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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-03-15
TIME TABLE

IME liable
CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN r. r.
PASSENGERS GOANG WEST
No. 5ls-Leaves .6:10 a. m.
.6:46 p. m.
FREIGHT GOING WEST
nIxeu-LebVcS =. NV - IN.
PASSENGERS GOING EAsT
No. 514-Leaves .,...... ......lO:48 q. m.
5l6-LeaveS .1O:25 p. m.
FREIGHT GOING EAST
2:4b p. m.
GOING NORTH
1T-Mixed-Leaves ...........7:15 p. m.
53-Passenger-LeAves ......6:65 p. m.
FROM ORT
No. 59-Passenger-Arrives ..... .1o:S0 a. m.
l8-Mixed--Arrives .........4 :45 p. M.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-03-15
MISCELLANEOUS

The best and most complete assert
ment of typewriter ribbons in the city
can be found at the Register oh1ce.
The hest ribbons on the market.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-03-15
STOCK o SALE

FOR SALE-A few young horses.
Also baled wild and tame hay. H. X.
HalvorSon.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-03-15
Classified Want Ads

DON'T WAIT, TIME IS MoNEY-sTART SOMETHING!
Get your ad In these columns and let Il get e work for you Reois.
ter Want Ads are doing things for people every day; they'll do some.
houses nc rooms, ecu positions, help find lost articles sell city real
estate n farms, furniture, merchandise, or anything worth the money.
start them to work. They'll work wonders for you il you Give them a
chance.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-03-15

State OF South Dakota,
County of B~rookings, IS.
In Circuit Court. Third Judicial Circuit.
John Ross,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-21
COMMITTEE FORMED TO
BACK UP Z0NING LAW
Sponsors of New Ordinance Unite to
See That II Is Not Violated

Sponsors Of New Ordinance Unite to
See That 1t Is Not Violated
The "zoning committee" was formed
Yesterday as the result Of the move
ment to protect and perfect the coming
law regulating the height and charac-
ter CT buildings,
Frederic b. Pratt was named chair
man Of the committee. Walter Stabler
treasurer, Herbert s. Swami executive
secretary, and Edward VI. Bassett
counsel. Offices were opened at 277
Broadway. The members Of, the eX-
ecutive committee of the coming com
mittee are Otto VI. Eidlitz, J. Howes
Burton, Robert W. De Forest. Arthur
Lehman. Lawson Purdy, Robert L.
Simon and Robert 5. Binkert.
The committee issued the following
statement yesterday;
"The people Of this city are realizing
more and more what n vast and useful
piece Of work was done in the Zoning
Of the entire city. street by street and
block BY block. The coming law passed
last summer il protecting nearly every
block in greater New York. IL not only
means the stabilizing OF values, but II
means more wholesome home surround
ings for the people Of the future.
"The coming law, although formed
under authority Of the Legislature, -
more rigorous application of the
police powers than has ever taken place
in this city. and there Is corresponding
need Of guarding u at every point and
bringing to the attention OF the courts
the universally and fairness Of the
zoning maps and the details OF its
helpfulncss"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-21
BERNSTORFF GOT
THREAT In NOTE
Message Menacing His
Life Attributed to New
York PatrOlman

An anonymous letter, containing an
assassination threat and written on
New York Police Department station
cry, was received by Count Won Bern
storfF at the German Embassy on Feb
ruary 5. two days after he was handed
his passports.
As the result Of an investigation by
Secret Service operatives and trap
laid by Police Commissioner Woods, a
patrolman attached to a West Side pre-
cinct is virtually a prisoner and under
observation by Police Department sur
gcons.
In the letter the "heartbroken police
man" told of how near and dear rel
ative." who had been a passenger on
the i'll fated Lusitania, was slaugh-
tered by a German war submarine COM
mander."
The sinking Of the ship was re-
scented by the people Of the United
States. the writer said. and he felt
that Providence wished him to kill
Bernstorff to show the people of Ger
many the bitterness Of that resent
ment
When Won Bernstorff turned over the
letter TO the government the Secret
Service guard at the embassy was in
creased and three Of the operatives
we're dispatched TO New York. A hasty
Investigation proved to the operatives
that the letter was written on the
Police Department stationary usually
used in station houses and by q ma
chine Of the type used in the depart
ment,
There was little time for process
of elimination. Hundreds of police
men were being relieved at midnight
for their regular day of and could
easily take the Congressional Limited
for Washington II was therefore de-
cided 10 send on that train a picked
squad Of New York detectives, with
instructions to arrest any other New
York policeman who appeared either
en- route or until Won Bernstortf was
safely aboard the ocean liner that was
70 carry him home.
Returning from an interrupted vaca-
ton in the South, Commissioner WOODS
when the facts were telegraphed TO
him cent a confidential letter TO the de-
partment inspectors, in winch eaen
member Of the force was ADVISED 70
communicate with Headquarters II ne
had lost a relative as a result OF the
torpedoing Of the Lusitanla.
one man responded. He was pa
troIman attached TO West side pre-
cinct. Secret Service men Immediately
nut him through a grilling with me
aid of men assigned 70 the task py
Deputy Commissioner Scull, IN charge
Of the Detective Bureau. what was
learned officials at Headquarters yes
terdav refused to disclose.
Internationally the letter was inc
product of a disordered mind" Deputy
commissioner Scull said. "Our investi-
cation of the matter is not complete
Ind il is impossible 10 forecast wha'
he result will be-"
II was intimated at HEADQUARTERS
however. that if il is finally established
that the patrolman was the culprit, tne
fact that the Jusitania disaster has
preved on his mind will be considered
and he will be sent 20 an asylum rather
than TO a penal institution
A Tribune reporter was unable 70 TO-
cate the suspected man either at MS
f ntecinct or at his home.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-21
Switzerland Denies
Ordering Ritter to
Offer Peace Farley
Federal Council Hints Proposal
Came from Berlin and Merely
Was Forwarded

Berlin. Feb. 10 lby wireless to Say
Vile, Feb. 2OJ.-The Overseas News
Agency quotes from the "Frankfurter
Zeitung" the following communication,
which, according 10 that paper, was is-
sued by the Swiss Federal Council:
"rhe action Of DR.. Paul Ritter, the
Swiss Minister at Washington, in ref
erence to the reopening Of negotiations
between the North American aad Ger
man governments was taken without in
structions from The Swiss Federal
Council or from the Foreign Depart
ment.
Concerning the contents of commu-
nications between Berlin and Washing
ton, which were merely transmitted by
the Federal authorities, obviously moth
ing can be said at this time"
The foregoing is the first official de-
NAL by the Swiss Federal Council that
il directed DR.. Ritter to reopen nego-
tiations between the United States and
Germany after their rupture.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-21
Investigation Ordered to Reveal Workings German gents America

OF DR.. Ernest Keller, an officer Of the
Swiss Consulate.
The Germans here are clerks who
are familiar with the routine of the
ONCE It was explained yesterday. at
would have been impossible for the
Swiss consular officials TO have taken
over German affairs without retaining
some members of the German staff OF
clerks. OF the twenty or more German
employees these three were retained.
Their names were sent to he Swiss
Ambassador.
Any suggestion that activities Of a
questionable nature are being prose-
cuted constitutes a reflection on the
integrity Of the Swiss consular author
tiles"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-21
Germans Are Retained
in Three Western Cities

Cincinnati, Feb. 20.-Two Of the
clerks formerly employed by DR.. Oscar
Meyer, who until last week was Ger
man Consul in Cincinnati. are in the
employ of the Swiss Consul, Edmund
Luthy. These two clerks are not in
the German civil service class, and
hence were not assured Of safe con-
duct home Mr. Luthy refused to dis
cuss the matter to-day, other than 70
say that one-Of the clerks is named
Burrus and the other Glenn.
II do not know their given names,
and | do not know whether they are
German subjects" said Mr.. Luthy.
St. Louis. Feb. 2O.-The German con-
sulate here has been placed in the
hands of J. J. Meyer, the Swiss Min
ister There are retained in the office
two clerks who served under Dr. Bruet-
ling, tne German Consul. Both Of
these men are understood TO have
naturalization papers. The consulate
IS very secretive about its affairs.
San Francisco. Feb 20.-When John
Freuler, Swiss Consul, took over the
affairs of the German Consulate he
moved into its Offices. Henry W. Z.
Kaufman. who was chancellor of the
German Consulate. was retained, as was
Henry lessen, another emplOye. George
kleinholz and Edith Kruse, stenog-
raphers in the German Consulate. are
also employed by the Swiss Consulate.
They are local people. Kaufman is the
only one mentioned who was actually
a member of the German Consulate
official family.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-21
EXAMINATION AT HALIFAX
OPTIONAL WITH SHIPPERS
England to Admit Ships for Present;
Restrictions Probable Later

Washington, Feb. 2O.-Without max
ING any formal announcement on inc
subject. the British government, wnien
mas been considering opening HaIllaA
"a port OF examination Tor trans
atlantic steamers, corresponding :"
Kirkwall. has decided 70 admit ana eA-
anime any vessels that may care "
use the Canadian port TOT that puIpSS,sS.
THO nav be limitations hereafter
- 90 The extent 20 which this privilege
80 he used. based upon the size OF the
go,ce Of inspectors, and other consider
lions but The nature Of these has not
YET been made known.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-21
St. Louis's Cargo
To Be UnlOaded
4 Liners Laid Up
American Lines Ships Here May
Be Converted Into Cruisers
Guns Are Ready

The crews of the St Louis. the New
York. the St. Paul and the Kroonland'
of the American Line, have been paid
Off. the vessels have been laid up at
their piers in the North River and
there is every indication that they viii
remain there for an indefinite period.
SINNERS have received notices that the
owners of the st. Louis intend to dis
charge the cargo and asking what dis
position is to be made of the $500 tons
of freight with which the boat was
loaded when she was scheduled 70 sail
for Liverpool on February 3.
The notices stated that the unload
ing was to begin yesterday, but no
work has been done as yet. Two theo-
ries were advanced yesterday in under
writer's offices and the New York Mari
time Exchange as to the reasons for
laying the vessels up and the purposes
for which they are TO be used.
One was that the liners were taken
out Of service because the AdminIstra-
ton at Washington refused TO sanction
the arming of them. 1t was feared, 1t
was said, that if the St. Louis were
equipped with guns she would be at
tackled by a U-ooat on her first voyage
for the purpose of forcing the United
States into war with Germany.
The other theory is that the liners
are being held At the request of the
government, which intends to convert
them into armed cruisers for protect
ing American shipping in event Of
war. Guns are being held at the navy
ward to equip them, IL is said.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-21
ASKS FOR MoRGAN's FORTUNE
Woman Who Drops In for Sl5o,00o
Drops Out at Headquarters

A woman. who said she was Mrs.
Anna Adele Yelton, Of Is West Park
Street, Newark, was taken to Police
Headquarters yesterday after she had
demanded $4,000 at the Offices OF j.
P. Morgan & Co. Former Lieutenant
Delaney, the shock absorber in the
Morgan Offices, recognized her as
former visitor who had demanded $780,
600. After telephcning 70 the police,
he offered to start for the bank" with
her Immediately
Crossing Wall Street. the woman d.
rected Delaney 10 stop.
you wait just a minute she said.
an be right out; | can get S25O,0OO
here"
She walked into the Sub-Treasury.
By the time she emerged two detec-
tives had arrived, who we're introduced
by Delaney as "Mr. Morgan's partners
He hailed taxicab and the four con-
tinued the trip TO the bank"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-21

submarine zone since the German warn
ing of February l will be the Garland
liner Rockingham, Captain c. Z. Ed
wards, TO sail tomorrow morning for
Liverpool. She cleared to-day. She
carries a general cargo. In her crew
of forty men, twenty-four are citizens
of the United States.
The Furness liner Kenmore, which
carried away a Maryland pilot, is now
sixteen days out for Leith and due to-
morrow. The pilot was carried out be-
cause of storms at the Capes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-21
-From The Tribune Bureau

~ rom lIe AfuAle DuFtAHI
Washington, Feb. 2O.-The Admins
tration espionage bill, providing severe
PENALTIES for spying on matters Of ma
tIonal defence and punishing conspira-
cies TO violate American neutrality
vas passed to-day by the Senate by .
vote of so to 10.
At about the same time Secretary
Lansing and Assistant Attorney Cen
ersl Warren were urging before the
Senate judiciary Committee further
legislation to hamper German or other
foreign propaganda in the United
States and to give the President
greater powers in dealing with foreign
nations. They asked favorable reports
by the committee on four of the So
called neutrality bills which were
drawn up by Attorney General Gregory
but which were not included in the
omnibus measure just passed by the
Senate. The same bills were presented
on August 10, 1916.
Wide Powers for Wilson
One of these measures would give
the President power to detain the Ger
man ships now in American harbors,
using the army and navy to do so, If
necessary.
This reads: at shall be lawful for
the President of the United States, and
he is hereby empowered to employ the
land and naval forces thereof, to de-
tain any vessel, public or private, for
eign or domestic, in order to enforce
compliance with, or 10 prevent the OBJ
struction Of, tie obligations Of the
United States under the law of ma
tons; and it shall be lawful, end he is
hereby further empowered to employ
such forces, to enforce any or all other
obligations imposed upon the United
States by the law of nations, by treaties
or conventions. to which the United
States is a party, or by the statutes of
the United States"
Another measure urged by the Ad-
ministration officials aims 20 reach
every one connected with bomb plots.
This was drafted at time when the
Department Of Justice was admitting 1t
could not deal with the explosions in
munitions plants ana on ships bound
for the Allies because the existing law
was not broad enough.
Furnishes Munitions Plots
This bill also declares that whoever
shall wilfully interfere with or pre-
vent, or attempt 20 interfere with or
prevent, or conspire to interfere with
or prevent, the expectation 70 foreign
countries of articles from the United
States, by injury to or destruction of
such articles, or in the buildings or
places in which they are stored, pro-
duced or manufactured, or of the in
strumentalities of transportation used
or intended 10 be used in the course o.
such expectation, or by means Of any
other violence or threat of violence 10
person or property, shall be fined not
more than $4,000 or imprisoned not
more than ten years, or both"
Seeming TO apply to such incidents
as that of DR.. George Barthelme, the
third of the measures proposes 70 re-
strict aliens, other than diplomatic or
consular officers, from acting as agents
foi foreign governments without prior
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-21
FOURTEEN TRUCKS CARRY
ALLIED GOLD FOR MORGAN
BuIIion, Arriving from Ottawa, Taken
10 Sub-Treasury and Banks

A shipment Of gold bullion from
Great Britain and her allies Tor J. +.
Worgan & co. arrived in this city at
a,ciock Yesterday afternoon from OF
,ov,a over the New York Central At
10 Grand Central Station the gold was
inaded on fourteen huge auto trucks OF
the American Express company and
transferred. under eloss s guard. 70 the
vaults OF the United states Sub
1.aasurv. in Wall Street, the Morgan
~ and the Federal Reserve Bank.
irIe consignment was about twelve
honrs late in reaching It's destination.
=, ,ook nearly FIVE hours 20 transfer
he gold fr2m the train to the vaults
downtown.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-21
MR.. AND MRS. GERARD
LEAVE PARIS FOR MADRID
French Premier Represented at Station
as Party Takes Train

Paris, Feb. 2O.-Jsmes w. Gerard. the
former American Ambassador 70 Ger
many, and Mrs. Gerard left Paris to-
night for Madrid. They will proceed
from there TO Corunna.
Among those at the station 20 see
them away were Count dOrmesson,
representing Premier BRAND; Arthur
H. Frazier, second secretary of the
American Embassy, representing Am
bassador Sharp, and Lieutenant Com
mander William r. Saylem, naval at
.acba
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-21
On GAG Irish Game Here in 1916

The annual report Of the Irish hmi-
rant Society, which was presented on
Tebruary I, shows that there landee
~ The port Of New York IN lsio Io,peo
e,omierants from ireland. ll'Zoo malee
and 1913 females; ,s%l Wsre unu.,
i ,..en and forty-four, Z.240 were
49, Sye or over. The money brought
ttys;sb Immigrant, ~ shown by tneir
~ "1',ate,ncnts. amounted 10 1i,sss,49s'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-21
.oborating testimony can be obtained

roborating testimony can be obtained
from the dupes.
Those who engaged 70 travel through
England or France or Ireland on their
American passports 20 risk their necks
70 pick up military information for
Germany were paid $50 a week or more.
according 10 their ability and daring,
II is said. Incidental TO the main plot,
Federal officials assert. are many
others. including a scheme by which
passports were obtained BY fraud for
those who might have difficulty in OBJ
tanning them honestly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-21
Three German Clerks
In Consulate Here

Issss Germans. former attaches, still
az Employed in the downtown branch
q iie Swiss Consulate, formerly the
gsrzan Consulate, at IL Broadway.
lasy constitute the entire clerical
efee 81 the Office and are in charge
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-21
u. S. Consular Agents
Reach Switzerland
From German Posts
Twenty Officials and Families
Safe Across Border-OtherS
Held Up at Lindau

Washington, Feb. 20.-The Swiss
Ministed advised the State Department
to-day that twenty American consular
officers, with their families, comprising
from thirty TO thirty-fve persons, LETT
Munich this morning, vie Lindau. Tor
Switzerland, where they arrived this al
ternoon, some stopping at Rorschacn
and others at Ronanshers. on the Lake
of Constance.
The Hague, Feb. 20.-As far as is as
certainable. no Americans, except the
few officials whose nares have already
beer cabled, have arrived in Holland
from Germany since the break in rela-
tions with the United States. The
American Legation, in a notice printed
in the newspapers, requests all Amerl-
cans arriving in Holland TO communl-
cate with the American Legation for
registration and examination Of pass
ports.
Zurich, Switzerland, Feb. 20.-The
American Consulate General to-day re-
ceived word that William II. Gale, Con-
sui General at Munich, Bavaria, and
two other consuls would arrive here
late to-day. The advices said that other
members. of their party had been held
by the Germans at Lindau for more
minute examination Of their baggage.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-21
,..,o,, Embassy and Con
.',lste Officials Now
Under Investigation
nav BE AGENTS
OF PROPAGANDA
;;giss Minister Nominally
u,sponsible, but Ger
mans Direct Work

~..;rgton. Feb. 2o.-The State De-
-, to-day began an investigation
=. records and connections Of a
81, Of German officials left be-
~ Count Won BernstOrff to act as
- in the German Embassy and
e,rman consulates throughout the
str. a.
Minister is stated TO be only par
and provisional" By this 1t IS
-, that the state Department may
. ,.,s At. refuse to permit any one
INF these clerks 10 remain in the
,,.,sy and consulates.
d, euiy is each Of these officials
-, Investigated, but ne will be under
.-,;lIsnee. There is more than
,,,isiOn among officials of the Admin
,.,,,ion that some Of the clerks are
,i,.d agents of the German propa-
"a. and espionage system which op-
'.,,5 extensively through the embassy
= he German eonsulates IN the first
al Of the war.
Responsibility on Ritter
N these officials are technically
-, the Swiss Minister. He is for
-,Hv responsible for their conduct.
!. Inc responsibility Of DR.. Ritter IS
:, vrpater than was Bernstorff's 5. Yet
:, .,ter was able to wash his hands
s.,r At reproach for the work Of Boy
y and Won Pspen. attaches of his en-
,,rT and Of cosuls like Bopp, at San
T-,-sisco. II such men could carry on
,s,ir work without involving Bern
-.rr. il seems improbable that DR..
sttsr would have much control over
zen.
mere are thirty-fve German con-
uIatss in the United States, of which
,E,rty-six are in the states proper, one
! Hsxaii, three in the Philippines and
r. IN Porto Rico. All of them are in
ss-re OF German officials. The es-
cage system which the German con-
slsr service is believed to have main
red would seem. therefore, to be IN
II although reduced in official per-
RE. As each consulate is the rem
.Tous for agents of the Kaiser in the
rrity. il may be said that Germany
Is thirty-hve outposts in United
'a,ss territory
BernstorfFs Aid in Charge
The German Embassy, which, as The
Trbune already has shown, Is in the
,snds Of an understudy Of Bernstorf 5,
socially trained as his successor for
-ors than q year. is, Of course, the
,ssdcuarters in this country Of the
noe system. .,
his true that DR.. Ritter has placed
is first secretary, DR.. Charles Paul
assbsehsr. in the embassy, in nominal
rsirol Il can be stated confidently
IA. neither he nor DR.. Ritter Is In
lslTsd in any Of the propaganda, but
~ nay be placed in an embarrassing
-ssiten II actual evidence Of improper
lesiiies at the embassy OF in the con-
El.ss falls into the hands Of the gov
szzsrt.
ne arrangement by which German
Seals are left in the embassy and
z,sElstes, in spite Of the formal break
, relations. was made with the con-
st Of the State Department on Count
20 Bernstorf"s plea that the vast
izsuni Of work could not be handled
Enisut the directing aid Of men IA
slE with IT, The Swiss consular
ys,sn in the United States has prac-
ally no clerks. most Of the consul
sips being merely temporary.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-21
U. s. SHIP OFF FOR ZONE
Rockingham To Be First TO Leave Bal
timore Since U-Boat Warning

Baltimore, Feb. 20.-The first Ameri-
can steamer to leave this port for the