davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-08-30
Trouble Follows Arrest Of Two
Of Their Number.
FIFTEEN WHITE MEN KILLED
Dead at Houoton, Tex, Include Civil.
ians, Police Officers and Ma
tionaI Guardsmen.

Houston, Tex.-Fifteen white men,
including civilians, police officers
and national guardsmen, were killed
and more than a score of persons,
luen, women and children, were
wounded in all outbreak here of negro
soldiers of the Twenty-fourth United
States infantry, stationed here to act
as guards during the construction Of
Camp Logan, at which the Illinois ma
tional guard will train. Two negroes
also were killed.
Captain j. w. Mates, A battery,
Second Illinois field artillery, was
among the dead, being killed when he
soldiers.
The outbreak is supposed to have
originated in a difficulty which two
negro soldiers had with police officers
who arrested them for disturbing the
peace and sent them to the police sta
ton.
II Illlll5 USSdI Wllcu oil dlLUu-
lance started through the section &C.
cupied by the negro soldiers.
They stopped the ambulance and,
firing a volley, riddled it. 1t was this
volley that wounded a siXteen-year-old
white girl Standing in her fathers
store. q
Police reserves Woo sent out and
were met by voileys from the negroes.
Civilians went to the assistance OF
the police officers and firing continued
for an hour and a half.
There were several hundred Texas
~Guardsmen here ready to entrain for
training camp, but they had no guns.
A battery OF the coast artillery was
rushed to Houston in motor trucks.
Two mounted policemen, Ora o.
Rainey and Rufc Daniels, We're killed.
Another policeman, Henry J. Meinke,
also was slain.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-08-30
ONLY FIVE PER CENT
GO TO CAMP SEPT. 5

Washington, D. G. - New orders
have been issued, changing entirely
the mobilization arrangements pre-.
~viously made. Congestion of rail traf.
fic and the necessity of making better
provision for the reception Of the men
at the cantonments dictated the
changes.
Under the new orders 5 per cent OF
the white mon, preferably those with
military experience, from each local
area, will be started forward to the
camps Sept. 5 instead Of 80 per cent.
They will go in five daily detach-
ments of equal size and form skeleton
company organizations and set up a
concern into which the remainder OF
the total quota can be absorbed with
out confusion as they reach the can
tonments.
The next 40 per cent of the quota
will go forward Sept. 10, when the sec
ond 80 per cent originally was SEIZED
uled to go forward, a second 40 pei
cent will go forward Oct. 3 instead OF
the third 80 per cent, and the remain
ing Is per cent will be called up as
soon thereafter as practicable.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-08-30
ALLIED OFFENSIVE IS
! COSTLY TO GERMANS

London.-The allies present great
offensive, increasingly boring ahead,
has already cost the Germans and
Austrians close to 100, 900 men in dead
and wounded and at least 81, 900 pr;s-
onsrs on the British, French and Ital.
san fronts.
Germany is starting an offensive of
ner own against the Russian lines.
The drive has already gained ground
ON the Riga front.
The British theory is that the Ger
man war chiefs, apprehensive of a loss
of PUBLIC morale because of the enor
znous losses and forced giving away on
ahe Western and Italian fronts, have
started a military nov which they
will use to keep other front news sub
sordinated.
The Russian army's weakness In
munitions and supplies permits 8
relatively small force Of we'll organ
lzed Germans to make a strong i'm
preston against them.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-08-30
GARFIELD IS NAMED
DIRECTOR OF FUEL

Washington, d. G. - Government
control of the coal industry was made
almost complete when President Will
son named DR.. H. A. Garfield, presi-
dent of Williams college, fuel admins
traitor, fixed anthracite prices for pro-
ducers and jobbers and set a limit on
profits to be made by bituminous
wholesalers.
The next and final step will be to
make regulations for coal distribu-
ton and to fix anthracite and bitumin-
retail prices. This will be done
when a distribution program is per-
[ected and when the federal trade com
mission has completed a plan under
which retail profits may be fixed.
The coal administration will be or
sanized as soon as DR.. Garfield has
completed his work of recommending
to the food administration a govern
ment price for the 1917 wheat crop.
Under the law giving the president
control Of fuels the government can
take over and operate any mines fail
lug to observe regulations prescribed.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-08-30
STATUS OF MARRIED
MEN IS UNCHANGED

Washington, D. Cat the direct
suggestion Of President Wilson, Pro.
yost Marshal General Crowder tele.
graphed to all governors a supplement.
tai explanation of regulations govern.
ing the status of married men under
the selective service law.
No change in regulations is made
and the purpose of the new statement
is to clear up misunderstanding
which have arisen in what General
Crowder describes as "a few in.
STANCES"
In a letter to Secretary Baker, quot.
ed by General Crowder. President vii.
son states his opinion that the regula.
ton directing local boards ito estab.
lish the fact Of dependents in addition
to the fact Of marriage ought not to
be abrogated."
This leaves the regulations as they
are and the supplementary statement
is designed merely to make the appli.
cation of the rules uniform among all
boards.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-08-30
FARMERS ASK THREE
DOLLARS FOR WHEAT

st. Paul, MINI. A government
fixed minimum price of. So a bushel
for No. / Northern wheat, other grades
to be priced on a d%ifferential not ex-
ceeding 4 cents a bushel, is urged in a
resolution adopted by representatives
of the farmers Of Minnesota, North
Dakota and South Dakota in confer
ence at the capitol, on call of Gov
ernor B%urnquist.
The resolution was sent by tele
graph to Chairman H. A. Garfield OF
the federal price fixing committee and
a delegation Of three was selected to
go to Washington to support it.
The minimum recommended
which means SIS f1our-was adopted
following showings that SO must be
obtained for wheat grown on SLOGAN
acre land yielding ten bushels, under
average conditions, if the farmer is tc
receive the profit recognized as a fail
return by the government.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-08-30
Capture Dominating Height Of
Monte SantO.
MANY AUSTR|ANS PRISONER
British and French Also Score Sue.
cesses Against Germans on the
= Western Front.

London.-Another valuable gain in
the great double offensive of the al.
Eies vas recorded when the Italians
captured the dominating height OF
Monce Santo and carried their often.
-sive across the Bainsizza plateau, and
ahe French forces in the west captured
che Posses and Beaumont woods,
forcing a gap of two-thirds of a mile
along a front of two and a half miles.
The Italian drive is unchecked des'
pite the heavy resistance in machine
guns and light artillery.
Advancing on a front of more than
~ mile the British forces have cap,
,Gured enemy positions east of Margi'
court, making a hole in the German
Zines more than a half mile deep.
Strong German positions at Cologne
and Malakoff farms were carried by
assault.
The. British report also admits a
German counter success in the Ypres.
Menin region, but declares the posi-.
aions were rewon in a new attack.
On the Carso front, in proximity to
che sea, where the battle again has as.
sumed terrific proportions after Satur'
days slight lull, the Italian airmen are
still lending wonderful aid to General
,Cadorna's forces, dropping bombs or
using their machine guns with telling
effect on troop concentrations behind
the line.
Daily the number of prisoners taken
by the ltalians@both officers and men
is mounting, the latest report show.
ing that 600 officers and $4,000 men
have definitely been rendered noncom.
batants for the remainder of the war.
Secure Enormous War Stores.
In addition the capture of war stores
by the Italians has been
On both sides Of the River Meuse,
in the Verdun sector, the French
troops continue their gains, reaching
the environs of the village of Beau.
mont, and on the left bank having
driven their advanced posts to the
outskirts of Bethincourt and along the
banks of the Fortges rivulet.
/ The Germans in counter attacks
+ SWice have e~ndeavored to retrieve lost
ground en- the heights of the Meuse,
out each time met with repulse and
heavy losses.
(, Aside from artillery duels, which
have been especially sever east Of
tYpres and in the neighborhood Of
Lombaertzyde, there has been little &C.
yivity on that part of the line in
France and Belgium held by the Brit.
Esh.
Evidently the German advance to.
ward Riga, Russia's big port and naval
base on the Baltic, has ceased, for
neither the German nor Russian com
m%unication mention the operations in
this region.
{ To the south, however, the Russian
and Russo-Roumanian armies, respect
lively, around Northumberland and il
the Roumanian theater, are keeping VI
I their strong resistance. German at
UGacAs in both sectors have been re
pulsed.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-08-30
La Toilette Loses Flaht.

Washington, ID. c. After debate.
embittered by charges that those de.
string to make the war unpopular and
embarrass the administration were
behind the movement greatly to In
crease tax rates In the war tax bill, the
senate rejected, bs to 81. Senator La
Follette's amendment to raise $685.
$4,000 from individuals incomes In
stead OF $500. $4,000 as proposed In
the bill,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-08-30
TWENTY SHIPS ARE SUNK
British Lose Eighteen Merchantmen
and Two Fishing Vessels.

london. The number of British
merchant steamers sunk by sub
marines or mines in the last week was
only slightly larger than the previous
week, when a considerable falling of
was noted.
According to the official statement
fifteen vessels of more than 1000 tons
were sunk and three OF less than 1900
ions, In addition to two fishing vessels
aa compared with fourteen large yes
sells the previous woek, two small and
three fishermen.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-08-30
WHEAT PIT is SILENCED
Chicago Market Closes for Duration
of War.

Chicago.-The Chicago wheat pit is
silenced.
The pit, where fortunes have been
tossed in the balance, from which
traders have come forth crushed and
broken; from which others have burst
out radiant and suddenly grown
wealthy and powerful, was closed for
the duration of the war in obedience
to the order of Herbert G. Hoover, fed.
eral food administrator.
The scene of so many dramas In
real life, as we'll as the stage and fc
ton, closed quietly.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-08-30
Minneapolis GRAIN.

Wheat-sept., $2.13. Oats-Sept.
57Ac; Dec, 52Ac; May, sc. Cash
close on track: No. 1 Northern, $2.t5
@2.50; No. 2 Northern $2.40@2.45! No
3 Northern, $2.35@2.40; No. 3 yellow
corn, $1.S9@1.90; No. 3 white oats
52h @53c; barley. 93c@$1.13; rye, 81.
73@1.74; flax, $3.70@3.75.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-08-30
Chicago Live Stock.

Cattle--Receipts, $4,000; native, 49,.
25015.60; Western steers, $7.00@12.-
40; stockers and feeders, $6.l0@9.25;
cows and heifers, $4.650l3.0O; calves,
$1l.50016.00. Hogs-Recelpts, 10000;
1880; heavy, $l5.s5QI765; rough.
$l6.7b0i6.00; pigs, $l0.7b@14,25,
Sheep--Receipts, 10000; wethers, ~.
BOOBIES; lambs, st075018.75.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-08-30
COAL PRICES WILL DROP
Director Says Dealers Cannot Hide
Behind Contracts,

Washington, D. G. = Immediate
reduction of retail coal prices in the
Twin Cities will be forced by DR.. Har-
ry A. Garfield, coal dictator.
When informed that dealers in st,
Paul and Minneapolis have announced
their intention Of keeping prices at
present figures until existing contracts
expired Garfield said that every force
at the governments command will be
exerted to lower prices at once.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-08-30
South St. Paul Live Stock.

Cattle-Receipts, $500; steers, $500
@12.00; COWS and heifers, $6.50@8.5O;
calves, $5.25@14.00. Hogs-Receipts,
$500; range, $16.00@16.5O. Sheep
Receipts, 400; sheep and lambs, $1,000
@15.75; ewes, $6.50@S.5O.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-08-30
Chicago Grain and Provisions.

Cash Wheat-No. 2 red, $2.15@2.16;
No. 2 hard winter, $2.28@2.3O; No. 2
yellow corn, $1.S9@1.90; No. 2 white
oats, 54@55kc; barley, $1.05@1.2S.
Butter-Creameries. 37h @4lKc. Eggs
-32@37c. Poultry-Fowls, 22@23c;
springs, 22@24c.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-08-30
St. Paul Grain.

Wheat-No. 1 Northern, $2.45@2.50;
No. 2 Northern, $2.4O@2.45; No. 3
Northern, $2.35@2.40; No. 8 yellow
corn, $1.89@1.90; No. 8 white oats,
52k @53c; barley, 93c@$1.13; rye, ST.
73@1.74; fax, $3.7O@3.75.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-08-30
GOVERNOR is SUSPENDED
Trial of Texas Executive Will Open
Wednesday.

Austin, Tex. James E. Ferguson
was suspended from the Office of gov
ernor of the state of Texas when the
board Of nine managers named by the
house Of representatives presented to
the senate t%wenty-one articles of i'm.
parchment, alleging official miscon-
duct. The governor is charged with
misapplication Of $4,000 Of state
money,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-08-30
ACCEPTS THE INVITATION
Colonel Roosevelt Will Speak in Min
neapoIis Sept. %.

'@eFo'5 oSPe. I'
Minneapolis. Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt will be the speaker at a sec
ond mass meeting to be conducted by
Labor's Loyal legion at the Minneap-
oils Auditorium Friday, Sept. %. The
first meeting will be held in st. Paul.
A telegram from the former presi-
dent saying he would be proud to
speak in Minneapolis was received
by w. G. Robertson, president of the
legion.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-08-30
GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES
Duluth Grain,

Wheat - No quotations. Rye - On
track and to arrive, $1.73@1.75; bar
ley, 98c@1.21; flax, 1918.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-08-30
WAGING WAR is EXPENSIVE
Conflict Now Costs United States Mil
lion Dollars an Hour.

Washington, D. G. - War expen.
ditures of the United States, including
allied loans, have mounted during AL
gust to more than $24, 000, 1000 every
twenty-four hours. The figures, minus
500, 000, 900 just lent Russia, are con-
tanned in a treasury statement.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-08-30
RUSSIAN FACTORIES BURN
Hundred and Twenty Persons KILLED
or Injured.

Petrograd, Russia. -Three factories
In the southeastern portion of the city
were burned as a result OF an explo.
sion. One hundred and twenty per.
sons were killed or Injured,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-08-30

at Egeland agreed on a scale Of prices
for threshing and wages for this falls
runs. The farmers agreed on 40 cents
an hour to each man for any length of
time decided on by the men, they to
be locked for time lost after a stop of
fifteen minutes. For teams and wag-
ons Is cents an hour will be paid. The
price for %threshing grain will be as
follows: Wheat and rye, Is cents a,
bushel; barley, 10 cents a bHshel, and
oats, 8 cents a bushel. # threshing is
done by the hour the charge will be
$40 per hour for eight-team outfits;
$25 per hour for ten-team outfits and
$50 an hour for ~twelve-team outfits.
That farmers will fight for a higher
wheat price, if a rate Of less than at
least s2.25 is set by the government,
was shown in protests sent to Wash
ington by wheat growers in many sec.
lions of the state. Many farmers de-
Mand $3.50 and SO and at an uncon-
firmed report from Washington that
Herbert G. Hoover. food administrator,
was thinking Of a price of $1.65 they
are talking of a wheat strike or re.
fusing to plant wheat next year. Fargo
commercial organizations received
word from Congressman George M.
Young that he believed Hoover "ins
his mind" had decided OF a price of
$1.G5. This set the farmers going and
In spite OF the fact that Washington
dispatches assert the price will DO 81
or more. farmers and commercial
clubs began wiring protests to Young.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-06-28
LIVE WIRE HALTS BOY
CLIMBING PHONE POLE

A live wire encountered when he
was about twenty feet above the
ground brought 10 a sudden end the
climbing aspirations of frankie
Roreich, - years old. When they
picked him up he was sqUirming so
that il required a good sized man TO
hold him down. Officer Parker,
sent out with the patrol, picked
him up bodily and put him in the
machine. in which re was taken to
his home, 1921 w jefferson st.
1t was said that he was not Sc
riously injured, but later a doctor
was sent 20 the boys home. At a
late hour nothing could be learned
regarding his condition.
Neighbors said that frankie had
been climbing trees and telephone
poles all day. His fall did not oc
cur until after eight O'Clock. Police
officials say that steps on the pole
extend all the way 10 the ground,
making = altogether too easy for
anyone 10 climb up.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-06-28
PURCHASING AGENTS IN
FIRST ANNUAL DINNER

The first annual dinner Of the
South Bend section of the Purchas-
ing Agents association was held at
$50 o'clock last night at the oliver.
Thirty-one men were present. repre-
senting Flkhart. AIishawaka. Benton
Harbor Buchanan. Laporte and
South Bend w. L. Chandler of the
Dodge Mfg. Co, Nishawaka. was
presiding officer. He also made a
short talk on Making the Dollar
Go Farther in Buying Food" other
spea kers were a. II. Stuckenberg.
president of the Commercial Testing
and Engineering Co. of Chicago.
whose topic was Coal Testing as a
Proper Basis i'm Buying Coal. and
NJ. l.. HanIin of the Clark Equip
ment Co. Buchanan, who took as
his subject, What Fools We Nor
tails Be"
This will be the last meeting of
the association until September. just
preceding the convention of the ma
tional association. to be held in
Pittsburgh. Sept. % TO p.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-06-28
Many Leaving
For France Says
Former Reporter

Almost every day hundreds Of
seasoned veterans leave for (delet-
ed or (deleted) 10 sail Immediately
for France. Well do they all know
and realize that many many Of them
will never come back. yet they are
all optimists. 10 say the least. Every
one OF them .. anxious TO get "a
crack at the Huns.
Charles Grimes, former News
Times reporter and student Of
Journalism at Metre Dame, writes
the above 10 Brother Cyrian. head
or the school of commerce at Notre
Dame, Grimes instructor in short
hand
Fort sam Houston, where Grimes
is stationed. is the largest military
post in the United States. every
branch of the service beins repre-
scented there. According 10 the writer
OF this letter Texas is not half as
bad as il has been painted, although
at present terribly hot. He says; "Of
late We have been having early
summer weather and the thermome-
ter during the day has consistently
remained above the hundred mark.
At times the mercury shoots 10 TO
10 points higher. The evenings after
sunset are cool but not chilly. As
Pershing has said,-many northern
ers here be.ieve,-'TeXas is the
chimney of hell.
Ghu..Ifn NFn-fnrs.
Charlie" writes the following lit
tie experience of his own. "One day
last week / received the greatest
thrill and scare of my life in at
tempting TO bust the boss broncho.
When you realize that the roughes,
riding l ever did before was on the
Hill ST. line, YOU will think me a
little bit nervous when l mounted
a live horse for n, first time in my
life. The blamed animal dashed
madly away with me for half a mile
but. despite al his bucking and
jerking Charlie stuck. Shortly after
wards the horse ran again bat
stuck like glue Folks who saw the
runaway thought l was on my way
TO Kingdom Come as / passed by.
Coming back, half a dozen persons
stopped 10 inquire how bad was that
fellow hurt on the runaway horse,
was he killed? But / escaped un-
scratched. Such was my first expert
ence on a Texas 'bucker'.
Is Now an Officer.
Grimes is now probably an Off
Ger. Within a week" he writes, Il
expect 10 be wearing stripes on my
shirtsleeves. An officer will l be
when an order from headquarters
that came in yesterday is completed.
The promotion is from private 10
sergeant. first-Class. And incidental
ly there is a SIS Bise in salary"
Grimes isn't the only Notre Dame
man at For sam Houston. He says
Notre Dame is we'll represented
down there. and mentions Erich
Hans DeFries. popularity down as
shorty. and also Stew Carroll.
who he says. also works in the Of
flee and hunks with me-"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-06-28
HERE ARE ROUTES TO
REACH PICNIC GROUND

For the benefit of those wishing
10 drive 20 the picnic grounds
where the municipal picnic is to be
held July :, the following routes
are designated by which il Is posi-
BILE to reach Pottawatomie park.
l. From the center Of city. c.
south on Michigan 70 Pennsylvania
av.. turn east on Pennsylvania, fol-
low around gas works 10 Miami
Turn left, cross y. Y. G. tracks. then
turn right onto Lincoln way r, FOL
lowing IL out 10 Springbrook park.
Just beyond Spring brook turn left
and cross bridge. following Fifth
-. 10 MiShawaka az. Turn left and
follow Mishawaka az. 20 picnic
grounds
. From center OF city. Go cas-:
on Lincoln way (. 10 Jefferson. east
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-06-28
MODEST BORKOWSKI GONE
MOTHER FEARS SUICIDE

Modest Borkowski. l. years old,
left home Wednesday morning
ostensibly 20 go TO school Tuesday
he carried away a suitcase. and
Wednesday three suits Of clothes
and two pairs Of shoes are missing
His stereotype machine and his cam
era have also disappeared. Inquiry
revealed the fact that he has not
school for the past two
months. although his parents had
believed him 10 be studying at a
local business college.
He lived at Ga W. Tut st. He Is
described as being slim and rather
short for his age His mother said
that she feared he had committed
suicide, but could give no founda
ton for her belief
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-06-28
BOY SCOUTS MAY MERGE

Plans as 90 whether or not the
Indiana av. Boy Scouts should join
the headquarters company at the
Y. NJ. @. A. were discussed at d
meeting Of the two organizations at
the Y. NJ. q. A. Nothing definite 20
that effect was reached. However.
IL was decided that the Indiana
scouts should first hold a confer
ence with their scout masters and
then decide the matter Of uniting
at another meeting. which Will be
held next Tuesday night at the y.
NJ O. q.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-06-28
Patriotic Snake
Dance Winds Jb
Big Day BY Elks

An enthusiastic snake dance of
more than 400 members. led by the
American, British and French flags.
while the band played a medley of
patriotic airs, marked the close of
the South Bend Elks' annual picnic
at KOOntz lake yesterday. Old and
new sports, novel games and races.
Dutch lunches served by Fritz. %
band music galore and a "corking
fine time" was the days program.
A beautiful loving cup was cap
tured 10y Bill Staples at the trap
shoot He succeeded in bringing
down 80 pigeons in succession. This
was the feature event of the day
Winners in the main events We're:
Louie Duck-a pair of gold cuff
links accuracy in bait casting
Wilbur Meyers-siX meals at
bait casting.
Zeke Ferrias-a panama hat
shoe and stocking race
A r. Achenbach-lady's silk skirt
pillow fight.
Fred Dennis-one boiled ham
fat mans race.
Harry Barnes-silver match box
sack race.
Before proceeding TO the lake an
parade of more than 70
machines. led by Elbers band, was
give through the downtown streets.