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re The Weather. Uneettied. | THE BIS THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 19 MERCURY FALLS 39 DEGREES IK 36 HOURS HERE Bismarck Escapes Fury of Bliz- zard Which Swept Northwest Sunday Afternoon TRAIN NO. 1 ARRIVES THIRTEEN HOURS LATE Drifts of Snow Reported From 10 to 12 Feet Deep at Minne- sota Points -—— ‘Although a drop in temperature of 39 degrees in 36 hours was reported with the official reading at the gov- ernment weather bureau at 7 o'clock this morning and the wind last night obtained a velocity of 28 miles an hour, Bismarck did not experience the blizzard as reported from eastern por- tions of the state. It was evident from the reports reaching here this morn- ing that the snow which fell at James- town yesterday was whipped into a blizzard by the stiff northwest gale, which drove it into the Red River val- ley region. Saturday night a high east wind drove a wet snow over this section of the state, but the storm was minia- ture in comparison with the blizzard * which swept the western part of teh state during the week of Christmas. Two and one-half inches of snow fell since last Saturday afternoon. That traffic on the Yellowstone division of the Northern Pacific was not hit was evidenced in the arrival of train ‘No. 2 at 10:40 o'clock last evening, about three hours late. Passenger train No. 1, from the east, due at 11:57 o'clock, last night, pulled in here at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The delay was caused by the heavy snowdrifts experienced in the vicinity of the Twin Cities, where, all records for snowfalls were shattered in the 25-hour storm which gripped that part of Minnesota and extended northwestward as far as Jamestown in North “Dakota. 26 Below This Morning. A temperature ‘of 26 degrees below was reported by Orris W. Roberts: local meteorologist, for 7 o’clock this morning. The official reading at noon was 13 below. The highest temper- ature yesterday was —2,,and the low- est last night, The wind veloc. ity at noon wag,14,miles an hour. Soo trains, w seriously hit date’ this winter, were operating on about schedule time, according to a report from the head office this morn- ing. Train Service Crippled. Scores of passengers paced the floor at intervals in the Northern Pacific station this afternoon in an attempt to kill time, waiting for the delayed trains, About every 10 minutes, the ticket agent chalked up a new sched- ule, as the trains lost time in travel- ing through the heavily drifted cuts between Jamestown and (Fargo. Train service over the ‘Northern .Pa- cific i8 the worst crippled today that it has been all winter. It is the east- ern trains that are experiencing, the greatest delaysehe frains from’ the west pulling through’ in’ fair ‘time. No. 4 arrived at? 1:30 o'clock this af- ternoon, and last night’s North Coast Limited No. 1 pulled in here shortly after 2 o'clockK:: No. 8, from Miles City to St. Paul, reported on time earlier in the day, lost héavily as it traveled eastward through the state. At 2 o'clock it was announced on the bulletin board to arrive at 3:40 o'clock, but was losing time steadily. No. 3, due at 11:40 o'clock, this morning, was chalked at 2 o'clock today to arrive at 9:20 o'clock this evening, which will in all probability mean about 11 o'clock, the Tate it has been losing time, while tearing through Minnesota snow- ‘banks. No. 7 is due to arrive at 7 o'clock tonight. Under the stiff northwest gale, .Bis- marck felt the cold wave. A 26 be low temperature driven by a 28-mile gale, gave it a cutting edge, which made traffic on the streets unpleasant, ‘Warnings of the approaching cold wave had been sent out by the gov- ernment bureau here Saturday after- noon. At Moorhead the wind velocity. was 40 miles an hour. Wisconsin Enveloped. The entire state of Wisconsin was swept by the blizzard, as well as Pennsylvania and other eastern states, where another storm of in- tensity moved. St. Paul is undér a blanket, of snow for its winter carni- val, which opens Wednesday. Sioux Fails, S. D., reported 15 below and Sioux City, Ia:,.12.below. this morn- ing, with the official reading in St. Paul 10 below. Warmer Is Prediction. ‘ Unsettled and not quite so cold to- night was the substance of the weath- er ‘forecast issued today. The high pressure extends from the Pacific coast eastward to the Mississippi riv- er, while lows cover the East and the Canadian Northwest. This later low in its southeastward passage will re- sult in unsettled weather tonight with somewhat higher temperature and probably light snow, followed Tues- day with cloudy weather; colder. in the extreme west and warmer in the east portion. Valley City seems ta have been the center of the storm yesterday in North Dakota. Intense storms were report- ed all along the route of the Northern @ on Page Teo) h,, have ‘been most . severe storms to Langerism Spreads to Other Towns Beach and Devils Lake’ Hit By Enforcement Sunday Closing Orders TELEPHONE EXCHANGE AT BEACH WAS CLOSED, This Week For Sunday Theatre Law Members of the state legislature went without their Sunday newspa- pers and several invited out to 6 o'clock dinners felt tho embarrass- ment of not being able to get a shine or a shave as the result of Bismarck wearing her law enforcement bonnet for the third time since Attorney Gen- eral William Langer has taken hold of the laws of the state. Confectionery stores and ice cream parlors were locked during the entire day. Taxis operated in violation of the blue laws, taking patients from the stations to the hospitals. Pool halls and news and cigar stands were pad- locked. The Sunday night crowds re- tired early after services. There was no sipping of hot chocolates or boul- lions. The introduction. of a bill to repeal the laws, would, it is believed, take the house and the senate by storm. A bill, however, was offered last week which gives incorporated cities the right to pass on the observance of Sun- day laws. Representative Kunkel of Fessen- den, it is understood, will introduce a bill in the house this week permitting motion picture theaters to open all day Sundays. The bill will provide that the pictures shown shall be of an edu- cational nature, LANGERISM SPREADS, (United Press) Fargo, N. D., Jan. 22.—Langerism, which means the strict enforcement of the Sunday closing laws, spread to Beach and Devils Lake yesterday. Far- go and Valley, City were among the major. cities- of the state’ ndt yet touch- ed. by the Sunday closing orders. Prescriptions only could be secured at the drug stores in Devils Lake. At Beach the telephone exchange, even, was closed. HOUSE READY TO RAILROAD REVISION BILL The house by a vote of 67 to 31 early this afternoon defeated the Divet reso- lution that the consideration of [House Bill 44 be made a special order in the committee of the whole, commencing at o'clock each legislative day un- til the consideration of the bill has been fully completed. The resolution also carried with it the clause that two expert stenogra- phers take the proceedings and the debate on said bill in the committee of the whole and also proceedings be incorporated and made a part of the house journal. Representative H. Tenneson's mo- tion that action be postponed until to- morrow was also voted down. ST, PAUL WANTS THEIR BOYS HOME BEFORE N. 0. GUARD St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 22—A deter- mined effort to substitute the. First Minnesota militia regiment for the First North Dakota regiment, due to leave the border tomorrow, was start- efi here:today by St. Paul citizens. To bring the Minnesota field artillery and militia home, instead of bringing the| Flickertail boys to their loved ones is planned because St. Paul thinks the soldiers would like to see the St. Paul out-of-doors sport carnival, which starts here Saturday. War department Officials explained today that some units of the 25,000 national guardsmen whose return from the border service has been ordered, probably could start. home within a few days, and that all “will be return: ed for muster out as rapidly as the transportation facilities necessary can be supplied.” General Funston selected the or- wanizations which are to be with- drawn, according to a general plan re- lieving those longest in border ser- vice. Troops from 25 states and the District of Columbia are included in the order. Secretary Baker announced late Saturday that a “substantial number” of national guardsmen would be with- drawn immediately from the border, sayifig that the number probably would be 16,000 to 20,000. General Funston .was designated to aeleeh the units ta he sent home. es ILSON PUTS P POLICY UP TO SENATE SENATI ism |HOME INFLUENCE (BLUE SKY LAWS | “cece PRESIDENT IN ADDRESSING THAT | BODY URGES LEAGUE OF NATIONS: TD ENFORCE TREATIES AND RIGHTS Chief Executive Like Washington, Jef- ferson and Adams, Carries Message BISMARCK, NORTH. DAKOTA, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1917. DOESN'T CHANCE’) CONSTITUTIONAL ANTI SENATORS} SAYS RICH COURT poner a cee Return Determined! North Dakota’s Statute Prevent- to Maintain Stand Against ing Fraudulent Sale of Securi- Immediate Revision -ties Similar to-Ones Upheld Bill to Be Introduced In the House| IMPORTANT BILLS BEFORE | DECLARED INVALID BY UPPER BODY FOR PASSAGE LOWER FEDERAL JUDGES McLean’s Measures Terms of Officers and Legisla- tors on Third Reading The “home influence” to which re- (Associated Press) calcitrant members of the senate were] Washington, Jan, 22.--Bluc Sky laws subjected over the week-end seems to of three states—Ohio, South Dakota have returned them to the capitaljand Michigan,—designed to curb the more than ever confirmed in thefr/sale of fraudulent securitics, were to- stand against immediate revision. day upheld as constitutional by the “What did they do to you?” is the euprerte Cont: : versal greeting t turn ue Sky laws, enacted first in Kan- ne er Bee ese ning pen sas in 1911 with the purpose of pro- ators. A FN ER tecting credulous investors against “Well, I'm still alive,” is an equal-}sales of worthless stocks and bonds, ly common reply, and then the mem-|have been copied in some measure in ber launches into explanations. more than palt the states of the union. ¥ " Twenty-six states are said to have Tt all depends on the temper of |i.ws embracing the fundamental prin- of the man,” they say. “There are|cipie of endeavoring, by constitution many, of course, who are willing to{metnods, to prevent sales of “get-rich swallow with their eyes shut any dose |quick” or “‘ily-by-night” securities. the league dishes out to them, and Pee ater apegen ote “ alge Bs : ed together in they are rather rabid for immediate October, 1916, concerned the constitu- revision of the constitution and in-|tiovality of the blue aky laws of Ohio, clined to say unpleasant things of ;South Dakota and Michigan. All had anyone who dares to breathe a word|been -held unconstitutional by lower ie federal ‘courts’ and their enforcement iti F: of oR nee oy: On ihe. euler: hand, Iby ‘state officials was enioined while there is a very generous seasoning Of |the officials appealed. The original hard-headed, careful-thinking, sub-] Ohio law of 1913 was amended Feb. 6, stantial farmers who say: 1914, by the state legislature to meet “‘You fellows are doing the right |leged defects of the South Dakota thing. The league's trying to move |*nd Michigan laws. The South Dako- too fast. Let’s get busy on our term-|ta law of March 15, 1915, and the Mich- inal elevator, which-has already been approved by the people and make a success of that. ‘Then there will be ample time to take up these other is- igan law of April 9, 1915, repealing the old 1913 act which had been held void, sues. We'll get nowhere by fying to do everything at once,” were substantially patternéd after the Senator Pauison upon his return to “model” blue sky law drawn by a com- mittee of the National Agsociation of Attorneys General followikg its 1914 conyention., Hillsboro Saturday called a meeting that evening and after House Bill 44 was discussed resol\tions were adopt- ed condemning thistfotm of. revision. ‘WO principal points upon which the Ohio, South Dakota and Michigan acts There were 300 Traifl farmers present. A. C. Townley, Brinton. and Lemke were declared void and non-enforce- spoke in favor of ‘tl vision bill. able in the lower courts were: League membérs'’ attempted to; Affecting; Twenty-Six States Have Acts to Prevent ‘‘Get-Rich-Quick”’ and Wild Cat Schemes That they unduly burden interstate commerce, of which stocks, bonds and other securities were declared to be instrumentalities, and that the laws bring in a resolution but were blocked | exceed the states’ police ‘powers of lo- by a ruling of the cHair, Most of the league members withdrew and those remaining adopted the anti-league re- solutions. League leaders declare the cal supervision. South Dakota Law. meeting was packed against them. Quorum Expected. The South Dakota statute was de- clared invalid by federal judges San- born, T. C. Munger and Elliott, Novem- ber 18, 1915, who restrained Attorney It was expected at noon that the |General Caldwell, Insurance Commis- trains arriving about that hour or ear-|Sioner O'Brien and Public Examiner ly in the afternoon would bring in the | Wingfield comprising the stato secur- four senators required to give the up- per body a quorum when it convened (Continued on page two.) ities commission from its enforcement, sustaining a suit of the Sioux Falls Stock Yards Co., and William and Harry Morley of Sioux City, Ia., sales- (Associated Press.) Brainerd, Minn., Jan, 22.—Two men men of stock yards securities. The latter were being prosecuted under the are believed to have perished in « $50,- 000 fire, which early this morning penal provisions. The 26 slates reported to have blue sky restrictions are Arizona, Arkan- sas, California, Conne Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iow: Louisi- started in the basement o fthe Antlers hotel. Firemen temporarily succeed- ed in checking the blaze, butilater the wind increased and swept away a quarter of a block of the business dis- ana, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Mon- tana, Nebraska, North Carolina, North trict. William Deering, a boilermak- er, and T. F. Lamb, aged 76, a. flagman, Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, are missing. South Dakota; Tennessee, Texas, Ver- mont, West Virginia and Wisconsin. TWO SETTLERS OF MINTO DISTRICT PASS AWAY Minto, N. D., Jan. 22.—George Perl Jones is dead at his home from par- alysis, from which he had been af- flicted for past four years. He came to this part of the state in 1892. He was 73 years old. Farigal Gallaher is dead from hemorrhage. Funeral WM, W, PRICE Price is a White House reporter. Lawson said a woman told him Price carried information about the note from Tumulty, secretary to President Wilson. CHAS. SABIN Sabin is president of the Guar- anty Trust Co. of New York,,and one of the men whom Lawson named as knowing in advance of the peace note. The leak investigation will be re- sumed this week in New York. PHILADELPHIA THREATENED BY VICIOUS. FIRE (United Press.) Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 22.—Sixteen fire companies today battled desper- ately with a fire that thteatened to destroy the Mayer Marks company, a six-story brick furniture store build- ing, in the heart of the congested bus- iness district. The fire was not under} control gt noon, Police think that there was no one in the building when the fire re REBECCA LODGE IN SESSION AT DEVILS LAKE (United Press) Devils Lake, Jan. 22.—Rebecca Lodge members from the Fifteenth district met in. session today, dele- gates coming from Pando, Rock Lake, Tutna, Michigan and Lakota. At a banquet this evening, business matters were slated for discussion. TO PREPARE MEMORIAL FOR LATE STATES ATTORNEY Upon motion 1 of At Attorney C. L. Young, Judge Nuessle this “morning named Attorneys Young, Koffel and F. H. Register a committee of the Bur- leigh Bar association to prepare a sult-' able memorial in honor of the late H.! R. Berndt. was held Thursday. Ship Supposed To B Be the “Black Raider”’ This picture shows the Vineta, the vessel ‘supposed to be the gayéterions “black raider,” sinking Allied. merch. ant ships in the south Atlantic, The Vineta is a big protected cruiser with two 82-inch guns, six inch, 2 1S-pounders, ten one-pounders, and psf boennetngd ye She carries 465 men and displaces 5,886:tons, being 345 feet tong and 57 wide, with 23 feet draught. _ this vesee! after Site. wan: Hit ie: 1000: Bot voveleenrodaed‘tns18 Se ee reconstruction, : ASSOCIATED PRESS Directly to Upper Tells Members It Is Time To Decide Whether United States Is To Maintain Its Isolation or Plunge Into World Affairs. HISTORY MAKING INCIDENT FIRST OF ITS KIND IN SPOKE THIRTY MINUTES Washington, January 22.—Fo: dent spoke with members of the Senate, members of the Cabin- et, and packed galleries listening with rapt attention. When he concluded there was a tremendous burst of applause. RESERVE Senators generally reserved comment on the President's ad- dress, but some of the Republicans said they were opposed to both the ‘‘propriety and substance.’’ The President said that he believed no peace which was a peace of victory in the present war would be permanent peace and it must be taken for granted that peace ‘‘must be followed by some definite concert of policy which that any such catastrophe shall SUBSEA ACTIVITY 10 ECLIPSE ANYTHING SINGE WAR BEGAN London Daily Mail Tells of ‘Vast Preparations to Prey on British Sea Trade SCORES OF SUBMARINES READY FOR CAMPAIGN (United Press) London, Jan. 22.—England expects another period of German ruthlessness that will eclipse anything previous in German army and naval attempts. Re- jection by the Entente Allies of any peace proposals except of their own making, is coupled here with the vast prepara ions known to be made in Ger- 4many.~ Scores of submarines, the En- tente Allies believe, will be released | soon to prey upon Entente Allied ship- ping. s The London Daily Mail today said} that this activity will be. under way within a month. EXPECT STATEMENT. * (United Press) Washington, Jan. The state de- partment expected a statement from Germany late today regarding Teuton- ic holding of neutral prisoners. The |situation is an outgrowth of the Cen- jtral Powers’ naval raids in the south | Atlantic, A new international compli- cation thus loomed up. The two nations are not at an agree- ment, yet, however, in the matter of armament. Germany says that arma- ment makes a vessel a war vessel and that the capture of the crew of such a vessel is justified, The United States says that defen- sive armament is justified, and hence the chances of disagreement are great- er than for several months. CHARGES. GERMAN EMBASSY HAD INSIDE DOPE (Associated Press.) New York, Jan. 22.—The German embassy at Washington was at one time apprised of “inside” information of the business of J. P. ‘Morgan & Co. on behalf of the French and English governments through an allied com- pact between an employ of the Mor- gan firm and a Washington lawyer, who was a personal friend of Ambas- sador von Bernstorff, according to a brief filed in court here today on be-/ half of William J. Burns, detective, and Martin Egan, accused as tappers of private telephone wires. TEAMSTERS WIN WAGE SCALE (United Press.) “as Body of Congress; NEARLY A CENTURY r nearly half an hour, the Presi- COMMENT will make it virtually impossible ever overwhelm us, again.’’ Washington, Jan. § 22.—President Wilson, in a personal address to;the senate today, laid down the question of whether the United States shall-de- part from its traditional policy of ise- lation and no entangling alliances and take part in a world league to re- serve peace after the war. Shattering precedents of more than a century, the president, regarding the senate, with its treaty making power as his counsellor in foreign af- fairs, explained why “he delleved the time had come for the world to know America’s position.and discuss under. lying causes on which he believes'the permanent peace of the world can ‘be maintained. Sends Speech Abroad, _ While President Wilson was speak- ing directly to the senate after the manner of Washington, Jefferson and Adams, his address was in the hands of: all foreign governments or on its, way to them. No such history making event with such far reaching possibilities to the United States probably ever has been seen in the senate chambers, In the background, the fundamental proposition of whether the United States should alter its foreign policy laid down by Washington and carried out by a long line of presidents, was the possibility that out of some such league of nations might come a way, to end the war. His Address. The president spoke as follows: “Gentlemen of the senate: “On the eighteenth of , December last, I addressed identical notes to the governments of the nations at war re- questing them to state more definite- ly than had been stated by either group of the belligerents the terms upon which they would deem it pos- sible to make peace. I spoke on be- half of humanity and of the rights of all neutral nations like our own, many of whose most vital interests the war has put in constant jeopardy, “The Central Powers united in @ teply which stated merely that they were ready to meet their antagonists in conference to discuss terms of peace. “The Entente Powers have replied much more definitely and have stated in general terms, indeed, but with guf- ficient definiteness to imply details, the arrangements, guarantees and acts of reparation, which they deem to be the indispensable condition of a sate isfactory settlement. * “We are that much nearer a definite discussion of the peace which shall end the present war. We are that much nearer to the discussion of the international concert which mast thereafter hold the world at peace. In every discussion of the peace that must end this war, it is taken for granted that that peace must be gives by some definite concert of power, which shall make it virtually impos. sible that any such catastrophe shall ever overwhelm us again. ‘Every lov- er of mankind, every sane and thought ful man must take that for greated. “I have sought this Macatee in te address you because I thought I owed Ht to you as the counsel ssvcciaied yith me in the final our international obligations to fod close to you without reserve,’ the thought and purpose that has been taking form in my mind‘in regard te the duty of our government in these days to come. when it will be neces sary to lay a fresh and a new plas for the foundation of peace among Chicago, Jan. 22.—Union ‘teamsters were back at work today, jubilant over their wage victory. Milton Booth, head of the organization, admitted, however, that although a coal famine has been avoided, further trouble looms imminent, because the employ- ers have accepted only the wage de- Tands of the men. Another angle in ‘the janitors’ strike was taken today, ‘when janitors of small theatres out- side the loop struck for better wages. nations. Must Play Part. ‘ “It is inconceivable that the people of the United States should play 20 part in that great enterprise. To teke part, such service will be the oppor tunity for which they have sought: t prepare themselves by the very aed ciples amd purposes of: their. ; }and. the -approved . practices ef: “(Continued on Page”

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