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THURSDAY, DEC. 27, 1917. * WELLT WELLE NWAT: ARE You CRYING For? Rees A:Nick: SPE SOLD ENS TBE AS OLD AS MY, GRANMA~ SHES NINETY EIGHT; _- ‘ONGEE-6EE. } q | WOULDN'T HAVE BUT NINETY MORE CHRISTMASES. IN = AUL THAT TIME! EEGOSHGEE, FRECKLES. AND HIS FRIENDS PRECKLES AND. Li HE I$ A/$AUAQHB CASE ut 1s BysBlossan case Hy Blosser MAY KIDS ARE THE GREATEST) b AN THe WORLD! wair 7, TLL THEY GET oLveR AN’ START TALKING - THENS WHEN “HevRE CUTE —ETc- Er ' he at ¢ ee “THEYRE “TWINS AN’ THEY LOOK SO MUCH ALIKE + JUST HAD ONE OF WAIT- 1GOT A PICTURE OF THEM BUT MISTER- “Wis 1S ONLY A PICTURE OF One OF Them! “THATS GREAT! 3.10 LIKE To see Tuem ! How MANY . CHILOREN WAVE You mister 2 SQUIRREL FOOD HE WON’T' BE ABLE TO DI IT WHEN THEY GROW UP ip By Ahem” SE YOURE. & WE WILL GLADLY REFUND MEATIESS! ENTRANCE FEE IF SHOW PROVES FLAT nnn ~~ “ONEAT A TIME — OF THIS LITTLE | OUT OF A, KETCH=1F You ROLLER SKATING 1S JUST UKE CHESTNUT CHARLIE By Blosser UNCLE SAM ABOUT T0 MAKE ~*~ ALLMOVING PICTURE MAKERS Wonderful Films. Produced by Government, Suggested by Presi- Small Blaze—The firé department was called out at 6 this morning to squelch an insignificant blaze at the Soo round house. BIG MONEY IN FURS nip to‘ O!d eabJe” Square Deal House s-Wool night, as it was impossible for the pursuing forces to get in connection with headquarters until they had chas- ed the bandits out of their rocky coun- try where they sought refuge Tues- day: night after raiding the | Brite tanehand killing two men, one an American arid one a Mexican. | 7). jz,According to late reports: received, only one American soldier was wound- ed in the fighting. DIRECTS SOLDIER |COBB DISTANCES NEAREST RIVALOVER 13- INSURANCE... | YEAR ROUTE; BRATING KERLER'S AVERAGE ;that Cobb had battéd~"370 in his'45 years in the American ‘teague | while Keeler’s thirteenth year batting. mark: dropped to .302 and his 16-year aver-| age to .367. aie Arguing from- Keeler's record it might be supposed that it is about When, ‘Ty .Cobp “batted: .383 during the last asebafl season, leading the league in hits, percentage, doubles, triples and stolen bases he also set a new record himself and nosed out his only close rival as the greatest bats- man for a long period of years. _ See Bill Hart at the Orpheum to- hight in “Doudle Crossed.” A ine, ji Griffi i With one exception Cobb stood out|time for the Tiger star to hit the de- Sr ya RE ES Sr tt dent Wilson; Directed by David W. °Griffith, Creator of far and away ahead of rivals last! sea-| cline. After Keeler had finfshed his| , avails ne trae Dressing andiclesn e arr remreaer f “Birth.of Nation,” to Be Seen in Capital City. ‘oh, The one very ‘annoying excep-| twelfth year he never had another) '"S Bryant Talloring Co Phone 788 | MATA We) ma a ae Tae a conti anes ey on. was the 12-year record of Willie great season. In 1905 he hit .302, in 1906 his aver- agé was .304.. He dropped to .234 in 1907 and in’ 1908 and 1909 he batted .263 and .264 respectively. In 1910 he finished his big league career by bat- MINMEAPOLIS. MINN, i Tribune Want Ads Bring Results. <eeler. = — = = Statistical sharks found that in 12 years Cobb had batted .39. They also learned that Keeler had batted .369. But carrying out the decimal one | point farther it. was found that Keeler | ting an even .300. ss had batted .3696 in his dozen years} Maybe this record should stand ‘as whfle Cobb: batted .3693. Cob lost ia criterion of how Cobb will act! hfter|] % the record by three-ten-thousandths of | his thirteenth year, but the way Cobolf : one per cent. “busted ’em up” last year doesn’t look Ir z So that was another record Cobbj like much of an indication that he is THOM. B LOVE. went after this year and when the av-| likely to drop very far for a few years Thomas PB. ‘Love, who is Tom Love erages were checked over it was found ' to come at any rate. ——— outein Dailas, Tex., has just’. been URGES GOVERNOR 10 DEPOSIT PELF demonstrated their patriotism by en- listing their services free of charge] Tetaries of the treasury appointed by to play lead roles in the dramas built the president, ‘Love has general super- vision over the government's insur- Stephens of California Sees Se- qual of Mansion Plot in C. C. C. of C. Letter. around the great military evolutions ance of soldiers. PLANT MONEY'IN ROCK PILE now in progress. There is action and Love served one term as life insur- Former Secretary of the |. W. W. thrill in every foot of film, and, now Arésted’ by Sacramento The first of thd great ‘war film, for) picture house. The cost of these of- which the North Dakota Defense coun-| ficia} films is roughly reckoned at $20,- cil has. contracted with the: United 900,000,000, based upon what any States bureau of public information, at a cost of $14,000, will, be shown in| Standard motion picture producer Bismarck, at the Auditorium. matinee! Would have been compelled to pay to and night Wednesday, Jahuary 2, ag-|,erocyre these effects. Using its own de?! the” auspices: of \thé Bismarck} S°dfors and sailors and battleships “HomeGuard. At 4 in afternoon, there} 40d forts and training camps, the cost will be a free matinee for'school chil-| to the United States government Was; dren under 14 years, and a number of] Of course, far less. 1 well-known loyalists will make ‘patri- Movie People Enlist. otic addresses. In the afternoon an) The greatest director the moving admission fee for adults of 15 and 25! picture industry. has brought forth— cents will be charged; in the evening} David W. Griffith—volunteered. to di- the fee will be 10, 15 and 25 cents. Othier' towns which will'see the first of! this great series of war pictures; made at the suggestion of President Wilson, and directed for the govern- ment by David W. Griffith, who made the famous “birth of a Nation,” are Grand Forks, Belfield and Garrison, January 1; Baxton and Max, Jan 3; Hillsboro, Glen Ullin and Rydér, Jan: 33! Marion, Elgin and Plaza, Jan. 4; Rie Hinter, Mott and Douglas, Jan. 5; 4 New Leipzig, Bismarck and Washburn, i Jan. 7; Carson and Wilton, Jan. 8. , Backed By Defense Council. ‘The North Dakota Defense’ council, a, million-dollar patriotic corporation, back of which is the faith and credit of the state of ‘North Dakota, pledged by Gov. Lynn J. Frazier, stands spon- Sor for these filmis, pronounced by those who have seen'advance show- ings to be the most wonderful military productions extant. © ar were rdided last Saturday after the arrest of William Hood and G. F. Voetter, now held in the county jail on federal charges of unlawfully trans- borting dynamite and which culminat- ed in the U. S. government taking up the investigation of the alleged con- spifacy. AMERICANS CHASE MEXICAN BANDITS «FAR OVER BORDER United States Troops for Second Time Within Month After Raiders. - Printers _ Attention HERE IS A CHANCE FOR SOME" . COUNTRY PRINTER. ~~ that our own boys are actually in} ance commissioner of Texas and he France, perhaps going through .the} knows the insurance game from the very things portrayed on these films, | inside. there probably is not a red-blooded] Once drafted, Love went to work. man, woman or child in North Dakota] He has two boys in the army and a who will want to miss these pictures.}daughter in Red Cross service in The first three pictures to be pre-| France. sented here will be “The “1917 Re-| Love's first war service was the ne- cruit,” showing the twentieth century | gotiation of a deal by which seven in- American soldier in the making; “Sol-|terned Austrian ships were sold to the diers of the Sea,” depicting life and] American syndicate, and by them drill in the greatest navy the waters}turned over to the government with: of the western hemisphere ever have}out profit. Austria was at that time floated ;)1anid “With Flame and Gas,”| not our enemy and the ships could not showing modern methods of trencli] be seized. Of ‘course Germany did not warfare. want them put to work for the Amer- to buy a No. 1 Mergenthaler Linotype at a very reasoni- able price. This machine is in top-notch shape, the The defense council has contracted fdr 140 reels, to be shown at the rate of 15 reels weekly, in three shows of five reels each, in every town in North, Dakota which can support a high-class STOP! TOBACCO & SNUFF »3—GOLD SEAL NO. 10—Kills the de- sire for tobacco and snuff. A guaran- teed vegetable treatment; a tonic for the stomach and nerves. Sworn affida- vit and testimonials from men who have been cured. Compiles with pure food laws. Treatment requires only a few days. Start the New Year by quit- ting tobacco and snuff. Full treatment $2.25. Our book “A” gives full particulars; it is FREE. Send right now. INLAND CHEMICAL Co. Bismarck, N. D. LENHART DRUG CO. Selling Agents, Bismarck, N. D. Each show is complete in itself. The] ican government and the deal requited fact that the Bismarck Home Guard|some pretty foxy work. ~ stands back of this enterprise in Bis-} Tom Love is one of those fellows marck is sufficient surety for its suc-|that Charles Edward Russel dubbed cess. After the great Red Cross| “soldiers of the common good” some Christmas drive, capital city people} years ago. Having made a pretty good will have confidence in anything the} pile for himself in early life, Love has Home Guard may undertake. been principally occupied for a num- ber of years in making public service corporations, gas companies, railroads and insurance companies behave themselves in Texas KAISER WILHELM’S PLANS APPROVED _ (Continued ,From Page One.) | ment has not changed in any respéct iq! with its deterthination to enter into no agreement with a government ; which does not represent the free. will of the governed people. This! would dispose of any hope: the Ger-/ mans might have that the Russians could induce America to subscribe to the peace treaty which they now are trying to ‘arrange. As for the Ger-) }man colonies, the American govern-| ment has never recorded itself on the , Subject, and Premier Lloyd George de- | clared that was a subject for the ; Peace conference. No provision is made in Count Czernin’s terms for the return to France of Alsace-Lorraine ! which is regarded here as a condition that must be met as a preliminary, to any peace agreement. BOYS WANTED. Not going to school or otherwise: 1 = William S. Hart, Trianale. Who appears at the Orpheum titea- eepreeeepretscaemapen cota 5 | SOIR IER Ty EEA hea employed to sell papers. @ ambitious boy this {s an excellent Ince production. proposition. Apply, Cirétlation Dept. a Tribune. 2 i tre tonight in “Double Crossed,” thrilling Thos. H. First time here, SRN Se pe rn semana Re ” § Polide ‘a8 Susnéct. 4 — Sacramento, " val.’ Dec. | 27.— D. H. Evans, former’ secretary of the I. W. W., was arrested here Wed- nesday on suspicion of being con- nected with a newly discovered dynamite plot: : Sacramento, Cal.,. Dec. 27.—A let- ter to Governor William D. Stephens, threatening to set off nine bombs in Sacramento unless the governor Placed $50,000 in a designated rock- pile in Alameda county on December 30, at 3 p..m., wag turned over to the police Wednesday for investigation in connection with the alleged dynamit- ing conspiracy being investigated by the police and federal authorites. The letter said the executive rhan- sion, which was partially wrecked by an explosion Monday night, December 17, while the.governor was asleep in the building, the capitol, the police ‘station, the detectives’ headquarters in the city jail building, three hotels and residences of two state officials were marked for destruction. The bombs were already planted and ready to be set off the letter said. If the Money was left as demanded, the bombs were to be removed, according to the letter, which was ‘signed “C. C. C. of C.” . The letter was mailed last Monday at Oakland and printed with type. With the exception of numerals,' which were written with a lead pencil and a crude pencil drawing on the back of the letter, there was no hand- writing which might aid in establish- For any! ing the identity of the sender. Police officers continued today to guard the local headquarters of the Industrial Workers of the world which DRIVEN FROM ROCKY REFUGE Desperadoes Now in Open, Close- “ly Pursued by Avenging Soldiers. Marfa, Tex., Dec. 27—Two troops of American cavalry are pursuing fif- ty Mexican bandits toward the inter- ior of Mexico today, making the sec- ond time within a month that Mexican raiders have been followed across the ! border. (Movements of the American troops were unknown to Col. George T. Lang- horne, commanding officer of the Big Bend patrol district, until late last Price Is Very Reasonable Also—FOR SALE A DANDY CAMPBELL PONY PRESS, A- NO. | AND IN THE FINEST RUNNING ORDER. ,., ‘ (230/300 We will pay fare both ways within a radius of one hdh- dred miles to any printer who purchases any one of these machines.. See these .machines :in -operation -before purchasing. bs WIRE YOUR ARRIVAL as these machines cannot last long unsold at the Price we are asking. ; The Bismarck Tribune BISMARCK, WO. DAK, si “iiaham