The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 24, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER FORRCAST.. | FORECAST. Snow probaves tonight and Sun- day. LAST EDITION THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, ChE SG MARCH 24, 1923 PRICE FIVE CENTS _ Se | TOWNLEY’S NEW MORE CREDIT FIGHT Sage“? TWO THOUSAND FARMS IN THREE 2) STATES THREATENED BY MIGHTY ESTABLISHED 1873 DAMAGE SUIT § 3 ¢ % # ; 5 | FARMERS’ PLAN ALONE I$ NOT | > | ~ BEING TRIED | Claim of Edward Kafer For: Damages on Account of | Death of Boy Heard ACCIDENT REVIEWED, i Plaintiff Claims Negligence. in Accident in Which Boy | Was Killed NOR ORIGINAL: | Idea ee Several Months | Ago by N. K. Wicks in Or- ! ganization Meetings of Township Farmers , and up | REMAINS ON COMMITTEE} Basis of Organization Is Units) FARM PAI PANACEA, Board Meabee| Speaking at Grand Forks, Says Other Remedies Needed Reserve IS OVER-PRODUCTION A. C. Townley Requests to be} Put. on the Program at ; Grand Forks Meeting ICE GORGES TRIAL HALTED WHILE LAWYERS | ARGUE POINTS Tak'ng of teatimolly in the case in federal court jn which the Mid land National Bank of Minne lis and the Fi St. Paul are seeking to re $10,000 on notes gives by the I tyre Farmers Cooperative Elevator »6- | National Bank of} IN THE MISSOUR! T Hope Virtually Abandoned o/ Preventing Terrific Loss When Gorges Break -| DYNAMITING Repetition of Disastrous Floo:! of 1881 Is Feared at { ; Company and signed to the Sioux City ee ee | { | banks, was halted today to permit Tria} of « damage suit which grew | The plan of organization which A.) Grand Forks, N. D., Mar. 24—-/ {lawyers to argue at length legal ii 2b.—Unprecede: al GE LEER Pi : :, Townley is now urging upon farm-| Ways and means of ‘getting the polis 1h thE case | Omaha, Mar. 2b.—Unpreeedes Se eeiay oie ate ie STELLA LARRIMORE LORNA AMBLER | Gen it mot original with Me. Towiley, |farmers’ finances back to normal- The Kintyre company claimed| Tes in the Missouri river ne enveloped the city in gloom last oc- nor ts it new in North Dakota. The|¢y are being disc! d her d: ‘that the notes were given to the| Vermillion, S. D., Sioux City, . {bul rid a Shelk of 'y are being discussed here toda: Ls cupied the district court today. Ed- That Lou Tellegen was a Romeo of dark vestibules and 4 Sheik OC! plan was first urged about four!by the party of banking and agr {i TP. Welch Grain Commission | Owana, Ia, and Dakota City, [ ward M. Kafer, deputy sheriff, is|the benches along Riverside Drive, was sworn to in We Seti ne doi | months ago in several mectings by [cultural experts who are touring [company with the understanding | ty today had preciptated conditior suing Mrs. Susanna Hultberg for, duced in the divorce suit of Geraldine Farrar against her mainee-idol | x. Kk. Wicks of Brantford. — Mr./ tho nerthwest’ and farmers and | that they were not to be negotiat-| 4), ‘ f Su |husband. ‘The names of Stella Larrimore and Lorna Ambler, bot hi Wicks, in a meeting in Bismarck lst | business men of this locality | ‘ed, but the company did negotiate | (Mt Present a flood menace to. « 0,800 damages because of the death | actresses, figured prominently in tie testimony. December, explained that the idea! ‘The party arrived from Crooks them in the Minneapolis and St,| the lowlands between Vermiilion at of his four-year-old son, Allen | struck by the Hultberg automobile | last May 2. A jury having been se- lected yesterday the taking of tes* timony began early today. ‘ATTORNEY LEAVES FOR FLORIDA TO . PRESS GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION i was evolved by a New York man, So far as is known Mr. Townley has nat represented himself as the creator of the plan, although he had been credited with evolving it by many | Amer while the organization for ton, Friday evening, and the m ing opened at 10 o’clock this morn- | ing. Vashingto: ‘ector of the Federal Ri lief that the new federal fa ?aul banks J, ROMITCHELL Omaha and that threatens the floov ing of thousands of acres of ric farm land in South Dakota, Iowa ; and Nebraska, and the destruction © {hundreds of farm homes. The position of the plaintiff was people. erve Bo: : i i . ; . serve Board, was the chief speaker | An ice gorge reported early tods explained to the jury by Attorney Wicks, in his organization work,|at the morning to have attained a length of 11 mil Cameron, who said that the plaintiff es the “Farmers Federation of| Mr. Mitchell expressed the be- and a width in places of 7 miles ne: leged negiligence on the part of i the defendant and driver of the car, her daughter Clara, was responsible for the fatal injuries to the boy. | “The defendant denies negligence. INTO DEATH OF ; Judge Kneeshaw Will Seek to which Mr, Townley for is speaking known as the National Producers Al- liance. He is a member of the exe- cutive comittee of the organization “ELGIN TO HAVE _ credits law would have the effect reducing interest rates to farm- | ers but at the same time decla IN AFTERNOON Brassfleld’s Islands at Sergea Bluffs, Ia., south of Sioux City, th morning was strangulating ti mighty Missouri river. The streay =f A an that “giving farmers more cr ‘ | strengthened by thaws and spri pote ne me vente eaate he said, | P t Grand Jury Probe A NEWSPAPER: o: which Mr. Towntey is chairman. |to produce crops ata loss is li | Mrs. R. G. Piper (abovey and floods is enraged in a titanic struge that the place where the boy was reven Jury end Sn i | Wi when he proposed his or- make a drunken man} Stella Means Lewis, Cincin- to break the deadly grip. In i struck—the block on Fifth street be- tween the courthouse and the Will school was a regular playgréund for | children, and that the boy ran across in County in Which Lumber Company Owning Camp in Shields, N. D., Mar. 24 prise, published — weekly Shields, will be published at, ver oi people throughout the state. here-| A. constitution and by-laws was adopted and a pamphlet was issued The En-/ ganization last fall, visited a num- |} s nati, I posse (below) ve waged a om of I since fight for y Garrett: Piper his birth. the 6, ing him more whisky. over-production of ; wheat, he said, and it is futile for the Aincrican farmer to attempt to| Lewis declares the chi Federal Reserve Board Mem- ber Will be Principal Speaker Tuesday grapple the river is participating i strength in overflowing into lo lands. A decided drop in temperatui sultan Whi. ry ;| after in Elgin, accord’ng to James . : f the Pant tay Sanence ee ee ae \ Which Youth Died Has eG SorHiighe Saito In making the; With Mr. Wicks named as general e wheat for export in compe- that he was taken fro at this morning is helping the ice nia come home, the accide ppening Large Interests Case Is| announcement Mr. McCormick said| manager and founder of the organi-jtition with the farmers of Argen-| birth and that she was fraudulent- ot to retain its grip, but at any mome? in the evening. for| zation and the names of G. W. Ben- »the change was made purely ly committed to an insane ylum. Australia, and India. To mect John R. Mitchell of the Federai the river's terrific pressure m Claim No Horn Sounded Attracting Country - Wide | usiness reasons — that th nett of Fargo; Chi DeCries of situation the farmers must! She has started habeas corpus pro-| Reserve Board, Washington, D. C.,| triumph and then its dammed-chok: Ile said the plaintiff expected to of Elgin made an attracti Frazee, Minn., E, Drawn of Far-}scek to plan their production with | ceedings in a Cincinnati court. ; Will be the principal speaker at} water ill, 5 2 show no horn was sounded by the Interest. to obtain a paper. Mr. McCormick| 82; James Hobbs of Fargo and Mr.! relation to the demand, he de-!~~~ ~~~ ~~~... ~ | the afternoon meeting here Tues-| A conservative Sioux City, I: Hill erp cae achat nineabey kwastiel| Will continue. to. publish the{ Wicks subscribed to @ statement of {elared. ‘day, March 27, when a distinguish-| places the number of farms in th: fect from the curb when struck, that | Langdon, N. Ds inverse | mente: | the purposes of the organization.| Friends of A. C. Townley, who is! PL, | ed pafty will be guests of the Bis-| bath of such a water wall at 24 the-car in no way slackened its pace ito prevent the grand jury linvestiga- | Headaubniers were to be in Fargo. | to speak here this afternoon in the marck sociation of Commerg $ They are Clay county in Sout! D: en Wie 40 feet before the boy was struck, that the front wheel pushed his body | ¢ and the rear | seven or eight feet wheel did likewise, that the wheels ion into the death of Martin Taber, | valier county youth who it is el- s flogged to death in a Flor- | jleged icks appeared in Bismarck in December the meeting was ‘liber- ally advertised but in part because of bad road conditions the attend- 1. H. DEALERS | interest of the National Produce: Alliance, suggested today that he, be given a place on the program | for the afternoon session. The re- | IN TRIAL OF | It is especially urged by the A. /C. directors that repre pluie of fine entation from over the Slope there be a A telegram received to- wota, Johnson, Weodbury, Monon id Harrison county in Iowa, an Cedar, Dixon, Dakota, Thurston an. | Burton counties af Nebraska. Amon were in straight line, and that if ne Reuaty Dee ne | ance was small, and it is understood | quest, however, was denied on the’ L. Bell, of the First | them, especially in lowa, are ‘som the car had been veered but six | Dany jarheavily interested, Judge W | no progress ha been made with the|ground that the program twas al- hasan Bank. from Curtis L. Mosh-| of the choicest farm lands. of. thi inches the boy would not have been |kneesiaw of. Pembina, is now spee ‘organization. The original organi-|ready filled and could not be jer, of the Federal Reserve Bank,| cor belt. struck. ee 1 Flo Vaal MH ised gue ‘zation proposed a membership. fee | changed at this time to permit the! Minneapolis, sa {Late last night an ice gor her heseatiethescarmwaaitran||0 ve iar anne cal delestance {minimum of $6 and a maximum of | former Nonpartisan league head to, “Members of party will be Mitch-j formed near Onawa, Ia, and flooc veling at an excessive rate of speed |Cuveh tram Judge M. F. Horne of | - $10, while the new organization fcc | speak. ell, Federal Reserve Board, myself! Stage developed, forcing the rest or the brakes were not working. | The defendant's answer, as filed by her attorneys, William Langer and c. L. Crum, was that the plaintiff, | futher of Allen Kafer, was negligent in allowing his child to play in the | street frequented, by automobiles, | Florida, Judge Kneeshaw will confer with the judge in the third judicial | district in Florida, the state's attor- | ney and others. The following telegram was receiv- | ed by Judge Kneeshaw from Judge | is $4.00. The plan proposed by Wicks ap- | parently has not been changed in the |new organization. He proposed | township units, county units, state |units and # national body. Prices ‘were to be fixed by a referendum— Will Discuss Ways | of In- creasing. Service to Defense ‘Deni s Charges ene PIGGLY WIGGLY. "ern | trom this bank, Edw; | ricultural secretary , lation; H. M. Gardner, | Minneapolis Civie and Commerce } | Association; F, J. Leeman, Pre ‘ident Minnesota Bankers Assccia-| ion; R. E. McGregor, Northwest- rd Barr, ag- o-! niinager dents of the lowlands there to flee: | The gorge formed south of the city an at midnight had grown to three {and a half miles long, with tower ing ice'peaks. At that hour author- | ities at Onawa-gave up hope of shat- j tering the ice gorge with explosive Horn Buyers township units in meeti 1d sade | 2 es the : hat the boy was/ negligent in run- jug Gj Siesta Beate, ownship units in meeting wou ing up of the tedeeal couse! hearing | €' War Finance Committee; T.| he gorge causes the James r wee Gat inte theftrece thal shedbos? By Geimeon eee Eee Ceres - vote on prices, a symposium would |in which John W. Hansell askes a | Leedy, General Immigration Agent| "e#” Vermillion to r ran into thé car which was traveling | paroty . A dealers meeting of the Inter-| be forwarded to county headquarters, |financial settlement with the Israe-| Great Northern; Arthur B. Smith,| UP Waters. A rapid rise was exper * at a moderate rate of speed under | waee you Tucsday. State's at- “ational Harvester Company will | in turn forwarded to state and again} Qne of Wall Street’s Leading) lite House of David of Benton Har- | Passenger Traffic Manager North-| i@"ced early this morning in = perfect control. The defense holds |) “Wrote You Mim a Satis-| be held at the Bismarck branch | in turn sifted and forwarded to the Topies D Out of Sight | 2° has been ordered by Judge Sa-| ern Pacific; H. 8. Funston, Land] jira Sioux river Elk Point, Sout! that Clara Hultberg, being almost 17 |Lorney stated Monday that ie ts silva (house Tuesday, March 2 i national headquarters were a fixed ‘opics Drops Out of Sig! l Cen PAGINA SurRMInit lokee ct eceeatl joner S00 Line; Harry| Dakota, where conditions similar + years old, was perfectly capable of Wnue ne a PELe nocapalieacleni| _The meeting will be devoted toa Pelee Soule ie agreed on. Eee lend yesterday the court tentatively Stock and Home! V¢"million were reported. handling the car and was an exper- |/O0t OY The’ lion in any other | ion of problems met by ; farmer would base his coinlonsantt | Now 'York, March Pigely Wie-| . aevihetdeysorteoneliy Deauwe lice, maior tenes seneed riser that seheneounaeae ce ty. I suggested to him the pos- Uealers and. to consider ways a DESDE ne ORCA CE BEONSS ODA IE iy) onecot) Wall Strcattaileading ton: | Defense attorneys | th St. Paul; Geo. Kelly | At 10 o'clock last night the M automobile horn and slowed up when |COunIS. | f BIBEEN te avout the middle Which better service may be ren- gly, & tov- indicated four more days would be | Editor Fnemetead;|souni civer benched 4 age G1 she saw the children playing, and | % M: Or RNR EST dered to the farmers of s th: | ics for the past few days, virtually| al they had required, although it; Capt. } ve Washburn aiken chat Sinus Cite Bae: o! that all children had left the street {0° “4¥- “MF. Horne, Judge.” | western North Dakota and eastern | dropped out of sight today, when aj had been predicted the court might | Co.; E. C. Hellweg, representative) ed to be p ra a was repo but that the Kafer boy ran back in- | __~“M. F. Horne, Judge.” | Montana, An important part of | majority of those caught “short” continue several publisher Minneapolis Tribune and! that poate the Phy ey, to the street. At the time of the ac- Volunteers Services. the meeting is to better equip deal- | Tuesday, when trading in Piggly| fense called four witngs reporters from principal Twin Ctl | cae, Po nes oval river, ho. cident Mrs. Hultberg and three | daughters were in the car, which was traveling south, | Kneeshaw has volunteered said Mr. Judge his services in the matter,” |Grimson today, “and goes to Florida |for the purpose of hastening the be- ers to serve their emt ef: | ficiently. Talks and lectures will be ivan | on Narious subjects by Internation- N. D. BANKER Wiggly stores, Inc., class “A” common stock was suspended on the New York Stock Exchange, settled their ac- terday all of which disputed tes mony of the plaintiff that the “ | ner circle” papers. Mitchell will be princi -| speaker in afternoon of the organization in-| I will make al at Bismarck, | n address us well as Dwen Wallac at last 1 (ports early this morning and w within two feet of a stage at whi jit would present a serious mena counts on the basis of the $100 offer | dulged in immoral practic: made by Clarence Saunders, president| Mrs. Esther Hansell, for 13 es of the corporation. | Private secretary of the cult leader, | While accurate information as to} has been the chief witness against | the number of shares delivered to| him. IE, W. Bradford, counsel for Mr. Saun-| Declarations that the _Isralite | ders, was withheld, it wa: stated that | House of David bribed a prosecuting to the main city. A dangerous situation also ¢ | ‘veloped early this morning at H {mer, Neb,, the scene of the gre | 1920 flood when the town was v: Witness Called lr, KE, McCurdy, former states at- torney, was the first witness called the plaintiff, and was asked with pect to measurements made at the me by himself, Chief of Police Mar- ' |ginning of a grand jury investigation of the causes of Tabert’s death. It is our desire to have the investigation conducted by the grand jury whicn meets at Madison, Madison county, on pril 9. It now seems unlikely that al experts from the Chicago of-; fice. Lunch will be served at the In-| ternatinoal building at noon, an, in the evening a banquet will be | served in In eo lh hall. ‘Fund Being Raised by Deposi- tors of Bank | tually wiped out. Early this moi jing efforts were being made Macomb ils » March 24.-—Depositors tinson and Deputy Sheriff Phelps. | the hearing will be held before the rs of the Farmers|by far the largest number of “shorts” | attorney in Berrien county to avert ld namite a g i 2 He said the distance from the |Taylor county grand jury which State” eh ee ‘Bardolph, closed two| took advantage of the lower offer. | #n investigation of alleged immoral re at a orcas Bal had form , curb to the‘car, distance from a pool | meets at Perry, March 26. Incident- years ago by the state bank cxamincr,| Yesterday they were required by| Conditions within the domain of the ee Ca a tear and ha of blood where the boy’s body had /ally(, while we were ready for a hear- jbecause its |assets were ticd up in|Mr. Saunders to sgttle at $150, ex-| cult and that an appeal was once caused a rise of five fect in a fr come to rest to the car, and other jing at Perry, we much prefer to have jbonds issued against North Dakotalcept when they were able to. find| made to the governor of Michigan to| Woman and Daughter Shot! hours, flooding Main street. measurements were made. The wheel |the hearing in Madison county, and ce regarded as insufficient to pro-| stock in outside at prices ranging| Prevent an inquiry by federal agen- 3 | HOLDING Ber ao iese tracks, he said, were easily traced. | Judge Kneeshaw will attempt to fvide security, in a tmass meeting voted| from $110 to $145. jeies marked the testimony late yes- | By Raiders, Report Pa DING. AT SIOUX CITY He said it was possible to tel! where | bring this about.” to subsctibe to a fund to be used in| A few sales were made carly at tefday, eeu City, ie Mar. 24—A gr the Whacte stopped. rolling after the | Florida System Explained. jeriminal prosecution of Jourgen Ol-|$125 to $135 previous to ri | ani proleht. her ite | Dublin, Mar. 24—An_ eighty | eauth Ot Sibis rat Ht prakes were pu Traian ered et aise “i .D., jori 8 ce ¢ a passionate | 1» Ma je He said he cout Inpt saelanyideviay | abe Elaride judte em tee Rumors of Jury Pamperiig |g NOs former majority ew cpl of Mr. Saunders’ instru | ples for action hgainst the House |¥e#r-old woman and her daughter and the flood peril to re: nee CaN \of David, and u challenge to attor-|Were shot to death at Aughasin, ‘the lowlands is growing hou |neys of the cult to bring into court | Longford, by a raiding party. | Gorges formed near Vermillion, SHELDON H, S. Lirls she declared had been mistreat-{. ‘The daughter's husband is a na-|D., 30 miles northwest, and Or . tion in the path of the wheels, He said the skid line, after the brakes were put on, started just north of the pool of blood and continued per- haps 26 to 30 feet south of it. Not s pratt Renae seene | Leon county, where Martin Tabert Other witnesses called during the | #8 sentenced to jail), Dixie county, (where he died in a lumber camp), Olson is charged with manipula- {tions through which the bank was se ieee . loaded up with the North Dakota St. Joseph, Mich. Mar, 24—jland bonds. A settlement without ‘Trial of William Z. Foster of Chi- any court action was made between cago. for violaton of Michigan’s | the creditors of the bank and Olson, syndicalism law, stood adjourned | «ut the creditors charge Olson ha. over the week-end today with the | not fulfilled his part of an agreement | een districts called judicial Jcuits, cach circuit corresponding somewhat to a judicial district North Dakota and composed of sev- eral counties. Heard at St. Joseph {ed by its leader, Benjamin David {tional officer and it is believed he, wana, lowa, 40 miles south, impe urnell, Girls of tender age now in| Was being sought, proper valued at thousands ithe cojony, she declared, would bear! A. mine ripped the lobby of ai dolla: Attempts will be mz Hane the sensational charges of im-|jMmction picture theater in Dublin| tc dynamite the gorge at Vern | morality practiced under the guise last night. An outburst of rifle; lion today. Unless the dam is by ‘and machine gun firing followed.; ken a repetition of the flood morning included Dr. J. 0. Arnson, | (whe 4 | e | of religious ceremonies. u Pats - lamilton county, Taylor county.| defense only partly completed. {to make good the losses.of deposi: 3 e One man was seriously hurt. 11881 n that section is f and Deputy Sheriff Phelps. {Madison county, Columbia county,| Adjournmnt last night was fol- | tors through a series of promissory ; ‘ Foe anion oe aie tee ra Siren 2 ges Lucena ested Suwanee county ‘and Lafayette coun-| lowed by rumors of jury tamper- ' notes. | Fumigator =e Causing | cicct, and then governor of Michigan | | lodsclenme aliens coobtene ing. While state officials refused ta discuss those reports Judge | Charles White recalled the jurors |! THE. WE ATHER || «+ and after barring newspaper men |» e| . from the ‘courtroom conferred with them for five minutes. He declined | For 24 hours ending at noon toy etd, N.-D., ity, comprise the Third judicial dis- |triet. It appears that, all cases where |telony is charged, are investigated by ja grand jury and that each judicial circuit has a judge and a state’s at- was sought by the cult in 1914, the | ' gorge near Onawa. witness declared when a federal in- | | quiry threatened. Mrs, Hansell, who was sceretary | to Purnell, went to Mr. Ferris’ home “lat BigeRapids, with Mary Purnell Fire Which Destroys Building GIRL IS SHOT SAY AMERICA ~ BY BROTHER 6,000 BARRELS .« MUST IMPROVE torney who have jurisdiction in all]to say why the jury had been re- { Temperature at 7 a.m. {cal high. school *puilding was com- i CAPITAL SHIPS the counties of such circuit, Thé| called. ‘Temperature at noon 15| pletely destroyed ky a fire wirich | Wyle of the ge institute with 8 ae aa fa rerarmer tee DB |Florida statutes. also provide that if = SATU ATES | Highest yesterday. 25)started at 6 p. m. yesterday when a! 40's restall fedetal action. Their re-B. ay init vente ol seen aS |a crime is committed in a county and N. D. FLOUR RA’ . Lowest yesterday. 14|fumigator exploded. The janjtor| Guest was Inid before the governor | tod re ine alent ge gent Washington, Mar. 24.—The five-five three naval ratio, the foundation Samples of flour made in North | Lowest last night. «6 !working it was overcotne, but was res- Dakota sent to the laboratories of the | Precipitation if for any reasons it is feared that an - 02 | cued, {at the direction of Purnell who had | shocting by her 16-year-old brother | Ponea City, Okla., March 24 stone of all the naval achievements growing out of the Washington arms conferences will be utterly de- stroyed unless the United States carries out its program to ren impartial grand jury hearing can not be had in such county, then the judge, when application ‘is made to him to do'so,'may sumbit the investigation to a grand jury in any other county, in the same circuit. Ward Baking compiny in New York! Highest wind velocit: os 15 showed a remarkable test, according Weather Forecast to information received at the office | of the Commissioner of Agriculture | For Bismarck and Vicinity: Bnoy jo} and Labor, The unalyists commented | Probable tonight and Sunday. The fire hydrants near the school { | already’ fled the colony and directed | Hildre, at their home in Richfi | their efforts from his refuge in Can-' yesterday. She died in a local hos-! {house were fougd frozen and this! jdelayed the ffre fighters giving the | blaze too mugh of a start to over-| [come te newest workable hydrant | > DILLAC AGE JURY was three blacks away. i jada, the witness declared. i pital from a bullet wound in the; | Approximately 6,000 barrels of ci iin a battery of-18 five hundred irel capacity tanks of the Comar oil Company is burning today in ithe Tonkawa fields. A heavy cloud i igo, the “Amerlenn ea, IA tRe Pie Details Reviewed. uarticularly upon the dry gulten test | Much change in, Yemperature. — NORWAY VOT! VOTES 9 or eee A oe ict ot xP ane after a careful | In the case of Martin Tabert, who] which was 14.15. Most flours, the| | yor Nort Dake ai Snow prov |_ The building cost $50,000 | | more than 20 miles away. The lo- Trea celine GRRieralraast | "(Continued on Page Three) | analysts said, ran 11.60. le, tenight end \Sunday. suPhicteeaned totale: anne: Onty| PROHIBITION OF | cat office of the Comar compen study of the whole si eh 5 as {much change in temperature. | |cight typewriters and the school rec- | f ihave not: been advised as to thé iow factors of aval power were Weather Conditions [ovis rere saved HEAVY WINES cout ot state ° i ‘ Before the fire had been pyt out ! pacha ead Ss, fficers occupyins LESSENING OF PRODUCTION OF ; An area of high pressure extend» pie considered | Foe | er gece echt ling from Manitoba to the lower|the sceool, board met and made ar- | : | Christiana, Norway, March 23—, TOWNSHIP CUTS © are included to rate the navies of | ‘panied by fair, cool weather from|t@"gements for reopening school in Estevan, Sask. March 24. reve liar Lagting, the first. section of} ae an 6 Ss ee naar | WHEAT IS URGED BY J. R. MITCHELL |S talig?Sa ben accom | emvorary bain” Mandy” or inc hor, dla te iu am te Staring ay adepted be ott) TS EXPENSES with Te area ee Taked opin’ “Tie An recatarotta Daliding she borne strictare immed ‘lage of Lignite, N. D. of, ‘robbery of|in Norway. The bill was adopted | Shields, N.-D.,. Mar. 24.—Tho the positign of being compelled to!’ Crookston, Minn. March 24.—| portation and the 30 cents a vad | below zero this morning in the Red|*tely. $8,000 and a diamond stick pin from) by the Odeleting, the other section | yusiness moeting was the feature -s ‘modernize her capital ships if she daction will show Amer- | tariff. / River valley. “Low pressure cen- ERA RRR |Paul Matoff, a Regina liquor agent} of the Storting, by a small majority | o¢ Shielde township election ‘i is to festore the comparative stand- | Wheat production will show Amer) "ir" saitchett recommendeg, one | terd over Montana is accompanied| JAMESTOWN IS jyrho was shot and Killed at Bienfait,| on Mayeh 19. | About 25 taxpayers of the townshi ing to which she subscribed. ican growers a profit only when huge wheat marketing agency’ with | by light precipitation from North |Sask., on October 4, last, shortly after) | were present, and a general dis- produetion is reduced to a little less various sections of the country gi- | Dakota westward to the north CONTEST VICTOR: r \coneluding a liquor deal with Dillage, | WEATHER FOF FOR j cussion was had relative to the he American consumption lor| vided into groups and producing jeific coast. | Temperatures have, 7 disagreed late yesterday, levy ai pensation. ASK FRANCHISE srstobano bushels, declared John R. a fal Mecbeting. td the dictates of tisen somewhat from the Rocky)" Valley City, N. D., March 24.--) It Will be decided today, if a new | NEXT WEEK| ith hee umeenaatice ms Se t Steele, N. D., Mar. 24.—Applica- is oe the federal re. | the agency. Mountain re; westward. + {Jamestown -college male glee club/|trial will proceed at this court, Dil. Nestos that taxes should ‘be re tion has been made to the city of | Mitchell, member of the federal Farm costs must come down and is W. Roberts, Meteorologist.|won the state intercollegiate male |lage’s wife broke down on hearing of| Washington, Mar. 24—Weather| duced and the place to begin 16 ti. Steele for a franchise for the in-| serve board speaking at the banker-| i, -ome must go up, sf northwestern’ — glce club:contest:held here: last night. |the jury's disagreement. | outfook for the week beginning Mon-| home, the meeting reduced lett stallment of a gas plant. The | farmer conference, the first of t- | farming is to continue declared Cur- | MRS, JOHN DE KREY dead ‘There were: three other clubs com-| ae (| day: year's levy of $2,500 to $1,800 for matter is in the hands "Oe the city] ies to be held in the n@rthwe tis L, Mosher. assistant federal re-| Steele, N. D., Mar. 24.— Werd|peting from the North Dakota Agri-| LIVING CHEAPER IN FINLAND || Upper Mississippi. Valley, rain} this year. A cut of $700. -Compen- counell for consideration. This| This would mean, Mr. Mitchell serve agent of Minneapolis, in open-.| was received ‘here Thursday that{cultural college, the North Dakota | Helsingfors, Finland, Mar. 24—| over south and rain or snow over| sation for road work was also re- plant, it is understood, will con- sid that the American consumer) ing the bankers’ side of the confer- | Mrs, John DeKrey, wife of a prom-/university. and the Valley City State |The cost of | living ‘inland de-| the north portion at the beginning| duced, making it as follows: 30: ! sume straw and other waste ma- ld. pay. $1.80 bushel for wheat, | ence between federal reserve and lo- | inent farmer of the Pettibone: dis-| Teachers college. George Register,| creased eleven points during Janu- and again about Thursday or Fri-| an hour for laborer, 45¢ an-hon: terial about the farms, to x spa ring’ the ‘price as the Canadian rn Minn- , trict bad Deneett away early in the|Jr., of Bismarck, is a member of the|/ary. This is the largest decrease | day; otherwise generally fair; fre-| for driver and two horses, Ge nu! the gae. wheat price plus the cost of trans- morning \from pheumonia, + winning club, ‘ recorded since the war. quent alterations in temperature. |‘hour for driver’ang four horses. . — No OW