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&f3 Nobraslux Independent
FEBRUARY 15, 1908
PRIZES FOR HORSEMEN
STATE FAIR BOARD OUTLINES
ITS SPEED PROGRAM.
Increase of Four Thousand Dollars
, Over Last Year's Expenditures is
Planned Officers and Class Super
intendents Appointed.
; Members of - the . Nebraska state
fair board increased the appropriation
for the state fair speed program $4,000.
According to the plans $10,500 will be
paid in prizes. Last year the cash
paid out was $6,500.
After an extended discussion the
question of a speed program was de
cided, the rules were outlined and su
perintendents chosen. The following
announcement was made:
Monday, Sept. 3
Trotting, three-year-olds or under,
stake, purse $500.
, Pacing, 2:22 class, purse $500.
Running, half mile and repeat, purse
$100.
Pacing, 2:30, stake, purse $1,000.
Tuesday, Sept. 4.
Trotting, 2:23 class, purse $500.
Pacing, three-year-olds or under,
Make, purse $500.
Running, five-eights mile dash, purse
$100.
Trotting, 2:27, stake, purse $1,000.
Wednesday, Sept. 5
Pacing, 2:14 class, purse $500.
Trotting, 2:16 class, purse $500.
Running, three-quarter mile dash,
purse $100.
Thursday, Sept. 6
Pacing, 2:10, stake, purse $1,000.
Trotting, 2:35 class, purse $500.
Pacing, 2:20, stake, purse $1,000.
Running, mile dash, purse $100.
Friday, Sept. 7
Trotting, 2:10, stake, purse $1,000.
Trotting, 2:19, stake, purse $1,000. i
Pacing, 2:17 class, purse $500.
Running, half mile dash, purse $100.
Conditions
Entries to all stake races close
Monday, June 4. Entrance fee, 3 per
cent, payable as follows: One per cent
to accompany nomination, June 4,
1906, when horse must be named; 1
per cent payable July 2, and 1 per
cent August 1. The party declaring
out will be held only for amount paid
in. An additional 5 per cent deducted
from winners of any part of stakes.
The association reserves the right to
declare off any stake not filling satis
factory. Any horse distancing the
field or any part thereof is entitled to
first money only. Old distance rules
to govern. Entries can be made in
the above stakes at the regular time
of closing class races, August 11, by
paying 5 per cent, but horses must
be eligible to class at that time.
Money divided, 50, 25, 15 and 10 per
cent. All races best three in five.
Mile heats to harness. Rules of Amer
ican Trotting association to govern,
of which this association is a mem
ber. All stakes guaranteed for above
amoimts, and no more.
Superintendents in most of the de
partments of the fair were elected,
and the pay roll schedule was adopted.
The appointed officers are as follows:
Appointed Officers
William Foster, . general "" superin
tendent, Saltillo; C. J. Tracy, chief of
police, Loup City; W, W. Cole, super
intendent of agriculaural hall, Neligh;
L. E. Emmerson, master of railroad
transportation, Lincoln; E. M. Searle,
Jr., superintendent' of gates, Ogallala;
F. C. Kinyon, superintendent of mer
cantile hall, Lincoln ; O. E. Mickey,
superintendent of amphitheater, Osce
ola. -
The following are the new class su
perinten dents:
Class Superintendents
Class A Horses, W. A. Apperson,
Tecumseh.
Class B Cattle, O. P. Hendershot,
Hebron.
Class C Swine, L. W, Leonard,
Pawnee City. . -
Class I Sheep, R. M. Wolcott,
Palmer.
Class E Poultry, C. M. Lewellen,
Beaver City.
Class F Farm products. L. Morse.
Benkelman.
Class G Textile department. Mrs.
C. F. Ladd, Lincoln. .
Class H Fne arts, Mrs. F. M. Hall.
Lincoln.
Class I Dairy, lots 8 to 14, Mrs. J.
II. Presson, Milford.
Class J Educational, E. C. Bishop,
Lincoln.
Class K Bees and honey, E. Whit
comb, Friend.
Class M Machinery, I. W. Haws,
Minden. '
Class O County collective exhibits,
W. W. Cole, Neligh.
Class Q Specials, Chuarles Mann,
Chadron.
Class S Speed, N. S. Ron in, Fre
mont. , ,
EDUCATORS WANT NEW NORMAL
Demand Comes From Northern Por
tions of the State
The next legislature will be asked
to increase the number of normal
schools maintained by the state from
two to three. From Holt county comes
the protest that the teachers of the
northern and extreme northwestern
part of the state are not supplied with
proper facilities to equip them for
school work.
Normal schools are maintained by
the state at Peru and Kearney, the
Peru school being established many
years ago and the Kearney school be
ing created by the legislature of 1903.
At the time of the location of the
Kearney school a strong effort was
made to place it at some point further
north or west, but without result.
At the session at which the second
school was decided upon the establish
ment of five junior 'normal schools
was arranged for. These schools are
held at Holdrege, McCook, Valentine,
Alliance and O'Neill. Terms of ten
weeks each are held during the sum
mer. The teachers of the northern
part of the state insist that the short
term does not give them sufficient
time to prepare for school work and
that the expense is too great to permit
of the attendance of all who would at
tend a regular school.
BEET GROWERS ARE ORGANIZED
Have Many Grievances Against the
Standard Company.
North Platte, Neb., Feb. 11. Th
spirit manifest elsewhere for beet
growers to organize has become rife
in Lincoln county and is being carried
into careful plans of organization for
the benefit of those who grow the veg
etable. A meeting has been called at
the court house of Lincoln county, in
this city, for February 15 for the pur
pose of organizing a county associa
tion of beet growers. In this county
the agitation began at Sutherland and
the conditions are ripe for a success
ful organization of all the beet grow
ers in the county.
The causes which have brought
about the state of affairs are ir.any
grievances which the growers, have
had with the Standard Beet Sugar
company, which contracted much land
in this neighborhood in the name of
Heyward G. Leavitt. Leavitt execu
ted written contracts in this and Keith
and Dawson counties in which he
agreed with the beet growers that he
would construct at some point in Lin
coln county a sugar beet factory in
time for the crop of .19006. This prom
ise was made upon condition that
there should be approved contracts
to grow 6,000 acres of beets and sell
same to Leavitt for $5 per ton. The
acreage was secured and Leavitt made
the announcement that the factory
would be built. To a meeting of the
Commercial club of this city and of
the beet growers Mr. Leavitt last year
stated that he would have the factory
begun in the fall of 1905 if the same
should be used for the 1906 crop. The
contracts obligated the growers to fur
nish to Mr. Leavitt the crop grown
on a stated acreage for a period of
three years. Some time aeo Mr.
Leavitt published a notice in a local
paper here that he had heard threats
of parties goine: back on their obliea-
tions and warned them that thev had
entered into a solemn agreement in
writing to grow the Deets for three
years and that they would be exnected
to comply with the written terms of
tneir agreement. Yesterday Mr. Leav
itt authorized the publishing of a let
ter in which he stated that he would
not build the factory which he had
agreed in writing to do in the same
solemn instrument which was signed
by the beet growers.
LINCOLN MAN WINS CONTEST
Fireman Charles Lee is Checker
Champion of Nebraska
Charles Lee, a member of the Lin
coln fire department, is the champion
checker player of Nebraska. This was
decided in the final contest held at
Engine house No. 1 by the Nebraska
Checker association. The scores made
in the "knock-out" playing were as
follows:
Brooking 2, drawn 1, Johnson 0.
Kelley 2, drawn 2, Calkins 0.
Bestor 2, Whitesides 1, drawn 5.
Lee 3, Hurlbut 1, drawn 4.
Second round: -Brooking
2, Kelly 0, drawn 1.
Lee 2, Bestor 0, drawn 2.
Unfinished finals:
Brooking 2, Lee 2, drawn 2.
The contest finally lay between L.
T. Brooking and Charles Lee. The
four games necessary to be played in
the finals resulted in a score of 2 for
each player. It was men decided tn
play two more games. These were
piayed and each contestant won a
game. By the time the six earnest hari
been played it was srowimr lata and
both the men were worn out. , The
final contest was Dostooned until the
next day. i
The first game on the following day
was a viccory lor L,ee. The next game
was a draw. Lee was thereupon de
clared the champion of Nebraska and
awarded the gold medal and the pres
idency of the state association. Brook
ing was the holder of the gold medal
and president of the association last
year. Lee has been know locally as
a "crack" checker prayer but has
never before presumed to .enter the
state tournament.
Death Takes Pioneers "
Merna, Neb., Feb. 8. The hand of
death is being felt quite heavily at
Merna. Last Thursday Don Stafford,
the fat boy of northwestern Nebraska,
died suddenly, aged fourteen years,
and weighed 260 pounds.
Friday Henry Michele, who "home
steaded" in this valley a quarter of a
century ago, passed away.
Tuesday Brad Burlin, who died the
day before from the effects, of burst
ing a blood vessel, was laid to rest
by a body of men who with him took
homesteads in Ortello valley some
twenty-eight years ago.
Word was received here Tuesday
night that O. E. Burton, who is in
the train service, was accidentally
killed at Sheridan. The Highlanders
have charge of the remains and the
body will arrive here for burial Fri
day. Send $1.00 for a year's subscription
to The Independent and receive Mr.
Berge's book, "The Free Pass Bribery
System," free as a premium. This
offer will remain but a short time.
BOYS LIKE THE NEW SYSTEM
Sending Them Alone to Industrial
School Has Good Effect
Superintendent Hayward of the in
dustrial school at Kearney was a caller
at the state house in Lincoln and took
time to express himself in favor of
court officers sending boys to the
school without an escort. Mr. Hayward
said reposing this trust in a boy who
had been sentenced to the school did
more than anything eise to take from
the boy's mind the idea that he was
a criminal and the world was against
him. It gave the boy confidence ia
himself and impressed him with the
idea the state was interested in mak
ing him a good citizen.
"Probation Officer Bernstein of Oma
ha and I talked the matter over," said '
Mr. Hayward, "and we decided to try
it. Several boys have been sent out
from Omaha without being accompa
nied by . an officer, and so far they
have come all right. The appearance
of the first boy alone created some
surprise among the boys at the school,
but they looked upon it as quite an
achievement, and they showed some
little envy that the coy had been
trusted. ;
"Now the boys are striving with
each other to see which can be trust
ed the most. For the last two years
I have allowed boys who were sick to
go home alone, and not one has failed
to return when he recovered. Recent
ly the night watchman was sick and
I had one of the boys act in this ca
pacity for ten nights. He was sur
prised I should trust him and he per
formed his duties as well as the watch
man. I would trust any boy in the
institution.
"It takes some . time -to get the
scenes of the courtroom out of the
boy's mind, but the juvenile court law
is helping us along those lines. Moth
ers who have visited the school have
left there with a different idea of what
it is. The industrial school is not a
prison, but it is a school and were it
not for the fact boys are sentenced to
it it would be filled with boys whose
parents would pay tuition.
"We have many military companies
as well drilled as the students of any
school, and the officers of the compa
nies are responsible for the conduct
of the boys. They make splendid dis
ciplinarians. I am trying to get the
idea out of the 'minds of the boys and
their parents that the school is a pris
on. if I could eradicate that idea we
would be much more help to the
boys."
Runaway Girl fs Found
Fremont, Neb., Feb. 8. Edna Jones,
a fifteen year old gin, ran away from
her home at Sixth and L streets in
Fremont and was located where she
was staying with another woman in
a rooming house. Her brother, Wil
liam Jones, at whose request the
search was instituted, left for Grand
Island to bring her home.
The police have been led to believe
through the statements of the inter-
ested relatives that the woman who
accompanied the girl induced her to
go away. They say, however, that no
complaint is likely to be filed.
Plans For Y. M. C.'A. Home
Hastings, .Neb., FeD. 8. The build
ing committee of the new Young Men's
Christian , association huilding met
Tuesday morning at the First National
bank building to consider the plans
drawn and submitted by J. C. Fiske
of Lincoln.
The plans were approved and the
committee will advertise for bids at
once. The estimated cost of the build
ing is placed by the architect at $18,000
and unless they are materially higher
the plans adopted will be carried out
in detail.
The plan calls for a three-story and
basement brick building with stone
trimmings. C. P. Sheaff, A. L. Clark,
and C. E. Higinbatham are the build
ing committee. State Secretary J p
Bailey of Omaha was present at the
committee meeting.