The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 4, 1919, Page 1

THIRTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 202. PRICE FIVE CENTS ° BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, SEPT. 4, 1919. WILSON “REPORTS TO PEOPLE WHOM ALONE “HE OWES A REPO PRESIDENT IN ADDRESS TO 4,000 WILSON HERALDS DROP FROM SKY QVER PRAIRIES Bismarck Aviator Will Fly From Minneapolis in Advance of Train WOULD INVITE PRESIDENT Lieut. C. J. Cameron Extends Bid to Woodrow to Make Hop With Him The message that “Wilson is Com- ing” will be heralded to western Min- nesota and eastern North Dakota by Taeut, C. J. Cameron, Bismarck air- man, Who will fly his big Curtis plane from Minneapolis to Bismarck in ad- vance of President Wilsgn’s . special train, which will leave the Twin Cities at 9 o'clock the evening. of September 9. En route Lieut. Cameron will drop lerge heralds adver ng President Wilson’s meeting in the North Dakota capital at noon next Wednesday, and upon his arrival in Bismarck he will fly for the thousands of Dakotans who are expected to emble here to greet the chief executiy Lieut. Cameron, a member of Co, A of the Fighting First, with which he served on the border, has just been discharged from national service after spending 2 1-2 years in the national army. He was commissioned a sec- ond lieutenant in the air service at Park field, in Tenn October, 1918, until charge he was engaged as instructor in the air service pursuit school at Carlton field, in Florida. He is a pustmaster in the art of fly- ing, and he has a machine capable of accommodating one passenger. In contracting with the committe today to fly his machine here for Wilson day, he declared that he’d be mighty proud to give President Wilson a “lift” from the Twin Cities, figuring that he could save the chief executive at least half the time which would be required by his special train to cover the dis- tance. It is understood, however, that the one power in America which is higher than. Wilson—Mrs. Woodrow —hag already vetoed all proposals of this sort. Huge one-sheets fluttering down out of the sky. will apprise Moorhead, Fargo, Casselton, Valley City, Jaraes- town, Steele and other intermediate points of the president’s coming, atid this novel advertising stunt is expect- ed to pave the way for a monster meeting here. Lieut. Cameron prob-} ably will sail in next Monday or Tues- day, and he expects to have daylight with him all the way, leaving the twin cities in the forenoon and reaching Bismarck in ample time for dinner. He has tried his “boat” on longer hops than this, and he is confident it will not fail him. MERCER COUNTY COURT HOUSE IS LEFT UP IN AIR Order From Judge Hanley Halts Further Work on Structure at Stanton Mandan, N. D., Sept. 4—dJudge Hanley late Saturday issued a tempo- rary restraining order, returnable on Sept. 6, restraining the county com- missioners of Mercer county from mak- ing the proposed improvements to the cour house at Stanton, The order was secured at the request of farmers and taxpayers in the central western part of the county, who feel that the time has come for a.show down on the county seat matter. A large number of farmers met at Beulah about ten days ago to protest against the investment of any more money in the county court house at Stanton, until it could be demonsrated at an election. whether the taxpayers wanted that place as the permanent county seat. It had come to the notice of the people of the central part of the county thas the commisioners had planned improvements to the court house. Plans, it is said, were not, sub- mitted, so there was no information as to how far the commisioners in- tended to go with the improvements. At the hearing on September 5 it is probable that an effort will be made tu limit any repairs to the court house to what is actually needed, and per- haps a price list agreed on. CANOE TRIP DOWN MISSOURI PLANNED BY WINNIPEG MAN Fort Benton, Mont., Sept. 4— John N. Brown, of Winnipeg. has started from here on one of the longest canoe trips ever attempt- ed in North America, His desti- nation is the Gulf of (Mexico. It is claimed that a wager of $1,000 has been made. Brown started out with the de- termination of completing the 4,200 mile trip in 50 days. He is permitted to sleep ashore but he must make the entire journey - in the small craft. The twisting Missouri is slug- gish for many miles and “old tim- ers” believe that Brown will have to: do some stiff paddling to ac- RED TOMAHAWK, IN WHO SLEW SITTING BULL, TO MEET PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON HERE One of Most Famous of Living Si tion of Coming to Capital Father—Meeting Will Have Unique Historic and Romantic Significance. Two “Jack, the Giant Killer's” will meet in Bismarck next Wed- nesday. One will be Woodrow Wilson of Washington, D. C., who chased William Hohenzollern of Potsdam off the world’s map, and the other will be Red Tomahawk of Wakpala, Standing Rock Res- ervation, who freed the northwest from the scourge of Sitting Bull. Major J. B. Kitch, superintend- ent of Standing Rock reservation, advised the local committee today that Red Tomahawk and other famous chieftains of the Teton Dakota nation are coming to Bis- marck to greet their Great White Father. Red Tomahawk is, with the passing of Chief Justice Grass, probably the most notable figure on Standing Rock. It was almost 30 years ago that he, as a mem- ber of the Indian police force, sent to. Sitting Bull’s cabin to bring the recalcitrant medicine roan into Fort Yates, fired the shot which put an end to the savage Sioux leader's lurid career. That was ‘way back in 1890, during the Messiah craze, the last but one of the disturbances in which the Dakota Sioux partici- pated. Sitting Bull escaped to Canada following the massacre of General Custer and 700 of his gallant Seventh cavalry at Little Big Horn, but years later .he, Gall, the real warrior chief of tne 600,000 RAILWAY ' WORKERS WANT) WAGES ADJUSTED Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way and Shop Laborers Makes‘ Appeal to Board. 350,000 FAVOR STRIKE Washington, D. C., Sept. 4.—Repre- sentatives of the 600,000 members of the United Brotherhood of Mainten- ance of Way and Railroad Shop La- jborers asked the railroad wage board today to adjust their wages in accord- ance with principles laid down by President Wilson in approving adjust- wents last week for the railroad shop- men. The board was told that the men adhered to the president’s decision that there should be no increase in wages while government agencies were seek- ing to return’ economic conditions to normal. 325,000 FOR WALK-OUT Detroit, Mich, Sept. 4.—The strike referendum of the United Brother- hood of Maintenance of Way and Shop laborers completed Wednesday showed that 000 members favored a walk- out unless their demands for a wage increase of approximately $1 a day per man are granted, it was announced to- day by union. official: BISMARCK SENDS FEWER RECRUITS TO STUDENT ARMY Ranks Fourth for Month of Aug- ust With Nine Recruits, This Month Better Bismarck ranked fourth for August in the number of recruits obtained, ac- cording to a report just received by Private John L. Webb of the local recruiting station, Nine recruits were taken into the army thru this’ office during the month. Sgt. Lyall Ford who was formerly in charge here, brought the Sioux Falls «station up from last place to third place last ionth, according to the report. Two recruits were signed up today at the local office. John H. Goal, a railroad man from Toledo, O., chose the- engineers, and David Tiokasin of Canon Ball decided to enter the motor transport corps. Webb expects enlist- ments here to be heavy this month be- cause of Wilson Day, the Mandan fair and other attractions which will bring people to this vicinity. BISMARCK MAN BUILDING FIRST STATE DWELLING John B, Adams, accountant for the public utilities commission, is the first North Dakotan to benefit from the new home buildig association act. Mr. Adams has purchased a lot overlooking Custer park and has prepared plans for a modern bungalow which the home-building. association will finance for him, Mr. Adams first depositing with the association 20 percent of the cost price, which is not to exceed $5,000 and guaranteeing payments of the bal- complish the feat on time. ance within not to exceed.30 years. DIAN POLICEMAN VALUATIONS ON CITY PROPERTY GET HIGH BOOST Town and Village Lots and Im- provements Thereon Up 300 Percent ioux Chieftains Announces Inten- City to Greet His Great White Dakotas, and other famous Sioux chieftains gave themselves up at Fort Benton and were returned to the Standing Rock reservation, where a majority of the Indian leaders spent the remainder of their days in peace. Peace did not enter into Sit- ting Bull’s lexicon. He continued to make mad medicine. Surround- ed by a harem of several wives in his lonely prairie cabin, he persisted in sending forth among his people messages which kept their hearts “bad” against their white neighbors. Finally the au- thorities found it necessary to sum- mon Sitting Bull to judgment. He had ignored requests that*he present himself at Fort Yates for a pow-wow, and a corps of Indian police, backed up by troops under command of Lieut. ‘Enoch H. Crowder, now provost marshal general of the United States, was dispatched to Sitting Bull’s home. Sitting Bull was prepared for them. He had a number of his most faithful followers ambushed about his cabin. As the Indian police drew up to the medicine man’s door, they were fired upon. The police returned fire, and in the melee Red Tomahawk shot down the medicine man whose bad medicine had cost his own people and their white neigh- bors so many years of blood- shed. BURLEIGH IN THE LEAD State Board Decides Local Fig- ures Should Be Further Advanced A report to the effect that, Cass county town and city lots were boost- ed 300 percent by the state board of equalization is incorrect, states Carl Kositzky, state auditor, The state board decreed an increase of 43 per- cent in, Cass county, which brought the final: valuation up to 300 percent of last year’s assessment. The origi- nal increase was made by the Cass county board of equalization under the terms of ‘North Dakota’s new classification act. Some of the valuations as returned by the county boards were cut. Grand Forks county, for instance, turned in its town and city lots at $4,181,832, and the state ‘board ordered a reduc- tion to $3,956,760. Burleigh county was turned in by the county board at $3,008,407 and’ was boosted to $3,148,- 020. Other county valuations on town and city lots, as left by the state board of equalization and as returned by the county ‘boards, respectively, were as follows Barnes, $2,137,430-$1,993,008; Cass, + $10,563,793-$7,399,404; Morton, $1,965,- ; Ramsey, $1,620,790-$1,- 0,523-$1,1 0-$1,166,552 ; 9 507,446. Ward,| | $4,647,053-$3,655,398; Williams, — $1,- 205,143-$1,022,158, A big increase in the valuation of} improvements on town and city lots is indicated in the county returns, which have not. yet been equalized} by the state board. A few examples; fellows: | ' County 1919 | Barnes 5 | | Burleigh | Cass Grand Forks ‘Stutsman i ; Ward 1,383,445, 3,620,627, Totals for the state at large, as re-| turned by the counties and not yet emnalized: 1918, $20,578,287; 1919, 1$53,992,795; percent increase, 163.37. | AUSTRIA SEEKS EXTENSION OF Senate Confirms Honor for Pershing Washington, D. C., Sept. 4. |/ Amid applause from senators and spectators, the senate to- day in open executive session | unanimously confirmed the nomination of John J. Persh- ing to the permanent rank of | general of the regular army ; as-a-reward for his- services as commander of the Ameri- can expeditionary force. As a mark of special honor a ris- ing vote was taken. i a | 1918 —+ AMERICAN PLANE NOT OVER LINE WHEN FIRED UPON ‘Claim of Mexican Officials That Aviators Were in Their Territory Denied Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 3.—The} Austrian delegation has asked — the} reace conference to entend the time allowed for an answer to the terms of peace by two days. It is probable the conference will grant the request. The answer, according to the covering letter, was to ba in the hands of the conference September 7 but if the re- quest is granted the answer will not be required before Tuesday of next week, Washington, D. C., Sept. 4.—The American army airplane fired upon by Mexicans Tuesday was “at no time over Mexican territory,” the war de- artment was informed today by Maj- or General Dickman, commander of the seuthern department. Mexican officials claim the machine had crossed the in- ternational boundary line before the Mexicans opened fire. Mexico Regretful Regret over the firing at an Amer- ican army airplane on the border ‘Tuesday has been expressed by the Mexican government it was announced today at the state department. Assur- ances were given that an immediate investigation would be made with a yiew to satisfactory adjustment. BOLSHEVIKI SLEW MORE THAN 1,000 PERSONS BEFORE EVACUATING TOWN OF YEKATERINOSLAZ, SOUTH RUSSIA Physician Who Witnessed Massacre Tells of Legs and Ribs Broken by Blows From Sledge-Hammers—Bodies Thrown Into One Pit—Victims Who Escaped Firing Squad Were Bayonetted— Wholesale Pillaging Preceded Departure of Reds. FINAL ACTION ON PEACE TREATY IS PLANNED FOR DAY Washington, D. ©., Sept. 4.—Final action on the peace treaty by the sen- ate foreign relations committee late today was planned by republican lead- ers. It was proposed that a resolution of ratification including reservations be adopted and that the treaty be ordered reported to the senate. Constantinople, via London, Sept. 4.—More than 1,000 persons were executed by the Bolsheviki before they evacuated Yekaterino- slaz in southern Russia according to a dispatch received here giving an account of the massacre by a physician who was the principal medical expert present at the opening of the pit into which the bodies of the victims had been thrown after their execution. This physician, a Dr. Robin, declares the victims’ heads had been crushed with hammers and their bodies badly mutilated. Many of them, he said, were found wtih broken legs and ribs caused by blows with sledge-hammers, specimens of which were found in vicinity. cM The physician tells of the case of one officer who was struck by the firing squad’s bullets and stimulating death escaped only to be bayonetted. Wholesale pillaging is declared to have occurred in the town before its evacuation. TIME TO REPLY |« jinvestigations the big majority ; Working prior to joining the LW. o '& Federal Jurist Declines to Save Bacon for Packers Canton, O., Sept. 4.—Jus- tice William R. Day of the United States supreme court | here, today denied a writ asking for a stay of execu- tion in the case of the state | of Ohio against the Columbus Packing Co., in which 75 tons of pork said to have been held in violation of the law, was | seized by the prosecuting at- | torney of Franklin county. It is said the pork will be placed on market and sold at once. LANGER KEEPING TAB ON WOBBLY WORK IN STATE Attorney General’s Secret Ser- vice Men Learn Secrets of I. W. W. DROUTH SAVED DAKOTANS Revolution on Flickertail Farms Had Been Planned by Haywoodists In connection with the numerous || reports of L.W.W. activities Attorney eneral William Langer over the tele- y|phone admitted that he bad a big force of men working for the past month and a half securing evidence and data on the organization efforts of the Wobblies. “I have nt upwards of $2,000 making investigations. My operators jhave discovered North Dakota to be mighty lucky, for I. W. W. workers, delegates and members have admited to my special agents that their plans were to absolutely control affairs in sstute. If it had not been for the short crop in the greater section of North Dakota and the fact that thous- ands of Montana farmers driven out of their own homes by complete crop failure and an unprecedented drouth, came to North Dakota to secure work and would not line up with the ILW.W. the plans probably would have been realized.” It has been freely talked by the LW. members that in Kansas seven s an hour, board and room was ed at the started of threshing on farms and then demands were made for $1.20 an hour and board and room and it was paid. Plans to make North Dakota farmers pay $1.20 an hour and upwards for threshing help have failed through crop conditions and Montana drouth. LW.W. fs GOOD WAGES At one ng during the past week, an LW member declared on cr amin ; “I worked during the war for 0 in a smelter, for a ten-hour day. Now I’ve been getting GO cents an hour for an eight hour day apd board and room, which with ov time about a twelve hour day ide of the general statement that you think the LW.W. will better your condition, what do you really believe in the organization for?’ he was asked. “J don’t know, I have read much about it.” Of all men examined during recen W, nt re and at a steady trade. Now idleness is the main philosophy. Investigations carried on by special detectives who mingled with and fra- ternized with the LW.W. in order to/‘ secure evidence declare that the whole plan of action, the main thought of the genuine T.W.W. is to go out and work on a threshing crew with as many members on it as possible and when the time comes when they can’t get along without men strike and go off and leave unless demands are met. FORCED TO JOIN UNION “At least 25 percent of the men who, heve become members in North Da- kota have been forced to take out cards because of threats. Men work- ing on farms or threshing crews have heen threatened with death unless they signed up. I have many state- ments to this effect. In hundreds of cases men who have been stealing rides on trains have been made to sign up under penalty of being hurled eff,” said this investigator. ENGINEER THREATENED A striking example of the vindica- tions of the I.W.W. organizer came out at the trial of W. J. Hogan. at Lakota on Tuesday. Following Hog- av’s arrest for the attempted murder of Engineer William Reinsmith Hogan declared to the Petersburg town mar- shall, “If they railroad me to the pen for this, that engineer better hunt an- other job, because there are 25,000 of us in North Dakota.” NO BREAD CARDS TO BE ISSUED, SAYS MINISTRY Paris, Havas Agency, Sept. 4.—Re-, rorts have beer! current the last two days ‘that the government intended bringing bread cards into use again. To meet these rumors the food minis- The evacuation of Yekaterinoslaz by the Bolsheviki apparently occurred more: than three months ago. try issued a denial that any such in- tentions existed. AT COLUMBUS EX Most Strenuous of 26, Opens wide speaking tour for the peac countrymen.” “The only people I owe any much of what the treaty containe Speaking to a crowd which ja frequently were interrupted by ch to the people. crush any great people. Restraint had been exercised, Socialists Are Opposing Pact, Says Red Deputy Paris, Sept. 4—Paul Mis- tral, minority socialist, dur- | ing the debate in the chamber || of deputies this afternoon on | ratification of the treaty with Germany, declared that he and his party of about 35 members would vote against ratification of the treaty. $980,000 BILLS UNPAID: STARFS WITHOUT SALARY North Dakota’s Finances in Bad- ly Shot Condition, Asserts Kositzky entered North with September reports State Auditor Kosi Examiners from the st: examiner’s office had 7,000 in bills unpaid} hed with the state aud- itor’s books last week, and $3,000 more in claims have been received since. These bills are filed in a half-dozen huge document cases, and they form an imposing pile. 's indebtedness was reduc- the first of the week by! the application of this amount from the general fund upon August’s salary account. August salaries totaled $62,- 000, and $34.633 remains unpaid after exhausting the state treasury. This unpaid balance well exceeds the total monthly pay-roll at the capital when the Townley government came into power in 1917. Departments remaining unpaid are the tax commission, adjutant general, railway commission, state examiner, historical society, fire marshal, board} of administration, state engineer, dairy departement, industrial commis- i workmen’s compensation bureau, ;Benk of North Dakota and live stock sanitary commission. The state auditor has been criticis- ed in the Townley press for transfer- ring July 1 the amount apportioned {to the state high school fund. |The charge has been made that these funds were appropriated before they were levied, thus taking from the state treasury money which might h: re- mained there to pay the administra-| tion's expenses. Mr. Kositzky points to the fact that the money appropriat- ed July 1 was levied for 1918 aad was the appropriation apportioned among ithe high schols of the state for 1918 'therewas made the apportionment for 1917. School funds for 1919 will be Hlevied this year and not apportioned {until 1920. Governor Frazier and Commissioner John N. Hagan, as a majority of the industrial commission, yesterday di- ;rected the Bank of North Dakota to loan the state of North Dakota $25,000 |at six percent interest to assist in pay- ing August salary bills. Attorney Gen- eral Langer declined to vote in favor of this transaction because he was not satisfied that the state could legal- jly negotiate such a loan. FOCH DECIDES YANKS MUST HOLD BIG SLICE OF RHINE TERRITORY Dakota Coblenz, Sept. 4—Marshal Foch, the allied commander in chief, has decid- ed upon the extent of the territory in | the Rhineland to be held permanently. |by American forces. The area will be jauite as large as that which has been under American jurisdiction since the 99 TO i bie PLAINS PURPOSE OF LONG SWING AROUND CIRCLE Chief Executive Defends League of Nations and Peace Treaty— Declares Criticism Comes Principally From Those Who Are Unfamiliar With or Who Misunderstag- Pact—First Day, Auspiciously. Columbus, O., Sept. 4.—President Wilson, opening his country- e treaty, declared in an address here today that his purpose was to “go out and report to my fellow report,” said the president, “are you and the other citizens of the United States.” The president said it also seemed “increasingly necessary” that he should make such a report because he had read many speeches about the treaty and was unable to gather from them d. mmed Memoria] Hall whose seat- ing capacity was estimated at 4,000, the president’s declarations eers. Mr. Wilson began by saying he had “chafed at the confine- ment of Washington” and was glad to get out to make his report In the first place, the president said, the treaty undertook to punish Germany but that there was no thought to overwhelmingly he said, and there was provision for making the reparation no greater than Germany could pay. Treaty Not Understood Mr. Wilson said he had been “aston- ished” ‘at statements made about the treaty and was convinced many of them were made by men who had not read it or else had failed to compre- hend its meaning. The league of nations, he declared, was formed in fui of the promise that the United States was fighting this war to “end business of that sort” forever. Not to establish the league, he said, would be “unfaithful to those who had died.” “If we do not do this thing,” he de- clared, “we have neglected ‘the central covenant we promised our people. The league of nations is the only thing that can prevent the recurrence of this catastrophe.” Protects Small Nations Besides this, the president contin- ued, the treaty decreases the chance of oppression and gives small nationali- ties the right to live their own lives. “That,” he said, “was.the American position and I was glad to fight for ent Italy, the president continued, had presented to the conference a contrary proposal in her request for Fiume. Though there were only scattered Italian settlements there, he declared, “Italy wanted Fiume for strategic and military purposes.” If there was a league of nations Italy would not need that foothold, he declared. “Y’d rather have everybody on my side,” he continued, “than be armed to the teeth.” “American Traditions” Referring to criticisms that the treaty violated American traditions, Mr. Wilson said he was proud that he, too, belonged to the “old revolu- tionary school” and that he was “fol- lowing the purpose of the visions which the fathers had seen.” . “This treaty is an attempt to right the wrong of Europe,” said the presi- dent, “and in my humble opinion it is a measurable success.” He used the word “measurable”, he added, because the racial lines were not always distinct and could not be drawn with absolute precision on a map. First Day Strenuous President Wilson arrived in Colum- bus shortly after 11 o’clock. The first day was one of the most strenuous of the 26 which will elapse before the president returns to Wash- ington. Mr. Wilson appeared in good trim for his arduous schedule and was said by his physician, Rear Admiral Gray- son, to be in excellent health. He re- tired early last night. The speech at Columbus being his first address regarding the treaty ad- dressed directly to the people was ex- pected by his advisors to strike the keynote of his entire tour, People to Determine Boundaries This was why, he said, some of the boundaries were left to be decided later by the people themselves. The treaty, he declared, was “shot thru with the American principle of :the choice of government.” The treaty also contains, the presi- dent continued, “a magna charter of labor” which would set up an interna- tional labor organization. This organi- zation, he said, would hold its first meeting in Washington in October “whether the treaty is ratified by then or not.” The ‘labor sections, Mr, Wilson said, (Continued on Page Five) PREMIEK OF EGYPT GETS BOMB IN HIS BASKET OF GRAPES London, Sept. 4—A bomb was thrown at Hussein Rusdi Phasha, pre- mier of Egypt, at Alexandria on Tues- Gay, acording to an Alexandria dis- patch. The bomb was concealed in a basket of grapes. The premier was not injured. The assailant was a theolog- ical student, HUNDREDS OF BODIES FOUND London, Sept. 4—Several hundred bodies which were hidden in Budapest have been discovered by Ro nian troops, in that city, accor [ast combat division left for home. [Basel dispatch.