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Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-05-24

The Shields Enterprise has been
sold 10 James Mccormick Of Bis
marck, who will take charge the
first of June. Mr.. Mccormick has
also bought farm in the Shields
neighborhood. He comes highly
recommended as d newspaper man
and will no doubt give the people
Of Shields a paper that will be a
credit to the community.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-05-24

The schools in Fort Yates district
closed this week after nine months
term. During the two years since
the district has been organized six
school houses have been built and
equipped, and for a new country
Sioux county has an excellentpub.
lie school system.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-05-24

All Indians between the age of
81 and under 81 are supposed to
register on June 9th, at their res
pective voting precincts, according
to instructions received here Tues
day. Many Of the Indian boys
have already enlisted in the army
and navy and do excellently in
either branch.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-05-24

Memorial Day is a legal school
holiday, but our law provides that
schools shall be assembled and pro-
grams suitable to the occasion rem.
dered. We believe that special eff
fort should be made at this time to
make the day as impressive as pos
sible. This is an opportunity for
teachers to bring their pupils to q
partial understanding of our
country's critical war condition and
to inspire patriotism.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-05-24

1t is the duty of every good citi-
zen to see that everybody within
the age limit registers for military
service on June 9Th. OF the total
number registered only small per-
centage will be included in the first
draft, and it is not likely that the
service will work any needless hard
ship. Somebody must fight the
Nations battles and the CONSUMPTION
system gives everybody an equal
show.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-05-24

A number of law violators brought
into court following the sensational
raid on booze and vice resorts at
Minot recently, have entered pleas
of guilty. Attorney General Lang
er, who staged the raid has been
arrested for interrupting telephone
communication on the night in
question and the end is not yet.
Whether one believes in Langer's
methods or not, yet due credit must
be given him for enforcing the laws
of the state and nothing but good
can some from cleaning up condi-
tons such as existed at Minot.
LANCER deserves much credit for his
action and there is no question but
what he has the approval and sup
port in his latest undertaking by
the law-abiding citizens of the state
who constitute a vast majority.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-05-24
SIOUX COUNTY PIONEER
C. CHRISTENSEN
Owner, Editor and Publisher
Subscription Price $3.50 a Year

Entered az second. class matter Novem.
Der q, 1914, at the post Office at Fort
Yates, North Dakota, under the Act
OF March 3, 1879.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-04-17
HER HYPHEN,

She is a great artist and public
favorite; but she is a home-loving
woman, first of all, a good mother.
She was born in Germany; but
loves America.
She has a great, shining face, with
a generous smile for everyone, any
one; but her soul shivers and her
heart writhes in torture.
She stands up before thousands and
sings joyously, g~loriously, and for
the thousandth time reddens under
the applause of the delighted throng;
but over her head, its awful pres,
ence always felt, hangs a sword.
You've heard her sing ''Mein
Sohn!" and she took your soul into
the Valley Of the Shadow of Death
to recover those you'd loved and lost
awhile" You've heard her cry Death,
let me in" and wondered that the
tomb didn't open to a mothers ap
peal.
She has a beautiful home; but it's
under a pail, a pail of powder and
smoke and blood. The little boy,
who, yesterday, chung at her left knee
and listened and smiled at her folk
songs is in the German navy; the lad
who listened and smiled at her right
knee is in the United States navy,
and tomorrow, or next week. or next
month the message may come that
they have met and killed.
The other night she got off a train
at San Diego and went to her hotel.
She was very tired. She had recent.
ly come from a hospital. But a big
crowd, with a band of music, was at
the hotel to greet her. There we're
shouts Of welcome, cries for a sight
of her.
Then, Schumann.Heink stepDed
forth and sang "The Star spangled
Banner!!"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-04-17
a. G.. Duet Lndicts
Chief Clerk Bowen

fully convinced of the presence Of the
religious aspect of Socialism as well
as of it's political aspect. l am glad
to observe that this man Of whom l
speak, together with his c~o'workers,
is here to hear what l have to say.
I have %contended, ever since the call
ing of this meeting was advocated,
that, when it was called, it must be
free and open to the world, that all
could come and see and hear. l had
nothing to say at this meeting that
/ was ashamed to say and have the
world know. 1 had nothing to say
of any man who might 'be at the
meeting that | was disinclined that
he, as well as the world, should hear
and | know; and l say, therefore. l
am glad this man and these men are
here, laying aside all question OF the
good taste which has prompted them
to come and place themselves down
as the hosts amidst the delegates
that are invited here to deliberate. |
I'm glad to see them, because | have
some other things that | want to say
in connection with them and about
them; and whatever else they may
say or have said about me none or
them have said or will say that |
have ever had anything that l desired
to get out of my system that l was
not willing to say to the face of them
and every other 5.p n 3.
+Strange to behold, after the &C
tions of this man, as l have described
them before a band of Christian men
representing a Christian nation, | saw
him day after day, when the recess
and the intermission came, leave his
off cial post and go down into the
aisles and the corridors of the capitol
and put the bride on free born men.
representatives of the free people of
this country, and drive them at his
pleasure hither, and thither and yon
to do his bidding and follow his COM
mand. Yea, strange to say, | saw
Christian men, members Of that or.
ganization, Christian men followers
of the %cruciix, bare their back to the
whip and accept the scourge at the
hand of the ATHEIST boss.
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Tabloid History of the United States! :
EXPLORERS" Ex WHO FIRST CAME TO THIS COUNTRY THOUGHT iT5SwAsa INDIA

about the st. Lawrence, and Ameri-
so Vespucci who visited South Amer.
lea. AMERICAS name was given to the
continent later when it became Ger.
tain that a new land, not India, had
been found. '
Twenty-one years after Columbus
first voyage a Spanish explorer, Bal
boa, climbed a mountain peak in Pan
ANA and saw the Pacific ocean. But
he still thought the new country was
India, and the Pacifien sea.
In 1912, so yearsuafter Columbus,
Fernando de Soto, exploring the
forests Of Alabama and Mississippi
in search of a mythical golden city"
came to Mississippi river.
1t was now known a new land had
been found, for some years before
a Portuguese named Magellan had
sailed around South America into the
Pacific and around Africa, back to
Portugal. .
The st. Lawrence also had been
discovered by the French Cartier, in
1886, and in 1915 Samuel Champlain,
flying the French flag in search of a
passage through to the Pacific, came
upon the great lakes.
In the meantime Europeans were
settling on the Atlantic coast.
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TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

WANTEO-Second cook; man or
woman. Romans Cafe. 4-17-2t
WANTED-Girl for general house
work. 6 Avenue B. 4-17-tf
WANTED. = Dressmaking. Phone
325K; 80 Seventh St. 4-17-3t
FOR SALE-Seed oats; a lot of
Swedish Select oats, 1915 crop.
George D.. Brown Co., Bismarck. =
III 417-mws
WANTE0-Pasture land. Want to
lease quarter section pasture land,
fenced, with running water; near
Bismarck. George D. Brown Co.,
= Bismarck. 4.17-mws
WANT TO BUY FORD CAR, in fair
condition. Address Box 256. his.
marck, N. ID. 4-17-mws
~WANTEO-Typewriter. Want to buy
standard type writer; frst-class
condition; cheap, for cash. Box
256, Bismarck. 4-17-mWs5
FOR RENT-Eurnished room IN
modern house. Will fix for lixhf
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90 40zk OF 794. Geo. XssTjftlas4
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Lowest
Temperatures
UP TO II STATE.

Governor Frazier should call a
meeting of the emergency commits
sion at nee and make suitable pro
vision for rebuilding the capitol car
line. Transportation facilities to the
state capitol building are a necessity
and it is incumbent on the state to
provide them.
If the street car line is a luxury
the state cannot afford, the board of
control should provide other means
of transportation to and from the
capitol. Certainly quick and reason.
able service to the capitol from no.
tells and depots must be provided.
The Tribune feels it would be un-
wise to abandon the line entirely or
even shorten its present route, Ok
cept as a last resort. Only the fail
ure Of the city and state to get to,
gether on this proposition will result
in such a move. Paving operations
cannot be held up for two years un-
til the state provides money to pave
between the tracks and rebuild the
line, but the city commission has put
a fair proposition up to the board of
control. If that body has neither the
funds nor the disposition to meet Bis
marck halfway, an appeal should be
made to the emergency commission.
Failure to secure relief there, the city
commission has no other alternative
but to remove the tracks and COM
plete it's paving program.
Under the terms of it's franchise,
the state agreed to pave between the
tracks. The city is merely asking
North Dakota to live up to the terms
of that contract. 1t is even willing
to go further and shoulder a portion
of the expense.
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Lief Ericsson is generally consider
ed the first European to visit Amer
lea. He left the Scandinavian col
ony of Iceland about 40C0 A. D. and
led an expedition to a land further
south, which he named Vinland. 1t
is believed to be somewhere between
Nova Scotia and Long Island. .
But the ScandinaviGns made no per-
manent settlements on tie Am -rican
mainland" .
1t reraaiRedl s.or Columbus in 1892
to make rhe" discoveries that led to
European colonization.
He heldathG' earth was round, and
thought lie could reach India by sail
ing west.
Queen Isabella Of Spain relieved
him. and pawned her jewels to fit
out his three boats-the Nina, Pinta
and Santa Maria.
They sailed west for two months.
Mutinous sailors we're about to force
Columbus return when, on October
70, 1892, he reached il of the BAHIA
islands-San Salvador.
Columbus called the islands the
West Indies, and the natives indians.
He thought he had landed off India.
Other explorers followed Columbus
the Cabots, who visited the country
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READERS COLUMN
LIKES RoBtNsoN's LETTERS.

IN. H., ApTll ~, lJll.
Editor Tribune:
like to read the letters of Justice
Robinson whether on the Bible, as.
tronmy or law. They are always in
teresting. I note he tackles Jonah in
his last, which reminds me that a
few years since, 4 was trying to ex-
plain to a normal graduate something
about the discoveries made during
the last century at Nineveh and other
Assyrian cities by Botta and Led
yard; how the Libraries had been
found when the palaces we're exca-
waited, and how the letters known as
the Cuneiform, had been deciphered
by Rawlinson, Smith and others, and
the history of thousands of years ago
rewritten.
Among other discoveries was found
the ideogram of Nineveh. The arch
aic form of the character proves that
it was compounded of the ideog-a;,b-
ic picture of a house, enclosing the
ideogram Of the fish, thus preserving
a record of the instructive fact that
imperial Nineveh was at first, as its
name implies, nun, fish" This led
some scholars to believe that there
had been an old Assyrian story from
which another writer, of a later age.
had gotten the ground work for
Jonah; but when the last story was
written the writer did not know that
Nineveh had once been called
Fish" The original told that the
fish had cast Jonah out, and the later
writer not knowing about the city be-
ing at one time named "Fish" in
vented the voyage. After telling of
the discoveries I turned to a Chris
tian close by, and said:
II do not presume you will agree"
He replied:
Il have always been taught that
the whale swallowed Jonah and have
reason to disbelieve.'
What wanted to say to Justice
Robinson is: that millions of Chris
tians today believe the whale story.
That many of the stories il our
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nation going forth to help destroy
people many Of whom are bound to
me by ties of blood and friendship.
Eut it must be so. 1t is like a dread
full surgical operation. The militar,
istic, undemocratic demon which
rules Germany must be cast out. 1t
is for us to do it-now.
Il try to tell myself that it is not
our affair; that we should content
ourselves with measures OF defense
and armed neutrality. But l know
that 1t is not so.
"The mailed fist has been shaken
under our nose before. If Prussian,
ism triumphs in this wal the fist will
continue to shake. We shall be in
real peril, and those ideas for which
so much of the worlds best blood has
been spilled through the centuries
will be in danger of extinction. It
seems to me common sense that we
begin our defense by immediate at,
tack, when the demon is occupied
and when we can command assist
ance. n i
Let us make war upon Germany,
not from revenge, nor to uphold hair
splitting bubbles of International
law. But let US make war with our
whole heart and with all our strength
because Germany worships one God
and we another, and because the lion
and the lamb cannot lie down togeth.
er. One or the other must perish.
many Of the Junkerdom, the Germany
of frightfulness, the Germany of ar
rogance and selfshness. And let us
swear not to make peace until the i'm,
perial German government is the i'm
perial German people"
OF this letter the Chicago paper
says:
"Mr. KotZenabe has spoken, we be.
lieve, for that true German.American-
ism which has been a splendid part
Of Americanism from the foundation
of the republic. His is the German.
ism Of Carl Schurz. of Brentano, and
Sigel, a spirit proved in the fire of
war, shining forth in our counsels,
serving always the ideals Of liberty
and progress. 1t is of this spirit and
of such men The Tribune has thought
when it has asserted that German.
American loyalty could be relied up.
on.
"Mr. Kotzenabe's letter is excep-
tional also in indicating an issue up.
on which all Americans, whether of
Colonial, German, or other ancestry,
can intellectually rally. 1t is true
the German government has shown
America a surly front for a genera
ton and has more than once seemed
ready to strike. And now when we
a against Germany it will be
against that government, not against
the German people, to whom we owe
so much that is strong and fine in
our institutions and ideals"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-04-17

Representative A. G.. Divet in his
address at Grand Forks where an or
g~anization was formed to oppose the
Nonpartisan League, not a
organization but as a cloak for So
cialism, gave an Indictment OF A. =.
Bowen, chief clerk Of the house, and
at one time socialist candidate for
governor. Mr.. Bowen was "A. u
Townley's right bower during the
session and is now in the field or
ganizing the farmers of the state
Here is Divet on Bowen:
want to appeal to you gentlemen
who know this man, and j want TO
ask you who do not know him, to
look Upon him and determine wheth.
err | am not right in the statement
that the face was no pleasant pros
pect to look upon; and each day, as
the mar chosen by the law of the
state and by the dictates Of wisdom
and decency of the Christian nations
of the world performed his part OF
the duty this cock-eyed son of Jezebe'
.ieered and sneered and scoffed and
Knocked at God while His blessings
upon the assembled were being in
vokcd. No greater insult than the
presence of this man in the attitude
that he assumed was ever cast in the
face of an assembly Of representa-
tives of a freeborn Christian people.
Not Ultra Religious.
l am not ultra-religiOus myself. ]
do not carry around with me a suftii-
ent burden Of the stock of Christian
ity to hamper me seriously in my
progress in the daily affairs of life;
but l believe, in common with the
rest Of the Christian world, in a fair,
decent, orderly observation of the re-
ligion of the country and Of fair de.
cent, orderly respect for God and for
his ministers and for the law of the
state that provides that such minis
tiers representing such God shall be
part Of the government of the state;
out we sat in patience and we endur,
ed and we held our peace and accept
ed the insult and watched from day
to day the mockery.
Watched Demonstration.
after watching this demonstration
it was not long before we were as
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-04-17
SALE OF LAND

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, That
under authority of an Order of Sale
granted by the Honorable H. c.. Brad.
ley, Judge of the County Court of the
County of Burleigh, in the State of
North Dakota, dated the 18th day of
April, 1917, the undersigned, the ad,
ministrator of the estate of Lucy A.
Fish, late Of the City of East Moline,
in the County of Rock Island and
State of North Dakota, deceased, will
sell at private sale to the highest bid
der, for cash. subject to confirmation
by the Judge OF said County Court,
the following described land, to-wit:
Lots Thirty.one (31) and Thirty
two (32), of Block Ninety (90) of Nc
Kenzie & Coffin's Addition to Bis
marck, North Dakota, according to
the plat thereof on file and of record
in the Office Of the register of deeds
of Burleigh County, North Dakato.
The sale will be made on or after
the 14th day of May, 1917.
All bids must be in writing and
may be left at the Office of Newton,
Dullam & Young, in the City Nation
al Bank Building, Bismarck, NORTH
Dakota, or filed with the judge of
said County Court, or delivered to
the undersigned personally.
RICHARD E. FISH,
Administrator of the
Estate of Lucy A. Fish,
Deceased.
Dated April 18th, 1917. -,
All. "a, May /, s
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spirit Of COMPETITION MAKES WORK
LIKE PLAY IN NAVY, REPORTER !
LYON FINDS :

THEN he is taught all about the op-
GRAFTON of boats and battleships and
torpedo boat d~estrOyers.
You a see why you should be
good at drill and expert with rifles
and small arms" said Frank r. Ly-
tie, our instructor, soon after he took
charge of us.
a battleship' can't carry a regi-
ment Of soldiers along to hold
towns or forts that might be
captured. You bluejackets must
be able to fight as well on land
as on sea-
The recruit must report for drill
each morning in a spOtless white
uniform.
Each. morning when the different
companies of recruits are lined up
for inspection Lieut.. Geo. N. Reeves
as chief drill officer, passes rapidly
down the lines. His critical eye never
was known to miss a coffee stain.
A chief petty officer always accom-
Danies him, and every boy at whom
Reeves points his fingers is in for
a few hours extra drill' for wear
ing soiled clothing.
Setting up" exercises on the drill
grounds, and gymnasium work, are
calculated to develop muscles long
unused.
After a fellow has bent ami twist
ed and lunged. climbed ropes and
jumped leather horses for a couple Of
hours each day for weeks, he be-
gins to feel he is ready to lick some
body.
In the navy they harden the re-
cruit to withstand both cold and hot
weather. After awhile nobody minds
a little thing like a soaking rain.
A spirit of competition enters into
everything at a training station that
makes most of the work seem like
play.
The company of recruits that
shows up best on the drill grounds is
allowed to- carry the ,eolors
was in COmnSny q. and nearly
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-04-17
By E. C.. Lyon.

| never knew it was possible to do
so many different things in any one
day until | got into the United States
navy.
A recruits hours are from 5 in the
morning until 9 at night.
From, 9 at night until 5 in the norm
ing he has nothing to do but sleep.
In his 16 waking hours he gets up,
makes up his hammock and lashes
it; sweeps out his bungalow; helps
clean up the camp, takes a scrub at
himself; eats breakfast; does some
guard duty; drills until school time;
goes to school for two hours; washes
himself again; eats dinner: goes out
for boat drill; takes setting up exer-
discs, gymnasium work or swim
ming lessons; does some extra drill
ing if he's violated any of the camp
regulations; washes his own cloth
ing; goes to supper; lines up for
roll call at $40; and is in his ham
omck by 8.
It's no wonder the hundreds of
young fellows whs are now crowd
ing the naval training stations have
appetites like, goats.
A naval recruit is hungry all the
time. He cant be filled up, because
the constant training and hardening
processes he is undergoing in pre-.
paration for sea duty causes his body
to consume fuel faster than he a
supply it.
Chaplain Frazier at the Norfolk
training station asked a class if they
found the navy to be as they had
pictured 1t before they enlisted.
I never knew a sailor drilled with
an army rife and learned to operate
land artillery" said one. 81 thought
a sailor only climbed rope ladders
and helped fire the big guns on bat
tleships."
l never thought I'D have to do
my WI washing" said another.
In the navy q boy is put through
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