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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-01-23
TAX commission APPOINTMENT
CONFIRMED IN THE SENATE

Bismarck, N. D., Jan. 21.-.Convened
at 2 o'clock.
After prayer offered by Chaplain
Jackson, roll call found all senators
save one, present.
Five baskets filled with oranges and
grape fruit received by the senate
from former Senator Ed. Pierce, now
at Fargo, Florida.
Messages received from house an.
nouncing concurrence of stamp act
as received by senate.
After executive session, presiden;
announced confirmation Of appoint
ment OF Messrs Packard, Wallace
and Birdsell as members OF tax COM
mission.
Senate bills so and 81, changing
system Of keeping legislative records,
were passed.
Five new bills introduced and re.
ferred.
Senate adjourned at $3.50 to Tues
day at 2 o'clock.
A continuation of the executive ses-
sion held on Saturday was the fea.
ture of the senate session Monday
afternoon, and when the senate recon.
vened in open session the president
announced the confirmation of the
appointments Of former Governor
Burke, of Messrs. Packard, Wallace
and Birdsell as members of the tax
commission.
When the roll was called after the
prayer by the chaplain only one SEN
ator was absent and he was excused
Presiden Kraabel announced that
the five baskets filled with oranges
and grape fruit stacked on top Of the
bill clerks desk had been sent by
former Senator Ed Pierce by express
from Fargo, Florida, where he is
spending the winter, and that they
were to be distributed among the SEN
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-01-23

John Miller is dying in a hospital at
Salt Lake City, as the result of an ex-
plosion early today of a lamp, which
he kept burning to guide his sweet
heart to the home he had prepared
for her. The lamp was kept burning
in the window as beacon, beckoning
the girl on her way from Sweden, who
though drowned at sea forty years ago
never has ceased to exist for Miller.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-01-23

Sam Thompson, we'll known Char
acter who has been in this locality for
several years was gathered in last
night by Chief of Police Swanson up
in the north part of town, in a very
bad condition. His hands were fright
fully frozen and he was suffering with
what is supposed to have been the re-
suit of an excessive use of booze. He
was placed in charge Of doctor ana
it is hoped that his hands may BE saH-
ed although the members are in baf
condition.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-01-23

Senator Mudgett of Valley City has
received word that he is the father
of fine baby girl, born the night pf
the inaugural ball. Both the mother
and the baby daughter are doing nice
ly and the senator has even a hap
pier smile than usual. The telephone
company will declare an extra diEf'
dend soon as it is stated the senator
is keeping the wires warm getting
bulletins on the baby's progress
Bismarck Tribune.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-01-23

The Northwest Nursery Company
had a number of visitors from out OF
town yesterday who were here looking
over the plant and getting acquainted
with the Office force. They were Carl
o. Uhl of Benson, Minn., N. J. Peter
son of Drake, one Of the experiences
statesmen of the Nursery company
l.. H. Brown of Clark, s. D., who 10
considering the district managershlp
of the Watertown section of South
Dakota and T. Svendall of McC1oud
this state.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-01-23
{I'rom Wednesdays Daily

{From Wednesdays Daily
Tom North of Kensal is in town TO-
day. He attended the convention at
Fargo and from there went to Wis
consin where he has a daughter at
tending school and is on his wa5
home. Tom is one of the substantial
farmers of Foster county who is alsc
active in politics having been for sew
eral years a member of the RepubE~
can Central committee.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-01-23
BURKE TAX TRIO is CONFIRMED

Bismarck, N. D., Jan 21.-Confir-
nation of the appointments made by
Ex-Governor Burke on the State tax
commission, mater, which it has
been presumed, was the basis of a
fight in the senate in several execut
i've sessions of past week, featured
yesterdays session of the legislature
Soon after the senate convened yes.
terday afternoon it, went into execu.
tive session, which lasted an hour, and
at its conclusion recess of ten min
utes was taken, after which the upper
branch reconvened and President
Kraabel announced the ratification of
members of the Board of Tax com.
missioner They are Messrs. Bird
sell, Packard and Wallace, and were
named for terms of two, four and
six years respectively.
No effort has yet been made relat.
ing to the probable action of the
senate in dealing with the ratifca-
tion of the Board of Control of state
penal and charitable institutions.
The appropriations committees of
both the house and the senate left
tonight for Jamestown where they
will inspect the insane asylum as
recommended by the Board of Con-
troll.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-01-23
STATE NEWS NOTES.

Attorney Solomon Esberg has been
appointed a county justice in Will
liams county to fill the vacancy caus-
ed by the resignation of B. "A. Aaen.
Mr.. Aaen is now located in Mckenzie
county. Mr.. Esberg has his office in
the Graphic block.
There is a lively scrap on at Bow.
man. The county dads" are locked
out of the treasurer's office and are
real angly about it. Evidently the
politicians of that county know just
how to handle the county business
without the interference of the com
missioners.
Max Snyder was arrested at Mi
not charged with attempting to kill
Chief of Police j. Smith. Snyder is
believed to have broken parole in New
Jersey. He was serving time in the
city jail for vagrancy and insisted all
day yesterday and last night that he
would kill the chief when his time ex
pired today.
G.. Teske of Bowman came near
losing a perfectly good hired man
and acquiring a worthless funera
when the man took dose of gopher
poison. after the doctor had worked
for some time he came around anG
is able to do the chores again as wei
as before the poison got on his mind
A clever wrestling match last nigh
between George Koch of Baker, NORTH
Dakota and Jack Kearns of Hebron, a.
Hebron was won by Kearns. Kocl
won the first fall in 30 seconds
Kearns won the second fall in 4 min
utes, Sc seconds, and the third in
minutes, 25 seconds. The referee wa;
w. E. Bulge There was large at
tendance.
For 62 years J. Samson lived with
out fracturing the laws of the state
but three days after he attained tn
age of 63 years, he was arrested To-
violating the prohibition law Of Nortl
Dakota. Judge Buttz, before whom
Samson entered plea Of guilty, sen
fenced him to ninety days in Jail, ant
fine Of 1925, and in default Of pay
ing such fine, he must serve five add
tional days. Samson, when he ap
peared before the Judge, almost wep
az he related the story Of his long
crimeless life. His plea for lenienc,
fell upon unsympathetic ears, Judg
Buttz giving him the minimum sen
tence for the offense charged.
-
Clifford Head, aged Is, was serious
ly burned by the explosion of cal
of blasting powder in a Ignite min
near Wlliston. He accidently tippe'
lamp, the fire exploding small guam
titles Of the powder lying on tn
ground, and communicating with tn
can of powder. When the loose pow
der on top of the can began burning
Head tried to brush it off with the re
suit that sparks were dropped thr,
small opening, the entire quantit.
then exploding. The boy was com
pletely enveloped in the flames for ;
moment or two, saving his life b.
running along the passageway to I
water hole, into which he fell heat
first extinguishing the fire whicl
had started in his clothing.
The Elks will give another of thei
4 al; uhtfu1 dancing narfios Friday ev
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-01-23

The Elks will give another of their
delightful dancing parties Friday ev-
ening January oath, at their home.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-01-23
STATE LEGISLATURE

power of the state shall be vested in
supreme court, district, county
courts, justices of the peace and such
other courts and tribunals as may by
law be created, for cities, incorporat.
ed towns and villages, but subject to
the reserved power in the people
themselves, either by direct petition
or five per cent of the legally qualifi.
ed electors of the state, (provided not
more than 10000 shall ever be reQuir.
ed) or by petition of majority OF
their legislative representatives, elec.
ed to both houses (signed during their
respective terms) duly filed in accord.
ance with provisions of law, to com
pei reference to not less than Is judi
cial referees, within six months after
the filing thereof, Of any Judgment or
decree of the supreme court of the
state together with the printed an
abstract of the record in the case)
when such judgment or decree would
render invalid or nugatory any pro-
vision of a duly enacted statute OF
this state which has not previously
been adjudged unconstitutional by the
supreme court of the United States,
and when the opinions and reasons
assigned for any such judgment and
decree shall bedissented from, in
writing, by more than one member Of
said state supreme court.
BY Vote Of Referees.
Within above prescribed period said
judgment and decree and the pro
visional judgment and decree submit
ted by the minority together with the
majority opinions and assigned rea
sons of said court (and abstract OF
the record in the case) shall be sub
ject to further legal consideration and
final judicial determination by vote o1
said supreme referees, with the force
and effect of final concurrence in, or
the reversal and modification of said
Judgment and decree as founded up
on said dissenting opinions and as
signed reasons of the minority of sait
| court.
Personnel Of Board.
The members of the supreme court
the Judge of the district court in eacl
of the judicial districts of the state
the attorney general and at least twt
but not more than five, reputable lie
gally qualified, practicing attorney!
residing in portions OF the state wide
! ly separated from each other, shall b'
the supreme judicial referees of th'
state.
The number, the manner of select
ing and appointing the non-otticia
supreme judicial referees, and name
form and method of submitting thu
, requisite petition and of obtaining .
separate vote of each of said supreme
| judicial referees the publication o
the demand for and the final and sep
arate result of such vote of legal.
! competent judicial judgment, tn
publication and recording thereo
shall be prevented by law.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-01-23

bismarck, N. D., Jan. 21.-Conser-
Vative possibilities relating to the re.
call Of judiciary without rejecting up.
on the personnel of the court is the
aim of Representative Revert Blake.
more, of Fargo, who has introduced in
the house a concurrent resolution,
amending the constitution of the
state of North Dakota, relating to the
judicial department.
The bill had been referred to the
committee on judiciary. It is the
first which has been introduced in the
legislature providing means of judicial
recall.
Would Avoid Abuse of Recall.
"My ambition in this measure" said
Mr.. Blakemore, lis to avoid the pos
slblhty Of abuse in the recall of judg.
es. I believe it is the recall of the
judicial decisions itself that the peo.
pie aspire to, and not the desire to re.
fleet upon the character Of the person.
al OF the court. The measure provides
method of recalling unqualified ser.
wants, and provides a means whereby
the laws which have been enacted are
upheld.
i have observed that at present
there Is no alternative between going
against the Judge personally or &C.
cepting a wrong decision, and not
having the legal training, the people
themselves do not feel qualified in re-
calling judicial decisions.
Board Of Referees.
Therefore, / have ATTEMPTED TO de.
wise a method which will not incor-
porate one alternative or the other,
and concluded that the fairest man.
ner to dispose of questionable deci-
sions would be to submit the question
ITO the widest judicial knowledge pos
sible, and I have created board of
judicial referees, and by this method
provided a means of elevating the
minority opinion while fairly consid-
ering the majority, effecting contest
OF majority and minority opinion"
BIakemore's Measure.
The bill provides that the judicial
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-01-23
FIRE MARSHAL BILL POPULAR.

FIRE MARSHAL BILL POPULAR,
The state fire marshal bill which
will be introduced in the state legis-
lature and which if passed will be-
come law, is one endorsed by the
fire marshals of 25 states, Manitoba,
and the District of Columbia.
Should the fire marshall measure
become law, it is understood there
is man in the state already slated
for the position. He is we'll known
fire chief who has had much exper.
'ence as a fire fighter and it is the
general opinion that he will be the
right man for the position.
The bill which will be introduced
was prepared by the Fire Marshal as.
sociation of North Dakota. Section
one deals with his appointment, term
and salary, section two with his du.
ties as fire marshal three his deputies
four, his assistant officers, five, duties
OF assistant, six, report of fire in.
surance, seven, report of insurance
commissioners, duties of marshal
and assistants to inspect property,
eight, powers of state fire mar.
snail deputies and assistants, nine
records, ten, annual report, eleven,
witnesses, twelve, duties of district at
torney, thirteen, compensation of as.
slstants, fourteen fire drills, fifteen
penalty for neglect of official duties
sixteen, penalties, seventeen construc
1lon, eighteen, repeal, nineteen enabl
ing clause.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-03-26
a telephone cable, 100 feet above the

telephone cable, 100 feet above the
flood.
Those willing to risk their lives in
the attempt to rescue found themselves
helpless in face Of the waters.
Seventy thousand of Dayton S popu.
lation, it is reported, are homeless.
The National Cash Register plant, on
a high hill, offers the only haven in the
South end. Three women became moth
ers in the halls of its office building
tonight Main street near Apple street
was one of the concentration points In
the woodworking department of the
National Cash Register company boats
were being turned out at the rate of 10
an hour and these were rushed to where
the waters had crossed Main street in
a gully.
AT first linemen crept along the ca.
bles carrying tow ropes, to which the
flat.bottomed boats were attached.
When the flood became so fierce that
the boats no longer were able to make
way against it, men and women crept
along the cables to safety. Others
less daring, saw darkness fall and gave
up hope of rescue
But the waters crept up and the
strength Of the current was far too
strong for the crude punts, though they
were the best that could be made in
hurry.
Trip after trip was made and hun.
dreds of the refugees were taken from
this stretch of houses
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-03-26
"CASCARETS" The
BEST LAXATIVE
NO HEADACHE, BILIOUSNESS,
SLUGGISH LIVER, CONSTPATED
BOWELS OR SOUR STOMACH BY
MORNING.

No odds how bad your liver, stom-
ach or bowels; how much your head
aches, how miserable and uncomforta-
BILE you are from constipation, indiges-
tion, biliousness and sluggish intes-
tines-you always get the desired re-
suits with Cascarets and quickly, too.
Don't let your stomach, liver and
bowels make you miserable. Take
Cascarets tonight; put an end to the
headache, biliousness, dizziness, ner-
vousness, sick, sour, gassy stomach,
backache and all other distress;
cleanse your inside organs of all the
bile, gases and constipated matter
which is producing the misery.
A 1O-cent box means health, happl-
ness and a clear head for months. No
more days of gloom and distress II
you will take a Cascaret now and
then All druggists sell Cascarets
Don't forget the children-their little
insides need a good, gentle cleansing
too.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-03-26
SENATOR BOURNE
GIVES THEM TO LANE

Washington, March 26-On April /,
Ex-senator Jonathan Bourne, Jr., will
turn over to his successor, Senator Har.
~ Lane, all his remaining allotments of
public documents and person desiring
copies should thereafter apply to Sena.
tor Lane. These documents include
agricultural year books, reports of the
various departments, United States
maps, bulletins Of the Geological Sur
vCy, bulletins Of the Bureau of Labor
and Bureau of Education, reports of the
Smithsonian Institution, etc. The as.
sortment does not include any copies of
the Books on Diseases of the Horse and
Diseases of Cattle, as Senator Bourne 8
allotment Of these books was exhaust.
ed some time ago. Residents Of Ore.
gon who have heretofore received the
Congressional Record from Senator
Pourne's quota will not receive it long.
er unless placed upon the mailing list
by one Of the present members of the
delegation.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-03-26
The April American Magazine.

One very interesting contribution ia
the April American Magazine is a re-
port showing exactly how Scientific
Management is working, Now that
agitation of the matter has somewhat
subsidized, definite results have been oh.
tanned in factories where the invention
has been put into actual operation. One
of the cases reported is that Of gov.
ernment arsenal, where, since the adop.
tion of Scientific Management, the cost
of molds to the government, (that is, to
the peope) has been reduced from $1.l7
each to $.5i, The daily earnings of the
molder have been increased from $3.2S
to 1914.
"What My Boy Knows, - is the title
of a remarkable article written by a
city father who, because Of what he has
found out about his sixteen year old
boy, has decided to move away from
the city to the country,
"The Autobiography Of a Theatrical
Press. Agent" "The diary of a Cop, "
Brand Witlock's Autobiography and
"Hcalth and Horsepower" are other
important articles. The "Intcresting
People" department contains five short
articles full of interesting ideas and
facts, accompanied by rare photographs.
There are stories full Of vitality by
John A. Moroso, Arnold Bennett, Edna
Fcrber, L. c. Noise, r. Albert Apple
and Henry Kitchell Webster
The American Magazine has been Of.
fering prizes for the best letters de.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-03-26
scriptive of "The Bravest Thing l Ev.
er Did" The prize.winning letters are
published in the April number.
States in Which Women Wear Flannel
Nightgowns

Edna Ferber writes a new Emma Me.
Cheney story in the April American
Magazine, Emma McChesney is the
clever and able travelling saleswoman
whose observations are always amusing
In this new story Emma McChesney
makes the following reply to her EN-.
.ployer when he ventures to say, in the
course of business conversation, that
women quit wearing flannel nightgowns
when Broadway was a cow.path;
Did, eh'' retorted Emma McChes.
ney. That 3 the New Yorker speak.
ing. just because the French near.
actresses at the Winter Garden wear
silk laces and sea foam nighties in their
imported boudoir skits, and just be.
cause they display only those frilly, be.
ribboned handmade affairs in the
Fifth avenue shop.windows, don 7 you
ever think that they re a national vice
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-03-26

problem should be approached carefully
and with more than perfunctory
knowledge of per centages on the part
Of the apprOacher, At the same time
it must not be thought catch ques-
tion, for it is exactly the problem the
insurance companies deal with That
is to say they pocket the money, but
do not work out the problem for pub
lie edificatiOn. That is deftly con.
cealed in an array Of figures as big as
it would take to divide 10 by 3, and
get the actual result, decimally, or
nearly that. Any way, it is whole
book Of figures, Insurance Commits
sioner Ferguson has just issued a state.
ment Of the business done by insur.
ance companies in Oregon in 1912,
which shows that for every dollar they
have collected in Oregon for that year
they have returned AZ cents. They
haven't put up dollar Of their money,
not cent, but for every dollar paid
them by Oregon insurers, they have
handed back AZ cents. So you see the
problem submitted is a real one. The
action Of the insurance companies, how.
ever, show that they are neither soul
less nor heartless. They virtually ad.
init that they have been charging
trifle too much, and to show their
hearts, as well as their hands, are in
the right place, the pockets of the in.
sured, they have generously, freely and
voluntarily offered the people of Sa.
lem better terms, if they will buy an
auto fire engine, They, in a sudden
burst of generosity, offer hereafter to
give back AZ cents out of every 90
cents given them,
To arrange problem on n 00.ccnt
basis would be to complicate it, so we
prefer the former figures as giving the
high school students a fair shake. The
old horse editor will give a prize of
one dollar for a correct solution of the
problem, which is restated, as follows;
"If Sucker gives Midas one dollar
and Midas hands Sucker back AZ cents
within year, what per centago of
profit has Midas made on his original
investment"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-03-26
A MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM.

-THE insurance companies, from lat.
es indications, are not in danger
Of passing over the big divide un.
expected. ly from enlargement of the
heart, ia tty degeneration of their
nerves or insufficient secretion of gall
or any lih lie thing of that kind, not.
withstandn g that they have individ.
ually and collectively agreed to re.
duce insuran CO rates in Salem one per
cent, if the ci ty would add an auto fire
engine to its ire department. One per
cent is a trifl0, from the viewpoint of
the man who p qys it, but, as the com.
panies see it, it is stupendous. In fact
through long Sc ries of years of study.
ing the situation the insurance com.
panies have been able to fix within
hair the price prol 'crty should pay on
insurance, so that it was certain to
meet all losses, and leave the compan.
les a sufficient prot 1t. The job was
an exceedingly diffiC ult one, because
of uncertain condition' No one could
tell what property was going to burn
or when. But by taking widely scat.
tered property, so that th cir eggs would
not all be in the same bas ket, and using
the rule of averages, they were able to
arrive at conclusion tn, 1t would be
satisfactory all around, on ly--there is
always an only--tho companies could
never quite decide how much profit
was necessary to satisfy themselves.
However, they have generously Offered
to reduce their charges one per cent.
Now here is little mathematical
problem that The Capital Jouma ] would
like to submit to the graduating class
Of the high school, and with full per.
mission for the professors and fac.
ulty to shed what light they can on it,
ar you give man a dollar, and he
gives you back AZ cents Of it, sometime
within year, what per cent does he
make on his investment
Now don't you, gentle reader butt
in and try to answer this offhand, fol,
it will not bear that kind of treatment
and produce satisfactory results, This
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-03-26

Let me tell you, there are thousands and
thousands of women up in Minnesota
and Wisconsin and Michigan, and Ore.
gon, and Aaska and Nebraska and Da
kota, who are thankful to retire every
night protected by one long, thick ser.
viceable flannel nightie and one practi-
cal hot.water bag Up in those COun-
tries retiring isn't social rite; it's a
feat of hardihood. I'm keen for line
of plain, full, roomy, old.fashioned flan
mel nightgowns. They'll be wearing
those things long after knickerbockers
have been cut up for patchwork. -