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This Issue 16 Pa Vol. 21 No. 29 1 Col. Hildreth, district attorney, re ported ,that the Case would be retried at an early date during the present term. The government presented two wit nesses, Martin Gilbertsen, a Bottineau county farmer living 40 miles north of the city, and Cliff Wentz, who is serving a year in the state peniten tiary, to prove that Reed and Lano had visited the Gilbertsen farm on the afternoon of March 21, 1921, and had taken approximately 18 cases of whiskey which Wentz, a self confess ed whiskey runner had secreted in the high weeds of a hog lot adjoining the barn yard. The government's wit nesses stated that Reed and Lano had carried the whiskey in sacks and in bottles in their arms from the lot, placing them in two cars, then drove away towards Minot. Wentz stated that he had broken the crank case of his Cadillac car north of the Gilbert sen farm, which is located along the highway used by whiskey runners and had finally driven the car into the Gilbertsen farm leaving it there while the radiator, which had frozen, was brot to Minot for repairs, Wentz ac companied by his pal, one Howe, who was not used as a witness, and a neighbor of Gilbertsen's, accompan ied the latter to Minot where repairs were made. Wentz and Howe stayed at the rooms over the Troy laundry that night and did some drinking while in Minot. Shortly after their return from Minot that afternoon, they said a Hudson car, evidently a highjacking car, drove up to the Gilbertsen farm, then drove on hall' a mile where it ap peared to become stalled. Wentz said that when himself and Howe were putting on the radiator of the car, the two men supposed to be high jackers walked into the barn lot and told them to stick up their hands. Howe threw up his hands, but Weritz did not do so, as'he was working un der the car. He said the highjackers, known to him as Chuck and Slippery Bill, kept them covered for more than an hour, the former pointing a gun at them which he had concealed in his coat pocket. Wentz and Gilbertsen say that two cars carrying Reed, Lano and another man soon appeared and drove into the barnyard. The testimony of both the govern ment's witnesses and those for the defense, coincide largely up to this point, but Reed, Lano and Geo. Wart chow, occupants of«tho two cars t.ell a far different story from there on. The three witnesses for the defense told practically the same story, sub stantially, as follows. Reed had been watching Wentz and Howe when they were in Minot and seeing them with Martin Gilbertsen, suspected that the Gilbertsen farm was a rendezvous for highjackers. At LBE GORDON CASE On motion of Asst. U. S. District Attorney NUchols, the case of the United States vs. Abe Gordon, Minot clothing merchant, Judge Miller dis missed the action in federal court Tuesday morning. A- Balerud, assistant cashier of the Union National Bank, and which the government alleged the defend ant had concealed from the referee in bankruptcy at the time he filed a petition in bankruptcy. The government in the indictment set out that the certificates had been signed by one "Jos. Jauma, Assistant Cashier of the Union National Bank," whereas it was shown by the defense that an error had been made in the name, which should have appeared as "B. A. Balerud". On this ground, the defense claimed that there might have been other certificates of de posit, and for this reason moved that the introduction of these certificates of deposit be barred. When the Judge sustained the motion, this left the government without any evidence against the defendant. 1 Col. Hildreth, district attorney, stated that the government would bring the matter to the attention of the next grand jury and an attempt would be made to have the defendant indicted a second time. Attorneys Francis Murphy and L. J. Palda, Jr., appeared for the de fense. At the opening of the case, the government stated that it would at tempt to prove that the defendant had placed $2,500 in the bank shortly before he became bankrupt, securing certificates of deposit, and asking that these certificates be attached to a note for $2,500.00, but not as any •'e^'IWL1^*a-a^jssfeyj^tfj*tJSfcCft2»*ia^*igtogh»3g»gtt%ragya^»»aL^ws«-*r«-»V'jf-i1I^Tf"^T-'*Tt,^,-.l^i^"K^^T'?-[^-*J*1 ^"'-*^1 |1--V*?Jn' JURY DISkOEED IN JOHN REED AND CHAS. LANO LIQUOR CASE The jury, after deliberating for 18 hours in the case of the government vs. J. E. Reed and Chas. Lano, charg ed with transporting liquor, failed to agree, and Judge Miller discharged thi? jurors after, they had so reported at 10 o'clock this morning. The fore man .reported that the jurors were about equally divided. the time Reed was Captain of Police of the city of Minot. He said he wanted to get into the camp of the highjackers and look them over and possibly arrest them if the proper op portunity arose. Accordingly, he called Chas. Lano, former chief of police, and Geo. Wartchow, then sup erintendent of the Minot waterworks, telling them he wanted them to ac company him. Lano knew Where Gil bertsen's farm is located, having re sided at Mohall not far distant for 17 years. The men drove over mud roads in two seven-passenger cars, made a search of the Gilbertson farm for highjackers, saw one fellow known as "Dirty Face" who carried his hands in his coat pockets as tho pointing two guns at Reed. The man wasn't arrested as the defendants say that they thot they might have been covered by his confederates at the time, possibly secreted about the buildings. Both Reed and Lano say they saw a man, presumed to be a highjacker, hiking across the field go ing away from the Gilbertsen farm. They denied seeing any whiskey on the farm, said they didn't go there for whiskey and they were supported by Wartchow in their testimony. Wart chow says his business was to take the number of Wentz's car, which he did, saying, "Where is the whiskey?" as he walked up to the car. He said he was not looking for whiskey, but merely wanted to engage them in conversation. The defendants and Wartchow say they spent about 20 minutes at the Gilbertsen farm, then drove back towards Minot, arriving at 9 o'clock that night. When about 15 miles north of Minot, two high powered cars with flash lights, coming from the north passed them and blocked the highway. Reed got out and he was blinded by the flashlights. Wart chow's car took to the ditch and went around. The two cars, suspect ed of being driven by highjackers moved on as soon as the occupants recognized Reed. Wentz's car was stolen that night, according to his testimony, by ten at twelve men who visited the Gilbertsen farm after dark. Wentz says he later paid $300 reward to W. H. Sibbald, a Minot attorney, who was instrumen tal in locating the ear at Nashua, Mont., and Reed who worked on the case admitted that he ..received $250 of this money. The defense attempted to show that the testimony of Wentz and Gilbertsen was a frame-up, accusing Wentz of being angry at Reed for what he thot was the officer's part in the car deal. The defense inferred that Gilbeytsen's reason for swearing as he did was to save himself from prosecution for using his farm as a rendezvous for whiskey runners. Dudley L. Nash was the attorney for the defense. Mrs. !\I. L. Venaas, formerly Miss Esther Darby of this city, returned to her home, Santa Maria, Calif., af ter visiting Minot friends and rela tives. Her husband is enjoying a very successful dry cleaning business in California. ERROR MADE IN COPYING NAME, DISMISSED security on the note, which had al ready been secured by an assignment 1 This was1done after the Judge had granted the motion of the attorneys for the defense to prohibit the intro duction of three certificates of de posit, aggregating $2,500.00, which had been issued to the defendant, by 15. of rents. "Human Hearts" Story of Real People "Human Hearts", which comes to I the Orpheum theatre on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next week, is one photoplay that depends upon the oft-neglected factors of a real story and perfect cast for success. The scenic background and other set tings are beautiful but they are kept in the background where they belong. The script is the same as that of the famous'old Hal Reid play which was the king of the stagje a decade ago. House Peters plays the leading role of Tom Logan with Edith Hallor as his leading woftian. Both players are prime favorites with the theatre-go ers and are ideally cast in their re spective parts. King Baggot, director of the pic ture,- had played the role of Tom Lo gan in stock many times, and has al ways declared the play his favorite hence, when he was chosen to take charge of the production, he used the greatest care in the selection of hte cast. Among the favorites playing important roles are Russell Simpson, Gertrude Claire, George Hackathorne, George W. West, Lucretia Harris, Ramsey Wallace, Mafy Philbin, II. S. Karr and Snitz Edwards. NEW SAWYER BANK Bismarck, N. D., Oct. 25.—Articles of incorporation filed with the secre tary of state include: Northwestern State bank of Saw yer capital stock, $15,000 incorpora tors, Edward S. Lee, Minneapolis Peter Kulaas, Minot John K. Borg, Crosby. Gackle Realty company, Kulm capital stock $80,000 incorporators, Martin W". Gackle, Otto Gackle, John 6. Gackle, Gottfried Gackle, Kulm Geo. Gackle, Sr., Minneapolis. OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF WARD.<p></p>COUNTY ^vanfasiwr'iraTiii. [ffil (OeprHv" Good-Bye SEE YOU ALL PAV Sanish Man Writes About Grain Grades Sanish, N. D., Oct. 23, 1922. Ward County Independent: 1 have been going to write you for some time but owing to pressure of business, it seemed I could not get at it. I have been a subscriber to your paper, since the Spring of 1911, in fact I subscribed for it before I moved out on the first farm I rented, after coming to North Dakota. 1 have just read your article in the last issue, about the North Dakota Grain Grades (which of course is a thing of the past). Now understand I do not accuse you of writing the ar ticle, but any way, it appeared in your paper. Your article is very much misleading, and I doubt very much whether you understand the argument you are trying to hand us. In the first place, the paying for dockage was to apply to (lockage that had some value in it, not for ground^ up flax straw or chaff. Now I will just cite you one instance, and let you draw your own conclusions. A neigh bor of mine who joins me on the south, broke out 90 acres for the first crop. He put it in flax. The next year he rented this same 90 acres, double disced it and seeded it to wheat. He cut the wheat and as is usually the case, there was a lot of volunteer flax in it. He took itJto.tbe, elevator and was told it contained 8 per cent flax, or 8 bushels of flax to every 100 bushels of wheat. At that time and I think it was in 1918, flax was worth about $4.40 or $4.45 a bu shel, he got something over 75 bu shels of flax, which he got the market price for less the cost of cleaning. Now that was just one farmer, and I could cite you to dozens of them, that had the same thing. Now under the rule we are working today, he would have been docked 8 per cent and the elevator man would have poc keted the flax money and you seem to think that is all right, but I have fail ed to see anything in your paper about this robbing scheme they are using to test the weight of weat. You might take a walk down to one of your nearest elevators, and watch them test the weight, when a farmer brings in a load of wheat, watch them pour it into their little funnel, and then run it into the container that they use to weigh it. In that way, they can make 00 lb. wheat weigh 58 lbs. or \*ir.d if it weighs less then it is No. 2.. The trouble with you fellows is you run so much of that piffle of old Geo. IE COUNTY AND THE CITY OF MINOT "ARD INDEPENDENT THE INDEPENDENT HAS THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY WEEKLY IN THE STATE First Section ItM! Murray's that you got to believing it yourselves. You fellows have given more space arguing this grain grades than anything else the League has done. Now, no doubt your time is very valuable, and I should not take up any more of it, but I consider my time is just as valuable as yours, and if 1 can afford to take the time to write this, it is up to you to read it. going to hand you, it relates to an article on the same page, same issue. It is the one about the Home Building Association. You seem to go into hysterics over the money the state lost by this scheme. The amount, so your article says, amounts to the horrible sum of $152,000, or about ten cents apiece for every person in the state. Now, then, tell us, where to find the article in your valuable sheet, where you raised your humble voice against some of the deals that were pulled off during the war. Tell us something about that bunch of sad dles that were purchased for the army. We are told( and on pretty good authority) that each horse and mule was supplied with eleven sad dles each, 5 halters,/four brushes and that every mounted officer was sup plied with 36 sets of spurs, and in the Year of Our Lord 1922 the govern or nt is offering for sale (and this iituV years after the war is over) 300,000 kegs of horse shoes or enough to give every horse and mule a new I pair of shoes every day including Sunday, that the Army owned, and then the Soldier Boys would have had enough left, to have several pitching contests. Now, tell us something of the millions, yes, hundreds of mil lions of the people's money that was squandered during the war, and then set it up along side of this $152,0000 and see how insignificent it looks. I am with kind personal regards. Yours truly, CHAS. A. PLATT. Auto Struck Cow Near Surrey A man whose name we cannot learn, struck a cow while driving on the Roosevelt highway a short dis tance east of Surrey Monday night. Mis car was put out of commission and it was necessary for him to send to Minot for a service car. The cow must have received some injury. II. O. Kjorsvik of Drayton, N. 1).. is spending the week in Minot, re ceiving treatment from a nose special ist. BUY A SACK OF POTATOES' The Minot Association of Commerce has mailed an appeal to the men and women of northwestern Nortn Dakota urging them to "Buy Potatoes Now" and he^p create a market for the splendid potatoes produced this section of North Dakota this year. The appeal points out that money can be saved by buying potatoes at this time when the price is at the bottom and the marketing of a part of the crop, now congested on farms or at shipping points, will aid materially in bring ing the farmers a fair return for their year's work. D. E. Mair met with the board of directors of the Association of Commerce Tuesday and urged that Ihe Association launch such a campaign for this section of North Dakota and also urge clubs m_ other cities towns of the state to relay this advice to the people of their immediate territories. The campaign was started in Minnesota a short time ago and rading :he potato producers of that state. The Association has sent its appeal to the men n,nd women of Minot and several hundred towns in what is regarded as Minot's trade territory. "The opportunity is golden," President C. E. Dan ielson of the Association stated today, "for the people of Minot and Northwestern North Dakota to save money and at the same time render a real service to the potato producers of this section. Let's buy at least apart of our supply of potatoes now, start the product moving and we will all benefit by it. Potatoes will not be as cheap next week as they are now. It doesn't matter who you buy them from—but be sure and buy now." Minot, Ward County, North ,Dakota, October 26, 1922 Subscription $2.00 Per Annum I have another little slap I am and CONFESS TO BEING IMPLICATED INWESTHOPE MARSHAL MURDER Kiwanis Weekly Meeting The Minot Kiwanis Club enjoyed the usual luncheon served by the Guild, in the basement of the Episco pal Church. The meeting was well attended. Visitors who spoke at the meeting were Walter E. Gordon for merly of Indiana, now of the Minot State Normal, Manual Training De partment Oscar Herum, Carpio. Frederick Vollmer, Minot, favored the members with several violin solos. F. L. Blume was the-speaker on the subject of the "Bar" as related to soft: drinking and soda fountains, giv ing the members some statistics showing how the increased business in the particular line has created a demand for cream, milk, nuts, choco late and other confectionery, as well as the fine marble, a large share of which is imported to this country. S. S. Morgan was the story teller. The attendance prize offered by John A. Corbett was awarded to Ed. Schrepel. W. E. Tooley acted as' chairman. Frank Rose Wins Important Point, in Court Frank Rose, better known as ''Dago Frank", charged with having liquor in his possession, won an important point in federal court Wednesday I morning when Judge Miller granted the motion made by Rose's attorney, G. W. Twiford, that the evidence be suppressed, on the grounds that what ever evidence had been secured had been ordered destroyed, and also on the grounds that the officers had searched the Rose room in the Grams block without a legal warrant. This virtually means an acquittal for Rose. There are numerous other cases Cold Snap Damaged Potatoes A. C. Erb hauled five wagon loads of potatoes to Minot Saturday only to find that he had to take all but one load home in order to sort them over by hand to pick out the frosted pota toes. Mr. Erb raised 60 acres of the finest kind of potatoes and himself and family worked very hard, digging the crop. The potatoes were placed in piles and covered with straw, but the cold snap did considerable damage. E. J. Aymond, north of the city, raised 160 acres of potatoes this yea''.: He harvested several carloads and placed them on the market before the cold snap, but quite an acreage is in the ground yet. Mr. Aymond start-, ed digging the remainder of his crop Tuesday and will sort them very care fully to get rid of the frosted potatoes. La Follette Not Coming to Minot Senator Bob La Follette of Wis consin, who is scheduled to visit the eastern part of the state soon in the interests of Frazier's candidacy, can not come to Minot, as expected. La Follette recently won the republican nomination for Senator in his state, passing his nearest competitor by ov-. i- 22:1,000 votes. VELVA JOU Dan K. Weigle, St. Caul, to Speak Here Civic Week, Beginning Nov. 19 I The board of directors of the Minot 1 Association of Commerce, have decid ed to make the week of Nov. 19, Civic Week in this city and will concentrate jon .ieviving the community spirit throughout the city. Minot citizens have always been I foremost in community work but need a little brushing up in the school of civic education occasionally. Dan E. Weigle, the noted eommun I ity worker and orator from St. Paul, has been engaged to come here during that week to speak before the various clubs and civic organizations. The week starts out with Civic Sun day, Nov. 19, when the pastors of our various churches are expected to deliver sermons appropriate- to the occasion. Four Men Charged With {tabbing Eckman Store I Four suspicious characters arrest ed in Minot were taken to Bottineau by Sheriff Hennessy Sunday charged with robbing a stove at !".:i. One of the men had watch which wa identified by the Eckman merchant by the cost mark which it still carried. 'Hie men arrested are known as IJlair, (.'i.-iy, Ryan, James Doyle and Jackson, alias "Oklahoma Kid". Bismarck 12 Minot 0 The Minot high school football team journeyed to Bismarck where they were defeated by the Capital City team Saturday, 12 to 0. The local boys fought hard but went up against a stiff team and luck was a trifle against them in the bargain. About 60 Minot fans accompanied them. Harry Patterson and Earl Kyle, two of the five men arrested by' Sheriff Scofield and Deputies at Kenmare, re cently, were taken to Bottineau Sun day by Sheriff Hennessy, charged with being implicated in the murder of Car] Peterson, night watchman at West hope recently. Kyle has made a confession to the effect that he was in the car the night of the murder. Patterson he says drove the car to Westhope and Kyle cut the wires leading out of the city. He says he was invited to go with the men and presumed that they were going to Canada for whiskey. In stead they planned on robbing the hardware store at Westhope. The marshal was shot and killed by one of the men who robbed the store. They were known to him only as Whitie and Blackie and he was sitting in the car waiting for them to come out. He heard the shots and says the men came running to the ear and said: Step on her and go like hell. We had to knock one fellow over." The car the men used was a Buick stolen from a Harvey man. This car was later located at Columbus by Deputy Vandenoever. The sheriff was up recently from Fessenden and took Kyle back as a witness but could not hold him as Bottineau county wanted him on the murder charge. Both Kyle and Patterson have confess ed to the part they took in the af fair. Joe Kraemer and Jack Long, serv ing sentences in the Ward county jail charged with vagrancy, were accused by Kyle and Patterson as being the men who stole the Buick at Harvey. It was thru the automobile that of ficers got some tangible evidence which lead to the arrest of the men who did the job at Westhope. The officers followed the car from West hope to Maxbass and found that the men had broken into an oil station there. The Buick was seen going thru Mohall and an acquaintance rec ognized Earl Kyle of Kenmare as one ot the occupants of the car. 1 that will undoubtedly be dismissed on the grounds that illegal search of the premises was made, the judge rul ing that officers have no right to en ter a man's residence or his place of business in search of liquor, without having a valid search warrant in his possession. Mrs. A. P. Blonde's Father Died in Wisconsin Mrs. A. P. Blonde received a tele gram stating that her father, Soren Herum, aged 90, had passed away at his farm home near River Falls, Wis., Tuesday evening and left Wednesday afternoon to attend the funeral which will be held Friday. Mr. Herum was ••one of the oldest settlers in that vicin i'y and was the father of a large family. His wife who is 80 years of ago survives. Oscar Herum, cashier of the First National Rank of Carpio, is a son. He also left to attend the funeral. The deceased resided for 08 years on his farm continuously and never allowed his taxes to become delinquent once, never had a mortgage- on the farm or ever gave a note to anyone. Gov. Nestos Spoke at Mohall Governor Nestos passed thru Minot Wednesday afternoon by auto en route to Mohall where he delivered an address at an entertainment given by the Catholic church of that city. John J. Coyle, .J. F. McGuire, .and others attended the affair which was very successful. IF DO. Th'j Velva Journal, published by \Y. II. Francis, is a c-indidate for the xifieial r.ew.-tiaper J'eHenry county and the name of the Journal will ap pear on the general ballot. The McIIenry county Farmers I'ress. at Towner is now the official paper of. that county and it is presumed that it will again be a candidate. Hav ing had the honors for more than two years, or ever since the new law went into effect, it is only right that some other newspaper should bo chosen. The Velva Journal is admirably equipped to handle the work. Mr. Francis recently installed a modern e- ettirg machine, lie is an ex cellent printer himself, publishes one ot the very newsiest papers ii: this section of the state and has a largo circulation thruout 3!c)Ioriry county. The Ji.utnal is er.tiiled to b? chosen and tiie Independent e-. to see lire. Fi ant is win. Cretty Girl Draws Ten Days for Vagrancy Rose Brantner, a pretty nineteen r-f.id girl, was A Grand Forks farm hand secured Armistice Day Ball a quantity of intoxicating liquor by The American Legion has rented tapping" the bottom of a silo. The the Scottish Rite Home for a big ball concoction is said to possess a death to be held on the evening of Armistice dealing kick. Day. .u\{ tJ•':/.'iit- 4 1 arrested by li the Mi: po- !!.• on a vagrancy charge and she is n_w under tai care ol' the police ma L.. n. Mrs. Campbell. Rose arrived in Minot wearing neat fitting Khaki coat and pants, en gaged a room at the Dacotah hotel where she lived without visible means of support. She told the police that she had worked but two days all the time she had been in Minot. Rose has a beautiful head of bobbed hair, bewitching eyes and is really too good looking to be without protection. She claims her father lives at Miles City, Mont. j, i| §:iH S" "wmpammm