The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 16, 1918, Page 6

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BACHMAN BOYS Fl ND LIFE OF WINDJAMMER WITH SAMMIES IN FRANCE IS NOT Leader of Famous Second Regim Write Interestingly of Ex HARD EXISTENCE ént Musicians and\.His Brotuer perisnces Over There—Not a-Single Case of Sickness. ‘The life of an American bandsman) in France is not such a hard job ac-/ cording to letters received from Har-! old and Myron Bachman, in the band | of the 116th Engineers, now ‘‘some-| Hyhere in France,” to their parents, | ‘Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Bachman, at Fargo ‘and to Mrs. Harold Bachman at Fargo. ; “Phe band was formerly the Harvey, | 'N. D., unit in the Second North Da- kota, and for several months was sta-| “ioned in Bismarck. : They say in their letters: ¥ We are now settled in warm | barracks, with stoves and plenty | of coal, though the weather is not cold, about like North Dakota in October. ‘We had a fine Christmas dinner with all the turkey we could eat. After dinner we had regimental Christmas exercises. There were five Christmas trees. After the exercises we had a little entertainment in our band | room. It was in the form of a minstrel show. Apples and nuts afterward rounded out a pretty | . good Christmas day for a bunch ] of boys 5,000 miles away from | home. | There has not been a single case of illness in the band, No Mail, Only Complaint. The fact that no mail from home was received until after the first of) the year, owing to irregular mails, | ‘was the only complaint Messrs. Bach-| man have had to make, but in a recent | etter, Harold Bachman says: “Well our mail is gradually getting Ktraightened out, and we have all re- ‘Geived quite a lot of mail, and feel better.” _ The Messrs. Bachman letters, ‘part, follow: | | in} December 22, 1917. ** Dear Folks:— We have been on the move about All week so it has been impossible to| get any mail to our commanding of-| ficers’ attention. j | “We have not received any mail ‘from you yet. We are now settled warm barracks with stoves and “plenty of coal, though the weather is not cold, about like North Dakota in! "October. * “Saw Captain Murphy, of’ Bismarck, ‘when we got off the train here yester- ‘day. ‘He did not come over on the ‘ame boat as we did, and it seemed/ good to step off the train and see| *him here. | © “phere is no Y. M. C. A. here yet @ no place to spend the evenings. “We will get settled down tomorrow} our regular routine again, | , “I heard our captain say we were) oing to have lots of turkey for “Mr. Markley and | they could eat. with company funds and “A French soldier rode in our car yesterday. He is a man 49 years old and he and his son are both in the army. He gets five cents a day pay. He was on his way home to see his family, and did not know if they had enough to eat or not. His wife and three daughters‘had to get along on one franco (20c) a day. “We see many interesting things each day to talk about but are not! permitted to write much. “We are in no danger and are very comfortable so there is no use to worry about us.” HAROLD. | try the natives December 26. “I am wondering how you spent | Christmas and know you are wonder- ing how we spent ours, “I have written nearly every other day but I understand that very little! mail has been sent owing to the fact that our new camp postoffice has not been established yet. No Cause For Worry. “If you could just’ see how comfort- able we are you would have no cause to worry. I am sitting in our room by a nice fire writing and Myrom has! been in bed—for an hour. Jim Son and I just finished a lunch. Fried po-' tatoes (a great luxury here) and| onions. We ate them with war bread, | “We had a fine Christmas dinner) with all the turkey we could eat.| After dinner we had _ regimental Christmas exercises in a big audit-) orium. There were five trees, one, big one and four small ones. An ap- ple tree, a chocolate tree, a fig tre and a walnut tree. After the exercis- es the boys got all of these things They were bought from ‘the; chaplain’s fund. The band played a| concert before the program and cen onel Walker and Major General (cen- sored), commander-in-chief of our division, and Chaplain Markley spoke. “At the close of the speaking we played a half hour concert and the boys never played better. We play ed Angelus (by “Massenet), Jubel Overture, by Weber, Bruce gave, 2 cornet solo, and a march composed by Jim Son and dedicated to our Col Walker, after which we received some very nice compliments from the gen- eral and colonel on our music. “Tf hard work, clean living, tend: ing to business, and a moderate amount of brains is worth anything, we are going to make a place for our- selves as a musical organization in this A. E. F. army. Have Minstrel Show. “After the afternoon exercises, we had a little entertainment in our band room, It was in form of a minstrel show. Lieut Regan, of our company, was interlocutor and “Pap” and Wal- in were end’ men. +% ‘is going back to the front. day for a bunch of boys 00 m a from home, and I was glad to be able to help with it, although I felt pretty blue myself, for surely thought we would have some mail Christmas. eS “I have become well acquainted with three French lieutenants who are on furloughs and come to the band room nearly every Cne was a_ prisoner the year of the war. He escaped ory is more interesting than any book. His baby was born while he.was in prison. They are all fine men and we are glad to be on their side. “One, a, violinist before the war, has been wounded three times and We can't talk without an interpreter but’ he shows me the picture of his wife and | 1 show him a picture of my wife and we are great friends. “HAROLD.” December 28. “It seems useless to write this let- ter, as the last ones we wrote haven't left camp yet. “It has been snowing the last three or four days and there is now about four inches on the level, and pretty cold, something unusual for this coun- say. Our barracks are warm, though, and we have plenty of coal. | “We practice twice a @av avd play! retreat at night so the days fly past pretty fast. We spend lots of our ev-* enings down in the village. The Bruce boys can talk French, and we get them to talk to the French people and interpret for us. Will Tell German Outrages. —_——.-_—- “We can tell you some of the Ger-, man outrages first hand,*when we get home, as told to us by our. French | soldier friend who has been in a Ger- man prison and escaped. | “Don’t worry about us. We are in much better surroundings than we ever dreamed of finding when we left! the United States. “MYRON.” January 3. | “Well, our mail is gradually getting straightened out and we have all re-| ceived quite a lot of mail and feel bet-! ter. The last few days have been) cold that we could not get out and play retreat every night. | Serenade French Colonel. | “New Leag’s day we went down to} the village and serenaded the French | cclonel stationed there, and the in-: habitants. | “New Year's eve we hail ten Fremtch | ieutenants and a priest up in. our ‘oom to supper. They were pleased) o hear about the baby and drank to| she health of “le femme et petit’ gar- 3on” (the wife and little boy.) “We rehearse two hours every. 4:30 o'clock. “The boys are also doing a lot of hard individual practice while they have such a nice place. * “Got a new man in.the band today He is a,piano-player and pipe organ- ist from the Cincinnati. Conservatory and a very fine musician. He . will play bass drum, cymbals and bells in the band, ind Carrol Lilly will play; dnother snare drum which will give us two of them, and make quite an im- provement. 5 i . "No Sickness As Yet. “There has not been a single case of} joas sickness in the: ‘ norning, take an hour’s: hike every; afternoon and then practice one and) 2 half hours before playing retreat at) From their base‘ “somewhere. inj t he nort warships often cruise far’up around the ‘Arctic circle. one ‘of the warships coaling from:a collier at. her -side. of the British Iles British This photo shows Coalingis not a ek | job to give pleasure“at any time, but when the thermometer hovers around colder than usual, however, but not 80 | the zero mark--worse is no name for it.. i; CONTEND RATES _ SHOULD'BE MADE BY I. C. BOARD Washington, D. C., Feb, 16.—A minority réport by eight republi- ~ cans members of the house inter.’ state commerce commission on the sdministration railroad bill, contending that the rate making power should be vested absolute- ly in the interstate comerce com- mission and that the federal con- trol of the railroadé should be lim- ited to one year or less after the peace nprociamation, was filed Friday with the house, LOMAS SALE I8 RECORD BREAKER ry ‘qoday ig the last day. of the big Lomas Hardware Company’s sale; {and hundreds will take advantage of Iow* prices on alt the country, every sense of t | marck, have taken advantage of the high class: merchandise that we have offered at reduced prices. The final wind-up will be Saturday, and we an- ticipate a’ record attendance.” q FINED $300 IN FEDERAL COURT 'rargo, N. D., Feb. 16.—Phillip Blan of New Salem and Matt Grewer of Glen Ullin, business men, voluntarily pleaded guilty to violating the bone- dry law in Judge Amidon’s court Wed- nesday and were sentenced to pay a fine of $300 each. Thecourt in imposing the sentence said that the time is rapidly approach- ing when a straight jail sentence with- ‘out the option of a fine will be the pénalty imposed by him upon viola- tors of the bone dry law. %He said that the mere fact that the ‘Uquor 8 brought in for personal use ‘doesnot alter the character of’ the offeyse in the least, 5 WINDY CITY'S — ~ THUGS HANGED IN COOK JAIL |Double Execution Final Chapter in Police Murder Mystery in Chicago FIRST IN FIFTEEN YEARS Chicago, Feb. 16—Edward “Ammu- nition” ‘Wheed, convicted of the mur- der of Barton Allen and Louis Osen- berg, express payroll messengers, with money for the Winslow Brothers | plant, 4700 West Harrison street, and | John Tiernan, a patrolman, will suffer | the death sentence in a double hang- ing in the Cook county jail today. Wheed, armea witn a sawed off shotgun, held up, Allen and Osenberg at 10:30 o'clock Aug. 28, when they, were in front of the plant. Blowing off Allen’s head he turned quickly and struck Osenberg a fatal blow with the | butt of the gun. With $8,700 as booty | he escaped, after a long chase through | the streets. | Gold Their. Undoing. | Included in the money taken was a {considerable amount of old coin. | Through a “go-between” with whom | Wheed was endeavoring to exchange the gold coin, the policey learned of | Wheed’s:- hiding place at the home:of his mother on Thomas street, there to arrest him the police found the home barricaded and turned into a veritable arsenal.’ For two hours Wheed held 200 officers at bay before he was finally captured. In the long fight three police officers were badly wounded, |. Wheed was tried before Julge John J. Sullivan of the criminal court, and prosecuted by James A. O’Evien, an assistant state's attorney, early in No- vember. He pleaded insanity as a de- fense. Wheed once served six years on.for counterfeiting five dollar bill: patrolman when the latter caught him robbing a west’ side dry, goods store, August 23.. Lindrum was captured af- ter he had run two blocks. and was later sentenced to be hanged peal to the state supreme court, but that tribunal -refused to review the case. The date for the hanging was finally set for Friday, February 15. Lindrum, lke Wheed, alleged insan- ity in his defense. He was on parole from the Pontiac prison when he shot First in 15 Years. At the criminal courts building it have passed since the death sentence has been imposed for the murder of !a Chicago police officer. The Chi- |eago police have been considera ly wrought up over the Lindrum case. An interesting coincidence regard- ing the death of Officer Tiernan, is that his widow was the sister of Den- iis Tierney, the special officer who was killed in the recent Illinois Cen- tral robbery at the Randolph ‘street station. She thus has lost: both’ hus- band and. brother within a few months and in the same manner, - The double hanging will take place at nine o’clock in the mornthg, 2 cording to the announcement mad Ww will be enter, Sailer Will J. Davies. Only witnesses Harry Lindrum, convicted murderer of | Going | in the Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, pris-| Harry Lindrum was convicted of, shooting and killing John Tiernan; a/ He. was} tried before Judge Kickham Scanlon, | Decerhber 12, He was granted an ap-| Tiernan: +) | | i was stated that fifteen or more years| _ iby| | men teams will con! BOWLERS GATHER IN BIG CONGRESS ‘Usual Formalities Will ‘Open An- nual Tourney Today. Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb, 16.—After a final ngpection of alleys here yester- day by ‘the offictals ‘of the: American Bowling congress, everything was de- clared to be in readiness for.the open- ing of the eighteenth and the annual tournament of this congress at the Hamilton county armory tomorrow night when sixteen local teams, heal- from. as many associations of indus- tries, will roll the. first. balls on the sixteen, new. alleys. From 8:30 o’clock tomorrow night until’ March 10° the alleys will be oc- cupied daily from 8 a. m. until mid- night and during nis time 652 five est for supremacy. Of this number 511: teams from’ cities other than Cincinnati will roll. Almost every state in the union’ is represented: as well’ as: soveral citle. in @anada. i The actual rolling of the first balls tomorrow night will be preceded by the usual ceremonies, Mayor John Gal- yin of this city ,will deliver a short aduress of Welcome and the alleys will be formally turned over to the congress. officials by the local tourna- ment commitee. Beginning en Sun- day morning the. two men team sec- tion of the tournament with 1,494 en- tries and the signles, with: 3,033 en- tries, will be started. WINTER RACE: MEET OF GREAT WESTERN Directors to Assemble in Chicago to Plan Card Peoria, l.,:\Feb; 16.—The , annual winter meeting of the Great Western Troting asociation will be held in Chi- ' cago Tuesday, February 19, it was an- nounced here today by Secretary W. H. Smollinger. ¥ “While the war may cause a few of the sitialled meetings to'‘be abandon- ed the larger fairs’ and expositions in he middel west will stage meetings late next summer and fall as’ usual” said Mr. Smollingér. Cittes likely to be included in’ the 1918 ‘Circttit’ are Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Des ‘Moines, Peoria, Burlington, Galesburg, Oma- ha and Springfield. Sai areca SS REFUSE TO SUSTAIN, St. Paul, Feb. 16—The: state-su- preme court this “afternoon refused to sustain ‘the judgment of the Clay county ‘district court in a case Charging that the Northern Pa- cific company’s freight depot at Modr- head was an ‘unlicensed ‘drinking place. While Moorhead is in‘ dry’ ter- ritory. the option laws were not: re- garded in the case becduse the charge was not made under them. Mrs. Kate Hall says: .“I have kept house 15 years, am the mother: of four children, and I would not keep house without Hollister’s ‘ Rocky Mountain Tea.” Wise Woman, why? Drives away sickness, brings' health and hanniness to ‘the whole family. BRESLOW’S.