The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 28, 1919, Page 1

we ‘ } WORLD WAR ENDS TODAY = . THE WEATHER ( Generally Fair. ee THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [=| THIRTY-NINTH YEAR. NO. 146. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA SA’ URDAY, JUNE 28, 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS VOTE CONTINUES TO FAVOR LEAGUE BUT MAJORITIES ARE REDUCED TEN THOUSAND FROM THOSE OF AUTUMN LEAGUE GAINS 1,042 TO ANTIS’ 12,378 VOTES DRY LEADERS 10 HOLD JUBILEE AT FARGO JULY 1-2 Advent of National Prohibition HISTORIC DOCUMENT WHICH ENDS CAREER OF GERMANY AS WORLD POWER SIGNED IN FAMOUS HALL OF MIRRORS AT VERSAILLES CHIEF GERMAN GOAT, Thursday’s Results Not Very Consoling to President Town- ley and. Associates Indications Are Today That Original Estimate of 8,000 Margin for Nonpartisan Measures Will Be Celebrated by North TOLD TO SIGN TREATY| Formally Ends Worst War in History, Begun in Dakota Workers y a a July of 1914—Siam Alone Refuses to Sign— Will Prove Very Near Correct More complete returns from Thursday’s referendum election continue to favor the Nonpartisan league, and indications at noon today were that The Tribune’s original estimate of a lead of 8,000 for the league measures submitted Thursday will prove very nearly correct. At noon today, with a few precincts missing from some coun- ties and with nothing at all from Slope, which is expected to return a majority of about 300 for the league, the vote was: YES, 55,569. NO, 49,113. League majority, 6,456. The Tribune'has not succeeded in obtaining complete returns from Richland, where a big majority against the league is antici- pated, but any increase in opposition strength from this source is likely to be more than overcome by returns from missing precincts in territory favorable to the league. These figures are based largely upon the vote on the printing bill, least popular of the seven measures. It will be safe to esti, mate from three to six thousand more for the Bank of North Dakota bill, which probably ran on the average 100 votes ahead of the printing bill in each ‘county. will be about the same as that on the printing bill, with a small increase in the majorities for the tax commission, immigration and judicial redistricting bills. Townley Is Losing. A loss of 25 per cent in the Town- ley strength shown in the last gen- eral election, in November, 1916, is indicated in these returns. In coun- ties in which any great amount of personal work was done, almost w:th- out exception Townley sustained a se- vere defeat. This was especially true in the central counties and on the Slope. The loss of McIntosh, Em- mons and Logan is a severe blow to Townleyism, but the most unkindest cut of all is the slump of Morton, where the league lost faore than 800 votes owing to Townley’s personal quarrel with William Langer, attor- ney general. Even in Bowman and The vote on the educational bill TOWNLEY 70 TAKE STAND IN DEFENSE Gilbert Also Will Seek to Clear - Himself by Giving Tes- timony PROPHETIC OF NEXT BOUT If Opposition Continues to In- crease, No-Partyites Will Be in Minority in 1920 With but eighty out of 2,370 pre- cincts missing, and with the probabil- ity that these precincts when record- ed will not alter the result one way 1,000, @-e tabulated results of Thurs- day’s general referendum election af- ford an interesting study. Returns from 2,290 out of 2,370 pre- cincts show a “We Will Stick” vote of 55,569 for the league measures and 49,113 votes against them. . The league majority is 6,456. Last fall Frazier polled 54,517 votes against Doyle's 36,735. ‘The league Thursday increased its vote 1,052 ver last November. The opposition increased its vote 12,078. The league’s net loss in strength was 11,326 votes. The total vote Thursday was 104,682, as compared with 91,252 last fall, an in- crease of 13,430. Of these 13,430; additional votes, the opposition claim- ed 12,378 and the league 1,052. Thurs- day’s vote was about 15,000 below the high vote of November, 1916. Should this record vote of 120,000 be attained in the next general election, and should the same ratio of gain be maintained, the league would be about 5,000 to the bad when the fgallots were counted. Few Gains Made. It is significant that the league’s gain of approximately 1,052 votes was confined to a very few counties, while in practically every league county there was some loss. One of the big- gest increases in the state from a LANGER IS ON PROGRAM Attorney General’ Scheduled for Two Addresses—Capt. Hob- son to Give Talk Fargo, June 28.—Dry forces from many parts of North Dakota will gather at the new Lutheran church in Fargo to celebrate the advent of na- tional prohibition July 1 and 2. The prohibition jubilee will open at 10 o’elock July 1 with an address by the Hon. H. T. Quanbeck, president of the North Dakota Total Abstinence Asso- ciation, to be followed with a greet- ing from the National Anti-Saloon League of America, delivered by its general superintendent, Dr. P. A. Ba- ker. The North Dakota league will be represented by Rev. F. L. Watkins of Bismarck. Senators McCumber and Gronna have sent greetings to be read as have Representatives Young, Baer and Sinclair. An interesting after- noon session will begin at 2 o'clock, when Judge R. M. Pollock will speak on “The Story of the Fight.” Langer to Speak In the evening two addresses will be given by A eormey, General Langer, and the Hon. E. E. Lobeck of Alexan- dria, Minn., will speak. Mr. Lobeck is credited with having made more tem- perance and prohibition speeches than any other living man in the west. He is said to be a magnetic and convinc- ing public sneaker. Wednesday; July 2, during the fore- noon session noted pioneers in the fight will speak, and in the afternoon Miss Minnie J. Nielson, state superin- tendent of public instruction, will speak on “The Teaching Profession and Prohibition,” at the close of which fifty pioneers and “warhorses” in the Prohibition arena will’be presented to the audience. During the evening ses- HERMAN MUELLER Mueller is the chief goat for the German people, for-he has been pick- ed to head the delegation sent to sign the peace treaty and may be the only one to sign. WILSON FIRST PRES. TO ACT AS NEGOTIATOR Portions of Treaty Remain to Be Perfected With Austria and Turkey Adjustments Still Necessary With Austria— Wilson to Return Soon. Versailles, June 28.—The world war was formally ended today by the signing of the peace treaty with Germany. ; The epochal meeting in the hall of mirrors began at 3:10 o'clock, and the German delegates, the first to sign, affixed their signatures at 3:13 o’clock. They were. followed by the American delegates headed by President Wilson, and then by Great Britain France, Italy and Japan. 5 SIGN IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER " : The representatives of the minor powers signed in alpha- betical order. Siam’s delegates did not sign at the session, declining to sig the treaty because they were not permitted to make rnerratiials : Germany’s delegates and the delegates of the allied and asso- ciate powers met in Versailles today to sign the treaty formally ending the war between Germany and 27 other nations, APPROVE CREDENTIALS The credentials of the new German delegates were approved ;by the peace conference authorities during the forenoon, and verything was virtually in readiness here at an early hour for the ceremony. The morning had been a cloudy one, but shortly before midday. the clouds began to break, and the afternoon of the momentous day was bright and sunny. SIGNS UNDER PROTEST ___ General Jan Christian Smuts, one of the delegates represent- * ing the union of South Africa, signed the treaty under protest. He obj pet to certain territorial statements, making a lengthy state- ment. _,, He said that the indemnities stipulated could not be accepted without grave injury to the industrial revival of Europe. He said it would be to the interest of the powers to render the stipulations more moderate. CANNON BOOM At 3:44 o’clock cannon began to boom, announcing the com- pletion of the ceremony of signing. The signatures had not, how- McLean counties, strongest of, the league. standpoint was: made ‘in Hete|t. ‘ 8 sion the, Hon. Waldemar Ager, editor strong, the league lost from ten to.) RECALL OTHER SPEECHES | tinger:oounty,-which was completely |o¢ the Reform, Hau Claire, Wis., will Washington, June 28—Signing at|/¢Vel» 88 @ matter of fact been completed, for at that time ‘the forty per cent™of its former voting strength. | While the election’was not a com- plete victory for the opposition to ‘A. C. Townley, it was far from a bitter defeat, for it proved that the people of North Dakota will, still respond to education. To Townley the election will unquestionably serve as a notice to go slow. At least ten thousand leaguers have notified their president that they cannot approve his extreme radicalism. If the league holds in line the very small margin of a ma- jority with which it comes out of this election it will do so through an attempt to’ manage the state-owned utilities safely and consetvatively, rather than to follow a policy appar- ently entered upon before: election of making them a dumping ground for League Attorneys Declare Ad- dresses Were on Eco- nomic Issues ; Jackson, Minn., June 28.—Attor- neys for A. C. Townley and Joseph Gilbert, on trial in district cour: here charged with conspiracy to teacn se- dition, formally outlined to newspa- per men this morning the probable leading phases of their defense on the basis of testimony so far intro- duced by the state. Townley and Gilbert are to take the stand to testify regarding speeches which have been read into the record by court reporters and others who re- wkegl4cted fy the opposition. In every other county, with perhaps a half-dozen exceptions, the opposition showed substantial gains, indicating that the disintegration of the league is not localized in any one regon but is general over the state. The league’s actual - loss, insofar as it’s actual margin over the opposi- tion is concerned, was 11,326 votes as compared with November, 1918, and 58,243 when contrasted with Fra- zier’s majority of 64,699 over his two opponents in November, 1916. The 1916 vote, of course, was no criteripn of league strength, inasmuch as th2 people of North Dakota 9.a% not at that time overcome their ages-old habit of voting the republican tick- et straight, regardless. Lynn J. Fra- zier secured the nomination at the speak on the contribution to the pro- hibition cause given by the Norwe- gians of the United States, and an ad- dress by the Hon. Richard Pearson Hobson of Alabama on “The Greatest Reform in History” will bring the jubilee to a close. $595,000 WILL BE INVESTED IN G00D HIGHWAYS Apportionment of Automobile Versailles of the peace treaty be- tween the allies and Germany, form- ally brings to a close the . world’s Breatest war, although technically peace. will como to each nation only when the treaty is approved by the ratifying power of that nation, actu- ally, the war ended when representa- tives of the allied and associated powers and of Germany affixed their signatures to the treaty. Likewise was brought to an end the armistice granted Germany November 11, 1918, and the period of doupbt attending the negotiations. With the signing of the treaty, the work of the peace conference proper smaller nations were still signing. The proceedings were formally closed at 3:49 o'clock. CHEER MADLY As Premier Clemenceau, President Wilson and Premier Lloyd George emerged from the palace great crowds gathered outside, swept aside the cordon of troops cheering madly. The three statesmen were swept along by the surging thousands. Many soldiers broke ranks and joined in the demonstration, while guns boomed and low flying airplanes filled the air. Premier Clemenceau and Premier Lloyd George and President j Wilson were photographed together on the terrace. After the dmonstration the three allied leaders left Versailles in the same | automobile. Premier Clemenceau in opening the session said: “The session is open. The allied and associated. powers on one side and the German Reich on the other side have come to an | Socialist Job oekers : -s FOn One ie ered ther aildredies made’ ne wack bring. primaries. on ; {fo rovanlleas ie ae ‘ iG brought to @ conclusion after more} agreement on the conditions of peace. The treaty has been com- Careful observers ate confident | us Nonpartisan meetings. Tho de-yvoted @r their party condidate. The see ee eee Oy tans Of the trent Caen mences. Por-’ pletely drafted and the president of the conference has stated in that North Dakota, even though it did | fense will contend that Townley ani |jeague, however, is no’ shown by Registrar Luehrs remain to be completed, and gegotia.| Writing that the text which is about to be signed now is identical not succeed’ in freeing itself from|Gilbert were within their rights in|Hhursday’s eturns to be gaining ; ‘ ls . ith th h . A Townley's clutches. last Thursday| discussing economic issues, anc the! strength which is can rely upon when taut Seconda sods teres cee a : Sate pendres cons é nee saga deliveredintg Rie cted, but as to Ger-| German delegation. e signatures will be given now, and they made a long stride forward, and that practical application. BURLEIGH MAY BEAT BRINTON PRINTING BILL With But Six Precincts Missing, Majority Against Measure Is Four The Brinton printing bill, the most unpopular of all measures submitted at Thursday’s referendum election, ran true to form in Burleigh county. There was a spread of 244 between the printing bill and the bank of North Dakota bill in returns from 48 of Burleigh county's 54 precincts tabulated up to noon today. The six country precincts from which returns as follows: Printing bill—1290-1294. Board of administration—1328-1253. Tax commissioner—1350-1208. defense will introduce transcripts of have in their possession letters and other correspondence ibetween vffti- cials in various Minnesota counties which the attorneys said represented “concerted action to oppose Nonpart- isan league gatherings.” The first witness called by the state this morning was O. D. Starr of Cambridge, Minn., who testified re- garding two speeches which Townley made in that town. a real test comes. ,Final eighth grade examinations are being held in the offices of W. E. Par- sons, Purleigh county superintendent ef schools, finishing up the quota of work for this year. The examinations yesterday and today, June 26 and 27, were for pupils of neighboring districts Where the schools are now closed. Sim- iler examinations are also being con- ducted in a few of the schools in the county, FOUR BLOCKS IN RICHARDTON BUSINESS DISTRICT DESTROYED BY FIRE EARLY THIS MORNING Richardton, N. D., June 28.—Several hundred thousand dol- | iginated; lars’ damage resulted from a fire which swept over the business district of Richardton at 12:30 this morning, wiping out four blocks of stores, offices, elevators and lumber yards and leaving scores - The blaze was discovered shortly after midnight this morning, «Len it already had enveloped one of the two large Richardton elevators. The blaze spread so rapidly that before the village fire A. W. Luebrs, automobile registrar $150,000 is directly appropriated to finance the highway commission Of the remainder, 50 per cent goes to the counties from which the fees or- ten per cent may be ex- pended on highway construction or maintenance as the commission may elect, and forty per cent must be ex- pended on state roads. To date 70,572 licenses have been issued as against a total of 71,671 last year. Mr, Luehrs estimates that there are 10,000 cars yet to be li- censed in the state. The average li- cense fee, in spite of the new basis of registration is running but $1.10 higher than last year. This is ac- counted for, states Mr. Luehrs, by the fact that 75 per cent of the cars registered are Fords, and of these about 60 per cent are old cars which take advantage of the minimum fee of $5. Under the old act Fords paid a fee of $7 for each of the first three years of their operation. Under tie present law the fee decreases each year after the first, when the rate on anew Ford is $7.65, until the per. manent minimum of $5 is reached. Eighty per cent of the new cars reg- Mandan, N. D., July 28.—Mrs, Ben- no Schimansky who is visiting rela- tives here, this morning received a many, ehief of the enemy powers, on- brought to an end the work of Pres. Wilson in Paris as head of the Amer- ican peace mission, and in signing the treaty as such, he became the first president of the United States to sign a treaty as a negotiator. Signing of the peace treaty began at 10:30 Washington time the offi- cial report said. President Wilson signed at 3:14 Paris time; Dr. Her- bert Mueller signed at 3:12. All Germans had finished signing at 3:15. The order of signing after Wilson was Lansing, White, House and Bliss, KAISER SURE HE WON'T BE SURRENDERED Amerongeon (Wednesday) June 25. —Former Emperor Wilhelm and his The former monarch was outward- ly calm today after the first shock of hearing that Germany had decided to sign the treaty without reservation. amount to a solemn undertaking, faithfully and loyally to execute there is every reason to look for-| Several addresses which they siate/ ———_——— in the st ighway depart) h -} will she i 4 state highway department, has! jy the carrying out through a long an rf ee mer ‘ils eontidense i pte next een ing a or aiceerences: in the pore EXAMINATION FOR begun the apportionment of $525,000 period of years of the provisions of | the conditions embodied by the treaty of peace. : e h has been collected to date/the treaty will remain, “ Panne . . ram will have had a| holds were disloyal. hooks y I now invite the delegates of the German Reich to sign the Townley tax program w! e The-attorieys, ala? igthoaled they EIGHTH GRADERS from license fees. Of this amount,| ne ceremony at Versailles also treaty.” gi gn The Chinese plenipotentiaries did not sign and were not present. They had written they would not be present. i Premier Clemenceau put the direct question to Germany whether they were willing to sign and execute loyally all the terms. President Wilson and the American delegates completed signing of treaty at 3:14 Paris time. The other delegations headed by the British signed after the American plenipotentiaries in the order they were named in the treaty. LEAVE PARIS TONIGHT Washington, June 28.—President Wilson and his party will leave Paris at 9:30 tonight for Brest to sail for home, Secretary Tumulty was notified today. President Wilson has consented to an unofficial reception for him on his arrival in New York. A committee of citizens through Secretary Tumulty had asked that they be allowed to prepare an unofficial greeting. ‘A box of old fashioned goose quills | Sharpened by the expert pen siarp- ener of the French diplomatic depart- | ment was placed on the table of the diplomats who desired to follow the | Weather Report PER ede eek datos aera —_—4 For twenty-four hours ending at noon, June 28, Forecast. For North Dakota: Cenerally fair and continued warm tonight and Sun day. ancient custom. The teax of the Paris treaty will be v lable at noon sent in 7 visi i 2 St i anes ee wae, ‘and nothing det.|of People homeless. No effort has been made as yet to even istered inzNorh Dakpla tile year are tay crass Ree el cone Temperature at 7. m. oft meh iy Peemler Clenéeiane oer inite will be known from these until| estimate the loss. The entire business section is in ashes. Richard- lia : Wollldsbectinuble cto colitene te the eee a eatanta non: gy| mer Lloyd George will address the the returns are’ otticially canvassed. |ton has no telephone communication with the outside world, the SISTERS OF SLOPE Entente’s forthcoming demand for his| Lowest Festeraay, ne gy| house of commons July 1 on the Me With six precincts missing, the exchange having been wiped out in the blaze, and the prosperous extradition, which the former em-| Lowest last night . |. 67| Peace treaty. nwa vont Se, today in Burleigh stood |little village is stunned. Fortunately the beautiful abbey, situated) BANKER DROWNED perors, suite reentd ileeal under ex: | Precipitation 17:3) one CONTROL HAMBURG, near the outskirts of the town, escaped damage. — sting intermallonal Jaws: Highest wind velocity SE) Berlin, (Friday) June 27—It is of- cicially announced that government troops are in complete control at Hamburg. No fighting is reported in the city, and it is said that sufficient Commissioner of immigration— 5 A fi telephone message from her husband | + vi 1304-1273. : department could get into action the fire hall was in flames, much|at Minot saying that he had received | sy4 aegneves ot Was more oliectee Tomporstaves, | 709RS are arriving to assure a res- Industrial commission, “1367-1162. of the fire-fighting equipment damaged or destroyed, and the] ®, telegram from his brother Otto at/by the prospect that it wil bei impos:| Fargo ge: | Oreton: of normal conditions: Judicia) aweuth Dakota--139¢-1156. |Village left helpless. A call was sent to Dickinson for aid, and the| tray roi rae. sisters Mice valtig| Sible for her.ever to return to Ger-| Grand Forks 51 The vote in the rural districts as} Queen City fire department and the Northern Pacific flame-fight-|Schimansky and Miss Josie Schim-|™*™% Sed of TRX AS NINTH hetween the various bills ran along ers were hurried to the blazing village on a special train. ansky were drowned yesterday in a Home From the East. Helena ka much the same lines as in the city By this time the flames had gained such headway that there lake in Wisconsin where they were! B. C. Marks, vice president of the Chi is dit \ wards of Bismarck. The bank of North ‘ spending their summer vacation. Ot-|City National bank, accompanied by he és was no checking them, and the best that could be done was. to to Schimansky who {s a banker at} Mrs. Marks, arrived home on Wed- Kansas pete Ww. Roane Dakota proved to be a favorite, while comparatively little distinction was made among the other measures, ex- cept that the industrial commission act led the tax commission bill a trifle on the aye side. Visit in Mandan, Miss Hattie Germain and Mrs. Roy Norman visited’ friends in Mandan Thursday afternoon. protect property which had not already caught fire. In this the Dickinson department succeeded, and the flames were confined to their original area. The property destroyed includes two large elevators, partly filled with grain; the large Kilzer Lumber yard; the Mandan Mer- cantile Co.’s store and plant; the village postoffice, a drug store, one of the town’s two banks, the telephone exchange and numerous other stores and shops. Solen left on No. 2 for St. Paul last night intending to visit his sisters at the lake. (Misq [Calfie Schimansky will be! well remembered by Mandan people having been employed in the county auditor’s office during 1909. The sympathy of their many friends will be extended to Mr. and Mrs. Schim-|Marks were absent from the ansky. nesday evening from a pleasant trip to voints in the east. While gone they visited at Wilmington, Del., Scranton and Philadelphia, Penn., and various other places. While gone Mr. Marks attended a convention of the Canadian and United States jurisdic- tion of the A.O. U. W. Mr. and Mrs. city Meteorologist. DIRIGIBLE TO MAKE TRIP. London, June 28.—The British di- rigible H 34 is expected to arrive in the United States July 5 or 6 on a round trip across the Atlantic the first to be undertaken by a lighter about three weeks, : than air craft. ON SUFFRAGE Austin, Texas, June 28.—Texas to- day became the ninth state to ratify the proposed federal woman's suf- rage amendment when the senate rat- ified the resolution,