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KORNILOF CUP HS COLLAPSED KERESKY WS General Krymoff, Commander of Cossacks: Arrested by” His Own Soldiers PREMIER OF NEW REGIME URGED TO CHANGE PLANS Leaders Impress Upon Him Neces- sity of Placating Conserva- tives Petrograd, Sept. 14.—Further evt- dence of defection in the ranks of the cossacks from General Korniloff is given by the arrest near Luga of General Krymoff. The Council of Soldiers’ and Workmen’s Delegates sent a deputation to the soldiers to explain the situation, whereupon the cossacks declared they were ready to arrest their commander, provided ay order was received from Premier Ker- ensky. ‘The council telegraphed to the premier, who ordered General Krymoff's arrest. General Krymoiff submitted without resistance, and was brought to Petrograd. The cossacks ot his command have joined the gov- ernment forces in the Luga garrison. Railway service between Luga and Petrograd has been resumed. Petrograd Normal Again. Premier Kerensky tonight issued an order giving to the military gov- ernor of Petrograd special powers with regard to the press. Petrograd has entirely rocovered its calm, a re- markable effect of the suppression of the revolt being that the panicy rush from the capital caused by the fall, of the Baltic port of Riga hag ceased. On the Bourse where ‘only private deals are transacted, there was a sharp rise in securities. From, Moscow,. it is reported that refugees have begun returning to Pe- trograd.’ Doudtful elements in the provinces who would have backed senerah orn had ho ‘suceceded, ate pdsiing readlutions“in support of the provisional -governnient. New inet Progressing. The, new -cabjnet is progressing: to- ward completion though friction has again arisen between the constitu- tional demorcats-and the socialists. The constitutional democrats © last night announced to Premier Keren- sky that the government must take a lesson by removing the causes: and not repeating\ the mistakes which caused it., Otherwise, they said Gen- eral Kornfloff’s adventure would be repeated by someone else. The revolt, declared that constitu- tional democrats, undoubtedly was the fruit of extreme digsatisfaction in the more conservative” classes. There- fore, the government must render reasonable satisfaction to the conserv- ative demands and resist pressure to move it toward the left. TRIES TO KILL HIMSELF. After being received by Premier Kerensky at the winter palace and informed of the fate which awaited him, General Kruimoff, commander of the’ Korniloff troops which were sent against Petrograd, returned his lodgings tonight and shot himself. His wounds were not fatal. The provisional government has sent an extraordinary special commis- sion to the Russian army headquar- ters in the field to ,investigate the Korniloft affair. WILSON INSISTS. ON INSURANCE FOR SOLDIERS Washington, Sept. 14— Plans for adjourning congress without senate action on the soldiers’ and sailors’ in- surance bill were much disarranged today on an authoritative announce- ment that President Wilson: would in- sist that the measure become a law before congress quit. There is strong TRY INVASION OF THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 218 RMAN-SW BISMAROK, NORTH:1 ISH ; AKO''R. —<—. $400,000 Is Found Hidden In the Hills A Cowboy Stumbles Unto the Cache and Tries to Locate , the Owner Phoenix, Sept. 14.—The discovery of a -$400,000 cache in the hills of, Graham county is reported by H. R. Whitman, of Solomonville, who is now in Chandler. ‘The discovery was made by Joe Walsey,:a cowboy, who is making efforts to discover the for: mer owners according to Whitman. While hunting stray cattle, north- west of Solomonville, Wasley found a }tree trunk from which the handle of a-shovel protruded. Investigation dis- closed an iron box containing old Spanish gold coins, and. gold vessels, the intricate workings of which is said to bring the value of the find up to about 400,000 estimated as its worth in bullion. The gold has been taken to Safford. Old residents of that section declared Wasley had dis- | coyéred a hiding place of priests who left that section about 75 years ago, when it was a part of Mexico, It has always been thought that priests bur. ied the church wealth before fleeing OVER MILI UNTER. ARHS BEFORE DRAFT Military Strength of Nation Made Public Statement of House in WITH CANTONMENTS FILLED TOTAL NEARLY 2.000.000 MEN Washington, D. G:, Sept. 14;—In: the belief that the “conhtry does not; 0! dessiand \ Ames cai, «Fen ami strength, aN military ce jtiee te ‘ 40 the house for ‘publication fn the’con- gressional record a statement pre- pared at his request by the committee on public information for the govern: ment. ‘ r “On Sept. 6,°1917,”: the statement says, “there were in the regular army, national guard and ‘reserve corps of the national army 78,828 officers and 741,053 enlisted men; in the navy there was 141,867 enlisted men, 41,473 naval reserves and 14,500 of the naval militia in the federal service. There were 5,000 men in the coast guard and ate of 209,240. in the hospital corps, making a Enlisted strength of the marine corps was 29,971; reserves in the services, 1,070; national naval volunteers, 704; retired men on active duty, 14. There were approximately 12,000 officers in the navy and 1,166 in the marine corps. “In other words, on that date, the army had, including officers and en- listed men, 819,801, and the navy had 254,265, making a total armed strength on that day of 1,074,146 men, all- of whom were volunteers. Prior to that time there was not a drafted soldier ina single training camp. The draft law was approved May 18, 1917.” LW. W. MEMBERS “ARIZONA FIELD Bisbee, Ariz., Sept. 14.—Men who were deported from Bisbee as mem- bers of the I. W. W. and their sympa- thizers on July 12, were expected to return here in large numbers today from the camp at Columbus, N. M., where they had been staying since their deportation. The agents of the El Paso & Southwestern Railroad company at Douglas reported that a | sentiment in the senate for closing up business and letting the bill wait for the December session. a WOULD HAVE FIRE HALL Braddock Village Council Con- templates Bond Election Braddock, N. D., Sept. 14.—The vil- lage council has held a special meet- ing to consider a bond election for the purpose of providing funds for the erection of fire hall to house the village’s fecently purchased fire fighting equipment. It is probable that an election will be called within a month. EPIDEMIC OF FLYING ANTS DRIVES HORSES FROM WORK IN FIELD Steele, N. D., Sept. 14.—An epi- demic of flying ants, a pest not common to this country, is report- ed by H. |. Schnautze, who ad- vises that the little insects so ex- cited his horses that he was com- pelléd'to take them out of the hay fi dtd suspend haying opera- freight train on which 100 men were riding, would arrive early today. Douglas officers announced their in- tention of sending the men on to Bis- bee, together with 25 others, who ar- rived there yesterday and last night and who were locked in jail over night. Fifty-two of.the deported men re- turned to Bisbee yesterday. Many of! them said they came merely to ob- tain their personal effects and ‘left after their affairs were attended to. Twenty-four were held in jail last night, seven on charges of failing to respond to the selective draft call. MINNEAPOLIS AMBULANCE ERENSKY 1S BUSY UPON HIS NEW CABNET \ Will Surrender When Alex- ieff’ Arrives 'SLAV ARMIES AT FRONT SHOW FIGHTING SPIRIT Stubbornly for Control of Vantage Point (By Associated Press.) Convinced that General Korniloff’s rebellion is definitely at an end, al- though the general himself has not formally surrendered, the leaders at Petrograd are seiting about the recon- struction of the government. Forma: tion of a new cabinet is said to be well along toward completion. The submission of so many of the troops and the leaders who were .ad- hering to Korniloff apparently has lett the leader of the revolt helpless. He is said to have notified the: govern- ment of‘his intention to surrender up- on the arrival at his headquarters. of General Alexieff, who. has . be¢ine chief of staff under Premier Keten- ACE: SHOULD (PPLYAT THE NEAREST MART f ‘General Korniloff States That He Taft Agrees Tha. Closest Terminal “Market Shoi\d Be Used as Base {+ Wheat alan GRAIN CANN: \T BE SOLD AT LESS ) JAN MAXIMUM General Cadorna’ Still Fighting Amendment PF ;{vides for Sale Only at Est i ‘lished United States <:tandard SHORTAG:” RELIEVED. .. Minneapolis. "sept. 14. — The wheat shorta~“ situation, which threatens.to-m,. ,it in the tempor- ary closing dow ).of several local flour mills, Wis) greatly relieved today by the.) «cipt of 464 car- loads, and it w + announced that practically eve:. mill in the city is again operating, “Mr, Talf lett :te> \Vashington con- vinced that the ‘* lablished price of $2.20°should ap) it the nearest ter- minal, and -not ‘tr! Chicago, as the price-fixing, count ce’ has decreed, and I am convité «that he will do his utmost to hat. ihe food adminis- tration change)t, 3 basis, in order sky, now commander-in-chief of, the Russian armies. ei Display Fighting Spirit. Meanwhile the Russian armies. at the front, particularly in the northern sections, are displaying fighting spirit, and according to the oflicial state ment, are regaining some of the re- cent. abandoned ground to the Ger- mans in the Riga district. Several villages have been occupied, probably in a movement to consolidate the Rus- sian positions and to organize a de- tensive line which would be cohesive incase of an attack. Activity on the other battle fronts, extept the Aunstrian-|talian, where jeeral Cadorne. is stitl fighting for ern alleen AANA, ape The .Geiman. forces have been..on, ‘the offensive on'one section on the} based on No.-2 whegt, oF grain run- Flanders front, however, and it is claimed by the Germans that Wednes- day night.the British were expelled from the wooded district north of Langemarck, the Germans taking numerous prisoners in the operation. BOARD GERMAN SHIPS. Montevideo, Sept. 14——Urvguayian marines today boarded all the German ships in the harbor here, the govern- ment having heard of plans to sink the vessels. Sea INFLICT LOSSES. Berlin, Sept. 14—Violént German “shock” units yesterday penetrated as far as the second French line west of Guignicourt on the Aisne front, and inflicted heavy losses on the defend- ers, according to the German war of- fice statement today. In Flanders the battle increased to drum fire, but no English attacks developed, the an-' nouncement adds. Soy CREATE NEW DEPARTMENT. Paris, Sept. 14—The new French that, North Dakat. may be assured $2.20 for its wi at at its nearest terminal, whiehryi!d be.the Twin Cities,” said Goint ‘ssiover of Agricul- ture and Labor Tor nN. VWasen today. “This would tage 2 “iitference of three to five ceni bushel in favor of ‘the spring whe tates,” said Mr. Hagen. ig Bismarck elev? ing $2.08 for BBD this price betniag* »« price: of $2.20) pri! today ‘are pay- Na. 1 wheat, dv off the fixed heh £o* 57-pound wheat in Chirag ind at local dealers vevexied fact that the $22 pd LP their inter. pretation of they committee's acts, is ning 57 pounds to thé bushel and which would ‘grade No, 2 id Bismarck. This makes the price.fot No. 1 wheat, on.a Chicagq’ base, and it No. 1 were bought locally on» a Minnespolis base price, the farmer probably would re- ceive §2.10' or bet * There is very little wheat | raised In ‘North Dakota which will not weigh 59 “pounds or better to the bushel, it is said, the only obstacle to a No. 1 grade being the presence of smail proportions of barley and inseparable weed seed. To: Assure a Maximum. As predicted yesterday, the special representative of ood Administrator Hoover agreed prior to his departure to the modification of the 30day storage clause in such a manner as to assure a maximum price to, the farmer. The/ clause, as amended, reads: “It is agreed that if the grain represented by this receipt shall re- main in storage more than 30 days without permission from the United States food administration, the ware- houseman is authorized to ship it to the nearest terminal market OR ANY cabinet contains a new ministry at|OTHER TERMINAL MARKET TO first called the ministry of propagan-] WHICH THE FREIGHT RATES ARE da; but later changed to the ministry} THE SAME, and sell it on behalf of of missions abroad. The ministry con-| the holder of this receipt for the best sists of 15 titular ministers} four min-| price obtainable, BUT NOT LESS isters of state and 11 under-secreta-| THAN THE PRICE FIXED BY THE ries. UNITED STATES —PRICE-FIXING The new ministers are divided, COMMISSION; PROVIDED THAT among five senators, 11 deputies and] UNTIL SUCH GRAIN IS SHIPPED, two who do not belong to -parliament.| AFTER THE EXPIRATION OF SAID The 11 under-secretaries are all mem=|30 DAYS, IT SHALL ROMAIN SUB- bers of the chamber of deputies. Six-] JECT TO THE ORDER OF THE teen of the new cabinet’ members} HOLDER OF THIS RECEIPT.” have been ministers or under-secre- Taft Farmers’ Friend. taries in previous cabinets and thre Taft upon his arrival in Bismarck are former premiers. The political] expressed surprise when advised that. group representative in the new min-|the interpretation locally placed on istry do not include the unified social- the price-fixing commission’s acts was ists, that the $2.20 applied at Chicago. He COOPERATE TO SOLE GRAVE HAY PROBL ket. In a lengthy conference with Commissioner of Agriculture and La- bor Hagen yesterday he agreed that this price should apply at the nearest terminal market, and‘when he amend- | ed the storage ticket clause to read Montana stands ready to co-operate with North Dakota in the solution of the hay problem, is advice received by the railway commission today from ; Charles O. Greenfield, commissioner of , agriculture and publicity, and J. H. DRIVER KILLED IN FRANCE Paris, Sept. 14.—R. A. N. Hall, of ‘Minneapolis, a driver in section 62, of the Hartjes-Norton Red Cross Ambu- lance service was killed on Tuesday while on duty at an advance post and was buried near Avocourt Wood, says the Herald today. The shell which killed Hall wounded his com- tidiS'until the cloud of ants had on. panion, B. E. Sylvester, of Plainview, Minnesota, although not seriously. '“but not less than the price fixed by the United States price-fixing com- mission,” he, had in mind $2.20 per bushel at the nearest. terminal. Mr. Hagan believes Taft will keep this matter in mind upon his return to Washington, and that further good news for the grain-grower may be ex- pected in the course of a few days. Hall, commissioner of public service, Storage of Seed: Wheat. both of whom state their intention of; With regard to thé storage of seed taking this matter up with the Mon- wheat, Mr. Taft gave‘ont the follow- tana defense council at that body’s ing statement: “The food adminis- next meeting. Secretary Calderhead tration regards the regulation to lim- of the North Dakota rail board had it storage of wheat to"30 days in pub- communicated with the Montana offi- lic elevators as esséntial to prevent cials, telling them what North Dakota speculation and instre a proper dis- is endeavoring to do. tribution of wheat}* but in cases where elevators or farmers desire to TEAM RUNS AWAY; retain wheat for secding purposes, spe- BOY’S FOOT LEFT cial permission to store such wheat HAN in public. elevators «an be obtained NGING BY SHRED upon application to te United States Minot, N. D., Sept. 14.—Ole, | food administration “at "Minneapolis eight-year-old son of E. J. Blair | and upon complianc with certain reg- of Robb, is in a hospital here | ulations tended to assure the admin- with one of his feet hanging by a | istration that such stain is to be held shred asa result of the young | for seed and not with speculative in- . ster’s being caught by a binder To prevent pach speculation, drawn by a runaway team of | the food administration will place a_ horses.. Blair was driving the | limit on the selling tice of such seed animals and was unable to con- | Wheat in elevator forage. at fifteen, trol them but sat helpless and. |Percent over the p! went price, thus saw them run down the boy. ~~ (Continued on Three.) Ico LIKE NICHOLAS AND Queen Victoria, Daughter of the German House of Baden, Has Made Sweden Kaiser’s Ally. eee Washington) D. €., Sept. 44--In the fresh revelations of Sweden's role as tho catspaw of Germany, allied dip- lomats in Washington see another striking instance of the kaiser’s use of the god of love to sirengthen the hands of the god of war. By the intermarriage of German princi with other royal familes some of the innermost circle in al- most every monarchy in Europe have been made pro-German. ‘The bonds of wedlock become the bonds of state. Queen Victoria, wife of King Gustav V of Sweden, was Princess Victoria of Baden, when she married the present ruler of Sweden in 1881. .Baden is one of the largest, most populous and most important of the southern German states, Although Sweden was ostensibly neutral, there has been no doubt where Queen Victoria stood in the present world war. She was true to her blood, and was one of those who have revived for use in describing Ger- many the old saying about Rome, the ‘great military empire of earlier days, making it read, “Once a German, al- ways a German.” Queen Victoria has been in close touch with her homeland throughout the present war. She has offered per- sonal succor, and has intrigued her country into offering the aid of a pseudo-neutral in furnishing foodstuffs and military supplies. She has spent much time in Ger- many. She was at Karlsruhe, Ger- many, during the British air raid on that place in the middle of 1915. It increased her inborn hatred of the British. She has not dissembled. She has repeatedly proclaimed her pro-German sentiments in public. The best informed Scandinavian neutral observers insist popular feel- ing in Sweden has been strongly against the kaiser, especially since the unrestricted submarine warfare took heavy toll of Swedish shipping and put Sweden's commercial interests in a hole through the American embargo. But the German queen has been able to infect the government circles, the aristocracy and the army clique with “German czarina of Russia, daughter of a Hessian grand duke, cost the czar his throne and precipi- tated the Russian revolution by her machinations. The pro-German Queen Sophia of Greece, sister of the k: r, finally brought King Constantine down in ruin. / Pulling the influence of the German princesses in these countries out of the roots ended their surreptitious support of the German war program. Allied diplomats counsel firm mea ures against Sweden, to force to a showdown the iner ing conflict be- tween the popular will and the queen's court circle. Will a German princess pull down another throne? The Swedish crisis s closely linked with the drive on Petrograd. These recent German successes have been; expected to lure Sweden into the war with the object of making the Baltic a Prusso-Swedish lake, restoring an- cient naval power to Sweden. But the Swedes are more valuable to Germany as neutrals. The Swedish standing army numbers only 75,000. There are 525,000 reserves, and a total available unorganiz strength of | about 500,000—a maximum field force iy glihtn~ _\King’ Gustav of Swaden "GRAND COUNGILLOR 10 CONSTANTINE, of over a million men. However, Swe- den in the war would be unable to outfit and munition these troops. Dip- lomats agree the kaiser would rather have Sweden a funnel for supplies for his own troops already organized, than to lose this source or raw mate- rial and have a larger military force, with a shortage of munitions and sup- plies. The Swedish naval strength is neg- ligible. It is not needed by Germany in the Baltic, and it would not enable Germany to force an issue in: the North sea. ATTEND U. C. 7. AFFAIR John L. George Will Assist Minot in Bidding Soldier Travelers Farewell ae Minot, > D., Sept. 14.—Senior Grand®@ouncillor John L. George of Bismarck will participate in farewell | exercises to be held Saturday evening ; by Minot‘ council, U. C. T., for the benefit of members who-have been called into military service. The council has lost a’ number of men aT ~ SWEDEN'S KING HAS GERMAN WIFE; 1 LOMAT WAS &@ SED BY TEUTON AS MESSENGER Von Eckhardt Urged That Swed- “en's Agent Be Honored by ‘Decoration GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE Is NOT DISCLOSED Evidence of Friendship With Central ‘Powers Gathered by State Department Washington, Sept. 14.—How Ger- many’s secret practice of using Swe- den’s diplomatic service for transmit- ting forbidden communications be- tween German agents and the Berlin foreign office prevailed in Mexico as well as in Argentine is revealed in @ document published by the state de- partment, which passed between the celebrated Herr ‘von Eckhardt, Ger- man minister in Mexico, and the im- perial German chancellor, Acted as Messenger. It discloses how Folke Cronholm, in charge of the Swedish legation to Mexico, practically acted as a mes- senger boy for von Eckhardt, person- ally transmitting as his legation’s own dispatches messages for the German legation, even going to. the point of delivering them personally at the telegraph office, and how Von Eck- hardt recommended that a decoration Ae secretly bestowed on Cronholm for his services, ‘ Use of Neutrals. As an added chapter to the story of the recently revealed, intrigue in Ar- gentine, the disclos;as give a hint of the nature of the evidence in thig government's possession of Germany's illegitimate use. of neutral diplomats. .The full extent ofthis evidence may never be published, but. it is known to be complete, and this government's action in making: some’ of it: public is not felt to; be directed 80’ ‘niuch at Sweden as toward’ ‘fnfornitfig™ the world at large’of Germany's practices. Urged Decoration. for Swede. It does, however, raise some: specu- fafion as ‘to how thé Stockholm for- eign office will explain it. The inter- esting point, in the minds of officials and diplomats here,.is. how much the Stockholm foreign office knew of the affair. Von Eckhard’t letter to the German chancellor relating the extent to which Cronholm used Sweden's diplo- matic privileges for Germany and his recommendation of an imperial decor- ation for him is regarded by allied dip- lomats here as further evidence of their charge that Germany has dis- tributed decorations among the diplo- mats of friendly neutrals for such services, probably in other instances. Copies of Von -Eckhardt’s _ letter have been forwarded by the /state de- partment to Ambassador Fletcher jn Mexico and to Minister Morris at Stockholm, but neither has instruc- tions to present their information to the government to which he is ac- credited. ‘Dispatches to the department from The Hague, dated. yesterday, were that up to that time: the disclosures made by Secretary Lansing of the manner in whith Count Luxburg had used-the Swedish minister in Argen- tine as a bearer of dispatches had not been published {n Germany. It is expected that this government will not take any: further action, except possibly to add to the story of intri- gue by revealing more documents in its possession. ’ TO INVESTIGATE. London, Sept. 14.—Ani official state- ment, issued by the Swedish govern- ment and telegraphed to the corre- spondent at Stockholm of the Central | News agency, says that C. A. M. Ewer- loef, secretary of the Swedish minis- try of foreign affairs, has been given leave of absence from the foreign of- fice and has placed himself at the disposition of the minister of justice, with the object of assisting in the special investigation in connection with the Swedish-Argentine revela- tion. HAZEN ENTHUSIASTIC OVER TS HOWE GLARD Spanish-American War Veterans Take Leadership in Organiz- ation of Company Hazen, N. D., Sept. 14.—The Hazen home guard was organized under the supervision of First Lieut. T.“G. C. Kennelly of the Mandan home guard, Wednesday evening. The officers chosen are as follows:. Captain, Gust Lindquist; first Heutenant, Samuel Olds, and second lieutenant, Philip Schafer. The Mandan party returned home last evening from Hazen and they say that the Hazenites are more than en- thusiastic over the new undertaking. through the draft and as volunteers, and the farewell banquet Saturday event. The captain and first lieutenant. are Spanish-American war veterans. Phil night will be made a very impressive Schlosser, second lieutenant, was in the Mandan company three years.

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