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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-07-19
0coNNoR, RED o
CHASER OF CYCLONES

The world is full Of rainbow
chasers, but the one and only
official cyclone chaser is John j.
O'Connor, director Of the central
division Of the American Red
Cross, with headquarters at Chi
cago. The Red Cross Magazine
has graphically told how he per-
sonally administered relief at
Newcastle and New Albany, Ind,
when those cities were wrecked
by storms. But 1t is not general
~ known that, beginning with
the disaster at NATION and
Charleston, where 80 lives were
lost, Mr.. O'Connor directed re-
lief work in IS communities
scattered over seven states
Not only did he get calls for
help from several of the nine
states then in his division, but
Washington ordered him to take
over the cyclone relief work in
Kansas and Oklahoma, which or
dinarily are administered from
Denver.
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top of me, and then q whole lot OF
other things"
A chubby little girl in a neighboring
cot had a great secret to tell me. She
was sitting up among her pillows, n
arm and her chest swathed in q null
titude Of bandages,
"I'm going home," she confided. "The
doctor don't know 1t, and I'm not go
ing to tell him, but I'm going"
She had suffered four broken ribs
and a lacerated arm. Not a complaint
out of her-nothing but chuckles at
the dismay the doctor would expert
ence when he should find that she had
gone home.
Another was rather crestfallen that
she had no broken bones to display.
"But I'm black and blue all over"
she declared. 'It's just hurt me every
where"
did the sewing machine hit you,
too?"
II don't know" she confessed. 1.-THE
house just went all to pieces around
me, and I didn't know anything. And
lACA L was lying LII lAC pOCdlO pOISA
and it was raining in my face"
Some regarded the theater as sinful,
but a little boy who came to the Red
Cross headquarters said that the thea
ter saved him.
I'D q, been killed." he assured me,
earnestly, "only I was down town to
the second show, and it didn't blow
the theater away"
He did not tell me, but one Of the
workers did, that bis home was lit
terally carried away, and both his ia
thor and mother killed. The Red Cross
was supplying him with food and
clothing, and a neighbor was caring
for him.
The city Of the dead Jared worse, If
possible, than the cities Of the living.
The most vindictive fury of the whole
storm seemed centered in Dodge Grove
Cemetery.
Such trees as were not uprooted or
twisted off short just above the
ground were stripped of leaves,
branches, large limbs-everything but
the stub of c trunk. Even the grave
stones were thrown about like so many
bits of wood, some litred into the air
and driven deep into the soil, others
shattered to pieces.
In one part,of the cemetery a num-
Der of heavy stones were torn from
their places and thrown to the west.
Not ten feet away the wind had picked
up an enormous block Of solid granite
and thrown it to the east. It was like
a satire on the old Saxon phrase which
calls thesburial ground Goods Acre"
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nurses and hospitals and things to eat
they're doing great things for Mat
toon."
I got him to talk further on his ex-
periences in the storm. He had not
been at home, but lear Charleston, sew
eral miles to the east. He and several
other men had taken refuge in a barn,
but it was carried away and all were
more or less injured. He was felled by
a beam-or something, he could not be
sure what-striking him on the head.
Then he was pinned by an immense
splinter driven through his arm.
1T was Gods WILL" was his only ex-
PLANTATION.
Not far away I found a woman Of
sixty-two clambering over the wreck
age, picking radishes from a garden
which was buried under fragments Of
her and her neighbors' houses.
ibid you live herer
eyes. this was my house." She
swung he. arm in a comprehensive
semicircle, taking in much of the land
scape. give rooms full Of the incest
furniture"
"Were you at home? Did you get
hurt"
"Oh, yes, it broke three ribs, in
fured my spine, and hurt me all over"
was the cheerful response. "Four
hours after the storm they found me
under that pile of timbers."
There was not a word Of complaint.
Only praise for the Red Cross, and the
hope that II she could get the bricks
and planks of her garden, she might
grow some potatoes.
That was the spirit everywhere.
Nothing to complain of, and a gener-
GUS appreciation Of the response Of the
Red Cross with surgeons and nurses
and whatever was needed to help them
back to a normal life again.
The children actually made q sort
Of holiday Of 1t. I found a number
Of them In the Methodist Memorial
hospital in Nation, and they were
glad to have a visitor who would lis
ten to their stories.
1T hurt my leg-just look" e1.
claimed a young lady OF perhaps nine
years, pulling up her hospital gown
and displaying with pride bandages
from ankle to thigh. And my arm,
too-seey"
Anurse whispered that q great deal
of flesh had been torn from the leg
but that she was improving nicely.
DO you remember what happened7N
asked her.
..Sure. The window broke In, and the
wind slammed me down In Z cor
per and the sewing machine went o.
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If the American Red Cross had never
done anything else than organize, equip
and supply the base hospitals which
ARE now backing our armies, 1t would
have justified it's existence. OF course
1t has done, and still is doing, count
less great things for America and for
the world; but its accomplishment in
the line of base hospitals Is just now
of prime Importance.
As briefly as it may be defined, a
base hospital Is an institution which
cares for the sick or wounded soldier
from the time he Is sent back from
the firing line, until he is able to be
removed to a hospital in his own coun-
try.
1t is almost unbelievable, but never
theless a fact, that until the American
Red Cross took hold Of the task a
year ago, no nation In the history of
the world had ever organized a base
hospital until after wal had been de-
clared and the fighting begun, and the
wounded men lay writhing on the
ground.
Always, of course, there have been
b few army surgeons with each regi-
ment, who patched up the slightly
wounded and got them back into the
firing line as quickly as possible. Also,
of course, there have always been in
all countries some sort Of hospital sys-
TEN for the care Of the sick and
wounded when they got home.
But always the intermediate insti-
tuition, for the care and transportation
of the sick and wounded between the
missing. This has invariably led to
a terrible congestion of wounded on
the battlefields- where thousands suf-
fered needlessly, lost arms and legs
that might have been saved, or died
when a little care would have pre-
served them.
Col. Jefferson Randolph Kean, q. s.
A. Medical corps, director general Of
military relief of the Red Cross, has
likened the former organization to a
bridge of which the end spans were
complete, but the middle span-the
base hOspitals-was entirely lacking.
When a man Is wounded in battle,
the method Of caring for him Is this
modified, of course, by varying condi-
tons:
He lies on the field in No Mans
Land between the lines, o. In the
trench until he is able to drag himself
away, or the stretcher bearers can
reach him, and carry him to one Of
the little flrst-aid stations. These are
always very neal to the fighting fines
sometimes IN a part Of the trench
where the men are fighting.
There an army surgeon shameless the
flow of blood, puts a dressing on the
wound to keep out infection, binds on
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Storm Victims
Trust God and
the Red Cross
Men, Women and Children Are
StoicaI in Their Losses of
Loved Ones and Homes
-Kiddies Brave.
By CHARLES LEE BRYsoN.

BY CHARLES LEE BRYsoN.
A firm belief in a protecting Provi-
dence, and in the Red Cross as one Of
the chosen agents Of that Providence,
was one of the first things that con-
fronted a visitor to NATION and
Charleston after the terrible tornado
which swept across both cities in the
spring. This attitude was best exem-
pliied in a middle-aged man I found
amid the ruins of Nation, but In vary
ing degrees it was shown by almost
every grown person I questioned.
I encountered this man in the very
heart of the wrecked district. He sat
on a little heap of timbers. Beside him
lay the crushed frame and wheels Of
an inexpensive baby cab. All around
him were boards, splinters, bricks, bits
Of bedding and household furniture
grist atyhad gone through the mill
of the storm miller. / asked him If
he had been in the storm-though his
arm in splints and the lump on his
head were evidence that he had.
eyes, this was my house." he re-
piled simply.
Ibid you lose anyoneY
"Oh, yes. Ny baby and my fve-year-
old were killed. My wife and four 9TH
ers got hurt, but they're getting bet
ter"
I expressed my sympathy and
added:
"And yet 1t seems to me you're
lucky that anyone at all Is left I
don't see how a cat could come alive
through such q wreck as this"
1T was God watched over them"
he answered earnestly. II always
asked him to look after them, and he
did. He took the ones he wanted, and
left the ones he didn't want yet"
Having no argument against his
philosophy, I inquired after the In
juredfw wife and children.
"Oh the Red Cross Is caring for
Them" he replied brightly. They are
surely doing Z good work. Doctors and
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Hou Much the
Little Heroes
Need Our Help!

It is less theatrical to give a bowl Of
soup to q hungry, frightened little
child than to stanch the wound OF q
fallen soldier in the fighting line, but
the American Red Cross has underta-
ken to care for the suffering civilians /
in war-torn Europe as well as to nurse
the wounded fighters. These little ones
are just as heroic, in their way, as
any man who charges the German
guns. And the children are often
wounded, too.
Here Is an extract from a letter
written by Mrs. Marian Bonsall Davis,
who was for six months a volunteer
worker in France, among those non
combatants who are almost hourly in
danger from German guns and bombs:
Because so many bombs fall on the
town of Nancy, and because the place
Is sometimes bombarded, the children
all know that on a certain signal they
must run into the cellar of the nearest
house marked with the great red cross.
There, perhaps, they will have protec-
ton:
There are children in the hospitals,
victims Of the bombs. There is one
little girl, both legs taken off by a
German bomb, hugging tight her dolly,
with never a smile on her grave face.
"There are two little boys who also
suffered amputations because Of the
bombs. They begged to be allowed
to lie in the hospital ward with the
wounded soldiers, and when the SOL
diers heard of the request they smiled
and said "bien" ut is well.) And
now the little fellows are i%nordinately
proud of the mutilations that permit
them to lie in the ward Of crippled SOL
diers, the equals in rank Of the heroes
of battle.
"Then there are the little n in the
refugee colonies. If you have helped
with your money, with service, to al
ry the w~orld-burden, you can look into
their eyes; otherwise you turn your
head when they gaze at you with
child wisdom.
"These little ones are very like 9th
er children except in one thing-no
horrible thing can ever surprise them.
Their baby eyes have looked upon the
~unspeakable. They have gazed on vio-
lence and wrath in their most pervert-
ed forms, have seen their grandpar-
ents hunted and driven, their mothers
hunted down. They are too young to
know that these things are not a com
mon part Of life. And they are so
much older than you in knowledge Of
violence and suffering and terror, yet
because you are so big, and e to
them wise, they look up to you in child
appeal.
"When you have seen that from
these little ones, you have touched the
war; and when you have touched the
war, there is only n kind of relief
possible to you-and that is to help.
There is a very definite, practical way
to help-the American Red Cross. Ev-
cry cent you give will go further than
you ever would believe that a cent
could 60. A cent will give a bowl Of
soup to a hungry, frightened child"
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Telegram. at Half Rates.

I, All official messages between Red
Cross chapters and the American Red
Cross headquarters at Washington
may now be sent at half rates. This
Is a courtesy by the Postal and the
Western Onion companies. The next
step would seem to be the ranking of
all official mail, not only between
Washington and chapters, but inter
chapter business. This can come only
through congressional action.
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'splints in case Of broken bones, and
makes it possible for the patient to be
moved to the little field hospital q
short distance from the fighting line.
This field hospital is usually a tent
sometimes q hut or a barn or even
q space in the open air sheltered by a
hill or a clump Of trees. ]: is really
little more than an enlarged frst-aid
station, with a capacity for not more
than 125 wounded, who lie on the
ground on tarpaulins. There are no
beds, and seldom any cots.
From the field hospital the wound
ed are taken, as rapidly as possible, to
the evacuation hospitals, still farther
from the danger o Each evacua-
ton hospital cares for the wounded
from three field hospitals. This, too,
is an emergency station, and has no
permanency. It Is a collection station
for wounded, where the worst cases
may be given a little more attention
than has been possible before.
As rapidly as the motor ambu1ances,
the hospital trains, the hospital ships,
or other agencies, are able to work,
the wounded are taken from these col
lecting stations to the base hospital,
located at the army base some distance
to the e
Here, for the first time, the wound
I'd man finds himself in q real hos
,Atal, in the hands Of surgeons and
iburses who have the time to give his
j,urts every possible care.
He is put into q real bed In q real
hospital, supplied with X-ray, BAG
THEOLOGICAL and pathological labora.
tories, a diet kitchen presided over by
skilled cooks, and with surgeons and
nurses drawn from Americas mos
highly trained to wx1t on him + h
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Have You Joined Yet2

The Red Cross now has more than
1900 regularly organized chapters In
the United States with considerably
more than 100000 members
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-07-19
AMERICAN RED CROSS HOSPITAL UNITS
FIRST TO ANSWER NATIONS CALL FOR
HELP ON EUROPE'S BATTLEFIELDS

.|0rganzed in Peace Times, These Groups Of Surgeons, Nurses
and Privates Are Showing the Allies That Uncle Sam Is
Prepared to Aid Them Fully in One Department at
Least-This Community Must Do Its Part-We
Must Give Our Time, Services, Money.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1917-12-07
No. 20O99
ORDER FOR HEARING


State of Minnesota, County of Henne-
pin. In Probate Court.
In the Matter of Proving the alleged
Last viii and Testament of Richard
J. Whitby, Decedent.
On receiving and filing the Petition OF
Louisa Whitby of Hennepin County,
Minnesota, praying for the allowance
of an instrument purporting to be
the last Will and Testament of
said decedent and presented there:
with as and for such last Will and
Testament and that Letters testamen-
tary be granted thereon to said pc
%titioner.
1t is Ordered, That said petition be
heard and that all persons interested
in said matter appear before
this Court on Monday, the 3lst. day OF
December 1917, at 10 A. NJ, at the Pro-
bate Court in the Courthouse at Minnea-
polls in said County and then, or as
soon thereafter as said petition a be
heard, show cause, if any there he, why
said petition should not be granted.
And it is Further Ordered, That
notice of such hearing be given by pub
fishing this order once in each week
for three successive weeks, prior to said
day of hearing, in the Echo de pOuest
a newspaper printed and published in
said county and by mailing a copy of this
,order to all the legatees named in said
will and h%eirs-at-law of said de-
cedent when their address is known or
can be ascertained by due diligence at
least fourteen (14) days before the date
of said hearing, unless notice is waived.
Dated at Minneapolis, this 4th day
of December 1917.
By the Court:
1921 JOHN A. DAHL,
Judge of the Probate Court
P. Whitby, 1862 Hennepin Ave.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1917-12-07
2O1O6
2O1O6
ORDER FOR HEARING PETITION FOR
LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION

LETTERS OF
State of Minnesota, County of Henne-
pin. In Probate Court.
In the matter of the Estate of Lewis
Desentell Decedent.
On receiving and filing the petition
of Minnie Baker of Hennepin
County Minnesota praying that Let
tiers of Administration on said estate
issue to her;
1t is Ordered, That said petition be
heard and that all persons interested in
said matter appear before this Court on
Monday, the 3lst day of December 1917
at 10 A. NJ, at the Probate Court in the
Court House at Minneapolis in said
County and then, or as soon thereafter as
said petition can be heard, show cause,
if any there be, why said petition should
not be granted.
And it is Further Ordered, That no.
tice Of such hearing be. given by p4 70.
three successive weeks. prior to said
day Of hearing in the Echo de L'Ouest,
a newspaper printed and publlshed IN
said County, and By mailing q copy Of
in said will and heirs-at-law of said
decedent when their address is known
or can be ascertained by due
at least fourteen (14) days before the
date Of said hearing, unless notice is
waived.
Dated at Minneapolis this 9th day
of December 1917.
By the Court:
1921 JOHN A. DAHL
Judge of the Probate Court
N. A. L'Herault, Attorney,
sos Palace Bldg.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1917-12-07
No. 1917

No. 1877 i.
ORDER FOR CREDITORS TO PRESENT
CLAIMS, Ere.
State of Minnesota, County of Hen
nepin. In Probate Court.
In the Matter of the Estate of Max
Junghanns Deceased.
Letters of administration on the
Estate of Max Junghanns, deceased,
late of the County of Hennepin
and State of Minnesota being
granted to Moritz Helm of Ramsey
County, Minnesota;
1t is Ordered, That six months be
and the same is hereby allowed from and
after the date of this order, in which all
persons having claimsor demands against
the said deceased are required
to file the same in the Probate Court of
said county of Hennepin for examina-
tion and allowance or be forever barred.
1t is Further Ordered, That the first
Monday in June 1918, at 10 o'clock
a. M, at a general term of said Probate
Court, to be held at the Court
House in the City of Minneapo-
lis, in said county, be and the
same is hereby appointed as the time
and place when and where the said
Probate Court will examine and adjust
said claims and demands
And it is Further Ordered, that
notice of such hearing be given to
all creditors and persons interested in
said estate by forthwith publishing this
order once in each week, for three sue
cessive weeks, in the Echo de POuest a
newspaper printed and published in
said county.
Dated at Minneapolis this 9th. day
of November 1917.
By the Court:
1921 JOHN A. DAHL,
Judge of the Probate Court
Moritz Helm, Attorney,
Merchants Nat. Blk. Bldg, st. Paul.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1917-12-07

Washington, 3-On est q orga-
niser le Easement DIES navires
americans ct allies, ain de d6con-
gestionner les ports qui sont en-
combr6s de marchandises. LIE
"Shipping Board" aura la direc-
ton des operations qui seront me-
n6es dams ce sens. Les navires Sc
ront oblig6s, des qu'ils seront au
quai de prendre une cargaison
qu'on leur d6signera ct ills ne
pourront pas attendre pour char
ger les marcbandises qu'is veulent.
Londres, g. Un- t6l6gramme
d'Amsterdam q rExchange Tele-
graph dit que les journauz panger-
manistes ont recu' une protestation
contre le DR.. Bethmann- Ho)lweg,
l'ancien chancellor imperial, &C.
compagn6 de son ancien assistant,
Arnold Vahnschaffe, ainsi que d'u-
ne quantit6 de secretaries, pour la
permission qui lui est accord6e
d'aller en- Suisse ct qu'ils consid6-
rent CONNIE une mission de grande
Importance politique.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1917-12-07
FLU 6ayety

Les american Burlesquers"
avec Harry Welsh ct Billy Garlic
ton, CONNIE premiers com6diens
seront au Gayety la semaine pro-
chaine.
"Pawnbroking de Luxe" est lie
tire ASSET bizarre dune comedie
musicale en- deux actes qui dit-on
dome q MN. Welsh ct Carlton
l'occasion d'eexercer leur grands ia
Tents de coln6diens.
Un cheur de vingt contribute
grandement & rehausser p6clat de
cette representation.
II ne faut pas non plus oublier
les effets sceniques ct electriques
qui sont tres riches ct originates
Font aussi partie dela troupe
Mile Alice Mason, prlma-donna;
Mile Vivian Somerville, ing6nue
ct Mile Lola McQuay, soubrette.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1917-12-07
No. 1870
ORDER FOR CRE01ToRs TO PRESENT

ORDER FOR CRE31ToRs TO PRESENT
CLAIMS, Etc.
State of Minnesota, County of Henne-
pin. Probate. Court.
In the matter of the Estate of Joseph
W. Thoren Deceased.
Letters of administration on the Esta-
te of Joseph w. Thoren deceased late OF
Winnipeg, Canada, being granted to
A. W. Carlson of Hennepin County,
Minnesota;
1t is Ordered, That six months be
and the same is hereby allowed from and
after the date of this order, in which all
persons having claims or demandsa against
the said deceased are required
to file the same in the Probate Court
Of said County of Hennepin for exami-
nation, and allowance, or be forever
barred.
It is Further Ordered, That the first
Monday IN June 1918 at 10 O'Clock
a. M. at a general term of said Probate
Court, to be held at the Court House
in the City of Minneapolis, in said
equity, be and the same Is hereby ap;
pointed as the time and place when and
whore the said Probate Court will
examine and adjust said claims and
And II is Further Ordered That
notice of such hearing be given to all
creditors and persons interested in said
estate by forthwith publishing this
order once in each week for three suo-
cessive weeks, in the Echo de pOuest, a
newspaper printed and published In
said county.
Dated at Minneapolis this Goth day Of
November 1917.
By the Court,
1921 JOHN A. DAHL
Judge Of the Probate Court
David G. Gorham, Court House
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1917-12-07
ProchaineSoiree de
Boxe le Is Dec.

Mike Collins, le Directeur du
Minneapolis Boxing Club annonce
que la prochaine soir6e de boxe
aura lieu en- cette vile le IL cou-
rant.
M, Collins s'efforce d'arranger
une rencontre entire Pete Herman,
de la Nouvelle Orleans ct Johnny
Ertle, de st Paul. Ces. deux athle-
tes r6clamenf lie championnat de
la classe "bantam'' ct cette ques-
ton pourrait etre r6gl6e dams une
rencontre lei.
Sill est impossible %d'arranger
cette rencontre la soir6e aura lieu
quand meme mardi soir lie IL de-
cembre a lArcadia la semaine
avant Noel.
M. Collins est aussi en- train de
.n6gooier une rencontre entire LON
Coroler ct Billy Miske ct il est
probable qu'au cas- Oh on ne pour
RAFT Sc proourer la lutte Herman
ErtIe, Tom Coroler ct Billy Miske
Sc mesureront 4 rArcadia. Dams
I'm cas- on l'autre la soir6e serait
DIES plus importantes au point de
vue de la boxe.