The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 19, 1919, Page 3

DATE SET TODAY JUNE 26 FORMAL ON REFERENDUM Governor Frazier Issues Procla- mation Bearing Out His An- nounced Intentions FREEZES OUT INITIATIVE| More Important League Program Measures Cannot Be Voted Upon at This Time Governor Frazier shortly before noon Monday issued a proclamation officially setting June 26 as the date! for the special referendum election on the seven acts of the 16th assembly referred by the Independent Voters’ association. Secretary of State Hall early in the morning filed with the governor a formal certificate showing that petitions had been filed approxi- mately as follows: Against the industrial commission act—38,101. Against the printing mopopoly act —38,562, Against the educational-penal act— 37,917. ‘ Against the immigration commis- sioner act—37,835. Against the Bank of North Dakota act—37,481, : Against the judicial redistricting act —37,438, : : Against the one-man tax commis- sion act—37,438, Only Two Program Bills - Of these acts only two—the indus- trial commission law and the Bank of North Dakota law—are considered es- sential to the league program. The others are acts which were not under} consideration at the time of the last geenral election, and the people have never voted upon them. In their con- erete form the industrial commission and Bank of North Dakota acts have never. been approved by the -people, but they have been construed as an integtal part of the league’s economic and industrial program. What They Are Briefly these acts operate as fol-| lows: iat To create an industrial commission of three members—the governor, at- torney general and commissioner of agriculture—in which all control of public utilities and enterprises, the is- suance of bonds, appointment of exec- utives and operation of state indus- tries is vested. This bill carried an emergency clause and the law has ‘heen in effect since adjournment of legislature. eres To establish a minting commission of. three league su.ce ¢‘cicials which shall remove from the various coun- ties, townships, municipalities and school districts, banks, attorneys and private corporations, their present vight;to publish legal notices and pro- cessdg§ and services, reports, state- ments, etc. in a legal paper which Prices—50c-35e-25¢. AUDITORIUM FRIDAY NIGHT, MAY THE JUNIOR CLASS PRESENTS “All of a Sudden Peggy” A Rollicking Comedy in 3 Acts Direction of Miss Hortense Moore (War Tax Additional) they: may “designate; ‘béstowing upon this’ printing commission power to name one legal newspaper in each county which shall be the recipient of all such printing and publications and to select as many state legal newspa- pers as they may please, which are |to be similarly favored. This bill and |companion measures, trebling the amount which North Dakota and its minor civil divisions must pay for legal advertising and publicity, were drafted and lobbied through by J. W. Brinton, organizer and owner of a string of. league newspapers which are to be the beneficiaries and in which legislators who voted for this bill are heavy stockholders. A so-called educational bill abolish- jing the present boards of control, re- gents and education and combining supervision of the common schools, {higher institutions of learning, penal, charitable and corrective institutions in the hands of a political, salaried j board of whose members a majority are to be named by the governor. | Creating the office of commissioner jof immigration and appropriating for his use a fund of $200,000, which Rep-! resentative Alberts, league floor-lead- ‘er, admitted in the house would be {used largely in the counteraction of | propaganda unfavorable to the league. | Creating a Bank of North Dakota, to be repository for all public funds, reserve agent for such state and na- |tional banks as wish to’ beeome mem- bers, center of the farm loan opera- |tions of the state, and in a general sense to become the financial axis of ithe state. This act carried an emer- gency clause giving it immediate ef- \fect; a manager and director general for the bank have been appointed, and $2,000,000 worth of state bonds to furnish its capital have been issued. |..To reduce the number of judicial idistricts in the state from 12 to six, and to inerease the number of judges }from 12 to 15. Opposed on grounds | ‘of efficiency and economy, those at- tacking the act contending that twelve judges are sufficient to handle the work and that the present system of that proposed. i Reducing the membership of the| state tax commission from three com- | missioners to a single commissioner to be appointed by the governor and to be removed by him with or without; cause, Opposed on the grounds that | j there is sufficient work for three men; ‘that three heads are better than one, and that’ a commission of three is less ‘liable to complete change with every} lincoming administration. and not so completely subject to political domina- | tion. No Initiative Election The governor’s act in proclaiming | i June 26 as the election date precludes | jany possibility of voting at this time 'on substitute measures initiated by ‘the Independent Voters’ association. |These measures, and the number of | petitioners, are as follows: Rural credits—35,000. Home building association—34,000. The petitioners, three and one-half | itimes the 10,000 required by the con- | jstitution, asked that a special election ‘be called for July 8. Governor Fra-} zier, when he announced some time +ago.the ‘tentative date. for the refer- endum election, stated that he pur-} t posely called this election too early to Curtain—8:30 districting the state is superior tol. i what kind of a ma y is Nonpartisan election act—36,000. [ang with her father ss and | Mill and elevator association—} tyardin's love she Tanda | 86,000. happy. | Machine Co., {was in the coast artillery, and saw | her’son, Lieut. Austin Reid, permit-of a vote at the same-time on the initiated measures because he did not wish to “confuse the issues.” -- MISS CASPARY TO’ STAGE ELABORATE COSTUME RECITAL| Miss Bergliot. Caspary, who has given Bismarck ‘some of. its finest achievements in amusement, at the Auditorium on Tuesday evening, at the offer 100 members of her class in dancing, voice and dramatic expres- sion in a costume recital which prom- ises to surpass in artistry and nish any of its predecessors. Rehearsals have been in progress for some time, and the youthful en- tertainers are ready for the rise of the curtain, There will be nothing amateurish in the performance. The costumes, the dressing of the stage and the various ensembles, ballets aud solo dancing and singing numders will be on a par with anything that ever has been seen here in a pro- fessional way, and there will be the added interest of haying these things done superlatively by young people our very own. The advance sale of seats insures a big house, NORMA TALMADGE COMING ATTRACTION Norma Talmadge Will be seen at the Auditorium Theatre on — Wednesday and Thursday night of this week in her lates Select Picture, “The Heart of Wetona,” in which she is presented in the role of a half Indian girl, by Joseph M. Schenck, ‘The stor) by George Scarborough. It was directed by Sidney ranklin, etona, the daughter of Quannah, chief of a tribe of the Comanches, is chosen to act as ves virgin ata Corn Dance to be given in conection with some ancient rites that the tribe is contemplating holding. She refuses to accept the offer, saying that she is not fit to bring food to the Holy Spirit. She tells her father that no girl that has loved the way she is Worthy uch an honor, 1H father amazed, For the first time he r es that his daughter is not the kind of a girl she ought to be. Wetona’s mother a white woman and in accordance with her dying wish Wetona has been brought up as a white gir She tells her father that her lover is a white man but will not tell him his name. Quannah decides to find out who he is and then kill him. Wetona goes to Jobn Hardin, agent of the reserva tion, to beg him to save the life of her lover, While they are talking, Quannah enters and thinks that Hardin is his daughter's lover, Hardin, who really loves Wetona but has never told her so, decides to marry her in order to save her, Vater it is learned that An- thon, Wells is the man that wrozged Weton Wetona has since learned oo CITY NEWS A | &. William B. Collins of Sheboygan, Wis., here looking after legal busi- ness in the local courts. From New Salem, Miss ‘Bertha Letzring of ‘New Salem is spending the week in Bismarck as a guest of fiends. To California. 'D. A. Clarke of the Singer Sewing manager of the Bis- ck branch for two years, leaves evening for Calinga, Calif., to join wife, who has spent the winter there, Mr, and Mrs. Clarke will make their home in the Golden state, Returns From Overseas. Word was received that Bill Olson, a former Bismarck hoy, arrived in New York on May 17 from overseas, and that he is in good health, Mr, Ol- son spent six months in: France, and m: considerable active service. formerly with the Bismarck Laundry. He was steam On Way Home. Mrs. Peter Reid has a letter from who re. cently landed in New York from over- seas, advising that he left New York on May 14 with 25,000 men destined for Camp Dodge, where they wil lbe mustered out, and that he hopes to reach home this week. On Legal Business, War Mot! ers Coming. Indications are that there will be TWO NIGHTS Auditorium THIS COMING. , WEDNESDAY ana THURSDAY An American story by an American author with a won- derful American setting. A picture that is 100 per cent Norma Talmadge, through and through. “The Heart of Wetona” On the stage ::The Heart of Wetona” was one of Belasco’s greatest successes. O’Connor’s Orchestra—Admission 20¢ Costume Recital at, the-——— Auditorium, Tues. Evening, May 20 By 40 Pupils of Miss Bergliot Caspary. Singing ———- Dancing Readings Beautiful Costumes for Every Act Humorous — Dramatic — Entertaining Adults $1.00—Students 50c |; before the legislature, or it may be a large attendance of war mothers of Burleigh county at the joint session of the American War Mothers of Bur- leigh county to be seld in the com- munity room of the Bismarck library | Saturday afternoon, May 31. All moth- ers. wives, daughters, syeethearts and sisters of soldiers are invited to attend this meeting, at which the or- ganization of a Burleigh county chap- ter of these two associations wil be effected. ale = Several Bid on Bridge. | Modjeska, the great St. Louis bridge builder; Waddell and Harrison of Kansas City, J. W. Turner of Chicago and J. S. Watson of Cleveland, all j ranking abong America’s most emi- nent bridge engineers, were bidders today on the preliminary engineering | which is to span the Missouri. Bids were opened by the Burleigh and Mor- ton county commissioners at a foint session in Mandan. The preliminary | work is expected to cost $5,000 and it has been financed jointly by Mismarck and Morton county. We Are Coming Home to Fight What Your Administration Has Sttod For, Writes Dakota Yank (Continned From Page One.) terms provided in another bill, now spent on his education, if he prefers. “Your home-coming will be an oc- casion of rejoicing and thanksgiving, as it rightly should. Then when this is over you will want to enter the CASTORIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years for the million dollar wagon bridge| aay Columbians from all part of North Dakota are asembled here today for one of the higgest ceremonial sessions in the history of Bismarck council. With the celebration of high ma: St. Mar; ro-cathedral at 8 :3¢ morning there opened istic work and_ feasti conclude sometime © after with a grand ball at which hundred knights and ladies are ex- pected. 4 Seventy-five candidates, representa- tive of practi village and town in the I ‘tion, are rec ng the three degrees of the ord- The first degree was conferred s this morning. There was mncheon, and the resumed early this afternoon with the conferring of the world, and I want you to know that the great state of North Dakota appre- ciates what you have done and stands ready to cooperate with you to the j fullest. extent when you return to us. “LYNN J. FRAZIER, Governor.” His Cooperation. The governor's cooperation and good will has not gone to the extent of reserving for any of North Da- kota’s overseas méit-any of the many fat berths created the'16th assem- bly, and which have been filled almost without exception by Townley men from other states, or by the appoint- ment of professional politicians from league ranks within the state. Proba- bly fifteen such appointments have, been made by the governor or by boards which he cohtrolled since the return of North Dakota's overseas men began, and in not one of them has there been placed a man with a gold stripe on his sleeve. Kositzky’s Suggestion. “I would sugest as an appropriate cover page for the Nonpartisam Lead menting upon this fact a few days ago, “a cartoon showing an army of over- seas men in front of the capitol be- ing waved back by the governor, while their red banner floating, at their head, goes marching in the front en- trance.” Seeks to Show Friendship. The Townley press, which is now operating a large propaganda bureau at the capitol, has scented the sol- dier hostility which may result in aj; redical change in the administration of this state when all of North Dako- ta’s 30,000 fighting men have returned from overseas and from canionments at home. It is seeking to overcome this attitude by picturing the gover-: nor as a friend of the soldier, The; soldiers’ bounty act has bee! made! much of, in spite of an opinion from Attorney General Langer showing! that if each of the state’s 30,000 en- listed men seeks to take advantage of this act the levy provided will not _- ENGAGEMENT COMMENCING: TO-NIGHT KNIGHTS.OF COLUMBUS FROM ALL ; PARTS OF STATE GATHER IN CITY } fields of usefulness in the industrial er,’ said State Auditor Kositzky, com-| an army of red cards socialists, with} 5 t D.W. Griffit Master Producer of “The Birth of'a Nation”, “Hearts of the World” and “Intolerance” Offers His Biggest Achievement— You ¢an’t ‘afford to miss the thrills, the romance Griffith Masterpiece. — -NO TWO SHOWS NIGHTLY second, The third lowed, At 7 this evening, Daughters of Isabella will serve the knights an elaborate banquet av the council hall immediately | fol- in the Hinckley block. ‘Toatsts will be responded to by Rey, Bather Mayg%y of Grand Fo the Hon. George i, Me- Kenna, of deputy ; Attorney f Mandan, and P, of Lisbon, a member of the The ‘dof control, grand ball will open. a furnished by O’Conno tra, and the closing festivities will continue until after mi With today’s accessions, Bismarck council attains’ a membership of 500 and becomes third in rank in the state tying Minot for this honor, and yield- ing precedence only to Fargo and Grand Forks, in the order named, ENTERTAINS FOR BATTEYS. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Battey, who are here for a brief visit have been the guests of honor at several func- tions. Judge and Mrs, Christianson | entertained the E'atteys at dinner Sat- urday evening, and a dinner was given by Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Mann at the Grand Pacific in honor of them. Covers were laid for twenty of the closest friends of the honor guests. Mr. Battey formerly was city com- missioner and is now manager for the International Harvester company at Billings, Mont. Tribune bring results. suffice to pay each man more than| $20 a year, and that the final payment) cannot be made inside of 18 to 20) years, | a number of stories telling of the Such activities ted in the gov- ernor's writing, at the request of Col.; BE. G. Heckel, commanding a regiment] inthe American army of occupation, } to the employers of two North Dakota} soldiers mustered out of his com-) mand and who had signified their de-| eire to return to their former posi- tions. -Col. Hecke] furnished the gov-| ernor with the names of four North Dakota Yanks who were receiving their discharges from his regiment, advising that two of them desired to return to their former positions, and that two others sought other employ- ment in North Dakota. Col. Heckel asked that the governor get in touch with the employers of these men and see what could be done for them. No Soldier Need Apply. And there has never been explained away the fact that while the gov- ernor and boards under his control have doled out since January 1 a dozen or more good jobs, carrying sal- aries of $2,000, $2,500, $3,000, $3.600 and $4,800, not a single overseas man has found his way into one of these berths. Forecast. For North Dakota: Pair tonight and Tuesday; not much change in : of Always bears CMU eka Liki temperature, | This bureau has recently sent outi?? } Part: |made when the Rainbow div: ; Jewell will join her husband here in ENGAGEMENT COMMENCING =~ TO-NIGHT “THE GREATEST THING IN LIFE’ , the suspense, the surprise in this latest Bismarck Theatre m ADMISSION ONLY 25¢ PER SEAT EATS RESERVED SERGT. PAUL JEWELL RETURNS FROM OVERSEAS TO TAKE BRID ¥ Sergt. Paul Marshall Jewell, son of Mrs, Marshall H. Jewell, and a mem- ber of the Gopher Gunners, returned from overseas last evening with a sur- prise for his friends in the announce- ment of his marriage in New York on April 23 to Miss Edith Nicholas Ridley |' daughter of Jonathan Trotter Ridley of Riverside and 124th street, New York. The romance which culminated in this weddint at the Little Church Around the Corner had its beginning on the polo grounds of the Meadow- brook Hunt club club four years ago, when Sergeant Jewell was playing with squadron A of the New York cavalry. The young people bec: engaged prior to Sergeant Jewell’ for overseas with the Rain Yow division in October, 1917, and ar- rangements for the wedding were ion land- ed in New York on April 5. Mrs. about a month and they will make Bismarck their home. Sergt. Jewell walks with a cane as a result of a shattered knee which he cerries as a memento of the tank fight- in gat Landres St. George, in the Ar- gonne. The Bismarck Yank had been assigned to the French foreign legion and was serving with the 217th tank battalion when the Heinies scored a direct hit which resulted in a crushed knee and broken ear drum for Mr. Jewell. That was October 25. On May 25, 1918, he was gassed when the famous Prussian guards attempt- ed to come through the 42nd division Fresh that come Each variety is procured from a specialist in the production of that particular sort. Our vegetable counters really look like a prize exhibit at a County Fair. And they’re fresh every day— no left-over or picked-over stock. Fine crips lettuce and celery, solid asparagus, rad- ishes, beets, carrots, peas, turnips, parsnips, ete. Finest summer fruits and berries, too.—-Prices rea- sonable, of course. WHITE BORAX NAPTHA SOAP—10 bars for. .48¢ POTATOES—For seed, per bushel. . ‘BIRD'S EYE MATCHES— Regulai *|the Gopher Gunners Delivered to Us Daily From Selected Farms. Here you will find the choicest, hardiest, crisp- est, freshest vegetables . Kupitz Co. Fourth Street on the Lorraine sector. His bad knee sent him to an army hospital at Nantes for the closing days of the war, Sergt. Jewell announces that Bis- marck is soon to be favored by a yisit from: the 151st artillery band, the Gopher Gunners’ organization of 70 pieces which became the official band of the Rainbow division. This band is expected here in June. It is directed by Lieut. Michael Jelma an dis com- posed largely of Twin City men, with a sprinkling of North Dakota’ boys. The band originally was the First Minnesota artillery music-maker, be- coming the 151st ariilery band when were mustered into federal service, REBEKAHS TO HOLD CONVENTION HERE The Rebeka lodges of the third dis- triet WH meet in Bismarck for thelr, annual session Friday evening, May. 23, The towns in the district which will be represented are Wilton, Man- dan, Hazelton, Sterling and Bismarck, Plans are being made for a big, meeting and several Bismarck people will be on the program, Mrs, Nellie Evarts of Bismarck is the president for this district. Mrs, Florence Brown of Jamestown, who is the vice president of the Rebekah assembly, will doubtless be here to attend the meeting Friday, Vegetables to this town. \ 25¢ value......25e . Bismarck