The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 13, 1921, Page 1

FORTIETH YEAR STARK COUNTY HOLDS A GOOD - ROADS MEETING Most of Counties in’ State Can Take Tips from Her, Say Visitors ( GOOD ROADS AN ECONOMY. Study Presented “at Meeting | - Showing Saving Made in | Hauling Cost An enthusiastic meeting for good: roads. was held last night in Dickin-| son, according to Will Holbein, sec- - retary of tke North Dakota ‘Good | Roads association, and H. K. Craij of, the state highway commission’ engineering staff, who returned from! there today. ‘ ! The meeting was preliminary to campaign for the state association i Stark county. rR Stark county favors good roads and; most of the counties in the state can/ take tips from Stark, according to! those who have inspected the method Succeeds Major-General March of road construction and maintenance used there. | The development of better roads in/ Stark county has been carried on as/ a business ‘proposition. A study of! the..results was presented at the! Dickinson meeting by the secretary) of the county association, based on! tests of cost. of hauling grain and other products on good roads and bad’ Toads, The study showed the saving; effected in hauling by goods roads. | Maintains, Roads | Stark coufty’not,only builds roads but does that which many counties! do not do—really maintains them.: Charles Offet, superintendent of high-; ways} is employed the year round to! supervise the maintenance of the: roads, Over 200 miles of improved! roads are under his supervision. One) of the most modern pieces,of ma- chinery, recently purchased by the county, is a scraper which will’ work 30 miles of road in one day. Stark county was to let'a contract for a five and one-half mile state aid project extending toward New ‘Eng land, but the work will be’ deferred until next year because of the cost entailed by the necessity of construct- ‘ing two bridges. The road will be built next year. j Other Meetings S. T. May, president of the, auto- mobile ‘association, presided at the Dickinson meeting. . Among the speak- ers: were Chairman John Loh, of the. county good roads association, F. Ww: Turner, director, of the. state asso-; “ciation, Mr. ‘Holbein and Qir.” Craig+ were the principal speakers, 1 “A good roads association meeting! will be held at Ashley on May 30 and, Grant county will be. organized at) ‘Carson on May 20. ‘SAND HOGS’ ON BRIDGE WORK Ten Negroes Start in on Mis- souri River Bridge Work Ten “sand hogs” started work to-; day on the Bismarck-Mandan bridge over the Missouri. The ten -men, all negroes, arrived last night from the lower Mississipp! river region, where they had been working. After tests were made they began work today sealing pier No. 4,/ on the: west bank of the river. | ‘The men probably will be at the Job’ a week or ten days. Working under | air pressure of 35 pounds, according | to bridge men, they keep at their; work of filing in the cylindrical pier | nearly 70 feet under ground for two! hours, and then are taken out for; two hours. 7 BRITISH RAIL _MEN WILL AID MINERS STIRKE i | Landers of Oklahoma. “man or woman, in the country. Or so Oklahom GEN. PERSHING TO TRAIN NATIOAL GUARD! General Harbord is Named As- |” ‘ BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, 0 GATHOLICS RAILRATES IN | ' DOUBLE DISTINCTION © f y FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1921 A |THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [== / PRICE CENTS _ ARE SLAIN IN -—MBXICAN CITY STATE WILLBE INCREASED SOOK HEROIN | | i | | | (Troops Fire on Crowds Follow-|Great Northern and Northern: i | i} } | Women state fire marshals are rare. shals g Distinction No. 1 for Mrs. Sidney ! Distinction No, 2—she’s only 22,' youngest maarsbal.| ja claims. | | | HOLDUP WASNO | JOKE; BANDIT SHOT HIS PAL Glendive, Mont. May 1%.—When ° | NAMED TO HEAD ; Ing after he and other traveling men had beer? spinning yarns of hold-ups, he thought. the boys were kidding him when two fel- lows shoved a gun in his face, He sald: “Quit you're kidding,” and started what he thought was a good natured tussle with the man with a gun. It wasn’t a Joke. The man pull- ed the triger and shot his bandit pal through both legs. Costello was not injured. The wound man Is In the hospital at Glendive and the other robber was .captur- ed at Dickinson yesterday, jf Head of All Land Military Forces as | i} sistant to General in New | Duties | Washington, May 13,---Selection of Gen. John J. Pershing to be chiet-of- ; alleged desecration of their churches | cals entered several churches there, | tower, staff of the Army was announced to- day by Secretary Weeks, General; Pershing will assume his new duties, July i, succeéding « Maqjor-General! Peyton C. March. His asstant will) be Major-General James G. Harbord,! who: was General ‘Persirg’s principa! staff assistant in ‘ance before he; assumed command of the Service of; Supply. Heads All Training As chief-of-staff, Secretary Weeks said, General Pershing will Wirect training of the regular army and or-; ganized reserve which he will com- mand in the event of active field op- erations before his retirement. He will retain the duties recently as signed to him as chief of the war, staff now being organized. Harbord Aide in: France General .Harbord, as — assistant! chief-of-staff, will take over all of the administration details. heretofore ban: dled by the chief-of-staff, Mr, Weeks announced, leaving General Pershing; MERCURY FALLS BELOW FREEZING Cold Nips Adventurous Plants; in Most Parts of State | The weather man bit the plants which had put forth buds last night 1 nearly all parts of the state. Reports to the weather bureau to-! day indicate that considerable /dam- age was done to flowers and other ten- | PIG CLUB 1S |“will have to be met from the na-| justice which has characterized the! of the senate interstate commerce der plants, but there was no crop damage. . Only one of the 21 weather stations. in the state reported to the weather bureau that the lowest. temperatura of last night was above freezing. This was a Ellendale, where it was 34. The lowest at. Lisbon was, 32, but ati al) other points the temperature was 2 0t i erations in the state, combined forces. j tional guard and organized reserve. -, Corn acreage will be increased, show. GRAIN FUTURES, free to direct the organization and| More points below freezing. The cold- training of the, army of the ‘United \e8t places were Minot and Bowbelts. States as a whole, including the na-; Where the temperature fell to 23 | above. The lowest late night in Bia- this morning it was 28 above. WHEAT ACREAGE | Freezing temperatures are predict- Is DECRE. ASED, ed again tonight. POISONED SIX Se CHARGE MADE acreage in other crops for diversi-| * rad - fied farming the total acreage will be! Aen iad Ly eat vinwek nearly ag large as last year, he esti-\ Southard, also’ known as Mrs, Lyda mated. He found the people optimié-' Meyer, wag held by the police here on tic, he said. orders from Lés Angeles in connec- ition with the, deaths of four of her husbands, a brother-in-law and a child of one of the mien she married. Salt Lake City,-May 13.—Lyda Mey- er, arrested at Honolulu today is The wheat acreage in the north- western part of the state will be de- creased 20 per cent this year, in the opinion of Commissioner of Agricul-| ture and Labor John N. Hagan, who: returned from a trip in that section BILL PA § § E D husband, Edward F. Meyer, at Twin | Falls, Idaho, September 7, 1920... V. H. Washington, May 13.—The TinQ:er | Ormsby, deputy sheriff of Twin Falls, bill to regulate dealings in’ grain fu-'84id he was awaiting extradition pa- tures, was passed today by the hpite | Pers being prepared to bring her back and sent to the senate. to Idaho for trial. The deputy sheriff The vote was 269 to 69. The meas- 8ald Mrs.” Meyer married Vincent ure is designed to abolish the prac-| Southard of the U. S. S. Chicago, No- tice in grain markets of “puts” and, vember 20, last. “calls”, “ups” and “downs”, and “in- 3 demnities” by levying a tax of 20) “C]HR) AP” MONEY !marck was 30 above but at 8 o'clock | charged with the murder of her fourth j « ing a Demonstration ' Against Radicals i REDS AID IN FIGHT Trouble Grows Out of Alleged | Pilfering of the ~Church Mexico City, May 13.—(By the As-' { sociated Press).--Fifty persons were) killed and a score wounded in Mo-| relia, capital of the state of Michoa-! can, say reports to the ixcelsior early; this morning when police, aided by; | unsolicited hely from radicals, charg- ed a large group of: Catholics. The; latter were demonstrating against last Sunday by radicals. Red Flag Hoisted 4 The Catholic population of Morelia. was much incensed Sunday when radi- broke many images and eventually|, placed the. red flag on the cathedral) A demonstration of protest was held yesterday, according to dis- patches but was broken up by police, alded by federal soldiers, when clashes with jeering radicals on the sidelines threatened serious trouble. The demonstration was resumed in the evening. Vicenti Coyt; inspector of police, led a large unit of armed gendarmes against the demonstrators, few of which carried arms. |The lat: ter refused to disperse and when a volley was fired over their heads, ‘dis- patches say, they charged the police, | who leveled. their guns, at the crowa The Catholics, some of who were women, seeing this action by the po- lice and seeing their comrades lying! in the streets, fled in panic. H Angry at Coyt H General Garcia, chief of military op with the governor of the state to re-) store order and prevent further out-| breaks. Latest dispatches from (Morelia to! the Excelsior indicate intense feeling; is being manifested against the ex-| treme action of Coyt, which is be- lieved here to have been unwarranted:: Coyt. who led the police’ personally was injured and three killed, i | FORMED HERE To Encourage Raising of Pure-| Bred Stock in Burleigh County aes | To encourage the breeding of pure | | bred pigs in Burleigh county the First | National bank announces the form tionof the Burleigh County Boys’; j and Girls’ Purebred Pig club. The bank has procured at weaning) time 20 purebred sow-pigs which it/ will place in the hands of 20 Burleigh; county boys and girls, e ‘ The pigs will be allotted by im-| partial drawing to boys and girls not under 10 nor more than 18 years of age; formation of such clubs. { gee | LEARNS VALUE | | OF POLITENESS | a A little Tribune “newsie” learn- ed a lesson in the value of polite- ness. | proached a lady in, the Grand Pa- | | cific hotel and -both tried to sell | said: | “ll buy from you ,because you | tipped your hat and spoke polite- | ly.” H The boy sold the paper and | then, reflecting, burst out: | “There was a lady around here | Jast week told me it would pay me | to tip my hat.” | Pacific File Tariffs with Commission ted to Intéfere With New Rates The Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroads have filed _ tarifts with the railroad commission for intrastate passenger rates of cents per mile effective ‘May 18, as granted by the Interstate Commerce commission. The Pullman surcharge is effective on that date. Some of the freight tariffs have j been filed, effective June 10, the date on or before which the railroads were authorized to increase their rates. Other tariffs are expected to be filed immediately, Judge Booth, of the federal district court, St. Paul, has issued a tempor- ary restraining order, prohibiting the railroad commission from interfering with increases as ordered by the commerce commission and _ setting May 31 in Fargo as the time for hearing on whether the temporary re- straining order should be made per- manent. : Appeal Pending. In raising the railroad rates within North Dakota the Interstate Com- merce Commission raised them to the ; same level as in other states a terstate rates in this territor under the authority of the Es mins act, | The state is to appeal to the United States supreme court. There already ;are other cases pending in the coun- try’s highest court, it is said, in which the scope of the Esch-Cummins law is to be tested. The issue may be de- cided. before the North Dakota case is reached. eal The rates en milk and cream ship- ments are not to be increased, it is understood. SEES HUGE RAIL DEFICIT. Washington, May 13.—Unless some way is found to increase revenues agc reduced expenses the railway deficit tional treasury,” Chairman Cummins, committee, declared today at hearings on the general railway situation. ONE VACATION IN 12 YEARS y E. Lee, of Sheriff’s Office Enjoys it in Black Hills H. E. Lee, county jailer, walked intc the office of Sheriff Welch this morn ing and unconcernedly prepared to gt about his duties. . It was an event for the others, how- ever. Mr. Lee had just returned fron of South Dakota, the first real vaca- tion he had in twelve years’ service in the county sheriff's office. Excep: for one or two very brief absences or |RESTRAINT ORDER SERVED ‘State Commission Not Permit: | | Helen F. Dodge, 11, Philadelphia}. schoolgirl, has received the Carnegie medal for rescuing a chum from | drowning. POLES BITTERLY “CRITICISED BY PRIME MINISTER \Lloyd George Speaks Mind in British House of Commons ‘ on Question i i | | i EUROPE’S PEACE TOTTERS Unless Situation is Improved There is Little Hope for Future, He Says London, ‘May 1 'By the Associ- ated Press).---Prime Minister Lloyd| George, in an impassioned speech in the house of commons today, said the j action of the Polish insurrectionists was a complete defiance of the treaty of Versailles. | “IT think it is right I should speak | quite plainly,” Mr, Lioyd George de-! clared, “because if these things can} happen and we take no notice and do not deal with tmem with the stern attitude of this country in all its dealings abroad it is going to be fatal’to the peace of Europe. If that: ia disturbed I do not see what is go-! ing ‘to happen to" Europe.” ” | ~'He declared the treaty of Versailles was the charter of Polish freedom and that she was the last, country of Eu rope who had the right to complain. Poland did not win her liberty, the prime minister asserted. Her liberty was due to Italy, Great Britain and France. GERMAN FORCE GREATER Oppeln, May 13.—German forces on) the left bank of the Oder river are being gradually augumented by the arrival of the former German sol- diers from Breslau. Several hundred security police from [Hamburg and Kiel and a few from other German cities have reached Brieg and are au- subject to usual rules governing the @ month's vacation in the Black Hilt | thoritatively reported to have placed themselves at the disposal of German authorities. There are rumors here that the Germans will take the offensives, WARFARE RAGES IN MOUNTAINS: TROOPS READY , |Seceral Reported Killed in Battle on West VirginiasKentucky Border MAY SEND U.S. TROOPS Corps Commander Orders Them Held in Readiness to be Called Williamson, W. Va., May 13.—Moun- tain warfare which ranged all of yes- terday and intermittently through the | Right over a seven-mile front in the West Virginia-Kentucky coal strike region was resumed with vigor this morning. 2 Reports set to Capt. J. R. Brockus, of the state police at headquarters, said heavy firing was in progress at McCarr, Kentucky, the eastern end of the trouble zone and at Merrimac, West Virginia, where’ yesterday’s shooting started. : Sporadic rifle fire could be heara among the West Virginia and Ken- tucky borders at Matewan. | An unidentified man was killed on | the bridge leading from McCarr to the West Virginia bank of Tug river this morning. Conditions Long Disturbed. The attack on the mining town is declared by’ the ‘authorities to be an outgrowth of the disturbed conditions which have prevailed along the upper Tug iver with varying intensity since last May 19, when a party of priate detectives sent to evict miners from company houses from Matewan became involved in a conflict with the people of that town, 10 men being killed. A strike of miners in this sec- tion Was called last July and has since then been in progress. On two other occasions federal troops have been called into Mingo county to restore order, U. S. TROOPS READY. _Chillocthe, Ohio, May 13.—Orders have been received at Camp Sherman from the corps commander at Indian- apolis to have troops in readiness to move into West Virginia. FOUR REPORTED KILLED, Pikesville, Ky,, May 13.—Four per- sons have been killed and one man wounded in, fighting ‘along the: Ken- tucky and West Virginia borders dur- ing the last 24 hours, according to re- ports. repéived. here today.. BACK CAMPAIGN ON BONUS SHARK “argo Post of American Legion | . Writes Adjutant-General \ The campaign against usury in sol- | diers’ bonus claims inaugurated by, | Adjutant-General’s office has been en- dorsed by the Gilbert (. Grafton Post | No. 2, American Legion, of Fargo. “At last regular meeting of Gilbert 'C. Grafton Post, a motion was mado iand carried instructing the Adjutant ‘ of the (Post to write Adjutant-General ; Fraser informing him that the mem- duty he had been at the office every | probably within a week, when their’ bers of the Gilbert C. Grafton Post daying during this period. Mr. Lee's son hay the Northwes' ' ‘Taxidermiat fompany at Rapid City 8. D. Mr. Lee reported that Rapid City He and another “newsie” ap- | wag making great preparations to en- | Korsanty, leader of the’ Polish in: tertain a convention of the America) Legion at Rapid City, S. D., Aug, 23- will be a feature. Many persons not members of the Legion are expected there for 2 gala time. FOREST FIRES SWEEP RUSSI Riga, Letvia, May 13.—Forest firer cents a bushel on such transactions. A similar tax- made on contracts for! future delivery made outside of con- | tract. markets. { London, May 13.—The National’ The bill will “absolutely destroy; Union of Railway Men today stepped) manipulation,” according to Kepre- actively into the fight in support of) sentative Tincher. s . striking British miners making the, measures designed to prevent» the transportation of coal by railroad im-; NOT TO FOLLOW | BANK’S ACTION | Fargo, May 13.—Reduction. of inter-| est rate to-from 7 to 61-2 per cent by the federal reserve bank is not a| sign of easy money, according to C. L.} “ And he tipped his hat again as he turned away. 'areas sweeping the great timber belt ‘of Central Russia so frequently that preparations are complete. The Poles meantime are known to be strength- ening their position with artillery al- though not advancing. ‘ French‘forces declare that Adelbert Tr rection, had “heeded General Lerot instructions for the first time and her a paper. Turning to one, she| {96° 4 trip through the Black Hills | Suspended his offensive.” The French deprecate statements published by the Poles that the allies have accepted the present battle line as the new frontier between Germany and Poland. They declare these state- ments tend to excite the German pop- ulation, making re-establishment of order more difficult. A German counter-offensive, it is believed cannot be prevented unless the Poles evacuate their positions. The inter-allied commission is hold- a catastrophe™ for ; | threatened, according to Moscow pa- | said there is no intention to reinforce | timber area ported to replenish the nation’s fuel | supply. The railroad men’s action. took the form of a decision of the ex- CHARGED WITH ; Mosher, of Minneapolis, assistant fed- ig|'ing frequent conferences but it is allied troops here. Os | heartily endorse the stand the Ad- jutant-General has taken .regarding the handling of assignments cover- ing bonuses due ex-soldiers,” says a letter fromthe ‘Commander and Ad- jutant of the post, Adjutant-General Fraser has an- nounced that loan sharks who traffic in soldiers’ bonus claims at excessive rates of discount’ will be the last. paid. Persons who take the claims at a reasonable rate of discount, many with an evident desire to ‘help the ex-soldier, will be paid in regular or- der and have been praised by the Adjutanteneral, N WOUNDED MAN - SLOWLY RECOVERS CONSCIOUSNESS | Jamestown, N. D., May 13.—Attend- ‘ing physicians report that Walter Harrison, one of the three men shot here Sunday, and who was operated ‘upon yesterday, several pieces of Yone being removed, which were pressing upon his brain is slowly recovering Do You Kno - (Contributed by member Bismarck Immigration Association.) That fully 90 per cent of the farmers of Burleigh county will raise corn in 1921. That fully 75 per cent of Burleigh county farmers are milking cows. That our average corn yield, in this county, according to govern- ment figures is only two or three bushels per acre less than that of the states in the so called “corn belt.” That our corn acreage in 1920 was fully 40 per cent larger than that of 1919. That our corn acreage in 1921 will be fully 35 per cent greater than that of 1920. iy That there were over 50 silos erected in the county in 1920. consciousness dnd shows evidences that he understands what is said to him but is unable to speak. OFFICERS OF - §CHOOLS MEET A series of meetings of school offi- cers for several. counties has been arranged by the state department of education. They follow: Grant coun- ty, June 11; Morton county, June 13; Olivero county, June 14; Mercer coun- ty, June 15; Dunn county, June 16; Stark county June 17, A corps of speakers and leaders of | eral reserve agent, here for the meet- LA OR GRAFT jing of Fargo district bankerg today. ES The 7 per cent discount rate wae ald. Heat tateated established. last June to check infla- | matter for what rposi i , ‘tion, he said. He added that while eae Cee Chicago, Ill, May 13.—True bills’ ingation had,been checked the federal WEATHER REPORT ‘charging five labor leaders with con-| yank ratio of reserves has not great- For 24 hours ending at noon, May 13: | spiracy to extort money were return- iy improved, that all hanks are ara Temperature at 7 a. m... . 30 ed by the grand jury. \ rying very heavy loan totals and that | Highest yesterday . i liquidation is slow. H 1 Lowest yesterday . j Lowest last night . LEGION We OMEN NAME PRESIDENT: Precipitation - .0 superintendent of the Fargo public Highest wind velocity + 30-W schools, has been elected to the posi-| Devils Lake, May 13.—Mrs. Eugene | | Fenlon, of Devils Lake, was: chosen | ecutive committee that members | would not. handle imported coal i> . 55 ——__—__— 39 LEAVES FARGO - 30/ Fargo, May 13—Arthur Deamer, Have the Paper Follow You! No use secluding yourself in the north wood, in the moun- tains or at the lake — if you Forecast tion of superintendent of the public Forth North Dakota: Mostly cloudy) schools of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, accord- tonight and Saturday; continued cool; ing to word received by The Forum freezing temperature tonight. | today from Mr, Deamer, who is in ; Cedar Rapids. COSTLY SUPERSTITION | Shanghai, May 13.—The door of the: population and 400 teachers are em- general staff headquarters. faces south’ pjoyed in the city schools. Chang ‘Huai-chih, chief-of-staff, thinks /\Mr. Deamer came to Fargo four: that’s unlucky. He has ordered the) years ago from La Porte, Ind., to as- building altered so the entrance will! sume charge of-the city schools. Hej be from the southeast. The altera-) will return to Fargo to finish out the tion. will cost. $5,400 and the chief} present school year, which ends the will pay for it. | last of July. ‘Members of the Fargo board of KING PRIZES, | education said this afternoon that i —Prizes were of-| they had no knowledge of Mr.\Deam- fered for the women who smoked most ‘‘er’s election to the Cedar Rapids po- gracefully while partaking of afte | sition, and pointed out that he was nooy tea at the Toboceo Fair at Royal undef a three-year contract with the Agricultural Hall. The events werej Fargo schools, the contract not ex- open to the public. piring till two years.from next August Cedar Rapids is a city of 50,000 president of the state anxiliary of the: American Legion. - | BEWARE THE DAY! | FRIDAY THE 13TH Watch your step! Run from a black cat— Keep away from ladders— Handle mirrors carefully— It's a day danger lurks every- where. It’s Friday the 13th. It won't :22pen this way again in 1921, | | | can keep up-to-date by hav- ing our paper follow you. All you have to do is; to send us your new address, to- gether with the old address and the paper will come to you. It will keep you in touch with the happenings in your old home town. Bismarck Tribune Phone 32 That there will be a great many more silos built in 1921. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS? It means more beef cattle every year. It means more milch cows every year. It means more hogs every year. It means less wheat every year. ‘ It means that we are changing from a one crop country to a diversified farming community. It means that Burleigh county is the most prosperous county in the state. It means our farm values will raise rapidly. discussions is being sélected by the department for the series. Miss Ber- tha Palmer, assistant state superin- tenden, will represent the department. A series of meetings will be held in the eastern part of the state soon. 40,000 PAPER MEN ON STRIKE Albany, N. Y., May 13.—Approz!- mately 40,000 men in all branches of the paper making industry are on | strike, it was stated.