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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-08-03
BLUE BOOK TO
SHOW CHANGES
IN. STATE VOTE
Historical Articles Also Feature
Publication Issued by the Z
N. P. HIGHTIDE IN 1916

The North Dakota "Blue Book" !"
which is being published this year for
the first time since 1913, contains the
official vote in elections since the
Nonpartisan league came into power
in the state.
Publishers of the "Blue Book" The
Bismarck Tribune Co., will begin
making deliveries to the secretary of
state the latter partiof the week. In
addition to valuable statistics, the
book contains many historical articles.
The highwater mark Of the Non
partisan league tide in the state was
reached in the election of 1916, the
official figures show. Governor Lynn
J. Frazier received 2S,310 more votes
in the election of 1916 than in the
primary of 1920. " .
Socialist Party Disappears.
An interesting figure OF the COM
pilations is the striking manner in
which the Socialist party disappeared
in North Dakota as the Nonpartisan
league gained in power. In the cleo
tion of 1914, J. A. Williams, Socialist
candidate for Governor, received 6,O19
votes. ..
In the election of 1918 the party
candidate received 2,615 votes, and
in 1918 the candidate for Governor
received but II votes. After this the
party lost it's entity.
The figures also show the great in
crease in the number of votes cast
since the Republican primary of 1914.
In that primary L. B. Hanna, candi-
date for the nomination for Govern
or, received 26,261 votes;' y. l.; Bur
dick, 22,l95 votes and J. H. Wishek,
12,175 votes, a total of 61,2O1 votes
as compared to 1926 votes cast in
the 1920 Republican primary. In the
election Of 1914, Mr.. Hanna received
44,278 votes to 34,746 for F. 0. He'll
strom, Democrat.
Vote in Elections. ..
The vote since the Republican pri-
mary Of 1918, for candidates for Gov
orpor fO1lnxUS.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-08-03
RUSSIANS TURN
BACK MISSION;
ARMY ADVANCES
Warsaw, Capital of Poland, is
Threatened by Onrush of
BOlsheviki HOrdes
ASKS PEACE AUTHORITY
B0lsheviki FELL Mission 1t Will
Not Merely Negotiate an
.Armistice
ASKS PEACE AUTHORITY

London, Aug. 3. - The Russians
occupied observation-disclosures I,
it is announced In Mondays official
statement from Moscow received
today. Further progress of the
Soviet troops toward Warsaw is
reported in the communique.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-08-03

The Belgian cotton spinning indus
try is almost back to pre-warl condl-
tions.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-08-03

The Bureau of Fisheries has found
source Of glue in the flippers Of fur
seals.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-08-03
HARDING PLANS SPEECH

HARDING IPLANS SPEECH Z
Marion, O., Aug. 3.Between con-
ferences Senator Harding today was
completing his second front porch
campaign speech which he will de-
liver tomorrow to a delegation OF
Wayne county, Ohio, Republicans.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-08-03
VOTE EASSURED
ON FIVE LAWS
NEXT NOVEMBER
Sufficient Petitions Filed With
Secretary of State to Assure y
This
TIME LIMIT is ABOUT UP
Bulk of Petitions in, and Total
Number May Reach Seven
teen or Eighteen Thousand
TINE LIMIT is ABOUT UP


People of North Dakota will vote on
| Nov. on five proposed laws This
! was assured today when petitions con-
tanning several thousand names in ex.
cess of the 10000 required to initiate
a measure were in the hands of the
secretary of state. Two employees be-
gan counting the petitions yesterday
afternoon.
The proposed laws are: (D-Pro.
viding regular examination for the
Bank of North Dakota; = (2)-Giving
counties, city, villages, townships and
school boards right to handle their
own money through their own banks
if they wish, instead of the compul-
sorry law requiring deposits in the
Bank of North Dakota; (3)-PrOhibit
ing the Bank of North Dakota from
loaning money other than to actual
resident farmers of state; (4)-Permit
ting publication of private legal no
tjces in local. rather than official
county newspapers; (5)-Placing all
strictly educational matters under the
direct supervision of the superintend
ent OF public instruction.
May Reach $4,000
The petitions were obtained by the
Independent Voters association of
North Dakota.
The number of petitions probably
will reach 10000 or $4,000, it was esti-
mated at the Office of the secretary of
state. The law provides that petitions
for the initiation of laws must be filed
80 days before the election, which will
be on November 8.
Petitions will be received at the
secretary of states Office until tomor-
row night, but the petitions received
tomorrow, on the Doth day, will be
kept aside, as there might be a aues-
tion raised as to whether or not the
petitions received on the39Oth day be
fore election are valid.
Few In Today
The bulk OF the petitions are in. A
few came in today. 1t probably will
take several days to count and check
the petitions, but there is no doubt
but that there are sufficient to assure
that the proposed laws will be voted
upon. The petitions came from every
part Of the state.
A vigorous campaign will be waged
in behalf of the enactment of the laws.
WRITE ON TICKET n
The fusion ticket, in the state cam
paign, headed by j. F. T. O'Connor, of
Grand Forks, will have the solid sup
port of all anti-Townley voters, in the
opinion of many politicians.s The Vic.
tory meeting at Jamestown, when
men who varied in political beliefs in
the state, expressed their intention of
supporting the ticket to the limit re-
moved all doubt in the minds of many
political leaders Of any possible let
down in the anti-Townley campaign
in the fall.
The action OF Senator Gronna. at
the meeting, in crossing the platforms
and shaking hands with Mr.. O'Con-
nor, and adding: II am a Republi.
can, of course, but am also an Amer
ican. Americanism with me is above
partisanship and when the good name
of our state is at stake, when the peo
pie of my state are in danger. I feel
it my duty, to forget party politics.
Both of these parties stand upon the
solid foundation of the constitutional
form Of government"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-12-23
True Christmas Tale With
Regulation Christmas Moral

turned them Loose on the Puzzle,
which they took TO Like bum to a
Side door Pullman. After two
Hour and 36 minutes and Is Sec
Onds they had the Thing Looking
IKE four Aces on the Go; but 1t
Was Discovered the Front wheels
had been Placed on the Rear
bohunkus Bar, and construction
was replaced by Destruction.
In four Hours and % Minutes
even, the thing was Again all ready
for the Garage; but some Poor Fish
had forgotten about the steering
Wheel, so they Took It Down again.
Three hours Later the Thing was
looking like Man OF War, but It
was Discovered in the Last grand
change, the PTopellers had been
Put on Backward.
Two hours Later everything was
Lovely, except that some One had
put the Radiator, in the Tool box,
and the Jig was up Again.
AS It was Growing late and there
Was a marked Strain on the Vo-
cabuIaries OF the Secret service
Men, our Hero called up a Black.
smith who fixed the Boat in 10
Minutes.
Early.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-12-23

An went merfi1y asa wedding
ben.
UntI this woman'S bosom friend
came fnto the store, recognized the
hat and informed those In charge
that it bao been worn. lt,appeared
tho boacm friend had Just cause
for some personal righteous anger,
in fact she was "mad" and You all
know what that means.
So tho proprietor called the hat
woman and told her the hat she
returned had been worn and must
be called for.
why, has that hat been return
ed?'' exclaimed the lady in great
surprise. Il don't see how that
happened. It should never have
been returned at all. I'll send for
It right away"
Better Carry Your Packages
Persons Will do well to carry
packages home from now till
Christmas. l learn on good author
ity that the Christmas package
bugs are operating in the city ana
when the delivery boy losses your
present, carefully selected, on your
front veranda these mean individu-
ais are pouncing on them. II you
ask the stores to deliver packages
during the next two days you may
never see them again-unless you
know someone is at home to re-
ceive them. Even then the boys
are mighty busy and i Is u great
temptation to throw your articles
onto the porch and save climbing
down from the wagon to ring or
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-12-23

Ana It came 10 P~ sP 4 does
Once a year thst it was the Week
before Christmas IN FSirmnt IA
yored by Nature but not Qutts 90
y fortunate IN tho matter Of nhe
Bando, ,a1d Arnold Jones, who was
one Of the big Noises IN the com.
merclaI Life OF inc City, awOke to
he Fact that he had not Yet pur-
iased a Token Of affection 70 be
Bestowed upon HIS son Reginald
when the Family gathered around
8the Tree on Xmas to check up
What they wanted and What they
didp't Get
When the horrible Fact hit Him
Dyer the Eye Brows he was Stunned
lust as II the Price of Likker had
dropped to Three dollars per
ouartum. When he Recovered
sdfficisntly to Get up on his Hind
legs and suck in Little atmos-
phere, he Scrambled his brains
seven Times and took the Last
Raisin out of the jug Of home
made Simples. In this Condition 1t
2 Appeared TO him That his son Had
reached that age When II he were
Properly equipped with One OF
those Miniature red devillsh auto
mobiles That you push About from
Place to Place with foot Power he
could make a Rummage sale Of the
Home furniture very much TO the
Mustard by the day tho Ground
Hog looked for his Shadow.
Our, hero was a Man Of very few
ideas but much Action, and there
fore It came to Pass a few days
SLater there came Into his Office in
Z the heart Of the City package
which investigation proved Con-
tanned all the Markings OF the de-
sired Auto II properly Assembled.
Our hero was Aware that he Knew
aS much about Assembling as con-
ress Does about the needs Of the
\ eople, so he let Out shout that
Bronght all the Secret service
men in the Building on the Run,
thinking that Some one had re
tieived Bottle Of Gordon gin by
mistake.
These birds did Not know any
More about assembling than Our
Hero, but he didn't Know It and
they Wouldn't admit It, so he
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-12-23
Evening Chat
The UnIucky Hat

Some queer things happen in this
old world and none more deplor-
able and yet possessing q thin vein
of humor than the incident Of the
woman and the hat. Heard 1t?
No? Well-there is a woman iE
the city who took home a hat on
approval. Truly I think the rest
Of this story had best not be told
Well, then I'll tell 1t, seem lib
you insist. Now, the woman took
home a hat, which in Itself isn't so
terrible but after taking home the
hat she decided to wear 1t to a
party and she did.
She returned the hat two days
later with the remark: Il don't
believe this is Just the hat 4 want"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-12-23

essary thse last few dRys. ZouIll
have tuBt that much more fun.
And Yesterday lt RaIned
Yesterday IL rained. Wen, III
say It did-ft literally poured. And
many nice ladies got wringing wet,
and the packages they carried pre-
scented a most bedraggled appear
ance when they reached home. To.
day starts out dark and gloomy btt
dry underfoot, which must be en-
dured Of course. And all our nice
white Christmasy snow has dis
appeared entirely. oh. Mr.. Weather
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-12-23

knock. Some Of the store keepers
say they scarcely know what to do
when customers phone them they
have not received articles PER
chased. It isn't exactly rtght to
ask the stores to make good, arti-
cle9 they delivered In good faith
to setnd you again something you
bought which was Switched" from
your front porch by a dishonest
person, even though you and the
storekeeper both are Innocent So
be on the safe side and carry all
you can. Make several trips-iEnec-
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-12-23

They met by chance in the wait
ing room Of a railway station,
my friend" began the man with
the bag full Of tracts, persuasively
have you ever reelected on the
shortness Of life and the fact that
death Is ineYitable?"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-12-23

A system OF msssaging with roll.
ers has been devised for the treat
ment OF fiat foot
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-12-23
EHIa oplnIeal
I'll l,ara. dnna VA e hfe..

You have done WelI IN me
II hope so.S
you seem perfectly Wiling TO.
inpark the secret Of success"
'Yes." said the great man, and
I sometimes think it Is the only
secret IN the world that nobody
cares about hearing. "-Loutsydile
Courier journal.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-12-23

Nsltiy 10 Per. cGnt g
sons employed In Che tel pllon
dusty IA the United STAT
yEnmen. 81. *.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-11-18
M%onqolians Great Meat Eaters.

Inhabitants Of Mongolia are great
meat eaters, living in some cases en-
tirely on mutton. 1t is not uncommon
for a Mongol to consume ten pounds
Of this meat at n sitting. He also
compares other foods by asking If
they are as good as mutton. The Mon
gol puts mutton fat in his tea, which
Is prepared with milk from the poor.
est grade Of tea, pressed into bricks
He drinks enormous quantities IF this,
80 cups a day being no uncommon
amount for an adult. The natives eat
whenever opportunity comes, there
being no regular meal hours.
. Water is scarce in Mongolia, a
few wells along the a route
furnishing the entire supply. During
the winter and spring the camel is
the only animal that can o the
desert and subsist on the dried
up grasses. At this season of the year
blocks Of ice are carried for water
supply. and in other seasons two large
tubs are carried on each camel, one
tub on each side.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-11-18
ALL WENT INTO THE BILL
That He Paid for His =
Hours Of Bridge. > $~E

How the, sultan Of Morocco, Mulai
Hafid. played bridge with his dentist
has been amusedly told. ~. ~.
A close friendship sprang up be-
tween the sultan and an English
dentist, and as often as not, bridge
took the place of dentistry. The
dentist would arrive with his timid
lady assistant, and all his implements
of torture, only to be invited to sit
down at the table and play cards. The
lady-assistant was very young and
very shy, and al o accustomed to
play children's card games than
bridge. A fourth player would be
found and the iu-assorted party com
pleted. The ex-sultan enjoyed himself
immensely. He generally won, per-
haps by never permitting the trembling
lady assistant to be his partner. The
points were one franc q hundred, 81
no very serious damage could be done;
but rich as the sultan was, he re-
joiced more in his humble winnings at
bridge than yer his many thousands
in the banks. Not a little Of his en-
joyment vas owing to the fact that he
felt that he was "doing" the dentist.
HE comes" the ex-sultan would say,
ito mend my teeth and to take my
gold, and in the end l win his francs"
But n day the climax came. The
teeth were excellently repaired-the
5 work was of the ~best-there was no
more to be done but to pay the bill
included all the bridge hours, at so
much per hour. 1t was the most ex-j
pensive bridge Mulai Hafd ever,
played.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-11-18
Ground Hogs.

In the American Boy Enos A. Mills
says: 'Two summers while l was
guiding on Longs peak, a ground hog
summered on the summit. A few
minutes after | arrived on top with
q party of climbers he showed him.
self and waited for lunch scraps.
After he was better acquainted he did
not wait but expected to have help
ings from the first table. His winter
den was 1000 feet below the top.
Ground hogs especially in spring,
wander in search of the first green
plants; usually. from their tracks,
they know just where these are most
likely to be found"
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-11-18
The Earth,s Crust.

The most important scientific inves-
tigation Of the last year in any codn-
try has probably been the attempt to
measure the earth's crust. We know
very little about the shell On which we
live. Scientists have been studying the
problem in Hawaii, Tuscany and in
Salvador, where the opportunities for
investigation are especially favorable.
Much data new TO science has been
collected concerning the shell, it's COM
position and probable age. Still other
tests have been made in New South
Wales, where a great reservoir concen-
trates an immense weight of water on
a limited area, and instruments have
been devised to measure the movement
Of the earth's crust under this weight.
New light has thus been thrown on
the action Of volcanoes.-Boys' Life.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-11-18

lof the earth's surface, and their rude
origin Is reflected III their ruggedness.
But. the drumlins. were built BY the
great Ice sheet which once covered all
Of North America. The materials OF
which they are made were pushed to-
gether slowly by the crawling glaciers,
nodded and tamped and smoothed by
the great Ice fingers as q child makes
mud pies.
The drumlins look as though they
had been designed by some great intel
ligence with a sense Of beauty, for
they rise In smooth, gentle curves.
They m remarkably uniform In
height, usually q little less than 200
feet, and so smooth and ienient are
their slopes that many of them are cul-
tivated to their SUBMITS. Some Of
them are as round as half an apple,
and others are long welts or rolls.
Scattered among the hills are q
number Of small lakes and ponds, clear
and pretty, and there is, good fishing
in many Of them. The drumlins are q
fav0rite playground of the people in
Syracuse, Rochester and other nearby
towns. but they are little known be-
yond the counties in which they lie.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-11-18
Laundry Of the Millionaire.

Order is pleasant. If l were a NIL
lionaire-which l thank heaven I am
not, nor scarcely a millionth part Of
one-1 should take pleasure In the
silent orderliness that Swallowed me
through my home. Those invisible
hands that patted out the pillows aud
shined the shoes and picked up every
thing, ven the Sunday Newspapers
those I should enjoy. I should enjoy
especially the guardian angel who hid
from me the casualties of the laundry
and put the surviving laundry away.
In heaven there is no laundry. or
mending Of laundry. For the million
aire the laundry Is SEN and the laun-
dry is sorted away, blessed be the
name Of the millionaire. I envy him
little e~lse-except, perhaps, his linen
sheets.-New Republic.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-11-18
OLD MYSTIC RITE TEMPLE
vestibule Uncovered at Rome Scene Of
IT, Historic Event That Was De- II
scribed by Tacitus.

A religious discovery, but Of a
pagan kind, was made some time ago
under the railway cmbankment a few
hundred yards outside the Porta Mag
giore, Rome. Italy. 1t consists Of a
vestibule deliberately decorated with
neurological Subjects, such as Jason
taking the Golden Fleece, the punish
ment Of Marsyas by Apollo, the story
Of the Danaids. the liberation of Aeson
and a troop of Moenads riding on pan
theirs. It is conjectured that this ves
tibule was a place where, in the early
decades of the first century of u
era, mystic rites were celebrated. In
deed, it is supposed that this was the
exact locality Of an historical event,
described by Tacitus in the twelfth
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-11-18
Chinese Towns Thrown Together.

One can speak correctly of a
Chinese village or town Or v e of a
mere jumhle Of habitatiOns. It has
streets. so-called. usually a network Of
them. But no two of the streets run
parallel, except this occurs by acct
dent and no one of them is straight.
Sometimes in Il village a quarter to a
third of 4 mile long there will not be
a single cross-road or street whereby
a vehicle can get from the front to the
of the village. Outside the treaty
the paths-they are little more-are
too narrow for even the passage of
the ricksha.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-11-18
Sl0AClTY SHOWN ~. BEARS


The grizzly bear. says Mr.. Enos A.
MINIS, Is superior in mental power to
tie horse, the dog and even the gray
wsaf. and In his book, 'The Grizzly"
he offers convincing evidence OF his
statement. A grizzly cub in Yellow
stone park, he says, once found q ham
skfn-a priced delicacy. Just az the
little fellow was lifting 1t to his mouth
: bag bear appeared. The cub instant
II dropped the ham skin, sat down O.
Il and pretended to be greatly inter
ested in watching something In the
edge Of the woods.
Another young grizzly In the Yellow
stsae n doy found a tin can that was
open at one end and partly filed with
hsA. He raised It in his forepaws and
peeped In, then deliberately turned the
can upside down and shook it. Moth
ing came out. He shook again, but
stfl nothing came out. He then placed
the can on the ground, open end doVn,
and hammered the bottom Of 1t with a
stone until the fish dropped out.
i . zoo m day a piece of bareback
that q grizzly bear wanted fell into the
hands Of q black bear. The black bear
dipped the bareback in water and
started to take a bite. Evidently 1t
was too hard. He put 1t In the water
again, and while it soaked gave his
attention to something else. When the
black bear was not looking. the grizzly,
standing on the farther edge of the
pool. stirred the water with,a forepaw
IN started the bareback toward him
on the waves. The instant the first
wave touched the black bear he looked
round. grabbed the precious bareback,
which was rapidly floating away, and,
pushing 1t to the bottom of the pool,
put one hind foot upon It. How very
like the mental processes of human
beingsl
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-11-18

book Of his annals as having hap.
pened in SO A. d.. during the reign
OF Claudius. The historian relates
how Agrippina. mother Of the future
Emperor Nero. coveted the gardens Of
7. Statilius Taurus. who had been
consul a few years earlier and gov
ernOr of Africa. and how she i'm.
provised an accusation against hiU
through a certain Tarquitius Priscus
Of practicing illegal mystic rites.
Stntilius Taurus anticipated his trial
and now. nearly 10 centuries later
an accidental !andslip on the railwa!
has led to the calculation Of this for
gotten episode of Roman history.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-11-18
HILLS NODDED BY GLACIERS
Peculiar Formation Of "Drumlins"
Makes Them Appear as Though
: lntellioently Designed.

Between Syracuse and Rochester, N.
T., Hes a country of hills, known as
drumlins, which is n Of the most
beautiful bits of scenery in the eastern
United States. The term drumlin is
an Irish one. and is applied to low,
rolling hills Of glacial origin which e.
list in that country, and also in parts
Of New York and New England. This
section between Syracuse and Roches-
ter is the very heart of the American
drumlins. >. ..s -
Most American mountains and hills
were formed by violent disturbances