The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 23, 1918, Page 1

THE WEATHER GENERALLY FAIR THE BISMARC THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. Ni 233 SERB SIOUX TOAST SONS WHO ARE IN THE ARMY Interesting Ceremonials Princi- pal Feature of Standing Rock Fair 200 BRAVES NOW IN WAR Enlistments Have Been Common Among Men of Dakotah Nation The Sioux of Standing Rock reserva- tion, who have given 200 of their bravest sons to the cause of democ- racy, celebrated the taking to the war- path of these young braves during their annual fair which closed at Fort Yates today. The most interesting sights of the fair were these ceremon- ials, held individually by each of the; tribes in front of their council tents. | They were much alike, and the rites| of the Pine Ridge agency Indians may be taken as an example. Families, relatives and friends of the boys who have gone to war took their places in tae form of a rectang'e, with the chiefs and leading men seat- ed in front of the council ter: . Then in turn, each of the aged men and women who -had given Uncle Sam a son rose and chanted a verse in his honor, The tune was always the same, but each ve distinct, sacred solely to the prowess of the son in whose honor it was chanted. Then, in the center of the rectangle, a half dozen aged warriors and four women took their places about a big base drum which has replaced the old-time tom tom, and in chorus they chanted an epic eulogizing all of the young men from this particular tribe who have donned the khaki of the great white father. There was no weeping nor wailing.: A high spirit of exaltation was visible in every face. Some of the old men were so ancient that their voices failed them, but they kept on until the end. One particularly ancient chieftain of this tribe chanted: “Our father asked us for our sons, und our sons have gone, and we are glad, for it is good that our sons fight for our father whose buttles are good battles. Our sons hive gone, and we are proud. Our sons have gone, and we are glad that we had sons to give.” In the Souan tongue these verses were remarkably melodious. The chor- al music was particularly agreeable, all of the singers keeping perfect time iwth the voices which harmoniously blended in a song whose cadences were at once majectic, weird and tune- ful. “More than 100 men have gone from! the reservation in North Dakota,” said an interpreter, Bear King, who is foreman on C P. Burnstad’s Pollock ranch. “A majority of them have vol- funteered. and our people are very proud of them. I doubt if there is an indian family here which has not at least one Ked Cross membership. You may drive the whole length and breadth of the reservation and fin hardly an Indian home without its Red Cross in the window. “That woman,” pointing to an active matron who must have been at least 80 years old, and who had taken a very prominent part in the proceed- ings, chimingin with the songs of the cnieftains, frequently interrupting their exhortations and occasionally breaking into a rythmic dance, “gives a dollar regularly every week to the Red Cross. That is why seh is talking so much. They all look up to her and respect ‘her. “That man over there,” pointing to a handsome full-blood, “has just donated a horse for which he paid $700 to the Red Cross. It is a thorough- bred with which he has won many races, and we will auction it. off. I should bring a big price, for it’s prob. ably the fastest horse on the reserva- tion. Our people are in the war with tehir whole heart and soul. They de- light in doing war work, and they take especial pride in their Red Cross but- tons.” From out of at most every ten tents which strung out on four sides of the Nair grounds to a length of two or three miles ‘floated a service flag showing that a son had joined the col- ors. From every council tent, in com- pany with a huge American flag, floated a bright red service banner. About these flag staffs several times each day the tribes gathered for a feast, council or pow-wow, and always the war, and the sons that had gone to war, were topics uppedmost. A pathetic, but noble figure, was that of Mrs. John Grass of Wakpala, widow of the late chief justice of the Sfoux nation, and grandmother of Al- bert Grass, the last of this ancient line, who has just paid the supreme sacrifice for democracy on a Lorraine battlefield. Mrs. Grass is very old,/ but she was anything than unattrac-! tive as she sat cross-legged in front of the tipi which she occupied alone this year for the first time. There was simple majesty in the calm, pa- tient expression on her distinctly In- dian features. She looked every bit the fit mate for the great man who left her a few months ago, and she was accorded by everyone the homage which was her due. BUY W. 5. 8. STILES MAKES BIG SHIPMENT Solen. N. D., Sept. 23—Jack Stiles, who winered 4,000 head of cattle on the reservation and who recently shiped’26 cars, loaded 700 more rime steers the last of the week. e was individually | { KAISER SAYS ALLIES | SHALL NOT ENTER ALSACE-LORRAINE Amsterdam, Sept. We will never let Frenchmen or Americans through here,” was the promise given Emperor Wilhelm by his troops when jhe visited the Alsace-Lorraine front, | Sept. 19 and 20 according to C.rl Ros- jner, favorite press agent of the kaiser, in a dispatch to the Sunday Anzeiger. | According to the emperor's chronicler, the purpose of his visit to his troops | was to give them inspiring words | the fresh fighting on the threshold of which we are perhaps standing.” | The emperor first visited the sec-' tion between Mulhausen and Colmar, {where “in sight of the Vosges front, ‘in whole heights and slopes the Ger- man positions run, and within hearing !of the dull cannon fire. Emperor Wil- helm, conducted bv Field Marshal | Duke Albrecht, went from division to division, camp to camp and hospiial to hospital.” “tere his majesty,” says Rosner,! |“was again told by his generals that/ they would never let the enemy pass. BUY W. 8 a INDIAN STOCK ~SELISWELLIN "CHICAGO YARD 1 Supt. F. B. Kitch Brings Back| Good News from Sloux i Cattlemen j D., Sept. 23.—Supt J.; B. Kich has just reurned from a cago, whiher he accompanied a ship-! ment of 1,000 head of Sioux cattle! which netted around $150,000. Supt.! Kitch states that the Indians were! | highly complimented on the condition ; of their stock which, Chicago buyers said, showed the finest cars of any} cattle received at the yards this fall.; The stock was principally two-year-| old stuff. Seventeen cars sold for! $15.50, while the short steers brought ; around $14.80. j The superintendent of the Standing! Rock met many Indian cattlemen dur-! ing the fair here last week, and hej {brought all of them good news. Act- jing on his advice, Indians who have | {just disposed of matured stock are re-j{ investing their money in feeders. |“We must keep our cattle longer,” says Supt. Kitch. “There’s no reason why we should take $150 a head for: jour sattle when by keeping them a; | year longer we can get $220 and bet-! iter. The call now is for old beef, four-! eyar-old stock, and there's big money in it.” Fort Yat any w. 8, 3——— FACES OF RIBS Noted Surgeon Adept at “God’s | Artistry” | | (Paris Correspondent of the News- | paper Enterprise Association.) | Paris, France, Sept. —Miracle | /men of surgery are not only those inj ithe great hospitals of France, whose | deeds are well known to the reading | | public of America. From Italy come more stories of the marvelous work of Colonel ‘Ama- deo Perna, a surgeon of Rome, whose fame is reaching over the world. I have just talked with a Y.M. C. A. |field man, returned from Rome, where ‘he visited the unique Hospital Stom- | aviatrico — for “those who are wound- ed in the mouth.” He saw Perna, the! miracle man, at work—the human pic- tures of horror before they wen under ; he master-knife and the re-made faces fterward. “In the hospitals are plaster casts showing the great Perna’s marvelous work,” he said, “But [| saw it with my own eyes. : | “Wrecks of men were in the hos-! j pital courtyard—men shot in the face. | sights that I thought only a night-| mare could conjure. Yet they were; not downcast, for they looked forward ; hopefully to the miracles to be wrought by Perna. “There was a poor fellow under an- aesthesia, his face shattered below the eyes in the battle of the Piave. Deftly, rapidly Perna worked. With | a rtb from the man’s side he fashioned | a nose; with skin and with flesh he ;duilt up features. It was Godlike ; sculpture—war’s artistry.” { A nurse whispered reverently of | Perna as the visitor left. “His skill ‘is from God!" she said. BUY W.3 5. KILLDEER BREAKS ; DAY’S RECORD IN SHIPPING'CATTLE, | Killdeer, N. D., Sept. 24.—During ithe last week 150 carloads of cattle have been shipped from the Killdeer branch of the Northern Pacific. | Three trainloads. consisting of 83) jcars, with a total value of about | 9350,000 were shipped in one day, mak- | ‘ing a new record for Killdeer, whose |previous high mark was 63 cars for one day. Heavier beef in better con- {dition never has left this market. ty Ww. 8. 8. SHOT IN FACE. Jamestown, N. D., Sept. 23.—Edward Gurski, 15-year-old boy, is in a hospit-! al here as a result of the accidental | discharge of a shotgun, Sun was shot through the hand and face but is expected to recoved. i { i | of ‘Nations: The Way to Peace,” which |Erzberger soon will publish. {would be independent in the conduct | tion will be required on applicatiov, 11- ; Twenty per cent will be due Nw j first Liberty loan address tomorrow i“they are dangerous to the Soviets” ; government has asked the whole civ- BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, SEPT. 23, 1918. S ADVA E EXILED TO HUNLAND Unfortunate is the plightof British women who are. married to Ger- man citizens. they return to Germany everybody knows their fate. If they remain in England they must be interned, and if The photo shows an English woman married to a German, embarking with her family to join her husband in Germany. GERMANY IS AT WORK ON LEAGUE OF ALL NATIONS 23. I Amsterdam, Sept. A draft of a} constitution for a league of natio mapped out in detail by Mathias Ei berger of the German reichstag ‘s pub-} lished in the Zeitung of Berlin. It is} “Any sovereign state may enter the league which will be considered torm- ed when the following powers have an- nounced adherence: Germany, Great Britain, France, United States and Russia.” The Hague would be the seat of the sleague, and there the internation#1 | Each state would name one delegate. {The international bureau would be controlled by an executive council. Dealing with fundamental law: second section says: “The league guarantee the territorial poss of each separate state. Each s+ the of its internal and foreign affairs with- in the limits of the proposed constitu> tion.” i Sars i WILL ASK TEN PER CENT OF LOAN UPON APPLICATION Washington, Sept. ‘Ten per cent of the Fourth Liberty 1oan subscrip- cent as in the past. 1, 20 per cent December 19, 20 pescent Jan- uary 16 and 20 per cent Fe) ©), This is the first time more than three installments have been arranged in addition to payment on application for any loan. ‘The increased initial | payment was made to discourage the practice of some persons who sub- scribed prior to the time they actual: | ly knew that they would carry out the; obligation. stead of 5 per The installment dates will not in-| four or five such district demonstra-| who only recently was returned terfere with the practice by many sub-| scribers who have bought bonds thru banks or other agencies #nd paid ten! per cent per month for ten months. Secretary McAdoo will make his night at Carnegie hall, New York. — Huy w. 5. 8. Reign of Terror Continues Unabated | Throughout Russia/| Washington, Sept. 23.—Stories of | wholesale slaughter of representative | people and former officers because | | i are told in further accounts reaching the state department of the reign of terror in Russia, against which the ilized world to protest. Former officers are shot at night in the cellars, the guns being muffled with silence On eperson, head of the Bolshevik extraordinary commit-, tee, is said to sign death warrants | without reading the papers. The Brit-| ish and French consul generals at ‘Moscow are said to be under arrest | in their homes. American Consul Gen- ral Poole is at liberty and allowed al | visit his colleagues. ROY W. SS. Electric Plants May be Placed Under Federal Control| Washington, Sept. 23.—President Wilson today asked congress to pass the: war revenue bill authorizing the government to contro! electric plants.! by an ‘auto. driven by Martin Mooney. request.” _| 8rasshoppers and other pests, and i |the Minnesota college of a M'LEAN COUNTY TOHAVEFARM DEMONSTRATOR j taken from a book entitled “A League!Expert Agricultural Agent En-| gaged by Board of Commis- sioners at Washburn Washburn, N. D., Sept. 23.—McLeg county is to have an agricult pert of its own to help the farmers within its confines combat gopher so to act in an advisory capacity in helping the farmers solve any prob-| Jems that may come up. The county commissioners have made an appropri | ation for such work the coming y and A. I. Norling, with the title of emergency district demonstrating. agent for the department of agricut- ture, is moving to Washburn to take up the work. Mr. Norling, who is a graduate of cultur has been stationed for nearly Elbow Lake, Minn. engaged in sim- jilar work. He came here last spring | their plans on wrong informetion. —G to make a drive against the gophers and he was instrumental in distribut- ing poison among the farmers of al) townships in the county except two or three, for eradicating the pests disastrous results to the gophers Norling declares that if the f administer thi: specially. prepared poison for the next three or four years there will not be a gopher left in the county. The biggest part of his work the coming year will be to wage war against the grasshoppers, which were sadly plentiful the past season. The selection of Mr. Norling for this work indicates the progressive spirit of McLean county. There are already tion agents in North Dakota. The plan in McLean county is to organize a farm bureau to direct the work, com prising farmers and others interest- ed in agriculture BUY W. 8. ——— | WESLEY BAKER RANCH IS SOLD Livonia. 'N. D., Sept. 23—The Wes- ley Baker ranch, one of the oldest and best known estates in the Missouri river valley, has been sold to John Grenz for a consideration. of $30 the acre. Mr. Baker, a former‘member of the legislature and active in politics in territorial days, moved from Bismarck on to 500 acres of Missouri river bot- tom lands more than 30 years ago, and he was the oldes and most influential setler in this section of Emmons couny. BUY W.S. § WOUNDED SOLDIERS me AMERICAN RATIONING. ( By Newspapes Enterprise Ass’n) London, Sept. 23.—American food savers, here’s a high compliment for you, from Dr. J. Stuart Holden of St. Paul's, who has just returned from the state’s, where he was sent by the Eritish government to lecture... “The voluntary rationing in America.” he says. “is quite as drastic as the com- pulsory rationing in-this country.” BUY W. 8. KILLED BY AUTO. Jamestown, -N. D., Sept. 23.—Arlie Roedel. seven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gottleib Roedel( was fatally in- jured Saturday evening when struck cya PRICE FIVE CENTS. FORTY MILES HOW STUDENT ———_ TRAY CORPS s'-QUENTINBEING SLOWLY ENCIRCLED BY JOINT ACTION ni OF FRENCH AND BRITISH nished Boards with Detailed | Allies in Macedonia Deliver Body Blow to Teuton i ; Defenses in East—Capture Many Prisoners— information. A 3 A ——— Wipe Out Bulgarian Armies. x CROWDER MAKES RULING: DISASTER THREATENS BULGARIA Disaster threatens the armies of Bulgaria and Turkey on the battlefields of Macedonia and Palestine. Allied forces are pressing with vigor their campaign against the two lesser members of the central powers. In Pales- | Dakota auiee acleet © service ee tine General Allenby has virtually wiped out the forces i etieekteoin tine for ane Fabal” gait} opposing him taking over 25,000 prisoners, and he con- eral of September 5, copies of whichj tinues to push forward. | were sent you some time ago, seems | Allied successes in Macedonia have resulted in driv- tobe ere ly seauneerstage both py ing a breach between the eastern and western forces of ocal Deals: We yd lerentced ucallone the Bulgarian army, Bulgarian forces are in full retreat between Monastir and the Mediterranean. More detailed information for coun- ty boards upon the organization of te students army 3 furnished today | braser im the tullowing letter to North i 1 | | institations and the public generally. | | A number of institutions of learning! | have taken the ng viewpoint of the ,order and many young men are being | (By Associated Press) \or peat or this oat is Serbian and allied troops in Central Macedonia have dealt the jfice addressed the following telegram; Bulgarian communication lines blows that are expected to bring eae a eee eae an ae iter September |APOut a complete readjustment of the positions there. The import- fifth, subject students’ army training at railway line from Uskub to Saloniki and from Gradsko to Pri- corps: ail voards being flooded with/lep have been severed and enemy forces around Lake Dorian and inquiries concerning this matter and | north of Monastir are in danger of being outflanked and captured. besieged with r for induction. Many schools a ng literature to! IONE C “CAD | prospective students that all they need i NONE CAN ESCA E Seed to do to join this corps is to apply to! Reports from the Palestine front this afternoon indicate that their local board for induction. This! none of the Turkish force of 40,000 trapped by the British through pores, foes nel 50 Learn out |the seizure of the last of the passages of the Jordan can get away. schools under certain conditions may | Virtually all of the Turkish force will be accounted for in killed, he inducted into the service. June now; Wounded and prisoners, when boards are overwhelmed with The Turks had seven divisions south of Nazareth and west jwork that Is essential, request some icf the Jordan, but the exact total cannot be determined owing to {instruction that they may show regis-! 2 Ser ame Sap pa es : 5 n ltrants that boards have nothing to ‘do | the weakness of some of the divisions. The total of 25.000 pris- with this induction; that this comes | oler's reported, however, is believed to be far less than the final only from your office on recommenda: | account will show. [omiot the foal aur hor ties one The clean-up made by General Allenby, which is reported here imay Issue transportation to registrants |48 the quickest and most complete of the war, is accounted as | who desire to atend a paricular school. | having definitely deprived the Turks of Palestine. {Have instructed them that they do! Sa far as is known the Turks on this front had only four jmothing | raunout a ‘planes, and these have been captured. At neon today Gen Crowder answer-! London, Sept. 23 —The Serbians have captured between 9,000 ed as follows: ;and 10,000 prisoners and 120 guns, the Evening Standard says. | “Local poards have no concern with} eae ee? 4 aplications for induction of registrant | ADVANCE SEVEN MILES into studental army training corns re Rome, Sept. 23.—The Italian troops in Macedonia have ad- til they receive Form 2007a ordering | yanced an average of more than sev iles i i s x {such induction, Full instructions B0V-) nd an ae neg hie taken a6 ver mile in pursuit of the Turks |erning procedure ot local boards upod | ge . 35 ages. !recelpt of Form 2007a are given in my | a are letter of September 5. All applicants, ge UT MAIN RAILWAY cee jfor induction into students’ army train-| London, Sept. 23.—Serbian troops have cut the main railway j COMPS enould ber Lilt ere cape eH |line between Custab and Saloniki. West of the border the Serbians leonool: anieh is aiving information | have cut the railway line to Preilib, which is the main line of neerning inductions contrary to the|German communication in this region. Serbian infantry units above, advise this office immediately | now are in the mountains, and have advanced 25 miles in one day. tand, corrective measures will be ap-; The ighbori G and Bulwacis % a Iplied. CROWDER.” ; e neighboring German and Bulgarian sectors now are fill- This will clear the matter and pros-/ing the loss of their communication lines. Enemy reinforcements pective students that wish to availl have been forced to retreat. themselves of this school privilege! on a i Preece . jmust go to the institution enroll and Since Sept. 15 the Serbs have advanced 40 miles. receive their induction at the hands el, f [of the proper” military. autherities. ENCIRCLING ST. QUENTIN With bie induction: schoo as such On the western front the British and French are progressing have noting to do. is purely aj; a Fae eC. 7 ” ye seri imilitary matter and handled by thet the encirclement of St. Quentin. The Fr ench hav e seriously men- ar department, after the militar anaes the rare. by the capture of Venduil, nine miles |thorities have made t . en. | soutl east of St. Quentin. serene ea German and Bulgarian reinforcements thrown in to check Please give this authoritive ruling of the Serbian advance have been forced to join in the retreat of their poe ieee ue raven ge commades by the Serbs who have now advanced 40 miles since order é si ents a ehange |G - 1 . ° . . a: iSept. 15th. The quantity of war material captured also is in- A. Fraser, Adjutant Genera! |ereasing. | ee The salient driven in at Sokol has been widened until now the H s s iSTARKWEATHER jallies are advancing on a front of 50 miles. When they reached TO BE TRIED \the Varda the Serbians were able to cut the railway running south On the western flank the Serbs have pushed to the | {to Saloniki. ' NEXT MONTH ichest point of the mountain region in the upper part of the pea Must | Cerna bend, and cut the railway from Gradsko southwest of Uskub ;to Prilep, the base of the German army operating north and north- jeast of Monastir. Habitual Prison ‘Breaker Answer Again to Charge of Manslaughter aie i i FORCES IN PERIL | Mott, N. D. Sep. Jesse stark: | By cutting the railway line the Serbs have placed two large | Weather, who twice escaped from the ;enemy forces in great peril. The Bulgarians might retire over the | state penitentiary, where he was serv-/ mountains in Serbia or north over the Varda. The Serbs, could, ‘ing a term for horse stealing, and; A A 7 Fi > to| however by crossing in force to the Varda cut off the best means | that institution after enjoying several of retreat. el | Pe eee ee ation ite na Apparently the Germans around Prilep are in a more danger- lober 7, on a charge of manslaughter, OS position than the Bulgarians. The best roads lead east and i Srowing out ote Eilling onthe See. {west for the escape. To the east the retreat has been cut off while }ey ranch near Killdeer in which Stark- ; AGREE nr ae “dey . 7 jewather is alleged to have been in. to the west the roads run along the border of Albania. | volved following his first escape from, y - |the penitentiary. Starkweather was : CAPTURE VENDHUILE \tried on this charge at Mandan two, Around St. Quentin the operations are centered on the towns reste seo. The jury disagrecd. but in| of Vendhuile and Vendeuil. The French after capturing the town | course 0! ie kw e . . . | was recognized as a fugitive from the/and fort of Vendeuil have pushed on to the Oise river, and as a ! penitentiary, to which he was return-/result have driven a sharp salient into the German defenses be- led, only to make a second break for’ tween St. Quentin and Laon. Vendcuil is one of the more distant liberty several months ago. Judge} ae and iathe st in tant int the Hind Crawford of Dickinson has directed ;outposts of Laon, and is the mos important point on the Hinden- the calling of the special tere iy Het: burg line between St. Quentin and LaFere Its capture places the tinger county .to take e place of! pp, +h a ¢ 4 ise i iti the regular Ociober term, which oat een the west bank of the Oise and in a position bo croas the been adjourned. Se C ’ SUY W. S. 8. Vendhuile is nine miles north-northwest of St. Quentin, and 'PROMOTION OF- on the Sheldt canal, two miles west of Le Catelet. Northwest and | LIBERTY LOAN southwest of the town the British have captured strong points and Is NECESSARY 2? iy are closing in on it from three directions While the fuel administration's re-| SUCCESSFUL LOCAL ATTACK quest that no gasoline be consumed} Further north Field Marshal Haig’ S men carried out a success- in Sunday Joy-riding docs not form: ful local attack southwest of Villers-Guislain taking 100 prisoners. ally apply west of the Mississippi, it! 2 * We saniic hac beet voluntarily abscrved to 6! In a local operation north of Arras the British captured 60 prison: large extent in this state. and Liberty jers southeast of Gavrelle and made some progress. oan workers have wondered: whether Moving northward with surprising speed and power the allied eir worl woul e considerer so} :, ., es necessary as to warrant the burning troops in Palestine seemed to have dealt the Turks a blow that may | of gas on Sundays. In a wire to Capt.jshatter their power in that theater of the war. So far as reports iL e Baker, / federal fue} administt® | reflect the situation. the Turks are completely defeated, and the [om administrator sets these doubts at/ march of the French, British and Arabs to the sea of Tiberias is lest, stating that “the use of automo-| virtually unopposed. pies on eee era eee The advance has carried the allies passed the village of Naz- in the spirit of gagolineless Sunday jareth and they are approaching the ancient city of Tyre. ‘To fhe (Continued on Page Three.) ad * t