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MONDAY, FEB. 17, 1919. THOUSANDS LIVE IN CELLARS BENEATH RUINS IN SALONIKA Rich Are Plenty, But T of Homeless; Fi ‘BY LIEUT. COL. HOMER FOLK. American Red Gross Investigator As- signed by/N. E. A. to (Report Con- ditions in the Balkans. When a fire swept a third of the city in August, 1917, leaving. 70,000 homeless, British, French and Serbian armies, and the Greek government provided temporary houses for some, but 5,000 families had nowhere to go and betook themselves to the cellars and sub-cellars of the ruineg , huild- ings. You discover a hole two feet square at the edge of the sidewalk, and peer-| r: ing down into thé dark find that it is inhabited. ‘When it rains water stands seve) inches deep until it is baled out or dries up. In Salonika ajd men, bare-footed, dressed in pieces of burlap packing— in mid-winter—are beasts of burden. One sees them stooping over until they could nearly walk on all fours, carrying inconceiyably heavy, loads over rough sidewalks and streets. \ In every group of a half dozen c' dren one expects to find at least has | lost one or ‘both eyes from trachoma. ! Salonika is dirty, withoue any sort, . of qualification; It smells ‘to Heaven. A flood would not clean it, and if it did, it would dirty itself again within 24 hours. Its narrow sidewalks, paved with hounded stones and concealing deep holes at irregular intervals,’ make walking hazardous. If you step from the sidewalk into the street you are GERMAN PEOPLE HAVE HEAVY TAX LOAD TO. FACE! Weimar, Sept. 17.—The German peo-| ple, generally. do not yet understand eldarly-the financial situation in which the war has found them, declared Dr. Schifer, the financial m r, to the house, He gave statistics to show that the war had cost 160 billion marks: He asked the assembly to vote a loan for 25 billion marks the greatest loan the German people have been asked to raise. The daily \ex- penditures, he said ranged from 49 million marks in 1914 to 149 million marks in 1919. ‘He said the gover ment would need 19 million ma f interest charges alone. He said that no one could tell whether,the German people could extricate themselves, He said the government would have to levy taxes in keeping with the ceono-} - nomic situation, PREDICTICTS P. PEVOLUTION. Weimar, Feb, 17.-"Tae> revolution. lagt September was only & forced rev- olutton,but ‘the real-revolution§ was stfllto come; declared’ a leader in ths assembly today.. The form that” it would: t#k#@: he! said would be: due to the stand that the government took. WINS HONORS Columbus, Feb. 17.+Eddte<Riben- hackerzarrived today. < Officiat greet- ing is tacbegiven him. TA hait: holiday id o-banquet!in the aif planned: "Ribenbackér We eral Pershing’s chauffeur. mane an’. instructor 2a¢, at A camp and shortly afterward he W to the front and won prémier honors: Don’t wait until your blood Is: im-|. poverished and you are sick and ail- ing; take Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea now; it will drive ont the-germs of Winter, purify the stomach, regu- late the bowels—nature’s spring tobic- cleanser. Jos. Breslow. CHICAGO LIVESTOCK. Feb. 17.—Hogs-—Receipts. Ket, steady ; bulk of s 7.45@17,80; butchers, 780@1 light, $17.00@17.70; packin . 17.60; throw! outs. $16,00@16.75 ; pigs, good to choice, $15.00@17. Cattle—Receipts, — 1 strong to. 15¢ to 40c higher tle, $16.6520.00; butcher antt heifeys,- $7.40@15.50; cutters, 0007.40; stockers and ers, - $11.25@15.00; veal, calves, Sheep—Receipits, 11,000: to 50c higher; lambs, $17 medium and good, $16.00@17. $13.25@15.00; ewes, $11.00@12.00. ST. PAUL LIVESTCCK. St. Paul, Fed. 17.—Hogs ree 14,800. Range, $16,25 to 17.35. ° Bitk $17.20 to 17.35. CATTLE—Receipts 2,600; steady. Steers $5.50 to 18,00. Cows and heifers, $6.75 Calves, $6.00 to 14.00: market. heef cat- Millers to 13.25. Stockers and feeders $5.50 0 $15 09. | SHEEP—Receipts 800; lams. $1) to 17.00; wethers $5.00. to 10. Ewes $10.00 to 13.50.~ MILI City. GRAIN. Minnéapolis,. Feb. 17, ~< Barley 76. to 68; Rye 1.83; bran. 40; wheat, 2.56 cash No. 12 2-21 1-2; to 2.26; oats, to 56 1-2; flax $3.44 to 3.46. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY FOR SALE-—45.00 baby buggy, good as ne’ First buyer with $25.00 takes it. Mrs. J.JI pe 1029 Fifth St. 7-8t-eod WANTED—A man who wadesctanes the“grocery business. Apply Geo. Gussner. 217-2 WANTED—Man . with family wants place on farm or ranch to. care for cattle on shares. Will also farm‘on \ straight salary proposition. Address 584 care Tribune. ¥ 2-1 2wks SALESMAN WANTED—i- want a man or woman of good personal ad- dress for Bismarck and one for_Man- dan, You can make from $6 to $15 per day. Chance to go on the road it'you make good. No delivery and no ‘collecting. Fine opportunity for energetic man or woman. Good ‘op- ening for returned soldier. Call pér- sonally and ask for Mr. Spear, Van Horn jhotel, after 7 p. m. or before, 9 a.m, ‘Monday, Tuesday or Wed- nesday. WANTED—A competent woman for for genera) housework, ¢mall faniily. Good wages. Apply 615, 5th a et. 2 17 2 > |dtspatch to. the V Si tempt giv $15.00 | market, 25¢{ hey’re Callous to Misery ilth Everywhere in danger of being run down by army automobiles, camions and trucks, dash- ing hither and thither, and splashing everything and everybody with dust or mud. There are plenty of-rich people here, and they have’ made money from the allied armies. Also, the city’, seems more callous to human misery: than any oth Spanis Jews, Turks and Greeks | | predominate. No two civilians are| ‘dressed alike and each costume is dif- | ferent from anything ope .has ever | Seen before, They va from @ few s to such a-briltiant collection: of % colors as is only to be found in an old fashioned flower garden. The military element of the popu- ;Jation is made up of soldiers from | Great Britain, France, Italy. Serbia, Greece, Russia, Senegal, Madagasca' Tunis, Morocco, lidia, and the Ame! lican Red Cross. Huge army hospitals interminable jrows of barracks, wonderfully trim {and orderly looking, stretch away as tar as the eye can see, on the Mace- donian plains ~Tent colonies house Bulgarian prisoners. The anophiles mosquita, fed up for jcenturies on Turks, Greeks and Jws, applied himself diligently to the allied armies. It was chiefly the mosquito that built these large hospitals. It was the mosquito that filled them with {thousands upon thousands .of allied soldiers. It was the mosquito that sent thousands upon thousands home to France and to Britain. * fe ALICE BRADY» AY THE MERCY OF MEN" eae GELEETORETED memes Will be-the feature attraction at the Orpheum Theatre tonight. “At'the Mercy of Men” gives Alice Brady the most sympa- thetic roel of her career. PARRA RAR STARTS SUITS TO RECOVER 10 MILLIONS Springfield, Feb. “17—suit Paes $10,- 000,000 damages was_ started today against the Holt manufacturing com- pany of Peoria. The complainants are Charles Pardy and others. The suit sets forth that Pardy in 1892 in- vented ‘the caterpillar tractor, He says that while working on his in- vention be became ill apa that twern- ty years after’ he secured his patent and that in the meantime the Holt peo- fanufacturing, appropriat- W. Brown’s insurance claim on the Capital City Homeste’ 300 was. settled in full Homestead secretar, “Going to Florida. Col. ©. B. Little will leave Tuesday Capt. Baker Returns. Capt. 1. P. Baker has-returned thom shington Ww: attended the and harbor the board of di- so attended to fuel ad- ters, while in Wash Ington, UNC, T. Dinner Dance. The U. G2, dinner dance to be giv- en by Bismarck commercial travelers the Grana Pacific on Saturday even- ing will ibe the big ent of the week... Unusually elahorate prepara- tions..are-being made, andthe*alfair is expected to prove the mest brilistit social function the’ capital: ¢i has nosh; New Year's ball TO.REOPEN | STORE. rege Coleman has returned from Miinnea polls; where he purchased a large stock of goods, and he plaas to ‘reopen his store on Fifth street. * > BANKING BILLS UP. House Bills Nos. 17 and 18, the league’s banking bills were before the senate Jate this afternoow on third reading with prospects of an early passage with the emergency clause. MINISTER RESIGNS, ‘Basel, Feb. 17.—Count von Drockdorfi- Rantzau, the German foreign minister. has resigned. according to a Wei ische Zeitung of Berlin. There is no confirmation from jother sources. TO RETURN MARCH 13 | Paris, (Sunday), Feb, 16—The at- March 13 as the date on which President Wilson-is expected to arrive iw Paris-after his visit to the United Stat NIP INSURRECTION Berlin, Feb. 17.—Trouble which had rected at Berlin here today ap- vas nipped in the bud by the members of the Sparta- st anand soldiers grom. | WOU LD DIVORCE SON OF POET! } Mrs. Field is asking divorce from the son of the poet, who was the inspira- tion for much of the elder Field's yerse, particularly his “Little Boy Blue.” Mrs. Field charges her husband feft her ‘aft- er five Weeks of married life and she has waited three years in vain for his return. “Just a-case of marital ennui.” she sa: “We had no quarrels. he just: step ut of my life.” Fields’ first wife divorced him | five years after their ene | CITY NEWS [I ing nite venw tt ssi NEWS BRIEFS evening for trip to sonthern citi ury will ine elude some ¥ To Give Bance. « The Homestead Lodge No. 300 will give a dance at the K. of P. hall} Tuesday evening. ‘Mandan lodge will attend. ALL mei) rerrequested to come and bring a friend. enpoyed ‘since the Country. ex.b's an- ,| position that “it is not the duty of Navigation on’ the Rhine under the Dutch flag, which has been hampered by difficulties in’ Germany rince the oceupation by the allies, is now report- ed, to have been resumed, ‘oe Three Jews are in the Lithuanian cabinet-—one under secretary of state for foreign a¥fairs, ancther us under secretary of state for commerce and industr nd one to hold the new ministry of Jewish affairs. 4 * 8 Relgian architects ban the use of buikling material of enemy - origin. t Neutral subjects must show a certifi- cate of origin for the material they | wish to import. aye * e members of the Ministerial Winnipeg, issued the stulement: “Boe content, with: your! lot on earth and prepare J ‘for the dereat- with, that, De , ee aK lew terrae ever held there, Mule. py betean: a. leading Freneh residént of Sidney, proposes that Aué- tralians. should raise’ subscriptions’ to rebuild -Pozieres, where so many, Als: i Md Troops From Russia Washington, Feb. 17 |—Steps « toward strengthening. the position of Ameri- can and allied troops in northern Rus- a preliminary to a safe withdrawal jn the near future are under way at the direction of supreme war council. Secretary Baker, \transmitting this in- formation from President Wilson to the houhe militaryq committee: today said all American_soldiers should be out of Rusisa this spring. LOOT TOWN Berlin, Feb. 17.—Spartacan troops marched nto Gelsenkirchen in West- phalia and overpowered the local mili- tary and police force a portion of which went over to the Spartacans. The looting of the town followed. The bank and the city treasury had-been warned and saved their, funds. “The Sparta- cans came from/Rattugen and Watten- scheid. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE (Tablets.) It stops the Cough and Headache and works off the Cold. EB. W. GROVE'S signature on each box. 20c. DOMINION ASKED WHAT: IT PLANS FOR: SOLDIERS Regina, Sask., Feb. 17.—Mayors of cities in” Alberth and § chewan, who mett in convention here recently, are vigorously pressing the dominion government for a formal announce- ment as to plans it may be consider- ing in the interest of returned and re- turning soldier The mayors of Regina, Moose Jaw, Rdmonton Calgary, Lethbridge and Medicine Hat have adopted resolutions in-whieh they declare they: “view with alarm the growing feeling of dixcon- tent among labor and returned and re- durning men.” The mayors take the the western cities to bear the burden of providing and finding employment for the ex-soldiers and laboring men generally who naturally center in west- ern cities.” ‘The mayors have askerted that many soldiers from the eastern provinces have come west sincé they were discharged and that the general problem is one jwhich the: government, and not muniéipalities or provinces, must meef. teiyys the ‘Trades and” Labor Council bd BISMARCK DAILY .TRIBUNE NEW WAY of heating CELLARLES Houses —World’s ‘ New — Greatest Invention! ve, ae: Easy heating of a cellarless office building by our IDEAL ARCOLA Radiator-Boiler and two AMERICAN Radiators Simpte way of heating a four-room cellarless cottage by IDEAL ARCOLA Radiator-Boiler and three AMERICAN Radiators. ’ Pats IDEAL HOT WATER HEATING comfort in workingman’s — eves cettage, cellarless small stores, country schools, cellarless churches, etc. The IDEALARCOLA takes the place ofa parlor stove. 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