Bismarck, N. D., Aug. 28-—-+~4)—
Gov. A. G. Sorlie, of North Dakota,
died here this morning.

Death was caused by heart disease
from which the Governor has been
critically ill for the past three days.

Arthur Gustave Sorlie was born
April 26. 1874, near Alberta Lea,
Minn. His parents were Iver and
Mary Sorlie, natives of Norway.
When he was 19 years old he came
to North Dakota where he worked
in a bank. operated a general! store
and later became a traveling sales-
man.

In 1907 he entered the fuel, seed
and feed business at Grand Forks.
The enterprise was successful and
the basis for a considerable fortune
which he later accumulated in other
business endeavors.

Despite his extensive interests, the
non-partisan league selected him as
its standard bearer in 1924 and he
won the gubernatorial election after
a hot fight, he was reelected in 1926
but did not seek renomination this
year, saying that he desired to re-
tire to private life at the end of his
term.

The first important act of office
came to Gov. Sorlie when in his first
term he appointed Gerald P. Nye, to
the United States Senate to succeed
Senator E. F. Ladd who died in of-
fice.

Gov. Sorlie’s death brings to the
executive's chair Walter Maddock,
the Lieutenant Governor, who is a
real dirt farmer. He was educated
in the common schools and business
college. Later he studied law and
civil engineering by correspondence.
Since 1906 he ha soperated a farm
‘near Plaza and has been active in
forming several farmer cooperative
associations. He was elected Lieu-
tenant Governor after serving in the
| legislature.

| He was chairman of the North
Dakota delegation to the last Re-
publican National Convention. Had-
dock is married, and has four sons
and a daughter.
 
Los Angeles, Aug. 27 (A bill
ef complaint demanding an ac-
of $10,000,000 was filed in
the U. S&S. district court today
against Edward 1. Doheny and the
Pan-American Petroleum and Trans-
po company. The bill, which
charges that e«tockholders of the
company lost this sum through 4l-
feged fraud on the part of Doheny
$m the famous Elk Hills ol! scandal,
was filed by a Los Angeles law
rm on behalf of Frank H. Kan-
el, attorney, of Cincinnati, who
b t the euit in the interests
of himself and other stockholders.
The bill declares that the $10,000,-
000 was lost by the stockholders
golely because Doheny acted frand-
wlently in connection with the leas-
from former Secretary of the
Anterior Albert B, Fall of the Elk
Hills naval oj] reserve, and through
farge sums spent in development
of the fields themselves, and else-
where in connection with the deal
Jt demands that an accounting b¢
made by Doheny and that such
as was expended in the al-
leged giving of a $100,000 bribe t
Fall, and in the development of th
fraudulently leased fields, be re
furned to the stockholders.
_ The complaint declares that neith.
er Kunkel nor the other stock
holders had any hand in the al

ery
money and that the board had don
pothing. He also demands tha
hen the accounting is rendered
court issue a decree and judg
againet Doheny com, pell ing
im personally to repay this mone:
te © wt) wlders,
 