The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 1, 1917, Page 3

QUARANTINE ee a FROM PREUIMONIA El Paso, March 1.—Thirty ‘thousand regulars and National Guardsmen sta- tioned here -are quarantined at thety camps because ‘of an epidemic of pneu- monia among some of the guardsmen. The quarantine will last two weeks, but will not affect the movement of the troops ordered home. GERWAN CONSUL AT ST. PAUL WANTED 1 10 neta » (United -Press.) St. Pan, ‘ch 1,--Significance was attached to the serions incident before JTans Gruno, German consul here, was! sent dack to Germany, following the severence of diplomatic -relations. is recalled that he insisted: he had heey ordered by his government to South America instead of Berlin, when rela- tions were broken.: His sought a safe conduct through Mexico to the South American country, This government refused and said he could -be given a safe conduct only to Berlin. Mention of the name of Gruno as one of the Germans attached in the plot against the United States when was recalled from this country was made today, PRESENT ASKS LA FLLETE TO OR (Continued from Page One? Tetary Lansing also” expressed the opinion that Mexico would not become a party to the German conspiracy, “We are confident that Mexico would not become a party to this, in view of the friendly relations existing between the United States and the Mexican government,” he said. Carranza Not Informed, While withholding information as to the source of securing evidence, lest some lives ‘be endangered, the state’ department:did admit that it had ‘fall’ evidence that “the ‘German proposal:between Mexico and Japan had reached the hands of Count ‘von Bernstorff and’ the German minister in Mexico, Doubt was expressed that Carranza himself had ever» seen ‘or been informed of the contents of the note, owing to the fact that’ actual hostilities between the United States and the imperial. government had not | : taken. place. Advises Caution, . Senator Stone, ‘chairman of -the for-! "eign yelations committee, made a de- agen pe to the’ senate to refer German: matter over ‘to his com- perform further investiga- tion and. angaly -before ill advised ‘ac- "facts. It may not, be uthentic, it may not be true. We do know, however, that every possible agency was used to incite’ American public opinion.” “There may be,” Stone said,’ “some- thing behind this‘ news which we do not know. It would be wiser to let the committee investigate.” Senator Stone seemed to take no cognizance of the words from the lips of Senator Lodge: “We ought to know the evidence on which we are proceeding. ‘I: don’t think there is anything about the in- . quiry that would be distasteful to the president,” Senator “Lodge added. Sénator Hardwick's objection stood, jut ‘when the senate realized:that this would put the matter over until to- morrow, a hasty move was-made to ’ “have it referred’ {o the foreign rela- tions committee. Senator © Penrose “GONE ON OVER, SEE WY CORN FALL OFF!” “| Put 2 Drops iT -Gets-It’ on Last Feral oo Watch—” “See—all you have to do is to use your two fingers and lift the corn right off. That's the way ‘Gets-It’ al- ways works. You just put on about 2 drops. Then the corn not. only shrivels, but loosens from the toe, without affecting the surrounding flesh in.the least. Why, it’s almost 2 plea: ure to have corns and see how ‘Gets- It’\gets off: out\the least pain. 1 can wear. tient shoes, dance: and walk as-though 1 never had corns.” “Gotsit” makes the use -of toedirri- tating salves, bundling bandages, tape, plasters and other things not’ only | foolish, but unnecessary. Use this ‘wonderful . discovery, _ “Gets-It,” : for any soft or hard corn or caHous. It is. the new, simple, easy, quick wa: and ‘it never fails. You'll never have}; to cut a corn again with knives or Ij ptain Boyes | The name* “of vate Levy FE, Me }Kinn, of Sawyer, N. D., sérving with the Canadian army, is given among j{ | the wounded in the casualty list is | sued at Ottawa this afternoon. (Associated: Press) : Baltimore, March 1.—Four persons were drowned, three of them actress- es, When a taxicab containing a party of seven plunged into the ‘ ‘harbor from a Light street wharf rest wharf early” today. DOUBLE GUARD : ed Presa). Rock. Island, “Hi.,*March 1.—Work was started today:on a high heavy wire woven fence around the shops the Rock Island arsenal here. Sev- eral heavy barbed wire fences have been -placed on top of the ‘fences and the armed guard has been increased. The several thousand employes of the arsenal have been furnished with identification cards, with a general description on one. side and a photo- graph of the employe on the other! side. Without them, no one is aa mitted to the thevground, SEME-MONTHLY PAY PAY The senate ‘tate this'afternoon kill- ed S. B. 78; providing’ for © semi- monthly pay-days of all men employ- ed.by .railroads. It. was amended in the senate it was’ indefinitely: post- poned. Senator.,Jacobson began ‘his — ad- the state railroad commission of its favor of the Fargo and Twin City jobbers. TWO CLUBS ARE ORGANIZED (Special to the Tribune.) Bowman, N. D., March 1.—The booster spirit has gripped Bowman with the. simultaneous organization of a Community club and: a Commercial club. A Vasfaret is being ‘tried at Amidon’ this week on the charge of ending a.wrestling match with neck- yokes, pitchforks and farm imple- ments, the victim and’ complaining witness being Halvor Gullicson: of eral broken arms and brujsed bodies. Rhame is figuring with Coty Di Bois, civil engineers at, Baker, for 4.waterworks system. ee QN ‘BUSINESS. Attorney George A. Bangs of Grand | Forks is in the city ‘transacting legal | business. ead ‘BIRTH OF SON, hospital, a BOD. * NEW PERATOR AT McKENZIE. Miss Margaret Wilson of Minne- apolis has accepted a positon at the priyate “exchange of the “McKenzie hotel. eee HERE FROM ALMONT. Mr, and Mrs. A. B. Fraser of Al- mont have afrived in the city for a the McKenzie. eee -VISIT§ COUSINS HERE. Albert Welsh.of Wibaux, Mont., vis- ited a short time in the.city. Tuesday with his cousins, Miss Flaherty, and Miss Grace :Tomlinson. of Fourth St. Wis, eee RETURNS AFTER VISIT. Ralph Glerum, Jarparly, connected with the A. W. Lucas ompany store, returned Wolseedey evening to his home in Tower City, after.spend- ing several -days here’ yisiting old friends. pe . ACCEPTS POSITION HERE. ed a position at the A. W. Lucas &/ Compaay store as .windaw trimmer and has entered ppon bis, new dutfes. . UNDERGGE:! RM. Vik of scissors, and ‘ram chentes'<of Dlced |iweek, ts poison. Try “Gets-It’: Re “DAY BILL. KILLED the house and when’ it came back to! dress attacking H. B. 298, depriving} rate’ making function and arbitrarily |f fixing rates in this state, especially in | Amidon. The melee resulted in sev-! Born to. Mr.'and Mrs. E. Ellnus of | Sterling Wednesday, in the Bismarck short sojourn. ‘They .are:registered at | He was enroute to his home in Loyal, | Mr,-Renaan of St. Pay) pas accept: | By FREDERICK M. KERBY:. ‘New York, March. 1.—The man whose salary or wages have not been ‘doubled during the past 20 years, has actually had a cut in pay. |The housewife who goes to market today can buy less than half as much food for a dollar as the same dollar | would buy 20 years ago. | .Mhe purchasing power of money has | been cut in half. Food prices ‘have doubled. Our dollars ‘are shrinking in ‘our pockets while we hold them. {one-third more now than they were) | four years ago, you are actually get- | ting less. i Here are the facts as gathered from official sources: ; “Twenty years ago, in 1896, the aver- {age workingman’s dollar would buy | twice as much round steak as it wiu today. Figures just issued by the | United States bureau of labor statis- {ties show that in 1896, the average price per pound of round steak was $24, In other. words -it was just about two pounds for a quarter. To- iday,.the price of round steak, as gath- iered from the principal industrial cit- fes of the United’ States, and. from hundreds of: retail dealers, averages | $.237, in other: words, it is now about a quarter for one pound. | .The same is true of all other meats, Pork ‘chops in 1896 weye about ten and a half cents a pound. Today. they average twenty-one and a half. ‘Smpk- ed bacon 20 years ago was twelve and a half cents a pound on the average. Today it is much more than double, being over. thirty cents a pound. | Smoked bam in 1896 sold for 15 cents ja pound on the average; ‘today it is a | Mttle over 30 cents. Poultry was sell- ing near 13 cents a pound on the av- erage in 1896; today at a little over 24'cents. { Purthermore, unless your wages are} Tt RISE IN We bos! OFM 4Q America’s The prices: foday are at least one- fourt reater than they were even ten years ago..Sirloin steak in 1907, according to the: United States figures, was at -$:181° per pound on the aver age; today: it is $.268. Round steal was 15 cents @ pound; now it is-over {23 cente; rib.roast then was 15; now it is 21 céttts. And so on down the, list. ‘And ywhat is true-of meats is ne of all other principal items of | eeu constitutes 31.35 per :cent of) the ‘whole jay—practicall: one-third, Jt is the big item in food costs, And:f00d- constitutes 42:54:.per | cent of the: total budget. of the aver age workingman’s family. ‘These fig- ures are: based:on the sovernmentiin- |; quiry in :2567) typical worMnemien 3 homes. : The increase in one year is start: { jing. In New ‘York city, the official figures show that, with ‘the single ex- i ception of ‘pork chops, every article of the 27°lsted in the goyernment’s tabulation,» showed an increase in price for December 1916, over Decem- ber, 1915. Potatoes showed an tn-} crease,.of 82 per cent in the single year, Since the ‘end of December, there |; has been. a still sharper rise in food | prices in this city and throughout the country. © i ‘A: comparison of prices on Decem- | ber 15, 1912, four years ago and De- |: cember 15, 1916, stows an advance in the prices’ of all: food combined of 29 | per cent; That:means that food today on the average costs more'than one- third more than-it did fouriyears ago. The greatest Increase, 120 per cent, ‘ts in the price’ of potatoes, “Flour in- creased 60 per cent; lard, 27 per cent; while’ butter shows the smallest in- crease, 9 ‘per cent. \ the figures are based are: Sirloin chops, smoked bacon, smoked ham, ai 12.7 cents a pound in 1896, 17.4 ce cents in 1915, and 25.3 cents last ‘December. This’ table indicates the average ' ‘dost in 1896, 1903, 1914, 1915 and De-| with Germany. cember, 1916, of a pound of meat in industrial cities trom which the} of the right of Americans to travel! United States government has collected statistics. The meats on which | round steak, rib roast, pork! The average costs were | 23.2 | steak, nd chicken. nts in 1907, 24.1 cents in 1914, Honorable Mose Loses Essential Part of Trousers In defending the dignity: of:the house .when it was questioned by a minion of the ‘upper body of the | state legislature, Mose Rosens- weig, chief page and «mailing clerk, early yesterday afternoon lost the essential portion of his trousers in the fracas which’ fol- lowed and ‘was forced to. wear an. overcoat while on duty. » Because Mose has at all times evinced-a devotion to duty and a ‘willingness to serve in any capac- i 1 i i ' ity and.on numerous occasions sacrificed himself and jeopardized his life in upholding the dignity of the house, Representative Rei- shus introduced a resolution ‘that © | Mose be allowed to. draw upon his salary an amount sufficient to en- | able him to purchase a new pair | of pants. i The. resolution also carried an emergency clause which read. that “whereas, the hapless Mose is without sufficient protection from the. cold winds and is moreover a menace to the peace and dignity \ - of this body, an emergency is hereby declared to exist and the provision of this bill shall be in immediate force and effect.” | ~ GALCS LETTER, (United Press) New York, March 1.—The letter is unquestionably a brazen forgery. planted by a British agency against to justify the violations of the lonrie doctrine by Great Britain, de- clared George Vjerick, editor of the World Weekly, formerly known as the he Fatlierland, in. commenting on the Zimmerman note, FOOD: ‘PROSE FUND DROPPED FROM BILL Washington, March 1—The $400,- 000 Spesortatin passed See the house for investigation, Hrcban oc tke fuatny ba by senate ‘appropriations commeren: | tor ever. had the pleasure of address. ORATOR’S DECLINE AND FALL Voters Tired, The campaign curtain bas been rung down, says the Kansas City Star, on no sadder fact—frem some points of | view,’ at: Jeast—than: that the stump | orator has.not livéd upto his old-time tradition. Or if he has lived up to It thepublic has deci{ned to live up to it with him. Not to evade the fact, or | i ¢o attempt to soften it, the intelligent | eleciorate, the free American voter, or | whatever else the citizenry is called In | presidential years, bas yawned openly in the face of the spellbinder and | turned aivay to see What was on at, the morte show. H Tt -has been a shock. to the political: managers. The campaign industry has | bad Yo such seibuelk since the {ntro- duction of reading Into the scheyne of | “popular education. It used to be (at anybody who had-eyer heen a ‘member of the legislature, who, had sat on the | bench, held a county office or had done | | or vas supposed ‘ta’ have done any: thing that would Serve ag an excuse , for prefixing the title of “Fon, ” to his , name—it used to he that any such male person with well, developed lungs and 9 set of gestures could he billed + in a polifical campaigi nani bring out ! the entire countryside. About all such an orator needed,.tn addition to the title <alinded to, :was a “statesman” | coat, an untiring voice, a string of sta- | tisties «and what was known as a} “fund” of anecdote. This “find” was | generally overdrawn at the hank of otiginality and most’ af the drafts on $t Went to ignominions profes ‘The “intelligent:audienc: “—the mest | intelligent audience the old-time ora ing—has ‘taken bim at his word and { has rather distanced. him sin intell!- ; gence and information on his own snb- | Ject. ‘Tt has come to she more and | mote tike the audience ‘at the theater ! which! has. paid for. its ‘seats—it de mands the best or wil go elsewhere to | find. it, . The mere “Hons” no longer | draw, thiess 1 'topliner is produced the intelligent andience shows its in| telligenee by staying away from the | hall. It ts.only fair to Say shat the intelll- gent campaign manager ins kept pace | {with the intelligent audience. He, was | quick. with the bogk when he saw the | second-rate. oratory ‘stuff was, begin- | 2 why printer’ | | use in this campaign. These aatite | génifemen have discovered that.the in- -telligent. audience takes the paper at | home. The “and how my friends” ora tors never saw 2. sadder day than whea \ they dis yvered it. | \ TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY | SITUATION WANTSO—Married man of 34 wants.a Seb ag shi clerk of any kind of office work; € years’ | one place; best of referéaces. . Ad- dress Box 73, Bismarck, N. D. 3-1-2t | WANTEo—Work by the hour. Call | noon of evenings. Phone.777L.. 3-13t | boli onger tts dishwasher. | Grand. Cafe aes Ne S18t i HOUSE CLOTHES {we might take our chances, Two games each nig OFFICIALS: At High School Gymnasium Friday & Sat. MARCH 2nd and 3rd and Bismarck. The games start at 8 o’clock. ADMISSION: Fri. Night 25c-35c; Sat. Night 25.50 Nights ht. Teams from Washburn, Dickinson, “Mandan L.£. Goodwin, Harris Robinson PRESIDENT WITH POWER “(Continued from page one) man Flood aroused intense enthusi- agm on both the rights of citi: € have a right to travel was met’ Wit! a-volley of applause. Attacks Pacifists. He cited that authorities for the president to act as yuggested in the ‘bill had been granted to other exec- utives and incidentally attacked the pacifists protesting against the bill. “By this act,” said Representative Flood, “we may not be able to avert | war. If we should ‘become involved in -war, however, the pas e of this} bill would be one of the minor causes of the dreadful result. “Give the president this power ask- éd and the question of war will ‘be There no doubt and we should uphold this right peacefully. If that cannot be done. | then we will do it with arms. “if Germany were conducting tnis war with the instincts of humanity I can- not understand how this bill can tail to pass. It is a question of Ameri- ,ean fights, and when such a question | point, the trail of official ¢ arises in this house there are no par- ty lines.” Reports of German submarine bas- + {es in the Gulf of Mexico, hints pos-| formation came into the posse: | sible German influence behind the up- rising in Cuba; that German influences have been playing upon all revolutionary fac- tions in Mexico, with the sole purpose of embarrassing the United States; reports of resentment being stirred up against the United States in Coluin- bia, which already has a grievance because of partition in Panama; re- cent purchase by the United States of the Danish West Indies, for the openly announced reason that the United States could not afford to have | them fall into the hands of a hostile | reported assertions poWer—all’ these ihings, ‘in the’ opin- ion of officials here, take on a decided- ly definite form with disclosures made ‘REPORTED GERMANS in Germany's instructions to her min- | rf STU TWE IN PAPERS. TAKEN FRO Nec AFEAIRS HEL ERMAN ARENT Continued from page 3. vestigati g reports that the Germans ‘ment and the de facto government of; here have been given assistance and Mexico.” are aided with money, It’ is said the Secretary Lansing took great care, | 200 Germans in northern Mexico have ‘it will ‘be noticed, to exonerate both | been given guarantees of a special Japan and (Mexico und said this goy-| Protection. The investigation in El lernment had no knowledge that the| Paso recently lead to the discovery | proposal had been conveyed through | that the activities of German secret | Mexico to Japan. agents in Mexico extended over a In view of the fact that the plan| !0ng period. They are said to have was not to ‘be presented until “it is| instigated the battle at Parral, in which the Mexicans were ambuscaded certain that there will be an outbreak " of war with the United States,” it] by the Carranzistas in April, 1916, Was not’ certain, Secretary L a j said, that the matter: had bee: cially presented to General Carranza ; ate “ENGLAND TO ALLOW COMPANY TO: MAKE SHELLS FOR NAVY United Press.) Washington, (March~T.—Great Brit- ain has withdrawn her objection and ‘made knowy her permission for Had- fields, an English munitions concern, all. Reached Bernstort. It is known definitely, officials said,| at Zimmermann's instructions | ached Count von Bernstorff here in! Washington, that he forwarded them to Mexico City; and that they reached | the German minister there, lost to view, Secretary Lansing” flatl give any ‘ihitimation’ or ‘how refused to! the in- io of the United Stat gs - ithat it wont frre the Ineo cat | [to contract with the: United "stades:na: vy | those concerned; ia for armor-piercing shells of the Ambassador Sato of Japan was in-| /inch and 16-inch: typ formed of the possession of the text of Germa al by this. gov- ernment ay afternoon, when | lhe called at the state department to, see Counselor Polk. Officials here ex- pect Japan will welcome the oppor- tunity to reiterate her allegiance to} the Entente alliance, and that the oc- casion will be taken as a means of! cementing relations between the United States and Japan. “BINGO” Absolutely Removes: Corns and ‘Calluses. Completely (25 Cents, All Drug Stores; In: | cluding Cowan’s ‘Drug Store. (Now, y Delco-Light makes electric current “universally ”a available. Deleo-Light brillant, c¢ ‘cream Jt is furnish summer DELCO -LIGHT MAKES ELECTRICITY UNIVERSAL, For the first time electric lightya rand j power, are ‘anyone—anywhere.| those who live-in. the poi towns and cities. _ thousands ’ of “farm-houses with! nomical Bight. At is furnishing” power” to” operate} jpumps, washing machines, churns,’ ‘ ‘chines, vacuum cleaners, etc’ {Te is lighting country churches, ¥ stores and public halis, ‘houseboats and yachts; etc. B. r BLE" UH ON THE rane is% today furnishing)" {Iv is lighting rural’ railway stations} Jand construction camps. Ieis lighting the“camps of United) States troops on the Mexican) border and it is disclosing hereto-| fore sindreamed-of beauties in the, ‘depths of Mammoth Cave, Ken-} tucky. Ms Altogether, over 15,000 Del plants are in operation, and Delto- Light offices ate to be found in al’ most every part of the world./ convenient, safe and eco-| parators, » milking ama- hing’ light and power to) homes and camps, ato Delco- Light is a complete electric plant—the engine and dy-" a “\namo in one compact unit combined with a set of spe- \Cially built and wonderfully efficient batteries for the | [storing of current. The plant is so simple a child can! fare for it, and. so economical that it actually pays for | (i im time and labor saved. It operates on either kero~/ ene, gasoline or natural gas. Price $275 "° 58" K. SKEELS, Dealer Bismarck, N.D.