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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-10-04
AMENDMENTS
MAY GO OUT,
/ !. SAYS ] JUDGE
Robinson Declares Secretary Of
State Hall is Not Enjoined :
From Acting,
nnI1 n nNy cIAICT n DANIr NU
APPEAR ON SINGLE BALLOT
Opportunity Offered for Recall
Should Tribunal Give
Adverse Ruling.

In an informal opinion given in an
unofficial capacity by Justice James
+. Robinson of the supreme court. he
advised the press today that the fact
of the supreme court having failed
to hand down it's opinion in the pre-
ceedings brought by Treadwell Twich-
ell Of Fargo to restrain the secretary
of state from printing the leagues pro-
posed constitutional amendments
need not prevent the secretary of
state from certifying to the county
auditors these amendments for place
on the ballot Saturday, when nomina-
tions for the general election in No
vember close, and when the secretary
Of state will formally advise the coun-
ty auditors who's who
"No temporary restraining order
has been granted by the court said
the justice. land the secretary is no
way restrained from publishing the
amendments as required by law or
from certifying the amendments to
the county auditors for a place on
the official ballot" The constitution
al amendment ballot is distinct from
the ballot upon which the names Of
candidates for office will appear, and
may be separately withdrawn Should
the supreme court uphold ,Treadwell
Twichell's contention that the initia-
tive amendment to the constitution,
under which the league purposes. to
submit it's amendments, was not in
itself properly adopted by the legis-
lature nor legally submitted to the
voters, and that the amendment is in
operative in that it provides no means
by which the secretary of state may
legally place on the ballot petitions in
itiated and circulated under this
amendment. y g.
It is q foregone conclusion that
should the supreme court give these
amendments place On the ballot, the
q, 900 North Dakotans now in military
service will not have an opportunity
to vote upon them. as it will be almost
impossible at this late date to get
these ballot in the hands OF these ab-
sentee voters. scattered over the
greater part of three continents. in
time to permit them to be returned to
be canvassed by the local or state can
vassing boards before January I. Any
vote which is taken on these amend
ments. it is claimed. will not. there
fore, be representative of the views
of at least 20 per cent of the North
Dakota electorate.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-10-04
HALL CANNOT
CAMPAIGN WITH
JOHN N. HAGAN

Secretary of State Thomas Hall.
who led Governor Frazier by 5000
votes at the primaries and who is uni
versally acknowledged to be the
leagues best vote.getter, was schedul.
ed to campaign the second week IN
October in Pembina county with John
N. Hagan, commissioner of agriculture
and labor, but for various reasons the
secretary of state cannot keep the
engagement.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-10-04
PASS UP GERMANS.

\ Camp Grant, oct. 4.-There Is said
to be bit of self-respect even in the
influenza microbe. He has attacked
all ranks of the 100000 men OF this
camp but has declined to enter the
barbwire enclosure where the German
prisoners are herded.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-10-04
1oo CASES IN FARGO.

Fargo, Oct. 4.-'More than 100 cases
of Spanish flu, six of which have de-
veloped into pneumonia, have been
reported in Fargo. The cases so far
have been mild, and no deaths have
occurred. 80 81.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-10-04
1,8OO,O 900 MEN
NOW IN FRANCE

Washington, Oct american
troops. abroad now number 100000
members of the house military COM
mittee were informed today. Spanish
influenza in camps and cantonments
will retard shipments somewhat in
the immediate future. they were told,
the department having adopted the
polity of not sending any men over
seas who have been exposed to or
show symptoms of the disease.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-10-04
DEATH RATE
IN CAMPS
ON INCREASE
Spanish Flu Responsible for
Fatalities Throughout Nation
100 Cases in Fargo.

Washington Oct. 4.-The death rate
in army camps for the week ending
Sept. 9, was 34.4 per thousand, an in
crease Of 30 per cent over the prev
ious week and was due to Spanish
flu. There were 1040 deaths as COM
pared to 172 the week previous. Re-
ports today showed the epidemic was
spreading rapidly through the coun-
try. Up to noon today, l64 doctors
and large corps of nurses have been
ordered to points where the epidemic
is virulent.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-10-04
HIGH COST OF
LIVING BOOSTS
WAGES Is PCT

As result OF the high cost OF living,
the next legislative assembly will be
confronted with a request from the
various heads of departments Tor
25 per cent increase in the approprla-
ton for clerk hire. These increases
will apply to all DEPUTIES and creil-
cal helpers-to all state employees, III
fact except, to the elective heads or
departments whose salaries are fixed
by law.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-10-04

THE WEllTsHlE[ElR. IN
sEnsaA!LLy FA,al
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-10-04
SHEI,LING THE HUNS

The upper photograph shows big British gun
in action against the Germans during the recent
offensive in Picardy. 1t was snapped just after
six-inch shell had been sent Hunward. The gun
crew is waiting for the recoil.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-09-20
AMERICANS SMASH
At ST. M|H|EL
Gen. Pershing in First Indepen-
dent Blow.
A GREAT PINCER MOVEMENT
Americans Have Dug Five Miles
Across The Neck of The Bag,
Which Is Fifteen Miles
Wide.

Washington.-Sixtee months of
vast war effort by the United States
reached its first goal, when General
Pershing's forces struck their first in
dependent blow in France against the
Germany Army. Reports show that
success was meeting the American
commanders effort to fling the enemy
out of the sharp salient thrust in be-
hind the fortress of Verdun in the
first year of the war.
But of even greater significance to
Government officials was the fact that
the all-American attack meant that
the months of ceaseless toll and eff
fort have now brought forth a third
great organized army, backed by it's
own supplies and millions more SOL
diers if needed, which has taken its
place beside the French. and British
armies and is striking for decisive
victory for democratic ideals.
Late accounts made it clear, how
ever, that for his first blow General
Pershing had determined to employ
the pincer tactics Marshal Foch has
now used with repeated success in
hurting the foe back from the Marine
and out of the Picardy and Flanders
salients. The chance lay ready to the
American leaders, hand.
Almost due south Of the war-wrecked
fortress of Vcrdun, which has defied
every German effort, the town of ST.
MihiCl stood at the apex of great
enemy wedge driven into the French
lines and which all but cut Verdun off
in the first German rush toward Paris.
Along the eastern curve of this salient
American troops have stood for
months, holding the Ines. Americans
also were on the line between Verdun
and st. Mihiel, but st. Mihiel itself
was held by the l ench, for the fate
of Verdun rested upon that line.
Surging forward on 12-mile front
to the east of st. Mihiel, Pershing's
men have rolled over the complicated
defenses of the enemy all along the
line and thrust a steel-shod jaw out
into the territory behind the enemy
forces that hold the town. From the
other side another American thrust
has carried the lines forward to meet
the bulge from the east, and a grim
trap is being drawn about the enemy
forces that remain in the salient. 1t
was only 20 miles across the mouth OF
the pocket, and the reports tonight
showed that this has been closed into
less than Is miles.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-09-20
100000 men
ADDED TO ROLL
Nations Manhood Registers for
Service.
SHOW NATIONS PATRIOTISM
missionaries To Go Forward Prompt.
ly To Men Between 10
And Fl And SO
And SO.

hington.-Thirteen million men,
probably more, the force from which
will come the reserves to win the war,
were registered in the second great
mobilization of the nations man-power.
AS these men were moving in every
city, town and hamlet over the coun-
try to add their names to the roll of
the 100000 who had registered be-
fore, the nations fighting army over
seas was hurting itself against the
enemy in the first distinctly American
offensive operation on the Western
Front.
Demonstrations of patriotism every
where marked the registration. Long
before the appointed time for the reg
istrars to begin their work, lines of
citizens were waiting to enroll All
day and until well into the night men
passed through the registration places
and Provost Marshal General Crowder
Is confident that when the returns are
In they will show that there were few
who sought to evade their duty.
In all the reports of the progression
Of the registration received at the
Provost Marshal Generals Office there
was no suggestion of any disorder.
And none had been expected, for Off
Gals had been confident that the deeds
of the fighting men overseas had
stirred the nation to the highest pitch
of patriotism and determination.
With registration day now history,
the next move of the draft machinery
will be in the numbering serially of
the registration cards. Until that work
Is completed by the local boards, the
drawing of the order number which
will determine in measure the rela-
tive standing of the registrants can
not be held
In the meantime, however, question
naires will go forward to men between
10 and 81 and 80 and SO, so that they
may be classified, and some of them
thus made ready for call in October aft
er the national drawing is held.
To Round Up SIackers.
A nationwide effort to round up men
who failed to register for the draft will
be started Immediately by specially
organized corps of Department of JUS
tice agents. This corps, has been in
process of organization for some time,
and will work quietly, without making
general raids, like those in New York,
which caused adverse criticism.
Methods have been developed for
gathering information from hundreds
Of sources on men within the new draft
ages who failed to respond and this
will be used to prevent evasion.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-09-20

The troopship torpedoed by Ger
man submarine and beached on the
English coast last Friday is the third
vessel carrying American soldiers to
the war zone to be attacked with any
degree of success by U-boats. The two
other vessels were the Anchor Line
steamship Tuscania, under charter TO
the Cunard Line, and the Peninsula1
and Oriental liner Moldavia.
The Tuscania was tropedoed and
sunk off the Irish coast early in Feb
ruary of the present year while carry
ing troops, composed chiefly of detach.
ments of Michigan and Wisconsin Ma.
tional Guardsmen, to England. OF the
1912 officers and men on board 204
persisted. The vessel was under con,
voy when attacked.
The Moldavia was torpedoed and
sunk May %, presumably while carry
ing American troops across the English
channel from England to France. Fiji
ty-one Americans lost their lives.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-09-20
Most OF Troops Landed.

An Inland Rest Camp in England
The majority Of the $500 American
soldiers from the troopship' which was
torpedoed off the English coast, but was
not sunk, and upon which there were
no casualties, have arrived here none
the worse for their thrilling expert
ence.
The men are finding some consola.
ton for the loss of their vessel in the
assurance that the submarine that at
tackled her suffered a far worse fate
at the hands of the avenging destroy
ers, which were speedily on the scene
hunting the U-boat with depth charges.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-09-20
DRY-ZoNE BILL SIGNED.
President Now Can Protect shipyards,
Munition Plants, Etc.

Washington. = President Wilson
signed the joint resolution passed by
Congress empowering him to establish
prohibition zones around shipyards,
munitions factories and other war in
dustries.
Under the general terms of the reso-
luton more drastic restrictions than
now prevail may be ordered for all
war plants, but the measure is aimed
specifically at the town of Oliver, Wis,
which has sprung up with many sa-
looms across the river from Duluth,
MINI. 1t Is understood that the order
for wide zone about the Duluth in
dustrial center to close up Oliver will
go out at once.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-09-20
AMERICAN TROOP
SHIP IORPEDOED
Men Descend BY Way of Ropes
to the Conveys.
SHE CARRIED $500 PERSONS
Attack Took Place Off The British
coast-Attacking Submarine Blown
Clear Out OF Water BY
Depth Bomb.

London.-A troopship with 280G
American soldiers on board has been
torpedoed two hundred miles off the
British coast. All hands were saved
The troopship was beached.
In order to save time instead CT
launching the boats the men clamlbered
down ropes to destrcyers, which swarm
ed around the stricken vessel and came
close alongside.
The troopship was a member Of a
large convoy approaching the English
coast.
The transfer of the American sol
diers from the stricken vessel to eS
corting British and American torpe
do-boat destroyers was quickly made
without injury to anyone.
They all escaped injury when the
torpedo exploded, and they were soon
on their way to British port.
There was no sign of panic en-
board, and the admirable behavior OF
the men was especially gratifying to
the officers.
Many Of the troops came from Chi
cago and Cleveland and large per
centage Of them were factory hands
of foreign extraction. Their behavior
proved that they had assimilated the
true spirit of the American soldier.
Several soldiers stated that they saw
the German submarine lifted clear out
of the water after one of the depth
bombs exploded and then entirely dis
appear.
Something had gone wrong with the
troopship's engines, which compelled
her for a time to lag behind the rest
of the convoy, but the trouble had been
fixed up and she was fast catching up
with the other transports when tor
pedo hit her just forward of the en-
gine-room.
The vessel at once began to sink
by the bow. Many of the soldiers at
the time were taking baths. They
did not wait to dress, but made for
the deck with what little clothing they
could hastily lay their hands on. The
water was rushing in at such a rate
that it was thought the steamer would
quickly founder.
To the surprise of most Of the sol
diers, the troopship did not sink. Some
means apparently were found to check
the thrush of water and she got near
enough to the shore to be beached.
It is hoped that the vessel ultimately
can be salved.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-09-20
WASHINGTON.

The Navy Department announced
that Carl D. MacVitte, quartermaster,
LaSalle, n. "; Jesse T. Swafford, sea.
man, Lexington, Tenn, and Roy c..
Ragan, seaman, Mercer, Mo-, were lost
overheard from the U. S. S. Won
Steuben.
Provost Marshal General Crowder
announced that the first call to the
colors of men who register Thurs
day will include men in the 10 and
2O-year-old classes and in the classes
from 80 to SO years. INCLUSIVE
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-09-20
VILLA AIDE EXECUTED.
General Acosta Was With Mexican
Bandit During Columbus Raid.

Ell Paso.-Julio Aeosta, a general
with Villa at the time of the Colum
bus IN. NJ raid, was executed by
the Home Guard command at Las
CueTas, Chihuahua, Mexico, Septem-
Der 4, according to an official state
ment issued in Chihuahua City.
Acosta's brother Jose was executed at
the same tima
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-09-20
THREE KILLED IN COLLISION.
Federal Court Clerk An.sng Victims
OF Boston Wreck.

Brattleboro, Vt.-Three men were
killed and % persons were injured
when an extra freight train ran into
the rear of passenger train on the
Boston and Maine Railroad, at Bum
merston. The dead: Frederick S.
Platt Clerk of the Federal Court, at
Rutland; w ]. Conant, Bellows Falls,
and Richard King. Boston.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-09-20
SHOT AT RIFLE RANGE.
Major Lea, OF DanviIIe, Va, Probably
Fatally Wounded.

Camp Perry, Ohio.-Major Robert E.
Lea, of Danville, Va, here attending
the National Rifle Association matches,
was shot and probably fatally wound
ed by stray bullet while standing in
front of his tent. Major Lea was shot
in the chest, the bullet passing through
his body. Surgeons say he has a
chance to live. An investigation has
been ordered.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-09-20
AIRPosT FEASIBLE.
Max MIler's Flights Between New
York And Chicago.

New York.-The feasibility of the
governments. plan to transport mail
by airplane and make final delivery
of letters between New York and Chi
cago within a maximum time of 10
hours has been demonstrated, in the
opinion of postal officials and officers
of the Aero Club of America. This
opinion was expressed after Max
Miller, arriving here from Chicago by
way of Cleveland, O., and Lockhaven,
Pa, completed the first round trip
airpost fight between this city and
Chicago.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-09-20

Stockholm.-July and August were
months of horror which never will be
forgotten by persons who watched
Russia's two great cities-Petrograd
and Moscow-pass through the mad
attempt of the Bolsheviki to shoot or
imprison all persons who disagreed
with their wild efforts to control
crumbling European Russia. Septem-
Der probably will be worse, for the
opposition parties are gaining strength
through desperation.
The lives of the non-Bolsheviki are
unsafe, and everywhere in Russia self
defense is forcing unwilling belhger-
ents to take UP arms against the ruth
less persecution of the so-ealled COM
missions for the suppression of a
counter revolution, which shoots
down the bougeoisie by the hundreds.
Leon Trotzky, then Bolshevik minister
of war, evidently is determined that
his dictatorship of the proletariat shall
not repeat the history of the former
provisional government and fail
through being too merciful
Ex-Premier Kerensky refused to
impose the death penalty, and his
! government fell almost without the
loss of life; but observers of the
Russian political situation say tina,
no such bloodless end can come to
the Soviet republic. 1t has given no
quarter and it will receive none.
Trotzky has said in his speeches
that Moscow will be reduced to ashes
before it is surrendered. Yaroslav, a
town on the Volga, 100 miles north
east of Moscow, was burned for re-
sisting Bolshevik domination, and Vo-
logda, ITO miles north of Paroslav is
reported to have suffered the same
fate
Night has been hideous in Moscow
for months because of the volleys
from execution squads in the military
enclosures, where prisoners are kept
Foreigners and Russians alike were
searched without warrants and the
Red Guards marched crowds of men
and women prisoners through the
streets with such regularity that
pedestrians hardly noticed them.
Marie Spiridonova, Social Revolu
tionary leader, charged in her mem,
orable speech made before the ALL
Russian Soviet Congress at Moscow
on July 4, that Bolsheyik rule was
more tyrannical than that of the late
Emperor, and the reign of terror had
scarcely begun ct that time.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-09-20
TERROR RE|GNS
IN PETROGRAD
Flames and Massacre in the
Russian Capital.
A STATE OF ANARCHY
bassy Report That Petrograd Was
Burning In Twelve Different
Places.

Washington.-A dispatch from the
American legation at Christiania said
reliable information reached there
that Petrograd was burning in IL diff
ferent places and that there was in
discriminate massacre of people in
the streets.
Secretary Lansing. in announcing
receipt of the, message, said it did not
indicate whether the massacre was
organized or merely was result of a
general state of anarchy. There was
nothing to show what part the Boil.
sheviki authorities were playing in
the situation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-09-20
CAR FARES GO UP.
Authority To severa! Electric Lines
Given BY |. C. C.

Washington.-Authority to increase
fares was granted by the Interstate
Commerce Commission to number
of suburban and interurban electric
railroads, the advances asked for by
the roads being reduced in nearly ev-
cry case.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-09-20
WILSON APPEALS TO STRIKERS
Calls On Bridgeport Machinists To Re.
turn To Work. =

Washington.-A communication sent
by President Wilson to the striking
machinists and toolmakers of Bridge
port, Conn.,, is understood to call upon
them as patriotic citizens to return
to their work in war plants and to
Polve their problems along lines laid
down by the War Labor Board.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-09-20
LIEUT.. ToMLINsoN KILLED.
Washinetonian Has Side Slip Fall In
Texas.

San Antonio, Tex.-Seco1d Lieuten.
ant John Wilder Tomlinson, %, son
OF John S. Tomlinson, Washington, D.
c., was killed instantly in side slip
fall of his airplane near Brooks Flying
Field here.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-09
TUESDAY EVENING. JULY 9, 1918
THE STATE PRESS MEETING

Tn annual meeting of the North Dakota Press assoc1a-
ton will be held in Grand Forks on Friday and satur-
day Of this week. For some time past both summer and
winter meetings have been held by the association, the
winter meeting distinctively a business meeting, and the
summer gathering being given over quite largely to en-
tertainment. The"rneeting which would have been held
last winter had the recent schedule been followed, was
omitted, and it was decided, for the present. at least, to
return to the older plan of having but one annual
meeting a year. The meeting in Grand Forks this week,
therefore. will be both a business meeting and one for
the mingling of the members of the association with
each other and with their hosts in such entertainment
as may be available.
The time will be filled to the utmost. All of Friday.
until evening, will be devoted to the regular business of
the association, and the conditions surrounding the
printing and publishing Business are such just now to
business is to be conducted on a safe basis. The asso-
which, it is confidently believed, will be of great prac-
teal value.
On Friday evening. at e:15, a dinner will be served
to the visitors, and at s o'clock a public meeting will be
held at which an address will be delivered by Hon. j.
Adam Bede. who is known as one of the ablest as well
as one Of the most entertaining speakers in the coun-
try. Saturday forenoon will be. devoted to the closing
up of the business of the meeting, and in the afternoon
the visitors will be taken to Riverside Park where a
picnic lunch will be served, and where a program of
sports will furnish entertainment until a late hour in
the afternoon.
u This is a rough outline of the program for the two
days. The visitors will be heartily welcome TO the city,
and we believe that their visit will be both pleasant and
profitable.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-09

was his partner. Grevsr Cleveland,
elacted In 1884,, carried With him Mr..
Hendricks. defeated eight years, be-
fore. IN 1855 Indilna furnishsd the
Republican nominee for president,
General Harrison, who wass candidate
asatn, but this time dsfsatsd. Ia 1855.
In 1907 Mr.. Roosevelt M elected
With M. FAIRBANKS, who was defeated
% candidate for the .sams once In
lA1S. NJ .BryanXi In his third cam
palgn, IN 1901. had John W. Kern -
his assOciate. and Mr.. Wilson, IN both
his successfui eampal0Hs Thomas 4.
Marshall.
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naisns since ttssf civil ,wvar. the Repub.
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sdsnftai nominee from Indiana, Gem
faFals Ilafrfson. loncs elected. once az.
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Snses from lsdiAnas ana tho nssto-
icra&G NJ. Three rndiana mon, Hem
Edricks.s Fairbanks ana NaFshati. have
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