The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 17, 1918, Page 4

eo yFOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Eitared” at Wha Postolfice, Biemarck, ND, as Second at the Pos ice, Bismarck, N. D., as ni Class Matter GEORGE D. MANN 5 = . 5 Editor al ore); epresentative NEW YORK, Pritt ‘Ave, Bldg.s CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg; BOSTON, 8 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege Bldg; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange, EMBER 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- Ushed herein. All ‘rights of publication of special dispatches herein I ved, " Ar rights of publication of special dispatches herein ae TENE At F CIRCULATION MBER AUDIT BUREAU O! SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier per year. x Daily by mail per year.... utside 0! 0} aks ca: SUBSCRIPTION RAT! (In North Dakota) 3 $4.00 2.00 1.00 5.00 2.50 25 .00 00 50 One month Pe 50 THE STATE'S OLDEST NDWBPAPER. (Bstablished 1878) <> PRATTLING TONGUES. The Kelly Field “Eagle” publishes the following to discourage the circulation of those senseless rumors which get about so rapidly. These rumors are part and parcel of the German propoganda in this country: “Prattling tongues and rattling brains make the same kind of racket and besides getting you; in bad—yes, even to the ‘hoosegow’—they con- stitute, in nine cases out of ten, pro-Prussian propaganda. “When you hear something that might be in- teresting if true, buckle up your chin-strap a little tighter and trace the grape-vine to the root. When you have found the originator of your Prussian- blue mirage, if it’s true, congratulate him; if it’s a lie, forget it. , Ah, if Lafayette could only see us now! CURE IS NEEDED. John D. recently had a birthday. One promi- nent publication editorially declared his charitable munificence “a page Amerfcan history of which we may be proud.” We cannot be proud of our benevolences.. Nor can we greatly pride’ ourselves in our philan- thropies. Se .. We-may stalk.a bit and talk a bit aboiit the spirit which prompts them and the altruism which moves us to share in their support. But for the conditions which necessitate them, we are to blame. Charities are a palliative for serious social dis- orders, not the cure; a panacea only partially remedial. They relieve deplorable conditions but eliminate none of them. They act on the effect instead of the cause. We must extirpate the basic evils. ’ ooo Over there our boys are not Republicans and Democrats—they’re Americans. Which is some- thing bigger than either of the others. Why not at home? 5 A FAMOUS GENERAL. Among recent reserves called to the front by Hindenburg and Ludendorff was a famous old ‘warrior who has served many people in many climes. And though he has been working over- time for the German general staff since Marshal Foch started the HUNS on the run for the Aisne, still we must hand it to this handy old servant of frail humanity for the great service he has ren- dered to all of us in the past, and which we may safely predict he will continue to render in the future. Probably no person in all history has served more leaders of men, without regard to race, color, creed or nationality, at the very times when none else could successfully serve in his peculiar way. And not only in time of actual warfare be- tween nations, but even in those little rifts in the lute which serve to prevent the course of true love from running smooth. So universal is his service that we cannot com- plain now that Hindenburg, Ludendorff, and the kaiser have called this general to the front to ‘help satisfy the German people with the ill fortune. of their arms above the Marne. : We refer to that doughty old warrior, General Alibi. Today’s greatests writers are the authors of those letters that come from “over there.” Taft says peace trms should be dictated on Ger- man soil. And that’s where William’s head is level. Talk,peace business to the kaiser on the kaiser’s doorstep. BARRIERS DOWN. . Lord Derby—it matters not whether the hat or the family came first—is an English noble. The world is not overcrowded with gentlemen, so the presence of noblemen is even more neg- ligible. Lord Derby measures up as one of nature’s noblemen,, His title contributes nothing to him ne ee” thay nomenclature its dignity and July 4th m’‘lord rose to his fullest mental stature. It was in London, at a luncheon of the American Chamber of Commerce. He said “I wish to thank America for the best licking we ever got. It has done us both a lot of good. We are grateful to you because that lick- ing taught us how to treat our children. It is the reason why we now have Australia and Can- ada and even South Africa beside us today.” Imagine a Briton broad enough to think and feel that way and not hesitate to speak his thought and express his feeling! There are many like him, but it was left to Lord Derby to be their mouthpiece. England, with that angle on ‘matters, will knock down the last remaining barriers of prej- udice that have stubbornly stood between the peoples of the island nation and this land of op- portunity. ° Every time you lick a Thrift Stamp you help gum up the kaiser’s plans, : BACK TO GERMANY. Remember what the kaiser said to Ambassador Gerard about that army of Germans in the Unit- ed States which would spring up to aid the “fatherland” if America got into the war? | As he so often has done, the imperial monster was “talking through his hat.” He judged all Americans of German descent by the few who did aid his pro-HUN propaganda. We have been in the war over a year, and we're in it up to the limit and we'll stay there until the kaiser is beaten down. But what of those who were to spring to Germany’s aid? Well read this: “Among the American prisoners a surprisingly large percentage. bear German names. They say men of German descent are prominent among American army leaders.” . That was written by the German war corres- pondent of a Berlin newspaper. It may explain to BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE faa MRS, JONES, YouR TELEPHONE IS RINGIN'- —— ie Re ay EARLY DAYS IN DAKOTA | the stupid brain of the HUN what has become of the kaiser’s “army in the United States.” It has become a part of the American army fighting the kaiser, and a good fighting part, too. Yes, they’ll go back to Germany! Back with guns pointed TOWARD Berlin! Back for the kaiser’s scalp\ And as they go back they'll sweep the kaiser’s trenches back into.Germany, to the very doors of his Potsdam castle—if he doesn’t admit defeat before then. They’ll show him they aren’t Ger- mans any more; that they’re AMERICANS now. As for the few who still are Germans in Amer- ica, why, Gerard’s lampposts are still handy. e | WITH THE EDITORS | THE PRESS AND THE LEAGUE And now right here I want:to say a word to you people of North Dakota about the principles of government, because I think you need it. You have here some people who would repeal the Ten Commandments and amend the Sermon on the Mount at the direction of a single autocrat. Don’t let go of those fundamental principles of govern- ment ,even if a Townley tells you to.—Senator James Watson of Indiana in Address to North Dakota Bar Association. / It is the autocracy that rules the Nonpartisan League, and the character of that. autocracy, which make the organization objectionable—not the fact that its membership is made up of farm- ers. The press of the Northwest, and especially the urban press, has been frequently accused of op- position to the League because it is a farmers’ organization. A little reflection would show how baseless this accusation is. The Equity Society is also a farmers’ organiza- tion, and ‘it was actively in the field long before A. C. Townley devised his Nonpartisan League scheme for working the farmer. Although some of the Equity’s projects have not seemed wise, its activities have never been opposed by the press. The right of the farmers to organize in order to attain reforms is recognized by everyone. But the Nonpartisan League has been opposed because of the selfish and disloyal character of its leadership. Its organizers have collected. vast sums of money from the farmers, but have never made any accounting to the members. The League is ruled by,an autocratic junta that does as it pleases and accounts to nobody. This junta is made up, not of farmers, but of Socialists, professional agitators and ‘disloyalists. It hires solicitors to wheedle farmers into mem- bership at ‘sixteen dolars apiece. A liberal com- mission out of this goes to the solicitor, and the remainder disappears into the Townley treasury. Where does it go from there? No one knows, outside of the small circle of those who farm the farmer. The disloyal character of the League leadership was quite openly disclosed at first, but of late, under pressure of prosecution and political neces- sity, it has been disguised by a lip loyalty of the half-hearted sort that should mislead no one. The leopard has not changed his spots, even. if he has painted them over. The fact that the League has made the greatest additions to its membership in Minnesota in coun- tries and neighborhoods where pro-German senti- ment was most rife, is significant. These are some of the reasons why loyal news- papers find it necessary to oppose and expose the Nonpartisan League. The accusation that they are opposed to farmers’ organizations.as such is merely a part of the camouflage,-used by the League junta to cover its own operations. The cryxthat the:press is oposed to farmers’ organiza- tions is put out as propaganda ‘to the farmers.— Minneapolis Journal. \ W. F.'Cushing, Pioneer Editor, Tells of a Buffalo Hunting Expedition in 1881 with Grandin ‘and the Late “Doc” Zahl of | Williston—Antelope Killed from/ a Shodting. Platform Placed on the Side of Superintend- ent Taylor's: Private Car. By EDWIN (. TORREY. (Minneapolis Journal.) Less than 40 years ago all'the coun- try west of the upper Missouri was good hunting ground. . The. divide be- tween the Missouri and: Yellowstone rivers ws the home ofthe buffalo and antelope. As. late as’ 1881,-when the Northern Pacific railway was’ built inot the region, with the. Pacific ‘as its objective, buffalo and. -deer. in countless’ numbers roamed the prai- ries and were ‘stalked bythe Indians and occasional white hunters. The late F. -R.-Zahl. of . Williston, prosperous. rancher and “county offi- cial: in’ his last “years, was, then a professional buffalo hunter, and D. R. Taylor, present day /business: man of Mandan, then, sup ndent: o ‘fthe Northern ~ Pacific “fitted :put,; his private car .with#a \porch platform long one 'gide, from which he and his guests..were accustomed: to shoot up herds of antelope as the train moved slowly along. the ‘rough: track.” ake W. F. Cushing, a/pioneer editor,, who is still active in business and with the pen, and J. L. Grandin, founder of the Grandin bonanza wheat farm in Traill county, were-members of a but- falo hunting party,in tee%fall of 1881, which made: dite: 0) ylor’s spe- cially constructed They were chaperoned in the new country around Glendive, which was the ‘ ping off” point of the road, by Zahl, known to everybody in the region as‘ “Doc.” Mr. Cushing, “At Glendive,” says which many then called: Hell’s Half; Acre,” owing to the character’ of its places of amusement—which::‘consti- tuted most of the town-we took a work train ‘to the end ‘of the: track, which was then at O'Fallon’s creek, about 30 miles east of Fort Keogh, now Miles City. There was:a military cantonment at O'Fallon..for.:the pro- tection of the railway builders, and at Powder river, a few miles further west, was a roadhouse, where a few concomitants to refresh . the weary traveler might be obtained. It was there Doc Zahl held forth when off the range. “We arranged with. Zahl for the transportation of our outfit to the hunting grounds, and were soon on our way. We traveled in a ‘democrat wagon,’ seating four, with a lumber wagon for the camp’ plunder ard two riding ponies. . The expedition was composed of our party of five, Zahl, a cowboy cook and the wagon driver, the latter being an interesting figure to'me by reason of the scars from knife and bullet wounds all over his head and Hody, reminders of mixups with fellow roisterers. “We forded the Yellowstone and in two days ‘arrived at ‘the - buffalo grounds, to find that the day before gome. of Zahl’s men had~been in a fight with the Gros Ventre Indians. Two of the Indians-bad heen: killed and one of the -whites . seriously wounded and a hunter's shack burn- ed . This was. rather - disheartening news to our bunch of. tenderfeet, and speculation as to ‘the’ ‘value of our scalps, was rife, but Mr..Grandin was, a great sport, and did not ‘relish the idea of going so far for a buffalo with- out getting one. After dinner ‘there- fore, we sighted and gave chase to ay band of about 65. animals and .man-/| aged to kill 13. My bag consisted of two calves, the. hides from, which 1 wore for years after in the Shape of an overcoat. - ee ‘ “Away to the north of us could be seen what appeared to be a bit of tim- ber, but Zahl said it was a’ herd: of about 10,000 buffalo. We did not get a closer acquaintance With them, as one of Zahl’s men: reported the, Indi- ans on guard there, it being an. In- dian’ reservation. The ‘same day we saw several ‘buffalo: ‘stands,’ that_be- in gthe name given ‘a spot” where a hunter had made. a great. individual killing of thé animals. ‘These’ stands showed the “wonderfal skilli°of’ Zahl with his singleshot Sharpe rifle. THE GREAT “At one place. about. the size of a city block I counted no Jess'thah 107 buffalo carcaésés:lying*in:a circle, all killed within: half.an hour by Zabd for their hides alone.”- In> thése’ exploits the hunter seldom. moved far from where he fired his first shot.. TThe buffalo, stupid and.curious, would. cir- cle about the manand the smoking AMERICAN H = bb és ‘ROYALTY ENLISTS FOR WAR WORK as LADY é HARCOURT e Lady Harcourt is one of the many memberg of the royal circle in Eng- land’to enlist to do some sort of work to help win the war. She has volun- teered her services as a field worker | in the ranks of the Y. W. C. A. corps in France. Lady Harcourt, who was formerly Mary- Ethel Burns of ‘New York, is: also a relative of J. P. Mor- gan, the great financier. y gun and were easily killed. Hence the word, ‘stand.’ As goon as a stand was finished, the skinners ripped off the hides-and pinned them, fur side down, flat-on the pririe, with a little salt sprinkled over the raw side. Soon the hides were as dry and hard as boards and were then piled up in long EVERETT TRUE J BEUESVE: THE WORLD AND THaT RIGHT Now Peace. Ir THE ALUSS 2@ATURDAY,. AUG. 17, .1918. OME rows, which, at a little distance, re- sembled cordwood. As fast ‘as possi- ble the hides’ were transported in large racks on. wagons to Fort Keogh and sold to traders. At that season jof the year thes hides brought the hunters only 75 cents each, but later, when the fur was longer, the price doubled. i | “All the country west of the Mis- {souri was full of big game at this time. When a few miles east of Glen- dive on our return, our train was stopped and passengers in forward cars opened a fusilade at a band of perhaps 200, antelope, which were cir- cling about in a space of three acres {close to the track. The ground was nearfy surrounded by a deep dry creek, and rather than go down into it the animals wildly ‘milled’ around on the high ground. Nearly every man on the train-got off to pour lead into the herd, and one man_in his excitement encircled a buck’s neck with his arm and cut its throat with a jackknife. When the antelope fin- rally. took the ditch and scampered away, 40 carcasses were loaded into the baggage car ad taken on to Man- dan. ‘ : ‘ “When the Great Northern built in 1887 into Little Muddy, or Williston as it is now known, Zahl was there, and I-met him a second time and re- newed the friendship. of the’ buffalo hunting trip. From .a town where the day began about 2 p.m. and closed at 6a. m.; where the rattle of the chips was music to most men’s ears; where thousands of dollars were han- \dled daily'‘in log and tent business houses; where gun fights were com- |mon and killings condoned, but: thiev- ery considered a crime necessitating deportation or hanging, has grown up a city the state is, proud of—a city built by brgad-minded, virile men, who lived in the open and helped to re- duce the wild to civilization. In all this Doc Zahl played his part. Al- ways on the square ,with the. ability to shoot stright and take care of him- self in all emergencies, he kept his heart and his hands clean to the end and was a fine type of the frontiers- |man and peacemaker. Among the men I met 35 years ago at Little Muddy, who are still doing business at the old camp, are John Bruegger, Henry Retz- laff and M. L. Leonhardy. The prai- rie rangers of the early days are now prosperous business men or ranch- ers.” By Conde 1S WARY OF THIS WAR, IS THE TIME ToO'Discuss WOULD ONLY —— - \r You WANT T TALIS THAT IKINT OF STUEG, SAY (TIN GERMAN!!! ma hy CZAR DRUGGED TO AID KAISER Russian Court Lady Gives Some Inside Facts. QUACK BRIBED BY BERLIN Royal Pair Warned of Their Danger Weeks Before Revolution Started— Czar Under Influence of Thibetan Drug When He Signed Abdication— Administered by Man in Pay of Ger. man Government. From a Russian of high birth who was a lady-in-waiting to: the czarina of Russia, are learned some particu- lars of the events which immediately preceded and followed the czar’s abdl- cation which‘ are not generally known. 'The woman lost: all she possessed in the ,upheaval of Russia and is now connected; with the American’ Red Cross; ‘The crarina ‘banished her from court before the revolution be cause her husband, who was in the diplomatic; service; oad incurred the imperial displeasure. The lady: in question says that the czar and czarina were ‘warned of their danger some weeks before the revolu- tion started, In particular did Prin- cess 'Vasiltchioff, a member of the im- perial court, and wife of a prominent member. of the council of the empire, warn her, The princess is a good Rus- sian patriot, and, like many. others, was appalled at the signs of coming “| anarchy. So much alarmed was she that she wrote a@ personal letter to the czarina, telling her that if she wished to save Russia and her own family she must dismiss Rasputin and the Germans at court and see that the army had am- munition, ' Advice Enraged Czarina. She wrote this in Russian, which was against Russian court etiquette (which admitted only French), and on ingle sheets torn from a writing block instead of on double paper—another crime against etiquette. Two more crimes were that she ad- dressed the letter to “Her Majesty,” instead of to “Her Imperial Highness,” and posted it in Petrograd in the or- dinary way instead of sending it through Baron Fredericks, the court minister, a sort of high priest for the observance.of etiquette, an old man of recent.German extraction, but. a very decent kind of person all the same.° In due-time the czarina received and read the letter.‘ She was furious— furious because so many rules of et!- quette had been broken, ‘and still more furious because the writer dared tell her that she and her husband, were unpopular and were losing Russia. “I shall never have any of the Rus sian aristocracy to court again,” she cried angrily. ,“I always. hated them, I love only the poor people and the soldiers, At my next ball I shall have none put poor people and soldiers. The soldiers adore me.” She had this entirely false idea of the soldiers’ devotion, because people about the court used to “fake” grate- ful letters to her from imaginary sol- diers. Thus, while the troops were al- ready cursing the imperial pair and vowing revenge for all their sufferings, for all the shortage of ammunition | and for often being sent to be butch: | ered just because a general needed a decoration, but had no artillery to cover his attack, the czarina was say- ing she “adored” soldiers and would fill her ballroom with them, She not only banished the princess from court, but ordered that she and her husband be:esiled to'Siberia. And Prince and Princess, Vasiltchikoff would have gone to Siberla on foot in the depth of winter but for Baron Fredericks, who managed to get the sentence softened to exile to ‘the prince’s estate in the héart of Russia. | They were kept prisoners on their es- tate till the revolution started a cous ple of months later. The incident shows ‘how blind the imperial family were: till the last min- ute, and how the czarina, a German by birth, had imbibed the autocrat traditions of Catherine the Great and Ivan the Terrible. ~ jl Drugged by Kalser’s Order. ~~~ The same inférmation said that the czar was suffering from the effects of a terrible Thibetan drug when he signed his abdication. “Everybody at the court knew it,” the princess sald. “He signed his own abdication and his son’s without a murmur, and we all knew him for an obstinate ‘man. For days afterward he was still in a state of stupor. Only when he came to: himself did he real- ize what he-had done. Then it was too late. But his despair was terri- ble.” y ; “Who drugged him?” was asked. 7 “A quack from Thibet, who had risen to be the most influential person at court after Rasputin’s death,” she answered, “He was a friend of Ras- putin and of Mile. Veroubha, who had unbounded influence over the czarina, And the quack was paid by the kaiser to drug the czar. : “Every one tu Petrograd knows very well that the czar would never have signed a separate peace with Germany. He was' not a clever man, and had al- lowed all-kinds of abuses to arise in the government, but he was a man of honor. The kaiser knew he had to get rid of him. And the kaiser fos- ered. the revolution and had the czdr rugged to hasten the anarchy . bas ruined Russia.” eaiioy ‘A pe