The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 29, 1919, Page 1

THE WEATHER Falr tonight. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE THIRTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 223. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA MO. Y, SEPT. 29, 1919. OMAHA, THIRSTING F' WOULD HANG MAYOR PENNSYLYA WOOD LOOKS OVER QLD LINCOLN, MAY URGE REOPENING Commander of Central Division Pays Hurried Inspection to Local Post PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Veteran Military Man Leaves Impression “Barcus Is Willi’ ” Visiting Fort Lincoln before day- break this morning, leaving the im- pression with those who spoke to him that he would probably be a ‘candidate for the presidency on the republican ticket next year, and hurrying to Oakes on a special train to make train connections for Omaha, are some of the features of the two hours Major General Leonard Wood, commander of the central department, spent in Bis- marck this;morning. His visit cut_short because of the race riots at Omaha, General Wood was forced to obtain a special train to take him and his party to Oakes with all possible speed. There he will make connections with the regular fast North-Western train for the Ne- braska city, arriving there early in the morning. General Wood’s decision to take personal charge of conditions at Oma- ha followed telephone conversations | he had with General March, chief of staff, at Washington, and with his office at Chicago, as well as with the authorities at Omaha. It was the general’s intention to re- main in Bismarck.all day, meeting the members of the American Legion to- night and then return directly to his headquarters at Chicago. He had filled speaking dates in South Dakota yesterday and came to this city. pri- marily to inspect Fort Lincoln for the rae department officials at Washing- ton. 3 At 6 o’clock this morning, General Wood was the guest at breakfast of Andrew Miller. Senator Gilbert Hag- gart and the members, of General ‘Wood’s party were included. General Wood praised the soldiers of North Dakota who served in the war, par- ticularly those who were put into the First. division and said their record was, beyond doubt, one of the finest in the annals of the army. To Be President? The conversation turned to political matters, in which General Wood took a keen and lively interest. From the remarks he made it was believed that he will undoybtedly be the republican nominee for the presidency and Gen- eral Wood mentioned that a great many of his friends were urging him to run for the highest office in the land. _. Following » breakfast, Mr.-: Miller. drove General Wood and his party to Fort Lincoln, where the gerieral inves- (Continued on Page) Two.) WILSON BACK AT , WHITE HOUSE. TO BEGIN HIS REST Washington, ‘D. C.,’ Sept. 29—Back at the White house after an absence of 25 days, President Wilson ‘today was beginning’ the period ‘of absolute: rest prescribed by his physician necessary for his recovery from the nervous ex- haustion. which cut short his speakiag trip for the peace treaty. President Wilson spent a restless night last night but is:sleeping this morning, Rear Admiral Grayson an- nounced today. The president arose shortly after +11°o’clock: but» remained: in-his- room. He was said to’ bé ‘apparently up, | somewhat refreshed after his sleep, * SUPREME COURT SUSTAINS STATE TAX COMMISSION Justices Join, However, in Hold- ing Funds Properly Trans- ferred by Auditor The supreme court by a three to t-vo decision this morning granted T Commissioner Wallace’s petition foi writ of mandamus directing State Au- ditor Kositzky to pay Mr.+ Wallace's August salary. ten by Justice Bronson and was con- curred in by his Nonpartisan col- leagues of the bench—Birdzell and Grace, Associate Justice: James 3. Robinson joins Chief Justice A. M. nson ina dissenting opinion concurring in the general result, but contending that Mr, Wallace is entitied to no special preterence, but should wait his turn with other public se.v- ants whose August stipends have not been paid because Mr. Kositzky. bas insisted that there was no money ‘u the general fund against which youch- ers could be drawn. é : In the principal issue, involving the transfer of more than $200,000 of in- stitution funds, Kositzky is upheld. The court is ungnimous in the opin- ion that the dourine and glanders funds were improperly transferred by the state auditor from the geneval fund, and that these funds should be returned to the general fund, which would thereupon be enriched to the extent of $13.000. The court holds that there was actually $13,000 in the general fund at the time Mr. Kositzky ceased paying August salaries and that the state auditor’s action, therefore, Was, not. warranted. STATE OPTOMETRY BOARD IS NAMED Louis Hanson of Devils Lake, George R. Peterson of Fargo, A. G, Tellner of Jamestown, R. C. Merritt of Kenma and F. W. Stanton of Fargo were named by Governor Frazier today |members of the state board of optome-} try examiners for terms expiring July 1, 1922. PITILESS PUBLICITY CURE FOR STEALING: MANKATO’S CHICKENS Mankato, Minn., Sept. 29. —Convicted of chicken steal- ing, a dejected Westbrooke citizen, chose to announce his guilt publicly rather than go to jail. Carrying a sign read- ing: “I stole those chickens from Mrs. Hopkins,” he fol- Towed through the streets be- hind’ a truck carrying the stolen fowl. The; opinion was writ-|"" eee ee NIA STATE POLICE IN ACTION PITTSBURGH—‘Keep them on the move!” That’s the order to the state police in the steel mill districts of Pennsylvania. And the pictures show how the police vigorously carry out the order. In the upper picture, an officer at Brady and Second Ave., Pitts- burgh, has found a citizen who is inclined to argue the question. CRUCIAL DAY IN STEEL STRIKE If PASSING QUIETLY Both Sides Making Strong Claims But No Radical Dif- ’ ference Is Shown By Associated Press) Today, proclaimed by both sides as the crucial test in the great {steel strike, opened with situation, still ob- secure because of conflicting claims. The opposing leaders issued flatly con- @|tradictory statements in regard to the proposed strike today of the 40,000 workers in the plant of the Bethlehem Steel corporation. The corporation officials claimed that the strike call had been obeyed only by a compara- tively insignificant’ number and that operations in all their mills were con- tinuing the union chief replied with ithe claim that the huge plant at Beth- lehem was completely crippled and the power house forced to close. Reported conditions in the other great steel centers indicated that the balance was being held fairly equit- able between the two opposing sides, On the one hand there was nothing to support the prediction of the steel company officials that the day would see wholesale desertions in the ranks of the steel workers, and on the other hand there was not any definite in- crease in mills operating. In the English city of Chester the man who fails to raise his hat when a funeral is passing becomes liable to imprisonment. ITALIAN DEPUTIES IN FIST’ FIGHT HUNDRED JOIN IN Rome, Sunday; Sept, 28—-Debate in the chamber, of deputies was in-” terrupted -today by a free fight which lasted ten minutes and in which about: 100 deputies par- ticipated. The. opinion is ex- pressed that the cabinet as a re- sult of the riotuous incident may -decide .to resign: .rather than plunge! the*country into \a struggle | during the general election. It ig ROW IN CHAMBER asserted that the fight in the chamber indicates what would oc- cur‘in the country, The correct figures for the vote of confidence given the cabinet was - 208 to 148 instead of 208 to 140 as at first reported, In consequence of the fight in chamber several challenges to fight «duels were announced between de- puties“and between. deputies and journalists, , : Below, Homestead guards are keeping the strikers moving. BANK BANDITS SCOURING STATE ASSOCIATION URGE 27. of the North Fargo, N. D., MacFadden, secretary Dakota Bank ociation, —to- day addressed a rning to every bank in rth Dakota to be on guard against a new band of rob- bers whom he said are working in_the .state. Mr. McFadden calls on the bank- 100,000 MINERS IDLE; COAL SHUT OFF FROM ALLIES General Suspension of Opera-} tions in South Wales Due to Rail Strike London, Sept. 29.—Hundred thou sand miners are idle in the South Wales coal fields as a result of tne railway strike.. Many collieries are) closing down, and in Swansea harbor | trade is at a standstill, WILSON NOT TO RECEIVE BELGIAN ROYAL COUPLE Washington, D. ©. Sept. 20—Pres dent Wilson will not receive King bert and Queen Elizabeth at the whit?|| house until ‘they return from a tour of the United States, it was learned definitely at the white house. DULUTH TUGMEN QUIT; HARBOR IS TIED UP| Duluth, Minn., Sept. 29,—Tugmen of | the Whitney Bros., Barnett & Record! Co. and England Towing Co. went on strike this. morning in response to 2 call for an strike on the Great Lakes. TILL TOUR IS FINISHED) 1). RN ren fibrcd an | S$ INSURING BONDS ers to have customers remove Lib- erty boiids from safety deposit yaults placing them in the banks strong box where they may be coy- ered by insurance and he also urged» caution against daylight robbers, when he says have just commenced operating. Three bank robberies occured in the state last week, N. D. E. A. PROGRAM WILL BE OUT SOON W. E. Parsons, Burleigh county superintendent of schools and secre- tary of the North Dakota Education association, has completed the pro- gram for the annual convention of the association to be held in Mingt on No‘ vember 5, 6 and 7, and copy is now in the printers’ hands. Because of revo- lutionary changes effected in the state educational system under the Nonpar- tisan regime, this year’s convention is of unusual interest, and it is antici- pated that the attendance, will be the largest in the history of the associa- tion. | BATTLE OF ANCIENTS | PROVES FATAL TO 80- | YEAR-OLD AGGRESSOR | In a fight which followed an alleged attempt by John Ar- nold, 80 years old, to remove property he claimed from a mining camp near Gordon, ‘his county, Isaac Russell, 73 years of age, watchman at the camp, late Saturday wounded Arnold with a shot- gun and the latter bled to death before aid reached him. Russell, in jail here, claims Arnold knocked him down when he refused him permis- The Independent Ferry Co.’s are not affected. The harbor is practically tied up by the strike and by a storm. Sociologists estimate that among ev- | .|.ery thousand bachelors there are 38 ‘criminals, whereas married men pro- > s duce 18 per thousand. | sion to remove any property | and that after throwing him | off Arnold was coming to- ward him with an axe when the shot which proved fatal was fired. R BLOOD OF NEGRO, R WHO STANDS IN WAY COLORED MAN LYNCHED; JAIL BURNED; SOLDIER KILLED; 40 INJURED Nebraska City Comparatively Quiet Under Mar- tial Law This Morning After Wild Night 6f Terror—Mob’s Victim Delivered Over to Them by Fellow Prisoners of His Own Color After Flames Drive Them From Roof of County Prison-—City’s Chief Executive Member of Law Firm That Had Defended Alleged Afri- can Assailants of White Women. WOOD CALLED TO OMAHA 4 Major General Leonard Wood, commander of the central division, who reached Bismarck shortly after midnight this morning to inspect Fort Lincoln, was called to Omaha by the rioting there, and he left at 8:05 this morning on a special train requisitioned from the Soo line for Oakes, whence he expected to travel over the North-Western to the ” Nebraska city. The major general’s train consisted of an. engine and one passenger coach, and he was given the right- of-way over all traffic to Oakes, which point he was expected to reach in record time. Omaha is in the division over which‘ General Wood has‘ command. ; i Omaha, Neb., Sept. 29.—After a night of mob rule during which a negro was lynched, an at- tempt made to hang the mayor of Omaha, Edward B. Smith, the county court house burned, one man; said to be an ex-soldier, shot and killed, and per- haps 40 others injured, the city was quiet today under patrol of federal troops ordered from Fort Omaha and Fort Crook. : The mayor is at a hospital and was still uncon- scious early today as a result of the attempt by the mob to hang him to a trolley pole because he advised against the lynching of William Brown, a negro who was in the county charged with attack- ing a white girl early last week. Dr. E. C. Henry, the mayor’s physician, stated the mayor suffered a bad wound over the right eye and had a bad wound around his neck. With federal troops patrolling both the negro and downtown sections of the city, it was be- lieved that the authorities would be able to pre- vent-any possible fresh outbreak on the disorders. _Some of the soldiers were supplied with ma- chine guns. Among those injured were a dozen police offi- cers, three prisoners in the county jail, several city firemen and numerous pedestrians. Megey tesane ote Clears Up x ‘oday the doings of last night at the court h clear up. Until long after the early morning Hoan eae tically impossible to get near that sector, the mob that held sway over the buildnig for five hours making it dangerous to go near the pes. Later ae a detachment of federal soldiers was sent © the scene a cordon was at once around thé, buildi pence wiepproactt it. = alldiny ena Bo a __ When the mob gained entrance\to the jail and ii building became menacing to 100 priseners one the oe e Sheriff sent all the prisoners, including Brown, to the roof. The sheriff and his deputies were guarding the entrance to the Jail an were gple to keep back the mob for several hours. Howeyer, as the heat became more intense, the prison th c scren and altel the negro to the ano: seat e ayor Smith was seized by the mob on 17th street, court house, at 10 o’clock. He was hustled to Kearney pee ~ stopped at the foot of a trolley pole, where a rope was placed around his neck. Appalled at the possibility of murdering the city’s chief executive, the crowd protested, and two officers cut the rope, carried the mayor to an automobile and rushed him to h hospital. 7 ae ; savor Defending Negroes ; es e mayor’s law firm is at present defendin, eroes charged with assaults on:white women. The mile nee that fact had much to do with some of the remarks that were made by members of the mob who had a hand in the attempt against his life. Sheriff B t ae ig the at oe 2 eriff Brown today to! e story of hi i came ae ae Boascenin of the mob. = on ee — e deputy sheriffs had orders to hold Brown, 3 all in their power to do so,” said Clark. “When the ta a. smoke crowded us off:the floor,:-Commissioner Ringer, Chief Ebi _ (Continued on Page Two.) :