The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 16, 1920, Page 1

é f - oF eon —- THE WEATHER Continued Cold THIRTY-NJNTH YEAR CHARGESOF TRICKY METHODS AND 7 BAD FAITH ARE EXCHANGED DURING HEARING ON THE WATER QUESTION C. L. Young Charges Unfair Tactics With Railroad Commissioners by Water Company Attorneys; Petitions for Arbitration Presented—Both Sides Give Views at Length ® The water question was pretty thoroughly aired last night before the city commission when petitions were presented, signed by 110 persons, asking that the price at which the city would i a < A purchase the Bismarték Water Supply company be determined by arbitration. \ The attendance was a little disappointing to those who thought the long discussions over the question and the advertis- ig given the meeting would result in the presence of the majority every taxpayer in thé city. When the ¢cmmission was called to order there were about 20 citizens present, but before the hearing adjourned after 11 p. m. probably a hundred had been present. Charges of foul tactics, bad faith and intimidations of “crooked work” were made. At times the discussion sunk to the level of personalities between spéakers. Charges that attorneys for the wa- ter company had not allowed thei case to rest with the railroad com- mission, but continued to “button- hole” commissioners in hotel lobbies and confer with them in offices 0° counsel, from the time of the hear- ing last winter until the decision! was made, were hurled by C. L. Young spetial city counsel. He declared the city might expect the same tactics would be pursued in any arbitratioy scheme. ARE OFFERED BY RURAL CENTERS Books for Farmers and for Groups May Be Obtained On Liberal Loans Aandahl Mentioned The talk brought a retort from | Judge BE. T. Burke, who presented the petitions, to the effect ;that he had known Sam Aandahl, a railroad com- | | missioner for 40 years, and that Aan 4 dahl was above insinuations that “he gold out in the matter.” “Iam not charging Sam Aandahl; Centers or individuals, is was stated with selling out,” said Mr. Young.;‘oday by Miss Blanche Hedrick, who ‘but he has publicly confessed he’s|has assumed charge of the library not capable of holding his job, and |-pnere ave probably 300 of these tra not a’knave in this case he’s 1! ). 2 ‘ i: cling librar y of which are Theodore Koffel, who talked for ar- | not in use. i | The state library has traveling library sets for sets, bitration, later brought the question | The “community libraries” contain of improper influence on commission: |40 to 50 books, one-haif fiction for +f fadul and children and one-half ers before the meeting. jaduits an ; ; “Did you not. set president of the hooks in history, biography, travel, lit- Commercial club, ‘appoint a member eae cae rea ous pee? of the railroad commission on a com-coo Vibraries may be obtained it six mittee in this matter while the case was still pending?” asked Koffel of Mr. Young, “The appointment of a citizens com- mittee to confer with members of the responsible people will sign the appli- cation ecard and. pay -the freight , Which are nominal. The li- {braries may be kept for six months, and may be renewed. city commission was requested,” re-; The * libraries” consist of plied Mr.¢Young. 2 10 15 tec (1 books on farming by “You sifouldn’t say so much about} experts on crops, stock, machiner tampering’ with railroad commission- | and allied subjects. Three signatures ers, under the circumstances,” an- {are required for this application, They swered Koffel. are loaned for three months and are Kotfel was referring to {he appoint- ment of Frank Milhollan to a/ citizens committee fast summer, while the casc was still pending in the r ad com- mission. jvenewed if requested. The library also will furnish small schools, make; loans to loans and _, furnish oosing pUbraries fo. jclubs, individual jmaterial for debaters in Those Who Spoke Those who spoke at the meeting | \ were Judge Burke, 0. E. Anderson, | oo ee M. A. Edberg, A. J. Nathan, Frayne ; Baker. F. O. Hellstrom, Joe Kelly, | f° Theodore Koffel, R. L. Best, P. H. 3 Byrne, H. F. O’Hare, C. L. Young, ON INCOME TAX George Gussner, Art Gussner, Wm. F, Harris, B, E. Jones, Mayor A. W Lucas. There were occasional cheers and laughter for the various statements during the long hearing. Fear of the Fargo, Noy. 16.—Charged with mak- ing false returns to the collector of internal, revenue on his net income and profits for the years 1917, 1918 jand 1919, W. J. Glenny, treasurer of the Mott Supply company, a general guments. ge indictment ssion of the grand jury in Fargo. The indictment charges that as treasurer of the corporation, cent i | city’s being “jobbed” during an ar-| bitration hearing was expressed by ; some, and talk of “tying up” rep-, resentatives of the water company | while there were negotiations was ex- | pressed by ‘some. ' “While you're talking about tying ; 1 up persons on the water company merchandise store at Mott, Hettinger side, I think there are some on the | couyty. was placed wider arrest Fri- other side who Ought to be tied up. | by a federal officer. Glenny fur- too,” said P. BE. Byrne. j nis ned $5,000 bond for his appearance Burke’s Explanation at ie Bismarck term of federal court At the start of the hearing Jud: ees Site Burke, presenting the petitions with The arrest follows \an 110. names on them, which contained some. of the city’s largest taxpayers. and representative business men and saying he had more of them, Apelaret Glenny filed a false income and pro- that the gist of the expression of the | iis report for his business in 1917. petitioners was that the city commis’|phe statement, it is alleged by the sion should make a reasonable effort | government, showed that he declare to settle the matter by arbitration. his inventory stock of merchandise He said he believed it was the MOS: | to be valued at $49,095.22 on Dec. 31. speedy and satisfactory way and that 1917, and that the net income and ithe city could protect itself amply} profits for the year 1917 were jn the appointment of arbitrators. He» $8,907. in reality the inven- said he understood the water company | tory was $65,460.29 and the amount was willing to leave the appointmeni of the net income and profits, of the third arbitrator (the city to name one and the company one) to almost any fair minded persons. | 5.65. is charged in the second count his statement for the year K : itigation was |Dusiness in 1918 placed his. inventory Burke declared the litigation Nee ere Bee ee ea coined a rs1ve di low. c ued expensive artis court reverses the | $44,261.69 and show ed a net incom eens ack where (and profit of $6,603.32 e govern present case, we will be back where ‘ment alleged that the stock was val- pyeastarted, he she ake ted then at $59,094.90 and that the eighteen months to get the cas? i oone and profits. for the year through the federal district court. 1 bunted to $14,071.16. an appeal is taken it will be thr: Ihe hird count deals with the years more. firgs busin in 1919. The govern- He said that if the met charges that Glenny declared in a statement given under oath that the inventory stock amounted to $37, 44 when the government re- port was made to the collector o ‘internal revenue and that the income $6,318.50 of being “jobbed” in i might well be afraid of pitfalls in other methods. He declared that if the | city failed to accept arbitration when jit was offered, it would go into cour" at a disadvantage—without clean jand profits were _listed at ie ds |when in fact the inventory report to ; : collector should have shown » water company, he added, was | the villing to let the third arbitrator 9¢ wy ede profits at $12 any federal judge outside oe ; Dakota, if Judge Amidon di t $15,000 PAID FOR INFIELDER serve or was not satisfactory. wy St. Paul, Minn. Nov. 16.—Joseph company would turn the plant over 30 days, he said, and would take bonds } for payment. Anderson Against It linn 0. E. Aubeeoit of the 0. E. Ander-|Goldie Rapp, infielder, has been old son Lumber company, the next speak- by the St. Paul American Association er, said that the people had elected | Baseball club to the New York Na- ‘2 city commission and unless the | tionals for $15,000. The local club ee will receive a pitcher and an in- a fielder as part payment. St. Paul in and ask the people to take the, : Be Joad off their shoulders he was wili-| purchased Rapp from the Cincinnati i (Continued on Page 4.) ¢jeclub for $1,000 last spring. 57. members of the commission stepped PREE LIBRARIES | és aha: { questions or furnishing facts and ar- on three counts returned at the re-| $67,715.35, and the net income and! "BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA. TUESDAY, NOV. 16, 1920. FIVE CONTESTS | ALREADY FILED FOR CONGRESS Washington, Nov. 16.—-Notices of five contests for seats in the next house] pof representatives already have been} jiled with the clerk of the house, who aid today he expected that at least ats would be contested. i { revised list of members of the new house of representatives shows 302 302 | Republicans, 132 Democrats, and 1 Socialist. First reports to the clerk a week lago indicated that the next house | would pe composed of 307 Republicans, ;127 Democrats, and 1 Socialist. ‘KOSITZKY SAYS HAIL WARRANTS | Declares His Office Not Respon- | sible and That He'll Pay as Soon As He Can ; A small portion cf the hail losses of 1920 will be paid before January 1, according to Auditor Carl Kositzky, who today made the following state- ment: - The names of all who suffer hail losses and the amounts they are to be paid should have been certified to this | office on Oct. 10. To date but three | counties have B®en certified, Ward, Williams and Wells. These were in the lust few days. We have already written warrants for Ward and Wells i counties. ;. “There are about 22,000 warrants to, be written this year, as compared to + 14,000 last y We will get the work available! out as quickly as possible after we eof rural! get the warrants, but because the legislature reduced the appropriation for my office to a low {the emergency commission has allo ted me ouly a part of the money ne sary to obtain adequate ‘work of writing the hail v ibe slow. | “We shall, however, make every et- |fort to get the warrants out to the farmers as soon as we can.” ROBBERIES OF _ PAYROLL BRING — NEWMETHODS | i Business House Will Dispense | With Use of Money in i Handling Accounts Rochester, Noy. 16.—A large busi- | ness house having headquarters in | this city nas undertaken to conduct j its affairs entirely without the use of money. Instead of currency, it in- tends to use checks, trade acceptances | and trave! checks to make payments of jevery kind, including its payroll. As {the concern deals with more than !/s00,000 individual customers the re- | sult of the experiment will be watch- led with interest. | The company’s reason for adopting {this method is given as an effort to jdemonstrate a means of ending the : epidemic of payroll robberies and! “to ' show that modern business may be conducted most efficiently without the tase of ‘small change’, thus leaving |the nation’s money where it belongs, in the banks, ‘to:serve as the basis | of credit.” The announcement says even car- fares, hotel bills and railroad fares for ithe company’s force of several hun- 'dred salésmen, and other sundries a | to be paid by checks. All petty items jeven to one-cent postage stamps will j be paid henceforth hy check and “no j currency of any amount or denomina- {tion is to be carried in any form as company proper To meet the payroll of its factor ; the company has offered to employ either a regular pay check or the option of receiving on pay day a de- posit slip showing that his earnings ifor the week have been deposited to his credit in a local bank. This plan is expected by the house to prove popular with the thriity e¢lass of ‘em- ployes and to increase the volume of bank deposits. Executive employes who have no banking account have been advised to start one at once. | DUTTON NAMED MASON’S HEAD “FOR NEW YEAR| R. W. Dutton w elected worshi ful master of Bismarck lodge No. A. F. & A. M., at a meeting held last night in the Masonic temple. RW. Lumry w chosen senior warden; Ole Lundquist w chosen junior warden; J. P. French was A, J. Arnot Other officers aro ed treasurer and chosen secretary. appointive. WAGES TO STAY SAME IN MILLS| Fall River, M Nov. 16.—Wages of the 35,000 operatives in the cotton mills here will re in at.the scale {that has been in force for the last six months, according to an agree- ment reached by representatives of the manufacturers and employes to- day. A substitute for absorbent cotton is obtained from pine cellulose. "TO BE DELAYED figure and} INITIATED LAWS MAY RESULT IN SPECIAL ACTION | : | Conflict of ‘Law on Time of | Taking Effect and Canvas- sing Board at Stake AN OPINION IS ASKED If Laws Are to go Into Effect | in 30 Days Special Session Must Be Called The time of the taking effect of the immeted laws isa subject of debate! today, pecause of an apparent con- flict in the state laws. i The state constitution provided that a law enacted by popular vote, except } an emergency measure, shall take ef- tect 30 days after the election, which would be Dee. 2. The law regarding the state canvas-| sing board provides that the board} shall meet on the first Tuesday in De-j dember (which jn /1920 is on Dec. 7) to canvass the vote. The laws cannot become effective before the state canvassing board holds they have been enacted by the} popular vote. The secretary of state has asked the attorney-general for a} ruling as to whether the canvassing} board should be called into special jon to canvass the vole on the! nitiated megsures, so that they can be declared effective on Dec. 2, The, same situation applics to the consti- | tutional amendments submitted to the | vote of the people. a Constitution Amendment Article 26 of amendments to state constitution provides: “An, measure, except an emergency meas ure submitted to the electors of the | by & majority of the voters proved And such law shall go into thereon. tion. unless otherwise specified in the measure.” Section 1015, compiled laws of 1913, as amended by. chapter 151, session | laws of 1915, reads as follow “Sec. 1018. (State Canvassing Board, Meeting of.) For the purpose of canvassing and ascertaining the re- sult of such election, the state b of canvassers shall meet at the off @ of the secretary of state the first Tuesday in December next after a general election and within thirty days after a special election, and the secretary of state shall notify the oth- er members of the bour] of th, sume.” N sai. . $500,000 IS EXPENDED BY THE RED CROSS Northern | Division of Which North Dakota is a Member Has Successful Year Minneapolis, Nov. 16.--More 0,000 has been expended during the past two years in the northern division of the American Red Cross, which em- braces the states of Minnesota, Nort and South Dakota and Montana for disaster relief, and the public is ex pected to respond wholeheartedly to the 4th Red Cross Roll Call, which be- gan November 11 to continue to November 25, that a fund may b> ready for any future emergencies, ac- cording to H. C. Branion, division manager. It was shown that besides the huge sums given for relief of fire sufferers the Minnesota. forest fires, the “Tyler tornado victims, and! influen: trerers in the division during the 11918 and 1919, $35,000 was spent. to alleviate suffering in the Montana drought regions early this year and ' ae this summer $15,000 was spent t 0 eradicate the grasshopper plague in Renville county, North Dakota, when that pest threatened 150,000,000 bushels of grain with destruction and saved an $8,000,000 crop for the farmers there Other a in this di n are: i The fnancing of 87 public health} nurses in, Minnesota, Montana, Nort: | and South Dakota. Organization of public health clin- ics throughout the division by pub health nurses. Financing of a course in public} health nursing at the University of South Dakota, Vermillion. The training of 2,000 rural teach- ers in public health instruction dur- ing the it year, Conducting twenty health cen throughout the division where clini id. . ng the fire departments of Min- neapolis and St. Paul instruction i mrs’ aid. The caring for 1,000 soldiers and, families of solpiers by the northern division. WEATHER REPORT || + — | For twenty-four hours ending at noon, | Tuesday, November 16. | Temperature x ie Se roe pire | I Highest yesterday ..... Lowest yesterday -.... Lowest last night. = Precipitation. .....-...- ee None Highest wind velocity...................14-SE “ Forecast For North fair tonight, | warmer east Wednesday | partly cloudy with moderate temper- ature, the |! fect on the 30th day after the elec- | tween WESTERN UNION -ANDULS., DEPT IN OPEN BREAK Telegraph Company Refus “Charge Account” to State Department CABLE QUESTION State Department Refused to Let Company Land Cable at Miami Washington, Nov. unding controvers: between the state department and the Western Union Telegraph company has reach- ed the state of an open break, the company refusing to handle any fur- ther messages for the state department except on prepayment of tolls. The company’s order was issued Noy, 16, it was said today at the de- | partment and ostensibly to apply to all departments of thé government It was understood, however, that messages sent by other departments had been excepted informally from the ruling. The Western Union company is stat- ed to have based its action on the delay by the department in making payments on cable messages previous ly handled. Department officials as- 16.—The long- their opinion a step in retaliation for ilure of the department to per- landing of a cable at Miami, » connecting at Barbadoes, with tish cable trom South America CABLE QUESTION Several months ago the Western Union applied for an executive permit state, shall become a law when ap-|to land the cable at Miami but the state department was said to have demanded a copy of the contract be the Western Union and the British company owning the British South American connecting cable line. The copy was not forthcoming and the state department refused permis- sion to land the cable. Later the British government ordered the Brit- ish ship to discontinue laying the ca- \ble. A copy of the contract was fur- | nished. Miami, .«, Nov. 16.--The Wester: Union Telegrafh company has recali- ed to New York the 18 cable opera- tors and test men who had been here since September, awaiting landing of ; ties, Miam)j-Bardoso egble which nas {been held up ‘by the United States government. The employes said they understood the company now planner to land the cable at Havana, Cuba. NELSON LOSES JOB; POLITICS IN IT DENIED Simon Nelson, an employe of the state for seven years, is without a job today. He lost his job because he wouldn't give $18 to the Nonpartisan league isome of his friends say. This is de thar |nied by Charles Liessman, secretary 0 the hoard of administration. { Nelson was worked through Repub lican and Nonpartisan league adminis trations as a janitor. to the league. Formerly a janitor, he was trans- ferred to bea’ trackman on the state street car line. His friends say it is political punishment. Mr. Leissman declares that Nelson asked to be trdnsferred-to the trackmen’s job, and that he is laid off because the appro priation for that work‘is low and the work requires but two men. Nelson he says, was the youngest of the three in point of service. ELECTIONS; QUITS WITH HIS CABINET Athens, Greece, Noy. 16.-—Premie) Venizelos, cabinet resigned early today and Admiral Coungouriotis, the regen! of Greece, has sent for George Rhallis to whom it is expected will be en- trusted the formation of a new minis- try. The complete victory of the opposi- tion in Sunday’s election seemed al- most certain last night although {1- nal results were lacking. Athens, Nov. 16—Troops fired from number of points on several occa- ng today to disperse after- i trouble makers. Tonight ther tears of further trouble which n lead to martial law. DESERTER IS HELD AFTER GIRLS FOUND Chicago, Nov. 16.—Harold Potte said to be a deserter from the Gr Lakes naval training station was @ rested in connection with the murder of the pretty young women whose bodies were found in Grand Forks. He had an empty vial, which physi- cians said had contained poison. The | arrest was made following information obtained by the detective bureau that | the two murdered actresses had been with the lor prior to the seen LABOR Washington, Nov. 16.—Questions of industrial peace and related problems were discussed today at a conference between representatives of organized labor and former federal food ad- ministrators with Herbert Hoover. rted today, however, that it was in | He is opposec |\ i} t THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [= PRICE FIVE CENTS BUSINESS IN_ | EAST CLAIMS JOHN BURKE John Burke will not return to North Dakota when he resigns soon as Unit- ad States treasurer. Instead he will 30 into business at Newark, N. J. He will be associated in busin with lis brother, Thomas ©. Burl ace vording to word received here. Mr. Burke was appointed treasurer in 1913 by President Wilson, at the 3altimore convention, which nomi- nated President Wilson in 1912, Mr. sur name was presented by Will- iam J. Bryan for the Vice-Presidency. PALL TALKS OF MEX. QUESTION - TOSEN, HARDING President-Elect First Visitors in Texas City, Brownsville, Tex., Nov. 16.—Forced by wind and weatier to abandon 1 vacation in Point Isabel, President elect Harding turned his attentign here today to some of the work that has piled up during his week of isola- tion, . He hoped to go out for a game of zolt before the day \ over but first ie cleqred away some of hig accumu- ated correspondence and worked on he address he is to deliver Thursday n New Orle: He received his first callers since he came to Texas, Gov- ernor Hobby, of Texas, and Senator Fall, of New Mexico, being among th Receives His trom Austin to extend formally the appreciation of Texas over Mr, Hard- .ng’s Visit and Senator Fall is under- stood to have discussed border condi- tions. Senator and Mrs. Harding came to Brownsville from Point Isabel late yesterday and will leave tomorrow for New Orleans where they will go aboard a steamer for Panama. They spent the~night at the home of R. B. Creager, a Brownsville yer, while most of their guests, ed on board the two private cars of the Harding train side-tracked here since the party arrived last week. CANADA WHEAT - DOMINATESTN BIG ELEVATORS All But 2,000 Bushels in Chicago Held to Be of Canadian Origin Chicago, Nov, 16.—Every bushel 0° wheat of contract grade in Chicago public elevator: Canadian grain, pt 2,000 bushels, ac: ling to of- 1 figures made public h®re today. The total stock is only 86,000 bushels and of this amount 84,000 is Canadian. The supply decreased 168,000 bushels fn the last week. Lack of accumulation of stocks of wheat, not only here, but at. other western markets is general and in this connection the present small mov ment from the hands of farmers attracting special attention. ASSAILS $8 WHEAT has not the purchasing, power to buy $3 wheat,” E. G. Nourse, head of the agricultural economics department of the state agricultural college at Ames. Ia. told the farmer-banker conference of northeastern Iowa today, discussing the farmers’ strike and the market conditions. Deliberate marketing to keep pace with the fall of prices, of things farm- ers must buy is a better remedy than the strike, he said. Farmers must accept the general price level he said but are not obliged to accept all the cuts in the deflated prices. FARMERS MEET Kansas City, Mo., } lishment and extension of co-operative sales agencies to eliminate the middle men in the marketing of farm pro- ducts was one of the principal sub- jects on the program of the conven- tion of the Farmers National Union, which opened here toda, Delegates from 28 states were present. The organization, according to dele- gates. directs a farm co-operative business amounting to more than | $500,000. /FRAZIER SPENT $200.08 IN FIGHT nn J. mpaign for r | | | Governor L $200.08 in his ci according to hi with the sec ' penses were listed as follow Rail- road transportation, $124.75; hotel, | meals, $49.70; gas, oil and telephone, $25 John Hagan, commissioner of agri- culture, spent $177.30 The ex- ONE STICKS TO JOB Cardiit, Wales, Nov. 16.—A million jot the coal mineré of Great Britain | participated in the striké, but there is at least on& who did not obey the | union call to quit work. | He presented himself for work at a | South Wales pit where 20 men were employed keeping the collie! in or- der. He went down for his seven- hour shift, cut coal, put it in a tub and took it to the pit mouth single | handed. Governor Hobby made the trip here} Waterloo, Ia., Nov. 16.—The world | ,fed in a - BRITISH TALK TRADE RENEWAL ~ WITH RUSSIANS Representatives in Conference | In London on the Preliminaries | FRENCH VIEW. UNCHANGED | i Defeat of General Wrangel Not » to Bring About Recog- nition London, Noy. 16.— Representatives jor the hussian train delegation head- ted by L. Krassin were in conference | yesterday with the cabinet discuss- jing the preliminaries for the possible j resumption of trade with Sovfet Rus- | Some progress was made, but it ; Was stated there was a sharp division ; ot opinion in the British cabinet on the subject. | FRENCH VIEW H Paris, Nov. 16. he defeat of Gen- j eral Wrangel, whose South Russi ; government had been recognized by ‘France, does not mean that France is ready to consider recognition of the , Russian Soviet government is was saia jat the foreign offite today, | Nov. 16. Wrangel, head of the South Russian (governmeni, wiose army has heen vir- tually wiped out by the Russian Bol- | sheviki, left Sebastopol on a Russian London, jeneral Baron | erul filled with soldiers said a Constantinople dispatch to the Ex- \change Telegraph company. ‘The ; cruiser was accompanied by three ; transports, the fleet sailing for an unknown port. | The United States destroyers Hum- phreys, Whipple and Edwards arrived pat Constantinople with refugees yes- terday, THREA REPRISALS Constantinople, Nov. 16. — The French admiral of the Black Sea forces sent a wireless 'to the Bol- | sheviki after the evacuation of Sebas- | topol by General Wrangel’s troops | threatening reprisals if the town were | looted or the population molested. A | panic is reported to have occurred at | Yalta during the evacuation and re- |, markable scenes to have been witness- ved in Sebastopol and Theodosia. The French have officially assumed | protection of the Crimean refugees in | Constantinople and have provided ac: commodations for 2,000 of them in {the military camp on the Bosphorus. ‘The refugee ships anchored in the ; Bosphorus are awaiting orders from Paris as to their movements. The Russians are fed by American and French soup kitchens. NATIONS WONT INTERFERE WITH U. §. DOCTRINES Danger of incroachment on \ | i Monroe Doctrine Held Definitely’ Averted Geneva, Nov. 16.—All danger that the assembly of the league of nations may encroach on the Monroe doctrine by considering American questions in the absence of the United States has been averted by the withdrawal of « request of Bolivia and Peru for revi- sion of treaties with Chile. Their re: quests were withdrawn yesterday, it having been Bolivia's purpose to gain access to the sea and Peru’s to secure reconsideration of the Tacna-Arica question. It is not expected that any other American questions with dangerous possibilities will come before the pres- ent session of the assembly. It is reported that South American delegates have agreed the league of jnations should do all it can to get |the United States to become a mem- ber nation. GARAGES NEED | LEGISLATION | REPORT SAYS | The legislature is asked by the railroad commission, in its report to the Governor, to take cognizance of the phenomenal growth of the auto- mobile industry. Public ges have been establish- arly every town in the state, and many of them, derive revenue from the storage of cars over night. jIt has been held that such garages come under the public storage ware- house law and must pay a license and furnish bond. The receipts of few of them justi- fy paying the license fee and they have been forced to discontinue the business, the report adds, recom- mending the legislature amend the laws to relieve the situation. The expenditures of the commis- sion for the biennial period are shown to be $19,850.29 for the railroad de- partment and $21,391.11 for the di- | vision of utilities. i sai: The curfew bell was first rung in Europe as a fire prevention, about the time of William I (1610).