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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1908
Page
6
Reduced winter tourist excursion rates advertised for daily travel to Southeast Cuba Florida Gulf Coast Texas Southwest. Nine months coast excursions to Pacific Coast Southern California. Democratic National Convention in Denver scheduled July 6 to 11.
J G Brenizur of Broken Bow Nebraska advertises thirty bulls aged one to three years for sale as a car load. Twelve to twenty bulls available at 100 dollars each, with option to winter them at home and deliver in December after two months of feeding. The herd has won fourteen ribbons at the state fair in September 1907, including first and fifth in a calf class.
County treasurer announces delayed delinquent personal tax notices. Those not yet notified will receive statements. if unpaid within ten days, collection with costs will follow. Also notes sale of 1700 bushels oats and 250 bushels broom corn and millet seed by Gev. E. Douglas with orders at United States Land Co. office.
Hemmingford residents share social calls and visits from Monday to Sunday. Notable mentions include Mrs. O Keefe from the ranch, Miss Dollie Pierce visiting friends, and Frank Black reuniting with F B Hutchinson of Randolph. The Marsland Cemetery Association held its seventh annual meeting with officers named. United States Marshal Arthur Bartlett spent days in Sioux and Box Butte counties with C H Richie. Kellog Switchboard representative L B Foote signed a contract for equipment for a new line. Temperance victory in Alliance draws regional rejoicing. M rsland seeks wider voice locally.
James Burk paints the Poole residence. Mrs. Willis tours east. Marsland Lumber ships another car of lumber. Charles Evans and Luther Clark visit Alliance. A prairie fire near Nye sparked concern. McGogg Poole Trading receives more farm implements. L Snow circulates the big book to register residents. Hoffman and Evans contribute seed grain to local farmers. Mrs. F R Bellamy and three children travel to Hastings for several weeks. Furman contemplates farming with new riding gear. Hoffman hauls potatoes to Nye. Nye looks to compete with Marsland Hemingford in shipping. J Wood buys a riding plow and completes a windmill east of town. Chestnut of Omaha meets Marsland Telephone Co. last Saturday but no deal. Boros family and Mrs Sullenberger join Burns at Box Butte homestead.
Ed Lethers works for Emmett Johnsons company while Robi handles. Windmill runs now on Spoon property. Wier returned to Alliance. Perry Ball troubles with drilling as he nears third well for Garfield. John Ryan visits Hemingford. Mrs Spoon travels to Canton. John Hickey disposes cattle. Bayeson sick but improving. Garfield Ball builds a sod house. Ball hopes it may be his last. Charley Lockwood and creamery man spotted nearby. Vanhay moved south with family. Mrs Miller and Mrs Weir visit households.
City Council adjourned meeting held April 8 1908 with Mayor C Smith presiding. Officers report the city cesspool is in bad shape. street and alley committee directed to handle digging a new one. Treasurer shows March balance 775.16 with March receipts 803.83 and disbursements 3106.60, balance 517.40. Police reports show 121.05 in fines and 50.60 in marshal fees. Ordinance committee recommends Huss and Bannon lunch wagon addition. Popcorn wagon license referred. fees set at 40 per year or 3.00 per month. Fire water committee granted tapping main 3 4 inch pipe. bonds filed for secretary, treasurer fire dept. plumbers W Ray and W D Zediker bonded. Claims allowed include Hague plumbing 75.65 and several election judges and clerk payments. Alliance Electric Co. 301.40. other salaries and expenses listed.
The record lists payments to laborers and suppliers, then reports on a 1908 election canvass. It confirms mayor C C Smith elected, councilmen E M Martin and C L Drake, and city officers Barnes Brennan Newberry, with ordinance to exclude saloons passing by votes and setting May 1 as effective date.
Ordinance No. 124 prohibits selling or giving away intoxicating malt spirituous and vinous liquors within Alliance Nebraska except for medicinal chemical mechanical or communion purposes. Penalties include fines from five to one hundred dollars and possible jail until costs paid, with prior ordinances repealed. May 1st 1904 ordinance takes effect.
Report lists 15 pupils enrolled and 296 attendance days for the month ending April 10. Total absences 8 with 25 tardies. Two visitors recorded. Non-absent pupils include Albert Roth, Lillie Roth, Frank Roth, Polly Rees, Daisy Roth, Lillie Cahn, Victoria Konaman, and teacher.
Governor Count Andreas Potocki of Galicia was shot and killed by a Ruthenian student Mieroslap Stczynski during a student delegation audience in Lemburg Austria-Hungary. The assassin declared political motive defending Poles and claimed duty to avenge oppression.
Gotfried Peter alias Gotfried Watrick, 40, arrested in Yankton on a bigamy charge and returned to Onawa Iowa for trial. He brought a 15 year old bride Eva Conkling of Mapleton with him and has a baby boy here. Sheriff Edward Rowlings says Peter married several girls aged fourteen to sixteen in Iowa then deserted them. He worked on Mayor Reedy’s farm near Yankton.
A southwest Missouri flood on April 11 leaves one man dead Levi Seveir drowned in the Iroquois mine. Spring river overflow washes out St Louis and San Francisco tracks near Monett delaying trains. Missouri Pacific tracks near Granby washed out. Parts of Carthage inundated. Warneck Kansas dam holds against the rising water.
Salem April 11. The divorce suit filed by Mrs Clara Louise von Hermann against Karl Stephen von Hermann in Essex County probate court promises to be sensational at trial. No attachment has yet been filed though one is called for by the writ. The libel alleges the husband was unduly intimate with Julia Marlowe and Maud Thornburn Backus.
Governor Broward ordered all state militia commands to Pensacola as a precaution after a riot call. A later dispatch clarified the electric company planned to start streetcars today and the troops were deployed to prevent possible trouble.
Illinois Central announces the Birmingham division will open for traffic April 19. The completion of the last link in the Harriman transcontinental route creates a through line from the Pacific to the Atlantic via the Union Pacific, Illinois Central, and Central of Georgia.
In Albany on April 11 Rev. Father Joseph A. Graham rector of the Blessed Sacrament church shot himself twice in his study and died almost instantly. Bishop Burke said the priest was not in his right mind when the act occurred.
Oklahoma City judge sentenced Capitol National Bank Guthrie former president C. E. Billingsley to seven years and five months in Leavenworth federal prison. A. B. Hayes of Little Rock former cashier of First National Bank Lexington Oklahoma drew five years.
In Bath England on April 11 ten miners died at Norton Hill colliery Somersetshire after a coal gas explosion. Early rescue teams were overcome by fumes and saved with difficulty. several workers in precarious condition.
Nebraska supreme court granted a temporary restraining order to enforce Sibley act rate reductions of 25 percent starting April 15. Express companies are restrained from violating the law while merits are tried. Judge J. J. Sullivan named to take testimony and report findings to the court promptly.
Paul Morton president of Equitable Life and former naval secretary joined Senator LaFollette's One Hundred in claiming Taft would be nominated and elected. He said the insurance business has moved from investigation to appreciation while attending a Manderson dinner at the Omaha club with brothers Joy and Mark Morton. Lincoln complaint against grain trust filed.
Lincoln April 11. Dr B C Spinney of Chicago must repay 7800 received from the Iron Chain Minnesota organization. Supreme court rules the Bankers Union headed Spinney invalidly purchased the Minnesota society. Suit by S G Starr receiver for the Iron Chain.
Patriotism marked the Lincoln statue unveiling on the Omaha high school campus. Miss Mona Cowell of the sophomore class pulled the cord, revealing the sculptor’s work as the crowd cheered and observed a period of reverence.
Joe Thomas an Italian saloon keeper reportedly fled Omaha to escape the Black Hand. His bartender H Monica received a telegram announcing his departure. Monica says two Black Hand members demanded $500 a month ago, threatening to blow up the saloon if refused.
In Lincoln on April 11 the supreme court reversed Judge Redick, affirming the law creating the county comptroller in Douglas County. The court dissolves the injunction and dismisses the case, upholding the measure.
Mrs. Mary P. Alexander wife of Sheriff Alexander committed suicide by taking carbolic acid in St Paul Nebraska on April 11. She drank the poison while the sheriff was briefly away and upon his return bade him farewell. No motive is given for the act.
Lincoln April 15 The attorney general states express companies cannot evade the provisions of the Sibley law which took effect today as a final hearing on the merits of the case proceeds.
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