The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 18, 1917, Page 1

y @Beaver Creek, 25 mile Generally fair. - THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE " | Last Edition [: THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 247 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKO TA, THURSDAY, OCT. 18, 1917. FIVE CENTS CEAMAN CROPS FAIL TO EASE FOOD PROBLEMS Scanty Supplies of Cereals in Na- tion Not Greatly Replen- ished RATIONS ALLOWED SEEM MEAGRE IN AMERICA Not Enough to Supply Persons of Sedentary Occupations Say Experts Washington, Oct. 18.—Reports to the state department indicate that the! German harvests this year have not relieved the food situation to any ap- Preciable extent. It is known that there is a great scarcity of fats and animal food in general, and that the supplies received from Rumania and neighboring neutrals, are not making up the lack of proteids. As the re- Ports come from different sources and sections, it is difficult for the depart- ment to give an opinion on the gen- eral situation, but it has been defi- nitely established that while some of the crops were normal in volume, the scanty supplies in most commodities have not been augmented. German Rations. Recently obtained figures on the German weekly food rations were, made public by the food administra- | tion today with the observation that it is likely to have serious and per-; manent results. Computed in terms of American housekeeping, the rations approxi- mately amount to four and a halt pounds of bread, a half peck of pota-* toes, a cupful of beans, peas or oat- meal, a half pound of meat, 12 cubes of sugar, six individual patties of but- ter and an equal amount of other fats. The caloric value of these foods is less than half the amount estimated by the food administration as sufi- cient for 4 person in a sedentary occu- pation. Copenhagen, Oct. 18—-The report that Dr. Michaelis, the German chan- cellor, has otfered Friedrich von Pav- er the post of vice chancellor, held by Dr. Karl Helfferich, is confirmed by, the Clerical Germania and the radi- cal Tagesblatt.. The offer ‘would im- ply the chancellor’s'readiness to throw overboare Heltferich “as: well as Ad- miral yon Capelle, the minister’ of marine, in‘ order to save the situa- tion.. Tt:\was made after the disclos- ures of mutinv in the German navv. and after Dr. Michaelis had succeeded in coaxing from the reichstag the sal- ary for the post which the unpopular Helfferich was then expected to fill. HOME CUARDS 10 MEET TONIGHT Addresses Will Be Given by Smith Stimme!] and W. J. Arnli Members of the home guard and others interested in forming a strong company for any emergency that may arise, now that the national guard is at the front should attend the meet- ing this evening at the Commercial club, It will-be addressed by Smith Stimmell and W. J. Arnold of Fargo. ‘Mr. Stimmell and Mr. Arnold are won known tor their patriotic work ia this state. Those who have heard mr. Stimmell’s lecture on Lincoln know his power as an orator. He knew the great emancipator and has always taken a leading part in promot- ing patriotism. throughout the state. Mr. Stimmell is now devoting all his time to his country. The home guard is a necessary in- stitution at this crisis. About 100 men whose loyalty is unquestioned are needed to form a company, which will be efficiently officered. Mr. Stimmell and Mr. Arnold will state the odjects of the organization this evening. MUCH TALKED OF RAILWAY OFFERS HAZELTON PLAGE Chief Engineer of Proposed St. Louis-Canadian Line Op- erates in Emmons Hazelton, N. D., Oct. 18.—Chief En- gineer John M. Wiley of the St. Louis & Canadian Western railway, which proposes a line from St. Louis to W in- nipeg, via Sioux Falls. Bismarck, ‘Mi- not and other Dakota points, has been in Hazelton consulting local people as to the extent of this village's de- sire to be included in the survey. The surveying crew now i: camped at southeast of Hazelton. On the north end of the proposed route 130 miles is said to have already been surveyed. The chief Wow! Winter Makes Early CHICAGO'S COAL Fall Debut BINS ARE EMPTY Jack Frost Sweeps Down Out of Northwe:t and Gives Folk Promise of Longer Visit SNOW; EXTENDS EAST TO MINNESOTA LINE THREE INCHES AT FARGO. Fargo, N. D., Oct. 18.—More than three inches of snow cov- ered Fargo and vicinity today, and reports from all parts of North Dakota indicated that the snow- fall was general. Although the weather forecast called for warm- er today the snow continued heavy, and weather bureau o‘fi- cials were of the opinion that should it continue all day long, a record might be established for heavy snowfall at this time of the year. Railroad traffic in many parts was seriously hampered, and in some cases trains were rerort- ed over four hours late. The re- ports said the snow was drifting and heavy winds prevailed, and in some sections a smail blizzard was raging. } Old Man Winter, almost a month OWING TD STAKE SupplyWill Last Only Three Days as 15,000 Miners Remain Idle ENTIRE INDUSTRY OF STATE THREATENED Federal Officia's Alarmed Over Situation and Exert Pres. suro on Men STRIKE DEFERRED. Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 18.—A strike of 35,000 coal miners, which was to have begun tomorrow, has been de- ferred, pending negotiations between the Southwestern Coal Operators’ as- sociation and the men. Cee } Chicago, Oct. 18.—A three days’ sup- ply of coal is-all that remains in this city today, according to coal dealers who said that unless the strike of more than 15,000 coal miners in southern and central Illinois is set- tled before Saturday night, or the government intervenes a _ serious shortage will result. AWAITING RESULTS. 1 ahead of time, breezed in last night | -- on the breast of a howling northwes er for a few days’ stay, just to remind | provident folk it is time to look to empty coal bins and and heavy woolens and furs and such. It wasn’t cold, but a very real blizzard blew for several hours during the fore part of the evening, and theater goers and liberty loan enthusiasts trudged through the storm with heads bent before the driv- ing flakes. while the small boy found himself once more in his element. Like so many happy polar bears re- leased from captivity, sturdy young Americans rolled about in the new snow, indulged in their first snowball battles and planned the morning’s raid on neighbor's side- walks and* ‘neigh- bors’ stores of quar- ters. - An inch and a half of snow fell in Bismarck, and snowfall was gen- eral over western North and South ‘ Dakota, Wyoming and Montana. In’ | the eastern part of the two Dakotas and in Minnesota, the snow thrned into rain. This morning, however, it was snowing as far east as Moorhead In Wyoming the mercury dropped to 15 above zero last night, while in Idaho it stood at 18, the lowest ever recorded in that state for October. Here the lowest was 25 above. | Mr. Family Man took cheer this morning, however, in Weather Observ-| er Roberts’ promise that warmer | weather will arrive by Friday. This flurry is only temporary, states Mr.| Roberts, and not at all unusual for; mid-October. While the storm was a! trifle stiffer than we have had for several years past, at this stage of the fall, it brings no cause for alarm! nor any reason to believe that we are to have an exceptionally early or cold | winter. In fact, as a weather prophet, ! last evening's blizzard has no stand- ing whatever. 5 It is just as well, though, that one look over his coal bin and put in his orders now, for the coming of real winter always finds fuel supplies de-' pleted and brings a raid on coal deal- ers which cannot be promptly met. (Continued on Page Three) | Washington, Oct. 18.—The fuel ad- ministration today was waiting to hear the result of its warning yesterday to coal miners and operators that inter- ference with the nation’s production at this time would not be tolerated. Congress has empowered the presi- dent to take over and operate coal mines if he considers it necessary. | Fuel Administrator Garfield, John P. White, president of the United Mine Workers of America, coal operators and others conferred with others to- day over the strike situation in Ili- nois. Telegrams were received from a number of union officials announc- ing they were advising the strikers to return to work and to do every- thing possible. to bring about an ad- justment. Springfield, Jl, Oct. 18.—About half the big shipping mines and sev- eral hundred smaller shafts in Illinois were idle today when a warning to the 70,000 miners of ‘the state that coal production must no be interferred with.was being transmitted. through Frank Farrington, the miners’ state “president...According. to. reports -of thé” !!lifidis miners’ coal association, the mining industry is practically par- alyzed. . What action the miners would take could not be forecasted today. It was suggested pit committees would pro)- ably call meetings to take place to- night or tomorrow. Mine are in- sisting that wage increa: be allow- ed at once, while operators declare that wage increases depend on the action of the fuel administration in Washington. AMERICAN CRAFT IS TORPEDOED BY SUBKARIE Washington, Oct. 18—The story of the first casualties of the war aboard an American warship was told today | in the published announcement by | the navy department of the torpedo- ing on October 16th of the United States destroyer, in the European war zone by an enemy submarine. Tho vasualties were one killed, and five slightly injured. The destroyer thade port in a damaged condition. eo The German menace approached attacks upon Oesel and Dago the Gulf of Riga. The Russian cities , along the coast of the mainland opposite the islands. engineer is authority for the statement that grading will begin at Leola, S. D., in the snring. The “St. Louis & Cav adian Western” connects with the Minneapolis & St. Louis at Leola. road runs directly into the capital. force the lengthening of the Russia heavy black line midway between Ri j the Gulf of Finland. Cermany’s New Threat on Petrograd | i i so much nearer Petrograd by the ds, Russian commanding position over | of Hapsal. Reval and Pernau_ lie | Dickinson, SNK CRAFT IN AMAL BATTLE ~TPRICA' GULF Russians Lose Battleship in En- gagement With the German * Navy STATE OF ANARCHY REPORTED TO LONDON New Regime.Beset Wii Perplex- ing Internal Troubles That Menace Status Ina naval bat- eiween Rus- 5, the war n battle- Petrograd, Oct. 18. tlo in the Gulf of Rig sian and German ‘battles! office announces: the Kh ship Slava was sunk The battleship jan the result of being hit severaj times beneath the waterline. Nearly all ihe members of the crew were saved by Russian tor- pedo boats. STATE OF ANARCHY. London, Oct. 18--The Times today dovotes a column: to a dispatch from its Petrograd. correspondent descri3- ing the “state of anarchy spreadin| throughout the sian provinces.” The dispatch mentions aggrarian dis- orders in the districts of Mohilev and Saratov; rioting in Kharkov, resulting in the arrest of fifty ring leaders; street fighting in Kursk, and illicit dis- tilling at Veronesh, which lead to wholesale drunkenness and the sever- ing of communications between T; kent, Turkestan, and Petrograd. Conditions Bad. “In Petrograd,” the correspondent adds, nditiong are little better with the police searching for 13,009 crimin- als. Questionable resorts and night clubs are nuiltiplying. Gambling is on the increase, and at o: ssort the minimum stake is reported to be.29,- 000 ravles. There are many accidents from motor tran cars Leing derai are peing committed. Ja fact no one seems to care about anything.” The government is combatting the malady through the assistance of dis: trict committees. The announcement follows: “After depriving us of control of Irve Channel the enemy at night pene: trated the Gulf of at dawn yesterday, were discovered by natrol detachment, which was presséd ack to Moon Sound by enemy cruisers and torpedo boats. Our ships, the Grayhdan and Slava and cruiser Bayan went out in the Gulf of Riga and threw back his vanguard by their fire. They soon encountered the principal enemy fight- ing units and engaged them.” TAKE 10,000 PRISONERS. C 8.—The Germans have isoners and 50 guns on ‘Oesel island, the war office announces. The Russian naval forces in the tulf of Riga have been trapped by the Germans, according to the announce- ment. It says Cerman naval units are lying in the eastern portion of Kassar Pay, north of Oesel Island and are ring the passage westward. TEACHERS INVEST. $1000 WN BONDS OF SECOND LOAN Trustees of Retirement and Insur- ance -Fund Point Way to Patriotic Duty North Dakota ubscriptions to the second liberty loan were increased by $100,000 Wednesday evening, when State Treasurer John Steen presented to Treasurer B. C. Ma: of the lo liverty loan committee applications for bonds of that amount from the! teachers’ retirement and insurance! fund, of which he is treasurer. | The amount in this fund is now $118,000. In correspondence with the state treasurer, the trustees of the fund agreed to the investment of all} except $18,000 of this amount in Uncle; pam s hoerty bonds. The funds have, been on deposit with the state trea: | urer- and in the hands of various banks in the stale. The income from, the. board's investment in liber bonds will be as great as-could be ob-| tained from any other source, with a maximum of safety. | The teachers’ retirement and insur- ance fund tr who have thus set an excellent example for the board of university and school lands, which meets Saturday to consider the in- yestment of trus! funds in its contro in the liberty loan, consists, of J. A. Haig, Devils Luke, president; Clara M. .Struble, Grand Forks; P. S. Berg, secretary: Jobn Steen, treasurer, and \ Macdonald. The investmen: will be credited to jthe state's quot: at large and to no particular c! county or district. It is the largest single application yet received from any source in this state The fund from which the investment is made is derived trom general tax tion under the teachers’ pension act, the constitutionality of which recent- From Reval a rail- German capture of these cities would n front. shown on the may by the ga and Volmar, to a point touching Jauring the present bond campaign. | | eerie a Burleigh County Will Pass $200,000 Mark in Purchase of Liberty Bonds ‘MRS JAMES A. GARFIELD Mentor, O., Oct. 15.—Mrs. James A. tarfield, widow of the president assas- sinated by a political crank, is intense- ly interested in the country’s w work, despite the fact that she Is ously ill at her home here. © One of her sons, Dr. Harry A. Gar- field, national fuel administrator, re- cently was called to his mother’s bed- de. Several of her grandsons are serving with the United States in the present war. She gives them to her country just as patriotically as she did her bridegroom husdand back in the days when James A. Garfield quit teaching to join in the singing of: “We are coming, Father Abraham, 100,000 strong!” Old and Young Do Their Bit in War }) GEORGE DEWEY JI Little George Dewey, nephew of the late «admiral, is only five, but he is dong his bit for the liberty loan. In! pictures like this, his name and rela-| tionship to the greatest modern naval hero help fill the coffers of Uncle! Sam's war chest. i CAN'T STARIE | US SAYS KAIS TO WTERVEWER Tells French Premier, If He Wan‘s Alsace-Lorraine to Come and Take It OPTIMISTIC ON TRIP TO BALKAN FRONTS London, Oct. 18—The correspond- ent of the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger, who was permitted to travel on the train which took Emperor Wilhelm to the Balkans and to lunch in the restau- rant with the, emperor, says a dis- patch to the Daily Chronicle from Amsterdam, sends the following to his newspaper: “His majesty sat down to the table with the observation that he had just| read Prof. Painsleve's first speech as French premier. “‘So Painsleve wants Alsace-Lor- iraine, does he! Good, but he must jcome and take it’!” At the conclusion of the lunch, which consisted of meat and fish ‘ courses and bread and cheese, the kai- ser said: | “dt is unworthy for any rman to live well when even the bi peo- ple go without things. ‘What we have ; of foodstuffs is common _ property, | which, by any just division, is suffi- | cient to keep us alive for an unlimit- ‘ed time, and which permits us to ' await final victory with calm. He who | takes more than his share sins against those who serve the fatherland’.” MUTINIES. ON CERMAN BOATS: REVOLT AT POLA Amsterdam, Oct. 18.—A among German sailors at the Lelgian port of Ostend, who refased to go on board submarines, is rezsrted by the; lel ch Dagblad. The ne n officer was thrown into the a and that thirty mutineers were re- moved in handcuffs to Bruges. | mutiny Austrians Revolt. Washington, Oct. 18.—Ofticial diplo-| matic dispatches received here today report munities in the Austrian navy | nd clashes between an sailors and crews of the Ge submarine | fleet bases at’ Pola in which officers | ‘on both sides have been killed, and} which resulted in a decision to change) ‘the base of the German floatilla. HAIG KEEPS. HAMMERING —— TA FLANDERS Incantry Rept in Trenches While Artillory Seeks an Opening for Them CERMANS MAKE ATTACK NORTHEAST OF VERDUN; $800 Field shal Haig is keeping in- fantry in their trenches on the front while artillery bombards the German s. His report throws 1 ight on pected attack on the German in- THREE DAYS = DRIVE NETS $176,850 Capitol Officials and Employes Subscribe in Excess of © $9.009 COUNTY POINTS WILL BOOST GRAND TOTAL Citizens Not Secn Urged to Go “to Banks and Buy at Least One Security HALF LOAN RAISED. Washington, Oct. 18.—Approxi- mately $1,5/9,000,000 or half the minimum quota of the Liberty loan had been subscribed, tr ury officials estimated today on the face of unofficial reports from the 12 federal r e bank “Many subscriptions have been obtained since the issuance of Second Liberty L bonds f forts of obtaining scriptions of 3460,000,500 a day from now on to the end of the campaign may seem to be an impossible task, but it will be accomplished,” it was GI New York, it was announced, is ing to reach the $500,000,000 k before night dents of Chi- cago are working hard to boost the loan.” a telegram from the re- serve bank there to the treasury department stated. Conscriptions continued fast in the Minneapolis’ distri includes North Da- . where estimates of the total * subscribed were “more 1,0°0,00 ye than 170,000 clergymen will deliver mons in behalf ‘of -; the loan next Sunday and the Star Spangled |anner will be sung.‘in virmally every church in America. The treasury department has under way a stern campaign of re- pression against the enemy agents guilty of attempts:tominette pub- lic feviing against the liberty Joan. In some parts of the middlé west efforts to disparage subscrip- tions to the loan have been espe- cially noticeable. Fro-German de- positors in ‘banks in some locali- ti it is reported, have. endeav- ored to intimidate the institutions More from ting the loans by re- _ moving their accounts. : Certain publicatio: it is‘ claimed, have printed editorials unsympathetic to the loan. Burleigh county citizens are making. their dollars fight. Last evening: the grand total for the three days’ drive net- ted $176,850. “Of this fantry. There has been infantry fighting on the French front, although apparently | not on a large scale. The Germans) attacked northeast of Verdun, near| Rezconvaux, but met with a repulse. The artillery battle is still spirited along the Chemin des Zames. Air fighting between V7 German mach s bas been unus intense in the last few days and tode statements indicate little let up in the marked activity on both sides. So far this week, thirty-six German machines have been driven down by the French. The Germans have picked the town ot Nancy as the particular objective of their latest bombing raids. They ~ visited it in in force last eveni 20 machines taking part in the attac Some casualties among the popt n are reported. men carried out numerous raids. i BRINGS DOWN THIRTEEN. | Paris, Oct. 18.—Lieutenant Lufburry, ' ot Wallingford, Ct. memer of the Franco-American flying corps, who re- cently cited ia the French arm orders an “incomparable pilot” ' said by the Herald to have brought down his thirteenth enemy machine. PRESIDENT WILSON PLANS REST TO. STUDY WAR SSUES 1. 1S. —President Wil- son's program for the remainder of the week includes only one call to- y and the cabinet meeting Frid plan is in accordance with th president's intention of resting for eral months, and take le: n study- ing war problems brought to him ! department heads for 1 determin: tion. Washington, € MILKMEN INDICTED. Chicago, Hl, Oct. 18.—Charles 14 Potter ,of Elgin. I. chairmen of the] association and four milk y was y the supreme court l vite the attempts of the Austrian | other ore indicted on charg- owas upheld . se : ‘adr Ity to suppress thi it} es of conspiri to fix the price of BOY HAS LOCKIAW reached here today con i ot | milk. : i —— |perne. The Austrian crews are said] The others indicted are: Clinton J Dickey, N. D.. Oct. 18.—Mrs. J. W. to have revolted, under ill tr atment | Coc Genoa; Wills A Lewis in Minneapol th her lit- of officers and bad food, while the | ¢ Lake; Arnold Huder tle _ Wayne, who is suffering from with the German submarine view, and Roy Lewis, Wheatc lockjaw. Late reports are“that the crews was caused by the overbeariag, bonds. including Potter's, were fi child may recover Hild esas | conduct of the latter. Jat $5,000 each. j be | quota as the property j county. amount a}l but $8)- was ‘raised ‘in marck. When the returns are in from country points the total will pass by a good margin the 0,000 mark. -It seems «practically that the city will double its ptions over the quota assigned. Capito! on Job. Capitol officials and employes have surscribed $9,100 and it seems certain - that the total there will be over $18, 6u0 as some of the leading officials are out of the city and will net return before Saturday when the state board of university and school lands meet to decide whether any of that fund will be utilized for bond purchases. One member intimated that he-was it favor of investing $250,099 dad if pos- ble $5 Secretary of State homas Hall is directing the state house drive in association with a num ber of alle lieutenants and as a mem- her of the board of university and school lands has expressed himself in vor of voting as big a Joan as is pos- ble. Don't Wait to Be Seen. While team members are still busy rounding up purchasers, it is aysolute- y ile to call upon everyone in sek he books do not close un- til October 27. If anyone in the coun- ty is overlooked, be is requested by H. P. Goddard chairman of the com- nittee, to go to his bank and fill out application card. Banks and post- “es can receive applications and yrward them to the bank where the urchaser desires to make his first payment. County Returns Saturday. Returns from the county d will not be in before Saturday date Mr. Goddard has heard from a w points where the sales have net- ed $ ”, The quota outside of Bis- marck is $45,000 and indications are that subscriptions will go beyond that gure, just how much more cannot be timated at this time. It was reported that officials av empl at the Wilton mine sub- scribed $14,600, A portion of this will credited to the Burleiga couuty s in Burleigh In the town of Wiltoa proper riptions were secured. Minot Active. The Tribune is in receipt of a wire from Minot today stating that of the auota of §: cned to that city, £150,000 had Leen sud: bed and that the ultimate success of the drive is he subscribed more exceedel which ro in two day: