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

= : The Weather Generally Fair /FORTIETH YEAR THE BIS BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1921 CK TRIBUNE Last Edition PRICE FIVE CENTS GOMPE! CONFESSES SHE BOT HATH KILLED STEPSON. 22s AND BURIED HIM Woman Sobs Out Story of Mur-| der in Little Minois BRINTON CASE Jail HIT HIM WITH AN AXE} MOVES SLOWLY IN DIST. COURT Washington, June 25.—Weather predictions for the week he: in- ning Monday includes Region of the Great Lakes, Up- ber Miss:ssippi and Lower Mis. souri Valleys—temperature above normals parily cloudy; seattered Sunday-showers, Declares Son of Her Husband Attacked Her While Drunk A Introduction of Evidence - Carlinville, TL, June 25.—Sobbing | fitfully as she held her 14-months-otd | baby in her arms in the county jail; BEGIN THE TESTIMONY Mrs.’ Katherine Harmon today con-} fessed that she killed Roy Harmon,' The trial of J. W. Brinton, charged 19-year-old stepson, last Sunday! with perjury in connection with tes- morning. | mony given. before the house audit | She said she killed him with an axe | Committee last winter, proceeded to- | 2 ! day with jurors, attorneys and a few ! and threw the body into a well <here: spectators in the courtroom swelter- | it was found Friday by, a neighbor: ing under 90-degree temperature. All | when picking blackberries. tof the jurors removed their coats | Mrs. Harmon said her stepson as>' When they entered the jury box, ul-| saulted her Saturday night. Contin-| ous ee eet nanietane ate i ulds the sapere) Sunday, morning in torney-general, recalled Secretary of | the ‘kitchen of their home at Gree: state Thomas Hall to the stand when | Ridge she said she struck him three: the court opened to, elicit from him where it remained all day Sunday.' now in use in the preparation of That night she dug a hole and buried’ official copy, and then placed Chartes | the body. 4 | Wattam, official reporter for the house | Mailed’ Letter. _, | committee, on the stand. j Monday morning, Mrs. Harmon said,’ After Judge Nuessle had sustained | she went to Gilléspie, where she wrote Attorney LeSueur’s objection to Mr. ' and mailed a letter to the boy’s granc-| Weeks’ request of Wattam to read: mother saying he had been kidnap-; from the transcript of the testimony , ped and was held for ransom. About! an agreement was reached whereby ; daybreak Wednesday morning Mrs ‘the transcript of Brinton’s testimony Harmon said she dug up the body, tied | would be read to the jury, with the several pieces of towel around the! understanding that it would be avail- | neck and dragged it to the well near-! able to the jury, court and attorneys by. : . jall of the time during the trial, but ; Young Harmon returned home about! would not be taken to the jury room. , midnight Saturday night, she said, and: Cathro Present i enteredvher room. She sald he had) ©. W. Cathro, director-general of been drinking and assaulted her, tel!- ing threatening her is she told. , After slaying the youth Mrs. Ha | court room to be called as a witness when the state completed its prelim- mon scrubbed the kitchen and tore iMary action. Mr. Cathro was placed - (on the stand about 2 p. m, Laie RA Pee io -— forts , .D. E. Shipley, who was secretary | Mrs. Harmon. and ‘her husband, of the house audit committee, was | : “called. tothe. standby the-state -to | pada Harmon's father, Tomy. ED testify to the fact of Brinton’s teati- | 5 A ¢ ‘ AIL EFFORTS | and'was asked other necessary dues TODRAGCHURCH “Uons, in the state’s preliminary. At: | ‘ torney LeSueur asked him to return ; i this afternoon and produce the find- | ! ings of the house audit committee. | { Jury ‘Is Selected, ! The jury was selected about 3:30; o'clock yesterday afternoon, 12 men, 4 being selected out of 26 called to the; jury. box. The members of the’ jury: iu ‘are: John E, Johnson, Braddock, farmer; Tony Streit, Bismarck, farm- ler; L, E. Heaton, McKenzie, farmer, Independents Report on Incident gtock-puyer and Independent member \ of legislature; H. S. Dobler, Bismarci of Tour of R. A. Nestos |tumberman; John Gunderson, Driscol ——. ‘farmer; E. A. Lewis, Baldwin, farmer; Fargo, N. D., June 25—Efforts al-'Joe Schneider, Bismarck, manager leged to have been made to use the! Standard Oil filling station; S. S. Clif- Mandan circuit of the Young People’s | ford, restaurant owner; John Weber, League of the Norwegian United Luth- | Sterling, farmer; W. H. Webb, Bis- eran Church of America are condemm-! marck, merchant; Fred Ryberg, Fran- ed in statements issued by Indepen- ces township, farmer; W. S.° Nichols, dents boosting R. A. Nestos’ candida- | Florence Lake township, farmer. cy for governor. | The jury was obtained much sooner The story says that a year ago Nes- than was expected, and without the tos had promised to address the an- : exercise of all of the peremptory chal- nual convention of the Mandan circuit! lenges, of which the state was allowed this year. The convention was held at | five and the defense ten. Several Dunn Center and Nestos was sched. were challenged for cause. The jurors uled to speak on Saturday, the 11th, | called to the jury box before the jury on the subject of “Christian ‘Citizen. finally was obtained included John E. ship.” _ When the program was made, Johnson, A. S. Bolster, John Homan, public by the district committee some Adam Voight, Tony Streit, Carl E. Nonpartisans objected to Nestos’! Johnson, L. E. Heaton, Ed Olson, W. S. name and a few men are said to have/ Nichols, Fred Long, Max saps i‘ threatened to break up the conven-| McCoy, H. 8. Dobler, John ea Lag tion if he came to speak. Nestos|Gunderson, G. N. Keniston, E. A; | Schneider, L. M. Ost- passed up the meeting, on being in-| Lewis, Joseph i formed of this, going on to Killdeer | man, N. F, Julius, S. S. tore jenn where arrangements had been made! Weber, Melvin Olson nate ‘aiser, to take him to the Kildeer mountains |T0m O'Connor and Fre ti y oe: ms to make a non-political speech at a/ Georg K. Foster, assistant attor- country picnic. | ney-general, a Bismarck resident to Hefore the close of the Young Peo-;Whom many of the jurors were famil- ple’s convention the trustees of the far, sat with Mr. Weeks during the ex- Normanna Lutheran church issued a/ amination of the a Attorney statement condemning attempts to | General Lemke, ho is to be a es: make political capital out of the mat- | W48 not TNeads a reaation. ter. They named the Dunn County | te \ Farmers Journal and its editor. ~ Mr. Weeks read the long information Nestos spoke at Halliday Thursday. | which certain unable to accommodate the crowd at | mittee last winter when the investiga- one time. ‘tion of state industries was conducted, messes and documents that Brinton testified falsely. "| State Laying Foundation For. j invit times with an axe. She put the body | the information that records of the | iy is in a box and dragged it to a shed: pouse journal, which were sought, ire ‘ernor Robert D. Carey. © the hat. a ge the Bank of North Dakota, was in the ; Sunday; continued warm. ' tiled by the state against Brinton a) timon: ‘iven i He made twa speeches, the, hall being Brinton before ‘ne’ house nail Rai committee and would prove by wit-| | FOUR-GALLON HAT FOR HARDING | i | This “four-gallcn” sombrero has a | | Today’s Weather | SDL I ns 3 For 24 hours ending at noon, June 2 Temperature at 7 a. Highest yesterday . Lowest yesterday . Lowest last night Precipitation . Highest wind v Forecast For North Dakota: ‘air tonight an NEIGHBORS OF BOWEN FAMILY. CALLED FIRST Relate Story of Shooting In Which Rancher Lost His Life i | PROSECUTOR BARRED | granted separate trials. D. R. Offley " jis the first to be tried and the jury | i | is composed of the following men: HenryMattis, L, F. Steele, William Melray and M. H. Quickstad, States Attorney Oppegard of Golden Valley disqualified himself as his firm ihad business relations with the | defendants attorney. IP. B. Garberge of Hettinger has been appointed spe- | cial prosecutor by the court. | ©. A. McClure, neighbor of the man called. He told of being at the Bowen ranch in the morning and told how | he was called foflowing the shooting. | | He identified certain exhibits. | Mr. Tubbs, relation of the defend- ; {telling his story of the affair when ; ‘the court adjourned, STUTSMAN WILL HOLD BIG FAIR i Novel Features Promised For) Entertainment Jamestown, N. D.,,June 25.—Stuts- man county will hold a big fair here {June 29, 30 and July 1. | Home talent arranged amusements | have been arranged for the fai innovation in county fairs, according to the fair committee’s announcement. ’ The Lutheran college concert band RS AGAIN NAM SINS RECEIVES “REPRIMAND FOR ~ LONDON SPEECH | Secretary of Navy Denby For-| mally Advises Him of His Decision “SAME OLD THING” —SIMS; | Officer Says That so Far as He, is Concerned Incident is Closed et i Washington, June 25—A second! ‘public reprimand for breach of naval) j discipline stands against the record of i ADMIT WILSON Washington, June 25.— Woodrow Wilson appeared In person today in the office of Chief Justice Me- Coy of the District of Columbia. supreme court to be admitted to the practice of law before the court. AT AUDITORIUM Public Health and Preventative Measures are Discussed _ by Surgeons Rear Admiral William S. Sims today! jas a result of his speech in London,! GREETS DOCTORS iJune 7, criticising Sinn Fein sympa-| Hi: A A 3 thizers in the United States. | High Tribute Paid to Bismarck ion to the annual Frontier ,Day cowboy contests at Cheyenne. “Miss Wyoming,” human trade mark of the state. The man is Gav- | public. The invitation is engraved on a si i 7 i Seerétary Denby formally advised | ‘Admiral Sims of this decision yes-! 'terday a few hours before the officer} left for Newport to resume his duties {as head of the navy war college. “I got what I deserved, the same old (ening, admiral sins said as he left been sent to President Harding ds an fey President Harding att Scenes The iment the reprimand was being made Incident Closed. | He expressed regret that he had: ~~nnnnnmne icdused the administration inconven-! | val jience and added that so far as he was ELK LE ADE feoncerned he considered the incident ! {elosed. ! { ilver band around ‘hear their Hospitals and Clinic of , Local Physi : ' ans Bismarck turned out last evening to welcome the representatives of the American College of Surgeons and to message. Despite the heat, the lower floor was filled and a number occupied seats in the gallery. It was a fine tribute both to the visi- tors and the organization they repre- sent as well as an indication of the; position Bismarck with its hospitals and surgeons holds in the Northwest. _ Dr. Franklin H. Martin, secretary- general of the American College of Surgeons in talking with a represent- ative of The Tribune paid a high trib- ED LABOR HEAD Wotmerar VETERAN LABOR LEADER VICTOR OVER J. L. LEWIS | Big Demonstration Greets Men- | tion of Gompers Name at i Convention | es |LEWIS IS ALSO CHEERED | | First Serious Opposition of Gompers in Many Years } For Post Denver, June 25.— Samuel |Gompers, veteran leader of or- |ganized labor, again was elected _president of the American Fed- ‘eration of Labor in the annual [convention here. Mr. Gompers idefeated John L. Lewis for the {post. It was the first serious opposition offered to Mr. Gomp- ‘ers in many years, The vote was 25,022 to 12,324. Only ow of the largest organiza- j tions cast a vote solid for Lewis—the | machinists’ union and the United | Brotherhood of Carpenters. The miners’ delegation split their vote, giving Gompers, 1,96 and Lewis 2,132. President Lewis declined to vote the 33 votes he held. | The railroad vote, which had been | claimed almost solidly by Lewis sup- Hettinger, June 25.-—Defendants in | he Bowen murder trial have been: Cliff Truax, A. T. Dahl, John Geddes, | ! who was killed, was the first witness ; HOLD SESSION 2. ‘ormer Officers Named at Mi- not Meeting Are All Re-elected SWIMMING a { ! | VIEW POOL \ ons Guests of Local Lodge at Roof Garden Luncheon—Propose Amendments all the lodges in the state. ., This association was formed by @ meeting called at Minot last Febru- ary by District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler J. J. Coyle, at which representa- ing a constitution therefor. At the meeting held today certain ! amendments to the constitution were adopted, looking toward perfecting it against contingencies unprovided for |in the form originally adopted. The following officers were re-elect- ed, they having been all elected at the Minot meeting to hold until this first annual meeting: President, C. P. Brown, Fargo; sec- retary-treasurer, R. W. Bassett, Val- ley City; trustees, for one year, J. B. Atkinson, Minot; for two ye F. A Brown, Grand Korks; for three years, ant Offley and at the time of the shoot: | CH i Rreaes dis r9 ia aq | ©: H. Doyon, of Doyon, a member of ing a resident of the vicinity, wa | tye Devils Lake lodge. The chaplain, sergeant-at-arms and tiler are appoint- ive officers and the president hag not the ensuing term. Devils Lake for the next meeting but under the constitution that will be de- termined by the trustees. which will be held at.Los Angeles | Next month, to vote in favor of recog- nition of stat sociations if the ques- tion comes belure them. All the officers were present ex- cepting F. A. Brown of Grand Forks, trustee, and Joseph Dietrich of Bis- margk, tiler, who is confined to his home with neuritis. The officers und delegates were en- yet announced his appointments for | | A.resolution was adopted request-: jing the delegates to the grand lodge,! RUN TONIGHT | The first annual state convention | of the North Dakota Elks’ Association | was held here today, there being ; present representatlges, from nearly, tives of the various lodges of North! Dakota’ met for the purpose of or-! ganizing the association and adopt: ; An invitation was received from! ber and he denounced the alleged mis- | i | 1) visit to the White House was| lone of routine custom, it was said,/ jand so far as could be learned the; ireprimand was -not discussed there. | Secretary Denby in his communica-} i to Admiral Sims called the lat- ler's action tc lar action taken against him in 1911, when he assured | a British: audience that in event of iexiérnal attack they could count onj| jthe last drop of blood and the last} idollar of their kinsman overseas. ute to the Bismarck clinic and com-| Porters: split. The two largest unions pared it in efficiency to those held at! | Rochester, the Twin Cities and other: ! points. He declared that Bismarck was to be congratulated upon her hos-! pitals and medical fraternity. t Dr, E. P. Quain who has labored; so many years in creating a clinic in| this city presided at' the public meet-| ing Friday evening. His appearance} as well as that of Justice A. M. Chris- | tianson was the signal for the Rotary | club which sat in a body to sing the ;—the electrical workers and the rail- way car men—cast their entire vote to Gompers. Commends Veteran, Mr. Parkins commended the veteran labor leader as a man “with wonder- ful intuition and faith of matchless knowledge, fearless courage; who took. a rope of sand and made it the strongest and most formidable eco- nomic movement in the entire world. “Under his fearless leadership you THROWN ® greeting song of the club, “How-doj have no cause for fear from the open ‘ou-Do.” |shop movement and other hostile When Dr. Martin began his address! drives,” declared the speaker, adding: “No man in the United tates is more { Kennelly, Mandan labor. leader, whom ; | representation. | . 'Nestes, Kitchen and Shipley; Speak at Political Meeting An egg whizzed by the face of Jos- teph A. Kitchin, Independent recall | candidate for commissioner of agri-| culture and labor, as he was speaking in Mandan last evening. It passed | by Representative D. E. Shipley, who ! was on the platform, and spent itself on the street. Eggs were introduced by some Man- dan people earlier this week when A. ‘B. Nelson was speaking on the/ | streets of the city, the citizens ob-| jecting to his radical utterances. Two | fights in the crowd also marked the | 2Ppearance last night of R, A. Nestos, i ‘recall candidate for Governor, Mr. ' Kitchin and Mr. Shipley at the meet- ing. | The Independents have been mak- ‘ing speeches in various parts of the ; Slope country, and ‘came into Mandan last evening, holding a meeting on the street in front of the Lewis and Clark hotel. There was a large crowd pres- ent and the Independents said they were well satisfied with the meet- ing, and with their tour through the | western country. ! Mr. Nestos spoke on state issues generally. (Mr. Shipley, during his | talk, referred specifically to Bernie | he said had misrepresented him in saying that he (Shipley) had opposed | labor legislation in the last session. | Mr. Shipley is a labor union mem-; N. P. TRAINS TO | Resumption of Through Service Is Announced ‘Northern ‘Pacific through train serv- community. tertained by the Bismarck lodge at| ice, interrupted last week because of luncheon at the McKerizie Roof Gar-| the wash outs near Medora, will be OVER STRIKE ton actually said the things he was alleged to have testified to before that London, June 25.—By the Associat- ed Press.)—Both striking coal miner¢ and operators have accepted an invi- tation extended by Premier Lloyd George to confer with him at the Board of Trade Monday with a view of reaching an end of the coal strike, which has been in progress almost three months. FIND 14 GUILTY OF MAIL THEFTS Toledo, Ohio, June 25.—Eleven of 13 defendant’s in Toledo's million dol- lar postoffice robbery were convicted by the federal juries which reported to Justice Killett at 9:30 o'clock this morning. Sentence will be deferred pending trials on other indictments. His opening statement, in addition to the reading of the information, was confined to a brief statement that the state would prove its contentions that Brinton’s charges of wrong-doing against members of the state adminis- tration were false. First Witness Called. Thomas Hall, secretary of state, was called as the first witness at 4:45 p. m. but was not present and Charles Wat- tam, shorthand reporter for the house audit committee, was called. When Mr.-Weeks began to question him At- torney LeSueur objected to the line of questioning, pointing out paragraphs in the information which he said were not properly drawn. Mr. Hall came in the courtrdom and was put on the stand., LeSueur ob- jected to Mr. Weeks’ questioning of the secretary of state, who produced copies of the daily house journal, from which Mr. Weeks expected to estab- lish the facts of the investigaticn at which Brinton was alleged to have (Continued on Page 3) and glee club, composed of 50 artists, will play-- In addition, the Jamestown boys’ concert band, 16-piece Windsor concert band and the 21-piece Valley City municipal band will play. The Little Country Theater players of the North Dakota Agricultural college will play “David Harum.” Jamestown col- lege players will present the “Mouse Trap” and “Poor Old Jim.” The B iness and Professional Women's cl will present “Coats and .P¢ Margaret Bigelow’s dancin; be another feature. =~ Among the home-arranged amu7e- ments are “A Trip Around.the World,” in which public school pupils co-oper- ate. At the various stops bits of vari- ous countries will be shown. Eight hundred and sixty-four school pupils assist in the entertainment. 26TH HOMER. = une Bp Ruth knocke:l his 26th home ru ton with one on. against Washing-j ter wa: den and were itterward taken for an observation tour around the city, and particularly showing them the swim- ming pool which is being built for the auspices of the | El y MERCURY TAKES JUMP TO 93 HITS RECORD. The mercury at the weather bu- reau reg 1 96 degrees at 3:30 P.M. This is the summer's rece ord The thermome hit a new high mark for the season yesterday after- noon about 4 o'clock, according to the weather bureau report. It was 93 at that time. At Dickinson the thermometer climbed to 96 yes- terday. At noon today the thermome 90 and climbing toward a new in the afternoon, record j resumed tonight, according to infor- ! Bismarck agent, this morning. boys and girls of Bismarck under the |-8e mation received by W. A. McDonald, The word said that the through rvice would be established with No. 3 tonight, due in Bismarck at mid- | night. It is expected that No. 2 will come through from the west at 9:45 tomorrow morning. _ The order may be counter-manded, but is expected to stand. The baseball club was to go (0 Dickinson this afternoon, but after the announcement was made regarding resumption of train service the team will go Sunday noon instead. STOP FUNERAL; CHANGE BANDS Chicago, Jun 2.—An Italian funeral was stopped today by men claiming to be union officials who objected to a non-union band in the procession. A union band was substituted, sponded promptly. i Judge Christianson paid a high trib-| ute to the medical profession and re-; | a | Hated statistics covering a long period) ability and constructive force,” | ‘ ‘indicating just what had been done by | the physicians to prolong life and to) add to the health and happiness of the Explains Program. Dr. Franklin H. Martin, Secretary- General of the American College of} Surgeons spoke briefly regarding the organization, and explained how its ideals and purposes were all directea toward the benefit of the public. improvement of surgery and of hos. pitals, Dr. Martin declared is largely due to the higher ideals and better training of the modern surgery. In an addres illustrated by stereop- tican slides, Dr. Richard R. Smith, of Grand Rapids, showed the contrast between the well developed women and the women of frail and delicate physique. He pointed out that the slender girl by the proper diet and out-door exercise can develop into aj A healthy woman. Dr. Jabez N. Jackson, of Kansas City, pointed out great danger to women in cancer of the breast. He made a strong plea for prompt physi- cal examination in all cases where this disease was suspected, and point- ed out the hopelessness of delay. Urges Early Examination, The Surgeon and the Public, was the title of the address delivered by Dr. |A. T. Mann, Assistant Professor of The} | ‘he demanded the same recognition to! |. y 5 which the Rotary members under the; lied about and abused than the preai- i ‘ jdirection of Henry Halvorson re-| dent of the American Federation of Labor. Whq? Because this man has complished something. He has shone incomparable and wonderful Gompers’ Statement. “Iam sure that my election will bring no comfort to Gary or to Hearst,” said President Gompers in responding to cries from delegates for a speech, “This is a demonstration to the whole world,” he added, “that a chain | of newspapers owned by a multi-mil- |lionaire with his mud-slinging ma- chine cannot control the American Federation of Labor.” | The first name submitted as can- \didate for the Presideacy was that of President Samuel Gompers, who was nominated in an_ eulogizing speech by George Perkins, of Chicago, president of the Cigarmakers’’ Union. A demonstration of several min- jutes duration greeted the announce- ment of Mr. Gompers’ name by Mr. Rerkias: at the clots of his address. number of delegates jumped to their feet and cheered while scores of others rembined quietly in their seats averting a stampede in behalf of the veteran labor leader. When William Green, secretary of the United Mine Workers, mounted the platform to nominate John L. | Lewis, president of the United Mine | Workers of America, he was given an \enthusiastic ovation. Convention in Uproar. The convention in its first night {session last night, disposed of the Surgery at the University of Minne-| question of future relations with the sota Medical School. Dr. Mann point- 1 international federation of trades ed out that modern surgery was based| unions and the recognition of the on scientific knowledge. of deaths in times passed have been discovered, which makes surgery bas-} ed on scientific knowledge a great benefactor in the saving of lives. Dr. Mann showed the moral obligation which the surgeon owes to the com- munity, and explained how the Amer- ican College of Surgeons is seeking to raise the level of surgical service throughout the country. Gives Resume, G. 8S. Dalgety, Alumni Executive Secretary of Northwestern University, made a splendid resume of the even- ing’s talk. Speaking from the lay- men’s view point-he stressed the fact that scientific medicine was seeking not to gld¥ify itself, but to render greater service to the public. Today's session of the meeting in- cluded clinics at the two hospitals in the morning, a luncheon at the Bis- marck hospital, followed by a scien- tific meeting at the McKenzie hotel in the afternoon, The annual business meeting of the section will close the session and the sixty surgeons reg- istered for the meeting will leave to- night for their homes in all parts of the state. Hold Banquet. The banquet at the McKenzie Roof Varden Friday evening was well at- tended. Dr. V. J. LaRose presided and introduced Dr. Martin, who told of his trip to South America with Dr. W. J. Mayo. He declared that in many respects South America was ahead of North America. He found excellent clinics and well organized hospitals. The trip was made to enlist the lead- ing surgeons of South America in the American College. Following a brief social time, the ‘physicians went in a body to the pub- lic meeting. Many causes! Russian soviet government, Almost riotous scenes marked both actions of the convention which up- held the action of the executive council in severing felations with the European labor movement and in con- demning the Russian soviet govern- ment. Defenders on both the inter- national federation and the Russian soviet were annoyed by speaking and rattling of chairs and jostling of chairs, GETS YEAR FOR PRISON ESCAPE W. J. Hogan, former convict, was sentenced to the state prison for one year today on his piea of guilty to a charge of escaping from the peni- tentiary. It is the first time in years that such a case has been brought into district court. Hogan was convicted in Nelson county and sentenced to prison. Aftes serving several months he escaped and his attorney said he served five extra months as a result. Judge Nuessle asked him what prompted him to escape. “The guard was the cause of it,” aid Hogan. “He wasn’t watching.” Hogan denied that he knew that it was an offense to escape from prison. Judge Nuessle informed him that it was a felony and suggested it would be well for all the prisoners at the penitentiary to understand it. Hogan was arrested two months ago just after his sentence expired. Ward- en Stair preferred the charge of es- caping, ‘