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VOLUME XXVI.
ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTH COUNTY, NKHRASKA. T1IUKSDAY, AVOUST 7th, 1019.
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U. S. TAKES HAND NOW
GOVERNMENT WILL SEEK OUT
CUTE HOARDERS OF FOOD IN EFF'
SOARING OF PRICES ALRF'
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PACKERS WILL BE AShm fO EXPLAIN
Attorney General Palmer Announces Readiness to Launch Vigorous
Campaign to Remedy High Cost of Living Congress to
be Asked for Necessary Legislation.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6. The
gov eminent it going to prosecute the
?food profiteers in the United States
as an immediate remedy for the
high cost of living.
This "was announced tonight hy At
torney General Palmer after a con
ference with the president which fol
lowed an allday deliberation of the
special cabinet committee on means
V f reducing the prices of necessities
to the agitated public.
The department of Justice, it was
declared, will employ every resource
at It command to ferret out and pr j
aecute the hoarders of food and those
who are charging extortionate prices.
Big and littla profiteers are to be
prosecuted and congress is to be aBk
ed to supplement the existing penal
code of the food act with amend
ments which will enable the govern
ment to reach its band out and
grapple the retailer who in many
communities is charging exorbitant
prices for toodstutTs.
in president authorized the
statement that he will address con
grees or, the subject within a few
f .r. jt h. ttm will submit re-
commendations to aid in dealing
ritb the critical situation adequately
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ouncement the president had noth
ing to say regarding the plans of the
government reap-wuuu mo
It was made clear, howeyer, that !
the government does not contem
elate entering upon any experiment
in subsdlxing food, such aa purchas
ing wheat at the guaranteed price,)
nd telling it for less to the miller,
snaking up the aencn ironi
. Us dollar wheat guarantee f m
Action, aa Attorney General Pal-
4aer put it, "earnest, aggressive, Ylg
win be directed by the
unirtmont of Justice against all I
roflteers, and K was reported to
night that among the first big offend
ers to be proceeded against will be
the big packers.
Following the attorney generals
conference with the president, Mr.
'Talmer connselled with Chas. F.
Clyne, district attorney. of Chicago,
and C. E. Ames of the department
of Justice. It was admitted that the
particular subject of the conference
was the Chicago packers. When
asked about the conference. District
Attorney Clyne said he could not
discuss it.
The decision of the administration
not to heed suggestions relating to
government subsidization of food
which was made public by Julius
Barnes, director of the grain corpor
ation, who conferred with the presi
dent. The Wheat Situation.
Mr. Barnes issued a long state
ment to explain the world wheat sit
uation, in the course of which he
eaid that the wheat corporation was
now engaged In buying new flour at
lesa than market prices and that this
would be sold to the public at $10 a
barrel, no more and no less, in any
community where dealers sought to
charge more for the product.
"In America." said Mr. Barnes,
"flour is 50 per cent of the final
wholesale cost of bread, and 50 per
cent is made up of labor, other in
gredients and delivery. Roughly
speaking, to reduce the 10 cent loaf
of bread to 9 cents. 65 cents per
bushel must be taken from the price
of wheat.
"If flour were supplied to Ihe bak
ers free (the present cost of labor
and other materials remaining the
oame), we could hardly attain a re
tall five cent loaf.
"If, with the latter developments,
a world wheat price is indicated
lower than the guaranteed basis, the
' wheat director will not hesitate to
CITY MUST REFUND TO
BURLINGTON COMPANY
Amount of Unlawful Tax Is Returned
to IU11 road After Months
of Contention.
The sum of $711.36 was ordered
refunded to the Chicago. Burlington
& Qulncy railroad company by the
city council Wednesday evening up
on the recommendation of City At
torney Walter It. Mela. Tfc umount
ij inettlon the tmount of tar tii
by the company for street mainten
ance as assessed a year ago by the
city council, but which alnce has
proven to have been without the
jurisdiction of the council. At the
time of payment the railroad entered
protest and asked a refund and
nice that time the money has been
In the hands of the county treasurer
fending settlemet.
PROFITEERS 1 PROSE-
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readjust American flour prices at the
expense of the national treasury, as
authorized by congress."
Are Hoarding Sugar.
CHICAGO, Aug. 6. Profiteering
sugar brokers declared ot be out
siders in the trade are hoarding
sugar for a three-cent a pound boost
and attempting to mulct housewives
of the extra pennies during the
canning season. They expect them
to pay fifteen cents a pound. In
disputable proof of this gouging
was revealed today by a wholesale
dealer who refused to deal with the
profiteers.
CONGRESS AGAINST WAGE
INCREASE LEGISLATION
WASHINGTON. Aug. 7. The sen
ate interstate commerce committee
late today, by unanimous vote,
directed Chairman Cummins to reply
to President Wilson's suggestion for
legislation to create a special rail
road wage board. Senator Cummins'
letter will not be made public until
tomorrow, but It Is understood to
advise the president that he has full
authority without further legislation.
RAILROADMEN
UNITED IN NEW
WAGEJIEMANBS
TWO ' lUlUaOJrHMPlYB y178
VOLVKD IN CRITICAL LABOR
SITUATION.
Action ts Insisted Upon by Head of
Fourteen Organizations Effected
ily Threatened Strike.
WASHINGTON. Aug- 7. Acting
as a unit for the first time in the pre
sentation of wage demands, the four
teen principal railroad unions yes
terday in expressing to Director Gen
eral Hlnes their disapproval of
President Wilson's proposal that
congress create a commission to
consider increased pay, declared that
wage questions must be settled im
mediately. A general program to meet the
present crisis, involving the threat
of a nation-wide strike, was submit
ted to the director general. It sug
gested that the money to prpvide in
creased pay should come from an ap
propriation by congress to be fol
lowed by appropriate freight ad
vances. This "temporary relief"
must be acompanied by a determined
effort to reduce the cost of living.
Permanent solution of the rail
road problem was declared to depend
upon the removal of returns to
capital as the sole purpose of opera
tion and the director general, ac
cordingly, was asked to recommend
to President Wilson that the at
tempt to obtain early passage by
congress of organized labor's bill to
eliminate private capital from con
trol of the railroads and to give the
employes a share In the profits. The
unions declared the beleif of the
workers that transportation rates
should be sufficient to guarantee Just
wages, maintain the properties and
give equitable returns on money in
vested. j interesting hh wrre me eufffB-
lions ror removing xne menace or a
nationwide strike .the unified action
of the fourteen organizations attract
ed equal attention. Labor leaders
who were questioned declined to say
whether the unions would act as a
whole In the future, but declared
they were going through with the
present situation as one body.
The result will he tn nut thp o1id
weight of 2.000.000 persons, virtual
ly tne entire ran transportation per
sonnel of the United States back of
the demands, with the possibility as
never before of the paralysis of the
nation's life if a general strike
should ensue.
Co-operation between the four
great brotherhoods engineers, Are-
men, conductors and trainmen for
the first time several years ago prov
ed the power of united action In pas
sage of the Adamson act.
The present situation was said to
be similar but infinitely more dan
gerous. Not only are the four broth
erhoods Involved, but all the other
unions also which have to deal with
maintenance of equipment and the
moving of trains.
Omaha lilt By Walkout.
OMAHA. July 7. Striking rail
road shopmen have practically tied
THEY'RE ALL FAVINtt.
Superior ha Jurt awarded the
contract for sixty blocks of con
crete paving.
f J rand Inland has entered one
and one-half mile of pavement
in4Mlled at once.
Work will begin at once at
Columbus on the Mivlng of dis
trict Ave and six, which include
about ulity block.
The paving of Main street In
in Humboldt Is about complet
ed. AND SO WILL ALLIANCE!
up all freight shipments, except per
ishable goods, scheduled in and out
of Omaha. The Union Pacific, Bur
lington and Great Western are the
only Omaha roads not affected by the
strike. . .
The strike is being conducted In
an orderly way and no violence has
been reported. A few of the strik
ers are reported to have returned
to work at all of the shops, but
not enough to care for freight traffic, ments made ny me ciiy; nave
Passenger trains are all moving on charge of the park, the library, the
schedule ty farm and the cemetery; will see
A large number of striking North- ." ft? VjlJ'lZTin
western shopmen returned to work kp the streets and H7
in Council Bluffs yesterday. At Mis- W'i'5-" " the f "rf,h"?i"f,
eouri Valley. Ia.. where the principal'? D "eKB! J
shops for the Northwestern lines In -durt.th. affairs of the city of A111-
western Iowa and eastern Nebraska C?. - .
are located none of the shop , em-. Mf-8!?M.h waf.r J?!
ployes reported for work yesterday. '"P "Df c"rT the
Milwaukee shopmen at council '2ft..0' " ",325' -Bluff..Perry
and Atkins. I... VJ?J$: Itlt
worn Tuesday and alt bough a rew
returned yesterday they will be
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ger trains. Illinois Central shops in
Waterloo. Ia.. are closed but Fort
tw...
Rock Island employes west of the
rim,-i r.r w.f.,. .riv. mnA
full crews are working at Falrbury,
Neb. Council Bluffs and Valley
Junction. Ia.. shops are closed. IDDflDCDTV AUNFDC WANT
. Small hops of the Missouri Pa- XiiUlLnl I UYVrlLlXO TfAni
S&Mti'SSIiJ? .! ? PAVING UP BOX BUTTE
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ments. Blanket grain shipments per
mits have been cancelled and the
shipments under Individual permits
are being held at small towns ad
jacent to Omaha to avoid congestion
In the yards here. Similar regula
tions have bene, placed In effect at
all terminal markets.
With th threshing season at Its
height it is faered unless relief Is
secured immediately farmers will
have to quit threshlne. Grain now
being hauled to elevators In rural
communities wl!l soon ake all of tb
available storage space and unless It
can be moved to terminal elevators
they will have to close.
riiiniini nnu :iri.ai worker Mnir, i
HELENA, Mont., Aug. 5. Mach
inists, boilermakers, steam fitters,
car renairers, blacksmiths and their
helpers employed in the Northern
Pacific shops here walked out this .
morning following orders from the1
union headquarters In St. Paul, In
support of the union's demands for
Increased pay. According to union
officials about 250 men are on strike.
BILLINGS. Mont., Aug. 5. The
entire crew In the local railroad
shops quit work at 11 o'clock this
morning in response to orders from
union officials in St. Taul. The
strike affects machinists and boiler
makers and their helpers and ap
prentices. The walk-out will have
r.o innnedaite effect upon the,rsi'
ro:i service, according to company
officials.
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HURON. S. D., Aug. 5. More
than 200 shopmen employed here by
t Vl J ( 'l i Q fr a n f Vi-k vt Vi ivoclaen . n 5 1 '
road quit work today to enforce
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THE NEW IMPERIAL BUILDING
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Alliance's $S.1,000 Tlieatre which will open to the public soon.
On the second floor of this fine structure will be located Dr. Geo.
J. Hand'a office and surgical quarters. The doctor will make the
chance about September 1st.
CITY MANAGER
APPOINTED BY
CITY COUNCIL
Mil. CASSIUS C. SMITH KN(JAGKl)
BY IIOARH TO SlPKHYlSE
CITY AFFAIRS.
Will Also Act as Superintendent of
Ligtit and Water Dcpwrtitient
Begins August 20th.
Alliance's dream of a city man
ager Is about to be realized. Last
' evening at a special meeting of the
: city council, called for the purpose
'of negotiating with Mr. Cassius C.
SmKh for his services in this capac
ity, the board adopted and passed
the necessary ordinance to establish
i the position and when the same has
been published the appointment will
be made accordingly. Mayor Rodg
ers, following the action on the
ordinance appointed Mr. Smith sup
erintendent of the light and water
department, after withholding the
filling of the position since the In
stallation of the new administration.
The ordinance very clearly sets
forth the duties of Mr. SmKh as city
manager. According to Its provi
sions he will: supervise all improve-
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un-)"1 ' the business of the city. He
comes to Alliance well recommend-
7'lh the experience necessary, it
u,d "eem to Mur . w
.will enter upon his hew task about
Auu 2 t.w,th. the hTty CP
- .ration of the.mayor and members
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as Far as Tenth Street.
"Unpaved" Box Butte avenue will
be but a memory in a year from
now, if the city council decides to
comply with the wishes of the prop
erty owners from Fifth to Tenth
streets, as expressed by petitions
being signed by them this week.
The bumpy bumps which are m
prevalent now at the crossings will
be forgotten as the auto driver
smoothly glides his way up Box
Butte and the dust which now is
stirred by the wheels of Fords,
Packards and the Intermediate
brands of cars, will be covered with
thick layers of cement, upon which
the children may play marbles and
run their go carts to their heart's
desire, while the bashful maidens
and youths may spoon the long
summer evenings on the twenty-foot
parking up the center.
The petitions read as follows:
"To the Honorable Mayor and Coun
cil of the City of Alliance, Nebraska :
The undersigned, each being the
owner of property which would be
subject to assessment for the im
provement hereinafter mentioned,
do respectfully petition your honor
ably body, that you will Immediately
take such steps as are necessary to
order in and construct paving upon
Box Butte Avenue in the City of
Alliance, from the south side of
Fifth street, to the south side of
Tenth Btreet. and for one-half block
each way from Box BuKe avenue on
Fifth. Sixth. Seventh, Eighth and
Ninth streets in said city. We re-
I quest that when said paving Is order-
ed, it be ordered with a twenty-foot
parking in the center of the Btreet on
Box Butte avenue."
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DESPARADO STUFF GOT
MEXICAN INTO TROUBLE
A few shots from a high-powered
gun at the railroad yards Sunday
morning costs a couple of Mexicans
stiff fines in Police court Monday
morning. Night Marshal Taylor and
Special Agent Smith, after hearing
the shots went to the scene of trou
ble and after some little persuasion,
forcible In part, they relieved the
would-be bad men of their guns and
landed them In Jail. One of the
offenders was able to pay his fine of
S20 and the trimmings, but the other
fellow who was assessed $50 and the
extras will have to lay his out.
BLUFFS BOYS BEATEN
BY ALLIANCE SUNDAY
New Players Prove Great Strength
to Local Rase Rail Teun
Score 7 to 1, '
In a well-played game of base ball
the Alliance team was returned the
winner Sunday afternoon at the fair
fair grounds when the Scottsbluff
Athletics contested for high honors
with our ball tossers. Within the
past few days the Alliance team has
been greatly strengthened by the ad
dition of a few new players to the
club and It promises well now to
successfully compete with the best
amateur clubs of western Nebraska.
The attendance was Just fair, much
less than the boys deserve, but those
who were present were of the right
sort and gave the players the en
couragement that Is appreciated.
The final score was 7 to 1. Umpire
Harllng scored a real success and his
work was greatly praised. Frlckle
and Hudklns made up the battery
for Alliance: Adams and Carter for
the visitors.
The Alliance team will go - to
Bayard Sunday for the return game
wun trie crack nine or that place.
POTASiTsUPPLY
OFJUROPE.YILL
NOT MEET NEEDS
, SURPLUS CLAIMHU WAS
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.Maximum Kxportatkm Potble Still
leaves Shortage of 91AO.OOO
Tom Thl Year.
The apparent loosening of the pot
ash market and the heavy purchases
made for fertilizer industry is the
result of the report made to the
ways and means comml-itee by a rep
resentative of the interior depart
ment, Hoyt S. Gale of the geological
survey, who was sent to Europe to
find out and report the facts about
tho industry in France, Spain and
Germany, according to advices reach
ing western Nebraska people inter
t-Fted in the potash Industry.
Mr. Gale's report was that Spain
has ro available surplus for export,
that in the Alsatian field there is
none of the high grade potash avail
able for fxport .o the United Slates,
nd that the largest amount of the
lower grades that is offered for sale
abroad Is 50,000 tons. In Germany
the labor condition is serious, trans
portion is bad and political condl
tlons worBe. Only three-fifths of the
normal amount of work Is being
done In the mines, and the larger
part of the product is being used on
her own soils. The head of the pot
ash syndicate could not figure more
than 50,000 tons of pure potash for
export.
This makes a possible 100.000
tons of pure potash for export from
the producing" countries of Europe
and for a part of this Holland and
England are also bidders. If the
United Slates got all of this and the
shipping is available the market in
this country would still be short
150,000 tons this year, said Mr. Gale.
There is not now available for use to
exceed 20,000 tons of pure potash
Ever since the armistice the fertiliz
er companies, the big consumers of
potash, have been staying out of the
market, and the Nebraska producers
and others with potash In storage
have been unable to interest them in
purchases. They expected to get the
stuff from Germany at much less
than the American producers could
put it on the market for.
A Nebraska producer, while in
New York last week sold 650 car
loads at a figure that will mean a
small profit to the Nebraska produc
ers, although It Is far below the
wartime prices, which ranged from
14.75 to $5.25 a unit, or twenty
pounds. The sale was made to one
man, and totaled between one and a
half to two millions. The deal in
volved 23,000 tons of potash salts
which runs twenty to thirty per cent
pure potash, the remainder being
other chemicals In the solids. It Is
to be distributed among the various
fertilizing companies, and it Is being
followed by other sales. The potash
la in storage In eastern and south
eastern cities, and Is being shipped
from there.
What effect this will hare on the
future of the potash Industry In Ne
braska oo one can definitely state
but It Is thought by some that It may
JOHN WALTERS
WEALTHY FARMER
TAKES OWN LIFE
FEAR THAT HR Mt'ST RRTUIIN
TO STATE HOSPITAL
THE CAUSE.
Told Sheriff MUler on Monday He
.necwu neip in Caring for
Stock and Crop.
Johu Walters, wealthy' farmer liv
ing sixteen miles north and one mile
west of Alliance, was found dead at
his place Wednesday afternoon by
neignoors pronaoiy. about twenty-
four hours after he had taken hia
own life by shooting himself with a
22 calibre rifle.
On Monday morning last, as
Sheriff J. W. Miller approached the
county court house in this city he
met Mr. Walters, who advised Mr.
Miller that he feared that some ot
his neighbors were to attempt black
mall. During the conversation which
ensued the unfortunate man told the
officers of having been at the state
hospital at Hastings a few years ago
and that be feared that his reasoning
powers were again Impaired; he said
that he had crops that needed atten
tion and stock that must be cared for
but that he could not find help. He
was advised to return home to his
work and to, when such was properly
arranged to return to the hospital
for further treatment and this he
decided to do. Nothing more was
heard from him, until Wednesday
evening when the information came
that his dead body had been found
by a daughter or Mr. Bird, a neigh
bor, when she rode through the Wal
ter's place yard after driving some
cattle owned by him out ot the Bird
corn fields.
Just when Mr. Walters committed'
the awful deed can not be told, but;
when the officers arrived upon tho
scene the body was found to be in a
bad atate of decomposure. The
evidence available would lead to the
conclusion that the attempt at self--destructioa
was first msde in - the'
house, where blood stains were
found and that following the firing
of the shot from the zZ-callbre rifle
the man ran to the front of the
house, where his body was found.
, , Mrv Walters, who bad bu a rasl
deal of that section of the county,
for a number of years, had acquired
considerable of the world's goods:
wss a hard worker and the cause of
his rash deed cannot be solved un
less it was (he result of his brooding'
over a fear that he muBt return to
the state hospital. He leaves three'
brothers and one sister, all of whom
reside in the vicinity of Hemlngford.
The funeral services were held f
that place this afternoon.
have a direct bearing on the re
opening or the plants at Antloch,
Lakeside and Hoffland.
Potash legislation now. beltig con
sidered tn congress and upon which
much depends if the industry is to
be developed, will be greatly affected
by this report it is believed local
poeple who feel a Justification for
considerable optimism in this report
of the foreign potash situation.
There are eighteen states interested
in potash production, Nebraska pro
ducing seventy per cent of the total.
The fight now Is to keep out German
potash until the American industry
can get back on its feet. The Ne
braska plants are equipped to make
125,000 tons a year, from a supply'
the limits of which have not been
calculated because so much Is now
being found at thirty and forty feet
below the surface and down to hard
pan. The Fordney plan of legisla
tion provides a system by which the
foreign product Is to be mixed wl'
the domestic salts and sold to farm
ers for the first two years at $1.83 a
unit and for the next two at $1.50.
Mrs. James Graham returned
Tuesday from an extended visit to
Washington. D. C, and other eastern
points. While away Mrs. Graham
visited with her daughter Miss May,
and also with the A. Renswold fam
ily, who are former Alliance resi
dents. PROPERTY OWNERS MAKE
COMPLAINTTO COUNCIL
Mrs. J. A. Mallery appeared before
the city council In session Wednes
day night and asked that she be giv
en relief from a torn-np condition or
the alley to the rear of her property
on Laramie avenue. During the
hearing it developed that the mayor
and some of the members of the
board had been previously called Into
conference In the controversy which
arose when Lowry & Henry ordered
the surface of the alley cut down
several feet that the firm may In
stall pavement at the rear of Its new
garage building on the corner of
Fifth street and Box Butte avenue
and that the pavement could be put
In at the established grade. This
action rendered Impossible the using
of the barn on the Mallery lots. The
city attorney was Instructed to ar
range a settlement that would be
satisfactory to Mrs. Mallery after the
council had agreed that do one bad
the right to alter the streets or alleys
without the order or consent of tho
council.
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