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National Exposition in Full Swing
at Auditorium,
PRIZE WINNERS ANNOUNCED.
Indiana Farmers Carry Off Champion
ship Honors for Best Single Ear,
Best Ten Ears and Best Bushel of
Corn Fred C. Palln of Newton Cap
tures Kellogg Trophy and J. R.Oven
street of Franklin Silver Trophy.
Omaha, Dec. C Tho National Com
expoltlon opened hero today and con
tluues for two weeks. Ovor C.OO0 en
tries have been inndo.
Fred C. Palln of Newton, Ind., has
the beat single ear of com the world
ever produced, while another Inal
aninn, J. It. Ovcrstreet of Franklin,
has the best ton ears of corn ever
been, according to the judges, who
have awarded the $50,000 ofTered by
the show and given the first place lu
both sweepstakes to Indiana farmors.
G. L. Kerllu of Franklin, Ind., won
the prizo offered for the best bushel
of corn In the world. It Is the third
successive year that the first prize for
ten ears of corn has gone to Indiana.
For the best single ear of corn in
the world Mr. Palin has been awarded
the Kellogg trophy worth $1,000;
while Mr. Overstreet takes back to his
state the $1,000 silver trophy, offered
by the Indiana Corn Growers' associa
tion for the best ten ears. Last year
it was won by L. B. Clore, who also
won tho trophy two years ago. The
third' winning gives the trophy to In
diana permanently.
"I spent seven years producing that
ear of corn," sajld Mr. Palin, who has
produced tho world's best ear. "My
parent stock consisted of Reed's Yel
low Dent seed as the male plant and
the mother plant was from the Alex
ander Gold Standard variety. Tho
corn was planted two rows of Gold
Standard and then two rows of Yellow
Dent. The two rows of Standard were
detasseled the first two years. This
produces the seed from which tho
world's best ear of corn has been pro
duced."
TO ENFORCE LAW AT OMAHA
Police Commissioners May Be Ousted
From Their Offices.
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. C. Governor
Shallenherger issued an order citing
Mayor James Dahlman and the uther
members of the Omaha Are and poUce
cpmmlssion to appear before him Dec.
11 and show cause why Attorney Gen
eral Thompson should not be directed
to begin ouster proceedings in the su
preme court under the Sackett law to
remove them from office on the charge
of non-enforcement of the law, particu
larly the enforcement of laws against
gambling and Illegal sale of Intoxicat
ing liquors.
Intercollegiate Debates Friday.
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. C The fourth
annual debates of the Central Debat
ing league, composed of Minnesota,
Illinois, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Iowa,
will take place on Friday evening of
this week. Each school will bo repre
sented by two teams, which will de
bate with teams from two other
schools. Nebraska's opponents will be
Minnesota and Iowa, the Gopher de
baters coming to Lincoln and the
Hawkeyes being met at Iowa City,
Teams from the same schools debated
last year, Nebraska winning from
Iowa and losing to Minnesota.
Tooley Succeeds Hays.
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 6. T. J. Tooley
of Anselmo has been appointed a mem
ber of the state normal board, to take
the place of D. W. Hays of Alliance,
whoso term expired last June. Mr.
Tooley's term of office begins at once.
The new member is n banker at An,
selmo and has represented Custer
county in the legislature and has twice
been its county superintendent. Mr.
Tooley will be eligible to go with the
board on Its trip to locate the new
normal' school.
New Jury in Chamberlain Case.
w Beatrice, Neb., Dec. 2. In. the dis
trict, court Judge Travis overruled the
motion filed by the defense in the
Chamberlain bank case to take it
away from the jury and Instruct it to
bring in a verdict of acquittal because
the evidence Introduced was not suf
ficient to 'substantiate the charges.
Owing to the serious illness of Juror
Thomas Bigley the jury was dismissed
and the caso sot tor trial next Men
day morning, when a new jury will be
.empanelled.
Grand Jury Exonerates Dr. Carr.
Lincoln, Nel., Doc. 4. Dr. E. Arthur
Carr has recejved a clean bill from
tho fednral grand jury. Complnlnt
had been filed against Dr. Carr be
cause he had opened mall addressed
to Dr. Sward, secretary of tho state
board of health legislated out of exist
ence. Dr. Carr was secretary of the
new board Tho grand jury called Dr.
Carr beforo It and after questioning
him, failed to bring in n true bill.
Homesteader Killed.
Kimball, Nob., Dec. 3. II. C. Young,
a prominent farmer homosttiader Hy
Ing near here, was killed by hlspwi.
wagon running over him. He was on
his way homo with a load of coal and
It Is supposed hfs toam ran away,
throwing him undor tho w!ls. He
came It a yeer ago . jm near
Grn- ' "-d. and ' avc a - r
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fl!h . c.ua old and was profr-on i
I RAILWAY notes and personals. 1
Brakeman Wallhers, who has been
on the relief lor some time, reported
for work Saturday.
Freight Brakeman S. H. Shane re
ceived word from Denver Saturdny that
his father was dangerously ill. He loft
for home on 301 Sunday morning where
he will stay until his father Is bettor.
Engineer Robhins enme in from his
ranch Friday expecting to report for
work. When be found how quiet bus
iness was he uakod for a longer lay-off
and went out homo again, He savs
ranch life suits liim this cold weather.
Engineer Goo. Hicks is laying off
looking after home property interests.
Engineer J. J. Rodders has Hicks'
place on the sw itch engine.
Brakeman Evart Miller, after three
years service here, has resigned ami
gone to Kansas City. Mrs. Miller has
been theie for some time visiting her
mother, Mrs. Stuart.
Con. J. S. Ward has so far re
covered that he took out his own car
and crew.
On Wednesday four train crews were
pulled off owing to the quiet times
caused by the strike of the "snakes."
On account of the late trains and
bad connections Express Messenger
Oldt had to go clear through to Lin
coin This makes a long run, from
Billings to Lincoln.
After a lay-off of a few days Con
ductor Andrews has reported for work,
Freight Conductor C D. Rider was
marked up Monday to take out the
first section of No. 44. The second
section was six hours late.
Charley Anthus. formerly a C. B. &
Q. brakeman out of Alliance, passed
through here Sunday on his way to his
home in eastern Iowa. He has been
switching in Tacoma for the last two
years.
E. W Bell, Sup't of Maiutanance of
Way, came in on No. 44 Saturday af
ter an extensive business trip west.
Conductor Clyde Miller and wife left
on No. 42 Saturday morning for a visit
with Clyde's people, in Woodward,
Iowa. They expect to stay until the
strike is settled.
Two pool crews on the east end were
pulled off this week.
Couductor Frank O'Conners reported
for work Friday. Mr. O'Conners has
been in a hospital in Chicago where he
had his knee operated on. His knee
was hurt in a wreck two years ago and
since then has given him lots of trouble
but is now entirely cured-
It is reported that passenger Con
ductor Perry will soon move his familv
to Denver. The Denver crews have
their long lay over at that end of the
road.
Conductor John Hagenberger, who
has been relieving Conductor Perry,
has returned to his old run between
Sterling and Cheyenne,
Engineer Bacin, formerly of the
higbline, who has been running out of
Alliance since the Home Stake strike,
took advantage of the dull business
here to visit his family in Deadwood.
Conductor Ed McGcorge of the high
line has been transferred to Alliance.
Conductor Perry of the Denver line
went out on 301 Saturday. This is
his first trip since his vacation in Mon
tana, where be and Mrs, Perry have
been visiting their daughter, Mrs. Will
Mclntire. On the way home they
stopped at Sheridan, where they visited
another daughter, Trainmaster C. D.
Pickenpaugh's wife.
Tom Richards, the well known train
caller, who contracted the "boomer fever
the first cold spell this fall and went
south, returned Saturday from El Pasoi
Texas, where he has been railroading,
but so far we have been unable to learn
what official position he held. He is
now night engine caller.
The freight business on the highline
has diuiished greatly since the shut
down of the Homestake mine. The
greater part of the freight shipped over
this line was consigned to the Home
stake. Express Messenger Geo. Thompson,
of the Edgemont-Billings run, has been
transferred to the Alliance-Billings run,
in place of Messenger Glen Miller, re
signed. Flagman Pennington of the Denver
line has been very sick and is confined
to his bed at his home in Denver,
Brakeman Hazelton is taking his place
on 301 and 302.
Jack Klassann, the we) I,-known foot
hall player, who was firing on No. 141
on Dec. 3rd met with a very serious
and painful accident at Englewood, In
some way while taking coal he was
rnuulit bv his feet between the coal
ht.ti and pnrme cab and hung therr
by his lect. lo make nutieib wur&t-
the engine moved ahead enough to
twist his limbs, He was put in the
bapgagc car and taken to the St. Joseph
hospital in Deadwood. One toe had
to be amputated hut no other perman
ent injury was done. He is reported
U
o he resting as easy as could be p
pected but remarked that he would
much rather he in Alliance among 1
friend:).
Edd Hay ward, who has been working
with the night car inspector, has re
signed and left town. He is another
who did not take the trouble to pay up
board and room rent, Such man make
it hard for an honest man to get credit.
Passenger Couductor Joe Andrews
went to Deadwood Sunday on 11 com
bined business and ploasutc trip.
Switchman R. E. Artist has hern
transferred from Edgoniont to Alliance
Tom Beckhemer writes from Cedai '
Rapids, Iowa,, that he and his wile are
nicely settled there. Tom is in the
shops at present but expects to go into
the rock Island train service the first ol
the year.' He will work between Bui
hngton and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He
savs that so far the strike has not af
fected business there. Mr. and Mrs.
Beckhemer wish, all their Alliance
friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy
New Year.
Fireman W. F. Worloy fell in the
cinder pit in the roundhouse Sunday
night, dislocating his right shoulder
and bruising his whole right ,sidc. He
deadheaded to Alliance on 36 Monday
morning and Dr. Slagle took charge of
the case.
H. Leachel made his first student
trip as fireman Monday,
Express Messenger Stromberg, who
has been running between Alliance and
Deadwood since Express Messenger
McKeuzic resigned, has been granted a
fifteen days' leave of absence. Wood
Millikiu of Alliance is filling his place.
Word comes from E. E- Terry, who
is braking on the U. P., that no freight
is moving up there and that two of
their best passenger trains have been
pulled off. Messrs Terry and Crilloy
are working between Helena and Bil
lings and are old enough to have a reg
ular run.
QUAKER VALLEY
Arthur Peterson is spending a few
days at Antelope Valley.
Cash Farley and family took dinner
Sunday at Allie Jamison's.
Robert Shoffner has gone east, for a
few days, on business,
Mrs. Robbins, who has been in Al
liance a few weeks, has returned to her
home,
Mr. Bond has been relieved from
dish washing since his wife's return
from Alliance, where she has been
spending a few days with her daughter,
Onolee.
Mrs. Evans, who has been visiting
at the Shoffner home for some weeks,
returned to her home in Indiana
Thursday
W. C. T. U. Notes
Resolutions Adopted by the W.C.T.U.
From The Omaha World Herald:
Several important recommendations
along the lines of legislation are made In
the platform of resolutions adopted by the
National Woman's Christian Temperance
union, which met in Omaha In October.
Among these stands a memorial to Presi
dent Taft to abolish the issuance of licen
ses for the manufacture and sale of intoxi
cants in the canal zone, and to permit the
employment only of total abstainers on the
canal job.
Congress is asked to prohibit inter
state commerce in' intoxicants so far as j.t
relates to tbe shipment of Jiquor into-a
dryvstate. Another recqmmendation asks
that the government refuse to Issue federal
liquor licenses in dry states. Recommenda
tions are made for co-operation in the
work of child labor to the end' that a uni
form minimum age limit may be fixed all
over the country, and for the establish
ment of a children's bureau which will
collect reliable and valuable statistics with
reference to child labor.
What Resolutions Cover. The resolu
tions cover the questions of total absti
nence, prohibition, purity, franchise and
.peace. A separate resolution was adopted
deploring the lack of Sunday observance.
The resolutions in full follow.
Preamble. In thirty-sixth annual con
vention assembled, we, the representatives
of the National Woman's Christian Tem
perance union, record our grateful and
reverent appreciation of the Divine guid
ance of past years and our faith in tbe
complete triumph of right.
'We reaffirm our allegiance to our dec
laration of principles, wo pledge ourselves
to maintain and increase the efficiency of
our department work, and to use our best
efforts to carry out the spirit of the follow
ing resolutions
Total Abstinence. Since moderate and
social drinking Imperil the greatness of our
i.mion, t tie hop? of which is a sober peo
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consequently give the lowest 'cash
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For every $15 in cash register tickets I refund 50c. Cash pays
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guarantee my Flour to be the BEST you
can purchase
All made from choice selected wheat. Ask those who use It
Phone 155 for a trial sack
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ple, we plead that constant and earnest
efforts be made to, secure pledged total
abstainers.
Prohibition. We believe that tho prin
ciples of prohibition enacted into law is
the only means of deliverance from the
legalized liquor traffic. Therefore we urge
the Woman's Christian Temperance union
in every state where the liquor traffic is
legalized to inaugurate a vigorous cam
paign for state prohibition, and by wise
agitation, educate public sentiment up to
the point of demanding an amendment to
the federal constitution forever prohibiting
tbe manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquor.
Purity. We affirm with increased em
phasis our belief in 'a single standard of
morals, and rejoice in tbe rapidly widening
acceptance of tbe ideal of a white life for
two.
In view of the widespread prevalence of
diseases resulting from immorality, and
the terrible dangers arising from their in
fectious nature; in view, also, of the moral
and physical dangers which threaten the
children in the public schools;
We endorse the work of those organiza
tions of physicians which are striving to
enlighten the general public as to the
physical effects of moral wrong-doing, and
to promulgate the highest ideals of person
al purity.
We appeal to the normal schools to in
corporate such courses ol instruction as
shall fit teachers tp deal wisely and effect
ively with this morarproblem.-
We urge teachers-eveywhere to join
with us in making known .these dangerous
conditions, and in enlightening parents 31
to the best way of imriartipg the truths-' of
life to the children in the home.'
We denounce the infamous white slave
traffic, and appeal to the Christian people
of our land to arouse themselves to this
menace to Ihe safety of girls, ant)Jo give
their vigorous support to every practfeal
measure which aims to exterminate this
nefarious business.
Franchise. That the ballot -may be an
incentive to good citizenship, we believe
that qualifications for suffrage should be
based upon intelligence, not upon sex or
any other insurmountable obstacle.
Peace As militarism feeds the spirit of
violence we will use our influence to dis
courage it and to promote the adoption of
arbitration in the settlement of difficulties
between man and man, employer and em
ploye, corporation and corporation, and
all state, national and international Com
plications. :'
Legislation. We ask of congress tbe
enactment of a law prohibiting interstate
commerce in intoxicating liquors by plac
ing under federal control the shipment of
intoxicating liquor from consignor in one
state to consignee in another, when the
consignee is not a legal dealer.
Gregg
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Flour
Feed, Salt,
and Grain
We recommend the enactment of a law
to prohibit the issuance of an internal
revenue tax receipt unless the applicant
shows that he has complied with the re
quirements of the law of his state,
"As the United States congress Is ap
propriating large sums of money for the
canal zone, while the isthmian canal com
mission is licensing the manufacture and
sale of Intoxicating liquor, which reduces
the efficiency of the employes, we memor
ialize President Taft to use his prerogative
to abolish the system,
"Our government shonld hold as high a
standard of sobriety as do numerous pri
vate business corporations, and we ask
that our government employ only total
abstainers in the canal zone.
"Believing that much of the youthful
delinquency is due to child labor and the
lack of proper education, particularly in
dustrial education, we pledge ourselves to
co-operate with the National Society for
the Promotion of Industrial Education in
the study of industrial needs throughout
the United States; to secure a uniform
minimum working age for children and
the passage of the children's bureau bill
that we may have reliable data available
for all."
Sabbath Observance The resolutions
conclude with a paragraph devoted to
thanking anybody and 'everybody who
have aided to make the cpnvention a suc
cess or who have had a band in making
the stay of the delegates in the city pleasr
ant and
JporaJorUl
able.
The resolution on Sabbath observance
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was offered bv Mrs. flollintrsliead of Ohio.
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and, is.a follows: ..
we deplore the desecration ol the holy
i3rtUU.HU, SO. UlOVrtlCIll UUW, ilULI II1C I ill
enforcement of law. Andjjwe ask that our
rest day be preserved and our Safibain
law enforced "
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There were borne slight changes in the (
resolutions as presented by the committee,
of which Mrs. Adrianna Hungerford of
Colorado is chairman and Mrs. Margaret
C, Munns of Washington, secretary.
These changes, however, were alterations
purely of language, and made little or no
difference with the meaning of the resolu
tions as originally presented.
There was some discussion over the
recommendation with reference to the
1 issuance '"of federal licenses In dry terri
tory, MrsjRIcliardh of Ohio pointed out
that, as tbe recommendation stands, it
puts the Woman's Christian Temperance
UU1UU 1U 1(1(3 llgil) Ol BJUVllUUIUJi llUC IS-
suance of federal licenses where, the-states
permit liquor to be sold. As a matter of
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fact, she said, the Woman's Christian 1
Temperance union is opposed to license In
all forms, and she suggested that the para
graph QUght to be stricken out.
It was pointed out, however, that this
construction was not intended by the com-
Retail Dealer in
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mittee, that It was meant to favor legisla
tion which would aid the states In the en
forcement of prohibitory laws, and tbe
paragraph was permitted to stand.
A partial list of Uelegates to the conven
tion of the world's W. O. T. U., to be held
in Glasgow in June, 1910, was reported,
One delegate is allowed for each 1,000
members of the W. C. T. U. In a state.
The Nebraska delegates are Mrs. Fran
ces B. Heald of Osceola, Mrs. Medora D.
Nickell of Beatrice, Mrs, Annetta Nesblt
of Pawnee City and Mrs. Llbby S. Corey
of Lincoln. Mrs. Caroline M, Woodward,
Mrs. Helen Hornby, Mrs. W. S. Jay and
Mrs. C. I. Roberts were named as alter
nates. Showed Proper Spirit
Nebraska State Capital
A few clays ago a large crowd
of young people accompanied the
high school football team to
York. At meal time a portion
of the crowd filled the dining
room of one of York's, hotels.
While dinner was being served
the hotel proprietor noticed a
colored lad, one of the players
on the team, among the rest at a
table. He assumed a J4Thomas
Dixon air and, ordered fjthc col
ored jad out. The pthe Lincoln
y6ung,people,e.xpostulated. They
stud thartlifs was a resectable
young man, and that hdvvas one
ofth'e players against tho York
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, The hotel Uljin was horrified,
but j,g wa firmt Ho sll(1 tjmt
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ui,- iiira ot ujs iiuusu wurtJ UKin
servm
young
niggers." The Lincoln
people responded
that
they
'their rules demanded that
should never sit quiet and sec
one of their number insulted. So
they inarched out of the hotel in
a body and ate their meal in a
restaurant.
It is worthy of note that last
Monday the students of tho high
school were publicly commended
. hy the faculty for their Conduct.
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