Bismark, N. D., Aug. 28.—(AP)—A.
G. Sorlie, rovernor of North Dakota,
died here this morning. Death was
caused by heart disease from wricn
the governor had been critically ill
for the past three days.

Arthur Gustave Sorlie was born
April 26, 1874, near Alderta Lea,
Minn. THis 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 bax,
operated a general store. and. Jater
became a traveling salesman.

In 1907 he entered the fuel, seed
and feed business: at Grand Forks as
A. G. Sorlie and Company. The enter-
prise was successful and was 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
ae fizht with R. A. Nestos, the: Re-
publican incumbent. He was reelected
{in 1926, but did not seck renomina-
tion this year, saying that he desired
to retire to private life at the end of
his term.

In 1900 Gov. Sorlie married Miss
Jennie Odegard, who died later. In
41919 he married Miss Grace Hilleboe
at Grand Forks.

The first important act of office
came to Goy. Sorlie when in his first
‘jterm he appointed Gerald P. Nye tc
jthe United states senate to succeer
Senator E. F. Ladd who died in office
 
| 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,
 