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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-31

this country, but that it is cleaned
to better advantage by machines.
Larger proportions of sisal, there
fore, are being planted. A second
introduction OF a haIf-million sisal
plants from Hawaii has been Sc
cured. The use of machines for
cleaning the fiber will permit the
planting of sisal over large areas
suited to its growth away from the
coast The work is now started
under most favorable conditions for
the development of sisal prOduc-
ton on a large scale in the Philip
pines.
Work on the development of i'm
proved strains of sisal and hene-
quen by methods Of selection is be-
ing continued on an increasing
scale in Porto Rico. Trial plant
ings of sisal and henequen have
been made in the dry lands near
Quebradillas, in northwestern Porto
Rico. and also on Mona island,
where several thousand acres of
unused land are apparently adapt
ed to the production of these fiber
crops. Propagating stock of these
plants has also been furnished for
experimental planting in Central
and South America, with the hope
of developing new centers of pro-
duction that may become available
as the increasing demand for bin
der-twine fiber exceeds the supplies
from Yucatan.
The selection of hemp for secur-
ing and maintaining improved
strains is being continued and
seeds of the strains that have been
demonstrated to be of superior
value are sent to growers who raise
the seed commercially. This method
has been followed during the last
five years, so that most of the hemp
now grown in this country consists
of these improved strains.
One of the most promising recent
introductionS is the Tochigi variety
from Japan. A plat of this variety
grown at st. Joseph, Mo, in 1917
gave an excellent yield of seed, es-
pecially on loess soil, and this seed
was of good quality and high ger
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-31

Ii of this merchandise must be closed out at
"A room for the spring arrivals. We you
exceptional savings every selection. In this limited spa
have only mention few of the atracti
items selected at random from great stocks but you
be that you will find the article you desire priced at
saving, whatever it may be.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-31

of South America in which It alone
IS, by INSTRUMENTATION agree
ment. responsible for spreading
Christian civilization.
The medical board OF the church
is going 10 send a hospital expert
TO tour Argentina, Uruguay, Chile,
Bolivia and Peru TO study the needs
Of the field and the conditions
which now prevail there. Miss
Charlotte A. Aikens. No. 80 Park
hurst place, Detroit. formerly a
hospital superintendent but for tho
last 10 years an editor and writer
Of text books on hospitals and
nurses training and editor OF the
Trained Nurse and Hospital Re
view, was selected by the board TO
make the survey. She has just
sailed from New York for Buenos
Aires for a four or five months
trip.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-31

NEVER there better opportunity to start
furnishing your home than during
February furniture sale. All our home outfits
enter this sale at special prices and you may
choose here from the broadcast range and the
most magnificent stocks in the city. If you
choose your furniture at this store which
has always enjoyed reputation for quality fur
niture, you will always be proud of its distinctive
beauty AM appearance.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-31
CHRISTIE SOON DONE,

Milwaukee.-The ring days Of
Gus Christie, a veteran Milwaukee
middleweight, are nearing an end
Christie probably will be obliged to
retire because of failing eyesight.
He managed to hold on to his ring
earnings, however, and is reported
to be in comfortable circumstances
One-third off all mems, women's
and children's winter underwear,
all this week at McCabcs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-31
Quinine That Does Not Affect Head

Because of its tonic and laxative
effect. LAXATIVE BROMO QUIN-
me CTablets) can be taken by
anyone without causing nervous
ness or ringing in the head There
is only one "BrOmo Quinine." +. w
GROVES signature on The box.
30c-(AdVD
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-31

One-third Off all mems. womcn's
ana children's winter underwear.
all this week at McCabe's
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-31

MANY home has been quick to take advantage of the
1 values February clearance sale and the furniture that
is needed may be purchased at bedrock prices All of
surplus stock discontinued and odds and ends in all
departments included in this great sale at remarkable
ings Prices have been reduced hand and
you o take immediate advantage of the saving.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-31
Dining Room Suites Priced at Real Saw

Included in this group Of odd
suites are some OF the finest
period suites we have ever had,
such as william and Mary
Queen Anne, Colonial and other
popular period STYLES. They
come in mahogany, American
walnut and oak and are priced
at a saving OF POO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-31

L ItAN r gone through our
" entire stock OF dining
room suites and chosen the pat
terms which have been discon-
tinued by the manufa cturers
and have marked them at new
and lower prices to clear them
away for the new spring goods.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-02-25
FARGO COOLEST
SPOT IN STATE
MONDAY NIGHT
Mercury Goes Down to rs Below
at Gate City-Warmer Here .
Today-Storm Coming
FRIGID WAVE is GENERAL

Fargo on Monday evening enjoyed
the distinction of being the coolest
spot in North Dakota. with temper
ature of 26 below. Bismarck was
comparatively warm, with but "a, be
low, and twas even milder at Willis
ton, wher ethe mercury stopped at 20.
For real chilly weather one would
have been forced to journey all the
way to Edmonton or Prince Albert.
each Of which cities reported 80 be-
low ~
Bismarck was fortunate in having
practically no wind with its second
cold snap of the winter. Only once
before this year, December 81, has
the thermometer. registered as little
at 20 below in the capital city. At I
a. m. tae mercury had climbed to IS
below, and at noon it was but 10 be-
low. A wind velocity Of "a miles was
attained during the morning, however,
making pedestrians quite sensible to
the frigidity. o.
The cold wave is general over the
Missouri and Mississippi valleys,
with temperatures near zero or be.
low as far south as Iowa, and running
down to SO below in the Canadian
northwest. Unsettled weather is due
within the next few hours. and it
probably will be followed by rising
temperatures.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-02-25

Buying the majority stock the American National bank Of
Valley City $l62000 and unloading farmereague stock
holders of the American Exchange State bank profit Of
$1,000 part of the $3OO0 capital and surplus of this
nstituon;
Buying in the banking building of the American National
at 1000 and passing league friends at $69O0O;
Using they might fit the 81 100000 worth of assets
by the certificates paid for by Consumers United
Store Co. patrons who this great jackpot which
they have built and voice in directing its expenditure
Putting cashiers of league banks unbonded league
poyes who promptly make off with $3 Of the banks deposits
Accepting another league employees for $4,000 worth
the organizations assets which he appropriated to himself and
Then calmly informing the Of North Dakota and
OF state and the attorney general members of the
state banking board that profits resulting from these
of the the
put up all of this money
These sdeights the investigation the
purchase of the American National bank Of Valley City,
ganzon Of the American Exchange State bank and conso
daonof the two by John Hastings working he Informed the
banking board under the direction Arthur Toney president
of the National Nonparsan league and at all times with
cognzance approval Of ToWney others those ho
would principally benefit from the transaction"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-02-25
EU R0PE + HAS
CHANGED VIEWS
SAYS WILSON
No Longer Suspects Motives Of
United States. He
Declares a
TRUSTED BY THE WORLD

Boston, Feb 25.-The President
began his speech at Mechanics hall
at 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon by
asking the audience if they under
stood he was as glad to see them as
they were to see him and went on to
express his appreciation of his re-
ception.
His reception in Europe, he con-
sidered as not a tribute to himself
but to America. He regarded it as
welcome the friends of liberty
coming across the sea to see that a
new world was to be encoraedtcsnO
new world was to be consecrated on
the basis of justice and right.
The greatest thing have to report
to you he said, is that this great
country Of ours is trusted throughout
the world. have not come to re-
port on the progress Of the peace.
That would he premature
"The men who are in conference in
Paris realize they are not masters OF
their people but servants of their
people and that no man will dare 80
home from that conference and re-
port anything less than is expected.
Speaking of the. slow progress OF
the conference, the. president re
minded his audience Of the complex
ity of the problems affecting nearly
every country. In the world.
What We are doing" he said, is
Continued ON Page Thrss.l
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-02-25
NURSES BILL
KICKS UP SOME
ROW IN SENATE
League Members Exchange
Compliments Over Religious
Features of Measure
ADJOURNMENT BY FRIDAY
Does Not Seem Probable Session
Can Finish Work Before
J Last of Week, Now

Monday was a quiet day in both
houses, In one sense. There was con-
siderable atlOO in the senate over 5. Il.
2O4, the Sunday baseball bill, which
passed. % to 90, and over the nurses
registration board bill, which was dc.
feated, 81 to 1G, with two absent, but
there was little or no debate over the
one big bill of the day, house bill 5G.
creating wOrkmen's compensation
commission for the adjudication OF
damage claims resulting from personal
injuries sustained in industry. This
measure passed the upper house al
most unanimously, and with a very
slight amendment.
In the house Del Patterson of Donny
brook and J. F. r. O'Connor of Grand
Forks locked horns over Patterson's
motion to reconsider the vote by which
the house concurred in the senate
amendments to house bill ~, giving the
railway commission more complete
control over public utilities. Patter-
son declared that O'Connor couldn't
tell him anything, to which PROPOSE
ton the gentleman from Grand Forks
agreed, and also that he O'COnnOr,
couldn't put a hole over him, Patter-
son. which O'Connor also agreed to be
physically impossible But the house
$rcconsidered, at. that. \
/. Senate bin 134, creating an admin
istrati0n board to manage the prisons
and insane asylpms and reform schools
and to plan courses Of study for the
little chaps in the kinAcrgsa rten and
the first grade and on lll,Fto the big
ger chaps and chappescs in the col
leges and university, and to buy paper
towels Tor; the state hONse, and look
after the young folks in the state re
form school and the IDIOTS in the state
institution for the feeble minded and
Dr. Ladd mt Fargo and the. deaf and
dumb and the halt and the blind, and
all that. went back to state affairs
committee Monday on recommendation
Of Senator Bowman. 1t is expected to
como out again this afternoon.
House bill 66. which would make
the state very boneS dry by prohibit
ing not only the possession but the
ability to produce. manufacture or 9TH
eywise procure intoxicants. was re-
ferred to the committee on state at
Continued on Page Eight.)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-02-25

Their effect, however. for passing a
few moments later, we found that the
two children had been removed to Il
room with another family, almost
equally miserable. Some one had Civ
en- a large, dry, piece OF bread to the
crying child, and he was devouring it
with every appearance of extreme ell
joyment.
These were Albanian refugees from
the village Of Ell Rasan. The inhab-
itants had been transported TO north
ern Siberia and now were finding their
way back on foot, some hundreds OF
miles. Na
Leskovatz is quite like all the other
Serbian towns along the main high
way. =,
At 8 o'clock in the morning we were
at the open square in the center OF
one village A large group of women.
children and old men, with an extra
ordinarily picturesque collection OF
bags and bundles, were sitting on the
curb or loaded into English trucks that
otherwise would be returning empty to
the next station toward the south.
They were refugees from Greek
Macedonia, from the neighborhood of
the destroyed city Of Seres. q They
had been sent by the Bulgarians into
northern Serbia. %..,,z. rsa .-...,
The Tommics. little reluctant
because. in truth, the refugees were
not very clean-wcre loading them and
their bundles into the trucks.
Other groups Of refugees occupied
what had been shops. the whole front
sides open to the street.
Their faces were thin and pinched.
They were dressed in rags. Even the
women were dressed in coarse burlap
and other packing material roughly
stitched together with strings.
1t was late December. but they were
ha refoot. sittr- about on the damp
dirt floor, in little groups, around tiny
fires made Of a few twigs.
They were Aibanians caught in the
swirl of the war. their village de
stroycd. sent fro mnear the Adriatfc to
northern Serbia, where they had been
working for the enemy on the Ser
bian farms gNIost of them looked as
though they could not hold e,t much
longer and FL Basan, their home, waS
still $50 miles distant.
A funeral procession pai,e1 alorg
the street. The body, wrapleN in
Goa rse cloth. was on an OK cart AND
four or five men in rags We're follow
ing it..
We. passed into what Aasl been n
hospital. Here. were several hundred
Serbian refugees originally from the
region Of Monastir. The building Lad
stone floors. Tiny fires had been light
ed by different groups. The rooms
were full of smoke.
Two Of the men. who had lived in
Philadelphia, spoke Ehelish well. and
told us the story of the group. They
had been six days at Leskovatz, hop
ing to secure some kind at Transports
tion toward their destination. A good
many were. sick. and there were many
deaths.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-02-25
CHINA SETS
FORTH DATA
ON JAP PACT

Pekin, Feb. 25.-The; foreign office
has dispatched statement to the
conference. at Paris numerating the
Chino Japanese agreement, Japan's 81
demands and the Chino-Japanese mill
tary convention. These comprise all
the secret agreements between China
and Japan. the statement says,
with regard to the Chino o-Japanese
agreement. you took away with you
papers from the foreign office relat-
ing to all the Japanese demands and
the Chino Japanese military covenant.
The draft of the agreement for the
aMnchurian railway loan:, the draft of
the agreement for the Fuchowfu ana
Tsinin-Shuntufu railway loan; the
notes exchanged regarded the cooper
ative working on the Kiochow rail-
way" Besides these there are no 9th
er private agreements or secret under
standings of any kind reads the mes
sage
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-02-25
DEAD HORSES STRIPPED Of
FLESH TO FEED The STARVING
POPULATION IN MOSCOW CITY

Warsaw, Feb. 25.-Forty pounds of
wheat flour is being sold at Moscow
at eighty rubles, Sugar bring CORES
pOndingly high prices and either COM
modify is hard to get.
Starving horses who fall dead on
the streets are stripped hare of flesh
before they are cold. A trader must
offer clothing in order to get food.
Money and other valuables have no
attraction. Food is stolen while
priceless jewels are left untouched.
Women who had their clothes taken
were not robbed of a valuable pearl
necklace.
Wooden houses have been torn down
in the suburbs to furnish fuel. IN
many instances beautiful furniture is
used as fuel.
Despite all this thunder and squalor
Leon Trotsky is. very fastidious about
his person. He employs lady mani
curist and frequents the beauty par
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-02-25
Priests H!ousekeeper 7
Under Arrest in Probe
to Solve Nuns Death

Z ManiStec, Mich. Feb. 25.--Officers
from Leenau county last night took
into, custody Miss Lypchinski on Il
charge Of murder in connection with
the disappearance II years ago Of SIS
ter Mary, a former inmate Of a con-
vent at Isadore, near Traverse City.
The pastor, Father Bienowske, at
Isadorc. will he questioned. Mrs. Lyp-
chinski, who was housekeeper for
Father Bienowske at lsadore and came
here with him few years ago in the
sames capacity, was arrested after the
officers had spent an entire afternoon
in questioning them. Both the woman
and the priest denied any knowledge Of
the affair. 4.
They also denied any knowledge Of
the fact that Sister Mary was buried
beneath the church altar and whose
body was recently exhumed. They
said that all they knew was that Sis
ter Mary was supposed to have disap-
peared one day while out walking.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-02-25

lors. Nicola Lenine is the only other
prominent Bolshevik leaders wao
leads an austere life
1t is related that one day when his
automobile became stlled in the snow
that fellow Bolsheyiks, foot-pads by
profession ran cut and store his
chauffeur's ! fur coat. They were
about to strip Lenine of his fur gar
ment when the Bolshevik protested
telling them who he was.
We'll them they said. "since we
are all comrades you won't object"
and they made off.
Typhus is prevalent and vodka sub
stitutes have undermined the health
Of the nation. Kerosene and benzine
are comomn drinks and the soldiers
demand liquor first of all and are
rarely sober.
Death hdte xbecome so frequent
that the undertaking business is a
state monopoly. a
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-02-25
BABIES STARYE BESIDE DEAD Z.
=M0THERS;;< NOBODY CARES-lT
+ !. E: is THE WAY WITH REFUGEES

BY LIEUT.. COL. HOMER FOLKS.
Americanj Red Cross Investigator. as
signed by n. +. A. to write Of condi-
{ tions in the Balkans: i"
Belgrade, Fen. oo5.-A child's cry,
r1ournful. insistent, penetrating, at
tracted members Of the Red Cross sur
yey mission to one story shack in
Leskovatz. r." -. .. .
The child, perhaps three years old,
was lying amid filth on the dirt floor.
Through an interpreter we asked Il
bystander what was the matter with
the child. +. .,..-,.,.. ..,...4as .rs 4.
Its mother Is dead She is i'm
there" he said. On the dirt floor was
the, body of woman sewn up in
coarse rags and packing. She had
been dead two years. d..
We asked if there were any other
children. Fl IS
Yes, there are one Or two; more.
We don't know whether they are dead
or sleeping Another bundle of rags
began to stir and tiny hand crept
out. feeling about in a weak. uncer-
tain, trembling fashion. The arm was
bare 10 the elbows. 1t was literally
skin and bones ,and1 covered with re-
pulsive sores. IT. ... l... e.
who is looking after the children.
we asked. fs}, .s..-. ..r.s,..
mo one" was the reply.
We said that it was not necessary
to let the children die because the
mother was dead. III D.
The bystanders shrugged their shoul-
ders and said something to the effect
that that was the way with these peo-
pie. H.,
Our inquiries, and, observations had
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-02-25
aRAkED GUT $4,000.
Ranking friends of z

BiHKluH lTlci"S .oL' IiohiotC'
Hastings insist that Ills net rake
OH the Valley iGity banking deal
was little more than $20.0JO which
represented his 10 per cent com
mission on the sale of $2D.OW
worth Of capital stock. They in
sist that he returned the $4,000
commission made from the ,.pur-
chase of majority stock at one fig
urc and its sale to the bank at an
other, and that the difference in
price at, which the bank building
was turned in to the new bank
does not represent a profit for the
promoter. The building was car
ried on the books Of the American
National at $42, 900 and was turned
in to the American Exchange bank
at q figure sranging according to
VARYING estimates from $62,O 900 to
$4,000. Thomas Allan Box, Hast
ings' colleague. was in on the deal
with him. it is said, although he
does not appear to have been hailed
before the banking board for an
explanation Of his participation in
the promotion.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-02-25
To Cost Over Billion
For Is II ears to
Pay OFF War Debt

Washington, D. c., Feb: 25.-It will
cpat the American people one billion
two hundred million for the next 25
years to pay on the war debt.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-02-25
NORTHWEST BOYS
TO LEAVE FOR,
HON E SOON

Des Moines, Ia Feb. 25.-The ssta
division, which is to return in May,
was trained at Dodge and is made up
Of men from Iowa., Minnesota, North
Dakota and Illinois.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-02-25
COLD A4souLurA.

Duluth, Feb. 25.-With the shop
windows full of spring hats and OK
foris, the street thermometers show
ed IS below as against twenty above
yesterday. At p. m. the north wind
was blowing twenty miles an hour.
The storm. however, was reported as
local
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-02-25
PROFIT MADE ON VALLEY CITY
BANK DEAL NONE OF FARMERS
DAMN BUSINESS, SAYS HASTINGS
AGENT OF T0WNLEY CHARGED
WITH REALIZING $47,000.00.
FOR SELF AND MASTER C0CKY

Admits That President Olson Is His Activ
Were Directed by Big Chief Others Who
cpa National Bought After Loans
WereSh Off Lemke Was Attorney Against
President. 's., T.
The sun., 1919-02-28
Campbell Gains Three.

The nominating speeches disclosed
three unexpected accessions to the
strength Of Representative Campbell.
Representative Ellsworth (Minn.). who
was counted upon to support Repre-
sentative Gillett. made the speech sec
onding the nomination Of Campbell and
Representatives Vale fCol), and Sweet
Gowa). both hitherto put in the Mann
column. switched over to the Campbell
supporters.
The speech made by Representative
Elston (Cal). seconding the nomination
OF Gillett for the Speakership was indie
alive OF the Gillett strength on the Pa
cifc coast.
The nominating speeches were made
by theee members:
For Gillett, Representative Frank l.
Greene (VtD.
For Campbell. Representative Daniel
Anthony (Kan).
For Mann, Repre- sentative Julius
Kahn (Cal).
Uncle Joe Cannon burst out in his
expected attack on Chairman Hays Of
the Republican National Committee and
Senators Lodge (Mass) and Penrose
tPa) for alleged interference in the
House Speakership fight to defeat Mr..
Mann. Mr.. Cannon was bitter In his de-
nunciation. particularly OF Mr. Hays.
The TRADE was regarded generally as
The sun., 1919-02-28
DANIELS HOLDS UP
OIL LEASE BILL
Senate May Not Enact Meas
ure This Session.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-Increased op-
position, resulting In part from letter
from Secretary Daniels Directing to the
effect or the measure OH the Naval OIL
Reserves in California and wyoming,
prevented the conference report on the
oil, mineral and coal land leasing bill
from coming up for consideration to-
night in the Senate after its adoption to-
day by the House.
Senator Pittman OF Nevada, in charge
OF the bill, said he had planned to pre-
sent the report as soon as an opportunity
permitted, but most supporters expressed
doubt as to whether the mea sure would
be finally enacted at this session. Because
OF the short time between now and the
adjournment of Congress Tuesday, advo-
Gates said it would not be difficult for
opponents to block final action.
Secretary Daniels's letter was read Ia
the Senate by Senator Swanson. chair
man OF the Naval Committee. Irnme-
dtately Senator Pittman and Senator
Shafroth OF Colorado. a member of the
Senate Conference Committee, called or
President Wilson, who was then at the
Capitol, and asked that he use his in.
fuencc with Secretary Daniels not to op.
pose the measure. 1t was understood tina
the President refused, advising them tc
discuss the matter with Mr. Daniels
Senator Shafroth later saw the Naval
Secretary. who was said to have refused
to yield.