The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 3, 1926, Page 9

THURSDAY, JUNES, 1928” South Dakota, showing here June. 11. It goes west to Carson on Saturday, July 12; Dickinson, Monday, June 13 N BURIED GOLD For’ boxe of His Absent Son * ike attractive features of the, bie [tar on pie farmers are convinced that it pays and| Mont., Wednesday, July 15. It will play a few stands in Montana, re- traits t over the Great Northern. certainty that the circus will draw a big crowd into this city a week from next mom Rext, Feiaey. WHEAT BEING: "UNEARTHED ON ALABAMA FARM Treasure Consists of $20 Gold Pieces—Believed Buried During Civil War ‘Demopolis, Ala, June 3—@)— ‘a of treasure trove are rivalled in the find of buried gold estimated | at more than $200,000 on the Whit-{ field farm near here. The cache, ieileven to have been hidden from union armies during the Civil war by C. Boaz Whitfield, was discovered by ‘theans of a key left to his son, big a Whitfield, Middlesboro, Ky. , he treasure consisted of twenty “dollar gold pieces, minted in 1850 and before, It was found in an old pow- der can that crumbled on touch. A gang of negroes, digging for a bur-| ied “boundary stake,” unearthed the! treasure yedterday. The negroes dug for a whole week without success. A MAJOR CROP Livestock Now tow Cable the Hopes of Towner Co. Farm- ers For Prosperity Cando, N. D., June 3.-()—Flax, sweet clover and barley, coming to the front in recent years,,are rapidly displacing wheat as the major crop in Towner county, according to Jay W. “Phey then stumbled on the powder Lawton, county agricultural exten-| can and contents, . | sion agent. Nine heirs may bid fof the gold, Although diversification of farm Some of them are descendants of vities still is in its infancy here brothers of C, Boaz Whitfield, hades was the son of General Nathan Bry- an Whitfield, pioneer, Many of the south’s aristocratic and wealthy families buried money and gold and silver plate during the vil war to prevent seizure union soldiers, Old timers here, itogre A year ago 7-year-old Lloyd Hikell disappeared with his mother from cannot recall where such large|the home of his father, S. Hikell of Omaha, Neb. Search proved futile, ‘amounts have been have been involved. j ahd Hikell resolved to observe each yearly anniversary of their disap- | {pearance by playing host to orphan children. This picture shows him | 1 DUAL ROLE ROLE} FOR | ‘at the first anniversary, when he gave a dinner to 200 homeless young- 4 4 sters. gasoline in other states on April 1st, em us as shown by the following B 1 | } N.D. PROPOSAL" svarsrce nce HERETOBOOST THE BIG CIRCUS | micas biti Nae cal ip a Three and one-half cents--Georgia, Plan of Making State Officers! Utah, West Virginia. ppi, New Me Three cents—A Federal Agents Sugges diana, Maine Miss New Me : co, e | , Soutl ‘ . “ } ed Here in 1922 kota, Tennessee, tGenial Press Agent For Rob-' Two and one-half cents—Wyomin e % i — Two cents bama, Californ bins Bros, Show Tells of When President Coolidge issued the | Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Dis- executive order authorizing the ap-!trict of Columbia, low wa, Idaho, 1 t is coming to, Bismarck upon of next week. “BI” is a acter. He is i robin that chirps its way through the sunshine ;af a North Dakota spring day. There is something | j {about him that brings a cheer to all | when he comes around and his flow | nguage, descriptive of his ex- * ences throughout this broad land | . of ours, would furnish vaudeville with one of its most entert: ining | ah toda attorney general, said! No. tax — Illinois, The plat first was suggested, Just- ice Johnson said, in an effort, to obtain better co-operation between the state and federal agencies in en-| ine tax whatever, ‘but the lane in detail it was similar in effect to| /e%#8: the ‘smallest, Rhode Is! that now authorised. for. trie! ‘in| and a state of intermediate California. North. Dakota, each charge a ce : y| Per gallon. Twenty states have a ti Magness then in ekeeented to. Roy of two cents, one a 2 1-2 cent tax a prohibition enforcement, at a con- pA oy etary Withal he is a good’ fellow. erence in Washington in which he| (no states, tucking onc, iets thre, [Everybody around the newspaper of and the federal nraniaition director eae “taxce on higher °Y% thee | gices look forward to his annual visit | for North a Denete\iebh ate Seven Mites Tncreaue, Tax with pleasure, for when he comes | le For to the editorial room it is a ‘aethasiiloe. approtsd. af toa hone ae sed geranionn oF thete gaso- | rabfests Mee OF spring and a ad Cogn F {line tax, while none haye either de- wer Traut Iter teat MU EARA Cee | created "or latennoned see GO: tieet Has Big Hippopotamus cutive order issyed, by President| cut went from a cent tax to two| This time he is full of the in- | Grant prohibited che man from hold+| cents, South Dakota from two tojereased proportions of the big circus ing both state and federal office.| three cents, West Virginia and (which. is owned by his brother, Gal Grant’s order, the judge said, was in-| Georgia from three to three and one-|Fred Buchanan. He tells of the big | tended, to correct conditions in. the | Raltscente, ol! Florida from three hippopotamus that, svas imported this south during the carpetbagging period| to four cents. i biggest jumps |spring from the jungles o! Sut applied equally. ce Melt ee Doan) seeard Wateiaadelty Virginia: noe Len Come take Tanagayika, to | dition agents. The recent order of|Went from three to four anda half |be exact. When this huge pr President Coolidge, he said, evidently| cents and Kentucky from three to|]of the African rivers arrived at the automatically repealed that issued by| five cents per gallon. The imme-|circus winter. quarters at Granger, Grant. diate neighbors of North Dakota each |Towa, it ¢ ited something of a sen- | The scheme proposed by the North] charge a higher rate: South Dakota| sation in the scientific world. Camera Dakota men, Judge Johnson said, was, three cents, Montana and Minnesota!men and reporters from all of the! that he, as attorney general, would| each two cents. Only South Dakota | leading papers were on hand to picture | commission all federal agents as|of these three states provides a.re-|and to describe the famous animal. | state officers without pay in ofder ¢o| bate for the tax paid on gasoline |Although only eighteen months old | assure them the co-operation of | used for other purposes than motor {it weighs two thousand pounds. The | Stflctals In. connection with their | Latiaeed ages Tie Tee Scie Te on ee co it r measure follows the Sou ct' due to the activity. of the | work. At the same time state of.i Dakota rebate plan. Hence ever af-|Afriean State governments in an ef- | ficers would have becn given federal, ter the voters approve this measure, |fort to exterminate them’ and. the| gemmissions, aie without pay, in} North Dakota will levy a lower and] work of the big game hunters~ from r to give them the same powers less sweeping gayoline tax than any |ull over the world as federal .officers. When Grant’s| of its three neighbors. There ix] When the animal had been fixed | order was uncovered, Judge Johnson | considerable agitation in Montana {in his new home in lowa the wovernor said, the scheme was me was dropped. for raising its recent tax of twolof the state, John Hammil!, named cents to three ing ceremonial. 24th of this nts per gallon, a day for a christe ere ; eae That day was Apri 450 BLIND HAVE JOBS year, And ut. Perry, Toway in the New York.—-Four hundred and fifty| presence of many thousand’ atural- blind persons are engaged in 50 or| ists and lovers of aniguals the young more occupations here, according to| hippopotamus was formally named a recent survey. About 200 are injand christened Miss lowa. So it is business for themselves. One man|that this wondrous beast is now runs a mail order novelt- business, |carrying the name across the con- another # tea and coffee store, oth-stinent to udd to the attention that ers operate stands for the sale lgwa is now receiving through the candy and soft drinks, run bootblack | public press. parlors and own moving. van con- cerns. Teaching Her Stunts Ciiiiteune of Nation Not content with merely having It has been estimated that all the|the animal on exhibition the me- Shows North Dakota’s Tax | known diamonds-in the world at pres-|nagerie the trainer, Schultz, ent have a value of $5,000,000,000.;is trying to uct the “Hip” to walk Among the Lowest The value of all the gold accumulated | around the arena. Miss Towa is balk- in the world is estimated at $8,000, !ing at the idea, but the trainer thinks 000,000. he will overcome this and in time Mec aay eT Have the creature doing stunts in the | ring. She is growing very fast in| Massachusetts, |! New Jersey, New York. lan Forty-eight states and the District | jef Colunibia are found in the foreg: ing list. Of these, four levy no gaso- Nosely. 50.000,000 was, paid in gasoline taxes y motor “gehicle operators, according to the Blue Grass weight and puts on about a hundred Bureau of Public ‘Roads of the United pounds a-month. She has already States Department of Agriculture. aded 300 pounds coming to this The exact amount collectéd was $146,- country. It is claimed, by thdse who 028,040, in increase of 83 per cent ‘ know, that she will weigh eight thous- over the total in 1924 ha four and and pounds when she attains her full one-half times the total in 1923. The : height and avoirdupois. She is cer- increase is the result of the still tainly growing fast and is dne of wider use of motor vehicles, adoption ¥ of the tax by a number of States which had not Provigealy resorted to ‘a, and higher rates taxation by other States. The $146, ‘mye col- lected was derived from the taxation of a total of 6,457,783,284 gallons of gasoline, from ‘which it appears that the average rate is 2.26 conts per gallon. The average consumption per vehicle was about 430 gallons. In the \46 states in which the tax was levied the average amount. paid by the motor vehicle operator was $9.22. i - In 1925 car registration "tor North : . Dakota was 145,415 1 trucks and saa motorcycles. The total gallons of gasoline upon which = tax was levied during the same period was 65,209,- + 31 gallons. This makes aa average annual ceneempeien, Bae per ear a Shab gallons, but thi h be- cause 3 Stan use grt ats pur- po: an automobiles is included. é 7 Bouth Dakota rebates about 12.9 per oo i cent of its tax. collections because } that amount of Pgs used for - : ~1 / non-motor vehiel Hence, | ° per car: in ae 4 hee bout 394 e gallons, an 6. ave} car oper: tor would pay abo ue eg.34 in eh taxes. Thus, it will be steered ‘neFth Dakota was conside: aver ox (ag pew veven Ween, m the itt city of King City, f the ga: joubled,’ Nort! unique Blue Grass Seed’ kote ‘will a ne wae ielow the Festival on aanee ‘3 Miss ning ‘in “1923, for ‘the wel et figgs It be’ irvey recent); shows that the tan ona glen af of} any os I _——aESESES—anaaa THE i ee TRIBUNE \ @ré going ahead rapidly. Bitter ox- perience hag proved that wheat, us vhe niajor cash crop, is unreliable. Livestock ‘of .all kinds with the Beach, Tuesday, ay 14; Miles City,/eingle exception of beef cattle now ‘ul carrics the hopes of Towner county fegmers for future prosperity. The humber and quality of shcep. hogs and dairy cattle is increasing as the result of the change from wheat to other crop: Corn Acreage Doubled reage devoted to corn has doubled in he last five years, Lawton said. The acreage devoted to alfalfa has inorcased 10 times and that devoted sweet clover ‘has increased 100 times. Burley shows # 10 per cent nermal. Another, important change in Town- ef county's agricultural situation is the switch from spring to durum] wheat. In 1925 the county produced 450.000 bushels of spring wheat and 2,789,000 bushels of durum wheat. This year the spring wheat a we is reduced 20 per cent. At the same time the total acreage devoted to wheat, cither spring or durum, -has decrease. ite the fact that county had a good crop 9 prospects for 1926 are even than last y only three farms have been sold the county Ss year and more people have left the farm ‘than have moved onto it, Lawton said. he need now is for more people, Lawton said, and prospective setilers are offered wonderful oppor- ‘tunities. Towner and etter a act Telephoning to Underw orld Lieut. Commander Elisburg of the l his diving helmet as he Lat pares to descend to th off Block Island, R. L, las [duct ng operations to raise the wreck, in 1 which the bodies of three of her crew S. Navy, ‘testing the lahat in Navy now is con- are believed to be, for Economical a. | PAGE NINE Conditions at Cream Stations Much Improved nt in conditions at cream shipping statiofis throughout the state have been noted by dairy division of the state department of agriculture and labor since new rules governing their operation became fective last March, John Husby, dairy inspector, said. ‘he betterment has worked to the advantage not only of the consumer, who is thereby assured of more sani- tary milk, butter and cream, but to the advantage of the dairy companies who have had fewer rejections and decreased loss due to shipment of contaminated cream, Husby said. The dairy companies are co-operating with ‘the department in its effort to bring North Dakota cream stations to a high standard. 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