The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 19, 1918, Page 4

| ¥ f § _ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. ISSUED EVERY DAY QHORGE D. NANN SB fiepaiie. G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANT. Special Foreign Representative. NEW YORK, Pith Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bidg.; BOSTON, 8 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege Bldg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- ished herein. ‘All rights of publication of special dispatches herein ave also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. vaily, Morning and Sunday by Carrier, per month .-§ 10 ally, Morning, Evening and Sunda per month ... .. ese Daily, Evening only, by Carrier, p Oaily, Evening and Sunday, per month .... Vforning or Evening by Mail in North Di Year si siestettntoneers Morning or evening by mail outside of Nor one year o dunday in Gembination with Evening or mail, one year ... THR STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1873) <> EQUALITY FOR THEM! The National Society of Patriotic Women ealls attention to a matter that Secretary Baker should consider right away. The American women doc- tors serving in Europe are without. rank, title or commission, while the English and French women have such, Hence, our women doctors and nurses in the military hospitals are not treated with equal respect by the internes and the soldiers. Baditor by Carrier, Chicago policemen are’ to be armed with rifles. We don’t. know why. Maybe the robbers have be- gun to hold up the cops. THE WISE HAVE PLANS. A month of preparedness is worth a year of grunting, jawing, perking, hauling and digging aft- er the demand has arrived. We’ve learned this in the war. It will be unwise in merchants not to prepare, so far as they may, for relinquishment of what British merchants call the ‘‘Iuxury trade ;’’ that is, the trade in non-essentials. : It is very unlikely that the federal railroad man- agement will make further heavy cuts in the trans- portation of ‘non-essentials, So convinced is our government that our main war problem is ships and nothing but ships that: it is seriously thinking of cutting off all importations. Either of these meas- ures means that the merchant must, to some extent, readjust his business. It does not necessarily mean less business; for, if the folks cannot get the lux- uries, they certainly will purchase more of the essen- tials. Forced, sudden readjustment means worry, work and waste in any business. The wise man hath his plans to meet what cometh. Germany ‘announces that the Rumanian oil wells have been repaired. That puts it up to John D. And our money goes on him. FACTS AS TO RUSSIA. What Neushel, the student, and Michaels, the professor, who have just returned to this country, after months of intimate connection with internal affairs in Russia, say is entitled to more than the ordinary credence. Neither of them hob-nobbed with officialdom, as do the ordinary authorized commis- sions, and returned with the mere opinion of inter- ested parties. Both got down among the common folks and thus got real information as to actual general conditions. They testify that Russia quits fighting the Teu- ton solely because she can no longer fight. She simply hasn’t the arms, munitions and leaders, nor the sentiment of patriotism to spur her on. She's so desparate that she doesn’t care what happens, and is open prey for anybody with power to despoil. Professor Michaels has just completed a grain survey of Russia for American interes While Russian cities are on the verge of starvation, the granaries in the agricultural regions are stuffed with wheat, and the sowing is the largest ever known. Simply, transportation facilities are in a state of complete ruin. Watch ‘those magnificent railroaders, the Ger- mans, get to those fat granaries! Another. pleasure that we shall give up during lent is spending half an hour or so in the basement every evening, to listen.to the gas meter. MONEY TALKS. It must: be lovely to suddenly become a million- aire and with the millionaires swosh. There’s the ease of Tadasaburo Yamamoto, of Tokio. He awoke, one morning, to discover that war profiteering had put so many millions in his coffers that they were likely to explode. Now, when you become a millionaire. you’ve got to do ‘‘something different’’ to show that you are the real thing. So, first thing Mr. Yamamoto does is to hire 21 newspaper reporters and set off into Korea on a royal hunt. There he blazed away at tigers, boars, deer, bears, leopards and such till a large part of Korea was just one death yell of wild beasts.’ But, huh! that’s:some like an old game of millionaires, so Millionaire Yam-ete., took his big- gest tiger and made a great banquet on it, for his friends and. reporters. at Tokio. Of course, tiger, fried, baked, stewed or boiled, is just cat, intensified, undenatured cat; but every banqueter. said it was delicious. When you eat off a millionaire, it is proper that you like cat, kitten, or anything else that he pays for.. Anyhow, Mr. Yam-ete. had done something that ' distinguished him from All other suddén’ millionaires, and every- body who wasfull of his kind of cat said so. But, he’ wasn’t through sparkling yet. He de- ed that the whole world should know of his among the malefactors’ of great yhe shipped the skin of that big tiger | Roosey colonel | some week from their wives. ‘Perfectly’ outrageous em- bezzlement! But, probably, the employers held back $200 or $300. it AON eccoresmene as [___WITH THE EDITORS. | CRETE EDM ORS | FROM HAGEN’S HUM TOWN. In Townley’s bankruptey proceedings, he testi- fied that he controlled the Courier-News and the Leader. He must, as there was nothing in either about the case. At the same time he told how dod- gasted poor he was, even exhibited the hole in the lining of his coat. And the readers of the CN haven’t noticed much about the stores proposition either. Surely all this would be interesting to its readers.—Westhope Standard. THAT STORE SCHEME. J. W. Brinton, consumers United Stores Co., de- fended their store plan in the Leader last week. It was a very weak attempt and he did not go to the trouble of proving anything or explaining, the plan. ‘The Leader said noth- ing about it editorially or otherwise before, It wants to be in a position to deny having anything to do with the store plan, ‘if it should prove un- popular. Townley is in the same position. He has not endorsed it openly nor is he likely to. It won’t be long before the league: will be circulating the story that the store plan was started by their ene- mies and ‘that they really had nothing to do with it. There is going to be a collapse and Townley don’t want to be under it,when it goes down. Neith- er do we.—Plaza Pioneer, GERMAN WAR AIMS—1914 AND 1918. In view of Germany’s efforts to make peace on terms which could only be imposed by a conqueror that cannot be disguised as anything but aggression and annexation—it is interesting to turn back to the statements of the German apologists at the outbreak of the war. Germany, it will be re- called, professed only the noblest of motives; she was not engaged in a war of conquest but of self- defense. 3 : It was the ‘‘pan-Slavie peril’’ in particular, we were told, that forced Germany into war, Russian imperialism precipitated. the great war. ‘‘The Rus- sian government,”’ said Bethmann-Hollweg, ‘‘has smashed the laborious attempts at mediation on the part of the European state chancelleries, on the eve of success, by the mobilization, endangering the safety of the (German) empire. * * * Rus- sia wanted war.”’ The imperialistic Romanoffs have been over- thrown, the Russian army is practically demobilized, and Russia certainly doesn’t want war any longer. The ‘‘menace’’ of Russian imperialism is definitely destroyed. If it was purely a defensive war Ger- many accomplished her purpose with the outbreak of the Russian revolution. She could quit fighting on the terms proposed by the allies without endan- has been playing all ai for higher stakes than her seeurity.—Chieago Tribune. POLICY HAS BEEN DIRECTED. Mr. Townley has mentioned in his testimony in the bankruptcy petitions that he directs the policy of a paper for the modest stipend of $100 a month can- not be expected to b¢ on the job all the time, and many things may be done or omitted of which he has no knowledge at the time. It might not be strange, therefore, that such matters as the United Stores company and the Townley bankruptey iear- ing should receive no mention in the columns of the socialist organ just while they were fresh. “Mr. Townley could not be held responsible for that. Ue has so many irons in the fire that he can scarceiy be expected to attend to them all at once. But when there is organized in the state a cor poration no matter under whose management, which succeeds in selling pieces of blue sky to the farmers of the state at the rate of $100 a chunk until $960,000 worth has been sold; when there has been started an enterprise which, according to assurances given sub- seribers, is to revolutionize the entirc commercial work of the state by driving alt the merchants out of business and enabling the farmers to deal with head- quarters direct; when the leader and manager of enterprises in connection with which close to four million dollars has been collected in two years goes into court and pleads poverty and, in.another place exhibits a coat with a torn lining in evidence of his impecunious condition; when all these things are going on, and the chosen mouthpiece of the social- ist organization remains silent on them day after day and month after month, it is impossible, to. avoid the conelusion that the director is actually directing, and that Mr. Townley chooses not to take the read- ers of his paper into his confidence with reference to what he.is doing—Grand Forks Herald. STILL SOME MONEY LEFT. County Treasurer Schrenk took in $61,607.32, the same being the total amount of the initial payments tioned at the court house to the highest bidders. The total sales aggregated the sum of $303,036.60, The lands sold for from $15 to $40 per acre. Wm. Koep- plin of the King settlement paid the top price when he bid in the southwest quarter of section 36. —70._ Dr. G. A. Mathews of Napoleon was a ciose second when he purchased the southwest quarter of section 6—135—72 at~ the price of $3 per acre. Joseph Meicr, also of Napoleon, bid in some lands in 85—71 at about 430 per acre. There has been considerable complaint and pro- testing from the large majority of the farmers against these Jands being offered for. sale at this time as we have had two successively bad years and many of our farmers have on that account been un- able to share a chance in the purchase of them or there would be a still different figure as the top price received at the sale just held. But under Yownley administration of the affairs of North Da- kota our state exchequer has been depleted, so money is needed, hence the sacrifice of these fine properties of the school and state endowments. The accumu- lation of a large sum of money to be raised by the sacrifice at this time of the lands belonging to the state and school endowments will, while the rest of the funds or accounts be showing in ‘‘red’’—enable the Townleyites to say, ‘‘We are a little in the red in some accounts, but look at our big-school fund!” Despite the croaking from some quarters, the result of sale: shows conclusively that there is still some wealth represented in Logan county, as D uyers of these lands. are at this time are also patriotic owners of libert, have not ering her security or her integrity. But Germany Bt ig J B >| stock market, made by purchasers of state and school lands auc-| dive gn These same pa-|.. _ ESPECIAL, THE BILL! | TRIBUNE HEALTHY TONE | HELPS MARKET Subsidence of Shipbuilders’ Strike and Other Developments Have Effect New York, Feb. 18—Constructive| home developments over the week end, notably the subsidence of the shipbuilders’ strike and the large) earnings reported by several impor-| tant industrial companies, more than) nullified what was. regarded as di: couraging news from abroad in today’s sentative equipments and numefou: war contract shares were encomp: in a broad movement at substa advances, while some speculative is- sues wer even stronger, ; Announcement that congress is to Investment. rails,-:shippings, repre- devote this week tothe ‘railroad con-) trol bill and reassuring trade advices from western and other trade centers were among the additional helpful fac- tors of the day. Commission Houses Interested Much of the inquiry for stocks ema- nated from commission houses, indi- cating a revival of public interest, but the shorts were helpful in the ad- vance, covering extensively in certain issues recently under pressure. ‘ Over half a score of rails, includ- ing low paid western and southern shares, registered gains of one to two points, Pacifics and coalers again fur- nishing the stimulus, Selling for ‘profits made little im- pression until the final hour, when United Staes steel, marines and some of the. inactive equipments yielded part of their gains, American and Baldwin locomotives meanwhile show- ing extreme advances of 5% and 714 respectively. Sales amounted to 800,- 000 shares. Money.on call and time was tighter, the rate for the latér “holding at six per cent bid, with few offerings. ‘All classes of bonds were strong, the several liberty issues supplement- ing last wek’s rally. Total sales (par value) aggregated $5,325,000. Old United States issues were unchanged on call. New York Money ‘New York, Feb. 18.—Mercantile pa- per 5%@5% per cent. Bar silver, 85%. Mexican dollars 68. Government bonds strong; railroads bonds strong. Time loans, strong; sixty days, nine- | ty dayg, and six months, 6 bid. Call money firm; high 6; low 5%; ruling.rate 6; closing bid 5%; offered at6; last loan 6, Metal Market New York, Feb. 18.+—Metal exchange guotas lead steady; spot 705@720. Spelter quiet; East St. Louis delivery spot offered at 78714. CORN RANGED HIGH MONDA Efforts to Accumulate. Reserve MORALITY, Must Have Been Collaborati FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT $16.75. SA SSN wes \ y ~ SS ever, was unsetled, March $1.2754 and May $1.26%, with the final range 1-8c off to a like advance compared with Saturday’s latest figures, Oats gained % to %@%c net.. The outcome in Parnes varied from 17c decline to 4 rise of 7c. | Despite’ a big increase of arrivals, the corn market pointed: upward throughout nearly the entire session. It was realized that but a short time remains until spring work “by pro- ducers might sharply. restrict the crop |» movement: Predictions of stormy weather within the next 36 hours em: phasized bullish séntiment, and ‘so, too, did) the fact that milers were ab- sorbing choice grades. Reports: were current that as high as $2 a bushel had been paid for ‘extra good’ white corn suitable for. milling. Near the end of the day, though, prices tended somewhat to relax owing to assertions that 100,000 cars had been concen- trated in the middle west, and that a daily movement. of. 4,000,000 to 6,000,- hels was on. iscended. to new top records for the season. Urgent bidding from the east was responsible. i A bulge in hog..prices gave strength to provisions. Subsequently, réaliz- ing sales broaght about a setback. Corn— Open High - Low: Close May see 1.26% 1.26% 1.26% 1.26% March ... 1.27% Oats— as March 85% 86% 85886 May ..... 83i— 81% 83%H,,, 84% Minneapolis Grain‘ Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 18.—Flour unchanged, In carload lots standard flour quoted at $9.75 a barrel in 98:1b. coton sacks, Shipments, 43,398 bar- rels. Barley, $1.54@$1.90. Rye, $2.19@$2.20. . Bran, $32.50. Wheat receipts, 246 cars; compared with 423 a year ago. Corn, ‘No. 3 yellow, $1.75@$1.80. Oats, No. 3 White, $.88%@$.89%. Flax, $3.78% @$3.83%. Chicago Livestock Chicago, Ill, Feb. 8—Hogs receipts, 45,000; strong; 35c under Saturday’s average; ‘bulk, $16.80@$17.00; light, $16.55@$17.10; mixed, $16.50@$17.10; heavy, $16.0@$17.00; rough, $16.30@ $16.50; pigs, $13.25@$16.25. Cattle receipts, 15,00; firm; native steers, $8.50@$13.85; .stockers.’ and feeders, $7.35@$10.60; cows and _heif- ers $6.40@$11.70; » calves, © $8.25@ $13.50. ) Sheep receipts, 20,000; weak; sheep, $9.75@$13.20; lambs, $13.75@$16.65. © @maha Livestock « Omaha, Neb. Feb. 18.—Hogs re- ceipts, 13,000; higher; heavy, $16.25@ $16.50; mixed, $16.30@$16.45; light, $16.20@$16.50; pigs, $10.00@$15.50; bulk, $16.30@$16.45. Cattle receipts, 8,400; steady; na- tive steers, $9.00@$13.00; cows and heifers, $7.00@$10.50; western steers, $8.50@$11.75; cows and heifers, ($7.00 . canners, $6.50@$7.50; stock- ers and feedrs, $6.50@$11.75; ‘calves, $9.00 @$13.00; bulls, stags, etc., $7.00@ $10.50, . Sheep receipts, 17,000; lower; year- lings, $11.50@$14.50; wethers, $11.00@ $13.00; ewes, $10.05@$12.00; lambs, $15.15 @$16,75. So. St. Paul Livestock South St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 18— ‘og receipts, 7,600; 40 to -45¢ higher; range, $16.50@$16.85; bulk, $16.70@ “Cattle receipts 2,300: killers steady; steers, $6.50@$13.00; cows and heifers .00@ $9.50; veal. calves, steady, $6.00 @$12.25; stockers and feeders strong, on on Bill’s Hamburg Speech 4,000 KILLED AND 7,000 WOUNDED IN BOLSHEVIK DRIVE ONUKRAINETOWN Can Be Compared Only With No- torious: Jewish Pogrom of 1905 for Slaughter © KRYLENKO TO RAISE ARMY Asks 100,000 Followers to Join Him and Proceed Against General Alexieff Petrograd, Feb. 9.—(Saturday by the Associated Press)—Kiev, one of the principal cities of the Ukraine, was captured by the Bol- sheviki on Friday after a sanguin- ary fight. The streets were filled with dead, or wounded. While the fighting was at the height on Thursday the city was bombarded by Bolsheviki aviators. The casualties at Kiev are esti- mated’ at 4,000: killed and,7,000 wounded. 5 RECALLS JEWISH PROGRAM The ccrespondents of the Petrograd papers, describing the situation at Kiev, say it can be compared only to the havoc, death and destruction wrought by the notorious Jewish pogrom in 1905. On Thursday,; when the fighting was at its height, aviators were bombing the houses, and ' there was promiscuous shooting from -win- dows and. roofs. Killed and wounded filled the streets. Mobs of Hollolligans ran unchecked. The city duma at- tempted to negotiate an armistice, but failed. * RED ARMIES UNITED Colonel Muravieft has telegraphed that he succeeded in unitng the Bol- sheviki armies in the Ukraine district with the autonomous Kharkov district regiment, combining against General Alexfeff. Constant teinforcements are pouring. southward to the - Soviet forces, which are reported to have d&feated ‘the’ advance guard of. Alex. ieff’s troops in a skirmish néar Vero- nezh, but which apparently as yet, have not engaged in any real battle. The other Alexieft wing, under com- mand of General Erdelli, is reported to have advanced beyond Zverovo aft- er a skirmish, in which Erdelli was wounded., eae oa KRYLENKO TO RAISE ARMY Ensign. Krylenko, commander in chief of the Bolshevik-army, is coming. to Petrograd tomorrow to raise an army of 100,000 to proceed ainst General Alexieff, and he himself plans to take command. At Boruisk, $5 miles southeast of Minsk, the’ Polish troops have defeat-. ed the Bolsheviki. Other Poles are advancing toward Smolensk. Minsk province; is declared to be in a’state of siege, ‘The Rumanians now control the Ak- kerman district of Bessarbaria and are in a position to threaten Odessa. ‘News of the capture of Kiev was contained in ‘an official dispatch re- ceived bys Bolsheviki “headquarters. ‘The Soviet forces, under Colonel Mur- avieff, who defeated Kerensky at the beginning of the latest revolution, re- entered the city, from ‘which the wuthorities whom few days rf : ev: 00@13.00; | had tmptaon HUNS- ALREADY CARRYING OUT THREATS OF A RUSS INVASION With Bolsheviki in Grip of Inter- nicine Strife, Teautons’ Task Is Easy AUSTRIANS ARE PLACATED Promise That German Military Activity Will Be Confined to North Appeases (Associated Press) With Russia in the grip of inter- necine strife and her battle line denuded of men as a result of the peace declaration of. the Bolshe- viki, Germany has already begun the carrying out of her threat .of an inyasion because of the failure of the Bolsheviki to sign a peace compact with the central powers. A dispatch from * Berlin. ‘an- nounces that German troops have crossed the Dvina river. Reports emanating from Swe- den say the Germans have begun pushing forward their troops into Russia’s. two remaining Baltic provinces— Ksthonia‘and Livonia the taking of which completely isolated Russia from the shores of addition to the port of Riga, the city of Reval, situated on the Gulf of Finland opposite Helsingfors, whence they easily might operate against Petrograd by sea. ‘Altho Austria-Hungary had shown dissatisfaction over the stand that Germany has taken toward Russia, the dual monarchy evidently has been placated by a promise of Germany that any German military activity will be confined to northern Russia and Austria-Hungary: left to deal with whatever other. problems may arise in the territory adjacent to her borders. BOLSHEVIK! TAKE KIEV Belated -dispatches from Petrograd tell of the capture of Kiev,, the new capital of Ukraine, by the Bolsheviki. The fighting is described as having been of an extremely sanguinary char- acter, 4,000 persons having been _kill- ed and 7,000 wounded. .Great, destruc: tion was wrought in the town by shells and. explosives.dropped by avia- tors. > t At Odessa another. big battle has been fought between the Bolsheviki and the. Moderates, during which war- city. Polish legions at Minsk are de- clared to have been sanguinarily de- feated and put to rout while the Bol- sheviki are also reported to have cap- tured Tonogorod, on the Black sea, and Voronezh, capital of the province of the,same name, __ ON THE BATTLE FRONT ‘On the battle front in France and Flanders the operations continue of a minor character, except for artillery duels on isolated sectors and here and there raids of more than the usual violence. The only attack of impor- tance along the entire front has been in Champagne, on the sector where the French, aided by American gun- ners captured. German positions last Tuesday.. FALSE NOTE IN LABOR HARMONY Attitude of President of Carpen- ters Responsible for Coast Situation pee ver i REPUDIATES AGREEMENTS ‘ ——_. Washington, D. C., Feb. 19.—Presi- dent Wilson’s intervention has termi- nated the eastern shipyard strikes. Reports last’ night to.the shipping in which carpenters are owt said the strikers would ‘be back at work by noon today. the Brotherhood of Carpenters and the Baltic and give the enemy, in , »}Ships_ in: the harbor.,bombarded the. HUTCHESON IS board from union heads in all districts Gi ‘William L. Hutcheson, president of Joiners, 1s expected to take up the sit- | uation today with gover a ficials. Hatire Meters Although heretofore Hutche- building labor adjustment board a set- tlement ‘of the carpenters’ demands, Wilson's miess of last ‘night least’ will be willing to Fatew ane tions with the’board, Hutcheson Trouble-Maker . The carpenters’ brotherhood, it was brought out last night was made a board: by the signature of his vice President, but, Hutcheson overruled his subordinate’s. action’ This fact ac- cording to V. BE. Veverit Macy, chatr- man of the adjustment board, is caus- ing the present troubles at Seattle, where carpenters are trying to en: force a closed shop: All carpenters in the western yards agreed to the Pa- cific coast, wage award, Mr. Macy said, cet ae ranndlated it. a iam, ‘kman, director of for the Emergency Fleet corgatok, issueda statement las tnight declaring that shipyard strikes threaten the life of organized labor in that 9 further shortage of ships will foree the clos- ing of plants producing war muiitions, WANTEO=Vurnlahed aat oF | . furnished! house, Mu Seen son has declined’ to leave to the ship- | officials belleve that’ after Presfdent | party to the creation of the adjustment ¥ until they learned recently that Hut: -. cy