The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 31, 1922, Page 1

The Weather Generally Fair FORTIETH YEAR THE BIS MINERS OF NATION TO STRIKE | Eo: UNVEIL TABLET TO HERO | 3 MEASURES 70 BE VOTED UPON INTHE PRIMARY One Constitutional Amendment and Two Initiated Measures Are Proposed OTHER MEASURES FAIL Propositions of Judge Robinson And Jamestown Men Fail Of Signatures The primary _ election ballot in CK TRIBUNE = BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1922 PRICE FIVE CENTS North Dakota will have the smallest number of measures to be voted upon GRAND JURY TO PROBE BANK T0 | BE CALLED SOON Likely Will Convene. During Next Term of Cass County © Court, Is Report DISMISS. TOWNLEY CASE Attorney-General Dismisses Hearing Being Held Before Judge Cole at Fargo Fargo, March 31.—It is probable that I Gen. Williams, who was presiden' ‘ORGANIZATION IN WESTERN PART OF STATE TO INCREASE INTEREST IN IRRIGATION URGED AT MEETING HERE i) |General. E. A. Williams Tells Engineers of First Irrigation Con- gress in North Dakota— Other Speakers Discuss the Feasibility of the Proposed Projects in the Western Part of the State and Methods to be Taken to Increase Interest immediate organization of the people of the western part Dakota to forward immigration work was urged by. Gen. E. A. Williams, at the meeting of the Bismarck chapter of the American Association of Engineers, held in the McKenzie hotel last night. TONIGHT UNION LEADERS “CLAIM 600,000 10 QUIT WORK Strike Officially Begins at Mid- night; Actually Expected To Begin Earlier é PRR eT MUCH COAL ON HAND Government Estimates Are That There Is Coal Enough of North t of the first irrigation congress held in the state, declared that nothing could be done without organization. He proposed a revival of the old organization or the formation of a new one For 48 Days jto promote irrigation. the grand jury, which will be asked; for an investigation into finances of; by the people of any election in the last three elections. for filing petitions for initiated laws ended last night there were petition- ers on file sufficient\to put but two Measures on the ballot. The initiated measures which will go on the ballot in June are: Initiated law to increase the limit of real estate loang by the state farm loan depart- ment from $10,000,000 to $20,000,000, and to repeal law. In addition there is a constitutional amendment to be referred to the peo- ple by. action of the last legislature. It changes the requirements to permit a voter moving from one county to another to retain voting residence in one county until he! has. established voting residence in the county to which he has moved. The 11 proposed initiative measures of Justice J. E. Robinson, of the su- Preme court, which caused consider- able comment in the state and which, according to financial men, were the cause of some alarm by outside in- veers, will not go before the peo- ple. Judge Robinson, asserting that he had received about 6,000 signatures to the petition, said that objections of investors caused sufficent opposition to prevent 10,000 signatures, the re- quired number, being obtained on any Proposed measure. The measures proposed by Judge Robingon. were: (1) To repeal the “dog tax” on lawyers; (2) To repeal When the time; the teachers’ salary), | 6 A Crawford C. McCullough, right, Rotary International President, and Secretary of the Navy Denby, members of the Detroit Rotary Club, unveil the Rotary tablet to the Unknown American Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery: Rotarians from all sections of the country attended. OPPOSE JUDGES BEING BROUGHT INTO ___ POLITICS IN THE COMING PRIMARY State Official Says He Finds)JACKRABBITS EAT Opposition to Endorsement SUPPLY OF HAY! of Candidates Bend. Ore., March 31.——Hun- dreds of jackrabbits were saved from starvation this winter by the MISS QUITS! 250 tons of hay which Henry Stin- kamp had stacked as a threc-years reserve supply. Stinkamp said to- day the hay was nearly all eaten LBAGUERS IN AIMDON Will Not’ Be a Candidate on ‘League Ticket—County Con- ventions to be Held Soon | |should be admitted. the pool hall inspection statute; (3) Repeal the motor vehicle tax; (4) Re- Peal the tax commission law; (6) To The call for the Jamestown conven- repeal the income tax; (6) To -repeal| tion, which includes the endorsement ele oh oa qeuiring ya of three candidates for supreme court, dna North Dakota ming;_(1)-To repeal| #04 the endorsement by the Nonpar- the workmen’s’ compensation statute; Teague convention of three can- (8). To provide for @ change in the| didates, ‘has brought forth consider- method of assessment of real prop-| able opposition to bringing judges in-, MINN. MEET Women..Give: Equal Representa- ‘tion in Convention the defunct Scandinavian-American ‘bank «will be called to convene during the next term of Cass county district court, beginning in Fargo, April 11, William Gréen, state's attorney of Cass county, said today, t The charge of embezzlement was dismissed on motion of the Attorney- | General yesterday afternoon. It follow- | ed some sharp clashes between Judge Cole and the “AttorneyiGeneral, in| which the latter declared that the Judge refused to, admit evidence uaa i Judge Cole ruled that the state must show embezzlement before at- tempting to prove Townley as an ac- cessory. J. W. Brinton had been on the stand most of the day. Judge Cole held that the state had not proved embezzlement. «Leslie Simpson, coun- sel for Townley, asked for dismissal. Judge Cole denied this. The action in dismissing the charge followed in the afternoon when the Attorney-General (Continued on Page 3) ONE COUNTY IN STATE PLANS 0 CLASSIFY LAND Tax Commissioner Doubts _ if Others Wil] Attempt To PEACE PACT IS SIGNED BY TWO IRISH STATES North and South Ireland Agree And Free State Party Is Strengthened HAILED WITH DELIGHT London, Mar. 31.—(By the Asso- ciated Press)—The Free State party in Ireland is enormously strengthened by the agreement for the pacification of the island, signed here last night between the North and South, the House of Commons was told by Win- ston Spencer Churchill, secretary of colonies today. He paid tribute to what he termed the statesmanliMe courage of the Ulster leaders. ; ‘Signing of the agreement came with suddenness and was received in Eng- land with utmost enthusiasm. READ IN COMMONS London, March 31.—Winston Spen- cer Churchill, the imperial secretary for war, announced last night in the house of commons the terms of the most important agreement yet. reached between the representatives of the, Do So This Year eset Dunn county ig the only county in the state that-has entered into,a con~ northern and southern governments in Ireland for bringing about peace in the strife-torn country. The agreement which was reached with unexpected’ expedition ‘at'a con= ‘Pana, IIL, March 31.—The first actual stoppage of work in south. ern Illinois in connection with the miners strike occurred shortly be. fore noon today when 800 miners omployed at two collier'es walked ut, Attention of those assembled was called particularly to the McNary re- clamation bill pending in the United States Senate. This bill proposes an appropriation of $370,000,000 for the reclamation of swampy and cut-over lands, There is doubt as to whether projects ‘which might be proposed in western North Dakota could be in- cluded in this bill. It was suggested that steps ought to be taken to change the measure so that North Dakota needs might be met. Gen. Williams told of past experi- ences in North Dakota,-and a general discussion of irrigation, agrarian and power problems followed. He sug- gested possibility of developing hy- dro-electric: power from the Missouri river, ‘ Senator F. W. Mees,.of Mandan, suggested that the Little Missouri river might be utilized for purpose ‘of storing water or for diversion of wa- ter. The government made some sur- vey about 17 years ago, it was said at the meeting. Thomas H. Sullivan,|\ secretary of the Mandan Commercial club, talked upon irrigation projects generally and their relation to the western part of the state. Bismarck Project Best George McMahon, of the state engi- gineer’s office, answered numerous questions concerning the feasibility of ririgation. Mr. McMahon ‘believes the most feasible plan offered is to aa pare bai Ometally, store water along the Missouri river | ‘heir suspension of work was set’ to and to pump it out over the lowlands] begin tonight at midnight but virtu- along the Missouri, which are ex-| ally it was to start six hours ahead tremely fertile. Investigations have} o¢ schedule for most miners end their been made in the past of the possi- N. D. MEN STRIKE. Burlington, N. D., March 31.— Union miners of the Midway Coal company’s lignite mine th orn. ing notified the company that they. would walk out tonight at 9:30 when their shift ends, The move came ag a surprise to operators who had expected no trouble with the nation-wide strike. About 35 men are affected, DEFY KANSAS COURTS, Indianapolis, March 31.—The Kansas Industrial court order ex- tending the present wage agree- ment between miners and opera- . tora in Kansas for 30 days will not stop the suspension of work by. union miners at midnight tonight, \ according to President John L. \ Lewis, of the United Mine Work. ers of America. \ Indianapolis, March 31.—(By the As- sociated Press.)—The last day of work under present wage contracts was completed today by the country’s halt bility of irrigation between Wash- burn and Bismarck, and south of the city. The Bismarck project, so-called, is said by engineers to be the most feasible of all. E. H. Morris, of the state railway commission and J. N- Roherty, of j shifts at that hour, The extent of the suspension, how- ever, will not be a certainty until to- morrow. A complete. tie-up of union fields was predicted today by union officials at the union.headquarters here and tract forthe classification of land un- der the statute enacted. by the last ference between delegates of the-Irish groups and representatives of the im- perial government, far transcends in erty; (9) To reduce by 50 per cent all unpaid taxes of the last three years, vetc.; (10 and 11) To establish lower railroad rates. Tax meagures proposed by a group of Jamestown men did not receive enough signatures, although there were about 3,500 on file late yester- day. John B. Fried, of Jamestown, sald the storm prevented the obtain- ing of snfficient number of signatures The measures were known as counter- mi¢asureg to.tae Robinson proposals. No petitions were filed for the in- . itiation of a law to permit Sunday movies, for which petitions were pre- pared, nor for the initiation of a mo- tic picture censorship law as pro- posed by the state enforcement bodies. SCHOOL KEYS ARE STOLEN Guard is Placed Over Richholt School Following Depredation Richholt school is now a. carefully guarded school. Someone entered the ‘building, ‘rifled the desks of the teach efe\fdrowhag littlesmioney had been Iéft in ‘them and: stole, virtually all of the keys, ’ Because of the fact that the thief would be able to enter the building at any time with the keys, excepting the rear door, the front door has been barred. In the morning the janitor must open the rear door and then tne front door to permit teachers and pu- rils to enter. He hag been guarding the building at night. There is said to be; no clue to the persons who entered the building and committed the robbery. o—______________» | WEATHER REPORT | OO \ For twenty-four hours ending at noon March 31. Temperature at 7A. M. Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday . Lowest last night . Precipitation .. Highest wind velocity . ‘Weather Forecast For Bismarck and vicinity: Fair to- night and Saturday; somewhat warm- . 24 34 26 22 None - 8SW ~ er, _ For North Dakota: Generally fair tonight and Saturday; somewhat warmer Saturday and in west portion tonight. Weather Conditions. Minneapolis, Minn., March 31.—Both} ;the working people's Nonpartisan league convention and the Nonparti- n .| 8an league convention of Minnesota, day that he had received 25 or 30 let-| which convened today adjourned short. ters from persons protesting at the| ly after noon until 2 P. M. without tak. inclusion 'ty Burleigh Spaldéng of jing any further action than prelim- nominations for supreme court judges inary organization, / in the business of the convention. | 4 resolution was passed that all per- These people, the official said, com-| sons be excluded from the hall excep plain that the judges are on a nonpo | delegates and persons whom lea- litical. ballot. and that for either the! guers will vouch for. The resolution Nonpartisans or the Jamestown con-| was aimed against newspaper men of vention to bring them into a political) the Twin Cities, fight is not in accord with good. prin-} A. C, Townley appeared in the room ciples ‘of government nor of the con-| for a few sainutes but had left when stitution of the state. j Chairman Walsh called for “the most The offices of judge of the supreme | hated man in Minnesota and the Unit- court and superintendent of public in-; ed States” to take the floor. struction were taken out of politics inj order to prevent the nominations be-! ing subjected to convention log-roll- | ing or. their offices to political admin- istration. to the political arena in the primary. One state official, whose name prob- ably will go before the Jamestown convention for renomination, said to- 1 Minneapolis, March 31—Women will share honors with men with one wo- nan and one man as delegates from ch county to the Nonpartisan league | state convention which opens here to-} Miss Fanny C. Amidon, endorsed by; day. About 100 persons fully one- the Nonpartisan league convention at H third women, were in attendance, Fargo for the position of superintend-| “We want to wait to see what hap- ent of public instruction, will not be! pens in St. Paul,” Chairman Charles a candidate, according to a statement | EK, C, Walsh, presiding, said, indicat- a [many other leaders of his organiza- made by her toda Miss Amidon, | whose home is in Valley City, is a sis- | ter of Federal Judge Amidon. Miss: Amidon said she was not taking. part | in politics and was not a candidate. She said she had not given permission for her name to be used. I: i Whether Senator W. J. Church, en-j dorsed as the league candidate for} Commissioner of Agriculture and La- bor, and as such a member of the Jn-/ dustrial Commission, will adhere to} his oft-expressed desire to “take the state industries out of politics” by making an issue in the campaign out of it remains to ‘be seen. Church has frequently made the statement that the control of the industries ought to be in the hands of a non-political board nd as such came in opposition to ‘ion. State Senator B. F. Baker, the league cand{date for Governor, in a, statement accepting the league nom- ination says he stands on the “in- dustrial program.” — 2 ‘County conventions to select dele- gates to the Jamestown convention to be held April 19 will be selected soon. W. F. Reko, of Mandan, said the Mortong county convention probably would be held April 14 or 15 in Man- dan. E. C. Fogarty, of Sterling, who will call the Burleigh county conven- tion, had not received the official word from B.'F. Spalding yesterday. The Second District Congressional race is not yet cleared up. With John Sherman, of Kidder county, named The southern low pressure area has | by the leaguers there js opposition on advanced to the Ohio Valley and gen-| the part of some to endorsing George eral raing have resulted from the low- | Young at the Jamestown convention. er Mississippi Valley eastward, includ-]It is not improbable that should the ing the southern Lake region. Else-| convention reject the name of Young where the weather has been fair, ex-|that Thomas Hall, secretary of, state, cepting light rains over the Pacific} would be found in the race for Con- Temperature changes | gress. coast region. have been small. 2) ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Y Meteorologist. _ Average ‘person breathes 18 or 20 times a minute. ,| lustrious ing that no action will be taken until after the Republican convention in ‘ses. sion in, St. Paul makes some move. ENTIRE CITY IS THREATENED Miami, Fla., March 31.—A wireless message from Nassau in the Bahama islands received here at 1:15 A. M. re- ported that the entire city of Nassau was threated ‘by destruction as the result of a fire which started in the Colonial hotel. ‘The damage at the time already had run into millions, it was said, COURIER-NEWS ~ legislature, Tax Commissioner C., C. Converse said today. He doubted if any more counties would jattempt the classification this year because of the desire for economy in most counties. Assessors, who are starting their work in the state today, will operate along lines formerly observed. Among the rulings made by the tax commissioner jin his instructions to assessors is that the real test of value is what property would sell for un- der ordinary circumstances, not under a forced sale. Various interpreta- tions have been placed upon the value of.a property by assessors. The tax commissioner has instruct- ed assessors that in case of a resi- dence located in what may be consid- ered the business district of a city or town, the lot may be assessed upon its value as business property and in this case the house shall be assessed at a yalue based on the necessity of| mov- ing it to permit a business building to be erected. The tax commissioner has ruled that apartment houses are entitled to be classed ag residential property for the purposes of assessment and to receive} the exemptions allowed for residential property. SIAMESE TWINS LEAVE PROBLEM! (Chicago, March 31—The death of Rosa and Josefa Blazek, the “Siamese; Twins,” has left the Cook county pro- bate court with a legal problem which apparently is unprecedented. In de- termining the disposition of the $100,- 000 estate of the twins the court must decide if the 11-year-old ranz is the son of one or both of the twins. ‘A scientific controversy has resolv- ed itself into the question “Were Rosa and Josefa one individual personality | or did they constitute separate en- titles?” MILLION LOSS CASE DISMISSED Fargo, March 31.—The cases of vari ous Nonpartisan league members against A. C, Townley, William Lemke and others in an attempt to make the defendants deliver to the state organ ization of the league stock in the Far- go Courier-News, league organ, will be dismissed, Harry Lashkowitz, at- torney for the plaintiff, said today: The case set for yesterday was con- tinued. NEW LODGE NAMES OFFICERS Dickinson, N. D., ‘March 31.—Of- ficers of the newly instituted. Tyrian council, R. & S. M. of Dickjnson have been named as follows: Illustrious master, W. A. McClure; deputy Il- master, Andrew Erdahl; conductor, O. F. Hennings; treasurer, eran Rabe; recorder, R. T. Craw- ford, IN BIG FIRE Miamé, Fla., March 31—The 300- room colonial hotel at Nassau in the Bahama islands wag destroyed today in a fire which for a time threatened destruction of most of the city, accord- ing to radio messages received here. The conflagration was controlled, how- ever, after it had cost damage running into millions of dollars. GOES TO LUNCH; importance the pact arrived at .be- tween Michael Collins, head of the provisional ‘government and Sir James Craig, the Ulster premier, at an earlier stage in the negotiations. It provides. for the reorganization of police in Ulster on-a basis satis- factory to the religious leanings of} the people for the trial of persons} charged with serious offenses by aj special court composed of the highest justices; for general cooperation be- tween the north and south of the most promising character, and for assist- ance from the British parliament to remedy the unemployment difficul-| ties in Belfast, which rendered the! carrying out of the previous Craig- Collins pact almost impossible. FRANCE ADMITS U. §. CLAIMS Says, However, It Is Question} As To Who Pays | es, ‘Paris, March 31.—(By the Associat- ed Press.)—France replied today to the note from the United States con-| cerning payment of the cost of the} American military occupation of the! Rhineland, The French note repeats the recent declaration of the minister of finance before the senate that France recog-| nizes the right of the United States. The only question is to whom the re- quest for reimbutgement should be made—the allies or Germany, the note said. the highway commission, talked ‘upon they also asserted that 100,000 non- | generation of hydro-etectric power union workers would stop work. Pres- and the utilization of the vast lig-| dent John ‘L. Lewls said at least 600,- nite coal deposits in western North} 000 men would join the walkout, in- Dakota. Mr. Morris gave comparative cluding the non-union participants. cost of electric power produced by ‘Pennsylvania will turn out the lar- coal and by water-power. Mr. Roherty | &est number of men and other states said the Chicago Edison company had| &ffected include Montana and Wyom- generated power cheaper with coal] ing. The duration of the suspension in than by a big hydro-electric project in| the union fields and the non-union Wisconsin. The greater use of lig-| mines is a matter of conjecture. The nite in the development of the west-| shut-down begins with warm weather ern part ofthe state was advocated.| approaching and with stocks on hand In the belief of some the western part| the largest at any time for the last of North Dakota will in the future be| several years. Government officials the most thickly populaged part of the| placed the stocks at 63,000,000 tons. state. The supply they estimated, will meet Tells of Weather every demand for 48 days. 0. .W. Roberts, weather observer,| ‘Not all of the anthracite fields are gave interesting observations of the| thought to be able to withstand a weather bureau, talked of conditions| long strike and in a long drawn out generally and particularly of the rain-| Struggle the fight may center in the fall in North Dakota and other states. | strongly organized central competitive He said that records showed that| fields and the southwest interstate dis. about 80 per cent of the year’s rain-| tricts. i fall in states east of the Mississippi] For the non-union miners joining the river falls during the growing season | shut-down the union does not plan to while the record is 70 per cent west] finance their idleness, of the Mississippi. Lasrisiipave W. B. Stevenson talked upon trans- bs } ij mission of news over the Nesbelated Washington, March 31.—Coal stocks Press, taking up problems met in|? hand as of today will hold out for that organization and generally in the] °! days if the rate of consumption transmission of news over a vast sys-| continues on the January and Feb- tem of wires in the country. ruary (basis, according to estimates cree ROA given the house labor ¢ommittee to- day by the geological survey. RIVER ICE 4,500 TO QUIT MAY ROT OUT Billings, -Mont., | March:;;31.—Four Asn eaMES 19 will walk out in sympathy with the general strike set for midnight tonight Crest of Big Volume of Water| according to Robert Condon, district . secretary. There,are 30 locald of the Passes Bismarck, Report thousand ‘five’ hundred coal miners in district No. 27 covering the bituminous union involved in this district. Four thousand of the miners are in Mon- fields of ‘Montana and North Dakota The expected big break up of the| tana ice in the Missouri river here this year may be a flivver, according to re- ports reaching the weather bureau, NOT AFFECTED The McCormick Coal company of New Salem, operating a lignite mine, URGE GUARD FOR MANDAN Organization of Company F of the North Dakota National Guard has _be- gun in Mandan, it was announced at the office of Adjutant General G. A. Frase?. Roy Griffin is in charge of the organization. The Service Company, 164th infan- try, stationed at Lisbon, will receive inspection Tuesday night, April 4, it was announced. Capt. G. A. M. An- derson, inspector-instructor of the na- tional guard in the state, will make the federal inspection and Gen. Fraser and Major Sorenson will accompany Capt. Anderson. POTATO GROWERS ORGANIZE Dickinson, N. D., March 31.—Dras- tic rules have been adopted by the ‘| Stark County Potato Growers associa- TAKES OWN LIFE . Chicago March 31._W. T. Fen- ton, vice president of the Nation- al Bank of the Republic, left his desk to go to lunch at the usual hour today and a few minutes later committed suicide by jumping in- to the Chicago river. Officials of the bank said they could give no tion. Only Early Ohio potatoes will be recognized by the association, and no others will be handled by the asso- ciation. Members may grow other kinds but must handle them indepen- dent of the association. All potatoes used for seed must be treated with a motive for the act, solution of corrosive sublimate. The river was at a stage of 9.5 feet | wi affe - today and was falling at Williston. It tt eee ose The sane te on, appears that the river has about reach- | ynion paying wages under an agroe- ed the crest at Bismarck, If the big] ment with the miners, volume of water that has been’ com- The Lucky Strike Mine.at Zap closes ing down for the last several days} tomorrow under an order of the Te passes on south without the ice break- | ceiver for purposes of checking up the ing ‘up it is possible that the ice will] property. 'P. J. Cahill, receiver, said simply honeycomb in the river and|the mine will be closed for three rot out. months, There appeared today to be no like- EEUU aes! FARM PROBLEMS HIS UNDOING siderably with the rise in the river but has not broken except in isolated instances, Chicago, March 31—Because he thought that Duroc Jerseys “runs to milk” and that ‘Poland Chinas had something to do with entangling for- eign alliances H. A. Smith, Flint, . Mich., is entangled in the police net today. He was arrested in a depart- eed ment store yesterday on charges of Washington, March 31.—The readi-| attempting to pass worthless checks. ness of the United States to exchange| ‘He tried to play the part of an art- ratification ,of the armaments confer-| less rustic in the store but a depart- ence treaty, final approval to which| ment manager who engaged him in was given yesterday is expressed in|!conversation found he knew nothing notes going forward today from the| of hogs and called the police. % state department to the eight nations ——— which participated in the Washington conference, Economical, steam, “ariven motor cycle has been built by a Denver man,