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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-12
DRAINAGE,
SCHOOLS
and ROADS

Proposed radical changes in higher
educational methods, state road and
drainage systems and farm taxation
Will be discussed by the All Minnesota
Development association. Jan. Is and
IS, in the old capitol building, st.
Paul, in view of preparing recon-
mendations to the legislature.
The discussions will be led by men
who have given special study to the
problems.
Pres. Frank l.. McVey Of the Uni
Versity of North Dakota will talk of
revision of the tax laws that will re-
suit in freeing farm improvements
from some of the burdens said to re-
suit from the present system. Pres.
George E. Vincent Of the University Of
Minnesota will tell the need of junior
colleges in different parts Of the state
to relieve congestion in the first and
second year classes at the university.
Dean A. f. Woods of the agricultural
college will discuss the proposal of the
association to establish a land mark.
Flood control, state drainage and
proposed changes in the state system
of road building will be taken up by
Rev. j. L. O'Connor Of Worthington,
A. L. Croker of Minneapolis, and A.
B. Kaercher of OrtonVille.
Following the discussions a COM
mittee will submit resolutions to the
legislature.
The annual election of officers will
take place after the discussions.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-12
THAW IS
EXPECTED !
GET we'll
Thaw Family Detectives
Look Upon Gump Charges
AS Blackmail
(By Associated Press,l


Philadelphia, JAM 10. - Harry K
Thaw, who slashed his throat with
razor and cut an artery in his wrist in
an attempt at suicide here yesterday,
will be able to leave the hospital with.
in two weeks, unless he also swallowed
poison tablets, according to the state
ment Of physicians here today. Several
poison tablets which produce slow
death were found in his pockets and il
he took any Of them, it will be several
hours before the symptoms manifest
themselves.
Thaw said he was hungry during the
night and was given food several
times, but efforts Of detectives to get
him to talk proved futile beyond the
statement that he was glad he had not
succeeded in ending his life. Inquiries
as to whether he had taken poison met
with no response.
Detectives are on guard at Thaw's
bedside and a warrant for his arrest on
a charge Of assaulting a boy, is ready
to be served the moment he is con-
sidered out Of danger.
DR.. Elwood Kirby said today he felt
sure Thaw had not taken poison.
When Thaw is able to leave the hos
pital, Captain of Detectives Tate said.
he will be arraigned before a. police
magistrate on a charge OF attempting
suicide.
1t is said a conference of members
of the Thaw family and close friends
will be held later in the day to deter
mine what steps to take to combat the
New York charges. According to prt-
vate detectives of the family, the Gunlp
charges are looked upon as an attempt
at blackmail.'
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-12
EAST SIDE NOTES

At the meeting of the Third Ward
Community club. to be held at the
Third ward schoolhouse next Tuesday
evening, residents of the ward will
repairing the present building or build
ing new schoolhouse.
The annual meeting Of the Clay
County Agricultural and Mechanical
society will be held in Moorhead next
Tuesday, Jan. 16.
Fred Goodsell is confined to his home
by severe attack of pneumonia.
Mrs. P. J. Sullivan. and Mrs. John
Lamb left yesterday afternoon for Min
neapolis to visit relatives.
T. A. Weld is in Minneapolis attend
ing the annual meeting of the Mime
sofa State Agricultural society. y
r. B. Webb and John r. Johnston
were visitors from Glyndon this morn
ing.
Jacob Johannes has returned from
Butte, Mont, where he was employed
in the signal service of the Great
Northern.
C. H. Wright, John Dickelman, H. O..
Krabbenhoft, Otto Johnk and John
Schmidt were prominent Sabinites in
the city yesterday.
Magnus Under. of Audubon. is visit
ing his brother. c. A. Under, for few
days. -..
MISS LoIa LaNalIey Went 10 Oazey, N.
D., yesterday on business connected
with the estate of her late uncle, Sam.
LaValley.
A. C. Kuhfeld, formerly of Moorhead,
is up from Minneapolis for q few days.
Mr.. Kuhfeld is now associated with the
Moore Motor Vehicle Co., of Mime
apolis.
Lars Peterson, of Comstock. was a
visitor in the city yesterday.
I. NJ. Cochran. of Carleton college.
Northf1eld, will read The Man From
Home, at the normal school auditorium
this evening. This is one of the regu-
lar course of entertainments at the
normal. ~
At the meeting of the stockholders
of the Northwestern hospital yesterday
afternoon, 1T was decided to have the
books Of the association audited by an
expert. The annual election was post
poned until this work has been done.
renee Tollefson died last evening of
pneumonia.
Albert Lund, an employee of N. j. Oh
sen & Co., lost part of the index finger
of his right hand by having it caught
in the machinery yesterday.
Mrs. Will Richards. of Kragnes, un-
derwent an operation at the Moorhead
hospital yesterday.
H. A. Mumford, cashier of the Farm
ers' State bank at Glyndon, was in the
city this morning. Mr.. Mumford says
the bank will be opened for business
some time next week.
All of the old officers of the Sabin and
Baker State banks were reelected at
the annual meetings held this week.
The jury in the case OF Earl Corbin
returned a verdict of guilty, with a
recommendation for clemency, yester--
day afternoon, and Judge johnson inn
posed the minimum fine, $50.
S. G. Comstock addressed the stu
dents of the normal school at chapel
this morning on James ]. Hill. AS Mr..
Comstock and Mr.. Hill were lifelong
friends and business associates, the adj
dress was of unusual interest.
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Continued From Page one.
There has been no oficial report of
loss of life and If all Of the 1,400 en-
ployes escaped, their safety 10 due
probably to the fact that short time
interviewed between the discovery OF
the fire and the moment when the
flames reached the stored ammuni-
ton.
The loss, estimated at $4.00O,000, is
accounted for almost entirely by the
destruction Of shells which the COM
.pany loads at this plant for the Rus
sion government The rectangular
closure contained forty to fifty build
ings, but these were Of fiimsy con-
struction and it Is said that the COM
pany intended to abandon them in a
short time when it finished the pres
ent contract.
investigation today by police
authorities disclosed nothing to ind1-
cate that the origin of the FIRE had
been other than accidental, 1t was an
nounced.
Further inquiry is to be made and
ii is understood that the Russian COM
mission agents for the purchase and
delivery of approximately $500, 900
shell awaiting shipment from the
plant to Europe will participate in the
inquiry.
Police investigation indicated that
the fire started when a spark fell up-
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-12

BULLETIN ON
POTATOES
Will Be Issued Soon-Wel-
ter Responds to Request
for Information

Leslie Welter has received from the
chief of the office of markets and rural
organization Of the United States de-
partment of agriculture the following
request:
This Office is preparing for publica-
ton a bulletin dealing with the mar
keting and distribution OF the white
potato crop of the United States in 1915,
in which will be included tabulations
on the 1915 movement.
1--WE wish to secure detailed informa-
ton with respect to the industry in the
more important, producing areas of the
country, and are asking a few of the
leading growers and shippers of these
sections to fill out the enclosed inquiry.
win you please answer this question
naire and return 1t as promptly as pos
sible in the enclosed envelope which
requires no postage? We will greatly
appreciate your cooperation in fur
thering this work"
Mr.. Welter has complied with the re-
quest, and all who are interested in
growing and marketing potatoes will
look forward to the publication of this
long-promised bulletin.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-12
Standarflizinc Art.

Detroit News: The National Art So
ciety has incorporated, its purpose be
ing ITO promote a return to the truly
great in art and life, and to counter
act the disquieting tendency to so
much which is merely clever or trivial.
and to react against all degenerate in
fuences'' In other words, to uphold
officially the good, the beautiful, the
true.
Cubism, futurism and other fantastic
departures from the regular In the field
of art are to be Systematically discour-
aged. 1t is planned to influence states
and cities to recognize the higher prin-
ciples of architecture in the erection
of public buildings and in every way
to promote sanity and uniformity
among artists and art patrons.
Youthful painters-revolution or
the latest school or of no school what
ever-will sheer at the new National
society. They will claim the right to
be unintelligible, if not Degenerate; to
be clever, If not trivial; to be disquist-
ing, If not morbid.
A frankly reactionary movement will
have the support of those whose eyes
are a bit wearied by jumbled introspec-
tions on canvas and also of those who
do not approve of the design of the
courthouse at Simp Center.
Art itself must go on exploring just
the same, and laundering into a great
deal of foolishness seeking out new
ways. Everything novel and original
is in it's time condemned as irregular.
The National society, If 1t f1ourishes,
will be called upon to endure much
sharp ridicule from young persons, In
tolerant of orthodoxy.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-12
APPEAL
BAXTER
WILLCASE
Judge Nye Denied Motion
For New Trial
Today

Judge C. A. Nye today denied the mo-
ton for new trial, made by the exec
utor of the estate of the late Judge L.
I. Baxter. in the Otter Tail county dis
trict court case in which the widow
was allowed a $4,000 claim. The case
will now be carried to the supreme
court. The motion was made by N. r.
Field. of Fergus Falls, attorney for the
estate.
For over twenty-six years Luther L.
Baxter was the senior judge of the
Seventh judicial district Of Minnesota,
and he was widely and generally
known throughout the northern part of
the state. He retired from the bench
in January, 1911, when his fourth cleo
tive term expired, and was succeeded
by Judge Nye.
Judge Baxter died at Fergus Falls
proximate1y $4,000 He left. as his
heirs. widow. his third wife; one son.
Chauncey L. Baxter. an attorney of Sc
attic, Wash. and Miss Bertha Baxter,
schools of Minneapolis, both children
by former wife. Jugde Baxter left
will, by which his estate was distrib-
uted about as the laws would provide
in case he had died intestate. An old
friend, Alonzo Rrandenburg, a Fergus
Falls banker, was named as his exec
utor.
After the will had been admitted to
probate, the widow elected to take her
share under the statute instead of &C
cepttng the bequest. She also filed three
checks, given by her husband during
the last few months of his life. as
claims against the estate, amounting
to $4,000. These claims were disallow-
ed by the probate court and the widow
appealed to the district court.
1t appears that the check for $4,000
was claimed to be in repayment of
money loaned by Mrs. Baxter to her
husband about thirty years ago. Two
other checks, one for $500 and one for
5000, were given in payment for serv-
ices performed by Mrs. Baxter in caring
for her husband during his last illness.
The appeal was tried at the Noven-
Der term of court for Otter Tail county
before Judge Nye and jury. 1t was
claimed by the executor and the other
heirs that there was no consideration
for the $4,000 check, but that 1t was
a gift. The other two checks, amount
ing to $500, they claimed were also
given for no consideration, as 1t was
the duty of the wife to care for her
husband.
Judge Nye instructed the jury to re-
turn a verdict in favor of the widow
for $4,000, sustaining her claim that
this check was given as alleged, and
disallowed the $500 and $500 checks on
the ground that there was no good con-
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-12
CASE
TO JURY this
AFTERNOON
Chippewa Indian Treaty In
volved in Case Now
On Trial

Judge Nye charged the jury in the
incest case after the noon recess today
and a verdict may be reached before
night. Arguments of counsel were linn
tied by order of the court and only an
hour and a half was allowed to each
side this morning. The testimony was
all in when the court adjourned last
night.
AS soon as the jury in the Moe case
retired, the work of securing jury in
the case of the Perham Holding Co. VS..
Ole H. Col ct al was begun. This case
involves the claim for rent of property
used as a saloon at Detroit. also the re-
payment of certain moneys advanced
by the p1aintiff for city license to sell
claims these charges are Illegal because
the building is located on the Chippe-
wa Indian reservation, where the sale
of liquor was prohibited.
On Monday the railroad cases will be
taken up and will probably occupy the
attention of the court all Of next week.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-12
Eveniur Grain Letter.

Chicago Jan. 12-Wheat: Wheat
market was sold heavily after an open
ing at an advance of Ia to IL
cents. The development of a good prof
it from the low of the previous SEES
sion started a wave of selling that
forced perices off 5 cents in May and
relatively in the other months. The
selling was general and disclosed the
preponderance of large operators in the
market. The high prices for cash grain
abroad and the excellent export bust
ness which amounts to 100000 bush
els this week were ignored. The trad
ing position is maintained but with the
certainty of another decrease in the
visible and the slow uncovering of a
probably domestic shortage should en-
courage buying on the declines.
Corn: The corn market was better
when considered with wheat. The de-
cline being about an average and
largely due to the feeling in the trade
that as the dollar level is approached
free selling from the country will de
velop. This theory will be maintained
until the receipts from the country
show a falling off; at present there is a
weekly increase in the receipts.
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May Wheat.
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on a table and ignited an infammable

on a table and ignited an infiammable
fluid.
The property loss is estimated at
between 100000 and $4,000 900.
The hundreds OF families who fed
from Kingsdale returned to their
homes today. They entered a desolat-
ed village. Many houses are so she'll
rtddled that they were not tenable
Some houses appeared ruined beyong
repair. Many of those who ran for
safety spent the night huddled com
fortably in churches and schools.
The shops OF the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna & Western railroad, in the vi
cinity OF the munitions plant, were
badly damaged. Shells rained into
them running machinery and equip
ment. Reports Of footing proved un-
founded -
Decorations continued all morning,
three-inch shellsan d smaller ones ex-
ploding. Thousands OF unexploded
shells lay on the ground. Police in
high boots searched for bodies in the
Hackensack' meadows. across which
many persons fed after numerous
hardships. It was considered possible
that some reported missing may have
been drowned in the meadow streams.
=. w. r. Hardness, superintendent of
the munitions works said, however, he
believed there was no loss of life.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-12
GOOD ROADS
CONVENTION
NEXT WEEK
Advocates of Highway I'm
provement to Meet at
Fergus Falls

Delegates from all along the line Of
the Red trail between the twin cities
and Fargo have signifed their inten-
ton to be present at the good roads
convention to be held at Fergus Falls
next Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 16
and II.
While the program has not been COM
pleted, the following outline shows the
scope of the discussions;
Tuesday.
1890 a. injecting called to order by
Pres @. w. Frankberg, Fergus
Falls Commercial club. Address
of welcome by Leonard Ericsson,
mayor of Fergus Falls. Response
by e. r. Ruggles, secretary Osakis
Commercial club. Appointment of
committees, @. A. Kirtsch, Alex
andria Commercial club.
1900 o. m.-Address, The Importance
of Through Roads, g. Rustad,
Moorhead Commercial club.
300 3. m.-Address What Good Roads
Mean to the Individual, L. w. Adj
ans, commissioner Grant county.
Address, What the County Com
missioners Can Do, state engineer
ONCE.
$500 D. m.--Address, What North Da,-
kota Is Doing, j. p. Hardy, Fargo
Commercial club.
800 .. m.-Stereopticon exhibition and
good roads talk
wednesday.
1000 a. m.-Report OF committees. Per-
manent organization.
$500 p. m.-Reports along the line.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-12
Moorhead Department
DENIED
PARDON

Frank H. Kethman's petition for a
pardon or Communication of sentence
was denied by the state pardon board
which held a two days session at the
state capitol this week. "
objection was made to the grant
Ing OF the pardon by N. j. Johnson,
who' as county attorney. conducted the
prosecution OF Kethman when he was
convicted Of the murder of DR.. Egge
in 1909. g..
The sentence of Frederick Emil
Johnson, who was sentenced from
Clay county to serve an indeterminate
sentence for bigamy on April 8. 1916,
was reduced to two years.
The pardon board considered IS ap-
pllcatlons; granting three pardons, and
twelve combinations.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-12
The GENTLE ART OF NAeGINe

Life: Nagging your husband is a
special art by itself and while
some women have a natural gift
in that direction others can only
acquire it by constant application.
A husband in house is some
thing like hippppotamus. He
is often dull placid creature, hard to
move or dislodge, especially If he gets
accustomed to a favorite chair. He
often becomes toughened by exposure
to constant nagging, and it takes a
powerful weapon with q fairly high
trajectory to do him any damage. Oc-
casionally, however. he develops SEN
sitive areas and can become a con-
slant source Of pleasure to any lady
who likes to nag.
Every woman knows, of course, that
her husband is more susceptible about
half an hour before dinner, when he
has come home from the office tired
out. BY studying him carefully, she
will also discover certain days in the
month when she can nag him with
the highest percentage Of bullseyes.
The art of nagging, however, is not
all objective. Much can be done from
the subjective standpoint. BY intim-
ating to her husband in many ways.
which she can easily learn from prac-
tise, that she is the most abused lady
on earth, she can derive a whole pro-
gram of amusement. The historical
method-that of dragging up some
dead, forgotten thing and talking
about 1t all over again, and still over
again is also splendid form of nag
ging.
Some wives, however, so blind are
they never see this at all. They just
go on, hopefully trying to make their
husbands happy The high art Of
nagging is not given to every woman.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-12
NO BITTERNESS in REAL HuMoR

Detroit News Tribune: The dis
tinguishing feature Of hunor is its abb
sence Of bitterness. It must never be
caustic. Contract our feelings in 1893
with those of the cartoonist in
Punch" who pictures an officer
angrily reproving a badly -tattered,
much bandaged, lmping Tommy
whom he has caught breaking the
hospital rules: "You don't seem to
realize there is q war onl" An Eng
lish cartoon which has been frequently
copied pictures the wife OF a brutal
recruit as foreseeing the end of the
war, now that Joe has transferred his
blows to the Germans. They have re-
vamped the old joke about the kindly
lady who says pityingly to the dis.
charged soldier, loafing in the park:
you've lost your arm!" "Blime,' he
replies, looking curiously at his empty
sleeve, $50 'ave!"
Most of the German war cartoons
which have come through to America
are intensely bitter, Most OF the Eng
lish cartoons are funny. It is not be-
cause England has not come to a
realization OF the seriousness OF the
war. it is q difference in temperament.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-12
ROUGLUNS WON
TWO OF THREE
FROM BANKERS
In Bowling League Contest
at Moorhead Last Night
Westberg High Man

The Houglum Furniture won two to
three from the Moorhead Nationals in
the bowling league contest at the Com
stock alleys last night. Each team was
two men short, but the games were
never lacking in interest. Westberg
was high man for the three games,
with 564, and Sauers made the two high
scores, 1919 and 1877. Following is the
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-12
GRAPE assn.
IS OPPOSED
r.. "f ~ F@
TO SALOONS
tBy Associated Press.)

San Francisco, Jan. 12.-Liquor men
and Prohibitionists alike. were dis
cussing today the significance Of a
resolution adopted by the California
Grape Protective association, opposing
saloons as at present conducted and
favoring a complete reform or entire
abolition.
1--WE have contributed our last doll
lar to opposition against anti-liQuor
fights Of the old Sort" said H. F.. Stoll,
secretary Of the association.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-12
GREAT PLANT
IN RUINS

Continued prom Fac one.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-12
NORWEGIAN
SHIPPING IS
@ ..."
ENDANGERED.
(Ry Associated Prass.l

Washington, Jan. .12.-Heavy losses
to Norwegian shipping have promoted
maritime interests to petition the gov
eminent to suspend extra shipping
taxes to preserve the industry
Consular advices today to the depart
ment Of commerce reported 1872 steam
ers and so sailing vessels with an
insurance value of $4,000, 900 had been
sunk since the war began.
The losses recorded are so heavy
that the War Insurance club, with
which vessels are insured, faces a
$40, 600, 600 deficit.
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dent: Ruth Anderson, secretary: and
Nora Rusness. treasurer.
A total offering of $3.50 for the pipe
organ fund was the result OF the work
lowing board OF officers: John Sannea
president; Anna EIlingson, vice presf-
dent: Ruth Paulson, secretary; and
Norman Frigstad, treasurer
The members OF the society were en-
tertained last evening by Mrs. Martin
Anderson.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-12
MURDER CASE
INV Assnciatad Presa.,

(By Associated Press.)
Philadelphia. Jan. IL. Coroner
Knight, who has been looking into the
murder of Maize Colbert, said today
that unless more direct evidence is
found connecting w. B. Lewis with
the case. he would not instruct the
coroner's jury to render verdict that
Lewis. who committed suicide, was
the girls slayer.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-12
TO Hear Wilson's
Address by Phone
(Ry Assoeiated Press. )

Washington, Jan. 12.-Gather-
ings In all parts of the country
may be able TO listen to President
Wilson's inaugural address on the
morning of March 5 by long dis-
lance telephone. The local in
auouration committee today took
up with the telephone companies
the feasibility OF such an arrange
ment and il was pronounced quite
possible.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-12
THREE ACQUITTED
fRv A.soc,atAd prAss

! 10y ASbUCIAIdU EICbssJ ~
Virginia, Mimi. Jan. 12.-Joe Fran,
M. G. Bass and James jameson were
acquitted by a jury in municipal
court before Judge Cary last night
of charges Of coercion in threatening
workmen of the Virginia and Rainy
Lake camp No. 43 when more than
half the working force was compelled
to join the recent /. w. w. strike.