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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-10-02

Miss Ruth Olson, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Nels Olson of Outlook, is
assisting at the Weiss Cash Store as
,lerk. The large volume of business
lone by that growing firm necessitat-
ed increasing the clerking force.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-10-02

p. Gcdfredsen and Magnus Daniel
sen were here from the Dagmar
country last Wednesday and Thurs
day, attending to business matters at
the court house and hobnobbing with
old time friends in the city.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-10-02

Lester Compson was here from
Redstone last Tuesday attending t.
business matters at the Court Hous
and visiting some of his many friend
in this city.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-10-02

o. E. Whitmarsh, popular store
keeper at Archer, was seen on onr
streets visiting with friends enc dav
the first of the week. Mr.. Whitmarsh
was formerly in business in this citv.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-10-02

For fall blowing you will appreci-
ate Dura Oil.tIt permits easy start
ing of your TRACTOR on cold mornings
and gives a maximum of fabrication
the day.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-09
5 KILLED IN
TRAIN WRECK
Locomotive Crashes Into
Freight Train

Kansas City, kans., Feb. 9.-Five
persons were, killed and three dan
gerously injured when the locomotive
OF Missouri Pacific train No. 104,
eastbound from Omaha to Kansas
City left the rails and crashed into
a standing freight train at Nearman,
Kans., three miles west of here.
The exact cause of the wreck had
not been determined.
The revised list of dead:
R. H. Jones, Falls City, Neb., engi-
neer of freight train.
Marvin C. Wodell, Kansas City, en-
gineer Of passenger train.
D. r. Wires, Falls City, Neb.,
freight fireman.
Corporal Carlos Hall, attached to
service school at Fort Leavenworth.
w. J. Neely, of Falls City, Neb.,
brakeman of the freight train, who
witnessed the accident. declared he
saw the passenger train leap from
the rails of the main line as the
front trucks of the locomotive hit
the switch. He said the passenger
engine swung into the freight train
on the side track, then rebounded
and rolled down ten foot embank-
ment.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-09
BY X. A. CONkEY
Tax COnsultant

A normal tax is imposed upon
net income in excess of the personal
exemption and other credits against
income, at the following rates:
|. Citizens and residents:
First $4,000 s:..,..,2 per cent
Next $4,000 ......... .4per cent
Balance ........ =. 30 per cent
O.. Non.resident alien; -
Total amount .......6 per cent
The surtax is imposed upon the
entire net income before deducting
the personal exemption and other
credits against income. However, it
does not apply unless the net in
come exceeds $4,000, the rate on
the net income from $4,000 to $l4,
900 is, 1 per cent, $4,000 to $4,000
is per cent, $4,000 to $4,000 is 8
per cent, and so on up until a max
imum rate of 4 per cent on all in
comes in excess of $1,OOO,000 is
reached.
The tax is payable in four equal
quarterly installments. The first in
stallment is due when the return is
required by law to be filed, and if
return is filed for a calendar year,
the return with at least one quarter
of the tax is due on or before March
18th. of the following year. The sec
ond installment would be due June
18th. the third one September 18th.
Returns should be filed and pay
ments made to the collector of in
ternal revenue for the district in
which you reside.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-09
LEGALITY OF
ATKINSON FEE
TO BE TESTED
Action Started by Taxpayers
Under Edburg's Name
Has Been Resumed
$500 is INVOLVED
Powers, Of d City Commission
To Fix Compensation in
Matter Involved

George D. Mann, publisher of the
Bismarck Tribune. has permitted his
name to be substituted for that of
Marcus Edburg's to the taxpayers
the legality of the three percent
commission paid r. r. Atkinson, city
engineer, upon $265,000 or the pur-
chase price of the water plant of the
Bismarck Water Supply company.
This suit was instituted sometime
ago to clear up the situation, but
pressure was = brought to bear upon
Mr.. Edburg and after consultation
with his friends it was decided that
the suit could best be pushed by
securing another signer.
The Tribune has taken the position
that the payment of this fee was
ethically wrong if not legally. Men,
bers of the city commission and the
city engineer should be as willing
as the publisher of The Tribune
to have the matter settled in court.
The group of taxpayers started the
suit far in advance Of the city elec-
tion in hopes that the matter would
be settled and determined far re-
moved from the heat of such a con-
test.
But interests at work fighting
strenuously to prevent this action
reaching the courts, brought press
ure to bear upon Mr.. Edburg,'.a tax
payer, to withdraw which he with
stood until it was disclosed that a
member of the city commission in
volved in this law suit was admins
traitor of an estate against which Mr..
Edburg had very substantial claim.
In view of this fact and the embar-
rassment encountered by Mr.. Edburg
under these circumstances. he was
advised to withdraw from the suit
and that another signer would be
secured to carry on the matter and
on whom none of the members of
the city commission had any, strings.
Investigations made by The Tri-
bune indicated clearly that those
made defendants in this action by
the taxpayers were not anxious to
have the matter adjudicated.
The issue over the payment of this
fee has become more or less acute
and large group of taxpayers of
which The Tribune company is one.
decided to continue the action and
ascertain if such fees can be paid
to city engineers without specific
contract, previous publicity or warm
ing to the taxpayers of the city.
While such a duty involved in this
suit is plainly one that should have
been performed by the city in
the opinion of these taxpayers,
no steps have been taken to deter
mine the validity Of fee that takes
one dollar out of the pockets prac-
tically of every man, woman and
child of the city Of Bismarck. All
this too in addition to five per-
cent commission on all new con-
tracts, amounting to vast sums all
of which have been repeatedly set
forth in these columns.
These taxpayers take the position
that if it is possible legally to pay a
city engineer three percent on the
purchase price Of water plant that
may be bought, that there is no limit
to the commissions powers and if
there is no law to prevent such pay.
CONTINUED On page three)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-09
PAPER
FIGHT LOOMS
Annual Meeting of Stock.
holders To Be Held

A meeting of the stockholders of
the North Dakota Nonpartisan is
scheduled for tomorrow in Bis
marck. Possibility of marked
change in the management of the
newspaper looked possible, as several
who are interested in the control of
the paper became active over Sunday.
John H. Bloom, editor manager,
has suggested that board of five
newspapermen be named to control
the paper. He would, however, re-
tain Mrs. Minnie Craig. Other pre-
sent directors are S. S. Mcdonald,
Pat Daily, r. w. Frazier and Thomas
Mahoney. The executive committee
OF the Nonpartisan League has gen.
eral control of policies.
Among those much interested in
the paper is William Lemke of Fargo.
The state convention of the Wo-
mans Nonpartisan League of the
state also opens here tomorrow.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-09
SHIPSTEAD IN
SPEECH UPON
CONSUMPTION
Minnesota Senator Opposes
Use of COnscriptiOn
in War Time

Washington, Feb. "a plea
against cOnscription in war time was
delivered in the senate by Senator
Shipstead, Farmer Labor. Mime Ota,
who declared the time had come to
deprive "diplomats dominated by the
industrial groups" of the power to
bring on war and then force the or
dnary citizen to carry it on.
The Minnesota senator offered an
amendment to pending appropria-
tion bill to authorize President Cool
tidge to negotiate an international
agreement prohibiting the drafting
of man power but the proposal went
out on a point of order.
Jones Has Similar View
Senator Jones. Republican, Wash
ington, who raised the objection, said
he was somewhat sympathetic with
the purpose of Senator Shipstead,
but that the proposal did not belong
in an appropriation bill.
Senator Shipstead asked if it were
conceivable that the World war couid
have been fought had governments
DtSH SoIuPcllCu " ISls Ou
enlistments.
"None of our international law
bodies here or in Europe" said Sena-
tor Shipstead, "in spite of the tact
that they draw their nourishment
from the industrial prosperity and
corporate securities of the Carnegie
corporation and other perpetual es-
tates have had the courage to meet
the issues. They have not had the
courage or wisdom to see that in the
Bolshevist chaos in Russia, we have
the inevitable result of the whole
sale and ruthless disrespect for enc
my private property that character
lied the war time policy Of Great
Britain. France and the United
States.
Sees Another War
"Great international lawyers and
statesmen are quibtling over techni-
cal points in the abstract while diplo-
industrial and banking groups are
playing the game Of international
poker for possession Of natural re-
sources and markets Of the world.
Unless something of a practical ma
ture is done the time will again ar
rive when one or more of these pok-
er players will find it convenient to
accuse the others of cheating and
the shooting begins. :.
ut would not be SO bad If these in
ternational poker players had to do
their own shooting, but they now
have the power through the control
Of the governments of the world to
conscript the manhood and wealth Of
the world to enable them to start and
prolong the row."
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-09
NATURE HALTS
RESCUE EFFORT
AT SAND CAVE
Will Be Thursday or Friday
Before Shaft Is Sunk TO
Required Depth
PROGRESS is SLOW
Theories Being Advanced,
One That Collins Is Put
ing Over Hoax

Cave City, KY, Feb. 9.-The
shaft through which rescuers
hope to, reach Floyd Collins in
Sand Cave was approximately 30
feet deep at 8 O'clock this morn
ing. four days after it was start
ed.
! At the present rate the level
where Collins is thought to be
will not be reached before Thurs
day or Friday.
CavS City, Feb. 9.-(By the A. P.)
Mother Nature had added another
obstacle to the efforts of man to
rescue Floyd Collins from the grip
of boulder in Sand Cave, sending.
torrents of rain last night with
promise of more today.
Despite precautions to keep the wa
ters out of the perpendicular shaft
aimed at Collins prison, seepings
crept into the bottom of the shaft
and added heavily to the burden of
the volunteer diggers. They kept
doggedly at it, with slight increase
in hourly progress as the tenth day
of Collins Imprisonment ended at
10 o'clock this morning. The shaft
then was less than half way to Col
Inns. GO or 20 feet below the surface.
With most Of the spectacular,
frenzied. striving to reach Collins
closed chapter and all efforts center
ed on the monotonous toll of dig
eing and hosting, new theories be-
gan to develop about the situation
until they were almost as thick as
the outstanding incidents in the
drama.
The principle group Of theories fall
into three classes: that the impri-
sonment of Collins by rock slide
on his leg is a publicity hoax; that
enemies finding him trapped caused
the walls of the cave to collapse so
that he could not be rescued alive,
or possibly caused the slide which
entrapped him, or the most gener-
ally accepted theory, Collins own
story in the early days of the rescue
work that he really was accidentally
trapped after discovering cavern
more beautiful than any yet found in
this region.
Lieut.. Robert A. Burden of the
Louisville fire department, and Will
liam Burke, "Skeets" Miller, the little
red-haired reporter of the Louis
vile Courier-Journal, who were al
most the only outsiders to talk to
Collins in his prison scoffed at the
publicity hoax, especially at the varia-
tion which has Collins climbing into
position when rescuers approached
and climbing back to his secret
cache of food and water when no
one is near.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-09
HIGHWAY BODY
PROBE METHOD
is GU TLINED
Committee. in Meeting This
Morning, Decides on
Public Hearings
ENGAGE ASSISTANCE
Checkup of Equipment De-
partment of Commission
Will BE Made

The House committee named to in
Highway Commission, at meeting
this morning, completed Tie formula
tion of a method of procedure and
engaged assistance.
The committee will hold executive
sessions for few days. receiving
complaints and "leads" and then will
open public hearings, according to
F. j. Graham of Glendale, attorney
for the committee.
The committee will subpoena wit
nesses if necessary, swear them and
require them to give testimony, un-
der the authority of the House. he
said.
A set of rules for the investigation
has been drawn up.
Miss Sigfrid Alison has been nam
ed reporter for the committee and IA
transcript of the testimony will be
taken. A. w. Luehrs, formerly in
charge of the equipment department
of the Highway Commission, was en-
gagged to make a check-up of the
equipment department. and given au-
thority to name four assistants. He
is to be paid $3.50 per day and $500
will be paid his assistants. The
compensation of Mr.. Graham, attOr-
ney, and others, has not been fixed,
it is declared. Members of the COM
mittee. it is understood, feel Mr.. Gra-
ham should be paid the attorneys
"court day fee" of $50 per day.
o. B. Lund, accountant. is to be-
gin a checkup of the Highway Com
mission under instructions from the
board of auditors composed of At
torney General Shafer, Auditor
Steen and Secretary of State Byrne,
Mr.. Graham said He added that
State engineer Black had proms sed
cooperation.
Motor Vehicle Fees
The highway committee of the
House, at meeting this morning.
decided to report in House Bill No.
3. the motor vehicle license bill, pro-
viding a division of the motor We
hicle license feeS IS percent to the
SoNHeicS anu pcICeHt " the STATE.
The license fees are the same as at
present, except on trucks and com
mercial vehicles, on which they were
raised.
Bank Measure
1t was reported group of Non
partisans wtuld introduce measure
providing for establishment of
branch banks by the Bank of North
Dakota. on petition of so percent of
the voters in county, and restore
the compulsory deposit of all public
funds. The measure also would pro
vide that one-fOurth of one percent
on daily balances and one-half of
one percent on other funds would be
set aside in. a fund, one half of which
would 60 to pay depositors Of closed
banks and one half to permanent
guarantee of bank deposits fund.
1t also was reported bill would
be introduced permitting campaign
organizations to post tickets of their
candidates in election booths.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-09
DIANA OF THE DUNES DIES,
WANTS HER ASHES SCATTERED

Chicago, Feb. 9.-Mrs. Alice Will
son, called Diana Of the Dunes, after
she went among the sandy wastes
between Michigan City and Gary, In
diana, nine years ago, to live in a.
shack by Lake Michigan, died Sum
day. She succumbed to an illness
for which she had refused to have
doctor because she feared to leave
her hills for hospital.
Mrs. Wilson, a graduate Of the
University Of Chicago and Phi
Beta Kappa, was mathematician
and editorial secretary Of the Astro-
Physical Journal, ! University pubti-
cation. >.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-09
2 CHILDREN IN
ONE FAMILY DIE

Napoleon, N. D., Feb. 9.-The home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. George Marquart,
three miles northwest of Napoleon,
has been saddened this week by the,
death of two of their children.
Bernard Marquart. past two years
old. passed away Tuesday morning.
George Marquart, aged five, passed
away Wednesday morning at 5
o'clock.
Death in each case was caused by
scarlet fever, complications having
set in.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-09
GERMAN METAL.
EXPORTS DECLINE

Nuremberg, Feb. 9.-The metal
ware exports of Germany recently
have amounted to only about 40 per-
cent of the pre-war figures, accord
ing to announcement of the German
Metal Ware Manufacturers Associ-
alton. The decline, it is said, is due
to the protective measures adopted
by many countries which formerly
consumed considerable quantities of
German goods.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-09

Her first winter in the Dunes, Mrs.
Wilson, then Alice Gray. spent in a
tent. The first spring she spent
there, she became an object of gen.
eral interest when Deputy Sheriffs
started through the sand hills to find
the nymph who was bathing without,
bathing suit and in the light of the
full moon. She married Paul Wilson
three years ago, the two continuing
to live close to nature.
Mrs. Wilson asked her husband to
es to the winds from the top Of Mount
es tothe winds fro mthe top Of Mount
1om, the highest hill along the Lake
shore. s.s-S. s;s.s.-, u 81
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-09
WILL OPPOSE
RATE BOOST

Grand Forks; N. D., Feb. 9.-The
Grand Forks Commercial club
through T. A. Durrant, traffic COM
missioner, will oppose the rates on
Ignite coal proposed by the car
'riers, according to recision made
at meeting of the traffic commit
tee.
These rates, if they are put into
effect. would be SO prohibitive as to
bar the shipment Of Ignite coal to
Grand Forks in preference to soft
coal from the Head Of the Lakes,
Mr.. Durrant says.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-09
TOO MUCH PENSION

Glasgow, Feb. 9.-The city council
granted pension of 38 shillings Z
week to Highland widow. She NOV
ed to Skye with her five children.
Now she has requested that the pen
sion be reduced, saying that only two
other persons there a clergyman
and policeman-were as we'll of Is
she.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-09
BOMB CAUSES
HURTS TO ONE

Chicago, Feb. "a bomb placed
in the desk of Charles o. Rider of
the printing firm of Rider and Dick
erson, fractured the arm of Mr.. Rel
der and caused CONSERVATION among
the employees Of the building. The
police are investigating the motive
for the bombing.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-09
FLIES YIELD DYES

Mexico City, Feb. 8.-Tons of dried
flies are shipped annually from
Mexican ports. The insects yield
scarlet and crimson dyes. Many Of
the peasant children are helping
support the faimily by catching these
flies.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-09
Weather Report
ST Wluu VcIOCIIy .'....
WEATHER FORECAST

A1l8uCSI WlUU VcIOClIy o
WEATHER FORECAST
For Bismarck and vicinity: Cloudy
and unsettled tonight and Tuesday.
No decided change in temperature.
For North Dakota: Cloudy and un-
settled tonight and Tuesday. No de-
cided change in temperature.
WEATHER CONDITIONS
A high pressure area has appear
ed on the Pacific coast but low press
ure, with centers over Alberta, CO.
dorado and the Great Lakes, prevails
over the rest of the country. Mild
weather prevails in all sections and
temperatures throughout, the north
ern states range from Sc degrees
above zero at Toledo, Ohio to 20 de-
grees above zero at Moorhead, MINI.
Skies are mostly cloudy in all sec
tions and precipitation occurred in
the Great Lakes region, Mississippi
Valley and from the Rocky Mountain
region to the Pacific coast.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-09
FOG BRINGS
TRAIN WRECKS

. New York. Feb. 9.-Two men were
killed and more than so persons were
hurt in series of collisions on New
York Transit lines today, while one
of the heaviest fogs in recent years
enveloped the city.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-09

A workinEman's clubhouse will b
built near Yokohama, with = fund
OF $4,000 ven contributed by cit
izens Of the city at the time Of the
earthquake. The bnilding viii -
tsastAanakes go. & 81. J. ..s I. ].
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-09
Your
Income Tax

This is one of series of
articles explaining the in
come tax to the laymen. It
has been prepared in view of
recent changes in the income
tax law.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-09
INQUlRYC0URT
ON COLLINS IS
T0.BE0PENED
Military Commander Plans TO
Clear up Many Rum0rs
Regarding Him
RESCUE WAS BLOCKED;
Reported Fireman Declares
He Has Positive KnOwl-
edge on This

Cave City, ky.. Feb. 9.-(By A.
conducted with voice amplifiers
have convinced II. NJ. Carmichael,
in charge Of the Floyd Collins
rescue work at Sand Cave. that
Collins is still alive, after 10 days
imprisonment.
II. G.. Lane, MunfOrdsville. op.
Grating the lighting system which
supplies current for the bulb left
AT Collins head said Homer Col
lins, after listening 20 minutes
on the wire, was satisfied he had
heard Flcyd's heart beating at a
rate Of 20 times minute. The
test was made on the wire which
had been placed around Collins
chest last week by rescuers.
MANY people on the outside
would not believe our tests showed
Collins was alive" Lane said.
adding that a statement would
be given out Aater. proving that
Collins was alive"
Cave Cty. KY, Feb. 9.--Circum
stance surrounding the trapping @
Floyd Collins in Sand Cave and tn
efforts of volunteer rescuers to re
lease him will be made the subJee
of a military court of inquiry, Br
gadier- General II. H. Denhardt, j
command of the National Guardsme
here. announced today.
81 hope by this court of inquiry
lay at rest all suspicious, whisper
ings of the efforts to block rescu
work and rumors that Collins er
trapment was not genuine" sal
General Denhardt.
The commander said his plan fo
the military investigation had bee
sanctioned by Governor Fields an
Adjutant General Kekoe.
His Purpose
at is my purpose to determine e,
actly why the efforts to rescue Co
Inns through the natural passag
failed" Denhardt continued. "Whett
SI AOliluS WCtk lulo CdUu Sdt
through the regular entrance an
was caught coming out and whethe
he knew of any other way out al
matters which will be delved into.
II have received information ths
the eye of suspicion has been tur1
cd on Kentucky and its officials an
the wonderful cave region by person
unfamiliar with the cave section.
propose in the inquiry, to bring o,
every fact.
1T is hoped that the findings t
the board will be so definite an
thorough from the testimony we hes
that the underground whispering
will be quieted. Every witness wi
be summoned to testify and will /
heard in full"
Continued on page thrse)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-09
WEATHER FORECAST

For Bismarck and vicinity: Clou-
dy; unsettled tonight and Tuesday.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-08
PIONEERS ASSURED
CLEAR PARADE ROUTE

Keep the old bus at home Thurs
day afternoon.
If you park the family car along
the route to be followed by the Old
Trail Drivers parade, you will find
it among the missing when you re-
turn later in the evening.
And don't 90 running to the police
for sympathy. for they will be the
boys who will have the "gas wagon
in charge.
The parade will start from the City
Market house at 2 80 o'clock. go east
on Commerce to alamo Plaza, down
Alamo TO Houston street, west on
Houston to San Saba. thence to the
Market house, where it will disband
Thirty minutes before the parade
starts Captain Gus Kleckenkemper
and traffic policemen will traverse the
route of march. b.,
All automobiles parked along the
way will be taken TO the pound.
80 il you don't want TO pay the
pound fee. keep your. cars off the main
streets Thursday afternoon" Captain
Klockenkemper declared.