The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 10, 1919, Page 1

j > i i rm J 32 6 ve ” ty" af by ee THE WEATHER Generally Fair. |THE BIS THIRTY-NINTH YEAR. NO. 58. \ BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA NO DISPOSITION TO REFEREND N. P, PROGRAM ACTS, Believed That Measures for Which Farmers Voted Last Fall Will Be Let Alone CAMPAIGN PLANS DEVELOP Understood That I.°V. A.\ Will Have Petitions Out March 18 —Meetings Continue ‘BILLS TO BE REFERENDED Fargo, N. D., March 10.—Bills which will be referred by the In- dependent Voters’ association, it was announced here this after- noon, will include those author- izing the state industrial commis- sion, the state bank, the commis. sioner of immigration, the public printing, the educational bill by which contro! of public schools, educational and penal institutions is centered in one board, and judi- cial redistricting bill authorizing the appointment of three judges. That acts essential to the carrying out of the league program upon which the political campaign’ was made in| North Dakota last fall are to be let severely alone, and that only meas- ures upon which the people have not previously had an opportunity to ex- press their opinion are to be refer- ended seems to be the prevailing atti- tude among directors of the Independ- ent Voters’ association. This is the tenor of advice which comes from the.home of the organiza- tion at Fargo, where a meeting was held last Saturday to consider def- nitely measures enacted by the Six- teenth assembly which would be sub- mitted to a referendum. There is no question that the news- paper bill which gives a printing com- mission of three members authority to appoint an offical newspaper in each county in the state and to dis- tribute among the 53 newspapers so named more than $300,000 per annum in patronage, will be referred, although there are same who doubt the poli- tical expediency of such a step, The newspaper bill is considered a private matter between J. W. Brinton and A. C. Townley, and -it is not con- strued to be in any sense a “program measure.” The same is true of the board of ad- ministration bill, which abolishes the hoard of control, board of regents and board of eudeation, and establishes a new commission which is to exercise all the functions now performed by these boards. An attack may be made on the one-man: tax-commission bill and upon the immigration commission bill. Aside from these four measures, it seems to be doubtful whether the Independent Voters’ association will receive any general encouragement in its referendum campaign. The cry is, “Hands off the program bills; let the league, unhampered, put its program through. If it succeeds, all well and good; if it fails do not give the lead- ers an opportunity to say that failure was dué to interference from the op- position.” May Go to Courts Reports emanate from Fargo to the effect that the “Tri-State Grain Ship- pers’ aSsociation,” whose secretary, J. HH. Adams, has an office at No. 2, Old Colony building, Minneapolis, is seek- ing support in North Dakota for a plan to appeal to the federal courts for protection from the league pro- gram, Mr. Adams states that the ass ciation is purely a country grain ship- pers’ organization whose members hope to get into the federal courts because of interstate interests. The grain shippers are asking North Dakota elevator owners and managers to line up with them in an attack on the mill and elevator bill, which the association says will put country éle- vators out of business and send their managers seeking new jobs. How much encouragement this organization is receiving cannot be determined. Meetings Continue First in the field as usual, the league ig continuing its “ratification meet- ings” with a good average attendance of farmers and business men. Walter W. Liggett, a St. Paul newspaper man who is understood to be slated for the agricultural commissionership, has been added to the league’s staff of speakers, which includes many organ- izers who have been withdrawn from other states as well as new material turned out of the “speakers’ school” conducted by Walter Thomas Mills during the last session. By the time the Independent Voters’ association launches its referendum mpaign, the date set for twhich is suid to be March 18, the day upon which township elections are held, the leugue will have conducted a series of these meetings in every county in the state. Organizers also are at work quietly, urging league members to de- cline to sign any petitions, insisting that the referendum of any of the bills, and especially of the Brinton newspaper act, the board of admin- | istration measure and the immigration commissioner law, will be dangerous to the movement. After Enterprises In the meantime every city in North Dakota hag erected its lightning rods in the hope that it may be selected for one or more of the proposed league enterprises. Fargo and Grand Forks have been especially active, but all of the municipalities are in a receptive frame of mind. ‘If we must have ’em, have ‘em here,” seems to be their line of reasoning. Bismarck is under- stood to be generally favored as the location for the Bank of North Da- kota, whose operations must be very closely associated with the office of the governor and the state treasury. The bank, in fact, becomes a bureau of the state treasurer's office and necessitates a constant exchange of transactions, It is understood that, the governor, Commissioner Hagan and Attorney General Langer of the industrial commission and State Treas- urer Olson all feel that the bank should be at the capital: SOUTHWESTERN i | Morton County Seat Will Meet Valley City, Donnybrook and [. Petersburg at Varsity ROUGH AND READY BOU1 Battle on Local Floor Saturday Night Full of Pep and Wit- ~ nessed by Big Crowd OD y | BASKETBALL SCORES. | University, 27; N. D, Aggies 20 A. C. Preps, 19; Model High, 17. ; Petersburg, 23; Devils Lake, 8. | Valley City, 13; Fargo High, 11. | Donnybrook 25; Minot, 23. Donnybrook, 28; Kenmare, 7. { | _Fosston. 54; Thief River Falls, 2 i Mandan, 20; Bismarck, 10. | Valley City, Donnybrook, Pete’ burg and Mandan will represent the respéctive districts in contention for the state high school championship. Grand Forks and I: go alfernate for the siate champion ship tournament. and this year the titular games will be played oa the university floor, probably in connec tion withm the big higi school mest- ing next month . Probably the district. championship was in. the game between ‘BO and Valley City which was played at Fargo on Satur: day night, in which Valley City drew 13 to Fargo’s 11. In the northwestern — district | Minot, Donnybrook took high honors by defeating the Kenmare quint 37 to hottest contest for men away fram the high end of the 20 to 10 score. The Mandan-Bismarck game Satur: day evening w: witnessed by the largest crowd of fans thai has ever assembled on a local floor. It was a rough and tumble fight from start to finish, with plenty of action every :Step of the way. The Mandan boys jout-pointed and out-played their more youthful opponents, and they won purely on their merits, The first half ended with the score 12 to 3 in favor’of Mandan. In the second -half the Bismarck boys stif- fened, playing Mandan seven to eight. The house was completely sold’ out, the gate money .totaling $240.50. The tournament . from a financial . stand- point was an unusual success, and ey- ery dollar of expenses will be paid. Bismarck has no more games sched: {uled for this season, the team j turned in its suits, and athletics for the present year are a thing of the past. Next on the tapis will bo n fall's football schedule. Bismarck has a team which may be depended upon to give an account of i itself next year, but this nm the |boys lacked experience, team-work !and confidence ential. fo a winning | aggregation. Throughout the season, ‘in the face of repeated de’ displayed good sportsmanship, 3 {they have won the heartie:{ admir tion of Bismarck fans. id (BRITAIN WILL LET ALLIES | London’ Mare. 10—Great Br will, consent to France's and {retaining their share of the Ge ‘ships, but will a announced toda) tion of the disp war fleet The addition as a possible, solu- ion of the German of 2 Hmited number of the German warships to the Fre jand Italian navies would not sensily disturb the present balance of na ! powers, The desire of na Xperts that the Ge be eliminated completely. is based on | standpoints of econon it is held {that if Great Britain ) her share of the ships, the United States would be compelled to spend — one | billion to maintain her plice among the naval powers. rman ships HOW H ecg MANDAN WINS [c22c# TOURNAMENT basketball { Mandan grabbed the Southeaster. | argument by taking on the Bismarck | ats, they | KEEP SHIPS S WHO’VE BATTLED | | | i { i i | : i The most valiant and honorable fighting: men of any they a truck load of Czechs who have just reached Vladivostok from 3,000 miles inland. | SERVETERM, _ OF SWEETHEART ago, Mar, 10-— ch mes Cavanaugh, | 119 y old, was shot and killed last} SAYS COURT jnight while standing with his two ‘brothers in front of a pool room, and! ithe police ‘today are looking for John ! ction of Socialist Upheld brother | i ;Rochette and Henry Chan 5 ae jand brother-in-law respectively of by Highest Tribunal !Jean Rochetie, Cavanaugh’s sweet- {heart, whose relapives allege Cavan- ;wugh had wronged her, | Champs is alleged to have fired the; jfatal shot | LEAGUE PAPER TELLS OF YANK RIOTS IN CITY SUSTAIN SE Washingion, Ma under the espiona ( of Froelich of Kansas City — pec of articles in the ‘Missouri Staa 7 ung, of which he was editor, eriti- zing America’s. participation in the war, s upheld in supreme caurt toe day, He got ten years, The supreme court to ithe convietion of Eugene V. ; found guilty under the espic NTENCES 10-—Convietion cob aLUse Farmers’ Leader of Bowman Re- ! fol ements made at ¢ . 0! jers j sentenced to ten The court | perts Jobless Soldiers (oivtuined the, § enlistment i Running Amuck clause in the espionage act of 1917. i i The decision was unanimous. ' x > | ‘Phe supreme court again today made | Bowman, N. D., Mar. 10.—“Jobless | no specific ruling on, the constitution- Soldiers, Riot in Twin Citi ality of the espignage act. The This headline over the leading. stor, on the first page of last week’ sue | of the Farmers Leader, the Nonpar- jtisan league newspaper published here, | | both amazed’ and puzzled Bowman res am the section court based its ralias with enlist- relating to interference ment. 1 phis {3 part 1, is the mogt drastic of any, idents:and:tarniers of this.county.who ; ing it a> migiemenior ‘ to” cir- had “just” ot" baek ‘from Ming 3. eulate’ fals sorts with the pur: where they: attended’ the anme I hose. of “inte ug With the military mobile abo y- for naval establishments or with en- “Petrograd and Vladivostok have jitsment and also probidiling the writ- nothing on Minneapolis and St. Paul.” ! ine or utering of crurrijoas or avus: jread the second’ section of the heed-) j.¢ Linguage against the Cited States line. ov its nd The puzzled ones were perplexed for, j|two reasony. had just in| sopiite Minneapol: : there. That was one had read the stor ‘ ithe “riot” headlines in the i {Leader and had found no acco however dil: 50-89: Cras’ tO; bluate | POISON GAS TO KILL BUGS or to discou ary Or naval forces in time of twar. ‘returning soldiers for much of the re-} jcent crime in the twin cities, an as-; ‘persion that immediately aroused the! jire of-this county's homecoming fight- jers, Who declared it unfair for an tor living far i {that the twin city criminals were rey | jturning soldier F ; | Washington, March 10—Poison gas “Hundreds of American soldiers who j developed for.use in’ the war cannot quit well paying jobs to accept $30 a) 4 jist SAmeriGii ‘insect month jobs es hing democracy in! While the pests would. he Europe ure parading the city streets, would be danger of kill- idle, hungry, job less and desperate, the Farmers Leade out work and neces torts, and soon without {Their desperation is i more intense. Alre a number | idepredations are accredited to them.|! jJn one instance they broke into a’ creamery and robbed it of several thousand dollars ayd ate what food! jcould be found in‘ it. Fights and} ‘brawls are increasing momentari d brutality is being bred from the perversity.” « livestock and persons living near They are with-| : Sout the wind change and carry Lae the fumes. ry feed and com) It had heen suggested the poison gas self-respect.) niente used against sthe boll weav n the south and gophers on the tities, ANK CALL 1S ISSUED Havana, Cuba, March 10.—The j Washington, D. C 10.—The committee representing the unions in-| comptroller of the currency today is- i volved in the general strike voted tO/sued a call for the condition of all as | forced ACCEPT PROPOSAL." jar. Menacal. jon Tuesday, Mareh 4. AVE THE MIGHTY FALLEN “Schweine” the Germans called the brave allies who fought against them, but here are four of! those once lordly German officers’ saluting the hated French as they ey rated at Chateau Salins, Lorraine. And men of the colored troops which they. belittled are horses. at the heels of the Germans are African Spahis. ss = KO MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1919 BOLSHES ARRIVE IN VLADIVOSTOK officers in Russia have called the Czech soldiers who first started to fight their way out of the country after the Russian collapse and then stayed to fight to make Russia orderly again. They find the sheepskin ‘caps of the Russians very comfortable. i y sustained | Debs, urt.of the et. which is section | |day to accept the proposal of Premier | national banks at the close of business : LAST EDITION - | PRICE FIVE CENTS POKER LOSSES " DEDUCTABLEIS "FEDERAL RULE |Moonshining and Questionable Speculation May Be Accounted For { (ALL ARE CONFIDENTIAL Confiscation of Gambling Para- phernalia May Be Figured In on Returns | Washington, March 10 —Business jlosses through .gambling, moonshin- jing, questionable speculation, etc., are deductable from gross income in de- terminjng the net income upon which !tax shall be paid. The bureau made this decision response to requests from prominent i ‘ . I 113,000 DISABLED new York gamblers and a southern MEN ASKED TO ;Moonshiner, The bureau holds that HAND IN NAMES '°" though its sourees may be ille- eee 4 gal, such income is taxable, and that 10.—-Some | the payee is entitled to the usu) ex- 13,000 disalled men were discharged | emption fre rmy before the eral board | Jt is of vocational training established con-! gamblers, moonshiners. ete., in pre- [tact with them, The board now de-{ senting such losses as a means of de- jSires to get in touch: with these men | termining net income, will be consid to acquaint them with the benetits con- | ered confidential. Hres: i provided for them. The| 4 southern mooashiner was advised ‘board toda ked people knowing the /that the loss of his still, confiscated OTS oars have met, that’s what American Here is the front against the Bolsheviki, in Washington, D. C., Mar. tated ihat returns made by | | addresses of such persons to send them | hy revenue officers, and # fine jfo the bureau at Washington, fed against: him for jlicit net income, 1 New York gamblers wero adyised { that, gambling losses and gaming prop- | erty confiscated in process of law ! KO TY CONCERN could be deducted but that gambling 4 ‘come, as “income from other source |This ruling, the bureau says, applies Ke all poker players’ profits ' i pee NORE ES Declares Resolution He Signed) Was Aimed at Purely i SOLDIER HERO | i i FRAZIER FEELS jmight be deducted in determining his | winnings must be included in gross in- | Technical Flaws | Governor Frazier, who as a member i -9 |of tue state banking .oard joined with! Davie” Schwartz, Former Well Attorney General Langer and Seere-| Known Attorney of tary of State Hall in signing a resolu-! ° tion demanding that the Baquity Co-| Slope, Is Cited cperative cking Co., of Fargo cease! selling stock in North Dakota in vio-| The following trom The Minneapolis tion of the blue sky law, and that! i i it submit for the consideration of the| SubuBe Bives a thrilling account of 'board a detailed statement of the|SPirited action by David Schwartz, a I stock .sold. the -manner in. which it ee nea eine a Where’ where he was expended, the amount paid ini was a prominent attorney: jcommissions to. stock salesmen and!“ «navyie Schwartz used to sell The rea ee peanen, cating | Tribune at Fourth street and Nicollet! huundayee S party as stating’ avenue years ago, before he worked | — ss Tonle a “tachni@al® error and his way through high school and the, neha ee he ata.|University of Minnesota. Now, from | eat ae ones, ct ree a he StQ-! overseas, has come word of two cita- eee conipatiies haverncelect !tions for bravery and extraordinary | ‘cure permission — from | d 10‘ heroism. | |banking board to sell stock in Nortia| the state|"pirst Class Pvt. David Schwartz, A! ports required under the blue yiMihiel ‘on September 26, when | j laws, Just as soon as this is doi ; "| Schwartz was a mem a raiding | will be granted them to, Schw sya amember of a raiding | party, several runners had been killed | ie . eat eel jtrying to get back to the American! Hoang: piiggnman. manager of the! tines with orders for an advance. | fea eens ihe Reins ay_(asked for volunteers, and Privates | tice trom the banking board insist-! Gonwarte ¢ aster Re r= | Jing that sales of stock be stopped at | Soiwarte and peelen Reed stepped for- | Jonce, is quoted. a ini ; Ward. rough a barrage of shrap- | . . nel, high explosive shells and gas and his is undoubtedly a prearranged} 5 ; plot to put the state administration | Cfess fire of machine gun bullets [MANY SURFER LOSSES IN. BERLINSTRIKE ;Labor Walkout Called Off Late i Sunday in German i City DISTURBANCES CONTINUE Spartacans Engage in Wholesale Looting of Homes and Shops Berlin, March 10.—Six thousand persons suffered property losses in the four days’ fighting in Berlin last week, The money loss is difficult to estimate, as in addition to the destruc- tion of houses, the Spartacans engoged in wholesale looting of omes anu shops.) The losses of last week added to those of the first. week of the outbreak are likely (o involve Berlin or the state government in damage suits to- taling more than 150,000,000 marks, Preliminary proceedings may begin at Versailles about March 20, accord- ing to reports current here, Count Bratsdorff-Rantzau, the foreign min- ister, now is arranging for a small party of prominent business men to accompany the commissioners as ex- peras. They have been told to hold themselves in readiness for departure March 17 to March 19. While soldiers called out to supress. disorders were absent from Rubleben camp, 5,600 Russian prisoners escaped und now are wandering about. the country, . TO CALL OFF STRIKE. Amsterdam, March 10.—The work men's council has decided officially to call off the strike in the German capital, says a Berlin message, filed Sunday evening. Richard Mueller, strike leader, says the strikers must return to work “and await a suitable time to resume action.” MANY KILGED, London, March 10.—Many were kill- ed and wounded in fighting at Holle on Saturday. Spartacans are said to have drowned many students and of- ficers in the river there, Government troops eventually gaine ed the mastery, it is said. OCCUPY SUBURB, Amsterdam, March 10.—Spartacan forces Sunday occupied the Berlin su-: burb of Lichtenburg and murdered: 60. officers and soldiers in police station there. The police station had .with-° stood Spartacan attacks since Tués- day. HOIST FLAG. ins Copenhagen, March 10.—Saturday night Spartacans hoisted their stand- ard over the palace at Berlin. The flag was immediately removed by government troops. CONDITION QUIETER. Berlin, Friday, March 7.—Advices from Munich indicate the condition 18 quieter, with the majority socialists in the ascendancy. The soviets have voted to release hostages seized at. the time Kurt Eisner, Bavarian pre- mier, was assassinated. EXECUTE GRAND DUKES, Copenhagen, March 10.—Four more Russian grand dukes havs been exe- cuted at Petrograd by the Bolsheviki on charges of being involved in 9 mon- archist plot, according to advicea ta the Berlinsky Tiedende. Were i . . op; they carried the message to the Amer- H eat Ment “hee pata . jican commander and two minutes later ane . Se. concen |a counter barrage was laid on the Ger-! H ; have been under the impression that | ; ste, ry | “ in 12 illery positions, sile : Iwe were operating under a certain | 2” artillery p 8, silencing them. law. but it now appears this law does jnot apply to us. We must comply with another law, and this will noi |prove any difficulty. The reports re- quired will be filed within a few da. jand then we will get the nece! permission to sell our stock agai The Equity Cooperative Packing 'Co was originally incorporated for $1,- 090,000, and it: h An American charge followed which | won the desired position. Some time later, in the Argonne for-] est, Private Schwartz and a comrade maintained their stand on a frail scat folding, keeping a lookout on the Ger-| man lines, despite a continuous fire on the position. For this Private Schwartz | was again cited in orders, as was hi: jfellow-fighter. Writing to a friend re- reported sales of cently, he said: i" “At one particular teeta rel lis Intention (ot ine snemne |Eme mnt meaning: an observation | | upital to. $3,000,000. Patric ;post in the Argonne woods, it was| ‘necessary to look upon several bodies, | ‘pierced here and there by enemy fire. | The men in charge of burial were} themselves victims of shell fire. !Casey, formerly of Lisbon, and who Het out of a job on the state board of control hy the board of administration ait with Govemors araalen Signed | “One chaplain was killed outright | ane X18 president of the com: ang another severely wounded, both! Ben) lin the execution of sacred duties—but | The Equity Exchange of St. Pa ore = ‘ | lin which F. B. Wood, ono of the three | that is the fortune of war. While allj national directors of the Nonpartisan ee ee agree the ital oett | eke has in prominent, and tne | fold, partly destroyed by the fleeing | {Northern Packing Co. of Grand Forks 1 DBE ee yet i lhave received similar orders. enemy, watching their movements: CRISIS PASSED. London, Sunday, March 9.—A Ger- man wireless received here is a semi- ofticial bureau report of recent fight- ing there, which lasted from 10 o'clock Wednesday night until late Friday night. It is said there were solated encounters as Jate as Sat- urday morning. The dispatch adds that even if final resistance has not yet finally broken down the crisis may be regarded as safely passed. On many streets there was plundering aturday. Spartacan forces had entrenched themselves in a brewery and govern: ment troops were advancing with ar tiNery to surround the building when the Spartacans fled. WILSON SUFFERS FROM COLD On Board S. S. George Washing- arding them, for on the! ‘LONDON BOBBIES __ MIX WITH YANKS London, Mar. 10.—Corporal Zimmer- man and Private Wilson, American! {military police, wounded today in the {fighting between London police and {American soldiers and sailors, were | f, \ | jresting quietly in a hospital here to-|was granted western shippers today jnight. The trouble began when Zim-! py the I. C. C. in an order declaring merman and Wilson demanded the j ¢; | London police turn over to them two / route should app! ; American’ soldiers who had been ar-/ ai) other competing routes. !rested for shooting craps. An argu-! |ment followed, during which the po- jlicemen drew their batons and severe: | ily beat the soldiers. Canadian, Aus- | ‘tralian and American soldiers and | jsailors were attracted to the scene in| | protest, and they surrounded the po- jlice and their four prisoners, follow- | ting them to the Bow street station. | | There a report that Zimmerman was ‘dead resulted in an effort to storni the | station. The police charged the; crowd, injuring several and dispersing | |the soldiers. An American officer lat- r presented himself at the Bow street | tation and demanded the four men} riginally arrested, who were surren- | ptered. RATES REVISED. Washington, March 10.—Revised rates from western gateways to east- ern destinations were approved for filing today by the I. C. C. on grain. WESTERN RATES Oa ATTENTION! SOLDIERS, jton, Mar. 10.—President Wilson is suf- {fering from a cold, and, although it iwas less troublesome today, he re- | mained in his room a greater part of ‘his time. He is spending most of his ‘leisure time in reading, The George | Washington is expected to arrive at |Brest on Thursday, and the president | will proceed at once to Paris. Con- | ferences are being arranged for March |14. He expects to take up at once | work of the most active nature. When the more important matters are dis- posed of, he probably will take the | promised trip to Belgium and devas- tated northern France. = y ARE REVISED Washington, March 10.——Release ‘rom the long and short haul clause hat the lowest rate by the shortest y to shipments over ) SAILORS AND MARINES All soldiers and saliors and marines who have returned to Bismarck and Burleigh county, or who were members of Bis- marck cr Burleigh county units and have returned td other communities, are requested to register at once at the Harris & Cc. stationery store on Fourth street, in order that their noses may be counted for the great home-coming demonstration to be given within the next week or ten days for our retumed fighters. PhtR Every man who has seen service in any branch of Uncle Sam’s fighting machine is cordially invited to. be. ag Bismarck at its great home-coming, and: by «ar Yanks will give the committee in charge an