LIVESTOCK PRICES
AT SOUTH OMAHA
Cattle Sell a Shade Stronger,
but Lower for the Week.
H06 MARKET OPENS LOWER.
Little Chang In Sheep and Lamba.
Supply Large Enough to Make a
MarketTrade a Little Slow .All
Morning.
I'nion Stock Yards, South Omaha.
July 3 Only a few head of rattle ar
in mI totlay, about 600 head There
waa n Arm MM to beef, Helling a
shusle stronger than Tuesday. Cows
and heifer were also a little stronger
than Tuesday. Veal calves were quot
nhly steady, but there was a weak,
ton- to Mi market for bulls, stags,
etc. There waa a belter outlet at
firmer slices for the few stork cattle
that were offered.
Quotations on cattle: Choice to
prime beeves. $S.75!.25; good to
choice beeves, S8.40Qft.70; Talr to good
beeves, $7.7Gftft.25; common to fair
beeve. tt.OS07.fO; ft0""1 10 ehoice
heifers, 16.2507.50; good to choice
cwt, 15 2506 25; fair to good grades,
$4.2505.25; cnnners and cutters, $2.50
Q4.20; teal calves, $4.50Q7.75; bulls,
stags, etc.. $4.006.50; choice to prime
feeders, $8.OO6.50; good to choice
feeders. $5 00(0)5.7.1; fair to good feed
ers, $4,500 5.00; common to fair feed
era, t3.76fH.50; stock cows and heif
ers. $8.50(6.00.
About 14,'HM) head of hogs arrived
today nnd the market was a little low
er. The bulk sold at $7.1 r,)7.25, with
right good butcher weights as high a
$7.30, Identically with Tuesday.
Receipts of sheep and lambs
amounted to about 1.400 head. Trade
was a little slow. The bulk of re
ceipts weie from the range.
Quotations on sheep and lambs:
Good spring lamb, $7.00f8.25: fat
mne yearlings. $r.2rr7r50; fat range
wethers. $4.5064.85; fat range ewes,
I3.75ffi4.00.
W. W. Holbrook of Omaha, an
old time acquaintance of the editor,
was in Alliance last week doing work
as a colporteur for the American Bi
ble society. He Informed us that
the total number of bibles put out
annually by the A. B. 8. runs Into
tli' million of copies, four millions
in round numbers, which if we re
in. mber' correctly is about one-third
of the total number printed in the
English language by all uublMiin
hounes, 1
CROWDED OUT LAST WEEK
News Items Written for Issue of
July 4th
As sUted In the last Issue of The
Herald It was printed a day ahead
of time, on account of publication
day falling on the 44h Some Items
written for that Issue but crowded
out will still be of Interest to many
readers. In reading the following
bear In mind that they were written
for the last Issue:
Earnest Essex from near Orlando
SHI operated on at St Joseph hos
pital for appendicitis a few days a?o
and Is getting along fine. He will
be out In a few daya.
Mrs. Anna Welsh of Bingham waa
In Alliance the first of the week re
ceiving treatment for her eye.
Air. Bowers of Whitman Is at St.
Joseph hospital receiving treatnieni
for his eyes. He expects to go to
his home In a few days having made
marked Improvement.
Mrs. Walls of Bingham l in Alli
ance taking treatment for her eyes
which have been giving her a lot of
trouble this summer.
Nick Vethulsus has left the hos
pital after undergoing an operation
for appendicitis. .
R. R. Kinculd or Hingharti te In Al
liance today combining business with
pleasure
William Otto and wife are parents
of a fine baby girl who made her ap
pearance Sunday noon. Their home
is near Lakeside where Mr. Otto has
a fine homestead
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o MOUNT PLEA8ANT o
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July 6, 1!M2.
Rain. Oh, yes. plenty of rain, and
it was welcome
,
O. H. Hagaman and family, nnd
(' Mrinknnm and family of Alliance
re visiting P, S. Mailey's today,
the. 5th of July.
Mr. and Mrs. Q. G. Clark were
culling on the Hale family In the
sand hills Friday
see
Mr. nnd Mrs. J. C. Hawkins were
visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Wright
Friday.
Little Rose Summers Is visiting
Josle Cary this week.
The celebration In G. H. Haga
man's grove was enjoyed by all and
the- prom-am was fine especially
Johnnie and Stanley Wright's dia
logue. There was a large crowd at Jhe
grove on the Fourth but It was a
good thing that G. Hagaman had a
large house for the rain drove them
In.
Mrs. J. C. Wright Is the new sup
erlntendent at the Mt. Pleasant S.
8.
There was a dance at Glen l.a
mon's place Thursday night.
THE DEMOCRATIC
STATE CONVENTION
Chautauqua
At Alliance
THE BIG 5 DAYS
Starts August 1
Signor Tassoni and the Imperial Guards
Band from Sunny Italy
The Riner Sisters and Bereniece
Lathrop
J. Everist Cathell on Abraham Lincoln
Halwood Robert Maniove,
the Man of Many Faces
Chancellor G-eo. H. Bradford
The Dunbar Singing Orchestra
The Litchfield Trio
Mr. James G-. Whiting
The Nashville Serenaders and
Alonzo Moore
Frank L. Loveland
The season tickets are on sale. They make the Chautauqua cost
about 15c a number. See any local business man.
THE BIG- FIVE ID.S
The democratic electors of the
state of Nebraska are hereby called
to meet in delegate convention in
the city of Grand Island, Tuesday,
July HO, 1912, at 2 o'clock p.m.,. for
the purpose of drafting a democratic
state platform, the election of a
democratic state committee and the
transaction of any other business
which may properly come before the
convnetlon.
The representation In said conven
tion will be based upon the vote
cast for presidential electors in 1908
and each county will be entitled to
one delegate for each 150 votes, or
major fraction thereof, cast at said
presidential election, and one dele-gate-at
large from each county, giv
ing the several counties representa
tion as follows:
Adams IT
Antelope II
Banner S
Blaine 2
Boone 12
Box Butte 6
Boyd 7
Brown 5
Buffalo 18
Burt 9
Butler 15
Cass 17
Cedar 13
Chase . . 3
Cherry 8
Cheyenne 6
Clay . 14
Colfax 9
Cuming 12
Custer 1 20
Dakota .. 6
Dawes . . 6
Dawson 14
Deuel . . 4
Dixon 8
Dodge 19
Douglas 105
Dundy 4
Fillmore 14
Franklin 10
Frontier 7
Furnas 12
Gae 22
Garden 4
Oarfield 3
Gosper 5
Grant 2
Greeley 8
Hall .16
Hamilton ' 12
Harlan 9
Hayes 3
Hitchcock 5
Holt . . 13
Hooker .. 2
Howard 11
Jefferson 13
Johnson
Kearney t.
Keith 3
Keya Paha 3
:: I
Kimball 2
Knox 16
Lancaster 58
Lincoln 10
Logan i . . . . 2
Loup 2
Madison ..14
McPhercon .. 2
Merrick 3
Morrill 6
Nance 7
Nemaha 12
Nuckolls 14
Otoe 17
Pawnee 8
Perkins 3
Phelps 9
Pierce 8
Platte 18
Polk 9
Red Will v . . to
Rlchan'.fu 18
Rock 3
Saline 16
Sarpy 8
Saund- 19
Scotts tuff 5
Seward 15
Sheridan 6
Sherman 7
Sioux 4
Stanton 6
Thayer 12
Thomas 2
Thurston 6
Valley 8
Washington tl
Wayne 8
Webster .. 10
Wheeler ..' 3
York 15
Total 978
It ir recommended by the state
committte that no proxies be recog
nized by the state convention, but
that the delegates actually present
from each county be authorized to
(Mat t lie full number of votes to
whiih i he county is entitled under
this (all.
In addition one delegate at-lare
mm earn county
J. C. BYKXKS. Chairman.
LEO MATTHEWS, Sacretsrv.
i i!. h of Mrs. il ( .. he cattle 'jueen
isingsvllle. 7ens. lie was ta'. lit
b-m to Moo o : '. V)0. H
bought a bunch of Ctan cattle with
in the last few weeks, besides other
deals. We should have mentioned
his business ?oonr. but did n o t
have as much Information as we
wished in regard to the details.
Mrs. T. F. Wfctklas of Bit yard ar
rived on 304 Monti :y ;or u few1 day
visit with relative ..i Uliance.
Chsrlts Glaze, the marble man
,ve me: n the mrli! mi-i- nnrlu
uub'iitf- inp io tiroKen row tne
first of' the week.
Mrs Esther Shanknian has re
turned to AlliaiK-e from Kloridu.
where she went some time since e
! ling to make her home but faund
that the climate did not agree with
her as well as northwestern Nebraska.
Old papers at Tb Herald office at
6 cents per bunch
CONDENSED NEWS
Speaking about live stock trans
actions, your Cud-. Jim Peaains bjM
b en making sout.- extensive deal-
'.Mtaly, which is n new thine tor
ii .n Recently '- had 1,700 he'id
o: two year old s'.eers here from tlie
General Federation of Women's
Clubs chose Mrs. Pennybacker for
president
America celebrated its sanest Fourth
if July; 17 dad ando.,toP123456 345
of July; 17 reported dead and 326 In
lured. Henry T. lelor. librarian of t.h
Chicago public library, was ccted
president ot the American LI bra Ft as
sociation The railroad between Tacna and
'irlca, In Ch!l- has been destroyed by
a storm. A large number of people
were injured.
Jack Johnson was declared the
wihned over .lint Flynn In the ninth
round, when police stopped the fight
st las Vegas
Five persons were killed and seven
t. en injured when an interurban ( gr
crashed Into a "dead" gasoline car
near Tulsa, OUla.
Omegla, a collie dog, saved the life
of its mistress, Mrs. Van Daggett of
San Francisco, by dragging hi r uncon
scious body from a burning bungalow.
Colone' Roosevelt conferred with
leaders In the third party movement
and later announced that the fight will
go on regardless of the Baltimore re
suit.
Thre? persons were killed and more
than a dozen seriously Injured in an
Interurban wreck on the Indiana
Union Transit company's line at Ma
rion.
Thw house chemical revision bill,
amended to place dyes used In color
ing cheaper cotton goods on the free
list, was defeated in the senate, 32
to 26
A yawn ajlMsJ John Cooney of Sid
ney. Neb. Cooney stretched so vigor
ously that hf forced a gallston
through the abdominal wall and die i
a few hours later.
Enemies from ambush are believed
to have shot Guy F. Reed, u farmer
who lived five miles south of Galena.
Mo. His body was discovered half a
tuile from bis home.
James N Hill, son of J. J. Hill, and
'ice president of the Northern Pacific
railway, retired from the vice presi
dency. He will lie succeeded by Colo
nel William P Cough.
The Democratic national convention
at Baltimore nominated Governor
Woodrow Wi'son of New Jersey for
president and Governor Thomas R.
Marshall of Indiana for vice president
Judge Heap of Chicago denounced
Mivine healing" as practiced u -us
C. J. Eok as a "palpable fraud," and
held her and her husband to the granl
jury for operating a confidence gam -.
Mrs Theresa Parri, twenty years
old. was shot and fatally wounded by
her husband, Peter, Parrl. a tailor, in
front ot the entrance to an elevated
railroad station at Chicago. She died
in an ambulance.
Mrs NeHle (.rant Sartoris. only
daughter of the late General lT. S.
Grant, was married to Frank H. Jones,
formerly first assistant postmaster
general of the United States, at her
("iintry iiome at Coburg, Ont.
Stirred bv the two recent disastrous
railroad wrecks at l.anoue, Pa., and
Coming, N. Y., in which Mart sev
enty lives were lost, members f the
boose talked of a legislative n:o;ram
to strengthen the laws governing safe
t appliances
The disappearance of two pouches
of registered mail from a street car
vhlle en route to the Union depot
from the postoffiee is puzzling go t ern
ment inspectors at Kansas City. The
mail was addressed to New York,
Omaha nd Ogden, Utah.
The new national flag, bearing forty
eight stars, emblematic of all the
states, including the recently admit
ted Arizona and New Mexico, was
dung from all federal structures in
the country and from the American
navy throughout the world.
Seized with I murderous mania. Ser
geant John Proctor of the One Hun
dred and Twenty-sixth company ( oast
artillery at Foit Wonl-m, Port Towns
end. Wash., shot and killed his forat
r wife, his son and daughter, then
turned the urn upon himelf.
Mrs. Mary F. Wehrka:np and b?r
daughter, Ka korlno Wehrkanip, were
found dead from asph xiatiun in a
lasiuonnb'.e ,.--c?.on of Washington. It
is believed the daughter turn d on
he gas w hile her mother slept an I
then lay dc vn to di" float the fumes
A thre;-. . ar old Chicago toy got
hold of his mother's DOckOtbOOk M
ted $; In Li!!s--hi3 tutlurs wages
to ha p"t gateM pis- The f;u!.v.'
sent th" resnnaata o: the pigs' meal to
President Tatt with an appeal to the
so.trnt'i- nt to red . :n the entire roll.
The ew 'officers and directors ot
the Qoaaral Fadurattoa of Woatao'i
Clubs ti -'d 'wo in,' t.iin at San Fran
Cisco to discuss with outgoing officials
t-ubjedt pert tining to the work of tnc
oiganiza'lon Mrs. Pennybacker of
l'exas the ni w executive, presided at
both meetings
Physicians exploded a giant fire
cracker a the bedside of James Mc
Gowan. at a l.oganspoit hospital, in
the hope th.M the nervous shock
would stop bis hiccoughing from
whiih he had b-on muttering for five
days. B qiktcd blm, but he soon
lied of "hunst!on
SHOE SALE
To make room for a
large shipment of shoes we will
place on sale our entire stock of
MEN'S WORK AND
DRESS SHOES
LADIES' AND
CHILDREN'S SHOES
Another car of Thoroughbred and
Fancy Flour and Bran at low prices
7 Good 5c Cigars for 25c
m
Farmers Store
J. J. KEENER, Prop.
Phone 697
CITY MEAT MARK
I
Cor. Box Butte Ave. and 4th St. ?
Fresh and Cured Meats
Best Goods,
Best Service,
Reasonable Prices.
Having secured the help of W. R. Drake,
who is well known as a tirstclass meat cut
ter, and having put on our own delivery, we
can give our customers the best service in
Alliance.
Our Meats Give Satisfaction
You are invited to give us a trial.
PHONE 640
J. R. BARB, Prop.
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litland I
Sunshine Maitland
C O A
For Range and Furnace
All Kinds of FEED
Wholesale and Retail
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