The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-10-25
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Soldiers Are Protected BE s<s


Every state represented at
Camp Dodge has a law protect
ing selected men from greedy
creditors or over-zealous land
lords. The Iowa law affords
fair sample when it declares that
all men in the service of their
country are hereby exempted
while in such service and for a
period of six months after the
termination of the war or said
service or death from payment
of any bills or exchange or of
any negotiable instrument or of
any other payment in pursu-
ance of any contract or from
any writ of attachment or exc
cution. The homestead of all
soldiers, sailors or other persons
in the military or naval service
of the United States shall be
exempt from taxes during their
term of service in the present
war; or other property to the
actual value of $4,000 in the
event of no such homestead.
That the statute of limitations
shall not run against any action
held against anyone affected by
this act during the time the
same is stayed by the terms of
this act. If any suit is pending
in court in which conscripted
man has an interest the same
shall be continued upon the
docket until his return.
Artillery Range Selected.
After considerable dickering
with the farm owners a strip of
ground a mile wide and nearly
five miles long has been selected
for an army range. The farm
ers who have leased the land to
the government did so unde]
protest. They imagine that
shrapnel, exploded shells trench
es and other things will leave
their rich, we'll improved farms
in a sorry plight for future use
Major Blauk, of Fort Leaven-
worth, in charge of the range
has instructed Colonel Raymond
of the Three Hundred Thir-
teenth engineers regiment to
have his men at once start the
work Of laying out the range.
Soldiers Will Study French.
Glasses to teach officers con-
versational French will be start
ed this week. The war recrea-
tion board has secured four
teachers and is writing for Cen
eral Plummer to give the word
to start. The plan is to start
schools later on for privates. A
nominal fee will be charged the
officers for instruction. More
instructors are needed, states r.
B. Patin, secretary. The four
instructors now secured are: l..
H. DeRivieres. He was born in
France and taught school there.
He is a veteran of the Spanish
American war. Alfred J. Pear
son, an instructor at Drake uni
versity; Mrs. F. Holdrook of Des
Moines; Paul Constant, a Greek.
He is now teaching at Highland
Park. Jene De nellie is inter-
prefer for the ambulance COM
pany and is teaching the men
French. He talks six different
languages. French text books
are on sale at the book stores
and at news stands at the rail-
way stations.
Four Industrial Workers Of the
World in Trouble.
The first general court martial
held at Camp Dodge will be con-
vened to pass upon four men,
bers of the Industrial Workers
of the World who were captured
at Devils Lake, North Dakota.
They gave their names as Elmer
E. Kepler, Victor Anderson, J.
R. Truck and Felix Thorton. Ac-
cording to the reports received
at Camp Dodge, the men were
certified for the first draft, and
were believed to be on their way
to Canada when apprehended.
They were brought here and de-
livered to Colonel Harbeson Of
the military police by Sergeant
William Patterson, and Corporal
Don Young of the Thirty-sixth
Infantry, Fort Smelling. They
were alleged to have had with
them a grip filled with incend-
iary literature, both in English
and foreign languages.
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