The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 1, 1923, Page 1

WEAT! ‘HER "FORECASTS Generally fair tonight and Wed- 3 cooler tonight. HE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | FINAL EDITION BISM ARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, T DAY, MAY 1, 1923 PRICE FIVE CE med by City Com to Succeed City Att O'Hare in Positi BIL CALLED City to Receive Bids Generating Plant fo Water Works Most of the officials hgding ap city Wee + the meeting of the hh last night. C.L. Young, attorney 9 suceced a vote f four to! » dissenting vote Thompson. ung will accept he place. of the commissio said that was not soupt by Me by his friends? nson was heppointed ! engineer; A. J. Arnot, fty treas- W. A, Falconer. cityipssessor; * Wakeman, city weiggr, Chis son, chief of pole; R. Fi . fire chief: Harry gman, as fire chief: Myroyff, atkin- auditor; | Vesper-| manager of audito Cari! treet commission { and. James Bs! us| of the fire hall. th officer o&ield pani | clpoise had not Read to reap pointive positions reap- pointe cits commissi was named city re by Member he office oung or R. Hl dia ity hei in i cided A.P. Lenhart, | pf the comission, and} shojid hav. the swim- hantyement ander their| INSfead of tommission as lastyear. M sed to.acept the trus irks of Bkmarck w o the spervision 9! nbeae handling the street sprink- age of the city were pted. T. C. Wach-! a month for usin, nore teams with drivers and tight dump box was cepted bid of $178 a} i decided that two wagons | put on to handle the gar- ning May 15. bid for furnishing a eam for sprinkling the} 09 a mouth was accepted. 's bid, the only opposing! Y a month, | by T. R. Atkinson con- mendment to the speci- | | Withdraw pert: | the shop crafts, James Easc) . SHIPS TO REMAIN ‘BONE DRY ‘MICHIGAN MOVES FORWARD IN SUIT TO CLOSE “HOUSE OF DAVID” t { ! { ' | i i *Charge That Member of Col- eing that? | COUNSEL FOR LABOR QUITS IN LAW SUIT from Battle to Make Daugherty Railroad Injunction Permanent ° TOMORROW Judge Wilkerson to Consider Final Action in Case Grow- ing Out of Strike Chicago, May Counsel for the railw employ department of the American Federation of Labor rep- resenting the shop crafts in their defense against the injunction pro- ceedings by Attorney General Daugi today withdrew from the case which was scheduled to come up be fore Federal Judge Wilkerson to- morrow, The three attorn re} enting mith orf Washington, Frank Mulholland of ony Met Death by Vio-; lence to be Investigated by State Officials. St. sais 1.—Michi ation Joseph, M grand jury invest alleged immorality at ing” E jamin Purnell’s Israelites House David colony was resumed today with more than fifty prospective witnesses to be heard, Judge Harry Dingeman of Detroit,! presiding judge of the state bench, who is sitting as ao grand jury, and Attorney idyew Dougherty are expected co! decide whether to order the opening of a grave in the House of burying ground to investi ports that the occupant had death by voilence. nger Prints on Throat. May met sexton at the cemete claims that the body, which was ed on the death certificate when it was buried two years ago as that of 4 woman 68 years old, was in reality girl about 16, who bore finger prints on her throat. Purnell teaches his followers th will gain immortality by following his teachings and can only die if! they lose faith, Because of his pe- culiar teachings, the members of the} colony refuse to have anything to do! A former with members who dic. {Harbor undertaker who holds a con-| ‘traet with the cult is called and tak the body away to be dumped into lonely grave without ceremony —there | are no mourners and no religious! although in nearly every case death certificates show the dead left from one to nine relatives in Whe; colony. Two Bodies in One Grave. Another alleged graveyard irregu-| larity was brought to light when! Deputy Sheriff Arthur Mollhagen! discovered that apparently two bod-| jes had been buried in the same; grave on one burial permit which had been altered. | The first was Harriet Hanna, 61,( a widow, who had died at the House | of David and was buried on Fe ary 3, 1909. Ten days later two si the water works system | Toledo and Donald Richberg of Chi-}ters of the woman exhumed the bod might be considered on| horse power oil engines, : ang further for the in-| a n of a generation sufficient! utilize either engine as officialls derel by the commfssioners at | heir last meeting was presented in le form of a resolution by J. A! s The estimated cost of the} power engine and genec-| stated in the amended re-| $15,000, that of the 300- power engine and generator,! forse Fab), 000, q Protests Zoning Plan. | protest petition was presented ; Ig L. J. Wehe, against the petition; nted at the last meeting of the! mmission by « number of people; ing in the west part of the ing the commission to enact. inance prohibiting the keepinz} 1 muintaining of horses, cattle, | ks, sheep, goats, ete, on their} mises within the limits as fol-! lege Beginning at the Mandan avenue and Ry Co.,! orth to section line, thence west to! : Bee of section line and Gri street, thence south to intersec- dp of Griffin street, thence south | 9 intersection of Griftin{ street and | P, Ry. Co. thence southeasterly, ollowing the northmost boundary of | aid right of way to point of begi | ing. © S The petition which was. presented Mr. Wehe was a combination of tit which had been cir- wat Mf Wy. Dohn) Chas Snyder, r. febe, representing, Mr. he declared, the home owners of @ urea under question. n Asserts It Illegal. Wehe declared that if just one little area was segregated i@ an ordinance passed prohibiting keeping of live stock in it while Sple on the street abutting against! were not in any way regulated, h action would be illegal because interfered with the constitution: ts of certain individuals. He de- ei that while he was sure that whan ordinance would be illegal 2 Hitt not wish to have such ‘a one ed and be forced to take the ‘@Bequences in fighting the case f *, Wehe said that the Snyders did wish to complete an expensive which they were building near swimming pool if an ordinance d be passed which would prevent from making use ‘of it. opinion from the city attorney id been submitted to the t intersection of] | ithe cago notified Judge Wilkerson of their withdrawal and gave the court no information that other counsel would take their pla Tomorrow s hearing was to be the government’ ttempt to make permanent the tem- porary injunction granted by Judge Wilkerson last fall, who then was on strike on all roads from interfer- ing with interstate commere Blackburn Esterline of Washing- ton, assistant solicitor-general, who conducted the government's suit for temporary injunction on the withdrawal of the defense said “the legal significance of the withdrawal jof counsel for the defense and fail- ure to substitute other counsel” that the defendants havy no defense and will allow the case to go by de- fault.” RAIN STOPS FIRE’S SPREAD Brush and Woods Fire South of City was Threatening 4s, The hard rain last night stopped what threatened to be a very serious brush and woods fire south of the ity. The fire, which began in the af- ternoon, burned out a stretch of about four miles in length, and per- {haps a mile to a mile and a half iwide, before the rain ended its | spread. Several farm homes were in the path of the flames, and had they kept on spreading would have des- troyed ,them, It was feared for a time by the many people who join- ed in fighting the fire that two or three families were trapped in the area. Many cattle were driven out on the prairies from the path of the flames. Fire also was burning on Island durigg the afternoon. The brush fires presumably were started by carelessness, but the ex- act cause is not known. Several stubble and prairie fires have been reported in this section, recently, and the rain came as welcome reiief from possible great danger. American cigarets are bley becoming and took it to her old home in ada, On February 16, the bods Dolly Gray, records indicated, was | buried in the same grave and Mrs.| Hanna's burial permit was altered to | cover the alleged substitution. | WOMAN TESTIF u St. Joseph, May 1.-Mrs. Estelie | Mills of Niles, Mich., former inmate of the House of David, today went} before the grand jury investigating ; charges of immorality at the colony | the story of her life in “King” Benjamin Purnell’s home. Mrs. Mills, who left the cult in 1913, is a sister of M. Meldrum, one | of Purnell’s women lead Marictta Smith, aged 20, who was; married last week, after the Brow | ceremonies, also was waiting to tes tify today. WILL MEET AFTER VOTE Judge fume to Come to; removed. Judge Willis was charged | bod: Bismarck After May 14 Judge George P. Flannery, repre-| ‘ran over him. senting majority interests in the marck Water Supply company, will confer with members of the city commission, probably after the bond election onsMuy 14. Mr. Flannery in- formed the commission that busi-} ness interests. will not permit him{ to make this trip to Bismarck before May 12, and as‘he desires to be here on Saturday, Mayor Lenhart said to- day that the meeting will take place after the bond election, SEVERELY INJURED Williston, May 1—Knute Olson, 1 farmer living near here, hal his nose severed and his lower jaw! broken last week, when .a team of} horses which he had hitched to a gang plow became frightened and He wes found in a o'clock ! unconscious condition at 3 the following mornin; ESCAPES DEATH. Belfield, N. D., May 1.—William Retzlaff, miner employed near here,| escaped with his life through dig: ging of companion. miners who res-| cued him from a cave-in shaft, within a few minutes. ‘His iggion ‘said that the city could! very popular in China, where 8,500, scalp, however, was nearly torn from i Fags on Page 6) 090.000 were imported in 1922, { his. head. : flower bed ;night-shirt and. woman’s glove | Called «| RETURN i ping boss" lignite} hi LINCOLN KIN DISAPPEARS; NURDER SEEN | IMinvis Police Investigating Strange Circumstances Surrounding Case SON BEIN ight-Shirt of Man Strewn Papers Are Found ear His Bungalow Aurore, i. Unexplained circumstances’ and a possibility murder in connection with the dis- uppearance of Warren J. former attorney, and flori-culturis distant relative of Abraham Lincoln. caused police widen their search for him today. John Lincoln, 20 yeurs old, son of! the missing man, was taken into! custody ,and questioned. Police are still searching for Mrs. Lincoln and| her brother, Byron Shoup andy-haired stranger who, reported to police, ing him. Lincoln's disappearance yesterday was discovered by his brother, ward Lincoln, Lincoln's night shirt and a woman's glove was found in a well and hig bungalow had been ransacked, Near the house a pool of blood was found a near-by bore the imprints of a woman's heel. A blood-stained elub prominent a Lincoln had been follow- and a flask of liquor were discover-! | pearance would be among those to} From the where Lincoln's were his private papers were scat- ed near the pool of blood. house .o the well found, tered, Mrs. Lincoln was Lincoln's second, wife and he had started divorce pro- ceedings against her. Shoup was employed by Lincoln ceedings both Lincoln's wife and ; her brother disappeared. COMMITTEE T0 | INVESTIGATE KNABB’S CAMP “Human Slaughter- house” by a Florida Prison Inspector, Report May = 1.—Th joint ee lative committee today | scheduled to take up the investiga- i} ‘tion of conditions at the county coi ivict lease camp formerly owned by Senator T. J. Knabb, which is locat- Neal in northern FYorida. ‘An indictment against John Ro- denberry, said to have been emplo ed at the Knabb camp as a “whip- ’ already has been return- ed. The indictment charges Roden- Rerty with cruelty to prisoners and 3 based on the alleged ill treatment i eeciocd by Paul Revere White of Washington, D. C. At the inquiry today J. B, Thomas,! a prisoner inspector, is expected to! be one of the principal figures. | Thomas is said ts have reported the 'Knabb camp es being “a | slaughter-pen.” As the result of the investigation | to date Sheriff J. R. Jones of Leon county was last week remo office and Governor+Hardee yester-! day recommended to the senate that} {County Judge B. F. Willis also be: with having conspired with Sheriff i Jones to “railroad” convicts to the; jcamp of the Putnam Lumber Com-} pany. ' THANKS NORTH DAKOTA. Tallahassee, Fla., May 1.—The as- sertion that Commissioner of Agi culture W. A. McRae was indirectly responsible for prison conditions us disclosed in the investigation of the death of Martin Tabert of. North Da- kota and the immediate resentment ‘of other senators who set forth that; the governor had as much authority as the agriculture commissioner in ithe supervision of convicts, marked ithe senate debate yesterday after- noon of the measure to abolish cor- poral punishment. The statement regarding the com- missioner of agriculture was made} by Senator W. A. MacWillidms, mem-i ber of the joint legislative committee looking into the ill treatment of con- victs in pleading that the whip be banned. Mr. MacWilliams declared that he had resented at first the ac- tions of the North Dakota legislature in petitioning the Florida legislature to inquire into Tabert’s death but after hearing the gruesome recitais of.the last few weeks, he asserted, © now wanted to thank that state fur bringing the matter to Florida’s attention and giving it a chance to clean house. i ELD SPOT of, to INDICTMENT, act A RNR ‘SAYS STUDENT DIED DURING © Chief of Police of Evanston serts Other Students Hid the Body BEING GUARDED and, ‘Body Found Buried Beneath and gardens., | Rock Piles Near Lake | Michigan Pier univer Chie: ls orth {missing Leighton Moun, stern student, since September 21, whose Lincoln, skeleton was found on the Evanston! With J. lake front last night, the class rush of that Police Leggett of the \ lured today. “Mount's body was killed in read, Chief of Dro Gan a ‘neath heavy stones,” Chief lsaid. “There could be no other ex |planation of the presence there Hhis skeleton. Both arms and hands, ! ,one foot and one Jower leg are miss- ing. the chief said, and the pier be ‘neath which the skeleton was dis ‘covered is being guarded by ~|until the search is finished. i Arrange For Inquest | Chief Leggett and President Wal- iter Dill Scott of the University met | today to arrange for the inquest to- | morrow morning, Chief Leggett an- nounced that the boys who testified at the hearing after Mount’s di Leggett | testify at the inquest. Besides the skeleton ;the boy's mother through a {buckle and a fragment of a coat the chief exhibit for the inquest | piece of rope, about 3 feet {found by the body | Students — eng: in the A Benton’ but after the filing of divorce pro-/ rush of 1921 said it was similar t the rope given scores of under class- |men for use in tying the hands and }fect of members of the opposite class. The rope found by Mount’s body was not knotted and gave no indiention of having been tied around the hands or feet of the skel- cton, It was torn about half way through at spots six inches apart. KRUPP WORKS HEAD HELD BY FRENCH FORCE Charged with Responsibilit in Connection with Shoot- ing at Krupp Plant Essen, May Ir, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, president of the Krupp works here, was ar- jrested today by the French military | autbori ' connection with the hooting the Krupp plant larch 31 when 14 Germans were {killed and 30 wounded in a clash with !French troops, | The head of the Krupp works will | ibe i Krupp directors with endangering | jthe safety of the troops of occupa tion in connection with the decr lof G 1 Degouttce, the ‘military chief in the Ruhr. This de- (ere provides for imprisonment from ‘ars to life at hard labor or ex- ‘on by shooting. LUTHERAN BODY ELECTS Grand Forks, May 1.—Oliver Pet: from: son of Benedict, N. D., was elected; olutiona president of the Lutheran Students | he | association N of the University of ‘th Dakota at a gathering of the} Friday evening in the women’s; {gymnasium at the institution. Other; officers chosen at this time wer | Mildred Gjere, of Cando, N. D., vice} president; Alvin Thorson of Hatton, iN. D. retary, and Charlotte Han- |gon of Grand Forks, treasurer. ; Edmund Falkenstein | Dies at French Home Edmund Sa , aged 85 years ja pioneer of North Dakota, father of i Mrs. John French, Mrs. H. F. O'Hare | and Mrs. Charles Staley, died to- day at the French home, 619 Fourth street. Mr, Falkenstein died at 4:15) p.m. A widow survives, 12 TAKE EXAMINATION Twelve men to\c the examination ‘for position of mine foreman here yesterday before a-board composed of J. P. Mellon, state mine inspector, and W. J. Ray of Medora and James Murphy of Zap, recently appointed to the Board by. Gorernae)) Nestos, DEVINE HERE Joseph Devine, who was uppointed motor vehicle registrar by the state highwi commission to succeed E. P. Crain, has arrived here to take up his duties. He was detained at home for several days due to illness in his family. CLASS SCRAP; was carried to the! pier after his death and buried be-} of police | identified by | belt | long! class | on! cecal tdi hice Hainan os? (ihe | French | HARD PACE DUR If Bismarck doesn't blussom forth into the cleanest and most beautiful city in the state, it won't be the fault of the Boy Scouts of the city. They are a force to be reckoned with during clean-up and paint-up week. A troop of about fifty scouts have been scouring the city for the past two di with card and pencil in ‘hand, jotting down their opinions of 'the conditions of allies, and yards, | The Presbyterian troop worked ‘under the leadership of Scoutmaster jh. Jd. Grady; the Baptist troop un- ler Scoutmaster $. O. Le Barren; ithe Methodist under Scoutmaster B. 'M. Dunn, who directed the efforts of the clean-up army ! J. M. Mac Leod, chairman of {the clean-up and paint-up committee, pene A. F. Bradley, secretary of the ! Association of Commerce, the entire ity was plotted out and — certain N PARTY IN LIQUOR RAID A communication r Tribune asks if Sheriff Hedstrom were mot a ty to the raid last week in Bismarck which resulted vin a number of charges against per- jsons for violating the liquor laws. |The party included Sheriff Hedstrom, deputies, and government officers. ‘CAMPS READY FOR ACTION ON “MAY DAY” | Air eived by The of Sel anes Rules Some of West Coast Strikes In Fear of Rioting x STRIKE IS QUIET urbance Reported Throughout Pacific Coast Strike Area San-Francisy», Cali, May 1. ators of some lumber camps affect- ed by strikes of lumber called in Pacific Coast states by In- dustrial Workers of the World fac- ed May Day in a state of prepared- ness for eventualities while other: ¢ shipping operate ffected by | strikes of marine workers, called jat the same time by the same body ; apparently felt no apprehension over what the day might bring forth. No developments were reported in | the marine strike here. | In Seattle five men were arrested, ehareed with distributing hand bills i g violence. The bills urge a ae as a protest against impr {sonment of persons convicted of war- itime offenses LABOR NOT REVOLUTIONARY Washington, May on the significance of May day, {which is expected to be marked by | labor demonstrations in man of the world, particularly amuel Gompers, president of American Federation of Labor, lclared last night in a formal state- ment that the day “means nothing ;more to American workers thun it {does to any other Americans. j “Due to the propaganda of rev- European organizations”, “there has grown up a lconsiderable belief that May 1 is ja day of sinister possibilitie: ‘0 American labor, May day has none. of the European meaning. It :lis exactly like any other day, “One of the differences between {American lubor and European labor ‘is that American labor has suffi- ‘ciently won the attention and the ‘respect of the people to secure for itself a spegial holiday, so declar- led by act of congress and of the several states. Americ: labor's holiday, the first Monday in Septem- ber of each year, is generally ob- | served by all our péople. It hus no jother holiday and séeks no other except those holidays which it en- jJoys in common with all our peo- ple and in kindred spirit. |" “Socialists in America’ have set | about with more or less, diligence jto induce American labor to join in ;May day fulminations. This, Amer- ican labor has refused to do and I think I need not at this time ela- borate upon the wisdom of its course, “American labor is evolutionary and constructive. It is not revolu- tionary and it declines to adopt any of the shibboleths or symbols of re- volutionary movements. 1 the As an offering to the rain god, a native was publicly burned to death in Rhodesia by the elders of his tribe. By a coincidence, rain fell almost immediately afterward. ‘CANT BLAME SCOUTS IF CITY DOESN'T BLOSSOM FORTH; SETTING At a meeting of the scoutmasters! Oper.|” workers | 1.—-Commenting: LASKER SEES PRESIDENT ON COURT RULING Definitely Indicated Will R main Dry For a Time at Least, Dispatch Says ING CLEAN-UP WEEK blocks worke signed in pairs, to the scouts who The workers will hold a joint meeting in the Association of Com- merce rooms tonight when reports will be made by everybody taking part in the drive. ™ Bradley is expected back from rgo in time to sit in at the meeting where plans will be considered for the complet- ing of the clean-up work. It is ex- pected that the scouts will help to- morrow in the actual work of gath- ering up tin cans, and other waste materials which will be hauled away by men engaged for the work. It_ is expected that before week is out, people will invite spection of their back allies Mr. MacLeod who has been dircet-| Washington, COULD SERVE LIQUO} Supreme Court Decision Mad Possible Putting Booze Back on Ships the in May ~—Definite in! i sec ing the work said that it was sur-| dications were given by Chairmay He said that wagons were busy haul- Harding that government owned yesterday's supreme court decisio PERMITTED TO SELL. shores of the United States, the su {three mile limit American Failure to Pass Bill i to do so had not been questioned. jAmerican steamship companies, w: =e | prising to how much cleaning} Lasker of the shipping board aftey had already been done in the city. conference todsy with Presiden ing away cans and waste from hemes} ships would be kept “bone dry” fo in all parts of the city. sometime at least, although unde: they legally could carry and sery liquor on the high seas, Washington, May 1.-—-Intoxica | liquors, even under seal. caanot \fully be brought in American or fo cign ships within three miles of tr declared, however, that ouliae th fean legally sell intox nts to pi vith Senge The right of foreign shiy wi Emergency Clause Not to { The opinion, rendered in ten cast i ‘brought by foreign and two 1 Halt Action delivered by Justice Van De Vant« Without expressing his views, Ju PROBLEM 'NOTTY LEFT) tice McReynolds dissented. — dustic jSutherland, in a ating opinic agreed with the majority of the cou in reference to American ships b ; declared that foreign vessels had ti jright to bring liquors into Americ: ;ports under restrictions adeq \guarding against leakage ashore. | The court pointed out specifi | that congress has the power, if it se fit to exercise it, to forbid all sh cted in a letter issued to-|flying the American flag to car C. Converse, state tax!/and serve liquors outside the thr mile limit. This view of the cou’ resulted in predictions by \ims dry” leaders, after the gist of ti jdecision has become known, that + mpt would be made to obta gislation on this point at the ear! Ste Being Taken to Put! | Questions up for Solution By Officials Avsessors throughout North Dake- yta are di by ¢ commissioner, to continue to assess | property on a 100 percent basis, and exemptions provided by law will be made on the basis of these figures jlater by auditors and other proper He | officials. The action announcement | State's offi j day a was taken, following | at the cretary of! that although senate purports to be an emer- Vest opportunit y. measure and carries the eme WM. LEHFELD, : MERCHANT DIES clause effective, and therefore Prominent Citizen of Ne jnot effective until July 1. sceatal bill No. 255 provides for pencnanient Salem Succumbs to Heart Trouble ! gency gency lof the ceive i of property on a 75 percent The same condition obtains as senate bill No. 146, relating to ie ; exemptions, yrding to Secretary | ;of State Thomas Hall and Deputy | | Secretary Maurice Duffy. Commissioner's Statement The tax commissioner's statement | follows: “The William Lehfeld, well know retired merchant of New Salem, di this morning at 2:30 o'clock at a 1 cal hospital as a result of he trouble and compl ions. He been ill for about five months pr to his death, Mr. Lehfeld had Salem for thirty-eight years, He wa a merchant for many years! in New Salem, having opened his business in the early day and retired only in re cent ye He was « leader in al civic undertakings in his home town and was well known throughout this part of North Dakota. He came t this country from Germany at eurly age. He was a member of the A. O, U. W. lodge .of New Salem, and a member of Herman’s Sons of Port land, Ore, j The deceased is survived by hi wife and one son, Walter. Funeral services will be held New Salem from the German E; gelicul church Thursday afternoc 16 secretary of state advises jme that he has discovered that two Haws dealfig with taxation which jcame to his office from the legisla- | ture bearing certificates to the effect that the emergeney clause was ef- fective, did not, as a matter of fac receive the necessary two-thirds vote and therefore do not become effectiv until July first, These are S. B. 146, which discontinues the exemption heretofore allowed upon city homes and four classes of personal proper- ty, and S. B. 265 which provides that county auditors shall reduce the as- sessment of all property to 75 p cent of its value after equalization Ey the state board has been complet- ed “This letter is to udvise you that the failure of the emergency clauses to become effective will not change the duties of assessors. All proper- ty is to be assessed at 100 per cent of its value, and assessors ure to al- low no exemption “Certain legal problems will have to be passed upon by the proper au- thorities before it will be possible to state positively what is the sta- of taxntion for 1923; but assessois are directed to con- tine to us all taxable property ut 100 per cent of its value, allow- ing no exemptions. After the legal questions involved shall ‘have been ruled upon by the proper authori- county auditors will make such resided in Ney MINE BURNING. Williston, N. ‘D., May 3 was discovered last Saturday me: ing about 5 o'clock at the Ellithor: al mine northeast of Williste: When first noticed the air shaft a slack coal near the shaft was bu ing briskly. ‘The cause of the fir: is unknown. The main shaft and 3 other entrances to the miiie~ wes‘ closed as quickly as possible in « changes as may be necessary to give effort to smother the flames. It effect to such rulings. You will ba! Teported that the mine is still bur, advised promptly of such rulings as {iE but it is. hoped that this met}... afer ined? will put out the fire in time. : Letter Dispatched A circular letter was dispatched to county auditors today from the office of the Secretary of State. An examination of the journal of the legislature discloses that Senate bill No. 256 did not receive “a vote of two-thirds ef the members present and voting, ‘in gach house” as re- fuired by the constitution, the let- ter says, and continue: “This bill first passed the senate February 20th, by # vote of 29 to 19, (Senate Journal, ipage 25), it was on the same day pent to the house, Comtnven jon Fees 6). BOY SCOUT MASTER, Williston, N. D, May L—A & scout master has been employed 0: the Willistan school district’ we: ing in conjunction with 'the Rotxr club of this city at an approxima‘ cost of $2,500 per year. It is or ported that the services of Mr. Eyit% of International Falls, Minn. hiv been secured,.The sum of. $1,200. to be furtished by the school bo: and the and frate! city.