The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 8, 1917, Page 1

°\ THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO,213 LAST DAY FOR WHISKEY PLANTS; PEORIA QUES Federal Law Prohibiting Use of Food Stuffs for Liquor Ef- fective ENOUGH ON HAND TO DO ABOUT A YEAR Wholesalers Throughout Nation Plan to Close Up Shop Very Soon Chicago, Sept. 8.—Wholesale deal- ers in liquor today see rothing for them but a lugubrious future with the closing down by Federal enactment of all distilleries in the. United States. They are practically unanimous in the belief that wholesale firms will re- main in business but a short time. Two Million Gallons. Today there are approximately 2,- 000,000 gallons of whiskey in the coun- try,-and the normal consumption of the United States is 1,500,000 gallons annually according to Frederick Biehl, manager of a local whisky house. “I do not expect to see this con- sumption materially decrease despite an increase in the retail price. On this basis, I believe the business has only about a year and a half to live.” Peoria Shuts Down. Peoria, Ill., Sept. 8—At 11. o'clock tonight, Peoria will cease to be the whiskey making center of the world. Thousands of gallons of liquor will remain in warehouses, but ‘the manu- facture of beverages.ends today under the food conservation law. The ‘gov- ernment permits the distillers one week in whieh to allow the “beer” which is the liquid product of corn to go through a week's process of dis- tillation. At the end of that time no more would be produced from the five big distilleries which have been fur- nishing one-third of the nation’s: sup- ply for years.~ Wisp FROM ENEMY FOUND BY |. W. W. PROBLRS Chicago, Sept. 8.—Indictment and arrest are the next steps to be taken by the Federal Government, follow; ing its recent raid of I. W. W.s in Chicago. It is asserted that in the re- cent raids, communications from Eng- land, France, Germany, Italy and oth- er European countries were obtained which would hold evidence of anti- war plots. Rumors were current today at the Federal building that the trials of those alleged to be guilty would be held in Chicago. It is said that agi- tators from all parts of the United Stated will be brought here for trial. FUEL SHORTAGE CUTS SUPPLY OF LIGNITE Copenhagen, Sept. 8.—Difficulties with the winter supply, of fuel in Ger- many already are being felt. The’ era of voluntary or compulsory of the fittest establishment for survival in various branches of trade and in- dustry already has opened and busi- ness will be concentrated in these while others will be shut down, except those who supply heat and light. Butchers favor keeping their places open late two afternoons a week. oth- erwise to close with the sun. The jewelers plan to keep open only on those days when artificial light is un- necessary, which during the North German winter are very few. Settin already has suspended street lighting entirely on account of the lack of coal. NEW FIRE DEPARTMENT Braddock Exvects Enterprise to Gain Reduced Insurance Braddock, N. D., Sept. 8—Braddock has organized a volunteer fire depart- ment headed by J. A. Allensworth as chief. Two new engines have been purchased by the village, an dthe trus- tees anticipate an early visit from a! fire insurance inspector who will re-| adjust insurance rates, downward, as a result of Braddock’s improved fire protection. CLEANS OUT WOBBLIES Early-Morning Robbery Brings Raid on Privileged Class Edmore, N. D.—Sept. 8.—dmore, after an early-morning robbery, in which a number of revolvers and oth- er merchandise were taken from Berg- & Stendall’s store, turned to and cleaned out its jungles, inhabited for the last month by I. W. W.s, who stood not on the order of their go- ing, even though they had on their persons a headquarters bulletin pledg- ing them the protection of Governor Frazier. TRIBUNE [=a “BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, SEPT. 8 1917. DEN FURNISH HIPPIN Explosion In Arsenal Kills’ Three Accident Said to Be Due to Care- lessness of Employe—Officials Investigate Philadelphia, Sept. 8.—Three work- , men are known to have been killed, and 23 other persons badly injured in jan explosion here today at the Frank- ford Arsenal. According to workers, the explosion was accidental. Two of ‘the 23 injured, are young women. Major Montgomery, commandant of the arsenal, is investigating the ex- plosion and declines to make any statement. Carelessness of a, work- man, it is believed was the cause of the accident.» The explosion occurred in one of three small buildings, known as deton- ating dry rooms, where primer caps are dried. The building in question has its walls packed with cinders and every precaution was taken to prevent accident. Fire followed the explosion and spread to several other small build. ings, known as the artillery assemb- ling unit. In these there were three and six inch shells, but promt work of arsenal employees, and city fire- men save the buildings and their con- tents from destruction. Nineteen of the injured were treat- ed at a nearby hospital. One is ex- | pected to die. ' Maryland troops are guarding the arsenal and no one was permitted to enter the government reservation. To- day’s explosion was the second fatal ene to occur within the last five months. ‘Labor Plans | To Drive Out Seditionaries Wesley Frost’s Speech to Be Used Attack on German Pro. paganda HIS GRAPHIC TALE OF “VICTIMS STIRS DELEGATES CLOSE THE MAILS. Washington, Sept. 8.—Closing the mails to the disloyal citizens is under consideration by the Post Office department as another step in the campaign to wipe out dis- loyalty and sedition. HERE TOM town, Who Saved Victims of Sinking Ship, to Talk | CARRYING PATRIOTIC MESSAGE TO COUNTRY | Sent Out Under Auspices of Four Minute Men to Tell of Ger- | man Ruthlessness United States Consul Wesley Frost. hero of the Lusitania, formerly sta- tioned at Queenstown, will bring to Bismarck tomorrow afternoon his message which has left in its wake across the continent a wave of indig- nation and detestation for the su- preme German ruthlessness which it discloses. Frost is telling what he knows of German. frightfulness from personal contact with the methods of the Kaiser, Von Hindenburg and Von ‘Tir- pitz. Frost was at Queenstown when the Lusitania, with its several hun- dred helpless women and children passengers, was sunk without warn- ing by a German torpedo. He assist- ed the survivors of this disaster and of 81 others, which crowded one on the heels of another so fast that at ‘times it was impossible for the con- sulate to complete its report on one disaster before the victims of another . appeared on the scene. First Hand Information. Ne obtained first-hand accounts, af- fidavits and sworn testimony from sur- vivors of the Lusitania describing that greatest of all tragedies of the war, and he met at Queenstown sti- vivors of the Arabic, the California, the Taconia, the Hesperian, the City of Memphis, the Abosso and numer- ous other merchant vessels torpedoed by German submarines. He lived through:the German terror; to him it is very real, “and in his. stirring ad- dresses he has impressed the actual- ity of, what+German dominion would mean to America. Needless Sacrifice. He tells details of these inhumane and needless sacrifices of non-combat- ants which have not before appeared in print; he shows how Germany, while seeking to maintain neutrality in America, trod under foot the rignts of American citizens in Europe, and maintained in this country a complete Minneapolis, Sept. 8—The local committee of the Alliance for labor and Democracy, which concluded its big loyalty confereace last night, to- day opened its campaign to drive Ger- man propaganda from labor ranks to Minnesota. spy system which brought news of events to the kaiser even before Pres- ident Wilson had heard of them. He will prove that these spies still 72 side in America, are found in high places, and are continuing to do the work for which their kaiser is paying them liberally. As part of the campaign of liter- ature, hundreds of copies are being German Spy System. Tomorrow afternoon’s address was fairs in Gate City by Trans- ients ONE ARRESTED CHARGED WITH NOT REGISTERING Letter Found on His Person Ad- vises Him Not. to Cozply With: Draft Fargo, Sept. he ck local I. W. W. headquarters last night is but one of the steps to he taken. by the police here, in quelling the reign of shooting and killing which follows the return ef the workers from the fields. Federals Authorities Investigate. Wederal authorities are also investl- rating the case of Peter Lurtell, an alleged I.'W. W. of St. Paul, wha was arrested last night. A letter found upon him bearing the letterhead of the I. W. W. advised him jot to regis- ter, according to the peli: Te was charged with failing ‘to resister. How- ever he regained possession of the letter, according to the police and de- stroyed it. ‘ His case will be thorough- ly investigated, as the police say that in case he was arrested for failing to register, the I. W..W. “had an army sufficient to fight the United States and would protect him.” Gunmen's Hang-out. According ‘to the, police, the I. W. W. branch here was closed because “it is ca rendezvous for crime and hangout of gunmen.” Two shootings resulting in deaths, occurred in Fargo yesterday, and re- ports from Kensal, stutsman county, show that two more persons were fa- tally injured there as the result-of a hold .up., The men responsible are . Still at large, according to the report and a posse is in pursuit. ‘The shoot-! of Hjalmer Hohan,, an, I. W.\'W., yes- tetday. by Frank Hofy j.llewing the, argument over the salesof whiskey, was held by a coroner's jury today to be “deliberate, wilful, and premedi- tated.” Hohy was bound over to the district attorney's office. LADD 1S NAMED: FOND DICTATOR FOR THS STATE ing of tho ¢ \asunnowlinoe TESTIMONY | | | LUSITANIA HERO. IW. W. OFFICES SECRET MESSACES SENT BY AT AUDITORIUM; IN FARCO CLOSED ORROW BY AUTHORITIES Wesley Frost, Consul to Queens. Result of Several Shooting Af- 4 SCANDINAVIAN DIPLOMAT ARE Washington, Sept. 8.—How Swe-| without a tr en's legation in Argentine, acting as Rina igned: “‘Luxburg.’” “July 3rd, 1917, No. 59. “IT learned from a reliable source! the acting minister for foreign af- fairs, who is a notorious Anglophile, declared in a secret session of- the senate that Argentine would demand ce being left (‘spurlor wa a secret means of communication be- tween the German charge in Buenos Aires an dthe Lerlin foreign office, transmitted the information of the; sailing of ships and directions for) {their destruction by submarines was! revealed today in dispatches to the FIVE CENTS TEUTONS MAY £83 NOT CONTINUE HMOE PUBLIC BY LANSING, RUSS OFFENIE Indications Are That Hindenburg Will Consolidate Occupied Territory ABSENCE OF ALL NAVAL ACTION CONFIRMS THIS state department. {from Berlin a promise not to sink The following was issued at the more Argentine ships. If not agre- state departmeat tod Jed to, relations would be broken off. “The department of state has secur- I recommend refusal and if necessary ed certain telegra from Count Lax-, calling in the mediation of Spain. burg, German chi Waffaires ati “*Luxburg.’” Pueénos Aires to the Woreiza Office at! Lansing Makes Them Public. Berlin which I retre! to say were “July 9, 1916, No. 64. dispatched from Tuenos Aires by the — “ ‘Without showing any tendency to as their own official make concessions postpone reply to! “to the Siockholm Argentine note until receipt of tur! foreign office. “The following are ther report. A change in the mints- translations of the German text: try is probable. As regards Aregen- The Message. fine steamers, I recommend either “‘May 19,1917, No. 32. This gov- compelling them to turn back, sinking ernment has now released German them without leaving any trace or and Austrian ships on which hitherto letting them through. They are all a guard had been placed. In conse- small.’” ' quence of the settlement of the Mon- — Covies of official dispatches sent to te (Protegido) case there has been a the Rerlin foreign office by Count Lux- great change in public feeling. Gov- burg. the German charge in Buenos ernment will in future only clear ar- Aires in ciphers through the Swedish gentine ships far as La Palmas. I legntion there as its own communica- get that the small steamers Oran and tion where made public by Secretary ‘o, thirty-first of January (mean- Lansing. As to how they fell into the ing which sailed 31st) three hundred hands of the government or any indi- tons which are now nearing Bordeaux cations as to what is to come as the with a view to change the flags may result of the disclosures nothing be spared if possible or else sunk would be said. f TEUTONS USE TWO SPEAKERS TRIAL TO CLEAR | OF NATIONAL THEIR SKIRTS NOTE COMLNG Seek tol. Establish Contention Participation of. Drs, Winship That Russia Started War in and McBrien in Rural Treason Case School’ Rallies Assured FRAZIER AND LANGER ATTRACTING ATTENTION, | AMONG THE EDUCATORS Copenhagen, Sept. 8.—(With the ar- rival here of a Russian newspaper some light is thrown on the campaign which the German government has | been conducting brought out by the trial of General Soukhomlinoff in Pet- !rograd for hig treason. Acounts of thetrial published in the Novoe Two outside speakers of national note for North Dakota’s better rural school week are assured, State Super- intendent of Public Instruction N. C. Macdonald announced today. These lecturers are Dr. A. E. Wiship of Bos- ton, editor of the Journal of Educa- tion and a speaker of international 1eputation on rural school problems, and Dr. J. L. McBrien, rural school Vremya of Petrograd show that in the specialist of the United States bureau Austria’ Claims Successes Against *Cadorna in Vienna Dis. Patches (By Associated Press.) Despite the continued retreat of the Russians in the Riga front, indl- cations are not wanting that the Ger- man drive in this region may have reached nearly its limits. This view. indeed, is ‘taken by leading German military writers who point to the late- ness of the season as making improb- able, that Von Hindenburg intends to h his campaign further this fall. Ho will be content with safeguarding his new acquisitions, the naval bases ot Riga, and Duenamuende, they inti- mate. The absence of German naval cooperation on a large scale in the Gulf of Riga with the land forces soems to support this view. Local Movements. The Franco-Lelgian coast 1s wit- nessing some local infantry move- ments, but for the most part the artil- lery and the airmen are the only branches of the service being active- ly employed by either side. The Paris statement announces lo- cal attacks by the Germans which were broken up by the French fire. Vienna claims the driving back ot the Italians in the Hermanda sector, where General Cadorna has been pushing toward Trieste. It is assert- ed that all the ground won™by,jnjin. ,., there in the present’, offensive ‘has been recovered and more than 6,000 prisoners have been takn by the Aus- trians. According to an official an- nouncement the Austrians pressed hack the Italians from Monte San Gabriele northeast of Gorizia. The Italians are said to have fled. 3 ENDORSE WILSON’S REPLY’, Washington, Sept. 8.—Great _ Brit- ain has advised the United States that President Wilson’s reply to Pope Benedict's proposal is in effect, Great Britain’s reply as was introduced in a statement made by Lord Cecile. FOOD CRISIS. Stockholm, Sept. 8.—~A food crisis made for distribution of the address obtained through by Wesley Frost, who drew a graphic the Bismarck Commercial club, which picture of his experiences as Amori- succecded in inducing Frost to stop can consul at Queenstown, .after the off here while en route from Fargo, | sinking of the Lusitania, the Laconia, where he speaks tonight under the! and scores of smaller craft, with the auspices of the Fargo Four Minute | loss of many lives. |Men, and Butte, where he is next “The happy hunting ground of the scheduled to talk. The meeting will the enterprise of Appointment Made Public Yester- day at Agricultural Col- lege Fargo, N. D., Sept. 8—Dr. KE. F. Ladd has been named state federal food administrator for North Dakota. attempt to prove that Russia was re- sponsible for beginning the war, the Germans suppressed important parts of the testimony given by General Januschkevitch, former chief of the Russian general staff. Omittcd Facts. of education. Dr. Winship will appear jn Petrograd and Moscow is reported in 31 counties, talking to teachers and jn advices here from the Russian min- directors. He has spoken in every ister of communications and is said state and territory in the United to have asked the minister of sup- States and in every Canadian prov- plies to take further extraordinary ince, and has seen rural schools in all measures to save these cities frum phases of their development. He is famine, saying supplies on hand in reported to be a forceful, logical and Petrograd would suffice only for ten German hunting submarine stretched out in the ocean south of Ireland,” he said. “Hundreds of men and women told me their pitiful tales with the voices of their dead still singing in their ears. They told, too, of the grim jokes of submarine commanders, who in some cases placed survivors on top of U-boats and submerged later to reappear and permit the crew to take snapshots of the struggling vic- tims to be sent home to relatives and sweethearts. “These were not idle dreams. They were the statements of our weeping men and women sworn to before Al- mighty God.” MISSOURI RIVER SOO LINE DIVISION WILL HAUL LOT OF WHEAT Drake, N. 1D.-Sept. &.—The Mis souri river division of the Soo line, trom Max to Sanish, will deliver tc Drake 5,000,000 bushels of No. 1 whea! a 60 per cent crop, according to Super intendent Scott W. Derrick, up from Rismarck on an inspection trip. open at 3 o’clock. Music will be fur- nished by the Second regiment band of Harvey, and ©. I. Young, former, president of the Commercial club, will preside. A general invitation is extended the public, and it is antici- pated the big amphitheatre will be filled. Frost is one of the ablest speakers who ever has appeared in Bismarck, and he brings a message of vital interest. Rev. George Buzzelle, rector of St. George’s, and one of Bismarck’s pr oneer Four Minute Men, will ask the invocation. A small party of Capital City men will meet Mr. Frost inform- aly at luncheon. VICTIM WAS HOLDER OF HOMESTEAD IN FT. BERTHOLD RESERVATION Pyder, N. D. Sept. 7.—Mrs. Cornelia Biller, who was murdered by her soi- dier sweetheart in Minnerpolis last week, was of the Berthold reserva- tion’s homesteaders, having proven up with her husband on a claim here last summet | ,feveral applicants for the office and This information was made public for e r -offic; aoe the first time yesterday, although the 12-18 report the sonitoftcial Ger appointment was made while Dr. Ladd ™4" news agency omitted a pas was in Washington and he was sworn regarding an interview between Gen- in at that time. feral Januschkevitch and German mili- As food administrator he will have tary attaches in Petrograd. It ap- supervision of every detail that comes pea! that General Januschkevitch, under the food administration work of ied precise reports had been re- Hoover in North Dakota. There were ed that German mobilization al- dy was secretly in progress, The Russian staff knew this could be done under the German law without tormat proclamation, whereas in Russia a | public manifesto from the Emperor 8 o several recommendations made. — Dr. Ladd did not know that he was be- ing considered until he was notified that he had been selccted. Baird Chief Clerk. Twas necessary. R. O. Baird has been named chief On the following day a dispatch clerk under Dr. Ladd, and will take was received from the Russian am- active charge of the food administra- bassador at Berlin confirming the pre- tion work. He has been chief inspec- vious information. that the German tor of the North Dakota pure food de- mobilization was in progra The partment. ‘Emperor then expressed his thanks to Miss Katherine Jensen, professor of General Januschkevitch, for not hav- home economics at the North Dako- ing revoked the mobilization order. ta Agricultural collec, has been nam- ed home economics director for North Dakota under the administrator.- eG Sie aS, The foregoing dispatch gives the German Chancellor, Dr. ite federal food first intimation from a Russian source, ,in regard to the testimony which the Michaelis, said earlier in the week established ‘brilliant lecturer. Dr. McBrien will spend six weeks in North Dakota and will speak in 39 counties. He comes to this field with an extended and suc- cessful experience as a rural school teacher, county and state superinten- dent, advises Mr. Macdonald, who re- ports him to be an able and brilliant peaker. The United States is lend- ing his services free of charge, and! the state superintendent regards North Dakota fortunate in procuring him. ‘yhese lecturers will appear. separ- ately in 25 counties and joinly in a half-dozen. In addition thefe will be several speakers from within the state including Governor Frazier, Attorney General Langer, Dean Kennedy, Pres- idents Black, McFarland, Hillyer and Stecle of the several e Wormal schools; Prof. A. P. Hollis of the agri- cultural college extension department, and members of the state department of education. ! ‘The rallies will open October 1, will run for four weeks, with a week’s in- termission for the annual convention of the North Dakota Education ¢ ci- ation, in Bismarck, and, resuming No- NORTH DAKOTA TROOPS 10 GREENVILLE, §. 6, WITH QUTHERN NATIONAL GUARD — —_—_. Telegraphic advices to headquar-|'argest representation in camp, and it ters of the Second regiment today | s believed chances would be good for state that heavy tentage for the|Colonel John H. Fraine to land the North Dakota troops has been ship | >rigsdier generalship friends covet ved from Atlanta, Ga., to Greensille, | for him. . S. C., Camp Sevier, and a new war| A wire today states that field ranz map received here notes the First/es and mess kits have been shippea and Second North Dakota as being|by express.from Chicago. Colonel brigaded at Camp Sevier with Ten-| White anticipates early orders to en- nessee, North and South Carolina and ! train, as he believes the guard will de part of the District of Columbia. moved in.advance of the draft contin- This line-up is entirely new, and it| gent September 19, and that at least is believed it will be final. Green-|eight days will be required to carry ville is a town of 15,000 in the north-; the two regiments to Greenville and west corner of Senth Carstine in *™*! get the equipment back. Tourist mountainous district. If brigaded. sleepers will’ be provided for enlisted with the southern reg:ments, ..orta; men. ‘with ‘a standard’ “sleeper for Dakota probably ould have the headquarters staff’: PINGREE SCENE OF THREE BURGLARIES Pingree, Sept. 8—Two burglars en- tered the postoffice here last night blowing up the safe and breaking op- en the cash drawers, making away with but a few dollars in cash ana stamps. The same men broke into « general merchandise store owned by William Shaw, pilfeving the cash reg- ister. They were discovered by Mr. Shaw, who fired at the burglars with- out scoring a hit. They made good their escape, bith but little reward for their efforts. This.is the third burglary in the village in one week. NO RESTRICTIONS PLACED UPON GOLD EXPORTS. Washington, Sert. 3:“Preasury ot- ficials carrying out the provisions of the president’s proclamation requir- ing the licensing ef gold exports will nlace no general restrictions, it was said today, upon the export of gold in the settlement of legitimate trade balances against the United States. around the,Russian Emperor, not Ger-! vember 5, will continue for two weeks. ‘many, was responsible for the war.! The Chancellor said that if the Amer- YOUNGSTER CLEANS usniine la ceiene ote ual ee eens er on ae bility for the war as express-| SOLUTIO: ‘ed in the president’s reply to the yandan. N. D. Sept. 8.—Drinking a Pope would have been quite different. quantity of ten-percent ly tion, Alfred, two-year-old | “irrefutabty” that the military party days and that conditions in Moscow were worse. AIRCRAF TSIGHTED. Petrograd, Sept. 8.—German war craft have again been sighted in.the Gulf of Riga, and have been shelled, by the Russian coast batteries, the war office announces. Russian torpedo destroyers discov- ered a German submarine and enemy ships, apparently trawlers, were ob- served in Irbensk. DELPHIC SUNK. An Atlantic Port, Sept. 8—The British steamship Delphic of 8,273 tons gross, one of the White Star Line fleet, was sunk August 15, by a German submarine, according to word received here today. The sink- ing occurred some distance off the Irish coast, and while the vessel was under armed convoy. The crew were saved, Packers Unite to ‘Solve Meat Shortage Chicago, Sept. 8.—Packing interests have united in a voluntary and of- ficially sanctioned combination to solve the meat problem made acute by jthe war, according to an announce ‘ment following a meeting here by the Details were not divulged, FARMERS BUYING STOCK IN COOPERATIVE LEAGUE William E. Breen, one of Burleigh in agony for county’s most sucessful farmers and treasurer of the recently organized Co-operative Buying & Selling association, reports ; there is a good demand tor siock in| the organization among farmers of the Slope district and that no difficulty is being encountered in adequately fin- The associa-; large central warehouse in charge of a buying and Freyberger has completed and ship- North Dakota Farmer: ancing the enterprise. tion will maintain a selling agent in Bismarck, and from this point will supply «mem throughout the state. The capital has been selected because of its cen- tral location and we exceiient rates wheat, first and second cuttings of which have been obtained for its job- falfa, clover, - bing and wholesaling business. $s ern coun’ but will be laid before H. C. Hoover, federal food controller next Wednes- day. An official committee .of pack- was named, of which Thos. H. Wilson is chairman. ‘anu Mrs. James ‘McKendry iffer ing from a gencral disturbance of his inierior regions. The youngster was hours after his cxperi-) ence betore remedies promptly admin- istered by a physician could counter- act the effects of the lye. EXHIBIT TO MINNESOTA La Moure County to Show ie | | er Fairs What State Grows “Dp. Sept. 8.—John School Enrollment Will Reach Thousand The enrollment of the Bismarck public schools reached the 955 mark linnesota for a tour of south-| the first week of school. Two hun- ty fairs a complete exhibit of | dred and two are enrolled in the high The' school; 288 in the North Ward school, - 321 in the Will school and 133 in the Northwest hotel school. timothy, brome grass,} One hundred additional pupils are d corn in the ear. expected to register within a month. LaMoure, N. ped to M s grown in Marion vicinity cron: r includes various grad exhibit flax, barley, rye an