The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 18, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER CAST Fair tonight and Wednesday. Warmer tonight. ESTABLISHED 1873 LAW MAKERS MAY CLASH. WITH WALTON Oklahoma Legislators Plan to Test Governor’s Threat To Jail Them i MAY CALL Ss. Extends Martial Law to Muskogee County in Drive Against Klan IN U. Oklahoma City, Sept. 18—A clash between members of the state Iqzislature and governor J. C. Walton over martial law was imminent today. Despite the governor's warn- ing that he will jail any legisla- tor that attempts to convene themselves in extraordinary session, the movement for an out and out test off the execu- tive’s authority took definite form. EXTENDS MARTIAL LAW Oklahoma City, Sept. 18—Exten- sion of absolute martial: law to Moskogee county, one of the most important centers in the eastern half of Oklahoma moved today as ¥ Gov. Walton’s military maneuvérs against the Ku Klux Klan has al- ready in number of towns the en- tire state. *: “It is regretlable,” said the gov- ernor in a telegram to the Musko- “gee Phoenix, “if as my secret agent has reported your community is dominated an@ controlled by an or- ganization that would usurp all the powers of the civil authorities and courts in lieu of ‘which citizens both innocent and: guilty are sum- marily siezed upon, maimed, beaten, and believed in some cases, murder- er flogged, I am afr: that in order to clean up your situation we will have tp place your county un- der complete and absolute mar- tial law.” FEDERAL RULE? Tulsa, Sept. 18—The . suggestion that Federal govern t might be called upon to ‘endure:a” Republican form of government in Oklahoma guaranted in “Article 4. of the Con- stitution of the United. States” was made in a statement issued today by State Senator Joseph Looney, judge advocate of the state military forte, in investigating flogging in Tulsa county. Capt, Looney made it plain that he expressed his personal opin- ion, - DEPRIVED OF HOLIDAY Okla. City, Sept, 18—Thousands of farmers and dwellers in rural com- munities who make “fair week” } their only holiday of the: year will be deprived of their favorite diver- sion if the governor’s threat is car- ried out. Not only this Ralph Hent- hill, secretary of the local fair as- sociation, says \the financial losses will amount to hundreds of thou- ‘ynands dollars. i \ The military courts in Oklahoma City today madgyan investigation of masked activities here and other parts which is expected in some quarters to | to demand for re- cords and other data at state head- quarters here of, the Ku Klux Klan. Gov. Walton in his declaration of state wide martial law, declared that “head and foot” of the organiza- tions was in Oklahoma City and that in order to stamp out the organiza tion it is necessary to stamp out its source, © Six 1,000 Mark - Stantps to Send German Letters New York, Sept. 18.—In the days before the war Germany, conforming to the standard practice of interna- tional mail transmission, could send a letter to New York, for instance, for the customary blue stamp of 20 pfennings, one-fifth of a mark, or ap- proximately 6 cents. Letters are now coming to New «York from Berlin bearing six one thousand mark postage stamps. At the old rate of exchange these stamps would have cost $1,500, and based on marks, the rate is 30,000 times greater than it wis before the ‘Wher, f Sweetser Wins Golf Title Y | Dempséy-Carpentier ; fight Hospital Baby. Not McKenzie’s Morgantown, W, Ve., Sept. 18.— The baby who died-in a hospital where jest Saturday : ie mot Lilian McKensile 4 York infant, Mr. : McKentie said ing the hody., TH NORTH DAKOTA CLAIMS WORLD'S CHAMPION WOLF, HUNTER - ADAM LESMEISTER, “WORLD’S CHAMPION WOLF HUNTER,” WITH THREE AND A HALF DAYS’ CATOH. E BISMARCK BISMARCK, NORTH\DAKOTA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1 ‘TEN MILLION FIRE IN BERKE HAS ALMOST 10,000 TO HIS CREDIT 923 “h FOURTEBEN-YEAR-OLD SON, WENDLEND, IS IN THE WAGON. DOGS, LEFT TO RIGHT: GRUMBO, TIFFY, TEDDY, TAG. By NEA Service 1898. He has collected nearly- $27,- Adam Lesmeister, rotund and 000 in bounty, money paid hunters good-natured, believds himself to be | for killing the natural enemies of the champion wolf hunter of the | ranchers. world—with 9343 to his credit. Noj The champion came to his calfing one rises in the northwest to dis-|naturally, His father, a native of pute his claim, either. Russia, hunted wolves near Odessa. Lesmeiater started what to him is Twenty-five years ago the family both a sport and byginess back in! moved to North Dakota. Here Lesmeister gained fame. He boasts he never shot a wolf in his life. His dogs do the work, after he picks the place for them to hunt, Many “close calls” have been the lot of the hunter. Once he went tn- to a wolf den after a litter; .There he encountered a mother wolf. With his club he pinned her against the 88th Division \ REFUGEES GIVE | _ Holds Reunion JAPAN QUAKE 32.22 {with the fall festival of Ak-Sar-Ben which is to Missouri valley what the ;Mardi Gras is to New Orleans, At Grim Humor Intermingles With the Tragic in Some. of the Tales Related |least 6,000 veterans from the states jfrom which they were recruited are expected to attend, The division trained at Camp. Dodge, Ia, and | served a year overseas as a combat division, All who served at Camp | Dodge whether they/ went to France or not are invited to attend. Addresses will be given by Mayor! Dahlman, Major General William} Weigel who commanded the division| Jin France and Michael F. Kinkead spy {of St. Paul*and motion pictures of} Women Escape Scantily)(,.° division in this country and Clothed when First Rumb- | aboard ‘will be features of the first! ling Shatters Dwellings i FALLS FROM BATH, WILL JUNK 6 Honolulu, Sept. 18.—Details of the} great Japanese’ earthquake disaster! which wrecked the two leading cities! ‘ELECTION IS MILES: RAIL in Japan, jland southeast of Selfri Tokio and Yokohama, | have been received by a reporter} from the Japanese Advertiser, and} refugees aboard the President Pierce; which was expected to reach here to-; Take Step Because of Fail- morrow. A reporter from the Japanese Ad-| ure of Lines to Earn Main- | tenance Costs vertiser said that he was in ¢ newspaper office when there came a} dull rumbling noise followed by the! eas severe shaking of the building, top-' Washington, Sept. 18—The Chi- pling of book cases, and tables ove¥-' cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul rail- turned, blocking thedloors, He jump-| ways were authorized by the Inter-| ed from a window 15 feet to the; state Commission to abandon por- street, just escaping an avalanche of tions of the line in Sargent county brick, He stayed at the home of in North Dakota. Included in the! one of his friends who saw his wife| property to be junked are five mil nd child burned to death. He saidjof road between Cogswell and Hi at people pleaded and begged forj len, and a portion of the branch line help but of no avail. Other refugees | between Hastings and Andover. Fail- aboard told of the destruction injure of the line involved to earn Yokohama grim humor occasignally| mairitenance costs was given as the blended with the tragic in the tell-| reason. ing of experiences, In the Grand hotel of Yokohama N. P. Retains 5 @ woman was taking a bath on the fourth floor,’ when the floor collaps-| Per Cent Dividend St. Paul, Sept. 18—The Northern ed and she fell through to the third) floor landing unhindered in front of! a male guest who when he recover-! Pacific railway company will main- ed from his astonishment, gave her tain its 5 per cent annual dividend his’ coal. Many other women were. by voting a quarterly dividend of forced to flee with almost no cloth-|1°1-4 per cent at its director's meet- ing. The refugees described many ing in New York tomorrow, it was gruesome sights which they had) jearned at authoritative sources to- witnessed. i 5 day. i FIGHT RETURNS [take Weather MAKE RECORD IN HISTORY Paid Attendance Exceeding That of Past Fights by 6,000 o For Bismarck and inity: Fair, tonight and Wednesday. Warmer tonight, For North Dakota: Fair tonight and Wednesday. Warmer tonight and extreme east portion Wednes- day. General Weather Conditions An extensive area of\ high pres- accompanied by fair, cool ther prevails over the Plains States and westward to the Pacific coast. Low pressure prevails . over the Canadian Provinces. The weath- er is still unsettled and showery from the Mississippi Valley east- ward. to $83,228 a new high record, it was ennounced to- day by Promoter Tex Rickard, the total including» $6870, the gross re- ceipts $1,188,882.80. The total pad attendance in- creased Mote than 6,000 the (best ‘pi 18 estimate, approxi- mately 76,000 which was set by the two years’ ago. The total number of spectators was fixed at 93,000. The paid attendance at the Willard. Firpo fight Jast July was $75,712. The Federal tax on Der B pse| crate tate ia Sorter tees total net ‘Teceipte of $951661, " zt . New York, it. 18,—Total paid attendance wee i Road Conditions The yxoads throughout the States are mostly in good condition, but need dragging in places. North ; Dakota Corn and wheat | 3 Dickinson Dunn Center Ellendale ... Fessenden . Grand Forks Jamestown Langdon Larimore Lisbon . Minot . Napoleon Pembina . Williston Moorhead manaaanag SSSBSSsnesn : gonbosaphseeossooks, F Cc c c P cl Fort’ Yates, Sept, 18—A piece of wheat raised by. Conrad Feist on belong- ing to P, . Jacobson, -is said: to: ‘Nave ‘yielded 15 bushels to the Qt No. 1’wheat. This is as good ‘ny wheat: yet reported this year in SSSLSAASATAISESSSTS elderly wo- é ® POSTPONED: TOOCT. 13 Special City Water Plant Bond Election to be Held One Week Later BUDGET NOTCONSIDERED Sidewalks Ordered Put. in ‘in Eastern Part of City by Commission The special election for the pur. | pose of authorizing’ the “ssuing “of $285,000 in bonds to cover the cost of completing the new mupicipal water plant, which was to have been | held on October 6, was last nigh! stponed until October 13 by the ity Commission in its regutar meev- | ing’ upon the advice of City Attor- ney C. L, Young, who stated that; some question of legality had arisen | which necessitated this change. | A petition from land owners in the | eastern part of the city was con-/| |Fine Men For Out :| owning or using or having in their k of thy cave and then clamped is hands over her jaw until others dug him out. Coyates, or prairie wolves, have: been his main victims, He has no respect for them. Lesmeister usually hunts alone. He takes a buckboard and two fast) horses, and his dogs. Grumbo, a Of Season Hunting Beach, N.-D., Sept, 18.—Four Ital- ian railroad section hands were rounded up by game wardens when they were’ caught hunting in fields for grouse with dead birds in their possession. Later their bunk car produced five additional guns. The men were taken before a jus- tice at Medora, « pleaded guilty to hunting out of season, also with vio- lating the hunting laws which pro-j| hibit any unnaturalized person from possegsion a firearm of any charac- ter. The nine guns were’ confiscat- ed and turned over to the state game warden, The men paid fines of $147.80 each. { ARBITRATION SETTLES MANY THERE ARE 65 COYOTE PELTS. the | !STUDY LESMEISTER’S cross between a Russian stag and a \German boar hound; Tiffy and Ted- dy, crosses between English gréy- iTag, a cross between a stag and Eifslish greyhound, make up his hunting party. And Lesmeister brings in volves. CONSTITUTION WEEK BEGINS IN AMERICA ‘Started by American Bar As- sociation to Acquaint Peo- ple with Constitution the CONSTITUTION Local Organizations to Have Charge of Programs in Their Districts Chicago, Sept. 18,—This week is being observed as “Constitution ‘hounds and Germa staghounds, and | Russian | | Wéek” throughout the United States, ja week. set aside by the Citizenship 3,066 Cases Settled Outside of Court by This Means by Pennsylvania Road APPEAL POSSIBLE, R. R. DISPUTES! | public had been submitted and re- | Committéé "of thé: Aitiertcan Bar as- | sociation for study of all phases of the national constitution, Plans for the week were started several months ago and before made ceived the endorsement of many gov- ernment officials and leaders in pube lie life, sidexed by the Commission and side- walks were ordered put in on Elev- | enth and Twelfth streets between ' settlements were reached in a large | of the United States and the princi- majority of the cases of grievances | ples and ideals of our government in Avenues A and C, Because of the absence of Com- missioner French from the city the: 1924 budget, which should have been considered at the City Commission : ~ | meeting last night was held over u til the next meeting or the commis. sion next Monday. | | 28 DONATE TO JAPANESE | RELIEF FUND Checks or donations from 28 resi- dents of Bismarck have beeff receiv-| ed at the local Red Cross office, the, Tribune, or other places for the Japanese relief fund, The names of | those who have so generously re-| sponded to the call for relief asked’ through the Tribune include the fol- lowing persons up to date: Dr. L. A, Schipfer, George Mann, Slorby Studio, Governor Nestos, G. P. Hotel, Hilda C.- Boe, Dr. Smyth, John Larson, J. L, Bel bel. Campbell, Herman Scheffe Ramstad, H. A. Stalley, F. E. Titus, 8. F. Hollingsworth, Employees G. P. Hotel, Thorn Dickinson, Kate Phillips, Irma Logan, ©. C. Con- verse, John Dawson, 8, G. Severtson, Moffit State Bank, Mrs, Eppinger, C. B. Little, Arena State Bank, Wm. Langer and E. L. ‘Patterson. Youthful Forgers Brought to Court s St. Paul, Sept, 18—Three youthful ,forgers, two boys 13 and 14 years old, and a girl 12, were brought into gen- era]; court yesterday charged. with having passed four checks totaling} $51 since they began operations a: Walter, the elder boy, was the mas- ter mind of the gang; Lester was the penman, and Mildred, the outside worker. The children passed the firgt cl a to get money to go to th state fair, check for $16 was drawn up. | i Mildred then called-a drug’ store. on }' the telephone and said: “Th: Mrs; Johnson. Can ou cash. a small check for me if I send my little girt-| over.” The druggist assureg her hé}t could, accerding to the. story, /and)|™ Mildred’ -went, cashed she check. made a small se. Mildred th th in but be yee manier, Ie s Chicago, Sept. 18.—Satisfactory and controversial questions arising | under the employe representation | plan of the Pennsylvania railroad system for the first half of 1923.) This wi accomplished at confer- ences between tie local officers representatives of the employes out recourse to any higher autherity, ' according to a report made by the Northwestern Region headquarters of the system. ‘During this period a total of 3,066 cases were taken up with officers be- low division superintendents,” the report. says. “Although appeal is provided for to superintendents, gen. era}- superintendents, general mana-/ gers, and finally to a joint reviewing | committee equally representative of | management and employe, the num: ‘ber of cases carried to the general i manager totalled 223 and those reaching the reviewing committe, 84! “Of the controver: \ taken up originally or,on appeal with the focal officers, si general superintendents and general managers, almost half were adjusted or compromised in favor of employes. Of cases appealed to the reviewing The Penngylvani lated and established by joint action .|of the management and employes about two and one-half years ago. The report concludes that under its operation local settlement of di putes has reached a new high level of success. Give Prince Royal Welcome High River, Alta. Sept. 18—Cow- boys, ranchers. and townspeople of the digh River district accorded the Prince of Wales a royal welcome when his special train arrived late Sunday night. For the first time since his a val in Canada the prince wake: from the station to the main street hnaccompanied by either secret ser- vi n': Or police. As the prince ‘the ‘street, ‘David Bear's Paw ‘nd Red Cloud, minor chiefs of ithe ‘Stoney Indians, from the Morley vation, were waiting. When the | ;, prince drew abreast of them, Bear's Pay. stood erect and in perfect Eng- dish said: “Greetings, Chief Morn, , Star—your brothers of — th ‘salute you.” ie. ptince,“ apparently nonpii ed for a moment for the correct way “return the ings, hesitated, ered his hand and 8 proud to sation spplauded heartily and) no the [one was more pleased than the In- [aaus, ‘The id communiti | committee simply giving a general | mately - 25,000 school teachers, ; Women’s Federated Cluts, Council of The main purpose of the program is to “re-establish the constitution | the minds and hearts of the people,” according to the citizenship commit- tee. Much was left to the local or- ganizations, which wil) be in charge of the programs in their respective the bar association outline, Co-opération of every organization interested in civic xctivities was sought, and in many instances ha been promised. Indiana reported plans for discussing the constitution | at the fall county schoo} teachers? institutes, thus reaching approxi- In some communities the american Le- gion has agreed to taxe the initia- tive. In others such organizations as the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Daughters of the American Revolu- | tion, Parent-Teachers associati Sons of the American Revolution, Jewish Women, Mason\e Service As- sociation of the United States, Knights of Columbus, and Boy Scouts. The program for the schools will jnclude setting aside available assembly periods at which some law- yer or person well versed on the con- stitution and its history will speak. CROWD MORGUE TO, SEE BANDIT Find $10,000 in Old Overalls of Bandit After Victim Is Killed Bartleville, Okla. Sept. 18.—Sev- eral thousang persyns crowded through an pndertaking parlor here Sffnday for a glimpse at the mortal remains of Oklahoma's notorious bad man, Al Spencer, who fell in ‘open battle with a posse 10 miles north of t Bartlesville Saturday night. Three bullets in the ‘right bright from members of the posse ktiled the §10,- 000 fugitive bandit instantly. Spencer began hostilities when he his rifle and fired at six pur- suing officers, led by Alva McDonald, 8 marshBi for western The bullet missed. ft. was Spen- TRIBUNE Cabinet Devotes Long Session to Agric Problems Washington, Sept, 18.—Practical ly all of today's cabinet, meeting the longest held since Pres. Coolidge en- tered office, was devoted to the agriculture situation. Afterwards it became known that Sec. Wallace was making a study and will report to the president next wkeek, presenting facts which are ex- pected to aid the executive and his advisors in preparing a program. along sound economic lines. . BANDIT GANG ROBS BANK IN MINNESOTA Escapes with More than $14,- 000 in Cash and Bonds, Estimate eae TERROR REIGNED Appropriated Automobile of Citizens when Their’s Would Not Start Cleveland, Minn., Sept. 18—A bandits gang paralyzed this village today, wrecked the vautt of the First State bank, and escaped in a stolen automobile with cash and bonds esti- mated at between $14,000 ang $18,- 000, For: more than an hoyr and a halt they held the town in a reign of fear, firing a number of shots to inti date the more venturesome, while they shattered the vault and safe doors with six shots, With their loot in a sack they fled the town in tolen automobile when their own car would not start, heading south and then west toward Mankato. Severed telephone wires’ prevented Notification immediately, BANDITS ENTER It was about 1:15 p. m. when the bandits entered the town, numbering five or six according to persons who caught a glimpse of them. Their first precaution was to cut all tele- phone wires leading out of the local exchange. Going to the First State Bank they forced entrance in a door and window, and when they came to the vault set off a burglar alarm which aroused the villagers, num- bering 400-residents, Only two of the bandits worked inside the bank, for along the street three or four lookouts had been posted, firing in- to the air at the showing of any curiosity by the people. Bugg, garage man, who lived only 209 feet from the bank, heard the burglar alarm and decided to inves- tigate. Just as he opened the door of his home, he was met with the command “keep your nose jnside or I'll blow your brains out.” Others did not investigate but after the robbers had fired 8 or 10 shots in- to the air the unanimous inclination was to stay in the homes. When the robbers were out of the town the more venturesome ventured out. H. H. Flowers, president of the bank, is in Canada looking after ‘arming interests, and his son esti- mated the cash at from $3500 to $3700. Both the bonds were negoti- able and some registered, he said. WILLISTON MINERS STRIKE Controversy Over Wage Cut Given as. Cause Williston, Sept, 18—Members of the local union of U. M. W. of A. went on strike last Monday morn- ing at 8:00 a. m, at the government mine north of this city. It is re- ported that the controversy is over a cut in wages which was to have taken place on that day, The decrease in the wage scale amounts to $1.50 per day and on contract work the miners will be paid 14 cents per ton less than pre- viously, according to the new scale set, The cut amounts to approxi- metely a 15 percent reduction for the men, No miners haye been re- placed and it is said that the local union aking the matter up with officials at Washington. a Issue Call For National Banks| Washington, Sept. 18—The comp- of the currenty issued a call for all National banks a: close of business Friday Sept. 14. Capture 2 of - { 9 Escaped Aliens Crookston, Sept. 18—Two of the nine aliens who escaped from th cer’s answer to 2 command frem Me- Donald to ‘halt. Every member of the posse ‘fired in return. Spencer pitched. forward into soft mud. ‘Three. of the bullets had found their mark. . Concealed. within the old‘ overalls and yellow shirt whsch Spencer wore ere’ $10,000 in bonds, according to Marshal. McDonald, after. members oase hag searched their long- Polk .county jail~here eatly Monday. were captured at Earskine . aboard) a freight train, country authorities reported. : ‘ ls x PRICELESS, ‘T.. Danzig, Sept. 18.—] now .c 250,000 marks a loaf, A pair stockings 2,500,000 , marks. butchers have no stock of. mest ‘they know it {s too high pt ws pensste to buy. PRICE FIVE CENTS LEY BRUSH FIRE. ‘SWERPS INTO HEART OF CITY Destroys 35 Blocks of Most Exclusive Residential Dis- tricts of College Town ORIGIN UNKNOWN Check Flames After Terrible Fighting of Police and Fire Department FIX LOSS Berkeley, Sept. 18.— More than 1,000 homes were destroyed with a property loss of $8,000,- 000 in the fire which de- vastated the northeast residental section of Berkeley today, accord- ing to a survey of city authority, J. S. Squirer. Berkeley, Cal., Sept. 18.—On the wings of a dry hot wind that swept furiously from the land a brush fire started at Con- tra Costa county hills above San Francisco bay leaped down the valley into Berkeley, yesterday afternoon and for a time gnawed its way uncheck- ed toward the heart of the ’ college town. It burned 85 _ residential blocks caused damages of $10,000,000 leaving 2,400 homeless before it was brought under con- trol. Early last evening no’ reports of death or serious injuries had been authoritatively reported. Many’ persons were. slightly injured. Berkeley, the home of the University of Cali- fornia, situated across the bay from San Fran- cisco, today faced the biggest _ reconstruction task, of its history, the fire sweeping through the prosperous and thick- ly settled streets and boulevards, layed waste 600 buildings including residents of many wealthy and prominent — e fire began in a small brush fire of unde- termined origin at the northeastern slope of the high ridge on the northern edge of the city at 2o’clock and the flames roared and swept into the residential district. In a few hours it swept 10 blocks and stubbornly defied the efforts of fran- tic householders, police and the fire department of Berkeley and other nearby towns to exting- uish them. Dynamite with which the fighters used to back fire on the northwest side served to-stop the fire in that direction but it was not until the wind subsided at 7 o’clock that the fire was checked. WEALTHY DISTRICT, San Francisco, Sept. 18.—Berkeley, in Alameda county, across the bay from San Francisco, is the seat of the University of California, one of the largest and richest institutions of learning in the world. It hi enrollment of more than 10,000 dents. While the university 1s sup- ported by the state it nas been. ¢1 riched ¢onsiderably by endowments. Berkeley. was famous for its many beautiful ‘homes, surrounded by spacious lawns and shrubbery. Tl city’s population is approxi- mately 60,000, At 4:30 vast eolumns of flames at Allston Way'and Addison street gave forebodings that tlie entirg Berkeley | business district would ave m its moved out their valuables. ‘of the University. of California directly oppesite the line of flames, prepared. for a: last ditch. fight, The streets atid avenues of Berkeley’ were thronged : with