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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-30

ed JOnnSOnS 8 mOtlOn 1Or dismissal OF
the Townley case.
Fargo, March 3O.-Motion of the de.
tense in the Townley hearing for dis.
missal of the case on grounds of in.
sufficient evidence were denied by
Judge A. T. Cole, at noon today.
Possibilities are that the prosecu-
ton will make motion for the dis
missal of the preliminary hearing on
the embezzlement charge against the
league president, Sveinbjorn Johnson,
attorney general and leader Of state
counsel announced this afternoon.
Will Ask Grand jury.
In case of such action the state will
Immediately petition c. I'M. Cooley,
senior Judge of the first North Dakota
district, to call a grand jury to in
vestigate activities Of Mr.. Townley
and J. ]. Hastings by which $4,000
loan was made by the now defunct
Scandinavian-American bank to the
United States Sisal Trust, according
to Mr.. Johnson.
Arrangements for advance Of $25, 600
by Hastings to the Sisal project were
made in q conversation between him
self, Hastings and Townley in the fall
bf 1918, j. w. Brinton, Townley's for
liner representative, testified late this
porning. He said the conversation
took place in the Scandinavian-Amer-
lean bank following his return from
Miami Fla, where he had been inves-
tigating the sisal twine binder pro-
ject.
Must Show Embezzlement.
He also testified that he had shaved
, $4,000 note in the bank given by Hast.
ings for security on the same amount
which he had sent to the Sisal Trust.
Hastings was formerly vice president
Of the bank.
The defense motion for dismissal
just before the close of the morning
session was made by Leslie Simpson.
Prior to this defense motion Judge
Cole had said that "the state ought
to bring in more evidence tending to
show embezzlement. The bars have
now been let down for evidence to
show Townley's connection with the
Sisal concern, the judge declared, and
the state should show embezzlement
on the part of Hastings, Townley's al
legged accomplice. Such embezzle-
ment had not been shown, he declared
The state differed with this opinion.
Under cross-examinatiOn and re.di
rect, J. w. Brinton continued his story
of the United States Sisal Trust and
Townley's connection with that pro-
ject today. 'Brinton is witness in
the preliminary hearing Of the Non
partisan league president charged
with embezzlement with loan made
by the Scandinavian-American bank
here to the trust.
Testimony for the most part was on
matters already covered during the
hearing.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-30
.INCENDIARISM
IS DECREASING
THROUGH STATE
Fire Marshal, However, Has
Number Of Cases Now
Under Investigation

1ncendiarism, which has been ,fre.
quent in the state in the last several
months, is decreasing, according to
State Fire Marshal Middaugh. There
are, however, number of cases un-
der investigation in the state in which,
according to the fire marshal and Dep
futy OF. Haakenson there is ample
evidence that the buildings were set
on fire.
More than 40 grain elevators in the
state have burned since last June, &C
cording to Mr.. IHaakenson. All of
these fires, he said, are not incendiary.
It was announced that investigation
Of the burning of bank building and
the Menoken Mercantile building in
Menoken on November 26 is under in
vestigatiOn. Proof has been obtained,
he said, that the flector of the Farm.
ers Elevator Co. in New Rockford was
set on fire on February 8. No arrests
have been made. Mr.. Haakenson said
that a galvanized basket containing
cotton batting soaked with kerosene
in which an electric bulb had been
placed was found in the ruins of the
elevator and that firemen discovered
gasoline soaked substance in another
portion Of the elevator.
Investigation also is under way into
the Porter hotel fire in Zahl, N. D.,
on January 1, and proceedings prob
ably will be Instituted against John
Hauff, whose blacksmith shop burned
at New Leipzig, he said. Another case
under scrutiny is the burning of the
elevator of the Pingree Grain Co.. at
Pingree on Oct. 25 and the Fades Feed
Mill ON Nov. %.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-30
JUDGE NUESSLE
ANNQUNlCESSEL.F
FOR 1 HIGH COURT
District Judge Will Seek Nomi'
nation at the June Primary
For Position

Judge w. L. Nuessle, of the fourth
district court, today announced he
would be a candidate for the NOM
ination for justice of the supreme
court, subject to the primary Of June
%. Judge Nuessle stated that he
would not make any active campaign
TO. the position, because of the fact
that he now is in judicial capacity.
Judge Nuessle was one Of three men
urged by the Fourth district bar asso-
citation in meeting here for the su-
preme bench. Judge Nuessle Is serv-
ing his second term as judge of the
district court here. He formerly
lived in Washburn and formerly was
states attorney Of Mclean county.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-30
NOTED NOVELIST and ARTIST FIGHT
DUEL WITH FISTS AND ARTIST WINS

last. "But don't think I'm
through with you. I've just be-
gun"
II am always at your SERVICE"
replied Criley. According to the
Examiner the feud was of long
standing arising from a quarrel
after a New Years festivities.
Harry Leon Wilson is known
for his Ma Pettingill stories in
the Saturday Evening Post.
"Merton of the Movies," a serial
by him is now running in that
publication.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-30
ROBINSON LAWS
NOT ON BALLOT

Tn, Initiated laws proposed by
Judge J. Il. Robinson Of the Supreme
Court probably will not 60 on the bal
lot in the primary of June 49, 1t ap-
peared this afternoon. Today Is the
last day on which petitions can be
filed. It was said at the office OF the
Secretary of State that only few
petitions on the Robinson laws had
been received.
There also were on file petitions
bearing only about 25OO names for the
tax laws proposed by jamestown
man. The required number Is l0oN.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-30
SHOT SON TO SAVE HIS
SOUL'--JURY FREES HIM
BY NE:A Service.

r /. y i q. .
Chicago, March 3O.-Frank Piano
sr., who shot his lS-year-old son.
Frank, Jr., to "save his SOUL" has
been freed by a jury. The verdict
called him insane at the time of the
shooting.
Just two years ago Piano found his
son hanging out with "street corner
gang HE begged him to come home.
4 dreamed that you were being
hanged for killing a policeman" the
father told his boy.
Piano, Jr., refused.
His father pulled a gun and shot
him. The boys dying words were:
Father is right. | am better of. He
shot me to save my SOUL
Il killed my boy because l loved
him." the father told the jury. evil
companions had corrupted him. He
loved poolrooms better than his
home"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-30
CLAIMS JURY
TAMPERED WITH

Los Angeles, March 30-Examina-
tion Of prospective jurors to hear tie
second trial of Arthur c. Burch for the
murder of J. Bolton Kennedy was re-
sumed today. Progress was slow and
it appeared it would be slower if the
defense put in effect its threat to chal-
lenge the entire jury. One Of the ven.
ire, Miss Zoe Rutherford, made the
fiat statement in court that man WHO
declared he was a representative Of
the district attorney had called at her
home and talked with her mother.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-30
ROOZE STOPS
SHERIFFS WORK

Webster City, la, March 30.-
Sheriff William Meekins has been
unable to attend to his duties for
a week on account Of partakino too
abundantIy Of liquors seized dur.
ING raids, County Attorney Edward
Prince charges In a petition filed
today asking for removal Of Meek:
ins 40 sheriff Of Hamilton county.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-30
LIEDERBACH. GOES
TO CALIFORNIA

Fargo, March 30. "A. A. Lieder-
bach, former chairman of the Non
partisan league, and Mrs. Liederbach
were presented with box of silver
ware at farewell party given by a
number uof friends.
Mr.. Liederbach is leaving for Cali
fornia to make his future home.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-30
SIAMESE TWINS
DIE ONLY FEW
SECONDS APART

Chicago, March 3O.-Josepfa
and Rosa Black, the "Siamese
twins" died at a hospital here at
2:37 o'clock this morning.
Josepfa's death occurred first
and was followed in a few seconds
by the death of her sister. Ply
sicians had declared early in the
night that in the event of the
death of one of the sisters the
other would die, inasmuch as
their brother, Frank, would re-
fuse to permit an operation which
would sever their bodies.
They were i'll of jaundice.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-30
FIND DEAD BABY
IN GRAND,FORKS

Grand Forks, March 3d. Coroner
r. NJ. Mclean held an inquest late
Wednesday afternoon over the body of
a newborn baby which was found
earlier in the day in a pile of straw
near the Chestnut ice house Of the
Fuel and Ice company. A post-mortem
is to be held today or tomorrow to
determine whether the baby was alive
when born.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-30

San Francisco, March 30
Harry Leon Wilson, nationally
known author and playwright
and Theo. Criley, artist, fought
duel Last Saturday according to
the San Francisco Examiner TO-
day. 1t was fought at daybreak
with fists encaved in riding
gloves in sheltered glen near
Carmel, artists colony on the
Pacific coast.
Criley won after he had knock
ed Wilson down five times.
"You win," said the latter at
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-30
HUGE SUM is
GRANTED VERDUN

Paris, March 3O.-The Ministry of
Liberated Regions has granted $780,
900 francs to the city of Verdun with
which to start the reconstruction of
the town, battered by German guns
during the war.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-30
SPENT
$4,000 A YEAR

Los Angeles, Calif., March 3d.
Fifty thousand dollars a year was
spent by william d. Taylor, film
director, whose mysterious death
by shooting here has baffled po-
lice, according to announcement
today by the public administrator.
An estate Of $34O,OOO remains, 1t
was said.
Investigation revealed Taylor
spent large sums in presents to
motion picture. actresses,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-30
FIRE ON CHURCH,
4 ARE KILLED

Moscow, March 30.-Red Guards
who fired into crowd Of parishion-
ers obstructing church doorway to
prevent the execution of church treas
urers killed four persons and wounded
ten. The shooting occurred at pro-
vincial church.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-30
Weather Conditions

Low pressure areas cover the Can
adian Northwest, the southern Plains
and the lower Mississippi Valley,
while high pressure area covers the
Lake region. Precipitation has been
general over the Mississippi Valley
and most of the Dakotas, but the
amounts are mostly small. The tenn
perature has continued to rise over
the western States and the Canadian
Northwest.
oRR1s W. ROBERTS.
Meteorologist.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-30
NAVAL TREATY
IS RATIFIED

Washington, March 30.-Ratnication
Of the senate by the two armament
conference treaties limiting the navies
o. the great powers and, restricting
the use of submarines and poison
gas had cleared the way for debate on
the Far Eastern treaty.
There were indications that the lat
ter would be opposed by a small group
of senators who believed that China's
interests would not be protected.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-30
EX-EMPER0R0 OF
AUSTRIA I'LL

Funchal, MADEIRA, March BODY
the Associated ress.)-Former En-
peror Charles of Austria Hungary, who
is eravely i'll here failed to maintain
today improvement noted yesterday af-
ternoOn and evening.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-30
3 HELD AFTER !
HOUSE BOMBING

Dallas, Tex, March 30.-Three men
had been taken into custody early to-
day in connection with the bomb ex.
plosion which early last night wreck.
ed onestory frame dwelling here.
Miss Dorthy Grace, 1S, who was in the
house, suffered broken ankle and
cut.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-30
PLEADS GUILTY
SAYS HE WILL
PAY BACK CASH
Fargo Man Receives Sentence in
Federal Court for Forging
Seed Loan Checks
GRAND JURY REPORTS
Thirty-three Indictments, Many
in Important Cases Re-
turned, Hildreth Says

ernest storms, 56 years old, will pa!
back farmers whom he cheated Of gov
ernment seed loan money by forginl
checks, he declared to Federal Judge
Miller here after he had pleaded guilty
and had been sentenced.
Storms, formerly an employe Of the
government seed loan Office maintain
ed at Fargo last year. was indicted By
the grand jury which reported t
Judge Miller late yesterday and i'm.
mediately was taken before the Judge
to enter plea Of guilty.
Storms said that he had been trying
to arrange to geta job with a cattle
loan company and during the interim
got 2 job with the seed loan office
about ear ago. He got hold of some
Checka made out to. farmers in the
western part of the state, obtained a
rubber stamp to blot out the words
object for which drawn" and cashed
1 checks in Valley City, Bismarck and
Billings, Montana. District attorney
said the total amount Of the forged
checks were several hundred dollars.
Storms, after telling the court he
had yielded to temptation, was ques.
toned and then sentenced to serve six
m0Aths In Jail and pay a $500 fine. He
had been in jail since last November.
The district attorney recommended
some clemency be shown.
Judge, can get list Of these
checks asked Storms, so that when
get out Of Jail can go to work and
make enough. money to pay back the
money!" He was ordered furnished
with the list Of victims.
One Accepts Blame.
John B. Kirsch, 25, and Henry
Pierce, %, charged with breaking into
a storeroom in Balta, N. D., occupied
by p0stoffice and poolroom, were SEN
fenced to serve 10 months in Jail and
pay a $1,000 fine. They were arrested
February Is, 1922. They obtained a
small amount of money and revolver.
Il really feel am more to blame
than my accomplice," Krsch said, "be-
cause knew there was postofice In
there and he didn't
Kirsch said he was born in Grand
Forks, and both he and Pierce said
they had no homes.
Cecil Shank, pleading guilty to q
charge Of violating the Mann white
slave act In transporting q young girl
from Aberdeen, 8. d., to Rutland, N. D..
for immoral purposes, was sentenced
to year and day iu the federal
prison at Leavenworth Kan. Another
man who had been arrested was not
indicted by the grand jury
Alan H. White, Of Harmon, Morton
county, pleaded not guilty to charge
of embezzling postal funds.
Returns 50 indictments.
The grand jury returned 80 indict-
ments, District Attorney Hildreth an
nounced. Some Of the cases are very
important ones, he said. None Of those
Indicted are now under arrest. All who
were under arrest when indictments
were returned pleaded guilty.
The district attorney asked Judge
Miller to recess the grand jury to
convene in Fargo at the next term OF
court, saying there would be some i'm
portant matters before the grand jury.
Judge Miller doubted the propriety OF
recessing the grand jury and ordered 1t
discharged, and a new grand jury will
he called.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-30
EARTH TREM0R
IS RECORDED

Memphis, Tenn, March 3O.-A dis.
tinct earth tremor of or 4 seconds
was felt here at 1875 A. M. today.
Windows were ratified and number of
reports were received that pictures
and mirrors had been shaken from
their walls. No damage was reported.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-30
RARNES WILL
BE CANDIDATE

Frank Barnes, former sheriff OF
Burleigh county, will be candidate
for the nomination for that position.
Mr.. Barnes has been engaged in the
farming and cattle business, and re-
Gently was connected with the state
license department..
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-30

Flying swarm of locusts may be
/ fifty miles long and so dense that
! the sun is hidden.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-30

Paris plans to house permanent
worlds fair in ten-story building
with 35-story tower.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-30
ROME REPORTS
LENINE DEAD

London, March 30.-(By the A. P.)
"A Central News dispatch from
Rome says a report that Nicolai
Lenine, Russian soviet premier, IS
dead, is published by the Rome news
papers who treat it with reserve.
Lenine has been reported dead or
seriously i'll on several occasions.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-30

Golf bags Of latest design have
pockets for balls with padlocks at
tached,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-30
WEATHER REPORT
" Twenty-four hours ending a
WEATHER FORECAST

For Bismarck and Vicinity: Fair
tonight and Friday; not much change
in temperature.
For North Dakota: Generally fair
tonight and Friday; not much change
in temperature.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-30
COLE REFUSES
+ DISMISSAL OF
T0WNLEY CASE
Motion Made by Defense Re.
jected at Noon Today by
Committing Magistrate
ALLEGE EVIDENCE LACK
Attorney General Indicates Dis
a
missal Motion and Demand
For a Grand Jury
ALLEGE EVIDENCE LACK
DISMISS CASE

DISMISS CASE
Fargo, March 30.-Judge Cole grant,
ed Johnson's motion for dismissal Of
the Townley case.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-02-20

were kept in ignorance Of the
shooting J.. a noisy automobile
outside which drowned the pistol
reports.
At one o'clock the next morning
the eleven bodies We're secretly re-
moved from the house and taken
to a neighboring wood. There the
clothing was removed. The bodies
were burned first and then the
clothing. Bykoff says the jewels
and fragments of jewelry which
Admiral Kolchak's officers later
claimed to have found in the ashes
were probably concealed in the
clothing and overlooked by the
men who disposed of the bodies.
In addition to the car and
C2arina Alexandra and their four
daughters and one son. the persons
who met death in the basement
We're Prince Dolgoroukoff, DR.
Bodkin, VIII was physician to the
Romanoffs, a lady-inwaiting and
a man who was nurse to the czare-
witch. The names of the last two
are not given in Bykoffs pamphlet.
Grand Duke Michael, brother OF
the late cza, was shot at Perm in
J1ly, 1918, according to Bykoff's
account, and the Grand Dukes
Sergius Mlkhailovitch, Igor Kon-
stantinovitch, Konstantin Kon-
stantinoyitch and Ivan Konstanti-
novitch were killed about the same
time at Alapaievsly, north of
Ekaterinburg. These members OF
the Romanoff family had previ-
ously been held as prisoners in
Ekatorinhurg, but were transferred
because of the uncertain position of
Ekaterinhurg with the approach Of
1.-THE Czechc loyaks.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-02-20
INCOMES TAXED
FOR YEAR 1878
SHOW INCREASE
Individual Returns Filed To-
tai 5,332, 100, AS Against
4,425,116 in 1918, |. R.
Bureau Reports.

Washington, Feb. 10. - Taxable
incomes of individuals returned to
the government for the calendar
year 1919 showed an increase Of
nearly $4,000, 100000 as co.Dpared
with 1918, according TO statistics
issued tonight by the internal rev.
enuc bureau.
For the year 1919 there were
5. 1892, $50 individual returns filed
for a total income of S19,S59, 1000, %
600 as against 4.425,l16 returns
for a total of $15, 1924, 100000 for
the previous year. The tax col
.lectcd on the 1919 returns amount
led to $1,27O,0 coo, which was an
increase of $141,908,000 over the
year 1918.
Personal returns of incomes Of
$1,000,000 and over totaled sixty
five for 1919 compared with 81 in
.19lS, while for 1919 there We're
five returns filed for incomes Of
100000 and over.
For 1919 there were six personal
returns of income from 100000
to 100000; seven Of incomes
from 100000 to $3,000,000; thir-
teen from S1,500,0OO to $2.000,000,
thirty-four from $t,000.00O to ST.
100000: sixty from $750,000 to
100000. and 14O from 100000
| to 100000.
The average net income reported
| for 1919 was $3.724.05, the average
Iamount of tax $238.0S and the av-
erage tax $50 per cent. The pro
portion Of population Of the coun~
TRY filing returns for the year was
| sos per cent, reporting a percapita
net income of S18732 and per-
capita income tax of S11.9S.
The number of corporation In
come tax returns, other than per-
sonal service corporations, for 1919
was 320,198, of which 2O9,G34 re-
ported net income amounting to
lsq,411. 100000 with a total tax of
IS2,175,000,000 compared with the
I191S figures Of 31T579 corpora
Itions filing returns Of which 2O2,O6l
reported a total net income of S.
3G1 100000 and tax aggreSatng
S3,15S,O00,000.
Personal income returns Of more
than s1.000.000,000 were reported
from each of five states. New York
leading with S3.436.0OO,000; Penn
sylvania. 81. $4,000, 1900; Illinois,
$1.662.OOO, 900; Massachusetts,. ST.
900, 100000, and Ohio, s1,O75,O0O
600. Nevada with a total Of 500
$4,000 reported the smallest total
Of the states.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-02-20
BIDS ARE AWARDED FOR
CONSTRUCTION OF HIGH
SCHOOL AT P0RTALES

Portales, N. NJ, Feb. 19.-The
contract for the erection of the
Portales high school building was
closed on Thursday. February 16,
and was let to Hart & Wheeler,
contractors of Enid, Okla. at s70,-
165. The contract for plumbing
and heating was given to the Ros-
we'll Plumbing and Heating COM
pany Of Roswell. N. NJ, for the
sum Of S9,S35. The school board
still has from $4,000 to $4,000
available for furnishings and equip
ments of the building.
The contract calls for the school
building to be completed on or be-
fore September !. 1922. and pref
erence will be given to local labor
to do the work, as well as local
dealers on material. Mr.. Wheeler,
one of the contractors, is on the
ground, getting business of con-
struction under way.
The building win be constructed
mostly Of brick and faced with red
mat brick, which will be laid with
white mortar. The finishings will
be of cut stone which will arrive
on the ground in about sixty days,
The school board, contractors and
Engineer Dobbs of Clovis. N. NJ,
staked out the location for school
building on Thursday. The day for
breaking ground has not been set
but will be on or before March. l,
1922.