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m-:- S H. ,x:. ^-...: .... ,:'j„,. This Issue 16 Pages Vol. 20 No. 51 TOWNLEY REIGNS AS PRESl DM OF NONPARTISAN LEAGUE Fargo, March 25.—A. C. Townley, president of the Nonpartisan League, tendered his resignation at the North Dakota league convention, to take ef fect March 31. Townley addressed the convention for nearly three hours. Townley was at his best today as he faced his accusers, and when he finished, fully three-fourths of the delegates arose in their places and gave three rousing cheers at the sug gestion of one of the delegates. "Now it is our common misfortune that this convention is not. as har-, monious as some of the past ones have been," said Townley, as he near ed the close of his talk. "I have made no attack on mem bers of the committee. I have not used the National Leader as I could have done as a personal organ to at tack men who diner from me. "This is not the first time there have been differences, but we have kept them where they belong. If there has been" trouble between a bookkeeper and a stenographer it has been kept where it belonged. We have not taken it to the whole mem bership if an organizer has not re ported one postdated check. I de sired to maintain peace and harmony in tfce organisation as long as I was on the job. There can be no big suc cess unless we are united, you have got to be bigger men than you have shown yourselves at this convention. "It has been and still is a great movement. The members will drag the last penny they have out of their cupboard and send it in to carry on the battle but they have to have confidence in their leaders to.do it.' Thirning in the direction of Lieder bach, Mr. Townley said: "I have lost their confidence, you have destroyed my work you have come nearly wrecking the thing I would have wrecked myself to build you have shaken their faith in themselves you have shaken their faith in Lynn J. Frarier and my God how you have destroyed Bill Lemke. There are lots of things abput Lemke I do1 not like and disagree with-him on. I don't like his house, but I love Bill Lemke, All you see is his house. "My only qualification for leader ship was what" service I was able to give. I can 'be of no efficient service any more but this movement is greater than any one man or any group of. men. I have given my whole life to it,'the best in me. I cannot go out and give to any other movement what I have given to the league, but I have got to a point now where I can be .of no more service to it. You have destroyed me here. I cannot work without the confidence of men so will clear the way now and make it easier for you. Now I shall resign— not only from the Nonpartisan League organization but also from the na tional committee so that others may take up the work I can not carry on." Townley said his resignation would take effect after March 31,. which is the date of the Minnesota convention. Dr. L. H. Kermott is spending a week in Seattle, visiting relatives and attending to business. •a* This creek runs between the Blair farm and a store at which they trade and they were going to the, store with team and wagon when the drowning occured. The creek is ustially shal low enough to drive through at the crossing used but had swollen until .the water was almost to the brim. •When they reached the crossing Mr. Blair drove the horses into the water and not finding footing they lurched forward and began to swim. The .wagon box floated off the wagon and upset. Mr. Blair clung to the lines and was pulled across the stream by the swimming horses. When he looked around he saw his wife cling ing to some weeds on the opposite side of the stream which she was -close enough to clutch when she was thrown from the overturning wagon box. He managed to get her out of the water and then turned his atten tion to his son who was a hundred §|feet or more distant in the middle of fQgfthe) creek and being carried toward S§Sthe* Missouri river into which it emp ®|jties by the swift current* He swam out io rescue him but before reaching t&hini the boy sank and when he came pto the surface again* was some dis- :tance further down, the stream. Mr. -Blair was overcome by cramps ahd and compelled to abandon his effort to save Harold who sank a second time and did not come to the surface again. When the neighborhood was noti fied of the drowning every effort was made to recover the body but without 'Sj iT avail. The creek is so unusually deep 'Vv'-and the current so swift that it is not Improbable that the body will be re covered until the high water recedes, wire netting has been extended Famous Child Actor Selected for Film In casting "The Prodigal Judge," the Vitagraph special, which will be shown at the Orpheum Theatre on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of next week every child actor in and about New York was considered for the role of Hannibal, and Charles Eaton, who is playing, a number role in the Winter Garden show, was selected as the most perfect type for* the part. Negotiations were entered into with the management of the New York Winter Garden and he was tem porarily released for the production. Other members in the play consist of the Cavendish children—six in num ber. Several hundred children were interviewed for the part and it was finally decided to select Mrs. Mary Curren for the role of Mrs. Hicks, and her six children for the Cavendish chil dren. This was done in order that the mother might accompany the children and that being on the set they would feel more at home ahd enact their parts with greater realism. A more perfect family for the production could not be found. The children when lined up form a perfect pair of stairs. Buy-in-Minot" is Slogan Adopted by Conference Body "Buy-in-Minot" was the official slogan adopted by the special com mittee composed of presidients of the Minot Association of Commerce, Town Criers, Rotary and Kiwanis clubs in conference last evening. The committee is heartily in favor of endorsing a general "buying-at home" campaign, which campaign would be of benefit to all Minot con cerns. To that end this committee decided that they would sponsor and conduct a general "buy-at-home" ad vertising campaign in the following manner: The Town Criers will be asked to furnish copy for a series of advertisements, advocating this prin ciple, to be inserted in local newspa pers. The copy is to be first approved by this committee and this same committee is to attend to the secur ing of space in the various news papers and to conduct the campaign '.n general. Estevan Man Secures Stolen Diamond in Minot Paul Ronning, of Estevan, Sask., arrived in Minot Saturday to claim his $300.00 diamond ring which was taken from his finger by Normal Campbell, he claims, as Ronning was asleep in a chair in an Estevan hotel. Ronning suspected that Campbell had taken the ring, also $50 or $60 which were extracted from his pockets. He telegraphed Sheriff Scofield who ar rested Campbell at the Soo station. Ronning did not ask for the return of his money, being satisfied to get the ring back. He did not prefer a charge against Campbell. "I am a pretty sound sleeper and a few of my friends and mysejf had been holding a little social session. I did not know that I had been robbed until I awoke some hours later. I did not wish Campbell arrested as he is a returned soldier and crippled in one arm," Ronning said. RABB BOY DROWNS IN SWOLLEN ^STREAM MOTHER NEAR DEATH Ryder, March, 23.—A tragic drown ing occured on Sunday, March 12, when Harold, the 11 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Al. Blair, who live on a farm near Raub, lost his life in Lucky Mound creek. across the stream to keep the body from being carried into the Missouri river by the current. The production will be put on en tirely by local talent, most of whom have never before faced the glaring footlights. It .takes a mighty brave man to face a critical audience, es pecially when he has never before ap peared as an entertainer, but those Mtthall mien insist that their baseball team must be financed. Mohall will have a strong team this year, which is being organized by J. H. Foster, business manager. Montana Man Disappeared .in Minot Attyf C. B. Davis has received a letter from Coffee Creek, Mont., in quiring for John Tinjim, whose wife has not heard from him since last harvest while he was working in the vicinity of Minot. Mrs. Tinjim fears that he has met with foul play. He had a reputation for being a good steady fellow. Tinjim is described as a laborer, 82 years of age, 6 feet tall and weight 1-70 pounds blonde hair, blue eyes. He is an Odd Fel low and a Woodman. On Oct. 13, 1922, he sent his wife money from Minot. John Reed Goes to Seattle John E. Reed, former captain of police, left Tuesday for Seattle, Wash., where he expects to accept a position as special agent with a rail way company. Mr. Reed left_ Minot just 22 years to a day since his arri val from issouri.. T™™_r Mohall Merry Minstrels to Boost Local Baseball Club O. A. Schieber, Mohall merchant,, was in Minot Tuesday and placed an I have been here, averaging up order for several thousand attractive programs for a burnt cork production to be put on by twenty Mohall busi nessmen in the interests of the Mohall baseball team. *t-~ TI E WARD COUNTY INDEPENDENT OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF WARD COUNTY AND THE CITY OF MINOT Fargo Wins State Basket Ball Title The Fargo high school basketball team won the state .championship in Fargo Saturday night, winning from Egeland, 25 to 10. Egeland put up a game fight, tho the score was one sided. Egeland upset all the dope, wading thru Bismarck and Valley City. Minot was defeated Friday night by Valley City, 21 to 17 in a hotly con tested game. During the first game Fargo easily defeated Kenmare, 52 to 24 and Grand Forks beat Dickinson, 44 to 13. Ege land won from Bismarck, 21 to 16, and also defeated Valley City, last year's champions, 20 to 11. t° „come MINOT, DICKINSON, WILLISTON LANDOFHCES TO CONSOLIDATE •5— Bismarck/ March 25.—All United States land offices in North Dakota will be consolidated in the Bismarck office. Official notice of the change was re ceived at the land office here today in a communication from Land Com missioner William Spry. The Dickinson, Minot and Williston offices will be discontinued, and all of their records will be shipped to the Bismarck office. The change probably means the ad- dition of two or three clerks in the dition there are offices of the Bureau local land office and will bring many visitors to the city during thie year to transact business. "Under the specific terms of the bill making appropriations for the department of the interior for the fis cal year, ending June 30, 1923, it will be necessary to discontinue the offices at Dickinson, Minot and Williston and to consolidate the records at Bis marck," says the letter of Mr. Spry. Economy Move The consolidation plan was first in augurated by the government by combining thie offices of receiver and register into one office in the various land offices. Because of the decrease in business of the North Dakota offi due to settlement of lands, it has been the policy of the govern- lan, Towner deputy sheriff, after the ment to reduce the expense of admin- officers had fired -several shots. Ar istration accordingly. The same plan raigned at Cando the men pleaded is being used in Montana and other' guilty. John Vojta, charged with Northwest states. The drastic cuts' making home brew is still at large, made by the present Congress in its economy program, partly as a resuljt of the budget system, has also had its part "in" the reduction- of the land office forces. Letters have been sent by the land commissioner to Willisto'ft, Dickinson and Mniot to furnish 12 MILES FROM HOME WENT 180 TO REACH IT Fessenden, N. D., March 25.— Prevented by impassable roads from going direct from Fessenden to his home near Hamberg, 12 miles away, Frank Stenberg traveled 180 miles by rail via Minot to reach-it. 5 tj,e than ill the land I own in Iowa. be determined and witnessed, not only "We need better farming methods the farmer himself, "but also by here. We have room for many good neighbors. The meetings will be farmers and I believe that they are ^eid coming. I would most certainly ad- Marjh t0 talks^r publication northwestern North Dakota." I Mr. Kann is one of Minot's most substantial citizens. His name sel dom gets into print because he never i^i v,» trn THE INDEPENDENT HAS THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY WEEKLY IN THE STATE First Section V. R. Asbury to Marfage Western Grocery V. R. Asbury, credit manager for the Northern States Power Co. for several years, has accepted a posi tion as manager of the Western Gro cery Co. and will take charge April Mr. Asbury was engaged for nine years as grocery salesman for the J. E. Allen Co. of St. Paul and is thoroly experienced in the business. Mr. Asbury is regarded as a hustler ahd will undoubtedly make a fine record with the Western Grocery, just as he has in his work with the Northern States. the records that can be shipped here. The Bismarck office is ordered to re port upon available space for taking care of the records. An inspector of the land office will come to Bismarck soon to make a survey. Federal Building Populated The federal building here is now .tftken up largely with federal offices, since Judge Miller has established fed eral court chambers here and a divi sion office of the Internal Revenue department has been created. In ad of Animal Industry and the public Health Service. _VO. E. Anderson, of Bismarck, will assume charge of the land office here April 9. The 1920 statement of the land office showed that 81,044 acres of land are unappropriated and unre served, open for settlement. Three Prisoners Escape Three prisoners escaped from the Cando jail by tunneling from the jail into the anteroom, then picking the locks on two doors. Frank Jeuth, held for burglary and rape and Even Sparbl, charged with rape, were cap tured near Joslyn by Al Johnson, state enforcement detective and Geo. Moy- A Correction .^TK' Independent recently published an Item concerning the age "of Mrs. Joseph Clementich, who is said to be the oldest Ward county resident. She is 93 years of age, whereas the statement of item stated she was 83. MADE GOOD INTEREST ON FARM INVESTMENT DURING 14 YEARS J. J. Kann, well known financier of this city, will put? into crop approxi mately 3,000 acres of land this spring. A large part of it will be sown to wheat and other small grain, how ever, on each farm there will be con siderable corn and potatoes. Mr. Kann owns no large tracts, his farms being scattered thruo'ut the county and tenants are in charge of all of them. "I came to Minot from northeastern Iowa fourteen years ago and have been farming ever since. I invested City Jail a Popular Place There are many "floaters" in Minot daily. Capt. Gross states that from half a. dozen to a dozen men, mostly from the south looking for work, are accomodated at the jail each night, vhere they apply for sleeping quarters The city jail has been thoroly reno vated and painted a pure' white. It is really an attractive place and Mr. Gross believes that business will now pick up. The painting was done at an opportune time by a St. Paul painter who was given ten days for in considerable North Dakota land for shop lifting. The fellow and his I believed that I saw a good profit wife, both said, to be dope fiends, had in owning it. Back at Elkador, la., stolen many articles from Minot where I came from it is hard to make stores, trading them for dope. a fair percentage on one's investment in land, notwithstanding the soil is County Agents to hold Conference splendid. Out here in Ward county .County* agents of the state will you can still find plenty of land that meet at the four sectional conferences can be bought at $25 and $30 an acre during the last of March to plan their and very good land too. I have never programs of work for 1922, particu failed to make a good profit from my larly their demonstration work. These North Dakota land during the 14 years demonstrations consists .of trials by I have been here, averaging up the farmers of practices recommended by years and find it much easier to make state Agricultural college so that a good percentage on my investment Minot, Ward County, North Dakota, March 30, 1922 Subscription $2.00 Per Annum ]oca] value of these practices can at .Bismarck March 24 Minot, 2? Grand Fork March 29 and Fargo, March 30. Editors Will Erect Tablet for Roose velt at Medora a Editorial Association, will visit Me- dora» N- the conservative Roosevelt, during his ranching days, jMr. Kann comes from richest sections in Iowa where he was interested in farming all his life, un-, til he located in Mfiot. He is also home of Theodore on July enroute to Missoula, Mont., one of the ftw their annual convention. Ar rangements are being made to erect a tab!6t to th-e interested in a large bank in Elkador 1,1^} He informs the Independent v»t.the petnfied Iowa. that there is a little town of 200 in habitants near Elkador, which is seven miles from a railroad. The town boasts one general store, a garage, a hardware store and two banks, each of which have footings of more than a million dollars. These banks are located in the heart of a rich farming community. Their depositors are practically all farmers, some of whom have $15,000 or $20,000 on deposit memory of. the great forest and the Roosevelt ranch near Medora at that time. Pitominent Soo Officials Visit Minot G. S. Baxter, superintendent of.the Dakota division of the. Soo, G. W. Hawes, general agent, F. L. Thomp son, traveling freight agent and T. E. Sands, freight traffic manager, were in Minot Friday conferring with E. J. McGrath, local'agent. These men ani showing, a great deal of interest in the development of northwestern North Dakota and are among our best boosters in the "100,000 More" set tlers campaign. A. D. Hagenstein and E. B. Mc Cutcheon were in Stanley Sunday af ternoon, where a Masonic Service film was shown. A Masonic lecture was delivered by Mr. McCutcheon. 11 v- rV* fsrx r~"7-TTj]" LEAGUE NOMINATES COMPLETE TICKET BAKER FOR GOVERNOR Last of Carrington Family Dies Coldwater, Mich., March 25.—Wil liam Shiflet, formerly of Carrington, N. D. died here last night from the effects of tuberculosis, from which he had been suffering for the last several years. The family of Mr. Shiflet—a wife and three children—is said to be in destitute circumstances and friends of the family have begun a move to take up a subscription for it. The funeral will be held Monday, expen ses for which will be born, partly, by the county. The death of Mr. Shiftlet, whose earthly end was not quite as tragic as was that of the other members of the family—mother, found dead with hole from shotgun through her head father, found dead in a straw stack near Carrington, and the bro ther, Anfield, who was charged with having killed his father, committed suicide when he saw authorities com ing toward him, while he was plow ing, marks the family's end. They had intended to arrest him. May Hold County Fair Next Fall A. S. Spicher, one of our county commissioners, states that in all prob ability Ward county will hold a county fair next fall on its new grounds, just east of the city, recently purchased from the Western Bankers In v. Co. for $20,000. Mr. Spicher states that it is hoped that a grandstand may be built the coming summer, the lower portion of concrete and the room on the main floor to be used for exhibits. Two foot bridges are to be built during the coming summer, one connecting the grounds with Riverside park. Normal Teachers Back from Cali fornia Miss Huldah Winsted and Mrs. John B. Perkett, members of the faculty of the Minot Normal school, returned last week from Los Angeles, Calif., where they spent several months tak ing special work in the souhtern branch of the University of California. They had been given a leave of ab sence from the Minot Normal and have resumed their positions. Mrs. Perkett was accompanied by her moth er, Mrs. Cotton, who was in Califor nia with her. Officers Find $1,000 Worth of Liquor Federal officers Wednesday after noon siezed $1,000 worth of Pebbleford and Sunnybrook whiskey, found secreted beneath a stairway in the residence of Carl Bergquist, 211 Second St. S. E. Bergquist will be arrested. Oflficers searched place three months ago, but found no liqUor. At the time there was a door near the stairway, but this had been closed and the space neatly plastered and kalsomined. The Van Hook Tribune published a fine sixteen-page special edition last week, advertising a farmers' institute held there March 29. The merchants all co-operated by investing in space liberally and advertising special in ducements to draw crowds from a long distance. This kind of co-operation will make any town succeed. which Ole Fladager shot and injured elst of Mfnnt "'j6 THE NONPARTISAN TICKET United States Senator— Lynn J. Frazier Hoople Congressmen— 1st Dist., P. A. Moeller~Ender)in 2nd, John Sherman Steele 3rd, J. H. Sinclair Kenmare Governor— _B. F. Baker Glenbum Lieutenant Governor— E. A. Bowman Kulm Secretary of State— H. H. Aaker Grand Forke State Auditor— D. C. Poindexter Jamestown State Treasurer— Obert Olson Bowman Insurance Commissioner— S. A. Olsness Bismarck Comm'r Agr. & Labor— W. J. Church York Attorney General- Peter Garberg Hettinger Supt. of Public Instruction— Miss Fanny Amidon.Valley City Railroad Commissioners— Frank Milhollan Bismarck C. W. McDonald Bismarck Fay Harding Braddock Justices of Supreme Court— m, Wm. Hanson in the leg. I Minot, suffered exposure late Wm. Hanson and H. McLean it is I KL alleged, were after Fladager to do! him bodily injury, and report has it' Pneumoma that when Fladager was cornered he pulled a gun and fired in self defense.' At the trial Fladager was set at 2? were bound over to the district court and would most certainly vote for a mai:'5 3.» A Father and BowbeHs by 125 Aft»r a H. Grace Bismarck MVT* EnB,ert urday. SnT„, 0„„ "t liberty while Hanson and McLean! ^ears.of1.L-ge S? lerf Valley CStv Geo. E. Wallace Wahpeton th J5Laboy? is the ticket endorsed bv at FaSo Tifn '®a£ue c°nvention held Thursday- Frid*.v and Sat- Townky's balance of power plan was not considered and the LiederfiaS faction lost control of the state Un' a new c°mmittee being named as follows: Sen. W. Church iW Welfo?dntPeformer mSmer Senator Waiter son county Senator" Waiter Mrs. c. A. John Bloom of Devils Lake arv S. Da vies of Grand aiiJ tioned in connectfon ®enr mmistiation of rhJ. il„ Courier-.News the new 3gUe ioS™? paPer' 1.Gtru°srs2,r cent of ed, Gronna's na,m was the delei'J.' S^ate- When the Liedertiarh tefore the convention per- ng. for W™- co"n»ttee iail- n0t CVen W name of H. H. Aak-^r Forks, was presented for but when B. F. Baker 'em, PIONEER SETTLER STRICKEN BY PARALYSIS DIES FROM EXPOSURE Fladager Acquitted, Other Men Held A preliminary hearing was held at1 naralv^J Stanley Saturday before Justice Wil- Jwfii helpless in the snow son in the Sanish shooting case in r^rfino- nrf"0• of Grand governor, presented, he received^! "ame endorsement Aal-ov was j-unanJmousmoth* Aaker seconding tion making it such. Aaker also wanted the nomination for lieutenant: governor, but had to be satisfied with secretary of state. B. F. Baker, the league candidate for governor, is at present state sen ator from Renville county, having been elected two years ago. During the. last session of the legislature, he was prominent in the work of the senate investigating committee, the league majority of which gave all the state industries a cluan bill of health. Mr. Baker resides on a farm two miles east ol Gien'ourn where he has lived for fifteen years. Before coming to North Dakota, he resided in northern Illinois, where he was superintendent of schools at Chadwick and Warren, 111. He is a product of the Illinois State Normal school. P^1at11S of.thr?e h(u,r* e", JohnsOT1 m,IeS his li fe 4 P- ear'y mornmS- He. contracted as a result of lying :n the 1,1 Friday, during the mi» Mr- J°hnson, who was and one of the o]ciosc ln th,s part of under $1,000 bonds each. started to go to the barn. His coh tmued absence alarmed his aged wife Donnybrook Man Favors New Court wfs North Dakota, alone in the House ?lfT1,e ^fter 6 p. m. she started cut to E. Gatehouse, prominent Donny-' i°-° missing man. She found brook hardware dealer, was in Minot ?t!m.ly,ng Paralyzed in the snow in Friday. While the people of Minot' re. ,.arn having, been suddenly have become resigned to their fate!8 jCj" house and some a. and never hope to see a new court down into the snow where the house built, Mr. Galehouse volunteered wSes ^e^un cover him. the statement that the people up in his district were becoming heartily ashamed of the antiquated structure ^a"en against some hay Mrs. Johnson 60 years of en deavored to drag her husband into the entry way of the barn but was -jnai5ie do new one if ever given an opportunity. ?n *oot alone thru the storin to T~—:—~— ^e home of a neighbor, Mrs. Marv May Robson in It Pays to Smile" Kamp, a half mile distant. He]t was. May Kobson, popular American dra- called and Mr. Johnson was carried to appeared at the high scboo' his bed. Death came abort 12:25 auditorium last Thursday evening to' o'clock Monday morning. a fair sized audience. Those who1 Mr. Johnson was born in Sweden went were well repaid for the excel- but came to America many vears atro fo™»mIlPany««UD0n a sp'en. ?i3 Per" Sr®,,lived U/ayaJ° an Smi,e is much for him. She finally set for two or opportunity to appear at in this section since that time, the last 27 years on the homestead on Father and wl"ch Sons hanmioM! *1 or Mondav 1uis** saar -Mr.Ek- dress. Several games of indoor base ball were played between the fathers and sons. The affair was very suc cessful. he died. He was married 12 years aS° to Miss Carrie Sun- They have no children. attended Johnson leaves a brother—Jens Miss Delia Hadler, daughter of Mr. and Mis. Wm. Hadler, is recovering from an operation for appendicitis in a local hospital. •1 three"years'at Willmar, and came to the .AI:not ter- delightful comedy which gave Miss ritory in 1887 or 1888. He had lived