The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 24, 1925, Page 1

a, |THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [hwom | WEATHER FORECAST Fair tonight and probably Saturday. ESTABLISHED 1873 BURLEIG igh Midn STAY GRANTED ‘BY JUDGE ON INSANITY PLEA Youth Snatched From Death Few Hours Before Time Set for Hanging TRAP SET FOR VICTIM Condemned Man S:ived After Governor Had Refused to Give Reprieve Chicago, July 24.—UP)—Almost at the nour of, his death march, Russell Scott escaped the gal- lows carly today for the second time within a week. ‘Dhe former Canadian financier, twice reprieved from paying the supreme penalty for the murder ot a Chicago drug clerk in a holdup, dodged the noose for the third time tess than four hours betore he was to have been exe- ed when Judge Joseph B. avid granted a stay of execution penile: a hearing into his san- ity. | hours before he was to hang, Governor Small gr ed a one week's reprieve whic d this morning. Judge David,! called out of bed a few hours before the time of the execution, convened #4 special session of court and grant- ed the stay after Governor Small! und the state board of purdons and| paroles last night at Springfield re-! iused further clemency. ‘Trap Was Set This morning the gallows trap set for springing a week ago stood with- out its victim, and jail officials who! had left it standing during the week | ity hearing will not! everal days, Judge David | indicating he hear it before! Monday, August cott, who had been surly and defiant throughout, the night, and who apparently was comp.etely resigned to his fate, re- ceived the news that his life was] spared, ut least temporarily, with considerable surprise. He haa known nothing about the last minute ap- peal to the courts. “I'm tickled to death” were his first. words. Then upon learning that the stay had been granted to tind out whetu- er he were sane, Scott said: “I am no more crazy than the judge who granted me a stay on that account. 1 am not asking for any; sympathy from anyone either. 1 am! innocent.” On receiving the news that the pardon board and Governor Len Small Had refused clemency,, which apparently sealed Scott's tate Mrs.) Wm, McGraw and Mrs. Isabelle Hurst, | both of Detroit, representing Detroit clubwomen, raised $5,000 for Scott's defense, hastily retained Wm. Scott| Stewart, criminal lawyer, who re-| cently successfully defended W: Darling Shepherd, accused of the murder of Billy McClintock, Search For Judge At midnight, after their desperate step, Scott’s friends, Stewart, and! clubwomen started their search for| a judge who would grant the stay. In a dimly lighted courtroom on the 10th floor the hearing was made. A little group of newspaper men, the judge, the attorneys and Scott's friends made up the gathering. After asking a few questions, Judge David immediately announced that he would sign the order, and within 20 minutes from the time court had been convened the stay of execution had been granted. Robert M. Crowe, state's attorney, was not present or represented at the court session, and apparently did not know of it. George B. Gorman, his assistant, who prosecuted Scott, when informed of the action said: “I have not a thing to say except that they tried to fool the governor a week ago, and now they are tr; to make a fool out of Judge David. We will fight it to the end. This man deserves the rope, and he will get it before we are through.” Refuses To Appeal One of the reasons assigned by Attorney Stewart for believing Scott insane was his refusal last night to broadcast by radio an appeal to his brother, indicted with him but never apprehended, to surrender and save him from the gallows. A microphone had been placed in Scott's cell, but he refused to utilize it. Mrs. Scott, driving madly toward Chicago after once having become lost, was met by reporters at the out- skirts of the city and informed of the court action. “Thank God,” she murmured, and was whisked to town, although it was probable that she would not see her husband for sev- eral hours. Almost at the time the stay was granted, word came from Port Huron, Mich., that Robert Scott, the con- demned man's brother, was believed to be critically ill there. Officials, however, were inclined to believe it was another of the many hoaxes sent in concerning the whereabouts of the missing Robert. EAI Robert Located Port Huron, Mich., July 24\—()— Robert Scott was the home of a Mrs. Manley here last night, and left two hours later over the Grand Trunk railway for Chitago, police here were informed by Mrs. Manley. July 24.—G@I—A tele- \ge was received early ort Huron, Mich. stat- ing. that Robert Scott, brother of Ru: nell Beer was in that city ser- ious! . i The call received by Mrs. Isabelle J. Hurst, Detroit clubwoman, who (Continued op page three) | would give the executive t Court BUS QUEEN Helen Schultz of Mason City, Towa, owns and operates a whoie web ‘of auto bus lines in Io Minnesota. During a street strike in Des Moines she offe Miss d to lestablish a bus system of transporta- tion there. ‘NESTOS MAY ENTER RACE FOR SENATE ‘Former Governor Willing to,‘ Make Campaign if His Party Calls Him Ragvnald Nestos, former gov- ernor of North Dakota, will consent! to be a candidate for United States Senator in 1926, he here today. The former governor ar- rived in Bismarck last night on his return from a four-months chautau- qua tour ‘of the Old South. While he would make no definite commitment, the former governor stated he would consider nomination for United States Senator in 1926. “Since my return to North Dakota, friends have urged me to make the race to fill the post vacated by the death of Senator Ladd in event of a special election,” he declared. “While is too early to anticipate develop- ments in 1926, if my party sees fit to call upon me at that time to en- ter the field as a senatorial candi- date, I shall take the matter under consideration.” Nestos expressed the opinion that a senatorial appointment by Gover- nor Sorlie will be rejected by the United States Senate. “The facts of the situation as I have studied them leave me with the conclusion that there is great doubt if the executive can appoint a suc- cessor to Ladd under North Dakota lay he declared. had expected the legislature at its last session to enact a law which specific power to appoint to fill a vacancy occurring in either the Senate or House of Representatives,” he de- clared. “Such a measure would have averted the confusion created by the death of Senator Ladd. The neces- sity of such an enactment became apparent during a similar situation existing in Minnesota in 1923.” Nestos will spend the remainder of the year at Minot where he owns an extensive law practice, he stated. Next winter he plans to visit his mother in Norway in connection with a trip through the Continent. He plans to return to North Dakota next summer. The former goyernor paid tribute to the work of Senator Ladd with whom he was acquainted over a per- iod of years. He also expressed sor- row at the passing of Senator Rob- ert M. La Follette. “As an undergraduate at the Uni- versity of Wisconsin, I became a fol- lower of Senator La Follette and re- mained one of his supporters until as late as 1916 when I could no long- er share, his views,” Nestos stated. “I always had sincere admiration for the man and believe his efforts in reorganizing state government in Wisconsin will prove lasting.” Governor Nestos spent the morn- ing renewing old acquaintances at the capitol. He will be in Bismarck for the remainder of the week. [Weather Report _| eather Report 4 15 56 T 12 Temperature at 7 a, m. Highest yesterday . Lowest last night Precipitation . Highest wind city WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinity: tonight and probably Saturday. No much change in temperature. For North Dakota: Fair tonight and probably Saturday. Not much change in temperature. e i GENERAL WEATHER CONDITIONS The low pressure area is «nt over Minnesota this morning and p cinitation occurred over the upper Mississippi Valley, in the Dakotas nd at scattered places Fair it ies. cipitation was quite heavy in the tern part of the Dakotas. A high Pressure area covers the eastern Rocky Mountain slope and cool weather prevails over, the entire Northwes ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Official in Charge. indicated | H CR BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1925 OPS PRICE FIVE CEN’ IN FINE SHAPE Session Halts Scott’s March to GallowslARGE YIELD FOR FILLING SENATE POS | 'Senatorship to Remain Va- cant if Upper House Rejects Appointee ‘NO SPECIAL ELECTION: Sorlie to Name Successor to Ladd to Sit at Decem- ber Session Governor A Sorlie’s tentative; program for filling the unexpired! , term of Senator E. F. Ladd was re- vealed today by administration lead- following action of the Nonpar- in League in voting complete con- fidence in the executive's ability to pick a successor to the vacant senate post. the program was outlined today | as follows: fl The executive will name an ap- ipointee to sit at the December ses- jon of congress. 2. kn event the upper house rejects the appointment, a __contingen which Governor $ highly improbable, senatorship will remain vacant until 1926. 3. Election of a successor to Ladd} would take place in the 1926 general elections, and primaries would be held in June, preceding elections, j Economy Platform This program would fall directly in line with the administration ec tomy platform and is calculated to) | save ax-payers of North Dak $300,000, the estima’ °! ate-wide primary al election for the post of U. S. the administration spokes- n pointed out. Governor Sorlie believes it is the} sentiment of voters throughout the state that $300,000 would be too much to pay for the services of a J. S. senator for the few months he would serve, it was stated. The question of whether the of- fice of U. S. senator is a state or federal office is regarded by Gover- nor Sorlie as a debatable issue, the administration spokesman _ stated. Although the upper house went on record in the Alabama case as de- claring the office a federal post, the vote adhered closely to party lines. The roll call was 34 to 30. It would not be improbable for} the senate to reverse itself on this is- sue should the legality of an ap- pointment he raised in the wnner house next December, in the opinion ' of Nonpartisan leaders. in view of the doubt which has arisen in the matter of senatorial appointment, Governor Sorlie will appoint, confi- dent the senate will seat his nom- inee. Not Federal Office The supreme court of the United States has held in the Burton case, decided prior to adoption of the seventeenth amendment to the fed- eral constitution, that the post of U. S, senator, declared to be held under authority granted by the state legislature, is not a federal office, it was stated. While the seventeenth amendment altered the issue in this case, the main point remains to be determined, according to statehouse leaders. In 1917, following passage of the seventeenth amendment, the state legislature enacted a law authorizing the governor to appoint to fill va- cancies in state offices. This law would give the executive full au- thority to appoint to the post of U. S. senator, should that office be con- strued as deriving its authority from the state and not the national gov- ernment, asserted. The constitution of North Dakota provides that the executive may ap- point to fill a vacancy in any office over which the state of North Dakota has jurisdiction, Authorities differ as to construction of this proviso, and disagree as to whether the con- stitution mandate overlaps the state jaw. AGED WOMEN FOUND SLAIN IN THEIR HOME Hudson, N. H., July 24.—()—In- vestigation of the murder of Miss H. Georgiana Gilles, 77, and her 80 year old sister Helen, in the house they occupied alone here, seemed balked today by complete absence of any motive for the crime. The bodies of the aged women were found lying on the flog by neighbors, who had called and re- ceived no answer to their knocks at the unlatched door. The skulls of both had been crushed. No trace of the weapon used was found in the house. County and state authorities were pressing a search for a lunatic, who escaped last Monday from the ‘state asylum at Concord, 40 miles away, where he had been confined for five years for homicide. OLDEST SHRINE MEMBER IN WORLD DIES Berkeley, Calif. July 24.—)— William D, Brqwn, 99 year old Cali- fornia pioneer and said to be the oldest shriner in the world, died here tA le, He was born in Char- Va., and. would have ched his 100th birthday on De- cember 4 of thi: Nantucket, —A growing mushroom exerted so much pressure in a “joint” of a concrete walk that it cracked the concrete, FILLING STATIONS IN SOUTH DAKOTA Private Concerns Contend Practice Is Unconstitutional and) Unfair to Business Enterprises St. tion will be started within three or four days to restrain the state of South Dakota from selling gasoline to the public, in competition with Private enterprises, Preparation of papers to bring the suit in the federal courts of South Dakota were under way today by representatives of the White gle Oil and Refining company, operates 65 filling and tank stations in that state. William H. Oppenheimer, an at- torney of St. Paul, who represents the W| Eagle company in. this section, said that an injunction will be sought to prevent South Dakota state offic from selling gasoline. The company will contend that the law, under the state is oper- ating its filling stations, is uncon- MANY INJURED N COLLAPSE OF THEATER Melbourne, Australia, July 24.—(@) ~-One hundred and thirteen persons were injured, some of them serious- ly, when the veranda of a motion picture theatre collapsed during a parade of sailors of the visiting American fleet today. No one was killed and none of the American sailors was hurt. A record crowd turned out to wel- come the bluejackets, and many hun- dreds of people crowded on the ver- anda, cheering _ enthusiastically. Without warning, the veranda gave way and the spectators were plunged in heap. The theatre was on Bourke street. RAINS BRING BENEFIT TO STATE CROPS Heavy Downpours Reported From Various Points in North Dakota Fargo, N. D., July 24.—(P)—Rains which fell in the central and north- western sections of North Dakota late yesterday and last night will benefit the crops, observers at var- ious points reported today. Rain in this immediate vicinity ranged from .89 of an inch at Fargo to 1.10 inches at Amenia. The heaviest rainfall was recorded at Lisbon, where 1.24 inches fell. Minot, New Rockford, Devils Lake, Ellendale, Grand Forks, Larimore and Williston all reported rain. There was no rain at Bismarck, but farther west rain fell at Dickinson. The rains will help crops in the Minot and New Rockford districts, where heat has done considerable damage. RAIN AT FORKS Grand Forks, N. D., July 24.—(®)— Rain amounting to 11 inches fell here last night, breaking a week's dry spell. Followed by cool weather ‘and cloudiness this morning, ithe downpour is not expected to do more than temporary damage in sections where some ripening grain is down. Rain will be beneficial to all other crops especially corn and sugar beets. AGED KIDDER MAN HELD ON RUM CHARGE Steele, N. D., July 24.—Kidder county officials arrested John Kin- kell, 75, farmer, living about 15 miles northwest of here, and seized three large copper stilis and fix- tures, together with 80 gallons of moonshine, which they _ reported they found on his farm. They also destroyed 160 gallons of moonshine, they said. Officials said that a girl inter- viewed refused to give any more in- formation for fear of her personal safety. Further search was made on the theory that more liquor might be hidden. The outfit was a costly one, officers said. CIVIL SERVICE EXAM. TO BE GIVEN AGAIN The United States Civil Service Commission invites special attention to the fact that in an examination held recently in Bismarck and other cities throughout the country for matron in the Indian service, appli- cants were not secured in the num- ber desired, and that this examina- tion will be held again. Receipt of Applicat ions will close August 8. The date for the assembling of com- petitors will be stated on the ad- mission cards sent to applicants er the close of receipt of appli tions. : Persons interested in this or other examinations should apply to the secretary of the United States civil service board at the local post office for detailed information and appli- cation blanks. Rl gM OLD AUTO OIL Sche! —A new device reclaiming olf from the cranke! instead of discarding it, has been perfected at the General Electric Co,’s research laboratory here, Paul, July 24—-()—Court ac-| stitutional, and that the practice of the state is unfair to private bugi- ness. South Dakota's gasoline war was first started in 1923 by W. H. Mc- Master, then governor, who charged that the Standard Oil company of Indiana and other companies were selling their products at “unreason- able” prices, _ The state established public ing stations, selling at several cents a gallon under the private company’s prices. Later the Standard and in dependent firms set the state's fig- ure and sale of gasoline was virtu- ally abandoned by the state. Recently, the Standard Oil com- Pany ordered 24 state stations opened to ‘undersell the private concerns. Announcement that the White Eagle would institute court action fol- lowed. MEN TRAPPED PROGRAM MADE COURT ASKED TO CLOSE STATE OWNED |BRITAIN FACES | BIG GRISIS IN Workers in All May Join in Walkout of Coal Diggers SITUATION IS SERIOUS, Picture of Paralysis of All Industrial Life Hangs Over England London, July 24.—()--Late this afternoon it was announced that rep- resentatives of British coal miners and mine owners would meet in a Joint conference July 29. This’ is the first success! move toward averting the threatened British coal strike, BY MILTON BRONNER NEA Service Correspondent London, July 24.—-The ae INCOAL MINE ‘DIE IN FIRE » ight Workers Lose Lives in Shaft at Rockwood, Tennessee Rockwood, Tenn., July —- Rescuing workers today gave up all hope of finding alive the eight men! who were entombed in the Rone’ Iron company mine yesterday, Ef- forts to rea temporarily which the workers fight the flames that are sweeping toward the place of entrapment. Four groups of rescuers passed into the mine last night. Two bodies have been recovered. ENTRANCE SEALED Chattanooga, Tenn., July 24.—(@) Advices received at 10:30 o'clock | this morning from Rockwood by the Chattanooga News stated that the entrance to Bryson's Dip has been sealed with a brattic and that all efforts to recover the remaining eight bodies before the fire burns itself out have been abandoned. It may be a month before the flames subside, is the opinion of the work- ers. WEALTHY SOCIAL LEADER JUMPS TO HER DEATH New York, July 24.—()—The body of Mrs, Peyton J. Van Rensselaer,| a member of one of America’s old- est families, who jumped to death from a physician's office off Fifth, avenue yesterday, lay in a morgue here today awaiting the arrival of her husband from Newport, R. I. She had been undergoing treat- ment by Dr. G. Reese Satterlee. The Physician was absent when Mrs. ensselaer called yesterday, much later than her appointment. She walked into a reception room and i Ik parasol and a hand- z $1,800. Pinning many pieces of jewelry to her clothing she climbed to the window and leaped six stories to her death. She was 56 years old. FRENCH SHELL RIFFS FLEEING BEFORE ATTACK Paris, July 24.—()—Vigorously shelled by pursuing French artillery, the rebellious Riffians in Morocco) are hastening their retreat from the Ain Anicha and Ain Matouf regions} on the center of the line, takin, with them the civil populations o! villages and their flocks. reace terms alleged to have been made by the Riffian leader, Abd. Krim, have been published in Lon- don and Paris newspapers, but the French foreign office makes it clear that unless such proposals are made through authorized diplomatic chan- pels No cognizance can be taken of em. RIVAL FIRMS OPEN GASOLINE WAR IN IOWA Ta. been Des Moines, While South Dakota “gasoline war,” Des Moines is sittin; on the sidelines, watching its own little conflict. Independent or “cut rate” filling stations today an- nounced a cut in gasoline prices to lower the proce set yesterday by the Standard Oil company and other large distributors, : Yesterday the larger companies announced a cut of 2c a gallon. The city’s car owners watched with interest today to see whether still further reductions would be made by the Standard Oil Company, which is followed by the other com- panies here in the matter of prices, or whether the “war” would die out with prices varying from one-half to two cents at various stations. FIND “YOUTH FOUNTAIN” Baltimore.—Johns Hopkins experts have found a “fountain of youth” but only for tadoples. A gland in the brain is cut away when the egg tadpole is hatching and this pre- vents it from ageing in any way. July 24.—U)— Zl,into the fight for. national re of a complete pa her industrial life now han England as the result of the dispute between the British miners and mine operators. The situation appears more serious than the threatened anthracite strike in the United States. timely interview, A. J. Cook, militant secretary of the Br Miners’ Federation, says that unless the government can find some to solve the problen, more than 2,600,- 000 workers in essential British in dustries will join the 1,000,000 mi ers in a great strike soon after July 31, Cook predicted that the army of railroad men, the transport workers and the engineering-—each an es: ch the men have halted tial class to Britain's industrial life! would strike to back the in their fight. Wage Dispute As in America, the British mine trouble centers around the deter: mination of the mine operators to reduce wages. The British operators also want the miners to work longer hours and to substitute district wage agreements for the national wage scale put into effect during the war. In both countries it is a post-war readjustment problem, “Unless the ®ritish government can find some way out, Great Britain at the end of July will face the gravest national crisis since the dark days of 1918, when it looked as if the Germans would win the war,” Cook told his visitors. then was an external danger. Now it is internal danger—the stop- page of all our leading und paralysis of our national life. “That, without exuggeration, is what the coal mining companies have brought about by notifying the miners that on July 31 they would terminate all existing contracts and demand that our men work longer hours at lower wages.” Cook was in the mines for 20 years and is intimately in touch with the workers. “By comparison to many of our men, I am conservatism itself,” he says. Have Hard Time “The miners now have a hard time making ends meet. They are tax- ing themselves to support’ 200,000 of their fellow workers unable to ob- tain employment. How could I go to them and tell them they must agree to wage reductions?” many British Cook admi' at mining com are not making money, but he insists that there is one class which could easily make a sacrifice in its profits and avert a national calamity. This class is the British nobility and the rich tand- owners. “The dukes and earls and other great landowners who own coal lands are sitting in idleness and drawing coal royalties that runs into tens of thousands of pounds sterling every year,” says Cook. “By their toil, their sweat and the dangers they daily face, the miners support this class. Way not compel the rich to accept a cut, before reduc- ing the pitiful wage of the miners? “Per man we have about half the output per shift that you do in the United State: the miners’ leader due in part to your thicker coal seams, put also to the abundant use in America of cutting machinery. , U. 8. Wages Higher “In the United States wages repre- sent more than 85 per cent of the cost of mining coal, compared to 65 per cent in Britain. Your wages are about three times ours and yet the coal costs the American consumer less than it does here. That's be- cause 60 per cent of your coal is mined by machinery, compared with 40 per cent in Scotland and 16 per miners. in America, labor is throwing every ounce of its power wage scales, “Other British workers know that an attack on the national wage scale in the mining business would be just’ a prelude to a similar attack on their scale,” he says. “For that reason they will join us in the fight. Al- ready the railroad directors are de- manding that their employes accept @ wage cut.” BANK CLOSING AT BIG LAKE TO BE PROBED |:: St. Paul, July 24.—(@)—An inv tigation into the causes of the clos- ing of the Bi ke Farmers’ State ay by A. J. ik was closed by its offic- ials late Thursday. It has deposits aggregating $260,000, MINER STRIKE! Industries In a frank and! the | industries, MISSING Rene Landauer of the American press Co. Travel sDepartment sas ( ». for New York City on July e has not arrived there Ex PREDICTED BY BUSINESS MEN Association of Commerce Committee Makes Tour Over Entire County WHEAT IS EXCELLENT Corn Acreage Disappointment to Group; Stock Raisers Making Money “Burleigh county, on the whole, ia in good shape, and will Produce good crops.” This is the verdict of O. W. Roberts, George F. Will, E. W. Leonard, J.P. Jackson and P. Goddard, secretary of the Ai sociation of Commerce, who yes- terday made a 150-mile inspec- tion trip through Burleigh coun- ty in Mr. Roberta’ ci Burleigh and his friends and company officials have instituted a country - wide search for him. CONGRESS MAY FACE BATTLE ON EVOLUTION Technical Flaws Likely to Defeat it Filed in Federal Court Washington, Ju (#)—Confi- dence that the suit brought here to throw into the federal courts the whole question of the teaching of evolution can be defeated on tech- 1 flaws has caused no apparent couragement in the evolutionists’ mp. Loren H. Wittner, the government employe, who brought the injunction proceedings to stop payment of sal- aries of school officials here on the ground that they were violating @ provision of the District of Colum- bia appropriation bill against teach- ing of “disrespect” for the Bible, de- clares they are ready to take other legal steps if the present suit fails. In the meantime they are reacn- ing out for reinforcement of their legal forces in the fight. They are awaiting reply to an appeal for sup- port to the American civil liberties association, Wittner and his counsel have failed, however, to enlist the ald of Clarence Darrow, chief defense attor- ney in the Dayton, Tenn., evolution trial. Mr. Darrow has sent word that he would not “volunteer” in the case. In aiming to have the case thrown out on technical grounds when it comes up for preliminary hearing in the district supreme court next Tuesday, Corporation Counsel Fran- cis S. Stevens believes that while in that event a new action might be brought, in the meantime, congress will have had opportunity to either remove the clause in the bill or more jfully debate its intent in the matter. As to the position of congress in the matter, Representative Blanton of Texas, a member of the house dis- trict committee, declared that while the rider carrying the “disrespect” clause was not subjected to a direct vote when it passed the house, he believed if it had been it would have received a “large majority” He’ (supported the rider at that time, he said, and is prepared to do so again. Announcement that he had no in tention of raising the evolution is- sue in congress by introducing a bill to prohibit its teaching was made at Swampscott last night by Representative Taylor of Tennessee. Although he viewed the matter as a fundamentalist, Mr. Taylor said he ived such action ‘by congress would do Christianity more harm than good. ‘di DULUTH YOUTH DROWNS WHEN CANOE UPSETS Duluth, July 24.—(P)—Roy _C. Dahl, 27, of Duluth, was drowned last night about 10:30 o'clock when the canoe in which he and Miss Flor- ence Bryn, also of Duluth, were paddling ‘overturned | in. St, Louis ay. Miss Ella Buelow, 1926 Welles- ly Ave. St. Paul, towed Miss Bryn to shore. George Drewett of Duluth and Miss Buelow were in another canoe about 200 yards away when they heard screams. As soon as hard paddling brought them to the spot, Drewett dived for Dahl’s body and swam ashore with it. Miss Buelow towed Miss Bryn ashore. They were un- able to bring life back to Dahl. EDWIN COOLEY, GRAND FORKS PIONEER, DIES Grand Forks, N. D., July 24.—(#)— Edwin Cooley, pioneer resident here, dropped dead this morning in his of- fice of heart lure. A resident here for 43 yea e was formerly connected with the Grand Fo: lerald, and later in insurance busi- with the George Clifford com- pany. TREASURE IN METEORS Denver.—A giant meteorite in Col- orado is to be seploted for its plati- num content. Small quantities of radium recently were isolated from a meteorite, county, they found, is no longer & one crop county—wheat. oats, rye, barley, brome grass, alfalfa, sweet clover, beef cattle, ity Py hogs and sheep must ail igured in estimating the f Burleigh county. the same county it wan 10 years ago.” Mr. Will and Mr. Roberts united saying. “There has been arkable Progress in this period. The wheat crop of the county, in apite of the recent hot wave, -will be a little better than the av- erage, aald the party, which tour- ed the county on recommendation of the agricultural committee of the Association of Commerce, to determine actual conditions found. It is spotted, with the eastern tier of townships hard- er hit than others. On the whole the wheat crop, with fav- orable weather, will be the best in several years, excepting last year's crop. The party found that sales of cream in many parts of the county had increased remarkably during the last few months, one Arena banker saying that “the cream checks have been rolling in at a rate I've never seen before.” Large profits will be recorded on sheep put in the county last fall by the Agricultural Credit Corpora- tion, and the hog raising business is increasing rapidly. (Corn, as usual, promises to be the best cash crop of the count ac: cording to members of the party, who, however, were disappcinted to find that the corn acreage had slumped off in a 20-mile radius of Bismarck. The corn acreage in the northern part of the county has been dropping since a county agent was discontinued, they said. ‘The party went southeast from Bismarck, through the “reservation country” and to Moffit, north to Sterling, east to Driscoll, north to Arena, west to Wing and Regan and southwest to Bismarck. Wheat Almost Ripe Wheat was found almost ripe in all parts of the reservation section southeast of Bismarck, with some farmers cutting. It is estimated 50 Per cent of the wheat could be cut today in this territory. The wheat southeast of Bismarck was found to be good, ripened a little too early by hot weather, with a good berry and @ pretty well filled head. There has been no rust damage, although ru is found in almost all fields. It is estimated wheat between here and Moffit will make 12 to 18 bushels an acre. From Moffit to Arena, in the east tier of townships, the grain was found badly burned by the re- cent hot weather. In the north half of the county wheat is generally good. Going west from Arena the tourists found it improved steadily until Regan and Wing was reached, with the best wheat in the county in this section. It is 10 days later than wheat in the southern: part of the county and if it matures will make 25 to 30 bushels an acre in some sections. Wilton to Bismarck the wheat tapers off a little. _.The party united in this statement: Stubbled in wheat is not very good, especially where stubbled in on stubble, and can only be cut for hay in many places. The early wheat is the good wheat, especially where it was put in after good soil prepara- tion. If good wheat is to be raised there must be careful preparation of the ground, and stubbled-in wheat is usually a loss. Rye Is Ready All rye in the county could be cut right now, as well as much wheat, and the hail hazard would be much reduced if it were cut. Rye is very good in the north half of the county and not so good in the southern part. A county average of 10 bushels an acre is predicted. Because of the frost and dry weather oats will be light all over the county. Excellent flax was seen in the northern part of the county and fair flax in the southern part, but all flax needs rain. The barley is fair, with heads fair- ly well filled, The corn ‘acreage wi pointment to the Association of Commerce men. Twenty miles each way from Bismarck there is fine corn, but from Driscoll to Wing there was very little to be seen. Corn in the Bismarck locality is ahead of normal, Mr. Will said. is still treated as a second- ary crop,” said Mr. Robert: s should be a primary crop. Careful selection of seed corn Id be made, and the early varie idapt- able to the county, only, should be planted.” Corn Yield Prediction was made of a corn yield of 30 bushels an acre in a la! territe: hich would make it ‘tl most valuable crop of the county. Sweet clover and alfalfa have been cut once and le a fine crop. Al- (Continued on page three) a disap-