The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 28, 1920, Page 3

| > LEGAL WORK OF STATE HELD UP | ra ‘ Y a | i rs Se acl C4 —— ae = s é4 . \ BY MONEY LACK Attorney General’s Office: Work- ing Under Handicap as ‘Re- sult of Cut in Allowances PRESSED WITH BUSINESS Delay on Loan ‘Applications of Farmers Avoided ‘by: Office by Strenuous Efforts The state legislature, in its attempt to’ punish William Langer, attorney general, probablydidn’t consider {hat it was punishing the state of North Dakota instead of Mr. Langer -by. re- stricting the activities of the state’s legal department. - \: With a press of business never be- fore equalled in the attorney gen- eral’s office and with calls for as- sistance coming daily, the attorney gencral’s force is up against a stiff proposition in trying to care for the business, . Cut Two-Thirds ? The legislature reduced the appro- priation for the department about two-thirds, until the end of the bi- ennial period ‘on June ‘30, 1921. The department has been rediiced from five regular assistants and an attor- ney for the land department to two regular sienographers. and a_ brief clerk, the force hasbeen. reduced te two stenographers.- Here are some off the things the department cannot do under present appropriations: Cannot issue services or summons subpoena witnesses or pay for a trans- cript in an appealed case. Cannot take a case to the United States supreme court. Cannot answer calls of lgcal offi- cials for special investigation — aid (such'as the Turtle Lake murder case when ; local authorities ‘called, for aid). | Cannot answer all its correspond- ence. Though the department answers 100 letters a day it has but $200 for postage until July’ 1, 1921. Cannot furnish assistance to local authorities in prosecuting cases unless the local authorities pay transporta- tien expenses. The appropriation for traveling expenses was reduced from $4,000 to $800. No Loans Held Up In_ spite of the restrictions placed on the office, not a single scliool dis- trict or a farmer desiring to obtain a loan from the boagd of university: and ‘school lands. has been forced to wait for the loan because of delay in the attorney general's office in examinine the abstracts and other papers in connection with the mak- ing of a loan. The business of the department has tripled jn the last four years on ac- count of new legislation enacted. A cursory examination of records shows that up to 1917 the attorney general’s office has had but three cases in the United States sugreme court. since statehood, or, the year 1888; in’ the last three yefrs the Yepartment has had nine cases in the’ U, S. supreme court. ‘Fund Abolished F Up: to the Jast’ special’ session’ of the legislature it, always-has been recognized that there were many cases calling for’ investigation, service of papers, obtaining transcripts, for which a contingency fund was provid- ed: The last special session, in reduc- ing the appropriations for the attor- ney-general, cut out entirely the con- tingency appropriation. There now is no fund against which the service of summons, subpoena, complaint or the transcript for an appeal can be charg- ed. The department, has no fand by which it could carry a case to the U. S. supreme court; either as plaintiff or respondent. \ It is the effort of Mr. Langer and his assistants to keep up with the work as far as possible,'so that a great accumulation will not be handed to his successor, when he takes ‘office next year. PHATE Gar ~ BEFUEL FOR. INSTITUTIONS for by State Board for Build- ings Use i North Dakota lignite coal may be used almost exclusively in state in- stitutions this wintar because of the inability to obtain bituminous coal, ac- cording to ‘Secretary Chagles Leis: man, of the state board of administra- tion. Lignite coal. will ‘be furnished to the state by several firms on the basis of a price of $3.00 a ton mine run, according ‘to the Sécretary. Quo. tations have not been obtained from companies handling bituminous coal, it was’ stated, because of the inabil- ity of assuring a supply. , Bituminous ‘coat has already been used in the state hall .of science ar Wahpeton, because of the large hall area, but it is said that lignite will be used th - JUMPS BAHL SPEEDING CASE Harry Peterson Fails. to Show} Up Before Police Magistrate Harry Peterson was picked .up by _ the police Sunday, charged with, vi- olating the speed ordinance. He de posited $10 bail. It is alleged by the police that Peterson’s auto was following an auto in which ‘two girls were driving around town, ami that the two cars engaged in a regular race. He failed td appear before E, H, Howell, pol-! Constance Binney Realart Pictures, Constance Binney is the debutante star of screen and stage. In “Erstwhile Susan,” at the New Eltinge Theatre tonight, she scores a real triumph. It is a story of powerful contrasts derived from‘ the original novel “Baranabetta” by Helen R. Martin. A special music score has been provided for the orchestra which will give one an evening’s exceptional icé magistrate, and his bail was’ for-| feited. ! The two girls received orders from he police to show up in court Mon- day night “and bring your pocket} book along,” warner the officer. 1 They are also charged, with violat- ing the speed law. So far they have not appeared and the police may.have to trace down their license number, E. H. Howells, magistrate, wishes to call attention to the fact that $57 and costs is not a fixed fine. Sec- tion 17 of the city traffic ordinance says, “Any pergon who shall violate any of the provisions. of this ordin- ance shall be guilty-of a misdemeancr and, upon ‘conviction. thereof, shall be punished by a fine Of not more than) $100 or imprisonment of not more than 90 days for each offense.” NAVY OFFICERS — SEIZE OIL IN PRICE CONFLICT. Tells Company to Resort to | Courts If Ht Wishes. to Col- . lect Its Price San Franci July 28.—Associated Oil company officials announced here today they would endeavar to cpTect their price of $2.08 'a°barrel for fuel oil, which six destroyers took at. the sompany’s wharves here and for which the navy officers offered $1.72, yester- | day. No resistance was offered by the compan when the destroyers took the oil. Company officials later said the navy Virpfally seized the fuel, because it had tife men to make good its threat to take the oil. The navy told the campany to re- sort to the courts if it wished to col- lect its price. “The Associated Oil company did not | bid for any navy contract ,as we could not meet the navy’s price without los- ing money,” F. B. Henderson, generai manager of the company sai “Phe; tuel cost us $1.60 at the wells and it is ridiculous to suppose we can bring it 200° miles to Sap Francisco for the dded 12 cents tha navy offered.’ WIDOW AND 6—. WIDOWER AND 6, : i. MATCH BY MAIL Post Office and Want Ad Nego- tiate Wedding for Minnesota ; Woman Minneapolis, Jyly 28.—Courtship by al mail and acceptance of a prop from a man she had nevex seen h ‘aken. Mrs. Alice Skoog, a widow, from her home in Excelsior to a new hone in-Portland, Ore., as the wife of Emil Lewenhurg, a millwright. Announce-j ment of their marriage in Vancouver, Wash., has caused a flurry of excite- ment among her friends at Lake Min- netonka. . . Three months ago Lewenburg in- serted air advertisement for a wife| in a matrimonial paper. Lewenburs j had grown lonely in the three years hi first wife*died, and the care children was more than he A friend of Mrs. sinc of hi could attend to. Skoog; who has supported her children by practical nursing since the death of her husband three years ago, mailed her_a copy of the matri- monial paper. More out of a sense of curiosity than anything else, Mrs. Skoog answered the adyertisement of the “lonesome widower” in Oregon. Although she read many‘of the des- criptions the paper contained, she says she never wrote to any of the other men. - When Lewenburg received the let- ter from Mrs. Skoog he was delighted. While ‘he had received many answers, he immediately answered the one from Minnesota. Letter followed letter, and finally Lewenburg “declared his love for. the widow and asked her to meet him in Portland and be married. The people of the United States are paying more than a million “dol- lars a day’ for their cotfee, entertainment. SINN FEINERS DOMINANT NOW IN COUNCELS} Refuse to © Recognize British Government and Hold Gov" j o ernment Reigns ’ NEW CONELICTS EXPECTED | DublineFuly 28. — Nearly all the Irish QOunty and district councils re- cently elected have now passed resol- utions. declaring allegiance to Dail Kireann, and their first meetings have héen turned into Sinn Fein demonstra- fions.. The new chairmen, everywhere outside Northeast Ulster, are Sinn Feiners. ‘fhe Dublin County council -has al- ways been a-moderate body. fas a Sinn Fein majority, has pro- nounced for Dail Eireann and elected as its chairman a young professor of mathematics. At Sligo the chair- mana SinnFein M. P., announced that all/their actions would be guided to- wards the most effective means of |: slearing Britain out of Ireland, ) Clearing Britain Out This council, like most of thé coun- 1s; Has made Irish language compul- sory on all candidates for office un- der the countil. The councils have refused to sénd minutes of their pro- lings to the local government board, and will also refuse all in- formation to the Income Tax depart- ment. None of the councils would make any provision for the payment of the compensation for outrage awarded against the localities by the courts. ‘ Punish Sheriff . At Roscommon it was decided to stop the.salary of the sheriff to pun- ish him for allowing~military to oc- cupy the court house. In many places council hall, and in’ some in- es was then removed by the sol- In Mayo all the proceedings carried on in the Irish language. o far, the local government board ‘hich used to be very prompt in deal: with the lotal bodies has. turned the st dier: {a blind eye to the results of the new departure. But sooner or later a conflict between. the new powers and the old is regarded as inevitable. GARBAGE CARE NECESSITY IN HEATED PERIOD Public Health Official . Points Out Rules Which People Must. Follow ' E. M. Stanton, in charge of the local branch of the public health laboratory, is calling the attention of city officials in this part of the staté ,to the neces- sity for taking proper care of house- hold garbage during. the hot. weather. “Na house refuse, offal, garbage, dead animals, decaying vegetable mat- ter or organic waste matter of any kind shall be thrown. upon the street,” Dr. Stanton says. “No similar refuse shall be kept if any house, cellar, adjoining outhouse or premises for more than 48 hours. All receptacles for such garbage, eta, should be constructed: sufficiently large énough to properly held.ithe Waste matter. Receptacles should be! water tight, ‘made of tightly matched ! lumber, or galvanized’:.iron. They should be nine inches from the ground, and provided with a suitable cover, properly “adjusted to keep out flies, rats, and insects. They must: be emptied at least once every 48! hours.” The garbage shall not be used for filling unl ss. the : operation is ap- proved by a health officer, regulations | provide. Attention fo; these regulations. will do much to prevent flies and will help “maintain good pub! ton says. x BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE ; a Proved Econom ESSEX] MOTOR CARS, A Nation- Wide Demonstration No Motorist Can Overlook Connecticut—With 12 cars over Mo- hawk’ Trail and Hoosick Mountains and 12 over a coast route—many own- er driven—216 miles average distance per car 18.7 miles per gallon: were shown. \One car with 35,000 miles ser- vice averaged 21.2 miles per gallon, Nebraska—A_ Hastings, Neb., woman drove, ‘her Essex from Lincoin to Hastings, 109 miles, ‘averaging 28 miles per gallon, ~Califo-nia—Four women‘ drove from Los Angeles to San Francisco and _re- turn averaging 22.3 miles per gallon. A San Francisco Essex made the round trip, 846 miles, in’33 hours with 23 miles. per gallon. Hood and radia- toy sealed.“ San Antonio, Tex.—In a 166 mile run to Austin and return, Essex averaged 25.5: miles per gallon. : Sacramento, Calif—Defeated 19 en- tries. and took Tallac Cup for highest gasoline, oil and water mileage in, Sacramento Dealers, reliability run. Baltimore, Md.—Essex sedan, on orig- inal tires with 15,000 miles service, traveled” 221, miles over \ Maryland hills, averaging: 23 miles per gallon. Florida—On a measured gallon an Es- ’ Sh x covered 23 miles and without change or adjustment of any kind showed speed of 68 mileS per hour. 49 Cars Average 18.9 Miles Per Gal- lon—Records cover every kind of test re a speed of from 5 to 72 miles per our. \ / Los Angeles, Calif.—To San Francis-’ co over 828 mile route of steep grades and frequently far from wales sup- plies Essex which had’ prevjously gone 28,000 miles and ‘under U. S. Marine observation made trip, sealed in high gear with sealed’ hood and’ sealed ra- diat Average 22.8 miles per gal. gasoilne- PAGE THREE See How Essex | Now, it |- Also Broke World's Dirt Track Record—1261 Miles - Made at Dallas, Texas, by.a Car That Had-Miready Gone 12,000 Miles i . to 72 miles per hour. They were reeling off thous- From the meré standpoint of’ gasoline mileage, Essex'in its nation-wide tests showed a perform- ance worthy of cars which possess: as their principal quality. i a that advantage Records were. kept on:49' cars. They averaged 18.9 miles to the:gallon. . ¢ But-bear in mind this was not done by. taking advantage of every, device possible to increase gasoline ‘mileage. Under conditions of that sort, all Essex cars. Essex showed as high as‘37 miles to the gallon. However, men don’t drive that way. How obvious- ly unfair it would be, therefore, to offer such care- fully economized fuel mileage tests as ‘typical of In the Essex tests, conditions and performances adversé to gasoline economy obtained. These cars were being driven at speeds from 5 , R 4 SALE PROPOSAL OF SHIP BOARD CAUSES CLASH Steamship Companies Ask Low Prices While Ship Builders Wart High Prices | the Republican flag was floated over] AFFECTS MARINE FUTURE { TOWNLEY’S, PLEA REFUSED BY JAMES HENLE, Washington, July 28—The U.. 8. Shipping Board, about to undertake-in its sale-of $3,000,000,000 of ships one O. the most gigantic business deals in his- cory, is between two firgs... - On one hand are the steamship'tom- panies, They want to get the ships as cheaply as possible. vet tke thier hand are the shipbuild ing concerns. They are anxious. to nave thé government put the: price as igh it Can. “et the hundreds of ships owned by the United’ States—the number, is ‘something under 2000—were dumped upon the market all at once and at a low price, the market for ships would bé “broken” and the yasds would have to sell their products very cheaply or not at all.. So say the shipbuilders. ‘ Kick Hardest. a To date; the steamship companies are making the bigger *kick.” They declare that ships are bringing at pri- yate sale only ‘about $110 a: ton, ‘put that the government is trying to get as much has $2v0 a ton for its vessels. They assert that the most important item of expense in shipping is interest on the mioney invested, and that if American owners are compelled to pay $200 a ton for their steamers they will be absolutely unable to meet foreign competition. The: shipyards, however, argue that the government should charge \even more, than the cost of duplicating a ‘As-a report of the Committee of American Shipbuilders explains: “The committee believes that in fix- ing the value of’any ship sold, Con- gress should not. be unduly. influenced by the price at which such ship can be duplicated. The time required for du- plication will, under present condi- tions, go far toward paying the ¥ntire cost of the ship. At present, a’ ship ‘which’ can be delivered at once is much more valuable than’ one which éannot be delivered for a twelve- month.” Since the time this was written con- gress has put into the hands of the Shipping Board authority: to sell the vessels? The Coal Embargo. One of the factors which renders the lic health, Dr. Stan- present task of the American merchant | court, f marine more difficult, and which dis- assigned as error that the court made 216 Main ands of miles over’all sorts of roads in inter-city runs that set new.time marks. They were making. new hill-climb, acceleration and endurance records, -Many -were owner cars—owner piloted some. driven. Women Some of the'Essex cars used had already trav- - eled upwards of 30,000 to 35,000 miles. So you must! not view the Essex economy mere- ly by its gasoline consumption. You must also consider its endurance and reliability. “If there were nothing more ‘Essex than its gasoline milea striking about the e, it would be a worthy subject of our advertising. But import- ant impressive as that fact is, doés not its other qualities take flrst rank in your consideration? . B. Loubek Motor Street Distributor for Hudson and Essex Cars. Kelly-Springfield Tires. courages potential investors, in gov- ernment ships, is the embargo on the export df coal. i | American firms, or at least the new- | er ones, have not been able to build up a system of agents and solicitors. { Coal, however, has always been one cargo that was easy to obtain commer- cially, and newcomers in the shipping business have relied upon it to fill their boats. A number of the ships alneagy pur- chased from the government on “easy payment” plans were used largely for coal on their trips from the country to Europe. i Such investors have been left more or less stranded by the embargo, and this example has not proved very stim- ulating to, others, : FACES JAIL SENTENCE (Continued from Page One) this tim as fully admitted and decide the case. at this timé without further waiting. cular attention is called te the assignment of error.No. 109, the p y co Afor the state of Minnesota). * Haid Fair Trial “This assignment is absolutely without mérit. The conduct of the attorneys for the state was at all timés during the trial courteous, lawyer- like and dignified except that-there were very many exasperating Incl- dents during the trial that required thee utmost patienceyand. control of temper on the part of attorneys for the state and the court to endure. “Many of these incidents were obvi- ously studied.and prearranged. for the purpose of irritating the state's, coun- sel to the end that error,.would be committed. The words usedand ap-! pearing in the record do not give an adequate idea of the conduct and man- ner of opposing counsel, which was uniformaly but with rare intervals in- solent and extremely obnixous: Hits News. Distortion “The publicity agent for a string of newspapers controlled by the Nonpar- tisan league, of which the defendants were respectively preSident and man- ager, was in court during. the whole trial and: furnished copy. for publica- tion if these numerous papers, which copy as ‘published during the trial and afterward contained many garbled and, distorted statements of facts; state- ments of purported occurences dur- ing the trial which never occurred and vicious and untrufhful accusa- tions. and attacks on the state attor- neys, court and county officials. “Vhe jury in the case was assailed as being corrupt, witnesses for the state accused of perjury and other attempts made to create public senti-| ment in and around. Jackson county against the, court proceedings and pro- secution of defendants. These papers’ were widely circulated in Jackson and; other counties of the state. Court Not Prejudiced WATCH the ESSEX nduct on the part of the attorneys | “As to assignment No. 108, prejudi-| | cial conduct upon: the part of the trial in which complaint is made and MARIETTA, new Democratic national committee obligations af the. nation had: mougt- chairman, won his wife in the good ed to their highest Doints26 hg bap O. — George old-fashioned story-book way. NATION'S INCOME ATLAST COVERS. shebat Surplus: of 291. Millions, Pagtial- ‘ly Due to-Liquidation of — War Corp tise t hed | DEBT REDUCED; 2. BILLION . Washington.D, C, July. 28,—The gow ernment’s income for Re seahaeae ending Jupe: 30:.exceeded. its expenses for the first time.in three years Secre- tary D: F. Houston declared in‘a state- ment, in which he announced a reduc+ tion in the gross public, debt and: fore- casted a’further “important reduction” for the coming 12 months.) |; 44.2" While the annual operation, government showed a surplus of $: 221,547, :the: more. important, change, trensury, officials. said, was \the: gult- ting. of $1,185,184,692 from the :groks public ‘debt during’ the yean, The: na- tional debt aggregated 924,290,321 AN on June 30, and $25,484,506,160 a year White, | previously, but in the meantime the Her}on August 21—due. to’ the- operatic father, a wealthy ,man, told young] incident to tle handling.of maturities White to,earn $100,000 and then|of treasury certificates of indebted- come back for the bride and’ $100,004 |‘ness. os more. White followed directions,|}' Outside of the’ transactions involv- went to the Klondike and came back|ing, the gross debt, treasuny,, receipts to ‘live happily ever afterwards.” sarcastic and court remarks to coun- sel, the trial court makes no Claim to an angelic temper and disposition but it would have. required: a court of far greater patience and a more angelic saris oneatong ine ot tren disposition than this court possesses to have passed through the insults and’ contemptuous conduct displayed an persistently indulged in by some of the attorneys for, defendants with an unruffled temper.and tongue. How- ever, the records although not the tone and manner of counsel is open | for review by the upper court if pre- sented. Instructions to Jury “The instructions requested by .de- fendant to be given to thé jury were: typewritten and handed to the court by defendant Townley in the court’s chambers at-a recess taken during the county ‘attorney's arguments to the jury. Defendant’s attorneys had been requested several days before the case, was concluded that if they intended to make any requests to present thenr in. advance so that they could, be gone over and time given to considerrthem, but this was not done. None of the requested instructidns . were refused, but: sufficient time was not given to the court to examine them before in- d 15, have now been, 30, i atements, amounted to. tructing the jury.” for the year aggregated $6,69 r while ‘expenditures: torale 408: 841,, The: statement revealed, howe: that the surplus was due largely partial liquidation of the:assets ofthe ) War Finance corporation... incident to. the ury. certificates from; Juné 18. to..J iy completed,” thi statement said, “and'have resulted: in further. reductions, in bath. the gpa debt, and the floating debt ot the Unit. ed. States, .The gross.‘debt, om: Jjme. 1920, on the basis of daily treasury. 24,298,321,- 467. In. other: words, the grogs debt; on June 30, 1920, ‘has bee redaged. by $2,297,380,180, from: its. peak on’ Au- ' gust 31, 1919, and. by. $1,185,184,692 from the figure on June 30, 1918... +;; \WANTED—Work as ‘clerk by experi: enced lady. Call Room lotel Northwest. ‘T28-3t. Pes LADY, Thoroughly: capable: ands ex- perienced; desires: positign as, sales: lady: or demonstrator. Dfiss’ Net nie: Driver; General. Delivery,; Bis- marck, N. D. 5 TeR Rt. WANTED—At once, . young: girl to help: with. "housework and ‘gq home nights. Mrs. Worth Lumry, 311 Third street. L233.