THE ALLIANCE HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 9. 1921.
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BOX BUTTE HAS
CONTRIBUTED 14
INMATES TO PEN
"WARDEN FEN TON ISSUES
ANNUAL REPORT.
HIS
Out of 577 Prions in State Institution,
Only One for Violating the
Prohibition Law.
Fourteen of the 577 inmates in the
;tate penitentiary were sentenced
from Box Butte county, according to
figures furnished in Warden Fenton's
annual report. This does not mean
that Box Butte county has experienced
any great wave of crime, for most of
the men who have gone to the state
prison from this city are not residents
of the county, but floaters who hap
pened to be caught here. It's really
a good advertisement for the police
Authorities, and not at all a black eye
lor the county's population.
iMr. Fenton's report furnishes a few
-.surprises, among them the small num
ier of women in the state's penal in
stitution. There are but five, and one
of these, Evelyn
McElhaney comes
from Alliance. Another peculiar fact
in the report is that out of 57 m
: mates, but one is there for a violation
of the prohibition laws. Most of them
are just plain thieves. A few of the
statistics follow:
Of the 577 men and women there
'the last of the year 320 were convicted
ol crimes of violence in which robbery
"was the motive. This includes all of
Uhe men sent up for burglary, grand
fcixceny, hog and horse stealing, at
tempt to rob and the like. If auto
thieves were included the total would
3b 377. Auto thievery is not, appar
ently a remunerative business, as there
are fifty-seven men in the Nebraska
prison for this offense. The forgers
liave greatly increased in number in
Tecent years. At the present time
there are 89 in the penitentiary con--victed
of issuing forged or valueless
checks. There are 41 men who were
'eimvicted of rape or assault to commit
-rape and 30 for murder. Five big-
amists are also quartered there. Add
' the number of these offenders together
. and it leaves only thirty-seven to be
distributed among the other crimes.
All of the five women are first of
lenders. The other are divided as fol-
ass 2Mnr.
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tJOUifias count, v iurniMies iicbi ly u.
third of the total number. 1SS. Other
counties contribute as follows: I.an-1
caster, 42; Dawes, 22; Hall, 31; Lin
-5ln, 21; Box Butte, 14; Dodge, 18;
Scottsbluff, 17; Sheridan, 21. It will
""be noted that most of these count;es
contain rairoad centers, and the
criminals are largely floaters who
follow railroad tracks.
The meat increase in crime has
'been within the last two years, since
the war and is generally a.-cribed to
the unsettled conditions and the de
moralization of old-time standards.
'The number of men an.ious to live
"without working and not caring in
the least how they got the money has
kept the police busy and the. prison
full.
At the beginning of 1910 there were
'202 persons in the state penitentiary
two of them women, at the end of 1!20,
two years later there were 7 prison
ers, five of them women. During the
two years 518 persons were received
and if none had been paroled the pre
sent population would be close to
1,000. In the two years the sentences
of but twenty-nine expired, ten were
released by court order, ten died, three
were pardoned and S2G released by
the operation of the parole law, or
furloughed. The paroles were granted
to men who had finished the minimum
number of years in the indeterminate
sentence given them for their offenses,
the furloughs to men who were in but
.a brief time.
The greatest number of prisoners
are those between the ages of twenty
one aH twenty-five, ICS; between six
tr i eighteen, 2S; eighteen to
twen ne, 102, showing that more
than half of the prisoners are under
'25 years of age. Between twenty
five and thirty, there are 99; from
thirty to thirty-five, 57; from thirty
five to forty, 47; from forty to forty
five. 30; fortv-five to fifty, 15; fifty
to fifty-five, 10; fifty-five to sixty 4;
sixty to sixty-five, 2; sixty-five to
seventy, 3; over 70, 1.
Of the prisoners 4S9 are white, 71
are negroes and twelve Indians; 399
claim to be Protestants, 134 Catholics,
2 Hebrews, and 4 Greeks. There is not
a college graduate in the list. Twenty -
won't hurt a Valsparred Kitchen
SCOTTEN & HERSHMAN
Alliance Drug Store
five had no education at all. seventeen i
cot no further than the nrimarv i
grades, six went through hi ich school,
and 43 S qu:t somewhere in the grade.
Mnie men are the more numerous
St'.J; married, 100; widowed, 1! and
divorced 1. Of the five women one is
single, three married and one divorced.
No widow i on the list.
Common laborers from the bulk of
the prisoners. 147. with 100 who list
themselves as farmers or farm hands;
there was no banker there t.ien, but
there are two now. No newspaper
men were in the list and only one
printer. Of the trades, the following
were listed in excess
of nine in num-
ber: Machinists, 2; auto mechanics,
20; cooks, 29; chauffeurs, IS; fireman,
13; barbers, 11; blacksmith, It; clerks,
15; electricians, 12;
painters, 11;
salesmen, 13; waiters,
only are diseased.
10. Forty-one
Gering Red Cross Will
Aid the Ex-Soldiers
During Land Drawing
The American Red Cross, with head
quarters at Gering, has made arrange
ments to make out all necessary pa
pers for fiing on the new lands to be
opened in the Goshen hole country this
fall, at practically no expense to for
mer rviee men. and rooms will be
provided at Gering at nominal expense
ior the men who come out to look over
the land and make filings, says the
Scottsbluff News.
Miss M. M. Enes, secretary of the
Red Cross, has issued the following
statement relative to the preparations
to care for the soldiers
"In the land opening for ex-service
men of the 'North Platte Irrigation
project, September 9, it is planned to
make Gering, Neb., the headquarters
on the Union Pacific. Special trains
will run from Gering to Lyman in the
morning and return in the evening,
Ex-service men who wish to can make
Gering their headquarters, and have
all matters relative to filing, attended
to at Gering. It is planned to have
automobiles available at Lyman for
any one who desires to look over the
land. The American Red Cross at
Gering will be prepared to make out
all necessary pipers for filing on the
land at practically no expense to the
bovs. The papers will be prepared, as
the affidavits and the copying of dis
charges. Rooms will be provided at
Gennff at nominal expense.
"Will you kindly announce these
facts through the columns of your
Vr, Vl . l'Vn " l" 1
be
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"Advice will be given -by mail for
, . , . . c- u,. wl, ,;i
those who (leMre to file mai1'
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rresDytenans win
Fifth Straight Came
By Cleaning Baptists
The Presbvterian Sunday School
baseball team preserved their no-defeat
record Thursday evening by tak
ing one from the Baptist. 10 to 1, nt
the fair erounds. This makes the
fifth irame the Presbyterian have won,
with not a single game lo.-t during
the season. Only three innings were
, played Thursday, due to the fact that
! the' diamond was in use by the Alli
ance Monarch? and their colored op
ponents until rather late.
I The results:
I Presbyterians ab
P. Thompson, c 3
II. I.aing, lb 3
W. Threlkeld, ss 3
F. Mounts, If 2
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A. Miller. 2b 2
J. Cantlin, if 2
C. Shreve, cf 2
V. Eberly. p 2
Baptists ab
F. Campbell, p 2
C. Cross, lb 2
F. Gross, rf 2
J. Reynolds, 3b 1
F. Hacker, If 1
E. Wright. 2b 1
K. Rnbbins, c 1
C. Romig, ss 1
W. Bobbins, cf 1
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Totals 12
Bv innings:
1 2 9
Presbyterians 8 0 210
Baptists 0 0 11
"If vou want to be really popular
with men," says Mr. Arthur Pendenys,
"become a widow. 1 his, of course,
mav be all rie-ht. but few husbands
jean really learn to love a wue wnn
! makes a practice
' thing. Punch.
makes a practice or mis son or
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Completed Trip Over
Box Butte County
John O. B.ivne of Aurora, who for
the past three ironths has been making
a trip over Box Butte countv in the in
tere.ts of The Herald, writing up the
larms wnicn ne visuei ami securing a
big number of new readers for this
newspaper, finished up his work
Thursday evening of last week. There
were two or three scattered sections in
the county which he did not visit, due
to bad roads and the fact that there
would be very few people to see even
if he drove thirty-five or forty miles
to see them.
Friday Mr. Bayne made a v'sit to
two or three places that he had iiot
touched in previous trips. Herewith
we present the last installment of his
travels, for this year, at least. We
hope to get him up to Alliance for. an-
SX
p within a year or two. He
has promised to write us a story of
his impressions of Box Butte county,
which should be here for the Friday
issue of The Hera'd. In the meantime,
read the story of his latest travels:
The Pebble Creek ranch is located
just over the line in Dawes county. It
is owned by W. (,. uooden, but is
leased on shares. The ranch consists
of 4100 acres. They have sixty acres
of wheat, one hundred of rye,, sixty of
corn, one hundred and thirty of alfalfa,
two hundred and forty grade cows and
hrty-seven registered Hereford cows
and three hundred registered Hamp
shire' hogs. The herd of hogs is headed
by a grandson of Dekol King IGOth,
international grand champion. Prac
tically all the sows are sired by Blyth
dale Jim. The Herefords are of the
be.;t families, such as the Domino and
Beau Mischief and Bright Stanway
strains. The herd is headed by a son
of Young Anxiety 4th and out of a
Bright Stanway dam, the Mischief by
Mischief s Return, and out of a Bright
Stanway dam. They also have the
best strain of black Langshan chick
ens, Mammoth Bronze Turkeys and
Embden Geese. This is one of the
'"P". " 'STli"S
braska. The houae is new. with eight
rooms, and bath and all modern. Il ls
best improved ranches in western Ne-
made of hollow tile and finished with
stucco. The barn is new and is thirty
by one hundred feet, with mow room
for over two hundred tons of hay.
They have two modern hog houses
with sunshine windows, a double gran
ary and a new cliicken house that cost
one hundred dollars, built of hollow
tile, twenty by forty feet, on the Uni
versity of Nebraska pattern. It is the
intention of the owner to displace the
grade cattle with all registered Here
fords as fast as possible and to have
one of the best herds in the state.
The Hemingford Implement com
pany started in business last spring
k lld;
1 SOj.OOO business tlie hrt year,
ear the business will amount to
from $7.",0(H) to $S0,000. This is be
cause ot the nonest iterating and good
management, and the kind of imple
ments handled. I hey have the com
plete International line, also the Avery
threshing machines and trucks, and
they operate a complete garage and
repair shop for autos and trucks.
Go East this
Summer.
periences.
In Boston
blend with
tions.
and countryside.
States.
Thn Wp'.s
Islands, the
regions -each with a lure all its own.
BURLINGTON
Excursions East
The Burlington offers round trip
PERSONALS
M -s Mury Pokalir, at one time ;he
home demonstrator for Box Butte
cou-ny, spent lat Wednesday in Al-liar.-e,
being entertained ut the home
of .Mr. and Airs. r.. G. I.aing.
T.ui Hoppis la.-t week disposed of
his residence property at M! Toluca
to Fred G. Leavut ot near Heminn
for :, a former Alliance resident. Mr.
j Hoi iis plans to take up farming as
i an "icupat.on the coming year.
Mis. Williams of Hot Springs is
visaing with her daughters, Mrs.
Frank Buechsentein ana Mrs. Bert
Duncan.
r.r-revenge:
Indignant Arizonian (to busy boot
legv'tr): "Hey, I've ju.-.t been bitten by
a rattler. Gimme a quart of your
che.ipest stuff."
Busy B: "Better take spme of the
higli-priced stuff, pardner."
1. A.: "Not on your life. This is
for the rattler." American I,egin
W'erkly.
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Enioy a succession of delightful ex
The Jersey Coast never
loses its charm. The blessed old At
lantic wafts a salt-breeze invitation.
and along New England's
shores, historic charm and quamtness
the usual seashore attrac
In "The Land of Evangeline" replete
with mystical, natural beauty, sum
mer days are magical.
The Bershire country combines the
charm of lake, and picturesque river
The Adirondacks are ever restful
the shrines of the historic past never
cease to appeal.
ThP ratskilb. "The Land of Rip Van Winkle,'
is the great natural playground of the Eastern
Niagara Falls. The Thousand
White and the (Ireen Mountains,
nel.iwnrA Water (iao and a host or. oiner
vacation-excursion tickets to hat
ern resorts long limits and liberal
stop-over privileges.
11. L. ORMSUY
Ticket Agent
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Besides you will have to see these new Reos to fully ap
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In that mighty Reo Speed Wagon xc now have some
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A greatly reduced price also effective August 1st.
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Wherever Motor Trucks are known this Speed Wagon is
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Always the lowest priced commercial car of its carrying
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When you've seen these new Reos and heard the new
prices, you'll say, Reo is today, more than ever, "The Gold
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Come in and see and'hear the whole story.
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Alliance, Nebraska
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Comedy "YOUR TIMES FOILED"
THURSDAY, AUGUST 11th
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"Through the Back Door"
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