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

~ av ~ _ by the consumer the question of rates ~croase in railroad rates“will have THE WEATHER Generally Falr THIRTY-NINTH YEAR LAST EDITION + ee PRICE. FIVE CENTS SANTA CLAUS count TO “UNDERTAKERS IN THE WAY OF WOOD ALCOHOL CHEER > ~ NORTHWESTERN ° RAIL BUILDING TO BE RESUMED Millions. Will Be Spent in Im- provements, Says Owners of Carriers RATE BOOST IS PROPOSED! cretary of Minneapolis Traflic4 Association Sees Need of Increase | Petite i Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 27.—Prom-} inent railroad officials in the Twin cities have accepted President Wil-| son’s proclamation setting March 1| as‘the date for the return of the 14 ads | to private control with intense satis- faction’ but they now look forward to} congressional. legislation which. if satisfactory, will bring .millions of} dollars of railroad improvements to the northwest, they say. | Change in the personnel of the va- tious roads is not looked forward to for some little time an it is not be- lieved ‘that’ the’ board of directors or | the officials of tne Soo line ana tne Minneapolis and St. Louis railroads | will be changed at all, qa “Our task now is to plan a working | schemo that will be put into effect| when the roads are return in} March,” one official of the Soo line said today. “It is probable that th operating and. accounting systems of| the Soo line will be changed but the! scheme must bo planned to the sinull- est Getail, which will take time.” Of} ficlals of other roads felt the game} soul the situation. Regional Chiefs Pleascd. ; ‘Railroad executives at Chicago ¢: pressed joy at the fixing of the da for the return of the road's and? feel! as /Minneapolig officlals do, ‘that the! roads will havé to spend @ Dbillién dol- | lars; a year for five. years to regaia| their old standards. is opinion wi expressed by Halo. Molden, regional} director of western roads. and 2, i, Aishton, ‘regional director -for <the northwestern roads. x Uncertainty. Hinders. Business. Uncertuinty, ag to what the level of; ,, railroad rates ‘will be waen tho. road are returned: Is impeding business the”. northivest sins lines of bi that ave. susceptible’to freight rate according. to Wi. P. Trickett, manager of the (Minneapolis Traffic association. Trade in the heavicr sommodities, such: as steel, coal, flour ‘and grain and | commddities of bulk and volume is! much more interested in rates than} trade in smaller articles on which the | freight rate per article is negligible. As' increased freight ra are not absorbed by the manufacturer, the jobber or, the retailers but are. paid is the most important aspect of tho announcement of the return of the Toads to private control, -it is pointed out, 4tucroasing the income of. the rail- roads severa} million dolars a year by allowing them to charge more for carrying freight will. simply mean that tho public will have te-add this amount to what. it pays for its goods, Mr, ‘Trickett -points out, Substantial Increase Foreseen, It is generally conceded by s¥ippers in. Minneapolis that a substantial’ in- to be authorized. when the railroads .are returned to private-control, ,fecord ney to Mr, Trickett. | ‘How much the increase will be is al matter of speculation, although it is! expocted that officials of the railroad} administration will-be able to figure out from’ the present deficit just how much of an increase will be necessary to permit, the roads fo operate on a paying basis after March’ Ja’ r, Trickett believes that the rate question will be taken up right after the first“of the year. \ Announcentent may .come in the form of a general order from. the interstate commerce commission or the rate adjustment may be left to the various freight traffic committees in various railroad centers'of the country. Mr. Trickett js the shippers’ repre- sentative on the+St. Paul . district freight traffic committee and. should that body be calfed ‘upon to recom- mend new rates for the northwest Mr. Trickett would voice an expression of the shippers.at these conferences, Oy- dors received by heads of these tom- mittees to keep their organizations intact would, seem to indicate that they will be given {mportant rate mat- ters to ute ut, 9 Gase Pending. When eo 2) per cent increase was allowed after the railroads were Aaken: over by the governments rate rolations in the northwest wero se- riously. disturbed and as @ result nu- merous rate Cases and conferences wero “held, and the city’s principal case is still awaiting decision by the interstate “comme: 0, association, MAKING HAY ASe SUN SHINES IS LIGHT ON’ RAID|* 7 Devils Lake, N. D,. Dec. 27— While removing hay stacked on the Gray farm near- here yester- - day $500,000 In wills, mortgages and other valuable papers were. found, The valuable papers were i from. GROOM FAILS TO _ SHOW UP; FEAR HE IS REDS’ VICTIM Monson, Mass. Dec, 27.—Dr. William Gray Vermilye of New »~ York, a former naval surgeon, failed to appear for his wedding with Miss Ruth M. Kenney of this ry town yesterday and today ~ his absence was still unexplained. Miss Kenney, who resigned as Professor of Spanish at Bucknell university to marry Dr. Vermilye, was reported ill at the home of her parents. , Miss Kenney’s family feels that her fiance's absence was due to violence. The expected bride- groom, it was explained. had been | engaged in federal service in rounding up radicals since his discharge from the navy. TOWNLEY STORE SYNDICATE WILL Consumers Co. Plans to Multiply Stock By 25 and Put It On Market capital stock from $10,000; to $2,500,000, at a meeting of tie stock holders to be held in Fargo on Jan. 20,! according to a notice published by the company. - ; 1 This increase in capital stock i part of the scheme by which proposed to tum tke corporation fairs over to the 11,500 farme have purchased “bu: the company, the farmers chas¢ and whit only the -right: to merchandise from the company on this plan of handling the b the company recently announce control would be given to the farmers. It is understood ‘that it is the. plan of the company to issue shares of stock to the farmers to-replace the “bayers’ certificat they hold now. Reports from seve¥al “sections of North Dakota are to the effect that the farmers are not so Keon over thy “return of the stor as league | ers would have folks to he the company’s record for- ful ‘ i establisha LARGE TRACT OF INDIAN LAND GOES AT GOOD PRICES According to the McLaughlin Mes- sen 104 bids opened at the Agen , Fort Yates on Dec. 10th, for é tracts of Standing Kock Inqan land Of the bids 38 were epted and 66 conflicting bids rejec » ever held s dian lands was: put. in reservation a number of There wore wold 8.4 a total sum of $111.41 ot $13.14 per a at ‘any sale 'NEBRASKA ASKS FOR GEN. WOOD, Lincol, Neb., Dec. 27.—A -vot- ers’ petition asking that the nanfe of General Leonard Wood be placed on the republican ballot for the primaries next April 20, when the voters will express their pref- | erence for presidential nominee, , Was filed with the, secretary of state here today. /LANGER ASKED TO TALK AT JIMTOWN| pur- vi . Of passage. - cover the p Contention Raised That Law Is! New One and Not Retro- { active Amendment Much, from the {Dakota ins: league during the recent special sessicn, depend upon whether the session, which the legi took to give immetiiate e! held to be retroactive. This is pa ularly es of Senate Bill 44, the gener tion measure, Ww andpoints of N of un apprropri tary point. Some of the of state to near the vanis urgents contend ion bill enacted by embly in reguldr si an entirely new a therefore, that this stive and that it can } upon sade by the jfected. Th lated, would that it contended everal department contention, if subst mean a great deal to al the reg mbly, ix Tho spe pral but $30,000, which, it ing debate on roviding the atto! i already has used one-for ppropriation, leave him. on. more than $5,000 with whic’ ance his ‘ofti during. the eighteen months. Would Have Mere Money. 1 the act is held fo not-be retr put a new budget entirely, t ations will be effective from the hey Ren to ighteen months i t-sum, and the of on ta of th auditor ilar benefits. LiRNSRI ARE ARON QUESTION AS T0 NEW BUDGET ACT AND ITS EFFECT dment of the omni- penditures already office particularly s given $99,- ng the budget bill, gave the attor-| ats_contond, the now appropri In other words, ‘the attor- | 350, 000. nd secretary of -state wold F AMERICAN BIRD MEN WERE SLAIN | BY MEX BANDITS | El Paso, Cecil e Texas, Dec, 27,—Licut- Connelly and Frederick || Waterhouse, American aviators |! wio lost they || forced to qesc@iad.in lower) Califor. nla, _ Mexico, | senate sud-committee invegtigat. | ing Mexican affairs giveh here to- Ida by Joe Alten Richards. — ae aS ie ri _ wo" KOLCHAK FACES CRISIS; SOVIETS will that} rtic ne ‘All-Russian Commander hich} H pee appropriations tor the attor-! é ney gen tate auditor and seere-| ing Before Overwhelming Force of Reds hing | that /MAY LOSE the Itt law | have | Will Retain Any of Gov- ernment Long London, head of in Siberia, apy parently Situation, according y Bolshevik f the to COW sale advanein ‘have captured Tomsk and T: ‘Retir- HIS CABINET Admiral Kolchak, government os , lives after being | = CLOSING POCKET ‘ec also, ssion,; Regarded Doubtful Whether He ad-! ward along the berian | railroad from Omsk, former capital of | ithe all-Russian regime, are said to ga and 1 eel to have occupied a number o: naller towns in that region. . was! Admiral ‘Kolchak and his cabinet left “Tomsk. 1 ntly retiving: to. the east, but repo ed here. iidi- arth | Cate the retreat ‘of the all-Russian my may be cut olf as action of social revelutiona | which have , at, Cheremkovo, west of Irkutsk. May Loose Cabinet. ly, hh to next ‘Oac~ result of the y Clements t up. a new government about 80-amiles north- ens is considered doubtful here thor Admital JNolchalk will find dato! * hing of his government when he t | whe: is not definitely know stead | Further west another center ofr a lias. developed in the Amur pensk being ted from the out cording to dispatches. wble thal a test on this | Vaadivestock dispatches state IM come within a short ye arate ond ra balance of $5,000 would not Neliodait agree! de the wftorne aral’s office over tion eninst Dols acyery long period, while very litle | ropa, ‘The cetails are i would be left, if the budget. is held to)” ‘ be retroactive, for the secretary of state | lg and the state rarotsate| BANDITS AGAIN ent, however, both factions at the cav- | itol are playing a waiting game. governor has not called a meeting of| any of the named the, new » templed any othe tor chm C pring Lou new sane to a focus. i DIA Mont, the ay given by C Holena. of 12,18 the reserval and ment, {The number of Indians and live apart of their tikes, jthe whilgs, is known to be com j able. Mr, Sells’ report ‘among the tribes over whom ihe ernment: retains control, The Cr placed a large amount of land under tate boards, nor hag he a . 27.—The latest | population OL include ‘only | govern: | breeds | tg, ‘who have strack, out for themselve mong BOOST LIMIT IN POKER CONTES' Centerville, 8, D., Dec. 27—Ban- dits emulating the act of robbers in other states. broke up a poker Ngame here last night. Four masked men spoiled the party of 11 local men and it is said that the haul netted the kandits about $1,020 in cash and considerable jewelry. The ; t-| ight | ot ONE BIG UNION" ng Gandda,’ Des! 2%. urs” Winnipeg, nee of two of the labor leade: s in Winnipeg's r ter! cent general jfound guilty of seditious conspiracy. shows prosperity | Boy, ‘BISMARCK DENTIST | ‘Ow 1 owas ON STATE BOARD de world, ac- HEAD SENTENCED} Sen-! previous, imprisonment was! t iven here today to R. B: Russell, one irrigation last year and more went; | under the dry-farm 5 nu. On the! Governor Lynn Jed JsFrazier has named | Fort , Belknap reservation, the area; Dr. © Hibbs of Bismarck and Dr.) unger cultivation © is constantly in- [Scien Crum) of Fargo members of the | creasing. Flathead Indi well, acording to Sells’ report, jterms expiring March 16, I The Indians of the state continue}to, succeed D.. G. J. Patte’ to take an active part in all national|/son of Fargo, who has left. the { movements. ate, and Dr. W. V. Follis of Omemee. ‘ | siven, | ‘must g 'MADRID EXPERIENCING Attornoy General eral William Langer | has accepted an invitation signed by | 75 farmers of Stutsman county for an | address at the Jamestown’ armory; next ‘Tuesday evening. Mr. Langer Will speak on the general political sit- | uation, and his address will:be the sec- | ond he has delivered since the league's “anti-lying” act, #applying only to; state officials, was passed at. the re- cent special session. FLIPPING TRAIN PROVES FATAL; Towner, N. D., )., Dec, 27—A report) reached here téday that Leroy Grove had beon killed while attempting to jump from a moving freight train near Devils Lake. The remains were ship: ped to. Columbus, Ohio, whore the de: id leaves two si sto mourn his in, addition to a brother in Can- | TO ouR SUBSCRIBERS, | | ‘Owing to confusion attendant | jon moving the plant, The Tribune fuse been forced to discontinue its; } 2 o'clock mail edition for patrons | served on No. 7 and 8 of the ; Northern Pacific. Starting Monday, December 29, taken from the bank at Bremer, Wells county, raided Séptember 23 last by yeagmen the police state. ! | the. mail edition wil be resumed | j and our patrons will be'given the | | same mail service as in the past. “ y SAFE FROM THE DRY LAW BELOVED NORTH Mrs. A. i | | ceives Drs! G. M, Car! et j eme [sac jot the chi kota supr was re the day that M be was oth who, for t her winter Baldwin; Christinas. the accide last. 19 years Mrs. | | | ch jing this { cian so she wil st rites held in was a li copal tuner: se who aired thr favorite an the state, | California her son a Four residence zaatad wit ley “Servi job. [ey bbe “one” county, print i Dilated fro pr fr And we |league law @ legal patrona: go to that paper, yin Ddilo ! jinjured and I ! vice is | Tow has Baldwin we every respect. century of life. a reader and clocutionist made her a year, Mcl ned and DAKOTA WOMAN AUTO VICTIM M. Christianson Re- Sad California News s Eve mother of M ! Bismartk, wife ice of the North Da- court, and for four ominent resident of Minot, n Diego, Ca. result of @ R. Christma veal efor announ¢ cing Baldwin had been s riday morning followed with a death had of the Y than that he last 10 y home with her son, Tom R. at Pasader had driven day to San Diego, where nt occurred. Much of the Baldwin had spent here, and she hadj in Bismarck to w hom; bs as a sad blow, ristianson had just lett the hen the message announce: ragedy came, and her p) forbidden. her to trav 1 not be able to attend the for her mother, which will Pasadena, M Baldwin 1g member of the Epis and ah Episcopalian will be conducted, born in Ohio, th message ured. lent. Paldwin, has made x ice 56 ago, and she came to North Davota in 1991, when she took up her home in. Minot, She was, in a remarkable woman, retained her youth unim- ‘ough her more than a half- ond whose talents a: mong her frienls throughout Mrs. Baldwin fi went Lo to make her home with { San Dicgo '4 years ago, ‘# ago they at Pasadena -' SIOUX COUNTY’S OFFICIAL PAPER PRINTED OUTSIDE! : een : ..\DEMAND MADE FOR | rth Dakota People Forced to! Publish Notices in South Dakota Paper One of the ef the state YD is now being printed in South Dakota. pomelne)) ago jeulltor Beebe of the became — dis- s of the Town- and quit, the co Pioneer, the aaper of Sioux three issues has ed in the office of the Mes: aughlin, S.D. ues of the Pioneer, m beginning to mailed the omMessenger of the we understand there is a law hat compels’an official paper to pub-i which are to be taken to insure their t one page at the place its date line.» Still the ees that all forms of from Sioux county EPIDEMIC OF TYPHOID Madrid, ng are doing|state board, of dental examiners for} experiencing’a small epidemic of ty- iphus fever. shed on tl hospital. Friday, Dec. The civil hospital is full ‘of cases and a camp has been estab-! he grounds of the San Juan! IRR ARR Lake Charles, La., Dec. 27.—-Now the pivhibition advocates will have to gather td- gether all wagon wheels of the country and destroy them, if they wish to banish the curse of drink. For this wheel, rotating and bobbing up and doy yn, while being dragged along by the horses, promises to get its riders “royally dr—or—intoxicated. on Christmas | were} took up their St no Madrid is! OLDEST MAN IN AMERICA DIES AT AGE. OF 128 Virginia Family Through Six Generations Farkersburg, Va., Dec. 27.—Wil- liam Peyton, a negro, one of the ; oldest men in the United st died yest O., near By ut Little Hocking, In his youth Peyton was a slave of a Virginia family by the name of Creel wh West Virginia. s freedman he served th | through six generations it i Peyton w in full posse: his faculties until within a few weeks of his death. a nd a “© WORKER BUREAU MAY BE WITHOUT, ANY AUTHORITY |Charge Is Made That Someone Bungled Compensation Act in Amending { nstitutional jaw at the making the assertion that! ature emasculated the North Dakota workmen's compensation act during the special session when, it is jcontended, in amending the original: act of 1919 to increaso the membership |! solons, unwittingly or otherwise, aid | not re-enact the portion of that section | of the original act which defines the dutics and powers of the workmen's compensation commissioners. The section amended was No. 4 of Chapter 152, 1919 session law The constitution, it is stated, requires that when any, section of any act is amend- ed, that entire section must be re- enacted. This was overlooked, it is charged, in amending Section 4, which merely provides for five members to serve as a workmen’s compensation bureau but which does not, in its pres- ent form, it is alleged, ssign these compensation commissioners any pow- ers or duties. It is contended that it ves them without the privilege of employing clerical help or incurring other expenses necessary to the carry- jing out of the act. TRIAL OF CROWN | PRINCE WILHELM meeting between British law éfficials and Edouard Ignace, French under- secretary for milita Charged With Looting. London, Dec. 27—The ex-crown prince it said will be charged with criminal offenses including looting and robbery with violence committeed in france. further de reached onference with ard the former emperor Wilhelm. A full list of the men whose surren- {der will be demanded has been com- {pleted it was stated and the steps at cass of . sion surrender have been decided upon.; !One or two questions still outstanding 1 | George and when they: Imeect in Pa (Major Belden Very Low, | ‘Says California Report: Hl WEATHER REPORT { For twenty-four hours ending a j noon, Dee, 27. | Temperature at 7 a. m. Temperature at noon. 40 Highest yosterda y 9) 29 281 Precipitation’... None Highest wind velocity -26-NW | Forecas' For North Dakota. tonight and Sunda. west portion tonight. Lowest ‘Temperatures Generally fai somewhat colde 26 —4 . 40 88 30 “ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteorologist. Mint&polis, Dec, 27—Last sum- mer thieves stole an automobile from a ‘North Dakota farmer, conducted a tour to Minneapolis, incidentally stealing tires from every farmers car found on the way and innumerable chickens which were tater sold in St. Paul. Police of Minneapolis today be- of the board from three to five, the! |dea ;month There appears to have been | ; the 1 ithe day will be submitted to Premiers Lloyd! Clemenceau MILL CITY POLICE THINK THEY HAVE MEN WHO STOLE FARM CARS AND: CHICKS: FILLING MORGUES Federal Agents and Health Au- thorities in East Stirred to Investigation |MANY DEAD IN CHICAGO Thirty Victims. Reported By Coroner Since July 1—Mur-. der Charges Filed Now York, Dee. 2 health authoritic cities in action against tr nderal agents, and pol in many the east were stirred into fic in “whiskey” made from wéod alcoho! following the wave of death and blindness from this cause in Ma cut, s and Connecti: list of victims of cheer” in these states to- ast 41 early today. Officials provable that unreported ore exist from coast to 1 warning has, been gencies co-operating r ling the public of the lucking in .anything that s for whiskey in_ saloons, ests were expected in New York in connecticn with the death in Chicopee Falls, and Holyoke, Mass., jand Hartford, Conn,, the three towns ardest hit by the poison drunk as lig- Four men are under arrest in The taled at le leclared it Ha tford charged with murder. WOOD ALCOHOL FATAL. Chicago, Dec. County and city officials Lere today joined ina crusade against selling beverages containing ' wood alcohcl which, since July 1, has killéd approximately 35 men, Four today were reported in hospitals uh- conscious from drinking wood alcohol and four died yesterday. “We have held inquests on 28 or 30° bodies since July 1, all victims of this drug.” said Peter M. Hoffman, coroner of Cook county. “I expect a lot more in a few days from New Years’ celebrations.” One. ordinary drink of wood alcohé! can make a man permanently blind and sometimes kill him, Mr, Hoffman adécd. Two Held For ‘Murder. Two men who sold wood alcohol to imen who died after drinking it have ; been held to the grand jury on mur- der charges, MOONSHINE STILLS TAKEN, Two “moonshine” stills of 18 and 3) gallons capacity and barrels of | dpmdon, Dec Z0——Frederiek avin! ish were ean ted! in a raid fet Ho gansta by oper: s of the thternal revenue helm, the former German OWNS Ea itt Ny prince, will be included in the list of Tepariment at Homewood, a Chicago demanded by the French, according teas Cate i Suet ena, ston Hw ww an unoff l report of aor NU! officers with a rifle, 4 They Stand It Better Here. ugo, N. D., Dec. 27.—Altho na hs have occurred here from drink- ing wool alcohol more than fifty cases of such drunks have been reported to the police station within the past three One of the methods of pro- the concoctions has been to radiators of iutomobiles pos als say. i) curing ‘our Die in E Dee, 27. ing of is' with a wood alcohol base has caused deaths of 54 persons in Connecticut valley cities today. The lists of victims mounted during with reports from this city, Holyoke, Springfield and Hartford, Conn. Others stricken by the concoc- tions marketed for Christmas festivi-. ties were reported seriously il], blinded or dying. The victims in thig city this after- noon numbered 30 including one wo- wi i oe man, in Springfield, four; Holyoke, Shields, N. D.. ;seven, ang Hartford, thirteen. word from Long RIE {Major W. L. Belden is Home Brews Kill. his recovery is doubtful. { Chicago, Dec. 27.—Alarmed by six deaths from wood alcohol in 48 hours ‘and the fact that more than a dozen | persons are in critical conditions at ! their homes or in hospitals as ‘a result, {of the drug authorities issued utw warnings against the danger and re- doubled their efforts to stamp out the evil. | Ail of tho Christama. victims of tha i wolkon drank home brewed. liquor while celebrating the holiday season. Dr. John Dill Robertson in a state- rl ment said there was no known anti- Tt dote for wood alcohol poisoning: and shat persons who drink .a large quan- tity of the drink are certain to cither \go blind or die, | PRES i No Woody Stuff Here. ij In Bismarck, says Ignatius, The | Tribune office boy, wool alcohol is net the favorite quaff. Just now, says; Ignatius, it is sweet spirits of nitro; which may: by.a certain, tréatment be transmitted into something that 18 (Continued on Page Seven) ~ t lieve. they have the Tineke corge Grebetbinger of Terry, ~ Mont, Charles Scheenen, Chi- cago, and ke Verne Phillip, South: St, Paul, are being held, - Arrests followed according, to the police, after one of the men attempted to dispose of the tires ata a. Minneapeie. shop. REIN en nh amma WOOD MULE FOR. \YULETIDE CHEER William Peyton, Negro, Served!