The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 28, 1917, Page 3

, Na a », ne . ok + . ‘ a (t 4 e ye ) iA 4 a tion. “We feel so sure of refunded, a Snappy ideas, Trench JUST IN Our constant and increasing effort 18 to” give’ satistac- style and value that we guarantee satisfaction ‘or ‘nioney New styles in Men’s and Young Men's” Suits Overcoats will be favorites. at; $15.00; $18.00, $20.00, $25.00, $30.00, $35.00 to $50. 09. Nettleton and Walk Over. Shoes our merchandise ‘in ‘quality, ‘and styles, new colors, big values $4 a $12 Most complete line we Knox and Mallory Hats have $3.00 to, $10.00, ever shown. Fall line CUSTOM TAILORING Suits and Overcoats made in our own shop at $40 to $75. Uniforms for Army Officers a Specialty. MADE TO MEASURE DEPT. Suits and Overcoats “made to measure” From $25. to $40. , A high class cutter and fitter in charge. Expert Dry Cleaning, Hand Pressing and Repairing UNION STORE WITHIN THE LAW S. E. Bergeson & Son Closede Eve. exeept'Saturday Closed Sundays TT Haile ieee uAtte nL UN HEAT VALUATION OF NORTH ALMOST $400,000 000; BOIST OF $40,000,000 O¥ER 191 Four-Mill Tax Levy Will Produce $169,000 More _Revenuo for State Purposes Than It Did La:t Year—Increases of. About $9,009,000 in Farm Lands—Mlany Changes Made in Different Counties—Levies for Current A tax levy of four mills, the same as lJast_ year for. state purposes, except that the one-eighth mill heretofore de- ducted forthe terminal elevator fund will go, with’ the remaining 3% mills, into the general fund, was decided up- on at’a brief meeting of ‘the state heard of equalization yesterday’ after- npon.' The levy forthe state bond in- terest fund will be one-tenth mill, and that for the state bond sinking fund two-tenths mills. Both of these are levies’ not made last year, and the total levy of 4.3 mills will be just three-tenths greater than last year. Boost of $40,000,000, The assessed valuation will be more than $40,000,000 greater than last year. At thé 'séssion yesterday additions were made which boosted the total to $894,559,148, 12° million more than Sat- urday’s estimate. The total for 1916 was $354,496,097. Important items compare as lows: + fol- 1916. 1917. Farm lands ..$193,470,518 $202,962,587 Improvements ‘on farm lands Town and city lots 13,642,217 13,599,479 12,079,767 13,630,675 Improvements on lots ..... 21,820,724 Personal . 69,400,000 * Railroads .... 3 70,000,000 Telegraph ... 417, 935 ( Telephone . 1,367,172 1,900,000 Express '. 469,023 754,364 Street railway 72,741 72,441 Pullman . 32,692 159,364 Totals... .$354,496,097 $394,559,143 The state board of equalization finds it nedéessary to raise § this amount approximately $1, will be ratséd in the form of general ‘$463,300 in miscellaneous col- lections ;" $223,832 in ‘1916 taxes which are still. uncollected, and $329,708 is represented by the balance’on hand in the state treasury July 1, 1917. An assessed’ valuation of $100,000 distributed. over.the last three years Bab ’sFace Disfigured With Eczema Scales. Itched and She Would Scratch. Spread Over Side of Face. Cuticura Heale ed in Four Weeks. hore ‘are extracts from a ed statement recently re< ceived from Mrs. C. E. Out- and, 351 ‘Leggett. Avenue, rnesville, Ohio. “If Cuticura did no more than Soothe and heal eczemas, rashes, itchings and’ burnings,” bringing, speedy comfort to tortured, dis- figured men, women and children it would te entitled to the highest ise. But it does more. By using the Soap “exclusively for, toilet purposes, allowing no other soap to touch your skin, with touches of Cuticura Ointment now and then, to soothe and. heal the first sign of skin troubles, you will in many, cases prevent. these dis- tressing experiences. Itisalwaysa pleasure,! ‘not'an effort, to use them, they ate so pure and delicate. For Trial Free by Return Mail ad- -card: ‘€aticura, Dept. R, Sold thanighout the world. —_$>$—$—$—$—$— dress post- Boston.” Tax Announced, was assessed against the Pullman com- pany as property upon which back taxes must be paid. The Pacific Fruit Express Co. was assessed delinquent taxes covering the last six years, and amounting to $1,500. “Both of these items willbe divided -acording to mileage and certified to the various counties in which these companies operate. Changes by Counties. Increases in the assessed valuation of farm lands as réturned by the coun- ‘ty auditors were: made as follows: Benson, 15.:per cent; Burleigh, ‘5; Di- vide, 20; Eddy, 10; Foster, 20; Grand Forks, 45; Griggs, 5; Logan, 10; Me: Kenzie, 10; Nelson, 25; Pembina, 10; | Ransom, 10; Sargent, 25; Stark, 5; Traill, 20. The assessment of Houses on lands was increased 200 per cent in Billings, 19 per cent in Burke, Cass, Dickey, ‘Divide and LaMoure, and decreased 10 per'cent ‘in Durin, McKenzie, Moun- trail, Slope and‘ ‘Stark; reduced five per ‘cent’'in Emmons‘ and Poster; |50 per cent in Mercer, ‘and 20 per cent in Stieridan ‘and ‘Ward. The assessed valuation of barns and other’ buildings on‘ farm lands was in- creased 200 per cent in Billings, and other increases and decreases were made in the same counties and in the same ratios as those on houses and lands. The only changes in houses on city lots’ and barns and garages on city lots were made in Mercer county, where both items were lowered 25 per cent, wt U.S. GRANT. WON'T HELP HISTORY (Continued from Page One.) stream-line effect. of hay-rakes or something of’the sort, anid he hasn't got’ ‘round to it yet, but she’s confi dent if the board will just feave him alone he'll comehome dragging his hoe behind him. And anyway, he has promised certain sure to do a Dit of farming ‘next year. : They Need: This Fellow. The village smithy, beneath a spreading chestnut tree, a sample of whose fruit he endeavors to palm off on the board as a new and original excuse for not serving, declares he’s the only blacksmith for miles ardund; that, if he’s called to war there'll be no’ one left to mend knitting needles and tatting spindles, and many a poor soldier will freeze his tootsies for the lack of good, Made-in-America Gei- man sox. Et Tu, Cassius. Then there’s the guy from Cass— somehow or other there’s always a more or less gaseous Cassius figuring in these affairs—who handed his claims for exeription and his afiidav- its and his family tree and marriage license and birth certificate and vac- cination receipts to Judge Firdzell j this’ morning and calmly inquired: “Now where do I go to get my mile- age money?” Somebody had told that. poor fellow that Uncle: Sam would pay him ten cents the mile for his journey to and from’ Bismarck, ‘just like a regular legislator, and he had that rtioney all spent in advance: Tis tough’ tho true, Uncle Sam doesn’t make any mileage allowance Them as travels does so on their own peril. Marguerite Clark in “Miss George Washington” at the Grand and Bis- marck theaters tonight. 8-28-1 FRAME ges Evening Blaze guts Upper Part: of. Structure Occcupied by Clothing Store Fire which broke out shortly before 10 o’clock last evening badly gutted the upper part of a’two-story frame structure ovposite the McKenzie ho- tel, on Fifth street and, occupied by a clothing store, and slightly da:a- aged the building at the corner of Fifth and Main. The blaze apparent- ly originated in the area-way between the two Diildings, ‘and, when the alarm was’turned in the roofs of, both structures were blazing merrily. Fortunately there was not a breath of wind, and the fire ‘easily was ‘con- fined to these two buildings, where it was extinguished after about 20 minutes’ wofk’'on the'part of Chiet Currier’s men.’ The loss could not be estimated today, but it is probavle the damage to the Fifth street building will run 75 percent, while the corner , structure was damaged not niore than fifteen percent. Both were old frame buildings: The contents of the clothing store conducted’ by Mr. Rosen, who lately came to Eismarck from Steele, were dumped into the street in short order, a squad of a hundred or more soldiers volunteering for this work and mak- ing great fun of it. Some of the stock was slightly mussed in the melee, but there was little smoke or water dam- age. LEADERS OF NEW REGIME INSIST (Continued from Page One.) garding military operations or appoint- ment of leaders. “The strength of every army de- pends’ on conditions: in’ the district in its rear,”. General Korniloff continued. “The blood which will inevitably flow during the restoration, be shed in vain if the army havi en r E- nized and prepared for battle remains without reinforcements and fresh sup- plies of projectiles and equipment. 1 therefore think it indispensiblg that the measures taken at the front should also be applied in the rear.” The new commander went on to say} that according to information at his disposal, the conditions of the rail-) ways was such that by November the army would not receive any moze sup- plies. ON, LONG AUTO TOUR Former Minot Pastor Drives Ov- erland to Nebraska Charge Elgin, N. D., Ag. 28—Rev. and Mrs. George W. Hilton, en route by} auto from Minot to Lincoln, Ne».,| where he has’ accepted a pastorate, spent several days here as guests of his sister, Mrs. C. Heidner, and Rev. Hilton delivered an illustrated lecture on’ missionary conditions in China, with which he is thoroughly familiar | through a number, of years’ service, EDMORE CLERGYMAN \" MARGUERITE CLARK. Famous Pavers Paramount GRAND And BISMARCK THEATRES Present The Dainty Winsome Favorite of Millions \ MARGUERITE | CLARK -I N— iss George Washington” The story of a girl who could not_tell the truth | To-night J4ARGUERITE CLARK, SOME WIDE HISTORY ABOUT SECRET AGREEMENTS. BETWEEN KAISER AND CZAR This’ is another of the series of articles’ by. Charles Edward Rus- sell, staff writer of The Tribune, who has just returned from Rus- sia ,where he spent three months as a member of the official Unnt- ed’ States’ commission to the new Russian government. By CHARLES EDWARD RUSSEL| (Copyright, 1917, by Enterprise A the Newspap yciation.) The world’ democ most adyanced experiment ys After years of, hideous oppression they won their liberty from an auto- the Dark cre Ages. that “represented They never deserved any such op- pression; the genius of it was ab lutely fe acterist It was forced down upon them by; brutal might and great guis. If anything should happen to ove throw their hopes and bring back the yoke they threw. off, every man the world touched: with any, sense the spirit of liberty would: regard 'as an unspeakable personal calamity. ve think- All the world of progres: ers and friends of democracy wou mourn’ always) and ay that cause had suffered it feat. They should understand, then, per- fectly, that this is exactly what w happen should (ermany win in this! WEDS SCHOOLMA’AM | war. ——— The victory of Germany wou Edmore, N. D., Aug. 28.—A wedding! mcan the return of the half-cra of state-wide interest was solemnized | at Dazey, when Miss Pauline Olson! of that place became the bride of Rev. Joseph ‘Chester, pastor of’ the Methodist church at Edmore. The groom’ is a graduate of Wesley col- lege, while Mrs. Chester is an alum- nus of the University of. North Da- the Edmore high School. Germany and what it kota who was a teacher ‘of science in| try to pretend that this’ is mére as- “sertion. ezar, the police, the spies, the exile Siberia! It would mean extinction democracy. The whole structure of our hep for Russia would fall together. Persons that are able themselves to tha real nature Russian people are making the ign to their spirit and char- their greatest de- to blind gs nds for may not assertion, It is assertain- I will now give you a little chapter; of previously unprinted history: You remember that the Russian people had made one revolt previous to that of last March. In January, 1905, they rose against the monstruas autocracy that was crushing them, ‘and in spite of Lloody Monday and other slaughters they made for a time great headway. In March, 1995 if his crown wa Le er when it looked as inj to all parts of the country and many friend, Kaiser William. . The two were in almost daily com- munication ,anyway. No two rulers o-}of Wurope were more sympathetic or affectionate. Their intimate corres pondence s continued down to the very outbreak of the war, and some say it did not cease then. least it y certain that had any heart in the oT! the against he} war ermany and continued in}to regard Kaiser William as his best of | and dearest friend. it) So in Ma Kaiser, discussing the situation in his empire, about. which it appears he had often consulted his friend, and pressing the fear that he might not be able to hold out against the revo- lutionis Th emed to ho making new pro- gress every day and it plain en- ough that a large part of the army sympathized with them. What was to be ed, la ill ref therefore, zy | was that a critical encounter between ! army | the army and the people the rt the popular cause ana vase nothing would be lest ts to flee over the border to to of | es} do but safety. this the k his imperial 1 id that it wi I, the dyna replied, giving to heart of hope. ar’s duty to fellow mon- of FEEDING YouNG LOBSTERS Po Me. Broiled and Mrs. Canned- Salad Lobster’ are: “seeing America first” this ‘simmer. The reason is that they have been judged ‘to be luxuries and are forbidden by the allies to take up cargo space. Canada practically holds a tonop- oly on lobsters, with 90 per cent of the world’s ‘supply to her credit. Ninety per cent of this amount has heretofore been exported, almost every country: on earth helpin; eat up the nine millicn pounds wi ich constitute the world’s supply of the canned article. It has-been estimated by Canadian authorities that while it takes 50 peaple in the United States’ to eat 3 one-pound:tin of lobster in a year, «20 people in Great Britain or France will get away with the same amount. Pono, SHOWING ENGINE Room But this isn’t because the Americans , lobster availabi~ on the spot are the | woman and child in Canada, on keep- don't like lobster. No, sir! te théy like him raw. This year) consumption of the lobster of her choice In order to restore the bal-| ance. \, “At Present the b best specimens. of il million ‘dollars’ worth of pee being ined'for the can. The Dominien is protd of its lob. | ster industry and spends an amoun equal to one- shalt cent for every man, ous death on Fifth Avenue It’s be-| Nova Scutians, of which nearly three |ing up the hatcheries, of which there are taken are fifteen in Nova Scotia. nerica ‘will have to increase her/ every year, a I'ttle more than half |day-nurseries of the sea are said to These ‘have taken care of over seven billion - pink-clawed youngsters, each of t| whom doubtless dreamed of a glori- “flim slipping from his! head, when the revolt was spreading | provinces had declared their inde- pendence, Czar Nicholas wrote a letter of pitcous appeal to his dear intimate | h, 1905, he wrote to the: And he said tha the was pre- pared to send to Ru: , if necessary, aomillion men to crush out the lution and make the Czar safe on his i throne. | Subsequent — letters manner in which this could be done and settled the details, the places at which the German troops should en- j ter and the generals that should com- mand them. The — position f the kaiser was that all the autocratic governmen dra ng their authority directly from divine decree, must stand together at whate) cost to put down this rising tide of mob rule. And he urged the czar down with an iron hand. I have talked with a man that has seen this correspondence. It s the means of overwhelming the revolution and restoring the des- ' potism. There was at that time pending ay plications for loans that Ru wanted to float in England and France. These countries had refused to lend any money to Russia so long ;#s the revolution was on. jnot wish to be in the position helping an antoc democratic uprising. Russia was almost bankrupt, as us- ual. | ‘The fact of the correspondence be tween the kaiser and the yr be- came known to the govei ats of England and France. They learned what the k had undertaken to do with his million troops. They decided that it would he bet- ter to Iend the money to the czar’s autocratic government than allow Germany to amiex Russia, which would be the pri cal result if the j kaiser swept in with his troops. They therefor lowed the loan to be made. Russia took the money y and | with s suppressed the revolution. rve that when the revolu- r broke forth and the | Ss ser- to op- » front and let the German! troops in to put the rebellion down. It is plain enough ,therefore, that the old agreement still stood, in spite | last. discussed the} to put it of of the war vand that a signal the Kaiser's soldiers were ready to rush] in, shoot down the Russiin revolution- ists and put the czar back on tne | throne. Nothing prevented this except the czar’s perception that the revolt, had gone so far it could not suppre: ed without bloody fighting in the heart of Russia and that he was not willing then to bring it about. 1 These are the fa They show how absolutely the life of democ in Russia hangs upon the defeat of! | Germany. They show the kaiser, also, as he the frantic foe of the demo- advance, the mad dog of Eu- rope, ed with the notion that he is divinely appointed to prevent the world from passing under moh rule, and ready to pour out his people's hlood to keep any old throne any-! where from tottering to the ground i | | Tle advise r put down, with a ruthle: insucree tien, There i jon as to what} rmics should ever | ra front. | do i k through thi ib | The Amer! copper: | heads wand) pro-G are now engaged in helping | him to break through, i If one of them ever dares to utter the word “democracy” you would! think the word would ¢ i | He is doing his best to exterminate democracy from this world. | Lefore buying suit or overcoat see tryant. SuPFIRERS Al STOLL LooXt | ~ Walter Minn., 311. Bismarck They did], acy to put down a! N. 5) MORE MEN CERTIFIED. BY GODNTY BOARD (Continued from Page One.) “W. Samstad, Grove City, Harold ‘Hopton, Regan, N. D., 319. Joseph W. Keifer, Regan, N. D., 321 John Walker Jr, 226 Manizer, St. Taul, Minn., 324. Narvey Thelke, G. marek, N. D., 827. Parke A. Fenninger, 801 11th, Bis- D., 828. McKinley ‘Welch, Menoken, P. Hotel, ‘John J Mercer, Sterling, N. D., 334. William F. Sivey, Tecumseh, Neb., . dD, Kdwin G. Boehnke, Krauer, N. D., ol. John Moilanen, Wing, D., 346. Joseph L.. Gabel, Teaser: N. D., Ferdinand J. Frankenhoff, Van Horn, Bismarck, N. D., Ilclmer C. Meland, Driscoll, N. D, Kmil J. Niemi, McKenzie, N. D., 354. August W. Schnecker, 206 Thayer, John L. Neiland, McKenzie, N. D., Paul A, Slattery, D., 861. Alfred J. Olson, Sterling, N. ve John A. Strand, Regan, N. Arthur-M. Nelson, Wing, 522 2nd, Bismarck, 363. 364. DB 368. Edward Ibeling, Menoken, N. D., oT. Lars J. Jacobson, Baldwin, N. D., oii. Martin Thompson, 212 8rd, Bis- marck, \N. D., 288. Carl V. Zen. Del. Bis- nquist, marck, N. 39, Marguerite Clark in “Miss George Washington” at the Grand and Bis- marck theaters tonight. 8-28-1 Buy Prudently The merchant has not for fifty years had the trouble .in .buying .his goods that he has the past two years. The same with the housckeeper in sup- plying her table. Certain goods will re- main stationary and oth- ers will advance. Buy prudently and in case lots as much as pos- sible, Flour will advance soon if the government fixes the price of wheat at $2.50 or upwards. Sugar will ad- vance if the fifty cents war tax is added, Buy now while Flour is $6.65 and Sugar $9.90. Canned goods are now stationary in price with an advance expected, soon. Buy. canned goods in case lots and buy now, Our sale of Summer Underwear is nearly ended as the stock is about ex- hausted. Prices less than wholesale. 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