The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 22, 1919, Page 1

THE WEATHER [==!THE BIS eee eee LAST EDITION THIRTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 165. PRICE: FIVE CENTS BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA . TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1919. WASHINGTON CASUALTY LIST GROWS|BISMARCK N. P., WITH ANOTHER NIGHT OF RIOTING |BOOSTER ENTERS BETWEEN NEGROES AND SOLDIERS|FIRST TAX KICK Four Known Dead, Two Badly Wounded and Eight Seriously In- jured, Are Toll of Last Twelve Hours in National Capital— Police Practically Powerless—Situation Recalls Famous Anti- Suffrage Riots of 1913—Martial Law May Be Declared. Washington, July 22.—Another night of race rioting found the national capital today counting the largest casualty list it has had since the soldiers, sailors and civilians began retaliating on the negro population for the long list of daylight holdups which have alarmed the city. ae Four known dead, two badly wounded, eight or more seriously injured, hospitals.and police stations packed with others, are the result of the most disorderly time the national capital has seen probably since the Civil war. Police Powerless The police apparently were as unable to cope with the situation as they were when during the celebrated demonstration of March 3, 1913, the crowd com- pletely overran them and all but mobbed suffragists parading on Pennsylvania avenue. The score of casualties in last night’s fighting was largely in favor of negroes, who, when the extra strong cordon of police and troops quitted Pennsylvania ave- nue and downtown section, transferred their activities to the lesser guarded districts. Fire From Cars From trolley cars and swiftly moving automobiles negro des- peradoes, in parties, singly, and in pairs, rained revolver shots into groups of whites wherever they found them and all night there was scattered firing from houses in which negroes, terror stricken but not quelled, had bar- racaded themselves. Washington, July 22.—Proclama; tion of martial law may be necessary to end the race rioting here which re- sulted last night in the killing of five pergons and injurying at least 50. Several days of disorders, following a wave of attack on white women, rob- bery and assault by negroes, culmi- nated in a series of race battles dur- ing the ‘night with which the police were unable to cope fully despite the aid of the military provost guard. Sev- eral of the injured were reported fat- -ally hurt and at least 200 others were slightly. injured. : Shot by Negro Girl Among the dead are Sergeant Harry Wilson, shot through the heart by a negro girl-when he entered a house from which she was firing on the street. Four negroes are dead and several others are believed’to have been fat- ally wounded. Three patrolmen were included in the list of badly wounded. Cavalry on Patrol Although two troops of cavalry from Fort Myer have been called out to patrol ithe streets and 400 marines from the Quantico and Washington marine barracks have been added to the provost guard as a precautionary measure, the situation at times last night was more than the authorities could cope with. Reserve squads of police and the provost guard were being rushed thru the streets of the city all night in an- swer to riot calls. BISMARCK BANK CLEARINGS MORE THAN $190,900.00 Total for Last Week Falls Slight- ly Below Normal Amount— Friday Best Day The bank clearings for the city of Bismarck for the week ending July 19/ amounted to $190,900 ,according to! the clearing house figures, This total does not include the state, coun- ty or postoffice items which would bring the amount much higher. ‘For the week ending July 12, the total clearings was $222,800. The highest single day’s clearings this month were on Monday, July , 7when it’ reached $51,100. The highest dur- ing the last week was on Friday when the total reached $49,500. The daily clearings for the past week are as follows: July 14, $35,300; July 15, $20,100; July 16, $26,800; July 17. $32,200; July 18, $49,500; July 19, $27,000. ‘The work of the clearing house is very simple and results in a great amount of time saving for the mem- ber banks. Each bank computes the amount of checks and other items it holds against the other banks. Repre- sentatives! of the various banks then meet at the First ‘National bank, where these figures are totalled and checks exchanged, each bank turning over to the other banks the checks it holds against them and in turn re- ceiving the checks they hold against it. The result is a debit or credit palance for each institution and the clearing house either gives a check or receives a check depending wheth- er the bank has a credit or a devit balance. WILSON RESUMES HIS PEACE CHATS Washington, D. C., July 22.—Presi- dent Wilson was sufficiently recover- ed today from his indisposition to re- sume conferences with republican senators at the white house without objection from Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, his personal physician. Ad- miral Grayson said the president was in no pain, but that he still was ex- tremely weak. wewe 50 AMERICANS DIE IN MEXICO IN THREE YEARS Ambassador, However, Says Greaser Doesn’t Especially Dislike Us Washington, D. C., July 22.—Henry P, Fletcher, American ambassador to Mexico, told the house rules commit- tee today that since his appointment three years ago about fifty Ameri- cans had been killed in Mexico with- out a single prosecution being made by the Mexican authorities. Replying to questions by Chairman Campbell, Ambassador Fletcher said withdrawal of recognition of the Car- ranza government by the United States would only increase the tur- moil in the southern republic. Ambassador Fletcher said he had not noticed any special anti-Ameri- can feeling in Mexico and explained that the presence of more American citizens there than other foreigners probably accounted for the greater number of outrages on Americans. YOUMANS WINS FIGHT AGAINST MINOT LAWYER Supreme Court Rules That Ob- jectionable Attorney Cannot See Trust Books Grant S. Youmans of Minot, who is now advertising his~latest ‘brochure, “Justice Held for Ransom,” in which he purports to make some startling revelations, is victorious in his most recent appeal to the supreme court. This is the case of Anton Lien, a Ward county farmer, versus the Sav- ings, Loan & Trust Co., Grant S. You- mans as president and Anthony Wal- ton as secretary. Lien was a stock- holder in the Youmans corporation, in which he had acquired 26 shares of a par value of $120, and upon which he received twelve per cent in dividends annually. Lien is described in the record of the case as a Norwegian who could read and speak litile Eng- lish, Something in connection with the affairs of the company alarmed him, and he demanded right to inves- tigate the books of the concern. This right was denied because, Youmans alleged, he believed unfriendly agen: cies were prompting Lien’s action. Lien procured from Judge Leighton in the Ward county district court a writ of mandamus directing Youmans to open his books to the petitioner. Youmans appealed, and the result Is an order to the district court com- manding Judge Leighton to modify his judgment so as to convey to Lien the permission desired but to deny right of entry to the attorney who is objectionable to Youmans. Harry A. Bronson. is author of the supreme court’s opinion. He finds the statutes enacted for the protec- tion of stockholders in corporations good, but insists that the courts in such matters must “search the con- science of the transaction, and, if any improper motives are shown, deny the issuance of the writ.” He holds that the “court will not presume that such statute was enacted with the legisla- tive intent to permit one ‘by its use to perpetuate a wrong upon another, or to act as a license to a stockhold- er to use his right for the purpose of injuring or destroying his own cor Poration and to benefit or promote a rival corporation.” The judgment is modified “with di- rections to the trial court to refuse permission to make such examina- tion by such attorneys.” Youmans was represented by form- er Chief Justice C. J. Fisk and form- er Assistant Attorney General Fran- cis W. Murphy, of the firm of Fisk & Murphy, and the plaintiff and re- spondent by Lewis & Bach of Mi- not. Nigger in Woodpile. Youmans, it appears from the rec- ord, accuses President Rasmussen of the First National bank of Carpio (Continued on Page Two.) DEFENSE FINISHES FORD EXAMINATION Mt. Clemens, Mich., July 22.—Ex- amination of Henry Ford by Attorney Elliott G. Stevenson, for the Chicago Daily Tridune, defendant in Mr. Ford’s million-dollar libel suit, was concluded today, and examination passed into the hands of Mr. Ford’s personal attorney. Hotel Proprietor Advises City Commission He Must Pay $15,000 This Year MAKING AN INVESTIGATION Nonpartisan Boss Commits County to Paying Half of Morris’ Travel Budget The Bismarck city commission, sit- ting as a board of equalization, re- ceived only one protest last night against the new Nonpartisan tax scheme under which business proper- ties, city lots and dwellings not used as homes will be assessed at 100 per- cent of their full and actual value. This objection, which was a very lusty one, came from the league boss of Burleigh ‘county, who also is pro- prietor of the league hotel, and who rented $900 worth of committee rooms in the old Northwest hotel to the league legislature last winter. 15,000 a Year Under the league plan, the master! of Mr. Townley’s organization in Bur- leigh county advised the city com- mission that. he, the local league hotel-keeper, will be compelled to pay $15,000 this year in taxes. He left with thé city board the impression that this is considerably more than he has paid in the past. The league valuation of this man’s several properties aggregates some- thing under $400,000, which is said to be in the neighborhood of their true and actual worth. If the city and the county and the school districts hold their levies down to an absolute mini- mum, and the whole does not exceed 37.5 mills, this league leader will pay $15,000 in taxes this year. Enthusiasm Wanes The gentleman in question had been quite enthusiastic over the league pro- gram of industrial democracy, the new freedom and all that. Although he was a trifle late in climbing aboard the band wagon, none had more lustily tooted Mr. Townley’s horn than he during the two years he has held a seat on the chariot. And, so far as can be learned, he is the first in Bur- leigh county to set up a wail when asked to pay his share of the cost of the emancipation of North Dakota. Every farmer in North Dakota is in exactly the same boat with this Nonpartisan boniface. So, too, is each and every one of Bismarck’s business- men and the city owner of vacant lot properties, and of homes which . are otcupied by senants, Not all of these men have been so quick. as he to em- brace the league doctrine, but not one of them has been so prompt to protest when the thorns concealed within the crown of the new democracy began to prick. Spends County Money Burleigh county’s new messiah not only thinks that his hotels and other properties shouldn’t be valued at any hundred percent that is going to ex- tract $15,000 from his pocket, for the good of the cause, which wasn’t the way he’d planned it at all, but he is} willing to spend some of the farmer taxpayers’ money to pay the cost of a junket about the state to be made by City Assessor E. E. Morris to discover how other municipalities are assess- ing their property. Had Planned to Act In view of the confusion which has resulted from a complete reassess- ment of all property under the new order, the city commission had plan- ned to thoroughly investigate the mat- ter, and to make the assessments in Bismarck uniform and in conformity with those of other cities in the state. Therefore the plea of the league hotel man had no other effect that to fur- nish the board with some amusement at the thought that he, the greatest leaguer of them all (note his own pro- testations) had been so early and so thoroughly smoked out. The city commission will do every- thing in its power to safeguard the taxpayers’ interests. Local levies will be shaved to the bone in order that the total burden may be reduced to the greatest possible extent. But, to a large degree, the commission is help- less in the matter, as the method of making valuations is fixed by law, and, whatever that valuation may be, the state levy and the school levies are to a large extent stationary and cannot be altered. SENATE DENIES AUTHORITY TO NAME MEMBER Declares No Power Exists to Act on Reparations Until the Treaty Is Ratified Washington, D. C., July 22.—In re- sponse to President Wilson’s request that an American representative on the reparation committee created un- der the peace treaty be provisionally appointed, the senate foreign rela- tion committee today adopted the dec- laration that until the treaty is rati- fied “no power exists to carry out its provision.” D’ESPREY ON WAY TO BUDAPEST WITH 150,000 SOLDIERS Vienna, Saturday, July 12, (De- layed), by the Associated Press. —General Franchet d’Esprey, commander of the allied forces in the Near East, announces that he is preparing an advance on Buda- pest, the Hungarian capital, with 160,000 troops. The army is made up of French colonials, Ruman- jans, Jugo-Slavs, Italians and Hungarians, ON TOP-IN HUNGARY BUDAPEST-—Boehm, who has been commander of the, Hungarian armies, is now declared in control of the com- munist goyernment, along with Lan- der. They have accomplished the removal of Bela Kun from power, But a short time ago Eoechm was report- ed in prison. woes AUTO BANDITS HOLD-UP NETS OVER $560,000 Chicago, July 22.—Two automobile bandits held up Phillip Fleming, 18-year-old messenger for the Austin Na- tional bank today, escaping with $10,000 in cash, $400,- 000 in**liberty bonds, and $35,000 -in checks, half of which were negotiable. o. DRY BILL GIVEN HOUSE APPROVAL BY 287 70 100 Measure Said to Be So Drastic as to Invite Presidential Veto Passes 2 Washington,-D. C., July 22.—The prohivition enforcement bill, {de- scribed by ‘members opposing it as drastic enough..to invite aj president- jal veto, was finally passed today by thy house. « The vote.on thomik was 287 to 160, with three members voting present. Reading of the bill for amendment was completed yesterday but its pass- age was prevented ‘by a parliamentary technicality. It was the order of bus- iness today, however. STANDARD OIL CO. i VERSUS STATE IS HEARD IN ST. PAUL Injunction Sought to ‘Prevent North Dakota From En- forcing Tax Statute ‘St. Paul, Minn., July 22—Applica- tion for a temporary injunction against state officials of North Dako- to was sought in the United States district court here today by the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. The company asked that the state ‘be re- strained from collecting a tax of from one-quarter to one cent a gallon on gasoline sold in the state. The oil company alleges that the tax is discriminatory and unfair and asks that the law be declared uncon- RATIFIED PACT First Major Legislative Body Gives Approval to German Peace Treaty FRENCH COVENANT 0. K.’D Efforts to Prove Agreement Tnimical to Nations’ League Meets No Support London, July 22.— At what was virtually an all- night session, the house of commons completed its con- sideration of both the Ger- man peace treaty and the Anglo-French covenants. The bill carrying approval of the German treaty was considered in committee of the whole, exciting lengthy debate in which Premier Lloyd George took an active part. The bill was then placed before the house and passed its third reading, after a motion to reject it as a protest against the pre- mier’s attitude toward Ire- land had been defeated. At 3 a. m. the Anglo- French pact was taken up, and the bill approving it unanimously adopted, after a short but sharp debate, in which the argument that the agreement violated the spirit of the league of nations failed to find sub- stantial echo. The German treaty passed thru all its stages without amendment. AUSTRIAN PEACE EMBASSY’S HEAD AGAINST TREATY Dr. Carl Renner Says He Will Not Sign Engagement That Can’t Be Kept Paris, July 22.—Dr. Carl Renner, head of the Austrian peace delega- tion, declared he would “not sign an engagement which he knew could not ‘be executed” in commenting on the peace terms prior to his departure from St. Germain for Seldkirk, ac- cording to morning newspapers, He protested against the “undeard hardshness of the peace conditions against Austria and Germany” and he uttered “let us try to submit to the entente completely unadorned, our great distress and so obtain a peace with conditions that will be support- able for our country.” THRESHING AT MENOKEN. Rye is being threshed iby farmers in the vicinity of Menoken, according to George W. Gustafson, county ag- ricultural agent today. Mir. Gustat- son stated that conditions in that sec- tion were very good and that the rye crop was up to normal. There is no scarcity of farm labor at Menoken at the present time, according to Mr. stitutional. Poincare. Gustafson. HEROES OF TWO REPUBLICS PARIS—Clemenceau and President Poincare of France helped General Pershing celebrate Independence day. The three marched with the American soldiers in Paris on that day. And here they are, in the upper picture, left to right, Pershing, Clemenceau, a BRITISH HOUSEIOFFICIAL INQUIRY BEGUN TODAY OF COMMONS HAS! INTO COLLAPSE OF BIG DIRIGIBLE THAT KILLED 14 AND INJURED 26 j—______. Effort Will Be Made to Fix Responsibility for Disaster in Chicago —tLarge Airship Owned by Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Crashes Into Roof of Illinois Trust & Savings Co. Building— Two Passengers and Park P' ublicity Man Among the Victims. Chicago, July 22.—Official inquiry was started today by State’s Attorney MacLay Hoyne to fix responsibility for the ex- plosion and collapse of the dirigible which fell through the roof of the Illinois Trust & Savings bank yesterday afternoon, killing eleven persons and injuring 26 others. ; Seventeen employes of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., own- ers of the airship, have been detained pending disposition as to whether charges of criminal negligence shall be filed against them. DEPUTIES MEET TO HEAR PLEAS OF GOVERNMENT Clemenceau Expected This Aft- ernoon to Explain Request for Vote of Confidence Paris, July 22.—In readiness to hear the government’s declaration of its Policy on which it had been an- nounced that a vote of confidence would be asked, the chamber of depu- ties met this morning. Premier Clem- enceau was not ready to make his statement at the morning session and the chamber adjourned until this af- ternoon. Much interest in the expected de- velopments of the day, to which great importance was attached, was evi- denced in the city. It was expected that a motion for interpolation of the government on its general policy might precipitate an animate debate. COPHER LABOR TO STRIKE AS PLEA FOR T. J. MOONEY Five-Day Suspension of Work Agreed Upon by Minne- sota Federation New Ulm, Minn., July 22.—The state convention of ‘Minnesota federation of labor, after listen- ing to a talk by Mrs. Thomas J. Mooney of San Francisco, this forenoon voted in favor of the principle of a fiveday general strike beginning September 1 as a demonstration of protest against the conviction of Mooney. REPUBLICAN ASKS RATIFICATION OF TREATY AS IT IS Senator McNary of Oregon Would Not “Alter Splendid Purposes” of Pact Washington, D. C., July 22.—Sup-| league of nations in a porting the senate speech today Senator McNary Two Passengers Killed. Of the eleven dead, nine were em- Ployes of the bank and two were pas- sengers in the airship, Five persons were in the airship at the time of the accident and three escaped. When the balloon crashed through the glass skylight of the ‘bank, a two-story building, more than 200 employes, mostly girls, were at work. On Maiden Trip. The accident occurred shortly be- fore 5 o'clock. The balloon with its five passengers was making its maid- en trip above the city in the inter- ests of an amusement park. Accord- ing to witnesses, a spurt of flame ap- peared at the stern of the ship above the engine. In a moment there was a puff of smoke and the flames at- tacked the big egg shaped gas bag. Almost simupltaneously five para- chutes leaped into the air. Four got clear of the burning craft and one was burned, its passenger, Carl Weaver, of Akron, plunging to death. Publicity Man Killed. Earl Davenport, publicity man for the amusement park and one-time sport writer, did not jump from the machine. His body was hurled through the bank roof, burned to a crisp. J. A. Boettner, civilian pilot, was the only member of the ill-fated air- ship to land without injury. Five of the nine killed in the bank were women employes. Three were men and one was a boy. IMPORTANT NEW CONCESSIONS T0 LIVESTOCK MEN Cattle May Be Grazed in Transit for Period of Year—Re- turn Privileges [REDUCTION ON FEED RATE | Half-rates on livestock from points in Montana and from North Dakota points west of the Missouri east to all points in Minnesota and to Su- perior, Wis., were authorized today by Henry Blakeley, general freight agent for the Northern Pacific at St. Paul, in a wire to H. V. Wilmot of Bis- marck, traveling freight and passen- ger agent. General Freight Agent Blakeley also advises of an immediate reduc- tion to points west of the Missouri in republican, Oregon, urged that it be North Dakota and to Montana on cot- accepted without any such amend- ton seed cake and meal from Arkan- ments or reservations as would alter <3, and Louisiana on and east of the the splendid purposes of the covenant or weaken it so far as it affects our duty.” The senate, said the speaker, could, without harm, adopt certain reser- vations in. the. form of. interpreta- Mississippi; Oklahoma and Texas, from 94 cents, the present rate, to 60 cents per hundredweight. It is also provided that cattle and sheep shipped to outside grazing or feeding points to be returned next tions,” but should not endanger the year will be subject to full tariff rates covenant by making reservations that would vitally affect important fea- tures. going and a one-third rate on the re- turn journey, and that grazing and feeding in transit privileges shall be Article X, he said, must be unim- le X, he , Must allowed on cattle, horses, hogs and paired ‘because,” he said, “is was the sheep destinated to terminal markets pillar section of the league.” FARMER FINDS HIS ROOSTERS THRIVE ON ARSENIC DIET Two Fowls, Fed Three Days on Poisoned Bran Emerge From Experiment in Fine Shape Feeding a rooster on poisoned bran increases his vitality, according to H. B. Moffett, a farmer at Regan, who has just completed a novel ex- periment. In order to determine whether the grasshopper mixture would kill his fowls, Moffett penned two roosters and fed them poisoned bran and water for three days. They did not die. In fact, accord- nig to Mr. Moffett, they were more active an seemingly in better health than before they were put on an ar- senic diet. This, it is explained, is due to the fact that hens and roosters have gizzards which neutralize the poison in the bran. Mixture Kills Cattle But if cattle, horses and hogs eat poisoned bran in any quantities, or drink water which contains this dope, they will die in short order, according to George A. Gustafsen, county agri- culutral agent. Cattle should not be permitted to graze in a field where poisoned bran has been spread. Some deaths of cattle from this mixture have been reported from Bur- leigh county, but in each case it was | due to cattle breaking into fields where poisoned bran had been scat- tered too thickly. According to Mr. Gustafsen, if it is spread jon the ground properly, the cattle can not get it in sufficient quantities to cause death, but stopped to feed or graze en tran- sit on the same basis as now author- ized on sheep, with the time limit for transit privileges extended to twelve months from the date of shipment from points of origin. These concessions are expected to prove a great benefit to western stockmen, who under these conditions can ship their cattle, hogs and sheep to eastern pastures, prepare them there for market, and finally reship them to terminals under one rate, pro- viding the entire trip is completed within the course of a year. Many western stock-growers will also desire to avail themselves of the privilege of |grazing their cattle in eastern North ‘Dakota, Minnesota or Wisconsin, or even in the upper peninsula of Michi- gan over the winter, returning them ,to their home ranges next spring, when the pastures are renewed. This can be done under the ruling an- "nounced today at a tariff of one and a third for the round trip. MAIL SHIPPED BY FREIGHT WILL BE DISTRIBUTED HERE The importance of Bismarck as & distributing point for four or five states is shown by the fact that three carloads of catalogues from Chicago mail order houses have just arrived. The catalogues are labelled and mail- ed from this city to points in North and South Dakotas, Montana, Wyom- ing and even Nebraska. The pur- pose of sending the mail here In \freight cars and then mailing it from this city is to take advantage of the zone rates. It is expected that addi- tional carloads of this matter will ar- rive next week and post office offi- cials state that this traffic was never so heavy before, ‘