Emmons County record., 1920-04-29
CAPITAL MEMS NOTES


hension of information leading to the
capture of the slayers, Attorney Gen.
eral William LANCER who returned
Sunday from Washington Where he
had been arguing cases before the U.
S. Supreme Court, left Monday to
personally investigate the horrible
murder of Mr.. and Mrs. Wolf and
their five children near Turtle Lake.
The Attorney General was requested
to take hand in the case by States
Attorney John Williams of Mclean
county, and has hired detectives from
a national agency to aid in solving
the murder mystery.
Frank Wolf, progressive farmer
living south of Turtle Lake, was mur-
dered sometime Thursday night or
u Friday morning. The assassin used
a shotgun to kill Wolf and two of his
daughters, and disposed of Mrs. Wolf,
the hired man and three other chill
dren with hatchet. The bloody in
strument was found in a wood box,
and the shot gun was found Monday
in a swamp a mile from the Wolf
farmstead.
Authorities on Monday declared
they had no information to give out
other than that there was no question
Of the murder theory. The murderer
or murderers evidently planned their
atrocity in advance for telephone wires
20 the Wolf home were found to have
been cut. Officials also believe that
more than one person took part in
he wholesale killing in which the only
rrsmber'of the household spared was a
year old baby.
The bodies were found by John
Kraft, neighbor, on Saturday noon
When stopping at the Wolf home for
4 moment. He entered the barn and
; found hogs feeding from the face of
; Wolf and two of his daughters, whose
bodies had been dragged Unto the
place and covered with hay.
Il All Mclean county has joined in the
search for the murderers, and special
detectives are operating and backed
by the authority of Attorney General
, LANCER and States Attorney Williams
It was unknown early in the week
. whether Governor Frazier would offes
shs reward requested by the Attorney
General.
Departing from the consideration
of law and laws pertaining to the case,
Justices Robinson and Grace, Nonpar.
tisan league members of the North
Dakota supreme court, have held the
Brinton Newspaper Grab Act consti-
tutional and sustained the law on the
books, while Justices Christianson and
Birdzell have written opinions holding
the law to be an exceptional violation
Of the constitution legal practice and
the authority of the legislature.
President M. 1. Forkner, of the
North Dakota Press Association an
nounces that special session of the
executive committee will be held in
Fargo sometime within the next ten
days when future action towards the
annullment of the confscatory Town
:ey graft legislation will be consid-
red.
Ol1icers of the press association
ooint to the opinion of Chief Justice
A. M. Christianson as the facts in
The case, and call attention to the fact
hat neither Robinson nor Grace who
aeld the law unconstitutional consider.
ed the legal side, but persuaded them
eselves that the approval of the law
by the people was greater than the
constitution or constitutional practice
Judge Christianson in his opinion
seems to have anticipated the points
which would have been raised by Grace
and Robinson and refutes them.
That George A. Totten, chairman OF
the Board Of Administration, will be
the next radical to be politically given
the axe by Frazier and Townley, is
the rumor Wnlcn persists around the
capitol.
j. R. Waters and his "Shoot it out
to the other banks" Halliday, mar
Friday, have resigned. Larius Wehe
memebr of the workmen's compensa-
tion board, has been kicked overheard
by the governor for ineficiency, Neil
G. Macdonald has disappeared, al.
though Mrs. Macdonald is still on the
J, state pay roll.
Most Of the kick by the anti Town,
Ilsy forces against the state board Of
administration would be overcome
over the Townleyites, if Totten il
ousted. His futile attempt to oust
Kane at the University and his late,
demand for the resignation Of Supt.
JOS, M. Devine, Of the State Reform
/. School. have gotten him in wrono