The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 3, 1923, Page 1

a ae he ty ny ‘WEATHER FORECAST. Fair tonight and Saturday. Much colder tonight, with cold wave. ESTABLISHED 1878 EARLY CLOSING OF POLLS BILL | _ PASSED 25-28 \ Much Opposition to Measure; Advancing Closing Time, During Debate POOL HALL BILL Rep, Trubshaw in New Meas- ure Would Restore Home ‘ Rule in Regulation | The state affairs committee of | the house today agreed to amend | the Dougherty bil to permit a | judge to give a maximum penalty | of a year in jail to one driving | a car under the influence of li- | quor, and to suspend a sentence | on condition that the person not | drive 2n automobile «for ‘tyo years. The committce approved the bill renealing the Werner experi- mental creamery. It atso approved the senate resolution memoralizing Con gress to submit a constitutional amendment prohibiting the is- suance of tax-free securities. { sage of the income tax bill, | with minor amendments, was forecast in the senate this after- neon. The bill permitting congolida- | tion of banks also was expected to pass. Senator Thorson, introduced | a bill for a constitutional amendment _ providing four- year terms for state officials and providing the governor and treasurer may not be re- elected, : ; Unanimous consent was giv- en for the introduction of Senator Bond’s bill making an appropriation for the Guar- anty Fund Commission and providing the supreme court shall have original jurisdiction | in bank receivership prpceed- ings. | Introduction of the administration | pill creating a non-political board to manage the state mill and eleva- tor association, three important tax bills, and passage of 14 bills made up the main parts of a big grist of business which was run tarough the senate hopper Inte yesterday. In additton there ‘was the intro- duction of Senator Baird's bill to re- store capital punishment in cases of degree murder and the putting in of a bill to prevent discrimination | in the aandling of grain by elevator { owners. This last bill it is under- stood is sponsored by the Northwest Wheat Growers’ Association. | The measure for the creation of | the nonpolitical board to manage} the state mill and ‘elevator carries «vita it matdate to the proposed beard to sell the Drake Mill. >, Election Bill Passes Only one of the 14 measures pass- ed by the senate brought out a vote along strict party lines. This was Senate Bill II under which the elec- tion polls would be closed at'7 p. m. instead of at 9 p.m. as is the case) at present. Consideration of tais measure has been twice postponed but it came up for fina] pasage this afternoon. Senator Baker spoke against it. — “There is a widespread feeling he said “that this bill would cause much inconvenience to many voters. It interferes with their supper hour. Therefore I feel that it should not pass.” There was no further de- bate on the bill and it was passed 25 to 23. Senator Eastgate of Grand Forks being absent and not voting. The clincher motion was then ap- plied on motion of Senator Carey, chairman of the committee on elec- tions. Exemption Bill in i There were taree tax measures in- | troduced during the afternoon. Two of these introduced by Senator Stor- stad and Gardiner are companion bills. The first removes all personal taxation exemptions with the excep- tion of $200 on personal property’'| indefinitely postponed, 62 to 61. which pays other! The resolution to memorialize con- bank stock ete. taxes, and tne usual exemptions on the property of churches fraternal organizations etc. The present ex- emptions, on farm improvements, homes etefl are completely done ‘away with.» The second bill of the pair sets\ a flat rate, of 60 per cent of the real valuation on all taxable property. The third tax bill is introduced .Senator’ Fred Van Camp of Pembina county. It repeals the present law which prohibits any lo; cal taxing unit from levying taxes for the year in excess of the average taxes, for the three years inimediate- ly preceeding. X, Most of the bills passed by the senate were routine appropriation bills. % Senate Bill 51 fixing the fees for egal publications in newspapers Was passed over the objections of Seni tor Gross of Grant county. The mea- sure as passed meets the approval of the North Dakota State Press Association. ‘ i Bills forbidding the uttering, of derogotory statements against ‘in- ‘surance companies and placing trus- tees under the control of the dis- trict court were: passed. v The senate without debate also ‘passed concurrent resolution already pased by the: ho petitioning the. war department to permit the use of some of the buildings at Fort Lin- coln by the’ state training scacol. The report of the. committee which “investigated the school is being held S. B. 253, | BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1923 ‘THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE LAST EDITION | Explorers of Tropics and Arctic Meet ROADS PROBE PERFECT APPEAL — COLDEST WAVE IN GUMMER CASE’ QF WINTER IS CONGRESS TO |fixed at 3 per cent for the first ten} jyears, from Dee. 15, 1932, and 81-2) up pendiny, action on this reaolugion. Senate Bill pie tons sepeiting ma- ‘ ehinery’ for merger on onsoli- !'mct declared to protect the 1 eh 2 jpee will be asked by the Legion- on Page Three.) % ean debt funding commission Jan: 26 in refusing Germany a mora- torium. as a reply to yesterdays’ protest note from Germany. Here are two gallant adventurers shown when their trails unexpectedly. On the left is Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who has spent 11 years ‘ H in the Arctic, greeting Carl Akeley, naturalist and sculptor, who has | vided in the Eastgate resolution “if it crossed. ade many excursions into Africa. DEBT BOARD * TO RECOMMEND FUNDING PLAN Meets Today to Place Scheme relat Of War Obligations Be- fore Harding APPROVE ‘tb, S—The Ameri-| has | Washington, F been called ‘to meet late today for! a digcussion of the form of the ree-| ommendation it will m ident Harding in connection with the, plan for funding Great Britain's war- |time debt. nally approved by the com-, mission last night. It is the hope of the commission; to place the draft of its reeommenda- | tions in the hands of the president tonight. statement, indications were that the discussions mainly methods of procedure, author- ization of which the president will ze urged to ask of Congress in trans- {mitting the result of the commissioz! negotiations into the law. | » to Pres- While there is no official: today would embrace! As the President hus kept in clos- ; e Sd est touch with the funding negoti-| county, chairman of the committee ations his approval of the plans in! 9, banks and banking, all details is taken for granted, and, it is said to be his intention to send! | the commission's recommendations +) court power to take original juris-| Congress early next week. | As finol details were completed last | {night by the commission with Sir|tuteg by the state guaranty fund! Auckland Geddes, the British am-) bassador. the funding provisions con. | form to the previously announced in-| y terest arrangements and extinguish-| the senate several days ago. ing in 62 years. The interest rate is) per cent thereafter, with a fixed! schedule for amortization payments. | SUSTAINS ACTION. Paris, Feb. 3.—The reparations} commisgion today adopted a resolu- tion sustaining its own action of} The resolution was passed) GOPHERS ALSO HIT THE KLAN! St, Paul, Feb. 3—The Minnesota house adonted a resolution critizing the Ku Klux Klan, its tactics and its purposes, and declared the organiza- tion wés “un-American.” —: The house killed the Pearson-Cole bill providing for certain entrance re- quireinents of those who practicd the art of healing in the basic sciences. The Nellermoe bill, prescribing the manner in which University of Min- nesota professors, assistants and in- structors should be discharged was | | i | | | \ | | | + | Va 1a SEN. PURCELL IS IMPROVING | The r Wahpeton, N. D., Feb. 3 dition of Atty, W. E, Purcell, former | « United States senator for North kota, whe was taken suddenly y ill late Monday, continues to prove snd unless unforseen com-! plications set in he will be able to resume his work in a week or report. Mr. Purcell is confined to bed with nchitis. He had been with a cevere cold for several days} and on ay home from his office Monday evening he was overcome a sudden chill. Entering his hous he fainted. He has a sim Wa few weeks ago, but quick ed. | o1 bi suffering | {The severity of! this last one has] of joned alarm, | j plained only Rol is spent on our roads.” . | but a small p jon r | super 5° | the money expended, the chief engi- |neer explained, IS WELCOMED, SAYS ENGINEER clude All Money Spent on | ‘Roadwork | |Says Highway Commission Figures Shows Lower Cost | Of Engineering in N. D. ‘ The state highway commission will j weleome the senate investigation pro- is thorough, fair and impartial, and extends down into the county and township expenditures,” W. H. son, chief engineer of the com- mi Such i inv con | would be of great value to the state, igation, he declared, it will show just where the mone} The highway commission spends! rt of the money spent work in the state, and has| sion of but a small part of Out of « total of $26,536,877.15 of jcounty and township funds spent for| fy, road building between 1921 and 1922 ; I rear | bill ot the ( the highway commission expended }) under their supervision but $2,97 |517, or but 11 per cent of the amount, it Robinson declared. Total Expended. The highway commission, he ex-! participated in road! otal | Mr. | Of the total of $26, | the second ‘argo, Feb, 3.—Attorneys for Wil- liam Gummer, now serving a lite | sentence in the state prison for the murder of Marie Wick in this city in June 1921, yesterday perfected an appeal to the state supreme Hopes it Will Extend to In-; court. CREDIT BILL BEFORE HOUSE Senate Passes _ Lenroot- Anderson Bill Un- animously Increases ¢Loans That Can) Be Made to Farmers on Security” ' Washington, Feb. 3.--The senate had passed along to the house today | nd last of its measures | on its proj lation, in approving unanimous | vote the Lenroot-Ande: bill, The! passage of this measure without ma- | ial amendment as a companion | apper co-operative credits | already sent to the house left, the army appropriation bill as the} next legislation on the program for senate action, i The vate on passage of the Len-} root-Anderson bill was made una mous, 69 to 0, after Senator Norbeck, drawn. a lone negative vote. | ton, m of farm credit legis-| North Platte, Neb., -4;° Prince Albert, | s SOME LOWER IN NORTHWEST Thermometer Drops to 25 Be- low at Bismarck and Low- er at Other Places ss WILL MODER SOON Prediction Is For Lifting of The Cold Wave Here To- night and Tomorrow Bismarck joined a long list of sub- zero cities today. ° It was 23 below at 7 a. m., 25 be- .m, and 14 below at noon, | CREDIT EXCEEDS BILLION abbas for moderating weather, The coldest place shown in the ather report was Prince Albert, katchewan, Canada. It 10 below. The sub-zero cities shown on the weather report follo Bismarck, -25; Charles © -18; Calgary, -2; Denver, -8 -10; Helena, Mont. -18; Lander, Wyo was Ia, mon Huron, Miles S. D. “18; City, -18; Modena, -16; Fargo, -24; -40; Rapid Cit; 7 St. Paul, : s. Ss. an, -18; Swift Current, -26; Winne- mucea, -8; Winnipeg, The official explanation of the uation given by the weather bureau is that an extensive area of high pressure which crests over the North- ern Plains States, Saskatchewan and the north Pacific states has brought cold weather from the Great Lakes jregion westward. Light snow fell in|“ M ppi valley and at scattered jwork, when requested to do so by! Republican, South Dakota, had with-/ the Great Lakes region, the middle \the counties. L It pro-| |536,877.15 levied for road fuuds in| Vides for a maximum credit of $1,- ithe five-vear |were divided, he said, as follows: feounty road, $9,753,003.35; county) Second Dealing With Guar- | anty Fund Is Drawn | The second of two bills prepared |* after consultation with the state | guaranty fund commission and de- | signed to make the law for the guar- | antee of bank deposits more work-! able, has ben drawn up and will prob- | ably be introduced in the senate to-' lay by Senator Walter Bond of Warl The main feature of the proposed | law is that it gives the supreme diction in actions for the appoint-| ment of recievers for banks insti- commission. | The first of the two bills planned | y the commission was introduced in| WITNESS IX LEADY CASE WON'T TESTIFY, Fargo, N. D., Feb. 3.—Refusal of Theo, Musgijard, who already h served a sentence fin connection with the case, to testify against R. |) B, Leady, former federal prohibi- tion agent for North Dakota now being tried here for a second time on a charge of conspiracy to violate | the Volstead act, necessitated ad- journment of the case until Mon- day. Musgjard refused to testify on the ground\pe would in¢riminate himself. The court will determine in the| interim if he will be compelled to! testify. Authorities quoted on the point raised by the witness went as far back as Chief Justice Marshal in his ruling in the case against Aaron Burr. / ‘gress to adopt the League of Nations covenant with certain) reservations and for submission of the United States future entry into war to a ref- |- erendum. was reported out of a house committee-without recommendation. Representative Iverson introduced a companion bill to his previous measure which would abolish the pre- primary. ‘convention law, and re-es- tablish the law ‘that was repealed. To Leave on Trip P.O. Williams, field agent) of the state immigration department was ready to leave today for Iowa Falls, Ia, where he, will begin-an tended tour in an effort to bring ttlers into: North Dakota, LEGION ASKS LAW COMPELLING USE "OF ENGLISH IN FIRST EIGHT GRADES; A bill prohibiting the teaching tf ang language bi English. lan- guage in all the ‘state in the first eight des is sponsored | by the American. Legion legislative committee, it was snnounced today. The program of legislation drafte \by. the committee also includes a bill requiring the teaching of civics ‘and, the Constitution of the United States in the eighth grade of all schools, whether public, private or parochial, = i ndment of the 1919 legislative W. W. The question involved is whether the immunity clause in the Volstead | act is sufficient to guarantee the} witness jmmunity on any other, charge gtowing out of the conspira-! cy case. Andrew Jackson’s Niece Dies at | f Age of Eighty! Ashville, Tenn., Feb. 3.—Mrs. Ra- chael Jackson Lawrence, daughter. of General Andrew Jackson’s adopted son, the last surviving member of the. Hermitage household of “Old Hickory’s” time, died here at 7 o’clotk this morning at “Birdsong,” her country home, near Nashville. She was 80 years of age.” qnaires. They want the act changed to conform to the federal free speech and assembly act, modifying the act by providing that where the right of free speegh and persuasion is ‘mentioned the words “peacefully” and “lawfully” be inserted. Bills embracing’ the Legion pro- gram will be presented in the\low- er house by members of. that body, who are Reps. C, H. Starke, Stark county; Harrington, Burleigh coun- ty; Lynch, Richland county; Boyd, -jvi iconerete roads may show a lower} {eost, he said, explaining that “the ‘niger the class of construction the FOR TERM HERE period, the amount bridge, $5,348,462.79; township, road | and bridge fund, $10,714,618.65; city,| town and village road furd, '$720,-| 792.16, H Cost of engineering and super-| on of work under the state high-| way commission is fess than in most | states, Mr. Robinson asserted. Cost of plans and surveys in, North | Dakota are $119 per mile on the avez | age, compared with $137 per mile inj Montana; $130 in South Dakota and $185 in Minnesota, he declared. Average cost of supervising all classes of construction in North Dre!v kota is 4.45 per cent of total cost, North Dakota building only earth or gravel roads, he declared, comparing} this to the following; Montana, earth 7 per cent: gravel 6.93 per cent. South Dakota, earth, 5 per cent; | gravel, 3 per cent. Nebraska, 10 per} cent; gravel, 8 per cent. Indiana, allj classes, 4.22.per cent. Kansas, earth | 7.8 per cent. States which are building chiefly lower the cost percentage of super- vsion due to the greatly increased amount expended per mile for such| types.” | Pays Own Way. Two-thirds of the money spent by the equipment section of the state highway department was earned within itself, according to H. 0. Wray of the highway department. During its short existence, he says, the equipment section earned $241,- 406. It did this when it found it- self faced with a shortage of funds Which meant loss of all the equip- ment offered by the federal govern- ment, he adds. The earnings were made by zecciv- ing, repairing and distributing $1,- 700,000 in value of trucks, tractors | and other tools to counties and statc! institutions; by gravelling 25 miles of road and whatever other odd jobs it could find, Mr. Wray says. He also refers to the Missouri river Bismarck-Mandan bridge as the largest single federal aid project completed in the United States to date. JURY CALLED Judge Jansonius Calls Jury) For February 19 Here _ | A special jury term in district court here, beginning February 19, has been called by Judge Jansoniys. All of the cases pending in the court will be subject to call for trial at the term of court, both civil and criminal. It is the intention of Judge Jan- sonious to clean up the docket of cases, if it can be done at this term of court, FORECAST FLOOD ~.- ON MISSISSIPPI Memphis; Tenn, Feb. 3.—High wae ter stages of the Ohio river and tri- butary streams of the Mississippi valley caused officials of the wea- ther bureau to forecast, the Missis- sippi will reach a stage of 30 feet at Memphis next week and will ap- proximate flood stage a few days, j ed. and ‘a heavy rainfall throughout: the | 20,000,000 for the agricultural loans | through the existing farm loan sys-| tem. Sixty million of the loaning ca-| acity under the bill would be drawn | from the government with authority | to double that amount, while one bil-| ion ‘two hundred million dollars) could be raised by issuance of tax-| free debentures subject to the ap-, proval of the farm loan board. WINTOSHCO, GIVEN PRIZE Has Done Most in . Illiteracy Fight, a Committee of Judges Decides The North Dakota county school superintendents yesterday passed a resolution favoring the compulsory school bill which: has been introduc- ed in the senate at the closing ses- sion of their three-day annual con- ference here. The bill would make attendance compulsory until after the child had passed the eighth grade instead of | until the age of 17 had been attain-| Exception would be made for physical or mental incapacity. Another resolution was pabsed ed to draft a uniform report card for use throughout the state. Child such features as the amount of time | given to studies outside of school | hours as well as the actual grade: received. H After a dinner at the Lewis and| Clark hotel in Mandan the counties | were asked to report on work done toward fulfillment on the slogan, “No illiteracy in North Dakota’ by 1924.” Three judges awarded first) prize in this connection, to Mcln- tosh county which did not have the! largest number of night schools created in the illiteracy fight, but which had worked up much senti- ment for these institutions. Counties receiving honorable men- tion included: Stutsman, Emmons, Morton, Stark and LaMoure. | The three day conference ended} j yesterday with a luncheon: at the | penitentiary. LAMAR ESCAPES going to Hotel De Fra take David Lamar, “the Wolf of Wall. Street” to the Essex county penitentiary to serve sentence for | a war-time offense discovered that Lamar had disappeared without leaving an addres! FARGO CLEANUP ‘". IS ORDERED | Fargo, Feb, 3.—Questionable hotels and lodging houses in Fargo were ordered to clean up by State’s At- torney H. F. Horner. f ‘The order is the result of investi- gations into vice conditons in the city begun some time ago by the state’s attorhey’s office following complaints that ,certain hotels and lodging houses were flagrantly violating both state and federal statutes that’ would make them subject to abatement. ra Se ty For School Children The “Safety First” films provided later. Sis " Flood. stage at’ Memphis will cause no. alarm to planters in the valley as it. would only put, water against Ca: unty, Senator L..R, “Baird, also a member of the Legidh, will of the flows. and. father the program in the senate,|tected land, the base of the levees, fill a number cover: some unpro- by the state railroad commission in the campaign against railroad cros! ing accidents, which will be shown to adults at the Auditorium Monday night, will be shown for school chil- ‘dren at 3:45 p. m, Tuesday after- noon, x : < 5 | the last New York, Feb. 3.—Federal agents | D ce today to; yesterday | places in the Rocky Mountain region The course of the thermometer is} shown by ‘the following weather bu. reau figures, beginning with 8 p. m. last night: Clb ico goonesass 11 10 p.m. . 13 Midnight -4 2 a.m. +16 4a. m “17 6 a. m. -20 S a..m;, .. 725 10 a.m, ... -18 Noon today -14 This was the coldest period since last February 24, when ‘the mercury sank to 26 below, it was reported, The 36-mile gale which yesterday drifted snow and made auto travel in the country almost impossible had died down during the night and to- day. The highest wind velocity in 24 hours was 36 miles an hour. RECORD BROK Minneapolis, Feb. records in Minneapolis for six year: j were broken today when 25 degrees below zero were registered at 8 p m. This was the lowest since Jun 2%) 1904, when the official minin.um was 83 below. SHARP DROPS RECORDED. St. Paul, Feb. 3.—-A cold wave her- jalded several days ago, swept over! formal session just before finally aa- | BREAD HITS ; the Northwest today bring the cold-} journing here today declined to put| asking that a committee be appoint: | est days this winter to St. Paul and Minneapolis, registering 25 degrees Minnesota, registering 25 degrees and parent would take part in mak-| below here early this morning andl! ing out the card ‘which would cover | causing drops in temferature throug) itiative throughout Minnesota and North Da- kota. A light snow-fall was reported be- ing blown before a 13-mile wind from Grand Forks where the mer- cury registered 30 below. Fargo re- ported 16 below zero with practically no fall of snow. IS SPREADING Chicago, Feb. 3.—A blast of winter from the Northwest that caused sudden drops of temperature in the Plains States last night was spread- ing over the United States today. | It was predicted that the cold wave would embrace the lower lake re- gion, the Ohio valley, Tennessee and the eastern gulf states. PROPOSE, ACCEPTANCE Washington, Feb. 3.—The unquali- Hfied acceptance of Henry Ford's Muscles Shoals offer was proposed in the house today by Chairman Madden of the appropriations com- mittee. _ FROM OFFICERS, - ~~ “DO YOU KNOW HIM?” | as he could fly, to watch the train “go by. i and then he'll watch san high booby try. other \ —(Tennyson J. Daft). { Commissioners - designated people of North Dakota were | Propriate meetings to di and means to particularly at railroad gra ings. This action was result. of numefous infe: of serious specific case where acci ous crossings exi: Automobi grade crossings, 1922 as | Reveals Decrease GERS OF CROSSING ACCIDENTS TO BE SHOWN HERE MONDAY NIGHT He rated across the crossing as fast And then he calmly stopped his car Some day he will not beat the train, Or possibly from down below, some A year ‘ago, the Board of Railroad “Safety First” week, during which time the sked to observe the week by holding ap- uss ways prevent. accidents, dent had occurred or where danger- larat acdidents at riilzord pared with 1921, were [reduced 80 per cent, while ~ the | | Official and social Washington fs having the thrill of its lifetime . | since Mrs, “Miles Poindexter, wife cooperation Belgians. Not only have the railway stril | of the senator from Washington, began her disclosure of “drawing ‘wom secrets.” | | Coble TAXES SHOWN | Compari on For 36 Districts | (Abstracts of tax lists rec the office of the from th how a de total taxes as axes levied in 1 This amounts to 2.6 state tax c ix count e of $5! ompared with total of | the decrease compared with of 0.8 of one percent and city taxes an | increase of 0.7 of one percent 4s compared with the previous year. County taxes decreased 5.7 percent, ! and school taxes 0.2 percent. | | Total general property taxes levied | | in the state in 1921 amounted te | $31,422,0 If the remaining 17 | counties, whose abstracts of tax | lists havea not yet been received, show a corresponding decrease in | total taxes, the tax levy in 1922 will show a total decrease of $820,- | G00 as compared with the previous | | year, according to Lyman Baker, de-| puty tax commissioner. \ Abstracts of tax li | 1 but owing to ‘the posed upon vounty auditors under | recent legislation there has been | considerable delay in receiving the| reports, it is said. | are due Dec. y duties im- REFUSES TO TAKEPARTIN | RUHR CRISIS | Paris, Feb. | League of i The council of the ations at a secret in-| |the reparation or Ruhr occupatioi. | | quéstion on its program. This means} i that for the present there is no pos- | ibility of the league taking any in-| toward mediation between | France and Germany. | j France, Italy and Belgium voted | \the resolution. Great Britain ab- stained from voting, as in recent rep- | | arations commission ballots, FIRE CAUSES HEAVY L0ss | Jamestown, N. D., Feb. 3.—Fire | destroyed all buildings on the west; | side of the main street of Crystal | Springs Thursday morning. The| | postoffice, Sweeny general store, | | Levinson general store and a de-| |funct hardware store were burned. |The hardware store building and | stock, and the old bank building j which housed the Sweeny store, are in the hands of the receiver. It is reported there was little insurance. Cause of the fire is not known. number of licensed automobiles in- creased approximately 10 per cent, it is stated by the commission and it is believed the camapign is yes. ponsible for the decrease. i The Commission has now set aside the week of February 5, 1923, as “Safety First” week. It is urged that schools, churehes, and other | organizations observe the week by appropriate exercises. A mass meeting will be held -at the Auditorium at Bismarck on Monday, February 5, at 8:00 P, M. A number of motion picture film: dealing with grade crossing acci- i City, Arnegard ‘ PRICE FIVE CENTS SENTIMENT IN RUHR SECTION IS CHANGING Strikers Resuming Jobs and Ignore Orders From Berlin RELATIONS ARE BETTER | Believed Coal Shipments to France Will Begin Soon Duesseldorf, Feb. 3.—The temper of the population of the occupied area appeared to be undergoing a change, although the industrialists and the important magnates are as unalterably opposed as ever to th: with ‘the French ar ers umed their jobs at Cologn, 2, Trieve and Ludwigshafen a well as on some of the Ruhr lines but Schutz-Polissi at Duesseldor had refused to obey Berlin’s orde: that they ignore the French offi- cers, and continued to salute them. In Witten where the restaurant and hotel keepers have been refus- ing to serve food and drinks to French officers the situation is completely changed. No discrimina- tion is shown toward forces of the occupation. Improvement of the relations be- tween the forces of occupation, how- ever, confined to the working classes and to the small shopkeep- s. The French authorities believe they have a long and bitter fight to wage but hope to bring Berlin to terms and force the magnates to bow. en. Payete, who is operating sev- eral- of the important railway lines for the French) says he is in posi- tion to feed the civilian population and soon will be able to ship coal {to France, THEATER WITH BAYONETS. Coblenx, Feb, 3.—French troops threatened with bayonets and used the butts of their guns at noon to- day to break up a crowd of 300 per- sons protesting against the Rhine- land high commission’s deportation orders, GERMANY SENDS NOTE Paris, Feb. 3.—The German gov- ernment note to the reparations protesting against the recent refusal of the moratorium is regarded by a part of the French press as a fore- runner of German capitulation ar as a result of direction action by the French in the Ruhr. Publication of the note today causes commentators to remark thet it represents Germany's first at- tempts toward’ resumption of ex- changes with the allies. “As shown in its note of January 18, the communication says, “The German government suspended pay- ment in kind to France and Belgium solely because the invasion which was contained the treaty of the Versailles by these two powers and solely for the duration of this state of affairs and its consequences.” LOW LEVEL ~ IN CHICAGO Chicago, Feb. 3—Bread__ price: reached the lowest prices in Chic: go for many months today, A 1 ounce loaf sold for 3% cents : stores operated by one firm, whil: in stores operated by another, loav: of similar weight sold for 4 cents, BEE KEEPING INTEREST IN STATE GROWS Members of the three corps o speakers who are holding farm in- stitute meetings throughout the state report considerable interest in Bee keeping, according to R. G. Cat- ron, assistant commissioner of agri- culture. Each of the corps has a speaker who has had some experience in keeping bees in North Dakota, he adds, and their knowledge has come in handy in giving information to prospective. farm apiarists. There is alsd considerable inter- est, he adds, among the farmers en- countered, in proper use of the abundant feed, available this year, especially as regards milking cows, to secure the largest return for the amount fed. Two day institute meeti be held next week in the following town: LaMoure, Finley and Peki one ‘day meetings—Sheyenne, New Rockford, Hamar, Noonan, Watford id Rawson, . C, ATHLETE GOES TO CUBS are to dents, as well as street accidents, will be shown. Arrangements also are being shown to show the films at other poin: “The very demands of modern transportation’ neceasarily _ pl lives sin jeopardy,” says the -| mission. “This is illustrated by ‘the. Federal record of the past.five years which shows that 86 per cent. of the casualti which 1901 persons were. 24,008 were injured, 6c Persons. occupying aut at grade’ crossings, in| a