The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 21, 1924, Page 3

“WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1924 COST OF ROAD BUILDING HELD; LESS INN. D. Drop of 15 ‘to 201 Per Cent in Prices Over Last Year, Engineers 2,000 MILES Contracts for ing and 90, miles ing, under the < plan, have been season by W. G. neer of the state ion. The contract price 20 percent lower according to engineers. applied for to now approxi- an unusually large carly in the sea- engine! Indi d, the of roads will No contracts let by unless 4 es of grad- of gravel surfac- federal aid road let thus this chief eng y commis- ges than last y mission New York be done during mates 200 miles umount for this on, according cations ara, it steady improvement continue. the — highy counties request federal aid. nee of 2,000 miles of road urried on by the highwa commission, this feature being e hy the highway commis- 4 that id f great assistance to the in constructing bette: ullottment to this state 4 is approximately ahd in most casi the nt p: one-half the cost improvement. price thus far about during d for less than yard and the av was about 31 cents, cording to ¢ sion figures. lowest award was in Traill county, 2 ae was. roads. for the $1,200,000 rove of the Th cavation contract yard, while bid cents uy s for earth ex this season inj is cents per cubic contractor. rded in Sheridan O. Smith, contractor, at one to Nels Brolander at cents, Sheridan county to F.. 0. 26 cents and one in Barnes W. Hi. Noel at 26 cents. in the character of the a difference in bids, it One cents, county to Difference average ubout mile as in 1923 of Concrete work also season than last) by t, according to Mr. price on a crete and steel bri ty, by the “J.. A, Company, is said by Mr. ° he the lowest bid received by the h y commission in the past five y price ‘for 18 cents per cubic inst an average cents, it is add- is lower bout 15 hauling a price ed. this perc lowe reinforced lige in Sardi con- tr Highway — commi believe that — lower obtained because — of tem installed by and the commission which pay! tractor leted. on engineers prices in sents were m soon as work Prompt payment enabled to reduce their over it is said, The high ion, also, enginecrs limited the awards in 1928 to could be completed in the year, creating more vee year, de to con- was com- PUSHING CORN SHOW PLANS: \ Second Annual North Dakota Show Being Talked of Now Plans for the ‘second North Dakota State Corn Show, which is expected to be far greater than the first one held in Bismarck last winter, which attracted wide ttention, will be discussed this we at a meeting to be held by the corn and dairy exposition eommittee of the Association of Commerce, Secretary Bradley said today. The show probably will be held next November, instead of during the winter. The Hanna cup, which was won by Sargent county last win- te: vill be the big prize for the counties to compete for. NORTH DAKOTAN IN NEW WORK IN WORLD LEAGUE ND. May 21.—Howard of Minot, alumnus of the of North Dakota, and Huntington’ Gilchrist of Auburn, N. Y. are two American members of a Minot, on committee appointed by the League | of Nations to see that the ‘work of Geneva, Switzerland, shall not be needlessly interfered with by sight- S this summerp accérding to a ispatch received here, Mr. Huston is chief of the internal ser- vices of the league. League officials say they are will- ing that visitors, including Amer- icans, shall have an opportunity of seeing the League at work, when such visitors really are interested und desire to gather information. However, they detlare that there has been too much “open house” in the past for all comers, and in con- sequence curious idlers have inter- fered with the work of the person- . Huston visited various North Dakota points during a tour several | months ago and warmly championed the League of Nations and con- tended it has done much good work. Woman of 70 ¢ Still Swims Berlin, May 21,—Among the ¢ele- brated members of the Berlin Wo- man’s Swimming Club is Frau Anna Bohm, aged 70. She has won many; competitions in the last 50 years, aM is a an activé swimmer, pa NTAINED +. aver- | highway ; allotted to this state | v | more, Black. The ; competition | | annual IMPRESSIONS FROM BISMARCK | i | Le ie i North Dakota presents a number of of nature, The eastern half of the state Lastest lessons to a student fadenmoudl#er much ibm Minnesota, You find the same prairies, the s: the same lakes, eologically capes belong to the same class. t both of the same a They are i the grand old Ice A jeross the Missouri Jinto the true Nor Dakota. The landscape west of the river is cn- | tirely different and it is enormously jolder. The story of this region reads Jike a fairy tale. A geological story of North Dakota would show some onderful pictures. Ay times ¢ would sink out of sight. again the the roll both But when y you ¢ uu ri te Time whole state has been ocean, Enormous waves across her borders in direction. There would be in North Dakota to them. The only animal and vegeta- | ble life that could exist would be salt-water animals and — salt-water vegetation, From such would slowly form enormous have them J and rivers. once nnd fwould j every nothing North Dakota in. She would mountains—only to ved out again by rains Later on she would sink ore under the ocean only to and sink ag At times covered | enormous | stretches of tropical forests almost ring the whole state. It is these enormous forests which formed the lignite bed for which Dakota is fam- stage n. of North but lig or ons of lignite in p is nothing Some of the feet thick this lignite e which is only an- compressed hale ma buried veg | nite vein ion. twenty pove are Below is a er of shia jother name for These layers of | few inches thick. | Thag again they may form ma up to thirty feet or 1 . The s | is produced by fine clay being wash- *.|}ed down from the mountains into the | oceans, | turns Urder pressure the y into shale, There are some r thirty sugh layers of shale ¢ in the state alternating | Altogether they measure about one \thousand feet in North Dakota | thickness. This alternation of und lignite is due to the different onditions under which they were made. The shale was made under the Jocean while the lignite was made in a low swampy jungle. | The alternate layers prove North Dakota at that time able. The land would n sink, then rise, then sink so on a number of times. Nature has made a number of tempts to produce coal, It did when the earth was still young. still produces coal. What we peat is really the begining of Peat may he transformed into lignite, lignite into hitun.inous, _bituminow into anthracite. It is all a matter at time and pressure. The lignite then is not nearly so old as the bituminous coal or the anthracite, But even so it is quite ald. A good idea of the age of the lignite beds may perhaps be had if we say that the greater part of the Rocky Mountains was still under the sea at the time when the North Da- i Kota lignite beds were laid down, In other words the North Dakota lignite fields are older than the Rocky Mountains Naturally vath- rise, and i at- It call T wanted to see lig- nite mine, when Ih nee. We Jearned that there w such a mine near Bismarck, Our old friend Bill The ieee ibove shows Rus- ‘sian refugees iuildins: river huts on the Niemer: a wa erway that, threatened the of E mrore than any subject of contention since the world war. jConsiderable sections of Russia | and Poland niust use it if their) products are io jive free access | to the sea, Its cuulet, Memel, was’ under.control o: Lithuania, but against the protest of the Allied powers who held title to the ter- ritory whieh had been ceded to jthem by German: Incensed at jthe Polish seizure of Vilna, ‘Lithuania had kept the lower stretches of the Niemen closed to all traffic from above, and refused }to. accept the conditions proposed by the Alites. for the transfer of title and opening of traffic. ‘The council of ambassadors, re- presenting the Allies, made re- peated attempts to secure a settle- ment of the dispute, but the in- terested. nations flouted its de- cisions. Irf-December the ‘problem wae turned over te the League of ne speaking the two lands They age. both prodiiced by the sime remnants of the stop that] so River Niemen, After Years OF War And Prolonged International Disputes Becomes Free Waterway I F or - Commerce rope | By Dr. J. R. Nannestad, Albert Lea, Minnesota, Rotarian. Barneck who | the position a bert Lea promised to take his car, This was too tempting, Som of the Albert Lea hoy mysel stole away from the convention headed for the Washbura mine Wilton some thirty miles horth Bismarck. When we were about mile from the lignite mine we hap ed upon what known # nine. 0 simply nature's home made brick. It is burnt clay on top of a lignite seam, happens at times that a lignite will catch fire for some reason There you have exactly conditions as you find brick oven only on a larger grander scale, Some of the lignite seams been burning ever since the white men settled in Dakota one knows how much longer fire once started burns on for an in definite time, The tire ourns bac nto the very body of the hill, It i truly a burning hill, As the turns into a beautiful if such a condition is where else in the world, Finally we got to the mine, were furnished individual lamps and started to descend. Th mine is ty feet below the ground The lignite seam is twelve fe The mige it is about twe miles long and tracked for twenty miles. It ing to observe. the: tilation and water pumping. Al nes are under the supervision o te and must measure n standards in’ order the working some years a city engin 20 of nea ° i th in an hav firs and n brick, 1 doub: found WwW ty-fiv abou interest to Our guide took us for a trip of sev: eral miles through this undergroun¢ city. Time and time veal trunks of process of being changed into co: this wonderful nature's labo The lignite is an unlimited soure of wealth for North Dakota in fi for the whole Northwest. common thing for the Dakota fs evs to have coal mines on their own lands or within short hauling dis tance of their homes, : go out for % Freeborn county a load of wood. I of the farmers h mine in their bin, The fact is th horn county farmer and the Da farmer burns fuel from the aint the forests which the Da ner sat) flourisied millions of e a regular coal it both the F WOMEN POLICE -—Women throughout the wor the United States in, according to an in ide by the permanen of ations commission fo the supprssion of the internationa' trafic in women and children, commission voiced atisfaction « Geneva, ion that thesappointment of women members Of police forces would have a beneficial off tection, of the interests and children throughout the strange specimens dis covered in H Zi1 are flat fish with a poison spike in their tail tures whieh make noises like b ing dogs. Among the held Al- us out in nd own shale » The lignite burns the grey clay any- carbide thick, of ven- up to} pre- n’s health and again we saw simply farmers go out for n told that seme cellar —inexhaustible ON INCREASE} police and The this development, recording its opin- et in the pro- of women world. ang vul- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE picasa STUDENTS IN | Paris, Ma During the vacation period the Natio: of Students’ Associa sent, several hundred c | t ler Union Franc 3 it; in return has entertained in jand other university centres seve’ (hundred young foreigners sent lin exchange to get acq the French students, t| Fifty French university jwent to whos t versities have exercised particular attraction for Gallic st dents. A like-sized contingent out for Budapest, a former jeapital, to be sure, but r e a ‘ d © tying. A | Vervier, simultane 1 Paris was Jen, Hungarians ;When the summer jit is hoped to ef countries with the Fr plan, jeven trade. a British de Selgium, the TL similar in u ion went and alm) tin Quarter and 8 ion exchanging studen neh rou | associ for family for and the he hly, That is, the university man, }ample, agrees to take in sponsor for a youth from bonne for a certain period, e a So ina Fi s student of familic Univer: schools lity famil may neh ubs hospi some the place ties of the allied the it ty of Paris an are growth of the movement. 1] its tfover AT THE MOVIE AY THE Commencing rs will see at the ¢ Mary Philbin's new Jewel starring vehicle, and her fir big role sigve she ‘made history “Merry-Go-Round.” story, “Fools Highw from Owen Kildare’s story of the Bowery, Rose,” is one of the y ular productions by t THE ELTING: 1 CAPT tomorrow, OL ie Universal lif Mam famous ; My 1 the inkeresting setting arour ard Barthelmess’ linge Theatre toda: Wednesday and Thu ged. war hero goes to hide hims the world, only to be | his pestiferous relatives. there that he meets English governess nd ultimate finds happiness. This cottage w designed by ingston Platt, scenic ar the most quaint and tings of its kind ever the motion pictures. NEGRO IS FOUND f If fro And it plain devised t 5 1 c St. Paul, Minm, May 21.—Roy n d]murder of Mrs. Jacob found guilty of murder ond degree by a jury in county di trict court h and wi teneed to life nment . [state prison. p {the jury in th erday. ing when he has time. smite |Nations, A commission of three, comprising Norman H. Davis, |former Under-secretary of State the United States, a distin- guished Swedish engineer and a |Holland business man, began in | February of this year en investi- |gation of the merits of the case. | The Commission held hearings for all the interested parties, sur- ' veyed the harbor of Memel and |gquged its importance to all the affected territory. It -ruled that |the river must be free to all traf- |fie and convinced the Lithuanians that they were cutting off their |ngses. to spite their faces if they. | persisted in a polley of, restricting commeree,. The Vilna matter was outside the investigators’ province. ‘The 150,000 inhabitants of Memel repelve autonomous government under the new settlement and a free gone is declared around the part, On the other hand Hithu- ania get her first clear title to the territory, which, ligd been ceded by Germany to the Allies . and which had béen stezed by Lithu= jana over Allied protests, Last month the Seseinbly of the League accepted the report of its commission, and the entire dis- pute is now considered closed. robody was entirely satisfled | with our decision,” Mr. Davis Said on his return to New York, “but both parties feared the cengure of the world if they defied the 1ind- ings of the impartial board set up |by the League. I am happy, as |an- American, to have had @ part in settling what was admitted to be one of the sorest quarrels .in post-war Europe. The peopie; Participating in the League never yield their sovereignty but tt will become, increasingly hard cor any group of jingoists to lead a country into war in the face, of peaceful and ifnpartial mediation offered through a body represent- ing the enlightened opinion of 54 nations.” +. The Niemen,» Mr: Davis, pro- phested, will fast become a teem- ing trade route, an@ such obstrye- tions as the. one pictured here i be" replaced by dn open and busy ~ BUROPESWAP. young | Frenchmen off to foreign lands, and Paris her inted with | youths uni an of provided their own hopeful is similarly given | ake | The authori enthusiasti picture- theatr picture The adapted A little cottage in an English wood ch most of the important seenes “The Enchanted Cottage,” Rich- picture at the El- and tomorrow, yy, are sta- It is there that the crippled followed by little famou st, and represents one o! striking. set- for TO BE GUILTY! Houghton, negro, charged with the Mougel,. w: in the sec was given to min has a letter he intend wil” aul a} u-{ et | enemy | city boast- | Hing a proud old institution of learn to of Hed with young English Belgians. } comes, dd Poland to the list ts x In} i nd ic e, st e- ie nd m is ACITY BUILT FOR CHARITY Orphan Boy Dream Real- “| ized in Medel Oklahoma Town Ss By NEA Ser Sand Springs, Okla,, May 21 Imust 60 years traced near vit hu- an orphi Charles Pa; in the sands of Steve's Pt model manity, to serve the boy, now grown to man- nd wealthy through millions rs amassed from oil, sees a tion of his immature dream in this utopian town he founded just seven miles from thé outskirts of Tulsa, Sand Springs, the city as Page in- tended it to be, is built aboat what is probably the most unique and charitable organization in the United States. The nucleous of its life is the Sund Springs Home, an institution estab- lished to shield orphaned boys and girls from some of the hard knocks whieh Page had experienced most his life. Sand Springs Home owns @itright more than 12,000 acres of fat farin- ing land, STATE'S RICHEST ENTERPRISE It dominates and controls a stand- ard gauge electric line running from its door to Tulsa, runs a water:and gas company, owns innumerable spouting oil wells, operates a cotton mill costir.g $3,000,000, sells electric power to surrounding cities and has its corporate hand ‘mixed up in nu- merous other enterprises and utiH- ties. Altogether, Sand Springs Home’ is perhaps the wealthiest institution and power in Oklahoma, Its holdings and revenue run-up into the millions every year. The hundred boys and girls shield- ed by its broad expanse of modern buildings enjoy alt the comforts and privileges of guests. invited’ for, a permanent visit to some — palatial country estate. FAMILY ATMOSPHERE And Sand Springs Home asks nothing in ‘return save that » they fashion themselves into good men and women. The institution operates more like a large family and does not smack in any wise of institutional air. ‘There are parties, vacations, and time for recreation in model pley- yards equipped with every concei able kind of apparatus from swim- ming/ pool to swings. Likewise there is no drudgery about the home, for all work is per- formed by electrical” servants com- manded by the -institution’s cwn power plant. COLONY FOR AGED, TOO Anyone who pleads the cause may carry away bacon, flour, cheese and other food products from the home’s well lardered refrigerator for ' the asking. In’ Sand. Springs, the home main- | Manufacturers of F oa nee PAGE THREE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT One of the Large oy aks ine Knit Woolen Goods has placed their entire Sample Line of nit Vests Sweaters Sweater Coats . thus For Sale. These are the styles you will see everywhere next fall. offering this full line of high class merchandise at We are Wholesale Prices Light U We will also dispose of their full Sample Line of Women’s, Misses’ and Children’s Sweaters, Caps, Bathing Suits. nderwear, etc., at manufacturer’s cost. The Supply Is Limited We suggest you call at once before the pretty styles are all gone. Knickers For Sport Wear At Wholesale —— Only 25 Pair. Caprtal Army & Navy Store G. P. Hotel Block He work, aing a widows’ colony. widows too old to m children nd couples up sustenance home. ge, ble, bring their provided — free the man who made all this is loath to talk about him- is in purpose,” ‘and Springs Home world to serve but one he exists to destroy selfishngss, the greatest curse of mi POOR L made his 1 stand to fortune when almost less) and 50. ge that had pursued him si trailed him still inio the s and roundhouses of f towns. It follewed close on jis heels into the lumber and mining camps of the Sierra Nevadas and Rockies and the cattle ranches of, the gr plains. This pathway finally brought him to the Indian ‘Te in 1900 along with a band of wive |. Just south of th one last chance. His first drilling warded by oil. The first others, ‘ane orphaned bo, which made true. attempt was re followed by the’ dreaming the millions dream come well was soon Page, had his early BOUND OVER TO DISTRICT COURT liv “BRAM Police M arge of ¢ automobile while under ence of liquor. This was ere offense by the last legi ture, it being necessary for ch to go to district court, poli cials who arrested Allensworth said Jim McConnell, his companion, sentenced to 15 days in jail on a intoxication charge. Five speeders were fined $5.00 and costs, bringing the total to $8.95, last night by Police Magistrate Cashman. ESTARLISHFD the} by g, {the week The jinx of hard Juck and poverty | de pueenea ha halted and drove his tent peg to take REFUSE SUBSTITUTE usual and the exhibit. shapes fashions for Local Store Enters Into Window Contest] C ooperative Creamery Urged Week,’ brated nationally, Webb Brothers furniture “Congoleum being is being observe Reynolds, state dairy com sae returned from Gackle the effort cooperative creamery » has ment this week. In connection WiUt] wher. je assisted in Ne national contest on win the the organize About $1,500 stock thus far has been subscribed, he said, a {dow disp! s being held, and Bismarck entered an contest. An especially attractive window, ned particularly to demonstrate flexibility of yoru been arranged, Long: rolls. of Congoleum form the stockade of n camp, and within there is an n tepee, with fire burning within, an Indian on a pony made out of Congoleum and a squa: There are fur pelts on the floor. pleum is used al- riost « in the window Yn » being designed into un WALTER WELFORD TO RUN tions for nomination of Walte Yord of Pembina county as cratic candidate for cong the first North Dakota — district have been placed in circulation and will be filed arck before the time limit it was announ ced at the state campaign headquar ters of the Nonpartisan league here yesterday. 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