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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-07-22
MT. CARMEL

Henry Kohl vas visiting at the
Frank Hoffarth farm on Sunday.
Ed. Frank was visiting at the S. l.
Koehmstedt home last Sunday for a
short time.
Peter Koehmstedt from Dresden
was an over Sunday visitor here with
relatives and friends.
Postmaster Peter Zettel vas disap-
pointed when he did not get his
freight last Saturday.
1t is reported that the youngest
child of F. X. Hotfarth is quite sick
and under the ARE of a doctor.
Joseph Larshonze from Wales was
a Sunday visitor this week at the
home of his father-in-law, Christ
Schneider.
John NJ. Fischer is giving all Of his
buildings a coat of paint which is
greatly improving the general appear
ance of the place.
The young people made up a sur
prise party and were warmly welcom.
ed one evening Of last week at the
home of j. B. Nowatzki and wife.
The writer wishes to thank the
band boys of Dresden for the compli.
ment extended our boys in the ORES.
den notes in last weeks issue Of this
paper.
The Mt. Carmel ball team will play
the boys from east Wales on the
grounds at this place on Sunday after
noon, game to start at three o'clock.
Oh you lemon!
Nick Perius and his family attend
ed the services at St. Alphonsu'
church in Langdon last Sunday. Hi
brother, FIR. !. Perius, from Kentuck.
offciated at the service on that occa
sion.
The first part of this week was no
what you might call real nice hayin'
weather, but just the same quite
few of the in the neighbor
hood of Mt. Carmel have been bus,
cutting right along.
Our band boys had a fine practic
on Sunday afternoon, all of whic
goes to show that they have not for
gotten that Mt. Carmel has a ban
and are going to see that it is some
thing of which we may feel a jus
pride in.
Rev. l. Perius, who has brother
and sisters in this settlement, held
service here Friday at the Catholi
church. The day was the anniversar
\ of the day of Our Lady of Mt. Cal
mel, the patron saint of the churc
here. The service was one of tn
most interesting and largely attended
That hot game of ball that VIZ
posted for last Sunday, was playe
between the east and the west halve
of the township. Of course the teal
representing the western part Of tt
township was made up largely {
players of the national game fro,
Wales. But in spite of this apparel
advantage the game was eventual
won by the boys from the east with
: score of Is to 10. This time tt
game was played without a mistal
or reason for dispute as to who won.
J.. M. Shredder and Miss Lillia
Fischer left during the week fl
Moorhead Mimi, where they wi
assist as BRIDES maid and best mai
at the wedding of Mr.. Shredder
brother, Cletus, who was married {
T,,onlnu Tho nroono Ia tho nono,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-07-22
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.

THE EXECUTIVE:
President: Woodrow Wilson
Vice President. Thoma R. Marshall
CABINET OFFICERS.
sscTstsTy of of S ibs Treasury. VIVIAN ;;Millia g, 4 Ma B1Sso
Secretary of War........... Lindley Nj. Garrison
Postmaster General. ..."...:A Albert Burleson
Secretary of the Nav. ."..... .Josephus Daniels
Secretary IF the Interior" -. Franklin K Lane
Secretary Of Commerce. william {. Redheld
'e''e'a'S U ! STATES SENATE.
P.j, McCumber Wahpeton
CONGRESSMAN.
G Hsm. As Mss yaji iM' Gi5y
FEDERAL OFFICERS.
4nited States States H HisTTte1 oudse.::::o S. S. j. Hm poyle
United States ATTORNEY Edward / Engerud
Clerk of United States Court ID A; Montgomery
Surveyor General ...............E A: Williams
National Bank examiner Tyler
Collector of Custom ......"..Jud LaMour Jr
STATE SUPREME COURT,
S Shisf sSs. Jssii t;;:-:c:. j: Fist, n I: f q BarEs' e.
Clerk of Supreme Court hoskins
reporter. Ahes
STATE OFFICERS.
GeSsrnnl Governor .:::..:.:.::joh H. Fraipe
Secretary of Ih0mas nan
State Auditor. Carl o; Jorgenson
State Treasurer eteene
Sup't Public Instruction ....".....E {, Taylor
Commissioner of Insurance 80. W.. Taylor
Commissioner of Agriculture. =. Robert L.: Film
Commissioner Of Railroads.. P. N. Anderson.
w. H. Mann, w. H. Stutsman ..............
DISTRICT COURT
Judge Seventh District....:...W J; kneeshaw
Court Stenographer. ...... Laura j. Daubenbere
STATE SENATOR'S,
Eighteenth District. Henry McLear
REPRESENTATIVES,
Eighteenth District. ..:.... Ole T.: Avis
..........John Balsdon and JAS. Morgan
COUNTY OFFICERS.
County Treasurer. Robert Wori
Clerk of the District Court 49,. c. S. Robertson
States Attorney. Grlmsol
R Register OF afPpEetad John McGaavrai
Superintendent of Schools. ...,.. Fred J. Rehe
r rusnty s Snrveyor' Malcolm Darlin,
County Coroner. .........".Dr Stromber
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
First Com'r District. ...........Ne NIcolsol
Second Conf District. Sam lverso
Third, Com'r District" y. Erifs so
FOurtn COU I
Fifth Com'r District .............Ale Russe-
CIT OFFICERS.
Mavor A. Mclntyr
Aldermen list Ward. .,Jno. Power John Boy
Aldermen 2nd Ward. r. T. Burke, VIM Strange
Aldermen 3rd Ward. I. B, HankeyI, >. Balgaar
City Auditor. Wiin
City treasurer. 49,. :. -. : -
Chief of Police. nee
CIV Attorney ......W B. Dickso
on JnsticeS ..Joseph Pow
Police Magistrate ............... A. u Mona
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
FAILED TO MAKE BRITAIN DRY
English Cabinet Took No Action Re-
garding Matter of Barring Drink
Victory for Vets.

London, April Prohibition advo-
Gates lost immediate hope for dry"
England when the British cabinet ad-
journed an important conference yes
terday afternoon without reaching
definite decision on the prohibition
question.
1t was given out that the chancellor
Of the exchequer, David Lloyd-George,
will confer Friday with representa-
tives of the liquor interests. This con-
ference, it is understood, will result
in the drafting of compromise meas
ure to be submitted when parliament
reassembles next week.
In nearly every quarter the an
nouncement that Lloyd George was
to meet the liquor men to talk COM
promise was accepted as an admission
of defeat by the prohibition forces.
At the Friday conference the extent
to which the government will go in
regulating the liquor traffic during the
remainder of the war probably will be
determined.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
MAY SHOW THE FIGHT FILMS
Owners Of Havana Pictures Have an
Ingenious Scheme to EVade
United States Law.

Washington, April 9.-Justice de-
partment officials were not yet pre-
pared yesterday to say what they
would do if an attempt should be made
to display the Willard-Johnson fight
pictures mixed into regular
movie" play.
The owners of the picture rights,
it was understood at the department,
proposed to condense the hottest
rounds from the film, weave a love
plot around them and display them
ostensibly as an ordinary photo
drama, not as fight pictures at all.
By this means it was said they be-
1ieved they could evade the law
against the interstate transportation
of prize fight films.
Department officials admitted the
idea was ingenious, and some of them
thought it might work, though it was
not deemed a certainly.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
GERMANY PUTS OUT FEELER
Rumors in Washington Say United
States Has Been Approached
Regarding Peace.

Washington, April 1O.-Reviva1 of
reports that Germany having aban-
doned hope of a smashing victory"
has informally intimated to the Unit
ed States a willingness to discuss
peace propositions from the allies, met
with no confirmation in official quar-
tiers here yesterday.
Secretary Bryan positively refused
to comment on it. He said that re-
ports of this character, in various
guises, have been current here al
most since war began, but none was
based on anything concrete. He in
timated that the present report, like
the others, was based more on hope
than on fact.
At the White House it was said
there was nothing new in the situa-
ton. The president, it was said, still
sees no immediate opportunity for this
government to tender its good offices
to the belligerents. 1t was pointed
cut, however, that when a peace move
ment is initiated it's success will de-
pend on all information being with
held until a concrete basis for nego-
tiations can be arranged.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
TO MEET FOR CHILD WELFARE
Missouri Congress of Mothers and
Parent-Teacher Associations are
Going to Kansas City.

St Louis, April THE third an
nual convention of the Missouri Con-
gress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher
Associations will be held in the Grand
Avenue Temple, Kansas City, April
q, % and 20. This will be meet
ing of parents and teachers to dis
cuss important things concerning the
welfare of the child in the home,
school and state Some of the most
prominent educators of the state uni
versities of both Kansas and Mis-
souri, will speak and open discussion
will follow the different addresses.
Mrs. E. R. Weeks, Kansas City,
vice president of the National Con-
gress Of Mothers, will deliver the ad-
dress of welcome, and Mrs. ]. B. Nc
Bride, Springfield, president of the
Missouri Congress of Mothers, will re-
spond. Mrs. s. NJ. Williams, presi-
dent of the Kansas Congress of Moth
ers, and others will speak.
The second and third days of the
convention will be devoted to ad-
dresses and general discussion of the
Rights of the Child in Home, School
and State" and reports from officers
and department chairmen.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
THE PRINz EITEL is lHTERNED
Commander of German Sea Raider
Says Expected Relief Failed TO
Arrive-To Navy Yard.

Newport News, Va, April S.-Com-
mander Max Thierichens of the Ger
man auxiliary cruiser, Prinz Eitel
Friedrich, asked the United States
government through port authorities
here last night to intern his ship and
crew for the war.
Up to the last moment, the German
skipper kept up the appearance of be-
ing ready for a dash to sea, and when
the time for decision finally came, he
explained that failure of expected
relief to arrive had made it neces-
sary to intern rather than deliver
crew and ship to fruitless and certain
destruction by British and French
warshfps waiting of the Virginia
capes."
Today the commerce raider will
make her last cruise of the war. She
will be taken to the Norfolk navy yard,
across Hampton Roads from the ship
yard here, where she has been since
coming into port on March 10 after the
remarkable commerce destroying voy-
age from the Orient, during which she
sent the American ship William P.
Frye to the bottom.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
TO USE TURNER AS WITNESS
Runaway Cashier Of the chautauqua
Bank VIII Help State in Regaining
Valuable Securities.

s. n. Hawks, assistant attorney gen
eral, went to Chautauqua recently TO
welcome home Frank Turner, the run
away cashier Of the state bank there.
who is returning from Brazil yOlun-
tarily.
Hawks is not intending to file pro-
ceedings against Turner at the pres
ent time because of the failure of the
bank, but he needs Turner as a wit
ness in a suit to recover about $4,000
for the depositOrs of the failed bank
When Turner left Kansas he left his
wife in charge of the bank a Kansas
City banker obtained from Mrs. Tur
ner about $4,000 worth Of valuable col
lateral which the Chautauqua bank
held and which the Kansas City bank
wanted as protection for debts from
Turner'S bank. w. F. Benson, state
bank commissioner, has brought suit
to have this property returned TO the
Chautauqua bank and this, case will
be tried next week.
The Arnold Investment Company OF
Kansas City, which handled about
SIS. 900 of forged cattle paper, has
brought suit in the federal court TO
compel the bank to pay it for the
losses from the banks assets, which
would leave the depositors without a
cent. This paper was handled outside
the bank, but by Turner and Walter
house, his predecessor, and the state
viii fight the claim also.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
ELECTION THIEVES GUILTY
Twenty-seVen Members of Terre
Haute Gang Convicted in United
States Court.

Indianapolis, April 7.-AH of the
twenty-seven defendants, including
Mayor Dom NJ. Roberts, in the Terre
Haute election fraud case were found
guilty by a jury here yesterday. The
case has been on trial in the federal
court since March 8.
Judge Anderson announced that SEN
tence would be passed on those who
were found guilty and on the eighty
nine who have pleaded guilty next
Monday morning at 10 o'clock In
the meantime, he permitted all the
defendants, with the exception of
Alexander Aczel, alias Steel, to re-
main at liberty, under their previous
bonds Steel has been in Jail for
some time, unable to give bond OF
$4,000 for an alleged attempt to in
fluence government witnesses.
All of the defendants, many of
whom were accompanied by relatives,
took the verdict calmly and there was
no demonstration of any sort.
William Schwaninger, a druggist
and announced the verdict. After the
jury had been discharged one of the
members said the verdict was reached
last night. The jury was composed
OF ten farmers, an insurance agent
and a druggist. Ten of the jurors are
Democrats, one Republican and one
a Progressive.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
BACK IN HIS BANK
F. E. Turner Will Help Settle
Affairs of Chautauqua
Institution.
YOUNG CASHIER WON'T TALK
Refuses TO Tell of His Brazilian Trip
or What Became of Miss
ing Funds.

Frank Ernest Turner, 2S-year-Old
bank cashier, is back behind the win
dow of the bank which closed its doors
three days after he fled in the night
Of January %.
But the mystery Of this town drama
only has deepened with his return
engaging smile that bellies his ability
to keep his lips closed, says merely:
81 am back to do what 1 can to
straighten up the tangle."
All other questions, no matter how
trivial, are referred to his attorney,
who, as yet, knows nothing of the
story.
Fate has seldom dealt more oddly
with a country boy than it has with
this tall, tow-headed, amiable and
seemingly easy going and transparent
youth, who does not look his age.
A month ago a penniless refugee in
q tropical port, and among a people
who do not speak his language, after
living his life within the narrow IA
dius of this isolated community, he
has returned voluntarily to face Grim
inal prosecution. And not until his
return was the information charging
him with receiving deposits after the
bank was in a failing condition filed.
He went through the formality Of ar
rest and was released on a bond over
subscribed by some of the heaviest
losers in the bank failure.
The outstanding facts, in chrome
logical order, are these: Born il
1887 in Chautauqua county, Kansas
Father died in the boys infancy
Mother remarked and moved to the
Pacific coast. Reared by his grand
parents, who are comparatively vel
to do and who idolized him Went &c
country schools and later to a bust
ness college at Wichita, his first and
practically his only time outside the
community for any period.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS

Display Of the American flag at
all polling places in Chicago's recent
mayoralty election swept away the
usual bitterness among partisan cleo
ton workers, County Judge Thomas F.
Scully announces. He said the pres
ence of the national emblem raised re-
spect for the polling places.
"A new movement Of the old Gu
Zebra Cut slide, on the west bank of
the Panama canal, has closed the canal.
Several ships are tied up, among them
the Kenkon Maru, the first Japanese
ship to use the waterway
Vaudeville isn't the only chance
Jess willard, white prizefight cham
pion, now has for making a living.
The president Of the Oklahoma State
Board of Agriculture has Offered him
the job Of state cattle inspector. The
offer said the state NEEDED just such
a man as Jess.
An order calling for forty-five
thousand tons Of steel rounds for
shrapneI has been placed with the
Carnegie Steel Company of Pittsburgh
by Cleveland concern acting for the
French government
Three young men. members of the
NontcIair, n. Y, Academy Alumni As
ISOLATION, were drowned recently when
a motor car in which they were riding
with four others plunged through an
open drawbridge into the Passiac
River
Mrs. Zekia Nuttan of Coyocan,
Miss, Miss Katherine B. Davis OF New
York and Miss Jane Adams Of Chi
cago have been selected by the Wo-
mans board of the Panama-Pacific Elk.
position as the three most noted wo
men Of Ame-iea.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
HEAVY FIGHTING
ON WEST FRONT
French are Making a Strong
Effort to Capture the
Metz Forts.
HAVE OCCUPIED LES IEPARGES
Carpathian and Vosges Campaign
Believed to Be Part of the Gen.
eraI Offensive Plan of Allies
Against the Germans.

London, April 1O.-Repulses of the
Germans at various points in France,
the taking of Les Eparges, an import
ant strategic point on the road toward
their objective, Metz, and the capture
of lines of trenches are announced in
the latest French official report of the
warfare in the West, while Petrograd
asserts that in the Carpathians the
Russians are in possession of the en-
tire principal chain of mountains, ex-
cepting one hill.
The Germans in an earlier state
ment outlining the course of events in
the West declared that in the region
between the Mouse and the MOselle,
where LIS Eparges is situated and
where sanguinary fighting has been in
progress for several days, the French
charges were absolutely without sue
cess and their losses heavier than
those of the Germans.
French Into Les Eparges.
In addition to Les Eparges, the
French claim the capture of some six
hundred feet of ground in the forest of
ALLY and to have retaken trenches
from the Germans north of Beausejour.
From the French and German reports
the viciousness of the fighting is in
dictated by the announcement that
there have been artillery and infantry
engagements, hand-to-hand fighting,
the sapping of trenches and the throw
ing of incendiary and asphyxiating
bombs
Vienna makes no denial of Petro-
grads claim to further successes in
the Carpathians. but says the Russian
frontal attacks are being made with
out regard to loss of life and that
high heaps of dead or wounded mark
the battlefield.
Allies Move in Unison.
The military correspondent of the
Times says he considers that the oper-
atoms on the Carpathian line and be-
tween the Meuse and Moselle rivers in
France constitutes the opening of the
Allies offensive in the summer cam
paign; that they are not isolated ac-
tons, but parts of the general plan.
1t must be admitted, says the CORE
spondent, that in the earlier phases of
the war, owing to Germany's numer-
ical preponderance, there was some
thing wanting in the coordination of
the Allies plans, but there is no long
er any excuse for want Of harmony.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
RAILROADS NEED MORE MEN
Employment Agencies of West Asked
to Supply 10000 UnskiIIed La
borers at Once.

Chicago, April Unemployment
agents in many cities between Chica-
go and Denver have been asked to sup
ply 10000 unskilled 1aborers for rail-
road work, it was announced here yes
terday. The Burlington will put 1000
men to work by May 1, and the Union
Pacific 1000 by June L. The Rock
Island, Missouri Pacific and North
western systems are named as seek
ing the other 1000.
Because of expected heavy tourist
traffic, hundreds of miles of tracks
and roadbeds are to be put into the
best possible condition and many
miles of sidings are being constructed
to take care of the extra number OF
trains
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
THOMPSON WINS IN CHICAGO

Chicago, April William Hale
Thompson was elected mayor of Chi
cago today by an estimated plurality
of 10000. Returns from 1,4O0 pre-
cincts out of 1866 indicated that he
had carried the entire Republican city
ticket to victory.
Women voted for the first time at
mayoralty election in Chicago and in
complete returns showed that the rela-
tive percentages of men and women
received by Thompson and Robert
SWeitzer, the defeated Democratic can
didate, were approximately the same.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
A LoRIMER MOTION DENIED
Former United States Senator Must
Stand Trial for Wrecking Chi
cago Bank.

Chicago, April 1O-William Lori
mer, expelled from the United States
senate, and other officials OF the de-
funct La Sale Street Trust and Saw
ings bank, must stand trial on state
charges of conspiring to wreck the
institution. That was the effect of
a decision in criminal court yester-
day by which a motion to quash the
indictment was overruled and twenty
four of the twenty-five counts in the
document were sustained
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
Motor Throuoh open Rridue.

Newark, N J., April Three
young men, members of the MontcIair
Academy Alumni Association, were
drowned yesterday when a motor car
in which they were riding with four
others plunged through an open draw
bridge into the Passiac river.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
Business Gains Riaht Alono.

Washington, April Reports on
business conditions in the United
States made to President Wilson show
steady improvement He told call
ers yesterday that business was be-
coming less ''spotty" and more uni
form in its improvement.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
Carpenters to strike

Chicago, April 10.-Sanction of a
strike of 10000 carpenters in Chica-
go. because demands for increased
wages have been refused, was granted
by the executive board OF the Inter
national Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
a citx Reat the sInaIe Ia.

Colorado Springs, Col, April ga
charter amendment providing for the
single tax in municipal affairs was de
feated in the city election here yes
terday. The voters also defeated an
amendment permitting Sunday amuse-
ments.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
Old Race Track Hotel Burned.

Long Branch, n. J.. April 8.-The
old Monmouth Park hotel, famous in
the days when horse racing flourished
in this state, burned yesterday. The
hotel was close to the Monmouth
Park race track, where many of the
country's most noted horses ran.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
Germans Took $50 Guns.

Berlin. April 10.-According to an
official list made public in Berlin yes
terday there were in Germany March
1 a total of $50 pieces of captured
artillery. These include $500 Belgian
pieces.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
Attached a Towns Jail.

ors Of the little village of HiIlsdale
attached the portable police station,
empty safe and chairs and tables in
the town hall
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
No Passport to johnson.

Washington, April 1O-Secretary
Bryan yesterday instructed Minister
Gonzales at Havana not to issue
passport to Jack Johnson, as Johnson
has been convicted of felony and is
fugitive from justice.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
Alaska House Votes pry Bill.

Juneau, Alaska, April S-A bill sub
hitting the question Of territorial pro-
hibition to the voters at the general
election, November 4, 1916, has passed
the lower house.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
Poured out 81 coo in WhisISv,

Washington, Pa. April 10.-Execut-
ors OF the estate of the late Joseph
Kammerer yesterday emptied 245 gal
Ions of whisky, from twenty to forty
five years old, into a sewer.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
IA, Conference IN WASHINGTON.

Washington, April s.-The annual
conference of the Methodist Episco-
pal church, comprising New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia.
was begun here yesterday.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
Germany Asks Ships Release.

Washington, April Germany has
protested to the United States against
the detention of the -Ameri-
can liner CdenwaId at San Juan, Por.
10 Rico.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-17
Lightning Strikes Stock Yards.

Kansas City. April 9.-Lightning
yesterday struck under the caves Of
the ninth story at the northeast cor
ner OF the Live Stock Exchange In
the West Bottoms The lightning
knocked out a few bricks and scat
tered several birds nests. The dam
age was slight