The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 4, 1921, Page 8

, PAGE GAT Wait a Minute AND LISTEN :—If you are looking for a good house, let us show you this one, a client of ours is leaving the city, and instructs us to sell his modern home, 6 rooms and bath, furnace heat, full basement, hot and cold water, 3 big closets, hard wood floors, east front, excellent loca- tion, house not over 4 years old. A good buy for the right party. Terms will be granted. If you are looking for an up to date, good house, you must see this before you buy. Price very reasonable. Shown by appointment. | RECALL PLANS ~ ARBOUTLINED ~~ BY COMNITTEE ‘Committee of Twenty-one to be| | Doubled by Addition of H Women 2 | C | ISIGNING PETITIONS j; Committee Asserts That State!” \ HENRY & HENRY, Phone 961 * Real Estate and Investments Office 4th St. GIRL FRACTURES SKULL was riding, overturned and the team! >S | is Aided if Sale of Bonds is Prevented Grand Forks, N. D.,’ April 4.— ‘Plans for the recall campaign against {the present members of the the State | Industrial Commission were ‘discussed jat a meeting of the Independent Joint |Campaign committee held here Sun- iday night and this| morning. | f The first step in the eampaien will SHBLDON, \N. D., April 4.—One of| ran away, throwing her on the hard) Wit be done by the addition of 21 the little daughters of William Leach, sround. of this vicinity, had her skull fractur-| hospital. ed when the school bus in which she! bruised, City of Bismarck Bismarck, N. D., April 4, 1921. Ladies and Gentlemen: She was taken to a Fargo! women ‘to the present committee of Her younger, sister W391, Seven of these women will be the formation of the:committee of 2 to manage the campaign, which \ j : than November 8. It will fall every- jwhere short. after it falls in our state. “If by bringing on this recall elec- our present, state officials from sell- jing bonds. The state has been saved many times the cost of the recall elec- tion because as long as the Industrial Commission remains as it is and the Bank of North Dakota is allowed to |named by the Republicans, seven by | receive deposits, money that might be 'the Democrats, and seven by the In- |dependent Voters association. pi T ] t f tl ! This will be followed by the organi- O t e : O ers O © im every legislative district of the | zation of .the Auxiliary. committee to consist of one man and one woman istate. These jthoroughly Democratic organization ‘ !with full representation for the women, ft is stated. Committees Views }|_ The following statement was made ‘|by the committee this morning after The undersigned, candidates for election to the city commis;/its meeting: sion, desire to express our appreciation of the hearty support that! has been offered us by many citizens. We stand firmly on the platform that we have already pre-| There has never been such a general | “The voters of North Dakota who |have the welfare of the state at heart jare almost unanimous .in their ap-| proval of the Devils Lake convention. sented to the people of Bismarck and deprecate the injecting of |approval of candidates and program new issues when it is too late for citizens to inquire into the!at the beginning of any campaign facts. We have avoided personalities or offensive references to! other candidates and no circulars or statements to the public have | vigor. since Townleyism became an issue in {North Dakota. 2: : “The signing of the récall petitions jhas been taken up with renewed New recall petitions are not been approved or authorized by us that did not sbear the signa- | needed. tures of the candidates or reputable citizens. “There is every indication now that thousands of Independents who in We especially condemn any attempt, if such is made, to pub-| previous campaigns have been inclin- lish offensive or personal matter on the last day of the. campaign | {© sors will get boldly out in the open | ed to dodge the fire of the League and assure you that we are in no way responsible for anything that] for an ‘Vver the Top’ drive. may have or may appeared over “publicity” “Campaign” or other “The wailing, begging and: brag- two committees are | aimed to give the Independent’s a jobtairied by selling bonds would be subject to the same misuse as the cur- {rent tax money has been up to this itime. View of Bond Sale | “nder our laws as they are our state officials can use money obtain- ied from the sale of bonds for the sup- {port of bonds of their political ma- | chine instead of paying ‘back to politi- |eal subdivisions the money due them. |John Hagan, \Commissioner of ‘Agri- culture has’ boldly stated that. they are willing to ‘spend $185,000 of the ipublic money for the promotion and protection of their political machine by paying it out forpolitical adver- tising. “Everyone who: understands our ineeds, realize that the state must get jconsiderable money from outside of jthe state in.rder to prevent further loss and get our state and local goy- jernments back to normal and that the most profitable and quickest way | to do it is.to issue refunding bonds ‘as the direct @bligation of the state ‘as is provided for in the proposed iconstitutional’ amendment. which aiso jreduced the possible bonded indebted- ness of the state from $12,000,000 to $7,760,000. Claim Money Lost” “The state Officials to be recalled have already been the means of losing ‘tion we have succeeded in preventing’ . THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE people. that..will. be saved~ from’ em- barrassment. “We are going over the top this fall, and we will have the grandest Thanksgiving celebratioff this fall that North Dakota has ever seen.” JOHNSON TAKES. UPWORK TODAY AS 00, AUDITOR Succeeds T. J. Flaherty — John Bowers ‘to he Deputy A new county auditor is on the joo today. Frank Johnson, elected last fall, BATTER SERVICE EXCLUSIVE ELECTRICAL SPECIALISTS Service and parts for Delco, Remy, Northeast and Auto Lite starters, Bosch, Eisemann and K-W Magnetos, Exide and Minnesota bat- teries, and Klaxon horns. 2 ELECTRIC SERVICE & TIRE CO. Bismarck, No. Dak. ° | MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1921 ’ You'll like our clean, fire proof, centrally located storage. The best tires, batteries, accessories. Phone 490 . took office today, succeeding T, J. Flaherty. Mr. Flaherty has accepted a position traveling for a Fargo print- is® house. No difficulty attended the assumpton of office by Mr. Johnson, as he'has been deputy in the office. John Bowers, formerly in the state auditor’s office wil be deputy county auditor. Katherine Lyons entered the office today, taking the position made vancant by the departure of Kather- inc McGarvey. Everett. La France and Miss Sadie Sempel are the othey members of the auditor’s office staff. Mr, Johnson filed bond jn the sum of $5,000 in assuming the: office. HILDRENS COLDS should not be ‘‘dosed.” Treat them externally with— yieks VAFPORUB Over 17 {Aillion Jars Used Yearly o Open all night. - Lahr Motor Sales Co. The county commissioners met to- day in the auditor’s office, in their regular. April meeting. US& TRIBUNE WANT ADS Spring Suits \ Patterns Made to Your Order 7 $22.00 $75.00 All Work Guaranteed Frank Krall TAILOR ging of the Townleyized press indi-|several million dollars of, public cate tat the leaders of the League!money. The taxpayers. must make see the hand writing on the wall.'good that loss some time. The They know that a very large major- sooner we take it, the smaller it will ity of the voters: will-vote-for a pro-ibe and'the sooner we get: our. credit gram of financial relief,’peace and! prosperity. Townleyism is ‘doomed. | It will fall in North Dakota not nial Beginning April 1st committees, or impersonal and irresponsible signatures. F. H. REGISTER. .» ‘ HARRY A. THOMPSON. S. S. CLIFFORD. ° ' (Political Advt.) OPEN ALL NIGHT | °Coseany” ‘i Monthly Storage $8.00, Transient Storage 50c Phone 700 restored the greater the number of eed TION. _.. ag | TO THE CONSUMERS OF LIGHT, HEAT AND POWER, BIS: - MARCK, N. D. a ea oem At various times during the year 1920 the Hughes Electric Co, filed with the State Railway Commission schedules of Increased rates, which increases will add an- nually to the cost of the consumers of light, heat & power approximately $40,000:00. The income of this corroration for the calendar year ending Dec. 31st, 1920, was as follows: For Light, $87,285.89; Heat, $66,384.49; Power, $48,184.85; Electric Cook- ing, $10,684.28; Miscellaneous Income $3,208.83; less bad debts and corrections $348.51, leaving a gross income of $215,399.83. This gross income would have been much lar- ger had all cf the increases whiéWsthe Hughes Company charged been in effect for alt of the year, but the different raises took effect at different periods of the year 1920. The respective raises which are now in effect were as follows: 16% on light, 30% on heating, and 11% on Power and Electric Cooking. . Immediately after receiving filing on April 5th, 1920, of the schedule for increase of rates on power and cooking and May 1920 the schedule for increase in heat, rates and on August 30th, increase in rates for General Lighting purposes; the State Railway Commission did notify in writing the President of the City Commission, of the City of Hamer, of the filing of such schedules attaching to said notice a copy of each of said - schedule. By default on account of the non-appearance of the City of Bismarck each and all of said raises in electricity and heating rates went into effect as provided by law 30 ° days after the filing of the schedules and such rates are now and have been in effect and , collection made from the consumers thereunder. i The failure of the City Commission to defend the consumers interest by directing _ the City Attorney to appear after the filing of each of said schedules for increase in — rates for the purpose of compelling this Utility to show cause why such increased rates were necessary caused the necessity for the consumers themselves to defend their in- terests in order to prevent the continuance of these extortionate rates and to this end, on January 8th, 1921, 8@ consumers filed a complaint with the. Railroad Commission condeming and protesting against the continuation of these rates. On January 29th, 1921, the Railroad Commission ordered a preliminary hearing.. At such hearing the Hughes Electric Co. was represented by Mr. Cox’a member of the Law firm of O’Hare & Cox. The City Commission not being represented, the consum- ers weré represented by the Attorney General and Mr. Hellstrom. A subsequent hear- ing was held on the 1st of April at which time the City Attorney Mr. O’Hare appeared for the City of Bismarck and Mr. Hellstrom for the consumers while the Hughes Elec- tric Co. was again represented by Mr. Cox of the Law Firm of O’Hare & Cox. This hearing was adjourned to April 26th, 1921, in order to permit the Railroad Commission- ers Engineers to complete an appraisal of the Hughes Electric. Company plant, We now come to the vital part of this hearing, which means so much to the. users of Electric Light, heat and power and for the reduction of the Onerous and. excessive charges now fastened upon you, thru the neglect of our city officials. The: burden is now placed upon you. “Eternal Viligance is the price of Liberty.” We have shown you the necessity for looking out for your financial interests and for managing and conducting your own case. Of necessity there will be some expense attach- ed to the successful prosecution of this proceeding. It may cost the sum of $1500, and in order to distribute this expense equitablly and to make it fall pro-rata on those who’ received the largest benefits from a successful termination of the suit we suggest and recommend that each patron of the Hughes Electric Co. mail a check to The Committee equal to one-tenth of your December 1920 heat, light and power bill. Do this at once as the time for final determination of this important suit is close at hand. Namely, April 26th, 1921. We have ‘every reason to believe that the suit will terminate to your interests as the Supreme Court of the State has ini effect decided the matter in:con- nection with the Electric Light Plant at Fargo, and Grand Forks. \ Public Utilities Committee ‘ Frank Harris, Chairman, . F. O. Hellstrom, : Secretary & Treasurer. i —Advt., keep expense. wer eae We will sell you Hassiers on 10 day trial. If you are not delighted with them we will refund all of your Ford passenger cars and trucks. Put on while you wait. Hassler Dakota Company ~ 405 Northern Pacific Avenue, Fargo. Shock Absorbers