The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 21, 1920, Page 3

ere. —s ~— er’s: case. WEDNESDAY,. JULY 21,1920 CHARGE CRIMES TO FATHER AND SON AT STEELE Daughter Accusees’ Father of Murder of Insurance Man and ‘Infant BODIES ARE DISCLOSED Steele, N. D., July 21—James C. CJayton, a-60-year-old' farmer, is, accus- ed by his daughter, Mrs. Frances Shel- don of Baldwin,.N. D., of killing Ed. il it agent, and,a baby. born to her before she was mar- ; Sheldon confession or statement coy- ried, in an alleged confession in the hands of State’s. Attorney George Mus- son, of Kidder county. ‘ On Thursday Clayton will be placed on trial in the Kidder district court charged with rape. His daughter Lau- President Young, of the Com- | ra, aged 14, is the state’s principal wit- neaa Extensive digging operations in the Clayton: farm, conducted: wthin a few days, failed to disclose the bodies of Clayton’s stpposed victims.. Musson said that the ,investigation had extended not only to the case of Leitzke and the baby, but also to other cases of supposed .disdppearance: of persons in the district adjacent to the Clayton farm. All inquiries, Musson said, had’ failed. Roy Clayton, a 26-year-old son of James Clayton, also is under arrest charged with rape, and will be tried following the. disposition of his fath- Whole Section Excited. . The whole section of Kidder county about 20 miles southeast of Steele, where the supposed murders occurred, is in a: state of excitement as a result of the case. f Officials who organized searching parties spaded up great areas’in the hope of uncovering the skeletons of the supposed murder victims, opera- tions being conducted in accordance with directions given by Mrs. Sheldon, Mrs. Sheldon’s story is in the hands of the state’s attorney, and was given following the arrest of her father and married -si®er, Mrs. Sheldon, brought about the arrest of Clayton and his ra S mn. Denies Additional: Murders Mr. Musson. denied today that the ered supposed additional murdgrs, though admitting that he,and other officials had: investigated beyond the} Leitzke and’ baby case. Mrs, Sheldon’s story of the Leitzke murder. is to the effect that there was a liquor party near the Clayton farm! y on the night that the insurance agent disappeared. Her father, Mrs. Shel- don asserts, had Leitzke’s watch fol- lowing his. disappearance. Officials have not confronted Clay- ton with the .charges made: by his daughter, Musson said today, NAMED T0 AID COMMISSIONERS'| mercial Club, Appoints Busi- ness Men - P. C. Remington was today named chairman .of the committee on pi lic improvements of the Commer club, Other members. of the commit- tee are George Will, W. Is. Lahr, Roy Logar and rank. Milholland.’ The committze was appointed by: C..L. Young, president of, the Com, mé@cial club, at the request of the city" commission, which adopted a resolution at a meeting ,this week asking Mr. Young to take this ac- tion. The commission operation, advice and a: sistance of the committee in carrying out the many contemplated improvements for the betterment of the city... Feel- ing that Bismarck is to have a rapid: growth in the next few years, anc knowing that the progressive peopl? of the city want puble improvements to keep pace with the growth of tne city, the /commission believes that every effort should be made to kevep the expansion of the city the: prop- er lines, 2 ES PES 2 RS Ber ee Sa brother on the rape charge. Laura Clayton’s story, related by her to her Blueberries ! Blueberries! Blueberries! Mrs. Careful - Housewife, re- duce your high:.cost of Blue- berries by purchasing them. di- rect. We are the largest oper- ators in blueberries. in U. 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Water Within Fifty Minutes Philadelphia, July 21—As a climax to its many notable achievements 3ince it was created as a war emerg- ancy, Hog Island today planned to establish a new world’s ship daubel hing + record: | Seven 7,525 ton steel cargo carriers, the last on: the ways,.at the big plant, will be sent overboard, according to the arrangement, within 50 minutes or less. Officials. of the American In- ternational Ship Building corporation claim this is the first time such a feat [| was ever attempted. Notice to Coal Dealers Bids are ‘requested ‘to furnish 1000 tons,. more or less, best screened lump lignite coal delivered as requir- nuhlic school, during years 1920 and 1921; inclusive and’ subject to State North Dakota analysis, Right resery ed to reject any or all bids. Bids to be opened at special meeting of Roard at High School building, Tues- day, July 27, 1920. By order of ssoard of Education, RICHARD PENNWARDEN, Clerk. T find men are taking to‘the Rea Tobacco Chew. The good, rich taste lasts so much longer that you find it saves | you meney to, use this class of tobacco. Any ‘man who uses the Reat Tobacco Chew’ will tell you that. Put up in two styles . avenue, facing Central Park, ;. } individual MARCK DAILY TRIBUNE (WORLD'S COSTLIEST APARTMENTS if RENT FOR MERE $3.50 PER HOUR: The most expensive apartment house in the world—so ‘the real estate men say—at 820 Fifth-av., ee Robert Goelet (top), C. K. G. Billings, Mrs. Harold ' “lL. Pratt | Hog Island Officials Will Send This Apartment House epee on Fifth Avenue, Faces Park, and “Has Everything” * | iin New York, July 20.—Have you found a place to live? It'you haven't, what about this? Twenty-Lwo-room apartment an Fifth Nine baths. Modern appointments throughout. Individual laundry. Individual storage room. The rent?) Oh, a mere matter of 30,000 or so a year, about $3.50 an nour, depending upon which floor your apartment is situated. Of .course, this is unfurnished, but you have the satisfaction of knowing that the “finish” to your’apartment is the finest obtainable, floors of black walnut, imported mantels, etc. “For Rent?” Hardly. Fiven if you happen to have $30,000 that you don’t know what to do with, “it is hardly likely that you will be able to get an apartment in the house on Fifth avenue and 63rd street. Most of the apartments were rented on long- term: leases before the building was finished. In, such cases the apartments were divided to suit the tenant; the floor space was cut up according to the ideas of the man who was to occu- py_it. This explains why some of the apart- ments contain only a mere 18 rooms, Such tenants probably @id not have large families and Chose instead larg- ay rooms. There is only one apart: ; ment to each of the twelve floors, so it was possible to suit the taste ofeach without | interfering with anyone else. “Finest insWorld.” Even in New York$40,000%s ja great deal of money to pay for rent. and tlie apartment house at No. 820 Iifth ave- nue is the most expensive one in the J “And the st apartment house in this city,” real estate experts say, | “is the finest apartment house in the world. Among those who have apartments there are C. K. G. Billings, the noted; horseman;. Robert Geolet, prominent member Of the “400”; Harold I. Pratt of Standard Oil, Mrs. Anna Harkness, Alexander Smith Cochran, the million- | aire yachtsman, and H. Mortimer Brooks. The apartments are furnished’ in keeping with the rentals. The most costly rugs: draperies, furniture, have | been obtained. One tenant is reported to have spent the-modest sum of $250,- 000 in this manner. In 1914, the average farm in the] province of Quebec was worth $41 ; be! New York. MOSLEM REVOLT PLOT IS BARED Constantinople, Jily. Jily 19—(Delayed) —wWholesate arrests were made here today in connection with an alleged plot jto promote a general uprising of Moselms, agai foreign: occupation. The confession of one plot is r orted to have implicated. high: offi- of one of the entente powers in ry which was directed inst the British, chiefly 4 G. 0. P. LEADERS PLAN CAMPAIGN Columbus, 0:, July 2 the executive committee of the .Repub- lican national committee arrived here today for a meeting for campaign plans 2 going to Marion tomorrow at ywhich time Senator Harding will be notified of his nomination for the presidency, The notification arrangements com- mittee, headed by T. Coleman du Pont, of Delaware, planned’ to meet following the session of the executive committee. Inset, three } —Members of; Best Music. rf Coolest Spot TAX COLLECTOR WILL CHECK UP ON MERCHANTS .B. E. Hitchcock Assigned to Bis- marck Territory by Internal Revenue Department “The returns filed. by ice cream sell- ers will be checked back against their wholesale purchases, and they will be ‘required to show reason why their taxes should not come to fifty cents on: each gallon of cream handled,” an- {nounced B. . Hitchcock, deputy col- lector of internal revenue, this morn- ing. | Mr. Hitchcock is now stationed in the Federal Building here and will have charge of the collection of all geayernment taxes. for Burleigh, Dunn, Kmonds, Grant, McLean, Mercer Mar- tin; Albright, and Soo counties. “Retailers have been too careless about making their federal tax re-| Mr. Hitchcock said. “We are| going to check up on them and see th pt returns made. In nase a i am in bulk Vit will be e » for him to keep: aj record of bulk Fifty cents on each gallon of cream sold is about the proper tax return, when sold over the counter. | “Counters doing about the same | amount of business: will be checked against cach other. If they use ap- proximately the same quantity of. fruit juices there is no reason why their tax returns should vary very much.” ALASKAN PLANE Grand Rapids, Mic Mich., Shortly before noon the crew of the bound army airplane 204 They covered the second ight, from Erie, Pa., in and 15 minutes, Plane No. 1 was forced to land on account of engine troudle. Plane No. 3 reached Grand Rapids yesterday. VOTE IN FAVOR ONE BIG UNION Rapids City, Minn., July. 21.—Dele- gates to the State Federation of La- bor meeting hereyp: da resolution today favoring the ablishment ot the. “One. Big Union. The convention also adopted a res- olution calling for the “opening of the prison doors to all war profiteerg,” Settlers from the United States) have taken up 5000 acres of land In the Vauxhall district, Alberta, July 21.- Wanted: Girls or boys over 16 years of age to learn press | am acre; now it i an acre. feeding. Apply Tribune office, LANDS IN MICH.| He also stated that remittances should be made payable to W. E. Byrilly, Internal Revenue Collector, largo, p. Returns must. be filed during the month following the period for which the return is made. JACOBSON HEADS a St. Paul ly The organ tion of the committee . which work to obtain freight cars for the «movement of the 1920 ‘ain crop, was begun today. Jacobson was do-} signated. chairman of the’ committee, i whic composed of grainmen, (bankers, and public officials from Minnesota, North. and South Dakota, and. Montana. The committee plans to leave next | wek to interview the interstate cont merce commission at Washington: | MANKATO GAINS Washington, July 21.—The census for Mankato, Minnesota, was announc- 1 ed today as 12,469, an increase of saaee or 20.3 percent. In two months, this year, Greece} exported more. than 16,000,009 | pounds of currants, nearly 2,000,000 pounds more than was exported dur- A laugh, 3 a surprise or a puneh in. every foot of film. Invite yourself and the fam- ily. GRAIN CAR MEN | in Town. Pictares De Luxe * TONIGHT” Dorothy GISH “Mary Ellen Comes To Town” a She tried— To. “pep: up” a, town that wanted to sleep. To do a dinky dance ina Broadway cabaret home. In falling in keeps. To keep out of jail by ‘vamping” a” She succeeded-— ing the beans, winning a husband for BI rene cer-star fashion, in a gay of New York’s man. from queen.” Th learn real life! love, spill- and All warming love. gowns smart society. 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