The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 3, 1917, Page 4

, house for spites, hobbies and legis- 1 aon ache etl BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE THE TRIBUNE Matered at the Postoffice, Bismarc! . D., as Second Class Matter. mie (SSUED EVERY DAY EXCEPT SUNDAY | RATES PAYABLE IN| ADVANCE Daily, by mail or carrier, per month .. Daily, by mail, North Dakota ...... sssseeee Daily, by mail outside of North Dakota, one year .,... Daily, by mail outside of North Dakota, three months. 1.50) Daily, by mail in North Dakota | three months ........-+++++ pe 5 Member Audit Bureau of Circulation THD STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER : (Established 1878) LOCAL WEATHER BULLETIN. For the 24 hours ending at noon,| March 3%, 1917: Temperature at 7:00 a. m. Temperature at 7:30 a.m. . Temperature al n ne year in | 4.00 6.00 Precipitation .. Highest wind ve city. Forecast. | Till 7:00 p.m. Sunday. | For North Dakota: Fair tonight) and Sunday; rising temperature Sun- day and in west portion tonight. For Bismarck and Vicinity: Fair tonight and Sunday; rising tempera- ture. ‘Temperature Calgary 10, Chicago 3 Kansas Cit Moorhead . Pierre St. Paul Winnipeg St. Louis San Francisco . Helena Williston ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteorologist. a ee ee * he ‘True humor is masculine in * its vigor and feminine in its * * intuition.—Alexander Harvey. a { FIFTEENTH LEGISLATURE. | With a few exceptions, the legisla-| tion enacted at the session which has! just passed into history is of a harm- less and innocuous type. The chief claim to distinction this legislature hag is the number of ‘ills killed, rath- er than those spread upon the stat: | ute books, i Sometimes it is a happy coinci- dence fora state to have the two | hodies in direct and bitter opposi-| tion, This yggr it has proved espe- cially bene lt ’ Many extreme measures fell by the wayside chiefly ‘because they merited oblivion. Prob- ably it was part of the general schemé to have them defeated so as to furnish issues for another cam- paign. There is too much Jaw making. The biennial grist adds mightily to the legal encumbrances which com- plicate rather than facilitate good government. Each session there is} a flood of bills aimed to satisfy some private or petty local interest. Leg- islatures have come to ‘be regarded as arbiters for controversies that should have no place in legislative chambers. North Dakota would give a legisla- ture imperishable laurels that con- centrated its attenion solely on vital issues, declining to clearing ‘be a lative vag Such a “legislature would be judged by the quality, not the quantity, of Jaws passéd. The Tribune from time to time will take up certain commendable Jaws of this and discuss their fea- tures. Early in the session the main issue was disclosed; that of constitutional revision. The conservative wing won. Hopes of achieving an elaborate pro- gram of state owned utilities at the session then vanished. The terminal elevator bill that pass- ed was in reality a measure endorsed ‘by the Equity, which differs some- what from the League on the meth- ods to be followed to ‘build up state owned or state endowed enterprises. It is probably wise to try out the terminal elevator in a limited degree at first. The wisdom of the legisla- aries. session AMERICAN SPIRIT. gress to authorize him to put the | United States on a footing of armed neutrality, President Wilson would have confessed to the world that he and the hundred million Americans for whom he speaks, are cowards, The step which the president took is the shortest one that he could have taken and he delayed taking it as long as it was possible to delay. That it is a step toward war with Jermany must be patent to everyone squarely in the face. That the president did not take a much longer step and take it much sooner is proof if any proof were needed of his love of peace and his war with Germany if patience and forbearance can accomplish it, So far as we can gauge public sen- timent, the president's words and ac- tions echo it with wonderful accur- acy. war. But America is not afraid. Fear is the greatest enemy of the; human race—nations and individuals, | The nation or individual that is ruled by or takes counsel] of its fears in a crisis loses its self-respect and the respect of others. Without the respect of one's self and of others existence becomes a liv- ing death. It seems to us as something more than a coincidence that at the same time President Wilson was telling the world, Monday, that America is not) afraid of the Germans and proposes to meet German ruthlessness with American bullets fineed be, 2 humble American bullets if need be, a humble deaux, France, was also sounding the tocsin of American fearlessness, President Wilson used the polite language of statesmanship. Capt. Johns of the American tank steamer Goldshell spoke less politely but we confess that what he said gave us a real thrill. There was a real American punch It took us back to the “damn-the-tor- pedoes” days of Admiral F: gut and the ‘Give-‘em-hell-boys” days of Capt. Robley Evans. The confederates didn’t get Farra- Kvan’s goat and the Germans haven't gotten Capt. John’s goat. Capt. Johns had just braved the terrors of German submarine piracy and safely docked his ship at Bor- deaux. { If there are not something like a hundred million other Americans who feel the same way about it we miss our guess. GOOD HUMOR MARKS CLOSE OF ASSEMBLY (Continued from Page Une) by acclamation. Senator McLean asked that another be named, stating he had acted in such position for two of course, glad to was at an end, jal regret in leav- know that the but there was the us ing, and employes lingered to the last moment, loth to say good-bye to sur- roundings become gratefully familiar. Little Vital Legistation 'The Fifteenth general assembly which cost the people of North Da- kota $130,000, gave them little that is vital in the way of legislation. Of approximately 800 bills introduced, in the neighborhood of 25 per cent, or 200, have been enacted into law. Of the 200 enactments, the governor last evening had signed 55, 34 senate bills, nineteen house bills, and two house resolutions. Approximately 140 bills covering various subjects, await the governor's signature. No bill has yet been vetoed. Of the more important acts of the Fifteenth general assembly may be listed two bills frage; a bill des tage which the state has ever gained in favorable commodity rates for the encouragement of its infant indus-! tries, natural resources and jobbing enterprises; a bill concurring in the constitutional amendment referred by the Fourteenth assembly, providing for state hail insurance, and which becomes effective with the approval of the people at the next general elec-! tion; several bills relating to taxa. tion, designed to add new taxable tion may be demonstrated within the next two years. If it is found advis- able, then ‘the next legislature will have something more tangible than theory to act upon. | During the next two years -the is- sues which were so warmly debated during the last sixty days will be real vital ones for this state. Out of the discussion that is bound to follow, the reasonable and rational policy will inevitably be' determined. At this time the press can best be employed in cooling off the fevered advocates of every faction, so that within a few months we can all pre- pare for another discussion of the/| fundamental issues ‘before the state. Bismarck enjoyed playing host to the legislators. It believes this city won many friends among them. The Tribune wishes them Godspeed. iNew Yorker wants U. S. to buy Ire- Jand and make it an American colony. It would be 2 good place to recruit that after-the-war International Police. " geiialetySBattlad boote, says a property to the lis and to increase revenue; a dozen bills of more or tual and co-operative insurance com- panies; a bill providing for a con- stitutional amendment to be approv- ing a four-fifths decision from the supreme court to hold a law uncon- Torrens system for the transfer of) land titles; and a rather vapid immi- gration act, carrying no appropria-| tion, but adding certain duties in con- nection with North Dakota products to the office of jcommissioner of agriculture and la- bor. | “Two Sensations | tions—House Bill 44, undertaking to legislate into existence a new consti- tution more-radical than may be found in any other American state, and Senate Bill 84, empowering the governor to create a terminal eleva- tor commission and appropriating | $300,000 to be used by that commis- ; sion in the construction of a termin- al elevator at such point as it might select. House Bill 44 perished in the ‘senate, early in the session. Senate Bill 84 came up for final disposition late last night. Bill after bill, originated in and house, elie Le cs Sore Tae To have done less than ask con-| who has the courage to look facts | unalterable determination to avoid{| | America is for peace; it abhors | pec in it. { gut’s goat; the Spaniards didn't get| relating to equal suf- | 2'T roying every advan-|* less importance affecting stock, mu-j ed at the next general election requir-| stitutional; more liberal Sunday laws, | with the legalization of Sunday base-j | | the other house. After the deefat of House Bill 44, the league adopted the slogan: “A whole loaf or none,” and stuck to it through thick and thin, turning down rural credits and sim- ilar measures on the ground that these bills sought to meet the prob- lems only half way. 1 Much Good Roads Legislation To the everlasting credit of the Fif- teenth assembly may be noted a large amount of good roads legislation, cre- ating a state highway commission, and making an adequate appropria- tion therefor; diverting a large part of the funds derived from the regis- tration of automobiles to the use of {this commission; providing for state aid in the building of highways and ng an act specifically U able the state to take advantage of federal aid for post and enacting a drag law similar es in force in Iowa and other states, which will compel keeping in | good condition highways once built. The biennial budget bill as it final- ly passed both houses after an agree- ment among confere carries a to- tal appropriation of — $3,379,944.13, about seven thousand more than the aggregate when the bill left the sen- jate, and about seventy thousand more than the first total left by the house. Yo important appropriations have cut to any extent. The senate Ff ay afternoon con- curred in the house amendments to Bill 173, legalizing Sunday Il, providing no admission fee s charged, and the house receded from its amendments to Senate Bill 46, which had been amended in the house to provide a two years’ closed season on prairie chickens and to pro- hibit hunting on another's land with- out consent. Senate Bill 78, the semi-monthly payday bill, ressurrected Friday morning on a rwing from the chair that it was improperly killed Thurs- day, was again taken up Friday af- ternoon, when the vote by which the senate concurred in the house amend- ments was reconsidered, and the bill sent to a conference committee. It later was sed, when the house re- ceded from its amendments, Senate Bill 166, making an appro- priation of $85,000 for the mainten- ance of the national guard, passed on a conference committee _ report. The bill originally called for $120,000; the senate cut it to $70,000, the house boosted it back to $100,000, and Fri- day afternoon the conferces split the difference. ‘ UA FOLLETTE IS ARMED AGAINST ! i | | bridges; pa designed to ei (Continued from. page one) | cording to ‘Democratic senators, who have been struggling with them for | 24 hours fora. reconsideration, to pre- | vent final passage of the following | bilis: The army Dill. Sundry civil appropriation bill, The general deficiency bill. Military academy bill. Bill to extend authority of the ship- ping board and to permit the govern- ment to take merchant ships owned or building in tne United States in time of threatened war. Amendments to the federal reserve law and all other pending general leg- islation. Any bills left over would be taken up at an extra session, if there be one, or at the last moment of the pres- ent session. Current appropriations could be ex- tended by resolution, “TREAGHERY,” SAY GERMANS EXPOSED from page one) “diplomatic ¥ tions with rinany soon after the proclamation of a barred zone and ed other neutrals to follow her ex mple, JUSTIFY ACT. ing these probabilities, it the right but also the duty ‘autions in time in the con- flict with the United States,—in order to balane f possible, the adhesion to anew enemy. The German ‘ at Mexico therefore was in- structed in the middle of January that in the event of the United States de- claring war, be should offer to the vin government an alliance and further details, » in- : t= “Antici Was not on ter to make no advance government unless he that America was ed the win! the Mex knew for a ¢ going to declare w ceived information of the instructions sent by a secret way to Mexico is not nown. It appears, however, that the Aches and it only must have been —was committed on Ameri- tory.” ENY PRESENCE OF PLOT. Washington, March 3.--Reference by German Foreign Minister Zimmerman to the existence of a Pan-American “plot” is regarded in official circles here as nothing more than a distorted and erroncous understanding either on the part of the Argentine newspaper or the German Foreign office of some quite open and proper efforts made soon after the outbreak of the war, and during Secretary Bryan’s incumbency to pro- BURLEIGH COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ADOPTS MEMORIAL: FOR BERNDT Beautiful Testimonial to Deceased Brother Presented by Com- mittee of Barristers ‘The committce appointed by Judge Nuessle to prepare a testimonial in honor of H. R. Berndt, deceased, has presented the following resolution: “The bar of this county has sus-! tained a deep loss in the untimely death.of our brother H. R. Berndt. He was stricken down in the ful] strength of manhood and, so far as man can see, before his work was finished, he; was faithful to every trust commit- ted to his keeping and was honorable, honest and sincere in his dealings with his fellowmen. As a public offi- cial he always placed duty before every other consideration. He was| ready to suffer for what he thought right. No dishonorable act mars his name as a lawyer and a gentleman. To his wife and children we extend! our heartfelt sympathy aud hope that Time, the healer of all wounds, will in a measure assuage the anguish of their bereavement and leave them only the cherished memory of a kind and loving husband and father “Therefore, be it resolved, that the bar of this court extend to the fam- ily of the deceased its sincere sym- pathy; and that a copy of this resolu- tion be sent to the family of the de- ceased, “On motion of C, L. Young dent of the Burleigh County Bi ciation, it Was ordered that the reso- lution be spread upon the minutes of the court; and that a copy thereof be sent to the family of the deceased.” PALE FACE GHIEF OF STANDING ROCK GOES 10 ROSEBUD Claude C. Covey, Who Came to State in 1914, Gets Notice of Transfer Claude C, Covey, superintendent of the Standing Rotk Indian ¥eservation, has been transferred to the office of superintendent of the Rosebud reser- vation in South Dakota’. Covey came to this state December, 1914, from the Navajo ‘Springs reser- vation in Colorado. The famous Stand- ing Rock trail is one of the achieve- ments of his administration. He be- gan in 1915 to undertake the first sys- tematic road work ever undertaken on the reservation, ~ There were 6,000 head of cattle on the reservation! when Covey took charge. He secured an appropriation from the Indianidepartment, and pur- chased 2,000. heifers, in 1915. So suc- cessful was the experiment, as he called it, that between 500 and 1,000 head were sold the following spring. From the! original stock, the herds ‘among ‘the Indians hive increased to 12,000 head. CHARLES TOWNE TO MARRY AGAIN New York, ‘March 3.—Chas. Towne, | former state senator and congressman | from Minnesota, and at one time the | people's nominee for vice president, is to be married to Mrs, Elkin, of Washington. The license taken out today gave her address at Washington. Mrs. Elkin is 29 years old, and is the divorced wife of Ernest Elkin. Towne is 59 years old, and is practicing law here. His first wife was Maude Irene Wiley, of Lansing, Mich, The mar- riage will take place at Towne’s Riv- erside Drive home tomorrow and will be attended only by Towne’s father and mother, and an aunt of Mrs. El- kin. PLOT ADMITTANCE _— (United Press) Washington, March 3.—Germany's admittance through United Press dis- patches from Berlin that she plotted with Mexico against the United States clinched the Republican determination for an extra session today. This admittance, they held, plainly showed Germany’s spirit—a spirit of heartless bringing on of war, and per- haps really desirous of having the United States ag an enemy. Up until the time of the receipt of the admittance, the administration said there would be no extra session now at least The pending supply bills may, how- ever, cause an extra session to be called in May or June. The armed neutrality bill was expected to pass today. President Wilson told friends he would not call an extra session. This was taken to mean that the adminis- tration will get a resolution for con- tinuing appropriations in cases where the regular bills failed, and there would be no call at the present, at CLINCHES PATRIOTISM | | ball; a bill providing for a modified | eet rights oF ree commerce in the vestern hemisphere. council quarterly and at times oftener, appoint- the advertisement of | a special committee to consider prop- | least. MEXICAN MINISTER, (United Press.) New York, March 8.—Mexico has; not received any proposition of an The members of the Pan-American | which meets in Washington | The session has enjoyed two sensa-; ositions advanced by individual min- listers to protect the commerce of the | Americas, the essential feature being ithe declaration of a zone about 200 {miles wide along the American coast from Cape Horn to Canada, witiin which no belligerent warships or sub- marines should be permitted to inter- fere with merchant ships. This subject was discussed in vari- ous phases for many months in a des- ultory way at meetings of the Council. but as no substantial encouragement was received from the State Depart- ment here, no attempt was made to make any report. AT ONCE—Ten ladies to travel, dem- onstrate and sell well established line to our dealers. Previous exper- ience not necessary. Good pay. Rail- yom | alliance from Germany, Foreign Min- ister Aguilar informed the United Press today. He sent the following telegram from Guadalajara: “The United Press, ' “New York. “The government of Mexico has not received any proposition of an alli- ance from Germany. “Foreign Minister Aguilar.” MYSTERY SURROUNDS 5 IDENTITY OF MAN Grand Forks, N. D., Mar. 2—Con- siderable mystery surrounds the iden- tity and past of a strange man, prob- ably about 50 years of age, who pass- ed away at a local hospital yester- day. Efforts of attending physicians { to learn particulars ‘of the patient. were unavailing; tte merely announc- by ‘the Great Northern raflroad at Michigan City, N. D., and while clear- ing away snow from the G. N. tracks with other workmen was badly froz- en. Pneumonia later developed and he was turned over to the county. will undoubtedly be buried in potters’ field by the county. CRAMFORD DECLINES TO DEBATE ISSUE 80 President of Board of Regents Writes Interesting Reply to H. B. 44 Trenchant English is a specialty with Lewis I’, Crawford, president of the state board of regents, as may be judged from the following letter which | he recently wrote in response to a re- quest from a friend in his territory that he debate the. late lamented House Bill 44 with A. E. Bowen, one- time I..W. W. organizer, and more recently clerk of the house: “Mr, J. M. Still, “Beach, N. D. “Dear Mr, Still: “Your letter of the 22nd inst. has just reached me, in which you and others request that I debate H, B. 44 with A, 1, Bowen. “Redeeming the world from error is a thankless task at best. H. B. 44 is dead. What it now needs is a hearse, a potter's field and a lapse of | memory. It does not seem to me that a debate on this measure would serve any useful purpose—since it has ceas- ed to be an issue. All thinking people consider it a legislative indiscretion, and most of those who supported it are desirous of a chance to live down thcir folly. It’s hidden meaning and sinister intent are becoming more ap- parent to all. “I shall be in the future, as I have been in the past, willing to give of my time and ability to my own friends and neighbors on all matters affecting our common welfare, but I must say that a debate such as you suggest with an I. W. W. agitator would not be compatible with my own self re- spect or with my feelings for the re- spect of my friends. Ranting isn’t argument and knowing as I do the ir- responsible utterances and the disre- gard for facts which such agitators indulge in, it would not show either decency or good sense on my part to} join issue. ’ “However, in case either. H. B. 44 or any other measure ‘of similar im-} port should in the’ future become an issue, I shall be glad to give the pub- lic the facts as I see them in any4 at such times as might be arranged with any responsible opponent, “Appreciative of your kindly sym- pathy and friendship, “I am, sincerely yours, “LEWIS F. CRAWFORD.” ° GRAIN MARKETS o—_—_—_____—___+-__0 MINNEAPOLIS... - No, 1 Hard . ++ | 208% @210% No. 1 Northert at 197 @20446 No. 1. Northern Choice:, 207% @ 208% Regular to arr ..... 185% Choice to arr ... 205% o. 2 Northern . 194% @ 202% No. 3 Wheat . 186% @196% No. 2 Mont. Hard .. .. 198% @201% No. 2 Mont, Hard to arr 197% @199% No. 1 Durum ..... .. 199% No. 1 Durum Choice .... 207% Xo. 1 Durum to arr .... 1995% No. 1 Dur. Choice to arr 20556 No. 2 Durum . wee 19456 @ 199% No. 3 Yellow Corn ...... 108% @105% No. 3 Yellow Corn to arr 102%@103% Other Grades Corn .... 93 @104% 3% @ 64%: 5T7%@ 595 5TH%@ 58% 2 B6%@ 59% vee OF @ULS No. 2 Mont. White Oats No. 3 White Oats . No. 3 White Oats to No, 4 White Oats . Barley ......++.. Choice Barley ........ 115 @121 Rye . + 152 @153 Rye to ar. 152 @153 Plax ...-e. » 2774@283% 27734 @ 283% May . 190 @190% 1825%@ % 150% Close 12:32 p, m. DULUTH. May .... 190% July ... 188% @189% No. 1 Hard on trk .. 195% No. 1 Northern on trk .. 194%4' No. 2 Northern . . 188% @190% No. 3 Northern . 182%4.@187% No. 1 Northern to arr .. 194% No, 2 Mont. Hard on trk 194% No. 2 Mont. Hard to arr 194% No. 1 Spot Durum ...... 199% No, 2 Spot Durum .... 194% @196% 197% « 19956 + 196% No. 1 Durum to arr May . July . ST. PAUL. | HOGS—Receipts 1,600; 5c to, 10c bulk higher; range $13.00@13.30; $13.15@13.75. | CATTLE—Receipts 400; killers, steady; steer: $5.50@11.50; cows and heifers $5.50@9.00; calves, steady, $5.00@10.25; steady, $4.00@8.50. SHEEP—Steady; lambs 13.75; wethers $6.00@11.60; $5.50@10.25. 37.0@ ewes CHICAGO, HOGS—Receipts 13,000; estimated receipts Monday 50,000; strong; 20c to 25c: above yesterday’s average; bulk $13.55@13.75; light $13.00@ 13,70; . mixed... $13.35@13.85;.,. heats $13.35@13.90; rough $13.35@ 13.90; Efforts to locate relatives or friends; have proved: unavailing to date. He! VERY GERTAINLY DEAD manner that might be ‘desired andj‘ No. 4 Yellow Corn to arr 10114 @102% | stockers and feeders, |® rday Evening Letter By Justice J. E. Robinson | ; and publish in book form my letters, es- 1 reserve the right to revise iewrite any long-winded decisions, | says and decisions. OF ore on noney. Such decisions are never read because that is a waste of ti oshng them in North pore Mahe is and the cost of oking. Hons wil fe the taxpayers tWi y ‘ about $25 a page. My decis ne United States supreme court are now writing decisions just like mine and soon they too will try to clean the slate and to keep up with their work, 1 want to tell you a humorous story of how my picture was turned to the wall, In Bismarck there is an artist who looked on me as a rare specimen and conceived the idea of making a fortune by taking my picture and hav- ing it copyrighted. So he coaxed me into his studio, just as you coax a @ child with a stick of candy. Oh why lid he flatter my boyish pride? He id: The great newspapers of the east and west want your picture. If you let me take it, I will give you all the pictures you want, and so, being fond of getting something for nothing, I let him have his way. One picture pleased him so much that he got it copyrighted and put it up as_the chief. ornament in his studio. Then there called on him a distinguished leader of the league, whom the artist left alone while he retired to the operating room. On his return the artist was amazed to observe that my picture was turned to the wall. North Dakota, when a progressive ige—a thinker and no trimmer— writes for the press, he is sure to of- fend some good people, When he writes on the Sunday Blue Sky law, he offends the clergy and those who think that man was made for the Sabbath, When he writes’ a_ wine When he writes on House Bill 44 his picture is turned judges | | JUSTICE ROBINSON. decision, he offends the Dry Bones. I and the proper method of amending the constitution, to the wall. : : This week the judges have all been present and working like beavers, animal and it is noted for sagacity and and, You know, a beaver is a noble industry. I am the idler of the court, and still I am ready and willing to write up decisons in half the cases, if the chief justice will put the work onto my table and order a prompt concurrence or dissent. The mind soon tires of nursing a case and of keeping it in memory, The trouble is not so much in doing the work of a court as in reducing it to an efficient and businesslike system. The law of the state is Plain and simple, To a judge of good natural ability and clear perception, legal training and long practice, most of the cases coming before the court are mere kindergarten matters: to him it should be an easy matter to write up one decision a day and do it well, though an occasional case may require consideration of two or three days. : A lawyer writes for some information on the rule requiring the judges to make monthly reports. I once contracted to work for a shrewd busi- ness man 300 days at $20 a day and expense, and at the close of each day to report the day’swork. This gave a daily stimulus to do something worth reporting. There are few who can be trusted to work for others with- out any control or supervision and without some system of reporting. Assuredly every judge and state officer should give at least a monthly report of his doings. By the constitution the supreme court is charged with the duty of supervising all inferior courts, though the duty has been sadly neglected. There has been no supervision and no reporting to any one. The result is that some judges have held cases under incubation for a whole year. It has taken two, three and four years to work some cases through the courts, I have heard of judges leaving their work and going off and spending the winter in Florida or in California, and of judges leaving their work and spend a large part of their time in trying to get votes; but I ever heard of any of them failing to draw their salary. It is no uneom- mon thing for a judge to send a man to prison for a theft of $26 or $30 dollars, but it is quite ucnommon for a judge to sentence higself to prison when he steals pay of several hundred dollars for work Jeff@indone,; And surely the one theft is just as bad as the other. 4 Take, for instance. the board of railroad commissioners, Who knows that they ever do anything except draw their salary? How easy it would be for them, if they do anything to give to the press and the people a concise monthly account of their doings; and so of the board of control; the board of regents and other officers who are expending lots of public money. Why don’t they give to the press a report and tell us what they are doing and what they purpose to do? “What of the reform school? How is it conducted? What is the num- ber and character of the inmates? What is done to make them self-sup- porting and to teach the boys and girls habits of thrift and industry? How many of them are going to make $100 or more during the coming summer by cultivating one or twWo ac of corn or potatoes? In the same way, what of the state’s prison: it it self-supporting, and if not, why not? How many of the prisoners will be given a chance during the coming summer to make for himself $10 or more by cultivating an acre or two of corn oes, or, by working at some industry, so as to bring him clear-\ ing } of hope and profit and to lift him out of the slough of despond? ° And what of the insane asylum? What of its enormous expense? What is being done to make it self-supporting? Must we continue taxing the people into poverty; to drive them into insanity and the building of “more asylums and the levying of more taxes? Why do we not have an ounce of prevention rather than a pound of cure? Js there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? Bismarck, N. D., March 2d, 1917. J. E, ROBINSON. $8.00 12.005 stock-! reportr West of Lutsk in Volhynia, 10% cows and, however, a German raid penetrated $8.00@ | Rus positions to a depth of nearly native beef steers ers and feeders $ heifers $5.30010.30; calves s 11.25. a mile on a front of more than one and SHEEP—Receipts 1,000; steady; | # half miles. wethers $10.75@12.00; lambs $11 85@ HRY PHFD Though her countless admirers do not require Mary Pickford to give} any further proof of her amazing ver-{ satility, this supreme screen favor- ite renders another novel character-| interpretation in the Famous Players Film company’s spectacular and thrii ing production, “Poor Little Peppina.” AMERICAN MILITARY ATTACHE KILLED WTA ZONE Tome, March 3.—Major Heibery, an | here military auacliee! at the As Peppina, the boundless scope o ' ieee Albis filled Thursday (Mary Pickford's art is illus ated pt white at peat front, according to her delineation of the farious roles of wi sala ody. OR ee the child of wealthy Americans kid.! jorge felt > uid Was killed when bis napped by Italians and made to work = __— Oas on trk 56%@ 59%!in a Sicilian vineyard, a stowaway a Oats to arr ..... 56% disguised as a boy, a newsie, a Dot: aa —e a Coid in One Day. Rye on trk and to arr. 149150 | black, a fruit vender, an employe of NINE 7, LAXATIVE BROMO QUI- Barley on trk ...... 90 @123 | an opium den, a messenger boy, and | ¢ tie ete Druggists refund mon- Flax on trk and to arr.. 281% finally, the restored millionaire's! te tn ‘ails to cure. E, W. GROVE'’S Choice Flax on trk . ae ceuente who comes into her own. ignature is on each bor. 25c, Choice Flax to arr 2 ‘ith this diversity of atmosphe © SO hall ne Mates oasis |and interest, and by ot iene hones TO COAL DEALERS, July .. seeeeeee 284% ;matic and amusing episodes, tania, bids are requested for the High May - 194% Little Peppina” will undoubtedly be| pest ume of 300 tons, more or less, 18616 accepted as one of Miss Pickford’s est lump lignite coal (state analysis) delivered as required to the several foremost. triumphs. public sckools of the city of Bismarck, The feature is Monday's program gular mi ie board of education in tnd Snoel building, Monday, March 12, 1917. RICHARD PENWARDEN, Clerk. jat the Bismarck theatre. N. D., during 1917-18, Right reserved = to reject any or all bids, Bids to be | eCAerIe MARKETS, 2 opened at the re; t WAR SUMMARY t ' o-———_——p 5: (Associated Pre Figures obtained 4 London and vouched for there as authentic show that Germany succeeded during Febru- in destroying 490,000 tons of mer. chant shipping, or less than half t page she threatened to d troy during the first month of u : . submariné warfare. pene Sparel Speritlots yesterday were of comparatively minor importance Berlin reports infantry coparenente ie both sid of the Ancre, where the great-German’ retirement has been taking place. No mention was made of Span gained or lost, however, nly raiding operstionr: 4 rent RAVE: Coun. Q2QQ Every Night or sation F $10.25@12.25. Pig TITLE -Receipts 900; «1 stondys wid the pganee-Belgian trout ‘