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"Vroiijer asserted thsa the law ;-Hrtii^&(>w.iB'o^eratiott notified Ohert" kXsoiij Statie Treasarejr, that th«i later -fNWild'be rftFpoaislble idxttim l^^ie state auditoT cn^lJie in- "•: .^ati^ctibne^' q#vthe boaw^f#, _ '•. ihe sala.iy m tiie /n»i^ant Attorney;, 1 ift&hall iiiyes--. when; Ae !»»} heen legislated 1 v^iwt o£ ^officeif ; ^. • -.• ,-' ; ? Treasurer Qtsk>n foilowi|ig a confer- ;^m«e in l^e Attorrtfey G^feinl's office, ai^ the Governor. authority toorderpayment' of ;S^^ii)rant stop. None of the iriferinnlk in qoes- iion have been presented f6r payment. "WbeAi they are, thai fact wiH, probably the ground for settling the matter ThiittdaM. who on Sunday killed his •inplco^r £meradp, has mad« a detail- ed otfBf^eisioiu ,aceoEdii« to ail an- nouneenii|t by State's Attorney *the-. odore B. sltdn. : "',•['•• .'- r .-> A ehai^e.of murder in the first de^ giee will be'preferred against Itoond- son.^ •'• .'/ "O'-ijiS " [ *'m£ Mat L ; rf|f||^|^ri» '•'•fce :1 4 , ^ a« the courts*. (Sptieiil To The_ W«ld.) Bismarck, IT/ i).,, Dee.' * g^fOTOt 1 / doing pwhalilthe vstite'-ifeg^latore- -did- ^not the streiAgth to do—repe al a the latest bit of iK^ninis- Supr^eCouocil'TlKbiyFized 1 v. jiihpi^ of ic^i^ ^Wliich Ma)t Postpone.- '(By The i^kSated Press.) Dec; Sl,-i-Al|b(n^di the su- c<fflSjC|l%;^odayJanu«^ ligniiig the/ ffcQtocol and;g||^ t^jftdteg ratification of. ffcb, \Ge|^ui Po»o» JiSfe'* 1 de- velbging wfeieih" iWs iHoajght ;by per- sons in the council, nday again cause the postponement bf. .putting this treaty into effect. ve jdtgglerjr bjr "signs where he's Ftader, '(who sijgn**>; '^rhen • !H''$:|;-; :. «a - Mwaday -he #d' MW. rnmmtom I il .t no bi& s o^ tke state' licbit^' d^artment dated is: «f^ December 21 wwild be allowed; " future. It was the finft move se Bill CO. / ' ' ^te licer»ei|epartifteW whkh <n evCT' ; pool balls, sfift 8tarjds,bowlr and thieatres, established by action of the 1919 'W-^fi ! '-' jS »fcgular-'session-.of .th(6-!e^[sla^u». ;.•• ' When and : at the -time^^ the /special , session "* .J:t r 'rwna called, the Lemke league mem- l»e» of the" session received their in< ; atructiotu to repeal the law, thus • taking Langer*s law enforcement de- 'v !W$£: yartment from -him. / However, the ""-NA-i, 1 ohurch organizations, the W. C. :T. ® L' TJ, the North Dakota Enforcement Xteague and iother influences brought . inch atrong presMWe to bear that"the |>ill to repMl tihb ?: i)iw ^s test . ito .the I %ouse. . It ] wi«^r^oiPte^-i<^ :%rith.' ] :Vv. ' amendments whi^h practically killed law, but • jEhiSJJtoo was again ^n- ' jtattsfactory..' Thin* a bill, came out af the league caucuB retaining the --department bu^' transferring it bod- , ,. ' ^ ily to the state 'sheriff—thus punish- | , lag Langer. '1 " Monday morning at a meeting of ' y ' Ihe state auditing poard-ihe eld board -- With Langer, fiMD> Kositzky and the i^ivehibr present^ 1 ' Tieiuurer Olson ' Ifeiiqr in the bo^ital—the governor 4ferised fcaagiiir tlpat- no bills -of the ^ '" licensing' department would be id r Jater than December 21. ^'The inspector: tad deputies and aiftiogniphiBrs; uader^the governoxfs atatonent, have been .working since December 21st without pay. Up to < Monday the state sheriff had not , /teen named and no call had been made if ' -apdn either the inspector or the at- torney ' general to turn over the de- . ;. ' Yartment. ; &' - - licenses Revoked la Minot and Other ' Plaeea. Monday -when the governor's <«di6t was issued, the department be- k ^ •. v c^ the inyeitigation and action for |i;'" j 4|^e revoc«itk>n of the license of a M{? "iiiice hall at Minot which city offi- V dids there declared disreputable and Idisorderly; receivedi jiind attelnded to tf applications lor licenses of ioas kinds; attended to three coht- ; plaints of ^w violatlpjis.-^n allowtt^; ifl'^v'Vr «f ibinors in ijpool haHsilanswereif'3^ latten requesting information -^re- cording laws o{ various kinds; in^ • accordance with the duties of the of- Becom- iber of th« Mayo Pro- perty, WHich is a Holding to the Mayo Institutions. , v -4.. ' ' ; (By T%e AssocUted ^ifs^) Rocfcigtier, Mbn., De&. 31.^C|ias W. :May^#^.W»CawB. iL^Mfhas .'been «lee|^^ vB(i^?ibeT of' the Mayp prop, '•iiiii ' "FTn iif iimi<m11y'xl -1ine* tod&V. The Mayb ^n^erty is a holding cor- jk>ration for all of the Mayo Institu- fious, • ^ ...•. ' < 4r "the younger Mayo is a-medical stu- dent at Princeton. He recently be- caipe twenty one years of age. <ttus brings the Mayo organization inio a third generation. It wus found ed bv the lat«? Vi. W. Mayo, who came to Rochester in 1863. I' I §Qn- Pledge Members to Temper ance Campaign But Against Legislative Prohibition—Ac- tive Work in Next Two Years • {wRepesl. v * (By The Associated Press.) Milwoukee, Wis., Dec. 31.—Pledg- ing its members for a campaign, tqr temperance and, against prohibition, a new lodge, the Order of Camels, it is said will be innaugurated in Milwau- kee on January 16, 1920. loday the prohibition ammen'*ment becomes ef. fective. The lod^B Ivill bej^in i two years campaign fbr the repeal-of the amendment. .v, -.v% of South Dakota W01 Ticket Dallas, Tex., Dec. 3L-^€bttdn hia9 been profitably grown ik the high al- titudes of New Mexico, according to the Fedoral Reserve Bank of Dallas. In a bank report it was declared "fair- ly large and very profitable cotton crop was raised in the neighborhood j p'i '" 1 "'°' Roswell and Carisbad, New Mexico, » "fy at an elevation of over 0,000 feet " above sea level." ,.o«^; ! jRi|^iibIican' IV- as) (By The A«ibcia:< Pieirfe, S. D. Dee. 31.^-J||ajor Gen. Leonard Wood, today - ftled s formal announcement of his for the Republican presidential! domination with the' South Dakota secretary of State. - :•'• Bodies Found in Hous^-—Last Seen Alive M Saturday—Police Are Inves- tigating. • ; (By "Hie Associated Press.) Philadelphia, Pa. Dec. 31.—Police, today; were investigating the death of three women aftd a man believed to have. been victims of wooa alcohol. Their bodies -were found last night in a roomiiig house, and it . is beUeyed they died Saturday when they were last seen. BER6ER'S RIGHT TO SEAT TO BE ( By The Associated Ptess.) Pierre, S. D., Dec. 31,-^-In-his mes- sage of acceptance Gen. .Wood said: "I do hereby declare thiit if nom- inated and elected I will qualify." Governor Lynn J. Frazico;, who was endorsed for president by -the Non- partisan state conference Sept. 2nd, has not filed notice of acceptance. Major General Wood gave his home city as fiourne, Mass., and his present address as Chicago^ G. H. Bodenstab, Fusitm Can-' didate For Congress, Will 1 Contest the Rig;ht of Berger' For Congressman—Notice ] of Contest Served on Berger Last • Night..' William . A. Davis, Head of the Government La< bor Bureau at Washington, Was the Main. Speaker, Hav- ing . Come to North, Dakota Few the Purpose of Aiding in This State. ! (By Thifr Associate* - •• Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 81,—it H, Bodenstab, iusion candidate 'foir Cbn- gress, in'the first ^stfrict election will- contest the right of Mr. L. Buerger to take his *eat as Congressman. .Notice of the contest was served on' Mr. Berger in Chicago last night. The ba- sis of the contest is that Berger is disqualified from holding office and the votes east were void. The grounds are similar to- those in the contest of Joseph T. Cariiy. Mr. Bodenstab said" that the contest will be brought in the House of Rep- resentatives. OIL TOWN, ONE M 'i-X' alWAlso Five —Grab Cash, and -Liberty Bonds and Escape in Auto- mobile.. 'et the govenwrasid ^.bills will be paid, which means salari es as wtel, mid ^he department-vbi^^b^ea work- e^' without pay. .. "The governor declared ^e depart- it inoperative December. 21st, the ten.days after-the special ses- •km-. when H. B. W was claimed to beeome ^fective.; He had not r pcidr to that, .say anything tc the de- partment regarding transfer, nor had any request been made on. the depart- ai^ f or it« sur>rei>jdCT., It; is not rsasombte to mippose the . sflkisls would quit a^' lock up and - let work accumulate, nor violate the ^ esths of office by failing tb^ officiate wniiUl!' ute' '^ros^ia^r t^b0t tegalttUt sscurities. Befbre ||'v been turned over t* proper sadees-. .leaving the bank, thine of the baadite son. ' who had been .guarding the line forc- The aimouneement of the governor ed them into vault and locked them -Hy|pifs«&-*^-^^Mtinllir a repeal ofiln.^ The imprisoned escapedby means ^a'- Hid department However, Barlei'H. jof a screw driver which had been eon* (Continued on page 6.) Icealed in the v» " • (By The Associated Press.) ; Qriiaha, Neb. Dec. «1.—Four un- masked robbers, shortly before noon tbday, entered the Pa"rere an j' M^r» chaiftfi National Ba9k,->if Berison,. a suburb of Omaha 11. ed six emplbyte? af .-' ''ve cuptf»o«rs of rh • 1 ank against the wall and robbed the vault »f $!ll>,- 000. They mnde thei: ecape '» an au- iemobile. . : : According to .offljs'aV of the bank (te robbers took MQiOOO in cash snd the nanainder in 'I^>ttty bonds and •f'il / Merchants and Highwaymen Clash Last Night on Princi- pal Street of Waggoner City, (By The Associated Press.) Wichita' Falls, Kansas, Dec.' 31.— One man wits reported dying and two others fatally wounded as the result of a skirmish between, merchants and highway /men last night, along the principal streets of Waggoner (Sty, the oil town 14 miles northwest of here. Captain Eckman is Finally Discharged (Special To The Worid) 0' Washington, D. C., Dec. HO.—Capt- Louis L. Echman of Grand F irks, who has been receiving treatments for his wound -at Walter Reed hospital, was discharged last week from the service aiwrteft on Saturday for North Dako- ta. Captain Eckman was for years the captain of the Grand Forks ma- chine gun company, later taking over a machine gun outfit in the First di- vision . It; was while wiflitiUs^ organi- zation that the captain ,was severely woundpd in the leg. Although he has not yet fully reco*'eted frospi the ef- fects of.his injury^ Mn Echmaa hop-' es to be aUe to resume his practice in: dentisezy, in whdh inofesidon he was engaged prior tb the call for ser T vice on the Mexicaa border ondl ater in France..' Kositzkyto Speak At New England, N. D. Bismarck, N.. D., Dec. 31.—State Auditor Cari R. Kositzky announced today that he had a^pted an jEnvita- ti«n to speak on Nwrfh Stsii^ state "affsin Hew Begtim* the afternoon of January 18. The invita- tion, signed by Rev. M. f. Webbe of New England, requests the auditor tb' addresslhe town*sMea^rclnb andvet? brsgenerally. (Special tite World) Pargo, N. Di^" Dec. 31.-—Orgamzti- ti^n of the "United' Amu^ett^s"^ as- sociation to be compbstslbf 73nre Am- ericans, wa§ laundied in NOJth Dako- ta at a meeting held here Tu&day af- ternoon. William A Davis, speaker, having cttbe to North Dakota-for the purpose "of aiding in this Atiaerican Legion, lias practically the same con-, stitution and purpose as the service men's organization—the fighting of red flag socialism, anarchism, Bolshe- vism and all forms of radicalism which has sprung up in the country. A determined drive will be launched in the spring in this state and through, out the nation with the purpose of libing up every citizen in support of tiie Uubed States cons^tutkm, the? constitutiiimd- form of..govenimeQjb» and 100 jfer cent Americanism^ The drive will include lectures, four toiiiu ute talk.v. newspaper and magazine articles and advertising, and moving picture picturizatonss of wh$it Bolshe- vism and the allied forms of. anarchy really consists of. USHERED IN BY GOLD WAVE In NorUiweSt and Head of the Great Lakes the Temperat- ure Will Drop to Zero and Ten Below Tonight and To- . morrow, FORDVILLE BANK AFTER TOWNLEY (By The Associated Press) „ Duluth, Dec.. 31.—The New Year will be ushered in in the northwest by an extensive cold wave, according to the local forecaster. The temper r ature at the head of the lakes will drop to zero and 10 below tonight and tomorrow. MURDERER TO JANUARY 2ND Inmates Will Witness the Ex- ecution of Rassalo Durage, For Double Murder of Man and Wife—Sheriff Says it Will Give Them Something toRemember. (By The Associated Press.) / Chicago, Dec. 31.—Two hunred pri- soners, many of them hardened cri- min^ls, held in the Cook County jail, will start the New Year Friday by watching the hanging- of one of their number,'Rassalo Durage, for the dou- ble muraer of a man and his wife. .^Sheriff Charles Peters made arrange- ments for the "pack" of six hundred inmates to be present at the hanging. "I think it will have a good moral effect on the prisoners," he said, "When they are released from jail they will have something to remember Grand Forks County District Court to Try Cases Against / .Townley and League Ex- change—Seeks to Collect on Notes. j§ ' " am*- (By The Associated Press.) Grand Forks. N. D. Dec. 31.— Pub- lication today of the Calendar of cas- es to be tried at the January tertn of District court licrs, disclosed that President A. C. TVvnley, of the Na- tion nop-partison .League 'and' the League T.xchangs are joint -lefen^ants in a _ suit brought by the Fordville State Bank, of FordviMe N" D., to col lect on notes said to aggregate *3,000 Compromises For Ratification Are Being Discussed Today By the Senators—Several Changes Are Contemplated. " j (By The Associate^ Press) Washington, D. C. Dec. 31.—Com- promises proposed for the ratification of the P^ace Treaty were discussed today at a. conference betw^fh.Sena- tor Lodge, the Republican leader iinS Senator Pomerene,. Democratic mem- ber of the foreign relations committee, who voted with the Reinibllcan' ma- jority for the ratification of the trea- ty at the last session. Both senators declined to discuss their moderations in detail, but it is understood that sev- eral changes or moderatons are con- templated. PDUCE GRABBED Cost of living is ^ • : Still Advancing Winnipeg, Man. Dec. Si.—-The labor Gazette, printing official statistics ob- tained in Ottawa, report* that the downward movement of .livestock and meat prices this month, was offset by increase? in grain, fish, fruits, vege- tables, textiles, metals, and lumber.^ The average.cost of a weekly fami- ly budget was: given as $14.27 for stapte foods. These figures were com- piled from 60 cities in the middle of November. The average taken th? previous month was $14,21. R.R. CROSSING Five Persons Killed Outright! —Struck By Southbound I Flyer and -Hurled Auto onj Other Track Into North- j 'Tram. -- , . (By The Associated FresO Chicago, Dec. 3 ( .—Three women, a man arid a boy were killed today when their automobile was struck by two Milwaukee Central, trains at a Home- wood crossing. A south bound flyer running €0 mil- es on hour, caught the madune and flung it directly in the path of the north bound tiiain. NEW Between Eight ami Tm Ma- lum Dollat* Will Be DUtrib- uted—Ninaty ThouiMmd Ept- - plo^re<>s tbfbs, BewfiiBted • "ing teEarn (By 1 Ths Associated _ Detroit, ]Qch.,, De0. 3t«—An elab> oration of its profit shsriag plan whereby all jMployees will be en- abM to porchaip certificates of in- vestment in the company, guaranteed to v r«|iiim,^6; per cent interest per 'yeiir,'"snd^ a distribution ^of bonuses -thit wiU itet^l between eijprht and teit nQllion dbllars, liras announbid today by the Ford Motor Company. ' Approximately 90,000 < employ^SS tif the Ford company and blhsr fii- terests t^' HeiDiy Ford sad soo will participate' In a statement accom- panylhg the announcement it is stat- ed that the two steps, outlined con- sist of "only a beginning," and that other plans for enlarging the in- come of -the employees are under con- sideration. The amount of the bonus, which will be in addition to the distribution of the profits .under the originsl pro- fit sharing plan, will be based on an employee's daily wage and length of service. They will range from $60 in the esse of a worker who has been in the compsny's employ three months and .receives the minimum *age <>f $6 %to a proportionate - am- ount for those poriieis who baye been in the company one year and receiv- ing $10.80 a day. Employees who receive more than $250 a month will be on tbe basis of the length of ser- vice.':--- Another Lenine-Trotzky Radi- ca! in Toils of Law——Active / > Spreading Propaganda in Fcreign Countries. (I>y the Associated Press.) Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 31,—Dr. Anna Reinstein, wife of Boris Rein stein, at one time reported to be a member of the Lenine-Trotzky cabinet, and said to be implicated in propaganda in foreign countries, is said to have been arrested here last night bv officers, acting under orders of the Rusk In- vestigating committee. After being questioned by District Attorney Moore, she was taken to the district count y jail where she will be con- ferred, awaiting a hearing. 8,891 Indians in Flickertail State —NorthDakota has 8,891 Indians,.<u:. cordingf' to the United State* .$ureau of Indian affairs, which hqs isjttied * report relative to the number oi! Iiu dians in the United States. ¥ - Figures quoted from tiie report ap- peared in the literary Dfgelrt sua show there are a total of 232,106 full- blooded Indians now living in the United States. The number of mixed bloods is very large. There were 10,-i 000 Indians in the American overseas- army. Ninnesota has 12,447 Indians; South Dakota, 22,829, and Montana, 12438. " W She Still Maintains Her Inno- cence—Her Story Will Be Carefully Checked Over Bjr Authorities—She Was Lo- cated and Kept Under Guard . by a Newspaper Man. (By The Associated Press.) Mt. Clements, Mich., Dec. 31.—Mrs. Cecil Vester was surrendered to the authorities here this nforijing land placed in the county jail on a charge of murdering. J. Stanley Brown. v The' girl, who still maintains her innocence, was brought here in a taxicab from Detroit, where she spent Tuesday night under guard of * a newspaper man who located her. Mrs. Vester's arrival here was to early and unexpected that severs! of the county law officers had to be awakened to learn that the woman whose whereabouts had been discov- ered on Monday and had been care- fully guarded, had been formally sur- rendered. The story she told the newspaper man and police, who it became known today questioned her yesterday, will be carefully checked this forenoon, and it is understood two persons pre- viously questioned by the authorities will be recalled for further ingestiga- tion. • , - i ,\ • V » 'v-lf; Wis Much Celebrating Will Be Done in New Yqprk City To- Night—100,000 People Will ; Throiig the Gr«at White ; Way. - 1 Horses Loosing Their Promineiii v^ Place on Ra^geS Piene, S. D., Dec. 31.—Stockmen of western South Dakota have indorse! the movement inaugurated by Mon-^ tana ran-hers to do away with cangft horses and the Dakotans are wgiiig that the horse industry be abandoned in this state. /. Montarjt1»8 thousands of wild hor- ses. which are of little value. An ef- fort was inade to kill them -sad ship the meat to Europe but the plan feu through. Dakota hasnt th« wild horse prob- <By The Associated Press.) - . New Yoric, Dec. 31.—New Yoricers will celebrate in traditional the hpur at midnight tonight, at whieh the ringing of bells and screediing' Si- rens will announce "he year 1920. Rev- elers and wine buyers are s°cfy claim- ing today an appreciation that regard, less of prohibition and revenue omen, they would have 'one last celebration of their own' One hundred thousand plan to throng the "great white way" and spend several hours of revelling tJirough the blowing of ten thousand horns and ringing cf cowbells. Church doors jammed to the street, will hold one r.f the many watch night services. Forty revenue agents, some in evening clothes, will mingle in with the throng and be on the allert for violations of liquor laws. Special watch will be kept for wood alcohol vendors. In the big hotels it will cost from $5 to $16 merely to sit at a dining room table. One hotel has announced that much of the store of liquor fur- nished from various cellars will be presented by guests without costs. Virtually all the cabarets and res- taurants report that 90 pe.' cent of their space had been served. . Doctor's Propeller Driven Sled Fast t Cando, N. D., Dec. 31.—Old "Doc Stork" is losing his long-honored pride in the fleetness of wing, in and about Cando. Dr. John McDonald has equipped a sleign with an aeroplane motor and a 19-inch propeller and now calls on his patients at the rate of more than 100 miles an hoar. "Does she travel?" say the physi- cian. "Ill say she does. With this sleigh I can cover snow-bound, ice- covered roads a* more than ".00 miles an hour. I find I can go to places where horses and automobiles could not get through." Mule Proves It Don't Care to Be Led to Water Helena, Mont. Dec. 81.—Rsy Rey* nolds was employed at a rnad camp in Cascade county. 'He started out to . lead a mule to water. When tfeey reached the .stream, he essayed to asks the male drink. The n^ fcjclC' ed him twice, defly and qukkli, WMt in the eye and 6nce in the diert.' • ^ Reynolds has written the state eo)fe£ pensation board tbtaowif thSteonfea under the relief act; He offers a$- ' davits to support his claim that lead^ • ing this mule is a dangerous ecciqw- tiOUi ' i .' H wl f lem to contend with but stock Misers'; declare that the horse indqstry in ths state; has proved a aflMlity instead Sf Sn asset ^pd they are snxious to dear the^Qprth western section of the stst?, *diere, they ssy. all the avsfl^lde' t>, nagj is needed for cattle. '<. *,•'''£<
