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VOLUME XXIV
POTASH LANDS
TO BE LEASED
Stat Board of Educational Lands
and Funds will Auction off Leas
es on Ha i ion of Potash Land
BATH KKT FOR SEPTEMBER 28th
Roles Established by Board Govern
Leasing of Potash Lands in Ab
sence of State Statutes
The first section of state school
lands containing potash will be
leased to the highest bidder, as far
as the mineral rights are concerned,
at ten o'clock on the morning of
September 28th at the State House
in Lincoln. The section to be auc
tioned off Is described as follows:
Section 36, Twp. 26, Range 45 W,
in Sheridan County.
The notice issued by Mr. Shumway
reads as follows
Notice is hereby given that in ac
cordance with the laws of the State
of Nebraska and rules adopted by
the Board of Educational Lands and
Funds, June 22, 1917, there will be
offered to the highest bidder, in addi
tion to one eighth royalty, a mineral
prospector's lease upon tho follow
ing described land, at the office of the
Land Commissioner in the State
House at Lincoln, Nebraska, on Sep
tember 28, 1917, at 10 o'clock a. m.:
Section 36, Tp. 26, R. 45 W., in
Sheridan County.
O. L. SHUMWAY, Com.
Rules Govendng Leases
The State Board of Educational
lands and funds has adopted the fol
lowing rules governing the Issuance
of mineral-oil leases on state lands
in Nebraska:
In the absence of any statutes gov
erning the production of mineral,
gas, oil, potash or other valuable
substances from school and other
public la mis of the state, the Board
of Educational Lands and Funds has
adopted the following fttlaaj
Any lands desired to be prospected
shall be applied for in writing.
It the land is covered by agricul
tural lease, the said agricultural
leasee shall be notified by the Com
missioner, and he may also apply for
the prospecting prlvllagces, if he so
desires.
In such case, or in other cases
where there are two or more appli
cants for a mineral prospector's
lease upon the same tract, the Com
missioner shall cause the same to be
advertised for a period of not leas
than twenty days in some newspaper
In the county in which tho land is
situated ad all who may desire may
bid a bonus for the privilege of ac
quiring the mineral prospector's
lease.
Such privilege shall consist of the
right to enter upon said land to pros
pect for minerals, gas oil, potash or
other valuable substances borings,
excavations or otherwise and should
such right be acquired by other than
the agricultural lessee, the mineral
prospector lessee shall pay all dam
ages done to growing crops and for
the use of the lands actually occu
pled by structures and for excava
tions, borings or buildings that may
be necessary for the successful pros
ecution of the work, and no such
structures, excavations, borings or
buildings shall be within ten rods of
the dwellings or barns of the agri
cultural lessee.
Prospectors must begin examina
tion of the chemical or geological
possibilities within six months and
must begin actual borings or excava
tions or buildings upon Bald tract
within one year and must have a
productive well, mine or plant in op
eration within three years.
A showing satisfactory to the State
Board must be made on or before
December 1st of each year. If at the
end of the three year period an un
productive well has been bored to.
the depth of three thousand feet and
prospector desires a continuance of
the lease for the purpose of further
prospecting, the lease Bhall be re
newed upon application and an addi
tional three years granted, subject
to the prosecution of the work with
due diligence. The terms of such
prospector's leu3e shall not be less
than 11.00 for each lease annually
and one-eighth royalty of all miner
als, gas, oil, optash or other valuable
substances, requiring the SMM to be
delivered in pipe-linos, , tanks or pro
per receptacles suitable for receiv
ing same, or cash market value there
of at the option of the State Board.
Mineral prospector lqsseee shall
have the right to a renewal of the
r lease upon the same terms so long
as such mineral, gas, o.l, potash or
other valuable Bubstance is being
produced in paying quantities.
The Board shall reserve the right
to the State of revoking and cancell
ing any lease at any time it is con
winced that the mineral lessee Is not
operating In good faith, and dilatory
; and negligent In the work, or In the
reports required by the Stat, by giv
ing said mineral lessee thirty days'
notice.
Each person shall be entitled to a
lease upon one section only upon
these terms. A prospecting privi
lege extending over more than one
section may be obtained for a rea
sonable length of time until the les
see has determined by examination
which of said sections he prefers tor
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0iH& IANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, SEPTEMBER 20, 1917
l MBEH 42
S GETTING ORDERS WHILE OUT AT SEA
United Ststes sailors on the deck of their ship demonstrating bow Information Is given and orders received from
below decks during an engagement with I be enemy.
BOX BUTTE PIONEER
BURIED HERE SUNDAY
Valentine King Pioneer, Railroad
Contractor, Rancher Died in
Alliance Friday Evening
Funeral services for Valentine
King were held Sunday afternoon at
2:30 o'clock at Holy Rosary church.
Interment was made In the Catholic
cemetery by the side of his wife. Mr.
King died in this city Friday tight at
7:30 o'clock. He s survved by five
sons and three daughters n the im
mediate family, being William and
Martin of Alliance; John, Anna and
Tom of Angora; Patrick of Blackfoot
Idaho; and Mrs, Margaret Jacobs and
Mrs. Ellen Murphy, of Angora.
Valentine King was one of the
pioneers of this section of the coun
try. He was born in Claygon, coun
ty Qalway, Ireland, August 16, 1840.
He came to America in 1867 and set
teled In Pennsylvania, moving later
to Maryland. Later he moved, to Il
linois, then to Iowa and finally to
Nebraska. For several years past he
was engaged in ranching near Bay
ard. His health tailed him several
months ago and he then moved to
Alliance to be cleee to the family phy
sician. Mr. King came to Box Butte coun
ty in 1887 with the railroad and took
contracts for the roadbed west of
Whitman. He gained for himself
a .host of real friends He was a man
every true to a friend, every willing
to lend a helping hand and do his
mite to lighten the burden of mankind.
The brilliant comedy "Are You An
Elk" or "How Father joined the
Lodge" will be presented at one of
the theatres here at an early date,
according to an announcement made
this week. Some of the best drama
tic and comedy talent of the city has
been enlisted of rthe production and
a meritorious performance is as
sured. The comedy itself is one of
the best plays as a Inugh producer
that has ever been written, it is said,
and there is not a dull minute from
Start to finish. The cast will be made
up of fifteen talented, popular and
prominent ladies and gentlemen of
Alliance whose names will be an
nounced wlthi the next week. The
production will be In charge of an
experienced stage director and will
be given under the auspices of the lo
cal Elk's Lodge at a date soon to be
announced.
Miss Dosy Cunningham, who was
employed as toll operator at the Alli
ance exchange of the Nebraska Tele
phone Co., quit that position last
week to accept a position as messenger-girl
at the lecal Western Union
Telegragh office.
S? THE PE9PLE MM IUWW
WEEKLY WKATHER REPORT
Following is the weekly weather
report of F. W. kHcis, official weath
er prophet of Alliance:
Sep Max Min Kain
.60
.15
13 83 38
14 78 58
78 47
lti 73 40
17 70 47
18 73 40
19 69 44
Wind Day
E Pt Cloudy
W Clear
E Pt Cloudy
8E Pt Cloudy
S Pt Cloudy
S Pt Cloudy
NE Pt Cloudy I
continuing his work.
Supplemental Rule to (Jovem Pot
ash I. h'-n
Applications will not bo accepted
from one person for more than five
sections, from which a selection of
one section must bo made and the
others canceled within thirty days.
Fatlpre of applicant to make such se
lection within the thirty days, will
forfeit all rights under such applica
tion. Within ninety days after the
selection as aforesaid, applicant shall
commence a construction of his pro
duction plant.
Present applicants for more than
one section for prospecting and de
velopment of potash resources shall
be governed by the foregoing rules
and the Land Commissioner Is direct
ed to forthwith send notices of all
-itch applicants that said selections
shall be made within the said thirty
Jays.
Alliance is right now facing a serious proposition as regards to
Commercial Club. The time has come when the club must either fish,
cut bait, or get away from the pond. This is not a time for covering
up or crying. It is a time to start to do something.
For some time past there has been a faint roar that has been grad
ually increasing until it can now be heard distinctly all over the city,
merchants, and others who have been supporting the Commercial Club
and digging up at regular intervals, some of them, have become more
or less disgusted with the way things have been going and in one or 2
instances, at least, are reported to have kicked over the traces and ab
solutely refused to support the club further until the club demonstrat
ed that it amounted to something and was looking after the interests
of Alliance and this county at every posible opportunity, not merely
waiting for things to happen of theor own accord and then make a
feeble effort to appear in the running.
There is a real need for a commercial club and there is real work
lo do. Probably never before in the history of the city were there so
many propositions that needed consideration and action. It would be
almost a crime to let the club die, but the indications are that it will
die and there will not be much of a funeral unless some drastic chang
es are made in the immediate future.
It is a well known fact so well known that the talk is general
that the commercial club has been practically inactive as regards the
big things that need attention for the past year or more. This article
is not written to cast reflection on the recent secretary or om the pres
ent board of directors or the officers. It is written to help crystalize
the thought in the minds of those who have been providing the cash to
operate the club, that unless the club becomes an active force in the
mmunity in the immediate future there is likely to be one big, grand
blow-up.
When W. D. Fisher ceased to be secretary of the Alliance Com
mercial Club the club then and there began its downward course and
up to the present writing has been successful in keeping to that road.
It takes energy and more to successfully conduct the affairs of a com
mercial club. Any man who is afraid of work, who is afraid to soil
his hands, or who is afraid to put in long hours of real hard work has
no more business being secretary of the Alliance Commercial Club
than a dog has business with two tails in place of one. The job of sec
retary is not a job for a society swell or a B. A. B. It is a real job for
a real man
The directors of the Alliance Commercial Club held a luncheon at
the Alliance Hotel Saturday noon at which they determined to again
secure the services of Mr. Fisher, if Mr. Fisher would accept. When
Mr. Fisher was here before his services were not fully appreciated.
He ran up against the proposition of having to try to please everyone
or have those he didn't please biting him. He is now a district repre
sentative for the Oermania Life Insurance Company and is located at
Topeka, Kansas. If Mr. Fisher will accept the job, then the problem
is almost solved for he has demonstrated that he can fill the bill and
really accomplish something If he will not accept the position then
the directors are up against the proposition of finding a man who will
fill the bill.
There is one fact certain. Something muct be done and be done
in short order if the commercial club is to be maintained as an efficient
organization ever on the alert to really accomplish something for Alli
ance and this section of the country. Once the club is dead it will be
a hard matter to resurrect it.
There is work and plenty of it for a live-wire secretary. Right
now there is the proposition coming up of the possibility of the North
western railway extending its line from Hay Springs to Hemingford
and then on to either Alliance or Scottsbluff. There is the proposition
of handling the state potato show to be held here the middle of Novem
ber. There is no reason why Alliance cannot have this big feature
every year if the first show is pulled off so that everyone is pleased.
It is a big thing if handled in a big way. There is the proposition of
getting a real road between Alliance and Lakeside, and Antioch. A
little neglect and it will be too late for if Alliance don't want the nat
ural business from these towns some way will be provided for these
towns to get what they want There is the fall festival proposiion
which seems to be dead, but which could be staged in connection with
the state potato show. There is the hotel proposition. Yes, and
there are other affairs that need attention now and more are coming
up right along.
One of the biggest manufacturing enterprises in view for Alliance
would be a potash refinery. The potash plants should have been lo
cated here but that opportunity, wnich was a big one, is past and
gone. The plants now operating need a refinery to extract the pure
potash from the large amount of soda and salts which are not valu
able and on which freight is now paid to the refineries in the east.
The establishment of a refinery at Alia nee would result in the build
ing of a big plant employing several hundred men and result in the
advancement of the city along many lines.
NEGRO SHOOTS AT F.,u,,
OFFICER S i AFFORD
IHme Novel Story' Rehearsed at Rur
lltigtim Shops Early I.n-t Even
Ing Negro Still at I .urge
Onellniidred and Thirty-Ave Attend
cd Ba .quet Wednesday Evening
at Elks Clnb Itooms
The combination of a "nigger"
with a gun or two "niggers" with
two guns always seems bound to
spell t-r-o-u-b-l-e sooner or later. It
so happened that the combination
spelled trouble "sooner" last even
ing and along with It went a half
dozen bullets by the side of night po
lice officer George Stafford's head.
(Jeorge Moore, colored employed
nights as fireman nt the local Bur
lington shops resented the idea of
being arrested by Officer Stafford and
so started the fireworks. Up to this
noon Moore had not been caught.
The story reads like one of tho old
fashioned dime novels.
Eddie Boddi, colored, and em
ployed In the store house at tho Bur
lington took a correspondence school
course in detecting from a detective
school In Texas. It cost him $10.00
and 2.00 more to get his diploma,
which he had framed. When Bod
dl appeared among the colored labor
ers at the yards the first of the week
he displayed his "diploma." That
started things. Moore is also from
Texas and seemed to imagine that
Bodd viis a detective and was after
him. Whether Moore Is wanted In
Texas or not Is not known. Anyway
Moore, according to Boddl'a story,
threatened to "get" him and carried
a gun for the purpose. Boddl says
he couldn't convince Moore that
there was any difference between a
correspondence school for detectives
diploti.n sun. a license.
Foddl bi came scared end carl."
last evening complained to the police
that Moore had threatened him. Of-
Boddl became Beared and early
last evening complained to tho pol
ie that Moore had threatened him
0....cer Stafford and ay Tompkins ac
companied Boddi to the round house
Hoddl pointed Moore out saying
"There he Is." Stafford stepped
forward to arrest Moore and Moore
were running every way for a few
started the fireworks. "Niggers"
minutes. Being unable to catch
Moore, Stafford called uptown for eld
and soon a posse composed of Sheriff
Cox, Chief Snyder, Deputy Sheriff
Jones, Stafford, Tompkins and Her
ald reporter s were on the hunt
About every nook and corner of the
yards was searched with the night
foreman along to identify Moore In
case he was caught. Not finding
him there box cars were searched
and a general search started among
the colored residents of the city
Outgoing trains were watched but so
far Moore is in the shadaw. Boddi
Is being held for parrying concealed
weapons.
While waiting at the depot for No
42 last night Sheriff Cox and Crtef
Snyder found other excitement to
keep them busy. A Mexican who had
cashed pay checkB this week, for sev
eral others of his countrymen, to tbe
amount of about $300 made a dart for
the door before anyone knew any
thing was going up. The chase was
on, shortly, but no Mexican was
found.
The new Denver Conservatory of
Music, of which Miss Eunice Burnett
formerly of the Alliance Conserva
tory of Music, Is soprano director and
teacher of voice, opened tbe past
week with a large enrollment.
Friends of Miss Burnett who desire
to write to her may do so by ad
dressing her care New Denver Con
servatory of Music, 29-39 East Col
tax Avenue, Denver, Colo.
The Sidney Telegraph in comment
ing on the event that happened at
Omaha when a girl Insisted on kiss
ing each member of Company O
goodbye says: "The Alliance girl
who kisses three hundred soldiers
farewell didn't stop to consider that
perhaps the poor fellows would have
n--ferred to choose their kisses.
Rarely for 300 men make a selection
of the same girl.
It Is understood that J. R. Baskins
of North Platte, formerly a resident
of Alliance, is planning to engage in
the laundry business In Gerig. "Cur-
ley" as he is kown here was manager
of the Alliance Steam Laundry be
fore going to North Platte. Mr. Baa-
klns was one of the original proprie
tors of the Ideal Laundry at Scotts
bluff and is a man thoroughly ac
quainted with every phase of the
business. The matter of starting
the laundry at eUring will depend,
it is stat.-d, on the ability to secure
the proper machinery, most of the
erstwhile laundry machinery manu
facturers now being engaged in tnsk
ing wa.- material.
Miss Eunice Burnett, connected
with the Alliance School of Music
here until the school was closed this
summer, in a letter to an Alliance
friend this week stated that last week
she gave a half hour concert in tbe
Y. M. 0. A., tent at Camp naldwin
for the benefit of the 5,000 soldiers
stationed there. She states that
she could notice much difference in
the soldiers now as compared to when
she visited the camp some six weeks
ago. They are now stralghter and
look more like soldiers and seem to
have become used to camp life.
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HOYS WILL LEAVE FRIDAY P. M.
'Comfort Kits" Pretiented to Hoys
Who Will l,eave in Join National
Army at Camp Fiuutton
Tho suggestion of the Alliance Her
aid that the people of Alliance be giv
en an opportunity to say farewell to
tho next quota of Box Butte county-
men who Joined the new army, met
with the hearty approval of one hun
dred and thlrty-flvo men and women.
leading citizens of the community,
who gathered at the Else club rooms
Wednesday evening to partake of a
banquet served in honor of the fol
lowing, who are to report at two
o'clock Friday a'ternoon, to leave at
midnight for Camp Funston, Kan
sas:
James Hlbbert
Harry Uavellck
Theo. E. Yeager
Tom H. Zalolros
Ueo. A Hare
Richard Haugh
Arthur Maken
Jacob Rohrbaugh
Royce L. Glass
Cecil R. Henry
Archie T. Phillips
The banquet was served by the la
dies of the Baptist church who lived
up to their reputation as knowing
how to werve delicious viands in tho
right way. Orchestra music was fur
nished. Mayor W E. ousey acted
as toastmastor for tho program and
his few remarks were delivered Im
pressively and in a manner that Im
pressed his hearers with the fact that
Alliance's mayor can fill difficult
places In a manner that is pleasing
to all.
Dean W. Carson Shaw made a
short talk, full of good thoughts and
giving the boys who are going to pre
pare for the trenches some food for
thought that they will ofton remem
ber. The dean was followed by R.
F. Curtis, formerly of Winnepcg,
Canada, the son of a Tocuroaoh, Ne
braska, doctor. Curtis Is now em
ployed by the Burlington at Alliance.
His graphic descriptions of life in the
trenches, of experiences In the bat
tles of Ypres, Vimy Ridge, Verdun
and Lens, and of the time when he
received serious and near fatal
wounds at the latter place, visualize 1
to his bearers the scenes through
which he passed in a way that bro t
home to them the real meaning f
the war.
Following a solo by Mrs. C. F.
Dutton and the presentation of
"comfort kits" by Mrs. E. O. Laing
for the W. C. T. U., and the Red
Cross the crowd adjourned to the
main ladge room for the dance.
The occasion was one which will
be long remembered by the people
who attended and by the boys who
leave us Friday for army life.
RAISED FINE SPIDS
ON PIAT OF SOD GARDFS
Jimmle Pierce, the Herald's of
fice boy, besides doing his work at
the Herald office this summer fou d
time to plant and attend to a pat-h
of potatoes. Jiuimie rented a lot ne t
the fair grounds from Tom Stalos
for $2.50 and paid 2.r0 to have it
plowed and then proceeded to plant
34 rows, each lf0 feet long In tho
broken up sod. The spuds all grew
with the exception of one row the cut
worms cleaned out. Jimmle says be
will get better than fifty bushel and
more than a wagon load off his Ibt
near the fair grounds. He planted
his spuds the 10th of June and ex
pects to dig them all about the first
of the month. They're nice potatoes
too, for Jtmmie brought some dan
dies to the Herald office to show the
force his "sod spuds."
L
POW I'LL TO GO OUT
OF DAIRY HI SINEWS
Bert Walters of Miller Brothers news
stand is authority for the statement
that Aliance is to have a complete
bean sorting outfit installed this fall
in order to care for the large bean
crop. Bert Is s bean expert and his
reports on the bean situation can al
ways be relied upon.
Mrs. L. Z. Holloway and Mrs. L. H.
Highland returned Wednesday after
noon from a visit of several weeks
s tve'r parents at Newton, Kan
sas, and other relatives in that vicinity.
C. L. Powell announces this week
that he has determined to go out of
the dairy business. He states that
as one of his sons is attending the
University and the other has been
called to service in the army and as
it is almost impossible to get help
that will stay on his Job regularly, he
has decided to get out of the bust
miss As a result he is holding a
public sale at his farm. 3 miles north
of the Alliance post office on what
is known as the old Reaves place on
Friday of next week. September 28.
starting at 1 o'clock. The sale is
advertised elsewhere In this Issue of
the Herald.
Among the 85 head of cattle of
fered for sale are 30 head of rood
'milk cows. In addition to the cattle
horses and hogs to be sold, Mr. Pow
ell will sell his Ford automobile, a
4 -horse, gasoline engine and his 3
unit Sharpless milking outfit, com
jftote. This sale will provide those
In the market to pick up some excep
tionally good stuff. Col. Coursey
will -he Bale.
id Clark Satterneld returned this
morning for a week's business trip at
Onaws, Iowa.
