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TWICE A WEEK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
Official Taper of the City of Alliance
VOLUME XXVIII.
ALLIANCE, DOX I1UTTE COUNTY, ' NEMl ASK A, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1921
NO. 13
MEXICAN LAD
JIAS A CHANCE
FORJECOVERY
YOUTH WOUNDED BY HOLDUP
SATURDAY NIGHT
Bandit, Angered Because n nad No
v Jloney, Fires Bullet at
Close Hangs
Fjdel M. Sanchez, eighteen years
old, a Mexican employed by the Burl
ington and living la one of the bunk
cars in the lecal yards, was the victim
of a bandit of Tiia wn race about 9
o'clock last Saturday evening. He is
cow in St Joseph's hospital with a
bullet from a .22 calibre revolver'
lodged somewhere in his back. Dr.
Hand located and recovered the bullet
Monday merning at the hospital.
According to Sanchez' story, told to i
City Physician George J. Hand, he had i
received his pay check that evening
and had gone to the bunk car. He
had been there "but a snort time when
another Mexican entered and ordered
him to throw up his hands. He com
plied with the request, and the bandit
searched his ckfthes carefully, but
found no money. The holdup was
peeved over his poor haul, and started
saying harsh things, winding up by
shooting him. The wound was a bad
one, the shot having been fired at close
range, and at first it was thought he
would not recover. The bullet pene
trated his left side, just below the
heart.
The Mexican youth was fortunate,
it seems, for he has a fine chance for
recovery. Earl B. Anderson a few
weeks ago died almost immediately
from a bullet which struck him on the
right side In about the same place.
Sanchez speaks English quite brok
enly, and it is difficult o get him to
talk of the holdup, or to understand
what he says when he does talk. He
declares he would be unable to iden
tify the man who shot him, and pre
fers to give no details of the affair.
Vhpn firrt fnu' " the police he
would say nothing, but later gave the
story to Dr. Hand.
EVELYN FRE1SS M'ELHAMEY
BEGINS THIRTY-YEAR TERM
Evelyn Preiss McElhaney, convicted
by a jury in district court a few weeks
ago of the murder of Earl B. Ander
son, has begun serving the thirty-year
sentence given her by Judge Westover
last Thursday. She entered the peni
tentiary Saturday morning.
Sheriff Miller, accompanied by Mrs.
Charles Jeffers, escorted Mrs. McEl
honey to the penitentiary last Friday
evening. The sheriff did not gratify
the curiosity of the crowd which had
gathered at the station for two nights
for a last glimpse of the defendant in
the most sensational murder trial in
the county. He did not go to the train
until it had pulled into the station,
and then took a short cut to the coach.
Very few people got to see the pris
oner, although several hundred had
gone there with high hopes.
According to Warden Fenton, Mrs.
McElhaney will be given washing and
ironing as an occupation during her
incarceration. There are now four
women in the penitentiary, two white
and two colored.
AH MEETING OF THE'
ALLIANCE JjOME BUILDERS
The first annual meeting of the
ANiance home builders' association
was held Monday evening at the office
of the secretary, M. S. Hargraves. A
majority of the stock was represented,
and the following' officers and direct
ors were elected:
President, H. A. Copsey; vice presi
dent, G. L. Griggs; treasurer, F. W.
Harris; secretary, M. S. Hargraves;
directors, Ben J. Sallows, Glen Miller,
W. M. Bevington, J. S. Rhein and A.
D. Rodgers. The two retiring direct
ors were J. W. Guthrie and F. A. Bald.
The association built a number of
houses in east Alliance during the
first year of its existence, most of
which have been sold. The home
builders now have thirteen vacant lots,
and as soon as the money situation
gets sufficiently favorable, additional
houses will be constructed.
Lieutenant Colonel J. A .Benjamin,
assistant to the recruiting: officer of
the Omaha district, made a weekly in
spection visit to the local recruitiing
station Monday. The recruiting has
been especially brisk during the last
month, when a new record was estab
lished for the district with a total of
600, an increase of 230 over the previ
one high mark,
WHEN TO STt)P ADVERTISING
A certain trade journal once re
quested a number of its largest ad
vertisers to give their opinions con
cerning the best time to stop ad
vertising, and the following replies
were received:
When population ceases to mul
tiply and the generations that
crowd on after you and never heard
of you, stop coming on.
When you have convinced every
body whose life will touch yours,
that you have as good goods and as
low prices as they can get any
where else.
When you perceive it to be the
rule thai men who never advertise
re outstripping their neighbors in
the same line of business.
When men stop making fortunes
right in your sight solely through
the use of legitimate advertising.
When you can forget the words
of the shrewdest and most success
ful business men concerning the
main cause of their prosperity.
When every man has become so
thoroughly a creature of habit that
he will certainly buy this year
where he bought last year.
When younger, fresher houses in
your line cease starting up and us
ing newspapers in telling the peo
ple how than you can.
When you would rather have
your own way and fail than take
advice and win.
When nobody else thinks it pays
to advertise.
SILVER FOUND IN
PAYING AMOUNTS
AT BROADWATER
DREAM OF SANDHILL WEALTH
MAY COME TRUE
Samples of Ore Taken From Ranch
of George Beerline Assay
$28.38 to the Ton
There has been a vindication for
those who have believed there is un
told mineral wealth hidden away in
the randhills. Several times mineral
companies hav been formed to pros
pect in one place and another, but
heretofore after spasmodic operations
the stockholders have lost interest or
been compelled to hold the sack. The
latest discovery of silver ore, which
assays $28.38 to the ton, is perhaps j
iaps
vet
y
the most encouracincr indication
The Broadwater News tells the storv !
in this manner:
"Many have casually remarked that
our mineral 'scare' has been only sob '
lstuff, and many have mentioned that
it was merely a scheme by real estate
dealers and land owners to boost the
price of the land, but the following is
mighty interesting and may have a
tendency to change some minds:
"George W. Beerline, stockholder in
the Union State bank, and one of our
prosperous farmers, adjoining close to
our city, returned this week from a
social as well as a business visit to
our metropolis, Omaha, this week. And
while there he had some of 'old mother
earth' tested, samples taken from his
farm, and it tested out $28.38 worth of
silver to the ton. It seems that any
mineral which would test out that
much to the ton would be a paying
proposition, and Mr. Beerline just took
samples from the top of the ground,
and it would be but natural that there
would be a layer deeper which would
yield more of the wealth to the ton.
"Mr. Beerline is determined to find
out what's imbedded in his farm, there
fore he is going to do considerable
prospecting at once, and he is going to
dig down. This is the time to do it,
before next spring and summer, when
our thoughts and time are devoted to
the raising of beets and the other
crops, still we would like to get some
of that silver before then. The fellow
who stays with a thing is generally
the big winner, and we hope Mr. Beer
line will be one of the big winners,
and of course, if he wins, we as a com
munity, win with him, and we say,
hurry I
"Gambling for silver which tests out
$28.38 worth to the ton, would be fine
and would undoubtedly be a paying
proposition, and we believe if enough
energy and capital is brought forth to
sink a shaft that it would yield even
more than $28.38 to the ton, if yon
would strike a vein, and it is feasible
and logic to believe that it would be
forthcoming."
The following men enlisted at the
Alliance recruiting station for army
service during the past week: R. IL
Carnes, R. Groves and R. Frailer, all
of Gordon, Neb.; IL A. Smith, Colum
bia, S. D., and C T. Baker, Gering,
Nebraska.
ANTIOCH IS SAID
TO HAVE FALLEN
UPONJVIL DAYS
SORROWFUL PICTURE OF THE
. CITY OF POTASH
Men Forced to Work Elsewhere While
Women and Children Keep the
Home Fires Burning
With the closing down of the potash
plants, Antioch is said to have fallen
upon evil days. The city isn't de
serted, particularly, but the men have
gone to look for employment while the
women and children keep the home
fires burning. When the plants shut
down, the workmen in one of them
were given pay checks for two weeks'
work which couldn't be cashed, and the
families of these men face the winter
with no ready cash, for the most part,
and some of them are in debt
A movement is on foot, it is whisp
ered, to bring suit for the payment
of the no fund checks. Another rumor
says that some men who have faith in
the ultimate payment of these wage
checks are cashing them at a good
discount, now that the workers need
the money badly. The Herald has re
ceived letters from some of the potash
workers wanting to know who is will
ing to cash their checks, even at a big
sacrifice.
The following picture of conditions
in Antioch is given in the State Jour
nal: Antioch, the fallen city of potash, is
almost entirely deserted of men, ac
cording to word reacning i aui woerr, i the prosperity of the surrounding
former assistant superintendent of the 1 country, the Alliance chamber of corn
Lincoln water and light plant and merce iH committed to a program of
more recently plant superintendent of co-operation with the farmers in the
one of the Antioch industries. I county for the year 1921.
The heads of the 400 or more An- . As Box Butte county does not
tioch families were employed at the maintain a farm bureau or county
siv potash plants, five in the little city agent, the secretary of the chamber
and one just beyond. When the crash nt rommPrA ,;n assist in ns far as
came and the plants closed down, these ; possible, the work of the farm bureau. !
m j a 1 1 .1,' '
men were forced to go to Alliance ana
other nearby towns for employment
As a result, Antioch today is a city of
ummpn And children.
The men of the town have gone to
war. They have gone to work. The
closing of the potash plants camewith- '
out warning and most cases, the men
were not prepared to face , winter.
Since Antioch has become like a de
vastated city, there's nothing left for
laborers to do. The few stores are
6aid to nave tigntenea on crean ruies
I ;. ; j ,v,f ivo nViUan.
and it is rumored that the pnilan-
thropist reed not go beyond Nebraska.
it cfTor.w
to find suffering.
WnrVn,pn nt thP Reveral nlants had
Workmen at the several plants tiaa
wages coming at the time of the shut-
down. An attorney visited Lincoln
with his pockets filled with wage
claims. It is presumed, however, that
these adjustments cannot be made un
til the financial status of these indus
tries is further cleared.
The men of Antioch could not take
their families with them when they
sought new fields of labor for the rea
son that in many instances they had
not funds sufficient even to carry
themselves -by train to some other
town. And it is said that a number
of them walked from one place to an
other. As is usually the case in set
tlements of this sort, some of the fam
ilies are large. The grown and the
growing children cannot find anything
at Antioch to do and if they would
help their parents, they too must find
work elsewhere.
All in all, the plight of Antioch and
her citizens is not pictured as pleas
ing. The general quiet in building
and industrial circles is not helping
matters.
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
INITIATE LARGE CLASS
Alliance council, Kuight sof Colum
bus, initiated a class of twenty-eight
last Sunday. The ceremonies occupied
greater part of the day, closing with
a. banquet at. the Palm Room of the
Alliance hotel at 7 p. m., followed by
a smoker at the K. C. club rooms. The
initiates came from several western
Nebraska towns, and there were visit
ors from Scottsbluff, Lincoln, Chadron
and other places.
Places were laid for one hundred
and forty-four at the Palm Room. J.
W. Guthrie acted as toastmaster, and
the following program was given:
Address, Rev. P. J. Manning.
Vocal solo, Miss Katherine Knlest
"Ireland of Today as I Saw It," Rev.
T. P. Maloney of Scottsbluff, who has
Just returned from a three-months'
visit in that country.
"Duties of a Knight of Columbus,"
William Morrow of Scottsbluff.
"America."
rial Cribble has been 01 the last
few days with a cold.
C. OF C. WANTS
TO BE OF SERVICE
TO THE FARMERS
OFFERS TO ASSIST IN WORK OF
A FARM BUREAU
Secretary Carey Suggests .a Number
of Ways in Which the Organ
ization Can be of Use
George M. Carey, new secretary of
the Alliance chamber of commerce,
has already taken the first steps in his
campaign to bring about a closer co
operation between the city's commer
cial organization and farmers and
ranchers in this trade territory. Mr.
Cnl-ey is mailing out this week several
hundred letters to farmers and stock
men, in which he places at their dis
posal the services of the chamber of
commerce and its facilities.
Among the things Mr. Carey sug
gests is that the chamber of com
merce, so far as possible, will assist in
the work of a farm bureau. An ex
change will be established at the of
fice over the Brennan drug store, and
sales of farm produce of all kinds will
be handled without charge. A sales
pavilion for this city is also sug
gested as among the possibilities if
the farmers show a desire for it The
offices of the club and its rooms are
placed at the disposal of farmers as
a rest room on their trips to the city,
and for holding meetings:
Mr. Carey's letter, in part, says:
"Knowing that a community's pro
gress and prosperity is dependent on
, We offeP vou he facilities of our
o(rice as an exchange, for the purpose
0f buying and selling your produce
1
Have you any cattIe pneepi hogRJ
..li.. nrnilro tn -pii ? rn vnn '
W1..;t to DUV anv of the above named ?
"Write and tell us what you have oi
want Some other man will either
want to buy or sell, and we will put
you in touch with him without charge.
"Do you believe a sales pavilion lo-
t-(1 nf Ainnnr- wnn!i1 rpmlt. in hvt
. .
ter , f you some place where
,, bri vour stok and
. ' y? P, .
meVne. ouyer personally t
,tThia organjzation wjh this year
, , rnrt .n
i bend every effort to bring all the
: forces, both agricultural and commer
icial, into a closer co-operation. We
realize that your problems of exist
ence and prosperity .are problems for
the town people to assist in solving.
"Good roads are essential and we
.nmnnio-n n pnlist I
JITcVfr- i 1,1
are opening a
further federal and state aid in our
county.
"The Alliance chamber of commerce
is a Box Butte county and entire com
munity organization, alive to the needs
of our trade territory and , bound to
see that they are well served.
"We maintain a warm and comfort
able office upstairs over Brennan's
drug store, where you are invited to
come and get acquainted. It is large
enough to accommodate seventy-five
people. It will be available for any
meeting you wish to hold, without
charge.
"Write us and send a list of what
you have to sell or buy, or, better
still, bring it in the next time you
come to Alliance.
"Can we, through our organization
o the state chamber of commerce,
serve you in any way?"
GET READY FOR YQUR
INCOME TAX RETURNS
Work has begun on the collection of
the income tax for the year 1920.
Uncle Sam, through the bureau of in
ternal revenue, Is addressing to every
person in the United States the ques
tion, "What was your net income for
1920 T" The answer permits no guess
work. Every single person whose net
income for 1920 was $1,000 or more
and every married person whose net
income was $2,000 or more Is required
to file a return under oath with the
collector 'of internal revenue for the
district in which he lives on or before
March 15, 1921.
The penalty for failure is a fine of
not more than $1,000 and an addi
tional assessment of 25 per cent of the
amount of tax due. For willful re
fusal to make a return the penalty Is a
fine of not more than $10,000 or not
exceeding one year's imprisonment, or
both together with the costs of prose
cution. A similar penalty Is provided
for making a false or fraudulent re
turn, together with an additional as
sessment of 50 per cent of the amount
of tax evaded.
The income tlx applies to women as
well as men. Husband and wife must
consider the income of both plus that
of minor dependent children, and if the
total equals or exceeds $2,000 a return
income in his own right of $1,000 or
more must file a separate return. To
be allowed the $2,000 exemption a
married person must be living with
husband or wife on the last day of the
taxable year, December 81, 1920. Di
vorcees, persons separated by mutual
agreement, widows and widowers, un
less they are the sole support of others
living in the same household, In which
case they are allowed the $2,000 ex
emption granted the head of a family,
are entitled only to $1,000 exemption.
The normal tax rate for 1920 is the
same as for 19194 per cent on the
first $4,000 of net income above the
exemption and 8 per cent on the re
maining net income. This applies to
every citizen and resident of the
United States. In addition to the nor
mal tax a surtax is imposed upon net
income in excess of $5,000.
Revenue officers will visit every
county in the United States to assist
taxpayers in making out their returns.
The date of their arrival and the lo
cation of their offices, will be an
nounced by the press or may be ascer
tained upon inquiry at the offices of
collectors. This advisory service ia
without cost to taxpayers.
A. H. Robbins' Sunday school class
had a skating party at Broncho lake
last Wednesday evening.
JUDGE WESTOVER
COMPLETES 25TII
YEARON BENCH
RE-ELECTED FOR THE SEVENTH
CONSECUTIVE TERM
IIas n?en Suggested as a Candidate
. .
for Associate Justice of State
Supreme Court
District Judge W. H. Westover of
Rushville, who is in Alliance this week
presiding over the sessions of district
: court, is one of the most widely known
, jurists of the west An article in the
Omaha World-Herald of Sunday told
,ot his early experiences and reads as
.follows:
a western writer nas oescriDcu inc
;west a8 'Out where the world is
nro-;we!u , g ,uut.w.re wo,118
the making,' and this aptly applies
"A western writer has described the
to wetern Nebraska during the past
thirtv-five vears It also miht be said
hlVy:.nv.e ye?r8, " . m,gr . be
that it is where they develop men;
men big in mind and body, of sturdy
character and rugged honesty.
"Among those who have distin-
guished themselves among their rei- basing them on the beref that Alii
lows as having achieved success in a ance would be t;red out at the tag end
professional way none is better known
than Judge W. H. Westover of Rash -
vine, itt-'u. inc ciune vi me cai
ended a period of twenty-five years
of continuous service as district judge
for Judge Westover, and at the last
election he was re-elected to succeed
himself for another four-year term.
Seven consecutive times he has been
elected to the district bench, the last
four without opposition. "
"W, H. Westover was born in Dela
ware county, Ia., March 19, 1859. His
parents removed to Lancaster county,
Nebraska, in 18G9, and settled on a
homestead in what is now the sub
urbs of Lincoln. Lincoln at that time
was just a straggling village.
"Young Westover attended the vil
lage schools at Lincoln, walking the
two miles from his father's home to
school, and when in a reminiscent
mood the judge can relate many inter
esting youthful escapades indulged in
by himself and his then classmates,
Judge E. P. Holmes, Judge Allen W.
Field, Judge IL II. Wilson and many
others.
(Continued on Page 2)
URBAN ZEDIKER ASKS
FOR REVIEW OF TRIAL
A dispatch from Lincoln in the
Omaha Bee of last Friday gave the
news that Urban R. Zediker, convicted
of grand larceny In Box Butte county,
has filed a petition In error, asking
the court to suspend sentence and ad
mit him to bail while his case is being
reviewed.
Although he Is charged with the lar
ceny of diamond rings worth $1,325
from A. Isaacson's home in Alliance,
on the evening of July 20, the Jury
found him guilty of larceny of goods
worth only $200. He was sentenced
by Judge Westover to one to seven
years in the Nebraska penitentiary,
and was taken to that Institution at
Lincoln the last of the week.
'21 BASKETBALL
SCHEDULE IIAS
BEENARRAN6ED
PROSPECTS EXCELLENT FOR A
WINNING TEAM
Boys Return Victorious From Practk
Tour Plan for Balcony in
Gym to Seat 700
The 1921 basketball schedule for th
boys' and girls' teams of the Allianoa
high school is now practically com
plete. Fourteen games have been ai
ranged for the boys and ten for tho
girls. The coach is now trying to lin
up two games with Chappell an com
plete the latters' schedule. The list
follows:
Schedule for Boys' Team.
January 14 Alliance at Sidney.
January 15 Alliance at Kimball.
January 18 Mitchell at Alliance.
January 21 Bayard at Alliance.
January 27 Alliance at Scottsbluff
January 28 Alliance at Gering.
February 4 Kimball at Alliance.
February 10 Alliance at Bayard. t
February 11 Alliance at Mitchell. '
February 16 Chappell at Alliance.
February 18 Oshkosh at Alliance,
February 23 North Platte at Alii
ance.
February 25 Scottsbluff at Alliance
March 4 Sidney at Alliance.
Schedule for Girls' Team.
January 14 Bayard at Alliance.
January 15 Open.
January 18 Open. x
January 25 Alliance at Gering.
January 28 Scottsbluff at Alliance
February 4 Alliance at Sidney.
February 11 Sidney at Alliance.
February 18 Gering at Alliance.
February 25 Alliance at Scottsbluff
March 4 Alliance at Bayard.
Victorious Practice Tour.
The boys' team put in the stwo
weeks' holiday vacation in a tour of
western Nebraska, accompanied by
Coach F. C. Frince, who gave up hi
vacation also for the good of the team.
The first weeks' results were not par
ticularly encouraging, but the second
week out the boyB' began to play like
a team, winning three games out ot
four. .
i Oshkosh :was. the first tea.mto go
down to defeat on the second half of
I tour, the score being 31 to 23. Tho
Alliance boys likewise won fiom Goth
enburg, the final tally being 85 to 22,
, North Platte was more fortunate,
however, winning from the home lads
by a score of 17 to 12. The North
PlaHe team Is composed of a bunch of
regular foo'ball huskies, and they
roughed their way to victory. The re
turn crump uril! hp n)r prl Pit'inturv 93-
; whpn the My.anc( . ,x , to tk
them into camp.
At Chappell, Alliance won, 36 to 20.
Chappell had high hopes of winning,
.0f a two-week trip. This ia the first
'year for Chappell in the 'earue. nd
they wanted especially to win, but
were out of luck.
Prospects for Winning Team
Coach Prince considers prospects
exceptionally good for a chamij'omhip
team from Alliance th's yenr. "Alli
ance can put on just as rood an exhi
bition as any of them," he says. Tho
boys got a lot o fgood practice during
the vacation, and thereby slipped
something over on the o'her teams in
the league. Every game was played
to a. packed hoa-e, and interest in bas
ketball this year seems to be greater
than ordinary. After the Alliance
game, North Platte was $350 to th
good. Prospects seem to be good to
make this a banner year, financially
and otherwise.
The girls' team has an especially
good chance. Every member of thsj
team was on it last year, and the only
game lost the past season was to
Scottsbluff. Scottsbluff also has a
team composed of old members, and
there will be a big battle here Jana
ary 28.
Chances are very good, Mr. Prinesi
thinks, to build a balcony in the pres
ent high school gymnasium which will
seat seven hundred spectators. Thlsj
improvement is greatly needed and It
is hoped that it can be made.
The next boys' gaire Is with Sidney
January 14, the first of the leago
games. Alliance has not, for a nunv
ber of years, beaten Sidney on tho
latter's floor, but Coach Prince thinks
it can be accomplished this year.
Sunday afternoon a Ford coup
driven by A. H. Harper collided with
a Buick car on Box Butte avenue. AU
though both ears were badly damaged,
no one was hurt.
THE WEATHEB
Forecast for Alliance and vidnltyl
Fair tonight and probably Wednesday.
Rising temperature Wednesday. j