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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-09-13
TO WHEATON CORRESPONDENT

Wonder why the, Wheaton CORES
pondent has not joined the forces and
gone to the front. 1t would be we'll
for those who are continually how
Hing about forcing the other fellow
into the trenches to go first, Enlist
| at once.
In the Courant for Aug. 30th, ap-
pears a writup about pa and ma, that
has attracted quite a lot of attention.
W. are we'll aware whom the said
correspondent refers to. Let me say
that pa and ma r not near as spry
as the Wheaton correspondent tries to
have it appear Pa 68 years young and
ma a few years younger. Some youth!
Wonder if the Wheaton correspondent
at that age will have done for U. S.
! A. what said pa and ma has done.
Doubtful.
Coming to Bottineau County in the
80's and everyone knows what Bot
tineau County looked like at that
time. Look at the appearance Of the
community now in which pa and ma
have and operate with the assistance
of son the farm the correspondent re-
fers to in the Wheaton items.
Have they not helped for 80 years
with the upbuilding of that part Of
the county and it is at the present
time, if not the best, at least one of
the best farming districts in N. D.
They have assisted with the build
ing of schools and churches and in
every other way worked for the inter-
est and welfare Of the country. Faced
poverty and hardships and all other
discomforts connected with pioneer
life, but through perseverance, hard
work and good management it is at
the present time not necessarily de-
pendent on son for that which money
can buy. But who a buy the love
and tender care of a son or a daugh-
ter, with money, from a stranger?
Why should we jeer any drafted
man for claiming legal exemption?
Is not a young man who prefers stay
ing and caring for old and infirm
parents more to be honored then GEN.
sured?
1t is not always our very best young
men that join the army Or navy, nor
is it always, for the love Of country
that young men go to the battle front,
but in lots of cases it is love of adj
venture more than any other reason.
Why should we cast slurs or ridicule
anyone for wanting to remain with
those who are near and dear to US?
The writer loves U. S. A. and the
red, white and blue, as much as it
is possible for any to do but feels
that it would be impossible to tear
loose from those who are dearer to
us than our own life and go to fate
unknown.
Aged and infirm parents need the
love and protection of their sons as
much as little children needs their
parents. Doesn't a son owe his
mother his love and protection on the
eve of her life?
Where is the mother who willingly
sacrifices her son for the battle field?
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-09-13

Kramer is endeavoring to organize
a Red Cross chapter.
ALL kinds of coal for sale at the
st. A. & D. Elevator Company. tt.
Pigs for Sale-Old enough to wean,
$500 each.-W. Waters, Sec. %,
Peabody township. 3tp
Arthur White expects to ship a car
Of the famous Meadowlawn Percher-
ons and Shorthorns to Helena next
week for exhibition at the Montana
state fair.
Local physicians have been work.
ing overtime the past week vaccinat-
ing children of school age, in con-
formity with the order Of the state
board of health.
The Westhope Red Cross recently
sent twenty-one pairs Of socks and
three pair Of WHISTLES to headquarters.
They soon expect to send a still larger
consignment of socks.
Lost A mems coat, between Upham
and Arnedo. My name is sewed on
inside pocket.-Finder please leave at
Courant office or write me. P. C.
Krohn, Route a, Bottineau. ct.
A A. Golden of this city has pur-
chased the Shong Bros. pool room in
Kramer. Mr.. Golden now owns and
operates pool rooms in half a dozen or
more towns in this part of the state.
Martin Hong, the sixteen year old
son of MI. and Mrs. Martin Hong
of Willow City, died last week. He
contracted pneumonia while out
threshing and was ill but a few days.
Milton Quamme suffered a fractured
arm last week as the result of back
fire when cranking an automobile.
Milton is getting along as nicely as
can be expected, but will be compell-
ed to wear his arm in a sling for some
time to come.
The crop yield around Omemee is
quite gratifying, according to the
Herald. George Wiley threshed a Sc
venty acre field Of Durum that yield
ed about 16 bushels to the acre. The
lowest yield reported in that locality
is six bushels.
A large delegation vas on hand at
the depot Friday morning to bid
goodbye and God-speed to the first
contingent of Bottineau county's
soldier boys who left that morning
for Camp Dodge, Iowa. Forty per
cent of the county's quota will leave
here next Wednesday, this including
about seventy drafted men
Hi. Sagdahl, who is farming near
Opheim, Mont, in a card to the Cour-
ant states that crops are poor in that
locality. The wheat yields about Is
bushels, which in most North OAK
ota localities this year is considered
a good crop. Oats r turning out
about 20 bushels and flax from 5 to
10. According to Mr.. Sagdahl, this is
only about half the usual crop in that
part of Montana.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-09-13

Not many I am sure but they are
forced to do 80.
Some peoples ideas of patriotism
seem to be a continual howl to send
their fellow men to the trenches in
France and do all they can to accom-
plish that end.
It is a sure fact that U. S. A. and
their Allies need food as much, proba-
bly, more than they need men. Why
not leave the farmer boys who have
no taste for the battle front or the
trenches, on their farms to raise the
necessary foodstuffs for the armies ?
Why should anyone be called pro-
German unpatriotic and other names
because they will not talk in favor of
this terrible blood shed?
A Subscriber.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-09-13

J. E. Haskell left Monday for a
business trip to Williston..
The Bottineau Creamery is paying
the highest market price for your
cream. 30tf.
Lost-A cuff button on the streets
of Bottineau. Finder kindly leave at
Courant office.
For Sale or Rent-Six room house,
with cistern and we'll. SIG per month.
Mrs. VIM. Emde. 1T
j. L. Page of Westhope had a small
field Of wheat that went twenty bus
hels to the. acre.
Attorney Adams was looking after
legal business at Rugby from Satur-
day until Monday.
$65O.OO takes 1916 Oakland six
Touring car. In best of condition.
Inquire at this office.
An electric flatiron left at the
Shirley Hotel can be had by owner
paying for this notice.
FOR SALE-Six room house in
.Bottineau, including six lots. Apply
to e. Erlandson, Bottineau.
"A POSITION OR YOUR MONEY
BACK" is our new policy. Write for
full particulars. Humboldt Business
College, Minneapolis, Mimi. At
H. J. Musberger last week disposed
of his 52O-acre farm near Omemee
to VIM. Feuerhelm, who recently came
to B~ottineau county from Iowa.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-09-13
SUMMONS.

Nj
State Of North Dakota, County Of Bot.
tineau, IS. In District Court.
Ninth Judicial District.
Minna Kristensen. Plaintiff.
VS..
Christian Kristensen, Defendant.
The State of North Dakota to the above
named PENDANT
You are hereby summoned and re-
quired to answer the complaint OF the
plaintiff and to serve a copy of your an
swer upon the subscriber at his office in
the City Of Bottineau, County of Bot
tineau and State Of North Dakota with
in thirty days after the service of this
summons upon you, exclusive Of the day
Of such service, and in case of your fail
ure 81 to appear and answer, Judgment
will be taken against you by default for
the relief demanded in the complaint.
Dated this 7th day Of August, 1917.
J. J. Weeks, r
Plaintiffs Attorney,
Bottineau, North Dakota
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-09-13
City ann Gnmntu
COMING AUCTION SALES.

Sale dates under this heading will
be published without charge. when
bills are printed at the Courant office.
Sept. 18-Jos. Destaler.
Sept. 20-Chas. Hogan.
Sept 25-Ben Brown.
Sept. 9Th. j. Musberger.
Oct. 11-Gilbert Skar Estate.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-07-20
$4,000 men IN
FIRST DRAFT CALL
President Issues Order Calling
Soldiers Into the Service
of United States.
1,262,965 MEN IN The ARMY
War Department Announces the Quo
tas to Be Furnished by Each
State-credit Given for Men
Now in Service.

Washington.-The war department
has promulgated a formal order from
the president drafting 6s7, 600 men into
the military service of the United
States under the selective CONSUMPTION
law. The order shows what part Of
the total must be furnished by each
state and territory.
The only steps now remaining are
distribution by the governors of
state quotas among the local exemp-
ton districts and the great lottery,
which probably will be held next
week and which will establish the
order in which registrants are to pre-
sent themselves for service or exemp-
ton.
The men summoned for service viii
be used to I'LL the regular army and
National Guard to war strength and
to organize the first 100000 of the new
national army.
Total to Be 1852, 985.
The total of these three forces viii
be 1862, 1856 men.
Later another 100000 will be called
out, supplemented by sufficient men
to make up losses and maintain re-
serve battalions.
Following is' Secretary of. War
Bakers announcement of the order:
by virtue of the authority vested
In him by an act of congress, entitled
AN Act to Authorize the President
to Increase Temporarily the Military
Establishment of the United States
approved May 13, 1917, the president
Of the United States has ordered the
aggregate number OF $4,000 men to
be raised by draft for the military
service of the United States In order
TO bring to full strength the organ
izations Of the regular army and the
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-07-20
COCKTAILS LETTER HOT STUFF
His Reply to Denman May Force Viii
son to Settle Shipping Board
Controversy.

Washington, July 18.-The future Of
the program to overc, ne the German
submarine menace by creating a fleet
of American cargo vessels depends
largely upon the way Chairman Den
man of the shipping board regards a
letter sent him by Major General
Cocktails, general manager of the
emergency fleet corporation. The let
ter in reply to Denman's request for
specific information regarding Goe-
thals' announced program for the ex-
penditure of $75OOO0,OOO of the pub
lie money for ships. Denman's posi-
ton is that he had right to be con-
suited in this transaction as chairman
of the shipping board. General Goe-
thals has assumed plenary powers to
go ahead and put the ships into the
water.
The contents of the Goethals letter
are withheld, but it is described as
"hot stiff" If Denman does not APP
prove il, it mav mean an immediate
appeal to President Wilson to settle
the controversy between the two Off
Gals which has halted the ship pro-
gram.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-07-20
INSIST SUBMARINE WAR GO ON
German Catholics Express Disappoint-
ment U-Boats Didn't Bring Expect
ed Victory by Midsummer.

Amsterdam. July 1S.-In a lengthy
apology published by the Catholic CEN
ter party of Germany for the action of
Deputy Matthias Erzberger in attacking
the pan-Germans and the submarine
campaign are the following sentences:
Certainly our fronts stand unshake-
able. Our strongest offensive force,
the U-boats, Injuries England immeas-
urably. Nevertheless no end is to be
foreseen at this moment. Hope has
arisen that the end Of the war might
be brought about by midsummer
through the U-boats. Expectations
were aroused which were not realized.
This statement, however, implies no
doubt in the efficiency of the U-boats.
1t has occurred to no one to suggest
the stOppage of submarine warfare"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-07-20
BIG FLEET SMASHED
SIXTEEN GERMAN VESSELS DE-
sTRoYED BY BRITISH NAVY.
Seventeen Ships Attempt to Run the
North Sea BIockade-Oniy
One Escapes.

LONDON, July 1S.-A fleet of II small
German vessels ventured forth from
Rotterdam in an attempt to run the
British blockade. A powerful British
mosquito" fiotilla lay in wait for them
out in the North sea. This is what
happened to the Teuton ships:
Four sunk, four captured, five strand
ed, one wrecked, two fed back, badly
damaged by gunfire, total, sixteen. One
fed back and reached shore unframed.
1t was the first effective blow the
British navy has dealt to the German
blockade-running system in three years
Of warfare. 1t was made possible by
the presence in British waters of Amer
lean destroyers, which enabled the
British to detail a large part of their
mosquito craft to watch the crafty lit
tie Teuton smugglers.
The British admiralty in a statement
accounted only for six of the German
ships, saying four were captured and
two driven back to the Dutch shore,
riddled by gunfre. From Ymuiden
came unofficial news &c Inc fate of the
other blockade-runners.
The German ships paid no attention
to the stop" signals of the British de-
stroyers. They simply turned around
and started wild race for the shore
whence they came. But the British de-
stroyers were too swift for them and
the gunflre too effective. The crews Of
two of the vessels captured ESCAPED"
the admiralty announced. While no de-
tails are given, this suggests the dra-
matte picture of fully score of sailors,
fearing execution as pirates jumping
overheard and swimming for their
lives-with what result no one knows.
The Illustration of the blockaderun-
ming expedition is a great blow to Ger
many, coming at time when that
country is believed to be straining
every nerve to prove to Holland-and
the Scandinavian countries, the trade
with which is less perilous, however,
that the Germans are doing their best
to keep up and even increase the ex-
change of certain goods. Americas ex-
port restrictions have infinitely added
to the necessity of this reciprocal
agreement. For three years Holland
has been getting coal and iron from
Germany, the latter receiving in ex-
change great quantities of Dutch agri-
cultural products, mainly butter and
cheese.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-07-20
HOOVER WON'T ANSWER REED
Promises an Exposure, However, II
Senate Goes net Pass Food
Control Bill.

Washington, July 1s.-Herbert G.
Hoover will make no reply to the bit
ter attack Senator Reed of Missouri
made upon him in the senate, charging
the food administrator with rigging
the food market when he was direct
ing the Belgian relief work. Hoover
said that a reply to Reed would only
lead to another attack by Reed and
precipitate unnecessary controversy.
1t is Hoover's intention, however. to
take a definite step against forces
holding Up the food control bill in the
senate. He will wait until action is
taken Saturday and if it does not coin
eide with his ideas he will go before
the country with an exposure of the
senator's who blocked the bill and the
influences he charges are behind them.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-07-20
NEARLY READY FOR FIGHTING
General Fershing's American Soldiers
Enter the Final Series of
Intensive Drills.

American Headquarters in France,
July 1S.-The final series of intensive
drills before going 20 the firing line
are now under way at the permanent
American base camp behind the front
The Americans are cooperating very
closely with French division in tt cir
last-stage preparations.
Since their arrival the "Sammies,"
as the Yankee soldiers are now called,
have been very busy getting billeted,
unloading equipment and performing
the multifold duties of camp life. Gen
eral Sibert Is In personal command.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-07-20

organizations embodying the MEM
into the military service of the United
States and to create The naticnAl army,
and has caused said aggregate
number TO be apportioned to the sew
eraI states and territories and the
District of Columbia as set forth in
the schedule hereto appended.
Must Apportion Quotas.
"The governor of each state and ter
ritory and the commissioners of the
District of Columbia, acting for and
by the direction of the president and
in accordance with said act of congress
and rules and regulations prescribed
pursuant thereto, shall apportion the
quota so apportioned to such state, ter
ritory or district and shall commune
cate to each local board established
in such state, territory or district no
tice of the I quota to be furnished
by such board, and such net quotas
shall thereupon be furnished by the re-
spective local boards as required by
said act of congress and rules and reg
ulations prescribed pursuant thereto"
In computing the number of men to
be required from the various states
the government put to the credit of
each state everv man 1t row has In
the National Guard and every man it
has contributed since April 1 as
war volunteer to the regular army.
Computation Method.
Placing on the debit side Of the led
ger the national army of 100000, the
entire National Guard at war strength
and the number of war volunteers
needed on April last, to bring the
regulars up to the war strength, the
grand total was apportioned according
to population.
This gave a gross quota for each
state, from which a net quota was COM
puted by checking off the number of
National Guardsmen available for fed
eral service and the number of men
given by the state to the regular army
since April 1.
The apportionment was made on the
basis Of an estimated grand total for
the United States and its possessions
of los, 366,056 inhabitants.
Total of 1,152,9s5.
Each will furnish under this appor-
tionment the men it's total registration
would indicate as fair proportion,
rather than the number the actual pop
ulation of the district would indicate.
The total of these gross quotas is l.
152,9S5 men.
Credit is given to the various states
for a total of 465 1886 voluntary enlist
ments in the National Guard and reg
ulars, making the total net quota fol
all states 687, 900 men.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-07-20
CONVERSATIONS

China contains more American mis-
stonaries than American business
men.
The government maintains 27,340
miles Of road in Spain md has more
than 1900 miles under construction at
the present time.
An inventor in England has COM
bined a rubber flesh brush and soap
dish. provided with vacuum cup on
the bottom 20 hold 1t Gpright when
used for the latter purpose.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-07-20

Waste wood products from Southern
sawmiIls are to be used In the manu-
facture of paper.
Since the outbreak Of war South
African mines have yielded f100, OOO,-
600 worth of gold.
The song sparrow is about the size
of an English sparrow, but with a
longer tail; streaks and large spot on
breast The chipping and field spar
rows are smaller, with no spots on
breast; the former has lines on head :
the latter is rufcus and sings very
sweetly.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-07-20
MORSE SHIP HITS THE SHORE
Norwegian Liner With 1900 Passen-
gers Aground Off Cape Race
All Hands Saved.

st. Johns, n F., July 16-The Nor
wegian-American liner Kristiania-
ford, carrying 1000 passengers from
an American port via Halifax to
Norway, ran aground seven miles west
Of Cape Race on the southeastern
coast of Newfoundland.
1t was found necessary to remove
the passengers, all of whom were
landed safely at Portugal cove.
The liner lost her bearings during
the night in a heavy rainstorm,
which was 4companied by fog.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-07-20
SWEEPING PROFIT
! QUIZ BEGUN At
CHICAGO BY us.
Federal Trade Experts Seek Data
For Price Regulation Laws.
DAVIES SEES PACKERS FIRST
Steel interests Are Also Subjects of
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. J. HeneN
Noted Californian Trust Bust
err" Is Directing the Work.

Chicago, July 18.-Two investiga-
lions under President Wilson's fair
profits" order to big business have
Just been launched here by Joseph E..
Davies of the federal trade commits
sion. They were directed:
First, at the big Chicago packers,
who, it is charged, are responsible for
high food prices.
Second, at the steel interests, which,
it is alleged, are impelled to raise
or lower the price of their products
by the demand rather than by the cost
of production and distribution.
Davies was accompanied from Wash
ington by DR.. T. N. Robertson, chief
economist of the commission, who will
have direct charge Of the inquiry I'M
der Davies supervision. About sixty
employees of the Commission will be
here in short time to assist. Several
field agents have been on the ground
for weeks.
Heney Directing the Work.
Francis ]. Heney of California, IA
nous trust buster" will not be here
for the preliminary investigation, but
will direct the work from Washington,
MIR. Davies said.
Mr.. Davies and Doctor Robertson
opened their probe by comforting with
a committee representing the Ameri-
can Live Stock association, followed
by meeting with the big packers.
Mr.. Davies then went to Gary, Ind,
to insI Nct the steel mills and quiz the
steel company officials.
Separate investigations will be
launched into the price of -four, bread,
canned goods and the cost of storage,
Davies said. Several of these may be
directed from Chicago, he added.
Coal Prices Excessive.
Mr.. Davies was confronted on his
arrival with report from Mr.. Chllds
that charges excessive coal prices, de-
spite an enormous increase in produc-
ton. Coal is to form one of the chief
subjects of Mr.. Davies inquiry.
Mr.. Childs' report shows that more
anthracite coal was shipped in June
than in any previous month in the his
AOAN VI tue nutlOhs june duluIdCllc
shipments were 7,049,037 tons, lap
062 tons more than last year at the
same time, when the production, he
says, first exceeded the consumption.
The production of all coal for the
first six months of this year was 81
6G7 900 tons, he says, as against 49,
421, 900 tons for the same period last
year. Soft coal shipments In May are
said to have been % per cent higher
than last year.
The report declares that there have
been no reductions In prices and indi-
Gates belief that the normal play of
supply and demand has not been al
lowed to fix prices.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-07-20
sUFFRAGIsTs GO TO JAIL
Convicted White House Piekets Pre-
fer Sixty Days Imprisonment to
Payment of Fines.

Was .ngton, July 1S.-Sixteen mill
tant fragists, arrested at the White
House last Saturday when they at
tempted to picket the gates, have been
elected to so to the workhouse for 60
LAYS rather than pay fines of $25. All
of the prisoners, members of the Ma
tional Woman's party and most of
them members Of prominent families.
were at once rushed to Occoquon. the
District of Columbia county JAIL" and
began serving their terms.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-07-20
EXTEND LIQUOR SHIPPING BAN
Department Of Justice Forbids Any
Transportation Into Forbidden
Regions.

Washington, July 15.-Every form
Of liquor transportation into dry terri
tory is forbidden, whether on the per-
son. by common carrier, by private con-
veyance or in baggage, according to in
structions that have been sent to
United States attorneys throughout the
country by the department of justice.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-07-20
shlnaIe Makers on Strike.

Seattle. Wash, July 18.-Half Of the
single mills in the state and scores
of big sawmills are idle as a result OF
strikes of members of the ShingIe
Weavers' and Timber Workers unions
for an eight-hour day. The Industrial
Workers of the World have ordered
all of their men engaged in the lumber
industry to strike.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-07-20
Rear Admiral Emery Dies.

Newport. r. l., July 16.-Rear Admit
raj William H. Emery, U. S. NJ, re-
tired, died here. Rear Admiral Emery
was seventy-one years old. He was
graduated at the United States Naval
academy in 1860 and was put on the
retired list In 1908