The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 10, 1921, Page 1

Ss CK TRIBUNE =): The Weather _ Generally Fair THE BIS v FORTIETH YEAR © CONFERENCE ON TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1921 THIRD MAN SHOT IN JAMESTOWN be BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, “HOW I FOUND OUT GUSHER INSIDE THE R AHLROADS ARE , & POLISH FORGE ARCTIC CIRCLE!” PAVEMENT HERE WILL, BE: HELD Representatives of Companies Promise to Make Repairs if at Fault “CITY. TO INVESTIGATE ~| Other Matters Brought Before City Commission at Meet- ing Last Night Representatives of two paving com- “panies which didithe paving work.in paving district No.1 (the dowftown district) will hold,g conference in Bis- marck this month for the purpose of arranging to take care of any neces- sary work on the pavment, according to information conveyed to ¢he city! commission in a letter from" Warren Brothers, sub-contractors. . The hetter was submitted, at the! commission meeting last night by City | Attorney O'Hare. The letter said that “after a conference on the work, ar- rangements will be made for prompt attention, where any trouble is duo to inferior workmanship or material on our part.” Mr. O'Hare also addressed a letter to the commission in which he sug- gested immediate steps be taken by the commission for an investigation of the’ paving in this district, which has been said‘by commissioner my2m- hers to be defective in many respects. | Complaint on. Building The first matter brought before the commission was a letter from Her- man Lasken, who is constructing building at Fifth and™Main streets. He complained that-there was.a con- . siderable amoust of of@ lumber, build- ing material and rubbish and a frame building which had been moved upon lot 15 in that block, and which ‘he! thought ought to be moved. S. 8. Chitord was present and also asked bout it, He also asked the city ‘vommissioners if they had made any| itivestigation of the fire which de-| stgoyed frame buildings at Fifth and angi, Commissioner Henzler, it was décided, will take up/the matter of; investigation of the fire with the fire; _ ndrshal and states attorney and also} “would look into Lasken’s complaint) and order the material and building; removed if in. violation of city ordi-| nances. A S. S. Clifford also complained of} cows being allowed to graze in the! eastern part of the city, saying. he could not rent a lot for gardening because of this and he didn’t want to fence the property. The commission- ers discussed the matter of amending the present ordinance ty extend from Ninth street to Sixteenth street, the . Mmit in which cows must be led through the streets to, and from pas: ture, 7 -Letter on Theaters A letter. was received from R. F.: Jager, fire chief, on his inspection of! the Auditorium and motion picture houses. Some complaints were made which, the commission was informed, would be remedied by all the theater owners. : The Tribune publishes today the story of the geologist who located the Fort Norman oil gusher, the new! fountain of wealth fn Arctic Canada, | which is the goal'of an oil rush,—the like of which has not been segn since the famous gold rush to the Klondike. This gusher was located by Theodore: A. Link, geologist for the Imperia! Oil Co., Ltd.. of Canada, who, in the| following article, tells of his perilous experiences and indicates the barriers | confronting the hundreds of ofl pros- ctors now starting from Edmonton, Canada, on the 1,800-mile Journey through Canadian wilds. After send- ing this story to the Tribune Link plane. + BY THEODORE A. LINK. Edmonton, Can., May 10.—Any at-} ‘tempt to predict what lies in the fu- ture for the Fort Norman oil field ‘s purely speculative. The first well, which gave results far greater than were expected, does not prove that a large oil field has been tappeg. A great deal of time, money and! hard work must be expended before! an oil field in that frozen north coun-! try is to be eatablished. Thousands) and thousands of dollars will be spent and a few fortunate investors may be-/ come rich. Many more, however, will never get back the money spent, even ff-an oil field is developed. ' To wrill the first test well’ at Fort | Norman cost the Imperial Oil, Ltd..; $150,900. The drill was not landed: completely at Oil Creek until seven/| months had eJapsed—and a great deal ; of luck and risk were connected with: the transportation of that rig. | Exploration Work, i Joha Zieman and I arrived at Fort/ (Norman July. 3, 1919, on a Royal) Northwest Mounted Police boat. We! left the motorboat 90 miles north of| Fort Norman and commenced geologi:! cal work in a canoe. We ascended creeks, climbed moun-j tains and reached points never sceaa by white man before. ee Blac flies and mosquitoes made} our lives almost ynbearable. The windfall and muskeg swamps made’ progress almost impossible. The; blazing heat of the sun drained mys} vitality so that I was twice forced to) drop from exhaustion and bury my! head {nthe cool moss. i Examinations and prospecting of | that sort we carried on to a point 110 miles inside the Arctic Circle. i Battling Mosquitoes, | After returning to Fort Norman we. ascended the Great Bear river, 50° miles. Here we encountered a swarm of mosquitoes so thick that they: seemed to be fighting for space on our! faces, ' We made a trip of 1 mountains 3,000 feet high. We arrived back at our camp on tpe Great Bear River, near its confluence with the Mackenzie, after 48 hours of tramping, at 2 A. M., Aug. 3, hungry, but too tired to cat. We expected to find there a steam- boat with the drilling crew and the rig, but it had not arrived, although it was already two days overdue. At; noon we had regained enough interest in life to prepare our last meager meal. We fricd some moldy 6 miles over, } started back to Fort Norman by air-| _ COOK CHARGED AUTHORIZED T0 INCREASE RATE North Dakota Loses Case Before Interstate Commerce Commission UP ON OR BEFORE JUNE 10 |State to Appeal to United States Supreme Court in Matter Washington, May 9—North Dakota rallrodds were ordered by the inter- state commerce: commission to ad- vance passenger, Pullman, excess bag- gage and freight rates applying th2 same percentage increases as were ordered. last August by the commia- sion in the general rate increase. The passepger and excess baggage charges would be increased 20 per cent, the 50 per cent surcharge on Pullman space would be applied and |freight rates within the state woul?! be increased 35 per cent. is effective on or before June 10. The commission's decision follows a line of similar cases where rates and, charges on traffic within a state were held’ to be prejudicial to inter- state traffic, | The state will appeal the rate case ‘to the United States’ supreme court. “In the appeal it will be denied that the Interstate Commerce Com-|! | mission has any authority or Jurisdice /|tion to force upon the state railway rates that are far higher than those | ;of Minnesota and other states andj therefore unjust and diserimatory,” said Assistant. Attorncy General W. iM Andersdn. } The action of the commission hag THEODORE A. LINK. where state rallroad commissions re- fused to put into effect railroad rate Increases and the railroads had ap- pealed to the Interstate Commerce Commission, The national commission had or- dered increases for various parts of the country. The increase was twice granted by the North Dakota com- mission, knocked out in court and then donfed and the appeal taken by the railroads. A hearing was held n¥re recently with: Attorney General Lemke and Karl Knox Gartner, rep- resenting the ‘state. A telegram received by the railroa ;commission today from the National Railway Association 3 “Interstate Commerce!,Commission has just. issued’ ‘orders advancing North Dakota rates on passenger ani freight service except on commodities and special passenger. Also milk and cream effective on or before June 10.” VAN LEAR HAS "AN BARLY LEAD Annee \ | | | | WITH HITTING HOTEL OWNER. E. G. Patterson Struck After| Altercation with Steward R. P. Mitchell, steward at the Mc- Kenzie hotel, is under arrest today og a charge of assaulting B. G. Patterson, proprietor of the hotel, with a dan-; gerous weapon. A second complaint was filed against him by Mrs, Lillian Hubbard, hotel employe, charging as- sault and battery and alleging Mitchell kicked an@ beat her. ‘ Mitchell was held under $1,500 bonds to appear before Justice of the Peace Dalan. It was alleged Mitchell struck Pat- | The order been followed@n numcrous other cases | Jamestown, May 10.—{Wgiter Harri- tween \N, P, detectives and ‘transients in Jamestown jungles Sunday after- oon, partially recovered consciousness today but his entire left side is paralyzed and physiclans have been unable to get him to talk enough to tell his side of the story. i The preliminary hearing will be held this afternoon beginning with in- spectioft of one body at Flint’s under- taking parlors and one at Eddy-Proc- tor'’s undertaking establishment after which the hearing will be continued. No developments haye come which have changed the previous stories re- garding the shooting nor the status: of the men involved, according to authorities. There was considerable feeling here expressed by some men against the officers, but nothing de- veloped of unusual proportions.” The local officers support the Northern Pa- cific detectives on the ground. that they acted in self-defense solely. , The preliminary hearing of the two detectives, who were placed under arrest , is expected to produce the ALAND ISLANDS TO THE FINNS, URGES REPORT) Geneva, May 10.—(By the Asso- ciated Press.)-—Th? Aland Islands commission of which’ A. |. Elkus, of} New York, is a member, has sub-' mitted its report to the league of nations here’ recommending that the iglands’ remain under Finnish sov- ereignity with guarantees for the safeguarding of the Swedish popula- tion. STRIKERS TRY TO ENTER U.S. CUSTOMS HOUSE Seek Negroes in Baltimore—Are Held Off by Police Baltimore, May 10.—Three hundred} or more, alleged marine strikers a1/1 sympathizers stormed the door of the customs here today in effort to get a party of negroes who had fled into the federal building for protection. Several of the negroes were severely beaten before the arrival of police who, with drawn pistols, drove off the i | REGAINS CONSCIOUSNESS; MAY LIVE full story of the shooting, and it is may be released when the official rec- ord is made. Worked in Mandan tims of the shooting affair at James- with. the bank robbery at Tuttle, was shattered this afternoon when rail- road employes in that Harrison and Harley, two of the victims, were in Mandan on Friday night in company with another man who several men declare was John- son. The explanation of the great amount of money on Johnson's per- sot is made by friends who said he had Hebron Fire and Pressed Brick com-} pany for over a year and had recently | cashed his savings. i Harrison worked in Mandan for two months and was laid off about five weeks ago in the Mandan machine | shops. He left Mandan Friday night. For the last two weeks he had earned | his board by working in a Mandan restaurant. OUTLINES WAYS © OF BETTERING THE RAILROADS Chairman of Board of Southern Pacific Details His Suggestions TO REGULATE WATERWAYS | Washington, May 10.—The trouble with. the railroads is excessive oper: | ating expenses, “an abnormal ac-; count” of which is the cost of labor,| Julius Kruttschnitt, chairman of the} board of the Southern Pacific railway,; declared today before the senate in- terstute commerce committee. He! was the first witness at the opening! of the Congressional investigation in;! to the whole transportation situation. | Mr,* Krutschnitt suggests five: remedies, which ‘he said ‘were easily | A theory that ¢he three men, vie-| town might have had something to do} Mandan insisted | been employed in the plant of the! . TS ADVANCING .. 0 2 | son ,the third man in the fight be-| thought probable that the detectives | ( APTURES TOWN Population of Kosel Flees - in Panic Before Advance in Upper Silesia fos tea GERMANS IN FIGHTING la oy Patrol Crosses Oder River and Captures Six Poles, Report Oppeln, Upper Silesia, May 10.—(By the Associated Press.) — Insurgent Polish forces have crossed the Oder and captured the town of Kosel after hard fighting. The population is flee- ing in panic. GERMANS ACTIVE. Ratibor, Upper? Silesia, May 10.— German control crossed the Oder river into Upper Silesia just before day- light yesterday morning and captured six Poles, one of whom was suspect- ed of killing a number of Germans. The leader of the patrol, a civilian 23 years old, declared the Pole had admitted the killing. When asked what he was going to do about it the patrol leader said: E “He was taken ten paces away and two men were detailed to attend to him—he disappeared but probably could be found floating the Oder.” Itallans Lose. ‘ Italian trops here declare that they have lost severely in the fighting with Polish insurgents and appear-to be greatly incensed. ‘They ate declared to have shown unkindness toward Polish prisoners who are generally being handed.over to them by their German captors. Am- munition has ben received from Bes- lau and from Oppeln and German cit- izens are being. armed and told to de- fend themselves. : Fire on Frenchman, A French control officer took refuge in the Kosel barracks and the Poles opened fire on him there, according to inter-allied commission reports. Numerous casualties were reported applied” and ‘produdtive of great eco- nomies.” They are : i “Stop the use of common carrier, purposes of highway built with public; money without adequate tolls and proper regulation. | “Make inland waterways built or, improved at public expense carry ‘rioters. TUG BOAT MEN STRIKE. Newport News, May 10.—Chespeake and Ohio tug boat workers struck to- \day in sympathy with the seamen, re- ifusing to move either American or ‘foreign ships. The port of Hampton Roads will remain open, as ships will {be docked by masters and piots. CHANGES WILSON themselves as to interest on cost and) maintenance-.by regulating the com-; mon carrier traffic on_them and by: imposing adequate tolls. | (Keep the Uited States government; out ‘of the business of operating! steamships and stop the lavish ex-! penditure of money to provide coast-| to-coast ocean ships in competition! with railroads, “Tolls for use of the Panama canal should be sufficient to pay interest on its cost, operating expenses and main- tenance. “Do not deprive transcontinental! carriers of coast-to-coast traffic by-in-| flexibly enforcin® a strict long and/ +o, have occurred at the Krandrzin railway statiqn when the Poles drove out the Germans after three days con- tinuous fighting. 8.000 MAYHEAR LANGER TOWNLEY Preparations Made for a Large Crowd in Kansas ‘Salina, Kan., May 10.—Whether the activities of the Nonpartisan league have had a beneficial or injurious ef- fect in North Dakota formed the groundwork today of a debate between A. C. Townley, national head of the bannock and made soup from an odd| terso& on the back of the bead with short haul clause. ‘league, and William Langer, former. ‘The matter of enforcing an ordinance | requiring connection of houses to sew- ers was discussed, and the city audi- tor was instructed to-notify all own-| ers of property within the paving dis-} act to- connect houses to sewers) within the paving district, On motion of Commissioner Thomp- son, after the railroad commission’s érdep extending the period of sur-| charge of the Bismarck Gas company; was read, the commission decided to: ask the railroad commission for a’ test of the quality of gas furnished. | Members of the comjssion also; discussed the ‘matter pf regitlation of| dance halls. Just how far the city! can go in the matter of regulation, and licensing, since the state license: department licenses dance halls and; has authority to regulate them, ‘is a, matter of debate, Complaints” had! been made to members of-the comnys-| sion of the conduct at some dance halls. HEAR GERMANY ~ 18 10 YIELD Paris,'(May 10—(By Associated Press) | ‘News received from Berlin this morning Jed French official circles to) effect that Germany would accept all; the ultimatum conditions, GETS SIX YEARS - FOR THEFT OF OVER $100,000 ; \I Toronto, May 10.—John Doughty, convicted of stealing’ $105,000 in Vi tory Bonds from Ambrose Small, miss- | ing theatrical man, today was sen-| tenced to six years in the provincial | penitentiary. Crown authorities in-| dicated that they might drop for the/ present the charge tMat Doughty,| Small’s secretary, had conspired to kidnap him. bone from the remains of our bacon, |# Pastry iron, the blow cutting the No fish could be caught, and so we} hat and raising a large welt. He just lay amidet an attack of Bulldog! #180 was alleged to have struck Pat~ flies. . i terson in the face after Patterson said On March Again. | he had been dazed by the blow from At 11 that night we decided that it, th @ pastry iron. was a matter of not eating, or walk-) Mitchell When arraigned indicated he would contest the case. Patterson said he discharged Mit- chell upon complaint of a waitress, that he would: not give her an order It was a long and dreary trudge,! for @ customer’ and charged thal with ie aensing of ‘the Morthera! Mitchel] had insulted girls in the place Lights overhead seeming to empha-| and kicked Mrs. Lilliam Hubbard and size our misery. a | Mrs. Irene Greenburg, ‘the latter the mother of two children. We ate ‘our remaining rations at} 3.A.M., slept 15 minutes and resumed | He said Mitchell followed him up- stairs when he went after a gun and the march. It was very cold during | | the’few hours the sun was behind | tried to beat in a door to his apart-! ing to Fort Norman. We started on! a trip up the Mackenzie river with enough porridge for one meal and five} pieces of hardtack. | the mountains, but’ soon after sun-; ment. rise it became very warm again. We reached an Indian’s camp and borowed his canoe. Lo! the steamer Northland Trader appeared and took us aboard. We had walked 55 miles with nothing to eat’ | Mitchell, when arraigned said Pat- | terson had accused him of an insolent {attitude toward the girls employed | there, denied it and said that he struck | Patterson with his fist after he had | been abused. He denied using a pastry | ‘on. Sleep was out of the question be-} a Minneapolis, May 10.--(By the Associated Press,)—Thomas Van Lear endorsed by labor, ‘and ‘Brig. Gan. George Leach, Repub- lican city convention choice, were nominated for mayor from a field ‘of five in yesterday's city pri- mary election, according to incom- plete and unofficial returns carly. today. Minneapolis, May 10.—With about one-half the vote in the city election counted, Thomas Van Lear, former , socialist mayor, and Brig. Gen. George+ E. Leach. had big leads over three other candidates for the mayoralty nomination ‘in yesterday’s primary election. Van Lear had 21,209 votes, Leach 12,897,, T. H. Colwell 2,887, and two other candidates were trailing. aS NEE HOLD UP MEN / cause I was needed. to point out the} landing place for the machinery. We! finally arrived at Oil Creek at mid | night, Aug. 7. | After a great deal of, anxiety on) our part, the moter boat bringing; down the remaining part of the drill-| ing rig arrived Sept. 26. But we hadj given up all hopes of its arrival an had reached Fort Norman on our way) hack to civilization. : We left a crew of six to winter at, Oil Creek, so they could commence, drilling in early spring, and started! back*to Edmonton, arriving Oct. 21.! We set our for Fort Norman the! 13th of the foNewing May with 22! tons of freight. The outfit.on two} scows was pushed down Peace River by motorboat. 4 J ! At Vermillion Chutes a four-mile; portage had to be made. The ScOwS | had to be run through the rapids and Jet down with ropes 20 feet~over a) limestone ledge. The largest scow! was wrecked. Only through heroic efforts were the contents saved. H Hair-raising thrills and narrow es-/ claimed he followed Patterson | upstairs to get his check. i Mitchell came here recently from, Minneapolis. Detroit, Mich., May 9.—Twelve men | armed with sawed-off slftutguns today held up a Detroit United railway col-! lector and escaped with $20,000. ' SEVERAL PLACES | IN STATE GET NICE RAINFALL Rainfall reported from weather sta- | | tions in the state for a 24-hour period | lup to 8 A. M. today, follows: Bism , 08; Bottineau, .20; Bow- Devils Lake, .02; Fessenden, | | 08; Jamestown, .08; Langdon, .10; Mi- | ‘not, .06; Napoleon, .04; Williston, .48.' The following stations reported no; j rainfall: Amenia, Dickinson, Dunn; Center, Ellendale. Grand Forks, Lari- | | more, Lisbon, Pembina, Wahpeton, | | Moorhead, Minn. | The forecast for Bismarck and vi-; | cinity is fair tonight and Wednesday; | | i { What is Society Doing? GET $20,000 POSTAL RULING 'Harding Modifies Regulations as to Postmasters Washington, May 10.— President Wilson's order for selection of first, second. and third class postmasters under civil service“ requirements was modified today by President Harding to give wider field from which’ post- masters may be chosen. “Widespread propaganda is being carried on to arouse public sentiment against present freight rates,” he said. ““The fact is that ever since the rates have been advanced the cost of attorney general of the state. A ruge tent had been erected to house the audience and arrangemen's ; Were made for a crowd of more than 8,000 persons. Salina has been the transportating commodities is, far less| headquarters of the league movement merchant and the retailer,” he said. PICKS POCKET OF LAWYER WHO Instead of being required to select |the candidates standing highest in 2 [civil service examination for any spe- cific postmastership the administra- place to any one of the three at the head of the qualified list. |FOREST FIRE — SITUATION IS_- SAID RELIEVED Duluth. May 10.—Predicted heavy rain for the Lake, Superior digtrigt of the Minnesota state forest preserve failed to materialize last night, but Henry G. Weber, supervisor for north- eastern Minnesota, that the light rainfall followed by vorable atmospheric conditions morning served to relieve the forest fire situation. \ AGREES TO FORM NEW CABINET Berlin, May 10-—Dr. Wirth, former minister of finance, in the cabinet of Chancellor Fehrenbach today agreed to attempt to form a new cabinet. fa tion may under today’s order give the fri announced today | him for appea' DEFENDS HIM Here's a new way to treat a lawyer. | At least here is the story told by iends of Justice Casselman. | A man giving his name as Frank) Miller and who was found to have many aliases and a long prisoh record was picked up by the police. He had | commited a minor offense and the po- lice wanted to get him’ out of towa. He had a couple of hundred dloltars | le on him and he wanted a lawyer. got Justice Casselman. The man was given a 30-day sus-'- pended sentence and told to leave | town. He profusely thanked Casse!-! man and then picked Casselman’s poc-| ket for $20 of the money he had given | ring in court. | ‘The man was gone before the theft; this | was discovered. | RUTH HITS NINTH, HOME RUN AGAINST TIGERS AT DETROIT, an | — ————@ | Detroit, May 10.—Ruth hit hts { | | ninth homer today against the i | | Tigers, Middleton pitching. —— \ ' than the toll taken by the commission; | exploding them, in Kansas and many persons from this and surrounding counties were expected to attend. RAIL CONTRO COSTS BILLION Washington, May 10.—The govern- ‘ment loss during federal control of the railroads will be about ‘one bil- lion\ two hundred million: dollars, 0: | $300,000,000 more than Director Geu jeral Hines estimated. ILLION | GOLD SHIPPED New York, May 10.—A *$5,000,000 gold shipment said to be the first of a series to be made by the government of Great Britain to aid in the retire- ment of its 51-2 percent bonds ma- turing in this market November 1 ‘has arrived here. ' BOY IS BLOWN INTO PIECES Portsmouth, 0... May 10.—When Carl (Newman, 15, ditempted to toss a lighted cigaret away it lodged in his pocket with some’ dynamite caps, The lad was blown to pieces and six companions injured, one losing g leg. ‘4 FIVE M ‘BEAT MAN AND Do You Know-- | STEAL HIS CASH Fargo, May 9.—Police today had i failed to find traces of two men: who | last. night gave C. D. Synder, manager of an oil filling station, a severe beat- | ing and escaped with $100 belonging , to Snyder and the ofl company. { | That Bismarck is at the jnuction of the Red Trail, Black Hills Trail, Killdeer trail, Great Plains Highway, and the Aberdeen Trail. . ; That Bismarck automobile dealers distributed 700 autos of 13 different makes in 1920. The social activities of your friends naturally interest every woman. What Mrs. Smith is doing or what she is planning to do are told in an inferesting way in our so- ciety columns. {capes in running the 16 miles of} | Smith Rapids will ever remain in my | memory. We ran one rapids which! had never been shot before and. were| the first “all white” crew to take a) !scow through Smith Rapids. | warmer Wednesday. FOREST FIRES ‘(REJECT POINTS, |. IN MICHIGAN: CONTINUE PARLEY New York, May 10*The striking marine engineers rejected two of the six points in the federal labor depart- ment proposal to end the strike and| authorized their leaders to negotiate further. We crossed Great Slave Lake in a| leaky scow carrying seven tons more| freight than it should have had. We; landed at the well July 8. The crew i Detroit, ay 10.—Forest fires were! | reported sweeping large acres in half You'll enjoy this news, for this paper makes a specialty ‘of society events. Every- That $700,000 worth of out of Bismarck in 1920. That there were 65 trucks automobiles were distributed * gold out of Bismarck in 1920, thing that is interesting is to !a dozen Michigan counties. | ‘TELEPHONE RATE BOOST SUSPENDED The state board of railroad com- at a value of over $160,000. : | That Bismarck garages have a storage capacity of over |DECIDE POLICY 300 cars daily. TOWARD MEXICO ee — i That Bismarck maintains a well equipped, free auto camp | Washington, May 10.—The adminis-|| for convenience of Tourists. |fration’s policy ‘toward. Mexico “has | That 23,000 automobiles with over 75,000 people used | been vell determined” it was; rf . . slated today authoritatively but offic- the Red Trail through Bismarck during 1920. ials are not yet ready to enunciate it.| which had wintered at the well had; ben living on fish and flour for three| The well was down 305 feet.! Gusher Is Struck. A-gusher was struck Aug. 25. Preparations for a new site were made and now everything is in readi- jness for a new rig. The company is contemplating sink-/ ~ (Continued on page 2) 3 be found here. Bismarck Tribune Rhone 32 missioners has suspended the pro- posed rate increases of the North Da- | kota Independent Telephone company ; and the Northwestern Bell Telephone | company for a further period, of not | to exceed: six months from May -18, | 1921. The commission had previously | suspended the rates until May 18, Dut jis not ready to make a dnal decision. | weeks. DROUTH CAUSES LENINE TROUBLE Riga, Letvia,, May 10.—Drouth prev- alent through almost all Russia has added to Lenine’s difficulty in recon- structing Russia. id | i | ert RT LE S