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12 Pages The Alliance Herald ' ILUME XXV ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, JULY 11, 1918 12 1 .KK 32 Hi BURIED WITH FULL MILITARY HONORS Brave Young iai Who Qnee Life for Hi- fountr), Burled in Alliance Cemetery Wednesday AfteiBtuOM, Lewis Clark Ogdcn, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Ogoon, or Alliance, was buried Wednesday afternoon in the Alliance cemetery. Full military honors were given the deceased by the Box Butte Home Uuarcis, WHO at tended the funeral In untrorm, a squad acting as pnll bearers. A sa lute of eieht guns was given by the firing squad at the close or the fu neral services at the grave. The sailor boy, who is survived by his father, mother, three brothers and a litter, all of whom were pres ent at the funeral, died at the U. S. naval hospital. Norfolk, Va., on July 4, after sull'cring for six months. The body was met at the depot by the Home Guards and a large number of friends. After being taken to the Darling Undertaking parolrs, the long funeral procession proceeded to the cemetery, where short funeral serv ices were held by Dr. J. V. Morris, pastor of the Methodist church of Al liance. Dr. Mooris, In beginning the fu neral sermon, told of the lire or the deceased as follows: "Iewis dark Ogden, Jr., was born in Clarks, Mer rick county, Nebr., June 1st, 1903 and moved with his parents to Alli ance, June 5, 1916. When the war was calling for young men he felt the inkindling fires of patriotism, and en liBted in the navy as a second class seaman, April 13, 1916. "After six months of training he made his first trip to France, and was ready for the second voyage when he was taken ill on the very day they were to set sail. After lingering in the hospital for six long months he finally set sail for that far distant shore where no enemy await our com ing. "Unhappy, it seems to us that he could not have fallen, if fall he must, facing the enemy, but his heart was there. He surrendered only to the Captain of our salvation, who orders the I. oh's of the most high. "Here lies the Inst remains of the young hero who fell among the first victims of the mortal conflict which will stand forever emblazon on the pages of history as the most momen tous war in all the ages. But his spirit has gone to join the immortals that have died for freedom and hu manity. "With due military honors we lay our young soldier to rest till that day when the trumpet of God shall call furth all the hosts of the mighty. From Norfolk, Virginia, to Alliance the silent march has been, and here under guard of the mighty angels, and the midnight stars we leave his mortal dust till that last triumphant day." DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION SATURDAY AFTERNOON County Convention of Democratic Voters to Be Held at Court Hou.se 2 I'. M. In accordance with the call of Wil liam Mitchell, chairman of the Demo cratic county central committee, a convention of the Democratic voters of Box Butte county will be held at the court house in Alliance on Satur day, July 13, at 2 p. m. Delegates to the convention, elect ed at the caucus held Wednesday evening, were as follows: Alliance West of Box Butte. Robert Graham William Mitchell H. E. Gafitz William John W. Guthrie J. C. Morrow William Hamilton L. A. Berry Alliance East of Box Butte. E. M. Martin Cal Cox T. M. Lawler Lloyd C. Thomas John R. Snyder Perry Mailey Alternates Si Miller Ed Shields A. G. Brice George Snyder. THE IIEKALIts sEltVH'F FLAG. The Herald this week adds the fifth star to its Ml'? Ill Hag. our city editor, Leonard Hartman. having joiued the aviation corps at Omaha darlBg tin- past week. Al though this leaves the office short on oflice force, we are proud of the five stars on our service flag, rep resenting the following former members of The Herald force: HAROLD S. THOMAS, member radio corps, now stationed at Plattsburg. N Y., and soon to go across the water, according to word received this week. PAUL W. THOMAS, first class musician with regimental band at Camp Funston. vol unteered with the Sixth Ne braska, and expecting soon to leave for Fiance. PHILIP M. THOMAS, enlisted In March in coast artillery and now located near Manilla in the Philippine Islands. The weather is hot here but we bet it's hotter there. E. ANSON THOMAS, youngest of the Thomas boys, became 18 years of age luBt month and immediately enlisted, stationed at Fort Logan and soon to go to Pasadena, Cali fornia. LEONARD C. HARTMAN. en listed last week in the avia tion corps at Omaha. Expects leave within a few days for the east. COUNCIL OF DEFENSE HEARING ON TUESDAY llcinlnirford and Alliance t'iticn failed Before Oottncti for not Pur chasing Bond and Stamp Quota. U. S. CIVIL SERVICE WANTS MORE HELP Examinations Announced for Posi tion In VarioiiM lcwirtinciits of the 1'. H. (Jovcrumciit. DOXlDUTTE EXHIBIT AT STATE FAIR init Agent Neuswanger Wants Partners to Help in (letting Ex hibit for Dee nils Fall. The Box Butte count v council of defense spent a (MM) day Tuesday holding a protracted hearing in the county court room at the court house. A large number of citizens of the COnnty, who had not purrlinscd their quota of liberty bonds and war s:iings stamps, were called before the council and niven the opportunity to do their share. They were treated politely but firmly by the council, with the result that additional sub scriptions were made ror several thousand dollars worth or additional bonds and stamps. John Green, of Antloch, who has been in the city jail for several weeks iind who was charged with making se ditious Utterencee, was brought be fore the council and admitted that he had been guilty of Hinging some bad statements, but claimed that it was done for the sake or arcutnent. The council decided that Tie find been punished sufficiently by btl stay in jail and recommended to the stale Council of defense tbat he be re leased. Members of the council present at the hearings were: Robert Graham, chairman; Ira E. Tash, vtce chair man: John W. Guthrie, secretary; Frank Potmesll, of Hemingford; John Caha. of Iake prertner; E. S. Currv. of Box Butte precne-; J. S. War, of Nonpareil precinct; Alex Un derwood, of Wright prec'ner; E. L. Banks, of Snake Creek precinct; M. D. Healy. of Boyd precinct; J. C. Morrow, Glen Miller, T. D. Ttoberte, A. T. Lunn and William Davidson, of Alliance. (By George Neuswanger, County Ag gricultural Agent.) Farmers who know they will need extra men during harvest should noti fy either Hutton & Clark at Heming ford or the county agent at Alliance, and as far as possible help will be supplied. Various leaf-eating insects have been reported to be attacking scrub bery, trees and some field crops, among them a few potato bugs. One of the most effective means of con trol is that of spraying with a solu tion of arsenate of lead (powder), one and one half pounds to dr;y gal lons as water, two pounds should be used for potato bugs. The solution will stick to the foliage much better if two pounds of ordinary laundry soap is added. Arsenate of lead is polsonnous and care should ;ie r.-er-cised in its use. In 1917 Box Butte county nad no exhibit at the state fair, and aB a re sult many people were of tne opinion that there had been a crop failure in this section of the state. Just now when northwestern Ne braska is attracting more attention than any other part of the state the value of a good agricultural exhibit at the Lincoln fair can nardly be overestimated. Farmers snowing where good samples can be nad will bo doing their bit in letting tne coun ty agent know of these fields. Auto thieves were busy Wednesday night in Alliance. Al ronklln, of O'Bannon Bros.' store, lost a per fectly good Ford car from -n rront of the Central school grounds while he and his family were attending the chautauqua. So far no trace of the missing car has been founc 1 i Roy Wells, "the little corporal," 1b back in the city again after an ex tended stay at Douglus and other Wyoming, points. Roy tells some very interesting fish stories and has regal ed himself on mountain trout until he is nof quite corpulent. SENATOR OBERLIES IN ALLIANCE ON TUESDAY Well Known Lincoln Capitalist and Politician siM iit Two Ihivs in the City on Business. Hon. L. C. Oberlies, of Lincoln, member of the Nebraska state senato, spent Tuesday and Wednesaay In Al liance on business connected with his large real estate holdings in Box Butte county. The senator has re cently disposed of some of his real estate through the agency of The Thomas-Bald Investment company. Senator Oberlies is much Interest- I ed in the development of western Ne braska. He is one of the leading bus iness men of Lincoln and stands high in political circles. He will run for re-election to the next senate. IOI Lee Bayse is going to Scottsbluff I Friday on professional business. F. W. Hicks, local secretary for the United States civil service, at the Al llaJMt post office, announces that ex aminations will he held here soon tor the following positions, most of which can be tilled by either men or women : Telephone Operator, examiner of accounts, clerk for Panama canal scr- ic e, examiner of accounts for inter state commerce commission, clerk iualilled in modern language, associ ate and junior chemist, wireless tele graph operator, mechanical and elec trical laboratorian, master computer and compiler for ordnance depart ment, forest pathologist, calculating machine and multtgraph Mid writer prune operator, statistical clerk, nn- sistant examiner, patent office, field station aid. herbarium assistant, as stslOBl in transportation, stenogra pher and typewriter for Panama can al service, engineer and assistant in forest products, blue printer, leather- worker, teacher in Indian service, lib rary assistant, ceramic engineer, lab oratory aid and engineer, physical laboratory helper, law clerk and type writer, plumber, hooksoeper-type-writer and clerk-bookkeeper, machin ist, senior inspector of motive power, assistant In marketing wool, elec trician, elevator conductor, general mechanic, steam engineer, expert In business administration, production clerk, law clerk and land law clerk, computer in coast and geodetic sur vey, transit man, and metallurgical laboratorian. Full information can be secured re garding any of the examinations from Secretary Hicks at the Alliance post-office Prof. N. A. Bengston, of Lincoln, assistant director of the Nebraska conservation and soil survey, who has been spending a couple of months In the potash district on work for the atntc department, was railed to Lin coln Tuesday by a message stating that he had been called for work at Washington for the government. Prof. Bengston Is a geologist of high standing and, while regretting to leave his work in western Nebraska, was glad that he will have an oppor tune to help out the government during the war. IOI Gilbert Ross came over Monday from Bayard on a short business trip. He is the man who furnishes a large part of the sand shipped here and, to the potash district for the cement work done. IOI John F. Foley and Ella Delslng, of 1 Hemingford. were united in marriage by Father Steder this week at that tdace. la n wn m ak m i l l i mm IOI P k in. China The defeat of the holshcvlki in western Siberia Is Confirmed The new provisional Siberian government has been m tahlishcd at Naonikolacvsk. io I Washington National prohi bition In the United Stales is an assured fact The senate, by a Vote of II to 33, went on record Wednesday In favo- of attaching the nation-wide wartime prohibi tion rider to the pending agricul tural extension bill. The only ac tion which would stop the success of nation-wide prohibition at this time would be the veto of Presi dent Wilson. IOI Washington The ban on the exportation of fodstuffs, raw ma terials and manufactured articles from the United Slates to Mexico wns lifted by the government to day. IOI Paris In the sector to the southwest of Solssons. the French have continued their gains against the Huns, occupying La Grille farm, ndvancing to the outskirts of LottgpOti and penetrating the northern section of Corey. Washngton The United States will have 4,000,000 men under arms by January 1. Those figures include army, navy and marine forces. ASHBERGER LAKf j ASE HELD VALID BY JUDGE 'udge Westover Menders Decision Holding Agreement Between p . win, lav and Palmer Valid. JUDGE WESTOVER HAS FOUR SONS IN?SERVICE District Judge, Who Held Court Mere First of Week, Now "as .service Pin With Four Star. Any person in Italy who purchases foodstuffs or goods of common or large consumption and lays in sup plies greater than their normal or or dinary needs of the family and de pendents, is punnshnble by a fine of from $4 to $190. or by imprisonment for a month, and the goods confiscated. Sergeant Frank Scot;, rormerly in charge of the recruiting station I Al liance for the U. S. army, i-.- now lo cated at Fort D. A. Russell. Chey enne. Wyoming, a member of troop I, "12th cavalrv Frank C Grant, an attorney at Au burn, Nebr., was in Alliance on Mon day and was entertained at the home of Lee Basye. SMALL POTASH LAKE SELLS FOR BIG SUM Thirty-five Acre l.nke, Eight Miles North of lakeside, Sold for S7B.OOO on Tuesday. few - WtBBiBKirtStmiKjLSML ''HsFgaBssVsHFliBBH W. H. Westover, of Rushvllle. dis trict Judge, who presided at the spe cial term of court held In Alliance on Monday, Tuesday and up to Wed nesday noon, has four sons in the service. Bernard 0. Westover Is first lieu tenant In the aviation corps and has been In France since October, 1917, and is no doubt, In the present strug gle. Joe L. Westover Is first lieuten ant in the Infantry and Is located at Camp Custer, Michigan. William H. Westover, Jr., is band master on the flagship of the Pacific fleet and Is at present in San Francisco, Cal. Ray mond P. Westover is first lieutenant In the medical corps and Is located at Omaha, Neb. These four boys are all college men and when the call was made they all enlisted without wait ing for the draft. Noticing that the editor or The Herald was wearing a service pin with four stars for the four "Thom as boys" who are now In the army, Judge Westover Inquired where he could get a pin like it. Tne pin was quickly transferred to the lape: or the judge's coat and Lloyd has ordered another one for his own use. John L. Wuchr, of Ellsworth, and Miss Florence H. More, of Chicago, were quietly united in marriage at the Methodist parsonage on Monday, Rev. J. W. Morris officiating. The young man will soon leave for train ing camp. One of the highest prices paid for a small potash lake in the history of the potash industry in westei a Ne braska is the sale of a thirty-five acre lake, eight miles north of Lake side, on the Lawless ranch, for the sum, as reported, of $75,000 in cash. The lake, which had been passed over frequently as being of compara tively little value, was found during recent testing, to have excellent pot ash deposits in its bed. Lawless had an offer of ffiO.OOO for the lake and was considering accepting It. when other parties, who had been testing, came along with the offer of $7.r,000 cash, which was accepted The potash rights on the Joy ranch, northeast of Allianc.e have teen pi et ased hy Mr. Burns, or Hums K Morrisey. for a reported consideration of $40,000. Burns and ItOTIieej are the men who lined up the aggrega tion of potash lakes to be operated by the Western Potash company, whose plant is nearing completion at An-tloch. A PONY FOR EVERY LITTLE GIRL WHEN CIRCUS COMES No matter how big the circus. No matter how big the elephants, the hippo or the high-hatted announcer'B words, little girls and little boys, but more especially little girls, always fall in love with the preUy ponies. It seemB that little girls and In, I ponies have a sort of instincive un derstanding and liking for each other. In the the picture a lovely Denver tot is seen holding a lellS-FlOto circus spotted pony's head in a manner very familiar that Is for the utter s:ran liers they were live minutes before '.he camera chap BjOl busy. So, v. h 'n Sells-Floto comes to Mllance, Mon day, Jul) 2'!. afternoon only, theie'll be an ong bttgfl beasts of the jungle and I n lreds of big horses, including Sunrise, the golden horse, many cute black and white and spottc. ponhM for the little folk to play with. And there'll be acts in the rings in which two dozen beautiful collie dogs will ride the ponies, Jumping and leaping on their backs just like the human performers will do soon afterwards. When Baby Bon. the hippoptamus, reed tins message to the children, he bawled the press agent out to tea I the big hIiow bands. You Me, Bon used to be two-ton baby hippo, but lie's almost grown-up now and the poor fellow doesn't know it. So. lie wanted to he listed with the pontes for play with the children. Even the colitis dogs, the zebras and the giant gorilla, Colossus, towering Jungle terror, bad to laugh at poor Bon. v uat game could a little girl play with a four-ton Nile river hippopotamus? About twenty of the grand officers of the Rebekah lodge will go to An- tioch on Thursday evening to organ ize and install officers in a lodge at that place. Misses Edith Reddish, Delia Hol- sten, Katherlne Haggerty and Helen Rice spent the Fourth of July in Hot Springs and returned to Alliance on Friday. Dlatrlct Judge W. II. Westover has handed down his decision in the Ash berger potash lake suit in ravor of the plaint i Its and rendered Judgment for the sum of $120,000 agnlnst the Nebraska Potash company and Dr. H. A. Copsey. The opinion has not yet been signed by the judge, as the at torneys In the case are ro De given the right to appeal to the supremo court anil the case will undoubtedly in' snrried up. Attorney Eugene Burton, or Alli ance, has been appointed receiver for the I'almer I'oiash works. His du ties Will lie to sell the assets of the I'almer company, in which Palmer, Erwln and Clay are the partners. These assets Include, besides the small plant, the lease on the lako which has yet eighteen years to run and which Is worth a small rortune. According to the evidence introduc ed in the rase, which Is a Sheridan county case, but waB henrd at Alli ance several weeks ago, the section of land on which the lake Is located was sold to Frank Palmer by Ashberger in 1915. On the section was the lake. which Is twenty rods wide and over half mile long. Palmer bought the land and the lake for $13,200, paying $200 in cash and agreeing to pay the balance of $13,000 on Marcn i, 1917, when the trasfer of the title was to be made. On June 16, 1916, Palmer entered into a partnership with Clay and Er wln to form the Palmer Potash WorkB to reduce the waters of this lake. They met at Palmer-B house and elected their offleerB, Palmer be ing elected manager. The lease made to the company included the south half of the lake, was to run for twen ty years and Palmer was to receive a gross royalty of 12 H per cent They erected the small plant and shipped one carload of potash salts east. According to the evidence. Palmer then sold his contract on the land, including the lake, to Dr. H. A. Cop sey. The lake was then leased to the Nebraska Potash Works for a gross royalty of 10 per cent, Dr. copsey receiving a royalty of $24,000 on a basis of a production of $240,000 worth of potash from the lake. Judge Westover used this as the basis for awarding the plaintiffs one-half of amdunt produced $120,000. Should the supreme court sustain the decision of the district court, It Is contended that Dr. Copsey, having purchased Palmer's right to the land and lake, would receive nn additional 2 per cent from the Palmer Potash Works the royalty Palmer was to receive. ONE HUNDRED PINTS OF SPARKLING DOOZE The Parrhctl ami Thristy Throats at lAkeslric and Anlloch Will Find No Itellef Till. Tlim . M'GLURKEN LAND LEASE HELD INVALID DY COURT Court Found for Plaintiff in Suit Ill-ought to urn el Lease on 2,000 Acres of Itok Unite Land. District Judge W. H. Westover found for the plaintiff in the suit brought in district court by J. P. Mc Clurken to cancel a lease be had given on 2140 acres ol Box Butte county land owned by him in tne wes tern part of the county. The case was a hard fought one and occupied Monday, Tuesday and part of Wednesday in the special term of court held this week. McClurken had given the lease a year ago and brought suit to have it declared void. Accordingto testimony, the rental from the land, after paying tne raxes, would have amounted to about $46 per year for the entire tract The judge, in his decision, dismiss ed the contempt charges. brought against the defendants, holding that thOM had been no purposeful viola tion of the temporary injunction granted some time ago. The defendants in tin- case are re ported to have between rour and live hundred head of cattio grazing on the land, which will have to moved elscw here. Yeah, boy, it would sure have been some time. Goln' over the top wouldn't have been nothin' to It com pared with the high old time they would have hud, if the one hundred pints of sparkling booze, pursed in two innocent looking trunks, nad got ten past Alliance and down in the hills below Lakeside. But while the booze was captured, the real culprits, the horrid bootleg gers, the dirty rapscallions, got away, leaving only a poor, tremblin' little homesteader to take the blame r-nd all because he needed the ten dollars they promised him to go to the sta tion and haul out the trunks. He went, he had the baggage checks, and he was promptly nabbed ny the offi cers who were after the man behind. Jimmy Mcintosh, the homesteader who went after the trunks. Is believ ed to be the goat, according to the of ficers who arrested him. Jimmy swears he didn't know twas booze they promised him ten if he hauled out the trunks. Sheriff Bob Bruce, of Sheridan county. Sheriff Cox, of Alliance., and the Alliance city police force, all did their duty, but the man believed to be the real culprit, left Antioch after the booze had been captured, with out buying a railroad ticket. He went east and blawst it all, the check for $140 which he gave at Newcastle, apparently in payment for the booze. turned out to be N. G. And the throats of the thirsty ones are parched and dry for booze ia Si-arce and as hard to find as an oasis in the Sahara desert. Walter Lyons, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Lyons, .of Hemingford, arived home Wednesday afternoon for a short visit with his parents. Walter is a member of the aero service of the national army and is located at OnlltnM, W. . hita Falls, Texas. Thit, is an advanced dying school for avi ators and Walter tells Bomv tnrllling stories of flights and accidents there. He will return to his army life on Saturday.