The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 17, 1917, Page 4

Att H {with the outside world, from which ‘@tig;has now been completely cut off , mind while we give you some figures ‘WEDNESDAY, JAN.‘17, 1917. , 3 BISMARCK DAILY ‘TRIBUNE installed a suitable fire chute where- THE TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Mauer” {88UED EYERY DAY EXCEPT SUNDAY GUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ¥ ADVANCE Daily, by carrier, per month. by mail, per year. we by mail, per year, Member Audit Bureau of Circulation THD STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) LOCAL WEATHER BULLETIN. For the 24 hours ending at 12 noon, Jan. 17, 1917: Temperature at 7 a, m. Highest yesterday . Lowest last night Precipitation Highest wind velocity Forec. For North Dakota: Partly cloudy tonight; Thursday partly cloudy and colder. Temperature | Calgary .. Bee H Chicago .. 6 Kansas City . 14 i Moorhead 4 i Pierre ..... 2 Prince Albert . 6 St. Paul . 4 Williston 2 Winnipeg .. . 0 ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteorologist, Cree. ee ee There's: something good in all weathers. If it doesn’t hap- pen to be good for my work today, it’s good for some other man’s work today, and will come around to me tomorrow. @ —Dickens. ! SOHTH SHS OIHOO OS o ry ¢ ° ¢ e ¢ e > ° ° 2 ° ° ° BEHIND THE PEACE MOVE. The idea prevails quite generally in ‘America thgt Germany's peace; Propositions are due to short rations; that Britain's policy of “starving her out” is beginning to tell in very se- rious degree. But isn’t there some-| thing else in it? The common people of Germany may be hungry, but isn't the element ordinarily devoted to pur- suit of the almighty dollar, or the in- fluential sovereign, a mighty sight hungrier? \' Business is business. Keep this in on Germany's before-the-war business saver two years. thing! But they go out and hunt up their food and drink, which was all! man knew for a long time. Maybe there was some plant life in that dust from which the first man was made. Your little plant is a thing full of life and mystery, when you come to plant it with all your eyes open, isn’t is? CUTS MORE RED TAPE. Germany has cut the red tape of le gal procedure for the benefit of her war widows and orphans. | By a decision recently rendered the ; Reichsgericht, the highest tribunal of the German empire, holds that letters 8| of soldiers killed in the field must be 5 | considered legal wills, if they contain wishes or stipulations in regard to the distribution of the property of the writer in case of his death. The let ters do not even have to be signed with the full names of the slain sol- diers, the first name being sufficient, | in case there is reasonable identifica- tion of the handwriting. The decision is of the highest im portance. It puts an end to litigation in the cases of thousands of wealthy Germans who since the beginning of the war have been killed and left no other wills than the letters they wrote to their families and friends at home. And equally important, it does away with the necessity for lawyers’ services in the case of enormous numbers of poorer people, whose lit- tle estates would be eaten up by legal expenses if ordinary rules of law were maintained. i BELGIUM'S REPLY. It ‘was almighty pert and proper, not to say exactly diplomatic, that Belgium should make personal and particular reply to ‘Pyesident Wilson’s peace note. ‘Britain may have gone into the war to acquire territory and to dominate the world’s trade. France ray be after Alsace-Lorraine. Russia may be prompted by her centurics-old desizns upon the Dardanelles. Italy and Ku- mania may be in it inspired by greed of territorial — expansion. Such charges made by Germany may ie true. They are not true as to Del- gium. President Wilson did not have to ask what are the aims of tlic iel- gians. However mercenary and am- bitious the aims of the Central and Entente Powers, Belgium's hands are clean, beyond question. 'No matter what other belligerents (492, Germany shipped to Great have a right or no right to demand, i ‘Brita k ey and other products totaled 0,000 with the United States, in goods worth, in round num- ders, $339,700,000 and imported from her $195,700,000, a neat little trade balance for Germany of $144,000;000; total business, $535,400,000. The same year, her total of business in. manu- $12,000,000 with Australia and $31,- 000,000 with Canda. Here's a total of. $1,056,740,000 worth of business, with all.the countries of the world not just named not included. What would happen in our own country if this enormous volume of ‘business were suddenly cut out? Why, if the business element in Germany isn't cussing the war and exercising its pull on the kaiser for peace, it is the tamest, most self-sac- rificing element of the sort that any nation ever possessed. It is disabus- ing the world of the idea that there's no sentiment in business, or that money talks. WEN YOU PLANT THINGS. Pretty soon you'll smell in the breeze from the south ‘an odor of freshness, greenness, renewed life. The ground will begin to look soft. ‘A warm rain will set everything to steaming. ‘Birds - will begin to chirp and the sun will feel awfully comfort- able. Then you'll be wanting to take your spade and. plant something in the yard. j ; ; i The Tarai cés iare that your sole| thought in planting will be to beautify | your place a bit, but that isn’t one per cent of the total interest in plant- \ ing things. | When you set out a plant you; start a great mystery that all the scientists of all time haven't solved. | How does your young tree, or shrub, or other plant grow upward, thus de- fying gravitation? When you've fail- ed to think out the answer to this, give some logic in denying knowledge to plants. A plant, like an animal, seeks it: | food—air, water, sunshine. Put water, and fertilizer on one side of your little geranium only. Very good, the geranium's roots will go over there only’ and get the water and fertilizer, just as your dog regularly visits your neighbor's garbage can. How does the little plant know where to go for food? Turn your ivy’s leaves to the wal! Very good, in a short time the i has turned those leaves back towarc the sun. Observe your canna. It wil’ send-one leaf straight up toward the sun and bend the leaf on the other side so that both leaves get all thc sunlight possible. , : Did you see that your tulips poked their tender noses right up through hard, frozen ground? How? And Jan, 15th, on the by Judge Nuessle. Belgium says that it has a legitimate hope that when the time of settlement comes it; will find in the United States a unanimous echo of its claims. It will, The echo may, not be unan- imous, but it will be practically so and Belgium will hear a similar echo from all other peoples who love jus- tice, If President Wilson desires to go further with his peacemaking, he might put it up directly to Germany as to whether she will grant repara- tion, restitution and future security to invaded, slaughtered and enslaved Belgium. Any peace settlement not including these things would be a mockery in the eyes of the (American people. The Entente Powers have replies to peace propositions, but Belgium has a Teply that is all her own, Other claims may be beclouded and open to dis- cussion. Another Thaw sensation. with de-! tails unfit for publication. It is about | time that the Thaw nastiness be per-| manently locked up. The “leak” investigating, at least, is establishing the fact that Lawson's hearing is not failing as the years roll by. Many congressmen may vote for a dry Washington to “get in out of the rain.” There's many a leak 'twixt the well and the pitcher. READERS’ COLUMN | ENTERS PROTEST. | Editor, | Bismarck Tribune, i Dear Sirs: Bismarck, N. D., Jan. 17, 1917. In reply to an article in the Tribune | all case, I will say j I think the people of Bismarck know | where I stand on prohibition. In the first place Hall was brought before me! on a warrant sworn out by Attorney General Linde and placed under $500 | bond. Time of trial set for Dec. 26, 1916. I was informed at that time by Linde, a change of venue ,had been taken to Justice Beery’s court. Hall was again arrested on a war- rant sworn out by F. E. McCurdy, bonds for $500 satisfied and time for trial set 10 a. m. Jan. 15, 1917, at which time I was informed that Hall had plead guilty and was sentenced The article refer- red to places me in a bad light, which 1 feel is uncalled for and ungenerous to say the least. J. O. Varney, ‘ Justice. Editors Note: In the editorial ob- | board member who gets by hereafter missing. The eagle eye of Governor ; they are made to conform. The gov- O |the state shall be held - Mift the flag. How? ‘Tuoh! tush! , put a pumpkin seed a little way under your sidewalk and, later, see the vine If you could look down into the top of-your maple tree, you'd see little gave leaves. The tree has so arrang- @4 ite leaves as to get the most light. plants don’t know any:| etter for the cause of justice. coe sw 2 annua sk Rat en co as ce ee as te a Ge a ae. i i ol rrytr sit itty jected to only one reference was made to Justice Varney and that was that he was forced to dismiss the action. A legal technicality was raised and there was no alternative. There was no intent to reflect on Justice Varney, Dut the Tribune: still holds firmly to the belief that as soon as‘North Da- With the Legislature HOUSE {N WHOLE COMMITTEE WILL AGT ON BILL 44 pneTty PROG Concurrent Resolution Will Be Reported Out Without Re- commendation NOW BEING TAKEN UP SECTION BY SECTION House Bill No. 44—Representative Hagan’s concurrent resolutign for the submission to the voters June 27 of a new constitution—will be reported out by the committee on state affairs without recommendation, and the house will pass upon the measure as a committee of the whole. “We are taking up the bill section by section,” said a member of the state affairs committee today, “and we probably will not be ready to report it out short of two or three days. Then we will let the bill come before the house as a committee of the whole without recommendations. The com- mittee to date has been unable to ar- rive at any decision.” Some Interesting Changes Now that house bill No. 44 has been printed and generally distributed, ter his stock, registered Durhams. completed a big stock barn, in which he is doing all his feeding, and he ex- He also is going in for He has recently pects his investment to pay out in a few years in the paving of feed and ‘health of stock.** AT “SIGNING OF SUFFRAGE BILLS Committee Headed by Daughter of Original Dakota Suffragist Will Wait on Governor LONG FIGHT ENDED BY PASSING OF MEASURES Headed by a daughter of Mrs. Clara Darrow, North ‘Dakota's original equal suffragist, a special delegation of suf- frage workers, will tomorrow carry to Governor Frazier the two suffrage measures which were the first bills to pass both houses of the present gen- | eral assembly. The delegation ; will ‘consist of Mrs. Mary Darrow Weible of Fargo, vice some interesting phases of the pro-| president of the North Dakota Votes posed constitution, are cropping out.|for Women league, and who for years For instance, Section 134 of the pro- posed constitution, which supplants Section 138 of the present constitu- tion, reads simply: “No corporation shall issue, stocks or bonds except for money, labor done or money or prop- erty actually received, and all ficti- tious increase of stock or indebted- ness shall be void.” The present clause reads more specifically: “The stock and indebtedness of corpora tions shall not be inereased except In ! of general law, nor without L of the persons holding the 1 has carried on, the campaign inau- gurated by her mother; Clendenning of , Fargo, the North Dakoth* Votes for Women, League, and a léader in its six-years organized effort; Mrs. Elizabeth Pres-! Mrs. Graco president of frage circles; Mrs. J. E. Stevens of zawton, field organi: Dakota Anti-Tuberculosi Mrs. Fannie Dunn Quain of Bismarck, legislative chairman of the Votes for | g ton-Anderson, of Fargo, nationally known for her work in Women’s | = Christian Temperance Union and Sut- The United gation of the mysterious death of her husband in Mexico. D'Antin was for- ASKS UNITED STATES TO INVESTIGATE DEATH OF HUSBAND, AMERICAN ATTACHE, IN MEXICO merly chancellor of the-United States embassy at Mexico City. d’Antin and her late litsband are shown here. States at request of Mrs. Luis d’Antin, has ordeerd investi- Mrs. Luis lay. of Minneapol » thi error in engrossing, it, caused the de- In celebration of the victory, Mrs. a prominent suffrage afternoon ain Grow- UFFRAGE. WINS upants may slide to safety. ee P House Bille Basses aS House bills passed are as follows: H. B. 11—Fraser—Fixing cost bond for appeals to various courts. Vote 0. { a ee 32—Reishus—Changes time of meeting of board of highway im- provements from second Monday in March to second Tuesday in Febra- ary. Vote—107 to 0. H. B. 40—Mees—To transfer the sum of $1,554 from fund appropriated to secretary of tax commission to fund appropriated for clerk hire and as- sistance for the tax commission. Vote —103 to 0. S. B. 15—Beck—Relating fo malic- ious mischiel. Vote—105 to 1. Concurrent resolution introduced by Lathrop of Steele, providing for crea- tion of a special committee to inves- tigate flood conditions in the Red river valley, adopted by a vote of 104 to 1, Just Fun | STUFF TO LOSE SLEEP OVER. At the rate of 22 breaths a minute, a man who lives 70 years takes 809,- 424,000 breaths, unless he is a diver and swimmer, knock off about 12,- 480 breaths. se And at the rate of a half pound pres- sure each breath in the course of 70 years the breath pressure if put in one mass could lift 25,856 tons. P. S. —We didn’t count snores—2 1-2 breaths equal a snore. If you don’t believe these statistics figure it out yourself and call q person or phone Sinker 245. ici DID YOU KNOW— Lifting a safe over the head a few times wouldn't hurt the safe any. At the coming men’s style show in New York one of the problems to be solved is, whether a derby shall rest on the ears or Shoulders. Showing a friend how well he could larger an In value of the stock | 7 : first obtained at a meeting to he held] Women league, and other prominent sntion now in session in Far- use his artificial leg at Holmes, N. after sixty di notice given in pure | Workers in the c es BO. specch had been planned Y,, a man slipped on the ice and broke snance of | Those versed in cor-| ,, Mand Kraahel Sign for s, but the commitice which his good leg. - poration law hold that this change] The ladies will first wait on Lieucen-| made the arrangements had no idea , is a very important one, vesting al- a Se tee aad Senden Went et that the date chosen would prove so 0 most unlimited power in an. all bene al Speaker Howare a i A much sterner fight in : faction which may have temporary | V0od of the house, who will formally ative embly had been k GRAIN MARKETS | ontrol of a corporation; removing | Si8” the limited suffrage bill, wh ch is} generally expected. ser Te any restriction upon an increase in teeta alee nomet of fort ean Many Move Votes — Nor 1 Habpiaenben errors stock at any time those in control] Dakota a re: ted franchise begin- 5 edicted that wi ase LW, ie s . 0. lard .... os deem i: advisable, and not pro-| "ing in July, 1917, and the constitu-| , predicted ate Sheree First Bills Passed by Fifteenth| No. 1 Northern . «+ 191% @194% hibiting the making of such an in-| tional amendment providing for fli forty por cent will have heen added ey No. 1 Northern C 198%. crease Without notification to and ap-| eduality, which will be referred to the! ig North Dakota's voting strength. If Legislative Assembly Grants |[No. 1 Nor. Reg. to arr., 190% @192% proval of the majority of stockholders. | Sixteenth assembly, and, with its ap-| this proves true, it probably will mean No, 1-Nor. Choice to arr 197% Publle Institutions proval, submitted to a vote of the peo-/ two more congressional districts for Ballot To Women No, 2 Northern . ++ 188% @194% Sev, 202, Article 20, of the proposed | Pleat the general election in 1 apportionment in the No, 3 Wheat ... 178% @190% constitution, providing for the loca-| | The triumphal. procession of flus is now near the max- No. 2 Mont. Hard ...... 190% @193% tion of public Institutions, seems to be| #hd happy lobbyists will then proceed’ jim, ally all of. the wom-| RESTRICTED SUFFRAGE No. 2 Mont, Hard to arr 190% @192% very short and to the point. It reads: |t the governor's office, where the en's organizations of the state have No. 1 Durum “, 204% “All public institutions of the state} Chief executive has prepared himself | endorsed sulfrag E CTIVE IN JULY No. 1 Durum Choice i 211% shall be and renal now located by eed eet i€e nrovidine ence Clendenning today. am quite Sire ee 4 NO. '1“Durum to arr 200%: jaw, and all lands. granted to any is Tor the otcasion. ith little | that prac ’ yoma il ' ‘ pra institution shall be and remain the} formality, official signatures will he V herself Me the right. whed ih Two Thousand Copies House Bill No.1 Dar: Cholee to eer, BIL 36 property ther affixed to Senate Bills Nos. 12 and 13,| Comes.” ee No. 2 Durum ...... ++ 194% @207% Public institutions heretofore have {and an important step forward will be si Neg ME i ‘Ad Ovdéred: Printed—Raid | No. 3 Yellow Corn .. i @ 96% been located by. constitutional provis- | Completed in a campaign which had NEW. CHURCH No.1 Yellow. Cort:to an ob ion or amendment. Whether the] its inception before North Dakota! ang Nors : on Bill Clerk Room Other Grades Corn .... 87 @ term, “as now located by law” takes in sufficient territory remains to be seen. Institutional towns are wonder- ing. ee ¢ FRAZIER CALLS HALI ON CARELESS FILING OF EXPENSE AGCOUNTS Insists That Bills Be Itemized as Well as Certified and Verified in Detail The state employe or official or with an expense account which will not stand the strictest scrutiny and which does not comply in every tech- nical detail with the provisions of Sec- tion 657, as amended by Chapter 244 of the 1915 session laws, will have ac- complished something. The auditing board met yesterday. In the grist of bills were found several expense accounts not itemized accord- ing to Hoyle. Dates or details were Frazier singled them out. They were not paid and will not be paid until ernor, as chairman of the auditing board, does not question the honesty of the men who submitted these ex- pense accounts, but he insists that strictly ac- countable for every penny it expends and the state’s servants for every penny they receive. Consequently State Auditor Kositz- ky is today mailing to every person who has any occasion to transact offi- cial business in the state's behalf let- ters advising them that a strict com- pliance with the statutes will be ex- pected and that expense accounts hereafter must be completed in every respect. VICTORY FOR COURT REPORTERS WON WHEN COMMITTEE KILLS BILL North Dakota court reporters won a victory yesterday, when the ‘senate committee on judiciary by unanimous vote killed house bill No. 4, providing for a reduction of court stenographers’ fees to ten cents the folio—or one mill the word—and imposing certain-other unpopular restrictions. The commit- tee acted after it had received tele- grams from attorneys and jurists in every section of the state asking that ‘the bill be given its quietus. BELIEVES IN PIGS. Cc. ¥. Graham, a successful expon- ent of diversified farming, dropped in from Harmon yesterday to size up the legislature. Mr. Graham is a thor- ough believer in “pigs for profit.”* He has 25 young porkers who arrived only recently and which he expects to run 250 to 300 pounds by next Decem- kota wipes out its petty courts, the is to sign the bills will’be:presented gained statehood and which was so well waged at its offgin that the frage.torges failed ‘ only one vote in embodying an se clausé: inthe c@fistifution adopted in ut- sequal ‘franchise 1889. \ Pens as Souvenirs The pens with which the governor souvenirs to Mrs.‘ Weible and Mrs. Elizabeth Preston’ Anderson. The bills were to have been signed late yesterday afternoon but a slight kirke of New GRANT LAND CO. A charter has been issued by the secretary of state to the Grant Land Co., incorporated for $5,000 by S. C. Lane, H. Hallenberg, C. E. Johnson and V. H. Lane, all of Carson. e Evangeleske Lutherske Sngland filed artic incorporation this week with Sccre- tary of State Hall. Tlie incorporators are A, G. Anderson, Christ Stroman | and Alfred Anderson. of “Votes for Women” won a sweeping victory ‘in the house of representa- tives late yesterday afternoon, }{mited franchise passing 89 to 19, and the referendum amendment 89 to 20. No ' fight developed on the floor as had been expected by anti-suffragists. Limited. suffrage went to the gov- ernor today for his signature. In the language ofthe measure, it grants women the right to vote on presiden- tial electors, county surveyors, county UNCLE SAM’S $15,000,000 BATTLESHIP ON WAY TO SEA MANEUVERS China strain, and he expects to regis-; speed of 21 knots LL’ i The New Yerk, one of Uncle Sam's Jatest.and most powerful battleships, is on the way tO Guantanamo for maneuvers.: .The New~York~ cost -about ber. He is specializing orf the Poland | $15,000,000, carries ten 14-inch guns and four torpedo tubes, and has a hour. constables and for all officers of cit- ies, villages and towns (except police magistrates and city justice of the 'peace); upon all questions or proposi- tions submitted to electors of such alities. or other political sub- divisions of the state and also for the following township officers: clerk, as- sessor, treasurer, overseer of high- ways. and constables. The law be- comes /effective July 1, 1917. The referendum amendment,” which goes to the next legislative ‘assembly for ratification and then is submitted to the qualified voters for approval or. disapproval, would if ratified and carried by. the electorate, become ef- fective in 1920. With the“passage of both bills by a ~/majority which was predicted by house leddefs late last week after the senate.had by a vote of 37 to 11 car- ried both bilis, the women suffragists rushed down from the balcony of the house, swooped into the corridors, and loudly: applauded the passage with many of the legislators. Opposition to the Measures 2 Opposing’ limited franchise were Representatives Blanchard, Geiger, = Geiszler, Isaak, Kelly, Koller, Kun- kel, Lang, Mackoff, Mees, Meyer, Na- than, Olson of Cavalier, Rott, Schick, Schrag, Stinger, Turner, Weber and Wiley. .Twenty against. Because of the run for copies of house bill 44, providing for a consti- tutional convention, the supply was reported as exhausted early yesterday morning, many of the members of both chambers complaining that they were unable to get copies for their constituents, It was reported that the bill room of the house had been raided and something like 300 copies taken. Senator H. W. Allen of Braddock, introduced a concurrent resolution in { the senate asking that 2,000 copies be printed. The resolution was-made a special message to the house and was concurred in by the latter body. ;, Two Bills Introduced -H.'B; 49—Lowe—referred to judic- iary—provides that hereafter clerical or technical errors found in. writs, ac- tions, processes, pleadings or orders shall not cause the same to be dis- thissed, or their operations suspended or halted, provided that the substan- tial rights of the persons at interest be not affected, the judge’ may order errors to be corrected. H. B. 50—Hanson—referred to com- mittee on ways and means, provides that in lien of the stationary fire es- capes as now required, there may be ° No. 4 Yellow Corn toarr 93% No, 2 White Mont. +. 62 @63 No, 3 White Oats .., 55 @. 65% No. 3 White Oats to arr 65 No. 4 White Oats ...... 534%@ 54% Barley ........ 87 @112 Barley Choice . +- 112 @121 Rye ....... + M0K“@11% Rye to arr. -. 140%@141%4 Flax ..... - 288 @293 Flax to . 288 @293 May + 191 @1N% July . » 181% Close 1:42 p. m. DULUTH, May ... . 190% July ... + 1825 No, 1 Hard on tr! + 19356 No. 1 Northern on trk .. 19256 No. 2 Northern on trk .. 1875%@189% No..3 Northern on trk .. 17556@185% No.2 Northern to arr... 1925 No.3. No;' ont. Hard on trk 188% font, Hard to arr 18854 No; 1 Spot: Durum 204% @206%: ‘No. 2 Spot Durum 199% @202% No. 1 Spot Durum to arr 197% May ... . 197% July ... + 193%) Oats on trk an arr.. 55%@: 56% Rye on trk and to arr... 140 @141 Barley on trk 84 @119 Flax on trk and to arr.. Choice Flax jon’ tr. Choice Flax to,arrif. May . Close 1:50 p. m. Geigzleg,; Isaak, Koller, Kunkel, Lar- | @ son of Cass, Mackoff, Moen of Traill, TTLE MARKETS Nathan, Olson of Cavalier, Rott, i Schrag, Storstad, Turner, Weber, Mees, Meyer and Wiley. Nineteen ST. PAUL. against. HOGS—Receipts 10,000; steady to 5 Opposing elective franchise were|Cents higher; range $10.26@10.75; Representatives Blanchard, Geiger, | bulk $10.40@10.60. CATTLE—Receipts 2,400; killers, strong, 15 to 25 cents higher; steers $4.25@10.25; cows and heifers $4.75@ 150 i calves, steady, $4.50@12.75! stockers and feeders, stead: ti . $3.50@8.00. ce abs SHEEP—Receipts 8,300; steady; lambs $7.50@13.25; wethers $6.00@ 9.50; ewes $5.50@9.25, CHICAGO, HOGS—Receipts 53,000; slow at yes- terday’s average; bulk $10.85@11:10; light. $10.40@11.05; | mixed $10.70@ 11.15; heavy $10.75@11.15; rough $0.75@10.85; pigs $8.00@10.15. Tere ieee 20,000; above yesterday’s aver + native beef steers $8.00011.80"" western steers $7.70@10.10; stockers and feed- ‘ers $6.75@8.85; cows and heifers $4.75 @10.10; calves $9.75@14.25. SHEEP—Receipts 16,000; weak; vores $9.65@10.80; lambs $11.60@ ,, firm, Expert Phonography and Typewriting. “-Phone776. WALTER W. McMAHOR LS > So R 0G |