The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 26, 1921, Page 1

‘The Weather FAIR FORTIETH YEAR THE BISMARCK TRIBUN perenne | Last Edition | BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1921 PRICE FIVE CENTS IRISH REJECT PEACE PRINCIPLE FORMAL OPENING BRING PLANNED FOR NEW BRIDGE May 1 is Set as Tentative Date’ Dedication of Structure For APPROACH MATTER’ UP Morton County Expected to Pro- vide Earth Fill to Join Con- crete Approach The state highway commission has set May 1 as a tentative date for the formal opening of the new Missouri river vehicular bridge here, according to W. H. Robinson, state engineer. Plans for the formal dedication of the bridge were discussed by the state highway commission in meeting late yesterday. Tablets will be placed at either end of the bridge, probably con- taining the names of the county com-} missioners of Burleigh and Morton counties, the state highway commis- sion and other officials:and citizens who have rendered services in connec-| tion with the bridge. The dedication ceremonies will be in charge of the highway commission. C. A. P. Turner, designer of the; bridge, estimates that it will be virtu-| ally completed by November 1. There is some difference in the estimates of engineers as to the time the bridge will be finished, according to Mr. Rob- inson. Should-work be speeded to such an extent that the concrete floor- ing can be placed on the bridge before cold weather sets in the bridge may ‘be available during the winter, There also is discussion as to the possibility of planking the bridge to make it available during this period. Problem of Bill | learly today with the avowed intention {night. MINERS HALTED ON MARCH INTO i | Union Officials Reach Column of Men and Turn it Back From Martial Law Area U. S. GENERAL IN | Tells Officials he is Reluctant to Recommend Sending U. 8. Troops in Field FIELD Madison, W. Va., Aug. 26.—The ad- vance guard of the marching miners on their way from Marmet to Mingo as a protest against Governor Mor- gan’s martial law was turned back by |Charles F. Kenny, president of district ;No. 17, United Mine. Workers, and {Frederick Mooney, secretary, after it ‘had passed through Madison shortly jafter noon today. | The men, numbering some 200 or 1300, had camped in a hollow here for dinner and then pressed on their way toward the Logan county line. Keen- ey and Mooney, who left Charleston of stopping the marchers, reached Madison within half an hour after. | After a brief conference with county; officials they hurried down the road and overtaking the party induced it to march back to Madison DENIES FIGHT REPORT Charleston, W. Va., Aug. 26.—A dep- uty in the office of Sheriff Don Chaf- in, at Logan, this morning told the Charleston Daily Mail over the long distance telephone that there had been no fight between Logan county | deputies and a body of armed men at} for me?” as reported from Madison last; Blair, One of the problems connected with! the bridge is the raising of the grade! AWAITS INFORMATION | Washington, Aug. 26.—Acting Sec-| MINGO COUNTY | AMERICA IS STILL GOLDEN LAND OF OPPORTUNITY FOR HARD-WORKER | | | ;By Newspaper Enterprise. Buffalo, Aug. 26.—Boy, page Dick Whittington, late Lord Mayor ot Lon- don. He ought to meet Maxwell M. Nowak, candidate for mayor in this city. They have much in common to; talk about. i Right now the bells that rang| courage and hopefulness into the ears} of Whittington are calling-Nowak and! the country may witness the unusual |», spectacle of a man, lately an imml- grant, summoned to the mayoralty of one of the nation’s greatest cities. Nowak was born in Inowraclaw, Po- land, in 1885. Thus, if the fortunes | of politics go well for him, he will! jhave the added distinction of being the youngest mayor of any of the lar- jser cities of the nation. Father a Baker. He came to this country when a boy, the youngest member of a typi- cal immigrant family. The father worked at his trade of baker, and on a meager wage. maintained his fam- ily, the children helping as they came lof working age. Maxwell Nowak went through the | 8rammar schools into high school, ‘but before graduation left school to ro into the milling business with his father. At 21, he became his father's part- ner and today, in Hammond, Ind.. they have the fourth largest feed mil in the United States. Heads Five Banks. Nowak is president of five banks, ! \ | | | | MAXWELL M. NOWAK, {framed and hangs behind his desk. {Curiously enough it was done by a| | | Polish artist, head of a_ big finance corporation,! “America treats those fairly identified with many of the big enter-| who treat America fairly. If i prises along the Niagara frontier and| you cannot play the game on that basis do not come.” Perhaps this is why the American- born warm to him. Perhaps this is} why his mayoralty boom started, not among the people of his own nativ- ity, but among the members of the Corn Exchange, some of Buffalo's big- gest business men. Nowak is a Republican in national} politics. Buffalo’s municipal govern- ment, however, is non-partisan, RAR ARMED ROBBERS spends his leisure time impressing people of foreign birth that America is truly the land of opportunity. The story of Nowak’s rise is known to hundreds in Poland. In conse- {uence he receives dozens of letters from overseas, the theme of them al! being this: “Is America a good land ; Nowak has a stereotyped answer to |this. Done in leather and gold, it is GERMAN PEAGE ASSASSINATED Mathias Erzberger, Storm Cen-| ter in Empire’s Political Life, is Killed NEGOTIATED WITH FOCH Aroused Storm of-Protest When He First Proposed to End the War Berlin, Aug. 26.—(By the Associat- ed Press)—Mathias Erzberger, former Vice-Premier and Minister of Finance,' was murdered today. ! Herr Erzberger was assassinated near Offenburg, Baden, where’ he was sojourning with his family. His body; contained 12 bullet wounds. Mathias Erzberger, when German Vice-Premier and Minister of Finance, | was shot and wounded on January 26,| 1920, as he was leaving the criminal court building in Berlin after attend- ing a hearing in a libel suit he had; brought against Dr. Karl Helfferich,| the former German Vice-Chancellor. His assailant gave his name as Olt- wig von Hirschfeld, a former cadet) officer, 20 years old, a student, and! son of a Berlin bank official. Von Hirschfeld was arrested and was quot- | ed as saying he considered Erzberger) langerous to the empire. The assail- ant fired two shots at Erzberger as the Minister was entering his auto- mobile. One bullet glanced off the Minister’s watch chain and another entered his shoulder. First Proposed Peace. Erzbergzer roused a storm in Ger- many in July, 1917, more than a year before the armistice, by proposing a resolution in the German Reichstag in favor of a peace without annexations PARLEY LEADER, principle. BAR OFFICERS RRR DAIL EIREANN REFUSES PEACE ON DOMINION BASIS AND DE VALERA URGES PARLEY ON NEW PRINCIPLE Answer to Lloyd George Says Ireland is Willing to Negotiate Further on Basis of Principle of Government by Consent of Governed and Asks Representatives with Plenary Powers be Named to Try and Reach Agreement Dublin, Aug. 26—The reply of Eamonn de Valera to Premier Lloyd George sums up southern Ireland’s position on an Irish settlement which is and must remain unchanged, Mr. de Valera declared in addressing the Dail Eireann today. The Dail reelected Mr. de Valera and the members of the cabinet. It also sanctioned loans of $500,000 sterling in Ireland and $20,000,000 in America. London, Aug. 26.—(By the Associated Press.)—The British government peace proposals were laid before the Dail Eireann which rejected them unanimously but which is willing to nego- tiate on the principle of government by consent of the governed, Eamonn De Valera says in his reply to Mr. Lloyd George, the British prime minister. The letter proposes that Great Britain and Ireland appoint representatives with plenary powers to negotiate details on this The letter dated August 24 reads: “The anticipatory judgment I gave jin my reply of August 10 hag been confirmed. I laid the proposals of your government before the Dail | Eireann and by an unanimous vote it © has rejected them. OF SHUT BANKS sifEs | was clear that the principle we are asked to accept was that the “geo- graphical propinquity” of Ireland to | Great Britain imposed the condition of [the subordination of Ireland's right to Great Britain’s strategic. interests as she conceives them and that the | very length and persistence of the ef- forts made in the past to impel Ire- land’s acquiescence in a foreign dom- State Guaranty Fund Commis- sion Announces New Policy Decided Upon on the west side of the river to the/retary of War Wainwright after re- level of the end of the concrete ap-| ceiving a report today from Brigadier proach. The Morton county commis-; General H. H. Bandholtz, the war de- sioners have expressed doubt as to! partment representative in West Vir- their ability to finance this work yet/|ginia, said that the department would this fall. They have, like Burleigh;await further information before county, filed agreements with the state| recommending use of federal troops in| ‘BONDS VALUED AT $80,000,000 highway comission to provide a grade) to the beginning of the concrete ap- proaches to the bridge, Mr. Robinson said, and the counties are expected ‘to carry out their agreement... The Mor- ton county commissioners are not °x-| pected to build.a road from Mandan to! the bridge, but the highway commis-! sion expects Morton county to provide the grade to the approach. All Steel Here Sept. 25 | Erection Manager Strickland, of the, American Bridge company, in confe' ‘ence with state officials told them that all steel for the bridge will have ar- rived by September 25. The first span is expected to be completed in two weeks. The first two trusses are ex- pected to be completed by October 15. Rapid progress is expected to be made by the bridge company from now on. No delay is expected in obtaining materials or in the shipment of them, the commission was informed. 4,000 KILLED IN RIOTING IX “BRITISH INDIA Anxiety Felt For Safety of Eng- lish Men and Women in District i i i i i | | | i { London, Aug. 26.—More than 1,000 lives, 8 feared have been lost in the rioting in the Malabar district of; British India, says an Exchange Tele-| graph dispatch from Bombay. | | Anxiety is felt for the English wo-: men and children in the outlying dis- tricts. Several railway stations have been wrecked. Twenty men of the} Leinster regiment at Tirunangadi are: reported to have been cut off. | It is also reported, adds the mes-j sage, that the rioting natives are! working their way from the interior | to Calicul on the coast. i The center of the riots appears to be in the district of North Ponani,; 38 miles southeast of Calicul. Many; clashes with military forces have oc-/ curred. The outbreak is attributed) in the British Indian quarters to the} work of agitators among the natives; the coal fields of that state. General Bandholtz told the union of-| ficials that he was reluctant to have federal troops enter West Virginia to oppose an army of armed men, but it would be necessary unless the men abandoned their enterprise and dis- persed. No half-way measure would be taken, the general said. TROOPS READY Chicago, Aug. 26.—With stocks, Chillicothe, Ohio, Aug. 26.—Regular bonds, notes and certificates of de- army troops, numbering between 500| posit with a face value of $30,000,000 nd 600, including 150 who arrived!in his possession, Colonel John V. is 1 i 'bar- | thugs morning: from Columbus, {bar \Clinin, assistant United States district racks, were held in readiness today to leave’ Camp Sherman. for the Went) itvormey, and government agent, today Virginia coal fields. marking the thousands of exhibits TO STOP MARCH which comprise the case of the alleged BEING SORTED | United, States Authorities Pre- paring For Swindle Case Prosecution Charleston, W. Va., Aug. 26.—Frank Keeney, district president of the Unit- ed Mine Workers and Secretary Fred; Mooney, left here in a motor car to-{ day for the camp of the marching min- $50,000,000 “swindle trust,” headed by Charles French and John W. Worth- ington. Federal agents are sorting through the immense piles of papers in search for a code book, which will reveal the STEAL THOUSANDS Los Angeles, Aug. 26.—lFour arm- ed and masked men held up the Hunt- ington Park branch of the Los Angeles j Trust and Savings Bank this afternoon| and escaped with between $20,000 and $45,000, bank officials announced. GERMAN PEACE and for parliamentary reform. Chan- cellor Bethmann-Hollweg declared this formula was unacceptable and Dr. Helfferich subsequently blamed Erz- berger’s peace proposal for the moral collapse of the German people. As a member of the German Armi- stice delegation Erzberger conducted! negotiations with Marshal Foch and! later headed the Majority Socialists in| a: movement to form a new ministry and sign the peace treaty. His. atti- ‘tude throughout the armistice nego- iations aroused against him the. in- dignation of German military author- ities and in June, 1919, it was report- ed that his residence had been fired REASONS FOR IT GIVEN. Says That Effort of Some Stock-| holders to Evade Respon- sibility is Cause | Officers and stockholders of closed banks will not be permitted to engage in the banking business until the de- positors of the closed banks are paid without recourse to the Guaranty Fund) Commission, if the commission can} TREATY SIGNED | Berlin, Aug, 25. (By the Associated | Press).—The treaty of peace between, Germany and’ the. United States was; signed here at 5 o'clock last evening. | HOLD MAN FOR WIFE MURDER; ‘ Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 26.-—-Acting at the request of Peoria, Ill., police local authorities today arrested as a jupon by a Berlin mob. A plot said ers in Boone county with the an-! nounced intention of advising the! . army to abandon its march to Mingo| pect, list surrendered Weanesty oe county without delay. This step was! y eo PATSn Man, Snows taken after Keeney and Mooney had/°" of those under arrest. ft Bandholta, U. SA whe anived TREASURER MUST TURN BACK FUNDS this morning to investigate the situa- | Minot, N. D., Aug. 26.—Under an tion under orders from the war de- partment. jorder handed down by Judge Lowe in {district court, thirteen banks of Burke WOULD RELEASE (erieens are Teracea’es pay tate SCHOOL FUNDS county funds amounting to about $144,600. The funds had been placed State Treasurer Urges Purchase of State Bonds secret notation in an elaborate pros- on certificate of deposit in the banks by Larsen shortly before he gave up his office. The judge held the county had actual need of the money. BISMARCK TOWN | i i The payment of $35,000 of state; onds held by the Common School | ‘und so as to make this money avail- able for loaning to school districts | through purchase of bond issues by the Board of University and School | Lands is urged upon the board by State Treasurer Steen. In a letter to the board he said: “There is at present over $36,000 in| ae oils Bond Sinling. Pung, There | wil enough more realized frdém the | 3 % : unpaid 1920 taxes to take care of all | The Bismarck Town Criers club will outstanding bonds, which mature up | be host to scores of members of othe: to July 1, 1925. | Town Criers clubs in the state at an “Inasmuch as the Common School’ “en route smoker” to be held on the Fund is holding most of the old State | wckenzie roof garden Sunday night. suspicious person Pedro Gussman, whose marriage to Miss Ruth Steph- enson early this month is said to have resulted in the killing of Father James E. Coyle, priest, by the bride's tather, Edward Stephenson. “ ARREST MANUFACTURER‘ Cleveland, 0., Aug. 26.—A United States marshal left for Canton, Ohio, this afternoon to arrest Z. W. Davis, president of the Diamond Portland Cement Company on a charge of using the mails to defraud. Assistant Dis- trict Attorney Breitenstein, who holds the warrant for Davis’ arrest in con- nection with the alleged swindling op- erations of Chas. W. French of Chi- cago, said that he would ask that the bond be placed at $25,000. CRIERS WILL BE HOSTS TO MANY VISITORS HERE AT ‘SMOKER PRECEDING STATE MEETING up committee to arrange for the Sun- day night smoker, composed of Phil Meyer, W. (. Paulson and Paui Wachter was named. ‘Thomas Sullivan, secretary of the Mandan Criers club, was present and prevent it. i This decision of the commission is} announced in a resolution made public today, following the meeting at the; state capitol. It was stated that there were instances where it appeared that| the officers and stockholders of clos- ed banks appeared to try to evade their obligations by throwing their banks on the Guaranty Fund commis-| sion and starting new ones. The board decided also at its meet- ing to defer payment of depositors of the Tolley State Bank, the first of the banks to close last fall. It was stated that the decision was not made be- cause of a condition existing in Tolley! similar to that which prompted the resolution adopted regarding opening of new banks. The reason for defer- ing payment was not made public. It is ‘probable that some difficulty; will be met in attempting to carry our! the resolution under existing laws, it} is frankly admitted by the guaranty! fund board members. Under the pres- ent laws a bank may be incorporated; as any other state business institution. The Secretary of State issues a cha! ter upon filing of incorporation pap- ers. The charter is sent to the state examiner who is required to check the accounts of the proposed new bank and give the charter to the officers. The plan adopted by the board to prevent opening of banks of the class it designates is to have State Examin- er O. E. Lofthus refuse to surrender the charter issued for the proposed new bank or make the examination required before opening. The officers of the proposed new hank would be action. to have been formed by members of the officers’ corps at Potsdam to as- sassinate him was revealed in Septem- ber following. Son of Tailor Born in Buttenhaus, September 20, 1875, Erzberger was the son of a poor tailor. He became a_ schoolmaster, obtained a university education, stud- ied international law and_ political economy, wrote several books on po- litical and economic subjects .and be- came a brilliant speaker and politician. He was elected to the Reichstag in 1903 as member of the Center (Cath- olic) party, as representative of small farmers and became one of the leaders | of a small liberal wing of that party. HEBRON STRUCK BY BIG STORM LOSS $75,000 Losses which may total $75,000 to! $100,000 were caused in the vicinity and north of Hebron, 80 miles west! of here late yesterday afternoon by a! terrific wind, hail and rain storm, ac: | cording to word received here. Roofs | of scores of barns were torn off. while| the grain unthreshed, stacked in the fields was in many districts blown! away and becomes a total loss. In the |Compelled to resort to court city of Hebron the factory roof of the Resolution of the Board Hebron Fire and Pressed Brick com-| ‘The resolution adopted by the board pany was blown off and the tents of! follows: r carnival attraction were blown; “Whereas, it appears to this Com- down causing heavy loss. The resi-| mission that in some instances, offic- dence of C, B. Smith was destroyed jers and stockholders of closed banks by fire shortly after the storm. do not possess a proper sense of their ee | responsibilities toward the depositors PLAY GAME OF fof such bank and toward those who TAG WITH MAN | Fy {contribute to the Guaranty Fund but ‘are working to establish new banks jand become directly or indirectly in- jterested in such new banks, “Therefore, be it resolved that it be | structive of ination imposed the condition of ac- ceptance of that domination now. “We cannot believe that your gov- ernment intended to commit itself to the principle of sheer militarism, de- international morality and fatal to the world’s peace. If a small nation’s right to independence is forfeited when a more powerful neighbor covets its territory for mil- itary or other advantage it is sup- posed to confer, there is an end to lib- erty. No longer can any small na- tion claim any right to a separate ex- istence. Holland and Denmark can be made subservient to2 Germany, Bel- gium to Germany or France, Portu- gal to Spain. “If nations that have been forcibly annexed to an empire loseythereby their title to independence there can be for them no re-birth to freedom. Willing to Fight. “In Treland’s case, to speak of her seceding from a partnership she has not accepted or from a lien which she has not undertaken to render fundamentally false, just as the claim to subordinate her independence to British strategy is fundamentally un- Just. To neither can we as represen- tatives of the nation lend countenance. “If our refusal to betray our na- tion's honor and the trust that has heen reposed in us is to be made an issue of war by Great Britain we de- plore it. We are as conscious of our responsibility to the living as we ‘are mindful of principle or of our obli- gations to the heroic dead. “We have not sought war nor do | we seek war. but if war be made upon 8 we must defend ourselves and shail lo so confident that whether our de- fense be successful or unsuccessfu’ no hody of representative Irishmen or Trish women will ever propose to the nation the surrender of its birth- right. Wonld End Conflict. “We long to end the conflict be- tween Great Britain and Ireland. If your government be determined to impose its will upon us by force, and antecedent to negotiation to insist upon conditions that involve a sur- render of our whole national position and make negotiations impossible the responsibility of a continuance of the conflict rests on you. “On the basis of the broad guiding principle of government by the con- sent of the governed peace can be se- cured—a peace that will be just and honorable to all and fruitful of con- cord and inducing to amity. “To negotiate such a peace the Dail Eireann is ready to appoint its repre- sentative and if your government ac- cepts the principle proposed to invest UNDER ARREST Sa RE ‘the sense of this Commission that A game of tag was played with a!former officers and stockholders of them with plenary powers to meet and arrange with you for Its applica- tion in detail. in the districts. |Bond Issues and since it appears that | Plans for the smoker and for at- EO Ra thi is addressed the Criers on the organiza- HOLDS -UP WORK | there: is (a steat. demand from échool| tendance at the organization conven- tion meeting to be held in Mandan, at which time it is planned to perfect banks be not | districts and others for funds, I would Marmarth, N. D., Aug. 26—Work' respectfully suggest that your hon-| tion of Town Criers clubs of the state, orable body authorize the acceptance ‘ on Marmarth’s new $140,000 school’ building will be halted as soon as} ‘of payment of $35,000 of State Bonds | the structure can be inclosed against now held by the Common School Fund the weather, as the result of the re- cent ruling of the attorney general holding that school bonds sold to the state are void because the last legis- lature failed to pass a law making effective the constitutional amend- ment granting school districts the right to increase their indebtedness 5 percent by a majority vote WANTED FOR MURDER. Peoria, Ill, Aug. 26—A man nameé Pedro Gussman is wanted by the Peoria police for the murder of his wife here early last winter. The wo- man was.found lying dead across the hed in the shack where the coupie lived. Her throat had been cut. Guss- man disappeared. Neighbors told po- lice the couple had frequently quar- reled. jof the state. “It would seem to be good business for the state to retire these bonds be- fore maturity, as otherwise this mon- ey will be idle for nearly four years.” HAIL FOOT DEEP IN.SIOUX COUNTY About one hundred claims for hail loss were received by the state hail insurance department yesterday from Sioux and Grant counties. Adjuster Boknecht wrote the department that it was the worst storm he had ever seen, saying that hail was a foot deep in places. The storm covered a com- paratively small strip of territory, and losses reported were mostly from the vicinity of Bentley. |to be held in Mandan Monday and Tuesday, were. made at a luncheon to- | day on the roof garden. Co-operation {between the Mandan and Bismarck jclubs in entertaining visitors to the | Twin Cities of the Slope was voted by Mandan representatives and the local club. Dickinson Town Criers have made hotel reservatons here for 18 persons Sunday night, Ryder for 12, Beach for 12, Minot for 25 to 30, and Valley City. Fargo, Grand Forks and other clubs will have representatives here. Dick- jinson is bringing a 12-piece Town Criers band to appear at the conven- tion. The Town Criers today named a greeters committee comnosed of G._A. Hassel, E. B. Cox, Worth Lumry, Dr. R. S. Towne, Myron Atkinson and F. J Grady to organize an automobile es- cort of Town Criers to meet the visi- tors from the northern cities. A round- | a state hody to better aid in carrying on the vigilance work of the Associat- ed Advertising Clubs of the World in prisoner wanted in Duluth for auto ‘defunct. permitted to stealing, with a deputy sheriff fromjeither directly or indicectly become Duluth as the loser. The prisoner,; ated with other hanks until the said at the Governor's office to be F.| payment of all depositors of the closed “IT am sir, faithfully yours, “Signed.” “Eamonn deValera.” The reply to Mr. deValera’s letter driving out fraudulent advertising. J. Warner, was held in Fargo. The; bank with which they were connected he drawn todav, the The well known: Mandan “nut quar- tette,” composed of D. C. Moore, Bernie Regan, Art Peterson and Wa!t Tostevin, sang. Mr. Sullivan announced that the Man- dan meeting would start promptly at 9 A. M. Monda landan time. so that the morning business may be finished before the Missouri Slope Fair’ parade begins. y a ‘Bismarck Town Criers will assem- ble at the Commercial club at i Sunday afternoon to prepare to greet the visitors. The smoker will be giv- en at 8 o’clock Sunday night. Charles Wattam, president of the Bismarck Town Criers, presented his wesignation. Mr. Wattam leaves for Fargo next week. to enter. the law firm of Green, Fowler and Wattam. deputy sheriff came to the Governor’s| without recourse to the Guaranty office to get extradition papers. %IJn'Fund and that we condemn in no un- the meantime authorities of Traill certain terms the tendency of any county, who alleged Warner had stol-'former manager of defunct banks to en former Governor Sarles’ automo-! organize with the expectation of bene- bile, wanted him. Just as extradition ‘Yiting by the payment of depositors of papers were being prepared the dep- their closed banks from the Deposi- uty sheriff received word that an in-, tors’ Guaranty Fund and surance company tracing the man had! “Be it further resolved thata copy of obtained his arrest and removal to|this resolution he forwarded to the Duluth without extradition papers. State Banking Board.” ‘|NO APPOINTMENTS MILLIONS LOST YET, PRATER SAYS IN PIER FIRES William Prater, named land com- Hoboken, N J., Aug. 25.—Fire missioner, effective September 1, said:which destroyed army piers 5 and 6 today he had not decided upon any,last night did damage estimated at new appointments as yet. ‘from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 nrobably will British cabinet having met and con- sidered the Irish Republican leaders communication. > —_—_____-_______—-@ D | Today’s Weather | OO For Twenty-four hours ending at noon Aug. 26. Temperature at 7 A. M Highest yesterday . Lowest yesterday Lowest last night . Precipitation Highest wind velocity Forecast For North Dakota: Fair tonight and Saturday; slightly cooler tonight in the east and central portions.