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It VOLUME XXVII. . . r v. ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1920. NUMBER 37. HALF-BREED KILLS FLORENCE FEAGIN Antloch Murderer Escapes to Sand hills Bartlett Wounded by Marshal Knight Florence Feagln, aged forty, Is dead; Sam Dartlett la In an Alliance hospital with a bullet hole through his right lung, and Jack Jackson, half-breed Indian, murderer of the Feagin woman, is In hiding some where in the Bandhllls as a result of partaking too freely of raw alcohol last Saturday evening at the home occupied by Jackson and Mrs. Feagin In the eastern part of Antioch. The murder followed a quarrel early Saturday evening, the first part of which was witnessed by Sam Dart lett and Miss Nolan, the latter hay ing accompanied Florence Feagin from Scottsbluff Saturday. It is prob able that there was a pistol fight be tween the man and the woman, either real or feigned, and that the last, or fatal shot, followed an at tempt on the half-breed's part to take the woman's gun away from her. .According to the testimony brought out at the Inquest held Sun day afternoon by the county attor ney of Sheridan county at Antioch, Florence Feagin had been living with Jackson as a common law wife for two or three months past. She made a trip to Scottsbluff Friday of last week, and on her return brought with her Miss Nolan. Jackson, who was drunk at the time, met them at the train with an automobile. He had an automatic revolver with him at this time, and witnesses say that he showed It to the Feagin woman saying: 'Sp what I have here. And I'm colne to use It. too." i..idn fnoir the two women to thft house, and the quarreling began Sam Bartlett Joined the crowd. AKnnt ft-30. Jackson told Bartlett mu Nolan to "clear out w'r eolne to settle up right now,", he Bald, "and we don't want you here." , . Bartlett and Miss Nolan asked Florence Feagin If she wanted them to leave. "Go ahead," she is said to have told them. "It'll be all right. He's a coward and there's nothing to be afraid of." The two then withdrew as request ed, remaining outside the house for omA minutes. Loud voices could be heard, evidences of a bitter quar rel, and then five pistol shots. They walked no to the house and Miss Mil. UIIOOMH FAIl-i TO REPLY TO THE CITY F. M. Broome, editor of the An tioch News, who was discovered last week to hold title to one of the lots on which the city hall stands, has not yet replied to the Invitation of the city, through Attorney Mete, to come across with a quitclaim deed. At the time the purchase was made, in 1901, Mr. Broome was agent for the Lincoln Land company, and the failure to transfer the lot In question is assigned to carelessness. The dis covery was made by T. H. Barnes, who is now appraising city real estate. LIGHT VOTE IN CITY ELECTION Lack of Interest In Contest to Elect Councilman and School Hoard Members KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OPEN NEW CLUBHOUSE Alliance council No. 875, Knights of Columbus, held a regular old fashioned housewarming Monday evening, the occasion being the open ing of their new quarters at 311 Box Butte avenue. Tnree hundred Invitations were Issued, and despite the bad weather, practically all of them were accepted. There were two separate entertain ments going on under the auspices of the Knights. At the club rooms could . be found a number of card games and light refreshments, while at the armory a dance was in prog ress. The K. C. rooms have been fitted up to be used as lodge rooms and general club quarters. They will be open to the members at all times, and will be fitted up with a piano, Unless there Is a lot more activity In political circles Tuesday afternoon the city election will not arouse very much Interest. In the Second ward, but seventeen votes had been cast at 11:30 a. m., which doesn't Indicate any great amount' of excitement. This ward has in times past cast as many as 378 votes, and this was in the days when the women had no voice in affairs political. With women voting, there are at least 700 votes that could be counted. Other wards In the city showed the same result. The last development in the cam paign was the presence of a slate for the city council, containing the names of A. V. Gavin, O. C. Moore, E. D. Henry and Bliss Sturgeon. Mr. Gavin had announced his intention not to enter the race, and the first intimation that he had been selected as a candidate came when members of his family saw his name thrown on the screen at the picture show. The slate appears to have been named In order to defeat H. D. Hacker In the First ward; L. T. Bur row in Second; Arthur Wright in Third and L. H. Highland In Fourth. The afternoon will probably see a larger number of votes cast, but un lonia thm Is more Interest, only a Tho first period of The Herald's prize and automobile campaign whtch closed Saturday night, was a great success. Tens of thousands, yes, hundreds of thousands of votes were issued and every candidate profited mightily. A large number of ballots secured during the final stages of I the first period are in evidence today the balance will appear from time to time before the big race ends. Race Unusually Close It is a strange coincidence some- vijii.nlii.dni1 lihrnrv Tho hnllrilnsr has been remodeled to suit the needs small proportion of the city's voters f iho KniPhta whn nlan still fnrther will register few improvements during this year. The building will be extended some sixty feet to the alley, and a large hall added on to be used for lodge pur poses. a cnoice. v ery women had voted up to noon A number of voters are writing the names of F. A. Harris and K. J Stern on the school election ballots. At nresent there are three The terms of these men had expired and they did not me ror re-eiecuon. Neither did anyone else. ThoBe in terested in the city's schools say they intend to force them back on the board by writing in their names on the ballots rooms fitted up, one of which is used as a kitchenette. The local lodge was organized May 7, 1905, with a charter membership of about twenty. Today It numbers on Its membership roll over three hundred, and now that the club rooms have been fitted up, a big drive for new recruits Is in prospect. ROBERT ROSS NAILS A CAMPAIGN CANARD Robert G. Ross, the Lexington, Neb., candidate for the presidency of this glorious nation, has nailed a ereat camDaign lie. In a letter to the State Journal, Mr. Ross denies that he is a livery stable keeper, or that he ever worked In one. He Nrtian. looking through a window be- h th TOUrni with deliberate' low the drawn blind could see the ly printing this misstatement in an J rjg8 r rom the west one-half of sec STRUGGLE GOING ON FOR OSAGE OIL LANDS Contending Interests Bring Armed Men, Legal Actions and Other' Forces Into the Struggle The expected struggle for the pos nenKlon of and right to drill on oil lands near the big gusher at Osage Wyo., developed last week with the arrest of a number of men who took nart In moving off two' oil drilling BUT 18 MORE DAYS IN AUT0CAMPAIGN 'Second IVrhwl" Offers Oppoit unity to Increase Vote Totals by Lonpfl and Rounds The standing of contestant Mill be found on page O. SNODDY AND THIELE HUY 1H BIN1XS IIMK'K A deal was concluded this week by which H. F. Thlele and John Snoddy become the owners of the business block on Box Butte avenue which now houses the Golden Rule nnd the Thlele drug store. Mr. Thlele will take hair of the building containing his store and Mr. Snoddy the other part. The Golden Rule's lease does not expire for several months, and no plans for future oc cupancy have been made. The con sideration was not announced. CHIEF REED FINDS TWO RUNAWAY BOYS Frank McKelvle, aged all of thir teen, and llallie O'Neill, aged twelve, both of Seneca, were taken in tow by Chief Reed at the Burlington sta tion Sunday evening, at the end of an almost perfect day. They had "bummed" their way by riding in TWO CAN PLAY IN :; A GUESSING GAME Scottsbluff Kewinper Interview "Railroad Bleu" With In teresting Result The Scottsbluff Star-Herald is not greatly Impressed with reports that have been published from time te time by one enthusiastic Alliance ed ltor. It takes more than Interviews with mythical "high officials" (names not mentioned) to convince them that this city Is due to receive all the Improvements that have been forecasted as often as real news happened to be a trifle scarce. The Importance of the Grand Is land-Alliance-Billings line Is due to be lessened, within a year or two, according to the Star-Herald, which draws a pitiful picture of congestion which cannot be relieved. The Im provements we have been ' getting. thing very unusual in affairs of this freight cars, and were a pretty tired I which have led us to hope, are mere- kind but several of the leading as well as a hungry pair or ooys contestants benefited so equally dur- when the chief took them to the po Ihk the period Just closed that with- lice station. They had a total of 30 out hairline figuring it is almost im- cents in their possession when cap. nosslble to determine the real leader tured, but this had been given them tnrinv Aa t a ted In an article that Dy a large-neariea stranger in me anneared in these columns a wees ago, it seems that The Herald's cam paign Is fated to be an extraordi narily close one throughout. The competition, therefore, so far as the relative standing of some of the contestants is concerned, Is prac tically where It was prior to Satur day night. Hence, the struggle for su premacy will be fought out during the next eighteen days for the en- statlon who liked their looks. These boys told no tale of abuse at home, or anything of the kind. They wanted to see the world, and particularly wanted to see Alliance, where the O'Neill boy's brother, Tom, lives. Hallle started out to make a visit without Informing his parents, and Frank came along for company. Monday morning W. J. McKelvle, tire campaign comes to a close April I father of the older boy, made a trip 24. It depends almoBt ENTIKEL.1 upon the result obtained between now and the end of the campaign as to who the ultimate winners will be. Going Uu! Votes totals soar again today. Five contestants are so closely ouncnen that If every ballot outstanding were polled there would not be much dif ference in the relative positions. Miss Margaret Barry continues to lead the campaign with Mr. Cox and Mr Kelly a close second and third, re spectively. Mr. Cox made a spectac ular advance during the first period and has started the second period with a determination that may mean a battle for competitors. Mr. Kelly is to Alliance and took both of the run aways back with him. Each bad his entire 15 cents Intact. It was a nice trip, but they probably won't come again for a while. PAVING CONTRACTORS - ARE CALLED DOWN ly "makeshift expedients." The fol lowing bits of theory are interesting as showing that more than one can piny in a guessing game: "There seems to be no hesitancy In the Burlington quarters In Lin coln with reference to the fact that that road eventually expects to make the line through Bridgeport and Scottsbluff its main trunk from St. Louis and Lincoln to the northwest. The steadily Increasing traffic from the North Platte valley stock region and the Wyoming oil business Is causing more and heavier burdens on the lines In the eastern part of the state, as they now exist. "Totakecare of this growing north western trafilce the Burlington is re Borting to several makeshift expedi ents. Last year a higher grade bridge was completed across the Platte near Grand Island. This im provement eliminated a steep grade and bad curve, and was necessary under even ordinary conditions. The Aurora yards have been badly con gested, due to the shunting of all the traffic from this region over the Broken Bow, Alliance, Grand Island line, and new passing tracks have been made necessary. More track room is also necessary at Grand Is land and the single track, to be truthful, Is now insufficient. ' Automatic signals are being "in-" tion eighteen, directly north of the well brought in by J. O. Walker and associates of Alliance. The 320 acres mentioned above had been homesteaded by Hariey Holloway, a former Crawford boy and an ex-soldier with a number of months' service overseas to hla hodv of Florence Feagin huddled on -ffort to "deceave the peopl" and the floor. spoil his chances. Here's the letter, They knocked on the" door, men . . th residential aspirant nounded, asking to be admitted, in wrote lt: order to "warm themselves", but the "Lexington Neb Feb 25 1920 Lin- half-breed gave no sign of hearing coln NeD weekiy Btate Journal Dear them. I sur 1 see in your weekly state Journal mihb Nolan and aBrtlett tnen tnA.v that vmi have published a ' - . a I v - I UlUUiU ruahed down town. The gin round n faced iie on me that 1 was a -Ai uniinwnv warned the claim " Pete Schrader, the night marshal, ivery stable man and is Ross fourth jumPers to keep off his homestead, and gave the alarm. Bartlett weni entry in tne race whlch is also a lie DUt they based their action on a to the city Jail and told Day juarsnai trylng t0 poi8on the people minds iea8e gtven to them by parties who Frank Knight of the murder. LgainBt me i want you to state to had ma8e blanket filings last fall Marshal Knignt, according io -"- your readers how inucn you goi tor 0Ver a large portion of the Osage les told by various citizens of Antl- t nlB rotten He you published on me fleid och, decided that it was up to him to aud deceaving your readers out of Tne nrBt njght after the two drill detain Bartlett, who was said to be thelr raoney they are paying you to ,ng rIg8 m0ved on to the land an under the influence or liquor 10 nunc know tne trutn thrue your paper OI.deriv band of about, fifteen men an extent. Knight could see no rea- neODi dont take paper to read lies i mnnaniil Hnllowav to the land son why he should let a minor or- neVer owned a liver stable nor never ftnd wltQ tne atd of a team proceeded fender go in order to go after a run one nor even worked for any to move tne riKa 0j th land in Superintendent Olson, in charge of the paving gang, la -in dutch with Mayor Rodgers, the city council and every citizen of the city right now. It develops that It was his brilliant RthlsVemoval pf Jhe street cross- in ont vrhltA ifrfthlnr avould keeping up the pace and could . ' . iftViv had here not come stalled along the present main line. show even greater strength. ' J anA tnA W4her was! but the Burlington men themselves Miss Lyda Gasseling has regained . , h,m I sUte that all of tho planned im- conslderable ground and Is fast over-1 m-wo- nd members of the I provements are Just "getting by." taking the leaders. Miss Sarabel councli bave been after the paving The line could be double tracked, but Newman, who has Just recovered Bttperlntendent hard the past day or the chief reasons that stand In the from ber Illness, Is again in the fray tw( and re8UitB were beginning to way of that are first, lack of ready and fireworks can be expected dur- . ' Tll..,)lv oon. Bv that time money for the road, to make so ex- tv - - - I . J number of rude crossings were pensive an improvement, anu secona. seen over the worst mudholes, and but chief of all. that the importance rhhi hefore the week ends the of the Grand Island line Is to be nrdinarv citizen can walk three! lessened within a year or so at most blocks down Box Butte without go ing over his shoe tops more r.han twice. Ing the next ten days. The race for supremacy is growing warmer every day and with the end of the campaign only eighteen days off Intensive effort from every one of the leading participants Is antic! pated. And that is as it should be, for It is BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY. Votes for Job and Ad Cards As announced at the beginning of the camnalen. votes are issued for job printing and classified advertls ing cards. These cards sell for 110 each and are good for any kind of printing and certain kinds of adver greater. rigs body that did run one. nor bavant queB(ion No violence was used and But Bartlett didn't like the idea of entered fourth time In to race now the drillers at both rigs gave pos- being placed In Jail. He wantea io you publish this next week In your Be88ion when they were told by Hoi be in on the chase or tne nau-Dreeu, paper or t Bend it an over naiion way fhat he was going to move perhaps, or it may be that the Ann- tnat y0ur neighbors may know what tne och city Jail didn't appeal to n- lies you are published on me i am a The next m0rnlng Holloway, He resisted arrest with good effect, famer from a boy up to 53. Robert Georse Harvey and Homer Sherlll of slamming the door in the marsnai s G RoBs Lexington Neb." Crawford and Thomas O. Scott of face. Marshal Knight drew his auto- . Osage, were arrested on a charge of matlc. Intending to club Bartlett in- corNTY CONVENTION OF rioting Although th witnesses for to submission, but made the error of INTEIUCUURCH MOVEMENT 1 . nr08ecutlon testified at the trial In place of. 25.000. i i . .. LURE OF AMBITION" AT IMPERIAL TONIGHT The railroad men state that "as soon as the road can get around to it" the line from Northport to Kear ney Is to be built. When that time comes, the line from Lincoln as far as Milford as at present will be used. A new cutoff will be built from Mil ford to Friend, and from Friend to Kearney, pasring through Exeter, Fairmont, Sutton, and Harvard to Hastings, and lhnce through Kene- to Kearney. Some reouuaing saw Theda Bara, vamp, is the attrac tion at the Imperial tonight, where tislng In The Herald (not display ad- she will appear in her newest super-1 n, b(We8sary on the main line vertlsing). The number of votes is- production, "The Lure or Amnition. I through Sutton and the alignment of sued, full details relative to the sale The story is one that fits Theda s grade8 between Hastings and Ken- of cards, and what class of business talents to a t, ana u nas quu "u eBaw revised, but the expense neces- ih win ha aprented for. will be turns enough to raaxe u an exieeu-i , chancres u a haeatelle found in the advertisement appear-1 ingly Interesting drama. It's taftl COm pared with the saving of time ing enougu iu uuvc Dicuhii'. but seizing it in the usual way. ana wnen lagt Wednesday afternoon that there he brought it down toward Bartlett's county convention of the Inter- hftd been n0 v0ienCe. loud language head, the gun was discharged, send- Church world movement was held at or deBtroylng of property, three of ine elsewhere in this issue. Sale of cards will continue through the sea ond period only, terminating Satur day night, April 17. Subscriptions Still Count Big During the "second period" (up to and Including April 17) subscrip tions will count pretty big: in fact, they count for almost as many votes now as during the period JuBt closed. For example: One five-year subscrip tion NOW counts for 20.000 votes but 60,000 ing a bullet through the left lung. Bartlett was taken to the Steam Heated Rooms. (Continued on Page 8.) JUDliE TASH BUYS WALKER RESIDENCE the Christian church in Alliance on Monday, April 5, beginning at 10 and ending with an evening session at which stereoptl- con Blldes were Bhown. This confer ence was the first of a series or sim- the men Holloway, Harvey and Sherlll, were found guilty of rioting by Justice of the Teace A. M. Nelson, and a fine of $100 and costs was as sessed against each of them. Their cases were promptly pppenled to the counties, the same team conducting each. Rev. A. J. Kearns is cnairman nf the team, assisted by Rev. a J. . I t-i- n a. J. Mav or liemmgiora niinv Jurtee ira b. iasn, wu v" ; - V V Ml W I a v 4-1 .TAnlMt vi nnT Butte real- ana tu. . iasi wc -- ---- ----- dence property to Ed Henry, has pur- llar conferences to be held in several dlstrtct court ror trial on November 3. They were reproofed at the trial by Attorneys Floyd J. Wilson and Fred Sass of Denver, Robert Reddish and F. A. Bald of Alliance and A. J. Greenwood of Newcastle. h.ai the Jar Walker residence at site TunmiA Possession will be 0V - riiM some time this month. Mr. Walker is spenaing a bwu 4 home officer rrom easu cuuivu Tha, vnn.- nf .rn nn fh(l was appointed to carry on tho vorspeai were furnished an t ' a men in the future. Among other plans la that ror a combined drive of all tho churches 2, during of each ..i l, VI- tin. n th Oaaee oil field from April 25 to May w " . " aZaaIa to ..H which the benevolences thrresldenee property. Mrs. Walker, church will be simultaneously raised If .. J .hi leave soon for This will be followed by an cvan & visit with her parents at Arnold, I gellstlcal campaign extending over af The senator Immediately took steps NeD 1 period of three weeks. I (Continued on Page S.) were released Senator Hitchcock at Washington was appealed to by friends of Hol loway, who Insist that the ex-soldler be given his rights In mainatlning possession of his homestead against the attempts of the' claim Jumpers. EXTRA votes are etill Issued ror each $20 club. Eight five-year sub scriptions, therefore, count for 160. 000 REGULAR votes and 250,000 EXTRA votes, (eight five-year sub scriptions total $100 five $20 clubs) making a grand total of 410, 000 votes NOW against 450,000 dur ing the first period the small differ ence of 40.000. or less than the EXTRA votes on one lone club. Vote Count Thursday Thousands of votes will be polled the next two days for Thursday's count. Who will lead who will etand out as having demonstrated capacity that is extraordinary? The standings will be published Friday and it YOU wish to lead br ng in your subscriptions and vol. s at once the polls close at 8 o'clock Thursday evening. Now that you have won your first victory DON'T STOP the first period was not a goal. IT WAS onli STEP FORWARD. win un by marrying a duke. when in addition there are half a dozen tensely dramatic situations, to say nothing of a set of ducal straw- hrrii whatever they are), it's bound to be good. Also a comedy. 'The Bull Thrower," and a Hearsi news reel. Wednesday comes an Allan Dwan production, a pleturlzatlon of Rich ard Harding Davis' "Soldiers of For tune." Here's another instance, the nroducers say, where the reproauc and motive power on the water grade" main line which will then ex ist practically without a break from Thermopolfs to St. Louis. FASHION SHOP PLANS A REMODELING SALE The Fashion Shop Is announcing a remodeling sale, which will begin April 1 and last the- entire month. tlon'follows very closely the lines of The object is to make room for the the original story. It's a red-blooded carpenters, who will begin reraodel- yarn, with none of the overdrawn I ing the store as soon as tne nxtures situations that usually follow this arrive. Twenty-two thousand dol- 801 of a promise. Manager DuBuquo lars worth of new fixtures are on tne was able to get the film for but one way, and when they are installed, the njgbt and you won't want to miss Fashion Shop will have one of the it. Added inducement. Mack sennert most finely appointea iaaies- reaay- comedy, "Up in Alt's Place." to-wear stores in the Btate. A 25 Charles Ray in another country per cent discount is announcea in boy eole is the feature for Thursday, order to move the goods rapidly. It's a little different from the usual Nothing in the large stock is re run of Ray pictures, and better, too. served, the discount applying to every Crooked Straight" is the title, and article carried, includig ladies' suits. It tells of his experiences as a saf e-1 skirts, dresseB, coats, waists, corsets, MnwAr. amon other things. "Elmo undergarments, hosiery, and other the Fearless," third episode, pletes a good program. corn- lines. The scale presents a big op portunity to Alliance shoppers. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Watson, for- George Duncan, wife and daugh merly of this city, are visiting friends ter, Mrs. Fred Hoover, left last night and relatives here, having made the for Vancouver, B. C, where the lat trlp overland from Interior, & D. ter plans to establish a home. Mr. They expect to start back to their Duncan will be away from the elty home at Interior tomorrow. for abont two months.