Local
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The Alliance Herald
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VOLUME XXV
ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY. NEBRASKA, SEPTEMBER .r, 1918
NUMBER 40
TRIED TO WRECK
A TROOP TRAIN
Nine . u he- of Passenger Traiii Left
Track When Switch Waft Thrown
on Union Pacific.
Hastings. Nebraska A wreck on
the Union Pacific near Sidney Satur
day morning in which there were no
fatalities is miraculous when it is
known that nine of the fourteen
eoacbes in the train left the track.
The fireman was aerioualy injured,
having been burled under the wreck.
He was taken from under the tan
gled mass by passengers digging him
out. The train ia known as the South
ern Pacific limited and from Ogden to
Sidney was following a troop train.
At Sidney the order of running was
changed so that the limited was
ahead of the troop train.
That it was a deliberate attempt
to wreck the troop train is believed
by many and there Is strong circum
stantial evidence pointing to that
lew.
A thrown switch caused nine cars
f the train to leave the track and
were overturned in the ditch. A
grain elevator was badly wrecked by
the steel earn crashing into It as they
left the 'rack. Section men had
passed this switch a short while be
fore the wreck occurred and the
switch was properly set.
FOUR MINUTE MEN
TO URGE REGISTERING
BOX BUTTE BOOSTERS
WILL MEET TONIGHT
Great Army of Speaker Over the
ountry Will Awdst in the Spread
ing of Information.
John W. Guthrie, chairman for
Box Butte county of the Four minute
men, In an Interview yesterday with
The Herald reporter, says:
"That is the message which the
40,000 four minute men of the com
mittee on public information will
commence to carry to the people to
day, at the special requesl of Provost
Marshal General Crowder.
"In order that the country may be
come Informed upon the reasons for
and the purpose of the enlarged! draft
ages, the press was called Into con
sultation and heartiest co-operation
insured. At the same time arrange
ments were perfected thru national
headquarters of four minute men in
Washington to turn this vast force of
organized oratory upon the vital
topic.
A bulletin of information contain
ing complete statistics concerning the
fighting man power of the country
was prepared in consultation with
the provost marshal general's office.
An autographed letter from General
Crowder to the four minute men ex
plains the urgency of the situation
and calls upon this great army of
William Watkins, son of the editor speakers to use their best efforts to
of the Republican of this city, was a meet their part in it.
passenger on the wrecked train. The i "in hls connection the general
ear he was riding in was hurled J00 says: 'We want to inspire every man
feet from the track, he said, and but j with' the resolution to come forward
for the substantial construction of , at the time appointed and do his
the equipment in this train there
kins saw the soldiers from the
would have been loss of life.
The troop train was made up of old
wooden coaches. It was a lucky
hunch that the dispatcher got when
he changed the running order of
those trains.
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ANDERSON PRAISES
DRAFT BOARD
Says Thai Their Assistance Helped
V Im. i -I. Exceed Speed Record
on August uota.
The Box Butte county draft board
has recelvedi a bulletin from Captain
Walter L. Anderson, acting provost
marshal for Nebraska, praising the
draft boards for their quick work
and response to requests for informa
tion ami reports.
In his bulletin Captain Anderson
says:
"To Local Boards: I want to say
duty.
" 'One of the most efficient ways to
communicate this inspiration, stimu
lating the keen sense of duty to be
performed, is the oral appeal, face to
face. This is where we are relying
upon the great organization of four
minute men. We believe that you
can reach effectively the millions of
men who are due to come forward on
that day to register.
" 'The original registration brot
forward 9,586,000 men. This time
our calculations give us every reason
to believe that the number to be In
cluded reaches 13,000,000. It will
be America's greatest effort to com
plete the army. Your part will be
j an Important, one. and I earnestly In
voke your assistance and call upon
you to put your best skill Into the
task'."
lot
! .lames Malone, who has been em
ployed at the city light plant for the
pail four years, has resigned his po
sition there and accepted a day po
sition with the Burlington at the
shops. Mrs. Malone and the children
Routing Meeting Expected at FnJr-
vlew Church Northeast of Al nance
New Members Needed.
The Box Butte County Boosters.
the new organization in which any
body is eligible as a member who .a
of Box Butte county booster meets to-
r.ifcbt at Falrvlew church, northeast
o' Alliance.
The dues of the organization are
150 cents per year. The officers or
tn organization nre: FraK itussrn,
r resident; D. E. Purlnton vice presi
dent; John Rbeln, secretary, Mrowr
Griffith, treasurer, and John W.
Guthrie, chairman of the member
ship committee.
There is still doubt as to whether
or not George M. Adams of Crawford,
or William Coleman, of Hay Springs,
has been nominated on the Demo
cratic ticket for state senator. The
editor of the Chndron Journal re
marked In his last issue that all of
the counties in tho 28th senatorial
district had not yet reported and that
they would all probably be in by No
vember.
ORGANIZED A HOUSE
BUILDING ASSOCIATION
Alliance lMilness Men Subscribed
HU,000 Wednesday "Night to Start.
New Organization.
NEW POTASH PLANT
PROVES A SUCCESS
Timer and Waffle Plate Idea Prove
That Coats Can He Greatly Re
duced In Potash Producing.
The small potash plant of the Sun-
nyside Potash company, recently
erected on the Phelan ranch lakes,
ten miles southeast of Alliance, by
M. F. Crossette and George K. Kim
ball, two mining engineers, has been
in operation for several days and ac
cording to Mr. Kimball, who li su
perintending the operation of the
plant, Is proving a decided success.
A rotary oil dryer is to be install
ed in the plant at once as the opera
tion of the dryer has shown that the
tower reduces enough brine in five
hours to operate the pan dryer now
ketnn used for forty-eight hours. The
tower reduces at the rate of nearly
ten tons of potash salts per 24 hour
day. using only one and one-half tons
of coal for two tons of potash.
The salts produced at the plant
runs high In potash, averaging 29.27
K20. Mr. Kimball believes that a
100-ton plant can be erected on this
plan for $100,000, about one-fifth the
present cost, and can operate at
ah. hi i one-half the cost of the plants
now running.
PULLING CARS OUT
PROFITABLE BUSINESS
O. K. Dye, Well Known Farmer,
Now (let Money In Advance for
Helping Unlucky Autotat.
NINE BOTTLES BEER
COSTS RANCHMAN $307
SKtceti-Ycnr-Old Olrl Sentenced to
Itcform School After Kcnwwle
With Older Girl and Men.
Twelve thousand dollars was sub
scribed Wednesday night at meetinx
-held in the Community club offices
by Alliance business men as a Btart
towards a fund which will be used
to erect new, modern homes in Alli
ance for railroad men. The organi
zation will be known as the "Com
munity Building association" and iv
plans to build not less than ten
houses at the start, using the funds
derived from the sale of thcae houses
the serious shortage of homes now
ielt in the city bus been remedied.
At the meeting were
It cost u prominent western Ne
braska ranchman-business im.n $307
for a four day's auto trip with an
other man and tan girls to Chadron,
Gordon and other points last week.
The party consumed, according to tho
girls, nine bottles of beer on the trip
and it was on this count that the lines
were levied
The two girls were Hged 16 and 18
years rc.spectively. They were ar
rested Sunday, charged with disord
erly conduct and lined $50 each on
to erect additional residences, until 1 Moml.iy ln police court by Magistrate
Huberts.
on Tuesday
the younger of the
was sentenced to the state -ro4- -
O. K. Dye, well known Boi Butte
county farmer, whose farm Is four
miles east of town, adjoining the
"Potash Byway" as he calls It, says
that pulling out autoiats from the
soft, muddy spot In the graded road
adjoining his farm Is more profitable
than dragging the highway, for
which he waa offered' 75 cents per
mile by the county commissioners.
Mr. Dye, when in town Tuesday,
said thai he offered to fill the soft
spot with cinders for $5, but has
since made $15 pulling oat the nu-
toists who fall to get thru and that
now ho has an established business
and is operating on strict business
methods cash In advance, no die
count for repeat orders and no
charge accounts.
Dye says that he was a little green
at first and lot an autolat borrow his
lantern one dark, rainy night. He
has never seen the lantern since. He
pullel out another ono before he col
lected. The autolat started hla motor
and left without settling; be has
never seen this autolat since, either.
Dye now has a new, strong rope,
a pair of hard' pulling mules, and will
answer calls day or night for five dol
lars per Job, cash In advance.
ioi
A Chicago men of wealth started
out recently by auto for Powder Riv
er, Wyoming, got as far as Aurora,
Nebraska, with hla family. He nayn
that he waa told there that the sand
and mountains eaat of Alliance pro-
Molted auto travel, so left his car
and the family and camo by train
He was much chagrined, on reaohing
Alliance, to learn that there are no
mountains and that any old car can
travel the roads from Aurora to Al
llance on high.
IOI
Mr. and Mrs. H. Klimper, of
Hampton, Neb., came up last week
for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. F. A.
Brld and family, being the parents of
Mtb. Bald. Mr. Klimper has return
ed horn, but Mrs Klimper is Bt ill vis
iting here. Wayne Baldwin, of Hot
Springs. South Dakota, also visited
the Bald family laat week.
APPEALS FILED IN
THE RECLASSIFICATION
Tucda) Wa lt Day for Filing A p.
pesos to I MM rt t Hoard by Men
In liHt One.
Tuesday night was the time limit
on the Cling of appeala to the dtatrict
exemption board at Omaha by tho
men who were re-claaalfie.l by the fo
cal board from class 4-A to ciusa 1-A
the notices of which were sent out on
Auguat 27.
Notices of appeala were filed with
the local board! but are forwarded to
Omaha for decision by the district
hoard. If the facts set out are sus
tained by the district board then tho
applicant ia placed ln the class or
dered by that board. Should the dla-
triot bourd overrule the appeal, the
applicant remalna In the claaa to
which he was assigned.
Those for whom appeals were died
from their classification ln class 1-A
were C. W. Foerst, M. M. Reynolda,
Cbas. J. Schleuter, Lee Baaye, M. H
Whaley, Chaa. E. Wilkinson. Lloyd
C. Thomas. J. O. Walker. M. M.
Buckley and Phil Fraker.
A number of the men listed' as
placed in claaa 1-A have deferred
claaaificationa on Industrial claims.
particularly those ln the railroad
aervtee.
The local board has received a call
for volunteers with at least a gram
mar school education and who have
some aptitude for mechanical work
and some experience as automobile
mechanics, blacksmiths carpenters,
electricians. horaeahoera, machin
ists and radio operators. The men
will be Bent to the Kansas state ag
ricultural college at Manhattan on
September 19 for further Instruc
tions Enllatment must be made
here tonight, September 5.
MUST REDUCE IN
NEWSPAPER SPACE
7, ; left Sunday for Denver and Idaho
that I am proud of the Nebraska local ' , , , , . ...
. , . 1 ... .7 Springs, Colorado, for a visit with
boards because of the way they re- ' ' . ,,',., .... , ... ,,,
. . ' v. . . . ' her father. m. Googins. who is in ill
sponded to bulletin 338 and pot their i. ... m . . . .
v,, ...i i , health. They expect to be gone about
telegraphic and mail reports in to
this office. 1 may be a little late in
getting out this bulletin this office
has been rather busy lately and
am now reminded to do it by seeing
North Dakota bulletin No. 283 on
which Adjutant General Frasery
pencil notation calls my attention to
his statement tat his telegram to
Washington was filed at 3 p. m. Aug
ust 16 just 30 hours ahead of the
time limit placed on the office by the
Washington authorities. Looking up
my telegram to Washington 4-find
that It was filed at 2:29 p. m. August
16, just 31 minutes ahead of North
Dakota and over 30 hours ahead of
the time limit. Not only that but
our mail report and tabluation went
in to Washington nearly two days
ahead of time. True, there were sev
eral hitches and jerks in the pro
gram. The bulletin and subsequent
urgent telegrams caught Li'l Arthur'
with the court house loceked up and
i . t . t- I . , . i t , .it In thA Iiqu noM ( I B II 1 1. I
v s X7i j ujri uui ax a uviu t lO W8
pose) and its telegram did not arrive
until fi-.ll p. m. August 23, but for
tunately Arthur was one of the coun
ties which promptly responded to my
recent request for a
ten days.
Seeretray Fisher, of the Commun
ity club, has a list of about a dozen
school boys who desire work to do
outoide of school hours. If you have
work which c:n bo done by a bright,
ambitious youngster, phene 74 and
tell Fisher about it.
CHARLIE SCHAFER
WRITES FROM ENGLAND
Alliance Boy, Nmv in England,
Writes Interesting Letter to Al
liance Friend.
Chas. F. Schafer, Alliance boy now
in the aviation section of the army,
stationed in Kngland. on August 5th.
wrote to Dr. W. J. Mahaffy in All!
ance. part ot nis letter Doing as roi-
"Your letter dated July 12 re
ceived yesterday and Bure good to
hear from you and what I mean
rL.( nn vvlDoc, that letter sure was just in time
braska form 3-B and such report be-1 J" cu" 'uc , "T
In., within a few rtavs of Aiimisf IB i Ju8 " " "
we used it in our tabluation. and j
count of so much rain. Been getting
when we did hoar from Arthur found i one-half to three-quarter
hut 1. ,. rnrr,M Then another nourB nyuiK "ay uuiu n iri ...
harH MricteH in' renortine onlv rain. I am In hopes that things will
seven inducted when they had re-, iar UD 800,1
cently had one entrainment of double : "Well, Doc. the boys sure have
that number, and on en endeavoring been giving them 'hell' the last few
to straighten them out by telegraph days. And what I mean I sure wish
we got Into such a raixup that it took I was with the bunch. But you know
two hours and forty-five minutes of how it la. Just got to take it as it
one solid continuous leng distance cornea. I have been trying very hard
telephone conversation to find out . to be moved to active service from
what their report really was. But here but don't know how I am going
such things are merely incidents . to make out.
(now that they are over) and the "Expect Burt Duncan and McClus-
Teal result is an mat remains: mai kf.v ijwe lt flne bv this time. And
Nebraska showed that lt could and . now j wouid like to see
would pull up in the collar and get . ,n a Bquadron doing squads left or a
under the wire ahead of time. ht flank ,UOvement. Don't think
1 am very giaa inr.i iNeorasaa
boan's aa a whole r.nd almost unani
mously, have realized thru their work
is a Important cog in the v. ar machin
ery that it is rot a Bide Issue
that It is not Just something which
can be attended to nt odd momenta
when they are ; ble to spare the time
from their other businesa and duties
that they are the connecting link
between the people and the army
that when they fail to act the whole
machinery stops that deli.y on their
part means delay in the entire ma
chinery forming an army and that
as such connecting link the responsi
bility upon each board member is
vastly greater than upon any one sol
dier or officer of the army."
it would be anything like
And also to see him with that mess
nan in the mess line. Oh, what
would be any more like joy than that
"Doc, referring to your kind offer
to send smokes to a pal and myself
at the present time w ehave no Com
on this field to sign an order But
you may be assured your kindness I
appreciated.
Give my best regards to all the
boys and the best of luck to the ones
that are leaving for service. Hope I
may soon write you from Berlin and
awaiting your kind reply,
"CHAS. F. SCKAFEU.
832nd Aero Squad.
A. E. F., Entlan.1
.Mebsrs. Brittan, Fisher, Hurgraves
Thomas, Hampton, Newberry. Nor
ton, Rodgers, Uheln, Copfjey, A'alk
ei , Holsten, Harris. Miller and Sal
lows.
The meeting was called affer th
isit to Alliance the first of the wee
by General Me.nager E. P. Bracken.;
Mr. Holdrege and other officials, jrno
met with the local men and advised
hem that Alliance was being MHOUS- i
y hurt in a business way by the lack
of homea for men. Much repair work
s being sent to Havelock shop
which Bhould be doue here if honn
ould be found for the necer.sary em
ployes, most of whom would be glad
o buy residences.
II. M. Hampton was elected chair
man and W. D. Fisher secretary ol
I organization. Tho committee to
solicit for additional subscriptions
onsists of: Brittan, Hr.rriB, New
berry, Margraves, Holfiten and Bod
gets. The lot committee consists of
Hargraves. Harris and Hampton
Subscriptions made at the meetiiK
were:
Hampton 11.000
Newbery 2,0mi
Norton 2,000
larris '. 1.000
Holsten 1,00'f
Krankle 1.000
Darling 1.00O
Brittan 1.000
Miller, J. M 1.060
Khein
Rodgera 500
Thelle 500
Ab soon as the committees are
ready to report, another meeting
will be called.
form sc' ool by Judg.' Tc.sh In coiin
yy court. The girls told of the trip
to he neighboring towns with the
rancliiran-business man and another
man. The younger of the girls told
of a primrose liTe in and near Alli
ance since the stockmen's convention
In June, when s' e caine to the city
from her home on the Niobrar: . The
girl Implicated not only the man who
was later fined but also one or mors
;i.ldition;il Uliar.cc men.
Shortly after the trial of the girls,
the man in the COM Came t" the court
house. County attorney Dasye had
JtiBt finished drawing up the warrant
on the liquor charge and his arrival
saved the sheriff the trouble of hunt
ing him up.
On being arraigned before Judge
Tash the man in the ease plead not
guilty at first and was bound over
under bonds of $600 to the district
court He Inter changed his min d
and wan fined $100 on each of three
counts transporting liquor, giving
away liquor and having liquor unlaw
fully in Ills possession. He claimed
that the liquid In the bottles was
"near beer," but the girls claimed
that the beer was so ' near beer" that
It made them drunk.
The younger girl, sentenced to the
reform schorl, did not appear at all
regretful of her primrose career and
freely acknowledged her wrong do
ing, saying that she enjoyed the life
Friends of Lt. Lloyd Smith, were
ph ased to learn the first of the wek
thai Lloyd had been, promoted to the
position of captain and that he ex
pects to sail for France Iftis week,
lie has been at Camp Dodge for a
r n her of months, being now station
War Industries Hoard Hole- That Re
dm ion Must He Made in I n of
Print. Psoer.
On Auguat 21 tfte pulp and paper
section of the war industries board
Issued orders to the country weekly
newspapers to reduce by 2". rr all
publication space ln excess of eight
pages. Another feature of the con
servation plan for saving newsprint
paper which Includes tho weekly
n ewspapers, is the discontinuance of
papers to subscribers within thre
number of months, being now sta-
tioned at a mobilzation cunip in New 1 months after the subscription expires
ALLIANCE DOYS START
WAR ON DULGARIA
Hoys, Aged Ten and Eleven Years,
Paroled in Custody of Itev. Lpler
and "Kev." Stafford.
York.
io
Beginning wi'h Friday Bight of
this week, drill dates for th llox
home guards will be changed to
uesday and Friday evening of each
eek. Kvcry member with a nrl-
rm Is requested to attend dr'U or
0 turn ln his uniform so that s. tue
on" who will ritend may have the
so of lt.
SCOTTISH RITE
DEGREES IN ALLIANCE
Fort v-Ttm-e KasofM Reerveal De-
on Kuturday at Special K--Btflal
In Alllnnce Saturday.
Two Alliance school boys, agen 10
and 11 years, took a double barrelled
shotgun, a supply of BhelU and stun
ed out early in the week to declan
war. They soon encountered Mik
rianjoff, a peaceable Bulgarian, and
told Mike that if he "didn't keep hla
mouth Bhut they would blow his
head off."
Mike waa badly scared and was
n ady to surronder ut oucv, but a
truce wb declared while he huuu i
up ti.e minioDB or lue law una uie
boyu were taken into cuatody.
Judge- Tash gave the boys a fat In i
ly Uilk, toid them what Uu 0OMS
quencea of future misbehaviors
would be, and paroled he elder boy
to Rev. S J Kpkr and the youngi I
to "Rev." George Sluflord. The bo
are to report several times each
week to their guardians und aa they
ar ehoth bright and want to do right,
will undoubtedly make good, upright
crtisena.
Roy B. BurnB has sold the Keep-
C-Neat cleaning and pressing estab
lishment at 207 Box Butte avenue to
E. L. Davis, who has assumed
charge of the business. Mr. Burns
will soon be called for army service
Both Mr. and Mrs. Davis are experts
in this line of work and will main
tain an up-todate establishment for
all branches of the work. She will
handle a high grade line of made-to
order corsets ln connection with the
business. The agency has been taken
for one of the largest laundries in the
west and an announcement Is made
of the same In this Issue of The Her
aid.
The "United Doctors," who advrr
tised themselves extensively and who
came to Alliance Wednesday t orning
are reported to hnv refused to ";''
the city llceise of tf dollars for n
rermlt with th result that tl r-v saw
' patients JVsda.sHv I c i rl
TF are el tt a s " b it
TV ited Doc . m -ij 't S'
tl . v would i 'own and heir. prf
o- the dtstr'- n w'.'cti are '.! i
medical ild on account of the nM
ciaus going to war.
1 411
Wpstlev Robblns, colored: 'nd Jo.
Lozger, a Mexican, picked un by
the sheriff and nolico the first of the
week when thev wre found to " 0
draft age wlthnu reeistritnn ca.di
They were examined on Wednesli
nd will probably be tnducfn' 'nt
the armv If they naftsed th physlc-l
tfitB. to be tried after service fo
their failure to properly re -'later.
Firty-three Masons from Alliance
nd vicinity received the Ancient and
Accepted Scottish Rite degrees from
he fourth to the thirty-second, In
Alliance on Saturday, at a special
session of the Omaha lodge No. 1.
held at the Masonic temple.
Thirty-four officers of the Omaha
lodge put on the work in which they
used a carload of sjiecial equipment,
brought to Alliance for htis purpose.
The work was finished at midnight
and the Omaha men went from here
o Mitchell where claps waa Initiated.
The list of candidates who look
he degrees included: Wm. H. How-
ird, Robt. O. Reddish, Alton H Rob-
bins. A. M. Blackwood, R. N. Henry
of Crawford, M. M. Smith, Hyannis,
True Miller, J. H. Hawea, A. n.
Isaacson, H. H. Brown, Antioch
Fred D. Campbell, Antioch, Osc.ir F
Braman, Franklin Rodgors, Antioch,
Don C Atkins, Antioch, H. F. Thiele
L. J. Schill, J. C. Vaugha.i, C. E.
Marks, W. D. Fisher, W. E. Rouaey,
F. G. Curley; C. E. Hershman, E. G.
Kngelhorn, Chaa. E. Slagle. Lloyd E.
Johnson. W R. Harner. Amur A.
Levy, Omaha. C. W. Mitch 11. Chad
ron. Albert L. Johnson, Chadron
Ben ('. Anderson, Harry L liants:
Ben J. Sallows, Robt. Grahim. Lr-
Roy Bower. Chadron, Carl D. Town
Chadron, W. A. Potts, Ch.tdron, Ed
win I). Clites, Chadron, Walter ().
Barnes. Crawford. D. H. BrlffS, An
tioeh. A. V. Arnold. Jesse M M.i'.T
and Hugh It Beal.
tinless subscriptions are renewed and
aid for.
This order has become effective
and The Alliance Herald will obey lt.
Subscribers who are more than three;
months in arrears will receive notice
of such delinquency and if they fail
to rotnlt promptly we will he compell--d
to take their names from our list
It l. indeed, pleasing to us to know
that the larger part of Tho Herald's
list 1h paid in advance, and be be
lieve those to whom notices are be
ing sent, will on learning the date
to which paid, renew without delay
In order to avoid missing the paper,
lt Is estimated that more than one
hundred weekly newspapers In Ne-
braaka have gone out of business
since the first of the year and the
Huhncription prices of the balance are
being raided to $2.00 and $2.50 per
year in order to meet the higher
costs of publication.
The Alliance Herald, "Western Ne
braska's leading Newspaper,'' -is e.-
ng to continue in business. P values
the large family of readers and be
lieves thut they will takl idvantage
'if the present opporunlty to renew
their subscriptions :! long ns tney
wish at the old price of $ r.O per
yoar, which lt will Boon oo necessary
to raise to $2 00.
("apt. J. B. Millet arrived this
morning from Camp Cxly, Demiu-.
N. M., for a viBit with home folks on
a fifteen day furlough. Capt. Milller
is looking fine and in excelb nt
health. He ia deeply interested in
the welfare of the Alliance boys who
left with him in June, 1917. the
members of company G and who ere
now located at different points.
The report that potash has been
discovered in dry form in paying
quantities in dry form in paying
tor, Nebraska, is not viewed with
alarm by the men engager! in the
potash reduction business in -the Al
liance district. Samples have been
taken from the hills in the vicinity of
the George Haxby place, on which
the diacovery ia reported, aeveral
months ago and were aent in for an
alysis, it being reported that the pot
ash content of the sands ran on an
average of four per cent potash Tho?
average content, of potash in the sal 13
from the sand hills lakes now being
operated ia from fifteen to thirty per
cent. Analyse8 madie of i lie magne
sia deposits in Box Butte county baa
shown as high as three per cent pot
ash. Local potash experts ar unable
to understand why. If th" notaart dry
depoaita are soluble in water, which
they must be in order to b? useful
commercially, the rain and flood
waters have not taken up the aaltB
and carried them away,
Guthrie & Miller, the insurance
men, have received notice from the
Kquitable Life Assurance society that
liberty bonds of the fourth issue will
be Bold on the payment plan the same
as the third issue, a large number of
which were taken in Alliance thru
this agency. The amount allotted to
Alliance will be limited.