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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-10-22

United Lutheran Church in America
made up i'm such large degree OF the
descendants of that sturdy stock
which played such an important part
in the development of the counties
and the success of the Revolutionary
War, the United Lutheran church
has a proud heritage.
"As ] study the three great move
mcnts Of humanity into the American
colonies, the Puritans into New Eng
land, the Lutherans and Quakers into
Pennsylvania and the Cavaliers into
Virginia, and examine their amalga-
nation in blood and in unity and
spirit, ] realize that this amalgama-
ton and union forms one of the
foundations of Americas greatness.
am happy to recognize that the Unit
ed Lutheran church audits related
bodies, all partaking of the Ameri-
canism implanted in their ancestry
and traditions are nurturing the
same in the hearts of those of theiy
faith who now leave Europe and cast
their fortunes with our people"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-10-22
Auto Deaths
14,412 in Year,
u. S. Report Shows

Washington, Oct. PA total of
l4,4l2 deaths from accidents during
1923 caused by automobiles and
other motor vehicles, excluding mo-
torcycles, is shown in statistics as
sembled by the census bureau cover
ing the death registration area of
the United States, which contains
SIG per cent of the total population.
This total represents a death
rate of 14.9 per 100000 population
compared with 1875 in 1922; 11.5 in
1921 and 1O.4 in 1920.
California topped the list with a
rate of 1926 deaths per 100000 pop
ulation, and Wyoming was second
with PAL. Among IS cities for
which statistics were gathered, Cam
den, N. j., led with a rate of 35.4
and Scranton, Pa, was second with
1912.
The state in which the death rate
from motor accidents was lowest
was Mississippi where the number
per 100, 900 was "A. Kentucky had
the next best with rate of CT.
Among cities where an estimate was
possible, New Bedford, Mass, was
lowest with CO.
Minnesota reported 1928 deaths, a
rate of 1871.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-10-22
LUTHERANS OF
US. PRAISED
Coolidge Says They Help TO
Make Good Citizens

Chicago, Oct. 22.-President Cool
idge. in greeting read here today,
lauded the contribution of Luther
ans to the development of the orr
ginal colonies of this country and
in the struggle for American indie
pendence.
He congratulated the United Lu-
theran Church of America, which is
in biennial convention, and its al
lied bodies because "they are nurt-
urin@ among newcomers from Eur
ope the American ideals of the early
Lutheran colonists."
His letter, which was read at the
convention, in part follows:
81 extend my greetings to the
fourth biennial convention of the
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-10-22

nil which formerly operated there
but which is now closed up.
Minot Prices
II know the mills at MinOt have
held the price about 3 cents above
the market in other towns on the
s:.me freight rate basis for many
years. Then, if you closed the small
mills of the state, the farmer must
pay freight TO the state mill on his
wheat and back again on both flour
and feed. That is an economic
waste.
Surely we have Il sample here OF
what it can cost state 70 engage
in business where it must pay Tor
the mistakes in judgment Of its Of
ficers.
"The indepe ndents do not promise
to make the mill pay. They realize
that desire does not change cold
hard facts. They simply promise to
! run the mill economically, sell the
| flour as near cost Of production as
possible, cause as little actual loss
| to the small mills through under
! selling or running them out of bust
ness by selling the product at such
| points as have no local mills re-
alizing that with dairying and hogs
must go feed and that no farmer
car pay the freight upon his feed
around the state and back again.
eff proper and adequate markets
| can be opened where they are not
decided detriment to the public
| such will be done. If the mill then
| does not make showing which the
people feel justifies its continuance
| IT operation, the proposal of clos
| irg. selling or leasing will be sub
mitted for their determination al
the next election.
"Promises. or even boasts to make
this mill pay are as idle as were all
the glttering pictures Of the league
and it's sponsors heretofore, anc
| everyone of which proved to be tin
sci, not gold
Possible Benefit
'If you admit that the only rea
son for Wnning the mill is as CHECK
UPON the grain and mill trade, to set
higher grade of flour for the east
| err nIlieT W Suoot az, anu lhu
compel that eastern miller to blu!
more of the hard northern spring
wheat on which We have a monop
oily in North Dakota and eastern
Montana, so far as the Unite,
States is concerned and in that wa!
short the market, and increase thu
premium, then believe there nigh
Re some hope of success insofar a:
indirect benefits Gre concerned
But, until we consume the flour
in the local territory, profits are
doubtful, indeed.
"You are using higher priced
raw material, nearly 80 cents 1
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-10-22

Silent roofing is something new
In baseball.
One of the persons in Washing
ton most interested in the great
showing made by the American
League team representing the Cap
ital has been President Coolidge.
Never has he raised his voice in
raucus 0utcry against half witted
decisions by earnest umpires; nor
has he shouted his advice to strain
ing base runners. but his silent
pulling" has helped make the
once-despised Senators the most
feared baseball team in the League.
They say so. anyway.
Stanley 'Bucky" Harris, man
ager of the Washington team
who by the way is the youngest
team director In either major
league-recently was invited to
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-10-22
u. S. SUIT FOR
D0HENY LEASES
OPENS IN WEST
Profiteering Charge SEIZED
uled to be Made by Gov
eminent in the Suit
BIG CROWD is OUT

Los Angeles, Oct. 22.-Testimony
to the effect that a plofiteering plot
lay behind the granting to DoheHy
interests in 1922 Of certain contracts
and leases in naval reserves in Cal
ifolnia, was scheduled for presenta-
ton today in federal court in the
governments suit against the Pan,
American Petroleum and Transport
Company, for cancellation of those
contracts and leases.
The governments amended bill OF
complaint charges conspiracy be,
tween Albert Il. Fall, former secre
tary of the interior, and +. l.. Doh
eny, involving the payment of $l0O,
coo By Doheny to Fall, which was fol
lowed by granting of oil leases il
the naval reserve to the Doheny in
| teIests, whose value in possible pro
fits have been estimated by Dohenl
at SlO0,0O0,0OO. Owen J. Roberts
stated the governments case briefly
The defendant welcomed tn,
change Of venue and expressed grea
satisfaction that the case was out o
j the senate and before federal tri
bunal, according to Frank J. Hogan
chief defense counsel.
| 1--WE are indeed pleased to have thu
suit removed from partisan politics,
Hogan stated in reply to the gov
ernment's charges. There is wild
contrast between the way this cas-
is presented to this court and tn
way in which it was presented to tn
senate investigating committee"
| Misrepresentation Charged
| Hogan declared that eve propos
to expose an almost inconceivabl
story of the deliberate misrepresen
taton Of known, or of easily ascer
tainable facts and the unblushin,
distortion of the truth which hav
made as unlike rs day and night tn
case heretofore presented to the pub
lie and the case now to be submitte,
to this court"
He characterized as without foun
dation" the charge that the executiv
orGer transferring the administration
Of the naval reserves from the nav.
to the interior department was in
duced by false representations mad
to the president by Fall, and equal,
"baseless" Hogan asserted, was tn
accusation that Fall and Doheny ha,
conspired to defraud the government
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-10-22
Try This For
N E u RI T IS

"Neuritis may be localized in a
single nerve or may be general, in
volving large number Of nerves."
For quick and lasting relief pharma
Ecists have for the past few months
dispensed Joint East-a quick pene-
trating remedy that, when rubbed
over the affected parts for about one
minute, soaks right in SO that not a
trace is left on the skin.
Joint-Ease is for limbering up stiff
joints, reducing the swelling and
causing the pain to disappear, and
for this purpose thousands of tubes
are sold daily-60 cents at All drug
gists or any live druggist anywhere.
Mail orders filled, cash or G. Q. D.,
Pope Laboratories, Hallowell, Maine.
ADV.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-10-22

twirler replied. my fingers resting
AT this point the Chief Execu.
tive took the ball and proceeded
to initiate the Johnson grip. Walter
grasped his opportunity.
will you autograph that ball?''
he asked.
No sooner said than done, and
now the ball player has the Pres
idential signature OH his favorite
plaything.
As the Senators" left the White
House grounds Johnson assured
the President that he could soon
learn to throw a curve. But the
Executive was doubtful He prc,:-
Used the players to attend the
world series in-the event they were
successful --------
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-10-22
Piles Can BE. Cured
Without Surgery

An instructive book has been pub
lished by DR.. A. S. McCleary, tho
noted rectal specialist of Kansas
City. This book tells how sufferers
from Piles can be quickly and easily
cured without the use Of knife, scis-
sors, "hot" iron, electricity or any
other cutting or burning method,
without confinement to bed and no
hospital bills to pay. The method
has been q success for twenty-four
years and in more than eight thous-
and cases. The book is sent post
paid free to persons afflicted with
piles or other rectal troubles who
clip this item and mail it with name
and address to DR.. McCleary, Ds4A
Parkview Sanitarium, Kansas City,
10. Adv.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-10-22

come to the White House and
bring his athletes with him. At
that conference the President
proved to the ball players that he
had closely followed their deter
mined fight for the pennant and
urged them to bring pennant
back with them at the close of
the season.
In the above picture the Presi-
dent is standing with Manager
Harris Ueft) Walter johnson
(right) and Clark Griffith, owner
of the club, to the right of John
son. In Walter johnson, pitching
ace for eighteen years. the Pres
ident was particularly interested
and asked him how he pitched his
famous fast curve. z. 80 Z.
II hold 1t this way" the giant
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-10-22
YOUNG AMERICA WILL BE
URGED no CAST A VOTE

BY NEA Service
Washington, Oct. 10y Dung
America is going to be pleased with
to vote at the November election.
All organizations interested in the
Get Out-thc-Note' campaign, which
was inaugurated by Newspaper En-
tcrprise Association and The Tribune
will make special efforts to see that
all newly qualified voters get to the
polls.
If every younpster in the United
States, who has come of age within
the last four years, could be induced
to vote this year, the census figures
indicate that Il % per cent increase
would be obtained from this source.
In round figures there are seven
million boys and girls who in 1920
were between the ages Of II and 20
Combined with this huge voting
strength will be thousands of newly
made American citizens. many of
whom will receive their final papers
shortly before time TO register for
the November talloting.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-10-22
COB SOLDIERS
BONUS CLAIMS
ARE PURCHASED

Six hundred and three soldier
honus claims, totalling $216,O5O.OO,
have been purchased by the Indus
trial Commission under the plan
whereby funds were secured by
loan from an eastern financial
house to permit payment of the
claims in advance Of tax receipts.
Last year we used nearly 42,O0O,-
600 bushels of flaxseed, of which
only 17,5O0,000 were grown here.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-10-22

barrel more value. and with nearly
50 cents barrel freight advantage
for Buffalo.
Until the east will pay n higher
price for your flour there will have
to be losses sold outside the home
territory"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-10-22
TO INCREASE
ALLOWANCES
Wheat Growers Pool Pay
ments to be Larger

Grand Forks, N. D., Oct. o.
Through special arrangement with
the Federal intermediate Credit
Bank of St. Paul, the North Dakota
Wheat Growers Association will be
able, in the future, to increase the
maximum advance to growers fifteen
cents per bushel, according to an
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-10-22
MANY NEAR PEARLS

Three string necklaces of small
white or black pearls are seen every
where, and occasionally one has q
combination of gray and natural
pearls.
The Coconino sun., 1924-05-23

it sold for $4,000 per acre, in 1912 it
again was sold for $33300 per acre,
and in 1922 it was held at a little
over $3.50 per acre. Based on the last
figures this represents an annual
earning of 1920 per acre per annum.
Near Forestdale, Vermont, a wood
turning plant EMPLOYING 200 men, for
years has been practicing intensive
forestry on about 5000 acres of land
and today is operating chiefly from
the harvest of the mature trees only.
/ have cited these examples merely
as a gunde for estimating the value
of reforestation and to give us a
measure of what our forests MAJ
mean to US, from future economic
standpoint. All this shows that the
forest are as necessary to civilization
as grain fields and considering the
quality of the land in our forests here
they can be made quite profitable.
| do not want to be understood as
advancing the idea that we cease cut
ting the mature timber of our forests,
but rather to emphasize the necessity
of a scientific system of forestry in
fire protection, in numbering, in re-
stricted cutting on watersheds and
about our lakes and streams. For
too long the forests have been treated
as an inexhaustable mine, but now to
save them we must look upon them as
The Coconino sun., 1924-05-23

We built pens and cages galore,
and then enlarged them within week
to make room for new arrivals. FL
nally, through judicious advertising in
eastern and foreign papers, we found
a ready market for rattlers and GER
tain other snakes, together with the
ella monsters, and while we took ev-
erything in that line that the Indians
brought, yet we drew some hard and
fast lines on the rest of the reptilian,
bird and animal life of the sothwuest.
Our collection was the best piece of
advertising that we ever tried. 1t
drew crowds to our little store.
Naturally we made pets of some of
our possessions. One of the first was
a beautiful blue racer, one of the most
attractive of all snakes, if that word
can be used in this connection. This
snake was easily tanned, and he and
my partner soon became fast friends.
One day he was sitting at the desk in
our little office, with the racer in his
lap where, with his hand upon it, it
would lie for an hour, coiled up in
apparent contentment, its bright eyes
watching every movement that he
made. In those days the phone was
nailed fast to the wall, and when it
rang he laid "Mr. Racer" carefully
down on the desk, which was of the
roller-top type, and went across the
room to the phone. Immediately his
snakeship glided under the overhang
of the desk wher cit was dark, and
coiled itself away among some loose
papers which hid him almost com
pletely from view.
Comes into the office chap who
nearly bored US to death with his
visits. The man was still at the
phone, and the newcomer dropped
into the chair before the desk He
wore the large, round, stiff linen cuffs
of those days, and as he was slender
in his makeup there was consider
able room between cuff and arm. He
settled comfortably back into the of
flee chair, elevated his feet onto the
full-out shelf, and, with his right arm
on the desk, began to fiddle
with a paper weight, his eyes fixed
on bunch of Indians riding up the
street outside.
The man at the phone, his eyes on
the desk, sensed the possibilities of
the situation and made talk" to kill
kill time ON the phone. Suddenly he
caught the CLINT of dark, moving
object on the desk, and then saw the
racer slither across the mans hand
and disappear up his wide open cuff
Half a second later the wildest-look-
ing man on earth made record jump
from sitting start, landing ten feet
from the desk in one spring, his right
arm waiting like shirt on a clothes
line, yelling at the top of his voice,
Snake; Snakei Ny God, men, a
The Coconino sun., 1924-05-23

snakes up my sleeve! Get him out,
quicki"
About ten inches of blue racer rung
out of his cuff-and- we could
get the fellow quieted for moment,
the reptire was carefully withdrawn
from its place of quiet refuge, and
restored to the pocket of his friend.
What that man said about people
who made pets of snakes was lot.
We both always believed firmly that
the racer knew US either by sight or
through some reptilan instinct, per-
haps both, for, if either of us opened
the door to the cage and stood there
a moment, he then would unite him
self from a mass of other snakes. in
the large cage and wiggle his way
toward the door. He also would
make himself perfectly at home inside
our coats or in our laps, where he
would lie quietly so long as he was
undisturbed.
We kept the blue racer. as a pet for
two years, finally selling him to a
snake charmer, who saw him and
wanted to use him for exhibition
purposes.
The Coconino sun., 1924-05-23

gunny sack he had dropped on the
floor when he came in, asked if we
wanted to buy a rattle snake. To
verify the contents Of the sack, he
gave. it vigorous push with his bare
foot, which was quickly followed by
some violent contortions and writh-
ings in the sack, accompanied by a
hair-raising rattle which, once heard,
is never forgotten, nor mistaken. An
Arizona cowboy once remarked that
"a feller can get fooled twenty times
day with them there katy-did bugs,
but when it's q rattler you know
mighty quick it amt no katydid"
Rather than disappoint the boy,
and without close investigation, we
gave him two bits for what he had
in the sack, and later, having fixed
up small box with a cover of wire
netting, we gingerly dumped the live
ly contents of the sack into the box,
and then and there started in with
a wild animal exhibit that grew by
leaps and bounds. Incidentally, the
contents alluded to proved to be
husky diamond-back rattler, about 5
feet long, and as full of pep and
action as one could well wish.
Our collection of wild things grew
amazingly. The word spread over the
Indian reservation like wild fire, and
every Apache, Pima, Papago, Marico-
pa and Yuma Indian in that region
devoted his energies to the capture of
some wild animal, bird, or creeping
thing to turn into two-bit pieces at
our curio store. We were game, how
ever and rather than disappoint the
noble red men and women-for the
squaws brought 'em too-we bought
everything that they offered that
walked, crawled or flew.
/ have understood that Arizona
stands at the head of the list in the
wide variety of its snake population.
Well, we had 'em all, and then some
rattlers of at least five or six species,
bull and water snakes, garter snakes,
black snakes, king snakes, gopher
snakes, hog-nosed snakes, blue racers
and many others, both deadly and
harmless, came to our collection. 1t |
seemed as if the desert around the
city of Phoenix would be stripped |
bare of its serpent population. Add
to this Gila monsters, chuck-a-wallas
young wildcats, mountain lions, prai- |
rie dogs, gophers, half dozen bad
gers, a cub bear, and lizards without |
end and our collection still growing. |
The Coconino sun., 1924-05-23
AriSona CWio Dealer Tells of Days
When He Purchased Snakes BY Busl,eI
II Breeders Gazette, Chicago.
BY WILL BARNES

I: Breeders Gazette, Chicago.
In southern Arizona many years
ago two young fellows started curio
store, one of the earliest of its kind.
At that time Indian baskets were just
growing into favor, and as Phoenix
was right in the heart of the Indian
basket manufacturing region, we OPP
ened up at that point. We undertook
to buy everything in the basket line
we could get our hands on, and in
every possible way encouraged the
Indians to come to our store with
their basketry.
Now and then one would offer p
couple of obsidian arrowheads from
the prehistoric ruins found every
where in that region. These we
bought simply to keep the Indians
coming. Many handsome and ex-
tremely valuable pottery "ollas"
were brought in from the same ruins.
No matter what it was, we bought
it, until we eventually had the nu-
cleus for a fine collection of pre-
historic relics, such as bone avis,
bracelets, ancient pottery, articles of
turquoise, stone metates, axes, and
quarts of arrowheads.
The Indians had not then learned
the value of their baskets, and, for
silver dollar, we secured some of
the rarest Pima and Apache baskets,
as soft in weave as Panama hat and
decorated with their characteristic
symbols a type of weave seldom
seen nowadays, and worth fabulous
prices. These were indeed the happy
days for basket buying.
One day an Indian brought couple
of excellent baskets which we gladly
purchased, and then, pointing to a
The Coconino sun., 1924-05-23
WHAT FOREST PROTECTION
MEANS TO FLAGSTAFFgS FUTURE
Address by C. spher City Council at Flagstaff Rotary
Club April Is

These figures do not include any
forest funds spent on roads due to
| special federal acts, by which we are
| about to receive a considerable
amount, estimated at $4,000 to $780,
900, for road improvements this year
east of Flagstaff.
( Now all these values Of our forests
to the community in attracting visit
ors seeking recreation is too obvious
to need more than mention. This we
will lose if our forests are destroyed,
but in time it will increase, perhaps
many fold, if they are properly pro-
tected. Since it appears that we have
advanced to about the limit in the
development of stock raising and
other existing lines of industry it
would seem that the recreation value
OF the forests here for sightseers
provides an important factor in the
future development of our community.
The value of numbering to our COM
munity is perhaps of greatest import
ance. Perhaps 3096 or more of our
employed inhabitants earn a liveli.
hood thereby, and in proportinate
amount ESTIMATED at 30 to 40lo) the
business of the community comes from
this industry. What this means to
our business is brought to clearer
realization whenever the mills close
down. Thus the value of continual
upkeep of timber growth SO as to per-
petuate numbering operations, if pos
sible, forms an asset so important III
the future of Flagstaff that it is
needless to comment further on this
phase.
Moreover the economice value of an
adequate supply of lumber as build
ing material at prices justifying it's
use, is of inestimable value in the
development of a community COM
mercially isolated as is ours.
In consequence of the realization
Of these facts, current periodicals
dealing with community development
problems are today publishing articles
encouraging the growing and protec-
ton of forest as a matter of COM
munity welfare.
As an example of what can be &C.
complished under proper management
the Sihlwald Forest in Switzerland is
perhaps the outstanding example in
the world. Since the year 853 it has
been producing timber and since 1860
at least, there has been an orderly
of cutting and reforest-
alton. Thus for over 1000 years the
Sihlwald has been furnishing the city |
of Zurich with various kinds of wool. |
This means that the people of Zurich |
learned hundreds Of years ago what |
we are just, realizing that the forests
cannot be cut off and there still re-
main an adequate lumber supply.
However, good many farms in
New England are now yielding prof
It's to owners for forest paintings
made years ago. In 1877 man in
southern New England planted some
land bought at less than $1,000 per
acre, to white pine seedlings. In 1879