The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 29, 1924, Page 2

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THE 1837 FILIBUSTER (Historical Society Bulletin) The story of a strange filibus- tering “army” which — straggled | across northern Minnesota in the winter of 1836-37 under the leader- | ship of “General” James Dickin- | son, intent upon the establishment | of an Indian empire in the west, is told in the words of a parti ant, Martin McLeod, in a newly- ed number of the Minnesota ‘ory Bulletin. McLeoa kept a on the expedition and this its pages now yellowmt a and its ink rustbrown in jcolor, is in the possession of the Minnesota Historical society. It has been edited, with an introduc- |tion and numerous annotations, by Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck)... 5.00 pr. Grace Lee Nute, curator of Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota..,........... 6.00 | manuscripts for the historical so- | ciety THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) DO YOUR PART The cold wave over most of the country has brought | reports of many serious fires, destroying life and property. Christmas festivities were accompanied by carelessness that | produced disastrous blazes. The lessons of the annual “Fire | Prevention Week” may well be recalled by citizens at this | time of year. Most home fires during extremely cold weather result | from overheated chimneys. Failure to have them properly | attended to is a menace not only to the property owner but | to his neighbors. Lack of care in handling stove fires i another cause of fires during the cold weather. Many big | businesses have been destroyed in the last month through | lack of proper attention to methods of preventing fire. Each citizen might profit himself, and relieve his neighbors of danger of loss, by observing all of the rules of fire preven- tion. | ON TOP AGAIN North Dakota has made the largest percentage repay- ment of borrowed money to the Federal Reserve Bank in the last four months of any Northwestern state in the Ninth | Reserve District. It is an impressive showing for the state, | and is further testimonial to the remarkable recuperative | powers of North Dakota. The Ninth Federal Reserve Bank finds that the high level of business reached in October was maintained during November. Much grain remains on the | farm. Buying continues. There is every reason to believe } that the year 1925 will be an exceedingly prosperous one for the entire Northwest. DEATHS | Get together a crowd of 10,000 average Americans. In a year 123 of them will die. That’s the mortality rate shown in latest checkup by Uncle Sam. Montana has the lowest rate, only 87 in 10,000 dying in a year. Rival cities and states, inspecting the figures, will make a lot of foolish claims. In some places mortality is high because so many invalids go there to die. The time of death is, to considerable extent, determined in youth. To lesser degree, it is regulated by heredity — before we are born. SOLVED One of its greatest victories has just been won by the American dyes industry. The secret of “golden orange” has been discovered in the du Pont laboratories. Inability to thake this dye is why our troops went overseas in fading khaki. : Rapidly our chemists are rediscovering the secrets held so long by Germans. The cunning Germans would, for instance, take a dye that involved 16 different steps or processes, and patent only two steps. This protected them. When we “took over” the dyes patents, our chemists had to figure! out the missing 14 links. WIZARDRY Radio, to most people, is an invention of the last few years. Yet it is more than 23 years since Marconi received the first wireless signal broadcast across the Atlantic from England. Six years before, he had built the first practical wireless telegraph. { = More than a quarter of a century has been devoted, by an army of genius, to bringing your receiving set to its pres- | ent stage of development. And its still in babyhood. The} super-het of today will seem very crude alongside the sets used a quarter century in the future. pS Sees TAX EXEMPT SECURITIES Tax-exempt securities in our country now total more than 13,000 million dollars and are increasing at a rate of 100 million dollars a year, according to Secretary Mellon. These are the securities that are completely tax-free. The uncurbed increase of such bonds, so attractive to large fortunes, has many evil phases. None is worse than the temptation, on the part of states and municipalities, to live beyond their income and mortgage the future by issuing | tax-exempt bonds. DEATHS Number of Americans who died in 1924 was 30,000 less than the year before, leading insurance experts report. The death rate of nearly all leading diseases is declining. Insurance statistics show that only two forms of death claimed more victims in 1924 than in 1923. These two are Suicides and auto deaths. The auto, they estimate, killed 17,750 during the year, compared with 16,450 in 1923. A good New Year’s resolution is to drive more carefully—and walk more watchfully. PUZZLE In the insane asylum at North Warren, Pa., inmates are wildly enthusiastic about crossword puzzles. Physicians say there is little effect, one way or the other, on the pati- mts’ minds. It neither improves nor makes them worse. ich should comfort many a wife who fears the crossword | craze may unbalance Friend Husband’s mentality. To the contrary, any kind of puzzle is good brain exercise. FOREIGN TRADE =, Our foreign trade situation is pleasing to look at. ports are smaller and exports are larger than a year ago. = In the first 11 months of 1924, exports exceeded imports Im- * by about 869 million dollars. One of our chief competitors, reat Britain, finds herself in the hole more than that, buy- ing far more than she has been selling. In India over 19,000 persons died from snakebite last year. Evidently the sovereign remedy either is not avail- “gble or not effective, | with | Pembina ; {tures of the march { wilderness and are interesting for eneral Di ma 1,” a some son, alias ‘“Monte- the “Liberator,” followers crossed 60 | Minnesota from Fond du Lac to he planned to recruit half-breeak at the Red River col- then to march west, capture Fe, take California from | Mexico and set up an Indian king- dom with himself as monarch! “America has been the land of roseate dreams,” writes Dr. Nute, “but among all its visions of wealth and power, where is the equa! for novelty and adventure of this mac product of Dickingon’s disordered mind?” The fantastic filibuster ended in trayedy, the details of which are recorded in McLeod's diary. After a lake trip from Buffalo, the party started from Fond alu Lac in ca- noes, took the St. Louis portage route to Sandy Lake, then went to Lake Winnebagoshish and Red Lake via the Mississippi. The Minnesota winter proved a fearful enemy. First the guides deserted; then part of the company turned back; a snowstorm obliterated the wagon trail which the party was following; the way was lost; the men were frost-bitten. After three months of hardship the “Lib- erator” and his “army” reached Pembina, ‘but no recruits were se- curec!, the expedition melted away, and “Montezum II” himself dis- appeared without trace. McLeod lived to become an in- fluential and respected Minnesota citizen for whom one county of| the state has been named. His diary is a fascinating human doc- ument, written in gpirited style by a filibuster who found time to read Xenophor and Byron on his jour- ney. The entries give vivid pic- through the the study of early Minnesota char- acters and geographic names. The document as a whole reveals a highly interesting chapter in early mid-western history. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON Snitcher Snatch There were no children in the house at all. As he slid down the chimney into one of the bedrooms, he knew it at The next went to, place he made a mistake. once. “You can always tell,” he re- marked as he looked about. “Not a thing out of order—not a crooked rug, or a bit of mud, or a scratch on the wood-work, or a finger mark on the wallpaper! Humph! I don’t want to stay here.” Snitcher Snatch was a peculiar goblin. He liked children all to pieces, although you'd never have} guessed it from the way he loved to spoil their toys. But that was the only way he knew how to play—to spoil things, and after all I know children who play that way, too! “I’m not going to stay here,” he scowled. “No fun where there aren't any children, Things are too much in order here to suit me. I'll just be going the way I came.” But suddenly he spied the dress- ing table with all its brushes and | combs and little pots and boxes, and forgetting what he said about going, he went and looked it over, Suddenly he had an idea. “Oh, dear, why didn’t I ever think of it before,” he cried. “I'm going to have a circus.” So he opened all the little boxes and pots and sitting up on the pin- cushion, he began to dab his cheeks and his eyebrows and nose with all sorts of stuff. “Well,” he said, taking a hand mirror and looking himself over, “I | must say, I'm better looking with my nose powdered and my cheeks all reddened up. Oh, say! Lookee j here!” THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE OUT OUR WAY . WHY MA,I DONT AINK THEY CARE \F YA DIP BREAD HERE. TH WArER ANAS LOOKIN’ RIGHT, Ae IT HAPPENED LONG AGO By Albert Apple You miss a lot by not being able to come back to earth jevery 100 years and see the changes that have taken place. A century, after all, is not such a very long time. Scattered over the country are numerous men and women who were alive a century ago and recall, though dimly, life as it was in the “good old days.” Ahead lies a new year, 1925. In a general way you know what it will be like—probably a business boom, faster air- ‘plane records, improved radio, murders, divorces, scandals, ete. i It is interesting, by contrast, to compare with long ago. Go back 500 years, to 1425, and nothing happened on our |continent that was important enough to endure in history. | Sixty-seven years were to pass before Columbus discovered | America. In 1525 we find no events that were worth recording, ex cept that De Ayllon with six ships was prowling along the iNew England coast, searching: for a’ west passage to the IN THE Budkin’s glasses and put them on. They were much too large, but as the goblin’s nose was so very long, he managed to make them stick on. “Well, well, well! If it wasn’t for my clothes, you'd never know me,” he chuckled, Maybe I can find some- thing.” He began to pull open bureau drawers and cupboard doors, and after while he found a nice soft white shawl, and put it ‘round his shoulders. Suddenly he had a shock. For there were sounds out of the fireplace by which he had entered. “It's Johnny Sweep and the Twins! They're after me,” he shivered. “Oh, dear! Where'll I go? Where can I hide?” He hadn’t much time to think, for already he could see Nick’s feet com- ing down the flue. Before Nancy and Nick and John- ny Sweep had quite time to scramble out of the chimney, Snitcher Snatch made a dive for the bed and pulled up the covers. Then he closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep. “Sh!” whispered Nancy. “There’: nobody here but a little old lady.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) ou Jackie Coogan has a baby brother now. The lazy little guy is a few| days old and hasn’t gotten a job. Only safe place for an auto speed- er is in a desert where the roads are as wide as they are long. A political party is an organization to split about something. About this time every year we al- ways decide that what our town needs is a change of climate. M money really talked, an old dime could tell some wild tales about what it used to buy. Women take better care of their hands than men. This, however, is not always true of their bridge hands. While a movie comedian'’s wife has secured a divorce it was not be- cause he threw her pies around. A friend tells us he gave her a lipstick for Christmas and is getting it back when she thanks him. You can take the boy’s Christmas horn and use it for a funnel, if you will need a funnel. Largest diamond in the world is worth $100,000, but a small one may be prized more highly. | self from being where I am by what | chair, there. Maybe it was the hair Mrs. Budkins had cut off when she had her hair bobbed. Or maybe it was the hair she pinned on when she got tired of it being bobbed, But any- way it was there and the goblin |found it and twisted it all around his head. Next he found a pair of Mister For an opening another box he|, Scrape the inside of a new pipe found a bunch of hair. I don’t know | before smoking it or the firewagon what it was for exactly, but it was|™#¥ Pay you a visit. ‘ Christmas ties are all right. Every- body wears them. Aw, go on. Don't be so self-conscious. Candy may be gr&dually worn off the seat of the trousers by putting sandpaper in the chairs, With so many other things to wonder about some men _ insi: on wondering if their hair is combed. If summer were to visit us for the welcome guest. The average auto lasts six years, barring accidents. Christmas is the time of peace on earth, which is one thing not made in some foreign country. Our kick about breakfast is every- body's face looks as if it had been slept in. : (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Forty-five | machines have been made especially for computing sol- holidays she certainly would be a) WHY MOTHERS GET Gr PUBLIC ENE LETTER FROM DOUGLAS TURNER TO MABLE CARTER, CONTINUED Well, you saved your life. You! saved yourself from my bullet by shouting out that lie just as I had planned to kill you. You saved your- you told on the stand. | For a time you are free, Mable, but as God is my witness il get out of | this some day if I only stay out long] enough to kill you and go to the I can’t write you very much of all that is seething within me. A good pal of mine is going out soon and he has promised to take this letter with | him and mail it to you. He thinks it is a love letter to a loving woman. It is a love letter—a letter of a love that was bet ed and it is from a man whose life u ruined and whom if the Bible tells the truth, you have condemned to an_ eternity: of punishment after that life you have ruined, is over. (This letter was not signed.) Letter From “Chick” Clamper Mable Carter The enclosed letter from your hus-| band will probably tell you that you are never out of his thoughts. You will see that it was written some time ago but it took me a little| To The Tangle : wl ates mee, INE. while to find you as he did not tell me that you had changed your name} since he went to prison, As Doug gave this letter to me he said: “Tell her I am only living un- til in some way I can get to her again.” Your husband is looking fine, If you should wish to see me, address your letter 782 Mott Street, City. “CHICK” CLAMPER. Letter From Mable Carter to “Chick” Clamper I am sure, Mr. Clamper, had you known what was in that letter you never would have given it to me. I think my husband must be crazed by his life in prison. His letter, which it seems he told you was full of love, was a terrible threat against my life. Tam living in daily terror that he may in some way make good his in- tentions. My only hope that I will never look upon his fa again or hear from him from anyon You ily see under these cir- cumstan that it would be most horrible for me to mect anyone who has known him lately. He tells me that I ruined his life but I gan only think what he has done to mine. He has made me an outcast among my fellows and now he makes me live in unspeakable terror for my life. window in his bedroom about an inch from the bottom and started shiver- ing back to bed. “Wait a minute,” admonished the wife. “That window should be open all the way. Or better still, it should be opened half way from the bottom and then the top window | lowered a few inches. \ Mr. Jones stopped, cold. “I have just read it in a story on health,” continued the wife, “and it EVERETT TRUE IN WHAT P4RT OF e e MENT» = Swi | diers’ bonus accounts in the Veter- |e" Bureau in Washington, i 2 FABLES ON HEALTH AIR FOR SLEEPING Mr, Jones of Anytown opened the | STARE witt I FIND THE ART DEPART-. MABLE CARTER TURNER. ys that most folks are afraid they will get too much air in their bed- rooms, and then they wonder why they feel so drowsy when they awake in the morning.” Mr. Jones probably did not think much of what his wife had been reading. But he lowered the top window and raised the bottom, just as she suggested. “Hope I feel better in the morn- ing,” he ventured. “Pm sur2 we will,” answered Mr. Jones’ wife. BY CONDO THS and laxities located to date by the | Pacific. “He landed and carried off a cargo of Indians as slaves. Another century slipped by. The chief event of 1625 is was that agents of the Dutch West India Co. bought Man- ‘hattan Island from the Indians for goods worth about $24, including whisky. Settlers were straggling into America, and most of them returning to Europe, discouraged. Another Century ticked away. Came the year 1725. It had only two events that got into history, and they were by no means startling. New York’s first newspaper, the Ga- zette, a weekly, printed its first edition. Indians ambushed and killed John Lovewell, a famous redskin hunter of those days, in Maine. In another century, our republic had won its independ- ence. The America of 1825 was beginning to look and act like the America we know. In that year— This country had its first performance of Italian opera. Daniel Webster was attracting great crowds by his orations. President Adams was sworn into office. A navy yard was established in Florida. Poinsett was appointed first U. S. -|minister to Mexico. ] In 1825, many will be surprised to learn, our Congress re- warded General Lafayette by giving him $200,000 in cash and 24,000 acres of land. ‘ Indians were being driven westward by the whites. Creek Indians moved beyond the Mississippi to lands they had agreed to accept in return for their former holdings in Georgia. oi There were no important inventions in 1825. Nor was '. there any great engineering achievement except the opening of the Erie Canal. The cost of running the national govern- ment that year was under 24 million dollars. The figure for 1925 will be around 3800 millions. : : COUZENS COMMITTEE WILL TIGHTEN UP TAX LAWS BY HARRY B. HUNT NEA Service Writer Dec. y his family sign all their stock “back to him in blank and all earnings of the corporation are pocketed by him as “salary.” He dies and the revenue agents hold that the corporation has been a mere “legal fiction.” They assess Washington, 29.—Loopholes Couzens committee, both in the rev- enue law and the method of its en- forcement, make it certain that a i 5 ; $62,000 in estate taxes. The board stringent tightening up on many |%6%000 | a i provisions in the law will be-urged|°% review approves the aie indshennestaConerces, But the solicitor reverses _ the On the face of facts developed, the government is shown to have lost tens of millions of dollars be- cause of ambiguities in the wording of some sections and the secrecy surrounding their enforcement. Congress enacted a law and then set up rules of secrecy so strict that even Congress itself could not find out how it was being adminis- tered. The report of the Couzens com- mittee will, for the first time, show the legislators what has been hap- pening and will make possible the remedying of situations’ which open the way to favoritism, discrimina- finding and the government loses the tax. see Where the finding is adverse to the government, there is no appeal from the decision of the bureau so- licitor. But when his verdict is ad- verse to the individuals who have benefited by transfers before death they still can carry their case to the courts. Mr. C, for instance, was 71 years old. He had been a chronic suf- ferer from .diabetes and contracted pneumonia, He was told that when pneumonia developed where diabetes existed death usually fol- ronsenijovenisratuy lowed. He transferred property® ae snia.| Valued at $300,000—and died. q Take, for instance, the adminis-/"“irore the solicitor upheld the tration of the “estate” or inherit- ance tax. The law provides that transfers made in expectation of death shall be taxed. It also provides that transfers made within two years prior to death shall be “deemed to have been made in contemplation of death” unless otherwise shown. € Now see how this works out—or, rather, doesn’t work out. The facts are from actual eases studied by the committee. jagents and review board that the transfer had been made “in expec- tation of death.” But did Uncle Sam get any tax? | He did not. A court, sitting as a jury, overruled agents, review board and solicitor. fi Such cases could be cited by the score. And every dollar of tax so evaded must be made up by heavier taxes on the rank and file of tax- eee payers. Mr. A, suffering from spinal trou- Fe ble, almost deaf and blind, with a|®———, "py. nurse in constant attendance, trans- | A Thought | fers to his heirs property worth $2,- | 4——_——-. ——— 800,000. Within two years after the transfer, he dies. Treasury agents who investigate | The Lord will not cast off for- ™ ever: but though he .cause grief, yet the case recommend that the fed- eral estate tax, amounting to $358,- 000, be assessed. This recommenda- tion is reviewed by the estate tax review board, consisting of five members, all lawyers, who approve it. Attorneys for the beneficiaries appeal this finding to the solicitor of the Revenue Bureau. The so- licitor says that, although the transfer was made within the two- will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.— Lam, 3:31, 32. see | Man may dismiss compassion from j his heart, 3 But God will never.—Cowper. REALLY FRIGHTENED Hull, England, Dec, 29—When a burglar held up James Randolph in | his bedroom, Randolplr opened his mouth so wide that his jaw became dislocated. The burglar was 50 |frightened at this unexpected turn of events that he turned. and ran back down the fire escape. A physi- cian was caHed to relocate Ran- dolph’s jaw. i year period, it could not be proved it had been made in contemplation of death, And he remits the $358,- 000, Mr. B forms a corporation with himself and members of his family as stockholders. Thg members of The lark now Nba his watery nest, And, climbing, shakes his dewy wings; ae this Lsepectydrogred . to implore your ji sings— - Awake, awake, the mom will never rise, Til she can dress her beauty at your eyes, The merchant bows unto the seaman’s stat, The ploughman from the’sun his season takes, But still the lover wonders what they ate 4 Who look for day before his mistress: wakes. Awake, awake, break through your veils of lawn, —Sir William Davenant, ~ 4 Le