The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 13, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER FORECAS n r tonight an Not much change in temper ESTABLISHED 1873 |Sixty Fishing i Boats Believed Lost in Storm BOARD TO MEET TO EQUALIZE REASSESSMENT Judge Coffey Amends Tem- porary Restraining Order to Allow Board to Act ‘om Pony ME are feared io ha n lost in the storm which has raged along. the coast for the last few days. ‘Three boats from Caleutta also have not re- ported. The storm eaused floods, impeding i and damaged) small WILL BE PUT ON BOOKS, — BLAMED FOR TRAIN WRECK Runs T; Claims Heavy Fog Ob- seured His 4 Censtitutionality of Law Con- cerning Reassessments to Be Argued Later The board of county commissioners of Burleigh county meet. at the! courthouse at 10 a, m. on Monday, | November 16, to consider the matter; of the equalization of the assessment of the city of Bismarek as fixed by state tax commis:ion’s recent ment and to her all and complai i 1 P| d reached ult of collision voand ex llision occured in: y when the Mercantile Express from Louis ran a stop light at I speed and telescoped the — tw eepers of on : York express, The steel rear car was | split’ down There were! about 120 passengers in the two cars.! All of those killed were in the rear} car. ‘uneringendent F. D, Davis of the iivision of the Pennsy places the blaine on the Mercantile in running dadge which am ining ued by of Jamestown y Auditor Frank yn the tax books seeordi leaves the arg cussessment ¢ et strictly Johnson wi uch reas i | past a 1 Carroll says hey light a I not see the viously he has | | viousn + constitutional q complaint in th moo? questions of lv board o county comm permitted ta review and equaliz ssment and unless the caun- A CANDIDATE FOR SENATO “Tending to. Business” on His Present Job, He Tells Interviewers hot maki Judge “There. the temporar 5 i Ri { err i tion which enjoins the y commissioners fro ppting to review lizing or attempting to equal se and that — pe which restrains the county | auditor “rom extending upon the tax records any taxes against the proper. | ty as valued and assessed pursuant to ¢ order of the te tax commi tion thereof that} te tax commissioner! on with the} ment.” as modified by Judge er, the temporary! ill remain in full Gover rlie is neither or potent f ndidate for th en to mean that as soon as the ter can conveniently be brought before Judge Coffey in dis- trict court the constitutionality of sment law will be argued.} e law is held to be valid then the axes will be collected in accordance with the reassessment as equalized i by the county commissiohers andj Although the executive spread upon the tax books by the; present view is that 1 county auditor. 1f the law is held| the contest, he declined to m unconstitutional, then taxes will like-,ironbound statement to th. ly be collected on the basis of the| because of the fact that original assessment. jstances might come up to change the Judge Coffey’s Order situation.” He has no idea, he said, order amending and; what such circumstances might b temporary restraining| Commenting on reports that he may order fo! nm full: have election to fi “The above entitled action coming | the on for hearing before Hon, J. A, Cof- | order i i fey, Judge of the District. Court,| cindidacy, Governor Sorlie said that Fourth Judicial Districts of North | persons holding such view © en- dakota, onlan ex-parte application of |tirely mistaken because T had noth- the above named defendants, for an {ing of that sort in mind! order modifying and amending the = a injunctional order enter- ieiun'on the’ Sud das'ct/ KARLY PASSAGE , 1925, and it now appear- ing to this court that the court will not be able to hear the return to the order to show cause above referred Washington, Nov. 13.—()—Repub- lican leadership in the house will en- deavor to keep the new tax measure on a basis of nonpartisan consider to on the 16th day of November, i925, the date set in the previous order, | on account of other court business pending, and it appearing to the court that the constitutional questions rais- ed in the complaint in the above en- tion when it emerges from the w and means committee. Represéntative | Tilson of Connecticut, the new Ré- ‘publican floor leader, says he will |seek to obtain the united support of house leaders for the bill now being warm supporter ‘said he has told all intery he is not now a candida thing but is “tending to business the job T have now.” Situation ™ will no modify way for his own i i | | smarck and vicinity: Gener- lally fair tonight and Saturday; not | much change in temperature. For North Dakota: Generally fair 162 YEARS tin Past Stop Light—- \ ston delayed payjnents, Ol by 01th ORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 19: |THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE 25 PRICE FIVE CENTS TWO MEN ARE DRO ITALIAN DEBT AGREEMENT IS MADE PUBLIC Italian Fanding Ter Them “Ve Comms Accepts ms, Considers ry Generous” | i TIME GIVEN Private Lozn (o Malian Gov: ernmcat Is Now Looked ‘for hy UL S. Bankers | (PY. The commis: | wl nan ug funding of Italy's ‘ Terms of t agreed up tion and accepted by mission is ment of t sen Both th do not begin the annual ayinents on fixed on a i adually in | merey 1 Deforest Radio Company’s Patent Suit Dismissed | Ov @--| Morris in the United States {| lay dismissed the pa rest Judge { court t of De within its + infriny The action cone manuracture radio tubes. BLAZER JURY STOOD 11 T0 4 ED Ty Nt aid FOR ACQUITTAL “Would Have Freed Aged Physician in Another Half Hour,” One Juror Sa Littleton, Colo., . ee sceming combination of justice formed the final of the eof Dry Harold Ee i roof the tu the f the country is daughter as came with st n hour discha newspaper nal scene Proseeu e quie mmson a di ne murder from $14,000,000 to the sixth to the o 000,000 te fe ce des nm oof back in t charge in fixing the amount to paid, the American Is that it ha : in id the 1 ter be {fee le It not only of two y in whenever Italy's warranted, but n to pay off the pos! ties in the third and four! ter due, with ntere. and one-quarter per making Tand { Bel ther settlement n, postponed p: liquidated in the third year. This concession was made when 8 delegates withdrew their demand f rd clause against unex- ' i ‘d_excha While the congressional i believe sof congres. s to the fate there either of the Ital ian agreement or that with Belgium. Loan To Italy Anticipated With the wa ment on its wi government, b urly private 00,060,000 to the T and at Jeast $50,000,000 of Italian in- dustrial bond issues to he placed on the American market shortly after. With the Italian debt problem out of the way, the American commissi concent HOw expect an 0,000,000 or {figures place at more than $46,500,000, {Although the theetin; econd since its a gotiations have been held in ‘abeyance during those with the Italian delega- tion. SIX STATES ARE REPRESENTED IN FARM CONFERENCE Methods of commercial organ: s in directing attention to solution of agricultural problems were discussed here today by 80 representatives of farm and ur- ban organizations, bankers, economists and editors of six states in the opening session of a two-day agricultural conference at the St. Paul Association of Commerce. Cementing of ,cfforts of org tions interested in agriculture to pro- duce a common program is sought by the representatives from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Montana, upper Michigan and North and South Dakota. Farm credit, marketing improvement, di sification ‘and intensification eam- paigns, farm dabor, fairs and exhibits, and social activities, are topies which will be brought before the group for consideration today and urday. Cooperation of industrial and co: mercial activities with that ‘of agri- culture is sought at the conference the Chamber of Commerce of the ited States, Which is sponsoring the ‘meeting. ‘By arriving at an un- derstanding with the farm industry, the commercial organization feels it may proceed with a more exacting debt, which treasury | h leven To One For Acquittal i y had) given usa half hour longer we would! uitted him.” | er, while tem according to. the soned with opiate Us ving killed her a burden on » tried to kill rgued that Bl und committed the ying yesterday to work on his timber lease. POLICE DOUBT THAT DURKIN Found on Bridge Over the Chicago River Nov. 15 to thief in the © may have perpet: suicide with bloodstained and shot-torn clothing and a farewell Iétter to his mother, The handwriting and — clothing found on ‘the Michigan boulevard bridge last night were identified h by his sister, Lucille. Coa: guards dragged the river all night. Despite the assertion that the writer was slowly dying of a bullet wound in the lung and was de: because he had to hide in b: and filch food from iceboxes, | police doubted the expressed inten- tion to end it all in the river. | Durkin was thought wounded whe: he escaped October 29, from a police trap set in the flat of Lloyd Austin who, with Sergeant Harry Gray, was! killed in the ensuing pistol fight. Durkin previously was sought many es after he killed Shanahan, federal agent who at- tempted to arrest him for automobi! theft. t Regrets Slaying The letter containing 12 pressed regret for the told of the writer's love for his moth- er and for Mrs. Betty Werner, with whose small son, Jack, he had planned | “to start a new and clean life.” | Mrs. Werner was sought for que:-| tioning in connection with the s cide note, but was not found early to- day. “It breaks my heart to do this thing, but I know it’s much bet than getting killed by the pol They would kill me even before | x0 to trial,” the letter said. Sees That Crime Doesn't Pay The writer said his arm had been broken by shotgun fire and that he: had a bullet in his lung which » H him think he was getting lockjaw. “Crime don’t pay, I see, but to late,” the letter concluded, expre: ‘iPastor Who ' proved led Mv fi gray IP hiMed a calf a ight, was wien he prison is He even hin Dry © served a in beean Bar Deserted |Th de: o el or free he pulpitless past Mra. Culp after) nt with a choir sin TO EXAMINE _ FUDGE EATEN IN MISSOURI RIVER han Y sist a good ‘Oklahoma Bandit King, Sick of eing Hu nted, Returns to Prison frRALeD BAD LANDS, ror A YEAR AND.A HALE. hload- redid Waker get o ! by automobile, ure pled yeu and wud, Weary fro: when G rrizon. Ming up Agent new experience 1 federal pro- when “Pussy- trict. N, iF ‘ | Twice | Family ov, 1) Culp, who twice 110 childre: othy Culp, to marry ween griven “a final | or was forgiven his first elope nger, but yester- Hy u unknown, i BY OHIO CORDS Nine Unive ty Students Be- : come Violently Ill After Eating the Ohio, Univers which is believed to near fatal results to | recovering today Fred Berr, ief Candy Noy. 13.—(#)- is will be made tod. ity girls and have caused the Edward / violent illness of all of them, with, All were! health | four. of the expressed doubt the girls’ illness stove. Bei that metall STRONG QUAKE : NEAR MANILA Buildings in Cit Was Recorded on George- town Seismograph Washington, Nov. 1 might have been /eaused by monoxide fumes from a gas! y expressed poisoning w the betief present. y Shaken— | P)—-A ser ‘MILLION ‘S ONCE A FEDE! WAS once A GPncen, Above + Mont Gr 1 “Cotton Hy. the man whe Top” Walker, famous captured him afte Walker never in the holduy and directed he Foster County Case Taken to Supreme Court Appeal to the supreme court. was ken today by the def f the First STATE PARDON , | | ) | | | 4 | . nd cons ter nue sad dee in the ‘oster county: Pardon Board to Hear Applica- tion for Clemency |Lifer Mandamuses wa tint court «oo STOLEN MAIL at Man Orton, FOUND INHOME OF MINOT MAN lolice Argument Morton county « nin the Hife prisoner « Who brought a mandsnn inst the state pardon der his application rd previou the application. because has not served half of hi life expectaney. re time he wa the \ w heard t court « in cl ate penitentiary | consi te inary {th ib atin ing reed us re validit at stake in the | Inspectors Arrest Occupant of House on life Theft Charge convictio Orton was sentence im- nment follow AIRE GLASS MAGNATE PASSES AWAY. Minot, N, mail cons ticles, Angelo, Minot was into custody on the accusation of he- ing responsible for the thefts, when a trio of postotfice inspectors raided his home this afternoon, (P)—Stolen w tely $2,000, | Augelo 8 Angelo has conf o the thefts, cordinging to. the postoffice in- spectors, one of whom has been in- vestigating the rob! for sever willingness, ctor, to make rex, million internation- connoisseur, died at s en Sunday with and intestinal influenza, howed litt! nges of the di With Mrs, pneumoni Me pide the theft of a small parcel post package last the aged + Bene health to a pearances fl the chroni heart disease with which he has been afflicted for several: months, arrived | in this country from summer in! Egypt only a few weeks ago. Mr. Libbey in the health, apparently, until last night when, following the he and the sudden cold, he down with vere cold wh developed pneumonia. ieee A Railroad Employe Angelo, who is 1 ; depot in Minot, h tion only si in the employment of the r; road company for a number of years, ndling mail part of his dus The . invthe postoftic Is, taken pla a period of probably about two Some of the loot which w. ed is believed to have bee taken from freight cars, as postoffi officials do not believe that it had ch soon Belgian Honor moat Chelsea, He réceived Give: H | beliet of i MACHINE GOES OVER BANK AND THROUGH ICE Men Believed to Have Lost Their Way and Drove on Abandoned Road CAR UPSIDE DOWN Sheri? and Deputi Coroner Find Bodi Seated in Machine OLN hart, 23, Lundin, 55, and Perr farmers ‘living Bismyrch, were drowned shortly rmidnight in th river when the were driving bankment a ey islind, When a party Sheriff . hat. . and Coroner » hedies this men were vithough i¢ had ely upside down, , Gobel morning Got O The men ev getting on ndone Wrong Road lently lost th d which a of the river cut- ting in crashed through four inches of ice, and was. badly The wheels were above the water, but the rest of the ear was submerged. believed that. Lundin alone in the arching par r other bodie: home locat eiy and j though looking fi whose 100 nkment, heard uthorities in bomen were noti- iam and are on their to Bism Lundin Married married and leaves a 1 children, accord: ‘ermation obtained : pbel. No info ion hi heen port. was current about early th i Bis- berty Memorial bridge more people had bee! Several local men went tu the and patroled the banks for some distance each side of the bridge but found no signs of any such acei- dent. Later it one 0 ed, river eld Sunday afternoon Tore kK oat the German church in’ Bismarck. rangements for Mr. Burkhart had not been completed ut press time today, FARMING NORE PROFITABLE Well Diversified Farm With Good Manager Provides Best Security for Loans { N. ation of plan for fi D « re, Nov. (P)—Vre- finite amortization ng the sale of land akota was one of the ou ures of the conferenc county agents and other tives of the farmers which » chairman of the agriculture committee of the North Dakota Ban ation, who declared in the opening addr that “a well diversified farm w good manager ty for a loan on 1 i ed in a repo den, 5 ‘y of the executive committee of that organization, The executive committee worked out the plan at a conference in Fargo yesterday, It provides for selling land on an 3 amortization system provid- ing for an eight per cent annual pay- ment, four per cent being the inter- est rate charged and the other four per on the prineipal. Many practi suggestions, with concrete plans for making the farm- ing business in North Dakota more | profitable, were presented hy the various speakers. | Supreme Court to Say Whether Tax Is Collectable Whether or not counties ean col- lect taxes from the Bank of North Dakota on property faken over by the bank as the result of mortgage foreclosure proceedings is the point Program of cooperation. Research into the value of organi- zation in agriculture and valuation of the benefits of federal and state ag- ricultural interests anfl means of im- ovement for each, is being made. ing the writer’s desire to “die in the| ious earthquake, apparently ceniering lake rather than in a basement like/ at a greut distance from Washington, a rat.” left its record today on the seism igraph of Georgetown university. It} | began at 6:12 a. m. eastern time, and was still in progress at 9:40 a. m. at issue in a> case filed in the su- preme court today in which the bank 1s plaintiff and Burleigh county the defndant. The Burleigh county district court heen sent through the mails. Angelo, who works from midnight until 8 a. m., was asleep in bed at the time the postoffice inspectors called at his home. He was aroused tonight and ‘Saturday; somewhat colder in_east portion tonight. Weather Conditions The low pressure area, with its ac- companying pres ation, is now cen- in the Boston public| r attended lectures at | Boston univ In duly, 1 King Albert of Be!-| jum conferred upon Mr. Libbey the} Pioneer Merchant tered over the Grest Lakes region. The weather is mostly fair from the Mississippi Valley westward to the| Rocky Mountain region while preci pitation occurred west of the Rockies, ‘A high pressure area over the middle Pacifie codst is moving towards, the Plateau States. Tentperature changes during the past 24 hours have becn slight, but with a falling tendency. ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Oficial in Charge. titled action will become moot ques- tions of law unless the Board of County Commissioners are permitted to review and equalize the reasse: ment resulting from the reas. “ment ordered. by thé Tax Commission- er of the State of North Dakota, un- der date of August 26th, 1925,’ and unless the defendant, Frank Johnson, {drafted by the committee to assure County Auditor of Burleigh County,| its early passage by that body. To North Dakota, is permitted to extend| insure action on it, there before upon the tax records in his office the | Christmas, he plans to consult with taxes against said property based up-| Representative Garret of Tennessee, on said equalization and said reas-| the Democratic leader, on a program sessment, and the expenses of such | for consideration of the bill. yeussessment have already been in-; Allowing a week for organization curred, and it being desirable that|of the house. Mr. Tilson has tenta- the constitutional questions raised be | tively fixed December 14 as the date fully argued and presented and final-*for taking up the. bill, Whether it ly decided, j will be considered advisable to bring “NOW, THEREFORE, it is ordered; it up under a rule restricting amend- that the’ temporary restraining order | ments has d heretofore issued on the 2nd day of | ec sy November, 1925, abera reforred 0 Sn ee be and the same is hereby lamended | ind’ modified by striking theretron || Weather Report and eliminating therefrom that por-; @———————-——_@ tion thereof which enjoins and re-| Temperature at 7 a. m. . strains the defendants, Edward Highest yesterday . Patterson, Charles Swanson, Axel! Lowest Inst night Soder, Victor” Moynier and Oscar Precipitation to 7 Bachman, as and constituting the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Burleigh, and State of North Dakota, from reviewing or at- tempting to review, from: equalizing or attempting to equalize reagsess- ments resulting from the renssess- ment ordered by the Tax Commis- sioner of the State of North Dakota, under date of August 26th, 1925; and that portion thereof which restrains and enjoins the said Frank Johnson, ns County Auditor of Burleigh Coun- ty, from extending and ordering to be extended upon the tax records in his office any taxes against the prop- erty as valued and assessed pursuant to the aforeagid order of the State Tax Commissioner, and that portion thereof that restrains and enjoins the defendant, T. H. H. Thoresen, as the Tax Commissioner of the State of (Continued’on page three) ri Because of the variety of viewpoints obtainable from the different men at the conference, sharp clashes of opin- ion are serving as an enlivening foree to arouse representatives to the. im- portance of farm problems, of the present, Mrs. Mary Layton, a 70-year-old resident of Santa ‘Monica, Cal., cele- brated her golden wedding anniver- sary by having her hair bobbed. \ ‘of Fargo Is Dead| Fargo, N. D., Nov. 12,—(P)—Hu- | bert H. Harrington, 71, ofe of the| ity’s best known pioneer merchants, died here early today. The cause of death was pernicious anemia, from Father Tondorf, in charge of the in- strument, described ‘very severe.” Manila, Nov. earthquake occurred The tremors hour. The weather b cqntinued for a the! shock as { - strong} ut 8:30 tonight, halé ureau estimated which he had been ill for several; the center of the disturbance to be weeks, Mr. Harrington had operated| 300 miles from Manila, a hardware business here fore many years, No damage was reported, although buildings in Manila were shaken, elgium order of the crown, with} rank of commander, in recognition of | his accomplishment: TOO MANY STUDENTS Beirut, Syria,—The American ur versity at Beirut has been foreed to limit enrollment to 1200 students. The] was conducting the Margate Muncipal influx of students from across the| orchestra in a performance of the desert in Iraq and Persia has caused| “Meistersingers” a mouse crept al- great overcrowding, especially in the} most to the conductor's stand and re- Preparatory schodls, mained during the selection, from the mails iast night, Later he got the rackage and turned it over to the inspecto: i i} — MUSIC HATH CHARMS London.---While Sir Landon Ronald and at first, it is said, denied the theft held that the state must pay taxes on the land in question for the years from 1920 to 1923, inclusive, but. that the property is exempt from taxes for 1924 because it then was held by the state treasurer as trustee’ for the state. The bank appealed from the order requiring it pay back taxes and Bur- leigh county, in a cross action, ap- pegled from that er of the order permitting the to hold land on a tox free basis, © “os. AS