The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 19, 1918, Page 1

THE WEATHER ' Continued Cold THIRTY.EIGRTH BOI] yi THE BISMAR YEAR. NO. 16. LSHEV 3 ai.) BIBL“; : a a \ cS spr BEN [KT LOS XK, eatin oS E CONTROL , NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1918 APPARENT THAT APPLICATIONOF - (CONGESTION IN FUEL ORDER WILL BE FAR LESS EAST RELIEVED DRASTIC THAN FIRST EXPECTED, BY FUELORDER Much of Confusion Attendant on Enforcement of New Bunker Coal Being Unloaded in Regulation Has Disappeared Today—Coal: Moving to Sections Where It Is Badly Needed. WILSON’S SUPPORT OF GARFIELD RESULTS IN CHANGE IN CONGRESS Hostile Attitude at First Apparent Among Solons Has Dis- appeared—Few Violations Noted by Officers of Administration, Due to Misunderstanding. Washington, D. C., Jan. 19.—Although much of the con- fusion attending enforcement o: f the fuel administration’s five- day closing order continued today, it was evident its applica- tion would be far less drastic than at first believed. ,, A list of interpretations in specific cases, which probably will be given genéral application, was being prepared by fuel officials from which minor exemptions may result to supple- ment special rulings made yesterday. In addition it was an- nounced the food administrators may be expected to make fur. ther exemptions in cases of food producing plants and related industries. Food Administrator Hoover yesterday interpreted the closing order to mean that no check would be put on the manufacturing or distribution of any essential food products. Backed by President. Backed by the vigorous defense of the president, who yesterday gave his full support to the closing order as imperative to release coal to move supplies to the American army and the allies, Dr. Garfield today gave his attention to the situation at Atlantic Ports. In the face of. President Wilson's statement that the order was issued with his full knowledge and approval and another explanation from Dr Garfield, declaring that the railroad congestion ‘is threatening the food supply, vigorous opposition in con- gress apparently has spent itself. Few Violations, Few violations have been noted by fuel officials, and these, it was believ- ed, were due to misunderstandings. In some cases, even state fuel adminis- trators have not understood the or- der. * iP Ships to Get Supply. Enough bunker ‘coal will reach the docks within the néxt three or four days, it was said, to supply all ships GET IN AND GBT UNDER DR GET OUT SAYS MAJ, WATERS State Bank Examiner Putting New Bonding Act Squarely Up to Bankers, _ DEPOSITS MUST BE MADE Circular Goes to 701 Institutions Calling Attention - to i New Act. State Rank ‘Examiner J. R.’ Waters now awaiting fuel. Bunkering, how- is mailing to North Dakota's 701 state ever, depends very largely on handl- banks a polite invitation to “get under * ailing often” the coal is un-, Or get out” in compliance with the pro- foaded on the docks. | visions of the depositors’ guaranty .uer quiuntatration officials fund act of 1917. dicted it would be at least a week. “The enclosed statement,” writes --a eoal mines ‘began to receive the examiner, “is the amount of as- empty cars in numbers necessary to sessment your bank must credit to the keep production at a maximum. Con- Depositors’ Guaranty Fund commis- 2 = recuiting from diversion of coal sion, state of North Dakota, on your at destinations 1s slowing up the move- individual ledger, su>ject to the check lueu OF emnply carg -oack to the mine|or drkft of the treasurer, I. E. Han- district. sen; the amount of the assessment not Metal Mines Excepted. to be subject to the commission’s It was made clear today that indus-| draft until your condition has been ap- tries producing materials on which! proved and certificate of admittance munition nlants are denendent are x: bissued to your bank. Please see that cepted from provisions of the clos- credit is given at once and that thir ing on orders for the Emergency department is advised promptly on,thr mit the operation of virtually 41!| sneet enclosed for this purpose. Thi mines producing metals and ore. assessment should be charged to ex The fuel administration today ruled | pense, undivided profits account, o° that lumber-producing concerns work- ing on orders for the Emercency Fleet corporation and for the air- craft production board are exempt. Fuel administration officials said the tone of telegrams coming was entirely different from those of yesterday. and that most of them either approved the government’s action or expressed will- ingness to cooperate. JUDGE BEEDE TO ASK COAL LANDS OPENED Fort Yates, N. Jan. 19.—County Judge MsGaffney Beede has been named federal fuel administrator for Sioux county by Capt. I. P. Baker of Bismarck, federal fuel administra- tor for the state of North Dakota. Judge Beede expects to use his in- fluence with the department of the interior to procure permission for the opening of the Indian lignite lands next summer, and will ask that leave be granted to lay in supplies of fuel during the warm weather. FIRST HOUSE ON CANNONBALL WAS BUILT IN YEAR 1878 Fort Yates, N. 'D. Jan. 19.—Commis- sidner John C. Leach, while attending é the county board meeting this week,' recalled that just forty years ago ‘Wednesday he built the first house on the banks of the Cannonball riv- er, on the north side of the stream, in Morton county, where ,the old Par- kin ranch now is. Here he ran a roadhouse and woodyard for a num- ber of years in partnership with Iron Johnson, a pioneer who passed away many years ago. When the town of Solen was founded on the Mott branch of the Northen Pacific, Commissioner Leach established @ general store and continued to operate the business unail a few years ago, when he retir- ed. ASSISTS McCURDY. Miss Helen Sullivan Conducting Me in McLean. (Miss Helen Sullivan, assistant state superintendent of ‘public instruction, was in McLean county this week as- - sisting Superintendent McCurdy with a series of parent-teachers’ meetings at Wasbburg and Coleharbor. paid in by stockholders. “As it is the desire of the commis sion to act on the admittance of al State Danks as the same time, you are ordered to comply with former instruc tions as outlined by the state examin ter in his letter of October 31, 1917 We advise at this time that all re quests made by the state examiner re garding irregularities in your bank be complied with in full, as no bank wil! be admitted until they have comoulied in every detail with any and all in- structions ordered by the banking de- partment. If you desire to increase your capital stock to accommodate worthy excess loans, your application should be sent in at once. This com {mission will accept no excuses for paper carried that has been under criticism by the state examiner or his deputies, and such paper must be ta- ken care of as recommended by the examiner before your bank will be considered for admittance. “Whether you wish to comply with instructions as referred to above, or to liquidate, remains entirely with you, and you may govern yourself accord- ingly.” UPRISING Stockholm, Jan. 19.—Bourgeoise cir-! cles in Helsingfors are disquieted over rumors of a coming socialist revolu-| tionary uprising and the forcible dis- solution of the diet and formation of ,@ senate after the Bolsheviki pattern. | ‘ Famine Common. | The Svenska Dagsbladet’s Hapand- ara correspondent reports famine con- ditions in various places in Russia. In the Orourenberg district there has ‘been no bread since Christmas, and in a large. part of the government of ‘Nizhni Novgord, there being no pros-: pect of getting bread, the people are; eating oats, which also are becoming scarce. Hunger riots are reported in governments of Toskorna and Tver. SCHEFFER IN CITY. County Examiner Pays a Casual Visit to Headquarters. Herman Scheffer, formerly a Glen Ullin banker, and for several years past engaged with the state examin- er’s force as county examiner, was a jcaller*at headquarters this week. HELSINGFORS DISQUIETED BY RUMORS THAT REVOLUTIONARY Increa-ingly Large Quan- tities Today. MODIFICATIONS ANNOUNCED Theaters May Close on Some Day Other Than Monday—Laun- dries Are Exempt. Washington, D. C., san. 19.—Reports to ta fuel administration today show- ed transportation congestion througi- out the east being cleared and bunker coal being unloaded in increasingly large quantities. Few empty cars, however, have begun to move back to the coal mines as yet. Theatres will be permitted to close some other day than Monday—prob- ably Tuesday, under a decision today by the fuel administration. It was also ruled definitely today that all laundries-are exempted from the closing day on Monday as well as from the five day closing period. LEAGUE FIBS ABOUT STATE ARERESENTED Not True of Western Morton County, Says Pioneer Glen Uflin Merchant. “I do not know of a farmer in my district who hasn't sufficient seed for his own needs or the wherewithal to obtain seed,” said J. T. Nelson of Glen Ullin, district federal fuel ad- ministrator and pioneer general mer- chant, during.'a visit to the. capitol this morning. “In 1910. the: situation in Morton county was about as bad as it could: be—much worse than it is now. We : NECESSARY TO ADJUSTMENTS WATERWAYS TO. OWING TO WAR| BF TAKEN OVER Ottawa, Ont., Jan. 19.—Fuel Ad- ministrator Gartfield’s order is one of the drastic steps necessary in the readjustment of the machin- ery of the United States so as to get its maximum of efficiency for the country’s participation in the war, according to C. A. McGrath, fuel controller of Canada, who issued a statement yesterday com- menting on the order, “The order is merely an indica- tion of the fact that the United States is at war,” he said. “I have been working in com- plete accord with the American fuel administration, and probably no one in this.country is in a bet- ter position to know the tremen- dous difficulties which have con- fronted. Dr. Garfield in his work.” ILLINOIS CLAMPS ‘UID ON PRODUCTS OP BARNYARD HO Chicago, . Jan,, 19.—The use of ham, bacon, sausage, pigs feet, Jard, pork or any derivatives—are forbidden to all. hotels. and restau- rants in the state of Illinois to- day and every Saturday tnere- after, in official announcement made today by Food Administra- tor Wheeler. This is in addition to the meatless Tuesdays ind will be strictly enforced, it was an- nounced. NOT ALONE IN THE THROES OF CONSERV ATION Basel, Switzerland, Jan. 18.— The Royal Theatre in Stuttgart has been closed by order of the government of ‘Wurttemburg in or- der‘to save coal. All the other. royal theatres in Germany shortly will be ordered closed for the same reason. WALKED MILES TO GET CHANCE TO SERVE U.8. Fort Yates, N. D., Jan. 19.—Chester Teeter of Selfridge walked all the way to Fort Yates to offer himself. to the local ‘board when he read that 200 North vakotahs were to be sent to Camp Stevens. The board on confer- ring with Adjutant General Fraser tained enough seed warrants to take| learned that all the men needed had care of everyone. And that year we| heen sent to Oregon, and, as a reward had a bumper crop and in the fall} for Teerer’s patriotism, he was sent paid back every penny we had vor-,to Camp Dodge, where a vacancy ex- rowed. i isted in Sioux county's contingent. “A statement of the banks of Glen PEE Ullin made a few days age shows that MILITARY FUNERAL we now have ‘on deposit from two to FOR FIRST SOLDIER got together and discovered what would be neeled; laid the situation before tha county commission, and ob- three times as much as we had in 1910. I don’t know of a merchant in my town or in our section of the coun-! try who isn’t two or three times as well off as he was in 1910, and just so much more able to carry his pa- ‘rons until the harvest is over. * “I know that we haven't a man on our books whom we can’t carry until ne gets his crop in next fall, and I think I can speak for a majority of my. comnetitors. “Candidly, I believe the special ses- sion is a ‘seeding’ proposition alright. ~ I think the league hopes to sow seed which will bring the Nonpartisans a harvest at the primaries in June. That’s politics, and it's up to the league to play that brand of poli- tics. if it wants to. Fut I do resent the league’s lizeling North Dakota as| it has done and advertising to the world that we are bankrupt or broke, | unable to take care of ourselves, starv- ing paupers. Mr. Townley knows just as well as I do that it isn’t true. It is absolutely untrue of wester1 Mor-] ton county, and I believe we had shout! as light,a crop last fall as any section of the state.” METAL SERVICE FLAGS FOR RED CROSS ACRES = \ Ray, ‘N. D., Jan. 19 —Metal markers as service flags in the Red Cross acre which farmers .all over the state are donating as a crop contribution of the war fund have been suggested by Van R. Brown and approved by the Wil: liams county and state chapters. DEAD OF LARIMORE Larimore, N. D., Jan. 19.—Sergeant T. J. Valerious, a graduate of the ‘Larimore high school, died from pneumonia at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., where he was serving with the United States army, and his re- mains were interred here after a mili- tary and fraternal funeral in which the Odd Fellows, Masons and Eastern Star, of which orders the deceased was a member, participated. Ser- geant Valerious is the first volunteer soldier, from Grand Forks county to die. Fy CO‘PORATIONS HOPE TO INDUCE SOLONS TO | “GIVE THEM A CHANCE Many dilatory corporations whose charters have been invalidated during the last two years and which did not receive from the Fifteenth assembly in regular session the relief asked in the form of.the usual enactment vali- dating their lapsed charters upon the payment of the annual filing fee and a nominal penalty, are looking to the special session which opens next Wed- nesday for this salvation. - Until the legislature takes some action rein- stating their charters these corpora- tions, whose number is rather large, have no legal right to continue busi- ness in North Dakota. A Dill, giving them a chance to come back and be good, is being prepared and will be in- troduced early in the session. IS BEING PLOTTED: Ee ea ee PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, Sunday, January 20, has been desig- nated as community singing day, I, A. W. Lucas, president of the city commission, do hereby urge all loyal and patriotic citizens to attend the’ special exer- cisés at 4 o'clock p. m. at the Auditorium. This is an appropriate way in which to cooperate in this great naional movement. : The exercises are open to the public and free of all ‘charges, and your attendance is especially urged at this time of our national crisis. A.W. Lucas; President “Aftest: C. L. Burton, Auditor. Airemient from the'bank'tere. IF NECESSARY Director General McAdoo An- nounces That Government May Assume Control. MAY RELEASE SHORT LINES Only Such Railways as Are Found Essential Will Be Included in the Scheme. Washington, D. C., Jan. 19.—Direct-| or-General McAdoo was summoned be- fore the interstate commerce commis-| sion today to explain the government! operation of railroads. To Release Raitroads. Mr. ‘McAdoo said that certain short line railroads would ve released from government operation as soon as in- vestigations now under way determ- ine it is not necessary. Explaining the government railroad operation legislation, Director McAdoo said he did not propose to keep con- trol of any unnecessary lines, nor have the government compensate those not taken over. Only Roads Necessary. “As far as I can see after three weeks’ preliminary investigation, I! don’t contemplate taking over any roads not necessary for the govern- ment's war purposes and if some in- terests necessarily get hurt by it, they; will have to stand it.” May Take Over Waterways. | Director McAdoo said that should it) develop that operation of canals was} necessary they might be taken, over. He added that operation will ABA be} extended to inland waterways. i CABBY DRIVES — OFFICERS 10. ~ TAML; PINCHED No Proper Consideration Shown| for Feelings of Alleged Soo Burglar. Hailed by Chief of Police Martine- son and Deputy Sheriff Welch at the Northern Pacific depot with a hurry-up | request ‘that he drive them to the) police station and arrested on his ar- rival there on a charge of burglariz- ‘ing the Soo ticket office till of $122); jin bills, John H. Boening, Bismarck | taxi-cab driver, was given a most un-) welcome surprise this forenoon. While the Soo ticket agent was at| breakfast, following the departure of the North Soo train, between 7:30 and 8 o'clock this morning, the ticket win- dow was pried up from outside, a} jimmv inserted under tue cash drawer, | and the latter robbed of its entire con-| tents in bills. A considerable quan- tity of silver contained in the till was unmolested. Martineson and Welch were called) on the case at 8 o'clock. At 10 they| had the man whom they believe to be guilty. Eoening, who has been here about a year, coming from Montana, was connected with the burglary! through the alleged evidence of a sec- tion hand. The taxi-cad man was lo- cated at the Northern Pacific station, waiting for No. 4. After the train had pulled out, he was hailed by the of- ficers, who clambered into the cab and asked him to drive them to police sta- tion. Arrived there, he was charged with the burglary and placed under ar- rest. While Welch was questioning} the prisoner, Martineson searched the car and found there a long screw-| driver which, it is claimed, exactly fitted an imprint left on the iron of the cash-drawer when the latter was jimmied open. TIOGANS OBJECT. | The Great Northern's petition to the state railway board for permission to abandon a spur track at Tioga, in Wil-| liams county, is opposed by a petition signed by a large number of Tioga citizens. | SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL HELD AS DYNAMITER PROVEN TOBE AN AGENT OF INDUSTRIAL WORKERS, \ Chicago, Ill, Jan. 19.—Federal offi-| cials who arrested a sixteen-year-old girl, carrying a satchel in which were 36 sticks of dynamite, said today they have. conclusive proof she is an em- missary for I. W. W. plotters. | Arraigned yesterday, after being ar- rested as she left a train from the east, the girl was held under $20,000 {bonds by a U. S. commissioner. Officers who made the arrest say the girl probably is Lyndia Jose of East Youngstown, O., and known to the police. The girl carried a-loaded revolver as well as a satchel of dynamite. She fought desperately against arest, and bit one of the officer's thumbs. FORMER CASHIER OF ROLLA BANK PASSES Rolla, N. D. Jan. 19.—George W. Pow, cashier of the First National Bankiot LRolla for fifteen years, is dead at Citronelle, Ala., wher he “located in 1913, when: ill health forced his re- CK TRIBUNE EVENING EDITION: PRICE FIVE CENTS _ USSIA OFR MAJORITY M. Tchernowff, Minister of ernment, Named Cha Upon by Red Guard Near nowff, minister of agriculture in of the assembly, was elected by a REGENTS TO ASK LEGISLATURE 10 RESTORE MILEAGE Governor’s Action in Striking at Hanna Board Has Reacted Against His Own. DICKINSON MAY ASK BOON Possible Slope Will Request Small Appropriation for Its Normal School. In an alleged fit of peeve because the supreme court had declined to give him control of the board of re- gents, Governor Frazier. when consid- CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY GORS TO SOCIAL DEMOCRATS BY BIG. IN OPENING BALLOT Agriculture in Kerensky Gov- irman by 244 to 151, Defeating Anarchist Woman Martyr. DEMONSTRATION AGAINST LENINE RESULTS IN KILLING OF SEVERAL Five Slain Outright and Dozen Wounded When Fired American Embassy—May Mean Return to Power of the Banished Premier. Petrograd, Friday, Jan. 18.—The long delayed constituent assembly was opened today. On the first test of strength the Bolsheviki were defeated by the social evolutionists. M. Tcher- the Kerensky government, and the nominee of the social revolutionists as the right for chairman vote of 244 to 151. MARIA SPIRIDONOVO DEFEATED. The candidate of the Bolsheviki was Maria Spiridonovo, long a prominent revolutionist, who was released from exile in Siberia after the overthrow of the Romanoffs. The opening of the assembly was set for noon, but a controversy over registration caused delay until. 4:00 o'clock. Slightly more than 400 mem- bers were in their seats. Of these, the Bolsheviki and the social revolution- ists of the Left, who were working to- gether, have about 150 votes, and the social revolutionists of the Center and Right have the remainder. Anti-Bolsheviki ‘Display. The threatened _demonstration against Bolsheviki control.of the open- ing assembly was confined to- parades of small groups of men and women. These groups were composed of well dressed people, except in one instance, where there was a large number of soldiers and peasants. : At a corner near the American em- bassy this group was fired upon and dispersed by the Red Guards. Five persons were killed, and a dozen were wounded For the most part, however, the streets were quiet throughout the morning and afternoon, being under.a heavy patrol of Bolsheviki troops. The Constituent Assembly. ering the omnibus appropriation bill' The. constituent assembly, accord- | last spring vetoed an appropriation of ing to a proclamation issued by the $7,000 for the traveling expenses of revolutionary government last March, the members of the board. Since that “Will issue fundamental laws, guaran- time, the regents have been traveling teeing ‘the country the immutable at their own expense, tne emergency Tights of equality and liberty.” Fail- commission having declined to grant a Ure to issue a call for elections to request of the board when Hanna’ the assembly was one of the causes members were still in control to trans- Contributing to the downfall of the fer an unexpended appropriation trom Kerensky government. The Bolshev- another fund and give the regents iki government issued a call for elec- something to pay carfare with. The tions soon after the success of the | sliced from the appropriation for the, ‘These items are vetoed for the rea-: board now is controlled by Frazier members, and they will go before the special session of the legislature and request that they be granted traveling expenses. Immediately following tue organization of a Frazier board con- | sisting of five Frazier appointees, the goveinor voted each member an ap- propriation for a 2000-mile mileage book. John Steen sat tight on that appropriation, urging that he had no sufficient evidence that the Frazier board was legally constituted, and the books never were issued. Two men whom Governor Frazier appointed at! that time, and who would have been! presented with 2,000 miles’ travel at the state's expense, never have gained seats on the board of regents. Governor Frazier last spring also vetoed an appropriation of $5,000 for the salary of commissioner of educa- tion, and $900 for the employment of a stenographer to the commissioner. Dr. W. B. Craighead, shortly after the; expiration of his salary, was granted) an indefinite leave of absence. It is not probable that the Frazier board will ask him recalled. There is a bare possivility that the Slope may ask the restitution of some of the items which Governor Frazier new normal at Dickinson. The gov- ernor vetoed $125,000 appropriated for the main building; $15,000, provided for a central heating plant; $9,000 for plumbing and wiring; $2,500 for wa- ter and sewer mains; $3,500 for furni- ture and fixtures; $2,500 for library and $2,500 for laboratory equipment. son that the appropriations of the leg- islature greatly exceed the available income,” said Governor Frazier in his voto message. revolt last November. The elections were completed early in December. An attempt to open the assempbly was made on December 12, but no pro- gress was made. The results of the elections were unfavorable to the Bol- sheviki elements the social revolution- ists of the party of which Kerensky is a member, gaining the greatest num- ber of delegates. GIRL OF 16 CARRIES ENOUGH DYNAMITE T0 BLOW UP SMALL CITY Chicago, Ill, Jan. 19,—Carrying enough dynamite in two small hand- bags to wreck the Union passenger station, a slim, dark haired girl was arrested Friday as she stepped from a train from Youngstown, Ohio. The girl gave her name as Linda Jose, 16 years old. She told of being given the explosive at Steubenville, Ohio, and of carrying it across three states in passenger trains to deliver it to an uncle in Chicago. Defying the federal officers, she refused to give the name of either the sender of her uncle. The gitl was held on a charge of transporting the dynamite in viola- tion of the interstate commerce law. Officials believe the explosive belongs to anarchists. Minneapolis Police : Fail to Land Bandits Minneapolis, Juinn, Jan. 18— Minneapolis police at a late hour to- ———— | THE WEATHER | For twenty-four heurs ending at noon, Jan. 19. Temperature at 7 a. m. Temperature at noon . Highest yesterday .. Lowest yesterday . Lowest last night . Precipitation Highest wind velocity . night had made no arrests in connec- tion with the holdup of the Cocmopoll- tan club where seven bandits late last night held up fifty men, obtain- ing jewelry valued at $6,300 and $4,000 9] in cash. 10. Pershing Reports Death 8| of a Grand Forks Soldier 15 N. W.| Washington, Jan. 18.—General Per shing reported the death of Private Wm. W. Whalen, Grand Forks, N. D, of pneumonia. MOTT PHYSICIAN TO FORT RYLEY SERVICE Mott, N. D., Jan. 19—Dr. F. T. Ruck- er left the fore part of the week for Forecast. For North Dakota: Generally fair to-} night and Sunday; slightly colder to- night. Lowest Temperatures oe 2 Fargo. Williston . a. —6 ine 3 Fort Riley, Kans., where he is to re- Helena 28 port Sunday for service asa lieuten- Chicago . —2 ant in the medical , reserve. Swift Current — 4 Rucker and children go ‘ Kansas City . Ore., where.they will San Francisco . the war. A: » ORRIS. W.