The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 12, 1919, Page 1

THE WEATHER Generally Fair. BLUE SKY LAW TO BE TESTED BY BISMARCKER Claude M. Rossen Attacks Valid- ity of Statute in Asking Habeas Corpus Writ SELLING CERTIFICATES Consumers’ United Store Co. Plan ‘Applied to Distribution of Lignite Coal This promises to be an important week in the-young life of North Dako- ta's blue sky law. Under orders from the blue sky commission, officers of the Equity xchange of St. Paul, the Equity Cooperative Packing Co. of Fargo and the Northern Packing Co. of Grand Forks will appear before the banking board Thursday afternoon to explain their failure to comply wita all the provisions of the act. At, the same hour today ‘Attorney Gen- eral Langer will appear in supreme court to defend an action brought by Claude M. Rosson of Bismarck, through his attorney, former Associ- ate Justice E. T, Burke, questioning the scope of this much-exercised sta- tute. Claude Rosson, a well known Bis- marck man, was arrested ‘March 6 on w charge of selling ‘buyers’ certifi- cates” of the Lignite Consumers’ Mining Co. in violation of the blue sky law of North Dakota. March 11} Mr. Rosson applied to Judge Nuessle in district court for a writ of habeas corpus,’ which was refused. Yester- day the action was appealed to the supreme court and-by stipulation was set for argument today, Promises Coal Cheap. The Lignite Consumers’ Mining Co. seems to nave taken a leaf out of tae Consumers’ United Store "3 book. The “buyers’ certificates,” sold at $100 the share are to be used under the term of the agreement printed upon the certificate to build up a fund of $200,000, with which a mine will be opened at Lignite. The company agrees as soon’as $200,000 worth of certificates are disposed of to open its mine and to begin the production of coal which is to be sold to certiil- cate-holders at a price not to exceed $1.50 per ton f. 0. b. cars at Havelock. The coal may be sold for.as much less under $1.50 as may be consistent wit’ the successful operation of the mine. but it is not to cost more. ,Under these terms the -price to Bismarck consumers would be $2.75 to $3 tho; ton. No. certifigaté-hélder: may _ receive. more than 25 tons in any one fuel year.” Should a certificate holder la-k ready ‘money, His coal may be charg >d up against his certificate to the amount of $100, said:certificate being deposited: with thé: company as sécur- ity. “The cértificate holder is given a year’s time for redemption. ‘Ninety Per cent of all money paid for certi- ficatés up to $200,000 is to go into the first mine ‘at) Havelook. Any sum which ‘may be subscribed over $209, 000 may be used .at the discretion of the directors in opening new mines. No Names Given, Rosson’s is the only name connect- ed with the company which appears in these proceedings. None of the di- rector’s or officers’ names\is giyen on the copy of the certificate which is made a part of the court record. The statute assailed in the habeas corpus proceeding is chapter 91 of the session laws of 1915. Should it be found not to apply to such stockselling business as Rosson was engaged in, many other companies of a similar nature, un- doubtedly including -the Consumers’ United Stores Co., will also be ex- empted from supervision at the hands of the blue sky commission. The home office of the Lignite Consumers’ Mining Co. is given as New England. It purposes to open its mine at Havelock not later than October 1, 1919. NONOGENARIAN PASSES AWAY} Funeral for Grandfather Bailey | at Sterling \ Funeral services were held at Sterling on Tuesday afternoon BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA. WEDNE SD AY, SOLDIERS MAY- KEEP UNIFORMS Much Discussed Question Settled by Adjutant General All discharged soldiers may retain their uniforms. ]okfieg in response to scores of quer. ies. |. Soldiers discharged prior to Novem- ber 11, however, cannot claim the | 1-2 cent per mile difference between the 3 1-2 cent allowance given them then for traveling expenses und the five-cents per mile now allowed dis- charged soldiers. \ These statements answer two im-! portant questions which have cost the adjutant general's office much corres- Pondence for several weeks past. MAN CRAZED WITH DRINK HOLDS OFF MOB Three Wounded in Pitched Battle | in Chicago Residence District Chicago, March 12.. and a civilian are in hospitais today | with bullet wounds inflicted by a man; barricaded in his own house, while} the latter lies in a morgue wich part; of his head blown off by turning his {rifle on himself, From 10 o'clock last nigh: Geor: Ombeck, real estate dealer and |pert marksman, held more thar 104 men at bay, returning shot for shet. One of his bullets ploughed a furrow along a policeman's scalp. Anoth: struck an officer in the lez. A ihird police man is shot throug) the head. When Ombeck was reduced to his last’ cartridge, he turned his rifle jagainst himself. Forty-five minut later the police crept into the hous Ombeck lay dead on the floor. The house was filled with gas, a bullet| having broken a gas pipe. In a rear room, lying close to the wall, were Mrs. Ombeck and her six caildren, who had sought refuge there from bullets which crashed through the frame walls. Ombeck had been drial ing, and the police were seeking him on a warrant sworn out by his wife alleging cruelty. OLD BURLEIGH COUNTY CITIZEN CALLED AWAY Funeral Services } Held at Bald.| win ‘Tuesday for Late Mathias Eliason The funeral. services, of Mathias Eliason were held in the first Presb terian’ church. at Baldwin Tuesday afternoon at 12:30, Rey, IL..C, Postle- thwaite officiating. The services. were. largely atended by the residents of the community. bs Mr. Eliason was’ born in. Sotberga [1 Socken, Bohus Lan, Sweden, and came to America in 1881 and took up his residence at Yonkers, N.Y. — In 1883 he eame to North Dakota and took up a homestead at Glendive, Burleigh county, where he had since resided. His wife died about six years ago, j Since which time he has spent much of his time with his children, of whom and | four survive him—Gust Eliason of Bismarck and Mrs, Ellen Christen- sen of Regan, where he was visiting when death came, Mr. Eliason was 78 years, 9 months and 4 days old. During his life he was and his Christian spirit won him a host of friends who mourn his depar- ture. The interment was made at Rose Hill cemetery. SCHREIBER CASE. IS APPEALED TO HIGHEST COURT) ment for Sedition, Dies Before Trial In the death of T. A. Schreiber, at New Salem on Monday, the department} | of justice, which had him listed for j trial for sedition, is deprived of a very; ness, Announcement. to this effect was) made today by the adjutant general's” ' ‘Two policemen: John Eliason of Baldwin, Carl Eliason} ‘much given toa reading of the’ Bible, | | New Salem. Man, Under Indict-} LEAGUEPLANTO “HELP YANKS IN YEAR OF 1938 Twenty Years Must Elapse Be- fore Full mount of Bonus Becomes Available | 1 i LANGER GIVES AN OPINION) Tells Adjutant General | Fr: $18 in, 1920 Will Be Boys’ First, Relief ! 5 ! Returned soldiers who are bescig- {ing the adjutant general's’ oifico with |requests for their bonuses under an{ act passed by the 16th general assem-! bly allowing each North Dakota Yank |$25 for each month he spent in the iservice of his country, will clamor in | vain for some tiie to come, according }to an opinion from Attorney General | Langer, delivered to Adjutant: Gener- fal Fraser yestevday at the latter's re- | quest. | Tho attorney general finds that un-\ der tie terms of the act creating the | returned soldiers’ fund there will be fabout $18 available for each soldier fone year from next June—June 30, {198 30,40 be exact. ‘There will not be a penny against which the boy. draw earlier than June 3}, 1920, teach of the state’s 39,000 soldiers take advantage of the act. there will not be one penny over $I1S per capita avail- able then. | On June 30, 1921 returned soldiers can draw each, and on each fear thereafter another $25 bonus will be ready for them. But tuere'll be no lump sum payménts under the terms of this act, and a fighter who has coming trom the state will get this last_ $25 instalment June 50, 19.38, | General Disappointment. That's the sober truth as Attorney General Langer sees it after a care-| ful study of the returned soldiers’ jbil. 1é will be a disappointment to the boys, in whose minds have becn conjured visions of an immediate pay- jment in a lump'sum at the e of jfor each montn they spent in service, jor who, at the worst, were led to be-| lieve their’ bonus would ‘be: paid: to them in regular monthly instalments. Thereis another. queue to the Dill) | which returned ‘soldiers may. not. find satisfactory, according tothe opinion | of the vattorney ‘general. The Dill! 4 specifically provides that the bonis can be used*only in acquiring a home through: the state home. builders’ as- sociation; establistied by one. of the league program pills passed. by the| Hitacen assembly, ‘or: in- FO uring “ani ledueation. Phe home buildi»z bill pro- |vides that when any menther of a home biyers’ league has scrape: to- gether 20 per cent-of the price of a) home, the association will buy the property and place him in possesiso..| The $18 whicn each North Dakota Yank may receive June 20, 1919, will Not, it is pointed out, go far toward the purchase of a home, finance any very. extensive venture! alone: educational lines | Leader is Eulogistic. The returned soldiers’ bill has been much lauded in the Nonpartisan uress. Of it The National Nonpartisan Leader in its last issué says: “The treatment being accorded our} \returned soldierg throughout the na-| tion shows up the thin veneer of old- gang patriotism. After :he speech- making and the bouquets, the men jare left to shift for themselves in an oversupplied labor market. In | fact, there is a deliberate plan in many quarters to use the needy sol- diers to beat down the wage scale. Colorado legislators have presented a bill to give soldiers pick-and- shovel | jobs on the state roads at $1 the jday, provided they would sign up for | a definite period of enlistment. “In striking contrast with this sort; of action, North Dakota has provided | for a payment of $25 a-month for ev- ery North Dakota boy in the army dnd navy of the United States‘or the allies, for each month spent in seh | ¢ service during theg reat war. This} money is to be used either as a first) payment on a city or farm home for jthe soldier or for his education, so! Nae onurent on pene Seven.) i | i nor will it|s MA R. 12, 1919 ITHE BISMARCK TRIBUNE THIRTY-NINTH YEAR. NO. 60. _- DESTRUCTION SUCH AS THIS, TIES UP RAILROADS ALL OVER EUROPE Typical of the destruction war brought to the Europe ¢ t a crossing possible, STRIKE REPORTED ’ AMONG MINERS », Mareh Fri Anzeiger reports a gene mining district of Butzen, Silicia, it heing said 20000 workmen are idle Another report. from) Butzen states Spartacans attacked the military and seized a number of rifles, A telegram fpom Graudenz martin! law has’ been proct: the Briesef. Kulm ‘Th burg districts of v fo an advance of Spar FOOD PROBLEM IN RUSSIA ISCRITICAL Tues of The med Archangel, Jay, Maren} | The food situation in northern Ru causes* concern. | In the district be- tween, Archangel and Onega the ple alrendy h exten the. ratio xed for next June. Aime: officers have analyzed the civilian tion and have found it contains only 1,560 calories per day. A ian doing no work needs 1,760, and + ceive at least 3.5 y the officers, » carry the people over { they will be drawing on tacir reser strength, becoming eas. subject disease. Delegates from eme arrived by camped at the doors and urged = for istanc brought samples of the bread were forced to eat, made of a small peo: nar and M team a Puchora reindeer f the They quantity of flour mixed with’ ground) She is being tried for extorting $215} samples were! from frost-bitten | the un. dried fish. Other made from ‘immature, grain. A third was made from a smal] quantity o deer moss leaepodation Income railroads of this picture of a ruined viaduct over the Nord in France. was while the Huns were trying to check the onrush of the French that the great concrete and steel structure across the valley ! was wrecked and weeks of work will be required to make any kind: NEW GAS FOR ikfort | strike in the! post | uss that” in| und SUrAss- | owing Hain hour bingy i | or, bur | display of her to dict committee | ty | present: HIGH SPEED IS ANNOUNCED Washington, March 12. ment of x motor fuel adding ten miles to the sped of planes and which may he used in automobile re announced today The per il ts eau of heetar, mil by the bur- lianid, called, While regarded purposes at Another liquid’ composed of herzol and gasoline -has been found more powerful than gasoline alone and is exepected to prove of Ine to in-} dustry. Phe compar Scar rol makes Hs produc + scale improbable in the near fature, mines, costs. $1 gallon. is “not commercial ot value, practical for “SPITE FENCE” AROUND ANKLES New York, March 12.--Because Mrs. etty Inch was too generous in the nkles to jurymen who failed a month ago to agree on a ver- upon her trial, she found the stand surrounded with a four board partition when she reap- R jury foot {| peared in the supreme court today. fence?” the The par- is comely Mrs. it, a spite Inch inquired. they | tition concealed all but her head and shoulders when she took the stand. Eugene Hayman, Hayman MOI Co. president of flour mixed with rein- STERLING MAN HAD D GOOD LUCK; Blanks Issued, Lost Valuable Team But Came Washington, "Maren 12.—Report that offices ‘of many revenue colle tors were being swamped by appli- cants and returns internal revenue for information as to the tax| ing more than com-| his team was Out of Wreck Well Dick Van Hess, who suffered noth- fractured wrist when struck on the crossing pelled the officers to allow the appli- jat Sterling by Northern Pacific train cants to state as nearly as possi the returns which the correct and adjust them Corporation incomes v day by the revenue bureau and sxip- ped througout the country.. er. ble| > considered | hosp’ re issned to-| Valuable. team, | j track on Monday noon, left a local al Tuesday for his home. Both of Van Hess’ horses, an exceptionally were killed, and he many rods from No. was thrown s The develop | ty of the! ALL SET FOR QUR BIENNIAL Commissionerships—Three for Magistrate DRAW FOR PLACES TODAY Entries Decide Place on Ballot by Lot—Election Officials Are Selected Commisioner R. L. Best, the last candidate to enter the lists for the two city commisionerships to be filled at the biennial city. election Ap- jril 1, got in under the wire at the feleventh hour late Tuesday evening, iwhen he filed his petitions with City Auditor Burton. The petitions of the other three candidates, John P. |French, John A. | Kiehholt had been filed earlier in the day, as had the three contestanta for the police magistraieship to be filled ;at the April election—E. H. Howell, |W. HH. Casselman and George Dolan. i For State Enterprises. Evidently anticipating that Bis- marck, if it offers sufficient encour- :agement or displays proper sympathy, may become the site for some one of the several enterprises, industries and utilities to be established by the under laws which passed’ the jleenth assembly, both Larson and 'Rrench have declared in their pla, iforms for such enterprises. The can- didates and their platforms as set forth in their petitions are: John P. French.—"A cleaner, better jelty, new state and business enterpris-| ;es; «a square deal for all, Bismarck, H , Last and Alwa John A. Larson.—"For a clean home, commercial city, economical ad- ministration, new municipal and stace enterprises, and an equal opporiunity for everyone.” Henry W. Richholt.—*Economy and efficiency, responsibility to, constitu ents, ‘ Best.—“Economy and effi- ciency and. conservative expenditures Vin needed improvements.” Have Paired Off. : The candidates appear to have pair- ed off in two groups. Larson And; {French stand for the same platform, ‘while Best and Richholt have adopted tmuch: similar principles. Mr. Rich- “| Aolt is one of the signers of Commis- |sioner Best's: petitions. | French's _ petition inames, Larson’s 275 ya Best's about 150. Among the candidates for police | mnaglotrate, Judge Casselman has 160 signers, including Charles F. Bleeck-| {reid. tho incumbent; Dolan has 11: jand Howell 136, | Draw For Places. | The various candidates met at the office of the city auditor at noon to day to draw for positions on the of- ficial ballot. The election will be non- | partisan. ‘It will be the first general city election in which women have had /an opportunity to cast their for commissioners. They are specit- ically prohibited by the North Dakota j limited franchise act, however, from voting for police magistrate. Officials Named. | The city commission met last night jand appointed election officials, as | follows: Ward One, polling place, North Ward = school—William Falconer, in- ‘spector; B. E. Jones and W. E. Par- {s sons, judges. |. Ward Two, Faunce building.—Fred i i | 384} 184, contains Richholt’s i Peterson, iaspector; Tom Saunders and A. C. Hinckley. Ward Three, New High school.— Car] Kositzky, inspector; Frank Har- ris and G. B. Allen, judges. Ward Four, ‘McGillis |Charles G. Wachter, inspector; Lrown and Nels Lovin, judges. Ward Five, Thompson plumbing | | shop.—B. F. Flanigan, inspector; E. C Taylor and Henry Schonert, judges. | Ward Six, fire nall—Albert Vos-| beck, inspector; C. W. Henzler and [eam Garske, judges building.— Joe Allows Many Bills. The city commission last night al- i lowed a huge grist of bills which had BALLOT BOUT Four Candidates for Two City|A Mighty Vietory Has Reen Larson and Henry | tate | a public oftice being a public} ballots | LAST EDITION - “PRICE. FIVE CENTS. ALLIES MST FEED GERMANY SAYS LANSING | Won and Imperial Ar- mies Crushed PITY ALMOST DRIED UP Anarchy, Declares Secretary of State, Threatens Ger- man States Paris, March 12.—Asserting “we have reached a crisis in the afairs of ; the world,” Secretary of State Robert Lansing at a banquet given tonight by the inter-allied press club, said the allies must feed Germany and give the Germans an opportunity to sell their j products in foreign markets if Bol- | shevikism is to be avoided. He pointed out it was not through pity for Ger- many but to the interest of all the allied nations that anarchy be pot en- couraged, 1 ‘Mr. Lansing said: { “A mighty victory has been won. ‘he Imperial armies of the ca@ntral | powers have ceased to threaten. They no longer exist. Shattered apd brok- en they-have returned to their homes where hunger and privation awaits them. Germany is entitled to suffer for what she has done. She has paid a fearful penalty for plunging the world into fearful blood and murder. | Political institutiong, industrial en- terprises and the various factora of isociety are suffering. Price of Evil. “Iv is the price of their own evil doings. “We may be disposed to pity those innocent among the Germans, but our pity is almost dried up when we con- sider what France and others have had to suffer. “And now tat the great conflict is ended we have new problems to solve, new dangers to overcome. East of the Rhine there are famine, idleness, want and misery. Political chaos have supplanted the highly organized gov- ernment of political Germany. «Social order is breaking down. ‘Like the an- archy which for years made an in- ferno of Russia, the fires of terroriam are ablaze in the states of Germany. It is no time to allow sentiments: of vengeance and hatred to stand inthe jway of checking this conflagration soon to be at the border of Germany and threaten other lands. We’ must conquer. these conditions and try to restore Germany to normal. Food and Peace.: “Two words tell the story—food at | peace. To make Germany capable of *| resisting anarchy Germany. must be jallowed to purchase food and: indust- trial conditions must be restored. | ° “It is not out of pity for the Ger- {man people that this be done and. done |without delay for we the victors. in | this war will be the chief sufferers if it is not done. | “There is no time to belost if we are to save the world from the, des- }potism of anarchy. We ought, to jmake, we must make peace without !de-ay and ships laden with food must enter the harbors of Germany. “We have reached a crisis in the affairs of the world. We must meet it without passion, or a desire for re- | venge on nations that have committed j these outrages. “We are victorious and yet victory jon the battlefield is not all. We must juse our victory wisely or we will lose | more than we have gained. It is no time to permit selfishness to control ‘our actions or to permit an immedi- jate advantage to blind our eyes to | greater good in the future. Jt is com- mon sense that demands that Ger- |many must be fed and points out the {peril if we do not listen to the voice ‘of reason.” WOULD CONTROL RHINE, Washington, March 13.—It is sug- ‘gested that the Rhine be controlled | by a committee similar to the Danube |committee. The status of the Kiel j canal has been settled by the commit- ! tee on the basis of freedom of use for “all nations for merchant and warships jin time of peace. t WANT FREE TRADE. j_, Berne, March 12.—The internation- jal conference of league of nations s0- \cieties in conference here today drew ‘up resolutions favoring the participa- tion of al self-governing nations in ‘ 1 KING VIEWS MODEL OF PRISON CAMP j accumulated during the several weeks | |in which the board held no meeting. ;the league and for freo trade which for “Grandfather” Bailey. one of | interesting case, and Schrieber has! Burleigh county’s oldest residents, who passed away Sunday night at the home of his son, Rep. L. 0. ‘Bailey, near Moffit. The deceased was 93 years old, and he had lived tn Burleigh county more than 40 years. He came to the county in terirtorial days when: picking. buf- falo bones was-more profitable than farming and when but for this employment the homestead- ers would have’ hi hard time tduring the winter making both ens meet. He is survived by two sons, Lester D. Bailey, representa- tive in the legisiature, and Fred Bailey of Minneapolis. The. lat- ter was here for the funeral. ATTENTION! SOLDIERS, gone to a more just judge. Mr. Schrieber came to this section ; about twenty years ago. For about | two months he taught school near New Salem, and then went to Mercer county where he held the position of Seunty| auditor for several years. For some years past he had made | his home in New Salem, and it was in the early days of the war that Sehrieber, with Rev. Fontana, was ar- rested for seditious uterances. The case of the latter resulted in his con- viction, but the Schrieber case was put over. Schrieber was 57 years old, and leaves a widow and seven or eight children. He was a native of Belgium. { SAILORS AND MARINES All soldiers and sailors and marines who have returned to Bismarck and Burleigh county, , or who were members of Bis- marck ‘or Burleigh county units and have returned to other communities, are requested to register at once at the Harris & Co. stationery store on Fourth street, in order that their noses may be counted for the great home-coming demonstration to be given within the next week ep ets or ten days for our returned very man who has seen service in any branch of Uncle Same 8 “Gehtin Bismarck at i Roary is cordially invited to be a guest of great home-coming, and by registering now our Yanks will give the committee in charge an opportunity to make adequate arrangements for this glorious craRUN. iM ey > King George and Queen Mary took a keen interest in the Ruhleben prison camp exhibit in London and asked many questions as to the treatment and housing of the British prisoners there. They are here seen standing with Princess Mary, before a model of the camp in which points of interest are being. pointed out by Capt. J. Powell. 'No other business of importance w: | transacted. ‘SON OF TRIBUNE | FOUNDER VISITS _ OLD_ TERRITORY) | ‘eorge H. Lounsberry Back for; Brief Survey of Child- hood Home i George H. Lounsberry of Duluth is | in Mandan for a couple of days visit- ing his sister M c. E. V. Draper. Mr. Lounsberry is enroute home from | California where he spent most of the ‘winter. He is one of: the old timers having’ come to Bismarek with his parents back in the seventies when enly four years old, his father, Col. | Lounsberry being editor of the Bis- | marek Tribune. Hé went over to Man- load of lumber _, driving over on the ‘ice, He left Bismarck 33 years ago, and is one of the foremost contractors iin Duluth, where he only recently fin- ished what is known as the Model City, built for the Steel Co. about nine miles from Duluth. In thirteen months | time, Mr. Lounsberry’s men completed | 345 appartments, practically all built of concrete. It is about ten years he visited Mandan, and is pleased with the marked improvements that have been made in that time. ; will be submitted to the peace con- | ference. : There was opposition tu the admis- {sion of the Holy See, a Swiss delegate. | protesting it would pave the way for ‘the admisison of Buddhism and Mo- |hamedism. The committee finally de+ | cided to give the Holy See some voice in the league. RIOTS REPORTED, | London, March 12.—Riots have oc- {curred in various German towns out- {side of Berlin, and a Spartacan re- jolt has broken out in Hamburg. The ‘riots are said to have resulted from | a general strike. FEDERAL JURY PROBE FOR BANK DEAL It is rumored here that a’ number of witnesses have been sul to testify in connection with the Valley City bank consolidation before the federal grand jury. This was the con- solidation in which Jack Hastings an@ ‘Thomas A. Box figw | | { \ ' ' dan back in the eighties with the first 1