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practically all these concerns are fleec- the farmers. while the: fleecing is good in North Dakota, (Applause. ) HOW ABOUT EXTRAVAGANCE , What is he going to tell them if they ask-abont the stories printed in the __Bewspapers about’ the extravagance of ~the North Dakota state officials while traveling? What is he going to tell them when they ask him about that $81. account: for six days room” and services? What is he going to tell them about the room ‘for one night in pee teenella at $12.14? How is~he go- to explain it? (Applause.) MANY NEW POSITIONS And the,farmers ‘down there will probably ask him—they will say, we notice in North Dakota they have cre- ated a lot of new positions, new offi- ees during the last session. of the legis. lature. I suppose the head of your state governmen is doing all he can for the returned soldiers.. I suppose they are appointing the returned soldiers to these ‘positions that have been cre- ated. What is he going to tell them? If he tells the truth he is going to tell them out of 12 qr 14 appointments made during:the last month’or so there Wasn’t®a- single soldier appointed to any of these positions, (Appliu: THER PATTE N LAY-OUT Tf he tells the truth some more hé ywould “say there wasn’t anyone in North -Dakota able or competent enough to fill some of those officés that Were created dur the last. session of the legislature. They had to go out ‘of the state and tmport men to, fill these offices. “(Applause.) Suppose they. ask him about the political condi. tions up here, about the love feasts they had down here at the McKenzie hotel and Patterson's hall. Suppos they ask him about the old line poli. ticians gathered ‘there around the table with Mr. Townley and others, Suppose they ask about. the laws dratt- ¢d‘in room 408 in the McKenzie hotel, introduced in Patterson’s hall and. vot-. ed on over in the Northwest hotel. Suppose they ask about some of these old timers that we have been fighting for yeurs being on the state pay roll now. I have got some of the copies ofthe Leader here showing you how they used to fight, some of those poli- ticians and now they are sleeping. in the same. bed politically with Mr. Townley. What is he going. to: tell them? If he wants to tell the truth he would say that Hall, Langer, Olson and Kositzky didn’t attend any of thes Jove feasts that were held down there last winter in the hotel, sand if he would tell the truth some more he would tell them that these men smelled a@ rat aid stayed away from there, an‘ now because they think different than Mr. Townley and some_of these leaders they are called cowards, foc crooks and traitors, and to get rid of them they have got to be laid on the shelf and their reputations have got to be ruined. That is:what he has got to tell them if be tells them the truth. (Applause. ) This $200,000 can be spent for pur, poses that the people of North Dakota will be proud of fitthe future. Sup- posing that we build ten $10,000 fire- proof school houses each year, and we will offer that av nn the district that mixes . ing in scholarship and attendance, and award, a, $10,000 school ho to each district for the first 10 districts mak- ing. the best showi Wouldn't that money be better. spent. than sending somebody down to Iowa to correct the Aalse impressions about North Dakota and its people? (Applause. ) MOVED OUT OF DUNN COUNTY “Senator Liederbach informed me a short time ago that 30 families moved out; of Dunn county last, fall. Let's. try. and keep what people we have here; try and keep them before we spend a lot of money. in: getting-other people here.’ If this $200,000 hyd been appropriated to help needy settlers out for nother year it would have been money well. spent and We could: have induced them to stay another year a try it once more. They are telling you a whole lot about the administration vin, That is the bill that mak figurehead out of Miss Nielson. 01 here I find in the supplement to th Nonpartiean Leader, what they say, about the administration Dill, that is, senate bill No. 134; one of the meas- _ ures which the Independent Voters’ association is seeking to ref creates: a-board of administratiou—to manage and control all educational, Deyal and charitable institutions gf this, state. For this purpose it. provides for a bourd of tive administrators, two of them elective officials, and three to be appointed by the governor, to perform all the duties of the state board of re- sents and state board of education and state board of control. We will see what the law provides, The old law provides tliat the duty of the super tendent_of schools shal have genera! supervision of the publi ‘hools of the state, shall be e3 member of the board of_universit, school Jangs of the state. Th ih tend- ent of schools duties are to have yen- eral supervision of the general publie ‘schools of the state. What does this new law provide? It provides that the board of administration is hi ated for the general supervi administration of all state. penal. char itable and educational justitutions of the state and the general supervision of the public schools of the state. Did you get that? ES HER FIGUREHEAD . Supervision of the pnblie Schools and common ‘schools of the state. They say she has got just as much power ‘Now when this new law goes. into ef- fect as she had before. And has the general administration, supervision and management of the various penal. charitable and educational institutions, and have the general supervision of the public schools of the state. “It: makes @ figurehead’ out of the state superin- tendent of schools. She’ has no voice whatever in any of. the Ns vhich the law prescribes, and I believefwhen the people elect a state official by a biz majority—Miss Nielson got 6,000 ma- Jori I believe that official should have supervision over ‘schools. office. that office so that the legislature could pot over her any appointive board and make a figurehead out of the superin- tendent of schools. This law, it should become effective, would take all of the duties away from the supeftin- tendent of schools... This Taw appro- priates $24,000_more than-wis appro-|held up his salary, hurried with his|them up fo! Priated the laSt. two years for ‘the "| They brought this along, showing*that .|on page 16 in regard to district judges ‘They say such leading educators as Edwin P. Ladd and Thomas Kane and Professor. Kennedy and other state nor- mal school presidents and ‘numerous other school authorities are in favor of this law, CALLS TT VICIOUS “Well, now, I wonder who these pro- fessors ure working under, Are they working under the same admin tration that is trying to make a figure: ielson, and wouldu’t it be a bad policy if they shoald object to any measures that the adimini: tion that has given them thei, office: were for, wouldn't it be a bad police for them to knock these measur Furthermore, I veu' per cent of the edu are against this bill, ducators as George D. Stra: dent of the presi- 1 Educational asso- ciation, prot of educational ad- minist! on, Teachers’ college, Colunt bia university, New York city, made a statement at Minot that this is one of the most vicious measures he has ever studied and ever seen, If Miss Nielson is not*able and competent to run that: office to which she was elected, let the people have a voice in that matter two years fron-now at the polls. ‘Che jPeople’ are the ones that elected her to fill that position, and nof the pr ent administration. “Now, I contend that as an Ameri- can citizen and a taxpayer of this state, I have a perfect right to ob- ject to such laws 4% the printing law and the administration law, and I b2- lieve that I am acting as a good citi- zen when I combat such measures, which, if allowed. to stand, will hang | onto the people of this state two oi the most unAmerican and undemocratic laws ever enacted in this state. (ap- plause.) “Now we have the judicial law. Be- fore the opening of the session of the legislature several legislative mem- bers€ame to Bismarck with a drafted bill proposing to reduce the number of judicial districts in this state from 12 to 10. As evidence, they~had a report showing the number of days that each judge during the last year performed jury duty, or in other words had jury cases. In the first district, the judge had 40 days of jury; the second, 64; the third, 148; fourth, 72; fifth, 37 sixth, 74; seventh, 5; eighth, 70; ninth, 40; tenth, 68; eleventh, 21; twelfth, 42. instead of 12 judges working in the state the work could be done’ very easily by 10, and some of them con- tended eight judges could do the work in this state very easily. And, as fur- ther evidence they had reports show- ing, that Judge Nuessle performed nearly all the court work in Judge Hanley’s district, while he was over in France, and the judge told me he had plenty of time to spare at that. Other indgea came down here and opposed this bill, or opposed increasing the judges as this bill provided, but when these members told Mr. Lemke about their proposition of reducing the num- ber of judges from 12 to 10 what did Bishop. Lemke tell them? “No,” he says; we are going to have 15 instead of 12,” and the law as it now stands does prdVide for 15 judges, which ‘will cost the taxpayers an additional tax of $30,000 for the two years. We will see what they tell about the judges~in this state supplement to the Nonpartisan Leader. ‘The ju- dicial redistricting bill. Prior to the last session of the legislature there ex- isted in the state of North Dakota 12 judicial districts, each of which had a district judge to handle the business in that particular district, In some districts the business of the court was very light and judges worked but a small portion of the time.” CASES VERY LARGE By the way, these people who came down from up north with this proposed bill, had evidence of facts showing that somé of the judges spent their winter months in California and Flor- ida and others spent their: summer months in Wisconsin and Minnesota. So this is true. “In other dsitricts the number of cases to be tried was very large, the work of the court exceedingly heavy. In some of these districts cases were pending over a year, and litigants have been forced to wait long periods of time before securing relief.” _ I asked one of the representatives the other day why they increased the number of judges from 12 to 15, and he told me practically the same thing. There were cases pending in .court, cases pending in court which should have been decided for a year or more. The judge was holding it up. I asked him it Ye knew the law on that propo- sition, and I pulled this here report,of mine out and I read ‘him what appears holding up cases and decisions, which in part reads as follows “I have been informed that during the year 1910 several prominent attorneys from the northern part of the state appeared before state officials at Bismarck and aprempted to persuade them to with- hOld payment of the salary of a cer- tain district judge in compliance with the provisions of section 7638, of the 1913 compiled laws, which quires that each judge of the district court file with the state auditor at the end of each quarter a certificate to the effect that there are no motions, appli- | cations, questions or issues of fact re- maining undecided in_his- court for over a period of 30 days. During the 1911 session of the: legislature im- peachment proceedings were filed against this judge aad according to the record in this office the case cost the taxpayers of the state $60,000. My standing with some of the: dis- trict judges in this state is not very explanatory: good, and the following letter is self- LETTER TO JUDGE Feb. 1, 1918. N.D. Hon. Dear Si SS were disappointed, I suppose. (Ap- plause.) Now /Mr. Ligget has very nicely, F suppose, caréfully compared these fig- ures here (referring to statement of taxes pinngd to curtain by Mr. Lig- gett): I don’t think Mr. Liggett com- pared them. I know he didn’t, (Ap- plause.) Probably if he did they would be correct. (Applause.) You want to get the facts yourself. want to believe everything you hear. Go to the records yourselves, and if you want any @orrect figures, ask us and we will be glad ‘to give them to you (applause), but don’t. send any- body after them. Don’t send anybody whom you don’t know and who doesn’t kndw our books. (Applause.)°\ | Now you made a.statement here a bit ago, Mr. Liggett, that you had a letter from the secretary of the state tax commission. Mr. Liggett 1 did. Mr. Kositzky: ‘What is the matter with the tax commissioners? We have tax commissioners. They are the liead of the office.-1 would like to. know why the tax commissioners didn’t give you those figures. (Applause.) Now, if the other figures are as cr t as that there is no use dis- cussing any of them because they are absolutely false ,and so is this here (indicating emergency and deficiency appropriation on posted statement). Outsider: Prove it. Mr. Kositzky: Just get one of these (holding up 1919 document state laws) from Tom Hall and figure it up your- self and you will have it proved. over a million dollats in the treasury Now he said we had a balance of in the general fund this year on April 1. As a matter of fact, there was only $9,369.73 in the general fund on that date, and we had_$150,000 unpaid bills, and I stand here to prove my state- ments. (Applause.) He said in my repért I stated on January 1, 1917, there was a $364 overdraft on the ledged and $266,000 in unpaid bills. That is true. ~Then |he tries to make you believe that on January 1, 1918, there was $9,369.73 n the general fund, which was the bal- ance on April 1. Outsider: Explain this difference: What is the difference. Mr. Kositzky: There is three months difference. (Applause.) ? Mr, Liggett then started his rebuttal. He said in part: “The Tribune said that Town- ley was. collecting his claims here, getting all his ‘trained hecklers to- gether so they could interrupt Mr. Kositzky. Now the Tribune in that statement was just about as correct as it usually is. Mr. Kositzky was not interrupted a single time when he spoke, nor was he received with a single discourteous call. Evidently not all the hooWums are paid by Mr. Townley, x Have you ever noticed when two people aye arguing the man who gets the worst of the argument starts to call names? Outsiders: ion. {We have.) Interrup. CAN'T FACE FACTS I have noticed that when an.audi- ence'can’t face the facts they act like hoodlums—or part of them. If those hoodlums’ among yowwho: were not brought here’ by Mr. Townley will be quiet for a very few minutes I would like to rebut one or two of Mr. Kosit- zky’s statements, if you will be so kind and courteous as to give me that time. Mr. Kositzky said that statement was all wrong_(indicating statements pinned to curtain). He said, why did- n’t you get that statement from the tax commission, and not frém Mr. Baker. T observe Mr. Kositzky didn’t specity wherein that statement was wrong. As a matter of fact, ladies and gentlemen, the statistics in that central .figure were prepared by the tax*commission and not by My. Steele—by the tax commission. Now, when Mr. Kositzky gets back on the floor next time let him say where that statement is wrong, Let him point out specific instances where that is incorrect. HATES PERSONALITIES Now, I don’t like to get personal in these matters. Mr. Kositzky has been creating the impression here that he is about the only honest—well, one Of the two or three honest o...cials up there at the capitol. Townley and a great deal to-say about the daylight bank robbery. Now, I am asking you this in all candor and all fairness, do you think’that it is the act of an hon- est state ical fo? that man -to’ put his wife én the payroll and then not have enough courage to put her name on the books, and not have enough courage to say and go out before the people of this state and say, my wife is. working for me, but to go around and make his stenographers dig up $10 apiece so that man can have his wife drawing the pay and still not ap- pear on the books? Now, I am asking you that question. Is that‘the act of an honest, frank official. I don’t be- lieve it is. I don’t believe a man who is as honest as Mr. Kositzky says he is would put his wife on the state pay roll and then try to conceal that fact by having his stenographers pay ‘her her salary out of their own meager wages.‘ ‘T have here a cancelled ch: made out of theirguvbgkajxzfififf... made out by one of Mr. Kositzky’s stenographers to Mrs. Kositzky, and an affidavit by that stenographer say- ing that/she gave Mrs. Kositzky $10 a month out of her meager salary so that Mr. Kositzky could have ‘his wife draw state money, but not appear on the payroll, Outsider: That is all right. | Outside: Read the statement. Read that affidavit. Mr. Liggett: (Reads) , Audience: Why don’t you have all of those checks? Chairman: TI have askek you re- Peatedly, kindly and pleasantly that I am withholding your salary war- rant for the month of January for the 1913. This, is a known fact to me, being interest in the cases, whith were tried before you. at during the month of June, 1917. . Very truly yours, (Signed). CARL'R. KOSITZKY. ” Now, believe me, this judge, when I two cases, and he decided ‘them in- beard of control, the board of regents: side ‘of 13 days, so if there is any case and the board of education. no interruption or questions should be asked ffom the audience. I did the public} 'eason that’you filed your affidavit for|this as kindly as I knew how, and She was elected to fill that|the December ‘salary in violation of|that courtesy and respect should be The people did not elect her to| section 7638 of the Compiled Laws of|shown the same equally to each one of these gentlemen. I ask you kindly and pleasantly to please respect. my request from this -on. Applause. - _Mr. Ligett: 1 don’t _ particularly Care to. allude to these. things. 6 Audient What did you bring Adtacks | Kositsky I don’t like to be personal. When Instead | pending in this state and have been |Mr. Kositzky is trying to make you of combining—instead ‘of saving money | pending over one year I wish the peo-| gentlemen believe he is the only ‘man eter claim, it is going to'cost the ple of this state will let me know|who stands up ‘there to protect the ixpayers. of this state $24,000 more | who he is, and that judge will have|state capitol from being. looted—he ’ to create_one board than if they had Jet the three other boards stand. And to wait for his salary. (Applause.) So it is absolutely unnecessary that is trying to create exactly that im- pression—I think it is only fair, gen- they say the superintendent of schools | we increase the number of judges from|tlemen, that you know the facts, and fs going Yes, : “Will be four mays. (Applause) ‘ of course it would be terrible if they to haye a voice on this board. |12 to 15,’ but possibly someone has|you are going to. know the facts. Aime ‘she votes aye there} been promised some of these jobs ond}Those are not all. the facts. to | discuss ~ everybody else is crooked. He has had-| HLY ‘TRIBUNE HAROLD Harold Lockwood co-stars with Mar. guerite Clark in “The Cruci)le,” the efature play tonight only at thé Bis- marck theatre. ON eee LOCKWA0.0 D, nreasure. .Mr. Kositzky has been kind enough to tell you that I am going to be the immigration commissioner, That statement, is jyst exactly as cor- rect as most of the statements he has made here today. I don’t believe I am going to be the immigration com- missioner. I think i fyou will wait until July 8 when the immigration commissioner is appointed you will find that I am net immigration com- missioner and that Mr. Kositzky is simply drawing on his imagination trying to create prejudice, knowing that no one at this time can say whd will be the immigration commissioner. 1 want to say furthermore that I would commissioner at this time, and I tur- ther pledge myself now that I won't. The printing bill provides that in- stead of having three official papers in each of.the counties of the state, that therelshall be one official paper; that instead of three official papers being chosen arbitrarily by the boards of county commissioners, that these papers shall be elected by the people themeslves; that this goes into ef- fect the next general election and until then the only official paper in each county shall be elected by a board of three elective officials SURRENDER OF EMPEROR WILL BE DEMANDED (Contir.aed: trom-Page One.) + received an\urgent summons to the peace conference in Parjs, for which point he left Sunday: night. News- papers here state he has been invited by the alies to act‘as an aribtrator in the question of the Adriatic. MUST FAVOR. ALLIES. Paris April 23.—The reports of the economic committee of the peace con- ference, the Echo d’Paris says, con- tains the clauses for insertion in the preliminary treaty that Germany shall give the allies and associated na- tions the! treatment of most favored nations without any reciprocity. SIBERIAN CAMPAIGN. Paris, April 28.—Admiral Kolchak's troops have advanced along the south- ern branch of the Trans-Siberian rail- way to eKnel, only 40 miles east of Samara, according to dispatches re- ceived by Russian commissioners in Paris from Omsk. A slower advance is also being made along the northern branch of the trans-Siberian, where anti-Bol- shevik forces have taken Glazov. A third contingent is moving westward mid-way between the two forces, and have captured a town on the Kema river. This,stream is wavigablé and should afford easy transportation to Sambirsk, which is apparently the destination of the central column. Members of the Russian commis- sion herg believe the movement west- ward will be rapid as spring ad- vances. AN EVENTFUL WEEK. (By Associated Press.) What promises to be perhaps the most~eventful week yet of the peace conference opens today with a plen- ary session. of that body with fjnal action on th covenant of the league of | mations in prospect. There also is a feeling prevalent in Paris that the.treaty of peace will be ready for presentation to the Ger- man delegates by Saturday of this week, before which time it is hoped the Italian situation may resolve it- self. The situation in Italy is, being close- ly -wetched. “ab bs Germany with the exception of Ba- varia and Silicia seems much quieter than for several weeks. A general strike is reported in the coal and iron district of upper Silicia and the iron industry is seriously affected. The Bolsheviki: have ‘suffered ‘serious re- verses on the western front, and Ad- miral Kolchak's forces seem to be making gains which may develop fav- orably in the*near future. ‘ WANTED—Chamber maid at Grand Pacific “Hotel. 4 For Big Track Meet In McLean County Washburn, N. Dy, April 28.—Prelim- inary “arrangements for the McLean county annual track meet, which is ways the big yearly athletic occas of the numerous a Schoolsin this region, were mi at a meeting held today in the office of ‘County Superintendent M..E. Mc- Curdy. It was decided to hold the program, as in former years, on the county fair grounds at Underwood and thé date was set at Friday, June "13. The following principleswere se- ion Vy not accept the office of immigration | town and country | _ BICYCLE RUSTLER ‘TAKEN . e BY. BIG CHRIS WELCH The dare-devil career of Iron Jaw Jawn Harrington, a bicycle rustler and a bold, bad man who poses for his picture in curley, creamy Merino chaps, for the secon dtime in its way- ward course struck a snag when Iron Jaw Jawn ran plump into the welcom- ing arms of Fig Chris Martineson, chiet of police, and Rollin Welch, sher- iff of Burleigh. This happened about 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon. Some 14 hours earlier, about midnight be- tween’ Friday night and Saturday morning, to be exact Iron Jaw had let himself into Welch’s store at Men- oken, unbeknownst to Mr. Welch, had helped himself to dried herring, sare dines and cheese and. cre¢kers, and then appropriated $22 in small coins from the till‘and filled several pock- ets with watches and other trinkets, the whole possessing a possible value of $50. Then he biked into Bismarck and went to bed. Sheriff Welch and Eig Chris were advised of the burglary early Satur- lay morning when Mr. Welch opened up at Menoken. (Mr. Welch had lit- tle to off. * in the way of clues, but Welch and .Mrtineson adopted their usual go-get-“em tactics, with their lected as an executive committee to work up the details: Henry Morgan, Washburn, chair- man; Miss Eva G. Smith, Wilton and George H. Moyer, Turtle Lake. All the arrangements made today were merely tentative and will have to be approved by all the members’ of the committee. It was agreed that no pupil shall be eligible for entering any event unless he or she has an attend- ancé record of 60 per cent of the! whole school year. The Surs were} thus let: down on account of the havoc which the Spanish iniluenza epidemic wrought in school matters and it also means that no pupil who was not in school when the epidemic broke out will be considered an entrant. Spiked shoes will be barred, while the weight will include the track suit. No contestant shall enter. more than one class buf ;each school may enter two contestants for each event. Each school likewise will be asked to fur- nish one town from the town in which it is located. Entry blanks will be sent out by the county superin- tendent in ample time and they must} be returned, filled out, to his office, not later than Saturday, June 7. While the-girls have helped consid- erably to make the meet interesting, by numerous events, they have been allowed to compete only in certain events in three classes. This year, however, it has been suggested that the meet be thrown more open for the girls, allowing for high jumps in Class 1 and 2, and a potato race in Class 3. The prospects are that the coming meet will be hotly contested through- out. ISHAM HALL HELD | LAW IN BISMARCK Isham Hall was arrested by a U, S. deputy “marshal this aftérnoon on’ an indictment returned by the federal grand jury at Fargo charging him with unlawfully transporting intoxi cating liquor into dry territory. The specific charge against Hall is said 'to be that he brought drinkables into Bis-| marck in an automobile. | Hall was arraigned before U. S. Commissioner John Fort, and he was held to the next term of federal dis- trict_court in Bismarck under bonds of $50), which were furnished by S. F, Lambert. DIED SATURDAY AT LOCAL HOSPITAL Mrs. Irma Dibbern, the wife of A. UD. Dibbern of Steele, died Saturday at one of the local hospitals., Death resulted trom blood‘paisoning follow- ing childbirth, and the mother leaves; a_]jttle two and a half weeks’ old! baby. Mrs. Dibbern was 22 years old, and she had been married a little over a year. She was born at Webster; S. D. ‘Mrs. Dibbern’s father, Revv. Hum- mell, arrived here to ‘take charge of the remains, and they were shipped to Steele last evening. FOUR SAILORS DROWN. New York, April 28.—Four sailors were drowned early this morning: when a motor dory belonging to the U. S. Destroyer Bell was sunk in a collision with the Henley. ‘Mabel Normand‘ in Sis Hopkins from the famous stage play by Rose Melville will cure the worst case of blues at the Orpheum tonight. NOTICE OF § Following property of United States will be sold for cash highest bidder on sealed proposals which will be publicly opened at 2.P. M.. April 30, 1919, Bismarck, N. Dak.: 21 typewriters; 36 wooden filing cabinets; 1 steel filing cab- inet; 25 wooden files-for cards and other articles of office equipment. Proper: listed may. be examined daily bety hours of 9 A. M 4:30 P.M. Further information on application. 4-19-2) CHICAGO LIVESTOCK. Hogs, receipts 61,000; 10c lower. Bulk $20.65 to 20.85. 7 Heavyweight $20.75 to 20.90! Medium weight $20.55 to 220.85. Light weight $20.10 to 20.80. Light light $18.60.to 20.50. , Sows $18.75 to 2 Pigs $17.25 to 18.75. : Cattle, receipts 25,000; Iver. Heavy beef steers $11.25 to 20.00. Light beef steers $10.20 to 18.00. Eutcher cows and heifers $750 15.00. : ere | Canners and cutters $5.85 to 10.22: Veal calves $12.75 to 14.00. Stockers and feeders $8.50 to 16.50. Sheep, receipts 16,000; strong. ‘Lambs, 84 pounds down, $17.75 to 19.65. ' ; Lambs 85 pounds up, $17.25 to 19.60, Culls, $13.00 to 17.25. Springs $18.50 to 21.00. Ewes, medium good and «choice 11.75 sto (15.00. Culls and co: pons $6.00 to 11.75: ST. P2 /' LIVESTOCK. to -20c to ry 35. Hogs, rece 8,300; 15¢ lower, Range. $20.5 10 20.30. Bulk $20.20. to 20,25. Cattle,. receipts FOR BUSTING DRY | at State Draft Headquarters. | AND SHERIFF IS REAL BAD MAN Mr. Harrington, whose said P. no susal success. real name is John P., goubt standing for Percival, not only ‘fessed to the Menoken job but ad- mitted that he had copped off an In- dian bicycle from a aFrgo messenger boy when the kid wasn’t looking, and that he had used this modern steed on his westward-ho , being helped and abetted now and then by some friend- ly autoist. He also admitted that in his own dear state of New Hampshire he had “done time” in 1910 for a bit of fancy. writing, in which he prac- ticed -with a name belonging to some- one else. 5 This morning Iron Jaw Jawn was arraigned ‘before Judge Casselman, who held him under $1,000 bond to trial at the May term of district court on a charge of burglary. In the mean- time John’s picturg in chaps, and a rope and big six-shooters bulging at either hip, all topped off with a big Stetson and the cutest little pair of nose glasses, has been added to Big Chris’ fast grgwing private rogues’ galery. The facts have been reported to} State’s Attorney Allen, who is under-; stood to approve of the proceedings. | Nielson-Macdonald Case to Be Heard at Next Court Term The following jury panel for the May term of court which opens on Tuesday, May 18, was announced to- day! by County ' Auditor Flaherty. Among the interesting cases which 12 of these men will decide will be that of Niel C. Macdonald and Miss Minnie J. Nielson. This case involves quali- fication of s Nielson to hold office. | The jurors are: ‘ J. M, Belk, City; Steve Bachar, Regan; Newell Blexrud, Steiber Twp.; . J. Brown; City; W. R. Allinson, Menoken; C. A. Carlson, City; Matt Clooten, City; W. B. Couch, City; ‘Edward Cromwell, Hazelgrove Twp.; Hans Christiansen, Glenview Twp.; S. W. Derrick, City; O. G. Davenport, Apple Creek Twp.;'B. F. Flannigan, City; H. G. Grove, City; Phil Harvey, Burnt Creek Twp.; F. O. Hellstrom, City; J. J. Jackman, City; J. A. John- son, Painted Woods; F. W. Korn, Mc- Kenzie; Chas. Kupitz, City; Wm. Laist, City; N. S. La Bay, Menoken; W. E, Lahr; City; W. H. Ostrander, City; Wm, Pennell, City; Elmer Per- ry, Phoenix Twp.; Aug. P. Richards, Braddock; H: W; ‘Richholt, City: W. Roberts, City; H. L. Reade, cit T. W. Sanders, City; John A. °Sund- quist, City; Dean P. Smith, City; W- J| Schimanske, City; Fred H, in, ing; Clarence Syverson, Driscoll; L, K. Thompson, City; Sam Turnboe, Burnt Creek Twp.; Frank Teachout, Glencoe; Wilbur H. Van Orman, Can- field; Oscar Vesperman, City; B. M. Whitaker, Morton Twp.; Gus Win- greene, City; W. J. Wilcox, City; and Joe Winkel, City. r If you want to laugh then see Sis Hopkins at the Orpheum tonight'with | Mabel Normand. “The Home of Service” MR. CAR OWNER Within the next few weeks you will be getting out your auto- mobile.and preparing for the sea- son’s run. Doubtless one of the first things that you will have to consider will be your tires. In our line of Kelly-Springfield casings and tubes we believe that we have something that will merit your investigation. That they cost more is true, but as has been said before—“the recollec- tion of quality remains long after the price is forgotten.” Drop in our store, or call us up jand we shall be pleased to show you why. MISSOURI VALLEY MOTOR CO. “The Home of Service” CARL PEDERSON, Mgr. Bismarck North Dakota DEPOSITS can come to them. it. articles in a safe place. are splendid insurance. ingly low. y ie ms ay Tee SECURED BY OUR PARTICIPATION IN THE STATE DEPOSITORS __ GUARANTY FUND Experience is a High Priced Teacher So many people fail to learn by the loss of oth- ers because they do not admit that the same loss \ ‘ That is the way the Man Who Lost felt about Why not put your valuable papers and other Our safe deposit boxes The rental is astound; BISMARCK BANK & | Bismarck.ND, TheOldestand 4 Largest Bank |. inthis section of | 3,600;. killers. most- ly 25c lower. y . Steers $6.0 Oto 18.00. Cows anf heifers $5.00 to 14.25. “Veal cal aiid to 18. Victory was worth the price, despite its tremen- dous cost. The Victory Liberty § Loan is worth the price’ ff —and always will be. | Patrons of this bank have availed themsélyes _ of its conveniencés in four previous loans. ‘The ; same readiness to ren : every possible service 4 again characteri our Victory, Loan: ment. | | | the State: -}}