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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-08
PETR0GRAD IN
WILD ORGY OF
BRUTE LICENSE
Rioting and Looting, Drunken
ness and Debauchery Order
of the Day j.
cossAcKs AGAIN AIN ACTIVE CT
Engagements Between Loyal Le-
gions and the Bolsheviki
Reported
CossAcKs AGAIN ACTIVE

London, Feb. S.-Fresh outbreaks Of
riOting and lOOting in Petrograd are
chronicled in special dispatches from
the Russian capital Wine cellars, jew
erly shops, and clothing, food and
drug stores, are being plundered.
Troops employed to suppress the
disturbances did much shooting, in
which it is estimated 120 persons were
killed. BY firing on the mobs, the SOL
diers have been able to quell the riot
ers at intervals during the last three
days and nights, but the orgies begin
elsewhere again.
Fighting in the South.
Fighting between the Bolsheviki
and the Cossacks is said to be increas-
ing in the south and southeast or kus.
sia where the Cossacks are joining
the Bolsheviki in increasing mum 5ers.
Generals Kaledines and Alexieff are
reported to have quarreled and Gen.
eral Kaledines has disappeared from
Cossack headquarters at NoVo Tcher-
kask. General Alexeiff is acting inde-
pendently and is said to be in COM
mand of 10000 men, who are march.
ing northward. 's. ..@s.
Silence concerning the negotiations
at Brest-Litovsk continues, except for
unconfirmed reports in the German
newspapers. 1t is reported without
explanation that a deputation of Rus
sian troops from the Eukowina front
is on its way to Brest-Litovsl. ....
The Ukrainian information bureau
from the Ukrainian delegation at
BrestJLitovsk that the Ukrainians have
won great victory over the Bolshev'
Xxi, taking 200 machine guns and 200,-
00) rifles, 1t adds that a Eolsheviki
attemtp to capture Kiev failed, the
Bolsheyiki losing 5000 men.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-08
NEW Leipzig men
HAD BROTHER ON
TRANSPORT SUNK
Ed and Henry Lewis of Lewis
Bros, Worrying Over Fate y
Of Kinsman ..

Edward and Henry Lewis OF the
we'll known New Leipzig firm of Lew
is Bros, are anxiously awaiting cas-
ualty list from the transport Tuscanoa
disaster, for their brother, Reuben
Lewis, was one of the hundreds Of
Wisconsin soldiers who was on board
Reuben Lewis enlisted in the goth
engineers from Wapaca, Wis, and his
brothers at New Leipzig have reason
to feel confident that he was on the
wrecked boat. They had received no
word of him up to late hour last
night. a. -. .
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-08
REASON FOR ACTION.

Amsterdam. Feb. 8.-The resigna-
tion of the Won Seydler, it is under
stood in parliamentary circles in vi
emma, is due to the opposition of the
Polish deputies against special debate
and the provisional budget. The op-
position of the deputies makes ma
jority for the budget doubtful.
President Gross, of the, lower house,
announcing the resignation, said that
according to the constitution, it was
necessary to postpone temporarily the
sittings of the house.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-08
MERCHANT VESSELS
I.
SHOW BIG GAINS
IN COAST TONNAGE

Washington, D. c., Feb S.--Ameri.
can owned merchant vessels Of 500
tons net register, operating in Inland
waters, coastwise and in foreign trade
during 1916, numbered S7,9S4, and had
a gross tonnage Of 12,5O0,000, accord.
ing to report issued today by the
census bureau.
1t showed the increase in the mum.
Der of vessels as compared with 1906
was equal to only one and one-haf
per cent and the gross tonnage show.
ed a decrease amounting to five per
cent.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-08
ALLIED MISSIONS
DRIVEN OUT FROM
RUSSIAN CAPITAL
Ministers and Embassies Said to
Be on Way to Swedish
Frontier

Washington, D. c., Feb. S.-An un-
confirmed report that all the allied
missions at Petrograd had been driv-
en- out by the Bolsheviki government
and are on their way to the Swedish
border was received today at the state
department from United States Min
lister Morris at Stockholm. The de-
partment has not heard from Ambas-
sador Francis at Petrograd since Feb.
ruary 2.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-08
MOUNTRAIL COUNTY
TARDY IN MAKING
ITS DRAFT REPORT

Mountrail is slow in the classitica-
tion of Glass 1 men. reports the dis
trict board Mountrail's reports on
Class I men were received the middle
of the week, but there is still some ad-
justing to be done. All other coun.
ties have completed this part of their
draft work.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-08
YOUNG MlSS0URIAN WHO SHOT
DOWN FIRST GERM AN PLANE
HAD NEVER OPERATED BEFORE
Initial Trip Over Enemy Lines With France Escadrille
American Lieutenant Bags Hun Machine
at Altitude of $4,000 Feet
HANDS ALMOST FROZEN WHEN HE
TOOK OFF GLOVES TO AID AIM
Intense Cold Fails to Interfere With Sharpshootng of
Salnocrat- Victim Crashes to Ground in
View of Teutonic City p

American lieutenant who had the honor of shooting down the
first German aeropane while accompanying French escadle
bombing expedition Tuesday night had operated
chine before in his life while flight and before had been
the enemy lines He his the German city Of
Saarburg.
The bombing squadron Saarburg and the of
dropping bombs when enemy aeropanes approaching
rapidly BY the time the bomb dropping had been completed
the enemy close at hand and the French formation of which
this American and another American aviator had accompanied
g1nn at altitude of feet
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-08

CONDITION IS
YET THE SAME

New York, Feb. 8.-The condi.
ton of Col. Theodore Roosevelt,
who was operated on Wednesday
for fistula and assesses in both
ears, was pronounced as "un.
changed" by Dr.. Harold Keyes Of
Roosevelt hospital early today.
Or. Reyes added that Colonel
Roosevelt had slept all night and
had rested comfortably.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-08
FREDERICK w. SLBLEY, GALLANT
INDIAN FIGHTER, NEAR DEATHlN
BASE HOSPITAL At CAMP GRANT
Aan Who Went to Relief of Reno After Custer Massacr
in 1876, and for Whom Many Points in This
Locality Are Named, Seriously I'll

Rockford. ILL.,, Feb S-Brgader General Frederick w, Sb
ley, gallant Indian fighter is at the base hospital at Camp Grant,
seriously i'll of peicious anaena General sble retired
from active service year ago He graduated from West
Point 1874 and young lieutenant desperate fighting
when his regiment the relief of Major Reno and the
vvng of Clusters band in the Little Big Horn 18z6
He had much do with the OF the Ladaroe bands
the Philippines For four years, General Sbey
of cadets at West Point.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-08
WILSON SYMPATHETIC.

Washington, D. c., FEB. S.-Presi.
dent Wilson today sent to Mrs. Roose-
velt. the following message of sym
pathy:
"May l not express my warmest
sympathy and the sincere hope that
Mr., Roosevelt's condition is improv.
ing"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-08


The lieutenant, who is Missourian,
took off his gloves SO that he might
operate his machine gun more effec
lively when he saw an enemy plane
driving in from the side and firing its
guns. The bullets whizzed close to
the French machine before the Amer
ican acting as gunner could get his
piece into action. Then he turned a
stream of bullets into the enemy, and
then before the first drum was ex-
hausted, the enemy machine turned
over and started to spiral. Then it
Topped and fluttered down with a
fare OF smoke and flame in it's wake.
It crashed to the ground a short dis
tance from the German city. i,
The other American aviator, also q
lieutenant, was not so lucky as the
Missourian for the machine hespicked
out to engage lodged away quickly
and he was unable to get In any ef-
fective shots. n ~ -
When the squadron, returned the
M1ssourian.s hands were swollen to
twice the normal size from the: cold,
he having lost his gloves during the
encounter. Otherwise he is today just
about the happiest officer in the Amer
ican expeditionary forces. He has
been in France only short time. The
incident shows how quickly things
may happen to a flier. ~
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-08
VON SEYDLER .
AND CABINET
WISH TO QUIT

Amsterdam, Feb. s.-Dr. Won
Seyd|er, the Austrian premier, has
rendered the resignation Of his
entire cabinet to Emperor Charles
according to a dispatch from vi.
emma,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-08
TO EsTARLIsh AG!ENcY.

O. X. Harris Of Fargo, district man.
ager for the Regal oil.gas burner, is
here preparing to establish an agency
in the capital city to cover the Bis
marck territory. Many local sales al.
ready have been made, and the, fuel
saver seems to enjoy q wide popular
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-08
ADVICES ACCOUNTING FOR ALL
BUT 113 OF AMERICAN TROOPS !,
ON TUSCANIA ARE UNCHANGED
Little Further Official Information Obtanable To-day
Officials Anxiously Awaiting Detail Expected
to Clear Up Conflict
CANNOT UNDERSTAND ABSENCE OF
TAGS ON BODIES WASHED ASHORE
No List of Missing Available Only Few of Survivors
Having Been Repored-Press Stories Of Cool
Behavior of Boys Reach Capital
LOSS SMAY BE NEARER 200 THAN 100

LOSS MAY BE NEARER 200 THAN 100
London Feb 8-Revised figures indicate that the loss
of life the Tuscania probably considerably in
Of yesterdays estimate Of 101 now believed complete
returns will show the dead to be 200 than 100
Reports received at the American embassy yesterday
indicated the loss of 101 lives while the British admralty
estimate 210 This discrepancy appears to have
been due to the fact that the figures supplied to the embassy
evidently did include the missing of which there still
many.
It announced today that arrangements being
made British and American officials jointly for great mill
tary funerals for the Tuscania' dead.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-08
THE LAHR SALES PARTY.

Word comes from the Lahr Motor
Sales force in the Twin Cities that
they are having the big time of their
life at the Northwest's biggest auto
show.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-08
THE WEATHER

Forecast .+ra
for North Dakota: Generally fair to-
night and Saturday; colder east and
south portions tonight; rising temper
ature Saturday.
T
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-08

~
accounting for all except lib of the 56 American soldiers who
aboard the Tuscaa when she submarned Tuesday night
manned unchanged today and officials anxousy awaited additional
detail expected to clear the conflict with foreign figures the
losses. f%,> *
Cable press dispatches port night saying
bodies of American soldiers battered beyond cognon had been
washed ashore Is miles the opeodng gave hope
that the troop losses would small According nres given
earlier dispatches only 10 Of those aboard including SOL
ders members of the and passengers missing |
:" NO LIST OF MISSING w..
No attempt being made thus far to prepare list Of the lost
missing Only the of few have been received
and indications today that Of survivors would continue
to in slowly. 81 ......a.@. 4.I<
The report from the Irish that also said that ident
cation found the bodies of the soldiers washed ashore bore
numbers making Identification impossible caused
siderable speculation Army regulations require Identification tags
bearing the rank and regiment of the
NO OFFICIAL STORY
No official Of the sinking has reached the department and
stories Of the cool behavior the them partially
with interest by army officers Reports the British destroyer
which the liner Tuscana pursued the submarine and
sank her also lacked confirmation .is.
Early today additional list of survivors of the Tucana had
become available the department. The only list obtained
that containing the thirty named yesterday. @
Owing physical difficulties in preparing the list of survivors,
said today that the department delay
list of the Until officers get with
them and check them off against the muster rolls until complete
list of the be assembled central
and checked against the ships there determine
who missing although the number may be known.
There also possibility that additional may have
been picked by patrol boats and may be brought in later
LIST O FAMERICANs LOST. -...~ -, ..".5.
An Irish Port Feb S-s the list OF Americans board the us-
lost when the vessel went down. will be impossible
the of those lost until the the survivors have
been cabed to the United States.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-02-07
ANY NET MAY
NOW BE USED
BY Fishermen at Key West Who
Win in Court
DECISION OF JUDGE HARRIS
Federal Food Commissioner Hoo
YER Wires Them to Fish as They
Darn Please, Without ANY Re-
striction, Whatever, and They
Jubilate Accordingly.

The following special telegram
Florida daily, apparently the
Jacksonville Metropolis, dated
Key West, Jany. 30th, was handed
The Herald by Punta Gorda fish
erman:
The fishermen of the city are
celebrating today, and their boats
are bedecked with flags and bunt-
ing over the ruling of Judge w.
Hunt Harris, before whom the Ri
con Fish Companies and the
Thompson Fish Company, charged
with violating the fish laws, by US
ing smaller nets than the law pre-
scribed.
Commissioner Williams had the
men arrested and their boats at
tached and brought here for trial
before the criminal court.
An important fish ruling was
handed down in a wire to Mr.. Will
liams, the state fish commissioner,
from United States Food Commits
sioner Hoover, in which it states
that the fishermen will be permit
ted to use any size nets that they
may desire, and are now allowed
to catch any amount of fish in any
of the. fishing waters in which they
have been operating, owing to the
necessity Of the fish as a food.
The United States government
will pass an act shortly controlling
the fish industry, and until that
time the fishermen will beat liber-
ty to fish as they may please.
fWhen the court opened this
morning, the attorneys for the de-
PENDANTS, George G. Brooks, Louis
A. Harris and j. E. Gusto, were on
hand and asked that their clients
be dismissed, which the judge did.
The fishermen claim that the
commissioner has Disseminated
against the Key West fishermen,
while the other fishermen of the
state are left alone to use any nets
they desire.
The dealers this year used the
money allowed the commissioner
in the past to carry their cases to
the courts, where they hope to get
justice.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-02-07
Bank Officers Elected

At the annual meeting of the
Stockholders of the Punta Gorda
State Bank held on the Oath inst,
the following board of directors
was elected for the ensuing year
A. F. Dewey, w. L. Koon, G. M.
Carrier, P. w. Meadow and |. d.
Thompson.
Mr.. Thompson, new member
of the board, is one of the most
substantial citizens of Charlotte
Harbor and adds considerable
strength to the directorate of this
growing institution. The reports
of the officers were very crafty
ing, showing the bank to be in a
healthy condition and making sub
stantial gains in the volume of it's
business.
The officers were reelected as
follows: Mr.. w. L. Koon, Presi-
dent; Capt. A. F. Dewey, vice
president, Harry Bolts, cashier;
and, in addition, Mr.. G. A. Todd.
who has been acting as teller and
bookkeeper for several months,
was elected ass cashier.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-02-07
ANOTHER HUNTER KILLED
By the Accidental Discharge of
His Gun

Another fatal accident to a
hunter almost identical with that
which, last week, cost the life of
g. NJ. Thompson of Wimauma, is
thus reported by the Arcadia
News of Tuesday:
j. NJ. Carlton, familiarly known
as "Uncle jerry" accidentally
shot himself yesterday afternoon
about three O'Clock, while out
bird hunting.
He was about a mile from home,
and was driving along with a
double-barrel shot gun on his lap,
when it Jared off and, in falling,
the hammer struck on something
and the gun was discharged, the
entire load entering his abdomen.
He drove to his home on Joshua
Creek, in the Hawthorne neighbor-
hood, as fast as his horse could go
and, when home was reached, he
VISA almost unconscious. His son
managed to get him into the
house, and physicians from Area
dia were summoned.
The doctors did everything in
their power to prolong Mr.. Carl
ton s life, but it was all in vain. He
passed away about 9 o'clock.
Mr.. Carlton had been a cattle
man, farmer and grower and owns
a store in Nocatee.
He was a brother Of HI. l.. Carl
ton, merchant, of this city, and of
is. j. Carlton, city councilman,
who died few weeks ago. He
was the father Of Mrs. Fl. l.. King,
Mrs. O. H. Parker and Mrs. E. A.
Garner. Albert Carlton, of Noca-
tee, is a son, and he leaves other
sons and daughters whom we do
not know.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-02-07
Lies Cheer a Fellow

Every now and then some en-
thusiastic editor will allude to
ONE certain Florida weekly as the
best in the state. Every time this
is done we at once take up that
weeks issue of the paper so named
and compare it with half dozen
or more other weeklies and usual
ly find this paper has a number of
close rivals. We have therefore
concluded that when any editor
says unqualifiedly that a certain
paper is the best weekly in the
state, that his language is expect
ed to be understood as highly fig
urative, meaning that so and so is
making mighty good paper. In
this connection we once heard a
man say, and with a degree of
truth, "Your pleasant words make
me feel good, even though | don't
believe a word you say. Area
dia News.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-02-07

l.. B. Safer sold last week 40
tons Natal hay in Tampa at $25
per ton. 1t was raised just out
side the town limits of Tavares on
the road to Leesburg on less than
half the land where he has 5000
young citrus trees growing, cost
ing the seed and planting-like
finding it, you might say. This
will help to pay the expense of his
young grove.-Tavares Herald.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-02-07
KEY WEST FISHERMEN
In One Week Catch Nearly Half
a Million Pounds

A Key West special dated Feby.
3rd to the Times-Union relates:
Last weeks haul and shipment
by the Thompson Fish Company
of this city, amounted to four hun
dred and sixty-two thousand
pounds of fish. There were three
hundred thousand pounds of king
fish, one hundred and fifty thous-
and pounds Of Spanish mackerel
and twelve thousand pounds of
red snappers. In addition to this
catch, five hundred dozen crawfish
were caught and sent to the
Northern markets. The total
catch of all the fish companies in
the city doubled this number.
Since the lifting of the stringent
fish laws, the fishermen have been
increasing their daily hauls fifty
per cent. Early in the morning
the small fishing smacks leave for
the fishing grounds for kingfish
and return about S o'clock in the
afternoon, and the fishermen re-
ceive SIX cents a pound and are al
most all bought by Angeirios Fish
Co., and shipped to Havana by
ferry. The other specimen of fish
are shipped to the Northern mar
kets.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-02-07
Bowdoin s Big Paintings

j. E. Bowdoin, of Murdock, was
in town yesterday and informed
us that he has planted thirty acres
to watermelons, will plant ten
acres in castor beans, has forty
acres planted in Para grass and
will plant 100 acres in corn, vel
vet beans, chufas and COW peas.
He is very enthusiastic regarding
the prospects for crops this year.
This is the year to make money,
all right.-Arcadia News, Jany.
81.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-02-07
FLORIDA WILL
BEDEVELOPED
Predicted by Allen Maull of Will
mington
MANY INoUIREABoUTsTATE
Florida People Must Turn to Gen
eral Farming With Livestock
as Basis and Grow Plenty of
Food Stuffs for Their Own Use.
Illustration from Other States

That Florida s development
within the next five years will far
exceed that of the last twenty
years, was the prophesy of Allen
Maull of Wilmington, N. c., gen.
eral development agent of the At
lantic Coast Line, who was in the
city over Sunday. Mr. Maull
based his prophesy on the fact
that his department has received
more inquiries about Florida land
within the last few months than
in any previous period, these in
quiries coming not from land spec
ulators, but from homeseekers and
developers. Most of the inquiries
were with regard to livestock rails
ing and general farming.
When asked concerning the gem
eral railroad situation Mr.. Maull
made the following statement:
81 have been in New York for the
last two months and can state that
the apparent disorganization in
the railroads of the country is due
more to the unusually severe win
ter and the abnormal traffic bur
dens which they have had to bear
than to any other cause, but with
the regulations made by the di-
rector-general and the let-up in
the severity of the winter things
will soon straighten out"
Mr.. Maull stated the necessity
for general farming, as opposed to
growing one crop, such as cotton
or tobacco, which it is necessary to
ship out to buy food. He illus
trated his point by comparing
Scotland county, North Carolina,
with productive power last year
of $42.80 per acre, and per CAPT
ia farm wealth of $442, with Nc
Lean county, Illinois, with a pro-
ductive power of only $1S per
acre and per capita farm wealth
of 1895. This last county is a
food producing county which sells
its surplus after satisfying itself,
while Scotland county produced
cotton and tobacco and had to
send out to buy food.
"The per capita farm wealth Of
Florida is very low," said Mr..
Maull, "but it has a remarkably
high productive power, which has
never been fully utilized and never
will be until the agricultural sys-
tenn is so changed that it admits of
general farming, with livestock
raising as basis. No farm COM
munity has ever been self-financ-
ing that was not self-feeding.
"The trend of events in the
South indicates that this section is
rapidly getting away from the old
speculative phase of agriculture
and is adopting a rational system
whereby the farmer produces his
own food and sells the surplus in
the open market, making staples
and livestock the basic feature of
his production.
"The relation Of climate to crop |
production is rapidly becoming
appreciated in the North, and this |
is indicated by the number of in
quiries my department has re-
ceived within the past two months,
due more than likely to the severe
climatic pressure of the North this
winter. Tampa Tribune
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-02-07

An ordinary airplane, exclusive
of the engine, has over two hun
dred thousand pieces, besides over
four thousand nails, three thous-
and screws, a thousand steel
stampings and eight hundred
forgings.-Ocala Star.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-02-07

Will all these days of abstention
from one thing or another make
the ultimate consumer more ulti-
mate than ever?-Times- Union
They surely will.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-02-07
Examinations Postponed

The local board has received a
message from the Government to
postpone their proposed examina-
tions until they receive the new
regulations of the surgical board.
The examinations, which were to
begin on Thursday, February 7th,
have consequently been post
poned.-Arcadia News, Feby. 3rd.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-02-07

According to a report by the A
merican consul at Geneva, Swiss
livestock quotations near the end
of 1917 were. Oxen, each $3.50;
bulls, $40; cows, $3.50; calves,
$3.50; young pigs, $14; fat hogs,
per pound, 80 cents.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-02-07

Last year 1900 murders were
committed in the United States.
The cities with the highest homi-
eide record are Memphis, Atlanta,
New Orleans, Nashville and Char
lesion, the five lowest-Newark,
N. j., Providence, R. l., Rochester,
N. Y, Milwaukee, Wis, Reading,
Pa.