The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 16, 1917, Page 1

Buy That Liberty Bond Today; Make Your! Dollars Fight The Weather Unsettied. ee ee a a ee aaa THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 245 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE |“ | BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, OCT. 16, 1917. FIVE CENTS WINTER HALTS DRIVE ON PETROGR LATE SEASON TO LOCALIZE MANEUVERS Little to Prevent Germans From Destroying Russ Naval Power TEUTONS TO MAKE BASE 4 IN GULF OF RIGA Action in Flande:s Depends on Weather Whici Now Hamp- ers Gen. Haig AUSTRIA IMPATIENT. London, Oct. 16.—The Deutsch- es Tages Zeitung, of Berlin, as quoted in a dispatch from Am- sterdam says Count Czernin Aus- tro-Hungarian foreign minister, recently requested the German ‘Chancellor, Or. Michaelis, to state Germany’s peace terms, urging that Germany make concessions in the west. Count Czernin receiv- ed the vague reply where upon he stated ,that he could no longer negotiate with Dr. Michaelis, in- as much as the Chancellor made vague statements when clearness and frankness were imperatively necessary. These statements of the Tages Zeitung are not denied, the dis- patches say. (By Associated Press.) German operations in and around the gulf of Riga are not likely to be extended this fall to the gulf or Fin- land on the route to Reval, Kronstadt and Petrograd, in the opinion of Rus- sian naval authorities. The lateness of the season will localize the Ger- man efforts, the minister of marine believes. The situation created bythe ieu- tonic "move, however, is serious en- ough for “theRussians. With the great naval preponderance of the Ger- mans in the Raltic there seems-to be litle to prevent them from making United States Treasurer Here Tomorrow Night HOA DUPRE Who delivers an address Wed- nesday evening at the Grand Theatre to help premote sale of Liberty Bonds. John Burke, United States treasurer | and former governor of North Dakota,’ will deliver an address Wednesday evening at the Grand theatre lo as- sist in promoting the sale of Liberty! Ponds. Mr. Burke comes here as the personal representative of Secretary ; McAdoo. Loyal citizens should hear ; his message. CHINA TO JAIL CERMANS: FOR AANSHS CITY STOCK YARD HALF BURNED One of Most Disastrous Fires in Hiztory of the City Destroys Stock CATTLE FROM BURNING PENS ROAM THE STREETS Origin of Blaze Has Not Been Determined by Cf- ficials Kansas City, Mo, Oct. 16.—More} than one-half of the Kansas City stock yards, the sécond largest in the world, was destroyed early today by fire. It was estimated after the fire had beey brought under control after raging for two hours that several thousand head of cattle had been destroyed. Some estimates ran as high as 10,600. There were 47,000 cattle in the yards at the close of business yesterday. It was said. Third Fire. Hundreds of cattle from the flaming pens roamed through the downtown ections of both Kansas Cities. It was the third disastrous fire in the history of the Kansas City stock yards. The blaze was discovered by two patrolmen in Kansas City, Kan., and before they could summon appar- atus the fire had become unmanage- able. Origin Undetermined. The origin of the fire was undeter- mined. By 7 o'clock the fire had been completely extinguished. No definite estimaies as iv the loss will be made until the insurance adjusters have taken a census of the nunvder of cat- tle burned since the fire was con- ' Declares Everything He Said in ; tee submit a formal LA FOLLETTE ASKS LIST OF CHARCES Wants Accugations Laid Before Him and Accusers Summoned to Appear CHALLENGES COMMITTEE TO POINT OUT ERRORS &t, Paul Address Was the Truth ‘Washington, D. C., Oct. 16.—\When the senate committee, investigating Senator La Follétte’s much discussed St. Paul speech, .began its first hear- ing today, Senator La Follette present- ed a formal demand that the commit- copy of the charges against him and that he be permitted to summon and cross ex- amine witnesses. This delayed the start of the proceeding, as the com- mittee went into executive session to consider the demand. | Senator La Follette presented his demand in a letter which declared every statement in his St. Paul speech was correct. The committee has said it does not question the accuracy of his speech and Senator La Follette de- mands to know who does. “I appear here to submit in the form of a letter all the statements I deem necessary to make at this time,” he said. “You say in your letter,” wrote Sen- ator La Follette, “that the question and the only question you are now considering, since I have furnished you with a copy of the speech is ‘the accuracy’ of the statements contained in the speech, Scores pf Statements. “The spéeehs contains’ scores of statements relating to a variety of subjects. You say the committee has challenged the accuracy of no state- Liberty Bonds fight. They need food, much of it. It costs money to get this food France. Buy a second Liberty bond. moncy. Subscribe immediately, and help Money to Fill Boy’s Mess Kit These brave soldiers—OUR BOYS IN FRANCE—must eat to live and{ Uncle Sam will take good care that they don’t if he has the money. It is up to YOU to help him raise the money. That's the way of helping him get the Will Furnish LOM BOOSTERS TOO BUSY ROW TO COUNT UP SALES Canvass Meets With Patriotic Response From Citizens of Burleigh FIGURES TO BE GIVEN OUT IN NEAR FUTURE “I Own a Bond.” Is Proud Boasts of Many As First Day Canvass Clo:es GIVES FIVE MILLION. St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 16.—The Northern Pacific Railway com- pany contributed $5,000,000 today to the liberty loan campaign. REACHES BILLION. Washington, Oct. 16.—7reasury officials declared to day that and to transport it to their camps in “unless all signs fail,” the Liberty Soon hundreds of thousands of tiese American boys will be over| '2an will have reached its first there. These boys—some of them ¢ me from this city, from your neigh-| OM¢ billion dollars in subscrip- borhood—must not starve. tions by tonight. The government's latest offer of certificates of indebtedness $300,000,090, at 4 per cent has been heavily oversubscribed. persuade your neighbors to subscribe =~ ¥ UTES 2 Forgetting the clock and not stop- ee bond. ammunition, guns and supplies. Why You Should Buy a Bond By a Jurist Editor’s Note: .The first of three sets of arguments why every person in Bismarck who can should own at least one liberty This one was written by a prominent jurist of the state. “We have got them on the run and we must keep them running, but to keep them running means constant pounding and an enormous amount of The Italians haye fought the most diffi- cult part of their campaign. They have crossed the mountains, and can break through to Vienna as well as Trieste, if only they have the sup-, ping to total all reports of sales, the Bismai committee took their coats off again today and started another intense drive on Liberty Bond sales. Some interesting figures will be an- nounced as soon as every one. who wants to buy a Jond has been “I own a bond,” wa boas ——— n. Tty the proud it evening of a number of Bis- marck citizens. Too auch praise cannot be given the men who forgot-all.personal in- terests atid worked for the success of the second great war loan. ments in the speech. Then I must be| Plies. the Gulf of Riga virtually a German lake, and solidifying it into a strong naval base, from which the military operations could easily be pushed ad- vantageously under propitious weatn er conditions. Virtually Unchanged. The military situanon un the vart- ous fronts in the western war arena was virtually unchanged over night, so far as the official statements re- veal. . ‘the German reports have come to lay stress again upon the violence of the artillery fire in Flanders, but there are no indications that the hombardment has yet ‘been worked up to the point where the British uud uhemseives ready for a renewal of their drive. Evidently much depends on the weather in this region. In the light of his last week’s experience with the handicap of the Flanders’ mud, it seems probable that Field Marshal Haig will await the settling of the ground into a somewhat more pass a Jle state, although the hope of secur- ing ordinary conditions at this iate season of the year seem to be con- sidered small. On the French front. the activities are centered on the Aisne and before Verdun. Last nigut’s fighting in ‘Doth regions was mostly monopoliz ed by the artillery. The German in- fantry, however, came to life on the west bank of the Meuse, attacking north of Hill 304. The French found little difficulty in repulsing this as- sault. British casualties continued to decline. The total reported in the last week were 14,096, as compared with 17,505 for the week closing Octo- ‘er 9 ,and 21,179 for the preceding week. TWO ESCAPE, San Francisco, Oct. 16—Two Ger- man officers of seized German ves- sels escaped from the detention camp on Angel island, in San Francisco bay today, in a lifeboat. Police of the bay city spread a dragnet to ap- prehend the fugitives, whose names were given as Captain Baruch and Engineer Lorenzo Lau. GET TWO SUBMARINES Paris, Oct. 16.—French warships de- stroyed two Teuton submarines in the western Mediterranean in the las! week of September, according to in- formation received today by the French ministry of marines. DEVELOPING SUCCESS. | Petrograd, Oct. 16—The German landing force on the Russian island of Oesel is developing its success, the Russian war office announced to- day, and the Teutons are being rein- forced with additional troops. The Germans have instituted an of fensive against Svorb peninsula in the southwestern section of the island, with the object of capturing Russian batteries at Serel. These batteries cover the entrance to the Gulf of Riga. ATTACK ARSENAL. London, Oct. 16.—British airmen in their attack on Belgian towns caused the destruction of an arsenal, in which was quartered a newly arrived Ger man regiment. This was contained ir a dispatch from Amsterdam, quoted by a correspondent on t Dutch frontier. Subjects cf Kaiser Busy Plotting Among Chinese Against the Entente ASSIST PRISONERS TO \ ESCAPE FROM SIBERIA Pekin, China, Oct. 16—German; plots to promote internal trouble in China are being disclosed almost daily and the situation is so serious} that China undoubtedly will find it necessary to intern many Germans and Austrians, if not all of them be- fore the end of the year. The allies | ministers are extremely uneasy over the situation. China with its lack of; communication, offers a fine field fox | German plots. For many years, Ger- PERIOD (lt WAR fined to the cattle pens, which com- ji | prise a larger part of the yards. At the discovery of the fire thousands of cattle were liberated from the pens, and the streets of Kansas City were filled with pushing panic-stricken herds. These animals, many of which wandered many distances from the fire, are being corraJled by their own- ers, who are finding difficulty in find- ing their property, as a large per- entitled to know who has challenged the accuracy of any statements in the speech before another step is taken in this proceeding. “The resolution of the Minnesota commission of pulic safety, upon which you assert you are acting, does not challenge the accuracy of any statements made in the speech. If any statement has been so challenged centage of cattle are from farm herds and carry no identifying brands. WHEAT BANDIT BEATS IT OVER PRISON WALL Returned to Fred McLaughlin, Pen for Forgery, Doe:n't Linger Long man agents have carried on commer-| cial undertakings in interior China. j Consequently they speak Chinese fluently and have great influence with the lower classes. Through the German and Austrian legations in Pekin, these interior agents have been supplied with agents to stir up dissention. They have aroused the Mohammedans in western China by telling them this is a religious war designed to eliminate Turkey and Mohammedanism. Simi- lar arguments have been used among the Mohammedans in soythwestern China. In Mongolia, the German and Ans- trian agents ed many bhandits gains, the government. In Mongolia, able to har- rass the Trans: line _by_en- “eContinned on Page rine ' vietea of forgery in Mountrail county , been out only a short time, however, Fred McLaughlin, who soon after the completion of a if-months sent- ence for stealing wheat from Matt Clooten’s farm near this city, was con- and returned to the state penitentiary, Sunday night stepped over the prison wall and beat it to liberty, life and pursuit of happiness. McLaughlin was a good worker inside the penitentiary, and he lopped two months from the year’s sentence Judge Nuessle gave him about 12 months ago. He had when he got in bad in Mountrail coun- ty, and he came back to the state pri- son the fore part of September. He had been employed in the engine house, where he was busily at work when last seen Sunday night. 93 Millio costing belligerent nations $160,000,009 a day—$6,500,000 an hour—and the United States is paying at least one- quarter of this staggering sum, ac- cording to estimates made here today by the Mechanics and Metals National bank of New York. The estimated daily cost at the beginning of the war was $50,000,000 and a year ago it was $100,000,090. This country’s rate of expenditure is greater than’ any na- tien, Great Britain being next, and Germany next. Cost 155 Billion. War Has Cost World in Money Alone 160 Billion; New York, Oct. 16.—The war is} against less than one-half of one per n Men Engaged | cent in the case of the people of this country. The developed national | wealth of the allies is placed at $600,- | 909,000,069 by the bank, while that of | the Teutonic powers is given as $130,- | 000,000,000. | 53 Million Men Engaged. | About fifty-three million men are ‘engaged in the war today. To what ‘extent the entente allies have gained | superiority over Germany is shown by | the bank in striking fashion. ! With no more than 2,000,000 of | American manhood enlisted, the total By next August, according to the! military strength of the allies is 33,- bank figures, the total cost to the! 000,000 against a total for Germany, world will be $155,000,000,000. Already | Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria and Tur- expenditures have exceeded $100,000,-' key of 20,000,000. The population of 000,900, of which all but a fraction 14 entente allies, from’ which the and was| public debt s he| more than 10 per cent of the normal 150,000,000 in the central European nas been translated into permanent ranks of the armies may be replen- sntional indebtedne: Interest onj ished, is all together — 1.300,000,000 now calculated to be against a population of less than income of the German people, as nations. by any one, I now request you to advise me by whom it has been chal- lenged and upon what evidence. Protests Against Procedure. “If there is any truth in the news- paper reports that your committee expects to accept mere statements of individuals as a basis for any report of the committee, or as a basis for any action by you, I protest against such ex-parte proceeding, or any oth- er ex-parte proceeding in this inves- tigation. If, however, in spite of my protest, you determine to accept such statements, I demand that those state- ments be submitted to me or that I be given an opportunity at a suitable time and place to examine them and have a full opportunity to file state- ments in reply, if I desire to do so. Violation of Rights. “But I assert such a course on the part of the sub-committee is in viola- tion of the well established right ac- corded to every man whose words or acts are the subject of investigation by anybody or tribunal, and I insist upon my right to meet face to face and question any witnesses that may be called to challenge the correctness of my statement made by me and thereafter, and not before, to produce in my own defense such witnesses and evidence as I deem necessary or proper to controvert all such adverse evidence as may have been offered. “1 repeat what I have already said in this and previous letters addressed to your committee, that I am most anxious and desirous that the investi- gation be made thorough and complete to the end that it shall do justice to all participants and shall constitute an honorable precedence whenever so grave a matter as the proposed ex- pulsion of one of its members shall come before the United States sen- ate.” When adjournment was taken after the executive session, Chairman Pom- erene announced because of Senator La Follette’s refusal to furnish other | information, the committee would en-j deavor to get it from other sources. Asked if arrangements had been made , to hold hearings. the Ohio senator re-; plied that none had been made. TO LOOK OVER FIRES | State Fire Marshall Reade has been called to the southwestern part of the state to investigate fires in which in- cendiarism is suspected. GETS PROMOTION. “If we would save millions of lives we must spend millions of dollars the less the resistance. Russia is looking to us. She looks upon us as} | the great republic. .If she enters heartily into the war it will speedily | end it. She looks to us for guidance. If we falter she will falter. If; we don’t think it worth while she won’t think it worth while. Nothing! would show our faith more than to subscribe the bond issue twice over. This would not only be true in regard to Russia but in regard to all the wavering allies and neutrals everywhere. It is the best antidote to La om eo eter EN i NOT OLD ENOUGH To. in preparation, for the heavier the artillery and the stronger the force} | FIGHT; CAN ENLIST “DADDIES’ DOLLARS” Bismarck’s liberty loan commit- tees were at lunch today when Robert George, Kenneth Treacy and David Cook of Scout Troop WATCHING BISMARCK BUZZ Fargo Liberty Loan Chiefs Come Follette and Gronna that | know of. No. 3, in the full uniform of the FRST NATIONAL BANK HONORS HEX WHO SERVE RATION The First National Bank has adopt- ed a unique plan of honoring members of its staff who have joined the colors. An artistic brochure has been paint- ed by F. H. Hurley and inscribed on it are the names of the following! men: Edward A. Baskerville, F. J. John- son, George P. Little, Glenn A. Peck, |! Eugene Wachter, Lewis P. Warren, Mr. Wachter and Mr. Warren until} shortly before the call were members of the First National bank staff and their names are included in the roll of honor. GOVERNMCAT OTENLS NEW GRAONG ACT Washington, Oct. 16.—A large part} of this year’s wheat crop has graded high at the market: . 3 or better— under the federal wheat standard made effective this year, the depart- ment of agriculture announced. False rumors have been circulated in the! grain trade, particularly among the! country shippers, says the department, that under the new federal standard for wheat very little of the marketed} crop is being or has een placed in the higher grades. On the contrary, it says, the requirements of the fed- eral standard for wheat are not such as to work hardships on the country shippers and producers, for under these standards, high grades have been given to a heavy percentage of) the wheat marketed. Here for Pointers Mandan, Oct. 16.—U. J. Downey, who for the past eight years has faith- fully served the peop'e and govern- ment as superintendent of the North Matota Holstein Breeders’ Circuit at New Salem, has been appointed a; the head of the North Dako Experi- ment station at Hettinger. He will assume his new duties November 1. H. W. Gea vice president of the} Boy Scouts, marched in, and Da- vid Cook, as spokesman, handed to Chairman H. P. Goddard signed applications for $1,450 worth of liberty bonds, procured by the Scouts from members of the Bis- marck Tribune force. “We're not old enough to fight, but we're not too young to enlist our daddy’s dollars,” said Scout Cook in a modest presentation ad- dress. “Mr. Chairman,” said Scout Cook, | wish to present to you 22 applications secured from em- ployes 6f the Bismarck Tribune Co. through troon No. 3, Boy Scouts of America.” “Gentlemen,” said Chairman Goddard, addressing fellow mem- bers of the committee, “I wish to present to you some boys who will take their places in the big affairs of this state and nation in the years to come.” Every member of The Tribune staff put his dollars on the firing line, and as a result, the Boy Scouts of Troop No. 3, many of whom are Tribune carriers or salesmen, have an excellent start in their race to retain first place among the Scout liberty loan cam- paigners which they won in the sale of the first issue of bonds, when two members of this troop disposed of 24 bonds. Business houses are getting the spir- it and informing their employes that it they wish to subscribe, they will handle the pa tion of their wages each week. method is bringing out the small bond holder, the man and the woman who is unaccustomed to purchasing bonds and the very men and women the goy- ernment desires to hold these securi- ties. CABINET CRISIS. AWAITS KAISER'S ETURN TO BERLIN Copenhagen, Oct. 16.—No steps in the ministerial crisis and no action on the resignation of Admiral von Ca- pelle, the minister of marines, are ex- pected by the German newspapers un- til Emperor William returns to Ber- lin from his Balkan trip. Dr. Micha: aelis, the chancellor, has léft the cap- ital to study conditions in the occu pied districts of Russia, as if nothing was more remote from his mind than the thought of retirement. Jemand for the dismissal of Mich- aelis was the leading theme at the opening session Sunday on the social- ist convention at Wurseburg, Bavaria, at ich Philipp Scheidemann, the majority socialist leader in the reich- stag was speaker. F. Ebert, a social- ist member, assailed those memvers of the party, who attempted to pro- long the war. He also declared that the advocates of the so-called Ger- man peace were working in their own pecuniary interest, and not for the! fatherland. Herr Scheidemann said; that the war profiteers were investing millions of marks in the German press, which accounted for the in-} creasing number of newspapers at-| tacking the advocates of a moderate! peace. The convention was far less impos- x ing in ,than the peace time con-| 77 _ ¥ vention. Foreign delegations were TOO BUSY TO COME TO MEETING;”’ STATE JANITORS SUBSCRIBE missing and there were barely rman delegates, owing to the de. ease in party membership through} the defection of the Independent so- cialists ,and the absence of hundreds of thousands of s at the front. (OWA VOTES FOR DRY AMENDMENT “We can’t attend the meeting this afternoon, but we want to do our bit,” said the state house jani- tors this morning when they called upon Secretary of State Hall, who is handling the successful cam- paign for the second liberty loan at the capitol, and they handed him their signed applications for $700 worth of bonds. “These men are making a real sacrifice—I don’t know where they are going to scrape up the money Merchants’ National; Herbert L. Loomis secretary-treasurer of the Mu-, tual Building & Loa Savings asso-! ciation, and J. B. . northwest-| ern financial agent for the Union Cen-; tral Insurance Co., all of Fargo, were here Monday watching Bismarck sell the first $109,000 of its Liberty Loam quota. : Des Moines, Ia., Oct. 16.—With com- plete returns from 46 of the 99 coun- ties and but 722 precincts out of a total of 2,348 missing. indications to- day are that constitutional prohibi- tion, forbidding the manufacture and sale of liquor in lowa was carried in yesterday’s special election by a ma- to pay for these tends. !t means depriving themselves of some- thing, and | call that real patriot- ism,” said Mr. Hall. Incidentally, he set on foot a movement which probably will result in more rea- sonable wages for these fa:thful servants. who have received little jority of 5,000 to 8,000. i (Continued on page two.)