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ALLIANCE, NEBR.
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SPECIAL RATES
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Homeseekers' Excursion Rates first and third Tuesdays
of each month to your locality; advise your eastern friends
of land and industrial chances in your country.
Low One-Way Rates, March ist to April 15th, to Cali
fornia and the far Northwest.
To the East. The usual summer excursion fares will be
announced later, for those planning- a vacation tour of the East.
Pacific Coast Summer Tours. Attractive excursion fares,
embracing a tour of the Coast, will be in effect during the
coming summer.
Consult the nearest ticket agent of the Burlington. He
is currently supplied with special rate sheets and descriptive
publications for all kinds of tours, or write the General Pas
senger Agent, giving as definite an idea as possible of the
trip you have in mind. It will be a pleasure to advise you
fully.
L. W.
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A. D. ROD
Groceries and Provisions
A full line of fresh goods to order from
Our prices are right
Telephone orders filled promptly
Phone 55 ,
S. V. Cor. Box Butte Ave. and Dakota St. ; one block
north of Burlington station, on west side of street
ALLIANCE HOSPITAL
Graduate Nurses in Attendance
HOSPITAL STAFF Dr. Bellwood, Dr. Bowman, Dr. Hand, Dr. Copsey
Open to All Reputable Physicians.
Address all communications to
THE MATRON, ALLIANCE HOSPITAL,
Alliance, Nebraska.
IVICJL.SOIV ITLIGTCIIICR
FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY
REPRESENTS THE FOLLOWING IN8URANOE COMPANIES.
Hartford Kiru Insurance Uuiiip.my.
North American of Philadelphia
Phoenix of Blookljrn. Now York.
Continental of New York City.
Niagara Klro Insurance Cqmpniiy.
uonnecueuu nru
Commercial Union AKsurutiCHOn.. Ixindonl'lrcmans Tunc! Insurance Co
Serrounlu Fire Ins, uo
tutiof Omaha
A SPECIALTY
Experience
Guaranteed
C, B. & Q. Watch Inspector
JjTW&B'WjMk
Palace Livery Barn
H. P. COURSEY. Prop.
(Successor to C. C. Smith)
Good turnouts. Courteous treatment to all.
Give us a trial; we will treat you right.
G. L. GRIGGS, AGENT
Alliance '
WAKELEY, G. P. A., Omaha
Liverpool. Loudon and Globe Ins. Co.
Gerimin American Ins. Co., New York.
Now Hampshire
Columbia Fire Insurance Company.
Philadelphia Underwriters.
rnoenix inn. ;o.. iiuruoru, conn
Kocia-Mer Herman iiih. lo,
Office I o-MiilrH.lletchcrlllock
Wallace's
Transfer Line
I Iousehold goods
moved promptly
and transfer work
solicited. Phone 4
Frank Wallace, Prop'r.
NbBRASKA NEWS
State Supreme Court Decides
Case From Cherry County.
MISS JORDAN WILL GET JOB.
High Tribunal Holds She May Be
County Treasurer Judge Fawcett
Files Dissenting Opinion, In Which
He Says Law Is Plainly Against
Woman In Present Case.
Lincoln, Nob., March 29. Tho bu
promo court has decided that a wo
man may hold tho ofllco of county
treasurer. Judge Hoso wrote this opin
ion, hut ho did not do it without op
position on the bench, Judgo Fawcett
dissenting.
Tho decision aroso In tho manda
mus suit of Gertrude Jordan of Cherry
county, to compel E. B. Quibble, form,
er county treasurer, to turn tho ofllce
over to her. Sho was elected at tho
last election by a largo majority, after
having been deputy in the oiflco for
seven years. Judgo Rose says there
Is nothing in tho law to prevent a
woman holding a ministerial ofllco of
this nature.
Judgo Letton agrees, but for a differ
ent reason. He states that Nebraska
has seen tho transformation of a wil
derness into a prosperous country in
tho last fifty years, and' that women
in the development of tho state have,
by custom, been given usual duties.
He says that it would bo to "turn
back the clock" to soy that a woman
could not hold such a position.
Judge Fawcett opines that there are
many women who might make better
governors than some that Nebraska
has had, but he insists that If a wo
man may bo elected county treasurer
and obtain the ofllco that she can also
be elected governor. He very gallant
ly says that he would do anything he
could for tho aid of the ofllce-holdlng
proclivities of tho sex, but that ho
thinks the law Is plainly against tho
woman in the present case.
MANY COMPLAINTS FILED
Much Relief Is Asked of State Rail,
road Commission.
Lincoln, March 29,--The Wells-Abbott-Nlemnnn
company of Schuyler
has tiled an application with the state
railway commissioners for a rehear
ing on the transfer switch case
against the Union Pacific and Burling
ton. Tho commission denied the plea
or the company for a switch borne
lime ago.
Protests have been received by the
commission against the now train ser
vice ot the Burlington between Hast
ings and Red Cloud and Oxford. Citi
zens of Rlverton and Cowles ask that
a train be stalled in the morning from
Hastings.
The York County Telephone com
pany has applied to the railway com
mission for redress because the Bur
lington has cut its wires. Tho rail
road alleges that the telephouo com
pany failed to comply with the laws
relating to the securing of right of
way across railroad tracks.
Gould Owns Pacific Express Co.
Omaha, March 29. Stories that the
Union Pacific had Bold out Its express
interests to Gould were substantiated
when nt the postponed annual election
of the Pacific Express company held at
the company's headquarters here, tho
two Union, Pacific directors, J. Krtttt
schnltt and Erastus Young, were
dropped from tile board. In their
places were chosen Jay Gould and
KIngdon Gould, sons of George Gould.
Wheat Not Badly Damaged. '
Lincoln, March 29. An agent of tho
UpdtKe Grain company, alter a care
ful Jnspectlon of the wheat fields In
the territory covered by the company,
has imported that altogether there has
not been damaged more than 10 per
cent of the crop. He was unable to
find any evidence of farmers plowing
up their wheat, but on the other hand
discovered they seemed very well
pleased with the prospects.
' Boy Drowned at Bostwjck. ,
Superior, Neli., March 29. White
at play Jn tho yard of a neighbor fami
ly, Clarence Fiiley, tho four-year-old
son of Mr and Mrs. W. I. Fiiley, sta
tion agent for the Burlington at Bost
wlcK, a small station a few miles west
of Superior, fell into the cistern. He
was rescued by Mr. Philips, but be
fore medical aid reached him life was
ext'net The body was taken to Alt
hrrn, Neb., for burial.
Woman Back to Prison.
Lincoln, March 29. Jennie Gelger,
who was sentenced to the penitentiary
for thirty-nine years for murder and
who was recently transferred to the
Lincoln insane asylum, has been re
turned to the prison. Dr. Woodard
pronounced the woman cured. Re
cently she escaped from the asylum,
but was captured within twenty-four
hours. '
Injunction Hearing Postponed.
Lincoln, March 29. The hearing on
the application of the Commercial club
of Alliance to restrain the state nor
mal board from locntlng the n.w nor
mal school at Chadron has been post
poned until tomorrow.
Mercer Dies From Wound.
Lincoln, Neb., March 29 Frank L.
Morcor. who killed his divorced wife,
died from the sqlMulllctod bullet
wpund in bis head.
RAIPIE FIRE IN BROWN CGJiOV
Blaie Sweeps Everything In Its Path
and Is Still Unchecked.
Alnsworth, Neb., March 29. -The
worst prairie fire to have visited
Brown county In several years has
swept half across the county, a dls
.once of about sixteen to twenty
allies, swooping everything in its
path, claim shanties, ranch houses,
Urns, cattle sheds, Innumerable hay
Hacks and range.
The flro started In tho southeast
part of tho county, about stxtcon miles
from Alnsworth, and just before It
reached the Kcech ranch It divided,
Dne fire heading southward toward
llofelt lake and tho other going al
most straight east. Tho wind the
grenter part of tho doy was of a veloc
ity of forty miles nn hour and tho
fire sptead rapidly.
The flames reached tho Northwest
ern tracks, two miles south and cast
3f Alnsworth. Tho Northwestern ran
special trains from Bassett and Long
Pino, carrying men to fight tho flames,
and about 8 o'clock It appeared this
flro was almost under control. Tho
fire which went south, however, Is
3tlll traveling rapidly, dosplto all ef
forts to fight It, but on account of tho
great distauco from hero, with no
means of communication, It Is Impos
sible to learn the extent of tho dam
age. PLANS TO DIVIDE CUSTER
Callaway Citizens Back of Project to
Create Five Counties.
Callaway, Neb., March 28. At a
meeting held here R. E. Brega, John
Moran, W. T. Keyes, H. H. Andrews,
G. H. Lafteur, E. W. Rusk, Charles
Humphrey, M. E. Schnerlnger and'
Will M. Dunn were elected as dele
gates to attend tho county division
lines convention to be held at Grand
Island, March 30. It is thought that a
five county cut Iibb been practically
decided upon, nnd If these lines are
adopted they will throw a portion of
Broken Bow In the county with Ausley
and the other portion in tho county
with Callaway, Sargent, AiiBley,
Merna( Coconto and Cnllaway will be
tho prospective new county seats. In
the 0 mpalgn lust year lines wore
drawn favoring Broken Bow and giv
ing At city a territory which would
always give it a county seat, but the
citizens of Broken Bow, it woj learned,
will fight division on any lines, nnd
now no mercy will be shown It and it
will be thrown In two counties If tho
present plans are carried out in the
coming convention.
FARM HOUSES SWEPT AWAY
Hundreds of Acres of Land Lost In
Missouri River.
Nebraska City, March 29. The Mis
souri river Is still cutting away the
banks south of this city. Many ncres
of fine farm lands have been lost,
dioppo'l into the mighty Hood, since
the liver bognn rJBlng threo weeks
ago. The river is falling now, but
fat HI continues to cut an ay tho banks,
and at some places very rapidly.
Several tnrm houses have been car
ried away, because they could not be
moved. Hundreds of acres of land
have also gone In, and all of the resi
dents near the river are moving their
housea nearer the bluffs.
It is hard to esUmate the number
of ncres that have been carried away
this spring, but in a number of In
stances some farmers have lost n sec
tion, others a half and a quarter, and
ono man lost nearly two sections of
land and is ruined.
BIG BLAZE AT HOLDREGE
Central Granaries Elevator, Cos.
Chutes nnd Five Houses Burn.
Holdroge, Neb., March 29. Flfr,
which started In the Central Granaries
company's big elevator about mid
night, destroyed their 500,000-utibheI
plant and the Burlington coal chutes,
biMldcs fHo houses lmmediatel north
of tho tracks. A high wind prevailed,
and the local flro department had hard
walk getting the flames under control.
Tho total loss will bo about $300,000,
partially covered by insurance, the
Central Granaries company of Lin
coln and the Burlington being the
pilnclpal losers. The origin of the fire
Is not known, but it is supposed to
have started in the engine room of
Lthe elevator. ' , - x ,
Prisoner Breaks' Jai at Alma.
' Alma, Neb., March 29. Carl E. Ve
llne, who was held for trial at the
ne.t term of the district court on the
charge of selling mortgaged property,
made his escape from the Harlan couu
tj jail and it is evident that he had
help from tho outside. The padlock
on tho cage door was filed off and the
file, together with a pair of fur mit
ten?, was found in tho outside room.
Veline Is under $300 bonds in Phelj
county on a like charge.
Two Bootleggers Fined.
Stockville, Neb,, March 28. Ben P.
(limits of Curtis was found guilty of
the illegal sale of liquor on two counts,
lie was fined $500 on the first count
r,nd sentence was suspended on tho
second. Jess Cronk, who pleaded
guilty to seven counts, was fined $400
on the first count and sontonce was
Euspendod on the other six counts un
til next torm of the district court.
Colonel Cody and Wife Reconciled
North Platta. Nob.. March 28.
Through the offorts of their grandson,
Cody Duals, a reconciliation has been
effected between Colonol w. p. Coay
(Buffalo B.UD and Mrs. Cody. Colonel
mill Mns. findv linniinn nslrnrifoH ihron
or four rar-B ago and aJnee that time
wtey nave j;veo apart.
D. J. BREWER DEAD
Expires Almost Instantly From
Stro.ce of Apoplexy,
END GOMES IN OWN HOME,
Associate Member of Supreme Court
Stricken as He Was About to Retire
for Night Was Essentially a West,
ern Man, Being Kansas Judge Be
fore Appointment to Washington.
Washington, March 29. David Jos
lah Brewer, associate justice of tho
supremo court of the United Stntes,
died last night r.3 t'-o result of a stroke
c' Tpoploxy. H.s v. .allowed with
i.) a minute or two t,cfro he could bo
ca..Icd to his bed. Mrs. Brower was
with him when tho end came. Justice
Brower was soventy-threo years of ag.o
Tho end came altogether unexpect
edly. Although he had not been feel
ing well for tho last few days, tho
aged jurist was apparently In tho best
of health and spent tho ovcnlng In
reading. Shortly after 10 o'clock he
JUSTICE DAVID J. BREWER,
rotired to his room and within a few
momenta Mrs. Brewer heard a heavy
fall and went to Investigate the cause.
Sho found her htiBband prone on the
floor of the bathroom, He did not re
gain consciousness and died before a
physician, hastily summoned, could
reach tho house.
The two daughters of tho aged jur
ist, Mrs. James P. Karrlsh aiut Mrs.
H. J. Jotmoro, wcro summoned at
once, but reached tho residence too
late,
Just,lce Brewer came to tho Biipremo
court of the United States from the
federal court In Kansas. Ho. upa tho
second oldest member of Uio court,
Justlco Harlan being his only senior.
He wns regarded ns tho most demo
cratic of all, the members of tho court,
most affable, nppronchnblo and nc
comniObiitlnir. He was tho one man on
tho bench v.ho had proof copies of his
opinion prepared for tho uowspapors
and this he did consistently. He was
born In Aaa Minor seventy-three
years ngo.
EXPLOSION ON CHARLESTON
Clglit Men Dead 33 Result of Accident
1 During Tarrjet Practice.
Manila, March 29. Tho report that
a fatal ncciaont nnd occurred on the
United States cruieor Charleston was
confiim d E slit men woro killed
and seveial others slightly injured,
During practice at sea off Olongapo,
tho breech block of a threo Inch gun
blew off and In Us flight across the
deck cut through a steel stanchion
and mowed down the men. Seven of
tho victims were instantly killed while
an eighth died as tho Charleston waa
hurrying to Cavite.
Tho dead: Philip Mackeo, master
nl arms; Edward MoIJn, private ma
line; Walter Anstedt, Henry Heater,
Leo Remmelo, Harry Graden, Ross
Barkman, Maxle Barnerd, seamen.
The cause of the explosion is not
known. Rear Admiral John Hubbard,
commander-in-chief of the fleet, hns
ordonjd an Investigation. 'The bodies
will be burled at Cavite
FIRE HORROR IN HUNGARY
Over Three Hundred People Perish.
In Hotel Blaze.
MateSzalka, Hungary, Match 29.
Between 300 and 400 people wert
killed and many others injured in the
village of Ookoerlto when lire broke
out In n hotel whete a ball was being
held. .
A coach house connected with the
hotol hod been fitted up as a ballroom
and was crowded with several hun
dred guests. The flre Btarted when a
woman's dress wns Ignited and a mo
uient later the gowns of sevoral other
women wcro In flames.
A panic followed and In a mad rush
to the exits, many persons fell nnd
were trodden to death. To make
matters worse, the roof fell in boforo
the hall could be cleared and many in
Jutod ones and those who became
crushed at the doors were prevented
from making tholr escape, and wore
burlod In the ruins.
New York Central Refuses Demands.
New York, March 29. The New
York Central road refused to grant
tho wago Increase demanded by 5,000
conductor and trainmen and the pres
idents of tlioso unions notified the
railroad company that' they would or
der a strlw vote.
Miss M. Ruth Taylor
TEACHER OF PIANO
324 West Idaho. Phone 205
Edith M. Swan
TBAOIlQn OF
PIANO, HARMONY
and Musical History
Studio 424 Laramie Avenue
1-Mio n n a 'A O
WILLIAIYI MITCHELL,
ATTORNEY
AT LMV.
ALLIANCE,
NEBRASKA,
EUGENE BURTON
Attorney at Law
Office in rooms formerly occupied by
R, C. Noleman, First Nal'l Bank blk
'Phono t8o. ALLIANCE, NEB,
H. M. BULLOCK.
Attorney at Law, -
A.JLX.XAltfOIC, 3SK33.
WILCOX & BROOME
LAW AND LAND ATTOHNEY0.
Long experience in state and federal
courts and as Register and Receiver U, a.
Land Ofllco is a guarantee for prompt and
efficient service.
Office in Land Offlco nultding.
ALLIANCE - NEIIRASKA.
Drs. Coppernoll & Petersen
OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS
(Successors to Drs, Froy & Unite)
Over Norton's Store
Office Phone 43, Residence 20
GEO. J. HAND, ' ,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON .
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
DR. C. H. CHURCHILL
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
(Successor to Dr. J. E, Moore)
OFFICE IN FLETCHER BLOCK
onifo hours H-12U, m. 2-4 p.m. 7,80-0 u, m.
Office Phone, 62
Res. Phone, 85
H. A. COPSEY, M. D.
Iti ywlclit rt nnd burgeon
Phono mill
CiiIIk siiiwerid iruimtl tiny and nlitlil from
oitllcu. Umcwi Alllnm'u National hunk
Hullilint: orur tliu Post Uitice,
DR. CHAS. E. SLAGLE
WITH
DR. BELLWOOD
Special Attention
Paid to Eye Work
Drs. Bowman & Weber
PHYSICIANS AtfD SUUC.EONS
First National Bank Bid. Ucoms 4-5-6
OfficR hours, 10 to 12 a, 111.,
1:30 to 4, 7 to 8 p., in.
Office Phone 65 Res. Phone 10 & 184
Dr. H. R. Belville
PHONE 167
Opera House BIock Alliance, Nebr.
T, J. THRELKELD,
Undertaker and Embalmer
OFFICE PHONE 498
KES. PHONE 207
ALLIANCE, NEBR.
THE GADSBY STORE
Funeral Directors and Embalmers
FUNERAL SUPPLIES
OFFICE PHONE 498
RESIDENCE PHONES 207 and 510
J. P. HAZARD
Surveyor and Engineer,
" ALLIANCE, NEIIRASKA
Parties out of town should write, as I
am out much of the time
Charges will not exceed $5.00 and ex
penses per day.
W. F. ROSENKRANZ
Practical Blacksmithing and WafM
Work. Horseshoeing a Specialty
Shop on Oakota St., between Box Birtts an4
Laramie Avenues, Al!late, ftfe.
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