The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 21, 1922, Page 3

Airey ii SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, ’22 MEXIA, TEXAS, GROWS LIKE — AMUSHROOM Population Increases From 3,000 To 30,000 In Space of Few Months ALSO PRICES SOARING Costs $3 For “A Place To Flop,” | Which Proves To Be a Bed In a Tent Mexia, Texas, Jan. 21—(By The Associated Press.)—Overnight a tent-¢ From an apparently, | ed city arose. sleepy little town of’ 3,000 popula? tion in October, 1921, where old set- tlers farmed for a living and eked gut a bare existence from their. lands; ~ where they rode cow horses to “town” and hitched them to a hitching post and where even the Town Hall ‘bell had net tolled for years because of the cobb webs and bird nests—to a bus- tling city of 30,000 people, and all in a few months, this is the recent record ot Mexia,-an old time Texas town, which is feeling the effects of one of the numerous oil developments in the} Southwest. The population now consists of an; assortment of oil field followers and thousands of men.and women seeking employment leaving an old field for the new, coming, on trains from all parts of the United States, or in wa- gons, trucks or “horse-back,” some bringing their assortment of house- hold goods and camping outfits and finding from ten to.a hundred men for every job, and no place available for spending the night. Men are Sleeping Out. Consequently because of the exhorb- itant prices charged for a room, if one were lucky enough to secure one, hundreds of men, favored by the long- continued. inter are sleeping on the grass alon Troad tracks, public parking places and, in fact, any where they could. Overnight a bed in a tent marked “A place to flpp” soared from 50 cents a night to $3. A night in a crude plank structure where one didn’t know his bed-fellow or the hun- dreds of cthers in the single room cost $5. Prices charged the few who were lucky enough to get in one of the private dwellings vary, but all were high enough to satisfy the most fastidious millionaire. But men are glad to get a bed at any price and many could not find shelter except that; provided by nature. Rail traffic jumped hundreds of per} cent. There are two trunk lines, the | Houston & ‘Texas, Central and the; Trinity and Brazos Valley leading through here and passenger traffic is very heavy while freight trains are frequently seen running three abreast, so heavy is the demand for oil ma- chinery. One road is said to have , spent $600,000 in enlarging its facili- ties, The water situation is not altogether what could be desired. The water whs procured from a spring a short dis-} tance from town, and although good , water, it was nearly as high in price as gasoline. Some oil man however, came along and drilled an oil well \ right side by side with the spring, “tapping’ the wat’er supply so badly | that lately it has bepn entirely stop- ped. Water wagons have been re- quisizioned and although they are busy | said; grew out of negotiations in Chi- all day and night hauling water to} homes, restaurants and improvised “punking” houses, they are not suffi- | cient to cover the field, Town Unsanitary. Consequently the town hag been de- clared “very upsanitary” ‘by citizens in hected argyments at the meetings of the City Council, which is making every effort to remedy the situation. | Mayor Riddle informed the irate citi- zens that this “could not be done over- night” aoe Getting a bath here is quite an ex- perience, if indeed not a task. The old saying “‘if-you-want to do some- ‘thing big—wash. an elephant,” cer- tainly has found parallel in Mexia. This luxury may be found, outside the woodland creeks, only in a downtown barber shop. The bath house is a stall in a wooden floored, planked in enclosure. Just plain pine planks are’ slippery, but tHe proprietots of the house haye found that it is not neces- sary to maintain first aid kits because the board floors are warped enough to allow the bather a foothold. “Clean- Jines3, after all, is next to godliness,” but a bath in Mexia is next to impos- sible, Drilling for Ol. \ | But as for oil. There are a solid six miles of new derricks, drillers out- fits, tents, wooden buildings and peo- ple where once there was the open prairie. A survey of all local lumber men shows that buildifigs completed or contracted for since Oct. 1, totals between. $3,500,000 and $5,000,000. Gambling and drinking halls filled with dancing girls are open every night, and cne may buy openly “red” and “corn” whiskey at 50 cents a drink. There is no effort at closing them. The Winter Garden is the most flourishing of these. Here it is said fortunes have been lost over- night at the dice and roulette tables. INSTITUTE MEN “TOSTART WORK Second Corps of Instructors Will Be Added Later (Members of the staff of the instru tors in the first weeks farmers inst tutes have been here for two days, preparing for the first week of ap- pearances in southern and eastern North Daketa. The week, as_previ- *ously announced will begin at_Ni poleon, January 23, continue at Fore- man on the 25th and then in order at Havana, Oakes and Lidgerwood. Dan ‘Willard, who will be the leader of what is known as the first corps has been here for. two days, while Miss Clara Larson reached here yesterday. {Surratt, for the T These two with Dr. Hollenbeck and} Mr. Flint, the two ‘other members’ of the staff, have been going over the The personnel of the instructional Staff will be the same for the sec: ond week as for the first, with the ex- ception that Franklin Page, assistant dairy contmissioner will take the place of Commissioner Robert Flint. ,The necessity-of Mr. Flint being in his of- | fice here for a part of the time, makes it probable that the two men will al- ternate during the weeks they. are in ‘Session, except as arrangements for {the second corps may necessitate changes, Arrangements for the second corps of instructors, who will take. the \field in the not very distant future are being made, and as soon as satisfac- | tory arrangements are completed, an- nouncement will be made of the he- ginning of their work, probably at some point close to the northern edge of the state. SURRATT GOES TO ILLINOIS ' | Federal Crop Statistician Is Transferred to New Post \ = : Grand Forks, N. D., Jan, 21.—A. J. last seven years) North Dakota statistician for the fed-| eral bureau of markets and Crop esti- mates, has been promoted to a fed- eral position at Springfield, Ill. where he will go Feb. 15 to take up! his duties. He will have charge of the| state federal crop reporting service, ) including all the crop statistical work of the state of Illinois, which co- operates closely with the federal gov- ernment. His North Dakota succes- sor has not yet been named, Mr. Surratt became a member of the federal crop reporting staff in July, 1913, at first having charge of the work in-North and South Dakota He was transferred to Grand Forks in 1914, when a statistician was as- signed to each state. Durifg Mr. Surratt’s Incumbency of the North Dakota position, crop re- porting has been gradually ‘systema- tized with crop reporting by coun> ties, the returns being compiled and totaled by the state statistician. Mr. Surratt, in making surveys and keep ing in touch with conditions by coun- ties has extensively toured the state. He becamé known as one of the gov- ernment’s most successful statisti- cians and was summoned to aid in al- locating the federal $2,000,000 seed loan to northwest farmers. During the War he was an active member of the seed-stock committee of the state. HAIL WARRANT SUIT 1S ARGUED Matter Submitted to Supreme Court Today By At- torneys i Attorneys today argued points in- volving the state hail insuranco law before the supreme court, in the case of the first national Bank of Halstead, ‘Minn., against the commissioner of in-; surance and state auditor. : | E. T. Burke, of Bismarck, represent- ed the bank. The suit, (Mr. Burke cago for the sale of a large block of 1920 hail warrants which had been gathered together by Dickinson peo- ple. Questions were raised by attor- neys and these were included in the original suit brought by the bank to determine quite another point — whether or not a crop mortgage is ef- fective, against a hail indemnity award. The collateral questions in- clude whether or not hail warrants are negotiable and whether or not 1920 warants can be pail on_ 1921 taxes if the 1920 taxes are insufficient to pay all losses for that year. These “collateral questions were submitted. The suit before the court today in- volves no questions affecting the ne- gotiations of the administration for the sale of warrants of the 1921 is- sue, according to Attorney-General Johnson. INSURANCE CO. SHOWS GROWTH Dickinson, N. D., Jan. 21—Organ- ized two and one-half years ago the Farmers Insuranee eompany now has policies aggregating more than $9,250,- 000 in force and assets amounting to $295,121.31, according to figures made public by the board of directors at) their first quarterly meeting of the year at the company offices in the ‘Lib- erty bank building last week. The report for the past year which ‘was submitted at the meeting by the secretary, ‘Lyall B.. Merry, showed an increase in assets for 1921. amounting to $60,532.46. The report also indi- cated an increase of $8,250 in the re- insurance reserve held by the com jPany, a surplus of $4,056 and $4,965 {held in reserve for unpaid logses. | The premium receipts for 1921 on policies now in force were given at $23,000, an increase of nearly 28 per cent over the previous year. | HEAD ACHED AND BODY ACHED There are various symptoms of kid- \ney trouble—rheumatic . pains, back- | ‘ache, sore muscles, stiff joints and, \“always tired” feeling. Mrs. Geo. | | Morgan, E, Fairfield, Vt., writes: “My; jhead ached and my whole body ached jso I could not sleep. Foley Kidney | Pills gave me relief.” They heal and | strengthen weak, disordered kidneys |and bladder and help them in their, wordk of filtering the blood and cast- | ing out of the system the impurities | that cause pain and disease. Prompt in action. i only i To Be On Time | Phone 99 Bismarck Taxi Line i Chiropractor Gensuitation Free Sufte 9, 11—Lucas Block—Phone 268 material to be presented and the plans -|for the first week’s work. i | | | RB, S. ENGE, D. C. Ph, C, | @ HEAD OF THE! CATHOHLIC CHURCH SINCE 1914 DIES IN ROMB TODAY as (Contingied iftom Page 1): One of the smallest men physically ever elected to the chair of St. Peter, the former Cardind|,della Chiesa never expected to be flus honored by the Sacred College pnd is said to have wept when appriged of his election, He would have prefetved, he said, to re- main a simple pfiest or, at most, Card- inal and Archbishop of Bologna. On the day of his election he spoke of the burden of responsibility thrust upon “one frafl brain” and expressed his horror of jthe world conflict’ then being waged apd his hope that it would quickiy end. /One week after his cor- onation, whep the Fisherman’s Ring. was placed upon his finger, he issued an Encyclicaj to the episcopacy of the world in whi¢h rulers were exhorted to put aside issensions and to “enter into a counc}] of peace with all speed.” The appeal fell on stony ground, how- ever, and lgtery on December 12, 1914, the Vativany anthorities announced the Pope's pian for a Christmas truce was failing “bekause of the opposition of a cerlain power.” Reports were that Russia and Turkey had refused to ac- quiesce. Along a thousand miles of battlefran}, the following Christmas Day, tharpands of cannon thunderéd an answer Benes "s appeal to “lay dows your arn ; Eifort for Peace, Again jon January 18, 19: Pope Benedict |took up the task of bringing Wer toa war-torn world, decreeing that on Febr ‘y 7, priests and laity of the ‘Catholic church throughout the world should unite in services and pray for the restoration of uni- versal amity and good will. The next occasiun | Benedict exercised his, hu- mane prerogative was on July 28, 1915, the t hnniversary of the war, when he issued an appeal to:all rulers, de- claring that “blessed be he who first extends the olive branch and tenders his hand to: the enemy in offering his reasonable conditions of peace.” In Mareh, 1916, the Pope again reit- erated his)prayer fér the dawn of a new cud wetter day. “Each belliger- ent should clearly state his desires,” he said. “bit should be ready to make the necessary sacrifices of pride and particular interests.” Previously Ben- edict written tc the late Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria asking him to “snorten: the war,” and likewise sounded the then Emperor of Germany as to the terms upon which he would lay down.the gage of battle. Still Hopeful \ On August 8, 1917, still hopeful of saving the world from a veritable ca- taclysm, Pope Benedict issued in his own handéwriting his famcus appeal to the natioms, exhorting the belliger- ent rulers to.end the war for the sake of humanity. Pained by the shelling of Paris by the German; long range guns in the Spring of 1918, Pope Benedict sent a protest to Emperor Charles of Austria and to the Herlin government against what he characterized as “a wanton massacre.” The Pope's gratification over the capture of Jerusalem by the Allies under the British General Allenby caused bitter comment in the German press According to the Rome Mes- sagero on December 18, 1917, a few days after the ‘fall of the Holy City, he warned Christian states against {aiding the Turks in recapturing it. Attitude Toward Conference Pope Renedict’s attitude toward the Peacy Conference of 1919 was said to have been one of' father icitude. Early the previoufs December, in a let- ter to President Wilson, he pleaded for aid on behalf of oppressed nationali- ties and later conimitted \the church of which he was the head to “do all in its power to support the decisions of, the delegates at “Versailles?” In all of his messages and addresses he ex- pressed the hope that peace would be ‘based upon Christian principles. Giacomo della Chiesa, the spiritual head of 300,000,000 \ Catholics, was born of noble line at Pegli, Italy, on Noveinker 21, 1854. father was the Marschese dell Chi (pronounced Keeaza.) He received his education at the Capronican College and later attended the Academy of Ecclesiastics, Ordained to the priesthood in 1878 he soon attracted the attention of Cardi- nal Rampolla, who under Pope Leo XIII was the Papal Secretary of State. ‘He accompanied Rampolla to Madrid in 1883 when his patron was Nuncio, remaining. there until 1887 when he re- turhed to Rome upon thé elevation of Rampclla to the Cardinalate. In 1901, after having served four years as Secretary of the Nunciature in Spain, he was appointed Secretary of the Cypher. This position ‘gave its incumbent considerable authority ‘and the same year Mgr, della Chiesa was named as Consultor of. the Holy Of- \. on fice. A notable promction came to December 16, 1907, when Pope\ Piux X appointed della Chiesa as Arch- bisho» of the important See of Bologna to succeed the late Cardinal Svampa. His administration of this office for seven years was characterized, it is said, by prudence and diplomacy. ‘His consecration as an Archbishop was perfermed by Pius THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE tine Chapel, an honor so unusual that it attracted world-wide attention. Archbishop della Chiesa was made a Cardinal in May, 1914, less thdn six months before mounting tie throne of St. Peter's. "He took hig ecclesiastical title from Pope Benedict XIV, one of the ablest pontitts of the church, who was born in Bologna on March 31, 1657 and died cn May 3, 1758; ‘Benedicts XV’s personal appearance hag been described as follows: “A man physically ill-favored but gifted with great intelligence; short of. statuze, ascetically thin, with the right shoul- der raised above. the left, and giving one the impression of extreme nerv- ousness and weakness. But when he raised his head the visitcrs instinct: ively felt that they were im the pres- ence of a man equipped with excep- tionalintellectual powers and energy. He reminded one of the noted poet, Leopardi, With an ample brow, sur- rounded by’ ¢oal black hair, black eyes, lively and penetrating, a large mouth with thin lips full of ression, the Pope conveyed the impression of a man of few friendships but these most sine: devoted and lasting.” Adyaneed Money Always “ afriend in need,” as a pre- late of his church once said of him, Pope Penedict demonstrated his readi- ness to avert hardship to poor people by advancing $1,000,000 to gave a financial institution of Rome from bankruptcy in the Spring of 1918. This was in keeping with his reputation from'the time he was ordained a priest in 1878 to the day of his death. When he was made a Cardinal it was with; difficulty that he was able to meet the expenses Necessaary to one in such a high office and this was because up to that time he had given hig entire income to impoverished townfolk, An instance of his generosity was cited in connection with a ban he once put upon “tango” dances which were such’ a vogue ‘several years ag Friends of a poor dancing master in Bologna, who was ruined by the edict of the Archbishop, appealed to della Chiesa in hig behalf. The Archbishop heard. their story with the greatest sympathy but refused to yield. Then he handed them $40 as his donation to a subscription for the dancing master to tide him over until he could find other employment. GE THREE li _ THE PASSION PLAY Adapted from ‘The Life of Our Saviour A TRULY’ WONDERFUL, ARTISTIC, COLORFUL PRODUC: TION WITH A MESSAGE AND MISSION THE FILM DIFFERENT | A Diversion In Entertainment Based On The Life of ‘Christ SUPREME COURT AFFIRMS CASE Fred W. Asch Given $8,000 For Injuries in Collision The supreme court has affirmed a case appealed from the Morton county district court in which Fred A. Asch Sued the Washburn Lignite Coal com: pany and Walker D. Hines, directo general of railroads, and as such for the Soo line. A verdict of $8,000 given Asch wa held not excessive. Asch was’ a: fire- man on a locomotive and was injured in ‘a collision. The supreme court decision, writ- ten by Judge Christianson, said that “a fireman’ on a locomotive who is injured by a collision between the lo- comotive and some cars placed on the track by a coal company may main- tain a joint action against the rail- 4 vay company and the coal company if the collision Was produced by the negligence of the railway company in operating the locomotive at an ex- cessive rate of speed, Concurring with the negligent act of the coal company ‘in placing the cars,on the track.” The case was heard in Morton dis- trict court before Judge Berry: Asch had been sent to Wilton by the Soo line to spot cars between the mine and the railroads both for the Soo and N. P.. ‘The accident com- vlained of occurred in 1918. There was a question in the case as to just Special Matinee for Children on Tuesday, Jan. 24, at 4:15 p. m. 4 Greater Than a Sermon. \ AUDITORIUM Monday and Tuesday Special Admission Prices. cA whose employ Asch was in and wheth- ei or not the coal company ‘and the railroad should be held jointly liable. ing warm and enthusiastic about the character of the coal we are selling. It’s Beulah Deep Vein Lignite Caal. Wachter ‘Transfer Company. Phone 62. I buy and sell State Hail War- rants. Call or write. Obert A. Olson, Eltinge Block. Phone 250. Dance at Baker’s Hall every Tuesday, Thursday and Satur- day nights. Best music and floor in state. 10c a dance. the real article.' Jan. 23-24 Children 25 cents. Adults 55 cents. A Wachter Phone 62. You can’t blame us for wax- Transfer ing warm and enthusiastic about the character of.the coal we are Selling. It’s the real article. Beulah Deep Vein Lignite Coal.|_ | BEHOLD THE MAN. When A Farmer Comes Into This Bank with a-problem requiring consul- a RE SA IT NOTICE, TO: THE PUBLIC Regarding Shoe Repairing Men’s half soles, sewed or nailed........... Men’s whole soles................+ Boys’ half soles..... Ladies’ half soles Cuban Leather Heels. . .$1. Military Leather Heels.$1.25 | Men’s Repaired Heels. .$ .65 Men’s new leather heels.$1.00 Wingfoot rubber heels.. .65 Above Prices Are Strictly Cash. All Parties Having Shoes Here, 30 days or over, please call for them, or they will be sold for charges, as we need the room. ‘Mail Orders Promptly and Carefully Filled. Only skilled workmanship. tation, we assume that it is of prime importance to him. Therefore, because we are active- ly interested in the agricultural life of this section, we make his problem ours and by treating it in a frank man-to-man fashion we_ are usually able to arrive at a sat- isfactory solution. We invite all farmers to make use of this personal service. , Bismarck Bank Bismarck, N. D. BISMARCK SHOE HOSPITAL Henry Burman, Prop. himself in the Sa Capitol tovicin NAZIMOVA in her supreme triumph “CAMILLE” RIALTO towcar “THE Dumas’ enthralling of youth and love. “SINGER MIDGETS SIDE SHOW” A Two Reel Fox Comedy. BIG BILL RUSSELL patel fy ROOF TREE” A heart-stirring story of the Southern} feud country. ; Mutt & Jeff Comedy. Fox Animated News. MONDAY “WAY DOWN es EAST.” ‘MONDAY VAUDEVILLE MUON HAH 2 Direction Valleau Theater Company TONIGHT HOUSE PETERS in “THE MAN FROM LOST RIVER” Kinograms weseseess Aesop Fable MONDAY and TUESDAY HELENE CHADWICK in.. d : . “DANGEROUS CURVE AHEAD” COMING GEORGE AREISS in. .“THE DEVIL” JACKIE COOGAN, in. ....“MY BOY” PRISCILLA DEAN, in. .“THE CONFLICT” KATHERINE MACDONALD in.“THE BEAUTIFUL LIAR” st - eee Matinee Daily 2:30. Evenings 7:30 & 9. A ———uV“_—_itio ccc LA ‘ce a Company. SIA