The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 23, 1917, Page 6

if is eae me, - SCOOP SCOOP-GO OUT AND GET A LOSSOH SPSS LO9O OD THE CUB REPORTER STORY ON'WAKKE-UP-AMERICA — LOOK AROUND FOR SIGNS. Co eR ae % NATIONAL LEAGUE. OCHOFTSSOSEOCSH OOS Club— Ww. L. Pet. Philadelphia 9 667 New York 9. O40 Chicago 3 618 St. Louis 1 14 517 Cincinnati 19 4247 Boston 14 ALT Brooklyn 15. 00 Pittsburgh 20 GAMES TUESDAY. Pittsburgh, New York, 0. Philadelphia, 8; Chicago, 6. Brooklyn, St. Louis, 1. | Boston-Cincinnati game postponed because of rain. GAMES TITURSDAY. Cincinnati at Philadelphia. ‘ Chicago at New York. St. Louis at Boston. Pittsburgh at Brooklyn. Pittsburgh at New York. Club— RHE. Pittsburgh | ie a 04 2 New York . Batteries—Liller and Fischer; An- derson and Rariden. Chicago at Philadelphia. ! Club— RH.LE, Chicago 69 2 Philadelphia § 8 2 Batteries—Scaton and ott; La- vendor and Killifer. St. Louis at Brooklyn. Club— RHE. St. Louis 144 Brooklyn 3.8 0 Batteries—H tonzales; Coombs and Miller. COSHH DOSTHSISEO OOF ° AMERICAN LEAGUE. ° CO ee a aed Club— Ww. L. Pet. Boston ~..; 18 10 643 New York - A710 630 Chicago .. wie 13 029 Cleveland St. Louis 15 18 450 Washington 18 17 438 Detroit ...... AL. 18387 Philadelphia 9 20 .310 GAMES TUESDAY. (Philadelphia, 3: Cleveland, 1. All other games postponed because of rain. GAMES THURSDAY. Washington at Chicago. New York at Cleveland. Boston at ‘St. Louis. Philadelphia at Detroit. Philadelphia at Cleveland. Club— RHE. Philadelphia .. 3.8 0 Cleveland ..... ee ee | Batteries—Falkenberg and Schang; Morton and O'Neill. SPPSES IS SSIS STH OS “ AMERICAN ASSOCIATION, + Club— W.. L. Pet. Indianapolis wee 8 166 Louisville 19 15 559 Columbus 218 15) 545 Kansas City . +13 14 481 Milwaukee W017 43 St. Paul .. «12,18 400 Minneapolis Wo17) 393 Toledo ...... 11 18 GAMES TUESDAY. St. Paul, 8; Minneapolis, 4. All other games postponed because of rain. GAMES THURSDAY. Milwaukeee at Minneapolis. Kansas City at St. Paul. Toledo at Louisville. Columbus at Indianapolis. St. Paul at Minneapolis. Club— R.H.E. St. Paul sit 0 Minneapolis 2410 4 Batteries — Williams and Land; Rose and Owens NOTICE OF SCHOOL ELECTION. (Special District—Annual Election.) Notice is hereby given that on the first Tuesday in June, being June 5th, A. D. 1917, an annual election will be held. ai Will school in the special school district of Bismarck No. 1, county of Burleigh, state of North Dakota, for the purpose of electing the following members of the board of education: Two members to serve for a term of three years for the city of Bis- marck. The polls will be opened at 9 o'clock a. m. and-closed at 4 o'clock p. m. of that day. Dated at Bismarck this 21st day of May, A. D. 1917. By order of the board of education. i banded than new ones are formed. SOME OF DS WOULDNT KNOW WE. WERE IN WAR UNTIL WE. GET A BULLET IN TH’ BEAN! — AND THEN 0F— COURSE IT WOULD : BE YOO LATE ; p= yy ~~» en ~y fd ‘ TO KNow! Ny eS E-BIND — Kel 4. | WHAT OF THE MINORS? WILL THEY By PAUL PURMAN. What of the minors? Will they be able to weather the storm of this tumultuous season? Is the present agitation in the American association merely a pref- ace to a wholesale revolution in min- or league ball? The minor league situation is one which will bear a lot of study. Few minor league clubs make much money. Many are supported by small town business men for the adverti: ing they get out of a team. Active’ co-operation between men and the minor league magnates is all that keep dozens of clubs operating during the season. The minor league baseball situation is hecoming ver every year, very season more leagues’ are dis- Membership in the National Asso- ciation of Professional Baseball cl fell from 49 leagues in 1913 to 25 1917, £2 of which finished the season. And of the 22 leagues which fin- ished there was not an average of two clubs per league which finished the season with a profi The first cry of wolf from the min- BE ABLE TO WEATHER WAR STORM and most prosperous of the minors. Club owners declare that unless players agree to accept salary cuts the clubs must suspend for the sea- son. : President Hickey has called off the proposed post-season series between winning clubs of the association and International league on account of hard times on his circuit. If the American association cannot get through without such measures how about the class A, B and, C leagues? How about the:\Vestern league, in which last year only one club made money, and that. not the winner. How about the Three-! or the Cen- tral? . a Conditions in these leagues are § ilar to those of most in their cla Minor league magnates are worri and rightly. If business men fail to lend their ied suffer and as they have already suf- fered they cannot stand much more. Superficially it appears that the only thing that will save the minors this year is complete co-operation of the business men in the cities where clubs hold franchises, combined with lower salary limits and the eradica- Contemporary events indicate tha: Babe Ruth-can. be stopped without stopping Boston. Page Lee Fohl. Every nickle the government gets from a baseball stamp act takes a nickle away from the white-coated gent who tramps on your feet trying to sell last month's peanuts. Root; for the stamps. The Western Golf association must have figured Francis Ouimet has gone back. Several baseball managers would! like to have government naval seciets to use against Carl Mays’ submarine ball. A baseball league has been organ- ized in London. Wonder if they serve| tea between innings. The Red Sox weak spot is the pitch- ing staff, remarks an expert. Yes, sometimes it is possible to get three or four hits off them. ‘Lovely heads athletics comments an alert contemporary. Such a name should go well with ping pong and other strenuous athletic sports. Chief Myers stole a base the other day. Next thing we know Ernie Koob will be getting a hit. Sid Hatch postponed a 100-mile race on account of a couple of broken ribs. Even broken ribs would be preferable to running 100 miles. Carl Morris should be barred from boxing every place in the country, according to Jess Willard. Maybe Jess is getting a little uneasy. George Stallings probably believes wishes and had been thoughtful enough to drop a little ground glass in Fred Mitchell's coffee before he left Boston. Home Run Baker made a home run the other day, whicli proves that even ors thi comes from the Amer> can association, one of the largest} tion of baseball passes. HAIT The performance of Fred Dick York New erson, 15-year-old New school boy indicates that York has produced another Waite Hoyt. Pitching for St. Paul’s school against the Y. Aggies a few days ago, Dickerson let his op- ponents down hitless and_ struck out 22 men during the operation. A single run was made'by the’ Aggies, resulting trom a pass and two errors. j Dickerson is said to have re- markable speed for a youth of his vyears and has a remarkable as- ssorument of curves. Farmer Has Bad Tumble When Big Tractor Slides Edinburg, \N. D., May 23.—W. J. Od- ne has been confined to his bed by injuries sustained, when. the tractor which he was @fiving'along a country road pitched from a bridge down a 12- foot embankment. ‘Mr. Odne,, fortun- ately, was thrown clear of the ma- chine, which escaped with only $10 worth of damage. WOMAN STRICKEN DUMB Healthy in Other Ways, Hasn't Said a Word for Days Fortuna, N. D. May 23.—Suddenly stricken dumb, Mrs. John Leininger, although in excellent health in every other respect, has not been able to utter a word for days. Her husband plans to take her to the twin cities a name won't stop some fellows, for treatment. . Perhaps the muscles in front of the thigh are of more importance in Except in the hecl-and-toe style of walking the thighs have far more to do than the calves. develop the frontal muscles of the thigh: with the toes out. Have your shoul- in the air. Then by bending your knees drop vertically as fast as you can. In the army this is known as the “full-bend” setting up exercise. At first you probably will not be able to do this more than half a dozen times. But with steady practice you can do it at first fifty and then a hun- dred times. ting bigger so that at the end of three months you will have added three {inches to the circumference of your thighs at the thickest part. Gen. Leonard Wood of the RICHARD PENWARDEN, Clerk. United States army declares the nation’s need today is SETTING-UP EXERCISE THIGH MUSCLES, SAYS: JM RICE walking than are those of the calf.! This is the simplest known way to} ders thrown well back and your chin; All the time your leg will be get-! 5 DEVELOP physical training for all in- habitants ~and indorses the articles by Coach Jim Rice, physical advisor. employed. by The Tribune to teach readers how to become physically fit. A more severe exercise than this is to stand on one foot with the othe: j can do this, but by sticking at today's first exercise long enough there is no reason why every man should not be able to do it. Exercises similar to this have been adopted as the stand- ard in the U. S. army. | 1 had an oarsman a few years ago | who -had a magnificent development ‘of the arms, shoulders and chest. But | his thighs were all out of proportion ; to the rest of his body. He was built | something like Bob Fitzsimmons. Yet by following out these leg exercises for five months he added 3% inches to his thighs. Good stiff walking and hopping, jfirst on one foot and then on the | other, will work wonders in adding to the muscles of the legs. —ee support many of these clubs must | sticking out in front and then to low-! ®Stand with the feet six inches apart! er and raise the body. Very few men Men of Officers Reserve Corps Are Regular Fellows, © and Rg Working to Beat the Band, Bids aps rea . Correspondent Finds at. Larg- est Camp. | By Leon Starmont q Stat’ Correspondence. > Fort Snelling, Minn., May 23.—I am breaking. butterless bread today with 2000 future Funstons. I am looking over the chaps you i ' 1 answer the: selective service call. Forty thousand in all are being broken in, in various parts of the country and 1000 OF THIS 40,000 WILL BE WEARING SOLDIERS STRAPS WITHIN A MONTH. There’s the keenest competition go- ing on to be among the first thousand ~—at odds of 39 to 1. This camp is typical of the 12 others scattered over the country. There are “single camps” at Sack- etss Harbor, N. Y.; Fort ‘Niagara, near Buffalo; Fort Myer, Virginia; Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.; which is near Chattanooga; Fort McPherson, at At- lanta; Fort Roots, at Little Rock, Ark.; Fort Snelling, near St, Paul; Fort Riley. near Junction City, Kas.; Leon Springs, close to aSn Antonio, Texas, and the Presidio of San Fran- cisco. Uncle Sam doesn’t think . thirteen camps make an unlucky number. There’s wealth as well as crudition among those present. I saw today the son of a North Dakota nabob help- ing an overalled negro tote a mortar- board; and the scion of a hotel family that charges 10 cents for butter ate bread today without any butter—as did 2000 others. Few tents are up; the men are hous- ed in permanent barracks or in ‘“can- tonments’—long wooden sheds. One section of the military reservation is all cantonments under construction. Take, away the green grass and..it would lock like Columbus, N. M.., did, shortly aiter the Villa raid. The rat-tat-tat of hammers can hard- ly be distinguished from the bangety- bang of rifles on the target range- Lads who used to rise lazily at 7 or 7:30. now spring out of their cots at the first blast of the 5:30 bugle. All day they march and drill and study and sweat, and perspiration is just as sticky under the Minnesota sun as it is down by the Rio Grande. I saw one man collapse: from the heat. Standing at attention, he fell } forward suddenly, without bending, him up- Nobody else paid any at- tention. They get used to little things like that. narter of the rookies have not complete uniform; a sprink- ivilian clothes in the drilling j ranks shows this. The men drill as privates in the army do; they've got to learn to be soldiers before they can be officers. They carry rifles and wear bayonets. Khaki columns are tramping all the nearby roads in the early forenoon. “When in doubt, salute” is a camp motto; students will salute almost any~ body they don’t know until they learn to tell an honest-to-goodness officer when they see one. No evidence of snobbishness or cad- dishness crops out; $10,000-a-year men fraternize with ex-regulars fresh from the factory. Eighty per cent of the Minnesota men and a somewhat smaller propor- tion of the others are college students or graduates. . and I will have to salute when we] and the tour students nearest picked | 40,000 F uture F unston’s Being | Whipped Into Shape to Lead You and | Your Friends in Freedom’s Fight St, (MOTHER SEEKS 10 RECOVER BABE SHE LONG: AGD FORSOOK Pathetic Drama Enacted in Bur- leigh County District Court Yesterday Ieee OF HABEAS CORPUS Is ASKED FOR BY PARENT Tears streamed down the cheeks of Hanna Beckwold of Minneapolis as she sat in district court yesterday afternoon and saw.her baby, grown to be a beautiful little blue-eyed, gol- den-haired girl of three, caress an- other woman whom she called mother, while she looked upon her natural parent as a stranger: *-When the baby -canro:-Hanna did not know what to do with her. She was easily ‘persuaded to! leaves her in a “home’’.\.i Seh was asked to sign a paper, her attorney told, Judge Nuessle- She could not read and write, and when she asked that the contents be read to her she was ad- vised that it was a mere formality. That paper was an assignment of all her interests in the child to the Min- neapolis home in which it was placed. A few. months later, substantial farmer folk of Burleigh county found in Hanna's rolypoly little baby the light which ‘had been denied their home. Mother Love Dawns Fortune ‘smiled. on alinna Beck- wold. She learned to read and write her adopted ‘tongue. Her earnings increased, and with bettered circum- stances came a yearning for the little form she had clasped to her breast for such a brief time. When she went to the home she found the hab» gone: Her lawyer traced the little one to its foster parents. Then he ‘applied in the Burleigh county district ;court for a writ of habeas corpus to j recover the child. The case came up for hearing y {terday, with both mothers in court. |The only mother the babe has ever known sat with the little one who was the central figure in the drama clasp- ed tightly in her arms, as she rocked lto and fro, fraught with emotion. In another part of the court room sat ‘the child’s mother, straining her eyes |for a glimpse of the beautiful bit of childhood whom she had borne and abandoned. And surrounding each litigant was a party of sympathetic ‘friends. Because of certain features of the case, it is probable the supreme court ; willgbe asked to assume original jur- j isd#étion or to name a referee. For {this reason Judge Nuessle yesterdcy continued the case until the attorney jfor Hanna Eastwold can determine his course- 8ST. JOHN’S OWN DAY To Observe Anniversary of St. ' Jean de Baptiste St. John, N. ND. May -St. John's day, June 24, will be observed ;here the following day by a monster feele- bration, in charge of the local Society St. Jean de Paptiste. “St. John is the patron ‘saint of the village, and every- one, young and old, turns out on his day to pay him honor. EDINBURGH GIRL. BADLY BURNSIDE UIST Flaming Fragments of Paper Blister Faces and Neck of Miss Sigurdson Edinburg, N. D., May 23.—Miss Berthgora Sigurdson was so badly burned about the face and neck when a stove in which she was burning paper exploded, showering her with, flaming fragments, that for a time it was feared she would lose her eye- sight. Dr. Scott, however, advises that both eyes will be saved. PATRIOTIC MASS MEETING TO BOOST LIBERTY LOAN Stutsman County Expects to Get Behind Its $100,000 Share of Bonds Jamestown, N. D., ‘May 23—Judge J. A. Coffey today announced that the June term of district court will be convened in the Stutsman county courthouse here Monday, June 1%. The criminal calendar is rather light for the coming term, but many civil cases are scheduled for trial. Probably the most interesting cace to be tried is that of the Stutsman County. bank of Courtenay vs. Wil- liam Jones. It-is alleged that the bank © holds “notes against Jones which he avers he did no‘ sign. The case was tried. here some time ago, before Judge Nuessle of Bismarck, and Jones awarded a decisio Tt was appealed to the reme court’ and a new trial ordered Juds itey voluntarily refuses to sit on the case and an outside judge must be called. Puts Out Fire; Starts for Aid; Relights Blaze Ce * * ¢ Dunn Center, N. D., May 23. + ¢ —Rushing to town to procure % ~ medical attendance for Gunder “ Pletan, whose hands had been + “% badly burned in extinguishing + ‘~ a fire kindled in the cushions % ~ of Ed Pletan’s Ford by a box % of matches, the latter drove so * fast that the breeze again fan- + ~ ned ihe smoldering sparks in- ‘ to flame, and he was yorced to ~ stop at a creek and immerse the machine bodily. > a a a meget Se | the labor leaders. MICHIGAN FARMERS DECLINE 10 “FALL” FOR LEAGUE PLAN Effort of Labor Leaders to Make Catspaw of Agriculturists Defeated EIGHT-HOUR DAY FOR ; FARM-HANDS PROMISED (Speclal’ Lansing Correspondence of the Detroit Saturday Night.) i By: Mie "May 23.—The two big farmers” organization of the state -—the Grange and ‘the Gleaners—do not Propose to be used as catspaws to pull from the fire the political chest- nuts of the labor leaders of Michigan, and as a result of the failure of the agriculturalists to enter into a polit- ical combination with the trade un- ionists, there is little reason to belicve that the effort to “North. Dakotaize” this state will bear fruit. On the closing day of the legislatur« a widely advertised conference was held in Lansing. The meeting was called. by Perry Ward of Detroit, sec- retary of the Michigan Federation of Labor, for the purpose of assembling the leading agiculturalists in a con- ference with the .laboy upions, to or- ganize the Workingmen’s Non-Partis- an Voters’ League.-'¢3 AIS Meeting One-Sided > yo. Ags the meeting turned out it was a rather one-sided affair. Approximate- ly fifty labor leader and. Judge Jeffries of Detroit, were on hand when. Claude Taylor, president of the Michigan Federation of Labor, called the meet- ing. to order. Not a single farmer had responded: to the clarion call: of Either the farm- ars were, too busy making,,peady to plant their crops or else . ect= ed something. ue AMER uate i The efforts of Judgé'Sélriés and the various labor delegatesto ¢onvince the farmers that the last legislature was lined up solidly against the farm- er and the laborer alike are humor- ous when a glance over the roll call discloses the fact that the agricultural districts practically controlled«the 1917 assembly. Consequently the charge of the labor leaders that the farmers were cheated by the legislature does not interest the rural politicians, who have their minds on six-dollar beans and two- dollar potatoes. Grange Man Opposed After the conference of farmers and trades unionists had been going on for sQme ‘time without the farmers, C.-H: Bramble, an officer of the State Grange, appeared. In a remarkably short time, how- ever, he informed the labor delegates that the farmers were not interested in any political schemes and declared most emphatically that-the present is no time to consider the formation of any new political party. Will Fight for Principles The Grange, declared Bramble, will fight, for principles but is not interest- ed in candidates or political. parties, and he intimated that in regard to any plan whereby the farmers nd labor unions could be brought together for the purpose of attempting to control the legislature, the State Grange could be counted out. Politically, the farmer have things well in hand in the state legislature, and they have everything to lose and nothing to gain by entering into a combination with the Michigan- Fed eration of Labor a dntis alhed inter- ests. Organizing Hired Men “The first thing we know the unions will have our hired men organized and’ will insist upon an eight-hour day for all farm labor,” said a prom- inent farmer in discussing the con ference. “We can get what we want from the legislature and will help the union men when they have meritorious bills, there is no advantage for us to enter into a political alliance with the unions-” ‘To elect a complete state ticket from governor to coroner composed of men pledged to carry out the program of the labor leaders will be the plan of the Non-Partisan League, which the union men will form without the as- sistance of the farmers, if the men from the rural districts cannot be coaxed into the deal. No. North Daketa Stunt It is not believed that Michigan will witness a repetition of the North Da- kota proposition for two reasons- First, the Michigan farmer has been well able to look after his interests politically and has been liberally re- presented in the legislature. Sec- ondly, it will be exceedingly Jidicult to bring the thousands and thousancs of voters in the cities—the men who are not affiliated with labor orzaniza- tions—into the proposed combination.