NEBRASKA'S POTASH HIGHWAY IS NOW AN ASSURED PROJECT
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VOLUME XXTI.
ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBKUAHY 27, 1919
NUMBER 13
EM KILL OFF T
GERMAN
PRISONERS UNDER
BOLSH
HOUSANDS
i
RUSSIAN RULERS STRIVE TO
CAPTURE ESCAPED SOLDIERS
AU8TRO-QERMAN WAR PRISONERS KILL HUNDREDS IN FIN
NISH CITY CARRYING OUT ORDERS OF RUSSIAN SOVIET
THAT RUSSIAN DESERTERS BE DRIVEN FROM CITY
LONDON, February 27. Hundreds of people have been reported
killed in the city of Helsingeners, Finland, in battles between Austro
Otarman war prisoners and Rusian deserters. Tehe Austro-Gennan
war prisoners were attempting to carry out orders of the Russian
sariet to rid the Finnish city of thousands of Russian deserters who
.mad fled there for refuge from the
Washington. iCvery effort by 'he
state department to secure the re
lease of an American cittzen nared
Xolomatlano, condemned to death by
the Bolsheviki, had been met with
demands that cither Eugene V. Debt
r Thomas J. Mooney be exchange?
for Kolomatiano. It also was said
the Bolsheviki had offered to release
American Consul Townsend, who was
arrested some time ago, if either
Debs or Mooney was pardoned.
The state department today made
public this statement obtained from
a man who was imprisoned with
Kolomatiano in Moscow:
"Kolomatiano was condemned to
death by the Bolshevist government
n Dec. 3, 1918, and was Incarcerat
ed in the Kremlin at Moscow under
particularly rigorous conditions.
late as Jan. 17 he was kept, in a cell
tlosely guarded by twelve soldiers of
the Red army, whose conversation
constantly dwelt upon revolutionary
politics and particularly the expedi
ency of slaying all foreigners in'Rus
sla." ANNUAL BUSINESS
MEETING OF N. P. A.
RnrrewNful KckMoii Held at Lincoln,
Thursday, Friday and Satur
day, Feb. 20-21-22
The annual business meeting of
the Nebraska Tress Association,
which was held at Lincoln last
Thursday, Friday and Saturdaywas
fairly well attended. Nearly all of
the program as rendered was inter
sting to the newspaper men and
visitors in attendance, and in point
f real benefit to the fraternity the
session was considered one of the
best ever held.
The opening meeting was held at
the Hotel Lincoln, Thursday after
noon, at which an address of wel
come was delivered by Mayor J. E.
Miller and a response by lion. Den
nis Cronin, editor of the O'Neil
Frontier and Btate senator from Holt
ounty.
The big event was the banquet
riven by the Lincoln Commercial
Club, Thursday evening, at which
addresses were made by Governor
McKelvie and others, and music was
furnished by the Doane College La
dies' Glee Club. Gov. Allen of Kan
sas was to have Given an address but
could no- be present on account of
being called east. H:s place on the
lrogrr.M wi s ably H'ed by Hon. Ad
dison E. fl'ildon. w'o recently re
turned from the war zone In France.
The program for Friday and Sat
urday was interesting chiefly to edi
tors and printers, but contained
luelt that patrons of newspapers
and Job printing offices could have
listened to with pleasure and profit.
Following the usual custom, the
ice president was unanimously
elected presl 'ent for the ensuing
year, it being understood that the
ewly elected vice president will be
elevated to the office of president a
year hence. It Is also th custom to
elect alternately a republican and a
democrat to the office of vice presi
dent. Following officers of thevas
sociation were elected:
Will C. Israel, Havelock, presi
dent. E. R. Purcell, Broken Bow, vice
president.
O. O. Buck, Harvard, secretary.
W. O. Edgecombe, Geneva, treas
urer. Members of executive committee:
Clark Perkins, Aurora; J. H. Walsh,
Crete; Don Van Dusen, Blair; Hugh
McGaffln, Polk.
Upon invitation of the people of
Cering, presented by A. B. Wood,
editor of The Gering Courier, ' and
Will M. Maupln. editor of The Ger
ing Mid-West, it was decided, by
vnanlmous vote, to make that city
headquarters for a summer excur
sion, some time in August, the exact
date to be left to the executive com
littee. John W. Thomas represent
ed The Alliance Herald, In charge of
the round table Friday afternoon.
Brief as this report is, it should
state that The Nebraska Printer, so
ably edited by the retiring secretary,
A. D. Scott, was again made the of
Iclal paper of the' association.
A real live, honest-to-goodness
jockey club was organized at Bridge
port last week which promises to
furnish some diversion for the lov
ers of racing during the summer.
The new-born club contemplates a
three-day meet with the fastest
kortea In the state participating.
Bolsheviki.
POTASH HIGHWAY
CONVENTION HELD
SENECAJUESDAY
Two Hundred Dee I gates Attended
Annual Meeting and lianquet
Tuesday at Seneca
ENTHUSIASM WAS UNBOUNDED
Live Wires from Alliance Attended
and Took Active Part Ex
cellent IteMrts
Nearly two hundred good roads
entehusiasts from t'e territory along
the Burlington from Grand Island to
Alliance attended the first annual
meeting and banquet of the rotasli
Highway Association, held at Seneca
on Tuesday, February 25.
Speakers on the program included
M. J. Cox, cashier of the Stockmen's
Bank of Seneca; Dr. F. W. Bass of
Broken Bow; J. L. Housekeeper of
Lincoln, for the Portland Cement
Association; a report by the secre
tary, W. D. Fisher of Alliance; a
report from the field manager, W. R.
Dutton of Merna; an address by S.
E. Smyth, secretary of the Omaha
Automobile Club; discussion led by
A. F. Merritt, consulting engineer
for the state highway commission;
and a descriptive address by Jay Hig
glns, supervisor Of the government
forest reserve at Halsey.
Officers elected for the ensuing
year "were: President, J. C. Moore,
Anselmo; vice president, John M.
Turner, Thedford; secretary, Lloyd
C. Thomas, Alliance; treasurer, C.
C. Canirbell, Mullen.
Reports from the delegates show
ed that a large amount of the pre
liminary work for the Potash High
way had been completed and that
the securing of the balance of the
right-of-way and the preliminary
surveys would be completed during
the next few months.
During the past year the sandhill
counties have been particularly ac
tive in laying their plans for the
building of the highway.
The general oplnloli of the dele
gates was that the Potash Highway
would be completed within four
years and that it would be a hard
surfaced highway from Grand Island
to Alliance, built with the assistance
of the state und national government
under the federal aid provisions.
Those attending from Alliance In
cluded E. G. Laing, C. E. Clough.
Glen Miller, W. D. Fisher, Otto Zam
zow, A. D. Rodgers, W. C. Mounts,
J. M. Miller. Roy Close, C. Myers, W.
T. Craven, W. R. Harper and Lloyd
C. Thomas.
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS
MAY CONVERT POLICIES
War Risk Bureau Works Out Plan
for Six Kinds of Insurance
Available to Soldiers
Washington. Conditions under
which soldiers or sailors now hold
ing government life insurance may
convert these policies within five
years into other forms which can be
carried with the government during
their lifetime were announced today
by Colonel Henry D. Lendsey, of the
war risk insurance bureau. Rates
will be made public soon and the new
policies will not be available until
then.
There will be six different kinds
of insurance ordinary life, twenty
payment life, thirty payment life,
twenty-year endowment, thirty years
endowment and endowment payable
at the age of sixty-two. All policies
will contain clauses providing that
in case of permanent total disability
of the Insured man, the guvernment
will make monthly payments to him
and premium payments will cease.
This amounts virtually to old age
pensioning and disability Insurance
and insures that no man who has
served in the army or navy need ev
er be destitute if he carries the gov
ernment insurance.
All policyholders will participate
in dividends, and earnings of over
3 per cent from the insurance fund
will go into dividends. Since the
reserves will be Invested In govern
ment securtles. it Is certain that
there will be large dividends-to be
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KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
' INITIATE BIG CLASS
Sleclnl Services in Alliance Sunday
Were Followed by lianquet
in Alliance Armory
At special services held In Alli
ance on Sunday forty candidates
were Initiated by the Knights of
Columbus. There were a number
of visitors from out of the city.
At 7 o'clock a banquet was served
to two hundred people at the armory
by the Cater Service of the Alliance
hotel. Music for the banquet was
furnished by the Alliance String
Quintette. The toastmaster was J.
C. Morrow, Grand Knight of Alli
ance council. Interesting and ap
propriate talks were made by Acting
Mayor L. H. Highland, President J.
S. Rhein of the community club,
County Judge Ira E. Ta3h and Lloyd
C. Thomas.
The program for the day was fin
ished at Reddish hall following the
banquet. There was a strong feel
ing of good fellowship and interest
ing speeches were made by both lo
cal and visiting Knights.
Ground is being broken for the
new school building at Bayard. The
school board is making capital of
the exceptional weather and pushing
the work as fast as is possible.
MITCHELL PALMER IS
UNITED STATES
PRESIDENT WILSON APPOINTS CUSTODIAN OF ALIEN PRO
PERTY DURING WAR AS SUCCESSOR TO GREGORY
PRESIDENT TO MAKE ONE MORE PUBLIC SPEECH
WASHINGTON, February 27. The apointment of A. Mitchell
Palmer, custodian of alien enemy property during the war, as succes
sor to Attorney General Gregory was announced today. The appoint
ment will take effect on March 1st. . ,
WASHINGTON, President Wilson will make one more publio
speech during his short stay in tW country, before- bis return jto
France on March 6th. He" will speak in New YorTf City onlEe night of
March 4th.
LONDON In the sanctuary of England's honored dead, West
minster Abbey, where kings, statesmen and poets lie in their eternal
sleep, there assembled today the most notable personages of the Brit
ish empire to witness the most brilliant social event of the reign of
King George the marriage of Princess Patricia Connaught to Com
mander Alexander Ramsay of the Royal Navy. This is the first royal
wedding in the Abbey in six hundred years.
PARIS. Premier Clemenceau left his residence at 1:55 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon for the first time since he was shot last Wed
nesday. The premier's face, which showed signs of the fever he had
suffered from, bore a pleased smile in acknowledgment of the greet
ings of a large crowd which was watching for him,
COMPANY G SOLDIER 1
SUFFERS IN HOSPITAL!
Harvey Benjamin, Alliance Soldier i
(ashed in France, Is in Hos
pital at Fort Kiley
IT.. . T" 1 1 .. O O
iiomj ix-iijuumi, usi'U 0 fell 9,
son of Charley Benjamin of Alliance, I
is seriously ill in the army hospital!
at Fort Itiley. Harvey was one of '
the members of Company G and was j
gassed while in France. Ills lungs,
and stomach are in terrible shape,!
and his father, who visited him a
week ago, has no hope for his recov
ery. N
In addition to having a son in
the war, Mrs. Benjamin has five
nephews, two of wliom were killed;
one other being gassed; and one oth
er wounded. Mr. Benjamin was in
the city the first of the week looking
after his property interests here. He
expects soon to return to the bedside
of his son at Fort Itiley.
REPORT FIGHTING RENEWED ON
ARCHANGEL FRONT IN RUSSIA
BOLSHEVIK TROOPS REPORTED DRIVEN BACK ACROSS
FRONTIERS HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WANTONLY
. MURDERED BY BOLSHEVIK TROOPS
LONDON, February 27. Bolshevik troops that invaded Esthon
ia have been driven back across the frontiers, according to informa
tion received today. Fighting has been renewed on the Archangel
front in Siberia and the British troops have captured Sv- 4 " -
short bus intense battle. At Perm hundreds of persons "have Ucj
wantonly murdered by the Bolshevik troops. Nails were driven into
the shoulder straps of captured officers and priests were horribly mu
tilated before being put to death.
Vladivostok. In an engagement
between Japanese and Shevlst forces,
twenty miles east of Blagovlesht
chensk, capital of the Amur prov
ince, he Japanese lost two officers
and eighteen men killed an1 twet.ty
men wout ded. The Bolshevist force
w est mated to number ,01.
Brigadier General Inagikl of "ha
Japanese staff In Siberia, in a state
ment regarding the Japanese de-
AN ENTERTAINMENT BY
THE WOMAN'S CLUB
Alliance's Live Women's Organ I ta
Uon Will Entertain at Im.
pcrial on March 8
The Alliance Woman's Club has
been very active In war work during
the months in which our country and
soldiers needed help, with the result
that the club treasury is now at low
ebb. In order to replenish the treas
ury the patriotic and energetic wo
men who compose the membership
of the club will entertain at the Im
perial theatre on Thursday evening,
March 6, taking the time usually
given to vaudeville.
The club is to receive as Its share
of the proceeds fifty per cent of the
receipts of the evening. The mem
bers are lending every assistance to
those who will take part. Officers
of the club are: Mrs. W. W. Norton,
president; Mrs. Lee Basye, secre
tary; Mrs. L. L. Smith, treasurer.
The program for next Thursday
evening will be ns follows:
"Vocal Sala Mrs. Vernon C. Ben
nett of Omaha.
Skirt Dance Miriam Harris.
Vocal Duet Mesdames Rhein and
Bennett.
Reading Mrs. Ray Stansbury.
Vocal Solo Mrs. J. S. Rhein.
Song and Clog Dance TOPS Y.
THc NEW
ATTORNEY GENERAL
SECOND NEBRASKA
ROAD INSTITUTE
The second Nebraska Road Insti
tute will be held during the week of
March 10 to 14 at the University of
Nebraska. All Nebraska engineers,
surveyors, highway commissioners
and others intended In the improve
ment, construction and maintenance
of Nebraska's public roads are In
vited. The institute wua inaugurat
ed last year with an attendance of
nearly 200, and with nearly every
county in the state represented.
Some of the subjects to be discussed
this year are: Nebraska's New Hoad
Laws, Proposed Change of the Fed
eral Act of 1916. Financing Hard
Surface Roads, Construction and
Maintenance of Different Types of
Road Surfaces, Stone and Gravel
Concrete Work, Location and Pres
ervation of Corners and Land Sur
veys, Preliminary Surveys for per
manent roads, Hand Hill Roads, and
Tractors.
&nd for the return of tie aim and
equipment of the 1,500 Cossack le
volters of the force of Gereral Kal
mikeff, who have been iM'l5- charee
f the American forces, ?ays tv is
not concerned about what becomes
of the Cossacko, altho he believe
that the soldiers guilty of killing
their officers at the time of the mu
tiny In January should be tried.
UNITED STATES TO SAVE WORLD
IS WORD OF PRESIDENT WILSON
-
PRESIDENT ASSERTS LEAGUE OF NATIONS TO FAIL IF U. S.
STAYS OUT BOTH SIDES STILL HAVE BIGGEST CARDS
TO PLAY IN FINAL PEACE CONFERENCES
WASHINGTON, February 27. That both sides to the contro
versy over the league of nations still have their biggest cards to play
is the official Washington opinions today, when the discussions of the
members of the foreign relations committees at the dinner Wednesday
evening with President Wilson became known to both houses of con
gress. The president told members of "!
committees that unless the United
States entered the league of nations
the league would fall and chaos and
turmoil beyond description would re
sult In Europe. Views of the Re
publican members opposing the
league constitution as reported to
the peace conference apparently
were not changed by the conference.
The president was said to have
told the senators and representatives
that the league constitution adopted
was proposed by Great Britain, but
was not the one drawp by General
Smuts, one of the British authorities
on the league proposal. Drats pre
sented by the United States, France
and Italy were rejected.
Chairman 1'itchcock of the senate
committee Bald the president held
that derisions of the league's execu
tive council on disarmament would
not be binding until specifically ap
proved by each signatory nation, and
thnt consequently the American con
gress would have the opportunity to
pass on the apportionment of arma
ment for every nation concerned.
The president said this section had
been misconstrued.
Concerning the clause giving the
right to the league to consider acts
threatening world peace, President
Wilson said that C-e clause was in
definite, and would be made more
clear by writing in a safeguard which
would require that every recommen
dation by the council should be un
animous. , 1
It was also satd that the president
Informed the , enatow and' represen
tatives that the disarmament provis
ion would not interfere with the mil
itary training of men, but that it was
evdent that a trained body ef men
would not be a danger to worl I
pence if their armament supplies
wore kept in check.
Mr. Wilson said t e provision fnr
et.forcnlg the determination of
tho
council In case It was disobeyed by (3) It authorized rhe state board
any nation would apply In only one ; 0f irrigation, highways and drainage
case, and that where the party , to co-operate with the county oih
agalnst whom a decision was rendei-j cai9 in laying out a system of roads
ed had property, Including tei rKory. ; for the Btate.
In Its possession, which it would not j What plun was followed by tf
surrender. .state board In, mapping out the pro-
In conceding that some sovereign-! posed system of highways?
ty must be surrendered by member-! (i) only roads approved by the
ship in the league the president de-
clared It was Inconceivable that there
could be'any concert action by na
tions to eliminate war and protect
the weak unless each nation was will
ing to give up something.
Willis Wolfe, sou of Mrs. Emma
Wolfe, arrived in Alliance Friday.
He served several months with the
American forces in Frnnco and has
Just received his honorable discharge
from the army.
EYES OF THE WORLD"
AT IMPERIAL THEATRE
Itemurkahle Story of California
Noted Author to lie Keen in
Film In Alliance
by
Readers or "The. Eyes of the
World" In book form will recall In
that remarkable story of California
many people and situations that
should provide rare opportunities for
character portrayal. For this rea
son many who were charmed by Har
old Bell Wright's graphic and melo
dramatic romance of California will
probably see in the elaborate film
version at the Imperial theatre on
Saturday and Sunday a drama of ab
sorbing interest and strength along
these lines.
As for their opportunities take,
for instance, the character of lie
Orange, the cynical writer, as re
vealed in his own words in the novel:
"Worknlg! Me? I don't work any
where. I am a literary scavenger.
I haunt the Intellectual slaughter
pens and live by the putrid offal thai
belf-respectlnc writers reject. I glean
the ttlnking materials for my stories
fro'ii the sewers and cesspools of
(e. For the dollars they pay I fur
nish my readers with those thrills
that public decency forbids them to
eperience at first hand. My books
breed moral pestilence and spiritual
disease. The unholy filth I write
fouls the minds aul pollutes the im
aginations of my readers. I am an
instigator of degrading immorality
and unmentionable crimes. Work!
No, young man, I don't work. Just
now I'm doing penance in this damn-
d town. My rotten imaginings have
proven too much, even for me and
the doctors have sent me west to recuperate."
REGISTRATION FOR
IMPROVEMENT OF
STATE JGHWAYS
Review of Ilond Matters Prepared by
Highways Trnnort Commit,
tee Council of Defence
80 NEW HIGHWAYS FOR STATE
Status of legislation Analyzed by
Questions and Answers Kent Out
by Educational Division
There is much discussion of the
road situation liv western Nebraska
Just now and many inquiries are
made as to the status of the legisla
tion passed by the lawmakers of the
state during tie past two years. The
following quoitloniialre sent out by
lh- Educa'.lr.al dlvtai-h, l-ighways
Transport Committee, " National
Council of Defense, of which State
Engineer George E. Johnson is
chairman, explains the matter fully
and will be read with interest by
those who have become enthused
with the good roads building pro
gram: ' . , .
What action did' the legislature '
4 wo yean . ago take with . regardta
road improvement? ' - t
; (1) It appropriated fil 0.000 to
meet the first three years of fdral
appropriation for highway construc
tion. (2) It pledged the s'hio and the
1919 session of the leglsI.-Mura to ap
propriate funds to n;;
i h-t federal
' appropriation for 1919 pud 1920.
United States department of agrleul-
turOe were chosen.
(2) The pyMem of roads con-
nects all of our county seats with
each other and with the main high
ways. (3) Thrpe roads to be Improved
were selected on the basis of the
most bene:? to the greatest number
of people.
Who wculd be benefitted by the
establishnu nt of this system of state
highways? ,
(1) Everybody In the state
would b benefitted indirectly
through the greater general prosper
ity following the improvement of
roads. '
(2) Three-fourths of the popu
lation of Nebraska would be bene
fitted directly because 75 per cent
of our people live on. or within four .
and a half miles of this system of
roads.
What has the state board of Irri
gation, highways and drainage ac
complished during the last two years
through the use of state and federal
funds?
(1) Plans and specifications
have been prepared for 952 miles of
railroads.
(2) Sixteen hundred miles- of
roads have been surveyed.
(3) Contracts have been let for
215 miles of roads at an aggregate
cost of $528,678.
What kind of roads are being
planned?
All of the 215 miles of roads un
der contracts are to be of earth con
struction with permanent bridges
and culverts, except 3Vt miles of
sand-clay road in Hall county, and
5 miles of brick road in Lancaster
county.
How are the funds obtained to fi
nance the hard surfaced roads?
The cost of, grading and an addi
tional $2, tOO per mile is supplied
from federal and state funds. The
balance of the expense is borne by
the county and the property owners
adjacent to the roads.
Does the present appropriation of
federal and state funds provide ade
quate means to complete the im
provement of roads aa planned?
It does not. Moreover, the coun
ties are not able under the constitu
tion to provide the money in addition
to carrying on their present county
road system.
How then Is it proposed to raise
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