The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 12, 1918, Page 1

THE WEATHER Partly Cloudy. THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR, NO. 10. . BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1918. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE == PRICE FIVE CENTS. RUSSIA WILL CONTINUE NEGOTIATIONS BLIZZARD EXTENDS FROM CANADA TO GULF OF MEXICO MILITARY POLICE AND CIVIL AUTHORITIES SCOUR COUNTRY FOR MYSTERIOUS MURDERER Slaying of Banker, Clerk, Newspaper Man and Youth in Heart of Camp Funston Presents One of Most Puzzl- ing Cases in America’s Criminal Annals. ONLY ONE OF VICTIMS STILL CONSCIOUS WHEN DISCOVERED Cashier of Army Bank, Seriously Wounded, in No Posi- tion to Give Details of Tragedy—Axeman Disguised as Captain Is Believed to Be the Slayer. SURVIVOR IDENTIFIES SLAYER AS CAPTAIN IN THE U. S. ARMY; Camp Funston, Kan., Jan. 12.—Kearney Wornall of to th Kansas City, the only survivor of five men who were in the army bank here last night when the institution was robbed, | oy; told the army officials the robber was an army captain whorn he recognized, it was announced this afternoon. “The murders were committed by a ca tain,” "Wornall, is said to have told the authorities. He came into the bank and said he was short of money and hated to do it. The man’s face is familiar to me. was well acquainted with him.” | ENTIRE MIDDLE WEST LOCKED IN GRIP OF STORM: today. Winters the crop outlook. COLD IN NBRASKA. CHICAGO AGAIN ISOLATED FROM ALL COMMUNICATION WITH OUTSIDE WORLD; FOOD FAMINE THREATENING A blizzard extending trom Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, and from the Rocky Mountains to the Alleghenys, and accompanied by low temperatures rangitig from 37 below zero at O'Neill, Neb., to 12 below zero at San An- tonio, Texas, paralyzed steam railroad and street car traffic at many points 32 BELOW ON IRON RANGE. In the northwest points on the iron range of Minnesota reported 32 below, and pre- “He wore no mask. dictions for colder weather today. The heavy snowfall in the winter wheat states was said to have greatly benefitted| Camp Funston, Kan.; | Jan. 12.—Military police WALLA FREED: here and officers of surrounding towns and cities to- day were searching for the man or men who last night killed four men with axes and seriously wounded an- other in the army bank, on the military reservation here, and obtained an unstated amount of money and liberty bonds. One of the robbers, it is said, wore the uniform of a captain of the United States army. Anny offi- cers. however, do not believe a soldier was involved. The bodies. of the.dead.men are said to have been lit- erally liacked to pieces. THE DEAD. The dead are: C. Fuller Winters, vice pieeitent of the National bank of Kansas City, Mo. John W. Jewell of Springfield, Mo., editor of the Camp Funston “Trench and Camp,” and associate editor with his father, Joseph H. Jewell, of the Spring- field Leader. Carl Ohlsen, 19, son of Andrew Ohlsen, con- tractor of Kansas City, Mo. O.M. Hill, clerk in the bank. ONLY ONE CONSCIOUS. Kearney Wornall, cashier of the army bank was seriously wounded. When the murders and robbery were discovered, he was the only one of the five victims conscious, but he was unable to give a lucid story of the ‘occurrence. The robbery and murders occur- red, it is believed, shortly after 7:30 last night. A half hour later, a sentry heard groans and inves- BEACH MAN IMPROVES. F. E. Near, pioneer citizen and busi- ness man of Leach, is slowly recover- ing in a local hospital from a very ser- ious operation. His condition was crit- ical for a couple of days, but it is now hoped that he has passed the danger point. NEW DORMITORY Secretary Charles Lrewer, who with | JURORS LOSE LITTLE TIME ‘Clerk in Automobile Registration Department Acguitted in Thirty Minutes. ‘NoTEING NEW. BROUGHT OUT ‘Defendant on Direct and Cross- Examination Telis His Original Story. Db be we ed oe & Mandan, XN. D., Jan. 12.—One @ of the Walla Jurors is authority % r the statement that the first: ballot stood ~ for acquittal, and the second unanimous for acquittal, and that the remainder ¢ of the hour and a half were con- sumed in telling stories. oo oe eo oe 12.—After de- Mandan, N. D., Jan. i liberating ninety minutes, a jury in {the charge of embez the Morton county district court at his forenoon brought in a ver- uitting Kugene M. Walla of ng $3,400 of the automobile registration funds of the state of North Dakota. Judge Nuessle charged the jury this morning. Brief closing arguments were made by At- torney General William KE. Langer, for the prosecution, and Judge T. Burke, for the defense, last evening. The jury was plainly impressed by Judge Burke's address, during which the former associate justice had fre- | quent recourse to his handkerchief to | free his eyes from tears. Walla on Stand. KE. .M. Walla took tae stand in his {a For Highest For N night a tion. Will Pier Win Kan San OLD Minot, Ka ceased ci +} tising manager of The Optic. he purchased the p: aged ah he sold | THE WEATHER | ——————_—__—_—_—— noon, Jan. 12. 1918. Temperature at 7 a. m. Temperature at noon ... Fargo ... St. Paul . Helena 'fman, per man, when illness —— twenty-four hours ending at 8. yesterday orth Dakoti nd Sunday; probably ‘light snow and not quite so cold west por- Lowest Temperatures. iston . Te nipeg sas City Francisco ORRIS W. TIME MINOT NEWSPAPER MAN FILES LAST “30”; NLD. Jaa n old-time } is dead in St. Paul. inot newspa- hout eight months, when it to the Optic Publishing Co., retaining the post of advertising man-| ager and later on tho Optic Reporter | and tie Daily News until last May.| forced him to retire. | 8) world by The de-! ame to Minot in 1907 as adver-; Tn 1910) which he man-' | CHICAGO ISOLATED. Chicago, Jan. 12.—Chieago is isolated from rail commu- with the outside the worst hiivvards in its history. nication one of Its business is paralyzed. With snow two feet on the level and swept into great drifts, trai e neither ar- ; viving nor leaving the city. Surface lines were scarcely able to move. Telegraph } wires were in bad shape. No milk trains arrived, nor were coal wagons able to move 10 per cent of the fuel needed. The thermometer dropped } to 14 below zero, and a sharp wind from the northwest added to the suffering. Department Stores Close. All the big department stores closed at 3 o'clock this afternuon, because of lack of coal. ENTIRE SOUTH IN GRIP. 12.--Franklin- i Atlanta, Ga., Jan, 12.—With the entire south in the grip of its worst snow and sleet storm of the winter today, early reports showed that tornadoes which swept through eastern Alabama and central Georgia had taken a toll of sixteen lives and injured more than one hundred persons. Wire communication over a great area was tigated. Mr. Winters was. still alive. He was removed to the camp hospital, where he died ear- . ly today. The army tank, a branch of the National reserve bank of Kansas City, Mo., is situated in the center of the cantonment. It is housed in a small frame building, ang Mr. Winters was at the camp to su- pervise moving the bank to larger - quarters. Fortune in Cas Saved. Cash in the sum of $475,000, the lar- ger part of which would have been de- posited in the army bank. at Camp Funston was sent from here yestérday i and scheduled to reach ‘he bank late yesterday afternoon it became known today. However, the shipment was de- layed and did not arrive until today. Young Olson had been sleeping nightly at the bank, and Mr. Jewell was at the bank to take the other men in his motor car to his sleeping quarters. (Continued on Page Three) MEDICAL ADVISORY BOARDS FORMED IN THIRTEEN CENTERS Lieut. V. H. Stickney, chief of the own behalf yesterday afternoon at the request of his atorney, 3K. T. Burke. He testified that he never con- fessed to Hall that he was short in his deposits. He said further.that the icontinned on Page Three) the board of regents inspected tice new dormitory at the Mayville normal, reports that this fine building is aout 85 per cent completed and that it probably will be dedicated at the opening of the spring term. i About three years ago he began the publication of the North Dakota Re-| tailer, which he had made a worth-| {while pudlication. Before coming to! ‘North Dakota he had won some prom- inence as a cartoonist on St. Paul | newspapers. ' paralyzed, scores of small towns in the interior being isolated, while Atlanta, Savannah, and Jacksonville, and other cities along the Atlantic coast were cut off from outside communica- tion. THERE ARE 12 FRENCH SOLDIERS IN THIS a URE—CAN YOU FIND "EM aD \ : The storm, which began early yesterday, continued all night, and a high wind piled | i huge drifts of snow on top of the heavy fall early in the week over [[linois, Wisconsin, northern Indiana and southern Michigan, and parts of Iowa and Missouri. Over practically the entire territory: covered by the blizzard today, train schedules! have been upset and at the large terminals like Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City, ‘many trains have been annulled. Nebraska, it is said, experienced the coldest day in half a century, no point reporting e weather bureau showing a temperature as high as zero. In Kansas and Missouri temperatures of 20 below zero were common, and in St. s the thermometer reached 17 below. i} calculated to leave |seem to have | everything is lovely, that there are no | shortages and that these reports are PARLEY THAT Trotzky Retires From De' Other Continental for a separate peace. Thisi demand that the conferenc of December 25, insofar as had been withdrawn. The decision of the he replied on Friday to th conferences be transferred BAKER ADMITS SHORTAGES IN ARMY CLOTHING Declares Situation Not So Rory as Represented But Fast Improving. EXAGGERATION IS CHARGED» Senators Claim Secretary of War Has Created a False Feel- ing of Security. Washington, D. C., Jan. 12.—Secre- tary Baker came in for more sharp cross-examination today at the hands of the senate military committee con- ducting the war committee inquiry. At the outset, the committee de- manded to know what had been donc avout 1,200 Lewis machine guns held in storage while cantonments and camps need them for practice. Secretary Baker promised that they immediately would be distributed, and Senator Weeks observed that the dis- tribution had been delayed a month. “That is the essence of the whoic thing,” said Senator Weeks. Too Much Delay. “There is delay, too much delay. Things that should be done at on are delayed wien every day counts “Mr. Secretary,” Chairman Cham- derlain broke in, “your general state- ments of general conditions are all the impression that all these matters are really in good shape.” Lulled to False Security. The senator cited reports of cloth- | ing shortages at Camp Sherman, and added: statement is to lull it into a feeling of security that everything has been done that should have been done. I don’t think it has.” “[ think the country is entitled to’ feel secure,” Mr. Baker replied earn- estly. “When the facts are known the country will feel secure.” Clothing Shortages. Senator Hitchcock said: i “But. Mr. Secretary, we have speci- fic testimony to exact clothing short- ages, while your testimony seems to contradict them completely.” “I agree with the chairman,” con- tinued Senator Hitchcock, “tuat you the impression that unjustified.” { Supplies Much Increased. “Quite the contrary,” answered. “I want to give the picture as it is. There was a shortage of ov- ercoats and .other clothing. But I think the figures of shortages you have were at the climax of the short-! ages. I think the country ought to have the knowledge that since those; “The effect on the country of your; Mr. Baker - CONSENT GIVEN BREST-LITOVSK NO POSSIBILITY OF PEACE MAY BE UNUTILIZED termination That Conference Shall Be Carried On in Neutral Territory and Gives the Central Powers Another Chance. BOLSHEVIKI COMMANDER IN CHIEF BEGINS RAISING VOLUNTEER ARMY Will Be Used Not Only Against Bourgeoise at Home and Against Germans, But Also to Liberate Proletariat of European Countries. (By Associated Press.) Russia will continue negotiations at Brest-Litovsk is her answer to the German e remain there and the dec- laration of the central powers that the peace proposals they affected Russia's allies, Bolsheviki government to continue the negotiations with the central powers was announced by Leon Trotzky, the foreign minister, when e German declaration after he had obtained an adjournment to consult with his colleagues. It was Trotzky who demanded that the to neutral soil. To Raise Army. Ensign Krylenko, the Bolsheviki commander-in-chief, has begun a cam- | paign to raise a volunteer army. Tae ‘new force, he says, will be used not ; only against the bourgeoise of Russia, and against the Germans if negotia- tions fail, but also to liberate the pro- letariate. of other continental Euro- pean countries.’ Bolsheviki troops have been defeated in the province of. Tchernigov by the Ukrainians after severe fighting, but have occupied rail- way stations in South Central Russia. France Will Not Join. France will not join in the peace conference at Brest-Litovsk, Stephen Pichon, foreign minister, has an- jmounced. She also will have no peace negotiations with the enemy -un- til they make direct proposals. Fighting in West. There has been no break in the mo- notony in the fighting in the west. Raids have taken place south of | Ypres, and in the Champagne, and the artillery activity has been most marked in the Ypres and St. Quentin areas. On the Italian northern front, the artillery fire has been most in- tense, between the Brenta and the Fiave rivers. TROTZKY SEEKS PEACE. Leaving No Possilibity in Fight Un- utilized. Amstercam, Jan. 12—Leon Trotzky, Bo!sheviki foreign minis- ter to the conference at Brst-Lit- ovsk, yesterday said that order not to leave any possibility in the fight for peace unutilized, the Russian delegation accepted the demand that the negotiations be continued at Brest-Litovsk. The chairman of the Russian ‘Delega- tion said that in full accord with their former resolution, the Rus- ; sians desired to continue the peace negotiations, quite apart from the fact whether or not the entente powers participated. Adhere to Principles. Trotzky said he had noted the statement of the central powers that the basis of a general peace as form- , ulated in their declaration of Decem- ber 25, was null and void, and added: “We adhere to the principles of democratic peace, as proclaimed by us.” ENTENTE NOT INTERFERING Trotzky Declares they. Would Have Had no Voice on Neutral Soil. Referring to the odjection raised by the central powers that the trans- fer of the negotiations to Stockholm, or some other néutral point, as re- quested by Russia, might enable the entente governments to interfere, M. 'Trotzky said the EBolsheviki govern- ment had been consistent and inde- pendent in its peace policy and that there was no reason to assume en- tente diplomacy would be able to op- pose the conclusion of peace more successfully on neutral soil than in Petrograd. As for the fear of the central pow- ers that the entente nations might en- deavor behind scenes to hinder the conctusion of peace, M. Trotzky de- j¢lared the Bolsheviki policy was con. ducted without the secret methods of the old diplomacy, which, like many ‘other things, had been abolished by discouraging days supplies have Very; the Russians in their voctorious revo- much increased. Conditions are not, iution of October. It was the opinion | perfect, of course.” lor the Russian delegates, he said, that pe Si i - MANDAN LOSES. neither political nor technical circum: stances rendered it necessary to con- tinue to hold the sessions at Brest- Terry, Mont., Takes First Inter- Litovsk. state Contest. ‘Russian People Awake. PEAS Trotzky, considered that the greater. Miles City, Mont. Jan. 12—The| forces of the Russian people have Terry high school defeated the Man- been awakened and Sapna by the dan basketball quint here by a score] revolution, just. : as the of 31. to 12 in the first interstate game the sixteenth century. of the season. Wes a medical advisory board for North Da- kota and special medical aide to Gov- ernor Frazier in connection with the second draft, reports that district ad- vosory boards now have been organ- ized at Bowman, Wahpeton, Fargo, Jamestown, Valley City, Bismarck, Dickinson, Grand Fotks, Devils Lake, Rugby, Minot Williston and New Rock- ford. These boards act purely in an advisory capacity, the decision of the county eemption board being final in every instance where physical disabil- ity is involved. ‘ In the road in the eenter of the picture you may, if your eyes Camoufleurs have ‘‘decorated”’ this road along the Meuse river t until it might be ‘‘Evening in the Forest’’ or a futuristic impres- | are keen be able to see three French soldiers. sion of a street meeting in Petrograd. Now you may not be able to-find ’em but here are some of the objects in this seene: A stairway, a box, a hut, 12 French soldiers, a tree-fringed road, an embankment. “Of course you see the three soldiers near the hut at the right of the picture, and the lone ‘ ‘speckled’’ Frenchman in the left fore- ground standing nar th box we spoke of. But how about the remaining five who are grouped about the foot of the stairway—whether you can find it or not—runs up the embankment at the left. 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