Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-18
PROSPERITY IN NORTHWEST
Labor Commissioner RYDER Enthusi-
astic Over that Section of State.
FARMERS AND sToCKMEN DO WELL
Woman Sues saloon keeper FOR SELL
Ing Liquor TO Divorced Husband,
Rendering Him Incapable Of
Paying AIimony.
AND sToCKMEN DO WELL
From a SAX Correspondent.l

'Fl'h n GAdAl WI toBNHNfIAs'
LINCOLN, Sept. 1L-CspecialD - Labor
Commissioner Ryder has returned from a
trip through western Nebraska extending
as far as Alliance. Crawford and Chadron,
and reports finding some things that sur
prised him.
Up there" said Mr.. Ryder. Il learned
that the newcomers on Kinkaid claims are
teaching the older settlers the trick Of
dairying. They bring cows and at once
they begin to sell cream. In the town Of
Mullen, for instance, there are three cream
buyers who take in a large amount Of
cream every week, paying cash. This
means present comfort and eventual pros
perity for the settlers on the mile-square
lots.
At Alliance Is a little creamery that
turns out 5000 pounds Of butter a month In
the busy season. The product that can be
spared from home consumption is shipped
TO New York at a profitable price. There
IL a merchant and manufactures in ALI
ance, Mr.. Newberry, who ships dipping
tanks to North Dakota and to Texas at mis-
own price. He carries a stock of 100000
value. which would not be at all suspected
until you go through his store and manu-
featuring plant.
Alliance. too. il building an elegant new
high school. and the Catholics are just
finishing a three-story school for day and
boarding pupils. The old school building
in Alliance has the best parking and flower
garden before its doors that 1 have seen in
the state; not as extensive a display Of
trees as Omaha, Lincoln and some other
towns, but the best ensemble of trees and
%shrubbery in small extent OF space.
AT Hyannis, Hemingford and similar
small towns prosperity and progress are
l. A. H. -.A.N aa,,a AhgaW.vaN AID
Il IL little wonder, for cattle, from can
ners to beef cattle, are bringing good
prices. All the csttlemen are kicking for
is a little better treatment from the rail-
roads in the handling of cattle, but that
is bound to come through negotiation.
Potatoes bringing 40 to 30 cents delivered
on track count up into money right fast;
and they raise lots of the finest kind of
tubers up In that country. When the pro-
ducersJbecome alive to the need of organ
ization for handling and selling the crop
they will do even better than they are now.
Pasture has been excellent in the state
everywhere this season, and the hay crop
Is entirely satisfactory. 1t will represent
a big wad of money this year in Nebraska.
But, aside from pasture, alfalfa Is getting
a strange hold on heretofore waste land
in western Nebraska, and the Investigator
can Ilnu corn IletQS ana gram IleluS lldl
are quite satisfactory as crop exhibits,
and that will pay decidedly good interest
to their owners. Land has not jumped or
doomed In value, but it has had a very
healthy progress upward in price. There
Is an increasing dearth of scrup stock,
and throughout western Nebraska you will
find as fine animals as can be picked ur
anywhere. Dipping is general, under gov
eminent supervision, with resulting good
TO all concerned. Sheep growing will have
an increasing development every year out
in that section, now that regularity OF
farming operations is taking the place OF
promiscuity OF stock raising. The steadily
growing number. of settlers is bringing this
about.
western Nebraska is fast becoming a
picture of progressive settlement, and in
teIligent husbandry. 1t is losing rapidly
tho uninviting appearance of a few years
ago, and it has no use for poor houses
Schools are its most numerous jewels, and
homes its most satisfying decorations. You
hear no whining about hard times, but YOU
do hear continual kicking about the scare.
ity OF labor, both in town and country
Idle men honestly seeking work cannot re-
main idle up in that section.
"Crawford has great expectations from
the proposed enlargement Of Fort Robin
son, which seem well based. And it ha'
two stores that cannot be surpassed II
Omaha or Lincoln. one of them Is a mea'
market and grocery. built on a scientific
plan, that is not evcelled by anything
know Of
Novel Damage suit.
A novel damage suit is the case filed thi
morning by Eleana Straw in which sh'
seeks to recover from a saloonkeeper ant
his bondsmen because she alleges that tn
sale Of liquor to her divorced husband in
cApacitated him from working or makint
money to pay the alimony decreed her 70
the support OF herself and her children
She seeks 10 recover 5000 the full amour
OF the saloonkeeper's bond, to repay he