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Alliance. County of Box
Butte and United States
Land Office
The Alliance Herald
Two Sections
TWELVE PAGES
VOLUME XX
I Ml 1 1) PRESS WIRf SIRVICl
ALLIANCE. BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA I FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1913
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SIC HON TWO PAGES 9 10 12
NUMBER 30
NATIONAL DELEGATE
RODGERS RETURNS
D. Rodgers,, National T. P.
Delegate, and Wife Return
from Trip to Richmoad
Convention
A SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION
A. D. Rodgers, mayor of Alliauee.
member of Post M, T. P. A", and
ielegate to the National T. P. A.
convention at Richmond, Virginia,
made the trip, accompanied ny Mrs
Rodgers, returning to Alliance Mon
day morning on No. 41.
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lIlIlKt
A. D. FlODGERS
-Mr. and Mrs. Hodgers left Alliance
Thursday noon, June 6th, arriving
in Omaha Friday morning at seven
o'clock, where they met the Nebras
ka delegates. There were twenty-
one Nebraska delegates, eight of
them accompanied by their wives. A
special Pullman car was taken over
the Northwestern for Chicago, arriv
ing there at nine o'clock Saturday
morning and leaving Chicago at one
o'clock that afternoon, over the
Pennsylvania to Cincinnati. At Chi
cago they were Joined by the Iowa
Illinois and some other delegations
in special cars. Cincinnati was
reached at seven o'clock Saturday
evening. A telegram was received
by the delegation from the represent
attve of the Chesapeake & OIo
railroad, before arriving at Cincin
nati, staging that they would be met
at that point by a special car, shown
the city, and eat at the Metropole, a
verv stylish cafe, for per. A
special electric car me nem at the
depot and they were taken for a ride
over the city, stopping at the Me!
ropole. A number ot the boys had
understood the telegram to MM
that the C. &. O. would pay for the
supper at the Metropole, so ordered
roast duck, bass, and other fancy
dishes, with plentv of expensive side
dishes. But when some of them
got up and started to leave, they
discovered thier mistake. The joke
was on the delegates.
Cincinnati was left at one o'clock
Sunday nioir.ing and Richmond reach
ed at eight o'clock that evening.
The week at Richmond was one to
be remembered for a lifetime, for as
"A. D." says, "When a T. P. A. man
Is your friend, he is a friend. We
were shown the best time we ever
had and everyone treated us royal
ly." The following clippings, taken
from the leading Richmond daily. The
Kvenlng Journal, tell of some inter
esting events during the convention
Monday, June 9th
surely some parade! That was
the verdict heard on ail sides th'.s
morning from probably 100,000 Rich
mund people who packed the strep. s
all along the route of t tie great par
ade of the Travelers' Protective As
sociation and shouted hurrahs and
welcomes until they were hoarse, and
waved pennants and flags as they
have seldom been waved before.
And well they might, for It is
doubtful if Richmond ever has or
ever will have the opportunity of
seeing such a parade again. I'niipie
at all points, attractive in every de
tail and rousing people to the high
est pitch of enthusiasm, the splen
did pageant moved, l,5oo strong,
down Franklin street about 10 o'clock
this morning a spectacle gorgeous
and resplendent.
Virginia delegates, lined up for
"present arms" salute on the south
aide of Franklin street, mar Adams,
shouted and waved and cheered ev
ery delegation until It seemed Hint
they had not another cheer or wnv-
or shou' left, but they kt pt it up
just the same with never a pause,
getting back, in return, ovation after
ovation from each of he passing del
egations. The Virginia 1 delegation
remained stationary In position until
all the out-of-town delegates had
passed, tailing in at the end just ,
bind Wisconsin.
Whin they had disbanded from
their great parade the Travelers'
Protective Association delegate-, jne
and all, proceeded immediately to
the auditorium of the Jefferson Ho
'el, where thev opened their first
ses-siion.
The assemblage filled the big
room to overflowing, and many of .he
delegates could sot get setts. U in
estimated that there are far ab-ne
1.000 delegates in attenndance on tills
convention. The delegates from 'he
various states were marked by, signs
bearing the name of the Rtnte which
th e y r epreeen t ed .
Tuesday, June 10th
President Mlchnux's report was the
feature of the morning. It showed
great progress in every department
of the national organization and
struck the note of optimism for the
future. It thanked the Individual
members of the convention and the
convention as a whole for their sup
port, and all of those, the press, th
people of the cities and states who
had contributed to make the organi
zation the great power Uiat it is.
In his report President Mlchaux
had a good word to say for the press.
And this is what he said:
"Our greatest ally Is the press.
Our finals would not be written in
the large ftgures required to rIiow
our membership and to express Ms
gains and material expansion were
it not for the opportunities generally
afforded our publicity department by
the press."
President MU-haux recommended
that a "memorial be presented to
President Wilson asking for his good
offices and assistance in having a
bill passed that will place the tele
phone and telegraph companies till a
do Interstate business under the jur
isdiction of the Interstate Commerce
Commission." He continued along
this line: "Such control is necessary
to protect and give the people at
large a uniform charge for service
rendered."
Wednesday, June 11th
Die movement which lias been
started to secure a reduction in ex
cess baggage rates, which is in
charge of the national baggage com
mittee, was discussed by F. W. Cran
dell, the chairman of that commit
tee. The committee is an organiza
tion of commercial and industrial as
sociations, covering the entire coun
try for the purpose of securing an
adjustment of the charges assessed
by common carriers for handling
salesmen's sample baggage. The of
ficers are well known business men
wiho serve without pay. The com
mittee Is at present engaged in
bringing the matter to the attention
of the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion before whom they have carried
a test case.
Tipping, Mr. Flu In h designated
as "this hydra-headed, cobra-contorted
evil." Along this line he said:
This evil is still with us and legis
lation will never stop It. It is just
a matter of our own inherent weak
ness that keeps us continually dig
ging. The hotel man should pay his
help. And It will be only after we
have sworn each other to desist un
der no less a penalty than being
puRlied off the United States and
threatened with expulsion from this
organization, that it will stop."
Thursday, June 12th
Travelers' Protective Association
delegates today are down the river
enjoying a solM day of fun. Early
this morning they "got the habit"
and got aboard the steamship "Po
cahontas." It is estimated that full
if.wo-thlrds of the delegates today
availed themselves of the great trip.
Friday, June 13th
Geo. H. Armstrong, of Philadel
phia, was elected national president
by a vote of 490, amid cheers and
applause which lasted for many min
utes. From the time that the 900 or
more embarked on their voyage to
Jamestown yesterday morning there
was never a minute 'that something
Interesting was not doing. Songs and
chee rs and hurrahs echoed and re
echoed along the placid waters of
the noble James and amid the pur
ple vales of Virginia until the resi
dents living along the river fancied
that legended Arcadia had sprung
into reality and that the party on
the river were Indeed Arcadians.
Mr. Rodgers and wife left Rich
mond at six-twenty Saturday morn
ing in company with many other del
egates, for Washington. D. C. At
Washington all the sights were tak
en in and an entertaining time
spent. In a sight-seeing car with
Mr. and Mrs. Rodgers happened to
be a man who greatly resembled
President Wilson and who was mis
taken for the president a number of
times. He stated that he had come
clear from Oregon to see how he
resembled the president.
They left Washington Sunday ev
ening at six-forty by boat for Nor
folk, Va., reaching that point at nine
o clock Monday morning. They leu
Norfolk at one o'clock Tuesday
morning by boat for New York city.
This boat carried 200 passengers
and was loaded with 25,000 barrels
of potatoes and :i,000 half barrels of
beans, peas and onions. New York
was reached Tuesday evening at
eight o'clock. They stayed in New
York city until n::ie-forty Thursday
morning, when they took a boat car
rylng 6,000 passengers for Albany,
w hleh they rent hed at six o'clock
that evening They left at nine
o'clock that evening for Buffalo, ar
riving at seven o'clock Friday morn
ing They visited Niagara Falls
while there and left Uuffalo at nine
o'clock Friday evening, eomtai
straight back via ChLiago. arriving
in Alliance Monday morning. They
went through a heavy rain on til"
return trip which extended from !
bany, N V , to Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
"A. D." says that although many
cf the e-a:;tern states are highly cul
tivate d the best crops steii ui i!
whole trip were ,n Nebra -ka
Country Life vs.
Department Stores
Hy the UnKed PrrSfl)
SALT l,AKK. UTAH, June 27
"Glrls are safer walking alone across
the country than they Are when
working in department stores, rifle
insults which thoy are apt to meet
In many storeys are totally ausent
when they are on the road."
These are tbe conclusions of the
Misses Frances leach, 18, And Mary
Coyne, 23, feminine globe trotters,
who are walking from Denver to
San Francisco via the old Midland
trail. They are not attempting nay
speed records, having left Denver
May 12. They left Grand Junction,
Colo., on their western trip few
days ago.
The girls declare that their ef
fort is merely preliminary to a mor
extended pedestrian tour later. 'f
they succeed, they will rmealn oi
the coast for several months nnu
then attempt to walk back to the
Atlantic. "My mum-lea are as hard
as nails", laughed pretty Miss I, each
today. "A month's walking out In
the open iiir did that. We both
worked for our living in a deppr. -in
en t store in Denver, and b came
so ru:: down in hen It I. that we c
cided a trip of this kind was 'he on
ly thing that would pernian- ntly re
store our health. When we started
I could scarcely walk two miles a
day, and now I can do flfteiMi and
get fat on It.
"We have a letter of credit which
will help us out in case we .ir- nn
able to make our expenses by sell
ing picture postcards of ourselves.
When we reach the Pacific Coast,
we expect to rest for a few mo.rtlis
and then star.'., to walk back to the
Atlantic. After that, we will ie i
able to tackle Kurope and Aria."
The girls finished the first leg ot
their long Journey , Denver to Gr.md
Junction, Colo., a distance cf 47r
miles, in three weeks time anil ar
rived in the lattr ecMy fresh and nn
wearied. Although both girls l.ave
always gone armed, each carrying a
small -evolver, they declare they
have been subjected to insult only
once.
"Two tramps tried to get fresh
once", said Miss Coyne. "We rWI
'Mo walk on rapidly but 'they pursued
u. We were so frightened at firs;
that we didn't think about our wea
pon. We begged the men to let us
pass but they became arrogant at
our fear and when they used insult
iDg language we drew the revolvers.
Two shots apiece at the ground near
their feet and they made Mercury
ashamed of himself.
"On the whole, however, we could
not ask for better treatment than
we received and we feel much safer
traveling this way than we ever felt
when we were worklnng in a depart
ment store. All the men are very
kind Most of them treat us like we
were their daughters. Some of the
younig brakemen get rather senti
mental and mushy and offer to give
us rides, but we have always de
clined. We are able to take care
of ourselves and can walk to the
Golden Gate w ithout begging or sac
rificing our self respect. 1 should
Just like to see some cheap sport
try to start anything with us. I'll
,-iuarantee it would be the last time
he would ever try it."
ent In educations.) Institutions, the
Cunningham agricultural commission
bill and several taxation MeatUrSS,
1 i i I.
(My the United Press)
LIMA, OHIO, June 27.--William
Shaw, of Boston, other national of
ficers of the christian Krsleavor So
ciety and two thousand delegates
who have been nt tending the annu
al conferen-e of the Ohio Christian
Kndeavor Societies which opened
here Tuesday, left for their respect
ive homes today. Among the nn
port tint questions considered at the
final sessions today wa a more sys
tematic and attractive manner of
adding recruits to the ranks of the
Christian Rndeavor Societies of the
country.
Summer School in Politics
The heart's deep longings after
truth,
And soon a wave shall lift and roar
To thunder on that distant shore.
!,ke those that on a newfound
cosM
Proclaimed fulfilment of the h 1 1
That once the bold Columbus im '.
When Faith decreed and Fair
obeyed.
L, il Hi
George Milllken and Will Johnson
are receding the congratulations of
their friend on their recent large
haul or fish at the Kllpalrlck dam
twenty miles west of AlUiine-.
few d-ivs ago they rn id-- re-tt prep
uratlons for a nice day's fishing trip
out to the dam in Mllliken'is new au
tomobile. The nkrcsi of poles and
lines, with all kinds of choice bull,
were taken along. After arriving at
the dam they put the our In a shady
place, took out the tackle, so their
friends say, and beignn to choose the
spots which looked the be tfor fish,
when it was discovered that then
wnsn't a fish hook In the whole out
fit. The tilr was blue from the lake
clear to Alliance that afternoon
When Jack Ha wea got home from
a trip Tuesday he found eight liitle
fluffy (hicks at the house with heir
mother hen. Jack immediately wir
ed the Mrs
home- folks
"We don't want to fight, but, by
Jingo! If we do,
e ve- i ot ( he ships, we've got the
men, we've got the money too."
There may be other men in Ger
many who see as dearly as William
II what a calamity a Furope.-tn war
would he, but these others are not
men who feel themselves divinely
called to rule over the destlniei of
a people and answerable befo? the
judgment aest for their conduct.
William do feel himself thu call
ed. Not much has been he-r-d of
the divine right of kings since the
famous Konigsberg speech of three
or four years ago, but there Is no
reason to lwlleve that the Kaiser
has changed his attitude, or that he
considers himself In any other light
than as a ruler dlvhmly set to "ulde
hi people and bound to render an
account of hut stewardship at the
last great day.
There Is need In Germany today
of clsar-headed staiesmnnahl i tem
pered with a feeling of reeponslljlll
ty. The empire is not well oil" In
tbe matte-r oi statesman. In Met.
the Kaiser is Germany's only real
statesman today. The truth might
as we!! he admitted, for nobody who
has followed decent events Is ignor
ant of the situation. It is not so
long since' the- chancellor stood up
ill the Reichstag and told the nieir-
who is visiting withibers Hint the peril of Slav domlna
n eastern Nebraska , ' t ion menaced the nation. It wa
Klght babies at our house today not so long leiore that that there
I was a recrudescence of anglophob-
A leading western Nebraska linn istu in the land. Russia and Great
is the firm of Jame-s Feagins A Son
eattle 'dealers. A friend of Chase's
mi hi to him this morning, "8ay,
Chase, they ought to name that firm
'base Feagins and DAD."
K R. Myers spent a few days in
Peru last week, viaitlng his family
$$ GET WISE ADVERTISE S$
illy the I'nited Pres.-1
COLl'MMHl'S. OHIO. June 27.
Si . retary of State Charles II,
Graves this month will open and take
p rsontal charge of the largest sum
mer School I" politics in America.
He will have on his list of enroled
students the 1,200,000 voters of Llie
state of Ohio. His task will be that
of condne-ting a course by mail ou
how to vote on the initiated and re
ferred measures that come before the
voters of Ohio next fall. T do this
effectively he has been siren an ap
propriation of 60,000 by the people
of the state.
Not only will Secretary Graves In
struct the people on their rights ;:nd
privileges in the fall election, bit
he must also, with rigid fairness and
uipiiitiality, see that eich voter is
given every opportunity to study tu!
ly both slgfcs of every measure that
Is to be suomitte-d to the people ior
approval or rejection. He must mail
to every vc-!er paniph'ets coi-taining
tlie arguments advance-d in favor of
i ach submitted measure and at the
same time mail a pamphlet contain
ing the arguments against the nieas
iii e as drawn up bv th? foes l the
bill.
I ready Secretary Graves' prelimin
ary duties in this course of polities
study are far from light, and the
period of th? submission of' referred
measures lias not yet arrived. As
It stands he must see that the Ohio
voters are properly instruct ei on
the merits of four consi'tutiona!
amendments, two providing for dif
ferent forms ef the "short" ballot,
one K"- the exemption of public
bonds and another making women eli
gible tor certain state positn.-it, Df
s-'devs these two other amendments,
mi" calling fee- a classification of the
gintral property tax and auo'.hef for
a smaller general assembly are now
)m in,- .litiated and wi!l be submitted
within a few weeks.
He will also have to iustruct the
people on tin- referred measures.
One of these is a referudum on the
w orkuiginen - iiuipensation act, pass
ed by the sia'e legisla'UTc, which is
gorii to be referred back to I he peo
ple tor final action. Other meas
ures that are now Ix-inu r. lei red are
bills seeking to disenfranchise -tud-
Lloyd's Column
B. F. Gilman. the attorney, re
ceived the following little missive
through the mall the other day, sign
ed, "From one of your Irish admir
ers." And headed, "Especially for
the Gllmans." The Irish friend who
sent it undoubtedly had Mr. Gtlman's
annual deer hunt, which he takes in
the forests of Wisconsin, in mind:
My Hunter
My man, you may guess, Is a law
yer, "forever on the alert!"
(That is one of his favorite little
"brags," for at hunting he IS
an expert.)
UK'S a hunter of woexle-hucks, and
pheasants, and trout, he is
also a boater of MK
If he comes home to me, with, "I've
won my case," and wishes to
boast, what then?
As a hunter of neckties, and collars,
and gloves, a failure, I know
he, atas, Is!
And most every day, I shout down
the street, "HI, there, you've
forgotten your glasses!"
When he comes home at night, hollow-eyed,
face pale, I smile
when he growls like a bear,
"I've hunted all day for that deed
for McQuaM, and I'm darned If
the paper Is there!"
I'M a hunter of legal papers, not
men, and my job fills the hum
blest of stations,
I go, look, and find it, a bookmark
lelt w he-n reading reck on
Domestic Relations."
Oh, I hope when the time comes for
HIM to pass on. MY ticket will
also be given,
For, 1 think, without me to hunt up
his stuff, he'd be sorrowtul,
even in Heaven!
Win. King Is a great admirer of
Klbert Hubbard's writings and works.
l ne oiner eiay tun received a
beautifully bound volume of "The Ru
baiyat of Omar Khavvam" from Mr
Hubbard. It is bound in liand tooleel
leather and is a rare book.
"Editor." said Miss Flight. "I
want you to give me an opportunity
to begin a e-areer. I have thought
of journalism "
"What are your own Inclinations.?
"Oh, my soul yearns and throbs
and pulsates with an ambition to
give the world a life work that shall
be marvelous in its scope, and
weirdly entrancing Ir. the vasiness
of Its structural beauty!"
"There ts a milliner up on the
avenue who is looking for yu."
Hardware News.
Printing an eight and twelve page
daily paper takes a lot of work, en
peclally for an office with only one
linotype- and a force of nine people
who must handle the immense
amount of job work which is going
through that department at this
time. However, we are not a lilt
ashamed of the daily edition of The
Herald and believe our friends ill
agree with us when we state that
me siuiu we are pulling off i'i:s
week is something to be proud of in
the newspaper line. 1,700 copies
per day are being printed We nave-
a few extra copies which can be se
cured by application at The Herald
office.
With apologies to Longfellow, the
following lines are dedicated by the
author to the Junior Normal:
Thou, too. sail on, thrice blessed
craft!
In spite of legislative graft,
in spite of parish punie. finance.
Give not one tnnld backward
glance.
The western Junior Normal School
Is no mere plaything in a ool
Hut built lo breast a mighty sea
That bordeis on eternity.
The ripples in a pond may die.
And vanish like a passing -igh;
Hut st!r within the mind of youtb
NO WAR FOR THE KAISER
Emporer William Believes European
War Would Be Calamity
BY KARL H. VON WIEGAND
BERLIN, June 27. The young
(Special to The Aiitance Herald)
subalterns, who hope for war be
cause it means chances for promo
tion; the gunmakers, who hope for
war because it means business, and
tlie Jingoes, who hope for war be
cause they are built that way and
can't hclv it, sit in their respo.-tiv.-circle
and speak bitterly of the
llritabi -thie were the two enemies
of the future, the implacable ep-pone-tUs
and evil wishers of the em
pire. The. Ca-sr of Russia and the
King of Great Hrltain have Just re
turned home after a visit in Bc-lm
. whioh, so far as one outside the
I chrmed circle of royalty could Judge,
was one of unusual cordiality and
I was marked by an apparently genu
ine nnel amiable exchange of rourtea-
les between the Kaiser and his two
reputed enemies.
That is of significance, but there
is more yet. For the rulers of Rus
sia and Great Hrltuln were here as
guests at the niarriuge of the Kais
er's only daughter to tbe sou ot
bis bitterest German enoniy. The
bitterest enemy himself came to tho
wedding, entering Berlin for the
first, time since his father's kingdom
was stolen by Biamark, and the
bridegroom had bat recently taken
oath of allegiance to Prussia and
had been appointed an officer in a
famous regiment of hussars. All
these things, of course, may have
lust happened so, but to believe this
i to strain, the doctrine of probabil
ities, l tuey nappeneo so because a
uiau who bears Ihe title of War lxrel
and refuses to go to war if he can 1 clear headed ruler planned them to
avoid it. They point to pretext at- happen. And this dear headed rul-
ter pretext which might have justi i er, according to the Impression
fled an appeal to arms, and glorify which Is growing, planned all these
the young Crown Prince, who sits things in the Interests of peace. All
In the Imperial gallery of the Reicn- of which goes to show that if a
stni; and applauds warlike sentiments
and who writes books picturing the
splendors of the battlefield.
Through it all the object of their
wrath goes his wayuninoved, and
the whole world had occasion recent
ly to send its congratulations anei
good wishes to a War lord who
baa done more than any other son-
ereign to preserve the peace of Eur
ope for a quarter of a century. For
twenty-five years Kaiser Wllhelni
William II has been the rock against
which every Jingoistic movement of
his subjects has been wrecked. An
advocate of a formidable army, a
believer In war as a school for the
manly virtues, an emperor who;
rarely lets himself be seen except
in military uniform, the Kaiser has i
nevertheless repeatedly made It
clear that he will not enter i war
until all other courses are sklSX 'I
Hut If he must, then, and then onlj .
will lie be the real War Lord. Mn
man builds himself a reputation as a
fighter he is about the best possible
leader of peace movements.
BULL MOO8ER8 FIND SOMETHING
FORT WAYNE, INO., June 27.
Hull Moose rsi and Republicans found
something 1n common here today. It
was the knowledge that they were
not wanted at the polls while the
Democratic primaries were going on
to nominate a city ticket. Ijater the
wo parties whioh were idle today
will probadbly join in the nomination
of an Independent ticket in the hopes
of defeating the Democrats.
INTERNATIONAL ATHLETIC MEET
CHICAGO, June 27. Hundreds of
athlete- from all over the country
and several thousand visitors are
litre today to attend the nine days
Dennetts famous song of 1878 Bts In tarnation Athletic Championships
tin- ease exactly: which will stiirt here tomorrow.
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