The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 11, 1918, Page 1

quosereeswesessanes, THE WEATHER GENERALLY FAIR. LAST EDITION THE BIS THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA HIDE DEALERS FATHER OF JUGO-SLAVIA, TT LANGER WRONG PROTESTPLAN |, PASITCH TRUSTS wason HAZELTON MEN , LEGALTIGHT, |: ~.. PORASERATE nese Sootarcak — ACQUITTED IN of Freedom. missioners y erday entertained pio of \Jury Out Only Thirty Minutes— tests from H. G. Grove, Bismarck hide; N. E. A and wool dealer; Fred Keddick of Court Dismisses Charge of Rioting WEDNESDAY, DEC. 11, 1918 PRICE FIVE CENTS WILSON WILL LAND AT : BREST FRIDAY MORNING, AHEAD OF HIS SCHEDULE Peace Negotiations May Be Directed Against Hol- land—England and United States Reaching Agreement on Freedom of Seas (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) : ithirty minutes ‘Tue: in clearing E. Brest, Dec. 11—The U. S. steamer George Washington, with J. Babcock, Louis ‘Torkelson, Charles|President Wilson and party aboard changed its course after leav- | Armstrong, Bert Hartman and Harry /ing the Azores and will arrive in Brest in advance of its regular | Ellithorpe of Hazelton of the charge |+ime. of rioting, under which they wer : P A ; : F Ruse ke et The President is expected here at 10 o’clock Friday morning railway com i i . Special to The Tribune PARIS, France. Serbia is the hub of the new Jugo- Slay state. Nicholas Pasitch is to the Jugo-Slav ‘yk is to the Czecho- Grand Forks, director of the Noreh-| western Hide Dealers’ association, and George Hare of Fargo, state represen-} Amendments Shows Legis- _! tative of Bolles & Rogers of Chicago, | State as Ma against the proposed increase inj Slovak nation. lature’s Intent freight rates on hides and wool re-| Masaryk, first s : . = cently promulgated by the interstate |Czecho-Slovak republic, crystalized commerce commission, ‘The advance|the national consciousness of | the COMPARES TWO SECTIONS |contempiated would | very seriously | Czechs of Bohemia and brought about ‘handicap the hid and wool trade in their recognition by the allies. this state, these men advised the state] -Pasitch conceived the Jugo-Slav . Initiative as Applied to Laws |board, which will refer their protest |State as it is now being organized. As Would Si to the interstate commerce commis-| Prime minister of Serbia he has fur- ould Support Attorney |sion. The advances proposed affect |thered the movement of Balkan na- General’s Stand intrastate rates whose establishment |tions for a single state of southern a the hide dealers secured after a vig-|Slavs. | , orous campaign some years ago. i Now Pasitch is at Versailles as rep- resentative of Serbia—and of Jugo- Declares Plain Wording president of the PENNI IS ON: TRIAL A district c ! convicted by an Emmons county grand | then ten or a hundred voters may B “If the attorney general's opinion eer cy A + 5 Oa: the lenuaé Gihendinenta As rah: Slavia. She. ; | jury summoned by Attorney General|instead of 3 o’clock in the afternoon. a . BOX MAY BE NEW If he can bring into being a har- Langer. The attorney general did not} ‘A heavy “southwestern” blew up during the night, stirring i monious nation, he is greater than Masaryk. Fo rhe has more turbulent and varied forces to deal with and he will have solved the Balkan problem which has worried the world so long. He will have seen created a nation of 12,000,000 people hitherto oppress- ed—Serbs, Croats, Slovenes. | Pasiteh is 72 years old. He served as an engineer in the Turkish war of 1876. He founded the Serbian radical party in 1881. For seven years he was in exile under sentence of death - for plotting against King Milan. He was repatriated under an am- nesty and several tmies held the post f prime minister, was foreign min- ster and served the government in other positions. Then in 1895 he was condemned to five years in prison for high treason— and almost immediately pardoned. Mme: Pasitch has been a’ power in the relief work of the Belgian nation, onally appear in the prosecution of the defendants. All were charged | - Pp with rioting and homicide in connec-|in the city. 5 : tion with the death of Mrs, E. L. Per- A wireless message from the George Washington today asked me Oe Hazelton: Who was willed by althat the American journalists who were on the U. S. steamship anon SE eanaa, vanes red from 'Orizaba, which left New York in advance of the George Washing- Hazelton on June 6, 1918, seeking Wal-|ton, remain on board that vessel until after the landing of the Jace Daugherty, her son-in-law, accus- president. However, the Orizaba reached Brest yesterday and the ed of holding 1057 bushels of 1915 / entire party of newspaper men landed and went to Paris last night. wheat. Cecil Pennington, charged * with having fired the fatal shot, was TO CHANGE OVER PLANT : placed on trial Tuesday evening. Amsterdam, Dec. 11.—The directors of the Krupp Munitions ‘ abe entire morning a consumed Works have announced their intention of changing their plant in the task of empaneling a jury to; ;. pase ne ac 5 nial try Pennington. ‘The ease had been 80 into a factory for making peace materials. generally read and discussed that good ENGLAND’S DEBT quror mate was Searee and the ox Dundee, Scotland, Dec. 10.— (Tuesday) —Col. Winston Spencer Hutereaenooneen Journment “was Churchill, minister of munitions, today emphasized the impossibil- i Court Takes Hand ___jity of coercing Ulster in the matter of home rule for Ireland, and The court took a hand in the trial|said that the present government is anxious that the problem be solved as soon as possible. Col. Churchill said: “The government is most anxious that the Irish question be big seas off the coast and tearing to ribbons the decorations placed 4 amend the constitution at any time,” a said a high legal authority today in Y discussing the action of the state can- ‘ vassing board in declaring carried all i league amendments on the basis of a 8 majority of all the votes cast thereon. ot “The attorney general should study j : the wording of tne two amendments approved by the people in the general election of 1914 and ratified by the legislative assembly of 1915. Begin- | ning on page 400 of the session laws of 1915 we find the constitutional amendment providing for the initia- tion of laws by the people, and here it says that if any law shall be ap- proved by a ‘majority of all the votes severally cast for and against the same’ it shall be declared carried. Fur- ther on we find the amendment pro- viding for the amending of the consti- tution by initiative petition, and it WARDEN AT PEN Secretary of Council of Defense Said to Be Slated for Talcott’s Job Hl “Thomas Allan Box of Casse:ton, now secretary of the stale council of de- fense, is slated by St. Paul headquar-j ters of the Nonpartisan league to suc-j ceed_Warden F. S. Talcott of Buffalo, N. D.,, at the state penitentiary, it is reported here today. Warden Talcott’s resignation, tend- ered several days ago, followed the publication in league and other or-} Lees Sa coW RUSE KOT a INICHOLAS PAS1TCH of the five men charged with rioting in connection with this case yesterday P Paes ih And now he shows his further faith having visited England to study the]in the Anglo-Saxon by his declaration | squires a majority of all the legal|/gans of stories emanating from Non- in 1 r on} morning, when Judge Crawford ex- 4 3 1 qu , ee am Hor yaral atenion’” |partisan sources to the effect that yet pads employed by the western al- that the fate of Serbia, of Jugo-Slavia, | cused the jury and in conference with|pressed forward vigorously to a solution. Great Britain goes to by the same legislature and aporot on me gatonor Seno 100 prison-|the daughter of the Serbian leader. | Wilson, i 5 : Pape aid herniohls meee suresd that It is only the quarrels and disputes of the Irishmen themselves that iy ciuoe te youd topetner im connec: in excess of their earnings. As a mat- rrr ervee|the case should go to the jury on the Prevent the solution to this great question. : tion with Sec. 202. Framed’by the|ter of fact, it is claimed by friends | 66 ’ unlawful assembly charge. “The financial question is becoming increasingly grave. We same legislative body, submitted at|of the warden, prison earnings during ] LE M THERS T0 TAKE ig bt eet re pituation to iter are heavily in debt to the United States. We have sent to 8 2 2 first time the yinal s, prior to orne: en- A ae + the vame time, we, mettre, bom| Mistery of Wwe. tnstituion, duo to {be 1 status, prior to Attorney Gen-| America 400,000,000 pounds in bullion and from 800,000,000 to a sections to give the same effect. If|fact that federal regulations had al- to 1,000,000,000 in securities gathered in two generations of prosper- lowed a satisfactory margin on twine, | amendments to the constitution were had shown a substantial profit. Ward- to be adopted by a majority of the votes severally cast for or against such amendments, the conclusion must be that the legislature would have used this language in this amend- ment. Had the legislature so intend- ed there is no doubt in my mind that it would have expressly stated that amendments should be adopted by 2 Z majority of all the votes severally cast for and against the same, using the clear and explicit language which is used in the amendment providing for the initiation of laws. “This wording leaves no room) for misconstruction. I had always thought that the wording of the amendment providing-for amending the constilu- tion by initiative’ petition left no room for misconstruction. The plain ques: tion is, did the legislature seek to .bring about the same result by these two separate and distinct wordings? E ‘ J am confident that it did not. 1 do . not believe our lawmakers wished to place the constitution in a position where any small group of men, should | Tours, Dee. they constitute a majority of all the/General George D. Harbort, electors balloting ‘on the question,| aide, Capt. R. Norris William: might amend it or suspend it.” Philadelphia, ‘former natioz ‘ai The amendments referred to stand| tennis champion, and Capt. Fielding as articles 15 and 16 of the constitu-| Robinson of Norfolk, Va.. were decor-; tion of North Dakota. lated with the French war cross today = in the preesnce of the entire garrison. General Harbord and aides receiv ed decorations fo distinguished ser- vice in the second battle of the Marne, where General Har ord commanded a contingent of Marin Cants, Wil- liams and Robinson served under him: , but « Washington, Dee. L1.- a mates of production of the country principal crops announced today pl the corn crop at 2,082,614,000 bushel The Christmas cards whose has been underta n by the Bi ‘Committee of the Fatherless Children 11.—Thursday Mater and his NBED 360.00 MBN FOR NAVY Washington, Dec. 1!.—Three hundred fifty thousand men will be needed to man the navy during the coming year. In giving this estimate today Secre- : tary Daniels said there are now close . to 524,000 men in the navy, leaving a surplus of 174,000 to be released July 1, The secretary said the process of reduction would be carried through as rapidly as possible, CHINESE FLU _ CURE SUCCESS < Rossland, B. C., Dec. 11.—Prominent citizens who have taken a special : sd treatment for the Spanish. influenza from a local Chinese doctor describe the treatment as simple and not pain- ful and state that a rapid cure is ef- fected. No bleeding is necessary unless the of sents and another for seventy cents.'son to visit the birthplace of Lafayette Chavaniac. THE YANKS SIGHT “HOME SWEET HOME” the circulation of th GAY REGULARS held will prove a serious burden in coming years. We incurred that The warden’s letter of resignation, /ers”. The‘demand for prosecution states that the former emperor | these difficulties with courage and keep our word in every respect.” said that ho believed the establish-| ‘ | peace conference will be directed not only against Germany but a yas Wrong and that such. terms! peyor pr cution is A aK | muntea an tatty 4 4 heey : és i May w rs n. peror prosecution is demanded. i ry officers are so bitterly op- The Belgian minister is quoted as follows: “Obviously our administration might not b> immedi | SWITZERLAND TRAP TO tempting to make its existence im- ately’hampered in its deter.unaton of | AMERICAN AVIATORS; i Bil LI | possible were made today at the \penal affairs, — | 4 | p much as T tan.” Switzerland, among them Lieutenant \EFD IQ x ‘ ‘ : - : | CHRISTMAS CARDS |ous Belgian towns. It likewise made the kingdom of the Nether- landed at ahy, near the French fron- me a ‘6 : London, Dec. 11.—As a result of informal conversations in of the nation’: prin) hieh da: bel sed Bae attempted flight, but the Swiss guards pote pelng used tocmalntain, By {tathers perished in the great ‘standing on this subject than is contained in the “free seas” eee jst HAYES DEFEATED. Mrs. Fred Peterson yetserday was! stad, chairman of the commiitee an-| tion, indicate John Ti. Walker, of been killed in action. Mr. Hecken-| December 15. In the meantime any |! | cards, one selling for ten department of Loire it has been decided to invite President Wil- ‘President Poincaire and Premier Clemceau will be invited to ac- i i ? | | AR | “The payment on that debt and loss of securities previously en Talcott some time objected 19] Saris, barints Pacree Set ee, | q | ee a eeitneL hie adminialratd Paris, Dec. 11.—Legal action against the former German burden not for ourselves, but for the benefit of Russia. We will ho coreenion Was wade. jemperor has been commenced by an organization of “Lille Moth- have burdens such as we will never have before, but we will face written the middle of last week, wasland his commanders in 1916 de ha inor girls be taken | i warn tAINGTD Be eee ee Guay, ait ne | ana is corn ae i decreed that minor girls be taken | | DIRECTED AGAINST HOLLAND y au 1Y pa Ss. e statement of complaint says th London, Dec. 11.—(British wireless)—Belgium claims at the ed policy of terminating the terms of | Whereas the said commanders were thus guilty of the crime of ab- wardens at the state penitentiary in|duction and that they were under command of their former em- aul, Dec. 11.-Charges that reg-}against Holland, according to the Metropole of Antwerp. should be ended January 1 of | posed. the ne ard system inte. f biennium, -in order that the incom Nine Ube ae ‘ Seer BY Hen te first demand on Germany will be the restitution of all that of which we have been robbed. So far as territorial] readjustments are con- i ; ‘ -|eerned, if you will carefully read between the lines of, recent | erence of the jutant G y 7 rone which refer reaties i : | Ne Brel. Special to The Tribune ‘ bs | RO unio Raeueeene ‘om the throne which refer to old treaties they will tell, PARIS Peace will mean release of | as Sa : many American soldiers interned in L STRIKE HOL The treaty of 1839 deprived Belgium of the principal por- ‘ jJames Fuller Thomas, 2317 Ashmead tions of her provinces of Schleswig and Luxembourg, and numer- Place, Washington, D. C., and Lieu- * 4 ‘tenant Virgil Brookheart, Hyaconda, ,jlands master of the lower Scheldt. Mo., who lost their way in a fog and REACH UNDERSTANDING 7 pi fi Z ‘ and the wheat crop at 917,100,009. ; tier. They tried to escape intern-|""0 r att, . lot Reance fon the henatit-of the tund| y ment, Fuller got his engine going and He qetion a, mete of France for the benefit of the fund |yegard to President Wilson's freedom of the seas proclamation, the . BS OSM Ate ae | ein’ OW 43 little ones whose | British government is now in possessi its fini - Se edbted the moter He had |! with g/1-, their own homes little ones whose gi n possession of a more definite under. to descend. \have heen i | r - ea E 1 held up by a printer’s}clause of the president’s fourteen declarations. It i tel id eae KIL | SU Raw ver Gk ers |claus t SI Us f ara Ss. is understoo PER AN ACTION: in New York, Mrs. N. O. Ram-\that President Wilson's proposals do not abandon the right of Springfield, I, Dec. 11.—Karly wn-| officially advised that her brother,|nounced today. [t is expected that;Search and that they are not antagonistic to British interests as official returns from yesterday's elec-| Henry Heckenmyer of Minnesota had | these cards will reach Bismarck about ihas been supposed. Danville, Ill, has defeated Frank J.| myer was marrie! soy a short time| member of the committee will be glad | Paris, Dec. 11 Pepa WATSON F Hayes, for the national presidency of | before entering the service, and he) to ve orders. There are two! aap rete a special meeting of the council of the the United Mine Workers of Ameri-jand his wife were here last summer en | sets ca. their honeymoon. | | To pay the jexpenses of the reception 100,000 francs have been appropriated. company President Wilson. TRANSIT HEAD CAR LINE TIED UP. ‘sult of a strike of emplo No ef-| ‘fort was made to run any Auring | the early rush hour. In addition part of the residence district was without ‘electric light. At Leavenworth, Kans 'a car strike also became effective 4 o'clock, which not only affected all} city cars but tied up the intervrdan! \to Kansas City | prinieana te BUDGET BOARD MEETS. Governor Frazier and State Auditor} i | New York, Dec. 11.—Timothy Wil- {liams, president of the B. R. T. Co., |four other officials of the company i? al a and a motorman were held o: a Karl Kositzky went to Bottineau yes-| (), 4 0 \terday to meet Senator A. S. Gib-|C8!seof manslaughter today by May- bens, chairman of the senate appro-|°T M¥iand, who conducted an inqunry, into a wreck on the line about a atient is seriously affected, when the doctor massages the body with salt ‘water and Chinese medicirie until a black spot appears. This spot, accord- ing to the doctor's theory, indicates the presence of influenza germs, in the blood ;and, should it reappear on any of the twenty or more places treated on the day followifig the orig- inal treatment, the blood is removed ‘by a needle piercing the skin. 5 Failure of the spot to appear satis- fies the doctor that the. germs have deen successfully attacked and te? stroyed by the simply rubbing in of priations committee, and Rep. Anthony Walton, chairman of the house appro- priations committee, with whom they inspected the Bottineau school of for- estry with a view to determining its needs for the ensuing two years. 1 Tes- lident Muir of the state board of re- gents met with these four members of the budget board at Bottineau. To- day the budget committee junketers are at Dunseith, looking over the state tuberculosis sanitarium. Thence they go to Devils Lake to inspect the school for the deaf and thence t Grand Forks, where they will inves! | month ago | TO END DEC. 31. Washington, D. C., Dec. 11.—Govern- | ment supervision over the steel indus- |try and steel price fixing will end Dec. 31st. The war industries board so ruled today after a conference. SHIPPED TO WISC.SIN. The remains of Mrs. Clyde Lenhart, who died from influenza within three | days after the death of her husband, were shipped yesterday to Marshfield, | Wis. their former home, where fun- the solution. It is said that no more e i | i than two or three days treatment is gate the university appropriation re-jeral services for Mr. Lenhart were required. quests. hela, the fist of the week. , es CRIME IN BRITAIN IS. R STEADILY DECREASING N. E. A. Special to The Tribune | London—The number of persons In prison in England and Wales last year was 44 per cent lower than in 1913-14 for indictable offenses and 81 per cent lower for non-indictable of- fenses. Convictions for drunkenness had fallen off 93 per cent. Ten years ago 67,000 went to prison in seven days days or less. Last year the num- ber 2,900. Full employment and re- strictions on drinking are responsible for the changed conditions. In the first year of the century 483.3 persons in each 100,000 population was in prison, while now the: number is 88.7. MAY KEEP MILK CONTROL Qwesre rn NEI SPAPER UNV OW London—(N. E. 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