THE AMJANCH HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1921.
HAY SPRINGS
. HAS NOTHING
' ON BOX BUTTE
AVNTALCItorOKIt TT I.K.H N A K I i
STOK!i;S SHOWING I V.
I orr rvi(Vnt In Omulm Nwsjiir
IraP lh linn )er-
shirl..s W h.-.lc Siiiry
TIip " rp s-a riofr lrr" th;it 1 :n o
cintly starlk'il H.iy SiTinps rr. idonfx
hy its nrr:iinnal ii)K ar.'un:'- in a .sand
hill lik his nothing on t!;f urmual
crop of rattlr.-niikc; :irnl ruU!c:;naki'
j-forios uhitli a iiiiikmK it-t appcar
j;rico on tli pl:i ns t' western N'li:i.--Kn,
writrs an AlliHiirn corrpspomlfnl
to one of tlio Omaha nowspupf'ts.
Cbarlo? r.iwsPi-, it well-known
ranch mnn living nriir tlie JS!.t riilan
county linp, whose vir:oity i.s unUPH
tinnP'i, avpm that cmo day la:-t w''k
while driving Ids I'ord alonjf tw coun
try road and while pcssinK m rather
hiph mound, known throughout Hip
country ax "Pox JJuUp" Iktuu.p of its
culiar shipp and from which ISo't
tuttc county was ni'.med thirty-four
rnrn oso, ho hcurd a ruiiou.H hut in
sistent humminsr or Iuz2incr .sound, of
xriryinp hut very ponHratinic intensity.
IliiWhir, thinkiinR that perhaps hp
h.-id lost n whorl oil" thp flivver, pot
ut and lookpd aiouml the car. He
then dif-ooveied Hint the huzzing
unl. l.ike that of a kit at hive of heen,
camp from the top of I5o Hutte.
fira.-pini hi tnisty luhlp-imrrrpl
j-hntjrun, which lay in the had: seat
(why, we do not kiio, for ducks :irul
chickens are d ill out of .season) he
riimbod the irnis.v slop to lh top
n? the hutte, workim; u; a fierce sweat
i he did , for. the (icy wus hot ut'.d
j- was mid -afternoon."
On nrrivincr at the top he was tin
jdilc to sre for a minute, duo to the
Vveat which filled hi eye;;, hut with
h's free hind hi? brushed away the
evidence. of toil fron his eyen and
Vrow, and thp next minute a chill ran
lon his ppini.1-which fioo.'.o hitn stiff,
fer in the center of the mound, rising
Tup to a height of nl.ut three feet,
was pyramid which squirmed and i
tr.oved, and from which the buzzing I
I : . I i ... '
j-eunus j; sued a pyramid oi rauie-1
wiake.s, from the top of which issued !
t?e head of an et.oriaous rattler,;
T.j'irer than the lis t, ar.il w in li waved
in an 1 fro, apparently i'ri comm.-'.nd of
tr.o bunch, monarch of hII be surveyed, j
Howj er was frozen to the spot by .
th horrible sirhl anil unable to turn
and run. From the wai.st down he was j
immovable but from the wai.-t up he '
sprang intp e;u!ck action. Leveling hi.s !
t'lin at the pyramid he tiuicklv fired
h ith barrels and just a.s uuickly he'ef
filled and fired twice again. So sure .
was his aim and so compact was the
)ynmid of rattlers that with four j
shots he dispatched them all, not a
living snake getting away.
As evidence of hi.s ntory he collected
the rattles f om the dead snakes and
mow has four een complete sets, rung-;
sng from six rattles and a button fori
the youngest to fourteen rattles and a '
4uttonhook, evidently the trophy from 1
the "king" diamondback which had 1
neen at the top of the pyramid. Al
though a number of brave and intrepid
fc&akc hunters have since visited the
pot nnd searched the surrounding
country far and wide, not a rattler
has been spen. With one blow, as it
were, of his trusty gun he evidently
annihilated the entire unake popula
tion. John Jelinek, former county asses
sor, who lives near tlie Dawes county
line, 'avers that not long since he Raw
fight to the death between a bull
snake and a rattler. Roth were enor
mous snakes and the fight took an
hour, much longer than the recent
Carpentier-Dempsey rumpus. At the
e?A of the hour the. bull snake sue
ccedecl in wrapping itself around the
rattler, somewhat like Joe iStecher'ti
scissors hold, and w ith a mighty ef
fort, pulleel the rattler completely in
two, ending the light. Others, who
hnve seen similar snake battlea, tes
tify that the bull snake wilt always
win, using similar tactics.
Chester Iloss, living to the west,
relates that he ha.s found a new kind
if snake, about six feet long, with a
'head like an Indian arrowhead. John
1'uyne, who has lveu touring the coun
try for The Alliance Herald during
recent weeks, avers that while elriving
his flivver along the country roads one
recent afternoon, he ran over one of
these snakes, aslee p in the road. lie
slowed eiown to see; if he hail ki'.leel
t and started to climb from the car,
when suddenly the snake came to life
;md with great speed glided to the
flivver anil entwined itself around the
s;'kps of ore of the rear wheels in
an evident attempt to enter thu car
iivl i.ttack him. The car happened to
le one of the closed "coupe" tyiH,
which prevented the sn.-.kc from find-
)ng an entrance, lie quickly tartet
the machine and soon was going at a
m- rd of r.t least thirty miles an hour.
The snake lost h;s huM on the wheel
:.il v. - ca: :irr.,l'..'d through the air
.'!:r.'.rc,a;iy, strik.ng a l.e.tvy l'-vre
tk" f 1'iv.d iii .! with such force that its
'.se-ul entered the ro.t to a eoiv-Mrr-
flie eh tt:nce. As evidence of tl
'.ritr.fuirit"-;s f hi.; t-try be aveis tn .t
it c.n ft I! be fo-.-..vi bnr j.tnjj wht.re
it iruek t'-.? OsU
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'. 0. I'.e'.'.v 1 11, owner of the build
e.'teup'cd by tlie Fmon' cre-im-stt.tie.n,
h h '. '!! the build. tig
.j-'.eic'y r -e.o.!.'!."i.
CAIirTot- THANKS.
Wc wi.-h t'j e.tei'd uur heartfelt
th;.nk-' to our maey fi tends and rc.i.gb
l.or.; for their kindness and Kymp.-thy
j.m1 for the beautiful floral oiferir.gs
blaring enr r-cet Uucavcniert.
J. N. John. .to a fu.d l-'ami'y.
TOO LUK 10 CLASSIFY
FOli PALKPotatoe at 20c jcr'
bu hcl at my firm iVd miles east
f Yule S.tunj. Piiue tUIT3. W
WESTERN EDEN
Newly Created St.itc Paik Near Center of Dawes County,
South of Chadron, a Ileal Ikauty Spot.
When the 1921 ehras'a legislature
f-t aside 010 acre.-t of the INne clail
hill right miles sou!h of Chadron for
the first st ite park in Nebraska, it
l uihled Ixdtcr lln.n it knew.
Primarily, a p .it of the pi-eat wet
that vi'.i, this h-ection of thp tate h:u
i i. en the last to he d"vclox d, hy the
hand of man. YIip foot h; , I of the
Koekic'i are hut a few hours travel
we.tvvar.l. In fact, travelers through
Hi region believe they have reached
the real beginning of tlie scenic splen
hr about which they have read so
run h. I Jugged, towering bills covered
with pines, the slopes matted with
irgin blue grass, the valleys and
ravines awaken echoc of the ice cold
stony streams that traverse them, ini-(
pressing the beholder with the belief,
that here is the Western Kdert, the '
real beauty spot of Nebraska.
l'he act creating the first tate park '
was introduced by Senator James W,
Hood and Representative fleorge C.
Snow, both of Dawes county. It spe
cifically provides for the establishment
of a tate park within the limits of
section .'10, township 32, range 11 west ravines is especially adapted for the
of the 0th P. M..i Pawes county, Ne- laying out of several miles of auto
bra.-ka. An appropriation for the pur- diiveways, while in upper reaches
pose of caring for, developing, beauti-1 broad -fext- paths -may he made to
f.ving thH tract of nature's wonder make the summits of the different
land will he included in the Governor's peaks" more "accessible' to the pedes
budget, and will Ik; expended by the tiian. It is u matter of several hours
Hoard of Kducational Lands and Funds journey to encircle the park at present
as trustee. The actual devi lepn-rt of cv.':;:,t; the vur!r'.i! eVmhs .-'"d stoen
lh park is committed to the Mepnrt
ment of Public Works.
This, then, is the general gi.-t of the
law which gives us, our children and
our children's children a perpetual
layground, easily acce ssible h orn any i
direction. Lying along the state and
federal hiVhway from Alliance to Hot
Spring;, S. I)., it forms the hub of a
gigantic wheel with spekes? radiating
to th nearby cities of Alliance, Mar -land,
llemingford, lMmont, Ciaw
ford, Whitney, Wavside, Hot .Sprin-";,
1'ine Hidge, Hay Springs and Chadion.
A detailed description of the new
p:;rk reads like the prospectus of the
-'uli forn ia retd estate man, with the
reserved explanation that it is all true
I :,.!,.. t u: . i.i - 1 ..i
iM'i,l,:" l" l1,s puouc iM .isure pioi..
S;ven varieties f native timber grow
ml iKiuri-n Here, a.-h, walnut, pme,
lei, ;o eldi'
and cottonwood tree, 1
!cah variety stands at a different level
!nrou.tout the park, the pines, some
oi" tl em estimated at 2.0 years of ji-e,
deeply rooted at the higher altitudes,
the other varieties growing in heavy
pii"uion at the lower level. Wild
fruits whine nativity reaches back
gener;.t:ons are here in abundance and
n be had for the labor of gathering. '
Iievr berries, wild grapes, plums and
choke cherries are plentiful along
hadrcm creek, the brawling, purling
tr.:r::u:u::
Read
stream dunning through one side of
the park. With the rod and fly the
fisherman marc th elusive rainbow,
yjieckJedand brook trout, 1,'ach yeai
the i-t ite hatcheries .i-nl tin; fish car
so thi't the stream may be replenished
with fingerlings of these varieties.
'1 he la. t hi,)iiu rtt was ),0'i().
The stream fed by inexhaustible
springs both furth r up the pine hill:
imd vn the park premi.es lias many
deep jvoU of clear ever changing
water which i the delight of the
bather and swimmer. Already is pro
jected jin imme nse pool fe,i mod by a
sheeT ! foot clitf in a bend on one
side, and a gentle grassy slope leading
down to the stream on the other
Here the young Nebraska mountain.,
green the year around with the slow
growing trees, rear their rock covered
heads as observation points for the
sightserr- for many miles in every
direction. On a clear day the higher
points of the famous I'lack Hills to
the north, more than 100 miles away
areTustty" distinguishable.
The locations of the valleys and
certs to Im neyotiatml. Th vsdley
and the .stream banks are easily
traversed by car and on foot.
Wild animal life such a:-, is usual!'
found in the state owned parks can
flourish here in al' -e:ssois. Native to
this rcHnn nre t'n u'nil an.) erouse.
Occa.-.ionp.llv r.ntelope ai--? sen in the
vicinity, coming down from tlie I'lack
Hills country to the rovth and rioith
vet. With the tract entirely fenced
it will be a matter of but a few year.
until this first Nebraska park W'M con
tain the wild life as shown and oh
served in other weslern parks not so
easily reached an. I re more beautiful.
The territory adjacent to the p;r!
is served by the main I'ne of the Chi
cago & Xoith Western on the north
anil the main line of the Hurlington to
the south. A trp throii'h the entire
legion will make the n itive Nelira-kai:
g.isp with a.;tonishmei t and suiprisei!
pleasure for itinn revr been e?:rloit
' d and has been little iit.sl by these
from eastern Nebraska.
For years to come all of Nebraska's
cUTzeiiiloi'ii can point with bene.-.',
pride to nature's plyrr'fur.d near it"
ve. t"rn boundrv. It i.s an in-mratmr
to view this locality and to walk it
cool shady paths with tl knowlede-i
that it belongs to all of us. A bit;
cred't mark i.s due the future effort
Take the Short
WHEN you were a youngster you
never went to school the long way
'round ! You took a short cut.
Every advertisement in The Herald is a
short cut. Advertisements make it pos
sible to tell you in a few minutes all you
want to know about the service or articles
you need.
At a glance you can sift out the things
that interest you most and in a moment
you know just when and where to go for
what you want.
Figure how many steps, how much -needless
walking and talking the advertise
ments thus save you and your neighbors.
Then you realize the gieat economy and
necessity of advertising in your daily Mfe.
All the Advertisements
hich will be put forth to hold thLi
spot in its prestine beauty and wc
c;-n pay tribute to the Creator of
Reality that He gave to all Nebraska
citizens thir first state park.
(Note This article is published by
reejuest of the Chadron Kotary club,
; nirn is .-'thing ia acouaini me cn
1 izens of Nebraska with the advantages
wi i i'. suies iiii, j'.w n ;
URILUNC. II S STAKTri)
AT Till; I.AKF.SIDK WKLR
( Continued from Page 1)
in locating wells in the various fi1d.s in
that stnte. n.iing their hoprs on the
v ipti'h-.-tick man, with fpvorable re
ports from geoloyivts to help bolster
up their courage, a private .--rd irate
v.Ks orgaiiiz.vl. and capital of $I2",000
was secured fiim the memlK-rs, it i
repoited. A none those w-ho are said
to Irive an interest in the piojrct i're
Ileber Ho;d, John 0. Woexlward, Vic
tor I. Jepp, W. K. Richardson and
others.
The site of the well is a short dis
U.nce ve-t of lakeside, on the Potash
highway. The syndicate worked ex
ceedingly rapidly. Within a space of
a few week?, ail the adjacent lends, to
the amount of thousands of acres, was
leased, materials were ordered and ex
pert d'illing and rig men were import
ed from California. The sunorinten
dent is B. H. McKinley, of Fullerton.
Calif., and Fred Blunier of the Hord
H'taiih plant, is in general supervision
over the outfit.
For weeks before the arrival of the
rig and other machinery, rumors were
rife in Lakeside and the nearby terri
te ry. The men who were representing
the syndicate were close-mouthed, and
allowed very little information con
cerning the plans to be made public.
No stock of any ort has been offered
for sale, and it is said that pone of
it en be seeurod. Th men who are
Win-rthcTTjnrnb'e "are -amply rble to
'use wlr.t money l.liey have put into it,
and lh."y stand t be big winners if
they strike oil. (hie of the chief in
duceiaerts to iti.Uiag was the fact
that a find of oil or natural gas on
this location wouM mean the re
habilitation of the potash plant.. It
was the high cost of coal that made it
unpro'itub'e to operate the-e plants
"omhlued with the I.itrh cost of other
rrat"iiils and labor, but if oil can be
secured for fne' it is tlie belief o?
resblent- of the potash towns thr.t
the war-time pro. perity will come bad;
u-running.
Lakeside Not L'xeited.
With the piospect of wealth untold
facing it, Ihn town of I.akesiile is not
mis.-inL' a : iogle breath. Things
going ab'u-r in the usual ruts, although
the oil veil i one of the chief tonics
of converset iou. If the drillers -houb'
strike oil or u'.".s, I.;.'.cs:de ;.nd Al,;
ii.ee will prob.. ' jxiicnce a hie;
growth overr.iebt, but aside from the
throngs of vi;tors in automobiles,
thre is go indication that any resident
has vision of sudden ileal th.
Town lot nre still th? .same price in
I.akes'ile, although it is not known
whether there are any of them for
sale. The drilling will luive to con
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tinue for so long that it will probably J
be several months before the advance
cuard of the boomers comes to the!
city. Usually, with drilling going on
in several places apait from any es-j
tabli?hel wells, the tendency is to wait 1
until there are some definite indica-j
t:ons of oil production before the rush,
starts.
The men who ar Ix-hind tlie Lake
t;"ji" Mii
SEPTEMBER 1921
SUN MQN I T"lC I WEO I TMU I FRI j SAT
S 5' 6" 7 8 9")
This week is Paramount Week tlie greatest seven days
and nights of entertaintnent since tlie day when you saw
your first circus.
It's the fourth annual Paramount Week at that; and
when anylhi'v? happens four annual times in the motion
picture world you can wajrer there's value there, in thrills
and .laughs and all the marvelous sensations ycu get when
you see a Paramount Picture.
Nothing le.s than a national screen carnival that's
what Paramount Week is! f
Regardless of the Attraction the Admission
will remain the same Children 10c, Adults 30c
Tonight, Last Showing' of
WALLACE KEID, in
"THE LOVE SPECIAL"
Comedies Change Daily
WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY,
SEPTEMBER 7 and 3
THOMAS MEIGHAN, in
"THE EASY ROAD"
Comedies Change Daily
FRIDAY and SATURDAY,
SEPTEMBER 9 and 10
ROSCOE (FATTY) ARBUCKLE, in-
"Brewster's Millions"
!i.'"!M!i'Ul'lllimm;;;;;Mfffi.
We Can Handle it
111 Aoy Amount
BIG OR LITTLE
Bring in your wheat, no matter what
amount you have-car lots or less-and we
are equipped to handle it.
We have just installed
carload each that will enable us to trAo care of you -you
Uh. You don't h :ive tn writ i.r'W
we c:in accocnjcdatc you at
GHAIN BLOWER IS WOFifONG
, 0ur rfin ,'I,;Wer'is cn Rov, a:vj practically.
Call Us Up cr Corns
oi
It. J. TIJAIiKKT, M?kv
;er
side well are eepipped with plenty oC
money and patience, and are enough
convinced ot their prosrwets that they
ore prepared to carry the drilling on
for at least five thousand feet and give
the field a thorough test. If they
win the whole sandhill country and
surrounding territoy will win with
them. If they lose, they can take it
philosophically.
three lares bir.s-!ioMn r,r
one
as
...... unwi tu j,vi a c.ujoui
load,
any ti.r.?.
I:: - We Can Take Care
You.
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