The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 13, 1924, Page 1

‘1 { { He i: a i NA A 4 ‘ as ©, ] ‘ber 29. WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and vi nity: Fair tonight and Friday.” - : see) THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1924 ~ AINALEDTION | PRICE FIVE CENTS MAY CONTEST N. D. SENATE CONTROL INTENSE INTEREST IN CORN GROWING MANIFESTED THROUGH STATE, CORN SHOW DISCLOSES BIG YIELDOF CORN TOLD BY VISITORS HERE: | Many Fields of Corn From | Which Exhibits Were Taken Made 40 to 50 Bushels DEVELOP NEW CORN Many Farmers Over the State Found to be Experiment- ing For Selves CORN HISTORY OF NO. DAKOTA IS OUTLINED Grown Freely By Mandan In- dians 200 Years Ago, Fell To Low Ebb, Rises {IN THE CORN’ BELT 1Yield of Corn in North Da- kota Is Shown to Exceed That of Kansas Intense interest in corn gréwing, particularly in the development of early maturing corn, was being man- ifest today by farmers and others who ‘visited the Second Annual North Dakota State Corn Show, in the exhibit room in the Annex Hotel building, on East Broadway. Reports were made by several ex- hibitors of yields of corn running from 40 to 50 bushels an acre, through careful selection of seed and | proper cultivation, while others re- ported that experiments they had carried on in developing new kinds of early maturing corn had proved {8¥mmer, and return to harvest,” Mr.1occc° known as «Jimmy successful. The excellence of the exhibits proved a surprise to all visitors at the show, since the year 1924 had been described as a poor corn year and reports of damage by frost had been received. The exhibits, coming as they do from 30 counties of the state and all sections, emphasize that the finest kind of corn can be matured in North Dakota even im an unfavorable year. The number of farmers coming in today, many of them from long dis- tances, to view the corn show, was an indication of the intense interest being-.manifested in the exhibits. It is probable that the prize winning exhibits will be entered in the In- ternational Hay and Grain Show, to be held in Chicago beginning Novem- The program at-the this afternoon included an address by Robert Wilson, of the U. S. Great Plains Station, Mandan. 1:30 p. m. at the Auditorium there will be a feature movie film, and an address by Dr. H. L. Walster, dean of the State Agricultural College, whose subject will be “Northern Corn for Northern Climates.” There will be an institute program Satur- day also. Exhibits from 30 counties had been unpacked and displayed on the first day of the show yesterday, with more in the mails to be enter- ed. The total number of exhibits reached 454 late yesterday, about equal to the number of last year, and last year’s total will be exceed- ed. Counties represented yesterday were: Adams, Grant, Stark, Barnes, Burleigh, Morton, Kidder, McHenr: Sargent, Ransom, Richland, Wells, Sioux, Cass, Emmons, McLean, M Kenzie, Hettinger, Foster, McIntosh, Ward, Dicke: LauMoure, Mercer, Sheridan, Logan, Pierce, Mountrail, Golden Valley and Stutsman. , An exceptionally fine -display was shown by E. M. Granlund of Ran- som county, who won the sweep- stakes prize for the best individual ear of corn exhibited last year. A visitor to the show remarked that “Ransom county won't be rep- resented because the corn all froze out.” He was led to the exhibit of Mr. Granlund and others from Ransom. Corn on the stalk was exhibited by Mr. Granlund. The stalks were 10 feet high, ears 10 to 11% inches long, of finest, hard quality; and Mr. Granlund reported his Minne- sota No. 13 corn made 50 bushels to the acre and pointed to other corn that made 35 bushels to the acre. He planted 150 acres of corn and none of it was frosted, he said. Mr. Granlund displayed Minnesota No. 18, Wisconsin Golden Glow and other corn. Booster Here G. R. Montaney, whose postoffice address is Kulm but who farms in Dickey county, is back at the show this year. Mr. Montaney wrote a poem regarding the corn show last year, which he had printed as a booster effort. Mr. Montaney is displaying sev- eral corn samples, chiefly of a corn he calls “Combination” and which he says he evolved in five years of effort. The corn this ygar, he said, will make 40 bushels to the acre. He had sent some seed to Mike Hilscher and E. Sasse, living near Bismarck, who planted it. The corn of the latter two men is far better than his, and ought to make 50 bush- els to the acre, he says. B Mr. Montaney is an ‘enthusiastic corn ‘grower. NO PARKING ALLOWED Ip all of Germany no automobile permitted to stay ata curb unless attended. Even then the allotted time is short, Auditorium | Friday atthe Indians. ' ©Since America was discovered, the advance of corn growing has ‘been coincident with the stabilizing of agriculture and synonymous with diversification,” George F. Will, chairman of the North Dakota State Corn Show executive committee, de- elared in an address before the Ro-{ tary club here, in connection with the state show being held in Bis- ; marek. “A pure wheat raising agriculture only next to the pastoral nomadic | life such as is lived by the Moors {of Algeria who sow, leave for the | | Will continued. | “North Dakota, after years of | struggle, is now well on the high jroad to a place in that magic terri |tory known as the ‘Corn Belt, ! iwhere diversified farming rules and { | Prosperity presides. | “The claim that North Dakota is jbecoming a ‘Corn Belt State’ has been and is still in places viewed | ‘with skepticism. Let us see what {elgim she can establish to that | place. “Two hundred years ago there was } raised in North Dakota, in the sec- { { tions now known as Burleigh and \ ; Morton tountiés, some 200,000 bush- {els of corn 6n some” 10,000 acres. | {The Mandan “Indians, our original ettlers, then in the height of their i prosperity, were the producers. H Fell to Low Point “In 1870 the total area in corn was‘ {not more than 1,500 acres with a | total yield of perhaps 3,000 bushels. {Nearly all of this was grown by! In 1880 the state had } perhaps 2,000 acres, most of which, was cultivated by the Indians, but perhaps 200 to 300 acres were grown by Burleigh county’s earliest set- tlers. “Since that year gradually and surely corn growing has won its way in the state. By 1919 the state had a total in corn of some 500,000 acres, and the production totalled 16,000,000 bushels. In 1902 there were 711,000 acres, with a produc- tion of 17,000,000 bushels. By 1923 the state had an area of nearly 1,- 000,000 acres in corn and the tetal production was some 31,000,000 bu shels. In that year six counties of the state, of which Burleigh was one, produced more corn that wheat, and for the first time North Dakota corn was shipped in carloads to the central markets. “This year Burleigh county has in corn some 30,000 acres and the yield will be almost one million bushels. “The total value of all North Da- kota agricultural products including the returns from dairying and poul- try for 1924 are about $364,000,000. Our corn ‘crop represents at least 10 percent of this value. Surely in Corn Belt “Lately we have this year most definitely demonstrated that, orn} can be raised and matured in North Dakota in a good wheat year when general climatic conditions were wholly unfavorable to it. This be- cause we have for years been de- veloping through the help of our Indian predecessors corn which was suited to a severe climate with short growing season and often cool !summers. And also because we have yat last begun to learn the lesson .of early planting and plenty of cul- tivation. The old fallacy that corn would fail in a wheat year evidently had its foundation in the fact that we always planted corn after every- ‘thing else was done and only: culti- vated it when there was nothing else to do. “Land in the ‘Corn Belt’ states of the central west is worth five times or more what it is in the North Dakota ‘Corn Belt,’ yet for the past five years our average yield of corn per acre has been from 27 to 33 bushels, “very little under that of Towa, and greater than that of Kan- sas, which averages in the same period from 22 to 26 bushels. “I believe these facts and figures, when duly considered and weighed, will prove to even the biased mind that North Dakota is most emphat- ically in the ‘Corn Belt, and that she can raise corn at an even great- er profit than the so-called ‘Gorn Belt’ states.” NO COUNTY FAIR TAX Stanley, N. D., Nov, 18.—Mountrail county voters declared themselves opposed to a tax for a county fair, as well as against a proposal for estab- lishing s county farm for the poor. Vin A Suggestion “The Tribune today received the following suggestion: The writer, a visitor to the corn show in your city, respect- fully suggests that the hotels |) and cafes of Bismarck be re- quested to serve corn meal dishes during the show, to prove its excellence as a human as well as a stock food. “A CORN GROWER.” Representative in Congress, { Who Made Test Case, Is Freed By The Jury $10,000 BIER i: counts pissnssep IS BOUGHT FOR Involved Making of Cider and SLAIN GUNMAN) °°" ss 'tatinre in Baltimore . A * ae Michael O’Bannion’s Body in|tive John Philip Hill of Baltimore sikene was acquitted by a jury in United Chicago Is Guarded By [states Court. today of violating the His Lieutenants Volstead law by manufacturing in- toxicating wine and cider at his home. The fifth and sixth counts, which charged Col. Hill with maintaining a common nuisance at his home, were .,.{dismissed under instructions from Identify | Judge Morris A. Soper, who presided jat the trial. The trial was the result of a test case forced by Col. Hill who main- tained the Volstead law gave the a —-- jfarmer a right to manufacture cider Chicago, Nov, -(By the A. P.)— and wine but withheld from the city Dion O’Bannion, florist gunman, lay|man the right to manufacture beer. a $10,000 cask guarded; The trial brought from Judge by silent, squire-jawed henchman, ; Soper the opinion that the clause of amid thousands of dollars worth of the Volstead act defining beverages flowers and wreathes, while the! of more than half of one per cent police traced what they considered aicoholie content as illegal did_not the first tangible clue to the iden-' apply to home-made wine and cider, tity of his slayers. ‘provided the product is non-intoxi- They held Jules Ayeating “in fact.” in} Judge Soper also indicated by his whose garage a blue sedan was found{ruling and his charge to the jury answering the description of the onc! that the burden rested upon the gov- ONE ARREST IS MADE: Police Seeking to Men Who Shot and Killed Gang Leader 23, Portuga n which the slayers fled fromjernment to show that such home O’Bannion’s flower shop after the' products were intoxicating in fact, killing. and a violation of the law. The cur’s license plate, police said, —— corresponded with that which wit- AWAIT TEXT OF RULING nesses said the slayers’ automobile; Washington, Nov. 13.—The Depart- carried. Harry Portugais denied the’ ment of Justice will await a full re- automobile had been out of the port from United States Attorney garage Monday at the time of the Woodcock at Baltimore before it is slaying but later admitted he had willing to comment on the effect of used it himself when he was con- the acquittal of John Philip Hill in fronted by two garage employes who the cider manufacture case. Attor- contradicted his first story. The ney-General Stone explained that son maintained silence. iuere coula be no appeal by the goy- Doubts Success {ernment under the law and that HILL HELD NOT |BORAH URGES | GUILTY INU.S. | SPECIAL CALL LIQUOR TRIAL} FOR CONGRESS Idaho Senator Would Have Senate Take Up Problems After March 4 CUMMINS HAS Iowa Senator Would Take Up Railroad Legislation at First Opportunity PLAN hington, Nov. 13.—An extra session of the new Congress soon af- ter March 4 was urged today by Sen- ator Borah, Republican, Idaho, who declared he thought farm and rail- road measures, as well as the World Court proposal, and perhaps tax re- lief, should be taken up at that time. NO TAX EFFORTS Washington, Nov, 13.—Tax reduc- tion at the coming short s ion of congress will not be attempted under present plans by the administration and although some congressional leaders have ex ssed a desire to take up such legislation it now ap- pears that attention will be directed primarily to appropriation and farm measures. It is understood that Secretary Mellon, who conferred for more than half an hour with President Coolidge considers it impracticable to attempt to reopen the tax question at the three months session with a new law just going into effect. FOR RAILROAD LEGISLATION Des Moines 3.—Prep- ations for rai tion in the short session of congress will get under way in Washington im- niediately, Senator A. B. Cummins of Towa, co-author of the Esch-Cum- mins transportation act, announced here prior to his departure for the capital. The result of the election has so erially improved the situation, Senator Cummins declared, that the opposing factions in the railroad controversy can now get together on the eceonomic questions involved and take the railroads out of poli- { ties. During the next few days the Iowa Micheal Hughes, detective chief, therefore the case against Mr. Hill expressed doubt that the slayers, if becomes a closed incident insofar as found, would ever be prosecuted, | the government is concerned. “I expect we will satisfy ourselves j : to a moral certainty as to the iden-! tity of the killers, “Chief Hughes said,” but nothing will come of it.; There will be no prosecution. It's} the same old story; we'll never be able to get anybody to identify them if we do get them.” O'Bannion’s friends, professing ignorance of the identity of the slayers, arc also investigating, Louis Alterie, the slain leader’s lieutenant, upon whom O’Bannion’s mantle is reported to, have fallen, has tolq re- porters. oo “If I can make an ‘appointment with the killers I will shoot it out with them,” he said. He said he and O'Bannion had re-|— jyston, Nov, 13—William M. But- eet tect! ved! trlepnons pee and ler, lawyer and manufacturer and e former had expected trouble last chairms i ation? Monat? Alanna eanieone: ee of the Republican Nation to the flower shop as a guard but yy Governor Cox to succeed the late overslept, he said. He attributed the jtenry Cabot Lodge as United States killing to jealousy of O'Bannion’s gonator from Massachusetts, ‘The growing power in the underworld and Governor, it was said, hus assurances politic tiat Mr. Butler will accept. SLEW FATHER be filled by clection until the fext general state election in 1926. This Full of Moonshine, Is Son’s Explanation IS NAMED TO Is Appointed to Succeed Sen- ator Lodge, From Massa- chusetts is in accordance with a law enacted two years ago giving the Governor authority to appoint a successor to fill such vacancies as may develop between elections. Senator Lodge’s term would have expired in 1928 and the winner of the election two years hence will serve only until that time. Jackson, Mich., Nov. 13,—Confess- ing, officers say, that he killed his father, Elmer Bassett, aged 58, by striking him over the head with a| les H. McGlue of ‘the Democratic large mantle clock, Mortimer Bas-| state committee announced that he sett, 26, is said to have promised| Would file with the legislature today Sheriff Stoddard today he would ap-| # bill, the effect of which would be pear in Circuit Court and plead| to limit until March 4 or until an guilty to a charge of manslaughter. | election can be held the term of Wm, The elder Bassett died in a hos.| M. Butler as U. S. Senator in succes- pital yesterday. Bassett is alleged| sion to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. to have suid that he was “full of] The matter may be carried to the moonshine” at the time he struck| U- S. Supreme Court, he said. AIR DEFENSE curred. FA Lets Contract For Boats With ——— |. Weather Report | -————$ 5 Long Range Washington, Nov. 13.—A contract | For 24 hours ending at noon. Temperature at 7 a. m. . . 0 12) tor naval flying boats capable of Highest yesterday .... making a sustained flight from the WOULD CUT TERM SHORT Boston, Nov. 13.—Chairman Char- Lowest yesterday Lowest last night . Precipitation Highest wind velocity WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinity: Fair!west coast to Honolulu has been fonight and Friday. Rising temper-|signed by the Bureau of Naval ature. A®ronautics. Specifications call for For North Dakota: Fair tonight] boats with a capacity of five pas- and Friday. Rising temperature. sengers and a’ ton of freight. WEATHER CONDITIO} The contract was regarded in Na- The high pressure area, h its|val circles as the first step toward accompanying low temperatures, isjfilling a recognized deficiency in moving slowly southeastward and|the fleet for long distance maneu- now covers the northern Plains|vers and if it meets expectations states and the eastern slope of the|the new planes will be used as a Rockies. Much lower pressure fol-| model for the organization of « lows, nats special fleet auxiliary capable of in- ORRIS W. ROBERTS, dependent operations 2,500 miles Meteorologist. from the permanent base. U.S, SENATE ‘ommittee, today was appointed | senator plans to head a se of conferences with President Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Com- merce and representatives of both program of legislation. Senator Cummins expressed the hope that Senator LaFollette, with whom he differs on a part of the railroad program, will meet him half way. FARGO NEGROES ARE TRIED IN DISTRICT COURT Fargo, Nov. 13.—Charles McAdoo and Albert “Lucky Dreams” Spencer, negro characters of Fargo, added in- terest at the reopening of Cass coun- ty district court today at the trial of McAdoo, who is charged with shooting Spencer through the abdo& men following a craps game in an alley here on October 5 last. The alleged assailant, who admit- teq at the time to pr they said, that he had shot his neighbor with an old .38-56 calibre rifle barrel, minus a stock, asserts that his ac- tion followed an attack on himself by Spencer with a knife. “Lucky \Dreams” insisted at the trial that McAdoo “just naturally shot me for no reason whatever.” “No sah, I knew that both of us couldn't y in that one room,” Spencer declared on cross examina- tion in answer to a question whether he had done anything but run out of the house after the alleged assault. TREATY HITS OBSTACLES Germaps Seek Concessions in Commercial Treaty Paris, Nov. 18.—The negotiations for a Franco-German commercial treaty have encountered a serious hitch which it is reported, due to the efforts of German delegates to reach a modification of the accord rtached in London for putting the Dawes plan into effect in exchange for the commercial advantage France is gaining. It is said Premier Her- riot flatly refused to mix up com- mercial negotiations with the rep- arations questions. The Germans are said of all to want abolition of the 26 percent reparations recovery tax and modi- fications of certain phases of the Dawes plan. Premier Herriot re- minded the German ambassador that the German delegates in London had promised France commercial advan- tages in compensation for the volun- tary offer of the French to hasten the military evacuation of part of the military: territory. United States, India, Egypt and Brazil produce 90 per cent of the world’s cotton, SAYS GRACE TO CAL— JUST WHAT DID THE NATION TO MAKE COOL CAL LAUG Bt Se te eo god “I told you so, Cal.” “Now laugh that off.” 7 But with four years more of him, Cal couldn’t seem to'“laugh that off.” COOLIDGE WILL | SPEAK TONIGHT Washington, » 13.—President Coolidge will speak tonight before the nual meeting here of the As- ociation of Land Grant Colleges This will be Mr. Coolidg first public address since the election and he expects to devote his remarks chiefly to the subject of agricul- OFFERS BYRNE APPOINTMENT TO N.D. POST i Governor Nestos Would Name, Him as Successor to Thomas Hall, Dec. 1 \ Governor stos late yesterda tendered Robert Byrne of Arnegard, Secretary of Stat appointment us Secretary of to succeed Thomas Hall when the latter resigns the office about December 1 to take! his place as a representative in! Congr Mr. Byrne took the offer! under consideration. Governor Nestos, in explaining his Byrne office for a two-yea term in January, having been elect ed in November, and that it se ed proper to name him for the pe iod of about one mouth expected to intervene between the time of resig- | nation of Mr. Hall und the assump- | tion of office by Mr. Byrne. If another were named for the| short period, it would be necessary | to have examiners “check out” twice in the office within a few weeks, ; an unnecessary expense, it was plained, and if Mr. Byrne takes of- fiee ubout December i he will have | several weeks in which to thoroug! ly familiarize himself with the of- fice before the legislature convenes. The Governor also felt that since Mr. Byrne had been elected by pop- | ular vote for a two-year period, it} was proper to put him in office at} the first opportunity. + POLL BOOKS ARE LACKING With the county commissioners meeting here, and ready to act as a board of canvassers, poll books from two precincts—Glenview and} |.Trygg—were lacking, according to County Auditor Johnson. A message was dispatched to election officials to send them in, One precinct still was missing, un- officially, in the figures on justice of the peace. There were six candi- dates, four to be elected, and they stood: A. E. Shipp, 2,851; C. G. 2 ns} ' cold-blooded butchery. ; domination, Geo: FIRST LADY SAY iH SO FOR THE MOVIES? * * the White House in front of ATROCITIES IN GEORGIA ARE CHARGED, Red Government Alleged To Have Deliberately Killed Thousands Houston, Tex., Nov. 13.—Atrocities hich will amaze the world when they are known have been commit- ted in the Republic of Georgia by Bolshevists in the past year, accord- ing to ian interview with Prince David Meazibani, of that little na- tion, printed today by the Houston Post-Dispatch. Determined to force the little state of such strategic and economic value, into submission to its rule, Prince David said, the Red govern- ment is resorting to methods of The Prince, who arrived in Houstdn this week, as forced to flee from his native land because of threats on his life. Since 1919, he said, there have been at least 20,000 Geor ns slaughtered without trial. A ship- load of natives was taken out on the Caspian Sea, and sunk, without nyone being rescued. Others are called to their doors and shot down, Rigorous censorship prevents the news being spread abroad. In 1919, after 50 years of Russian Hed and The Prine title and was patriot Gor- up a Republic at Tifl father renounced h made Premier to the dani, who was the provisional Pres- J ident. The land of the Golden Fleece was happy for but a short time. The Bolsheviki soon realized the importance of dominating Geor- gia and sent an Army of 50,000 guinst the Georgians. After gain- ing control, the, Bolshevists either deported or killed the elder men of fighting age and subjugated the younger men. NAPOLEON WOMAN DIES Napoleon, N. D., Nov. 13.—Mrs. Hannah Kane of Napoleon, North Da- kota, died at her home in that city Tuesday November 11, Funeral ser- vices will be held at Napoleon Fri- LEAGUERS MAY ASK REVIEW IN TWO COUNTIES Wells and Sargent County Said To Be Involved in Reported Action WOULD SWING CONTROL Success in Either One of Con- tests Would Overturn Independent Majority Contests may be instituted in two North Dakota counties by members of the Nonpartisan League for the pure pose of establishing the election of Nonpartisans and turning the control of the state senate from the hands of the Independents to the Leaguers, The Independents, on the basis of unofficial returns, have a majority of one in the Senate while the League controls the House. The two senatorial, districts in which contests are being suggested are Grant county and Wells county. Success in cither one of these for the Nonpartisans would turn the control of the legislature. While S. McDonald, member of the executive committee of the None partisan League, the only member in the city, denied any knowledge of the situation, and E. J. Pepke, came paign manager, was reported at his hotel to have checked out and left for Minot, it was reported that Mr. Pepke had gone to Fessenden to ine vestigate reports reaching him, and other sourees confirmed reports of possible cont The Nonparti who ns in Wells county suggested a contest claimed gross irregularities in two precincts in Fessenden, which, if thrown out, would give Engel, the League-ene dorsed senatorial candidate, the eleCe tion. The nature of the alleged irree gularities was not divulged. In Grant county, it is claimed by Nonpartisans there, a number of vote ers cast ballots for 0. C. Gross, Leas gue candidate, and also for Fi Pathman, Independent candidate. The name of Gross, it was said, appeared in the LaFollette column on the bale lot. It was the contention of None partisans that if the voter cast @ ballot for Pathman, and also jumped over to the LaFollette column on the ballot and voted for Gross, it was his evident intention to give his bale lot to the latter, No official action, it is understood, has been taken in either county. LEAGUER WINS DRAW Nov. 13.—An- Fessenden, N. D., other Nonpartisan League member was placed in the House of Repre- sentatives in North Dakota yester- day through the settlement of a tie vote that was developed by the of- ficial canvass of the Wells county vote. Con Sellie, Independent, whom the unofficial returns showed had been elected by a margin of two votes, was thrown into a tie with W. R. Hartl, Nonpartisan, on the official county vote. The official vote as canvassed by the county board was" 1,596 for each. In the drawing of lot to settle the tie a pack of cards was used, with the drawer of the best two cards in three declared to be elected. There was no little excitement outside the Wells county courthouse und the office of the county auditor where the drawing took place. Hartt drew a Jack, a nine and a five while Sellie drew a Jack and a pair of deus ces. NEW OFFICERS Warren Is Commander For The Ensuing Year L. P. Warren, adjutant of Lloyd Spetz Post, American Legion for the past three years, was elected come mander for the ensuing year, suce ceeding Phil Webb, at the annual meeting of the organization held last night. Other officers of the post were named as follows: Vice-Come mander, John Musolph; Adjutant, Fred L. Page; Finance Officer, Ar- nold Svendsgaard; Chaplain, Dr. J. 0. Arnson; Historian, P. G. Harrington; Members of executive committee, My B. Gilman, Carl Knudtson. Installation will be at next meete ing. The Post officers will join Fate go’s Legion Post in urging upon Pre- sident Coolidge the appointment af Dr. John Lee Coulter as Secretary day morning from St. Philips Catho- lie Church at Napoleon, her remains to be taken to Bismarck and laid to rest in St. Mary’s Cemetery. Mrs. Kane was 78 years old. She leaves to mourn her death three daughters and three sons; Mary, Rose and Nellie Kane, all of Napo- leon, North Dakota, Arthur Kane of Grenora, N, Dak., John Kane of Wil- liston, N, Dak., and Leonard Kane of Scobey, Mont. Her husband Joseph Kane and one son preceded her in death, Boise, 2,702; Anton Beer, 2,675; W. S. Casselman, 2,651; Rowland H. | Crane, 2,635; W. D. Perkins, 2,280. The flavor ef meat smoked with corncobs is said to be better than that from hickory. of Agriculture. BONUS NOTES ARE SIGNED The State Industrial Commission has signed $375,000 -of notes, on which money was obtained for the purchase of soldier bonus certifi- cates-in anticipation of payment of taxes from which the bonus claims have been paid hitherto, and. will continue the purchase of bonus claims as long as ex-service’ men desire to dispose ef them to the state body, it was ennounced today,