davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-01
FOR MUTUAL ENCOURAGEMENT

Let us encourage the farmer! He is necessary to
us and we love him. A year ago. we called on the
farmer to save the world by raising bigger crops.
He responded with crops that astonished the world
anyhow, and today we are urging him to beat his
record, for the worlds stomach threatens to become
vacuum, as never before Verify let us encourage
the farmer!
We will ask him to kindly study the range OF
prices of Feb 49, 1918, compared with the ranges Of
a similar week of year ago. lie will observe:
Conn., I May (Teb. 49, 1919. 1926 year ago 1o1
Oats, May (Fcb. 49, 1881. 81 year ago Sc
Pork, May (Feb 16, 191S). 47.67 year ago 3015
Lard, May (Feb. 16, 1879. 1886 year ago 1855
Toledo IF = e..
Glover, Feb (Feb. 1e, 1879. 1920 year ago 1175
Tim, Apr. (Feb. 16, l918).. 40 year ago FAT
These enormous raises, in the face of the biggest
production on record 9E
We took this tremendous seeming discrepancy
out to farmer in --- county and expressed
to him our matured opinion that rise in cost Of tools,
fertilizer and labor in no wise accounted for the out
rage upon consumers Hc went out to grindstone,
in his orchard, and began sharpening ak, and,
it being apparent that he had a strong, matured
opinion of his own, we came away without an explain
alton .:r-
Still, we publish those market figures to encour-
age the farmer If he raises bigger crops this
and gets correspondingly bigger prices, We'll be
needing him to encourage us, a year hence.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-01
WITH THE EDITORS.
NORTH DAKOTA'Ss "KEPT PRESS"

For several months past number of news
papers in North Dakota have been clamoring
about the opposition of the "kept press" of the
state to certain propaganda in the interest of
Legitimate cooperative farmers enterprises"
Most of the newspapers making this sort of
noise have been openly owned or controlled by A.
c. Townley or his associates. During that time
one of the most insdious pieces of canvassing
ever attempted has been going on-a scheme that
undermines not only the business structure of the
community, but the relations between the farmers
themselves-and not one of the Townley papers
ever mentioned it. Even after the scheme was
exposed, and the fallacy of the proposition made
bare, not single answer has been made to the
criticisms hurled against it.
The lid was taken off from these papers all of
a sudden, apparently by the preserving of button
in st. Paul, and column after column has been
printed extolling the virtues of the plan of the
Consumers United Stores company-but not one
question as to who gets the money has been an
swered.
The average country editor is exposed to
damnable temptation when conditions are such
that three men, or six men, or more, can say. eve
have our fingers on $96O,O0O Of other PEOPLES
money, to which there isn't string Come on
in; the waters fipe" Can you wonder that some
IF those editQ have &uea? NJ il
Is ills the" educat bnal and pro- Uganda work.
ETC., referred TO IN the stores contract II it is
rs find Out, the better for ell eencerned.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-01
LAW GIVES
EXEMPTION RIGHT

Bigelow Neal, son of former state
senator E. S. Neal, of Mclean county,
is going to fight for the flag. He wants
ito. Young Mr. Neal. manages a large
ranch in Mclean county, and he has
wife and baby dependent upon him,
but he has fixed that. His father will
look after the farm and family. His.
father doesn't want Bigel0W to claim
exemption So, although he had two
claims on which to avoid army SER
vice young Mr.. Neal has not submitted
them, but has passed the physical ex-
animation and is awaiting call in
Glass 1. The young man formerly
worked in the advertising department
of the Tribune, and the Tribune is
Justly proud of it. The Meals lived in
Bismarck many years, and still call
this city their home Asked about not
using his exemption claim, Bigelow
said: ~.
"I'm going to be in the scrap be-
cause l am an American, and ought
not to use the law to escape a duty"
He has had military training in the
agricultural college, at Fargo, where
he commanded the company of cadets
a few years ago. l.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-01
T0WNLEY TRIAL
TO BE HELD IL IN
FAIRM0NT SOON
President Of Nonpartisan League
Charged With Obstructing
Draft and Disloyalty. -.
PAMPHLET CAUSED ARREST
T. Lei &
Prints Against Purchase Of Lib
erty Loan by People Of Lin
tied Means Detrimental

Paramount Mimi, Mar. County
Attorney Albert R. Allen, who caused
the arrest of A. C. Townley, president
of the National Nonpartisan, league,
and Joseph Gilbert, manager, in St..
Paul today, on warrants charging
them with conspiracy to discourage
enlistments and to obstruct the draft,
said tonight that the men would be
brought to trial as soon?as possible in
this county:
Z II, Got Literature.
In explanation of the prosecutions
Mr. Allen said tonight: -
Il wrote to the Nonpartisan league
headquarters at st. Paul, February I,
and obtained copies of their official
pamphlets and declaration of war
principles. The league, claims to be
loyal and always assisting the gov
eminent. The war resolutions as EN-
bodied in the warrant show that the
league is opposing the policies Of the
government.
~ interferes with Loans.
1T is teaching or inferring that peo-
pie of limited means should not buy
liberty bonds. 1t is interfering with
the, conduct of the war and stating
that all of us are fighting a war incit-
ed by profiteers.
mo man in this county can pub.
lish and distribute SUCH statements as
these and escape arrest. A non resi-
dent has no more rights than a resi-
dent.
"The league cannot advocate here
any such stuff as this We are pros
ecuting farmers and farmer boys for
teaching this same doctrine that the
league is spreading"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-01
"CAN" AND "SHOULD"

Nelson Morris, Chicago packer, has got the
What-you- can-liveO theorists all stirred up again
by declaring that children should walk to school
and get along on three movie shows, two pairs OF
shoes and $40 worth of clothing year.
Mr.. Morris is only 26 years old, and should
learn Mr.. Morris has always had all the car tlck-
cts, movies, shoes and clothes that ne wanted,
probably more than was really best for him.
What world of difference between those two
little words Should" and "can"! And how ever
lastingly prone they are to quarrel with each
other! Yet, yoke them together, and how they 40
pull So.
A child can crawl to school on hands and knees
can get along without theaters or other pleasures
can 20 barefoot and nearly clothingless all the
year It can eat husks It can never hear music
or see flowers. It can exist though robbed OF
childhood. ...
But should it? Right here civilization and
barism go to it with bare fists. Barbaric "can"
SAYS that the child can starve freeze, degenerate
civilized, progressive "should says it shall not. 1t
is a terrible, horrible BATTLE It's issue is as old
as mankind In one corner Of the ring, as seconds,
are Americans who have known OF Jesus Christ;
in the other corner, the cave-men.t 9..,%
But, in our times, it is a foolish battle, battle
over nothing There is no such problem as what
child "can" do, driven to it by private greed or
society's negligence. Our problem is to take the
'can" and Should out of the bloody prize-ring;
yoke them together and make them pull asa team.
Our problem is to give the child the very best OF
everything that we are able to. To discuss how
little we can do for the child is foolish waste Of
time and energy. We must aim solely at the most
we can and should do. Not "can' or Should"
the one or the other; but both yoked and blowing
the furrow Of progress, in Gods name and for
the sake of humanity! r..
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-01
FUNERAL SERVICES OF
ELMER H. THAMS

Funeral services for Elmer H.
Thams were held Wednesday after
noon at 3 O'Clock in the Baptist church
Rev. Bruce Jackson delivering the
sermon. Elmer Thams was born in
Artesian, S. D., March Is, 1896 and
came to Bismarck with his parents
when eight years old.
He was united in marriage to Miss
Adeline Maybelle Spaulding in Glas'
gov, Mont, last March. shortly after
moving to Dunseith, where he lived
until his last illness made imperative
his removal to a hospital in Devils
Lake, where he died Sunday night. He
is survived by his parents and widow.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-01
GETTING NEXT TO THE PEOPLE

The madden the Russian situation makes us the
hotter our remembrance OF that Root commission S
report and recommendations The troublea bout that
Root commission was that our democratic president
didn't put the right kind of democrats OH it. In
Decd lust one democrat like old Tom Jefferson
would have done. You remember Jefferson. lie was
one of the fathers Of democracy and time, before
the revolution, he wrote La Fayctte and Madison
from France:
"You must ferret the people out of their novels
as have done, look into their kettles Toll their
beds on pretence of resting yourself. The people
are ground to powder by the vices of the form of
government" ,' 81
Now, if Root only <had--but there s no use root
ing about Root until we We helped Poet Ed Vance
Cooke get the following out of his system:
On Peasants Beds
One, Thomas Jefferson, sojourned in France;
He saw the court and all it's rare romance, :
He met the cultured, the refined, the great,
And then he made his way throughout the state,
Visiting novels, eating peasant-breads ! :j.~r
And feigning rest upon the peasant beds. -
He testified "A people ground to powder!' 70 Il. T..
And when the reverberatons loud and louder
Swept from the earth King Louis and his court, y,
One statesman understood it's grim purport, .a
For he had supped the peasant-broth and seen
The powder making in the magazine.
We sent our men of excellence of name
To greet the Arisen Russ We blew their fame
Across the seas before them, so they saw
The men Of epaulets and men of law.,"%a :
Then, Gathering back, they told us thus and so,
All that they knew and more they did not know,
How Russia should be won by dulcet tones,
How Russia should be held by golden loans,
How Russia would respond to guns and groans
They had not pillowed with the peoples heads,
They had not lain upon the pcasant-beds .-
They had not supped the novels kettlebroth
And all their knowledge was but flippant froth.
Learn well the lesson O, you men of state
Whenever you would solve our future fate.
The heads which huddle in tn humblest home +.
Shall rule the congresses beneath the dome.
If you would have that wisdom which you LACK
Seek you the plowmans house, the miners shack,
The workmen s tenement. Translate their needs
To laws which make for equitable deeds, w.
Remembering that every law you make
Must squar with justice else it's weight shall break
And you and all of us shall see the day
Your laws shall wreck in ruin and decay
Lo if you have not munched the work earned breads
And laid your bones upon the rcstwon beds;
There is no strength Of wisdom in your heads.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-01
S. D. MAYOR STOPS
LEAGUE MEETING

Sioux Falls, S. D., Mar. IA meet
ing of nearly 300 members of the
Nonpartisan league scheduled at Mad
ison thursday was prevented by
Mayor Robinson, of Madison, accord
ing to advices received last night.
Mayor Robinson in a telephone CONVEX
sation declined to state the exact
grounds for his action but declared
that the meeting had not been adver-
tised previous to Thursday A meet
ing was held later at a farm; house
outside the city.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-01
STORY ABOUT A DOG

Jim Walbridge, the wealthy man Of ToWanda,
Pa, has buried his dog at an expense OF $500, and
is being roasted for extravaganza by newspapers
all over the country, but the fierce criticism is
warranted, for the reason that there's no informa-
tion as to why jim spent $500 on burying the dog
We don't know Jim's why, but it reminds us of
Story About A Dog
Several times we have been ready and willing
to spend $500 on burying dog, the same dog
every time 1t is small but very hairy, remnant
looking dog, with the mien Of a cur and, appar-
emily, the disposition of sandstorm in Los An
geles suburbs. This canine has voice with
Caruso depth and Schumann-Heink range and II
p. M to p. M is his favorite period for rehearsal
He will rehearse because the moon is listening or
just because he has voice, exactly like some
humans.
Besides being conscientious coloraturst, this
dog is devoted agriculturist At the first spring
twitter of the robin, at the first unfolding OF
dainty petals by the modest little crocus this dog
begins the planting of a skeleton of horse or
something equally as good, in our best flower-bed
and, every sunrise throughout the live-long sum-
mer, he digs up the bones to see if they've
sprouted.
Diplomat of high order is this dog, too. He has
learned to knock over the family milk bottle and
lap it's streaming contents daily, and there is no
gun, rock, or club that can draw bead on him.
One day we started over to the house Of the
owner Of this dog to offer $500 or something mer-
cenary like that, for permission to bury him (the
dog). At the third corner we came upon rag
ged, starved looking little girl of perhaps two
years Of age, sitting in the middle Of the sidewalk
She had been crying, as the streaks of tears thru
the dirt on her face showed.
Say, fellows, did you ever notice the tear-stains
on the face of one of these DID, oldfaced children
Of the streets? Sometime, pick up one Of these
babies with the 80-year-old face and study the
stains, the wrinkles, the hopelessness, the dirt.
Therein is written the centures-old story of
wrong, oppression, and neglect. Therein is the
power that makes "the man with the hoe turn
upon his masters rulers, kings" at the judg-
ment seat Of God and ask his awful .fWhy? ?" Look
into one fthese old, worn child faces, sometime,
fellows, and see the whole history Of what men
have done, and haven't.
Butthis child we came upon, that time, was no
longer miserable She gurgled, she shrieked joy
ously, she clapped her hands, her eyes sparkled
with fun Hunger, neglect rags, loneliness were
forgotten. She was happy as a child with new
toy, about her, leaping, crouching, smiling, now
nibblng at her rags, now licking her face, playful
joyous. sunshihy frisked that blamed night. howl
ing, milk thief cur: And we went straight home
and saved s50O. ol theeAbo1ts. /
Maybe Jim Walbridge made good investment
b paytnd $500 I'd buky his dog. Maybe not, !,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-01
TRADE BOYCOTTOF
:. GERMANY ISPLAN

Washington, D. c., AMIR. T. Al
overwhelming vote in favor of reso-
luton warning German business men
that an economic combination will be
formed against Germany after the war
unless the danger of excessive arma-
ment is removed by making the Ger.
man government responsible instru-
ment controlled by the people, was
announced last night by the chamber
of commerce of the United States at
conclusion of preliminary canvass
Of it's organization members. The vote
as recorded to date is 1,204 to !154.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-01

dle this jos II 10 Sm0nthS.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-01

. ~ show a remarkable decrease as
a aa,n ared with the preceding months.
They totlaed only 1S,961, divided as
follows: -Of7cers
Killed or died of wounds-omcei'
1873; men 4,O12. oo ox ,Aooe
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-01

hatred that will be poured out of in
spired press against America. ~
"The American Business men who
took advantage of the nine months
treaty between the United States and
Germany to- wind up business affairs
as far as possible, were kept under
the closest surveillance by the police
at all times and were not permitted to
leave the city without special permits.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-01

The kaiser's dentist, an Ohio man who has just
returned to this country, says the Germans think
there only 10000 American soldiers in France.
They must have got the idea from reading United
States senator's speeches. > " ~"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-01
SWORN PROOF OF
HUN SUBS WORK
Survivors of Glenart Castle Saw
I U.Boat Before Attack

London, March 1.--Sworn state
ments made independently by two
survivors of the British hospital snip
Glenart Castle, which went down
Tuesday in the Bristol channel an o.
fetal statement says, make clear
that she was sunk by an enemy SUD
marine, which was sighted in hailing
distance within ten minutes OF the
time the ship was struck.
BRITISH CASUALTIES DROP
London, Feb. 2S.-British casualties
reported during the month Of Febru-
The Benson signal., 1918-05-18
F0RET0LD WAR WITH HUNS
Russian Consul at Boston Fourteen
Years Ago Prophesied Great
Conflict.

Boston.-Fourteen years ago Joseph
A. Conry,. Russian consul, prophesied
there would be a war with Germany.
This was made in an address Mr..
Conry delivered at the annual meeting
of the Ninth Regiment Veterans as.
sociation in G. A. r. hall In this city,
April 6, 1904. Excerpts from his
speech follow:
"There will be a war in this coun-
try as sure as time flies. With Eng
land? No, because our commercial in
terests are too intimate. Not with
France, because she is. diminishing.
We have had it with Spain.
"But it will be with the empire Of
Germany. We have no desire for war,
but If it should come, we need vol
unteer militia made up Of 100000 men
to back up our standing army"
The Benson signal., 1918-05-18
New Mexico.

The Oaks Co. in Mogollon district
are saving ore from drift being driven
west from Central shaft
The Mogollon Mines Co. are ship
ping between sixteen and eighteen
bars of bullion besides concentrates.
Tonnage for April about 4,80O tons.
This summer the state Of New Mex
leo will, in all probability, add to her
list of natural resources the greatest
of .all-petrOleum. San Juan county,
in the northwest part of the state, is
at present entering upon great oil ac-
tivity.
At Mogollon the Deadwood hoist is
now running and mine is being un-
Watered as fast as possible. This
property will soon be producing again
Several hundred feet of additional
failing flume was cut in during the
week. This is being put in to keep
tailings- out of SILVER Creek.
The Benson signal., 1918-05-18
Wyoming.

Officials of the Colorado Wyoming
Refining Company say they have con-
tracted for refinery site at Douglas,
Wyo., and intend to erect a refinery
within the year.
The Ohio Oil Company is preparing
to erect three rigs on section 12-39-79,
Salt Creek. .....
A. B. Lathrop and f. F. Lemon Of
Kimball, Neb., and Andrew J. Hull Of
Findlay, Ohio, have leased $50 acres
Of land near Laramie, and will ship a
rig and start drilling.
An important test we'll is being
drilled in the Grass Creek field by the
Ohio Oil Company. This field is pro
ducing from the first sand, and the
average depth of the holes is around
100 feet.
The Benson signal., 1918-05-18
Montana.

The April copper output of the Shan.
non Copper Company was $4,000
pounds.
Anaconda Copper Company for the
year 1917 earned, after taxes, $14.72 a
share, against $218O in 1916.
Butte and Superior April production
amounted to 14,1OO,OOO pounds of zinc
concentrates and 100000 ounces of sill.
yer.
April production of the Anaconda
Copper Company was 26,566,00O
pounds of "copper" compared with 28,.
100000 pounds in March.
April reports of operations in the
Mid d-Continent oil fields show 1,261
wells completed, x71,165 barrels new
production, 262 dry holes and 73 gas
wells. For March the report showed
1,065 wells completed, 99,916 barrels
new production, 232 dry and rs
gaSserS. -:
The Benson signal., 1918-05-18
WESTERN
MINING AND OIL
=
NEWS

WeSIern NeWspaper Union NEWS SerVlce.
Prices for Metals.
New .York.-Lead- -$7.OO@712A.
Copper
Bar Silver-99hc..
ST. Louis, Mo.-Spelter-$6.60.
Boulder-Tungsten concentrates, 60
per cent, $2O.OO@22.5O per unit. Crude
ores, 60 per cent, $22OO@25.0O; rs per
cent, $12.OOQ12.5O; 10 per cent, $9,4o
Q12.20. ..:..
The Benson signal., 1918-05-18

Natural Sequence.
"What did Gings do when his wife
made such a. sweeping attack upon
him?" "Why, he busted" go" =;
The Benson signal., 1918-05-18
- "a ~
LET'S HOLD THE LINE
- - "A
BY Norreys Jephson O'Conor of the
.Vigilantes.


We hold the line which stretches far,
From western towns to fields OF
France,
Where now our brave battalions nre.
Fighting to stop the Huns advance.
We must not fail them in their need,
We who, in factory or field,
Are soldiers, too; we may not bleed;
Should we, then, find excuse to yield.
Because we pass in dreariness
Our days, or in the summer sun
Are hot, and worn with WEAKNESS?
If our line breaks, the foe has won.
If we heed enemy alarms, H..
Vain is the generals vast design,
And vain the soldiers deed Of arms.
In freedoms name, let's hold the
r. line <:
The Benson signal., 1918-05-18
Colorado.

T. mining outlook is unusually
good at White Pine this season.
The Free Coinage Consolidated
Mines Company has commenced ship
ping from the Pinto mine on Bull hill.
A streak of gold ore assaying from
two to ten ounces to the ton has been
encountered at the Bartlett tunnel on
Sugar Loaf, near Leadville.
High-grade ore running as high as
twenty ounces to the ton has been en-
countered at the '600-foot level of the
Dante mine, on Bull hill, by Fred
Cobb.
A two-foot streak of $92 ore, which
widens into eight feet of SOL values,
has been disclosed in the seventh
level on the Cresson mine by diamond
drilling.
The Molly B. Mining Company, a
Denver promotion, is driving it's tun-
nels right along into. the big blanket
vein in Yuba Dam Flats, according to
Breckenridge report.
The amount of new work at, present
under way in the Cripple Creek dis
trict is liberal for this season of the
year, more especially so in view of the
limited supply of good labor.
A new and rich flat vein has been
cut at the 9O0-foot level of the w. P.
H. mine at Cripple Creek by the w. P.
H. Leasing Company, operating the
mine under lease from the United
Gold Mines Company, the owning cor
poration. A streak of white ta1c,, form
ing the core of the vein, literally glis.
tens with large crystals of calaverite.
The Benson signal., 1918-05-18
Ship Coal by Water.

Memphis, Tenn.-Heavy shipments
of coal from the Kentucky fields are
being made by water on the *Missis-
sippi river. A single steamboat recent
ly towed Is barges containing 5000
tons Of coal from CaseyVille,: KY, to
Memphis. It would have required
three or four trains to have hauled this
consignment by rail. =
The Benson signal., 1918-05-18
LADDERS Cousin Killed.

Cumberland, Md.-John Lauder, for
ty-eight, cousin of Harry Lauder, the
Scotch comedian, was killed in the Ty-
som coal mine near here, where he
was employed. He was caught under
a fall Of rock.
The Benson signal., 1918-05-18
The Reason.

81 hear you have college graduate
for a cook. Isn't that very expen-
sive?"
"Not very. She works for her board
and Clothes"
"How is that?"
"She's my wife," =; -
The Benson signal., 1918-05-18
Her Choice.

I Gladys-Would you sooner be an
old mans darling or a young mans
slave? -'f.
Penelope-A young mans slave-it
is so much easier breaking a young
man in and making him toe the mark.
The Benson signal., 1918-05-18
Arizona.


The Castle Butte mine has again
been taken over on a bond and lease.
The Hardshell mine at Harshaw Is
likely soon to be one of the big pro-
ducers of, that district. :~.,.
Miami Copper Company April pro-
duction was 4,013,000 pounds of cop
per, compared with 5,174,365 pounds in
March.
April production of the Inspiration
Copper Company was 9,25O,OOO pounds
of copper, compared with S,750,O00 in
March and 100000 in February. 49,
1t was reported at Tucson that an
offer of $4,000 had been made for the
bond and lease Of the North Star
mine. in the Twin Buttes district.
The Benson signal., 1918-05-18

But, the man who refuses to work
when offered a job is generally ready
to work friend. -~1 -