The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 10, 1927, Page 1

WEATHER cs Fair tonight and probably Tues- day. Slightly warmer tonight. ‘ESTABLISHED 1878 CARR OFFERS | | ~ LISTOF HOUSE COMMITTEES Independents Control All Committees, Sometimes By _ Only One Member \ REQUESTS | CONSIDERED 4 scl Membera.Given Appointments Desired Wherever Possi- ble, Care States Among the appropriation bills scheduled to be introduced in * the senate some time this after- noon are the followi 000 for the North Dakota National gual 20,000 for the state board of auditors; $2,000 for the Nerth Dakota Firemen's association; $140,000 for bounties on wolves, coyotes and eine $86,400 for the game and fish commission; Lie td for the maintenance and im penitentiary; $286,600 fate training school at Mi Forty-two committee assignments were submitted to the state hotise.of representatives by J. W. Carr, speak- er of the house, when it convened to- day. Little opposition to the list of committee assignments is expected, Speaker Carr states that he has tried, as much as possible, to place men on the committees on which they asked to serve. In many instances he found this impossible, however, and. arranged them as best ‘he could, he id. Cards prepared by the ‘mem- bers showing their occupations and giving personal data about them- selves were @ great help, he said, One Without Application Cost of Transporting Wheat From N. D. to Europe TVPICAL fomrT = WELLOUAEI.onn. ) ' From joint committee’s report on Great Lakes-St. Lawrence deep’ wa- terway project released by the Greater North Dakota Association. CHARGES AGAINST MRS. M’PHERSON AND OTHER DEFENDANTS DISMISSED * ON MOTION OF DISTRICT ATTORNEY Keyes Reiterates ‘Charge, Today’s Program in Legislature However, That Los Angeles Evangelist Was Not Kid- i naped, as She Claims, But | [otss “npivtes Srpanitaton Left in Company of Former Senate considers bills. Radio Operator | ts soe 7a sn. »—to-' KORMER IOWA Charges of criminal conspiracy against Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist, her mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, Kenneth G. Ormiston and : other defendants growing out of the disappearance case, were dismissed here in suverior court today on mo- tion of District Attorney Asa Keyes. District Attorney Keyes, in request- | ing dismissal of the charges agains | Mrs. McPherson, reiterated his) yocate of Waterway Plan, to charges that she had left here in the it 1 a Sngigapplication trom the house | company of Kenneth G. Ormiston, her} Address Legislature members. It was the gommittee on| former radio operator, and not in the revision and correction of -the-jour- mals, the duty of which is to read ‘the journal to make/sure it contains no errors, it On committees with 10. members, Re eee ratcans Naw el ee ele, ptatement read to the court; with 17 members number 10 Inde- pendents to seven Nonpartisans. On crime Againgeabe laws of Uhe dtale Offcome heta at that time ond talk; to all committees the Independents havo the legislature. Action was taken on| R. Trubshaw, Barnes a majority, sometimes of only one member, Only one of the members of the Nappropriation committee, Chairman bath Q 5 Fy . turned with an unreasonable story of | way will relieve the Northwest from; “' Watt, is from a county which has @| \iinaping. she and others had induc-| the, burden of high freight. rates| ion of the North Dakota legislature ed Mra; Lorraine Wiseman-Sielgff to| which it is fow hearing. Speaker produce false testimony or evidence,’ Carr said he heard Harding speak in the nat §fan alibi for the Car-|Jast summer and that he sure ‘ i : North Dakota ii the house would hear an interesting state institution whose. avnropriation the committee will rev: The Complete Lut The list of commit e' as presented by Speaker Oarr, fol- lows: fohnson, Foster, Montgomery, O'Neill, Ellingson, Shurr, Hoffman, Ki leber, Gudmestad, Anderson, Divide; Holthusen, Signain Larvick, Vi Berkom, Brown of A priat! Lf MeManus, MeGauvran, Spe son, Burleigh; Yeater, tis, Brown of Adams; Butt, . ery, Bollinger. > oP tlonment—~Johnson of. Trail, q } trict; Levin, district; Worner, 12th dis- - ‘rubsha' dintrits Standley iesn dltret; Laft-| Montanan’s ResGlution Is, Be- |e on Gocccisen ba Piret, Bil 1 7 Flom - ; y b trlet; Tweten, 19th district; Conway,| . fore Senate Foreign Re- wil trict; 20th district; Thompson, triets Wedel, 25th district 26th” dfetrict; Cox, 21th. district; ‘Continued on page @ siz.) olened “98.2 Weather conditions et:/North Da- mments,| mel escapade. » Thomp- prosecutor could vouch. rural schools, county] this state. Of course, these figures lalerow, Fer- oe a5 Judges, county auditors, the auditors | iq not include the dependencies of ‘Mont- : of incorporated cities, presidents of | these countri alive Anderson of Sargent, Lyon, village councils or incorporated vil- Ke rd district; Johnsson, fourth district; Steedaman, fifth dis ict; Fi ixth district; Veitch, | It\was determined to print 500] ranks sixteenth i . itis | , Found in : veath districts Twishell ninth dis OFU 4 FORCES cole te Inert, tS, Prine Age | Fans sixteenth in aren. tis iarer | Rour Charred Bodies Found in|’ trict; Plath, tenth district; Roberts, aoe eleventh \ Ramsey, 2ist district; Hanson 22nd district; Rulon, 23rd district; Opdahl, peed hands of kidnapers, as Mrs..McPher- son steadfastly declared. Keyes. Gives Reason es get forth his reason. for a. K of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence canal ing: the Wismissal in the ° following |probably+will address a joint sessio: California had ben committed. “Evidence was laid before me which tended, to show that after Mrs. Mc- Pherseh hed ‘gone to Carmel. and re- “The chief evidence laid before me] presentation of the subject. ‘Since the preliminary hearing of Mrs.' copies: of cach bill be printe McPherson, Mrs. Sielaff has changed; member of the housé and senate wil! her story almost inconsistengies to the one given in dis! , mercial clubs and women’s clubs. the house on motion of Mrs. Craig. i t ite. will receive a ¢op: 4 Appe 4 chairman; eighth district—Olatson, | -No provision was made for sendipg| conceive of the development which } first distric i Bact peete second dis- copies. to women’s clubs in the report| might take place. lations Committee position. It was offered by C. Nicaraguan ;the event of a vacancy. Such a} emergency,” Washington observers portunity to select a senator by vot ' “Kofs points for the 24 hours ending Vent on the administration's Central) in his message, at 8 a.m. today, Fedde digas) at 7a. ighest ye: 1 see Lowest last night .. Precipitation to 7 a, m. . Highest wind velocity . WEA’ FORECAST tonight and ly_warmer tonight. For North Dakota: Fair toni and probably Tuesday, Slightly -warm- er tonight, i ‘sissippi Valley we: y gero along the central Canadi: pane Mt: FAMILY SAVED FROM DROWNIN' border. The weather fs somewhat unsettled over the Greet Lakes re- waters, was reported gion and over the extreme West dua p lower Pree DIS W. ROBERTS, ft aiies thy AngRes extent ahs clas {court merican polit in them should be printed Minnie D. Craig, liberal | ments but it wa: sereed thi mine thi under President! port to save the oth WEATHER High pressure, ied by fair. | Diaz's banner, was received in news! trouble. L. ,L. Ti cold weather prevails nee iS horn dinapteh from Manabe whlch | floor lead point Yountaia region. Temperatures are, beep ee Me sone te eg lise ich . recently " was|ty; Minnie.D. Craig, rm: county. ryt the C, Montgomery, : ed 'in'| On ‘motion of suaaiennd oe Srrote id was ey pote | house. pay av nm at ithe tenneter Pray 400} = Napol: |SAVING FOR N.D,, AT SHANGHAT | St. Lawrence deep waterway will re-| Amcrican and other refugees here SPEAK HERE ;|W. L. Harding, Leading Ad-| prepared by Orville M. Fuller, assist-| ation at: Hankow, which has been W. L, Harding, former governor of | members being Dr. Jowa and one of the leading advocates | University of North Dakota, C. of the house and senate on January! “The.prosecation of Mrs, McPherson |14, Three members were named on| The Feport was given to the public | with sheets of “fron and sandbeg! the at r joi invite hi ody he eve of the ope icades. us a precaution against! shot Chipps was started upon the theory‘that «ithe joint committee to invite him to P' arrica cpbraciatlon oxatast lahot Chiouay wien, tye. lune Harding, former | her way down the river. The ship‘ tacks by the pastor on Mayor governor of lowa, will speak on the had been placed at the disposal of expressed the view that| waterway project. While in the state | American’ in Hankow h kes-St. Lawrence water- was the testimony of Mrs. Sielaff.| The joint committee on printing of ‘Agriculture — Elkin, Tratll, chair-| Without her testimony, proof of the/ the feurnals recommended that ¥,000 an; Thompson, Burleigh; McDowell, | alleged conspizacy. is now impossible. | copies of each day’s journal and 1,000 daily until it now| be permitted to have copies sent contains so many contradictions and|to each of 10 persons or firms in his Copies also will be sent to aa thee court that she has become n witness state institutions, state historical| North” ‘parote and: Jupan is, about 4 VICTIMS OF for whose truth or credibility no society, public lil 3, high schools, 4 f lages, newspapers, farmers or com- ight of the whole ‘of the committee and it was added in| “fm comparing North Dakota with ‘ ‘and the re-| chusetts, and has more square miles mainder will be ‘distributed by the| cpus any state touching the Atlantic secretary of state as provided, by law.| Ocean, If these states with their __ [Bereich Bottineay, county, Nonparti-| Ccnansion in this great state. Jan. 10—()—With pendent, and authorises*the governor Sui an Lee io cr to appoint United’Btates senators in|] North Dakota is es: ntially am agri yesterday in the ruins of Shady of international affairs turned to; Passage of such a measure was rec- congress today for possible further! ommended by Governor As G. Sorlie ee, s Th te foreign relati {in the operation of the seats bail e senate foreign relations com-|est in the operation of the st rn =) mittee, which has before it a resalut |insuranee department, workmen's) in Lake Level Case | Smale: beathere, asl Oe Seraars, tion by Senator Wheeler, Democrat, ! compensation bureau, highway com- Montana, calling for withdrawal. of , mission and guarenty fund denart- semaiean te0pe9 freee THCRTAEG a, has met is waen ee pattes to a Le : cal retary Kel 0 appear j comm! of: five examine the 5 e bru sciag yor WEATHER RORBCABT . |before it as a wiinees Wetneaday. ‘A|audits of thone departments and de- wea oo, Je Pe ‘or i is pent in ie what al yn net ly Ta y. Slight- oie lar resolution Pp ing rmine it, my contain 1 Zone Declared » Nonpartisan, said ight that official copies of the audits are| cial Master Charles E, Hughes. vailable in three different depart-| James Hamilton Lewis, represent-| outbreak of the southern Illinois gang E, F. Johnson, Foster coun- Benson county; state de-, I. 'W. Standley, 8 cele county, and E.|-probably' will be taken to New York, iG , E. Swendseid, Washburn.—Quick Chas. Seca but id ‘up “by the! Mountrail Giger ag of We shown” ot| STARRY oman Pa e With $20,000 memorial” resoluth 8 Tadeed by ane Two Local Dental -———_—____ ACCIDENTAL iG 18 FATAL leon.—Th (Mueller; 14, * ‘ wantanamo, Cuba, living 26 miles of'hare, was in-| Announcement. of the teking over eliminated the only. stantly killed last: ‘Sun evening| of the practice” of when the ‘sh P unloading | Dental. compan: . ‘ je | 408% Mai e 3 ithe building,’ which contained | a| ‘company, whi ‘ears. No plans for the future have @ CK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1927 TT CHILDREN KILLED IN MOVIE DISASTER [Resamed chairmen] FIRE IN MONTREAL THEATRE WATERWAYT0 ROREIGNERS RESULT IN BIG | ARE ARRIVING | iMany Facts Brought Out in! Coolie Mobs Successful in State’s Plea For Comple- Driving British and Ameri- | | tion of Project cans From Hankow JCOMMITTEE REPORTS|SITUATION IS. QUIET! ai { { State’s Grain Crop Alone Are Compelled to Submit to Placed at $7,943,216 Many - Indignities Completion of thé Great Lakes-| Shanghai, Jan. 10--()—Arri al of sult in a minimum annual saving te state's grs would: , side world today how the Chinese dragon, with some of the character- Pay the interest at 7 per cent | istic blustering that, marked the on the state’s farm mortgage in- Boxer uprising 26 years ago, has debtedness of $82,410,560 and | shaken the foreigners from his back. amortize the debt in less than hanghai was the goal of all refu- 20 years; or {gees as the gnti-foreign situation re- Pay off North Dakota's bonded | ™ained in an uncertain state. indebtedness of $26,859,000 in | accomplishment of coolie mi less than four years; or driving British and American citizens Pay interest ut the rate of more | {fem Hankow and Kiukiang. is said than 8 per cent on the total bank , | Cant Rachie: whink’ | eonveala deposits in the state; or lgees fhe et at Rant ab r 7 |that section of the Yangtze valley, Adi $10 an acre to the value of | and may win certain elements in the North Dakota cultivated land if | north over to the southern cause. capitalized at 7 per cent, the | In the light of this development, average interest rate on farm {there has been talk that the Peking mortgages. i vernment, aoe, ae Sl aleds the ever-northward march 0 e These facts, and many more Of! Ganton forces, may take over the equal force, are brought out in! gorcign concessions of Tientsin, in an i | | Minim m Annual Saving on|Scme of the Women Refugees | | the! board, will continue in ‘that position for the next (wo year nt reorganization mee his colleagues asked in! big present position. i I M ‘ Milhollan will aerve a six-year term! Dede Sunday in the Laurier Palace, a‘ theatre in Montreal’s under the consti proved by the vat North Dak f $7,943,216 on from Hankow and points up the} a - gid Richey ite seme Yangtze river, illustrated to the out-! SELF DEFENSE 10 BE PLEA OF TEXAS PASTOR “North Dakota's Plea for the Great | ities, i : | pt to demonstrate also its pow Teena fee catien Makerway, (er to rid China of outside elements. jthe Greater North Dekota Ase-rin-| Withstand Threats For Hours tion, The plea is made in the form} ‘The foreign colony at Kiukiang jo! report to the association ana tne! the last to fall. Stories reach | North Dakota Tidewater Commission | here today indicate'the B: {from a joint committee appointed by | others withstood the threats of mobs! |Governor A. G. Sorlie and C. E.! for hours beofre being taken aboard | | Danielson, president of the Greater| ships and. put under way downstream. (North Dakota Association, It was| Dispatches last night said the situ: lant professor of agricultural econo- | ¢, | mies, and Dr. A. H. Benton, head of! americans, was quiet and that th the department f marketing and/Canton government had allowed jrural organizations, North Dakota! British to take control of the nat | Agricultural College. Dr. Benton is/ police in that quarter of the cit; jchairman of the committee, other! wh negotiations continued amon E. Towne, | English, American and Cantonese of. = ficials fer a reopening of busines: irand Forks, P. R. Trub-| houses. alley City, and James S./ ship bearing 60 American refu the Tri-State Farm Congress in Fargo) having to ru at which Hon, W. L. jarding will, at the invitation of commander there. vernor Sorlie, address a j Women Insulted Extracts from the report follow: Some of the women refugees re- | ported that they had been comp to submit to a series of indigt which were heaped upon Bi The Case For North Dakota a vast area of| jably in size with some of the coun-|day previous to the Amemican exo- | for the sale of her surplus products.’ at them while they boarded the ship. This great state is. mare. than six) ow’ times as large as Belgium, about|that they will defend Shanghai in 1] two-thirds as large as Italy’ and a|cage trouble develops there. of the whole United Kingdom, F: three and on ta is only one state United States, it is not difficult to UNIDENTIFIED these, other states we find that it Each member of the house and sen-) New Jersey, Connecticut and Massa-| Ruins of Dynamited Bir- ger Roéadhouse comparatively sniall land areas can | "thtvedueed “in the|*¥pport a population which is ten| Marion, Il., Jan. 10—(#)—Through house is expected to meet little a3 or fifteen times as great as that |a process of elimination, Williamson found in North Dakota, then we|county officers today attempted to would conclude that there is room for| establish the identity of the four latest victims of the southern IIHinois gang war. Four charred bodies were found cultural state and eat, embattles reparations going forward at ‘poinment would hold only until the). ‘Diego, ‘Calif, ‘to organise a marine next general or pelaary election at | Producer of small grains. Accordins| of | Charles lif. rimar; Weather Report. © || iattstion tor’ use “in event of an which the people would have an op which wat dynamited and burned shipments, North Dakota has shipped | Saturday nivht. It was the latest out 92.3 per cent of the average|chapter in the gang war that has (Continued on pare six.) | Saks 13 lives within less than five — | months, i ? | Officers attributed the affair to Chicago’s Answer . | ine Sheiion vans, whore leader, Cari, rs { 1 . Carl had bee leased on Due in Court Today iit .c7t,e trothers ‘are in jail at Bloomington and. Peo: sentation of Chicago's answer in the | FIFTH BODY SOUGHT lake level litigation was the order at | IN ROADHOUSE RUINS the resumption of the supreme court ion, Il, Jan. 10.—)—The chancery hearings today before Spe-| nossibility that five persons instead of four lost their lives in the latest ing the Vago od iene district in| war was under investigation today. cooperation with the city of Chicago,j Mrs. Art Newman said those at the state of Minois and five support-| Shady Rest. the fortified roadhouse ing states, was in charge of the de-| of Gharles Birger, gang leader, short- fense case, in the effort to answer |ly before it dynamited and burn- the voluminous evidence offered in! ed Saturday night, were Steve George report in considering legislation with regard | the November and December hear-| and wife, caretakers; Jack Crews and Rear. ital Latimer, in command| to those departments. Motion for! ings by th: lai ti Y : Fi t, of en ‘naval forces in Nicarag-! the committee was made by William bi K4 k ‘th cath eae “ ly Siren ion Stns, ot Harrisbares is as havin; county. .The committee ic te precent the lending | Meer re TL einfoemies|from Lake Michigan . through the/ As ‘only four charred bodies “were sanitary canal found in the ruins yesterday, Coroner The ‘hearings will continue here for| George Bell rgturned to the scene ik, after which they | teday to search for a fifth body. where the Empire State’ rticul : so Interests in the ctfect of the diver. | Fire Destroys Ryder ie ; : N, D, .— (Special. Firms in Merger | p2!9.,yeu ise eiranc ot the lay, morhing with a total loss of the New Y it $20,000, partly covered in- Firemen ‘were unable to ie! one offices in'the Lueas block. Al! announced by the dwners of will be ®@. VanHook afar the ate oie , ms Austin, Texas; Jan, 10.—()—Dr. J Frank Norris, Baptist pastor cuated’ by the British and many | trial in district court for the slaying Jof Dexter. E. Chipps, wealthy lumber- an, who was shot to death in Nor- is’ office July 17, last. upwards of 200 s summoned, the state ‘hi d it will ask the death penalty |" ' counsel for Dr. Nor lared | ae ware: Fargo, secretary of ‘the! goes from Hankow, atrived here last{the — pastor will take the stand seem to have reached the open with-,. ater North Dakota Association. | hight with her upper deck shielded testify he shot Chipps in self defense. | q i] [out great difficulty. a das i Those in the balcony, terrified: by | ke and the heat of C The state contends thut Dr. Norris lumbern leacham, owner of a store ion were employed, /TBACHERS 10 HOLD MEETING HERE IN 1927 N. D. E. A. Picks Bismarck |- Fer Convention—McCurdy Reappointed Secretary aH) arable land and compares very favor-| women when they left the colony the} {tries with which ghe has to compete! dus, Coolies threw bricks and spat | The powers have made it known Members of the executive commit tee of the North Dakota Educational association Suturday decided to hold the 1927 convention of that organiza- Bismarck about the middle of MeCurdy, Washburn, was re- eeretary for a three-year Curdy said that the association dvance any legislation at ssion of the legislature and that none was discussed at the meet- the executive comsnit- tee at the meeting were Miss M Kane, president of North Dakota Univer- y; Joseph Kennedy, dean u Perry, Jumes- town; H. B. Ide, Harvey; Bertha Pal- mer, ‘superintendent struction, and S. T. May, Dickinson. New Type of Engine Passes Through City A new type of passenger engine, the first of\a number recently pur- chased by the Northern Pacific rail- way for use o1 tinental trains, this noon, boun is now being used to pull trains between Jamestown and Man- dan, this being neces: in” the locomotive, largest ever used on the Northern ’ Chaff From the * Legislative Mill ' Official photographs of members of the house during this session of the legisbature will be taken at the Slor-| itudio here, while senate members will face the camera in the of the luxe transcon- jotographer Sat- urday, while enstor Ober. Olson, it ‘ » Group pictures of both legislative bodies will be fram: end hung in the capitol. House members got their first state a2, of the Ranh Saturday when leage 's re reese ar ment amount o1 f the Cipiial ond] tance eee ok der pb company here early’ ; PRICE FIVE CENTS BRINGS PANIC- YOUNGSTERS —— TRAMPLED IN RUSH FOR EXIT |'Tragedy Caused Mostly By Fear, as Fire Which Started the Stampede Was Comparatively Trivial—Matinee Per- formance Had Attracted Many Children DEATHS ARE CAUSED BY ASPHYXIATION | Firemen Forced to Chop Holes in Side of Wall and Through the Stairs to Release Those Caught in Fatal Jam on | Stairway—Theatre Owner Arrested Montreal, Jan. 10.—(AP)—Victims of a movie disaster ting| more tragic than ever flickered on the silver screen, 77 chil- | dren lay dead today, crushed or suffocated by a fire stam- east end. This morning 68 of the little victims had been identi- lat the city morgue, while eight others still awaited rec- ognition. One of the 30 injured children died in a local hos- pital today. Autopsies established that 60 of the children died |of asphyxiation; 11 were crushed, and five lost their lives ;from*’ a combination of asphyxiation and burns. More | deaths seemed likely among the score still in the hospitals. Fire Was Trivial . \ The tragedy was caused by fear, as the fire which start- |ed the rush for the exits was comparatively trivial. i The Laurier Palace is a two-story building with a stone ‘and brick front, and has been in operation several years. The seating capacity is about 1,100, and it was well filled | yesterday, with the usual large number of children in the \Dr. J. Frank Norris Goes to! audience. Adults also attended. Trial Today For Killing of Wealthy Lumberman The place has four exits, two at the front, into which | the stairs from the balcony lead, and two at the side, open- ing into a lane which leads to a side street. ne Sunday’s performance, featuring a comedy film: “Get Em Young”—deadly irony in light of the disaster that was to follow—was barely under way when there: was a’ flicker jevangelist of Fort Worth, today faced of flame and a belch of smoke from the projection room beneath the balcony. Bedlam Follows Cry of “Fire” < Someone saw it—accounts differ as to whether-it was a witnesses Small boy or an usher—and the dread cry: of “fire! was j taised. Bedlam ensued. The crowd, drawn -from the sur- rounding French-Canadian and foreign district, fled for the - > exits. “Those on. the floor the billows of smoke an the flames from below, ran for the. | two stairways, down which they struggled, swaying and shouting. An . usher succeeded in restoring some order to those stampeding down the west side st: > But on the east, a jeer th panic developed, and it was here that the worst of the tri occurred. mtn oe |. The tide of children and adults Would Put Limit on Guaran- flowing oe attack ere os iad st 8 lenly halted. me one had fallen. teed Deposits and Permit wih Panic redoubled those behind, ‘eeling the breath of the fire upon Collateral as Security them, surged downward and the stairs way became a near-solid mass of | groaning, shrieking humanity. Gaga Crone Svomied t ildren were borne underfoo! state senate date Saturday afternoon.' be trampled. Others were eaughe ang Senator Walter Bond, Ward county,, crushed by the pressure of the sur- introduced a measure putting an end to the operation of the present de- | FIREMEN RESCUE Positors guaranty fund law. The bills 60 CHILDREN FROM Provides that no deposits of banks BURNINNG SCHOOL shall be guaranteed under the guar- i ee anty fund law after Dec. 31, 1927, but | ¢_Philadelphia, Jan. 10—(AP)— up to that time the act shall continue | Sixty pupils of the Parochial in full effect. No banks would be | School of Our Mother of Sorrows relieved by the repeal of the act from | Church were trapped by smoke any liability incurred to depositors in | WHen fire swept through the banks now closed or that | shall be | Syma in the basement to- closed prior to Dec, 31, 1927. It is . not designed to repeal the guaranty Firemen and volunteers, plac- ‘fund law, but limits the time up to | {ng ladders to the third floor of which deposits are guarantecd. the fire-resisting stone building, A bill permitting banks to put up | catried the children and their bonds, warrants or bills receivable as | teachers down to the street. security for deposit of public funds Fifteen hundred children, with in lieu of a security bond or to pledge | 35 nuns and two lay teachers in such assets for the purpose of obtain- | Charge, were in the four-story ing a surety bond for public deposits, | building when the janitor discov- was introduced by Senator P. J. the fire, which was confined McLachlin, Cass county. The bill was | ¢® the gymnasium. -drawn up to aid banks which do not, eel justified in going to the ex-! pense provided by a surcty bond, it! ;ounding: adults, Four bills, two of them important banking laws, were introduced in the ng. adul Still others, Er Pinioned, were suffocated. Those carries an emergency clause. in the rear were caught hy the flames. i Firemen, arriving from the St. Apreey Bridge at Grand Forks | catherine ‘street east station, found in aiding the construction ‘of a bridge Wien VT fay, inextricably, jammed, over the Red River at Grand Forks Qiiy a few Haws thom the aire! Pre Whienintroduced by | Senator W: S.” Attempts to relieve the pressure by f 1 ee pulling at individual members of the ‘unds would be taken from the state toncie were unavailing. Firemen tied highway fund as part of a federal aid a’rop6 about the body of one child 1 Project. This bill also carries an. the hope that it was the key-loe ot ee 5 O Forbes, Richland ‘he jam, but were unable to budge’ it. . Briss) , . | Then, as the quickest way through, county, introduced a bill amending’ sho, smashed a hol ‘in the t the law which provides that when a. they smashed a hole in the street wall township is sued, the chairman of the fh) Cutts throvun the sponte ne W. W. Pare, fought’ heroically but electors of the township for their sutiely in the blindi tng direction, According to Senator futilely in the ba Pipe wn Forbes, this is impractical because the joveg*aniratgr> Sve Some anawer to the suit must be filed long jig cietleg be aver tis efore. e meeting of the electors could be called. The amendment trance canopy and thrust them out in the hope that some were alive. pees: sarpetine the board to attend, None survived. Almost overcome by = See reas ae e 10) ‘end was - Legless Swimmer to _| street by'firemen. Try Channel Swim} ,,Jusree Ts! — i through the stairs As the Burleigh} Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, bodies. ber of the house, offered the motion naming the Slorb: the official ho: vie - 10.——Charles Vii out by the fi : One d, although legless, hey rete ronared tg neuhy eats or to n m one to another roneeriny first aid. The seri S Wrigley. marathon channel tarting from the isthmus on the is- land next Saturday morning. Vimmy thinks he has a _ better chance to win then many of his com-| raced ‘petitors because he has no legs which, he claims, down. | bore Just to pro’ ‘swam 10 mi Vi Nore is: