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| =| THE BIS THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO.8S BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1917. FIVE DROWNED IN FLOOD WATERS p GRITISH HI] eee =~ AUSTRI SEVERS LIMITED LICENSE Five Inches | ROWBOAT CAPSIZES IN 1 GERMAN LINES RELATIONS WITH PLAN OF VICTOR | “in New York! SWIFT CURRENT HURLING FON Witt FRONT UNITED STATES) 1S NOT VALID sisi] © §1X MEN INTO ICY WATERS snow was five inches deep here and iedi is | Su ick | history, 25 degrecs, In Philadelphia, Baron Zwiedinek Demands His/Supreme Court Reverses Dick) ti snow Was eight aud one-half iuches M. S. Lang of Mandan Is Saved by Hero- the weather the coldest for April in Several Points Indicating Passports From State De- Mimeograph in Ruling on deep, exceeding any fall of the winte The st Ce u drive + + General Offensive partment Today Talking Machine aeronnd during ‘the’ storia. on Dru: ism of Roy Frost, but Nat. Prentice, H. dence island, but was reported resting easily, A. Barwind, E. J. Massey, J. A. Vale pecrelaiy oe WEEK on wader See ueauu FLO and A. von Hagen Numbed by Terrible ee l CREST Cold Are Carried to Their Death. All Agents Will Be Recalled—|Oregon Act Regulating Hours of Turkey and Bulgaria Have Labor Sustained—Other Im- Taken No. Action portant: Opinions PASSES: RIVER FIVE BISMARCK MEN VICTIMS BROKE RELATIONS APRIL Mashlictna, Die Oi $—Detee. F ALLS EN ROUTE HOME FOR EASTER ‘ashington, ri —The | mining important questions regarding state Separtment. has been noe control by patentees of retail prices 6 FEET ig with the nited States om Ap |talaypromomuee untae the“ Two Men, Just Before Plunging Under Torrential Waters, Seen to Embrace 7 8, plan aumulee Which the Vic- REFORMS WILL Washlugton, D. C., April 9.—Baron mule other’ seNistears dlaedv ated. Fifteen Hundred Gr Greeks at Work 4 Erich Zwiedinek, charge of the Austro-|| The court held that patent grauts ©. H » Zeiediusk, charge Of Eke Autre ne cuinea guanereiie cient to| ot, Weebed. Ont Road-Bed Each Other as Their Bodies Clung manded his passports. By this act, with “ay subject. ie hee ou nights, Between Two Cities , wi aap ona aera ee Feebly to the Overturned Row Boat— Hungarian embassy here, today de- (ME WHEN WAR Austria-Hungary breaks off diplomat- overturns the court 4 WEE ROUEE TeAsee Casts Pall Over Holiday Celebrations PRELUDE IN WEST TO IMPORTANT MOVEMENTS Extension of Attack North of Lens Giving Allies More Room for Operations London, April 9.—The British early ‘ this morning attacked and penetrated the German line on a wide front from a point south of Arras, to the south of Lens, thus opening what is believ- ed here to-be a general spring offen- sive. The move has been looked for- ward to eagerly for some days. The offensive of the British flying corps in the latter part of the last week, the attack on Zeebrugge, Satur- # day night, and the activities of the French in Belgium, as shown iv yes- terday’s official communication from » fers GEN EN. AVER. 5, fen. Weaver is the man who has charge of the big defense guns rang- ed along the coast of the United States. He has been in command of the coast artillery since 1911. ic relations with the United States. » Dick Mimeograph case. Almost at the same time a dispatch Paris, were considered a prelude to PASSE lie vy { 2 another similar pate OVER DIVISION TONIGHT important military operations. IS CONCLUDED a saris from American ue ter aan suit of the Mation Pictur »IVISTO: * a Se OR Ge oe ee ee ee ee ey Extend Attack. Stovall at Berne, announcing that re-| tents company against. the Uni Facing the task of vepairing nearly The British commander, General lations had been broken by Austria {Film Manufacturing: and|a#t wile of washed-out. roadbed, 1,500 THE DEAD IN MISSOURI EASTER TRAGEDY : Haig, whose reports are always it Vienna on April 8, a day after Am-| others, the court held: invalid ‘restrie- | Greeks went to work early this morn- E. J. Massey, married, employed Western Motor Sales Co. guarded, says the German line was area: SAG Amba sander Peuftlold. lett tions fo the Patents Company upon use} ing, and with a six-foot fall in the at Mandan. .. penetrated everywhere, and that sat-}Tn Easter Message Kaiser Secks a} & i of competitor's films in its projecting] river, as reported by the government's Harry A. Barwind, single, Bismarck, traveling salesmen * isfactory progress has been made in Withdraw Officials. machine. office at 2 o'clock, word was given out * for Gowan.Lenhin; Bi a oa f Duluth, * the region of Cambrai and St. Quen-| to Placate Enemies of Auto- All American consular officers as Oregon Law Upheld. by officials of the Northern Pacif or enhing-brown company of Dw ‘tin, two important positions in con- Well a diplomats will ue, meitbeheuy ah ti supreme court upheld ats co that they expect to route North as Nat. Prentice, married, Bismarck, traveling salesman for ae nection with the new German line. ‘ ‘ rom Austria-Hungary, and Spain will} stitutional the Oregon Jaw limiting Ja-| train No. 1 over the Dakota division, the Minneapolis Drug ‘om; an. The ppb ot tie ‘calack “worth. Cree: With Promises fas ov r the interests ee the: United bor of mien in mills, factories and man- between Bismarck and Mandan, to-| + John A. Vale, pie Fy Bismarck, salesman for the J. D. * ‘ was intend States in Austria. Austrian con-| ufacturing establishments to ten hours | Hight. : ‘ Teele tke Belusn ere elbow site PRESS AND PUBLIC NOT sular officers as well as diplomats will) a day, but permitting thirteen hours la-| It will be the first coast train to use i Grant Auto Accessories company of Fargo. hd for their operations from Arras to be withdrawn from the United States. | or if paid time and a half for over-| the tracks in the flooded territory since] * A, Von Hagen, married, Bismarck, salesman for Thomp- * the point of juncture with the French PLEASED WITH PROMISE) 1t is presumed that the Dual Mon-| time. No. 1 of last Friday night. At noon son Grain Company of Minneapolis, * a severance of relations was done Authority Restricted. the water was level with the tracks ae ae ee Pe ee ee et around St, Quentin. The official statement says that in the direction of Cambrai the British have stormed the‘villages of Hermies and was receding rapidly aileron ies 18 oe thebahe Five men out of a happy party of six who undertook: to ford the Missouri river in a row-boat dt 11 0’clock yesterday morning— ror William’s | by handing passports to American-} Federal authority to prosecute frauds Easter me ge | internal re-|charge Grew. American Ambassador] in general state elections und United forms for Prussia and for the German | Penfield, whe had left vee on Sat- States ti empire overshadows all other news in probably did not kuow of the flood was the worst since 1887, due : and Boursieg and penetrated Havrin-| oa papers. Re ee iat eovermments ActiOM aren an EO to the ice orge forming nearer the ihe to spend Easter with their families in Bismarck—are, dead he ‘al Anzeiger has nothing by 8 Ov ‘ federal indictments for ‘alleged cor-| city than what it did 30 years ago. Ra’ the res: f the ‘bh “ADSiZi in fi vaters ov ~ In the ane ea the} praise for the imperial message. The| By pre-arrangement, Spain will take} ruption “conspiracies” in 1914 Rhode] road traffic never was paralyzed to the} gy the ulbsot i ek eapsizing in flood waters over: te: bbteams British took Fresnoy le Petit and ad- liberal and radical papers find fault|over the diplomatic and consular in-| Island Congressional elections, aud the | extent of time as this year, due to flood Tn 2 le a bavi fi hie baal Nat J ey vanced their line southeast of Le Ver- becguse the emperor suggests delaying | terests of the United States in Aus-| 1916 senatorial primary: i-West Vir- conditions in the Missouri valley. mpaled on a barb-wire fence, the bodies of Nat Prentice, guier. No estimate of the number of| the reforms until after the war. The] tria-Hungary and Sweden was asked | ginia, were dismissed, e court de-| Superintendent Berner of thé Dakota] von Hagen and Harry Barwind were found close together about 9 Germans. captured ca I conservatives. aud reactiqnary. news-| to take over. Austrian affairs. in this} cided the state nd not aderal yore] division» whtl dveodquarkers: a> Tamer} -oy"elock® this Mofing iit MeGillie’s pasture “by -T.-G- Kent xt papers are anything but pleased with country. ernment was authorized to act. town, and Superiutendent Tantry of1 Morton county coroner, and Charles Edquist, Mandan elty comm oe the statement t gays, bu the fact that the-emperor should prom-] Up to the time Charge Zkiedmek ask- Minimum Wage Law Good. the Yellowstone division with head- Referring to tho attack on the front] !*¢ any reform at all, ed for his passports, no similar action} Oregon's law fixing minimum wages | uarters at Glendive, both are on the sioner. The bodies were not mutilated in any way and were found between Arras. d Lens, the state-|, The Pan-America Deutsch. Tages] had been taken by Bulgaria and Tur-| for women, the first compulsory mini-| Scene directing the work of reconstrue-}_ a distance of about 40 rods from the right-of-way fence on which wiest eae? x Zeitung says it will withold comment} key, Germany's two other allies, and) mum wage statute ever before the| tion. ; . commissioner M, $. Lang of Mandan was rescued. “We are main gatistactary pro-}Until tlie text of the coming minis-|their representatives here disclaimed | supreme court was today upheld as} Flood Crest Was 23.6. Acting under the direction of the coroner, the bodies were ress at all p i terial proposals.is available. having any knowledge of the inten-| constitutional, by an equally divided The flood e was 23.6 feet or two evar 4 ere Fs | Politi Mestitves The conservative Kreue Zeitung says| tions of their governments. It is ex-| court. Similar’ compulsory and one-half feet of the crest of 1910,) taken to the Kennelly undertaking establishment in he soak with an air of resignation: pected here they will follow by break-| Washington, Colorado, Wisconsin -| The government predicted that the} will be impossible to transfer them to Bismarek until’ the Yo: ing relations. fornia, Utah, Minnesota, and Ohio were | flood would reach a stage of 24 feet.) was as bee! ired. T a is approxiqumtél ten, mullea dong, on the way td the introduction of: a Means Declaration of War. likewise sustained. 3.4. The crest, however, was reached at 11 washed: ay i ae eon raped ti oy nen i reported 0 ii Ge oF ons te noe ofl Reichstagg electoral system and full} Austria’s break with the United o'clock Sunday night. From that hour aller five feet from 1 o'clock to 8 0 cloe! this morning, making erman retrea' aati ia. and Ger-| States undoubtedly is the prelude to a on the waters receded rapidly. At 8] work possible now. ly yy 9) The tating Hae from Leds to-Ar- “The news couviices us that a halt The fact that the line has been} | ea pars aces cued i larnti " Vr " ‘ penetrated by the British all along the. tics : of pag a aN ee ae Rares eee a Paveh if onl; i is eanretecrene THs neat LAST OF BODIES RECOVERED is wide front, indicates that the La a Masao ate aaa i ‘ i y . = - " The i 2 i the thi A academically, to Germany's campaign uvon, a fall of six feet. The last of the bodies of the Easter drowning tragedy—E. J. ratte poring Set cerns COMMISSIONERS OF of ruthlessness, although she has not} , ; Reports reaching ag government of-| Massey of Mandan, and John A. Vale of Bismarek—were recovered is indicated by the statement that LAMOURE ARE PATRIOTS | curried it out aguinst American inter-| 10 KING GEORGE nes Mobrldge, que at the ie joke at noon today but twelve fect from the fence where the bodies of 4s ota s. It is considered it would be quite is a ‘satisfactory progress” is being made} svyoure, N. D., April 9.—LaMoure| impossible to have abroad in the Unit- south of Bismarck, at 6 o'clock last| the other three victims, Harry Barwind, Nat. Prentice and A. Von » is about clear of} Hagen, were found earlier in the day. : “at all Le Opens U county will not be backward in dis-]ed States on a friendly status the dip- night. The river . An entire new ohene of Fe vations playing patriotism during this time|lomatic and consular agents of Ger- Me Rca a A Coroner Kemelly of Mandan, announced this noon that. an in- on the western front is thus opened| °! National stress. Members of the) many’s allies. . ie ot ae aA el: . | quest will be held this afternoon. No arrangements for funeral up. The field of attack represents|Poatd of county commissioners, at dicate the water fell five feet th s had been made up to a late hour, according to a telephone 4 | their regular April session adopted a the greatest. Tae a ies aoe resolution ordering the Stars and London, April 9.—The reply of | five feet at Ree, five feet at Expansion p from J. C, Oberg. sharp salient was. driven in the Ger-| Stripes to be displayed over the President Wilson to the message sent erate feet ut ‘i elbarn: , City Commissioner Michael S Lang of Mandan, who served as mah line southeast of Arras. county courthouse and all buildings him by King George as given out atten tas habe Ldlerir i a loon one of the repr esentatives from Morton county at the last session in every section of the county. The here officially today follows: ‘ _ » le 0 q 7: pli the, Lat reelon: inte which the wuitttionuehs, idtkedioed. hy Gamile oT Hie Boieete! Contes V, King| ##ain in the temperature recorded yes- of the state legislature, is the lone survivor. He was rescued by field, which th Germans had been| Kraemer, a veteran of the Prussian and Emperor: terduys. The prediction was fora. tel Ray Frost, a Mandan railroad man. Both are in the Mandan hos. . . e army and pioneer of LaMoure county. “Your cloqtent message comes to| Petature of 50 degrees. ‘The maximum) pital nervous wrec Frost collapsed on the shore after he had = me at this critical moment of our na- brought his man out of the stream. tional life as proof of the community of sentiment among the free peoples — Because of the acute condition of of the world, now striving to defend the men, visitors at the hospital late y+ exploiting in their occupation of this territory early in the war. CUBA DECLARES their ideals, to maintain the blessings A eal to last night were motioned away from ¢ Boston, April 0—Ricl of national independence and to up- PP the wards. Newspapermen who retary of state under President Cieve- hold the rights of humanity. In the e sought interviews from the men were land, died at his home here last night. | name of the American people and the Nation for jad fet the -phystelany in attendance f ft had left word that the men were not The opening of the new offensive Richatd Olney, ; Iawyer, came trom] government to which they look for was 50 1-2, + has been foreshadowed in the Entente aerial activity in the past two or three days, in which hundreds of aer- oplanes have been engaged on both sides. The capture of Fresnoy le Petit ts the British within t' and one- 4 halt miles ‘of St. “Quentin's outskirts. — sturdy Puritan stuck.’ He was born| guidance, I\thank you for your in- ‘ to be disturbed. One story is current ‘ (Associated Press) ii rd, ‘Worcester county, Massa-| spiring words.” R t that upon reaching the shore Com- Havana, Cuba, April 9.—Cuba, not] cl tts, ou Sept. 15, , the son of (Signed) ecrul Ss missioner Lang is said to have made the statement “I wish [ had ‘gone yet out of her ‘teens as a republic, is} Wilson Oluey, who owned and man- “Woodrow Wilson.” at war with Germany—the first of the|aged the cotton mills at Oxford and eee St. Louis, April 9——“We enter- Latin-American. countries to range|also engaged in banking. On his fa- SEIZE STEAMER, ee P rabies 5S M ‘itie: herself alongside the United States,|ther’s side he was descended from! Boston,- April 9-—-The steamer ane spon one OF the bee Weak Telegrams Sent to Mayor of Cities her liberator and protector. Thomas Olney, who came to America n refugee ship| Henry J. Waters, presi ident of the Over 5000 Population to As- down with the rest.” One by one the victims of the rag- ing torrent dropped from sight as cramps overcame them. With heads and shoulders above water they . “Bigger, Better , Crop’ Real Erny, the only Aust At 7:15: Saturday night President|in from Saint Albans, Hertford-| at this port, was seized today by port] Kansas pees Menocal signed the joint resolution | shire, England, on his mother's side] officials. if FES ee ee eee sist in Preparedness fought frantically for life. Men who ar ogan passed unanimously late this after-|from Andrew Sigourney, a French Hu- called by Secretary of ‘Agriculture talked with eye-witnesses to the Eas- noon by the senate and house, thus|guenot, who came to Ame! ca in 1687 Gc esos Houston to consider the food situa- New Y Ap esponses to the | ter tragedy say the fight lasted two s Rush City, Minny April 9—Curtis| putting into effect the declaration] on the revocation of the Edict of Naw) = Will Return Home _ | tion of the nation. appeal issued by the Mayor's Recruit-| minutes. They then disappeared. 7 I t| that a state of war exists between | tee. “A 1a Ber i i 5 Ps Bae enlly 4% mM. Jomort col Hae Oh president Cuba and Germany. Richard Olney received his prelim- : f on sere seving: In. grainy suet ing committee to 541 mayors of all the a In Water Fully 6 Masten: +i i * aa.) The joint committees appointed|inary education at the Leicester Acad- Or Fabre, em cities in the country of 10,000 popula- ‘ommissioner Lang was in the Implement and Vehicle Dealers’ as 1 terdiy by ‘th enate andjemy, nt Leloester, Mass, and: gradu- by shutting down the breweries and m Pann olay ot water fully 45 minutes before reg- sociation, has sent a telegram to D. {Oly yes! seed 'y his ft re Ated froma sBsrawisrailverelty in 1856, distilleries.” said Mr. Waters, “By|tion or more, poured in today from] cueg, His clothes caught on a wire F. Houston, secretary of agriculti ee ative A early, this irre cotouticn pate Hatvaee was eatiaol in 1858. In closing the saloons and closing their] ail parts of the United States. The) fence and he was held there despite pledging co-operation of that organiza- |" the phraseology 3 ying: ye t two principal sources of supply, W@} purpose of the local committee is to| the momentum of the: swift current and the stage was set for quick ac-|the following year he was admitted tion in prosecuting the war with Ger-| 1150 before congress convened. to the bar at the supreme judicial would save 618,508,095 bushels of] .., ordinate und organize recruiting for | #"d the strong northwest wind. Frost, many. ji Quick Action on Bill. court of Suffolk county, Mass. He be- grain.” ; A the army and navy on a scientific] Who succeeded in reaching Lang in a Mr. Johnson said today that his of-| my, senate acted with extreme sol-| gan to practice law with considerable Increased gardening, rapid exten-|j,.3.. ‘The system followed is that |Ow-boat, made a desperate attempt ganization could ‘be of great assist}. city. ‘The resolution was read. Dr.| success and in 1861 married Miss Ag- sion of community canning clubs and) evojived in England after nearly two | tO Save the life of two other men, but ance in alditig, the “ederal govern Ricardo Dolz, conservative leader,|nes Park Thomas, daughter of Judge increase of potato acreage mete years of experiments. realizing that his boat was on the ment to distribute crop. information, | tien took the floor and made a éhort,| Benjamin F. Thomas, with whom he among other measures advocated bY}" “Telegrams will be sent also to the| Margin of the current, had to turn “ * te collect crop statistics, and in ““boost:| smoressivespeech im its favor. Nojhad studied law. President Waters. inayors of all cities of more than 5,000 | his eyes from the men and bend, his and to all railroad presidents. efforts to saving himself and Lang. , ” ing fora bigger and better crop.” “4 ‘ eS amendments were offered, and the 17 ae Oe retired som ae secre- 20,000 NAVAL RECRUITS ceo hea sett souecieds Shan senators present voted “aye” when}taryship of state on Marel , 1897, . th ‘i taken POTATOES GO UP the motion was put. There was no|and returned to Boston, where he re- TRAIN AT LAKE BLUFF Jo: " rom je wal a cKay ; ce 36 CENTS A BUSHEL | applause or excitement following the| sumed his extensive law practice. He ie FAS eect ah a HHNSON RESIGNS ah scene ct - paced has hes vote. was honored by several universities, re- Chicago, April 9.—Under plans now HIs POBI POSITION HERE fandan on the river overflow. said to be completed United States crownings occurred about 150 feet (Minneapolis, April 9.—iPotatoes ad-| ‘The scene in the house was more| ceiving the honorary degree of LL.D. vanced 35c a bushel today in tho| enlivening. The galleries were pack-| from Harvard universaity in 1893, from | Minneapolis wholesale market, fol-/eq. The ministers of France, Spain| Brown university, his own Alma Ma- lowing a report that the supply of/and Urugaay occupying seats in the| ter. in 1894, and from Yale university’ Canadian potatoes that has been mov-| diplomatic section. in 1901. : ing in via Winnipeg had materially| After the reading of the resolution, ‘ lessened. It was expected that $3.50| Representative Alfredo Betancourt, to $¢.60 would be the retail range fol-/ speaking for the conservatives, made © lowing the wholesale jump. an impreisive speech in favor of its} # 2O, gs at naval training stations at Lake Bluff} Jaimar Johnson, kon, stenographer in the| trom “shore,” or a distance of will soon have 20,000 naval rectuits| supreme court, has resigned and leaves | 500 feet from the Heart river br. quartered in the barracks and in tents] this evening for St. Paul, where he| The stream at that point was free for training. There are now about] was formerly employed before coming ; ice but a strong gale from the ni 3,000 recruits at the station, and new} to Bismarck. Mr. Johnson has taken | West was sweeping over the_ men are arriving daily. a position with an eastern house and | Farther east was the main ot v its the Missouri, crossed th it before WILL ABOLISH RANK will become one of its salesmen. by poles Soames ie Sey ee ss veritable glacier with blocks of ice HOME FROM MINOT wea Wh teemiben copies, (ha OF BRIGADIER GENERAL pint 1 1PINOS PLEDGE is ares tx 4 cnunall Honve snd ere slic Ii bin Oar a gE cotta s Washington, April 9.—The rank of} THEIR LOYALTY | ing down stream at the rate pf SS Se et SAGE pb RIAA pene tt at ew Nnecor brigndier-general in the army of the 10 miles am hour. It was not the struction N.C. Macdonald is home|their feét, cheering and clapping hited States is abolished by a provi-. Manila. April 9—Phillipinos, veter- | flowing waters which the men . wher ttended a i en COUNT —JARNOWSKE._ bie Gani ost oe of the North: ene M. Cortinia addressed the ‘Astociated Press.) Austria-Hungary minister ‘accredit-| sion of the army appropriations bill. ans of the revolution are pledging their} but the treacherous moving bial svesterh Education association. The] house fot the liberal side in support} Chicago, April 9.—Hoge jumped to |ed to United States but not received. taken up today by the senate. All| loyalty and co-operation to Governor | ice and snow ahead new high recofd prices today, owing} He will return home, as relations general officers after its enactment|General Harrison. The authorities Laag Pitets ition. Then, ane * wee, ihe house adopted the ~ tae Seavolac to. scantiness of arrivals. Cattle and | with all Central Powers: will be sev-| would have no less rank than that}are registering Germans. Bridges and sheep were not over plentiful. of major-general. + public buildings are under