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JOfficial Paper of Box But; nty
TNVICE A WEEK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
Official Taper of the City of Alliance
VOLUME XXVIII.
ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1921
No. 07
SCHOOL BOARD
DISCUSS THEIR
BUILDING PLANS
MEET WITH CHAMBER OF COM
MERCE MEMBERS
Business Men Ask Questions Showing
They Are Interested in the
Financial Side
There was a big attendance of busi
ness men at the Monady noon luncheon
-of the chamber of commerce, when the
members of the Alliance school board
'were present, and ther ewas con.sid-
erable discussion of the board's plan
to proceed with the sale of bonds and
-begin construction work on new school
buildings some time in the spring.
E. M. Martin, president of the board,
.said that the board was glad to meet
"with the business men and learn their
views. There had been considerable
comment on high taxes, he said, and
-the board desired to learn whether it
was the sentiment of the community
.that they go ahead with the plans.
Superintendent Fate gave a few
school statistics and then offered to
-answer any questions concerning
.school work. The enrollment thi3
year, he aid, was not as large as
.had been expected, the total being
1,141 in the high school and grades.
There are forty-one teachers, an av
erage of 38 pupils per room in the
grades and 27 pupils per teacher in
the high school. The enrollment was
1,131 last year, an dlast year showed
-a gain of 145 over the preceding year.
F. W. Harris gave some tigures
:showing the levy for the county for
this year and last, in which it was
.shown that if there is any increase in
.taxes, it is not due to the schools, for
the mill levy is the same this year as
last. The property valuation in the
school district, he said, is $4,875,095.
If the $200,000 of bond sare sold, this
-nvill mean during the next ten years
an interest burden of $12,000 a year.
.After ten years, it will be necessary
to establish a sinking fund to pay oft
me Domis. ine mm levy win nave
to be .increased 12 mills, which will
increase the school assessment 13 per
cent, but will equal a 6 per cent in-
crease on the totaL That is when
'tbe "bonds Are sold, taxpayers who paid
3100 will pay $106. State taxes in
i VnvT, V
' ana c.'V.y ra.XeS fU. P5rCe.nl
creased
per cent
lor 1921 over 1920. he said, but the
school levy wa3 not changed.
There was some discussion as to the
effect of lowered freight rates on
prices of building material, and
whether the maintenance cost would
le materially increased with more
school buildings. A new heating plant
-will have to be purchased, but the
same janitor will be used. The same
teachers will be used, save with a pos
sible addition in the high school.
City Manager Kemmish explained
'that if the school needed an audito
rium, it might be possible to rebuild
the armory and give them a down
town location.
Need for Gymnaisum
Superintendent Pate explained the
need for additional gymnasium facili
ties, and that the school has no audi
torium large enough to take care of
its needs. He said that if the gymna
sium or auditorium were not to be
"built, he would prefer to delay build
ing until they could be included.
The meeting was spent almost en
tirely in the discussion of various
questions concerning the ne wbuilding,
the effect on taxes and other matters
of interest. There were plently of
questions asked which showed the
business men were interested in the
matter from the standpoint of the fi
nancial burden on the district, but
there were no adverse comments.
"There was no attempt made to recure
an expression of opinion, although,
when the meeting was thrown open
for discussion, there were no argu
ments made on either side. Members
of the boarrd stated
-d if they built at
30.000 to $40,000
Mr. rate said that the uverug
of an education the state over is 86.05
per pupil enrolled and $10.j.1 per pu
pil based on daily attendance. In Al
liance this cost is $5G,S0 ind C74.20,
respectively.
Test Case for State
Spud Grading Law
' in the County Court
The case of the State of Nebraska
vs. Harry O. Wildy of Hemmgford '
was called this morning at 10 o'clock,1
with William Mitchell for defense andi
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Cnunty Attorney Basye for the fstate.;trict wiU be managed by Dr. G. W,
The first complaint, chargir? Wildy
Vim iauil unu nt-Kiix:i nave one
carload of spuds that were shipped
from Hemingford on or about the 13th
day of September, 1921, inspected as
provided by the new law, was dis
missed when County Attorney Basye
filed a new complaint this morning
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with two counts, the first
reading
about the Bame as the first complaint
and the second count charging Wildy,
with neglect to have the potatoes in
juPNLion Eoneu ami graueu.
The first witness, C. W. Graham,
NE WEATHER
Fore. jr Aliance: Fair t might
ana neu, ,suay. Warmer tonight.
was called and sworn, when Attorney
auicneu mane a motion asking no
testimony be taken, claiming that thp
law had not been violated by Wildv's
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m-sievu x ue judge iook a recess un
till 1 o'clock this afternoon before rul
ing on Mr. Mitchells motion, as this
new law has never been before this
court before and the judge wanted a
little time to compare the charge?
with the law and thoroughly familiar
ize himself with every detail before
ruling on wr. aiitcneirs motion.
Considerable interest was mani
fested in this test case, especially bv
the growers and shippers of potatoes,
ana a large crowd was present at the
court room this morning.
In the afternoon the trial again pro
ceeded and a number of witnesses
were examined. C. O. Sawyer said
that he had inspected the carload of
spuds, and had refused to issue a certi
ficate of inspection because culls were
in the same carload with No. 1. Mr.
Wildy at that time stated that he
might ship the potatoes anyway, just
to test out the law. Attorney Mitchell
sought to show that the inspector had
not really graded the potatoes, inas
much as he had not run them through
a grader, and judged only by their
appearance.
Judge Tash, when the testimony was
all in, imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
POUCEASKED
TO WATCH OUT
FOR MURDERER
ALLIANCE OFFICERS GET CALL
FROM CIIADRON TRAILERS
Trail of Man Who Killed Father
Belknap Said to Lead Toward
Western Nebraska
Alliance police officers have been
warnd to be on the watch for the
slayer of Father Belknap, Catholic
priest, at Lead, S. D., a few days ugo.
A telephone call from Chadron was
received by Officer Stillwill about 3 a.
m. Sunday morning from the deputy
sheriff of Deadwood, who was then in
Chadron following the trail.
The description of the suspected
slayer of the priest is described as an
U7arinr new nvornlla rnan suitor
wearing new overalls, brown s a cater
or coat and a tan or brown cap.
Charles Coker to Be
Tried at Bridgeport
Cattle Theft Charge
Charles C. Coker, well known
rancher of Morrill county and at the
present time a resident of Alliance,
was arrested Monday morning by
Chief of Police Charles W. Jeffers on
instructions from the sheriff of Mor
rill county. The Morrill county officer
had in his possession a warrant sworn
out by County Attorney McDonald,
with cattle stealing. It is understood
the chief complaining witness at the
chief complaining witnesses at the
trial will be employes of Hall & Gra
ham of Alliance, whose ranch is in
the sam evicinity s the Coker place.
Deputy Sheriff Davis came to Alli
ance Monday afternoon and took his
prisoner back to Bridgeport.
Alliance District
" Pastors Meet at
Methodist Church
The Methodist pastors of the Alii
ance district met this morning at the
district court room in this city in the
interest of the Nebraska Wesleyan en
dowment campaign, which will soon be
launched in the district. The plans
A resolution was adopted by the
conference in support of the project
in essence as follows: The Alliance
district will enter into the campaign
on the condition that the first $100,000
raised in this district go to the pro
Dosed Scottsbluli hospital: all over
that amount to go to the Nebraska
Wesleyan endowment fund.
About twenty-five ministers from
the district were in attendance at the
1 meetinc Rev. E. C. t Intel of bcotts-
I bluff has been appointed as the rep-
LurMlailira frnm tho Allinnrp distrirt
to atten(1 the meeting of the Long Pine
i;strict ministers, which convenes at
Ainsworth Wednesday morning,
rha eamnniim in the Alliance dis-
. isr,am. o-enerjd ramnaiirn manatrer. of
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Lincoln; C. C. Wilkins of Baldwin,
Kas., manager for Alliance district;
nnd Dr. Cable of Des Moines, la., as
sistant manager.
E. F. Nichols, W. Clark and E. Ver
, trees, who have been hunting for the
nat week at the ranch of Frank
Palmer, returned Monday to their!
homes in Denver. I hey came over
from Denver last Tuesday by auto,
ana report a very neavy muwiau v
Harrisburg.
that they expect-if"" J"""' "... ";
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all to save from "K"'"i! faj, n-
of the $200,000. I ?n??nA.th ?ri? Fe?sion being he,d in
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Alliance Burglar Is
Held for Robbery
of Quincy Mail Car
Night Officer Eugene Stillwill has
received word concerning Ernest Con
rad, enterprising burglar whom ' he
discovered in the act of breaking into
the Horace Bogue store with a crow
bar on the night of May 17, and who
was later turned over to posoffice in
spectors for a session before a grand
jury at Pueblo in connection with the
robbery of a postoffice at Brush, Col.
He was believed to have been impli
cated in several robberies and at
tempted robberies, and within a very
short time the officers were convinced
that he was rather a tough character.
He was sentenced to fifteen days on
a vagrancy charge in order to give
time for investigation, and later held
to the federal grand jury by United
States Court Commissioner L. A.
Berry.
According to information received
by Officer Stilwill, the Pueblo grand
jury failed to hold Conrad on the
charge of robbing the Brush postof
fice, but later a grand jury at Grand
Junction brought in an, indictment
which charged him with the robbery
of a mail car near Quincy early in
May. There is said to be a strong
case against him in connection with
this robbery, where the railway mail
clerk was held up at the point of a
rifle. Conrad was indentified by two
men in the railroad yards and by the
mail clerk.
If there is a conviction, Officer Stil
will will receive a big slice of a re
ward of $5,000.
When Conrad was arrested he had
with him a number of postage stamps,
o the value of about $30, encased
in a Union Pacific envelope. The
stamps were about in the denomina
tions of those reported missing at
the Colorado iotoffice. There was
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also a note on a Louisiana, Mo., bank
signed by the prisoner and a brother,
winch was the only means of idem 1 ty
ing him. There were evidences that
he had also tried to break into the
VV. R. Harjer and Golden Rule stores
on the same May night that he was
arrested. The evidence was sufficient
Q him here, but when the fed-
eral authorities expressed a desire to
'try him on one or two counts, the
county law enforcement officials sur
rendered hira gracefully.
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STARTS FEUD 1
WITH PORTER
STAGES PRIVATE WAR ON SUN-
DAY EVENING
Borrows Jacknife to Slay Colored Man
and Police Surgeon Taken Four
Stitches in His Scalp
Fred Grizzell, Burlington brake
man, who comes from Alabama, put
in a busy hour or two Saturday eve
ning. He began with an ovcrabun
danec of white mule and before the
evening had ended had managed to
start a race war all of his own, had
attempted to slay a colored man who
natt onenilcd his sense of the proprie
ties, had been knocked down a cou
ple of times, getting a badly bruised
head and a scalp wound that required
lour stitches to close, and had inllict
ed a wound in the neck with a pocket
knife upon Frank Weaver, colored
porter in the W. G. Ezell barber shoo,
Shortly afterward he was knocked out
and when he came to was in the city
Dastile, where he had an opuortnuity
lo get his wounds sewed up ami
dressed, and where he was given un
opportunity to sober up.
The trouble started Sunday evening
shortly after 6:30 o'clock. Accord
ing to Grizzell's ftory. he had been
walking past an alley to the rear of
the Kodgers grocery, and had come
upon a group of colored men. Weaver
was arguing with another colored man,
he said, and he had made some mild
inquiries concerning the aigument.
His interest was rewarded by a ques
tion as to how the dispute concerned
him. "I was the only white man
there," he said sadly, but that didin't
deter him from telling the colored man
wWat would happen to a negro if he
acted that way in Alabama. Weaver
then called him a vile name, he said,
and he walked away.
Shortly afterward hi a hot southern
blood got the better of him, and he
realized that the colored man was in
a way the victor. He followed the
portr over to the Shelton restaurant,
"called him out" and began angling
('or an apology. He didn't get it and
then he started hostilities by hitting
Weaver. The answer came quickly.
Weaver returned the blow. And once
more hostilities ceased.
The White Man's Revenge
Grizzell then started out for re
venge. Nothing would satisfy his Al
abama tradition and avenge the blow
he had received, or the insult, but
the blood of the man who had wronged
him. He started out to borrow a
knife or a gun. Ten or fifteen peo
ple he approached, asking for some
instrument with which to do damage
to the colored man who had offended
his idea of race proprieties. At the
Army and Navy store he tried to buy
a knife, and finding none on sale, in
quired as to the chance of getting an
army rifle. At the Alliance Billiard
Parlor he bought a bottle of near beer
and told the proprietor that he want
ed to borrow a knife to kill a colored
man who had insulted him. He spoke
to several men on the street, to each
one giving details of the punishment
he intended to inflict. ' Don t think
I won't kill him," he told one man
whom he asked for the loan of a
knife.
Finally a brakeman let him have a
pocket knife. He selected the sharp
blade, again called out his enemy and
attacked him with it, inflicting a
wound in the neck. That was the
finish of his aggressive tactics, for
the knife was knocked out of the hand
and he hit the pavement. Friends of
the colored man urged him not to do
any carving on his own account, and
the Alabama crusader walked up the
street. Weaver's anger then got the
letter of him, and he followed his
assailant and in front of the Keep-U-
neat the blow was struck which put
an end to this private race war. Of
ficer Stilwill, Burlington Agents Short
and Martin approached, and they
found him in front of the Keep-U-Neat,
lying in a small pool of blom!.
He was taken to the station and sur
gical assistance was called. Weaver
gave himself up to the police within
an hour.
Fined on Drunk Charge
Grizell, in police court Monday
morning, pleaded guilty to a com
plaint charging him with drunkenness
and fighting, and was assessed a fine
of $25 and costs. Weaver, arraigned
at the same time, pleaded not guilty
and Monday afternoon appeared in po
lice court with a bunch of witnesses
to testify in his defense. At the morn
ing session, he had declared that he
struck in self-defense.
Grizzell gave the story of his
wrongs, omitting some of the details
concerning acts of aggression on his
part and the search for a knife or
gun. He admitted he never saw the
colored man with a knife and that he
didn't know whether he was hit in the
eye or fell on it. He had come to Box
Butte county only a short time ago,
had worked at the Clay ranch a short
time and since October 18 had been
laboring on the rip track.
Special Agent Short told of finding
Grizzell on the sidewalk and of re
covering the knife with which the
colored man was carved. The brake
man who had lent it, he said, had
picked it up from the street, wiped
me b.ood oif the blade and stuck it
bi"k in hi pocket. He said he could
not say that the colored man had been
drinking, but that he saw nothing that
would indicate.it. Officer Stilwill and
George W. Powell also testified.
Weaver had charge of his own de
fense, but the fact that he brought
tell their story in a way worked
against mm. ne was not rullv ac
quainted with his right to go on the
stand, but thought the court and pros
ecuting attorney would question him.
Ray Tompkins, Bud Charlton, Frank
L. Thomas of the Army and Navy
store nnd John Velous gave testimony
showing that Grizzell had tried to
borrow of knife, but the charge on
which Weaer was being tried was
that of disturbing the peace by fight
ing. He was fined $25 nnd costs.
"They didn't a;;k me any questions,"
said Weaver, when it was all over. "I
could have told tiiem how it happened
and that he said things to me that
gave me the right to hit him. He
hunted me up and made an insulting
remark concerning a colored woman.
I told him I ouch tto hit him in the
face. He said that in Alabama, where
he came from, colored men got off the
street when white men came nlong.
I said I didn't know what they did
in Alabama, but they didn't do it
here. He said some other things nnd
I got mad. He deserved to be hit."
WILL FORM AN
ORGANIZATION
FOR MUNY PIER
MEETING CALLED FOR 7.30 Y. M.
WEDNESDAY
Sheriff Miller Asks Friends of the
Project to Assemble at the
County Court Room .
Sheriff J. W. Miller, who with Chief i
Jeffera was instrumental in securing , contest at the St. Agnes academy ba
the subscriptions that erected the mu- ar' ,he'd at,th root Rrden thre
, . , . . vti v days last week, was erroneously an
nicipal pier at Broncho lake this sum- J, a9 Mi ' Elyiht) willluns.
mer, nai 'called a meeting of all men m Williams stood second in the list, -interested
in the- undertaking for the 4V ui
county court room at 7:30 p. m. Wed-
nesday. The purpose ,s to form an
organization that will get behind the .
pier and see not only that outstanding I
'1 'ii1 that il wi" be kept.
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A sufficient number of subscriptions
were secured to build the pier this
summer, but some of these have not
been paid in. The Lions club, which
donated $100, decided, at a meeting a
short time ago, that they would not
pay over ine nwory unu. -
The pier was
this summer,
tremendous success
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but since swimming
en liirhts. ri ined out partitions and
Tiluvoil hnh irenerallv. I
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Members or the Lions ciuo, Koiary
club, firemen's and other organizations
in the citv. as well as other citizens
.f 1 1 M M IlLIlfr MZl L1Z.CIIB
who are interested in the project, are
requested to be present at the meeting.
Legion Men Enroute
to National Meetinc:
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Go Through Alliance
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The big national American Legion
convention is now on in Kansas City,
and other cities have sent their quota
of ex-soldiers and their wives and
families just as did Aliance Special
trains of Nebraska delegates were
sent from Omaha and Lincoln, and
the crowds are among the livest that
fhp ri muds have handled in year.
It makes some people wonder jusi
what would have happened had the
rv. soldiers irot all dressed up and
found themselves with no place to go
due to a railroad strike. That's one
of the possibilities that's there's no
ue wondering about, now that the
strike has been called off.
Two or three special bunches of
delegations to the Kaysee meeting
passed through Alliance Friday and
Saturday. A special carload of the
ex-soldiers from Lead and Deadwood
were here Friday night Night Offi
cer Eugene Stilwill came to Alliance
from Lead, and he had previously
lived at Deadwood, and almost every
man in the car knew him. A dele
gation was sent to find Mr. Stilwill
and bring him over to the car to meet
his friends. He had a pleasant visit
with the bunch from his former stamp
ing grounds and says that he wouldn't
mind taking in the Kansas City con-
"If they're all as lively as the boys
from mv old home towns," Mr. Stil
will saitl, "Kansas City will be some
wide-awake city, this week.
C. L. Reynolds left for Tacoma,
Wash., on Saturday in response to a
message announcing the death of bis
Mrs. Marv Reynolds of Ta
coma. Mr. Reynolds was looking for
a visit from his mother this week, and
the news came as a great shocK.
Mrs. C. L. Finch and Mrs. Harry
Pctfick left Sunday night for a few
days' shopping trip to Denver,
SAVES A CHILD
FROM FLAMES IN
BURNING SHED
UICK ACTION BV O. E. FESSEX.
DEN SAVES A LIFE
Dale Threlkeld Has a Narrow .
cape From Burning to Death
in Blaze This Morning
Little Dale Threlkeld narrowly
caped burning to death noon when a
fire was in some way started in the tin
shed on the rear end of the storehous
back of the Threlkeld furniture store.
O. E. Fcssenden came out of the back
door of the Sanitary Market just In
time to see a boy, who had evidently
been playing with the Threlkeld boy,
standing by the shed screaming. When
he went over to investigate, he dis
covered the door of the shed was in
flames, and the boy on the outside said
his brother was in the shed.
Mr. Fessendcn ru.hed through th
flames which filled the doorway ami
found there was another fire inside,
.tiween him and the Threlkelu by,
but he managed to bring the boy out,
apparently uninjured except being al
most frightened to death.
The boy woul dpiolmbly have been '
smothered hail not Mr. Fessenden ar
rived on the scene when h edid.
It i3 thought the boys were playing"
in the shed and had set" something on
fire, nnd in trying to drag it outside,
had started the blaze in the doorway,
leaving the one boy penned up behind
the flames.
Miss Rathburn the
Winner in Popularity :
" Contest at the Bazar
In last Friday's loRua of Afllnnr
papers, the winner in the popular girl
Rathburnwho reied 5,125 votes to
3 300 ior'Mi8a Wiuiams.
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Government Issues a
Call for Bids From
Star Route Carriers
Four . fairly good jobs will be open
he fi t f next Ju B;ds for car
out of Alliance have been called for
by the government and will be re-
ceived up to January 10 next. Th
Sealed proposals will be received at
the office of the fourth assistant post-
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mails for the term from July 1, 1922,
to June 30, 1920, on the following de
scribed routes:
57174 From Alliance to Longlake,
equal to 31.75 miles and back, twice
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Olna rrom Alliance iu j uwuug,
equal to 29.50 miles and back, twice
I 57202 From Alliance to Hickory,
'eiual to 37.50 miles and back, three
.J week
67173Fr0m Alliance to Marple,
. 2? 2Q ., j back twic
'jT
p desiring to bid on the abov
haye further infonnation
consultn(r the bulletin boards in
j , fab f h pnce or calling
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on the postmaster.
Officers to Testify
in Vallas Case Before
Omaha Federal Jury
Tf the fellow who calls witnesses
for the federal grand jury at Omaha
hadn't relented, there might have
been a regular carnival or crime in
Alliance and Box Butte county one
of these days, for Chief Jeffers, Night
Officer Eugene I- Stilwill, Burlington
Special Agent W. S. Short, uepuiy
Sheriff Tom Miskimen and maybe one
or two other limbs of the law wer
requested to proceed to the city me
tropolis, bringing wun mem Lwr
Smith, youth employed in the Alli
ance Billiard Farlor at the time, early
in August, when the proprietor, Christ
Vallas, as convicted in county court
of receiving stolen property to the
value of $17.10, stolen from a Bur
lington freight shipment.
All of the officers worked together
on the capture, and if the federal pros
ecutor hadn't relented there might
have been a day or two when the city
and county would have been totally
without police protection and at the
mercy of any band of crocks who
might have discovered the fact.
However, late advices are to the
effect that Smith and possibly one
officer from the Burlington force and
one from the city or county staff wiU
be sufficient. ..