The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 25, 1921, Page 1

yi > - The Weather FAIR AND WARMER THIRTY-NINTH YEAR BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, , MARCH 25, 1921 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ==! PRICE FIVE CENTS NEW MEMORIAL MASONS LAUNCH MOVEMENT FOR NEW INTERCITY SPIRIT BUILDING BIDS. WILL BE TAKEN Board of Administration to Seek Propositions ;During April. CAN'T COMPLETE JOB Appropriation Not Sufficient | —Work is now Go- ing On. Bids will be taken during the latter part of ‘April for the completion of! the exterior of the Memorial building, being constructed on the capitol! grounds, it was said following a meet- ing of the board of administration! today. | Although the legislature cut the ap-| propriation asked for completing the! building from $200,0v0 to $100,000 the board will proceed on the original) plans. The building cannot be finish- ed under the amount of money made; available by the legislature, tit is} stated but the board will proceed on} the assumption that the next legisla-| ture will give money to complete it.| The original appropriation for the) Memorial building, which will house! the State Historical Society museum,| AdjutantGeneral’s office, ‘Library and; perhaps other offices, was $200,000. A) contract for building the structure to: and including the first fldor was let last fall, the contract price being) $92,000. This work will be finished) the latter part of next month by the! Colwell-Long company, it is stated. | The original plans call for a three| story building with Bedford stone ex-' terior and large columns at the front; of the building. With approximately | $100,000 remaining from the original! appropriation and $100,000 added by the legislature this winter it is ex- pected that the entire exterior of the! building can ,be completed, part of) the mechanical equipment, such as; heating equipment, installed and per- haps some of the interior work. A large numberof workmen are now employed in, cpmpleting the Colwell-; Long: contract, - | LEMKE 10 ASK REHEARING ON GARNISHMENT Attorney" General. to \Ask Su- i preme Court to Reopen- | Case. Attorney General Lemke was ex- pected to file today a motion for re-| hearing in the case in which the su-! preme court decided that the Bak of North Dakota was not a branc% of the state government and was liable iv) garnishment the same as any private| institution. | The attorney general holds tha: the, decision of the court is im conflict with the referéndum vote by which the Bank of North Dakota and other industries were authorized and that the state was authorized to engage), in business in its sovereign capacity and no other. He says the court compared the state banks of the, south, which were LANSING TELLS - _ “INSIDE STORY” THROUGH NEW ORGANIZATION QF PRACE DEAL A movement for a new. intercity spirit has been launched by Masons of ‘Bismarck and Mandan, Application has been made for dis- pensation for Twin City Council. Royal and Select Masters. a Masonic order, to be composed of Masons of Mandan and of Bismarck. Under the plan the officers and meetings will al- ternate between the two cities either at the inception of the council or when the bridge is completed. “It is another. indigation of better cooperation between the two cities,” sald Judge A. M. Christianson, who has been namdeti presiding officer of the new organization. Judge Chris- tianson added that it was felt that ‘Masons of both cities would profit by closer relations and a new spirit of teamwork, It is planned to have the council FARM WORKERS MUST GET BUSY. “TO FIND JOBS Brisk Demand Now, But Not as Heavy as Last Year— | Wages $35 to $50. ° | Four offices will be maiviained in| the state by the combined state and | federal employment _ servi:ze, Nu Hagan, commissioner of agricuityre! and labor, said today. Thay will be; at Fargo, Grand Forks Minot and Bis-! marck. | The employment service is now! operating under the law enacted by! the legislature during the winter. The} federal appropriation for employment) agencies expires in July but it is ex- pected that Congress will consicer the | matter of making a new appropriation. | Mr. Hagan has appointed John! Fletcher to take charge of the Minot) office, for a period of seven monthe | beginning April 1. He will cooperate, with the county agent and the Farm! Bureau, ‘There is a brisk demand now for} farm workers according to reports of, the employment offices to Mr. Hagan,' a, m, Saturday, March 26, in the Gov-| president on principles. The former| powers of the bureau by the courts.! By Newspaper Enterprise, but the demand is not as large as last! | year, and workers who seek jobs for) the summer are urged to obtain a place immediately. The price for’ single men for farms runs from $35 to, $50 a month with the bulk of offers at) 335 to $40 a month, Mr. Hagan said. ; Last year the average was about $70! per month. However, including board; and other advantages of farm work,; the wages offered by farmers compare; favorably with jobs in cities, it is stat-, ed. STATE SCHOOL PATRONS KEEP SCHOOL GOING |Miss Nielson Praises Spirit Shown. in Various Com- i munities. | Praise for the school patrons 'of the ' state\for coming to the financial sup-| port-of schools in their communities. | | enabling them to keep open, during; ‘instituted and the first session held| for initiation of candidates sometime! in May. All Masons of Bismarck and Man-! dan will be eligible for elevation to/, the Council. Years ago there was, a} ‘Council ‘here, but it passed out of ex| istance and it now is necessary for one Came Near to Open Break with Wilson Over Shantung. ‘ wishing to take the Council degrees to| WILSON IGNORED SENATE? | go to another city. Officers’chosen for the initiation of| the Council in addition are Judge Former Secretary Says Presi- | | | | Christianson, Illustrious Master; ,’ ke i & Ripley, Deputy Master; J. ‘A. Gra.| dent Wanted to.Put League || am, Principal Conductor; G. H. Russ,/ Fy 4 FF ‘Treasurer; R. M. Bergeson, Recorder.| in Immediate Operation. A number of appointive officers will| be filled by Bismarck and Mandanj _ Boston, Mare! Robert Lansing, men. | former secretary of state and member Mandan Masons are now seriously|of the American Peace Commission, considering the erection of a new) will reveal in his forthcoming book Masonic temple. jon “The Peace Negotiations,” which; | will be published by Houghton, Miffiin | f | Company, March, 25, how close he COUNTY AGENT |came to resigning from the Commis- TURNS TURTLE) sion because of differences with Pres- ident Wilson over the Shantung de- inten, aig 36, ‘O° Bauer {eision and his belief that many of the terms of peace imposed on Ger- ~ DRIFTING OUT INTHE OCEAN | jcraft today took up anew the search: | juries received when an automobile in county ,agent, is recovering from in-| which he was riding turned turtle last Saturday four miles north of Linton.| Elmer Anderson was driving. They| were returning from a breeder’s meet- many were harsh. humiliatigg and seemingly impossible of performance. The publishers of this book, which has been eagerly awaited by historians | and the public, have carefully guard-| ed the text of the manuscript but ing at Hazelton. The roads were, slippery. | they have permitted the general‘trend of Mr. Lansing’s argument to become —— known, It is expected that when the j text is printed, many of the opinions 7 ; expressed by Mr. Lansing will be con- troverted by other writers. OF NEW HE ARING | Sought to Jsnore Senate. | | | Lansing’s belief, at one time during} ; ;the Peace Conference purposed to ne- |gotiate a preliminary treaty which —_—_— President Wilson, according to Mr.| | would start the League. of Nations) a {functioning without laying the docu- Judge Nuessle Issues Writ in ment before the United States sen- >, abe | ate, and evidently was much perturb- Matter Prohibiting Satur- ted when his secretary of state told day Hearing. ‘him that the only way to change the; ane See ‘status from war to peace was by a! Governor Frazier is prohibited, by; ratified treaty or a joint resolution | a writ issued by District Judge W./of Congress. \L, Nuegsle, from holding the hearing! A profound conviction that immedi- on charges against L. J. Wehe, for|ate peace was the primary need of the! removal as a member of the Work-! world, Mr. Lansing implies, was all men’s Compensation ‘Board, dispos-| that kept him from resigning from} al of proceedings in the case. {the Peace Commission because of The removal hearing was set for 10) fundamental disagreements with the; ernor’s office. . ' secretary discloses that in 1916, short- | ; The writ direets the Governor Fe ly before a meeting in Washington of buld not - 2 |the president was to speak, Mr, Lans- | writ was issued on petition of Wehe,/ ing wrote to Mr. Wilson objecting to through his attorney Theodore Koffel. | the use of force to settle internation- | The Wehe case has taken many peculiar turns. Following a supreme court order of two weeks ago restor- ing-Wehe to office he made a demand on C, M. C. Spencer, now commission- er, for the place. Wehe wag served with notice that, the order of suspen- | sion of April 19, 1920 was still in effect Political independence of members of; jal disputes. In this letter he pointed |to the menace to the Monroe Doctrine | contained in such a plan. t | Alarmed at the complications of war and foreign entanglements in tie { guarantee of territorial integrity and ‘5 BALLONISTS Rescue by Gulf’ Vessel Held Only Hope for the Miss- 4 _ ing Men. BALLAST IS ALL GONE Carrier Pigeons Bring Last! Word of Plight of Missing Aeronauts. | Pensacola, Fla., Mar. 25.—Naval au-; thorities have expressed the belief to-! day that the only hope for the safety | of Chief Quartermaster G. W: Wilkin- gon and four student pilots missing from the naval air station here since they took the air in a free balloon; Tuesday night is that some vessel in| the Gulf of Merico may have rescued them. GF \ Scores of Naval, air and surface! for the balloon which was yesterday; reported off St. Andrews bay, drifting toward the open seaand only abou 2 100 feet above the water. Two.mes- sages brought in by carried pigeons told the plight of the halloonists. The| last said all the ballast had been: thrown overboard but at that time, the big gas bag was slowly sinking. | BUREAU STARTS SUITS AGAINST ‘5 COMPANIES | | | |Workmen’s Compensation Bu-| reau Asks Payment of Premiums. The Workmen's Compensation bu-| reau has begun suit against a num-; ber of corporations in and near Bis-; marck to collect premiums due the/ bureau. The filing of the suits may! lead to the decision of important) questions relative to the operation and | The bureau asks $2,833.19 of the; Hughes Electric company for prem-}| iums alleged to be,due for a period of twelve. months; $144.15 from the Hebron company, ! $980.61 from the ‘h Carbon Lignite Mines Inc., of Werner; $357.60 of the Bismarck Gas company and $1,388.56 of the Hughes and Deiters Electric company of Dickinson. Suit for $500 penalty alleged due for failure to furnish information to the bureau is asked of the Northwest Bell Telephone company. “ Hlectrlgg Ydght Hig! Henry Ford and five of his former employes. At top, F. L. Klingensmith (left) and C. Harvld Wills. Below, the late John Dodge (left), Jopn R. Lee, (center) and the late Horace Dodge. “FINDS” QUIT FORD. Former Assoclates Now Competitors In Industry. Detroit, March: 25.—Three’ auto manufacturing meerns, are. operat- ing under the nets sand direction of men who help build up Henry Ford's business. Ford has great factories, a great organization and great wealth, but the men ‘most closely associated with him in gaining it all are no longer of his institution. First to quit Ford were the late Dodge brothers, Horace and John. In 1902 they started to manufacture parts for the struggling Ford con- and a new hearing would be given him/the League, a guarantee that finally | tomorrow, following ‘the supreme! was embodied in Article X of the court order. ' Covenant, Mr. Lansing says that at Wehe, in his petition before, Judge) Paris he tried to have substituted a Nussle, emphasized these allegations., negative pledge that the members That the order of suspension “haa! would not infringe upon each other's been held void and set aside both by’ territorial integrity or political inde: ; this court (district court) and supreme! pendence. He became convinced that court and the Governor has no power | Colonel Edward M. House, then Pres-| to revive and continue in full force) jdent Wilson's closest adviser, was and effect his order of April 19, 1920.! completely converted with regard to; |cern and received stock in payment. | | In 1919 they sold their holdings H i back to Ford for $25,000,000. e | LOAN BLANKS T0- After they left Ford they establish- ed a factory that makes one of the country’s most successful cars. Both brothers died at the pinnacle of suc- cess. C. Harold Wills was Ford’s next find. He was a mechanical and metal- That the whole proceedings of March 17, 1921 ordering the hearing are illegal and void and that the Gov- ernor has assumed an exceas of juris-| diction in attempting to revive and en- force the attempted proceedings. That the Governor has no right to suspend a member of the Work- men’s compensation board. That Wehe is now entitled to hold created as distinct and separate su-| the jast two months when school dis-| office under a legislative extension of titites and corporations by the states\/ tricts pave been unable to get funde| term of office until 1923 and that the that the decision asaumes that a de-!| from the (Bank of North Dakota, wa3s|Governor’s appointment under which partment of state can. be sued, and| yoiced today by Miss Minnie J. Niel-; attempted removal proceedinges were that the court failed to take into con- sideration an act exempting banks from garnishment and that there was a divided opinion of the court on vital issues. 1 GREEKS BATTLE TURKISH FORCE IN ASIA MINOR Put More Than 120,000 Troops in Great Offensive , Movement Athens, March 25.—By the Associa ted PressGreek troops numbering 1200,0C0, are participating in the great offensive against the Turkish nation- alist forces in Asia Minor, it is re- ported here. The Turkish nationatists are believ- ed to have about 90,000 effectives in the field. GRANT COUNTY - BANKS MEET STATE DEMAND Fargo, N. D., Mar. —Settlement | of the garnishment proceedings brought by Grant county against the) Bank of North Dakota has been ef- fected, it was announced today. i Twelve hours after the settlement} was effected by the county treasurer) with a group of about fourteen exam- iners ang collectors of the Bank of North Dakota, collectors made simul-/| taneous demand on nearly every bank in the county for immediate payment to the state bank of every dollar ow- ing to the bank. All banks were able to meet demands. | ; son, state superintendent of public| instruction, | | “A remarkable spirit for education has been’ shown,” said Miss Nielson. | “People have financed their scliools ‘by buying teachers salary warrants | ! and meeting other necessary expenses | Many merchants have taken,warranta | when they could not well afford to ‘do so. A great many schools would | be closed were it not for the splendid | | financial support of the men and | women of the state. i Educational rallies now being held in the state are highly successful, Miss Nielson said. Miss Nielsoa spent part of the last week in Kidder county holding meetings and Miss Bertha | Palmer, assistant superintendent, is in | Wells county. A series of meetings | | will be held in Hettinger county aext | week. BURTON ASSAILS KANSAS COURTS ON MOB ACTION Salina, Kan., Mar. 25.—“Would you go to hell to prosecute an imp with Satan presiding on the bench?” Such was the interrogative reply ‘reply made in an address here last night by Former U. S. ‘Senator J. R. Burton, one of the victims of a mob ‘in Barton county recently, to Richard J. Hopkins, attorney general. undérfaken has expired. NORTHERN OLL RUSH FOLLOWS ~ TMMENSE FINDS Immense Camp Being Formed) Awaiting Opening of Spring : Traffic Fairbanks, Alaska, March 25.—Dan- | Bliss and in this connection publishes | iel Cadzow, factor of Rampart House, | the letter written by General Bliss | one of the northermost posts of the/to the president, in, which Mr. Lans- Hudson Bay company, here today said mounted police patrols returning from that to support the Japanese claii their annual mail trip from Fort Mc-| woutg be to abandon Chinese democ this question. j Calls It Blackmail. It is in relation to Shantung Mr. Lansing discloses the sharpest differ- ences betwen himself and Pres. tent) Wilson. Mr. Lansing gives ‘as nis} opinion that blackmail and bluff by Japan impelled the resident to agree to surrender to that country such rights in Shantung as before the war were held by Germany and automati-| cally annulled when China declare | hostilities. In his opinion only secret! diplomacy made it possible for Japan; to threaten to leave the Peace Con- ference unless its demands were granted, a threat Mr. Lansing believed ; would not have been executed because of the appreciation by Japan that the{ benefits of a new and powerful world) position’ could be retained only by| membership in the League of Nations. ‘That other members of the Ameri- can Commission shared his view that the Shantung decision as-rendered by |the Council of Four was a flagrant) wrong and were prevented from re-} | signing only by the critical conditions |in the world ‘situation tis clearly im- | plied by Mr. Lansing. He describes | | the indignation felt by himself and by Henry White and General Tasker H.; i | Deputy County Auditor Receives) Ford output to a million cars a year. COUNTRY BANKS lurgic wizard and is credited with the —_—— | organiztion work which brought the Wills was chief engineer for Ford ‘from 1903 to 1919. pease He now has organized C. H. Wills Blanks on which applications may | & Co. and will manufacture the Wills- be made for government seed and feed St. Clare auto. i loans have been received by Deputy! wills ‘took his first vice president, County Auditor Frank Johnson andj John Randolph Lee, organizer of the sent to the various banks of the coun-! sociological department of the Ford ty Mr. Jouneon & out of ans in! Go, his own office, but has ordered an}. pra, tt i 7 additional supply from Fargo. Mr. ing Se a Wilner oon horeuik eed Johnson today received the following) early this year. He was vice presl- telegram from C. W. Warburton, in) gent and treasurer of the F nda charge of government headquarters at) pany. ON Fargo. It follows: be made! __ He immediately organized the Gray Government seed loans can only for purchase of seed and not for’ Motor Corporation and plans to manu- ted or supplies. Those who did not | factire autos. have crop failure in 1920 cannot quali; Sie Pome E SPER fy. Applicants who get seed are sub- HARDING FOR ject to penalties for misrepresentation | Keep individual applications down to| FARMER TARIFF lowest amount possible. Limit applica- —— \ Washington, Mar. 25.—President ; Harding favors passage of a_brief,| tions to those who cannot put in crop| { concise emergency tarfft bill applica- without government help.” ble only to a small number of tarm products. Notice to Limit Loans PROCTER SUES WOOD MANAGER. a | DEAD RATS BY MAIL. Chicago, March 25.—Col. William; New York, March 2) Procter, manager of Major General, is cleaner than it has been Leonard Wood’s campaign for the| years, report Presbyterian secretaries ing and Mr. White concurred, stating Pherson and McKenzie river districts, | racy to domination of Japan’s Prus-| declared an immensescamp is being| jianized salittaviain! formed in the Fort Norman oil field} with hundreds already en route and, others awaiting the opening of spring| traffic. | The Fort Norman fields, Cadzow/ Said, is 300 miles long and 200 miles | wide, along the McKenzie river. Ove; well sunk by the Imperial Oil Com-| pany gushed 1,000 barels an hour at! 800 feet, according to Cadzow, and ar-! rangements are being made to pipe} Balance of Power. It was‘ impossible, in'Mr. Lansing opinion, to make the League’ of tions’ Covenant the greatest interna tional compact ever written, as wa: intended, in the’11 days given to/ the drafting. This is established by the document itself, he says, whic! provides for an oligarchy of the Great Powers and a continuance of the pol- He de-| the oil to the nearest navigable stream| icy of the balance of power against: \Gared that the attorney general, the! the Canadian government has tW0/ which the president spoke in England | |judge of the Barton county district) airships for communication with the) nyt which he in effect subscribed to) METOW: and the county attorney there had all| the evidence they need and charge they) were endeavoring to force him to go}. back to Barton county in hostile ter-| ritory. | WAITS 15 YEARS. __ FOR DIVORCE Leith, N. D., March 25.—After wa ing 15 years for decision in a divor acton, originally started in Ohio, and which hs been in three courts, Wil- liam Kincaid of Leith, has just ob-! tained a decree of divorce in district} court at Mandan. A son, aged eight) years when the action is now started, is now married. The defendant lives| in Ohio. F | ——— Republican presidential nomination | returning here. The reason: Fear nd contributor of $500,000 to the; of the bubonic plague. All dead rats campaign expenses, today filed suit tu, are examined for plague germs. Some recover $110,000 from Major Sprague, /|are sent to the health office through of Chicago, treasurer of the campaign.| the mail. BASEBALL GRANDSTAND WILL FORD, AND. FORMER COMMUNISTS IN EMPLOYES GERMANY BEING. BEATEN, CLAI Reports From Various Parts of Empire Indicating Strain Lessens, ‘FIGHTING IN EISLEBEN Street Battle Described by Cor- respondent Who is in Midst of City. Berlin, Mar. 25—(By the A | 5 e Asso. clated Press.)—Bellet’ was a3 pressed in government circles to- day that unless the Communists succeed in tying up mid-German industrial area in strike the gOve ernment will be able to cope with the rioting prevailing in Eislaben, Mansfield, Hettstedt and Leunea. London, March 25—Although the situation arising from the Communist outbreaks in Ger- many is still dangerous the Com- munists are being overcome by the forces of law and order, ac- cording to reports from the dif- ferent centers, says a Central ed dispatch from Berlin to- Peasants Gaining, Kisleben, Germany, Mar. 25.—9:30 A. M. by the Associated Press, Fighting between the Communists and security police for possession of Eisleben had been extended this morn- ing to a half-mile front in the western section of the town with the positions of advantage changing hands from moment to moment. The Communist army of 2,500 was being reinforced by peasants and vil- lagers coming into town by unknown Toads on foot and on bicycles. They carried ormy ans in the hope of sur- ‘ounding the 2,000 secur: destroying them. hy Hie a Rifles, machine guns, grenades and dynamite which were heard continu- ously throughout the night had be- come a continuous rumble, resembling drum fire. From the post and graph buildings the combat was - ble and above the road of firing could jbe heard. calls of encouragement to both sides and the cries of the wound- ed lying where’ they fell. - ‘DESCRIBES FIGHTII Eisleben, Germany, March 25-—7:30 DP. m. by the Assovlated Press—The street fighting as a result of the Com- munist outbreaks which has been in Progress for the last 48 hours in’ this oa nee ane town of Sax- ‘as continuing desperatel: night with a hand-to-hand combat ak the railroad station in the streets in the center of the city. The rattle of macitine gun fire, the crash of hand grenade explosions and the popping of rifles has been going on steadily for the last three hours. Two thousand police were holding the eas. half of the town while 2,500 workmen were in possesion of the western sec- tion. All the workers are heavily armed and well disciplined, Station Changes Hands The intensity of the fighting may be judged from the fact that the railroad station changed hands twice in the 20 minute preceding the filing of this dispatch. The police now are in pos- session of the station, Bodies of the dead and severely wounded were still lying tonight in the streets where the victims fell twenty hours ago. The less severely wounded were crowded in sheltered doorways with bullets raising puffs of dust about them. At least 20 were killed and 50 | wounded in the fighting today. Autoists Stay Out Railroad and telephone communica- {tion with Eisleben have been cut off No automobilists willing to enter the city could be found ana the corres- pondent came here on foot. < The telegraph office was found ia the hands of the police, who consent- ed to transmit this report of the fight- ing, the sending of the message pro- ceeding while machine guns raked the adjacent street and the people living nearby were huddled in their darken- ed houses, peaking through the blinds All the roads leading to the towns are under fire. The fighting at this hour appeared to be growing in intensity. 30 SAID KILLED. Hamburg, Mar. 25.—Not less than 30 persons were killed in riots here Wednesday. BAD HIGHWAYS PROVE HANDICAP BE MOVED SATURDAY; FANS ASKED TO JOIN “MOVING BEE’ The baseball season opens here to-| ball team for the 1921 season was! discussed. The capitol grounds are! not available longer and it is neces- | | t Or rather, baseball moving day. in approving the Covenant. { oil fields. Relating the difficulties and em?| GREEKS ADVANCE | barrassments to which three of the} TURKS) Americ” Commissioners were sub-) ON THE jected by failure of the president to! — hold a single conference with the, Constantinople, Mar. 25.—An ad-| American Commission on ‘the League vance of about 20 miles was made by/of Nations from its first meeting un: the Greek forces in the first day of) til its report was printed, Mr. Lans-, their campaign against the Turks ling says the office force of Colonel ——_.- House knew more about the proceed- BORN AFTER DEATH. ings than the three American Commis-, Spokane, March 25.—Three minutes! sioners who were not-present. Addi- after Mrs. James Rath died a robust tional difficulties were caused by lack baby girl ws born. Under unusual of an American program, the fourteen circumstances Dr. H. E. Wheeler! points of the president being entire-| started an operation to save the! ly insufficient for such a purpose. Mr./ mother’s life. She died under anes-! Lansing found the president indispos-| thetic and the operation was contin-| 4 ta consider the subject of having al ued. vendinted on page 2) The grandstand and fence will be moved from the capitol baseball park to the new location south of the railroad tracks, west of the Internat- ional Harvester Company. Moving time is 1 p. m. Saturday. ‘And this is what the fans’ committee wants the fans to do: To move the grandstand and fence at the least possible expense the com- mittee wants the help of a thousand base ball fans and fifty auto trucks. To be on the grounds promptly at 1 p. m. so that all of the work can be} ,: done in the shortest possible time. To accept as compensation “the everlasting gratitude of the fans com- mittee.” The idea of a “moving bee’ originat- ed when the organization ‘of the base- sary to move the grandstand and} fence to the new site. The grandstand! was built in sections so that it can} be easily moved. In the last two days! carpenters have taken the grandstand/ apart for moving. If there are a lot of big trucks at} the park Saturday at 1 p, m. and if) the fans turn out the whole equipment | can be moved before the afternoon is) over. | The baseball committee went out} last week and met with generous re-' sponse in obtaining pledges of finan- cial support, It has promised to handle the affairs of the club as econ-| omically as possible. And the com-; mittee wants the fans and owners of automobile trucks to help it make good by helping in the moving. | TO RUM RUNNERS Muddy roads and snow in the northern part of the state are causing bootleggers: a-fot of trou- ble, according to Sheriff Rollin Welch, who, with Harry Dunbar, of the state Hcense department, and others, has been traveling north of the city in search of rum runners, The most exciting chase the party had was Monday night when they captured two runners after a 70-mile drive over bad roads at a fierce rate of speed. One rum runner's car escaped. Sheriif Welch has blood poison- ing in his hand, not the result of a hattle with bootleggers but fro cutting his wrist on the car while a chase was going on. Frank Ku of Bismarck, was to appear before Police Magis- trate Flanagan today on a char ¢ of selling intoxicating liquor. The aifidavit was signed by Ar- thur Dismond.