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feather|, Generally Fair. (HIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 19 / POPE INITIATES oover Stops Trading ‘SAVERS OF TWO CEN, Wf LOAN WILL | BE ASKED * FOOD OTATOR PUTS GAN OK B WHEAT FUTURE ‘| Appointed Buyer for - the Northwest. WILL HAVE CONTROL OF 1917 CROP MOVEMENT Order Does Not Hit Minneapolis _ Hard, as Trading Has Been Light. Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 14.—All fu- ture trading in wheat on the Minne- apolis exchange, was today ordered stopped by H. C. Hoover, national food administrator. Telegrams to President W. O. Tim- merman from. Julius Barnes, New ‘York, who will be appointed chairman of the federal grain board, according to Washington dispatches, declared the ‘administration would ask no fu- ture trading in rye. It was announced by President Tim- merman that advices from Washing- ton were to the effect that Frank L. Cercy of Minneapolis would be ap- pointed wheat buyer for the North- west, and would be in control of mov- ing the 1917 grain crop in this sec- tion. The government's intentions, as re- flected in the telegram of Mr. Barnes, anticipates the stopping of all rye fu- ture trading on that date also. Take Over iRye Crop. It was declared by Secretary Mc- Hugh that the orders of the govern- ment, according to the impression of Minneapolis grain déalers, would only affect ‘the future traders and repre-}" sentatives of-cash grain’ buyers pro-| tecting their hedges. ‘The order will not hit Minneapolis particularly ‘hard, as there has been ttle future trading there since re- strictions were placed by the govern- ment last May. The only wheat fu- tures speculated in recently have ‘been September wheat. The ~tele- gram from /Mr. Barnes intimating the govrnment also intends to take over the rye crop or to at least stop all future trading in it affects more trad- ers than the wheat orders. This will make oats the only grain on the Min- neapolis market on which there can be future trading. 95 "PHONE. MEN TO WOBILIZE AT ONCE One Company Furnished for Sev- enth Battalion of the Signal Reserve Corps. Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 14.—The 225 men from Minnesota, lowa, Ne- braska, North Dakota and South Da- kota furnished by the Northwestern Telephone company for the seventh telegraph battalion of the signal re- serve corps, United States army, will mobilize -immediately, it was an- nounced today. There are 39 Minne- apolis men included in the 225. The company is helping to “do its bit” by paying the men enough to bring their compensation up to what it was be- fore they entered government service. 3 BILLION Money to Be Furnished Allies By United States, Says McAdoo LARGE 8UM TO BE RAISED BY TAXATION Washington, D. C., Aug. 14.—Con- gress soon will be asked to authorize another loan of between three and four billion dollars to the allies. Sec- retary McAdoo and Chairman Kitchin of the ways-and means committee agreed on this today and also agreed upon the desirability of raising a larger sum than two billion for war purposes by taxation. Congress prob- ably will be called upon at the Decem- ber session to revise the war revenue ‘bill now before the senate, increasing the sum to ve obtained through taxa- tion. WAR TAX ACT STIRS IRE OF SEN. LA FOLLETTE Brings in Minority Report De- manding that Rich Pay Bulk Of Cost’ PROFITS ESPECIALLY AIMED AT IN NEW; PLAN PROPOSED ‘Washington, D. C., Aug. 14.—A min- ority report of the senate finance com- mittee of the war tax bill was pre- sented to the senate today by Senator LaFollette, with the concurrence of Senators Gore and Thomas, recom- mending that war profits and big in- comes be utilized as the principal sources of taxation in providing funds for the country's war needs. Contrary to expectations, Senator LaFollette did not present a substi- tute for the pending war tax bill. ‘He announced, however, that until the senate adopted amendments to be offered by himself and his associates, a substitute would ‘be offered. The minority report charges that the bill as revised by the majority makes inadequate provision for rais- ing of revenue needed for financing the war, through the next fiscal year, and that the onus of taxation has been placed on those least able to bear it. England has taxed her war profits 80 per cent without impairing her great industries, declared Senator La- Follette. Instead, her wealthy classes were never in receipt of larger in- comes, nor were larger business con- cerns more flourishing. Heavy taxes, he said, could be levied on American corporations without any fear of af- fecting capital-or crippling industries. “From the income tax and the war profit taxes,” states the report, “there can be raised without subjecting the country to fear of financial strain and without depriving the wealthy, even the luxuries of life, more than double the amount proposed in the pending LE SEUER SAYS HE COT LW. W. PROCLAMATION Pierre, S. D., Aug. 14.—Up at Ab- erdeen, after their experience of a year ago with I. W. W. forces, the home guards have been active and have broken up several “jungles” of the order and representatives of the I. W. W. have been charging the guards with being too rough in their work. A few days ago Arthur Le Seuer of St. Paul, claiming to be a legal coun- sel for the I. W. W. and former mayor of Minot, 'N. D. came to Governor ‘Peter Norbeck with a request for a proclamation similar to the one which he said he had secured from the gov- ernor of North Dakota, in which the latter called upon all people of the state to abide by the laws and for- bidding any officers of the state to search any individuals for arms un- less they had first secured a search warrant for that purpose. bill. “If congress were to adopt the Bri- tish rate of 80 per cent on war prof- its,” Senator ‘LaFollette said, “more than two and a quarter billion dollars would be realized in a single year from this source. ‘Nothing that this country nor any country has ever previously undertak- en in the matter of war financing,” he declares, “compares with the obliga- tion we are assuming. ‘We have not merely to finance one country. We must, to a large extent, finance five or six other countries.” SPAIN UND MARTIAL LAW Madrid, Spain, Aug. 14.—The whole of Spain has been placed under mar- tial law following disorders resulting from the general strike, which is spreading. This decision was reached After a discussion of the situation,! at a meeting of the cabinet, which de. Governor Norbeck declined to take the desired action, believing that local officials knew their powers and du- voted its entire time to consideration of the strike. Instructions were sent to military authorities who have been which started at various places have ties and could best cope with toae | wale full control. The disturbances situations without executive instruc- tion, so long as there were no grave uprisings to deal with. been stopped iby the military forces, it {was said. Jamestown, whither he will «be car CALOWELLS HELD INSANE BY JURY Trial of Mike Chumack Occupies Only Hour, and Jurors De- ~ liberate Two Minutes MANIAC MURDERER TAKEN TO JAMESTOWN HOSPITAL Strapped to Cot During Dramatic Scerie in Court Room—Ends Sensational Case Dickinson, N. D., Aug. 14.—Mike Chumack, confessed slayer of James H. Caldwell and his wife at their ranch home near Gladstone last spring, a raving maniac, strapped to a cot, fought with his keepers in the Stark county court room this morning while a jury which had been sum- moned to try him for murder judged him insane and not amenable to the penal laws of the state, but a subject for the state hospital at Jamestown. The inquest as to Chumack’s sanity occupied an hour, and the jurors de- liberated only two minutes before re- turning their verdict. Chumack, who had shown signs of dementia from the time of the double murder, became violently insane last week, when he attacked Sheriff Hartung as the latter entered his cell. Chumack could not be brought into the court room yester- day, while a jury was being impan- eled, and he was only produced in court this morning by overpowering him in his cell and strapping him to hig cot, «He ds’a- man of powerful pliy-| Stque, “Ulniost™ completely" recovered from the wounds in his neck, self-in- flicted in an effort to commit suicide, following his crime, and a half-dozen men find it difficult to handle him one of a straightjacket. ‘No time will be lost in getting hii to the state hospital for the insane at ried on Nb. 2, leavi stow. thie Sitar ing for Jamestown Sensational Case. The prominence of the parties in- volved, their recent connection with the J. C. R. case, and the fact that their murder is said to have followed an attempt upon their part to prevent Chumack from assaulting a young woman employed in the Caldwell home as a domestic, made the case ended today the most sensational in the his- tory of tho Slope. J. Hf. Caldwell had succeeded in convincing Judge Nues- sle in district court that the mysteri- ous J. C. R. was not his son only a few days before his murder. The couple left an estate of $150,000. The scene of the double murder was the barn on the Caldwell ranch. It is alleged that after killing Caldwell with a shotgun, Chumack called Mrs. Caldwell to the barn and. turned the same weapon on her. STATE WILL PAY MORE FOR (918 TAGS BUT IS TO GET HIGHER PRIGE Cost Increases 31-2 Cents and Sales a; Many Dollars Over 1917 The state of North Dakota is adver- tising for 75,000 1918 automobile li- cense tags, bids to be opened one week from today, by the secretary of state. It is anticipated that the tage will cost about 16 cents, as against 12 12 cents for the 1917 variety. They will bring more, too, as the new automobile registration law, which becomes effective January 1, 1918, abolishes the present flat fee of $3, and introduces a sliding scale, be- ginning with $6 for a car of 20 horse- power and 50 cents extra for each ad- ditional horsepower. The ordinary flivver of 22 horsepower under this act will cost $7 the year, and the 40 horsepower Moose will tax its owner $11. It is expected that the revenue from the sale of license tags, which this year was approximately $180,000, will be trebled next year, and that the state will realize from this source aimost a half-million for state highway building. QRITIH. DESTROYER SUNK BY MINE London, Aug. 14—A British destroy- er has heen sunk by a mine in the YOUNG FARMER ESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1917. 10 HEAD GUARD IN CALL 10 FRANCE Troops From 26 States Go Abroad For Service as Spon as Pos- H Total Strength of. Millita Forces To Be Approximately 20,- 000 Men iWashington, D. €., ‘Aug. 14.—Plans for sending the first national guard troops to France have been perfected by the war department with the or- ganization of a division, whicn will include troops trom 26 states, and the District of Columbia; Troops from Minnesota, lowa and Wisconsin are to be represented. Gen. Mann to Command, The commanding offiter of the divi- sion will be Brigadier General W. A. Mann of the regular army,“now chief of the division of militia affairs of the war department. ~ The Minnesota unit will be the first artillery to be known in federal serv- ice as “151st field artillery.” Discussion of the time and place of mobilization of the division, or its de- parture for France are not permissi- ble under the voluntary censorship. The structure of the division, as which would give it a total strength with auxiliary troops of approximately 20,000 men. CRUSHED UNDER WHEELS OF CAR Robert A. Johnson, Driving Ford, Caught on Crossing by an N. P. Switch Engine, COMPANION SAVED SELF BY LEAPING ONTO FLAT Robert A. Johnston, one of the best known young farmers of the county, was ground to death beneath the wheels of a Northern Pacilic flat ¢ when the Ford machine which he w driving was struck broadside on the Third street cross crossing, and roll-| ;4; ed over and over for a distance of | half a block before the locomotive could be stopped. J. P. Peterson, who was’ with Johnston, saved himself by leaping onto the flat car just as it struck. Johnston, penned in by the steering wheel, could not jump, and he went! to a Herrisle death under the grina- ing trucks. When the switch engine stopped scores of horrified spectators who witnessed the accident ran to the spot to find Johnston's remains about 20 feet from the twisted and splintered frame of his car. Life was extinct. Was Clearing for No. 8. The switch engine, which had been doing some work near the Interna- tional Harvester company — switch, was clearing for No. 8 at the time of the accident, and approached the crossing at a fair rate of speed. A watchman is maintained at this point day and night, and he was on duty at the time. The ord. containing its driver and Mr. Peterson, rounded the curve at the base of Third strect, just beyond the Marshall Oil company’s plant, and put.on a little spurt of speed to make the hill. Neither the driver o fthe car nor the fireman, upon whose side ofth e cab the ma- chine was approaching, could see the other until both had reached the crossing. Mr. Peterson stated this afternoon that he saw the swicca engine with the flat car bearing down on the pass- ing track just as they reached the second siding, crossing from the south. He shouted a warning to Mr. Johnston, but he could not tell wheth- er the latter heard him or not, for the next moment the fiat car was on them, striking the machine broadside. As the car struck, Mr. Peterson leap- ed and clambered to safety on top of! the flat car. With a grinding crunch the automobile an instant later borne under the wheels, its driver North sea. The captain, two officers and 43 men were saved. | pinned fast by the steering wheel, and (Continued on Page Eight.) ACE. n Fut nized that fas and Colonel Settle and the governor and countles only a handful of men, and m though still short 600 men, i most fully equipped and r marching orders which the adjutant general believes will come within the| next 15 days. ardent po Frazier during the latter's fight on, White wi of the new regiment. ures Head of Catholic Church Who Seeks to End Conflict Pewee eee we wenn nee eee nn eo nnn nnn nnn nd, Vinma seman fs WHER WOOD POPE BENEDICT. given in the statement, shows it will : conform to the reduged trepch war- -fare...divisional- saith recem-}- : ane. ‘ . “mented by Major General Pershing, 2 ‘ OFFICERS STI ~RECIMENL UNIT Good Work on Part of Adjutant General, Governor and Lieut. —Col. Settle Wins FIELD AND STAFF NOW IN FEDERAL SERVICE The smashing of the Second has been averted, thanks to good and dili- geat work on the part of Adjutant General Fraser, Governor Frazier and Lieut. Col. Settle. All breathed a sigh of relief 1 vening when the mus- tering of field and staff officers into federal service was completed, and federal recognition for the regimeni as a unit, with its headquarters and 1 supply company and sanitary detach- ment finally was accompl For the last 10 days military author- have been able to do little but tle with the problems of the ond. The organization of the re ment was begun at the eleventh hour, and it was never properly completed Had the war department proven the wz certain other instances, North 1 would have had a smashed broken up into little units inste a Smashing Secon¢ con, ad oO set. of field and staff officers, Failure to recognize the Second would have lost the regiment. its field and ff officers, the supply, head- quarters and sanitary detachment, and might have meant the assignment of separate companies, accepted as units, to as many different regiments. But the day has been saved. The mistake was largely on the part of the mi bureau at Washington eral W. K. M other perso: this end of the wire, the Second ,v through yesterday with flying colors. Even little Co. L of Han » with gnized ment, stered in, and the eady for the The Field and Staff. Former Governor Frank White of Valley City, who was regarded au ical enemy of Governor the state board of regents, of w a member, commander served as major of North Dakota vol- unteers in the Philippine campai Major Charles F. Mudgett of Vall serving as battalion adjut campaign, and Major Charles E { Ton inued ou Fuge Three) PARENTS: FICHT IN VAIN TO SAY BURNING BABIES Three Little Tots Incinerated Home of R. C. Bochlke Near New England FATHER BADLY SCORCHED IN EYFORTS AT RESCUE parents, spurred on by of their doomed ba: to save them, three little children of Mr. and Mrs. do, 7 and 5, were ;the pitoous erie ruins of their blazing home near New frantic with grief, is s ly from burns about h his hands are neck and arms, and cut by the fragments of he shattered with his effort to reach his. pe ‘The Bochikes had go y yesterday morning to at er for red tape which it has in} kota} ¥ was ettracted to. the ,. found in) fiamess. three children were asleep in a bedroom upstairs. part of the house flames again and aj fp! the embled in one | he large, efficient fighting machine and} commanded by a remarkably capable | in drove back ide of the little ones. of the family, a tot of ‘only two yea house when the parent ‘the barn, and he the fate which jlittle youngster w d himself from standing outside lin gfor his pa The dwelling ‘© found com- petunate children w pletely burned in the embers. AMERICAN LABOR TO HELP CANA Washington, D.C. can labor will be supplied for harvest ing the Canadian crops under an ar- busy on} now al-| Canadian deputy commis Colonel White |e! the interior, and department of la n harvest hands will be per- or the first time to enter Can. d immigration regulations will! ved by both countries. | are expected to ity is another Philippine veteran, | nt in that) be FIVE CENTS OVERTURES At Mill City HOLY SEE ASKS RESTORATION OF APTURED SOIL Also Urges Peaceful Solution of Problems of Alsace-Lorraine And Trentino PROPOSALS DELIVERED : TO ALL BELLIGERENTS ‘Washington Keceives Word Un! Officially but Refuses Com- ment on Offer TERMS IN BRIEF. Washington, Aug. 14.—Reduc- tion of armament, settlement of all international disputes by ar- bitration, freedom of the seas, and no retaliatory methods. after the war or economic struggle for supremacy are the foundation stones of Pope Benedict’s peace proposals. At the apostolic delegation all knowledge of the proposal was disclaimed. It was said the papal delegates had not transmitted it to the United States government and did not expect to do so. The opinion was expressed that it would come through a neutral government. Rome, Aug. 14.—Peace proposals made today by Pope Benedict have been delivered to all belligerent gov- ernments. Tho pope suggests the res- 'toration of Belgium, Serbia, Rumania, and a. peaceful solution of the prob- lems of Alsace, Lorraine, Trentino and Poland. Jt owas. expacted. that, - formal... an nouncement*of Pope Benedict’s-peace proposals would be made late today, Unofficial news that they have been sent to all belligerents was received from vatican sources. DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITY. London, Aug. 14.—“There has been great diplomatic activity recently at the papal secretariat. Numerous dip- lomats having interviewed Cardinal Gasappari, papal secretary of state, the Rome correspondent of the Ex- change Telegraph company. cabled: \“I am abJe to announce that the holy see has addressed a note to belligerents and neutra The note makes a new and formal appeal for peace. It in- vites the delligerents to state their conditions in concrete terms so as to facilitate a preliminary understand- ing.’ RECEIVED UNOFFICIALLY. ‘Washington, D. C., Aug. 14—State departmeht acknowledges it has re- ceived unofficial knowledge of the pope’s peace proposal. No official cog- ance can be taken until received oflicially. Whatever consideration is given to it will follow a consultation with the a ‘fhe extent of the state department information does not indicate through which channel the proposal will be conveyed and gives no information from which an inference might be drawn as to whether it will come through one of the allied governments or through a dignitary of the church. Will Not Discuss It. Officials were unusually explicit in saying it could no tbe discussed until it came ofiicially before the govern- ment d emphatic in declaring that ement could be represent- ed representing the official view. if any inference might be drawn from the undereurt which. were, arted in official circ by the report, it would see that the propsal is one that would be discussed in good faith’ by the allies, but that it does not meet their war aims. It was indi- cated that the peace proposal coming from the pope-the first actual’ pro- al of the kind to come from the an—would necessarily have to be considered carefully and deliberately alan answer convincing to the would necessarily have to be made How far the peace proposal reflects the close relationship to the vatican with Austria, whose earnest desire for peace, despite German influence, is well known, or how far it reflects the Catholic agitation for peace in Ger- many, no one here would venture to say. It was recalled, however, that leading Catholics were prominent fig- ures in the recent peace flurry in Ger: many. Within the entente diplomatic cir- cles the opinion was freely and promptly expressed today that the peace proposals were inspired by Ger- many and was an attempt to split'the allies in a conflicting & sion of their war aims. Included in the restoration of terri- tory. the pope's pron insist should be the return to Germany of all her colonies as well as the complete res- toration of Belgium to her sover- eignty. The pop pro. als declare that the injury to all belligerents has been a sgreat that there should be no thought for reparation, excépt for the ross the border to help save the Canadian crop. ~ (Continued op Page Three.)

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