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VOLUME XXVII.
ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1920
No. 88
LUCK FOR MORE
ALLIANCE MEN
Feagins-Iioyd HyndlcMt llrlng
Gusher In the Osage, Wyo.,
Oil Field.
in
Alliance and Nebraska have fallen
heir to another syndicate of budding
oil millionaires through the bringing
in of a gusher Tuesday in the Osage.
Wyoming, oil field on the nnrthw85
quarter of section twenty-five, town
ship forty-six,, range ilsiy four, two
miles Bouthwest of the original gush
er which was brought In on March
14 by the Alliance syndicate com
pased of eight Alliance and one New
castle man, according to an article
In the State Journal credited to L. C.
Thomas of this city.
The gusher which came in Tues
day was started on August it and
r.tul ctl tut ir.p of the nl Mm" at a
depth of 1510 on Sunday. It was
held until tanks and pipe lines couil
secured. When releavil ll nhot
oil eighty feet above th top of ttir
deriick.
The syndicate which trougnl In
this well was organized by Chase
Feaglns and E. H. Boyd of Alliance
and is known as the Feaglns-Boyd
syndicate. In August they purchas
ed one 'hundred and twenty acres
from J. O. Walker and associates of
Alliance at a price reported to be
eighty-five thousand dollars and a
royalty of twenty-five per cent.
Among those who are interested in
the new well and who stand to profit
largely thereby are a number of
well-known Nebraska stockmen and
South Omaha commission men. The
syndicate Includes James Feaglns
and his two sons Chase and Fred,
Dr. J. P. Maxfleld, Dr. C. E. S'.agle,
Earl Mallery, E. II. Boyd, and Hugh
Beal of Alliance; Gould Dietz of
Omaha; Charles . VanAlstyne and
Bavinger, the latter with Cox-Jores
of South Omaha, E. P. Myers and Ed
Brass of Grand Island; John Bache
lor of Valentine; Herman Peters of
Hay Springs; C. E. Wlltsey of Hem
ingford; Frank Deconley of Scofts
blu ; Ed Ross, Gordon ; Joe , Minor;
Hyannis; Jay Taylor, Whitman; and
Ellas Richards of Des Moines, Iowa.
The syndicate expects to continue
drilling their tract until a well has
been drilled on each five acres. This
would give them twenty-four weiis
on this tract. The present produc
tion of the new well Is estimated at
one hundred barrels per day. Most
of the Osage oil Is being purchased
hy the Omaha Refinine company at
a price of approximately three dol
lars and forty cents per barrel.
Rushville Is at the present time in
the throes of an oil boom. Local
parties, headed by Herman Lund,
formerly of Alliance, have secured a
Standard oil drilling rig and it is
now being erected twenty miles
directly north of that city, on the
Nebraska-Dakota state line. Lund
and his associates do not believe that
they have a large structure but they
are confident that they will strike oil
In the Lakota sandstone at a deptli
of not over 1,000 feet.
The test weir being drilled by the
Bassett Oil & Gas company near Bas
sett. Rock county, Is progressing
nicely. The ten-inch casing has been
set at a depth of 1,100 feet. In the
first hole drilled, which was aban
doned, the ten-inch casing was set at
a depth of about 600 feet. The
eight-inch casing Is being set this
week at a depth of 1,600 feet and
will case off a heavy flow of artesian
water. The drillers expect to reach
the oil sands with six and five-inch
casing. Because of the inordinate
curiosity of visitors at this well, is
has been shut in by a high board
fence and a pass Is required to visit
the rig.
It is reported In Alliance that ar
rangements are being made to in
stall a Standard drilling rig In the
Agate field, in central Sioux county,
about thirty-five mileB northwest of
the city, on a structure worked out of everything in his Una and Jn a i
by Dr. Schram of the state university i di"8 this great featurs. the Imperial
a couple of years ago. This struc- becomes one of the (Inert and best
ture Is reported to be a large one, i equipped theaters In tMw part of the
approximately eight by ten miles, it I country.
is not far- from the Mule Creek,
Lance Creek and Cottonwood fields
of eastern Wyoming. A Denver news
paper reports that the Associated
OH company of Wyoming has erect
ed a Standard rig near the Agate
fossil beds and will start drillin'g
soon with a large hole and on a scale
which will permit drilling a hole as
deep as any in Wyoming. This re
port states that a camp has been es
tablished and several carloads of ma
terial hauled to the ground in ad
vance for a drilling campaign
through the winter.
The land owners of Box Butte
county express themselves generally
as being atrongly In favor of leasing
to and assisting anyone who desires!
jHE WEATHER
ALLL Neb., Oct. 1. Fore-
caBt for Afy ' and vicinity: Gen
erally fair i, A and Saturday,
with rising ten.erature.
to secure leases with the bona fide
idea of drilling a test well.. How
ever, they aje "wise" to the many
promoters who come In and with glib
tongue and Bllvery promises secure a
lease which will be placed on recora
against the land. The promoter th n
hies himself away to the east and
after dividing the lease Into five or
ten-acre parcels catcher the unwary
and sells the parcels at a price of
from ten to fifty or one hundred dol
lars per acre. This kind of promoter
finds the cold shoulder turned often
In his direction and is wasting time
in this territory. The promoter wllo
gets the encouragement is the one
who can show that ne has the back
ing of competent people in a finan
cial and legal way.
F. A. May, commercial superin
tendent of the Nebraska Telephone
company; L. B. Wilson, general com
mercial superintendent of the north
western group of Bell telephone com
panies, and E. M. Morsman, general
counsel for the Nebraska Telephone
company, were in Alliance Tuesday
on an inspection trip which will in
clude Bell exchanges in northwest
ern Nebraska and southwestern
South Dakota.
ENGINEER GIVEN
$22,000DAMAGES
Supreme Court Affirms Judgment In
Favor of Daniel Fitzpatrlrk,
Cutting Down Amount.
The state supreme court has af
firmed a judgment for $28,000
against the Burlington railroad com
pany in favor of Daniel Fitzgerald,
an engineer, providing the plaintiff
consents to cutting it down to $22,
000, according to a dispatch from
Lincoln. Even at the reduce! figure,
it is Id one i f the largest personal
Injury damage erdlrts Ui the history
of Nebraska court. '
Fitzpatrick was injured September
10, 1918, when he Jumped from Bur-j
lington passenger train No. 43, west
bound, just before it crashed in'.o a
work train on the main line six miles
east of Alliance. A jury in the lower
court gave a verdict for $38,800, but
the lower court reduced this to $28, -800,
and the higher court now clips
off $6,800 more on the ground that
the judgment is excessive for a man
torty-uine years of age, under the
facts. The suit was filed under the
federal employer's liability act.
Walker D. llines, director general of
railroads, was made defendant.
The wreck was caused by the fail
ure of the crew of the work train to
take into consideration the fact thai
the time changed at Alliance. The
work train had been out on the high
line, west of Alliance, where it was
11 o'clock. East, of Alliance, it h
12 o'clock. The crew thought they
could get In another hour's work br
fore No. 43 arrived, but that train
crashed Into the engine tender before
they discovered their mistake. Thir
teen people lost their lives in tht
wreck.
A NEW PIPE OIWJAX
FOK lMPKKIAL TIIKATP.lt
Harry A. Dubuque, owner and
manager of the Imperial theater, has
decided to purchase a larger and
finer organ than he hud at first an
ticipated and accordingly has placed
an order and closed a contract for a
Robert-Morton pipe organ, madij b
the American Thoto Playt r company.
This contract was made through the
Mann Music & Art company. local
representatives of the above firm.
Mr. Dubuque is continuing hi
policy of giving his patron the be-'
Upon the foundation of the full
natural organ tones, the Robert
Morton is elaborated with brilliant
string and reed effects, producing un
Instrument of the wonderful variety
and power of a symphony orchestra.
One especially fine feature of this
particular organ is the installation of
the harp celeste to the string ef
fects.
The Imperial is particularly for
tunate in having a musician with the
ability to handle the organ and play
the pictures as does Mr. Keach, the
present organist, and with the ar
rival of the new organ Mr. Dubuque
, will bare the best music obtainable
i The company plan to have the organ
Installed for the holidays
URGE SERVICE MEN
TO KEEPINSURANGE
New limit Eighteen Month From
Discharge or ljse, Without
Medical Kxnmliintlon.
Grover C. Davis, Nebraska repre
sentative of the federal bureau of
war risk insurance, with headquar
ters at Lincoln, Neb., was In Alliance
Thursday. He had Intended to ad
dress a special meeting of the mem
bers of Alliance Post No. 7, Ameri
can Legion, but was forced to give
up the idea, It being Impossible to
get enough of the members together
on short notice to make such a meet
ing profitable.
Mr. Davis spent the day in talking
to various members of the legion In
regand to their insurance. A war
risk insurance officer is being ap
pointed by each of the legion posts
throughout the country, and the bu
reau is conducting Its reinstatement
campaign largely through the legion.
Mr. Davis made the following state
ment in regard to the government
Insurance for ex-service men, empha
sizing in particular the fact that,
under a new ruling, men whose In
surance has lapsed will be given es
pecially favorable opportunities to
reinstate:
"Ex-service men In Alliance and
surrounding territory should be In
terested In the activities of the bu
reau of war risk Insurance at Wash
ington, this department of the fed
eral government dealing as it does
with more phases of the after-war
problems of the ex-soldier than any
other. A great deal of Inaccurate
Information has been disseminated
through Ignorance and other causes
as to just what the bureau is, what
it can do, and what It has done for
the ex-service men of the country.
"Under the provisions of the war
risk act, the problem of Insuring the
lives and usefulnes of our armed
forces was successfully handled, so
that over 94 per cent of the entire
army was protected, and since The
signing of the armistice the insur
snce business of the government has
continued to be the greatest ''In the
world, numbreing over twice as
much in volume as the largest priv
ate insurance company in the Unitrcl
States.
"Under the provisions of treasury
decision No. 61, made effective July
1, 1920, practically every ex-service
man in the country Is made eligible
for reinstatement without medical
examination, ns the limit Is extenr'ec'
to eighteen months from date of dis
charge or lapse of policy, whichever
is the later date. After this period.
and until July 1, 1921, he may rein
state with medical examination; but
the obvious disadvantage of his pro
longing his reinstatement is the pos
sibility of his health changing so that
he would be unable to pass a medical
examination.
"United States government Insur
ance is for ex-service men and worn
en, and Is sold to them by their gov
ernment cheaper than any private
company can sell it, for the simple
reason that congress through an ap
proprtatlon Is carrying the expenses
of operation and administration and
the policyholders are paying only for
the losses through death and tota
disability. If any agent tells an ex
service man that his company will
write Insurance as good and cheaper
than the government, the bureau of
war risk insurance would like to
have that agent's name and address
at once. The heads of the largos
ngurance companies of the world
helped form the principles of war
risk Insurance and all endorse it un
hesitatingly to the ex-soldier as a val
uable consideration from their gov
ernment.
"Any matters affecting claims for
compensation for disabilities result
ing from service, travel or other pay
due, allotments and allowances, etc.,
should be taken up with the local
Red Cross, home service bureau or
the American Legion war risk offic
er. Reinstatement applications for
government Insurance can also be
obtained from these sources. If you
know of an ex-service man needing
medical treatment or hospital care,
due to his military service, get In
touch with one of these parties."
The paving men have made mar
velous progress during the month
Just ended and the men In charge
are fairly Jubilant. The present
hope is that they will be able to
finish up this year, although that Is
perhaps hoping for too much. Ce
ment will be poured next Monday
for the holes in the paving which
were Intended for parking centers.
but which the residents decided to
dispense with as soon as they dis
covered that they would have to be
responsible for their upkeep.
INTEREST GROWING
IN COUNTRY CLUB
Golf Link Will lie Completed Rend)
' for Play Within Next
Few Pay.
The announcement the first of the
week that a Country club Is In pros-
pect for Alliance has aroused a great
deal of favorable comment, and the
men who have taken the Initiative in
the organizing, H, E. Gantz, Dr. J. P.
Maxfleld and Charles Brlttan, have
received ample assurances of sup
port for the project. A meeting Is
planned for the first of next week,
at which time the organization will
be perfected.
It Is probable that nothing will be
done toward building a club house
until next year, but the golf enthu-
slattswho are dally growing In num
ber, will ee to It that the links are
put In playing condition as soon as
possible. Every day amateur golfers
are swatting the little white ball on
the grounds, which are a good ways
from finished. Several seta of clubs
have arrived, and two or three A'"-
ance merchants are laying In com
plete supplies for the fascinating
game.. It may be several months be
fore any regulation golf costumes are
worn, but they will come In time.
The new golf enthusiasts Include
not only a number of men, but sev
eral women have signified a desire' to
learn the game. A force of men has
been employed since Monday In lev
eling off the greens, and Saturday
and Sunday several volunteer work
ers will give their services. It wi'l
be another week before the links are
in proper condition for playing.
Alliance has been very fortunate
In having the assistance of Willie
Dunn In laying out the course. Mr.
Dunn has given personal supervision
to the work and is enthusiastic over
the way the course is shaping up
He will probably leave the city this
afternoon, the work having gone far
enough so that he can be spared.
"The new Alliance golf course,"
said Mr. Dunn, "will be one of I lie I
enortlr.g and picturesque I
tfc ground Is similar to the famous I
champlonphip courses of LoriK la J
land, N. Y with a variety of putting
greens on beautiful rolling hills anal
hollows, with natural sand hazards,
th elake being a special feature. The
club house will be located on a hill
near the lake and a view of the oif j
course and every hole seen from
there."
Mr. Dunn Is now well along In
years, but cannot lose the golfing in
stinct and Insists on remaining
closely connected with the game. In-
cldentally he still plays a good gam
of Kolf and contends that he can hold
his own with the general run of play
ers. The Scotchman has traveled far
and wide, covering Great Britain,
the continent of Europe, America
ai.l Canada and his memoirs v,ouiJ
till a good sized volume, but four In
iiit-nts stand out paramount in his
life.
The first was the time when he de-
f atod Willie Park, a member of the
Park family which with the Morrises
of which the famous Tom MonT3es
was the first, waged a perennial battle
for the golfing honors of Scotland
and England. The second was the
incident which Dunn classes as the
biggest. One summer in the late
eighties the Right Honorable A. J.
Balfour, and his father were visitiAg
at a famous English resort where
Dunn was an instructor. After rather
utrenuous persuasion Balfour, the
younger, took up the game and soon
became fascinated with It. The third
bright chapter in Dunn 4 life was in
1894 when he became the first open
champion of the United States. The
fourth bright spot was when he con
vinced John D. Rockefeller, who was
advertising the world over for a new
slomaeh that h rnulH phoIIv with,
stand the erind of eilf Dunn ,ftn.
dudes his experience with the rich-
ist man in th wnrlri with hu ro.
mark, "I made Rockefeller a well
man, but I didn't get the million he
offered for a new stomach."
Deputy Sheriff Peterson of York
arrived In Alliance Wednesday morn-
ing and took back with him Meredith
Bradley, son of Mrs. Lena Bradley
of this city, who is wanted in that
city to answer a charge of obtaining
shoes and clothin gunder false pre-
tenses. Young Bradley Is charged
with giving a York merchant .a check
for some $13 when he had no funds
n the bank with which to pay it.
Other checks amounting to over $100
are in the possession of the York
county attorney, the deputy sheriff
stated. An attempt was made to
settle the case, but the York officer
declared that his instructions would
not permit of this. Bradley is
twenty-one years of age.
KOMKONH GIVING '
HOOZH TO INDIANS
Some white man Is due for an aw-
ful rimming by the courts if he Is
captured. Some of the noble red
men who are new camped near the
city have been securing limited
Quantities of home brew or straight
booze, and if the dealer Is located,
he'll go away for a long, long time.
Bootlegging isn't a pretty offense
rvoii when th utiiff la mM In nrhltA
men but ,he federft, government nai
provided a penitentiary term for the
man who disposes of it to Indians.
One of these Indians got liquored up
the other night and remarked,
among other things, that he'd like to
shoot Chief Reed. He changed his
mind.
KILLING FItOHTH
ilME FOR HEAVIES
It's getting about that time to be
gin looking up the winter woolens
and begin making friends with the
coal man. Two nights this week,
at leaBt, there have, been killing
frosts, and winter Is not so very far
away, according to indications
When, in the early morning hours,
the temperature novers around the
zero mark, it's well to take due note.
The corn Is far enough along now
so that frost will do no damage and
freezing mark, it's well to take due
note.
TRISTATE AFTER
OIL LEASES HERE
Kansas City Concern Announces Its
Intention to Drill In llox
Hutte tVxuity
The T l-State Leas 3 and Develop
ment company of Kansas City has
had representatives In Alliance and
Box Butte county for the past six
weeks, securing leases on oil landB.
While they Bay that drilling opera-
Hons will not be commenced before
spring, it is their Intention to silk
a test well. They have a kooI-jIS'.im'i
block of land already tensed, and ex-
pect soon to secure the balance ef
the block they want, at whi:h tlt.i
a more complete rlatenxnt or t'tl
plans will be submitted.
C. O. Davenport of Kansas City
president of the company, who hat
been in Alliance the past two days,
is an experienced oil man, having
twenty-two years' work in that lint
to his credit. For marly five yeart,
he was with the Union Oil couipunj
of California, and for seven jeart
with the Pierce company of New
York city. At present the coinpanj
has producing wells in Allen county
Kansas, a shallow field. I-ee Gil
bert of Nebraska City is the com
pany's Alliance representative. Mr
Davenport will return to Kansas City
tonight.
Mr. Davenport says that they have
the opinion of expert geologists that
the Box Butie county land they arc
leas ng has a goo I structure, ano
'hat oil rhoulu be struck at a depth
tf about 2,500 feet.
EVELY COUNCILMAN
WAS IN HIS SEAT
For the first time in months and
months, there was no trouble In get
ting a quorum for a city council
meeting. Tuesday evening, at 8
o'clock, every single councilman was
in his seat, and simply rarln' to go
Not a single seat was empty. Mayor
Rodgers would have had heart fall
ure but he wasn't there to see It.
After all the mayor s cutting re
n,arka ,n the newspapers, some of
wnicn musi nave wounaeu me leei
of Bonie of the members, he
wa8nt there t0 Bee not ,0,,1y a uor-
ni, oui me mil council
However, it wasn't entirely the
mayor's fault. Wednesday he had
asked City Clerk Kennedy to get out
the members for a meeting "to
morrow" night. What he should
nave said was "day after tomorrow.
The meeting should have been
scheduled for this evening, when the
contract Is due to be let for the four
Paving districts made out of the
Parking Bpaces. The council got now
ot hlm on tbe Pbone and the mayor
made tne oesi explanation ne couia
11 waa tBe ,easl U9 cou,a ao-
Tonight another trial will be
made. It doesn't seem possible to
get the entire council out two nights
in succession, but the mayor Is hop-
ing for at least a quorum. The
paving gang is ready to tackle the
pouring of cement in the parking
center holes next Monday morning,
provided the contract is let
COUNTY CENSUS
FIGURES GIVEN
(Jain of 271 Shown for Iaa Ten
Year Recount In (Ity Will
llrlng Vp Total
A preliminary announcement of
the population of Box Butte county,
which reached Alliance today, gives
a total of 6,407, an Increase of 271
over the figure ten years ago, 6,131,
and a gain of 832 over the figure
twenty years ago. The chief gain Is
in the village of Hemingford, the
population of which has lncreaed
from 625 to 1,105. The present fig
ures show that Alliance has grown
from 3,105 to 4.591, but the recount
taken by the chamber of commerce
shortly after the announcement of
this city's census shows that the
proper figure for Alliance is well
over 6,000. The census department
has promised to recheck the lists and
If they believe the effort Justified, to
make a recount.
Following are the figures by pre
cincts: Fourteenth census Preliminary
announcement of population, subject
to correction, for Box Butte county.
Neb.:
1920 1910 1900
Alliance prct. '
(Alliance city) 4,591 3,105 2,535
Box Butte 481 361 384
Boyd 288 268 165
Dorsey, includes
Hemingford - 1,105 625 498
Lake, prct 530 339 774
Lawn prct 312 300 254
Liberty prct. ...... 180 170 130
Nonpareil prct. .. 360 243 230
Running Water.. 176 76 145
Snake Creek 72 122 111
Wright prct 352 322 346
Totals 6.407 6,131 5,572
1920 1910 1900
Alliance city .... 4,591 3,105 2535
Hemingford 708 272 133
CHIEF REED FINDS
STOLEN FORD CAR
While the sheriff's office was bus
ily telephoning over the country In
in effort to locate a Ford automobile
of the vintage of 1914 Thursday aft
ernoon, the Ford In question' was
parked in front of the city's polic
station, awaiting someone to claim
The chief, on coming to his office
arly in the morning, saw the Ford
near the Newberry wan lu use on
First street. At noon It was si ill '
(here, and shortly afUr noon tiie
hlef and O nicer Taylor managed to
start it and brought it to the police
station.
Karly Thursday morniug LcB:er
Holeomb, l.ving tcur teu uni t niatu
of Alliance, swore on a w,..i.i t r
the m ie.-t of Gtne Ii.ue, bar-Ins
him with taking, st aiing ai.d Jnv-
ng away o,.e font uUvitiiOf it, of
u Ouiut ci $2t0. Lcqui- v.i. em
ployed by He loom b, ana iwo or thio
iays previous, Hoit.oinb hud len hltu
the rord for a thort trip. i.-ee
ever returned, and rumor Lad it
that he was headed for the o!l .toldH
V yoming.
Hi 1 cur in question is pretty much
out at the elbows. It is an oid
timcr, and Is minus wiudshieM and
vtiter ornamental parts. The Beat
has disappeared, and in Its place is
one taken from a spring wagon. Mr.
Holeomb had stripped it down
to the chassis, intending to rebuild
it for racing purposes.
Chief Reed is much taken by the
appearance of the boat, and is in
tending to suggest to Mayor Rodgers
and the memuers of the council that
they purchase it as a meuium to as
sist in catching speeders.
Judge W. II. Westover will hold a
special equity term ef district court
in Alliance net Monday and Tuesday.
Among the other cases of interest
which will come up will be that of
Lemuel M. Clay et al vs. the Nebras
ka Potash Products company. The
next regular term will be held De
cember 6.
A. J. LeSage, in the employ of the
Alliance Tire Works, took the check
ered 'service car out for an airing
Wednesday afternoon and right in'
the heart of the city's downtown dis
trict, on Box Butte avenue, ran
afoul of Night Watch Ray Trabert.
who placed him under arrest on a
charge of speeding. Police Judge T.
D. Roberts a&sissed a fine of $25 and
costs, a total of $30, which was prob
ably less than a dollar a mile. The
fine was paid.
Lost Jeweled Eastern Star pin.
Phone Red 146. 616 Toluca. Lib
eral reward. -,