The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 29, 1917, Page 1

THE WEATHER Slightly warmer. THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 300 \ RUMORED KING FERDINAND A THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, DEC. 29, 1917. FULLDRTAILS | OF AMERICANS’ SUB CAPTURES Fanning and Nicholson Sunk German Boat and Took Its Crew. BRITISH LOSE DESTROYERS | Three Vessels Struck by Torpe- does or Hit Mines in Channel. Washington, D. C., Dec. 29.—Full de- | tails of the destruction by American destroyers of a German submarine and | the capture of its crew made public today by the navy department show that the destroyers, Fanning and Nicholson, were the warships engaged. The incident was reported Nov. 24, but | few facts were given at the time. The submarine was sunk, the navy department's story of the affair indi- cates, as it was preparing to attack a@ merchant ship’s flotilla convoyed by the destroyers. BRITISH LOSE DESTROYERS | Three Vessels Mined or Torpedoed in English Channel. London, Dec. 29.—Three British tor-| pedo boat destroyers were sunk! through being struck by torpedoes or! hitting a mine off the Dutch coast on! the night of Dec. 22, with the loss of 13 officers and 180 men, the admiralty announced today. | “Three of our destroyers,” the state-! ment says, were mined or torpedoed during foggy weather off the Dutch coast on the night of the 22nd of De-} cember. A total of thirteen officers and 180 men were lost.” | STORY OF CAPTURE i Sights Peri-, Coxswain on Lookout scope of Sub. The navy department’s story fol-| lows: “At about 4:10 p. m., while escorting | @ convoy, a lookout_on tue Fanning’s| coxswain, Loomas,; sighted a small | Periscope ‘extending about a foot out) q of the water, and visible for only a few seconds. The Fanning immedi- N P GET BIG ' ' ately headed for the spot and about $1,500,000 Annual Salary In- three minutes after the priscope had| been sighted dropped a depth charge. crease Announced Effec- tive Jan. 1. At that moment the submarine’s con-/ St. Paul, Minn, Dec. 29—An in ing tower appeared between. the Fan- ning andthe Nicholson’s s‘ern guns. | The bow. of the submarine came up rapidly. She went down at the stern; but righted herself. The crew came on deck of the sumarine and held up; thelr hands, the submarine surrender.) Ing. \ “A line was got to the submarine, but in a few minutes she sank, and the! erew of the U-boat jumped into the! water only One Man Lost nly One Man Lost. 1 45,0 : 4 a “although they all wore life preserv-| ae aes of the: Northerns ha ers, a number of them were exhausted Clfic and of 509 emproyees of the when they reached the side of the de-| Northern Express company, effective stroyer. As the submarine sank, five| January 19, was announced today. or six of the men were caugit by the) Last night a similar increase to 2,- aerial radio, and sarried below the! 509 slerk a st surface before they disentangled them-|” clerks and station employees was selves. Ten of the men were so, 8ranted. weak that they had to be hauled| Today’s increase will add $1,500,009 aboard. One man was in bad condi-| to the company’s annual payroll. The tion and could not hold the line; majority of those who will participate thrown to him, and chief pharmacist) are clerks, telegraphers, and ion mate Harvell and Coxswain Connor laborers. This is the third increase jumped overboard after this man, and; granted in titteen months to the un- saved him. When he was hauled) organized employees of the road. aboard, every effort was made to re- vive him, but he died in a few min- utes. The four officers of the su)-' marine and the thirty-five members of the crew were all taken prisoners.” AT JANUARY TERM IN GOLDEN VALLEY STRIKERS SHOULD BE REGARDED TRAITORS, University of Pennsylvania Pro- fessor Deems Conscription a Necessity. Philadelphia, Penn., Dec 29.--Lab- or’s part in the war was considered in its various phases today by scientists attending the conventions of the so-, cieties allied with the American His- torical association in yearly meeting here. Prof. Carl Kelsey, of the Uni- versity of Pensylvania, addressing the | American Sociological college, said that in many ways the labor situation calls for immediate attention. The government he said, must clear the, term of district court, to be convened here January 15, is expected to prove notable through the trial of Adolph Lehman, prominent Richardton ranch- er, charged with the murder, months ago, of Mathias Wetzstein, who had married Lehman's former honsekeep- er. ONE-TIME GRAIN. COMMISSIONER IS DEAD AT MOHALL Mohall, N. D., ford, once grain com North Dakota, and for many years representative of the Imperial Lum- ber company, is dead, after an illness of years. He was born in Chicago 54 years ago and was married in 1899 at Omaha to Mary Cavanaugh, who sur- vives, with one son, Denis, residing in the south. | crease of 10 per cent in the wages of | Beach, N. D., Dec. 29—The January! + 1906. NEWS COMES AS FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL HENRY J. LINDE PASSES AWAY AT HASTINGS HOTEL IN MILL CITY AFTER AN ILLNESS OF SEVERAL YEARS BLow To- Hosts \(ERMAN PRESS OF OLD FRIENDS’ BITTER AGAINST Demise, While Not Unexpected, Brings Sorrow to. All: Who Knew, Him. Henry J. Linde, late attorney gen- eral of North Dakota, a former menm- ber of both houses of legislature, and one of the best known Larristers in the state, passed away at the Hastings hotel in Minneapolis this morning, af- ter an illness extending over several years, and which culminated three months ‘ago in an acute attack which compelled the deceased to give up his practice here, where he was head of the well known law firm of Linde, Fiske & Murphy, of Bismarck and \Mi not.- Although not unexpected, news of his death brings a suock of sorrow to hundreds .of friends scattered throughout the northwest. News of the end came this morning in a telephone message from Mrs Linde, who companied her husband to Minneapolis about two months ago. Mr. Linde had been confined more than a month in a local hospital, but was showing signs of recovery, and his friends had hoped that among fa- miliar scenes and old associates in Minneapolis he might make further improvement. Born in lowa. Henry J. Linde was born near Ridge- way, la., in 1879. He graduated from Luther college at Decorah, la., in 1901, and from that time until 1902 was as- sociated with the faculty of Park Re- gion Luther college, at Fergus Falls, ‘Minn., as instructor in science and English literature. In 1903 he entered the University of Minnesota, where he graduated from the college of law in Luring his university days he was prominent in athlet! nd he cap- tained one of the most famous bhase- ball aggregations the Gopher U ever d 1 produced. Following his graduation from the University of Minnesota, he was mar- ried in Minneapolis to Miss Julia Mar- tin, and, accompanied by his new bride, he came to North Dakota, first locating at Plaza and then at Stanley in the early boom days of that fron- tier town. The people of Mountrail county early in his career there recog- (Continued on Page Three) subject of conscription of labor, and arrange for its distribution the same as it conscripts soldiers. “The time is coming,” Prof. Kelsey added,“ to treat strikers as traitors. This must, however, afford no’ excuse for low wages or mistreatment of workers.” ARMY BALLOON MAY HAVE CROSSED LINE. San Antonio, Texas, Dec. 29.—of- Associated Press.) a eS With the American Army in Frar Still another day of howli SAMMIES BATTLING WITH STORM eee ee ee ee @ FORGET TEUTONS; WAR ON SNOW . e, Friday, Dee. 28.—(By the x snowstorms—the ficials of the army balloon school| fourth—saw virtually the eutire American expeditionary force with here were making efforis by telegraph | and wireless to locate an army balloon commanded by Captain Mc- Cullough and carrying six student aviators which left here at midnight) ing traffic. Thursday. Another balloon leaving at; ” the same time commanded by Captain Intosh late this afternoon. The miss- ing balloon, officials believe, may{ Were low in the army zone abandon preparations to battle the Germans and begin a fight to keep from being snowed under. hroughout today the tiakes fell choking the roads and badly delay All last night and By trightfall the roads were in such shape that plows were Cole and also carrying six students brought out to keep the way clear. By midnight the skies cleared landed eighty miles from Fort Mc-j'and the moon came out, making ideal conditions for air raids. There hanging clouds in the horizon, however, giving promise PEACE OFFERS | covernaivents Papers Say Diplo- mats Have Given Away Victories. Amsterdam, Dec. 29.—Pan-German newspapers angrily condemn the, peace terms of the central powers. The Taglische Rundschau of Berlin says: “Never before have we given up so completely everything we so dearly bought with the blood of hundreds of thousands, with the sweat of millions, and the deprivations of our children, and with ou? own hunger.” ‘Diplomats Destroy Victory. The Deutsche Zeitung says that the Entent has-won the greatest victory of the war, and that diplomats have destroyed all that has been fought for. The Koelnische Zeitung, on the oth- er hand, regards the conditions as opening the road to a peace advant- ageous to all sides. The Lokal An- zeiger thinks that the cGrman answer to Russia will not be much to the taste of people with military leanings. WALSH STICKS TO BOSTON Manny Kopp Goes to Phillies on Trade for Bush, et al. Toston, Mass., Dec. 29.—Outfielder “Jimmy” Walsh will stay with the Boston American baseball team, but “Manny” Kopp will go to Philadelphia with Thomas and Gregg in the trade for Bush, Stunk and Schang, accord- ing to an announcement at the head- quarters of the Boston American club. ROYAL FLIER KILLED Fort Worth, Tex., December 29.— Lieutenant R. Cuthbert of St. John. N. B.. a member of the Royal Flying corps. was killed today when his machine fell several hundred feet. —— ooo | THE WEATHER | For twenty-four hours ending at noon, Dec. 29. Temperature at 7 a. m. . —30 Temperature at noon + —16 Highest yesterday . - —16 Lowest yesterday —23 Lowest last night . 37 Precipitation .. None Highest wind velo -- 16SE Forecast. For north Dakota: Generally fair to- night and Sunday; slowly rising tem- perature. Havre this morning. H pasneceeay | STEVENS AND HIS AIDE RELEASED BY THE BOLSHEVIKI Washington, D. C., Dec. 29.—B. R Stevens, manager of the National City branch bank in Petrograd, and his as sistant, a Mr. Link, arrested when the Bolsheviki seized the bank, have! been released, Ambassador Francis re- 37 BELOW LAST NIGHT, COLDEST FOR THE MONTH Boreas Loses Grip After One yori. atoday. Last Demonstration AS A SLAVER tory as Freazish in Extremes. ' : - ‘Jury Convicts Bismarck Young: ue ow eee som erature for ts pe i cember, 31 under zero, was registered i at 1 o’clock this morning. Then Old Man of Crime Against Society. WALLA’S CASE UP MONDAY/| Attorney General Langer Advises Boreas, as though having expende: his supreme effort, loosened his hold, ! ‘He Will Seek Early | Trial. and the mercury began shooting sky- ward. At 9 this morning it was only 27 below, and defo:e mid-afternoon the temperatures were around zero. The grip of the cold wave is broken so far as the northwest is concerned. ; It was only 18 below at Williston, 6; below at wift Current and 2 below at EVENING EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS BDICATES HIS THRONE GERMANS HAVE BEEN AT WORK IN ROUMANIA Bolsheviki and Teutonic Propa- gandists Reported Busy There. TROTZKY SETS TIME LIMIT Says Allies Must Accept in Ten Days or Russia Will Act. (By Associated Press.) King Ferdinand has abdicated the Roumanian throne in favor of Crown Prince Charles, according to persistent rumors in Petrograd. Official confirmation, however, is lacking. Unsettled political and econom- ic conditions in Roumania were reported this week in advices from Petrograd. The Roumanian army has been inactive since the Russian armistice, and the peace negotiations forced it to suspend, A record was! Lewis Stone, charged with enticing broken at Pierre a Grand Forks high school graduate) Sano neS with away from her home on promise of; extreinis low temp- marriage; of inducing her to accept | eratures were re- him as husband without book or bell,| ported from several after he had her in his power at Lari-! other points south More ,and of afterwards introducing and east of Bis- her into a life of shame and of liv-, marck. The mer- ing a gay life on the proceeds, was cury remained found guilty of white slaving by a around 22 below at Jury that deliberated three hours on St. Paul, but it was «is case yesterday afternoon. | only,.two below at St. Louis and just. Stone, who was up about a year ago zero at Chicago. Light snows were a charge of assisting two women reported in Montana. The forecast is Of the lower world and another Bis- continued fair, with slowly rising tem- Marck man in “rolling’ 'a farm hand! peratures. at a local hotel, but who escaped con- Month of Extremes. | viction, was arrested on this more ser- December will go down in history as ious charge after his victim had ‘be-, a month of extremes for the Bismarck Come a mother in a hovel at the edge! station. It has been the warmest and Of the business district here, and had the coldest December in history. The told her story to Chief Martineson. average, however, will be ten or +2 Martineson located Stone at New, degrees blow normal. The fore part Kockford, where he was arrested and of the month was extremely cold, with returned to this city. At both the pre- prolonged low temperatures. Then, liminary hearing and the trial two in the middle of the month, came un- Victims, one.of them a Bismarck girl,/ usually high temperatures, and for testified against Stone, and both: days the mercury did not go much be- swore that they had turned over their | low freezing, and registered as high eatnipgs to him. , | as 58 above. Then came another cold A severe sentence ‘confronts this: snap, culminating in today’s 37-below young man who until he made his first stinger. . misstep here had been known as an —— honest, hard-workins; separator hand,; FULTON AND TATE TO who had won the respect of men by MIX AGAIN AT ‘JOPLIN. whom he had been employed. Joplin, Mo., Dec. 29—Fred Fulton ‘Ras Williams Gets His. of Rochester, Minn.,.and Harry “Tex- Ras Williams, charged with harbor- ‘as” Tate of Nowata, Okla., have been ing at his home in the extreme east- rematched for a 15-round bout here ern part of the city, ladies of light January 10, it was announced last ways and flimsey morals, was found n’gut, Fulton lost to Tate on a foul at; guilty in just ten minutes today. The} Little Rock, Ark, Christmas day. court now is trying young Clooten andj —_——- Kasper, Hismarck boys who insisted; MILWAUKEE SERIES OF DEATHS OCCUR insisted upon taking their cases di-| rect to district court. Two Brakemen Instantly Killed in Course of Duties Near Walla Case Monday. Marmarth. The court expects to complete ev-/ erything on the criminal calendar ex: Marmarth, N. D., Dec. 29—An epl- demic of fatalities has afflicted the cept the Walla case by Monday noon.) Milwaukee line this week. Brakeman; Attorney General Langer announced | this morning that he is now conferring | Barney Schwendt was instantly killed at Tonquin when he stepped from an: with Assistant Attorney General Bren-' nan, with a view to moving the Walla} engine to turn a switch and in the dark lost his footing and fell under case for trial at that time. Eugene; M. Walla is charged with the em-! the wheels of the tender. After the engine crew had waited for some bezzlement of $3,400 of the state's! automobile registration funds. time for the switch to be thrown, and investigation was made, and Schwendt’s mangled body was dis- covered. He lived at Miles City. Brakeman Mike Johnson was in- stantly killed at Wautauga when an open swinging door on a_ box-car crushed in his head as he was stand- ing at a switch waiting for his train to pass. Johnson leaves a widow and eight children on a homestead near McIntosh, to which he had planned to retire. Newman N. Durbin of Marmarth, one of the best known contractors on the local run, died in a hospital at Mobridge after suffering ten days from an attack of pneumonia, con- tracted on his run during the recent severe weather. Funeral services were held at Miles City, under the auspices of the Order of Railway Conductors, and the remains, accom- panied by the widow of the deceased, and Mrs. Fred Pease of Marmarth, were taken to his old home at Gray- son Springs, Ky., for interment. MAKES PROMPT STATEMENT. Provident of Bismarck Pays Its Claims on the Dot. F. W. Beck, Genera] Agent of the Provident Insurance Co., of Bismarck, N. D., “A Home Life Co.” is in town ‘today, to make settlement on the $2,500 policy taken out last June by Alfred W. Prior, deceased. This is a record settlement in view of the fact that only five days have lapsed since the death of Mr. Prior and pay- ment of the claim. Mr. C. KE. Granner, who is local rep- resentative of the Provident has writ- ‘ten about one hundred and fifty thou- sand this year at Warwick and vicin- ity, and his explanation of this large amount of business being placed here is that the people of North Dakota take very Kindly to a North Dakota company where the money is invested at home. Mr. Beck reports that the Provi- dent has written in this state this year over four and one-half millions of business, which goes to show that the people are realizing the value of protection more so than ever before. The Provident should be commended on the prompt settlement of this claim. Warwick Sentinel, Dec. 20. DEFENSE FUND FOR MRS, O'HARE i a a a a D TO TAKE CASE TO SUPREME COURT St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 29—A defense fund to save Mrs. Kate Richards O'Hare from a five year sentence, imposed as a result of the recent conviction at Bismarck, D., for a violation of the espionage law, has been started in St. Louis by Phil Wagner, pub hostilities. Bolsheviki and Ger- man propagandists have been re- ported working among the Rou- manian troops. Talks Separate Peace. Russia, Leon Trotzky, told the coun- cil of workmen’s and soldiers’ dele- gates, would be forced to conclude a separate peace with Germany, unless the allies join in the peace negotia- tions within ten days. The Bolshe- viki foreign minister officially an- nounced he would ask if the Entente Allies will Join in the peace negotia- tions. Great Britain and France, through Premier Lloyd George and Foreign Minister Pichon, have replied inform- ally to the peace proposals enunci- ated by Count Czernin for the central powers. The German terms are ‘de- clared to be insufficient. The national labor conference has voted to con- tinue the war. Activity in Palestine, Only in Palestine, has there been marked: fighting activity. North and northwest. of Jerusalem, British troops, after repulsing for Turkish tacks, attacked the enemy, and push- ed them back two and a half miles on a front of nine miles. Turkish losses are reported to have been heavy. Artillery duels occupied the opposing armies on the Italian and western fronts. On the front in France, the German artillery fire has been heavy around St. Quentin, and in the Ypres sector. A German attack in Lorraine was broken up by French gun fire. Steamer Sinks Sub. A shell fired by an American pas- senger steamer is believed to have sunk a German submarine near the British Isles Thursday. Gunners and Passengers saw the periscope of a | submarine, and the second shot from the gun exploded and threw the debris from the submarine in the air. The enemy vessel was not seen again. VICTIM OF SMASH AT CHAUTAUQUA IS CLAIMED BY DEATH Serious Fracture of Leg Proves Fatal to Marmarth Citizen. “Marmarth, N. D., Dee. 29.—IL E. Soinley, who was seriously injured at the chautauqua grounds last July, when H. A. Gilmore ran his automo- bile through a wall of the chautauqua ; tent, died at the hospital in Aberdeen, following an unsuccessful operation. The bones of one of Soiney's legs, which had been badly splintered in the smash-up, never had knitted prop- erly, and an effort was made at Aber- deen to wire them together. A broth- er, Carl Soiney of Prosper, Minn., brought the body to Marmarth. TEN BILLION FRANCS IN NEW FRENCH LOAN Paris, Dec. 29.—The ten billion francs asked for in the third war loan has been exceeded, according to a statement made in the chamber of deputies today by M. Klotz, the min- ister of finance. M. Klotz said that the returns for the loan were still incomplete, but that the subscriptions, not including those from abroad, aggregated 10,276,- 000,000 francs. NEW YORK COMMERCE GROWS Both Exports and Imports Show In- crease Over Year Ago New York, December 29.—Merchan- dise exported through the port of New York in November, 1917, amount- ed to $270,128,789 against $233,798,432 last year, while imports were $89, 530,607 in November this year, again- st $87,639,389 last year, according to a statement on foreign commerce made public here tonight. lisher of several socialist papers and magazines. Mrs, O'Hare is now at liberty on bond, and her socialist friends have announced their intention to fight her case through the United States supreme court. Lowest Temperatures Fargo «oe 30 Williston + —28 iPerre ... - —26 St. Paul . . —22 Winnipeg 3 Helena 0 Chicago 0 Swift Curren! —20 San Francisco - 0 Wagner says he is proceeding on the theory that Mrs. O’Hare is guiltless of having remarked that ‘‘mothers of American soldiers are no better than brood sows.’’ ipary 23 or 24. SAINTLY BANTAM TO BOX Johnny Ertle Meets Jack Wolfe at Cleveland. Cleveland, Dec. 29.—Jack Wolfe of Cleveland and Johnny Ertle of St. Paul, bantam weights, have been re- matched to box ten rounds here Janu-