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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1909)
in HI. Ill I rl Published Hvery Thursday by The Herald Publishing Company. T. J. O'KEEFE Editor J. B. KNIEST Associate Editor Entered at the postoOico at Alliance, Nebraska, for transmission through the mails, as second-class matter. Subscription, I1.50 per year In advance. 1909 JANUARY 1909 Su. Mo. Tu. We. Th. Fr. Sa. LI 3i5.AJ.JLi. JOJi JlJl J4J5J6 17 18 19 20 21 2223 125126127128 29 30 It is now evident that the pitchfork is mightier than the big stick. Late press dispatches report that lower Italy still has the shakes. The big stick has a sort of back action movement when Roosevelt ap plies it to congress. It's a case of t!t for tat. No doubt President Roosevelt has discovered by this time that the "pitchfork" haB not gone out of busi ness yet. Judge Wright of the supreme court may have considered that his sentence of the labor leaders was right, but lay ing all jokes aside, he was wrong. The lumber trust has recently ad vanced the price of lumber 3.00 per thousand, Query: Who pays tho bill of the republican campaign slush fund, the trusts or the people? When Theodore Burton was elected congressman from the Cleveland (Ohio) district it is said that the lucky con gressman burst into tears. Strange thing to cry about, indeed. Who says that Tennessee is not a law-abiding state? Six night riders, convicted for killing Colonel Rankin of Rcelfoot Lake, are sentenced to be hanged on February igth. There is no indication of congress making peace with the president, and thorc is no indication of capitulation on the part of the head of the govern ment who wields the big stick. "To live as Jesus would live," is a. fad that is creating a great deal of cemmotiou in Cleveland, Ohio these days, There's no doubt but that most difficult task in Cleveland, is a The plumbers surely had their inn ing the first of the week thawing out frozen pipes and limbering the water pipes of steam heaters. How the po litical fences withstood the inclement weather we have not heard. Speaker Poole of tho Nebraska legis lature did a wise act when he announc ed that his speech of acceptance would be in the form of business and at once called the members to order with this object in view. LotB of snow makes moisture; mois ture means good crop prospects for western Nebraska, and good crop pros pects indicate lively immigration for Box Butte county next spriug, So don't grumble at the conditions. A human skull was found in the waiting room of a Lincoln depot one day this week and the police of the capital city are unable to identify the. same or unravel the mystery. Perhaps some belated representative lost his head when he got off the train at that place. Freight rates on coal have increased fifty cents per ton, which is not en couraging news to those who have exerted themselves to have the rates reduced. Manager Lawrence of the electric light plant states that for $1 coal at the mine he pays S3 per ton 'freight. When hypnotism can be exercised as it did in tho case of Rev. John Car michael by his wife to the extent that he was led to kill, chop and burn the body of his friend, Browning, at Battle Run, Mich., it is high time that the mysterious what-ever-it-is be made a statutory crime, and the one exercising the same should be severely dealt with. Italy's Great Calamity. Tho Damage Wrought by Earthquake, Fire end Tidal Wovo In Sicily and Ca labria Causes of the Phenomenon. SUCH destruction was wrought by earthquake nnd fire nnd tidal wnro In tho Island of Sicily thnt the Itnlliui government proposed to prohibit rebuilding of some of tho cities destroyed. Ho many dMaHlcrti have visited the region as to create the feeling that to dwell there Is never going to be Hafc nnd thflt It ought to be abandoned to the ime only of wild bensts nnd vultures, crown nnd other birds of carrion which arc now hovering over it, enjoying the feasts on human flesh with which the vio lence of nature has provided them Rut those who lived and tolled In these cities do not fall hi with this view Mosslua, which had n population of nearly 100,000 before the enrthquiike, wns a very prosperous commercial city. Those of Its merchants who sur vive do not agree that Its slto should become n desert and that the locations of their former homes, stores mid busi ness unices should bo forgotten. In stead of this they decided at a meet ing held nt Palermo to return to the stricken city and when tho ruins are cleared away rebuild It once again. When Ban Francisco fell before the united attack of earthquake and fire there was talk of abandonment of the site of the city. Hut this Idea did not prevail, and now, less than three years nfter the great calamity, the metropolis of the Paclfle coast has risen from Us nshes more beautiful nnd imposing than before. In the rebuilding of San Francisco (Ire nnd earthquake proof construction was largely followed. It Is expected that In tho rebuilding of Messina the Italian government will Impose restric tions ns to building to prevout mii-h widespread loss of life In the future as wns recently caused by the shaking down of high walls and heavy roofs. Probably the Japanese plan of build ing will be largely followed. The loss of private property for the city of Mes sina Is given nt $400,000,000, with very little- Insurance. It wns n commercial rather than an Industrial city, nnd therefore thorc were few largo Indus trial plants to be destroyed. But there were many flue public and business buildings, which are now in ruins, In addition to the thousands of homes de molished. However, the capacity of the locality to prosecute the silk and THK ANCIENT CASTLK OP l'IZZO. citrus culture remains, and the soil and tho sea are left, and these resources aro depended upon as factors which may atlmulnto recovery as did similar factors In the case of San Francisco and Galveston, It la possible now to estimate, the ex tent of tho disaster and speculate on Its causes. Professor ltlceo, director of the observatory at Catania, states that the enrthquuke of Dec. 28 had Us maximum violence In Sicily nnd nt the southern point of Calabria. The ruin spread from Cnstrorcnle. In Sicily, to Pnlml, In Onlubrlu, 11 distance of forty miles. The earthquake wns felt less violently from Koto, In Sicily, to Co senzn, In Calabria, a distauco of 180 miles. There have beou at least fifty minor shocks slnco tho great oue which did so much damage, and more are to bo anticipated. Earthquake experts who are study ing the phenomenon generally agree that the earthquake, was the result of a fault lu the geological formation un der Mcssiua, which constituted a line of contact In the volcanic actions be tween Mount Etna and Mount Vesu vius, and that u slip occurred similar to the 0110 which long ago detuched Slelly from tho mainland. That a sub sidence occurred at some points nnd that there was a rising of the earth's surface at others are proved by sound ings which show tho channel of the harbor deeper nt some places and shal lower at others. The British battleship Kxmouth, at a distance one-half mile south of Regglo, found flfty-elght fath oms of water where formerly there were 243. The famous Plxzo chateau, lu Cala brln, is reported entirely destroyed. It stood on the slopes overlooking the sea nnd was oue of the most pictur esque of the structures of tills vicin ity which had survived the convulsions of tho past. ls-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-siffs--irH s-s-s-s-s-s---s-s-s- ninrft'H,g ssssssssD3Pn!iMfsssssB sssissssHsflS?t!M9 C&?vi$BBB P0WDERLY IN "BREAD LINE." How Labor Expert In Disguise Sized Up the Bums. Terence V. Powder))-, government hi bor agent and formerly master work man of the Knights of Labor, hus been poslug recently ns a bum. Ho made up ns a Weary Wllllo in order to get into a bread line in Broadway. After illgulslug himself nnd stand Ing In the bread Hue for hours, during which time he Interviewed iuiiny oth ers lu line, Mr. Powderly made up bis mind that most of the men who form the nightly Hue In Broadway would not work If they had n chance. Mr. Powderly. who Is a careful atti dent of Boclology and whoso chief busi ness It Is to And work for Immigrants and to keep them out of the cities, ha MB. rOWDKUIA run AND IHh ADVKMiOKi. 'BllUAD IiINU." IN made several visits to the bread line. In hobo mnkeup he has studied at close range the men who go nightly for bread. "Some of them are all right," said Mr. Powderly, "and more of them would not work if they had the chance. I took ono man, for Instance, to a res taurant and bought him a meal. When It was served he asked if he might take It home to his family. Ho was ono of those who honestly wanted work and could And nothing to do. "The majority told mo sad tales about their lives, tales that I knew to be false. Homo of them pretended to hnve been bankers or brokers or en gaged In other Hues of business. Their very speech betrayed them. "I do not believe from my close ob servation of men in the line durlug personal visits disguised as one of them that the length of the line is any Indication of industrial conditions. Most of them are bums and scala wags." Mr. Towderly's plan to do away with the line and sort out the worthy from tho unworthy Is for the state to pur chase farms and then nrrest as va grants all men who accept charity from tho bakers. He would scud these men to the stato farms Instead of to penal Institutions and there make them work, furnishing them with food, clothing and shelter in proportion to tho amount of work they showed n disposition to perform. AN OFFICER'S BRIDE. Nuptials of Captain H. L. Wigmoro, U. S. A., and Miss Irene Moore. One of tlie early mntrlnionlal events this senson wns tbo marriage of Miss Irene Mooro on Dec. 5 to Cnptnth II. L, Wigmoro. The bride Is n niece of the former multliullllonitlrc senator MilS. t. L. WlOMOltH. from Montana, William A, Clark, ami both she and Captain "Wlsmorc are well known nnd popular In Washing ton society. The match Is of special Interest In military circles nt the capi tal. Sizing Him Up "She Is writing a poem about her Sear duke." "Is she as good as all that tt blank Tere?" " .t4 t sssssssssIssssrsL-M J mvBL ' I HiSlftl HP' . '81 PPP"w - ' 'W' K. R3 v liK s (i nVvHIJs':W- &&wv jLs Wt lH ii5f r ?5 -Bi. hM J M MSM 1 County Treasurer's Statement - Box Butte County Summary of Collections, Disbursements and Balances for the last half 1908, Ending Jan. 1, 1909: t'OI.LUCTIOXH AMOUNT To Cash on htiud Forwarded $88,010 75 TolSWTax Uolleotcd 2 IB ToljfPI " " nt 00 ToiftO " " ft 01 'raiHn ' " aim TolWT " " 23 SI TOIMM " " 17 74 Toltw.1 " 38 va TollWI ' " 19Wi To IH1I " " 49 Kl To 1MB " " 31 73 To lira ' " SI0 82 TolPOt " " 177 03 TolPOTi " " .... 34(1 20 To una nw 24 Tolptf ' ' 8.002 10 TolKW " " :iS,W70 ToHchool Land-Lease J..WI 14 To Juno App't Itec'd ot State Treas. . 1,517 27 To Miscellaneous Col. Co. Oen 701 8(1 To MlscolJoneoin Col.- Oo. Snpt .... 1,300 oo To Interest on County Deposits ." . 217 77 ToKedomptintu 1,890 (ft To Fees SMI 00 582.073 47 State of Nebraska ) . ' Box Butte. Countv, I I, Fred Mollrihg, County Treasurer of Box Butte county, Nebr., do solemnly swear that the above and-within is a true and correct statement of all moneys received and paid out by me from July i, 1908, to Jan. 1, 1909, inclusive, and balances on hand Jan. 2, 1909, as the same appears upon the records of this office. Frfd Mollring, County Treasurer. Subscribed and sworn to before me Jan. 13, 1909. W. C. Mounts. seal Box Butte County Industrial Contests The Box Butte county industrial con tests will be held in HeminRford February 13th. The purpose of the contest is to interest the boys and girls in the work in volved and to acquaint them more particu larity with the things that pretaio to home life The work is designed principally as home work and does not interfere with the regular school work except those in map drawing and water color work which is prepared as regular school work. The specimens of map drawing and water color work need not necessarily be done by school children but any boy or girl in the county may take part whether in the county or not. We are glad to note, however, that nearly all of the teachers of the county are co-operating in the advancement of this work and upon these teachers the success of the contest depends for without their help it could not be handled. We notice that much good is gained by the work done in this line. Some teachers use an opening period one day of each week in discussing the different kinds of grains and the quality of samples furnished by the pupils. This is also done with po tatoes. Every teacher of the county is urged to send an exhibit of school work and to have his or her school represented in as many of the contests as possible. Any other work besides that for which prizes are offered will be gladly received to be placed in the exhibit. Teachers who have only a small school should not hesitate to send in their exhibit thinking that it will not be as good as some others. This is the wrong spirit, Get in the con test like yon meant to win and let the rest of .the county see that you are alive It is always more satisfactory to do the best you can and let others know you are try ing than to do nothing. The best work that was sent to the office last year came from a school of five pupils twenty miles from town. Remember we will be pleased to have you try. This work has been carried on in other parts of the state but this is the first at tempt in this county. The state will do its part in contributing to its success by sending judges and speakers from Lincoln. State Superintendent E. C. Bishop also writes that he "will be present to be of any assistance he can. We are indeed fortun ate in being able to hav such men as these, who were the originators of the work, with us. It is hoped that every person in the county will do as much as possible in mak ing this a successful work and (o keep it going. The next contest will be earlier in the year so that those who get the prizes may enter the state contests generally held in December. This being the first contest in the coun ty many classes had to be ruled out to fit the amount of money to be given in prizes. We think, however, that there will be many contestants and hope that next year the amount will be doubled. Following is a list of the prices offered: llest Loaf White Itruad...,..,, J200 llest Loaf White Bread 1.50 Host Loaf Wlilto Ureud LOO llest Loaf White Bread 50 Dust Corn Ilro.d , , SiOO Host Corn Bread , 1.60 Best Corn Ureud.... , 1.00 llest Com Ureud 50 Best Dozen Sugar Cookies , ..$1.00 Best Dozen dugar Cookies 75 Best Dozen Hujnir Cookies 50 Best Dozen BuRur Cookies 5 Bust Dozen Doughnuts il.00 Best Dozen Doughnuts 75 Best Dozen Doughnuts 50 Ileii Dozen Doughnuts JS !st I'nnjpkln PIu , $1.00 iua IumpMn l'le... ,. .., ,. .75 Lest Pump-to I'io 50 Best 1 uipkln Pie , .25 Rust Uuuil hvh1 Apron $3.00 Best lliind ouwed Apron 2.50 Best Hand Hewed Apron 3.00 Boat lluiidttoucd Apron 1.50 Bust Machine Sewed Aprou $100 Host Machine euixl Apron 1.50) Best Mtichluo eved Apron - Boat MachluoBewed Apron .50 Bubtsix l'uiutow . . .... ... . $2.&o, Bet Six Potatoos ..,., 150 4 1 lUHBintSKMKNTS AMOUNTS ! By State Treirt Order No. :5I.V . - -$ n.019 53 ' lly Oo. Ueu . Warrant 'rnnw iitacvmcu unu ('lllll)IH. Ilr Si'IkkiI lliiiids ntul C(i11ik)11S 14.430 m 1,1(1! 40 15.199 13 81 00 4,MK W 379 40 2,483 :a 3T.H50 1,701 92 1.857 25 30,820 79 lly School Orders Paid -Local Tax. IIj- Toll Tux Hccolpts... By City Heels, All tut II v VI ago vim ago Tren. Beets, llemlngford Alliance water Honda a d Coiioas. Br Treasurer's Foes. By Treasurer's Commission. Itedemptlon lly Balance $?2,073 47 3 Best Six Potatoes " 1.00 4 Best 8I Potatoes .50 1 Fewest No. Potn tops for Bushel $2.00 2 Fewest No. Potatoes for Bushel 1.50 it Powest No. Potatoes for Bushel 1.00 4 Kcwcst No. Potatoes for Bushel 75 1 Best Peck Wheat J1.50 2 Best Peck Wheat... 1.00 Beat Peck Wheat 75 Best Peck Wheat 50 llest Peck OaU $1.50 Best Peclc Oats 1.00 Best Peck Oats 75 Best Pock Outs : 50 Best Sperimnn Map Drawing $1.00 Best Hiei-iman Map Drawing 75 llest Spociman Map Drawing 50 Best Speclman Map Drawing 25 Best Speelman Water Color.. 31,00 llest Speclman Water Color 75 DestSpeclinau Water Color 50 4 Best Speelman Water Color ."" Best collection school work furnished by any teacher from graded or rnral school and consisting of ten specimens. 1'ltt.t Prize 5.00 Second Prize 3.00 Third Prize 2.00 Fourth Prize 1.00 The contest for white bread and corn bread is open for all under eighteen years of age, while those for sugar cookies, dough nuts and pumpkin pie are open for those under thirteen years of age. There will be two lists of prizes for the hand sewed apron for pupils under thir teen years of age and one for those over thirteen and under eighteen years of age. The machine sewed apron is open for all under eighteen years of age. In the contests for potatoes, wheat and oats all under eighteen may enter. In the map drawing, water color work and specimens of school work all under eighteen may enter and should place their age but not their name on the work. Re movable tags, containing the owner's name, should be pinned to all work as the name will be removed and the work numbered before plated in the exhibit. This will prevent the judges from knowing any names until after the prizes have keen awarded. Arrangements will be made to get all work of those living in and near Alliance to the contests and it will receive the same attention in the exhibit as will the work of those present. Come to the contests if you possible can and see what the rest are doing. It will do you good and will do us all good to see you there. O. E. Phillips, County Superintendent. The Pandora Club Makes Long Journey The Pandora club gave a progressive party to their gentleman friends last Tuesday night. The party met at the union depot, which was at the home of Miss Agatha Gregg. A lunch of wafers, chocolate and apples was served. From there they went to the home of Misses Hazel and Frances Bowman where they presumed they were in far-away China and partook of rice, tea and wafers in true Mongolian style. Next the home of Miss Josie Hampton was invaded and here the party feasted in true old Dutch style, which comprised a menu of sauerkraut, weiuers, Dutch cheese and brown bread. Here a drawing contest was indulged in by the party and the cartoon skill of contestants brought forth much mirth and interest. Webster Bernhardt showed great skill in drawing a Dutch lad and succeeded in carrying off the prize. The end of the journey brought the Pandora club and friends in the land of the Sulton, the home, of Miss Mary Putman, who served coffee, dates and wafers. New Harness Store. Having sold my harness business to Mr. A. E. McKeen ot Lincoln, Neb., I wish to express appreciation of your patronage in the past and will solicit a continuation of the same at the old stand until a more commodious room 75 can oe ontaineu. i expect to remain with my successor and pay the highest Prices for hides and furs. 5'IW . GEO. A. HlLLS. BALANCES AMOUNT Htnte ueiieii tjunn wnaoiiunieu o d,i iq "?S .-. yj 7, ,i ; Oo. General Fund . 2,179 50 :. l'oor Fund 04 Co.Jail Fund 20 Alliance Klectric l.leht.... ....... ... 51 Alliance Hond Fund City Hull. ...... 1.00124 Advertising Fnnd.. 214 80 Pchool Bond Fund 8choo Judgment Fund .... School District Fund Oen. High School.. District 0 Sinking Fund.... District 18 Sinking Fnnd... Itedemptlon Acct. Village of Homlugford Alliance Wntor Bond Ilemlngford Water llond.. . 8,930 51 093 . 12,787 29 719 06 316 55 116 03 118 58 139 71 . 1,718 90 0 83 37,309 0K 5(8 29 Alliance Over Draft. Cash and CunIi Items cm Hand..,,..,. 30,820 79 ..:-m.:..xm-:-:..k..k..H"Ma t REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS X y msroiiTEn nr 4 X A. K BALDUIDGE, Bonded Abstracter , F S Djsmer to D Dunn.lt 14, blk 26,city of Alliance. $3,000. W L Haworth to F E Reddish, setf of 9-24-49. Si, 600. R Fenner to G Seidler, ne of 28-25-47. $2,000. J N Clarke, Rec to II A Peters, s of aeU and s)4 of nwjf of 2-28-47. $0oo. R M Smith to Cora Miller, It 2, lk 7, first addition to Alliance, $250. E T Kibble to Paul Bulgrin, nwj of 29-25-47. 82,008. T H Barnes to T J O'Keefe, swtf of 27-26-50. $1,600, Phelan Opera House Tuesday, A January 1 Lorenzo Munzar IN Elmer Walter's Classic A Millionaire Tramp PRICES, 25c, 50c, 75c LEGAL NOTICE 1 NobriCkUI,ty 0Urt ' DoX Butte CoUKly Stuto of Nobraska, i Box Butto County, f S8 In the matter of the estate of Anna Kohr munn, deceased. To nil persons interested In the estato of Anna Kohrmann, .deceased: You are hereby notllled that on tho 15th uL.! ,ect;nl0'. loot. .lohn Kohrmann. the husband of Anna Kohrmann. deceased, tiled his petition In the comity court of Box Butte County, Nebraska, praying for the assignment to him of ixirsonal proporty of which ho Is H1,y?.a.nVbsolu,10 "Kht by tho terms of the statute from tho cstutu of said Annu Kohr mann, doeeasen, aud Uiat said petition will be a??.?1 ,u t.',lu c?,u,lty court room In the city of Alliance, Box Butte county, Nebraska, ou tho vi,.?i? of i,cllruary 1W9, ut the hour of 10 o clock a.m. t v It Is further ordered that notice of the HviL.tngj ol vms puillIOtl 00 ttivou to nil PNobra.kia',d """"'"'ns -ttaS,nnty I I)atd this 0th day of January. 1009. ft K&lMw C0Un,y Jude- LEGAL, NOTICE' Neb thk 0ounty Court ' IJx Butte County State of Nebraska, I. . Box Butto County, l " In the matter of the estato of Anua Kohr mann, deceased. To all persons interested in the estate of Anna Kohrmann, late of said county, de- C6U86U You are hereby notiBed that on the 15th day "'December, ii8. John Kohrmunn flled bis petition in the county court of said county for the appointment of Wilbur P. Patterson at ad ministrator of tbo estato of Anna Kohrmann. late of sad county, deceased, and that the aame will be heanl at the county court room In the city of Alliance, Box Butte county. Nebraska, on the Oth day of February, 1W9. at tho hour of lOo'cloek a m. It Is further ordered that notice of said hearing bo given nil parties Interested in bald estato by the publication of tills iiotlco for four consecutive weeks In Tho Alliance Her ald, a uewsnaper printed, published, and clr cuIatUiK In Box Butte county. Nebraska. Dated tills 8th day of January 1009. fp.Peb.U-tw County Judge. por- r. '"" """-" '" saui estate by tbo publlca fn '?'ii Am.notli:?,for f9ur consecutive wooks J