8:u 2,58:? 158. 603 5.253 82 130 1 ."..670 12,671 30,827 2.73 5 ture and library Firearms 209 Fire and burglar-proof safes 72 Steamboat and other water craft 1 Stationary engines. 29 tas and steam engines 42 Threshing machines. 7 Wagon scales .... 15 Patent rights .... Automobiles 471 Bicycles .etc 18 Menu, tools Agricultural tools Cream Separators 258 Butter-making machines 8 Harness, saddles . Cartages, etc 931 Nursery stock . . . Merchandise, etc. . Typewriting, add mch 109 Typesetting machines. Cameras 22 Phonographs 102 Moving picture machines 3 Int. in state lands Impr. leased lands Cash registers .... 68 Dogs 449 Poultry, dozen .... 2,545 Sheep and goals . . 49 Incubators 31 Bushels wheat ... 11,111 Bu. corn 300 Bu. rye 1.920 Bu oats 3.600 Bu. potatoes .... 270 Bu. spelts 90 Bu. grass, etc., seed 30 Tons hay, etc 54 Other property . . Broom corn Articles for manu. . . Books, etc Shares of stock Stocks in corpor'n . Franchises 50 per cent penalty for refusing to list . . . Accident, fire, lifo ins. Express companies . Telegraph companies Telephone companies Prop, of railroad . Prop. Pullman Co. . . 25.569 322 466 322 1.299 154 74 20 32,378 1.576 2,383 8.196 717 81 4,442 4.293 45 87,285 671 389 34 514 35 480 1,788 669 480 1,618 92 32 2.760 97 235 394. 4 54 6 20 77 304 40 185 2. 21 53.000 554 52 4 9.114 1.815 252 10.000 474.771 3,255 ALLIANCE WANTS POTASH PLANTS Alliance Citizens Urging that Efforts lie Made to Induce Potash t orn panic to llullcl Here TURKIC PLANTS IN I'HOSI'MT FRANK B. MOFFITT ' DIED HERE TODAY Funeral of Well-known Pioneer Hanchman Ui He Held Friday at Episcopal Church Frank B. Moffitt. well-known ranchman of western Nebraska, died this morning at 11:17 o'clock at St. Joseph's hospital In Alliance follow ing an illness of about a week caused by acute kidney and bladder trouble. Mr. Moffitt was almost 69 years old and was one of the pioneer set tlers of his neighborhood. Moffitt postoflice was named after Mr. Mof fitt, as was the Moffitt route out of Alliance. The ranch is located twenty-eight miles south and east of this city in Garden county. Deceased was taken ill a week ago Tuesday night and was brought to the hospital here Friday of last week. He had not been in the best of health for a period extending over about two years, but the illness di rectly responsible for his death last ed only a little more than a week. Mr. Moffitt was horn in Chilli cbthe. III., and moved to his ranch in what is now Garden county thir teen years ago. He is survived by four children, being: Frank A. Mof fitt of Chicago, 111., and Tom ). Mof fitt. Mrs. S. K. Smith and Miss Edith Moffitt of Moffitt The wife preced ed him to the great beyond and is buried in the cemetery at Chillico the. Ill Funeral services will be held at St .Matthew's Episcopal church in Alliance at 10 o'clock Friday morn iug. after which the remains will be sent to Chillicothe, III., where inter ment will be made beside the wife. Frank A. and Miss Kdith will accom pany the remains KICKED IN HEAD BY HORSE-DIED MONDAY lion of Plant Here Would Menu Expenditure of Hundreds of Thousand" of Dollar Since the announcement in The Herald last week of the organization of the Alliance Potash Company with the intention of immediately erect ing a $165, 000 plant at Antioch for the purpose of taking the potash from the lake waters east of Alliance, a movement hns been started to in duce the new company to erect its plant In the city. If the four plants now constructed and in opecation bad been located here instead of at Hoffland, Antioch and Lakeside, it would have meant the investment of probably not less than $800,000 in equipment, build ings, etc., in the city, but would have meant an addition to the city in pop ulation of several thousand people. The weekly payroll of these plants amounts to a good many thousand dollars. The Alliance Potash Company has already purchased a forty-acre tract at Antioch on which to erect their plant, but the men who are interest ed in getting the plant located here are of the opinion that if a site was offered the officers of the new com pany they might be induced to run the pipe line here instead of to Anti och. They state that only three miles of additional pipe line will be required. It is believed that two more plants will soon be erected. Efforts will be made to get them to consider Alli a:ic as their location in erecting their plants. 21 PASSENGERS SLIGHTLY INJURED Burlington Through Train Leaves Track Near Douglas Tues day Morning Twenty-one passengers were shak en up and a fe wslightly injured, but none seriously, when Burlington through train number 19. botind west from Denver to Billings, was wrecked on the rasper division three miles east of Gleucross and about twelve miles west of Douglas, Wyo.. at 6:58 o'clock Tuesday morning. Seven cars were derailed. The cause of the wreck Is unknown. The wrecker left Alliance Tuesday morn ing to assist iu the work of clearing the wreckage. A shoo-fly was built around the derailed cars and trains were running Tuesday night. POTATO GROWERS TO ORGANIZE FRIDAY TEACHERS' JNSTITUTE Annual Session of Box Hutte Count Teachers' Institute to He Held t Central School AUGUST !MI TO 24. INCLUSIVE No Horses 8,186 Mules 220 Tattle 2 4,54 2 Hogs 2.708 Annuities Bonds Notes secured by mort. All other notes .... Money on hand or deposit Money loaned Mom y paid Hldg . Loan and Savings Ass:t. Mone paid on tax sales Judgments due ... Hook accounts ... Shares of stock in corpn Cred not otherwise listed t'apital invested by grain brokers Jewelry. koIC. silver Diamonds Gold, silver, walchcK and lo.ks 742 Pictures, engravings Pianos 461 Organs and other mu sical instruments Itl office and store fixtures, furniture and equip. Sewing, knit, machine 771 Billiard tables, etc 31 Prop, of eat. houses household effects, fural- l .mho i Living Near Heoiiitgford Died at Hospital M KeMilt of Accident Hiram Bently Hoppich. a farmer living live miles north of Heming ford. died at the hospital here Mon da night following injuries sustain .(I last Thursday night when he was thrown from a horse at his place near Hemingford. He was 43 years old and leaves a wife and six child ren. Mr. Hoppich. with his family, came to this county last spring from FarragUt, Iowa, and purchased what is known as the Whelan place. Thursday night Mr. Hoppich tried to saddle and ride a horse purchased at a sale recently, and not being fa miliar with the way of some horses of the western variety, was thrown off. The horse kicked him in the u i Ah jtf ih. hMuri lit h'. ..in,- inwon- i?7 )M'ou, on being curried to the house. 12 ' He was later brought to the hospital 1.414 h(M.e 1.229 ! WEEKLY WEATHER KJCPOMT 46 i F. W. Hicks, official weather ob 9,239 server for Alliance, reports the wea jtber for the past week as follows: 5fl Aug Max. Min Rain Wind Day .4 8.', 415 14 .399 276 104 Potato Specialists Will Attend Meet ing at Hemingford to Help Grow er Get Started C. E. Basset t of the United tates Department of Agriculture,, office of Markets and Uural Organization, who was to meet with the potato growers of Box Butte county at Hem ingford on Friday of this week. Aug ust 10th. has advised the Box Butte County Farm Bureau that he will be detained by an unexpected call to Washington, but sends his assistant. O. B. Jenness, to meet with the Box Butte potato growers at Hemingford on Friday. The meeting will be held in Chindler's hall. The objvet of the meeting to be : held Friday is to take up and con sider plans of marketing and potato growers commercial organizations It will be imperative that the potato i crop this year be successful)' market ed because of the world wide shortage of food. Mr. .lenness is a thorough ly competent man and understands the government's plan of organiza tionIn fact he had much to do with drawiuu the plan which he will pre sent to potato growers at Heming tord. He is also in louch with pres eni needs and methods of storage, and the Government's interest in the matter. In addition to the lalk and sugges tions by Mr. Jenness. Prof. II C Pilley Field agent in .Market inn. formerly head of th Farm Manage ment Department of the I'niversii) Will he present. Potato growers are indeed fortunate in having two men so thoroughly specialized in this ; work as these men are to help theni ! get started All Who Expect to Teach In County During footing Year Are Re quired to Attend The annual session of the Box Butte County Teachers' Institute conducted by County Superintendent of Schools Opal Russell will convene this year tn the Central School build ing In Alliance. Mondny, August 20, at 8 a. in sharp, and will continue in session five days. All persons ex pecting to teach in Box Butte county during the coming yeur will be re quired to enroll and to attend the entire session of five days. Miss Rus sell states that ft will be useless for anyone to ask to be excused, to en ter late or to leave early. This time, August 20 to 24, In clusive, has been selected because it is believed to be ths best time during the summer to hold an institute. The summer schools being closed, the teachers know where they are going to teach the coming year, and com ing, as it doss, immediately before the fall term, the new methods of instruction and inspiration gained may be carried directly to the school. Attendance at summer school or any other institute will not be taken In lieu of attendance at the. Institute to be held in Alliance starting Aug ust 20. Cnder the present law the renewal of some certificates depends partly on a proficiency grade from the county superintendent, and the attendance and work at Institute will form a partial basis from which to derive this grade. Certificates are being Issued where teachers are en titled to them, when called for, with the understanding that the full in stitute attendance will be made. The enrollmout fee is $1, and it is sug gested that each teacher bring a sil ver dollar so no time will be lost In enrolling. The time for enrolling Is 8 o'clock Monday morning, August 20. Note books and song books will be furnished, but teachers will be re quired to supply their own pencils. Iteadina Circle books for next year will be on sale at the Institute. The teachers' monthly reports and other blanks and supplies will be distribut ed during the institute. A list of boarding and rooming places will be on hand and may be had by applying to the county super intendent. Agents will not be al lowed to interfere with any one's work connected with the Institute, and those enrolled are requested to report any and all who interfere. Visitors are welcome at the insti tute. Students, prospective teach ers and teachers from other coun ties are invited to attend the Box Butte county institute In Alliance, but It should be understood that thev must pay the regulation fee. A most cordial invitation Is extended to the school officers of the county to visit the institute at any time. The faculty of the Box Hutte insti tute includes Dr. C. B. Cornell, man ual training supervisor in the Lin coln schools, who will teach manual training. He has taught in the Pe ru Nortual and State University, and the last two summers has taught in the Chadron Normal, and is known to practically every teacher in this section Miss Susan R. Frazier, pri mary critic In Chadron Normal. Is one of the faculty and is well known having taught In the Alliance schools for a number of years. Miss Abbie Robertson of Atkinson, who has been an instructor in the institute here for two years, will return for this year. She needs no Introduction to Box Butte teachers. Superintendent of Schools opal Russell is known to all. Miss Russell as county super intendent conducts the institute and has ull the details worked out. It is expected that iii addition to ! those who exect to teach in this county next year, there will be a goodly number of students, prosper! I lye teachers, and teachers from other counties in attendance. pose, and will have here, besides some long-horn Oklahoma steers, these famous horses Cry Hahy, 111 He Damned. Blonde, Ixidge Pole Black. Dynamite, Black DotttoB, Kai ser. Rooney, Black Jim, Dnnth Val ley. The Fly. and Cyclone. The program will also Include free platform performances, girls', boys' and men's foot races, free-for-all horse races, and local and profess ional bucking contests and steer rid ing contests. This will make two full days of entertaiument and you want to come with your mouth puck ered for a mouthful of the real thing in a Round-up exhibition. The free attractions, engaged at big expense by the committee of the firemen, will furnish entertainment both forenoon and evening. Two balloon ascensions with parachute drops will be staged and will be free to everybody. The dance in the ev ening will be patronized until a late hour. The advertising committee has been very busy and has billed every town along the Union Pacific into Wyoming and most of the other towns In Nebraska. Everybody is putting his shoulder to the wheel, and something serious will have to happen to spoil our Round-up days' Arrangements have been made with the Union Pacific for Increased pas senger service and all the trains will stop here on the 16th and 17th ex cept the limiteds and 13, 17 and 15, and passengers on these trains can make close connections with the lo cals at Kearney and Lexington. This gives numbers 6, 18, 19, 25, 11, 3, 4, 24. 16, 14 and 12, which will en able a lot of people to come to Elm creek by rail with little trouble. More will come in their autos, perhaps, than by rail and the committees an tlcipate a crowd which will tax the village above Its capacity to take care of over night. The ftoacon has been Instructed to ask our citizens to provide every accommodation pos sible for taking care of the people at night and every cot. bed and blanket can be made use of. Elmcreek Bea con, Elmcreek, Nebr. Adv 37-H-8504 SEIDELL APPOINTED LAND APPRAISER Box Hutte's County Agent Is .Made Apprnisor for Omaha Federal Farm Iamui llsiik Fred M. Seidell, for the past two years count) agent for Hie Box Butte County Farm Bureau, has been ap pointed land appralsor for the Oma ha Federal Farm Loan Bank doing business in Iowa. Nebraska. South Dakota and Wyoming. One particularly pleasing thing to Mr. Seidell in connection with this appointment is the fact that he had made no application for the position. It came to him unsolicited. He was pleased to accept It, as it carries with it a substantial salary with tra veling expenses paid. Mr. Seidell will continue to make his headquar ters in Alliance, at least for the present. Monday night Mr. Seidell left for Arthur. Nebr., the county seat of Arthur county, to appraise land for the Arthur County Federal Farm Loan Association He made the trip overland. Mr. Seidell's connection with farm ing activities in his capacity as conn ty agent and district supervisor of county agents has placed him In a position to observe farm conditions in a way that will prove most bene ficial iu his new work as appraiser for farm loans No successor has as yet been ap pointed for Mr. Seidell, but the Carta Bureau Is cons dering two or trhee whose qualifications are such that it is believed they can take up the work where Mr Seidell left off. Assistant County Agent Rex Truman is acting as county agent until Hie new agent is appointed FIRST 60 MEN ARE CALLED Ten Notified to Appear For Examina tion Today, 10 Friday, in Satur day, and 80 Monday MORE TO RE SUMMONED Clalmhs for Exemption to be Filed After the Physical Examina tions are Made Sixty men in Box Butte county have been summoned to appear be fore the exemption board In Alliance on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week and Monday of next week for physical examination. It Is prac tically a certainty that more men will be summoned this week to appear for examination the early part of next week. County Clerk W. C. Mounts, secretary of the local exemp tion board told a Herald representa tive that the board would call from twenty to twenty-five a day from now on until Box Butte county's quota of 31 for the conscripted army was secured. The first examinations are being held this afternoon at the office of sheriff Cox In the court house. Ten were notified to appear for examin ation today, fifteen to appear Friday fifteen Saturday and twenty on lion day. Additional calls will be issued until the complete quota Is secured. Under the regulations the physical examinations are to come before claims for exemption are filed. In case the drafted man fulls to pass the examination there will be no ne cessity for his claiming exemption. Elmer Lee Marsh, whose serial number is 783 and whose nume ap pears third in the order of call for Box Butte county will be the first to be examined. There were two oth ers drawn before Mr. Marsh bu,t these two are not iu Box Butte county and as a result Mr. Marsh will be the first to be examined. Juiues Henry Tally had the first number drawn, No. 258, but he had joined the United States Navy at Omaha before the drawing. Earl Lynn Pules whose serial number was 4 58 and whose name appears second In the order of call has moved to Cedar Hrplds snd has been granted permission to be examined there. The indications are thut the new conscription army or national army will be called out in increments of 100.000 men. An order has been re ceived by th locsl board which gives the local board authority to release men needed in harvesting crops un- 11 the later increments are called nto service. This will make it pos sible, according to the expressed be- ief of some, that men needed in the OXrVOSt fields may be designated to one of the later units It is probabl.v hat the several units will be called at periods of one to two weeks apart .ii ting with the first call about the first of September. The following men registered in Box Butte county have bacn railed o report for examination today, Thursday : Order Serial DIG ROUNDUP AT ELM CREEK, NEDR. MAY MAKE APPEAL TO ROBERT GRAHAM 3 101 48 "726! 4 95 60 1.241 I 5 76 T.4 312 6 78 55 1.177 7 48 I 83 1 02 .19 S E s NE W N E Clear Pt Cldy Pt Cl.ls Clear Clear Pi CM) CARD or THANKS We desire to extend to those friends and neighbors who so kind ly snd thoughtfully assisted us dui iur the illness and death of our he loved father, our heartfelt gratitude. FRANK A MOFFITT. TOM O MOFFITT. MRS S E SMITH. MISS EDITH SMITH Wild Western Round-up oiuhig on August Id and 17 at Neigh boring City The size of the days' programs ami the crowds expected on Round up days is beginning to loom up in the near horizon. Elmcreek will jhave u real round-up, the. best bora tes and riders who mak- the show at ICheysnOS and Oaalalla will be here land the roping and bull dogging will ' be put on b the Iv'st men in the West. I .on Cogger will be here with six teen of I he best and wildest bucking horses, and Mr. Cogger owns the horses used at the Ogalallt frontier days He makes a busiaess of col lecting the best horses for this pui- Prehideut. Through Governor, Ap- Millts Gobi. Graham Miperx I- or of Exemption Hoards Postmaster Robert Graham, who is also chairman of the Box Butte county council of defense, has re ceived an appointment from Presi dent Wilson, through Governor Ms v ill-, naming him as supervisor of exemption boards for Box Butte county. The position will probably mean considerable work for which there Is no cash rem n nerat ion. It is presumed a supervisor has been appoint. i for each county. Any person who believes he may not have rotten a square deal be fore the local board who knows that untrue statements have been made to the board may communicate hi information to Mr Graham, who acts as the representative of the govern oregl anil who will make an invesli gallon. Section 27 of the rules and litis- lions for local and district boards makes it plain that the provost mar slial or ins representative nas auui ority to represent the government inri to make appeal from the decia Ions of the local board to the district hoard where the facts would seem to justify it Mr. Graham will take ap peals from persons who were not ex eiepted. but who believe ihey are en niled to exempt ton No. No. . 1. .".8 James Henry. Tally, Alli ance, Nebraska. 2. 4 58 Earl Lynn Pulis, Alliance, Nebraska. 3. 783 Elmer Lee Marsh, Alli ance, Nebraska. 4. 337 Cliff Frauklin. Alliance, Nebraska. 5. 67 Pete Sciora, Hemingford, Nebraska. 6. 2 7 5 Charles Albert Whaley, Alliance, Nebr. 7. 509 Melvin Wesley Colerick, Alliance, Nebraska. 8. 54 James C Hibbert. Alli ance, Nebraska. 9. 596 Francis Tonsend. Alliance, Nebraska. 10. 536 John Le Roy Sisley, Alli ance, Nebraska. ' Will Report Friday The following fifteen men have been notified to appear for examina tion on Friday, August 10th: II. Maitin Baker. Alliance, Nebr. 12. ( yrll Havlik. Alliance, Nebr. If. TM Ray Vernon Reddish, Alli ance, Nebraska. It. 755 Edward Raymond Paul, Hemingford, Nebr 15. l'-T Harry Gavellck. Alliance, Nebraska. ltj. :. Charley Claxtoii. Hemlag ford, Nebr 17. 373 Arthur E. Lyon. Alliance, Nebraska. 18. 755 John Carlos Healey, Alli ance. Nebraska. 19 4 86 James Belle Johnston, Alliance, Nebr. 20. ':: William Robert Grant, Marsland. Nebr 21. Min Raymond West lake. Alli ance. Nebraska. 22. 507 Jesse Chilson, Alliance, Nebraska. 1509 Ernest S Browei. Alli ance, Nebraska 4 37 Theodore E Veager. Alli- :, i es, Nebraska. )i4 Tom H. ...ho n i Alliance, Nebraska. Will Report Saturday The iullowing fifteen men have been notified to appear for examina lion on Saturday. August. 11th: 21. 43 Earl F. Broderick. Alli- (Costinued on par I)