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Last Nights Show. Seen By
Many People; Midway At
fractions Are Varied And
Entertaining; Complete
Change Tonight.
KARNIvAL PROGRAM TONIGHT
Concert-Grand Forks Municipal
Band,
McDonald's Trained Dogs and
Horses.
Triple Bar Act-Biu Kemble and
George Carl.
.SaxOphone Octctte.
Solo DanCe-Gra0e TA,nhe

KUN! Kun! & Kun! Tonight's
the Big Night at the Kiwanis Kom-
muntty Karnival!" So say the Kom-
mtttees who are managing the big af-
laar. and preparations are being made
to provide fun and excitement for
hundreds OF people tonight. The pro
gram given above will take place
shortly after 9 o'clock, but before that
hour there will be time to visit some
of the midway attractions. Afterward
there will be more attractions to visit
and there'll be a bowery dance on the
stage.
T. B. Elton, president Of the XII
wants club, announced this morning
that the auditorium Is being heated
today and that the building is going to
be the warmest in town tonight in
more than one sense of the word. The
drop in temperature last night has
made it necessary to get the furnaces
into action again, and arrangements
have been made to have the auditori-
um thoroughly heated and comfort
able.
The doors will be open at 1880
o'clock tonight. and they also will
open Saturday night at 1880. A COM
plete change of program will be Of
fered for Saturday night.
Hundreds at Opening.
more than a thousand persons
Joined in the frolic last night several
hundred being on hand when the
doors - the auditorium swung open.
,aScmmtt.ses in charge Of the affair
said today that financially the first
nights program had been success,
and through the Karnival, which is
the biggest thing of the kind that has
been attempted in Grand Forks, the
Kiwanis organization is hopeful of
raising substantial fund for the
Community house benefit
From all other standpoints, as we'll,
the Karnival is proving a. success. The
Kiwanis Klub has effected a very
competent organization, and when the
karnival opened last night everything
was in running order and things were
started with a bang. Throughout the
evening karnival visitors were not al
lowed to put in one dull moment.
Barkers. with lusty voices. called their
wares and there was plenty of noise,
fun and amusement offered.
Under the direction of E.. A. Moses.
the Boys band gave street concert
before the karnival opened, and after
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OF CAMERON DAM PARDONED
IS Increased IN WEST vlRclNlA ToDAH
Baseball
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
PittSburgh-Boston, postponed, raj

NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Pittsburgh Boston, postponed, rain.
Cincinnati ................. olo o
Rixey and winso; Grimes and Mil
Ter.
Chicaso .:..............-.-'~..' ~" y"
n1s1a,pn,n Maptin and Ki1iifer: Hubbeli and nd
Bruggy.
st. Louis .....--~... Ooo "
New York. 900 IL
Walker and Clemons; Ryan and
Smith.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
New York Q
Detroit ......:;:..:.... -: !
Washington .........-.--...........
Cleveland
Mogridge and Charity: Uhle and
O'Neill.
Boston .........'. -. .'''' 80 ~ ~
Chicago ................. IVV
Jones and Ruel; Kerr, Mcweeney
and Schalk.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Toledo .............. OO1
Milwaukee .................. 900
Brady and Bresnahan; Northrop
and GosSett.
Indianapolis-St. Paul, postponed: /:
cold.
LouE aYle- Minneapolis. postponed;
roip
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THE WEATHER.

Minnesota: Generally fair to-
night and Saturday; cooler to-
night with freezing temperature
in north and near freezing in
south portion.
North Dakota: Mostly cloudy
tonight and Saturday; continued
cool with freezing temperature
tonight. So
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NO CHANGE IN STRIKE.

Green Bay. Wis. May 1s.-North-
ern Paper Mills officials here an
nounced no change in the strike sit
uation today. Strikers are still pick
reported.
The John Hoberg company and the
Green Bay Paper and Fibre company
plants still were closed today.
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GRAND SECRETARY
OF /. O. O. F. LODGE
DIED IN BALTIMORE

Baltimore, Md. May 1s.-John
Benjamin Goodwin. who for Is years
had been grand secretary OF the
sovereign grand lodge. I. o. O. f.,
died at hts home here last night of
Brights disease. He Was Il years
old: - d.
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Troops Ready.

Ctnllicothe, Ohio, May 13.-
Orders have been received at
Camp Sherman from the corps
commander at Indianapolis to
have troops in readiness to move
into West Virginia where trouble
has again broken out between
miners and state police. A detach-
ment of the 10Th infantry will
make the trip, if ordered.
Equipment has been ordered
prepared by the railroads.
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Guerilla warfare ON.

\ willtamson, ". Va, May 12.-Guer-
silla warfare, with all odds apparently
was being waged tonight In the grim
amountains Of tho strike-torn Mingo
4 Early today at the little mining
town Of Merrimac, four miles from
mere. q fuallade Of shots was poured
from the mountainside successfully
into Merrimac, Rawl, Spragks and
Matewan, West Virginia, and McCarr.
an available state police and deputy
.heriffs oentered here were rushed to
the scene, but according to late re-
norts they had been unable to check
the shooting.
Harry c. stanton, . state prohibition
soficer and merchant Ct sprigg. Wa wa
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Gold Story Ends

. UOlQ SUOTy EnO6
Washington, May 12.-The trail for
Bergdoll, draft dodger, which a house
investigating committe Is trying to
pick up, ended today in the kitchen
of the Bergdoll home at Philadel-
phia, where it was last seen by the
man who had taken it there from the
United States treasury.
James E. Romig, one time police
magistrate of Philadelphia, who came
to Washington with the slacker's
mother in the fall Of 1919 to get the
gold. declared he never set eyes on
It after it had been dumped on the
kitchen floor. Whether it had been
placed In bank or under ground he
swore he could not say.
The serious sessions of the commit
tee were upset frequently by Romig,
who Is seventy and who was in a fine
frame OF mind. despit the fact that he
Is awaiting sentence on conviction Of
aiding Bergdoll to escape the draft
s Romig was called after former
Judge John w. Wascott of New Jersey
had reiterated that there was not q
word Of truth in reports that he had
been employed as one of Bergdoll's
lawyers. Two of the judges sons,
both lawyers, and two other lawyers
associated with him. testified to the
same effect.
VIII Answer All Questions.
John H. sherburne, counsel for the
committee. had not brought the
Romig story up to the point where
Bergdoll slipped through a bathroom
and started for Germany. when the
hearing was adjourned until tomor-
row. Considering the other CHARGES
against him, Romig declared he would
not stand on his constitutional rights.
but would answer any questions any
body mightSask.
and spectators when the witness was
asked If Bcrgdoll had told him to
80 and see Harry Thaw, and get
Thaw's advice as to the best alienists
to engage in proceedings involving
his sanity. "a
Nothing to that" the old man an
swered. II did look around and ask
people and they told me Thaw's doc
tors were all right
Telling Of his troubles with treas
ury clerks who tried to ''stall him
on" Romig stated he first saw Z part
Of the gold certificates which were
exchanged for gold at Mrs. Bergdoll's
home. Tho mother accompanied him
on the trip to Washington.
Where did she carry it?' he said.
repeating 4 question. why, she had
most Of It in her stockings. It made
quite = lump. but We weren't taking
When Grover first started to tell
him shout the buried gold. Romig a..
serted he had refused to listen.
Why?" inter5ected Representative
Luhring, Republican. Indiana
Well it's hard thing to tell
what's In my mind" and Ronlg join.
ed in the laughter. #sl1 iftf
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Chicago-True bills charging five
labor leaders with conspiracy to cx-
tort money were. returned by the
grand jury.
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Son is Married.
May 13.-Cla

Charlestown. w. va.-GovernoF
Morgan asked for federal troops 70
put down the disorders II Ainso
county. s3s 81 N s9sssss L
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Firing, Continues.

Williamson, w. Va, May 13.-Fir-
ing continued today along the Tug
River Valley south and east of WILL
hanson, but state and county authori-
ties were unable to obtain details Of
the battle az the wires were down to
Merrimac, w. Va. This afternoon
special train was being prepared to
carry party of state police into the
disturbed area.
X Latest reports place the number of
casualties in the conflict at four killed
and two wounded.
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GOV. BLAINE
FREES JOHN
DETZ TODAY
Governor Declare. There |.
Doubt AS To Prisoner.
Guilt And Decided That
Full Pardon Should b
Given Him

Madison, Wis, May 1s.-Com-
plete pardon was granted John
F. Dietz this morning b. Cover
nor Blaine, restoring freedom to
the. widely known "Defendcr of
Cameron Dam" Governor Blaine
in granting the pardon stated
that he had considered that he
had come to the conclusion that
Dietz should be free 'from con-
sideration of public policy and in
making allowance for the exce1,-
tional circumstances.
Doubt as to Guilt.
L am conscious. however" the
governor said, that from the evil
dence before me there is a doubt
as to the guilt of John Dietz of
the crime charged, and that he
should be granted complete par
don."
This action on the part Of the
governor ends a dramatic episode
in the crime history of the state
and frees the man whose exploits
IN holding off a sherif's posse for
months, attracted nationwide at
tention. 1t is not expected that
charges pending against Dietz in
Sawyer county, will be pressed by
the officials. The controversy
which led to the conviction and
sentence of the Wisconsin pioneer
to lite Imprisonment for first de-
gree murder, started in 1904,
shortly after he had moved into
Sawyer in the wooded northern
section of the state. His attitude
in opposing the Chippewa Lum-
Der and Boom company resulted
in trouble which eliminated in a
night with the sheriff on April 25,
1905.
Dispute had arisen over the
property rights of Dietz in his
homestead which bordcred on
logging stream. After fr,ltless
negotiations the lumber company
secured an injunction restraining
him from interfering with their
logging operations, but Diet
drove off the sheriff. woundins
one OF the members of the posse.
Feud Continued,
TINS feud continued until Sept. &.
1910 when Dietz got in a Quarrel with
the town of Cameron Dam over
school matters. He wounded Bert
Horei in the ensuing fight, bringing
the whole question to a climax and
ofhcials determined to capture Dietz
at any cost. sherifrs posse at once
set out and started siege of the home
or the man and on October S. de-
termined to close in and make the
capture. During this fight Oscar
Harp. one of the posse, was killed,
supposedly by Dietz. The family
then surrendered.
In the trial which followed. Detz
refused to have counsel and set out
to defend himself. He was found
guilty of murder in the first degree
and sentenced to life imprisonment,
a sentence which was reduced to 20
years by Governor Francis E. Nc
Govern. Appeal for pardon from
Governor Phillip in 1915 was unsuc-
ccsful.
Governor Blaine in his statement
accompanying the pardon pointed out
that Dietz had an exemplary prison
record. and as a result has but an
other year to serve. The fact that he
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Trouble for Year.

williamson, w. Va, May 13.-The
attack on the mining towns is declared
by the authorities to be an outgrowth
OF the disturbed conditions which.
have prevailed along the Upper Tug
river with varying intensity since last
May 19, when a party of private de-
tectives sent to tevict miners from
company houses at Matewan became
sinyolved in a conflict with the people
sof that town: Seven detectives And
three of the towns residents were
killed. A strike Of miners in this sec
tion was called last July and has
since then been in progress.
On two other occasions federal
troops have been called into Mingo
county to restore order.
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Washington--Net railroad income
for March showed a surplus for the
first time since December and totalled
$3o,994,065. &
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EXAMINED IN
BERCD0LLCASE
Tells Story, Step by Step,
Leading up to Escape Of
Draft Dodger.

Washington, May 13.-James e.
Romig, confidential adviser of the
Bergdoll family in Philadelphia and
awaiting sentence under conviction
there of having aided Grover Cleve-
land Bergdoll to escape the draft,
submitted to cross examination be-
fore the house investigating commit
tee today without raising any ques-
ton as to his legal rights.
ASK what you want to know" he
told John H. Sherburne. counsel for
the committee. but the examination
which followed failed to carry the
trail of the ;1o5. 900 in gold RomiE
procured from the treasury for Berg
doll beyond the kitchen Of the Berg
doll home. Romig insisted that he
knew nothing of Bergdoll's story that
it had been buried in the mountains
of Maryland, the plea for chance
to recover 1t having obtained the
draft evader's release under guard.
Mrs. Bergdoll to Testify.
The comnIttee was advised that
Mrs. Emma Bergdoll, mother Of the
dodger, had started from Philadel-
phia to appear before it. She will be
examined tomorrow.
When the Bergdoll expedition
stopped over at Philadelphia on the
way from Governors Island to Hag-
erstown. it was delayed. Romig said.
by engine trouble in the automobile
in which they were to proceed.
Step by step Romig was led up to
the point Of the escape.
"The telephone rang and Grover
said he would answer it." he said.
He went out of the room. OHare,
the sergeant, said the telephone was
still ringing. and answered. It was
q woman who wanted to see Mrs.
Bergdoll. The next thing / knew the
boys had s8gone--Grover and Ike
Stecher, his chauffeur.
Tried to Kill Self.
O'Hare, Romi1 declared, was 70 up
set that he started to kill himself.
Il grabbed the gun" RomiK added,
and told him not to worry. ty'fIafe
was SO worried and excited he ex-
claimed Judge you didn't see me take
any money and I said, no.
why didn't you tell the sergeant
to, get on the trail?" Romig was
asked.
"Oh, that was their business, /
wasn't Growers. guardian"
Growers grandmother was the only
person in the house who witnessed
the escape, according to the witness
When Bergdoll reached Minnesota
on his flight to Germany. he shipped
his car to Romig at Amber, Pa.
Just as soon as l got word Of this
notified the department" said
Romig, land told them to have a
man ut Amber as Grover might go
there to get it."
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Terms Stand.

London. May 1s.-The German
reparation recovery act. under which
German exports arc taxed fifty per
cent in Great Britain in pursuance of
the allied plan adopted after the re-
fusal of the Germans in March to &C
cept the Paris terms of the Allies,
will not be abolished Immediately. the
house of commons was informed to-
day by Austen Chamberlain, the gov
ernment leader.
Mr.. Chamberlain was answering a
question as to why this recovery act
would not be suspended or repealed
now that Germany had accepted the
allied terms He said the government
did not think it expedient to repeal
or suspend the act until it had had
further experience of the working OF
the terms to which Germany had
just given her adherence.
The rate of duty. however. added
Mr.. Chamberlain, would be reduced
to rs per cent Gn conformity with
the new rate named in the Allied
terms) and would be in substitution
for and not in addition to the general
levy on all German exports.
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ANXIOUS
COMPLY WITH
ALLIED DEMANDS
Expects Allies to Recognize
Attitude Taken by New
Officials.

Berlin. May 1s.-Determissstion to
carry out engagements regarding
reparations was expressed by. Chan
cellor Wirth, speaking at. meet
ing OF the imperial council yesterday
He expressed the hope that the allies
would be equitable in reathing their
decisions relative to Slesia.
'The parliamentary majority" he
said, has declared Itself in favor OF
acceptance of the entente ultimatum
and the government will pursue a
policy directed to the realization of
this affirmation by performance. We
since really desire to carry out our
promises: we want to fulfill the con-
ditions of the ultimatum with all our
strength. We expect the other side.
however, after seeing this evidence OF
our good will, to recognize our atti-
tude. We particularly expect the
game will be, fairly played by all on
the other side in disposing Of the Up
per Silesian question"
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Withhold Action.

Washington, May 13.-Action on
the requests Of the governors of West
Virginia and Kentucky that federal
troops be sent to quell the disturb
ances on the Mingo county border
between the states is being withheld
by the war department pending the
report of a staff officer sent from
the headquarters of the Fifth Corps
area, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 1ndi-
ana, today to investigate the situa-
lion.
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econtinued % pase l'.)
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

side. The rough side was made smooth by
a scraping process in which the mountaineers
knee served as workbench Ranse appeared
as if he enjoyed the praise given his work.
"Yeh," he said. eve make ak 'andles out
'er hick'ry saplin's. 'En later we git tn pop
lar zen carve ladies, spoons ZEN chopin bowls
On tn oth'r side th' mountain some folks
make mats 'en rugs outer wood ibres. People
down th' villages buy 'em for porch rugs 'en
door mats
"In the summer" Ranse explained. "lot's
mountain folks pick 'uckleber'ies. A man
Gums each yer ZEN buys all we git I don't
know this feller's name but he sure gifts a
powerful lot berries from us folks"
Just like their city brothers, the talk turned
to prohibition. "It's darned hard ter git a
drink nowadays" walled fellow whose baggy
pants were connected to dirty gray flannel
shirt by strand of rope. "No more Calico
rum 'er parties at Ratlesnake Inn"
Drink has played big part in the lives
Of the Jackies. I was told that when hard
cider was plentiful "some snartin' fool 'ud
throw sand in the cider 'en the'd be 'ellofa
time" But since 'fightin' CIDER is scarce
the Jackies are generally peaceful folks ex-
cept when the 'oman folks cause row.
The "civilized guide" explained ''that when
a man returned home and found his oman
'ad disappeared with mother feller-then
big doins was likely" I smiled as he added,
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

" course city folks
don't do those things.
Ranse admitted that
mountaineer marriages
were frequently fail
ures. People who call
j q ckies uncivilized
please note.
All Jackies answer
the question, "Where
were you married." by
mumbling, ''Justice de
Peace" Memory fails,
however, when called
upon to recall the date
of a child's birth.
"Sometime las fall -
"a few ye'rs back" /"
"En abo't for'teen
ye'rs DID," are the gen.
eral replies. The older
folks tell their age as
quickly and correctly
as the average Civil
lied" woman of thirty
five.
A girl of about four
teen came trudging
along the path with her
bare arms laden with
freshly picked pink
mountain laurel bios
SONS. These beautiful
blossoms I learned
would be brought to
the Bear Mountain
state road, where the
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

half rotten logs were scattered about the
clearings in motley confusion.
But the efficacy Of the bribes Of civiliza-
ton worked successfully. Penny candy for
these mountaineer kiddies; chewing tobacco
and cigars for the Jackies and pink popcorn
and salt water taffy for the oman folks
Then Ranse, Gladys, Elijah, Zekial and Luther
came to see what else the "white man. hid
IN his large pockets. Biblical names were
evidently popular with a people rated as
heathens by their wealthy neighbors in the
valleys
From where We stood by the side Of path
could be seen three shacks. Here eight
grown-ups and thirty children lived and was
told this group was typical of Ramapo noun
taineer life. Scattered in groups-from
northern Pennsylvania to the foothills Of the
Catskill Mountains--the Jackies probably
number eight or nine hundred
These mountaineers are defendants Of slaves
originally owned by the old Suffern family
and later liberated. During the Revolution
ary War discontented body of Hessian SOL
diers threw away their arms and joined these
former slaves in their mountain retreats.
Through the later mixture of Indian and white
blood-mostly men fleeing the long arm of
the law---the present Jackie is a curious look
ing person. Their skins are either yellow,
copper colored or light brown, their hair
tawny and in most instances straw colored.
and their eyes blue or
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

yellowish.
1t is said that there
is considerable negro
blood in these Jackies,
but the A m erican
negro seldom has a
! beard or mustache.
r a M q po Mountain
Jackies all wear boards
and mustaches. In one
family I saw children
as blue eyed and gold
en- haired as a Swede
and others as copper
colored and black head
ed as an Indian. Stu
dents Of hereditary
characteristics would
find these mountaineer
children a problem.
A Jackie nam e d
Ranse after sufficient
persuasion and reas-
surance from my "civ-
ilized" guide that ] was
just a harmless visitor
and represented neith-
er law nor societies, de-
cided after pocketing
a shiny half dollar tc
show how "bockies"
were made. "Bockies"
is the Jackie term TO,
baskets.
Ranse took a piece Of
swamp maple twenty
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feet long and with dextrous hand split it
into quarters. Nowhere, not even in the
Maine woods, have seen man swing an
ak skillfully as this Jackie. Each blow
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

echoed through the forest. Ranse then fiat
tened the quarters with wooden nauet and
by means of sharp knife peeled off thin
strips which were smooth and silky on one
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

C A N S w IN A
"QUARTER." +" Winsome
little Rhoda, three-year-
old daughter of Richard
Cavill, of Australia,
former swimming cham
pion of the world, who
recently performed the
amazing feat of swim
ming a quarter of a mile
continuously in an ex-
hibition in San Fran
cisco-an aquatic per-
formance that has no
parallel in swimming
history. Her dad, who
says Rhoda could swim
before she could walk,
is the man who intro
duced the Australian
crawl stroke into swim
ming competition.
L. deb. Hendley
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

IRELAND'S FINEST
S T r u C T u RE DE-
STROYED BY REBEL
sINCENDIARISM. The
$5,000,OOO Custom m
House in Dublin is fired
by a body of armed
Sim Feiners, and the
income tax records and
other files upon which
the greater part Of the
local government in
Erin's Isle depends are
burned Judging by this
picture the natives seem
to be taking the tragedy
calmly enough.
International
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

TWO GEORGES and a
pair of Dukes. At the
recent Pilgrims Dinner
in London to George
Harvey, W hen the
American Ambassador
made his much discussed
speech in which he said
that we went to war, not
to save the Allies but to
save ourselves. Left to
right: the Duke of York
younger brother of
the Prince of Wales(.
Ambassador George
Harvey, the Duke of
Connaught and Premier
Llovd George.
international
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

REAR ADMIRAL SIMS
observes Memorial Day
IN London by placing a
wreath on the cenotaph
IN Whitehall, which
bore the inscription
From Rear Admiral
and Mrs. Sims, u. S. A."
International
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

Left - H / IL o Err
LANDS IN JAIL. The
new arrival, the gentle
man in the straw hat,
is none other, ladies
and gentlemen, than
our own Mayor John
F. Hylan. The time
was a week ago Thurs
day and the place the
city prison on Black
wells Island. What was
he in for? Oh, just a
visit of inspection.
Underwood