The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 14, 1921, Page 1

; BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1921 PRICE FIVE CENTS IRISH PEACE PARLEY BEGINS “INSTITUTIONS egysvoratay ~ MANDANTO BE ORRLBY TAKES | rv w mist Panter poy pp oppg ‘ HELPS LEAN | OFFLEY TAKES HIS FIVE IN IRISH PARLEY The Weather * FAIR CK T RIBUNE Last Edition FORTIETH YEAR | TO GET BY, SAY * RE | | a | ' j | 1 s, | % . 5 Baseball is the thing in Bis-; ASSESSED BY i WITNESS STAND | | HOPE OF PEACE ; jmarck today. | 5 | : | | = MEMBE | , After two splendid exhibitions STATE N ORDER. IN OWN DEFENSE: | iof the naticnal game the Farg ' ; IN CONFERENCE | pr ae and Bismarck clubs were to clash; scare le aco. | , he : Hold Present Cash Difficulty agin oe third exhibition this even- pax Commissioner Wallace, Man Accused of Murdering] Le Cannan Bank of North Dakota If you haven’t seen one of the; Names C.L. Crum to Review | Golden Valley Ranchman | gem eet eee Not Serious [two games already played see| the Assessor’s Work | Testifies ‘For Self | Culminates with Meeing : bs last! Mya Heatte pascal) OH SWE 5 | Ge: | with Lloyd-George an, you can e kept away. ! e | a TALK OF A RECEIVER) 7) ‘are mildly. interested you ALSO ACTS IN JAMESTOWN SPEAKS. ABOUT THREATS| ha So are | will find joy in the wholesome} — i Se | PRELIMINARIES TODAY : vee ae One Group Wants Application; | optimism and loyalty of the Bis-| tj Jamestown the Assessor is\ Tells Why He Carried a Gun; i wae marck fans and the determina-: tion and skill of the players. If! jyou know little about baseball’ i uA af you will find the excitement a; ore antle ‘The. matter, of the $11,000 pay-roll | good tonic. Mu A | Reassessment of Mandan check for the State Agricultural col- oy . ly lege, on which Sayinont was refused The Bismarck club has put up! tas heen ordered by George EK. Wal by: the Bank of North Dakota, has two splendid fights. The local! ace, state tax commissioner, Mr. W ! heen gettled ,according to R. H. Muir/Management has gathered a jace said today. ; ‘1919, this morning wis placed on the | and,J.1, Cahill, members of the board /bunch of clean, high class ball) ‘rhe reassessment will he made liy {stand in his own defense. Practically | bt atte ay ahh coat Rosana players that play the game as ©. 1, cram lawyer in Mandan, who|the whole day was given ovel to the; a my s g ie . i Mandan, wh: y : difficulties to resuX from the inability |SPOrtsmen ‘should play it. This; nas heen active in Nonpartisan league! examination of Offley by his own law- | of the Bank of Nor¥h Dakota to meet |is evidenced by the remark of a; atrairs. ‘yers. i the checks. ; ‘ Bde Bismarck player when Someone; The reassessment was ordered, ac-, The whole story of the incidents} ae he asitvation ie) however (© Wert :complained of the umpiring: | cording to the tax com mer, be-!prior to and the time of the shooting | We dcn’t want them to give us; couse, of Ineualities between the a8" were devéloped to the minutest det: iL) sessment of various pieces of property Offley declared he had bought al surers of counties and school trea- in thing just a square deal.” surers of county districts, which have | ’ q' ¥ in the city of Mandan and between | revolver ‘because I liad heard threats! indjviduals. | Definite Proposals Expected to be Found for Basis for Agreement ‘Another Oppose—Bank Says Ordered to do His Work it Can’t Collect When He Visited Ranch of M. K. Bowen | Hettinger, N..D., July 14.—D. ‘| Offley, on triabsfor the alleged murder | al-{of M. K, Bowen near Beach in July,! Dublin, July 14.—(By the | Associated Press.) — Riot- ing broke out again in the Cork street area here this morning. A bomb was ; thrown and damaged a , grocery store which alse | was looted and anothei | house was set afire. “A num-;. ber of people were “= injured by snipers, af | . Several windows we # dl been unable to get their apportion-! The management has spent a, j * The action of the tax | powen had made’ ind “I wished to! aes! money. Several Mave mee, {lot of money to give fans the op: {commissioner takes the matter of re- {protect myself against Bowen.” “rhe | | broken. The police’ man- ; jportunity of seeing such high-| viewing the assessment entirely away | witness declared. that he feared per-} aged to restore order with- straighten out affairs. tan There will be some difficulties with {Class baseball. The management some of the state institutions during ; hopes the fans will continue to the next two or three months. Board | stick by the team in the remain- | from the city authorities. Judge Crum! go violence and told of seeking le- | is required to finish the reassessment! gal means of réecdvering cattle from| by tenet ‘ ant Present the figures | Bowen, which Bowen had penned up.| ’ he fact | j; ; ; fo the county board of review. | It is possible’ that two more wil-} TreE tee iit arandtlntareet ob school jing barat and dispel the usual | ‘The only other city in which similar | nesses may be called although the de- lands and loans for the last year was | financial bug-a-boo that impends | action was taken, according to the tax |fense originally planned to close with less than was anticipated/jand leaves | 1N the last part of the baseball| commissioner, was in Jamestown, |Offley’s testimopy. The case may some of the institutins with deficits. | season. | where the assessor was ordered toireach the jury by Saturday night. How this will -be-met has not been de-! | reassess the: property. The business ; G. R. Jefferey, another of the four) termined. | jot reviewing the assessments was not men separately charged with the mur- | ‘taken from the city officials, however, | der with.Bowen was on the stand all | | ‘The city commission of Bismarck is|day Tuesday. Direct examination ' !now engaged in reviewing the assess-; Which lasted about an‘ hour was. fol- | ments in this etiy. ‘lowed by an all-day grilling of Jefferey PARLEY INVITE i aL SCE E Se ener iby prosecutors for the state. Jefferey ‘MANDAN SCHOOL i BOYS TO BUILD | Bowen farm and help him drive back} | | his cattle. His. story of the shooting | | BIG DAIRY BARN was substantially the sume as that of | ithe others. | out being compelled to use | firearms. | | London, July 14.—(By the As- sociated Press.)’— Eamonn De- Valera and Premier Lloyd George conferred for more than two and a half hours today over the question of an Irish settle- ment. : At the conclusion of the .con- ference Park 'O’Brein, president of the Gaelic league inLondon, stated that it shad’ terminated “ “amicably.” 3 i One of the men who accompa- nied Mr. DeValera’ tothe con- THE MEN WHO WILL PLAY LEADING PARTS IN THE IRISH PEACE NEGOTIATIONS— UPPER LEFT, GENERAL JAN CHRIS- | TIAAN SMUTS; RIGHT, LLOYD GEORGE; CENTER, KING GEORGE; V. LOWER, LEFT, EAMON DE VALERA; RIGHT, LIEUTENANT- COLONEL SIR JAMES CRAIG. By Newspaper Enterprise. London, July 14.—With indications that a settlement of Irish problems is. nearer than in centuries the eyes of the world are on five men. These men will take the leading parts in the Irish peace negotiations, at a series of meetings here. They are: LLOYD GEORGE, Talk of Receiver The status ofthe Bank of North Dakota may or may not be aiiect- ed by the present difficulties of the bank.” There are some busi- hess men and politicians who want an action started to get a receiver for the‘ bank on the ground that mier of the Union of South Africa, | who is credited with promoting the! Irish peace negotiations, is lawyer, soldier and statesman, He has fought England, and has served her. General Smuts first gained great prominence by his brilliant achieve- cas because {said he got into™ the. fri { Offley had asked him to go to the} s another group that say would be construed by Nonpartisan Leaguers as an at- tack on the bank and would be- come a political issue. They pro- fess to belleve that state officials will be forced to take some radi- cal action themselves to relieve the situation. Thus far no action has been taken except the renewed bond selling cam- paign, with .a particular drive in| North Dakota by the members of the | i i It Is insolvent, | | | i \ | | | \ i Sends Word she will Participate in Limitation of Armament Conference SILENT ON FAR EAST Washington, July i4.—Japan’s ac- ceptance of President Harding’s sug- Boys of the state iraining school at Mandan are to help build a big dairy barn there, The state board of administra- tion has:authorized Supt, Wm. F. McClelland to purchase sand and gravel and to start work on the barn using the regularly employ- ed carpenter and other workers OFFICERS NAB Lloyd George, British premier, is in the center of the stage at the Irish peace negotiations. Born in modest circumstances, Lloyd | George early gained reputation by «championing the rights of the common people, his antagonism toward lank iordism, and his fight for greater re- BREW CARRIER ligious freedom. He first came into national promi- ments for the Boers in the Boer war. Smuts commanded. the troops in British East Africa in 1916-17, and was the South Atrican representative in the Imperial War Cabinet, 1917-18, He is a firm believer in the League of Nations and the arbitration of in- ternational differen SIR JAMES CRAIG, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir James Craig, ference said tonight: “We are satisfied with the re- sult of the initial conference.” A communique regarding the | conference will be issued’ later. { |. London, . July 14. — (By. the Associated\Press.)—The outlook for a lasting peace in Trelandiis brighter than it has-ever béeen:in Commissioner of Agriculture Hagan. | the ‘state department waaay hoy dang] inmates of the correctional /Two Men Taken Up After They| tiected to Parliament, ‘and given| recognized as leader of the Ulster| Valera, the Irish Republican Unless the bond sales mount to a con-| 1 .orerence to the ausstlen of a dis.| schools. Step Off Train F high offices, Lioyd George carried on| Unionists, leader as he was about to enter siderable figure the bank will be short cianlon ‘of the Far Baatern question The barn will have a founda- ep rain rom his fight for reforms. He was named] Craig has served Great Britain in} into conference today with Mr. of cash for two or three ‘months at) ; renee ;: tion of concrete. 8 feet high and secretary of state for war in the coal-| war and in peace, fe EATS least or until fal tax payments are| _UNdualified acceptance by the Chin- 9 Mandan ition cabinet, during the World war.| He won distinction in the Boer war| l0vd George, the British prime received. Those opposing the Bank of North Dakota pvint to the refusal to pay! -$368,000 of state apportionment checks, | being money derived from interest and income on school bonds and lands. It is probable that when the majority: of the board, which is composed of| Governor Frazier, Mr. Lemke, Mr. Hall, Miss Nielson and Mr. Poindexter, are in the city an effort will be made ‘to’ have a meeting and discuss the situation. The constitution requires} that the school funds be kept in-| violate .only the interest being used,| and that taxpayers must make up any deficits. The board of university | and achool lands has assets of bonds of $11,750,206.47; farm loans, $6,655,- 669.00; total, $18,405,875.47. The total) income is about $1,500,000 a year. | cse government also wag received. State department officials wou!d make no comment on the Japanese re- ply which was not made public in text. All nations asked by President Harding to participate in the confer- cnce, which has been suggested for Nov. 11, Armistice Day, have now ac: cepted. DECLINES TO LOWER WAGES Chicago, July 14.—Judge Samuel Al- schuler, arbitrator in the stockyards will be 50 by 90 feet, with a cap- acity of 40 head of dairy cows. It is estimated the cost will be Supt. McClelland, of the school, plans to build-up a full blooded Holstein dairy herd. WAR DEBT PLAN OF ENGLISH IS GIVEN SENATE Lloyd George’s Letter to Pres- T. P. Sheldon, formerly of Baldwin, now of Bismarck, was arrested by Chief Martineson and Deputy Sheriff Phelps on a charge of transporting liquor and John Bics, coal miner who has worked at Zap and Beulah, was held as witness, Sheldon was arrested when he step- ped off a train coming from Mandan. ‘The officers said that Bies was carry- ing the liquor, but was with Sheldon, and that they spied the package. Sheldon was given a preliminary hearing and was released on bond, aft- er being bound to the district court. Bics, held only as a witness and nm regarded as a guilty party, was unable to furnish bail. The liquor was home brew, officers said. m Ir of di Ci Asquith and was himself named pre- leader, soldier, professor of sciences, mother Irish. mathemati College when he actively ente light for Irish freedom. de Valera defended one of the seized He forced the resignation of Premier ier, DE VALERA. The voice of the Sinn Fein at the ‘ish peace negotiations will be that Eamon de Valera, revolutionary ploma id president. — De Valera was born in New York ty. His father was Spanish, his The future president was t in the National T In_the Irish Insurrection of 1916, thy. cs ly responsible for the as & commander of troops. Following the war, Craig was elected to Parlia- ment. He has held many secretariats. When the new home rule bill was put into effect, Craig was selected as leader of the Ulster Parliament. This sured his election as premier of Ul- ster, a position which he new holds. KI DRGE, While King George V is not ex- pected to take a leading part in the Irish peace negotiations, his speech at the opening of the Ulster Parliament was a basis for opening negotiations el for the meeting. The personality of the king may have considera! influence on the toms and his knack of ying the minister in an attempt to find a basis for an adjustment of the Irish problem. weeom som@.. a.+ Asked what he considered was the prospect of a settled peace being brought about by the conference Mr. DeValera replied: “The outlook is brighter than it ever was in history.” “L am sure,” he added, “that the atmosphere in Engand and Ireand is right for peace. The only thing that is necessary now is for us to get down to rock bottom.” His First Utterance It was the first time Mr. DeValera had spoken for publication since his arrival in London Tuesday evening. “This is simply a private conference : . wages cases, today refused to grant a ‘ ‘ A Re Sodan Le WW OS : : 5 peers ‘ with Mr. Lloyd George instead of a On the ether band itis stated | reduction of 5 cents an-hour in. the ident Wilson is Made , ‘ACTS FOR THE ‘ organi ito of the country with the right thing at ie Proper time have] long-range bombardment to see what : ackii . Sinn Fein as a nuéleous, n him hosts of friends. Og a ” by the bank that if it were able to | Wages of the 75,000 packing house Public pak es can be done at close quarters,” said collect from banks which owe It all difficulties would be ended. It | was stated by A. Johannsen, diree- | tor of audits, that the Bank of | North Dakota has due in demand deposits and demand loans from going hanks the amount of $2,980,- 000 which the banks cannot pay. The situation, therefore, according to the view of the Bank of North Da-| kota officials, is not an isolated case) confined to the state bank. Hl SAYS LIVESTOCK. ~ RATES 700 HIGH | Washington, July 14.—Rates on; livestock were held to be unreasonable! workers as requested by the company. At the same time he ruled overtime must be paid for all over 48 hours a week. In a second decision the judge de- ; clined to set aside a reduction of § | cents an hour in the wages of em- ployes of the Union Stockyards of Chicago made sometime ago by the company after it had announced its withdrawal from the arbitration agree- ment. The company later re-entered the pact which runs until September. $25,000 STOLEN IN CITY STREET Seattle, Wash., July 14.—Two. ban- dits today snatched a bag containing $25,000 in currency from a messenger of the Northwest Trust and Safe De- posit company and escaped in an auto- Washington, July 14.—A letter from Premier. Lloyd George to President Wilson dated in 1920 and dealing with a proposal for cancellation of inter- allied war debts was placed in the rece ord of the senate finance committee today by treasury officals during hear- ings of the Adrian loan refunding bill. A cablegram on the same subject from the British chancellor of ex- chequer to Robert C. Lindsey, repre- senting the British treasury in this country, wkich was transmitted to them by Assistant Secretary Leffing- well of the treasury department also was presented. 4 VISITED HERE. C. F. Carling who is on his way home to St. Paul from California, stopped in the city to visit Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Poole, | CITY TAXPAYERS | A __—____ — Minot has the finest park sys- tem in the state of North Da- kota. It maintains a well equip- ped paid fire-department and owns its own water system, but in view of all this its budget expenditures for general operat- ing expenses for this fiscal year will be slightly more than $20,- 000 over Bismarck’s yearly ex- pense. Bismarck with slightly less overhead cost has none of these things and the bond election pro- posed for July 26 will not bring us one step nearer them. The bond election is merely to in- ry 00 Wi in; ra TRY TO WRECK | tempt to wreck an American Railway Express company train of 14 cars car- tral pulled and plates removed from the no cars were overturned. GENERAL SMUTS, General Jan Christiaan Smuts, pre-} EXPRESS TRAIN Cleveland, Ohio, July 14.—An at- ing a cargo valued at nearly $1.- 0,000 was made two miles west of illoughby, Ohio, early today, accord- g to officials of the New York Cen- railroad. Fifteen spikes were ils. The train jumped the track but The king, now in his 56th year, is an able public speaker, and a tireless worker. RARAR AAR. BARN ROYALT WILL BE SEEN ON BIG TOUR New Salem, N. D., July 14.—Royal- ty in a cottage—or, to be more exact, royalty in a plain, ordinary North Dakcta farm barn-—will greet the travelers in the New Salem Dairy tour July 20 when they reach the farm of Henry Schwarting, one of the 17 members of the New Salem Holstein Breeders | association, and son of one of the original members of the famous circuit. Mr. Schwarting’s herd held the cir- cuit record for high average produc- the Republican leader, who was in a bright and cheerful mood, in talking with the correspondents. “I have been told,” he said, “that you have been rather disappointed in my not talking more freely with you but I am sure you quite understand the difficulties of the moment. I have come to tell you that it is not that J do not wish to say a number of things to the people of Great Britain but that the moment is not opportune for it.” Restrains Views “As far as 1 can see from your press here which I have studied very carefully there is no country in the world which needs more to under- stand the aspirations of the Irish peo- ple and the right and logic of their cause than your own people here, should be very glad indeed to put the case before your people but as I am putting it before the represen- tative of your nation I think it unwise I mobile. tion la The reason for the| to put it before your public.” from an economic standpoint and ial crease the general. tax load for eee enna ae high prod n record is not hard} Asked whether he would insist on recommendation was made to the nas purposes that can be cared for to find, for the cows in the herd| the discussion in ‘London being given the arrlere made substantia! reduc: UNITED STATES HAS MADE GREAT out of the regular budget if| [J carry from five eighths to three] full publicity Mr. DeValera employed the carriers made substantial reduc-) fourths percent mf the blood of Du- tions for the benefit of business in gen-| eral in a report made today by Ex-; aminer Disque. The case, which was brought by livestock shippers in v: PROGRESS THIS YEAR, BUSINESS economy is practiced. ‘ Minot’s total city budget is $181,913.09 from which must be IN PLANE FALL Sky Ormsby, who holds the record for butter production. ul of the herd cows have been world’ Seve President Wilson's phrase, declaring he personally was in favor of “open covenants openly arrived at.” It was announced from DeValera’s 6 A prize winners at the county and} headquarters that this afternoon’s ous western states and in which va PROSPERITY LOOMS SAYS WRITER sedneted cp aed cade e fa hey are the large, big} conference would take the form of a ‘ous state commissions are involve t) charges and 0 expen io Oakland, Cal., July 14.—An airplane rge uddered type that are] personal interview between the will be heard tomorrow. | Constantinople, Juiy 14—(By the Associated Press.)—Turkish National- ists and Greek forces are locked in battle before Kutaia, about 17 miles southwest of Brussa. Airplanes are tak" pee have already entered upon a new political and business era containing the elements of unprecedented na- tional prosperity for at least ten years to come,” the News says. It continues: nually in wages a fair chance of an equitable revision of working agree- ments and a steady increase in oper- ating efficiency a general reduction of taxes may be possible before the end so as to have a proper basis for from Berkeley fell in Modesto, killing terest charges is in excess of $116,000. But that is not all. Minot at the last federal cen- noon July 14. Temperature at 7 A. M. Lowest yesterday Lowest last night . ighest yesterday looked for in high producing herds. HEAT CAUSES MAN'S SUICIDE prime minister and Mr, DeValera. , ———_—__—— 7 ne ee iod ot ich will © (comparison with the Bismarck/ the piolt and three pavsengers today,} In Mr. Schwarting’s barn, the} Joo, ‘ Line trees ene TatentGeton: wat ieocad tee Save cumin ane budwet which does not include} according to word received by the stanch ‘on: calf pe 3, floors and oth- SEETING (nee ELANRED : | greater progress been made than dur-| buying which was not stopped by a|these items. As The Tribune|#kland Tribune, frost any other dairy farmers ann | British government aad the Sinn Fein aoe ee eee news in its igege of] Mak Qf money but by injudicious prop-| has stated, Bismarck’s budget ¢———————_________e |. mitking machine is part of the|met in this city and took the first TURKS LOCKED. today. Handa. trond situation is no tonger| for just the regular operation of}; Today’s Weather ||emirment. step In negotiations © whlch Ptt was | “We continue to talk about read-| discouraging. With the carriers being| the city departments exclusive * < WAT hostility and prejudice which for de- | Justment when, ‘as a matter of fact,| in a position to save $40,000,000 an-|of school, county, state and in-| oy Twenty-four hours ending at cades have separated Albion and Erin. Eamonn DeValera, the Irish Republi- jean chieftain, and Prime Minister putoye George had planned carefully for the meeting which was looked on ‘as possibly the first page of a new, @ in the struggle for mountain} “The great basic and manufactur-| of the year. sus had a population of 10,476 as Precipitation ... brighter epoch in the relations bet- ati aeae ihe tour which is the| ing industries have adjusted their af-| “The construction industry, whicn| against 7,122 for Bismarck. It| Highest wind veloc ; wéen the two people. The meeting first objective of the Greek offensive, fairs to the new condition of things.| wag practically dead for a number oi had an assessment to levy 2 : Forecast = Marionetie, Wis., July 14.—Dement-| was simply to prepare the way for which began last Monday. Enormous losses have been taken with-| years is reviving everywhere. Labor On’ “ For North Dakota: Fair tonfght | ed from heat Julius Sorenson, 55, fish-| further and more important discus- The Greeks are said to be advancing with four divisions. out involvng any particular line in insolvency. New prices have been es- disputes are being settled and material prices are being reduced.” against in 1920 of $10,040,336 as against Bismarck’s $7,616,660. n and Friday; somewhat cooler to- ight in the extreme east portion. his throat with a razor today, erman, committed suicide by slashing| sions but_the fact it was held at all (Continued on Page 3)