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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-09

Baby Boy
Gets Home
Court Formalities Closed for ADJ
option of Master Paul Ray
mond Ward
soLEN, N. D. COUPLE
ADOPT LITTLE CHILD

Master Paul Raymond Ward, the lit
tie child abandoned in an apple box
on the back doorstep of the George
Will home during the holidays, has a
home.
Court formalities, which are neces-
sary for the adoption of child, have
ben brought to a close. The petition
for the adoption and the final ppapers
were signed by William G. Hoffner
and his wife, Ida B. Hoffner, of Solen,
n. d.
When George Will stuck his head
out of the back door of his home
into the 30-degree below temperature
of Christmas week, he saw a box.
Thankful to Santa Claus, he took the
parcel inside and removed blanket
from the top. then rubbed his eyes
in amazement.
-Bedded in several layers OF blankets
was a three weeks-old baby boy. Be-
side the infant were two complete out
fits of baby clothes.
Will reported his find" to the po'
lice. 1t was Eismarck's first baby
abandonment case.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-09

Attention has recently been called
to the serious situation which pre-
walls in the automobile industry-one
feature of the national food-fuel-
freight congestion. In some quarters
It has been estimated that the value
of the Detroit.made motor cars held
up or in storage, due to the failure to
move freight, totals $1O,0OO,0OO.
Various explanations for this Crisis
have been made, but no one has given
keener analysis of the situation or
has gone more vigorously or fearless
ly into the heart of the matter than
Harry M. Jewett president of the
Paige Detroit Motor Company. And,
incidentally, Mr.. Jewett's point OF
view is both new and startling.
Who is to blame? the public asks.
With industries crippled and in mo-
mentary danger of a complete shut
down, with the fuel situation so SER
ious that the country shivers from
fear as we'll as from cold and with the
high cost of living breeding riots and
famine the public is now engaged in
the .over.popular American sport of
hunting for the villain of the drama.
Usual Cry.
"Let us investigate" is the cry, and
committees and commissions get to
work.
The war is responsible-the Ger
mans did 1.-THE president is guilty
the food and fuel spectators are the
cause.-the railroads are the criminals
all these explanations and charges
are advanced, according to the pre-
JUDGES and predictions Of the indi-
vidual.
Mr.. Jewett. however, comes out fiat
footedly with a vigorous accusation
that the people-the great American
people-are to blame. The public is
now suffering for its own sins. It's
own shortsightedness, its own selfish.
ness and is stewing in its own guilt.
"The machinery for the distribution
of food, fuel and general freight has
undoubtedly broken down." says Mr..
Jewett. ut is woefully inadequate to
meet the demands now made on it.
We in the automobile business are
and have been for some time-in
serious predicament. Millions Of dol
lars worth of cars are now in storage
in Detroit because they can't be ship
ped. The summer driveway day has
become daily winter feature, and
dealers, to secure deliveries, are COM
ing to the factory and driving their
cars home, in some instances more
than 500 miles away. Raw materials,
parts, supplies of all kinds have been
held up in transit and therefore pro
duction has suffered. Z .sgsa
"Now, while this condition is due d.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-09
CHARGE
INTO HEAD TO
END HIS LIFE
Herman Helmugh Of Hebron,
Found Dead on Banks Of
Knife River
Especial to the Tribune. J.

Hebron, N. D., March 9.-Placlng
the barrel of shotgun against the
bridge Of his nose, Herman Helmugh,
a single man, about 80 years OF age
blew out his brains last evening
about 1880 o'clock, on the banks OF the
Little Knife river, south of this vii
lage.
Helmugh came to the United States
from Germany about three years ago.
No reason has ben advanced for the
deed. aa
Worked About Village.
Shortly after his arrival in this
country, Helmugh came to this part
of the state and had worked at diff
ferent positions in the village. being
for time in the employ OF a local
land Office and the elevator. He was
we'll educated.
Inquest Unnecessary.
The suicide occurred about 1870
o'clock last evening" Coroner T. G.
C. Kennedy of Morton county was
called from Mandan and arrived on
No. / of the Northern Pacific. After
making an examination of the body,
he stated it was a direct case OF sui
eide and that an inquest was not nee
eessary. The coroner returned to
,Mandan this afternoon.
The spot which Helmugh chose TO
end his life borders on the edge OF
town. Several residents of the vii
lage heard the shot. The body was
discovered a short time afterwards.
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Temperature
IN ERROR.

In lamenting the death of tho bill
providing for a. non-partisan ballot,
the Courier-News is in error when it
says the measure was similar to
that in effect in Minnesota" The bill
proposed by the League differed from
the law in effect in Minnesota. Our
sister state eliminates parties in num-
icipal county and judicial elections
and provides in addition for non
partisan legislature.
The bill defeated in the senate adj
vocated complete non-partisan bal
lot from governor down to justice of
the peace. In city and county affairs
parties doubtless are supertuous but
the wisdom of abolishing all parties
from state government is another
story as Kipling says.
Minnesota is not satisfied with the
non.partisan legislature. Already
there is strong movement on foot to
return to the old system of party leg
islative primaries.
Under our present law municipal
elections no longer have any party sig.
nificance. The same applies to school
and judicial elections.
Minnesota wisely continues to Sc
lect her constitutional officers through
the medium of parties.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-09
COUNTY BOARD
APPR0PR|ATES
FOR HIGHWAY
Sum of $4,000 to Be Spent in I'm
proving Trail From City to
Kidder Line
DETENTION HOSPITAL
UNDER CONSIDERATION
One Road Outfit to Be Placed in
Each Commissioner District
for 1917

Extensive road improvements have
been outlined by the board of county
commissioners at its three-day ses.
sion which closed Thursday.
The board has appropriated $4,000
for the improvement of the Red Trail,
covering a strip from Bismarck to the
Kidder county line. 1t is also making
application to the state highway com.
mission for an additional $4,000 and
to the federal department of agricul-
ture through ]. w. Bliss, secretary Of
the state highway commission.
Another Appropriation.
The same amount was appropriated
to be used on the main highway, be-
ginning at the south county line and
connecting with the main highway
leading to Linton, thence north to
Sterling and from Sterling over to the
Red Trail to Bismarck and from Bis
marck to Wilton to the Mclean coun-
ty line via Minot road. The same
amount will be asked from the state
highway commission and the federal
depart. Is ~ 455
" County or City Hospital.
The board also took up the matter
of establishing detention hospital
in the capital city. The vast number
of people affected with communicable
diseases coming to the city for treat
ment has presented problem to the
county as we'll as the city, and the
board appointed committee, compos-
ed of E. G. Patterson and Birlea Ward,
to confer with the city commission
with a view of building city or
county hospital.
Machine in Each District.
1t was also decided to place one
road outfit in each commissioners
district for the season of 1917. A fore
man will be placed in charge with a
salary of $50 per month and an as
sistant at SIPS The commissioners
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-09
WHEN Is A MANDATE?

4 There is conviction abroad that
when the people adopt constitu
tional amendment, they impose a di
rect mandate upon the legislature
to carry out its provisions to the let.
ter.
Those who believe in the initiative
and referendum insist upon their
pound of flesh whenever the people
through an amendment to the consti-
tuition authorize the legislature to do
q specific thing.
OF course anyone who gives serious
thought to the situation knows differ.
emily. The adoption of an amendment
is not always a mandate from the
people. In many instances amend
ments are passed to provide for emer-
gencies that may occur at future
date and never intended to be the
basis for immediate legislative action.
One of our contemporaries says in
q recent issue:
"A second instance is found in the
two bills providing machinery for
making effective the constitutional
amendment that says the people have
the right upon petition to initiate
amendments to their constitution. The
supreme court has said that amend
ments, passed by the people in 1914,
is not effective until the legislature
passes an act or acts specially pro-
viding the means. WHAT was the
senate's action on this? 1t turned
down the bills, thus depriving the
voters of the state of the right they
themselves have demanded"
The people did not impose any man
date when this amendment was adopt
ed. II was understood at the time
that It was not to be self-executing
The prohibition forces in the legis-
lature that submitted this amendment
to the people insisted upon that safe
guard until such time as there would
Be no danger of resubmission Of the
liauor issue. Debates in both branch
=. ahana14 this And te those versed in
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-09
WAR SUMMARY
ASSOCIATED Press)

Intensive fighting in the Champagne
region resulting favorably to the
French and failure of French at
tack at Hill No. 3O4, northwest of
Verdun are reported in today's Off.
cial statement. BtEf4 GiskEEEtEgt Ia
The Cham payne; attack! Paris DE-
clares, was brilliantly successful. 1t
was aimed to reduce the salient near
Maisons de Champagne, created BY a
successful German attack in Febru.
airy. 1t resulted, according to the
Paris report, in the destruction of
German positions on front of more
than 1900 yards and approximately
from 500 to 800 yards in depth.
Berlin announces the penetration of
German trenches in this attack, but
asserts the recovery Of important
dominating positions, conceding, how.
ever, that the French retained pos
session of some of the ground their at
tack brought them.
A successful assault by the Ger
mans on Russian positions along the
Rumanian western front, between the
Trotus and Uzul valleys is announced
by German headquarters.
Ninety-one aeroplanes were lost by
the Entente last Monday, as compar
ed with a German loss of "a machines
Berlin announces.
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the states history. these facts are
we'll known.

the states history, these facts are
we'll known.
| Had the amendment been made self.
executing, the prohibition forces would
have killed it at the polls and the
friends of the initiative and referen-
dunn compromised rather than have
the endorsement of the principle fail
at the ballot box.
While speaking of mandates" re.
call the decision Of the voters at the
last general election repeating the tax
levy for terminal elevators. This
action was taken at the very election
that Governor Frazier was swept into
office by an almost unanimous vote.
II we follow the logic of our esteem
ed contemporary, the decision Of the
voters to repeal the levy for the cree
ton of elevators was mandate
against engaging in state owned utili-
ties.
1t is poor rule that will not work
both ways. 1t is impossible to praise
the rule when it works as we like it
and damn it when it operates against
us. No! We must take the fat with
the lean.
1t is within the realm OF reason to
suppose that after the voters adopted
an amendment confering authority
upon a legislature to take specific
action conditions may change and
such action, if taken, might be mimic.
able to the state. The legislature
must be the judge in the final analy.
sis as to the wisdom of acting even
though power is conferred, unless of
course the people themselves explicit
ly decide that their instructions are
mandatory.
The term mandate is used loosely
and The Tribune asserts without fear
Of successful contradiction that the
adoption of constitutional amend
ment by the people is not always a
mandatory instruction binding on the
legislature. D..
Take the language of the constitu-
tional amendment authorizing ter
minal elevators. 1t reads: "the legis-
lature is hereby authorized and en-
powered to provide" Nothing man.
datory about that. If it had said the
legislature shall" that would have
been mandatory.
Subsequent developments demon
strated that the people desired to try
out a state owned terminal elevator
and the last legislature in its wisdom
carried out that mandate in S. B. 81.
1t is idle to insist that every amend
ment adopted is a mandate.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-09
THANKSGIVING
DAY FOR ORANGES
CONES TOMORROW
Front Windows of Almost Every
Store Being Dressed With
California Navels

If one has longed for an orange
grove all his own somewhere in Cali
fornia, he can enjoy the pleasure Of
realizing the next thing to it this
week and stay right here in town at
the same time.
It's all because tomorrow is Ma
tional Orange day. For several days
great quantities of oranges have
been coming in by fast freight, until
every fruit dealer and grocer in Bis
marck has a large supply Of this won
derful fruit. ~ p's 9c,;H rU
The front windows Of almost every
store are being dressed with oranges.
Some very artistic effects have been
produced. -, '.e,7cF a.;t
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-09
RAILROADS NOT GOAN
IN BIG FREIGHT ''TlE-UP'
PUBL1c's ATTITUDE TOWARD SERVICE CORPORATIONS IS
THE CAUSE SAYS PAIGE CHIEF

rectly to inadequate transportation ia
cilities, l, for one, refuse to make the
railroads the goat. For a quarter OF
a century it has been the popular
sport in America to damn the rail.
roads and public service corporation
factors in our daily life that are
Just as necessary as the food and fuel
we are clamoring for. For quarter
of century it has been the delight
of the public to scorn, abuse, hold up.
hector and harass these companies in
every possible way. They have been
taxed to death and every attempt
made to increase their revenues by a
slight addition to the freight rates
has been fought tooth and nail. They
can't increase their rates tenth of a
mill without a battle before the in
terstate commerce commission that
may last for years. Yet freight rates
in this country are the cheapest per
ton per mile of any in the world. The
railroads are the publics favorite
goats, while the public service corpor-
ations. are the mainstay of municipal
politicians. For rs years the local
political cry has been the Detroit
United railway issue, and the result
is wretched service and inadequate
equipment, but the public permits it,
suffers it and suffers for it. 1t is the
same in other cities.
Hostile Attitude.
"The attitude of hostility on the
part of the public toward the rail.
roads and the public service corpora
tions, and the stupid manner in which
the people permit the professional pol
iticians to make these companies the
football of politics has this result:
Railways and public service corpora
lions cannot get money to develop
their properties, increase their equip
ments; and thus, meet the demands
growing out of our enormous indus
trial expansion. AS investments they
are more or less discredited because
the dividends, are, neither generous
nor regular. Why should we invest
in railroad securities when one can
get better returns from other stocks
and bonds-securities that are not en-
dangered by tickle and prejudicial
public opinion?
Detroit has not sufficient nor ade-
quate terminal facilities to meet the
transportation conditions that have
developed; and venture to say that
no other American city has. The rail-
roads have not had money or encour-
agement to meet these conditions.
The public has seen to that. Conse-
quently the machinery has broken
down and we are in horrible mess.
l refuse to make the railroads the
goat. The public is to blame. 1t is
up to the people," 7 II
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-09
SANTIAGO IS
TAKEN; ALSO
REBEL LEADER
ASSOCIATED Press.)

Washington, March 9.-Official dis
patches to the navy department today
established that the Cuban govern
ment forces have regained control Of
Santiago, the stronghold of the rebel
uprising. President Menocal has mott
fed this government that Governor
Munoz, in command there, represents
him and the recognized Cuban gov
eminent.
The repossession of Santiago and
the capture of the rebel leader, Com
ez, and his staff, is regarded here as
marking the collapse of the rebellion.
TOday's dispatches do not say wheth
err there was fight, but say the reb
els realizing they were traitors about
to be captured" threw away their
arms and fed to the outskirts.
Landing of American marines ard
bluejackets at Santiago to protect the
lives of Americans and other foreign
ers and their property was reported
today in earlier dispatches to the
state and navy departments.
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TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

FOR SAlE-Very fine piano, with ma
hogany case; library table; dining
room set; lady's writing desk; book
case; rockers; iron bed; dresser;
sanitary council; clock; cushioned
chairs. 1926 18th St. Phone 754R.
3.2.9t
WILL THE PARTY WHO PICKED
up the Catholic prayer-book lost be-
tween governors residence and Ave.
G and Second streets kindly call
152Y? 3-1O-2t
FOR RENT-Furnished room; 522
Second st. Phone $780, 3.9.4t
OWNER MUST SELL-16O acres fine
prairie land kidder county, near
good town; will make fine fax
land. For quick sale, SIG per acre.
Terms. Address =. Schultz, Steele,
N. ID. 3.9-5t
FOR RENT-Furnished room in mod
ern house; sol Fifth st. Phone
G42R. 3-9.6t
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WATCH YOUR STEP TONIGHT

Don't be frightened If tiny. snow
flurries-not >sbig flaky ones- -futter
across your path this evening and the
weather turns cooler. and mind you
not colder" Just watch your step,
that's all. ~ ~gM.E IT.
Dean Roberts Of the weather sta
ton says there will probably" be
snow tonight and Saturday with low.
er temperature and fresh winds. A
low pressure area has appeared over
the Central Rocky Mountain region
and is moving eastward. 5;~rytgE
The is no change in the condition
of the Missouri river. 1t is still
shackled in ice.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-09
PAID ZEALOTS.

One thing to be thankful for is the
enlightened manner in which the re-
cent legislature treated the private
reformers who believe they are an
nointcd and appointed to legislate
people into morality and goodness.
These minions of sects and organiza-
tions, powerfully financed and skill
fully Differed, had rather rough sled
ding and most Of their panaceas went
via the window.
The paid zealot is the bane of every
legislature He seeks through law to
prescribe moral formula for all sorts
and conditions of men. Their pres
ence at each session has been pro-
ductive of little good and in many
instances these fanatics have done
real injury to the cause they sought
to advance.
These inquisitional gentlemen have
been able in the past to shape much
of the legislation and kill many bene-
fetal laws. Be it said to the credit
of the Fifteenth assembly, whatever
its sins of commission or omission,
a deaf ear was turned to the biennial
sob squad
Occasionally legislators will lift
their ear from the ground and take
a square honest look about them
Such was the case in the legislation
favored by Watkins ct al. When we
think of the firm of Watkins & Fin
wall. story occurs to our mind and
as it is best told by w. F. Wiley, edi-
tor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, we
give his version:
"a Dartmouth professor is sponsor
for story that aptly portrays the sit
uation in which we find ourselves.
"A householder was dismayed one
night by the sudden extinguishment
of the electric lights in his house. In
little while it became apparent that
the darkness would probably continue
through the night unless the break
could be located and corrected. I'm
able at that hour to secure the SER
vices Of an expert electrician the
householder hit upon the happy
scheme of detaching the batteries
from his doorbells and connecting
them with his electric fed wires. But
no light resulted. Next day the ex-
perts came to remedy the trouble, and
seeing the hapless expedient of the
owner, remarked: -
Don't you know that it takes 500
times more power to produce light
than it takes to produce noise?'
There is the whole situation in a
nut shell. We are troubled with low.
voltage statesmen, the tiny cells of
whose brains are just powerful
enough to make unceasing racket,
while great dynamic minds that might
food the world with legislative light
and wisdom are disconnected from
the machinery of government"
- #
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-09
SCARED IN

Did you ever hear of a man being
scared in" to store to buy? W.T..
In this day of high prices It IS quite
natural that people are scarel out.
1t happens nearly every lay that
people are scared in our store to
buy our clothes. We put the prices
on all our goods, both in the window
and in the store. You gay for what
you get, dollar for dollar oar motto.
Hundreds of satisfied clio The: wear
ers of Klein Klothes.
Klein, Tailor and Cleaner.-A1v.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-09
"Life to Ne Now Is eeauteous
1hino for I Have Made All SKIN

"Life to Ne Now Is a Beauteous
Thing, for Have Made All Skin
j.. Troubles a Thing Of the Past"
You must not believe that drugs
and salves will stop facial blemishes.
The cause is impure blood filed with
all manner of refuse matter.
Stuart's Calcium Waters cleanse
and clear the blood, driving out all
poisons and impurities. And you'll
never have a good complexion until
the blood is clean.
No matter how bad your complexion
is, Stuart's Calcium Waters will work
wonders with it. You can get these
little wonder-workers at your drug
gist's for SO cents package.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-09
TAKEN PRISONERS.
UNITED PreSS)

Berlin, March 9.-Four officers and
600 men of rank were taken prison
ers, together with several machine
guns and mine throwers, in the at
tack on Russian forces at the edge
Of Magyarof on the Rumanian front,
the official war Office statement said
today.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-09

have stipulated that the foreman fur
nish their own provisions. tools and
attend to getting the supplies.
Bids for new gas tractor engines
of 30 to 60 horse power will shortly
be advertised for. Some Of the old
tractors will he sold and replaced by
new ones.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-09
FOR SALE AND REMOVAL.

That one-story and a-half frame
dwelling lying and situated on lot 2,
block IS N. P. second addition, city
Of Bismarck, N. :, and facing on
Eighth street and known as the Lind
blad property; to be sold to highest
bidder for cash, party buying said
property to remove same from said
premises within 80 days from pur-
chase. Bids to be opened at regular
meeting of board Monday. March II,
1917, at 500 p. M, at high school
building. Right reserved to reject
any or all bids. BY order of board
of education.
RICHARD PENWARDEN,
Clerk.
(3-1, 81, 9, 10)
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FUNERAL SERVICES FOR
MR.. BOWEN WEDNESDAY

Funeral services for the late John
Bowen Of st. Paul were conducted
Wednesday afternoon in the funeral
parlors of the Webb Brothers and
we're in charge of DR.. w. J. Hutche-
son of the MoCabe Methodist Episco-
pal church. Many of the old timers
of the city attended the services. In
terment was made In Fairview ceme-
terry. beside that of his wife and
daughter, by these pallbearers: E.
E. Morris, ]. d. Mcdonald, F. H. Reg
lister, Thomas MCGOWAN, Patrick Nc
Hugh and William Woods, all former
old time friends of the deceased.