Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1921)
d rf -o Offidal Taper f Box Butte County TWICE A WEKK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY OUicial Paper of the City of Alliance VOLUME XXVIII. (Ton Pages) ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1921 NO. 62 C. OF CASK FOR A REDUCTION IN FREIGHT RATES SUBSTANTIAL DECREASE ASKED ON SrUDS AND LIVE STOCK 3Iileage Basis Will be Asked for Coal Rates from Mines Instead of Omaha and Lincoln Rates Officials of the Alliance chamber of commerce, working in conjunction with the Colorado traffic commission, are asking that the freight rate on pota toes from Alliance be reduced 35 per cent in time to handle this year's corp, according to George M. Carey, secre tary of the chamber. The Colorado traffic commission is organized in that state in accordance with a law passed by the last legisla ture and its purpose is to secure fair and equitable freight rates for ship pers in the western territory. The Alliance chamber is finding it advan tageous to co-operate with the Colo rado body in presenting matters to the Interstate Commerce commission. A strong protest is to be lodged against the recent decision of the rail- I UcHIB, US ailllUUJIlcU 111 bite jicn.pBn.ia to grant a reduction in the trans-continental rates without a corresponding reduction in freight rates to the mid dle west. The ship freight competi tion through the Panama canal is of course responsible for the decision to lower transcontinental rates. However, the middle west will not secure fair treatment unless it secures a corres ponding reduction. Congressman Kin caid has been written regarding the effect it will have in discriminating against western Nebraska, according to Secretary Carey. Another matter that is being taken jp at this time with the railroads which serve this territory is the propo sition of overhauling and repairing railroad freight cars which have been standing on sidings for many months, many of which need repair work which should be done at this time in order 10 avoid B Car snorwiKC wiicn mo ireoij shipping season comes. I he shipper r o - . I who can load direct from the field to . the cars, thereby securing the early crop prices, saving m nananng ex pense, in spoilage, and secure the best price orainarwv. iv is -"c these shippers have the car when they want them and special attention will be given by the chamber to this mat-, ter. The action of the Burlington in placing twenty-five car repairmen at work beginning July 5th at Alliance will have its effect. A determined effort is being made to secure a mileage basis for freight rates on coal shipped here from Sheri dan and its contributory coal produc ing territory. As stated in The Herald recently the present freight rate on coal is $4.00 per ton from Sheridan to , Alliance. The freight rate to Lincoln and Omaha is also $4.00 per ton. The distance from Sheridan to Alliance by rail Is 333 miles; from Sheridan to l - . rr m 1 CU...'.ln- Lincoln yjj nines; unu lium oiicnuau to Omaha 754 miles. It is seen from these figures that Alliance, less than - half the distance from the coal mines to Lincoln and Omaha, pays the same freight rates. Hot Cinders Get Tony SanderS tv. c.i.o tj.,.1: at the Alliance roundhouse, was in-' Wrf WnHav fWnnnn whpi. cleaning out the front end of engine er: Sm'th South Carol. na, Over tj 9Q& wf m ; man of North Carolina and Brou-sard his face, seriously injuring one eye..of Louisiana, democrats. 11 no,. nown whether or not his igm, wui oe savea. j iiimiinmiimrmmmTrifiiiiiiinumm PROCLAMATION The glorious Fourth of July is approaching, and I wish to appeal to the good citizens of the state through the columns of your most valuable paper, in protecting the sacrifice of life and limb together with the great destruction by fire of proper ties in this great domain, through the careless handling of fireworks. All possible care and caution should be used for fire pre vention as well as public safety. Fireworks indicate a desire for excitement rather than patriotism. However, if fireworks must be used in the celebration of that great day, the Fourth of July, which we all revere, I want to impress upon the minds of the public that small children should not be allowed to handle fireworks as they are too young to realize the danger. A safe and sane fourth was celebrated throughout the atate during 1920, and aa a result, our records show no casualties and but a very meagre fire loss from that cause. I wish to appeal to the public to give us your assistance in making the Fourth of July for 1921, as safe from accident and free from fire as in years when the danger has been less. Very truly yours, C E. HARTFORD, State Fire Marshal Lincoln, Nebraska, June 29, 1921. THE WE ATI I Ell Generally fair today and tomorrow except thunder showers in west to night or Saturday; cooler in west and north portions Saturday. Mrs. Charles Naylor of Chadron is to be Buried Saturday Mrs. Iona Naylor of Chadron, form er past Grand Matron of the Rebekah grand lodge of Nebraska, died at San Diego, California, on Sunday, June 26. The funeral services will be held Sat urday afternoon at Chadron. Her hus band, Hon. Charles Naylor, with her father, their Fon and daughter-in-law, accompanied the body from San Diego to Chadron. They arrived in Alliance on the incoming Denver train Thurs day noon and left with the body on No. 43, going via Crawford. Mr. Nay lor is at the present time grand master of the I. O. O. F. grand lodge of Ne braska. He was called to California two weeks ago by the serious illness of Mrs. Naylor. Alliance Rebekahs will learn with sadness of her death, for she was very popular here and visited lodge sessions a number of times. Celebration All Day on July Fourth at Home of Alliance Country Club Members of the Alliance Country Club and their families will celebrate all day July fourth, Monday, at the club grounds at Broncho lake. The golf tournament will begin on Sunday, the day before with an elimination contest. The cafe will open for serv ice Sunday night. The golf features include a free-for-all on the fourth in charge of Roy Beckwith and Bernard Holsten. A ladies' approach and putting contest will be a feature and a drive contest will be staged for both women and men. All golfers should look over the bulletin board at the club not later than Saturday night, in order to be posted on events. Walter Metz will be in charge of the sack and potato races. Bill Barnett ttllU UUllll uukuiiu irin lime vuaic wi the fireworka which wU probably be shown in the lake, out from the pier, Ben Sallows will have charge of the water sports which will include swim ming, diving and tub . races. Prizes will be given for all events. The ten nis courts are being rapidly rushed to completion and will probably be ready by Saturday night. There will be a dance Monday night at the club house. William Howard Taf t is Made Chief Justice by President Harding Washington, D. C. Former Presi dent William Howard Taft was nom inated late Monday by President Hard ing to be chief justice of the United States and his nomination was con .firmed by the senate in executive ses- ' - - sion. The senate's doors were closed for discussion of the nomination after sug gestions that Mr. Taft be confirmed in "open executive" session, because he is a former president, had been rejected bv his opponents. Senators Borah and Johnson led the Taft, while he was defended by about a dozen senators, including Knox of Pennsylvania, Kellogg of Minnesota and Willis of Ohio, republicans an. Underwood of Alabama, minority lead Glen Joder anit Ray Edwards left Wednesday night for Omaha. litmmtmntmttnt INDIAN TRIBES CLAIM LAND IN SOUTH DAKOTA SEVEN MILLION ACRES ARE IN VOLVED IN SUIT Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., Secretary of State, One Council for Red Men Son of of Since the meeting in Omaha last week of representatives of ten differ ent Indian agencies, where a confer ence was held on their claim against the federal government, speculation has been rife as to what damages might eventually be allowed in case the suit is won by the red men, who are representedby Charles E. Hughes. Jr., son of the secretary of state, and three other members of his father's law firm of New York. It is estimated that the claim of the Indians may eventually reach a quar ter of a billion dollars. The delegates who met at Omaha with their counsel were one Cheyenne, one Arapahoe and eight of the Sioux nation. They are claiming damages for the alleged seiz ure of lands including the Black ll'lla and their gold mines, which lands they claim were never properly ceded to the government. The Hughes law firm proposes to bring the litigation before the .'ourt of Claims at Washington, and in the ordinary procedure the department of justice is then instructed to- go into the field and estimate the alleged dam age sustained by the Indians when the Great White Father, as they aver, wrongfully deprived them of their hunting grounds. If it is decided to make the damage claim only on the land lying between the forks of the Cheyenne river end the 103 and 104 degrees of longitude west, only 7,000,000 acres will be in volved. The original treaty between the government gave the Indians the privilege of hunting over the territory west of the Missouri river as far a3 the east range of the Rockies, south to the north branch of the Platte and north to the Canadian boundary. This tract includes more than 30,000,000 acres. Pleadings in the case indicate that it does not involve a mere trifle. The lands of which the Indiams claim to have been unlawfully and wrongfully deprived in violation of a treaty of 1868 constitute a tract about a hun dred miles square, or aDDroximatelv 10,000 square miles, or between sit and seven million acres. At that time this land could probably have been held at $1.25 an acre. That part of the tract lying in the Black Hills in cludes the Homestake mine, which, it is claimed, has been producing at the rate of $10,000,000 a year. It is owned by the Hearst estate. It is estimated by the claimants that this mine alone entitles them to recover around $400, UUU.UUU. If other lands were held at current values it would swell the total to a quarter of a billion more. Coun sel for the Indians declared while in Omaha that they would seek a money consideration rather than recovery of the lands. The fact that the Indians were able to induce congress to per mit tnem to sue the government is re II 1 . a . .... garaea as evidence tnat potential in fluences are enlisted in behalf of the Indians. (Continued on Page 2) Lions Club Gets Behind Municipal Pier Project at Broncho Lake Beach The Lions club .at its regular week ly meeting on Thursday, voted to get behind the project for the municipal bathing pier at Broncho lake, two miles west of Alliance, and will take an active part in the work of raising iunas ana erecting the building and pier at the east or south side of the lake. ouniy Attorney lee uasve was appointed as chairman of a committee of three, which includes Georce M Carey and True Miller, to take charge of the project. It was reported this morning that enthusiastic citizens had already subscribed sufficient funds to start operations. The Dlan of the boosters is to erect a building for a bath house and shelter, from which will extend the bathing pier. The use of the bath house and pier is to be free to citizens of All visitors. A visitor to th lake WfW. day evening reported that he counted nity cars there with Dart es of bath- ers and picnickers. The plan of Alli ance boosters for a number of years, to make Broncho lake a popular west ern Nebraska summer resort, is finally taking definite form. The lake is a body of water covering half to three- quarters of a section of land and has aandy shores, with a depth of water up to eight and ten feet W. K. Turner of th Bayard sugar ractory visited the Alliance den of liona Thursday on his way home from a vi git oi three weeka in the east n report an attendance averaging 92 per cent at the Bayard den, with mucn interested manifested by the en tire community. Thomas Katen, who haa been very MAY ESTABLISH GOAT FARM FOR LOCAL PATRONS WELL KNOWN ALLIANCE MAN CONSIDERING PROPOSITION Roberts Now Has Two High Priced Pure Bred Goats on Back Lot Three Quarts of Milk Daily P. D. Roberts, the well known Alli ance pure bred animal fancier, is seri ously considering the establishment of goat dairy business near this city. Mr. Roberts is known as the owner and breeder of registered dogs and other animals and lor some time past has been the owner of two pure bred goats. male and female, which he has cared for on his property in the eastern part of the city, and which have been the recipenls of much attention from peo ple interested in milk goats. Mr. lloberts is now on a trip to California and will visit different goat farms in that state before returning for the purpose of investigating the proposition fully before starting oper ations here. In the last few years the goat dairy business has been growing by leaps and bounds. Not only in the cities is the industry forging to the front, but in the country districts farmers are learning the economical and health ad vantages of goat milk. L. Ralph-Smith of Denver, who has a goat milk dairy at 6201 Tennyson street, delivers sixty quarts of milk daily and has the fol lowing to say regarding goat milk: "Goat milk is the most nutritious and most easily digested food known. A healthy stomach will digest goat milk in twenty minutes. "It contains ten times as much iron as cow milk, hence it is a tonic, as well as a food, and builds up the red blood corpuscles. "It carries a much greater percent age of butter fat than cow's milk and in a much more digestible form. The curd of goat milk is soft and flakv while that of cow's milk is touirh and heavy. : i "Its lactic acid shows more than twice the affinity for the stomach that cow's milk does. "It contains a greater ner cent of vitam' -sjthan any other human food known,.' nas a greater content of pro teins than cow's milk, and is absolutely iree or tuoercuiar anu other infectious germs." A3 to the economical advantages, C. Bray of the Colorado agricultural college, Fort Collins, says: "lhe yearly feed rcuuirement for a doe is about 300 pounds of hay and 450 pounds of grain. The total cost per year will be about $10 to $15. The annual production of a good doe is 400 to 500 quarts, although many will give more than this and poorer ones less. They may be kept in a house and yard no larger than an ordinary town chicken house and yard." lhe retail price of goats milk is 50 cents a quart. The animals are docile and friendly and make excellent pet3 for children. Mr. Bray tells of a visit to a Fort Collin woman who has five thorough Drei loggenDurgs. une was giving a gallon of milk a day and the others were doing almost as well. He v was particularly interested in the diet of the goats. (Continued on Tage 8) Another Gusher for Alliance Oil Company Blows In on Sunday The Carroll Oil company, owned and officered by Alliance men, is the proud owner of another Osage oil gusher which drilled itself in Sunday at a depth of 1,200 feet, got away from its drillers, and spouted 283 barrels of the high grade Osage oil in 24 hours. This makes the tenth well drilled successfully on Carroll Oil company land, all of which are producing oil in paying quantities, and proves up a new block of territory, being east of the first gusher which was brought in during March, 1920. Owners of units in the Alliance-Osage Oil trust, which is owned largely by another group of Alliance men, are encouraged and pleased bv the new gusher, as it helps prove up holdings in an adjoining sec tion in which they are interested. The new well is on the northeast quarter of section 19 and was brought in by the Sinclair Oil company, who have 480 acres in that section leased from the Carroll Oil company. Officers of the Carroll Oil company are J. O. Walker, president: ueioss Barber, vice president: Charles Brit- tan, secretary and treasurer. Others interested in the company at Alliance are: William King, Dick O'Bannon, and Dr. H. A. Copsey. Active drilling, which is to start soon by a number of different com panies, has been delayel by the tight money situation, on the holdings of the Alliance-Osage oil trust, adjoining the holdings of the Carroll company on the north. Among the local owners of the AUianc'e-Osare company are J.' D. Emerick, IL 11 Reddish, R. M. Baker, C. M. Looney, F. A. Bald. Frank Abegg. Lloyd C Thomas, and a large number of traveling men in thia terri ody of Sncdckcr Was Found in Bushes on Bank of Platte Itiver A dispatch from Fort Morgan, Colo., states that the body of Elmer C. Snedeker of Sterling, fireman on Burlington passenger train No. 303, from Billings, Mont., to Denver, who was drowned two weeks agcrwhen the locomotive on which he was workinsr plunged through a steel bridge into the Hooded I'latte river, was found Tues day afternoon in a clump of bushes a mile and a half down stream from the scene of the accident. The bodv was so badly decomposed that identification was made only through Burlington switch keys found in one of the pock ets of the fireman's coveralls Snodeker wore. The body was found by Robert Bomberg, one of the paid searchers who was engaged by the Burlinirton for that purpose. lhe clump of bushes in which the body was found is located some dis tance from the river. The ill-fated locomotive has already sunk forty feet below the bed of the river and is still slowly sinking in the river quicksands. It is understood that the Burlington officials have abandoned all efforts to recover the locomotive. Child Wonder Drives Three Teams Jlorses and Calls It Play Miss Meyrl Roland, a nine-year-old farmer's daughter, living thirteen miles west of Berea, handles six horses as easily as the ordinary farm hand handles two, and plows sod, han dles a hay sweep, and thinks it play. John Bayne, The Herald's traveler, in stopping at the farm of L. A. Po land, found the young lady working in the field, handling a hay sweep. On interviewing Miss Roland, Mr. BasTie found that she had been driv ing horses for the past two years and although rather small for her age, she drove six horses this summer, with two in the lead, handling a breaking plow, breaking the tough "nigger wool ' Hox liutte county sod. Miss Roland told Mr. Bayne that she likes field work better than house work and her father stated that she can harness and hitch a team as well as any of the hired men. , SeldertAV. lyes Died . . - Wednesday Night at His Home in Alliance Selden W. Ives, aged thirty-nine ears and ten months, died at his ome in Alliance at 7:30 o'clock on Wednesday evening, June 29. Death was caused by erysipelas, from which he had been suffering for some time. Mr. Ives is survived by his wife and nine children, the eldest being four teen years of age. lhe funeral win be held at ten o'clock Saturday morn ing from the Baptist church. Mr. Ives is a former u., & y. Doiiermaicer and took an active part in politics, having been a candidate for the nom ination for state representative at the last election. A number. of relatives will be present from out of town for the funeral. F. M. Russel and daughter Opal drove over to Chadron Wednesday and returned that same evening. nimnrmmfflMiiiniiimiitiiiimiiimiiiiimmiHiiiiimitn Resolution by Lions Club WHEREAS, we believe that the' present tendency among nations to appropriate large sums of money for the purpose of building up armies and navies is a menace to the future peace of the world, and WHEREAS, we believe that no just and secure foundation for permanent peace can be established until and unless the great powers agree upon a program of reasonable disarmament,' and WHEREAS, we believe that the United States of America, because of its high position and influence among nations, is best fitted to assume the leadership in a program of world disarma ment, and that without such leadership by the United States little can be accomplished toward a lasting peace among nations, and WHEREAS, we believe that not only the interest of a just and righteous peace, but also the economic and financial stability of nations depend upon their attitude toward a reasonable limita tion of armaments, and WHEREAS, we believe that the success or failure of a dis armament program rests in large measure upon the undelayed action of the congress of the United States of America, and that unless such a movement is sponsored by the Congress another great war is likely to ensue, therefore, be it RESOLVED by the Liona Club of Alliance, Nebraska, that its members unanimously and respectfully urge upon the mem bers of the Nebraska delegation in Congress that they use their great influence toward securing a reasonable limitation of anna tments by the United States, thereby setting an example to the other great powers, to the end that a righteous and permanent peace may be assured throughout the world. (Signed) EARL G. JONES. EDWIN M. BURR, KENNETH R. HAMILTON, Committee. LOCAL MEN SAW HUGE CARAVAN OF IOWA BOY SCOUTS SIXTY CARS VISITED THE BLACK HILLS ON WAY WEST. Alliance Citizens Should Give Backing to local Council in Efforts to Corn plete their Camp at Bronco Lake Two Alliance men, Norman McCois. kle and Donald Maloney, while oa v trip to the Black Hills lasi week, viewed the enormous caravan convey ing nearly three hundred Clinton, la., boy scouts and escorts on a trip of 3,000 miles. The caravan, which includes sixty autos and trucks, left Clinton on th morning of June 20. Its itinerary cov ers more than, 3,000 miles with Yel lowstone Park as the western objec tive. "Never before has a project of this nature been handled in the Unite! States and it is being watched with, much interest all over the country. It, is having the effect of also calling at tention to the Boy Scout movement, over the country. An Alliance boosts er, A. V. Gavin, who is secretary of; the Rotary Club, has always taken, much interest in the boy scout move, ment and is watching this trip with much interest. The trip is sponsored by the Clinton Boy Scout Council and will cost $10, 000, with $25 contributed by each, scout and the remainder assumed by Clinton citizens. It is estimated that the wear, tear and upkeep of the sixty car) and trucks will amount to $20, 000, all of which were donated for use. by Clinton citizens and business firms. Every members of the party is in uniform and the personnel includea doctors, nurses, chauffeurs, mechanics, and commanders. Military rules ar followed and the thing goes like clockwork. Going out the procession wended its way across Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota and Wyoing. Returning front the pnrk it will traverse Wyoming Nebraska and into Iowa. Alliance would have the opportunity of being host to the scouts had it been possi ble to get out east by auto road--per. haps, when the Potash Highway U completed we will be "on the map" t . undertakings of this -nature. Cities! . along the route traversed meet them, , with bnnds and guides are usually fur- ; nished to scout the roads ahead, mark ing bad roads and turns. The Interest manifested in the Aili ance Council of the boy scouts is grow ing daily. Work was commenced Usfc. week on the week-end camp at Bron co lake, under the supervision of-. Scoutmaster K. R. Hamilton. The plans call for a building 40-20 feet with an 8-foot porch extending alon& one side. The boys are showing great interest in their new home, which. will certainly fill a need in the Uvea of the city's young folks. Every citizen is urged to get behind the project and,., see it through to completion. B. Aufdengarten, prominent Wyomv ing ranchman from near Sunrise, ia in. the city today on business. He wai formeriy the owner of a large ranch , Arthur county hut moved to Wyoraina a year ago, where he had purchased the famous 4-J ranch in Platte county it iiinminiimniiiiiiiiimii'ipuiiiniimiiiiimtm H'niiiiiiiiiiin;iiimiiiniiin bjck, is mucn unprorea. tory. iHiiuiiiiiiiiimtim """" iniiiiuLimiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiuiiiimimttg