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

WEATHER FORECAST. Probably fair tonight and Wednesday; rising temperature. .. ESTABLISHED 1878 ~ HIGH FINANCE | CHARGES MADE: BY THE STATE Examiner’s Report Declares: Little Left in Mohall Oil Company MANY BOUGHT STOCK Repetition Impossible Under | New Law and Regulars, Secretary Says Charges of “frenzied finance” are made in reports of. spe ers for the state Blue Sky C | sion on the activities of the Great American Gas and Oil Company of Mohall, it was learned here today when the veil of secrecy was lifted | after official court action had been | instituted before Judge A. G. Burr by Francis Murphy of Minot, special ussistant attorney-general. Officials of the company are charged with exceeding the orders of the Blue Sky Commission in the | umount of commission allowed for sale of stock; exorbitant salaries, | failure to complete an oil and gas well started at Mohall, and gross | mismanagement. Scores of farmers throughout the counties purchased stock of company which has practically ngth- | ing left on hand, according to the | report submitted sometime ago by | E. Wambhein, examiner. Many | persons pyt their Liberty Bonds in-| to stock and others gave notes./ Farmers were the heaviest buyers of oil stock, the report says, The state affairs aid to exist with | respect to this company will not be | duplicated again under the Blue Sky | law of the receht legislature and | rules of the commission, R. J. Mur- phy, secretary, who laid the case before the commission last August | when the permit of the company to, sell stock was cancelled, said today. | The Blue Sky Commission has plac- | ed a maximum of allowance for pro- { motion of 15 percent except in un-j usual instances, he said, and is em- powered by the legislature to re- quire that proceeds of stock sales he held in escrow until the capital stock is fully paid up. Action Started in August Action in the Great American case was instituted after protests of some stockholders were made and followed by a petition to Attorney- General George Shafer by A. M. Sorenson, Geo. L. Baska, Leo E, Be- ‘han, Robt. Altberg, Geo. 1 Rodsater and Harvey Pulloy of Mohall. The petition charged mismanagement, that the company had ceased to} operate in North Dakota, that the | company had violated the orders of | the Blue Sky Commission in selling | too much of the stock, in overpaying commission on sales, in taking notes in excess of the amount allowed, in paying extravagant salaries, in mak ing false reports and asking that | its affairs be wound up in court. Records in the office of the Secre- tary gf State show the company was ihcorporated August 22, 1918, the articles stating “it is the in- tention of this corporation to pros- peet mine, pump, dig and drill for oil, gas, coal and other allied sub- stances in the vicinity of Mohal| in the county of Renville, state of North Dakota, and other places where lease have been obtained * * ‘apital $300,000 | The capital stock was placed at $300,000, with William Clifford of | Mohall president, E, R. Sinkler of | Minot, vice-president; ang J. E./ Bryans: of Mohall, secretary. The | records of the Blue Sky Commis- sion show the names of R. E. Clif- ford of Mohall and C. W. Reichert of Carington’“as directors in addi- tion to the officers. On Jahuary 15, 1919, the company { was given permission to sell $25,000 of stock, the’ motion in the Blue Sky Commission being made by then Governor Frazier, it being pro- | vided that not miore than $5,000 of the $25,000 should for promotion purposes. On July 25, 1919, the company was allowed to sell $100,- 000 additional of stock and on Oct. 23, 1919 was given permission to sell the balance of the capital stock ‘of $300,000. The company was pro- hibiteq from charging paying com- mission greater than 20 percent for sale of stock, and prohibited from taking a note for stock for more than $100. The company. violated this rule and took notes for as much | as $600 to $700 from one pérson, R. J. Murphy declared. The examiner's report, it’ wa: learned, declared that a large amount of notes taken for stock had been discounted at banks, and that $50,000 to $60,000 of worthless notes remained on hand. The company, | the report declared, was_ virtually without funds. Selling Campaign A well was started’ near Mohall, Renville county. A mammoth sales campaign was inaugurated. Autos “ met jprospects at the ti id took _them to the well. Gas been found, it is said, and wells burned ; brightly at night when prospective | buyers for stock claimed. ‘ "When the well was only partly, down to-the dépth it was planned to, drill the’ company the contract ‘with the well drillers, was broken, the Wambhein report declared. The Great American, sued the drilling compaty. The company sued the wall drillers. ‘An attempt was made by some parties to remove part of the equipment to Montana, it ie chareee: it also is charged the state that stock. sale: man sald stock to some people, at the, par value of $1 share and wauld sell stock to rs the same day for high as ‘a share, ‘ The, Wambhein report charged an THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | Did Dead King Tut Poison Lord Catnarvon?! Ancient Legend Recalled MISS LEYLA By Jose;hine Van de Grift NEA Service Staff Write New York, April 3.—Was the of King Tutanghamen reingarrated in the spider that bit old Carnarvon and gave an almost fatal bivod po'- soning to the English explorer! \ Absurd, say modern pros: irans. Not at all, says beautiful Leyla Barakat whose ancestor in cont gone by were ruled over by same Tutankhamen. “Such a happening would be per- fectly consistent with the old Egyp- n_ faith. ptian Book af the Deud devotes one whole chapter to giving the formula whereby souls of the dead may be converted into forms of any animals they cho the heron, the crocodily, the hawk. What. would. prevent Tutakhamen from “turning himself *into a-spider if he chose? “Certain it is that the aneiont Egyptians promised all sorts of dire things to the despoilers of their tombs, A sentence of death, was passed upon any who should be so foolhardy as to eat the food that was placed in the tomb for the use of the dead. ‘That was because the soul of the dead was expected to revisit the tomb regularly and somehow subsist on the food that was placed there. this NEW HIGHWAY APPOINTMENTS ARE ANNOUNCED | | i Assumes Office, Hopes For, Efficiency Hope that the state highway com-| mission “can be brought to stand- ard within a short time” and that it can be made one of the | best commissions in the country was ex- pressed by State Engineer Walter G. Black of Mandan, who was in of- fice today in succession to W. H. Robinson. Mr. Black announced ment, of/C. A, Myhre, former!; Valley City and recently road en-} gineer, to be assistant chief en-: gineer of the highway commission to succeed H. 0. Wray; promotion { of J. A. Wallace, former division! engineer at Devils Lake, from -pro- ject engineer to construction en-; gineer; and T. G. Plomasen, former-' ly at Beach and recently in the de-| partment, to be maintenance. en- gineer to succeed H. K. Craig, and; David Lieberman to be chief clerk.; No other changes were announced. | A. D. McKinnon of Goodrich was | named project engineer and William | MeGray, who has been head of the} drafting. room, was named bridge | engineer. { It is understood at the canitel! that no suggestion to Mr, Black' with regard to appointments was, made by Governor Nestos or other | state officials and. that the ap- ointments were not considered po- itical appointments. Girls Brother Shoots Memphis Middleweight, Memphis, Tenn., April 3.—Frank Jones, 28, who is in jail here, charg- ed with murder in connection yes- terday of Jack Britton, ‘middle- weight boxer, told officers that he had. sought Britton continudusly since Friday, when his 17-year-old ter told him that the pugilist had wronged her, until he fired two loads from a ghotgun in the; man’s body,| after he drove up to their home yes- terday, Britton: was regarded as only a second rate boxer here and never gained any real. name in his ring contests, He was known in boxing circles as “Keystone Jack Brittin.” He was 91 years: old and married. Total cost of the League of Na- tions lest year was more than 85,- | | appoint- | at | BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1923 By Egyptian Girl | LINEINSTATE SENDS PRIEST ‘Candidates for State Offices After Officials Professed Ig- Take Big Majorities After norance for Two Days, Defeat Last Fall Learned He’s Executed 1924 START WHAT THEY Republican State Chairman Declares it Indicates Wave Toward Party Opposing Soviet Rule—Pro- tests From Many Lands Detroit, Mich., Ap 8.—Republi- can voters of Michigan “swung back | into line” and “made a splendid start for the Presidential campaign,” Burt D. Cady, chairman of the state Re- | publican’ central committee declarea ; today in dise' ing yesterday's elec + tion in which the entire Republican {ticket of minor state officers was —Vicar-General : the execution occurred cn March 31, The newspaper Ises- tia aserts: e sentence of death as refused has The time and on whose reprieve been carried out. place are not given. Monsignor Butchkavitz met death victorious. | ‘The outcome, Chairman Cady de- | clared, was a display of party ha 2 ‘mony that was gratifying to Repub- | before a firing squad. lican leaders following the split of, ‘The Ivestia prints the announce- last November when the Democrats | ment on an inside page under a one- | were able to Gist Race i N.! line head in its court news depart- | Ferris to the United States Senate. ment. In the Pravda the execution ee earn ee ene tart aman |i8 noted briefly without comment. in ' since the Civil War. Possibility that |# column of local news. es another show of Democratic strength; Contantine Butchkavitz, Vicar- ‘might mark yesterday's balloting had | General of the Roman Catholic j caused the Republicans some cone! church in Russia, was sentenced to ‘cern. | death on March 26 after he and 16 While the Democrats found some| other prelates, including Archbis- ‘encouragement in the election cf|hop Zepliah had been found guilty \of opposing the Soviet government. Frank Doremus, former congressman | ¢ as mayor of Detroit, Republicans} The Russian Central Executive Com- | pointed out that the mayoralty elec-| mittee meeting last Thursday night ‘tion was nonpartisan and that Dore-|to consider appeals made in behalf of the ecclesiastics denied clemency oti soul was suppos- | mus, always a strong candidate here i ; At othet times the soul was suppos- | Ta yittually_ been conceded the of. , in the case of Monsignor Butchkavitz asserting that he had “used his pos- ed to take the form of a bird or an- fice. ne 4 ; ‘ candidates for state of- j ition as a priest to carry on a direct BAKARAT imal and go about over the coun- | : try. Eventually it would come baék | Republican Put to Death on Charge of} has been executed. The | | State Engineer W. G. Black! and reanimate the body. | “That was why they mummified the bodies and preserved them so | carefully. “Now if Lord Carnarvon and his | explorers by despoiling the tomb! disturb Tutankhamen’s rest and make it impossible that shall | ever reanimate his body, isn’t it! logical that the soul of Tutankha- | men would he revengeful and that | he would be moved to take such measures as lay in the spider's bite or to assume the form of the pecu- | liar incubus that brought sudden ; and mysterious illness to the Coun- | tess of Carnarvon on her way to her | husband's bedside? | “At any rate, that is the way the | old Egyptain-faith -would,explajn it.” | But docs the beautiful Leyla Bar-' ukat who three years ago came from Cairo to the United States believe this? Ah, no! Her ancestors long ago} gave up the picturesque Egyptian | faith for the more logical workings of Christianity. Miss Bakarat was educated in aj Christian college at Cairo, spent aj number of years on the Continent | and ng in the United! States. JONES TAKEN | TO U.S. PRISON: | Fargo, April 3—C. R. Jones, for- | r of the City | Bismarck, who pleaded guilty to the recent term of federal court to a charge of em- | bezzling $17,000 while employed by t itution, was taken to the Jeral penitentiary at Leavenworth last ni . S. Marshal James rving a_ sentence | Jones has been jail for} ing com- MARCH COLDER | THAN '23 ON 17 OCCASIONS Weather Bureau Records Show Three Years of Same Average Temperature sei mitment to the federal pi | While the mean temperature for March, 1923, was below the nor- ‘mal, particularly during the last half of the month, it was by no means the coldest of record for, Bismarck, according to the month-| ly summary of the weather bureau, Statistics compiled by the bureau show that there have been three years since 1875 with the same) ‘temperature, and seventeen with average temperatures lower than during the month just passed. The coldest March of record was inj 1899 when the mean temperature for the month was. 8 degrees, com- pared with 21 degrees for 1923. The warmest March was in 1910 when the mean was 43 degrees. The highest temperature record- ed during March, 1923, was 54 de- grees on the Ist; the lowest was —16 degrees on the 18th, The geatest daily range of temperature was°43 degrees on the 19th, and, the least was 7 degrees on the; 21st. The total precipitation for the month was 0.28 inch, or 0.76 inch below the normal. ‘The total ‘snowfall for the month was 3.4 inches. The total wind movement! wag 8,303 miles, or an average of 11.2-mileg per. hour. The highest wind velocity recorded was 36 miles per hour from the northwest on the 28d. ‘There were 4 days with 0.01 inch or more of :precipi- tation. There wefe 8 clear days, 9 partly cloudy days ,and,15 cloudy ) The sunehing was deficient, being but 64 per cept of the pos- j and management played an important nd jinterest aroused indicated a bij ‘new park acquisitions but mainten- fices today continued to led their Democratic opponents by three to one. In the November election this {ratio was somewhat less, consider- | ing the ticket as a whole, MANY VOTERS OUT EARLY IN. BLECTION HERE Predicted That Vote of 2,600} to 2,800 May be Result | in Election A vote of 2,600 to 2,800 was pre- dicted in the Bismarck city elec- tion by many interested, about noon today. Early voting was} fairly heavy in some precincts, and there were many workers out for the various candidates. The vote of the city is above 3,300, | Cities in the state under thej commission form of government are holding elections today, while; those under the aldermanic form held elections yesterday. PARK BOARD FEATURED | Mandan, April 8—Management by | the park board was the subject of a hot city election fight in Mandan, decided by voters today. Mrs. Wm. Simpson is a candidate opposing Fred W. MeKendry, the present member who a candidate for re- election. Citizens also are voting on a pro- posa] to issue $10,000 worth of bonds for the purchase of needed | fire-fighting equipment. —— i THREE WOMEN CANDIDATES | Fargo, N, D., April 3.— Fargo. voters today are selecting two members of the city commission, a police magistrate, justice of the peace and threg members of the park board. There are 10 candi- dates for the two vacancies on the ejty commission, including two women. Mrs. Jessie S. Conover is a candidate for police magistate. | PARK PROBLEM PROMINENT. Minot, N, D., April 3.—Park costs { part in the Minot city campaign, vote today. C. J. Fuglaar, candidate for re-election, said he would favor no and development of present Candidates far the ion included Mrs. Irenc id Mrs. Mary Wheeler. Mrs. Kraner said “It is high time we have a housecleaning and I am with city, both ance The elec-| ¢ tion contest has been JAMESTOWN VOTED MONDAY. Jamestown, N. D., Apri) 3.—James- town, which is under the aldermenic system, held its city election yes- terday. There was le excitement. I. W. Siltman was re-elected in the first ward; George Sartelle in the second; A. W. Morgan defeated F, W. Still in the fourth; Prof. W. B. Thomas of Jamestown college was re- elected in the_Fifth ward; William | Hall was re-elected member of tae park board, DISCONTINUE AID Dickinson, N. D., April 3—Forced to take action he result of a re. straining .order served upon. its members individually and collec- tively, the’ city commission at. its regular meeting on Monday voted to discontinue the appropriation of $100 monthly which the city ha: made to the Dickinson munieipal band for the last several years. ot one, Vessels of galvanized fron are not suitable ‘for ‘containing food .ma- terials, as\many of these-have solv- ent properties og the metal. and active state treason.” The com- mittee at the same time commuted ito 10 years imprisonment the death ‘sentence imposed on the Archbis- op. H Many Lands Protect News that Monsignor Butchkavitz i would have to pay the extreme pen- jalty created a stir in many lands. | Soviet officials since last Friday ‘had professed ignorance as to what | the final outcome of the case would jbe, and last Saturday afternoon Commissar of Justice Kurski told correspondents that the death sen- tence had not been carried out. The prelates were charged in gen- cral with carrying on wide-spread propaganda against the Russian gov- ernment and were alleged to have incited the people against the Com- munist regime. Maxim Litvinoff was quoted as saying that the ac- tion against the defendant was po- litical rather than religious. In reaching its decision to commute the sentence given Archbishop the Centra} Executive Committee said it had decided to modify the decree of the court because “a certain backward element of the Catholic citizens of the Soviet. Russia might consider the sentence” as irected against the priests and their reli- gion.” Trial Began March 21 The trial of the prelate began on March 21. They were charged spec- ifically as follows: With opposing the decree separating the church and state; 2. With opposing seques- tration of church treasuries; 3. With engaging in a campaign of ag- itation among the Catholic clergy and parishioners in the hope that the churches might be closed, thus inconveniencing the Soviet govern- ment the Vatican and impairing the terms of the Riga treaty with Po- land. ‘Foreign Minister Tchitcherin_in- formed Poland yesterday that Pre- mier Sikorski’s recent pronounce- ment in regard to the sentences im- poed on Archibishop Zepliah and Vicar-General Butchkavitz “is un- doubtedly an unfriendly act and manifests an aggressive policy to- war Russia”. ‘Appeals Turned Down Appeals from the outside world which had poured in upon the Soviet authorities had no effect in staying the hand of their executioners. Com- petent opinion, indeed, is that the breaking of diplomatic relations by outside governments or a threat of war would not have moved the Mos- cow officials from their course. Their last word in the case had been spoken, it appears, when they co- muted to ten years imprisonment the death sentence upon Archbishop Zepliah, convicted at the same time as Vicar General Butschnavitch. Protests from all parts of the world were made agaitist the execu- tion of the death sentence, the American government joining in ap- peals for clemency. Protests of the American state department was based on humani- jan grounds and set forth “the earnest hope” that the life of the Vicar General might be spared. In the trial of the Catholic pre- lates and priests he appeared bald- headed, rosy-faced and spectacled an bore himself with marked seren- ity throughout that ordeal which resulted in death sentences for him self and Archbishop Zepliah and prison sentences for their 15 fellow prisoners. RUSS MAKE THREATS. The Russian note “In view of the fact state has the undeniable right to punish criminals according to the Jaws of their own territory the. at- tempt to intervene in this right and prevent the execution of a legal sen- tence passed upon a Russian citizen proved guilty of a crime against the people and the state—an attempt ac- companied by threats and unheard of insults directed against the Russian government—is undoubtedly an un- friendly act and manifests an ag- @ressive pplicy toward Russia.” Automatic machines for the sale of bus and subway tickets been installed by London shops. . that every; have | la G.0.P.BACKIN RUSS SOVIET CUNO SAYS FRANCE INVADED ‘hancellor Makes Startling Charges in Exclusive Interview- Given William Philip Simms Radlogram to NEA Service, Inc. i copyright laws. service and Repr ¢ Tribune. Copyright 1924 by NEA States and all foreign countries having oduction is prohibited. Berlin, April 3.— In an exclusive interview given the {writer in Wilhelmstrasse, C {many and the ruin of the Ger If France a rest for the whole world. _ The German chancellor cl j tional mediation. He author and the whole world has beer universal opinion—shared by { tories has engaged universal has given a hint of the French “He proposed to tear the Prussia. He further proposed I am grateful to Loucheu “There’s but one answer tc Rhenish zone must remain an rights of this country. “The dismemberment of G Franco-German matter. the peaceful development of th WOULD DISBAND | HOUSE OF DAVID Lansing, Mich., April 3.—-Quo war-| ranto proceedings to compel officials | of the House of David colony to! show cause why the organization should not be disbanded were eel tuted in Ingham circuit court today } by the state of Michigan. | i IINRATUATION WITH CHAPLIN IN TRAGIC END Young Girl Swallows Poison! After Being Ejected from | Room, She Says Hollywood, Cali Apri] 3.—A young woman saying she is fifteen | years of age and claiming acquaint- ence with General Francisco Fer- rano, Mexican minister of War and | Pedro J. Almada, inspector general | of police in Mexico City, interested | Police sergents and newspaper men | Saturday night with declarations of ; having swallowed poison after hav- ing been ejected from the bed room of Chas. Chaplin, motion picture ac- tor. She gave the name of Marin Ve- ga, of Mexico City. While no traces of poison were found the mo’ comedian in whose auto she {was taken to the hospital told of several entrances effected to his house by the girl through ruses and of her being put out by his Japan- ese servants. Her story was of infatuation with the comedian through seeing his pictures in Mexico City and unsuc- cessful attempts to see him at the studio followed by gaining entrance into his residence while he was out of remaining in his residence until found by Japanese servants, when he returned with Polan Negri his fin- | ancee. , The girl was induced to leave af- ter a brief talk with Chaplin but returned a second time and after being put out said she had purchas- ed poison at a drug store and effect- ed an entrance again, Induced to} enter an auto she collapsed and was | brought back to the house, She was rushed to the hospital, but surgeons shook their heads and placed a! question mark on_ register. Mes-! sages addreseq to Fernano and Af- mada appealing for funds were found in her possession. HAIRPINS NO EVIDENCE. London, April 3.—Hairpins found on the bed of. the co-respondent were submitted as evidence in the divorce case of Tom Gunnar Steph- enson Furness against his wife. Wife's counsel protested they proved nothing because Mrs. Furness has bobbed hair. WHISKY THIEVES BR AND CARRY AWAY Baltimore, Md.,. April 3.—Whisky thieves broke into one of the storage buildings of the Spring Garden Gen- eral Bonded Warehouse No. 1, D: trict of Maryland, in southwest B: timore, early today, bound the three ‘watchmen’ and carried away three truck loads of liquor. . The watchmen were t cout ccomplishes her purpose: it will mean disaster and peacelessne: hancellor Cuno of Germany man people. s ,according to Cuno, for Europe and un- arly made a bid for interna- ed the following statement: “Throughout the months of the Ruhr invasion Germany n waiting for France to show the ultimate aims of her action. “That she is not bent on reparations is shown by the! fund to enable to the state to bring the allies—that the invasion diminishes the means to get reparations. “But at last one of France’ | L. Loucheur (whose work as minister for the liberated terri-; died at a private convie: most astute politicians, M. attention), in a public speech h_ motives. Russian zone definitely from to ‘emancipate’ these German provinces and to make an artificial political body of them. | r. He specifically proclaimed what Germany by. bitter experience has known for centuries | Attorney G. Grinixon, before lea’ to be French policy: namely, dismemberment of Germany. | here for Florida, wired Judge Knee- » this French challenge: The integral part of Prussia. “We cannot permit France to interfere with the sovereign |the investigation. ‘ermany would mean not only the ruination of the German people but disaster and peace- lessness to Europe and unrest for the whole world. “For this reason the French policy of political aggression | noz is willing to tes with so-called sanction can no longer be regarded as he entire world.” | SENTENCE WAR | CABINET HEADS i i ! V counts of the death of Martin Tabert FINAL EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS GOVERNOR OF RUHR TO CUT UP GERMANY FLORIDA WILL ASK FOR FUND Would Enable State te Bring Witnesses From Many States to Florida CHARGED! openly charged France aims at the dismemberment of Ger-- JURY MEETS SOON Many Witnesses From Other States Express Willing- ness to Testify Tallahassee, Fla., April 4 ,ernor Hardee in all probability will ask the legislature for a contingency witnesses from all parts of tho country in connection with the in- vestigation into the death of Mar- tin Tabert of Munich, N. D., who camp in | Dixie county early in 1921, it was ‘learned today. | JURY MEETS APRIL 9. Langdon, N. D., April 3.—The Florida grand jury which is expected to probe the Martin Tabert case will State's |meet next Monday, April 9. shaw, already jhim at | would in Madison, assemble Florida, to meet so that they witnesses prior to | Before leaving here, Mr, Grimson 'made public a telegram from John |Marinoz, of Tacoma, who claims he |saw Tabert flogged in the convict jcamp shortly before his death. Mari- he said. “E finished reading ve just ac of Munich, N. D.,” Martinoz wired. “French intentions of the dismemberment of Germany |«1 was there at the time and saw become more and more an international danger and concern the whole affair and swear it to be true, If desired I am willing to tes- tify to that effect.” On suggestion of Judge Kneeshaw, now in. Florida, Colonel Stanford Coleville of Jacksonville, probably will be retained to assist in the prosecution of Walter Higginbotham, the whipping boss, held on a charge of first degree murder as a result of the alleged flogging of Tabert. tare ' Witness Called. FB L AR | Two of the witnesses summoned |by Mr. Grimson to meet in Madison | this week are Paul Garden, of San | Antonio, Texas, and Glen Thompson, ‘now in Iowa, In the meantime, the work of ra‘s- ing a fund to carry out the investi- gation is going on. A> total of ap- proximately $1,800 has been raised, ‘mostly through subscription in ‘alier county. Residents of Grand WAR DAMAGES LEVIED) rks and vicinity have subscribed FOR SHOOTING STILL DEBATED French Declare There was Ample Cause for Action of Soldiers Six Are Sentenced to Live in Imprisonment by Supreme Court Sofia, Bulgaria, April 3.—The su- preme court has sentenced to life imprisonment, six members of the} Radoslavoff cabinet which held, office at the time of Bulgaria's en-! try into the European war. They Vaseil Radoslavoff, former pre- mier and minister of interior. Dimitri Tontchef. minister fianance. Pierre Peshef, minister of public| instruction Dr, P. Dintcheff, minister of ag- riculture. Ivan Popoff, minister of justice Jobry Petkof, minister of public works. { eo General’ Naidenof, former min-| London, April 3.-The amount of ister of war, was sentenced ‘to 16/ Provocation which the French troops years imprisonment, and five other |t Essen received last Saturday be- generala from five to ten years, fore they fired on the workmen of The convicted men were ordered, the Krupp factory, is still the sub- to pay war damages amounting to! Ject of many reports. A dispatch to 32,700,000,000 lire. The Times from Essen quotes the of- HadoslavofY lett Sofia after the! ficial French version of the affair Bulgarian collapse in. 1918. He|te the effect that the workers, having went to Berlin where he remained|>een summoned by sirens, stoned a considerable time, but eventually |the troops, threatened them with re- departed from that city, fear-{Volvers and directed jets of steam at tee vaaneacinati@n ° them, and that the troops, who num- K. Apostolof, former minister bered 11 with one officer, were oblig- of railways and posts and tele. |¢d to shoot to free themselves, They graph, and Generat N. Jekot, com.|fited in the.air, however, and called mander in chief of the army were, "Pon the mob to disperse. The cor- Doth centancea to0 coaee. respondent also quotes an unnamed yen |director of the Krupp works and a SOMEBODY LIED, Tombs, “ihe, Workmen's, Council TAKES OWN LIFE visional commander to withdraw the |troops, both of whom denied whiss Cooperstown, D., April 3—“1 tles were blown. am going to do it tonight. I amj cl been hounded. Farewell.” Thus read a note left by Erik! Olson, 40, farm hand, whose body | jta twolon their trucl was found in his room in a local | hotel. He had hanged himself. The day preceding his death he had given an old tobacco can squeezed shut at the top, to a mer- chant and had asked him to put it away. The can was found to con- tain currency and a draft on a Grand Forks bnak totaling to $486. No relatives have been located, although a sister is believed to be living near Velva, MICE DARKEN TOW! Lincoln, England, April mice got inside a transformer at the municipal power house and bit plunging the town into darkness. through the rubber of a_ cable, The mice were electrocuted. « EAK INTO STORE GALLONS OF LIQUOR hours later by a Baltimore and Ohio trainmen, who heard their cries for help. They. said there were 40 men in the gang. The bandits gained’ en- trance to the building, the watchmen said, by breaking the lock on @ door. | | CLOSED HERE Judge Jansonius Will Now Hear Court Cases 1 | 1 | , | The jury called in district court here by Judge Jansonius was dis- missed last night, after a large number of cases on the docket had ‘heen decided. Jud; Jansonius will now hear several court cases which are ready for trial, and in the near futyre will go to the nor- , thern part of the state to sit sp | cially in Burke county commis- | sioner’s contest case. VaR xe bea Phd case ts the sale’ agains fando Alloprando, charged with illegal oe of liquor, , was. dismissed. He had been in jail waiting trial approxi-_ mately three months, or about the time of the senténce which’ The guards were, quickly over- powered and the robbers made short’! whisky work of loading barrels and. gettin