The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 17, 1923, Page 1

‘ BAND BENEFIT TICKET DRIVE UNDER WAY Fair tonight sind probably Wed- y. Warmer tonight. WEATHER FORECAST. | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [acon FINAL EDITION - ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TU ESD AY, APRIL 17, 1923 . PRICE FIVE CENTS BAND PROGRAM SUCCESS RESTS. WITH PEOPLE Sale of 1,500 Tickets For Con. | | WHERE FOUR WERE KILLED | cert Here Thursday Night To Carry on Program | ! TEA OUT ON DRIVE ss of City Started — Many Expected to Pur- chase Blocks of Tickets Benefit C The Band ticket drive | opened today. Bight teams of men and women} today started working toward | 1 of 1,500 people to attend the ! I entertainment at the audi-; torium Thursday night. Sale of 1,500 tickets means the successful financ- When this Great Northern train was wrecked near Spokane, Wash., ing of the Association of Commerce; four were killed. The accident occurring in a gulch, rescue work campaign to put Bismarck in the! Was greatly impeded. front rank in North Dakota in band) WW eae The teams which left the rc SHERIFF MADE Chinese Troops tion of Commerce offices o’elocic | . ° H (its aorning! to) selliitichets ewere’|| in Quick Revolt: Men's teams, Chris Bertsch and! ses George Smith, H. J. Woodmansee | 93 FOR EACH | London, April 17. -K troops) and Jos. Bleslow, E. H. Weber and! $ ject by General Shen Shung- A, J. Holta, B. E. Jones and Harold Ying, whom the Peking government Griffith; women’s team, Mrs. F. B.! only yesterday appointed military Strauss and Mrs, Jos. Breslow, Mrs. | CONVICT LEASE: governor’ of Whang-Ung provine Alfred Zuger and Mrs. Obert Olson, | attacked Canton troops support- Irs, Edw. Bannon and Mrs. J. I. Set-! ng Sun Yat Sen, says a Reuters dis- | Mrs. H, F. Keller and Mrs. Geo. | ;patch from Canton. The attacks Mann. Sheriff of County Where Ta-!have so far been repulsed The musical entertainment at the! ‘ i Q auditorium will be given by the fa-, bert Died Admits Profit mous Hallowell company, with J. A. | Wentzell leading baritone. The com- pany was obtained by the band com- mittee of the Association of Com-' | || by e merce because of an oper date, ata! ENQUIRY RESUMED very low fee. Press notices in other | cities record many successes for the musical organization, which usually | Counsel for Lumber Company has played at higher prices than are = asked for the concert in Bismarck. | Will Present Denials to i Mr. Wentzel is said to be a singer of | | Charges Made | iI voreah aves "TWO KILLED IN EXPLOSION ON G. N. TRAIN: unusual power, Boy Scouts, under F, J. Grady, te eee have volunteered to act as ushers at | the concert. | Accident | tims of -Fatal and Third May Die Talluhassee, April 17.-Sheriff J iR, Jones of Tallahassee made « per. {sonal profit of approximately $23 on each prisoner ed by this, Leon, CROWN SHEET com- FAILED: pany, he testified today before the ne 7, . | The tement will conclude with {also to force the British government Roosevelt's boat.” DIE IN FIGHT Negislative committee investigating, Men Killed Blown Consider tenis punning ud f its army on the Medora In Defended. 1 _By Milton Bronner prison conditions in his state as the | able Distance; Three {| “The new owners of The Tribune | Rhine or else withdraw it. ‘This lat-} The conclusion of a social item Service Staff Correspondent. outgrowth of the death of tin a believe, however, that the people of )t¢r point is disputed in informed « jconcerning a dance to the effect that | London, 17.--With the going | N Tabert of North Dakota. ; Train Men Escape |North Dakota—all the people—-are}¢l¢s where it is asserted that the|*nothing occurred to mar the pleas-| becoming harder and harder for the Resuming its inqu into the, weury of factiona: sirite. They be-| British now getting more thanjure of the occasion,” the bold type} Bonar Law government, speculation a ree of Tabert the joint commit-; yginot, N. D,, April 17.—Two men|lieve that the time is passed if; the Germans and the cost of their/used by the Golden Gun Armory of | is rife as to who will be next in line| —— x tee of the Florida legislature was to! ‘were killed, one almost instantly and! there was ever a time when there #™my through the recovery act which | Dickinson in advertising “s hoot- j for the premiership. State’ and Federal Officer}cati_witnesses of the Putnam Lum-|the other dying en route to this|was need of strife between city ana jst nt receipts is yielding annual-Jers” and the bid of the senate bar! Three men stand out: Earl Cur- 5 her“=nmaeny to obtain their version! city and a third is in a hospital | countr: ly six million eight hundred thou- that “the genial Jim is in constant zon of Kedleston, the Earl of Derby Each Killed Near New Jor the attair. here,. seriously injured, as the re-| Mr, Dotson is president of Walker ! sand noande: : ittendagce” fives ap. dmpression| ind: Austen, Ghambental pe : Orleans _ Counsel for the lumber company suit of thé explosion of a boiler on} Bros., Inc., and former owner of the! baw ee rubienerou heated ane) Staples, Balewin ei ne Ee intimated yesterday that the charges! q Great Northern locomotive on | F{rgo Forum, ‘The Forum was sold | owboy, ard, seemed anxi- exchequer and strongest member o en of brutality would be answered paint iwest bound freight train at Roach, 0/16. its present owner in. 1917 xs fous to correct in the same igsucs of | the present cabinet, seems to have New Orleans, April 17.—A deputy|by point in the form of a general de-! siding 32 miles west of Minot. will assume the ‘duties of Pres atl jthe paper when he wrote: : been dropped from consideration | sheriff and 2 prohibition officer} nial, | The dead are: and Treasurer of the new company. | ‘e ‘Although Medéra has never been’ since the defeat of the government, were shot and killed in a battle with Seer eR | Thor K. Thorsdahl, Minot, DPALec IME. Brownractocnes sexton’ of this| FROM IOWA’ a scene, in anite of Jaeangets Ol by a snap om ty on Tuesday, | rum runners at the Lake Forsene near i man, Jeity, will be secretary and business i eeeecenerary:. Of i. 8 eH sev asim Use He swab temporarily LAKine |i on gt wattenduntae ero Rl eee Violet, La., early today, according to q | Fred Remus, Minot, fireman. manager. He formerly was udver- jumong cowboys, we cannot, help but’ the place of the prime minister, Who , 4 report received at police headquar- } ' i C. C. Bonniwell of this city, engi-|tising manager of the Forum, The Join with other cattle papers in urg- had lost his voice, when the Labor- ters. The dead. were named as Dep- 'neer, is badly scalded and attending | other member of the incorparnan| Immigration Department) ine the nece of discarding the | ites forced the vote while the Tor- uty Sheriff Bolo Estobinal of St. physicians this morning pronounced | ix Mrs, Susan Dotron. | six-shooters while in town. On the’ ies were still straggling in from din Bernard parish and federal prohibi T0 BE | HONORED tion officer August Estevel. A body | was found at the end of the bridge. | It-is reported that one of the run- | ners received a bullet wound. The runners have not been ot _been captured. his condition as fatal. CAUSE GIVEN The explosion of the boiler was | due to a crown sheet failure, caused Annual Veterans Night Will by low water, a statement authoriz- “ed this forenoon by Be ernect| Take Place Wednesday McCandless of the Minot divi- Night a aid. N. P. PLANS] USE eh The accident occurred at 5:10 p.j | eres m. mountain time. The train was| The Annual Veterans Night of St.) traveling about 30 miles an paee| OF LI Ni Elmo lodge, Knights of Pythias, will! and contained 40 freight cars. be observed on Wednesday night in| Automotic brake appliances * stop; [ped the train within about three ar lengths. | | The engine trucks and drive§s re-| mained intact on the track and She; *! boiler was hurled through the air in a Northwesterly direction about 6v0; feet, landing at right jangles with| the tailroad track, ‘It smashed; through the telephone and telegraph |! wires and disrupted communication| for several hours, i Killed Instantly OX Thorsdah!, was kiiled instantly, it is believed, although his body was! Castle Hall, Starting with a supper at ‘6:30! o'clock, an interesting program has! been arranged for the evening. J. Holta will be toastmaster for the banquet, and short toasts will fol! low. A smoker and entertainment is on the program: following. All visiting Knights are welcome it is emphasized by officers of St. Elmo, Tax Receipts Ma May. _ Be Canceled Is Decision of Court Ellendale, N, D., April 17.—County treasurers have the right to cancel tax receipts when checks tendered in| payment of taxes prove worthless because of insufficient funds or any other reason. This was decided by District Judge ¥. Englert in court here in dis- sing a mandamus action brought by Ralph Hall of Edgeley to compel E. M. Wallrich, county treasurer of LaMoure county, to issue tax re- ceipts which had been canceled by former Treasurer Henry Hodem, when Mendersd check proved worth- less, Railroad will | Experiment With Fuel on Engines The Northern Pacific railroad, which is to build a branch in Mon- tana this year to open lignite coal fields, will experiment with the burning of lignite in locomotives, according to announcement by H. E. Stevens, chief engineer, in Minnea- polis. It is planned to weg lieite coal on three divisions. fr Man- dan to Missoula, Montana. ‘ It is probable. that. extensive changes in method of consuming steam coal will be used and that the experiment will not be underway for many months, SPEED ARTIST VISITS CITY Flying over typewriter keys is the occupation of Barney Stapert of Paterson, N. J., in Bismarck today for exhibitions arranged by the Un- derwriter Typewriter Company, He was to give demonstrations at the high school, business college and capitol. Stapert’s record in a national contest was 4281 words in 30 min-| Mr, Hat) was cashier of the Citi- utes, with but eight errors, ‘his } zens state bank of Edgeley.which was seore being figured at 181 words a interested in. the transaction, and] in -the caboose- when ‘the explosion minute, , which ‘later failed, 4 occurred, ee é a ‘| the accident.. It had been blown many feet to the rear of, the north sidé of the train and was obscured in the field adjoining the right-of-, way, His left army had been torn from his body and was hind the-tender of the engine. Rémus was found on the south side of the trajn, about \ three car} lengths from where the boiler ex- ploded. , He died without regaining! consciousness, accordjng to members of the train erew who brought’ the! " injured man to Minot. Bonnievi was unconcious when members of! the crew who were riding in the ca-} boose reaehed him and was lying with his back against a telegraph; pole. The-only, other three members of the train crew, W. W. Valentine; and N.S, LaFlgme and F. C, Papen- dyck, conducto?, all of Minot, were | were completed here today | Two Minot Trainmen Are Vie- 1 NONPARTISAN ORGAN PASSES TO NEW FIRM Sale to Company Headed by w York, April 17-—The Com- J. Dotson to be An- | munist party -of Americ: dissolved | ’ itself and diverted it to the] nounced Tomorrow | Workers Party of America which it | recognizes as the only affiliation of the Third Internatio: f Moscow TO BE “INDEPENDENT” in the United States, it was discle Says Announcement of New Owner Fargo, April 17. the sale of the Fi official organ of league and = morning the Nonpartisan paper formally announced in the new paper tomorrow, it vecame known, today, The purchaser is the Fargo Tribune Company, controlled by J. DP. Dotson of Fargo, and Clarence W.; The newspaper , Brown of St. Paul. will be known as the Fargo Tribune. Negotiations for the sule are said} to have been going forward jnumber of weeks, Mr. Dotson, speaking for the new| owners, said today he position to was not in a announce who will have that the present heads of de tments would he ! The new owner, it is understood, as- umes none of the obligations of the ,old company excep: those respecting the plant itself. Transfer of Physicai Property pion. The Tribune, under its ested in the tof the farmer ‘cerned to see s been. welf: just the Tired of Fighting? ‘RUHR HOLD IS TIGHTENED; TO ill Still Champion Farmers.) the Workers Party. here, and will for “x| editorial charge of the paper, but it! lis not likely retained. | ‘North Dakota will have lost a cham: | tatives of the new | were ement is just as keenly inter-/ their governments nd_ prosperity | s sincerely con-| warrant f@r stice done as it ever | conference had broken up. It will not abate one iota} of itsediligence in watching out for. lute priorit real interests of the farmers,” | States th i EXTEND ACTION lias Expect I Many More; Mines to be Seized in Near Future Essen, April 17.—The authorities General De Goutte'’s order for the not found for several minutes after| delivery af coal in transport inside the Ruhr has been applied with spe- cial force lately and other steps have | been taken. The ‘occupation of the mines also has been extended and the Germans found be-| expect the present week will see the {taking over of a number of addition- al pits by the occupying troops. Coblenz, April 17.—The “commis- sariat of the empire,” which is the Berlin government's highest author- ity in the Rhineland been abol- ished by the inter-allied Rhineland | Naturalization Examiner, who is con- high commission. INSTITUTE 0. E. 8. CHAPTER Washburn, N D., April 17—W. J Reynolds of Westhope, end ‘Mrs, | last Blanche Lynn Whittemore, of Bow-|through i test, they ‘coming from man, grand patron and grand. matron of the North Dakota Eastern Star Chapters, were in Washburn) Thurs- day- evening to institute @ loch! chap- ter of Eastern Stars. | possible for immigrants to take up of occupation have been tightening | their hold upon the Ruhr noticeably | the last few days and the adoption of even sharper measures is expect- ed in German quarters as a result jof the Paris conference between rep- resentatives of France and Belgium.!tles there for the Near Kast Re- "INTIMATE GLIMPSES OF MEDORA LIFE IN THE ’80’S DURING TIME OF OPEN RANGES GIVEN IN “BAD LANDS COWBOY”, Communist Party } Is Disbanded today by C. E. Ruthenberg, sec ‘of the central executive committee of U.S. DEMAND ON ARMY COST IS. _ BEING OPPOSED » Deadlock Develops in Con-! ference in Paris to Settle Rhine Army Bill j | WILL MEET AGAIN are | Allies Assert U. S. Demands! Would Cause Halt in Coal Shipments to Italy Paris, April 1 ‘An American di ; mand for absolute priority on The transfer is of the physical mun reparations to pay the ‘cost of |. The Projects of the Marquis de/ property only most of the stock-: the America Army of Occupation on| Mores, French nobleman, who plan- j holders retaining their shares, the Rhine was continuing today to ned to build great packing ‘hous The new owners in its Puplic deadlock the conference here over |#t Medora are touched upon, In the stitement tomorrow will state that] this question, it was stated in well] eme column, the departure of “Bob” the policies of the Fargo tribune Will’ informed quarters. Elliott W Roberts, for shis ancestral home in’ be “independent, owing no allegiance! qorth, assistant secretary gf thei Wales, the” ret of Levi Doffen- to any political party or faction.” | treasury, representing the United pace for Genmiany, itogslaimianls “This does not mean,” the state-! States, was awaiting another call for| fortune, and the return of numerous ment will add, “that the farmers of| a conference session from "| other adventurers to Chicago and presen- allies who meanwhi The allies if abso-! United | # asserted that as given the effect would be | st {block shipments of coal to Italy and Sends Field Workers There Field workers of the state immi- iNew York are chronicled. , elt, then ranchiog ‘i ‘7 structions = fr ‘5 Md BENE pindinuieti ons gate orn ree nouuaa Landes founduthe Ciivee Mr. Wadsworth suid there was no | Page” rik Hg UE Ca eta Heid] the statement. that the |COWboy reveals, His announcement calling a meeting of cattlemen is | found in one issue and in other gan is serving time in the Bismarck penitent i range, one sometimes is needed, inytown there never is any use for! the situation, Baldwin has come \them. To carry a six-shooter should | ro. considerable Newapnpae Kieveivea in His: torical Society Here Tells! of Days When Adventurers| From All Parts of the} World Met in Little West- ern North Dakota Town — | Roosevelt’s First Call for! Public Meeting Published Full many a flower is horn to blush | unseen | And waste its. fr nee on thet desert air, i Full, many a oman hath drawn an other queon, And pulled a sweetened jack-pot from the air. (Bad Land's Cowboy.) Life was free and easy back in the ‘80's in the famous Bad Lands attle country. Copies of the Rad Lands Cowboy, weekly newspaper tablished January ‘ontier , 18% Medor reveal community unlik: that df any other in North Dakota. | Photostat copies of the newspaper, | have been placed in the State His- torical society library by the velt: Memorial association. Advertisements bespeak portance of the cattle indus a score of cattle owners’ bri vertised in each issue. Th sonals” veal the communi for men from distant climes. Other items dis-j close the YY problems met by the cattle men in the carly days. Roose- the Theodore Roo: it | s reported that “*Bad Man’ Finni- | for stealing Theodere | but 3 Running for Bonar Law's Job j ner, SARL CURZON ARL ASYLUM CRUELTY CHARGES DENIED FARGO COURIER-NEWS SALE IS ANNOUNCED WHO'S. NEXT? | | patients STATE BOARD'S PROBE IS NOT OVER, HOWEVER Administration Body Says amestown Hearing Showed Steib Charges Unfounded REASSURE RELATIVES Will Keep Investigation Open For Further Evidence, Board Says abuse of e insane hospi attendants are General aceusation of at the stat tal at Jamestown. by not sustained in the investigation thus far made by the state board of (ABOVE), DERBY ( CHAMBERLA Or ) AND For his untactful handling ‘of in criti be ‘a custom more honored in the! ; Srngerrets ration department will invade Towa pscche then obsestanes’ A ales: abies iets alt ae viding in an effort to bring | farmers tO) mined and united movement is being {heir high horse naw ee North Dakota to take up attractive! made among southern cuttle men to| XPerted tha aes eats offerings yet this spring, Commis-| 100 the custom, and northern. men | Eee, the rib nly in heat t, sioner J. H. Worst snide today, Pee ine. The si oot. | analysis would: Ram nald be ©. Williams, field worker, and Miss |or'ig the one thing thut gives cow. |28Ked to form a Labor nment, | Licla’ Dessem, special field worket,! hove a bad name and we hope ite | mless, the old properiy- owning par. will headquarter at Iowa Falls, Ia. days are numbered.” thought this the best wal of {and visit numerous Towa towns, dis-| The Bad Lands Cowboy was a con- forcing an elect on and badly de-| playing North Dakota products. An|-istent booster for the. community.| feating Labor. intensive drive will be kept up untill q careful enumeration, in 1885, re-| The chief handicaps, which al June, Mr. Worst said. Because of vealed 261 citizens in Medora, it said, | Curzon or Lord Derby would have to the late spring, he said, it is still ;many choice farms offered, Valley City, N. D., April 17—The Rev. L. G. Moultrie of Valley City Diocese -of the Episcopal chure jsailed April 11 on the steamer Asia |i for Beirut, Syria, to resume his du- lief. He was accompanied by Mrs. Moultrie. Citizenship schools being conduct- ed in Bismarck” at the Will school and the Wachter school were praised here to by Robert Carlson, U. S. ducting the examination of appli- ;eants for citizenship ,at the court- house today. Mr, Carlson visited Will school night, and put 26 aliens both the Will and Wachter schools. They showed the result of splen- did instruction in the quiz, Mr. Carl ison said. The | goverament recognizes night -of which 145 were men, 39 women) and 66 there was recorded a floating popu-|_ fi latian of between 50 and 100 working |is Chamberlain if he SAIL FOR SYRIA. men. Among the booster stories was | to come back ‘NIGHT SCHOOLS OF BISMARCK ARE ‘ PRAISED AS AID TO FOREIGNERS caNnceL BoNDs the value of night schools, he said. A certificate from recognized schools is accented by the ledge of laws and country. hen of those in the school not read or write last September. children, and in addition in 32 hours and fiye minutes. (Continued on Page Three) government customs of ca eligible to seek citizenship, are | alified under the instruction. There were 28 applicants for ci izenship appearing before District T announcement that the Medora stage] unite all wings of the conservatives | had smashed all records between Me- ; under dora and Deadwood, making the time be a strong likelihood that he would “This | in time has never before been dreamed j chancellor of,” the article added. The copies of the paper were en-} tant job, I ja cabinet under these circumstances Itheresis a {George or Asquith m ito step in. John eee school diktrict, Logan county; Knute Sev- | Swe could} tr i | Schoot district No. 3, Crosby; J. 0. i Graff, Hesper school. district, Hesper. State laws are strict in their re- Judge Jansonius today at the court! | atleast of bonds to recover -de- house. J/The examination was expect-! ed to continue most of the day. aid, Bonds‘ of four school treasurers as; have been cancelled because of al- proof of qualification as} to know-/leged lack of depositary bonds, HAr- the old Hopton, manager of ‘the State Eight students, who have| Bonding Fund said today. They ar been in the country five years andj would be the growing prejudice | nst having a peer as premier. he likeliest figure on-the ninoal can be induced! into the party and: him. Even then there would on having Lloyd George as his of the exchequer. and; ;Lord Birkenhepd in another impor-| f the Conservatives failed to form Possibility that Lloy: a ve asked | | OF TREASURERS | treasurer, Klundt mn, Lincoln Valley school dis- t, Fortuna; R. W. Rokseau, Home sof public funds, Mr. Hopton | was substantiated was | immediate While asserting the investigation is not closed as yet, and that any evidence tending to show mistreat- ment of patients is Aveleomed, the hourd'’s statement reassures rela- tives of unfortunates at the James | town state hospital. Ex-service men confined in the hospital suffering from war disabili- land sev ut Jamestown, | “inyestigation of these general and serious charges | will be continued.” The probe was instigated by com- | plaints of Ed Steib of Cleveland, | former ‘employe, who asserted that attendants at the hocpital abused patients, often beating them, The statement of the board ad- pn on insane aeylum probe o- Administration met at the State Hospital for the Insane at Jamestown April 11th and ter appearing in the Courier- News under date of March 25, the signature of Md. Steib of Cleveland, North Dakota. The h ing hegan at 7:30 p.m, Wednesday ud continued until hom “In addition to these charges, the ! in Bismarck, as well as at the State Hospi al. “Besides Mr, Steib, the Board lis- , | the jin the police station cell here on a administration, the board said statement issued tod One charge of m ina eatment which followed by attendants statement decl dismissal of responsible, the ties are well treated and doing well, al soon will be discharged in restored mental condition, the statement asser ¢ board wishes police that while hearing is over,” referring to the to assure the this “particular the statemehe says, hearing conducted to consider the charges nismanagement outlined in a let- Board also considered the statement sent out in an Associated ress dis- patch of April 11th, touching upon the death of one®Lo Wentz, of rand Forks, whose death took piace the State Hospital in Februa | Complete stenographie notes of the testimony were taken and as soon as the transcript can be furnished Iwill he onen to inspection at- the. of: fices of the Board of Administration tened to testimony from several of attendants, including the super- patients, two of whom are about tu be discharged, Written by Another Steib stated at the hearing the article appearings in the (Continued on page three.) “Mr. that VAGRANT HELD HERE HAS SEEN MANY PRISONS Philip W. Frantz, now languishing charge is no stranger to the inside of jails, according to the story he told police. He left home at the age of 16 and , has been traveling about the coun- try for over 15 years, he said. Places of confinement he has, been in he named as follows: Boys Industrial School, Laneerters Ono; county jail, Cleveland, San Francisco jail; Stockton, Guitecs, jail; New Or- Teans jail, House of Correction, Maryland; Gretna, La. j |N. D. Man Accepts , Position In U.S. Veterans Bureau Fargo, April 17.—C. L. “Dad” ; Dawson, first North Dakota depart- ; ment commander of the American | Legion has accepted a position in | the legal department of the United States Veterans bureau in-Washing- ton DC. Mr. Dalwson received his instruc- tions to report to Washington at once on last Friday, April: 18; Mr. Dawson is a graduate of the law school of the - University of North Dakota and was at one time’ state’s attorney for Golden Valley county. He has more recently -been practicing law ih Fargo, He also acted as’ chief clerk of 39Rt North Dakota brett re Mr. Dawson was, di vice during the war, as a cadet at the en Omaha, Neb. { e+