The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 4, 1921, Page 1

FORTIETH YEAR , BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, CK TRIBUNE Last Edition TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1921 PRICE FIVE CENTS $995,000 LAND REFUSES TO TAKEOFF “DEAL 1S MADE ON BIG RANCH Whiteface Ranch of 6,500 ‘Acres! North of Mandan is Sold to Iowa Parties 1 i WILL STOCK UP PLACE; With Faith in Cattle Business| and North Dakota, Iowa Men to Operate on Big Scale One of the largest land deals in the last few years in the Slope country has been consummated in the sale of the White Face ranch, 6,500 acres in ‘Morton county to Iowa parties, it was learned today. The two purchasers, one of whom is a-farmer and former raiicher, will stock tho big ranch to its full capacity of 1,200 head next spring. They will stock it with good grade cattle, going into the business on a large scale, The ranch was sold by the Van Gin- kel heirs to Iowa partics whose names are not announced. The arrangements of the deal were handled by Charles} Staley, of Bismarck, and former Sen- ator W. A. Martin, of Morton county, | they closing the deal.on a recent trip, to Iowa. The heirs owning the ranch! live in Des Moines, One of the pur- | chasers has been farming big acreage | in lowa. $225,000 Involved The deal is said to involve about | $225,000, although details were not! made public. Three big Iowa farms | were included in the trade and saloj agreement.- 4 | The White Face ranch, lying ten | miles north ‘of Mandan, was built up; by Fred Messingham and has changed hands two or three times since ho! owned it in pioneer days. The town-j site of Hensler was created out of the | ranch. The ranch has about two miles of frontage on the Missouri riv- | er, and about 1,000 acres of it has! been farmed. i Prefer North Dakota A few years ago the ranch was | stocked heavily, but at the beginning, of the war most of the cattlo were | sold. There now are about .300 head | of cattle and 100 head of horses on/ the land. The buildings on the land are said to have cost $75,000. i The new owners: of the land, who | have had much experience both in| farming and ranching, believe that the | cattle business is due “for a boom; within the next year, and decided to | “turn from the high-priced Iowa farm! land.to the North Dakota: fields. The | heirs who sold the‘ranch are under- stood to have desired to convert their | property into cash and:property near-; er to their homes. STROKE FATAL 10 PIONEER \ Mrs. John Shermer Passes Away at Her Home Here | { \ 4 — Mrs, Anna May Shermer, wife of John Shermer, a pioneer resident of ‘Bismarck, passed away at her home, 316 Fourth street, at 5:30 o’clock last evening, following a stroke of paral. \ ysis sustained earlier in the day. was in the morning that Mrs. Sherme! suffered the stroke. She did not re- gain consciousness before she suc- cumbed. EX-SERVICE MAN Robbed and kicked off a freight train after he had refused to throw away his American Legion button, Ralph Whited, of Pitts- burgh, Kan., a coal miner, made his way to this city and appealed to the nolice. Whited said he was on a freight train near McKenzie, mak- ing his way from Pittsburgh, Kan., where a coal strike has been in progress for months, to Beu- lah, N. 'D., to work in a coal mine. ‘Six men approached him on the freight near McKenzie, 20 miles east of here, and demanded that he take out an |. W. W. card. He LEGION BUTTON, IS THROWN OFF TRAIN “One of them said ‘you'll eith- er throw away that Legion button or we'll, throw you off the train,” he told police. “Boys, this button means a lot to me, and I'll not do it,” Whited told them. He then was robbed of $8, his suitcase and overcoat taken and he was kicked off the train, be- ing painfully bruised. His army discharge was taken from him. Whited said he served overseas in the 636th Aero Squadron. American Legion men of Bis- marck interested themselves in his case, in an effort to apprehend the robbers. o LEAGUERSHERE TALK CAMPAIGN, ~ HEAR SPEECHES Method of Fighting in Recall Campaign GOVERNOR. MAKES TALK pede 1 The Nonpartisan league campaign | plan was explained to Nonpartisans) of several western. counties in a meet- ing held in Patterson hail here yester day afternoon. Chairman A. A. Liederbach, of th league state committee, presided. Gov- ernor Frazier and Cominissioner John Hagan were among the speake | Beginning next Mon bach said, the Nonpart 1s would pu | man in each county in the state to, remain there until Octover 27, the day; preceding the election. The league} state chairman of Souib Dakota ana three other leaguers would come from | that state and four speakers were ex-! nected from Minnesota, ire said. “Coin”! Harvey, of Arkansas, is expected. to| enter the state this week and will campaign in the western part. | The state chairman said the league; state committee did not have much} money and that local committees would have to pay the expenses o! speakers in their counties. A numbe: of speakers from outside the state will | he here, but he said the league would! have to rely chiefly on local organiza- | tion work. | Among those he named to he respor: | sible for various counties were: Charles Joyce, Bowman county; Leslie| Simpson, Stark.county; A. L,. Youn) and Senator Garberg, Hottinger-coun-| ty; Barney Bussen and Jacob Simon-| son, McLean county; F. A. Vogel, Cav-| alier county. ‘The attendance was petween 400 and 00. Speeches were made hy representa- tives of the various counties. -F. W. Cathro, director-general of the Bank, of North Dakota, made a talk of the! sale. of bonds consummated by the bank. He was given an ovation by the: leaguers. i Governor Frazier and Commissioner of Agriculture Hagan were greeted with cheers. Chairman Liederb: asked the rep- ‘ yesentatives of the various counties to! i give the arguments most frequently | | used by the opposition and their most | | successful arguments. A representa- | tive of Grant county said the Bank of orth Dakota had caused more trouble than any other one thing. A repre | sentative of Hettinger cuunty said that the adverse financial conditions and \the declaration that no outside money ;Liederbach Explains League - {the money he possessed coming here from her home in Green- | effective y the opposition ermer. They had lived in the city! city. in Bismarck in times of emergency.| Washington, Oct. Announcement eration, and later a second. Since! World country was made today at the Her husband and_ three children, | tration. | pS Lert AS vive. A brother, John Roberts, lives I KILLING QATTLE_ IS CHARGED decided upon today. French, residents of the south- Wahpeton, N. D., Oct. 4—The an- stealing and butchering a beef be- Tims are offered | guilty and are held under $500 bonds pected in grains, vegétables, and/ing Oct. 6. | ber river on August 24 in which more SURE, BISMARCK |__CAPITAL OF U.S. Devils Lake, N. D., Oct, 4—Bis- marck is the capital of the United States, according to one aspirant for American citizenship who was examined at the naturalization hearing here before District Judge A. G. Burr of Rugby. ’ “What is the governing body of the United States” asked the judge. “Congress,” came. the reply. “Where does congress meet?” “At Bismarck,” was the positive reply. TOES CUT OFF, ROBBERS SLAY VICTIM'S WIFE Wierd Story Told Police by Man) in Michigan After Wife is’ Found Dead FIND WOMAN IN CISTE! o | | RN, Hastings, Mich., Oct. 4—Authorities | of Barry county today were investi- | gating a story of the slaying last Sat- | urday of Mrs. John Faverstock, an j ack upon her husband in which two | of his toes were cut off and his thrpat slashed before he gave up all and an at-! tempt by nobbers to burn the Faver- stock farm home near Middleville. Details of the reported attack were given officers by iFaverstock yester- | T0 day. i The officials had suspected Faver- Stack of slaying his wife and attempt- ing suicide while temporarily insane. | Three men forced an entrance to} his home at three o'clock Saturday morning he said. ‘Tncy demanded money and when this was refused, he said, two of the men held aim while the third cut off two of his s. After this, he said, he gave them The trio then seized his wife, Fav- erstack said, and dragged her to a cis- ern where her body wes found later with a window curtai:: drawn tightly about the neck. . f { Returning to the house Faverstack) declared the men slashed his throat and pinned him between the bed and a wail, after which they set fire to the building and departed. TR-2 DISASTER convention tonight. {| sjon of the convention this morning. | increased in numbers until today 205 | NESTOS COMES GOLUB WOMEN OF "STATE IN 25TH ANNUAL SESSION ‘Mrs, L. N. Cary, of Mandan, De- | livers Annual Address of the State President iPOINTS OUT PROGRESS; | | \President of Gencral Federation’ Also to Speak at the Con- vention i } i { | | | i < ' Fargo, Oct. 4—With reprosentatives m practically every club of the 205} in the state dederation the North Da- | {kota Federation of Women's clubs | opened its 25th annual convention jhere today with services as its key- | i note. i > | Features of the’ three-day gathering {will be the ‘celebration of the silver | janniversary of the foundation of the | | Federation and an rical pageant | Thursday depicting tho growth, de- Bi ation of + wo- ;men in North Dako! Mrs, Thomas -G. !of the General Fede: | clubs, arrived here |: ; Will address the deles: \ | Winter, president | ition of Women’s | t night. and! ates to the state | The address of Mrs i fandan, state president of ion, was delivere N. Cary, of the fede the opening s “Club women of North Dakota,” | Mrs, Cary said, " panse today to look pack over the yi and we are | glad to acknowledée the debt we owe | to those women who with faith andj] vision founded, this federation. The high ideals with which they endowed | it ‘have been cherished through all these years, and we are proud of the | record the federation has made. | From. the’ eight clubs which originally composed the state federation we have | clubs ‘are enrolled with a membership of more than 4,000, “To us today also comes a vision, a vision of service for the women and children of our state. There are big itasks lying- before us and we must go | forward with high purpose, doing all) that we can for the advancement of those ideals which have been the in- spiration of our federation from the beginning.” Recall Candidate to Speak at Regan and Sterling R. A. Nestos, ‘Independent candidate for governor, will enter Burleigh coun- ty in his campaign Thursday. accord- ing to his announced itinerary. Mr. Nestos was speaking at Hazel. ton and Napoleon today. is scheduled to speak at Steele at 2 P. M. Wednes- | day, at Tuttle at 8 P. M., at Regan at 2 P.M. Thursday and at Sterling at 8 P.M. Thursday. Mr. Nestos is expected to come into Bismarck Thursday night, and to go! to Center, Oliver county, for a speech Friday morning at 11 «'clock. He is to speak at Stanton at 3 P. M. and Dunn Center at 8 P. M. on Friday. On Saturday he speaks in New Salem and Hebron. Santa ie { | Hull, England, Oct. 4—(By the As-! sociated Press.)—The catastrope to the giant airship ZR-2 over the Hum- than 40 persons, including 16 Ameri- cans, lost their Ives, vas due to an accident, according io the verdict; reached by the coroner’ sumed inquest here io no evidence as to the a the disaster the verdict sai WOMAN IS KILLED Bucyrus, N. D., Oct. 4—Mrs. Don Arnold, 19, was almost instantly killed at the pump house here, when her URGES MARKETS BE EXTENDED Governor of Indiana Says Mar- ket Area Should be In- creased Chicago, Oct. 4—Financing of for- eign countries to enablo/them to take America’s agricultural 4.irplu: | vocated by Governor’ Warren Me Cray, of Indiana, here today before |the Grain Dealers’ Nationai A’ tion. Governor McCray spcke as member and past president of the as-| clothing in some manner caught in the gearing, and she was hurled about a shaft and wedged between the en- gine and a wall in a very narrow space, being badly mangled. |. Cliff Ordway, engine tender, was just walking away from adjusting the engine and heard a scream. He sprang back to the engine and stop- ped it, but it was tio late, death evi- dently being instantaneous. The husband, parents and several brothers and sisters survive. Mrs, Shermer, who was 59 years ! would come into North Dakota under top, Mo., when Bismarck was a strug-| A similar rally is beng held at for 33' years, and had seen it grow (NEW MINISTERS For twenty years Mrs. Shermer has She had a host of friends. About |of the selection of eight American that time she has not been in good | White House virtually :ompteting the Mrs, Theodore Anderson and Misses in Kirksville, Mo. Watford City, N. D., Oct. 4— ‘western part of McKenzie county nual Richland County fair will open;longing to H. G. Bentley, county Some attractive premri home products. Attractive amuse-! old, had lived in Bismarck since 1885,|the presént administration was used ling frontier town, to marry Mr. | Grand Forks today. from a small town to;a bustling little ARE SELECTED been a nurse, serving in many homes | three years ago she underwent an op- | ministers to Latin-American and Old health, | diplomatic roster of the new adminis- Elizabeth and Clara Shermer, sur- | Funeral arrangements had not been | George Bergoyne, Ray Mitten and E. RICHLAND FAIR ON TODAY ‘have been arrested on the charge of here today, continuing through Oct. 8.| commissioner. They pleaded not for livestock. Good exhibits are ex-|each to appear at a preliminary hear- ment features have been arranged. (——— Call For Jury Trial, : The case of John Barbee and Anna} Grosz, charged with feckless driving, : growing out of an accident several days ago, the charge being preferred by Miss Margaret Robinson, have de-; manded a jury trial. The case will be: tried Wednesday afternoon. Appear-|S' ie ing before Police Magistrate Cashman today on a visit. yesterday, attorneys for Mr. Barbee was not granted because provision is not made for a change of venue in city cases, Judge Cashman said. in The Tribune office. dewish New Y ' re October 4 is observed among ortho-; dox Jews as the New Year. Begin-' 4 iferc 7 ning Sunday evening and continuing | because of his wife’s ill health. until Monday evening a: sunset, Octo- FINDS REMARKABLE IMPROVEMENT IN BISMARCK DURING 7 YEARS ABSENCE 8 “I have never seen a city make so many forward strides in’ even years,” said W. R. Davis, former resident of Bismarck, here | “The paving alone is enough to change the aspect of the city, | asked for a change of venue, which’ byt J also find many beautiful new buildings,” he ‘said, on a call, Mr. Davis, who spent many years in government service, | supervised the building of the Indian school here and was its {superintendent for years, spending about 12 years in Bismarck. In 1914 he retired from the service and moved to Seattle, Wash., Mr. Davis has been visiting a daughter in Onida, S. D., and) 3, Jews the world over observed the! stopped in Bismarck to greet old friends on his return. His wife: New Year; while among orthodox Jews! has not improved in health and was unable to make the journey the second day, today, is also observed. The Arabs betieve that it takes a after whistling. ‘here. Before coming to Bismarck, Mr. Davis supervised the Indian | man thirty days to clean his mouth'schools at Crow Creek, S. D., White Earth, Minn., and was in the! jgovernment office in Omaha. sociation. | “One of the first things to be done to revive business,” he. sail, “is to| Place agriculture on a firm business) | basis by providing credit for legiti-| | mate uses and by the extensfcn of thé; | limit of our present market are.” SPECIALIZE ON HATS Shanghaia,, Oct. 4.—Loss of hats |from several stores and private t homes in the French section, has re-; sulted in the arrest of a coolie who! | ses to give his name. Mag-; \istrate. Loh sentenced him to three! | months in jail. | OY PLAYS IN. EMPTY OIL CAR; -DIES PRISONER} Superior, Wis. Oct. 4-—Maynard ‘Larson, 15, son of Albert Larson, Sandstone, Minn, died a prisoner in an empty gasoline tank car en route from Sandstone to the Okla- homa oil fields, according to Great Northern ficials who ha where Larson’s body was reported found yesterday. r was unlonded at Sand- The Larson hoy car to scoup out the dregs of gas- ohne in tin The companion started home for more cans and when he returned the car was gone, Several days later when {Aug. 1, 1843, while my father was | the death of William J. Slack, 76, th ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S SON IS “HERM i Z | | | | | | By N. E. A. Service Washington, Oct. 4.— This story is about the hermit of Georgétown. Georgetown is the oldest, quaint- est quarter of Washington. The at- mosphere of colonial days still hangs over its antique red brick buildings and shaded brick sideswalks. Georgetown’s hermit is Robert Todd Lincoln. He is the son of Abra- ham Lincoln. Few Georgetown people have seen Lincoln, Those who have, describe him as a bent old man. “Mr. Lincoln ain’t home,” a negro gardener tells you. “He’s at his country house in New Hampshire. But he never sees no one, anyway, even when he’s here.” 4 Lincoln Story If Lincoln would talk to you, he would tell this story: “Twas born at Springfield, IIL, beginning his state polities. now. “In 1859 I was graduated from the University .of Illinois at Urbana. While father was at the White House, I was beginning my course at Harvard. “Then the war broke out. I left EMPLOYERS TO | GAIN REBATES| fight to the top in That makes me 78 IT OF GEORGETOWN” | ROBERT TODD LINCOLN AND HIS HOME IN GEORGETOWN school to serve as a captain General Grant’s staff. “T was discharged in 1865—and you know what happencd to my father then. In my grief I went back to my old home in Illinois. “I was admitted to the bar in Chi- cago in 1867 and was married the following year. “Politics? I was a presidential elector, served as secretary of war under Garfield and Arthur and later was minister of Great Britain. “My fortune is based. on my con- nection as special counsel ‘for and later as president of several big. busi- ness concerns in Chicago and else- where.” And. now—Lincoln ° has’ -settled down in the very shadow of his life’s greatest tragedy. And his wife shares his seclusion, LLOYD GEORGE The ,workmen’s compensation com. | mission will make rebates of ‘15. pér | cent .on’ last year’s premiums to all! those whose loss experience has not! given them a penalty and in those! classes: where the loss. experience has | been less than a normal experience; it! was announced by the commission. ' rebated has not been determined. Most classes are affected, the bureau | nnouncement said. Among those not ncluded are coal operator PICK UNKNOWN AMERICAN HERO Paris, Oct. 4.—(By the Associated Press.)—America’s uaknown soldier who will find an honore:j sepulchre in national cemetery at Arlington, Va. will be selected by a non-commi sioned officer from tne American forces on the Rhine on the morning ot October 24. The body will leave Havre late in the evening of October 25 on board the United States cruiser Olympia. \ yas a COUPLE HELD IN MURDER CASE Three Rivers, Mich. -Oct. 4.—Mrs. Layinnie Slack 52, and George Coney, 62, her brother, were held in the county jail at Centerville today on a charge of murder in ccnnection with ne woman’s husband. Slack’s body was found hanging in the basement of his home September 16, and his death was pronounced due to suicide. The authorities claim, however, to have unearthed evidence that he was murdered. They are at- tempting to establish that Mrs. Slack and her brother profited financially. |EQUITY SIGNS FOR BIG LOAN St. Paul, Oct. 4.—Osficils of the Equity Co-operative Exchange an- nounced today that an agreement had been signed with the’ War Finance Corporations for a $15,000,000 line of nancing of the Northwest gram crop \ | marketing.” TAX PAYERS UNITE Tondey Oc¥. 4.—Thh Uneqme Taxpayers’ Society, under the lead- ership of Lord Inchcape, has been formed here to help simplify the tax- ing machinery and maintain the con- stitutional rights of the members. | provi \day” will be celebrated. the Larson boy was missing he told his story. tried out. credit which will assure “adequate fi- | SEES HOPE IN DISARM PARLEY The amount of money which will be, Rritish Primé Minister Calls| Forthcoming Meeting Im- portant Meeting Inverness, Scotland, Oct. 4.—(By the Associated Press.) —The prime minis- ;ter, Mr. Lloyd George, in a speech here | today, concerning unemployment di- gressed in his introduction to refer | optimistically to the forthcoming con- | ference in Washington en limitation of ‘armament declaring “it will constitute | one of those outstanding events which j will, event human history for centur- | ies.” Mr. Lloyd George also touched on the Irish question, declaring the Lon- don conference beginning Octgber 11 | between representatives of the British | government and the Sinn Fein .“can jonly succeed if those who enter it i ‘resolutely to trust to the common { sense of their own people and do noi | try to reconcile the extremists,” OCTOBER TERM The special October term of district | court opened here toda’, with Judge | Nuessle presiding. The calendar was called, but only a small number of | cases were ready for 4ri: More may be added later. The es ready for trial are: William Weinztein vs. Christ Gran- zow; T. P. Sheldon vs. Great Ameri can Ingurance company; C. A. Finch Lumber ‘company vs. i W. C. Benz, doing b | Supply company; W. A. Staley vs. Bis- marck Bank and C. T. Staley; W. A. Staley and C. T. Staley v: M. B. Finseth vs. Bismarck Motor Co. Rismarck Bank The isouri Valle; | Seed company; Bi! re A. Staley and C. Staley. No criminal case are to be tried at this term of court. n NEW CHURCH DEDICATED Starkweather, N. D., Oct. 4—Stark- weather’s new Commu church was dedicated here by fii Sive services Saturday anq Sunday. Bishop Charles Wesley Burns of ‘Helena, Mont., de- livered the dedicatory sermon, The church has some unique fea- adapting it to use as a social 2 A gymnasium is provided. The church cost about $30,000. MOST POWERFUL NAVAL GUN WILL B | __ TESTED AT ORDNANCE PROVING GROUN Washington, Oct. 4.—A new 16-inch, 50-caliber rifle said to, ibe more powerful than any naval gun now in use and other new idevelopments in ordnance will be tested at the army ordnance pageant parade brought in $25,00 ng ground at Aberdeen, Maryland, Friday, when “ordnance New types of artillery, shells, tanks and bombs also will be on} make up their minds definitely and! OF COURT OPENS) 1. P. Baker; | Bank vs. W. | BANKERS FIND MUCH TO CHEER IN CONDITIONS sociation Scolds Pessimists in an Address { | ISEES A BRIGHT FUTURE -|World is Not Riding Straight to Ruin, President Drum Tells Association Los Angeles, , Oct. 4—The dis- posal of billions of dollars by soma (24,000 banks was cheerfully discussed here today in the opening of the 47th annual convention of the American Bankers Association. Things are looking better, the times ie not so badly out of joint as a year ago, irrosistable forces are work- ing in tho overturning of these bil- lions of dollars towards more pros- perous times and the pessimist with theories of depression is out of place, uid by leaders in the nation’s al world, The program of the formal opening session today was featured by a 42,- 00-word ‘report by the. president of the association, John F. Drum, of San, Francisco, : ‘President Drum crystallized it in 26 of the 42,000 words: “There is nothing in either the domestic or the foreign situation to give rise to the pessimistic con- clusion that the world is riding straight to ruin.” * Delegates to the convention will, among other things, discuss what are said to be the three major questions how gonfronting business and bank- ing institutions of America—deprecia- ted currency of foreign nations, pri- vate hoarding of currency in the United States and expenses of gov- ernment. To Discuss Conditions The convention planned to take up a detailed discussion of the effects on American business of the depreciated currency of certain foreign nations and the resulting influence on rates of exchange, which, accordi: to a statement issued from the! office of Marco \H. Hellman, local banker, has brought about a condition in ‘foreign markets making it almost impossible to sell American mado commodities abroad, Second, the convention will inves-- tigate into and offer remedies for.a Hnancial situation which, it is clatm- ed, has resulted from the failure pt individuals to put personal cash into circulation, The third topic to be discussed will be that of “the economics which aré being put into effect in Washington looking toward a lowering of govern- | mental expenses” as described in Mr. ‘Hellman’s statement. NORE FEDERAL ~ AID OBTAINED Government Increases Allotment to Bridge by $95,000 i { 1 Additional federal aid for the Mis souri river vehicular bridge has been obtained. i Frayne Baker, member of the state highway commission, nas returned from Washington, D. C., where he j went to take the matter up with the federal bureau of roads. The govern- ment has agreed to participate in cer- tain items which were not included ~ in their former agreement. The additional federai aid obtained \is about $95,000, and brings the gov- ernment's participatioa to a full hair ‘of the cost. i} Today’s Weather | | For twenty-four hours ending at. j noon Oct. 4. Q 5 | Temperature at 7 A. M.. Highest yesterday ; Lowest yesterday | Lowest last night . | Precipitation | Highest wind velocity . Weather Forecast. For Bismarck and vicinity: Fair to- North Dakota: Fair tonight |and probably Wednesday; warmer in {the southwest portion tonight; cooler Wednesday. Weather Conditions. The center of the no:thwestern low pressure aréa has advanced to Mani- | toba accompanied by iair weather and ;moderate temperature over Canada nd the northern states. A high pres- j sure area covers middie plains and the Mississippi Valley accompanied by |low temperatures and heavy to kill- | ing frosts have occurred in Minnesota, | Iowa and Nebraska. Except for light showers in portions of the lake regions the weather has remaisied fair. The weather in North Dakota will be fair j tonight and Wednesday with warmer |in the southeast portion tonight and | cooler Wednesday. STRANDED IN JAVA | Shanghai, Oct 4—Reports have ‘reached here that the Royal Opera eompany, an English company tour- ling the Orient, are stranded in Java with only a few cents left. The | British government has taken action | to bring them here. ETS BIG FUND CIty Manches' Eng., Oct. 4—A ifor the benefit of Mezieres, France, which has been adopted by Man- ‘chester. The rebuilt French city is | dedicating a street to Manchester in jreturn.