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VALENTINE,
NEBRASKA
When the fire rompany arrived
I hp front of the Connor cafe was all
ablaze, an well as the north Hide of
the Central building. The shack in
front which has bwn MM as a kit
chen while the restaurant was bcinp
remodeled wan pant saving and at
tention was turned to the huilditiKfl.
; 1 1 f 1 l a abort time all were out of
danger.
The front of the rnfe was COS
platal) mined, although not a (I'M)
deal lit damage was done to the in
oMkl except furniture and flxturea
which were right at the door, and
broken window.
The window and door of the Kud
dy hmd Co. was ruined an was the
doot Of Central office. The damage
here was not severe enough to put
any phones out of commission al
though Home were rather faint.
The fire originated from a gaso
line store in the ahack in front,
which caught that structure and a
wci'td n awning connecting with the
bu ld ng made an easy path for the
Amies to follow.
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CO. I IM VS AT BKIMOXT
HAVK U N WITH L W. W.'S
Crawford Courier:
The soldier boys at the tunnel one
day last week had doodles of fun
with a bunch of I. W. W.'b who were
passing thru there on "tie" tickets.
The khaki boys on going out from
the tunnel foraging for wood ran
acroBB u bunch of the "Weary Wil
lies" hotfooting along the track and
at once conceived the plan of muking
the foot emigrants lighten their la
bors. Rounding up the "gang," they
ordered them to load up with wood
and then inarched them to camp. Af
ter compelling the itinerants to cut
up the wood into stove lengths and
performing such other menial lubor
ns was found lying around loose,
they filled up the food tanks of the
enforced visitors, after which they
led them to the edge of the city and
nt the point of the bayonet headed
them for Alliance and were told to
keep cn j'olng. Of course, the whole
thing was not strictly according to
military rules, but as the roaving
band knew no hotter, and the officers
were stricken with blindness ami
deafness to what wub going on, and
the "neverd sweats" got what was
coming to them, the whole thing was
passed without censorship or rebuke
or comment further than what the
boys made in getting the matter off
their systems.
With a couple of surgical cases be
1 longing to Dr. Knode. The theft
was later thun 12:20, as that was
! about the time Dr. Knode retired,
and the car was also seen standing
there about that time by Chas. F.
Lyman. The bloodhounds were tried
' in an effort to find a clue to the cul
prits, without result. It is believed
,that it was someone not intending to
.steal the cur, as It was headed back
toward town when found. Dr. Knode
carried insurance on the muchine,
j which will In a measure compensate
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Custer County Chief:
Vaughn Jackson, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Foster Jackson, met with an
accident Wednesday which will keep
him in confinement for some little
time. Vaughn has been spending a
part of his summer vacation at the
Wilbur Hangs ranch near Furdum,
and has been making himself gener
ally useful. Wednesday while help
ing Mr. Hangs who was working
with some machinery, the belt to the
engine pulling the cycle grinder flew
off and caught Vaughn on the left
leg. breaking that member in two
Tdaees between the knee and the
foot. The little fellow was hurtled
across the country to Thedford,
where a physician gave him atten
tion and he was brought to his home
in Broken now this morning. It was
an ugly accident, but the patient is
brave and with good care will be all
right.
STItAW IN THHOAT
WO I.Kl.M IN HAY PURLS
Gordon Journal:
LOO Fairheud, son of O. O. Fair
head, of Merriman, came in last ev
ening for medical attention.
He was working in the hay field
and in some manner a Btraw lodged
in his throat which at this time the
doctor has been unable to extract.
It Is causing him considerable
trouble and it may be that more
stringent measures will have to be
taken to remove It.
sol on it shot AT FOHT
HOHINKON WILL HKCOVKH
JOY III I) Kits AI1ANDON
CAB AS IT Bl'BNH
Gering Courier:
After midnight sometime Wednes
day night. Joy riders, presumably,
picked the Mitchell six cur standing
by the Bide of Dr. Knode's residence,
and took It for a trip out in the val
ley. Early this morning it wuh
found standing iu the road near the
Fahey farm southeast of town, a to
tal wreck, the Indications showing
that It had caught fire and then been
abandoned by the drivers to its fate.
With the exception of the chassis it
waB totally destroyed, and along
Crawford Tribune:
On Thursday afternoon a soldier
named Stein, under command of
( la I a in Nlckerson, serving in the
quartermaster's department at Fort
Kobinson, was seriously wounded by
a bullet from a weapon fired by one
of a squud of his comrudes while he
was attempting to escape after be
ing arrested for causing disturbance.
It appears that Stein In company
with others had returned from Wy
oming, where they had imbibed too
much fire water and became engaged
iu a rumpus. Stein was especially
botstrous and every effort was made
to quiet him. but he was in a fight
ing mood and went so far as to knock
one of the sergeants down. Assist
ance was summoned to put him un
der control and In the meantime he
skipped out for the bettes, attempt
ing to escape. He was followed by
a squad and when discovered was or
dered to halt, and upon refusing to
do so. he was fired upon as required
by m'.l.tary rules. The indications
are that he will recover.
KAiiY MOBiraraVnuG at
GORDON DOKS DAMAOF
IRATE WOMAN MAKKK
ASSAULT WITH IMRBF.LLA
Alliance Shoe Store Sale
Look At These Prices On Ladies' LOW SHOES
47 Pair at
73 Pair at
98 Pair at
.88
$1.38
1.98
If you can wear shoes of small size you now have the opportunity of buying low shoes
at about one-sixth of the usual cost. You know what shoes are worth today. You know
these prices. It ought not to be necessary to say more. Remember these low shoes are
small sizes. If you can find your size you may take the shoes at the extraordinary low price.
We want to close out these small sizes, pet rid of them, get the money for them, so we
can put the money into new shoes purchased and soon to arrive.
Alliance Shoe Store
305 Box Butte Avenue
Alliance, Nebraska
a beating. The trial of Mrs. Spain
is set for this ufternoon when the
actual conditions leading up to the
assault will likely be aired in county
court.
OUnTV OK THK CHAIU.K
OF ui i;i. PROPERTY
Gordon Journal :
Sunday morning about 4 o'clock
the people of Gordon were aroused
(rota their peaceful slumbers by the
clanu'ng of the fire bell.
Chadron Chronicle:
Difficulties arising over a fifteen-year-old
girl making her home with
the Gorrs resulted In a spirited as
sault upon L. K. and H. G. Gorr last
Monday noon while they were watch
ing the parade, by the girl's mother.
From information obtainable, Mrs.
Jimmy Spain, who resides iu Ken
wood, sent her daughter to the Gorr
home to work. Later the girl evinc
ed a desire to resume school and the
Gorrs gladly consented to comply
with her wishes, she to assist with
the housework also and receive pay
therefor. About that time Mrs.
Spain decided she wanted her daugh
ter back home, but the girl refused,
preferring to remain where she was.
The county judge was appealed to by
the girl, who instructed her to send
her mother to him that he might
gather the facts, and attempted to
adjust the matter amicably for all
concerned. The next he heard of the
matter was when H. G. Gorr brought
his son before him and signed a com
plaint against the girl's mother for
assaulting him with an umbrella on
the streets. It appears that the
younger Gorr was standing on the
corner of Second and Egan streets
watching the circus parade with his
baby In his arma when Mrs. Spain
attacked him und rained blows upon
him with her umbrella, Gorr receiv
ing the full benelit of It while at
tempt inn to ward off the blows from
the child. The elder Gorr is suid to
I have interfered and he also received
the oil and cars possible. Captain
Leedoiu, of Company I, F. N. G.. and
Captain Nickerson, commander at
Fort Robinson, being on the ground
with men under their commands.
They were assisted by a large span
of mules and succeeded in getting
seventeen oil tanks and the caboose
out of danger from the flames. The
engine crew succeeded in pulling the
first five tanks of the train away
from the fire, but eleven tanks were
ablaze before sufficient help arrived
to pull or poh them to a safe dis
tance and consequently were con-
uitniOil Iu Ilia flmaa Tho Inoa i a
l a tine of f 18 and costs, am tlmated al about $7.e00, but over
d loose. Attorney Porter of$100i0oo worth of oil and tanks
were saved by the heroic efforts of
the soldiers, section men and train
crew.
THE VILLAGE ORACLE
Chadron Chronicle:
Ray Hnskell and Chas. Thompson
were given a trial before County
Judge Slattery last Monday after
noon, both pleading guilty to having
burned railway property of less val
ue than $3 5. They were each as
sessed
turne
Crawford appeared for the defend
ants.
Two weeks ago we mentioned in
these columns the circumstances
leading up to this trial, the boys
having attempted to burn an old oul
house near the roundhouse. Public
opinion has been divided on the case
and there are two sides to the mat
ter. That the fired building was a
decided nuisance and detriment to
the employes at the shops is readily
agreed, but the boys took the wrong
course In doing away with it. Hask
ell and Thompson both are younj?
men and have always borne a splen
did reputation, and although they
have not admitted it, it is generally
thought that older heads were be-
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THHKATKNKD to STRIKE
Rushville Recorder:
At a meeting of the tire company
Tuesday night, the chairman of the
village board was invited to be pres
ent, when the question was put up to
him of the town either providing wa
ter for fire protection, or the com
pany would resign in a body. A
committee was appointed after de
liberation consisting of Wm. Was-
mund, Joe David and Chas. Phillip
i , . i u' Via i . . i . 'i iif 1 1 1 1 1 i v o 1 1 t . . nnt i i . u n
hind the gun the night of the tire as R ',e8t weH nortn of the trark aml
wlieu the fire hose was missing. This
test it out and if water enough can
V. .1 I u 1 1 lUOft .1
u..u uern BWlWill u.uur.i. nu IHIfl bp obtainpd to put down a pcrman-
found wan minus the nozzle which and , jt lnto the main8
has not yet been found. The out-
house was only about 100 feet from & dM magazines, newspa-
the main shop building and round- , : ,?
house, and saturated with gasoline I1"9 and catalogs. The Herald buys
and oil us it was, prored a menacing them and pays for them at the rate
conflagration to the main bnilding
especially with no lire hose handy
The boys did not appear to realize
the seriousness of their offense, and
a rather severe lesson wub undanbt
edly necessary to act as a check to
future occurrences of the kind. On
the other hand, the railroad rompany
should have known the unsanitary
condition of the outhouse, and have
caused it to have been done away
with long ago. Needless to state,
Haskell and Thompson were both
summarily discharged from their
Jobs.
of twenty cents per hundred pounds
four dollars per ton. Phone 340.
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he die, nil Knowledge will Perish
with him. He can talk about the War
by the hour. What doe he know about
War? Well, he liu Ceestn who mar
ried a man named Gunn.
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GRASBHOF1 ERA HAMAOIXO
fKOPtt IN THK YAMjKY
Gering Courier:
During the past two or three
weeks grasshoppers have become so
abundant in Scotts Bluff and Morrill
Crawford Tribune:
On Saturday afternoon a strong
wind resembling the antics of a cy- i
clone viBited this city, donn damage
to a number of out-buildiiiKS and j
sheds on the school house hill in the j
southeast part of the city. The fol
lowing account of its work at the C. j
It. Baker home, as related by Mrs. j
Baker, describes one ot the moat
damaging instances of the storm: '
"The garage and tool shop w re
raised in the air at least six feet nev
er striking the ground again for flf- ,
ty or sixty feet, from where It scat- :
tered the building over two blocks I
pmintlwi rli .t thovn ara iniiirlntr
crops severely. A large per centage o the school house, not leaving a
of the grasshoppers are as yet not
full grown and if not combatted the
injury is likely to continue until well
towards September. The grasshop
pers are moBt numerous and destruc
tive in alfalfa fields, but are also in
juring such chops as potatoes, beets,
beans, corn and small grains.
At the request of Superintendent
James A. Holden of the Scotts Bluff
Rxnerimental Station. Clarence E.
side, end or part of the roof whole
The car that was in the garuge was
left standing without any damage ex
cepting a punctured tire."
MANY MOKTOAOK8 FILED
IN 8COTTS ULUFF COINTY
Scottsbluff Star-Herald:
For some reason, the exat cause
nt which la merelv a matter ot toa-
Mickel and fcarl Yates of the office i jectUre, the office of County Clerk
of state entomologist are spending
several days in Scotts Bluff and Mor
rill counties to aid in the work of
combatting the grasshopper pest.
They find that a number of farmers
are now nghting the hoppers dili
gently by both poisoning and by the
use of the hoDnerdozer. Farmers in
Kirk ham has experieuted an unpre
cedented run of chattel mortgages
for the month of July just closed,
the record eclipsing anything here
tofore recorded for that month.
On July 20 alone, seventy-four
mortgages were filed, and the month
up to the 30th alone showed that a
Scotts Bluff and , Morrill toUl of 711 had been filed with two
urgea 10 7TZ:W,7ZZ days yet to record. The tnortgai
at once and to continue unt I the whley , number are apparen(
numoers oi iu wm "ft. ly mdividually small us to amount
HLKYKN CAM OF OIL
DK8TKOYKD BY FIBF
the total up to date cited above
amounting to the sum of $132,268
.47. In the same length of time 215
mortgages were released, amounting
to the sum of $238,781.95.
This would indicate that while
an extraordinary
Crawford Tribune:
Karly Tuesday morning a terrific
explosion aroused a large portion of there has been
the population of this city and soon amount of business done in the way
volumes of black smoke were noticed of filing and releasing, the balance
ascending to the sky on the military u heavily in favor of the side of li
reservatlon. It was first thought quidation. an indication of prosper
that some buildings at Fort Robin- uy.
son were burning, but it was soon
discovered that an oil train waa
wrecked on tbe Northwestern rail-
oad. one of the oil tanks having ex
The Herald, buys old newspapers,
magazines, catalogs, and scrap paper
of all kinds in good condition. We
ploded and the oil being consumed pay twenty cents per hundred pounds
by the flames. Large numbers of four dollars per ton. Lots of one
men hastened to the scene in autos; hundred pounds or more called for
and found a Urge force of energetic if within the city limits of Alliance,
men diligently at work to save all I'hone 340.
Wail Vita the
Telephone Bell
Steps Ringing
Party line telephone sub
scribers occaitlonally report
that as they begin talking
another person on the line
will Interrupt, as though he
too had been called.
This trouble occurs be
cause the party called re
moves his receiver from the
hook before the bell stops
riaglaf.
If the receiver Is lifted be
fore the i.eii stops ringing on
a party Hue the ringing cur
rent will flow through the
bell of the other party ou the
line, causing It to ring.
Party line subscribers
should not lift the receiver
from tiie hook until the bell
stops ringing. Otherwise the
other party ou the lint will
be annoyed.