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VOLUME XXIV
ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, SEPTEMBER 27, 1917
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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-
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