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( Official Organ Nebraska Stock Growers Association and Nebraska State Volunteer Firemen's Association 16 Pages 2 Sections Leading Newspaper of Western NEBRASKA Tub Alliance Herald Tell 'Em You Saw it in The Herald VOLUME XXIV ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, SEPTEMBER 27, 1917 N'-AIHER 43 ARMY OF SPIES ENMESH WORLD I land of German Intrigue Reached into Rvery Corner of the Globe Pried into Every Land BCATTKRHD GOLD EVKB'WHFJtK Kaiser's Spies Not Always Discreet Other Put It Over on the Hun Many, Many Times BY LOVAT FRASER (Member of the Editorial Staff of the London Times. Has Traveled In Practically Every Land On Earth) When the full story of this war is told, one of Its most astonishing fea tures will be the account of the ex traordinary network of Germans in trigue In every country of the globe. I have sometimes heard very ignor ant people deny that Germany aimed at world-dominion. No one would deny it who has had occasion to trace and collect the records of Ger man conspiracies, as I have done. In this country we hear a great deal regarding the work of the Hid den Hand within our own shores. There are persons who still laugh at the Hidden Hand and think the stor ies about it are newspaper fiction. Yet most of them are true enough, as the nation is beginning to under stand. What is not yet understood is that our own experience has been duplicated all over the earth. You may find evidences of the Hidden Hand alike in Lombard street and In the deserts of Central Asia. I have personally found it at work and have had occasion to investigate Its mothods. in a region which was very little known before the war. I have nararted the growth of German influence in the Persian Guir, a very long and complex affair. It began with a couple Of German traders sitting on packing cases on a palm-fringod beach and pretending that they had come to buy mother-of-pearl. It ended with a line of Ham-hure-Amerika steamers, oceans of free champagne, a projected termin us for the Baghdad Kaiiay ana war. HAND OF GERMANY HKKN KV MR Y W H KH ou may find the hand of Germany everywhere, in big things and in lit tie. We have heard of the way Germany this year bribed Chang seun, a frecbooting Chinese gener al, to attempt to upset the Chinese government ana to restore me mau chu dynasty. We have heard of the traitorous Lenin, sent back to Russia with his pockets full of German gold to sub vert the Russian armies and sow dis rord throughout the land. But who has heard of the sham "Khalifa.' who arose early in 1915 on the fron tier between Persia and Baluchistan and tried to raise a revolt against the British on that part of the Indian borderland ? It was the sort of very litle thing which docs not get into the newspa pers In these times. German agents stirred up a Mullah to proclaim a holy war In the wild country of Mek mn through which Alexander march ed on his way back from India. The iftiQiifa" swooned down to the hnres of the gulg of Oman, raided n. must town or two. smashed the telegraph lines and did his best for h. Rorlin friends. He got various local chieftains to help him. and there was a good deal of desultory fighting, but it never reached British territory. There have been many examples or the kind, but we rarely hear or ntem, owing to the ruch of bigger events nearer home. Thero is alwayB a German behind. Nothing is too small for Germany to touch. The es sential point about this case is that the rising was stirred up in a neu tral country. KAISKK'H SPIES NOT ALWAYS DISCREET The Hun is not always astute, as was hown In the case of the officer who started In disguise to blow up a bridge on the border of the United States. Though pretending to be a workman, he was fooliah enough to travel first class, and so was detect ed. Early this year Major Dinkel man. and officer of the eGrman Lega tion Guard in Peking, was arrested in Hunza-Nagar. deep in the Himal ayas, with 9,000 British golden sov ereigns in his kit. Goodnes knows what he thought he was going to do. You might as well try to enter the front door of Buckingham Palace without being noticed as attempt to cross the northern frontier of India in secret. The hills have a thousand eyes. The coming of a white man Is known days in advance. Another Hun who came to grief was Major Pappenheini, the German military attache in Peking, who left Mongolia on a "shooting expedition" As his baggage consisted principal-- ly of explosives, he muBt have had in view bigger game than blacg buck. 1 suspect that he was bound for the big bridge which carries the Siberian r way over the river Sungarl at Harbin. The Rusians heard of him, s vim- Mongols were put upon his trail, and he vanished for ever as men do sometimes in the wilds of FOMENTED MUTINY IN BRITISH INDIA The chief of the Indian revolution aries now in Geramn employ is one Har Dayal. who Is perhaps the most dangerous of the Indian Anarchists. Lord Huntings last year publicly al luded to him as the head of the An archistic Ghadr party. Ghadr means mutiny, but the name is merely tak en from a seditious newspaper. Har Dayal was at St. John's Col lege. Oxford, about 1906, but after wards resigned his scholarship. He returned to India, drifted to Calif ornia, where he was an honorary professor at the Leland Stanford un iversity, was the center of all the more recent Indian conspiracies on the Pacific Coast and after the out break og war turned up in Berlin, where he was given a post in the German War Office. The record of his nefarious activities would fill many pages. I have selected two or three en- amples of Germany activity in which have been specially Interested, but there are innumerable Instances. One of the most elaborate German plans was for a revolt which was to begin in India at Christmas, 1915. Sir Reginald Craddock gave some extraordinary details about this par ticular plot at a recent meeting of the Indian Legislautre Council. The Indian renegades led the Germans to believe that 50,000 Indians would rise in Bengal. The signal for the revolt was to be the sudden gathering of 5,000 rebels in Calcutta, who were to seize the local arsenals. Another 20,000 were to concentrate, and Fort William was to be attacked, after which Cal cutta waB to be sacked. German of ficers were to train and raise armies in Eastern Bengal, and the Western boundaries of Bengal were to be held against such British troops as could be collected. REVOLT IN PERSIA STARTED BY GERMANS This conspiracy, which was hatch ed in Berlin, San Francisco, Constan tinople and elsewhere, would un doubtedly have caused grave trouble had it not been for the vigilance of the secret police. The Germans somehow managed to get large sums of money into Calcutta. At the critical moment the government of India took steps which cruched the plot. The Indian conspirators great ly exaggerated the numbers involved, but the worst kind of mischief was intended. In the neighboring country of Persia a revolt was both organized and led by Prince Henry XXXI, of euss. who was tho German minister at Teheran. It took a strong Rus sian expedition to overthrow the for ces he raised. His object was to take an army of tribesmen into Af ghanistan, where he hoped the Amir would march with him to the loot of India. Though the eBngal project failed, the Persian scheme met with considerable success at first. What is true of Asia is true of ev ery continent. Think of the trait orouB Russian Colonel Miyasedoff, who before he was mos justly hanged persistently revealed the Russian plans to the enemy, and was direct ly responsible for the terrible slaugh ter in the forests of Augustovo; of Captain von Papen, who tentatively organized an army of a hundred and fifty thousand Germans and Austrians reservists ni the United States with the object of waging war on the Can adian frontier; of Monsignor Ger lach of the Papal household, accused of complicity in the destruction of Italian warships; and of the suborn ed generals who raiBed the standard of rebellion in South Africa. I have only lifted a very small cor ner of the veil. The government ought to disclose some of the innum erable proofs, now in the possession of the foreign office and other de partments. A great and comprehen sive official statement on this subject should be prepared. We should then hear less nebuleous and emotional ! drivel about "internationalism," be cause the public would recognize what the German conception of "In ternationalism" really amounts to. SHORTAGE OF LABOR FOR SPOO HARVEST Growers Who Will Need Help Urged to Notify County Agent Immed iately no Help Can be Secured EXCELLENT MEALS FOR SOLDIER BOYS is in The indications are that there going to be a shortage of labor Box Butte county this fall. In fact, it looks right now as though there wil lbe difficulty in securing enough help, at just the time It is needed, to harvest the large potato crop. County Agent Geo. Neuswanger has addressed letters to every potato grower in Box Butte county urging them to notify the county agent's office in Aliance Immediately as to the number of men each grower will need and the length of time help will be needed. The county agent office is co-operating with the State Department of Ijtbor in an effort to secure help wherever desired . In his letter to Box Butte potato growers issued this wcck, county Agent Neuswanger says: "In all probability there will not be sufficient help in this county to harvest this seasons crop of pota toes. A great many of the growers intend to store their potato crop this fall and that fact makes it all the more necessary that th potatoes be harvested at the proper time. Every grower is familiar with the ev il results of storing potatoes which have been harvested too green or too ripe which 1b very liable to occur in some instances when help Is scarce. "This office is co-operating with the State Department of, Iabor in an effort to secure help wherever de sired. "If you will be In need oh help pleaBe notify this office at once as to the number of men you will need and the length of time that you ran use them and we will do our utmost toward supplying your wants. "As tbe season is already well ad vanced It is necessary that we know at once the amount of help that will be needed, therefore send in your re quest early as they will be filled in the order received." MATSON HAS FINE iBUG COLLECTION Stub Co. Pennine Is Chief Barber for G Says Boys Get Plenty to Eat all the Time Of course you needn't take our ad vice if you don't want to, but If you live in a glass house you ought to build high board fence around it. Dallas News, ARCHIE ORVILLE ODELL BURIED ON SATURDAY Box Butte County Young Man Died at Home of Pare t on Septem ber SOth Funeral Saturday- archie Orville Odell, son of O. A. and Emma Odell, died at tho home jof his parents in Box Butte county on September ZOtn, ageu ity years, s months and 18 days, having been born in Ottawa county, Kansas, on January 2nd, 1902. Archie was a young man of prom ise and Is mourned by a large num ber of relatives and a host of friends. The funeral was held at Holy Rosary church In Alliance Saturday morning and burial was made in the Catholic cemetery. The parents of the boy very much appreciate the kindnes shown them hv neighbors and friends in their hour of grief. On ...onday twenty five or more teams manned by neigh bors were busy putting up hay on the Odell ranch and the women folks as Blsted In many ways with the house hold duties. The kindness shown by these friends and neighbors shows a spirit of helpfulness and sympathy. Soldier Roys on Boad to Training Camps Fed Meals That Would Cost More Money than A lowed Louis Surprise is in receipt of a letter from L. E. Matson of Co. G 4th Nebraska, now in the federal service and stationed at Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico. Matson writes an Interesting letter and also tells about Borne of the boys. Aliance people wil read th leter with inter est. It ia as folows: Deming, N. Mexico, Sept. 19, 1917. Friend Lou: I will drop you a few lines and let you know how things are coming down here. Everybody is well and enjoying t-ood health. The weather has been tine. We are getting plenty of rain Wc are drilling four hours in the morning and are getting things in pretty good shape. I have got a good collection of bugs. The mountains are in sight on all sides of us and the boys seem to like the country fine. We get plenty to eat and have three good cooks. One man. Stub Levere, is on the staff and he should be saluted on all occasions. This is a nice little town with four picture shrows and plenty oi root ROOT beer. We are about a nine and a half from town, which makes a nice little walk after supper. Speck Ambrose got here yesterday and there was a bunch from South Dakota in today, making about fifteen thousand men here. There are from one to five bal games going on every afternoon, so we have plenty of a- musement. 1 have a god bunch of boys in my squad. There are Stub Fennlng, Lorane Thompson, Tuck Urewer, Clif Haites and Ben and Fred Joy. Stub Fennlng is the chief barber. He has plenty of excuses and styp tic pencils, so he makesh the hill fine. I am in charge of quarters today and so am sitting here In the mess hall waiting until eleven o'clock so 1 can take check and go to bed. Well Lou I can't think of any more to say so will close for this time. With good luck and best wishes for all, From yours truly, L. E. MATSON, Co. O., 4th Nebr. Inf., Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico. P. S. Tell Brost "hello" for me and give all the boys my regards. F. P. Kauffman, traveling pass enger agent for the Burlington, was In the city Friday arranging for the caring for of the soldier boys from, western Nebraska over the Burling ton on their way to Camp FunBton. The trains carrying the drafted men were operated on special schedules adopted by the war department. Special cars were attached to train number 4 2 Friday night to carry the men picked up until Broken Bow was reached. Then a special train was made up and ran to Lincoln as second 42. This train carlred 287 men when it arrived at Lincoln, coming from the following counties in the numbers given: Morrill, 37. Box Butte, 12. Grant, 5. Hooker, 5. Thomas. 4. Custer, 81. York, 49. Seward, 52. The speclalu left Lincoln over the Union Pacific for Camp Funston. This movement consisted of 40 of the draft, a total of 3274 men. The total number of drafted men to go from Nebraska numbers 8165. The dining car on the special car rying the men Friday night over the Burlington was In charge of C. F. Wirth, special steward. The trains carried two dining cars out of Brok en Bow. The government allows sixty cents per meal for the drafted men, but the Burlington did not consider the pay when making up the menus, which at current dining car prices would have cost as follows: BREAKFAST. Cantaloupe 15 Oatmeal or Kellogg's Krumbles with cream 25 ;llam and eggs 65; Amer ican fried potatoes 15; Corn mluffins or toast 10, coffee, tea or milk 15. Total, $1.45. LUNCHEON. Vegetable soup 20 fried lake trout 55, chicken fricassee (Instead of trout) 55, hashed brown potatoes 15, string beans 20, hot corn bread 10. Ice cream and wafers 25, tea or milk 10. Total $1.55. DINNER. Chicken soup with rice 20, baked lake trout or braised sirloin of beef 60, mashed potatoes 16. corn and green peppers, saute 20 graham muffins 10, Ice cream and wafers 25, coffee, tea or milk If Total $1.65. way you can jet the flag, too. Un- erstand it right : The only way you can get a flag Is by suhsrrlhin,: or the Herald or renewing your pres ent subscription, and i' I kes two silver dolalrs or their equivalent to make the riffle. Of course, If you haven't pot the 2.00 handy snd your credit is good your Aliance Herald will accommo date you for a limited time. Your Herald will enter your subscription nd hold the flag for you a limited Imp until you can spare the $2.00. f you are now a subscriber and want o renew or pay ahead for another ear and want the flag but haven't he ready money, your Herald will hold a flag for n limited time, if you so instruct us. But you must under tand one thing and that is this your flag will only be held for you a Inilted time. It s right, too, for those who have tho money and want the flag to have It, and you know hese flags aro limited. In these days when the flag mak rs are rushed with orders, when ma terials are so high, and the demand so great, there is no telling when the price wil be advanced to beyond what It would be reasonable for your Her ald to puy for them. And when hat time comes, when either the de mand is so heavy or the price too high, your Herald won t have any more flags to offer and you won't be able to get In on this big offer. So folks, all of you, don't delay. You want the flag. Get yours. IT'S GOING BIG- THE NEW HERALD FLAG WHAT YOU HAVE. Do good with what thou hast or it will do trios no good. If thou would at be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition and hsvo an indiffersncy for mors than what is eufftcient. William Ponn. Another GrosH of the Flag of Flags Arrive 8 Feet by ft Fee Your Flag Is Here for You Well, folks you all are suro tak Ing advantage of the opportunity af forded you these days by your Alli ance Herald to get one of the new Alliance Herald flags 3 feet by feet. They're going fast, faster ev en than the Herald expected them to go and you may be sure th Herald expected to put a great many of them into the hundreds of homes in Alli ance and this section of the coun try. Everyone seems to be wanting one of these great big, handsome flags Yes, and it is beginning to look as if everyone hereabouts is going to own one f these flags befre lng Yu are doing fine, all of you. The Herald's subscription solicitor has been busier than a hen with two Bettings of chicks, calling on the folks who want the flag and who want to take the leading newspaper of west ern Nebraska. She thought she was doing "some" big business when she disposed of all those Wilson pic tures, but she realizes now that while the Wilson picture was a big stunt It was but an infant as com pared to this extraordinary flag. The flag is 3 feet or 36 inches wide, by 5 feet or 60 inches long It is made of specially woven soft cotton bunting, colors bright and at tractive. The top of the flag has heavy canvas band with largo brass Kommets at each end. It is a dur able and substantial flag big, beau tiful, and made to be used. It fill a long felt want. The stores don't sell these flags and to be frank with you, it was only by accident that your Alliance Her aid got connected up "right" and is able now to provide you with your flag "The Herald Is purchasing these flags in gross lots that's one rea son you can get this great big, beau tiful flag ith your Herald. Another grossw of flags arrived this week, and they came just In the nick of time, too, for the demand was so great and was so far beyond our fondest expectations that only a hurry-up rush order for another gross kept the supply in the Herald office large enough to meet the de mands upon It. But you'll be taken care of. Come, get your flag. If more are needed, and they will be, another order wil lbe sent In haste. You can have one of these 11 gs big, large, boautlful flags and n -year's subscription " fhe 1'in'" Herald for $2.00. That's the only TENNESSEE MAN WANTS TO LOCATE BROTHER News Wanted of Arthur Webster who Formerly Lived In or Near Alliance Notify This Office William Webster, president of the William A. Webster Co., pharma ceutical manufacturers of Memphis, Tennessee, has written to the Alliance Herald for Information regarding his brother. Arthur WebBter, who formerly lived In or near this city. Anyone knowing the present where abouts of Arthur Webster or who knows where he went from Alliance, wiil confer a favor on his brother by advising the Herald office at once in older that word may be sent to him. ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS MISSED A MILLION Denver Attorney, former Alliance Cltlsen, for S1O0.00 Refused a Lake now worth 91,000,000 W. G. Simonson, prominent Den ver attorney, who has property Inter ests in Alliance and In tbe sand hills district, where lie the valuable pot ash lakes, is in the city this week Mr. Simonson has just learned that stories which he had heard of for tunes passed by unknowingly can sometimes come true. In 1908, nine years ago, Mr. Sim onson sold four thousand acres of sand hill land to T. B. Hord, head of the Hord grain Interests. Mr. Hord who is now deceased and whose work has fallen upon the shoulders of his son. Heber Hord, established the large Hord ranch near Lakeside. It is from lakes on the Hord ranches that the large potash plant of the Hord Alkali Products Co., now takes its brine. ThiB plant Is one of the largest and daily turns out thousands of dollars worth of potash salts. When the deal was being closed between Mr. Simonson and Mr. Hord, the latter objected to taking an 80 acre tract on which there was a large lake, covering practically the entire 80-acres. "I don't want that lake," said Mr. Hord, "there isn't a blade of gras son the eighty acres. You keep that eighty acres and knock off a hundred dollars from the price. The entire four thousand acres was selling for about eight dollars per acre. "No," said Mr. Simonson, "we have thiB deal about closed now for a lump sum and I wouldn't take back that eighty acres for an even hundred dollars." So the deal was closed and the ti tle to the eighty acres passed to Mr. Hord along with the rest of the four thousand acres. While in Alliance this week Mr. Simonson learned that the eighty-acre lake which he refused to take back has been found to Ik rich in potash and that a conserva tive estimate places the value of the potash contained in the lake, at pres ent prices, at one million dollars worth. What would you have done in the same circumstances? Probably the same as Mr. Simonson did. MISTAKES OF LIFE. Lifo is spent in learning how to live. Mistake are inevitable. If they were not, there would be no growth, no conquest, no now wis dom. Tho boat man is not ho who novor mokee mistakes, but ho who novor pormits thorn to daunt him, who accepts no fail ure so final, who rises wiser ov ory time ho foils, who hss over tho soul's fine coursgs to begin snow. Learn from your mio-takes. LAND COM. IbMtSTMNT. J. L. ShuniWM., -i.i um i mbM tm Miotitir, Ia u txstsaiuiu Kv out tfoaaastt miuation 151 M Ai n PltODUt ISO l.OOO.OOO) ProMse to (live Name Identical Treatment to all Applicants for liOases on Potash I dikes G. L. Shumway, state land com missioner, has issued the following: statement for publication: When I retire from the Land Com missioner's office, 1 will hope that the Income from reappraised .school lands, from invested school funds. and from potash and oil leases, will pay the entire running expenses of the common schools. Touay. three- fourths of this expense is paid by direct taxation. This may look Impossible, but there Is nothing magical about it: simply a business adinirtstration of the land department and Informa tion concerning the Inherent values of the State's property. The cost of running the schools of Nebraska Is about three million dol lars per annum. Rentals on school lands for agricultural leases will produce approximately one million (against two-hundred thousand pre viously) and mineral lease contracts In the potash fleid should contribute about hve hundred thousand dollars. beginning next spring. It is expect ed that mineral contracts yet to be made In this field will double and perhaps triple that amount. vve have begun to receive a little from bonuses paid on oil prospects, and it seems reasonably sure this activity wil bring forth a discovery of perro- leum In one or more of the ten coun ties now being prospected. Add to this the interest on the permanent school fund which is approximately half a million dollars. According to earning capacity at 5, our school lands had a value of four million dollars. They will prove to be a forty mil lion dollar asset, unless all signs fall. We are glad of our contribution to the achievements. We know something about land values, aud the Legislautre, upon our recommen dation, appropvrlated ton thousand dollars for appraisement and re checking. We have found and rent ed lands from which there has been no income for years, and by January 1st, wil lhave increased the total rentals five fold. Mineral possibilities began to show up, and we drafted rules where no laws obtained. The State Board were unanimous in assisting in this, and rules are workable and working now. 1 shall fel gratified in having per formed for the schools and taxpay ers of Nebraska, a little goodly ser vice, for these constructive policies will live, and the State profit there by. Last month Nebraska's potash mills produced and marketed over half a million dollars worth of pot ash With no increase of produc tion, a few Intel sand hill lakes will turn out over Bix million dollars per year. But the product will double many times. One man is said to be receiving an income of over fifty thousand dollars per month. I have discovered tnat the State has recently parted with some lands on which are very valuable potash deposits. I believe that the State Board has been .posed upon by applies Ota to purchase, and that such applicants were well aware that the lakes on tracts which they se cured i out. -lined rich potash bri'.i a This department is Investigating the records and laws with a view to hav ing set aside some such deeds that TSrs issued within the last year or two. Occasionally we near sob talk about the poor sand hlller "Into whose life has come sand hills gold like a vivacious maiden." We pre MUM this refers to men with thous ands a month income particularly. Let It be known however, that every applicant for mineral leaseB will re this department. These good peo ple who are receiving rich harvests must not expect a free lance on tho state property. They will be treat ed fairly just as others are. We will make no preferred leases much as our friendship might incline us to do. Now how came this potash wealth to Nebraska? I am referring this for the speculation of geologists: In numerous places in the sand hills, may be seen evidences of earth folding and the rocks are warped puwards. May this not have been the eastern shore of the last creata ceous sea, or perhaps have held cap tive marine waters during tbe Rocky Mountain revolution. Were not the sand hills made of dune sand accumulating on the shore of a steadily diminishing sea. or swept from its floor after it had filled with sediment, and disappeared To the west of this sea, the igneous rocks were thrust up and were un dergoing chemical disintegration. May not the beds of volcanic ash, tri- ( Continued on page eight)