4 Official Taper of Dox Uutte inty TWICE A WKKK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY Official Taper of the City of Alliance VOLUME XXVIII. . ALLIANCE, P.OX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, MABCII 15, 1921 NO. 31 POLITICAL PROPHETS ARE KEEPING QUIET TILL RETURNS ARE IN PROSPECTS FOR A CLOSE VOTE AT PRIMARY ELECTION With Ten to Be Selected, It's Hard to Guess Who Will Be Eliminated Good Vole W ill Be t'ast. i' ' These be hard days for the political lopesters. Ordinarily, shortly before election day and continuing until the last ballot has been counted and the results tabulated, some prophet can be found at any street coiner telling just which candidates are due to get the approval of the voters, and which ones are due to pet the irate. The new plan, however, has bewild ered the prognosticators. With nine teen candidates, and ten of them to be selected, there isn't any easy way of picking the winners. About the only method that is at .all satisfactory is the elimination route, but after about five have been shucked out as hopeless, there are still others to be scratched. There seems to be no other way than to wait for the returns, which will . probably be late in coming in. The Herald office has conducted a sort of a guessing contest the past two or three days. A number of men nave marked their guesses for the ten to survive the primary and the five to pass the acid test of the city election. These ballots been marked with the name of the man who made the guess, and carefully filed for future refer ence. If, when the figures are totaled, any one of them is" at least 80 per cent correct, he shall receive due credit. The campaign, which has been com paratively mild, began to take on signs of life Monday, the day before elec- iion. several o me canciiuatcs, and about advertising matter. Up until Monday, the T. P. A.'s who are boost- n tm . . i . : jng Si Thompson pretty hard, were the , only ones who had done any advertis-. in. Judging from the amount of cam- paign literature which was printed lijonuay antnouay. tne streets Will DC. flooded by nightfall. No Mud-Slinging. The campaign posters, however, are not the sort that usually appear in city elections. It is possible that some of them may have been overlooked, but to date not one has . shown up which does any more than urge the merits of some particular candidate. The ordinary procedure is to get out slates of one sort and another, and then use the advertising appropriation to knock all the other candidates. The list this time,-however, is of such a "hio-h nrHor that thr- UrTt ntnrii nrtr. tunity for mud-slinging. TWnitA th fart tht iha omnaicn 1 Tn-ia w. .vo,i;ni,i.. ;.t v. been a considerable amount of inter-1 est in the outcome, and the vote at of the voters would find their way to j the polls. The women vote will not come out until the middle of the after noon . The railroaders, too, have a habit of casting their ballots after they get through work. A number of the candidates are fairly certain to show considerable strength. It is conceded that S. W. I Thompson will draw a big vote, and some people are of the opinion that he will lead the field. The two soldier candidates, D. C. Bradbury and W. L. O'Keefe, are alsq expeted to score heavily when the votes are counted, as is F. W. Hayes, whose candidacy was sponsored by the volunteti firemen. The fire boys are hard workers and they have a habit of making their in fluence felt in the elections. J. B. Irwin is believed by many to be one of the men who will draw a big vote. He is especially favored by the railroaders. A. V. Gavin and Harvey Hacker are also favored by the same element, and unless there is a disposi tion on the part of the railroad men to concentarte on one candidate, should stand a show to remain in the election finals. R. M. Hampton, C. A. New berry and F. W. Harris also have a big number of supporters. One of the surprises of today's elec tion may be the strength shown by G. W. Nation. Mr. Nation's candidacy hasn't been taken any too seriously by some of the dopesters, but it is said that he has atremendous following in East and South Alliance, because the prmeipal plank in his platform con cerns that prime nuisance, the septic tank. It is not at all improbable that he may show up yith a good vote to his credit. Figures From the Wards, At 2 o'clock this afternoon, 170 votes had been cast in the four wards of the city. The women, who seldom mark their ballots till afternoon, had cast only a sixth of the total number, but they were just beginning to come in. Twenty-four votes had been cast at 2 p. m. in the First ward; Second ward, 41 men, lu women; mini waru, .) men, 5 women; Fourth ward, 29 men, 10 women. The polHng places are: First ward, Central school; Second ward, city hall; Third ward, city library; Fourth ward, Episcopal parish house. George D. Darling returned Satur day from spending "market week" at Omaha, where he purchased a supply of new spring goods. Shumway .ait Against Warrick Was Dismissed G. L. Shumvav's su;t againi-t S. K. Warrick for $100,000 for alleged slan deious statements made in connection with the fight before the state bank ing board against Shumway's proposed state bank in Scottbluli was dis missed Monday morning b yDistrkt Judge Westover. The court held that Shumway had no cause of action, sustaining the demur rer filed by Warrick in the suit. If was Maintained by the defendant, and the court upheld the contention, that statements made before the state banking boartl were privileged. Even if the allegat'ons in the plaintiff's peti tion were true, the court said, there would still have been no vcause of action. The dismissal of the suit ends the various tangles that arose over Shum way's efforts to secure a charter for a bank here, denied by the state banking board. W. L. O'Keefe of Alliance left for Goring yesterday afternoon to testify in the case. George M. Carey,, secretary of the Alliance chamber of commerce, left yesterday afternoo nfor Gering, where he was scheduled to addiessrthe newly organized Lions club in the evening. Rev. A. J. Kearns Talks to Business Men - on "Americanism" At the Monday noon luncheon of the chamber of commerce, the mem bers were invited to bring with them one of their employes, but only a com paratively small number availed them selves of the privilege, due either to the expense of the dinner or to the natural shyness of employes. Some forty-odd business men turned out, nun vivti wi. kunni ni acinic rwiin.- w i n,., ,,,,01 t, w. of tlie meeting was a brief address by the Tev. A. J. Kearns, who took for ', subject "Americanism." Mr. Kearns snoke of the neresK!tv of defining Americanism as a spirit which should have an active force in all the alfairs of our commercial, in dustrial and political life, rather than a mere slogan on a banner in a pa rade. The speaker pointed out cer tain elements of overemphasized class consciousness which had produced economic situations wholly un-American and of a selfish characted. He cited the fact that the -wheat growers ": wiuw canwi upun th,e K" in five states to hold for a P'Ice of 3 P.er bushel, 'which was in effect a conspiracy in re- traint of trade. Another instance of the same nature concerned the cotton growers. These co-operative organi zat:ns- he said appealing to class consciousness haye practically nulli- cause of the nature of their organiza tions, cannot be held accountable, AH such emphasis of class con sciousness, he said, develops the the ory that society is but an arena, in which competing classes shall strug gle to the death for supremacy Russia is now in the grasp of the dis ciples of this theory. Nowhere is such a theory more out of harmpny with the constitutional processes of gov ernment than in the United States. Class consciousness has been the dis turbing element in our national life, Mr. Kearns declared, and the question is how far can such stratification of a democracy continue and remain true to the constitutional processes which we have set up as the basis of gov ernment. The speaker presented the need of legitimate organization, but declared that there should be a spirit of loy alty to American institutions which would bind every class together for the best interests of the' common wealth. He quoted President Taft" in a recent statement that it is useless for the aroused class consciousness of capital to seek to break organized labor. It cannot be broken and ought not to be broken. An industrial de mocracy was pointed out as, a process not only American, but th,only one in which there is hope of giving the country a thoroughgoing industrial peace. He urged that American prob lems be met in an American way. Mr. Kearns touched upon the Amer ican Sabbath as a fundamental Amer ican institution that had proved itself a bulwark of our national life. In a democracy, wherever man is a sov ereign, it is desirable that an institu tion which has contributed so largely to the integrity and character of the plain man should be preserved as a truly American institution. He point ed out that the American Sabbath had been a bulwark and likened it to the great sea wall that has been built as a protection to the harbor and port I of Galveston. If any enterprise should say to the citizens of Galveston, "We propose to build a great edifice if you will let us tear down the great wall to get materials," no matter how le gitimate the work might be, it would be folly for the city to consent to the destruction of it chief defense. The Christian Sabbath has, been such a bulwark, the speaker said, and no commercial enterprise, no matter how legitimate, snouni ie uuoweu 10 uu'.ni itself up through the destruction tf this truly American institution. ! LLOYD THOMAS TELLS OF AUTOMOBILE TRIP TO TEXAS OIL FEILDS SPENDS SOME TIME LOOKING OVElt OKLAHOMA Hopes by Means of Press C'rcdcniial to Gain Admittance to Clara Sniith-IIainon Trial WAGONER, Okla., March 0. When Mrs. Thomas and the writer left Alli ance a month ago yesterday we ex pected to have reached our southern objective Houston, Tex., by this time, but we, have found fo much to delay us and our stay in Wagoner has been -o much longer than we expected ubout two weeks, that we are still 700 miles or so from Houston, although we expect to reach there early next week. Starting from Lincoln the afternoon of February 19, we have journeyed somewhat leisurely by auto through southeastern Nebraska, eastern Kan sas and western Missouri, and tie leaving Wagoner tomorrow morning for the continuation of our trip on I south, going to Muskogee, Tulsa and Marietta, Oklahoma, and then south to Houston, w ith perhaps time for a short run down to Galveston. I We have found the roads excellent! so tar and have had no car trouble. It rains here in this part of the south! to "beat the band' but the roads are n good shape on the main highways shortly after a ram. We arrived here just a few days after the country had had twelve inches of snow the only snow this winter, and the natives are talking about it yet, although the fruit trees are all in bloom the farmers have most of the'r spring crops planted, and the weather is balmy and summeiiike to us. Our first cottonficlds appeared just north of Wagoner. ' Many of the fields were unpicked last summer and fall and the cows are now turned loose, in the cottonfields to help themselves. The growers claim that with the pres ent low price of cotton it don't pay to crin it. Many of them are turning their agricultural efforts towards other crops and many of them have good oil royalties coming in regularly from their oil or gas wells and it don't make so much difference to them just whit the price of cotton is. A rhort distance above loia. Kan sas, we entered the shallow oil belt and folloieil it down here most of the way. Wagoner county is studded with oil wells and drilling rigs. Mot of the 350 shallow wells in the county aver age only from 2."i0 to 1250 ieet in depth, with production of from 5 to ;0 barrels or a good grade or oil. iew wells are brought in every few days but thev occasion no excitement and but little attention seems to be paid to an event that if it happened near Alliance would make us Allianceites "sit up and take notice." We expect to travel through some of the famous deep oil pools before we return to Alliance, in central Oklahoma and Texas, with a visit to the new fields around Houston. (Continued on Page 8) Thieves Steal Car of Ray A. Tompkins on Sunday Evening After several months of comparative inactivity, the auto thieves got on the job in Alliance Sunday evening. The five-passenger Allen touring car used by Ray A. Ihompkins in his auto liv ery business was taken from a private garage, 112 Yell6wstone, some time after 10 o'clock on that evening. Mrs. Celia Weaver, who lives at that address, "reported, that she had seen two strangers in the vicity of the garage on the evening before. She only caught a glimpse of them and was unable to furnish a description. The garage was not locked at the time of the theft, but the automobile was. although any key to an .Allen automobile would open it. The theft was reported to the police early Mon day morning, and a complete descrip tion jbt the car has been sent to the oolice officers 'in nearby cities and towns. The car was not new, and there are a number of peculiarities which will make identification com paratively easy. The car is described as follow: Blue-black with yellow wheels; factory number 50,985; motor number 60906; equipped all around with Miller 32x4 tires; state license number 61318. At time of loss, metal sign reading "Auto Livery, Phone 57," was suspended be tween top and bottom windshields. The wiring to the tail light had recent ly been removed from the cable, taped and run along the frame. The car was insured against theft with the W. L. O'Keefe insurance agency. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Lucas will start today for an automobile trip to Gil lette, W yo., whre Mr. I ucas has a homestead of 320 acres. They will be away several days. The doughboys look with amazement 'on the "plucked" officers suing to get back into the army. This seems to be a bad winter for the weather prophets. OF BACCHUS - HOLD THEIR FIRST AND ONLY MEETING DDOZE ( LI II COMES TO A MOST PAlNFl'L EM) Treasurer of Youths' Society Nicked tor a Heavy Fine Intoxicated Lad Gets Thirty Days. The Suns of Bacchus are no moie. Their fir.t meeting was at one and the same time a brilliant success ami a painful failure, all depending on how you lonk at it. The Sons achieved the primary object of their organization, out they got into trouble with- the police, not only the city, but the county. Alliance is admitted to be one of the most favored places for clubs of one sort and nnotheron the face of the globe but the fifteen lads who organized theSons of Bacchus can't be made to believe si word of it. The story of the Sons of Bacchus reads like fiction.. Unfortunately, it isn't. It seems, from the evidence gathered by the county attorney, that fifteen lads, a week or so ago, gathered together and organized a society. There was no constitution by-laws, but there was a treasurer and thereby hangs a tale. The object of this association of youths, some of whom were of high school age and none of whom had reached tventy-.one, was, so some of the members admitted, for the purpose of recuring and drinking intoxicating liiiuor-; of one sort and another any thing, soiong as it had the "wallop. The dues, cash in advance, were $2..'0 per member. Whether this sum wa weekly, monthly or yearly dues, or simply a preliminary membership fee, is not known, but it was all in the hands of the treasurer. The total funds amounted, therefore, to $37.50. Two or three other youths wanted to affiliate with the organization, but the raMi-in-advance rule was strictly ad hered to. ' Many Names Considered. There was some discussion as to what name should be given the society. The favorite was the Sons of Bacchus, it being argued that this was not only a beautiful name, and euphonious, but that it fit the club like a glove. Some of the members, it was learned favored the Night Owls; other thought the Son of Rest was an appropriate title. No 'decision was ever made, but the Sons of Bacchus was the most favored and the majority of the boys referred to it in this way. Just what ceremonies the initiates went through will never be known. It is thought that .there was a terrible oath, maybe an obligation signed in blood, for all the world like the famous gang of robbers formed by Huckle berry Finn and Tom Sawyer. One ot j tne obligations was that no matter what happened, they would stand by each other. This is always a part of the obligation in such cases. The scene changes to the evening of Friday, March 11. The Dirty Dozen, or the Sons of Bachus, met for their first official session, thirteen of the fifteen being present The president was there; so, unfortunately for him, was the treasurer. It was decided to take a trip to Hemingford to a dance. Then came up the question of liquid refreshments. The treasurer had the club funds in his jeans. He withdrew $25, gave it to another member, who gave it to a brakeman who gave it to a bootlegger, and within half an hour the Sons of Bacchus had in their pos- , session a gallon jug of the vilest smell ing noocn tnai nas ever open uncoined in the office of Sheriff Miller or any where else. Three drops of it would kill a jaybird; a wineglass full of it would poison a dog. Covered With Corncobs. The thirteen Sons of Bacchus loaded into the three cars and headed for Hemingford. At the edge of town they stopped, gathered about in a circle, oerformed certain mystic rites, un corked the jug and passed it around, At "Berea the performance was re peated. In the car driven by Ralph Watteyne, the treasurer ,the jug may have Dassed about a bit between drinks, for on arrival at Hemingford one of the occupants, Meredith Brad ev was stewed. His friends, tearing detection, covered him up with corn cobs and started in to enjoy life. Sheriff Miller was notified shortly thereafter, and the next morning young Bradley was taken into custody and a charge of intoxication placed a gainst him in county court. Other members of the Sons of Bacchus were called by County Attorney Basye to testify under oath, and one by one, acr comnanied by fathers or treading the hallways alone, they came, borne ot them entered the office hardboiled and defiant, and remained to weaken. As mentioned before, no one knows just how binding the oath of the Sons of Bacchus was, but it took very little urgument to convince over half of the youths that there was no honor in pro tectine a bootlegger who peddled I. rank a poison as the hooch they had bought. Treasurer Watteyne held out for a time until he learned that some of the others had spilled the beans He was held, charged with three counts, the purchasing of intoxicating liquor, having it illegally in his pos ession in a place other than his welling, and transporting the same, I he fineon these three counts agi gated $3(0, and under the last count his Flupmobile might have been .'n fiscatcd. In county court, Judge Tash soon disposed of the two cases. Ilri.lley pleaded guilty and drew a thiitr-day jail sentence. Watteyne Monday iti'tei noon also pleaded guilty to the firt two counts, and was fined $200 and given a thirty-day jail sentence. The latter, however, was suspended during good behav'or. Although the Taw is so worded that his automobile niilit have been confiscated, County Attnr ney Basye thought the other punish ment sufficient, and withdrew the la.-t charge. Thus, the Sons of Bacchus, organiza t'on was brought to an untimely end. It's fir.t session was its last, and from the trend of talk among the members, it will never be reorganized. A meeting of the Business Woman's club was held last evening in the office of the chamber of commerce. The first part of the evening was devoted to business and the following officers were elected. President, Maude Spacht; vice president, Opal Russell; secretary-treasurer, Avis Joder. Vari ous other items of business were dis cussed, after which followed a social hour when the members-got acquaint ed. Light refreshments were served. The next meeting will be a luncheon, to be held the first Thursday in April. Fifty girls were in attendance.. "Restaurant Prices Cut Slightly," says a headline. It is thought the pa tient will survive the injury. Alliance Baseball Association Formed Last Saturday Eve The Alliance Baseball association is the name given to an , association formed at a public meeting held at the chamber of commerce rooms last Sat urday evening. The meeting was called by Secretary Carey and all base ball enthusiasts were invited to attend. Some fifteen or twenty responded to the invitation. Dr. G. J. Hand whs selected as tem porary chairman, George M. Carey, secretary and Fred Hayes, treasurer. Pluns for financing a baseball team were discussed by! BiJIy Wpod, R. A. McCormick, Dr. Hind ami others.. Mr. McCormick's suggestion that an asso ciation be formed, with monthly mem bership dues as well as .an initiation fee, in order to keep up a year-round interest in the national game, was adopted. The membership fee was set at $15, and the monthly dues at $1. A membership committee of- -nine was chosen to interview merchants and others and the attempt will lie made to secure a hundred members for the association. A. H. Harper. Billy Wood, R. A. McCormick. W. R. Harper. A. G. Isaacson. John W. Guthrie, Ed. Mc- Nulty George Nation and Mr. Feltrs. During the discussion, attention was irected to the need for a downtown hall nark. At oresent. the games are played at the fair grounds, wnicn is declared to be not only too lar oui but so arranged that the spectators n the grandstand have a hard time watching the game. It has been sug gested that the committee get in touch with the owners of the ground where the old fair grounds were located, with a view to leasing them and ereefng a o-vsinilstnnd and fixinz ud a real ban park. Most of the men piesent at the meeting were of the opm:on that the project could be put across. bunty Assessor to Attend Conference at Lincoln Friday County Assessor John Pilkington will leave the-lat of the week for Lincoln, where he will attend a meet incr of county assessors and county clerks which has been called for rri dav. March IS. at 9 a. m. At thi meeting will be discussed the matter of simplifying the plan for the valua tion of real estate ir purposes ot taxation. The message received read as follows: i.aw reuuinnir revuiuauui ui irai estate makes imperative conference on assessors caned lur f uuaj, maim o, - 1 1 i r e:.i.. If..l. lu at Lincoln. State boartl urgently re quests your attendance and that coun ty board make provision for same problem. - Important. Shortage of time makes simplified plan necessary. Jack Guyton Sentenced to Term of Six Years in the Penitentiary Jack Guyton must serve tix years at ha.-d labor In the state penitentiary at Lincoln, in connection with the assault of Miss Marie Dawkins at the Lincoln hotel January 15, Overruling Guyton's motion for a new trial. District Judge Hobart Sat urday afternoon pronounced sentence upon him. Guyton will appeal to the supreme court. Meanwhile he has lieen brought from the county jail at Gering to the city jail at Scottsbluff, for temporary internment. For Guyton's offense, the minimum penalty is six years, and the maximum - twenty. Scottsbluff News. LITTLE JI0PI5 HELD FOR A RENEWAL OF POTASH INDUSTRY INVESTORS STAND TO LOSE A (It EAT DEAL ()V MONEY nly Hope Lies in Discovering Ways ' lo Recover Other Chemicals From Lake Water Three years ago the production of potash from the alkali lakes in the sand hill regions loomed up as the coming industry of Nebraska. Millions of dol lars were invested, and in a few in- tances investors made comfortable fortunes by selling out before th crash came. For the most part, how ever, investors stand to loso a great deal or money, says an Associated Press correspondence in the Piatt Valley Daily News. Less than three years ago there were a dozen or more comnanics en gaged in the production ami refining of potash in the state. AH but two of these companies are now closed. Fof the most part the closing down of those plants was brought about by the companies going bankrupt. The two exceptions are not producing potash for commercial purposes, but are; en gaged in experimental work. Du' ing the early days of the potash boom in Nebraska the product had a ready market in the United States ut $125 a ton. During the year follow- ng the fall of 1917, production of pot ash from the plants in this stat amounted to approximately 1,700 tons lailv. Thousands of tons of potash pro- luced in Nebraska are in storagrnear the great fertilizer manufacturing plants of the east and south. Producers soon after the signing. of the armistice efused to sell their product for less than $125 per ton and dealers refused, to buy it at that figure. Since then the price of potash has fallen steadily. I' ai mers of the south and elsewhere are said to be without money to pur chase fertilizer and manufacturers. therefore, are not buying potash at any price. Reports from 1 urope that the pot ash mines of Alsace, now under French control, have resumed opera tion also tend3 to throw cold water on. any immediate prospects for a resumn tion of production in Nebraska. The potash from these mines can be Im ported to the United States much . cheaper than it can lie produced here , by the present process. lie fore the war, Germany , was exporting potash to this country and selling it at about $12 a ton. The cost of manufacturing potash in Nebraska plants was esti- mated at approximately $30 a ton. Solids obtained from, the brine evap orated from the lakes of Nebraska con tained approximately 25 per cent pot ash. The remaining 7o per cent of solids contains soda and other chem icals of commercial vaiue. Chemists are now engaged in finding a working process for the recovery ot these byproducts.- If this problem is solved, the reduction of brine for potash vilK become secondary. Carl Modisite of Hoffland, one of the first men to appreciate the possibi,; ties of the alkali lakes, is one of the experts engaged in trying to find a commercial outle: for what ts now d - products in the mpnufacture of potash. (Continued on rage 4) Knights of Columbus Pian to Give Their Fourth Degree Here Alliance Knights of Columbus re making extensive plans for conferring the fourth, or pavtiotic degree, upon a large class of candidates, in the near future. The rules of the jpciety pro vide that the ceremonies must take place upon a day recognized as a na t onal holiday. It requires a special dispensation and a class of at least a hundred candidates, and both of these will be secured. District Judge Geor?e F. Corcoran of York, master of the fourth degree for Nebraska, will have charge of the ceremonies, and Federal Judge Martin K. Wade ot Iowa City is to be one of the distinguished guests. Visitors from Nebraska, Wy oming, South Dakota and other states will be in attendance for the cere monies, banquet and dance. Commit tees in charge of the affair will he announced later. Special Vaudeville Feature at Imperial Theater Jhis Evening 1 J. Coates Lock hart and his Scotch, lassies, concert artists and entertain ers, will be a special vaudeville attrac tion at the Imperial theater this eve ning. These people have been work ing together for years and have made a decided hit wherever they have ap peared. The program will be varied and pleasing. With Mr. Lockhatt are Miss Bess Adgate. soprano and ac companist and Miss Lulu Gieseke, violinist and pi mist. The photoplay feature tonight will be Miss Loui.-e Glaum in "Sex." Dr. J. P. Weyrens made a profess sional trip to Minatare Monday,