The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 16, 1918, Page 3

oe . Ss yi i , « ae { - ‘ | } é ye : { -§- > ar] 4 J , rn i ’ an 4 >. wey f .~ , S 4 \ fe +. \ ae S oF : / ie ae x WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16,-1918- - : PIM MT . ' BISMARCK DAILY ‘TRIBUNE PROMPT ACTION HALTS SPREAD. OF FLU PLAGUE Number of New Cases Reported “Today is Comparatively Small. t ONE ADDITIONAL DEATH ‘Prompt action on the part of Bis- | marek, health authorities. appears to have checked the spread of the flu. Conditions in the cé#pital cit to date are much better than in Jamestown and Grand Forks. Few new cases were reported today, and a number or the or al’ victims have completely Yecovered and resumed their duties. One. death traceable to Spanish in- fluenza occurred at a local hospital, today. Norry Swartz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, A. W. Swartz, was taken to the hospital at midnight last night yith a very critieal attack of pneu- monia. She passed away early this morning. ‘The little girl was 12 year -ud- and had, been ill onlv a: few. days. | John and ‘Dorothy/Birdzel, children of Associate Justice and Mrs. Luther H. Birdzell, left the Gismarck hospital this morning completely recovered from an attack of influenza, from which their father also suffered for several da John Caulfield, super- intendent of the Lismarck Water Sup- ply Co., was on duty again today after a several days’ battle with flu, A HOLIDAY GREETING CARDS MUTUUUASEOUCELSOULLUCUOAREEEEEUUOSCCUCUCUEDUUOCUCASSOREUCUGUSUOSSURCEEUCUEROREUAESOUEOUCEEEEEUDREECLSSSERESSSEGLE > | | | 4 winder of employes at the capitol are still. off. 7 Bismarck’s death toll; to date has fbeen three. There-are a number of very critical cases today, but, tHe epi- demic seems to have gained its crest, ind if the utmost possible precaution. is exercised by everyone, Dr, F. B Strauss, city health officer, hopes hata further spread may be avert- ed. Every regulation laid: down ~by the health department is still in’ full force. It is especially urged that peo: ple who have a. “grippy”. feeling re- main at home, consult their ‘doetor, and relraleere exposing others, BUY W. 8. 8. FOREST FIRE VICTIMS TO ~ REACH 900) (Continued From’ Page One.) ranging relief measures. Home guard forces were being sent to the scene or mobilized. More. than , seventy-five millions of dollars worth of. property was burning. ‘Automobiles were. flash- ing through the flaming wild, railroad trains were speéding from the fire zone with hundreds of men, women and baby refugees, » Whe St. Paul News, for instance, which obtains its telegraph reports from The United Press, did not have a single paragraph on this historic disaster in its regular Sun@ay morn- ing edition. The Twin. City papers served -by, The Assogiated Press car- ried ‘several thousand words detailing the sweep, of the flames. Throughout the night, The~Associat- ed Press continued to glean the facts lincluding the tragedy at Cloquet, Be- fore daybreak more than 9,000 words ;Wf fire news had been collected. Wires Carry Story. From § o'clock at night, regular report. closed, the The Associated Press throughout the until the AGUAUOSUNLONESASSCOQULURSUACUONDEOOUSUOUASOOREDOCU TOES EUOQNCNODOLUOEOOUCLOOROUCUOUUEOOUOENOEUETEOND Send Hima Wordof Cheer Christinas Greetings , tothe Boys in France *-- should be mailed at . once. ‘today. ’ _ We have the largest and finest line’ of Xmas cards in the northwest, :- ranging, in price from 2 tor 5¢ up to 50c. Hoskins Stationery Company evugdanuaneagauuansuvenssuanarascaensuiteatastansgen eeaguasucngnggonceguecgecavacensuocsuuocegneed HUA eA ee Select yours NN wires of; United States carwed exclusively to its. members—-large and ~ small—the story of the most terrible sweep of fire that Minnesota) has ever experi- enced. j, On Sunday, The Associated Press, ‘obtained a special wire to Duluth—the only wire available out of that city. Throughout the afternoon, thousands of words of nelys was received. Then, all through the night, similar service was maintained.’ State officials and’ other relief organizations , obtained jYnost of their information from The sociated, Press. The service was mtinued throughout Monday and Tugsday. Two incidents have Caused wide jspréad discyssion in, journalistic cir- Joles, One is the broad, comprehensive correctly detailed report turned out froy start to clean-up by The Asso- ciated Press; and the other is the con ‘stantly askét question: “How could any news agency or news organization be completely scooped on a tremend- ous tragedy, flamingly enacted at Its very Woorstep?” WIRES E BAKER. St. Paul, Oct. 16.Govérnor Burn- quist today, telegraphed Secretary of Ward Baker asking for nfflitary assist- ance in fighting foresw fires. He sug- gested that Col, W. R. Weaver, com- }mander\of the aviation school in ot Paul, be ordered.to the fire-:zone with ‘an adequate force. / MAY CALL. EXTRA SESSION. St. Paul, Minn. Oct. 16.—-While prae- tically all stute officials are in con- ference today et Moose Lake, plans special session of the ‘Minnesota 6 to provide adequate assist- ance in rebuilding the burned area_ot Minnesota, were informally ‘discussed by state department heads and legis- lators. : few hundred thousand dollars avail- able for relief work is only a trifle compared to the amount necessary to relieve the stricken region. Reports throughout the st indicated the only serious fires were in the Duluth-Superior region. Fires are reported under control from Cass Lake to Hibbing. A dispatch from s Lake said the city well pro- today, As practically” all public places in that district are closed because of Spanish influenza the ranks of fire fighters have been augmented. avy Wis. 5.——— Deep Sea Creatures. An interesting litde crenture of the leep is the lencelet. Hl ranks about half ween a fish and, an ine verteb Inong its Mratiy peculiari- ties"is the The mouth and- is surrounded by tentacles, At great depths shrimps have been found that hw wninous Ledies. When put Jnto the) aquarium. the lose their light-giving properties. Scientists be- Heve the Creator mide ‘these crea- tures Inminous to give them light in “the dirk depths of the sea. ——awy Ww. s,s ——— Cables Improve With Age/ Tt is found that the. insulation re- sistance of telephone cables ‘increases with the age of the cable, when itelie¢s in the ground, because the moisture it possesses appears to be dried out. BUY W. sence of ne =e Experience. To. some experience is a headlight; to othérs it is merely a sternlight, luminating only the waters of the past, —Cot(rell’s Magazine. values: 3. sires ee. _ Your choice of 100 baby set .rings......... . 15 “Come in ‘and. see the bargains in ‘Sheffield Silver and Flat Wares 15 Jewel Bracelet Watch, $24.50 value’. $18. 50. 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Paris.—It was on the’ boulevard, The Opera. ‘The Opera was but a scant half block away, And 1t was dark,.both the Opera and the bdule- vard, “he only Hght .came from the ‘klosks. jfdvertising Paris newspapers, patent boufllon and talcum. powder, There I heard the typical story of the American second Neutenant, the play toon leader who's doing,a wonderful Dit In“winning the war, Call him Prettyman, which isn’t his name, “He was a deputy superintend- ent of banks before the war, As he said’ himself, he’d never been out tw hjs Ife after oue In the morning ex- cept. in a ‘taxicab. He used to earn $4,000 a year, have his bath every f s morning and a cocktail before dinner. He is a typical successful young New Yorker, “Gosh,” he said,.“I'm the proudest, man in this army. I’ve got two kinds of itches at the same time. “We came over on the Justicla, the; oné that was torpedoed the other day,” | he eald, “and: they spewed us out at an} nglish port at eleven o'clock one | pight, and at eleven the next night | we were “back of the lines in Flan | ders, I was only a corporal then. ; Then we were moved to Alsace and] there we. got our first taste of war. Incidentally, there I got to be a pla- toan leader. ee ,On Night Patrol. “Here's what it was. ‘Up in the first line the Heinies’ were just abaut fifty yards away. One night the or- fler came for a patrol. Now, it's hard to tell You about a patrol standing here in the boulevard, Out: there it’s as black as the inside of“your shoe. It’s into that that a patrol is sup- posed to’ go. Ang we went. Sure I was scared, Scared. green.._I didn’t know where L+was, and I had the lives of 60;men in the hollow of my hand, But we went. We laid for 14 hours right up-against the German wire and we located every machine gun they \ had, and every man jack of us got back to our own line: “My God! it was di erent from New York. It was a lot different from, | Paris. It was hell. But when the | Heinies ¢ame over the next day we knew where they were coming from, And we sloshed them. “That country is full of’ spies and our wires from the front line back were cut. ,So.I went back myself. They'd laid down the best box bar- rage I have ever seen. Oh, I got through it, because I was lucky, I sup- pose. I got through it three times that night, In-fact. \ And me, never out after one o'clock in my life before ex- cept in a, taxicab. Say, it was flerce. Right*out in the open couptry. All I had to tell me where I was were the telephone .wives.. And they were cut. I was almgst’sick to my stomach when I hit the bregk In that friendly little black wire I'd kept running through my hand. But we did -get word through. Andvall the Germans got by wey of prisoners-were 17 cripples that had been sent up to the front line by mistake. “And, say, I feel they're going to get me, i’ve-got my secord Neutenancy and I'm going back up to the front fn a few days, as soon as this celebration is over. And I have a hunch that I wort come back. “T've; got-a little sister and a dear father that-I’d like to ga back to, but théré’s “Something bigger, than that. I'm wearing the uniform, Iam. It don’t make a bit of difference If I die, because there are four, five, as many millions as you want, more. Only when I do die I’m going’ to take at least five Heinies with me, And I'm going to handle ‘the sixty or seventy or-the hundred and twenty men un- Allies Are“Fine Soldiers, ) “Sure, I-get awful tmpatient with the -Frencl sometimes “because they don’t understand our language.- And the British sometimes rub me the wrong way. Fve had fist fights with ’em both—before ‘I_gotsto be an offi- cer.) But they're all in the same gamé and, you can tell the folks back home that they’re. damned “good soldiers, those British and French, every one of them. \Only we're going to go them one better—particularly the—platoon of the —— company of the th. You'll hear from us. Only if you're dropping aline to the folks I knew) just tell. them that you Saw me—in ‘paris celebrating, and on the way to the front, where I don't expect ever to come. back from._ Good: -by, ol old man; good Fuck ?* And he strode across the street and disappeartd. His\job ahead of him to do, full knowledge of the cost of that job, and proud to’ pay the price dethanded—even tothe ultimate. He’s the platoon teader, the U.S. A. pla- toon leader, that’s going to win this sraatiatiun EMMONS COUNTY . RIOT CASES T0 BE TRIED HERE Change of Venue Taken Because of Notoriety Gained in Home Bailiwek. -_— LANGER REFUSES TO TELL | Will Not Explain, Why Grand Jury Indicted Consumers’ Chain Store Co. lt is probable that all of the Hazel- ton riot cases resulting from the in- dictment at’ Linton by an Emmons cotnty grand jury of 14 alleged mem- bets ‘of the ‘mob that assembled at the. home of Mrs. EF, L, Perras the hight she was killed by a revolver shot i will be tried in Bismarck during the December term of the Burleigh county district court. Attorney General Langer, who di- rected: the deliberations of the Em: mons county grand jury, returned to Bismarck last righ and he announced today that an affidavit of prejudice has been filed and a change of venue asked by all of the indicted men The filing of this affidavit. automatically operates to prevent the trial of the case in mons county, where feeling on both side; id to be rather in- tense. Mr. Langer admitted today that an} indictment~ had been fumed under the corrupt practices afnes the! Consumers’ United Rte Co., a Townley corporation. He refused, however, to discuss the nature of the Fight to Win! The Nation demands strong ! men-strong women and robust children. Wisdom suggests that every proper means of safeguard- ing the Vital forces and building | up of resistance, be utilized. SCOTTS | EMULSION affords. definite help to. those ivho | are “fighting to win” against | ‘the inroads of weakness. Scott’s, abundant in tonic- \nutrient, properties, builds up the body. by Nature’s methods. Scott & Bowne, Bloomfield, NJ. 18-14 OTT MMMM MUM MM TT anpaneneneneuenecnsegennsesuangegosogegvanonanye bletomake his - banks. evidence on which this indictment was: based. “All proceedings, before a and. ‘jury are absolutely secret,” Wag all the attorney general could be induced to say on the subject. BUYW. 88 NORMAL SCHOOL _ CLOSED BY FLU| Minot, N. 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