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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1919-02-14
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pn my way to the railroad station
with Victor. with whose parents was
spending my vacation, I remarked that
he had lovely hair. Whereupon he
said :: Yes, but our rooster has bet
ter comb than I have hair."-Chicago
Tribune.
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legislation. All tho Townley machinery
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Farmers desiring aid in figuring up|
their income tax statement should see
the county agent.
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City Council.
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County Agent.
Council met in regular session in City

Hall.
Present: Mayor Miller, Aldermen
Shumaker, Thompson and Wilkins.
Minutes of meeting of January 9th read
anc approved. Council audited and al.
lowed the following bills:
Account Of City Hall: -..
Z. D. Booker. supplies. ......... $l1 40
Account Of city property:
Premium on $500 ins. issued by
J "A Wilkins on bldg occupied by
Mrs. Hallson .................. 4 495
Account of poor:
Mrs. G Hallson, Feb allow. 49,. 10 90
f. Colgan, Feb to j Parker. Is 90
Mrs Batosh Dec 80 to j T
OochouTu ...... ............... D w
Mrs Batosh to E D Booker. 500. "a 63
Mrs Batosh to B Parker ...... s 90
Communication was read from Mrs.
Florence Leathers Offering to sell Lot IA
of Block Is to the City, together with
the appurtenances thereon, for q con-
sideration of $4,000. Upon motion
duly seconded the following resolution
was adopted:
Resolved that the City of Pembina
purchase from Mrs. Florence Leathers
Lot IA of Block Is of the City of Penn
bina, and that the Mayor and city audi
tor be- and are hereby authorized to de-
liver to said Florence Leathers City
warrant for the sum of $500, upon exech-
ton and delivery to said Mayor and
Auditor warranty deed to said premi.
ses, clear of all incumbrance, in accor.
dance with the tender for sale of said
premises addressed to council and now
on file in the Office of city auditor I"
Upon roll call the following voted aye:
Aldermen Shumaker, Thompson and
Wilkins. Nayes: none.
The following names we're drawn az
qualified Jurors to be forwarded to
clelk of court: G V Leifur, Robert
Lindsay, F A Feldman.
The following resolution was intro
duced and adopted and auditor instruc.
ted to forward same to county auditor:
"Whereas Tax Certificate No. 35l215 for
year 1915, issued for sidewalk tax
against lot l of block 25, and tax GER
tificate no. $685. for year 1915 issued
for like tax against lot 2 of block Is. is.
sued to the city of Pembina, have been
lost. and whereas city warrants of this
city no. 1869 and 1910 for the sum Of
$500 each were issued to the contrac.
tor IN payment Of said sidewalk and are
still outstanding as unpaid on the city
auditors records, be it resolved that a
copy Of this resolution be forwarded to
the county auditor as evidence that
said tax certificates no. 35l211 and $685.
have never been assigned by this cit, !;
that the city Of Pembina is sill the
owners thereof and are rightfully enti-
tied to the redemption money BY virtue
Of being owners thereof" Upon roll
call the following voted aye: Mayor Mil
Ter. Aldermen shumaker, Thompson.
and Wilkins. Nayes: node. /
No further business appearing, coun-
Gil adjourned.
Approved NH. MILLER. Mayor.
]. "a. WILKINS, Acting Auditor.
Teachers ExsmlnatIon.
State Teachers' Examination "a,
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ID. l1ng 3 N, sI'I Il
ho best IL skI,e S1yoylsl
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Capt Tells How the Caudron Conspiracy Boiled With Plots and
Counerpos During Exciting Preceding Turkish
Normal Life Invisible Under Modama of Graft Intrigue and Murder

just arrived TO help the new Sultan
in the girding on OF his sword Ga
function corresponding to q corona
tion) the tide OF sedition had risen TO
high water mark.
The Sheikh of the Senoussi. an ell
derby savage with more piety than
learning, refused at the last moment
to embark on the Austrian submarine
which was to bring him to Europe
from his Red Sea territory. RuInor
declared that he had TO be dragged
on board by his Austrian friends while
protesting violently against this con-
tunieiy to his sacred person.
His experiences In that submarine,
II half the stories were true, must
have been remarkable indeed. How
His Savage Highness chung to the
periscope and insisted on watching
the entrance into the Pola harbor,
to the confusion OF the navigator;
how he spread his prayer mat before
the crews quarters, SO that they could
not get to their diving stations; and
how, in the act Of prostrating him
self, he received violent electric
shock which caused him to perform
the reverent motions OF ieisured
prayer In one galvanic gesture--these
things belong to history as set forth
by the Tatnvla Agency.
The Sheikh. believe, was dlsap-
pointed by his visit to the Central
Powers. First there was the chilly
conspiracy OF the submarine, which
must have been unnerving to dweller
OF the desert. Then the secret dis
ambarkation at Pola, where a dingy,
u choppy sea and a hayward stomach
combined TO rob him OF dignity. And
finally the dismal establishment OF
Constantinople.
With the Shereef OF Mecca IN re-
volt, the Shelkh of the Senoussi was
now the second dignitary OF loyal"
Islam. and as such he had been chosen
for the ceremony OF girding the new
Sultan with the sword OF Gilman, an
act symbolicai OF the assumption OF
the caliphate. and It's defence Of Mo-
hammedanism. For some time, how
ever. the Sultan refused TO undergo
this solemn rite. saying very rightly
that there was no use in undertaking
TO defend Islam unless he were given
real power to DO 80. For the lnue
Sultan had been but puppct, dancing
10 strings pulled by Enver Pasha,
Taiaat Pasha and the blood and iron
Germans.
Enver Pasha then called on the
The sun., 1919-08-10
Scenes in Consantinople the City With Hayward Sou

II was a radiant autumn morning.
From the veranda OF his hiding place
opposite the deserted British embassy
Capt Yeats-Brown watched the news
spreading from mouth to mouth.
There were cries and hand shakings.
Newspaper boys were surrounded and
mobbed. A fruit seller suddenly shut
Sup his shop A woman ran down the
street shouting the good news.
Then from an English house near
by, on a flagstaff prepared overnight,
a Union Jack was displayed. 1t was
the first allied standard shown in the
streets of Pera since 1914. Some one
cheered, and a number of Greeks were
seen rushing into their houses. Was
II a panic? A massacre? Revolution?
But no, they were presently treasured.
One by one, from every window and
every rooftop, the colors Of the En-
tente appeared-Greek flags, French
flags, British flags, Italian flags, but
never a sign OF the Turkish crescent
or the Boche eagle.
A few extracts from the press of
Constantinople on that day may help
to paint the scene:
''Uher Allies is dead because IT rep
resented a vulgar and commercial ideal
and came face TO race with newer and
better ideas"
EVERY one is awaiting the Enten-
tistes' arrival. We are in a hurry TO
salute them. to carry them in triumph
through our streets as apostles OF lib
erty. At last we are able to breathe
No more detectives TO demand our
papers. no more beating OF drums no
more communicates no more vecikas
Air, air, airi We can go out after 10
o'clock. and go out without being fol-
lowed. Every one is wearing the
favors Of red. white and blue. They
decorate every buttonhole. like proud
medals"
The sun., 1919-08-10

Proud medals indeed thought Die
cynical prisoners of war. A north
earlier the writer's of these illusions
had been licking German shoe leather
and the taste of the jackboot was yet
in their mouths.
Some of the officer prisoners, re-
leased from the Ministry of War when
the news of armistice arrived, were
the first targets for ConstantinoPlgs
joyful eXubernnce. Wearing their
carefully hoar-sad uniforms. they
strolled from STEAMBOAT across iythe
Golden Horn and took the subway
to Pera. AS soon as they appeared IN
the European quarters the population
fell on them with kisses, hands slgf-
ings, gifts and congratulations. Mon
and women of every nationality show
cred invitations on them and scverpl
were carried down the Grande Rue De
Pera.
Truly Constantinople is a strange
city, the most fickle on earth, a city
with as many moods as an attractive
but unstable woman II is not at all
difficult, indeed, 10 invest Constants
nople with a sex and personality.
Some magic in her aspect. some trick
Of sea and sun. gives her a human
quality hard to describe. She Is a
city apart---a city with a wayYard
soul. We who have known her inti-
mately, and from our hiding places
watched her sway from mood to mood,
cannot fail TO realize this. And yet.
withal, It is part Of her charm.
Constantinople ruined the byzantine
Graalya md aannad tho atranpth NJ fha
Roman Empire. Now, after a hong
period OF fretful wedlock, she is shslt-
ing herself free from the Turk. Who
ever next attempts to rule her
whether It be Brlton, American, Greek.
or some form OF condominium-3wtn
have some restless days and nights
The sun., 1919-08-10

Sheikh of tho Senoussi. attended by all
the .trappings OF peacock pomp and
very real power, Exactly what passed
at this interview is not known, but II
Is believed that the Shcikh was given
the alternative of instantly leaving
by subr larine or Of in
ducing his suzerain 10 proceed with
the coronation ceremony. Rather than
undertake any more Journeys under
the sea the Sheikh PREVAILED on the
Sultan to allow him to grid the his
toric sword upon his person. The cere :.
mony cost the SultIn nothing, after
all. The true defence OF Islam lay In
the well being of its peoples; and
neither the puppetT nor the poten-
tates OF a day coult prevail against
Kismet.
The peace parties had been waiting
for a leader; and when the old Sultan.
who had been hut q marionette dane
ing to the strings OF Talaat and Enver,
died in July they hoped TO find one in
his brother. the successor to the
throne. The new Sultan certainly dis
liked the Germans and desired peace;
but Re was not a strong enough man
to initiate a policy on his own ac-
count, and the Young Turk friends OF
Germany maintained their power by
violence until the Bulgarian armistice
gave the Sultan his chance. e.
why the sultan Did Nothing.
Had the Sultan ousted the Grand
Vizier and Enver Pasha in July he
would no doubt have found support
for the population detested the Young
Turk Government. But Enver was
still a power and the constabulary OF
the city were faithful to him Any
attempt at disorder was promptly
checked, and the Sultan, had he at.
tempted 10 withdraw Turkey from the
war before the Bulgarian armistice
would have risked his life and hi.
throne, as well as the fate OF hi.
country.
Yet although he himself did moi
try, several of his subordinates did
One summer morning a young Turk,
ish officer, In full uniform OF the Pal
ace Guards. was seen racing down tn,
Grande Rue de Pera pursued by gen,
darmes. He had been accused OF con
spiracy against the Government, ant
although he was one OF the intimatei
Of the court, the Sultan did not defent
him. II caught. a bullet, a rope or tn,
Bosporus would be the best he could
hope for. Something stickier and NOR,
lingering was more likely.
The sun., 1919-08-10

The Turkish officer ran like a hare
down the winding street, doubled be-
hind a tramway and bolted into the
Turkish officers Club, where he hoped
to find sanctuary. But the club MEM
bers wished to keep out of trouble.
Talaat Pasha. they recollected. was
perpetual vice-president OF their house
committee,
So the wretched victim, now pur-
sued by members who. perhaps, still
owed him for the last poker sitting
as we'll as by the gendarmes, dashed
desperately into the card room. Hav-
ing failed to lock the door, he passed
behind the bar and after gulping down
many dollars worth Of brandy (then
almost unobtainable In Turkey. he
lodged the policemen by slipping on
TO a balcony that overlooked the street
And then what might have been
part of an exciting motion picture play
ended in tragedy. The poor conspira-
tor jumped and fell forty feet TO the
pavement. A crowd collected on the
tram lines and blocked the traffic. The
broken body lay on the pavement un-
I'll evening.
The only people that remained aloof
from this amazing atmosphere OF MUIR
der, bribery and intrigue we're the Ger
man officers. who staggered down the
streets with their stays and their
swords. completely unconscious Of the
ridicule which went on behind their
corseted backs, They glared haught-
lily through their pince-neE, but seemed
to see nothing OF the city's hatred.
Their complacency remained undis-
turbed until a few days before the
armistice. Then, indeed. their down
fall was as great as their earlier pride
| They were beaten In the streets, hooted
and reviled in many languages. They
suffered greatly by comparison with
the British officers who first landed
For one thing the English had plenty
OF money, whereas the Germans had
little. The British landed with walk
ing sticks and pipes and fox terriers
and without the suggestion Of AFRO
gance-a pleasant contrast to the
swords the muchin-evldence revol-
vers and the pompousness OF the
Boches The population expressed
| their sense OF the difference by cheer
ing the arrivals and throwing rotten
vegetables at the departures, who for
| three years had been so unwelcome.
| The behavior Of the people on No
vember I, when the news Of the Turk
ish armistice was published. provided
an interesting study In psychoilsy
The sun., 1919-08-10
The Famous Lion of Belfort

courage cried; Now the Germans can
never enter France from this dlrec-
ton, for here stands the Lion Of Bel
forti" And the Germans never did.
When an armistice was declared by
order OF the French Government the
garrison capitulated with all honors
of war. Under the terms OF peace
France retained Beifort.
Once again Bartholdi modelled the
lion. On the rock In front of the
citadel rearing himself on his fore
legs. stands this noble figure. He is
thirty-six feet high and seventy-two
long. In Paris there is replica In
hammered copper, also by Bartholdi.
And the square or place on which the
replica looks down is called the Place
Danfert- Roehereau. In honor OF the
brave Lieutenant Colonel Of that name
who commanded the garrison OF Bel
fort'in 1870.
The sun., 1919-08-10

parent, and ! always had fellow
feeling for man at Taxim Gardens.
let us say. who wore blue spectacles
and as he slipped his coffee looked over
their rims In search OF gendarmes.
Beer and False Beard.
Capt. Yeats-B Brown was In n cafe
of the Grande Rue de Pera. when a
friend of friend Of his. after look
ing overmuch on the beer when 1t was
ICED. took Off a false beard and laid II
beside him on the table. In order to
pay closer attention to his mug.
There were several German soldiers
in the cafe at the time. and Yeats
Brown watched with anxiety for, de-
velopments. But the Germans, who
were quite used to that sort Of thing.
paid no attention other than few
smiles.
Later that evening tho same man
4 deserter-was arrested for disorderly
behavior. He procured his release by
payment TO the policeman Of about
$40; which was cheap enough. for he
had no papers Of identity.
The traffic in identity papers
(vecikas) was a profitable business.
A forged vecikd cost anything from
$50 to 800, and scores OF them must
have been made and sold each day
To buy on policeman when unprc|
vided with a peciIed was more specu-
lative. A solitary gendarme. alone In
a dark street. might be content to ac-
cept s25; whereas two gendarmes to
gether could be persuaded only with
difficulty to accept 800. the dignity
OF their profession having to be main
tanned in face OF each other.
For the rest the discomfort, the mis-
cry and the destitution showed itself
In occasional shots at Enver Pasha Is
his so horse power Mercedes tore
through the narrow streets Of Pera
and Gaiata, and In the spreading OF
pro-Ally rumors. The '"Tatavla
Agency" so named from district in
habited by Grsek merchants, was well
known throughout 1913 az centre OF
anti-derman propaganda. From II.
even at the time OF Hindenburg's last
great drive. there spread the widest
reports OF allied victories. Some were
cosncocted, no doubt, to influence the
bourse. but the object OF most OF them
was to encourage the starving popula-
ton in their hopes for any sort Of
peace. rr~t
In the dog days OF last August
when, the sheikh OF ths psenoussi had
The sun., 1919-08-10
The Brick Snake

.tJN city book store the other
i day." said country born man,
II saw standing on end on a
long table, and maybe three or four
inches apart, long row OF books
was buying a book at that table, and
as 1t was being wrapped up something
upset the end book in that long row,
II fell against the next book and that
against the next one, and so, swiftly
and smoothly. they all toppled over
one after another until the whole row
was down. 1t made me smife, it
brought to mind the fun we used 10
have with bricks In my youth
This Is sport that l do not re-
member ever TO have seen practised
In New York because here there is less
freedom OF space and here 1t would be
dangerous in the busy streets, but in
the smaller city that ! came from
wherever there waa q new building
The sun., 1919-08-10

going up il was common thing for
boys TO stand up long lines Of bricks
on end little distance apart and then
by topping over the end one, the key
brick, so TO speak, make the whole
row go down.
Small boys used to be satisfied TO
make straight rows Of this sort .apd
they found much pleasure in that. but
bigger boys soon learned to make
sweeping curves. and finally to make
lines with severe curves, like letter
S, regular brick snakes. ~.
"They soon discovered that TO make
brick snake work all right the bricks
must be nicely spaced. otherwise. ON
sharp curve, brick might fall outside
the line and so the whole line might
not go down. II had another pleasure
of a rare achievement when a boy
could set up a long brick snake that
would wriggle smoothly and oon-
pletely from head to tall"
The sun., 1919-08-10

the streets, but they had no more
mass consciousness than the articles
In ten cent store.
Three quarters of them, even OF the
very Turks, Joined issue on one point
hatred Of the Young Turk oppres-
sion. A majority of this majority
went so far as to long for the depar-
ture Of the Germans and the arrival
Of the Allies. All but the Young Turk
politicians and their intimates wanted
an immediate peace.
Yet the population was too disunited
and too listless to impress It's wishes
on the Government. A small minority
Of determined criminals. with the
Grand Vizier and Enver Pasha at
their head. were thus able to do as
they pleased. Supported by German
and Turkish troops and by the gen.
darmes. who delighted In the system
OF violence which filed their pockets
with brides. they hanged or impris-
oned all opponents OF the Ministry
who were powerful enough to be no
ticed
Among the Greeks, however, were
many whose plottings helped the
Allies. Several of them seemed well
supplied with funds. which they used
for propaganda or for fomenting dis
content. Two revolutions were
planned. but betrayal forestalled their
outbreak, and the plots ended In a
few hangings, few imprisonments
In the Ministry OF Wars BLACK
Hole" and a few disappearance into
the submerged world where men
walked cautiously disguised and in
the shadow. Other jewellers in the
submerged world were many thou
sands of deserters and many hun
dreds of men wanted" for sedition or
graft.
To us. who were ourselves In hiding.
this furtive life was amusingly APP
The sun., 1919-08-10
By CAPT. ALAN BoTT.

~ oNsTANTINoPLE, always a
| cauldron Of conspiracy. SIM
mered and boiled over with plot
and counterpart during the four ex-
citing months that preceded the Turk
ish armistice.
Dressed as 4 sailor from the Rus
sian tramp steamer. moored In the
Bosporus, that served as hiding place
for another escaped ofiicer and myself
made frequent trips to the city; and
always l heard from friends the de-
tails Of some new intrigue, assassina-
ton, disappearance or species of graft.
Normal life was invisible under a
coating OF fantastic melodrama-
Lack OF patriotism, OF rather lack
or any consciousness of nationality,
made the situation In Constantinople
unlike that Of any other city In the
world 1t was an unmixable mixture
OF races, creeds and beliefs, a tumble
OF peoples that nothing-not even
munger and misery-couid ever mould
INTO any sort Of an entity. Turks.
greeks, Armenians. Jews and monde
script Levantines rubbed shoulders in
The sun., 1919-08-10
In the Twilight of the
Turkish Empire

This is the final one of series
Of articles by Capt. Alan Bot.
R. 4. F., who was captured by
the Turks while flying with Gen.
Allenbys Army of the Palestine.
His amazing experiences as
Turkish prisoner of war are the
basis for the present narrative.
In the Twilight Of the Turkish
Empire"
The sun., 1919-08-10

I'M guard at the French frontier
" stands the Lion OF Belfort
Now cut out of enduring stone
ne was once modelled from snow.
N the Franco Prussian war the
Ssge OF Belfort lasted from November.
aIO to February, 1871. Among the
harrison were thousands of reserve
eoops. among whom there were not a
NV artists and other professional men.
y'om time TO time during the winter
me men, to arnuse themselves. made
statues in the snow. Then the sun
' ~paia shine and there would be no
more statues.
among the garrison was the man
VINO gave to America her heroic figure
y liberty, Rartholdi, the sculptor. One
y, ssy ne modelled q lion from snow. and
~ haif frozen soldiers. as they looked
w.n pride and delight on what the
s'pteF had wrought. with renewed