EISMIGTOCR, ive Sead AUG, 0.4 0V.. Ae
G. Sortie, of Notth Dakota, died at the
éxecutive mansion here at 3:45 elslork

ithie morning.

Death carne after an illness of more
than a month, during the last four
|days.of which his condition had been

erttical. He was 5 euttering with heart

disease.

Although the governor had suffered
from heart disease for several years
hia condition waa ,not. considered
alarming until recently.

Weary hours {n an automobile un-
der a blazing summer sun placed the

governor under a terrific strain and
when he returned home his physician
ordered hint to bed for a complete
rest, From that time his condition
gradually grew worse.

" Walter Maddock, of Plaza, who gue:
ceeds Gov, Sorile as the state's ex-
excutive, will arrive in the state cap-
ital teday to assume his duties,
4. Gov. Sorlie’s death brings to the
executive’s chair. Walter Maddock,
the ‘Heytenant. governot, who is a real
dirt. i gitoald And. ae rated, iWithe. made

     

 

Ga fle aM tad sUaiy|

: Se not in’ “recognition ‘dt!
services of: the: fonpartigan, league he
a’ member “of: tha: legistature: and ‘his
experience as a law maker. He! wal
chalrman ofthe north Dakota’ dele-

gation to the last republican ‘national
convention. °° «

In.1906 Gov. Maddock’ ‘married Mins
Marguerite Tlerney,”of Grand Forks.
They have four gongs and a daughter,

Gustav Sorlle: was‘ born April 26,

1874, near Albert Lea, Minn. His par-
entu were Iver and Mary Sorile, na-
tives of Norway, When he wus 19
years old he came to North Dakota,
where he worked In-a bank, operated
a general store.and then became @
traveling saleaman,
Yn 1907 he launched In the fuel, seed
and feed business at Grand Forks ‘as
A. G. Sorlle & Co. The enterprize
was successful.and was the basis for
a considerable fortune which he later
accumulated {11 other business ven |
deavors, ‘>:

Despite his extensive favacaays,) the
nonpartisan league selected hin as its
standard beayer in 1924 and he won
the gubernatorial: election after a hot
fight with R. A, Nestos, the republican
Incumbent. He was re-elected in 1926,
but ald not seek the renomination this
year, saying he desired to retire .to
private Ule at the end of hie term.
 
| Los Angeles, Aug. 28.--(1—A
bill of complaint demanding an ac-
counting of $10,000,000 was filed in
the U. S. district court Monday
against Edward L. Doheny and
the Pan-American Petroleum and
Transport company.

The bill, which charges that
stockholders of the company lost
this sum through alleged fraud on
the part of Doheny in the famous
Elk Hills ofl scandal, was filed by
a Los Angeles law firm on behalf
of Frank H. Kunkel, attorney = of
Cincinnati, who brought the suit in
the interest of himself and other
stockholders.

The bill declares the $10,000,000
was lost by the stockholders solely
because Doheny acted fraudulently
in connection with the leasing from
‘former Secretary of the Interior Al-
Bert B. Fall of the Elk Hills naval
oil reserve, and through large sums
spent ip development of the fields
themselves, and elsewhere in con-
nection with the deal. It demands
that an accounting be made by Do
heny and that such money as was
expended in the alleged giving of a
$100,000 bribe to Fall, and in the de
velopment of the fraudulently leas
ed fields, be returned to the stock
holders,
 