The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 8, 1916, Page 1

CHICAGO HOLDS. f KEY TO 4.0. ; Nobody Seems To Know Very SAYS EXPERT MAY BE NEW V. 8. ‘ATTORNEY GENERAL ROBINSON CALL |SInea COURT ; Justice-Elect Derides and pale ‘ CREEK PORTS OCHA I GE NATION == Allies Will A an To Starve _BISMAROK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, DEC. 8, 1916. K TRIBUNE ita ASSOCIATED PRESS TEUTONS PREPARING FOR BIC. OFFENSIVE Nn ~DRNE TO RECHN MONASTIR. AND MACEBONI FIGURE IN RECONSTRUCTION OF BRITISH MINISTRY; MAY FORM WAR COUNCIL {TROOPS MOBILIZING -| Rumania Practically Under Germ: Much Abert Largs Increase bari: Body in Long oT ee on. an Rule and Military Govern- in Prices Tirade Demands ment Established = “STUDENT OF ECONOMICS TO MAKE INVESTIGATION . Producers of Food Stuffs Are Trying To Solve Marketing “FOOL” AND CROOK” ' TERMS EXCHANGED Dignity Thrown to Winds in Heated Discussion—De. ' SUPPLIES ‘TO LAST FOR, TWENTY DAYS Alien Population With Exception of Italians Have All i PLIGHT OF REFUGEES IS VERY DESPERATE Every Commercial City of Import- ance in Conquered State in , é Problems cision Deferred 2 Pints ; Hands of Enemy : " Baitor’s Note—This is.the Arst’of Denunciation defiance, derision and| London, Dec. 8——Diaciplining of |* eri a series of articles on the costs, of foods and ‘reasons for soaring prices. i By H. P. BURTON. Chicago, Dec. 8.—I have come to Chicago, “hog-butcher for the world, 1 and dealer, too, in vasty manner, in wheat and corn and oats and all the other-foods that go to nourish the na- tion,to find out, if possible, who it, is who is constantly putting more and yet more “high” in the already too: Alpine “high cost of diving. f ‘Stuffs Assemble Here, where the stuffs of life are so largely assembled for distrtbution throughout the !and, it seems appar ent that, if anywhere, a finger of dis-|- covery may be placed on the sources responsible for the abnormal cost of necessities to the ultimate consumer —you and me and al! the rest of the 101,000,000 ‘Americans, who are being pinched today as never before. Holds Key. That the city of Chicago does hold the key to this problem of what is making the cost of living so high seems evidenced by the fact that it is here the grain brokers and the meat packers have been “investigat- ed” time and again (yet the price of meat and of flour were never s0 high before!); and it is here, too, that Frank Norris, gathered material for “The Pit,” his wonderful novel, show- ing up the way board of trade gam- blers speculate in wheat, and it is also here that Upton Sinclair came to get data for, “The Jungle, is book on meat packing that stirred this nation to the deeps. Cold: Facts. Yet here in Chicago, “the ‘distribut- ing center of the United States, as a matter of plain, cold‘fact, there is scarcely a single.bit of ready-to-hand {riformation regarding” this subject ‘of the greatest importance jto all of us. 1 have-tailed’ to. find, in other words, any official or unofficial co-ordinated statistics or “findings” treated ‘con- structively so that they have been made to yield, or.even, to point to, the reasons, lawful or. unlawful, sound or unsound, for the; continuous and| Washington looks upon Davis as the probable successor of Attorney General Gregory, who, it is reported, will resign. Davis is solicitor ge eral and was representative from West Virginia. ‘He is 43, and a grad- uate of Washington and Lee universi- IL SARS AUTTLE CEPT HS HTERST Re- Opening of at Telagraphio Com. ‘munications Brings Stories of New Outrages GOVERNMENT TROOPS TO ER 15,000 DESERT ’ El Paso, Tex., Dec. 8.—Re-opening of telegraphic communications between Chihuahua-City and the border brings information of massacres and outrages upon citizens of the United States and foreigners‘in,all parts of northern Mex- ico, according to word reaching rela- Indications seem, according ‘to Te-] ports, Teaching;. Villa’s attitude foreigners is change ; misleading. All information | now ‘reaching border points ig to the effect that ‘the bandit chief is sparing lives only when his) own interests we at It id reported that Ynea Salazar, Vil disdain were rained on the heads of District Judges Pollock, Nuessle, Crawford and Leighton, sitting as the supreme court of North Dakota, and retiring Justices Fisk, Burke cand Goss for the space of an hour yesterday af- ternoon by Justice-elect Robinson. ’. The scene enacted in the house chamber at the capitol in the presence of a hundred or more spectators, was one probably without parallel in the history of civilized.government, The Greece by the allfes has begun. A blockade of Greece ports has been for- mally announced’ by the French gov- ernment which, combined with pre- vious British-French orders against the movement of Greek vessels from the harbor, is expected to cut the king- dom off from supplies. < A dispatch from: Athens said: that an Italian colony: is the only one of alien citizens remaining. Greece has supplies enough to las ae 20 days against a blockade. 5 spectacle was that .of three supreme courts on trial; -of-a supposedly -con- stitutionally composed chief tribunal set at defiance and bridled by-citizens who had. appeared at the bar.in re- sponse to the orders of this court. Court Can do Nothing. tice-elect Robinson, after denying any jurisdiction upon the part of the pro- viisonal court. “As the supreme court of this state we have jurisdiction over all inferior courts, We have warned you—ift you insist on doing what you propose to do, let the peril be on your heads. Judges Disqualified. “I had thought of filing affidavits showing why two or more of the judg- es here present should not serve in this matter, but my associates prefer- red to rest everything on the question of jurisdiction. “I and my associates were elected justice of the supreme court by major- ities. of 18,000 to 24,000. Our right to hold office should ‘not be subject to a contest. If-I.had been -in-the place of; these. ex-judges I would never have served ole day‘after that election. But they ‘ate: infatuated. .with office—they’ hold on with a grip like death, Might Give Advice. _“I deem it right and proper, gentle- men, that you should consider this case to the extent of giving advice and counsel, and, perhaps, extend sym- pathy and condolences to the defeated GUARDS OVER BODY OF LATE OIL MAGNATE Tarrytown, N, Y.,. Dec. . 8.—Two heavily armed guards watched over the vault in Sleepy Hollow, cemetery, which holds the remains of John Archbold, laid, away. yesterday. They will he relieved in the even- ing by: two others and the watch will be maintained untétthe body is placed in the crypt. The arrangements were made at the request of Mrs. Archbold, who would give no explanation or any reason. EGC CORNE IS SMASHED Chicago, Dec. 8.—The corner in eggs D.}cerned. in the reconstruction of British ministry, to form what Lloyd- George says should be a war council for stricter prosecution of the wa: Top, left to right:, Sir Edwai FRANCE PLANS TO RECONSTRUCT iE ADMINISTRATT Changes Will Not Be Not Be Made in la’s chief lieutenant, saved the million- candidates. and other produce appears smashed. Carson, Unionist member from ‘I the colonies. rr. George, secretary for war; R 0H the These five men are prominently con-{nd; Herbert A. Asquith, prime minis- ter and first lord of the treasury; An- drew Bonar Law, secretary for the Lower, left to right: David aleve: derly and that the losses were small... Art Balfour, first lord of the admiralty, ASQUITH'S PARTY: _ DECIDES 10 STAND BY LLOYD: GEORGE r J. Liberals. Meet and Adopt Resolu-! that Gen. von Tulft, former military BATTLESHIP SUNK., i Paris, Dec. 8—Official confir. mation has been given of the sink- ing of the French battleship Suf- fren. It is classified as an 18-knot’ battleship of 12,750 tons. It cost. $6,000,000 and was authorized July 18, 1899, Dec. London, 8—German troop along the whole Monastir front are bé- ing strongly reinforced. Presumably these ‘forces are being diverted from the Rumanian theater. {t is believed here that the Germans are preparing for an immense offensive against the .|Frank-Serbian-Italian-British forces in Macedonia, The Bulgarian forces are being heavily re-inforced by German troops no longer needed in the conquering sd Rumania. Official dispatches from the Mace- donian front declare that all enemy at- tacks have been repulsed. In Dobrud> ja, on the Bulgarian left front,. the en: emy is slowly entrenching. Paris reports state that that Sere vians and allied forces repulsed three Bulgarian attacks. % London's Report. London dispatcHes state that the Rumanian retirement before the Teu- tonic invaders was masterly and of- The news from. Berlin, however, claim that evacuation of . Rumanian ee entry By. we defenders was ff a ter- men. and_propert; patite ph the “Alt, the Rumania 3,000 men ‘and 16 cannon. * Have Principal Cities. Not only: is Bucharest, but most of the important Rumanian commercial towns ‘are now! under control -of Germany. ‘ hte A United Press correspondent ac: gompanying Falkenhayn’s army draws this. graphic word picture of the re- treat of the Rumanians: _ Military Governor. It is to bring order out of this chaos administrator of ‘Poland, before War- alarming rise in; thé curve, of, living dollar ownéd: American Alvado mines Eggs dropped sjx*cents and potatoes Cabinet But Shakeup in ticns Pledging Support to saw’s fall, has been named Gernian costs in the United States! teotated|22d saved the town of Parral from| wp, pbs Sereificater: : slumped 15 cents a bushel. Five hu ‘ x governor-general of Rumania. He ‘is. T have discovered plenty of iso ated | estruction, arguing to his chiet that e three justices who now de-ldred grocers have been ordered to ap-| - Staff Little Welshman now enroute here with two generals governntent reports on some certain the mine’ will be useful when he ob- mand their seats on the supreme pear before the federal grand jury. _— —— and an entire staff. i mere “phases” of the general subject; but absolutely no defjnite, conscious tracing of the processes of producing any single important article of food from start to finish, with each item of the process systematically held up for analysis and inspection so the flaws, if any, may be publicly exhibit- ed and eliminated. That is to say, I have found that there is not in existence today any such subject, for instancé, as “meat from the. manager to the platter,” of “wheat from the seed to. the bun,” although the manner in which bread and steak are aviating as never be- fore in history seems to be the main topic of interest with everyone—ex- cept officialdom! Credits Conference. My discovery of this lack of accu- rate information has struck me, in- deed, as an amazing lack in a repub- lic responsible for the well-being of a tains control of the country. Government Troops Desert. Authoritative statements have been made claiming that 15,000 government troops have deserted and joined Villa during the -march ‘on Parra! and marched northward toward Chihuahua ity. Villistas, it is reported, have mur- dered William ‘Snyman, according A No reported to have been slain near Tor- reno. Mystery At Hotel Van: Horn---Big Ben Falls, Three Stories Something must have gone decided- ly wrong in a room on the third floor bench have certificates of election dat- ing from the first Monday in Decem- ber, 1916. The certificates of election of Judges Goss, Burke and Fisk read to hold office trom the first Monday in December, 1910. If Judge Goss has allowed someone else to draw a month’s salary for him, that is his fault. To say that he did not take of- fice the first Monday in December, 1910, because the secretary of state test im this matter and chose to recog- nize your authority, I would prove all these facts by the secreary of state.” “Picked Their Friends.” After again taunting the retiring jus- tices with their recent defeat, Justice- elect Robinson proceeded: “They have called on and picked you, gentlemen, as the most likely men to decide the case in favor of the ex-judges: They have called you to de- cide in their favor, as the’ special friends of the three judges.” Metz, the “egg king,” is stuck with 72,- 000,000 eggs.on hand. | Kansas Boycott Effective. Kansas City, Dec. 8.—Not officially effective till Sunday, the egg boycott is already bringing down the high cost of, living. Merchants are carrying signs on their trucks: “To Help‘ Beat the Egg Trust, Don’t Eat Eggs.” Meat prices are expected to follow District Attorney Clyne. CALEDONIA SAD TO’ HAVE. BEEN SUNK London, Dec. ‘8:—-The Anchor Line steamer, Caledonia, is believed to have been sunk. It was a Eritish steamer of 9,805 tons and of Glasgow regis- CONCENTRATE CONTROL Paris, Dec. 8.—France is Preparations to reconstruct her ernment following the upheaval England that brought about the down- fall of the Asquith ministry. 7 of military plans under a smaller erning body. STEPS FOR COST SYSTEM TAKEN BY GRAN i OF MILITARY PLANS making London, Dec. gov- in ministry that ‘here | more efficient control over war GOV"! adopted expre: ing | Asquith. new Lloyd-George government Prosecution of the war. task. istry must typify nation to wage the war to the end. EN Good Material. .|HERCULEAN TASK BEFORE HIM TO FORM MINISTRY 8.—Lloyd-George seems to be solidifying political fac- tions in his attempt to form a new will give closer and plans. confidence in their ‘leaders and former Minister Herbert The members also express- ed their determination to support the in the It is agreed everywhere that the little Welshman is facing a herculean The formation of the new min- England’s determi- ‘bitter Rumanians Plunder. The Rumanians ordered from their homes by their government, clogged the roads, most of them with a few be- longings packed on small oxen carts. The advancing Germans overtook these refugees, Then they turned back toward their homes only to fiad in thousands of instances that every- thing they had left behind had been plundered by other Rumanians. “As -|telegrams received by , friends. will be a thorough re-organization of | At a ing today of the liberal up-to-the-minute informative and au: or someone else told him not to is aj other commodities downward, follow- a t a meeting today o e libera de thi official word has been received con- | the gene: st neenti : eget d ss we rode through Rammicu and Walkia, thoritative economic treatise on any ing the American rancher, Foster, silly plea. If I were to go.into a con-| ing subpoenaes on: meat jobbers by general staff and a concentration | party members, resolutions were the wildest anarchy prevailed. The streets were littered with household goods, papers, window curtains, dead horses and dogs, Meanwhile bands of Rumanian gypsies went from house to house and shop to shop, smashing win- dows and again plundering the homes already half destroyed. These plun- dering bands—men, women and child- ren—piled what they could not carry on their own backs on stolen horses or cows. It was the same sight we encountered in scores of other Ruman- ian villages. hundred million souls, a republic that of the new Van Horn hotel this morn- Leighton Takes Exception. 1 ye ter. -G 5 s Stealing Cattle. so prectously sees to it that you canling to have prompted Big Ben, an| Hete Judge Leighton of Minot took iz 1 quietGeorke ‘has plenty ob.excel:| 4°, vwhtie the “Acelag tarallles tare mait bs Oe aioe t Dette! iene alarm agitator against sleep, owned |strenuous exceptions to the manner in Chicago, Dec. 8—Farmers of the/ cabinet, Among the names which| returning and enroute they are steal- conte, tae ape esto bread and by Miss Cassie Bripk. wae in ine which Robinson was addressing the & great grain states of the middle west | were most prominently mentioned to-|ing cattle liberated at the first word . ictidosarentiy won't ‘Lucas department ‘store, to try and|court, The latter replied that they were Three Cheers for and north. believing that less than a’ day as possible ministers were: of the German advance, Because of your meat—or which appa commit suicide. f there not as members of a court but % " c i | Ponar il, union Lord Curzon,|deprivations and the roaming of. the care, if its attitude is carried to the Drops Three Flights. as fellow-citizens. Judge Pollock, act- “Home, Sweet Home” fair share of the profits of their labor | _, ?0né pf BORE, 2 Z fuel whether finally| s. Judge Pollock, ac' ”» Uniontst® the Earl of Derby, Union-| muddy, cold Rumanian roads, the mor- ulate ‘concern Sraad or-ineat ‘Big Ben dropped from the window |ing as chief justice, insisted that Rob- Given b Co. “A rf is returned to them, took ‘ the first list: Lord Milner, Unionist; Winston| tality of children among these miser- you will be able y of a room on the third floor of thé|inson stick to his case, and the court yf 60. steps khere today to establish a cost) Gi chit, Liberal: Lord Rovert Cecil,| able refugees has been very hi at all or not! Luckily, however, for us consumers, 1 find that’ there is an organization which has begun to act as sort of a foster “paternal government” for us in place of our present apathetic state. This national organization is called “The National Conference on system for their industry. In connection with the national con- ference on marketing and farm eae represetnative grain growers discus- Pas 4 a Hes varieas means of detemining mar-| .ord steal eta noe ara keting costs from the field, through: enit | Vtjent) wena an the elevators, the mills and to the | Reading, Liberal. housewife’s oven with the ultimate ob-|_ The _ present hostelry early today, through the plate glass canopy in front of the hotel, and escaped without a scratch. As for the canopy, one of the plate glass- es was smashed. It was a narrow es- cape for Big Een, but he’s up and working again this afternoon and will- ing to’ forgive all. passed to the next respondent. Grace States Stand. Justice-elect Grace stated he could not recognize the jurisdiction of the court .for the resaon that the constitu- tion provides the district’ judges called in should be disinterested and’should be summoned by disinherited parties. Alexandria, the plundering reached such a height that a few educated fam- ilies, which .remained behind formed a civilian force to protect their prop- erty. These are few of the conditions which face the new governor-general von Tulff: -Not only will he seek to bicckade minister in the late cabinet, Unionist; Arthur ‘Henderson, minister of ions in the late cabinet, La- 7 Three rousing cheers were giv- en for “Home gweet Home” by the “boys” of Company A, First Infan- try, North Dakota National Guard, when they attacked their Thanke- giving dinner last week, writes complexion of the s,” and Captain A. B. Welch to The Tri- - | hous: Unionist 237. Liberal 260, |Testore order, but st is also his task to paras Se a ee ative fe Air of Mystery About Ks ‘th In,the present instance, he contended, toe si ject of lessening tte curt to the con- : pp ae eh Nationailel 7 “OrBri. organize the forwarding to Germany roducing leagues formed in several] af, Iiaestenenet see eirted Bie Ben {Tone of the justices were disinterest-| «desire to express my pergonal oe what tiie conslimer’ ba : Tivect to | enites 9, Independents 2. It is believ-|of the vast surplus stores of grain, PI affair. as to. prompt is ed, and none had any right to compose} thanks and th tification of th OF what ithe pay: | ed the new cabinet maker will event-|Cattle and petroleum which have fall- ber ner to take the three-story leap through a e gratifica' of the | the producer. le new ca a court. “I truly believe,” concluded Grace, “that you are without jurisdiction and that any settlement of this question by you will not be a final settlement but must recur again and again.” “Do you contend that no tribunal is provided by the constitution for a case such as this?” asked acting Chief Jus- tice Pollock. “I contend,” replied Grace, “that the justices who called you in were inter- ested and that, therefore, you are Mee quatified.” en into the invaders’ hands. Alexan- dria alone possesses $1,000,000 worth of stores. Other cities are almost equally well stocked. Wallachia it- self is a food paradise. Bridges Destroyed. Because the Rumanians destroyed many of the railway bridges the entire German campaign in Rumania was by wagons over the ordigary highways. One sees thousands of columns of these with ammunition, foo@, weap ons and military supplies. Although the Germans have had con- trol of Western Rumania only a few days laborers are already clearfng the railways and assembling freight cars, engines and materials which the flee- ing Rumanians left. 1 saw whole stretches over which trains were in operation and while at Gen. von Krafft’s headquarters I met a German major assigned to take charge of the Rumanian transporta- tion system. One ironical incident connected with the railway situation was that we met two engneers in Car- members of Company A to the People of your city who contribut- ed so liberally and practically for the comfort and happiness of the “boys of Bismarck.” He adds that the quartermaster department furnished 130 pounds of real turkey and that the Thanksgiving boxes from Bis- marek cure epened and every one ‘sat di to, a real sure enough Thankopiving’ dinner. ire does this organization vis- wales sees national needs that they sent out a call for the growers and marketers of meat cattle, for the pro- ducers of grains and milk and other raw foods of primary importance, to meet in a great conclave in Chicago this week, that the problems attend- ant upon the making efficient of these producing and distributing processes (Continued 27 Page Two) GRAND BALL OPENS THEATRE COMPLETED AT RYDER Ryder, N. D., Dec. 8—A grand ball, at which 62 couples attended, opened the new Orpheum theatre in this vil- lage last evening. The grand opening was celebrated by people from Makoti nd Parshall. The Abbott six-piece orchestra featured. “WIRELESS MESSAGES” TO KILL LEAD TO ASYLUM St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 8.—Wireless - messages yesterday sent John Gal- lagher to the St. Peter asylum. Gal- lagher recently terrorized White Bear village residents. He said he had re- ceived wireless messages telling him to kill certain persons. Lynn J. Frazier, governor-clect of ually be able to enlist the support of North Dakota, who arrived at the head | the labor party. in view of his known of a delegation of North Dakotans in! Purpose more liberally to recognize two special trains from the northwest, that party’s cluims in the new minis- was the chief speaker, telling of the|tTy. Only one member, Arthur Hen- handicaps that have hindered the ship~! derson, member of Pensions, was on pers of his state and toward the re- the Asquith coalition cabinet. The moval of which the state adminstra-| labor party has heretofore #een very tion is pledged to work. antagonistic to Lloyd-George. WAGE BOOST FOR JURY ACQUITS MRS. BUTTINGER Newark, N. J., Dec. , Dec. 7-—The jury late Toledo, 0., ‘Dec. 8.—An increase in the wages of the Willys-Overland au-|today acquitted Mrs. Margaret Buttin- tomobiie employes at Toledo and El- ‘ger on trial here on the charge of mur- mira were announced today. Twenty-'dering her husband because he car- one thousand men are benefited. The essed her. increase amounts to $1,925,000 yearly. FOUR STORY BUILDING Washington, Dec. 8.—State officials 0 DESTROYED BY FIRE| have received word that Dr. Fisher,|acalu and Alexandria, who had been Cedar Rapids, Ia., Dec. 8—Kimball’s | an American, has been killed by ban-|sent to those two cities by the Ru- four-story office building has been de- | dits at Santa Rosalia. The killing i3!manian government to make plans for stroyed by fire. The loss is $250,000. ' said to have occurred some days ago. (Continued on pai ‘Page 5 4.) ry space. No one seems to know. A ru- mor, however, has it that Big Een’s owner is enthused with her bed at the hotel and would like to have slept all morning, but “a certain little thing happened.” Ben Got “Shooting Off.” It is believed that Big ‘Ben got “shooting off,” and that his owner jumped from her bed, seized the agi- tator by the neck and hoisted him out of the window. Ben’s flight through space then began. He made quick time, struck the canopy, went right through it and fell on the ce- ment sidewalk. Still Talking When Found. Clerks and others rushed out of the hostelry. Big Ben kept right on talk- ing to himself. The owner evidently had her sleep out. {LAD SKATES INTO AIR-HOLE ANO HAS A NARROW ESCAPE Hankinson, D.. Dec. 3.—August Frankfurth, 15, nearly drowned in the Knaak slough, just west of this city, when he skated through an air-hole. He managed to cling to the edge of the ice until his companions were successful im rescuing him. All Interested. William Lemke, attorney for the jus- tices-elect, on the question of jurisdic- tion said: “Judges Bruce and Christianson are just as much interested as the retiring judges. Whatever may be done by any judges purporting to represent the supreme court from this time on will not nece@arily tend to have any weight with the incoming justices.” Retiring Justices Speak. Retiring Justices Goss, Burke and Fisk spoke in defense of their claim that the terms of supreme court jus- tices shall begin the first Monday in ( in e Two) “The present court can do nothing that will not be subject.to review by the three justices who have organized as the supreme court,” declared Jus- AMERICAN KILLEO.