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rt ft & OffidaJ Paper of Box Butte County TWICE A WKKK TUKSIIAV AND FRIDAY Official Taper of the City of Alliaae - VOLUME XXVIII. ALLIANCE, KOX BUTTE COUNTY, NENKASKA, FRIDAY, AUC.UST 15), 1921. No. 76 HEMINGFORD COMMISSIONER IN HARD LUCK JUST CANT KEEP HIS EN KM IKS FROM RAPPING HIM. sion of the . them with all mand. nl is sticking to icity at his com- nswe rs Complaint That He Had Road Built to His Place by Blaming the Road Gang. George Carrell, the bulky county .commissioner from Hemingford, is feeling the strain of serving the public and knows how it feels to have 1o ungrateful constituency. Ever unce his untortunaie error, a jew eeks ago, whn he K. on a personal cl Jlrtntll l,V 1.111 I V'l 11 I"!.'. -,.r..v . j without examination, someone has tieen camping on his trail and endeav nring to make it unpleasant for him. Mr. Carrell explained the way in which the board happened to err about the claim to everyone's satisfaction, but down around Hemingford they are keeping an eye on all his official acts, and some of the boys are hunting for things to crab about. Half a dozen reports have been passed along concerning Mr. Carrell. The latest was to the effect he had the grading gang make a road past his farm, two and a half miles southeast of Hemingford. Some of the com plainants say that it is a private road, and there have been the usual number of sly digs about a commissioner using public funds to improve his property. The roai past the Carrell place is .n a regular section line, and will probably be graded for a distance of several miles before the summer ends. The trouble is that the road gang took advantage of his absence from the city, Mr. Carrell says, to slip one over nn him and put him in bad. They graded the road just up to his place and a quarter of a mile past the gate way, but alongside his land. This is the way it happened, Mr. Carrell savs. Several days ago he re ceived a telegram to the effect that his farm near Haigler had been hailed. He was marking out work for a grading gang during his absence, and had set -out stakes along the track road just southeast of Hemingford for a dis tance of a counle miles. It was his in lention to lay Steams-Knight Auto Is Almost Complete Loss In Thursday Morning Blaze On Thursday morning, while Charles Nation, proprietor of an Alliance bar ber shop, was driving south to the ranch home of Burl Douglas, his Steams-Knight touring car caught fire and almost completely burned up. The fire occurred at 5 a. m. about five miles south of Alliance. Mr. Nation attributes the fire to some short vircu't of the electrical apparatus of the car. The blaze made short work of the car. All the wood work in the body of the car was burned from the chassis, as well as the rear tires. The front tires, however, were u " r;; i o I not apparently injured, nor were the put his official O. I )ki,jn anv-of the four wheeK 'I1"" "! I One freak of the fire was that th- large tank of gasoline in the rear burned up, but did not explode. The car was insured for $2,.'500. which is $650 less than the original cost of the machine. The charred chassis has been taken to Lee Stur geon's garage and will there await the arriva of the insurance adjuster. Ed Lull was in Alliance Wednesday on business. LEGION HELPING TO ROUND UP ALL THE CLAIMANTS RUMORS OF BIG FUND SHORTAGE ARE INCORRECT COlNTY NOT IN HOI K THIRTY THOI SAND MILLARS. 1922 TAX LEVY IS MADE BY THE COUNTY BOARD r.IGHTF.KN WITH MILLS AS COMPARED 16.61 LAST YKAR. I'npaid Claim Aggregate a Consid erable Sum, But There in No Cause for Alarm. Little Over Two Thousand Hollars More Will Be Raided Than by Lat Levy. For a day or two this week, the air has lioen filled with rumors to the ef fect th at the county commissioners xv itli County Clerk Av were away leliind with the payment of1 1'ountv Assessor John The hum meeting as I of county commissioners, a board of equalization is'Joder and Pilkington, claims, and that at least $.50,000 more Thursday afternoon completed making money was required to put them even : the tax levy to pav expenses for the with the world. The news traveled 1 nsca year beginning August I. The fast, as bad news always travels, and . iast session of the legislature did away in an incredihiy short time was Doing, w;lh th,. method of f irui inu taxes on a i i . . . i ... one-nun valuation, ani in oruer m compare the lew this year with the discussed not only in the city of Alii ance, but out in the country as well WAR RISK OFFICIALS TO HKRK SKPTKMBKR 5-6-7. hi: Board Has Special Powers to Adjust Claims Hope to Take Action on Kvery Case. All ex-service men who have old compensation claims pending, or who wish to file new ones, will have an op portunity to meet a board of govern ment representatives who are touring the state beginning August 12. Spe cial efforts are being made by the Am 1 erican Legion and the Red Cross to II- " " ", cet every man who has an unsettled Oil l lie KIUWIilH ", Vof he graders suspected as much. He The director of the bureau of war that Commissioner Hash-, risk is anxious to get all old cases of The tale became twisted as it went about, unt il some of the rumors had it that the road fund alone was in the hole to the extentof $:.0,000, and that the other funds were in a bad condi tion. The commissioners, who have been in session since Tuesday, weren't at all excited when they were told of the re ports. They didn't have to be excited, for there is nothing to them. Com missioner George W. Duncan admitted being responsible for the starting of the rumor, although he didn't have any intention of making himself and the other members of the board the goats. When the board started examining, claims Wednesday morning, Mr. Dun can no'od that there were a number of them nn file, on in a moment of curiosity he took the bunch out to the isddng machine in the county clerk's office and totaled them. The total came to something near $.10,000. He mentioned the fact to a friend that the unpaid claims amounted to that figure. The friend misunderstood him. That's the way the rejiort started. The truth is that Box Butte county's finances aren't in a very bad condition. In fact, they are in no worse shape now than they usually are at this time of the year. Along from May to Sep tember 1, the board usually finds its funds running low, due to the fact that a large number of taxpayers neglect to pay their taxes, lhey are paying 10 per cent a year on these delinquent taxes, but they figure they might as , well pay interest to the county as to 'anyone else, and so they procrastinate. Along about November 1, when the next year's taxes are due, they get 1!)2I levy,, it is necessary to multiply by fne. Last year 16.61 mills was the amount, and this year the levy is t.le equivalent of IS mills, a slight in crease, although it will bring in less than $2."00 more than last year. Figuring on a property valuation for the county of $15,27 1.N.Vl, the board made the following levy: Fund- Mill ndians Leave Thursday in Special Car for the Colo. Springs Roundup Those who were in the Burlington station around noon Thursday were icated to a sight of twenty-five or n ote Indians, in full costume, standing around imitating those well known cigar store signs. Their ferocious oks struck terror to the hearts of some or the eastern visitors waitinir for trains, but worried none of the esidents a bit. They were a bunch from the Pine Ridge reservation, wait- ng for a special car to be attached to the Denver train to take them on their way to Colorado Springs, where they will take part in the roundup Monday, 1 uesday and Wednesday of next week. Die Indians have a social program of war dances and other exhibitions that they will put on during the exhibition. Colorado Springs is advertising the roundup pretty extensively as the big gest thing of the kind in the country this year. The prizes are said to ag gregate between $X,000 and $ 10,000. The show is to be staged under the lirection of C. B. Irwin, well known in Alliance. Among the special attrac tions is an automobile race to the top of I ike s x-ak, as well as an aero plane race. (lener-il Fund 1.7 Road Fund -10 Bridg" Fund .3 Amount Raised $25,'m'7.25 1 5,27I.Hr 4,52.4 1.527.4U 6.100.JI5 1,527.4 the grade .i IOIU inem lliat lyuiiuuini'i""!.' - ; --- - man would be outjto inspect ineir worn , ciauus aamst n.c v,..-. a, ouml to paying up. during his absence, and would lay out ed up and he has sent this squad of. Thia lg that time of the year now. more work for them to do. Then Mr. ! workers out to interview these men. The countv yxtuU are running low. Carrell stepped aboard the varnished , The board has special power to adjust The taxes'for 1921 amounted to $206. rar and went to Haigler. claims and it is felt they will expedite 22.s.94. of this amount, less than half On his return he found that the applications to a considerable extent. ha8 .n paid in to the county treas- cang had disobeyed instructions, iney e warn, evaj ncivnc man win. had graded along the track until they kick to appear before this board, came to the road leading past his J stated Frank B. O'Connell, state ad tilace and had then turned off and . jutant of the American legion. "We graded his roaa. inis put, an mc.ni. . v v... CAti;b oaiijr ui uui uwj aii in and we want to give the squad a chance to unite some of the govern Hemingford farmers in a bad humor, and a number or tnem, not. unuei Ptanding the situation, have been say ing harsh things. Anothr charge that has been made Against Commissioner Carrell is that cn one occasion he used a county truck to haul spuds to the freight cars. Mr. Carrell admits it. He says that he had only a short time to complete loading and other trucks were not aivailable, and that he ordered a court ly truck to the scene and got his spuds loaded just in time. He mentioned Also that he has on various occasions r.ut in time on the county work that he never entered a claim for, and that lie is satisfied that he has donated more than enough several times to pay for the use of the county's truck on this one occasion. He intimates that :if the situation were ever the same, he xvould do it again, without asking per missions of the fellows who object to 'RHll another complaint has reached urer, or izrt,w)z.s'J. mere is sun $160,320.55 of taxes for the current year remaining to le paid. This sum includes both state, county and city , taxes7 and is the result of a 171 mill. levy. The county is entitled to cl , mills of this, or roughly figured, about $2G,!00. When this money is paid in, Mothers' P nsion .1 Sinking Fund .1 Iiid'bleilni's Fund .1 Total - - :i.i $.-2.!S(US Tru" county board held a strenuous M -siori yesterday, and the argument on the levy lasted the better part of the day. .Kvery item was pared to the limit. The chief discussion was over the indebtedness fund, intende to cover unpaid claims dating prior to the adonCon of the new state constitu tion. The first estimate on these claims was placed at .;" of a mill, which woubl have raised (7,G.T7.4, but it was discovered that the indebtedness aside from the court house bonds, would not require that amount. The commissioners called in City Manager N. A. Kemmish of Alliance, who urged them to provide for the payment of the rounty'ii paving assessments, pointing out to them that if unpaid, in t!iT'cr it would uoume. ine com missioners finally decided to meet this assessment out of the road fund. An other new wrinkle this year i the mother's pension fund, no levy for which was made lat year. Aside from these two items, the levy while a trifle larger than la:-t year, will bring in even less money. Last year's levy included the follow ing items: meniai reu tape, r.vciy muii huk th(, comm s oners will be . on easy to file a new claim, get hospital treat- sliwt with penty of money to pay all ment, compensation, vocational train-1 outstaniljnt bills, ing or re-classification should certainly . The $2,500 in unpaid taxes is not arrange to go before this board. I the resources, however. There is Ex-service men of Alliance and pow over ?6(0oo in one fund, cash on nearuy territory man nicei nun uuum at Alliance on September 5, 6 and 7. There will be eight men in the squadron, and in addition to examining claims, facilities will be offered for immediate medical examination. In the nast. it has sometimes taken months before authorization for vtfuli.nl ovnminnliitn rnillil Iw SPClll'ed- ' The board has unusual powers, and can settle all claims on the ground, in fact, do everything save make payments of money. Alliance post of the American legion will endeavor to get in touch with every ex-service man who has a claim and induce him to visit the city during hand, and varying amounts in other funds. The total is something like $10,000 or $15,000. There is but one fund which is depleted, the general fund, and there are now some $700 of outstanding warrants on this fund. The countv is oaving the holders of f : these warrants 7 per cent interest, but they are getting 10 per cent on the same, money, and the commissioners aren't worrying a bit about it. In addition to this, the commission- Fund Mills General Fund J.00 Road Fund 4.00 Bridge Fund 2.00 Sinking Fund 1.61 Amount Raised $28,505.72 12,704.76 6..102.3!! f.,1 13.67 Mrs, N for th ported better now. .1. Fletcher has pasi lew days been but quit s ie- FIELD STATION TO BE OPENED ABOUT AUG. 25 WILL ITRNISH INFORMATION TO SPPH SHIPPKRS. Potato Grower in Kearney District Hate Just Coaipleted a Most Successful Season. ROAD BOOSTERS , IN BRIDGEPORT FOR A MEETING WILL WRKSTLK WITH MORRILL, COCNTY COMMISSIONERS. Mr Pnrrelf This is inai me couiuy ine mree uays uie uymg miuwu win iJl 1 V . . - . I I 1 T . 1 ...... ., . U road gang graded a private " the Fred Hucke farm. Some of the! j ; fKof roirinn are clamoring larmeia ... -- - - , . , .! mi anu trii viaiuin wcic icuic.-wiuw There are not believed to be very many favoritism. Mr. Carrell says inui m. Hucke furnished water for the coun ty's road machinery, and that he sug gested to the graders that they run the blade into the ground while they were coming for water. Since Mr. Hucke has a most complete water part on his farm, and it was comparatively asv for the grading gang, they did it without asking anyone's permission, and figure that they saved time doing There may be other kicks, Mr. Car rell says, but he hasn't heard of them. He isn't fretting particularly about it, tut the other commissioners are pok ing a good deal of official fun at him. They have advised him to place an order with Montgomery-Ward for a rosewood casket and see about the flowers. Reports reaching Alliance from Hemingford the past week or ten days Yiave been to the effect that disgrunt led farmers and business men were figuring on passing around recall peti tions for Mr. Carrell. Other reports say that the petitions will contain names of the other two commissioners. tu iio-..!,! mii.il a telenbone investi gation of the reports, and out of sev eral men called, no one knew anything about such petitions being circulated. It would appear that the reports are In the meantime, Mr. Carrell isn't n baa triven out hi3 ver- still in the ties and was counted twice, in Box Butte county, but in the tern-. . of the establishment rv tributary to this city, it is esti- .i nated that fully twenty-five per cent . . . . . establish ed. The actual amount of money owintr by the county is several thou- Total - - - 16.61 $52,626.48 The estimate as to the amount of lew for a mother's pension fund was made bv County Judge Tash. There are two pensions allowed, one to Mrs. Selden W. Ives for $50 a month, and another to Mrs. Margaret Fuller of $30. Both of these, even if continued for a year, would amount to less than a thousand dollars, and the judge thought that, judging from past history, the levy was sufficient. This year the county will receive all but 3 1-2 per cent of the automobile lieen-e fees. In the past, 75 per cent of this money has gone to the state. Of course, it has all been expended in the rountv. but the last legislature ers say, the unpaid claims which Mr. provided that the funds should remain I c .i ,.., ii;-,. cm Mil 1 .1.. ...nt.i tUa lJUncaii iijuifii aw i,iji.ai..iik in uie couni-y wnne tuiiriiru, nc doesn't really represent that amount 3 1-2 per cent. There are 1,400 auto of money owing. One of them is a mobiles in Box Butte county, and the claim for over $1,100 for graders, fond is exoected to reach from $14,000 which transaction was nettled by 1 to $15,000. This money must still be on state and federal aid roads, the direction of the state high- bureau, but the county will have .,ci.umu.,.u,..,n.si..'" . whicli transaction was neiueu uyto$l.r, be here. In other parts of the state, turninr in some unsatisfactory graders , exceptional results haye been BMurerf. , )U . bri(, am, culvert mater. ' Uie fir.jt day at Grand Island a hund- , , in .leHtl The duplicate bill wasj wav bi f the men who are entitled to make :laim have taken no steps to secure compensation or vocational training. Recent Decision Is Handed Down State Butter Makers Rejoice The Alliance Creamery company of this city is vitally affected by an opin ion of Attorney General Daugherty with reference to sour cream butter manufacturers. Several months ago, it will be remembered, Nebraska but ter makers were greatly exercise.i over an opinion that would class butter made from sour cream with those products that bore an extra heavy in come tax, and were compelled to la bel their product "adulterated." The recent decis'on holds that the addition of a neutralizer to correct the amount of acidity in the soured cream is not an adulteration in the meaning of the law, and bo will not be forbid den by the revenue department. sand less than the $30,000 total .and when the taxes come in, there'll be. no difHcuty in settling all claims and hav ing u tidy balance left over. Miss Sarah Fundenberger of Kansas City, Mo., and Miss Mabel McVicker motored the first of this week from Lexington, Neb. Miss Fundenberger will be in charge of the McVicker Mil linery this season. Mis3 McVicker expects to remain in Alliance a week or ten days. the distributing of it. Presbyterians Lose First Game of Season To Christian Nine Mrs. Ed Tubb of Hay Springs was in the city Thursday. A. J. Pickerel!, former manager of the Dierlu Lumber & Coal company's yard at Antioch, who has been trans ferred to the Alliance office for almost a month, exnects to move -his family. A li: 4 U A t.,to nrxrt r.t Vw U'DoV ' to make their home here. Charley Hurst, assistant car fore man at the Burlington yards, ' Thursday for a few week' vacation in Missouri. J. C. Vaughn who has been visiting in the Yellowstone park for the past two weeks, returned Monday. After playing all season with noth ing but victories to their credit, the Presbyterians lo.st to the Christians in the Thursday afternoon game of the Sunday school league, when Pitcher Kberly for the Presbyterians lost con trol in the second inning and before they took him out of the box the Christians had run in eight scores. The final score was 12 to 6. Kberly was replaced by Bob Idling, but the lead was too great for the fre.-h pitcher to overcome. Laing truck out hx batters in the remainder of Urn game, ami the support given him was absolutely air-tight, but the le:id was a Jonah. The Presbyterians have so far play ed seven games and won six of them, which leaves them well in the lead for th championship. Iliirh Doints in the game were the three three-baggers that were clouted out by the young players. Bob Laing, Christiana had run in eight scores. The field eouiiiment used in publish ing the market rei orts is being moved to Alliance, where a station will be opened about August 25 and maintain ed until December 1. The service this year is being carried in cooperatively by the U. S. Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimated and the Nebraska Bu reau or Markets ami Aiariceunjr. . uea- tinations of Nebraska ahipments, num ber of cars shipped from each state in the country, prices paid at shipping points in important states and jobbing or carlot prices in terminal markets, arc features of these daily reports, which are mailed free to growers and other interested ersons who make ap plication. Potato growers in the Kearney dis trict of centrol Nebraska have just concluded a very successful season, ac cording to O. I). Miller, local represen tative of the Federal and State mar keting bureaus, who closed the market news station at that point Tuesday. Their crop was of good ciuality, care fully handled and packed in new tapired or branded sacks, so they were in a position to take every advantage of the active demand and advancing market which prevailed during their shipping season as the result of light shinments for the country as a wnoie The weather during tugging time this year was more favorable than in '.rzn. and the stocK was mostly ciean and attractive. State shipping point inspectors said that only about one fourth of the shipments fell into the 2 irrude. Nearly !5r of the crop was Early Ohios. I he yield lor the whole district averaged about 100 bushels to the acre, which is about .'50 bushels lower than last year; but this was move than offset by the cost or production, which was estimated to lc at least 100 lower than in 1!20 be cause of cheaper seed, sacks and farm labor. )nrin the first ten days of the deal much of the stock was rolled unsold ami diverted from Omaha, but after July 25, which marked the beginning of a steady and strong demand, prac tically everything was sold f. o. b. shipping point. Cash buyers bought about half the shipments. The cash price per 100 pounds in carlots, sackeil, started at $1.'.0, July 10. It weakened gradually to $1.50 on the 20th, but be gan an advance July 25 which brought i tto $1.S" by August 1, $2.25 by the 5th and $2.75 by the lth. The highest orice was naid August 10, when two cars sold at $3.00. The season s aver age was $1.95. ...... Although more than nair 01 ine table stock shipments of the main crop, moving trom western iNCDrasKa during the fall and winter, go to points within the htate itseir, the higher price commanded by this earlier crop allow ed longer haul.s, and all but SO of the 100 cars shipped from the Kearney district to August 12, inclusive, went outside the state. Chicago with a freight rate of GO Vic, received 123 cars. The ret went mostly to towns and small cities in Iowa, Illinois, In diana, Wisconsin and Minnesota. The poor quality of the Kaw Valley crop Hope lo Secure Promise That at Lrasi One Road Reaching Alliance W ill Be ApproTcd. Several automobile loads of Alliunc gooil roads boosters left this morninig for Bridgeport, and these were follow ed on the afternoon train by another delegation. To Alliance boosters mm attending the meeting of the North Star highway association called for :i:;:0 this afternoon, by President J. S. Rhein of this city. The Bridgeport meeting was ar ranged at a meeting held on Friday of last week at Sidny, at which tim the Nrth Star highway association, was organized for western Nebraska. The North Star is a rival of the Gulf-Plains-Canadian highway, and origi nated in Colorado, where rival boost ers for two different routes through Colorado split and formed two organ izations. An attempt has been madtt to carry the fight into Nebraska, and if the Alliance people have anything to say about it, there will be nothing doing. The stumbling block is Morrill county, where the three commission ers, each from a different town, favors a route tluough their town and re fuses to take any other noith and south road. For two years or more. Alliance attempted to get a highway built through Morrill county which . will connect with one from Alliance and allow this city a good road to the Lincoln highway. The Commissioners won't get together and no compromise has ever been suggested that coubLi get the approval of two of them. The north and south transcontinen tal highway has made this old dead lock of supreme importance. On both Fides of Morrill county, the territory is 01 ganized, and the towns are ready to go. But they cannot go unless Morrill countv will designate at least one road. The commissioners and people of th county are divided over the matter ot which road. Alliance doesn t really care about it, so long as a reasonably direct route-1 approved. ., Broadwater on the G-P-C route. favors approving a road that goes via Oshkosh, Lisco, Broadwater and Alli ance. Sidney, in Cheyenne county, has taken up with the North Star highway people, and has stirred up Bridgeport to join witn tnem ami make a road north and south via Sid ney, Chapped, I-odgepole, Bridgeport and Alliance. The deadlock was bad enough in the old days, but with a lo cation on a transcontinental highway at stake, the situation is tenser than ever. Last week the Alliance good roads boosters attended meetings at both Broadwater and Sidney. Broadwater wanted the support of thia city for the G-P-C highway, and elected J. S. Khein vice president of the highway for this county. Sidney wanted Alii ance to back the Bridgeport loute ft the North Star highway, and elected Rhein president of their association. After an hour's argument he convin ced them that the Morrill commis sioners were the kingpins in the situa tion and that unless the deadlock could be broken, everything would be at a. standstill. Today the Alliance men are endeav oring to get the Morrill county com missioners and factions to agree to a settlement of their differences and unite on some route. Several com promises will !) suggested to them, in the hope that one of them will prov acceptable. If they simply can't gt together, the aid of State Engineer Johnson will be requested. The Alli ance people feel that the transcontin ental hignway is more important than any one town's claims along the route, and the trouble in Morrill county is holding up the road. Thursday noon the Lions club of this city discussed highway problems, and as a result of their discussion a pub lic meeting was held at the armory, in which the sentiment of the citizens was discovered. A number of th fifty or more men who attended wer in favor of one particular route, dui each of them final'y agreed that the important thing at this juncture is t have one route selected and approved. The good roads delegation, accom panied by a number of cars from Broadwater, went to Chadron Wednes day, where an organization meeetinjf for the G-P-C highway was held. Th meeting was also attended by dele-. gates from South Dakota, who hav called a meeting for Deadwood on August 26. The Fall river county dele gation from South Dakota endorsed the G-P-C association and affiliated with it. The road is gradually push ing northward. To the south it is an nounced, organization work is now nroceediner in Oklahoma. The G-P-C C. L. Kerr of the Brick drove to Chadron Wednesday. garage as the result of late freezes and heavy highway will, when competed, extend rains just before digging time, was an from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada. important factor in creating the de- mand for Nebraska stock in these cen- William Reese, bookkeeper at thA tral states; and the failure, through ' Dierks Lumber & Coal company, left drouth, of the early crop usually Tuesday night to take his annual va grown near Minneapolis is Raid to cation of two weeks. Mr. Reese ex have caused the demand in Minnesota pects to spend some time in Potter &nd Wisconsin. 'Neb,