The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 25, 1918, Page 1

| - JOHN IRELAND THE WEATHER’ GENERALLY FAIR —— THE B THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. _ 235. ISMAR BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, SEPT: LAST EDITION. 25, 1918 PRICE FIVE CENTS. PROGRESS REPORTED ABOUT ST. QUENTIN DIES FOLLOWING LONG ILLNESS Physicians Kept Prominent Pre- late Alive for Days by Use of Oxygen PROMINENT IN NORTHWEST Intimate Friend of James J. Hill, Saw Western Empire Develop. TO SAY MASS. Solemn requiem ‘mare will *- [QUITE A LITTLE COAL LEFT SAYS FUEL DICTATOR The United States fuel administra- tion in a report just published gives the northern great plains area, from North Dakota and Montana south to New Mexico, including the Denver and Raton Mesa regions, credit for housing America’s greatest coal re- sources. It is estimated that this ter- ritory has mined 284,548,000,000 tons of semi-bituminous and 964.424,000,000 tons of lignite or a total of 1,294,525,-| 000,000 tons of caal of all kinds, which had been reduced by the aggregate: production up to the end of 1914 to 1,- 294;180,000,000 tons. The second larg- est field is the Rocky Mountain dis- trict, which at the end of .914 had 1,- 067,609,000,000 tons of semi-bitumin- ous coal left. From 1807 to 1914 the total production of the United States was estimated at 15,085,000,000 tons. From 1914 to the end of 1917, 2.554,-| more were exhausted, MARSHALFOCHSAYS = ARMY PASSES CREST London, Sept. 25.—Marshal Foch, *commander-in-chicf: of the allied armies on the w newspaper men at his headquarters on Tuesday. Among these was the correspondent the marshal’s utterances : “The British army is better than ever; it fights better than eve’; all of its losses have been made good. The Amer- ieans are splendid and are wo! Ten thousand fresh Americans arrive in France every day. The French army is: the same No more is to be said.” In discussing the general “The enemy is shaken up and is shaken down, but-it is still We have passed the crest and are now going _ holding out. estern front, received .a few of the Telegraph, who records nderfully gallant in the field. good old army it was in 1915. situation, the marshal. said: VERMILYA AND MINOR OPERATIONS REPORTED MACDONALDIN ~ ALONG THE WESTERN FRONT: _SOBGONTEST! — BULGARTANS AT FRONTIER | Reported that Each Would Like | Presidency of Valley City |Few Details Received Relative to Situation in Pal- Normal. estine—Turkish Forces in Vicinity of Jordan River in Peril of Being Captured—Two |. Armies Destroyed. SOMEBODY NOT GRATEFUL All is not lovely ‘between Rev. Charles E. Vermilya, the political par- son member of the state board of re- gents, and N. C. Macdonald, state superintendent of public instruction, it} is hinted. | | : CAPTURE 40,000 PRISONERS 9 London, Sept. 25.—More than 40,000 prisoners and 256 guns have been taken by British in offensive in Pales- tine, it is officially announced. This afternoon British forces operating east of Jordan apparently are in favor- given at 8:15 tomorrow morning / 000,000 tons 4 p When Vermitya two years ago sent; * able position to cut off Turks r ati at St. Mary's church in honor of |leaving gross coal resources for the down hill. . If we gather impetus as we go, like a rolling ball, a circular letter to every Methodist | jas allway British now copreecting tee gs, fot , the late Archbishop Ireland, who | United States at the beginning of so much the better.” preacher urging that they support railway. é : Be mone «' died today in St. Paul. 1918 of about —3,536,000,000,000 net ‘ eed gualdlelcandidany CoC Ste ekas as \téns. In the 111 years since 1807, Macdonald’s candidacy for state super-: St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 25.—After’an illness of more than a year, Most’ Rev. John Ireland, Roman archbishop~ of St. Paul, died at 3:50 this, morning at his home on Summit avenue. Death came quietly. A score ef prominent Catholic clergymen were at the bed- side of the eighty-year-old prelate, who for many years was a vigorous ‘ and commanding figure in the relig- ious and civic life of the northwest. 1or three days Archbishop Ireland's the final relapse came. Wholly uncon- when mining was begun, the exhaus- tion of our coal supply has been. about | {1-2 of one per cent but more than half | of this has been in the last 12 years, ; }and it has included the coal least ex-) i pensive to take out. The depletion has been the smallest {in the great plains region, which con- ‘tains about 35 per cent of America’s | Present fuel resource ——-Buy wes i SLAYEROR FRASER TELLS *?*ROVERATE, HOW TO JOIN NAVAL FORCES. individuals togethet with provision L jhouse eight billion war revenue bil Washington, Sept. 25.—The normal tax of 12 1-2 per cent on net incomes that the rate shall.be 6 per cent on tho first $4,000 as .written in the was today apprdved without change by the senate finance committee. BUY Wo. jirtendent of public instruction, he did) i ; bobbed up in the state's (By Associated Press) In the encircling of St. Quentin and in driving the Germans and Bulgarians northward in Macedonia, the allied armies are mak- ing further progress against increased enemy resistance. _ Northwest of St. Quentin. the British have followed ‘up the British success of yesterday in which the British and French made further gains toward the town from the west. Heavy fighting is : taking place in the region of Gricourt, less than three miles north- basket. But Macdonald was electe’! northwest and Selency, two and one-half miles northwest. The state superintendent of public nstruc-: British are advancing despite counter attacks by the Germans who alihs{hevunderatanding: clear i. his : On the French sector to the south only the artillery has been own mind, at least, that he was to/active. Between the Ailette and the Aisne the French have re- have the first good presidency that} pulsed German attacks in the important territory about Moisy educational! Farm, at the western end of the Chemin Des Dames. 80° with the understanding that some! political plum would be his in return. Not all the preachers followed Vermil- ya's instructions; many clung to the! belief that the church and its minis- ters should keep out of polites, and Vermilyas letter was filed in the wasie I physicians kept their patient alive by, ;Process of Induction Under New | the use of oxygen. Late last night; ‘ LACK FACES | Draft Much Same as in i scious, his pulse grew weaker and | institutions. At the particular moment! Amy Prorem. NEW ENGLAND weaker. In the darkened room, where | : i : ermilys 2 5 % priests and nuns softly chanted pray-' b |; spne: terme “anlitary ceervice® vahall deg tite thee agriealtaval meen SPLIT BULGARIAN FORCES ers for the dying, where candles flick-| ; ene ue tarte es gee re ene presidency might open up. That fail- Apparently the allies in Macedonia have completed the split- {be held to include naval service, in- cluding service in the marine corps,| except where such construction would | be unreasonable, Adjutant General! ed, and then he was tentatively tend-; ting apart of the Bulgarian forces east and west of the Varda. The ‘ ) ered the Dicknson normal presidency.|Serbians are pressing northward along the river toward Veles SPANISH “RLU” THE oan He nlectca eat to Ver’; vhich the enemy apparently will not be able to hold, as other al- | Then. the board of regents,|lied forces are marching in that direction from Prilep. + ered at the bedside, the end came with | hardly: a: S160: : \Minneapolis Man Convicted by Arrangements for the funeral will not be completed until word is re-| Jury After 31-2 Hours’ ceived from a number of church dig-, aE ee ee arerday, faners) ct] Deliberation, eee autor eea: a teraee: ral so il is said, deposed Dr. George; Standing on the heights along the Bulgarian frontier east of i ‘ardinal F a y day quoting, Sec. 4 of] ae |A. McFarland for more — than|the Varde , i aris ‘ | Was Noted as Publicist. Minneapolis, Minny Sept, 25—Reu-|the act which congress approved Au-} Boston, Sept. 25.—The spread of in-|a quarter of a century esitent |e Varda south of Demirkapu Pass, the Bulgarians are offering i Mrs. Lack, Curtis, and © many} “iy, = n ‘ r q Born: in 1838 in Ireland.’ a carpen- neighbors looked on. Lack had inter- with the: xheplions poted pelow, council today. ; attached, by the medium ofthe vallot; General Allenby’s victorious troops. It appears however that the 3 tera 0, he was cornice bef {fered on behalt~of ‘several children) O41.° oy rapeeGh rosemble tke cores aurwik § ai the next general election. ‘ell! 'Tyrkish forces which succeeded in reaching the eastern bank of the parents {n the tide. of Irish: immigra-| curtis was cursing and ordering off| Wi! in.all- respects-resemble the or- st about for some soft spot upon! J, isolated and‘in intmi : e tion to America whilé:he was a child. | , dinary calls for the army,” advises ch to fall should the zoo! ship of Jordan are isolated and in imminent danger of being captured. A iL ( day afternoon when his attorney W. e u { YS (GE Ore AMONE, bis Hoynoon memerer E. Hewitt, made his plea to the jury.|@ call Fiat the beat one Hioards wil the Valley City normal presidency. | ‘ E i bringing him finally to St. Paul. Munt;|. When the verdict of guilty was Te ant tes aka ctask Ensign: who |? “But,” says the Rey. Vermilya, “I saw | SUNK BY MINE ; i in 1852, when Indians in gay blankets /+ymned by the jury after 3 1-2 hours of |Tead. write and -spéak Hnellab, Whe it first," and right then and there| . A , i i stalked the streets, of that frontier | (oiiperation, he was taken to his cell| {8 not @ cltizen of the United States, 5 \friendshin foozled, says Dame Rumor.| Stockholm, Sept. 25.—The Swedish gunboat Gunhild has been > town. One evening, the maleslon ary weak and trembling. | (nondeelnpaat OF: allen fo be inguuded) re So, the story goes, the very Rev.|sunk by striking a German mine in the Skagerat by striking a, f ' See a eee ot secrenl vule ce teneuy We, Rie, who is -a:eonenlen noe oF pjector. se, [county Leads the State in. War pr. Charles E. Vermilya is not this|German mine, with the loss of an officer and 18 men. Persistent t 4 pulng me: Savings Stamp Sales for | r asking the preachers over whom! rymor: current that another Swedish gunboat struck a mine a 0 gated ‘by the Marist Fathers. When all cases army deserters. ranked second. In aggregate sales for lin some cases behind the lines, but sharp countering by the Amer- i heneas! af tHe Oar of the Civil) ; Pe ee tne month Burleigh county, ranked NEW W.S.S. CLUB licans gave them little opportunity for close operation aE for photo- n homeward fired with as much patriot-|South Dakotans Decline to Give NORTH D AKOT A N Aaanat Wes. Soules wees Gaaacwith AT APPLE CREEK (graphic work. Infantry patrols as well as aviation groups were ac- A John Ireland Archbishop of St. Paul, held such ‘a keen and active interest in general affairs in the United States during. the past half century that he was noted as a publicist, as well. as for his religious zdal. He was one of the most distinguished of the Roman Catholic churchmen of America. There were few fields of ntellevtual, political or spiritual endeayor © in which he failed to take a positive stand, making himself at times the center of a controversy, at Altar service at Burlitigton, Vt., and a jolting trip west ona prairie schoon- of his parish at play, called to John Ireland and Thomas O’Gorman—who Vater became bishop of Sioux Falls— ,,to come into the church. He asked fi | them if they wished to become priests Both he and his playmate agreed tha! priesthood was their ambition. Bishop Cretin sent them, in charge of a guard- jan, to France, where they were edu- ism as religion. Was Army Chaplain. ‘After being ordained at St. Paul, he eagerly accepted an appointment as; chaplain in the Fifth Regiment of the! ‘Minnesota Volunteers. He was ardent for the Unionist cause and shared every hardship of the soldier's life-in their terrible win- ter raids. At Iuka he gave yeomans help by rushing ammunition to the front when it was sorely needed. He was stricken with fever after less than a year’s serviceand returned to @ St. Paul pastorate. * He soon attracted national atten- tion through his work’ for témper- ance. The story is told of how on one January night in 1869, three drunkards staggered into his doorway and hand- ed him a humpled sheet, which read: “For God’s sake organize a tem- perance society.” The paper was sign-| {ben C. Curtis, found guilty of murder in the first degree hy a jury in dis- trict. court yesterday, will be sen- tenced at 10 o'clock tomorrow morn- ing by Judge William C. Hale. The punishment for his crime, -¢on- strued by law to be wilful and pre- {meditated murder, is life imprison- {ment in the: Stillwater penitentiary. | Curtis shot and- killed Ernest &, ‘Lack, father of two small children, in. front .of hacks home, June..25, while} Mrs. the sidewalk. Curtis broke down and sobbed yes-; COYOTESRUN: | TOWNLEY OUT | OF BRITTON! No Partyites Opportunity | | i to Spout. 1 | —_———— | Britton, S. D., Sept. 25.-+(Special)— ‘A party of Nonpartisan league speak- jers were denied the right to speak and | driven out of the State by an armed posse here today. As the visitors nass- | {ed out of the city limits they wore 1old {to keep going and automobiles loafied | {down with a mob of men :nd boys | jarmed with rifles and shotguns {o!low- | jed close behind until the party hod | crossed the North Dakota boundary | 10 miles to the north: Included in the ‘party driven across the line were M. | F. Bates, Nonpartisan candidate for governor, A. C. Townley, State Organ- | izér Evans, F. 'B. Wood of the Equity |Co-operative exchange of St. Paul, and; \two citizens: of Sisseton with ‘their | | wives. | {gust 31,-extending the military estab- lishment of the United. States. This section reads: -‘‘That all men rendered: available for induction into the military service ‘of the United States through registration or draft heretofore or -hereafter -made. pursu- ant to law’ shall be liable ta, service in the army or, navyy.or'the marine corps, and’ shall’ be allotted to the army, the: navy ‘or the marine corps} under regulations to:be prescribed’ by lin pattling the epidemic in; thie: state the president. the adjutant general. The exceptions noted are that in selecting men under navy calls no venereals will be for-| warded; no man who is color blind; | no man whose vision, without glasses, is less than 15-20 in either eye; no man ‘with trangmillable disease; no man over 74 inches in height. Registrants who fail to report for military duty under induction orders issued by the adjutant general are in ALLOTMENT IS 19 MILLIONS Minneapolis, Sept. 25.—North Dako- ta’s allotment for the Fourth Liberty loan is 19 millions it was officially announced today at the headquarters of the Ninth federal reserve district. County allotments have been tele- graphed to the county chairmen, it was stated. wee fluenzza in eastern New England con- tinued today, though medical authori- ‘ties expressed the hope the epidemic had nearly if-not quite reached its peak. . Organized. measures taken in a number of cities. were expected to show, results in a day or two. The estimated number of cases is 50,000 to 75,000. An apporpriation of $100,000.to aid was made available by the govérnor’s BURLEIGH IN Month of August. ~ - | Turleigh county in August took first | jrank in North Dakota in: the per capita sale of War Savings’ Stamps; with an average of $1.78 per person: Sioux county, with $1.75 per capita, $38.022; Grand Forks, $24,207; Ward $53,367; Stutsman $22,885; Richland, 33. : North Dakota’s total sales for Au- gust were $510,168, and the aggregate |for the entire state to date is $3,121,- 086. Of this amount, Cass has take! | $283,959; Grand Forks, $164,483; Ward, | $152,327; Stutsman, $146,732; Rich- land. $114,620; Barnes, $124,499, and jand Burleigh, $107,066. $8.19, leads in total percapita sales of War Savings Stamps since the begin- | ning of the campaign last December; Sargent, with. $8,13 is second; Bur- Hleigh, with $7.56 18 third: Trafll. with | 8741, fourth and Foster with $7.08, fifth. i stiff resistance to allied attempts to advance. Griggs with| %. of the Valley City normal, and Vermil-! ya began once more to furbish up his lightning rods. The board 9f regents | at first, however, tendered the jod to Dr. Stout, an eastern educator of SEPARATED FROM COMRADES North of the Pass, the enemy is retiring on Veles and it would . but, @ stern educator of appear this column has been cut off from its comrades further rate eeeRaE ised nas ais aealag south. The Bulgarians fighting on the frontier west of the Varda board, and promptly decline: to accept! apparently are those who fled before the French. Greek and British any position which it had io offer. | around Lake Dorain. ; ‘ In the meanthine Nei! ©. Macdonald Few details, of the situation in Palestine as has developed ii began to suffer trom fears that Ne) the last couple of days have developed. Only informal dispatches aie separa fron the public : HNOLOF at Saranac ee) arta tell of the capture of Acre and,'Haifa, and the further advance of payroll, to which he has deen so long dispatch sent from Nabulus on Monday by a British corespondent and he dis- is says that two Turkish armies have been destroyed. state buck him overboard coyered a very satisfactory haven in as superintendent of the Bismarck trict of his church, he has somc material control, to vote for Supt. few days ago, and that a greater part of he crew was lost. Macdonald, and’ Supt Macdonald, runs, AIRMEN ACTIVE the tale, isn’t losing any sleep 0’ With the Americans in Lorraine, Sept. 25.—Airmen of both yomilsae earialdney che a Mr. | armies were active today, and increased artillery action was noticed dency of ‘the Valley “tity normal, ,along the old St. Mihiel sector. Bright skies have replaced _the x jcloud of the last. few days. German fliers extended their operations BUY W. 5, 9 “Under the direction of County Chair. | tive between the lines. The artillery on both sides bombarded ob- man George F. Dullam the farmers of| jectives behind the lines. Apple Creek have organized an active; STILL TALKING PEACE War Savings Stamp society with Rob-| ert Nelson as president, and W. J.) Amsterdam, Sept. 25.—Germany maintains her readiness for Field as secretary. | peace, despite repeated rejections, declared Admiral Von Hintze in praia Se ‘addressing the Bee Reece on the recent Austrian pro- ve 4 *! posal, Von Hintze said the German government’s attitude had been HONOR ROLL | repeatedly illustrated. ree bails ? : Privates Harold! Their attitude, he said is maintained today, despite the partly is 8 cheering, partly snearing rejections which we have received from Wolnded severely: Abel, Fordville; ‘Nick Grams, stad; Andrew Lillico, Leyden; Bo Wright, Casselton., ea oieta| CLAIMS SUBMARINE SUCCESS Missing in action: Privates Clyde T.; London, Sept. 25.—Count Von Heriling, the German Imperial Devils Lake; eHnry Johnson,' (4 4 noellor, in addressing the main committee of the reichstag yes- Burn-! lyron; Our enemies. ! __|_ HAIG AT THE FRONT __iterday, declared the submarine warfare is slowly, but surely dim- \inishing allied tonnage. “Above all,” he said, “it is restricting the shipment of men ,and material from the United States.” 4 ed by seven men including a saloon ),W?¥' . | ‘4 z rt k2eper. Those were the days WHE ee cioeds tha: meeting, were gathered | FALLING BACK ON VILLEZ % . Paul filled with border turb-) r Ing were aware ¥ On Ty : . . ‘ St. Fal wifi viot of drink: The|the presence, of a mob, the visitors | _ London, Sept. 25. dhe Germans and Bulgarians are falling hoxt Sunday Father Ireland, began his |Had been hustled into cars and stast-| back on Villez, east of Uskub. Along the Prilib-Gradtsko road the campaign by organizing a temperance |€d on a journey to North Dakota. As | | Serbians have captured 13 guns and a great number of ammunition society of eighty members. He made|the news spread indignation ros2| | wagons and other material. - hut-to-hut visits to St. Paul’s shanty-|2mong the farmers who had come in| | town, throwing whiskey bottles out of | "om all parts of Marshall county to) | PREPARATIONS STARTED IN AUGUST the squalid doorways. ite work he or tenon earch onto. tall | | Paris, Sept. 25.—Preparations for the present great operations thus began he extent roughou! -. a i 4 * the Northwest and traveléd the whole|their names stricken from the subscrip- lin Macedonia began in UE USL Eslegraphts the correspondent of ne country preaching temperance: ‘He'tion list. Many business houses were | Petite Parisian. Various things prevente e allied commander even carried the battle to Ireland and/ Visited, bills paid and accounts closed. [from beginning his operations earlier, and quick work was impera- pe eran earn py rec inetd Piaget htearataod Rie ol itive. The sector chosen for the attack, lacked for communications abundant an is zeal for work suc! v1 | . engeres es i that the term “consecrated blizzard” |Party and an arrangement made for | except fom goat paths, ampracttenl conerulleey e roel vee ca as applied to him by one of his admir-! them to come back into the state and out from Dajonal to Grevesta and Serbian engineers set to wor! ers was accepted by many others as| hold a meeting at a farm house seven | | vigorously long before the French troops to whom had been assign- = a peculiarly happy‘expression. miles from Britton. All the farmers | ied the task of piercing the Bulgarian line, were in position. The \ Consolidation of Schools. He at one time conceived the. idea of consolidating the Catholic parochial schools and the public schools. ‘The plan was tried at Faribault and Still- water, but friction which. the arch- | Tethaining in town attended the meet- | ing and secured the promise of A. €.! Townley and Candidate Bates to ad-| dress Marshall. county people in a grove seven miles from Britton. BUY W. 3 a ‘mountain region from Dubro to Kosya is wild and covered with low i brush wood and dense forests, with deep ravines and sheer preci- | pices. The Bulgars felt themselves so safe from attack by reasons (Continued on Page Three.) ‘bishop could not relieve arose and the) Vote in the Senate On Lee scheme was dropped. He was found- " |VON HERTLING DISCUSSES ts nals ener te)” Sue reee ew He Clos | “i HONS A ae this he gave his highly-prized private library, one of the most’ comprehens- ive in the Northwest. One of his ear ly works was the founding of a col- only of 900 Catholic farmers in west- ern Minnesota in 1876. ~ - He became bishop ini 1875 and.Arch- bishop in 1886. He received) support Washington, Sept. 25.—Based on fin- al polls and “fair” negotiatons today, leaders. directing the fight for and against the suffrage amendment, con- ceded that’ the senate vote tdmorrow. would be as close as that in the house by which it adopted the senate amendment last ‘January by a margin from many of his admirers for ap-|of two votes more than the required pointment as the fourth American car-| majority. Friends of the amend- dinal. Celebrating his golden jubilee | ment, however, believe the small mar- a few vears ago, the priests of his di-/ gin in the senate will be on the right (Continued on Five.) side. Erief debate is- expected. Britain’s famous general is here congratulating a Canadian regiment on its victory in Picardy. A column of Highlanders is marching up in the background. peace on the basis of the four points Amsterdam, Sept. 25.—Count Von of President Wilson’s message of Feb- Hertling, the eGrman imperial chan- cellor, in addressing , the Reichstag main committee complained of lack of attention to his acquiesence in the four points laid down by President Wilson as peace essentials. The Chan- cellor asserted that on Feb. 22 of this year, he declared in the Reichstag his agreement in principle with the possibility of discussing a general Tuary 22, but that President Wilson neither at that time nor since had taken any notice of the Chancellor’s declaration. Count Von Hertling continued that he favored the formation of a league of nations, perpetual peace, the es- tablishment of obligatory courts of ar- bitration, the freedom of the seas, and protection of small nations. * 4 Cease