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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1908
Page
7
Anxious buyers and sellers flood Oklahoma real estate offices as the law lifting government restrictions on 9 000 000 acres of Indian allotments takes effect. Cash changes hands rapidly while agents corral landholders in a tense scramble for first access to eastern Oklahoma acreage. Guards monitor Indians and Negroes housed indoors amid a night of marked activity.
President Roosevelt has accepted the honorary presidency of the Peace and Arbitration League, linked to the North Carolina peace congress. The group pushes for adequate armaments and global arbitration with a Hague court, inter-parliamentary union, and a universal peace system, with Carnegie, Edward VII, and Wilhelm II among potential peacemakers. North Carolina hosts a peace conference in Greensborough October 11 to 16, marking its centennial.
Britain Belgium and Germany will send three top mine safety experts to the United States next month after an invitation from the US government. Captain Dey Borough of Britain, Herr Melener of Germany, and Victor Watt eyne of Belgium will tour Pennsylvania and nearby coal fields to study safety conditions and mine disaster prevention programs.
Governor C N Haskell asks Guthrie district court to dismiss the suit brought by Charlie Weat attorney general to restrain Prairie Oil and Gas from laying pipe in public highways. He claims the company had rights to build pipelines in the old Indian Territory before statehood and that the attorney general lacked authority to file the suit in the state's name.
A pearl necklace valued at $50 000, missing since February from the apartment of Con Jess Von Wartenaichen, has been recovered. The countess's maid is in custody in connection with the theft.
The Ancient Order of Hibernians elected officers led by President Matthew Cummings of Boston with James J. Regan St Paul as vice president and John T. McGinnis Scranton as secretary. The group endorsed a two year platform urging Ireland’s complete separation from England and independence, while supporting Irish rights movements.
A severe lightning storm struck a Pennsylvania National Guard camp on the eve of departure, killing Private Barbe of the Eighteenth regiment Private Morrison of the Tenth regiment and Private Garver of the Tenth regiment. Hundreds sought shelter in a Young Men's Christian Association tent, which collapsed in the gale but caused no injuries.
Lincoln reports W G Beare Tehamah and Victor Rosewater Omaha with others contesting Democratic electors on the People's Independent ballot. Protests claim candidates lack good faith and will back Bryan and the Democratic ticket. Secretary Junkin to set a hearing date.
Lincoln reports George Coupland and Fred Abbott on a regents committee meeting Governor Sheldon to discuss establishing an experimental station in the Sand Hills modeled after North Platte but focusing on forestry and sandhill products. Regents back the plan and seek legislative funding.
Banker W. F. Walker pleaded guilty in superior court to four counts of receiving securities looted from Savings valued at $500000. He received indeterminate sentences of one to five years on the first count and up to five years on each of the other counts, to run consecutively. The total maximum penalty is twenty years.
United States athletes clinched the Olympic track and field crown with a dominant score of 13 points. England with Canada, South Africa and Australia trailed in second, while Sweden took third. John J Hayes of the Irish American Athletic Club won the marathon, the classic Olympic event.
Weary of renegade life the Vic Indians under Captain Jonneon of the Second Cavalry start a thousand mile overland journey to their Utah reservation. Officials estimate the trek will take three months or more as they seek a land of plenty. The government plans irrigation to make the land productive and turn the people into settled farmers.
Mire Merton Thayer, at her mother’s home twelve miles southwest of Ratherland, was fatally injured when a shotgun discharged accidentally. The weapon, hanging on the wall, discharged as it was dislodged, striking her in the back while she was sweeping.
Sergeant W C Cox of the Twenty Seventh Infantry, Company H, registered the highest score in the slow firing contest at 40 50 and 60 yards during the annual Army shooting competition at Fort Sheridan. He totaled 177 points out of 200.
Omaha July 5 Socialists nominate a ticket after a Grand Island convention. J W Walker of Hastings is named as the candidate for governor with a slate filed by the party in Nebraska.
Lexington Nebraska July 25 The Cornland hotel was robbed of 173 dollars in cash from the safe about 3 a m. Police调查 are investigating the burglary and reviewing security footage and nearby reports for clues.
Ashland Nebraska July 27 the first group of 300 National Guard members are finishing a week of strenuous rifle practice at the state life range. Scores are good and Adjutant General Schwartz is pleased with progress under the new encampment plan. The Matte River site is praised as ideal for a permanent rifle camp and a movement to purchase the tract is under way. A second group arrives this week for ten days and a third on August 10. The top team will be sent to Camp Perry Ohio for the late August national meet.
Lincoln Democrats plan to remove the Taft banner and to hold Bryan’s nomination notification on August 12. The state central committee coordinates with county groups to attract a large crowd for Bryan’s town. Speeches will be on the state capitol grounds before a torchlit parade through Lincoln’s business district.
Weastern Douglas county farmers decide to form drainage districts to combat flooding and poor soil drainage after heavy rains along the Elkhorn river destroy corn and seed crops. Experts have estimated costs and encouraged organized action.
Oliver Starkey gave himself up to Sheriff Alexander after hiding since Thursday. He admits wandering the country tired of the hunt. Mrs Starkey is alive with good recovery prospects. Starkey faces likely binding over to district court on a charge of shooting with intent to kill. In Nebraska politics, Democrats consider withdrawing three leading candidates in favor of Richard Metcalfe to unite the party for Bryan amid a heated convention contest.
At Capital beach in Lincoln two twelve year old boys Henry Hausehildt and Jon Orlofsky drowned while swimming. Their bodies were recovered by Coroner Matthews and believed to have been a drowning accident as one boy attempted to save the other.
Mrs. Mary Harris Armor of Georgia arrives in Hastings Nebraska to open the chautsugua and will lecture six weeks on prohibition in support of the county option campaign.
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