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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-05-29
LEAGUE FARMERS
APPLAUD: SPEECH
OF INSURGENTS
Kositzky and Hall Given Big
Ovation at an Enthusiastic
Meeting at Flasher.

Flasher, N. D., May 27.-(Spe-
cial. .)-In spite of desperate efforts
upon the part of League organizers
to cripple the Hall-Kositzky meeting
here it proved an unusual success,
and the League secretary of state
and state a uditors discussed issues
growing out of the last legislative
session before an audience of more
than 125 people of whom more than
GO per cent were prominent League
farmers Friends of the speakers be-
fore the meeting openly warned them
field to discredit Hall and kositzky
had stirred farmers up to such an eX-
tent that trouble might be feared.
Nothing of the kind occurred, and
the speakers, atlho each spoke for
more than an hour, received the best
Of attention, and the only Interrupt
tions that occurred came from APP
preciative and prolonged applause.
Secretary of State Hall declared
that he was one of the first of the
present state officers to affiliate with
the League; that he still stood for
the League and it's platform, and that
he refused to be read out of the or
ganization by Townley or any other
dictator. He showed how far the Lea
que under the domination OF Town.
ley, Mills, LeSueur and other social
lists had been perverted from its orig
inal program; he gave long record
of violated pledges and unredeemed
promises, and insisted that the time
had come when the farmers must
act to save the splendid organization
which they had built up and to
achieve the results which they set
out to accomplish.
Kositzky discussed tax matters in
a matter-of-fact and Ineligible way
which the audience warmly appre..
ciated. Being in the balliwick OF
Senator Cahill, now on speaking
tour with Townley, Kositzky made 1t
point to show up Cahill's legislative
record. He recalled the fact that
Cahill had campaigned and won
votes a year ago on promise OF low
er interest rates for the farmers,
and he told the Leaguers present how
Cahill as member of the banking
committee OF. the last senate had vot-
| ed against Senate Bill II, which
would have reduced the legal rate OF
interest from ten to eight per cent.
Altho the meeting did not close
until after IL O'Clock, League far
mers who filled the hall when gath
cred around the speakers and fired at
them a series of pertinent questions,
which Hall and Kositzky answered
to their complete satisfaction. The
meeting was harmonious and help
full thruout, and to many of the Lea
guers present it brot their first i'm
preston of the league legislature OF
last assembly and of what Town1ey is
attempting to do. The farmers were
astounded by some of the revelations
made by Kositzky in relation to tax
measures, and they thanked him for
opening their eyes.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-05-29
FARGO OFFICER HOLDS
DISCHARGE RECORD

Fargo, n. D., May 2S.-Maj. F. E.
Redman, formerly Of Fargo. and
who was resident Of Mott, N. D.,
when he enlisted in the medical corps
in September, 1917. has arrived in
Fargo, after establishing a three
hour discharge record, probably the
speediest discharge on record. Ar
irving in New York. Major Redman
received tclegraphs informing him Of
the critical illness Of his father, N. L..
Redman, 1920 Third avenue south,
and he was given immediate dis
charge when he advised officials OF
the situation, being out Of the army
three hours after landing in New
York.
Major Redmond was assigned to
the Seventh engineers, Fifth division.
a particularly active unit which has
to it's credit the winning Of 30 of the
d. S. C.'s awarded, and Of which ESQ
all told were awarded to engineers
in the service.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-05-29
BURGLARS PREFER
LIQUID CONTENTS
SALOON TO MONEY

Minneapolis, May 2S.-With the
approach of July, 1, burglars are CIV
ing as much attention to the LIQUID
contents of saloons as they are to the
cash, the police remarked as they
heard the report of Dan Moriarity,
proprietor of the Rathskiller bar, Sl5
Marquette avenue. Burglars entered
his place through the basement and
carried away five cases of whiskey,
worth $125, and $40 from the regis
ter. They got away by the back
door.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-05-29
IgTlldATlok OF
GERMAN COUNTER
PROPOSALSGIVEN
Hun. Offer. 70 Disarm Battle
ship. i Part Of Merchant
Fleet Is Restored.
(By the Associated Press)

Berlin, May, n.-Germany's coun-
ter-proposals to the terms of the
peace treaty presented to her pleni-
potentiaries at Versailles include the
following points, according to an un-
official report available today:
Germany offers to disarm all of
her battleships on condition that a
part of her mercantile feet be restor-
ed to her. She proposes that there
be no territorial changes without con-
sent of the people affected.
The people of upper Silesia and
claims to East Prussia, West Prus-
sia and Nemel are emphatically re-
jected.
It is stipulated that Danzig shall
become a free port and the river Wis
tula neutralized.
Occupied territory is to: be evacuat-
ed within six months if the League
of Nations isSestablished with Ger
many as member. .....
Germany to administer her colon
les. %..-
Germany offers to pay twenty bill
lion marks in gold by the year 1926
as indemnity and to make ten pay
ments from 1917 to a total not in ex-
cess of one hundred billion in gold.
It is expected today that the coun-
ter-proposals will be officially made
known on Wednesday.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-05-29
hlINOT UNDERWRITERS
co. TOBE PLACED IN
HANDS OF A RECEIVER

Minot, D., May 24:-(Special. y
On findings of the North Dakota blue
sky commission to the effect that the
makers and grantors of the Minot
Underwriters Co. were insolvent;
that their plan of business was fraud
ulent and dishonest; that the appli-
cants' literature and d~advertising was
misleading and calculated to deceive
the investor: and that the Miuot I'm
derwriters' Co. was merely scheme
to get rich quick at the expense *
the investing public, Assistant Attor-
ney General Albert E. Sheets, Jr.,
representing Attorney General La1-
ger, today made application in dis
trict court for the appointment of a
receiver and the winding up of the
affairs of the Minot Underwriters
Co.
The Minot Underwriters Co. is
domestic incorporation organized for
the sale of insurance. bonds, de-
bentures, securities, ETC., in the state
of North Dakota, cor in any state o.
the union or IN any TART cf ~
world" 1t is charged with having
disposed of $4,000 worth Of stock
on the basis of assets of approximate
ly $500.
Prominent fnanc;eTs G. the north
western part of the state who are
associated with the company are OF
ton Bengston, its president; p. J.
Saucr, vice president; NJ. II. Power,
secretary, ana +. i. Ash, treasurer.
The alleged "get rich quick scheme
was organized March 8, 1916, and
was brought before the bar of the
North Dakota blue sky commission
March ! 7 of this year. The blue sky
commission declined to admit the
company's stock to sale in this state,
and on the basis Of its findings At
torney General LANCER instituted to-
days action for the appointment of
a receiver and the dissolution of the
company.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-05-29
NO PENALTY ATTACHED
TO BILL PROHIBITING
USE OF HUNTING DOGS

Bismarck, N. D., May 26.-(Spe-
cial. 1.-The fact that while the act
of the last assembly abolishing the
use of hunting dogs contains no pun
tive clause generally is impressing
itself upon the minds of hunters, who
had begun to look forward to a sea-
son of shooting deprived Of the com
panionship and aid of good dog.
The act provides that mo person
shall hunt, pursue, catch, take or
kill deer, antelope, moose or elk
with any dog or dogs" and that no
person shall train or run any dog or
dogs owned or controlled by them
known as bird dogs, including poin:-
ers, settlers or droppers, or allow
same to run loose in fields or upon
land in which game birds may be
found or are apt to be frequented by
game birds between the first of April
and the first day of November (bo:h
inclusive), following of each year
Whereupon the act ambles of
about other business. Nothing II
said of any penalty. The most i
magistrate could do, were one con-
victed of violating this statute, de-
clare sportsmen, would be to say
Naughty! Naughty" For which
reason some of them are thinking Of
taking chance. A bitter fight was
made for and against the anti-dog
law in the last session. A large ma
jority of the farmer members want
ed the use of dogs abolished. Sports
men generally insisted that they be
retained, asserting that the days bag
limit was sufficient protection for
game birds. After the law had fin
ally passed it was recalled once or
twice in an effort to amend or defeat
it. In some Of these maneuvers some
wiley legislator shipped off the penal
ty clause, or else the original authors
of the bill neglected to note its omis-
sion.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-05-29
CAPITAL HILL NOW IN
EXCELLENT CONDITION

Work on the Capital hill has been
completed by Contractor Al Jackson
and the much used approach to the
city is now in excellent condition.
Gravel has been spread over the sur
face of the new hill road.
The new road is "a feet wide, Civ
ing automobilists and others an ex-
cellent highway. Construction Of a
new Capital hill roadway was auth
orized by the city council at their
March session.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-05-29
WHEN THE BOYS
COME HOME

New York. May 28.-Twenty-
seven officers and 1,205 men of the
349th Infantry, 8sth division, Min
nesota, Iowa, Nebraska, North and
South Dakota, arrived here today on
the transport Henry r. Mallory. They
composed the staff Of the first bat
talon headquarters, medical detach-
ments. the headquarters supply and
machine gun battalion, Companies A,
B. G. and under orders for Camps
Dodge, Grant. Funston, D. A. Rus
sell,and Taylor.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-05-29
Flight Very Successful.

Washington, May 2S.-Blazing the
way of the first air trail from the
western to the eastern hemisphere,
the United States navy seaplane NC4.
under Lieut.. Commander Albert
Cushing Read, swept into the harbor
at Lisbon, Portugal, yesterday, the
first airship of any kind to have
crossed the Atlantic ocean under it's
own power and thru its natural ele-
ments. Lisbon was reached at 4:01
p. m. washington time).
Taking the air at Ponta Delgada,
Azores, at 6:18 a. M, Washington
time, on the last leg Of the trans
oceanic portion of the voyage from
Rockaway Beach,. Long Island, to
Plymouth, England, the NC4 covered
the 800 miles in nine hours and 43
minutes, maintaining an average
speed Of better than 80 knots an
hour. The total elapsed flying time
from Newfoundland to Lisbon was
26 hours and Al minutes.
May Start Today.
At the first opportunity the big
plane will continue to Plymouth, IT'S
nautical miles to. the north. Posi-
bly, Commander Read can start to-
day. The great object of all the
effort lavished on the undertaking 3
navigation Of a seap1ane across the
Atlantic thru the air-has been &C.
complished. Twentieth century
transportation has reached new
pinnacle and the United States navy
has led the way.
Naval officials emphasized that the
long delay at the Azores was due tc
the weather and to no weakness OF
the machine or it's daring crew, mol
to any failure of the carefully laid
plans of the department to guide the
flyers to their destination. The IA
destroyers strung from Ponta Del.
gada to Lisbon reported with ma,
chinelike precision today as the flight
progressed. The plane was never of
its course, and there was no moment
when officials in Washington did not
know within few miles where II
was in the air.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-05-29
GERMANY READY TO
RESUME INDUSTRY
(By the associated Press,

n S,sS I, $50 "
Milan, May 27.1mmense guam
titles Of German products are stored
In warehouses at Chiasso, on the
frontier between Italy and switzer-
land, and it Is proposed by Germany
to renew Immediately her CONNER
cial relations with Italy, according to
Ulysses Bywater, Of the United
States chamber Of commerce.
There are thousands Of bicycles
fGerman manufacture ready to food
the market" Mr.. Bywater told the
Associated Press today.
There also, are carloads Of chem
icals and dyes which have already
been .offered Italian merchants at ex-
tremely low prices.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-05-29
EXPLOSION REPORTS
DENIED BY WIRELESS
tBy. tie Associated Press)

London, May 28.-A Russian wire
less message denies the report that
explosions had occurred in Petrograd
due to its approaching evacuation.
The dispatch declares there is no in
tention of abandoning the city and
that re-enforcements were already
sent to the Gatchine front south Of
Petrograd and are succeeding in driv-
ing back the enemy.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-05-29
ATLANTIC OCEAN
CROSSED BY u. S.
NAVAL SEAPLANE
Crew Of NC4 Decorated With
Distinguished Medal, Lisbon
Message Announces.

LonGon, May 2S.-The crew
of the American seaplane NC4,
which made. the first trans-At-
lantic trip has been decorated
with the grand cross of the Or
der of Tower and Sword, says a
message to the wireless press
from Lisbon. The decoration
was presented by the Portuguese
foreign minister.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-05-29
ESTHONIAN TROOPS
ENTER PETROGRAD
{ey II. assoc.ated Press)

New York, May 28.-The Esthon-
ian troops are entering Petrograd,
not as "an act of conquest" but for
humanity, justice, and bring about inn
mediate relief for suffering popula-
tions, according to a statement issued
here today at the request of the Es-
thonian headquarters at Reyel.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-05-29
CAPTAIN FRYATT'S BODY
TO BE BURIED IN ENGLAND

London, May 28.-The body Of
Captain Charles Fryatt, the Brit
ish merchant officer executed by
the Germans in 1916, will be-
brought to England and be given
burial similar to that of Miss 4
Edith Cavell. This was announc-
ed in the house of commons by
Andrew Bonar Law, government
spokesman.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-05-29

& KING ALBERT, BELGIUM,
WILL VISIT WASHINGTON
Paris, May. 8.King Albert
i Of Belgium is expected to visit
Washington to attend the initial
meeting Of the League Of Nations
next October.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-05-29
WOMEN CANNOT Vote ON
EDUCATIONAL BILL AT
REFERENDUM ELECTION

3 8 &c magistrates and city justices
d 2 he peace, and on all questions or
= positions submitted to the votes
8 he electors Of such municipalities
s other political divisions of this
10 .e. ,.s ,4.sS.g
g In the case of Spatchen vs..
z feil, the supreme court Of North
xota held that by the provisions
Sec. 1870 of the constitution, the
legislature was authorized to pre-
scribe the qualifications Of electors
in municipal elections, and for GER
tain municipal officers designated in
the. act just mentioned, but the court
no opinion as to the other
provisions of the act; and this de-
cision would certainly be no author
ity~ for the proposition that women
might vote upon laws referred to
the people,"
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-05-29
Spread of Strike Feared.

0pECS1SA vi EoGlfhO ASAASus
Winnipeg, May 28.-Efforts Of
leaders of the general strike move
ment in Winnipeg to enlist sympa-
thy from unions in other cities was
the outstanding development in the
local situation this morning. Ernest
Robinson, secretary of the Trades and
Labor council, said communications
have been received from unions
throughout Canada and at least one
important union in Great Britain.
Federal government officials who
have denounced the strike leaders as
revolutionists said they were not
alarmed at the efforts of the local
leaders to obtain sympathetic support
in trying to fix their maximum de-
mands upon the city and the domin-
ion.
Officials in touch with the situa-
ton here today said that they con-
sidered tho refusal of several unions
in Calgary to join the strike as an
indication that opinion there is di-
vided regarding the Winnipeg trou-
BILE since the results of government
investigation here were announced.
G.. Robertson, federal minister
formally announced today that the
government will take the same atti-
tude toward the railway clerks, who
struck last night, as it did to the local
employees. They must report for
duty within short time or stand
permanently dismissed from the fed
eral service, said Senator Robertson.
The time limit will be announced
later.
Soldiers Cooperate.
Returned soldiers in pleasing num-
ters' are cooperating with the fed
eral government to reorganize it's
postal service in the Winnipeg dis
trict, it was announced at the post
office at noon today. A number of
men who have been sworn into the
federal service to replace employees
who deserted their posts are men who
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-05-29
TORONTO WORKERS
THREATEN STRIKE:
FEAR i BIG TlE-UP
Winnipeg Union Leaders En-:
list Aid Of Laborers in Other
Canadian Cities.
(By the Associated Press)

Winnipeg, May 2S. - Ernest
Robinson, secretary of the Trades
and Labor council, stated this
morning that he had received the
following message from Toronto:
winnipeg, hold fast. General
strike called here 10 a. m. We'd
nesday to support the metal
trades"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-07-05
TEACHING AND OTHER TRADES.

That school teachers undeTpaid is old
story grown tiresome from repetition. But here
up-to-d facts submitted by the National
Educational association, which give the subject
freshness interest.
Teaching salaries have really been risng-rhey
have risen. in the three years from 1917 to 1918,
from an average stipend OF s543 to $3.50. Let
taxpayer however. plume himself unduly this
sIct. The advance only meets about one-seventh Of
the current advance III living expenses. 'caving .he
teacher far worse off than before
The striking thing in the report is a
raTson of the teachers pay with that OF other
equations The poorest abroad worker. the
ton hand gets twice much IS tho teacher
Skilled railroad get and six times much
Most hod carriers get so to 100 peeceE' more than
hers Bakers. carpenters md glazie-s get twice
a. much. Backsmiths. mac',inists latcrs and wire
r,en get two and One-half times as much Plumbers
bricklayers and structural iron WORKERS get three
times much
The ordinary shipyard worker is paid S1,411 4
year. the teachers $500 surely work
less important and difficult than hs-she is shaG-
ing the material that goes the making
supreme product the ship OF state.
And yet. in every community in the land. there
still taxpayers who kick whenever anyone sug-
gests raising the teachers pay.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-07-05
Other Editors Than Ours
IRELAND " EVERYTHING.
Detroit saturday Night.)

American friends OF Irish Freedom. who most
~ Catholics oppose the league of nations
because it will help Great Britain and will not help
ireland
Pope Benedict head of the Roman Catholic
church, endorses the league OF nations because 1t
will help everybody TO keep the peace.
Sherman opposes the league of nations be
cause he thinks ii will help the pope TO regain his
temporal power and augment Roman Catholic
influence throughout the world
The A. p. A. is expected to oppose the league of
nations because the pope endorses ii.
Cardinal Lodge and his colleagues in the Irish
hierarchy demand self government for Ireland
without saying specifically how far "self-govern-
ment' should go, though they thank CONGRESS for
asking for a hearing for the irish republic at the
Paris peace conference.
Sir Edward Carson the Ulster orange leader, says
the action of congress indecent.
Among the gentlemen who welcomed De Valera,
the chief the Irish republic" in New York
Judge Cohalan. whom Prest Wilson refused
recently. and the lawyer who defended Jeremiah
OLeary, branded by Prest Wilson in the 1915 cam
paign : a disloyal American.
Certainly Ireland ought to he satisfied with the at
ention that Irish issues, religious and otherwise
receiving N American politics A. any rate
she must be patient. L IS quite possible that Amer
lea may yet want get word into American poll
tics. edgeways II were. about her interests
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-07-05
THE NEW GERMANY.
CDctroIt saturday Night.l

Now and henceforth there is hope for Germany.
Her military power is broken. The dream OF world
conquest has vanished. She begins understand
that the held. All the official lies of
all the kaserites cannot always hide that great fact
She inoWs instance that when her general staff
announced there less than 100000 Yanks in
France n May " last year there were good mil
lion and she knows also whether the .Yanks
nigh. not
But ire devil militars- IS easily exercised.
True democracy does not come IN day. month.
or year. There remains in Germany the old spirit
turbulence. nc old theory OF honor that the
world knows something else Witness the sinking
o the surrendered German fleet Scapa Flow. II
anything age led 10 justify the dictatioH OF a
peace that left nothing to German honor that was
the trick that
That treaty necessary, not only 10 secure
modicum OF reparation for Germany's victims but
teach the German people the truth about them
selves and 10 show them way of life II the
Germans > Intelligent the world always
thought them. they will learn, BY renewed inter
course with the outside world they them
selves others them; and by painful ntrospec-
ton they viii take the lesson home.
Pacinsts call it peace Of force. not justice The
pacihsts wrong. usual. II is both. To talk OF
justice for the Hun without force TO talk Of
tigiOn with God left out. The Germany OF the Hob
enzOlerns is dead Ions live the Germany OF Goethe
and Schiller and Kant
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-07-05
REvlVINC THE TRADE SCOUT.

With the re-entrance OF the United States into
the world arena as a maritime power. old fea-
ture OF IL being revived. long since dis
carded is the supercargo-and the most of US
never heard OF II before so what is It?
The supercargo used TO be a passenger every
trip Of the ancient merchantmen trusted. dignifed
individual who represented the shippers and whose
duty was the supervision OF the cargoes and
back Then foe time this service considered
unnecessary and the supercargo vanished along
with other institutions traditions of old sailing
days
Now the office has been revived by the United
States shipping board corps OF carefully selected
has been chosen whose duty it is not only TO
supervise the cargo on shpboard, but to report on
harbor and dock facilities in whatever port they
make The the people. their habits of life
and their commercial desires also carefully noted
and reported. so that American exporters may have
the advantage OF all this information
If the United States wants to buid up great
foreign trade she must send abroad what foreign
customers want and the supercargo is invaluable
as barometer of trade possibilities Some $50 train
q working in this field. and foreign
trade opens up there will be opening for That
private enterprise will follow the steps the ship
ping board there is little question. and the trade
scout may become famous in his modern way
the path finders and scouts of pioneer days.