The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 15, 1918, Page 1

# »-toward Russia and Japanese in-, ‘ ee ~ qe WEATHER: Fair and Warmer. THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. NO. 72. | Russia R: ANNIVERSARY OF ABDICATION. — OF CZAR NICHOLAS MARKED BY COMPLETE SURRENDER TO HUN Emperor of All the Russians issians Surrendered Throne to Poe Just Year Ago, and Soviets Congress Wrote Closing Chapter Yesterday PAWNEE BILL] IS BRANCHING OUT CONFIDENCE FELT | IN JAPS’ ACTIONS British Premier Expresses Be- lief Ally Will Act for | Best Interests (Associated Press) j One year ago, Emperor Nicho- las abdicated as autocrat of Rus- sia, and yesterday the All-Rus-! sian congress of soviets by an overwhelming vote agreed to! German peace terms. j Announcement of allied policy tentions in eastern Siberia prob- ably will follow quickly the news that the Lenine government surrendered: completely to the after four months of rule has ‘demands of Germany and opened up the vast European and Asi-) atic territories to German eco- nomic and military penetration. ! “PAWNER BILL “Pawnee Bill” (not so well known’ jas Major Gordon W. Lillie) is branch. : Confidence in Japan The question of Japanese interven- | tion in Siberia has brought from For- eign Secretary Balfour of the British! house of commons the declaration: that he has every confidence in Ja-} pan’s loyalty in any action it might! be decided to. take ‘in. the far east.! Japan, he said, would act as'the friend | of Russia and as the emissary of the! entente governments in helping Rus- sia combat German penetration and | save the revolution. | ing out. You know him as a famous! frontiersman who for years has oper- | ated a big buffalo ranch-at Pawnee: and perhaps better as one of the pi ners in the Buftalo-Pawnee Bill west show. But he’s a, big oil, too, with valuable oil land hol and now he has just purchased | finery at Quincy, Okla., which heal | fenamed the “Pawnee Bill” refiner | He’s a banker, too, though so far as jis known there is no “Pawnee Bill’ bank—yet. .Too much business to go ;on-the road this year, he says. Americans, Advance American troops have made their; first permanent advanice. into. the Ger- ; man positions on the western front.; Northeast of Badonvillers, in the Luneville sector,’ trenches. which the enemy was forced to abandon have! been consolidated with the American; first line. Repeated American raids in this sector,'and the effective work | of the American gunners forced the’ Germans to give up the trenches. German efforts to regain the lost) DO nO Oe OOOO HIGHER WHEAT PRICES ASKED BY STEENERSON positions were repulsed by General Gopher Congressman Would Pershing’s men. a —_—-——— Have Grain on Par With Corn, Rye and Barley ‘Washington, D, C., March 15.—High- er wheat prices were demanded to- day by cae Steenereon of, WILL SUPPLY | son asked the food administration to 200,000 Mechanics Already En-| pay a price for wheat in ratio to the; 200, : | Prices for corn, rye, barley and oats, | ‘rolled in Department of | the same as existed during the three Labor Lists years before the war. ‘Washington, D. C., March ta-sen|" UNCLE IKE” enty-five shipyards on the Atlantic; STEPHENSON PASSES AWAY and Gulf coasts and the Great Lakes! Famous Badger Solon and Mil- have been notified by the department of labor that its employment servico lionaire Lumberman Dead at. Advanced Age is prepared to meet their labor re-! quirements from the 200,000. mechan- , {cs who have been enrolled in the! shipyard workers’ reserve campaign | now in progress. | The department, in jts announce- ment tonight, said that the yards had! — Marinette, Wis., March 15.—Former been asked to hereafter obtain their U. S. Senator Isaac Stephenson, died AUSTRIAN RAILW WORKERS ON STRIKE | “LITHUANIA T0 _ BE FREE WITH Copenhagen, March i | The men in the workshops , in| of the Austrian railways | i | have struck and refused to | obey the orders of the mili- | | tary to return to work, the || | Berlin Anzeiger states. The | strike, it is added, is spread- ing to other factories. is MOSCOW AGA AGAIN KAISER WOULD RULE ALL CAPITAL AFTER ewe nite on TWO CENTURIES ties and Business Depends on Compliance | With Teuton Demands Amsterdam, Thursday, March 15.— | Germany has replied to Lithuania‘ repeated request for recognition of ‘Transfer of ‘Seat or Government | { Celebrated on Revolution i her independence by making her in- | iS ; dependence dependent on Lithuania’s | ‘ Anniversary j agreement to certain milftary, cus- !toms, railway and currency conveu- IMI ISTRIES REOPENED Berlin. These conditions, Lithuania, | jin the hope of bringing about an alle- | viation of her condition, is ready to{ 'City of Many Holy Memories Be- | accept. i ! Vorwaerts says such procedure is comes Center of What Is iin no wise reconcillable with the dec- A | laration made by Imperial Chancellor | Left of Russia | Von Hertling last November. w has, AIR RAID ON COBLENZ DID MUCH DAMAGE Moscow, March 12, 8 again become the official capital of Russia after 200 years, Lenine and virtually ali tne govern- mental commissioners except i.eon’ Trotzky arrived here tonight and offi- jcaly opened the various ministries to- | day, preparatory to the session of the ; All-Russian congress on March 14, Many of the buildings and rooms in leading hotels and other buildings ere requisitioned to accommodate government officials. The sub- of transfer for weks as have the rnment archives, but today the anniversary of the Russian revo- nm marks the actual transfer of ew government, and is being cele- vated as a national holiday. ed Burning as Result of Entente Attack ‘DROPPED TON OF ‘STEELE. FORMS ose 2 F I R S T MOUNTED | Monday’s atr raid on Cobler heavy damage, according to German} GUARD COMPANY reports, says the hange ‘I raph | aici j correspondent at, Amsterdam Twot Cavalry Troop Organized Under! ™unition factories . were _ reported , burning and vast quantities of explo- Captain Cole Is Fully ‘ sives were continually going off, ren- ‘dering the efforts of the firemen to Accoutred " extinguish the flames unavailing. Steele, N. ., March 15.—Not con- tent with having one of the crack in-' fantry home guard units of the state, with an active membership of 55, Steele has organized the first cavalry unit of the North Dakota home guard, under authority from,Capt. 5, G. Wan- ner of Bismarck, chairman of the state goverhing bodrd. The cavalry ‘troop is {n command of Capt. Cole. It is completely accotitred, supplied with - | excellent mounts, and is in every re- ; spect an efficient organization. The | cavalrymen are looking forward to: | the big encampment at Fort Lincoln, | Bismarck, next summer, when they, j expect to be in a position to compare} | tiwh any troop of mounted men in the! regular service. For North Dakota: Fair with ris- HALF ‘MILLION jing temperature tonight and Satur- | jday; Sunday fair; moderate to fresh | IN NEW LANDS | Southwest winds. | i | i iato The raid was by British ton of bombs on this city of nea 50,000 inhabitants, attacking factories, stations and barracks. | THE WEATHER r twenty- four beg March 15: Temperature at 7 a. m. . ‘Temperature at noon Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday Lowest last night Precipitation | Highest wind velocity Forecast. hours ending at 15 . 36 . 36 8 15 . None Lowest Temperatures. Fargo '.. 4 ——ONTAXROLLS 8s: a. H St. Paul . - 22 | i Winnipeg —2 ‘Proving Up of | of Homesteads | Felena . . 26 | ‘hicago 30 Greatly Increases Assessed | Swift Cure 16 | Kansas City ae Valuation of State ORRI3 W. ROBERTS, HUN APPROVAL Germany Replies Independence| | HN stroyer tions, according to the Vorwaerts of) ate employes have been in pro-: Two Munition Factories Report: workers exclusively through the de-' partment’s employment servicé in or- der to eliminate the past general con- fusion to industry resulting. from the | luring of skilled workers from other | dndustries, the piling up of idle labor | in shipbuilding centers and the un- necessary interchanging pt lgbor be-! tween shipyards. FARGO BOY ONE, , OF LAST TO GO: FROM TUSCANIA —— Watched Boat Gradually Sinking , From His Station of Duty Fargo, Ni D., March 15.—Standing | | at his station with his company, which ‘ was the last to leave the ill-fated Tus- cania for more than two hours with the boat listing badly and liable to! sink at any moment, was the experi- ence of Corporal Lloyd C. Garthwaite, according to a letter received by his brother H. E. Garthwaite, here today. ‘There was no excitement when we were térpedoed just after land had been sighted and everybody thought ethey were safe,” Corporal Gathwaite writes, “and everyone went to their | stations quickly. When our company-! i early today. “Uncle Ike,” as he was; | familiarly, known, died many times a millionaire. He was among the first of a large crop of timber barons which Wisconsin produced during the latter part of the 19th century. The hold- ings of ‘Senator ‘Stephenson and cor- porations which he dominated prob- j ably were greater than those of any {other lumber interest in Wisconsin. | Although a reastionaly in politics, he was popular with the masses, and was several ‘times re-elected to the upper | house of congress, if GREAT OFFENSIVE MUST GO, SAYS HINDY Amsterdam, March 15.— | According to news received | here, Field Marshal Von | ‘Hindenburg has stated in an | \) interview in Berlin, that the | entente had shown an unre- | Germany’s peace intentions | and that the great offensive | | therefore must go on. ! Ready to Lose 300,000 || In well informed quarters | || recently the — Associated | | | Press was told the Germans | were ready to lose 300,000 { men, in an offensive opera- | eMteorologist. | | | final proofs on homesteaders’ claims , i jin 1917, } | Iowa prices, reported final proofs on sponsive attitude toward || | | porting final proof on 105,600 acresi arrived at our station we eae the! | tion. > © lifeboats smashed and were forced'to | | " 7, stand and watch the others pull away | | fee Verdun offensive of ; for more than two hours. A chaser, _ the Germans in which they | finally appeared and took us off de-| | failed utterly to break the spite the fact that they were in| | Y ine, has been esti- conservative quar- range of the submarine.:'A ett was || 4 fired at the chaser as ‘she “left*‘the ters Having. cost theme some- E hike 500,000) men: Tuscania, ‘but missed us,'eid!we Owe! cour lives to this plucky aittaeamaee| (thing fwho rescued us,” Mas mort Str] Ga es { iis about $6,000,000. | More than half a million acres of! new lands, valued at approximately‘ $1,700,000, and which will produce an annual revenue of $68,000 in taxes, | will be spread on the North Dakota; tax rolls for the first time in April, | states Auditor Carl Kositzky. Almost 400,000 acres of new land, | | $99,656, to be exact, already has be-| come available for taxation through! | the proving up of government home-| | steads in 1917. While North Dakota | is not an infant state by any mean: | it is' not able that only 11 of th | state’s 53 counties failed to record | The “effete” counties were | Barnes, Cass, Foster, Grand Forks, | Griggs, LaMoure, Nelson, Ramsey, | | Slope, Traill and Walsh. As old a! ; county as Richland, in the extreme) | southeastern corner of the state, | where land is bringing Illinois and‘ 480 acres.. McKenzie was the banner | hontestead county of the state, re-j; lin 1917, | | Biting Dunn, 24,151; | Billings, 23,309; . McLean, 24,300; ' | | Sioux, 15,214, and Williams, 30,110. | | Towner reported the smallest parcel | | of homestead land, 36 acres, and Cava-! | lier was a close second, with 40. The! | average asessed valuation of all thi: j land is $3.40, and the total added t || oe state’s taxable property in the | proving up of claims in 1917 is: $1,- | 358, 830." The actual value of this land | In addition to! the homestead land, Mr. Kositzky es- timates that at least 100,000 acres of new land will go on the tax rolls through final payment on school con- tracts.or outright,.nurchasesi‘made ‘at sales which are, now being held \in' again) several counties; has never been rung. Mountrail ‘reported 39,240 Benson, 36,480; | | because’ he was unable to stand the BOMBS! }-Moftit by sed | board. | | They were officially reported by Lon-| Believed That He Wa don on March 12 to'have dropped a! . 18-NW1 with them. _ THE GREAT BELL OF MOSCOW ;;sThis sacred-relic of the ancient-capital ofthe czars, which; hag,.become seat of Russian government}! after 200:years; PRICE FIVE.CENTS. 26 ARE MISSING AS RESULT OF COLLISION London, March 15. Twenty-six persons are missing in consequence of a collision between a_ naval vessel and the British steamer, Rathmore. Sur- vivors have been landed at Kingstown, Ireland, by de- BUT 30 Dis LEAGUERTOLD HE WAS FOOL | TQ REGISTER ‘Henry Plath Obeyed Advice of Associates, and Goes to Jail 60 Days JAP CHIEF WAITS ORDER TO GO IN} a WAS TOWNLEY ORGANIZER | iWork Brought Him in Contact With Men Not inSympathy | With Government Pleading guilty ing to register, | Fargo, March 1 to the charge of fa Henry Plath, 25 years old, a former! Nonpartisan league organizer. was sentenced to serve 60 days in the Bur- leigh county jail by Judge Amidon, late today, | When arraigned before the court to} enter his plea, Plath declared that he fell in-with a bunch of men at Water- D,, on June Sth last, while working for the league, and y talked him out of register- | said they told him “ a fellow damn fool to register.” | Plath stated that he quit work-! jing for the League early in the year Gen, Akiyama i: | Japanese army of the north. H | awaits only the order from Tokio t |lead his forges into Siberia to guar due to his| Ler points, riding over the country, physical condit taken into custody at’ local draft Plath was orders of the ONTO VICTORY LEAGUE GIVEN PRINGE LVOFF IS GAPTURED Up New Russian Govy- ernment oughly Endorses Patriotic Movement Petrograd, March 15.—The Russian WILL MAKE GREAT DRIVE| Telegraph agency announces that the! former Russian premier, Prince Lvoff, has been arrested by the commander of the northern front, Dan Ste traveling fraternity and equally wel It was reported from Irkutsk on; 80, where he spent March 9 that Prince Lvoff had set/ been elected president of the * up a new Russian government in the/ Victory’ far east and was awaiting the land-; kota organization which is the bus‘ ing of Japanese troops at Vladivostok ‘ness force behind the great loyalty in order to enter Siberian territory drive for which plans were announ: by Secretary F. O. Hellstrom durin , the council of defense war rally hel “| in Bismarck ten days ago, ‘On t + ’ CENTRAL POWERS AND | UKRAINE NEGOTIATING of this association, | garization ia nellstrom writes Presic “CONGRESS OF SOVIETS WI in charge of the} lied stores at Vladivostock and oth- FULL SUPPORT s Setting Secretary F. O. Hellstrom Thor- dean of the Bismarc | known among commercial men of Far- many years, has| In acknowledging notice of the or- Mr. } lent Stewart as tifies German Peace SENTING =sf0T ES AGREES TO TEUT@MC TERMS 'Bolsheviki Surrender Vast Area of Valuable Territory and Important Trade Concessions in Accepting Brest- cai Treaty WAY CLEARED FOR JAPAN IN SIBERIA | { ‘Early Announcement of Plans for Island Empire’s In- vasion Predicted a2 rege) | Petrograd, Thursday, March |14.—The All-Russian congress of |soviets, meeting at Moscow to- |day, by a vote of 453 to 30, de- ‘cided to ratify the peace treaty with the central powers. | M. Ryazonov, a prominent Bol- ishevik theorist, and representa- | tives of all the,- professional unions, resigned from the Bol- ishevik party after the vote. Clears Way for Japan. | The action of the All-Russian eo2- | ress of societies in accepting the Ger- jman peace.clears the way for an- {nouncement of allied intentions as re- gards Japanese intervention in Si- beria and gives Germany vast oppor- tunities for political and economic | penetration of the former Russian jempire. The decision of the congress jis the culmination of the peace steps '’bewun by the Bolsheviki- government last December. ° By the peace terms, Russia must give up Poland, Courland, Livonia, #sthania, and Ukraine. In Asia Minor the Russians are compelled to retire from Armenia, and to cede to the Turks the Russian districts of Batoum, Kars, and Erivan. Renounces all Claims, Russia must renounce all. claims to the occupied teritories in Europe, Ger- | many andAustro-Hungary to decide | the fate of these regions in’ agree- ‘nient with their populations, ‘The {Russian army must be demobilized and Russian warships are to be. @ia- armed. More important to the central. pow- jers in the reopening of navigation in | the Black and Baltic seas, and sign- ling of Russia under compulsion of new commercial treaties, with guaran- tees of a most favored nation treat- ment, at least until 1925. The Bol- sheviki also promised to put an end o all propaganda and agitation with- in the central empires and in occu- | pied teritories under their control, WASHINGTON NOT ADVISED e 0) a} | from press dispatches Washington had no information today on the decision o| of the All-Russian congress of Soviets league, a patriotic North Da-| at Moscow ratifying the German peace | terms. | Officials had no means of knowing »q| Whether the action was taken before ¢! or after receipt of Prestdent Wilson’s id. message to the people oi Russia prom- j ising American aid in obtaining for | Russia full independence from Ger- |man aggression. Its receipt has not een acknowledged by the American cera, | | follows: sul general at Moscow, by*whom it. Amsterdam, March 15.— || “This is to advise you that the| Was to have been delivered. The opening of peace nego- | | North Dakota State Council of De-, It is believed that ratification of | fe | League’ and its entry into the field of welcomes tiations at Kiev between the ase central powers and the Ukraine is reported in a Vi- enna dispatch. The Ukrain- | ! of ian rada will meet soon to | , carrying the patr ratify the peace treaty with | jor ed tore the central powers. | |male residents. in a =) fin mn of allegi ' | patriotic work. Ile rolling of all th igning of the a: the ‘On to Victory} You are hereby li- ed to solicit funds within the state| nce to the United | the peace terms will bring an early | move by Japan in. Siveria. Any move hy the Japanese it is believed. would be made chiefly as a measure of pro- ¢| tection for Japanese and American supplies at \ladivostok. Germany will derive little immedi- e | ate commercial advantage by the ra: f-| tification of the treaty in the view of officials here. Russia’s surplus grain Washington, D. C., March 15.—Aside ‘ | ! States of Americ: | North Dakota, and for the distribution | of ‘On to Victory’ pins or buttons. ganized. About 400,000 acres of grain “We assure you further that the| in the Ukraine, which Germany and North Dakota State Council of De-) | Austria expect to divide, are far in- jfense does here recommend the} land and will be hard to move be- i work of the ‘On to Victory League’ of! cause of poor rail facilities. America to the people of the state of | North Dakota, “Dorth Dakota State Council of | fense, F. O. HELLSTROM, Sec‘y. and the state of| stocks are said to be small, and her manutacturing industries are disor- | ONLY BOLSHEVIKS REPRESENTED | London, March 15.—A Reuter dis- | patch filed yesterday at Petrograd ae j says that the Bolshevik majority at the conference at Moscow decided by a vote of 45: to 30 to support the | peace treaty. 3 W. W. INDICTED | AT WICHITA, KANS. Wichita, Kans., March 15. —Indictments were return- turned here today by a fed- eral grand jury against 35 | alleged members of the I. W. , W. With only one exception, the indicted men are now under arrest, and some of | them have already been in- | terned for the duration of | | the war. \| Others probably will be tried at the session of the || | federal court here next Sep- | The foregoing dispatch indicates | that only the Bolshevik representa- i tives were represented in the vote taken at ‘Moscow, in what may have ben a majority caucus. The Menshev- |iki and probably other factions are represented at the conference, but in | view of the strength of the Bolsheviki | [it is impossible their decision could | be reversed, NEGRO DIES FOR . . GOPHER MURDER Rock Island, I, March 15.—Will Carter, a negro, was hanged in the | tember. The indictments | 1 local iallvar, haan ion hit murder | are under two acts, one un- saiititen sites Sey Ae een | der the espionage act, ' charged with disloyalty, in- subordination and interfer- | ence with the war. The oth- | er charges them with inter- ! | fering with the production | | of oil and other products | necessary to the prosecution. | of the wa pees TWO FLYERS KILLED Houston, Texas, March 15.—lieuts. Marmaduke Earle of Lewisburg, Pa:, and Nile Gelwick of Findlay, Ohfo, were killed at Ellington field yester- falls in airplanes-resulting from spins, day and ivillan:Instructor . Kalser-:, vos was ‘seriously -injuted pegs Aan fl? ay is a id pith oF 29 itt a