The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 24, 1923, Page 1

* WEATHER FORECASTS 7 | a r i : ' ===] THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [zuma 7 ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1923 PRICE FIVE CENTS COMMUNISTS RIOT IN GERMANY IN GOOD SHAPE [=~ \ | gmp SOLUTION ON CHINA HINDER = TOINTERFERE THROUGH STATE BOOZE MATTER RELIEF WORK IN FIGHTING : Reports Confirm Decrease in Regulations Covering Su- Minister Expresses Belief ORT N wly Formed Body Arms to Battle Reds Seeking Con- trol of City Wheat Acreage as Result Of Late Spring That Captives May Die Of Starvation preme Court Decision to be Issued in a Few Days Washington, M 24.—Indications were given at the treasury today that shington, May 24-4 message from Minister Schurm: China received by the state d iment expressed Mr, Sehurmann’s be Farge, N. D., May 24—Seeding | of flax, corn and potatoes is gen- | eral in the state at the present _ Secretary Mellon has found a way for May time and ea ee oe J reconciling the supreme court's re jier that the task of obtaining ve 1 Pad here us rat Heat é vancnealinie to! ‘cent prohibition decision with for-| lease of Americans and other for cHutehrece any F ave iw ae rab reports received at the State jeign laws requiring ships of their |¢izn captives taken by bandits was iedugs valley ume ae a “a . . omak * ; A “now ¢0 iented by Chinese int *, t ohh a Extension Division office from 26 ‘nations to carry liquor as erew ra- | "now Complicated by Chinese pel 000 Swiss francu to further the county extension agents for the pe- tions, te | he message said it did not “seem: a Soviet Repub- F riod ending last Saturday. { Jonathan Mills (left) is 103 years old, and Mrs. Harriet Hubbard! ‘The belief was expressed that the) 1) SB lic. Im addition two shiploads Moisture conditions are very fa-! (right) has just reached her 100th birthd Mills lives near Wash-! regulations necessary to carry out | Probable that the tits cl call ARCHIBALD SMITH HALL, WITH AND WITHOUT | Of wheat, they declare have vorable, with the possible exception ' ington Courthouse, 0. He ves himself with a. straight-edged razor, the high court decision barring liquor | th torelan captives” on that icr| RVENEAVERTIES ; i ‘ heen sent on Moscow initiative few of the northern counties and reads without aid of glasses. Mrs. Hubbard, born in Pompey, N. within the territorial waters in the | W#* danger that during the prolong-| Uy tt eee May 2h dr they dissuaded him from keeping his] to the Ruhi for use of the Com- that did not get in on the heavy, | Y., recalls how her father bartered with Indians, At 100, she continues [rnited States would be actually pro- |“! Nexotiations and compromises) Ty oRchaoeaucne cate half-century pledge. munists particularly at Bochum yeneral rain of last week-end, and to make her own dresses. | wnulgated inva few days. Omelate re-/some of the prisoners might die of| usually ket a haireut’ every two) A birthday, hows whon one} and Dortmund with promises of rgport that moisture is needed/to| Be beeches |Ture'te diglose the evurse whieh the |<nesure, starvation or disease, | weeks and hnpgen, to miss a dus. [gots up in the nineties is an event.| more If needed Sweeney f 8 istlos 2 age | do vorry. n of Archi So Hall decidec ore wa pbatte 71 a start the seed in the ground. While | | greneiny ajpeene’te have mdupeed: ih | | Sree ta fo Hall a ide 1 there was no better T declaration was made to- the eool weather Hee cataeiied the C L. B L FST AEA TINTTE eitaniGaueeteetng | sce eon RETIRE Se Nh ; way to celebrate than to renew his! day in reply to the recent Gere growth of pastures, smal eesiny ~v. D. Tee aout Rulihe % ppea China, May 24 seal He ed A aa fore a cau) nee with clippers and; man newspaper charges that the have been benefited in that a good | 4 . | Chinese government troops which) nu cently ¢ celebrated his 92d) razor. | “ taken place... ‘The cool wet weather | i ‘bandits and their foreign captives in| Shave: the first he’s had since the! make. (Note the ccompanying pei ad also been unfavorable for the} i jthe mountain stronghold have fallen) close of the Civil War, | photos for corroboration.) i Essen, } -fhe Communists lopment of grasshoppers. WATER PLANT FOR BISMARCK | | tackeaifd | Hardly had the boom of the last} Should Hall maintain his present, have taken possession of the police Preliminary reports indica | ling to advices received tod: cannon died a than Hall swore | ratio, next time he visits the domain! headquarters at Gelsenkirchen and chatcuetinneconmacraarevovensthl | jLinching. The brigands' outpost are! by the beard he wore that never! of the striped pole will be on his, have hoisted the Red Flag over the 2 figures tending toward a more Editors Note:—Request has ;and paid for by water sales. The! , following the troops as they retire.) ##ain would he near a barber shop 120th birthday. The third when he’s, building. diversified system of farming, ; \enlimadeshy(G Bet eniVice:| VGnlaheelonttuelcity engindors re i The bandits, apparently puzzled at! until 2 Democratic president was | 148 and the fourth trip at 176 Reports from German sources say Acreages of corn, alfalfa and sweet | esident of the Bismarck | mate of the cost of the plan: of} the recent cessation of negotiations | chosen who suited him The barher who next shaves him] that five persons were killed and 61 ; clover will be increased over Jt \ \ter Supply Co., to print a | $481,000, including the jnterest on{ for the rélease of the foreign pris- Hlaction after election followed. | probably isn't born yet. But look at| wounded in’ the fighting for the i ye while the wheat eCreae will | \ ‘es of three articles upon the | warrants is to be assessed as special | oners, sent messengers to the relief; But whenever an neumbent was all the money he's saved. And time,| possession — of the building. The j he decreased about 15 per cent.| 4 works. issue from the | assessments against the real e workers at Linehtug demanding that/ ushered into the White House, Hall too. jstruggle began laee last night and . Exceptions to this trend are the) uth ty, standpoint. This ar- of the city. The following of this ‘ newspapers be sent to them, The| would turn thumbs down He's one of the few who've never! continued until early this morning. greatly increased flax acreage and | tick" in no way should be con- | plan will place an unjust burden on! Many Girls and Women on) newspapers were sent but the re-j Until Woodrow Wilson, none had to listen to a barber's jokey, The building is said to have been the reduced acreage of potatoes, | struai as representing the view- | the real estate taxpayers of city | a i |lief party carefully deleted all mat-) passed inspection, n ir that he didn't need a} defended by the citizens’ defense from 25 to 40 per cent below that; point of The Tribune on the is- [as such method will relieve 36 per-| Streets Selling Legion ter relating to the kidnapping out-| But by that’ time the veteran's. sin shampou, a el k, al organization whieh w lly fore of last year. Lateness of the sea-| gue The position of this paper | cent of the total assessed valuation Blower Tare children had become so endeared to! massaye, a tonis or his eyebrows {ed to quit when one wing was set_on son and cheapness of seed have; on the issues involved have heen | of the city from any burden in the| i = their dud’s facial xdornment. that pulled ; tie ty dies abecking moe Ue helped to check the tendency for a| made very plain editorially from | payment of this part of the —con- atcnaeaSe AMERICAN PAROLED | Hees : E 5 M i‘ paieaaridiiccmen y Nene} | = 2 | ee ee | fighting was not restricted to the hig cut in the potato acreage, anl|. time to time. struction of the plant. All of the! More than $50 had been taken in) Shanghai, China, M . Bes building but spread through the evidently many farmers are follow. | ome . personal property together with the) this morning at the opening of the, Powell, American newspaper pyb-| Seca ead mee viet ce Jing the axiom that “Cheap seed | By C. B, Little, property of corporations amounting | poppy drive in Bismarck. (| lisher of Shanghaiy who has besm Hee Lab anys ars wer in the spring means high-priced! yi-o.president Bismarck Water Sup-|to $2,192,725, in 1922 will escape its}” Mrs. Ray Stair, general chai=:! held a prisoner by the Chinese ban-! scattered. a atoes in the fall.” | pba j BORO OT ~-thiv Cexpenael on ofthe Aime raga PLA@UTEIBONEE. BY sb : ‘ ; \ Several Woinded potatoes in . | ply Company, proporttorn’o: is expense! man of the American Legion Aux-j dits at Paotzuku has been paroled) A number: ovens pailents oe endive reports tron feat Sate| Prior to the water works Lond] While it will all be borne by | the! jliary committee in charge of the!to take part in new conferences for ‘aaa ee ties for the period ending last Pat} tion tne city engincer pudlish-| Teal estate of the city which amount ) drive, directed the opening day's! the release of the captives, according ie Beanee oun avbeeanktt een urday follow: ed a series of articles bearing on|¢d to $4,747,004 im the year 1922.) campaign. A group of junior and] to advices received here late to- A D pa die dae talents 8) p McLean lthe water situation, Tt was patent| The benefits, derived from a water| senior high school girls assisted! ‘7, ; form yesterday afternoon “Seeding of small grain is about ee time that the publication was] Works plant is nearly as great <2) the women in charge of the work. ™E"™ poli pinned igmenatin ee eaaaad i comuna nines scommisaion ac Gone finished with the exception of flax.) tote cei inose of inducing the ap-| te personal property owners as it! ‘Pwo prizes have been offered to aes > am visited the shops demanding that the A small amount of corn has been foyal SC ReAD CHAE. Realizing the] is te those owning real estate andy the girls making the largest oS, | Distinguished Army Officer price of foodstuffs be cut in half. The planted. Farmers estimate a re- eee ee ie ee the “adoption of af fer this reason they should bear! yecord during the campaign. ‘The a 3 housewives of the city hearing that duction in wheat acreage of 30 per, method of paying for a municipal their just portion of the expense of | fret prize will consist of a pair of Tells How Americans the stores were complying with this ; cent, Small grains that are up are looking fine. Mest fields of winter wheat have been damaged mater- ially by winter killing. A heavy n Friday night, benefited the Only one farmer has re- hopper crops. ly, ported noticing any gra: so far this spring.’ ng, Washburn. Morton “Wheat seeding was finished last week and farmers are now planting large- acreages of corn and flax. Most of the wheat is up and some of it is four inches high. An in- creased amount of alfalfa is being \Nanted this year, and old fields are looking fine. Seme gopher dam- age has been reported to alfalfa fields, Cold weather prevailed dur- | ing the week with a light snow on Monday night and rain Tuesday. —Geo. Ilse, Mandan lope “Wheat seeding is finished and practically all of the oats is in. Corn and flax planting will begin next week, Reports indicate that the flax acreage here will be in- creased 200 per cent from that of last year. Nearly an inch of rain fell during the week and cool wea- ther prevailed.”—Chas. Eastgate, Amidon, McKenzie She oe “Most of the wheat seeding is finished and planting of oats will be about over after next week. Land plowed from now until June 1 will be seeded to flax and corn. Frosty nights with rain and snow whe first half of the week have de- layed development of pastures and meadows.” — Paul C. C. Wagner, Watford. ‘i Williams “Planting of oats and flax is general and wheat seeding is about | finished. Winter rye is in splendid condition. Winter wheat fields , range from very good to poor. The weather has been too cold for wheat to make much growth with light frosts prevailing during the week, and a light snow and rain. Pas- tures are making slow growth. Go- pher poison bait has been distribu- ted in 29 townships.”—E. G. Schol- landér, Williston. Mountrail | “Wheat seeding is practically fin- ished with a large acreage stub- bled in, and an estimated decreased ) acreage of from 26 to 35 per cent. Potato planting has started, and planting of corn and flax will get under way next week. Increases in the acreages of both of the last named crops are indicated with a decrease in the acreage of pota- toes. Winter rye is making satis- factory progress and generally a good stand is reported. Fair, cold weather during the week has de- , layed development of pastures. Go- pher poisoning is being carried on 20 townships of the county.”— J. Bredvold, Stanley. “Wheat seeding is practically fin- ished and most of the oats and (Continued on Page 8) : the construction of the plant unless [plant whether the city took overt ituir share should be reflected Ithe present plant or should con- i (clude to build a new one, the water] imérensed rents throughout the city {company refrained from’ answering| Method Adopted For Payment o} “the city chgineers articles because Construction jits only objections to the bond issue aie ea |was that it was entirely too small, | 2m the past all improvements of [ene Water Commane is cnt the} any. magnitude including the three (heaviest taxpayers in the city, pay-|P2ving. contracts, the sewer — con- tracts including the 36 in, sewer con- ‘ing nearly $10,000 per annum or 1-6 of its gross revenue. It therefore pean aah bane | Payers in the method adopted to +s ;finance such a proposal, will there- |fore answer some of the City En- |gineer's statements. | The City’s Method of Financing Un- Just The method proposed by the city ‘of financing a municipal water sys ,tem is unjust, discriminatory and | confiscatory ofthe real estate own- lers property. Briefly stated the city’s method ;follows: The operating expense of |the plant is to be included in ‘the water rates. The sinking fund and (interest on the $225,000 bonds is u!- ‘so to be included in the water rates | maar TO REMODEL . | ST. MARY'S ‘| | Extensive Improvements on Cathedral Planned | paises || St. Mary's pro-cathedral will be extensively remodeled during the present summer, the work probably to start in July. Brick veneer on the’ outside and new decorations on the interior of the church are planned. The brick will be a daxk red, with appropriate trimmings. Contract for the work probably will be let soon. The work will cost probably about $7,000. 'WHISTLEOF STEAMBOAT IS HEARD AGAIN | The white of a steamboat is now | j heard on the Missouri river -again, with the packet Benton hauling coal from Bismarck to Fort Yates for the government Indian, agency. About 4,200 tons of-coal will be hauled and several trips will be necessary. ° The packet Frayne next week will embark on up-river trade, hauling grain from Expansion to Washburn. Much grain from McKenzie and Mountrail! counties was not hauled out last. winter. | “The old ferry Marion, which plied between shores at Bismarck and Man ae before the new bridge spanned river was. wintered at Rock: Haven, the government harbor six miles structed last fall have been paid for which they have agreed to accept and have bid on the interest which they would accept on said warrants not exceeding the legal limit of 7 percent, a new ‘method has been adopted by the city for the payment of the construction or purchase of a municipal water plant, the method adopted is quoted from the adver- tisements for bids. “Any bonds or special assessment warrants issued in payment for the construction of any part of the water works sys- tem will be sold by the board of city commissioners and the t paid in cash”, This is a radical de- (Continued on “Page 3) Minot Pioneer ‘Dies at Old Age Minot, May 24.—John A. Botz, 36, one of the pioneer residents of Minot and Ward county died yester- day at his home here. | Death resulted from complications incident to old age amd he had been confined to his bed since last fall. About two months ago he s%ffered the loss of his eye sight. He came to Minot in 1888. Lad Crushed To Death By Tractor Regent, N. D., May 24.—Starting a tractor when the machine was in gear, Norris, Halvorson, 19 years old, was instantly killed when pinned be- tween the tractor and the wall of the shed. Halvorson’s mother, alarmed at hjs absence, found him dead, stand- ing upright against the shed wall. the lot of the mother. Crop failures reduced the fathily’ to straightened within the last year the husband and elder daughter didd three months ago,the farm home was destroyed by, fire) together with all its contents, and the death of the eldest son comes just in the rush of spring work on the farm.” PIONEER DxOPS DEAD Mott, N. D,, May 24—Charles Gil- bert, 61, one of the earliest settlers in the vicinity of Bentley, died sud- denly of heart disease as he was unhitching his team after a hard day’s work the fields of his farm He was a native of Unity, Wis. Hie Above the city, and sank there. The | boat. is being raised. widow; four song atid three daugh- ‘ters survive, Waar ¥ » 1; Silk hose, the second will be contractor | Misfortune has fallen repeatedly to' ! ash, neo= to a= Mrs. Stair declared that the ple of Bismarck seemed re ‘give their bit to make the | paign a success. The poppic isale, large bouquets, appropr for use on Decoration day or ii and little button-hole pop- were selling at the | prices as last year, ten cents | The girls assisting in the drive ; this morning were: ;Clara and Hilda Hultberg, M Svendsgaard, Vivian Murphy, |Evaline George, Ellen Hall, ' Bertsch, Jean Eaton, Clara Spe Esther Schultz, Andrea McDonal 'Wilma_ Meyer, Helen Robidou, | Jessie McDonald, Emma | Marlys Lahr, and Louise Kelle’ | The women in charge of the cam- |paign for the remainder of the drive are Mrs, Henry Murphy, Fri- ' day; Miss Carrie Haugen, Satur- day; Mrs. Ferris Cordner, Monday, land Mrs. E. F. Trepp, Tuesday Mrs. Stair declared that the a: sistance of a large number of girls would be appreciated She asked that ail who could help during one day of the campaign to report to jthe Legion rooms or call on the jtelephone. - ONLY ONE - BID ON BONDS Although several bond houses were rppresented, only one bid was sub- mitted to the state industrial com- | \ President of Health Agency | Created by Last Legis- lature ‘tate bonds offered. Five houses, | Stacy, Braun and Co., the Minne- apolis Trust Co. Minneapolis Loan ‘and Trust Co. Lane, Piper and Jaf- | fray, and the Wells-Dickey Co., sub- | mitted a bid for $1,200,000 of $2,500,- : 000 real estate bonds offered at a premium of $12,440, or a net interest ‘rate at par, 4.911-2 per cent. No | bids were submitted on $550,000 of mill and elevator operator fund | bonds. The industria] conimission took the ; bids under advisement. Later he was | rejected, and new bids will be asked. POINCARE OF © _ FRANCE QUITS (By the Associated Press} Paris, May 24.—Pre- mier Poincare of France resigned today. Most valuable private collection of ‘rare Birds:in thé United States is:the a “Of Baldwin’ Palmer, Brooklyn, 2AGHY same | ie; mission -this afternoon for real es-'|. ~ ELECTED HEAD OF COUNCIL Dr. Fannie Dunn Quain of marck was elected president of the Public Health Advisory Council created by the Whitman bill of the 1923 legislature, meeting at the cap- itol late yesterday for the fi time. Dr. Arne Oftendahl of Fargo jwas chosen secretary pro tem. Further organization will be com- | pleted at a meeting on June 9, when ja state public health officer will be 1 selected. | Members of the council are Miss Minnie J. Nielson, ex-officio; Dr. J. Grassick, by virtue of his position tendahl. Under the Whitman bill a state health department is created, and a state health officer is to be nam- ed by the Public Health Advisor: Council, with offices in the capitol. The new department will succeed the present state board of health on J Girl, Fifteen, Is Student at “U” Grand Forks, N. D., May 24 — Reading Thackeray’s Vanity Fair at the age of seven and Dicken’s David Copperfield even before that age and several of the works of Ibsen at the age of nine, are some of the things which have brought Miss June Ba- tie at fourteen into prominence as being the youngest student enrolled at the state university. Miss Batie, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Batie of Omemee, now just past her fifteenth birth- day anniversary, learned to read at the age of three. She never spent a day in school until she entered high school, hut was educated at home by her mother. Miss June is enrolled in the uni- versity in the general liberal arts course, She finished high school in three years and entered the univer- sity with ‘an average of 94 and 95. As yet, she has not decided in what she will major, nor has she decided upon @ vocation after she finishes her course. MANY SEEK CLEMENCY About 100; applications for clem- eney will .be; considered by the state board of pardons here on June 2. f july 1, when appropriations for the ; | Bis- | | | | MANBUT FAILS T0 SLAY SELF Member of Arizona Legisla- ture Is Killed in Boarding House Room After slay Remington, member of the Arizona legislature in 1921 and 1 former army captain and a prominent Phoenix automobile salesman, Mrs. Lealah Ctandall shot herself in an attempt to commit suicide last night, cording to police. She is in a seri- ous condition today but physicians said she might recover. Remington was slain in a room oc- cupied by Mrs. Crandall in a room- ing house in which they both resided. His wife, who is visiting in Liver- jas president of the North Dakota} more, Cali was notified of the Tuberculosis Association, Dr. F. L.j shooting late last night. Householder of Minot and Dr. Of- s ELECT TWO ON | SCHOOL BOARD E. V. Lahr Expire Two members of the Bismarck city school board will he elected in regu- lar election on June 5. The terms of A. P. Lenhart and E. V. Lahr expire this year. New members are to be elected to serve three year terms. | A number of friends urged Mr. Lenhart and Mr, Lahr to stand for! re-election. They were not ready to- day to make any anouncement. | Herd of Cattle Goes With Sale’ © Of Farm Lands Golva, N; D., May 24.—The Farmers Realty company, a new incorporation launched here with a capital of $50,- 000, subsidiary to the First National! bank of Golva, will sell land on a/ new principle. A herd of good milk | cows will go with each farm sold, the purchaser giving guarantee to keep} up the herd and make dairying one| of ‘the principal industries of his farm. These herds will be an integral part of the farm equipment and farms and dairy herds will be an in- tegral part of the farm and amortiza- tion plan payments being cared for by cream checks. Hugh Egan is pres- ident of the company. ina i ® )tuchun, Yuan Painted Way During the Boxer Rebellion. May 24 here of the plight of the foreigners in Washington, Discussions help captive Shantung province have brought to Veht for time Boxer foreign interesting chapter incident in 1900, when the colony in Peking , was be- ieged and threatened with death As related today by a 1 American army off suish rn but at that time occupying a high position in the war depart- ment, the story discloses that at was the United States which start- ed the march on Peking for relief, of the besieged nationals. In tah-| ing the initiative in the interna- tional movement of troops this gov- ernment acted on information whica had not yet come into the possession of the other rs. So un s the method b which Washington kept advised of the situation and so great a re- sponsibility descended on__ the shoulders of those who provided it that the details now publicly re: lated for the first time never were made a matter of official record. The story turns upon the fact that the Chinese minister in Wasn- ington in 1900 was Wu Ting Fang, | who recently died in the harness us foreign minister for President Sun Y. Sen's canton government. He x a man of singular ability, largely athetic with the Amer- ican vie . One of his closest friends the famous Chinese Shih Kai, at that time governor of the great province Chi- hli which includes Peking, and later emperor. Legationers Besieged While the legationers were be- seiged within the compound in Pek- ing by the boxer forees they were almost completely cut off from communication with their home governments and the outside word. The Chinese government itself do- | minated by the old empress dowager herself bitterly antiforeign, was nown to be sympathetic with the boxer movement, though professedly taking no part in it. In conse- quence, that government gave no as- sistance to the powers that were making frantic efforts to get in touch with their besieged diplomatic representatives. It was at this juncture that the friendship, between Wu Ting Fang and Yuan Shih Kai became a most valuable asset. A great ‘ personal risk, because a discovery of his ac- tivities would have cost him his life when he returned to China. Minis- ter Wu induced Yuan Shih Kai by secret means to get into communi- cation with the legationers, Soon afterward, through this agency, the first news reached Washington that the prisoners had not ‘been killed | outright as was at first reported al- ‘i 4 (Continued on Page 3) the first | of the| . | ordered into Gelsenkirchen which demand swooped down on them with market baskél supply in a short time. M while the streets began to fill with people and a general seram- ble ensued. As the security police had been expleled in. February and the town was without protection ex- cept for a force of firemen which had been doing some patrol duty. The firemen were called upon to d exhausted the jmake an effort to disperse the jerowd. They were aided by the | newly formed civilian self-defe |league armed with clubs but not j Firemen Interfere The interference of the fireme |and self-defense league forces seer ‘ed only to add fuer to the fire a the crowd began counter-attacking In one instance the demonstrators jattacked a squad of firemen who |were occupying a fire truck wounded several of them. | Additional French — troops and were in the Essen region, six miles north- west of Bochum but it was announce ‘ed there was no intention by the | French to interfere as long as the did not clash with military. When the troops appeared they were |jeered by the Germans who thought demonstrations the French | French they had come to suppress the dew onstration, but the French mere went to their various posts and | looked on, ADJUSTERS MEET HERE | Hail, Insurance Men Hold Conference in Capitol Fifty hajl insurance adjusters of the state, about one from each coun- ty, conferred with Commisioner of Insurance S. A. Olsness and manager of the hail insurance department, Martin Hagen, here yesterday. All the details of adjusting were gone into during the session, and various members of the department and ad- jpsters related personal experiences, Governor Nestos addressed the ad- justers, impressing upon them the importance’ of the adjuster in se- curing a square deal for the state and, for the farmer, and stating. that their work had much ‘to do with the success or failure of the department. BY DOG BITTEN 4 Valley City, May 24—Norma Stem- hagen, five-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Stemhagen, e ed bad cuts about the face ay dog charged ‘her inflicting neeeral bad lta about the face. one stitches were necessary to