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Arizona state miner., 1927-03-12


them, if proper inducements as to
return and safety were offered.
If you like miracles, consider
this. Peter Kraus, sailor on a
freight ship in mid-ocean, drove
particles of iron into his right eye
while using a drill, and suffered
agonies. Far away, DR.. Francis,
ships surgeon, picked up by radio,
details of the sailors trouble. He
sent wireless directions, ordering
them to stop using cocaine, telling
them how to make magnet. The
magnet extracted the iron particles
insanity, pain stopped, the man
went back to work.
Mr.. Burgert, bachelor member
of very "old family" in Ohio,
leaves money to build home for
girls "between the ages of sixteen
and twenty-eight, of small stature,
bright, ambitious and good to look
at" Fat girls are not to be ad-
mitted.
That will was made by a foolish
bachelor. Young girls ought to be
reasonably fat, with tissue and en-
ergy stored up for their duty as
mothers. Girls of the skeleton type
have barely energy enough for
themselves, to say nothing of a
family.
What counts is not how you
start, but how you finish. Years
ago, boy named hamburger took
a Job at 81 week to run errands;
glad to get the job, glad to run. 1t
was a start. Now, to his $4,000
900, dry goods plant in Newark he
builds on $1O,OO0,000 addition.
And men from bigger cities go to
Newark to study his ways of run
ming a business.
The thoughtless may point out
that Babe Ruth gets, in one year,
for hitting that ball about a thou
sand times as much as Milton got
for writing Paradise Lost" That
is no argument. For one American
that wants to read Paradise Lost"
at least million want to see Babe
Ruth play baseball.
An eleven-year-old boy, Michael
Ponlraskow, ran away from home
after a beating, killed a shop
keeper IN an attempted holdup,
and is wondering what will be
done with him. It is said that he
cannot be treated as a youthful de-
GnQuent, because he refuses to say
that he Is sorry he committed the
murder. A childish reason, for lack
Of repentance is only one more
proof of youthful delinquency.
In any cases the boy will not be-
executed, even if put on trial for
murder. Capital punishment sur
wives, but killing children is no
longer part Of civilization"
Arizona state miner., 1927-03-12

Beaten at home, Michael Pom.
krashaw, II, went into a store,
attempted a hold-up, became. exc
cited-and shot and killed the
proprietor. Mental tests show him
3 years above normal-still New
York authorities know not quite
how to deal with him. Shall he
be tried on a murder charge? I'd
Arizona state miner., 1927-03-12

Ralph: i love the Beautiful, the
Kir and the innocent.
Christene: Oh! this is rather sud-
den but l don't think father will OBJ
ject. -aEI
Arizona state miner., 1927-03-12

Paper money was made in China
500 years ago.
Arizona state miner., 1927-03-12

ED PURDYS PHILOS
The trouble with most humor CEN
sors is that they haven't got a censor
humOr.
Arizona state miner., 1927-03-12
Smiles

Hostess: @'Will you help us out
with a song?"
He sang and they all went out.
The Hello Grip follows neither a
business nor a profession, but call
ing.
Arizona state miner., 1927-03-12

that own no stocks COULD own
them, if proper inducements as to
return and safety were offered.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-07
GASOLINE TAX
REFUNDS HEAVY
$3.50 Claims Filed in Novem.
ber-Largc Use of Tractors
Believed Cause

Refunds paid by State Auditor
John Steen to persons purchasing
gasoline for use other than in mo-
tor vehicles totaled $118,879.O0
during November, report issued to-
day shows.
More than twice as many claims
for refunds were received las. month
as in any previous month since the
two-ccnt gasoline tax became effec-
tive, Stems records show. The num-
Der was $3.50 as compared with. g.
084 in October, the highest previous
record.
November marked the first month
since the law became operative in
which refund payments exceeded the
payment to the state highway de-
partmcnt. The highway department
received only $115,00O.
Indications are, Steen sa. :, that
December also will show tremen-
dous number of refund applica .ons,
the daily average for this month to
date being as large as the daily av-
cragcd for November.
Two Million Collected
Since year ago last OeptemDers
when his office took over the work
of collecting the gasoline tax, the
state has collected $2,1O1 1912 of
which $2,100,639.02 was from oil
companies and the remainder from
the interest on daily bank balances
of the gasoline tax fund.
During the Is months $1,670,OO0
has been paid to the highway COM
mission, $685. to the general fund
and $394,3l9.60 to the 28,1OO per-
sons and firms asking refunds. The
auditor had, or November 80, bal
ance of $12,26O.32 with which to
make payment of further refunds.
f, Widespread use Of tractors as
motive POWER during the threshing
season and the use of gasoline mo-
tors for power urposcs in eleva-
tors is believed by Steen to be re-
sponsible for the heavy consump-
ton Of gasoline during the harvest
season and he consequent h avy
number Of applications for refunds
received after the harvest season
closed.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-07
-Keidel's Stand on
State Industries Is
: Matter of Interest
=

: When the members Of the legis-
lature meet here January 10 one
of the minor items of interest will
be the position on matters Of policy
taken by Charles Kcidel. Mandan
dairy farmer who recently was elect
ed to fill the place made vacant by
the death Of Jacob Bollinger.
= The present interest is due to the
fact that Keiders position now If APP
parently uncertain, despite the fact
that he was nomina ed ana elected
with Nonpartisan support. Although
running as a Nonpartisan, Keidel
told Mandan newspaperman prior
to the election that he is not in ia
vor of state participation in indus
try and favors the closing of the
state mill and elevator at Grand
Forks.
Publication II the fact arc Used the
interest of Nonrartissns here who
aver that Keidel is !: res i Non
partisan" in every respect and q
staunch supporter of the state indus
tries.
Whatever Keidel's position it will
make no real difference in the con-
troll Of the lower house, in which the
independents had q normal major.
ity Of eight at the last session.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-07
BURLEIGH HAS
GOOD RECORD
Only One Case Of C0mmunica.
bic Disease Reported Here
During November

Burleigh county had only one case
Of communicable disease during No.
vember, and that of SMALLPOX, ac-
cording to q statistical report for
the month prepared BY DR.. A. A.
Whittemore, state health officer.
Mercer county was thu only county
in the state to report cases Of ira
choma in November, having total
Of three cases. while the only cases
Of whooping cough reported to the
state department were two in Cass
county. Mumps were reported in
Cass and Divide counties, the former
having four cases and the latter
three.
Richland and Towner counties each
reported one case Of pneumonia. but
it is very likely that many other
counties failed to report cases Of
this disease since it has only re-
Gently been included in the list of
reportable diseases. Two cases Of
poliomyelitis were reported rom
Cavalier county and one from Will
hams county.
Other diseases were reported as
follows:
Chicken P0x
Barnes. A; Benson, /. Bowman, 3;
Cass. a.; Fostel s; Grand Forks,
20; Hettinger, 2; Stutsman. 2.
Diphtheria
Adams, i; Barnes, l.; Mcintosh, J.;
Sheridan, 2; Stutsman, 5.
Measles
Emmons, z; Grand Forks, 2; Eddy,
/; Steele, 2; Walsh, l.
Smallpox
Burleigh, L; Golden Valley, /;
Grand Forks, /; Kidder, 10; Morton,
1; Stutsman, 2; Walsh, /; Ward, /;
Williams, 4.
Scarlet Fever
Adams, /; Barnes, /; Benson, A;
Bottineau, 6; B-rle, /; Cass, q;
Dickey, 2; Divide, 4; Dunn, 6; Fos-
ter, 8; Grand Fol..s, 3; Hcttinger, !;
LaMoure, 2; Mercer, L; Mountrail
/; Pembina,, 2; Pierce. Is; Ramsey
5; Renville, l; Sargent 5; Steele, 3;
Stutsman, /; Towner, s.; Trail, 2;
Walsh, 2; Ward. 6; Williams, 3.
Tuberculosis
Cass, 1; Bottineau, 1; Burke, !;
Emmons, /; Grand Forks, q; Suits.
man, /.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-07
Express Co. Pleads
For Early Shipping
Of Christmas Gifts

Because Of the fact that Christ
mas Day falls on Sunday t. pleas
Of the transportation companies for
early shipping Of Christmas pack
ages this year have real sienifi-
canoe. Il ID desirable that al deliv-
cries be completed by CT. .istmas
Eve, making early shipping even
more important than in other years.
This fact was emphasized in .
statement made today by F. A.
Eernisse, agent Of the American
Railway Express company, in this
city. He said:
I'VE are planning to clear. up our
Christmas deliveries BY Saturday
night, Is We know lN kee. u the
disappointment Of the sender Of hol-
idsy packages, and the receivers q
we'll, especially where there are
children, Il that collection Of gifts
from folks out Il town does not ar.
rive on time. We intend to do our
part ia making Il . Merry Christ
mas"
A few days before Christmas. &C.
cording to Mr.. Eernisse, the regular
commercial holiday business Is over
and the express employees are all set
and eager 70 handle the traffic Of =
personal nature going to private
homes. In this work, they sec the
real spirit Of Christmas reflected, Is
most families have trees lighted or
are in the process Of trim. ing them.
BY proper packing and careful and
accurate addressinG ~ hn1i<lav shin-
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-07
Many Towns to- Have
New Electric Rates

Forty-five towns in North Dakota
have new signs and window-lighting
electric rates under schedu' filed
with the state railroad board by the
Montana Dakota Power company.
New general schedules filed by the
same company for application at APP
pam, Alamo, Corinth, Hamlet and
Zahl also have been approved.
Permission to furnish electric SER
vice 1t Lidgerwood and Granville
has been granted by the railroad
board to the Otter Tail Power conf
pany.
The Public Service Corporation
was authorized to change its service
at Cando from direct to alternating
current.
The Bismarck Center Taxi Line
WAS authorized to operate q motor
freight service between Center and
IT. Clark.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-07
Flashes Of Life
by The Associated Press)

(By The Associated Press)
New York-Because he is being
confused with another young man
Of the same name who is to be a
dancing partner Of the heavily in
sured Eleanor Ambrose Maurice,
Charles H. Sabin, Jr., bankers son,
u being called Tom by his folks.
Philadelphia-College girls and
debutantes who have never had long
tresses desire q change Of style and
therefore hobs will be out Of date
next year If Miss Evelyn Fred
erick's forecast is correct. Being
president Of the American Society
Of Beauty Culturists, presumably
she knows how short hair can be
made long in Is days.
Louisville Fred Stone is putting
one over on Will Rogers. He's learn
ing to run q plane. II plan to be
my own pilot" be said in noting
that viii flies often, but always
With pilot.
Dresden, Cermany-The silver
3eWel-studded crown worn q king
q Poland by Ausustus the Strone,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-07

drunkenness, three for disorderly
conduct, four for drunkenness and
disorderly conduct, one for driving
a car without lights, and one for
obscene language.
Seven Of those arrested failed to
appear in court and their cash
bonds were declared forfeited. Two
of the rs cases were dismissed.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-07

Wilkes Barre, Pa.-Rounding a
curve on q country highway. a mo-
torist came upon a frightened deer
which, instead of bounding off the
road, plunged into the car. The
radiator was bent and the wind
shield smashed as the car ran under
the animal, whose hoofs inflicted
scalp wounds on one of the passen-
gers. The deer was killed.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-07
Belk Had Is Cases
During Last Month

Twenty-Five cases were brought
before Police Magistrate j. NJ. Belk
during November, according to
report filed with the city commits
sion. Total collections were $144.30,
of which $50 was in fines and
$500 in costs.
Sixteen Of the cases were for
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-07
PROTECT YOUR CHILD'S
HEALTH

Through thoughtlessness the
slight cough or cold Of child is
sometimes neglected and becomes
serious. A few doses OF Foley's
Honey and Tar Compound, at small
cost, taken At the onset Of = cold,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-07

VAN TOOK PIONEER DIES
Van Hook-Jacob .fLenartz, first
homesteadcr in Van Hook, died re-
Gently at his home due to heart fail
ure. He came to the reservation in
1916 from New Rockford. He leaves
three sons and two daughters.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-07

when shipments are going to con-
signees II large cities, is m import.
ant factor to consider in marking"
gift packages.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-07

London-A shortage of tin due to
that new car seems to be no Ford
joke. Lord Askwith told the Lon
don Tin syndicate that there is
urgent need of increased produc-
ton; that only the recent lull in
Ford plants saved the world from
a serious shortage.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-07

elector of Saxony, was rubbish.
That is, it was till recovered with
his sceptre and orb out of refuse
during cleaning operations at the
Dresden Historical Museum.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-07

Minneapolis-W. F. Schilling of
Mortified was reelected president
Of Twin City Milk Producers asso-
citation.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-07

brings speedy relief. Be prepared,
have . bottle Of this safe reliable
cough remedy on hand and give
promptly when q cough or cold IS
first detected. Equally effective
for grown persons. Ask for Fcley's
Honey and Tar. Sold Everywhere.
ADV.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-07

Dispatches to Nogales say that
Mexican bandits looted circus
train, carrying off many young
actresses, most Of them foreigners,
and sacked town Of La Quemada, in
state Of Jalisco, Mexico.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-07

American aviators killed 81 Mic
araguan rebels in encounter week
ago, it is announced at Managua by
Colonel Mason Gulick, commander
of u. s. marine forces in Nicaragua.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-07

Oklahoma legislature meets ir
special session and inaugurates in
vestigation of state offices.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-07

SHE TREES HER THIEF
Washington - While walking
through the park near the Treasury
Building, Mrs. Elizabeth Cullen had
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-07

her pocketbook snatched by . thief.
The irate Mrs. Cullen gAve chase,
ran % swiftly that the thief climbed
Z pine tree. She started up after
him, but 4 policeman happened
along and relieved her Of the Job.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-07

Dog team carrying medical aid to
dying boy at Idaho mining camp
winds through 100 miles of bleak
mountain country and doctor says
he believes he arrived in time to
save boys life.
Disorders on Hungarian Ruman-
ian frontier, in which one man was
killed and many were seriously
hurt, reported in dispatches to
Budapest; student demonstrations,
which began as anti-Semitic and
later became anti-Magyar, reported
from Arad, Pennsylvania.
"Hideous campaign of intimida-
ton and brutality against Jews cx-
lists in Rumania. says report of
American committee on rights of
religious minorities given out in
New York; Baptists, Hungarian
speaking Lutherans and Roman
Catholics also arc oppressed, it is
charged.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-07
NEWS BRIEFS

Senator Willis of Ohio losses hal
into Republican presidential ring.
The Alaskan., 1927-11-25

perfumes tor society pups-the four legged-and it is reported that he's doing big business.
 Where they are killing canines one place they are pertaining 'em in another. Here ill Petersburg they do nothing and there are more ornery dogs to the square men than you can shake at a stick in month of Sundays.
 That section ot town lying be- tween the Hogue and Tveten Com pany's building and the saWmill and back to the creek is just craving with dogs and some of em are so darn mean that grief will come o1
 em before long. The authorities |should make some move to rid the town of it's CUTS, near ours and no- account dogs.
The Alaskan., 1927-11-25
GUMSHOERS-A CULTUS CLASS

If there is anythink lower than the average private detective we don't know what it is unless it may be a snake. They're out for any thing at any time and for the one who pays the most irrespective of the rights or wrongs in the case. In the big oil affair dragging along at Washington members of the Burns Detective Agency have been caught in some pretty shady trans actions. So shady, in fact, that Justice Siddons has granted a mis- trial in the Sinclair trial wherein one McMullin, of the agency was found to be working the Govern ment instead of for the Govern mert. He was also under Sinclair pay.
The Alaskan., 1927-11-25
0, THESE MODERN WOMEN

There is a rancher down San
 Francisco way who is battered and
 bruised. He came into court in early November and asks that a crimp be placed on his wife's ac- tions. He first wants the court to prevent his wife from locking him out of the house, but if he should manage to gain an entrance he re- quests that the court enjoin her from heaving him out. He has been of the garden variety of hus- bands for a month or more, since the garden has been as close to the house he thought was his as he has been able to get. For this neg igence of the wife in inviting him in he wants $5000. It is evident
The Alaskan., 1927-11-25
WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE :
 BUT IN THE CiTY's MAINS

During the recent freeze-up the city water barrels went nearly dry again. Three times this year has the shortage happened. So far, outside of a few grunts and growls, we have gotten along fairly we'll, but we have been lucky. And LUCKY is the fitting term. We have been. and are, playing with fire and dis ease and so far have been little bit the winner.
 But Lady Luck has a habit of shift ing her affections. The next water shortage may find her on the other side. Then what?
 Those who have the welfare of the town in mind have been bring ing up our poor water system, airing it, cursing it, condemning it for the past seven or eight years and the town goes serenely On it's way, bow ing to the god of chance, throwing a kiss to Lady Luck and trusting to old Jupe Pluvius to keep the bar rels full.
 Petersburg isn't the only town that has played a long and a lucky hand in this respect, but if we know anything at all we know that in the end they've lost and lost heavily. And we're not immune, o, no.
 Some day when the black smoke starts curling up where the build ings are close together, some day when an. epidemic strikes the com munity, and the reservoir is dry what'll be done?
 Come, folk, lets plunge up 6 little and build a decent water con- tainer. We have the location, the water is pure, we have the dam site (even though we haven't the water by a damn sight just now) and we have the means if we really want to go ahead.
The Alaskan., 1927-11-25
HERE IS A GOOD GOOD POSITION
 FOR A REAL WORKER

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The Alaskan., 1927-11-25
TWO MILLION MORE TO HELP
 THE BOOZE RUNNERS

It comes out now that the Anti Saloon Leage has nearly two mill lions of dollars to toot on through another year.
 All of this anti-saloon stuff is making rich pickings, and there arc not few imbibers on it's payroll
 Evidently, things are going very we'll for the -More-Rooze-C Crusad- CTS and it isn't generally believed that they desire a change, in the average running of affairs, half so much as they want us to think.
 Swivel chair jobs at fat salaries are more or less appealing and the team work, on the surface, of the anti-this and the anti-that is com- mendable, of course, but we rath- CT doubt the sincerity of the loud est takers.
 And me-o-my! What lot of snoopers, spies, gum-shoers, pussy Hooters and sneaks there are who now draw stipend from tho League who once depended on their gats and blackjaks for. a precar- ious living. These shady folk have the art of Following the lines of least resistance" down pat.
 The Anti-Saloon League will make a big noise with it's nearly 2,OO0,- 900 and 95 percent of the net re- suit will be noise because there is so little of its movement that is four square.
The Alaskan., 1927-11-25
LEST WE FORGET

Ten years ago on the 4th of Nov ember the first Americans went down before the leaden hail of a raiding party of German soldiers in the World War. Ten years ago this month our first dead lay stretched out on the battle field and it seems but yesterday that we saw them march away. There were nearly 23O,O00 to follow this first -detach- ment over the Great Divide, and in the killing as a whole do We ever think of those who were the trail blazers into the unknown regions?
The Alaskan., 1927-11-25
CONVERSION TO OIL

The United States Shipping Board has contracted the change of three steamships to that of the Diesel motor veisels to compete with large motor ships sailing un der foreign fages in long distance runs. The cost of conversion, i'm cluGing engines is as follows: The Courageous, $1,319,000, Defiance, $1,192,OOO. Triumph $1.S15,OOO.
 The above contract figures are outside of the appropriation of 25,O0O,OOO. made some time ago to convert number of steamers to Diesel power as an experiment-in a way-with internal combustion Iengines on longer than ordinary voy- ages. On what are termed short" voyages-50O to 40OO miles-oil burning engines show so little saw ling over oil consuming steamships of large tonnage that conversion in this line will be slow if at all. Tn fact steamers using pulverized coal in recently patented burners are showing such good results in steam { ing costs per mile that it is quite
 probable a return to coal will come in the near future.
 Large cargo boats on long trips
 however, at present cost of oil, are
 more economical when powered with engines of Diesel design than steam driven vessels are.