The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 7, 1919, Page 1

K TRIBUN BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA WEDNI CE FIVE CENTS 7)THE BIS THIRTY-NINTH YEAR. NO. 106 E DAY, MAY 7, 1919. ABOLISHES MILITARISM NOTED PERSIAN (GERMANY MUST RESTORE ALSACE-LORRAINE AND MISSIONARY TO | SPEAK TONIGHT) = RAZE ALL RHINE FORTS Imperial Army Reduced to 100,000 and Navy Re- Mrs. E. T. Allen, for 25 Years Resident of Uramia, to Tell Thrilling Story stricted to Six Battleships—Loses All Polish Territory—Must Pay 20 Billion Marks as Ini- tial Payment of Indemnity—The Terms. j “PRI TREATY PUBLIC UTILITY MAGNATES SEEK BOARD APPROVAL Corson and Grubbs of $3,000,000 Dakota Heat, Light & Power Co., Before Commission The Trianon Palace Hotel at Ver- sailles, headquarters of the Allied War Council, will be the place where the { Germans will hear the peace terms read. This js the building. FILE PLAN OF OPERATION CHARGE OF RELIEF WORK Religious Teacher and Husband | Looked After Welfare of Hundreds of Refugees Show Intent to Take Over Dick- inson, Mandan, Jamestown and Lisbon Electric Plants Paris, May 7.—The treaty of peace between the 27 allied and associated powers on the one hand and Germany on the other was handed to the German plenipotentiary at Versailles today. The treaty is printed in parallel pages in English and French which are recognized as having equal validity. It does not deal with questions affecting Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey except inso- far as binding:.Germany to accept any agreement reached with those former allies. | F. E. Corson and Mr. Grubbs of the{ bond house of White, Grubbs & Co., both of Minneapolis, on Tuesday forin- ally presented to..the North Dakota i railway commiaeie m ‘the plans of ‘the * : rae : | Dakota Heat, Light & Power Co., for 2 M : q { ‘ @ $3,000,000 merger® of the General Utility corporation holdings with those | of independent’ plants operating,in Jamestown, Lisbon, Bismarck, Man-! dan and Dickinson. Publicity Expert Bremier of the railway board now has under consideration the company’! prospect—uses and a mass of other i Besvoce aca PRISON RECORD DOESN'T UNFIT... cagentor's@ere MAN FOR LEGISLATIVE SERVICE UNLESS ASSOCIATES SO ASSERT Corson’ dnd Grubbs hiay be given some intimation as to the tate of their en- terprise this afternoon. Eoth in con ference with the. railway commission yesterday expressed the opinion that with the approval ot this board under the new public utilities act, no‘ diffi- Fact That Men Who Had Been Convicted of Crime Voted for League Program Bills and That Votes Were Essential to Emer- t gency Clauses Does Not Affect Validity of Election, Holds | the prospective grewth of North Da- ee: < seed am kota, not unreasonable. Attorney General Langer in Opinion to Fargo City Treasurer. Messrs, Corson and Grubbs were iu-| ‘ ie | ion'of clined to deplore the publicity which Ee Ree |by any other portion of a human skel- ‘ yesterday ‘by Mrs. E, T. Allen, a resident of Ur- amla, Persia, for 25 years, has a thrill- ing story to tell of the ravages of war in the Orient at the:First Presbyter- ian church this evening. The main auditorium of the church will be used for er tecture: the cvening's program COVENANT INCORPORATED eee ei ere duce eine Anna | ,, Following the preamble, comes the covenant of the league of Strelb and Sherman Wright and a/Mations as the first section of the treaty: The frontiers of Ger- chorus by a group of junior children; Many in Europe are defined in the second section. European polit- No adm ee aya be chateod, Hire ical classes given in the third; European political classes in the x pu fourth; followed by a section on prisoners of war and ‘military graves, and a, seventh ony Feanansibility. Reparation, financial q a 2 Ne is incited to hear Mrg.,Ailen, wao p wd bas a message of the most absorbing 4 4 Ff i interest. par iac terms and economic terms are! dqvered in sections 8 to 10. Then ‘ THAT SOME BODY Speaks to +Presbyter: comes the aeronautical section, ports, waterways, and-railway Writing ‘from Hazelton,’ where the| section, the labor covenant, the section on guarantees and the i | 1 1 annual Bismarck presbyterial is now|p- in session, Mrs, H. C. Postlethwaite {final clauses. : k AD says: te ai és ee ALSACE-LORRAINE a am at Hazelton, attending a ermany by the terms of the treaty restores all of Alsace- LOST H I$ H VUsabie Persia, iota anise en ot Lorraine to France, except the internationalization of the Saar aa 7 She is to speak at the Presbyterian|temporarily and of Danzig permanently; agrees to territorial church in Bismarck at 8 o'clock Wed-|Changes toward -Belgium and Denmark in East Prussia, cedes meeday evenine ake and her aetna most of upper Galicia to Poland, and renounces all territorial and irieoe wore i porn me fourveats! political rights outside Europe as to her own or her allies’ terri- Mr. Allen is still in charge of that|tory, and especially in Morocco, Egypt, Siam, Liberia, and Shang work. Mrs, Allen returned to the Unit-|Tung. She also recognizes the total independence of German Aus- ed States with her children October |tria, Czecho-Slovakia and Poland. : i . REDUCES ARMY rmy is reduced to 100,000 including officers. Conscrip- culties will bé encountered with the; blue sky commission, which must ap- prove the sale ‘of the company’s se- curities in North Dakota. Hagenaw & Ericson report that the proposed cap- italization, taking into consideration Detached Skull Unearthed by Workmen Digging Under Palace Hotel Proverty An -isolated ‘skull, in /a: good state 30, having been on the journ i of preservation, “but unaccompanied e n the journey ‘six months and four days. i : “All who are interested in the Syr- Her their proposed consolidation has be That the legislature is a judge of thé qualifications of its own /eton,:;was; unearthed t fan and Armenian relief work’ should|tion within her territories is abolished: i i given, and they: were at a loss to ac-| members, and that the fact that two league members ofthe last! plumbers engaged “ip making altera-|iear her. ‘She has. had experiences jeast of the Rhine razed: all abo ete all eee Hitmetets count for this advertising. “The neWs:|houge of representatives had been convicted of -crimes»and had | tens “it the Palace ‘hotel. building, (Contiqned .on | Page, Sixi) atariala Gane Allie soe toati eet all production of war materials stopped. Allied occupation of parts of Germany will continue till reparation ‘is:made but, will be.re- "7 duced at the end of three five-year periods if Germany is fulfilling: by her obligation. Any violation by Germany will be regarded as ‘an : act of war. : ALLOWED SIX #&ATTLESHIPS |. The German navy is reduged to six battleships, six light. cruis- ers and 'tivelve torpedo boats, without submarines, and a personnel of not over 15,000. All other vessels must be surrendered or destroyed. Germany is forbidden to build forts controlling the ,. Baltic, must demolish Helgoland, open the Kiel canal to all nations, and surrender her fourteen submarine cables. She! may ‘have rio’ military or naval air forces except 100: unarmed seaplanes, untif October Ist, to detect mines, ard may: manufacture aviation ma- terial for six months. ACCEPTS FULL RESPONSIBILITY _ Germany accepts full responsibility for all damages caused to allied and associated. governments and nationals, agrees specific- rates charged by the Hughes Mlectric| Ally to reimburse all civilian damages beginning with an initial Co. for current and heat. While elec-|payment of twenty billion marks, subsequent payment.to be st~ cat mentioned in tie, preamble, jeured by bonds, to be issued at the discretion of the reparation “that the services of said named committee. Germany is to pay shipping damage on a ton for ton Hughes Electric Co. in furnishing heat ee of a large part of her merchant, coasting and is not we erformed in the amount eets ¥ i i and quality (ihereot, and in its tme|to the dene and to devote her economic resources yates, chareed. for eald heat land tor KAISER MUST FACE TRIAL electrical sérvice have never been law-|___ She agrees to return to the 1914 most favored nation debts fully established but arbitrarily tixed| Without discrimination; and to accept provisions as to other pre- by the said Hughes Electric Co. and) war debts. She also agrees to the trial of the ex-kaiser by. an international high court for a supreme offense against interna- tional immorality, Holland to be asked to extradite the former, whichohus i been ‘taken ov by. .the ‘plans than we. do,” said Mr. Corson. served penal sentences .in this state di¢‘not affect their eligibility | western Sales Co. No official report He admitted, that. the company. had|to Vote for the industrial commission bill'and other leagite Jégisla-| on the incident had heen made to the ¢ { ‘ ) authorities tip*to noon today, and the d 2 | J foozled its:approach in failing to make|tion is the opinion of Attorney General Langer,;formally expressed | ‘ BISMARCK HEAT earlier ‘application to the railway com- ; M4 He Mitchell ci % -op | discoverer of the skull still had the se nilssion for its approval, but he stated baday 10 response to a request from C. Hy Mitchell, city treasurer | ewsome find in lis possessiom at that the corporation was under the} © argo. ies > r : ,| that time. é ey. impression that it was proceeding in|; Under date of: May 5, Treasurer] _ oo™~ | There is nothing .to indicate how : . Mitonell. wrote Use attomey-general.as| CON EGRESS TO © ong,.the. skull, Ruibiteen/ planted spor: BET 7 - follows:” . WN F f “As treasurer of the .ctty of Fargo, yA A! J TER R ATES Twenty-One Citizens. Petition ‘how it came to be there in its detached ‘i | position. ‘Those: who are inclined to I am_custodian of its*funds and am A interested. in knowing how they are at- CONVENE M AY 17 WIES N 6 ABLES Rail‘ Commission for Hearing : 1 JTL on‘ Hughes Service papers seem to know more of our the prop: jay-and: that the, railway. commission was being furnished with the necessary.information as ¢ompiled by ‘Tagenaw .& Ericson. As a mattey of felet, Gris sd }-did ‘not reach the comm@eston! unGMofiday. 9“ The General ;-Utilities Corporation now, operates plants:at’ Oakes, Cassel- ton, Enderlin, Sheldon, Devils Lake, ‘New. Rockford, Carrington and Ken- mare. It is planned to consolidate these under the name of the Dakota Heat, Light & Power Co. with the Hughes Electric Co. of Bismarck, the Western Electric Co. of Jamestown, the Hughes & Deiter Co. of Dickinson, the Mandan Electric Co. and. the Lis-| Palace hotel, used as a hostelry for more than‘’a generation, may. at some were ‘passed by. the last iegislaturé. The published reports ‘frony time during’ that period have ‘been the scene of a murder, and that while legislature show that House Bill, the: body. was removed in a trunk/and 17, ‘which is called the industrial co; mission act, and which gives the mai perhaps ‘dumped into the. river, the Eiaull was buried undér“the’ floor of agement of the bank of North Dako the ihotel in order to prevent identi- to a commission .of ‘three men, was fication of the victim. iP i passed with the emergency clause and is now in force; and also that House | Others who take a more cheerful view of tlie-mystery hold that the skull Bill No. 18, which creates the Bank of North Dakota, in which all publ probably was used by. some, traveling doctor who saw the error of:his ways funds are required to be deposited un-j while a guest at the Palace and, deter- der penalty of 90 days in jail and a mined to lead a better life, discarded fine of not less than $100 against those who fail to comply, was also bon Electric. C thisiemblem of ‘his trade’and. went his passed with tie emergency cla day for a special session of congress to FOLLOW-UP PLAN way rejoicing. This is the second dis- covery of the kind made in’ the busi- “The vote:in the house on these twoj meet Monday, May 17." Secretary Tu-|ness portion of the city during the bills, as recorded, shows, I believe,;multy in making the announcement {that there was just enough votes to/said it would be impossible for the carry the emergency and put the two! president to be here on the opening fear the worst suspect that the old fected by some of the laws which ‘Twenty-one Bismarck citiz terday filed with the railway commis- sion a petition for a hearing on the Urgent''Need of Appropriations to. Run Government Forces Session Washington, D. C., May 7.—Presi- dent Wilson issued a call by cable to- while digging the basement for the new public library at Sixth and Thay- er streets a couple of years ago. That find was explained by old settlers who recalled that Bismarck’s bad men in the early days maintained their private skeJeton was exhumed by workmen that there is not a vote to spare. white house officials said that ‘in “The records in this state show that/ naming an early date President Wilson two of the members of tie house who} was guided largely by recommen voted for’ these two bills, and whose|tiong from Secretary Glass regard that said rates are unreasonable and extortionate.’ he railway commission has not yet last two years. A complete human acts into immediate opération, and’! day. {JUL IOw Es acted on the petition. poilbencik sels Col. Edward G. Heckel: of Army of Occupation Looks After’ Boys When Returned Home | Col. Edward G. Heckel, command- ing the 125th infantry at Horhausen, Germany, revealed to Governor Fra-: zier yesterday a follow-up system ot which the chief executive thorougaly approves. Col. Heckél wrote the chief} executive to the effect' that four of his men, citizens of North Dakota, were about to be discharged, and that two of them desired to return to their former positions in this state and that the other two desired new employ- ment in this state upon being musiered out. Their commanding officer re-! quested the cooperation of Governor Frazier in replacing two of the men in their former positions, which were named, and in turnishing suitable new employment for the other half of the quartette, expressing’ the desire to “quickly return them to some good employment, thug obviating the danger of their becoming dissatisfied with conditions at home and drifting ‘into undesirable habits.” Governor Frazier has written Col. Heckel assuring him of ‘his active co-! operation. AANDAHL HOME FROM IMPORTANT EASTERN MISSION S, J. Aandahl, chairman of the North Dakota railway commis- sion, returned yesterday from Washington where he served up- on a national committee which | recommended more adequate terminal elevator facilities on the Atlantic seaboard, At present the terminal elevator capacity of Port- land, Boston, Philadelphia, New York. Brooklyn, Baltimore, New- port News and Norfolk combined is but 10,000,000 bushels, as com- pared with 50,000,000 at the Twin Cities and the same amount at ‘Duluth and Chicago and 35,000,000 ‘at Milwaukee. The result has been the necessity for using cars for the storage of wheat awaiting ex. port, and western shippers have wotesi(Were recorded and counted in order toyrearry the emergen¢y, have} been previously convicted of infamous crinie im this state, and for that rea- son they are not eligible to sit in the legislature or to vote. “Herman hardt was convicted on| his own plea of guilty in the federal / court here in Fargo of violating the naturalization laws, on three different indictments, and served his time in} the Cass county jail., The punishment| which could have been inflicted on each indictment had he been given the! highest purishment was a fine of not} more than $5,000, or imprisonment tor! not more than five years, or both. He} served the penalty whicn was imposed in the Cass.county jail at Fargo. You! will find the records im this case wita} the clerk of court of the United States} court here. “Walter Cadell, another house mem- ber who voted for these bills and whose vote was essential to carry the emergency, pleaded guilty in the dis- trict court of Burleigh county to the crime of robbery in the first degree. On the. plea of his father that he was only twenty years of age, when he committed the: crime, he was sen- tenced and served his time in the state reform school at Mandan instead of being sentenced to the penitentiary The record in this ca vill be found; in the office of the clerk of district court for Burleigh county. “The record shows, that. both of] these men voted for the two! bills r ferred to, and‘that the votes were r corded and counted and were essentia! to carry the emergency. “Under the constitution.a man to be eligible to the house must be an elec: tor, and a man who has heen convict- ed of a felony is not qualified to vote at. any election, unless he been re- stored to his civil righ 1 under: stand that neither of these men. has; been restored to their civil rights. | “However that may be, there is an-| other section which makes them whol ly ineligible. It is section 38 of- the constitution, which reads: ‘No mem- ber of the legislative assembly ex- pelled for corruption, and no person} convicted of bribery, perjury or other; infamous crime shall be eligible to the legislative assembly or to any office in either branch thereof.: “Will you please investigate and been deprived of this transporta- tion, verify these facts in regard to these (Continued on Page Four.) the necessity . for making appropria- tions which were not made hefure the adjournment of the last ‘session. Marion, anly reported kota that there have been tion cards for the Victory loan. Not a single county can fall down in North Dakota without en- VICTORY SHIP WILL ENTER NEW YORK LOAN JIS COMPLETED afield to plant) their dead. (CHAIRMAN M’DQWELL APPEALS TO NORTH DAKOTA N. D. May 7.—Only twenty-two counties are over this afterrioon and We are three mil- lion doilars short. The banks have eight and a half million dollars as the sum total subscription cards in their hands. Our official record depends upon the federal reserve bank at Minne- apolis;being natified by Saturday night by the banks of North Da- left with them eighteen and a half mil- lion dollars sum total of subscrip- dangering the state’s record. Bad roads and fate seeding have no doubt caused the delay in many counties, but regardless of weath- er conditions this Victory loan must go, and the people of North Da- kota want it to go. If we make our allotment so as to get official recognition we must complete our canvass in the next two days. North Dakota -has never fallen down-in any quota that has been assigned to it during the entire war,.and in this, the last loan, let each and every one of us do our part and finish the job with a positively clean record.—WESLEY C. McDOWELL, State Chairman. HARBOR WHEN cemeteries ‘and that in cold winter weather, especially, they did not go far FOR CLEAN SLATE KULM MILLING CO. WANTS SPUR TRACK The Kulm Milling Co., with a daily capacity of 100 barrels and which con- sumes 2,000 tons of lignite per annum, wrote the railway commission yester-; day for a spur to connect its plant with the Soo railway, about 120 feet distant, thus obviating , the cost of hauling coal and. flour between the plant and the’cars. ALL TROOPS OUT OF Washington, May 7.~Secretary Bak- er announced today that by August {the last man probably will have been t. {withdrawn from Europe. This esti-| mate is based on the withdrawal of 300,000 men a month to the United | ti States. More than half of the expedi- tionary force now has left Europe. is is the Victory ship Colhoun. moving north from the Panama | ti ranal at the rate o fa mile for each million subscribed to‘the Victory loan, and if the loan is all placed.accord- ing to schedule, the Colhoun will en- ter New York harbor May 10. d 1 permanent office and an annual convention, A E ! ' ' i great international bodies of different kind: i ar CE ee Is and for different purposes ie peace treaty. The high commissi i ich i created into a tecciie 2! sion of Danzig, which is or plebiscite in Schleswig and East Prussia, among thos t out the peace treaty are the reparation, t it id ait, finan: cial, end economic committees, femationadl Boe oie oi military tribunals to fix responsibilities and i i for the control of international Teeter ay eee which falls on the fourth anniversary in the Hotel representatives of 22 nations, ures of the convention w: arraigning former Emperor pact, calling for his trial before a tribunal States, Italy, Great Britain ae hy the allies and associated many’s refusal to sign the peace treaty. OIL TAX PAID | 4 to 1-2 cent to each gallon of oil] &%. described or gasoline which has boosted the cost to the con- sumer a cent or more per gallon w mailed out for collection yesterda These frafts cover the March tax from} Peru: Poland, Portugal, Roumania, Ser- the date v * about March 4, and call for a total of| Sugia, with the five above, are de- $9,530.60, i and Germany being responsible. for. delivering the kaiser. )“/bv! ie.) : INTERNATIONAL LABOR PARTY HigQun An international labor body is brought into being..with a number of the league of nations and some to execute under the league, and various committees the international high court, and rivers, Certain problems are left for solution between the allied and EUROPE BY AUGUST |28s0<iated powers, notably details of the disposition of the Ger- man fleet and cables, paid in reparation. the former German colonies, and the values Germany today will receive the terms of pe r r r ace from the na- lons arrayed against her in the world’s Breateet war. This jie of the sinking of the Lusi- ania, in the gigantic conflict. It marks one of the historic days arte days after the last shot in the war was fired, November ; ARRAIGN KAISER The German delegates when they entered the dining room Trianon at three o’clock this afternoon found present One of the most interesting feat- atte vase yesterday when a clause } 4 \ elm for a crim i - ity of treaties and the morality of nations was added Ie peace include the United and Japan. ; ‘ COMPLETE ISOLATION Complete isolation is one of the principal weapons to be used governments in the event of Ger- |, Certain other problems such as the of the air and opium. arms and liquor traffic are either Yi are either agreed to in NORTH DAKOTA __ |eetait or set ‘tor cary international 9530 | action, by i $ recat IN MARCH! The p nble names as the parties North Dakot t oil drafts un.) Of th | part the United States, ler the new act which adds a tax of! British empire, France, Italy and Jap- the five allied and as- sociated powers, and Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Cuba, Ecuador, Greece, re| Gutamala, Haita, the Hedjaz, Hon- | duras, Liberia, Nicaragua, Panama, sold in this state and bia, Siam, Czecho-Slovakia and Ur- en the dct took effect, (Continued on Page Three.)