The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 10, 1923, Page 1

1 EXCAVATION 1° FORNEWCITY f v DeGraff Wolff Company of St. \s ‘ ! or :*,,agreed on when the city purchased | ™ 4 , WEATHER FORECAST Generally fair tonight al Wednesday. Cooler tonight, ESTABLISHED 1878 - MAINS BEGUN Paul Begins Work on Trench for 16-inch Main PUSH WORK Hoped to Get Major Part of Work Completed Before The Winter Sets In WILL Excavation work preparatory to laying mains in the city’s addition to the water plant is now under wt The first dirt was taken up late yesterday afternoon by a crew under the direction of DeGraff Wolff of St. Paul, contractor, who was award- ed the contract for -extending the distribution system. The first main to be laid is the big 16-inch main leading from the filtra- tion plant to the city, comin; Avente C. It supplements the 12- inch mains from the reservoirs. En- ineers consider a decided advantage s gained in leading the 16-inch main from the filtration plant, in which Water can be pumped into the city mains through git e same time that water is being pumped up into the reservoirs. The workmen engaged on the fil- tration plant building and suction well have almost completed the ex- cavations necessary. There are now about 25 workmen engaged on the * city water plant, and when the work is in full swing this summer it is estimated that about 75 men will be| Fight Is Opened There in an employed. The work of installing the filtra- tion plant and the distribution sys- tem will be rushed as fast as possi- ble daring the summer, with the hope that much of the work can be completed before cold weather. The city commission last night dis- cussed informally the question ‘of how the plant will be managed, and where to establish an offiee. . The second floor. heated especially. The commission probably will meet A, J. Arnot ‘on the question as to whether he will handle the finances and office work for the city. J. A. Larson, finance issioner probably will go to Litigation Ended A stipulation was signed yester-] 1,600 of the best physical specimens ' cow bell, at the luncheon yesterday, day afternoon by Attorney-General] are leased or contracted to four coar George F, Shafer, C. L. Young, city mining companies and one lumber and Zuger and Tillotson, company. attorney attorneys for the Bisinarck Water Supply Company, for the making per- manent of the interlocutory orter of the federal court forbidding the railroad commission from interfer- ing with a 35 percent increase in rates for the water company. dismissal of this litigation Mhe water plant. ay FARMERS AID NEIGHBORS IN ~ + POULTRY WORK New Rockford, N. D., July 10.— Twglve Eddy county farmers will] convict casualties from annual re- coopkate with County Agent A. C.| ports of the Chief Mine Inspector. inj Peterson and Q. A. Barton, poultry} 1917, 27 were killed; in 1918, 14; in specialist of the North Dakota Ex-| 1919, 13; in 1920, 12; in 1921, 20. tendron division, in conducting. poul-| Ajthough there are more than 250 try demonsirations for the benefit] mines in operation in Alabama, 26 | of themstlves and their neighbors during the next few years. These farmers have all started to keep egg records so that they will! wingham, member of the legislative know the average production of their flocks. Poultry culling demonstra- tions will then be held at their farms next fa!l, and the egg records for the following months will show the effect of, the culling, dn the ef- ficiency ef production. Breeding pens will be selected from these same flocks in 'Febrtary or March wf next year .and demonstrations will also be carried on of housing aad feeding methods. “In this manner we hope to es- tablish community poultry breeding centers, and to eventually bud up certified breeding flocks,” Mr. Bar- ton declares. z in on} California (right), ¢ upon William McAdoo, Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law, at the college graduation exercises in Los Angeles. TABERT CASE |" "Gr eo YRS. 60 missioners felt that there was|death rol] of nine convicts, with a not sufficient room in the city hall] summary .of, other evils, has just and that it would bé unsatisfactory} been issued by the Alabama State- to patrons to have the office on the} wide Campaign Committee for the Use of a room in the! Aboltshitent of the Conviet Lease Auditorium also was discussed. It} system in its effort to induce legis- was said that it would have to be] 19 The | ed on the criminal wards of the state. was| The Tabert case has been duplicated “Certified breeding|@" at Aldrich prison. THE BISMARCK TRIBUN BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1923 RMS OUT . SLOPE FAI | MORE HONORS FOR McADOO | N Dr. Rufus B. Von Kleinsmid, president of the University of Southern onferring the ho ECHO HEARD IN ALABAMA’ Effort to End Leasing of State Convicts DEATH ROLL IS CALLED (From the New York World.) Birmingham, Ala, July 10—-A re action. Citing the fact that “Alabama is the last state in the Union to retain this ‘relic of barbarism’ ”the com- mittee agaih urges the people to re- move “this blot on our state’s fair hin a few days to study the] name” by a demand shee eheinters | the Kiwanis club, and must enforce used there in handling the| resentatives in the legislature. The{¢y, resolution of the club assessing oi their city-owned water] chairman of the committee is Judge W. E. Fort. Of Alabama’s 3,000 convicts about The committee's plea to} the voters, in the form of a leaflet, | reads: “Under this system, unbelievable | and barbardus cruelties, attested by reliable witnesses, have been practic- ore than once in Alabama.” It points out tht 90 per cent of | the convicts maimed and injured after conviction receive their injur- | ies while under lease and likewise | that 80 per cent of the tuberculosis | cases are contracted while the vic- tims are contracted while the vic- time as under lease. The committee quotes figures on per cent of all the men killed were | convicts working in five mines. | John C. Arnold, an attorney of Bir- committee which investigated the! lease system in 1919, and third vice | president of the committee to abolish | the system, has written a letter to the Birmingham Post concerning the death of three convicts, Explaining he was ‘impelled to write the letter because the Gover- nor had recently commuted a sen- tence of hanging, he wrote: “While the Governor was engaged in this commendable act of mercy, a committee from the Alabama Federa- tion of Women’s Clubs and the writer were seted in the office of the Ward- We were flocks have two great advantages,| Teading the record of the warden as protection to the buyer and better follows: ¢ profits to the tors are being county tagents and similar planned in other counties of the state.” roducer. Coopera- Old Settlers’ Day Of Emmons Co. To Be Celebratec - \\ Linton, N. D., July 10.—The pio- neers of Emmons county will cel brate “old settlers’ day” at Seer } “Willie Blankenship, white, killed cured throngh the | instantly in the mine, Jan. 1, 1923. work | Body sent home to mother. “‘Arthur Smith, electrocuted in mine, Feb, 2, 1923. ] “‘Charlie Hardie, colored, electro- cuted in mine, April 20, 1923.’ “These men * * * had not been sentenced to death by the Trial Court, * They left the control of the state and were delivered to the task master at the mouth of the} mine and were driven two or threé miles into the bowels of the earth. | “I am not criticising the Governor Park, Linton, N. .D., on Saturday, | for his act of mercy in the Tom. Wil- July 21. All those ‘having been in the county } Brandon is son. case, .I commend him. Gov. man with a big heart : twenty-five years previous to the 21st | filed with. the milk of human-kind- “Swill be entitled to register aq old set- 4jers, and receive a badgé properly ness, “The other forty-seven states in the idgptifying them as old settlers, butitunion \have placed humanity above this will in no wise bar other old set~)| dollar jmark. tlers or new settlers from coming | the: lease- system. and having @ good time. They have \abolished Then why can't wer” \ | tractor. He had built schools at New England, Regent, Leith and Amidon. Besides the contract for the new school at Reeder he was to build the new municipal light plant at New England this summer. iu norary degree of doctor of laws H. H. Larned, veteran of the Gen- eral Sibley campajgn of 1863 through Bismarck, visited the spot on Apple Creek about five miles south of the city where Liewt. Beaver, in the same. command, was killed 60 years ago this summer. In the party were W. A. Falconer, Joseph Dietrich, Judge Birdzell, Judge Johnson and wife, L, F. Crawford and Oscar Swenson. BRESLOW GETS NEW PLACE IN KIWANIS CLUB Must’, Aasess “Fines, Against Tardy Members at Lunch- eons, Members Rule Joseph Breslow has a new job. He has been named Sargeant-at-Arms-of fines for tardiness at luncheons. He was invested with the insigna of the office, consisting of a tin bank and and he is directed to “ring up cash” every time he collects a fine. The Kiwanians have shown so much “pep” in getting to the lunch- eons on time however, that it doesn’t look as if Mr. Breslow will have much work to do. An attendance prize, drawn by lot, went to Dick Tracy. é Celebration of birthdays of the present week brought forth: the names of George H. Russ, and “S. J.” Johnson, with appropriate remarks by Ben Tillotson and George Shafer. Rev. Burns of Sentinel Butte was a guest of the Kiwanians and ad- dressed: the club on the subject, “We build” which is the motto of the club. Contractor Dies Following Fall Dickinson, July 10—S:'L. Melby, 44, New England corltrattor; died Thursday of {njuries ‘received’ Tues- day while working on a new school He had the contract for the building at Reeder. He was ‘struck on the head by a post bucket filled with cement and made unconscious. He fell 12 feet to the ground. Death resulted from a fractured skull and aspiratior pneumon; Mr. Me y was a well known con- widow and five children, sur- vive. A brother, Erwin, lives at Wildrose, -N. D., and a sister, Mrs, Martin Feteraany resides’at Hillsboro, Dickinson Men .. Are Winners Fargo, July 10—The Burkhearts, father and son, of Dickinson, came out of the west and defeated Fargo’s best horse-shoe- players in the free for all tournament at the seeond college addition west. Both! men are playing in the fair tourney today. i Barkheaft, Jr., won first place and his father second im the tourney, ac- cording to standings given out by L. O. Kelsven of Fargo. Mr. Kelsven won third, |, é The prize winners in the tourney were Burkheart, jr., Burkheart, ar., Kelsven, Fletcher and Rose. Stadden, Heggerness and Stephens also placed among the first eight. . ‘Arrested For Non-Support Peter Rennick was arrested yes- terday for nox-support of his family,| ornwa trom the warrant being issued ya ce Beer... ee as ; + BANKS OF FIGHT PROMOTERS IN MONTANA CLOSE Great Falls, Montana, Bank of George H. Stanton Volun- tarily Suspends SHELBY BANK CLOSES Mayor Jim Johnson, Who was Said to Have Lost Heavily in Fight, Headed It Great Falls, Mont. July .10.— George H, Stanton, president of the Stanton Trust and Savings bank of this city, which faileq to open for business yesterday made emphatic denial late last night that there. was any connection between the closing of the institution and the financing of the Gibbons-Dempsey champion- ship fight at Shelby, Montana, July 4, Reports to that effect were in cir- culation but they were declared to be untrue by Stanton and L, U. Skel- ton, state superintendent of banks, who is here today to investigate the bank’s affairs, Stanton was one of the prominent Great Falls men who assisted in raising the second’ $100,000 that was paid Dempsey on his guarantee of $300,000 to meet Gibbons for the title, “Any money raised in Great Falls or Shelby for the Dempsey payment was not drawn from the resources of the Stanton bank or from my per- sonal funds,” Stanton said in a state- ment last night. “I gave such per-,| sonal assistance as I could to the promoters to meet the crisis on June 15 (when the second $100,000 was due), but my connection with the bout should not in any way be asso- ciated with the closing this morning of the Stanton bank.” The bank’s financial status at this time, Mr, Stanton said, was due to conditions prevailing following thy world war, together with » lack of confidence on the part of depositors) after the failure ¢f two other banks here. His institution, he asserted, is solvent, entered’ into liquidation vol- untarily and deciced to close its doors because of ‘inability to meet obligations. at the local clearing house. Every depositor will receive his money, he said. i The bank has a capital of $260,000 and deposits of $600,000. JOHNSON BANK CLOSES. Great Falls, Mont., July’ 10. First State bank of Shelby of which Mayor Jim Johnson, one of the back- ers of the Dempsey-Gibbons bout is president, closed this morning, ac- cording to a statement made here by State Bank Examiner Skelton, who is here to take charge of the Stanton Trust and Savings bafk Which went into voluntary liquidation Monday noon. DIRECTORS OF RQUITY MEET Try Once More to Find 4 Method of Financing Plant Fargo, July 10.—Directors of the Equity Co-operative Packing com- pany, whose plant. in West Fargo has been closed for many months, will meet in Fargo again tonight to struggle ‘once more with the finan- cial problem before them, C. W. Reichert, president of the company, indicated today that some concrete plans for raising $50,000 to meet immediate demands would be before the meeting, but he woulg not say what these plans are, It is known, however, that attor- neys for the company now are busy endeavoring to collect notes which were given the company for the pur- chase of stock. The notes being col- lected are those which were renewed last year. LEVIATHAN AT ' FRENCH PORT Cherbourg, France, July 10—The ‘giant liner Leviathan arrived here ytoday on her first trans-Atlantic voyage under the American flag as a passenger. liner. -She landed 800 a ssengers here and continued on to Southampton. # eo = BRITTIN WOMAN rie Thompson, ‘following a fight between, the two women at Brittin, ‘was found guilty by Police Magis- ¢rate Cashman today, and fined $10. Costs increased the amount to $98.70. Jail sentence of: 20 days also was given, but suspended. The trial, which began in. the police station and adjourned to the courthouse because of the. large, m Brittin at the trial, ended last night, and attorneys ar- gued this morning. WATCH GOPHE ELECTION FOR 6.0.P. STRENGTH May Have Bearing on Trend of Next National Election, Some Dopesters Say CONFIDENT JOHNSON Farmer-Labor Forces See Him Duplicating Shipstead’s Victory of Last Year St. Paul, July 10.—Outcome of the Minnesota senatorial election, July 16, will be watched closely tional political in na- circles as possibly ving a bearing on the next presi- ial election, it was said by some political observers today, The trend of the Republican vote for Governor J, A, O. Preus and that for Magnus Johnson, farmer-laborite, political dopesters declare, will give then a goog indication of the senti- ment of the people at least in this section of the country, on the poli- cies of the present Republican Na- tional administration Governor Preus the endorse- ment of the administration end he approves its programs and actions. Johnson opposed the Harding plat- form, Confidence is expressed by the Far- mer-Labor leaders here that Johnson will be elected. They expect a repi- tition of last fall's election when Dr. Henrik Shipstead won a sweeping victory over Senator Frank P. Kel- logg, Republican, On the other hand Republicans are depending on a large turnout of vot- ers to bear Governor Preus. ‘They claim a normal Republican vote will bent the Farmer-Labor man. At the primary more than 300,000 votes | were cast, less than half of normal. Although State Senator James A. Carley is the Democratle candidate newspapers through the state and others in political affairs profess to see little chance of his being a seri- ous contender when the final figures are in. He polled a comparatively small’ vote in the primary. TWO HELD ON . | BOOZE CHARGES' William Grossman Is Bound Over to District Court de William Grossinan, arrested on w charge of maintaining a common nuisance, growing out of allegations by the State’s attorney of the sale of liquor, waived examination before Police Magistrate Cashman and was bound to district court. The suspended 90-day sentence of Joseph Fettig, who had pleaded guil- ty to a liquor charge, was revokeg by Judge Jansonius, on representations by State's Attorney Allen that viola- tions had been committed since the suspension. Band Registrations Will Close July 14 Progress is being made upon Bis- marck’s juvenile band under’ the leadership of Prof.. Sorlein. He an- nounced today that after Saturday, July 14, no new registrations would be received until August 25. It is expected that with the re- turn of many school children from thelr vacations there will be more applicants and these will be received after August 24 and into the school year. Prof. Sorlien plans on taking the high school students and older ‘rade students and make a band class out of these as material devel- ops. Mote than fifty boys and girls aro reporting almost daily for band prac- tice at the Will school. Music has arrived and the larger instruments have been purchased. Plans are being made for the bene- fit concert at the Auditorium, Aug- ust 7'of the glee club of the North- Western College of Naperville, Ill. ‘This is a high class musical organi- atton which is on a tour of the United States. It makes only two appearances in North Dakota one here and the other at Jamestown. Funds derived from this concert will be used to purchase the instruments and a packed ‘house for the cbhcert is anticipated. This attraction will be under the auspices of the Assoc- iation of Commerce. Name ‘Shipley { Hotel Inspector his appointment: to be made by R. 0. Baird, food. commissioner’ and chemist and ap- proved by the jstate board of ad- ministration. He will succeed John !Gammons, named secretary of the Industria! Commission, MEET ON 18TH The state industrial commission will hold A. meeting “on July 18 a which time. it is ex id bids will ‘be seasivel gata Lond iste. SHERIDAN, WELLS COUNTIES SUNDAY Freak Accidents of the Cyclane Are Reported — Woman Suffers when. Church Is Moved From Its Foundation — Man Narrowly Escapes Death when Splinter of Glass Strikes Him The cyclone which struck heaviest in Sheridan and Wells counties Sun- day twisted like a snake, according to Carl R. Kositzky, who was at Bow- don, Wells @ounty, about 16 miles storm, southwest of Fessenden, during the Church services were being held in a Lutheran church 12 miles north- west of Bowdon when the storm stri he said. “Th ‘uck about 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon, e people started for the basement, and when part of them were there the cyclone lifted the church and’ moved it 12 feet,” he said. “One concrete wall of the basement was pulled in a en leg and herjson and several othe “The church’ rested right-side up, the foundation. One part of it fell « DAKOTANS IN MINNESOTA IN HOT CAMPAIGN nator Frazier and Governor Nestos Both Appear on Platform in that State LADD GOES TO RUSSIA —-— To Take Long Delayed Trip— Quoted as Saying He Sees Improved Relations The campaign in Minnesota for the vacant seat jn the United States Senate is being fanned into white heat this week, with two North Da- kota speakers of. prominence—Gov- ernor \Nestoa: gnd Senator Frazier— joining in. The former is support- ing Governor Preus, Republican can- ‘didate for the seat, holding that the Democratic candidate has no chance of beating Magnus Johnson, the Farmer-Labor candidate, whom Sen- ator Frazier is supporting. Magnus Johnson has a strong fol- lowing gtid™a Well’ organized cam- paign. *Phil DaFollette of Wisconsin entered the campaign to add the weight of his father’s name to the urge for Johnson. Governor Preus is being attacked as a reactionary. On the other hand the Preus sup- porters’ found an unexpected aid in J. M. Anderson, former president of the Equity Co-operative Exchange, who has made serious charges against Johnson, Here are some of the offenses which Anderson laid at John- son’s door: FIRST: Magnus Johnson align- ed himself with the faction that was seeking to destroy the Equi- ty ‘Exchange, at the same time posing as a “friend of the farm- er. SECOND: Magnus Johnson signed bucketing orders to a “dummy sales organization” con- trary to the very laws that Johnson helped to enact as a member of the Minnesota state senate. THIRD: This faction within the Equity which formed the “dummy sales organization,” which Anderson accused Johnson of supporting, reaped profits of 3 to 28 cents a bushel on farm- ers’ grain, FOURTH: While Magnus Johnson was doing this to the Equity, “more legislation of ben- efit to agriculture” was enacted under the leadership of Gover- nor. Preus, whom Anderson op- posed in other years, than in all the previous history of the state. Senator E. F. Ladd of North Da- kota will soon leave on his long contemplated trip to study condi- tions in Soviet Russia, according to a Washington dispatch in the New York World. Senator King (D., Utah) will go with him and the two will be joined in Berlin by Representative Frear (R. Wis.), who is now in Europe. “The Russian Government,” Sen- ator Ladd said today, “has assured us of opportunity to visit every part of Russia and took into all phases of’ Administration.” i The Senator edded that according to information he had received the State Department was making care- ful inquiry into conditions. -‘“To me,” he continued, “that points to a better understunding in a commercial and buginess way.” The State Department declines ta discuss the matter. The Senators will be ,abroad until mid-October. eee The organization work of the Pro- ‘ducers Nationale Alliance, which A. ‘C.. Townley undertook, has not suc- ceeded as well as it was expected to by Mr. Townley, it is-said.. The re- ceipts from the $4 memberships paid by farmers in some counties, it is said, have hardly met the ex- Penses of organizations. This fact ih said to be behind a demand 2y N. K. Wicks, who first gave the Pro- ducers’ ional Alliance plan to the public, that Townley quit tie organization. He charged violation of the agreement made with Town- ley, and that the agreement was 60 framed as to give Townley control (Continued on Page 8) nd a Mrs, Kleinsasser suffered a brok- rs were injured less seriously. partly on the ground and partly on on a Ford car, flattening it.” A short distance away 11 people were gathered at a dinner party, he said, and a sliver of Jong struck a Mr. Kessel in the loin, and pinchers were used to pull it out. Doctors said if it had been a half inch either way he would have been killed. In McClusky several automobiles were parked on the streets. All that was left of them after the storm was the engine and body, Mr. Kosit- is three inches zky said, the tops being carried away, Three box cars were upset, Goodrich, McClusky and other towns lighted by a high power line will be without light for some time he said. An expensive transformer at McClusky was wrecked, Mrs. Carl Suandrich, living eight miles south of Goodrich, was killed when the roof of a barn fell on her as she.was driving chickens in a barn, At Hurdsfieldl the hotel was blown off. Scores of dead calves, chickens and hogs were seen along the road from McClusky, Mr. Kositzky said and scores of barns are dawn. Mr. Kositzky said one would ride. for a distance and sce the worst, pos- sible devastation, and ;then for a stretch there would be no damage again one would ride into another stretch where the cyclone heavy damage. front of the Cracked Like Egg Shells ery barn in the distrigt. from ‘McClusky to Johns lake, 10 miles to, the south, was cracked like an egg- v she” Frank P. Homan, Mandan druggist, declared today” on ‘his” re- veek-end, spent.with rela- idan county sedt. ton ranch 13 miles southeast of McClusky every build- ing is gone except the house, entall- ing a loss estimated at $20,000," The storm appeared to’ center directly above McClusky, clouds from the south and north meeting and causing a twister, he said. The loss to property for a distance 12 miles south to 12 miles north was heavy, stores on the east side of the strect had windows blown. in, The stock gf the Billinglmier store was practically destroyed. Four of the stores on the west side of the street had the fronts torn off, “The rain came horizontally as though shot from a high pressure firo hose,” said Mr. Homan. “Every- where through the country one secs threshing outfits wrecked, The high power line from Washburn is down for many miles.” OF BURNSTAD Requisition of Montana Gov- ernor Presented A requisition for the appearance in Gallatin county, Montana, of Chris. P. Burnstad of Logan county, former prominent as a breeder of fine cattle, was honored by Gover- nor Nestos and Sheriff James Smith came here yesterday an’ the repre- sentative of the state of Montana to return him. The -requisition papers said that Mr. Burnstad was charged with having obtained $30,000 from the St. Paul Cattle and Loan Com- pany under false pretenses, the charges growing out of the cattle deals of Mr, Burnstad. | ‘There has been considerable liti- i.gation in the court: a result of financial difficulties growing out of the cattle business of Mr. Burnstad. It is expected that he will de- mand a hearing on the requisition. DAWN TO DUSK. FLYER TO START ON TRIP AGAIN St. Joseph, Mo., July 10—Daunt- less and smiling, Lieutenant Russell L. Maughan, army aviator who was forced to abandon his dawn-to-dusk New York to San Francisco fight near St.:Joseph yesterday, declared tonight another flight would be at- tempted within a week. Lieut. Maughan will fly back to New York Wednesday or Thursday ‘of this week, he said, in the plane which broke down at Avenue City, about nine miles northeast of St. Joseph. The plane was undetgoing repairs this afternoon and Maugh- ‘an expressed belief it would be in condition to use by tomorrow night. A clog in the gas line. of his engii caused Maughan’s first. trouble, ‘he said, caused’ A glass window was blown in| In the city of McClusky all the +o \ ~ arom PRICE FIVE CENTS OF STORM PATH H GOPHER |CYCLONE TWISTED LIKE A SNAKE IN HAILNORTHOF HERE IS SAID ONLY SPOTTED Damage to Crops in Entire Storm Area of Several Hun- dred Miles is Small BUILDING LOSS HIGH Storm Cut Through Northern Burleigh County, and De- stroyed Many Barns CLOUDBURST AT CENTER. Telephone communication re- stored at noon today with Center brought information of a terrific cloudburst which flooded the town and many fields in that ter- ritory Sunday. The storm was accompanied by a high wind which flooded the town and many fields in that territory Sunday. The storm was accompanied by a high wind which wrecked a few buildings and a severe electrical storm, Funeral services for Ray Berg- loff, who was killed while attend- ing services at the Methodist church Sunday, were held yes- terday afternoon. There was no hail in the vicinity of Center, Mandan, N, D., July 10.—With the exception of a path through central Oliver county the Missouri Slope ap- pears to have escaped the terrific hurricane of Sunday, according to re- ports reaching here over still crip- pled wire systems. The Hazen district, where it was | reported heavy losses had been caus- ed by hail; had no hailvat all, accord- ing to -Roy? Seibert,. banker. The only loss reported in the Hazen dis- trict was at the Harry W. Shaling farm, 10'miles south of Hazen, where a silo was blown down. Some small buildings close to Hazen were over- turned. The only hail loss report here on the Jacob Freed farm, 20 miles northwest of the city, where dantage is estimated at 10 to 15 per cent. There was no rain beyond five miles south’ of Mandan, The territory from Hazen west in Mercer and Dunn counties this morning had a heavy rain lasting three hours and crop conditions are ideal, am ‘Scores of Barns | Blown Do rn i Estimates of damage from Sun- day’s storm in the area between Bismarck and Minot continued to mount today, us additional reports were received of barns blown down, small buildings turned over and some strips of territory devastated by hail. Estimates vary from $200,- 000 to twice that amount, including loss by hail. The most encouraging reports of the storm are the lack of extensive hail damage. While in some areas crops. were completely destroyed by hail, in the entire territory embrac- ing several hundred square ‘miles, the reports indicate that the hail was spotted and generally not ex- tensive. The state hail insurance depart- ment today was without definite in- formation as to the extent of hai in Sunday's storm, und because mail reports are received from adjusters may not know the extent of it for several days. Reports to the de- partment did fe bad - hail storms in the vicinity of Garrison, McClusky, Turtle Lake and Good- rich, Manager Martin V. Hagen said. Reports through the ‘Soo line did not indicate much hail damage this side of Garrison, while another re- port from the vicinity of Washburn told of a severe hail storm. Because hail storms may cover a very small area it is difficult to determine the extent of the loss, The storm which struck between Wilton and Garrison pened to have swept’ from the: southwest to the northe: It struck across the northern part of Burleigh county. Telephone and telegraph commu: ication in tl ‘storm-stricken area generally was restored today. Re- ports of the North Dakota Inde- pendent Telephone Compan} showed 17 poles down between Mandan and Fort Clark, 10 between Wilton and Underwood, 87 between Underwood and McClusky and 115 between Mc- Clusky and Sykeston, the storm be- coming wors led northeast. The damage probably will exceed $1,000. Hits Above Wing Axel Soder, Burleigh county eom- missioner here today, said that in the northern part of Burleigh coun-/ ty, above Wing, most of the farmers suffered loss; Barns dr small ild- ings or windmills were down: -all over the section, he said. — Thirty people | narrowly. escaped with their lives at the farm of Gust Weis, nine miles northwest of Wing, where a ball game was in ‘progress between the Wing and ®lorence Lake Seana when tne storm broke. The people scurried into the .barn. shelter. When the wind ee tear it away they ran out of. barn, the. last or @