The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 28, 1919, Page 1

\ ‘ HE BISMARCK TRIBUNE == Bee NORTH DAKOTA FRIDAY, NOV MBER | 28, “1919 THE WEATHER Jen, * Generally Fair, THIRTY-NINTH YEAR, PRICE FIVE CENTS $50,000,000 FOR GOOD ROADS — en et ee ey ttn wae ett te tte, tt etter et | ROBINSON AGAIN ATTACKS TAX PROGRAM W) LBAGUE JURIST. /"EVEPHONE SMS, [REAL FIREWORKS) bop water 1» [COLD WAVE HITS ™SREES®SA708S,” ¢69 900,000 BOND INSISTS BURDEN | OP HEAVY BURDEN|)F SRECTON TO) Former Fiehters (COUNTRY PAGING P2UaL SUFFRAGE Iocnm FOR ROADS covering that from 500 to 600 a | calls were being handled daily from & . Dakota senate, leaguers austere BE customers desiring to know the .run- After Being Kidnapped, He N up ot cient Scoiehaeu wedteatey ae ning time of trains and other details Gives Speech on Ameri- ternoon to go on record against the federal suff i which a generally furnished by the aa p amendment. ‘The ism and Patriotism jare F rajlway ticket offices, the Bismare W. Mees of Morton county, Wil i x ‘ ‘allc At. | CXchange of the North Dakota Inde-| Investigations Galore of League ba ‘Supreme Court Justice Calls At pendent Telephone Co. has found it! e noe Snow and Low Temperatures|iiam Zieman of Dickey county and : . John Weber of Mclutosh and Logan.) Senate Highway Committee Ap- i nce! ise service Bureaus Dem: Spre: ral an sont pee 1 Bri tention Once More to Ex neces jlo discontinue this, service, : anded By Prosser, Wash., Nov. 28. | Spread Over Con ‘al and ws mators Hagen rt of Cay, Mfebride of proves’ Great Highway coanive: Levies oxtent with the. natural telephone Opposition —Guarded by ten. armed || Southwest absent. ‘The opposing senators are the Building Program trafic, deputy sheriffs headed by same who voted against approving Hereafter patrons instead of ask-| " ASSAILS. CONFISCATION | ing central for information concern-| TO RESTORE MISS NIELSON ing trains will call for the Northern Pacific or the Soo line ticket offices. Declares Multiplicity of Mulet-|/* is suggested that these offices make Independents Would Repeal the x 3 : an effort to handle their telephone | Board of Administration encé composed of sympathiz- ing Val Result in Revolu- alls promptly, thus expediting, serv-| nee mune era and abut 80 former sol: tion in State Bele aes | Act in Entirety i| diers. Mills eulogized. the | f : American government and | Addressing to the legislature his : SN ; second message of the present spe- 1 Rep. Harris introduced two bills * Chicago, Ss 7ST ERASE ER EEU x confined his speech to Amer- || wita snow and sleet storms today had ration and fal session, Associate Justice James today aiming at league control. icanism and patriotism. spread over the central and south- department, the Senate 1. Robinson, league member of the |, One would restore the management i supreme court, this afternoon pre- of the schools to Miss Nielson. icts * t i x a The other abolishes board of ad- The speech was delivered || West and rendered more critical the {committee on highways has prepared dicts ‘revolution if the excessive tax | | | y 9 7 oq |{fuel situation brought about by the i 5 nhet at Grange hall, three miles | 88 Gaga’ slaceiMne eL bie bie CoE H I rok tintrotction ‘this “afternoon a ent! . ‘burdens in this state are not reduced. : ministration and places. institu. |, 0M, Prosser. — Mills was ||miners. In many small cities and| current resolution submitting to. tha His official message is as follows: tions in hands of board composed | of governor, attorney general, MESSAGE NO. 2. : | i \ Sheriff Rolf, Walter Thomas |! p . Mills, lecturer and writer for EE OODS the Nonpartisan league, spoke last night to an audi- y al suffra at the last regular ses: ARIZONA Ision. It Is eenested ‘th t the fen ho °|AUTOS TO EARN TAXES members who voted against suffrage A + ° at that time will also stand pat, 4 First Blizzard Finds Many Lo-|inat. the totar yote against the sut- ire A frage amendment will be — thirteen, calities Without Fuel of which the ladies declare is hound (> { Any Kind prove an unlucky number for their ° opponents Principal and Interest Would Be Refunded From Motor Car Licenses OV. HITS AT LBAGUE Cold wanna, i ked by the gdminis the highway | | | | | which will make it possible for the state to bond for scheduled to speak last night, ||towns the coal shortage was acute jheople a proposal for an amendmens state auditor state treasurer. BY JUSTICE J. E, ROBINSON, a cen SEG eau but he was kidnapped by a jwith actual suffering in prospect in some. Moderation of the coid wave by tomorrow however was forecast. | | party of former service men | | | PHOENIX UNDER WATER | | 000,000 for the To the Lawmakers— Hl The real sireworks: of the spec and taken twenty miles out | construction of permanent, hard-sur- Gentlemen: Representatives Ness and Peter-| session, if there “is to be any, | of town. He returned later } faced roads. The program contem¢ Governor Given Control Over jpected to, start this afternoon, with the and announced that he would’ ||. Denver, Colo., Nov. —Litile re veginning of the last legislative day] | . lief was promised today from flooa * jfor the introduetion of bills, Speake tonight. || conditions in Arizona and snow and $25,000 Salary Fund in /| t is expected that the administra- — zero temperatures in northy Tex- sine surfaced highway. eighteen feet wild }tion’s concurrent resolution for the as, northern Arizona, Colorado, Wy-] One Measure : lana with a six-inch surface. \ appointment of a committee of five to oming and the northwest which thru- _—_—_— q rogr’ is similar investigate the oflicial acts of Attorney out yesterday crippled train service) The abolition of the state library Hhe: program. ip simnllar to) the BaP The revolt has only be-!on the special session of the 16th General Langer, Secretary of stat and greatly handicapped wire con:-|commission and the oflice of secretary, | cock plin, now under consideration iit gun; it is sure to spread and grow|sembly, league leaders do not regard’ Hall and Auditor Kostizky will go i and the concentration of the duties of | Minnesota. The bond issue would in- | s munications, e i stronger and stronger unless some-!it kind of Representatives ‘Ness anuithis sfternoon, following a secret BODY TRYING 10 any today portions of aed Hae er ra eetee eran onral Uk No -ingrense In yiexes, ISA AMO: riz. were under water and inhabi-) Person of the supreme court reporter, | ia. F i : A under ter and inhal who is to be law, reference and genc yj cates contend, the plan being to re- uumg 18 done to stop ic. And, it is] Peterson, independents, to force the ,cus of league members this morning, now or never. Townleyites to again go on record in} a companion piece the opposition | tants of che lowlands along the Salt s 3 r Rates anata salary of $3,000 per fund interest and, principal from fees ded for in House Bill 12, | collected from the licensing of motor q As you know, the assessment |fayor of the red flag, or at least; will introduce a concurrent resolution river and Agua Fria river had fed {librarian 4 sali & er s ys eater than/ against any effort to suppress it. as an investigation of Governor to safety some not before their homes |)U™, IS pro _for se Bi g q y icensing in any former year, and the result is] The Ness-Peterson Will is the same I s Labor add in which had been swept y by the flood {introduced by Willam Martn, vehicles. In order to procure a year- four and one-ualf times gr that all the tax levies are grossly ex-| measure which died such a_ prema ed “direct action” should ef caused by excessive rains, Under House Bill 13, fathered by} a Bae Sie he cessive, What must we do to “bejture, death in, the house during the “forts to bring about “the revolution” : Hermann Hardt, the governor ig giveu |!¥ income suflicient to pay the interest , saved? The proper remedy is to un-|Jast ‘regular session, when Townley ‘through the ballot prove too slow ; aa! League Leaders at Capitol Be- ‘BLANKETED WITH SNOW .000 to pay the salaries of spe on a $50,000,000 hond issue and to ere- ‘ do the wrongs—to pass an act withJand his secret caucus were in tall! inve tigation of Governor Fr; = Chicago, Nov, 28.—A blanket ofjassistants attorney general, whom he jate a sinking fund, It would be neces- an emergency. clause reducing all the}‘bloom. That was before the begin-ldeelaration of marital law, his seizur? hind World War Veterans snow ranging from a fraction of an}/may name at his pleasure and whos} cary to at least treble the present net i tax levies fifty per cent; also a bill|ning of the insurgent movement of the coal mines, and his private op sida inch to two feet today covered most pensation is to be fixed by him! soyenue from motor vehicle licensés, a reducing some of the appropriations, | which is still growing. ‘There was nojeration of these properties; and inves- Organization of the country west of the Mississippi|‘Che treasurer is directed to pay the |wiich does not exceed $500,000. per i and a ‘bill cutting out all needless ex-j roll-call on the red flag bill, and the!tigation of the workmen's compensa za river and extended as far east as To x i ¢ i | alaries and expe of such asstst-| annum, and which would be but one penses. Townleyites were not forced to go on{tion bureau, with a demand for an ae} The blossommg on the fapel of |!edo, O., with low temperature pre: . 4 Can you discern the signs of the ‘ OF i times? ‘Have you heard from the! son Let Townleyites In election in Towner County, and do} au ae you know what it portends? As 1 For Trouble think, it shows that there is a grow- ing revolt—a revolucion against the With from 25,000 to 30,900 returned | Ai +s assessments and the tax levies for|soldiers in the state with their plates linking up every county seat iu /\the state with a permanent, grayei- ; 2 ants on voucher from the govern percent on $50,000,000. It is bellevea, Under the constitution all property| record. Jeounting for the more than $500,005] practically every league legislator, of-|Valling thruout the area. South of WORLD WAR VETERA however, that the automobilists, with y must be as ed for_taxation in the] ‘The independent faction In which the bureau. has collected in fees ;|oifite holder and employe, fe: the |the snow belt heavy rains fell and} Jyouse Bill 14, Hoare. provides. fre2|pormanent, hard-surfaced, — all-yers= district in which it is Sitttuted, Then’ house at present is larger jan investigation of the Bank of North} governor down to the newest janitor | foods swept the lowlands bordering) state headquarters at the capitol for }’round roads in prospect, would: be the taxes must be levied pursuant (ojer, and it is determined, if possidle,|akota, with a view to determining} of huge red, white and blue buttons, a| the Salt and Aqua Fria rivers in An | the North Dakota unit of the Worl | willing to stand the boos law by the stvae and the several mu-|to place every legislator on record on/the source of its $58,000 in profits, au‘l| bloated replica in color and design of } Zona with possible loss of life. | War Veterans, northwestern division,| The Senate highways committee hal \ nicipalities. Aside from ‘hte small] the red flag bill. The Pet the reason for its failure to accommo-| the famous “We Will Stick” emblem| Suffering in many places _in® the/ang the North Dakota branch of the | this under consideration all day yes- sum necessary to pay interest on the milar to a lay Jdate farmers whose applications for}of the Nonpartisans, was expiainea|Central and southwest was in pros.) American legion. It was noticeable |terday and it finally agreed on the , state debt,, the state may levy no tax in Minnesota. Jt prohidi farm loans have been pending from] this afternoon when Rep, Hoare, a] Pect because of the extreme cold and that the World War Veterans wet | form of a resolution which is expect- in any one year in excess) of four ing in’a parade or (he exhi rlone month to four; an investigation or| league spokesman in the uouse in-|t2e almost fuelless condition result-! named first, ed to go in this afternoon. millsy.on the dollar of the ‘ any hall or public place of aa, |the industrial commission; an investi-| troduced a bill to provide free quar- | is from the coal strike, Cattle On) Reishus, in House Bill 15, would re- valuation. All property must. be banner except that of Americ# gation of the state board of adminis-| cers at the capitol as state headquar-| the ranges also were reported endan- varth Dakota electors of the ne- PROVISION AGAINST TAX ed ‘by uniform rule according to its! friendly nation, and it specifically for- tration, with a particular yiew to qis-| ters for the North Dakota unit of the gered. of yoting in the presidential | In order that there may ne no pos- true value in money. ‘These provi-|'bids (he carrying or display at any covering the nature of Iterature which} World War Veterans, followed a few BINS EM p in March on a presidential | sibility of the proposed bond issne af- sions of the constitution may not ve] time or place of the red flag of revo- angelind, head of the minutes later in. both houses ‘by a COAL BINS EMPTY 5 phy {candidate, when, according to the rep- | fecting general taxes, it is provided in : evaded by excessive valuations or by! lution and the black flag of anarchy. is placing in the school libra:|communication from Post ’ City, Mo. Nov. 28—The |v ntative from Ward, it often |the bill, as it will finally be introduced levying specific taxes, such as (he} ‘This bill, together with a measure}rics and the cirenlating. libraries of World War Veterans of i-:smarc chances that so early in the campaign j this afternoon, that the highway bonds i motor vehicle tax, the money and ered-) defining and penalizing syndicalism,|the state; an investigation of thejking that a hearing be given Lest no candidates have yet been picked |Shall be issued only in such amounts iy its tax, the income tax, a head tax}is not expected to receive the undi-| banking board's action in closing the! P. Barlow, state organizer of U by_the national par las may be retired by the income from ar | on. lawyers, doctors and clergymen. A vided approval of Bishop Lemke's se-|Scandinayian-American) bank and injnorthwest division of the World War House Bill 16. han, amends, the licensing ef motor vehicles. Sen- » person has 2 right to live and to do} cret caucus. {procuring the return to the American] Veterans, al K statutes of 1919 ting to elections ator Carol D, King of Burleigh county if an honest business withoat paying & state bank of Valley City of exces-| The communication was signeed by [MEH over, virtually all of Heansas.) fo the consolidation of schools is the author of the bill evolved from i head tax. With few wexcecption all the MARTIAL I LAW NOT profits alleged to have heen retained | A. L. Young, deputy state treasurer, a jnorthern Missouri, upper Oklahoma) “Gopypy pax COMMISSIONERS the deliberation of the highway com- 4 4 Bd. ; » 4 property of the state must be assessed at institu-|temporary chairman, and Harold Hop Every county in the state, it son with empty coat s and no prospect of relief, Deep snow accompanied hy low temperatures fell yesterday and Ja , j and the Texas panhandle with reports lan lege, 4 hy Townley organizers of that ins i f ane ke ane ek bid s . {mission. q for taxation in the county, township, NEEDED TO MINE ftion, ana i quiz into numerous other) ton, deputy in charge of the state see GR cea ear ee tra would be saved from $1500 to $1.80] city or village in which it is situatea departments of the state government.|Londing department, as ‘temporar. : ; ae by House Bill 17, Randall, repealir H COAL IN KANSAS;“" STORE MISS NIELSON | sccretary. aM ; jeribed are ct CRAZED AMERICAN i mer. ‘hese tax contended. merey| TRIES TO REMOVE The assessment must be made in the retary. Mr. Barlow was de: the fuel shortages. jthe act of 1919 creating the otlice FAMILY WITH GUN manner prescribed: by law, and not iby oer x patie. is hound to follow the}as a distinguished aviator who nN county tax comm the arbitrary act of any board: Rev-|Governor Allen Enrolling Vol-jintroduction of a pill repealing the}invented many of the types of aerial NVESTIGATING commissioners, it i ; enue sufficient to defray the expens r Pare} board of administration act and restor-} bembs used in the world war by Am- M duplicate the work of the county audi- \f of the state for each year, not to.ex-| unteers to Keep His State {ing to Miss Minnio J. Nielson the pow-|crica and her allies, and Post No. 1]! COMMITTEE WILL | {\ , » ceed four mills on the dollar, must be}, From Freezing ers which the Very Rey. George A. 'Tot- asked permission for him to speak on BE PERMANENT | Burtness in Honse Bil 18 provides! 4 Tal levied on the valuation of all prop- ten et al have wrested from the s “The U, S. Activities in Aerial War- that after July 5, 1920, the state treas- lis Friends He Is Visiting and erty and not on anything else. Now superintendent of public instruc fare During the Period of the War.” A leaguer who is close to origi urer shal? reapportion to the various on the assessment of any prior year] , Topeka, Kun. Nov. 28--Kanéas 10-)1¢ wint pe chinged that the act as it] Tost No. 1, World War Veterans,|sonrees of information make 1 umits of tie state from which fees | | the annual state tax of this year is] (iy rs eee eto state officials the| NOW stands does not, under the interp-| claims a membership oi i, including, statement that Governor Frazier’s m-|originated any unexpended balance in twelve mills on the dollar, and the cowl tnd acolllts to erry J_ Allen fa1(Tetation placed upon %t vy the su-|it is said, a number of former mem) vestigating committee is tobe aperm-| the licensing fund derived from tho) Son specific tax levies aro nearly another| appeal of Governor Henry J aren Aieipreme court, carry out the legislative | bers of Loyd Spetz post of the Am-lanent ‘body, which, he says, explains) regulation of pool halls, theatres, etc eee ( twelve mills, or in all, twenty four| MT Was HIeaE zt ; FEMOO Uae t nt, [intent nor the desires of the more than }erican legion. The World War Vet-|the evident lack of desire for haste|by the attorney general, House Will Abernethy, Saskatchewan, Nov. “@ mills. Tho result is that all the tax Senta for eee po had Per) 79 000 yoters who elected Miss Niel erans, legion men say, originally were|upon the part of the administration }19, Martin, provides for joint owner- 28.—Deteermined apparently to q levies are grossly excessive. The, I " organized in Philadelphia, but their|leadrs. It had been expected that a|ship of public grounds and buildings | wipe out the entire family of Mr. 4 peredy is hor Wnaoo th to re.|_ “Recruiting” offices “at Topeka,|t0 head the state’s educational sys. zed ted’ ly. o undo the wrong, Wichita, and Kansas City, Mo., and tem; it will be charged that. promise: | charter was cancelled during the re-|concurrent resolution appointing the) by villages and townships. and Mrs. Fred Hanson farmers ; i duce all the regular annual tax leves| tty ayperae Se One ill 20, Hoare, repeals {>| fiving near here, J. R, Sullivan Seriously Wounds Their preceeding the referehdum election] cent American legion convention at/committees of five asked by the gover-| House fifty per cent, and toscut out all the| other levies. Will you do it? This is your last chance. ‘Besides this, there are several stat-| utes which should be either repealed or amended, Thus far in this, year, under the Workingmen’s Compensa- tion act there has ‘been levied and collected a tax of about half a mil- lion dollars. The Compehsation Board has purchased and adopted an enor- mous rate schedule which it has nev-|. er published and which it has agreed to hold in confidence. The rates are in general drastic, arbitrary and ex- cessive. If the act is valid, the rate schedule is a part of the law and as such it should be made and published by the law makers, as a part of the act. On the constitutionality of the act our judges seem to differ and there is no telling how it may-'be de- cided. I hold that it is not constitu- tional. The act should be either re- pealed or amended. I recommend that you adopt the Washington Compensa- tion Statute with a proviso for re- *. funding all the excess on rates which have been paid. ‘At the last Session there was pass- ed a mining code of 27, pages. Its pro-| visions are numerous, drastic, oner- ous and almost prohibitive. Jt has) @ greatly impaired and restricted the coal mining ‘business of: the _ state, It should be repealed or amended so as. to express all necesSary reghla- tions in a few plain, simple para- graphs. At the last Session it seems there was some pandering to wit, known as the labor vote. Acts were passed ‘ to permit or encourage strikes, picket- » ing, trespassing and idleness. Now ‘in a democracy where all men are equal there is no reason for giving such a boy privilege to any class of ‘per- sons, There is no reason for insult- ing wage earners by classing them with children or feeble minded per. (Continued on Page Two.) Pittsburgh were reported in operation. [PAYMENT OF DEBTS OF WAR POSTPONED FOR THREE YEARS United States and Great Britain Discussing Plan to Defer * Collections Washington, Noy. 23.—Interest pay- ments on American loans to the allies may, be deferred until the “war: reac: tion passes” it was said today. at the treasury. Negotiations to. this end are are now being conducted at the re- quest of the allies but officials explair- ed that the latest advices from the treasury representatives at Paris, did not ‘indicate an early conclusion. DELAY PAYMENT London, Nov. 28.—A' plan is under discussion by the British and Ameri- can governments under. which pay- ments “pf - interest on advances by Great Britian and the United States to the allies during the war and also advances py the United States to Great Britain would be postponed for three years it was -announeed in the house of commons today. (MORE OPEN RANGES Three more townships in this coun- ty were turned into open cattle rang. es bythe county commissioners at their meeting at the court house Wed- nesday afternoon. The action taken resulted from petitions being ‘signed requesting this be done by a-majority of, the citizens of those townships. The townships are Steiber and Gras» ‘Lake in the northwest part of the county and Harriett in the eastern part of the county. At a former njeet- ing the commissioners declared Flor- ence Lake an open range, have been violated, and that the act as|the request of the (Continued on Page Four.) (Continued on Page Three) | Townivey’s por n-sAAryV SSeS 2 ee = ee om [operative ete. may Set “aside not to exceed. tiv | the pureh 1917 and 1919, but provides that the income from moneys and credits shall be taxable under Chapter 224, session Jaws of 1919, and stocks and_ bonds } taxable under Chapter 222, 1919 ses- sion laws. The Consumers’ United Stores’ Co. education plan is enacted into law in House. Bill 21, Whipple, providing that after dividends on paid-up capital stock to not exceed eight percent have been disbursed, the directors of ¢o- aciations corporation percent for educational purposes. ‘The {remainder of the earnings may be paid out as a dividend upon*the amount of the purchases or sale of raw mater ials or both of shareholders, or in wages and salaries of employes, or on or sales or both of raw materials of non-shareholders, which shall be credited to such non-share- holders on acount as payment or par- tial payment on the capital stock of the association. An echo of the Equity Packing Co.'s itigation with S ry of State Hall is found in a provision that co-opera- tive associations and other corpora- tions heretofore organized may adopt the provisions of this act on the filing of a simple declaration of intent with! the secretary of state REDUCES CATHIO'S SALARY An unkind blow is aimed at the league’s salary schedule in House Bil 22, Nels Olgard, reducing the salary of the manager of the Bank of North Da-! kota from $5.000 to $3,600; of its di- | rector general from $10,000 and exper- ses to $5,000; of the manager of the) home-building association form $5,000 to $3,000; of the secretary of the dustrial commission from $5,000 to $8.- 600, and of the manager of the mill and. elevator association from $5000 to $8,600. It is provided that no other employe, except experts such as archi- (Continued on Page Four.) when|nor would be introduced Wednesday,| money and credits tax laws of 1915.} an American visiting at the Han- but no action was taken in the matter. son home shot and killed ‘Mr. and Mrs. Hanson, shot and seriously wounded the eldest Hanson boy, lined up the three othere Hanson children apparently to kill them and then changed his mind and blew out his own brains... The Hansons came here from Minne- apolis, It is thought that Sullivan sud- denly became insane. The Hanson boy who was shot is reported to be in a critical condition. The other children declared that after Sullivan had lined them against the wall and just before he shot himself he told them to “get off the place.” FIRE WIPES OUT NORTHERN TOWN Rolla Swept By Blaze Destroy: ing Business Section A fire which practically: wiped out the business section of Rolla, county seat of Rolette county, in the northern part of the state Tuesday is reported here by travelers from that city. The property loss runs into the thousands of dollars it is reported. Included in jthe structures burned were two res- tauranta, four general stores, one bar- , ber shops, two drug stores, one millin- fers ship, “two law offices, two dental offices and one hardware store, . NEW ORLEANS WET Nw Orleans, La., Noy. 28.—Hold- jing the war time prohibition act un- constitutional Federal District Judge Foster today granted ‘an injunction rc straining government officials fri terferring with the sale by the ae Leiso Liquor Co. of bonded liquor held in Nea as here,