The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 8, 1917, Page 8

(ie Es = ee see we NORTH OAT FARNSWORTH 912632813 Actual and Assessed Valuations Shown in State Tax Commis- sion Tables CASS WEALTHIEST OF FLICKERTAIL COUNTIES year will collect $16,540,226 in real estate taxes on an actual valuation of $91 sessed at $349,734,201, a r table just prepared by Chairman F. E. Packard of the state tax commis- sion, showing the actual value of acre property in the various counties, ar- rived at by assuming that the tax in North Dakota is one percent of the capital value of property. Cass is shown to be the richest county in the state, with a land valu- ation of $46, 5. Grand Forks ranks second, \ 5; Ward third, with $2 and Stuts- man fourth with Morton creage is vi $34,84! count) 479, and Barnes at $28,! is the only county in the land taxes exceed a million this year $1,162,305. Grand county pays $828,781, Sioux county is the least wealthy in North Dakota, i nd valuation being shown as $1,4 . and its 1916 taxes as $37,512. Some of the more important counties have land values Benson, $ Bot- state whose It pays Forks mons, $20 540; McHenry $12,180,9 McLean, Mountrai $15,748,626; $22,385,829; Ran: ville, $14,925,877; . $27,- Traill, 52; Walsh, $2 Wells, Williams, 01,204. | The average tax rate for 1916 is 47. mills and the average actual per acre for North Dakota is The average tax per acre is cenits'in Cass county;' 44.90 cents nd Vorks; 33.68 in Ransom, and 34.67 “cents ‘in "Trail. | The average for the entire state is 41,74) cents per aere, and ‘the average assessed valu- ation per acre is $1.98. BISMARCK HIGH LOOKS FORWARD TO OPENING “OF FOOTBALL SEASON .,; throughout the country during 3,-|0f Hazelton 5} Bismarck. °) Mandan, With the same magnificent produc- {tion and cast as was seen in New York and Philadelphia, “so Long Let- ty” comes intact to the Auditorivm Thursday evening, O¢t. 11. This is Oliver Morosco’s musical farce which has attracted so much §attent’.a tae The Southern Girls, with “So Long Letty,” coming to the Auditorium next Thursday Night. past two years. The cast is headed The costuming‘iand scenic inves by Charlotte Greenwood and includes! ures are gorgeous and the orchestra such worthy funmakers as Sydney] is ‘a novelty dpé; Grant,, May Boley, Hal Skelly, Tyier},tion to the reguldr*house musicians. a Brooke, Henrietta Lee, Hallie Man-] number of saxaphoné and banjos. The ning and a specialty team, Cunning-| musical score and lyrics are by Earl ham and Clements, who will intro-| Carroll and the book of the piece is duce some new and novel dancing. by the produger of the piece and Mr. luding in addi- SOND METHODIST CONFERENCE 10 OPEN TOMORROW |Dickinson Expects to Entrain 250 to 300 Delegates to Annual | Meeting BISHOP COOK OF HELENA PRESIDES OVER SESSION FREE OF DEBT. At the dedication of the Simp- son Methodist church on Sunday, 5.500 was raised and the entire debt is now provided. The struc- ture cost approximately $25,000. Elmer Harris, and is based on Mr. | Harris’ former farce, ‘Your Neigh: | bder’s Wife.” The piece offers amiple} opportunity for unique and comical |situations ,and the authors have not let one chance slip by to create laugh-| ter for the audience. | j educators, while coaches from all parts of the Slope are in the city, a basketball schedule for the fall and winter will be framed up. Bismarck has all of last year’s stars around which to build a team, and there is an abundance of new material. oe? | CITY NEWS | —<——___——_——__-+ From Hazelton.—Mrs. H. O. Batzer is visiting friends in Hunting Trip—b. A. Thorberg, deputy state bank examiner, is hunt- ing on the Mandan side of the river. Braddock Publisher.—D. H. McEI- roy, publisher of braddock’s breezy weekly, was a Bismarck visitor to- day. Regent Here.—liev. C. E. Vermilya of Valley City, a Frazier member of the state board of regents, is in the "| city. Sunday at Home.—Miss Caia Peters of the state ‘bank cxaminer's. office spent Sunday with her parents in Patterson Here. L. Patterson, of St. Paul, connected with the Bis- marck Grocery Co., is in the city on a business mission. On Supreme Court.—A. A. Twichell of Tower City, and Melvin F. Hildreth of Fargo were here Friday with busi- iness in the supreme court. Attends Meeting.—George M. Hou-| gen of Steele, secretary of the North} Dakota fish and game board, is in the} city attending a meeting of the com- mission. Pays Fine.—Mrs. Minnie Tooley, Pleading guilty to habitually disturb- ing the peace, paid a fine of $15.35 in police court Friday and ‘was dis-/ charged. vt From McClusky—State’s Attorney Frank [,, Temple of Sheridan county, Sam Temple, Christian Essig and Fer-| dinand Kalden, all of McClusky, were in the city today. Has Big Job.—Big Chief Chris 'Mar- Staff Vare O85 FOUGHT BOSS FOR PHILADELPHIA'S BLOODY FIFTH WARD cial end of the transaction, is Boss ‘Ed's first lieutenant. City con- tracts have made millionaires of both brothers, * Mayor Thomas B. Smith, arrest- ed on a charge of ‘‘conspiring to control political movements and in execution of said conspir to jcommit assault and battery and ;murder,’’ is a’ Vare man. The hearings and arrests are -Yesults of the battle for political [control of the “Bloody Fifth” ward in which the Penrose-Me- ichol faction defeated the Vares, electing James A. Carey to the select council over the Vare é¢an- didate. Isaac Deutsch. It was in speaking of ‘this, Ward ‘that Mayor Smith remarked##clubs. will be _trump.’” Scores of men and women were beafen up, one man killed and several sent to the hos- pitals. It is now alleged that hir- ed gunmen were imported from |New York to aid the Vare-Deutsch {gang in the bloody fifth." ELEBRATION OF LEAN sOINTY BUTHNY SOK Neighboring Shire to Observe 35th Anniversary of Its Organiz- ation’ Washburn, N.D., Oct. 8—Plans are ; materializing for 'the-celebration Nov. | 3 of the 35th-anniversary of the or- ‘ ganization of McLean) county, one of e j the oldest shires in'central North Da- | kota. George P. Flamnery, president eVARE of the Northern Trust'Co. in St. Paul, | who, as state’s attorney. for Burleigh county, assisted: inthe legal. phases ‘of the partition of McLean in 1833: Gen. E. A. Williams, who also presided at the birth, and other pioneers, have : special. ' By Philadelphia, Pa. Oct: -8.The rothers are the, most im- who would take care of the finan- vice “from pirating” news from the Associated Press. { unanimously to return to that charge. Rev. R. H. Craig has been invited ' . Today's action of the court does! not stay the operation of the injunc-) picKinson, N. D., Oct. §—The 32nd Benton Baker, Chairman for Sixth | Judicial District, Inspired by Conference FOB Sélusive: tion, already existing. court officials | annual conference of the Methodist said, but merely provides for the re-; yiscopal church of North Dakota op- by the Associated Press. j ference examinations in the Commer- Advance Appeal. ‘cial club rooms. From 250 to 300 del- To permit an early decision, the| gates will be here for the annual invalving constitutionalitv of the! ena Mont., will preside, and Rev. R. ; draft law and fixed December 10 for, 1) ‘Craig, pastor.of the Warren A.: hearing arguments, = :4.0884| Simoson church of Dickinson, will be | conference delegaies will ‘be held at jthe local church tomorrow evening, when addresses of welcome will be de- . . | livered by Mayor Alfred White, repre- senting the city; Hon, Leslie A. Simp‘ ) pp clud; Rev. J. G. Duling, Congregation- alist, and Rev. Father Digman, Roman Catholic, on behalf of the churches of ‘Dickinson; and Prof P. 8, Eerg, gu- perintendent of cit: en Ri and Rev. Frost of Fa i Wednesday enoon the annital! conference sermon by Rev. Frost will Bishop Cook in charge and district superintendents assisting. In the af- ; ternoon the Women’s Foreign Mission- CAMPAIGN FOR FUNDS TO | Pauline Grandstrand of Pakur, India. In the evening Dr. M. P. Burns, su- BE WAGED IN NOVEMBER perintendent of the department of ip sd wassvery. much: impressed with dress the board of home missions and men were splendid, healthy, strong | burch extension. {.men, prominent in all: walks, of life, gathered with a: serious purpose, that j the men‘who are fighting in, the ar jjies of’ the United States and her al- lies,” said Attorney Benton Baker on go conference. of:.the. National War council of the Young Men’s Christian association, which he attended: as a rg Habs kota judicial. district.,, “The great need for the work of. the. ¥.,M. C.. amotig our fighting men was made had Hjutulately come from the, fron said’ Mr. Baker: ., % bu The North . Dakota , campaign .f view to which there was no opposition jens here Tuesday morning with con- supreme court today advanced appeals meeting. Bishop R. J. Cook’ of Hel- master of ceremonies. ‘A reception to son, representing the Commércial ponses will be made fe Cok be followed by the Lord’s supper. with ary society will be addressed by Miss city missions, Philadelphia, will ad- the personnel of the conference. The of raising the morale and. spirits’ of his return from... the , . Chica- representative of the Sixth North Da- only too plain by the, speakers, who funds’ with which to carry on,.tne 9s: hr Motor Sates ‘Company " Day Phone 490 261.4. 4: ed : portant cogs in the Republican been invited to deliver addresses, and sociation's.;war work. will begin early First Game to Be'Played‘on Lo- tineson’s matrimonial bureau is oc-!1 "i ‘ cupyi uch of his ti ince ‘thie 1 cal’ Field Week From Sat- cupying, much o} is time since ‘tlie. urday With Mandan aid The Bismarck high will open its football schedule one week from next Saturday in a game with the Mandan high on the latter’s gridiron. Athletic and placed under a seat, G. F. Whit- £ Director Bolt has had two squads working for the last month, and he be-|day by William Meyers, automobile named the other day as the man sleuth for the secretary of state, and) ‘‘)igher up’ in the importing of Police “Magistrate! »inmen, is the real lead: i lieves he has an abundance of mate- rial for a winning eleven. | Thursday, Nov. 1, while the North Dakota Educational association is in session here, the Mandan high and Bismarck will meet on the capitol field, which has been lined off and makes an ‘excellent gridiron. Efforts ars being made to arrange games with the industrial training school team at Mandan, with Dickinson and other Slope teams, and an interesting .sea- sen 18 leoked forward to. During the state mecting of the Fuel Problem Solved You will be interested to know that a new device for burning kerosene oil has been patented and perfected. It can be installed in any type of furnace, hot water or steam heating plants, cook stoves, producing sufficient heat to keep eny hotel, apartment house or re- sidence as warm as required in the published’ announcement of a Chi-! cago maid's demands on his hymenal aid. sion, had been removed from the car man of Flasher was arrested yester- arraigned before Bleckreid. He pleaded guilty to op- erating a car with but one license tag visible and paid a fine of $13.35, NEW CORPORATIONS The Mouse River Farmers’ Press, another Nonpartisan league organ, in- corporated by the Rev. George E. Tot- ten, was chartered by the secretary of state Saturday. The capital stock is fixed at $11,400, and the incorpora- tors are Ole Gilbertson and ©. P. Brandon of Towner and B. J. Mona- ghan of Upham. William Lemke of Fargo appears as the company’s at- torney. The Charmonneau. Mercan- tile Co., capitalized at $9,000, was in- corporated Saturday by Frank Ren- esch and’ George W. Noble, all of! Charbonneau. BANNER ENROLLMENT High School Attendance Expect- ed to Break Record The enrollment of the Bismarck high at the close of the first month of the fall semester is 219, while the highest point attained last year was 238. New students from out of town are coming in every week, and Prin- cipal C. (* Bolt predicts the enroll- ment this year will be larger than ever ‘before. Between 30 and 40 stu- dents are now here from other Slope towns, attracted by the Capital City's superior educational facilities. coldest weather. HUMPHREYS’ The burners are simple to oper- ate and are perfectly safe; there WITCH HAZEL OINTMENT » are a great many of them in use in different states. They can be seen operating in ‘different types of stoves and heat- ing plants at 726 Henncpin Ave. Minneapolis. You are invited to call and see demonstration. Your coal worries will be ended as soon For Piles or Hemorrhoids, External or Internal, Blind or Bleeding, Itching or Burning. One application brings relief. Price 28c., at all druggists or mailed, Sead Free Sample of Ointment to as you start using the Regal Burn-| REGAL BURNER COMPANY | Reliable representatives wanted in all parts of North Dakota. ot 156 Wi liam Street, New York. SICK ANIMALS | _A BIG BOOK on diseases of Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Dogs and Poultry, mailed free. Humphreys’ Veterinary Medici 156 William Street, New York, phia. At° one time, when they started.out; they trained sith the Penrose faction. Now they are in ‘Pays Stiff Fine.—Because one of cohtrol of the anti-Penrose \gang, SEEK FARLY DECISION ' his license tags, damaged in a colll-’ and have a firm grip on the muni- | YVare. who was named as the man it is planned to’make the event an occasion , fora. big Fot:together ses- sion of all’ McLean ‘count ‘old ‘timers. naghine now controlling Philadel- cipal legislative body. | State Senator Edwin Tf. Vare, I ORT APPEAL Washington, Oct. —The supreme court today decided to review federal decrees which restrained the Inter- national News service or Hearst ser- . Tis sman William S. vother, Cong: PEACH FOR SOLDIER in November. The. central army,.de- partment: of: the: national, war, work council-:has pledged, $12,500,000, as its, ‘allotment | ofthe 000,009,..to, be. raised'in the United sta Dakota’s ‘share «is $109,090; Dakota, 125,630; Minnesota, ¢00, and Wisconsin, $750,000.‘ The Chi- cago conference was attended by 350) representative business men, educa-/ tors and professional men, and renre-j sentatives of each state pledged the quota of their commonwealth and be- came responsible for the raising of it. F. Cooper of Minneapolis was ed chairman of the campaign committee for the central military de-| artment, and K. Shumaker, state) retary of Illinois, was made cam- paign director. The chairmen of the fifteen state committees embraced in ROYAL ARCH MASONS. | A regular meeting of Bismarck Chapter “No. 10, Royal Arch Masons, | will be held Tuesday evening, October 9, at the Masonic Temple. Hour, 7:30.; 108 The photograph shows how war comes home to the sheltered orchards of the ‘‘snug little isle’’-that is the nerve center of the | British empire. Here is a girl wa+ worker. picking in an’ orchard Ith at Main 8t. near Hounslow freit which eventaally will go to ice troops at the | front. aagree « | | | Impress your hatter with the fact that you are particular about your hat and he'll | exercise his expe- rience in helping you select the Gor- don designed for your type. You'll know the hat when you don it. Gordon hats LATE MODEL Dodge Bros. Touring Car. \Standard equipment. perfect me- | chanical condition; used short ; time as demonstrator .. $775.00 Missouri Valley Motor Co. Telephone 234 404 MAIN the district make up the department |} ne campaign committee. The campaign |} 2 ; os will be conducted simultaneously. in‘ i " all states and cities the week’ of. No- : vember 11-19. Neti, EN Ai’ ig ‘6 i} OF FANCY WEALTY’S Hand picked and carefully selected - $1.75 Per Box These Apples are fin: for table use and for eating. Will keep for several months. one will want. Car is on track near Wiestern Sales office. Call and a man there will take care of your order, E. C. White DISTRIBUTOR MARY PICKFORD “POOR LITILt RICH GIRL” BISMARCK THEATRE Tc-NIGHT ard TO-MORROW NICHT Hingley of Chicago, ‘and in the even- ing’Dr: Bf. Smith of Minpeapolis will address the Epworth league and other young people's organizations. Mrs. Ki. I. Miller of Pasadena, Calif., , will be the principal speaker at a ; meeting of the Women’s Home Mis- : sionary sacieiy Friday, Mrs. J. ’ More, wife! of ‘the jdistrict superin- | tendent presiding. * I Saturday the boara of foréign mis- sions will be addressed by Rev. J. M. Ttylor of New York city. Sunday morging the conference lovefeast will be held. At 2 in the afternoon Bishop Cook will ordain deacons and elders, and at 3 Rev. William Burns of Min- neapolis will deliver the annual mem- orial address. At 7:39 in the evening Rev. J. W. Hansher of New York will sneak, and the reading of appoint- ments for the ensuing year by Bish- ne evicel” IKI HP UY A, ditty, These fine, red apples every STREET