The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 27, 1919, Page 1

THE WEATHER \ I ‘ @onerally Fair. nf \ E BISMAR LAST EDITION’ THIRTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 246. » BISMARCK,,NORTH DAKOTA + MONDAY, OCT. 27, 1919. BUN | 1,000 STEELE COUNTY-FARMERS ENDORSE LANGER AND OFFER FUNDS NECESSARY TO PAY COURT'S COSTS Rousing “Townley Repudiation Meeting” Held at Finley Saturday —Leaguers See Attorney General in Tremendous Fight Al- most Single-Handed Against Unscrupulous Politicians and Grafters—Law. Enforcement Head Called Upon to Address Other Gatherings. ; % FELLOW FARMERS OF NORTH DAKOTA: G WHEREAS, We have heard our fearless attorney gen- eral, William Langer, and the closing of the Scandinavian- American bank of Fargo by the banking board, ‘and saw him back up his statements with written documents, letters and other papers __AND REALIZING, That the tremendous fight he ig put- ting up almost single-handed against unscrupulous politi- cians and grafters, we hereby send word to you fellow farmers of North Dakota to stand by Attorney General William Langer in his fight. We especially, ask that you subscribe to and read other newspapers than the Fargo Courier-News and the North Dakota Leader, which papers have been deliberately lying about him. FURTHER, We serid word’ that the farmers of Steele county hereby pledge. themselves to raise enough money among the farmers of North Dakota to pay in full the judg- ment that the supreme court has ordered him to pay. We will stick by Bill Langer and we will win. Signed by STEEN: NELSON, chairman of the Townley repudiation meeting at Finley, North Dakota, October 25th, 1919, and one thousand other farmers. The above resolutions were adopted at Finley on Saturday following a rousing “Townley Repudiation” mass meeting ad- dressed by the attorney general, who reviewed the fight which his department and the state banking board have been making upon what they have regarded illegitimate banking practices alleged to have been indulged in by the Townley machine in the reorganiza- tion of the “farmers” bank at Valley City and in the matter of the Scandinavian-American bank of Fargo. The meeting is said to have been the largest in the history. of Finley. Farmers came from all parts of Steele county} and the town was filled, from early morn- -ing until late at night. An auto} parade from Hatton had been or- ganized, but the heavy snow in- terfered. The farmers came anyway, intent upon hearing from the attorney general’s own lips his reply to the charges of Townley. ey A majority of thd farmers in attendance were leaguers of Sev- eral years’ standing; with’ dues pe up to date, and still heartily in ‘accord with the program to which they and the attorney general subscribed when-'the Nonpartisan league was organ- ized. A big street parade pre- ceded the meeting, at which Langer spoke for two hours to an, audience which enthusiastic- ally| applauded at numerous points in his address. Following the Finley meeting the attorney general was urged to return to Steele county later to address a similar gathering at Hatton. This he will probably do. Farmers in other counties are said to be developing a desire to hear the other side of the con- troversy between Townley and Langer and the latter’s league associates on the state banking board, and it is probable that there will be a number of big mass meetings between now and the first of the year. Ferry Captain Who Died Friday to Be Buried at St. Paul Was Well Known Character on ~Missouri River and Piloted Boats for Years The body of the late William Fries- heim, who died Friday afternoon as he was leaving ‘the ferryboat Deapo- lis of which he was captain, was sent, to St. Paul, his home, Saturday night. Capt. Friesheim was one of the best. known rivermen on the Missouri and had) piloted boats up and down the river for many years. Before be- coming identified with the Benton Packet Co., owner of the Deapolis he piloted boats on the upper Mississippi river where he first learned his bus- iness,” . The, deceased is survived by his widow and a son recently returned from: France where he served with the First division. His home was. at 900 Juneau street, St. Paul. pee NORTH DAKOTA TO .HAVE ONLY WOMAN LABOR ‘DIREGIOR Fargo, Oct. 27.—The fed- eral employment bureau of North Dakota closed a month ago, is to be re-established November 10, with Miss Min- nie Bowe of Fargo, in charge as director for the state. She will be the only woman di- rector in the service, accord- ing to advices received by cher from Washington today,’ appointment. UNCLE SAM WILL BUY LEVIATHAN | AMONG AIRCRAFT. Early Closing of Contract for Monster Ship to Be Closed . | Washington, D.. € Oct. early closing of the contrac 7.—AL for the purchase by the navy ‘department of R-38, the the British rigid airship est airship in the vy construction dir Busland, the department teday. Lropriated by congress the purchase of this: air training of: pilots | The R-88 is 694 fect ‘in length. 86 feet in diameter and 93 feet 6 inches high, and carries a fuel load of 45 tons, She is expected to have a maximum speed of 60 knots, The British air ministry has offered to train personnel for the R-38 so that upon delivery the airship can be taken cver immediately by an American crew und flown to the United States, There was ap- 500.000 for hip and. the INDIAN LANDS TO BE SOLD ON NOVEMBER 40TH Bids Will Be Received for Red- men’s Property Around Fort Yates Indian lands in khe Standing’ Rock reservation in North, and South Da- kota will be offered for sale by bids on’ November'10 and December 10. The’ land comprises some of the best farming and grazing lands in | both states and some of it is appraised at, less than $5 an acre. All of the lands are situated in Townships 17 to 23 and ranges 17 to 31 in South Dakota and in townships 129 to 1384 and ranges 79 to 90 in North Dakota. No bids for less than the appraised value will be considered and all bidg must be filed in writing in a seal envelope. Some of the allotments are to be sold for cash and all bids for less than $1,000 must be for cash only. On other allotments deferred pay- ments of one-fourth cash, one-fourth in one year, one-fourth in two years and one-fourth in three years with interest at six. percent will, be per- mitted. ‘ Each bid must be accompanied by a certified check for ten percent of the amount. Additional information and description of the various allot- ments can be obtained from James B. Reh superintendent, Fort Yates, YUKON HARVEST IS NOW IN FULL BLAST Dawson, Y. T., Sept. 15.—(By Mail) Harvesting of Yukon crops now is in full blast, and hundreds of tons of native products are being garnered. The growth of Yukon Territory agri+ culturally may be better understood when it is stated that scarcely an out- side potato is ever shipped into the territory. Familiar crops in the district include beets, turnips, carrots, rutabagas, cab- With Britain a OLD MEMBER OF’ STATE EXAMINER STAFF 1S. FIRED 0. E. Lofthus Dismisses Deputy Halldorson Because of Report on Bank BREAKING INTO _ PRINT Townley Official’ Says Nice ‘ Things.of Hagen Bank and Scolds Langer P. 5. Halldorson, the oldest deputy on the state examiner’s force, and who had served in thig capacity since the time of Governor John Burke, was dis- charged last Saturday by State Exam- iner O. BE. Lofthus. The letter of dis- mssal Was written in Fargo, and it read : “This is to notify you that you are this day hereby discharged as deputy siate examiner, “The part you took in the attempt of wrecking the Scandnayvjan-American bank convinces me that you are not worthy to liold any position of public trust gr honor, You have been alto- gether too willing a tool of those who criminally attempted to wreck — this bank, if not an active’ participant therein, “0. E. LOFTHUS, . “State Examiner.” Halldorson was one of the two deputy esaminers who, utider the direction of the state banking board, made an in- spection of the Scandinavian-American bank’s books the last’ of September. As a result of thelr report, which de- clared that the bank had made more than $734,000 in excessive loans, and that in their opinion the institution was clearly insolvent, the Fargo bank closed by order of the banking d October 2, and Halldorson wa alled as temporary receiver. QO. igemoen, who had joined with, Hall- on in making the examination and ning the report, made an affidavit when the matter came before the su- 1reme court two weeks ago to the ef- ject that he knew little or nothing of {le contents of ‘the report when he signed it. The ire of the Nonpartisan league chiefs was conceutrated from the first upon Halldorson, and his éis- missal Was’ generally expected, REOPENED SATURDAY The Fargo bank opened Saturday morning, within fourteen hours after a divided supreme court had declared «(Continued on Page Five) WILSON VETOES | PROHIBITION: U. §, WEP TILL "20 Enforcement Bill Effec- tive Tomorrow AFFECTS NORTH DAKOTA Washington, D. C.. Oct, 27.—The United States will mot go dry tomor- row. The national prohibition enforcement. bill which would have become effective at midnight and which would have made illegal on and after tomorrow the manufacture or sale of any bever- age containing more than one-half of one per cent alcohol by volume, was yetoed this afternoon by President Wilson. x This ig the first important official act of the chief executive since his re- cent illness. . The effect of the President's veto is te restore America to the condition ex- isting prior to the proclamation of war- time prohibition. which expired with the demobilization of the national army. We're Damn Near Wet Jn other words, the United States, as a nation is as wet as it ever was al- tho this dampness is polka-dotted by dry spots representing local option teritory or states which are constitu. tionally drouth-stricken. This dampness, unless the presi- dent’s veto is overridden by a two- thirds majority in each house of con- gress, will continue until January 1 1920, when the federal prohibition amendent becomes effective. Affects North Dakota One of- the states, affected by the president’s action will be North Da- kota, which has not been permitted to legally import intoxicants since July 1, 1917, when a ‘bone.dry act dassed ‘by the fifteenth assembly went into effect. Some time ago the su- preme court of North Dakota held this act unconstituional, invalid and never lawfully placed on the statute- books of that state. The liftifig of the state ban had no effect at that time because wartime prohibition still. prevailed. Now ,however, North Da- kota, altho the sale or manufacture of intoxicants within its borders is ban- ned by its constitution, is restored through the presidentialveto the prvi- lege which it enjoyed prior to July 1, 1917, of importing intoxicants pure- ly for personal consumption. V2 Boy! Page Art Townley Washington, .Oct. .27.— flag or advocating overthrow bage, cauliflower, peas. and beans: Brome-grass, redtop, timothy, ‘wheat ‘when she was advised of her: |} and oats also have been produced in ‘large quantities. The first steel ship launched was the Ethel, built on the Tyne, 42 years Jj ps aia of the government would be subjected to federal prosecu- tion under. a bill ordered fav- | orably reported today by the Jdudiciary. committee: lo ey | Persons exhibiting the red | | Van Lear Sees Clean Sweep in Labor Movement Duluth, Minn., Oct. 27.— “When union labor realizes its political power it will sweep Minnesota, _ filling every office from governor to dog. catcher,” said Thomas Van Lear, former mayor of Minneapolis, at a mass meet- ing of Duluth union men here yesterday afternoon. The meeting was Called by the federated trades assembly to promote the working people’s nonpartisan political league. BODY OF TOT IN STRAWSTACK IS CAUSEOF PROBE Seven-Year-Old Girl Found Two Days After Disappearance From Home ‘ISUNDAY SET NEW MARK FOR COLD IN-CAPITAL CITY Thermometer Drops to 10 Below Zero and Breaks 45-Years’ Record Here SNOW ALSO EXCESSIVE Downfall of Beautiful Never So Great This Early in Sea- son in Bismarck With the thermometer registering 10 degrees below, zero at 8 o'clock Sunday morning, yesterday was the coldest Oc: tober day in the annals of the local weather bureau. The records cover a period of 45 years and with. this ex- treme cold, the record for the enti month up to the present. time shor Cctober, 1919, to be the coldest Octo- ver on record. . Another record was shattered last week when six inches of snow fell in 24 hours, this being the heaviest fall of snow in that space of time for any Qctober covered by the bureau’s records, The nearest’ approach to this record for low temperature was on Octobe: 1895, when the thermometer went as low as two degrees under zero and there are only two instances in the rec- ord where the mercury traveled below. zero at the Jocal weather bureau dur- ing this’month. The intense cold of the past-few days was due to the pas- sage of an area of exceptionally high pressure over this section. WARMER LAST NIGHT MAY HAVE BEEN STARVED Granyille, N, D,, Oct. rrosecution may develop as’ the r of the death of Margaret Kottke, s years old, whose body was found in it strawstack near the farm of Walter Zimmerman, where the child made her home, last Thursday. A, P, Simonson, deputy sheriff of McHenry county, was called to investi-] Last night, the minimum tempera- gute the conditions regarding. the| ture was one degree below zero and by child’s death and immediately called|8 o'clock this morning it was 11 de- Ccroner Stone, who is waiting a re-| grees above. Snow started falling th pert from the office of I, ¥, Ladd at|rorning at 8 o’clock and up to 8 o’clos the North Dakota agricultural college,|an inch had fallen. While thi e where an examination of the child's) ceptional for this time of the year, it is not the record, there having been a snow fall of eight inches on October 28 and 29, 1912. The neares! to the 24-hour record of si ches Was on October 4, 1898, when 5.8 inches fell. fomach is being made. before calling ury to fix the responsibility, if any, for the death. According to Deputy Simonson’s re rort, the child was born to garet Kottke a*year before she was, married, ‘The father of the child is Lot named but is said to haye been a tinnsient, NQ FARLY SEARCH MADE Tate Tuesday’ the ‘child went fo the]average temperature for Bi fields to drive’ home the cattle. She]ing October, while yesterda did not return home that night and no}was two degrees above zero, a varia- attempt was made to find her yntil the tion of 36 degrees. fellowing day, when the neighbors were — Although heavy woolens may not advised that she was missing from the only be comfortable, but a necesity at Zimmerman home and search W&8 ihis time, yet it is believed that No- begun, The body was found near & yember will be very mild, “I am not s‘rawstack on one of the Zimmerman making any forecast,” said Mr. Rob- terts this morning, “but whenever we “nave had ‘a severe October. we: always Coroner Stone held a postmortem ‘e-a mild November, if October is #mination and found that the child's dry November is wet. For instance, in stemach contained no food, indicating October, 1910, 56 degrees was the high that she had been starved. He also while in November, 1910, 26.6 was the reported having found some foreign jo These figures represent practi- substances in the stomach the nature celly the highest for October and the of which he was not certain and-at Jowest for November with some slight once forwarded the stomach to Dr. exceptions of unusual cold or warm Ladd. state chemist, for examination. weather.” * {The nature of the report from Dr.| WAS COLDEST SPOT Ladd will directly influence the nature — Bismarck wag the coldest spot in the cf the action to be taken by the au- United States, according to the dai thorities, weather bureau report issued today | SS a covering the temperature during the ‘past 24 hours, Four cities in Canada SCORES INJURED {reported temperatures lower than that IN RIOTING O Foire istered here of one degree below N. Y. STRIKERS: in showing how exceptionally cold it has been the past few days stated that the records show that 38 degrees is the fields, o MAY, HAVE :SEABVED. The. highest temperature noted on| ‘the report was that at Chicago of 48 Oklahoma City, almost in the in a pitched gulf coast country, reported the mer-| striking long- cury had fallen as low as 40 degree: veral - hundred men Swift Current. in Canada, had a mir vay to work at the mum temperature of 8 degrees below; at Brooklyn this zero, which is the coldest reported, St. Louis, with a ininimum tempera- New York, - Oct, 27.—Scores of cegrees. persods: we battle between shoremen and who were on the Bush terminal doc morning. Between 50 and 100 revolver shots were fired and: sticks, stones, ture of 46 degrees, had 2.46 inches of bricks and clubs were ‘used by the com- rain, Most cities report either snow, batants. Police reserves were sum- rain or cloudy weather, and the weath- moned and ten arr were: made, pes pureas. predicts cloudy weather to- ———— night, COLDER AT MANDAN Mandan, Oct. 27—The thermometer | WOMAN TO DROWNING aaa Oct net ; , registered J degrees elow zere be. IN BASEMENT TANK tween Saturday night and Sunday ‘morning at the North Great Plains ex- perimental station one mile from this This is the lowest temperature Mankato, Minn., Oct. Irs, Henry: Kranz, 66 years old, ned herself in the cistern’ in the basement of her October in the memory of. the home ‘here today. She is said to have oldest inhabitants, Two inches of snow been in ill health for some time, fell here this morning. SANISH BANKER THWARTS DARING ATTEMPT TO LOOT FARMERS’ BANK Sanish, N. D., Oct.—Routed from bed at an early hour Mohday morning by a party of three men who drove up to his ico in an automobile ‘and asked him to accompany them to the ank, stating that they had valuable papers which they wished to place in the safety deposit vaults there, Henry Schoenrock, cashier of the Farmers’ bank of Sanish, was seized as he entered the car to comply with their request, gagged and bound. The car then sped away in the direction of the bank.. Schoenrock, who had been placed in the front seat, managed to free one of'his hands, with which he seized the steering wheel and hurled the speeding car into the curb. The shock caused his captors to momentarily release their grasp upon him, and the banker took advantage of this opportunity to throw himself, bound as he was, from the car. ‘The bandits righted the car and drove on at high speed. Schoenrock, who escaped serious injury, attracted the attention of persons who un- bound him, and who assisted in forming a posse to go in pursuit of the would-be bank-robbers. The bandits, however, had gained such a long lead that they could not be overtaken. Cashier Schoenrock made affidavit today that he had posi- tively identified the driver of the car. as William Knight, a local character, said to be now under. bonds to answer to a charge of bootlegging on the reservation here. Knight’s two companions, said Schoenrock, were unknown to him. It is expected that a war- rant will be issued for Knight today, and the state hopes through him to bring to justice his fellow bandits. : The Farmers’ bank is,a thriving institution with a consider- able amount of cash on hand, and it carries thousands of dollars BE COINS PPPS RCE Oo trentmrn walladiy COUNTRY AWAITS REPLY OF MINERS TO PRESIDENT WILSON'S PROTEST AGAINST NATION-WIDE COAL STRIKE Acting President John L. Lewis Returns to Springfield, Il., From Washington, Where Eleventh Hour Negotiations Failed to Avert Impending Tie-Up—Chief Executive Brands Walk-Out Called for November 1 “Unlawful.” WILL NOT ALLAY CRISIS ae ringfield, Ill., Oct. 27.—Prefacing his announce- ment with the statement that he had received no com- munication from government sources as to President Wilson’s stand against the threatened strike of soft coal miners November 1, John L. Lewis, acting president of the United Mine Workers of America, today declared “the widely heralded information that force may be re- sorted to will not serve to allay the crisis.” Springfield, Ill., Oct. 27.—The country waited today for the ‘! reply of John L. Lewis, acting president of tne United Mine Work- ers of America, to President Wilson’s Saturday declaration which branded the strike of soft coal miners threatened for November 1 “as unlawful,” and called on miners’ officials to rescind the strike order in the interests of public good. o On his return here last night from Washington, where! elev- enth-hour negotiations between miners and operators failed to avert the impending mine tie-up, Mr. Lewis declared the “status | quo” prevailed. Lewis justified the demands of the miners as necessary and placed the blame. for the breaking off of negotiations between the joint scale committee squarely upon the operators. MILLION WORKERS|" Washington, Oct) 27 Mess FACING LOCK - OUT |Lres to meet the situation which IN LAND OF DONS would result from the threatened strike of bituminous coal miners Resolution Adopted at Barcelona Would Throw Multitude Saturday were considered today Out of Work by administration okicials. No reply from officers of the United Mine Workers of Amer- ica to the demand of President Wilson that the strike be called 0. W. Roberts, chie¢ of the bureau, |® ~ | manuf of Liberty bonds in its safety deposit vaults. _-| Wednesday. Madrid, Sunday, Oct. 26.—(By the ciated Press.) —More than a mil- lion persons throughout Spain will be thrown out of employment Tuesday, November 4, if the decision of the con- ps8 of Spanish employers at Bar- jaring for a lockout is car- celona decl ried out. Government authorities are expected rt every nfluence to induce the to reconsider their ac- tion, It is declared that if the general lockout is put into effect every factory in Spain of any importance will be closed. Members of the employers’ congress say the decision was taken as. a pro- test against industrial unrest in Spain. SPECIAL: TRAIN BRINGS MOSCOW RED CROSS AID Nineteen Cars Required to Carry Supplies for Relief of Capital te es Warsaw, Sept. ‘A special train of nineteen cars of American Red Cross relief supplies, urgently needed in the desolated parts of Poland, has just arrived in Warsaw. The train was on the way from Paris for nearl, a month. It came through Italy, A tria and Czecho-Slovakia, and was composed of surrendered German freight cars, formerly part of a muni- tion train on the Argonne front. De- lays were encountered throughout the journey, which consumed four times as much as the schedule. This is the eighth train to reach the American Red Cross Commission to Poland in four months from Paris. The cargo is made up principally of refugee clothing and hospital bedding. It is estimated that only half of the Poles who were forced to flee from the country during the war have as yet re- turned, and the American Red Cross is making energetic preparations for furnishing needed clothing for the ragged refugees who will return dur- ing the coming winter. Several cars of hospital supplies which came on this train will be for-} warded at once to the Commission’s Southern Field headquarters at Lem- berg, for the new Polish hospitals in Galicia. Tremendous demands are be- ing made on these hospitals by the present typhus wave that is sweep- ing into Galicia from the east. In spite of the great transportation difficulties that lie between Poland and the source of supplies on the Atlan- tic coast, the Red Cross has announced that its program for keeping a steady stream of food, clothing and other re- lief supplies coming into Poland will continue throughout the winter. INTERNATIONAL TRADES MEETING IS BEGUN TODAY Little Business Transacted at Opening Session; Offi- cials Absent Washington, D. C., Ott, 27—While the International Federation of Trades Unions began its session here today preliminary to the meeting of the in- ternational labor conference provided for in the treaty of peace with Ger- many, no important action was ex- pected until tomorrow because of the delay of several high officials of the federation. Discussion of the conference is ex- pected to hinge on demands organized labor will present in the international labor conference, which convenes on off is expected until after the miners’ executive committee meets at Indianapolis Wednes- day, but meantime officials took cognizance of the statement of union leaders that it would be physically impossible to with- draw the strike order by Novem- ber 1. The administration program for dealing with the strike nat- urally will not, be disclosed until the strike has been developed. While it is the purpose to keep “a strong hand” on the rad- icals, officials made it plain that caution would be exercised not to antagonize the more conser- vative elements. In this connec- tion they said that many of the miners’ demands might be just. “It is the means they use to obtain their demands to which we object,” said one high official. NORTHWEST SUPPLIED St. Paul, Oct. 27.—Railroads of the northwest have a coal sup- ply on hand sufficient to keep the roads running until spring, regardless of the impending coal strike, officials in St. Paul said today. Only the diversion of the sup- jply to other domestic uses will interfere with the operations of ‘the roads in moving food and ‘other supplies throughout the region, it was asserted. Pro- longation of the strike beyond /the winter months, however, may bring a critical situation, it was said. 'f WILSON SPEAKS | >. ry Washington, D. C., dent's s ‘eptember 919, the convention of jthe United States Mine Workers of America, at Cleveland, Ohio, adopted [a proposal declaring that all contracts lin the bituminous fields shall be de jclared s having automatically ex- yired November 1, 1919, and making various demands including a 60 per cent in in wages and the adop- tion of a hour workday and a five- day week and providing that in the event a satisfactory, wage agreement could not be secured for the central competitive field before November 1, 1919, the national officials should be in- structed and authorized to call on a general strike of all bituminous miners and mine workers throughout the United States, effective November -1, 1919, i SEE GRAVE DISASTER “Pursuant to these instructions, the oflicers of the organization have issued a call to make the strike effective No- vember 1, This is one of the gravest steps ever proposed in this country, af- fecting the economic welfare and the domestic comfort and health of the people, It is proposed to abrogate an agreement as to wages which was made with the sanction of the United States fuel administration and which was to run during the continuance of the war, but not beyond April 1, 1920, This strike is proposed at a tinie when the government is making the most earn- est effort to reduce the cost of living und has appealed with success to other Glasses of workers to postpone similar disputes until a reasonable oportunity las been afforded for dealing with the cost of living. It is recognized that the strike would practically shut off the country’s supply of its principal fuel at a time.when interference with the supply is calculated to create a dis- ustrous fuel famine, 5 ALL INTERESTS AFFECTED “all-interests would be affected alike (Continued on Page Four) > s emeqelln cin eC Ua ETE