The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 9, 1918, Page 1

Tithe THE BIS » NO. 40. UKRAINIANS SI "BISMARCK, NORTH Posies ai La) 1C STS JAKOTA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1918 GN FO | PRIOR FIVE. ORNTS 147 AMERICANS LOSE LIVES ON DEATH SHIP Revised Figures on Tuscania _ Leave Little Hope of List Being Cut Down SURVIVORS ARE WELCOMED No Marked Changes on Various; Fighting Fronts, Says War Summary ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION. ‘Belfast, Ireland, Feb, 9.—Be- tw 100 and 200 Ameri sol- diers from the Tuscania arrived here Friday. They were met at the railway station by a battalion of the royal Irish regiment, head- ed by the regimental). band, which escorted them to témporary quar- | ters. Crowds of citizens assem- | bled at the station and in the streets and greeted the Ameri- cans with enthusiasm. The Amer- icans appeared to be none the worse for their terfible experi- ence, except for the appearance of the clothing they wore, . (By Associated Press) ‘With but scant hope that additional | { 1 GERMAN SPY CAPTURED ON DUTCH LINER An Atlantic Port, Feb. 9.—With fed- eral agents still maintaining silence concerning the reported capture of a German spy, and incriminating evi- dence on board the Dutch liner Nieuw Amsterdam, here yesterday, the sen- sational “spy hunt” on board the steamer continued with unabated zeal today. Thirty-six men and three wom- en, first and second class passengers, who were taken from the liner yester- day, were still detained under guard, and the work of searching 1,000 steer- age passengers was begun. When the vessel arrived on Thurs- day, only government officers were allowed to meet her, Friends and rel- atives of those on board were not al- lowed near the vessel or on her pier. A squad of 100 marines and sailors is on guard at the dock, while armed GOPHERS CAST ' COVETOUS EYES. ON OUR LIGNITE St. Paul Dispatch Comments on Possibility of Obtaining ! Relief in Dakota HAS. REASON FOR ENVY Minnesota is beginning to look to-| wards North Dakota as a probable source of its future fuel supply. The | St. Paul Dispatch recently gives prom. | {nence to the following interesting ar- ticle on this subject: “The fuel shortage in the eastern launches continually patrol the, waters | near the pier. Not only will every | person on board be subjected to a! thorough search, but every case and | cask in the cargo will be opened. i The spy who was reported caught! is said to be a naturalized American. | Twelve thin sheets of paper, covered | with code words and numbers, were | reported found on his person, | Ac-| cording to unofficial reports, the al-| leged spy has confessed that he came; to America to establish communica- | tions between the German spy system, here and the Teutonic government. | SPAIN DEMANDS survivors of the torpedoed liner Tus- cania will be found, latest compila-| tions show that 147 American sgl-| diers lost their lives Tuesday ni; at! EXPLANATION OF U-BOAT OUTRAGE — | TR. Left, Theodore Roosevelt as he look- ed as a “Rough ‘Ridder” in the Span- Jensamerioat war and as he looks to- jay. halt of the United States, in which | Minnesota has unfortunately been in- volved through the unexpected order | of Federal Fuel Administrator Gar- | fleld, has a tendency to call attention | to the practically unlimited supply of |! lignite coal in North Dakota. ‘Despite the fact that, meteorologic- | allv speaking, North Dakota rates low and the extreme temperatures report- ed from that state give uninformed | reonle a mistaken conception of its! climate, there are few sections of the! country so calmly viewing the prob-} Jems arising from the nation’s fuel/ | Shortage. “In direct contrast, Minnesota has! some reason to envy the equamity with which its neighbors immediately | west view the situation. Minnesota oc- | cupies a peculiar position in relation| to the coal supply. The slate has no} coal mines. Its supply of fuel of that character must be shipped in. Form-| erly the bulk of it came fro meastern | mines, up the lake by boat, with a, off the Irish coast. British admiralty | Formal Note Served on German! relatively short rail haul, despite the, figures give the total casualties 166,, the losses among the crew and pass-! engers being 19. i Trawlers have traveled. over the’ waters where the Tuscania went down | Government by Amba:sa- i dor at Berlin ' Madrid, Feb. 9.—The Spanish am-! long distance from the mines. An- other source of supply has ‘been the all-rail shipments from Illinois and) Jowa coal fields. A third possibility is! the lignite supply of North Dakota. {| “In view of the apparent necessity, and have cruised along the Irish coast bassador at Berlin, telegraphs that he Of using the entire eastern coal pro- without ‘finding any trace of any men | other than those already yeported res | sent to the German government Thursday evening a note of the Span- ish government protesting against the duction in eastern states and the inhi- ‘bition on . shipments from the coal: fields immediately south, it may be! cued, The Tuscania survirors, bureau! recent sinking of the Spanish steafa- that the people of this state have not in: an Irish. port,, estimates:the -Amer-, icans missing at 101.” Official reports | on the circumstances surrounding the| submarine January 26, after the crew: emphasizes its inexhaustible supply his friend, Dr. [Leonard Wood, now, of the U-boat had looted the vessel. ‘its. high value in heat units, its rcady | reneral in command ofthe devartment The crew of the steamer was saved. adaptation~to-domestic “and sonmer-' of the southeast, who Imad military ex-j sinking of the liner by, the ‘German| submarine have’ot yet:ben received, at Washington, “* : atonal On the fighting.: fronts, there has heen no marked: change in the situa- tion. American’ gunners'and riflemen have checked momentarily, at least, the last activities of German snipers along the American sector in France. | The artillery also continues its .har- rassing bombardment of the German; positions, and has made the work of} German patrols so dangerous that American patrols have been able to! work unchallenged in “no man’s land. | Repulse Raiders. The British and French soldiers have repulsed German reiding parties! at several points, while artillery bom- bardments are in progress on the Ar- ras-Cambrai front, northeast of Ver- dun and in the Vosges. Bad weather prevails on most of the Italian front, and there has been no activity there except that by the artillery. The situation in Austria, which re- sulted in the:resignation of the Von ‘Sydler cabinet, is not yet clear. A dispatch received in Switzerland says Emperor Charles ‘refused to accept the resignations, Suffer Defeats. With the French Armies in France, Feb. 9.—The armies of the German crown prince before Verdun since'Feb. 2 have suffered costly defeats in sev-| N.C. en vain raids on Frénch posftions on both sides of ‘tle Meuse. Although large bodies of troops, were employed at times, not a single permanent ad- vantage has been gained. — WITHOUT ADVICES. Washington, Feb. 9.—The war de partment today was still without of- ficial advices to change yesterday's estimate that 113 American soldiers had been lost in the sinking of the Tuscania, R A press dispatch from an Irish port early today, however, indicated that that the figures of the Tuscania sur- vivora’ bureau there were still held as 101 Americans” missifig, while the British admiralty ‘figures given the Associated Press in London last night showed 166 souls missing, 147 of them American soldiers. four ‘officers and 15 men, There were 117 American officers and 2,060 men aboard the Tus- | cania, and the admiralty reports | among the survivors 113 officers’ and | 1917 men.. The war department dis-) patches put the number missing at) 210, of whith 113 are American sol-’ diers. SPREAD PARALYSIS, New Rockford; © N. D.,» Feb. 9— Charging that mail order houses are responsible to a certain extent for the spread of infantile paralysis in the United States, Alex Karr of James- town, editor of Community Life, in an address here attacked the mail order houses and ‘urged cooperation as the great need of all communities to fur- ther progress. Sending of clothing to various parts of the United States on trial fs the method by which mail order houses are spreading infantile paralysis, the speaker, stated. The clothing some- times is not accepted after trial, re- turned to the mail order house, and sent out again’ to some other mail or- der pattdn, ‘The ‘result is obvious, ac- cording to Mr, Karr. LL sey er Giralda. The Giralda was sunk by a German, On January 31, the cabinet, sitting; under the presidency of King Alfonso, | decided to send a strong protest to German damage reparation for the torpedoing of the Giralda. | REGISTRANTS NOT LJABLE TO CALL 10 PIGK SERVICE Opportunity for Selective Service | Men to Choose Own Branch | Registrants of Burleigh county who are not liable to call for Fort Dodge on the deferred quota, and who, it is stated unofficially, will be called for service on the 23rd, can enter differ- ent branches of the army by calling at the rooms of the local board, postof- fice building. The following are open: -Land division of the signal corps, to Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Medical department, to medical of- ficers’ training camp, Fort Riley, Kans. Infantry, to Camp Greene, Charlotte, ‘Spruce production division, aviation section, signal corps, to Vancouver Barracks, Wash. Engineer corps, to Vancouver Bar- racks, Wash. Bricklayers, to Camp Sevier,, Green- ville, S. C. Registrants from other counties can be sent by the local board on receiv- ing the proper papers from the board of origin., One advantage in appear- ing voluntarily is that the branch of service can be picked out, while men who await the draft must take what the government wishes to offer. The new physical regulations for the guidance of the medical examiners were received by the board yesterday and will be used next week, when 172 Class One men have been called for the test, commencing at 9 o'clock Tuesday. a The local draft board sent out two; men yesterday, on voluntary induc- tion. They were; Sam Arvanitis, Bismarck, to Camp Greene, Carolina ; Walter Sawalich, Sterling, to Fort) ‘Leavenworth. Kans. The first chose the infantry and the, latter the land division of the signal corps. . Word received yesterday from Frad| Putnam of McKenzie, who was sent to! Fort Leavenworth last week, states| that he had been transferred to Texas, | hardly stopping at Leavenworth. He probably went to the aviation division, which is.at San Antonio. AMERICANS TAKEN BY THE GERMANS Berlin, Feb. 9.—Some American pri- soners have been captured north of Xivry, 10miles east of St. Mihiel, says the official statement issued today by jmoment the physician finds a mental |nor unconditional rejection, the phy- |the canned fruit and vegetables re- paid sufficient attention to lignite coal. | “Advocates of North Dakota iignite’ cial uses. “Should the war continue for an in-| definite period and should there be further federal. restrictions against ‘oal consumers of Minnesota must ne-! Cc cessarily become more vitallv interest- NEW REGULATIONS — FOR EXAMINATION FINALLY ARRIVE Local Boards Required to Exer- cise More Care in Reject- ing or Accepting The new selective service regula- tions under which future physical ex- aminations are to be made for the na- tional army have been .received by ‘Adjutant General Fraser and dispatch- ed to North Dakota's 43 local boards. There revised regulations are adopted, states Provost Matshal General Crowder, ‘in view of the contempla- tion of a further investigation and classification of registrants puysicany qualified for special and limited mil- itary service; and in view of the de- cision to accept, some registrants for general military service with remedial defects, who are otherwise physically ond mentally quilified for military ser- vice.” under -the new regulations local boards can accept registrants for general military service only when they. come. within the standards for! unconditional _ acceptance, with or without remedial defects, and they can reject registrants for general military service only when the registrant comes within the standards of uncon- ditional rejection.’ All other regis- trants must be referred by the local board to the- medical advisory board for further examination and classifi- cation, Physicians on local boards} are not required to make a complete examination of every registrant. The} or physical defect placing the regis- trans within the standards of uncondi- tional rejection, the physician of the local board shall’ so indicate; or if the registrant comes within the terms | of neither unconditional acceptance sician shall so indicate. No registrant shall be declared physically qualified for general military service until a complete examination has been made. PEACE AGREEMENT, | Paris, Fed. 8—An agreement has been concluded between the French and American governments by which quired by the, American expeditionary forces will be supplied by France. This action was taken after a joint in- vestigation by experts of the United ‘States army purchasing board and French authorities showed that the normal fruit and vegetable crop in ‘France was sufficient to supply both armies as well as all domestic needs. The Americans will be require only to import sugar, for preserving fruit and tin plate for the manufacture of sthe:German general. staff: sy tin cans. | co shipments from Illinois and lowa, ihe | ROOSEVELT | |‘ teared it might extend to the mastoid HOW TEDDY WENT TO WAR Theodore Roosevelt gained exper- lence as organizer of a volunteer corps in the Spanish-American war in 1898. | He was assistant secretary of the} navy when the war began. Calling. in | CONDITION IS | STILL'GRAVE Physicians Unable to Determine Whether Another Operation is Needed FAMILY SEEMS OPTIMISTIC New York, Feb. 9.—The condition of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, who un- derwent two operations last Wednes- | day, was reported at Roosevelt hos- pital early today as “somewhat im- proved.” Marked improvement during the last 24 hours in the condition of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was indicated in a bulletin issued at 9 o'clock last night | by the physicians attending him at | Roosevelt hospital. The bulletin said | the “outlook is very encouraging.” | “Dr. Duel called on Colonel Roose-; velt at 8:15 o'clock” said the text ot | the bulletin. “Coloncl Roosevelt has | had a very comfortable day, and is progressing. favorably in every way. | Temperature and pulse have been! normal throughout the day, and the! violent symptoms of his’ internal ear inflammation are subsiding rapidly.” | May be Further Operations. Despite the encouraging tone of to-| day's bulletins, Colonel Roosevelt's doctors have indicated that they would | be unable to determine before today | necessary. Tuesday the Colonel underwent an} operation. for: abscessess which hadj| formed in -his ears, although he was/ only recovering from another opera-| his Oyster Bay home for fistula. Acute Inflammation. Thursday acute inflammation de-| veloped in the colonel'’s inner left ear | which regulted in the hurried calling | of conferences by the specialists who have been ‘attending him, as they) process. At their conclusion it was announced that the patient's condition was “serious but not critical,” and the doctors would be unable to say until 48 hours had. elapsed whether an-| other operation would be necessary. Members ‘of. Colonel Roosevelt’s family, who have been at the hospital yesterday and today, were very opti- mistic over the reports of the phy- sicians and in anouncing tonight's bul- letin, Miss Joséphine Strycker, Col- onel Roosevelt's private secretary, said there was nothing noted from to- day’s observations. which would indi- cate the need of any further. opera- tloa. —o IN 98 AND TODAY perience in the Philippines, Roosevelt resigned trom office and both called for volunt 7 They pi 1 cowboys and athletic college students and formed a high- spirited fighting squad, nicknamed the “Rough Riders.” . Popular belief ‘generally credits: the Rough Riders with the storming of San Juan hill and pictures Roose- ed BIG DINNER RALLY AT GRAND PACIFIC MONDAY weccccccccccccco nooo oooes Every business and professional man in Bismarck who has the welfare and development of the city at heart is urged to be present at the dinner | \ana get-together meeting of the Cony mercial club at the Grand Pacific ho tel Monday at 6:30 p. m. J. P. Hardy of Fargo, who is to speak, is one of the live wires in Com. | mercial club circles of the northwest. Annual reports of the 1917 work of | the club will be presented. We want you to know what we have done with your money. We want you to advise us as to what you want and expect us to do in 1918. This is your club. Show your inter- est in it by coming out Monday eve- ning. We expect a rousing time. Every man of Bismarck is invited and urged to be present. No personal invitation is necessary, Signed: H. P. GODDARD, President; GEO. N. KENISTON, Sec. i KOSITZKY WOULD HOLD UP JUDGE'S MONTHLY VOUCHER State Auditor Claims Cole o: Fargo Isn’t Complying With Technicalities pet aver: again. His victim this time is Judge es before collecting must i no decisions pending or motions un- setled, When the judge’s voucher t hathe had occasion to know that de- cisions were still pending in two in- sanity cases on which the judge sat at Hillssoro, and one of which involve: insanity claims aggregating $15,000, in which Mr. Kositzky is interested as state auditor. Counties against which the state has claims for this amount| have declined to pay pending a decis-| jon in the Hillsboro case, says Mr.| Kositzky. When Judge Cole received Mr. Kos- itzky’s note advising that his Janu- ary check was held up, the Fargo, jurist straightway sat down and wrote the attorney general avout it, and) asked Mr, Langer to bring mandam-| us action to compel the state auditor) to disgorge. Mr. Kositzky learned of this appeal, and after consulting the state’s legal advisers he announced today his opinion that he cannot with- hold Judge Cole’s pay, but that he may bring action through other chan- R PEA velt, then lieutenant colonel under Col, Wood, leading his’ volunteers on | horse back up the hill to victory, It is claimed, though, that the Roosevelt regiment was on hand but the actual storming was done by oth- er soldiers. Ry the end of the war Roosevelt | was colonel and . Wood. hrigadier- general. DOGS USED BY HUNS OPPOSITE ~ AMBRICAN LINE | | ‘‘Listeners’’ Sound Alarm at Ap-! proach of United States Patrols H |MUMPS PREVALENT AGAIN With the American Army in France, | Friday, leb. 8—The Germans are us- them of the approach of patrols op- posite the American sector. A Ger- man dog “listener” early today pre- | vented one of our patrols from ex- lecuting a daring stroke. Two cor- porals who were concerned in it have | been mentioned in official reports for their spirit and coczaess. s left a large patrol in a cer- in an abandoned trench in nt on to the German lines. \ican fire, they came upon pointed barbs, | Ukraine was signed at two o'clock ably will recognize no peaci ing dogs in their front lines to warn| eat signed by representatives of the RICH TERRITORY CEDED AS BAIT T0 SLAV FACTION Peace Agreement May Open Up Section Rich in Food- stuffs GERMANS NONE TOO SURE Fear Opposition of Bolsheviki to This Separate Agree, ment SIGNED TODAY. Berlin, Feb, 9.—Peace between the central powers and the this morning according to an offi- cial statement issued here today, BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. Germany’s efforts for peace on the eastern front centered now apparent- ly in an effort to open up frontiers through which she may. secure sup- |plies cf food for her hungry people have progressed so far as the signing of a separate agreement with the Uk- rainian Rada, according to semi-offi- jcial advices from Berlin. This peace important or otherwise, as events may show, is the first to be signed by any of the belligerents. g How far the Teuton plan may prove successful seems to depend upon the ‘measure of control the Rada has over the territory of the so-called Ukrain- jan republic, which embraces rich grain growing lands. Such control is disputed by the Bolsheviki who re- cently disowned the Rada’s delegates as bourgoise when they were found treating secretly with the central pow- ers, and named delegates of their own. The Germans and Austrians, however, continued to treat with the Rada’s rep- resentatives. Both Bolshiviki and Rada have been claiming military ;successes against each other in ‘the Ukraine. None too Sure. eo Apparently the Germans feel none too sure that the Rada will triumph unassisted, however, as the sugges- tion has recently come from German sources that the Roumanians: would do well to join forces with thé. Ukrain- fans against the Bolsheviki." Rouman- ia, it was pointed out, cowld ‘obtain compensation for the loss of Dobruja, to the Eulgarians, ‘by taking over Bes- sarabia territory from the. Russians. Although the early advices regard- ing the signing of the agreement said nothing about the terms, it has been previously reported that the Ukrain- ians were offered a section of Russian Poland as an inducement for them to make peace. BOLSHEVIK! OPPOSED, — Copenhagen, I"ed, 9.—A peace agree- ,ment has been signed by representa- tives of the central powers and of the Ukrainian, a semi-official ‘Berlin tele- gram announces. The Rolsheviki government prob- agree- Ukrainian Rada. This is the legisla- tive body set up by the Ukrainians at the time they declared their independ- ence of Russia, and has been opposed by the Bolsheviki as bourgeois. At tempts to overthrow the Rada and es- tablish a soldiers’ council as the governing authority in i Ukraine have resulted in fighting dur- mpanied by two privates, the ing the last few weeks ,each side claiming decisive military successes. and workmen’s When the peace negotiations. at land” last midnight and| Brest-Litovsk were begun the Bolahev- ‘ They | iki consented st found a smooth wire barrier! Ujcrainian delegates but subsequently ich was shot to pieces by the Amer-| discovered the Ukrainians were carry- Fifteen yards further on|ing on secret negotiations with the German entangle-| Germans and Austrians, ments of wire 20 feet deep, with four) upon repudiate gates, and sent to the admission of They there- the Ukrainian dele- new delegates to The men were inspecting an open-| Lrest-Litovsk. The Germans and Aus- f ing in the wire when a dog, apparent-| trians, however, ‘ly chained to the other side, began to; nice the new delegates. hark. A dugout door opened quickly in a trench and a rough voice was declined to recog- FRIGHTFUL SLAUGHTER. heard to sa. Suddenly a rection. time and | talking to themselves. | stood. | Mumps. again have appeared in the A number of soldiers are | afflicted, as is one member of the | trerches. | corps of newspaper correspondents. | So | GOVERNOR RETURNS “Fertig,” meaning ready. es, brilliant rocket went up State Auditor Karl Kositzky, whose and the Americans threw themselves judiciary, i: it! flat on the ground just as the machine on is the judiciary, is at i*/ guns began to spit bullets in their di- ag Four feet away a heavy ob- whether further operations would be| 4. T. Cote of Fargo. Under Sec. 7638, ject struck the ground which was | claims the siate auditor, district judg-; later found to be a bomb hurled their salaries,| from a German trench. The corporals e affidavit that there are| stayed where they were for a long listened to the Germans One of the tion performed a few days before at came in for his January pay, Mr, Kos-| corporals understood German, so that) litzky wrote Mr. Cole a letter advising! what the Germans said was under- FROM MONTANA TRIP London, Feb. 9.—According to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen, a special correspondent of the Berlinske Tiedende who escap- ed from Helsingfors, sends to his pa- per a wireless report which was’ not allowed to pass the Red Guard censor- ship, in which he says that the Red Guards have made a frightful slaugh- ter of great masses of Finnish people and have beén plundering and kill- ing in a most frightful manner, The theater and a large number of public buildings in Helsingfors have been destroyed. The Red Guards, however, have been unable to control the people, and anarchy is increasing, Store houses in Helsingfors which contained food from Denmark for starving Finns, have been destroyed by the Red Guards and Russian Bol- sheviki. Governor Lynn J. Frazier returned this morning from Big Sandy and Great Falls, where he went to de liver addresses before farmers’ organ- izations. The chief executive spoke before large audiences at both places. PIONEER RESIDENT NEARING DEATH HERE Joseph Hare, civil war veteran and prominent Mason, is critically ill at | the #. Alexius hospital, where he has been for several weeks undergoing treatment. “He has been in a semi- conscious state for nearly 48 hours. ALIENS GIVEN MORE TIME TO REGISTER Washington, Feb. 9.—Four_ days’ extension of the time in which. tier- man enemy aliens. must . register throughout the country’ was” an- nounced today by Attorney General Gregory. The extension changes ¢! closing of the registers from toda: Wednesday, Hebenarg 2, Members of -his family: “have been nels, © called here roti: Montana: ©9) 7 \