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4" £-1~. W rsw mf No. •1 f- k% •f \. r/ 4 if® HV •. 10 The Bowbells electric light plant, owned by R. H. Schweb and Prank Luckman of this city, was totally destroyed by fire shortly before four o'clock, Wednesday morning, sAd the city will be without light or powor until new machinery can be Installed and tho building repaired. The total lose is estimated at over *110,000, and was insured for 1^000. IT The exact origin of the Are will V "never be known/ but Mr/Schweb, ,. who was in charge of the plant that Ar%ight Bftye it must have started from the muffler of the 25 horse '•, International engin? tnat was run niiig when the flames were first no ticed. Some of the people of the cjty had been o^ Meeting to the nodse ,,, that the exhaust of this engine was ^making, and in order that things b6 as ouiet as possible after mid night Mr. dchweb fixed up a muffler .v wWcb seemed to reduce the noise ... bn the outside to almost nothing. v Ehrerything^ was running fine after v midnight when Mr. Schweb went I** Into his house just a few rods from the plant an hour or two before the fire was discovered. He took a Ibath and made preparations to jdiiite to Scobey, Mont*, to look af^ 't«f some business matters that re- V quired his attention. While get UDg ready Dr. Hilts, who had Just teturned from the country where he had made a call, noticed the Sames shoolitfg through the roof of ^7 the building, and' called Schweb. The interior of the building was the® a mass of flames, and nothing -Wa* saved with the exception of a Chevrolet ear which was standing $i«ir tho front door. Mr. Schweb succeeded in puHing this out by the Jander in spite of the terrefic heat Hd burned his hands, in doing it. s Th« firemen were unable to do anything toward putting the fire out on account, of the distillate ane K kerosene in the v v •1$ Ji&S-**&-?,' =z. -i-'^Z'Tr' place, as well as tho wood work being more or less oil soaked, so confined their efforts to keeping the flames from the sur Grounding buildings: There were £50 gallons of kerosene ana zoo. nttoai of distlUate, u& well a oQ 'fn th«"plitce at tho J- JUme. Sther jth^ oil. the distillate the air tank exploded after tho iNtnos had burned for a time, and KENMARE MAN Kenmare, N. D., Aug. 4.—Wil ^llam Callos. proprietor of the Ken mare Candy Kitchen, had an ex perience with tough characters Jjwhlch he does not care to repeat. When returning home from his %tore at 12:30 a. m. Saturday, two covered him With a gun as he '••lwafc about to put Mis car into the arage near his home. They or udered him to drive them to Norma, 5a towi^ in Renville county. While '^on the way they advised him* that they were gotiifc to rob a bank at Norma. On arriving there they "blindfolded him, tied a gag in hi* mouth, tied his hands and feet and threw him in(o an empty boxcar, -closing the door after him. About '\'4:3Q a. m. Callos succeeded in free ing one hand and then the other. ^On removing the gag and blindfold he hammered on the door of the ^Abof car and a railroad employe set "\'»*Wjn Wee. o a s a o a e o i s a feline. Its license number was ND 969 and engine number 594393. moe LABOR ISMTIM Jttaot, N. B,, Aug.. 4.-—Farr^ejps V' In northwestern North JDlkOta ma$r «aad harvest help, bttt they are not )»ir^s« colored men. David John Henry" Allan. Zem ne?, Vm^ inr iml 1IH, wearing brown ddwn sockfl, dotked ovsfallf, ated shirt, white vest, P«fjp£ »oat and ool skating eatr,J into Minot from the west come to gflel law suit over and atart^d out in search of this scattered the fire to some ex tent, and the noise shook the whole city. Everything in the building is a total loea with the exception of the big Muncie engine, which Mr. Schweb thinks might be rebuilt, but it now is a heap of scrap iron, and probably only the larger pieces can be used. The smaller engine is of ho value except ror scrap iron, as even the larger pieces are warp ed and twisted. The dynamos ana oil tapks, as well as the air tank, and a large new stock of lamps, switches, j|ttd other new material which Mr. Schweb. Just shipped in, are a total loss. In addition to this a Cutting car belonging to Joe Walleen, which had been stored at the plant, went up in smoke. The light plant was originally started about six years ago by H., C. Potter of Portal, -who after op erating it for a time, sold' it to the Northwest Power Co. of Minneapo lis, which firm intended to run a cable up here from the Kenmare plant and cflscaM the local plant. On acoount of not being financially able, atyi on account of the hlgn fhe rices Of material due to the war, Northwest Power Co. gave up the idea of running a cable up from the Kenmare, plant after operating here for about a year, and sold the Bowbells plant to J. H. Mohr, who conducted it for three years, during which time he made several changes in the machinery until he had things running very amoozniy. Last January he sold the outfit to R. H. Schweb and Frank Luckman, who nducted it until the present time. In talking to The Tribune a few hours after the fire Mr. Schweb told us that it would be a matter of but a short time before he would have a new outfit riinning in place of the old one, and that he would be at work right now making ar rangements few a new dynamo and repairs for the Muncie engine if it were not for the fact that he was waiting for the insurance adjuster. Just as soon as tne adjustment of the loss is made, he says he will get. btpy on fixing up an engine and getting tmother^MSynamo, and that if should not taX© over ten days or two Greeks before a temporary out fit will,'be doing business until a permanent one can be .installed. i1 Mailed at almost every wa-y, he say«, eoi v iji Ohargfr t^d laboym, colored 4rr^ III •,*?': /:. IIIITO CRASH /, ?*r Williston, N. D., Aug. 4.—Harry Butterfield, 45, McKenzie county farmer, was instantly killed in Wil liston, when the auto in which he was riding swerved in trying to clear another' auto, and crashed into a telephone pole, throwing him head first against it. Other occupants of the two autos escaped with minor injuries. The dead man leaves his wife Mid a family. ... ,r pounds of twine. ,877 mile# and Chicago twiifc miles of freo 1m«is^f it ift y "HE OW (fflT •f I FARMER'S CORK Dubuque, Iowa, Aug/ iarm er here tried today to explain, to a local banker the necessity of a loan .to tide him over a lean period. "I dont understand," said, the banker, "why you should want to borrow when you have just shipped your corn. What did you do with the money? "De ducks got it," replied farmer. "What do you mean by Ducks?" "Well," explained the farmer, "I shipped the car to market and sold it for 52 cents. They deduck freight, that left 31 cents -~deduck one cent commission, that left 30 cants deduck elevator charges, that left 27 cents deduck husking, thai left cents deduct hauling, that left five jpe&tg deduck the hired man's wages from that and you are a darrf sight better farmer in I am if you can find anything 'I •".^'*&&„: r,.v '-i£' v-- -v •v"t* *'X-. -*,•.* •f^ *#.f# -v 4HBferfl/' -\tvv ENmrviu .. mm, :, v ^Wr V the 'De IWAER ON TWINE GR&SP The freiglH rate on hinder twin© from BSattiarek to, Fairmount, N. D., Ib^ 64^- oeats P«r 100 pounds, the di»ta»e«te.beta« 176 miles twieo 2781 mt^ inakM J560 wilee, and $1.09 per of trans mit twice 100 pounds portation. tor *r %%£&^ 4lierlmi«atio» in. freiggi* litate Cordage pla?it and there-i 7:,:*- The preliminary nearing of Law rence Larsen, who was arrested last week on the charge of embezzle ment of county funds, has been postponed until Aug. 10, when same will be held in Bowbells before Judge John/C. Lowe, as committing magistrate. The hearing was sche duled to take place immediately af ter. the tiUfejeiusibn of the civil case, but Judge L. J. Palda, who io at torney for Mr. Larsen, was not ready, and asked for a continuance until the 10t* He said he had some points of law to look up, and as the civil case was taking up much of his time he wouldn't have time to give the criminal case the attention he would like to unless given more time. Last Thursday afternoon the bankers started ~4ying evidence, and to listen to them squirm in an endeavor to prevent any of their private dealings with Mr. Larsen from getting into the records would make an elephant weep. Klinken berg of Portal knew absolutely nothing at all. He didn't know whether John O. Grubb was an I. V. A. or a Nonpartisan, he didn't know whether the bankers or some one else financed the contest start ed last fall against the county offi cers elected by the farmers, and in fact he didn't even rcnow if there was a Nonpartisan organization in the county. Even when shown a copy of a letter he had written him self, he did ^not remember of.writ ing* it, but said tie might have. Some of the bankers would ad mit one thing, and others would admit another, but from the whole bunch Attorney Sinkler was able to get the evidence that he wanted. The bankers failed miserably in their attempt to show that Treas urer Jensen could pay- warrants now, or at any other time since he started registering them, although they used both ^Commissioner Grubb and Commissioner Klrkelie on the stand for that purpose. The bank ers admitted having held confer ences with Mr. Larsen on several occasions when it was agreed to let the bankers have more of the coun ty's money, and agreed to make a final cleaning the latter part of April to prevent Jensen from send ing the county funds to the Bank of North Dakota. A schedule was made out distributing the cJounty nv. *_ AND A CONtlitOATlOll OP TBS ft URKK COUNTY BDUDTMf AND TBI BOWBBUI BV1XBTIN WOULD CANCEL FED EMI SEED LOANS Washington, Aug. 2. county agents in North Dakota will be asked by the department of agricul ture to make a report on the num ber of farmers who wore given seed aid by the government last spring and have suffered crop failure. When this information is obtained it will be turned over to Senator P. J. McCumber of North Dakota, who expects to introduce a bill :n congress relieving these men of their debt to the government. Senator McCumber conferred with Secretary of Agriculture H. C. Wal lace today "to see If the department can cancel the obligations of* the farmers. Secretary Wallace sug gested that it is a matter for con gress, but he volunteered to collect information about conditions in North Dakota. The taking of the testimony in the case of the State of North Da kota against former County Treas urer Lawrence Larsen and 15 bank ers of the county was concluded last Saturday noon, and the attor neys will submit their argument to the court in brief form -some time this week. A decision in the case might be expected either the latter part of this week, or the fore part of next week. The Rocky Road to Dublin &&* Some of the bankers explained how the garnishments of the coun ty funds were brought about. It appears that when a banker knows that the county is about to draw on him. and it is inconvenient for him to pay,- he gets into his auto mobile and rounds up a friendly school district or township to gar nish tho money temporarily so the county cannot get it. In this way the bank pays no interest on the money and neither the county or the school district is able to get it for 30 days. After the 30 days are up, .another garnishment is usually put on, but of the 20 or more gar nishments put on by the townships and school districts of the county at the request of the bankers, not a single action nas yet been brought. The garnishments are automatically dismissed at the end of 30 days if no action is brought, and come in handy to prevent the bankers from returning money so the county can use it to pay county warrants. Commissioners Grubb and Kirke lie admitted that they authorized Larsen to make these illegal loans to the bankers, and if Larsen is guilty of embezzlement they are as guilty as he is. Evidence submit ted also showed that they author ized Larsen to pay out county money to friendly persons on bills presented at the treasurer's office. It seems that if a person was a friend of the treasurer, all he had to do was to make out a bill for work he had done, present it to the treasurer and get his money. Lar sen would carrv such bill on his books as a cash item until the county board met, when the board approved his action and ordered a warrant issued to Larsen for all the money he h&d paid out. This is contrary to law, and is diverting county fnnds illegally. The oouny board also admitted juggling the seed and feed fund illegally, and the evidence shows that they paid very little attention to -the law when the, bankers wanted anything done. Some of the actions of the county board were so ank that they justify their removal from of fice, and we learn that action has already been started to file the ne cessary. application with the gov ernor asking for the removal of Mr. Grubb and Mr. Kirkelie. EL srfCT\ -""W-4, Yi 'f" Bowbells, Burke County, North Dakota, Friday, August 5, 1921 $2.00 Per Year THRESHERS MO •J, FARMERS TO MEET t'jH- meeting of the farmers and threshers of Burke county will be held at the court house in Bowbells on Saturday afternoon, Aug. 13, at which time a schedule of wages to be paid to men, and prices to be chaiiged for threshing will be set. The date is rather late in the sea son, considering the fact that har vesting has started so early, but it is believed that all work to be done here even before the date of the meeting will be charged for at the rate set at the meeting. At the meeting of this kind held in Ward county last Saturday the prices to be charged for threshing there were reduced 20 to 30 per cent under last year, and on account of the short cVop in that county it was de cided to thresh by the hour again this year. The schedule agreed on is as fdllows: For threshing with funds among the friqndly bankers, and this schedule was placed at the First National Bank of Bowbells. Most of the bankers came to Bow bells and wrote those certificates of deposit ,at the First National, a®4 procured their illegal loans of county funds. Most of the bank ers who could remember at all ad mitted that the certificaets were written at the First National, and that they came to Bowbells for the purpose of writing them. •PSP I 4 if* *.'.-r!.«.. -j.'.* f.'SsSi.v^. u-••- ,?*• (, s v 10 teams, two spike pitchers and cook car, $23 an hour, deducting $1.60 an hour per team for less than 10 teams and adding the same amount per hour for more than 10 teams. Tly^same terms apply to spike pltch^pif less than two are used. If wages for threshing are increased, threshing charges will be i n e a s e o e n s u a e y e charges for threshing without crew range from $5 an hour for 24 inch separator to S10 an hour for 36 inch separator. The schedule of wages for men was 40 cents an hour for men and 20 cents per hour for teams, 45 cents an hour for spike pitchers, $6.00 to $8.00 per day for engineers and separator men, and cooks $6.00. In talking with a number of the threshers in Burke county all seem to be pretty well agreed that the grain is uniform enough, and will yield well enough so that it will be safe to thresh by the bushel, and it is believed that most of the threshing here will be done on a schedule set by the hour. 10 USE 6RAV TRAC JDS FOR THRESHING Lawrence Larsen last week re ceived his new Red River Special 28 inch separator which he will use with his Grey tractor in threshing the crop on his own place this fall, and will be ready to use the outfit just as soon as he gets all of his grain harvested. Mr. Larsen owns over a section of land just south of town, and during the past two sea sons has been doing most of the work on same with a Grey tractor. This machine was not only usee! in plowing, but drilling, discing, pack ing, harvesting, and even hauling several tank loads at a time. It had been giving Mr. Larsen abso lutely no trouble whatever, so he finally made up his mind to even make it do his threshing. He or dered a separator of a size that has been used most with a Gray with full satisfaction, and intends to do his own threshing in the future. The separator is probably the small est in size in Burke county at the present time, and will by no means pounds out as much grain in a day as the larger ones will, but it will not take a very large crew to run it, and we'd be willing to bet our last dollar that Larsen gets his crop threshed long before many others are able to get a rig on their places. In case he has any large amount of success with the outfit other farm ers are planning on also buying small tractors and small machines later. CHILD FIRES GUN THAI KILLS MOTHER Warwick, N. D., Aug. 4.—The fingers of her little son pulled the trigger and fired the gun, whose discharge instantly killed Mrs. Clyde Reeves of near Warwick. Mr. Reeves was examining a rifle, preparatory to unloading it, when his small son, unnoticed by the fath er busy at his task, approached, grasped and pulled the trigger. The bullet nierced the father's hand and struck the mother in the back of her head coming out at the top, and causing instant death. The dead woman was about 35 years old, and is survived by the husband and four children. I MOLE SETTLED The squabble in Games township in this countv was settled last week out of court, and a complete settle ment of all differences between the Van Berkoms and Township Clerk John McCue has been effected. The trouble started several weeks ago whon tho Van Berkoms put in a bill to the township for about $1,000 for doing some road work for the township. The .bill was allowed by the township board, but McCue refused to issue a warrant in payment of the bill. Later, or on July 9, McCue wsw arrested on the charge of failing to do his duty as a public officer, and after a hear ing in Justice Randall's court here, was bound over to the district court*, but he still recused to issue the warrant. This gave the Van Berkoms no relief, and they next sought to mandamus him to write the'warrant. Judge John C. Lowe issued an alternative writ of man damus the fore part of last week, and set the date for hearing at Mi not on Wednesday of last week, but before such hearing waa held Mc Cue agreed to Issue the warrants within fourteen days if the ease would be dismissed against hiig., NOTICE FOR BOM On or before August 16th the director# of Little B.utte School District No. 25 will reeeive sealed bids for the transportation of pupils to School Holise No. 9. The board reserves the right to select any or all bids. By oip4«r of SchdOl Board. -v .. -i''xx.j»jfcbsi^««iitfcj„13& i t„ **, *5t k •'•.*• v''»v 1 *-,4" t•,,i *5 l\ s* fL .t ., .-w -:V„^' V v r'"U vr H.,, »V fOVi •»•, 1 ,* W- '.-T y J\ V 1 ""iiUtadb IS OVER BY BINDER While trying to stop six horses hitched to a binder last Tuesday forepoon Ike Gosecky of Clayton was run over by the horses and also the sickle part of the binder In such a way that he was severely cut about the hio and head, but unless complications set in he will recover. The horses were driven by one of the men employed by Mr. Gosecky and took fright at something or other, causing them to run. Mr. Gosecky ran In front of them in an efadeavor to stop mem, but they did not slacken their speed in the least. He was knocked down, and an instant later was run over by the sickle part of the binder which was in gear. It was a miracle that Mr. Gosecky escaped alive, or that he did not reeeive any more serious injuries than he did. He is a man over 50 years old, ttiough as active as a person half his age. Had the bull wheel run over him, or even the platform wheel there is no ques tion but that he would have been killed outright. Even the grain guards on the platform might have torn him up badly if they had hit him right. As it is Mr. Gosecky will be compelled to spend some weeks in bed during tiie busiest time of the season, when his time and attention are needed to look after his harvest and threshing, and he can consider himself lucky that he is alive after aa ordeal of this kind. D1MGND (From staft correspondent) (August 4) A large number of people from this vicinity attended the circus at Niobe last Friday. A lodge meeting was to be held last Saturday night, out on account of the members not ail tetng pres ent no meeting was held. We are glad to see our friend, Sylvia Shaw back in the hills again. She is working at Charley Collins. During the last few days the roaa going southwest from Stewarts has been traveled considerably. How about it, Biliie? Lester Pyiver is building his barn, so as to complete it before cold weather sets in. John Engstrom is still busy road working, but will soon complete hla Job for the season. Henry Thies called at 8am Bergs Monday. Ben Skredsvig was a Coteau call er on Thursday. Charley Efeberg was In the hill* after a load of hay oaturday. Albert Johnson called at the Thies home Sunda. Helen, Johnny and Alfred Thies called at Erickson's Sunday. Clarence Thompson called at the Collins home Sunday. Raymond Soutner called it Myhres Saturday night. John Grill called at the Engstrom hom^ Sunday. Mrs, John Engstrom was doing some shopping at Coteau Saturday. Cor. I I, I w:s COME TO 6RIEF AT PORTAL Portal, N. D., Aug. 4.—Five I. W. W. taken up by Royal Canadian Mounted police, on the charge of entering Canada without reporting to the immigratvn authorities, were each fined $25 and costs, with an option of serving 30 days. They chose the latter course, and were taken to Regina to serve sentence. Ben Clyde Brown of Kansas City and Harry Ellis of Minneapolis, carrying only I. W. W. cards as passports, were fined $25 and costs on a charge of not reporting to the immigration authorities of Canada. Ellis paid and was reported, and Brown went to jail. Job work a Tribune specialty,^ I——- i i i ii ATTENTION FARMERS Whenever possible patronise Hth business men that patronise you. The Tribune is your newspaper, and&» the merchants who use it In ad vertising their goods are youri' friends. Show them that you ap-* predate what they are doing for .? your paper by giving them yonr: business whenever, possible, and byis*. calling their attention to the fact:# that you saw their ad ?n The frib une. Let them know thn*. you are^' reading their ads every week, and*) that it pays them to advertise. The*, following display adfe appear in JthiS issue -of ,The Tribune: DQNOVA9 BROe. BOWBK2LL8 CASH KVJORB MITB BANK ram MOORS) HARDWARE OO. ,, RUGBY WLMVAVm CO. JAOOBBOIC HAJHPWARS CO. L, IT. PB1PWCT PIONEER MEAT 4 isftL V*3 'Vl$-•: X" A 4 •& «4Ci ^'f' ^4 f«»T V^' Wi" i A* J* "4V£? *. n 'it i 1 4 r* vs'l Z'W f' 4 V URBAir TBLBPHON1B CO. BOWBKLLS MFUOfMT 00. OOtKAU CARAGB FLAXTON FARMERS DfS. CO. STAKBAKD OIL CO. 'jev, .ODOMV 1 4 .• i-1 vr v fc "is# J'