The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 18, 1919, Page 1

es LAST. EDITION eee CK TRIB THIRTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 188. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1919 PRICE FIVE CENTS AMERICAN AVIATORS HELD FOR RANSOM BY MEXICAN BANDITS FRAZIER UNEASY ABOUT JUDICIAL APPOINTEES NOW Rumor Has It That Chief Execu- tive Is at Outs With Ad- visors on Matter TOO MANY CANDIDATES Plum Is Found Attractive by Many League Lawyers of Various Vintages There is a growing suspicion here that all is not well between the gov- ernor and some of his influential ad- visors on the matter of the three new district judges whom he is to appoint before a week from tomorrow, under the terms of the judicial redistricting bill which was approved by the elec- torate at the special referendum elec- tion June 26, This act, which reduces the number of judicial districts from 12 to six and increase the number of district judges from 12 to 15, became effective as a result of the referen- dum July 26, and it is provided that the governor's appointees, to hold office until their selectors are named at the next general election, shall be selected within thirty days from that date. When. the governor ‘made his other appointments under the new acts ap- proved at the referendum election, it ‘was generally expected that he would name his judges. The slate then was said to consist of Lee Coombs, or M. J. Englert, both of Valley City, in the first, which is to have three judges under the new plan; G. M. Gannon of Ashley, in the second, which is to have two judges, and E. P. Totten, of Bowman, brother of George A. Totten, chairman of the board of administra- tion, in the sixth, which is to have three judges. The governor, how- ever, did not announce his judicial appointments when he named his board of administration, commission- er of immigration and a number of other servants of minor importance. He explained that there was no hurry. It is now intimated in official circles that Mr. Frazier wishes he had struck while the ifon was “hot. “Complica-| tions have arisen. H. L. Berry of ‘Stanton, former’ state’s attorney of Mercer, has:thrown a monkey-wrench into the machihery in the Slope .dist rict, ‘the sixth, where E. P. Totten shad, it‘ is understood, been picked for the ermine. Bérry, to whom prognos- ticators had paid little attention, be- came very much f; factor when he presented at the capitol a petition somewhat less than a mile in length signed by several. hundred league farmers who wanted him to be their district judge. Leslie A. Simpson, former Stalwart leader in the senate from Stark ‘county, also is sald to have developed wishing pains, and now it’s a three-cornered race in the sixth. In the second Gannons is said to have been counted out entirely and Fred Graham of Ellendale, in Dickey county, substituted in the royal favor. In the first, too, there has been a yeasty commotion, out of which is said to have evolved Seth Richard- son of Fargo as the choice of William Lemke for the job which had been awarded to Coombs or Englert. Of course, Mr. Lemke does not pick the governor’s appointees, but as chair- man of the republican‘state central committee and chief aide to Townley he has influence. DICKINSON MAN BETS _ $10,000.00 ON GIRL DRIVER To New York, 2000 Miles, in a Flivver, in Six Days— Want to Take It? Dickinson, N. D., Aug. 18.—P. F. Berringer, Ford service man. at this point, wants to wager $10,000 that his daughter, Miss Hazel Berringer, can drive a flivver from Dickinson to New York, a distance of 2,000 miles, in six days. To accomplish this feat Miss Berringer would have to make an average of 333 1-3 miles per day or 20 45 miles per hour. SLADE GOES TO ALASKA ON JOB FOR UNCLE SAM St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 18.—George T. Slade, former vice president of the ‘Northern Pacific railroad, has left St. Paul on an important mission for the United States government, according to reports in circulation today. The most reliable report was that Mr. Slade has gone to Alaska where he will investigate the railroad and mining situation and report to Wash- ington. (Mrs. Slade said that her husband sailed for Alaska on Thursday and that she did not know of any gov- ernment mission. During the war Mr. Slade estab- lished one of the best war records of any raflroad man in the country and was decorated by hoth the American and French governments. It is reported that he has been of- fered a post in Siberia, directing American affairs there, after his re- turn from Alaska, j |KOLCHAK AND HIS GOVERNMENT HELD OUTLAWS BY REDS London, Aug. 18.—A decree declar- ing admiral Kolchak and his all-Prus- sian cabinet at Omsk to be outlaws has been issued by the ‘Soviet gov- ernment, according to a wireless mes- sage from Moscow. The admiral and the officers com- mending the forces of his govern- ment’ in Siberia are declared to be subject to immediate arrest. MONTANA'S NEW PRIMARY GUARDS PARTY SECRETS Voter Not Required to Disclose His Affiliations Under Amended Act TO BE BUT ONE ELECTION Helena, Mont., Aug. 18.—The Lewis bill, passed by the special session of the Montana assembly, makes a num- ber of changes in the primary act. The bill was opposed by the 'Nonpar- tizan factions in the legislature and passed after a hard fight. Voters, in future, must declare their party affiliations in primaries and will receive only the ballots of the party they espouse, and if their vote is challenged they must swear tha: they are bona fide members of the party in question. The double prim- ary of presidential years—a most ex- pensive feature, which had caused state-wide criticism and in reality, it it said, was responsible for the move- ment for primary amendments thai began several years ago—is abolished. Only One Primary Instead of a primary for presiden- tial, electors and another for the state election, one primary, to be held 45 days before the first Tuesday in June, will be held. Delegates to national conventions, presidential electors, congressional representatives, ‘state county and ju- dicial officers will all be nominated. The system of expressing a choice for president of the United States is abolished..altogether...-The..0ld law merely bound the delegates to abide by this choice so long as feasible and meant nothing, according: to those who opposed ‘it, Rotary Listing of Names A rotary system of placing names on the ballot is provided under which the tickets change every 25 names and the order. is revised. It was said where voters did not know the candi- dates, where more than one was to be named, they chose the top names— which of course gave those with in!- tials high in the alphabet an advant- age. The election of national committee- men is left to the state convention, in- stead, as before, to delegates to the national convention. Under the new act, those who run as party candidates in the primaries and are defeated cannot enter the election as independent candidates. But anyone who has not entered the primaries may run independently in the election. ‘Forced Exposure of Party The closed primary feature drew ovosition on the ground that it tend- ed to destrov the principles of the Australian ballot. in that it forced a voter to declare his party affiliation. This feature. according to oppon- ents of the Lewis act, leaves the path open for intimidation of employes by employers. at the polls. It is estimated the new Dill will save. on an average, $150,000 per election. It is a compromise measure, admittedly, between those who wish- ed to restore the convention system for the nomination of many offices and those who wished to retain the old law. EMBARGO ISSUED ON SHIPMENT OF COAL TO DULUTH Duluth, Minn. Aug. 18.—Coal shippers of eastern norts today issued an embargo against ship- ment of coal to the head of the lakes ports, according to E. D. ‘Brigham, manages ‘of this district of the railroad administration, This stops movement of coal to Duluth, ‘Superior and adjacent docks during the strike of coal dock workers, $5,000,000 DRY DOCK TO BE COMPLETED SOON Honolulu, T. H., —uly 19—(By Mail) —It is expected that the $5,000,000 drydock at the Pearl Harbor naval station will be completed by the end of this month. It will not be formal- ly opened, however, until Secretary Daniels arrives with the Pacific fleet. RAIL BOARD ONLY CAN ASSESS OUR PUBLIC UTILITIES Increased Valuations Decreed by County Commissions Said to Be Worthless JOKER WAS SLIPPED IN Apparently New Statute Con- trolling Companies Was Amended at Last Moment With all his pack of Big Business baiters in full cry, the fox is said to have doubled on Huntsman Townley during the last assembly and to have “holed -in” on the Nonpartisan chief in the closing hours of the session. Senator Frank Ployhar of Valley. City is a gas magnate. At that time he was president of two gas com: panies—in Bismarck and in Valley City—which were losing money be- cause of war conditions. The Bis- marck city commission had held that under the company’s franchise a raise in rates could not be granted. The district and supreme court had up- held the capital city board. Ployhar, seeking relief from this condition, had introduced in the senate, of which he was a hold-over member, an elaborate public utilities act which placed all rate-making powers in the hands of the state railway .commis- sion, This act dragged along until the last day of the session when, between battles on the Brinton newspaper bill, the house took it up and passed it. ‘Somewhere along the line, someone, appears to have inserted in this act a clause which decrees that the public utilities of North Dakota shall be assessed for purposes of taxation upon a valuation arrived at by the state railway commission, after its expertd: shall. have ‘made a careful survey of the property. ' This fact was not disclosed until last: week, when the Burleigh county commission jumped one Bismarck utility 140 percent and another two or three hundred percent. The util- ities concerned had no representative at..the-meeting of the, commission when ‘it sat as a board’of equaliza- tion, and the commissioners had a very good time of it. Now, attorneys claim, the new valuation fixed by the county, commission -isn’t) worth & tinker’s pet cuss-words(i) ¢ County commissions generally,; es- pecially in those: where:the eagife is in control, have had an idea that pub- lic utilities were doing some fibbing about their valuation, and these values, as returned by city and village boards, have been boosted quite lib- erally. The boosts may stick, but only if declared ‘correct ‘by the engi- neers and accountants of the North Dakota’ railway commission. If the railway commission finds that the valuations are higher than heretofore granted, then it must concede that the earning power of the utilities should be increased, and rates to con- sumers will go up. Another Vicious Cycle, as it were: ROUITY HEAD 70 GIVE TOWNLEY’S STORES RIVALRY Chain System Similar to That of League Boss Launched by J. M. Anderson St. Pail, Minn., Aug. 18—St. Paul is to be headquarters of a chain sys- tem of co-operative stores in five ‘Northwest states which is rivaling the chain store system of the Non- partisan league, it was announced here today by officers of the Co-ope- rative Wholesale Society of St. Paul. (Manager B. W. Moore said the sys- tem will include 2,000 stores in Min- nesota, Iowa, North and South Dakota and Wisconsin within another year. The whole organization is controlled by the stock owning stores instead of being controlled centrally as igs the ‘Nonpartisan system. Articles of incorporation were amended and filed with ‘Secretary of State Julius Schmahl today to permit the increase of capital stock authori- zation from $10,000 to $1,000,000. J. M. Anderson, head of the Equity Co- operative Exchange, is president and F. A. Bennett is secretary. It is the first existing Minnesota corporation to take advantage of the new state law relating to co-opera- tive organizations. The filing fee was but $25 compared to the fee of $525 required on filings of non-co-opera- tive corporations. SHOPMEN’S STRIKE OFFICIALLY AT AN END; HINES WILL ADJUST WAGES Washington, Aug. 18.— The railroad administration was notified today that the strike of shopmen was at an end and was asked to take up the wage demands imme- diately.~ ~ Acting President Jewell of the railway employes de- partment of the American Federation of Labor, went to the railroad administra- tion to notify the officials in person. It was indicated that Director General Hines would proceed at once to settle the wage demands, BOILER LETS GO ON SUCKER STATE FARM; THREE DIE Greenfield, ‘Ill, Aug. 18.—Three boys. all aged 7 years were killed, three others ‘badly burned and ten other, persons sustained injuries when the boiler, furnishing steam for a mine pump exploded on the farm of Norman Mayberry, 5 miles northeast of here yesterday afternoon. MILLING VALUE OF WHEAT HELD AS PRICE BASIS Senate Committee on Agricul- ture Insists Farmer Should Not Be Penalized INJUSTICE HAS BEEN DONE Washington, Aug. 18.—The senate committee on agriculture and forestry has issued a statement on the agricul- tural situation which emphatically as- serts the need of changing wheat grading rules and discounts which it is claimed- if: unchanged may rob wheat growers of from 50 to 75 cents a bushel on hundreds of millions of bushels of wheat and which will deny the producers even living wages. The statement has the endorsement of the entire committee and has received the unqualified ‘support of the national board of farm organizations and the national. Grange which have a com- bined membership of approximately three million producing farmers. The senators farm organization repre- sentatives say that the wheat, though shriveled.owing to the unusual heat of the summer, is of the highest. milling yalue and will enter in large measure ‘into the production of the high priced patent flours and be sold to the con- suming public at prices based on No. 1 wheat, s0 that: producers will be de- frauded and consumers receive no benefit. Injustice Done Farmer The committee believes that grave injustice, is being. done the farmer cree @ontinted on-Pagé Five) FIRST GREAT OIL STRIKE IN STATE: REPORTED TODAY Des Lacs Co., Near Minot, Pump- ing 25 Barrels Daily Since Saturday Great excitement has been occa- sioned among local stockholders by the report that oil has been struck by the Des Lacs Oil Co., Prospecting eight miles west of Minot, ana that the company is now pumping at the rate of 25 barrels per day. ‘The company controls 76,000 acres. The strike was made at a depth of 3,000 feet. The strike was made Saturday. It is said to have not been a gusher, but the well has a steady flow which is believed to indicate a vast lake of petroleum at a com- paratively small depth. The Des ‘Lacs company is large- ly a \North Dakota concern, or- ganized little more than a year ago. its stock has been disposed of chiefly within the state thru local newspaper advertising, and many Bismarck men, including a number of state officials, are large ‘Shareholders. On the strength of today’s. report the stock has trebled in value. State and national geologists have been confident that a large section of western North Dakota is underlain with oil. Conditions here are said to be similar to those in the famous oil regions of Oklahoma and Texas, where pe- troleum reservoirs have generally been found under extensive beds of lignite. Small strikes of oil and gas have been made in a number of districts west of the Missouri river. The New England Petrol- eum Co. is now selling stock in an extensive prospecting enterprise which plans to bore for oil in west- ern Hettinger county, but the Dec Lacs discovery is the first prac- tical success that has been report- ed in the state. Baby Cremated Before Eyes of Agonized Mother Glen Ullin, N. D., Aug. 18—A year- old child of Mr. and Mrs. George Fahn was cremated before its agonized mother's eyes when their home on the Schoch farm, twelve miles from here, burned. Two other children, aged two and three, managed to es- cape when the fiouse took fire from matches, with which they were play- ing while their mother was on her way to the pasture with the dairy herd. She was attracted by the smoke and rushed back to the house, but could not reach the baby, FORTY BILLIONS IN POUNDS COST OF WORLD'S WAR Lloyd George Tells British House of Commons of Expense of Conflict TRANSITION TAKES TIME Change to Peace Footing Cannot Be Accomplished in Day, Says Premier London, Aug. 18—The war cost forty billion pounds Premier Lloyd George declared in his speech in the house of commons today on the finan- cial and industrial situation. Most of this sum was spent for purposes of destruction. He asserted that the change from war to peace conditions would take just as long as the change from peace to war. The first outstanding fact of the present situation was the alarming adverse trade balance, he said. The imports restriction, which will terminate September 1, he continued, had given Britih manufacturers an opportunity of making a dealing in goods which otherwise would have neow hurried here from foreign coun- tries. The national debt, he declared, had grown from $641,000,000 pounds to 7,- 300,000,000 pounds. TOWNLEY LEAGUE 10 ASSIST NEW LABOR PARTY Delegates From. Northwestern States Attending Chicago National Meet COMBINATION PURPOSED Chicago, Ill, Aug, 18—Repre- sentatives of labor organizations and the Nonpartisan league from a number of states at a conference here today decided to organize a national labor party| A national convention will be held in Chicago in November to adopt a constitu- tion and platform, it was an- nounced. Chicago, Ill., Aug. 18.—Representa- tives of labor organizations of eight states and delegates from the Nonpar- tisan league of North Dakota, Min- nesota and Kansas met here today to consider plans for the organization of a national labor party. The states represented were California, Kansas, Connecticut, Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania. The delegates came to Chicago for the conference in response to a call sent out by the Illinois state labor party. Frank J. Esper, secretary of the party, said he had received word from twenty other states that the or- ganizations were back of the move to organize the national party combin- ing the labor party and ‘Nonpartisan league of all the states. “We expect to call a national con- vention this fall and enter the 1920] 4 campaign,” said Mr. Esper. “For jus: a conference this meeting is a corker and it looks like we have the backing of labor and farmer parties in most states.” NEW YORK WALKS IN SECOND DAY OF ITS STRIKE (New York, N. Y., Aug. 18.—Forced to reach its offices by devious routes in a rain storm, commercial New York entered the second day of its traction strike with resentment in its heart. With interborough subways and ele- vated tied up completely the city’s mil- lions this morning battled their way to such surface cars as were running or into busses and moving vans hast- ily organized into semblance of the transportation system. HAWAII LAW-MAKERS SHOWN TO BE CLEAN Honolulu, T. ‘H., July 19—(By Mail) —Charges of corruption in the last territorial legislature, made in a newspaper interview by L. H. Hol- stein, speaker of the house of repre- sentatives, were based on unreliable rumors and could not be substantiat- ed, according to a report just made by the grand jury, following an in- vestigation. ‘Mr. Holstein charged that certain members of the legisla- ture had planned to extort money from certain interests Increased by Incident. Big Bend district of west Texas. was raised at once. City was instructed today by the ment to pay it direct. “T. R.” SECOND 10 ADDRESS LEGION AT MINNEAPOLIS Gallant Son of Distinguished Sire Principal Speaker to Service Men St. Paul, Minn, Aug. 18,—Lieut. Colonel Theodore Kooseveli, son of former President Roosevelt and a na- tional leader in the newly organized American Legion, will be the princi- pal speaker at the first state conven- tion of the organization in Minneso- ta to be held here September 2, 3 and Roosevelt will address the conven- tion on the evening of September 2 at a session open to the public. The call for the convention has been issued by the temporary execu- tive board and 1,000 ex-soldiers, sail- ors and marines of the late war, rep- resenting close to 100 posts in the state, are expected to attend the meeting as delegates The city of St. Paul has donated the Auditorium free to the former service men for a meeting place. Dur- ing the convention a permanent ros- ter of officers for the state body will be chosen and delegates selected for the first national convention to be held at ‘Minneapolis on November 10, lL and 12. A citizens’ committee is being formed that will arrange a program ot entertainment for the delegates andj the hundreds of visitors who will at- tend the St. Paul meeting. The afternoon and evening of Sep- tember 4 will be spent by the visitors at the State Fair, which day has been set aside as Veterans’ day with a pro- gram in co-operation with the legion. ALASKA EXPORTS REACH HIGH TOTAL FOR JUNE Juneau, Alaska, July 9.—(By Mail) —Exports from Alaska for the month of June, according to report to the customs office, were valued at $2,- 330,926. Leading items among the outside shipments included: 75 ounces of palladium, $9,000. copper, $382,- 759: salmon, 2622,794. EXPERTS AGREE THAT WAR MUST BE OUTCOME OF SHANTUNG AGREEMENT Washington, Aug. 18.—It was the unanimous opinion of American experts on far eastern affairs in Versailles that war must result from > the peace treaty provision giving Japan control of the Chinese province of Shan- tung, the senate foreign relations committee was told today by Thomas F. Millard, an American writer, who was attached to the Chinese peace delegation. I $15,000 DEMANDED FOR RELEASE OF TWO AIRMEN SOUTH OF BIG BEND IN TEXAS-MONEY REQUIRED IS RAISED Cattlemen Attending Cowboy Camp-Meeting Subscribe Needed Sum in Fifteen Minutes—State Department Takes a Hand— High Tension Between United States and Sister Republic El Paso, Tex., Aug. 18.—Every effort was being made today to expedite the rescute of Lieut. Paul H. Davis and Hated G. Peter. son, aviators of the United States who are held for ransom of $15,000 by Mexican bandits somewhere in Mexico south of the While no official announcement was made by the military authorities it was understood that the ransom money had been arranged for at a local bank and that a messenger would be started for Candelaria, Texas, where he would receive instructions about handing over the gold to an agent of the bankers. Cattlemen attending the cowboy camp meeting at Fort Davis, Texas, also raised $15,000 in 15 minutes Sunday and placed it at the disposal of the military authorities. After eight days of sus- pense since the aviators patrolling the border disappeared, mes- sengers were received by military authorities at Marfa, Texas, yesterday demanding payment of the ransom in gold to Dawkins Kilpatrick of Candelaria, Texas, before tonight or the Americans would be killed, according to the message. Another message signed by the aviators accompanied the de- mand for the ransom in which they stated practically the same facts as contained in the message from the bandit leader. _They also sent messages to their relatives in Strathmore, Calif., and Hutchinson, Minn., urging them to see that the ransom ; QUICK RELEASE DEMANDED Washington, Aug. 18.—The American embassy at Mexico state department to immediately call upon the Mexican government for quick action to affect the release of Lieut. Paul H. Davis and Harold G. Peterson, American army aviators who were captured by Mexican bandits near Can- delaria, Texas, while patrolling the border and who are threatened with death unless $15,000 ransom is paid today. : _ The state department announcement said that. the instructions pointed out the seriousness with which the United States govern- ment viewed the situation and called for immediate adequate action. The Amercian consul at Juarez also was instructed to take all possible steps with the Mexican authorities there to secure the release and protection of the officers. State department officials said the ransom demanded ‘would be paid as soon as. information could be had as to .where and: to whom the money was to be delivered. whether the United States would furnish the sum and. charge it against the Carranza government or call upon the Mexican govern- It has’ not been decided State Department on Job. Washington, D. C., Aug, 18.—Vigor- ous representations were made to the ‘Mexican government today by the sate department concerning the cap- ture and detention of two American army aviators by bandits who demand $15,000 ransom. The announcement was made by Secretary Lansing. It also was an- nounced that a complete statement in- cluding details of the capture of the two officers and particulars regard- ing the representations made by tne American government would be given to the public later. It was learned today that the first intimation that the officers were miss- ing reached Washington the middle ot last week in dispatches from the bord- er which said a peon had reported that two aviators were in a canyon south of the border. It was under- stood that the aviators had been com- pelled to land in Mexico and were in troublefl American army officials on the border, were then reported to be planning to send reliefs to the two men and were given to understand that the Mexican authorities had no objection. The next word received was on Saturday when the capture of the two men by bandits was reported. ‘Serious potentialities should harm befall the fliers generally were recog: nized. RANSOM MONEY RAISED. Marfa, Tex. Aug. 18—Vice Presi- dent H. iM. Sennell, of the Marfa State bank, was authorized by wealthy cat- tlemen of the Big Bend district to draw $15,000 ga cash from his bank early today and proceed to Candelaria, Tex., to deliver this sum to Daykins Kilpatrick for the ransom of Lieut. Paul H. Davis and Harold G. Peter- son, American aviators held by ban- dits in Mexico. The authorization for the payment of the ransom was received from Ma- jor General Joseph T. Dickman, com- mander of the southern department. This sum was ‘subscribed in 15 minutes yesterday at the Bloys cow- boy camp meeting at Fort Davis, Tex. RANSOM PPAYMENT AUTHORIZED Marfa, Texas, Aug. 18—Authoriza- tion for payment of the $15,000 ransom asked by Mexican bandits for the re- lease of Lieutenants Paul H. Davis and Harold G. Peterson was received lere today and the money -probably will be delivered late today to an agent of the bandit at or near Candelaria, Texas, it was announced here. The American visitors are being held somewhere in Mexico south of Can- delaria. H. M. Fennel, vice president of the Marfa bank, left early today with the ransom money raised here. He was ac- companied by a military guard com- manded by Major C. C. Smith. Aviators on detached service at the Big Bend headquarters also left here today for the Candelaria border presumably to watch from the air for the return of the aviators. OFFICIAL REPORTS RECEIVED. Washington, D. C., Aug. 18.—Official rcports from Major General Dickman, commander of the southern depart- (Continued on Page Two.)