The Bismarck Tribune from Bismarck, North Dakota • 1

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1873 FIRE SWEEPS OYER SIOUX COUNTY STATE GRAIN CONVENTION ENDS TODAY Attendance Records Broken at Annual Meeting He'd in Bismarck ENTERTAIN DELEGATES Growers and Elevator Men to Elect Officers at Final Session The fourteenth annual convention of the Farmers Grain Dealers Association of North Dakota, which opened in Bismarck Tuesday and which is declared by officers of the association to be the most and largest attended in the history of the organization, will close tonight with a dance to be given the delegates in Patterson hall by the Bisnjarck Business and Professional Women's Club. Secretary Lee announced today that more than 750 delegates were registered last night. Many of the delegates will return to their homes today, while a few will remain here until Friday. S. D.

Garber was elected director at large at the convention session in the Auditorium this morning. The district directors will be elected late this afternoon and the directors will meet at the close of the convention to name the officers for the ensuing year and to choose the convention city for next year. An entertainment was given for the convention visitors last night iu the Auditorium under the auspices of the Bismarck Association of Commerce. Nearly every seat in the Auditorium was occupied and every number of the program was enthusiastically received. The first part of the program was presented by pupils of the Bismarck Indian school.

Selections were given by the Bismarck High School Glee Club and MacLeod's Gymnasts presented an exhibition. The final part of the program was given by the Thursday Musical Club and was as follows: Duet, by Puget, Mrs. Kemian Scheffer and-Mrs. John Graham, with Miss Leshcr at the piaino. Baritone solo, N.

Bystrom. Piano solo, Dr. L. R. Priske.

Vocal solo, Mrs. W. J. Targart. Quartette, Mrs.

Frank Barnes, Mrs. John Larson, Mrs: Bavendick and Mrs. E. E. Morris.

Music was furnished during the entertainment by the Bismarck High Softool orchestra. J. W. Shorthill, sccretaty of the National Grain Dealers Association, Omaha, was the speaker at this session of the convention. Mr.

Shorthill declared that the North Dakota convention this year is the largest single of its kind of the year with the exception of the lowa Farmers and Grain Dealers convention. He said that a single convention he has attended had so pleasant a place to meet as the North Dakota convention had this year. He praised the entertainment given the delegates last night, saying that it was worth while Mr. Shorthill congratulated the Association on its officers and the harmony of the convention. He congratulated the grain men for the great North Dakota crop of last season and for the price received for it.

what has been said about North Dakota the state is steadily going the speaker said. day has past when men can expect to know nothing about the business of the people with whom they Mr. Shorthill said. have come to the place where we must recognize the rights of Other people and where you farmers must apply the business methods as are applied in other lines of business. biggest thing that an organization of this kind can do is to conduct an educational campaign.

The public should be taught that the prosperity of the country depends upon the farmer and that the farmer cannot be prosperous and have good prices for his products unless the other people are prosperous. may think these things are common place but people have been rushing around the last few years trying to reap rich rewards for little work. The young fellows of the coming generation must be taught that unless they 'work as their ancestors worked this country is hot gdlng to prosper. It is the commonplace things that need our attention at the present time." TRIAL OF OIL LEASE CASES TO END TODAY Cheyenne. March 26.

the A. trial of Teapot Dome was due to end here today with the final arguments in the case to be made by Owen J. Roberts, government counsel. Mr. Roberts is scheduled to speak for one and one half hours in his final rebuttal.

Preparations were underway early today for the departure of attorneys and others attending the trial. Mr. Sinclair and his entourage of attorneys, clerks and stenographers and other Juslpers, have a private car at their service. When the trial closes jboth defense and government will ask permission of the courts to file briefs of their cases. This probably will delay a decision in the case for several weeks.

CRUEL, TO CATTLE Belfast, Ireland, March' farmer near here was heavily fined fir dehorning cattle. without first Living administered an anastlietie. FACTS FOR PROPERTY OWNERS High Taxes Hurt Property Values During the war or just after it, we heard a great deal abqut Prices became so high due to a combine over which the retailers had no control that people refused to buy even though they needed the very goods affected by the strike. You know how shoes, meats, afterwards tumbled in price. There was no union or central body to call these strikes; they were spontaneous.

Have you owners of vacant and even improved property ever stopped to think that there can also be a real estate strike? Suppose you paid S6OO for your vacant lot. Naturally you want to sell at a profit, or at least get out the money you put into it in the way of purchase price, taxes and assessments paid and interest on your money. But, what docs a prospective buyer say? He mentions high taxes and many improvement assessments which he must pay over a period of years, and figures that all in to prove what your lot will cost him in the end. Finally, he says your price is too high, and I or I take your lot unless you cut YOUR price. In other words, he means simply this.

The present owner and not the buyer must take the loss in value of the property due to heavy taxes and improvements. High taxes and many assessments shrink property values and hinder ready sales. Decreasing these factors means property becomes more salable. Efficient and economical city management is necessary to decrease high taxes. MAKE YOUR CHOICE APRIL 7th, ELECTION DAY.

DURUM WHEAT ACREAGETO BE INCREASED Oat Acreage Expected To Be About Same as 1924; More Barley Reported North farmers expressed their intentions on March 1 of increasing their durum wheat acreage materially above the acreage of 11124, according to announcement of the United States Department of Agriculture made today. North Dakota farmers expressed at the same time their intentions to reduco the 1924 flux acreage by almost one fifth. Oats in North Dakota will be planted to approximately the same acreage as in 1924 according to this survey, while barley will be increased nearly one-third in acreage, undoubtedly taking up the decrease in flax and potato acreage. Spring activities cannot begin for some time in North Dakota, although a few farmers are sowing south and west from the Valley City territory, likewise there were a few scattered farmers who accomplished some seeding approximately the same date one year ago. By far the greater area of the state will not be in suitable condition for working until at least ten or two weeks have elapsed.

Practically all areas in the state have sufficient moisture for the soil requirements, while the Northern half of the state actually has an excess, much of which must disappear before the soil can be worked and it is in this northern half where the greater per cent of the spring plowing must be done. The present outlook for a market for durum wheat does not justify the proposed increase of 12.5 percent in acreage, the report states. The present high prices should not be expected to prevail through next year. In the pust year, owing to short crops in North Africa, Russia and Canada, American durum has had a virtual monopoly of the special durum wheat markets of the world. Larger acreages are reported and better yields are expected in North Africa, where the wheat will soon be ready to harvest, and, if weather permits, larger acreages are to bo expected also in Russia and Canada.

It does not seem that it would be profitable, therefore, to increase fhe area sown to durum except where, even at lower prices, relatively high yields may make It more profitable than flax or other wheat. In North Dakota particularly, the outlook does not seem to justify the intended shift from flax to durum wheat. The proposed increase iti spring wheat other than durum la mostly to replace abandonment of winter wheat in the far Northwest. Expressed intentions to increase in many of the states east of the Rocky Mountains is largely offset by intentions to decease in North Dakota. If these intentions are carried out, and not more than the average yield per acre is realized in these states, the supply of hard red spring, east of the Rockies, would probably not be greater than the domestic mill consumption of that wheat.

The surplus wheat west of the Rockies, on the other hand, may have to compete in the world markets with all other wheats. If there is an average world crop of wheat, the present high prices in world markets cannot be expected to prevail for the 1926 crop, although they probably will be better than the 1923 crop. LONG DISTANCE TICK Havana, March 26. ticking of a watch which' was broadcast by a station here was heard diatinctly by Clayton B. Straw at his home at West Hopkinton, N.

H. OLD-TIME WINTERB Minot, March this winter have been so heavy that far first time in more than 60 jreafi. it waa nacasaary. to transport mail by dog team, FARGO GROCERS FIGHT SUNDAY CLOSING LAW Fargo, N. March of the North Dakota law relating to the closing of grocery stores on Sunday is to be tested in Cass county court, March 30, when Morris, Bennie and Jake Letofsky, Fargo grocers, are to be given a hearing following their recent arrest for breaking the Cabbath by selling certain kinds of commodities.

The defendants contend that the law is woefully inconsistent and disci! minatory. WEALTHYYOUTH Young McCormick Works as Common Laborer Milwaukee, March 26. a four dollar a week room on south Pierce Street, Fowler McCormick, 27 year old grandson of the founder of the International Harvester fortune, declared last night that he is not earning, his The to the McCormick millions rises at five and for ten hours works as a common laborer in the Milwaukee plant of the Harvester Company piling metal pigs into the furnace carts, going from department to department becoming acquainted. For several weeks young McCormick has been working, living quietly in hi 3 south side rooming house. A small room containing on iron bed, two chairs and a dresser has been his home.

His presence and occupation came to light yesterday through Fifi Potter Stillman, wife of the former president of the National City Bank of New York, who came to Milwaukee early this week. Yesterday she admitted that she had come to see her and last night the two had dinner at a downtown hotel. SORLIE LEAVES ON BUSINESS TRIP Governor A. G. Sorlie left Bismarck for Grand Forks today on business in connection with the state mill and elevator.

He will go to Lake Friday where he will deliver an address at a Boy Scout meeting and on Sunday he will speak at a Y. M. C. A. meeting in Fargo.

The Governor will return to Bismarck Monday. Weather Report 1 For 24 hours ending at noon. Temperature at 7 a. 34 Highest yesterday 76 Lowest yesterday 41 Lowest last night 34 Precipitation 0 Highest wind velocity 40 'WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinity: Fair tonight and Friday; cooler tonight with rising temperature Friday. For North Dakota: Fair tonight and Friday; cooler fit east and central portions tonight with rising temperature Friday.

WEATHER CONDITIONS The low pressure area on the northeastern Rocky Mountain slope yesterday morning has moved eastward to the upper Mississippi Valley. It was attended by high winds throughout the Plains States. A large high pressure area, accompanied by somewhat colder is centered over the middle and northern Plains States but warmer weather prevails in the Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes Region. Light, scattered precipitation occurred over the northeastern Rocky Mountain slope. Elsewhere the westher is generally fair.

ORRIS W. ROBERTB, Official fhavff BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1925 GIRL SLAYER BREAKSUNDER COURT STRAIN Dorothy Ellingson Suffers Fourth Collapse Since Start of Trial ELEVEN JURORS CHOSEN Condition of Young Woman May Force Postponement of Murder Hearing San Francisco, March trial of 17 year old Dorothy Ellingson. charged with having shot and killed her mother, Mrs. Anna Ellingson, was resumed here toduy with attorneys for the defense and prosecution making the same painstaking selection of the jury which will try the young defendant, and with precautionary measures in force to guard against a physical and mental breakdown of the girl. The fourth collapse of the girl in court yesterday during the third day of the trial led her attorneys to announce last night that they might petition the court today to have the girl examined by a physician every day before she is brought into court.

The father was quoted as expressing the belief that his daughter will not be able to stand an uninterrupted pirogress of the court proceedings and that a postponement may he necessary. The girl, from all apparent evidence, is breaking under the searching examinations to which all prospective jurors are being subjected and obviously is losing her early indifference and characteristic control of her emotions. When the trial was resumed this morning 11 jurors had been selected tentatively, with the prospect of another panel being brought into court as the present panel of 60 almost is exhausted. FARMERS NEAR CENTER FIGHT PRAIRIE FIRE Hay Stacks and Pasture in Territory Three Miles Long Destroyed Mandan, March flames were ravaging a large part of Sioux County yesterday afternoon and last night, farmers in Oliver county, 35 miles north of Mandan, had a fire of their own to quell. A prairie fire started near the farm of Richard Bubel and destroyed hay stacks and pasture in a territory about three miles long and a mile to two miles wide.

Farmers and citizens of Center mhnaged to prevent the flames from leaping over an east and west graded road. Richard Bubel was a member of the North Dakota House of Representatives in the recent session. The fire fighters at Center completed their work at 10 last night after four hours of strenuous battle against the flames. DEATH TAKES WAR VETERAN Well Known Valley City Man Succumbs Fargo, March 26. funeral services will be held at 2 P.

M. tomorrow from the Methodist Church at Valley city for S. Cuyler Anderson, son of Rev. and Mrs. James Anderson of Fargo, war veteran and graduate of the North Dakota University, who died at the Hospital in Minneapolis Tuesday of tuberculosis.

Rev. J. S. Wilds of the Valley City church will officiate. The American Legion Post there will have charge of the military part of the funeral.

It was originally planned to have the services at Fargo but plans were later altered because the father had served as pastor at the Valley City church for some time. While a student at the State University, Anderson. was one of the leaders und held several important student posts. His brother, Dr. Howard Anderson, is connected with the Quain and Kamstad Clinic of Bismarck.

Another brother, Fletcher Anderson, died overseas while serving' with the medical corps in the World War. Mrs. Elizabeth Preston Anderson, his mother, is the well-known state president of W. C. T.

U. FIRE REPORTED NEAR WAKPALA Mandan, March received from Wakpala by telephoij: tell of a light of farmers and citizens to save that town from the prairie fire. A large force of men and boys backfired at a point four miles north of Wahpala and stemmed the advance of the flames. Wakpala also reported the loss of the buildings on the Hartung and Bell ranch northwest of McLaughlin, S. D.

VOLCANO CAMP Honolulu, March naval recreation camp a short distance from tha active volcano Kilauea has been approved by the Navy Department Construction work starts this spring. The site is one of the molt beautiful in the Hawaiian BAIL DENIED SHEPHERD IN MURDER CASE Lawyer Accused of Slaying Wealthy Youth Must Remain in Jail SPEEDY TRIAL ASSURED Heir to Huge McClintock Estate to Carry Fight To Supreme Court Chicago, Mar. D. Shepherd, charged with murder by typhoid germs of William N. Mc- Clintock, his foster son, to gain the million dollar estate, must teniuin in jail without bail pending trial, Chief Justice Jacob Hopkins of the criminal court ruled late yesterday.

The fight for his release will be carried to the Supreme Court with a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, William Scott Stewart, his attorney, said. Meanwhile state attorneys endeavored to agree with Stewart on a date for arraigning Shepherd. Assurance for a speedy trial if Shepherd wishes it was held out for him in Judge decision rendered after three days of testimony and argument. Shepherd may not be transferred to in the county jail, officials said, but may continue to occupy cell 13 where he has been kept, due to the possibility of an early release. Most of the prisoners on the are young men and authorities said they feared Shepherd might be subjected to insults and even physical abuse.

Coroner Oscar Wolff announced today he would issue an order for the exhumation of the bodies of Mrs. Emma Nelson McClintock, mother of the dead orphan millionaire, William N. McClintock, and Dr. Oscar Olson. The coroner's decision came after a conference with a representative of -the attorney shortly after counsel for William D.

Shepherd charged with the murder of the Mc- Clintock orphan, had announced he would fight on in an attempt to free Shepherd on bail, which had been denied. Mrs. McClintock died sixteen Vegrs ago and Dr. Olson died three years ago. RED CROSS TO MAKE SURVEYS Permanent Needs of Storm Sufferers To Be Found Chicago, Mar.

and replacement were the objects of activities today in the storm-swept areas of five states where a week ago wreck and ruin were left in the wake of the tornado. The American Red Cross went on apace with its plans to replace and refurnish homes, clothing and all necessities of victims to reestablish them as nearly on a pre-disaster basis as possible. Local community and county committees began their work of cooperating with the Red Cross in adjusting claims. A few more days will end the relief period fixed by Red Cross officials as the time for temporary efforts and work will start at once on surveys to ascertain permanent needs of storm sufferers. Later provision will be made for vocational training and trust fund assistance in cases where the chief means of support of a family was cut off by the disaster.

The total deaths in the storm area today stood at 830, the figure set in the Associated Press list of the dead on the night of the tornado. MASONIC LODGE TO HAVE PAST NIGHT Past night will be observed by Bismarck Lodge No. 6 A. F. and A.

M. tomorrow night. The following program will be given: 4 P. M. Mason Degree.

Opening and first section by offi-- cers of Bismarck Chapter. B. M. Dunn, W. John Parkinson, S.

F. H. Peters, J. George Humphreys, S. W.

C. Bush, J. D. 6:30 P. M.

in the Temple dining room. W. S. Casselman, toastmaster. Craft H.

Specht. E. Diehl. 8 P. M.

program in the lodge room. Henry Halverson and George Humphreys in. charge. 8:16 P. section.

Wm. W. O. Lundquist, S. T.

E. McKano, J. R. M. Bergeson, S.

G. F. Dullam, J. H. L.

Reade; E. Diehl; J. AL Graham; S. F. F.

Moody; Historical Lecture J. Grady. Third Section L. K. Thompson; Charge, A.

P. Lenhart. The candidates are: Clyde A. Dow, Carl El Knudtson and James H. Wiley.

YOUTHFUL London, March 26. Jack Rosenbaum, an American boy of 12 years, has just completed his twenty-second trip across the Atlantic. His father lives in the United States and other relatives live here. PRACTICAL EDUCATION Salem, March Speaking of practical education, a new course of instruction In the junior high school here will bo on how to dodge automobiles. Several accidents have occurred near the school, QUITE NEIGHBORLY IS JOHN D.

Sunday mornings in OrmonJ Beach. find John D. Rockefeller in a most amiable mood and lie has a pleasant handshake for all Ihe churchgoers after the service, as this unusual photo shows. NEW CIGARETTE STAMPS TO BE HERE NEXT WEEK Cigarette stamps for use when the new North Dakotu cigarette law goes into effect on April 1 will be shipped from Chicago on March 28 and should arrive here by April 1, according to information received today by Secretary of State Robert Byrne. The stamps will be ready for retail dealers early next week.

TARGETSSHOW DEADLY AIM OF NAVY GUNNERS Totally Destroyed in Buttle off Coast of California Nava! Base, San Pedro, March 26. remains of target rafts that yesterday played the role of an enemy armada seventy miles off shore from here today bore witness to the annihilating force and speed with which the combined United States fleet can strike an adversary operating on the surface of the sea. Sleeve targets simulating enemy airplanes emerged unscratchcd from the shrapnel hail hurled aloft at them by the battle 41 antiaircraft guns, according to observers, but the 600 ton cloudburst of steel that fell on the surface targets during the six minutes of mass firing, called force practice, left no doubt that the fleet they represented would have been utterly destroyed. Although no were dropped by aircraft, interest attached to the efforts of the anti-aircraft gunners to score hits on the sleeve towed about 6,000 feet aloft by eight airplanes. TO GIVE FOUR CONCERTS IN STATE THIS WEEK Grand Forks, N.

March 26- Four concerts by Miss Alma Mehus, North Dakota pianist, will be givr.i in the state within the next week, according to announcement of her schedule made here. The second of her concerts, Friday of this week, will be given in Grand Forks. The other three in the state in which Miss Mehus will play are Mayville, Thursday of this week; Fessenden March 30; Minot, March She is also to play a concert in Minneapolis early in April. In two of these cities, Fessenden and Mayville, Miss Melius lived for several years. She was born at Brinsmade, N.

D. She has just returned from Europe where she spent two years studying and giving concerts in Italy. Germany and Norway. Her Grand Forks concert is being given under the sponsorship of Wesley College. DEVILS LAKE PREPARES TO GREET SORLIE Devils Lake, N.

D-, Mar. and Mrs. A. G. Sorlie will be the guests of honor at the annual concert of the b'and to be held here Friday evening.

Governor Sorlie will award the commission of band to the band at the concert. Among the special numbers on the program will be readings by Mrs. William A. Burke, graduate of the Northwestern University School of Speech; solos by Miss Maude Gray, selections by a trio composed of Miss Gertrude B. Riordan, Miss Inez Serumgard and Miss Mildred Warner; readings by Joe Johnson, and the Highland fling by Katie Deck, a pupil at the School for the Deaf, infracted by Wet law Serumgard.

BORAH HOLDS NO HOPE IN ARMS PARLEY Declares Russia Is Key and Would Have To Be Recognized Washington, March 26. Borah of the senate foreign relations committee, declared late yesterday after a conference with President Coolidge that he favored calling a second arms limitation conference but doubted it would be successful. He said he thought it was good plan to make a move toward disarmament although in his opinion disarmament could not he obtained except by organized public opinion, which lie did not believe now existed in Europe. Russia holds the key to the world disarmament, he asserted, and Russia could not he expected to enter into an arms limitation agreement without diplomatic recognition by this country. France also constitutes a stumbling block to satisfactory disarmament, he declared, and will continue to do so as long as sbe insists on her He said he would support President Coolidge in his efforts to get the foreign powers interested in the conference, which as contenydated would take place some time in the fall and would be limited to consideration of naval armaments.

It is a fine thing, he added, to keep the subject of disarmament alive and there is a chance that a conference might accomplish some results. The same nations that participated in the last conference are expected to be invited to be represented. FLAMES DESTROY OLD LANDMARK AT ROCHESTER Rochester, March old Garden Theatre, a landmark of this city, valued at about $20,000, was destroyed by fire early today. Although the building is in the business district, firemen kept the flames from spreading. Deflective wiring is believed to have caused the fire.

Girl Journalists To Edit Grand Forks Herald Grand Forks, N. March 26. Girl journalists of the state university will edit the Friday morning issue of the Grand Forks it is announced here. Members of Matrix, journalism society will have charge of the edition. The staff for the edition is as follows: Helen Grace Leo, Grand Forks, editor-in-chief; Mary Hethgrington, Starkweather, athletic editor; Margaret Dickinson, Minot, and Vernice Aldrick.

Grand Forks, editors in charge of the state page; Rose Loos, Grafton, and Ruth E. Germo, Red Lake Falls, local news editors; Ferdina Reinholt, Grand Forks, telegraph editor; Frances Owen, Grand Forks, society editor; Madge Allen. Towner, university reporter, and Minnifred Beach, East Grand Forks, East Side reporter. NO BOILED EGGS THERE Washington, March ment scientists say on account of the rare state of the air on Mare, water there boils at a loner temperature than on the earth. The difference ii so great, they claim, that boiling water on Mars will not boil an egg.

A DYING RACE Jerusalem, March 26. colony of 12fi people here, said to be descendants of the Samaritans of Biblical days, soon may be extinct. The number in the colony has been decreasing steadily, because marriages outside their own people ere forbidden. PRICE FIVE CENTS GALE DRIVES BLAZE TOWARD BLACK HILLS One Life Reported Lost in Flames; Heavy Damage to Farms and Stock TEN HOMES DESTROYED Fire Fanned From Field To Field By Heaviest Wind in Many Years Mandan, March an unauthcnticated report of one life lost in Walker, S. and damage as yet unknown, a prairie fire is reported ns having swept through Sioux county last night and racing before a forty mile wind toward the Black Hills today.

One estimate from a press correspondent, at Selfridge places the damage to farms, live stock, and bay and pasture land, at between $500,000 and $3,000,000, but this is considered exaggerated. The fire apparently started near the U. S. Indian Sub-agency at Porcupine southwest of Solen, Morton County, according to the best information available over telephone. It swept south and east and then appeared to divide, one fire eating southwest, the other southeast, ing the village of Selfridge by three or four miles on the cast and west sides.

At Selfridge the fire had attained a 40 mile width and was leaping at a tremendous rate from field to field and coulee to hill, fanned by one of the heaviest winds of many years. Only meager details were available up to noon, The fire swept beyond Selfridpe south to the main line of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad at Walker and Wakpala and east towards Mowbridge, S. D. Jumping the tracks of the Milwaukee line, it continued to blacken the countryside to the south, reached the'Grand River, leaped that stream and then shot on toward the Black Hills.

One mHii lost his life fighting the fire at Walker, S. according to eurly meager reports. have men working in the field at the present said a press correspondent at Selfridge, it is possible that we will know whether any lives were lost by this afternoon. We know at least ten farm homes within a radius of 10 miles of Self ridge were Settlers from the outlying districts straggling into Selfridge are bringing the first real detailed tion of the disaster. County Commissioner John Tuiuland lost 200 head of fine sheep at his ranch 16 miles southeast of Selfridge and scores of ranchers lost their entire herds of sheep and cattle.

Farm homes and buildings were destroyed on the places of Mrs. Margaret Paul, John Walker, John Wingertcr, William Gayton, and J. Gormlct. When John Birtch, farmer living four miles northwest of Selfridge, saw the fire he pressed his wife and children into service and backfired a stretch 20 feet or more wide along the north and west sides of his farm buildings. The backfire stretch saved the building's, although the family was almost stifled by smoke, Mr.

Birtch said when in Selfridge. (Special To Tribune) Fort Yates, March 26. damage from the prairie fire is reported in this section. Some hay and feed was lost. At this writing no loss of life was reported.

FIRE UNDER CONTROL Lead, So. Dakota, March fire at Benchmark, 14 miles south of here, which last night had burned half a mile east of the Burlington track, was under control today, according to reports at the office of the Superintendent of the Black Hills national forest at Deadwood. The damage will not be heavy the forester said. GAIN HEADWAY Aberdeen, S. Mar.

26. prairie fires are raging near Wakpala, S. p. on the main line of the Milwaukee and another is gaining headway northwest of Trail City, according to telephone reports from Wakpala shortly after noon today. SOUTH DAKOTA FIRES Valentine.

Mar. separate Jftairie fires of huge proportions are devastating the Rosebud Indian reservation in the south central part of South Dakota and have already burned over hundreds of thousands of adjoining Nebraska land. The fire is now within 7 miles of Valentine which is located just south of the reservation. Valentine is a town of 1,500, a hundred miles northwest of Urgent calls for help have been received here from ranchmen of the threatened district. One call reported that one woman and two children had already been burned to death in the small inland town of Tuthil, S.

in Bennett County. This town, advices said, had been wiped out. Bismarck People See Red Flames Toward South Slope Country Many Bismarck people saw a reddened sky in the south in the direction of Selfridge and Solen last evening. At times it flared up and the sky was of fire red color over wide area. It ores believed that burning haystacks ot brush fire was responsible.

Secretary Larson in the absence af Governor gat in fteuek with thjfira swept to.