The Bismarck Tribune from Bismarck, North Dakota • Page 1

THE WEATHER FAIR AND'WARMER THIRTY-NINTH YEAR DENIAL IS MADE THAT STATE HAS MADE MG SUMS Profits Claimed in Operating Industries Are Really Losses OVERLOOK MANY CHARGES F. E. Packard, in Report on Financial Statement, Says Figures Mislead Assistant Attorney General F. E. Packard today punctured the bubble of profit claimed by the Townley administration for the Bank of 'North Dakota in an opinion to Thomas Hall, tary of state.

He pointed out that the alleged profit of the bank was built upon the interest accrued on stafte bonds, the proceeds of which furnish capital for the bank, and which purchased the itself. Secretary of State Hall asked the attorney general's office for an ion as to whether or not the annual report made to him by the industrial commission complied with the law, ancl in answering the assistant torney general pointed out that cording to the report tlie battk ed a net profit for the period from July 28th to December 31st, of that-in the item of earnings was $40,713.64 accrued interest, on the bank series of Bonds of 'North Dakota, which are the property of thp bank. The people through tion to date have agreed to pay $46,719,84 interest upon the bonds and in ortler to show a net profit to the state this item must be off set, which would leave a net deficit for the iod of $641.19. The report shows a profit for the Brake mill of $2,748.23 but it appears from the statement of the mill and elevator association that items gregating $3,372.00 which should have been charged as operating pense against the Drake mill were found un'Jer disbursements of the mill and' elevator association which actually left the mill $624.00 loss for the period of August 20th to ber 31st. According to the opinion of the torney general all departments of state industry showed an actual loss aggregating $18,734 -for the period un1 der consideration instead1 of the prolit of $35,756.

He further held that the report-did not conform to the provisions of tion 6 of the industrial commission act, in that it only listed six ployees, while the industrial sion employed scores of people. The home builders' association was criticised' in that one tage had been constructed at the cost to the state of $9,424.00. and that the report omitted the item of rent amounting to' $200.00. In one place in the report the ventory of the Drake mill shows $42,429.5.9 and in another place the ventory was and the ings and equipment was $24,419.18, a total of $63,210.71. The report was criticised as leading in toto, false in part and a shameless attempt to deceive the people of the FATHEBARRESTED FOLLOWING DEATH OF YOUNG SON Mother Says Beatings Were the Cause of Child's Sudden Death Khinelander.

Fe'o. rant was issued late yesterday for the arrest of Stanley Blomski for the alleged murder of his six-year old son at the Blomski home in Sugar Camp. The child died last week and an vestigation showed that injury due to severe beatings was the cause. Testimony of the mother of the child yesterday was to the effect that the father had beaten the child many times aud more than once had ened to take his life. LOAD OF LUMBER TOPPLES ON HEAD OF MAN IS DEAD 111 With monia, Is Not Told of Fatal Occident Hunter, N.

D-. Feb. 5. Wilbur Shepherd of Huuter township was killed under a load of lumber that overturned just as he was driving it into the yard of his home. father found the body several hours later.

Mrs. F. C. Shepherd, the mother, is critically ill of ienumonia. and has not, been informed of the accident.

The funeral services were held terday. and the body will be taken to the old home hi Illinois for burial. MEET 'FRIDAY The iDaughlters of the American Revolution wfll -meet Friday noon at the home of Mfrs. W. Lumry.

311 Third street. The subject of the meeting be "Colonial stone Inscriptions." BLIZZARD GRIPS NEW YORK, TIEING UP RAIL SERVICE Snow, Hail and Sleet With 50Mile Gale Disrupts Traffic Badly New York. Feb. i. York day started to dig itself out of the most severe snow storm of tho winter.

Snow, hail and sleet carried on the wings of a 50-mile sale fell steadily during the night and early morning hours clogging the streets and walks with great drifts, demoralizing street ear traffic, delaying traiu vice, seriously imiK'ding navigation in the harbor and causing intense comfort to pedestrians. WILL WET BIDS FOR STATE MILL AT GRAND FORKS State Officials Visit Propoced Site of 3,000 Barrel Flour Mill Bids will be opened on March 15 for the construct ion work on the barrel state-owned flour mill and the 1,600.000 bushel terminal elevator at Grand Forks, in accordance with the decision of the industrial commission reached today after conference with H. G. Lykken of the Charles (i. I'illsbnry engineering firm which has pared tlie plans for the plant.

Governor Frazier, Mr. Lykken and J. A. McGovern. manager of the mill and elevator association, left lUsmarck last night for Grand Forks where they will make final ination of the site olfered with a view to reaching a decision next week.

Commissioner John N. 1 lagan left for New Orleans to visit Louisiana's state-owned terminal elevator and to study itjs methods of operation as applicable to the North Dakota tem. Mr. Hagan will spend two weeks in the southern city. FARGO HAS MOTOR DISPLAY AT ANNUAL SHOW All of Latest Models of Various 'Manufacturers Will Be On Display Fargo.

N. Feb. Fargo's nual auto show, to be put on at the Berry building next week by the Fargo-Moorbcad Automobile Trade sociation, will compare favorably with the Minneapolis auto show now being held, only on a smaller scale, ing to H. L. Wilson, manager of the Fargo show, who returned fiom the Mill City last, evening.

Although the Fargo show will he many times smaller than the one now on in Minneapolis, it will have many advantages that the larger one not said Mr. Wilson. The show here will be much more combined and it will be ti great deal easier to see all the exhiibts liere than it is in Minneaoplis. Mr. Wilson said that wou'd take at least two full days to viVit the combined exhibits of the Mill City show.

He said ho spent four hours there and was able to visit only tlie automobile displays. CONFEREES DELETE IMPORTANT PARTS OF CUMMINS BILL Compulsory Consolidation of Railroads and Transportation Board Eliminated Washington. Feb. for the compulsory consolidation of railroads as provided under 'the Cummins bill were eliminated from tiie railroad bill today by the house and senate conferees who. also agreed to strike out senate provisions providing for the establishment of a transportation board.

Duties that were to have been assigned the board will instead, in the main, go to the interstate commerce commission, it was announced. LUMBER DEALERS MEET AT MINOT Annual Session of State zation Starts Today Minot. N. Feb. annua', meeting of the North Dakota Lumber Dealers' association will today in Minot.

sessions continuing until Friday night. C. N. Cox of Minot. secretary of the association, has made plans for the meeting.

W. P. MacCormack. Minneapolis: Adolph I'feund. secretary of the Northwestern Lumber Dealers' ciation: Alex Karr.

Jamestown. N. P. A. M.

Thompson. and Maj. E. S. Person.

Minot. are among the speakers announced. (tfo Bauer of Mandan. N. is president of the sociation.

FAMOUS JURIST FLAYS LEAGUE FOR PAST ACTS Judge Kenshaw Mountain Landis Says It Is "Atrociously Out of Place" SPEAKS AT MINNEAPOLIS Would Not Support Any date That Was Connected With Nonpartisans Flaying the Noniwrtlsan Jeague and its leaders saying it was ously out of place in the United states," Judge Keuesaw Mountain fiiilulls, United States district judge at Chicago, and one of the most mous jurists in the country, made a stirring address at Minneapolis day. The meeting was held under Christian association. Among other things, Judge Landis. referring to the league and its ties in North Dakota, said: "Coming nearer home to his neapolis audience the speaker took up the problems of Minneapolis and the northwest. "Now there's another concern tlintV been hossin' around he said.

"We don't have it iu Illinois. We have the 'flu' and the smallpox, but thank (Sod we don't have that. I refer men. it's your baby, to the partisan league. I have not had personal contact with it." "Yes," someone shouted in the ence.

repeated the speaker with a smile. "1 know enough about it to know it atrociously out of place in the United States. I stand some politicians are actually tiirting with the tiling." RECOUPS "Now I don't care whether a mjm wants to be elected to a city council, and wants to be major, or whether lie has been major and wants to be elected governor, that man expects to get the greater part of the votes ol his own party ahd enough of the votes of the other parties to elect him When a man seeks ottice, if I were you, I would learn his record and if lie. has been flirting with this thing. I'd forget all about the democratic and republicain it-irties and tell' Kim to be contentfttd with tlie votes that he can get from his own kind.

"I understand that in North ta tlieie is a governor and other ofticials, but that there sits iu a room in St. Paul a man who tells the ernor and judges and others what to do. Now 1 am not the kind of a man to be in office in North Dakota, but. my God, I'd like to hold court there for about a week. "You'll suspect lH'fore I'm through that I am not intending to run for office in North Landis approved the tion and sentence in United States court, in North Pakota of Kate ards O'I la re who, in sjeechos, said that mothers of soldiers were "no better than brood sows." BAFR INTERESTED As a result of his Judge Landis will probably feel the effect of the wrath of the league leaders.

Congressman John M. ISaer. tlio league's representative congress, sent the following telegram to Judge Landis: "Remarks attributed to you during speech at Minneapolis arc grossly proper for federal judge. Before ing for congressional investigation I want to know if you were correctly quoted in declaring that "the I. W.

the Socialist and the Nonpartisan leaguers all are in the same boat," the statement being coupled with a plain incitement to mob violence. LEAGUE SUCCESSFUL "If you have been truthfully ported. I want to know howf you concile this iutemperatd assertion with the facts. The I. W.

W. aims at the overthrow of government thru direct action. The Nonpartisan league is a political organization with a definite program of p'uhlie ownership of basic marketing facilities. Part of this program is being successfully operated in North Pakota. Every one of these measures was enacted by lawful, constitutional methods and every step has been ratified by cial elections and sustained and proved by both state and federal courts.

"North Pakota is the first state to start curbing unrewt by removing ilit underlying economic causes instead cc paltering with effects. And that have been successful is proved by tliQ fact that not a single resident from North Pakota has been arnjsted in the recent "red Instead favoring overthrow of government, the Nonpartisan league believes in strengthening and extending its ers. We make good citizens by sisting them in getting' homos and we do this in a manner that creates fidence in the orderly process of American political UNFIT FOR BENCH "Your wholesale denunciation of the loyal citizens of North Dakota is a plain perversion of the facts, a gross insult to their patriotism, and ing you to correctly quoted, dence of a deep seated hysteria that quite evidently unfits you to sit upon the federal bench." JUPGE LANPIS COMPETENT However, many persons who are timately acquainted with the splendid record Judge has made on the bench are not worrying about Baer's telegram, it is said. With a tion of never speaking unless he is (Continued on page two) THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, FEB. 5, 1920 POUR POUND EGG IS WAY ONE HEN STARTS SEASON Was an Ostrich and Not the Garden Variety of mal, However Pasadena, Feb.

an egg weighing four enough for a meal for eight Washington, a veterau egg-producer at an ostrich farm here, has opened the season. She is tlie most reliable egglayer among the more than ostriches at the farm, and for many years has been the first each season to lay an egg W. E. Bim WILL BE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION MAN Was Named as Delegate to the National Convention Yesterday PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS Meeting of State Central mittee at Fargo Entirely Harmonious Fargo, N. Feb.

for delegates to the democratic na tional convention which will be held at San Francisco were named here last night at the meeting of the state central committee. Presidential tors, alternate delegates and national committeeman were also named. H. H. Perry of Ellendale was elected national committeeman for the state on recommendation of the nominating committee Mud by mous vote.

Sveinbjorn Johnson of Grand Forks was elected state man following the resignation of E. Byerly. John B. Fried of. James town was named secretary, vice Pr It.

A. Bolton, resigned. Other elections were follows: I electors. V. Ifcgge Hatton lyirs.

Philip Ttoakh, Minot J. P. Lamb, Michigan Jens Peterson, Milnor Johu Sullivan, Mandan. Delegates to the national convention: W. L.

Noyes. Cando It. 1J. phy. Grafton F.

F. Burchard. Grand Forks J. W. McHose, Fargo W.

E. Breen. Bismarck W. E. GJotzhaeh Anamoose John B.

Fried. Jamastown G. 8. Wooledge. Minot J.

It. Mann. Wanhburn Charles Simon, New England. Alternate delegates: J. Hegge, Hatton Wm.

Schuett. Hankinson J. P. Faxon, Devils aLke Jos. MeGovern.

Osnabrock: A. E. Raime.v, Charles Pollock, Fingal K. A. son, Carrington Geo.

Gilmore, Williston L. A. Winter, Werner T. F. Murtha, Dickinson.

H. H. Perry, of Ellendale, national committeeman, was recommended for re-election. WOMAN DIES WHEN ENTTERING DEPOT ILL A LONG TIME Had Just Left Hospital Because She "Wanted to Go Home" With Husband Mrs. Anna Nelson of Baldwin, did this morning just as she was enteriny tho Soo dejK)t to take a train for her home.

She.had heen ill for some time and had just left a hospital because she wanted to go home. She had been suffering from cancer. The deceased was the wife of ert Nelson, well known farmer who lives two miles north of Baldwin. Mrs. Nelson was 40 years of age and a tive of Sweden.

Mr. and MrK Nelsor came to this county twenty years ago and took up the homestead where they have resided ever since. The funeral will be held Sunday ternoon from the Nelson farm. FARGO TO BUILD $80,000 GARAGE Will Be Four Stories High and Fireproof Fargo, N. Feb.

Plans and specifications will be completed this week for a modern garage, to cost approximately $80,0110. to be erected by J. C. Vincent at the corner of N. P.

avenue and Third street, east of the new Pence building, now der course of construction. The garage will be a four-story structure. Bids will be called for soon, according to an announcement today by the architects. Loans to Soldiers. Ottawa, Feb.

to British Columbia war veterans have amounted to over $9,000,000 since February, 1919. W. J. Black, chairman of the Soldiers' Settlement board said in a statement issued here recently. British Columbia, with two tions.

is the highest among Canadian provinces in the aggregate of loans granted to soldier settlers, he PALMER SAYS HE KEPT LID ON BY ARRESTING REDS Did Not Have Cold Feet, He Tells Senate Judiciary Committee PENDING BILLS TOO DRAST Repressive Measures Would Do More Harm Than Good, He Says Washington, Feb. of radicals, country wide arrests of others and the "vigorous enforcement of existing laws has given notice that the United' States intends to keep order and has helped to improve Attorney General l'almer day told the house judiciary mittee. The positive intention of the ernment to punish crimes of "reds'' and communists has created' a state of order which wouid have been possible without arrests and deportar tions, he Mr. Palmer denied that he had' "a plain case of cold feet" when he ed to appear before the house rules committee several, weeks ago to plain the need for additional dition legislation. More harm than good would come from repressive er said, adding that pending measures were so drastic and far reaching that they would over reach tlie purpose for which they were intended.

STATE BOARD OF HEALTH ISSUES FLU STATEMENT Avoid Crowds, Do Not Sneeze, and Go to Bed If Sick, Are Warnings In an effort to successfully combat the influenza epidemic which is prev alent in many cities of the state, C. J. McGurren, state health officer and secretary of the state department of health at Devilw Lake, has issued the following "During tho prevalence of epidemic influenza in the state the public is cautioned to avoid as far as iossible all unnecessary traveling, visiting and crowding. Special caution should be observed while sneezing or coughing and to protect spasm with kerchief that droplet infection may not be projected from the mouth or nose of an infected to another who may be susceptible. In case one becomes sick, he should immediately go to bed and summon a physician instead of trying to fight the disease until complications arise.

"All Joeal health are quested and advised to take ate precautions against the spread of this diseaise in their Respective tricts, when tho epidemic makes its appearance there. They should hibit all unnecessary gatherings and public funerals regulate seating in opera houses and take such other measures as they find necessary ing this emergency. "The (secretary's oflice will also he the oflice of the liaison officer who will have charge of the Red Gross activities during this period and who will be in a position to marshall aid where needed. "The closest co-operation with boards of health is urged in handling the situation that tho greater tion be (secured." NEW HEADS NAMED FOR DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN STATE F. Johnson of Grand Forks ceeds W.

E. Byerly, Who Resigned Fargo. N. Feb. a meeting here today of the democratic state central committee, F.

Johnson of Grand (Forks was elected chairman to succeed W. R. Hyerly, resigned, and John B. Fried1 of Jamestown was elected secretary, to succeed Dr. R.

A. Molten, Jamestown, also resigned. Following the state central mittee meeting the gathering of ocrats was thrown up and steps were taken to nominate candidates for dele gates to the national convention. Gay S. Wooledge of Minbt was elected chairman of the conference and a committee of nine was delegated to select the delegates candidate.

The nominating committee also will suggest candidates lor presidential electors, the delegators and elcttorial candidates to be voted on in the ary election of March A date for national committeeman will be endorsed this afternoon. RECOVERING FROM OPERATION Mrs. Elmer Brown, who was ed on yesterday at the St. Alexius pital, recovering and will lie able to leave the institution next FLAX TUMBLES WHEN SUPPORT IS WITHDRAWN Extreme Fal lof 51 Cents to $3.85 Recorded on Duluth Board of Trade Dulutli, Feb. of stop loss orders and 110 ipparcnt support from buyers resuited in serious breaks in flax prices on the local board of trade today.

extreme fall of 54 cents in new May ilax to was the greatest break In the forenoon mid liquidation continued. GUNMEN'S FIGHT EXPECTED OVER ENRIGHT MURDER Chicago Police Look For "Ten More Killings" Before ant Is Caught SUSPECTS ARE GATHERED Authorities Say That "War and Wholesale Is Imminent Chicago, Feb. among cago's gunmen and labor union ists to avenge the murder of "Mossy" Enright, chief of the fuedists and er of gunmen, today hinges upon police efforts to apprehend and lioldj suspects before the dead man's friends found them and cancelled the score in their own fashion. The call for the Enright clan had gone out the police said and "war and wholesale murder" was imminent. There probably will be "ten more kill ings" before the murderer is caught the chief of police declared.

Enright was the twenty-third tim of Chicago's labor feud and by the sawed off shot gun. HEN FRUIT GOES DOWN AS 11 CENTS DOZEN High Cost of Living Victims Chuckle Over Predicament of Speculators New York, Feb. of tlu high cost, of living were guen cause for revengeful chuckling today when market reports showed lhat eggs cently put in cold storage at: 50 con (is a dozen were being thrown on the market at prices ranging downward from 45 to 11 cents wholesale. In many places today they were ing retailed fit 50 cents and the slump was reported to have affected the fresh'-egg market bringing prices flown eight cents since last Friday. The decrease in cold storage egg prices was explained as I icing due to tlie fact that the expected Europeaj: demand for eggs did not fully develop.

SEED MAN DIES ENROUTE PACIFIC COAST ON TRIP N. J. Olson of Sanborne is tim of Pneumonia Traveling to California Fargo, N. Feb. J.

Olson, o)' Sanborne, head of a seed company of Minneapolis and Moorhead, died last night at Salt Lake City. Utah, according to word received here today, l'neumonia was the cause of his death. Mr. Olson was years old and had lived in North Dakota years. The body will be brought to Fargo for burial.

He en route California with his wife when he was taken sick. WOOD ALCOHOL IS CAUSE OF DEATHS Three Men Die in Illinois From Drinking Liquor Freeport. Feb. -Three men, aged from 'J') to 22 years, died last night and fifteen others are in a ious condition as the result, of ing liquor supposed to have ed' wood alcohol. FREIGHT BARGES BEING BUILT FOR GOVERNMENT FOR MISSISSIPPI TRADE Pittsburgh.

Feb. barges of an improved type are being built in a shipyard here for the United States railroad administration. They will be used on the lower Mississippi river for carrying oil in bulk and for general cargo. Each barge is feet long. 45 feet beam and 11 feet deep.

The hold is divided into IS compartments and has 10 hatches. The capacity is tons. LAST EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS CRISIS RESULTS IN EUROPE OYER HUNS DESIRED Council of Ambassadors Sent List of Names Wanted For, Crimes to Berlin CABINET DEFIES ALLIES Entente Will Adopt Necessary Measures to Compel ance at Trial Paris, Feb. between the allied powers and Germany seem to have arrived at a crisis as a result of the refusal of the Baron von Lersner, head of the Germain delegation here, to forward to Berlin the names of Germans whose extradition is manded by the entente. This dent apparently finds an echo in the attitude of the Berlin cabinet which is reported in London dispatches to have expressed through Gustav Noske, minister of defense, seeming defiance of the powers.

Von Lersner left for the German capital last nigbt. The list of Germans accussed of violations of laws of war whose trial is contemplated by the allies will be sent to Berlin direct by the council. It is pointed out here that measures tended to compel Germany to carry out the extradition clauses of the sailles treaty will be adopted, but there is no intimation of their nature. GERMAN SEND NOTE London, Feb. German inet' hats decided to stand another note to the allies calling attention to the fatal consequences which would ensure upon extradition of the mans demanded for trial by the allies for war crimes according to a Berlin dispatch to the Co.

LOW AS Exchange Telegraph PHYSICAL IMPOSSIBILITY Wednesday, Feb. the conclusion of tonight's cabinet session member of the government ed the correspondent of The ed Press that the ministers were animous in declaring that surrender of the men demanded by the allies in the unofficial list received here or any other extradition list was utter physical Paris, Feb. list of Germans accused by the allies of war crimes and whose extradition is to be manded is headed by former Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm and several other sons of the former German peror. The list will be handed to Baron Kurt von Lersner, the German representative here, this afternoon. Included in the list are Dr.

Theobald von Bethman Holweg, former German imperial chancellor Field Marshall von Hindenberg, General Ludeudorff, formerly first quartermaster general Field Marshall von Mackenson, Crown Prince Ilupert of Bavaria, the Duke of Wurttembcrg and a number of other princes and titled officers. Paris, Feb. draft of the note to he sent to Germany with t)he list of persons whose extradition is to be demanded by. the allies was approved by the council of dors today. The hote and the list will bes handed over at once to the German' representatives here.

It was decided by the council that neither the note nor the list should be made public here. MILES STANDISH WAS A MANXMAN RECORDS SHOW Dougals, Tsle of Man, Feb. Evidence that Miles Standish was a Manxman, and born into the Manx family of Standish of E.llanbane, has been discovered by the secretary of the Isle of Man Antiquarian society. The family of Btandish probably came to Man with the Derby family in the fifteenth century, it is stated, for there is a record that they held property in the capital of the island in the year J511. This was 73 years before Miles is supposed to have been born.

IMPORTANT TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED BY MANY SPEAKERS Leading Educators Will ble at Twelfth Annual vention at Moorhead Aloorliead, Feb. broad range of educational topics including shortage of teachers and poor ries. and the question of affiliating with the Minnesota Education ation. are to be considered at the twelfth annual convention of the Northwest Central Minnesota tional association, which will open here tomorrow and close on ary (i. The general theme will be mocracy in M.

L. Jacobson, Moorhead, is president of the association. The program lists as speakers tis M. Johnson, president of the tional Retail Hardware Dealers' sociation Dean L. 1).

Coffman. versity of Minnesota J. M. McConnell, state suiierintendent of tion Dean Joseph Kennedy, sity of North Dakota and L. R.

Finley, of St. Paul, director of physical training..