The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 9, 1924, Page 1

A WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinity: Gen- erally fair tonight and Sunday. ; ESTABLISHED 1873 ALLIED CONFERENCE IS SUSPENDED TOM GIBBONS KNOCKS OUT OPPONENT IN THIRD |nniotvsn QUICKLY ENDS BATTLE WITH ENGLISHMAN St. Paul Boxer Nearly Knocks Out Heavyweight Aspir-- ant in Second TAKES BATTLE EASILY Wembley Stadium, London? Aug. 9. —(By the A, P.)\—Tom Gibbons, American light heavyweight, Knocked out Jack Bloomfield, English for heavyweight honors, in the third | jirant round of their scheduled S)-round bout in the stadium here this after- noon. The bell saved Bloomfield from be- ing knocked out in the second round, The American flooyed his British opponent three timas in the second round, the bell saving Bloomfield on the third knockdown, after which the seconds ‘had to drag his limp body through the ropes to his chair for the ion. intermissi Bloomfield went out groggy for the third round and Gibbons floored him with a left to the head and a right went down for the count .of four and got up bleeding from the nose and stag- to the cl gering. ‘hin. The Britisher Gibbons Starts Early Gibbons tled. the ii laced into issue, count of six. When the Britisher rose Gibbons smashed him with hard rights and lefts to the head and Bloomfield went down for the count of nine. As soon as he got to his. feet Gib- bons downed him for the third time. The only blows Bloomfield land- ed during the entire fight were two light ‘taps to the head in the first round and two wae swings in the third. Gibbons left the ring without a mark on his body, BOTTINEAU BANKERS HELD Grand Jury Returps Indict- ments Against Four Bottineau,.N. D.. Aug. 9.—The Bottineau county grand jury has returned indictments against four officers of the State Bank of Max- bass and against an election judge tor alleged false canyass returns. Sutherland, cashier of the now closed bank, was indicted for receiving depos- its in the bank after it wag insolv- of Antler, and Paul Norberg, of yNewberg, D. B. McDonald and other officers were indicted for permitting the reception of deposits. of several closed banks were in- vestigated and Augus' ent. lowed. Henry Bach, of Caine township, was indicted fdr alleged false it Frank Renkle, indictments canvass of election returns. Bach was a re-elected election judge of Caine township and also. @ candidate for re-election for su- It wae charged that Bach counted himself in and a re- count found that he had been dé- pervisor. feated. This is the second session of the grand jury the first session indict- ing the county commissioners of Bottineau county and a former county treasurer. Highest Lowest yesterday Lowest last. night Precipitation Highest wind velocity erally» ft For North Dakota: Generally fair tonight .and Sunday, except some- what unsettled north portion. Some- Weather Forecast: ir is farck and vicinity: Gen- tonight Somewhat warmer Sunday. then Bloomfield with ferocious hooks to the head as soon as the Britisher got to his * feet and dropped him with a left , hook for the count. It was a right uppercut landing squarely on Bloomfield’s chin in the second round that really set- From Bloomfield was groggy and direct- ly afterward went down for the on Maxbass, The affairs fol- Mr. and Sunday. what warmer Sunday. General Weather, Conditions ‘A large high pressure area covers the north central atures are Great Lakes region. ee eastward to Temperatures are below the seasonal normal over . the upper Mississip) northern Plains Sta places in “North Dakota Valley temperatures near freezing. acattered places over the north-'| ing. don, Cavalier county, with capital Plains States and tess stock proposed, of $25,000. Directors ‘Alapinum shoes with wooden soles} would be Arthur.Gamble, J.\D. Roach, Re “Mountain: , Sn Oanis BOE ? tea and temper- this morning. from the northern’ Rocky | Mountain region the and and a few reported Show, ers occurred over the Great Lakes be a upper Mississippi Valley. and oO { Weather Report} e__--—___—_—_* For 24 hours ending at noo! Temperature at 7 a. yesterday PONZI LEAVES JAIL WITH ONE IDEA~ CAMPAIGN FOR LAFOLLETTE TO OPEN IN CITY An active campaign for the La- Follette independent _ presidential ticket will be launched in Bismarck on Saturday, August 16. F. A, Vogel of Coleharbor, tempor- ary chairman of the LaFollette cam- paign committee, today announced a meeting on that date, at 2 p. n “for the purpose of launching a ter- vifieceampaign-te. xall.-up a. big. mae jority in the state for the LaFollette- FIVE COUNTIE SEND EXHIBITS QUT TO FAIRS Will Exhibit North Dakota Products in Iowa, Wis- + <consiny--Hinois--:and Minnesota Wheeler ticket.” = . A campaign committee will be chos- EFFORT IS LAUDED|‘ * ‘hit time Counties Should be Rewarded in Immigrants Gained, Says J. M. Devine Concrete evidence of North Dako- ta’s bounteous crops will be carried into Minoia, Iowa, eastern Wisco: and southeastern Minnesota by five county agricultural and industrial exhibits, prepared at the instance of Commissioner of Immigration J. M. Devine, who has been engaged in the promotion of these exhibits for sev- eral months, The exhibits, which'leave the state about August 16, will represent pro- duets of the counties of Morton, Sar- gent, Barnes, Steel and Griggs and will include grain, grasses, alfalfa, sweet clover, corn, both Flint and Dent corn of the 1923 crop; vegeta- bles of all kinds, including pumpkins, squash, citrons, cantaloupes potatoes garden seed alfalfa and sweet clover seed and honey, also samples of na- tive coal, briquettes, Hebron brick, pottery and chinaware, Each county exhibit will carry samples of its own soil and helpful, printed information regarding the county from which it comes, In addition there will also be complete detailed information, . in pamphlet form, as to the extent, kind and money value of the 1924 crop. “The registry books of each of these county exhibits should show from three to four thousand names and addresses of the visitors at the exhibits, which will be shown at county fairs, who showed special in- terest in North Dakota and its pos- ities,” said Mr. Devine. ¥‘All the exhibits will be shown in tents and I believe it is a conservative estimate that 100,000 people will have seen these displays, of which 70 percent will be farm owners and farm rent- ers in ‘these states.” At the end of the campaign, it is planned to. send follow-up letters and literatures from each of the counties exhibiting, supplemented by a like effort on the part of the Department of Imniigration. “The exhibits themselves will prove conclusively what North Dakota’s rich, productive land can produce, both in kind and quality, and as cheaply as like agricultural production in these states to the south, in which the land values range “anywhere from $175 to $300 per acre, and where the renter pays anywhere from $8 to $2 per acre, with no possibility of own- ing a farm.of his own,” said Mr. De- vine. eer ‘Phe Immigration Commissioner commended the counties who have taken up the exhibit plan, and. ex- ressed belief they would be well repaid in immigration.. There is no better way, he asserted; of carrying “the truth about North Dakota” to Prospective immigrants. FRANK INGALLS, PIONEER RAIL MAN, SUCCUMBS Dies in St. Paul Hospital Af- ter an Illness of Two Weeks, Following Stroke Jamestown, Aug. 9.—Frank Ingalls, 71, resident of Jamestown since 1883 and superviser of bridges and build- ings on thé Dakota division of the N. P. since that, year, died early this morning at the N. P, hospital at St. Paul where he had been receiving treatment for two weeks, He is sur- vived by his wife and five daughters, Members of the family were with Mr. Ingalls at the time of his death, hav- ing been called to St, Paul a week ago when he suffered a stroke. Fun- eral arrangements have not been made. Hd Mr. Ingalls was retired on August 1, Mr. Ingalls was well known in Bis- marek. He has seen western North Dakota develop and had a part in it himself. When he was here a year ago, just before his retirement, he told of many experiences in work on the Northern Pastis when Bismarck was a fron| 79 DROWNED DURING FLOOD Japanese Victims of Over- flowing of River Tckio, Aug. 9,¢ By the A. P.)— Seventy-nine persons are known to be dead and 57 missing as a‘re- sult of the overflowing of the Tam- sui river, in northern Formosa, ac- cording to advices received here today. Approximately 40,000 - houses were inundated of which 3,000 were destroyed, while thousands have been rendered homeless, including 5,000 in the city of Taihoku, It is expected the casualty list will grow when complete reports are received from the affected districts.’ The government is organizing relief. a CHARTER FOR he mont important ‘indus- tries’ in Chile is boot and shoe, mak- worn by. workmen in Thomas Ullyott, Wm. Nash and J. dmigal thetories. Mirehouse. BANK ASKED Application has been made for a charter for the State Bank of Lang- BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1924 TO ACCUMULATE ANOTHER FORTUNE Get-Rich-Quick Schemer Now Looking For a Way to Amass a Again BY HAROLD MATSON NEA Service Writer. Boston, Aug. 9—Expect new-things of Charles Ponzi. The little Italian, at present en- joying a breathing spell between one prison term and the possibility of another, has no intention of retiring into obscurity—nor does he expect to go behind the bars again. “I have to make money,” he told me when I talked with him in Ply- mouth county jail just prior to his release. “I have to make a lot .of money. A man with debts and a fam- ily can’t get along on a clerk’s sal- ary. And I certainly cannot afford to spend any more time in prison cells.” A plea something of this sort will be made in Ponzi’s behalf before the courts that will hear 10 indictments against the man, indictments that could not be satisfied until the fed- eral government had done with him. “Let me out and I'll pay my debts,” is Ponzi’s idea. However, he’ didn’t make it clear that he meant to pay back all the money lost through his get-rich-scheme, nor that he hopes to open all the banks that we closed on his account. He does, nev- ertheless, expect to accomplish some degree of restitution to his victims, those countless small investors, most of whom were fellow Italians, for he asks the question: “How can I get square with the world if I am kept.in jail?” « How he expects to accumulate an- other fortune is his own secret, but he smiles that he hasn't been in jail four years without thinking about something! No doubt the scheme will be within the law. Pongi has had enough of prison life. - The jailer had said that weuldn’t talk to a However, he consefited to bring Ponzi ‘into the sheriff's office if the prisoner cared to come. Ponzi cared. And Ponzi talked. His short little body has taken on some 30 or 40 pounds during his con- finement, and his brown skin, fresh- ened by the sun (for Ponzi, who has been made a trusty, was allowed to walk the field within the walls), gives ‘thim the appearance of a hardy, well- fed man. He went into prison # sick man, “It’s been a sort of sanitarium in effect.” Ponzi joshed. “Look out for your watch and chain,” an official cautioned us in passing. Ponzi laughed. It is well to laugh at an official’s jqke. It is easy to laugh when one’s term is nearly up. “I've been the librarian here,” he volunteered. “I have had a great chance to do some reading. Mostly I have been planning for my future —you know, I have to work pretty fast when I get out for I’m no spring chicken, “And I have been studying my case a lot—watching politics, ioo, for a change in politics might have an effect on my case. You know, if poli- tics bad been a little different in Washington during my triai there might have been a different story. Daugherty wasn’t any too popular even then. Somebody had to ¢o to jail.” The man was excitely interested in anything that pertained to his ease, yet he seemed to be casual about his jail experience. It was @ matter-of-fact affair that he should have landed in jail. Justice, morals? There was no ‘talk of these. He was merely playing a big game, and the game went wrong—“somebody had to go to jail.” “I was particularly interested in the oil scandal,” he continued. “I read it all—but I haven't read yet about anybody going \to jail. Strange, how some people go tg jail and some people stay out of jail.” Prison life at Plymouth, close to the spot where the Pilgrims landed, was surprisingly tolerable, Ponzi dis- covered. “Of course, it hasn’t been fun but it could, have been worse.” The man’s eyes lit up at mention pf his wife. ine “Hasn't she been a thoroughbred? Waiting for me, working for my freedom all this time?” Ponzi. laughed at the suggestion that a tidy bit of his ill-got money is waiting for him, cached these five years. possibility that some upforgiving in: “No, My troubles old.” commenting: “He probably will - make “money! taking notes and while I lock up cells for again—while you continue years to come.” ac The fli i are able to travel » aha, formation at least mil fe frequently cross the Eng: lish Channel from France. iv Big Fortune, newspaperman, He -seemed unworried at the vestor might seek a personal brand} of revenge when he is finally freed.| e all in how, to make new saones Bot with the, The jailer led his prisoner away, London, Aug. 9.—The green-fly— dreaded engmy of European garden- ers—has jnvaded London and othet parts of; England in huge swarms, u VIGILANTES ASKED INN. D. AGAINST YEGGS Attorney - General's Office Calls Upon Sheriffs, States Attorneys For Action WOULD GUARD TOWNS Nightwatchmen Asked To Prevent Robbers — Also Guard Against I. W. W.’s Organization of small country towns in North Dakota to provide volunteer night watchmen for pro- tection in the next several weeks is asked today by John Thorpe, First Assistant Attorney-General, in letters sent to all states attorneys and ‘sheriffs in the statement. The action Was prompted by the increase in bank ‘and store burglaries in the state and the possibility of further increase of crime when thousands of men come into the state for the harvest. Yeggmen, according to Mr. Thorpe, have taken advantage of towns with- out night watchmen, and most of the hurglaries have occurred in such towns. In some towns citizens of their own accord have formed vigil- ance committees, provided night watchmen either through volunteers or raising funds to pay them, and have protected the towns from rob- beries, according to Mr. Thorpe. The —_attorney-general’s _ office, through Mr. Thorpe, alxo points out the need of citizens’ organizations to combat possible activities of the I. W. W. or any other organizations seeking to impede the harvest or prevent the farmers from obtaining : (Continued on page 6) BLOOM NAMED RECEIVER To Take Charge of Farmer fF Labor State Record John Bloom was named receiver of the Farmer Labor State-Record, lo- al Nonpartisan League weekly newspaper, by Federal Judge C.. F. Amidon in federal court in Fargo yesterday. The board of directors and creditors had assented to the appointment of Bloom. An involuntary petition in bank- ruptey was filed sometime ago against the paper by W. A. Ander- son, Lynn J. Frazier, Neil C. Reid and R. W. Frazier. ‘It alleged the institution was insolvent. A few days ago the board of directors met and assented to the Bloom appoint- ment. The paper has been under the rectivership of L. J. Siljan. SAFE STOLEN ISRECOVERED Story of Stolen Automobile Also Told Officers Jamestown, N. D., Aug. 9.—The safe stolen from the Moore pool hall at Montpelier, Stutsman coun- ty, a week a: was found five miles west 0! Valley City, where robbers had left it. A young man named Stanley, arrested at Fargo in a stolen auto, told officials he and his three companions had rob- bed the two places at Montpelier and also told’ where the safe was abandoned. Stanley was brought back. to Valley City for a hearing on a charge of stealing an auto. Stanley also told officers that the men had stolen four automobiles in Valley City. A “metal policeman”—a shrill horn serving'as a burglar alarm— has been devised for automobiles. Dakota Liberty over the Missouri Bismarck and Mandan. Memorial The average is 1,400 a day betwee 6 a. m. and midnight: cars in a year. when the travel is heavier 4t is lighter in the winter. 1,400 CARS PER DAY PASS OVER LIBERTY MEMORIAL BRIDGE HERE Upwards of a half million auto- mobiles a year pass over the North the bridge from 6 a. m. Bridge night, divided as follows: 6 to 12 River between Noon, 300 cars; 12 noon to 6 p. m., edt This is indicated. by figures meio ane this number about 150 per day thus far in a seven-day check ofbear out-of-state licenses. travel by the highway commission. The sameage. average each day would be 509,600 The number traveling west There are timesabout the same as the number trav- thaneling during the past week, and of course The Manymade ‘by the highway commission cars. also pass over the bridge afterto show the extent the bridge is | midnight, not included in the check. utilized. The average figures: for the firstlicense cars of the highway. commis-it would sion check, now being made, show-ago, the tourist travel slackening ed: SLAVE OF LOEB, Chicago, were held res Nathan F. Leopold Jr. Locb’s childish phanta: kid! test ug. 9.—(By the A. to commit the doctor, fourth of the defense's testified. one to the other, and that Leopold, FORM BODY TO URGENATIONAL PARK IN STATE Roosevelt Memorial National Park Association Is Name Chosen PARTY SEES BADLANDS Members of Tour Returning Enthusiastic Over the Possibilities . C. E. Danielson and James S. Mil- loy of Minot, president and secretary of the Minot Association of Com- merce, passed through Bismarck t en route to Minot after a companying the party making ‘the of- ficial tour of the proposed national ark ig western North Dakota. The party left Minot in cars driven by Minot business men Monday after- noon and concluded their tour: at Medora yesterday when. the Roose- veit: Memoria Mutional’ Park“ Asso- ciation was formed. E. E. Fredeen of Ryder has been one of the leading figures in the movement and was as- sisted by the Minot civic body in ar- ranging for the official tour. Included in the party of 30 were officials of the railroads and staff writers from newspapers in the Twin Cities. The newspapermen pregent were Albert L. Evans of the St. Paul Dispatch, David S. Owen of the Min- neapolis Journal and Alexander F. Jones of the Minneapolis Tribune. All three writers were enthusiastic over the proposed park. Mr. Danielson is also president of the North Dakota Automobile Asso- ciation and is keenly interested in the development of a‘national park in this state. He believes that with the impetus given the movement by the men from the Twin Cities pre- sent on the tour, the park can be- come a reality if the people of North {Dakota support the movement. Other Minot men on the tour were B. A, Dickinson, Paul Campbell and John E. Burke. They returned to Minot from Dickinson via Elbow Woods. The party reached Dickinson Thurs- day afternoon, where they were guests at luncheon. Dr. V. H. Stick- ney, pioneer physician, welcomed the visitors, and commended their inter- est in the creation of a Roosevelt Na- tional Park in the Badlands. Dr. Stickney, friend of the late Theodore Roosevelt, referred to his ranching days at Medora, praised his ideals and declared u park would be a fit- ting memorial, Other speakers at Dickinson were Mr. Milloy of Minot, E. E. Fredeen of Ryder, Prof, H. E. Simpson of the University of North Dakota, and C. E. Danielson of Minot. Those Registered Members of the party registered were: a4 Bismarck—Ormanzo A. Brown, member state highway commission, W. G. Black, state engineer, J. A. Wallace, construction engineer, and J. P. Tucker, motor vehicle registrar, all of the state highway department, L. F. Crawford of the state histor- ical society, Miss Helen Crawford, (Continued on page three.) ing and slaying of Robert Franks, Dr. H. ied today in the hearing to fix their punishment. ‘Leopold's thyroid gland has been diseased but subsided and his pitutiary glands have not functioned as they ‘should, THE. BISMARCK TRIBUNE [aaa a gn a DISORDERED GLANDS MADE LEOPOLD ALIENIST DECLARES Physician on Stand Tells of Early Phantasies of Leopold,| Reports Spread That There and Refers to His Unwillingness to Accept Religion P) Disordered endocrine glands onsible for the mental and physical development of hich permitted him to fall in with Richard the perfect crime, resulting in the H. Hulbert, Chicago, the disorder has experts to appear in the hearing In summing up he concluded that the boys, he having described Loeb’s disorders yesterday, came together as necessary complements, unable to resist Loeb's leadership, their association led to the murder of Bobby Franks. The hearing got under way 15 minutes late and Dr. Hulbert pick- ed up his testimony where he left off yesterday, with Leopold's “king slave” phantas: r,* Pulbert said the phantasy was continued until the age of 18, the phantasy setting the pattern of his life, Leopold’s ambi- tion coming to be “the perfect slave of the perf@et king.” There were no criminalistic phan- tasies in Leopold’s life, byt his phan- tasies influenced him very largely to do what he had done, continued the doctor. The testimony veered to Leopold's religious life, the witness saying that because of his advanced intellectual life Leopold was ready for confirma- tion well before he was of age, to be, and when he reached the age he did not care to be confirmed. Visited Church Leopold once visited a church in which there was a stained glass win- dow, portraying the madonna, and Christ child, said Dr. Hulbert. - Leo- pold did not ‘know the figures, but identified his mother with the ma- donno, and himself with the, older child .in the picture, probably St. John the Baptist, said the doctor. “He does not say, I am Christ,” said the witness. “But says I the superior person of the world,” read Dr. Hulbert in his notes. “He: finally found favlt with God because God makes misiakes, making a great mistake when he took his mother. ¢ “His: mother’s death mide 2 great change in Leopold's life. He never did adjust himself to the world after she died.” Leopold lacked close friends, said the doctor, Asked as to Léopold’s criminalistie tendencies by Walter Bacharach of defense counsel, Dr. Hulbert said Leopold stole some stamps at the age of nine from his cousin, stole his brother's necktie and traded it for cigar bands, of which he was making « collection, justifying the thefts by the statement “why, that was all right. I wanted them.” He stole some fruit from a stand once, said the Doctor. PRESIDENT TO TAKE REST Will go to Father’s Home in Vermont on Vacation Washington, Aug. 9.—Satisfied with the progress of the Republican campaign, President Uoclidge de- cided after receiving = 1.port on the situation from Chairmen Butler, of the national committer, to take a vacation of 10 or 12 days shortly after the formal notification exer- cises to be held here August 14. Mr. Coolidge plans to go to his father’s home at Plymouth, Vt., fol- lowing a custom of many years. Mrs. Coolidge and ‘their son, John, will comprise the remainder of the party. It will be the first time Mr, Coolidge has left the White House for more than two days since he entered the office a year ago. Friends Urge Rest Despite his ability to keep going in the intense heat which has pre- vailed here during the last week, friends have urged the president to take the rest, pointing out the dif- ficulties under which he has work- ed the past year, coming into of- fice so ‘suddenly, and the strain he and Mrs. Coolidge were under diring the recent illness and death of their younger son, Calvin, Jr. Say I. W. W. Drove Them Off Jobs Fergus Falls, Minn., Aug. 9.—Har- vey Halvorson, Vernon Johnson, Rol- 1,400 cars of all kinds pass over to mid- 6 p. m. to midnight, 600 But six horse-drawn vehicles mday cross the bridge, on the aver- is even-day check is being lin Halvorson, Lester Johnson, Philip Frees and Glenn Narien, six young men of this city, went to North Da- kota last week to work in the harvest fields to earn money for their school expenses. They went to Fairmount, N. D., and two of them went to work day. The other spent several hours in town inquiting for employment. 1, W. W. members about town learn- ed that they were willing to work for $3 a day, and told them ito leave at once, as they were holding out for $4.50 a day. One boy was caught alone, thrown into a freight car and told not to-come back. Another was. The number of foreign- somewhat less than re been a few -weeks up a bit. held in a “wobblies den” close to the track until another freight came by. and he too was bundled into it, and advised not to return, The others were chased out and calight trains home. el y ‘working persistently to bring immediately for farmers at $3 per} PRICE FIVE CENTS HOME FACTOR IN CONFERENCE Is Disagreement in the French Cabinet SEE FINAL STAND Herriot Expected to Receiva Final Word of French Delegates on Questions London, Aug. 9, (By the A. P.)— The work of the international con- ference, called for the purpose of putting the Dawes reparation plan into effect, is being virtually sus- ended over the week-end while remier Herriot returns to Paris for a conference with members of his ca¥inet. . Mr. Herriot desires, it is under- stood, to have defined finally the stand the French delegates shall take for the evacuation of the Ruhr and maintaining Franco-Belgian railroad men in the Rhineland sys- tem, which the Germans also pro- test. Paris advices say the sudden decision of Mr. Herriot to resume contact with his colleagues at home has caused some surprise in poli- tical circles, where it is regarded as giving color to rumors of lack of harmony in the French delega- tion, notably between the premier and his minister of war, General Nolett. London, Aug. 9.—(By the A. P.) —-A conference on the question of inter-allled debts will be held in tle near future, it has been defi- nitely decided, Premter Herriot announced today,- just before ha left for Paris with a conference of his cabinet on‘ the work ‘of the in+ ternational conference. The French ‘delegates had beer about such jan inter-alfied debt discussién since the present con= ference opened. It is understood that it has not yet been decided whether the new conference will bé held*in’ Parts ‘or London. INTAKE TO” NEW SYSTEM IS LOWERED Engineer Orders Con< tractor To Lower Intake City WHO PAYS BIL Settlement. May Disclose ta Taxpayers Why Changes ‘ Were Made Difficulty over the construction of the intake to the new water system is necessitating running both pump- ing plan Legal entanglements probably will result before the mat- ter is completely adjusted. The Woodrich Construction company is going uhead under what is claimed revised instructions of City. Engi- neer Atkinson which throws som@ of the work on a cost plus basi When the well was first put it, according to the best information available to the press, it was low- ered a foot or more from the ori- ginal contract and the extra work went on a cost plus basis. After Mr. Atkinson had lowered the depth of the weil, it was found that the intake must be lowered also a foot or more. In going lower than originally specified in the contract for the in- sake, the contractor claims he nas struck quicksand and just what the ultimate expense will be must be fought out in conference or the courts. It seems agreed, however, that when City Engineer Atkinson ordered the well lowered and the contractor found he must lower the intake too, that considerable of the work was freed from the gon- tract at a fixed price and thrown on a @ost plus hasis. There is being held back from the contractor a sum of money which the city commissioners: be- lieve will. protect the city, but it is feared that instructions-issued by the City Engineer are. going to let the taxpayers in for additional ex- penses. In the meantime the water is bee ing pumped.in through the old in- take and well, both pumping plants are being operated. however, at dou- ble the necessary overhead. ‘Who pays ‘the extra bill is to be decided later when tue final wattle ment comes up. . PARTED FOR 50 YEARS Clontibret, . Treland,. Aug. 9. Fifty years ago James Connolly and Margaret O’Brien, engaged to be married, wete separated in a storm at ses. Recently they met again in ae od Givasis married— 80 they obta’ oat: on, married each other.