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The Alaska daily empire., 1919-01-22
TO FLOAT NEW LOAN.

CHICAGO, Jan. 22. - Chicago bankers hear that the city of Paris will float in the next few weeks a loan for $50,oO0, ,oOO. part of which will be offered in this country. New bonds will be redcemable with in 12 months at option of muniei- pality. City's floating debt, which amount sto $s4.400,000 and in cured during the war, will consoli- dated.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-01-22
CREW OF MEN FOR
 CHICHAGOr TO WORK
 ON FRIES PROPERTY

The mine tender Chichagof left last night with several passengers Among them were a crew of three men who will work at the c. w. Freis property on Chichagof Island and William Short, proprietor of the Circle City Hotel who is returning to the mine after spending several days vacation in Juneau.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-01-22
ENGLAND NOT AFFECTED.

NE WYORK, Jan. .22. = A New York World staff correspondent sRys England is least affected by the spread of Bolshevik -propaganda by reason of her scientific developments of labor movement. including the Hand and brain workers" She has projected an international policy for human betterment far advaIced over that of other nations.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-01-22

Phone it to The Empire. No. 374
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-01-22
TO DEVELOP MINES.

LONDON, Jan. 22-British capi- tai is about to establish in Mexico bank to be known as the Mineral Bank, to make a speciality of loans on mining properties and also to purchase partly developed claims.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-01-22


  profoundly depressed English told that  Lne.
  enough. Germans could
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-10-16
ATTORNEY j R / !. y !. LANCER ]. !
SHOULD INVESTIGATE.

That mild form Of gambling is, be-
ing practiced in the city is evidenced
by the fact that "A. S. Sigurdson, j. E..
Jones and F. E. Ployhar have formed
a sort of "eats" club and settle who
shall cook BY q mild form Of gambling.
It was agreed that cards should be
cut to determine who should furnish
and cook the first Sunday morning
breakfast. Jones insisted that the ace.
Of spades was the lowest card in the
deck and after two hours debate it.
was agreed upon and the boys cut for
the first chance to show their culin-
larry skill Jones was stuck and at To-
last Sunday morning he set up a fine
breakfast, the menu of which was
water melon, fried bacon, fried corn
meal mush, toast, coffee. It was q fine
breakfast they say and Mr.. Jones
cooked it himself. Covers were Land
for eight which included the Ployhar.
.Sigurdson and Jones families. After
this breakfast was properly disposed
of the question Of selecting the next
victim to cook breakfast next Sunday
was undertaken and A. S. Sigurdson
was made" the goat much to the glee
of Ployhar who figures that he is go
ing to escape but the other fellows say
not. Mr.. Sigurdson has not planned
his table d'hote menu and it is worry
ing him considerable as he wants to
eclipse that put up by Mr.. Jones, and,
there you are. Ri E, @ M
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-10-16
EMERSON
OPENS UP SHOP

The Times Record is pleased to
make note Of the fact that Palmer
Emerson has opened up a battery shop
and service station in the Mart Mason
building on Fourth street. Mr.. Ener-
son before he enlisted for the war
owned business Of like nature but
sold out and went forth to do what he
could in the service Of his country.
going overseas and seeing much SER
vice. He came back some months ago
and has been getting things in shape
to start up again and is now ready to
do business. Mr.. Emerson is compe-
tent and courteous and we know will
make success right from the start.
He will give those who favor him with
their business promp. and courteous
treatment as well as satisfactory ser
vice. # YOU need anything in his line
drop in and see him. We certainly
wish him abundant success in his new
enterprise. 8
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-10-16
EXTRADlTlON /. ].
PAPERS ISSUED

Bismarck, N. D., Oct. Upon APP
plicationl Of extradition papers made,
by Attorney General William LANCER.
for States Attorney j. "a. johnson and.
Deputy Sheriff Eckroth Of Sioux coun-
:ty, Governor Lynn Frazier today is
sued extradition papers for the return
Of Jack Guyer, now held in custody at.
Pierre, S. D. fl n III y.
u; For months the county and state Of
ficials have been working to secure
evidence to break up band Of cattle
thieves, who have stolen hundreds of
head Of cattle from the various ranch
.es Of the reservation. Frank Evans.
special cattle investigator, spent two,
on the ranges attempting to,
get the goods and at last succeeded.
His report to the attorney general
reads like a wild west novel. He; fin-
ally was forced to join the cattle
thieves in order to cinch the evidence
against them. Officials believes the,
apprehension of Guyer, which will be-
followed by other arrests will break
up the gang whose depredations runs
into the tens of thousands Of dollars.
Guyer has previously served three
terms for cattle thievery.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-10-16
SUPREME COURT
!. DENIES LANCER

The supreme court late Wednes-.
day afternoon denied Attorney Gener-.
al Langer's application for modif-
cation Of its alternative writ of Tues.
day. in the an-American
bank matter. The attorney general
asked that the writ enjoining him
from proceeding further in the investi-.
cation Of the affairs of the Fargo bank.
be so modified as to permit his de-
partment to retain documents and
letters which he declared essential in
the criminal prosecution Of President
H. ]. Hagen and Cashier P. r. Sher5
man Of the bank, charged with making
false exhibits to the state examiner,
and in any other prosecutions which
might be undertaken.
AS a result Of the courts refusal to
accommodate the attorney general in
this matter it is understood that he
must Immediately turn over to 0. E.
Lofthus, Governor Frazier's state ex-
,aminer, now in charge Of the bank,
all evidence upon which the attorney
generals charges against the Scan
dinavian- American bank officials are
based. Hagen and Sherman waived
their preliminary examination in
justice court this week, and the mat
ter now is pending in the Cass county
district court. ss
In Mr.. Langer's application to the
supreme court he made affidavit that
in his opinion it would be practically
impossible to convict Hagen and Sher-
man without the evidence which he
asked the court to reserve to him
through modification Of it's writ.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-10-16
GREAT MEETING HELD.
WEDNESDAY, NIGHT I

4 That the business men Of Valley
City are in earnest in desire to get a
memorial and community hall was evil
denced Wednesday evening in one of
the largest and most harmonious
meetings in the Commercial Club
rooms that ever was held in the city.
The air was surcharged with the spirit
Of harmony and everybody present
seemed to feel that now was the time
to get behind movement to get a
building which would be made a me-
mortal to the boys who served in the
great worlds war and to those who
died in the great struggle for human
ity. The idea Of this building is>not
to make it town affair-it is to be a
place where the entire county can feel
free to come in and make use of it as
they feel like it. It will be equipped
with rest rooms, swimming pools,
recreation features and also with "a
large auditorium for the purpose of
holding public meetings from time to
time and entertainments. The build
ing is to cost not less than two hum
dred thousand dollars and is to be a
beauty in design as well as beautiful
in sentiment and patriotism. Valley
City never fell down on any job they
went after in earnest and it is going
after this in a put it over spirit that
spells success. Many little speeches
were made last night after Secretary
Moe had given an outline Of the plans
and the general sentiment expressed
was for rally for funds to put it over
and not d dissenting voice was heard.
It was real meeting. A motion was
put and carried to appoint commit
tee Of five to lay plan Of campaign
and President Lee Cowell will appoint
this committee and the five will en-
large its, scope and district the town
I for a canvass for funds. Get THIS
idea into your heads that Valley City
needs such building. That Valley
City wants to do something to perpet.
uate what our soldiers, sailors and
marines did for them in the great war
That Valley City is grateful and wants
to show an appreciation that me ans
something and one that will stand for
all time. This building is what we
need and want to carry out the pur-
poses and plans Of the patriotic peo-
Die Of this city and Barnes county
When the solicitor comes to you, meet
him with smile, take out your pencil
or fountain pen and subscribe what
YOU think you can afford and how
much you will appreciate democracy
and freedom-that is the thought that
governs your interest in this proposed
building. With a good pull, pull al.
together, Valley City will have one Of
the finest memorial buildings in the
northwest within year. Are you
with us in putting it over? 4
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-10-16
SHOOT 1T TO THE OTHER
BANKS"

MIR. Waters wishes me to
advise you that if the examin-
ers object to any Of the paper
carried there. you are to tell
them that it will be removed at
once. The plan for taking care
of Objectionable matter is to
shoot it out to the other league
banks-Grand Forks, Lisbon,
Hilkboro, Buxton, Hatton -
these banks are practically all
new banks and have been passed
by the commission, which will
leave them in position to do this.
They would not have anything
that the commission would OBJ
jeet to just now. Anything you
send could be taken back later on
if necessary" Excerpt from
letter from Roy NJ. Halliday,
then chief deputy examiner to J.
J. Hastings, then vice president
of the Scandinavian-American
bany.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-10-16

leaving the bench sustained the con-
tention Of the attorney general that
Miss Nelson was qualified.
Mcdonald, Lemke, Frazierb ct al,
were not satisfied and took an appeal
to the district court, where the case
was argued about two weeks ago, Cox
again appearing in Miss Nelson's de-
Tense. Az 4 MI
N Around the capitol and the capital
city the decision Of the supreme court
handed down yesterday had double
significance. First, it disposes finally
of McDonald's insinuations which in
respect to Miss Nelson's qualifications
were without foundation in fact and
were political propaganda Of the bas-
est sort; second that Langer's opinion
was right and that he would not be CO.
creed into making fight against q
woman.
An interesting contrast Of the &C
ton of two officials, the attorney gem
eral and the governor is also drawn,
following the decision. LANCER gave
an opinion at law and stuck by it and
Miss Nelson and won her case for her
three times before Mcdonald could
NC CAACSCud1ly anu PSAAAc14ACAIAy Viz
posed Of. Frazier appointed the ma
jority Of the members of the state
board of administration. The people
of the state indicated by a vote Of the
big majority that they no longer
wanted Neil G. Mcdonald on the pay
roll, yet Frazier's board has put Nc
Donald back on the state expense list
at the same salary he drew as super
intendent of public instruction in an
Office created so that he might hold a
job, and is now by steady, insidious
seizures, putting in his hands work
which by law belongs under the juris-
diction of the woman who beat him.
Langer's original taking up of the
case of Miss Nelson aroused the ire of
Almighty C. Townley; when he tore
the cover off the Valley City Bank
deal he got the big chief hopping mad;
when he exposed the putrid state Of
affairs Yin the Observation-Disclosures
bank case, at Fargo and the hand in,
hand operation of the State Bank Man
ager, Waters. he drew thee oncentrat-
ed fire of all the Townley batteries.
People around the capitol are there
fore watching with interest for Bishop
Lemke's denial of his interest and that
of his chief in the Mcdonald Nelson
controversy which undoubtedly will
follow. KEN
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-10-16
SUPREME COURT
GUSTS MACK

Bismarck, N. D.. Oct. IL The SUI
preme court of North Dakota yes
terday afternoon rendered a decision
that Bill LANCER was right and "a. q.
Tewnley wrong. when it. handed down
unanimous decision that Miss Min
ME j. Nelson is qualified to be state
superintendent Of public instruction
and that Neil G. Mcdonald was licked
going and coming by the vote OF 5000.
over half the people. s
M 1t is commonly known that the first
attack Townley made on LANCER was
when the latter gave an opinion that
Miss Minnie Nelson was qualified uh-
der the law to take over the Office to
which she had been elected. However
it took three strenuous lawsuits con-
Quoted by LANCER and Assistant At
torney General Edward B. Cox to con-
vince William Lemke, Governor Fra
zier and Neil C. Mcdonald that the
opinion was right.
Mcdonald has lost the job he work
ed so hard to retain, but he should
worry as he holds another appointive
job at the same salary and by virtue
of the acts Of the board Of admins
tration is fast accommodating his old
duties anyway. 81
Mcdonald first showed fight by re-
fusing to turn over his Office to the
woman who beat him (three times)
and the attorney general acting for
Miss Nelson secured writ of man
damus to compel Med Donald to get out.
The supreme court handed down a de-
cision at 1880 p. m. January 10, 1919,
and at o'clock the sheriff of Bur-
leigh county had ousted McD in
to the hall where he was received by
Governor Frazier and escorted to the
executive offices to receive consolation
and sympathy.
Mcdonald then hired battery Of
attorneys and started action in the
district coutt to GUST Miss Nelson
from Office on the ground she was not
qualified. This case was tried before
Judge Nuessle on May 16. After the
taking Of testimony and the hearing
Of arguments, Judge Nuessle without
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-10-16

That the dry sentiment Of the coun-
try is becoming a fixture is evidenced
by the action Of the United States sem
ate yesterday when it agreed to the
passage of the bill for the enforce
ment of war time prohibition and
without debate at that. The bill now
goes to the house for final disposition
and will meet with the same kind Of
treatment as it got in the senate-it
will pass. The country seems to be
doing we'll under this dry regime and
so far as we can see outside Of q few
here and there who never can be re-
conciied to the new order Of things.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-10-16
-BUY w. 8. o.

The S. o. S. sign has been sent up
by the Townley bunch and a meeting
of the clan has been called for Oct. 81
at Fargo at which time our dear gov
ernor and A. C. Townley will try to
camoufage the farmer in regard to
this bank DEAL Ceazer said that his
wife should be above suspicion, and in
this respect we might say that some
of our banks should be like Ceazer's
wife-above suspicion, and if they are
they certainly should not object to
having an examination.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-10-16
BUY W. S. S.

why" asks the Sheldon Progress,
SHOULD the Consumers United Stores
company get $4,000, or 20 times
the legal limit" The fact is, the
Stores company got just 10000
Courier News.
Sure that's all the store got, but
who got the balance of the money col
lected for these stores we might ask
For instance that jamestown store
where something like $4,000 was rails
ed for the consumers store. Where
did the balance 60 to and for what
purposes? We think the Courier
News is mighty honest for that paper
in acknowledging that the store even
got $4,000 of the money. They US
ually get much less.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-10-16

w. H. Bublitz, Of McHenry, N. D.,
arrived here last night and is visit
ing old time friends in the city. Mr..
Bublitz was formerly resident Of
the city and II teaching at McHenry,
we believe.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-10-16

Young Theodore Roosevelt is a can
didate for the assembly from New
York state and was supposed to have
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-10-16

This talk of calling special session
of the legislature for the purpose OF
impeaching LANCER, Koitzky and Hall
is mostly wind. These men are only
trying to do the right thing for the
people and to safe guard them against
the socialist bunch that is trying to
wreck the. state financially. The
league may have majority of the
legislature but they will not have a
majority who will vote to throw these
men out of Office. The people have
elected these men by big majorities to
serve them in their several capacities
and if the league bosses try to over
throw that vote by impeachment they
are going up against something that
is liable to result disastrously for them
There is limit to the endurance of the
decent people Of the state and if that
is attempted there is liable to be some
stirring times at Bismarck. We would
advise the league organs and leaders
to put the soft pedal on this impeach-
ment stuff-it is a bad thing to mon
key with.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-10-16

no opposition on the republican side.
It has developed however, that an un-
known in politics objects to letting
Teddy have his job without tussle SO
the son of a tailor has SHE'D his hat
into the political ring to contest the
honor with young Roosevelt. This is
well. It will give the political scrap
a little spice and will put the son Of
his father on his mettle. He will have
to work for the job and we shall watch
with interest the outcome of this po-
litical fight If we were betting man
we would Jay our money on Theodore
Roosevelt. y
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-10-16

The league papers are trying to
make great capital out of the fact that
the receiver Of the American Scandi-
f1avian bank at Fargo is receiving
much money from farmers who are
paying up those post dated checks.
That does not get them anywhere. It
is Just like being held up by high
wayman with revolver pushed under
your nose-you give up your money
under stress and when you are COM
PEELED to do so, not because you want
to do it. That is why the receiver OF
the bank is getting so much money
the post dated check fnanciers are
compelled to make good these securi-
ties in order to get the bank opened
up again. So that if Mr.. LANCER does
nothing more he has done much good
in making one financial institution col
lect bad paper and make its institu-
ton good.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-10-16

. d. d 4f g = a
With every branch of the, state. gov
eminent controlled by. the league
forces the Courier News can well at
ford to chortle with glee and come
out every day with some statement
that Mr.. LANCER has been sat on. The
public expects these things to happen.
But at the same, time the, public has
to be reckoned with some time or 9th
er and il. Mr.. LANCER fails in this bank
matter it will not end it by long shot.
The bank padders may win out by
force or might as against right but
right will prevail in the long run. We
have no right to criticise our courts
but the courts cannot restrain US by
Injunction from exercising our own
thinking power and the thinking pow
er of other men who want to be right.
Having the machinery Of government
in your hands to use at will, whether
right or wrong, does not always win
out in the long rum Truth will pre-
vail and when the people of the state
once wake up to what is being done to
them they are going to change things.
Stick pin in here. LANCER may get
scant courtesy from the courts, but he
is fighter and we will bet dollar to
a doughnut that he has few high
cards yet to play. g, 4z.% s1$A.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-10-16

We may be little bit dense and un-
able to figure things out but we are
moved to ask the officials of the Bank
of North Dakota and the other league
banks why it is if everything is above
board and all right they are using all
the machinery in. the power of the
state to prevent an examination OF
their records? Are they afraid that
the examiners will find other things
besides post dated checks? When an
official refuses to throw his record
open to the light Of day it is general
" inferred from his actions that some
thing is wrong. That is the way we
look at this matter. If things were all
right it would be natural for the state
officials to throw open the vault doors
and say to Messrs. LANCER and koslt-
ky, "here are the books and records
gentlemen, look them over and well
come" But they did not say that
they shoot the collateral from one
bank to another to fool the bank ex-
aminers and the people. What Abe
Lincoln said about fooling the people
was intensely correct. You can fool
the people of North Dakota for per-
haps some time, but you are not 60
ing to fool them very much longer.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-10-16

Realizing that there is>to be an ac-
counting of their stewardship very
soon, the league leaders are sending
the S. O. S. sign up right these days.
A big meeting has been called to gath
er at Fargo on October 81 to devise
ways and means of getting more mon
ey from the farmers to tide over the
present embarrassment occasioned by
the state banking board refusing to
stand for a lot of post dated checks
as real collateral for the bank. The
farmers are advised that the most
critical time in the history OF the
league is at hand and that they must
come through with some more of the
long green in order to keep the hordes
of hungry socialists imported from
the outside in power. The people are
beginning to wake up to the fact that
they have been stung right and we
presume there will be many more who
will fall for the eloquent appeal OF
A. C. and his fellow workers for more
money and will probably stand for be-
ing stung again, but lot of people
are getting enough. We admit that
the greatest crisis of the leagues his
tory is at hand and the more the rot
tenness of the institution is shown up
the more acute the crisis becomes.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-10-16

the men Of the country are getting
along fine-and saving millions of dol
lars year as consequence to them
selves to say nothing of the millions
saved from court costs-because pro-
hibition makes less business for the
courts and less misery in the home.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-10-16

The latest method of banking among
the league banks is to have the bank
examiner tip off to the bank at Fargo
that there is to be an examination of
the bank within a day or two then for
the Fargo bank to shoot it's undesir-
able collateral to another bank for a
couple of days or until after the ex-
animation. This shooting bum COL
lateral around may go with this ad-
ministration but it would not go in
any other place in the world but North
Dakota. But with the state machine
in full control of the post dated check
financiers what show has the attor-
ney general got to do anything?
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-10-16

Headline at top Of the Fargo
morning daily: 'The farmers are tired
of being made the goat That was a
real mouthful and hit the nail on the
head. The farmers are getting tired
of being made the goat and they are
realizing every day now that they
have been real goats for every kind
of promoter and political artist that
has come along carrying the nonpar-
tisan league label to give it a semb-
lance of responsibility. Yes, indeed,
they have been made the goats all
right and when they step up into
Treasurer Nelson's little Office at the
court house in the coming months and
liquidate their taxes which have in
creased three fold, they will not only
realize that they have been made the
goats but will feel like being goats
mad enough to buck the whole ca
Doodle of political tricksters off the
face of the earth-and that is what
they are going to do about next June.
Yes, indeed, they have been the goats.