The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 28, 1929, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 JORN YEGEN, PIONEER MERCHANT HERE, 85, DIES DUE 10 OLD AGE Opened Tent Store in Bismarck in 1874, After Freighting on the Red River GAVE M’KENZIE FIRST WORK Presbyterian Rites to Be Con- , ducted for Swiss immi- grant Farmer-Grocer John Yegen, 85, pioneer of the West as well as of North Dakota, died about 11 o'clock, Saturday night, from old age in a local hospital. He had been in the United States since 1866 and came to Bismarck 55 years ago. He was best known here as one of the merchants, for he began business here in a tent pitched on the site of present Patterson hotel and for four years conducted a bakery and con- fectionery there. Yegen was credited with giving Alex McKenzie his first job when that future political leader of the state came to Bismarck and decided to cast his fortunes in the growing town. From that start McKenzie developed into a political and financial power in North Dakota. The funeral arrangements call for services at the Webb chapel at 11 o'clock Tuesday forenoon. They will be private. The interment is to be in Fairview cemetery. All the old- timers are to be honorary pallbear- ers and some of them will be active. ‘The body will lie in state at Webb's this evening and until 10 a. m. to- morrow. Yegen was born and raised at Chr. canton Graubinden (Grisons) Switz~ erland, January 8, 1844, son of Conrad and Mrs. (Emrita) Yegen. The fam- ily owned a mountain farm (alm) and John and his brothers Peter and Chris, of Billings, Montana, and a sister, Mrs. Bettie Chapman, of Grey- bul, Wyoming, grew up on that, Chris being tr > schoolmaster of the neigh- horhood and also banker. About 1866 all of them ited to America. congress wooed tus bakesy: New York for some years after ar- rival in America. Then he went to Minnesota and freighted along the Red River of the North. In 1872 he came to Dakota, first to Yankton by stage from Sioux City, and about 1874 he moved to Bismac:ck and entered the baking business. His tent place of business was known as the City bakery and restaurant. The store he built later was burned out in 1877, but he rebuilt and continued bust- ness. Later he operated a general store and implement business. About 1901 he reduced his business to a grocery ‘on Main avenue below Seventh street. He retired in 1919, but the store still is being continued by his daughter Margaret. Born and raised on a farm, Mr. Yegen never lost his interest in agri- culture and he used to own a farm two miles from the city, on which he instituted irrigation methods. Mr. Yegen was 1.arried twice, the first time to Maggie McLaughlin, in 1878, and the second time to Anna Peterson, in 1892. Mrs. Yegen still is ‘living. Also nine sons and daughters of Mr. Yegen. These are Emrita, ; Lyle, Mrs. ©. J. inders, Sudbury, Ontario; Chris, this city; John, Jr., and Con- Caroline and THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1929 —_________- To Form Cabinet 4 | o Edouard Daladier, president of the French radical socialist party, has been asked to form a cabinet to suc- ceed the one under Premier Briand. | Grain corporation have revealed. | members of the executive committee TO HEAD SOCIALIST CABINET IN FRANGE ‘Briand to Take Portfolio of For- eign Affairs in the New Go---nment Paris, Oct. 28.—(#)—France prob- ably within the next two or three days will have a largely socialist government—the first in the history of the third Republic—comparable to those in power now in Great Britain and in Germany. Headed by Edouard Daladier, young radical-socialist leader, the cabinet which he will propose to President Doumergue to succeed that of Aristide Briand, resigned last week, probably will have the most highly leftist complexion France has ever known. Actual socialist participation in the new cabinet will not be authorized ii of the y of Leon Blum anes! Politifia'is weer‘ ted ‘us “rore- gone conclusion that its members would be authorized to collaborate with M. Daladier. Of as great importance as the im- minent advent of such a socialist government was announcement of acceptance of the foreign affairs Portfolio by M. Briand, who has held Raymond 5 4 M. Daladier’s supporters expect M. Briand's inclusion in the cabinet would bring from 50 to 60 votes from the moderate groups in parliament. These, plus the 12¢ radical votes and the 101 socialist votes, will give M. Daladier a workable if slim major- ity. PORMER JUDGE GOES TO TRIAL IN SLAYING Weatherford, Texas, Oct. 28.—(4)— ‘alton, Jr., University student. was shot to death in Hamil- | Ay i i i : h : i 28 i i lt i i it i Ht is F it i z gEBe age etal il is i FF | who remained to complete details cf/ ithe giant marketing corporation that: FEDERAL FARM LOAN | INTEREST RATE WIL - BELESSTHAN USUAL Four per Cent Favored by Most Members of the National | Grain Corporation | |W. D. MEN ARE DIRECTORS Unlimited Amount of Money | Will Be Available to Wheat Farmers, Says Legge Chicago, Oct. 28.—(#)—The wheat farmer who borrows some of the | $100,000,000 available through the fed- eral farm board will be required to, | pay less than the usual rate of | It may be a romance of football and motoring. est, organizers of the new National! Bernice Chryster, right, daughter of Walter P. Chrysler, wealthy automobile | { manufacturer, and Edgar Garbisch. former West Point gridiron star, has E BITTER BATTLE For the engagement of Miss Although the exact rate has not {been announced. They're pictured above at White Sulphur Springs, N. Y. RESPECTED CITIZEN BRANDED AFTER SUICIDE AS MURDERER it was stated by; { four per cent was favored by most of the members but that the rate might be as high as five per cent. “In any case.” said William H. Set- tle, of Indianapolis, member of the | executive committee, “it will be a lower rate of interest than the farmer is paying at present.’ Principal business yet to be ac- complished in the formation of the oganization to be known as the Farmers’ National Grain corporation was selection of a general manager. | Articles of incorporation and by-laws, were adopted Saturday and officers| were elected. S. J. Cottingham, Stan- | hope, Iowa, was named _ president. ‘The board of directors include M. W. Thatcher, St. Paul; George Duis, Grand Forks, and P. A Lee, Grand} Forks The amount of government muney | which will be available to farmers’ through wheat cooperative organiza-| tions is practicaly unlimited, Alecan- | der Legge, chairman of the federal farm board, said in announcing the loan | Nearly $100,000,000 is available now until tonight when the national Ine said, and, if necessary. the board {Scottish will ask congress to appropriate more. fn making the announcement, Mr.! Legge expressed the hope the price; of wheat would rise and the marict | be stabilized. The final session of the current: meeting will be held today. TALEORSHPWRECK READS LIKE CHAPTER “OF ROBIGIN CRUSOE ' Captai and Crew of Wrecked | Freighter Rescued After Being Marooned Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Oct. 28.— (®) — Fiction found a counterpart in truth today with 32 sailors to bear it out. Characters in an adventure as thrilling as any in story books, the 32 and crew of the paci to leave {Cal \freighter C! a aye E i eye = tei EE & g ff thal 5 i i HEART OF ROBERT BRUCE IS MISSING London, Oct. 28—(#)—The heart of Robert the Bruce, the great Scottish chieftain is missing. Eight years ago the casket believed to contain Bruce's heart was taken from excavations at Melrose abbey {and given over for safe keeping to the public works department at Edin- burgh. It was intended eventually to com- ply with the chieftain’s dying re- quest, that it be conveyed to the Holy Land. But in some way it now has been mislaid, or purloined, and it ap- Pears that Bruce, dead, may be no more successful than Bruce living, in the holy pilgrimage. Robert the Bruce died just 600 years ago at Cardoss after winning independence from England in the battle of Bannockburn on -tune 24, 1314, and confirming his own right to the title of Scottish king. He was unable personally to fulfill a vow to visit the holy sepulchre and requested his faithful follower, Sir James Douglas, to carry his heart there. Sir James perished on the way to battles against the Moors in Spain. Sir William Keith recovered the heart of Bruce and found it its rest- ing place at Melrose, where it re- mained through the centuries. USE OF FARM LANDS DISCUSSED AT BEA (Golden Valley County in Better: Shape Tan Any Other, Says Russell Beach, N. D., Oct. 28.—(?}—Opening the fourth of a series of five economic conferences in counties west of the river, farmers and farm wemen of Golden Valley county as- of farm lands and consider problems of the farm home. The conference conference that Golden Valley county | in better shape econom- Be -_e o__6 rE i i Efe te i | $ ! je- Ten Years Peaceably Until | Fracas and Fingerprints : Reveal Identity Eureka, Utah, Oct. 28.—(4)—After 10 years of life as a respected citizen of this community, Gustave Kahl was dead today, branded by suicide and the law as a fugitive murderer. Kahl ;Shot himself because of impending discovery of the fact that he escaped in 1916 from San Quentin prison, vhere he was serving a term for sec: nd degree murder. {| Kahl, or August Baum, as he was known here, was arrested 10 days ago after he had flourished a gun in or- | dering two rabbit hunters off a ranch | where he was working. Sheriff M. M. | Kaighn investigated and found a ‘cache of liquor owned by Kahl. He was arraigned at Salt Lake City on a liquor charge and released on bond after he had been finger printed and Photographed. ‘The former convict, apparently fearing detection through the finger prints, left the ranch after telling a friend, Dan Hugg. tnat he was going to “end it all.” He boasted he would never return to prison but declined to say where he was wanted by police. Clarence Morrill, chief of the Call- fornia bureau of identification, iden- of Baum as those of Kahl. CONVICTED OF SHOOTING SAN FRANCISCO WOMAN ;, San Francisco, Oct. 28.—(4—Gus- tave Kahl, was conivcted of second degree murder in connection with the | fatal shooting of Mrs. Freda Carleson, | 35, wife of a San Francisco restaur- ; ant man, in her home here on Octo- ber 21, 1912. At that time he was 39 years old. He had been a porter in the Carleson home for three years i previous to the shooting, which was believed to have grown out of Kahl's unrequited love for the young ma- PLANE LOST WITH ptain kage ; Missouri i hicago—prepared ‘tee Sore ty nae in| ete mets AL, ABOARD INITALY |Seven Drowned After Craft Lights in Stormy Sea Due to Terrific Gale Croydon, Eng., Oct. 28.—(#)—Disas- ter has overtaken planes of the Im- Perial Airways for the second time in ttle more than four months—this before, claiming seven lives. Airways announcement today company’s Indian air liner | ie ? te 5 Lge ne ‘ tified finger prints and photographs | MANDAN OFFICIALS SOUND WARCRY ON DRUNKEN AUTOISTS To Hire Patrolman in Attempt to Check Mandan and Me- morial Highway Crashes Terraces After Collision on Street Announcement that two warrants for the arrest of persons driving while intoxicated would be issued a campaign to put a stop to | ice of “mixing gasoline and will be rigidly enforced fol- lowed a conference held this morning between city and county officials in | Mandan. The meeting came as a result of two automobile crashes Saturday night, on the Memorial highway and ancther at the front door of the court house. At the conference were State's At- torney L. H. Connolly, Charles Cooley, President| of the city commission, (Sheriff H. R. Handtmann and Oscar Morck, police commissioner, To Hire Traific Cop With the two accidents added to| the large number already on the Me- morial highway list, the officials de- | cided to hire a traffic policeman. As soon as a patrolman can be hired, he will be put to work, Mr. Cooley said. He will patrol Mandan streets and the Memorial highway as far east as {the Missouri river bridge. Warrants were to be issued today | for thearrest of Paul Smith, whose machine was involved in a crash one- | late Saturday night. He will rosecuted under the state law. Of- ficials charge he was driving his ma- chine while under the influence of liquor. R. E. McDonald, who ran amuck |Saturday night with his machine on the terraces in front of the court house,. will be.arrested on a charge of reckless driving, the officers said. It was reported McDonald smashed in- to a machine driven by J. Boley on {Main street. He later drove to the court house. Swinging around the front of the building, his machine struck the curbing on the left side of jumped over the curb id started to roll down the terraces. Rolls Down Terraces hooked in the railing bordering the | ‘long flight of steps leading to the | court house door. The fact that Mc- jDonald’s machine caught fast on the ironwork doubtless saved him from Plunging to the street 150 feet below. | Mr. Cooley further announced the | suspension of Night Patrolman Andy {Ostrom. It wi affair Saturday charges against Ostrum. It was said | his duties in connection with a fight | at the door of a Main street restau- rant Saturday night. | The matter of hiring a patrolman to fill the vacancy will be considered | For the present, Speck Reynolds, son of Chief of Police Charles Rey- nolds, is handling the night patrol- man's duties. | | i Cooperstown, N. D., Oct. 28.—()— ony Slabber. confessed slayer of Al- Campbell, today was bound to district court on a charge of first- degree murder. Conviction carries with it a penalty of life imprison- Z who Friday night at-) tempted to commit suicide by slash- | ing his throat, was reported much | improved today. . TWO PERSONS FACE ARREST! j Motorist Rolls Down Courthouse | BINGHAM AND BLAINE WAGE BITTER B ° ° Washington, Oct. 28.—(4)—The con- dition of Senator Theodore E. Bur- ton, of Ohio, was unimproved today, and his death was expected momen- tarily. Friends had given up hope of his recovery when he rallied only slightly after a severe sinking spell late yesterday afternoon. The aged legislator was unconscious through- out the night. PANTAGES IS FACING ONE 70 50 YEARS IN CALIFORNIA PRISON Multimillionaire Theatrical Mag- nate Is Convicted of As- saulting Dancer Los Angeles, Oct. 28.—(”)—Alexan- der Pantages, theatrical magnate whose fortune of millions grew from half mileeast of theMandanunderpass | @ stake in the Klondike gold rush, to- be | day faced a prison sentence of from one to fifty years following his con- viction on a statutory charge by a superior court jury last night. The verdict will be appealed, de- fense attorneys announced. Pantages, 54, was found guilty of an attack on Eunice Pringle, 17-year- old dancer,.when the girl went to his offices to book a vaudeville skit on his theatrical circuit. The jury of seven women and five men deliberated 21 hours, but from the first ballot agreed that Pantages was guilty. The delay in returning the verdict was occasioned by the jury's inability to agree whether Pantages should be sentenced to one year in the county jail or from one to fifty years in the penitentiary. The twelve finally agreed on the The fender of McDonald's machine | longer sentence at 9:29 o'clock last night. Now Number 119,251 Pantages at once became prisoner number 119,251 in the Los Angeles county jail, pending formal pro- nouncement of sentence Friday morn- ing by Superior Judge Charles Fricke. The vaudeville impresario, who recently sold several of his western the outcome of an | theatres for $15,000,000, took his con- night. The commis- | y; stoically, lared: sion president declined to name te cee eee ae rr “Tm Pantages immediately was remand- \that Ostrom was unable to discharge | ed to the custody of the sheriff and taken to the county jail, where he was booked and garbed in the jail uniform of blue denim. ‘Got A Raw Deal’ In his cell Pantages said he had |by the city commission at its meeting | instructed his attorneys to carry an ‘Wednesday night, Mr. Cooley said. | appeal of his conviction to the high- est courts. “I got a raw deal. I didn't have a chance with the jury,” Pantages said. “They were against me from the be- ginning. Looks like a man doesn't | have a chance when a woman tries | to frame him as I have been framed. | But don’t you think I am beaten. I have told my lawyers to take this | case to the highest court in Ameri- ca if necessary to get a reversal. Dejected in appearance, Pantages received the verdict with but slight emotion. - FARGO RENDEZVOUS B. Larson, Fargo, and a girl friend robbed by three wrist and will cost $12,500,000. The | were removed contain 69 miles of tubes. weeting Cussing Fire Lads, Upset Chicago ig ita aH ley if 3 H , Hd i rT! Senator Burton Ill ‘ Rain or snow probable tonight and Tuesday. Slightly colder PRICE FIVE CENTS | PERSONAL EXCHANGE ONE OF MOST BITTER§ IN SENATE'S HISTORY Connecticut Solon Shouts ‘Pur 5 pose’ of Lobby Probe Was ‘to Befoul Me’ STRIKES AT SENATOR BLAINE: ‘Throwing Up Smoke Screen ¥ Against Slimy, Dirty Trail,’ % Replies Wisconsinite Washington, Oct. 28.—()—Pre- sentation of a resolution of cen- sure of Senator Bingham, Repub- lican, Connecticut, jenny forecast in the senate today at the clese of two hours of savage, personal exchanges between the Connecti- cut senator and members of the lobby committee whe condemned his relations with the Connecticut Manufacturers association, Chair- man Norris of the judiciary com- mittee, who appointed the lobby committee, announced he intend- ed to offer a resolution shortly. Washington, Oct. 28.—(4)—Senator Bingham, Republican, Connecticut and members of the senate lobby committee engaged in one of the most bitter personal exchanges in senate history today as Bingham struck back at his accusers. Replying to the severe condemna- tion by the committee of his use of a Charles L. Eyanson, representative of the Connecticut Manufacturers’ .sso- ciation, in framing the tariff bill, Bing! shouted that the “ fe of the committee investigation was to “befoul me by innuendo and twist- ing of flimsy evidence.” “I resent it andIshall resent it until | the end of time,” the tall Connecticut senator thundered, pounding his desk with his clenched first. Leaping to his feet in reply, Sen- ator Blaine, Republican, Wisconsin, member of the committee, denied a statement by Bingham that he (Blaine) had used a capitol police man es @ chauffeur for his car, ad- ding: ‘Sling’ Dirty Trail “He is throwing up a smoke screcn in that charge against a slimy, dirty trail mapped out designdely from the office of the senator from Connecti- cyt to the office of the Connecticut Manufacturers’ association. the senator wants to know who {drove my car over the mountains I will tell him that I did. No capitol Policeman did and no capitol polices man was asked to.” Both Blaine and Chairman Cara- way of the investigating committee demanded “‘Eyanson Not Lobbyist’ Referring to a check for $1,000 he assisted him with the tariff bill, ° ham said Eyanson was not a in the ordinary sense of the word and that his services were worth $1, month, “I could not afford to sei $5,000 for his five months’ work,” senator said. “so I sent him $1, If I had sent him nothing the com: mittee would have raised a that I had accepted his services free, Because I did therefore there is somes thing crooked in it.” Bingham then turned to testimony. (Continued on page nine) JEWISHMERCHANTS EXECUTED IN RUSSIA Firing Squad Death Toll in Sovie et Russia Raised to 63 in Last Four Days eet le cE H Ef ef i