The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 2, 1925, Page 1

f ee Wi EATHER FORECAST y fair tonight and Fri- rost tonight. ED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRID. AY. OCTOBER 2, 1925 THE BISMARCK TRIBUN _ FINAL EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS PROPOSE FIVE-YEAR DEBT PROGRAM PATTERSON COMPROMISE I$ APPROVED Hotel Owner’s Taxes, Unpaid Fcr Five Years, Are Cut $24,252.68 ETTLES FOR $35,327.15 McCurdy Will File Appeal From Action of County rd Petition for. compromise of unpaid taxes from 1919 to 1923, a on Bismarck property owned by Patterson, chairman of the Bur- leigh county board of comm: approved late yosterday Thoresen, stat» ta for ec arlier in tae mon » county board, sttlement in full was made hb terson yesterday who paid 15, the figu f ap) assessed on i property a 1, covering five bac years Announcement was made today by *E. MeCurdy, state's attorney, that petition ‘signed by seven tax required law, as ! commis the compromise. ve filed in district court, MeCurd nounced he resolution authorizing a com- » of Patterson's taxes reduces rregate unp: s for the that my | ussessed at too prepared Spear. treasurer, follow { Assessment Payment} Compromise 201 craft 79 the raid struck at the heart of t- ' to rd of county commssioners to pass a resolution 4 provided by law to nequire title tol Patterson property sold for back ty is awaiting ac- stated, resolution unty board exrl rescinded, he declared, ” ction was brought in dis- trict court to foreclose on Patter- sun's property last July on authority provided in a law passed at the last ses. of the legislature and is . MeCurdy said, on awaiting tri Authority to compromise |Patter- son's back taxes was denied by former state tax commissioner, ac- ding to the state’s attorney. tatement of the case, published by Commissioner Thoresen, Issue Statement “In reapplication of BE. G, Patter- son for abatement and compromise of taxes upon city property in the marck, North Dakota, of North Dakota Tax Com- oner, Bismarck, North Dakota, | he above entitled offer df com- promise having come to this depart- ment after having been approved by the board of county commissioners of Burleigh county, North Dakota, and after due consideration having been given to the within application and compromise and the records sub- mitted in connection therewith, it is mis: hereby ordered that the follow! action be and hereby is taken Aa ordered. “The above entitled matter is an offer of compromise of certain back taxes upon property in the city of Bismarck, State of North Dakota. An offer of compromise of the pay- ment of taxes is different in many respects than the ordinary abate-| Tene of taeck Ue an Fenicaiion (or! the abatement of taxes the law pro-| vides that in order to be granted it must be shown that there is error in| the assessment and tax, or that the; assessment and tax is illegal andj void. In an offer of compromise no legal, or technical grounds need be) Woolworth before her marriage in| ler! set forth or proven. The taxpayer before the board of county | ioners and offers to pay aj certain amount of money in payment} of the back taxes which he may owe.| Cites Law In such compromise offer the tax- payer sets forth the reasons why the! board of county commissioners, should accept such compromise of- fer. Such is the case in the present! matter, the taxpayer having set forth the reasons why he deems it advis- able for the board ‘of county com- missioners to accept compromise | offer. The law specifies on what grounds the board of county com- missioners are justified in accepting a compromise offer in payment of back taxes in the following words: “‘And whenever taxes on any real) estate remaining unpaid and such) property has not been sold to any! purchaser other than the county by reason of depreciation in value or other cause, the board of county com- missioners may compromise with the owner of such poperty by ,abating aj portion of said delinquent taxes on payment of the remainder.’ Action Rests With Commissioners “From this it will be noted that the acceptance or rejection of a com-| promise offer for the payment of taxes rests in the sound discretion) of the board of county commission-: ers, The board of county commis-} sioners in a compromise abatement! sits as a trial court to determine the’ facts in the case and to decide| whether or not the conditions are such that. a comers a ould be accepted or rejected. the ap- proval of an offer of Zam Series by (Continued on page three) | “ed $75,000 to | unloadi ‘ necklaces | Plaza Wednesday afternoon , changing. | Station Agent ms Hebron Is Pensioned| _Mebron, 8. Ds 2 (P)—-When|! bi ¢ Murr came to Hebron as the! H rst telegrapi operator here fer the} Northern’ Pacifig railroad 40. ye ago, the “station” consisted of telegraph instrument nailed to a | block on a telegraph post. | When | hungry he could take down his army carbine and pick off antelope whieh| grazed in front of the station. For 40 years Murray handled the{ key in Hebron; 4 ars of long ef- ficient. service, until rday, Oc- toher 1, he became 2 r of the Narine sa 1 al em. ployes. Murray. is ve ta is believed that y pids the record for a railroad telegrapher. in point. of Tong service in the sani Lasition. 56 PRISONERS TAKEN IN BIG | LIQUOR RAW Million Dollars Worth of Liquor Confis- cated hak Burlington, Fifty-sis) pri at Masonville mers, on a barge containing a hatf million dollars worth of liquor c hrought to the county jail ‘ge crew to burn ated hy the state The barge contained 20,000 lof foreign liquors ineludin cham: ‘paigne, Benedictine, Creme De Men- the, Scotch and i and French wines, In addition to cargo, six trucks biles w aptured. Offered Large Sum to Leave The troopers said they were offer- the place and al- runners to continue the barge and its d four autemo- low the booze M tv $125.000 was found on the men brought to Burlington. All the rum runners were armed but after a show of r ing which no she t yielde, The barge was the A. D. 400 feet long. Police s stem of getting con hore and that had been unloaded recently. WOOLWORTH band liquor at least two barges at the same spot HEIR ROBBED OF JEWELS, International Crook Believed | Responsible For Theft New York, Oct. 2—(P)—Detectives were on the trail today of some in- ternational crook for robbing Mrs. James P, Donahue, daughter and co- heir of the $52,000,000 estate of the late F. W. Woolworth, of two pearl! and jewelry valued $750,000, The theory is that because two big ‘pearls, which complete each of the two B2-unit strings, were received from Paris only Tuesday, a thief trailed the gems across the Atlanti: and seized them at the first opportuni- ty. Mrs. Donahue had worn the in- completed necklaces at Monte Carlo.| The gems were stolen from the Don-' ahue six-room suite in the Hotel! while! Mrs. Donahue was taking a bath.! The door had been left unlocked with the keys on the outside. The theft was discovered three hours later. Police were not notified until yes-! terday. Mrs. Donahue said it took them 10 years to accumulate the perfectly matched roseate strings. The last two were purchased in Paris this summer, The thief also took a marquise dia-' mond ring. The jewelry was insured for $700,000, Mrs. Donahue was Miss Jessie 1911. They have two sons. father, the 5 and 10 cents store mag- nate, died in 1919, her mother int 1921. . Mrs. Donahue's _personud property assessment of $1,000,000 is exceeded in New York only by John D, Rockefeller, with $1,100,000. f NEWS BRIEFS *‘ =. Washington, Oct. 2—(#)—A reduc- tion in freight rates on automobiles and automobile parts moving from Detroit to all points on the North- western Pacific Railroad north of Willits, California, was ordered to- day by the Interstate commerce com- mission. Madrid, Oct. 2. —“)— Spanish troops entered Ajdir, capital of Abd- el-Krim, the Riffian leader, at 11:30 o'clock ‘this morning, according to official advices from Morocco. Gardena Man Gets New Trial St. Paul, Oct. 2.—(M)—A. N. Nel- son of Gardena, N. D., is granted a new trial by the state supreme court) today in the action brought against him AB Wm. Brecker for recovery of $3,000 said to be due on notes. The action of the higher court reverses the Renville county district court. Ixperts claim there is no stand- ard pronunciation of English be- cause the languoge RECOVER 4 VICTIMS OF : SUBCRASH |Divers Rescue Two Bodies From Engine Room of Sunken Sub BODY WASHED ASHORE | Abandon Altempts to Raise Wrecked Submarine With snes Base—New Lond ny, Adwe cal Ht. @ fthe rescue Taeculoae at the scene of the wreck of the sub- arine S-51 today recommended the release of the two big fl ing cranes which yesterday m an unsuccessful effort to raixe the vessel. His recommendation was made after announcement was rec: { uf the recovery of two additional bodies found by divers in the ' engine room, and was taken to mean that no further efforts would be made at this time to | raise the submersible. Four Known Dead On board U.S, Camden off Block Island, Oct. 2.—()-—-By Wireless to the Associated Press). | The toll of the known ¢ of the Submarine today when divers the! Lodies of two of the crew in tho en- room compartment of the ship. n were identified as Walter on, eleetrician’s first 4 erville, enginenian Linds Government. Stre AN The body of an officer or chie officer, believed to overboard from the a week ago tonight, herman in in Sbonington, Conn, and an ambulance was sent immediately © bring the body here. Identifiea- nm was not made at onington, Notify Coroner New London-Stonington, Oct, 2. (A) After the bod picked up in Long Island 5 John Vincent, fisherman, brought to Kenyon's wharf here, it was seen to be in unifo: Ithough the buttons did not those used in the ring had the letters The coroner was notified that the his inspection. 3 submarine S-51 today found that the door of the motor room was open and that the compartment was flooded, according to a wire- less message from the — rescue ship Camden, intercepted here. The bodies were recovered after i divers had cut open the hatcy of the engine room, They had determined definitely that this compartment was flooded last night when an ex- ploring hole the size of a pencil was bored in the hatch, Only a few air i bubbles were emitted. Both of the men were fully clad and evidently had been on watch when the submarine was rammed by 4] the City of Rome Inst Friday night. | Treatment Given For Canary Birds’ Insect Troubles | Pargo, N. D., Oct. 2-—Canary birds have their troubles with body insects as well as the farm flocks. This has | been discovered through the recent inquiries as to best _ treatments, {which have been submitted to the North Dakota Agriculture! college poultry department by North Da- kota housewives. According to J. R. Redditt of the | poultry department of the college, sodium fluorid powder, obtained from the drug store at 30 to 60 cents per pound ,is the most effective era- | dicator of the canary’s troubles. In telling how the powder should be applied, Redditt states that it should be applied very lightly. Take a lit- tle between the two fingers and dust | the powder under the feathers until it comes in contact with the skin of the bird. ) As sodium fluorid is very poison- ous to internal organs care should be taken to apply only on the out- side; and to safeguard against dis- astrous results the poultryman sug- gests that the powder be mixed with dust, cement, ashes or even talcum powder at the rate of one part sodi- um fluorid to four parts of the filler powder. ————-——__—_——_ 0 Ie Weather Report | Temperature at 7 a, m... Highest yesterday Lowest last night Precipitation to 7 a. m. Highest wind velocity .. WEATHER FORECAST Fair tonight and Saturday, Not much change in temperature. For North Dakota: Mostly fair tonight and Saturday. Not much change in temperature. WEATHER CONDITIONS The pressure is high over the northern ‘states and generally fair | weather prevails in all sections ex- sept in dowa and in the extreme southern Plains States where show- ers occurred. A low pressure area is centered over the southwest and slightly warmer weather prevails’ in all sections except over the Oanadian is constantly; Northwest where temperatures are } somewhat below freezing. ed to four) ne body was identified as that of S..N. Rostind, of Noank, Conn. Naval officers decided that the body was not that of a member of the! S-61 crew. | vewport, R. 1, Oct. 2.--(Py— Divers exploring the sunken report of the ss for j the first time tory of that j organization will on the air” when Washington a Pittsbu: Papers to Broadcast By special arr nt 73 newspa- |pers scattered throughout almost | ; | Disinter Victims of the Ht situation ¢ whe n BN hief of the army air serv tone the witiers stand at W while he was ont! MITCHELL ON THE ST idential com nis inves uo William smd itt wsbington iation \ Amer former pre into Matchett, iv of the picture Vi stifying TO EVERY PART OF THE COUNTRY. Seventy-three Newspapers Will Reports Ot fair to in the whether a on the eastern se: coast, on the hores of the guit; no he is a great city a hamlet, this year h “see” play of ery », without le: s most ambitious proj- r undertaken in the reporting of a sporting event, the world series! elash in the annual baseball cla: next week. every state in the union will broad- : the t athe play-by-play story of s reported by a picked 5 ociated Press men on the field 8s So thoroughly do thes sbianket” the country that even th simplest homemade set, no matter what corner of the able country it is in 9 to pick up the} st station. ry detail ha: h planed to assue speed in soak ng the ether with the complete sary of the games just as fast the diamond. euch ball hed the fact wil be ‘old by sp ly trained spor writers to telegraphers, who hi mde reputations for speed and will be shot across the country on leased wires. As the story appears wo.d by word trom the tolegr in the newspaper offices broadcasting is to be done repeated into microphon instantaneously made audible dio fans everywhere. So carefull has the project been planned that it is estimated that a radio listener in LOCAL ELKS MEET TONIGHT; ness meeting of | An important bus’ Bismarck lodge, B. P. 0. E., will be| held tonight to discuss plans for] the coming season, J. L. George, ex- alted ruler, announced today. The meeting opens at eight. Hunt 2 Motorists For Attack on Girl Port Washington, Wisc., Oct ; (®)—-Dragged into an automobile as she walked along the streets he last night, a 12-year-old girl ws saulted and then thrown out of the f speeding machine some distance t the city. She was found in a hel less condition by motorists. Phy: cians described her condition a: ious. Police and sheriffs’ forces of all counties in this section joined in the hunt for the two strangers who at- tacked the girl. Pershing. Expedition 2. Chihuahua City, Mexico, Oct. i sol- (#)—Bodies of five American diers who were killed during the Pershing punitive expedition into Mexico in 1916 have been exhumed near Guerrero by a special American commission. The bodies will be sent to the United States for burial. It is reported that 56 bodies will be sent back to the United States from Carrizal, where American and Mexican federal troops clashed. | w York or a camp < will know that a line nomade before the ball the have from field of hey will) writers the ports on ms oa “they will wander among s they begin to gatke conte) the er at th they hours before the dug.) yon the field sins, dropping: he la t vdoy recording. in lineups and des of the teams | the i ars firmament, and from the first walt pitched ev import- ant movement on the field will) be imme rd Each ball and strik hed out for the waiting =m ens who could not “make ’ e me, and the name of the vietor and the score will resound in ear phones and through loud speakers before the players have had time to sturt trotting beck to the bho os. The newspapers which will brond- east the world series report of the Associated Pres Sy ; Grand Ra St Cloud W Omah: Evening ‘Bee, WOAW. Omaha World Herald, KOIL. ent | taken RADIO WILL CARRY WORLD SERIES out t Is | AVIATION Flight Hero Op- ses United Air Force or Air Corps REVISION ECESSARY | Navy Department Not tal H Blame For Air Flight i Failures Washington, Oct. — (A) — Taking dire linsue h Col. Mitchell's charges, Com- jer John Rodgers, a witne before the president's board, issued hallenge to an to make just criticisn the arrangements Noa, 'S u mi today , Col. told the board the preparat for the flight, whic manded by Rodgers, I angling a that he was | with the crew and personnel as- | signed to the flight. “L cannot see,” Rodgers con- tinued, “how the navy depart- vould be held responsible failure of the flight. was done that Id be The secretary navy personally visited San 0 | ego and ordered the Bureau of Aeronautics to give us every- thing that we asked for. This was done Rodgers suid he was s rrange the flight p ly contrad t prep “non flying the navy depa nuthor » Which BUDGET URGED BY RODGERS Var Department Will Renew Action te Discipline Mitchel by the inspector army in order vestigati hi aviation that the duct with he he may re Mitchell giv the tr board had war that it had concluded nation of the former aoestant chief of the Army Air Service but that i; had requested Kine (0 prepare and submit cei tain data which he should able to do by Monday. ‘OREW WARNED | NEW SYSTEM NEEDED CARE be Valve Changes Not as Fool Proof as Original Ar- rangement disclosed tods wal court of inquiry ading into the record of here by the by until with a D» i GAILLAUX AND DEBT MISSION -| RETURN HOME |Stipulate $40,000,000 Annual Payments for Five Years TENTATIVE AGREEMEN Caillaux Will Not mn Pro- visional Funding Agree- ment | Washington, Oct. ity of the Franco-American debt funding negotiations holds today only by the uncertain link of a ten- tative arrangement brought forward as a last resort to prevent complete collapse of the effort to reach a per- manent settlement, Minister Caillaux and his the French Mission rled for Paris, not with a permanent settlement for —(#)—Continu- Lakehurst, Nod, Oct (P) —In} Whi d hope, but. weld Anhravinis the. Wen om payment proposa’ lane the vaive system | : , defers for that. per- jehange in the doah,|jod a’settlement of the thorny pro- the bureau of a uties at Wash-|blem of how much France shall pay. inelon wart on the ship that| Proposed by the American debt ; - commission, after a week of negotia- 7 Beene intrgl| tions had demonstrated the futility extreme cate should be tak. | °f €forts to agree on a settlement tf on at this time, the arrangement which wux has agreed to lay before his nment would call “for annual ments of forty million dollars nee for the next five years. Ticial correspondence that p Agreement on a program of final yan the ibject between Comm. suce me Zac ndsdowne, captain ef the sueceed the proposed lureau of aeronautics ta oy TS eee val é seateni: first would be left for negotitation to gi ~. {continue in the interim, Would Double France’s Payments. The proposed fi not only would be lieu of terest on the debt. for concerned,” Rodgers continued, that d, by wh ncerned,” I coins it Land, conatruction eon hat. period, which in effect it iene limit in providing: all that the Wureuue This wae ile. ce would umount to an interest charge Iwas d ; Ses fof about one per cent annually, but Rodgers usked if this nation! newed on dune na letter] theo wo 4 > present 1 with wil nable. of evossing mnstructic cetion Tne purchase of wer supnilin ‘ OF pound bombs ehiet “of the“ bureat, With this supplying half of the " f hs Lesa 00 Wai. Ait Rxperlinent jamount, France, under the American new vengine is developed it is not p correspondence. showa that! Proposal, would be required only to This all differed from the ideas of dor Tansdawne, not-only re. |e voncoel aa it tar tien | Cal Mitehell commended the change but that when! | The proposal as it now stands does nN a there was delay in acting on his res: Not bear the signature of M. Caillauxs Wastin, Oa BUR Com-! olution sent a telegram requestins: who ined’ that-in view of ybis mavashington, | Oet. 2 UP) Com: telegraphic authorization for earry. | COMMISSION Lo sign only. a final sete mander n Rodgers, tlement he questioned ‘his own right i thrilling adventures of the P: , told the president's airera jtoday that development of the ane had made ne the es- \tablishment of a department of na- {tional defense which would include y both the army and the navy. | Along this line Commander ers agreed in part with the Wm, Mitehell, who figur |largely in the aontroyersy — whi {brought the appointment of the in- vestigating board. Need Is Apparent | The need for a proper scientific organization of the national defense Rodg- 3 of Commander Rodgers said, was plain- ly apparent. Declaring recent naval disasters were not due to any blame on the part of the navy, he declared “There is something vital with the navy department.’ ip out the work, Approval then was experiment,” and|t® at on a provisional arrangement. sary pre-| 12 agreeing to lay it before his gov- nt cn in operat. {ermment, however, he gave the Amer- ing the ship. ican commission hope that it in his. letter of dune at, 19g5,{ Would meet with its approval. j Commander Richardson calcul Meera ations indicated the change in the France Drops valve system would cut in half the! , Paris, Oct. 2.—@)—The first tangi- safe rate of ascent of the ship, in, ble effect here of the temporary ‘that a very *; the bureau invite + maximum Wrong’ he required only in the event of the other words from 800. to minute, “The 400 feet a bi argume nt city ihe Ive fo $ nd to be west ¢ st flight. aul ent on In this potato attention to the fact that in that flight no ve rapid | ascents above pressure heights oc- curred. It is considered that the as capacity is likely to r airship being ‘suddenly carried up The commander of | the Hawaii with a vertical current during a flight, however, oppo@ed either 4j squall. It is understood that the united air force or an a cl as have been urged by nesses before the board, declaring the problem engaging the study of gas the board was one involving tially a revision of present organi tions. So fi en- believed the question might be sat’ | Shenandoah ~ ed to this condition although it quite ‘ar as aviation itself is) hive occ concerned as an interior problem, he! to insu factorily solved for the moment by! proper establishment of an aviation budget, by improvement of personnel situation, “establishment i : ariblic by of | whatge Forum and Republican, 2 strong aviation section in opera- Milwaukee Journal, WHAD tions.” Milwaukee Wisconsin-News, WSOE. — ,,fake Over Army and Navy Se eer leciaa WHBO. For a permanent and final solu- ddtion to the above, the radio stations. WIZ ut New York and WRC at Washington. Steele Farmer Commits Suicide —_—? ra q ° le, N. D. Oct. 2.—Owen farmer, residing eight northwest of this village, to death at home ye death being in- stantancous. rage had_ been morose for some time and com- plained of stomach trouble, but was able to be about his work.” Yesterday he ate a hearty break- fast and milked five cows. Then while his wife and a son were busy in the farmyard he went to his bedroom, placed the butt of a,shotgup on the floor with the niuzzle at his heart and pulled the trigger. His wife, hearing the shot, rushed to the house and found her husband's body block- ing the bedroom door. Bragg was 45 years of age and is survived by the widow and three sons. His brother, John Bragg, is said to have attempted suicide by taking poison only a few months ago. | Labor Leader Given Fine and Sentence Indianapolis, I Qet, 2-—-A)— John J. MeNamura, labor leader, was sentenced today to one to five years in prison and fined $1,000 for black- mail Spanish paesent has just com> pleted the carving of a home out of solid rock, The work took him 17 years. It possesses a balcony, gar- ret and cellar, ation of America will itself st man attainable secretary Lee sere an “ftg the national defense, give him a he repOre ChROURb) tse revlck ihint Work. vat the “etal tion,” he added, “appoint the strong- tion required, and when re take over both the army and nav | Of the Hawaiian flight, he sai not see ny “pos: i could tuch any blame to the navy depart. ment beeaus e the flight did not work i Of ‘the Shenandoah | good airship, well manned. and eap- | tained, goes out on a cruise, meets ‘heavy’ weather and is lost.” This | testimony was in direct contrast to | that of Col. Wm. Mitchell, who at- tributed the failures to, “bungling.” Mrs. Ben Turpin, Wife of Hollywood Comedian, Is Dead 2.--(A)-+ at the bed- nlif., Oct, vigil Hollywood, Ren Turpin’s lon side of his inv: e was at an end today. The motion — picture comedian abandoned his work at the studios when Carrie Lemieu became seriously ill last De nd the call of the camera | heedal month after month as he car- {ed for the woman who would occept {no other ministrations but his, Yes- | terday death ended her suffering, | The Turpins were married in Chi- {cago* about 18 years ago and Mrs | Turpin worked with her husband on the legitimate stage and later in pictures, They were brought to Hollywood 10 years ago by Charlie Chaplin. /Mrs. Turpia suffered an attack of influenza two years ago. Last: December she beeame criti- cally ill, and in the succeeding months suffered several strokes of paralysis, After being released from a liner crossing the Atlantic to Europe a pigeon flew 1000 miles back to its loft in New York. {in progress, the rate of a! stb never been subject- once biy msy oceur and the total Ive capacity must be sufficient provide tor it. It is known that Zeppelin airships burst gas celis due valve capacity when idly in thunderstorms. Zep- ctice is to provide for a tres per second or about six hundred feet per minute—five metres per sec- ond was preferred. “With the limited automatic gas valve capacity which will remain af- ter completion of the changes now nt in ex- refully treme conditions m watched and the gas cells relieved of excessive pressure by opening the maneuvering valves if necessary.” : K.OFC, EXPERT =) WILL LECTURE ‘| AT AUDITORIUM Peter Collins, Labor Expert. Will Be Here Thurs- day The 1925-26 nation-wide education- al lecture program of the Knights of Columbus on behalf of “Constructive Service for Citizenship” will be brought to Bismarck when Peter W. Boston, Mass., nationally lecturer on economics and so- ciology will appear at the city audi- torium next Thursday night. Collins, for eight years editor of the Electrical Workers, is an expert on organized labor. He served as a member of the Illinois Industrial Commission appointed by Governor Deneen in 1908, This commission was the first of its kind in America and he was a representative of labor on the commission. Over 20 years ago he served as president of the Boston central la- bor union, He helped in arranging the New England civic federation, serving with Associate Justice Bran- deis of the Supreme Court. During the war Collins acted as industrial expert for the government. As director general of Knights of Columbus reconstruction ployment work after the war, he charge of a labor system which ed 300,000 former service men in civil employment. em- ent of at least three me-) debt settlement offer in Washington | to send the dollar from 21.10 franes at the opening of the course to 21.30 at 1 p.m, TRAIN BANDIT SUCCUMBS TO GUN WOUNDS Felled by Detective When Leaving Train He Had Robbed 1 Omaha, Oct. 2.—(P)—A ion of his train robbing activities of the night before ended fatally ‘last night for R. A. Porter, for 22 years an employe of the Union cific Railroad. Porter died late last night from wound : whats inflicted by Aubrey S. Kenworthy, special agent of the Union Pacific’ ailroad. who fired upon him as Porter alighted from the rear end of a passenger train after robbing a score or more of passengers in the observation car and two Pullmans, The loot, consisting of $200 in cash and several watches and some jew- elry, was later returned to the pass enger; The man boarded the train at an outlying station and encountered the negro porter in the vestibule of the observation car. He commanded the negro to accompany him into the car, where the passengers were or- dered to stand in the aisle with their hands in the air while the ne- gro went down the line and search- ed them, After robbing the four passengers in the observation car, the bandit*continued on in the two Pullmans where the operations were resumed. He told the negro that he was the same man who the night before held up 25 passengers on a Missouri Pacific train as it was en- tering the railroad yards here and escaped with $60 after engaging in a running gun fight with a railroad detective. In the second Pullman Porter en- countered the brakeman and told him to search the remaining passengers. When the last passenger had been searched the brakeman was told to pull the bell cord and accompany the bandit to the rear end of the train. Meanwhile the negro made his way to the front of the car and informed passengers there of the robbery. W. S. Davis, a private detective, rushed towards the rear of the train and overtook the bandit just as he reach- ed the door, The bandit opened fire and Davis retalliated with four shots at the bandit, one of them wounding him in the leg. Davis was not hit. ‘As the train stopred the man leaped from the platform and was felled by the bullets from Ken- worthy’s gun. The shots entered the skull, Kenworthy had been “tipped” that a recurrence of the, previous night was likely and had stationed himself at advantage point. Portet’s home was in Council Bluffs, lowa. eontinua-