The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 6, 1917, Page 1

The Weather Colder Tonight. THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 65 UNITED PRESS THE BISM BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FERRY COMPANY |PLOT TO INVADE INDIA — GRANTED LEASE BY COMMISSION Commissioner Best Only Member Voting Against Giving of Franchise GASOLINE BOAT HAS CAPACITY EIGHT CARS Petition Asks Commission to Con- struct White Way From Second to Seventh With Commisioner R, L. Best voting in the negative and Commissioners Bertsch, Battey, Lucas and Kirk in the affirmative, the city commission last night granted a franchise to the Red Trail Ferry company to operate its gasoline ferry between Bismarck and Mandan. The landing privilege is a strip 300 feet long on the east ‘bank of the Missouri. It was the leasing of this strip to the company which caused Commis- sioner Best to cast the dissenting vote when the roll was called. He offered a resolution, however, that the fran- chise asked for be granted, subject to the laws governing ferries in organ- ized cities. No action was taken by the rest of the commissioners. The commissioner ordered that his reso- lution be incorporated in the minutes of the proceedings. Capitalized at $15,000. The Red Trail Ferry company, ac- cording to information given out in its request for the franchise, is cap- italized at $15,000, that it will oper- ate a gasoline ferry as soon as navi- gation opens and that the ferry will be able to transport safely eight aut- omobiles at one time. A crew will be maintained both day and night. Ed- mund Mackey of Mandan is president of the concern, The company is or- ganized under the laws of the state. The application carries with it the right of lease for a period of 15 years, the rent privilege to be one dollar a year, The lease ‘was signed by A. 'W. Lucas,. president of the commission, upon the presentation of the proper bond. “Attorney W. H. Stutsman of Mandan appeared before the commis- sion in_ behalf of the ferry company. Place“Poles Inside Gucbs, ” ~ Acting under a raling by the’ city: attorney, the auditor was instructed to notify the clectric light and tele- phone companies to to have all poles set back of the curb as the’city would be held liablé' fot any defective ‘poles. The substance . the ruling by the city attorney “ts' that ‘the city has the right to allo thé’ telephone and the iitpanies to place such ottion’ of 'thecity but the best practi¢é‘is to have them set back of the curb. Poles at the inter- section of Second and Third streets and Main will be removed. The Washburn Lignite Coal com- pany presented a bill of $70.90 for fuel during the month of February. Again it was suggested that the commission get in touch with the proposition of installing central heat in the city hall building. The city weighmaster re- ported revenue of $325.50 for the month of February. The auditor was authorized to advertise for the con- struction of cross-walks, side-walks and also relaying. Petition For Lights, A petition, headed by C. Bertsch, Jr., was read, petitioning the city com- mission to construct. an ornamental street lighting system from Second to Seventh street. Among the signers were Henry Tatley, D. J. McGillis, C. Bertsch, Jr., and BE. A. Williams. The petition was signed by the president of the commission, Bids will be opened March 26, 1917, at the city hall at 8 o’clock. The report of the police department, submitted by Chief of Police Downing, showed 68 calls had been answered for the month of February; 13 arrests made, five for being drunk; six for disorderly conduct; one for carrying concealed weapons, and the 13th, a transient. Fines collected in this de- partment amount to $61.65. GERMAN AGENT LOSES. APPEAL (Associated Press.) Washington, March 6.—W. Horn, the German reservist lieutenant, who dynamited the International bridge near Vanceboro, Maine, in 1915, today lost his habeas corpus suit in the su- preme court, in which he sought to avoid being tried at Boston for alleged transportation of explosives on pas- senger trains. The court did not decide Horn’s con- tentions that, in a belligerent act against Canada, his German army commission exempted him from Amer- ican prosecution and made him pun- ishable only by’ the state department. The court said Horn’s appeal was not authorized and dismissed it. NO LMBILTY WW FLOOD CASE SAYS MNNESOT (Associated Press.) Washington, March €.—Minnesota today answered the supreme court suit of North and South Dakota for $1,000,- 000 damages each, claimed for over- flow of land in the Dakotas from the Mustinka drainage dtveh Th Mmnesora. ‘The answers deny that the Dakotas are entitled to damages, are ” THROUGH CHINA MADE UPON AMERICAN SOIL Secret Service Officials Arrest Hindu Physician and German Agent in New York City (Associated Press.) New York, March 6.—Dr. C. Hana- dor Chakiaberty, a ‘Hindu physician, and Dr. Ernst Sckunner, described as a German, were arrested today, on charges of conspiring to set up a mili- tary expedition against a foreign coun- try on friendly relations with the ‘United States. The police say the men confessed that they had plotted, under the direction of Wolff von Igle, to invade India by way of China. Von Igel, indicted, but never tried, for complicity in an alleged plot to destroy the ‘Welland canal, is with Count von Bernstorff, former Ger- man ambassador to the United States, who is approaching Copenhagen. According to the police, Drs. Cha- kiaberty and Sckunner, who have been suspected for some time, received 700,000 from Von Igel, and the Hindu, posing as a Persian merchant, ob- tained a passport, which enabled him to get to Berlin. In this connection, an additional charge of. fraudulently obtaining a passport has been made against’ the physician. * To Invade India. Dr. Chakiaberty, according to the confessions, revealed his plan for an invasion to certain officials in Ber- lin, an dthen returned to New York. {nm the house where the two men were arrested today, the police seized large quantities of literature and found also a complete chemical laboratory. After the literature, in various In- dian languages, had been prepared, according to the police, Chakiaberty and Sckunner sent an influential Chi- naman to his native land with the idea of interesting his government in a plan to ship arms and ammunition from the United States to China, where, with the Chinese government’s permission they were to be stored, until the time set for the invasion. The police said the two men declared they had heard nothing from their Chinese representative, and did not know what success, if any, he had. In the laboratory, Sckunner was en- deavoring, according to the police, to compound a preparation to be used “to disguise contraband of war.” The character of this preparation he refused to disclose. Ten thousand small aluminum boxes about the size of a pill box were seized, together with what appeared to be official pa- pers, FOUR ARRESTS, (United Press) New York, March 6.—Four arrests of German plotters within 24 hours, added to the revelation of the story of Teutonic activities in the United States. Hoboken police today held Hanz, Schwartz, who, it is claimed, was an accomplice of Fritz Kolb, ar- rested yesterday with a large amount of explosives and bombs in his room in a local hotel here. It is said that :e bombs on Black ckawanna pier. Black Tom Island is now jammed with explosives. POSIN PLT USE PEA LOND (United’ Press.) ‘London, March-6:—All the elements of a Sherlock. Holmes. detective. story were present today, when the crown called to the bar the famous poison plot .quartet ‘to .answer charges, of at- tempting to murder Premier David Wioyd George ,and Minister Arthur Henderson. -The four were: Mrs. (Mary: Wheldon, iMrs, Harriet. Whel- don, and Mr, and Mrs. Alfred Mason. They were arraigned before Justice Lowe at Old Bailey. The first sur- prise ‘of the trial came when a dark skinned Mohammedan, ‘SS. Risa, enter- ed the court room and entered his ap- pearance as counsel for the defend- ants. Counsel General Smith repre- -sented the crown. ‘Smith opened the crown’s case and bitterly assailed the quartet. SFVEN BURKED IN HOTEL FIRE AT HOPE, B. ¢. (Associated Press.) Vancouver, B. C., March 6.—Seven persons were burned to death today when the Coquahalla hotel at Hope, B. C., was destroyed by fire. le WAR SUMMARY (Associated Press.) Military operations of importance are taking place in two sectors of the Franco-Belgian front. The British have extended their ac- tivities farther south in the Somme re- gion, and Berlin today reports repulse of an attack near Bouchavesnes, north of Perrone. North of Verdun, several engage- ments are still in progress near Cau- rieres Wood. An effort wag made by Germans last night to retake trenches recaptured yesterday by the French, but Paris today declares the attempt was futile. In Galicia, Berlin announces a re- pulse of a Russian night attack near Brezazni, and the breakdown of a Rus- sian assault on the northern end of the Roumanian front. STEM ATTACKS. (United Press.) Berlin, March 6.—Attacks by the British forces were preceded by gun- fire and repulse east of Bochavenes, and a further attack at the same place was frustrated by annihilating fire, today’s official war office statement said. DESPERATE FIGHTING. (United Press.) Paris, March 6.—Desperate fighting continued around Caurries Wood and Douaumont, but the violent efforts of the Germans to drive the French from the trenches they captured in the last few days’ fighting failed, according to ,today’s official statement from the war office. London, March €-—Neval eeroplon ion, Marc! —Nava! dropped humerdis heavy bombs over Brebach, COMPENSATION AGT UPHELD bY EERAL COURT Washington, March first compulsory. workmen’s upensation, or’ industrial Sinsurance Taw--that “of Washington state+to come before the supreme court was today upheld as} constitutional. The supreme court also upheld the lowa compensation law, which is vol- untary upon the employees, and the New York. LIGGETT MADE MAJOR GENERAL, Washington, March 6.—Presidont Wilson today nominated Hunter Lig- gett, now a brigadier general in the | army, as a major general to take the place made vacant by the recent death of Major General Frederick Funston. Col. Francis J. Kernon, of the 28th infantry, was advanced to the grade of brigadier general. K TRIBUNE ese WASHINGT SEES BREAK WITH ASTRI Reply to Inquiry. on Submarine Warfare Not Satisfactory to Administration WILSON AND LANSING STUDYING REPLY Destinction Drawn Between Neut- rals on Belligerent Vessels Not Pleasing (Associated Press.) Washington, (March, 6.—Austria’s note, declaring adhesion to the gen- eral principles of unrestricted war- fare, holds out little, if any, hope that a break between the United States and ihe Vienna government may be avoided. -The completé: official view of the Austrian commiinication will not be made known until after Presi- dent Wilson and Secretary Lansing have carefully, studied. the official text, which was before them today. Also, the subject was tq be discussed at to¢ay’s cabinet meeting, Austria’s efforts to substitute for the individual warning, every mer- chant ship is entitled by international law to roceive before being torpe- doed,. a general warning to all vessels not to enter the barred zone, cannot be accepted by this government. Neutrals Entitled to Safety. Furthermore, the United States contends now, and has alway tended, that neutrals aboard enemy are entitled to ion in the ‘Austri: he principle that neu s time also should enjoy the advan- tages of freedom of the seas refers only to neutral vessels, not to neu- tral persons aboard enemy ves: in no way coineide with the pos of the United ‘States, See Teutons’ Hand. Neither is the United States dis- posed to permit the establishment by Austria of a rule that war on tho seas involving reprisals is “an al- fair for settlement between helliger- is,” when the interests, rights and eutrals are affected. ion TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1917. WILSON TO ARM VESSELSIE LAW PERMITS ill Final Decision on Point From, , Legal Department Is Expect- ed Very Soon EXTRA SESSION SEEMS ALMOST A CERTAINTY Cloture Rule to Prevent Filibust- er Favored by Thirty-Three Senators (Associated Press.) Washington, March 6.—President ‘Wilson, it was stated authoritatively today, will do everything possible to find a way to arm American ships and protect them in other ways from sub- marine danger, in spite of the failure of the senate to pass the bill giving him specific power. A final decision on whether the president can legally arm the ships without specific author- ization is expected shortly. Extra Session Certain. An extra session of congress be- fore July, 1, to pass appropriations, if for no other purpose, seemed today to be certain. If the senate amends its rules so prompt action can be taken on an armed neutrality Dill, z extra session of congress may be pectod within the next two or three weeks, Messages, apparently soontancous, which came to government officials today from all parts of the country, criticized in bitter terms the senators who prevented action on the armed neutrality bill Senate Meets. The senate of the 65th congress today held the first business meeting of the special session, called primari- ly to pass on 1400 presidential ap- pointments, with indications of a de- termined fight to change the rules to limit debate and prevent filibusters such as that which prevented passage ot the armed neutrality bill Sunday. Democrats held a caucus before the session to determine their party pro- gram, and chose a majority leader. Senator Martine of Virginia was unop- lie | posed as a candidate. imilar to Gern sh a “safety 7 ‘American liners, ‘between New York and Falmouth PUPE’S SISTE March 6- to the | today. Rom lin, a died her TO PROHIBIT EXPORT. (United Press.) London, March 6,—After ‘Saturday, Holland. will ibe compelled to pro- hibit the export of bread to Belgium on account of the submarine wa fare, announcement from Dutch soure- es said today. “GIRL IN OVERALLS" THREE OF HER IN By MARY BOYLE O’RELLY, New York, March 6.—On the night in London that war with Germany was declared, while eager recruits sang the anthems of the allies, a working girl wearing a long linen coat sprang on the plinth of Nelson’s column to address the crowd in Trafalgar square “Men cannot fight alone,” she cried. “War gives women work to do.” Another girl climbed up beside her, followed by another, each, wearing factory overalls. t REVOLUTIONZES GREAT BRITAIN =0—0-- THREE LON TOO en "| son's statement \P ,To Support Rule. Thirty-three” senators have signed an agreement to support a cloture rule, but most Republicans and per- haps a few Democrats are expected to oppose jt and its adoption is doubt- ful. Advocates of the change rely strongly for help on President Wil- denounzing, the fili- buster on the neutrality bill. The at- titude of the 16 new senators, all but oue of whom were sworn in yester- day, is yet to be determined. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, reintroduced in the senate today the armed neutrality bill, which failed of sage Sunday. When he asked its eference to the foreign relations com- mittee, Senator Thomas of Colorado made the point of order that congress ASSOCIATED PRESS Trust Fund for Victim of Blizzard North Dakota Responds to Call of Necessity in Case of Philom- ena Musil REPRESENTATIVE RIBA CIRCULATES PETITION Announces Legislators and Of- ficials of the State Subscribed $300 North Dakota has responded to the call of necessity in the case of Philo mena Musil, little daughter of a Beach farmer, who has been a pa- tient in the Bismarck hosp‘tal for sev- eral months, the result of the ampu- tation of all her fingers with the ex- ception of the thumb on the left hand, from her experience 1n a b rd near Beach during the hotid: Representative Frank Riva of Sar- gent county circulated « peti:ion among the legislators and the state officials last week and announced this afternoon that the sum cf $300 had been subscribed. This amount, he said, will be turned into a trust fund for the welfare of the child. The par- ents are in poor circumstances, ‘Little Philomena was taken to her home near Beach the lattes part of the week. 'ANCRE TRENCHES LIKE SCUPPERS OF REAL INFERNO Sims, United Press Correspond- ent, First Newspaper Man to View Abandoned Zone DEEP SUCK HOLES OF FILTH AND MUD By WILLIAM PHILIPP. SIMS, (United” Presd ‘Staff Tofresponddnt) With the British armies in France, March 6.—One reason why the Ger- mans retreated along the Ancre was because they were fast becoming de- mented. Their positions were fast becoming more hideous than scuppers of hell, The field, covered with mud that in some places was almost bot- tomless, and the seless pounding of the British guns turned their posi- tions into a stench pot, too horrid for human nerve to stand. First to Penetrate, The United Press ¢ i was the first American permitted to penetrate across the ground evacuat- ed by the German army as far as the Philloy toward Bapaume. Madame was not in session, which Vice-Presi- dent Marshall sustained. LA FOLLETTE. 1S. BURNED IN EFFcY Champaign, Il., Mareh 6.—Dean thur Warnock admitted. to the police today that 100 University of Illinois students dragged a dummy labeled Senator LaFollette down the street and then tied it to a hitching post and burned it. Bitter Tong the Girl in Overalls is everywhere, working at everything. In their uniform of preparedness, poor women and peeresses are one great sisterhood. Critics laughed at womens’ wireless corps. Today crowds separate so Girls in the Overalls may pass with their stretchers to unload arriving trench trains. 4 Severe city men nod:grave approval as the columns of fours experiment in &.crowd; and soldiers just back from. the front_come-to War Among the Chinese (United Press) San Francisco, March 6.—The few Chinese who dared to venture on the streets of the Pacific Coast Chinatown went out heavily armed, in realization of the bitterest tong war in recent years being on today. Advices from half a dozen cities: today indicated that so far seven Chinese are known to have been slain and several wound- ed in the first clash of the rival tongs. Three Chinese were shot down in dif- ferent parts of San Francisco’s China- town at the same hour and simultane- ously gunmen went on the war path in Oakland, Stockton, San Diego, Los Angeles and San Jose. Two were slain in Oakland, one each in Stock- ton, Los Angeles and San Jose. Pussaud’s wax works chamber of hor- rors is as cheerful as a May day, com- pared with this field of terror, pain- fully apparent at every step. The correspondent zig-zagged across the stagnant cesspools in which the water ‘was the exact color of blood. This might have been due to the chemicals from the high explosives which rent thejholes or it might have been due to the nature of the ground itself. Stepped on Bodies. “The correspondent found himself stepping on German bodies, which lit- tered the trenches in piles several deep. He saw arms sticking at ful: length out of the mud that concealed the rest of the body. At other places legs, feet, half-bodies or faces were -!alone protruding from the thick black mire. Some lay face downward and some prone on their backs. as though sleeping. Pile of Corpses. “At one place the correspondent saw a pile of dead Germans several deep. Imagine every trace of vegeta- tion long since blasted away. Imag- ine the earth powder-stained turned up from 10 to 60 feet in depth. Imag- ine mud so bottomless that the Ger- mans claim their men were frequent- ly swallowed up whole, in attempting to cross it after dark. This is the kind of territory the Germans left when they retreated. Today it is the scene of incessant British fire. Caught by Guns. “Men on_ patrol missions were caught by the British machine guns sweeping the darkness and could not have been saved. It was impossible to save those caught in the trenches. Two attacks in November left scores of dead Germans outside the trench- es. The British soldiers are now burying them, Such was the stink- hole occupied by the Germans. It al- most makes believable the stories of German soldiers that became raving maniacs. One outstanding moral of the retreat is that wherever they stopped in their retirement, their new positions can be reduced to the same hideous, unendurable quagmire of mud. ANOTHER ARREST WW BOMB PLOT (Associated Press.) Hoboken, N. J., March 6.—Another mar was taken into custody here to- day by the police on suspicion of be- ing implicated in a plot to blow up munitions factories, with Fritz Kolb, a German, arrested yesterday. DILLON AND DARCY MOREE 10 ARTICLES (Associated Press.) Denver, March 6.—Jack Dillon, the Hoosier middleweight, and Les Darcy, the Australian fighter, have accepted terms for a 20-round fight for a purse of $25,000 to be staged in Denver with- in the next sixty days. The fight will be staged in the stock yards stadium, AUSTRIA BACKS CEAMAN STAND ON SUBMARINES In Answer to Administration Note ( Practically Affirms Position of Her Allies as to Neutrals NO CONSIDERATION FOR BELLIERENT VESSELS Non-Combatants Must Travel on Them at Their Own Risk and Take All Losses ENDORSES ACT. Berlin, March 6.—The Reichs- tagg budget committee unani- mously endorsed the foreign of- fices illytarred German-Mexican project. (Associated Press) London, March 6.—The American minister at Vienna has been handed the reply of the Austrian government to the American note inquiring as to the position of the Austrian govern- ment in regard to unrestricted sub- marine warfare, according to a Vien- na dispatch to Reuter’s by way of Am- sterdam. The reply declares that neutrals are responsible for losses they suffer by entering territory where warlike operations are taking place. Protection of Neutrals, The American note, which was dis- patched to Vienna on February 18, asked specifically whether the Aus- trian assurances given following the sinking of the Ancona and the Per- sia had been nullified. The reply says that “whatever attitude the Washing- ton cabinet may take as to individual questions raised here, “the Austrian government is “essentially. in- accord with the American government in re- gard to the protection of neutrals against endangering their lives.” The memorandum then maintains that “neutral suvjects have to bear 'them- selves all losses they suffer by. enter- ing territory where warlike opera- tions are taking place.” After a lengthy discussion of the British blockade, which it declares is illegal, the memorandum continues: “The principles that neutrals should enjoy in wartime, the advantage of the freedom of the seas, refers only to neutral vessels. and not’ to: neutral persons aboard enemy, ves Rights of: Betligerents. The reply further ‘contends'that bel- ligerents are entitled to decide for themselves what measures should be taken against an enemy in sea traffic, and concludes: “In such cases, neutrals have. no other legitimate interest and, there- fore, no other legal claims than, that a belligerent inform them in time of. a prohibition directed to any enemy so that they can avoid entrusting their lives and their goods to enemy vessels.”” The Austrian memorandum, refer- ring to the note on the Ancona case, says that it “strictly adheres to the assurance already given.” At the same time Austria calls at- tention to the fact that at the time of the Ancona incident it stated that it “reserved the right to bring up later for discussion difficult international questions which arise in connection with submarine warfare.” Adheres to Assurances. The memorandum then adds: “If the Austro-Hungarian govern- mént now refers to this reservation and‘ briefly discuses the question of the sinking of enemy vessels to which that note refers, it is guided by a de- sire to show the American govern- ment that now, as heretofore, it strict- ly adheres to the assurance already given and endeavors, by clearing up that important question, because it touches the laws or humanity, to avoid misunderstandings between the monarchy and the American union.” The reply of the Austrian govern: ment to the second American note in regard to the sinking of the Ancona, contained the following paragraph: “The Austro-Hungarian govern- ment can positively concur in the principle that enemy private vessels, so far as they’do not flee or offer re- sistance, shall not be ‘destroyed be- fore the persons aboard have been se- cured.” Hog Market | “Going Up”’ (United Press.) Chicago, March 6.—Hogs established another new high record today when they sold at $14.58 per cwt. on the local market. This is an increase of from 20 cents to 25 cents over yester- day’s quotation. HITS NEW PACE. (United Press.) East St. Louis, Ill, March 6.—The hog market continued its sky-rocket- ing today, with $14.60 the top price and a new record. The prices were up 10 cents to 15 cents. % Some hogs sold at $14.70 here today. Special brands of Minneapolis petent v+mr advanced 20 cents a barrel, to $10.20 In wood. ENPEET ElGHT: ~ HOUR DECISION : w oe ee we Washington, March 6.—The se by Jack Tenner, president local] preme’ court today was back the front _come to sharp} fdentity of the second care-| club, backed ‘group Of prominent| Give ‘the ‘écision ‘ca: