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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1916)
BOX BUTTE COUNTY FAIR AND RACES, SEPTEMBER 27. 28. AND 29, ALLIANCE. NEBRASKA The All The Leading Paper of Western Nebraska RALD 3,000 Copies 20 Pages Two Scctlors Jl READ BY EVERT MEMBER NEBRASKA STOCK GROWERS ASSOCIATION. OFFICIAL ORGAN NEBRASKA VOLUNTEER FIREMEN'S ASSOCIATION. ALL THE NEWS OF ALLIANCE AND WESTERN NEBRASKA IT REACHES HEADQUARTERS FOR 16,000 FIREMEN VOLUME XXIII ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1916 NUMBER 41 IANGE CROP YIELDS EFFECT FARM LADOR INCOMES Ilewtilt of Poor and Ootid Crow Clearly Illustrated in Farm Man agement Demonstrations The effect of a Reason of poor crops and season of good crops on farm labor incomes la celarly illust rated in the Farm Management dem onstrations for the 1914 and 1915 crop seasons. With a less average return from livestock during the year 1915 than In 1914 for various reasons, the difference in average la bor Incomes is traceable to crop yields. This is certainly an argu ment for raising the best crops pos sible as to yield, so long as produc tion remain economical. This would Include such farm practices as the selection of best cash and forage crops, the use of pure varieties of good seed, treatment to prevent plant diseases, proper seeding, prop er seed bed with proper cultivation, proper harvesting and put into mar ketable Bhape with use of good busi ness judgment in marketing. Average 60 representative Box Butte table land farm yields 1914 1915 Yield Price Yield Price Corn 9 55 24 34 Wheat ..10 91 19 89 Oats 14 47 44 37 Potatoes .32 37 88 41 Lbor Income 1914 $30; 1915 $1206 GOVERNMENT LAND NEARLY ALL TAKEN Many llelinquished Claims during Year liut Total Is Itapid ly Diminished Government land in Nebraska was rapidly taken up by homesteaders during the fiscal year ending July 1, 1916. The department of the Inter ior reports that on this, date there were 146,256 acres of vacant public land left in the state, a yeur previous there were 192,358 acres open for entry. Of the 146.256 acres vacant on July 1, 1916. 137,936 acres were sur veyed and 8,320 acres were unsur veyed. Practically all the now va cant land Is broken, sandy, grazing land, a small a.i ount of high table land or prairie. Banner county has 1,180 acres of high table land and Garden county has 5,640 acres of sand liills grazing land. The aireB In the six land office dis tricts in Nebraska at the conclusion of the two Bscal years were as fol lows: A Ilia nee .1 ul 1 5 Banner 1.200 Box Butte 1.360 Dawes 2.24 0 Garuen 10,360 Morrill 11,980 Scotts Bluff 1.157 Sheridan 12.360 Sioux 9,840 July-'16 1,080 2,400 1.480 5,640 11.595 1.660 6,970 5,295 50.737 Broken How Arthur 2,400 Blaine 2.320 Brown 3.080 Cherry 15,64 0 Custer 200 Grant 6.880 Hooker 14.957 Logan 1600 McPherson 2.560 Thomas 5.000 36.120 2.399 3.129 2.281 8,887 160 6.165 10.978 1.421 2.940 5.798 55.137 44,158 Unroll) Chase 1.640 1.000 Dundy M40 1.18't Frontier 200 2n Hayes 1.100 1.100 Hitchcock "7fi b5ti Bed Willow 2&0 ton 5.1 3i North Plane 2.3 21 :2o 52 0 -to 150 1.4b" 7 57 4 7 2 2.0'ifc 160 1.120 4 4 2 24 2 4.736 l 8; 3 20 Arthur Banner . Cheyenne Custer . Deuel Garden . Keith Kimball Lincoln . IOgan . . M Ph.M-. o Morril . Perkins . 70 1.233 358 265 1.127 160 1.244 442 HO 7.219 40 134 160 1.440 920 1.4 00 1H0 160 160 9. MS oyi:i Antelope . . Boyd Brown .... Dakota . . . . Garfield . . . li- Keyapahu . l.ou! l'ti V ' "'.'ion Wheeler . . 40 160 166 1.680 1.3S0 14 2.960 4 o 4 0 360 7,140 Valentine 3,520 r,8,2f.O 6S0 1.600 4.414 2.748 4 4.621 600 1.640 Brown . Cherry ht vap'iha Rock 64.060 49.609 KTKANDI l COWBOYS A number of Wyoming cowboys are stranded in New York City as a result of the failures of the promot ers of the Stampede held at Sheeps bead Bay to pay $35,000 hi priieB. SELECT DELEGATES TO GO TO OMAHA Two IW Itntte Fanners Will Meet with the Federal Farm Loan Hoard At a special Saturday meeting of the Box Butte Farmers' association called by County Agent Seidell, up on request from Washington, two delegates were selected to meet with the Federal Farm Loan board In Om aha, September 18. A. S. linyeart of Hemlngford and W. F. Patterson of Alliance were voted official dele gates. All farmers and business men are invited to attend this meeting in Om aha. This should be of especial In terest to the people of Nebraska Loan District No. 1, as It will mean about a three-percent reduction of the average farm mortgage Interest rate In this district besides the spec ial amortization and long-time fea tures of the Rural Credits law. AUTO DEMOLISHED DY BURLINGTON FREIGHT Machine Stalls on the Track and Oc. cnpitnts .lump for Their Lives Saturday night an automobile was demolished by a Burlington freight train at a private crossing near Hol land. C. It. Modisett, manager of the Potash Products Co., and the book keeper for the concern, Mr. Denny, were In the car. They came through a gate ukng a private road and had reached the middle of the track when the engine of the machine balked. Just then a freight train hove in sight and the men in the auto thought It was time to follow the motto "safety Hist." They jumped Just in time. The stalled machine was thrown from the track by the powerful locomotive and badly dam aged. All the news that's tit to print in The Alliance Herald-- 1.50 per year. Great Western Com. Co. OMAHA-DENVER LET THESE SPECIALISTS SHOW YOU THE QUALITY OF THEIR WORK, WHICH HAS MADE US THE LARGEST RECEIVERS OF LIVE STOCK AT OMAHA. tm i fo II ft I if p jj fe, p I -vgr. - .v ' ji r .--- . . T 'VP'S " ;' . ' ' " , 'Vj r - . ..1,11! j ym.mmw i' ' ' -, ,- - T . - T"3fc p H , MISTAKE IN SPELLING Matt Malone, Popular Cattle Sales, man, Has Not Changed Ills Name ami Si HI on the Jolt How aggravating type Is anyhow ! when the proof reader falls to do his I duty in reading the stuff that's print ed In a newspaper. Our apologies are due Snyder-Malone-Coffinan Co., prominent live stock commission men of Omaha, on account of a typo-1 graphical error appearing In their; advertisement which has been run ning in this paper the last few weeks, two mistakes In fact which we wish to correct. The initials of L. It. Guerln have been printed as C. R., but the worst mistake was that of changing the name of Matt Malone to Mart Ma lone. We do not know whether there Is a Mart Malone or not, but we know that Matt Malone who has been doing business on the South Omaha market as a hend cattle sales man for the last seventeen yearB Is still on the job. Matt Malone Is known all over the west as a successful cattle salesman and has an unexcelled record and reputation as such. We do not want any of the readers of this paper to get the idea, because of a typograph ical error, that he Is not on the job yet, hence this correction and expla nation. FIFTY IUNNING HOKSDS AT FA I It George Mollring returned from Gordon Sunday where he attended the races at the fair. He Is of the opinion that there will he a good string of horseB at the Box Butte county fair. Mr. Mollring went to Chad i on Monday where his horses are entered for the running races. "Mary Ann Direct" will go In the thirty pace today and "Major" will start in the free-for-all tomorrow. From Chadron the horses will be taken to Crawford and from Craw ford to Alliance. Mr. Mollring esti mates there will be at least fifty run ning horses at the Box Butte county fair. Mr. Business Man. on your next i tri take alone some artistically printed business curds. The expense is light and they are business gc ters. The Herald's job printing de partment will turn them nut prompt ly. Phone 340 and we will call. m SETT : it FREED FROM TICK Cattle Ounruiitlne Lifted from ,lt;l Siire .Miles In Nix States Cal ifornia Is Wholly Free Approximately 9,493 square mile! of territory In six states Is released from quarantine on account of the Texas-fever cattle tick by an order signed by the secretary of agricul ture to become effective September 15, 1916. The order releases the last area under quarantine In Calif ornia, adding this state to the tick free list. The other territory re leased consists of 10 counties In Georgia, 3 In South Carolina, 2 in Alabama, 2 whole counties and 2 fractional parts of counties In Okla homa, and a portion of 1 county In Mississippi. Greater Interest in tick eradica tion is being taken throughout the South than at any time since the be ginning of the work co-operatively by the United States Department of Agriculture and the states in 1906. The territory released Is, In detail, as follows: In Alabama, the counties of Au tauga and Greene. In California, the remainder of San Diego county, making the entire state now free from quarantine. In Georgia, the counties of Bar row, Bartow. Campbell, Columbia, Fayette. Floyd, Henry, Jackson, Paulding and Walton. In Mississippi, the remainder of Yazoo county. In Oklahoma, the entire counties of Wagoner and tSephens and por tions of Muskogee and Tulsa coun ties. FIKST HAITI ST CHI HCH I lev. A. A. Ijiyton, Pastor Sunday school. 10 a. m. Preaching, 11 a. m. Young poople'B meeting, 6:30 m. Preachtnir, 7:30 p. ni. Mid-week services Thursday, 7:30 p. in. The pastor will speak Sunday morning on "Church Discipline," and the evening subject will he "When i he Sun, Moon and Stars Pass Away W hat Will Give You Light to the World?" Loose-leaf ledgers and ollice sup plies at The Herald office. Ask to h' samples Phone 340. W. 9 4 rrv itgmz. ms-s&& u $t "it 4 " , ' i ?i ,vS V 1 s. mtj r".. XL- . STAMPS ON DOCUMENTS NO LONGER NECESSARY Iteccnt Act of Congress Will I'lense the People mimI the Managers of Public Itllltles Effective Saturday, Alliance peo ple will no longer pay the govern ment stamp tax on express receipts, freight hills of lading, telegrams and long distance tolls. The t passage of the new revenue law by congress automatically re pealed the old, which went Into ef fect December 1, 1914, and has been In use for almost two years. The new law taxes war munitions. In comes and Inheritances, and does away with the stamp tax. All the railroad freight offices re ceived word from the superintend ents to discontinue the collection of the tax on bills of lading after mid night Friday. The same orders were received by local managers of the Western Union and at the local offices of the Adams Express company. The stamp tax on mortgages and commercial instruments was Includ ed In this same act, repealed by the revenue measure Just passed. FINE DISPLAY FIREWORKS ROX RUTTE CO. FAIR Fair Association Close Contract with the Martin Fireworks Co. of Fort Dodge, Iowa The Box Butte Fair association has made a contract with the Martin Fireworks company of Fort Dodge, Iowa, for three grand night displays during the county fair. The Martin company Is said to be one of the best in the country. They agree to give a line display on three nights of the fair, September 27. 28 and 29. They will show a number of set pieces Including portraits of President Wilson and Candidate Hughes. The company will send an expert along to stage the effects and agree to give a highly satisfactory performance on each night. Cieat Western Ccm. Co. OMAHA-DENVER DON'T BE SORRY THIS YEAR THAT YOU DID NOT SHIP TO US. TAKE NO CHANCES. WRITE US NOW, AND BILL YOUR NEXT CON flGNMENT TO US. Nl m. mj . ; J y 3VER MILLION ACRES IN NEW HOMESTEADS Secretary of Interior Irfiue Announc es Auuiiioiiai ;tzo Acre Tome Mewls in Six States Secretary of the Interior Lane an nounces that during August, 1916, more than 1,124,000 acres were des ignated as nonirrigahle and rendered subject to entry under the provisions of the enlarged homestead act, some times called the double homestead act, because entry n nde thereunder entitles a homesteader to 320 acres Instead of 160 acres as provided un der the old homestead laws. If settler has already filed on 160 acres under the former homestead law, h may acquire an additional 160 acre under the enlarged homestead act, provided the lands of both entries huve been rlossitled by the geological survey as nonirrigahle and designat ed by the Secretary of the Interior. The lands classified during the month as subject to entry under tha enlarged homestead act have already to some extent been entered or pat ented. To determine, therefore, what particular legal subdivisions In any land district are vacant, neces sitates an examination of the records at the local laud office. In California, more than 429,300 acres of land, located in eleven coun ties throughout the state, were des ignated. The greater portion of the lands classified are now entered, but it Is believed that some of the areas In the following counties are still available for new settlers!' Tehama county, 170.500 acres; Shasta coun ty, 97.200 aires; San Diego county, 49,200 ncrea; Siskiyou county, 39. 000 acres; Kern county, 23,000- ac res. In Kansas, more than 3,100 acre were designated in the extreme west ern part of the state. As all of th areas classified were in response to specific requests, none of the land designated Is open to entry for new settlers. In New Mexico, approximately 152,700 acres were designated in nine counties in the eastern and cen tral (tails of the state. Probably three-quarters of the land classified is now entered or has been putented. However, general classiticat ions were made In the following counties, parts of which are no doubt free fro claim: Cuadalupe county, 56.160 ac res; San Miguel county, 3!t,600 ac re; Union county, 16.60O acres; Lliici In coiiulv, 12.8(A) i. ren. In South Dikota. only 1 1.600 ac res were dehirnated In the western part of the state. The areas classl j lied are, however, practically all en tered by present homesteaders, with iltie oceptlon of A levi isolated legal subdivision:!. In V;u l.innion, . 633 acres were ictirn", d al' lo cated within the diminished Colrllle Imll.tll )fcfelV:iton. In Wyoming, more than 526,409 acres uCe -leigiia r u teen COU'ltle" I" h erth" " nr ' ""'ITIl parts of the state. The greater por- available for new homesteaders and ' some of the lands involved are locat ed In th following counties: Natro na coumy, 139,000 acres; Johnson county, 96,600 acres; Converse coun ty, 67,800 acres; Carbon coumy, 45, 500 acres; Albany county, 4 4,100 a? res; Platte county, 25.000 acres. STECtER AND LEWS ARE CHALLENGED Proinot r Pleiad) Makes Them l'r ovitluii That (live 'ie.tKT Mi.d Piibllc Square Deal Pn'' offf lime Melady, of South (hiiatia, m oi.e of ihonrt ga.a-- sports that o;ie ran ly litid-i aiiioni: th fra terni'y. ll ile, not know th. word luit. (Jone is hot on the trail of SlocL i a.'i.l Jamis, th wrestlers who wrentlel fur nearly five hours before his club in Omaha, Jujy 4. At that time, as every one knows, the two went to a draw on account of dark- nes.4. Now Mr. l i ly i aftn- them to return to thut city and start it all over again, and if the two gentlemen Mill uiii'iu . ; joiiowing lair ii.iil nonest iiropiei! ion. the public will know at ih end which man is entit led to the hifhesi honors in th wresilinu :ame. Here is Melady's liioposiiion: 'i'he contestants, each to put up a forfeit of $2,500.00. Th onto-! to t)i 10 atinisli, best two falls in tine. A coupon to be attached to 1'iicli ticket, insuring the refund of purchase price of ticket, unless the context is won or lost according to articles of agreement. In the event the match goes two hours without either gaining two falls In that time, the referee Is to decide on points, and Kive a decision awarding the contest to the one most aggressive of the two contebtatils. In the event of the match terminating in t his way, the spectators are to receive their money back .and the wrestlers to waive their forfeit money. This latter clause will guard against a wrestler taking a chance of losing his forfeit money to gain a draw. As the two have wres tled to two draws, which combined took over seven hours, it is up to them to accept the above and prove to the followers of this sport which Is the best man. Office supplies at The Herald of fice. Phone 340.