The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 15, 1917, Page 1

he Y Weather Fair tonight. Pac-| THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Last Edition BISMARCK, NORTH DARITA SATURDAY, SEPT. 15, 1917. sSHOOT ALL YOU PLEASE SUNDAY; COURT WILLIN "Shooting of Crows as Private Di- version Doesn't Constitute Sabbath. Breaking SEASON OPENS AT 12:01 TONIGHT AS LAW STATES Fields Will Be Filled Tomorrow With Thousandg.pf Sportsmen Gunning for Birds North Dakota sportemen have the shoot their heads off tomorrow. opinion of the court holding Sunday shooting not a crime, Judge Robinson, follows: “The shooting of crows as a private diversion not witnessed by the public generally in such a way as not to attract a crowd or to injure anyone does not constitute the crime of Sa) both breaking.” To shoot or not to shoot beginning at midnight tonight remained a debat- Dakota sportsmen until this afternoon, | when the supreme court announced ; its decision. The law says that the season for prairie chicken, duck and other water fowl opens at midnight. The law also says that all manner of shooting shall be prohibited on Sunday. ag. j Attorney General Langer had oral denied responsibility for oral opinions ascribed to him to the effect that} game wardens should be held respon- sible for the enforcement of the ban on Sunday shooting. He had _ not, however, intimated that he would not undertake the enforcement of this law i permission of the supreme court to/ The; written by | 30 MEN CALLED MAN SUBMA Even Inch of Rain Follows The Missouri Heavy iowedaes Sirens Boil to Depth of Several Inches, Paving Way for Plowing . SERRES PREDICTS GOOD CONDITIONS FOR FLAX: ‘An even inch of rain, the heaviest since June 5, fell in Bismarck Friday. Fessenden enjoyed .74 of an inch of precipitation; Minot and Napoleon, .45; Williston, 46, and Bowbells, 38. At Dickinson, west of Bismarck, only -12 of an inch fell, and at Jamestown an equal distance east, there was but 08 of an inch. The rain seems to have been confined to a narrow strip extending through the center of the state from Williston to Napoleon, and following very generally the Missouri valley, with an erratic off-shoot to in- clude Fessenden. Accompanied by warm. tempera- tures, the heavy rains in th central portion will prove beneficial to pas tures and may help late potatoes to some extent. Their most important effect will be to place the soil in good «ondition for fall plowing, and, old timers predict, to pave the way for a good, money: making crop of flax next season. TO REPORT NEAT WEEK FOR CAMP through the state's attorneys. Fields Will Be Filled. The only danger of law-breaking confronting the North Dakota sports- man tomorrow is that he may injure someone. The fields will be filled with gunners as a result of the court's decisi B A. general. exodus: is.now in prog' ening “trains: will carry scores to favorite meadows and duck runs. Lright and early tomorrow morning, before the sun is up, auto- mobile-loads of eager. sportsmen will be on their way. Taken by Surprise. Some 60,000 city. sportsmen, who have little chance to hunt on Sunday, apparently did not awake to the fact that the last legislature had more or until an oral opinion came from the office of Attorney General Langer to the effect that the ban on Sunday shooting would be enforced and that the season would not open this fall on Sept. 16, because that date fell on Sunday, but that sportsmen must re- frain from blazing away until 12:01 a.m. Monday, Sept. 17. To test. the validity of the section prohibiting Sun- day shooting, a friendly suit was insti- tuted in Judge Cole’s court in Cass county, with A. K. Davis as the de fendant, and an immediate appeal was taken to the supreme court, where the case was advanced on the docket for hearing Friday, in order that a de- cision might be reached, if possible, before the opening of the hunting sea- son. Can't Store Birds. Sportsmen received one setback Fri- day, when Judge Nuessle in the Bur- leigh county district court ruled that it prohibited the storage of prairie chickens last fall. This decision came in denying an application of Game Warden William Reko of Mandan for a writ of mandamus compelling Secre- tary George M. Hogue of the North Dakota game and fish board to issue -permits for storing prairie chickens. Judge ‘Nuessle ruled that the old law permitting the storage of prairie chickens is superseded by the act of the last session prohibiting storage, even though the latter does not spe- cifically repeal the former. The Open Season. Prairie chicken, snipe, grouse and partridge may be killed between Sept. (Continued on page 4.) RUSSIANS TORIURED IN PRISON CANPS Washington, D. C., Sept. 15.—Anoth- er chapter is added to the story of the tortures of German prison camps by Russian soldiers who escaped by tunnelling with a knife under the electrically charged fence along the Antwerp-Kosendahl line. It has been from Petrograd. a Brutal treatment and poor and in- labo- of thousands of prisoners, he say;. One labor battalion on the west- ern front, consisting of 2,000 men, has been reduced to less than 500. The daily rations for a prisoner, he re- ported, consisted of a small amount of bread and turnip soup, the soup en- riched now and then by 2 bit of horse meat. The unfit, the wounded, and those who had lost members of their bodies, were kept in invalid camps until they died, but never, he says, returned to ¢éips in Germany, be- cause the officers in command feared the phsychological effect on the peo-; ple. Stern methods were used to com- pel prisoners to work, he said, less specifically prohibited this sport! county local exemption board to re the legislature meant business when | forwarded to the state department} sufficient food have cost Germany the; Registrants Who Will Make Up Burleigh County’s Forty Per Cent Selected by Board To SPEND. FIRST NIGHT. - OUT IN CAPITAL CITY Sheriff French urges that post- masters cooperate by mailing out notices to drafted men without delay. Thirty-six men and ten alternates have been summoned by the Burleigh port in Bismarck at 5 o'clock next Tuesday afternoon to prepare to en- train for Camp Dodge, Des Moines, la., as 40 percent of Lurleigh county's quota, called by the provost may- shal general for the September 1 period. The men will spend Tuesday night and most of Wednesday in the capital city, entraining some time Wednesday afternoon. Bismarck in common with other mobilization points is planning a patriotic demon- stration in honor of its citizen sol- jers, and their departure will be made a memorable occasion. Felix Orlando, Burleigh county's member of the “258” club an organiz- ation being formed by registrants in every district who were fortunate enough to hold the first number drawn at Washington, is included in this quota, as is'Carl Lewis Hagan, the second man drawn. These were the first two men examined by the Burleigh county board, and neither claimed exemption. The list includes a number of well known Bismarck ‘young men, among them being George Wahler, who has been in charge of the newspaper bookkeeping depart- ment for The Tribune; Gus. S. Grant, proprietor of an upholstery establish- ment on Fourth street, and John B. Rhud. Begin Military Life. Military life for these select ser- vice men begins at 5 o'clock next | Tuesday when they report to the lo- cal exemption board. From that hour until they are discharged upon final examination at Camp Dodge, or until the end of the war, or discharge |from the ranks, they remain in the service of Uncle Sam. Out-of-town registrants will be housed at the ex- pense of the government over night, and will be fed by Uncle Sam at local restaurants. Bismarck registrants may upon application obtain permis- sion to spend these last few hours at home, but they must report for in- spection bright and early Wednesday morning. A transportation officer will accompany the contingent to Camp Dodge and remain with them until they are safely delivered over to the camp commandant. A list of those called follows: Felix Orlando, Carl Louis Hagen, Charles Anderson, Henry Danielson, Roy Kroll, Irvin Koterba, Arthur Fred Spoorl, Marvin O. Berg, Walter James C. Honey, Joseph Kritzer, George Wahler, Gus S. Grant, John Andrew Vollan, Jonas Ray Morton, | Burt G. Spohn,; John Hanson, Thomas; J. Watson, Severt W. Heider, Mike, ‘Mastel, Homer Hinton, Henry V. Scharosch, Otto W. Knutson, Edgar, Hanson, Asa J. Werner, Nels Hanson, | Julius Leske, Otto H. Beers, John B.! 'Rrud, Samuel Marion Love, Fred A. Kruger, Frank Wohletz, Otto R. Ayres, David W. Smith, Paul Stafki, Stephen | Klochinick, Jocenh Murray. Alternates. Anderson i RQudolnh Carl- Rudolph G. Ham- Corist Alvert| Pichard FP. ander, Gust Hill, Mwerud, reler ‘Tumis, Peterson, John Stillson, Roy Kendall, Carl Kyazxvuk. MINISTER 10 KICO DENIES HE SENT WIRES Declares That He Never Used Swedish Charge to Convey Information WASHINGTON, HAS AMPLE PROOF OF OFFENSE German Press Demands Recall of Luxburg for Send- ing Message —Heinrick von rdt, the German minister to M ‘Oo, tonight made a statement denying everything in connection with the disclosures front Washington that he had been employing a Swedish charge to convey information to the Berlin office. He declared he never sent any communication through Cron- holm or that he ever wrote any com- Instant ‘ico City, Sept. ‘munication recommending Cronholm for a decoration for his services. AROUSES NO ANXIETY. Washington, D. C., Sept. 1 er: man Minister Eckhardt’s denial, has aroused no anxiety at the state de- partment, where officials consider their investigation determines the au- thenticity of the disclosures and that Von Kckhardt’s letter speaks “for it- self. MAKE LUXBURG THE GOAT. Amsterdam, Sept. 15.—The three cablegrams sent by Count Luxburg, German minister to Argentine, to the German foreign ollice through the Swedish legation have finally beer permitted to be published in the Ger man press. The Koelnisch Zeitung says it .is easy to understand that the publica-, tion of these dispatches in Argentine has made an unpleasant impression, and that President Wilson has so far probably been successful with his mvanéuvers, but adds that they can only be rightly judged if it is not for- gotten that they were secret messages. in cog, abu Wt the dispatches of en- tente diplomacy could. be read, still more drastic expression would be en- countered. It is self-evident says the paper that the German government cannot be held responsible for the opinion of any one of its ministers, nor the Ger- man navy accused of atrocities. “We are also confident that the ad- vice of Count Luxburg will meet with decided disapproval of our gove ment. We demand that the minister who forwarded such dispatches be re- called as quickly as possible. Count Luxburg should be permitted to dis- appear without leaving any trace be- hind.” Regarding the phrase in one of Count Luxourg’s dispatches abet sinking steamships without leaving a trace, the paper says it does not sinking a ship with all hands, inking her that military mis- haps might be avoided, for example ing the facts from other ships that she was sunk by a jeubinarine and not a min MYSTERY ¥ SURROUNDS MUTILATION OF SON OF ODENSE FARMER Mandan, Sept. 15.—Mystery fur rounds the mutilation of the three-year-old son of Peter Lein- gang, Odness farmer, who was cis- covered lying unconscious and with his face terribly gashed, in the yard of the Leingang hom: The boy has been removed to a local hospital, where he has par- tially recovered consciousness, but still unable to offer any ex- planation of his condition. He probably will recover, but will bear disfiguring scars for life. FIVE CENTS INE IN ATLANTIC Above, right, boys of dishes after dinner; Davis Eli forgets aout his recreations at male NEW REGIME [ TROUBLED BY ‘AORNILOFES FATE Popularity of Cossack Command- er Makes Decision Very Dif- ficult DEATH PENALTY IN HIS CASE MAY BE WAIVED UNDER ARREST. Petrograd, Sept. 15.—General Korniloff, leader of the recent rebellion against the provisional government, and General Lokom- sky, commander of the northern front, who refused to take com- mand of the Russian army after Korniloff was deposed, have been arrested. Russias political crisis has been solved after an all-night’s confer- ence, it was announced today by the Russian official news agency. A new cabinet has been formed, and its composition will be made public tomorrow. Petrograd, Sept. 15.—The question of the probable fate of General Korn- iloff is exciting puvlic opinion. Indi- cations are that the government must face serious difficultics over the mat- ter. A feature of the conflict is the cred- itable absence of bitter feeling and clamor for vengeance. Having reestablished capital pun- ishment at the front, the government if it_ spares the ‘|_commander, ADOT IN STIRRING. ADORESS DEFINES FOR NATION MEANING OF TREASON TO UNITED STATES Chicago, Sept. ‘Treason to Amer. ica in the world war was defined by Elihu Root, and labor was pledged to fight until world toryish had been overthrown, by Samuel Gompers at a patriotic rally here last night, staged by the National Security league, for the announced purpose of vindicating Chicago against the alleged intima- tions of unpatriotism. “The men who are speaking, and! writing and printing arguments, against the war now and against everything that is being done to car- ry on the war, are rendering more ef- fective service to Germany than they ever could render in the field with arms in their hands, declared the former secretary of state amid cheers. “It is impossible to resist the con clusion that the greater part of them are at heart traitors to the United States.” Declaring that General Grant said “Jet us have peace” only “after’ Lee had surrendered, Mr. Gompers assert- ed that “after kairerism had surren- dered, then we too will have peace.” ‘There can be no peace,” he con-, Haroldson, Roland tinued, “while there is a Teuton on|longer remains ope the soil of France, There must be no , Peace until they are driven from out- ‘raged Belgium.” In defining the attitude of citizens toward the conduct of the war and in- jcidentally what constituted being a traitor, Elihu Root said: “The declaration of war between the ; United States and Germany complete ily changed the relations of all the in- {habitants of the country to the sub- ject of peace and war. claration. everybody in private and iin public the ques! jon whether the United States should carry on war j 28ainst Germany. Everybody had a right to argue that there was not suf- ! ficient cause for war; that the conse- quences of war would be worse than the consequences of continued peace; that it would be wiser to submit to the aggressions of Germany against American rights; that it would be bet- ter to have Germany succeed than to have the allies succecd in the great , conflict. Question is Decided.Now “But the question of peace or war has now been decided by the presi dent and congress. The question no It_has been de- (Contuaued on Page Four) Camp Zachary Taylor wash their own left, Private law practice as he scrapes a pan; be- low, boxing is one of the principal Scenes Common to Army Camps And Typical of Those North Dakota Boys Will Face Next Week in Iowa By EDWARD A. EVANS. (Staff Correspandent for The Tribune Touring the National Cantonments and National Guard Camps.) Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Ky., Sept. 15.—“Give us a few months’ of raining and we'll make the best army in the world.” Private Davis Mi of West Frank. fordfi, Il, was talking. Surrounded by a handful of other southern Illinois boys, he was seated on a grassy hill- side in this training camp. Photographer Dorman and I stop- ped, our attention caught by Private Eli’s words. They came as near to bombast, to bragging, as anything we had heard from a member of the new national army. ‘To me, one of the remarkable things about this army is the lack of braggadocio. | started on this trip expecting to hear much on-to-Berlin, to-heck-with-the-kaiser talk. I heard none of it at Camp Sherman, in Ohio; r heard none of it here vate Davis li was very much I in earnest. FN tell you why this ive ser- be a world vice army is going to beater,” he continued. “It's beca its made up of just average Were not West Pointers. never intended e not loafers or slackers, just good, average Ameri- cans. And the average American is the best man in the world.” We had further proof that Private Davis Eli means busin an_ hour later, when we saw him behind one of the mess halls, scraping lustily at au gre: pated cooking vessel. “This i fF new job for me,” he said grinning. Gack home I’m a lawyer.’ The enthusiasm with) which he FNTENTE ACREES scraped, quite as much as the way he had talked, convinced me that Private Mi and the thousands of others like him among the 5 per cent of the selec- tive service soldiers already in the camps which dot the country will rise high in what he calls this “army of tell me that most of these first men to the camps will be cor- porals and sergeants— and later, probaly, lieutenants and captains. It was raining when we reached Camp Taylor, a slow drxzle' that turn- ed the Kentucky clay to a slippery, foot-angling mess. But the new sol- diers seemed happy. “IT reckon we-all ain't agoing to ii drawled a Kentucky mountain- a breathing spell allowed him drill. “We're here, and we're here to stay. The way | see it, there ain’t much we can do but grin and take what's comin’ to us. They tell here at the camp of one youngster, scion of a proud bluegrass who balked at washing utensils. But he saw, after a little talk from the lieutenant of his company. And he washed with a will, plunging to the elbows in steamy dishwater. The new army, as we saw it today, is still an army of motley garb. Uni- forms havent heen issued yet and the men are still wearing the assortment of clothing in which they came to camp. But the routine of camp days, be- ginning with reveille at 5 a.m. and ending with taps at 9:30 p. m., is de- veloping in them a wholesome respect for discipline. They're learning to obey orders, and to obey them with snap and vim. On the camp's daily schedule I find the hours from to 11:39 a.m., and from 1 p. m. to 5 p. m part for drill. pei iods of marching y feet; long periods of back-racking bending, back- ward and forward, backward and for- ward. But all that is very necessary and very important. And there are plentiful hours for recreation. [ s in the green build- ings of the Young Men's Christian (Continued on Page Six.) TO WAIVE BOXER “TAX FOR 3 YEARS} ‘China Will Boost Tariffs in Order to Fill Her War PLANS MADE FOR FULL PARTICIPATION Pekin, Sept. 15.—Ministers of the entente powers ha advised the for- eign office that their governments are willing to wait for the Boxer indem- nity payments for five years. Russia waives only one-third of the first por- tion of the indemnity, requiring the remainder because of her financial straits. The United States, it is said, prob- ably will ratify the action of the en- tente nations, but will not waive its portion of the Boxer indemnity, which is necessary to maintain the Chinese students in America, The entente countries also will grant to China the privilege of in- c ing her tariff to an effective five per cent, which represents something like a two per cent rise. They will concede to China the right to send troops through the foreign concessions at Tsien Tsin if necessary. The Ital- ian minister has withdrawn his re- quest that Italy be given the rights to the Austrian concessions at Tien Tsin. May Intern Germans, President Chang Kwo Chang and the members of the Chinese cabinet are considering what concessions they will make to the entente allies in consideration for their liberality. It is believed China probably will agree to intern Germans and Austro- Hungarians, place enemy ships in the hands of the entente allies for the dur- ation of the war, enact a higher tariff against central powers and offer labor- ers or soldiers if they are desired. The sentiment in official circles is in favor of China poining the entente governments in signing the London conference agreement against a separ- ate peace and tariff economic compact. Herr Cordes, German manager at Pekin, of the Deutsche Asiatische bank, has been arrested by the Chi- nese on the charge of obstruction by the government by destroying the rec- ® ords of the bank. Dr. A. von Roth- horn, Austro-Hungarian minister to China, the legation’s staff, and the Austrian consuls have been granted safe conduct. Changhai for Holland by way of San Francisco this month. FEW AMERICANS IN WAR HOSPITAL The American hos-' pital at Neuilly now has fewer than} qr Americans among its patients, this being the greatest number since the hospital was organized. Among them is Lincoln Chatkoff of New York, an‘ aviator, attached to the French flying squadron, who has injuries in the head and leg. All the patients were reported last night to be progressing favorably. One has appendicitis, and another has a broken leg. Sept The party will leave | BRITISH CRAFT REPORTS 8.0.8. CALL NEAR PORT Location Given As Sixty-Five Miles East of Nantucket Lightship bait, OTHER LINERS BRING SAME INFORMATION =“ Place Where Ship Was Attacked Is Near Scene of U-53 Act- ‘An Atlantic Port, Sept. 15.—A Brit- ish st ship, which arrived here, re- ported that early yesterday morning a wireless-S. O. S. call was heard stating that the snip from which the message came was being shelled by a German submarine. The location was given as 65 miles east of Nan- tucket lightship. The name of vhe ship attacked did not come clear, only the word “Abby” presumably the las: half of the name, being caught. Additional information that a sub- marine was in the Atlantic was brought by another British Mner which arrived today from a British port. Officers of the liner said they had been instructed to watch out for - U-boats when nearing the United States coast. ‘There are a number of vessels, sail and steam, of which the words “Abby” is a part of their names, now engaged ed in Aatlantic trade. The place where thte ship reported she was being attacked is near where ~)the German submarine U-53 sunk six steamships on its visit to American waters in October, 1916. REWARD FOR AMERICAN British Headquarters in Franc} Sept. 15.—The German geuvras coos manding the 11th reserve division re- cently put a price of four hundred marks on the first American soldier brought dead or alive’ Alive: into: his ne HNDENBURG SAYS WILSOW'S POLICIES UNITED GERMANS Amsterdam, Sept. 15.—Field Mar- shal von Hindenburg, replying in a message to the Cologne Chamber of Commerce, to one or more of a series of anti-Wilson protests from German organizations, is quoted in a telegram * received by the Dutch News agency as saying: “By his attempt to create disunity, President Wilson has succeeded in uniting the German people. I don’t doubt that Mr. Wilson will receive a clear answer by the seventh war loan. May Mr. Wilson continue in the future to be a part of the board which ever intends evil and does good.” TT BILLION WAR BUDCET PASSED Washington, ‘Sept. 15- ~The war cred- its bill authorizing new bonds and cer- tificates aggregating $11,/38,000,000 and the largest measure of its kind in the world’s history was passed by the senate late today without a roll call or dissenting vote. It already has passed the house GERMAN ARRESTED ON SPY CHARGE Chicago, Sept. 15.—Paul Schultz, 24 years old, is under arrest today after federal agents, in searching his room at Evanston, Ill, a suburb, found a large assortment of burglar's tools and a trunk containing numerous let- ters. ‘None of the latter were signed, and each was numbered in the order of its receipt. The letters are now being examined by experts for code signs. Schultz is said to have re cently returned from Fargo, N. D., where he was suspected of engaging in peace propaganda work. CHAIRMAN HERE. Chairman S. J. Aandahl of the state railawy commission was in Friday from Litchville for a brief stay. SPOKE AT WING. Governor Frazier and State Super- intendent of Public Instruction Mac- donald addressed a school meeting at Wing yesterday afternoon. DRIVE IN. Wellington Irysh drove in ahead of the rain yesterday from his big farm at Wheatland, where he had just completed threshing, with more or less satisfactory results. He had as companions for the greater part of the trip Mrs. H. R. Strehlow and Miss Anna Schulte of Casselton, who made the journey in their car.