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™ States during 1921. This is revealed by a check-up con-| will cost about $5,000, the petition : ducted by Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, consulting statistician | ‘tes: of the Prudential Insurance Company. i ote aie \ __. Hoffman found that 28 leading cities, with combined pop- Incorporations ' ulation of 20,558,770, had 1910 murders last year. leAubiclesiom ineomseration: fled with EE On a population basis, this is over 10,000 known murders | the Sceretary of State as follows: for the whole country. To them mustebe added the un-| The Coloncl-Kevin Oil Co. Fargo; knewn number of murders that are suc ully concealed | capital stock $100,000; incorperators, and do not show up in the police reports. These probably |! Pavuniers, : » -run’into the thousands. ae EM TR LCRIeE Een aah The death toll should draw @grim smile from the Turks,| tat stock $25,000; incorporators, ‘ “next time America gets excited about Armenian massacres: [A. aller, f Miller, L. C, Maller =a J [St Thomas, i fee Piorte Se egret SEE BIREREN ex cEIM Are eg Ste Magi Murray Farmers Grain, € | irs ee nipronns 4 Se caeina riety Henaret cece ee BNA COUIEM Ties 3 000; inediport { 0) at just a is ators, Howard Henretta, E. A. UL [ 3 le & h: y x 3 7. Pag a TT EN bhi a z ee _PAGE FOUR ‘ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE TUESDAY,- APRIL 17, 1928 THE BISMARCK TRIBUN Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class | || EDITORIAL REVIEW = |] bomments reproduced in Publishers | the opinio are presen d here in orde} our readers may have both sides Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. - e 5 Foreign Representatives CHICAGO - Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMI : 2 - Fifth Ave. Bldg.! in « teased-cony.c NEW YORK - G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED TH PRESS DETROIT Kresge Bldg. herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are algo reserved. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published | not “MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year. Daily by mail, per year (in |] of important issues which are |] being discussed in the press of the day, | THE CRIME OF FLORIDA |) The martyrdom of Martin Tabert camp o: Florida =| will not have been wholly in vain if [it chait result in the complete aboli tion system oF peonage eee Hoof the horrors of sla y ays. Evidences multiply to show, only the existence of a convict ystem with every, samp boss mon Legree, not only a system where isylent to punish- that the color of ta {ment so ruthless and inhuman ithe story gues shuddering over the | count a situation whe cor Bismarck) Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) 6 ra Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota............... THE STATE'S OLD (Established 1873) YOU Have you ever met yc you apart. Occe cates, When newspaper: doubles cf famous polit taking you for the resemblance is so stri are joshing when you into -—is never duplicated ex us meets a person whose to ours that it bewilders u An extraordinary cz the other day in England. land Yard detectives serter, was found to L He even had the followed the same trade in civil Their fingerprints differ. on the si The me day. “long arm of coin enda.”” We not only have living duplicates but we are duplicates Old settlers have often ob- of people who lived in the served this—how a boy or girl is almost an exact double of | few generations since. recent invention, so few In some ancestor of : Photography a comy of us can check back and find our double of long ago. i » oil paintings have been preserved for s s, the recurrence of “looks” is almost uni- families whe eral generatio versally recognized. It would be great sport, to turn the clock back a few cen- _..turies and come face to face with the.man or woman whose features, build and mannerisms have cropped out in us. Even. more fascinating would be t other way and see the persons of the distant future wh be doubles of us who are This recurrence of doubles, generation after generation, ; probably is what started the oriental belief in reincaration. R DOUBLE yur double? king that the rm him that he act] e y, though ocea swpoint is so s se of mistaken identity wa cidence,”” in this ¢ past. varative living today. 10,000 MURDERS More than 10,000 murder “Ycans are murdered a: Picture a town of 10,0( blood during one night. picture of the murder America. murdered yearly. Meaning: each year, in 100 of being murdered. A dreadful penalty for permitting the sale of pistols. which are the death instruments in the majority of murders. The brighter side of the picture is that, while more than 10,000 are murdered in a year, at least 108,000,000 are not | As in all other forms of crime, evil is “far and | Amen murdered. away” in the minority. That’s’why evil gets so much,atten- | tion—it’s the exception, t Most of us, after all, are decent law-abiding citizens. *Ex-Kaiser Bill halts his gardening and wood sawing to | Fessenden run a booth at the fair in Utrecht, Hoiland. € aiearby while his secretary sells pottery and green-surfaced copperware, some of the articles designed by Bill, including Persian vases. As he counts up the gate receipts he must ponder haw times have changed in six years. John W. Raper, humoris' once, wondered if fate would -have been more severe on Bill are killed by autos. Hard to decide, which of the two is more amazing. all murdered in cold ® But it’s a true! so-called civilized , 0 inhabitant A trightful picture. situation in he unusual. BILL | if he had slapped an American policeman. sians make up tl centage would | t people, when they read’ mu "twas s new poste gm T NEWSPAPER Somewhere, walking ; the earth at this very moment, is a person who is such an exact duplicate of you that, brought together, f jonally your attention is called to the Law of Dupli- iscover gnd print pictures of the ans, movfe stars and so on. ! You, of course, have had the experience of a stranger mis- yme one living at a distance. aken, onally ea rikingly similar | turn the clock the! Nb will were committed in the United | Spread out over a gigantic territory and divided among our millions of people, with a murder here and there, day after day, and we lose sight of the terrible total. Dr. Hoffman found that the 1921 murder rate was a [what warmer tonight south and ¢ traction more than nine out of every 100,000 Americans. Allowing for concealed murders that are never definitely discovered (including many “missing persons” cages), a conservative estimate is that'one American in every 10,000 is | Miss Your chance of being slain is one in 10,000 | one in 1000 during a period. of 10 years. it up over a lifetime and, if you lived 100 years, one chance ; ana It is reported that one-half of one per cent of the Rus- ruling Communist, group. A similar per- e to swing ‘this.country for red liquor.’ ut Piggly Wig- right,! fective the first ef next month, were few could tell! Sometimes nger thinks you mis The real you —that mysterious and indefinable inner something that includes thought and character and emotion ria crime. Higa and petty of h of jas well as s exposed Arthur Collins, arrested by Scot- on the charge of being an army de- he double of the man wanted. ume name, lived on the same street, | an life, and joned the army , operated to »-extent never equaled in fiction. even “The Prisoner of Figure He hovers |Grand Forks jrupt of gue with greedy con {tractors to coin money out of the | lextreme of human suffering, | Florida stands today debased and ldegraded in the ization and humanity hi polit ine | fluence it has retained in its laws {the sanction of a county system ol | leasing: convicts on contract and j condoning, if not authorizing, pun ishment that falls under the ban of the as ba ous and unusual, in the Florida mind, other, in the fy conviets subjected to the the lash and blucgeon a deral Constitution bar There is palliation but in none t that most of the torture of ec Negr Florida is not wholly out of the shi dow of slavery of its Taw § its other ‘acti vities, It required the intervention of such an incident as the actual murder of Martin Tabert and — the indignant demand of North Dakota to touch Flofida to shame It will not be casy ageit might be fancied to purge Flgrida of this hor Is cienceless contractors in the mess of bod and mire. |They have together mace money out jof the system. ‘Together they will estimonysund opportunities, 7 But | | are ‘fight to gloss over the te the | perpetu j the conscience of the heen touched and its real ¢ hip is jnot callous t the estimation in jwhich it must stand jn the minds of men. Investigation is inevitable and |the truth will force the abolition of |the conditions which put the Dark | Axes to the blush, What the North Dakota legislature has recorded as lits sentiments, which Plorida vainly jassumes to resent, will be cchoed from every state in the Union if the ‘lorida legislature falters or falls in the duty facing it--St. Paul Dis- pateh. U.S. Aid Asked For Rebuilding Bridge Fort. N. D., April 17. Indians of the Standing Rock reser- vation living in the Shields and Can- (non Balj districts are petitioning to the Indian department to obtain jfinancial assistance in the con: struction of the bridge over — the ‘annon Ball river at Shields which s destroyed by high waters this sspring. seek to have the gov- ernment use some of their trust- patent money in. rebuilding the bridge which Grant and Souix county commissioners claim they cannot raise the funds to care for. Settlers in the vicinity of the bridge site have salvaged all of the usable stee and timber. Repairs, to the bridge es, ‘land, Ry Holland, all of | The Weather: ! : oy, e| Fair) Wednesday. tonight, Cooler | For Bismarck and vicinity [tonight and. probabiy | Somewhat. warmer | Wednesday. For North Dakota: Fair ‘and probably Wednesday, tonight Some- | tt west! portions. Cooler portion, Wednesday neral Weather Conditions The pressure is high over the i ValleZ# and Plains States | and her is general in all rts of the country except at a few} scattered plac in tne South and along the wes Rocky Mountain ifie const sections. — Low} acompanied by — warm ails west of the Rock- | weather | | pressur veather, pre ies. | gen Corn is Higlt Low Pree. | BISMARCK se 0 Chim Sir Galahad and I knew that he Totlinesu eg Gas whispering to himself, “My Bowbells co oc Strength is as the strength of ten eae aot Cl because my heart is pure” 6 | Dickinson 3 0 al Tam af Betty, that you and ‘Dunn Center yt Gil will never @ither of us be the re-, | Fllendale bog c{cipient of a love like this. And If : sat G[pray God that if we do, we shall 30 tC jnot throw it away for the dross of th eo me other love that is hot as beau- | Jamestown 20 0 iful, even if we do it as unconscious | Bengdon 20 0 City as Leslie has done. | Earimore 30 0 Ci" Don't think from this letter t | wishen 27 0 C\q consider John—-I expect that I mpnoL 20 0 Cyhave to call him Brother John from Napoleon 30 0 Clnow on—a bad man, In fact, 1 eon- Pembina 27 0 C|gider him, as men go, above the aver willieon 38 0 Cage; but only once in a century per- Moorhead 30 0 Cihaps is a Sir Galahad born. Orris W. Roberts, Meteorologist. CHIEF CLERK TRANSFERRED Ft. Yates, April 17.—J. F. Ge'gotd, for eight years chief clerk at the agency office here, has been trans- ferred to the northern Cheyenne “| selve ALDEN PRESCC TO, HER FRIEND, ELIZA- BETH STOKLE DEAR, DEAR BETTY: Only when Tam the bridé Kerselt and perhaps not even then, will 1 ever have the thrill that I as a bridesmaid at my sister Leslie's wed ding yesterday. knowledge of a blighted life could see “THE ODD ONE OF 'THE FAMILY 7 | ting relatives and incidentally | taking in the Elks Minstrels, | Miss Mary Ketterberg has return: | NAW! ‘em NOR 1 AINT GONNA THEIR BALL TEAM AN’ FURTHERMORE | AIN'T GONNA HAVE NO APRO! STRINGS TiED ONTO ME So THERE 1 AINT GONNA SWIM WITH Shoo? maReies wilh’ EM AN’ | AIN'T GONNA BE ON » of husks jed from Heil, where she was work- | jing and intends to stay with Aug. ‘Reich and family. | DUNN CENTER. Mrs, Kenneth Garwick will enter- Stain the Congregational Aid in the! {church basement Wednesday, April! 18th. ; OH WILLIE, DEAR, DEAR, WHY CAN'T You BE y Like THE ResT “OF THE THLOREN 2? © {* | Miss Vella McKnight of Oakdaie ivisited her sister, Mrs. Oscar Olson | iver Sunday. { Mrs. Wm. Connolly returned Sat- | lurday night ffom Fargo, where she | |spent a week visiting her children | ‘and having dental work done. | nN Mrs, FE. 0. Bailey and Jake Harris of Manning attended ‘an N. P. League | | meeting here Thursday. | H. N. Owens of Killdeer was a call- | er here Monday. | The high school play given Thurs- | |day in the auditorium was well at- {tended and about $47 realized. | | Mrs. Ralph Davis came in from the | farm Saturday and will visit for a week in town. | Ole Schulberg had the misfortune to be kicked on the leg by a hor: and is being treated by Dr. Kerne HALLIDAY NEWS Alfred Gustafson has returned from his school duties at Minneapolis | and is now on the farm south of } | town. \ Miss Maude Baily of Dunn Center, | visited friends and relatives in town | | last week. Freq Swenson of the First State | Bank of Werner, was a business visitor in town Monday. \ Elsie Carlson is home from her school work at Bismares for a short ! vacation. C, Lawbaugh were Mandan and Bismarck visitors .the first of the week returning home Me was thrown{ THesday evening. some twenty feet, escaping with no; Lyman Sumter of Werner, was a broken bones, but was quite badly| jpliday visitor Tuesday. bruised, i / me Mr. and Mrs. Thorne O'Neill were Mrs. Merritt. Harding and little! over Sunday. visitors at the S. D. daughter went to Linton last Satur-| O'Neill home. day for & fow s visit with friends | —_— and relativ Her father Mr.; Thorvald Dahlen who has been os Larings ‘ TTER FROM ALICE TON, BRIDESMAID A‘ DING OF HER S You sce, Bett, I knew that, although, Karl Wh ney was standing bravely smiling the other end of the he had received a thru from which he would ni How true it is, how ve that truth is stranger than fiction! There stood that splendid young man, much better-looking than the bridegroom, his face pale with cmo- tion, but with a dauytless ddurage he held himself erect and only I that underneath it all he as being tortured in a way that had never been a the Spanish Inquisi T could uct find it in my heart tw forgive my sister Leslie had she not, poor darling, been utterly uncon- scious of the depth and breadth and height of the love which Karl Whit- ney even then silently laying at her by et 1 do not think that T all ever forget, however, the look ‘of grati- tude which came to me from his sad eyes. (Oh, Betty, «you never saw in the mortal man such wonderful as those of Karl's.) {Aq Leslie came up to the altar and was met by John and his best man and the ushers had arranged them- at the side, I had a chance to s at him and received i for putting the pearls , dear Betty-—about my sister's pear neck, Oh, Betty, you will never believe this, bu Leslie put her hand for- ward to. receive the ring, she put her other hand rather convulsively to her throat and caught Karl’s pearls. Could anything be more dramatic more tragic; .and to think that only I and Karl! Whitney knew! Betty, if you put this in your new story, it will make you author probably of one of the six best sell- ers, and you will have’to divide the money with me. I could tell at just what point of the ceremony Karl began to get him- self under control. He looked over to me and a half smile curved his lips and I kifew that my hero was himself again, and that he was say- ing in his heart: « “Oh, lost love, even though you are bride of another, I will Be your devoted friend so long as my life, shall last.” i At that moment, Betty, I named hafer, who was visiting here ac-| spending the winter at Cambridge, | 1 H grown-up wonn, but tod 1) Companied her home, i Wisconsin, returned to Halliday | am going to kiss you as though you pussies Monday night. were ly and truly the little ¢ John Sept, former county Auditor; ee that I have known and loved all my cepted a position as Ristentl WASHBURN, life. ‘ er of the State Bank at New] Mrs. Fred Gehner, went to McKen- eit) then, Bol, he kissed me, jzie Monday, where she attended the, Jong and lingeringly —— ‘funeral of a cousin, Mrs. Marsh Wil- | kiss 1 shall remember vo | | Katie Balliet left Carson Tuesday ; ton. morning for Ne lem where she will spend hér vacation with her friends in the Methroplian Hotel. ELGIN. Mr. and Mrs, J. O. Kranick motor- | cd to Hebron, the latter part of last week, where Mrs, Kranick and the|, Miss Maxine McCulloch, arrived baby will remhin for a-few-weeks to | Thursday from Minot for a few days Minit telends antimreniel ves! visit at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs, James T, McCulloch. . Zweber, president of the New {McCulloch is attending high school State bank, was a visitor ;at Minot. here Tuesday. = Miss Emma Tresler, returned Mon- day morning from Jamestown where- she had been to visit at the home of her parents during the Easter vaca- sion. sand family of Under-| wood, arrived here Tuesday evening | for a short visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs, A, L. Maxwell, Mr. Beggs is a brother-in-law of. Mr. Maxweli. it Betty, dear, that r me all other ki that he has spoiled for me all othe men. And to think he has dedicated his life-to my only sister! something to have known of? reat love, even though it bg not mine, ALICE. John B 1. — . > J Manica |. Dakota City Briefs | e——____—__---—+ CARSON Phe base ball ged in the K, P. I ht and perfected ¢ Albert Luh, qualified and took over the duties of the office of county auditor on Monday. He has chosen | as his deputy Miss Wilda Sebastian, | baseball te: ‘ i S 5 formerly deput county guperintend-| Miss Mary Sukumlyn, returned Sat- Ce ee een ero aS [Ent otis hools,. Chas, Emeh of Leith |urday from Kief where she had been president, Oliver Tollefson, secre-) yas selected'as his clerk. during the Easter vacation to visit tary and H. Pochapen treasurer. See SE muito hemelethte parents! icpactves Glunlcait |, Harley Smfth returned to his home = z hel Count ub gave one of’ in New England last week, after| Mr. and Mrs, Sverdrup Sheldon are their social enterta pments in the K.\ spending several dayg in Elgin as|the proud parents of a baby boy P, Hall on Saturday night. the guest of Miss Elvi Lovitt. born Tuesday, April 10, Mr, and Mrs. S. ‘T. Johnsrud left Mrs. Anna Rendahl Friday for Duluth, Minn, day evening from a we = i relati at Pettibone, Mr. and Mrs. R. ©. Newcomb were — passengers to Mandan, last week. McCormick was an over ara Sunday visitor with his family at Chas. Lonie had a narrbw escape | Shields, last Saturday night from what might ‘ hi resulted more seriously, Wien Mr. and Mrs. Peter Port, of near an into'the team and airy | Shields, spent a few days in Mandan William Shaw of Pembina, arrived here Tuesday, and has taken a posi- \tion at the Wahl barber shop. returned Fri- visit with D. i. GARRISON NEWS. N. G. Tran, who had an operation for gall stones at a Bismarck hos- 1, is improving in health, and will be able to come home this week. Editor ulo Earl Sheehan, who is employed at from an Miss | April has five days on which to be late at Sunday school. ‘ seattle wife who shot hubby claims she didn’t aim to do it. check dancing stopped, they serve onions for refreshinents. Perhaps time really is money Anyway, it is all some men spend. Even if women do have more sense than men you never see a man button his shirt up the bi Two miles of wire can be drawn ounce of gold, narrow things down to a fine point. € A pianist’s fingers move about 2,000 times a minute, while his neighbors move about once a wech. were first manufac 1743, much to Nandkerchie: tured in Scotland the relief of sleeves. The sturgeon lay eges. Go out in the it to the hens. + about 7,000,000 rd and read Opals are soft when ‘taken from the ground by men, but hard when taken from the men by women. If you want to know how hot it is going to be this summer go out in the kitchen and sit on the stoves First cannon was made in + land in 1654, and it is about time the last cannon was made. Ten-pins were invented in the fourteenth century, but the safety pin was/not among the first ten, A golf ball leaves the club head at about 135 miles an hour, which is about as fast as a golfer leaves the office. Some Yello 300 feet and th old geysers. ers spout ice of the The word “b comes from Anglo-Saxon. The boss, however, comeés from nowhere when you loat. Scientist spent 58 Years collect ing 14 butterflies; Wish we had him collecting our rent. 1 Actress says most beautiful things rth are legs. She should not eve what all men tell her. Gocthals, who built the Panam Canal, finds prices are too high. Maybe he could engineer a big cut ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS By Olive Barton Roberts The Tinker Man Bing-Bang Land made Nick a soldier hat out of in a newspaper and en sword. Then he painted a sil star on his shoulder, “Now you are General Nic rved him a wood- said. And as Nancy was going to help the Bing Bang army by driving a Red Cross ambulance, the Tinker Man gave her a belt with a strap. that went over her shoulder. Off went the Twins then to find ithe wooden soldier army again. They found them where they had left them, standing in & stiff straight ne and staring ahead at nothing, r colonels and majors and cap- tains all in their proper places. Nancy scrambled up on the ambu- lance’ scat at once and started the engine, Then she fixed the handles and let out the cluteh just like as grown up person. The car started to move slowly. fortune to be quite seriously burned about the head and face by an ex- plosion of kerosene Tuesday. EVERETT TRUE James Shippee, who has been working in a factory at Michigan City, Indiana, is here to attend to ng operations on his place just st of town. D. R, Dudley, mathematics instrue- tor in the high school, spent the week-end in Minnesota, and a few hours in Fargo, He returned to resume his work here Tucsday morning. Miss Lucia Huettl arrived home ifrom Kenmare Monday to visit with her parents for a time. Mrs. John Evans returned Friday fre a visit with friends and rela- = THE PACE SES BY THE PA! ives at Underwood. ANOTHER OPEN LETTSee TRIVIAL SUBIGCT. TEC HE, HAVE YOU WRITTCN To tour MOTHER BACK IN THE THAT MOU HAVS WRITTEN TOATHS PUBLIC _ON A -\ NAPOLEON ’ Claire Olsen, who is attending ‘High school at Ellendale, spent the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs, C. H, Olson, > When I sce you, I will tell you further about this. I can not tell you some of the things that have happened; they aré too sacred to put on paper. Particularly that mo- ment in ‘the vestry when Karl took me up in his arms. agency at Lamedeer, Montana, ef- ‘Dear this I shall have,:to treat’ you ‘as a ‘ttle Alice,” he said, “after |. a visitor here at the home of her sister, Mrs. J. R. Thompson, the first | of the week. Miss Fanny A. Pelkonen Icft ursday for her home at Ironwood, Mich. after a term of seven months teaching in the Highland School District No.22. THIS WAY TO _THS HOTEL: WRITINGS TEOOM I'M. GOING To S&S THIS NG CHROoUcH!! \ | “Migs Alexzine House, formerly of the local: post office, departed Tues- day for an extended visit at Valley City Minot and Mandan. ‘The Misses’ Keehn and Wenholz, who have’ finished a ‘seven months’ term of teaching in the Manheim district returned to their homes at Wood Lake, Minn., Thursday. 5 J. O..Gilfillan ‘left Monday on a trip to Minneapol: Mr. Wilbur’G. Olson left Thursday _| for, Minnespolis where he’ will visit relatives and friends. the Stevens Bros. mine, had the mis- | Miss Mary Sabraw of Hazelton was |, Niek took his place at once at tie \head of the army, his sword pressed | against his shoulder. “Ready! March!” he commanded. And away they all went. Left | right, left right, left right, left! Their wooden legs thumped the |ground at cach step. At they came to a bridge and Nick led them “right over. ' “Halt!” he commanded suddenly. The wooden soldiers stopped quickly they nearly fell over back- ward, Then Nick took his spy glass out of his pocket and looked for the | enemy, ' But he hadn’t long to wait, for | just then some tin rough riders | brown suits and big hats came gai- lloping over the hill on their tin horses, Bang, bang, bang! went their guns." But when they saw the wat jguns of’ the wooden soldicrs, they | fled in dismay. They dared not getting rusty. (Tg Be Continued.) (Copyright{ 1923, NEA~Service, Inc.) For First Class Dry Clean ing. Call Capital Laundry Co. Phone 684. 50 i run the risk of