The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 19, 1930, Page 2

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1980 fication of State Acreage Urged by Commissioner in Report Classi "BARM LOAN SYSTEM IN LAND DEPARTMENT IS IN SUSPENSION NOW Byerly Says He Has No Funds With Which to Function in This Activity FAVORS APPRAISAL CHANGE Also Calls Attention to Lack of Authority for Leasing Areas Containing Gas Classification of the 1,780,140 acres} of state land in charge of the state * land department is urged by W. E. Byerly, commissioner, in the biennial report filed with Governor George F. Shafer. A change in the system of ap- * praisals in making of farm Icans is also recommended by Mr. Byerly. “This department,” the report says, “at this time has charge of 1,780,- * 140.17 acres of state land, 102,104.14 acres of which is foreclosed land with other foreclosures pending. - “This land is scattered all over the state and part is contained in every * county in the state. None of this : land has ever been classified and in * most cases our information is simply to the effect that the state owns a certain tract of land without any ab- * solute knowledge of its intrinsic value either for sale or rental purposes. “The minimum rental price on pas- ture land is the same all over the state and should be changed. In some | OUT OUR WAY SusT ONE OF THEM SHACKS ,OOWN BY TH’ RAIL ROAD ~ © WAS Gon’ OER, BUT THER'S NO USE — TH FIRE MEN HAVE GOT IT NEARLY WHEN ‘TH OL MAN CEASED To BE OUR FAVORITE HE! By Williams | T.RwiLuams FINAL COUNT MADE | INCOUNTY ELECTION |Commissioners Revise Former Returns and Compute To- tals of Candidates ‘The county commissioners have fin- ished their work as a canvassing board on the recént election and official county totals for the various candi- dates have been revised and compiled as follows: For congress—Hall 3,606; 1,840; Knutson 174. For governor—Shafer 4,257; Ble- wett 1,315; Barrett 172. For lieutenant-governor — Carr 3,904; Swanson 1,294; Hill 158. For secretary of state—Byrne 4,574; Lanier Sie re ees is Capitol’s Dry Spy ee ” Wahl 643; Loesch 108. For * state auditor—Steen 4,270;, Pagenkopf 1,102. For state treasurer—Baker 4,517, Allen 830. 5 For atvorney general—Morris 4,340; Laschkowitz 997. che For insurance commissioner—Ois-. ness 4,929. ey For commissioner of agriculture and labor—Kitchen 3,589; Cooke 1,526; Pearson 199. For railroad commissioner—McDon- nell 4,584; Kacheloffer 571. For legislature—Thompson 4,573; Cox 4,475; Olson 4,461. For justice of supreme court—Burke 4,795; Freerks 891. For superintendent of public in- struction—Palmer 3,488; Thompson 2,462. . For county superintendent schools—Huber 3,137; Runey 2,907. For sheriff—Kelley 3,900; Hedstrom 2,282, For county auditor—Isaminger 3,887; Herman 2,096. For county treasurer—Derby 5,212. For clerk of district court—Fisher 5,207. of e Qne ‘of the most delicat in, the prohibition service went to Roger Butts, above, who, though only 20, was set to collect evidence against Capitol Hill bootleggers. Butts was especially icted to check the activities of George L. Cassiday, “The Man in the Green Hat,” who sub- sequently is’said to have admitted that he had served as bootlegger to members of both houses of congress. {1 CRIMINAL CASES ONSTARK CALENDAR Judge 'H:'.'Berry, Mandan, Presides Over Court Term CO-OPS ARE HELPED BY MINNESOTA VOTE Electors Amended Constitution! on Objectionable Double Liability Penalty 8t. Paul, Nov. 19.—()—Greater ad- vantage of the cooperative marketing laws of Minnesota can be taken as a result of the amendment to the Min- nesota state constitution at the recent general election, eliminating the double liability of stockholders, the Farmers Union Terminal’ association says in its weekly agricultural review. “The passage of this law was in- dorsed by cooperative marketing or- ganizations of the state,” the review |says. “Minnesota had been the only | state imposing the double ‘ liability | Tule on the stockholders of ordinary | corporations. The law did provide, and still provides, for double liability | of banking and certain financial in- | stitutions. | “While cooperative marketing as- | sociations have made remarkable! headway in Minnesota in recent years, there were a considerable number of People, particularly farmers, who } hesitated to purchase stock in the various cooperative marketing asso- ciations, fearing that they would lose | —in case of failure—not only their original investment but be liable for an equal additional sum. This had | @ tendency to keep the well-to-do farmers, who were personally liable for debts, out of the cooperative mar- keting movement. “The law has resulted in working a hardship on the small stockholders, while the stockholders in larger enter- prises were able to have their cor- Porations organized in other states and to thus escape the effects of the double ability provisions of the law. Amendments to the state constitution to remedy this situation had been tried several times and proved fail- ures. Efforts of the cooperative or- ganizations helped to put the amend- ment across at the last election, with rural districts doing their part in Passing the amendment. “With this legislation now enacted, the Farmers Union will attempt tc have enacted at the next sessions of the legislatures laws providing for farm storage of grain and the refin- ing of those laws in North Dakote and Montana and laws to make it « felony for anyone except the owner tc sell stored grain.” Northwest Co-op Names Directors Fargo, N. D., Nov. 19.—(?)—Election of officers and appointment of state directors last night concluded the first annual Northwest Grain associa- tion meeting here. A. L. Berg, Baltic, S. D. was re- elected president; A. N. Thompson Cogswell, was named vice president and G. W. Connell, Minneapolis, was reelected secretary-treasurer. W. J. Kuhrt, Minneapolis, again was named general manager. North Dakota directors are Harold Serumgard, Devils Lake; W. Plath, Woods; A. N. Thompson, Cogswell; W. B. Morrow, Pettibone; John Mad- dock, Maddock; Sam Garber, For- | tune and Louis Hoerauf, Hebron. Montana—John P. Miller, Froid; R. J. Kelly, Conrad; Mark Melton Denton and Thomas Connolly, Havre. Minnesota—H. B. Johnson, Herman | and J. W. Evans, Montevideo. South Dakota—A. L. Berg, Baltic; | E. C, Slocum, Glenham; H. E. Covey, Hamill; G. H. Humphrey, McIntosh, and Frank Roberts, Pierpont. instances it should be increased while in others it should be decreased, de- . Pending upon the value of the land and its desirability for use for the purposes intended. It would cost * considerable money to classify this . land, yet if the department is to handle it as it should be handled, the increase in the income from the land for the benefit of common schools and other state institutions would certainly justify the cost of classification.” No Funds For Farm Loans Because of lack of funds the de- partment was compelled to discon- tinue the making of farm loans al- most @ year ago, the report states. ‘The system for the making of farm payment of a contract in full where a at Dickinson patent will be required, and very fre- quently we receive remittances for these payments and have to in turn transmit them to the county treas- urer, and in cases of county treas- urers making their reports in accord- ance with the law, strictly on time, we can safely say that it requires at least two months before the money finally reaches the state treasurer's hands. “Thus, we can truthfully say that our records are two months behind time when we are sending out infor- mation from them. This law works out just as unsatisfactorily as the old law did for farm loans and would, I believe, if changed, work out just as For register 4,119 Flow 1,799. For county attorney—Register 5,438. For county judge—Davies 3,096; Riley 2,894. For county surveyor—Atkinson 4,638. For coroner—Perry 3,113; Gobel 2,877. For county commissioners- First district, Will 1,587; third district, Fricke 434, Backman 359; Fourth dis- trict, Soder 349, Berg 165. For justices of the peace, four to be chosen—Shipp 3,880; Bonny 3,687; Crane 3,663; Voight 3,493; Beer 2,860. For constable, four:to be chosen— Hanson 3,403; Brennise 2,884; Kimble 2,878; Roop 105; Perry 19. of deeds—Swenson Dickinson, N. D., Nov. 19.—Forty-/| five civil actions and il criminal cases are listed for trial in the Stark county term of the sixth district court which opened here Tuesday with Judge H. L. Berry, Mandan, presiding and a jury of 40 members called. Many of these, however, are old cases that have come down through former terms and have no chance of trial now and others will be settled before trial. Of the criminal cases seven may come to trial. These are the assault charge against Jack Schlosser, Alfy Brown arid Zene McConnell, Dickin- | Quick COMFORT for fretful upset children Article No. 55 By WM. E. McKENNEY (Secretary American Bridge League) Trumping of partner's ace has wrecked many a happy home, and while the writer is not offering sym- pathy to those who have committed this almost unpardonable error, there are hands, of course, where even this play must be made. The trumping of partner's ace proves a winner in the following hand: East opens the king of hearts, the top of suit bid by partner, and it holds the trick. He continues with the five, West winning with the queen. West returns the ace of hearts, declarer plays the nine. The only play that will defeat the de- clarer’s contract is for East to trump his partner's ace of hearts so that he > loans was described by Mr. Byerly as “very poor,” and he recommended changes “in hopes they may be reme- . died for the benefit of any loans that may be made in the future.” “Under the present system,” the report continues, “the county auditor, chairman of county commissioners, * and county superintendent of schools of the various counties of the state compose the official appraisal board. “While we have in almost every in- stance had the hearty cooperation of , these officials, we do not feel that a lean should be made through this de- * partment unless an officer directly responsible to the board of university! } and school lands has personally in- » spected and reported on every farm loan application. The county officials concerned in these loans are not se- lected by their constituents with any knoweldge as to their fitness to be- come land appraisers. They are also kept quite busy in attending to other affairs in connection with their of- satisfactorily as the new law works out on the collection of farm loan in- terest and principal payments.” | Satisfaction was expressed by Mr.) Byerly with a law enacted by the last! session of the legislature, permitting | the department to sell foreclosed land | at its actual cost to the state and on terms which are favorable to the pur- | chaser, rate after the sheriff's certificate was issued in cases of foreclosure, from eight to five per cent. | “Under this law.” Mr. Byerly said.| “we have sold 15,044.79 acres of land at @ figure of $27,308.37 in excess of | its actual cost to the state. Some| provision should be made whereby this money, when paid into the state treasury, can be put into a special fund, thus enabling the department in case a loss is taken on a foreclosed Piece of land, to offset the loss with whatever the profit might be on the sale of land where it was sold at a S—Noi ov 2 and reducing the interest cee spades. WES’ H—A-0. NORTH S—A-K-J-9-6-3 T ne 3. 8-4. Sf H—9-7-6 3 D—O-)-10 c—5 EAST S—5-4-2 H-K-5 5-4 c—10-7. JOUTH—DEALER S—Q-10-8-7 H—1-10-4 D—A-9 C—A-0-, AQ The Bidding 6-3 The hand was played at contract and South, the dealer, opened the bid- ding with one club. West overcalled with one heart, North, holding two and one-half high-card tricks and a strong biddable suit, forced with two! can lead through the clubs or dia- monds, which in either case will stop the declarer from going game. If he were to refuse to trump, | West would be forced to make a bad lead. If he led a heart, declarer would trump high and discard the nine of diamonds, in duuwmy If he led @ small diamond, declared’s ten spot would hold the trick and the third diamond could be ruffed. If he returned a small club, the dummy would win with the nine or jack de- Pending upon whether East played a small one or the ten spot. The ace of clubs would be led-and a diamond dis- carded—then the queen of clubs. When West covered with the king, declarer would trump and would dis- card his last losing diamond oi the good jack of clubs. ‘This hand well emphasizes the ‘act East gladly passed and South | that there is no sucht thing in: bridge carried the declaration to four spades] as the word “never.” which closed the contracting. (Copyright, 1930, NEA Service Inc.; For official newspaper—Tribune 3,566; Capital 2,246. Four-year term amendment to con- stitution—Yes 3,019; No 2,865. Minnesota Men Win | Butter Championship Minneapolis, Nov. 19.—(?)—Minne- sota buttermakers yesterday won the national championship awarded by the National Creamery Buttermakers’ | association, which opened its first annual convention here. ‘With an average score of 94.319 for the first 10 entries in the cold storage and fresh butter scorings, the Minnesota representatives were .07 of @ point ahead of Iowa's contestants who had an average of 94.249. W. F. Wargowsky, of Boyden, Iowa, won the sweepstakes with an average score of 94.58. In the fresh butter scoring, Minnesota made a. clean; son; an assault charge against Mrs. Chas. Aultman, Belfield; one grand, larceny case, an embezzlement charge, ' a forgery charge and two statutory ; cases. The first mentioned is of the} most local interest, being the out’ growth of, an alleged attack by the; three young men upon a policeman. ; Of the civil actions there are 19) old, 22 new and five appeals from! justice court. Probably the most im-' Portant of these is the suit for dam- ages by Constance and Ella Finger, | and their father E. A. Finger as/ guardian to these minor girls, against George and James Massad. The Finger girls, driving home from | school here with a team about a year | ago now, were struck by the Massad | truck and both injured. Five of the! cases are divorce proceedings. i North Carolina has more than a dozen living trees that have witnessed or taken part in historical events. Alu children are subject to little upsets. They come at unex- pected times. They seem twice as serious in the dead of night. But there’s one form of comfort on which a mother can always rely; good old Castoria. This pure vege- table preparation can’t harm the tiniest infant. Yet mild as it is, it soothes a restless, fretful baby like nothing else. Its quick. relief soon sees the youngster comfortable once more, back to sleep. Even an attack of colic, or diarrhea, yields to the soothing influence of Castoria. Keep Castoria in mind, and keep a_ bottle in the house—always. Give it to any child whose tongue is coated, or whose breath is bad. Continue with Castoria until the child is grown! For sale by all druggists. Be sure to get the genuine product with Chas. H. Fletcher’s signature on wrapper, and this familiar name- plate: profit, thus avoiding the necessity of making a direct assessment on the taxpayers of the state for the pur- pose of reestablishing the varicus} permanent fands of which we have charge.” Cannot Lease Gas Lands The report shows that the depart- ment has $1,685.63 interest on daily balances available for some purpose which cannot be allocated at present | without some legislative enactment “for the reason that the board of university and school lands does not! appear to have the authority to make sweep of prize places while Iowa did the same in Noveinber cold storage scoring. i j a fices and do not always have the time to give to the appraisal of farm loans. Bank Has Better System “Frequently appraisals are made from general knowledge of the prem- ises and such information is not al- ways correct and dependable, al- though it is always given no doubt, in good faith. Very few, if any, of these officials desire to have this re- sponsibility. It is in fact a constant source of anonyance to them; very frequently results in bad loca! feel- ing, and it is not an uncommon cc- > GLOVER BANK DIVIDEND A Waterman’s A dividend of 25 per cent is being paid to the depositors of the closed | Glover State bank through the office | of P. A. O'Keefe, district manager here, according to L. R. Baird, state receiver. brings pleasure for years Pleasure in its daily use; pleasure a matching pencil. They are so in the smooth, easy way it writes; attractive and feminine. it. There is nothing the department can do towards developing this useful resource without legislative ment, removal of this sodium would no doubt be a source of considerable in- enact-|come to the state and would in my and pleasure in the consciousness A Fountain Pen Desk Set makes a that the name Waterman's carries currence to have quite a variance of opinions transmitted to this office through this system. “In my opinion, the farm loan de- partment will never be fully satisfac- | tory until some change is made in the system of appraisals. Practically every land commissioner reporting to the governor since the making of| farm loans through this department was inaugurated, has recommended a thange. The present system followed by the Bank of North Dakota is, in my estimation, far more efficient and is not on the whole any more expen- sive to the applicant than the one disposition of this money.” erly is secretary of the board of uni- versity and school lands. Mr. By-| “Under the present law, the board) of university and school lands are not! authorized to issue leases for natural| gas where it is discovered on state land, the provisions being merely for! the digging and discovering of oil,”| the report says. “We have had several applications from various parties to dig on state land for natural gas, which at this!scuthern Divide county. The tract !ering the descriptions of ail land or- time is in its infancy of development, /of land upon which this sodium was and it is my understanding that’ discovered is owned by the} Has Sodium Deposit on Hands “It is my understanding elso that the state of Montana is digging a number of wells in the vicinity of Baker, and no doubt the same gas area extends into North Dakota and will, in time, be a great source of in- come, while under the present law we are entirely without any income from {that source, “Mr. Oscar Quarne some two years ago discovered a deposit cf sodium in estimation not in any way conflict with the constitution of the state, if provision was made for its mining, the proceeds from which could be turned into the permanent sthool fund.” Mr. Byerly recommends that pro- vision be made authorizing the board of universtiy and school lands to per- mit this sodium to be mined on an equitable basis to the state. The report points out that the ac- count of the original land grant cov- iginally held and now held by the department has been in such use as. LOVED PASTRIES BUT SUFFERED IF HE ATE. THEM world-wide recognition as in- dicating the best fountain pens made. For Yourself, or for a Gift, we show here Waterman's finest men’s pen, the Patrician. Choice of five jewel writes. dealer. to use charming gift for anyone who We show one of the many you will find at your Waterman's Priced from $7.50 up. In your Waterman's pen be sure Waterman's Ink — the ink that’s made for fountain pens. there is a considerable portion of the fo fo p Blue original land grant in the western counties that has natural gas under | jstate and has never been considered worth anything as it is entirely covered with water. The in some instances, making it almost prescribed by the constitution for this illegible. Mr. Byerly suggested department to follow. Tt is a physical colors. Very large ink Capacity, and Black for a record ink; the new impossibility for this or any other in- stitution to get the services they wish or need without having sul power over the party rendering the service.” New Collection Law Lauded Mr. Byerly termed as satisfactory a Jaw passed at the last session of the legislature changing the plan of col- lecting farm loan principal and in- terest, and requiring their payment to the land commissioner's office in- stead of at the various offices of the county treasurers throughou, the state. “This law,” the report said. “has worked out very, satisfactorily and has made it possible for this office at all times to give exact and up-to-date information as to the standing of the farm loans without first consulting by mail or telephone the county treasurer of the county in which the land was located. “Our present system of collecting money on land contracts is very sim- ilar to the old system of collecting money on farm loans and does not work at all satisfactorily. 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Urges Sales Department The department, the report says. is now engaged in proving its records as to all patents issued for land sold and all land contracts outstanding either canceled or otherwise, to prove whether the money has in all cases gone into the proper funds in accord- ance with the original land-grant. The income to the various institu- tions could be considerably augment- ed, the report states, if funds were available to the department with which to inaugurate a more strenuous inspection system throughout the state. “I pelieve also,” Mr. Byerly said, “that if funds were available for es- tablishing a land sales department to handle fore-closed land, the money to.income to the various funds, but to the various political subdivisions of the state in which this land is locat- ed and which land after a sale be- comes taxable, while at present it is non-taxable.” Auto Skids on Icy Road; Woman Killed Larimore, N. D., Nov. 19.—(#)— Mrs. C. H. 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