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

a 4 a % Bi. 3, My qi th | if i Ce ey ae ee an fay taken an appeal THIRTY-NINTH YEAR | G==] THE BISMARCK TR I BUN LAST EDITION R 29, 1919 PRICE FIVE CENTS LANGER WINS VICTORY. OVER “BRUIT TRUST” Supreme Court Unanimous in Overruling Order Grant- ing Demurrer TO BE TRIED ON MERITS Action Begun By Attorney Gen- eral in Burleigh County! Is Remanded Attorney General Langer won an important victory in the North Da- kota supreme court late Saturday afternoon when (hat body unanimous- ly overruled Judge ‘Nuessle of the Burleigh county district court who has gustained a demurrer on the part of the so-called fruit trust to the at- torney general's charge that there ex- isted in North Dakota an illegal com- bination in restraint of trade. The action of the supreme court in con- curring in an opinion written by As- sociate Justice Birdzell will mean that the state’s case against the fruit trust Is remanded to the district court for. trial on its merits, The case was argued in district and supreme, court by Judge s. 1. Nuchols of Mandan, one of the special assistant attorneys general of whom the attorney general was recently de- prived, ‘and Judge W. S. Lawder of ‘Wahpeton, another ‘assistant. attorney genera), was of counsel. The state’s contentfon was. that whose principal North Dakota office is in Grand Forks, and which the state insisted. controlled 104 fruit houses In the northwest, absolutely dictated -prices for frults, vegetables and similar produce in Grand Forks, Fargo, Minot, Bismarck, Jamestown, Dickinson and other North Dakota towns in which Nash Bros., Gamble- Robinson & Co. and. the Stacy Fruil Co, are established. The defendants, demur.cd on the ground ‘that the state's application for thé cancellation of their.charter was premature or. out :of place, inasmuch as no criminal conviction for the vio- lation.of ‘the state's anti-trust laws had. been: procured, The attorney gen-| eral’s action, brought under. the state laws, was Inaugarated after the same defendants, on demurrer from the United States district court at Fargo, sustained by Judge C, F. Atnidon, had President of Nonpartisan Organ- ization. Claims Minnesota and Washington Predictions that the “organized farmers” will carry the coming elec- tions in Minnesota and Washington were made in a statement issued here last night by President A. C, Townley of the National Nonpartisan league. Mr. Townley further declared that the following: year would witness farmer victories at the polls in-others of 'the’ thirteen stataes in’ which’ he, says the vleague now bas ‘an ‘active working ‘organization .He’ asserted such election prospects are favorable in ‘Colorado, Idaho, “Nebraska and Texas, principally. CLAIMS SUCCESS HERE Reviewing briefly the projects adopt- ed by the state of North Dakota as fostered by the Nonpartisan league, the organization’s president declared all had thus far met with suecess, The most successful measures, he said, were ‘the hail, insurance act for which he claimed a saving to the state's rest: dents last year of four million dollars, the grain grading law and the state- owned mill. * While the Pank of North Dakota has been successful in a con- paratively :brief period of operation, he declared, prospects for the future are. bright, Mr. Townley commented only lacon- ically on the status of laws enacted by the recent special session of the state legislature. “He suggested that a cours decision might he required to. deter- mine the effect’ of a measure passed at the. assembly to make all .special legislative action effective within ten days after adjournment. — A petition for: referendum of the measure, has heen filed with the secretary of state, Some thirty 1qws are dependent upon its effect, Tie. declared the league wag not in process ‘of re-organization_as has heen previously reported, but~ that’ steps have’ heen, taken recently to provide for a county organization, He explain- ed that while heretofore the Jowest. unit of the League has been a state organization, there will henceforth he branch: organizations with county executive committees and county man- agers to enter politics for the League and ‘conduct {ts program generally. This‘denarture, he said, would he made only, in states where the league already is actively organized. REVOLUTIONARY REDS FORM SOVIETS REGIME Paris, Dec. 29.—Revolutignary so- cialists bave formed a committee gov- ernment in Irkutsk, Siberia, where the all-Russian government of, Admiral Kolchalk established its headquarters after being driven from Omsk accord- ing to news received in French official circles téday. The revolutionists took possession of the Irkutsk station on rans-Siberian railway, the Teports: Nash Bros,,’ eae Crime Cost New York $25,000;000 During the Year New York, Dec. 29.— | Criminals in 10,000 desperate) thefts robbed the ‘people o: New York of cash and goods ‘| amounting approximately to $25,000,000 during 1919, ac- || cording to the New York ‘| Tribune today. The estimate was given by officials of 32 burglary insurance firms in the city who say the year just ended has been the most | disastrous in their history. DETROIT MURDER MYSTERY HINGES ON MISSING GIRL Young Woman Who Suddenly Returned to Battle Creek Rich Is. Wanted ANOTHER WOMAN ACCUSER Mount Clemens, Mich., Dec. 29.-~ Macomb county authorities. today Were investigating a new angle of the slaying of J, Stanley Lrown, son of a Detroit manufacturer, whose ‘body | was found in his’ automobile on the j Toad from Detroit Jast Wednesday morning. The new information was a state- ment. by ‘Miss (ladys Summit. who came here last night from Battle Creek and gave the officers a story involving a young woman who until last Saturday lived in Battle Creek, and who, Miss Summit declared, had been much in Brown’s company just prior to his death. Girl Shows Sudden Weaith. The girl, whose name iMiss Summi gave to the officers, left Battle Cree! { for ‘Mount Clemens early list week, the statement says. She returned to Battle Creek Wednesday afternoon, ‘Miss Summit declared. with a large sum of money and attired in new anc expensive clothes, Miss Summit's statement says the young woman asked her to join her on a visit to Mount Clemens, where. she said she had an engagement with tho slain man, “Til get Brown's money and ring Il 1 have to kill him,” the statemen: Quotes: the: girl-as saying.” Miss Summit. says she declined the invitation, whereupon the girt renliad: “Then I'll get someone else to help me.” PICKING JURY _ TO TRY SLAYERS OF LITTLE TOT Towner Couple to Be Arraigned Foy Death of Margaret Kottke | Towner, N. D., Dec, 29.—Selection of a jury to try Walter Zimmerman on the charge of murdering Margaret Kottke, his seven-year-old adopted daughter, was scheduled to begin in district court here today. His wife, who faces a similar charge, will be tried after his case is disposed of. The couple is accused of causing the child’s death by starvation and! by permitting exposure to the cold. Her body was found in a straw stack ,on the Zemmerman farm and a post mortem examination made by Coroner ‘Stone of McHenry county established that death had occurred several days ‘before. It was learned that the child’s body had been exhumed by the authorities within the last weck for further ex- amination. BANDIT HAUL NETS $7,000; BURGLARS OVERLOOK $20,000 Toledo, Ohio, Dec. 29.—Seven men today held up the People’s bank at Ottawa Lake, Mich., and escaped with $7,000 in cash and Liberty bonds after shooting Harman Rithfuss, cashier, In their haste the raiders overlooked! $20,000 in currency and bonds. BELGIAN STEAMER WRECKED; CREW IS REPORTED MISSING Halifax,,N. S.. Dec. 29—The Rel- gium steamer ‘Anton Van Driel has been wrecked west of*Cape Race and all her crew perished, according. to wireless dispatches received here to. day. GOVERNMENT SELLS EGGS - AT 60 CENTS A DOZEN Philadelphia, Dec .29.—Among the| goods for sale in the navy yard stores are 18,000 dozen seggs, which will be disposed of at about 60 cents a dozen. They were seized from hoarders. A ton of sugar, adulterated with saw- dust, has been sold to dealers who will be required to purify it. Monson, Mass., Dec. 29.—Mis: Ruth Keeney, a Bucknell univer- sity professor of Spanish, who was left waiting at the church here Christmas day when Dr. William Gray Vermilye of New York, failed to appear for their nnounced wedding, said today she» had closed the affair. | Miss Ken- © ney, with, her father, returned to, their home after an unsuccessful BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, DECEMBE “IRAILWAY UNION HEADS ASSEMBLE AT WASHINGTON) Called Together By President Samuel Gompers to Formu- late Policy MAY FOLLOW MACHIN Expect’ Declaration of Anti- Strike Feature of Leg- islation Washington, Dec. 29.—While tho| joint congressional conference com- mittee was discussing points of differ- ence between the Cummins and Esch railroad re-organization bills today in an effort to conciliate minor disagree- ments and pave the way to considera- tion of the all-important anti-strike provision of the Cummins measure high railroad union officials were gath- ering to attend the conterence called muel Gompers, president of the n Federation of Labor to form-} ulate a definite policy to be pursued | with regard to the offensive labor clauses of the sen pill. ‘The chiefs of the four great railroad brotherhoods and ten affiliated organizations were to meet at 8 p.m. to construct the railroad worke! platform with re- gardeto the ti-strike provision. Prior to the union conference offi- cials of several unions affiliated with the brotherhood strongly indicated their conviction that the conference would adopt -a declaration of princi- ples similar to that of which the rail- road machinists’ union which voted to strike if the more drasti¢ labor provi- sions of the Cummins bill should be- come law. | FARMER SHOT 10 DRATH BY HAND AT GRAND FORKS| Employe Fires Four Shots at Employer Following Sabbath | y Quarrel NORTHWOOD MAN IS DEAD Grand Fo Desell, a far of G D.. Dec. 29.—FElma iving 20 miles wést and Forks, was shot and killed Sunday: by Joe Thorenson, a hand, wlio then turned the rifle against his own body inflicting serious wound from which, he is expected to} recover, The shooting occured on the Dezel farm. After a quarrel which oceurre.t in the yard Therenson, it is said, went! to the bunk house and getting a rifle} followed Dezell into the farm home ant fired four shots, all of them taking ef.) fect. He then shot-himself. Thoren-' son ix-in a Grand Forks hospital. | NORTHWOOD FARM HAND DIES | 99, Grand Fo dN. D.. Dee, — The} body of Hans Helland, a farm hand. was found in a rocm at a hotel av; Northwood, N. 1)., late Sunday after! noon with a bullet in the brain. Hel | land apparently killed himself by firing | a rifle into his mouth, | DOCTOR MAKES HIS | ROUNDS IN SLEIGH | PROPELLOR DRIVEN John McDonald, Son of Mr. and: Mrs. James McDonald, Has Unique Scheme ~ nor ice covert roads will hind dr, John MeDonald of Cando from visiting his patients in. the. rural districts this winter, Dr. MeDonald, who is ¥ ng his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James MeDon- ald of Second street, over the holidays, has a sleigh equipped with an aero- Pane motor and a nine-foot propeller ag motive power on whieh he makes his rounds. “Does she travel?” replied Dr., Mc- Donald in answer to a question. “Well, I'll say, she does, The engine is able to drive {hat sleigh over ordinary snow or ice ecvered roads at more than 100 miles an hour. Sometimes I ger there almost before I start.” Dr. ‘McDonall reports that. the snow has been very ne around Can- vy snow do and that. it is almosf impossible to get over the country roalls with horses. or automobiles. SOVIETS OFFERS POLAND PEACE Copenhagen, Dec. 29.—The sovelt government at Moscow has sent a for- mal peace offer to the Polish govern- ment by wireless. The message denies ROO MISSING BRIDEGROOM FOUND IN NEW YORK HOSPITAL REFUSES TO EXPLAIN that the bolsheviki are preparing a new offensive against Poland with the aid of Chinese forces. attempt to interview Dr, Vermilye at a ‘New York hospital. They said they were still un- able to explain Or’ Vermilye’s failure to appear for the cere- mony. Sut with reports that Dr. Vermilye’s second wife is alive and he is still married to her Mr. Kenney said he and his daughter. felt they were ‘well rid of the whole matter and very thankful that it went no farther.” MADAME LUND’S jland. was di: charged by the DECORATIONS GALORE GOTO » AN AMERICAN MORTIMER waNCoc ~ Hold Nurse Bids Fair to the Medal Record Mrs. Mortimer Glory Maneock of Asheville, N, C., may or may not bo the most lavishly decorated wom who participated in the world war, but she has earned the everlasting gratitude of England, France and Bel- glum for distinguished services as a Red Cross nurse, Seven decorations, all told, bespeak the appreciation of these countries for her four years of unremitting effort, The wile of a brigadier general in the British army, Mrs. Hancock early ted as a nurse and followed the varying fortunes of the war from a close-up view. For bravery displayed under shell-tire, King Albert knighted her a “Chevalier of the Order of Crown,” and the Belguim decoration of the “Order of Elizabeth” was likewise conferred for: distinctive service on the batlefield, Three times the Knglish govern- ment+honored the American nu with badges of distinction, the “Cr x} Civique” being awarded her for meri-| torious conduct atthe battle of Ant- werp. The French government has approved ‘the awards of two decora- tions to be presented upon her return from thi niry Where-she is now visiting. ° RESIGNATION IS REPORTED HERE | Story Appearing in Mayville! Press News to State Ad- mistration Board Advice comes from Mayville that Madame Signe Lund, friend of Charles E, ‘Stangeland, former educa- tional expert of the -state board of adminnstration, has tendered her ation as head of the musical de partment of Mayville normal. Mrs.) Lund came to North ‘Dakota with Stangeland during the regular session | of the legislature a year ago, and both were immediately placed on the league’s payroll and later assigned Positions under the board of admin- istration which manages North Dako- ta’s educational institutions, Stange-| board tol-| lowing disclosures on the floor of the; house of the nature of the literature} which Stangeland had ordered for the state library and -its‘cireulating units. At the same time women over the state'and American legion posts made a demand for the resignation of Madame Lund. i Commenting upon the report that Madame Lund had resigned, which is not confirmed here. the People’s Press of Mayville, official league organ for Yraill county, says: “Madame ‘Lund came to Mayville highly recommneded and’ there can be no argument against her musical tal- ent and the fact that she is one of the best and most talented masicians in the United States. ‘Reports were spread even before the normal opened | that she was a socialist and free love advocate, The report: that sherwas a believer in socialism was true, but the report that she was an advocate of free love was a deplorable lie. Her belief in socialism does not affect her musical talent in any way, and this is a free country, or is supposed to be, at least, and citizens are supposed to have.a right to their own political and religious opinions and. should be al- lowed the privilege of those opinions, without being houndéd “and lied about.” : i “We know nothing of Madame Lund’s resignation here,” said Secre- tary, Charles Leissman of the state board of administtation today. ‘She may have tendered her resignation to the institution at Mayville, but this office has received no report of it.” REVISED REPORT MADE ON NAVY DECORATIONS Washington, Dec. 29—The revised report on naval decorations to be made by the Knight board after a survey of all facts probably will be accépted, Secretary Daniels said to- day. The secretary added that he either would forward. the report to the president or act for the president in accepting it. ‘ recent extraordinary sesston of. the; ! legislative assembly,” said Mr. Tal. | He contended further that “it did not i constitutional ‘the hospital chapel last night ‘and en- FRAZIER THROWS HEADS OF EASTERN WOOD ALCOHOL DOWN GAUNTLET RING ARRESTED; CHARGED WITH TO OPPOSITION Governor Tells Insurgent Mem- bers of Auditing Board They Are Through OUSTS . LICENSE BUREAU Informs Attorney General No Bills Incurred After Dec. 21 Will Be Paid Governor Frazier this morning threw } down the gauntlet to insurgent mem- bers of his administration when he|! notified members of the state auditing board, meeting in regular session, that the old board was through; that the act of the recent speciat sion re- moving Stite Auditor K “ky and Secie i of State ‘Thomas Hall from the board adosubstituting for him Insurance shess had become effective Decembe yand that all other of the recent ex- tryrdinary assembly became effective on the same date. ‘The governor also advised Attorney General Langer, who isa member of the board, that no bills presented by the state licensing depart ment, which the legislature iy eclal session removed from the attorney general's office, would be recognized } by the auditing board from December 21 on, ‘There was a hot interchange of com- pliments between the state auditor, the attorney general and the secretary of ‘state, insurgent leaguers, and the governor. Governor Frazier at first objected to the old board's meeting at all, insisting that it had gone out of business December 21, but the old members of the board stood thelr ground and proceeded to function. Commissioner Olsness, one of the new members of the board, is not in the city, and State Treasurer Olson is in a hospital and could not be present at this morning's meeting. ‘The opposiiien has not intimated what steps it will take to prevent Gov- ernor Frazier from enforcing the acts of the special session under the terms of House Bill 60, giving all laws im- mediate effect, but it is- expected that. mandamus proceedings will. be insti- tuted in the supreme court. “ HALL MAKES PROTEST Following Frazier’s announcement that under the provisions of the new law the membership of the auditing hoard changed December 21; that, Mr. Olsness. was not in the city, but as soon as he returned a meeting ef the hoard would be held and that pending such meeting he would object to the payment of any vouchers for the poo. hall department and to the attorney general's department for service sequent to December 21, Secretary o! State Hall served votice that he would projest against these new laws being put into immediate effect, and that he would protect his seat and membership. on the state auditing board. i ‘Tam firmly of the belief that the{ law providing for a change in the; membership ef this board was not ant emergency measure, as enacted by the pretend to he an emergency measure. and that house bill No, 60, whieh pur- ports to place all of. these measure enacted by the recent extraordinary session of the legislative assembly into effect within ten days after their an-] proval and being signed hy the gover H nor is in direct contradiction of the; provisions, and that! House Bill 60, in itself. failed to re ceive a two-thirds vote of the house ar the time of it ‘age, and, therefore such a measure cannot logically confer} life upon other members which indi- vidually failed to receive the necessary | two-thirds vote in the legislative as- sembly in order to declare them emer: ; ency measur WILL EK LEGAL RELIEF Mr. Tall insisted that the records; show that he would seek reef thr the courts to protect his membershit | on the state auditing board and that he gave notice that he would seek to! have the business transacted by the new organiazlio any be performed, | set aside and invalidated, Stete Andi tor Kositzky protested for the same reasons, 8 The secretary of state further con- fended that. the filing of referendum petilions against House Bill’ 60 auto- matically pended its operations un til the people could he given a ehanee to yote on jt, this precluding any nos- sibilily of Tf. B. 60's having any effect whatsoever npon any act of the recent special session, SON OF NAPOLEON EDITOR OPERATED Napoleon Homestead.—Last Friday morning Clarence Bryant, whom we reported last week as having sustain- ed a fracture of the left clavicle, com- monly called the collar bone, submit- ted to an operation. Owing to the na- ture of the break difficulty was en- countered by the doctors in their ef-j forts to gain apposition of the ends of the bone, hence it became necessary to make an incision and apply a silver plate. His mother returned today from a visit with Clarence at St. Alex- ius and reports him now able to sit up and that he was able to be wheeled to joy the Christmas program given for the benefit of the convalescents, nurses and doctors who were able to attend. return home the coming week. PASTOR IS CHARGED t WITH RENT GOUGING Wilmington, Del., Dec, 29.—Tenants of the Rev. George Henry Dole, of the Church of the’ New! Jerusalem, ap- peared before the anti-rent-gouging rommittee: and complained that Rev. Mr, .Dole, had increased the rental of his dwellings 10 per-cent and refused! j Were after. ; $0, It is expected that he will be able to : DEATHS DUE TO CHRIST r Armed Footpads | Rob Bank Agents Cleveland, O., Dec. 29.— | Two armed footpads escaped | with $10,000 in cash and $65,000 in checks in a hold- up in the downtown section this morning of James Hoduf, who was carrying the money | from a savings and loan com- pany toa bank. The bandits were waiting in an alley and | when Hoduf passed they | hurled him to the sidewalk aped with a satchel containing the money. eal LEAGUE BANKERS MIXED UP IN NRW Charge Made That, North Dako- ta Methods Accounted For Big Failure fae Weak a Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 29.—-Before com- Ing to Nebraska (o face a charge of unlawfully converting and embezzling funds of the Farmers’ St bank at Neb., of which he is president, F. M. Ridings of Minneapolis made a special trip’ to Bismarck, N. D., to see J. R. Wat manager of the Bank of Ne ota, in the hope of getting d to help him out of his Ridings was accompanied on the journey by Il. D. Haggerty and A. D. Touzalin, the latter a Nebraska bani: examiner, who went to the twin cities 10 days ago for the express purpose of forcing a show-down by the bank president. Gone With Governor The trip failed of its purpose, as Waters was out of town. When the trio got to Bismarck and learned that Waters had gone to Beach, they im- mediately took another. train for that place. Waters, however, had left Beach when they arrived, and they were told! he had gone with Governor Frazier to! a Hot Springs resort in Wyoming. They returned to Bismarck and went to see another officer of the Bank of; North Dakota. When the matter was! put up to him he replied: “No, money is scarce, and I cannot do anything ‘or you while Jim is away.” They also called on several Bismarck bank-; ers, but failed to get the money they, ¥ Ridings was allowed a week to, 3quare up the alleged $28,500 shortage of the Halsey bank. He failed to do’ and was thereupon given his! choice of coming to Nebraska without a requisition, or waiting until one could be issued. He came voluntarily, arriving here Christmas night with; two Nebraska officers, and going to, Halsey last night to have the warrant} served upon him there. A bond for $25,000 was made out in Minneapolis before Ridings and his} companions started for Linc It is] signed by Haggerty and another man. Confident of Help That Ridings expected to secure financial aid at Bismarck to be used! in squi g his accounts at Halsey is indicated by this statement in a let- ier he wrote from Minneapolis to Sec-| retary Hart of the Nebraska banking | bureau: { “Mr. Touzalin went to North Da- kota with us to see a friend who, he had been at home, would have as sisted in the entire amount. Untortu-| nately he was absent.” The banking bureau has learned that several of the $1,000 certificates of deposit which Ridings had the Halsey bank issue to him were peddled out by} Minneapolis men to banks at Albert Lea, Minn.; Plymouth and Nora and Fort Worth, Texa: will be left holding the; ary Hart claims, the s are held to be void because fraudulently issued. | ‘An attempt was made to get $5,000 from an Omaha bank by drawing on! another bank at Philadelphia, Mo., but} 5 the latter institution repudiated the draft. Fargo Concern Besides issuing $28,500 in certifi- cates of deposit to Ridings, the Hal- sey bank loaned $2,000, its legal limit, to the Great Western Live Stock com- pany pf Fargo, in which he is inter- ested,’ and other loans of the same amount to his brother, to Haggerty and his brother, to H. J. Hjort, to W. H, Reck, and to 'T. N. Jewell. Jewell lives at Plymouth, la. The others are Minneapolis men, with North Dakota connections. Altogether, more than $18,000 was loaned in this manner, part of which probably will be recovered. NEWS TO ME, YS WATERS “T never knew there was such & ban id Major ager of the Bank when approached toda; the treubles of the Farme State ank of Halsey, Neb.. with which the name of Mr. Waters has been connect- “I had no more . R. Waters, man- North Dakota, ith regard to he continued, referring to F. M. Ridings of Minneapolis, president of the Nebra bank. “If Ridings came to Bismarck at any time to see me, I never knew of it,.and Lhave not been away at any time to Hot Springs with Governor Frazier as reperted, The only wayrin which I can explain the connection of my name with.this affair Would be through the possible use of an old lettemiead of- the A.D. Hagerty to Thake repairs. st (Continued on Page Two.) MAS SPREES Druggist, Liquor Dealer and | Undertaker Taken By Govern- | ment Agents—Wine Merchant Makes Clean Breast of It— Fears Lynching if Taken Back to Connecticut | | | | New York, Dec. 29.—Three men, a druggist, a liquor dealer and an un- dertaker faced charges before a United States commissioner here this morning in connection with the spreading: of wood alcohol as whiskey through five states in the last ten days, death and blindness following in its wake. ‘The men arrested late last night and | early today by Daniel L, Porter, su- pervising revenue agent here, and HR. B. Dobbs, a federal agent, are: Adolph Panarelli, a Manhattan wine: and liquor dealer. John Romanelli,, a Brooklyn under- taker, Samuel K, Saleeby, a Brooklyn drug- gist. Domanelll, according to Dobbs, is jthe “king pin” in the wood alcohol traffic. Panarelli, who according ‘to the federal agents made a clean breast of his part in handling the beverage, said When arrested: Mvidence already in hand is suffi: cient, (Mr. Porter sald, to hold Adolph Panarelli, a \Manhattan wine and liq- por dealer, John Romanelli, a Braok- lyn undertaker, and Samuel K, Saleeby. a Brooklyn druggist, the. al- leged principles in the distribution of poisonous liquor In New England, on charges of first degree murder, The men are being held Incommunl- cado during the 48 hours which would elapse before they are arraigned be- fore a United ‘States commissioner. Bail of $50,00% for immediate re- lease of Panarelli already has been: refused, Mr. Porter said. FEARS LYNCHING “Tam glad you got me. I will tell all | know but for God’s sake: don't send me to Connecticut. I don’t want to be lynched. My name has been pub- lished in all papers and it would mean. certain death.” Seite According to Dobbs, Panarelli in @x- planation said that he had heen: ap- proached by a man named Solsaberg: of Hartford, Conn., a friend:of his, to, pro- ;cure some Christmas “booze.” Pan- arelli then got into communication with Romanelli, Dobbs said, and final- ly Solsberg, the druggist. Panarelli said he believed that twen- ty barrels of the “whiskey” had been shipped to’ Hartford each’ barrel con=" taining between forty and fifty gal- lons. The price paid was from $1,000 to $1,500 a barrel, he said. MASSACHUSETTS CONTINUES QUIZ Chicopee, Mass., Dec, .29.—Search was continued in this vicinity today for persons connected with the traffic in poisonous liquor which has resulted in the last few days in at least 59 deaths and many cases of serious ill- ness here and in nearby places. The death toll at an early hour today was divided as follows: Chicopee, 37 including two women; Holyoke. 10; Springfield 4 including one woman; Hadley, 3; Greenfield, 1; and Tompsonville, Conn., 2. Many illicit stills, kitchen bars and private stocks from which sales had been made were discovered it was re- ported. CANADIAN WHISKEY SEIZED. Vanceboro, Me., Dec, 29.—One hun- dred and fifty cases of whiskey con- cealed in oa carload of hay in transit across the border here from New Brunswick were seized last night by United States customs officers. It is. said to be the largest seizure of liquor ever made on the Canadian/Maine border. BIG ROUND-UP COMING New York, Dec. 29.—One of the big- gest round-ups of bootleggers and manufacturers of illicit liquor ever made in this country is impending as a result of the wave of deaths and blindness which hag followed the sale of poison liquor, Samuel L. Porter, supervising revenue agent of the New York distri MONTANA TRAPPER FINDS NEW WOLF Miles City, Mont., Dec, 29,—Farber Trion, a veteran trapper, who is visiting here after being driven out of the Cen- tenial yalley in southwestern Mon- tana hy snow drifts, says a species f wolf hitherto unknown te Montane. trappers and hunters has made Its ap- pearance in that section. The wolf is larger than the prairie yariety, but not as large as the timber species; and its head ix more like a coyote's than a wolf's. It is unusually. swift but puts up a poor fight. Sev- oral have been caught in the Centen- nial. Trion says the southern end of: the valley. and the country on the Idaho line, is a hunters paradise. Mink, martin, fox, bear, wolf, coyote, moun- tain lion, lynx and many other animals abound. With bounty high on many of these heasts and fur at a premium, trapping now ranks among the aristo- eratie occupations. ONTARIO SUFFERS FROM MANY INDUSTRIAL WARS announced today. Ottawa, Ont., Dec, 29.—Official re- ports on industrial unrest in Canada during October, made ‘public : here, © show that 8,710 workers were involved in 25 strikes and that the strikers lost 147,996 working days. When the re- © port was closed there were 19 strikes in force which affected nearly 4,000 wage earners. Bice The October strike record showed & considerable iner: over ag oe a, workmen lost