The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 21, 1920, Page 1

THE WEATHER FAIR AND WARMER STAGGERING TAX AISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, FEB. 21, 1920 PRICE FIVE CENTS BURDEN OF MORE THAN $36,000,000.00 IMPOSED BY! WILD THEORIES OF- TOWNLEY BUND Assistant Attorney General F. E. Packard Analyzes Abstract || of Taxes for 1919 Just Issued By Commissioner Wallace— Load Shifted from Personal Property to Real, and John Farmer Is Made the Goat How a staggering tax burden of more than $36,000,000 been im- posed upon North Dakota by the wild theories, — inetlicienci of extray gances of the Townl and how the bulk of the load has been shifted from personal property to real —from the shoulders of bond-helders. mrotgage-owners, railw telegraph, telephone, \express and line | companies to the farmers, is a careful analysis of the abstract ot | taxes for 1919 made public today | fant Attorney General F. ckard, formerly chairman of the Notth Dakota tax commission, Mr. Packard's statement is as fol- lows: “When T made the prediction last April that the tax burden upon m lands in North Dakota would be it creased more than fifty percent by the new tax laws, a how! of indign, tion went out from the Tow: papers. -The ‘justification of that pre- diction sit’ at hand. The abstract of taxes: for 1919 has been completed by the State Tax Commissioner, and with Nelson County estimated. the to- tal genera] property tax levy for 1 for the state and all i 8.20161 or an inerea percent. This is the most astonishing increase th: this state has experienced since stat hood, but this does not tell the enti stery as to farm, lands. suggested ‘the tax shifted the new hws | onal property and from the ce corporations to real e AS has been from pér: public: ser tate. the State Tax ‘Commissioner, in 1918 farm land, exclusive of improvement bore 54.89 percent of the total tax burden, while in 1919 it bore 70.36 percent In other words, in 1918 farm Jands bore $11.197.385.64 Of the total tax bprden while in 1919 the burden borne by them had increased to $19- 742,905.49;- a total shifting to farm Jands of $8,645.517.85, or an increase over, the burden. of -1918.0f-77.22 per- cent. This percentage indicates: both the shifting of the tax incident and the increase in the tax burden, It hat the farmers’ tax bill has estate by g the lust year, “To? be sure there are some offsets | a. slight to this. increase. There shift, (from farm personalty ‘to ‘other In 1918 farm improve- G07 percent of the total ments, paid tax: burden, In 1919; it: pitid 4: fe eat of the total tax burden “or $1.008 Here also is a savivng ta the: owner of acre property of $864454.00, ° Add- ing this tothe saving on farm im provements we vet a total saving of Deducting this from the} 9 burden upon acre proper we get $19.7. B08 00; offsetting the pies it to percent, THIS FIG URE REPRE AGE TD TH LANDS. MANY SPECIAL T. “In addition to the d there are a number TAN BURDEN. UPON FARSI Jine and kerosene, ‘That por the flat three cents an acre x for the Hail Insurance Department which ix levied upon land not insured and for which no benetit is received. is a direct tax burden upon all land not insured in the state hail in- surance department, and will always remain a burden, even under a com- pulsory Jaw, since it is applied to unbroken tillable Jand as well as on tillable land. The motor ve- shave been withdrawn from gen- atio, and the Warden they bore has fallen upon other property so that the difference betw the present, tax and the old li is an added burden, The stocks and bonds tax is a tax of fift a thousand upon the actual value of stocks and bonds of all corp« transacting busines in the sta miscellaneous burden includes butter fat tax. lawyers’ tax. aud a great Many fees and ‘ not otherwise | enumerated. To r General Property ta Oil tax Acre Ha a Motor vehicle . Stocks and bonds Miscellaneous ta The 99 Total ..... -$30,004, “Deducting -the old es from the above total, we get-an iner actual ger of 1919 over 1918 of about 48 percent ivr tue entire state, “in addition to these are taXe; burdens w 2 there os rhe ae hail “iy ang the speciat city, county other faxes and fe (Continued on Pago Tw2.) n government, | According to a compilation of j suming that that ritio! Mduld have: held good in 1919, the | overs of acre peonerty, saved tillable | ions | 000.00 | four. Mr —-j over the head with a baseball*bat and | the auditorium will be well filled by ein the! Os ‘al and special tax burden KOLCHAK’S FATE’ || TOLD BY MEMBER OF. HIS CABINET | i? : “ | Peking, Tuesday, Feb. 17.—De- tails of the capture of Admirat { ' Kolchak, former head of the all Russian government in Sibéria who w ‘uted by soviet revo- lutionists in Irkutsk on February 7. have been learned through the ! receipt of a telegram, by Rear Admiral Smirnov, minister of. { marine in the Kolchak cabinet, who, a short time ago, reached this city, Czech forces guarding Kole evidently were induced to surrender him in order that their evacuation of Irkutsk might be facilitated. LEAGUE PLACES SLATE IN FIELD OPPOSINGG.0. P. | | | i i I | ' | of Young Republicans in Recent Meet TOWNLEY S ATE ‘PUT UP political sub. | as against | Men and Woman Active in Move- ment Recommended for Vote at Primary | Hillsboro, 7 21.—One hundred “progressive” republicans i met in informal session at the cour: house here yesterday, endorsed a ticket of delegates to the republican] national convention and presidential; electors in opposition to the slates | picked by the two republican state! {conventions at Bismarck and adopted! | resolutions urging William Lemke, ! chairman of the republican state cén- tral committee, to call a meeting. of the committee at the earliest possi- ble date for the endorsement. of the candidates picked at Hillsvoro, who jare: DELEGATES | 80; R. Rose, Minot; R. M. Poindexter,} Jamestown, | PKESIDENTIAL ELECTORS J. S$. Underwood, Enderlin, Charles Joyce,;Bowman; Mi Mohall; Albert Bakker, arrison; | Axel Backer, Fargo. JOHNSON ‘ENDORSED The Hillsboro convention, called by} BE. F. Baker of Glenburn, a director} in the Equity society, also. endorsed ; the presidential candidacy of Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California. H. ‘M: Heridrickson of Simcoe aétea [ae permanent chairman and Howard 'R. Wood, lieutenant governor, as| secretary. YOUNG CONVDNTION SCORED Judge N. Cc . Young and the conven. | tion hel soree for stenting to. “usurp the| and read out of-ffice the leg-| ally elected repul Dlican state central}! jcommitteemen;” their recent meet-} _|ing was referred to as a rump scons | vention of “dis ntled and reg who were aeons * in asking can- | didates for the presidency not to file nas candidates in ‘North Dakota, ane} ‘for their insistence upon an unin- structed delegation. ed as strictly a league affair, and the ‘fact that h_ prominent sans as Lieut.-Gov, Howard R. Wood of Bowman and _ others, Charles Joyce, now sheriff of Bow- and who was a witnes } man county taken to indicate that tne meeting was prompted by and will receive} the official sanction of A. C. Townley and William Lemke sn. * CACOUN NT HELD NOT GUILTY OF ___ SLAYING WIFE | Minnea poli: | LaCount. Feb, 21. — Ralph charged with =the murder jof Madels fount. hi | wife. last night was acquitted by a ; jury in district court here. The jury | | was out six hours. Mrs, LaCount as found dead on stember 12. 1 at the LaCount | ; cottage on the C. J. Winton estate at | Lake Minnetonka, near here, where j LaCount w employed as a chauf-| LaCoant had been struck bbed in the throat with a bread; | knife. ar Lindgren, gardener at the Winton estate, jointly indicted with TaCount on a charge of murder, prob- lably will go to trial about Wareb 1. i = BEULsH ALPTORNEY HERE | sander Cutlow, prominent attorne: jet Beulah, was a bu-iness vivirer in the city yesterday. = Ineapactisant s Repedlate Action} George M. Gannon, Ashley; Tom mse pack home. We: still use “em there | Madden, ‘Bismarck; Fred Eckert, lin. Feb, 2t.—#reiiminary pro- | £t gettin’ inter th’ mountains. Druve Williston; ‘Lieut. Leigh J. Monson.) cedings in a number of cases of -Ger- | Oe myself fer a spell onct—sis Fargo; Ole Gilbertson, Towner; H.| mans accused of violations of tue laws : ; ; H. Aaker, Grand Forks; W. J. MoZ-] o¢ war have already begun and. prog- vit ‘had been a hilarious party |ley, Dickinson; 'Mrs. M, A. Rudd, Far- Twenty, convalescents from Walter} N. M. Sheridan, | {s The Hillsboro convention is regard.! ‘Nonparti-} including \in the Kate Richards O'Hare case, is| — || dountry WAR’S CRIPPLED HEROES VISIT HOME OF | WASHINGTON AND ARE GLAD THEY ARE AMERICANS IL |? “Looks Just Like Home,” One Boy Exclaimed, and Another Figured on Having “a Place Like It Myself Some Day” GEORGE . | The Washington family chcle, the general and Mrs, Washington and her two children, to whom Washin “father and friend.’ as well as smard- lian. Inset is a picture of the Wash- ington coach, now kept at Mt. Vernon, and belew is Washington's hed, the ; bed and furnishings unchanged aud {| scarcely touched by the hand of time. WAR CRIMINALS “WILLBETRIED "IN OLD LEIPZIG BY RUTH F, FINLEY Washington, D. ©. Feb, 21.--The jtall Texan swung from his arm pits on his crutches his big hands Preliminary.Steps For Arraign-| grasped the iron railing that keeps the | too enthysiastic visitor to Mt. Vernon i ment of Acused Now from carrying off a wheel of George Being Taken Washington's coach as.a souvenir. 8 “T like all this here,” he announced with a sweep of his khaki-clad arm. SEVEN JUDGES WILL ACT] Rake tis cate now. Why doszoue! ‘Faint. so different froni our stages | ress is being made in ue collection {of documentary material. Dr, Schifter; tho ,great: milita s hospital jast | out of Washington, were spending the or of justice, the represent: erat ied ih ie aa day at Mt. Vernon as guests of the minister that ran ver Red Cro y Tepresented almost | as miny states in the ,Unien— Maine to California: and: from Florida to Mon The party clumped on} and erntches into the house: ut I like about it. ‘said an Obic ft rm at St. Mih-; ks like home. Now, it was General Washing hedropm—“yye, gop, lots of -furni- re‘like this at-our.housé, » Mother's room fas a foilr-post bed.” ; And,so,it weut. Every one of those j boys found something in fhe simple fold house that overlooks the Potemac \ would {court | con. j seven, judse ; | Grrmah jitnesses will be heard in jaccomdanco,with criminal trial, regult: tion: itnesses, will be, mined abroad if they dy not Gate to come: to | | Germany. 1é was indicated di German’ | Jexamining magistrat would go’ to ottie ‘countries to be présent at the! taking} | of ev! idence, German authorities will i thing to expedite proceedings |e sible. dat Le of the do ¢ to remind him of home. They linger longest. in the wide hall where han {General Washington's s Vand many other quaint old weapons. 1 “Woulda't have been much good at) would they bude of a pair of long bite HELD TOMORROW DULUTH WOMAN \ | KILLS HUSBAND Program at ‘Auditoriuas in Af- WHO ABUSED HER ternoon in Honor of H Soldier Dead | Family Squabble Culminated in | Murder in Zenith City This Morning ss 1 ‘The first. memorial exercises held; {in honor of those wl lthe late war will be held tomorrow; Jminth, Mini. Feb 21. = George L | afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the Audi-) Arnold. 4S, was shot and instantly | torium: The exercises will be con-| killed: police say, by his wife. hedroom at 4 o'cle A family quarrel i the cause of tie, ducted by the Loyd Speta post of the Arnold. in their American legion and the public is} this morning. d to attend. | said to hi | The program, which is similar to) shooting. | programs given ev section of the; According to police. tomorrow, includes an adr|told them that her hisband had at- | | dress by Rev. George iuzzelle and a} tacked her. doin ore to protect pageant symbolic ot America’s as herself from harm she had fired a re: unce to France und Franc volver, the one shot Le a tion @f the supreme sa nto police headqua py many American soldiers. where she showed a ‘next of kin of those who died while which she claimed lin the service, cither at ‘home or! ministered re ij abroad, will be the guests of honor.!| Arnold was an employe of a ship- The members of the legion will! building comp ny. appear in full uniform and will a Pane at the Elks club at 3 o’cloc! WASHINGTON NOT WORRYING ABOUT .| been Mrs, Arnold Specal music has been prepared 0 | Mrs. A. G. Jacobson of the Thurs- | day Musical club in which members of the club. church choirs and others | will participate. It is expected that Washington, Feb. 21.--With Pre |members of the Women's Auxiliary] dent Wilson's reply to the note of the | to the legion, the Bismarck chapter] allied premiers on the Adriatic ques lof, the American War ‘Mothers, the! tion almost réady for dispatch, o legion members and others. ials here let it known that they 3 do not regard the si LOCK FARM nor do they expect the neg will take such a turn that the United States would be forced to consider , whetlier i) could -pecume a partly Lo the treaty ot Versailles. The reply may go forward today HAZELTON ‘She Valley siock larm, a general faming corporation capitalized at $25 000, has been Tormed vere by A. Russell and F. and Kay C. Tye, ali of Hazelton. > Lana doenk hall kinds of tre : ADRIATIC CRISIS fans ae: - with | 1 i i | the manuscripts in that are kept in) Washington’s | too, is. the sextant | vington, Mie he was much in-} \! terested in/ enginecring glass | and the big} globe which scems. to have been a fz orite possesson, So many artists have included it, or one of the general's s, in the Washington por- But it was-a> slender: lad whose black ¢ um oliye skin showed Italian parentage, that put into words thé feeling each of the boys had un | ously expre: i t like | about ity med procl . “is dat it} ain't got none uy dat ie stuf, When ; LT waz up inde Argonne we wuz Dillet- | ed onet in a sort uy castle, an’ it cer tainly waz a standotlis Nope,” he wound up, mine. c this here. pla t a feller could wasn't 'fraid uy work? i ! The officer in charge of the party | smiled, | I think that.”*he seid in an aside, (OLSNESS MAKES iState Insurance Commissioner jcolumn February 17: | space jn such? +—~ | | I GABTTAT CITY TO CELEBRATE NEXT MONDAY The capital city will celebrate Washington's birthday on Monday al- though tomorrow is the actual anni- jYersay of the birth of the father of this country. Washington's birthday is the fi of a series of three natfonal holiday which fall on Sunday, and which by law will be observed on the day fol- lowing. The other two are Memorial 30, and the Fourth of July, ch falls this year on July 4, as “AML, ismarck — bj municipal, county, ate and federal office will close Mone The day will be formally{ coserved in Bis- marck tomorrow with the Americ legion services in honor of ifs hero dead at the Auditorium, and it will be noted in all of the churches and in the public schools, nks andi ev REPLY 10 HAIL SYSTEM ATTACK CONSI Says Assistant Attorney Gener- al Pleads for Still Greater Socialism A commissioner of ine ne, toda ned the following Statement in y Spotise to at attack upon the Townley aim for the state hail insuran Assistant Attorney which The Tribune plan, written. byt BH. Pakard, and published: in this Tt is with reluctance that [ask the press for anything, ex: cept when departmental reports must be published as required by law. But the appearance of such statements as the one pnblished by Mr. Packard in The Tribune for F as well s your editor’ me i es it imperat that the fal ding conclusions pres should be refuted or corrected Thad hoped that the state hail in- surance world wpe such attacks. Tt was genes supposed that the principle wa ptable to the entire people, and unassailable therefore, ass such. Not that the law is perfeet, in itself, nor the management of it; not at all, Being responsible for the sue- cessful administration of this law, we welcome any constructive su and wholesome er sm. the article referred to . Hoes: contain any t according department port of 11s Hol in the nts uh cents for state insu Qneaning the anny business) there wi written by the ‘line stile, ata a the greatest. compliment to the ‘father of hi paid Hels been dead a dntndred yet the homé, he made is, fine and yet simple. énough to, make Towery lotizh. (oh, yes, hevis, Tee h ble with hiny That is R pire to a home like it. democracy | | * about Mt. home that yy feller could earn he wait it, Could anything be more fitting a shrine for democratic Ameri None Vernon! WILSON REVEALS «: ANOTHER SECRET UNDERST ANDING ae Pledged, With Con-| gress’ Conseht, to Pay | , Allies for Ships | Presid senate dis. ino a tentati by) the ould pay rey ion cou ion the difference betwee the nation’s merehunt ton- «the ap. nan ship the war alue of seized G a new angle today to the in- al discussion ross of the hip controve d by the recent effort of the pping board to dispoxe of the fleet of former German liners, istence of the herto made pu agreement not was disclosed runication entered | sg that he pement or tish offi disposition of the In explaning the p president stated it was conaitionea upon the approval of congress and that in no case should the title of the| ships held bv this couniry pass from! the United states. i into any ‘The Jnynine pected to increase grei ux ef uiuets 2 e rubber Midustry ts the a | conditions Hey. rye and ance for § ion, for the Iz mill- (ion acres roximatey insured in i e fund during 1919. I igsthe wimount The} itl course, Usat iliis s the line com- entire state w 000 For that 3 erence are is, Of rate is not exe i anies profit for the Vat Tittle over J even at ade ients Mever did. getting the business i. id this. is red under the state! ystem to Tess. tl for every S100} ud iu premnims. i rdly ort + preminnh ule in Its. was AL the companic pMutuals amd the st percent more, oy M5 Cents i : all business written wost ef the river, also on all barley, rye and spelt, over he whole state.” This would probably ng the rate up to So cents an acre] S10 insurance for APPLYING 1918 RATES But. why apply 91S rates to 1919 business? Let ous therefor and comprare the cost of st insurance on the bast { to slate that paid line com els per aere, (except the two | ab tWe ba discuss te vs. line of rates and] during the past | The is, that ne insurance wa; | written in 1919 Cescept by the i aud one er two mutuy less tl season 1 democratic {the sbill largely bec: | give v meer RAIL FACTIONS LINING UP FOR LAST STRUGGLE Final Vote on Esch-Cumins Bill to Be Cast Before Adjournment WILSON ASSURES WORKERS 'Return of Roads March 1 Not to Affect Negotiations, Says President \ Washington, Feb. 21.—Opposing factions of the railroad reorganiza- tion bill lined up for a last stand in the house today with a final vote on the Esch-Cummins compromise measure scheduled to be cast before adjournment. Indications, however, were that the vote would not ‘be reached before early morning. To assure disposition of the Dill today the house met an hour earlier than customary. Five hours ving been allotted to debate and with a ps of roll calls in sight the pos- sibility of an early decision was blocked, ‘but Representative Esch, republican, Wisconsin, {n charge of the measure annouuced he would » press the final vote so that the re- port if approved might go to the sen- ate Monday for consideration Tues- day. In addition to a majority of the members lined up against e of the finan- cial provisions there were members on both sides ready to attack it be- use of the objections of organized organizations by troad admin istration that return of the roads on March 1 would not affect negotiations now peaidine as to the interpretaion of the various wage agreements which wi made with the labor group during federal conrol. Director General Hines announced that while the divisions of operation and labor as such would be discon- tinued Ma 1, representatives of the railroad administration would carry to a conclusjon: consideration of all grievances, CONTROL COST $636,000,000 The ‘railroad admintstration est§- mates placed the net cost to the gov- ernment of federal control of the roads at $636,000,000, Chairman Esch of the interstate commerce commit+ tee told the house. today m opening debate on the conference report on the compromised railroad bill. “This $636,000,000 will have to. ibe charged off as a war loss,” he said. “One may say it was expensive but it was worth the price. Without the railroads transportation would have tion | failed to supply our troops overseas.” Total appropriations of approxi- mately $1,900,000,000 including those already made were the “experience of federal control,” Mr, (sch sate, but he added of all of these amounts approximatel $1,250,000,000 were “investments” in the form of dm~ provements made for, the roads and for which they ultimately will pay: Less than a hundred merhbers were in the house when it met ifor the fil fight, . Rata ats MAY REACH 'P CE, AGREEMENT Many days off pattlvan' wrangling over the pe; treaty promised to y to actual progress to- disposal of the pact, just one ince debate strted on the lea- gue of nations. A vote on the first proposed modi- fication of the reservattons adopted at the last session ot congress was expected to be reached during the day. -GRONNA BEGINS DEFENSE OF HIS RECORD IN WAR Admits Voting Against War and Preparedness in 1917 hingten, Feb, nin Newspapers recently Declaring ad print- on S10 4 aere on ST risk On the wes premium of and this rate was gut this is not le of the Missou charged | so te bir state. As this: r: in i k of seve central part of the that the a must fe than § rere On STO risk no fi to show what a would | be subject to the 12% but we| know it must be cons Now | then, it is) probably to dtssu that 1 per would be Mit or rave! 000) farmers would h : prot t t they now get for v5S40,000, ¢ asad we Of $5400.000, Granting th veld tae d oent th toad i C rmonnting ly aa8u.u, while (Continucd on Page my ed “malic bert Tloove lof these [by the memters of the | mas statements about re- th Dakota, told the sen- that a campaign press at- evident had been “in- . Julius Burnes, president of ution, and Her rmer fogd administra- his criticism of them war in, N pubi ate today r because said that while le inst the war declaration and t the draft act he supported all of the war appropriations and bond issues that ¢ up for action while he present in the senate and had atives of his own name in the rould bear the burden malicious lies.” he continued, would make noe complaint but my nily did as much to win the war as any other family in the country.” ELKS’ There will be a Elks’ club. Lo present non ut bi AU anempers ar at 30