The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 16, 1925, Page 2

= PAGE TWO .THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Good Maxwell— 25 MILES TO THE GALLON MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1925 OFFICERS OF ENGINEERS OF STATE NAMED Two Societies, in Convention Here Complete Business By Election ADOPT RESOLUTIONS Federal Aid System of Road Work Is Explained By Government Engineer The North Dakota Society of En- gineers and the North Dakota Chap- ter of the American As tion of Engineers, concluding a two-day joint convention here Saturday afternoon, elected officers as follow: orth Dakota Society—President, Keene, Agricultural College, argo; first vice-president, J. A. Wallace, Bismarck; second vice-pres- ident, Alex Jardine, Fargo; secre- tary, Paul Barnes, Valley Cit; North Dakota chapter—Pre Thorne Dickenson, Bismarcl Presidents, E. J. Budge, Bismare H. D. LaRue, Carson; L. H. Belk, George H. McMahon, H. C. Knud- son, Bismarck; R. T. Jacobson, Far- go. The secretary is to be appoin’ A meeting place for next y was not selected. Plans were launch- ed at the convention for a method of union of the two engineering so- cieties but these plans may not ma- ture, it was said, until after a na- tional convention of the American Association of Engineers. Resolutions adopted by the engi- neers declared the gasoline tax is the most equitable tax. for road building, urged Governor Sorlie to urge Minnesota, South Dakota and Montana to enact river commission laws similar to North Dakota and approved the work of the state high- way commission, Stanley R. Sharts, U. §. Bureau of Roads engineer for North Da- kota, discussed the principle of fed- eral aid Saturday afternoon. The Federal Aid System Mr, Sharts said i 3 “The Feder ary or inter-state highways and sec- or inter-county highways. mileage of the d th sevenths h may re- e federal aid, the balance of fed- eral aid being used on the second- ary or inter-county highways, From th restriction in the act it may be seen that ythe statements | by uninformed criticisms that all the federal aid is used for tour- ist (or inter-state) roads is untrue, | because the inter-county part of the state shall not ex of the total mileage wh ce. a is never less than four-} enths of the mileage upon which | federal aid can be used. The act also provides that not to exceed 60 percent of the federal aid allotted to any state shgll be expended upon the primary dr entire federal aid highw system. This prevents the expenditure of federal aid funds upon the inter-state (or so-called tourist) roads to the neglect of the inter-county (or local interest) roads “There is also provision in the act that only durable types of surface and kinds of materials shall be adopted for the federal aid highway system as will adequately meet the existing and probable future traffic requirements. This clause + permits the use of gravel surfacing where such a type will be adequate for the traffic conditions, which conditions |appear to be the case in very nearly all projects of the North Dakota Highway System. “It has been demonstrated by lcompeldat authorities that if care is Jused in selecting the federal aid |highway system, there will be, un- der average conditions gf population, at least 85 percent of the popula- tion of the United States whe will be directly benefited by the con- struction of seven percent of the roads. By directly benefitted we mean that this 85 percent of pop- ulation will live within such a dis- tance of a primary or secondary highway that each may use a part ot the federal aid system without traveling more than a maximum dis- tance of about six miles “It is a perfectly fair proposition where a road is used by only half a dozen persons of a local community that the construction and mainten- ance of this local road should be at |the expense of the county; and where a road is used by the general population of several counties, of the state as a whole, and often by the people of the adjoining states, that the construction and maintenance of such state road should be at the ex- pense of the state with or without the help of the federal aid ‘highway funds. “Therefore, the federal aid high- act requires that, in order for a ee state to take advantage of the as- sistance of federal aid highway | funds to construct roads it must have un adequate state highway de- partment to oversee the’ construc- | tion and to properly maingain. the | road after it is constructed, “In order for a state highway de- partment to function properly funds must be provided for the construc- tion and maintenance of the roads that are to be built as a benefit to the state at large, and it is believed | perfectly reasonable to expect the funds to construct and maintain roads benefitting the peopte at large throughout the state to b+ furnish- td By the entire povulation of the state, instead of by the local tax- payers of the county in which this state road is located. “The federal aid highway act rec- ognizes this principle and requires that when federal aid highway funds are to be used in constructing a state road, the state's share of the cost shall be met with funds under the direct control of the state high- way department and raised by the citizens of the state, and that the cost of maintaining the road ‘after completion shall be paid from funds raised by the state.” Defends Cost Mr. Sharts defended the system in North Dakota and declared that “It s evident that, in spite ofthe unjust criticisms made by uninformed per- sons of the method of construction of highways by state and federal aid, the general public and the county. officials realize the economic value of the completed roads. The grad- ing and drainage structures, or first- stage construction, are the most per- manent parts of the road’s construc- tion if properly built and maintain- ed. The wearing surface of gravel or scoria is cheap in most instances in first cost and reasonable in repair cost. The difference between the old system of local construction of main roads and the new system of construction by state and federal aid reminds me of the difference be- tween the living conditions of the settlers of twenty years ago and those of the people of North Dakota today. Twenty years ago the sod house was much in evidence and ful- filled the requirements for a cheap place to live while the settler estab- lished his home and wrested his living. Today the sod house has nearly vanished and living quarters on the farms are often equal to liv- ing quarters in the cities. Before the advent of the rapid transit auto- mobile to popular and general use, the people did not use the roads ex- cept occasionally and the old sys- tem of construction by local author- ities was satisfactory. Today, in North Dakota, about one person in FRAZIER 10 BE seven owns an automobile and the roads are used in bad weather hun- dreds of times’ more than they were used twenty years ago in the best of weather. Therefore, the light grad- ing that formerly was satisfactory for the light horse-drawn traffic is entirely inadequate for the heavy motor traffic on the main highways ot the state today.” DECLAREDDEAD Veterans Bureau Plans Upon This Action Minneapolis March 16.—A by the district office here of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, de- charing that Arthur Frazier, mystery man of the World War is dead, was on the way to Veterans’ Bureau head- quarters in Washington, D,/G, today. At*the same time his brother, Earl Frazier, of Fort Lookout, S. D., was| at Rochester, Minnesota, checking up| details in the case in the interest of his parents who contend that a man named as Arthur Lopez is Arthur| Frazier, although Lopez had confess-| ed to Department of Justice officials that he is not Frazier and then re- pudiated that confession, More than a score of former mem- bers of “D” Company, the old Na- tional Guard unit of Rochester, of which Arthur was a member, met at Rochester yesterday and Lopez talk- ed about days spent “over there” with most of his former “buddies” who said after the meeting they were convinced that Lopez is Frazier. C. D. Hibbard, District Manager of the Veterans’ Bureau here, sent] thé findings of his office in its long investigation of the gase, to Wash- ington. : The Federal Grand Jury which meets here in April will be asked to investigate the case. report HELD ON BAD CHECK CHARGE Glendive, N. D:, March 16.— “Jack Russel,” a highly educated Filipino, who had been traveling thraough South Dakota, North Da- kota and eastern Montana, posing as a representative of the Smith- senian Institute, ‘is spending 30 days in the county jail at Glen- dive for cashing worthless checks. Meanwhile authorities in other dis- tricts have been notified. N. P. AND OTHER RAILROADS TO EXPEND MUCH Northern Pacific Plans Call For New Ties, Tiplates and New Rails TO SPEND, $6,000,000 Minneapolis, 16.—Railroads of the northwest this week are be- ginning a $26,000,000 expenditure for installation of new ties, rails, tie- plates and ballast to meet the re- quirements of a year that h ed out with record breaking ment of traffic and to take the general increase in maintenance demanded by the modern fast mov- ing freight trains and speeded va: senger schedules It is the heaviest road structure maintenance and improvement pro- gram undertaken in the history of northwest railroads, railway manag- ers and general superintendents de- clared. A call upon all railroads op-rating large lines in the northwest dis- closed that virtually all maintenance ! programs jhave been mapped out, materials purchased and in somé instances work ordered to be begun this week. 150,000 Tons of New Steel Northwest railroads will put in 10,000,000 new ties in the next few months, 150,000 tons of rails, 5.009, 000 tieplates, the modern devices which hold the parallel rails and ties together and reduce vibration and wear, and 2,000,000 cubic yards cf cinder and gravel ballast. Seventeen thousand men, in addi- tion to those already employed on the winter skeletonized section crews, will be hired to do this main- tenance and improvement work hav: ing to do with right of way fences, station platfgrms, stations, corrals and other things. In all, in the peak employment weeks of late May and June, 27,000 men will be employed in this kind of work, general sup- erintendents of the roads declared. On the western ends, some of these men already are being hired by the Northern Pacific and Great Nor- thern. West of the mountains, the frost is out of the ground and track Mar, structure work is in earnest this week. G. N. and N. P. Lead The Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroads lead in amounts to be spent in maintenance and im- provement in the northwest, al- though other rgilroads are invest- ing heavy amounts. In proportion to mileage, one of the heaviest im- provement programs is that of the Soo Line. The Great Northern railroad will put in 2,300,000 ties. This is an un-~ usually heavy percentage of re- placement. The Great Northern is installing 1,000,000 treated ties this year. It is installing 1,000,000 tieplants at a cost of $760,00. It is putting in 30,000 tons of new rail at a cost of $1,500,- 000. Rail steel costs about $43 a ton f. o. b, Twin Cities, and, installed, on the average about $50 a ton. commencing The Great Northern will put in 500,000 cubic yards of gravel as ballast this year. It has started construction of two gravel washing plants at $100,000 each on its lines. The ballast improvement on cost of material and work will be $500,000. N. To Spend $6,000,000 On just this track structure form of maintenance and improvement the Great Northern railway plans to spend, $6,100,000 this ye The Soo line will put in 1,850,000 ties, 1,635,000 tieplates, 11,500+ tons of rails, and 330,000 cubic yards of ballast. It proposes to spend $4,655,- 000 in this form of maintenance this year. he Minneapolis & St. Louis +will install 50,000 tieplants, 450,000 ties, 3,500 tons of rail and 40,000 cubic yards of ‘ballast. It will expend $925,000 for this work. The Northern Pacific will put in 1,681,000 ties, 1,510,000 tieplates and lay 162 miles of new rail on main lines and 100 miles on branch lines. It will spend between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000 in this work, exclusive of station, fence and other maintenance work. TO GIVE PRIZE TO COUPLE COMING THE FARTHEST Moorhead, Minn., Mar. 16.—The couple that travel the greatest dis- tance to the Moorhead Retail Mer- chants picnic for farmers of the trade territory, March 19, will be given a prize, Walter Wright, chair- man of the program committee an- nounced. Several other prizes, donated by the merchants of the town, are to be given to the oldest married couple dancing at the picnic, the couple You can’t buy a leavener that will be more satisfactory than CALUMET THE WORLD'S GREATEST — BAKING POWDER Science has not produced one that is any more pure or efficient SALES 2'/, TIMES THOSE OF ANY OTHER BRAND married the longest, most recent-| court house, Tuesday of this week, ly married, the couple in at-| when Mr.:Keibert of the Land de- tendance who have lived longest | partment was here to conduct the in Clay county. The person living) sale. Several qiarters were left in and arriving in the oldest car and | unsold, mostly in the north part of the newest family in Clay county. A| the county, and the greater part surprise program is also planned | were sold for the minimum of $15. along with speeches, community|The small number of quarters to singing and dancing. sell and the unfavorable weat D LEASING SMALL LAD number attending the sale. Only i three quarters went about the $100 mark. Two of these were Long- | fellow district and sold for $155 | and $114. One quarter in Buffalo Lake township sold for $120. Washburn, N. D., March 16.— Only a small. number of farmers in the county a¥tended the leasing of public and school lands held at the For Constipated Bowels—Bilious Liver The, nicest cathartic-laxative to |pletely by morning and you will feel Physie your bowels when you have | splendid. “They work while you Headache Biliousness sleep.” Cascarets never stir you up Colds Indigestion or gripe like Salts, Pills, Calomel, Dizziness Sour Stomach jor Oil and they cost only ten cents is candy-like Cascarets. One or two|a box. Children love Cascarets too. tonight will empty your bowels com- |—Adv. FRAZIER AND ~ LADD 10 KEEP SOME POWER Republican Organization > Yields in Enforcing Rule To This Effect Washington, Mar. 16.—Republican Waders of the senate yielded twice from the anti-radical program they hid laid down with the organization of the pregent senate and in which they had the complete approval of the White House. % They capitulated first, answering the demands of Senators W. E. Borah and Hiram Johnson, when they agreed to discard the time honored principle of holding members of a Republican conference bound to mu- tial action. Instead of reiterating this well known rule, the leaders to- gether with other members of a re- ublican conference, went on record through a resolution which stated that senatots could act precisely as they wished toward matters of pol- fey. .For the second time, the republi- gan old guard bent the knee when they decided not to take patronage away from the insurgents, Senators E F. Ladd and Lynn Frazier of North Dakota; S. W. Brookhart of Iowa, and R. M. LaFollette of Wis- consin, whom they excluded from their meetings when the senate was ofganized. This course was taken only after # bitter argument, but the confer- ence finally decided to turn down the recommendation ‘of Senator S. M. Shortridge, California, head of the patronage committee, and to grant the radicals the privilege gf designating political appointments at “capitol, ta the tune of about 000 in annual pay. engtors Borah and Johnson were ifvited to the conference by the reg- rs of republicanism, but they em- sized this invitation by’ asking what terms would they be ad- tilted and ‘by insisting that these tarms should not include any hide- 1 id agreement to bind them to a ference decision. - Se si =: COMES TO BISMARCK Zpunn Center, Ne D., March 16. RT. H. H: Thoresen expects to igeve for Bismarck ‘pext week. Hp —=T15 TO 25 MILES'IN 8 takes up his new duties as state tax commissioner April 1st. The rest of the family expects to re- main in Dunn Center for a while, may te until the school year is end- e OSTEOPATHIC CLINIC PLANNED New York, March 16.—The New York Osteopathic Clinic will start, a campaign for a building and endow- ment fund at a dinner tomorrow night at the Waldorf-Astoria. Plans for the drive were completed at a meeting yesterday and a committee of‘ citizens was organized to assist. Among the members of the commit- tee is Mme. Galli-Curci, who advo- cated rearing children by osteopathy. Others who are to participate are District Attorney Joab Banton, Mr. and Mrs. William Fellowes Morgan Jr. former United States Senator and Mrs. W. M. Calder, Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Parsons, Martin W. Little- ton, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Judge Alfred E. Steers, Judge Edwin B. Parker, Mr. and Mrs, JohnsH. Sut- phin, Mr, and Mrs. Otis Skinner, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Presbrey, Lewis Pierson, Mr. and Mr&. Josef Hofmann, Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Jay, Mr. and Mrs. Leo S. De Pinna, Mrs. Cort- landt Schuyler Van Rennselaer, Dr. S. Parkes Cadman and Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Colgate. The campaign will last ten days. KILLDEER SHIPS MANY HOGS Killdeer, N. D., March 16.—Last Saturday, $7,000 worth of shogs left Killdeer for the St. Paul mar- kets. These were gll contained in three carloads, ohe owned by Wetsch- Bros., and the other two by the Schmidt Bros. That day the market was about 14¢ for top hogs; there are over 17,000 pounds of pork in a car; this would make over $7,000, but some of the pork was not top stuff. Defendant Wins In Court Here A jury in district court late Sat- urday awarded a verdict to the de- fendant in the case of A. F. Mayer against Arthur and Louise Marble, to recover $600 and interest. on a second mortgage alleged to have been obtained on land in ' Canada. Mrs. Marble, against whom a person- ‘al judgment was sought, is owner of 8 farm in Burleigh county. SIOUX COUNTY WANTS N. P.T0 EXTEND LINES Question of Extending South Branch of Road Is Raised Again in Ft. Yates Residents of the vicinity of Ft. Yates have renewed their hopes that the Northern Pacific may ex- tend its line from Cannonball to Ft. Yates. The Sioux County. Pi- oneer says: “According to reports from various parts in the vicinity of Fort Yates, thousands of acres of new land will be broke the com- ing season, and put into crops, This means that bigger crops than ever before will be raised here, if the weather conditions are favor- able, and unless the crops are dam- aged by hail or by some other in- evitable conditions, The question will again rise “where are we going to market our large crops.” Unless rails are laid to Fort Yates before next fall, all this grain must be hauled to either Cannon Ball, McLaughlin or Self- ridge over rough roads. The dis- tance to either Cannon Bali or Mc- Laughlin is about 80. miles, and to Selfridge about 18 miles. If_the railroad was extended to \ Fort Yates all this long distance haul- ing would,be eliminated, Not only the grain from this vicinity, but of Mike Fahn, accused of possess- ing booze, whose case started at 2.18 and ended at 2:48 in the af-| ternoon when Judge C. M. Cooley delivered his charge. Only thirty minutes were con- sumed by the trial, which included the opening addresses to the jury by the attorneys and the examina- tion of three witnesses. The at- torneys did not deliver closing ad- dresses, and the case went to the jury on its merits. The defense alleged that the search warrant used to raid Fahn’s home was faulty, as it had been nullified au- tomatically because it was not served within the ten day limit. Frank Morrison Sen- tenced to 15 Years in Prison (Continued from page one) of them sentenced to the peniten- tiary, Three Gangs Operated These gangs of robbers operated in North Dakota for almost two years} They blew banks and robbed stores with abandon, but finally of- ficers began picking them off one b one. The murder of a Devils Lake policeman was included among the crimes. Some members of the gang came fairly close to Bismarck, in the robbery of a bank at Wing. Government operatives declare that there hasn’t beén a professional burglary in North Dakota since last August, when the Riley-Morrison gang was broken up in Minot. The yeggmen now are in flight or in pri- son, and declared by "officers that they had little to show for their also a large share of the grain from across the river, in. Emmons county, would be marketed here. Large crops are raised in Emmons county, aiid much of this is hauled as far as 30 miles to the closest market. There is no question but what Fort Yates would’be one of the best markets in Sigux-county. According to figures available at the County Treasyrer’s office, the N. P. Railroad Co. paid a tax of $17,285.30 last year on railroad Property in Sioux County. $222.02 of this was. paid on the usused road Jury Trial But j Thirty Minutes Devils Lake, N. D., Match 16.— What is ‘said to have. been the shortest jury trial.of a case ever Jheld in district eourt here, was that {a family. However, when the ILES PER HO work, ‘although they took loot valued at many thousands of dollars. By the time they split ‘it up and sold it at a discount, there was little left. The career of James Riley, the government's star witness in the case here, is declared by officers to be one of the most unusual in crim- inal annals in the Northwest. Riley testified here that he: had served in prison in Iowa and in South Dako- }ta, Something more, than-a year be- fore last August he obtained the Lee farm south of Minot,: renting the farm of several hundred acres, While government officials’ charged it was a cloak’ for his‘ criminal operations, he worked the farnt and stocked it upy He said he*made good money. on it last year, having a fine. crop; He told officers that he made up his mind after he was getting along so | well on the’ farm thatshe would re- form and stick to farming: He had, was broken up he was implicated and the charges were launched against FIND LABORER ~ DEAD IN YARD Beaten to Death After a Drinking Bout, Is Belief » Minneapolis, March 16.—Harry 'Reineck, 41 years old ‘laborer, was foufid beaten to death in a yard here last nidsht. Three companions of Reineck, with whom he is alleged by police to have been drinking earlier in the night, were arrested. Reineck was found in a sitting position with his back gun squad. When officers entered the house near where Reineck’s body was, found they found George Pe- ters, Frank Wood and Albert Wells, all three claiming the place as their residence, They admitted . having entertained Reineck in their rooms but insisted they knew nothing of his movements after he left for home at 10:30 p. m. They will be ques- tioned further. Reineck is survived by a widow and son. f eee eit DBE | “PROMANDER WALK” TO BE GIVEN Grand Forks, N._ D., Mar. 16.— “Promander Walk,” the next play to be given in pwblic by the Dakota Playmakers of the state university, is scheduled April 23, Professor E. D. Schonberger, director of the Playmakers, states. A special stage setting which Proféssor Schonberger says will be the most’ elaborate ever arranged for the Playmakers is be- ing designed by the art department of the University. " Lorain Oven Heat Unconditionally guaranteed. 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