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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-03-02

Mr.. Brown, according to his attor-
ney, Claire Brickner, will demand a
hearing Immediately.
Chum OF GUNNER
The defendant yves chum of Will
liam GUNNER WAC last week was con-
victed of first degree murder in con-
nection with the death Of Marie Wick
on June 7 in the Prescott Hotel in
Fargo where Gunner was night
clerk. Brown was arrested on the
same charge Immediately after his
release as a state witness for which
he had been held since last Septem-
Der. Although it was rumored that
Gummer's case would be appealed,
Judge Barnett declared no steps had
been taken as yet. The defense has
year in which to ask for new
trial.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-03-02

pany "a foreign torporation,)
Powers Elevator Company, "a
foreign corporation), Lewis
Baertsch, Wesley c. Mcdowell
The First National Bank, of Ma
rion, North Dakota, corpora
ton, Julia Volstad, Executrix of
the Last Will and Testament of
G. K. Volstad, deceased, Wesley
c. Mcdowell, Administrator Of
the Estate of Charles Baertsch
deceased, Mrs. Charles Baertsch
Kate Baertsch, Elmer Baertsch
Grin Baertsch, Delwin Baertsch
Dewey Baertsch, Allan Baertsch
Elsie Baertsch, Theodore
Baertsch, and all other persons
unknown claiming any estate in
or lien or encumbrance upon the
property described in the COM
plant herein,
. Defendants
Notice is hereby given, that by vir.
tue Of a judgment and decree in
foreclosure, rendered by the District
Court of the First Judicial District
in and for the County Of Barnes, and
docketed in the office of the Clerl
of the District Court in and for said
County, on the 1st day of March
1922, in an action wherein Wells and
Dickey Company, a corporation, was
plaintiff, and Julia Volstad, Arthur
Volstad, E. C. Pollard, Johnston e.
evator Company "a foreign corpor-
atom, Powers Elevator Company Ga
foreign corporation), Lewis Baertsch
Wesley C. Mcdowell, The First Nat
ional Bank, of Marion, North Dakota
a corporation, Julia Volstad, Execu-
trix of the Last Will and Testament
of G. K. Volstad, deceased, Wesley c.
Mcdowell, Administrator of the es-
tate of Charles Baertsch, deceased
Mrs. Charles Baertsch, Kate Baertsch
Elmer Baertsch, Grin Baertsch, Del
win Baertsch, Dewey Baertsch, Allan
Baertsch, Elsie Baertsch, Theodore
Baertsch, and all other persons un-
known claiming any estate in, or lien
or encumbrance upon the property
described in the complaint herein
are defendants, in favor of said
plaintiff, and against the said de-
PENDANTS, for the sum of Three Thou
sand, Three Hundred fifty-one and
$500 ($3,351.88) Dollars, which
Judgment and decree, among other
things, directed a sale by me, of the
real estate hereinafter described, tc
satisfy the amount of this judgment
with interest thereon from March LIST
1922, and the costs and expenses of
said sale, or so much thereof as the
proceeds of said sale applicable there
to shall satisfy; and by virtue of a
writ to me issued out of the office of
the Clerk Of said Court, directing me
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EDITORIAL
<*+ = . + . = = . = = I

Ere was much criticism Of j. +.
|O'Connor, when he was a candl-
tie for governor, for being part
her of Sveinbjorn Johnson, who was
acting as attorney for the Embden
Farmers Grain Co. in their suit to
establish the legality of the North
Dakota grain grading law. Both
Johnson and O'Connor were charac-
terized as enemies of the farmers
and tools of big business. OConnor
maintained that the state law con-
flicted with the federal law and that
the suit was merely to determine
which law applied in North Dakota.
Tho same case was used as an argu-
ment against Mr.. Johnson when ne
was candidate for the office OF at
torney general. Advices from Wash
ington state that their contention has
been upheld by the supreme court OF
the United States and the state gram
grading law has been declared IN
valid This decision convinced us
that Attorney General SvelnbJorn
johnson is thoroughly conversant
with the law and is an able attorney
1t also shows the fallacy of great
many of the campaign arguments
put out by the opposition.
The County Commissioners have
requested the presence of all men,
bers of school boards, township
boards, city and village boards and
taxpayers in general, at meeting
at the City Hall on March 9Th at 200
D. m. This call has been issued for
the purpose of talking over taxing
questions for the ensuing year. we
are pleased to see the county COM
missioners issue this call as much
good may result from their action II
the members of the various boards
attend. Our state administration
has made very good start toward
reducing the state levy and this &C
ton will be appreciated by every tax
payer, but the state tax levy IS
very small portion of our total tax
the balance coming from the county
board and the various school boards.
The property owners of the state
have been taxed to death for the past
few years and are beginning to feel
that something should be done to
curb the reckless spending of public
funds. This is up to the smaller po-
litical subdivisions in a large part
and a concerted effort in this direc-
ton can accomplish much. Every
board member can see some place
where the expenditures could be re-
duced, possibly only a little, but e7-
cry little bit helps in reducing the
whole, and a get-together meeting
in which these views may be aired
should result in reduced taxes.
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URGED
TO DIVERSITY
Meetings Throughout County Next
Week To Urge DiversificatiOn.

March 9Th to 18th has been pro-
claimed Investigation week by Gov
ernor Nestos with the hope that as
many meetings as possible be held
throughout the state and also that as
many farmers as possible attend
those meetings to take part in the
discussion Of diversification methods
for North Dakota.
The schedule for this county as an
nounced by T. x. Calnan and Clara
L. Larson is as follows:.
Monday, March 6-p. M, Sanborn'
Monday, March 6--evening, Eckel-
son.
Tuesday, March 7-Leal.
Wednesday, March 8-Litchville.
Thursday, March 9--Kathryn.
Friday, March 10-Noltimier.
Saturday, March l1-Valley City.
Two meetings a day had been pre-
viously arranged for but on account
of the condition of the roads it was
thought better not to attempt many
evening meetings.
The speakers who will take part
in the discussions during the week
include the following:
Mr.. Larson of Fargo; Prof. Dice of
the Agricultural College; Fred Get
chell Of Valley City; Harry Green Of
Lea]; A. J. McInnes of Darcy; R. A..
Wife of Darcy; Vernon Grant of Gu
ba and Clara L. Larson and T. x.
Calnan of Valley City.
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WHY THEY ARE DANGEROUS

Because the tax burden in North
Dakota has been quadrupled in the
last 20 years and tripled in the last
six;
Because the taxpayers have been
irritated and annoyed almost beyond
endurance by silly tax laws;
Because business has been harass-
ed to the extent that investors have
avoided this state as they would
plague;
There is danger that serious con-
sideration may be given the extreme
ly silly and vicious tax laws proposed
by Justice Robinson.
The trouble is that Judge Robin
son would lower taxes in North Da-
kota by repudiating our debts and
not by future economics. The time
to economic is before the money Is
spent and not afterwards, and the
Robinson program would simply iso-
late North Dakota financially from
the rest Of the country. We would
become a financial outlaw, such as
Russia now is among nations.
Of the II proposed initiated laws,
several are merely silly because they
would be unconstitutional and unin-
forcable; others are Of minor impor-
lance and not undesirable; while
others are wholly vicious and dam
gerous. The ninth proposed law, for
example, is as follows:
"To reduce by so percent all
unpaid taxes of the past three
years; to cancel all penalties and
costs of all sales for the taxes of
1919 and 1920, except to good
faith purchasers; to permit the
first half or first instalment of
the tax of 1921 to be paid at any
time before the end Of Septem-,
Der, with interest at 1 percent
month from the first of March,
and on such payment to cancel
all taxes for 1921"
It is impossible to calculate the
possibilities for harm to the states
credit that such a measure contains.
The danger is that the voters, either
in spirit of jest or because they are
exasperated at the constantly increas
ing tax burden, will sign the petit
ions and even vote for the laws. Any
man who thinks he is voting to cut
his taxes in two" is not likely to ex-
anime the measure too closely. He
may figure it will be good plan to
give the men responsible for fixing
the state taxes a lesson in economy
by arbitrarily cutting the tax reve-
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nue. in two and letting them worry
about meeting the debt.
Or he may figure it good jest to
saddle Judge Robinson's tax program
on the state.
The program is dangerous because
it is so right in it's purpose and so
wrong in it's method. Its purpose is
to enforce economy and lower taxes,
but its method is to do this by re-
pudiating the financial bargains we
| have made, and not by cutting down
future OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Forum.
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to sell said real property, pursuant
to said Judgment and decree, l, En-.
gebret Larson, Sheriff Of Barnes
County, North Dakota, the person
appointed by the Court, to make
such sale, will sell the hereinafter
described real property, to the high
est bidder for cash, at public auc.
ton, at the front door of the Court
house, in the City of Valley City, in
the County Of Barnes, and State O..
North Dakota, on the 9Th day Of APP
ril, A. D., 1922, at 2 o'clock in the
afternoon of said day, to satisfy said
judgment, with interest and costs
thereon, and the costs and expenses
of said sale, or so much thereof as
the proceeds of said sale applicable
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-03-02
thereon may satisfy.

thereon may satisfy.
The premises to be sold as afore-
said, pursuant to said Judgment and
decree, and. the said Writ and this
notice, and described in said judg
ment and decree is as follows, to-wit
The Southeast Quarter fSE 1-4} Of
Section Thirty six 1857, in Towashir
One Hundred thirty seven (13D
North, of Range Sixty one (6l> West
of the Fifth Principal Meridian, III
Barnes County, North Dakota.
~" ENGEBRET LARSON,
Sheriff Of Barnes County, N. d.
A. w. AYLMER,
Attorney for Plaintiff,
jamestown, N. Oak. ,@ .a.;
(1st Pub. Mar. 2-Last Pub. Apr. g.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-03-02
HEARING OF BROWN
POSTPONED TODAY
Brown Will Have Hearing March Z.
Declares Through His Attorneys
He Will Demand Hearing Now.

Fargo, Feb. 28-Preliminary hear
ing of Andy Brown, charged with
first degree murder in connection
with the death Of Marie Wick Of Cry
gla, Mimi, was postponed until Mch..
Z on application Of the state when
the case was called in justice court.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-03-02
FIRE CAUSES HEAVY DAMAGE

Minneapolis, Feb. 28-F'ire which
caused damage estimated at 100000
Quilted building on sixth avenue
south between fourth and fifth streets
early today. Several merchandising
firms occupied the building. All fire
fighting apparatus was used in con-
trolling the flames
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-03-02
NOTICE AND CITATION, HEAR.
ING OF FINAL ACCOUNT AND
nJSTRIRJITT0N or ESTATE

ING Or FINAL ACCOUNl AND
DISTRIBUTION OF ESTATE
In County Court, Before Hon. O. H.
deS. Irgens, Judge.
State of North Dakota, County of
Barnes.
In the Matter of the Estate of George
B. Kelly, Deceased.
H. w. Nelson, Executor,
Petitioner
Hattie Kelly, Gladys Kelly Jacobson:
VIM. Wrey, Ambrose Wrey, Fannie
Wrey, Florence Kelly and Hattie
Kelly,
Respondents.
The State of North Dakota to the
above named Respondents:
You, the said respondents above
named are hereby notified that the
final account Of the Executor of the
Estate of George 3. Kelly late Of the
Village Of Darcy in the County of
Ba~n=s, and State of North Dakota.
deceased. has been rendered to this
Cou &c ein showing that the es-
tate 70 s1; decreased is ready for fl
nal Sc. -e.lcne and distribution, and
pet::iorrr that his account be al
lowed the :',siduc of said estate to
be G :; v u1ci to the persons thereun-
to ent tied, his administration closed
and he be discharged; that Tuesday.
the 4th day Of April, A. D., 1922, at
10 o'clock in the forenoon Of that
day, at the Court Rooms, in the Court
House, in the City of Valley City,
County Of Barnes, and State of North
Dakota, has been duly appointed by
this Court for the settlement there
Of, at which time and place any per-
son interested in said estate may ap-
pear and file his exceptions, in writ
ing, to said account and petition and
contest the same! =.-
And you, the above named respond
ents, and each Of you, are hereby
cited and required then and there to
be and appear before this Court, and
show cause. if any you have, why
said account shall not be allowed, the
residue OF said estate distributed, the
administration Of said estate closed
and said H. w. Nelson discharged.
Dated the 25th day Of February, A.
D., 1922.
BY the Court:
(SeaD O, H. DES. IRGENS,
Judge of the County Court.
COMBS & RITCHIE,
Attorneys for Executor,
Valley City, N. Oak.
LIST Pub. March 2-Last Pub. Mar. %
NOTICE OF SALE
In District Court-First Judicial Dis
trict.
State of North Dakota
)ss
County Of Barnes
Wells and Dickey Company "a cor
poration) Plaintiff,
VS..
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-10-18
Of Local Interest
Some People We Know and We WIN
Profit by Hearing About Them

This is a purely local event.
It took place in Alexandria, Va
Not in some PARKWAY place.
You are asked to investigate 1t.
Asked to believe a citizens word;
To confirm a citizens statement
ANY article that is endorsed ct home
Is more worthy of confidence
Than one YOU know nothing about
Endorsed by unknown people.
J. b. Mills, marine engineer, ~ ).
Lee St.. says: 81 have taken pO9Ns
Kidney Pills off and on many yePrs
for backache and other kidney trouble.
/ have always had fine results. A few
of Doan's regulate my kidneys and
,trengthen my back if it feels at all
weak and lame. l get Doan's at the
Warfeld Drug store
Mr.. Mills gave the above endorse
ment on April Is, 1915 and on March
Is. 1919. he added: "Doan's Kidney
Pills are certainly fine. If my kidneys
get out of order it only takes a few
of Doan's to fix me up"
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Mills had. Fostcr-Milburn Co.,
Mfrs, Buffalo, n. Y. Adv D.
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IN lIEMORIAM

MASON-In sad but loving remom-
brance of my dear granddaughter,
LOUISE MASON. who departed
this life four years ago today, Oc-
tober 18th, 1922.
One by one earth's ties are broken,
One by one they pass away,
But we hold q glorious token,
We shall meet some future day.
Home at rest, so swoetly sleeping,
IN thy SavioW'S tenCer care,
Where there is no pain or sorrow
None on earth can harm you there
Yet again we hope to meet thee,
When the day Of life is fled,
Then in heaven with JOY to greet thee
Where no farewell tears are shed.
By your devoted grandmother
and family, Mrs. GEORGE +. Sutton.
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MAX AND MATHILDE MOVE

Lucerne, Switzerland, Oct. 1S.-
Max Oser, the Swiss riding master,
and his young American finance,
Miss Mathidle Mccormick, with other
members of her family, have moved
from the border Of Lakes Lucerne to
Little Island, St. Peters, on Lake
BieRne.
They are occupying the ancient
convent where Jean Jacques Rous-
seau, the French philosopher and au-,
thor, lived in solitude for several
months in 1865.
The Oser- Mccormick party brought
several horses with them and they
make frequent excursions to neigh
boring beaches, particularly to the
little town of Erlack.
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arose fighting, and was shot through
the head. They probably had not in
tended TO kill him.
Then, doubly enraged, the woman,
the mysterious woman, who planned
the crime, wreaked terrible veng-
eance upon poor little Mrs. Mills, en-
feebled through a serious operation,
and weighing but 100 pounds. Mrs.
Mills was small, but she fought for
her life. She received bruises and
scratches in the fight. She was shot
three times, and afterwards her
throat cut.
The bodies were then taken to the
crab apple tree and the letters scot
tered so that they might seem TO
have been murdered in a lovers rend-
ezous. This, as | see it, is probably
wha happened about $3.50 or 10
o'clock on the night of September IL.
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r0UCHL BACKACHE!,
RUB LUMBAGO OR
: STIFFNESS AWAY

St. Jacobs Oil stops any pain, so
when your back is sore and lame, or
lumbago, sciatica or rheumatism has
you stiffened up. don't suffer- Get a
small trial bottle of old, honest st.
Jacobs Oil at any drug store, pour a
little in your hand, and rub it right on
your aching back; and by the time
you CONT fifty the soreness and lame
ness is gone.
Don't stay cripple. This soothing,
penetrating oil needs to be used only
once. 1t takes the pain right out and
ends the misery. 1t is magical, yet alb
solutely harmless, and doesn't burn
the skin.
Nothing else stops lumbago,
sciatica, backache or rheumatism so
promptly. 1t never disappoints. ADV.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-10-18
BY Florence VI. North, Attorney for
Charlotte Mills

New Brunswick, \. j., Oct. I0.-Df.
Edward Wheeler Hall was slain by
accident, as ne struggled to defend
! Mrs. Eleanor Mills, against the IN
sane fury of q jealous woman, and
her confederates. The couple, whose
, bodies were found near Phillips
farm, on September Is, were either
lured separately from their homes
two nights previous, or were Aidnap-
ped as they made their way to a
rendezvous and the woman murdered
after the rector was accidentally shot
This occurred on vacant building
not far from where they were found
dead.
This aftel'a thorough investigation
with a trained staff Of operatives. is
nv theory of the mysterious muir
der. Everything We have been able to
discover concerning the crime, deep
probes into the past lives and reia-
tiOnShipS of the principals, sitting OF
the contradictory tales told by certain
persons intimate with the slain couple,
all point IN this one direction.
The murder was irstigated by g
Jealous woman. My men have abSo.u-
tely discarded the possibility that the
crime was an accident, ami place lit
. tie credence in any hlUckmail theory.
Zach clue, as we uneaFth IL labOrlOu5-
~. whole month after the finding
of the bodies Il month of shameful
inactivity on the part of officials,
turns the finger of suspicion always
toward this Jealous woman
We have only scratehed'the surface
in cur search, and no game among
those involved in the. tangle has been
eliminated We will proceed, regard
less of what the authorities may do,
until the murderer Of Charlotte Mills
mother is brought 10 justice.
Poor Charlotte, child victim Of the
grim tragedy, her girlish dreams de
stroyed, her future a blank, towards
which she dances in a mad whirl of
excitement. She cannot rest nor ra-
lax. She has suddenly become mature
Robbed Of the loving mother who
was more of q sister to her, Char
lotte mas aged almost overnight. No
one can take her mothers place in
her life, but Charlotte Nils en- be
avenged.
1t may be wcu to give the theory
Of the murders, which at,er q
thorough scare ito the lives OF the
principals. os Charlotte has ne ucd .
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Woman Attorney
Presents View
Saws Rector Was Killed by Accident
and Woman Had to Fight Before
Downed-WOman Planned
Crime
tBy United PresS,)

Florence NJ. North, personal at
torney for Charlotte Mills and leading
woman investigator of the Hall-DIills
murder mystery at New Brunswick
n. j., presents today through the
United Press her startling story as
to the perpetrator and the means en-
ployed in the double killing.
No investigator in the ease has
been more intimately connected than
Miss North, who, working with a
large staff of trained operatives IS
determined to run down the murderer
of the mother OF her client, pitiful
Child victim of the tragedy.
Miss North will continue her ana
lysig Of the progress Of the investiga-
tion tomorrow
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NOTICE

\ called communication of Alex
audria Washington Lodge No. -. A.
Y. and A. NJ, vii, be held In the
Masonic Temple on Saturday, Octo-
b,r 2lSt, at . p. M, for the purpose
of laying the cornerstone o. the COM
muuity Hall TO be erected at tbs
gate Of Camp Humphreys. The lodge
Wi 81 to the site by automobiles,
and &c is the wish of the WorShinful
Nas.er. chat those brethren having
outowoo''es viii report 1t the temple
with tcam. All Master NaSonS IN
good landing are invited 10 be pres
emit.
{ Page Waller, IT., Secty.
: .>:Ses Vsd.jS. THUS A.. h!ridsY %
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me know them, | have evolved. Later,
l viii show how each fresh scrap of
evidence which our men have dug up
fits in like q bit of a picture puzzle,
until the portrait is nearly complete.
The murderer we cannot name yet.
A few more links in our chain and
we nope to present the prosecutor
with the facts.
Thursday night, the night of the
crime, was not their night" DR.. Hall
and Mrs. Mills were accustomed to
meeting Tuesdays, Fridays and Sun
days. This TO my mind, establishes
the fact that their meeting on the
night of the murder was unexpected
bt either
Charlotte tells me that her mother
received, through q neighbour, Mrs.
0pie, 4 message to call DR.. Hall
Thursday afternoon. She refused the
neighbors offer of use of her tele-
phone, and ran to a little corner
store. What she said, no one knows,
but she left home about 1870 that
evening and was never again seen
alive BY the members of her family.
AS to the rector'S movements Just
before the crime. we are left in doubt,
through reticence Of Mrs. Hall and
her family to permit q thorough in
vestigation. But we know enough to
believe Dir. Hall was agitated.
l have reason to believe a member
Of the Hail household will testify
the rector was greatly disturbed.
Now, what came next? We have
the testimony Of a witness who saw
Mrs. Mills aboard a car headed out
towards the Park where she and DR..
Hall we're wont TO meet and discuss
poetry and nature and the things they
loved Mrs. Mills left the car three
blocks before reaching the usual stop
at EastCn Avenue. She walked slowly
hesitanJly, looking behind her oc-
cas.onally. Why did she act this way ?
And the rector? We are not abso-
iutCly certain, but we have been told
by supposed witnesses that he came
along on foot a few minutes later,
hands in pockets, mead down, hurry
ing.
The darkness of the night that
hung over Buccleuch Park swallowed
them up and from then on, it is, as
yet, conjecture as to what went on
until the bodies, side by side, were
found beneath the crab apple tree.
But my Investigations lead me to
believe that some such scene took
place:
Ms. Mills was seized and pushed
into an automobile. She was taken to
vacant building, not Phillips farm,
bat in little group Of houses north
westward Of the crab apple tree and
some distance removed There she was
tmown into a dark room
Next, Dr.. Hall, was captured and
taken there. The couple were con-
fronted with ndisputable evidence Of
an affair"
The rector sprang to Mrs. Mills de-
Tense. She was thrown down. He
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When anything does hap
pen t come out all right it's
Jest like findin' it fer tn
pessimiSt.
"Well, if he had any good
qualities we ought t hear
about 'em now" said ole
Niles Turner, t'day, when he
heard Upton Buds father
Wuz dead.
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