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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-10-08
TAKE | K $4,000
OF GEMS FROM.
LOBBY CASES
Charley Chaplin. Motion Pic
ture Actor, First Outsider
To Learn of Lobby
BANDITS WELL DRESSED
Enter Fashionable Hotel at z
a. M, Cover Manager and
Employees, Take Jewels

New York, Oct. 8.-Three armed
bandits early today held up the
night manager and several other en-
ployes Of the fashionable Ritz Carl
ton hotel and robbed u jewelry store
of the lobby Of $4,000 worth of
gems. 80
The robbery occurred at.2:SO a. m.
Charley Chaplin. motion picture
comedian. who entered the lobby l5
minutes after the bandits fled. was
the first outsider to learn of it..
Not until five hours later sitter
hotel employees tried to trail the
bandits and failed was the hold up
referred to authorities.
Entering the hotel at the main
concourse the bandits, well-dressed
and armed, called for the night man
ager and ordered his hands up. A
porter. bellman and elevator man
were herded into an elevator cab
and kept prisoners there by two in
vaders while the third smashed the
show case in the adjoining genshop
and scoopsd out the. jewels.
When a special policeman appear
ed the bandits fled, leaving $4,000
worth Of jewels in the smashed case.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-10-08
VALIDITY OF
HAILLAW IS
IN QUESTION
Attack Started in Mclean
County, Questioning Scent
Flat Indemnity Tax
BOTH U. S. AND STATE

Washburn, N. d. Oct. 8.-Consti-
tutionality of the flat, tax provis on
of the state hail insurance law is
attacked in a suit instituted in dis
trict court of Mclean county by the
First National Bank of Turtle Lake
against Mclean county. The plaintiff
demands recovery Of land which was
purchased by, the county for deiin-
quent taxes, and the county refuses
to return the land unless the three
cent-an-acre indemnity tax is paid.
The bank, through attorneys Divet,
Holt, Frame and Thorpe, Fargo. as
serts that the provision of the
state constitution of North Dakota
which permitted the legislature to
enact the three-cent flat tax, on all
tillable land, regardless Of whether
it was insured, is violation of the
constitution of the United States and
that the legislative acts contrayene
the constitution of North Dakota.
The suit sets out that lands own
ed by the plaintiff were bid in by the
county auditor at a tax sale. The
plaintiff has rendered payment Of
taxes, except the three-cent flat tax.
The plaintiff alleges that the two
constitutional amendments Of the
state of North Dakota and the legis-
lative acts for 1919 and subsequent
years are a violation Of the consti-
tuition of the United States which
provides that no state shall pass any
law impairing the obligation of con-
tracts and in violation of Section one
of Article IA of the constitution of
the United States providing that no
state shall make or enforce any law
which shall deprive any persons Of
property without due process of law.
The complaint also alleges that
chapter 160 of the laws of 1919 and
amendments, being the hail insurance
act and amendments, violates section
13 of the state constitution which
provides no person shall be deprived
of property without due process Of
law
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KANSASCITY
HAPPY TODAY
Baseball Team Which Won
Pennant To Get Big
Welcome

Kansas City, Oct. s.-A temporary
grand stand was being built on the
Union Station plaza today where
Mayor Cromwell will welcome the
players Of the Kansas City baseball
team and tell how proud Kansas City
is Of their achievements. The ball
team will arrive late today from
Toledo where they captured the
American Association pennant by
winning the first game of double
header yesterday. A rousing vel
come has been planned.
All reserved seats for the series
with Baltimore. champions of the
International League, which starts
Wednesday, have been sold.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-10-08
WIDE PROGRAM
EXPECTED IN
BANK HANDLING
Naming of l.. r. Baird as Re-
ceiver First Step in Re-
habilitation Plans
TO INVOLVE EAST
Broad Policy. Calculated To
Improve Conditions in
General Expected
TO INVOLVE EAST

A broad program will be inaugu-
rated in the administration of closed
banks in the state, under u policy
adopted through conferences of state
officials, bankers, Judge Cooley OF
the district court and members OF
the supreme court. following the ap-
pointment of l.. r. Baird of Dickin-
son as general receiver of all closed
banks in the state.
The advice of L. B. Hanna, former
Governor, will be sought by Mr.
Baird in conference here early
this week, it is understood. 1t is OK.
pected that the program to be adopt.
ed may mean the rehabilitation OF
some Of the closed banks, and will
involve the assistance Of financial
men in the Twin Cities. the east and
federal government officials. Be-
cause Of the fact that collateral frum
closed baias is widespread and the
relations Of all banks to some extent
interviewer, it is understood that a
policy calculated to better the entire
financial situation will be adopted
Through close study of the situation
obtained by the centralizing of au-
thority over closed banks there may
also come out of the administration
Of them recommendations for chang
ing banking laws.
The general receiver, as provided
by the law of the 1923 legislature,
will administer the affairs Of the
closedi banks under the supervision
of, thu courts, Judge Cooley having
been designated for the judicial posi-
tiox' by the supreme court. Assistants
VIII be named to have. charge Of
vasious branches of the work, and
individual receivers abolished, it is
understood.
MGst 0f the banks named in the
original petition of Attorney General
Shafer are in default in answering
and Judge Cooley is expected TO is
sue soon. an order declaring them
tinsolvent.and subject to the rec over
ship of Mr.. Baird. Time fol banks
to answer in q second petition will
soon EXPIRE Since demurrers to the
complaint of Mr.. Shafer we're over
ruled, it is expected that there will
be few court controversies over The
solvency of the banks named in the
petition.
Mr.. Baird conferred with Judge
Cooley here Saturday, and is expect
ed to take up actively his work as
general receiver this week.
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BISMARCK TO
GIVE WELCOME
T0LEGI0N MEN
Special Train Stops Here To
morrow-Local People To
Furnish Autos

Bismarck will welcome American
Legion men from Minnesota and
North Dakota here tomorrow after
noon. when the special train carr
ing them to the national convention
at San Francisco stops here at 1:10
p. m. for a half hour.
Governor Nestos will give the vis-
itors q welcome to the state and le-
gion men are arranging a short auto
trip about the city. The party will
include Mayor George Leach Of Min
neapolis and Lieutenant-Governor
Louis Collins Of Minnesota.
The special leaves Minneapolis to-
day and arrives in Fargo tomorrow
morning at 1880 q. m. Thirty
North Dakota Legion men will join
the party in a special car. At James
town the special will pick up car
load Of South Dakota delegates.
It is expected that Is North Dakota
Legion men will attend the San
Francisco convention Oct 1919. Great
plans have been made in the Pacific
Coast city for the entertainment of
the Legion men. The features in
clude an open house entertainment
b. the ships Of the Pacific fleet.
Among the Legion from Bismarck
who will attend the convention are
DR.. w. E. Cole, Walter Knott, Jr.,
Norman Flow, and H. A Brocopp.
Local people are asked to aid in
taking the visitors on an automobile
trip about the city tomorrow, and
are asked to have their cars at the
Northern Pacific station ut l p m.
Every car that can be furnished will
be needed.
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N. D. Baptists !.
Will Gather :
In jamestown

Fargo, Oct. 8.-Jamestown waG
chosen as the 1924 convention city ~
the North Dakota Baptists q tie
closing session Of their annual con-
vention here last night. The con-
vention will Be held October 81.
1924.
According to reports Of the loeAl
reception committee this years.
meeting reached high mark in ~
tendance figures. There were IN
registered delegates Ia attendatIee
and 200 to 800 laymsn alss were ~
oont. y
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-10-08
BANDITS ROB HOTEL JEWELRY STORE
WOMAN SLAYS GREEK PRIEST IN
CHICAGO CHURCH AS SHE KNEELS
FOR CONFESSION IN CHURCH VESTRY
Crushed Beneath
TimberS In Mine

Dickinson, Oct. 8.-John Haveluk,
%, etsplOyed as miner by the Zen
ith Ignite Mines company at Zenith,
Stark county, was seriously injured
last Thursday morning when he was
crushed beneath falling timbers dur
ing a landslide at the mine.
Rescued by other workers, Haveluk
was rushed to the Dickinson hospi-
tai where it was found that he had
sustained a fractured right arm and
that his right leg and foot had been
broken in three places. He also suf-
fered bad bruises about the body.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-10-08

Killdeer, Oct. s.-Pat Lay Of this
city has invented , freight car door
which eliminates the necessity Of u.s.
ing extra doors in cars when skip
ping grain. According to reports
representatives Of the Great North
n srn and Northsint intss Z tsP stiRe railways,
" !. considef hiiss aeyice Y practical and
havs offered hin ! ttiiss sum for the
natsnt rights. mn
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-10-08
NEW POSTMASTER,

Wilton. Oct. 8-Geo. Grey, Tor
several years past rural mail carrier
on route three. took up his duties as
acting postmaster, Monday. October
1st. succeeding c. G. Mathys. re-
signed.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-10-08
NEGRO ADMITS
SLAYING NURSE
IN PITTSBURGH
Her Head Crushed by Stone
After She Made Engage
ment to Meet Him

. Pittsburgh, Pa, Oct. s.-Lorenxo
Savage, 50. negro butler formerly
employed in the home Of the physi-
clan for whom Miss Elsie Barthel
murdered nurse. acted as secretary
and aid, confessed early today to
killing the woman, Capt. Louis n.
Leef of the city detective force de-
clared.
Details of the confe ss ion were with.
held by the authorities. Miss Bart
hel was found yesterday in the
grounds OF an abandoned basement
OF local hospital, her head crush
ed with a 70-pound stone. The negro
was arrested after it was learn
ed she had made an engagement
TO- meet Savage to have her fortune
told. A deck Of cards, the authori.
ties said, led to the arrest Of Saw
age. When Miss Barthels body was
found the police found two en-
velopes. one clucthed in her hand
and one under her head.
One contained q deuce. an ace and
three OF diamonds and five Of
spades and were spattered with
olood; The other. said to have con-
tained $500, was empty. At the me-
gro home the police said they found
deck Of cards from which the ace.
deuce and three Of diamonds and
the five Of spades were missing,
MRS. Pearl Savage. wife of Lorer-
20: and Walter Hauley, taxicab
driver, are held a. witnesses. Haw-
!ey' according to the police. was q
friend Of Miss BaTthel.
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KILLED FOR MONEY. !

+ Pittsburgh. Oct. s.-Elsie R..tho,
So-year-old nurse, was killed by Lor-
EMO Savage. hoodoo doctor. when
she refused to give him sS96 Tor
curing her love ills." according. to
= confession which city detectives
said the negro made today. TIE
confession. they said, was made after
Savage was taken to the. scene of
the crime.
The negro confessed. police said.
that he struck the nurse In the face
when she grabbed the money out Of
his hand, fe1led her with : brick and
then dropped 4 70-pound. s marble
stone on her head.
AZ Miss 1aFthel fell she cried.
"PH give It TO- you," but the negro
pushed the loose marble block. from
the wsll. crushing the victims head.
Detatls Of the confession q made
public recited how Miss Barthel met
Savage whAn, they were employed ~
physician. the woman as ! nurso
and the nAn % 8 butler. Tho nurse
learned Of his ability % 4 fortune
teller and approached hih vhen 80
had difneulty with her sw1essthGalf.
Ssvaes gave her sixi cards hsld ~
black TIN and said The eAadsi ~: = 1s1i; q
work II sAe rsturhSd, tAs q .
him and PAY HIM $ss6 On 1It1S1sy
IAey net iats tkSts si6kts - l1isa
Barthpl hanaaA hack The eaSl y Atkd
N ,envS1cyss WttA thS mhaef
Wagp o1yaG1 Hnnonneed ~ ~
cuxe Aae wotS6A ~ r. olrsS - SfiI
The nenl1 9hpH tho 9ht s3S3I
eaSSss ~ u EkS StS % ~ 5siI7f
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Expensive Watches are 9put
through . temperature test 10 4hAyi
may work right In freeaihs and hot
tweAthesy II Y ,s''
Milford chronicle., 1923-12-14

Eugene Fields poem. Can you say it? How did it
start? (Pat starts poem and stops if remembering
then finishes. Dog and cat follows in pantomme until
they fight, when clowns rush forward and separate
them)
Nanny: shush now I'm gonna sing dis yere
lamb chile to sleep. Sings lullaby Sweet and Low" (or
any other avaabe) At end children asleep Santa
comes in them, chuckles.
Santa: Well, you've done your part; play till
twelve, then I'll for you (exi Children stay in
places asleep
Tin Soldier: Say Baby DOLL let me have can
die, will you? (AH take candles and soemnly do Baby
Dolls march to music)
Nanny Well I've always wanted to march,
I'm going to- there An all you I'LL fellows follow
me. puts down doll for GinghamDog to guard
sumes command of Baby Dolls and they all go through
Tin Soldiers march This should be made very funny)
First Clown: Oh if this is the time to do just
please me and Jim here we're going to sing lullaby
and rock those Teddy Bears to sleep
Teddy Bears What do va wanta pick on us for
anyway? (Clowns pursue Teddy Bears around stage,
catch them, holding them awkwardly sing the same
lullaby Nanny going OFF key worse and worse.
Toward end Gingham Dog howls and Cat meows, maxi
ing awful noise Santa rushes in)
Santa: Great Scott! Is this the way you enjoy
yourselves? It's wonder you didn't wake those two
kiddies.-All this noise and bowling! Come, hurry,
you're past the time The sleigh is waiting (All off
stage sleigh bells ring, off stage. Curtain)
SCENE
Children awake before fireplace where stocking are
hanging filled with presents. Pat rubbing eyes and
yawnng.
Pat: Sally, did you hear sleigh bells?
Sally: (sleepily) Seems as if did, had such fun
ny dream. All the toys were cutting up and Santa
packed them Off
Pat: So did dream that! Isn't it funny? Oh look,
he's been here. Look at stockings! Oh Merrie
Christmas Merry Christmas (Grabs stockings and hug
ging to him dashes around the STAGE Sally follows
with her stocking. (Curtain)
his sack of gifts the school children for those in
the audience)
Milford chronicle., 1923-12-14

Characters Six tin soldiers in bright red coats, two
circus clowns. donkey and elephant black nanny with
doll gngham dog and calico cat, two teddy BEARS six
baby dolls with lighted candles. All parts to be taken
by children except doll carried by nanny. Donkey and
elephant can be omitted and live dogs substituted if
available
to sit on them. Tin soldiers very erect and stiff stand
either side of door center stage Santa enters and the
tin soldiers salute stifly.
Santa: Are you already to be packed tonight? Each
must be in place by Christmas morning (Teddy
Bear ambles over to him.
Teddy Bear: Can't we have our play time? You
said we could.
Santa Why certainly. Only wait for little while.
Two children very good children, have begged to see
you perform before pack you away. 1 shall be very
busy with my lists of good children; they will watch
then you may all play till the clock strikes twelve Re
member! (goes to door and calls) Oh Sally Oh Pat!
(Two children and hug him and stare round the
room)
Sally Why, Santa! Oh aren't they lovely! Look at
the nanny doll, Pat!
Pat: Gee Whiz! Look at those soldiers and the
clowns and everything, Wheel Santa exits.)
Nanny Doll If you all will sit down, we'll do
our part to afford YOU municent entertainment (Sal-
y and Pat express surprise at hearing the doll speak
and sit down at the left of stage)
Nanny: Step out you tin soldiers! Music
starts and Nanny beats time with her feet Tin SOL
diers march and countermarch to any good march
ic, finish in former place)
Nanny: Now comes de grand wrastng match
'twXt T. r. Bear and Theodore, the we'll known scrap
pers. Come forward youns! (Teddy Bears tumble each
other about until sneaks off, licked)
Nanny: Next comes the sleepy time dance by all
the baby dolls Baby dolls parade with lighted can
dies soft music and finally yawnng come back to for
places)
Nanny: Now comes the biggest and best and fun
niest clowns in captivity. (Clowns come forward turn
ing hand springs Animals if any perform. Clowns
end by dragging forward Gingham Dog and Calico Cat.
Cat spits and Dog growls)
Sally: o Pat don't you remember? They're from
Milford chronicle., 1923-12-14

from the Star of Bethlehem had not
yet burst upon them.
Moonlight Brook was very lonely
she had only little Silver Star, her
daughter, with her nOw-the big chief
had sent Strong Oak, her husband,
with other braves, on a mission to a
distant village. And Moonlight
Brook had missed him every hour, for
their love was still burning as bright
as the big camp fire that blazed near
the tepees at dusk.
Her love of the great open spaces
helped to cheer her during the long
hours of his absence. Every day with
little Silver Star she wandered afar
In these lonely places that she went
there always came to her the sense
of some unknown presence-the hand
Of some great power.
Early one morning Moonlight Brook
called little Silver Star to her and
told her that they would go for
long walk, away up to Roaring Greek.
Moonlight Brook was lost in wonder at
luG ueduly VI l4AC oNC4CS DuI q great
and sudden change had come over the
day. Now, looking at the lowering,
threatening sky, she decided that she
must make all possible haste back
to the village. For with the dark
ness and the gloom that had come over
all there had come, too, from across
the prairie a low menacing wind
that carried with it at times small
dry snowflakes.
With Silver Star in her arms Moon
light Brook started in the direction of
the village, walking with the swift,
strong stride of the woman who lives
much in the open The snow now was
coming down in large flakes and the
wind had grown blizzard-like in its
velocity. Hope was fast dying within
her. for she was trembling from ex-
haustiOn. Then overweight nature
did the thing which she had tried hard
to keep from happening-she sank
upOn the snOw-her last thought as
she felt consciousness leaving her, to
wrap the blanket closer about little
Silver Star and to wait a prayer to
Milford chronicle., 1923-12-14

choose the Roaring Greek trail instead
and he found his loved ones and with
the help of the guides they reached
the village in safety.
A few hours later, Moonlight Brook
and Strong Oak sat hand in hand, the
estastic happiness Of being reunited
surging within them. Moonlight
Brook whispered over and over that
it was a miracle that the Great Spirit
had wrought that Strong Oak should
have found her. And Strong Oak told
her that while he had been gone he
had heard the story of the Christ
Child who had come upon earth on
this day, which ever since has been
called Christmas. AS Moonlight
Brook listened to the beautiful story
that has been told so much, but which
keeps it's thrill through the ages, she
felt that this day was indeed day of
miracles, for, like her bronzed brave,
the story brought her a wonderful
peace and stilled the restless long
ings which had come to her so often
in the past.
90, 1923, Western Newspaper Union.1
Milford chronicle., 1923-12-14
DELAWARE GRAIN ON DISPLAY
ALI Parts of Delaware Is Represented
At International Show

Delaware farmers have exhibits of
corn and small grain in Chicago,
where they are in competition with
the best corn and grain raised in the
United States at the International
Grain and Hay Show held there in
connection with the live stock exhibits
in the Windy City.
M. o. Pence, of the University Of
Delaware, went to Chicago to look af-
ter the exhibits and represent Della
ware at a meeting Of the Internation-
al Crop Improvement Association to
be held there. While Delaware farm
ers have sent other exhibits to this
show in previous years they have
never been complete. This years eX-
hibit comes from every county in the
State and it is representative of the
best corn and grain Delaware farm
ers can raise.
The Delaware exhibitors will not be
disappointed if they fail to win prizes
this year as they realize that Mary
land farmers exhibited three years be-
fore they made any showing in the
various contests.
The exhibits will all be returned in
time for the State Corn Show to be
held January 2, and in the Audi
torium in Wilmington.
While in Chicago, Mr.. Pence will at
tend the meeting of the Extension
Agronomists. of United States, as we'll
as the National Soy Bean Growers
Association.
Delaware is one of the foremost
states in this section for growing soy
beans for seed purposes and through
the national exhibit it is hoped that
a larger market for soy bean seeds
will be developed, and that plans may
be made for organizing a Soy Bean
Producers Association in Delaware.
The exhibitors from Delaware at the
International Grain and Hay Show are
as follows:
Sussex County: James w. Hopkins,
Lewes, yellow corn; John Reynolds,
Georgetown, soy beans; Byron Pep
per-, Georgetown, soy beans; Norval
Seaford, soy beans; John Pep
per, Seaford, soy beans.
Kent County: D. M. Wilson and
Son, Dover, white corn.
New Castle County: Fred Trimble,
white corn; A. S. Whit
tock,, Odessa, white corn; H. L. Dill
worth, Wilmington, yellow corn; Ber-
nard A. Stahl, Greenville, white corn,
oats, red winter wheat; J. B. Stahl, |
white dent corn, oats, rye,
wheat.
LTo1ya uo,1 bad the chimney cleaned |
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G0AACAACANC W AAAN-A-
happen oftener -
real hSe than
some would have
uB believe. For
Strong Oak and
his party came by
the very spot
where Moonlight
Brook and Silver
Star lay a short
time after they
had sunk exhaust
ed. Some of the
men had tried to
take the other
trail, but some
thing within him,
that strange, un-
known force which
comes to all at
fimns- made him
Milford chronicle., 1923-12-14

VI ldllllly Tics anu
a new birth of
love and service
that reached out
even beyond the
home.
Out on the res
ervatiOn, however,
the Indians went
about their tasks
as usual, for no
hint of the wonder
and the glory Of
the Chris t m a S
time had yet come
to them. And if
they felt a mys-
teriOus something
in the air at this
time, they under
stood it not at all,
for the brightness
Milford chronicle., 1923-12-14

the Great Spirit to take care of Strong
Oak when she was gone,
But the prairie has many stories
TO tell Of strange things that have
happened there, and on this day there
was added to the list another Of those
Milford chronicle., 1923-12-14
SagmueI J. Wilson & so.
MILTON, DELAWARE.
Funeral Directors and Emballner,

We have added to our funeral equipment neys
Motor Funeral Car for which we make no extrs
charge. We have still retained both cur Black
and White horse drawn hearses. which Therefore
places us in a position to furnish either horse.
drawn or motor hearses.
We are the best equipped and carry the Iargee.
stock of funeral supplies south of Wilmington.
Cali phone. Office No. %, residence No. q
Phone service day and night. If calling after II
D. m call No. 49, All calls promptly answered
No extra charge for distance, use of hesvse %
wife's services.
I've also carry a large and complete assort-
ment of Furniture, Carriages, Runabouts Farm
Wagons. Rack WaRonsand Farming Implements,
Milford chronicle., 1923-12-14

ing Christmas, now the weather was
bright and clear, almost spring-like in
its mildness.
Everywhere that the message of the
Christ Child had reached, men and
women were busy and happy pre-
pairing for the great day, a new and
added joy of life surging within their
hearts. Into each home there had
come a Strengthening and rekindling
Milford chronicle., 1923-12-14

Have you had the chimney cleaned
this fall? If not, why not?