The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 20, 1925, Page 8

i i Paes ted te PAGE EIGHT GIRLS BURNED TO DEATH | Children Caught in Farm Fire, in Minnesota Vargo, Feb. 20. old and Blanche, daughters of Mr. Kinnon, who live Brandon, 20 miles from h burned to death early this morning | when a fire, started by their s Doris, 18, spread and enveloped farm house. Opal and Blanche two of a family of nine children left in the care of Doris, while their father and | mother were attending a trial in Cass county district court here. Doris t 7 o'clock this morn ing to start a in the stove that heated the one-room farm home. She used kerosene to start the fire pouring it over wood she had placed in the stove and lighting it. The flame leaped and spread over the room, in which all of the children were sleeping in two beds, on either side of the stove fire cut off escape through the only door, and Cly old brother, broke the glass of one window with his fist In the 1 siste ng, Opal and Blanche h Phe children were lad only in their might, clothes. They crept on the sides of the house and attempted to crawl hack in the window to heljy their sisters, but these attempts were in vain and Muriel, age 14, when she saw there; wag na means of rescuing her sisters, tat adarte of a mile in her bare fect through deep stiow to the home of a neigh bor Meanwhile Mr. McKinnon, father of the family, had alighted from a train on his way home from Fargo about four miles from his home and vas walking home. He saw the flames when he was about half mile from home and ran the rest of the way to ithe cottare where he made ¢ efforts to save the two t the flames by that tiewlly destroyed the house and he was unable to go to them. After failing to enter the flaming house he gathered the children gbout | , him and rushed the quarter ‘of a mile to the neighbors house where children were made comfortable. The five room house, furnitur and personal effects were completely destroye MAY REOPEN DEVILS LAKE CLOSED BANK Devils Lake, N, D., Feb, 20.—J. C. Desmond, of the state guaranty fund commission, who is here going over the books of the Devils Lake State Bank, spoke to the Devils Lake Ro- tary club recently on the work that has been accomplished by the com- mission in reopenin, number of banks in the state which had been closed. Mr. Desmond said that thus far 45 of these banks have been te- opened salvaged for the depositors comparatively little loss. Mr. Desmond refrained from mak- ing any statement regarding the State bank here further than to say that the condition of the institution is being investigated by the guar- anty fund commission and the state banking board. Others beside Mr.) Desmond doing this work are, F. B. McAneny of the banking department and 0. J. Schoerrge of the guaranty fund commission. New Basis Is. Found, Germany Tells Rumania he G Ove made public a note saying that the Daw Opal, five y and Mrs. ona 10 syears | ars old,| Wm. M n v ut ramble of their brothers s to get out of this open- were left be with Berlin, F ernment tod to Rumania plan and the London agreement had | created a new logical basis for set+ tlement of difficulties between the two countries, IDENTITY OF GIRL FOUND Philadelphia, Feb. death of “Alice Joyce,” a-young wo- man found in @ box car three’ years ago. whose itrue identity was never established, was made known today at the hospital for mental diseases, where, it said, she had ‘died Jan. 2, last, of typhoid fever. a Great for Eczema and Old Sores “] Guarantee My Ointment,” Says Peterson — Every Box of It. “If you are responsible for the health of your family,” says Peter- son, of Buffalo, “I wa: large 60-cent box of Peterson's Oint- ment today, “Remember, I stand back of every box, alt rheum, ul- cers, sore nipples, broken breasts, itching. skin, skin diseases, blind, bleeding and itching piles as well a for sore feet, chafing, burns, scalds, euts, bruises and sunburn.” “Gentlemen: I had a running sore -on my leg for e years, tried all kinds of salves, had several doctors treat it—even had it cut to the bone seraped—nothing did any good. Peterson's Oint- “ment; used thré} boxes and my leg ig entirely healed and smooth as inking you very jas done for me, other-leg. Bees S$. H. Crabtree, aS cae Olive Street, St, Louis, Mo.” from Spat ‘Otnt- : Co, marae ae —Adv. SHE'S OU R CHOICE TOO THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE NOT LIKELY T0 HOLD DRIVER |Kelsch Investigating _Auto- mobile Accident | Mandan, N. D., Feb. 20.—-States At- torney C. F, Kelsch of Morton éounty declared today he would complete |his personal investigation of the au- | tomobile collision tragedy of Sunday |afternoon when Theresn Naekel of | Selfridge was killed on the Mandan concrete road. He, has two more i witnesses he wishes to question, | Arthur Marshall, driver of the car |in which the victim was riding, has | been at liberty on $1,000 bond await- ling conclusion of the states attor- [ney's investigation. Mr. Kelsch {thought that Mr. Marshall would be released from bail and the matter dropped. gash: Legislative | Calendar |S Killed By How H. 250-—Which would do away with election of coroner and substi- {tute an appointee of the board of | | | commissioners, who shall be a regis- Ind. Post. jetting up a maximum (reduced) fee which architects might charge for plans for one and two room school houses. Ind. Post. :S. B, 94—Requiring thresher to file notice of intent to take threshers Hen with all clevators; making this notice pre-requisite to filing of lien. Ind. Post: ON PARADE! es ss re Eugenia Gilbert is in favor of parades. She carried Los Angeles’ banner to first prize in one of Ru- dolph Valentino's national beauty S. B, 231—$1500 to reimburse nine mechanics who lést tools in highway commission shop, fire. Ind. Post. 8. B, 245 and S, B. 246—Cutting salary of adjutant gencral from $3,- 000: to $1800 and restoring old sys- tem of naming adjutant general and providing for succession in office. Ind. Post. S, B, 271—Requiring notice must be sent to attorneys for defendant in an aetion before default judg- ment may be entered. Ind, Post, S. B. 272—Prohibiting issuance, notes. Ind. S.°B. 283—Requiring suits involv- ing money must be tried by jury un- less waived by plaintiff. H. B. 117—Providing charters of corporations, which have been can- celled through the neglect to renew, may procure hew charter by payment of $10 fee and renewal fee. Ind. Post. H. B, 151—Repealing provision that county geat now located on an inter- state’ river is on same status as town located on railroad, in a county seat removal contest. Defeated 19 to 27, passed 2, absent 1. DUEL WITH BATS Tokyo, Feb, 20.—A baseball game between two Japanese professional teams ended in a miniature war when the first basemen of the two opposing clubs picked up bats and began to fence before a crowd of 2000 persons. New York city banks hold more than $5,000,000 in deposits for which no claimants can be found. MOTHER! contests, and now the sheik thinks |’ _.: she’s the prettiest girl of 14 assem- bled for honors in Hollywood. and over $3,000,000 has been; you to get a! Every druggist guarantees to| ‘ refund the purchase price if Peter- ¢ right, 1925, NEA Service,’ Inc.) most promising product of Never mind the rest. Yes, she's wood, too. (Oop Publicity men chose Olive Borden as 1 pulchritude. She's one et 14 choice from Holly Look For Finish Fight Between Old School Army and Navy Men and General Mitchell BY Possibly it would shut up an offi- cer whose bread and butter depended Jon his job, but Mitchell is independ- ently ri CHARLES P. STEW. A Service Writer v my and) navy “Billy” Mitchel is going to tehell vi or navy officer of ortho- dox West Point or Annapolis educa- tion is sensitive to his fellow pro- fessionals’ attitude toward him, jot a West Pointer But Mitchell isn't a West Pointer. He rose from the ranks. More, he is contemptuous of West Point He and | gat “Billy” them surface or nearly ole thing.” | army airmen, inevitably s rmies obsolete ion is the As assistant chief his words have weight. His challenge is one the navy can't affor to ignore. More will be rd from it Gnices|| Mitchell is discredited, promptly thoroughly Surface armies like everything. If they r no good any more, the country, which pays for them, is sure to let out a blood-curdling yell to Congress | to cut their appropriations right off. | paying ped this curse. . He told An economy of $665,594,533 which | the congressional investigators so. is what the army and navy cost dur-| Thus, rather singularly, though ing the fiscal year 1924—will be!one man. is opposed to the entire mighty popular with the taxpayers: army and navy of the United States, too, if it cum be justified, as “Billy” \the odds are rather on his side. at ene Rava ERD It is more than likely he will be x PS See Oye) |foreed out into civit life, but what The present won't get then much of this n to Mitchell's | assertions, There won't be time de- tween now and March 4. There'll be | plenty of time before the next Con- | gress meets in December, and army and navy full well. The question is How, in the meantime, che® be squelched? } eae S Mitchell himself has neeused | ESKIMOS BUY FANS y of insubordination and diso:! London, Feb, 20.—John Harris is nee of orders. metors ‘a court} the real life counterpart of the comic martial, probably some these | magazine salesman who could sell charges could be made to stick. [electric fans to Eskimos. “He has Even if not 1 out of the ser-| returned from the Hudson Bay coun- vice, his adv in Canada after selling mos | my and} | vs their training is out of c. Wrong ideas are drilled into them deliberately. Their instructors he maintains, so over-emphasize the |importance of surface armies and e fleets that they're incapable of grasping problems of. the air. He considers himself fortunate in di ly are and nav | su i i he says he'll run for Con- His father was a senator. He political flair. If he runs, the chances are he'll be eleeted. In the House of Representatives he might be a greater grief to army and Inavy men of the old school than he is now. Mit- can been iv nt in it might be | try hell isn't a full fl ja large quantity of fans to provide s as one only! proper circulation of air’ in their tant igloos, The fans are run by storage batteries. De-| a6 com he! A broker in New York has his {telephone number engraved on his umbrella handle and it has been re- east to him seven: times. while he remains aviation | chief. Colonel is actual rank. prived of his present assignment, would be demoted in effect. This would punish him, but would | it shut him up? IGHTS 'O PROTECT WOMEN | | 20:4 The | | | pacenye Helen Gainer, 21, San Francisco, sig: some papers without ing them; corporation attorneys nearly succeeded in nuljifying extort minimum wage law for women. When Helen foudc! the pers charged her right to work was t aasted: the attorneys 8) and obtained seni tag H. B. 227--Appropriating $300,000 for a state printing plant to be lo- cated at the state penitentiary. Ind. Post. H. B. 168—Providing system and an act legalizing suits and garnish- ments against state and public offi- cials and boards and bureaus. Ind. Post. H. B, 244—Creating a uniform bill Indefinitely Postponed. H. B. 193—Changing specifications for gasoline inspection in state, said to be for purpose of aiding independ- ent oil companies desiring to sell “Montana gas”, Lost 33 to 71, nine absent. « H. B. 196—Establishing North Da- kota Horticultural Society by law, providing for state printing annual report, Lost 42 to 65. New Senate Bill S. B. 289—An act to authorize the istrict courts of the state under certain conditions to order sale or other disposition of property held in trust. The state is intended to provide for written reports of trus- tees as to their trusts, no statute now a report, nor setting forth to whom such report be made. Killed By Senate S. B. 108—Inereasing period’ of re- demption to owner of property which as been foreclosed from one year to four yars. Ind. Post. S. B, 129--$1,000 for expenses of , compensation bureau in in- vestigating claims in locality where claims originate. Ind. Post. B. 163—Incréases of county conciliators from disputes involving $200 maximum to those in- volving $400; raises fees 100 per cent, Ind. Post. S. B. 188—Making crop mortgages prior to harvest null and void and party -taking;same guilty of mis- demeanor. Ind. Post. S.°B, 208—Concurrent resolution for referendum for new legislature of one member from each county and continuous session. Ind. Post. S. B. 219-+Requires supplies for judges of the district court to be fur- nished by county commissioners, the sanie as other county officers at pre- sent. Ind. Post. S. B. 226—Provides that seller of goods may file mechanic's lien with- out getting / consent of purchaser. Ind. Post. Ind, Post. b 204 Placing on the taxing rolls all hospitals which, now exempt, refuse permission to certain physj-! cians, chiropractors and others to practice therein. Ind. Post. = H. B. 195—-Creating a stringent act regulating pharmacists, drug stores and the sale and compounding of drugs. Ind. Post. H. B, 99—Developing a new system for proceedure in handling delin- quent tax sales, : H. B, 264—Providing that grain elevators must cach year make a@ book cut-off of all storage or depos- ited grain accounts carried, and per- mitting elevator to make charge for storage and sell enough grain of stock to pay bill. Ind. Post. H. B. 185—Re-enacts: Bank, of North Dakota act to prevent institu- tion from engaging special counsel to handle foreclosure deals. Ind.. Post: H. B. 196—Establishing the North Dakota horticultural department and providing that it shall be operated by. the N. D. Horticultural association and that annual reports be irtcor- | the commissions of agriculture and labor. Failed of passage. 42 to 65. S. B. 148—Appropriating $3,000 for removal of Roosevelt cabin to anoth- er site on the capital grounds, and erection of suitable shelter for same. H. B. 207—Declaring legal the practice of the Kalipsis Treatment for rheumatism as developed by John Kalil of Williston. Indefinitely post- poned 48 to 38. H. B. 225—Requiring all school houses within one mile of a telephone Eat It With Hot Milk Of course you like a hot meal these cold Winter mornings, but you want something better than porridge. Take two Shredded Wheat Biscuits, heat them in the oven to restore their crisp- ness, pour hot milk over them, adding a little salt. Nothing so nourishing and satisfying—puts you on your feet for the day’s work. 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