The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 22, 1929, Page 2

- PAGE TWO * IN TAX RATE SEEN BY AUDITOR STEEN General Fund, as Increased by Lawmakers, Held Down by Policy of Paring NEW ITEMS RAISED TOTAL Bills for State Functions Aggre- gated $9,044,466.96; Spe- cials Added $465,529 Data showing just how much money ‘was appropriated by the legislature at its recent session and who will get the money has been compiled by State Auditor John Steen. He is incorpor- ating the information in a booklet which will be printed and available for distribution to anyone interested. Steen, often designated as the “watchdog” of North Dakota's treas- ury, is well pleased over the manner in which the legislature handled the business of making appropriations and just as well pleased at the action of Governor George F. Shafer in lop- ping $188,000 off the appropriation bills as passed. He says he knows . that the prospective reduction in the state tax rate will be welcome. Al tion bills payable from the state general fund, as introduced totaled $10,417,336.96 and the total ided for in bills passed was $9,- 466.96. Total appropriations pay- able from the general fund es passed at the 1927 session were $8,728,570.58. ‘The increase in appropriations pay- able from the general fund for 1929, as compared with 1927, is $315,896.38. In addition there is a levy of one-twen- tieth of a mill, the.proceeds from which will go into the capitol build- ing fund. This cannot be listed as an appropriation, however, since no provision has been made for spending the money. In addition to appropriations pay- able from the general fund, the legis- “lature appropriated $984,290 payable from special funds. The amount asked from special funds in bills offered in the legislature was $1,921,- 474.20, but many of these bills failed to:pass, In addition to the $964,290, however, the: state has standing ap- propriations from special funds to- totaling $392,000, making the total ap- propriations from special funds $1,- 376,290. This is an increase of $129,- ‘as compared with appropriations special funds made by the 1927 qe. State A ppropriations Compil - PROSPECTECUT | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE “Who do I think will win what pennant?” lic printing . . 27,100.00 } , the total for 1927 being waa ‘of a change in handling for the state highway depart- however, this comparison is not as it looks, Steen points out. for the operating of the highway department 1927 was ble aetoet in ad- large part lepart- expenses was charged against construction projects. year, however, all of the high- department's expenses must be from the appropriation made appropriation was boosted to for that purpose. Exclusive highway department, there- appropriations from special reduced $25,030 as com- liye e gz ii ge g ie i F fi these only: $7,910, For items covered by the budget, however, the legislaturé appropriated $465,529.47, the principal items being $161,000 for of @ building at the state university and $125,000 to start a Physical education and auditorium building at the state agricultural col- The remainder is composed of Board Items Enacted Appropriations recommended by the budget board and eligtd passed State Auditor .....sseeee 67,100.00 State Treasurer . . 50,040.00 Attorney General + 93,700.00 Commissioner of Agricul- ture and Labor ...... . 23,440.00 Dairy Commissioner .... 45,080.00 Commissioner of Insur- ANCE ose eeseeee seeeeee 32,290.00 Railroad commissioners. —_ 110,600.00 Railroad commission— Elevator division ..... 25,700.00 Supt. of Public Instruc- CON 20. cc cesseeseeveee 50,980.00 Supt. Public Inst.—Aid to Schools .. 682,000.00 Land Commissioner 68,720.00 State Examiner 110,580.00 Depositors Gu Fund Commission 32,000.00 Securities Commissi 9,050.00 Tax Commissioner 66,480.00 Board of Administrat 64,830.00 Library Commission 23,005.00 State Engineer 21,200.00 Adjutant Gener 15,350.00 Adjutant Gener: turned soldiers . 9,310.00 23,700.00 8,900.00 10,800.00 1,000.00 . 112,500.00 Budget Boerd .... . 2,500. Rewards for Apprehen- sion of Criminals .... 1,000.00 Fugitives from Justice. . 5,000.00 New Infirmary—T. B. Sanatorium at San Haven .......cesese08 18,000.00 Florence Crittendon Home, Fargo .......... 10,000.00 ; School of Forestry—Em- ergency me 6,500.00 Children’s Home, Fargo. . 10,000.00 Burial Expenses—In- mates of Penitentiary.. Corn Show—Bismarck .. Artesian Waters ...... oe Bonds of State Officials. Action to release insane Patients ..........+..+5 300.00 Burial Expenses—Soldiers Insurance Tax to Fire Departments . . Bee Diseases . i 3,000.00 State Transporation of- MOOT oo. see eseveeeees . 29,541.91 Commissioner of Immi- gration 4 23,340.00 Coal Mine Inspection .. 10,200.00 State Contingency Fund Board of Auditors . 5 School of Science . Historical Society . Vocational Education . 28,950.00 Child Welfare .. . 11,680.00 State Capitol—Upkeep. 130,778.50 School for Blind ....... 34,200.00 State Public Health .... 67,900.00 School of Forestry—Bot- tiMeAU oo. cece eens eee 91,770.00 Total .. $8,565,537.49 Outside ge New appropriations made)by the legislature and approved by the gov- ernor, but not recommended by the budget board, follow: Storage of grain on farms University—for completion of new building Veterans’ service commis- SIONET ...6..00..00055 ve Agricultural College—new buildings .............. House of Mercy—Fargo. Re-write school laws..... Boys’ and Girls’ Work—state fair ...... Purchase land for North- ern Great Plains sta- Training School—Manda! Insane Hospital—Repa: boiler house ...:....... Commissioner of Insur- ance—Rating Bur. State Fairs Reimburse School Funds Supreme Court—Purchase Of Digest . Potato Inspection . Seed Commissioner 25,000.00 161,000.00 12,400.00 125,000.00 10,000.00 200.00 2,000.00 16,000.00 500.00 31,874.47 8,555.00 10,000.00 35,000.00 2,000.00 1,000.00 10,000.00 15,000.00 Total +-$ 465,529.47 Appropriations from special funds follow: Bridge—Walsh county....$ 35,900.00 Bridge—Fort Yates ...... ‘Workmen's Compensation State Highway Depart- Highway No. 22 ....... Game and Fish Commis- sion Bridge—l Bri#~e Sounding—Garri- BON socccccccccccosscors Land—State Penitentiary Bridge—Box Elder Creek. Bridge—Wahpeton . 139,000.00 122,580.00 371,600.00 154,230.00 15,000.00 15,000.00 20,000.00 86,400.00 20,000.00 » LOCOMOTIVE HAS HORN Hoboken, N. J., March 22—(7)—A new locomotive built for the Lacka- motorists wanna has a horn to warn at grade crossings. It is operated by air from the brake system. The idea is perhaps that folks will hear and heed when they would pay no atten- tion to a steam whistle. 7] | AIMS AT ENLISTING COMMUNITIES IN IT Soo Line. Special Farmers There Is No Real Gain Except All Aid ONE CAR IN TEN IS WASTE Showing Demonstration at Town Visited Got 35 Bushels of Dockage Out of 50 of Grain - After cleaning 50 bushels of wheat in one town, as a demonstration, and getting only 15 bushels of clean grain out of it, the Soo Line special seed cars came to Bismarck, Thursday eve- ning, to impress on farmers here the magnitude of the dockage and smut evils in the state. They came in from Kintyre at 7:30 in the evening and were kept open as long as anybody appeared to sec the exhibit, which was along toward midnight.- In charge were H. A. Mo- Nutt, the line’s agricultural agent, and Jens Uhrenholdt, the road’s po- tato expert. They left for Under- wood this morning fora day in demonstration there, Not so many persons appeared to look the outfit of seeds, seed. clean- ing machinery and plant disease sterilizers over. One car was devoted to the seed display. Wheat, oats, flax, rye, corn and other grain sam- ples, potatoes, and pit silo displays were on exhibition. Each was ex- plained by a large lettered placard in &@ panel along the car wall. ‘The freight phase of the impure and in- fected seed was demonstrated by a toy train display set out on a toy railroad with a Soo station and tele- graph lines to add naturalness to the scene, In the other car were seed fans and sterilizing devices for ridding the grain of its weed dockage and its smut in- fection or rendering the spores in- nocuous, At each stop wheat brought in by farmers is cleaned as a demon- stration, free of charge, in the added hope that the farmers will use such grain for spring seeding operations. However, at one of the towns a truckload of wheat was cleaned for a farmer and it looked so fine after the wild oats and other dockage had been eliminated, that the grower was tempted to sell it and went over to the elevator and disposed of it. Thus the cause of pure seed was betrayed where it had an excellent opportun- ity to score. The various organizations behind the pure seed drive, as the Northwest Seed Improvement association, the Greater North Dakota association, the Soo Line and other roads and the ninth federal reserve bank are aiming at cooperation in this matter. There is no real gain when communities do not function as a unit in the effort to get rid of impure and infected grain. Individual adherence to pure grain seed is too liable to be swamped through ‘the indifference of neighbor grain growers, and the whole move- ment is pulled back. These phases are driven home in the talks given by McNutt and Uhren- holdt. They strive to impress on the communities that every grower must fall in with the movement to rescue North Dakota's grain prestige from the growing misfortune of smut and weed dockage. This increasing disqualification of North Dakota grain is costing grow- ers of the state at least $500,000 a year, it is calculated. A study of con- ditions at Kintyre, the last stop be- fore coming to Bismarck, indicated a Probable annual loss to grain grow- ers and shippers there of $15,000. The display in the car shows that one car in ten of North Dakota grain shipments” is*equivalent to dockage. ‘The freight on that is a waste of good money to the grower. The dockage is made into poultry and other feeds at Minneapolis and is sold, which is another loss to the farmer. For, if he cleaned his grain thoroughly, he could keep this at home and feed it without paying for it ashe does when he buys OUT OUR WAY By Williams it back as processed feed for his chickens or his hogs. i 50 Bushels, 35 of Them Dockage At one station, said Agent McNutt, 50 bushels of wheat was run through the car's equipment and 35 bushels of dockage was removed, leaving only 15 bushels of clean wheat! This shows how serious the dockage prob- lem has become, The cleaning displays in the one car are demonstrating the copper carbonate and formaldehyde treat- ments for infected grain. The car- bonate treatment is by dusting in a cylinder, the formaldehyde process shown is the spraying method. There also is a formaldehyde gas process, but the train carries no gas appara- tus, The grain fans are equipped by mesh cylinders, something new, for the elimination of wild oats. As the grain passes through these, the long oat grains dive. through the meshes, while the calibre of the plump wheat kernels keeps them along to Peforations for their exit at the end. MUSICAL TOURNEY OF STATE PROMISES OUTSTANDING EVENT Prominent Critics to Judge Con- testants at Grand Forks Competition April 11 Grand Forks, N. D., March 22—(#) —Arrangements are under way to secure Charles E. Watt, of Chicago, eminent music critic, as one of the judges for the young artists, student musicians and junior music contests which will be conducted here April 11 under the auspices of the North Dakota Federation of Music clubs, according to an announcement by John E. Howard, chairman of the contest committee. Another judge probably will come from Winnipeg and one from the Twin cities. Owing to the number of contestants this year—20 already have entered in the young artists and student musician groups—the trials will begin in the morning and con- tinue throughout the day. Mr. How- ard and Prof. E. Clifford Toren are at present occupied with making out the schedule indicating when the various classes will be heard. An entertainment has been planned for Thursday noon, at which members of the Music Federation board of managers and the contest judges will be the luncheon guests of the Thurs- day Musicale club. In the evening, the contestants will be entertained at dinner. The traditional contest at which the winners in the various de- partments will provide the program, will take place again this year. Mem- bers of the Mu chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota, musical sorority, and the Philymnign club at Wesley college will act as ushers. A change necessitated by the large number of entries is the meeting of the board of managers, which will take place Wednesday evening, April 10, instead of ‘Thursday morning, as previously announced. One of the important decisions to be made at this meeting will be the selection of the city for the next biennial conven- tion for 1930. Cash prizes have been subscribed for the winners in many of the events. The names of the donors will be announced in connection with the various departments when the sched- ule is made out, naming the order in which they will appear. There are divisions in the contest which provide for musicians to the age of 32 years, all of whom must either be native-born or the children of naturalized citizens of the United States and a member of a club affil- jated with the state music federation. Each contestant who is adjudged win- ner in his division is obligated to en- ter the district contest in Minneapolis which will take place in May. Awards of $50 each, are offered to winners in violin, piano, male and female voice departments in‘ the young artists contest. In the stu- dent musicians division, the awards in the various departments are $25 each. Prizes of $5 are provided for the junior events. Mrs. Alfred Boyd, 1516 University avenue, is caring for the registrations in the last class. ROCKEFELLER BUYS ‘/ILLAGE Tarrytown, N. Y., March 22—(P)— For $700,000 or more John D. Rocke- feller, Jr., has bought the village of East View, which dates from coloniel times. He is to raze it and incorpor- ate it in his estate. Forty-six fami- lies live there. SHORT TALK BY A THOUGHTFUL MOTHER An Indiana mother tells this: “We find nothing to compare with Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for coughs and colds. My little lad had trouble with his bronchial tubes from his third year, but since we started giv- ing him Foley’s Honey and Tar Com- B RRR o—o Py ao THIS HAS HAPPENED. “HANDSOME HARRY” BOR- DEN fs shot between one and four o'clock Saturday afternoon. RUTH LESTER, his secretary, finds his body Monday morning sprawled beneath the window of his private office. McMANN, detective sergeant, questions the following suspects: MRS. BORDEN, Borden's es- tranged wife and mother of his two children; RITA DUBOIS, night club dancer, with whom Borden was infatuated; and JACK HAYWARD, Ruth's fiance, whose office is across the marrow airshaft from Borden's. McMann’s belief in Jack's guilt fs strengthened by his discovery returned to the seventh floor Sat- urday afternoon, and by the te timony of elevator boys MICKY MORAN and OTTO PFLUGER. BILL COWAN, Jack's friend, un- willingly tells McMann he heard Jack threaten Borden's life Sat- urday morning. McMann questions BENNY SMITH, Borden's office boy; ASHE, his manservant; MINNIE CASSIDY and LETTY ate BAILEY, his bodyguard. MARTHA MANNING is brought into the case by Ruth’s clever de- tective work. She swears she last saw Borden Friday night but ad- mits phoning him three times Saturday afternoon. When Mc- Mann pointblank accuses her of the murder she defies him to bring forward anyone who saw her in the building Saturday. Ruth decides to check up on Martha's story and makes a mys- terious trip from the office. After her return, McMann calls her into the private office and dis- cusses Borden's will. He says it contains “the strangest clause ever written into a last will and testament. * *k * " NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XLV Ruth's attention was wholly di- verted now from her own secret schemes and hopes. “The strangest clause ever written into a last will and testament?” she repeated, her voice rising on an incredulous, ques- tioning note. “The newspapers will eat this up,” McMann grinned. “Well—this is the legal clause, shorn of the fancy legal trimmings that Walters is so crazy about: In the event of his death by foul play—murder, manslaughter or simple homicide, as the case may be— Henry P. Borden bequeathes the sum of $5000 to the person or persons in- strumental in bringing his murderer to justice ... Now what do you think of that?” What Ruth thought. was terhpor- arily beyond the power. of words to: express, but the detective seemed con- tent with her wide-eyed amazement, “No, sir, I never heard of a man 50 obsessed with. the idea that he was going to be bumped off that he took care of the reward in his will,” McMann commented. Then chuck- ling: “I'm beginning to like that man! I can use five grand. The wife’s been deviling me to make a down payment on a house in Fair- view—” The girl ruthlessly interrupted the detective's happy counting of his chicks before they were hatched. “Did the lawyer, Mr. Walters, say who it was that Mr. Borden feared would murder him?” “I asked him, of course,” McMann assured her, “but the lawyer says he named no names, just made a great point of getting that clause in exactly right. I asked him if he thought Borden had the Manning woman in mind, but he said he frankly didn’t know—that Borden had told him of receiving a number of death-threat letters from suckers who'd lost their life savings in his get-rich-quick schemes, and had even put a number of these letters in his hands, for him to deal with. It seems that Walters po! client would have simply been stick- ing his head into the lion’s mouth. ought to have been in jail years ago.” * * * “By the way,” Ruth began casually, “have you found any trace of the old “Well, as a matter of fact, we haven't spent much time on the old bird,” McMann confessed. “We had nothing to go on but your meager description, and there's no evidence at all Shai he cee ae Saturday after. noon. e operators are sure of that much.” “I just thought I'd ask,” Ruth apologized meekly. Then she changed the subject. “I Mr. Walters knew ail about Martha Manning and eee Bez Ferrer eettede ne Pa mi 2 E= FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1929 for your father and his sympathy for you—” “And you pleaded for more time because you knew your case against Jack was more full of holes than a slice of Swiss cheese!” Ruth inter- rupted vehemently. “And nothing that has developed today has strengthened your case against him! Rather, everything has weakened it! “If you mean the Manning woman's story, I don’t agree,” McMann argued reasonably. “I consider that Manning left us exactly where she found us—even if I did catch her in @ lie or two. I think it’s a pretty safe bet that she was here Friday night, and left those fingerprints. And we have no more evidence that she was here Saturday than that your death- threat-muttering old man came back. That's i “Yes,” Ru . “Of course, I've got a man detailed to keep an eye on her, but I don't ex- pect anything to come of it.” “And you still don’t think Rita did it, that she only robbed the dead body?” Ruth asked, still in that meek, you’re-a-big-clever-detective- and-I'm tise treet 51! voice, * * “A case against Rita would be more full of holes than your piece of Swiss cheese; it would be a sieve,” McMann retorted positively. “As far as mur- der goes, I mean. But as for robbery —she'll do a nice little stretch for that, unless she knocks the jury for an acquittal, with those black eyes of hers. Which she probably will,” he added with gloomy cynicism. “But of course you'll have done your duty,” Ruth sympathized. “So you see where all this leads us,” McMann summed up, almost apologetically. ‘Mrs, Borden had already got her check. No reason at all for her to come back and shoot her husband, because he'd said a sar- castic word or two to make her cry. Besides, the elevator boys swear she didn’t come back, and I can’t see her walking all the way up six flights of stairs, with cold-blooded murder in her heart—especially since it’s pretty evident that she loved her husband, rotten though he was. Hayward’s the only suspect left, now that the office boy is out of the picture. And speak- ing of Benny reminds me of a bad turn the poor kid did you when he was willing ‘to confess to murder to help you.” Ruth was startled. “Benny? What do you mean?” “Just this,” the detective began slowly, with dreadful significance. “I think the kid was telling about as much truth as lies. What became of | © your gun and who closed this airshaft window—” “I thought you had explained that, satisfactorily to yourself at least,” Ruth interrupted spiritedly “by de- monstrating that Jack could have closed. it from his own window by using the window pole.” The dgtective grinned. “It would have been a good trick—and maybe that’s how it was done. But let’s sup- pose that Benny did come back Sat- urday afternoon—a second time, I mean.” “To murder Mr. Borden?” asked scornfully. “Oh, no! For the same reason he came back the first time—to borrow your gun for target practice. I don't believe i¢-was gone out of your desk when he came back the first time, but that Borden bawled him out for med- dling in your desk and sent him pack- ing—just as both Benny and Minnie have said, “But Benny knew Borden was go- ing to Winter Haven on the 2:15. Not knowing Borden had been killed, the kid sneaks back, and walks up the stairs as he said he did, so that he won't be seen and questioned, pos- sibly caught with the stolen gun. He has his key. He comes in, finds the gun gone, and goes into Borden's office to see if it is there. He finds Borden dead, and the gun some dis- tance away. No powder burns on the man’s vest, so the kid, used to fire- arms as he undoubtedly is, knows that Borden has not committed suicide. “He thinks first of you. I got it out of him yesterday that he had over- heard Borden making love to you and your scream. He thinks you did it, Ruth “If I do, I'll give you half—for helps ing me so much!” she laughed and ran, It was a quarter past three when Ruth Lester left the Starbridge Build- ing on her unexplained mission, and just four o'clock when she returned her cheeks rose pink again, her eyes luminous with victory. Just outside the entrance to the building she paused, and took from the pocket of her dress the four -tightly folded sheets of what she had ruefully ad- mitted to Detective Birdwell sounded “a lot like fiction.” In a blank space on the first page, opposite the num- eral 4, she wrote in the answer to the question which she had gone out to “and again it is proved—truth is stranger than fiction,” she murmured exultingly, as she refolded the typed sheets and returned them to her ket. eg eee In the lobby of the Starbridge Building she ran plump into just such a bit of drama as every big-city dweller lives in the hope of witness- ing and so seldom does. A uniformed policeman and a plainolothes detec- tive—one of McMann’s innumerable assistants on the Borden case—were struggling with a frenzied young man, @ quite magnificent young man of crow-black hair, jet eyes, perfect fea- tures, olive skin and immeasurably elegant clothes. A young man who was cursing violently in a foreign language. “What is the matter?” Ruth cried above the hubbub, and the detective, who had just succeeded in linking his wrist with that of the foreigner, vol- unteered the answer: “A bird the whole department's been looking for, Miss Lester, and we find him here! Yes, ma’am! Walked in not five minutes ago, and I spotted him. When I told him the police wanted him, he draws a gun on me— says he come to kill his wife, that Dubois dame, for two-timing him with Borden. . . . Here, you! That's my arm you're jerking out of its socket! Come along quiet now, Romero, or Til bash your pretty patent-leather head in!” Ramon Romero! Rita Dubois danc- ing partner and—her husband! Dazed, Ruth rT followed the trio into the elevator, the crowd having been roughly forced back by the uniformed Policeman. .. . (To Be Continued) The solution is at hand. Don’t misa the remaining chapters. | IN NEW YORK i New York, March 22.—The whole- sale price of whiskey has advanced. sharply since the signing of the Jones ‘act by President Coolidge. The in- creases have ranged from $20 to $40 @ case,and many small speakegsies have gone out of business. : Four night clubs, in sudden panic, have abandoned the sale of liquor and deliveries to speakeasies have been curtailed to the extent that the supply is most uncertain. Grain alcohol has doubled in price, the quotation today being $14 a gallon wholesale. Most of the night clubs cannot afford to go on doing business with- out selling liquor at top prices (and then some) and quite a few will be afraid to continue the practice now. The problem of hiring men will- ing to “take the rap” has become harder. Before the passage of the Jones act, with a chance for a fine or a@ light jail term, plenty of help for deliveries or tending bar could be had for the asking. Now the “heavy labor” wants plenty of money to take the chance on five years, $10,000 fine for first. offenders. The delivery system is hit hard, Prices for delivery were reported to be as $5 a case and up, a big in- crease over pre-Jones quotations, Wages in every part of the racket are said to have gone sky-high; individual bootleggers, to make up for it, are shoving out smaller glasses and. charging more. Speakeasies and night clubs have been forced to raise their “antes” to police and federal agents, And just as soon as the first man goes to pa for five years watch the eS and takes the gun to protect you. pric Then he notices the open window and wonders if it could have been Hay- ward, who, he knows, has seen and overheard the love-making and scream » too. Furthermore, Mickey Moran has. admitted that he told Benny, on the kid’s first return, about your scene with Hayward at the ele- vator at 1:20, when Hayward again threatened Borden's life. “He closes the window—in case it had been Hayward who did it—Hay- ward whom you're in love with, and who must be protécted, too. With your gun accounted for, and the clos- ing of the window, and with Rita to ,| Fob the dead body of the money that was missing, I can't see a flaw in my Ruth brushed aside his A “And you think ey. a & E nee i i s i i i z 3 é xe % The following prices were quoted to me by @ lawyer who has a friend in the racket: Rye, $90 {03120 a case, formerly sold for $75; cut Scotch,:$75. to $90 a case, formerly sold for $60 ta. $75; champagne $100 to $120 a case,.. formerly sold for $78. ee The federal agents will go on a are not & great So far as the federal agents are will go. on much the g ed by John Steen, Treasury Watchdog . GK PICEO Service, Inc. ANNE AUSTIN . | night, because of his old friendship