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Williston graphic., 1916-05-18
Map of Vast Highway
System In This Issue

On another page of this issue our
readers will find map prepared and
supplied to publishers free OF cos. by
the National Highways Association,
which has headquarters at Washing
ton, D. C. This association is sort
Of federation of all the good roads or-
ganizat;ons of the United States. The
enormous undertaking Of getting a
net work of properly constrUcte pub
l.c highways extended 10 all parts of
the United States is beng systemati-
cally pushed through the united ef-
forts of good roads advocates. Through
cooperation with state and national
governments it is the intention to lay
out plans of several routes that are
he most practical with reference to
the topography of the country and
the needs of commerce. While bet
ter roads have come to be recognized
as a subject of the highest Importance
the value and economy of them is but
slightly recognized. The highway sys-
tenn as planned by the association in
cludes numerous trunk lines extend
ing across the United States both
from east to west and north to south.
1t may be noted from the map that
Williston is on one of the main east
and west transcontinental roads,
while one of the north and south
trunk lines passes through Minot.
The Graphic Office is in receipt Of sev-
eral large maps showing in colors the
various roads included in the great
system planned.
The National Highways Associa-
ton is offering large cash prizes for
the best photographs of both good and
bad roads. Their offer was recently |
published in these columns.
Williston graphic., 1916-05-18
WHEN THE House. IS ASHES
AN INSURANCE POLICY IS GoLD

of Miss Helen Heffernan in honor Of
Miss Mae Byrnes bride Of the near
future. The rooms were decorated
with an elaborate scheme of red and
white. The Bride to be received many
pretty and useful articles. Dancing
was the diversion of the evening, af-
ter which delicious refreshments were
served by the hostesses.
E. B. Olson of Bonetrail spent a
couple of days in the city this week.
Attorney H. B. Wingerd of Wild
rose had court business in this city
this week.
County Superintendent Peterson and
Nurse Frederickson visited the schools
at Ray Tuesday.
Ole Hansen and wife formerly Of
Williston came from Wolf Point for
the 18th Of May celebration.
Geo. F. Shafer, county attorney Of
Mckenzie, attended to legal business
before Judge Fisk Monday and Tues
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milo Grover were in
the city the latter part of last week.
Mr.. Grover made final proof on his
homestead.
Odden Stenehjem, cashier of the
Farmers State Bank of Arnegard,
was doing business in Williston on
Wednesday.
Mrs. Larkin C. Hart of Muddy VAL
ley is one of the delegates to the dis
trict convention of Federated Women's
Club to be held this week at Crosby.
Miss Bertha Palmer, field deputy,
visited schools last week at Grinnell,
Nesson and Hofflund. This week she
is visiting at Gladys Howard and
Wildrose.
Work is in progress on the tennis
courts of the Williston Tennis and
Golf Club. Three cinder and clay
courts will be made surrounded by
high backstops of wire netting.
Editor w. S. Graham and attorney
L. NJ. Burkey were in the City from
Watford couple of days this week.
Mr.. Burkey recently located in Wat
ford and is very much impressed with
Mckenzie and Williams County.
DR.. P. U. LeBerge, after attending
the State Medical Association at
Devils Lake, visited old friends at
Grafton and Grand Forks, and says he
thoroughly enjoyed himself and found
it difficult to get away from old as
sociations.
NJ. j. Swedlund with his family de-
parted Monday for Minneapolis
where they will make their future
home. Mr.. Swedlund has purchased
a Jewelry store at the corner of Hen
nepin Avenue and Lake Street and
will be pleased to have his old friends
call on him when in the city. Both
Mr.. and Mrs. Swedlund during their
warm friends al of whom wish them
success and prosperity in their new
home.
Williston graphic., 1916-05-18
Senior Play Enjoyed
By LARGE House Friday

After the usual manner of things
undertaken by Williston students, the
senior class play, "A College Town.
given at the Armory last Friday even
ing, was fine success both as an en-
tertainment for the large audience
and a financial enterprise. Over
$125.O0 was netted by the class, and
will be put to useful purposes.
"a College Town" is bright and
breezy comedy, nicely suited to serve
as a student play. The long role of
characters was taken as follows:
Character Cast
Jimmie Cavendish, a Rah Rah Boy.
........ ........ ..:..... Carl Hogan
Tad Cheseldine, the College Cut-up-:
........ ........ ........ Harold Gauthier
Leviticus, the Ace Of Spades: ::::.:...::
..M...... ........ ........... Clifford Kvindlog
Major Kilpepper, the Head of the
Professor s' Sen senacharrib Popp, OPP the
Chair of Philology. Robert Minckler
Scotch MacAllister, the Football
CAPTAIN. Howard Macdonald
Shorty Long, the Ubiquitous Fresh
man. Francis Carpenter
Billy Van Dorm, on the Glee Club.
. .... Walter Shikany
DE~Twiggs,, on the Faculty. ..-.-....-..:
......: .:... ....:...StePhen Grantier
Miss "Jim" Charming, the Girl from
Dixie. -. ... Bernice Wheeler
Marjorie Haviland, the College
Widow. ....... Gladys Steen
Mrs. Baggsby, "Ma," a Popular ,
Landlady. ........ .Orabelle Olmstead
Miss Jane Cavendish, Cavendish &
Dean, Wall st., N. Y....:-~
.Lurline Goddard
Mrs. Cleopatra Popp, a Faculty
Type ;-..Esther Rawitscher
Mrs. Mollie Stiles, Honeymooner..
.... ...... Bernice Wolpert
Miss Twiggs, Relic of Other Days:
.,.......................M Mary Rhodes
Mrs. Twiggs, a Motherly Old Soul
. ....... .Bernice Wolpert
Students, Members of the Faculty,
Town girls, the Football Team, Etc.
Williston graphic., 1916-05-18
Glendive Games Are
The Talk of The Town

All fandom is on the tip-toe Of in
terest over the series of ball games
to be played between the Williston
Opportunes and Glendive's fast team.
The first game occurs Friday even
ing at $50, the second Saturday
evening, same hour, and the conclud-
ing game begins at 2:45 Sunday af-
ternoon.
The Opportunes have had no chance
to measure their strength against an
opposing team from out of the city,
but they look like strong well BAL
anced team, and the management as
we'll as the enthusiasts of the COM
munity expect to see them take the
long end of the series. The grounds
have been considerably improved and
still other improvements will be made.
At present the team consists Of:
Clarence Marshall, manager and
captain, first base and pitch.
Chas. INNINGS, catch.
Louie Kolls, pitch, first and outfield.
C. A. Ruyle, outfeld and relief
pitcher.
Jerald Murphy, pitch and outfield.
Alex Harper, short stop.
Eddie Kimberly, third base.
Fred Seibert, outfeld.
Sidney Tyvan or "Fudge" Bruegger,
second base.
Ben Kruckeberg, utility, infield and
outfeld.
Although the manager has made no
statement on the subject, the 33d de-
gree dopesters are expecting Kolls to
20 on the mound in the opening game.
Glendive is reported to have
might fast team. Better still than last
season, with two of the greatest
pitchers in the Northwest on their
,taff-Leasey and Chase, the Wis.,
,onsin Indian.
The prospect for dates with some
asst teams is improving, both Cando
md Minot have agreed to an inter-
.hange of games although the dates
lave not been fixed, and numerous
Montana towns will undoubtedly be
'eady for business soon. ]
Williston graphic., 1916-05-18
SEED CORN FOR SALE

We have for sale q few hundred
bushels "Gehu" flint and "Triumph"
flint corn and mixed Dent corn. of the
1914 crop, which terminates better
than 80 per cent. Price $2.75 per
bushel shelled, sacks extra, f. 0. b.
cars Bismarck, N. Oak.
Bismarck Elevator & Invest ment Co.
48-2t Bismarck, N. Oak.
Williston graphic., 1916-05-18
sTH GRADE EXAMS

The County Superintendent's Office
announces that the Eighth Grade ex-
aminations will be held in all the rural
schools in the County May 25th and
26th. In cases where schools have
closed the students may take these
examinations at the superintendent's
office in Williston on these daes.
Williston graphic., 1916-05-18
FOR THE LADIES

FOR THE LADIES
Announcing
MISS LOU PENDROY
Graduate Corsetiere
kabO School of COrsetry
Special Demonstration of
Spring Corset Styles
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
MAY 10 AND 20
BOSTON STORE
w. A. Garrison, Prop.
Williston, N. D.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-01-21
FOUR KILLED, TEN HURT
IN SUBMARINE E-2 EXPLOSION IN
NEW YORK NAVY YARD.
PIunger Boat Was Being Repaired in
Dry-Dock-Deadly Hydrogen
Hampered Rescue.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
New York=Four men were kill I'd
and ten others injured, tive danger
ously. in an explosion on the subma-
rine E-2 while the craft was under
going repairs in dry-dock at the New
York navy yard. One of the men
killed was an enlisted electrician and
the other three civilian workers. At
least three of the ten in hospitals are
not expected to live.
Although the detonation was terri
fic, the submarine itself from the out
side shows none of the effects of the
explosion, the second fatal accident of
its kind in the history of the United
States navy The interior apparatus
was badly shattered. A ladder was
blown up TIN ough the coming tower
aud fell $50 feet away.
The injured men and one body were
removed soon after the accident, but
three bodies far down in the craft
could not be reached until the gas mad
been blown out by compressed air.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-01-21
SAY U.S.AT FOES MERCY
LABOR LEADER GoMPERs ASKS
PREPAREDNESS
Stirring Pleas Made by Prominent
Speakers at National Civic
Federation Meeting.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Stirring pleas for ma
tional preparedness and vigorous at
tacks on "peace-at-any-price' advo-
Gates were made by speakers of ma
tional prominence at the closing ses-
sion of the annual meeting of the
National Civic Federation
The speakers included Samuel Com
pers, president of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor; John Hays Ham
mond, Senators Wadsworth and Phe-
Ian, former Governor O'Neil of Ala
bama, Arthur III. Dadmun, secretary
of the Navy League of the United
States, and Talcott Williams of New
York, dean of the Pulitzer School of
Journalism.
While he insisted that military or
ganizations must be democratic and
the nation must be safeguarded
against the owls of militarism, Mr..
Gompers declared that Americas own
freedom had been achieved by resist
ance to tyranny, and that pacifists
failed to understand that quality of
the human race which made men will
ing to risk their all for an ideal.
Gompers declared that organized Ia.
bor thruout the United States favored
adequate national preparedness under
certain conditions which he summar
lied as including: Recognition OF
and cooperation with the organized
labor movement in all fields OF
tivity, Industrial, commercial, polit
ical, social and moral Establishment
and extension of the citizen soldiery
Democratically organized, officered
administered and controlled. Prohi
bition of the use of the militia fol-
strike duty.
So inadequately is the country's
military efficiency. declared Senator
Wadsworth, that if Congress were tC
order intervention in Mexico today, II
would be three, four or five months
before we could get the troops tC
intervene"
Senator Phelan declared that {
Single enemy with a stick of dyna
mite could put the Panama Canal ou
of business" and that 1--WE nave il
the Japanese in California an enem.
within cur midst againsr whose ex
pansion we must prepare"
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-01-21
WIIso, Nav Speak in Denver.

Washington.-Pres Wilson is
planning to assume personal leader
ship in the fight for stronger army
ard navy. So many reports have
reached him of confusion over the is
sue and of the uncertainty of the out
come that he has determined not only
to go before the country in public ad-
dresses, but to confer with leaders OF
the Senate and House. Among the
cities in which the President is said
to have decided to make addresses
are Chicago, st. Louis, Pittsburg, Kan
sas City and Dcnver.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-01-21
keatins,s Munition Plant Bill.

Wasblngton.--A bill appropriating
$S,000.000 to build government plant
for manufacture of war munitions in
or near Pueblo was introduced by
Congressman Keating of Colorado
The bill provides that contiguous to
the munitions plant there shall be es-
The secretary of war is instructed to
appoint committee of three officers
to select the exact location for the
two plants and construction work
must begin within six months after
the site is acquired. Kea.ing also in
troduced a bill appropriating s50,0vC
for site for fish culture station al
Rye, Colo.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-01-21
SHOW VILLAS BUTCHERS BODY
De Facto Government of Mexico to
XIII Bandit Ganu on Siuht.

Ell Paso, Textile corpse of Gen.
Jose Rodriguez, Villas cavalry lead.
or, was placed on public exhibition
Monday in the yard of the Juarez
custom house. The grueson show
was meant to prove that the Carran
"a government was determined to
punish the murderers of Americans
and other foreigners. A placardl On
the executed bandit leaders body an
nounced that all enemies of the de
facto government would meet a like
fate. The death order was also car.
ried out when Gen. Manual Baca
Valles and Enrique Cisneros, with
eight followers, were shot by Car
rama fighting squad at Casas
Grandes. Wales was known as Vii
las official executioner, successor Of
the late General Fierro. the butch.
err" Generals Rivas and Alameda OF
the villa army were executed by the
same firing squad that ended Rodrl-
guez's life at Madero.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-01-21
rmeIve Hundred Marooned.

Los Angeles. Jan. 20.-Whether the
great lcvees which hold the Colora-
do river back from the Imperial val
ley will hold was a question on which
hinged the possible fate of human
lives and millions of dollars worth
of property. Heavy rains moving
eastward left most of southern Cali
fornia recovering from floods. trou-
blesome but receding. which claimed
four lives and caused damage esti-
mated at $2.0OO.000.
A wall of water eleven feet high
was sweeping over the spillways Of
the Roosevelt dam on the Salt river.
The rise. however. had ceased. though
another one was predicted by recla-
nation officials.
Flood conditions assumed alarm
ing proportions at Yuma, Ariz.. last
night. Reports from all points along
the Gila river above here as far as
Phoenix were to the effect that the
river was rising rapidly. The Colo
RADIO river rose one and one-half feet
in twenty-four hours and began to
rise more rapidly late Wednesday
night.
In addition to the flood of water
rushing toward Phoenix down these
two rivers. between 10000 and $1,000
feet of water second was pouring
over the Laguna dam.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-01-21
Dodge Estate over $4,000, 600.

Council Bluffs, Iowa-The will of
Gen. Grenville NJ. Dodge was admit
ted to probate here. N. P. Dodge, Jr..
of Omaha, and F. S. Puzey of New
York. were confirmed as executors of
the will and trustees of the estate.
1t is believed the estate will aggre-
gate more than s2,0o0.000, most of 1t
being invested in Union Pacific and
other railroad bonds. The trustees
have one year in which to make the
beuuests of s150.0o0 named by Gen.
Dodge.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-01-21
satasE .suiLotMas WRECKED, AND
TREES SNAPPED LIKE sTRAws
IN DISASTER.
WODIE, BUT 20 ESCAPE
ToTTEaINe DAM tMPERILs MANY
LIVES AND MILLIONS IN PROP
ERTY IN CALIFORNIA.
western Newspaper Onion News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Leadville. Coio.-Leaving death and
ruin In its white course. tremen-
dons snowslide swept with terrific
impact down the steep passes of
Mount Elbert. In Lake county one
mile above Twin Lakes. Wednesday
afternoon shortly after / o'clock,
buried alive two mining men. one a
former resident of Denver. Twenty
capped death as the frozen snow and
earth Numbered down the mountain
side. The dead are J. w. Remine. 33
years old. brother Of Mrs. John Wink
Ter, 1t14 Acoma street, Denver. and
Paul Stiffler. 40 years old. of Twin
lakes. Remine was the son of w. p.
.Bcmine. the mention of whose name
of the most successful of the early
day gold diggers.
Both men were In the employ of the
Gordon group OF gold mines. With a
score of other men they were endeav-
oring to reach shaft opening by
cutting their way through deep
snow.
Then came the moving. crashing.
laundering slide, swapping trees at
the roots as If they we're straws,
sweeping them down, down the bot
tomless depths OF the sheer mountain
side.
In the path of the slide were the
mine buildings. which were wrecked
by the oncoming run and carried
along in its maddening speed.
With a great roar, the slide finally
was broken up when it struck high
barrier of cliffs near where the town
OF Twin Lakes is situated.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-01-21
czAR's MEN RouT TURKS.
Russians Capture Slxty-Six Miles ot
Trenches In Hand-to-Hand Fight
in ake Tortep, Reoion

in Lake Tortem Region.
London, Jan. 20.-Tearing through
the Turkish lines In the Caucasus, the
Russians captured sixty-six miles oi
trenches, routed the Moslems from
strong positions in the region oil
Lake Tortem, and occupied line ex
tending to the Charianson river north
of Melazghert. The Ottoman forces
fled after desperate hand-to-hand
battle in which soldiers fought with
fists, stones, dubbed rifles and bro
ken bayonets. The Sultan's troops
finally established themselves OH the
strongly fortified plain of Ezerum, but
in order to cover their retreat sacrt
ficed large portion of their army.
Entente allied airmen have dropped
bombs on Metz and Arnaville. doing
some material damage.
With the announcement that Monte
negro had broken off negotiations
for peace with Austro Hungary comes
the official statement in a Paris
newspaper that King Nicholas and bis
family and suite are already on their
way to Italy.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-01-21
Chinese Rebels Win Fight.

San Francisco. = Sixty thousand
revolutionary troops have defeated
the forces of Yuan Shi Kai, head OF
the Chinese government, in an action
fought in the province of SEE Chuen,
according to 4 cablegram received
here from Shanghai by Tong King
Chong, president of the Chinese Re-
public Association. The losses in
killed and wounded were about 1000.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-01-21
House Passes Land Leasing Bill.

Washington.-The mineral lani
leasing bill affecting all of the 700.-
100000 acres of public land in conti-
mental United States and Alaska
passed the House. Protection for Wy
oming and California oil promoters
whose claims were affected by the
withdrawal of public lands under the
Taft administration is one of its fea-
lures. 1t now goes to the Senate.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-01-21
Report 1,soo ArmenIans Massaered.

London.-Armenian refugees arriv-
ing at Erivan, Russian Transcaucasia.
state that / 500 Sasun Armenians who
were forced by cold and famine to
surrender to the Turks under govern
ment amnesty, were killed by order
of the governor of Mush. The men
were butchered, and the women and
children drowned in the Euphrates
river.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-01-21
Biz Stock and Horse Show Opens.

cry section of the country, estimated
in the aggregate to be worth S13,000.-
600, of which s1,O00,00O represents the
value of the blue-blooded horses tnat
have won prizes at the greatest shows
in the country, were at the Denver
Union stockyards when the tenth an
nual National Livestock and Horse
Show opened Monday.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-01-21
Money to Finish Public Buildings.

Washington. = Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo has sent COM
munication to Congress. requesting
urgency appropriations for construc-
ton work on Colorado public buill-
ings as follows: Durango, $4,000;
Fort Morgan. $500; La Junta. $780,
900. For Wyoming he recommends;
Cody, $500 and Basin, $500.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-01-21
HAY AND GRAIN MARKET.

F. o. B. Denver, Carload Price.
Hay.
Buying Prices
Colorado upland. per ton. $4,000 1900
Nebraska upland, per ton. 10.00@11.00
Second bottom Colorado
and Nebraska, per ton. 9.00@10.00
Timothy, per ton ...... 14.5G@1550
Alfalfa, per ton ....... 10.50@11.50
South Park, choice, per
ton 15.O0615.50
San Luis Valley, per ton. 12.00@13.O0
Gunnison Valley, per ton. 12.00@130O
Straw, per ton ........ 4.00@ 450
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-01-21
wyoming Physician Dies In Chicago.

Chicaso-Dr. Frank ]. Jaegers, a
physician, on his way from his home
in Evanston, Wyo., to his New York
residence, died here of pneumonia as
his train entered the station. He was
seventy years old.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-01-21
Arizona Homes in Floods Path.

Phoenix, Ariz., Jan. 49, Flood con
c;tions in this Part of the state have
increased and great volumes of water
are pouring down the Salt and Verde
rivers
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-01-21
Chicago Grain and Provision Price

Chicago Grain and Provision Prices.
Chicago - Wheat = No. 2 red.
sl2ss; No. red, -s1.26@1.26A; No. 2
hard, s1.23h@1.24h; No. hard,
$L15h@1.22.
Corn-No. yellow, nominal; No. 4
yellow, Tx @73c; No. white, 72K
@73hc.
oats-No. 3 white. 47@4sc: stand.
ard, 4S1s@491Ao.
Barley-65I79c.
Timothy-s5. 5067.75.
Clover-s10.0001
Pork-s1s.S0919.sO.
Lard-s10.7501095.
Ribs-s10.40@10.80.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-01-21
Gen. Villas Life Forfeit on sight

Icl Paso.-General Carranza tele-
graphed the Mexican embassy at
Washington that he had formally
proclaimed Francisco villa an outlaw
and authorized his execution by any
citizen of the republic who might en-
counter him.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-01-21
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS LOSS Is
REPORTED AND MANY ARE
INJURED.
MANY TOWNS IN WATER
TWO DROWNED, HUNDREDS ARE
HOMELESS, AS RESULT OF
CALIFORNIA STORM.
western newspaper Union News Service.

western Newspaper Union News Service.
Los Angeles. CaI-Two men were
reported drowned and hundreds of per-
sons we're homeless Moncay night as
result of the heavy rainstorm which
has caused almost every river and
stream in southern California to over
flow its banks and inundate the low
lands adjacent. Several towns in the
San Bernardino valley are partly in
undated by flood waters, bridges have
been damaged and power plants of the
electric corporations were forced to
shut down by the worst storm in this
section in several years.
Fred Smith and A. RIvere, ranch
ers, were reported to have lost their
lives while trying to ford swollen
streams. tributary of the Santa Ana
river overflowed its banks near Red
lands and flooded twenty houses in the
lowlands More than sixty persons
were rescued from the flooded district
and taken to a refugee camp estab-
lished at sanitarium nearby. Twelve
houses in East Highlands, San Ber-
nardino county. were surrounded by
river. The occupants were taken out
by rescue parties The homeless fam
lilies were cared for at an orange pack
ing house Street car and railroad
traffic throughout southern California
was demoralized and numerous acci-
dents reported. Property damage es-
timated at $3.50, 900 was caused in the
Midway oil district when a southwest
gale that assumed the proportions of
tornado swept the section, leveling
400 derricks and wrecking engine
houses, bunk houses and dwellings.
The greatest damage was done in what
is known as the north Midway and Nc
Kittrick fields. No lives were lost and
no one was seriously hurt.
The storm extended far into Ari
zona, where washouts and flood con-
ditions generally were reported. Res
idents of the ella river, a few miles
southwest of Phoenix, were warned
10 prepare to flee to higher ground
Railroad service was discontinued be-
tween Phoenix and Ray, Ariz.
The Associated Oil Company lost
sixty-four out of eighty-four derrlcks
in one field OF its operations.
One hundred carloads of material
for rebuilding have already been or
dered to the devastated fields.
Flood waters of the Tijuana river
threatened Monday night the racing
track of the Lower California Jockey
Club at Tijuana, on the Mexican bor-
der near here. Hundreds of men were
put to work to save a portion of the
track which lies close to the river
| bank.
Three days of steady rain has trans
formed both the Tijuana and San Di-
ego rivers into torrents, the rapidly
rising waters having compelled hun
dreds of persons in the lowlands to
abandon their dwellings.
The bitterness engendered here By
the massacre of eighteen Americans
at Santa Ysabel has not visibly abat-