The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-01-15
STATECAPlT0L
NEWS FROM THE

Treasurer w. A. FurnesS OF Morton
county turned the pages Of his big
book while the farmer, a typical Ger
man Russian immigrant of perhaps
twelve years in the United States
waited.
"Just $134.83,' said the treasurer.
Mine Gott! Last year | pay me
$41.24. But l get me back Elm viertel
nicht wahr?'
"Yes you get 25 per cent Of the state
taxes back. That will be $1.54,' said
Furness.
The farmer shrugged his shoulder,
but back his pocket book from which
ne had slowly counted out his tax
money, buttoned up his heavy fur
overcoat, pulled down his ear laps and
observed as he left the office:
"Vell, it wass desser we never leave
Odessa
That J. |. Cahill, state senator from
Grant county, undoubtedly will be the
league candidate for secretary Of
state, or at least would have been un-
til last week is certain, but now that
he has definitely endorsed the red flag,
even the radicals at least the more
conservative are shaking their heads
and wondering
During the course of an argument
at Leith Cahill's home town, he was
interrupted by a local business man
who questioned him about taxes. The
Leith man finally asked "What do you
think Of the red flag?
"You can be as good citizen under
the red flag as you can the Stars and
Stripes" is the statement alleged to
have been made by Cahill in a heated
response.
The American Legion posts at Car
son and Leith have taken up the mat
ter. The red flag is legalized in
North Dakota and now the state has
an avowed red flag candidate.
Following a consideration Of the
transcript of testimony taken before
attorney T. J. Krause, his referee,
Governor Lynn J. Frazier has ordered
the removal of Sheriff Pierzine and
States Attorney Gallagher of Golden
Valley county, as a result of charges
growing out Of the murder of X. X.
Bowen near Beach.
L
lows two months or more after the
completion of the hearing at Beach
over which Krause presided.
Krause, who is a Mandan attorney,
made a statement following the hear
ing to the effect that he did not think
politics had anything to do with the
Bowen murder and stated 1T was a
mistake to inject politics into the at
fair.
When practically through with the
hearing, a brief adjournment was TAX
en-. At that time the attorneys for
the deposed officials announced their
intention of offering testimony to the
effect that the men who brought the
charges against the officials were ac--
tuated by personal or political surlties.
They submitted to the governors at
torneys, Manahan and Leigh an out
line of what they intended to offer.
The league attorneys countered
with the offer to restore Pierzina and
Gallagher to their offices, providing
the independent attorneys would stip-
ulate that the whole blame for the
Bowen murder would be laid at the
door of Attorney General William
LANCER.
However, the attorneys and the Of
fcials deposed refused to be party
to such an affair.
Manahan wired Governor, Frazier
and the two left for St. Paul. C. A.
Iowney was at that time N st. Paul.
1t has taken two months to work
up the required nerve to fire Gal
lagher and Pierzina on charges which
a jury would not consider for five
minutes.
The railroad commission of the
league will have an interesting time
holding the 80 rate hearings in pub
lie water works, light or gas plants
which are listed for readjustment. For
seven weeks the commission has been
hearing the arguments in the water
rate case in Bismarck in which citi-
zens are attempting to get reduc-
ed price on their water. The plant is
owned by Alex Mckenzie. The cost
of the Bismarck hearing alone will
eat up practically all the railroad COM
missioners appropriation for such
hearings.