mLUMti XXVII.
ALLIANCE, BOX HUTTE COUNTY, NEUHASKA, 1 1'KSDAV, SKPTEMMER 1920.
No. 8;
COUNTRY CLUB
FOR ALSJJf.
Jolf Course Already ImU Out N
of llifiirho linke mid Club
House In Prospect
During the past three or four days,
steps have been taken for organizing
a country club In Alliance. The
men who have taken the Initiative
are II. E. Gantz. Dr. James F. Max
Held and Charles Britton, but in the
short time they have had the matter
under consideration, dozens of oth
ers have become actively Interested,
and the project has advanced to the
stage where it is sure to go through.
The plans so far Include the pur
chase of forty acres just north of
Broncho lake, and the erection of a
club house near the lake, which will
be available for social festivities of
all kinds. The lake Is Ideal for bath
ing, and is large enough for motor
boating. There 1s no better loca
tion in the county.
Under the direction of William
Dunn, a golf expert from New York
City, a nine-hole course has been
laid out, and the grounds are being
put In shape. It Is expected that
I hey will be ready by the end of the
week. A dozen men have already
placed orders for golf equipment.
Mr. Dunn is enthusiastic about, the
course. He says that it contains
pome fine natural hazards, and that
with proper attention it can be
made one of the best in the state.
The past few days have been de
voted to the golf links, but within
the next few days it is probable that
a meeting of prospective members
will be called, and the country club
association formally organized.
Mr. Dunn is giving instruction at
the Elks club- gymnasium In the
proper way to play the game, and
he has been attended by nn ppger
and Interested crowd. He will be at
the club thte evening at 7:30 and
Wednesday evening as well. Every
man who has taken a workout un"e
Tiim has Immediately been bitten
hard by the golf bug.
DR. DOREY SPEAKS ON
NEAR EAST RELIEF
The union meeting at the M. E.
church Sunday evening was well at
tended. Dr. S. G. Dorey, represent
ing the Near East relief committee
presented the cause of the Buffering
peoples in that region in a very im
pressive manner. He brought out
that the Turk was the worst beast in
the world and had become so as the
direct product of bin religion, Mo
hammedanism, which ;.ave him th
right of degradation of women and
the destruction of all who did not
accept the Koran. Because of thes
beliefs the Turk had wrought untold
misery on the Christian populations.
The war gave the Turk further op
portunity ito vent his hatred upon
these peoples.
Dr. Dorey went on to explain that
the British government as a govern
tnent was helping in relief work.
The American congress was-'petl
tloned by the national near east re
lief committee and by William H.
Taft, Henry Morgenthaw, former
ambassador to Turkey, Colonel Has
kell of the American army and oth
ers knowing the conditions, to set
aside a left-over war fund to this
work of relief but to no avail. Con
sequently the near east relief com
mittee is again forced to make its
appeal direct to the American peo
ple. The collections for J he work
.amounted to $118.80. Dr. Dorey is
continuing the canvass in this coun
ty. It takes $60 to keep one child
alive a year, $5 a month.
WELL KNOWN INDIAN
DIED THIS AFTERNOON
James Owl Bull, seventy-eight
years of age, a well known Indian
from the Pine Ridge reservation,
died of heart failure shortly after
noon today on the ranch of H. Koes
ter, near Alliance. Mr. Koester had
hired half a dozen of the Indians to
work for him. They arrived e1y
this morning and spent the forenoon
erecting their tents. Right after din
ner they started working, and James
Owl Bull had been at it but a tew
minutes when he fell over in a faint,
from which he did not regain con
sciousness. His son-in-law, James
Hawkins, Jr., was with him and will
take charge of the body. The In
dian was an old scout and well
known in this section of the stale.
N. C. McGrath and wife are away
on a two weeks' visit with relative!
in southeastern Kansas. Mr. Mc
Grath is a battery epert at the Alli
ance Tire Works.
mis. VANCE NAMED
to attend congress
Governor Samuel H. MeKclvie of
Nebraska has notified the state de
partment that he has appointed hU
-ofllcir.I delegation to the fifteenth
rnntloinal Congress Against Al
' m which met In Washington
.' V BnJ Thursday. It con
fer tie following: .
Ma. L. Seibert,. Chapman, Ne
Nebr. Agnes D. Kftberts, Omaha, 1922
Co." 5 1st st ret t.
Harriet Vance, Alliance.
E. E. Lindley, Hastings.
Lela O. Dyar, Boone.
John Haskell, Wakefield.
S. K. Warrick, ScottsblufT.
J. H. Currie, Bradshaw.
Win, Stebbin8, Gothenburg.
Mrs. George Joslyn, Omaha
Dr. Jennie F. Callfas, Omaha.
Maurice M. Claflin. Lincoln.
The congress is a scientific body,
Interested in (he study of alcoholism
as a drug disease, and is without pre
judice lor or against any particular
method of dealing with the problem.
The president of the international
committee of the congress is the
prime minister of Holland. .Tonkeer
Ch. Uuys de Beerenbrouek. The con
gress will be under the auspices of
the state department.
FIREMAN CROTTER
BURNSJO DEATH
Former Alliance Resident Victim of
ltoiler Explosion at Scotts
bin IT Saturday
SCOTTSBLUFF,. Neb., Sept. 27.
J. L. Crotter, a fireman employed at ' t ihe state.
th plant of the Intermoui.tain Light! At the meeting of the directors of
and power company here, was burned chamber of commerce, held
, ... Monday evening, plans for the meet
to death at 9 o'clock Saturday night ,ng wre diBCU8Bed and lhe following
in the explosion of one of the arge
boilers used in the plant. The aecf- j
dent occurred when three of the flues
of one of the boilers blew rut, thow-
ing stain, live coals and hot water
through the fuel door and over the
fireman, who was adding coal to the
fire.
Terr.- In the North Platte valley,
i'olvtf ! Pcottsbluff, Minatnre, Mel
beta, and Gerlng, are without elec
; light or power aa a result of
tho exploi icn.
Supt. M, D. Parks rays that the
coin mny fias one boiler operating
which will be able to provide power
in c:se 6f fire in any town. Com
pany officials say efforts will be
made to furnish power for necebsi
ties as Boon as possible, but that no
power for lighting purposes will be
available irr u wek at least.
The firs; fire to strike Crotter, it is
believed, ti;d the pressure of the es-j
caping am pinned his body
against the wall of the coal pin Just
back of the doors, holding him a vic
tim of the steam and fire blown from
the firebox. Fellow workers rushed
immediately to the rescue, but before
they could frte Crotter, he had been
burned and scalded so severely that
death followed an hour later at a
local hospital to which be was taken.
Just what caused the blowing 'of
the 'flues cannot yet be determined.
Officials of the company say that
throughout the day Saturday the
boiler was used without any indica
tion of trouble and under at least
ordinary heavy pressure.
Mr. Crotter and his wife came
here about a week ago from Alliance,
Neb., and he took up work on the
night shift of the local power com
pany. Funeral arrangements are await
ing the arrival of Mrs. Crotter's par
ents from Crookston, Neb.
E. G. Campbell, superintendent of
the city's water, light and power
plant, told a Herald reporter this
morning that Mr. Crotter had been
employed at the city pumping station
for a few days during the past
month.
YOUTH HELD ON A
HAD CHECK CHARGE
Meredith Bradley, seventeen-year-old
son of Mrs. Lena Bradley, was
arrested by Sheriff Miller and Depu
ty Misklmmeu Monday arternoon and
lodged in the county jail. The ar
rest followed . a telegram from the
sheriff of York county, who asked
that the youth be held on a charge
oi uttering imuuuieui cuei-as. aci
cording to the officers, the young
man was in some sort of a scrape
at Lexington, Neb., a few months
ago, but the affair was settled.
The York man has been notified
of the arrest, and will arrive in Al
liance tomorrow morning for Tils
prisoner. Bradley says that the af
fair in question took place last
winter.
EXPEGT BIG CROWD
AT R0ADJV1EETING
ltes)oiives Coining In Large Numbers
frmn (Io.mI Roads Holster Along
the Potash Highway.
A lare number of responses are
reported to the invitations extended
for the annual meeting of the Pot
ash Highway association, to be held
in Alliance on Thursday, October 14,
according to Secretary Lloyd C.
Thomas.
.Invitations have been extended to
Governor McKelvie, state engineer
George E. Johnson, Dr. George E.
Condia secretary of the state con
seivation and welfare survey, George
F. Wolz president of the Nebraska
good roads association, and to other
noted men.
Members of all coifnty boards in
counties touched by the route of the
Potash Highway have been invited to
attend. A delegation will be present
from practically every town ai.'mg
the route and other enthusiasts are
expected from parts of western Ne
braska not touched by the highway.
The first link of the Potash high
way a distance of sixteen miles
from Alliance to Antioch, which Is
now under course of construction,
will be viewed with interest by the
delegates, as it is an example or
road building through the sandhill:--
and although somewhat of an ex
periment it will undoubtedly prove
to be a success. The delegates will
be taken over this road while at Al
liance as well as over the federal aid
road north of the city wlilcn was
constructed during this year and
which Is one of the finest dirt roads
committee appointed:
Banquet C. D. Walker,
Uevington, Floyd Lucas and
Thompson,
Tickets W. R. Harper,
Isaacson, Geo. D. Darling,
o'Keefe, J. E. O'Connor,
W.
S.
M.
A
W. L.
James
B. J.
Burlington and A. V. Hunt.
Publicity L. C. Thomas,
Sallows and Geo. L. Burr,
Reception and Entertainment C.
L. Kerr.L. Lowry, H. P. Coursey,
Lee Sturgeon, F. A. Hively, ' JoTin
Wallace, K. C. Strong. J. H. Hawes,
I M. Baker and J. P. Mann.
Program Glen Miller. J. W.
Guthrie, F. A. Bald and A. T. Lunu.
it
THE TRIELERS" AT
IMPERIAL TONIGHT
Edith Roberts, in "The Triflers,"
is the attraction for the Imperial
theater tonight. Miss Roberts ap
pears as Janet Randall, a shop girl
I u-lirtaa nhaaa&lnn Is in hffnm a liipm.
ber of society's elite in her home
city. She temporarily spurns the
love of her admirer, a motorcycle
cop, and ingratiates herself with a
young society lion, posing as his wife
In order to free the young chap from
an affair with a chorus girl. In the
society man's house, Janet has her
lesson, and with it, 'disillusionment.
She is more than glad to go back to
her motorcycle cop.
"The Little Shepherd of Kingdom
Come," with Jack Pickford is the
Wednesday bill. Most of you will
remember the John Fox Jr., story
by the same name. The snobbery
of the aristocratic circles in which
he lived revolted "Chad". -He
thought of the little mountain girl
to whom he said good-bye. Did he
go back? Well, what would you
have done?
"The Sins of St. Anthony." the
sprightly tale of an innocent boob and
his search for pep, starring Bryant
Washburn, is scheduled for Thurs
day. Anthony Osgood, the central fig
ure, is a young man who has for
gotten, in his passion for the scientif
ic laboratory and the microscope, all
the requirements for popularity in
the modern Boclal whirl. His clothes
are of the vintage of a decade ago.
He lacks pep. His fiancee turns him
down because he is too Blow. This
rouses Anthony at last. He starts on
a mad attempt to burn up the prim
rose path, aided and abetted by a cer
tain pretty dancer from a glrly-girly
show, and the results are as unex
pected as they are amusing.
WANTED Young man, or lady,
20 to 30, for general promoting, ad
vertising and contest work; good
salary or 60-50 proposition. Ad
dress X, care of Herald office. 87p
George Workman Monday morn
ing disposed of a half-Interest in his
second-hand store to B. C. Soth, who
avea one mile east of Alliance.
AUTO RUNS INTO !
IIERDOX CATTLE
FrnnH Kjr.cn Cut About l ine by
Fljlnij tJlas One Cow Killed
mid Two Others Injured
A big Huick six automobile, drlveit
by Paul McCoy, eon of Mr. and Mrs.
W. II. McCoy of this city, colli led
with a herd of cattle on the Antioch
road, six miles out of Alliance,
Thursday evening. .When the dust
had cleured away, one of the cows
was found dead, two others were In
jured, and one of the occupants of
the car, Francla Katen, was badly
cut about the face.
The car was occupied by Paul and
Francis McCoy and Francis Katen,
son of Mrs. Celestla Katen. They
were returning from Antioch, and
the road whs good and they were in
somewhat of a hurry, although they
were not making any excessive
speed. Ahead of them In the dis
tance loomed up two men on hotse
back and a cloud of dust, kicked up
by the cattle, which obscured their
view. The men on horseback turned
out to give them the road, but they
did not see the cattle, and the cat
tle did not see them In. time. The
cattle were owned by Eugene Thomp
son. When the driver saw what he was
up against, he reached for the emerg
ency brake, but the laprobe got In
the way and the automobile had
struck the herd before he could make
any move to slow down the car. The
automobile was badly damage., the
two front wheels being shattered.
the radiator and windshield
smashed. The damages to the car
were estimated at $400.
Young Katen was taken to the
offices; of a physician, where live
stitches were required to close one
gash In his face, and seven stitches
for another.
VALLEY FEEDERS
DISCUSS PROBLEMS
Feeding conditions were discussed
minutely Friday evening at a meet
ing of the North Platte Valley Live
the ScottsblufT Chamber of Cora
mere, There is much Interest being
taken in the feeding proposition at
present due to the large amount of
feed available und to the uncertainty
of the selling market, while the buy
ing market is high at present.
Good steers are now costing from
10 to 12 cents. Good feeding lambs
cost now between 12 and 13 cents.
There must be a considerable ad
vance during t'ae selling season to
make a profit and at present the
prospect looks doubtful.
The wool ' market is "shot to
pieces" at present, and last year the
high price of wool pulled the feeders
out of a tight plcae. The price last
season was 65 cents. This made the
finished lamb sell at from 19 to 20
cents. The cost last year was ap
proximately 14 cents. Pelts last
year brought from $3 to $4.
Feeder steers last year brought
from 9 to 1116 cents in the yards.
The finished steer in many Instances
Bold for from 12 to 12 1-3 cents,
causing a great loss to the feeders.
Many farmers would be willing to
feed this year if they could be rea
sonably assured they would break
even as they want the fertilizer to
keep the crops in ,the valley at a
heavy yield. During the evening's
discussion, one farmer stated that
he would be willing to feed at a loss
of $1,000 this year In order to get
the fertilizer on his place.
SCOUT. EXHIBIT AT
ELKS CLUB NEXT WEEK
Members of the Alliance troops of
Boy scouts will present an exhibit of
the work they are doing at the Elks
flub a week from Wednesday even
ing. The exhibit Is the first move In
a campaign to organize a number of
troops in Alliance, and the public
has been invited to the exhibition.
The docal council for the scouts,
composed of a dozen Alliance busi
ness men, organized last evening at
the office of Dr. C. E. Slagle. Dr.
Slagle was chosen as president; G.
L. Griggs as vice president; Dean J.
J. Dixon as secretary and A.. V.
Gavin as treasurer. The court of
honor committee consists of Profes
sor W. R. Pate, Dean J. J. Dixon and
Mose Wright. J. B. Miller has been
chosen as scout commissioner, and
will have direct supervision of all
troops that are organized or may be
formed in this city.
C. M. Brockway. of Hoffland was
in Alliance Saturday on business.
WANT THE CAHMVAL i
IN' Itl SlMM CENTER
At the meeting of the chamber of
commerce directors Monday evening,
a number of business men present
I urged that Ihe carnival, which Is to
be held In Alliance the week begin
ning Oiteh r 4, he (ermiHed to op-'
ii; .e I.; Ihe duwiiti vn business sic
t on. These nierchrn s argued that
If there is any drawing of trade
through a carnival, it Is better to
have the crowds downtown where
they can spend a portion of their
money with the home merchants. It
is probable that a petition to the
city council will be prepared, re
questing the necessary permission.
Another point In favor of the
downtown location Is that the city
lighting plant has no transformer
that can bo spared, and one Is nec
essary it there Is to be sufficient
power at the fair grounds to furnish
light for the carnival.
Willis Beck, rancher living forty
miles southeast of Alliance, suffered
a stroke of pnraylsls In the lobby r
the Alliance hotel Monday morning
;.nd was removed to St. Joseph's
hospital. Mr. Beck purchased the
M. C. Hubbell ranch five or six years
ago. .
TO DRILL FOR OIL
CLOSE TOALLIANCE
Thomas Morriscy of Denver lin Ileen
In Alliance Three Week NecurlnK
1 oases on 1V lluttc l4iitd.
Thomas Morrlsey of Denver, who
first came to Alliance In 1917 and
(raveled for four months In Alliance
territory acquiring potaHh leases, has
been In the city for the past three
weeks trying to acquire leases on a
large tract of land surrounding Alli
ance for the purpose of putting down
a deep test, well for oil.
Mr. Morrlsey Btates that If suc
cessful in acquiring t3e leases he will
probably be drilling by July 1, 1921, lue txira- ine snipper tnus has r.ie
as it would be foolish to endeavor to't'lltlr demand of the country at his
drill in winter weather. Many of ! Kt''' tips Just as a musician aits
the wells drilling in Wyoming are at a P'ano wltn fcV'' lring of Cue
shut down durina the winter time instrument centered in the keyboard.
due to the difficulties of operating in
cold weather.
Several geologists have been In
Alllance recently with Mr. Mqrrisey T ,,on. The grower of fruits or vege
to look over the territory surround-j ublel instead of being a supplicant
ing Alliance and have given him cn-for "a' share jf the consumers' dol
couragement. ' ,ar" must realize that, as a manu-
ln Wyoming and Montana some of I fttfturtr. he can set the price on his
the best oil wells are brought In with j product and get it. Of course, like
the oil deposits in the Dakota antiall successful manufacturers, he
Lakota Bandslones, the latter being niusl ta'l right by producing what
the most productive, Hnd being locat-i lhe public wants and the grade
ed usually about one hundred feetl,llfK uust be standaralzei. Tflis is
lower than the former. The govern- the only sure founJalkn. How
ment geologist reports Bhow that the, Quickly a manufacturer of uutonio
Dakota sandstone will be reached at 'biles or breakfast foods would "go
a depth of about 2800 feet in the broke" If he did not et.ck to a tan
vlcinlty of Alliance. This would not dard that creates confidence aiiv: "re
be too deep for drilling. Ieat orders!" The "glutted mar
According to Mr. Morrlssey, he kct" like the codliug moth can i
will surrender all leases stcurtd If , overcome ir the grower wdl use the
drilling is not started before July 1. necessary science and effoii. Less of
His leases provide that the test well the grower's dollar need be. spent
must be drilled within six miles of , for marketing and distribution if
Alliance. Should oil not be secured j the right methods and organization
in paying qu.i .titles in the Dakota re used. Higher prices will be ob
sandstone it 13 very probable that gained for the crops at a lower rate
arte;:!an water would be found in tutc- 'or the service.
formatUn, whli u would be of Ini-
eiise v. lue for irrigation purposes.
HELD ON CHARGE
OFJJOOTING CAR
Ben Isham, Burlington fireman,
following arraignment before United
State Court commissioner L. A.
Berry at Alliance Monday afternoon,
was released under $500 bonds and
the time for his preliminary hear-
; ing set for next Saturuay. Isham
and Engineer G. C Ruth were ar
rested by Special Agent Todd, Chief
of Police Reed, and Cops Taylor and
Ray Trabert about 9:30 p. in. Sun
day. Special Agnt Todd was watch
ing In the Burlington yards. He
saw a crew setting out a bad order
car from No. 109 on the rip track.
The door of the car was open, and
Mr. Todd took note of the contents.
This string of cars was then pulled
out on the east lead, past the pest
house. Mr. Todd at this juncture
sought the assistance of the city's
police.
When the cars were switched back,
Todd noticed that, some stuff bad
been taken out of the open car. He
questioned Isham and Ruth, and
the two of them were placed under
arrest. Ruth was later released.
Todd and the other officers then
made a search for the missing stuff
Five sacks of sugar and six blankets
were found concealed near the pest
house. Isham, the officers say. was
seen to enter the car.
EXPLAINS PLAN OF
SELLINGPOTATOES
Representative of North American
Fruit Exchange Tells or
Sales Organisation.
George E. Walker, sales manager
at Alliance, of the North American,
fruit exchange, arrived In Alliance
Monday from Kearney, and will re
main here during the potato shipp
ing season. He is now working fi
conjunction with C O. Sawyer, man
ager of the Nebraska potato growers
co-operative exchange, preparing to
handle the big spud crop from this
district. Another representative will
be on the ground as soon as the ship
ping gets under way. .
The North American exchange,
Mr. Walker explains, does not own
a single dollar's worth of crops of
any kind, although it has some 115
district sales offices, situated in all
important buying centers and cover
ing all small towns in each district.
The North American handles every
conceivable kind of a crop for which,
there Is a market, acting for local as
sociations in securing buyers, The
sales manager wires direct to each
exchango branch, quoting and de
scribing' the cars he bus to offer.
The various branches then canvass
the carlot buyers In their respective
towns, get orders or offers for the
cars and wire them back to the asso
ciation sales manager at shipping
point. Market quotations are sup
plied also. The branch makes sales
subject to tip? confirmation of the
association sales manager and fol
lows Instructions as to terms, etc
Market information is unbiased
because the exchange is equally in
terested in all markets, and has no
incentive to over-quote or seek sup
plies for any one nmrjtet in prefer
ence to another. If the local market
in any branch will Justify, the sales
man will sell at prices higher than
the association has quoted offer
this is a frequent occurrence in the
exchange service and the grower gets
Air. walker emptiuslzeb the impor
tance of correct grading, as well as
lne -uiciency or nis satiB organlza-
BARREL OE GASOLINE
STOLEN FROM COUNTY
Box Butte county Is minus one
barrel of gasoline, as well as some
ten gallons of lubricating oil, due to
the activities of some miscreants who
came in a Ford automobile, or truck.
Sunday night, loaded containers and
all on their car and made a neat get
away. The theft took place at the
county's grading camp, located for
the present near the Lanam place,
six miles southwest of Alliance, last
Sunday night.
John Polling, in charge of the
camp, says that no one was on guard
Sunday afternoon or evening. The
gasoline barrel and the lubricating
oil were stowed away in the road
wagon. The road shows plainly
where an automobile backed up.
The tracks are pretty much like all
Ford trucks, although Mr, Polling
thinks there are a few peculiarities
about this particular track which,
added to certain suspicious he enter
tains, may enable him to trail the
thief.
During the past few months, from
time to time, gasoline and lubricat
ing oil have disappeared from the
camp, but usually in small quanti
ties. .This time the thieves killed the
goose that laid the golden eggs by
taking the tank, as well as the gas.
It the members of the road gang
meet up with him, there Is apt to be
trouble, and they are confident that
they'll do that very thing.
