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

FIGURES ON FARIS ASKED WEATHER PORECAST Generally fair tonight ard T4;- day, except probably showne, ESTABLISHED 1873 MARION’S GREA LAKE DIVES INTO LAKEDETROIT _ISPARALYZED Kenneth Miller, Son ci Judge Andrew Miller, Succumbs in Minneapolis Hospital BRING BODY TO CITY Will Arrive in Bismarck To- night for Funeral Services, Message Says Herineth Miller, 16 years old, son of: Federal Judge Andrew ‘Miller of Bismarck, died in a Minneapolis hos- pital today from injuries suffered When lig dived into three feet of wa- fer at, lis father’s cottage at Lake Detroit, Minnesota, yesterday. The boy was taken to Minneapolis by train at 9 o'clock Thursday night and rushed to St. Mary’s hospital. It was found he was paralyzed from the shoulders down, All efforts of phy- sicians to save his life throughout Thursday night and into the early hours this morning were without avail and death came at 4 a, m. to- day. Kenneth dived off a dock into THE BIS . 4 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1923 nnn THE LAST TRIBUTE Sok —— DIVE FATAL TO BISMARCK BO YAST FUNERAL SERVICES FOR NATION STOPS INDUSTRY-FOR LAST TRIBUTE From Coast to Coast Business and Commerce Is Suspend- ed During Funeral ALSO BEYOND AMERICA Memorial Services Are Being Held in London and Other Cities (By the Associated Preas) Washington, Aug 10.—The nation will pay the tribute of silence to Warren Harding as his body is en- tombed at Marion today. From coast to coast and from bor- der to border every wheel of the fed- eral government and __ practically every one of industry and commerce wil stand still. Theaters and other amusement places will be closed, baseball games postponed and other events of sport deferred. As recommended by President Coolidge in his proclamation official- ly announcding the death of the late President the day will be one of mourning and prayer. Thousands ‘THOUSANDS IN LONDON HOLD HARDING RITES London, Aug. 10.—(By the Asso- ciated Press)—Several thousand Americans and British crowded in around Westminister Abbey, the spiritual center of the empire today, to mourn the death of President Rarding., Hundreds who eould not be accomodated in the ancient cath- ddral lined the streets and squares in the vicinity of the parliament build- ing’as prominent personages arrived for the services, CLEANING OF RESERVOIRS IS REFUSED Head of Bismarck Water Sup- ply Company Won’t Correct Condition of the Water WANTS ‘CITY TO PAY Commission Flatly Rejects Proposition, Dedlaring It’s Water Company’s Business \ CK TRIBUNE [naan] * PRICE FIVE CENTS SON AT REST WARREN HARDING HELD IN OHIO CITY, CROWDED WITH THOUSANDS Hushed Silence Pervades the Streets of the “Home Town” Of the Late President — Thousands Pass Bier During Night and in Early Hours This Morning — Military Splendor and Pomp Is Absent as. Chief of Nation Is Laid To Last Rest in Marion Cemetery —M rs. Harding Stil} Brave and Will Leave Tonight for Washington Marion, Ohio, Aug. 10.—(By the Associated Press)—The day when hu- man cyes would look their last on Warren Gamaliel Harding, twenty-ninth President of the United States, dawned with .many who loved him still waiting to pass slowly past the bier, resting in his father’s home, Before the ghadows of evening steal across the wide, peaceful fields of the val- ley where ke was born the gates of his tomb will haye closed behind him and the long, long way of his funeral end. hy, C ¥} Nisan In gracious kindliness the sorrowful woman wh the end of the public ordeal that has stretched into more than one week, of cere- ony and pageant that the people of the nation, the states and. the two that claimed him as their son might testify te their grief, set aside her own wish to be alone with her dead at the last. Throughout hours of dark- ness last night the casket which held him lay open in the humble home and all were freely welcome to pass beside it again. ie THE “BOYS” PASS BIER Today the face of the dead chief was made visible for the last time to the “boys” who knew him as “the boss” in the office of the Marion Star when he sat there as editor A few others came privately to the casket because of their close association in by-gone years with the dead In the depth of her great sorrow Mrs. Harding had not failed of the thoughtful kindness that marked her every action before and since death came to her husband in San Francisco. Last night it scemed that every man, woman and child in Marion stood long on the shaded, quiet streets to pay this last honor to the dead. N.» one man knew with éxactness how many thousands had walked throug: the modest room where the casket lay and gazed a moment on the peace ful face under the glass. There was a hushj of mourning about the dark streets despite the hundreds waiting. to enter and the hundreds stream, «ing slowly away talking in hushed voices of the noighbor and friend they ; : i i ir] ‘The city commission, in special ‘d. They had him’ in-death as they had known him ir ivenvak tise ‘ upon thousands will gather in their 5 had acclaimed. They had seen him in death as they had known aieattan Ces SSE eee ae places oriyesal nee ake while | meeting last night, declined to agree] life. ei ‘i eee rai ORAL: vente myriad church bells toll their mourn-| +5 pay for the cleaning of the water The calm, kindly dignity that marked him in his hours as President SHIT Rta ca Meter ful message of a beloved chieftain} yt). reservoirs, holding that” the| remained with him even when life had ceased He was the same Warren given first aid by Dr. 0. O. Larson of Detroit and was rushed to Minn- eapolis, Dr. Larson and Judge and Miller accompanying him on e train, The report he.c said that the boy’s neck was broken, but that he was able to talk and shortly after the ac- cident asked for something to eat. A telegram announcing the death of Kenneth was recéived here early today, the message adding. that he would be brought to Bismarck on Northern Pacific train No, 3\today. | Kenneth was 16, yeasts old, and would have been a junior jn the Bis- marck High School next ; He had two brothers, Max and Milo. anu a smaller sister, Eleanor, He was a pleasant and active boy, with scores of friends in Bismarck. - The Miller family has been at Lake Detroit for several weeks, Judge Mill- er going from there frequently to Fargo to attend to court business. The accident is the third of its} kind that has happened at Detroit Lakes this season, ‘Cla! NORTH DAKOTA CITIES TODAY. JOIN _IN EXERCISES AT TIME OF FUNERAL THARDING DEATH : 1 . National Day of Mourning Is Fittingly Observed in Many CAUSE IS TOLD Cities in the State with Ex-| San Francisco, Ayg. 10.—The death j en certificate of President Harding was ercises This Afterndon —) made public Wednesday by. the city ‘a . health board and showed death due Business ‘Generally _Sus-|¢, "cerebral apoplexy a8 a complica- 4 i i tion of “an acute gastro-intestinal peneey ner berod (During: infection.” The certificate was sig) The Day. ed by Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, presi- dent of Stanford university and one of the five physiggans who were in The statchouse, courthouse and attendance upon President Harding other public buildings were closed here. ‘The certificate gave the cause in Bismarck today except at the post- of death as follows: || FARM LAND | VALUES FOR "TAXES LOWER State Board of Equalization Makes Possible 25 Per Cent Decrease in State RAILROADS UNCHANGED Board Acts After Hearing} laid to his last rest. These services will not be confined to land or America, “At sea on great passenger liners flying the American and other flags prayers will he said and memorial ceremonies will be held in a number of foreign lands—in historic Westminister Abbey: France; in Switzerland; in South America and elsewhere. Left to People. President Coolidge did claim this bural.day a iday and it was not purpose to recomménd ‘a stoppage of industry, preferring rather to leave to each in- dividual concern the choice of the method: by which he would pay a last tribute to the dead. In many states the state holiday has been pro- claimed and in these all banks, na- tional ang state, will be closed. In those states where national banks may not be closed under the law the transaction of only urgent busi- "in will be encouraged. In many sections mines factories, shipyards and placeg of business gen- erally will be closed throughout the day. In others there will be a ces- hour. Traffic Ceases. sation of work during the burial, plant still is the property of .the Bismarck Water Supply Company and that it is the duty of that com- pany to provide the city with pure, wholesome water as long as it is get- ting the revenue, The proposition was first brought before the city commission last Mon- day night, when a representative of the company locally said that they were anxious to have the reservoirs cleaned anti had suggested to George P, Flannery, St.’ Paul, president of the firm, that the company and city divide the’ expenée, estimated at’ $750. The local representative's view was that the city had been expect- ed to take over the plant August 1 but had not done so because of de- lay in getting money from bonds and the city would in all probability take over the plant September 1; that the benefit of the cleaning ‘would go beyond that time and it was fair that the expense be divided. The matter was continued, how- ever, until Mr. Flannery had an- swered local officials of the water company. His answer was presented to the city commission last night. It was that the city had taken over the plant—insofar as future improve- Harding some of them had known for years and seemed only to sleep a: he lay there. It was hard for them to realize that their old friend wa: dead. 3 COMMERCE IS STILLED The last day before the tomb shall claim “these hallowed relics” be gan peacefully and with no stir of ‘marching legions to join in the last honors. Here and there on the streets walked men of the Ohio Nationa! Guard, but they walked for the most part unarmed and merely to see ‘thet the place and quict of the sleeper was not disturbed in thoughtlessness They would: not-go with him to his tomb. . , Again today, the stir of movement in. life in Marion wi honor of the dead, The great mills that surrounded were silen’ ed. No rattling of commerce broke the quiet of the shady str railroads long traina came in to add ‘new thousands from distant places t the throng already gathered, but no whistle blew and the. clanging of the bells was stilted. A City of Silence, ACTION FINAL IN NO. DAKOTA of silence in her sorrow, a silenc: that would not be broken until th: simple funera]. train gathered lat: Sentiment Overwhelming For Quick Action by Congress, Governor Declares in the day to bear the dead Presi dent to the tomb that awaited h Then there must come an added s y and movemeht that could not be avoided. Then would voices be ised in prayer or sacred melodies as the last rites were said. | But the morn- ing hours were peaceful and calm and as untroubled as the sleep of the man thus honored. | office where holiday hours were ob-| Cerebral apoplexy, following an 4 Traffic on all railroads wil) halt at | ments are involved—when the agree- Another President w riding x served; business places generally acute gastro-intestinal infection, in-| From County Auditors in j,1, time of ontombment, trains grind. |ment to purchase was made in vane toward Marion during these morning |closed at 3 p. m. to be closed until cluding cholecystitis (inflammation of Various Parts of State | ing to-a stop and remaining motion-|and that therefore the city should ‘ours, coming to say farewell to a | Governor Suggests Informa- tion be Compiled to Aid * State in Bond Sales °Htfort’ t8°ebtlect statistical infor-| mation which will accurately measure | the progress North. Dakota has made toward. diversified farming in the last five: ypars.gvill) ke sought from variqus:abenchedithyapehout the state by Governor ‘R: A; Nestos, One of the reasons for the action is that, according to the Governor, in the sale of state of North Dakota; bonds the state officials have found! jgreat crowd would participate in the the end of memorial exercises in the the gall bladder) ang bronchial pneu- Auditorium between that hour and 4 monia — instantaneous contributing p.m. and Company A, Bismarck, cause; arterial sclerosis (hardening planned to fire a last salute to War-' of the arteries for several years dur- ren G. Harding this afternoon while ation,” ARE CONTINUED At the time Bismarck people bega, to gather at the Auditorium for thi memorial tribute, it- appeared thet a exercises, held as a part of the na- tional day of mourning decreed by President Coolidge. Governor Nestos was to be the chief speaker at the memorial exercise: ‘ ELKS IN CHARGE Mandan, Aug. 10.—Memorial exer- gises were. held in Mandan at 2 o'clock this'afternoon at the Palace theater, under the leadership of the Elks lodge. Business houses closed Applications—County Ag- ent Matter Undecided TONEXT MONTH County Board to Investigate! Assessment of farm fands in North Dakota will be approximately {25 percent lower this year than last yas a result of action by the state j board of equalization, it was an- nounced..today. The valuations are left at about the same as last year’s figure, but under the 75 percent val- uation law the total will be cut one- fourth. The board also decided against a general reduction of valuations of railroad property, it being fixed at about the same as last year, While members of the board felt {that farm lands were assessed too high, they also felt that other classes of property were assessed high, and that changes made by the legislature increasing the burden on other class- less for from two to five minutes. Work in the railroad shops will cease ‘tor similar time. The Postal Telegraph and Cable two minutes while the Western Union will suspend activities for 3 minutes, At 4 o'clock eastern standard time taps will be flashed on all Associated |. Press wires in the country and every telegraph instrument will be sus- pended for two minutes while all employes will maintain absolute sil- ence, In New York, Washington and Chi- cago afternoon papers will suspend publication. Exchanges. in New York, and other big market centers were closed. Postoffices everywhere will be closed for two hours with curtailed deliveries. In Washington practically all busi- company will silence its wires =| bear all the expense of cleanisg, the reservoirs. Reject the View The city commission flatly reject- ed the view. Mayor Lenhart said jthat the reservoirs had not been cleaned for one year. They were to have been cleaned last October but {were not because, company officials : said, the water was so high and mud- jdy that it would be useless, They were not cleaned after the June rise this summer because, company offi- cials said, the June rise was follow- ed by other rises. Recently the riv- ef has gone down so that the resers voirs could be cleaned, company offi- cials id. It was admitted th @ great deal of mud in them and they ought to be cleaned. The city commission assumes the expense of new connections and sim- TO LINE UP OTHERS| man he loved, and a chieftain to whom he had been loyally devoted in public service. Arrangements for re- ception of the special train bearing President Coolidge from Washington had been completed long before his arrival and for once the first coming of the nation’s chief executive to an American community would be mark- ed by no cheering or clamor. Before darkness falls the Presi- dential train will be speeding over the rails again to Washington for the business of state cannot wait for more than a brief moment of sorrov: Need Now Is To Bring in Sen- tinient of Other States in The Northwest When asked whether he would be able to attend the farmers conference to be held at Minot on the 12th, Gov- ernor Nestos stated that with the la- bors of the equalization board and other important matters coming up the last part of this week, he would be unable to attend. Governor Nes- tos 0 stated that it was his opin- ion that with the action of the state wide conference held at Fargo, fol- lowing other conferences, the senti- ment of the great majority of North Dakotans on the subject of the re- ‘however great the loss. Mrs, Harding to Go Back. Then also will Mrs, Harding have turned back to the dreary task beforc her-at the White ‘House, leaving her heart in the tomb at Marion. Eventually she will come back to live here, close to her deag as her —t id ‘ilar i its to th it. yng|8t_1 p.m. H. J. Schafer, exalted .e8 of property would materially aid) jess will come to a standstill at 4 improvemen fe . present vival of the United States Grain Cor-| plans now are known. But tomorrow cee Rat Cad Ete ruler of the Elks lodge of which|. The board of county Somnilpstonara:) in relieving the burden farm lands,| otJoo% while buglers at half a dozen | Plant which will continue after the poration, for the purpose of stabiliz-| in Washington she faces a new end severe the tetas wane jerk President Harding was a member,| i? session yesterday, heard about ad ase Cc. C. Converse, taX points in the city will soung taps, city owns it, Mayor Lenhart sald, but ing or fixing a minimum price on| terrible ordeal when the intimat: pressed by the Governor that ‘com-' plete, accurate information will aid not .only in the sale. of state securi- ties but in the better sale of eounty and other local securities. applications for mothers’ pensions under the revised law effective July 1, The hearings were concluded late in the evening, being held in the of- fice of County Judge IL C. Davies. presided. The memorial address was delivered by J. A. Heder.’ WILTON HOLDS SERVICE Wilton, N. D., Aug. 10.—Citizens of A reduction of about 5 percent was made in the ai ment of the Soo railroad; other lines being general- ly unchanged. Members of the state board of the soldier’s farewell. “From 4 p. m. to 4:02 p.m. the Chesapeake and Potomic Telephone company will handle no tolls and the operators wil sit at attention at their the city won’t pay out money to clean the reservoirs since the cleaning al ready is long over-due and it is a part of the every-day operating ex- pense of the company, which is ge’ wheat, is now fully established and well known and that there is little to be gained by holding additional conferences within North “What we need now,” family treasurers cherished by her dead husband and herself must “hi dispersed to new surroundings thi! the mansion can be made ready for the President. The President and Members of the board of county com-| missioners present were C. A. Swan- son, Oscar Bachman and Axel Soder. At the conclusion of the hearing the comrhissioners decided to post- jPone further action until next jmonth’s meeting, to investigate the cl presented to the board. ting all the revenu The answer of Judge Flannery was disappointing to local officials. Health Board Order E. M.. Stanton of the state board of health has issued an order to the water company to clean the reser-| Wilton and vicinity gathered at the Grand theater at 3 o'clock this after- noon to pay homage to the name of Warren G. Harding. ‘Mayor Charles . Howe had directed that all, busi- ness houses be closed from 2/80 to 4:30». m,.. Short addresses Were giv- Posts, STATEBONDS Mrs. Coolidge had assured Mrs. Hard- ing that she might continue to con sider the White House her home but she’ would not have it so fer more than the brief time required to shi): away the personal things that sur. rounded her there during her bric’ The Governor, in letters to numer- ous people throughout the state, sug- gests that a. conference of leadin: men of each community be called and arrangements made to get informa-j tion as to progress made in the aml ber ahd quality of milk cows, beef, governor, “is first of all to impress upon the President and Congress the great need for this legislation, and what the sentiment of the people of North Dakota is, and’in the second Place that by letters, telegrams and calls we urge upon the wheat raisers equalization are Governor Nestos, State Treasurer Steen, State Auditor Poindexter, Commissioner of Agri-: culture J, A.-Kitchen and Tax Com- missioner C. C. Converse. , - - Tax Commissigner C» C. Converse, in a statement said: en by Rev, E, V. Headen, pastor pf the Presbyterian church, and Rev. ‘Fr. William Blackburn of the Roman | Catholic church, cattle, registered sires, horses, hogs, sheep and poultry and in the num- ber of acres devoted to cultivated soph clover, alfalfa, and the garden, _ during the past five years, A local 3 “organization also should be’ formed Valy chee Sane tasar to secure accurate statistics for the! a G, Bonhus asked all Valley City next two years so that the state of-| busi 3 places to Close during the ficials will be able to prove the pro- afternoon out of respect to the mem- gress made, the Governor says. ory. Warren G Harding. Appro- :priate exercises were held between’ ORR TPO, |atatea sats i! semis Mt ON SEPTEMBER 4 Edgar. A. Fisher. Post No. 60, Amer- ican Legion. The board of county commissioners of Burleigh county have. advertised the sale of $25,000 certificates of. in- |’ debtedness to mature in six months at a rate of interest not. to exceed 7 percent per annum; bids to be re- ceived on September 4. The issue is to be made to provide funds to put the-county on @ cash basis in antici- \ pétfon of tax gollections, as: provided by the new law. ‘The'eeetificates; will be sued in denominations of each, ga _ MINOT OBSERVES Minot, N. D., Aug. 10.—Business ispended in Minot this after- noon memorial tribute was paid. to the late President Harding. ineral- from 8 to sey ater ¥ | Grand” Forks, N. D., Aug. 10— rand. Forks: obderved the hour of) end flattened and sharpened to» saw | changes made No action was taken by the com- missioners this week relative to em- ploying a county agent. J. W. Haw, county mt leader, of Fargo, was here for a’ conference, The board of county ¢commissionegs received an opinion from the si attorney that the vote in favor of a county agent fall. was mot mandatory, since matter, had’ been placed on the ballot ie volition of.the com- missioners, and it was optional with them whether they should employ an agent. The ‘matter* will remain in abeyance for a period, after which it will be taken up again, with the possibility of an agreement for em- ployment of an agent being reached. | CURIOUS INDIAN RELIC Jamestown, N, D., Aug. 10.—A curi- ous Indian relic, described as a hide seratcher, was recently found at Fort |Ransom, where Indians, once roamed, by Dana Wright of Jamestown. It {® bone instrument about a foot long “and two inchesin diameter, with one like edge, with which the squaws. with a|scraped all the meat off hides that| tHe excessive’: (Continued on Page Three) “| were to be cured and tanned, “On Wednesday the: state board listened to auditors and other rep-|, resentatites of th veral counties with respect to assessed valuations, Snapped up in Eastern Cities, As a rule, with two or three excep- tions, the county auditors expressed According to Word Here themselves as being satisfied that they were not unfairly discriminat-| The :81.600,000 rent estate bonds of ed against by last year’s action of Ga Dakota, which were offered to the state board, last year's!\the genera! market a few assessment by the board resulted in| by the syndi@te of Twin City houses substantial fairness as between the|which purchased them. were snapped several counties. The board continu-|up in an hour after being put on the ed its sessions Thursday and first| market in New York, according to took up a consideration of farm land financial notes in. the Minneapolis assessments and result of their {Zournal. ; They! were taken by banks deliberations concluded that the as: L for investment, and sessment of farm land would be left ‘not fore. sale. ; gh as it was leftlagt year in most of) “The quick sale of these bonds is the counties with only light changes} rxpected to greatly help the future to adjusti inequalities... The members| bond market of the state,'as there of the board.took the view that while| had‘ been reticence on the, part of id. essed “high, névertheleas| eastern firms to bid on North Dna- re also} kota bonds on the ground that the legislative} bond market was not good at this legislat time, 6: * 4 Ft ‘Th 3 | Paacepte 9 assessed high, ani will eetiove fake eee : ow that there the work | (Contin SELL QUICKLY, voii Whether this will be done is und6termined. Meantime the in- junction of the city health officer to continue boiling the water continues {and it has such a great turbidity as ye be objectionable to people using t. The city officials hope that the de- cision pf the supreme couft in the , bond soon, or thi j other tl over the water company by September 1. Its con- ‘tract to take over the plant expires September 9, } 4 The commission also in its special night allowed of the Woodrich Construction Com- pany and DeGraff Wolff on work al ready done on the additions to the water works system. n t also ordered down to grade that portion of the sidewalk on the north side of Second street between’ Broad- and Thayer streets that is not now down'to grade, leading from the new Hughes building -gorth. The city pays’ for bringing sidewalks down to grade, jota, South Dakota and Mon- tana thet they make the same strong demands for the calling of an imme- diate extra session of ¢o1 “I believe that if the energy and expense devoted to the holding of additional conferences wthin the state were employed in utging the wheat raisers of other states to join those of North Dakota in demand- ing an extra session, more would be tlier, action se- “It must be apparent that if the revival of the United States Grain. Corporation is tojbe of any value in the sale of the 1928 crop, action must be taken without delay. Even now, many leaders within the farm- ers’ organizations agreé with Kelly of South Dakota who’ says that. he belteves it fs even now-too late to be of any value to the f ing the 1928 crops ani than to call an extra session we ular session in Decersber. © “Personally, I have felt that an' (Continued on Page Three) £ 4 rs in sell-}) that rather! 4 should await the opening of the reg- time as first lady of the land, In her decision to leave for Wash- ington immediately after the’ vatlt had been closed upon President HarJ- ing’s casket Mrs. Harding, gave -fur- ther proof ’of her dauntless couraz« which has brought her the admira- tion of the nation in these hard dexs of sorrow, Her spirit would not brook delay in facing the task she must do. The every day things of life must go on, however stricken thc heart. ‘ It seemed thet, not alone Ohio but every surrounding state sent thou- sands to pass slowly beside: the bier or to stand silent while the dead Boncestea sidewaity flanked Casts ongestéd kp. flanked: Centar street where the home Of his father, ‘son ‘dgata: stad: