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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1903
Page
9
Estrayed from near Alliance one cow branded 14 on left hip and H on right hip and a gelding branded B on left hip. Rewards offered by Lawrence Barny. Includes list of stock association officers and locations in Nebraska.
P A Yeast cattle man of Hyannis halted between trains for a few hours en route to Wyoming to inspect cattle interests. L Banks Wilson, just back from the Wilson ranch with his brother Edgar, returned to Creston Iowa. B C Buffum of Laramie Wyoming experiment station attended in South Omaha to select stallions for government use and purchased two imported coach stallions and four mares from the Hashknife band in Belle Fourche. He found Hashknife stock superior for size and breeding overall.
Readville reports a new world mile record as Lou Dillon trotted two minutes with the pacers Peggy from Paris and Carrie Nation. Millard Sanders drove Lou Dillon with Doc Tanner and Scott McCoy guiding the horses, leading to a 2 minute mile plus dramatic backstretch sprint and praise for the California bred mare.
Rev. Horn gave a lecture Monday with small attendance due to weather. Rev. Burleigh has two more services here before conference. Elmer Bristol’s clan visits from Hay Springs while Harley Sage works at Lunsford ranch. John VanCamp reports Bruce camp operates well. Miss Swoyer goes to Ellsworth, staying with Richards. John Lansaker updates switch. Harry Ely moves into Mrs Lunaford’s house. Mrs Hallie reports sickness. Cattle driven from Little Blue to market. May and Lottie Crowther expected this fall. Mastrude improving. Mr Bell son in law of McFall sighting hay crop. Wilson and Zang pass through. Cecil Wilson’s runaway damages gear and injures a horse. Crowthers’ trip southwest. Cook and Wright expect to move to Alliance for schooling. Hattie Ash to attend Alliance school living with Rev Horn. Felix Schill and family visit to escort Mrs Blair to Colorado. Harvey Allison family visit then church. Robert Garrett plans housemoving and well drilling outfit, phone 74.
The item mentions Cramer about a silverware set, Mrs. Walden starting a Iowa visit tonight, Mrs. Murphy ill with lung fever, Mr. Hemingway building a dwelling, Mr. Brinkman visiting a grandmother from Scott's Bluff, Mrs. J. B. Ufford and children visiting relatives in the eastern part of the state, C. R. Austin family settles on Sweetwater street, and Mrs. Frank Sanders and children leaving for Grand Island after a telegram about her sister’s fragile health.
An eight year old, Fred Wickstrom, of a household seventy miles northwest of Alliance, died after a rattlesnake bite to his right wrist while potato gathering. He died at Bayard Hospital eight hours after the incident last Wednesday. The piece also notes a civil case against Dr Webster with an attachment and a city ordinance ordering a 4 foot 6 inch sidewalk construction in Alliance second county addition, effective after passage and publication.
City council approves building a 4 ft 6 in wide sidewalk along Laramie Avenue and adjacent blocks in Alliance. Ordinance sets thickness, location, and phased construction with publication and effective date. Also includes multiple past tax sale notices for properties in Box Butte and Alliance Nebraska with redemption timelines.
Notice lists multiple individuals including Mary E Reed and Joseph Hart with tax sale actions in Box Butte County Nebraska. It specifies lands by quarter section township and range, taxes due for years 16, 18, 19, and redemption deadlines in January 1903 1904 or 1908 per claimant.
Public notice lists multiple tax sales in Box Butte and Hox Butte counties Nebraska. Purchasers Mary E Reed and Mary E Kent claim lands formerly taxed in names including Lea B. Mriggins and W F Haynes. Redemption periods end January 1 of the respective years. dates dated Alliance and Allington Nebraska.
Notice states dissolution of partnership between Karl Swantoim and W. D-Rumer under Swanhola Cu.ts. Dissolution by mutual consent announced with initials ARL SWANHOLM, W. L, Romie.
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