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T-vs, This Issue 16 Pages Vol. 21 No. 7 vV» C?S,l$g with relatives' in Whiteside county, 111., and Saline county, Mo. Inasmuch as the editor Of this paper is usually prying into .the other fel low's business, we presume that it is only fair to our readers to. make a few statements concerning some of the things we did while away. We spent a couple of days and more money than we cared to in Chicago. The writer was born and reared a hundred miles from Chicago, and has visited that unholy city quite fre quently, but never could get much enjoyment out of a sojourn in that burg. We presume that living for more than twenty years out in North Dakota where there's plenty of elbow room and peace and quietude (barring the Usual political storms) has for ever destroyed any desire we may ever haye had for the white lights. The noise, the crowding, the smoke, and the smell of that metropolis got on our nerves until we were glad after two days and a night to leave that city behind. We must modestly admit that we did attract some attention even among the millions there, particularly among the police, not quite all of whom have yet been murdered. Perhaps it was the big white hat that Jim Huyck sold us. Didn't see another one like it in the entire city. Attended Rotary luncheon in Chi cago. Here is where Rotary was born and the Chicago club has nearly 500 members. Forty visitors, that day, from Oklahoma, Iowa, and other states. One. of the Chic Ago Rotarians gave an eloquent address and tried to make everyone think that business is better and the way those fellows down in Chicago "soak" strangers, its no wonder business is good with them. Had heard so much about Frank Bacon and his play, "Lightning" that we risked a couple of dollars and attended the performance in the Blackstone theatre. Bacon played in "Lightning" for three years in New York City and is now on his 36th week in Chicago. He is sixty years old, doesn't have to make up for his part and was always considered a very ordinary actor until he hit upon this play where .he just fits in. Spent several .'very* enjoyable days at the old home town, Sterling, near which city land was selling for as much-as ^$500 an acre two or three years ago. Not much-land changing hands now, and while many lost all they put into their'farms, the farmers who iffe well-to-do are still holding their property high. Found farming very backward in Illinois, in fact thru out the middle west. There was con siderable corn to plant and scarcely any. of it was out of the ground. The soil was so wet that farmers could not get into the fields until late. .. Northern Illinois is one of the most beautiful spots on earth, but the man with ordinary means does not have tiearly the chance to make money that ||e has in North Dakota. You simply* cannot get fair returns on that nign priced land at present prices, no mat ter how much crop the land will pro duce. Enroute to Missouri, we spent a day in Springfield, 111. Visited the Lincoln home where the Emancipator spent seventeen years of his life while prac ticing law in Illinois. The house, a coin, a son of the martyred president, who still lives. A pleasant middle aged woman- is in charge of the home jind we were the only visitors at the home: at the time.. The lady is a -relative of Lincoln's wife and she ap peared to take particular pains to •how us about the premises. She showed as the room where Lincoln stood the night he learned that he was inaugurated^ President of the United States. We saw the old sofa where Lincoln courted his wife and sat: at the big high desk Lincoln used in his law office, while we recorded our name. A visit to the Lincoln tomb was even more interesting. The Lincoln monument is .situated on quite a high hill, in a beautiful park of nine acres. One can stand at one end of the mon ument and look into the vault beneath which lie the remains of our greatest American. A rather massive marble coffin stands in the vault and. here the remains of Lincoln lay for some time. We were informed by the man in charge of the tomb that the body of Lincoln has been interred seventeen different times since it was taken to Springfield from Washington after the assassination of the President. The iy now lies beneath the vault, at th of fifteen feet, the coffin en in steel with twelve feet of solid on top. There will probably again be occasion to disturb remains. The man in charge, a ler De Kalb, 111. newspaperman, the writer that the body was to its present resting place twenty -years ago. He had talked only th^ day before with a Spring field man who assisted in the lastJbur ial and- he stated that the remains were in a remarkable state of presets vation. The man in charge related an in cident familiar no doubt, to manjr ox the readers, but worth mentioning. Sometime after the death of Lincoln, a band of counterfeiters were arrest ed. Several of their confederates who had not been-captured, conceived of SU S* 1 M?}* *2? L" I BACK FROM LAND OF 'POSSUM, PAW PAW AND THE PERSIMMON Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Colcord return- abold plan to get their release. They ed Monday from a two" weeks' visit lie & u!?j" tyred-president and secreted it, hold ing the remains until their pals were release^. One of them informed the authorities of the bold scheme and officers heavily armed secreted them se'lves in a room in the monument, opposite the tomb. When the des peradoes arrived and started to saw the bars of the tomb, they were sur rounded and placed under arrest. In the monument are to be found priceless Lincoln relics, including the saddle bags, the compasses and chains used by Lincoln, when he was a sur veyor in Illinois. Practically all of the original Lincoln photographs are to be found in the monument and it is surprising to note how many times the president "sat" for his pictures. Springfield is a remarkably quiet city of not more than 100,000 inhabi tants. It reminds one of an over grown town made up of retired farm ers. Nobody seems in a hurry. The old fashioned brick paving is so un even that autos couldn't run fast if they wanted to, but there doesn't seem to be much occasion for hurrying. The pedestrians cross the streets in a very leisurely manner and the autos halt until the crowds pass, even tho there are no traffic policemen. There are any number of darkies but they have n't acquired the habits of the noisy northern "niggers". The folks in that locality appear to know how to handle the colored people for the best interests of all concerned. We spent several days in Saline county, Mo., visiting with Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Evans, who resided for. a short time in Ward county. They own one of the finest 160 acre farms in Saline county where land sold for $400 an acre during the period «f high prices and one actually cannot buy the best farms for much less now. The Missouri farmers are raising hogs in order to get a fair price for theii corn. This product sells for around 75 cents a bushel at present, but by feeding it to hogs, the farmer is able to make the corn net him around a dollar a bushel. The season is back ward in Missouri. Many farmers will not finish planting corn until the end of the present Week, Saline county is the richest county in Missouri and is credited with being thefourth richest county in the Unit ed States. lt is the home of the big mule. Wonderful herds of dairy cat tle, all breeds and registered Short horns dot the fields. The winter wheat is heading out., and the clover fields are in blossom. .The apple, cherry, peach and pear trees are wtfll loaded with fruit. The blackberries were in blossom. In fact, they were having what the old time Missourian termed their "blackberry winter", a cool per iod that characterizes' that district about the time the blackberries are in bloom. The air was sweet with the perfume of the honey and black locust trees. The Sycamore, persimmon, the walnut, maple and oak trees ap peared in all their verdure. Never was there a .better, blue grass year, old timers stated. The. mocking birds were singing their .prettiest tunes. The roses were all in bloom and there was a wealth of other flowers, all in bloom and earlier than usual, causing some little worry for fear that most of the flowers would.be gone before Memo rial day. It seemed that there were more el- I I beautiful city of 6,000 ia I the county seat. Marshall prides herself on her beautiful homes and ™an Md°^L voted $199,000 bonds with which to build three new school buildings. A class of 56 young men and women have just completed their course in the Marshall high school. Miss Ruth Evans, a niece of the writer, was a member of the class. The first settlers in Saline county located there during the California gold rush in 1849. They grew weary of the long journey, liked the looks of the country and stopped right there. We visited at the home of an uncle near Marshall, M. D. Maloney, 82 years of age, who has resided on his farm for the past 68 years. There are still many old time southern homes in the county. Visited^ with cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Matthews, who own a famous old southern estate west of Marshall, They occupy an old fashioned southern mansion of fourteen rooms built be fore the war. The house has six fire places. Three of the down stairs rooms are 24 feet square. A big two story porch extends around three sides of the house. When asked if he didn't sometimes get lost in the big house, "Mike" remarked, "Well, I ride a pony to bed every night." Did you ever visit friends in Mis souri? -It not, then you have miss ed much. You cannot possibly meet more hospitable folks. The average Missourian will stop his threshing or any 6ther important work'anv time to entertain a friend. And talk about good things to eat. Hot bis cuits every morning for breakfast, Wtth home cured hani and gravy and eggs fried in the ham. grease, with three or four kinds of preserves to make one eat twice too many bis cuits. Missouri is no place for a fellow who weiphs 230 pounds and wants to get thin, so after a week's sojourn in the land of the 'possum, the nC* T\IE WARD COUNTY INDEPENDENT OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF WARD COUNTY AND THE GITY OF MINOT R'member ASA yw WW ANEtflHIHIAS-nc. ptse PALL PAN—AHO TWO MEMBERS POLICE FORCE DISMISSED HAD AUTO ACCIDENT Following a wild automobile ride at four o'clock Monday morning, which resulted in the knocking down a white way lamp post and damage to the First International Bank building, Patrolmen Bronson and Peoples, oc cupants of the automobile, have been dismissed from the police force by Police Commissioner Otto Gross, and Patrolman, Emanual, owner of the car, has been given a three week's vacation. Bronson and Peoples are said to have been driving rapidly south on Main street and failed to take the turn. The big Hudson Super Six in which they were riding ran up onto the side walk in front of the Citizens persimmon and the 'paw paw, the home of the sweet potato, the-jiugar cane and the red haw, we hi«&o»r selves to the Northland, with* tho pleasantest of memories but with a mighty uncomfortable feeling around our waist* line, and have again taken up the study of Eugene Christian's "Weight Control for Health, Beauty and Efficiency." ed at the request of a Minot man Iteif MthM old family t« V„d»"5" Z2&2 .«?S With green blinds, was presented to tore, a and Dhaeton8IUt'llUl|"ham and" for breakfast for these her" husbamf," Jack M^Carty. a drug Marshall a nix,?y y*?rs.: New Yo.rk May marne8 now adays she is honor fast for better or for worse. member This, at least was the opinion ex- jty THE INDEPENDENT HAS THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY WEEKLY IN THE STATE First Section NOW-M00VW bank, knocking down the white way lamp post. The car served across the street diogonally and came to a halt after it failed to move the First In ternational bank building. The frame cr .^ruck th? bank with terrific free, knocking out a brick or two and the jar broke a plate glass window. The frame of the Hudson -^yas bent and the front axle was sprung. The' officers were not injured. The damage done to the lamp post and the bank building is estimated at $2"0.00 The car is being held at a kcuwl garage by order of Police Com missioner Gross until the amount is paid. hadn't cooked my breakfast more than 20 times," Springier testified. "Cruelty," ruled the court and granted a separation. Seven Out. for Sheriff's Job hern are at present seven candi dates for the nomination for sheriff of Ward county in the June 28 pri maries and it is possible that the' eighth candidate will make his an nouncements Work of Drilling Oil Well to Proceed June 1 I H. S. Johnson, 'manager of the Des their candidacy are A. S. Spicher, at Lacs Western Oil Co., informs the present a county commissioner John Independent that a car load of new J. Nederloe, former sheriff of Ward pipe has been received for the 4.000 county and,now engaged in the auto foot oil well and a new string of tools mobile business Thorwald Hustad, is on the ground. Two 4500 foot son of Erick Hustad, a pioneer Ward cables are expected to arrive this county settler Clarence Vandenoever week and the work of completing the and Chester Jacobson, deputy, sheriffs well will proceed not later than June of Ward county Mr. Avery, who is 1. Mr, Johnson, is.„very optimistic employed in the G. N. rouudhouse.in and states that US' iS" quite confident MinoVand D. F. Seed, a Minot veteri that with the new equipment, the narian. well will be completed within a few Dan Dougherty, former chief of months. The present summer ought police of the city of Minot, who has to determine definitely whether there been engaged" in secret service work is oil in paying quantities in the vi- for the federal prohibition depart vinity of Minot or not. rnent, returned to Minot recently, and Those who have already announced Judge Declares Women Must Cook jt js said that he is considering very The Morning Meal strongly getting into the very inter The following news item, publish- estjng contest. crazed addict, while in discharge of 20.—When a wo- her duties as waitress at a restaurant, where he went to break' and. th^ pressed by Supreme Court Justice Granville. Benedict in the case of Harry Spring ler against his wife, Margaret. The dream merchant is profiteering "We were married in 1917' and she in cocaine. Berlin Tenants Refuse to Vacate This Immense building, .the Palais Btucher, Jong a landmark of Berlin, la the bone of contention In a suit now being conducted In Berlin. An Ameri can purchased the alte, Intending to use the building as Berlin headquarters for a great banking corporation. However, residents of the palals refuse to vacate, despite the American's offer of tenancy In better quarters. a 1 commit the crime J?™seAf- she 0fi»?d the E. D. Gensineer fam- wh0 at one time resided near -ji 3#ji» ».-s*-tr 5- «sr.»r.••^=3.'W1S.jss.vr*!14iV»-•*-vr^y-^ /T5 Minot, Ward County, North Dakota, May 25, 1922 Subscription $2.00 Per Annum *-v^r LEMKE ARRESTED, CHARGE OF FORGERY, MAK1NGFALSE ENTRIES GEO. A. TOTTEN JR.. FACES FORGERY CHARGE Fargo, May 22.—Geo. A. Totten, Jr. who was freed in the federal court to day from a charge of carrying intoxi cating liquor* filed against him last summer as the climax of a hot con test between himself and the majority members of the Nonpartisan league executive committee, was rearrested today on a Cass county jury indict ment, charging him with forgery. Mr. Totten was indicted on two count?, forgery of O. A. Kaldor's name, treasurer of the Nonpartisan league executive committee, to a check of $102, and the cashing of the check. In the federal court the district at torney moved for the dismissal of the liquor charge, saying that a certain beverage seized from Mr. Totten's car was found not to contain alcohol. The charge of forgery was accepted by the grand jury on evidence given by Mr. Kaldor, Harry Lashkowitz and Iver Fossum, and it relates to a check that Totten is accused of intercepting and cashing while he was business manager of the Nonpartisan news paper in Fargo, the check being in tended for the campaign fund of the Nonpartisan league. North Dakota Dairy Record Broken Grand Forks, .N D.—North Da kota's state records in dairy produc tion for all breeds and classes were broken recently when a seven-year old Holstein, Lilac Hedge Colantha, Zubrod 2800579, owned by J. D. Bacon, of Grand Foi'ks, completed a year's record of 25,824.4 pounds of milk con taining 871.82 pounds of butter fat, equivalent to 1089.78 pounds of but ter. During the fourth month of her lac tation period the cow produced as high as 113 pounds of milk a day un der official test, according to J. R. Dice, dairy husbandman at the state Agricultural College. Her milk pro duced more thaij 18 pounds of but ter in seven days during the last month of her yearly test. Testhra Fobs Mercedes De Kol, an other Bacon Holstein, now holds the state record among the senior three year olds. Her complete record shows 18,316.3 pounds of milk containing C14.44 pounds of butter fat equivalent to 768 pounds of butter. A junior two year old'on the «ame farm has a butter fat record to her credit which is large enough to make her a state class leader, although she has com pleted but eight months \of her test. Another seven-year-6ld member of the herd produced 135.5 pounds of milk in a day and 839 pounds a week under test recently. Albert Novak Leaves for Old Home in Bohemia Albert Novak, of the Minot Tailor ing Co., left Wednesday for his old home in Bohemia, where he will spend three months. He was accompanied by his brother Frank of Chicago. It has been 21 years since Mr. Novak left Bohemia and he has not been back since. During that time his parents have died, but three brothers still live there. He will visit Paris and cities in Germany, Holland and Switzerland. Mr. Novak denies the rumor that he is going back to his native land to get a wife, but he states that he does expect to introduce the gamo of curling in that country if possible. The railway and steamship fare will cost him about $500 for the round trin. but he figures that he is entitled to one good vacation every 21 years. He will be back in Minot about Sep tember 1. San Francisco Prepares for Shriners W. H. Reighart, formerly of this city, writing from San Francisco, where he now resides, states that San Francisco is making extensive prepar ations for entertaining the Shriners in June. He is sure they will suc ceed as that city has an abundance of good hotels. He hopes to meet many of his old North Dakota friends at that time. He writes that he sees J. W. Rode and Frank Lyman occa sionally and Miss Mary McKone, of Minot, spent a recent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Reighart. McFarland President of State High School Conference Grand Forks, N. D., May 19— George A. McFarland, Williston, was named president of the state high school conference at its business ses sion lafe yesterday. P. S. Berg, Dickinson L. A. White, Minot C. L. Love, Mandan and the chairman of the university confer ence committee, were named an ex ecutive committee which will take active charge of the high school con ference activities without in any other way changing its character and events held under its auspices. A constitution was adopted outlin ing the plan. Heretofore the high school confer ence has been directed by men con nected with the University of North Dakota. May Brides Are Scarce But five marriage licenses have been issued by Judge Wm. Murray during the month of May so far altho there are prospects of the usual num ber of June brides. A license was issued for Jesse W. Fast, aged 22, and Florence L. Peter son, 20, both of Minot. Fargo, May 19.—William Lemke's former atttorney general of North Dakota and a member of the execu tive committee of the National Non partisan league, was arrested today on indictment of the Cass county grand jury charging him with em bezzlement and the making of false entries. Embezzlement is charged in con nection with the transfer of money from the Bank of North Dakota to the Scandinavian-American Bank of Fargo, the amount being $216,378.79. Two Other Arrests Two other arrests were announced They were those of George A. Totten, Jr., indicted on two counts for for gery, and Lars Christianson, a direc tor and former officer of the defunct Scandinavian-American bank on "tho charge that he made a false report to the state bank examiner under the date of Sept. 16, 1920. Totten is accused of endorsing the name of A. O. Kaldor, treasurer of the state Nonpartisan league executive committee, to a check for $102.70 and cashed it without proper authority. Three Indictments Three indictments were returned against Mr. Lemke on the embezzle ment charge. He is also accused in two other indictments of embezzle ment of two other items of $3,000 each, involving the transfer of money from the Bank of North Dakota to the Fargo bank. All told Mr. Lemke wafc named in six of the 35 indictments re turned, officials said. The charges of embezzlement cover all funds that were transferred from the Bank of North Dakota to the Scandinavian-American bank from the date of the formal opening of the Bank of North Dakota in July, 1918, until the closing of the Fargo bank on February 14, 1921. Lemke Arranges Bond Mr. Lemke appeared today before the clerk of court of Cass county and made arrangements to give bond of $6,000 to guarantee his appearance in the district court of Cass county. The other indictment against Mr. Lemke is that of making a false re port. One thousand dollars for each count was the amount of bond fixed in each case. What Charges Cover While the Bank of North Dakota had no deposit and had loaned to the Scandinavian bank approximately $450,000 at the time the Fargo insti tution was closed the grand jury has accepted for the purpose of its charge only that portion of the amount placed in the Fargo bank during the period of actual existence of the state bank. The additional public money that was in the Fargo bank when it closed was in the main deposited in that insti tution in the two months period prior to the time the state bank was put in operation. Mr. Lemke is charged with aiding and abetting the transfer of all'of that money, which the indict ment charges was ^ov- ,the bene&tr of persons named in the indictments. Forced Girl to Drink, Charge Fargo, N. D., May 19.—An auto, moonshine, and girls led to the arrest at Christine, Richland county, of Clarence Qualley, 28, on a charge of transportnig and furnishing liquor on. May 13, it was announced by Lane Moloney yesterday. Qualley waived examination to the charge and was bound over to district court on $1,000 bonds. The complaint against Qualley, the owner of a pool hall at Christine, al leges he and another man took two Christine girls to a point outside of that town. Qualley then produced some moonshine and offered it to the girls. One girl refused and was forced to drink, the officers claim. Another party came along with a gallon of moonshine and in a short time the girls were intoxicated. They were then taken to a room over the pool hall. After that the girls recol lect nothing. The crime was characterized by Moloney as "the most vicious" ever experienced by him. The girls in sist they did not know Qualley hai liquor when they joined him. Sam Carson, Pioneer Tagus Rancher Died Monday Sam Carson, an early rancher, in the Tagus district, passed away at St. Joseph's hospital Monday morning. He had been an inmate at the county farm for several years. He informed the superintendent, John A. Soren sen that his wife who died some years ago, was buried in a cemetery west of the Minot Normal school and he asked that his remains be interred beside those of his wife, rather than, that the county should bury his body in the potter's field. This request was granted. Carson was past 60 years of age. Altho' it was reported that he owned a valuable estate in Iowa besides having his life insured for a large sum, a telegram received from a nephew, I. E. Carson of Walk er, la., states that he left no property^ of any kind and asked that the rc mains may be buried in Minot. Wealthy Farmer Hangs Self Hillsboro, N. D.—Sever Ellingrud, aged 35, wealthy farmer, eomautfead suicide by hanging from the bant raft ers. Worry over the condition of hi® wife, who was seriously,OT, hut who has recovered, is believed to have been the motive. "Why Hot «inm"