The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 10, 1917, Page 1

1 SCRE Te SER a ae i The Weather. Generally fair. Evening Edition TRIBUNE DAKOTA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1017. PREMIER OF - PEACE REGIME jTrotzky Who Helped Coup D'Etat Foreign Minister in Reorganized Cabinet BISMARCK, NORTH NEW REGIME PRO ————— STATE CrEKS 10 |Lyon Enters Hole in the Ground Where SOW ASUFIN x cea crests fe Berita Yat NOT DEPOSITED Ei Assistant Treasurer Lyngstad Placed on Stand to Give Re- | cord of Receipts FIVE CENTS RMISTICE Capt. Shuman HAXIMALISTS His Battalion P REPARE f OR PEACE MOVE Weil Known Bismarck Man Re- Lenine Ready To Receive Pro- po: From Any Of The Belligerents Daily Bismarck Tribune Cor- ‘espondent puts his Hand on the Heart of France and Feels it Beating Strong—-Read About the Message and Toast Which Made Amcrican Newspaper Man Forget the Drizzle Along The Meuse EDITOR'S NOTE.—C. ‘C. Lyon, Staff correspondent of the Daily Tribune is now spending some time with the French army, through. the courtesy of the ‘French military authorities. After observing operations in and about Verdun, he has been promised ‘the chance to go into the first line French trenches. ‘!f | come out with a whole skin | ought to have something very interesting to write about,” says Lyon, in a let- ter to the editor of the Daily Trib- une. ceives Splendid Recognition Of His Ability s sals Is ENTHUSIASTIC INTEREST al SHOWN IN LOCAL SCHCOL' A Bismarek. man, Capt. F. L. Shu-! iman, formerly district. manager tor NEW, REGIME MEETING the North Dakota Independent ‘Tele- phone Co, now is acting commander WITH SOME OPPOSITION Italy’s Armies” ‘Under Diaz, Suc- ef the 309th field signal battalion at cessor to Cardena, Prepare ; LAND COMMITTEE TO REDISTRIBUTE ESTATES ACCOUNTANT SAYS HALL WAS $4,217.35 SHORT Declares Books October 22 Re- Advisers of Revolutionists Num- ©2™p Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Ky. vealed Discrepancy—Many-. Witnesses Subpoenaed That the state will seek to show that currency received in the automo-; Cc. C. LYON. bile registration department of the With the French troops at Verdun secretary of state's oftice was not, —I have just come from spending a promptly deposited with the state \ onderful evening in the impregaable treasurer, as required by law, was in- del of Verdun, a guest of Colonel dicated by the line of questioning pur- , its commander. sgied this morning by Assistant Attor- All day long a violent artillery duel ney General Daniel V. Brennan, who had been on between the French and ts conducting the prosecution of-Secre- Germans, and every time our ¢mall tary of State Thomas Hall, now under- , party of American observers had tried going preliminary examination on aj; to get near enough to the German charge of having emezzled approxi:| lines beyond Forts Vaux and Douau- mately $3,000 of the state’s money. mont to watch infantry operations a; Lyngstad on Stand. German shell would playfully fall in| Deputy State Treasurer J. O. J.yag-| OUr vicinity and scare us all stiff. stad, the state’s first witness, testi-| Even the safety of Fort Souville fied that from January 1'to October 22|/hardly reassured us. There we had the automobile registration depart- all taken turns sitting in a chair that ment deposited $324.44 in currency | had been occupied a few days before and that from October 22 to Novem-| by the king of Italy and singing our ber 9 currency deposited totaled .$3,-| names in the ‘guest beok.” 159.82. Incidently, Victor Emanuel gave his He presented a record of recent de-| occupation as “king of Italy.” I wro‘e posits from the secretary of state’s| “newspaper reporter” after my name. office, showing that on October 29] They're both on the same page. Thomas Hall had deposited with the Shortly ‘after dinner hour we reach- state treasa¥er checks for $125 to|ed the Verdun citadel. Martin. Thompson; $100 to Harold] Outside, the night was inky black Wright, and $126.50 to. HE. M. Walla} and adding to a dismal exterior pic- all of whom are employes of the secre-| ture, a cold drizzling rain was falling, tary of gtate’s office; $50 to John] chilling to the marrow the gray-over- Steen and $50 made payable to cash,| coated sentinels who silently trudged ber Among Them a Sailor and For Defensive Stockholm, Nov. 10.—Helsing- fors, capital of Finland, has been entered by the Germans according to press dispatches from Hapar- anda. Laborer Pe‘rograd, Nov. 10.—The all-Russian as cf Workmen’s and Soldiers’ : ales is reported unofficially to have named a cabinet, composed of ‘Bolsheyii, and then adjourned. The cahinet is headed by Nikalai Lenine, as Premier, and: Leon Trotzky, holds the post of foreign minister, The cabinet will serve until the constituent assembly approves it or selects a new one. In addition to Lenine and Trotzky, the other mem- bers are reported to be as follows: New. Cabinet Minister of the Interior, M, Rikoff; Minister of Finance, Svortcol; Minister of Agriculture, Miliutin; Minister of Labor, M. jiiopnikoft. Committee on war and marines, M. Ovisiammikoff, Krylenko and Biben- ko; Minister of Commerce, M. Nogin; Minister of Education, M. Lunach- arsky; Minister of Justice, M. Op- pokov; Minister of Supplies, M. Thet- odorvitch: ‘Minister.of Posts and. Tel- egraph, M. Aviloff; Minister of Affairs and Nationalities (a: new post in charge of the ‘different, nationalities within Russia), 'M. Dzhugashuili; Min- ister of Communications, M. Riazonoff. An immediate armistice of three months will be offered by the Max- imalists-of Russia. Minister Lenine, lexder ef the party, plans that the representatives elected by the people of all nations, will settle the ques- tions of peace, 4f.enine’s government is willing to consider proposals for a just peace from either side. Moscow ancient capital of Russia, is reported to have gone over to the revolution- ists. ‘The garrison has supported the revolutionary committee there in tak- ing over the government offices there. Conditions in Petrograd and Moscow are reported to be quiet. The Bolshieviki element in the peasant's congress, and the workmen's and lieys’ organization is meeting with oposition from members of the , Pewograd Municipal Council and the | Minimalists.’ The opposing. factions will not acknowledge the authority. of Maxamili8t, and are ‘said to be: plan: ning an appeal to, the Russian nation regarding the Petrograd revolt. A cabinet has been named by: the ‘CAPT. F. L. SHUMAN, Former District Manager North Da- kota Independent Telephone €o. Capt. Shuman’s commi: m came to him last spring. After several months’ training at Camp Dodge he was as- signed to active as command- ail drawn on a local bank. Of these checks aggregating $450.0, ‘all were but the one drawn to cash, which was returned marked “Insufficient funds.” This check was taken up by the secre: tary of state, who exchanged curreacy for it. October 24, Lyngstad’ testified, the secretary of state deposited a check. for $125 payable to A. W. Carl- son, another employe of; the office, and October 22 a chéex ‘for,.$22.50, payable to Martin Thagapgon. 3, Edwards Testifiede.aii soa: That the receipts ofjthe secretary) of state's office from ,danuary, 1:.to} October 22 were $210,331.62 and the amount deposited with the state treas:}: urer $206,111,27, leaving, an .undeposit- ed balance of $4,217.35 was the most} important testimony which W. C. Ed-, wards, deputy state bank examiner, had given up to noon, when adjourn- ment was taken for lunch. An unde- posited balance of $6,689.68 was indi-; cated Aug. 16, said Edwards. The court room is crowded with witnesses, | practically the entire capital staff hav- ; ing been subpoenaed. NINTH DISTRICT QUOTA EXCEEDED BY $34,932,650 _Minneapolis, Nov. 10.--There were €21,770 subscribers to the second Lib- erty loan in the 9tu fexerat reserve district, and the district minimum quota was oversubsevrised by $34,932,- 650 according to a statement issued by officers of the Federal Reserve bank here today. “The remarkable distribution of small denomination bonds is an es- pecially desirable and valuable fea- ture of the campaign,” the statement said. “The total of 320,811 individu- als, taking the smaller denomination bonds, indicated the bonds have gone into approximately 65 per cent cf all homes in the district. RUSSELL TO SPEAK HERE ON RUSSIARS Charles Edward Russell, recently returned from Russia, where, as a member of the American commission, he made a thorough study of the Rus- sian situation, will speak in Bismarck on November 20 under the auspices of the Bismarck Commercial club. Mr. Russell is touring the country under the auspices of the bureau of information, and he comes to Bis- marck through the co-operation of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, at the solicitation of Secre-; tary George N. Keniston. WAGE SCALE FIXED. Cleveland, O., Nov. 10.—Ohio coal operators and representatives of min- ers in conference here have practical- ly completed their task of readjusting the wage scale of the 16 mining dis- tricts of the state. The new scale be- comes operative automatically. An eight hour work day and a flat in-; crease of $1.40 a day for all adults em- ployed in or around Ohio mines are vided. pro their posts along the river Meuse. But inside the’ fortress ‘evervthing | was warm and bright and cheerful. | The long, narrow, concrete-built corridors.that stretched for hundreds of yards were. studded with .a .thou- sand electric bulbs; and every room and compartment opening , off them held a group of laughing, chatting poilus, enjoying their evening meal and talking over events of the day. In a little dining room inthe heart of: the fortress, a hundred feet below the earth’s surface, Colonel (———) arose and, with unlifted glass, faced his American guests. Z For a long time, around a table that had contained many good things to eat, he had been discussing the war situation and America’s part. As he stood there leaning upon the cane (one of his legs had been frozen as he personally led his troops in a midwinter assault on German posi- Facsmile. of the message of Colon to the American people through staft Colonel. (—=-——-). at the left, and th bearded. profile,of: former Premier Ri el (————), commander of Verdun, corespondent Lyon and, e stil! studry figure and; thy stern, bot..of. France. WHEREABOUTS OF “LIBERTY POSSE VICTIMS UNKNOWN tions outside Verdun) ready to pro- pose a toast to the great and power. ful ally he was a noble figure. A large powerfully-built man of about 60; snow white hair; ruddy complexion; a joval, kindly face with blue eyes that twinkled with mer- riment; a “something about him” that would inspire all men to deeds of valor. On the wall behind him was hung a large bronze tablet—the imperish- able motto of Verdun: “On Ne Passe Pas!” “They Shall Not Pass!” There was a hushed silence: “My dear friends from beyond the seas,” he said, “I lift my glass to toast the nation that has always been the unfailing friend and ally of our beloved France. “The bonds of love and sympathy that have always existed between our two countries will become still strong- er, now that we are brothers in arms in the cause of world democracy. “France has given unsparingly of its blood in making good the motto of Verdun. But the brave men who have died will not have died in vain, be- cause, with rich, powerful resource- ful and determined America on our side it is now impossible to conceive of anything but a complete victory for the allied cause. “I drink to America and all Ameri- cans. France loves them all!” The toast was drunk with deep emotion on both sides and appropriate responses from the Americans fol- lowed. Through it all, however, my repor- torial instincts had not deserted me. At Fort Souville, during the after- noon, the fort commander had given me, for a souvenir, one of his e Continued on Page Three) RYDER BOY DIES WHEN TEAM RUNS WITH RAKE Twelve-Year-Old Youngster Meet Death Helping Father With Farm Work Ryder, N. D., Nov. 10.—Gilbert Aune, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Aune, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Aune, was fatally in- jured when a team which he was unhitching from a hay-rake be- came frightened and ran away, one of the wheels of the rake striking the boy in the head and passing over his body. The young- ster lived 38 hours after the acci- dent. Seventeen Naked Men, Tarred aud! Feathered, Roam Plains cf Oklahoma Tulsa, Oklahoma, Nov. 10—The whereabouts early today of 17 half- naked severely beaten members of the I. W. W. seized from policemen, slogged with a cat-o-nine tail, and tarred and feathered here last night | by a band of sixty black robed and hooded “Knights of Liberty” was un- known. With the warning “Never re- turn to Tulsa,” the I. W. W's were started throught the brush, away from the city, followed Ly a fusilade of | shots. “In the name of the outraged wom- en and children of Belgium,” the man in charge of the ceremony uttered, as he applied the hot pitch to the bleeding backs. Eleven of the I. W. W. were arrested in a recent raid on state | headquarters here. The other six had testified last night at the trials in city courts: of their fellows. All were be- ing taken by a round-about route to I, W. W. headquarters in three tour- ‘ing cars by city policemen, when they were halted by the black shrouded figures, who pointed rifles and pistols. The policemen had intended to exact from the I. W. ‘\W. a promise to leave | the city and not to return, whereupon the prison sentences would have been suspended. That the plot to kidnap the I. W. W. had been carefully plan- , ned was indicated ‘by the machine like precision with which all details were carried out. The policemen in charge of the prisoners were offered no vio- lence, but were forced to drive the motor cars to the rendezvous in a wild ravine near the edge of the city ‘and to watch the “Knights, none of i whom were recognized because of the ‘robes. Later the street were placard- ,ed as follows: ' “Notice to I. W. W. Con’t let the sun set on you in Tulsa,” Vigilance Com- mittee. When the party arrived at the ra- vine, the cowed I. W. W. were or- dered to strip to the waist. A circle of motor cars was drawn about a huge tree, and in the glare of the headlights, man after man was ticd up and lashed on the back until the blood ran. Hot tar was then applied, and handfuls of feathers thrown into the tar. The I. W. W. talked but lit-; tle to the policemen who were forced armed guard on both sides. Some claimed allegiance to the I. W. W.. One cried for mercy and cried that he was not an I. W. W., but a “Knight” declared he had been arrest- ed in the raid on the State Head- quarters and he took his turn at the whipping post. SCORES. HURT “AS FOC BLIDS CAR OPERATORS Chicago, Nov. 10.—Scores of ‘per- sons were injured in railroad, street- car and elevated collisions and other accidents due to a heavy fog here this morning. Their injurics mostly were of a slight nature. Twenty-five or more persons were injured in a rear end ‘collision in the yards of the C. & A. railroad. In the densest, fog, objects ten feet away were invisible. A fireman on an Illinois suburban train was unable to see a danger sig- nal and crashed into another suburban train normally traveling three minutes ahead of it.. Charles Clinkenberg, en- gineer of the I. C. train in the rear, was thrown from the cab and his right leg amputated above the knee. ‘wo hundred passengers were shaken up, and a fireman M. Milter, was scalded. Six others were cared for at a hospital. © All trains were late, those fromthe most distant suburbs arriving from a hald to an hour and a half behind schedule. / Small accidents to street cars and vehicles were numerous. At ten o'clock the fog was still so thick that office buildings were illuminated as if at night. PARSHALL BEGINS REBUILOING WILE - EMBERS ARE WARM Disastrous Fire Does not Damper Courage of Progressive Reser- vation Town Farshall, N. D., Nov. 10. were the embers of Parshall's fire-rav aged business district cooled when the work of reconstruction began. Taking advantage of the mild weather, C. J. Barth has commmenced the erection of a one-story brick and tile store building on his own lot and has pur- chased from William Polar the lot on which the Lalond restaurant stood, where he is building a structure which will be occupied by the Free barber- shop, made homeless by the fire. Ad- joining the Barth buildings, Nels Hob- son plans a structure of similar size. (below), | Hardly | The cabinet members are all Bol- sheviki. Bibenko is a Kronstadt sail- or, while Shliapnikoff is a laborer. Trotzky announced that the social- ists members of the Kerensky cabinet would be released from the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul pending an investigation. He said the others would be held. The Congress took action to turn over to the land committees for dis- tribution, the ‘and ‘estate and ‘estate of church lands. The..lands of,the {Cossacks and: peasants will j pot }be confiscated. The banks of Petrostad reopened today: ‘The city lig 'duiet. | AMERICANS SAFE. Washington. . Nov. 10. — The first report from American Ambassador Francis on the upheavals in Russia arrived today but added nothing to |the news dispatches already received. The ambassador's dispatch filed on Nov. 7 and Nov. 8, said that up to that time all the ministers of the pro-, visional government, except Kerensky, had been arrested. American representatives of the American ‘Red Cross in Petrograd ! were safe, and no mention made of any harm befalling any other Ameri- cans. Although the city was quiet, when the ambassador sent his report he in- dicated that it was done too early to secure a definite idea of conditions, especially outside the capital. Until the situation has been more clearly defined, there will continue a practical suspension of officials rela- tions with Russ It was explained ; today that to continue negotiations | now was impossible, because it is not ‘known just who is in power in the different departments. To obtain information from the country beyond the limits of Petro- grad, (Mr. Francis reported, was next to impossible, because the wires were all in control of the Bolshieviki. er of Co. B, compos: rgely of tele-! phone men from Wisconsin, Minne- sota and North Dakota, at Camp Taylor. Nowa further recogaition of! his ability has come in placing him at the head of the entire camp. To Begin Campaign. An active campaign for students for the lismarck civil service school which is to prepare young men of dratt age from the Slope country for service in the United States signal corps—some of them, perhaps, as fu- ‘ture members of Capt. Shuman’s com- pany or battalion, will open Monday. At the call of District Chairman C., L. Young at meeting of the general committee was held last evening at the Commercial club rooms, and a list of subcommittees was arranged as follow Instructions and instructors—E, H. L sperman, W .A. McDonald, L. K. Thompson, C. F. Bolt, C. W. Pribber- now. ‘The commiite2 will determine the course to be given, procure in- structors, classify and distribute the ; x the hours and organize claszes. ! Committee on rooms and equipment J. M. Martin, G. M. Langum, A. W. ‘Mellon, H. J. Johnson and G. N. Kenis- tou, to find rooms suitable for the work, rent free, and near the busi- ness center; to determine materials and equipment required to carry out the course prescribed; to report on costs and other details. Publicity and enrollment — C. Keniston, W. L. Nuess C. i. Stackhouse, S. ndan; I. N. Steen, Car- hristenson, Fort Yates; W. ton, Ceater; J. C. Schlepper- T. M. ¢ y, Under- H. A. 2 Schubec, Kenna, Napo-; L. son; C. PoThw greil, Hazen Arm Ashle’ leon. Au encouraging enthusiasm on the part of prospective sludeats was re- ported dy all committeemen George M. American Wo ‘ BASIL M.MANLY | Of Our Washington Bureau. Washington, D. C., Noy. 10.—“The | British people will fight on until the | Prussian war machine is crushed, if it takes a hundr years,” declared James Lord, president of the mining department, Am n Federation of Labor, today on his return from the Inter-Allied Labor Conference at Lon- don. “IT am workers particularly, as I met ther at conferences, in their homes and on) {the streets during my month's visit. ! Nobody can understand the spirit of the British workers unless he has liv- ed among them as I did. There is no jviolent talk; they have simply set ‘ their teeth and are going to ‘carry on’ | until the great war is fought through {to a decisive end. Like British bull- dogs, they won't admit the possibility; of defeat. “There is no ‘squawking,’ as they) say, about anything. There is hardly} talking about the British | m | to witness the ceremony with an/ py. 4. Hovey will replace his building/a woman in Great Britain who has How Labor of England Bears _ Up Under Wars Hard strain barding the retreating Turks from gman Tells ea | cellor has capitulate] Bolshieviki with Lenine as premier, No Clashes as Yet ‘ No clashes between the Maxamilists and the supporters of the Kerensky cabinet are reported. ‘The -revolution- ary cabinet has ordered that. the’ for mer Minister be imprisoned and ar- rested with the other ministers now in. Petrograd. Lenine has given in: structions that his force shall mové against any soldiers supporting Ker‘? ensky, and has appealed’ to ‘the rail- road men not to transport Kerénsky adherents. J Da art Army in Doubt’’ | It is not clear whether the Russian armies as a whole’ have accepted the new government, but it is reported that some units have gone over to the revolutionary side. All available Rus- sian advices, excépt reports trom Ger many, must come through Petrograd, and even these have not indicated any great rush to the revolutionary lead- ers, from the soldiers outside Petro- grad and Moscow. The Russian war office has not is- sued any official statement for several days. A report from Copenhagen says the Germans have occupied the Aland Islands at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia, which lies between Sweden and Finland. Its New Positions Italy's armies under a new com- mander, General Diaz are in their new positions, probably along the Paive river, British and French troops have ar- rived in Northern Italy, and will aid in beating back the invaders from capturing Venice and the rich man- ufacturing district in Lombardy and Piedmont. Marne Hero General Cadorna has been appoint- talian member on an inter-Allied staff. The other members are Gen- eral Foch, one of the great French leade and General Wilson, of the Bri staff. ‘These three probably will take supreme direction of the Allied campaign in Northern Italy. It was General Foch who drove a wedge | into the German forces at the Battle of the Marni The entire Turkish army in Pales- tine is retiring backward toward Jeru- m, from the Gaza-Beersheba line. British and French warships are bom- the coast, while British aviators are harrassing them with bombs and ma- chine gun fire. COALITION GOVERNMENT. Berlin, Nov. 9, via London, Nov. 10. —Dr. Karl Helfferich, the vice chan- and _ political peace has once more been restored. ‘the cabinet, containing Count von Hertling as Chancellor, Freidrich ‘von Payer, as vice chancellor. and Herr | Friesberg as vice president of the Prussian ministry, means virtually a ‘coalition liveral government. The Clerical, National, Liberal and Progressive parties -are represented actively in the cabinet. The Social- S except the appointment of Von Payer as evidence that Count iVon Hertling is willing to work with the present group of reichstag ma- jority party, but they are reserving | to themselves complete right of activ- it This is said to mark the first parliamentary cabine: in Prussia and | Germany. with one of brick, but does not expect|not lost a son, a brother, a husband’ discussion of how he dicd or of the to begin work until next spring. J. W.!or a lover; but though you can see heavy burden his death has thrown Brown and the. Woods Bros. also will, the deep grief in their faces, you will, upon the family. ‘What has been, has build substantial brick blocks next} hear no mourning and see no needless been,’ they feel and no amount of summer on the sites which were occu- tears. You ask about some relative,’ weeping or mourning counts. ‘He’s pied by frame structures which were some friend: ‘He went under at Ypres, gone under,’ they say, and no man completely destroyed in last Thurs-'of the Somme, or in Flanders, they has the heart to question further. day’s big tire, will tell you; but never any morbid} ~~ (Continued on Page Three) TO REQUISITION CORN. . 10.—All the corn in France will be requisitioned at an early date, Marius Long, minister of provisions, announced in the Cham er of Deputies last night. Mills will b2 placed under government control, so that bread may be supplied through- out France at the same price.