The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 24, 1930, Page 6

\ when he : MANDAN NEWS ‘Morton District Court Opens Tuesday With Only Two Criminal Cases Are | on Calendar for Regular February Term JUDGE BERRY WILL PRESIDE Martin Friesz and John Schlos- ser Will Face Trial on Charges of Assault Two criminal and 22 civil actions ‘are on the calendar of causes for the regular February jury term of Mor- ton county district court which will ‘pen at Mandan at 10 a. m. Tuesday. Forty jurors have been summoned for service. They are ordered to re- port at 2 p. m. tomorrow. Judge H. L. Berry, Mandan, will preside. Other officers of the court are L, H. Connolly, state’s attorney; John Handtmann, Sr., clerk of court; and Henry R. Handtmann, sheriff. Martin Friesz and John Schlosser face a charge of assaulting with a dangerous weapon (club) Gus Vorsos, cook in the White Star Cafe, Mandan, recently. Vorsos was in the hospital several days and suffered severe head and body bruises and lost several teeth in the alleged scuffle in the kitchen of the restaurant. Consider- able interest in this case is manifest in Mandan. The complete criminal and civil calendar of the ter: follows: Criminal State of North Dakota vs. , Ellison, statutory charge. State of North Dakota vs. Martin Friesz and John Schlosser, assault with a dangerous weapon. | Civil \_ C. C. Storing, as receiver of the \Merchants National bank of Mandan, vs. Lewis F. Lyman. B. M. Payne McLeod vs. Selmer H. ‘Tovaas and Garnet U. Tovaas. H. R. Coddington vs, John H. | Kuntz. | Gottlieb Schwenk vs. C. L. Bertsch. | _ Eli Nelson vs. Clyde G. Flanders and Mrs, Clyde G. Flanders, co-partners, @oing business as C. G. Flanders * Amusement company. Elizabeth Bitterman vs. Jacob Bit- terman. Francis Jasakowiak vs. Nick Helb- Miles Francis Jaszkowiak vs. John Helf- ‘ich. Lavina Lee vs. John Lee. Advance-Ruml Thresher com- pany vs. Fred Meyers. G. A. Perkins, J. W. Bowen and A. P. Nachtwey, co-partners as Perkins, Bowen and Nachtwey, vs. Carrie Klima, formerly Carrie Kukowski. Charles Garnier vs. Nick Free- burg. Joe Weiler, Elizabeth Boehm, Tony Weiler, and Christina Dixon vs. Emil Krauth, First National bank, Hebron, garnishee. French and Welch Hardware com- pany, Bismarck, vs. C. J. Winbauer and Selfridge School District No. 8, Sioux county. Francis Jaszkowiak vs. Peter Hop- Ppoard and Mathilda Hoppoard. Scheffer and Rossum company vs. J. G. Pockert. Advance-Rumley Thresher com- pany vs. G. Staudinger, J. Staudinger and H. Staudinger. Rudolph Schmidt Michael Staudinger. Sam Brenton vs. Mandan Mercan- tile company, and I. E. Brenton, doing jbusiness as Brenton Brothers, the ; Bank of North Dakota, garnishee. Magdalena Sailer vs. Walter Bohrer. | Connolly Chevrolet company vs. HLawrence Wylie. A case in the matter of the dis- jSolution of the Security State bank jof Flasher. ‘Heart River’s Flood ‘Brings Cancellation Of Outlook Meeting { Because of the Heart river flood nd the consequent poor condition of oads leading to Mandan, those from fthe south being blocked entirely by jiater, the outlook conference sched- ed for Mandan last Saturday after- noon was cancelled, The meeting was called off by R. «©. Newcomer, Morton county agricul- tural agent, when it became apparent sthat farmers could not reach the city in sufficient numbers to warrant holding the meeting, which was set for the Mandan Chamber of Com- merce rooms. ' ! Rex E. Willard, farm expert who as to have hard charge of the meet- ve ‘was in Mandan, however, only to pearn of the meeting’s cancellation, vs. ‘Personal and Social News of Mandan Vicinity ‘Mmes. Homan-Percy Entertain at Luncheon ° | | i 22, Civil Cases ‘GENSUS WORKERS 10 BE ANNOUNCED SOON | and Distribution Work Is Nearing End Work of gathering statistics on manufacturers and distribution in the southwestern North Dakota district is |raipidly approaching completion, it was announced in Mandan today by Milton K. Higgins, supervisior for the district in the fifteenth U. S. decen- nial census. | Enumeration of persons in the dis- trict will not be launched until April; 2, Figures on manufactures and dis- tribution in the district cannot be re- leased by Mr. Higgins but may be announced later by federal authori- ties. Private reports are confiden- tial, however, and only aggregate fig- ures will be made public. j | Enumerators are being nominated | rapidly in Mr. Higgins’ district, and the supervisor expects to announce the names of his helpers about March 1. He now has but one assistant, his stenographer. Included in the soutwestern dis- trict are Adams, Billings, Bowman, Dunn, Golden Valley, Grant, Het- tinger, Mercer, Morton, Oliver Sioux, Slope, and Stark counties. Higgins Talks About Census Before Lions Milton K. Higgins, Mandan attor- new who is supervisor of the U. S. census in the southwestern North Da- | kota district, will describe the nature jof his work in a talk before members jof the Mandan Lions club at the Lewis and Clark hotel, Mandan, to- {morrow noon, Mr. Higgins, who is a member of {the club, will be in charge of the program tomorrow, acording to Dr. L. G. Smith, president of the organiza- tion. Members of the club take charge of meetings in alphabetical order. Crash at Crossing Derails Passenger And Freight Train} (Cc--tinued from page one) fire were incorrect. Actually the horror of the scene was the greater because of the darkness, the scores of injured frantically crying for help| and fumbling their way out of the | debris. Autoes Give First Aid Automobiles passing on the well- travelled highway were first to give aid. The injured were placed in the machines and taken to the Kenosha and St. Catherine's hospitals. Several of the dead were buried in the debris of the first car and it was! necessary to burn through the steel coach to remove their bodies... Res- cuers were still at work as dawn broke, and it was believed other bodies might be found. One survivor, Lewis Kresinski, Chi- | sore who was riding in the third car, 328 Passengers In Train Hl “There was a dreadful crash. People were thrown from their seats. ; Some started to scream and others groaned. Our car was turned over on its side and we were able to get out the door.” Mrs, Albert Skocanski, another pas- | Senger in the third coach, said the woman seated in front of her fainted and was carried out by several men. “Passengers in the other cars told me they saw people killed, lying about on the floor of the car,” she said. She was one of the few of the 328 Passengers to escape without a bruise. The train was carrying an unus- ually heavy load, due to the fact that many Chicagoans were returning from the double holiday in Wisconsin. Miss Steinhorst was identified by her sister, Hortense Steinhorst, with whom she had been visiting in Mil- waukee yesterday, Miss Steinhorst’s home was in Mayville, Wis. she had taught in Kenosha since 1925. ‘When Louise Powers, nurse at a hospital, finished washing the blood and dirt from a group of wreck vic- tims this morning, she recognized three of them, her brother, Al Pow- ers, and his wife and baby. Tomezak, driver of the automobile, had been working in Milwaukee but. was a resident of Kenosha. He was the father of three children. FORMER BISMARCK MAN DESCRIBES TRAIN TRAGEDY By HAROLD BURTON Former staff member of The Bis- rescue parties arrived, with the flares he said: “I looked about and saw her in the mud. Her foot was sticking up. She had been thrown through the window and part of the car rested on her.” “I tried to pull her free,” ‘he said, “but I could not. Then they came and took me away.” Later, he learned she had died. Dennis King to Make Debut in Talkie Film Here in Near Future A King who would be king has be- | Higgins Reports Manufactures | cun his reign in America. His coronation took place first of all in New York and Palm Beach, Feb. 19. Now the king will extend his reign to 100 great cities of America simul- taneously, when Paramount-Famous- Lasky Corporation and Publix The- tres Corporation adopt the innovation of presenting on the same. night in theatres from coast to coast the brand-new all-technicolor; all-talking, all-singing entertainment, “The Vaga- bond King,” starring Dennis King. He is the king who would be king. The ambitions of this: tall young Englishman with personal charm and @ pure singing voice will be realized when first the fashion centers of America and then its prosperous cities have given him an opportunity to | “show his stuff.” Stray Horses Picked Up by City Going on ‘Auction Block Soon Judgment has been entered against “John Doe,” owner of two horses im- pounded by the city when found run- hing at large recently, and they are to be sold for expenses of keep when the necessary legal advertising has been complied with. One is a white mare about 10 years of age and weighing 1400 pounds, branded with “33” on the left side of the neck and “81” on the right shoulder, the other a black mare, no brands, weighing about 1100 pounds and about 8 years old. A bay gelding equine vagrant also Picked up and impounded has been redeemed. Minnesota to Send Squadron to Honor Carl Ben Eielson North Dakota will accept with thanks Minnesota's offer to send an aerial squadron to pay tribute to Carl Ben Eielson when this state's famous aviator is buried at Hatton, Governor George F. Shafer said today. Governor Theodore Christianson, in a telegram to Governor Shafer, of- fered to dispatch the air unit of the Minnesota national guard to the fu- neral. Governor Shafer said he will write Governor Christianson a letter this afternoon expressing his thanks and those of the people of North Dakota. Mexican Rum Runner Killed by U. S. Guard El Paso, Texas, Feb. 24—(#)—The second rum running fracas within two weeks here ended in the death gone. He groped through the darkness calling for her. When first of the Schlenker $4,500 damages juries suffered when run down by a | truck, will be appealed to the su- court. preme 4 F. E. McCurdy, counsel for Jasz- yesterday of a Mexican in a hand to hand fight with a United States border patrol guard. The guard was badly beaten about the head by the Mexican. who had waded across the Rio Grande with a sack of bottled li- quor and encountered the officer as he stepped on American soil. The Patrolman commanded the smuggler to halt. The Mexican. whipped out a pistol but his shot went wild when the officer kicked him on the wrist. The Mexican beat the guard about the head with the butt of the re- volver, inflicting severe scalp wounds. Drawing his pistol, the patrolman shot the man four times. He died two hours later in an El Paso hospi- tal. Hart and Williams to See National Chaplain Harry Hart, Ray, state commander of the American Legion, Jack Wil- Mams, state adjutant; C. T. Hoverson, manager of the state veteran's bu- reau, and T. O. Kraabel, veterans state service commissioner, all of Fargo, are visitors in Bismarck and Mandan today, and will remain for the dinner tomorrow at the Patterson hotel at which national chaplain | George F. Kettel, Macedon, New York, will be honored, and for his public address at 8:15 p, m. in the city auditorium. Fair Average Market Value of Goods Lost Might Be Recovered Washington, Feb. 24.—()—A deci- sion of outstanding importance of railroads was rendered by su- preme court today when it held that roads in paying marck Tribune now staff writer for The Associated Press.) tragedy in the darkness and mud of i i lost in transit could not be req to pay what the Kenosha, Wis. Feb. 24.—(@)—A| Would have brought if it had been vered and sold at if id Ey 2 z for shipments Boy So Excited at School Opening He | | Forgets Breakfast a Dark Hallow; Va. Feb, 24—(P)— Hoover in the children in this moun- tain community, got up at five o'clock this to be the first to ar- rive for the opening of the Hoover school and was so excited that he for- got to eat breakfast. Mr. Hoover decided to have the school established after he became interested in the children here as a result of young Burraker strolling into his fishing camp near heré one day last summer and presenting the pres- ident with a possum. Besides Burraker about 20 pupils | arrived for the opening of the school, the first in this neighborhood. i Razing of Old Stores For Penney Building Will Begin Shortly | With the awarding of the contract for the new Penney building which W. H. Webb will erect for occupancy by the store at 113 Fourth street, the work of preparing the location will | be shortly begun by Contractors Weinberger and Guthrie. As soon as the Sweet Shop cafe is able to move to the Main avenue lo- cation being prepared for it several doors east of the present restaurant, L. H. Richmond will move his bootery into the room vacated by the Sweet Shop. With the removal of the bootery, the existing store building on the new Penney site will become entirely va- cant and this will permit razing it. The Penney store building is to be @ three-story, structure and it will be built according to design meeting the requirements of the Penney com- pany. Schlenker Verdict - Of $4,500 Damages to Go to Supreme Court The suit of Mary V. Schlenker j against Francis Jaszkowiak, in which a district court jury tober Miss for in- ; kowiak, already has made the pre- liminary motion for stay of judgment, and he now is preparing the necessary papers for taking the case to the higher court. Appraisers to Begin Hearing, February 27, On Condemning Land The appraisers in the condemnation Proceedings by which the state seeks to obtain 400 acres of land owned by Paul Wachter for addition to the farm of the state prison, which the tract adjoins, will begin their work at 10 o'clock, Thursday, Feb. 27, at the court house. The appraisers, will hear witnesses on the proposal, their testimony to guide them in fixing the amount of compensation to be allowed for the Two Minnesota Boys | Believed Drowned in | River at Northfield Northfield, Minn., Feb. 24.—()—A half dozen men today were cutting the thick ice of the Cannon river and using grappling hooks in the hope of locating the bodies of two 8-year-old | Seetenty sera a evening w! plunged through the ice. The two lads are Emil Exter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Exter, and Alfred Gibbs, son of Mr. and Mrs. through fishing holes in the ice above the city power dam, where the water is about 20 feet deep. 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