The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 11, 1923, Page 1

{ | a |g 4 ) ; , de ’ ‘ 1 ; in "] a, ren 4 ' "> 4 ne 2’ an ‘ + the “Frolic.” WEATHER FORECAST. Somewhat unsettled tonight and Thursday, Warmer tonigh.t. ESTABLISHED 1878 ===] THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE FINAL EDITION BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1923 PRICE FIVE CENTS NEW FLORIDA FLOGGING CASE IS REVEALED HALF MILLION DO LLARS IS ESTIMATED BUILDING PROGRAM OF BISMARCK FOR THIS YEAR During the Present Building, Included in Program—Realty Value Rise M Opportune Time to Build, Many Believe. e New Residences Expected to go up in : Building, Season — Memorial Hughes Apartment Building and Others Are es Year oo A half million dollars probaby will be put into building ‘ operations in Bismarck this year. A canvass of persons interested in building work revea! that there probably will be 35 this year, in addition to other buildings. new houses go up in the ¢ projects are now being contemplated and definite announce- ment may be made soon. The steady increase in real estate values in Bismarck, the building of a new school on the West side, and the anti- cipation of steady growth for the city has convinced many people that this year is a profitable time in which to build. With the expansion of many firms was halted before the w smarck ig alrea beginning | sl the result. New automobile and distributing firms, including a lnboratory, branch office of which iy indicate that expect a steady growth as a distri-} buting center, | It reported that the several! sites along the Northern — Pacific| right-of-way are being sought by, block ments firms, among them the at} Third and Main streets, which burn- | ed. i The biggest single project ins year will be the completion of the} Liberty Memorial building on the) tal grounds. Workmen now are, aged in finishing up present con- cts, asd new appropriations pro: vide $115,000 for finishing and equip. ping the building this y Work has begun on the new bus-| iness and apartment building of ¥.| A, Hughes at the corner of Broad-! way and Second streets. ‘The build space be three 140 by feet, stories hoight iddition to a full bas ment. ‘The lower floor will be used | for mereantile establishments ana! tue upper apartments in all being planned. There will be one-room apartments! nd larger ones. A white glazed brick will be used for the exterior) finish, trimmed with blue-grey sand- tone Building of a building for the ex- press company west of the North- crn Pacific station also is a part of pr am for the y WINTER RYE IN GOOD SHAPE ‘arm Labor Demand nee Supply, Bureau States | i Winter rye in North Dakota Baal the winter somewhat | over low conditions with} which it entered on December 1 last, | but is still below average for this; time according to the Aprif 1 report | issued Wednesday by the U. S. Bu-| vreau of Agricultural Economies, | which places the April 1 condition at 80 per cent of normal, compared | with the 10-year average on that| date of 83.6 per cent and the condi-| tion on December 1 last of 78 per; cent. The spring farm labor situa-! tion is pronounced unsatisfactory | from the farmers’ standpoint, by the report which finds the supply of farm labor to be 95 per cent of- ‘the de-| mand, compared with 123 per cent a! year ago und ‘116 per cent in 1921, Numbers of brood sows on farms in the state have increased 10 per cent, compared with a year ago. BISHOP NAMED GIDEONS’ HEAD Grand Forks, N. D., April 11.—A. L. Bishop of Fargo was elected pres- ident of the North Dakpta Gideons for the coming year at|the annual convention of the order here. come through improved Other officers named are: F. L, Montgomery,’ Grand Forks, secré tary; I. A, Henry, Fargo, treasurer; W. D. Gillespie, Fargo, chaplain, and H. Schulze, Fargo; W. J. Harris, Grand Forks; H. W. ‘Gay, Minot; I. G, Schwartz, Bismarck; John Ox- chard, Dickinson; F. G. Chambard, Valley City; W. W. Allen, Devils; Lake; W. H. Rise, Wahpeton; and W. P. Chase, Moorhead; districy vice presidents. Chinese Buy U. S. Craft For Gunboat Manila, P. I ‘April | 11.—The yacht E1 Aguila, formerly owned by the late, Senator Mark Hanna, of Ohio, is Soon to be seen in action as a+) Chinese gunboat on the river, according to Chau Chiaco, & local \Chinese firm which has just purchased the craft from the Philip- pins. lodged in pine department of the UnitedStates them badly twiste army for $6,025, ‘and fish |FOUR CRIMINAL INSANE ESCAPE, GAGGING GUARDS Mattewan, N. Y., April 11.--Four prisoners at the Mattewan state hos- pital for criminal insane escaped to- d They overpowered night chman bound and gagged him and bed him of his keys. They next overpowered a guard who had the keys to the garage from which thes stole’an automobile belonging to the superintendent of the institution and drove north, carrying the guard with them as far north as Poughkeepsie, {16 miles north of here, where they} dumped him. Three of the foar men were cxp- tured in! Connecticut. TAYLOR HEADS GAME BOARD w rob! floors for apartments, 32, | aMoure Editor Named at. in the high. school: Reorganization Meeting W. ©. Taylor of LaMoure today jthe new chairman 3 the state game board, being chosen at 2 | meeting of the: new. board here. At ‘the same time, Dr. H. L. Rice of {Beach was named vice president, and 'George Dickinson of Minnewaukan twas — re-elec ary of the board. C. FE. Manning of Fargo, former ‘president of the board, Mr, Dickin- son and E, T. Judd, fish and gan commissioner, cleaned up the busi- ness of the old board and the reer- ation, with Mr. Taylor and Dr. Ticeiae wraeedinemberaneceeede? Wardens’ were appointed lows: Chief warden, W. E, Byerly, Ve H. A, Brown, Cooperstown wide deputy game wardens, first dis- trict, Wm. Schull, St.John; second district, Bernie W. Mourek, Fargo; deputy game and fish commissioner, Alf, H. Eastgate Bottineau. All the men appointed have shown much in- terest in the protection and develop- ment of fish and game in the state, board members said. The new hatchery at Spiritwood Lake, near Jamestown, probably will open about the first of May. FORD DEALERS ENTHUSIASTIC Weekly Purchase | Plan Means Much for Future, They Say state- Fifteen Ford dealers from various Missouri Slope points left Bismarck yesterday enthusiastic over the new Ford payment pldn explained at a conference here by D. E. Miller,, as- sistant manager of the Fargo fa tory branch, F, A. Copelin of Bis- marck said today. Mr. Miller, together with F. D. Bolster and L Schlegel, also of the Fargo factory branch, went into all details of the plan. It was explained that both Ford cars and Fordson tractors may be purchased. on the weekly purchase plan through a bank. The purchas- er deposits his money in a bank, making an initial deposit and agree- ment to maintain a regular weekly deposit, which may be increased. In- ferest is paid on the deposit. The Ford dealers believe that the. plan means much for the future of the Ford business in every part of the country. Two Pins Removed From Girl’s Throat 4 Portal, N. D., April 11..-When the “year-old adopted daughter of Mr. Yangtse | and Mrs. George Annis of Arobla, complained of in her throat, an X-ray examination revealed two the larnyx, one of An operation for -removal of the The yacht, was built in 1892 and} ping was performer by Dr. Robert was named the “Commanche.” It} Watkins of Arcola. Great care had was taken over by the navy during|to be exercised s0 as not to injure the war and the named changed to} the tissues of the throat and this Later ‘it passed. to the | was accomplished and- the. child army, and again became El Asal, quickly recvered. pital | Several building; ¢,| for teachers ‘| positions, to ! JURY DENIED will begin investigation at James | jointed to draw up artidles of or) army headquarters thin ‘atter- j town today ‘of charges that aes | ganization for the amalgamation of’ noon officially contradicted the fa tion of Stella Larrimore, 0h, the Suite insane hospital Rave! tho “marketing divisions of the! report that Eamon de Valera ba, tok ee a mores heen treated cruelly by guards. | | xoehwest Wheat Growers Inc., the had been captured, actiss, for a jury trial of the | ‘Th hoard members were to meet! iiited States Grain Growers Salen! ee arrar-Tellegen divorce case, iM, at the hospital today, following *a ¥ i : ' London, April 11—Eamonn De- which her name was mentione 4 ie "Gk AuEocy nd the E in eat as i mecting ut Valley City: yesterday ange today were in conference Valera, the Republican leader, has denied by the court, but he s given the ‘ht to itness who mentioned her to clear her of connection with the ¢: SIX TEACHERS RESIGN FROM CITY SCHOOLS Include nim De Bolt of; High School and Frances Mallory of William Moore Only six of the fifty-four teachers | the staff of the Bismarck ‘schools have sent in resignations to! jon be effective at the close of the [sehoo!’ yi | Among this group are V. H. De- Rolt, principal of the high school; Frances Mallory, principal of the, | William Moore school; Mrs. Trepp, in the commercial course Beutta Jacob- son, first grade teacher in William | | Moore. schogl; Shirley George and! Mabel O186n, -tewcheks in” the seéond grade and kindergarten, respectively, | “at Wachter school, | instructor “This is probably the smallest number of resignations of teachers from the city schools in a number of years d Supt. H. 0. i and indicates that the efficien the local schools will be greatly Mr. Saxvik | increas dl. that is was a sign that t the Bismarck schools was becoming o}more desirable, The school b last night, decided to provisi in teache: contracts permitting them to resign up to July 1, and instead to allow until May 1 who ‘have been offered sign contracts, ~ WOUND FRENCH PATROLLEADER Arrests Are Made But Penalties Enforced No Duesseldorf, Germany, April 11.— A French patrol at Feilendorf was ire ae today and the leader wound- No arrests were made but pen- Sed were enforced. A French cavalry man going off as; at Waleropp was. examining his revolver when the weapon was sud- denly discharged killing a girl at a window. The soldier is reported to have bécome demented through dis- tress. The French commander sent messages of condolence to the Ger- man authorities and the girl’s fam- ily. Americans Give Freely To Near East Relief Constantinople, April 11.—More than $100,000,000 has been given by the American people and government for the relief of exiled subject races in the Near East since the armistice. Upward of 5,000,000 pec sons have been beneficiaries of this American charity. At least 260,000 children are alive and. safe today because they are under the protec- tion of Americans. In almost every corner of Turkey, the Caucasus, Southern Russia, Greece and the Aegean Islands the stars and stripes float over relief stations-where food, medicine and clothing from. Ameri- ¢a’s generous families are dispens- ed to the destitute and sick. we ON BOARD Flasher, April 11.—The village of Des Lacs may have ousted its com- plete set of women officials, but the score has been partly evened for the suffragists by action of the village board of Flasher.’ Mrs. W. F. Berrier, elected one of the trustees }at the village elections was chosen mayor upon the organization of the board She is the widow of W. F. Berrier who opened the. firgt mer- chandise store in Flasher when the town was founded in 1908 and is one of the -heaviest .tax-payers in the. community* | Will Investigate Alleged Bru-, Representatives of Big Co-! Death of Liam Lynch, Cap- | Conference with President of ! forme ‘who declared guards often ; sane prisoners who did not do the STATE BOARD ‘DIVISION OF — IRREGULARS -SIFTSCHARGES GRAIN POOLING PCWER BROKEN ATJAMESTOWN: ISCONSIDERED BY FREE STATE tality at State Hospital | For Insane MEETING ture of Others, Severe Blow to Republicans VALERA C. operative Organizations | Seek Agreement Y PLANS S' GGESTED: DE | TODAY! MAN TURED? Division of Territory and of, Report “President” Taken Is Institutions and Others Commodities Among Denied at Free State on Program j -‘Thoze Before Body | Headquarters re dupa, | ie | The state board of administration psy, April 11.—A committee : Dublin, April 11.-Free ptates with normal gchool heads. been captured, according to a Cen le decide upon a form of activity ON es No fo plan had been arranged; for the tigation, prompted ‘in; tral News dispatch this morning. The Central News dispateh says Dan Breen also was taken prisoner, the men being captured at Klonmiel this morning. that will either divide the ter ‘between the three inv part by charges made by Ed, Steib, employe at the ins jin its respective territory, or divide {the commodities to be handled by the j merger, which is under considera SIX EXECUTED. bidding. Other letters making simi! ieee ' lar charges have been received by tot St the meeting being aaneat | Dublin, April’ 1i—Six, men were the board. The meeting today was: 7.) LW tne. in the grain executed in county Galloway, says a expected to be concerned chiefly! prowing states i press association dispateh with discussions with Dr. A. W.! litviclontHaxgeatea i Pca 1 Guest, superintendsnt, and others.. eed cat LY) BEsiiee othelires poneibiliey GENOa | ones he orem se salle sub-/ Dublin, April 11.—-The death cf tients in such an institution, makes! mibesn oeaetheggnecting, by Hele com" Liam Lynch, who succumbed last their testimony. of little value it; Mittee upon reconvening this after-| evening to wounds received when he Saal undbeatoedl (ea panvdaneMeBlanel wconre cicamegee pecrosau) tone: Ohl aw captured by! Rree State forces hed to use other methods te test! viding the territory for the pur-| near Newcastle yesterday morning.| ie Ruor el de: “i pose of marketing grain crops, met wii] he a serious blow to irregulars, the truth of charges made ‘with considerable opposition when) jt ig believed here. | The position of attendance in afi brouched at the meeting yesterday.! Lynch, as chief of staff of the] jinsane hospital is a distinct avoca-| Farm bureau representatives mect-; Republican Army, was-the man most| tion, according to some state off-' ing with the 1 entatives of the intimately associated with Eamon| cials, Guards usually are persons | ; egnearnedl pence experienced in such work at varioys mob (ceue| Meeniel capturenofi Tuam: Lynene bet ' institutions, and frequently they) cur in such an agreement. soldiers obi thorhreckeiete, says the| travel from one institution to aneth-| the other plan, which appears to Irish Times, “inflicts a heavy blow! of er to vary the monotony their ineet. with more general approval,'on the forces in arms against it | unpleasant tasks, {Would assign to the Northwest) During recent months he has been ape | Wheat Growers Ine. the work of!the-real leader of the Republican |} BOARD, MEETING extremists. DeValera was their ure-head but Lynch was the brains handling all wheat, and ‘divided the; AM members | narketing of all ‘other grain or; Jamestown, April 11 of the board of administration’ were’ joducts between the other two par-, that kept South Ireland in the pres-| present at the meeting held at thetic. tothe merger, Both plans, it/ent sorry condition of disorder and} state hospital“ today to consider |i “stated, would he gperative under! alarm. Youtine business, During @Bis|, contral conthel or besad. | “A strong fighter, with a good! time the business of cruelty andi” adoption of the division of com-{#rasp of guerrilla warfare he more, mistreatment of patients made BY! wodity rorm of merger was the| than any other man has kindled the j Ed. Steib of Cleveland, North Da-) coreeast by the leading representa-| temper of revoft und prolonged the kota will be taken up and} tives ut the conference, at noon to-|Tesistanee to the people's will | thoroughly investigated and a re-! gay “There is plenty of evidence thut port on the same made shortly. | SuggestoRoaracoturine the rank and file of southern Repun: | — A board of five directors of the|/i¢ans and some of their leaders are merger has. been suggested as the vs of their barren conflict nd | governing body. ‘This matter, how-| "ealize that however long prolonged ; ever, probubly will: he -covered in| ‘t ean have only one end. committee this the report of .tcrnoon. ions affiliating with the BURIES BODY NEW W ISIE aly in the meeting are the Farmers Union of Towa, the | State Board of University | Farm Bureay Federation of Minnese, OF SLA E i vi ta, North and South Dakota, the and‘School Lands Full United States Grain Growers In Brother Dremel of Tragedy: Before Knowledge, He Says and a number of lesser associatio’ Representatives of the state Ag cultural College also are attending the meeting. Resolution Offered At the session today James Man-} imhan of St. Paul counsel for the ——— university and school lands for. well Eauity cooperative exchange offer-i Ernest Mammeken of Tacom: on to two years, Carl R. Kotsitzkys) 04 ino following resolution: | Wash., brother of the slayer of Ellen land. commissioner, said today. The |" pg by representatives and, Albertson, had a presentment that; i jhis brother was involved in a tragedy,! Ived board has determined to complete! : organizations here assembled: that payments on bonds previously pur- | hi before he left for Bismarck to close | up his brother's affairs, he said here | farmers hoard of trade be organized ae ck oe Res ce Manisa ei the Twin Cities ‘terminal market, before leaving for Tacoma, | have not become available to mi Word sent to him that his brother was dead did not include details of | payment. The board has pledged pur- {With regulations and by laws simila |the tragedy. Hammeken came to| Bismarck as soon as he could get’ chase of $2,085,600 of bonds, most!y {to those of the chamber of commerc fot achool diatelets. jto function as a definite and indes During the month of March the} Pendent market place for farmers; ya Ge “Sait here that. the night | board paid out $356,200 in purchase, 9rRanizations, co-operative organi-/ Dmav- ) He sail here thas the eat f bonds, which it had previously ,2#tions and furm bureaus generally. | ¢ See of Dp er's death he dreamed that some: agreed to purchase, and made $10,-! The proposal after discussion was! thing terrible had happened. | 700 farm loans on old applications, |Feferred to the special committee. | He expressed horror when he! ‘earned of details of the crime and | said that his sympathies were with! \the Albertson family. His brother, | Theboard is not in position now), —_—— he said, possessed a violent temper, to'atéept new applications either for bond ‘issues or farm loans, and ty and he believed this lead to the ?p ASSES SEN ATE crime and suicide, las He said two or three brothers complete payment, it was said by the} Mr, Hammeken, who is a railroad St. Paul, Minn, April 11—By a, j living in Denmark, one in particular, land commissioner. opman, has a wife and seven chil- vote of 35 to 29, the senate passed, are well-to-do. He arranged for his up on Bonds No new bond issues of political sub-divisions of the state are likely to be bought by the state board of “American Fever” Again Breaks Out Among the Swedes: ithe Babcock bill providing for aj brother's burial in Fairview ceme-; + $20,000,000 highway bond issuc. ‘tery . | Stockholniy April 11, — “America | Passage of the bill followed a] The correct name of his brother, | fever” again has broken out in vari-i lengthy debate dnd a series of closeiknbwn as George Haneckegh, is| ous parts of Swedeny according to} votes on attempts to delay action | “Hammeken,” he said. statistical reports, This term is 8p-| or to amend, plied by the opponents of emigration { to the yearnings of young men andj i | ELKS MINSTREL women to seek their fortunes in the; RESIGNS PLACE | DATES ARE SET United States. {| Minot, N. D., April 11.—William | More than one thousand persons ; Gettelman, for the past two years ; — left Sweden for America during Jan-|city engineer of Minot, will within, The annual Elks minstrels will uary and February of this year as;the next few days formally tender | be held at the Auditorium here on against fewer than three hundred for| his resignation, to take effect the| May 4 and 5, it is announced. the same period last year. Virtually | latter part of this month, when he| Clint Draper, who has directed all of these emigrarits’are well sup-| Will leave or Bismarck to take athe minstrel show in previous years, plied with funds to cover their trav-| Position with \the state highway will return this year. Worfl from eling expenses, afd’ most of. them | commission, | Mr. Draper is to the effect that he have asia who will help them | ;will have new costumes and many éut when they ‘arrive. i new features, Swetaniacaucta ‘ander’ the. United FINED FOR SRUEL EY. z McLeod, N. D., April States immigration law is sbout 20° | palmer, MeLeod farmer Matted coat par tyeehe ime ago for cruelty to animals was | Riven the maximum séntence by! | Judge’ Thompson, thirty days in the, ‘county jaif’and a fine of $95. The | ' stock were found in a deplorable con- dition Bre} the. state humane officer. u Vote to Increase School Tax Levy; Des Lacs, N. D., April 11,-—Vaters| of Des. Lacs special school since 1 ' Seattle, Wash, April 11.—Walking GUARDS SENT TO. JAIL. into the. police station here this Jamestown, N. D., April 11,-- Be-| morning E, Efec, a second-hand deal- have gone on record by an informal cause they did not appear for in-|er announced he had shot to death ballot of 47 to 4, pledging them-!spection, two members of Co. H.‘his wife and three daughters, two of selves to vote to tmereage the tax| Jamestown national guard unit, were | them aged six and seven, and one levy so as to'enable the district “to! court martialed and sentenced to; infant, because he “was tired of so maintain its standard four-year|serve. three days in’ the Stutsman | much trouble at home.” trigh school course. county jail. Officers say they found; Efec was locked up while police- The law as it affects the Des Lacs the procedure necessary under the|men hurried to his home six blocks district provides that taxes cannot rules and regulations governing the|away and verified his report that be levied in‘ exeess of 18 mills. discipline of. the. company, {he had shot his wife four times and uA RLY BIRD J. 1B. Robinson of lowa is the member of the new Congress open his office in] Washington. first to BANKER GETS 24 YEARS FOR DEFALCATION Heavy entence Is Adminis- tered by U. S. District Judge in Ohio O.. April 11 sentences ever nounced by a federal judge southern Ohio district was gi August H. Penfield, former cashier of a Springfield, O. (National) bank late yesterday, following his plea of guilty to 5 noof nine counts of indictment charging him with hav- ing embezzled nearly a million dol lars of the bank’s funds. Cincinnati, the heaviest of pro- One an Penfield was sentenced by Judge ‘smith Higkenlooper to serve 21 years in federal penitentiary at At in the | Whipped 17-Ye "BOSS IN CAMP OF SENATOR IS HELD BY JURY Old Wash. 7 Youth Un- ington, D. C. mercifully fa BERTPROBEPROCEED: | North Dakotan Charges Con- spiracy of Florida Sheriff and Lumber Company Macclenny, LE April 11.—John Roddenburg, convict gang boss at the Baker county turpentine camp of State nator John Knabb was indicted late yesterday by the Bak- er county ferand jury on charges made by Paul Revere, white, 17 old, Washington, D, C. youtn who maintained he was flogged un- mercifully as ofter as twice a day while serving sentence at the camp for vagraney He was company ed to Senator Knabb's by the county. Madison, Fla., April 11.--Investigu tion into the death of Martin Tabert, North Dakota youth, while serving a sentence in a convict labor camp 14 months ago, was started today by ihe Madison county grand jury, Included in the list of witnesses we former guards at the cam where the floggings are said to h and former convicts who they were whipped, Walter Higginbothan, former con- who is being held on a charge for Tabert's death, was brought here to await outcome of the grand jury action, The it understood, will is ‘ask an indictment of Higginbotham. The defense, on the other ha will endeavor to show Tabert die of u complication of diseases, broughi of a complication of diseases brought about by fever, which is the contention of the lumber company to Which Tabert was leased. lanta, Ga., and to pay the costs of his prosecution. In a confession vo ational k examiners the forme: cashier ed he used the bank's Money to speculate in stocks and grain, | ‘ENGINEERS VIEW RIVER PROJECT HERE U.S. Army Engineers in City —N. P. Engineers Super- ise Viaduct Work Major Gee and ed St apt. Parker, Unit ates Engineers, lof Kansas City, /E. 0, Hathaway of St. Paul, U. s. Bureau of Public Roads; Bernard | Bloom, engineer maintenance of of the Northern Pacifie and J. a St. De: Paul, r, district engineer, both of yesterday afternoon in spected the condition of the west] hank of the Missouri river above the Northern Pacifie bridge at Bis- marek. ‘The government has been asked t@ revet the bank to prevent} further erosion of the river point 1 men who accomp: the visiting enftineers were ple with the careful study made | ‘jor Gee and other engineers hope government work will he car- ried on this summer. Frank Ingles, supervisar ot | bridges and buildings, of J. and Supt, W, Berner of James town were here, Mr. Ingles, who has been with the Northern Pacific mestown, {since 1882, attended the driving of; completing the) the “Golden Spike” road and the laying of the corner- stone of the state capitol in Bis murck September 5, 1883. The Northern Pacific are interested also in the work of| placing big concrete slabs in pl [on the vinduet on the new road to ithe river bridge. Two big concrete slabs, each weighing 33 tons, were lifted into place yesterday. It was expected the work would be com pleted tomorrow morning. There are cight slabs in all, The wrecking crew and engineers worked with precision on the job, completing each section during the interval be- tween trains, so as not to slow up passenger service. “A pile driver was ordered to Can- nonball from Bismarck yesterday, it being reported that the Missouri; wag cutting into the bank and might! endanger the railroad track. ‘SEATTLE MAN KILLS WIFE, THREE CHILDREN, SURRENDERS TO POLICE) each of the children two or three times. The bodies were scattered about a bedroom. Efec said he had used so many bullets because his victims did not die quick enough. A policeman burst the door open. The-tody of the woman was cold, in- dicating she had been dead for some- time, but the three children’s bodies were warm. _Mrs. Efec’s throat was cnt and she had been shot several times, engineers | | guard. } | { { ‘the country, have them sextene | genbotham, ‘if he remained on the job. ) Said he quit his job as a guard be- | cause of his health. Conspiracy Charged. A development in the the assertion of G. Grimson, attorney for Cavalier count North Dakota, that he had evide to prove that Sheriff Jones of Leon county and other offic ein collusion with railroad detecti es arrest men who were riding through se_yester- them to the Patnam Through his attorney, n- botham yesterday made general de- nial of sall accusations against him, mitted he had flogged Tabert, @ the licks administered “were all light ones and 1 only hit him a very few times.” Higginbotham refused to di $3 a statement to make “Il remember Tabert und I admit | whipped him. A fel- low can't handle a bunch of convicts I with kid gloves given him of but the punishment within the law and lashing him severely I e him a few light taps of pneumo: according. to the camp physician, who made a thorough diagnosis of the That's all I know about it.” The state had sembled more than a score of witn of them young men who were a ed on minor charges and given. pri- son camp sentences and former con- vict guards stationed at the lumber ‘amp where Tabert died. All True, Says Guard “All of the activities camp pertaining to brutalities prisoners are true,” declared A Shibers of Doe Run, Ga., a former Shibers while waiting to testify told of floggings and other brutalities which he said took Place at the prison camp. He said men were forced to work waist deep in water at the swamp from sun-up to sun-down and that he was employed to stand over them with a sawedoff-shot gun to pre- vent their escape and to speed them up in the work. He declared that Walter Hig- whipping boss rode around the camp on a white horse with a whip weighing 7% pounds hanging to the saddle. No ma: he said, Gould survive the malaria He inatend today t the ot Another Prepared J. W. Jackson, another guard, asserted that he was prepared to | tell a story of how he made ready the body of Tabert for burial. He said the body was almost a solid mass of sores while deep welts | which he aid were caused by a heavy lash stood out on the back. Jackeon ‘said that at least ten men were whipped at one time in an afternoon and night, among them Tabert. Tabert was whip- ped severely. More. Than 90 Licks Jackson and Shibers both as- serted that they counted the licks on that occasion and that they. to- taled, more than ninety. . Glen Thompeon, native of Towa, who served a sentence in Putnam Lumber pany camp, asserted that the North Dakota youth died as a result of a whipping given by Higginbotham. He declared. that Tabert was almost ‘plind with malaria at the time and that ‘he . (Continued on Page. iT