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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-10-06

out or the levy Of taxes made hy the
state board of equalization for the
current year. whereby the Legislative
levy Of 1913 of h mills for education
al institutions of the state was in part
disregarded.
Section 174 Of the constitution i'm
its the amount which may be raised in
any one year to defray the expenses
Of the state. as follows: sThe IegisIa.-
tive assembly shall provide for raising
revenue sufficient to defray the ex !.
penses Of the state for each year. NOT
to exceed in any one year mills ON on
the dollar of the assessed valuation
Of all taxable property in the state. Ia
be ascertained by the last assessment
made for state and county purposas
and also sufficient sum to pay the
interest on the same debt" The Ieg-
islature has made provision for the
levying Of taxes through the state
board Of equalization.
Section 1888 is in part as follows.
"The. state tax shall be levied by the
state board of equalization at It's am
nual meeting in August Of each wear
and the rate of such tax shah be GER
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-10-06
laps Attack German
Base in the Pacific.
No Ulterior Designs

Washinson 6Japan any sers
Of
military
announced landing of blue
is
the embassy fully within the
Hhcut direct ToEio subject, official
confident that the sole purpose OF the Japanese IN landing in Mar
reserved the Japanese undertakings II that au
preying is
large quantities supplies gathered there by the
German government y
Pekins "A
fortified position kiao Chow
forth that the Friday night the
Germans lost number Of killed and wounded while twenty-five
missing
battleship Triumph, according same
recently with the Japanese
undamased The German sunhoat Jaguar
slightly damaged .
before Using Tau the Germans lost
fory-eieht killed.
OFFICIAL RUSSIAN REPORT.
Petrograd, Oct 6.-The following statment issued
by Russian general headquarters
The Russian offensive campaign continues The forti
fled positions of the enemy the frontier under heavy
artillery fire. The enemy has received renforcements from
the garrison at Koengsbug There has been particularly
desperate fighting in the vicinity Of Bakalargewo"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-10-06
Better Farming Assn.
of N. Dakota Issues
a Formal Statement

The Better Farming association of
North Dakota has issued formal
statement. 1t gives practically the
same facts that The Forum made pub
lie some weeks ago, viz, that when
the better farming work was turned
over to the state, instead Of turning
over debt, the association turned
over assets to the value Of over $780,
600. The statement sets forth these
facts little more in detail than The
Forum gave them. The statement is
as follows
In the fall of 1911 an organization
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-10-06
DEVILS LAKE
WOMAN Was
BADLY BURNED

Devils Lake, N D., Oct. 6. En-
deavoring by the use of kerosene to
hasten a fire on which she was heat
ing water, Mrs. Hattie Strong, local
washerwoman, vga@ terribly burned
this morning In the explosion which
followed. & ~
When rescued by Gordon Nimmo
from the basement of ]. M. rThomp-
sons residence where she was employ
ed, she was a mass Of flames, the con-
tents Of the five gallon oil can which
exploded, converting the place into
furnace.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-10-06
ADDITION
TO WAR
TAX LIST

Washington, Oct. 6.---Stamp taxes
on proprietary medicines, cosmetics,
perfumes, chewing gum, such as were
included in the Spanish war taxes,
were voted into the war revenue bill
by the democrats of the senate finance
committee just before the measure
was turned over to the democratic
senate caucus for approval or revision.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-10-06

people still pin their faith on Ger
many, and are confident that no matter
what happens now, the Germans will
eventually save the situation.
MANY others. however, Disguised
with the ambiguous and scanty re-
ports from official sources. are begin
ming to disregard the newspapers al
together. Ever since it became known
that Russia was making such startling
headway in Galicia the Vienna news
Hnrtinrnd IN parn utn,,,.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-10-06

called the Better Farming association
of North Dakota was started for the
purpose of cooperating with the farm
ers of the state to improve agricultural
conditions.
This association appreciated that the
work which they wished to do should
properly be performed by either the
federal government or by the state.
Before beginning the work, 1t was sug-
gested to the state and federal govern
ment that one or both of them should
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-10-06

Rome via Paris, Oct. 6.-The
French feet in the Adriatic is bonn
harding against the Austrian port Of
Id Italia n
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Continued on Page Five.
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Continued on Page Four.
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Additional War Notes on Page 8.
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Continued ON Page Six.
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Continued on Page -Four.
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Unsettled weather tonight and We'd
nesday, with probably rain. Not much
change in temperature.
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E Zf!zz{zzWiTH S(5HE7 RAmBLER Rz3gSzsa

leries were of timber and yellow pine.
The mahogany desks, tables and chairs
were in their places. At first rockets
were fired through the roof, but they
did not set fire to it. They sent men
on it, but it was covered with sheet
iron. At last they made great pile in
the center of the room of the furniture.
and. retiring, set fire to a quantity of
rocket stuff in the middle.
The whole WAS soon in a blaze and
so intense were the flames that the
glass of the lights was melted and
pounds. run into mass The stone
is like most freestone. unable to resist
the force of flame and I believe no
known material would have been able
to resist 50 sudden and intense heat
The exterior of the columns and en-
of sculpture or tiutinS remained.
Glenn Brown in his history of the
CAPITOL SAYS: The damage done bE the
fire was not investigated untl the war
with Great britain WAS At "a end The
burning of the Capitol left congress
and the Suprem" Court no suitable
place for the transaction %: ~usiness-
The Thirteenth Congress met Septem-
ber IL 1914. in building erected for
a hotel on the corner oi eth ANA l.
streets the site of the United States
post Office. by samuel BlodSett. which
in 1914 was used as the government It
patent and post office. This building
was saved by Dr. William Thornton :
eXsltiouS. he having been able to per-
suadc the British officers. Ross and
Cockburn. that science would sustain -
serious loss by the destruction of the
patent models and records. which We're
at this time in his charge ThtS was
the only available building. but the
accommodation ii aft rded WAS made
quate. The prominent citizens al the
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District of Columbia ..r' t-sr that
Congress might l"aNc tac city. orSan-
izcd "A stock company. known AS IN"
Capitol Hotel Company. To erect
building for the temporary a"c"inm"-
datiou of Congress. This structur" was
commdnced July {, 1915. and occupied
by Congress from December. 80. ="
1919. 1hile the capitol was beng r.
built. This building, which - an the
corner Of \ and LIST streets northeast.
Old Capitol Ii again became noted
during the civil war - " vrtson Tor
southern sympathiz"rs
The morning of September -. 1871.
the day after the assembling of the
third session of the Thirteenth Con-
editorial written ON tn" daN cong r">S
met and not changed in tens .or the
day of publication. said.
This is tho DAY on wlir, ia cpufo.ni,, ~uh
The proclamation OF til. President flc Iprir.ita
Congress Is Ia commeaec it, tAird ,'n \.',.'~
did ioual ,-,uu,ils asS-mbe
interesting moment and perhaps never { e
vigorous and prompt cxer,isc of t,tiF lowe
more inIpcriousl, required
''At-put the time that Congress adi,'3rn"l I'D"
enemy attempted and. s,,Dic taink lui
well. succeeded ia amusing Us ~itI t.r i7
HritVitr OF f'4r force Il" larai'd spi
and with his si-.ci"'i- l,r,f,.s~"gS Ist.t
purlr~,-S He has NOW tasep tlvafits-. p
falls" security. and ihroN NJ "p r1r >'i"ge-
force larger fban 20" ct"r 'Wfi'l Il atn.li-
has ever employed al any 'ii.r ia s''r.lsn
la r"nlagIdt"l capitol hN >ud,.,u
secret cAI"rti"a. aud a''i'''i"p>N t'.r'ai .ias "
shores. Iapul"I> cit aud I-'f'''f ~ hani'
with hrs ana 'i'g~la
This then I, tris~ '-li' t'if'aH.- d"
"Nrrii"n Of AL the cn'g-'''> "f 81 it'-, amt -
aerinl nation Nc must march sftaislt f'.-Ha
in the pa'h that leads 10 'r'wlu'l "f Submit 8"
the bas->i dcgratati'n
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ing teams. At JonesNiile. forty miles
from the gap, we encountered the 64ti
Virginia, a mounted Confederate regi-
lnent, and drove it back after a sharp
engagement.
Then, for weeks. we rode up and
down along the length OF the narrow.
granite walled valley. subjected to
shipping now and again. but being in
too strong force for the rebels to dare
a real attack. For the first time in
months we were in It land OF compare
tive plenty.
so it was that the fortune OF war
brought to us. while no degree Of feast
ing, at least enough during the Christ
mas period of 1868. We had done our
best to maintain the reputation OF our
arm of the service as toraSers. W e
found the most delicious hams packeu
away in ash-houses. They were small.
and had that exquisite nutty !,avor pc
culiar to mast-fed bacon. There WAS
an abundance of the delightful iittle
apples known AS romantics. There
were turnips. pumpkins. cabbages. po-
tatoes and the usual products of tho
field in profusion; th" "orn in the field
furnishing breadstuHS which VIC
ground in primitive mills we. found IA
the valley.
And still do not recall that. even
in this valley of plenty. we made the
slighte st attempt to celebrate Christ
mas. III the enemN's country, as we
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larly half-nch, inch and inch-and-a-
quarter plank.
When interest and patriotism united
50 strongly urge Il jealous o-operation
o"ca sion, it cannot be necessary to say
more than to state that constant at
tendance Will be given at the office of
the superintendent of the city, in the
ctive proffcrs of the requisite supplies
and to pay just price for the same.
"A number of carpenters have been
relea sed from military duty to work
Oh the building. Those not on duty are
invited to call today and join their
brethren in case a sufficient number
should not previously have collected
together.
Two or three insertions in the Ma
tiazette and Federal Republican are
requested
A glimpse of the conditions in the
capital may be gathered from the fol-
lowing comment in the National Inteili-
pencer, a few days before Congress
convened:
"Enemy's snlps III Jne Potomac
From the vicinity of our press to the
encmy's stations have not hereto
fore thought ourselves justified III
making public the recent operations of
our military forces, etc. The enemy IL,
however, evidently now we'll informed
on this subject without our ald ana
our scruples are removed. The enemss
vessels arc :till in sight, being unable
from head winds to move down the
river, if they were so disposed. Mean
" lille heavy batteries have been erect
ed on both sides of the Potomac some
they must pass to rejoin their squad
ronS These batteries are posted and
Evening star., 1914-12-20
COL. JOHN McELROY.
veteran of the civil war.

We're, we had to be constantly on the
alert, and we gave no thought to any
thing save the immediate business in
hand. The day is unmarked in my
Iaiud.
"But New Year tiay-1S64--is a day
that remains in the memory of all who
We're there, even if Christmas does not.
We were awakened that bitter cold
morning by the sounds OF furious at
tack on us. Our numbers having been
overestimated, the Confederates had
sent an entire division of cavalry, un-
der Maj. Gen. Sam Jones. 10 effect our
capture, to offset in = measure Long
streets repulse at Knoxville. After
fighting all day aHd losing siHt.-thres
dead and wounded. our force finally
Was 'obliged to surrender. We were
taken to Andersonville eventually,
where 151 of our number died.
1T is needless for me to go into any
of the details OF the horrors of that
prison. h:lr told them fuliy in my
book OIL The subject
christmas, 1864, found ME still
prisoner. but not at Andersonyille-
After Sherman took Atlanta the Con-
federates became uneasy and sent 5000
or ..o00 of us from Audersonville to
Savannah in september, ostensibly to
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the opportunity, and the agitation made
considerable headWaY. The citizens Of
Washington. Georgetown and the ad
jacent country We're perturhcd. The
city of Washington had not thrn be
come strong sentiment with the
American nation.
SO there was a great tri.ulatiou in
the city as to how the incoming Con-
gress should be entertained. The enemy
was still within striking distance of the
city. The ships which had eXacted
tribute from Alexandria under threat
of bombarding that city were still ly-
ing In the river and visible from Wash
ington. Even under these Giscouraging
conditions it was determined to make
certain changes III the interior of the
old Blodgett Hotel building and fit it
up for the use of Congress. The build
ing of the big brick house on LIST street
Capitol street, which Washington came
to know so well as the old Capitol
prison, was not begun until July, 1873,
and then, through the instrumental1ty
of a private stock company of Wash
ington citizens.
In one of the Washington newspapers
of September b. 1911, the Rambler read
this advertisement:
Accommodation of Congress.-The
proper authority being engaged with
most active prcpa rations for the ;ic-
preaching session. earnestly solicit the
aid of the inha bitants of the city and
vicinity who may have the command
of wooden building materials, partlcu-
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have US exchanged and sent north, but
in reality for fear of the advancing
1000 others in October to the prison at
Milien, Ga, eighty miles from Savan-
nah. and then, late in November, We
were transferred back to Savannah.
The reason for this. though we did
not learn it until later. was that Sher
man. who had cut loose from Atlanta
and begun. November Is. his march to
the sea- had taken such a course as
one of his ebjectives. But we did not
remain. On arriving at Savannah we
were quickly put on another train and
taken south some eighty-six miles to
Blackshear. where we remained week
and then were sent back through Sa-
vannah and thence to Charleston.
Here We remained but short time.
Charleston was besieged by sea, and
as we entered the city and were
marched into the devastated portion at
night our guards pointed to pickering
lights off shore and told US they were
Union warships Our hearts swelled
with pride. Then suddenly the realiza-
ton came to us Of what it all meant
We were being placed under the fire
of our own guns.
Naturally my first emotions We're
akin to panic. Then I considered that
our guards would have to stand the
nre, TOO, and l found a bit of comfort
in that
There comes Il she'll. some one
shouted Far in the distance. growing
brighter, was a spark. Leisurely it
US. Prior to that 1 had seen only field
artillery at work. had observed the
crash and roar and excitement of
neid piece combat. and had imagined
that the work of the big guns was of
the same sort, only on larger scale.
But here 1 was to learn that it was
quite different. The casual deliberate
ness OF it all amazed me.
1T seemed as IL l could have run half
4 mile in the time it took that shell to
pick out Its landing place. descend with
thud. followed by moGientary
silence, and then explode With :: great,
dull roar quite different from the
argrier bark of a field shell.
And presently We became accus-
toned to il all. The firing was by in
tervals, the replies from the rebel bat
ter:es the same. None of us prisoners
was hurt. ans no great damage was
done by the bombardmeEt while we
were there.
ut seems that the Confederate Gen.
Beauregard had maintained that Ad-
miral Gilmore had violated the rules
of warfare by bombarding Charleston
without giving due notice OF his in
gard had US Union prisoners brought
under fire. The Union forces coun-
tered by taking a lot OF captured Con-
federate officers and putting them un-
der Confederate fire in the Morris
Island stockaue, so honors were even.
:. X
Not long before the Christmas period
came another move. We were taken
TO Florence. the Junction of tie rail-
road running from Charleston to Che
raw. with the one running rom Will
mington to Kingsville. and about l2O
miles from Charleston. And there. in
the heart of the dying Confederacy. l
spent the awfulest Christmas of my
life. Save. hope, for better conditions
and better food. thousands of military
prisoners in Europe are spending such
I, Christmas pc; iod now.
Imagine f1fteen-acre heid IN
closed by stockade eighteen feet
high, made by standing logs on end.
into which 10000 feeble men, debili-
tated by months of Imprisonment, had
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been crowded without u yard OF cover.
Rude shelters that may turn the worst
of the rain have been made by about
three-quarters of the men. but the re-
manning 200 have not energy enough
remaining TO do even this. They Ii"
around Oh the ground. on old blankets
and overroats. and in the s.aNtln. prop
these upon sticks as shelter This Was
our prison camp
g! cannot say that | recall Christmas
day as distinguished from any other
day of the period one day WAS much
like the other. being varied only by the
length of the days death roll or the
intensity of the cold and wet The
weather remained in harmony with our
feelings. the dull. gray leaden sky be-
ing in sharp contrast with the crisp.
bracing sharpness of northern CHRIST
mas time.
daily ration issued to US averag ged ten
or eleven sacks of cornmeal day to
each thousand prisoners. But this was
cut down until by Christmas We were
receiving only about four sacks to the
thousand. At this rate we were receIV-
ing each less than half a pint OF meal
a day. That scant half pint. then. was
my Christmas dinner. well as my
Christmas breakfast and Christmas
lunch.
in that abode of desoiation, woe,
death, filth and disease, how could
thoughts of Christmas time and its sig
nificance, how could the message of
peace on earth. good will toward men,
penetrate to our understanding? OR
to the understanding of the wretched
troops whose prisoners we were and
who already were aware that their
cause was 4 lost cause?
But our situation. fortunately. was
not to remain long as II WAS. sherman
was coming. The knowledge WAS our
strength. Every waking hour We
spent in listening for the boom of his
guns. straining our ears for the sound
woods to see the Confederates falling
back before his advance. Though We
became as impatient as those ancient
sentinels who for ten long years stood
upon the Grecian hills to catch the
first glimpse of the flames OF burning
Troy, sherman came not.
I'm late February the Confederates
they hurried us OH ia trains headed
for Wilmington. but Schoneld, they pre-
sently learned, had captured Whining
ton before, February -, to be exact
our train suddenly found itself on q
Confederate battle line, and backed
hurriedly to the Great Pedec river,
where We were disembarked. kllpat-
ri"l; was already threatening Florence,
and il was deemed not safe 10 take US
scare passed; his movement was but
a feint, and we were taken back to our
old quarters in Florence.
The end came in q week Again we
We're bundled on a train and started
toward Wilmington. but few miles
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west OF there. at the CROSSING of the
Cape Fear river. we suddenly ran ou =
brigade of the Union forces. Il part "f
Schofield's army. the I'D Army Corps.
our troubles were over.
Back We We're under lh.- aas. Iii ire
land of plenty. Presently. broken. fec
Bile, hut happy, We were taken on
transports to Annapolis siad to the hos
pital there. Good food, clean beds
sweet air-oh. I cannot tell you how
good il was. We were dazed by il all.
1t took US days to realize that il was
real.
The journey north was a delirium o"
JOY, after we all had recovered from
the first days of seasickness. In the
CABIN the fun was as rollickiug as il
was forward among us men. II used
to upset my gravity completely to
a crowd OF hitherto grave and dignlfied
colonies and majors and captains sing
ing negro minstrel eleeS and dancing
brea kdowns with the abandon of pro-
fessionai burnt-cork artists.
Perhaps. from all this. you Will have
gained some idea of what war means
in the matter of imposing suffering Oh
humanity, and the myriad forms which
that suffering takes 1t is long since
this land of ours WAS war-ridden, al
most half u century, but those of US
who lived in those dark days can read
our own story anew in the reports that
come from Europe. War, for all the
modern machinery with which it is
carried on. resolves itself invaria bly,,
back to the primitive in its essentials"
Out of fifty years of reflection aud
study. not only of the civil war, but OF
all wars. come these observations. for
there are few men in the country more
familiar with military history than
Col McElroy. printer boy before lie
entered the army, he returned to news
paper work after the peace.
First Il reporter in Chicago. he soon
went to Toledo. Ohio, where from ls.4
TO 1854 he WAS the editor OF the Tole.io
Blade and the associate of the famous
Petroleum V Nasty" in that publica-
tion.
Since 1854 he has been "A resident OF
Washington. editing his own paper and
delving deep into war lore. He is the
author of several books Oh the sub
Ject. Always prominent in the affai o
of the Grand Army of the Republic, he
was senior vice commander of that o.
der in 1901, and has occupied other
high positions in the organiza ton.
ASHMEN BROWN.