The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 9, 1919, Page 1

THE WEATHER - Generally Falr. THIRTY-NINTH YEAR. REV. R. i. CRAIG, NOTED DIVINE, IS TAKEN-SUDDENLY Death of Beloved Minister Oc-| curs at Enderlin After Few Minutes’ Illness WAS VETERAN CLERGYMAN Had Held Important Charges in North Dakota and Minne- «ota and in India '‘D.,. June 9.—After conducting. two Sunday services aS usual, chatting for an hour or two with friends following his evening sermon and commenting upon the fact that he felt unusually well, Rev. R. H. Craig, pastor of the Enderlin .Meth- odist Episcopal church, and one of the best known clergymen in North Da- kota, retired at 12:30 Monday morn- ing and five minutes later died from heart trouble before a physician whom Mrs. Craig has summoned could reach him. Rev, Craig suffered an attack of heart trouble last Wednesday, when he was stricken while down town. He was removed to his home, and he quickly recovered under medical at- tention. For the remainder of the jweek he apparently enjoyed his usual robust health, and he showed upus- ual vigor and vitality during his Sun- day sermons. His unexpected death ig @ severe shock to thé whole com- munity, in which he had become very Popular since his comigg to assume charge of the local church last Octo- ber. Mrs. Craig is, prostrated with grief. Enderlin,» ‘N. Veteran of Ministry: The Rev. R. H. Craig was born in Treland 65 years ago. He came to America as a boy as a protege of the late Rev. James Woodworth of Brandon, Man., an uncle of George D. Mann., publisher of the Bismarck Trib- une, and he began preaching in Can- ada ‘at the age of 22. Later he came to the United States, where he com- . pleted a course in theology at North- western untyersity, Eyanston, Ill., fol- lowing which he, held charges at St. Paul, Duluth, Fergus Falls and other points in Minnesota, prior to his com- ing to North Dakota. ‘The deceased is survived by his idow, Mrs. Mary Craig; by one son, jeut. Ralph'gW. Craig, now serving in France, and who was sheriff of Ransom county. for two terms, and by his mother and one brother in Canada. Funeral arrangements _ will not be made from. Be ata a Dt ie cae ‘Blow to. Friends Here. ‘News. of Rey. Craig's «death, ‘con- veyed in telégrams from -Mrs. Craig to Bismarck friends this} morning, was @ severe blow to exeryone in the capitat city who «had ehjoyed thé friendship of the beloved dtvine, who was pastor of McCabe-church in 1914 and 1915. Many from Bismarck are planning to go to Enderlin to attend the funeral services. Rev. Craig during his two years here endeared! himself to members of all creed. He was a militant’ minis- ter of the gospel and in every respect a man, and hig friends were by no means confined to members of hif congregation. He served as chap- lain of the North Dakota senate in the 14th assembly, when as a token of their appreciation of -his services the members presented: him with a handsome Bible, through Governor L. B. Hanna. From Bismarck Rev. Craig went to Dickinson, where he / presided for two years over Simp;| son memoria] church, building during that time a handsome new house of worship. He was transferred last Oc- tober to Enderlin. He was a frequent visitor to Bismarck during his resi- dence at Dickinson, keeping in close touch with the town ‘and his friends here. Rev. Craig spent:a number of years prior to 1890 in India as a missionary, and his only daughter fell victim to the fever there. A son, Robert Craig, died: at -Lisbon six years ago, when his: father was stationed there, as a result of a gasoline explosion. The deceased was widely, known as a@ powerful evangelist and platform lecturer, and he was prominent in Masonry, in which he always took an active part. In his passing the church and the state have lost an out- standing figure. i; CABINET CRISIS RUMOR IN HUNS’ CAPITAL FALSE Berlin, Sunday, June ~8.—Rumors that a cabinet crisis‘is imminent are dismissed as idle gossip. The fact that Herr Wissel, minister without portfolio, and Dr. Hugo Dernberg, minister of finance, differ as to the administration of post war economic control, has started the rumér. The issues, it is contended, cannot be de- cided until peace’ is arranged, and ds in any instace purely persoal. GILBERT HAUGEN. MADE TRUSTEE OF SONS OF NORWAY Fargo, N. D., June 9.—L. P. Satrom of Galesburg, was elected president of the Fourth district, Sons of Nor- way, at the closing session of'the two day convention held in this city at the Sons of Norway hall. Sixty lodges from all parts of the state sent delegates to the meeting, the at- tendance exceeding 150. ~ O. C. Enstad of Pekin was elected vice president; J. O. Engesather, Pet- ersburg, secretary; . Peter Matsen, Devils Lake, treasurer; Johan Gre- gor, Fort Ransom, regent, and the following were elected trustees: Isak Mattson, Minot; I. B. Jacobsen, Far- 60, and Gilbert Hauges, Bismarck. until the latter are heard | 58,000 acres in wheat produced an GERMANY WOUL TRY MEN FOUND GUILTY OF WAR + June 8.—The shas completed consideration of a bill creating a state court which would try those accused of start- ing, lengthening and losing the ‘Berlin, Sunday, constitutional convention NORTH DAKOTA'S FARMERS SHOW BIG GAIN IN 1948 Acreage Increased 1,365,000 and Revenues $144,439,000 Over 1917 101,010,000 WHEAT CROP North Dakota farmers, responding to their country’s call for food, culti- vated in 1918 an acreage of 16,000,000 an increase of 1,365,000 acres over the previous big year of 1917; it led the United States in harvest acreage of all wheat, barley, rye and flax, and it produced a crop whose total value was $349,309,000, or $144,439,000 more than it received for its 1917 harvest. These are some prideful facts glean- ed from a review for 1918 prepared by A. J. Surratt, state field agent for the bureau of crop estimates, U. 8. department of agriculture. Wheat in 1918 showed an increase of 11 per cent; rye of 100 per cent over the harvested acreage of 1917. Wheat came through the season bet- ter than any other crop. The average yield for the, state was 13 bushels, the range being 17:to 22 bushels in the east to 6 to 9 bushels in the west; oats ran from 25 to 35 bushels in the east to 12 to 20 bushels in the west;, barley from 25 to 30 bushels in the east to 12 to 20 bushels in the west, and rye from 12 to 17 bushels in the east to 6 to 9 bushels in the west. General Grain Data. The corn yield was bad. Mr. Sur- ratt finds there is @nough North Da- kota grown flint for the state’s needs this season, but that dent will be somewhat short. Mr. Surratt finds that 75,000 farms contributed to the 1918 production of 101,010,000 bushels of wheat. Burleigh county’ yield was ten bushels to the acre pn 1500 farms. with a total wheat acreage of 11,000, the county’s wheat crop for the year aggregating 1,150,000 bush- els. ‘Cass county on 2,000 farms with rol a’ total of 7,360,000 bushels. Burleigh in 1918 sowed 25,000 acres to flax and produced 162,000 bushels, or an aver- age of 6 1-2 bushels per acre. “The year 1918 set a new high rec- ord for cattle and hog values in North Dakota. Milch cows, lead all other classes in North Dakota in, the in- ‘creased valuation per head, with a gain of $11 over 1917. The total val- uation of live stock on farms in North. Dakota, January 1, was placed at $158,056,000, compared with -$156,026,- 000 last year. The total value of live stock sold from farms during. the year was $25,000,000. EMMONS COUNTY ‘SOLDIER SCRIBE AFTER BOWMAN F. B. Streeter; Editor of the . Record, Challenges Senator to a Debate ‘Linton, N, D.,-Jane 9.—Through the columns of the Emmons County Rec- ord F. B. Streeter, the soldier editor of Emmons’ comnty’s pioneer newspaper, has offered to meet in joint debate any member of the legislature who voted for the laws, which are to be referended June 26. The Emmons county delegation has not seemed disposed ‘to accept Mr. proposition, and noting in the Bis- marck Tribune, Senator E. A. Bow- man’s invitation to State Auditor Karl Kositzky to debate the issues of the present campaign, Lieut. Streeter has passed the buck to Senator Bow- man, in the following letter: Senator E. A. Bowman, Kulm, N. D. Dear Sir: In yesterday's copy of the Bismarck Tribune, I note your offer of debate with the state auditor. For some time I have been anxious to find some man who voted for the various measures to go before the referendum election who is willing to back his actions in a joint debate. I have heretofore published an offer to so meet any man who voted for thesa measures, and no one of our home delegation seems inclined to accept. T believe that this election is of the most vital importance to the people of this state, and that a joint debate on the measures to be voted on an excellent way of allowing the voters to become familiar with the situa- tion. Therefore, in view of the fact that you at least seem willing to debate Mr. Kositzky, perhaps you will, be willing to take in a little more terri- tory. I ask that you rome to Emmons count} some time prior to June 26th to meet me at Linton, the county seat of thfs county,sin joint debate on the laws to be voted upon June 26th, you to represent the league interests jn the laws, and I to oppose you. Yours very truly, F. B. STREETER, P. S, If you accept, please wire or phone me collect. Streeter’s | - D*|TEN-MILLION-DOLLAR BOOST IN | BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA MONDAY. ‘ FIRST THREE YEARS OF TOWNLEY RULE, AND “ECONOMIC PROGRAM” HAD NOT BEGUN TOBE A CHARGE; WHAT WILE THE FUTURE BRING? The first three years of Townleyism in North Dakota, with the economic program of Mr. Townley, Walter Thomas Mills and fellow socialists not yet an expense item, increased state taxes ten million dollars, according to a signed statement 'of Mr. Townley’s own tax commission. WHAT MAY WE EXPECT OF THE NEXT THREE YEARS, WITH “INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY” IN THE: SADDLE, THE SKY THE LIMIT, AND WITH NO BARRIER WHATEVER BE- TWEEN \MR. TOWNLEY AND THE PRESENT AND FUTURE RESOURCES OF NORTH DAKOTA? % NOT TALKING COSTS There are three subjects which Mr. Townley and his organiz- ers have studiously avoided in the referendum campaign. First and foremost is that of taxes; then there is the onsumers’ United Store Co., and third, the Valley City bank robbery. The Consum- ers’ United Stores Co. and the Valley. City affair are matters of more or less private concern. Taxes are something that will affect every man and woman who owns a penny’s worth of property. YES, and they will affect you, too, Mr. Wage. Earner, who cannot now own a home and must pay rent, for, as you have learned from sad experience, the cost of REFORM always is passed on to the ultimate consumer. Even now rents are being raised in anticipa- tion of the hundred percent increase in taxes which will accom- pany the inauguration of the “ALL-TOWNLEY” regime. What Tax Commission Says. The North Dakota tax commission is composed of George E. Wallace, F. E. Packard and H. H. Steele. Botlt Mr. Wallace and Mr. Packard are en- thusiastic leaguers, who owe their re- appointment to Governor Frazier: Both of these gentlemen signed a statement furnished the house of rep- resentatives during the last assembly in response to 4 request from Rep. J. F. T. O'Connor for an estimate of the taxes which would be raised under various bills introduced in the sen- ate and house during the session and under laws already on the statute. books. The tax commission’s reply is officially reported in the house journal for February 21, 1919, as fol- lows: “Under the limitations proposed by this assembly upon local levies, it is possible that the/ general property tax can increase to $2,7000,000. The total tax levied for all purposes, state, county, township, city and schoo) dis- trict, for 1918, aggregated $21,500,000, an increase of $2,500,000, or 13 per cent during the first year of the Non- partisan administration®over the ag- gregate form 1917, which was $19,000,- 000. “Under: Class 1 as provided for by the laws of 1917 there was assessed property in 1918 to the amount of ments to have been made in accord- ance with the law at 30 per cent. AP- PLYING THE ACTUAL 100 PER CENT VALUB. CALLED FOR IN SENATE BILL 43,” (WHICH COV- A TOTAL. OF $1,124,300,000.. The property, falling within the provisions of Class 2, under the present laws, aggregated for 1918 $63,280,190; de- ducting from this certain properties which have been transferred to Class 1 by Senate Bill 43, and applying 50 per cent of actual value, we get $150,- 000,000. The property in Glass 3 is practically all exempted under the ERS YOUR FARM. OR YOUR, HOME, | vice president WME GBT pe “aft PAS -DHE.CABESAEAY--BH): RETAILERS OPEN BIG CONVENTION AT 9 TOMORROW Most Important Meeting in -His- tory of Association Will Be Held at Mandan D., Mandan, N. June 9 What promises to be the biggest convention held in the 21 years’ existence of the North Dakota Retail Merchants’ as- sociation will open here tomorrow morning to continue until Friday evening. The association's member- ship is the largest in its history; the Nonpartisan leagite's program of in- dustrial democracy-has brought new merchandising ‘problems to the North, Dakota retailers, and there is more interest in the work of their organiza- tion than ever before. Prominent speakers will include former Governor Li B. Hanna, who served as a-captain in the American Red Cross in Frabce and will. tell. what he saw there} Bentley, P. Neff, of Ke A. Patrick Co. weoseerea ld Persiyorty” secre: tary' of the Minnesota’ Retail Merch- ants’ association; John DeWild, ad- vertising manager of the Minneapolis Tribune; E. B. Moon of, Chicago; W. L.. Wars’ of ‘the Chicago Dry Goods Reporter;’J.'J. Ryan, secretary of the national asociation, and C. BE. Law- rence, of Finch, Van Slyke & Mc- Gonville, St. Paul. Officers of the association are Fred!-- provisions of Senate Bill 44; also cer-;P.. Mann, Devils Lake, president; L. tain personal property .exemptions and certain improvements on. real property. It is conservative to say that an assessed valuation of $1,200,- 000,000 can be reached under Sen ate Bill 43, as against $400,000,000, for 1918, an increase of 30 per cent. Possible Tax Burdens. “The possible tax burden under all the revenue measures introduced, presents a question of much diffi- culty. Taking all the available data into consideration, we have conclud- ed that under a rigid enforcement of these acts, if they become laws, the following revenue -would be possible: 3 per cent gross sales tax on oil $ 450,000 Income ‘tax + 1,000,000 Corporation excise tax ..... 200,000 4 mill levy on $1,200,000,000 4,500,000 | - Dues and fees . 500,000 Inheritances tax .. 100,000 Moneys and credits . 60,000 Motor vehicle licenses . 480,000 8-cent an acre hail tax . 900,000 UTILITY PROPERTY T. 7,500,000 Levy for returned soldiers and bond sinking and in- terest fund .....-.... 000s 1,000,000 Total oe... eee eee eee $16,900,000 Nearly §40,000,000 ' Possible. “Of the total tax levied Jast’ year, $19,888,000 was for local tax purposes. Adding to this the local tax increas’ for the preceding year, we would get not less than $22,200,000. Adding to this the possible tax, we get a total of $39,190,000. However, as the util- ity property taX measure, House Bill 177, which * appropriated as well as levied $7,500,000. has bcen defeated. it leaves a total possitle tax levy! of $31,690,000 under the biils now pend- ing. A.Grab thar Failed, (It ‘was the plan of Townley and his imported tax expert, “Prof” Roy- lance, to take frum ‘he counties the $7,500,000 revenue which they now re- ceive annually from: t: an public utilities and to use this sun 19 as- sist in paying for the extravagancias of the costly administration which the people of North Dakota ar> now sup- porting. The plan woul have ta- ken $80,000 from, Burlvigh county. alone, and would have increased the taxes for local purposes hy just so much.’ Only the flood of protest which followed the exposure of the scheme in the independent press— the Téwnlyized. press obeyed orders and kept silent on the subject—pre- vented Townley and Roylance from succeeding in their enterprise.) How It Grows. Continuing, the tax commission says: ‘Starting with a total tax bur- den of $22,200,000, the” possible total tax burden depends’ upon the appro- priations made by the legislative as- sembly, either through the budget bill or direct. It appears probable that the total appropriations will rin from seven toveight million for the bien- (Continued on Page Four,) B. Garnass, Sheyenne, vice president; A. L, Staar, Tower City, second vice president; W. A. Donnelley, Fargo, secretary, and .C. J. Stickney, New Rockford, secretary. From Ryder. Mrs. E. H. Holtan, Mrs, J, P, Peter- son and Mrs. James Hanlon of Ryder were in the city on Friday, and regis- tered at the Grand Pacific. ‘ HOW ANARCHIST B WRECKED JUDGE’S HOME York after an anarchist bomb hai one bit of violence in the nation- jout, 4 | LAST EDITION | PRICE FIVE CENTS JUNE 9, 1919. WGOVERN SEES. GREAT SAVINGS IN HIS NEW JOB Former Deputy Grain Inspector Promises Farmers $25,000,- 000 to $35,000,000 TO STORE GRAIN ON FARMS Each Agriculturist Expected to Supply Himself With Bins to Hold His Crop James’ A. McGovern, manager of the North Dakota Mill and Elevator association, is confident that this new enterprise. will save to the farmers, “anywhere from 25 to 35 cents on every bushel of wheat.” That in an average year would mean a saving of i between $25,000,000 and $35,000,000. Mr. McGovern thinks this saving is and elevator association intends to sell the wheat for its flour value, which: he asserts will bring higher prices; and by enabling the farmer to hold his wheat’ for the highest market price. oie To Store On Farms. The mill and elevator association does not purpose to provide storage facilities at its terminal elevators for North Dakota’s 100,000/000 bushels of wheat and it annual harvest of about twice as much more other small “A plan has been worked says Mr. McGovern, “by which the entire grain crop of the state can be stored without putting the state to the expense of. erecting excessively large storage houses, The farmers [will be supplied with plans for stor- age units on the farms which will be used in addition to, the terminal ele- vators erected by the state.” Provident North Dakota farmers have used such storage units for some time. Sam J. Aandahl, chairs man of the state railway commission, for instance, marketed his big Barnes county wheat crop of 1918 only a few weeks ago, ‘selling it for an increase of thirty cents or more over the guar- anteed price prevailing . at harvest time. 5 Under State Seal. “The farmers,” says Mr, “can store any part of they -wish in their own bi When a farmer wishes to sell or 1: money on his crop, he will send for a state grain inspector, who will grade the grain according to quality, and issue a warehouse receipt. The grain will then be put under padlock with McGov- their bank and borrow approximately 90 per cent of the market value of the grain on its When the wheat is final- ly sold by the state, the farmer will receive the balance of the price com- ing to him. At any time he can re- scind the order of the state to sel! the grain by surrendering his ware- house receipt. Advantages Claimed. “The advantage of this system,” says Manager McGovern, “is that the farmer will be able to get his money out of his grain as soon as it has been threshed, stored and inspected. Later the state will sell the wheat when the price is most advantageous. When the state makes the sale it takes the wheat from the, farmer's bin and pays whatever balante is due the farmer. (Continued on Page Two.) OMB This is the front of Judge Charles C. Knott’s house in New d been exploded in the entrance, wide Bolshevist plot. A woman passing the house was killed and Mrs, Knott was thrown from bed by the violence of the explosion, going'to be effected because the mill], .|Sary to go over more than one reoad the seal of ‘North Dakota. The farm- i er can use his storage receipt at fhe, Gren sedge, A. Ei oue 4. My either ‘the: state “bank oirery “privacy Ree thes nChanten-Rovak: are: Through copartnership | , GERMANY WILL BE GIVEN NEW NOTE FRIDAY Teutons Will Then Be Allowed Five Days in Which to "Reject or Accept Paris, June 9.~It has been de- cided by the allied and associat- « ed governments that the reply to. the German counter proposals will not be delivered before Fri- day, June 13. The reply will give the Ger mans a period of five days to re- 4, jedt or accept the treaty. MASONS GIVEN 10 CONVENTION Masters of Square and Compass Will Travel to Grand Forks | at Fare and Third OVER 500 ARE EXPECTED Grand Forks, N. D., June 9.—One and one-third rates’ for round trip from any part of the state to and from Grand Forks will be granted delegates to the Grand Masonic meet- ings to be held here June 17 to 20, in- clusive, according to a telegram re- ceived last night by Master J. E. Tur- ner of Acacia Lodge No. 4, A. F. and A. M., from Grand Secretary W. L. Stockwell. Mr. Stockwell said that this reduced rate had been approved by the regional director of the United {States railroad commission. | Buy Full Fare Ticket. In explaining the manner in which the reduced rates may be obtained, Mr. Turner stated that he was advis- ed by Mr. Stockwell that delegates should buy full fare tickets for Grand j Forks and asked for a receipt. These are to be checked by Mr. Stockwell,| {during the meeting, and when pre- sented at the ticket window here for the return ticket, but one-third’ fare will be required. When it is neces- receipts must be procured from each road, Mr. Stockivell advises. Expect Over 500. Over 500 officials of Masonic lodges through the state are expected for {the meetings. of the four days when Masons, and the Grand -Chapter. of North-Dakota of the Order. of Eastern Star meet. The Grand Lodge dates {are June 17, 18 and 19, the Grand |Chapter R, A. M. are June 18 and 19, and the Eastern Star meeting June 19 land 20. Acacia Lodge N. 4, A. F. and A. M., has been requested to confer the Master Masons’ degree before the Grand Lodge on the night of Tuesday, | June 17, Mr.'Turner said. A very few candidates will be used during this initiation, as the rites will be in the form of a demonstration, Mr. Turner! said, Rae Council No., 5, also of Grand Forks, will confer the Royal and Se-| lect Masters degree on a small class on the night of June 18. ‘ Election June 18-19. Election. of officers for the Grand Lodge will’ be held in the afternoon! of June 18, and of the Grand Chapter) the afterfioon of June 19, Mr. Turner said. Installation of the new officers will be held immediately following \the election. The master of each lodge, together with the inner and ou\er sentinel, are the delegates to the! Grand Lodge, and these officials of each of the lodges of the state are expected to be here. NORTH DAKOTA FIREMEN WILL BNJOY DANCING Popular Free Hops on Pavement in Front of County Build- ing Each Night volunteer firemen | who open their 35th annual conven- tion here at 10 tomorrow morning will be entertained during the two nights of their yearly session with popular free dances on the paving in front of the county building on Thay- jer. O'Connor's orchestra will fur- nish music, and the entire community is invited to join in showing the vis- itors a good time. The Bismarck volunteer fire department is acting] as host to their brethren from all parts of the state, and hey are re lying upon heir fellow-townsmen to! maintain Bismarck’s reppitation for generous hospitality. Several hundred delegates are ex- | pected to arrive during the evening | and tomorrow forenoon for the big! meeting, which is the first held since 1917, because everyone was too busy |with war work last year to think of conventions. The sessions, morning and afternoon, will be devoted en- tirely to business. There will be no tournament this year, and the only amusement features will be the pave- ment dances in the evening and the {annual banquet. State Fire Marshal H. 1. Reade.| who is secretary of the North Dakota | Volunteer Firemen’s association, sug- gests that Bismarck merchants and others show their appreciation of the honor which has been conferred on North Dakota REDUCED RATES | (CHICAGO DAILY “NEWS HAN SELLS TEXTOF TREATY Fraser Hunt Declares Terms De- nied Senate Kick About Streets of Paris WILSON FAVORS INQUIRY Hopes Senate Quiz Into Private Possessions of Document Will Bear Fruit New York, N. Y., June 9.—The full text of the treaty i Germany, which has been a subject of daily discussion in the senate, has been brought to the United States by Fra- wer Hunt, a correspondent of the Chicago News, and is being syndi- cated to newspapers of this country in copyrighted sections. Mr. Hunt says the copy of the treaty which he brought here is one of the original draft and was obtained in Paris. It is printed in French and English and runs about 75,,000 words, German Translations Plenty. Mr. Hunt says it is quite easy to obtain German translations of the treaty in Germany and neutral coun- tries, but these have ommissions and are without the map which his original draft contains. The summaries of the treaty as published in this country, Mr. Hunt States, substantially carry the import of the full treaty, and only in a few instances are there important omis- sions. British Censor Stopped One. Another American corresyondent abroad also secured and mailed a copy of the treaty; but the Britis. censor held it up, according to the statement of the newspaper here which he represents. A complaint in the matter, the newspaper says, will be made today to the foreign rela- tions committee of the senate, PRESIDENT FAVORS QUIZ. Washington, D. C., June 9,—Presi- dent Wilson in a cablegram received today by Sen. Hitchcock, democrat, of Nebraska, said he hoped that the investigation of the senate foreign relations committee of how copies of the peace treaty reached private hands in New York “would ‘be most thoroughly prosecuted.” / The president said he thought it would be “highly undesirable offi- cially to submit the text of a diplo- matic document still in negotiation,” and said “anyone in possession of a Feopy.-of the-ortgihuk:téxt? has) cléarly something to which he has not right.” This communication — strengthens the belief that the president will not comply with the senate demand that a copy of the treaty be furnished it at this time. STRIKE LEADERS URGING MEN TO STILL HOLD OUT Important Action on Part of Railway Brotherhoods Prom- ‘ ised in 24 Hours Winnipeg, Man., June 9.—Strike leaders sent out an appeal to} union men this morning “to not do anything about returning to work until Tues- jay.” The leaders indicated that the rail- way brotherhoods may do something during the next 24 hours which may have\an important bearing on the arike, Several brotherhood offi- cfals are here. Several Winnipeg concerns affected by the btrike noti- fied their employes this morning their jobs would be held open until to- morrow. Advertisements for help, “re- turned soldiers preferred,” were printed in a local newspaper. BISHOP SEAGER GIVES SERMON FOR GRADUATES Evangelical Church Filled Sun- day for Baccalaureate of Bismarck Hospital Bishop Seager of Naperville, IIl., head of the Evangelical church in North and South Dakota, delivered a powerful baccalaureate address to the graduating class of the Bismarck hos- pital training school for nurses before an audience which filled the Evangel- ical church to capacity Sunday eve- ning. } The bishop’s subject was “Vision and Service,” and in a masterly way he applied it to the motto of the class of 1919, “Where Duty Calls.” Sixty nurses of the Bismarck hos- pital filed into the church in advance of the graduating class, for whom they formed an escort of honor, as the “1919’ers” marched to seats reserved for them at the front of the church. Tomorrow evening Bishop Seager and Lieut. Col. Quain will be the speakers at the annual graduating ex- ercises of the Bismarck hospital. This evening Bishop Seager will ad- dress the Victory prayer class of the Evangelical church at its regular weekly meetirig. Bismarck’s distinguished guest for- merly was president of Northwestern the city by decorating during the two days of the convention, | known educators, college and-is among America’s best we