The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 22, 1920, Page 1

THE WEATHER FAIR AND WARMER —. THIRTY-NINTH YEAR THE BIS K TRIBUNE LAST EDITION BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1920 PRICE FIVE CENTS. COUNTRY PRECINCTS IN COUNTY SHOW MAJORITY CANDIDATES; APPROVE BASEBALL \ _Gunder Olson Receives 120 Votes and Ole H. Olson 301 in Rural Districts—City Returns, How- ever, Turn Tables on League in Burleigh Returns available today from 24 ouc of 54 precincts in Burleigh county, in-” cluding six city wards, shows that all the blue laws were recalled in this} county, Sunday baseball having the largest majority, Gunder Olson with 768 votes for republican national com- mitteeman, is jeading Ole H. Olson, his Nonpartisan opponent. who has 400 votes. On ‘the vote of republican nattonal committeeman, Guuder Olson received. 120 in the country precincts in this county, while Ole H. Olson received 201. This small majority in favor oi the Nonpartisan league candidate for national committeeman indicates that the league vote in Burleigh county has fallen off to a certain extent ‘Sunday baseball was the only 3o- called blue law which received favo- able vote in the. country, 187 voting yes and 166 voting no. Cigarets and boxing commission were turned dowa by the country precincts. The vote on Sunday ‘theatres in the countr,; precincts was equally divided, 17; votes being cast both yes and no. WILD ROSE Wild Rose township voted in favor of the blue laws, spilt even on ths republican national committeeman and on the delegates and electors. LONG, LAKE Long Lake township turned in a close vote on the blue laws, but favor- ed their repeal by a small majority. Ole HH. Olson led the anti-league caudi-) date for national committeeman oy four votes, although the anti-leagu> electors received a majority over lea guers with the Nonpartisan league delegates receiving a slightly smaller vote than their opponents. MORTON Morton township favored. Sunday theatres. but voted no on the other blue ‘laws by small majorities. It turned in an almost unanimous vote in favor of Ole H. Olson, Gunder Oi: son only receiving one ballot. The township voted in the same propor- tion in favor of all Nonpartisan league electors and delegates. APPLE CREEK Apple Creek township. voted to re: peak the: blue laws: ‘and’ voted’ the} straight Nonpartisan league ticket fo: committeeman. electors:and delegates BOYD . Boyd township turned down the re- peal of the blue laws and) practically split even on the league and anti-lea- gue candidates, giving Gunder Olson four votes and his opponent 'an equal number, LOGAN Logan township failed to i¥elbine its vote on committeeman, electors and delegates. It voted in favor o: the blue laws. DRISCOLL Driscoll township turned down the boxing commission law, but voted favor of the other three blue laws. _ It gave Gunder Olson 20 votes and the Nonpartisan league candidate 40 votes. This same proportion. was maintain ed on the vote for electors and dele- gates, the league men polling twice a8 Many votes as their opponents. STERLING Sterling township favored the hox ing ‘commisson and Sunday basebali, split even on Snday theatres and turn- ed down cigarets. It turned in a big majority in favor of Gunder Olson and others running against the Nonparti- san league men. McKENZIE MCKenzie voted to repeal all of the blue laws. It was decidedly anti-lea gue, giving Gunder Olson 20 and Ole H. Olson, 8 MENOKEN Menoken wanted the blue laws re- pealed and voted decidely against ali Nonpartisan league candidates fo. electors and delegates. Gunder Olson received eight votes and his oppon- ent only two. HAY CREEK Hay Crek township voted for the league candidates and voted to repeal the blue laws. “CLEAR LAKE Clear Lake still retained its Nou partisan league chafacteristics. casi-' ing an almost unanimous vote for the league men. On the blue laws, it’vo.- ed in favor of Sunday theatres, but} turned down the other three by scant majoritfes. LYMAN AND TRYGG Lyman and Trygg townships both turnéd in ‘heavy majorities in favor of the league candidates, Gunder Ol- son only received one vote ‘n each of the townships. Trygg approv- ed Sunday baseball and split even on, Sunday theatres. All other laws were not repealed. GHYLIN Ghylin cast only one vote in favor|* of the anti-league men on the ballot and favored the blue laws by a smati| @ majority. WING Wing township cast a somewhat muddled vote, favoring Gunder Olson over his Nonpartisn league rival py six votes, but failing to approve ali of the other dnti-league names. Tae vote was very close, however. ed to repeal all of the blue laws. ‘CANFIELD Canfield township refused to repeai the blue laws, gave Gunder Olson une vote and Ole H. Olson 20 and cast an almcat solid Nonpartison league bal jot SOUTH WILTON South Wilton repealed ali of the nine. boxing commission. Gunder Olson re- ceived three votes and Ole H. Olson nine. The same proporton was main- (Cogtinned on Page Three) It vot-; The same proportion was maiu-! FAVORS LEAGUE ee a et cae oe PE 2 RELIEF SHIPS { | ' ALSO WILL BE | SOVIET ARKS STOPPERS cer aaah New York. March 22—Relle? ships to be sent by the United States within the next month with flour for’ the ueedy countries of Europe also are going to be soviet arks according to information ob- tained from fmisgration officials here today. More than 400 Rus- sian, Finns and Poles from all parts of the coutnry. who have been found to huve advocated the’ use of violence to overthrow the government. will bé shipped on them in groups. BIG DISPLAY OF WAR MATERIALS BXHIBITED HERE’ Recruiting Party for Army with Jays Orchestra Invades City / ‘REMAINS’ UNTIL FRIDAY Many Advantages for Enlisted Man in Peace Time Force Accompanied by its famous sia- piece jazz orchestra, the United States i army recruiting corps: with its fam-j ous exhibition of captured and Ameri- can implements of war, invaded the city Sunday and today . The remark- ably interesting display is open to puo- lic inspection at Baker Toppins Co., on the corner of Third and Main street. German machine suns, rifles, han! grenades and many other death dea! ing devices, as well as a large variety { of American small arms including» i 37° m-m gun, the doughboy’s “heav) rtillery’’ are. in, the exhibit, which. Je, by. tar the most comprehensive ever geen here. The recruiting party con- sists of two officers and fourteen en- listed men, mahy of the men being bent to nearby cities and towns to ob tain recruits for Uncle Sam’s peace time army. The officers who have charge of the party are Captain Charles Thorburn, engineers,.and Captain John Riddeli. infantry. The visitors will remain here until Thursday, when they leave with the exhibition for Aberdeen, S | D. The exhibit was brought here di | rect from Fargo where the party had a successful one week’s stay. | JAZZ OCHESTRA | The jazz orchestra, besides giving a| number of concerts in front of the exhibit and in various parts of the city, will furnish music at the meet ing Tuesday night at the Knights of Columbus hall at a meeting arranged by the local post of the American leg- ton for the purpose of hearing speah- ers from the bureau of war risk insur- ance explaining to former service meu federal insurance, vocational training and many other matters of interest to men formerly in the service. The ot chestra, which established a lasting reputation -in Fargo last week. wit: also play for the American legion dance at the Masonic temple Wednes- day night. “The primary purpose of this re. cruiling campaign is to carry the mes- sage of Uncle Sam's peace time army direct to the people,” said Capt. Thor burn. “The war department wants the peopie to know what it fs doing for men who join the’ new army and we are on the ground to explain the hew army's advantages. ARGENTINE WOMEN TOLD TO FOLLOW U. S. SISTERS! Buenos Aires, March 22.—Dr. Alicia Moreau. a social worker widely known in South America, who has recently returned |from Washington, has been telling the Argentine women that the women of the United States enjoy more liberty than those of any other country and urging them to “awa! from their lethargy and. take lesso from their sisters in North America.” She declared in an address the other day the women of the United States ‘brought about prohibition, that they have “revolutionized their nation through work and propaganda and are how in such a strong position that they are bound to attain even) greater heights of independence.” i For twenty-four hours ending { noon, March 22. Temperature at 7 a. m....... Highest yesterday .: Lowest yesterday | Lowest last night. Precipitation .. Highest wind veloci FOREC For North Dakota: Somewhat un- ‘settled tonight and Tuesday; cooler , Tuesday. i LOWEST TEMPERATURES i |Fargo ... 36 | Williston - St. Paul... Winnipeg . Heelna ... Kansas City. +ated by blanket petition. Today’s Weather i ROBER Meteorologist. ORRIS OLSON WINNER BEYOND CHANCE OF ANY CHANGE Few Counties Yet to be Heard from Can’t Overcome Old Roman’s Lead BASEBALL STILL AHEAD Probability of Enjoying Nation- al Sport on Sabbath Day Continues Goed HOW THEY STAND WITH 44 COUNTIES REPORTED Gunder Olson.... 18. Ole H. Olson.... Gunder Olson's majorit; DEMOCRATIC COMITTEEMAN H. H. Perry 3 1. P. Baker... Mr. Perry’s majority. 1.611 Gunder OXon of Grafton, the jentire regular republican delegate list of can- didates, and the entire reiular repub- lican presidential elector list, defeated the group backed by the Nonpartisan league in the primaries of last Tues- day. Returns made available today axtab- Ush 2 lead for Gunder Olson so secure- ly that the isolated precincts in the 44 counties reported already, and the re- turns from ‘the nine counties not ac- counted for, cannot be overturned. The delegates candidates running on the regular republican ticket have polled approximately the same vote that was polled by Gunder Olson, except. that Miss Minnie J. Nielson has been accorded a vote higher than that received by the committeeman candidate, and jshe tops the entire list of delegate candidates. % REGULAR DEMOCRATS WIN The returns increase the lead held by H. H. Perry of Ellendale, regul edmocratic candidate for national com- mitteeman to’succeed himself, and for ‘the regular democratic ticket of dele- gate and elector candidates. The complete success of the tickets oppos- ing the Noupartisan league entrants is apparent. , The following delegates were elect- Delegates :to National convention—. Minnie J. Nielson. . A. Tostevin: A. 'T. Kraabel. . Stante “Hendrteksuny Henry McLean, E. C. Lucas... Alfred Steele. jamestown Edward P. Kell, : Carrington Olaf Lokensgaard. +... Sawyer E._P. Bishop. Dickinson Presidental FE. I. KE. Heaton... P. R. Trubshay , L. Garden. Republican «-Valley City Mandan Clifford 4 -Corean Hanna «Lisbon «McKenzie Valley..City - Souris ‘enmare Beaca DEMOCRATIC Delegutes to Natiqnal Convention—- Ww. Breen. . Bismarck F. F. Burchard. irand Forks Jou B. Fried. Jamestown Gotabach... ..-Anamoose Nene Mann, ois . Washburn J. W. McHose R. B, Murphy.. W. L. Noyes. . Charles Simon «New England eeeeee Minot. .-Hatton Michigan veeee Milnor «Minot M. F. Hegge..... J. P, Lamb... Jens Pederson.... Anna H. Roacly. phn Sullivan The Sunday b i approved, while the Sunday moyies, cigaret and boxing laws, voted on 10 the Tuesday election, have been de- feated. Returns from 36 counties give the following figures: Sunday Baseball— » 19,977 18,045, + 15,809 19,887 16,584 For some time it has been under- stood that the “Home Defenders,” as the organization opposed to the adoption of the blue law repeals 13 known, has “considered institution of court procedure with a view to. in- validating the election should any of the laws in question be approved They would base their action on the proposition that the laws were initi- stead of by individual petitions. No announce- ment has been made as yet as to the pluas of the Home Defenders in view of the defeat of the three measures, and the success of the baseball law. PLAY 1 TO 6 O'CLOCK The Sunday baseball law, as pass- ted, is in the nature of an amendment to the law prohibiting Sunday sports. and it permits the playing of baseball on the Sabbath between the hours of 1 and 6 o'clock. with the provision that no game shall be played within 500 feet of a church edifice. It be- comes operative on April 16. The law heretofore has prohibited absolutely the playing of Sunday baseball, but it has not been inforced except in a few instances. The rural vote on the baseball law runs about the same as the vote on that issue in the small towns and | villages. and the counties ‘still to re- port will not materially change the majority ,that the baseball law now , holds. CITY COMMISSION MEETS The city, commission will hold its weekly meeting tonight’ at the city hall. Scouncil. 'NEWGERMAN. | ARMY i) 000.0 eneeescceuseSCeReseseees! GEN LUTTWITZ BENSON WARNED SIMS T0: KREP EYE ON BRITISH Advice, Naval, Chief Admits, Ril in Conversation, not *0-te-Rormae' Orders - Washington, fareh 22.-Rear Admiral Willis §. Benson, then chief of: aval operations, was the official, who told Rear Admiral Sims “not to let the British pull the wool over your eyes; we would as soon fight them as Germans,” “Admiral Sims testified today be- fore the senate committee investi- gating the navy conduct of the war. Admiral Sims said the remark was made just as he rec final instructions from Daniels preparatory to his ‘depart: ure for England on the eve of the entry of the United States into the war. He added, however, that it was not nade in the course of for- mma] instructions, but during a con- versation in the. offiee of Rear Ad- miral Palmer, chief of the bureau of navigation. RUSSIAN FEUDS RESULT IN BIG BATCH OF FINES Ring Leaders in Wilton Disor- ders Assessed Heavy Pen- alties by Court Wilton, N. 1. March Long. standing fe between two divisions of Wilton’ Russian population. culm- inated last weck in a justice court session which meted out stiff fines for a dozen or more offenders, while one of the ring-leaders, who punctured a personal. enemy with a revolver, was held to answer to district court. No one is able to make out just what the grievanc re. The trouble start- ed when one of Wilton’s two Greek Catholic churchas was practically de- stroyed by fire. which the congrega- tion insisted was incendiary, Then someone used the ornate dome of the rival Greek Catholic church for a tar- Bet and greatly marred its beauty with rifle balls. After that the fihgting be- came general. “As a rule stones and sticks were tlie only missles, but last week revolver play entered into the melee. The state’s atorney and sheriff came down from Washburn and made a round-up of twenty or more alleged rioters, and it is believed the fiens as- sessed will have a quieting effect. There appears nothing of sovietism in the warfare. Rather it ix a fight be- tween members of the reformed and of the orthodox ¢ eek churches, DUTCH SCHOOLMASTER SAYS CROWN PRINCE'S BIG MASTIF BIT HIM Wierei March 22.—A huge mas former German Crown Prince Fredeirck William has adopted as a pet and which accompa- nies him on his daily, strolls through this village has heen made the subjec; of an official complaint to the village Schoolmaster de Ruyter charged that the dog Dit him and wanted it declared a nuisance, but the petition apparently was tabled. 8,000 DEAD IN +| GERMAN REVOLT SINCE MARCH 13 of Total Number of Casu- alties SEEK TREATY E Teutons Preparing Formidable World Propaganda to~Es- cape Payment (Associated Press) Kerlin, notwithstanding the return of the Ebert government to control there, still presents pretty much the aspect of au armed camp with the food supply short and sanguinary fighting occuring at intervals in the suburbs, Serious trouble occurred in’ the Moabit industrial quarter Sunday night and in one conflict reported Sun- day, 20 Spartacans were killer and 24 others, who were captured, were sum- marily executed. In the Ruhr industrial region im: mediately adjourning the allied zone of occupation there is veritable war- fare with opposing armies of com- munist and government troops draw: ing up their forces for battle. Govern- ment troops have been defeated in some preliminary skirmishes. Leipsic has quieted down after the xovernment victory there, Among the agricultural . population tn some see: tions of northern Germany. there is reaxed unrest. Southern and east- Germany are reported fairly quiet. There is a threat, however, of a renewal of the genera] strike in Ba- varia because of .dissatisfaction over some of the terms of settlement. March Fy thousand ons have been killed since the German revolt broke out on March 13 according to advices received here. O¢ this number 850 were killed y Berlin, SEEKING REVISION March 22.—Germans are pre- paring a formirable world propaganda in favor of a revision of the Versailles treaty und the holding of a new inter- national conference at which van- quished nations might. be represente: for the object of changinti, or simi ing many clauses of the present treaty between. the allied. nations, gnd_G many according to a Geneva dixpat A_book entitled. “The Greatest Crime of Humanity, has been prepared and | 10:000,000' copies distributed for free distribution especially: in America, England and France, and {t is said millions of other pamphlets along the saine line will follow. The reactionary revolt in Berlin on March 13 put a temporary stop to the movement, it is said. GENERAL STRIKE AT MUNICH Stuttguart, March 22—A general strike has been called in Munich and it is expected the movement will ex- tend throughout Bavaria unless it is stopped as a result of the negotiations how in progress to setle the demands of the workingmen to pay during the period they were on strike against the Kapp regime, Meetings are to be held in the Wurttemberg factories by the council's workmen to consider if sim- ilar action should be taken throughout Wurttemburg., Reports received here from Nurem- berg said that city was quiet since Monday following disorders the prev- ious night. Further disorders at Leip- sic on Sunday were reported. LEIPSIC RESTORES ORDER Berlin. March 22.—An official report from Leipsic says no further exces, sess occurred there on Saturday in that city and that several points evac- uated by the workmen were occupied by troops. In the suburbs, however, the workment refused to abandon thei position. Further communists rein- forcements have arrived. Railway traffic in the Leipsic region was re- sumed Sunday. In the Halle district, the condition was reported worse from a govern- ment aspect. Counter action among a section of the workmen is threatened through the callng of a strike if a sov- iet republic is proclaimed. Commun- ists are declared to be preventing will- ing men from resuming their work. CONDITIONS VERY SERIOUS Berlin, Sunday, March 21.—Condi lions in Germany were described by the ministry of defense this mornlug as extremely serious. “You cannot paint the situation throughout Germany too black,” an of- ficial at the ministry declared to th: correspondent after a survey of the reports that had come in during the night. FIRING IN BERLIN Berlin, 3:30 p. m., by wireless, March 20.—By noon firing had oc- curred in various parts of the city. It is reported that the se- curity police are shooting down all officers of the Baltic troops re- maining in Berlin. + Under Dem Linden bristles to- day with barbed wire and the Hotel Adlon was thoroughly screened with it and guarded by troops. The inner city streets are seeth- ing with excited people. Disord- ers are dccurring in the suburban districts. LARGE SECTIONS UNDER FIRE (By Associated Press) Large sections of Germany are re- sounding to the rattle of machine gun and rifle fire in the civil warfare, which, so far since the beginning in the Berlin revolt last Saturday, is esti- mated by some Berlin computators t: have cost 2,000 lives. Berlin Claims More than Tenth|* LONG SERIES OF “ ATROCITIES IN VALLEY CITY IS ar STATE CHAMPION / Fargo, N. D., March 22.— | Valley City won the state interscholastic basketball championship Saturday night, when it defeated Far- go by a score of 18 to 16. Valley City won in an excit- | ing finish, coming up from behind in a spurt during the last seven minutes of play | and sovepromine # four-point MEXICANS GIVE DEMONSTRATION FOR BONILLAS Former Ambassador to America and Presidential Candidate * Honored ONLY TWO LEFT IN RACE Obregon Believed Sole Rival of Popular Hero; Gonzales Weakening —_— / March Thousands thronged: the ‘streets yesterday to greet Ygnacio Bonillas, Mexican ambassador | to the United States and presidential candidate of the civilian party in the general election July 11. The demon- stration was considered as a tirst reat presidentia] campaign gathering and as marking the climay of the prelim- ary canvas. A few slight disorders were quelled by mounted police. Newspaper comment. indicates that the fight has narrowed down to Bgnil- las and Alvano Obregon with the par- tisaus of Puablo Gonzalez waging a more or less extensive: campaign, ~ General’ Oberon: 7WhOM appr s have ‘been ‘attacking as a militarist candidate, has been touring the coun- try and speaking for more than four months ile Gonzalez has contented himself with the formation of political clubs, Platforms announced by the candi- dates all declare for the maintenance of Mexican national rights, participa- tion and other generalties. Platforms, however, are virtually negligible since {the campaign is being waged on per- sonalities. Obregon’s supporters de- clare the Carranza administration is | opposing the yeneralis candidacy and is using its resources to secure the election of Bonillas. TROTZKY LURED 80,000 TROOPS | FROM KOLCHAK Vampire Voice of Bolshevik Leader, and 2,000 Rubles, Were too Much New York, March 22.—How an army of 80.000 Kolchak troops ‘melted awa. hy desertion to the Bolsheviki, follo ing a speech made to pris by” Leon Trot two days after that city by the All-Russian forces, was told e today by Major Gene 1. Thord- Gray. a former officer of the British, Canadian and All-Russian armies just. returned from Vladivostok. | Trotzky, he said. addressing the prisoners as “comrades,” said th would be welcomed by the red arn if they cared to join. Captive officers, he said, who wanted to return to Kol- chak would be given safe escort and 000 rubles each. A number of the ! ners accepted the offer and, re- turning to their own lines, told what Trotzky had done, Within two weeks, General Thord-Gray said, Kolchak had practically no army and a few months later was executed, General Thord-Gray went to Siberia with a Canadian expedition and was taken prisoner by the Bolsheviki when they captured Viadivostock. Before leaving. two attempts. he said, were made to assassinate him, Toward the last, he said, the Bol shevik troops showed better morale than Koltchak’s men. They also hal one machine gun for every 20 men, he said, whereas the Kolchak army had only three with every battalion, almost 600 men. During the retregt of the Kolchak army. a 2.000-mile ré-, tirement. they were driven before ma- chine yuns but seldom before rifts ftir General Sakharoff, the —All- Russian war minister and chief of | staff, he said, “lost the army at Omsk without a fight.” 1 evueuation Downieville, Downieville, county. for two winters has escaped the ravages of an influenza epidemic. | When any person comes to Downie ville from a district known to have fluenza he is met by Dr. A. O. Eck- | hardt, county health officer and asked } to isolate himself four days, the sup- HOME RULE” IRELAND ENDS TN MURDER OF MAYOR OF CORK Thomas F. MacCurtain Slain, Without Motive Other than Terrorism so far as Can, be Known—Tragedy has Opened Eyes of Irish People—Crime Denounced by Both Factions —“Civil War Within Sight” ‘London, March dispatches from Ireland show that the murder of Thomas F. MacCurtain, lord mayor of Cork, has produced an intense sub- dued sensation throughout Ireland. This tragedy, says the London ‘Times | correspondent in Dublin, closed one of the blackest weeks since the rebellion of 1916.. He gives a long list of out Tages in various parts of the island, including five murders of policemen and others and an attempt to kill Prof. Stockley of Cork. The motive for the murder of the lord mayor continues as mysterious us ever, No arrests have been reported hor so far as known haye any clues to the perpetrators been obtained. Among the theories advanced is one that MacCurtain was murdered as it warning to others because he recently had the courage to public depreciate an attempt to murder a policeman in Cork. SECRET MURDER SOCIETIES London vewspu/pel while unre: servedly condemning the crime, main- tain it does not differ from those which Jong have terrorized Leland It is deleared that Ireland for the moment is largely under the domina- tion of secret murder societies, the members of which are sworn to ki those whom they believe stand in their way, but who the conspirators are puz- ale the police as much as the public. It is remarked as a phenomena that where there are murder societies meni bers after a while begin to be st ed of murdering each othe ence of these supposed socie clared possible owing to the “moral cowardice of the [rish public.” The crimes the secieties commit are jrepug- Nant to the better sort of Sein Finners who, however, keep silent fearing the consequence of the condemned assassi- nation, the paper sayr. * HOM B Bu LE. Exist- is de- ADERS The nee aiers which support home rule, while condemning what they re gird as the “preseiit” evil system of Irish government, also, denounced Irishmen themselves for continuing methods which they say are establish- ing a condition of anarchy and terror- ism from which their own leaders may soon be powerless to deliver them. The anti-home rule Morning Post again at- tacks the government today and de- nounces Field Marshal French and James Ian MacPherson saying + “They are bringing about = the hideous necessity of reconquering Ire- | land by force of arms” and “civil war ig within sight.” . Reser CITY HAS 4,686 PEOPLE BY U. S. Valley City has 4,686 people, cording to the 1920 United State: announced today in Wash- an increase of 80 people over ; the census of 1910, the gain being y has the distinction of being the first North Dakota city to have its cen announced, CITY'S CENSUS FIGURES PROVE DISAPPOINTING Population According to Federal Enumerators is\But 6,951 to Date Washington, March 22.—-Popula- tion statistics announced today by the census bureau included . 6.951, an increase: of 1,508, 7.7 percent over 1910. Population statistics or 1920, based upon the recent federal census, receiv ed over the Associated Press wires to- day gave Bismarck only 6,951 people, a gain of but 1,508 souls in the decade which had elapsed since the last prev- ioug decennial census, This result is disappointing but not surprising, or, in spite of all the warn ings sent out and efforts put forth by the press. the commercial club and individuals. it was very generally real- ized when the enumeration of | Bis- marck was finished that it was fai from complete. The federal census in 1910 gave Bismarck a population of 5,443. fa 1915 the North Dakota census placed the city’s population at 7.500, and it is the general belief today that an efti- cient enumeration would give Bis- marck a population well in excess of 9.000, oy at least 2,000 greater than the federal statistics show. There was during the course of the census much criticism of the manner in which the work was handled in this city, and the result, which everyone who has watched the progress of Bis- marck during the last decade knows to be radically wrong, would seem to show that this criticism was more than justified. That the federal census has fallen at least 2,000 short so far as Bismarck is concerned is a very safe surmise. The regrettable feature of this situa tion is that Bismarck must continue for the next decade to pay for some- posed period of influenza’s incubation. one’s mistakes or neglect.