The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 6, 1916, Page 1

~~ " me Snow and Colder K TRI BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6, 1916. Fall of. AUDITOR IS MADE QUARTERS “FOR CONVENTION Big Attendance Forced Farmers to Abandon Union Hall Ware- house-for Larger Quarters TWO HUNDRED DELEGATES OPEN FIRST DAY MEETING Bismarck in All Probability Will Be Chosen as Convention City for 1917 Confronted by an attendance which, when President ‘R. J. J, Montgomery of Tappen, called the meeting to or- der, patked the’ main and __ second floors ad the halls, members of the Farmers’ Educational Union of Amer- ica, abandoned. their convention quar- ters in Farmers’ ‘union hall’ shortly. after 10:30 o'clock this morning and moved'in a body to the Bismarck. audi- torium. | v +4 More than 200 delegates are in at- tendance at the first convention of the union which was perfected in Bis- marck on March 31, last, with R, J. J. Montgomery of Tappen, as presfdent; J. W. Knepper of Goodrich, vice presi- dent, D. E. Shipley, formerly of, Dick- inson but now of Bismarck, as secre- tary-treasurer, if % All the executive officers are present with the members of the board, of directors, composed of William Breen, UNITED PRESS , FIVE GENTS | Bucharest | New Head of Oil King’s F oundation RASEFUNDS TD. [Eaeland To |L0YD CEORCE LIFT DEBT ON | "Crake Coat) TD HEAD NEW ~ WAR MINISTRY Refusal of Bonar Law To Form Cabinet Means Welshman’s if Formers of Northwest in Few Minutes Subscribe Over. $1,000 of $3,000 Asked WAY: 8 3 D PROTEST Selection GOVERNOR-ELECT FRAZIER Everything Is Belog Done To Ef.| ASQUITH'S DOWNFALL DUE GETS GREAT OVATION 8t. Paul Auditorium Packed With Members of American So. ciety of Equity. GIVE 200 ACRES. St. Paul, Deo. 6—Mr.-and Mrs. G, ‘W. Orange .of Jamestown, en- fect s Modieation of - TO HIS UNPOPULARITY Order Washington, o, 6—Fresh trouble between the United States and Eng- _[land impends because of the British decision to allow only English ships and warships tay ring the cause of the Allies to coalat. British coaling stations, PR Ee Coalition Arrangement Not Get- ting Result Demanded by Pub- lic Opinion in England London, Dec. 6. is authoritative- ly stated that Bonar Law has definite- ly declined King George's offer to route to California to spend the form'a new cabinet following the re- A F winter, visited the convention this up eee tie apie nbely eee signation of Lloyd George as head of PAID OL Levine ae sn fat: ing England’s pleasure about. furnish-|the war department. ae é acres ‘for, the, tng suppliss eat oe This means that Lloyd George will international law<exports doubted if|pe calle 1 reunion 1 the, United -Statee:will be able to ac-locs ner ae wit tea DR. GEORGE E. VINCENT: pan. orn)... complish much excepting to put them- ny accent. ia : : selyes on record against such a pre-| A®sauith’s downfall was due to public eR he acer ten of D., on the stage. compat ba tert is being done to|opinion—not political intrigue. Lloyd e Minnesota university, will in May vy 2 effect a modification of the rule, for it| George’s attitud - resign that: position to become presi- ve years re jane cane an tew, means a serious restriction of Ameri- son ot ike Star tortie iowa ihe deat pt he Biccketelier Posntscions arate Conere Sean Kelly of Mi, | can trade to the Philippines and South | present ministry and the inaptitude of position now ‘by John D. Rocke- i : i C feller, Jr, Last year the foundation | ¢7°*: 5. D., said Wilson owes his Sk opptatinent' ana, — tance _b spent, largely for war relief, $3,643,-|' ¢[ection to the women’s vote and Lioyd George of an offer to form the 377. Dr. Vincent ts 52 years of age.| Mould, support woman's suffr: ; t new ministry is expected motientar: He was born at Pockhil} Il, : -St. Paul, Dec, 6.—Responding spon- BS 4 ily. King George has summoned 7 taneously to an appeat for relief, the rf Lloyd George to the palace. After a of Bismarck; A. H. Anderson, of Bel- field; E. Youngberg, of ‘Woodworth; ‘Frank Mehring, of Melville, and Otto Wendt, of Judson, aah Calls for Larger Quarters. H. B. Curtis (of McClusky, N. sounded the first: call for larger quar- ters to house the convention. Presi- dent Montgomery placed the proposi- tion ‘before the members. Before the matter was definitely. settled there was'a movement toward ‘the Bismarck. auditorium. -There the members. of the union today are sowing th rop _for “wise leadershigy’ tA; the, keynote ‘of A eating A Was not, known. this afternoon how * long . it ‘would take the convention to harveat ita first \buginess matters. «Matters may be ‘threshed out today and prob- ably. not ,unti}l: tomorrow,;. Most of the not expect more than a: two-day session. . ‘Committee, Appointments, i The committee appointments which was scheduled to come. up this morn- ing will notbe; announced until ;fate today. A tentative list was made up this morning will not be announced Until late today. A tentative list was made up this morning, but was not complete at the hour of adjournment this noon. A oe Concensus of most of the delegates seemed to be that: Montgomery will ‘be re-elected president as there has developed no. opposition. Bismarck, because of its central location, is fav- ored as the convention city for 1917 or for the second annual meeting. Wives of many, of the members are also in attendance. - Big delegations from -Wilton, Wing and other: points’ arrived "this after- noon by automobile. : Evans a Speaker Today. St W. B. Evans of Bismarck, ex-organ- izer of the: Farmers’ Educational Union of America, was a speaker late this morning. He stated that he felt proud to be a member of the august body of farmers, who, meet today “in ‘ the interests of the man who tills the soil,” , : “Organization is the keynote of the Farmers’ Education union or in fhct hl avery other union. With a wise leaa- ership we can go on to victory. No ‘body of people rises above its leaders. ‘We should be careful to elect wise and faithful leaders,” he said. } The credentials committee, consist- ing of Arthur Johnson of Tappen; E. N. Kennedy of Woodworth, and C. F. Linsley of Regan—the first commit- tee to be appointed—went at its work shortly before the noon ‘hour and is expected to have its report completer in order to present it before the meet: ” ing this afternoon. Matters relating to the good of the union as to whether the name was fit ting to be called national when it was more of a state organization, were dis- cussed up to the hour of adjournment at noon. i High Cost of Living. The high cost of living is subject for an airing before the convention, according to statements made by the + executive members. Resolutions con- demning the constant soaring of pric- e8 will doubtlessly be adopted and for- { “—(Continued.on Page Three.) _ Navy Heads Open Bids Washington, Dec. 6.—Bids were % opened at the navy department today for the construction of four battle cruisers, the first vessels of this class to be built for the United States navy. They will cost $25,000,000 apiece. The legal maximum which the bid- ders must meet is $16,500,000, exclu- sive of armor and guns. They will have a speed of 35 knots, a length of between 825 and 860 feet, a little un- der 200,000 horsepower, 33,000 tons displacement, - electric propelling ma- chinery and a main battery of 15-inch | farmers in session here today raised q conference with Bonar Law, who re- $1,027 in a few minutes to lift a mort- 4 i fused to accept the post, the king sent gage of $3,300 with accrued interest] — word to the former war minister. on the home of the widow and child- i ; Lloyd George visited Bonar Law af- ren of,.George S. Loftus, the late lead- | ter Law had seen the king, er of the Equity forces in the north- The fall of the Asquith ministry west, © : had but little effect upon the Stock 2 Benjamin Drake, Minneapolis, attor- Ans Exchange or ‘business. THe tone was i ney for Equity,:explatned the widow's 5 : ‘distinctively better than it. has been plight. Undoubtedly the entire amount] Indications snp] of late. da, Rapa to free the home from encumbrance ‘i i War loans are changing hands fre- Sy will be raised soon: A fund raised in House Stook quently. They were high at 981-2. The premier’s decision to resign and advise the king to summon An- drew Eonar Law to form a ‘cabinet was taken after a.day. of extraordl- Fargo sometime ago gave Mrs, Loftus Governor Knows Nothing of $1,400. 9. | 2 si aa | ¢ ity. Thera were constant comings or. He spoke chiefly. of the Seattle LOVE and goings of the: political leaders e : fea f port Gorauaibsion,, sated te apmualcinal ‘ paren ond ree between Downing street and the vari. JUSTICES-ELECT ANXIOUS ed pane Sh Pr tka termes * Fargo, N. D. Dec. 6.-There will be] ous government departments. Mr. To G UTH RIT EARLY may consign ‘their grain.’ He said No, split between “the Non-partisan} Asquith met several Unionist leaders | TO GET Al ORITY through this, $100,000. have geen saved | league and the Equity over their con-| in consultation, including Earl Curzon, Governor Hanna this morning de-|to the farmers during the last. five] flicting packing plant propositions, if Lan Roper Cecil, ‘and: the Karl of niet knowledge of rumors ¢urrent ae years. how. Equity Spread . | President Patrick M.’ Casey of the a the. capitol yesterday to the effect that y: How, Equity Spreads. J 3 the chief executive would withhold} Representative Magnus Johnson of rage over eare lane -Cos his signature from the certificates of|Minnesota told-the convention . how bat senident A. C. Townley: of the election for the justices elect until the)the Equity movement is spreading to ma per isan. league, can prevent. ) provisional supreme court, which| Minnesota and will soon envelope this| | Cs8ey" stopped in Fargo this week, meets tomorrow, could have time to} state. |Johnéon: said men in St. Paul] CDroute to St. Paul for the big Equity rule abot ee question of the. date] posing as Equity members are really Nene While here, he saw Town- upon which terms of: new justices ’ . 3 i attempting to destroy ‘the — farmers “We can’t afford to. fight,” said ¢ set ony: absolutely néthing -aWint| ae, Townley “I know. absolutely no} ing about Reference to government ownership] « 2 ; such ara said Governor Hanna o¢ ratiways as a remedy for.the high ue ate agente ouldeermad “In view of the fact that the cer-| “ot Leonia biaber plant; we're bound to’ have it,” said| ° 2 ‘ownley. : ——_— tificate of election as printed and as always issued heretofore provide that the justices-elect’ shall. serve ‘from Doubtless resolutions opposing the} = « o pd »| Baltimore, Md., Dec. 6.—A gift of proposed food embargo will be formed GaN ioe: EAT we campscraltrate, ten thousand lire, about $2,000, from the first Monday in December,’ would |@24 forwarded before the adjournment] ‘go in the near future there will be| the Apostolic See of Rome, around you consider your signature to these|f the Equity convention tomorrow. |» conference which may result in the| Which the children of America are certificates as a quasi-official recogni- Clean Sweep Planned. Equity’s. co-operative plant becoming | Ursed to build a large fund for further tion of the claims of the present jus-|_ Plans to carry. the Non-Partisan|a state-owned plant,'in which event |félief of the children Belgium, is an- ticeselect, and an apparent . decision league to South Dakota, Montana and] some’ $200,000. which has been paid nounced in\an autograph letter from upon your part in a matter now be-|lowa were explained by E. A. Bowman| for shares. will be refunded the pur-|Pope Benedict to Cardinal Gibbons, fore the supreme court? jot Fargo. He said it was the object of] chasers. In the meantime, no more|made public here today. The Pope “I have «given that matter no|the league to sweep things before/#quity Co-operative Packing Plant] has been moved to his appeal to Amer- thought,” said the governor. them’ as they had done in North Da-| stock will be offeréd for sale. ican children by a recent report from May Not Get ’Em Today kota at the’ recent election. i President. Townley says: “We want| Herbert C. Hoover, chairman of the Every effort, apparently, is being] Every seat and nearly all standing] to suggest that the people-of the state | Commission for Relief in Belgium, de-! made by the contending forces at the}room utilized when Governoy-elect} await th@;outcome of this conference | scribing “the pitiable situation of capitol to delay the issuing of .cer-| Frazier of North Dakota spoke at the] before' they buy any more stock in|numerous Belgian children who, dur- tificates of election until after the pro-| municipal auditorium Tuesday after-] the proposed Equity plant. Mr. Casey |ing two sad years, have been suffer- visional supreme court has had its|noon, “Frazier urged the farmers to] agrees in this.” ing from the lack of that proper nour- say tomorrow afternoon. Yesterday , 4 es Mase Goadhrow L cabnbe tay ead Rotert: Kee, Vevearold, farmer of America, together with the message er we will get to the issuing of cer- Sanborn, N. D., spoke next. by which Cardinal Gibbons is trans- tificates or not.”. Draw Pictures. mitting the appeal to the bishops fol- No Exception to be Made There was a short informal talk by low: The secretary of state’s office al-|J. M. Baer, cartoonist of Fargo Non- Se ways has issued all certificates of|Partisan Leader. He drew pictures —— NORTH DAKOTA FARMERS election in a batch. When the can-lof the leaders prominent in Equity]. ror the reason that the ‘main wit- INTO BADGER STATE yassing board met this morning it|circles and those who took part in the ? —— | still had the figures on ‘the congres-| recent political upheaval in North Da-|"€85 for the defense, Mrs. 'W. C. Stark-) Madison, Wis., Dec. 6—Over 600 | sional contests to check over and all) kota. weather, is ill in the hospital and that | farmers, representing wealth of over of the canvassing as to legislative| L, D, Hall of the federal department| it is believed by Judge Hanley that to| $1,009,000,000, arrived here today to contests, the non-partisan school bal-| of agriculture made a brief talk. take ti fore h study farming conditions in Wiscon-| lot, and the four special issues was| pr. L. S, Platou, former mayor of testimony: before a jury at the) cin as shown at the state university | yet to be done. Valley City, N. D., sent the following hospital, as was recommended by the| college of agriculture. After a day) when fo of the por ot kee, can-| mesage oe . ¢. attorney for the defendant, would in- | here, the farmers will proceed ie Chi- vassing rd is comp! , the board} «; fluence the jury to be ‘ial to the|cago, for three days at the Interna- will certify to the secretary of state Usenet La ee anit, oy defendant ae the ater view of| tional Livestock show. Three rail- the results which it has found. Then, prevents, je. irom & deh kK ‘ -der | ways co-operated in bringing the par- great convention. Please convey my|SYmpathy, the Starkweather’ murder 3 ¢ f : and not till them, will the secretary of trial has been postponed for 14 days.|ty, totaling 647, and including 27} state be authorized to isaue certificates | best wishes to the thousands of Equity} 7) tot Mrs, Starkweather time | women, from North Dakota. Of clection to the successful condi. | farmers with the hope that their ef-|This will give Mrs. Starkweather time Gegiuc eiecarhateciens . forts will meet with still greater suc-|to recover sufficiently to appear in the| J niana MAYOR TO STRIKE . y dates. Several Must Sign cess. The solution of the problem is| district court to testify in behalf of AT HIGH COST OF LIVING: The certificates of election must ap-| Co-operation.” Soe EE ‘Chleage, Dec. ¢- Mayor, Benjany pear over the signatures of the gov-| R. O. Richards of Huron, S. D., BURGLARS CHLOROFORM Bosse of Evansville, Ind., while await- ernor, the secretary of state and one| whose primary law demanding that Lima, 0., Dec. 6—Nine per. | ing congressional action to reduce the | other member of the canvassing| candidates meet in debates before the Son vy high cost of living, expects to do this | 4 8, members of the family of E. high cost o} > EXD é board. Will waren Wer OW primaries ba Ga a ean his A. Wilson, 40 years old, a barker: him: elf by putting the municipality Friends of the justices-elect claim Sbeararbes at an ideal direct primary) “were- found unconscious this | in the prodire ed with Dn ec ees that if they are denied their seats now, Dedication of a $200,000 Equity ex- tagherehiorstorncd teatime, tee FS Se a Be Folatbegeand: ottier| they will when they take office Janu-| change elevator—a monument to open! escaping wtih $27. % food products, which he will sell to! 0 Ey IN —-bnery ‘yortical’ exeltement and activ.) ary 1, throw out everythifig done by) ynspeculative marketing of grain— Z the public direct from the cars, thus the supreme court in the interim. | was the principal feature of the ses- 7 a eliminating the middle-man’s profit. Justice-eléct ‘Robinson, commenting 7 contioed Oi Pare Tireehs0. on the contention that: the seating’ of CCantiued oi" Pare Taree) * | ———___—_ a) the justices-elect at this time will in- | volve the rearguing of all cases now | NEWSPAPER WOMAN, argued and on the calendar, assumes | MURDER CONVICT that inasmuch as the arguments in | GOES TO PRISON these actions have been heard by the Qa ‘ d ETT TAT two holdover members of the court, it Thompson Falls Mont., ‘Dec. 6. ‘would be an exceptional instance in ‘ A which the court would find re-argu- Washington, Dec. 6.—Repre- —Miss Edith Colby, the newspa- meht necessary. sentative Lindberg of. Minnesota per woman charged with the Provisional Court Completed today introduced a resolution de- shooting of A. C. Thomas, a prom. R. D. Hoskins, clerk of the su-| manding an immediate conference inent politician, was convicted to- preme-court, yesterday announced the} of the senate and house foreign re- day of second degree murder and completion of the provisional court] lations committees with the presi- sentenced to two to ten years in panel_of five as followa:. Charles A.| dent to formulate plans for peace the penitentiary. ‘ (Continued on Page Three), negotiations, i Miss Colby’s counsel appealed. | { | i | | u i ‘Chase immediately delivering the} has amassed a fortune, mostly by Manic TELTONS Age Gey STRUCTION aio) (WANK HRY Invasion of Russian Soil Next Objective and Dash to Black { Sea is DESPERATE RESISTANCE =| POSTPONES OCCUPATION Everywhere Mackensen’s and Falkenhayn’s Armies Are Ad- vancing Toward Capital | BUCHAREST FALLS Berlin, Dec. 6—It is of- : ficially announced that Buch- “OSCAR MEDANIBLS. arest and Ploesti have been ‘ . Proprietor of McKenzie Now En Route to Chicago to Purch- ase Furniture St. Joseph, Mo. Dec. 6.—Oscar D. conquered. 5 ! ‘McDaniels, prosecuting attorney of} With Ge Buchanan county, was acquitted by a Ab eracany tte at Etese Ree. jury in the criminal court here to-] | at's fate is only a matter night of the charge of having murder. |! @ few days. Only the desperate Ru: ed aes fiarriet Moss -MeDantels, his | manian resistance can delay the capi« wife. e. verdict ended one of the | tals ie most sensational trials ever held in ot ea baal tet Gd Weatoriiatvacurt: parently is. not Bucharest alone.. In- stead, the object is to destroy the Ru- manian army, preparatory to an in- vasion of Russia through the fertile Bessarabia and Odessa, as the main objective. Pierce ‘Rumanian Front. ‘| ,Continued German attacks are be- ing made on Bucharest from the north in the direction of Tergovistea in the Polishti region and around Pokanesh- / ti. Reportp state that they have béen successful.’ These assaults _ have ‘| plerced the Rumanian front.and the crear Rumanians have been forced to re- treat. ihe i Capture Gooty. i Berlin reports further ‘capture | of : war material and prisonets.in Ruma- nia, ‘Mackensen is victoriously: fight ing his’ way to. the railway. from’ Bi: Fine, charest to Ploesti and Campine. HISTORIC HOSTELRY WILL ; tHe RussleDe. ut occupied the a heights west .o! jablonitza in. the > “BE-READY FOR ASSEMBLY | Wooded Carpathtans, vat were foreg to release it under ‘violent a iiery: HY The Old Northwest hotel, for six| fire. ; years past used as the North Dakota Arora aagels bhai boron ee ‘Industrial Exposition building, is to be ee the onthe aeetoht ey “acti tty, reopened as ‘a hotel about the first of} An official statement’ from (Paris the year by E. G. Patterson, formerly | Says that the ‘Serbians’ ‘ conquered lessee of the Northwest, and proprie-| SMe strong positions north of Gruntt- tor of the hotels McKenzie,.S if za and the Bulgarian defenders yes +800 and) terday were retreating northward. Grand Palace. f Battles for the possession of ap- Authoritative announcement to this} Proaches fo Trotush, Rutle and Tched- effect was made at the Hotel McKen- iniash and the Uza Doftiana valley in zie today. Mr. and Mrs. Patterson aru Transylvania) are /ecmeianine: dan, it first occupied the site where the Northern Pacific passenger station now stands, The passenger depot then closed with brick. The Northwest has not been used a8 a hotel since the conse Pater perry th dead completion of the McKenzie. ticable to live well on 40 cents a day, lease. The total weight of the 12 this a parr morning was 1,866 pounds, as compar. ed to-1,825 at the beginning of the MAMMEGA CASE 10 experiment. A. J. Stokes, the heavyweight and the only member now on their way to Chicago to pur- % ‘ chase furniture tor the hostelry, which will be conducted as a medium-priced, European hotel, occupied one corner of the ‘hotel. When the site was required for a new The building and site are the prop- erty of the Northern Pacific railroad pa ort paierem osrren who has not gained, showed a weight JURY---VERDIGT WAY of 223 pounds, as against 223 1-4 twe weeks ago. Henry Gehring, who be- gan the test weighing 161 1-2 pounds, The Northwest is Bismarck’s. 10st station, the hotel was moved to its CEN MENUS company, from whom Mr. Patterson is day of the health department’s two BE REACHED TONIGHT showed an increase of 8 1-2 pounds. At the final meal tonight one of the historical guest-house. As the Sheri- present site, and the walis were en- Chicago, Dec. 6.—Chicago’s dieting. understood to have procured a long! weeks’ test. most elaborate dinners of the experi- p 3 . ment was to be served. The menu Judge Coffey Outlined Delicate! inciuded Turkish soup, roast loin of . * pork with cranberry sauce, sweet po and Complicated Situations to | tatoes, scalloped onions, rice pudding, Jury and Its Duty tea, bread and butter. ene VILLA MAKING CAMP TO (Special to The Tribune). Jamestown, N. D., Dec. 6.—The fate SPLIT LOOT WITH MEN of Albert Mamenga, charged with the] 1 Paso, Texas, Dec. 6—A. code murder of: his neighbor, Andrew Son-| message received today indicates that nek, on the morning of September 12,| Villa, with 5,000 bandit troops, is mak- 1916, while the two were threshing| ing his headquarters at San, Andreasy grain on the defendant’s farm north-| west of Chihuahua City. west of Eldridge, is now in the hands} United ‘States authorities expect of the jury. that Villa will divide the loot taken at The case was concluded during the| Chihuahua City and then scatter his forenoon session today and Judge Cof-| men into the brush to await his call fey delivered his charge to the jurors| for the next movement. outlinging the delicate and complicat- SET ETT <y ed situations it must consider in ren- = dering a verdict. H La de Attorney Thorp delivered the re- arry u er Duttal for the state at the opening of s court this morning. B E. t, ft Late yesterday afternoon attorneys uy s Ss ai e 2 defense stated they rested . their case, State’s Attorney Russell D.| London, Dec. ‘Harry Lauder, who opening address to the jury. ‘He was| amusing the American public, and followed by Attorney Carr for the de-| who never willingly lets any of it go, fense. let,loose of a goodly sum today, when Attorney Freerks made a final plea| he bought the famous estate of Glen for the defendant just before court ad-| Banter and the lands of, Ballimore, :journed last evening. comprising more than 14,000 acres. Glen Banter belonged to David Me |BORAH WOULD RETURN Brayne, the ship owner of Glasgow. TES} The mansion on Lauder’s new. @s- GUARD ‘TO:HE STA’ tate stands about four miles from the Washington, Dec. 6—Senator Borah| pier at Strachur. Water, hills sad today introduced a bill to abolish the] pasture land are included within the present federal form of the national| boundaries of the esta'~ arry also guard and to return them to state| will be able to paddle arcund in about forces as they were before the Hay-| four miles of Loch Eyk, which falls Chamberlain bill passed. into his possession with the lan@.