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Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-02-13

dersigned. Jakob Feist: Administra-
tor of the Estate Of Kasper Feist.
late Of Strasburg. in the county
Of Emmons and State Of N. Dakota,
deceased, to the creditors OF. and all
persons having claims against said
decedent. to exhibit them with the
necessary vouchers, within six months
after the first publication of this no.
tice. to said Administrators : at his
home in the village of strasburg. in
said Emmons County: North Dakota.
Dated Jan. IL. 1919.
JAKOB FEIST;
Administrator
First publication on the 18th day of
First publication on the 9Th day OF
February; 1919. 43-A4-45-46
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-02-13
CITATION AND NOTICE HEARING
PROOF OF FOREIGN WILL.

STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA.
County of Emmons
IN COUNTY COURT
Before Hon Don L. Tracy, Judge.
In the Matter of the Estate Of John
Kruse. Deceased.
H. C. Lueth and H. J. Kruss.
Petitioners.
Sophia Kruse. Henry Kruse, Emma
Kruse. Sophia Kruse, Tildie
Kruse Field. John Kruse. HULA
Kruse. Thomas Ferney. Arthur
Ferney and Norak Ferney.
Respondents.
Citation and Notice Hearing Proof of
Foreign Will.
THE STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA. To
the above named respondents and all
persons interested in the Estate Of
John Kruse, Deceased.
You and each Of you are hereby no.
titled that H. c. Lueth. the petitioner
herein: has filed in this court a copy
of the last Will and Testament Of John
Kruse. late of the city Of Spencer. in
the County Of McCook and State of
South Dakota. deceased, and the pro-
bate thereof In the State Of South Da-
kota. duly authenticated, with his Pc
tition. praying for the admission to
probate Of said documents as the last
Will of said deceased. and for the is-
suance to H. c. Lueth Of letters testa-
| mentary thereon. and that the said
petition and proofs of said purported
VIII will be heard and duly considered
by this. court on Friday, the 2Sth dag
OF February. A. D. 1919. at 10 o'clock
in the forenoon of that day q mt the
courtrooms of this court. in the. fcouil-
ty courthouse, in the city Of Linton.
Dakota. and
| You and each Of you are hereby cited
to be and appear before this court ut
said time and place and answer said
petition and show cause. II any there
be, why the prayer OF said petition
should not be granted
| CSEAL.1
By the Court.
| DON L. TRACY,
n. Judge Of the County Court
Dated the 2lst day Of January. A.
D. 1919.
| Let the above citation be served by
publication for three successive weeks.
said last publication to be at least
twenty days from the date Of the last
publication
ISEAL.l
DON l.. TRACY,
Judge of the County Court
41-42-4s
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-02-13
PREPARE FOR LIES
BUSINESS

The Aberdeen Business collsee pre-
pares young people for the business
of life. 1t prepares them to earn
better living and teaches them how
to achieve success. Enroll on Nom
day. Special discount to soldiers. q
44-45-46
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NOTICE TO caED1roRs.

NUT1CE To Ct1EOITOHS.
STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA
County Of Emmons.
IN COUNTY COURT.
Before Hon Charles b. Carley, Judge.
In the Matter Of the Estate of Kasper
Feist, Deceased,
Jakob Feist. Administrator.
Petitioner.
Katharine Feist, Joseph X. Feist.
John Feist, Kasper Feist. Magdalena
Grosz; Eva Seitz. Regina Feist, Da
milan Feist, and Joseph Feist, spec
ial guardian;
Respondents
Notice is hereby given by the un-
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-02-13

First publication on the 10th day
of January. 1919. 40-43
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-02-13

Lieut. Ziesmer who SALESMAN WANTED solicit
Aberdeen lbcatng oils
Vorande, Salary Commission
Monday. Address THE HARVEY OIL CO..
Subscribe Record-$2eOO Ohio. "A
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-02-13

steer, no brands, had horns which w.re,
lately dehorned for safety. Owner
pay charges and prove property.
ALBERT p. SEYMOUR.
44-46-46-pd Pollock, 8. Dak-
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The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-09
Anything for Delay

"Private Blank" said the colonel severely. reprimanding d doughboy for a minor breach of military rogua, tions. what would you do if l should tell you that you were to be shot at sunrise?"
 Gosh. colonel" replied the Yank, watching the shadow of grin steal over his officers face, I'd sure pray for a cloudy day. ay."-Indianapolis Star.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-09

CordOVa will be represented for the first time in the next legislature two F. E. Ray, having been elected at the recent election. The Copper River val ley has also returned Joseph II. Mur- ray to the house, so that the inter ests of this section should be well looked after during the next two years.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-09
Sure Sian

And what did you say the patient did" asked the doctor, when you ripped off the dressing?"
 "Swore, doctor." exclaimed the nurse. "He swore frightfully."
 Splendid, nurse!" I reckon you can let him sit up tomorrow!"-Rich mond Dispatch.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-09
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news credited to it or uot other wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein.
 All rights of republication of special despatches herein are also reserved.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-09

While influenza has not been en- tirely stamped out in Cordova, the epidemic has evidently been checked no new cases having developed for a number of days, and but half q dozen people are now suffering from the malady
The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-09

Judge Wickersham Is again the dele gate to congress from Alaska, and will draw salary for the past two years that he has been kept out of office pending the result of his contest. The returns from the November election safe lead. for the office during the coming term. and he will likely re sume his seat in congress on March 1.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-09
A Sea Chanue

Why did you take these fish from the aquarium
 Because was afraid the turtle might eat them"
 Why, there's no turtle in there. ." Well, Johnny put his boat in the aquarium and papa said it turned turtle. Brooklyn Citizen.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-09
Just Missed Perfection

When Mrs. Langtry was at the sum init of her beauty and fame she met at q dinner an African king who was visiting London. She did her best to please the dusxy monarch. and evi- dently succeeded. for he said to her
The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-09

As an early spring is predicted, can nerymen from the States will be re turning here within the next month, when the boats and plants will be got season
The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-09
Cruel Deception

Poor Maud, She got cruelty de. ceived when she married that old man"
 Didn't he have any money"
 "Oh, yes, plenty of money, but he is ten years younger than he said he was Boston Transcript
The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-09

There is every reason to believe that last nights action of the city council will result in an increased membership of the Cordova fire de partment, and the more efficient serv- ice. The boys are to retain their old organization and an incentive is of fered members in the way of club room and gymnasium and increased pay for responding to alarms and at tending drills. This is as it should be. The best insurance d town can have is a crackerjack fire depart ment and Cordova hopes soon to be able to boast of having one of the finest and most efficient departments in Alaska.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-09
Some Life

"Thc army must be terrible place" said Aunt Samanthy, looking up from the evening paper.
 "What makes you think so, Saman- thy?" asked her dutiful spouse.
 "Why. jest think what it must be where beds is bunk and meals is d mess. "- Washington Star.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-09

as they parted An, madam. if heaven had only made you black and fat you would be irresistible" Bos- ton Transcript
The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-09

If you change your address, do not notify the carrier boy-report your new address to the office.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-09

In less than two months the terri tOrial legislature will convene at Ju. neau, and one of the very first acts should be the passage of an appropri- ation bill to take care of all the ex- penses incurred by Governor Riggs in maintaining detention camps and otherwise combating the influenza cpl demic in Alaska. The territory has plenty of funds available and they couid be put to no better use.
The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-09

The Daily Times job plant is well equipped for all classe of com. mercial printing
The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-09

It now develops that Senator Jones resolution to appropriate funds to com bat the influenza epidemic in Alaska has been amended and provides for only $100 900, which sum is to be used exclusively for tn" safety of the ma t',rs. iAe white population well they can evidently shift for them selves
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12

weeks through the Serbian mountains.
The batteries were out of range Of the
enemy guns. They went through their
daily practice undisturbed. Even the
infantry rarely saw Serbian soldier.
There is an element of exaggeration
in this description. But it throws an in
teresting sidelight on the superiority in
the mechanical appliances of modern
war which Germany possessed - espe-
clally against opponents on the Eastern
front-and which made her campaigns
in Gahcia, Poland and Serbia in 1915
and her campaign irN Rumania in 1916
seem more or less like a Kriegspiel,
with the uncertainties of war eliminated.
In the winter of 1914-'15 Field Mar
shall Hindenburg, then just risen to
fame, said of the Russians that thew
fought we'll in trenches, thus maintain
ing the defensive traditions of the Rus
sian armies But he predicted their de-
feat because they were inferior to the
Germans in education and moral d1scl-
pine, and because victory must go to
WIN NoiiiCoIdlAL Will inc stronger
nerves. This was only another way OF
saying that the Russians would be un
able to stand up against the mechanical
superiority Of the Germans. Men get dis
couraged fighting against machinery.
Had the Russians had the better techni-
cal equipment the weakness in nerves.
would have been all on the Teuton side.
In the last half of 1918, in fact, Ger
many showed the white feather on the
Western front, after less punishment
than the Russian armies had suffered in
1916 in the retreat from the Dunajec.
Germany was the first belligerent to
use the big Skoda and Krupp type of
siege howitzer which battered down the
forts of Liege, Namur and Antwerp.
She first produced the long range weap-
ons of the sort which bombarded Dun
kirk and Paris. She was the first to
employ high explosive shells and to de-
velop the massed artillery offensive. She
was the inventor of the flame thrower.
OF the poison gas wave and poison gas
shell. Armed with these Instruments of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
Two Kinds
Of Man Power

But there is vast difference between
paper man power and modified, trained
and equipped man power. In Euro
. pean war which would be won or lost
within four years the Central Powers
were certain not to be outnumbered in
the field at any time within the first
three years. They were certain to have
an actual preponderance in military
strength throughout the greater part of
the conflict
What were the requirements of the
Central Powers on the various fronts?
Germany could mobilize about 2, 900 900
in the first months Of the war and g.
100000 more by the spring of 1916.
France and Great Britain together could
mobilize hardly 100000 in the first
months and put hardly 100000 more
in the field by the spring Of 1915.
Austria Hungary could mobilize $780,
600 in 1914 and have 100000 more
available in 1916. Russia had an mex
haustibe man power; but she could
never hope at any time to arm, equip and
maintain in the field more than $780,
900 men. Turkey could be counted on
to hold her own pretty we'll for couple
of years against the Russians in Ar
menia and the British in Mcsopotamia
and Palestine, unless the Allies could
carry the Dardanelles by surprise at
tack.
The full strength Of the three major
Central Powers was available in the
earlier stages Of the war. But Great
Britain, which Lacked even the rudiments
of military system, could not develop
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12

Far too many of the conditions
which at one time contributed to the eff
liciency of the Russian troops ceased to
exist after the middle of the nineteenth
century; they could not, indeed, any
longer exist"
In modern war; too, equipment has be-
come dominant factor. War is largely
contest in mechanical efficiency. In
such a contest Russia was outcassed
from the start. Relatively, she was
more outclassed than Turkey For from
the autumn of 1915 on German military
supplies could move freely into Turkey,
while the supplies which the Allies
could furnish Russia were inadequate to
prevent the great Russian retreat of the
summer of 1915, which was the begin
ming of Russa's downfall.
Short interior lines united the German
Western and Eastern fronts The Prus-
sian railway system had been specially
constructed to facilitate transfers from
one front to the other 1t is but 400
miles from the Rhine to the Vistula, and
only the troops themselves had to be
shifted, since there were ample artillery
and supply depots behind the two fight
ing areas
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
But She Threw Away Victory When
She Converted a European War
Into a World War

'frightfulness" she could we'll afford to
discount Allied preponderance in crude
man power.
The Central States were not long in
achieving unity of command. Austria
Hungary was quickly cured of all ambi-
ton for co-belligerency with Germany.
Berlin gave Vienna plenty of rope in
the early months of the war. 1t was a
wise policy. Thereafter the Austrians
meekly took orders from the German
General Staff
The Austro- Hungarians expected to
play great role on the Eastern front.
Germany had decided in August 1914,
to throw almost her entire modified
strength into France She left less than
100000 men in East Prussia-merely
second line material. They were to hold
off Russian invasion from Courland
and Northern Poland while the Austro-
Hungarians took the offensive in South
ern Poland, striking for Lublin and try
ing to isolate Warsaw.
1t was a bold conception. It failed
completely, however, because both vi
emma and Berlin had counted on a tardv
Russian mobilization.
An Austro Hungarian army under
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
The Lemberg
Disaster

Dankl was supported on his right by
Auffenberg, and the latter's right was
extended in curve to cover Lemberg.
But the Russian mobilization on the line
OF Brest-Litovsk had been effected with
great rapidity. Russian armies appeared
from the northeast, east and southeast,
executing a concentric movement on
Lemberg. The Austro- Hungarian forces
south Of the city were driven back and
Autfenberg was badly beaten on the
sector north of it, at Rawa- Russka. The
connection between Auffenberg and
Dankl was broken and the Austro-Hun-
garlan armies were chased back in great
disorder beyond the San and the Car
pathians.
1t was bitter humiliation to the
Austrian General Staff, but whole
some one. From the winter of 1914-'15
on the Austrian military establishment
was virtually absorbed into the German.
The Austrians fought no more offensives
OF their own, although Germany later
turned over to them the defence of
Trieste and the Trentino All the STRAIT
egg of the Central Powers was shaped
absolutely in Berlin, and this unity Of
direction was worth many army corps.
The original Entente powers never
achieved unified military control. With
two wholly detached fronts, a close CO.
ordination of military effort was impos-
had }o L
Later Italy went her own way. The
British and Russians never cooperated in
Asiatic Turkey.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12

Germany entered the war immensely
better supplied with heavy artillery than
France was. 1t took France nearly two
years to overcome the handicap. Great
Britain was totally unsupplied at the
start. She could not expect to make up
her deficiencies within three years. Rus
STA never made them up.
When Won Mackensen launched his
great drive on the Dunajec in May 1915,
his superiority in artillery over the Rus
SLAMS was stupendous. His guns smoth-
cred the Russian fire. The march from
the Dunajec to Volhynia was an arti-
lerists parade The infantry merely
had to seize the enemy positions which
the German big guns had made unten-
able. In war like this numbers on the
Russian side became an inconsequential
factor. Numbers were, in fact, at times
only a hindrance to the Russian retreat.
SO long as the German artillery kept ad-
vancing the Russian armies had to keep
on retiring
The same thing happened later in the
year in Serbia. Alexander F. L. Roda-
Roda, a brilliant Viennese literary man
and war correspondent, wrote descrip-
ton of the Serbian campaign which
wildly and humorously describes this
new aspect of war. Campaigning was
conducted on stop-watch, union labor
principles. The artillery worked every
morning from o'clock until noon The
supporting infantry worked from noon
until 4 p. m. Then the batteries were
hauled forward to the demolished Ser
bian positions, which the infantry had
occupied.
This mechanical advance continued for
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
German CONTEMPT
For Numbers

Germany was justified in the military
sense In her contempt of the mere factor
Of numbers. Those who vsualized the
war merely as contest between masses
OF population--to be decided on the basis
Of attrition-were misled into proclaim
ing from the very beginning that Ger
many must lose because she was 80 mani
testify weaker in man power Hilaire
beiloc was perhaps the most conspicuous
champion Of the attrition theory--a
tneory which enjoyed much favor with
me Allied publics in the days Of Joffre's
enforced policy of "nibbling" on the
western front. But this theory was un-
sound. There were other factors more
important than numbers. Russia was
Soon TO prove this. The most populous
o. the major beIligerents, she turned out
70 De the most indispensable and was the
Hrst 10 90 TO the wall.
On the census returns the Central
rowers were outnumbcred in 1914 and
1913 more than two TO one. But the CEN
sus figures were no true index Of mill
tary strength. Taking the population re-
sarns Of the years Immediately preceding
we war the man power equation stood
something like this:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
The DardaneHes
Barrier

France and Great Britain, on the other
hand, had only the most meagre COM
munications with Russia. They were
barred by the Dardanelles forts from the
warm water route to the Black Sea ports.
They could not bring out the food sup
plies, of which Southern Russian had
surplus, or send in the munitions and
heavy guns, which the Russian armies
lacked. The only open paths by sea were
to Kola and Archangel, or to Vladivos-
tok. But Russia's railroad system from
the Arctic ports or from the Pacific was
utterly inadequate to handle the supply
cargoes landed by Allied or neutral ships.
Russia could last as real military
factor only until her own resources
failed. And both her resources and her
morale had failed by the middle Of 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
erany Didn't Lose War Because She Was Outnumbered

her land strength before the middle of
1910 or make any really effective use of
1t until the middle of 1917. But by the
middle of 1917 the Russian collanse had
already begun.
Germany needed on the West front in
l9l4 about 100000 men and on the
East front about 100000. Russia's I'M
expected victories in Galicia increased
the German burden in the East. where
Austrla-Hungary proved unequal to the
task assigned her But in 1915 Cer-
many had man power enough to defend
her lines in France and Belgium and to
go East, relieve Galicia, conquer Poland
and Courland, invade Lithuania and
RUSSIA proper, and overrun Serbia.
montenegro and Albania. She was able
TO crush Russia and at the same time to
create an ample strategical reserve
much of which was to be foolishlv wasted
in 1916 at Verdun.
Even the entrance of Italy into the war
IN May 1915, did not challenge German
superiority or wrest the offensive from,
the German High Command. Italv
spent year and half trying to make
an impression on the Austrian defences
IN the Alps and behind the Isonzo. Be-
tore the Italian attack could become
threatening the Russians had been flung
back to the line of the Dvina River and
the Prlpet Marshes, and Austria Hun
gary could safely transfer her best
troops to the Italian front
The suficiency of German Central
Allled) numbers for a strictly European
war is best attested by the fact that, ex-
cept in Turkey, the Central Powers were
able to maintain the offensive almost un-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
Frederick the Greats
Narrow Squeak

Such was Prussia's extent under Fred
erick the Great. This erratic genius
nearly swamped his kingdom in the
Seven Years War. His ambition led him,
with only casual support from England,
into q struggle with a great European
coalition, comprising Austria, Saxony,
France, Sweden and Russia. The odds
against him were far heavier than the
odds against Germany in 1914. He was
saved by his extraordinary luck and by
his own great military talents. But he
never aimed at conquering Europe. His
policy was one of conquest on a modest
instalment plan.
Bismarck followed Frederick the
Greats example, but moved with greater
caution. He got Prussia into no war in
which she would have to fight at a dis
advantage. AS a consequence he sue
ceeded in annexing Schleswig- Holstein,
Hanover, Hesse-Cassel and Nassau, eject
ing Austria from the German household,
creating the modern Prussianized Ger
man Empire and attaching Alsace-Lor-
raine to it as crownland.
Victory over France in 1870-71 made
Germany the first military power in
Europe. The alliance with Austria
Hungary and Italy, which Bismarck con-
Guided, secured Germany thereafter
against counter attack. For more
than forty years she nursed her re-
sources with a view to improving her
Continental position through another
successful war. When the time came she
was perfectly prepared to enlarge her
European holdings. The chances were
all heavily in her favor if she could con-
fine the war to Europe.
If Bismarck had been in power, or if
the newer generation had been able to
produce q statesman of his caliDre, the
war Of 1914 would probably have fol-
lowed the course of the wars of 1870 and
1866, Germany would have emerged
from it with an enlarged "place in the
sun" She would have been content to
digest her acquisitions and to prepare
patiently for further expansion.
But Bismarck's successors, unable to
cope with the instability and restless
vainglory of William II, had allowed the
Triple Alliance to be undermined. Italy
had been estranged by series of diplo-
matte blunders. BY 1914 she had become
merely nominal ally-a neutral, likely
IN time of trial to be converted into an
enemy. Yet even with Italy hostile,
Germany was still equal to fighting
another prosperous European war. She
was fully conscious of her strength. She
vas, in fact, so confident Of it that in
taking on a struggle with France and
Russia she was willing to attack Bel
GUM and thereby certainly force Great
Britain from the outset into the circle
u her enemies