The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 5, 1927, Page 1

CREM ARR EO, WEATHER FORECAST Generally fair tonight and Wed- nesday. Not much change. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [muom ec _, ESTABLISHED 1878 . i / PRICE, FIVE CENTS NATIONAL ARh G_RESISTANCE POLLS UNDER Missinsipp Levee Break Drives Thousands From Homes | BANDITS SET MONEY CAUSES [— Kidnave | FORRIGNERS HEAVY GUARD | fF eS ]«HIGHSTANDARD EASTERN MAN CONCENTRATE : IN CHICAGO | OF POLITENESS 10 SLAY WIFE AT TIENTSIN BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1927 MY MEETS STRON 000 Policemen, Special Ma-| Be . eame rabid and ran amuck, biting chine Gun Squads and De- tectives Are on Duty TROOPERS NOT CALLED Adjutant General Black Ready to Summon Guards- men if Necessary, However ago, = April = 5.—(P)—A shooting, the first in four hours of voting in the mayoralty élec- tion here today, alarmed negro voters in the thirty-second pre- cinct of the twenty-eighth ward on West Lake street about 10 a. m., but there were not casualties. ~ Several men in a roadster fired weveral shots as they went past : the polling piace. The bullets shattered a window. A man with- in the place ran out and fired a shot im return, Chicago, April 5.—~()—ch most extraordinary mayoralty cam- puign — whose issues hurtled the municipal boundaries and soared to foreign fields—today entered the voting stage, with 5,000 policemen, special machine gun squads and armed plain clothes men on guard at the polls. 1p One candidate was Mayor William a cago’s Dever, Democrat, who came to icago from Massachusetts 45 years ago and rose from tannery worker to alderman, superior court judge and finally chief executive. His plea for reelection was based entire- ly on his municipal record, Another candidate was William Hale Thompson, another Bay State native, once 2 cowboy mayor of Chi- cago, from 1915 to 1923, and titular head of the Republican party in Chi- 0. His slogan was “America First.” He inveighed against the League of Natiogs, the draft, the prohibition law, and told King George to “keep his snoot” out of Chieago’s affairs. A third candidate, conceded only a bare chance of winning, was Dr. John Dill Kobertson, former health commissioner under Thompson, who campaigned with the support ot Frea Lundin, “the poor Swede” who served as Thompson’s political god: father until their ways came to an abrupt parting a few years ago. Guard Not:Called , é State soldiery was not called out, despite the plea of Sheriff Charles Graydon that it be kept in readi- ness, but Adjutant General Carlos Black of Springfield maintain: headquarters here today, prepared @o have guardsmen on duty within two hours, if the emergency presented itself, Police, on the other hand, were rez.y to. meet uny election day ter- rorism that developed. They passed the word to the city’s gunmen and hoodlums to wear their bullet proof vests if they ventured forth. “We'll shoot, first, talk afterwards,” was the police fiat. POLITICAL HEADQUARTERS IN TWO PLACES ARE BOMBED Chicago, April 5&—(P)—Two head- quarters of the Democratic political workers in Chicago were bombed early today by men riding in two au- tomobiles. The fronts of both places were demolished, but no one was in- jured. The bombers escaped. The first bombing occurred at the headquarters of State Representative Lawrence O’Brien, active in Demo- cratic politics in the 42nd ward, The other bombing was at a two-story brick barn, A black powder bomb was used there, police said, and dyna- mite at the O’Brien place. O’Brien said he had received threats that he would be “knocked off” after he had had William Dam- ma, 30, arrested for pointing a re- volver at him, The barn was owned by James Rowan, a Democratic worker, who said he supposed the bombers were trying to intimidate someone. RABIES SPREAD CAUSES WORRY IN WEST STATE Eastern Oregon Districts In- voke Aid— All Coyotes Marked For Slaughter Portland,“ Oregon, April 5.—()— An epidemic of rabies, which appar- ently started among a pack of coy- otes and spread to dom: animals, harassed the Bear Valley and Izee levee nea: homes. Call The Tribune The editorial rooms of the Tribune will be open from 9 un- til 11 o'clock this evening to the people of Bismarck all able information concern outcome of the cit: election today. The polls close at 7 a. m., and it is estimated by city officials that approximately two hours will be required to complete the count of the vote. The returns will be tabulated as rapidly as possible and it is believed that by 9 o'clock it will be possible to give some definite information as to the trend of the voting and perhaps the final results, It will be useless to call the Tribune before 9 o'clock as no definite returns will be avail: before that time but perso: calling between 9 and 11 o'clock will be given all information at hand, The Tribune's telephone number is 32. FERDINAND IS LOSING FIGHT AGAINST DEATH Question of-*Days, Perhaps Hous, ‘Repo?ts From Ru- manian Capital Indicate Paris, April 5—(®)—-King Ferdin- and of ‘Rumania today was fighting a losing battle in his efforts to over- come the ravages of his ailment. This was apparent even from the laconic bulletins issued at his bedside in Bucharest, but the latest reliable information to reach Paris from the Rumanian” capital indicated that death was only a question of days, perh, hours. Advices from Bucharest said the political group in the kingdom were alive to the danger of Russia seizing the disorganized political situation at such a juncture and that they now envisaged a coalition ministry to i clude all the parties. Averescu conferred with former Premier Bratiano and other leaders with this end in view. This Solution Favored The national peasants party seemed inclined to rally to this solution of the situation, It has given up the idea of bringing back former Crown Prince Carol to rule in case of the death of Ferdinand. poles by. constitutional act o: last year of Prince Michael, Carol's five-year-old son, as heir apparent to the throne and also the recency provided for by the uct to take charge of affairs should Ferdinand die. The regency would rule until Michael w 18 yenrs old. farol remained today at his villa Here is the first picture of the wide: I i Large are: the opportunity to take advantage of | Premier M.| The party decided to accept the aay r the danger. districts of Eastern Oregon today as in Neuilly. Bound by his word of federal aid was invoked to stamp out honor that he would not return to umania without permission, Carol waiting disconsolately today the arrival of a summons to his father’s All coyotes in the district and every head of livestock as well as other domestic animals suspected of bearing the infection were marked for slaughter as four hunters of the United States biological survey set out to attack the cause of the epi- mic, Existence of the danger became known when the Portland laboratory of the state health department re- vealed that two coyotes and two dogs killed in the affected district had proved to be rabid. Government officials said the dis- ease Was sp: the coyotes be- every animal they could reach. Even rabbits and sheep become ferociou: and crazy when infected. the seal, used to mark 0! its, which dates bac! Usually cylindrical, seals first were made of bone, ivory and alabaster, : ———— ariiest form of the Printing to bedside, Labor Party Loses in Winona Election Winona, Minn., April 5.—()--The Labor party went down to defeat in Monday’s gity election when Robert J Fee, "tadnufacturer, was elected mayor over Henry J. Krier, plumbers’ foreman. by a vote of 3,555 to 2,906. Jwo aldermanic candidates with t! endorsement of organized labor, Ben Laabs and-John 8. Czaplewski, were also . ‘Three new members re elected to the board of educ: tion in George Higgins, Ben Gerlicher and J, B, Leveille. ° The winners in the aldermanic con- tests were Dr. Samuel Schae! derman at large; Lewis W. Luetje, Charles A. Choate, Edward Stief and John J. Koscielski, . were inundated by vad destructicn and suffering cause the flood water: This picture shows a refugee camp near Laconia, ten The flood waters are even menacing this camp. d by a break in the Mississippi and thousands were driven being used as temporary At the extreme right an arrow points to a house with the water up to the roof. | j Voting Light During Morn- | ing Hours, But Expected to | Increase Rapidly as Time For Closing of Polls Nears! | —Nearly All Candidates! | Express Confidence in Fi- | nal Outcome | Weather conditions in today very favorable the polling of a large vote jthough the voting progressed very slowly during the morning hours, it! lis expected that the heavy voting! {will tale place during the | ‘of ‘the wfternoon. The da bright and clear, with a. spri {atmosphere which should tend espe- cia}ly to bring out the women vovers| ;who would perhaps not make the itrip to the polls were the day a stormy one, | 1,360 Votes Cast at 3 O'clock Voting began to pick up briskly after the noon hour and at 3 o'clock | this afternoon 1,860 votes had been cast as confpared with 1,820 ut the same hour in the general election last! November which was considered very good. The heaviest vote, up to 3 o'clock today, had been cast in the first precinct of the third ward, at the high school, which had a total vote ut that hour of 173. i The total registration in Bismarck last fall was 4,616, and there has been little change in that total since, | as only a few new registrations were ‘made ut the two registration days; held during the past two weeks. Tne | registration lists used last. November ae being used for today's election, {and the only persons who were re. | quired to register this spring were | those who had come into the city | since the last election or who had | moved from one precinct to another {in the meantime, The total vote cast in ahe city at the fall election was Ex to and, al- were Following is the total registration, | total vote cast, and total vote casti at 3 p. m., on the last election, No- i vember 2, and the total vote cast up jto 3p. m., today: ~ : | Total Total Vote at i Regis. Vote 3p.m. 3 p.m. Nov.2 Nov, 2 Nov2 Today 1926 (WL Pe 1 444 Pe g Pe Pe Pe Pe Ww Ww Pe 1 374 Pe 2 358 Total 4616 3604 1820 1360 The city’s quietest pre-election | campaign in many years closed last j night with most of the candidates expressing confidence: in the final outcome, The Candidates Five candidates are in the field for the two vacancies which will occur on the city commission with the ex- piration of the terms of John A. Lar- son and J. P. French. These two incumbents ase secking reeiection, and are opposed by William A Hughes, Mrs. Alfred Zuger and Henry Burman. Police Magistrate W. S. Casselman is a candidate for reelection to that office and is opposed by J. M. Belk, Cashman, H. J. Bonny, R, H. Cc. W. Dodds, Anton Beer und R. H. Crane. G. E. Peterson is the only candidate to file for the office of city justice “of the peace and his name appe: alone on the ballot under that’ head- in~. Chas. Glittschais said to be con- ducting a sticker campaign for this office, however. To Elect Park Board The five candidates for the five places on the city park board which is being created here this year are unopposed on the ballot, and no talk of any opposition has been heard. andidates are 8. W. Corwin, for years; F. G. Grambs, for four years; Mrs. C. L. Young, for three pars Fr. John Slag, for two years; ', L, Moule, for one year. The polls opened at 9 o'clock this morning and will close at 7 o'clock tonight. Persons who have not yet cast their vote should make a special effort to visit the polls before 7 (Continued on page three) “la dozen ‘$}supply of fun WEATHER CONDITIONS FAVORABLE TOWARD POLLING — LARGE VOTE IN TODAY'S BIENNIAL CITY ELECTION Where to Vote First ward, first William Moore school. First ward, second Col, Little's garage. Se first precinet— precinet— precinet— first preeinet— econd Wachter seh ~Community fir precinet— t st precinet— |. second precinct Mary's school. If you are unc which ward and pre in, call the city auditor, giving him your street address, and he will advise you. GLASS SAYS AL SMITH CAN BE ELECTED Being Catholic and Wet No Barrier, But He Must Let Prohibition Issue Alone Asheville, » April 5.44 The Asheville Citizen today quoted Senator Carter Glass of Virginia as saying that Al Smith can be clected president despite the fact that he is a Catholic and a wet, but he must let the prohibition issue alone. “I am sure Al Smith understands that the presidency means nothing at all in the fight to modify prohibi- tion,” Senator Glass declared. “Th presiednt cannot change the tution. He cannot even veto resolution passed by congress is mitting the matter to the states, and ‘his influence with congress on such an issue would be negligible. “Yet, for some reason, the people who talk about electing a president on a wet issue lose sight of that par- ticular consideration. The president has nothing to do with it. When a Demoeratic president (Woodrow Wil- son) did veto the Volstead act, con- gress thought so little of his leader- ship on the matter that it passed the act over his veto.” Senator Glass said that those who seek changes in the prohibition law should concern themselves with ob- taining a majority in congress to pass the desired legislation. Broad Buying : Is Cause of Rise in Railroad Stocks| New York, April 6—()—The gen- eral average of 20 leading railroad stocks on. the New York stock ex- change today was lifted to the high-| est level since 1908 in a broad buying movement which carried more than carrier stocks to their highest level in years. The cxcel- lent character of current eurnings and traffic reports, and the huge seeking inves were given the principle for the buying movement. Rumor ind dividends and rumored mergers also pla their parts, however. New highs in the railroad group were established by the three Erie issues, ‘Pennsylvania, Bangor and Aroostook, Gulf Mobile and North- ern: Kansas City Southern; Union Pacific; Peoria and Eystern and Western Maryland-secon? nroforw * the gains ranging from fractions te, five points. ‘Unted States Steel common touch- ed a record Rig price at 170% while Colorado Remington Type- writer, People’s Gas, Fréeport, Texas and Fleischmann touched their highe est prices since l¥co, UF ivuges. . Pan American “R” touched » new Jow ‘price below 57; $ the! Italy Awaitn Development | ! of $25,000 Adhere Closely | to Etiquette Rules | DO A THOROUGH JOB, | Offer Chairs to Captives Be-| fore Ransacking Safe— Make Getaway to Kansas Superior, Nebraska, April 5.—(a% Making an effort to entertain their 13 prisoners and avoiding any dis- play of roughness, the two well dressed bandits who held up_and ransacked the Farmers’ State Bank here of $25,000 during lunch hour Monday established a model of po- liteness as well as thoroughness. “Here, tuke a seat, you'll be more comfortable,” one of the bandit told | J. R. Parsons, the bank’s president, who had been lined up with the other! captives. Parsons sat down, as did several other prisoners who could find chairs, while all awaited arrival of the cashier to unlock the safe. “Come right in, sir, and make j yourself at home,” ‘said one of the as a shoemaker’s apprentice into the bank for change. “Just step over there with the other gentlemen.” Create ‘Home’ Spirit To another of his prisoners, who laughingly complained: he had missed his lunch, one bandit sai “I'm sorry; if i'd known you were hungry, I'd have brought sandwiches.” While waiting 45 minutes for the cashier the men chatted and joked with Parsons and the customers, dis- playing their guns and bragging of | their proficie h them. Officials feel certain the men ¢ caped into Kansas. State Sheriff W. C. Condit, of Lin- jieves one of the men was ie Jankins, who broke jail at Red ud, Neb. several w FRENCH STAND - WILLNOT HALT ARMS PARLEY: ‘ England, Japan and U. S. Will Take Part—Italy May At- tend Unofficially | Washington, April 5—(AP)— President Coolidge is disappoint- ed that France has decided not to participate in the naval limtiation conference between the United States, Britain and Japan but he does not expect the refusal will in any way trouble the holding | of the conference. | Washington, April 5.—(—Refus-| al by the French government to be represented even in an unofficial way at the forthcoming Geneva arms parley will have no effect upon the | agreement of Great Britain, Japan and the United States to sit in at/ the conference table in an effort to | thrash out practical possibilities of extending limiting agreements to} cruisers, destroyers, submarines and other classes of warcraft not affect- ed by the Washington arms treaty. | It still is hoped by officials here that Italy will accept the invitation of Presiednt Coolidge to be repre- sented in some manner at the con- ference. Since the Italian, government de- | clined the first invitation for full representation at the conference,’ nothing has been learned of its ut- | titude. It is believed, however, that ' officials in Rome were awaiting aj statement from Paris regarding the | second invitation and that the an- nouncement of the French refusal will be followed before many days | by a setting forth of the Italian at- titude. The French refusal in the form of | a memorandum has been transmitted to the American embassy in Paris. It asserts that France cannot weaken the authority of the League of Na-/ tions, which already has taken up| the problem of general disarmament, nor can France compromise the principle of equality of all nations, | {large or small. | | Although the state department | would not comment on the Paris dis- patches or admit that the memoran- {dum had been received, word of the French refusal was received in Washington with disappointment but caused no great surprise. ‘City Scales Weigh 2,239 Loads in March Coal still holds the lead by far in ‘the total number of loads passing‘ over the city scales during March, according to the monthly report of J. D. Wakeman, weighmaster, pre- sented to the city commission Monday night.. Of the 2,239 loads whic ighed on the city scales dur- ing the past month, 1,589 con of that particular kind of fuel. Hay took second place, with 206 loads. The number of loads of other com- w gees during March was as follows: Ice 40, straw 3, cattle 6, bee 21, wheat 21, oats 33, corn 113, alfalfa seed 2, potatoes 2, bones 20, old metals 98, old paper 9, house- | hold 1s 3, merchandise 17, cabbage 2, barley'12, gravel 8, buttermilk 24, ; salt 2, automobiles 3, rabbits 5. j | Total receipts from the scales for the month! were $223.90. 3 A ton of candy a Week is required to fill the demands of the co-eds of tho University of California, |’ Weather Repo j the Pl | ee : oe — BO fae a . a... ‘ | Men Who Rob Nebraska Bank | Crushes Head With Hammer, Hoping to Get Earnings of Few Hundred Dollars WILL FAVORED HIM Murderer Would Also Have | Been Beneficiary of Spous' Insurance Policy New York, April 6.—(®)—The lure of a few hundred dollars which he believed his wife, Helen De Mars, 60,/ had concealed in her stockings, caus: ! ed Edward De Mars, 58, to to death with a hammer tn their| apartment here, he confessed today. The woman's body, with, he: crushed, was found lying acréss th Her stockings, in which she was ticeustomed to put money she collect: ed from some 20 roomers in the! house, were slit from the tops down. | Finds No Money i Mars said he had found no} ry former policeman charged with the kidnaping 0 old Virg dosephine —Fraz ri Virginia's J par- the cy in his wife's stockings, as he} b: i expected. | The police dectared Mrs. De Mars had several thousand dollars in a sav-| ings bank and had made out a 1) leaving $7,000 to her husband. c} also had at least one insurance policy | for $1,000 of which he was the bene- | fici | De Mars, six feet tall and weighing | more than 200 pounds, was an iron! worker by trade, but in the last 10} years had worked at odd jobs. The De Mars were married years ago. ' Bronze Powder Plant | ° . | Fire Is Destructive | Cleveland, Ohio, April plosions lasting more tha rocked si ions of East Cleveland early today while fire destroyed the; main plant of the Ohio Bronze Pow- der company. Windows were shat- tered in surrounding homes and factories und seven persons were lightly injured by showers of broken 20 The explosions were caused by wa- ter from fire hi striking the bronze powder man: tured in the plant. Loss was estimated at $100,000, The} fire started from lightning. \ ised i 7 MEMBERS OF | MEXICAN BAND j ARE EXECUTED} Tried By Court-martial and Found Guilty of Murder of American Engineer a | Mexico City, April 5.—() Tried by summary court martial for the kidnaping and murder of Edgar M. Wilkins, American electrical engineer, | ‘seven men have been executed by a firing squad at Guadalajara. The euilt of the culprits was said to have been established at the court martial Sunday night, after the 10- year-old son of Wilkins had identi- fied one of them, Mariano Calezada, as the leader of the band which cap- tured his father and himself. The executions took place carly Monday morning. Calezada and two the other men, Isidro Perez and incento Perolsado, were said to have confessed the crime. The names | of the four others shot by the firing squad were not contained in the re- port sent by General Ferreira. rt ‘emperature at 7 4. m. ...... Highest yesterday ......... Lowest last night .. Precipitation to 7 a. m. Highest wind velocity .......... Weather conditiens at North Da- kota points for the 24 hours ending wt 8 a, m. today: | Amenia ....... 46 BISMARCK .... Bottineau . . rosby .. Devils Lake Dickinson : Dunn Center .. Ellendale ..... Fessenden .... Grand Forks Jamestown . Cloudy P. Cldy. Cloudy | Clear Clear Clear Cloudy Cloudy Clear P Clidy. Clear Cloudy Clear bs Cloudy Williston Clear 46 48 Cloudy EATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinity: Gen- erally fair tonight and Wednesday. Not much change in temperature. For North Dakota: Generally fair tonight and Wednesday. Somewhat colder tonight extreme southeast por- | jon, WEATHER CONDITIONS The low pressure area, with its ac- companying precipitation has moved! eastward to the Great Lakes region.| High pressure over the northwestern states and southern Plains States is causing generally fair weather from) jains States westward to the Pacific coast. It is somewhat colder over the Plains States this morning. but seasqzable temperatures prevail in all lon: RRIS W. ROBERTS. | Official in charge.' cause police CITY BOARD ASKS BIDS ON SEWER WORK Proposed Improvement Would | Be on Avenue C Between Washington, Mandan Second reading and final passage of an ordinance creating sewer dis- trict No. 9 on Avenue C between Washington and Mandan streets, was e! econd reading and final passage by the city commission Mon- day night, and the c auditor was instructed to advertise for bids on the installation of the sewer peti- tioned for at a previous meeting. The bids will be opened on April 25. The commission accepted the plans vod specifications prepared by the city engineer on this job, placing the total cost of the improvement at itemized as follo pipe @ One lamphole Engineering and five per cent tion during son and on the buildin ks, curbs, crosswalks ands ik “repairs Bids on both projects will be opened April 1. A petition was presented to. the others and block Riverview graded and storm w constructed so as to drain that block, ich is bounded by West Park Hannifin street, Th avenue and Rosser avenue.” The m ter was referred to the city engineer and street commissioner for their recommend HUNT RESUMED FOR MINER WHO DISAPPEARED. Fellow Workmen Positive He Was Drowned in Mine, But Proof of Death Needed Cambridge, Ohio, April 5.—(-— | Resuming a search abandoned nearly five months ago, state mine inspect- ors today went into the partially wa- ter-filled workings of the Cleveland mine of the Cambridge Collieries company, 20 miles southeast of here. to hunt for the body of “old Pete” Sweediski, 70, who disappeared in the mine November 7. earch is being resumed at the re s| the latter city. -| rushing reinforcements to that sec- | Collisions Between Rival Fac- tions of Kuomintang at | Nanking Expected | KWANTEIN IS CAPTURED | Nationalists Rush Many Re- inforcements to That Sec- tor—Losses Heavy | Shanghai, April 5—-()-—The north- | ward drive’ of the nationalists (Can- | tonese) along the railway leading to | Tientsin and Peking is meeting with | strong resistance. Northern forces captured Kwantein, 60 miles northwest of Nanking, Sun- day after heavy fighting, and 200 | nationalist wounded have arrived at The nationalists are tor. A wireless despatch from Nanking reported strong anti-foreign feeling in that city, where collisions between rival factions of the Kuomintang were expected. Nationalist soldiers in uniform were seen Monday remov- ing property from residences of for- eigners there. Japanese Held as Hostages The latest estimate of the casual- s in the recent melee between | Japanese and Chinese in Hankow, | suid a radio, were 10 Chinese killed and many wounded, and two Japaneso killed and two wounded. In addition, seven Japanese were held as hostages. The despatch added that the Jap- anese country club, the Japanese hospital and timber and oi] go-downs, or warehouses, were looted and burn- ed. British property was not touch- ed. The former British concession was quiet. Foreigners continued to concentrate at Tientsin from widespread sections of north China in view of the con- | stant press northward by the nation- alists. Fearful of lack of safety in | Tientsin, some of the foreigners an- (Continued on page three) CHICAGO ‘BAD / MAN’ IS KILLED BY POLICEMAN Shot Down By Officer After He Became Abusive While En Route to Court Chicago, April 5.—)—Death, rid- ing fast on bullets from a policeman’s revolver, has overtaken another Chi- cago “bad man.” | Vincent Drucci, 30-year-old heir to | the beer baronies of the Slain Dion | O'Banion and Eurl (Hymie) Wei was being taken with two companions from police headquarters to the crim- inal courts building yesterday, when, according to the story of the four policemen who were with the prison- ers in the “wagon,” he became: abur sive toward Officer Daniel Healy Healy shot Drucci three times after the north side gangster had struck him. Drucci's companions, who had been arrested with him in a pre- {election round-up of known trouble- | makers, purtially substantiated the police uccount of Drucci’s death. They | Said, however, that Healy started tho dispute which was climaxed by the ! gunman’s death. rior court judges refused ea warrant charging Healy with murder, requested by Drucci’s attorney. They held the regu!ar | course of a coroner's investigation should be followed. | Paul Wieger Dies From Tuberculosis | The body of Paul Wieger, 24, who |died at a local hospital Sunday fol- | lowing a month’s illness with tuber- culosis, was taken to Webster, S. D.. | last night, accompanied by his mother jand a brother who lives at Stanton. | Mr. Wieger had been in Bismarck j about three months and before be- {ing taken ill was employed at the Patterson hotel barber shop. His mother was with him during the last few weeks of his illness, and sev- eral brothers and sisters have been here at different times to visit him. Funeral arrangements will not be | made until later. Grade Crossin; | quest of miners of sub-district No. 6,{ who took action last week after the! state industrial commission had de- nied the death compensation claim of | the aged miner's wife on the ground | is Separation Bill Killed By House that there was no proof of his death. No doubt exists hereabouts that “Old Pete” went to his death in one of the deep, murky waterholes which abound in the meandering tunnels which cover an area of 10 acres. Tools and dinner pails he carried in- to the mine the day it resumed oper- ation, after a long shutdown, were found lying in one of the tunnels the day after his disappearance, but the trai} leading away from them proved | untraceable, and after 10 days of searching his hundred odd fellow workers and five state. inspectors gave up the hunt. Now, to provide proof of death so that the widow can obtain compen: tion for the loss of “Old Pete's” s port, five state mine in: returned to the workii mine where the aged di doom. New York is the champion cab- bage-growing state in the union. p- rs have to deter- met his |. St. Paul, April 5—(4)—A_proposal to restore to cities of the first class | power to regulate grade crossing separations was killed last night by a vote of 67 to 49 in one of the most heated dqbates of the house since the present session started. The debate took place while the house was convened as a committee of the whole. After rapid action on eight files, the committee track a snag which held further business fast for three hours when the bill wai brought up for consideration. Absolute forfeiture of lands sold to the state for taxes in certain is provided for in a bill: passed--by the house late yesterdey. : Drawn to remedy the situation iu many northern Minnesota Depeny 4 ich large tax delinquencies on exist, the bill provides that lands ac- quired because of elles be held in trust by the state. fut ‘pro- vides for the manner of sale of the