Nebraska Newspapers

    Official Paper of Box Butte County
TWICE A WEEK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
Official Taper of the City of Allianc
VOLUME XXIX
(Eight Tages)
ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1922.
No. 13
CITY MANAGER
TELLS STORY OF
HUNT FOR BOOZE
CORRECTS WILD STORIES THAT
nAVE BEEN AFLOAT.
Says Delegates to Firemen's Conven
tion Conducted Themselves to
Credit of the City.
City Manager N. A. Kemmish has is
sued the following statement, correct
ing certain rumor3 relative to the
search of the baggage of Alliance vol
unteer firemen, delegates to the state
convention at Norfolk, some days ago:
In order to correct some of the wild
stories which have been' going the
! rounds regarding the search of the fire
1 boys baggage for booze we wish to
state the following facts connected
with it.
Sunday afternoon the city manager
save a talk to the W. C. T. U. in
which he stated that it was the duty
of every citizen to assist the officers in
enforcing the prohibition law by giving
them tips of those violating the same
and stated if tips were given that they
would be followed up promptly. After
the meeting he was given several tips
by those present. Some of the tippers
remarked that they were going to try
cut the city manager and see if he
meant what he said. Among tips
given, the one which the tipper insist
ed was bor fide, was to the effect that
a man who was accompanying the
fireboys was furnishing two gallons of
booze and the fire boys were furnish
ing one gallon which they were taking
with them that evening to the state
convention at Norfolk. The officers
-were called and asked to make a thor
ough investigation. Charles Jeffers
and two special officers went as far as
Seneca and unknown to the men their
baggage was inspected and the party's
baggage which was suspected to con
tain the two gallons was searched
twice thoroughly by the officers hav
ing authority to do so and no booze of
any nature was found in any of the
baggage. After satisfying themselves
that the delegation was dry the officers
returned to the city. This search is in
line with the regular work the officers
are doing every day.
Heretofore there may have been
some question in the way the dele
gations to our firemen's conventions
. conducted themselves. This year, how
ever, without any question of doubt,
the men conducted themselves to- their
credit and to the credit of the city
which they represented. We are glad
indeed that the search was made and
everything found to be right. Now we
lenow there is no doubt. If we had not
made this search someone would still
contend that they had booze. The con
vention this year was the most impor- i
tant one held in ten years. The men
learned many excellent things in fire
fighting methods. This convention was
a real benefit to the fire boys and to
our city. We are glad to see these1
conventions turn their energies to
something really useful rather than to
a hilarious, good time some of them
have been in the past.
Our city council gave the fire boys
$200 to pay their expenses to this con
vention. We sent five delegates and i
they returned with something over $.r0
unspent which they are turning back
to the city council. This alone shows
that they were careful and did not
spend money foolishly.
We told those at the W. C. T. U.
meeting that citizens should be on their
jruard against propaganda sent out by
the wet element. Many of our good,
citizens pass this along in place of
coming to us and getting the facts
first. They try to make it appear that
partiality is being shown by arresting
a man who is now in jail and letting
an old offender go scott free. We
wish to state that this old offender has
been out of the city for some time
but recently returned and states that
be will now walk tne straight and nar
row. We hope he does.
It makes no difference who the of
fenders may be, as we have said be
fore, or their standing in the commun
ity. The officers have had instruc
tions to show no partiality and let no
cne escape. If we should tell you the
names of some of the people who have
under suspicion and are watching it
-would surprise you, and them also.
W. R. Harper Will
Leate Saturday
on Buying Trip
W. R. Harper of the Harper de--partment
store will leave Saturday
night on a buying trip that will take
bim to New York, Chicago and pos
sibly other eastern market centers.
Wr. Harper's system of buying and
selling for cash enables him to take
advantage of discounts, and he expects
to do a large amount of purchasing at
prices that will enable him to have
some attractive bargains for custom
ers of the Alliance store. He will be
awav from the city for about two
weeks.
H. E. Marvin, train dispatcher, is
laying off this week on account of
sickness. ...
THE WEATHER
Forecast for Nebraska: Increasing
cloudiness tonight Rising tempera
ture west and centrnl portion.1. Satur
day unsettled; probably snow in west
portion.
Former Alliance
Man May Start New
Paper in Valley
Scottsbluff Star-Herald: Rumor
hath it that there will be a "new
Richmond in the field"' insofar as the
newspaper field is concerned, the new
miVlirfQT inn 4a Ka tacit 4- Di!.lAnA.4
and to be called the Morrill County
Democrat. Ernest Smith, formerly of ,
this city, but more recently of the,
News-B!ade at Bridgeport is the editor .
and proprietor of the new publication,
McDonald Sale Is
Scheduled for the
' Last Day in January, earing the store building holding the
remainder of the stock of the bank-fr-
r r. uTT, . '""P Morgan Grocery company, and
Tim McDonald of Berea annouces in taking away quantities of cookies, gum
this issue of The Herald a closing-out : nnd other things that would appeal to
sale of his livestock and farm imple- youthful appetites. Although the
ments at public auction at his farm,! parents of the boys had been consulted
two miles west of Berea, on Tuesday, fy the county attorney, during his in
January 31. The selling will start im- vestigation, but one of them appeared
mediately after a free lunch at noon. jn the court room. The mother of
The offering includes seven head of one of the smaller culprits was there
horses, twelve head of cattle, five head to lend moral support to the court.
of hogs, a good It of farm machinery
and miscellaneous items.
STAR-HERALD AT
SCOTTSBLUFF IS
ON THE WARPATH
NEWSPAPER SAYS ALLIANCE
SCHOOL MEN ARE ON TRIAL.
Says Western Nebraska Waiting to .
see Mam mieves narreu rrum
the Basket Ball Team.
The Scottsbluff Star-Herald, which
some months ago was a rather severe
critic of Coach F. C-Prince and his
franp of football players, is again on
the war path. During the 1920-21
son. Bavard. which had high hopes
for the championship, had a rather
more difficult job in defeating Alliance
than the gridiron fans expected, and
one result was the charge that the
Alliance team was an aggregation of
highbinders. The Bayard newspapers
insinuated that the Alliance boys play-
ed football as though they were en-'
gaged in a massacre, instead 'of fol-
lowing the ladylike procedure of some
other western Nebraska teams. The!
Scottsbluff newspaper took up the
Bayard charges and kept them going
for a time, even suggesting that Alii-,
ance should be barred from the con-
ference.
At the beginning of the last football
season, the charges were revived, and
want to slaD them on the wrist. In
time, however, the antagonism seemed
to wear off, and toward the end of the
season, there wasn't any crabbing at
all.
Now the war is on again. The
Scottsbluff newspaper has just heard
of the confession of five athletes, four
of them members of the basket ball
team, that they were connected with
an attempt to steal examination ques
tions. Whereupon, there is a righteous
roar that is intended to cover western
Nebraska and stir up animosity
atrainst Alliance.
All Rules Complied With.
According to a recent statement by
Superintendent W. R. Pate, the rules
of the athletic association do not cover
the offense to which the basket ball
players pleaded guilty. The rules do
provide, however, that the members of
teams must be up to snuff in their
school work. The Alliance boys passed
the required examinations. Their at
tempted theft didn't benefit them in
the slightest. The Alliance school
authorities, who are charged with ad
ministering punishment and who know
all the circumstances, have said that
the boys were sufficiently punished. It
was expected that there would be
some who would object. It was not ex
pected, however, that other towns
would endeavor to prescribe the pun
ishment. The Star-Herald declares that if the
boys are allowed to remain on the
basket ball team, clean athletics in
western Nebraska will be handed an
awful wallop. This is based on what
the Scottsbluff newspaper declares is
a very natural conclusion that the team
members would not have stolen the
questions had they been up in their
studies. The Alliance school authori
ties are on trial, the newspaper de
clares. The Star-Herald says:
"Five young men, students of the
Alliance high school are "in Dutch"
just now, due to the fact of the at
tempted swiping of examination ques
tions prior to the day of the test It is
averred that this has been going on
(Continued on Page 4)
the hope was expressed that Alliance "
players would not play in a manner aroused, and an investigation was
calculated to make the opposing teams held, at which some of the smaller
TEN BOYS ENTER
GUILTY PLEA IN
JUVENILE COURT
ADMIT TAKING EATABLES FROM.
MORGAN GROCERY STOCK
Pilferers Are Given Lecture by Judge
Tash and Told to Report
Moral Progress
Ten small boys, ranging in age from
c,ght to fifteen 'ears PPe-r-d before
Judge Tash in juvenile court Tuesday
evening, after school, and most of
them wore a worried expression, as
though expecting an axe to fall any
time. Two or three wore the hard
boiled look, but they lost it before the
session was over. The boys, in an
investigation carried on by County At-
! tornev Basve. had nlpadml oniltv in
Judge Tash didn't frighten any of
the small prisoners by making the
court session a formal one. He ques
tioned the boys, and found that the
three youngest were but eight years
of age. There waa one nine-year-old
boy, two were ten, two were twelve,
one admitted being fourteen and the
oldest boy had attained the age of
fifteen.
There were eleven children who con
fessed to taking part in the various
raids upon the Morgan stock, but one
of the boys was ill and unable to be
present.
All ten of the children declared that
they knew the nature of an oath, and
something awful would happen to them
in this world and probably the next.
- Looting for a Month
TT Inn rl 1 tViai ctsttnoa anA i Vi arA
was no discrepancy. The first raid
on the grocery stock took place about
a month ago, when three boys were
sea-TjJayiwg hi the altey track otk mjm
They noticed that one of the windows
had been broken, and was replaced by
a cardboard, with some boards nailed
over it. The oldest boy stood -watch
and two smaller boys pried off the
boards and entered the store. When
they reappeared, one of the pilferers
carried a five-pound sack of salt, and
the other a quantity of candy and gum.
The loot wa3 distributed among the
boys.
A few days later the second entry
was made, and more eatables secured,,
ftnd from then on until the theft was
discovered, the boys managed to keep
the gang supplied with candy, gum
and cookies. There was an epidemic of
gum-chewing at Central school the
gJPPly te."V? seemingly inexhaustible.
Mayor R. M. Hampton
Talks to Members
of the Rotary Club
Rotaiian R. M. Hampton was the
speaker at the Wednesday dinner at
the Alliance Rotary club. He took for
Ms subject the present financial con
ditions, and forecasted a turn for the
better before the end of 1922. Mr.
Hampton discussed the theory of eco
nomic cycles, and showed how a period
of expansion hail been followed by a
periou oi oppression since ne came u
western Nebraska a good many yeara
ago. In the latter part of the eigh -
ties, the speaker said, money was de
cidedly "easy." There was a scram
ble among the various banks and loan
agencies to get as much money as pos-
sitila lAanod siiif of intoroat- This. hA
This, he
kplipvprl wn. shown hv later exner-'
iences to have been a mistake, for
following this period of undue expan
sion there was a aenmte penou oi
financial stringency, which lasted for
several years.
Once the period of "hard times" was
over. Mr. Hampton (aid, there was no
t i
serious nanism p xor a gooa many
years, although the crop failures in
the nineties had occasioned consider
able depression. In 1907 came the next
real panic, and this, he believed, was
averted before it came very serious by
the prompt action of the banks, who
simply refused to pay out money, but
instead used cashier's checks as me
diums of exchange. This method of
handling the situation soon put an end
to the trouble. Had the banks paid
out money on demand, Mr. Hampton
declared, it might have been one of the
most severe financial crises in the his
tory of the country.
Mr. Hampton believes that the pres
ent period of readjustment is nearing
an end. He does not look for much
further reductions in prices, he said.
Conditions have improved materially in
the last few months, and by the first of
1923, he believes that normalcy will
have been attained.
ivuniinueu on page j
CATTLE FREIGHT
RATES ON "Q"
INJURE ALLIANCE
i
SHIPPERS SAVE MONEY BY
1NG ELSEWHERE
GO-
Traffic Committee of Alliance Cham
' bor of Commerce Explains
the Discrimination
A. T. Lunn, chairman of the traffic
committee of the Alliance chamber of
commerce, has written Dale P. Stough
of Grand Island some information con
cerning the alleged discrimination
against Alliance by cattle shippers,
who are shipping from stations on the
Union Pacific and Northwestern rail
roads instead of Alliance. The reason
for this lies in the fact that cattle
rates on the Burlington are higher
than those on the competing railroads,
end the shipper finds that it pays him
to drive his cattle overland anil take
advantage of the cheaper rates.
Recently the traffic committe of the
chamber of commerce decided to go in
with several other cities served by the
Burlington in a fight to bring rates on
livestock down to the level of the other
two roads. At present they are about
20 per cent higher. At the last 20
per cent cut in rates on livestock, the
order on the Burlington applied in Ne
braska only to towns 600 miles dis
tant from Omaha. There was but one
town in the state, Henry, on the Wyo
ming line, which derived any advan
tage from the cut.
Mr. Lunn has summarized the situa
tion as follows:
"Dear Sir: With further reference
to the matters outlined in the letter
written by our secretary, Mrs. Thom
as, in her letter of January 19th to
you.
"We gather, however, that in any
case where there is an approximately
equal distance, or even ten or fifteen
miles further to drive the cattle, our
shippers will go to a shipping point
on the Union Pacific in preference to
bringing their cattle to Alliance or any
nearby shipping point on the Burling
ton. Shippers Save Money.
"Taking a five-car shipment, this
means that they will save from $85.00
to $100.00 by driving to Broadwater or
nearby shipDins- point on the Union
rTacific In preference to coming to Alli
ance. At the present market price of
cattle the saving is quite an item to
any shipper, and the necessity of driV'
ing to other points, equi-distant or
farther away from Alliance, forms a
discrimination against them and
against the city of Alliance. We un
derstand that the rate from Broad
water to Omaha is 37. cents per hun
dredweight against 45 cents from Alii
ance.
"A further point in this matter is
that to reach Kansas City, the Union
Pacific must transfer over the Grand
Island & St. Joe, whereas the Burling
ton has direct connection and still the
same difference applies. However, aiv
proximately 90 per cent of our cattle
go to the Omaha market.
"The reduction which was made
some time ago has been of no benefit
(Continued on Page 4)
Dr, Minor Morris
Talks to Members
of the Lions Club
Dr. Minor Morris was the speaker
at the Thursday dinner of the Alii
ance Lions club, taking for his subject
the necessity for unity in thought, re
ligion and philosophy as the only
sound basis for universal peace. He
mentioned some of the things that
would lead toward this unity. Among
these was the spread of the wireless
p enhnnn. of uh rh there are now
three hundred thousand in use in the
, United States today, and within a few
vears this number will be doubled
He mentioned the fact that the school
children in Scottsbluff were to have
rnnrorii) hv x'irplp4 in the near fu-
ture jhe wireless telephone, when
sufficiently developed, will bring the
world in closer relationship, and it is
but one of the forces that i3 at work
unifying the world today.
Dr. Morris raised the question as to
whether the UnitedStates, free from
external invasion, is in a secure posi
tion. The white race today, the speak
er declared, has reached its high water
mark, so far as the occupation of ter
ritory is concerned. He showed that
the white race is being driven from
Asia, because they are not able to cope,
physically and economically, with the
vellow race. If the yellow men are
able to worst the whites in this sort of
a contest, without the aid of science
and invention, what may be expected
when they have the help of modern
machinery and late knowledge. He
told of the establishment of a modern
city 150 miles from Shanghai, which is
a ereat manufacturing center.
The labor problem is the greatest
that faces the world today, Dr. Morris
declared. The only solution, as he saw
it, was a unity of knowledge through
out the world.
L. Q. Wilsick is unable to work this
week on account or niness in ms lain
ily. . . j. ,..ii ,.i -i i
Alliance Team
Won From Bayard
Tuesday, 32 to 14
The Alliance hijrh school basket ball
quintet added another scalp to its belt
iy deteating Hayard Tue.lay, 32 to
14. This leaves Alliance with a no
defeat record in western Nebraska.
Cross and Dailey divided honors, each
making fourteen points, although four
of Cross' were on fire throws. Brown
also got two baskets. Hartman.
Bayard's 200 pound forward, gathered
four basket and two free throws, mak
ing ten or his teams fourteen points.
The Bayard team is entirely new, Her
ron, the only veteran, having gone to
Michigan to join forces with the for
mer Bayard coach. Spruitt.
This evening the boys play Scotts
bluff at Scottsbluff. While no great
difficulty is expected in bringing home
the bacon the Irrigators have a good
record and should put up a good bat
tle. The summary:
Alliance e ft f
Cross, f 5 4 2
Dailey, f 7 0 2
Urown, c 2 0 0
J oder, g 0 0 1
rowler, g (c) 0 0 0
Totals - - . 14 4 8 32
Bayard c ft f n
aiui vinc-iip j, -.-..-- t L lv
Bottom, f 10 1 2
Ieach, c 10 1 2
Burns, g 0 0 3 0
ONeil, g 0 0 0 0
Totals
6 2 6 14
CHARITY BALL
AT THE ARMORY
ON FEBRUARY 4
VOLUNTEER FIREMEN AND T. P.
A. SPONSOR EVENT.
Funds to Be Devoted to Relief Work
in the City by the Central
Charity Committee.
The Alliance volunteer fire depart
ment and the members of Post M.
T. P. A., are sporsoring a Charity ball
for the benefit of the central charities 1
committee of Alliance. The dance will J
lake? ill ace ni mo cilv irmorv.on vne
. rt . - - M -
evening of Saturdayj February 4, and
according to the plans of the commit-1
tee in charge, headed by Roy Strong,
u is me inienuon vo irane vne vun a
record breaker in the way of atten-
dance. .
Ticket selling committees from' both
the firemen s and T. P. A. orgnniza- u right there, Lang
tions will canvass the city thoroughly. I f J d h Rtu,njoys hIg "J
Arrangements have been made to have . abaJner from the
ne nan uonaieu iwwF.
the music will, to a certain extent, be
tA??J!
Iiupeu lU mine a puunuiiiuai num nmui
may be used by the charities commit-.
UeAuuCarufr twe Ll !yi
Although there have been several
donations to the charities, comm.ttee,
the 7rer??a;V
pered by lack of funds, kvcry cent
realized from the ball will be turned
over to the committee, and every cent
will iro to those who need assistance.
There are no salaried workers in the
cnariiy organization, anu u is expecieu
that the ticket se comm,tte, will
i . . i f ; . - .1
meet with very few tumdowns on their
rounds.
Cradle Roll Program
at Methodist Church
on Sunday Morning
The Epworth Leaguers will have en
tire charge of the evening service Sun
day night at the Methodist church. It
will begin at 7:00 p. m. and will be
about as follows:
Tableaux, "Let the Lower Lights Be
Burning," by a large number of girls.
A stunt entitled, A Major Upera-
tion on Mr. Epworth League." This
will be a religious stunt with plenty of
fun. It is a hospital scene with sur
geons and nurses taking a patient with
many ailments, who like the woman in
the Bible, has spent all his substance
and endured much at the hands oi
doctors and quacks, and finally con
sults an expert surgeon. You will en
joy seeing what harmful things this
surgeon finds, within the body, and re
moves them, replacing tnem witn
something else to build up the run
down body and restore it to health.
Following this operation, there will
be a number of short addresses by the
young people of the league.
Red Cross Seeks
Present Location
Of Irvin Tharp
The Alliance chapter of the Red
Cross has been asked to assist in locat
ing Irvin Tharp. ex-soldier, who fol
lowing the war was in a hospital at
Denver. On his release he went to
Ortonville, Minn., and it is thought
that he may have returned to Alliance,
Any information concerning this man
will be appreciated by the local Bed
Cross onicisus.
POOR FARM IS ,
THE SCENE OF A
SERIOUS FUED
TWO ROOMMATES STAGE A SEIt
IES OF QUARRELS.
W. A. Dunlap Objects to Older Man
Smoking a Pipe, and Wants to
Live a Life of Peace.
County Commissioners Cal ITufe
man and George Carrell were in AILU
ance Thursday, attending to some bus
iness connected with roads. They found
waiting for them at the court hous
PA official communication from W. A
Dunlap, an inmate at the county farm.
Mr. Dunlap, who is pretty badly crip
pled up, told his tale of woe in the fol
lowing letter, which was undecipher
able in part, but which read, so near
a the commissioners could read it.
like this:
"Jan. 20, 1922, Toor Farm- To th
Box Butte County Commissioners: I
want to call your attention to condi
tions at the poor farm, since last Jan
uary, Mr. Peter Haag was compelled to
share a room with this old Tom Lang-,
ford, who, with his filthiness, . noie
vice and corruption, caused him to
insane and to be removed, and they
compelled me to use this room. Th
old reprobate has made this room at
hell since I have been with him. I
wish you would remove me or Tom
from this farm so I can live in peace,
and oblige, "W. A. DUNLAP..
Mr. Dunlap adds to the letter th
words: "I-ament of a county charge.'
Hashman Tells of Warfare.
Cal Hashman, who has been ac
quainted wth both of the old gentle
men for a number of years, knows th
details of the quarrel since its incep
tion. Several times one or the other
of the participants has summoned him
to tell a tale of a struggle of strong
wills.
According to Mr. Hashman, the fact?
in the case are about as follows. Both
Dunlap and Tom Iangford are old aadi
crippled. There are plenty of rooma
at the poor farm, there being about
seven of them and only three inmates,
but these two men are both crippled)
and have been assigned to a room OA
I the ground floor.
Tom Ijingford is a hale and hearty
youngster of eighty-two,.
Langfordl
ftWMTOVK " . V "
1 -j to the asylum last January after
opVrl months Hurinir which he com-
u;tk i.t. m aa
who
: piajned that everyone near him vu
, putting electric batteries in his Ded, nia
hfw. his rt and even his smoklii
tobacco. Then Dunlao was aiven a
room with LanirfonL
we1 Not on, that but he XsUk
nvW
.PP-ent oMfmon"
been more
than it waa
: ftpc,
.,Tho8e t -oM felIow8 dor,.t hav
anything to do but get on each other's
'.. n.C
T. ' . . .,!. .v.rv nn
while, and it's usually over Lang-
. ,.
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Landlord Won't Reform.
Mr. Dunlap has tried a number of
ways to separate his aged roommate
. f - th , , corncob. Ile has arguet
, abflut the ba(, e)rect on the healthf but
inasmuch as l.angford is older than
he i., and stronger, deppite his years,
this i.sn't a very telling argument.
Dunlap has also tried another style of
attick. He told his roommate that
"No gentleman will smoke in the same
room with another gentleman, if thafc
gentleman doesn't like it." Mr. Lang
ford wasn't a bit affected by this ar
gument. Then Dunlap played another
card. He argued the matter scriptur
al I y, and told Langford that a man
who 'smoked could never enter th
kingdom of heaven. Even the prospect
of eternal fire didn't make the octo
genarian deert his pipe.
After peaceful suasion iaiiea, wr,
Dunlap resorted to sterner measures
He tried them out one cold day. Lang
ford lighted his pipe. Dunlap opened
the window. They both got pretty
cold, and as fast as one would shut it
the other would throw it open, tin
ally, this led to direct warfare. Dun
lap knocked ngiord s pipe irom nia
face, and the aged man retaliated by
bringing blood from Dunlap's nose.
This was the last straw. Mr. Dun
lap has brought the matter officially
to the attention or tne county ooarq.
He has charged that it was his room
mate's vices that drove Peter Haag
insane. He has asked the commission
ers to remove either one or the other,
and let him live ms me in peace. '
It's a tough question for the com
missioners to answer, and they haven't
yet arrived at a solution of the prob
lem. Mr. Dunlap is insistent that
something be done, and Mr. Langfordj
has intimated that he ought to be al
lowed to enjoy his pipe in peace. There,
is but one downstairs room, and the
two old fellows don't seem to be pbta
to enjoy it in harmony. What to do T
Maybe someone can suggest a solu
tion to this problem, and end a feud
thnf tin q turwthimla nf the inmnta. mt
the county farm all stirred up aro)
feeling ugly. It's a task for a diplo
mat, and both Hashman and George
Carrell axe reading up on diplomacy