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The Alliance Herald "THE MINT MAKES MONEY WITHOUT ADVERTISING; NO ONE ELSE CAN." Printer's Ink. Local Section Twelve Pages YOLUME XXVI. ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11th, 1910 NUMBER 41 LIVELY SESSION HAD BY COUNCIL TUESDAY NIGHT FARMERS ENTER EMPHATIC PROTEST AGAINST CONDITION" OF THE DIMP CJHOVND. Septic Tank AIo Subject of Discus sion When Iainl-Holder Vrge Change of Conditions. Emphatic protest was entered by a delegation of farmers who own land and reside in the vicinity of the city farm at the meeting of the city coun cil held on Tuesday evening at the city hall. The delegation was head ed by Messrs. Enoch Boyer. Jerry Wells, H. D. Healy, George W. Na tion and was composed of the other land-holders of the vicinity. The city dump grounds is an eye core, they claimed, the condition of the septic tank is abominable, they insisted and in each instance they are correct. They not only told tns mayor and council of their feelings in the matter, but they insisted that something which would relieve the situation be done and by one or more suits was threatened in case it was not done. To the administration of the city affairs this was no news. Long since has it been apparent to the board that some disposition should be made that would eliminate this eye-sore and to abolish the terrible odor arising from the septic tank, tut what that disposition is to be the board has as yet been unable to solve. The installation of an incin erator has been considered but this gives no promise of complete relief as regards the dump grounds situa tion and other propositions that promise relief may prove prohibitive because of the excessive costs. The city council, regardless of the protest made, will take action immediately that will bring "about the desired re sults in part at least and as soon as possible the conditions will be right ed. The city manager was Instructed to enter into contract with the D. W. Pyle Company of Lincoln for the Minting of both the interior and the exterior of the standpipe. The ma terials to be used are of an iron preservative nature and will add to the life of the standpipe. several or dinances were passed and the regu lar routine business was transacted DEI) RICK TOOK FRENCH LEAVE! FROM C1IADRON CALABOOSE Allen Dedrick. awaiting trial upon & charge of having obtained from the railroad company free transportation while in the employ of the company and of having sold the said pass took French leave of his comfortable or uncomfortable abode at the jail in Phadron a few days ago and has since been a fugitive of justice. Mr. Dedrick had become one of the trus ties of the sheriff and was privileged to the extent that he was allowed to do small jobs around the Jail and court house without being guarded and while on such duty made good his getaway. The party to whom the rass was sold is now doing time in the state penal institution. AUTO ACCIDENT CAME NEAR PROVING FATAL Mrs. Cora Miller, Fifty Years of Age Severely Injured hen Struck by Car Yesterday. An automobile accident which came near causing the death of Mrs . Cora Miller of this city happened Wednesday afternoon when a car driven by Mrs. John Liggett ran down and severely injured Mrs. Mill er. The unfortunate incident happen ed on Sixth street between Yellow stone and Missouri avenues at about three thirty o'clock. Mrs. Liggett who was at the wheel of the car, in company with her daughter, Miss Belle, Eastman, had started for the city and as the car descended the de cline from Missouri the machine was allowed to coast. About midway of the block Mrs. Miller was noticed crossing the street and the brakes were applied by Mrs. Liggett, but as the car approached a confusion of the proper course to take was ex perienced by Mrs. Miller and unable to stop the car the driver attempted to miss her, but in this she also fail ed and with the result that Mrs. Miller was run down and received several serious injuries. She suffer ed a broken bone in the right arm, a broken rib and a severe wound upon her body. The ambulance was at once called and the injured wom an, who is more than fifty years of age taken to the hospital, where she is rapidly recovering. Mrs. Liggett was almost prostrated following the accident and it was necessary to se cure medical attention for her also. The Chevrolet car found by the local authorities near the fair grounds after it had been deserted by those who had driven it to this lace proved to be a stolen car and was this week claimed by parties from Berlin. North Dakota. The 11 cense tag. which had been transfers red from a Ford proved tne ciue ior the discovrey of the proper owners L . umk,, jm&mtj STANDPIPE WILL BE PAINTED BY PYLE Contract Authorized by City Council at Regular Meeting Held on Tuesday Evening. The city water suppl; rervoir, the standpipe, will be given a treat ment of preservative paints by the D. W. Tyle & Company workmen within the next few weeks, according to the instructions of the city council at its regular meeting held on Tuesday evening. During the time the workmen are engaged in the work it will be neces sary for the water department to empty the large reservoir and ar rangements will be necessary which will provide for an ample supply of water. This - will be accomplished from the water works and City Man ager C. C. Smith will see to it that the provision is made. The Pyle Company, it will be remembered, had the contract on tb eprevlous occasion of. the standpipe's painting. Mr. Pyle has Informed Manager Smith that he will be here on Saturday of this week to enter Into the proper contracts for the work, which will cost about $590. ALLIANCE LOST BEST CAME OFTHE SEASON Scottsbluff Athletics Grabbed the Honor in Fast Exhibition of National Pastime. The Alliance base ball team lost the best game of the season to bi played on the home diamond Sunday afternoon when the Scottsbluff Ath letics nosed the locals out by a score of four to three. The visitors started things to hap pening in the first inning when by timely hitting they were able to push two men across the platter for as many scores. Alliance's ball tossers in retaliation grabbed a couple and for several innings the game was a tie. At no time during the nine in nings, which were played in major league style was there anything that sembled a victory by either team and not until the eighth inning did the sugar beet men put over the score that proved the winning one. The Scottsbluff team is made up of the cleanest bunch of ball players which has visited Alliance this year and their victory was well earned. MIKE NOLAN LOSES IN LONG FOUGHT SUIT Alliance Railroad Man is Decided Against in Federal Court Sitting at Chadron This Week. Michael Nolan, of Alliance and former engineer on the Burlington, lost a long-fought suit against the Burlington railroad company at the hearing had at Chadron in the Fed eral court this week. The case grew out of the discharge of Mr. Nolan from the services of the company a couple of years ago and was an action brought by him to recover the amount of money equiv alent tb the benefits he would have received from the railroad men's re lief benefit had he remained in the employ of the company. The stip ulated amount was 134,000. The court ruled that the evidence in the case was insufficient to warrant a full hearing and dismissed the case at the expense of the plaintiff, Mr. Nolan. Under the supervision of City Physician Dr. George J. Hand and City Manager C. C. Smith the city pest house is being remodeled this week. For a long time this place has been almost inhabitable and the city physician took the steps neces sary to bring about a reformation. Rox Rutte County's rrlze Winning A BOX BUTTE COUNTY WINS FIRST AT GREAT "VICTORY" STATE FAIR Agricultural Exhibit Put on by Alli ance .Men Scores 882.7 Point Kimball Second with .1704) .(By John W. Thomas) For many years the Nebraska state fair has been right up among the best in the nation. This year our state fair" ran away ahead of all of its predecessors in attendance, and was among the best, if not the very best,, in point of attractions. In a short story such as this must be, it is impossible to describe or even mention all the features. The attraction which no doubt drew more people than any ether one thing was Lieutenant Lock ear's airplane per formance. The Lincoln Dally Star of Sunday, September 7, contained an intensely interesting story descrip tive of this feature. As this story will be reproduced In , The Hers'd, futher description will not be given here. Record Ri-eaking Attendance Each succeeding Nebraska state fair for some years past has been a record breaker in total attendance. In 1915 the total was 180,713; in .1916 it was 193,176; in 1917 it pas sed the much wished for one-fifth of a million mark wKh a total of 200, 468; last year Increased that to 213 937; while this year wiped out last years' high water mark and smashed all previous records with a total of 262.458, a jump of nearly fifty thousand. I The largest single day attendance prior t othiB year was on Thursday of fair week last year, with 65,562 persons on the grounds; but Wed nesday of this year passed that record more than six thousand with an at tendance of 71,774. People, people, not a big crowd in one or two places, but everywhere you went on the grounds people by the hundreds and thousands. On Wednesday 6,185 automobiles were admitted to the grounds after which a thousand were turned away on account of all parking space that could be spared inside being occu pied. Probably a thousand more failed to apply for admission upon learning from others that they could not get in. The total number of auto mobiles admitted during the fair was 24.863. Last year the total was 15, 731. County Agricultural Exhibit Among the most interesting as well as the most benefltlal features of the Nebraska state fair are the county agricultural exhibits. For ex hibition purposes the state is divided into three districts, eastern, central and w-estern, and another class this year for the first time for irrigated counties. Scottts Bluff county was alone in the last named class, being the only county in the state in which' more than one-half of the land that is un der cultivation is under irrigation. Owing to heavy expense and large amount of extra labor required to grow crops under Irrigation, the un lrrigated counties did not believe that it was fair to require them to compete with irrigated crops, and secured a decision to that effect this year. The Sheridan county exhibit was lost in transit, being Bet out for some unknown reason in the railroad yards at Fremont. The Sheridan county boosters who were in charge of the exhibit, when they learned that it had been lost, kept the wires hot until it had been located. It was put in place in agricultural hall Tuesday night too late to compete with exhibits that were in pi ace on first day of the fair. It was nice but I think not nearly as extensive as last year'a Sheridan county exhibit, a picture of which was published in The Herald of August 14. If it had been in place in time to compete, it might have crowded Dawes county grfcultural Exhibit at "Victor" Fair out of third place and possibly Kim ball county out of second. Box Butte county came off with flying colors, winning first place over the other three competitors In the western district. Below is a list of the counties in each district compet ing: in the nirrlriiltiirnl cvMhlta with the amount of money won by each. I Awards for agricultural disDlavs 1 of the fifteen counties eihihitinir : place Douglas county first in the I nieil'",ng UIon the tak no ,PB8 than eastern district with Lancaster Bec-! p''ven'tynIne tourist cars have trav ond. Kearney county won first place ler"ed the rou,e anl that each party In the central district and. Box Butte l ad "I"-'"'" Kret surprise at the took premier honors In the western ' grope of Productive land served by district. Fnllnwine art th I . Eastern District. Counties. Points . Prize Money Douelas .. i 3fi a tsoo cs Lancaster 1.346 305 80 ! Central District. Kaiy- 1.328.5 324.15 Fillmore ....1,318.4 303.04 Antelope 1,160.1 277.21 York 956.1 24181 Custer 427.1 42.70 Franklin 387.3 . 38.73 Polk 230.8 23.08 WeMem District. Box Butte 382.7 229.47 Kimball 370.8 208.28 Dawes 340.3 195.24 Cheyenne 213.6 167.56 Scottsbluff county stood in a class by itself, the only irrrfgated county In the state of Nebraska. It scored 1,007.6 points and its prize money was $291.96. The fact that counties in the east ern and central districts scored sever al times as many points as the coun ties of corresponding rank in the western district does not prove that their products were that much bet ter, if better at all. Their larger number of points was due principally if not entirely, to the very much larg er variety of products in their im mense exhibits upon which points were marked. Sixty per cent of the total prize money was divided equally among all counties whose total number of points did not fall below 50 per cent of the average for the district. This explains why Custer, Franklin and Polk counties received such small amounts of the prize money. Each of them fell below fifty per cent of the average number of points for their district, the central. The division of prize money gave $14 6.20 to each county whose score did not fall below 50 per cent of the average for its district. A bonus of $4 5 was given to the winners of first places, $25. for second place and $15 for third place: In addition ten cents was allowed for every point scored and those falling below the 50 per cent minimum were awarded prize money on. the scale of ten cents a point only. Much credit is due the men who helped to collect and exhibit the pro ducts that won first place in the west ern district for Box Butte county this year. With a meager appropria tion by the county commissioners, the smallest perhaps that was made for the same purpose by any county board in the state, to which was ad ded a hundred dollars by the Alliance Community Club, they made a show ing of the resources of Box Butte county and western Nebraska that cannot fail to be beneficial to this part of the state Oet Ready for Next Tear Plans should be laid right now for next year's exhibit at the state fair. A movement that will hasten develop ment of the resources of Box Butte county and northwestern Nebraska will benefit every person who has in terests in the county or this part of the state. Sentiment should be stir red up in favor of a liberal appro priation by the county commission ers to pay the necessary expenses. (Continued on Page 12.) SAND HILLS ROAD NOW PASSABLE TO WAGNER'S Auto aGtea Have Hern Initialled Over Route Eliminating Tank of 0en ing nnd Closing Wire Ones. The work on the Broadwater-AUl ance road through the sand hills is rapidly nearing completion. At this s been finished time the grading ha as far as the Wagner place and over Place, and over the entire line to Covalt's auto gates nave replAced the wire ones. Mr. J.7. nave nexi spring. D- Blcknell, who has had the work in rnRrRe Informed a Herald represen latlve this that Blnce his com new roaa. Before the Job is entirely finished l1 nw Erad will be surfaced with i shale, clay and gravel In the opinion of ,noM' ,n rharg of the work the iuau wm ue uoe 01 ine main iraveiea and leading highways of this section or tne state. Morrill county is hav ing the work done and similar action should be taken by the county com missioners of Box Butte county that the line may be made to extend the full distance to Alliance. ANGORA-ALLIANCE BALL GAME HERE SUNDAY WEEK Matched ConteM Will Decide Supre macy or Two Team In Iabor Day Game. The base ball clubs of Angora and Alliance will cross bats upon the Al liatice fair grounds on Sunday after noon, September 21st, according to arrangements now being made for this matched game. This game is the outgrowth of the rival contentions of the two teams after the game played on Labor Day in which the locals won a victory by a score of five to three. A wager cf $500, at least, will be posted by the supporters of either club and the winners of the game will be awarded the full gate receipts. An umpire of repute will be imported that each club may be given absolutely fair decisions. The game should be one of the best to be played in western Nebraska this year as the teams are very evenly matched and each will play hard to win. The biggest crowd to attend a base ball game in Alii ance this year is expected to witness the conteBt. The line-uns will be exactly as played on Labor Day. M. E. Conference AiioJntiiient. The following pastorate appoint ments were made by the Northwest Nebraska conference of the Method ist Episcopal church for the year Alliance District, O. S. Baker, Sup erintendent, P. O. Chadron, Nebras ka; Alliance, Mearl C. Smith; Alii ance Circuit, W. A. Bowden; Bayard, E. M. Kendall; Chadron, E. C. New land; Crawford, H. E. Wright; Ger ing, G. W. Snyder; Ilemingford, A. J. May; Hay Springs, R. Staniforth; Harrison, Edward Magill; Harris burg, To be supplied; Henry, To be supplied; Lewellen, to be supplied; Marsland, F. R. Williams; Lakeside, W. C. Birmingham; Mullen, to be supplied: Mlnatare, C. K. Shackle- ford; Melbeta, John H. Bishop; Mit chell. O. C. Robberson; Morrill, B. S. Rougberty; Morrill Circuit, C. E Brown: Rushville, W. E. Caldwell; Oshkosh, Benjamin Kuhler; Scotts bluff, E. C. Flntol; Whitney, John 1 Shaw; Whitman, to be supplied: Long Pine District, E. D. Gideon, su perintendent. P. O. Alnsworth, Neb Ainsworth. O. I. Wright: Amelia. S. G. Rasmussen; Atkinson, O. E. Rich ardson; Basset t, L. C. Hicks. Dr. Geo. J. Hand; 261, residence 243. Office phone. tf-7965 PROSPECTS BRIGHT! FOR LEGISLATION FAVORING POTASH CONGRESSMAN Ut KEN OF IOWA SAYS EASTERN STATIC CiREAT SHORTAGE OF OrASII Nebraska Plants are Getting Ready for 0eration Will Make Effort in compete Foreign Product. WASH INGTON "Efforts mada bv opponents of the bill for the tlon of the potash industry to keep It urui reported oy tne ways and means committee .have brought about POrue result not rnnlomnht. ed," said Congressman Croon e Iown, Tuesday. ihey have supposed that If the bill could be delayed the south nnrt east would be able to lay In a large supply of cheaD German nnrf- ash at prices which nrovnllaH Iul. fore the war. In this thev hnro been disappointed. So far, only a small amount of potash has been received from abroad and the price has been about double what pre vailed prior to the war. What has been imported from Europe has come from the mines in AlBace, now mi iufl possession or the French. The German mines are nrnHtiintr but little, and the mine ownora nt that country have petitioned the governmean for leave to double their price. In France. where production seems to be going on at a greater rate than in Germany, there is a great depiand for potash, as the light French soils have had none for four years. It Is not likely that any large amount of potash will come soon from France, if at ail. me reaul tls that there nls a Impending shortage of nntaah an Ifi 'U'2" companies have with "'""i lUM the r fal1 " "mc",,y "uppuea their fall require- v I '.v BU1 1 comPftrel to ii ine potasn bill had been naaaoil with the other tariff bills that have gone tcrough the house the Ameri can factories would have been In full blast by this time. Some, nf them have started in a small mav stimulated by the prospect of a shortage, but they are hot likely to continue unless some definite - surance can be given of the main tenance of prices. "Our Foils that need notaah will be Insufficiently supplied next year. - ine wfoie situation Is but another illustraltlon of the error that is made in attempting to rely on foreign countries to supply products of' which an adequate supply could be obtained In our country at a reason able price if initial protection was given. It is likely that the prospect of a shortage will lessen the opposi tion to the bill which heretofore has been quite strong, not only on the democratic side, but in certain re publican districts in the east." As Ma'od in Th Alliance Herald on iHSt Thursday, the. potash plants east of this city are, preparing to open for a trial run of several months, in an endeavor to compete with German potash. If the proper protection was given at Washington every plant in the district would be producing potash today and the shortage fared in the east, would not be worrying the eastern farmer. The western Nebraska plants, which pro duce the finest potash in the world, can turn out 1,000 tons of the pro duct per day, fl given assurance that they can be operated at a reasonable rrcfit. COURSEY'S HAVE CLCSE CALL IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT Mr. and Mrs. Harry P. Coursey nd son, well-known Alliance people had a very close call this week when while (nroute home their car was overturned on the highway and the occupants badly bruised up. The accident happened near Caw- ker City, Kansas and was caused by the car being driven into a ditch across the roadway of which there was no warning. The car was turn ed completely over and the occu pants were thrown from the machine and badly bruised. Mrs. Coursey re ceived the greatest injury and was for a couple of hours unconscious. Mr. Coursey's back was wrenched in such a way that it has been necessary for Lim to get around on crutches since. During the trip, which extended Into other Etates the family visited with numerous old-time frineds and relatives. At Miltonvale, Kansas, they spent a few hours with a form er employer of Mr. and Mrs. Coursey. oerore thty were married, and whom tfcey had not seen in about fourteen years. The entire trip, save the unfortunate accident, was very pleasant. TOM MA HER CASE TAKEN TO THE OMAHA DISTRICT The case of Tom Maher. charged with the illegal transportation of in toxicating liquors into dry territory. which was scheduled for hearing In the Federal court at Chadron this week was transferred to the Federal court of the Omaha district The charge against Mr. Maher was the outgrowth of an investigation made by the Alliance police and Spe cial Agent Smith last spring wherein a young man named, Brlndell was caught bringing boose Into this city: for friends.