The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 24, 1919, Page 1

THIRTY-NINTH YEAR. BISMARCK, NORTH DA KOTA AY, “FEB. m, COVEY REPLIES TO WEARLE ON RESOLUTIONS \No Attack Made on Any Church Nor Upon Any Nationality, Declares Indian Worker OUR PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS Federal Agent Discusses Their Status in Our National Plan of Americanization - Rosebud, South Dakota, 4 February 21, 1919. ‘Bismarck Tribune, PLOT AGAINST WILSON. New York, Feb. 24.—Federal attorneys and secret service men today were examining the person- al effects and papers of fourteen Spaniards, members of the |. W. W. arrested here yesterday’ on suspicion that two of them we-e concerned, in a plot against the life of President Wilson. it was admitted that the raids , followed reports that two Phila } = = 4 = = = =x > S —— =a 'T/2 oS = = les PLOT T0 ASSASS delphia Spaniards, wiegibers of the |. W..W.:wWere en route to Bos- ton to make an attempt on ,the two were: Bios the fourteen ar- rested. TEN UNGER ARREST. Philadelphia; Feb. —Ten Bismarck, N. D. Gentlemen : A recent issue of your paper con- tains g vitrolic attack by , Bishop Wehrle on a number of Indians of the Standing Bock reservation for dar- ing to address a: “memorial” to the! state legislature demanding the engct- ment of laws requiring ‘the teaching ‘of the English language in schools. “he worthy bishop pays his rea ‘and almost swears ut the ‘cheap w! trash” whom he thinks inspired this I gm very proud to ac-( memorial. iknos ledge horship of this “memo- py the bishop's snieers to my duty and: earring my “fat salaey”: em nyo ap wi 1am feelly 1 de between: 3 the 19} servation, 19 have devotion to* in the Indian service, and that of mny + missionary, he he bishop, priest or: parson, and 4s to my patriotism I w' not defile myself by even drawing cont- ; parison with an Apologist for German: may) ism under whatever guise he come. “Fe want to oall the attention of your readers to one thing perticularly and that is that thie: memorial presented to the legislature makes no attack on the’ Catholic church,” or. the Russians of Emapions county, My only reason for cheap Deda ALMOST HALF NILLION FOR TUITION FUND \Miss Minnie J. Nielson An- nounces Apportionment for 202,835 School Children j here, men | were arrested here carly :toqay sus- pected of: hetngainplicated in. the New York plot ito. assassinate Presidest | TRIBUNE Meee | 1919. PRESIDENT WILSON GIVEN ROYAL WELCOME UPON Y MAKING TRIP; SCENT INATE CHIEF EXECUTIVE Wilson. Ne are Spaniards and all are adiens. Police here attach ‘more haportance to the arrest in New York of two Philadelphians than the rald In the headquarters of the local party was found two tons of anachis- tic literature, At d meeting here qwo weeks ago, jt is sald, some of the rad- icals dropped a hint of the assassin- ation plot. Roston, Mass., “Feb. 24.—President | Wilson landed at Commonwealth pier at 11:42 a, m., returning to America {following his history-making journey | jto Europe, ; Wilson, ‘was transferred in the lower the president, with Mrs. harbor from the George Washington, ee President appeared vigorous and | wert. showed more than a trace of sea tan. | Cheers, Nis step was brisk, and his face greeted him as he stepped i ashore, In the great shed of the Pier, | built by the state and taken over by. he navy department during the war s a housing place for naval recruits, i there were housed hundreds of publte ; Men, ‘legislators and a commiitee of ; Women selected to receive Mrs. Wi} | son, Ctantinnad on Paga Twn y Attempting to answer this unfair and | The apportionment of $430,000 among misleading: letter of the Bishop's is to! North Dakota’s 53. counties:.as.a tul- try to-prevent a wrong idea after read: based -upon .a 'schdol popu ing jt< No attack is: made by: the ;In- dians, of ‘the Standing; tian, on’ Russtar no, attack is mat , Reserva-| srsayite’ 202,885 is announced by Mis ‘UNIlson, st: nate pub) nel atau 10,911. pupiis;, Grand skate With¢8809, pupils, receives $18)- eos Stutéman, with 6,829" pupils, -re- 131, appor- |“ cotyes are Ward, with 9,055 pu- 19,154, and :Burleigh, win German a ee Bets; $8,653, Engltsh, hd 1 am free ite, that par- Tatton are is. | We: betiev this arid. we believ no issue of “this. sort. It simply sets forth certain conditions that exist’ in our’ country . (not Emmons county, ‘ alone), ‘and asks thé ‘legislature ‘to ‘make all schools teach American his- tory, American ideals and teach them in the American langua: Does the dishop ‘object, to. thia? oes he ‘dare inay we will be putting our noses in_oth- er. peoples business: if we say to him, “Bishop, go ahead with your private ‘school if you wish, but you must fol- low the state course of study, you HALF-BILLION y lots of! other. things but the mampelals raises | Immense. Sum to Be Expended i in = TOR ROAD WORK ~ DURING 1919 Constructing or-Improving - National Thoroughfares Washington, D. C. Feb. 24—Expend- titures for highway work ‘in the Uniied States this year are likely te amount to a half billion dollars or even ‘more, according to a statement made ‘today by officials of the bureau of public roads, United States department of agriculture. On reports received from |. must teach American history, and you mat: teach these things in the Ameri- ean language only.” Hasn't the state a right to say what and how our fu:, ture citizens shal} be taught? i I will state} Besitively: and unequi oca}ly that wi State highway departments, the bu-|" Teau estimates the expenditures for roads and bridges at, $385,000;000, or tA 10,000,000 more than the average \éaneinditures for 1910 and .1917.. This ib imate does not include. however, I-wrote the ‘original’ the ‘additional, federal: funds which of this memorial I did not have Eny- mons coenty uasians or any other par will be available ifthe amgndment to the post office appropiratioh bill, mak- ticular North ; Dakota foreigners in ing $50,000,000 immediately, availa le mind. I had In thind a general pleture of-the vast numberof people of for. and $75,000,000 more on July 1. ts en- acted into law. fe ‘Estimated work uhder control .of eign. birth seattered’all dver on Inud, who have proven beyond the shadow of the state highway departments in- a dohbt that they. were disloyal, wio eludes $45,000,000 for the constructioa of 5,000 miles or road now under con- have: been. convicted: in the courts. of tract, $30,000,000 for 4,000 miles of being disloyal, .. and, many, of whom construction ready for contract, $100,- though not so ‘convicted are positively. 000,00 for 16,000 miles of contemplat- known to have’ been raitors at Jieart. I. did not. havé in. mind the man of ed construction, and $60,009,000 main- foreign birth or descent who is ‘oyal, tenance of 200,000 miles. © Expendi- many of whom I knew: aly. And Iwill. sayq here and: now that tbere- tures of counties, townships, and lo- cal road districts are estimated at ‘was a much larger: per cent of. them loyal to America-than‘Germany thought would be. I cannot name the traitors in Emmons bit. I. can nanie a $100,000,000 for the .construction of 15,000 miles\and $50,000,00 for main- ténance of 100,0000 miles Jot of them in: Todd: kota, atid if the bishop. really, wants to find out who the: traitors were in ty, South-Da-! Great Britain . -. Faces General Emmons county; Ii have no: doubt::he can find men who. gan and will tell him. RELIGION No, FACTOR. % The joke on the bishop in| this whole matter is (if there.can.be'a joke-cou- nected with such .®- serious matter) that the particular instances.I had in Industrial Strike London. Feb, 24. —The United King- dom is facing a general strike and everything posible should be done to prevent it, sald Lloy& George today. NO ICE ON BAY. wind of ‘people. of. foreign. birth -who have shown a disposition to baitd, to- Port Arthur, Ont., Feb. 24.—For the gether in colonies,.who . have never ‘learned the language: of ‘our.:coyntry,” ete., are not Catholics at all but. are Protestants. It hasbeen my observa- tion that religion ‘has nothing to do with the loyalty buainess. The real Awericans whether native stock or for- eign descent or birth belong to all de- \ nominations and creeds, while the first time in many years local dealers nay abandoned all hope of harvest- ice crop from Thunder bay. The bay his not been frozen over tihs winter. The ice waich formed along ithe shore is not considered of com- mercial value. Navigation ‘in and out.of this port would have been pos- sible all winter. trattore may be Germans of German @eecent, Russians or even American born ‘and are likely to belong to any church or no church. “180 lets not befog the issue—we are [straight out for Americanism from this tithe on. I prepared: this memortal to ee South Dakota legislature and it was signed here in Todd county by hundreds of people, white and Indian, nd ‘us| World war, orial. history building and memorial Dn name ornate ena atecaaeeee eats RANTINE ON FOREIGN CEREALS CONTROVERSY | OVER SINKING "BATTLESHIPS “Parle, ies HS While the Stipreme} war council: has-not discussed the dis-| warships, British and American:-experts believe that the proper diSposition is’ to’ sink’ Italy and France do not agree position’ of surrendered them. with this view. The British navy has captured the| greatest number of ships. These ves. sels can not be used profitably in com- merce being too heavily engined andj having no cargo space. sels can nbdt be broken up.at up .at a profit. | WOULD END CONTROLDEC. 34 government control of telegraph and! Bil] to Sidetrack telephone lines Dec. 31 next was (ar- ranged for today. ' Minnesota Pioneer Dies at 96 Years’ St. Paul, Fed. 24.—A. L. Naval’ ves| |\QUA bition or restri | wheat, continental United States from Aus' lia, Japan, India, Italy, France, Ger- | many, and and Brazil is believed by the Unit- led States department of agriculture to | he neces lence in those countries of the smut and take-all diseases. mer affeets wheat alone, and the. ter wheat, rye, barley, oats and rice. A hearing, to determine whether or sot a quarantine is necessary, will be held at 10 o'clock; March tof the. federal. horiticultural | Washington, at which persons interests ed in, the proposed quarantine may be heard. either in person or hy attorney, de. | | consider quarantine action. ' structive. MAY MEAN HIGHER PRICE AT HOME Washington, D. C., yn of movements of ", onts, ard rice to rye, bark Belgium, Great, Britain, —Ire- ‘yon account of the p he sor- 25, in the ofticas hoard, Both of the diseases are very Flag smut affects { blades, leaf sheaths, stems and scme [times the: spikes of wheat. ‘every shoot is affected, ihe jea er-and the spike is frequent by al over in the s tralia losses. from this.disease run from Usually yos with- ved mass of twisteil~ leay. The pores are carried on the sed und live In: porstoas of Aus- ; one-tenth to one-half.of the crop. Washington, Feb. 24—Right of way; for action on the resolution to end| Larpenter, | H one of Minnesota‘s best known pio-| neers, died at his home here today. He ‘was 96 and had lived 1843. STREET FIGHTING. “London, Fe>, 24.—Spartican riots have.faken place in Nuremburg where attect fighting is in progress. , . INDIVIDUAL MEMORIAL HISTORY BUILDING PLAN MOST FAVORED It seems probable that House Bill 121, appropriating $200,000 for a mem park, to stand as a monument to North Dakota men who served in the will pass this assembly. -atied .all over this ‘broad land: I seat|in preference to a somewhat similar ‘memorial to my friends ae Pastas: and. urged | measure. - appropriating but $120,000,’ |e, street’, rat ae the sen- e.. but separated from the present. state house, and to be surrounded by a each of ear a /bronze plate com- memorative of some hero who fell in ‘Ffance, is-more satisfactory than the new, building onto ‘the. already much ‘patch- Grove of indigenous trees, which Is: to senate ‘ pro} to hitch the ed capitol asa third addition. The ‘present capitol must go. ulti-| ¢ ‘mately, it is,claimed. The “building is + and'to spend a pa a bad fi ‘|sam of an adding, Janik anol nere since Miss Minnie Miss Nielson Goes Back to. Committee . Senate Bill-134, Niel Macdonald's little pet peeve measure to side-track | Miss Minnie: Nielson: and possibly de- | $4 373.581. prive her of her certificate, ‘went | CUED zack ‘to the. committee to-, | ay. It has been ‘shaved several times and ‘all the have. been called in: to camouflage | its features. Hvidently:the ¢amouflag>|- was not sufficient or.the league did} i not have its gas bombs. and barrage | ready for the final drive through the} | senate of this notoriqus” Sriqueaneserel 1 league: tonsorial? artists t » AT NEW LEIPZIG Patriotic Program Miss Minnie J, Nielson, state; super- intendent of, public“instruction, deliv- incipal address at @ suc- lay at Feb, 24.—Prohi- + jielson Speaks at ington-Lineoln day pro- gram in: the New. Leipzig- schools last | Bl sree She spent Su her home in.¥1 aan jing to ~ Brest for Hoboken wat: The tnke-all disease, kaowu as white-| head and footrot, attacks the roots and base of the plants, rotling the roots and blackening the bise of the stews. Young wheat plants spceiily wither and die. Older ones mi rarely produce grain, Heavy” lo have been sustained in all count where this disease’ occurs. The danger to the United States lies in the possibility of importation of ibe cereal grains for segd purposes, !i ith- | erto there. have been no cousiderable | commercial importations and, there; fore these diseases have not been in- troduced. The danger from imported seed, ind also the possibility of intro- ducing the diseases through possible commercial shipments from Australia, where there has heen a. large accumu-, lation of wheat, make it necessary to. It is not improbable, according to the depart- ment of agriculture, that methods of treatment by, exposing the grain- to steam or drv. heat may be found prac- ticable. Such treatment would render | the grain worthless for seed purposes, | but probally wenld not decrease its | value for feed or manufacturing pur- poses, | RRR Rennes | Per $6,000,090 BUILDING. Winnipeg, Man., Feb, 24.—Latest of- ficial estimates indicate that Manito- ba’s parliament building, which is still under construction, will cost the j government $6,000,000 before it is completed. i G. A. Grierson, minister of public | works. has announced that the actual | | construction work thus far bas cost) | JULIAN STOREY DEAD. Philadelphia, Pa. Fed. 24.—Julian) | storey, the artist, died in 4 hospital} here today after many months’ illness. He was 62. Marse Jim Says Profit on Build- | BLANKS READY | FOR ASSESSORS: is first meeting this morning to act un-| shar der the new measures providing for reclassification of pr Poses of taxation, 44, both league mea; the board presented a draft ofa u {blank to be used by as used for business purpos tures on city lots used for homes, per’ cont; cl $300° exempt; 50 per cent; farming togls, 41 hreshing machines, uner- | yalned, ‘aha “the of: par, Or, ‘ él and restaurant tifitres, | 100. their sh: ere really wort). fix d equipment of pool halls, | $200 when the inization — to pleture .shows, ete. manufacturers' | pl They contend! that the olde tools, ete., 50 per cents class 20, bite ti Ings and oils, chinery , anc 100; | and water plants, erty not listable under lass an exemption of $1,000, Prints are now being prepared to be mailed ‘atsonce to assessors, who are ready classification. BIG GUN 10 : survive, but | long range guns which shelled Paris! now is on its way to this city and! will be placed upon exhibition. shal Foci, manded the surrender of one of these guns which fices near Maintz. Employee Arrested great disturbances during the assas-; sination of Burt Eisner in numerous buildings. was practically destroyed. U: S. GRANT BROUGHT FIRST BACK 20 YEARS AGO | An unusual coincidence is not- ! ed today by John Peterson of the Grand Pacific, a veteran of the Filipino ‘campaign, .in. reading. that the boys of the Fighting First returned from france on the transport U. S. Grant. 4t was just 20 years ago that the Fight- ing First returned from the Phil- lect etd then it was the trane- $.. Grant whine piloted hahaa Veet over the wide reach. es of the Pacific. it is not able that the U. 8. Grant in which the Flickertail Vanke sai sane from * PRICE FIVE CENTS : LANGER’S SUIT AGAINST FARGO | MERCANTILE UP | Peesesseame sas Attorney General Appears jin Private Capacity as Plaintiff in Supreme Court WATERS SEES NOTHING OUT - OF THE WAY! ing at Valley City fs Per- fectly Legitimate state examiner : | secretary of the state banking board, | refuses to comm upon stories to. the effect that league Heutenants realized | a profit, of $385,000 to $57,000 in the; , ~_ reorganization of the Amerlean Na- i | tional bank of Valley City, which duck |} CLAIM FREEZE OUT GAME Hastings, Thomas Allan Box and other s fpapeal experts in the service of A. | : G; Townley. plan to consolidate with s He and Father Were Not their newly ‘organized American Ex- Advised of Reorganization i That Left Them Out J. R, Waters, change bank of Valley City, a state institution. Mr. Waters refers to these stories as “false and misleading,” but he does not deny a handsome protit may have | accrued to the league worker | rendered the farmers of Barne this service. “The matter of ingreise in the value of the bank building | nothing to do with the organization | of the bank or the value of the stock.” | says Mr. Waters.” Attorney General Langer appears in supreme court in the role of a private citizen as plaintiff in an aetion brought by himself ‘and his father,. Frank J, nger of Casselton, to prevent. their being frozen out of the reorganization of the Fargo Mercantile Co. ,The tran- cript of the case, in which Judge Cole ‘Approval of the consolidation, how- | Of the third district denied’ the’ plain- ever, is still being withheld by the | tiM's application for the appointment state banking board, composed of the | {of a receiver, came up from eee coun- governor, the attorney general and the | & this morning. secretary of, state. | ‘The Fargo Mercantile ©o. was first sane ; organized April 1, 1895, the signifi- ‘e of such date apparently not af- ‘ting the success of the company, as Langer, who bought 25 shares, William Langer, the attorney gen- ral, who invested in 100 shares in the | ori iginal company, regarded their hold- ee ‘is quite valuable. Aboug April , dg a charter of the company ex- hey i jar | pie jhiliér the statute of limitations. 4 i tly the company did. not. be- vare of this fact until some "ars later, when a re-organiza- s effected August.-9, 1918, | ON NEW PLAN: a | thee om | tion wi , 5 | aSlkadebadt of Prop Property Under} WERE NOT NOTIFIED { The attorney general claims that | neither he nor his father received any | notice of the plan of reorganization {and that the first intimation — given jthem that a reorganiaztion had been DIFFERENT CLASSES | effected came in a notice that the old company had been dissolved and that checks for $10,850 and $2,587, respec- | tively yesenting the value of their inthe old company, had been 4} deposited to their credit. in a Fargo perty for the pur-! hank. fe bills 43 and} The attorney gene al then wrete the VRargo \Mercantile 4 declaring that neither he, nor his’fatier cared to sell mete shares; her knew of a League’s Reclassification to Begin at Once The state hoard of equalization held State Auditor Kos rs In Mat} ing property under these acts, and: it shares’ of the Mercantile Co. was approved. This blank provitdés | iija that th . 1 ‘against being for 29 special classifications in’ adai- | left: emt Ab? nization, The tion to the general’ classifications on | Fuvgo Meter . replied that the land ty lots, structures on city lots | reorganizittor komewhat of a close . and struc: | corporation: that heither of the Lang- ers had actively contributed to the suc- Class 1 includes household — goo ce f the etiterprise: 8 Nn WS Of priterprise ; that the charter y with $200 exempt, and essed at of the eld company had dissolved, and percent: class 2, clothing, jewel that &neb company had ceased to extat, boks, ete., $300.3 exempt, assessed at and thit neither of the tater could 3 of, mechani Class Ay | wduim yuny inte NDERVAL STOCK » $1,000, exempt, snot ou ee ba Mi ati The Lange frozen ont Mit Aen 3 af the oll adiiiye x r cont; clas: Jon was worth $750,000 and its improvements on good will valued dit more than $1,000,- leased or mgnted” sites, 100 per’ eont; cluss 21,1000. In the reorganization the vi : ‘ e value shares _ of bank stock, 100 per cent?) of all the property of the old corpora- v2; “oll ations on leased sites, except | tion wus fixer $540,882, with in- 3, elevators, 100; ipment in flon franchises and patents, 10¢ SS. equipment of elect gus 100; 29, all prop- iny of the for iM per cent. The gener includes all lands at 100 homes at 50 per -cent, Blue- Pa mil 166, leaving net as- The defendants are the Fargo Mer- jeantile Co. and T. A. Quirk, ©. 0. Fol- lett_ and Croil Hunter, trustees, W: S. Lauder appears for the plaintiffs, - und Watson, Young & Co. for the de- fendants. PEACE TREATY NOT TO DEFINE* PUNISHMENTS: Paris, Feb, 24—Indications are 5 that {nothing defining responsibility of i war will be set forth in the prelimin- {ary peace trea The committee on {Punishments jas worked secretly: PROBE STARTS ' INTO NUN’S DEATH | Traverse City, Mich., Feb. 24.—Sev, , eral persons connected more than a | decade ago with a convent at Isadore, }near here, were being sought today In Connection With iy hutnorittes to cieae cougnt jodae A $12,000 Holdup} penance in 1907 of Sister Mary hns. a nun, whom officers say HO Same to her death by violence. It to begin work under the new BE EXHIBITED Paris, Feb. 24—One of the German; Mar-} the newspapers say. de- found by French of- Everett. Mass. Feb. Whitemore, an employe of the Gen- (es reported that Sister Mary had | eral Electric company, on @ charge of conspiracy and assault in connection Charles Brown, paymaster of the com- | pany, who was held up and robbed of | $12,000. the same connection. in New York are already under indict- ment. was arrested; left to visit friends. However, a. workman has made affidavit taat he exhumed a body from beneath a jchurch floor and assisted in reinter- ring it. The belief that this body was that of the nufi was strengthened by the finding of a rosary, such as worn | by the sisters, beneath some cordwood near the spot where the hody was found. with an attack on; Two others were arrested in Four arested | DESTROY BUILDINGS. Copenhagen, Feb. 24.—There, were| MICHIGAN HAS CLERTY. Marquette, Mich., Feb. 24——Although. North Dakota and other northwest :, states have had such a shortage of convicts, that North Dakota. at least, considered the advisability of closing its prison and “farming out” the in- mates, crime conditions. in Michigan have been so different that state of- FROM PHILIPPINES | t<i2!s are experiencing difficulty in finding cells to house wrong-doers. 3 ; ‘Michigan’s penitentiaries are locai- transport which brought the First \ed at Jackson in the lower. peninsula North Dakota back from the Phil. | and at Marquette, in northern Michi- ippines, but the name is the j|gan. Governor Sleeper recently tele- same. {graphed the warden of Marquette Cel, John H. Fraine, the late’ [that it would be necessary te move Lieut.Col. Grafton, Major Frank | 300 convicts from Jackson, because Henry, Capt. T..S.. Henry and | of crowded conditions. He asked how, many other officers of the Fight- |many.of these prisoners ‘could .be ing First who. won new laursis in | cared for by the Marquette institution. _ the world’s war. received ther According to a Marquett@ paper, first baptiem in fire as off.cers or | “the telegram failed = arouse any enlisted men in the old First Ses wine North. Dakota, Twenty years ago, Noire when ‘this command made an. ex- Sai oe the aS heel ws f cellent cecord in the insular cam- , paign, The law courts. building | st tn fhe new Cone EE % five £10 Ae to aay fhobesat ae Droperty vad) irs