The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 20, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER FORECAST. Generally fair tonight and Sun- day. Somewhat colder tonight. ESTABLISHED 1873 : | LABOR TROUBL NEW METHOD IN | Prayer Answered, Minister Gets Bride CRIMINALGASE IS PROPOSED House Judiciary Committee Redrafts Bill for Probe Before Arrest WIDE POWER IS GIV Courts Would be Able to Summon Persons to Testify Before Crime Committed A new method of procedure in| | crimina] matters in the state is pro- posed by the house judiciary com- mittee in a report in which it re-! wrote house bill No, 23, introduced | by Reps. Miller and Halcrow. The j report went into general orders and | was to be discused today. Power to subpoena witneses to testify as to an alleged violation of law, as a preliminary process to making an arrest, is provided fer in the measure which, acording to Chairman Stark;of the judiciary committee, follows a similar South Dakota a law. i Whenever any complaint verified upon information and _ belief has | been made and aproved by the} tes attorney or a district judge, the matter may be laid before any justicé of the peace, police magis- trate or judge of a county court having increased jurisdiction asking for an investigation. The official is charged with the duty of issuing subpoenas requiriig persons to sub- mit to examination and give testi- mony under oath concerning any violation of law which may be ques- tion, The bill provides that if it appears that there has been a violation of law it is the duty of the officia| to; isue a warant of arest, if aproved by the district court or states at- torney, and further proceedings shall be had according to existing law, The amendment is substituted for} GREEKS TO FIGHT AGAIN | a similar bill which laid all such powers in the hands of the states! attorney, the purpose of the bill be- os . | ing to make posible inquiry into ai-| Will Seek to Regain Lost Ter- leged violations of lawyand obtain- ritory form Turks, Says i ing of evidence through a legal pro- Andrew Bougas ‘Laweon of Orange, N. J. Rev. Lawson took refuge ‘worker of East Orang Novide” starting out on thelr hon BISMARCK MAN SAYS U.S, AID HELPED MANY Thousands of Lives Saved in’ Near East Through Food Sent, He Says cedure instead of other investiga- tion. Agreement Invoked The “gentlemen’s agreement” not to take up important matters during the absence of members attending the Tri-State Grain Growers’ con- vention in Fargo upon objection of 10 members was invoked for the first time in the house today, when Rep. Carr, Stutsman, attempted to apply the “clincher motion” to his bil, No. 37, reducing the time ‘in which threshers’ liens must be filed from 30 to 15 days after threshing. Rep. Starke or Starke and 15 others objected, and the “clincher” wi not applied. The bill had been pas: ed previously by a vote of 61 to 31, American relief organizations sav-, ed thousands of livés in the Near East during the recent upheaval | when the Turks overcame the Greeks, advanced and burned Smyrna other cities, according to Andrew Bougas, proprietor of the Van Horn| cafe, who has returned from a seven! months trip to Greece, where he vis-| | ted his mother. In spite of the efforts of the Am-, lericans, the Turks drove out many| | relief workers, Mr. Bougas declared,’ especially at Smyrna. He asserts that | at one place the American relief agen-| { ' i i Here is one marriage that was made in Heaven, After two women had failed to meet his ideals, in prayer and was guided toward a laundry: N. J. Here are the minister and the “prayer | according | speech as made public today, that and} | adequate appropriations for continu-| Paper can be a ¢andidate for county |THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE LAST EDITION i BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1923 ROAD PROGRAM "LAID BEFORE ~ STATE SENATE | Bill for Constitutional Amend-— ment and Two Companion | Bills Prepared WAREHOUSES PLANNED {Senater Hamilton Introduces Bill to Establish Farm | Bonded Warehouses Introduction of 10 bills, several of them of considerable importance, passage of Senator Walter Bond's bill to regulate interest payment by borrower from the university and school lands funds, and receipt of | the report of the state guaranty fund ission were the high lights of | the session of the North Dakota sen- terday afternoon. The guaranty fund commission's renort was not read but! was present- ed to the secretary of the senate, and will appear in the senate journal. Included among the measures in- troduced were three companion bills introduced by Senator Leroy Baird of Stark county. The object of the mea- sures is to create new state highway commission which will be satisfact- | ory to the federal government in con- | econ with the distribution of fed- | | says Rev. George H, R. W. Boyden Says Versailles Terms Are Impossible | Washington, Jan, 20—The repara- tions commission was told on Jan- | uary 9 by Roland W. Boyden, the unofficial American representative, , to official text of his eral road aid. Roads Program In One of the measures is a concur- rent resolution calling for the sub- mission to the people of the state as a constitutional amendment creating the commission. Of the other two one provides for the creation of the commission by statute and gives it authority over the state road system, and the other provides for the finan- cing of the state’s road work through | the collection of auto license fees. Under the plan outlined in Senator Baird’s bills the highway commission would consist of three members ap- | Pointed by the governor with the ad- vice and consent of the senate for the terms which the treaty of Ver- | sailles impose on Germany had been | demonstrated to be “impossible.” six year terms, The members would be paid $10 per day when actually the North Dakota Good Roads ags6» | ciation, | _ Another important measure intro- Must Match Federal Appro- '-ty It provides for the establishment 5 | of a system of bonded warehouses on priation for Barberry farms and for the issuance of stor- Eradication lie Senator Porter of Cavalier county Minneapolis, Jan. 20--Uni | introduced “two companion measures eau en Unless the! gavoeated by the North Dakota state | ties, All three bills are fathered by | duced today was 8. B, 47 put in by | Senator Hamilton of McHenry coun- lage tickets for grain stored in the same. middle western states vitally inter-' Dress assocsstion. ested in barberry eradication make! One requires that before any news 5 : ; | official paper it must have been in ing the fight to control black Stem | es ctrmucnereslutaien for a year pre- rust the federal government may} vious, and must have at least 150] greatly reduce its future allowance | bona fide subscribers, The effect of for the activity ,according to infor-| the second measure will be to make a big cut in the cost of printing de- | and 1920 now held by the state trea- ES FEARED IN RUHR ASKS FUND TO | HELP COLLECT LOAN INTEREST, State Treasurer Asks Appro: : priation as Result Farm Loan Delinquencies TWO-THIRDS perriee: 1 No Payment Is Made at All On 243 Loans of Bank of North Dakota state treasurer | slature for $40,000! | BACK The office of the is asking the le; with which to push coilections on about a quarter of a million dollars in delinquent farm loans, made by the Bank of North Dakota during 1919-20, Not a payment has been on more than a million dollars of the loans! not all of which is due, however, ac-| cording to J. O. Lyngstad, deputy to the treasurer. There is no money on hand in the office with which to p foreclosure expense, insurance pr miums or taxes, he says in the fol-| lowing statement: | “Of 765 farm loans, madé by the| Bank of North Dakota during 1919| surer, aggregating the of} $2,802,762.85 there are: “2 loans which have been paid in| full, | “296 loans on which all instal!-| its, due, have been paid. | 24 loans on which one or more | installments have been paid. | “243 loans on which no payments | have been made. “The 243 loans on which no pay- ments have been made total $1,020,- | 300. All installments, due to date,| on the above loans number 1,799 and amounts to $475,888.75. Of these 925 installments, aggregating $216,073.97 have been paid and 874 installments aggregating $259,814.78 are deli quent. “While the state treasurer has full control over these loans and can foreclose the mortgages for non-pay- | ment, no money has been provided j with which to pay foreclosure expen- ses, insurance premiums or taxes. If any of this land was sold for taxes and was ready to go to tax deed the state would be unable to redeem un- less money is provided for this pur- pose. “A request for $40,000 for this pur Pose was made to the budget board but the board felt this was a mat ter for the legislature to decide. it is apparent that some provision should be made soon in order to force collection on these loans, as in many cases, the longer foreclosure is delayed the more tiie stat lose, Not only that, but some provi- sion must be made for the handling of this land after the state gets title | to it.” i ONE KILLED sum m { tion” today. this father was out of towa makin 110 o'clock this morning te 2:30 p.m. ibe clo | services | Episconal clergy and MANY PAY BIER OF WALLACE LEADERS OF FIL 20.—-The motion Los Angeles, Jan. of Wallace Reid, ctor, was to go on its final “loca- That the word used to explain his absence to hi small son Billy and that was the word generally used throughout film- dom, but it had a different meaning in each case. To the boy it merety meant tnat body picture a scene not readily duplicated av the studio. Billy, who is five years old, and his tiny adopted sister will not attend his funeral ant aa at- tempt will be made to keep them at play at home this afternoon when the services take place The body was to lie ia state fren. a la church, The coors of the church were to d for an hour beginning at| 2:30 o'clock and at 3:30 o'clock join, were to b by the of the at PRESIDENT GAINS | STRENGTH AFTER ATTACK OF GRIPPE Washington, Jan. 20.—Although his conditicn was showing marked in provement, President Harding who ha been confined to the White! House for several days with an attack of | the grippe was advised to remain away from his office today by his personal physicians, Brig. yer. Disappearance of fever andjim-| proved appetite was indicated in’ re-! port of the president's condition last night. There was a possibility he would be permitted to take an auto| ride today, HEARINGS IN FEUD TANGLE T0 CONTINUE Seek to Identify Members | Who Formed Hooded Gang | of Mer Rouge \ | i | i | FORMER SHERIFF SHOT Bostrop, La., Jan. 20.—Effort to! identify additional members of the} masked band which on August 24{ kidnaped Watt Daniel and T. F.} Richards will be continued at the; open heafing ‘ere, according to an announcement by Attorney General Coco personally in charge of the in- AST TRIBUTE AT PRICE FIVE CENTS ‘WONDER WHEN MDOM AREPRESENT, WAGES WILL he Rev. Neil Dodd, rector of St. | Mary’s of the Angels, was to reaa| the Eviscopal service. He is known ain of the movies” and church at Hollywood, is ealled the “little church around ‘the corner. aks were to give of their order. Chief of Police Oukes has detailed | a large number of uniformed officers | to handle the crowds to gather outside the pall-bearers include Bennie Reid's chauffeur, Others will be Wm. S. Hart, Fd. E, Brady, Noah Beery, William Desmond and E lette. 11 ry pall-b Theo. Roberts, Jack Holt, Sam Wood, | Conrad Nagel, Antonio Moreno and} Victor U. Clarke, who will represent! Jessie. dus irector of the Fa-| here this morning that Marshal Foch mous Players west coast studios, would arrive in the Ruhr valley dur- where Reid was employ ing the day. The body will be eremated at a}, } cemetery in Glendale, a suburb, | PAvday in the Ruhr brought labor i to the fore as one of the most for- | midable in the path of |French and Belgian experts who in ; their firm determination to exact |Teparation payments by force have already seized some of the Prussian state mines und arrested several of the magnates, To the murmurings of the discon- | tent at the presence of French bay- onets hefore several of the pit- heads there was added today an at- mosphere of unrest and uncertainty as the workmen. began to wonder where their pay envelopes would {come from, Won't Assume Responsibility. | Delegates from the unions were ; itu last evening by the French | that France was unwilling to assume E PROSECUTION | responsibility for the fehge nae! ts. On the other hand Herren rupp and Thyssen, although not of- ficially announcing they had no money to meet the payroll, gave the workers to understand that today's jenvelopes probably would be thin, | Five thousand workmen in. the ——— ; State mines and ovens in other dis- (By the Associated Press.) \tricts protested last evening against Marion, Ill., Jan. 20,—Freed on one! the confisbation of the Properties charge of murder in connection with| there and the imprisonment of Herr the death of Howard Hoffman, onc |Rochstein, the director, They fram. of thé Herrin riot, victims, the five|ed an ultimatum tq the French mili- men todav faced a trial within-a few] tary’ authorities demanding with= weeks on another charge of murder drawal of soldiers and the release o? growing out of the outbreaks, Herr Rochstein within 24 hours. A jury of Williamson county far- Refused Point Blank. mers vesterday declared the five men} The latter request was refused not guilty to contributing ts Hoff-| Point blank, whereupon the workers man’s death, thus tinally disposing! *dopted a resolution which said: of the state's first ci The ver.|. “We will not work under French dict was reached after 27 hours of | bayonets,” deliberation. The resolution threatened a strike The five defendants in the state's)" Monday unless the troops were initial ease—Lerberman, Jo> Car.| Withdrawn and the director set free. nighi, Peter Hiller, Burt Grace and| ,Workmen at the Moeller pits at Otis Clark—have been indicted with| Gladbach have already laid gown eight others on charges of sliying| their tools and there were reports Antonio Mukovich of Erie, Pa., a | today that technical experts at other a former service man, killed during| Places had also quit work. Th: raigiatel troops stationed at Gladbach ar Edward J. Brundage, attorney gen- | Bauer mines which were seized ye eral of Illinois, who was in Daven-| teTday were said to have been rei ‘forced by a detachment of cavul: REID MOVIE STAR; Marshal Foch on Way t Take Charge of Sit- uation FRENCH IN SADDLE Take Over All Licenses and Details in Operation of Mines aneeney (By the Associated Press) Essen, Jan. 20—It was reported ACOUITTED OF MURDER FAGE NEW TRIAL Herrin Defendants to be Ar-! raigned on Additional Indictments obstacles CONTIN Counsel for Defense Says Verdict Rebuke to Strike Breaking Tactics and Rep. Carr sought to prevent re- consideration of the measure. Interest was manifest, but there was no debate, when Rep. Ellingson moved that the anti-dancing in schools bill be taken from the ‘com-! mittee on temperance and given to the committe on education, Rep. Halcrow, co-author of the measure, is chairman of the ‘committee temperance. He did not object to the transfer. Chairman Twichel of the state af- | fairs committee, asking consent to on | cies had put 470 girls in a building,, eared for them, and then the Turks burned the building and all of the girls perished. “The people of Greece and the Ar- menians feel very grateful toward America, and they understand appre- | ciation,” said Mr. Bougas, Judge Advocate General Laufas of the Greek army told him that Am- erican relief saved thousands of lives, Mr. Bougas said. ‘ There is a great problem in caring \for the refugees-which poured ont mation received from Washington by the Prevention of Grain Rust which has its headquarters here. The first move in the plan to turn the matter over to the states Was the incorporation in the barberry bill now before congress of a provision to increase the appropriation from! $350,000 to $500,000 only in: the| event the extra $150,000 is matched by the states. The Houge passed the $350,000 bill without any restriction but the Senate, sceing the economy linquent tax lists, and requires all copy to be set single column thus af- feeting another reduction in cost. Would Modify Pension Law Other measures introduced will if Passed have the effect of materially tightening up the terms of the mo- thers’ pension law, provide a gradu- ated scale of salaries for county of- ficers, make veterans of the Spanish- American War eligible for appoint- ment as commandant of the So!- Newt Gray was identified Thurs- day by Fred Eubanks as one of the masked band which held up dozens of: persons in the higaway near here TWO SHOT IN | vestigation, port, Ia. when the verdicts were, read announced “the state of Ilinois; will continue its prosecution of; those believed guilty in the Herrin! atrocities,” | He added that he believed the five! equipped with macihne guns at: eight howitzers. : Post Notices. The occupying forces have poste: notices that the, confiscation of cus H. Inabet of Mer Rouge on the stand yesterday stated she also re- cognized’ Gray. H. E. Blankenship, testified today he had identified the Ford men were guilty and that the jury ‘Ms 2nd the exploitation of th ‘was fearful of the consequences ‘lection of the eval tax would pro- should a verdict of guilty be return-, ceed in the Ruhr forthwith but ex- ae | tending the decree promulgated in the Rhineland. St. Paul. Jan, 20.—One bandit was | that killed and two others seriously truck bearing the Louisiana license The chief counsel for the defenso! asserted: “it was the only righteous The control mission “has already | Tobbed the Payne Avenue State bank wourfded today when three bandits | No. 74657 as the truck he saw August 24 in which Watt Daniel was a pris- verdict which could have been read,”! Served notice that hencefcrth all ex- and expressed the hope it would re-| Pert licenses must be obtained from |of Asia Minor ahead of the Turks,| Of hastening the completion of the; diers’ Home at Lisbon, and create in| Fobbed $2,000 in cash, oner of hooded men, Blankenship Heretofore they have hold the bill for the repeal of the! pool hall license law for a longer ime, said that it was understood other measures of similar import would be introduced, » Asks Law Repeal Repeal of the county seed and feed law, which permits ecounti bond for the purehasa of purch seed and feed, was proposed in house bill No. 61, introduced by Rep. Muus, Ward county. Two companion measures setting up machinery for retirement _ of outstanding bonds were also introduced, being made necessary by the repeal provisino of the first bill. In acting on committee . reports the house accepted the resignation of R. M. Lee as proof-reader and named_Hugh Black of Werner for the place, Rep. Turbshaw’s bill ex- tending the recall provisions to in- clude park boards was reported favorably, with amendment. permit- ting sign to withdraw names from petitions any time before the | lists are certified by the city audi- tor. Rep. Sproul’s bil) to provide “staggered” terms for village board members was advanced. Communications receiv: one from a taxpayers’ association of Hillsboro calling ‘for economny and asking: * (1) Power to issue, that real estate valuation be cut to 50. percent of actual value; (8) that include issuance of tax exempt bonds be for-. bidden; (4) ‘that there be no tax exemptions, for private property; (5) that, moratorium be declared on highway building for a~ period of two to four years; \(6) that’ the 3- cent flat acreage hail tax be . re- pealed. i : PIONEER D! ji ‘s Mandan, Jan. 20.—Philip Aughney, 56, pioneer resident of the slope ter- ritory, died here at 9 o'clock this morning, ¢ . s FE ‘WINS. Jamestown, Ni D, Jan. .20—Fargo high school’s basketball tea defeat- ed. Jamestown -high’s team: 36. to 14, here jast night. ti ; (It is proposed Mr. Bougas said. Greece itself is (Continued on Page 6) GUMMERTO- SEEK RETRIAL‘ APPEALS CASE Fargo, Jan. 20.—William Gummer, serving a life sentence for the mur- der of Marie Wick in a hotel here in June, 1921, announced through his attorneys'thit appeal papers will be filed. in the state supreme court in the next week. A formal motion for new trial was denied by Judge C. M. Cooley of Grand Forks, wh» presided in the trial in Barnes county a year ago. Judge Cooley announced he had appointed William C. Green of Fatgo states attorney at the time of the trial, to represent the state. The appeal is made chiefly. ‘The appeal is based chiefly upon an attack upon the sufficiency of the ce to sustain’a conviction and the alleged erroneous admission of. testimony as to Gummer's ucts with other women. EALTHY CITIZENS BUYING UP BEST "GAME PRESERVES, LOCAL MEN SAY Creation of public game pre: eB in. the state is proposed in resolu- tions adopted by the Bismarck Gun Club ‘and placed before the legisla- ture. ea os - The finest hunting grounds, inthe atate now are being bought up by Wealthy private parties, the resolu-, tions declare, and as time go on' suitable siuatingagepends for the av- erage will be scarce. ‘ that funds for ¢s- survey, adopted an amendment grant- jing more money contingent on anj| equal amount of state aid. The bill now is before a conference: commit- tee with the Farm Bureau Federation and business interests of the North-| west: urging the acceptance of the Senate amendment. 'The government has been carrying the burden of barberry eradication since 1918 and has spent approxi-| mately $1,000,000 on the enterprise. The United States department of agriculture estimates that the work can_be completed ‘during the nekt two years at a cost of $850,000. With $500,000 from Congress this year and $150,000 more from the states, lead- ers “in the) moyement believe ther will be no trouble in raising the funds necessary to’ finish the job in 1924, thereby make possible the con- trol of black stem rust in the spring wheat area. Ten states are directly concerned in the activity. They are Ohio, In- diana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and Gouth Dakota. If the Senate amendment prevails it will be necessary for these states to raise $150,000 to obtain the maximum fed- eral expenditure and make possible; the economy of completing the task in the next two years, tablishing game preserves be obtain- ed from hunting licen: or similar methods, The gun club also asked for a closed. ‘on’ deer, the intention of present laws\regarding ducks and prairie chickens, ana asked a bounty on coyotes of $10 for a: female and $5 for each male or pup, and a bounty: of 26: Sete on: magpipes and crows, va | was the largest that has come in | lands funds passed the senate withs the office of the insurance commi sioner a court of appeals for dis- puted fire insurance ratings. The last named measure is drawn in ac- cordance with a similar law in Min- nesota, ‘The list of bills introduced today since the present session of the sen- ate opened. Senator Bond’s bill for the regula- tion of interest payments on loans made from the university and school out a dissenting vote. The effect of the bill is to make it possible for a borrower to pay his loan at any time during the calendar year and pay in- terest only up to the time of payment instead of for the full year. Several communications were read, one from a group of citizens of Traill. county endorsing the proposed in- come tax bill, and urging that all tax exemptions, tex free securities, etc. be done away with} 7 ¢+—_______, THE WEATHER } For twenty-four hours ending at noon today: < Temperature at 7 a. m. \ Highest. yesterday Lowest yesterday ... Lowest- last night Precipitation Highest wind velocity . WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck ‘and vicinity: Gener- ally fair tonight and'Sunday. Some- what colder tonig! - For North Dakota: Generally fair tonight and Sunday. Somewhat cold- er tonight. ie bebo ied by OW s Pressure, accompanie ry light precipitation, pretails from the upper Great Lakes region northwest- ward to the Canadian Rockies. High pressure and ‘feir, cooler weather covers the Pacific Northwest, No-zero temperatures were reported during the past 24 hours. ‘ 0) W. ROBERTS, sd Meteorologist. Patrolman Nels Olson stationed in the bank for weeks as guard, shot and killed the bandit after a hand to hand struggle during which the bandit emptied his revolver in at- said two masked, one of whom he rec” ognized as Oliver Skipwith, the young- er son of Capt. J. H. Shipwith, head of the Moorehouse parish. DIES AT SANITARIUM sult in “abolishment of the use of| the French. t hired gunmen in controversies be-| been issued at Berlin, tween capitol and labor.” | It seemed probably that the re- The eight men under indictment| oPennig of the Reichbank at Dues- fin connection with the Herrin mine| Seldorf this morning would be fol- /cilling who had been denied liberty,! lowed by similar action .by other the bank. \; The first flight of a power-driven tempting to kill the policeman. Evi- gencing resistance Chester A, Ek- lund, the bank cashier, and Charles E. Carlson, a patron, were shot by the bandits. Ecklund may not live, and if he does, surgeons say he will be paralyzed. Carlson is expected to recover, The bandit who was shot was iden- tified 2s Neal Hurley, a former St. Paul policentan. His companion fled in an automobile which was found td be abandoned several blocks from was arrested this morning. He + aed would make no statement. |_ “I was a personal friend of Jack | Parker,” he said. “I have known him since boyhood and we were 4 | friends for years, I hate the shoot- IN IRELAND i. no statement to make as to it, Monroe, La. Jan. 20.—John T. | Parker Jr., former sheriff of Ouach- { ita parish, who was saot on the Bas- trop road 15 miles from Bastrop last night by Hary Calhoune of | Monroe, died at a local sanitarium here early today without having re- gained conciousnes, The shooting of Parker is shroud- ed in mystery. Calaoun, who is superintendent of the McGowan Drake Fisaing and Hunting club near Sterlington, La. .ing as muca as anyone else but I | All that I can say is that I am sorry. For hours Calhoun. spent — his ‘ | time in weeping because of the kill- Dublin, Jan. 20.—Eleven executions | ing of his former friend. were carried out in Ireland today. - Four persons were put to death at Trallee, five at Athlone and two at Limerick. These bring the total ex- ecutions since last Movember 17, 1922, to 45. Talcott Reported ; Improved Today F, S. Talcott, member of the state board of administration, who | underwent an appendicitis operation at the St. Alexius hospital several days ago is reported to have im- roved considerably since: yesterday. Ee rested very well during the night ‘and his heart action is reported to be improving.» While he is not yet out of danger, it is,reported that ne is conederably improved today, creer That Father Tjme and his ally Death, have done what the forces of Robert E. Lee could not do—nearly exterminated. the proud ranks of blue clad soldiers of thé Union army, was officially reeognized in senate of the Assembly of North Dakota yesterday when Senator Alfred Steel of Jame: town introduced a. bill amending ‘the present act to provide that the board of the state soldiers home at Lisbon shall name ‘commandant” one. who served in the war of ‘the rebel- lion or in the 1st North Dakota Vol- unteers: (Spanish American. war). seroplane was made 19 years ago.’ WOULD PASS COMMAND FROM VETERAN OF BLUE TO ONE OF SPANISH WAR were released from the William- son county jail today, when the! state’s attorney pgreed to allow them | freedom wnder $20,000 bond each. | Nineteen merchants, bankers, and, other business men of Herrin signed | the bonds totaling $160,000. i G.N. MAIL CAR BURNED: | Fargo, Jan, 20{-A mail car and} tender on Great Worthern passenger train No. 12, enroute to Minneapolis jumped the track and was burned near Sabin, Minn., this morning, ac- cording to inforniation received here. The entire contents of the mail car were lost. No one was injured. “There are but a very few mem- bers of. the G, A. R. still fighting against said Senator Steel. “The few re- maining are advancing apace to that day when taps shall sound for them, not improbable that before the) next- session of the legislagure none of the union army veté shall remain. The bill: is designed to; pass ‘the commandant’s position | receiver was their arch-enemy death,”|. banks closed yesterday, (Continued on Page Three) BQUITY PLANT DECIDES UPON FUTURE PLAN Fargo, Jan. 20.—The directors of the Equity Co-operative Packing company in session here today after reaching an agreement yesterday re- storing peace in the company had reached no agreement today toward ht eelection of- officers. C, W.Reichert said today that he could not say when the election of officers would take place. The order. appointing a temporary dissolved today by Judge Cole when Ira J. Larson, tem- porary receiver, presented his re- port, $ At yesterdays’ meeting it was agreed to withdraw the $113,000 dam- age suit against the old board. It was dismisned without prejudice and without. filing: ‘another, mee A plan of co-operation between the ‘directors. and business men whereby ‘local business men were to be given that | down. to the next generation of sol-|' diers—the Spanish-American war vet- erans—and serve until he too.‘ give way to the veterans-of the w: qd]