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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 4, 1908)
..-,:.. ia TuUiUi W".'g'MWW"'mWWWiWMWIWqWWW ;i 'I PLAN NOW EXCURSIONS EAST Republican Convention ex cursion tickets to Chicago at low rates in June. Also ex cursion rates from June i, in connection with convention and summer tourist rates to Lake and Eastern resorts. TO THE PACIFIC COAST Very low round trip rates commencing June ist for at tractive $60.00; Shasta Sound. Coast tours, only slighter higher via Route and Puget TO COLORADO Cheao excursion tickets to Denver early in July for the Democratic National Con vention. HELP US SETTLE UP YOUR COUNTRY Excursion rates twice a month from the East to the West, Excellent chances yet to secure irrigated lands along our line near Garland, Wy oming, and Billings, Montana, and Carey Act lands near Cody, Basin, Lovell and Worland, Wyo. Write your friends back East about these chances and send their names to D. Clem Deaver, Land seekers' Information Bureau, Omaha. 1VUmvm, 1Ub. W. L. Wakklky, G. P. A., Omaha, Net Some Good Advice to Range Men Wm. James, Exclusive Dealer in COAL & ... WOOD 'Phone No. 5. Alliance, Nebraska. When you plan your home remember the importance of Good Plumbing 1 do sanitary work and guar antee it. I install Standard bath room fixtures. Steam and Hot Water Heat , ing with modern, up-to-date , Ideal Boilers and American Radiators right in my line. FRED BRENNAN Some High-Class Short-Horn Bulls. I raised the bull calf that took first premium, also calf that took fifth in same class, in open competition, at our State fair in September 1907. My herd took fourteen ribbons, altogether. 1 now have thirty bulls, from one to three years old, which I would like to sell for fall delivery; a car load. I will sell from twelve to twenty; you take your pick for $100 each. I will keep them for two months, feed them oats, alfalfa, etc., get them in good shape. You take them in December, winter them at home, and they will do you Borne good. J. G. Bkhkuer, 43. i year Broken Bow, Neb. Do You Owe Any (Back Tax? If so, Better See the County Treasurer. To the county treasurer of Box Butte county, Nebraska; You are hereby ordered by the coun. tv commissioners to collect all back tax due the county and to issue distress warrants on all delinquents who have been notified and have neglected to pay. By order county commissioners. By W. C. Mounts, May 14. County Clerk. J'rom Tlio Nebraska rarmer A crowJ of western cattlemen wore discussing the recent influx of settlers into what has heretofore been known'ns a grazing district, they wcro talking of affairs in general and their own interest in particular. All agreed that the range cattle business was not as profitable as in former years; herds have been cut in two, pastures limited, and cattlemen nowadays arc compelled to own. much more land than formerly, making the expense of raising cattle on the range about 30 per cent higher than a few years ago. Different methods were suggested that would help the situation. One man proposed buying better bulls, another wanted more hay to feed in the winter, another insisted that cattle are too often short of water; an easterner who recently moved west thought that cattle needed more shelter in winter, especially the younger stuff. The quiet man of the party, who had been listen ing very attentively, gave as his opinion that too many stockmen overlooked the value of salt, and having it in conven ient places, and especially close to the watering plants. The writer has been a close observer for a number of years at the market as well as on the range, and to our mind these men all have good ideas for help ing their business and increasing their profits. We believe, however, that tlrey have overlooked two very important questions one in having their cattle thoroughly cleaned when offered for sale, and the other in belonging to a stock growers' association for their pro tection and oftentimes help in locating animals that have strayed away, or may have been marketed by unscrupulous parties. The average cattleman pays close at tention to the raising and caring for his cattlo up to the time he expects to dis pose ot them and is entitled to great credit for so doing. The commission man, however, who gets linterested in the cattlo the minute they are ready for market, does not care so much about how or where they aro raised, but ho is interested in knowing how they look when they arrive on the market for Bale. We have seen cattlo that were trood quality, desirable weights, and in very fair condition that were hard to sell at mean prices for the simple reason that they showed signs of mange. Buyers, and especially experienced feeders hes itate to buy a bunch of good feeding cattlo unless they are certain they are free from mange. An Iowa feeder only a short time ago was compelled to ship out his entire feedlot of cattle at n big loss just be cause the mange broke out about two mouths after he had put them on feed. This man and all his neighbors are nat urally very backward about buying any more feeding cattlo until they know they are clean. The item of cost in dipping cattlo regularly and thoroughly is very small when compared to the ben efits derived, and we believe that all stock raisers will obtain better results and do a more conservative business if they dip their cattle regularly in the spring and fall, in any ono of a number of good dips. This will give your cat tle a better appearance and make them more desirable both as feeders and beef. There are a few men in every locality who persist in doing business in an un safe way. In Nebraska, the last two years, there huve been a few cattleiien who haye refused to dip their cattle and cleaii up the mange. This condition has made it necessary for the governor of the state to ask for federal co-operation in maintaining a quarantine in the western part of the state as has been done in several other western states. The result is that government inspec tors with the state authorities are going to compel every cattle owner in the af fected districts to clean their herds of mange. In some cases this will require only one dipping, in others two. One cattle owner in the sand hills of Ne braska made the statement that he had spent 55,000 a year for the last 5 years in dipping his cattle, and could not get them entirely cleaned because one of his neighbors refused to dip. This is certainly an unfair proposition, and we are thoroughly in accord with the gov ernor in his present campaign in clean ing the state of mange and in getting in line with the other western states which have already taken similar action. CATTLE INSURANCE The majority of men in all lines- of business insure their property against fire, some against tornadoes, and the average man insures his life for the ben efit of his family. Records in several western states show that about one-half the stock raisers failed to insure their cattle against theft by belonging to a stock association which gives inspection at all the principal markets as well as at the Indian agencies. This nothing more nor less than placing insurance on your droves of cattle, the moral effect alone being worth more than the whole thing costs. The stock associations employ com petent inspectors at the different mar kets whose business it is to see that the proper party gets paid for the cattle shipped to market, they being guided in their decisions by the recorded brands belonging to the members of the differ cnt associations. It is almost impossi ble for anyone to ship stolen cattle to any market aud get away with the pro ceeds if the owner has taken precaution in belonging to the state association. The iuspector finds your bunch of cattle and unless the party can produce the bill of sale, the proceeds are held until the owner can be communicated with. The fact that a man belongs to an asso ciation which has representatives scat tered all over the country is in itself the great protection to the stock raisers. The cattle thief who docs his work by night while the honest man sleeps, hes itates about taking cattle belonging to a member ot the stock association because he knows the officers and different in spectors arc all watching to see that he docs not find a chance to sell them; whereas, a man who is not a member of the association has no protection on ly in himself. The average man sleeps a third of his time and that third gives the other fellow all the time he wants to make away with his cattle. Thccommission man thinks that'stock associations are.onc of the best institu tions in the western countries for all parties concerned and would like to see the day come when every man who raises cattle has his regular brands re corded according to the law of the state in which ho lives, and is a member of a reliable stock association. When this dav comes, cattle stealing will be a lost art, as it will be impossible for rustlers to dispose of the stock and get away with the proceeds. If we weie going to preach a sermon to the stockmen of the west we would take for our text this sentence: "Keep your cattle clean by dipping regularly and keep your dues paid up in your stock associ ation." W. B. TAGG, Of Tagg Bros., Live Stock Com mission Co., So. Omaha, Nebr. K" f w y c u til Conditions Do Not Warrant So IVhicri Pessimism. By DANIEL GUGGENHEIM. President of the American Smelting end keflnlnd Comptny. ITII the panic of last fall and tho consequent tying up of funds, tho development of now enterprises nrnntinnllv CPnsoH. Poftnln worn frrrhltrnA nnrl business couldn't get necessary funds. Money has j already begun to comoin, howover, and with tho $ LOOSENING OF THE PTTHTJfTS PURSE STRINGS business is bound to pick up. Enterprises which were halted incomplete last winter will now bo financed, and money will bo spent on them in succeeding months. IN MY JUDGMENT, THERE WILL BE LARGE IMPROVEMENT BY 8UMMER AND A STEADY BETTERMENT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. BY THE TIME THE ELECTIONS HAVE BEEN DECIDED FRESH CAPITAL WILL BE FORTHCOMING, WHICH WILL GIVE THE 8TIMULU8 NEEDED TO START THE WHEELS OF PROGRESS GOING AT A NORMAL CLIP. Since the business recession began the distributers of all commod ities havo been hibernating, tho people have been living on their fat Actual consumption has not fallen off, in my judgment, in tho Bamo proportion as production, and tho distributers' shelves havo been sold bare. This condition ought to mako for a VERY RAPID RECOV ERY IN ALL LINES OF BUSINESS, and in tho natural order of things it will be felt first in tho metal markets. WALL STREET 13 UNDOUBTEDLY BLUE. IT IS MY OPINION THAT PRESENT CONDITIONS DO NOT WARRANT SO MUCH PES SIMISM. WALL 8TREET IS NO DOUBT THE BAROMETER OF THE COUNTRY'8 MARKETS, BUT I THINK IT IS MORE SENSITIVE TO A COMING DECLINE THAN TO THE SUCCEEDING RECOVERY. Politics and tlie Railroads, Alliance Schools To the Board of Education and patrons of the Alliance Public Schools, .Following is a partial report of the schools for the month and the year closing May 2i, igoS: Pupils enrolled this month 700 Average daily attendance 634 Average number belonging G64 Percent of daily attendance, 96.4 Neither absent nor tardy 317 Number present every day 447 Number visitors.. 66 Two rooms only reported tardies for the month. This is the best record the schools have ever attained. The fifth and sixth grades, Emerson school, the 7th and the B 3rd, Central schools, received flags this month. SUMMARY OF THE YEAR No. pupils enrolled, less trausfers. 937 Average daily attendance 711 Average number belonging 742 Percent of daily attendance 95.7 Neither absent nor tardy for year. 60 Number present every day 93 Number of visitors 1G15 teachers' personal record Days absent, with svbstitute 35 Absent from teachers' meetings.. 2 Times tardy at school 1 Tardy in making reports None Visits to patrons 149 The following pupiis have neither been absent nor tardy for one year: Cecil Smith Frances Bowman W. Buechsenstein Anna Heath By WILLIAM H. TRUESDALE. President of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. HE PRE8ENT PROSPECTS FOR THE TRANSPORTATION INTERESTS OF THE COUNTRY ARE NOT AT ALL SAT. ISFACTORY, AND THE OUTLOOK FOR 1903 AS RESPECTS RAILWAY EARNINGS, GROSS OR NET, IS ANYTHING BUT ENCOURAGING. Opinions as to the causes which produced existing conditions DLFEER WIDELY. There can be no doubt that, bo the cause what it may, thero has been engendered a very DEEP AND WIDE SPREAD DISTRUST of tho management and soundness of all tho railways of tho country, and anything that has thus far been urged in contravention of this prejudice,' for PREJUDICE in great meas ure it suroly is, no matter from what high and influential authority, emanating, has not apparently had the slightest effect in restoring CONFLDENCE in either tho ability or integrity of tho management of tho railways, or any of them, or in the inherent value of their prop erties or any of them. THE TWO GREAT POLITICAL PARTIES IN PLANNING THEIR FORTHCOMING PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS MAKE THE SIN8 OF THE RAILROADS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT AND DRASTIC COR RECTION OF THE SAME THEIR LEADING ISSUE, AND HEREIN MAY. BE FOUND THE REAL UNDERLYING CAUSE OF ALL THE GEN ERAL, INDISCRIMINATE ABU8E OF THE RAILWAYS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT AND OF THE PARALYTIC STROKE WHICH THEY AND ALL INTERESTS CONNECTED WITH THEM HAVE 8UF- FERED. No greater blow has been dealt the railway interests of the coun try, none that WILL REACT MORE QUICKLY OR WITH GREATER PERMANENCY ON THE PUBLIC AT LARGE, than tho legislation that has been enacted and other legislation that fa proposed and pending, tho effect of which is to take from those in charge of tho management of railways the REASONABLE AND PROPER CONTROL of theso properties, including especially tha army of employees engaged in their service in various capacities. Fay Hubbell Vera Spencer Merritt Chaffee Ruth Reed Lennie Franklin M attic Workman James Graham Izetta Reuswold Joe Krajicek Ira Wright Bertha Kulper Marion Mote Vera Pullmau Asa Hubbell Mariau Grebe Winifred Hills Esther Nation Samuel Graham Hat tie Reus wold Hugh O'Connor Blanche Kibble Mabel Worley Emma Tash Madge Phillips Ollie Lcmbke Charley Spacht Edna Martin Bryan Pullmau Edgar Safford Alice Allen Mildred Lemake Mildred Zurn Ruth Nation Ralph Smith Roy Miller Grace Sutton Clara Garrett Clinton Brenuon Irene McKinuey Glen Franklin 6 Oh! Say! We 'are the men the people havo been looking fori "Wo 33epalr Furniture of all kinds, also stoves, bicycles, baby carriages, sewing machines and umbrellas In fact, almost anything to bo repaired We take up carpets,clean and lay them Furniture and Carriage Upholstering a Specialty Furniture crated with care All work satisfactory Located back of Kibble's office All work called for PHONE 053 Lamberson & Clason Wall Street Stock Gambling Wrong. Francis O'Connor Neither absent nor tardy two years: Hazel Bowman Mary Putman Winnie Spacht Vera Boyer Leone Mallery Avis Joder Clyde Hicks Arthur Wright Rachel Hayes Neither absent nor tardy for 3 years: 'Archie Blackwood Charlotte Mollring Neither absent nor tardy for 4 years; Fred Hadley Nettie Nation Lee Basye Neva Brenaman May Nation Edna Bowman Respectfully submitted: D. W. HAYES, Supt. City Sehools. By Rev. riELDS HERMANCE, Pastor of Jine Street M. E. Church. New York. TOOK gambling is wrong, UNQUESTIOXABLY AND UNDENIABLY "WHONG. I am in favor of any good com mon sense legislative measure aimed at tho prevention or re striction of tho marginal gambling which is carried on in Wall street. Tho EVIL IS SO APPARENT to tho community that it must appeal to every ono who gives tho subject consideratioa. DEALING IN SECURITIES ON MARGIN HAS BROUGHT PARTIAL OR TOTAL RUIN TO MANY PERSONS, PARTICULARLY TO YOUNG MEN. THE WALL STREET FORM OF GAMBLING IS A CONSTANT SOURCE OF TEMPTATION, ESPECIALLY TO THE YOUNG, A CON TINUAL SOURCE OF DI8A8TER TO THOSE WHO GIVE WAY TO THE ALLUREMENT. To PROHIBIT DEALING IN SECURITIES ON MARGIN will not work any harm to legitimate business in Wall street, because thero will bo no interference with tho buying, and selling of stocks and bonds outright AS AN INVESTMENT. Importance of the Caucus or Primary. N MADE FAIRS Notice to Alliance Property Owners. By CARROLL D. WRIGHT of Clark Colleflc. Worcester. Mass., Former United States Commissioner of Labor. O MAN HAS ANY MORAL RIGHT TO COMPLAIN THAT HI3 PARTY OR HI8 STATE IS GOING WRONG WHO KEEP3 AWAY FROM THE CAUCUS, AND THE MAN WHO 8AYS HE HAS NO INTEREST IN POLITICS OR NOT ENOUGH TO BRING HIM OUT AT THE PRIMARY SHOULD BE TO HANG HIS HEAD IN 8HAME AT THE 8TATE OF AF HE CRIES OUT 80 LOUDLY AGAINST. Every man should remember that when a party becomes tho tool of ignorant or corrupt men it is in danger and deserves not only tem porary but lasting defeat. A man would bettor remain away from tho polls, if he cannot attend both, than the primary. Notice is hereby given all Alliance owners of real estate that alleys, vacant places and streets adjoining must be cleaned without delay, of all waste papers, refuse, manure, etc. Prompt attention and compliance with this notice will saye costs. C. C. SMITH, Mayor, W. O. BARNES, City Clerk. Take Notice. All persons indebted to Everett Cook are requested to pay at once. Accounts not settled by May 20, will be placed in the hands of a collector. New Machine Shop. R. E. Rodgers, a practical machin ist, has opened up a general repair shop in Gadsby's carpenter shop, back of Bogue's store. He will give special attention to repairing automobiles, sew ing machines, guns and all kinds of machinery. Reasonable charges and satisfaction guaranteed. Give him a call. Telephone 303. 18-tf Well Drilling. I am now prepared to put down tubu lar wells, deep or shallow. Satisfaction guaranteed. For further information inquire at The Herald office or of Robert Littick, Long Lake, Neb. Warning. Any person or persons found guilty of marring or in any way destroying newly finished cement walks, will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Attest: C. C. Smith, Mayor. W. O. Barnes, City Clerk. Notice. The starting of numerous fires in the al leys and neglect of same before extinguish ed is a very careless practice and may be the cause of a disastrous fire in the city. The public is hereby cautioned not to set out a fire while the wind Is blowing, nor to leave one burning at any time without watching same. Anyone violating this order will be arrested and prosecuted. C. C. Smith, Mayor. Attest: W. O. Barnes, Clerk. Your Printing It should be a fit representative of your business, which means the high grade, ar tistic kind, That.s the kind we do. AN EXCELLENT ASSORTMENT OF TYPE, GOOD PRESSES AND TYPOGRAPHICAL ARTISTS These represent our facilities for doing the kind of printing that will please you. The prices are right, and prompt delivery the invariable rule at this office. Typewriters for Rent Machines cleaned and repaired Expert Public Stenographer Work done neatly and quickly at reasonable prices. Lloyd C. Thomas Phong 28! Room 20, Rumer Block H. NELSON, Painting, Paper Hanging and Kalsomining Phone 641 Alliance, Nebr.
