The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 2, 1918, Page 1

a ae f - of Archbishop John Ireland’ was' borne THE WEATHER: GENERALLY FAIR I THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. NO.240 THE B { i i ‘TELEGRAMS ON. FOURTH LOAN: SHOW SUCCESS Six Billion Minimum Expected to! "be Reached by End of - Period COMMUNITIES OVER TO Washington,D. . Oct. 2.—Tele- grams pouring~into the’ treasury to- day indicated “that the Fourth Liberty. Loan has hit-the stride which will put it over the six billion minimum “ by the end of the period.” Optimistic war news at the time of the loan prompted the officials to push the loan even more vigorously. In the two and a halt weeks remaining | five billion dollars*must be raised, it | is estimated. Encouraging reports’ came today from the middle west, where Iowa already has passed it: goal and nearly all states of the Min: neapolis district are apptoaching their allotments. . Twentv-twh communities | in .New Eigland have been awarded | their banner flags. Sulfscriptions | among factory employees‘ in Detroit | are reported four times heavier than in this stage of the third loan. Cleve- land had passed fifteen million at the close last night, and 47 communities have been awarded flags. | The San Francisco district reports seventy-seven iillion six hundred fifty thousand dollars tabulated. Official returns from 380 banks out of 2,050 in thé Richmond district, at_ the! close ‘Monday, gave total subscriptions as fourteen* million, one hundred fifty- eight thousand dollars, (2 suv was TRIBUTE PAID. ‘MEMORY OF | _ JOHNIRELAND St.. Pail, Minn., Oct. 2.—State, in- dustrial ‘and municipal activities in St. Paul were halted today when the bier I to a@ grave in Calvary cemetery. The funeral was ‘the.most solemnly im: pressive event in the history of the diocese: -The'*mass was sung by Bishop Thomas O’Gorman’. of-Sfoux:’ Falls, S, D.,alife-long friend and ¢o-| worker of the deceased. Biisiness ‘ac: tivities m the twin cities were stop-; ped for five minutes. —-—buY W. §, 8 WEE LADDIE FOUND LOST | IN CORNFIELD. ene: 4 Grand Forks Home Guard Turns Out to-Find Little Wanderer Grand Forks, N. D., Oct. 2.—"own| in a cornfield, fast asleep;” wet from a drizzling rain, but with his little wa-/ gon at his side, little two-and-a-half | year-oldEobbie Lee was fount! at mid- night by Home Guards after a three- hours’ search. a4 ‘Shortly. after supper last night Bob-| bie got a touch of the wanderlust. So \ he took his wagon‘and eft his home! at 413 Fifth avenue and went in search of adventure. ‘He walked and walked; puthe-didn’t find any more ‘cities, and when re came to a nice friendly corn patch, he just sat right down and went. to sleep. Bobbie’s mother, Mrs. \A. D. Lee, began to be worried, when her son didn’t answer to the call, and aftér a search™of the neighborhood failed to find any trace of him, she called the police. | Captain M. Merilk had the water- | house whistle, blown, and ‘soon 45 ‘guards repoted for duty, and a sys- tematic search was begun. They searched the south end thoroughly, and after three hours of. work, G. Bondelid found him in a field near old Aaker college at midnight. ~ ’ About 150 people turned out inthe | search, and ihe entire south end \was | the; given a thorough combing. So greabitic. "down his shotgim, went to the/% was. the interest in the search, that as/ soon as he was found, the whistle/ was again blown.” BOY W. $, S- BISMARCK BOY. SEES LOTS OF | WAR TERRITORY 1 : Sergeant,/Eddfe Morris, who. after remaining in the_trenches from Janu-| ary 14 to April 29, was tranéferred to! hospital service, advises ‘his father.’ City Assessor E..E. Morris, that h has been again transferred, now hav-; ing a position in the grave registra- tion service. His new dutiess will necessitate his: journeying. to every) section “of the front held by Ameri-} cans, and he expects to see a great | > deal of the country. \- ’ i BUY W, S..8.— j ANXIOUS TO SEE | WHAT GRAND JURY PANEL DIGS... UP) ee? - Linton, N. D., Qet. 2.—Emmons coun \ty people are anxiously awaiting the assembling of the first grand jury called in: this county in many years which will assemble hére next Tues- day primarily for the purpose of in- Vestigating the death of Mrs. E. L. Perras, shot’ by Cecil Cunningham while a mob was clamoring, at ‘her door. for Wallie W. Dougherty, her son-in-law. accused of wheat-hoarding. Developments sre predicted, — : | dolence from Mrs, E. E. Morris of Bis- BSR RTS . { PETER LISH IS IN AMERICA ON - HIS WAY HOME Mother Hears from Boy Report- | — ed Dead Just Year from Day of Departure ra ¢. On Sunday, just a year from the day upon.which her son entrained With Co. K,, Dickinson unit of the Fighting First, Mrs. Frank [ish of Dickinson, replying to a letter of con- marck, who had read in the -press the official notice of: the Dickinson: boy’s death in action on'a French. battte- field, advised that she had just re- ceived -a, telegram from her boy -an- nouncing his safe arrival at Ellis Is- land, and advising that he was feel- ing fine, although he had suffered the loss of his right arm. Official no- tice of Private Peter Lish’s death i) action was received by his -father, «ostmaster Frank Lish, several weeks | ago, “Then cam a letter from onevof! the. boy’s comrades advising that he| had seen him in a hospital and that | “Peter was coming along all right.” |, Postmaster Lish immediately set i ‘oot. an investiratjion: through the ; American Red Cross, U. Treasurer John Burke and Congressman P. D. | Norton, which tended to confirm the | inférmation that bis boy was alive. Then, Sunday. came apsolute proof trom Peter himself that he lives. UY. §. | | COL.MOFFET = HERE RENEWING: E American soldiers bringing up a big French camouflaged gun} on’a railWay truck to treat the HUNS rough: CAPT. JONES — PRAISES OUR GOOD STATE Breckenridge Jones, ¢aptain Capt. of infantry, U.S. A., and chief of the ‘has. made a delinquency division, "BISMARCK, NORTH ANCIENT TIES ‘still votes in this city. He cast his Regular Army Officer Has Made | 27 i¢ an with the staff today when he i: .} wired as follows: “I, heartily com- Bismarck Legal Home for 'mend you upon the way in which the: 34 Years, ‘state of North Dakota has_responded | {to m) letter of August 8, in- which I} ‘ ~, rani, requested a compiled -net desertion aca cel: Das a pil record for each. local board, you oosond 1 So teh the teth U., Long first to report in full.” Capt. 5. cavaley. ae tn the city tcday.re| Breckenridgé Jones can now have any-| newing old friendships while en route | thing he wants from North. Dakota. west to Camp Lewis, American Lake, | " we Wash., where he has been given a/ +t {new command. Col, Moftet came to} 4 | the tern in 1885, when he founded the old Bis. marek Settler, which he pugnaciously | First North Dakota went to the Phil-; SPANISH FL Washington, D. .C., Oct. 2.—Three thousand “‘téachers and school. chil- dren were dismissed trom attendance ‘here today for preliminary symptoms {of Spanish influenza. vote in Bismarck by absent voters’; The Ydlady.:is continuing to spread vas/ throughout -the capital. ballot four years ago, when he was. tH ‘ Su with General _Pershing's expedition?| The hoard“6t health today ordered ‘ary force in Mex and his was|that street’ars should be operated ippines,. Capt.. Moffet. went. out in com-! i mand.of Co. A, with which he fought through the insular,campaign. At the; close of the trouble in the islands, | Capt, Meffit, remained in the service, accepting a.commission in thé regular army. . Col. Moffet has always retained his legal residence in Bismarck, and he a hal _ erican vote to! With ail windows opened, A new, in zs aad i A probably. me only aoe to Bismarck, | #Ppedtion”. of lunch « rooms and soda | hospital. It was at first reported here erons i a pe SMATCK: fountains was ordered that one arm had been amputated, but EMMONS FARMER { ae Suv w.s.a-—— . 7 {this statement is denied at’ Fargo tc- { { r day. 4 i iNORTH DAKOTA The news came too late to permit SLAYS LAD HE , HAS FEW MEN < TRIED TO SCARE! i . a ri Pree PS 1 A detailed report on North Dakota’s Tragedy in Vicinity of Linton) ayaitante classifiet! tighting men pre- ? i | pared by the adjutant general's, office Results from Depredations | shows that in the 1917 ¢lass there are ' Mrs. Lewis Called to Side of Hus: IN OLD CLASS| DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, 0 nt ' { ae WARD LEWIS | BADLY HURT band who is Training at Fargo Fargo; N. D., Oct; 2.—Private Ward Lewis of the military training school at the agricultural college is in St. Luke’s--hospital suffering from” a a double compound fracture of the left) arm and with one leg broken as a’ ré-| large army truck which he was. driv- |ing when ‘it was struck Tuesday atter- |moon by the Great ‘Northern, “dinky” passenger’ train, north bound, at the | crossing ‘west of the college: ‘Truckholéz; -wito. wad 2vith “Lewis at the time, was badly. shaken up, but “was not seriously injured. Mrs. Ward Lewis, who had return- ed only Monday evening from a -visit with her husband, who is in military training at the ‘agricultural college, was called back to Fargo last night by a Message announcing that her~hus- band. while -driving one of the big military trucks, ~at the college, had beenstruck by a Great Northern train, and that he was at St. Luke's j Mrs. Lewis to take the North Coast limited east, so she set out immediate- ly’ by automobile, Frang eGiermann having volunteered to thake the night drive. Mrs. Lewis’ mother accom- panied her, and the party reached Far- go early $ morning. ~ i Ward Lewis. is one Of Bismarck’s best known young men, having made CT. 2, ‘| Rollin AVelch } St. Paul. oa. Saturday. 1918. j PRICE FIVE CENTS. WITHDRAWAL FROM FRANCE | AND BELGIUM DRAWING. _URTHE SPOUT) NEAR AS HUN LINE YIELDS + Guard, Carooming from Teuton Removing Guns From About Ostend—Im- epelete Minow | portant Railroad Centers Now Within Reach of British Army. . : ‘ PREPARE TO LEAVE Washington, Oct? 2—V'urther evidence of German ‘preparation for evacuating the Belgian seacoast reached the state department today in dispatches saying hospitals, postoffices and contents of storage ‘houses of German fourth army is being moved back and turned over to mil- itary government in the interior. German civilian author- ities are being generally recalled and strict regulations affecting the maritime districts are being enforced. STATEHOUSE: MYSTERY GOES The State house mystery of “The! Hidden Hand,’ or Shot fyom the Night,” was solved in ‘most’ prosiac | fashion today ,when Deputy Sheriff ‘fessed that the shot which plowed through the window of | Seéretary of State Thomas Hall's priv; | e oftice last Satruday night was | ‘ed b¥ a deputy whiom Sherift French ' had stationed in the capitol grounds | lo guard the state house trom the} bomb plotters. whose -machinations | were exposed in a screed pickell up in The capitol of North Dakota was linked with that of Minnesota in the rough plan which was: discovered at St. Paul, and a warning was sent the ‘officials here. — renses betwe oT ‘ State authorities asked Sheritt French | German defenses between Cambrai and St. Quentin are io take necessary precautions to guard, Crumbling under the determined blow of Marshal Foch and the the state house, and the sheriff posted ;time of the expectcd German withdrawal from France and Belgium a number of “guards in the capitol ig drawing: appreciably nearer : s tis dr Z appreciably nearer. groun ‘ i atta . ritis 0) ¢ ic: * Quite #ancéently @ well knows’ Bike| Under the attacks by the British, French, and Americans, the marek en turned into the capitol Hindenburg defense system from the Searpe to the Oise, a distance drive shortly after dusk Saturday tor | of 50 miles. is being overrun. In the south the French are press- his customary spin. A guard who|ing vigorously their advance west and north of Rheims. Sees tron bebing astee (unk feel General Bertelot, speedily is driving the Germans back to passer, explaining later that he sus-itheir old lines in thé Rheims region. Further gains have been pected a holdup, gave an exhibition of! made between the Vesle and the Aisne and north of Rheims. Sev- real speed and the guard certain that | on4) mil e a A : he had his bomb plotter in range op-|€T@! miles more, and the French will be in the open country north ened fire. The bullet struck a stone, | Of; Rhims, and threatening the immediate communications of Laon. glanced and caroomed through the win- , rench a j " . tow of “Secretary of State ‘Thomas «5 The French are placing the Germans between Rheims and Hall’s office un tbe second floor. The|SUippe in a pocket from which they may have difficulty in with- (By ‘Associated Press) sult of the complete demolition of aj. Private}'- trespasser Stopped, there were explan- ations ‘on .both sides, and everything | was peaceable once more on the Bis- marck front. Apparently this explanation, had not yet. reached the capitol Tuesday, when the mysterious ‘shooting was still the cause of much commotion. IEW, 8. 8 DOYLE SPENDS DAY IN COUNTY People’s Candidate for Governor to Devote Saturday, Oct. 12 to Us S. J! Doyle, the independent candi- date for governor, will make.a day's tour of Burleigh county on Saturday, vetober 12, winding up with a big} political rally at the Auditorium in Bismarck. Doyle’s loyalty record has always made him a popular man in Burleigh county, where he is unusual- ly, well known because of the many g ms of the federal court which he has attended here. It is predicted that everywhere in Burleigh county the stalwart Trish orator will receive an enthusiastic hearing. ‘His itinerary Leave Title, S .; Wing, 9 a. m.; Regan, 10:30 a. m.; Wilton, '2 noon; Bismarck 8:39 p.m, If the trip is made by auto, Arena and Baldwin will be visited enroute to Wilton and Bismarck, respectively. ~F. O. Helstrom, one of thé demo- cratic nominees for the legislature trom burleigh county, is chairman of of Gang left 872 fighters, 907 limited service men and 356 “remedials,’ while in the 11918 class there are 2,603 fighters, 214 {remedials and 94 limited service men. These figures may be taken to indi-! cate an early exhaustion of the limit- ed classified men anda resultant call | Linton, N. Dx Oct. 2—No action has yet. been taken in the case of Anton Bockmaier, an aged farmer who is ‘his home in this, city. for a number of years. He was a member of the second class inducted for vocational training under the direction of. the war department at the. agricultural college, and he was making excellent nearly blind who in an “effort to frighten some boys who were raiding | his root house the flatter, part of’ last | week shot and: instantly ‘killed Fred! Schumacher, member of a well known! Emmons county family. It is alleged) that’ a band of boys bad for some time past been making forays on gar- ages, cellats.and storehouses, and it is claimed that they already had once} visited the Bockmaier cellar, which| is some distance from the house: Last | week LEpckmaier again heard the youngsters at work in his cellar, and | with the remark that he would "give; the young devils a good scare,” he; door and fired in. the general direc-; tion of the cellar. . When a son of; Bockmeter started in pursuit of the; raiders he tumbled over the dead} body of Schumacher, who -had~been | shot throwgh the neck and instantly | killed. Bockmaier-ig ‘much distressed | by the tragedy. He insists he fired| with a view to shooting over the heads! of the young ‘men, and je accounts! for the fatal results of his act by ex- plaining that because of his poor eye-| sight’ he did‘ not make sufficient al-| lowance for the fact that \the root \cellar, upon. which his victim stood, | is at. a considerable elevation above | the house~ from which “Bockmaier’ fired. /— —Bvy W. 5. 8. | MIN WHICH A HERO ~ | LOSES A, NICE HALO /!, | (By Newspaper Enterprise Ase’n.) |. With. the American Army.— | Captain Bob Beightler of* Mayrs- | ville, U., went to visit a hospital | the othet day, wearing a heavy trench cane, and he limped con- | siderably. The curiosity of one of | thé nurses finally got the better of | her and she blurted out: “Tell us, |; | captain, where were you wounded?” »|! | Bob looked ‘ uncomfortable. ~ “Your’s ‘too modest,’ the nufse added. j “Young lady,” said Bob, “I am | not wounded and never have been. / { I'm suffering from boils.” >—____—_—__—_—--* , t | i | | | F | 1 Ve oa upon class { men of the recent general | PTOBTesS with his work there. _- s BV. SS registration. | Of the fighting men now ctassitied, [FARMER BURNED Fe oe. | ODE. BY FIRE: IN | MAKINGBRAKE | | BRITAIN HAS ONE | “While burning\a fire break, Frank | CLEANSHAVEN GEN. || Campagna, a nioneer farmer south of} (By Newspaper Enterprise Arein.) || town, permitted the blaze to get the] London, Oct. 2.—Brig. Gen. 3 _ ;| better of him, and before the fire} cready, the newly appointed head {| contd be subdued it had byrned all! of the London police. is smooth- '' of nis seed grain. much of his ma-! faced! Therein lies a story. He || chinery and was within a few feet of was;the only general in the army, || his dwellings and barns. The loss will it is said. |, a | Teach sevegal thousand dollars. ~ BUY W, S. 5. o An American destroyer belonging to the fleet the resca®of'a seaplane capsized far from land:*Not American navy. ‘ ee AMERICA TO THE RESCU: {the county ‘central committee and is handling the campaign arrangements. The. Doyle tor*tevernor committee Bismarck assures the U. S. marshal one of the biggest meetings which e er has been-held in this city. BUY W.S.——— % ae DOUGHBOY PREFERS z CHICKEN TO. EAGLE. ‘ (By Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n.) With the American Army.— “Red” Wy&tt of Marion, 0., whose doughboy philosophy spread throughout the army, was asked the other day why he didn’t go in | ! and try for a commission. * “Noth- | in’ doin’ on that officer stuff for me, captain,” was Reds reply. “Why, captain, I'd rather be a private with a French chicken on my knee than a colonel with an S: American eagle. on his shoulder.” —— — > operating in European waters comes to ing escapes the © vigilance’ of the x idrawing. In the Champagne theré has been little activity but the | French have rendered useless the railway running through Ar- ‘gonhe forest from Chalarange. This makes possible a further |movement of American troops in the Argonne. ADVANCE FIVE MILES | Northwest of St. Quentin, the British have advanced more ithan five miles eastward from the front line of the Hindenburg po- jSitions. A salient has been ‘driven in between St. Quentin and La \Catelet and the British are advancing through a big gap in the [enemy line ‘across. important roads and railways toward LeCate- |leaux one of the most important traffic centers. DRAWING NET ABOUT CAMBRAI 1 Cambrai has not yet been occupied by the British bat. Field | Marshal Haig has taken important heights south of the town-and- ‘east of the Scheldt canal, thus drawing closer the net drawing jabout Cambrai. The French succeeded in throwing the enemy be- iyond the canal, which cuts through the suburbs. North and south of the town the French have advanced further eastward. REMOVING GUNS j In Flanders, the'Germans are reported to have set fire to the junctions of Roulers and Menin. and are said to be removing their guns from the Belgian coast around -the submarine base of Os- tend, which is being outflanked on the.south. The Belgians now are five miles from Thourout. while the British are across the Lys, |seven miles north of Lille and are within seven miles of Coutrai. All these are important railway centers and Lille is the strongest German position north of Cambrai. SITUATION UNCHANGED’ With the American Army (Tuesday) Oct. 1—The situation !on the American front along the Brieulle-Binarville line (running ifrom the Meuse through the Argonne) remains virtually un- ‘changed from yesterday. It is still evident the Germans estimate jfully the nature of the American efforts and are hurrying up alf javailable reserves. This is true, also, of the artillery and air |forees. The assumption prevails that machines had been. with- ;drawn from other fronts. : PURSUE GERMANS Paris. Oct. 2—The armies of Generals Gouraud and Berthlot ,on the fronts east and west of\Rheims continue to advance today | against the Germans, who appear to be falling back more hurriedly ‘than at any time since Sept. 26. DAMASCUS TO SURRENDER London, Oct. 2—The Turkish commander at Damascus has ‘asked for terms for the surrender of the town to General Allenby, ‘and it is expected the British will enter the city today. : MOVING FROM COAST Paris, Oct. 2—The Germans are moving their heavy artillery ifrom the Belgian coast. ~The British army of General Plummer jand the French army of General Degmote today successfully re- | hy ,;newed their attack on the Flanders front . 4 fiw MOVE FORWARD | With the American Army in France (Tuesday) Oct. 1—It | was reported late tonight that the Americans between the Meuse |and Argonne had again moved forward over one of the most hotly jcontested sections of their advance to Montsaucon. : | REORGANIZATION OF GOVERNMENT | Amsterdam, Oct. 2—Plans are under consideration for the re- ‘organization of Russian and Austrian governments on a parliamen- itary plan, says the Tageblatt of Berlin. The imperial vice chan- |cellor, the newspaper says, received the leaders of all parties yes- |trday and discussed the proposed parliamentarization, which he i said will extend to the Prussians as well as to the imperial ministry. { The representatives of the Right of the Independent Socialists and Poles, the Tageblat says, have refused to co-operate in th for- mation of a‘coalitign government. 1 FIRED BY GERMANS - | Paris, Oct. 2—The towns of Menin and Roulers, railway junc- ‘tions in Flanders, have been fired by the Germans in face of the advancing Belgian. British and French. French guns now control the railway line running from Ostend through Dhostrud to Court- |rai. British monitors are co-operating in bombarding the German lines near the coast. Bay < % \ PASS BEYOND ST. QUENTIN / x i Paris, Oct. 2—French troops have passed beyond St. Quentin {and hold’a line running along the Somme from Troumquoy to Rouv- roy and then along the St. Quentin-Lafere road to the. river Oise at Zendrille. ANTI GERMAN RIOTS < Paris, Oct. 2—Anti-German and pacifist riots are common in Bulgaria. Rumors are curent of the information of a - national ‘(Continued on Page Two.) © *