The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 22, 1923, Page 1

“g authoriti ‘WEATHER FORECAST. Increasing cloudiness followed by light snow tonight or Friday. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1923 | LAST EDITION x PRICE FIVE CEN’ 1924 ROTARY CONVENTION COMES HERE FREE DILLAGE IN CANADA IN MURDER CASE. i ! Vv i i North Dakota Farmer in Al-| leged Whisky Deal Found Not Guilty by Jury RE - ARRESTED | we | | Will Face Robbery Charge} Growing Out of Transaction \ in Which Man Was Killed | | | AGAIN} 22.—Lee Dill- of Lignite, N. D., acquitted af a murder charge late yesterday in con- nection with the death of Paul Ma- tott, Regina liquor dealer, on Octo-/ ber 4, 1922, today faced trial on a! charge of robbery. The additional ; charge was preferred by the Crown | and is also the outgrowth of a quor transaction, it is alleged. The jury which acquitted the man the murder charge was out two | of hours. Testimony at the murder trial was | to the effect that Motgss was shot | and killed shortly after he had con-| cluded a $6,000 with liquor transaction | Dillage at Beinfait, Sask. The | which Dillage paid Matoff ' stolen. | he prosecution held that Dillage | a member of the gang which, ; purchasing the liquor from | planned to hold him up and! after Matof, relieve him af the purchase price. | William Rhodes, prosecutor, said | that it had been shown that some! members of the gang came on but there were indications that the plot had not intended the serious conse- ; quences which resulted. The date of i the robbery trial has HOW CASE BROKE DOWN. Refusal of Mr. Justice Bigelow to/ admit evidence from E. W, son, star witness for the crown in the Matoff murder case, deprived tending the trial of Lee Dil- » charged with being an acces- to the crime. Dickinson, « warden at the provin-| cial jail. had been called and was{ about to relate statements Dillage is{ | Clues which may lead to the arr valued at $30,000. ‘BANK CASES all to have made to him at the | conclusion of the preliminary hear- ing in November last, when N. R.| Craig. counsel for the accused, ob- | jected. Mr. Craig's objection | was! that the statements, if any, made by Dillage on the occasion in question,| ow could not have been voluntary, as! Bin | the witness was then andgis now, 4, eae wearing a ‘uniform, * | Suit Grows Out of Difficulties, The objection was sustained and! : | Justice Bigelow refused to permit, of President of South | the crown counsel to question the Dakota Bank | man further. The evidence for the No ns prosceution was then finished. witnesses were called for the defe1 Dillages Story A jury in federal court today w jhearing a case growing out of affairs i f Christian Borlander, who was Dillage had been in jai] at Regina | eee since being committed for the alleg- | President of shear ae National aan ed killing of Matoff in October. Ac- | 8), ae a, S. ; August 11, 1920, cording to Dillage’s story, as told to/ “hen he shot himself. Matoff was shot by an| The case, that of Paul Keyes unidentified man, armed with a saw-|ceiver of the Eureka bank against | ed off shotgun, and who was the|the Security State Bank of Stras-/ member of a gang that fled after; burg, North Dakota, is for $5,000, the | robbing Matoff of $6,000 and a dia- | amount of a note paid to the Secur-| mond stick pin valued at about the |ity State bank. A note had been; TmelanGune: sent to Strasburg and later was! A quantity of the liquor which Dil- |taken up with a draft of the Eureka ! is alleged to have been bar-|bank. It is claimed by the plaintiff | ing for was later found on the|that the note actually was a per-: Dillage farm near Lignite, N. D.,|/Sonal note of Borlander’s and that | where it had been cleverly hidden, |the bank’s money was used to pay | Dillage when ‘a the court’ room , it was attiatutive tu the developracnts | At the time of the draft payment of the a inhnese of the case. Oc-| Borlander’s balance in his favor! casionally he leaned over and con- jappeared to be about $30,000, but | fers with his counsel. He shows the {actually after his death it was foqnd | results of the six months confine- |to be overdrawn and Borlander was ment in jail at Regina, his compiex- | short in the bank. | ion being whitened and lacking the! The plaintiff is represented by! ruddy hue which appeared whea he |James M. Brown of Aberdeen, and! was taken into custody by the sheriff | Judge E. T. Burke of Bismarck, while} of Burke county, N. D., and turned |the defendant is represented by i. over to Canadian authorities. \{A. Dunham of Clark, S. D. Climax of Rum Running | Another case, involving a some- The killing of Matoff was the sen-/what similar transaction but in sation of the liquor running era, the amount of $4,000, will also be tried.! victim being a brother-in-law of {In this case the Figst National bank | Bronf, man, the supposed head of of Linton is defendant. | the liquor supply house, syndicate | A jury in the court returned a ver- | and the chief source of the border |dict for the defendant in the case | traffic which it supplied. of the Liberty State bank of Minne-! Murder, robbery and fraud result-japolis against the Farmers State! ing from bootlegging | and whiskey |bank of Bowman. z vunning more than half fill the crim-| Many of the jurors have been ex-| | docket at this term of king’s |cused by Judge Miller and local men | ‘ourt bench, and promise thrills for |called to take their places, the ac- spectators for many days.’ Out of {tion being taken ‘to permit ‘many the 13. cases set down for hearing | jurors to return to their homes. at the session six have their qrigin somewhere along the blood and tear soaked whiskey trail. The Dillage j WIFE OF WAR ,/: su A Jk ie anionee| CHIEF IS ILL In somewhat tess degree of inter-| frunswick, Gal Mar. 22—Mry, st, but each rich in possibilities of | john. W.- Weeks, wife of the Secre- thrills are the four other criminal | tary of War, is very ill on board the | cases. Thomas Jordan will answer to | private wacht Evergreen, which was negotiating a worthless bank check | hurried into port shortly after 1 riven in a hootch deal, A gang of ! o'clock yesterday morning to secure amateur raiders from Grainsboro | medical aid. will answer to a charge af breaking} A gr into the express office and ste: quantiti 4 of liquor. VALLEY CITY GETS W. C. T. U. —— f Fargo, Mar, 22.—Valley City chosen as the meeting place for 1923 convention of the North Dakota W. C. T. U, and the dates set were Sept. 21-26. This action was taken at the ses- sion of the midyear meeting of the executive board, in session at the First Baptist church. ‘\ The board also passed a resolution endorsing the action of the recent. legislative assembly in memoralizing congress and the war department to AND GIVES UP Philip Hebert today registered ab | about the mere. lucky man in Bis- marek. A few days ago he won’ the “hope chest” at the American Legion Aux- iliary party. it “being welied, at about $250. -Yesterday noon while at the Northern Pa aera is a driver for the Interstate Taxi line —he picked up a wallet lying on the edge of the sidewalk at the west end “allow the use of one ‘of the byildings|of the denot. It contained about at Fort: Lincoln, near Bismarck, for | $320—$140 in cash and $180 ih notes. housing and treatment of tubercular} Herbert immediately notified the | children of North Dakota. various people that if anyone asked Broadway Beauty Mysteriously Slain | eer eel is the 164th Guard inspected G ‘Company | evening at the Armory. The inspee-! people of millions of dollars.” | spection, Colonel Rit not been set. | a ~~ est of a “society Raffles” are being, Dickin-| followed by the police in an attempt to solve the mysterious death of} beautiful Dorothy King, Broadway white light favorite. to have been slain by New York thieves who escaped with her Jewels} , She is thought ‘COL. RITCHIE VISITS GUARD) ae ithe tedecls creat, Ai | Valley City, Mar. 22.—Colonel D. S. Ritchie, newly appointed Colonel Infantry which com- es the North ,Dakota National last ro tion was in the nature of a prelim- inary to the insptction by Colonel Thomas Rogers of the U. S. Army, which is to be held on Monday eve- ning, March 26th, Following the in- gave a talk! on the morale and spirit of the Na-' tional Guard. PETITIONS R. W. Frazier Saas Election; Commerce further ‘bulled’ the mar- Law Petitions to be Gir- culated Soon Petitions for a referendum of the \two chief election laws of the last general assembly have not yet been} ;actually circulated, but will be in ;the very near future, R. W. Frazier ‘of Crosby, chairman of the Repub- lican state committee recognized by | the Nonpartisans, said here today. Mr. Frazier secured copies of the} laws here from the office of the secretary of state and said he would discuss the exact form the petitions should take to be legal with Attor- ney General Shafer. Tentative copies of petitions, whick | {had been prepared and forwarded to! the office of the secretary of state | for approval, were found not to be in the proper form, he said, and ithis reason he planned to consult of- | Plosion of/a cook stove, and an over-| ficials before drafting the final form. The tentative copies contained the names of members of a “committee ‘for petitioners,” the names being suggested ‘at the Republican execu- tice committee meeting here at whi it was decided to inaugurate the ref- erendum, ‘he said. All five men named will be consulted before the final draft is made, and their names will not be retained without their consent, he added, “It is the desire to have the refer-| dum at the election of November, 1924, because the presidential race probably will attract the largest vote possible, Mr. Frasier added BISMARCK’S MOST LUCKY MAN FINDS WALLET WITH $320 for te pocketbook they could get it. It was about half a hour when the traveling man who lost it appealed to local people. They put him in touch with Hebert. Identification was required and was furnished by a rdescribtion of the notes and other articles, Hebert turned the pocketbook over to the magn, received a'$5 reward and the stranger went on his way on the afternoon train, after profusely thanking the Interstate Taxi. driver for his honesty. The identity of the] Rood, ‘also employed at the school, traveling man was, not learned. Hebert’s friends expect him to find an oil well next. | ARE PREPARED, {was dead and’past all help. DEMAND PROBE 'WORRIESLEAD | | OF BOOSTS OF YOUNG WOMAN | SUGAR PRICES; = 10 SUICIDE ; Letter to President ‘Harding Verdict Returned in Coroner’s | , Declares People are to be | Inquest into Montana i | Gouged by Half Billion | Woman's Case { if } ASSAILS U.S. DEPART’ENT: DRANK POISON IN ROOM | Says Bulletin Worded so as to Business. Partner in Room: Increase Speculative Says He Tried to Pre- ‘ Buying i vent the Act MONTH LATE, HE SAYS. Great Falls, Mont. Mar. 22,—A Washington, March 22--De- verdict of suicide by poisoning was mands now being made for an ‘returned last night by a coroner's ,jury that heard evidence relating to ithe death in a local hotel Monday | Inight of Mrs. Alice Benson, former- ly of Pittsfield, Minn. investigation of sugar price fluc- tuations are “about a month be- hind,” Secretary Hoover said to- day, adding that such an inquiry had been instituted by the gov- Mrs. Benson was a business part- WhanieWelon MNReen?4: : ‘ner in a store at Shelby, Montana, of A. L, Sampson, promoter of the! The secretary said he was con- vineed there was ceonomie justification for high prices of sugar, and that the department of commerce and other govern ment departments were investi- gating conditions tn Cuba under authority of law passed in Con- heavy weight championship fight be- no i100 miles north of here. j Mrs. Benson came here from Shel- last Saturday and Sampson ar- rived Saturday. # The nature of the verdict returned jlast night was learned from authen- | ress uuthorizing inquiry into {te Sourees but ras not given out at | foreign producers of commodi- {the inquest. Newspaper men ard | Spectators were excluded from the ties imported. | Washington, Mar. 22,—Demands (cereliaea Sampson was the princ {for an investion of fluctuations in | Pal witness at the inquest. He tes- ‘the sugar market made during the |tified that Mrs. Benson drank the ' closing days of Congress by western {Poison in his presence while they senators were revived, today by pub- | “ete in her hotel room and that the { Mo Prosi (act Was committed before he could | lication of a letter written to Pret ,dent Harding by Basil Manly, di-j} rector of the Peoples Legislative Ser- | vice, charging that the American | People were in a fair way of being | robbed of five hundred million dol- | ars “for the benefit of sugar gamb. ters and profiteers.” j aT cue eens a cere BELGIANS TAKE KRUPP HARBOR | interfere. So far as he could deter- {mine, he said, there was no reason for her to be despondent other than that she was worried over financi matters. Mrs, old, 1] Benson was 28 years! | should hear Claud Spreckels, presid- | ent of the Federal Sugar Refining | Company, who has publicly stated | ; Health tween Tommy Gibbons of St. Paul,! apid Jack Dempsey, July 4, at Shelby, | inquest room after the evidence was | | And it yas in worry of the conse-j | i Doctor, Fa | By NEA Service. San Diego, Calif. March Good Samaritan to a pretty a perilous byway of love. Dr. Louis L. Jacobs, 30, debonair captain in the United States Public! Service at Camp Kearney, will seek to persuade a jury this was his odd role in the case of Fritzi Mann, for whose murder he stands indicted and will go to trial March 26. “Damned: fool altruism,” he says, | girl on saccounted for his interest in the at-|! tractive 20-year-old cabaret dancer whose half-clad body was found of; tie lonely Torrey Pines beach Jan./ For the circumstances the tragedy and for any ac to her death the army stoutly disclaimed: guilt. shaping | leading | physician has Case Circumstantia The case against him, so far as it has been divulged by Distritt At-| torncy Kempley, is wholly efreum-! stantial. He expects to establish an alibi “when the proper time com Prosecution is based on the theo jthat Miss Mann was stunned by j blow’ on the head, and was then into the sea where she after brief revival. She had spent the carly part of jthe previous evening with a man at! ithe Blue Seat cottages in La Jolla. The two arrived in a closed car! and were registered by E. A. Kern, | proprietor, as man and wife under | fictitious names. Kern had serutinized the woman! carefully and identified her readil jAbout the man he was less cert: Miss Mann and her escort left the cabin for an hour, returned and left again for good, Kern will tell the jury. ast was drowned , Possessions Scattered. The spot where the body was found is 10 miles away. On the road, | apparently scattered in flight, were the handbag, vanity case and kimona | of the dancer and a blanket from the | Blue Sea cottage, That the pretty entertainer was! ‘the vietim of her own popularity! is the autopsy testimony. She had loved someone not wisely but too] well, according to surgeons. quences that she consulted him, de- He had, about a which was to clares Dr. Jacobs. mitted, advised her j templated operation have taken place a few days after con- that the sugar gamblers led by + the department af commerce’ have been enabled to rob the Ameridan’ -TOGAIN TAXES: All Kinds of een Tricks! Are Used by Germans To Evade It Dusseldorf, Mar. Belgian | troops have occupied Krupp harbor Mr. Manly declared the rise in | prices*had no basis “so far as the public is informed” in a statement ‘issued by the Department of Com-| | merce on February 9 which was in- terpreted “by all the newspap. as predicting a great shortage of su- | gar during the coming year and that {although Secretary Hoover had de- jelared the statement was misinter- | preted the opening sentence was so | worded “as to end prices leaping up- ' ward.” “Even after this statement had! aroused an orgy of speculative ac- {tivity on the sugar exchange” and | its evil effects were known, the state- | ment continued, “the department of Duisburg for the purpose of con-! trolling exports from this harbor and} |the collection of the 10 per cent tax; on goods shipped. ! All kinds of smuggling tricks have |. been resorted to by the Germans in ofder to bring money from Berlin ,into the occupied area. In one in-| stance the French customs authori- ties at a front post discovered bun-|. dles of notes hidden under ship- ments of vegetables. The money was confiscated, Varibus German government of- jals, according to the press, are being used to further the passive re- ;gar prices was blocked by, Senator| sistance measures. The French iCurtis of Kansas, the Republican ;elaim the Germans are using the | whip, who plead investigation by the! j banks and postoffices as well as in- jdepartment of commerce the letter | dividuals to bring money into the { | asserted that since that time the Se-! Ruhr, Dusseldorf the French! jeretary Hoover had announced the! seized at a postoffice 15,000,000 jdepartment did not intend to make! marks which had been sent there for jan inquiry and suggested that thei one of the strike leaders to distrib- grand jury should also summon Sen- | ute among the working men under |ator Mr, Hoover, Senators, Curtis, government yay. poy. i | Hoover and Edge, Republicans, to se | “HBRE TONIGHT ite senate investigation.” { Col. Bieeea Ai By U. S. A. to Look} 2 FARM HOMES ARE BURNED. Over Company A | | ket by issuing a statement directing | attention to the increased consump- |tion of sugar in the United States i during the past year.” Declaring that an attempt by Sen- | ator Brookhart, Republican, Iowa, to j obtain a senate investigation of sa- | ! i Shiedon, “, March 22.—The ex-| j heated stovepipe started( two firen | Monday that destroyed the frame lresidences of Edward and Louis Aus-| ——— | tad, brothers, and ‘of Hans Bratland,| Col. T. J. Rogers,sU. S. A., Col. 13 miles southeast of here. D. C. Ritchie, commanding the ‘North | The Austad brothers are bachelors} Dakota National Guard; Adjutant i dnd were at the barn doing the morn’{Gereral Fraser, Major Manville H. jing chores and did not discover the| Sprague, North Dakota. National jfire until it was well under way |Guard, and Capt, H. S. Thompson, {They saved only a small amount of|U. S. A., of Fargo, conferred i Bis- ! wearing apparel: and a writing desk. marck today on matters atfecting, the ir guard. iio Hipbres Wan caumedien, Hoth Roulel ee Rogers, Major Sirsgue end ‘ Capt. Thompson ure here for inspec- Neighb : vaving the | © ; ; tre. at the Austad’ farm, when the| tien of Company A tonight and the Hans rallend. Home. taro miles’ dis quartermaster’ detachment of roll tant, caught fire and they rushed|S¥#"d tomorrow night. oe the Paratteeee ane in SeviPe MOH) SENT NICHOLSON ‘WILL GO HOME: Andrew Bratland narrowly sceped burning to death when a part of the roof fell in while he/was trying to get the copk'stove from the kitchen. Rochester, Minn. Mar. 22. An] He was badly bruised and burned| operation fering beeen crane be y surgeons to be inadvisable on - ahopt tie head snd shoulders. Mri |i Ststsy ‘Senator Samuel D.. Nichol: sonj of Colorado, seriously ill with tunior of the stomach, will leave to- Bestlang carried no insurance, fon-pis home in Denver, VALLEY CITY bag Pt not to perform an opera- at Hochemmerich on the Rhine near; jwas at the Grand hotel during: the | | don. the sea solved her problem. He had! also arranged for # nurse, police aay | am a friend of the dead girl,” army man told officers the day} “She had ri Fahey | investigation started, j¢ently confided in me. Told me she! ae secretly married. I want to eu what I can to help clear the mys- ‘ tery.” ' Dr. Jacobs was arrested, on a writ of ha Ss corpus, and then secretly indicted two weeks | later after Chief of Police Patrick | jhad said to him, “I'm not at all| satisfied with what you have told| us released | The weakness of the state's case of E. Jacobs A.| lis the professed inabili {Kern positively to ident: as the man who occupied his cot-| |tage with Miss Mann. | Dr. Jacobs’ defense weakness lies in’ failure thus far to substantiate! with witnesses his claim, that he! hours fixed by investigators as the death period. Army friends are strongly aligned behind the Camp Kearney captain ad the trial promises to be one of the bitterest contests ever fought in San Diego courts. Fritzi Mann was born in Austria of Polish-Hungarian parents. She | lived in Denver from childhood un-| til about two years ago, when she came to San Diego and Los Ange! ASKS $20,000 FOR FALSE ARREST Grand Forks, N. D., March 21-1. |B, Elton, attorney, left here Monday for St. Paul to appear in distric court there this week in defense of ‘an action for $20,000 damages for {false imprisonment brought: by T. J. McGovern, formerly of Grand Forks, against Dr. E. I. Donovan of Lang- The action grows out of the ar- rest of Mr. McGovern about 18 months ago, upon complaint of Dr. Donovan, who claimed that Mr. Me- Govern had stolen his grip, contain- ing checks and valuable papers, from the Hotel. Dacotah in Grand Forks. Mr. McGovern was arrested at Rochester, Minn., and taken to St. Paul, where he was detained for two days and then released upon the re- quest of Dr. Donovan when it was ascertained that McGovern was not guilty. Five times as many income tax re- turns were made to the division of- fice of the U. S. Internal Revenue Bureat this year as were made last year, according to report today of B. E. Hitehcock, in charge of the of- FIREMAN DIES tion was reached late yesterday af- ter a series of conferences between Valley City, N. Dy Mar. 22.—J. L Dr. Hubert Work, Secretary of “the Weaver, fireman at. the city schools,| Intertor, and Dr. William Mayo of passed away yesterday from heart:| the Mayo clinic. failure,; Mr. Weaver was down in + ——---—— the basement of the Ritchie school}) |’ SPEAKS AT HATTON. and fell over into the lap of Amos| Governor R. A. Nestos will speak at Hatton, ‘Trail county tonight, ad- Dr. Cros- | dressing a Norwegian society mee Weavering, and is expected to return to hi Ngee Thursday. and expi: immediately. by was called in but Mr. fice. The comparison, while indicating that more people are paying the federal income tax this year than last, also shows that peopl@of west- ern North Dakota appreciate the es- tablishment of the division office here, Bismarck was made a division office last year through efforts of a number of local citizens and Senator McCumber. It is estimated that 3,000 individ- ing Trial in Fritizi Mann Murder, Blames “Fool Altruism” || he ad-)’ junder grand jur FRITZ DR. LOUIS L. Chronology of Mann! Murder Mystery MANN (ABOV AND JACOBS (BELOW). Jan Usinee Mann, cabaret! dancer, left home in Sa Diego os- tensibly for a house party at Del ‘Mar, California beach resort. Jan. 15—Her body pvered on |Torrey Pines beach Jan. Authorities declare case lone of murder. Jan, 17 Autopsy reveals in girl's! condition probable moti Jan. 18 Dr. Louis) L rested and held for investigation, Jan, 22—Dr. Jacobs secured his re- | lease on writ of habeas corpu: Jan. 17—Dr. J ing him with Miss Mann's murd March 2 ate of scheduled t ‘6 IDENTIFIED ASINHERRIN MINE RIOTING Farmer Siu, He Saw Them Lead Man, Who Was Kill- ed, Into Field ML, Mar, 22. six defendants on trial for the mur- der of Antonio Mulcovitz today stood identified with the Herrin riots of last June by testimony rien by Marion, state witnesses, The last man, car Howard, was connected with riots during erd: testimony wien George Nelson, a farmer, said ard was one of the two men Pos escorted Kenneth McDowell, one of the victims to the spot where his body was found. Judge Hartwell said he would h arguments today on the admissibili of testimony given by Nelson. Nel- son said he saw Howard and Otis Clark take McDowell from the line of March and lead him into the! woods. Shots followed. Nelson said, and minutes later he found the j ° bodies of McDowell with a bullet} hole in the head and two bullet wounds on gach side of the head. MRS. ANNA BUZZI IS RELEASED Mar. N York, 22,—Mr: Anna Buzi, housekeeper for Frederick Sch- neider, wealthy Bronx contractor, when he was slain on February 26,! was arrested today on a charge of homicide, He had been released af- ter being held several days as a material witness. ‘LOCAL INCOME TAX OFFICIAL REPORTS FIVE TIMES RETURNS OF LAST YEAR ual returns on incomes of $5,000 or! less were filed here and in addition many corporati6n and partnership returns, The division office also is proving’ of value to local business men and those of other towns in the western part of the state, in that the division office ‘can receive reports on mis- cellaneous tax payments on the last day of the month. would be occasioned if the returns had to go to Fargo, thus are avoided. The office, it is believed, also has made possible a closer checking up on tax payments by the government, with resultant increases in tax re- ceipts. | Was chosen gov ~All of they 'Penalties, which’ | ROTARIANS OF _ BISMARCK WIN 1924 MEETING | District Conference Next Year Will be Held Here, Con- vention Decides CONVENTION CLOS Minneapolis Man Is Elected President of Organization on Close Vote Bismarck Rotarians have returneé | from the Ninth District Conventio at St. Paul with the “bacon” thi went after, Announcement was made that t) 'next convention of the district would be held in Bismarck in 192 | The convention will bring to Bis marck from 1,000 to 2,000 Rotarian and many ladics from Minnesot: Wisconsin and North Dakota. C. B. McClintock of Minneapoli rnor of the distric at the closing session late yesterda) winning from Dr. George T. Ayre of Ely by eight votes, and after th: announced. his electic unanimous. Norman Black of Fargo, N. the result was was made D., retiring Governor. Bergeson, the Bismarck Club and many others + Roy secretary of turned home today enthusiastic ov: the 1 | meeting. | “We had a fine landing the success in time, inspiration speeches and great hospitality, su Mr. Bergeson—‘St. Paul sure was fine host. FINANCIER IS FOUND DEADIN RAILROAD CAR | [Investigation of Affairs 1 R. Steel Is Being f ° Conducted Buffalo, N. Y., Mar, 22,—Leonay) . founder of the L. R. Ste tion, which went into receiv » March 8, died early today o in en route to Chicago. Mi was advised of her husbanc in a telephone message fre body was tak Steel's sudden dea of. investigatio: stock selling and other { thods of his promotioi county and state authoritie Carl Sherman, state's attorney ger leral, yesterday notified the reccive: jthat he desired to make a thoroug iexamination pf the books of the var ous steel cdrporations and Distric ‘Attorney Guy Moore announced la |night that on account of reports o |gross extravagance in the handlin, of the $20,000,000 invested by 50,00 |stockholders he would join in the in ‘quiry. gent Mroledo, where the from the train. jcame on the eve jinto the nancial m ‘by :: STATE RECORD IS ESTABLISHED | ; Herd at State Insane Asylum Makes Fine Showing | What is believed to be a state r jord for milk production for hes of the same size in North Dako ; was established at the state hospi jfor thet insane at Jamestown, ‘cording to W. F. Reynolds, sts: | dairy commissioner, after reading {report of J. A, Barner; tester. “While a few straw-fed cows p: ished during the month of Februt jthe 64 head of Holsteins at the sti: |hospital were busy making what {probably a state record for a he jof this size, and were doi North Dakota grown feeds,” j report of Mr. Barner. “These 64 howd Jof cows produced an average «' # 1,136 pounds of milk and 39.6 poun:! {of butterfat 0 na ratio nof corn eil: j8ge, alfalfa, hay, ground outs, spe ‘and ban and about 20 pounds of m gels daily, This is considered a 1+ (markable record when one conside jthat cows in this herd are at di ent stages of lactation periods nev jly every month of the year. It wi |be voted from thie that while the are some cows in full flow, othe: were nearing the end of their lact ition period. Thehighest producer {o- the month has 1,960 pounds of mijk and 79 pounds of butterfat.” | The report added that this-is not an unusual record, for the herd maintaining this production dariny March. At present there are two pure bred sires and 18 pure bred females 41: the hospital herd, with about 10) head of high grade females two years old or over. During the past ° 24 of the poorést producers we laughtered for use at the institu- tion and 27 head of females: sold :io improve other herds during the yeur.