The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 15, 1921, Page 1

The Weather Uneettied. THIRTY-NINTH YEAR COMPROMISE PLAN 1s BEING DISCUSSED IN CITIES AND INBISHARCK BY FORCES Word from Minneapolis Takes Less Optimist Won’t Stop Their Investigat: League Members, Many of W THE BISMAR RIBUNE == | ic Tonc—Independents | ion—Governor Frazier Talks to| a i hom Hear from “Back Home”—| i Negotiations May Continue for Several Days. Minneapolis, Feb. 15—D City and Chicago bankers we! ference here today on North the interstate bankers were etails of the Plan of Twin re being worked out in con- Dakota problems, although without information as to BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, FEBRUA RY 15, 1921 + PRICE FIVE CENTS PLOTTED TO. THREE POWERS Paris, Feb, 15.—The overthrow of. the bourgoeis government of Spain, Italy and France is outlined in docu-| ments seized following the discovery | of a communist plot. i CATHRO SHOWS rarm nine teresenives« HOME OTHER BANKS LENDING AID Reads Into Record Loans Made! to Closed Institutions by WILL ANNOUNCE Y= # MARKETING PLAN SAYS COMMITTEE Kansas City Working on Project ' TENTATIVE BASIS. READY Provides for Sale of Grain Through: Co-operative Sell- OLD U.S. TROOPS. Washington, Feb. 1.—Hhe war de-! partment withdrew orders for the de-| parture of troops from the West Vir-| | ginia coal fields | sen trials are over, HOME RULE ON ~BNFORCING LAW ~ CAUSES DEBATE | House and Senate at Odds on; | Bill to Change: Licensing until the Williams ; Is ; NAME LEGISLATORS WHO HAVE GIVEN NOTES TO BANKS WHICH TURNED THEM INTO STATE BANK |House Investigation Continues Process of “Getting Under” Collateral of Bank—O. E. Lofthus Refuses to Answer Ques- tion on Ground it Might Incriminate Self and Then Changes Attitude—Finance Methods Brought Up. of League Corporations Are Attorneys for the house investigation committee, “getting junder” the collateral of the Bank of North Dakota, today put into | | | \the record testimony designed to show that notes of many Non- jpartisan league legislators have “found their way” into the Bank ‘of North Dakcta.. Names of several were given, though all were OE Snot identified as legislators. Among other outstanding points in the hearing today were: Refusal of O. E. Lofthus, state examiner, to answer a ques- with regard to a report on a Joan of the Scandinavian-Ameri- {can bank because it might incriminate himself, and his request and janswer of the question later, after conferring with an attorney {during recess. stand the legislature of that :tate would take. C. T. Jaf-~ Twin City Banks fray, president of the First National Bank of Minneapolis is one of the leaders of the bankers which are interested and this information was not forthcoming from other sources. ing Method Department | oa aa roR if Kansas “City, Feb. ‘Announce-| WATERS IS. BLAMED meat was made today by the tarmers'OITL LEASE BILLG i ‘grain marketing committee of seven-| es en meeting here that the plan * one. A | ‘Measure to Aid Drilling in Bad tion which the farmers wish to take over! ; the grain marketing of the country! Lands Defeated—Engineers Bill Revived - f | Director General Puts Responsi-| The proposed compromise agreement in North Dakota| bility U : os finances is still under discussion in Minneapolis today, as well as| PN !Y Upon Him for League Bank Deal | week. The committee hopes to complete in Bismarck, according to information received by The Tribune! from that city. | ot See F. W. Cathro, director-general of the) 000 the plan it has been working out; Senate bill 18 promises to become! Conclusions reinforced by Lofthus’ testimony to the effect state bank, on the witness stand yes. fOr many mouths. A basis for action’ one of the largest bones of contention|that so-called league corporations were financed through loans U { Premature publicity, according to one banker, materially , -erday before the senate investigation #28 already been astonished. ,.<| Of the legislature. ; if “fri ” ‘ * committee, fead into'the récords iouns; Farmer-owned elevator companies} ‘The house late yesterday accented North oe aaa es akon Seat af 2 ‘ i} checked the progress of the negotiations. irom Twin City ‘banks in the closea| and elevator agencies to operate On) the pill, as amended, which changes i will probably) be made public this! H. A. Paddock, secretary of the Industrial Commission, had left Minneapolis for Chicago, it was said, and the reports indicated vanks in comparison with loans from! !0cal and termina! markets. | the entire plan of licensing of pool the state bank. | halls, dance hatls, bowling alleys, the- that Chicago bankers had been drawn into the discussions. The és | | Farmers expect companies and sales} In recapjtulation of the list of el moving pictures, taxicabs, When Answer Was Refused. The most tense moments of the | hearing came during the examination Bank of North Dakota has a loan of $1,000,000 from a Chceago | agencies AOGMATRGL (he, AUEpINE! financial house, due March 15. | les of ‘grain on the co-operative . Tho information received by The! Tribune indicated that those favora- ble to the compromise were less hopeful of it being sput through. In Bismarck both League and In- dependent forces have intormally. dis- cussed the pfoposition, ‘The Inde- pendents have made it plain that tuey will not discontinue the investigation :. of the house. The recall proposition; ig still in abeyance. Frazier Speaks, ‘ Governor Lynn J. Frazier spoke last night to a conference of league; members of the legislature at the! Northwest hotel. , His attitude was extremely cautious, | but the general impression was that! he was attempting to develop senti-! ment for the acceptance of some; form of compromise as suggested by| the Minneapolis conference. i Must Have Relief. | Me went into the present situation) in detail, it-is said, and told the leg-| islators tWat it was necessary to se- cure some relief but that there was) no intention to sacrifice the league; program. | Leaguers from out of town began; to arrive in Bismarck today, most of them aggressively hostile to the pro- posed compromise.. This wag due, it was said by those favorable to a com-! promise, to a considerable extent tu! the false reports which have been! circulated. . 1 Little Change in Sentiment. | There is little change, however, in| the sentiment of the league legisla-| tors from yesterday. The majority! - do not like the idea, but feel the ne- cessity of making concessions regard- ing the laws governing the state bank: | ‘and there are some favoring the com- promise who feel they have, made headway. Much of the supposed dit-| ference of opinion may be due to the! different angles from which the In-| dependents and the Leaguers look at’ the proposition. | «Talk of Two Groups. Some of the Nonpartisans frankly talk of the “conservatives” and the! “radicals” among the league mem- bers. The “conservatives” are held to he headed by A. C.-Townley and includes | others favorable to making conces- sions and look upon the league pro- gram as essentially a marketing pr gram. Others, known ‘as “radicals are said to look up on the develop- ments of the league thus far as sim- ply one step “in a fight for economic freedom.” They hold North Dakota is a field of experiment, and that the Jeague program only has begun, and to be successful must seek a new ap- plication of economics in the conduct of affairs of the state. And the “radicals,” or those op- posed to any compromise, declare that they are in the-majority. At the same time it is admitted that the sit-) uation with regard to the Bank of ‘ North Dakota is critical, With a@ great amount of money tied up in loans therg is little hope of raising more money. Spurgeon O'Dell, who is in the eagt trying to sell bonds, has sold some to labor organizations, it is said, but the amounts have been small. WALES MOB ATTACKS GOV. AND POLICE Sydney, New South Wales, Feb. 15. =During a demonstration of the un- employment, Wi E. Davidson, the gov- ernor, was mobbed and a detachmeat sof the police was stoned. ARREST SAILOR ON BOMB CHARGE Washington, Feb. 15.—An enlisted man of the navy is under arrest in connection with an alleged plot to blow up the presidential yacht May- |Special FIGHTING IN INDIA BREAKS OUT INTONK State Troops Actively Engaged / in Clash Between Ruler ’ and People London, Feb. 15.—Revolution has broken out in the Indian- state of Tomk in Rajtutana, says a dispatch today. After agreeing to the demands of the people, Nawb, Mohammedan rul- er of the district, arrested leaders in the movement, whereupon rioting broke out. State troops are actively engaged. The capitol is located in the city of Ponk, sotth of Jatur. WILL CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY OF BIRTH OF ORDER Program Tomorrow Night by St. Elmo Lodge, Knights of Pythias The fifty-seventh anniversary of the founding of the order of Knights of Pythias will be commemorated hy i special program tomorrow night at the K. P. hall by the St. Elmo lodge No. 1, Knights of Pythias. Chancellor Commander Thompson has been working hard on an attrac. | tive program. Special music will be provided by Messrs. Humphrey, Hal- vorson and Gross. August E. Johnson, grand chancel- lor, who lives at Washburn, will be) present, and so will John L. Bowers ot Mandan, grand vice-chancellor. H. F. O'Hare, city attorney, will de- liver the address of the evening. Tw candidates will be received into the rank of page. GAS ATTACK DRIVES YBGGS OFF FOR AIR Michigan Banker Works Clever Scheme to Protect Deposit Vaults Pontiac, Mich., Feb. 15.—Two sate- blowers opened the vault in the Farm- ers and Merchants bank in Utica carly today but were driven back by a wave of mustard gas which had been placed in the vault, They fled empty handed. A can of gas had been placed in; the vault by bank officials so that it was broken open when the door was forced. : OPEN NEW STORE ON FIFTH STREET —— ' Nassif Brothers and Peters will be; the names placed at the head of the) new. firm styled as the Emporium} Department store, and located at 116} | ment had been made whereby the state! | any talk about such an agreemént, he! |SINN FEINERS | | carrying troops of Cork to Sibereen, ed banks which he read in the records, | he said: i | “The total amount/of bills payabte | in these banks is $f,366,066.01, of! which $224,250.74, or slightly oven} een per cent are payable to the! k of North Dakota. | Reads Deposits. i Phe total deposits of these banks; 5 leposits of the} 24, or 9 per of the Lotal deposi oe “Phe redeposits are guaranteed wa-| der the state guarantee act and the} ioans are protected by collateral of! trom 11-2 to 2 times the value of the loans.” k | In the statements which he read in, nany instances single Twin City! Janks had more maney in the closed | banks than did the state bank. | Mr. ‘Cathro took up the celebrated! #333,000 note case in which the Scan-| dinavian-Ameritan bank was refused! a rediscount credit of that amount |" vy the state bank. J. R: Waters, then | manager of the bank, and J. W. Brin: | -on, tale tite credit for refusing this 1oan, aud go did Mr. Cathro yesterday on the witness stand. Told Hagan, He said that he had spoken to H. J. Hagan, president of the. bank, regard- ing rediscounting and had told him -hat they could ff it wasn’t league pa- | per. (He said that the notes-sent te aim looked suspicious and’ he sent them back. He blamed Mr. Waters for the large amount of money which the Scandi- navian-American bank had on deposit, declaring that he sent $141,000 there pefore the bank was opened for bus- iness. i In answer to a question of Attorney | Sinkler, he said that as far as he knew there had never been any feague’paper | sn the state bank. H said he had ruled| against it. | Didn't See Brinton. | ‘He said that he had not seen Mr. Brinton around the bank at the time the “bundles of Scandinavian-Ameri- can bank notes” were in the bank for) consideration. He denied positively that any agree- money was to be sent to the Scandi- navian-American bank and then re loaned to league concerns, as charged py Mr. Brinton. When asked ‘by the attorney whether he had ever heard | said he didn’t think he had. | He maintained that the system of/ redepositing was framed to be of the! greatest assistance to the people of the state and not for political, advantage. | ATTACK TRAIN A passenger train | Belfast, Feb. 15 is reported to have been ambushed near Barlianshassing ‘/and’ Kingsley, by Sinn Feiners armed’ wjth bombs and rifles. It is believed that there were many casualties on both sides. HARDING TALKS PLANS WITH HAYS St. Augustine, Fla. Feb. 15.—Pres- | ident-elect Harding and his campaign) | | ig plan basis, 00-OPERATION FOSTERED IN SENATE BILL Measure Introduced at Instance of Usher L. Burdick of Farm Bureau ° Snate Bill 66, providing for the Cali- fornia plan of co-operative marketing of farm ‘products, passed the senate yesterday, after an amendment had been offered by Senator Ingerson and adopted which changed the number of years in which the grower guaran! tees to sell his crop from ten to five years, Introduced ‘by Church, This bill was introduced by Senator Church of Benson, at the request of Usher L. Burdick, pregient of the ate farm bureau federation. Sena- ‘r Church, said Jjat hp, was greativ in favor of the farm bureau’ and that aad ‘sent out 35 copies of the bill to 20-operative concerns and had receiv- id no replys criticising. any part of bill. It makes legal the organization of! arketing associations through which growers agree to sell’ all their crop for five years. Other Bills Passed. i Other bills passed yesterday were: Giving $10,000 aid for the eaucational work being carried on by the North Dakota Tuberculosis association. Giving district judges power to ap- point district juvenile commissioners. Consideration of the act appropri- ating $200,000 to complete the Liberty ‘Memorial building on the ‘capitol grounds was made a special order for Wednesday afternoon. SHARP UPWARD TURN TODAY Report of Crop Prospects Re- verses Early Trend of Exchange Chicago, Feb. 15.—Weakness devel- oped in the wheat market today. Oren ing, prices which varied from wi- changed to one cent lower was fol- lowed by rally and than a down turn. Subsequently special attention was given to the crop outlook and a sharp upturn followed. Green bugs were re- ported in Kansas and actual damage in Texas. The market closed siroug 41-2 to 6 cents higher. IMPORT LESS FIRE WATER Washington, Feb. 15.—Whiskey im- where soft drinks and tobacco are sold, ; It is probable the measure will pas | the house, and those opposed to the ; house action are replying on a con-} ference committee to knock the | amendments that are objectionable to j them. The bill, as it pased the senate. pro- | vides for an enlargement of the duties | of the state licensing department. ‘The house amendments would virtually abolish the department permitting | towns and cities to license the places} named in the bill, and relying on lo- cal authorities to enforce the law. ‘Representative Miller, Nonpartisan. of Bottineau county, is one of the ac- tive workers for the bill. During de- | bate he declared that local enforce- ; ment of the law could not be depend- ed on, and he opposed the house com- | mittee’s views, but took the position that the best hope of winning his fight {on the measure was to vote for it and | let it go to a conference committee. | For Home Rule. | Speaker Twitchell spoke for the bill ;as amended, and declared that as amended by the committee it provided for more strict penalties and would make for greater law enfor¢ement. The question was not one of Ipw en- forcement, he said, but whether it was more practical to have a state en- forcement department or have the ¢ ies enforce the law and regulate their own liceasd businsses, Representative Walter Maddock de- clared that it appeared to him that the people opposed to strict enforcement opposed the senate Dill as it came to the house and those for strict enforce- ment favored it, saying “the temper ance people of the state wAnt it and ! am willing to stay by them.” : ‘Speaker Twitchell called attention to the fact that the license fees amounted to about $80,000 and that the licensing department of the attorney general’s office spent about $60,000 in enforcement work. He said that the few deputies visited a town in the state about once every six months and that the enforcement was a joke. Representative Vogel, Bauer and Shipley stood for the bill as amended by the house committee, because they | said it provided home rule. | Debate Oil Lease Bill. | The house engaged in debate over ‘house bill 166, which provided that the land commissioner might permit | drilling for oil on a school section, the | state to get one-eighth of any oil found, and providing that not more chan four wells should be drilled or contracts given for over five years. Representative Kitchen sponsored the bill, saying it was intended to per- mit drilling on a school section of, the Bad Lands in the hope of finding. oil, | j and developing the resources of the state. Representative Vogel declared that the resources of the state’ and nation has been wasted too freely. The Dill} was indefinitely postponed. The house agreed to reconsider house Dill No. 43, the engineer's li-| censé bill, which was killed on com-} mittee report. It may be redrafted by| the state affairs committee. "Three new bills were approved for in-| troduction by the committee on de-| layed bills, They, are house bill No. 208, requiring all public printing to be) done in the state; house bill No. 210 | providing for the cancellation of per-| | sonal taxes unpaid for the year 1910; and previous years, and house bill No. | '911, amending the law governing la- | | |the legislature of Colorado, yester- DEMAND RETURN OF F. ZIMMER | Denver Fathers Ask Secretary of State Colby to Take Action LEGISLATURE ALSO ACTS; Colorado Solons Demand That | | Baker Get Detective’s Release Denver, Feb. 15——The Denver city | council last night adopted resolutions | calling on Secretary of State Colb to use every means to obtain the release of Frank Zimmer of Denver, held by| German authorities following his un- successful attempt to capture Grover Bergdoll, draft evader. The resolution declires” that” Zim- mer was carrying out the will of the majority of persons in the United States when he attempted to kidnap Bergdoll. A ‘joint memorial was adopted by { day, asking Secretary of War Baker| and congress to take immediate at- tempts to obtain his release. TARIFF AGAIN COMES'TO FRONT | IN CONGRESS Republicans and Democrats) Clash on Proposed Legis- ~ | lation pans | Washington, Feb, 15.—The tariff] question was again in the front in Congress today, The intention of Republican leaders to devise a permanent tariff before considering questions of taxation and | exchanga was declared today by Min- orty Leader Underwood’ in the senate. He said he had been informed that President Wilson would not sign it. ‘Senator McCumber, Republican, said a vote on the bill wquid be taken before adjournment tonight. ORDERS HOUSTON NOT TO SEND ANY NORE MONEY NOW ; had abused privileges. ; bank of Fargo. {Mr. Lofthus: and the check was honored. |think it might incriminate you? | brass tacks ‘today in a final pre-in-/ portations into the U.S. for 1920 were) manager, Will H. Hayes, got down to) | auguration conference of the make-up) 167,310. gallons, valued at $1,013,091, as: of the cabinef and the first steps of} compared to pre-war and pre-prohib the new ‘administration. ‘tion 1,541,663 galloas, values at $3, Mr. Hayes is generally considered | 153,640, For the fiscal year of 1913 as a likely choice for a position inj it was announced today by the de- the cabinet as his position as titular; partment of commerce. head of the body was conceded, to! Officials of the department said the: | give him an important voice in coun-/ presumed’ the liquor was for “medici-| her Horere Nene wo Bills |Secretary Must Consult Senate The house killed these bills: H. B.! Committee Before Sending providing for a state factory in-| pector; H. B. 166, empowering the’ Europe Funds tate land department to srant certain} "i ie ermits for sinking oil wells. s eee ne ‘0 permit owners of cattle killed as i senate judiciary committee that he cular to receive greater compel) should pay out no more money on ac- cils of the party. The conference was expected to last the greater part of the day. FIRST BICYCLE RIDER IS DEAD Tunbridge, Wells, Eng., Feb. 15.—| affairs of the Scandinavian-American ; | nal” purposes. NO RECEIVER YET APPOINTED No receiver had . to take over the Fargo, Feb. | | been appointed today: Fifth street. These gentlemen @N-) reputed to have made and ridden the bank, closed yestérday. nounce they will be ready Thursday, | Feb. 17, to open their store to the! public with a complete line of dry! goods and notions and in addition! they will also carry a line of ladies’,| ; her first bicycle ever used in England, the! Rev. J. Pearce has just died, at the age of 81, at Pembury, a village near. e, While working as a coach-builder in ‘Officials of the bank said that two | deputy bank examiners were conduct- | ing an examination of the books. NEW SALEM | sation, and house bill No. 199, per- | mitting the board of administration ! to approve increase of normal school | courses to four years and grant Bache- | Jor of Arts degrees. \HANS HANSEN 18 INJURED — | | Raverstock, N. D., Feb. 15.—Hans- | Hansen of Minneapolis, representing) | the Raverstock ski club, injured his | shoulders in the professional world’s kii jump by fall- record long distance s| | the, count of any committment of loan to; any foreign country until the fact had been submitted to the committee and it has had an opportunity to consider the same and report to the senate. The committee’s action was approv- ed by unanimous vote. : ‘Examination of Secretary Houston on this question scheduled for today was postponed until tomorrow. CALL STATE MEETING. Minneapolis, Feb. 15.—The ‘Nonpar- tisan league of Minnesota will meet in annual session in St. Paul, March 3, according to an announcement from of Mr. Lofthus by Attorney Francis Murphy, when Lofthus declined to an- swer a question on the ground that it might incriminate himself. Mr. Murphy had been questioning Mr. Lof- thus as to a report made on the Scan- dinavian-American bank by Examiner Haldorson, later by Lofthus \ad Mr. | Thatcher, of the Equitasie Auditing company, on which was before supreme court. Mr. Murphy had asked Lofthus if the | he would not agree that Thatcher had made a misstatement to the su- preme court. The witness did not reply directly, but said that banks The official transcript then gives the testimony regarding Sisil Trust ioan as follows: Mr. Murphy: Well, this report from which I have been reading was then followed by a supplemental re- | Port of a later date, Exhibit 42, was it not? Mr. Lofthus: Yes sir. Mr. Murphy: Signed by yourself and Mr. Thatcher?. Mr. Lofthus: Yes sir. Mr. Murphy: In which was set forth a comparison of financial state- ments of the Scandinavian-American That is, you com- pared the findings of Mr. Haldorson 4s of September 27th and the find- ings of yourgelf as of October 2nd, did. you not? “Mr. Lofthus: Yes sir. Mr. ‘Murphy: And I assume you concur in everything that was said in here by Mr. Thatcher? Mr. Lofthus: 0. Mr. Murphy: This statement as to the Sisal Trust loan—(reads) “These parties have at just this hour that this report is being made paid their notes In full.” You concurred in that too, did you? Mr. Lofthus: Yes sir. Mr. Murphy: Well, that wasn’t true, was it? It wasn’t paid, was it! It was paid by checl: Mr. Murphy: Later on the check was honored, was it not? Is that correct? Is it not a fact that sno payment was made at the time that that report was put in, and as you represented to the supreme court? No answer. Mr. Murphy: Do you want to an- swer that or don’t you, or would you prefer the advise of counsel? Mr. Lofthus: I refuse to answer that. Mr. Murphy: Why, because you Is that the idea, that you might be charged with making a false state- ment? Is that correct? You see, Mr. Lofthus, the committee is entitled to know why you refuse to answer, and if you desire to refuse on the grounds that it might incriminate you I will not pursue it any further. Is that what you wish to do? Mr. Lofthus: Yes sir. Alter Recess, Mr. Lofthus: Mr. Chairman of the committee, I have had a talk with Mr. Sinkler and I wish to change : matter that went on record in regard to the fact that to reply to this ques- tion would incriminate me. Mr. Murphy: In other, words, Mr. Sinkler advised you that it wouldn't? Mr. Lofthus: Yes. Mr. Murphy: But you are just as ashamed of it, as though it would, aren’t you? That is correct, isn’t it, Mr. Lofthus? Your conscience told you that-the deal wasn’t right wheth- er it is criminal or not, and I believe you are an absolutely honest man, who has gotten himself in a bad hole —but that is correct, isn’t it? Mr. Lofthus: The fact that this has been —the suggestion came afterwards is the reason for it- At the time I ac- cepted it as perfectly honest and in an honest manner. Mr. Murphy: Yes sir, and I think you are today, as far as I am con- cerned, and I think everybody else does, and like an honest man you are ashamed of that transaction, but you are up against it. That is correct, isn’t it? Isn’t that right now, just between you and me? No answer. During the questioning of Mr. Lof- thus, Mr. Murphy referred to notes given to the First State Bank of Klo- ten, referred to as Mr. Lofthus’ bank, | by George Moellering, and H. A. Nel- son, which subsequently went into the Bank of North Dakota. Financing Consumers Stores. “Do you not know that this paper ing, after, ke bad jumped. 58 feet, ! carried in your bank was signed by these men for financing the Consum- ers United Stores company, of whi they are directors,” the witness was asked. children’s an men’s ready-to-wear! Oxfordshire he is said to have con- garments, and a well known line of} structed a two-wheeled machine on shoes. | which he rode through the main streets of the village. A party of | foxhunters. were so interested in wit- flower. Secret service operatives and the po- lice are working on the case. proced- ing on the theory that the plot may longest jump ever made on skiis. His) the National Nonpartisan league head- BANK CLOSES condition is favorable, but he will not! quarters, New ‘Salem, Feb.-15.—The Union| be able to jump any more this year. | pan Sie aiaaES a eee GIBBONS BEATS WALKER, Langer Speaks at Enid. have extended to other vessels in tne navy yard, The man under arrest is said to have approached a superior officer with a bribe to allow a pacix- age supposed to have contained a * bomb to be brought about the May- flower, Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 15.—Tommy , Gibbons defeated Phil Walker of Kan- sas City, ten rounds. A seat in the New York Stock Ex-| change recently sold for $90,000. -| | Farmers State Bank of New Salem | closed its doors this morning because \ its legal reserves had fallen below th | legal requirements. | The bank is said to be in good con- | dition and closing is said to be onl | temporary. } nessing the spectacle that they aban- doned' the chase and allowed the fox to escape. Pennsylvania State College has be- gun a men’s class in cooking, i SOLICITS FUNDS. Enid, Okla, Feb. 15.—William Lan- Bottineau, Feb. 15,—C. G. Backe-| ger, former attorney general of North erg has been getting funds from Bot- Dakota, who has been campaigning in tineau merchants for subscriptions to| Kansas, has consented to speak here he fund for Attorney General Wil-| this afternoon to a large meeting of liam Lemke. He has realized $116. | farmers. Mr. Lofthus said he .didn’t know positively, that it was that or allied concerns. Mr. Murphy asked if this metho (Continued on Page 3.)