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THE BISMAHCK TRIBUNE THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 162 BIBMARCK, NORTH

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BAER WINS BY SMALL MARGIN OVER BURTNESS 1EIH [MIUT! HIS Bulletin

ON THE F 2,000 VOTES TO H)0D|£«»sw

Baer Over 400 Out of 547 Precincts Give

Cartoonist Safe Lead Over

Republican Nominee

SMALL VOTE GENERAL

THROUGOUT DISTRICT

Circus, Bad Weather and Other

Factors Interfere—Talk of

Contesting Result John M. Baer, the Nonpartisan can­

didate, was elected to congress in the special election called by Governor Lynn J. Frazier to elect a successor to the late H. T. Helgeson, according to nearly complete unofficial returns compiled here today; by a majority of l,4i93 over his republican opponent, O. B. Burtness, of Grand Forks.

Flour hundred precincts reported out of the total of 547 in the 13 counties gave the following at noon today:

Baer, Nonpartisan 9,023 Burtness, republican.. 7,530 Bangs, democrat ..... 2,69-8

The district is normally republican. Baer carried 11 counties, according

to the unofficial reports, losing only l*ro, Grand Forks by a majority pf five votes, and Ramsey county.

The voting was very light in all 13 counties, due it was said < on account of the heavy rain' And in one instance to a circus, which visited Devils Lake, in Rainsey county.

A feature,of the voting was the vic­tory by the Nonpartisan .candidate in Cass and Richland counties,- -wbttih were los^last ytear In the primary election fcyi heavy pluralties. The in­complete mourns from these two coun­ties shoWi B&er in the lead by a small majority,' with the rural districts still to be heard from. Baer has polled the heaviest votes in the rural dis­tricts. Conservative estimates place Baer's election over Burtness by a majority of 2,000.

League Vote Palls Off. A falling off in the league vote as

compared with that polled by Lynn. J. Frazier, last November, is indicat­ed in practically every county from which reports have been received. In Cass, 32 out of 70 precincts, includ­ing the city of Fargo and represent­ing more than half of the county, gave Baer 1,005 votes, while the en­tire county last fall gave Frazier 4,495. Grand Forks county complete gave Baer 1,332, as against 3,294 for Frazier last fall, and the vote of E'aer, Burtness and Bangs combined in that county exceeds by only 400 Frazier's total. YesteikWji(:iCr&nd1•' Forks cast; 3,694 balldW 'ftl^ 'confe^^Sfr, whiilb' lM November''* !fbr governor:

Trail cfUW'^mtlfete- gave Baer; &87, as cdhrpared ^ith i,8&5 tor Fra­zier. Th4 "combined" vate for the three candidates was smaller than Frazier's vote last fall. In Pembina 38 out of 39 precincts gave Baer 854, while Frazier last November pull­ed 2,251 votes out of this county.

Not Much Consolation. There is little consolation for the

league in BaerJt victory. Should the league congressman total 16,000 votes, which does not seem probable, it will mean a loss of 12,000, or more than 40 per cent. Baer will not approxi­mate the vote of Hetoy T. Helgesen. Allowing Baer 2,000 votes in Cass county, he will still be far behind Helgesen's 3,224. Baer's total in, Grand Forks, 1,332, does^not compare at all favorably with the 2,369 cast for Helgesen last November. In Traill county Helgesen's vote was 1,600, a3 against 987 given Baer yesterday.

Bangs' Weakness Surprise. The weakness of George A. Bangs

was the one great surprise of the election. In no county which has re­ported complete returns is Bangs' vote 50 per cent as large as a year ago, when he opposed Helgesen. There is an indication that conserva­tives of both parties endeavored to concentrate on Burtness, and certain proof that had Burtness alone oppos­ed Eiaer, the republican would have been an easy winner. Traill county, which last November gave Bangs 355, yesterday granted him a scant 7*6. Bangs' own home cut him down *rom 2,225 last November, to 735 yester­day.

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Baer was born on a farm near E'lack Creek, Wis., moved to Beach, N. D., after being graduated from college. After Wilson's first election he was appointed postmaster. Be­tween handing out letters and sorting mail Baer found time to draw pic

When the Nonpartisan league was organized, Baer drew cartoons for the league's weekly paper. , He created a character that made a hit withif the farmers, A. Rube. That picture q\one is said to have made thoustiit&d^f vot^'tHr the. farmers' candidates in the North

1 I'O c,' rawing

pictures for his crowds, talking lit tie.

He is a successor to the late Con gressman Helgesen.

Baer's election marks the entrance into national politics of the Nonpart isan • league, which has over 100,000 m'embers, all farmers, in the North­west and Middle West states. *

Dakota Election last fall. ( Baer' stumped his distric

. I J. MEMBERS

Citizens Meet Car and Cause Agi­

tators to Return Without

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PRISONERS ACTIVE IN

ARIZONA COPPER STRIKE Kingman, Ariz., July 11.—Sixty-

three men deported from Jerome yes­terday as Industrial Workers of the World, active in the strike there, ap­peared here today from Needles, and armed citizens met the car in which they were prisoners and caused its return on the next eastbound train. Some, of the men said they had been victims of unfortunate circumstances in the clash between the organization and mine operators.

Twenty of the men escaped from the armed forces of the guard which took them to the shop of the 'Needles Mining company. The town is being patroled by the home guard.

For First Time in History of Am

erican Agriculture Wage

Agreement Is Sought

TOWNLEY AND HAGAN

VOUCH FOR CONTRACT

Declare Agreement League Has

Sought to Make With Union

Is Safe and Sane

SOME ESCAPE. Needles, Cal., July 11.—Citizens

armed. with shotguns received their __ 60 men, mostly Industrial Workers of

Pembina "reduced" Bangs' allow-1 the World, on their arrival here today ance from 1,121 last November, to 407 yesterday on face of incomplete returns. ,

The Stay-at-Home Vote. Unquestionably it was the great

stay-at-home vote which yesterday de­feated Olger B. Burtness. It is safe to conclude that the league's whirl­wind campaign was successful in get

from Jerome, Ariz., whence they had been deported. A woman in the party escaped, and search was instituted for her. Two men also got aWay. They were told they would have to return to Arizona.

VERDON GIRL SUICIDES

ting out a large percentage of league No Motive Can Be Ascribed for voters. There follows the natural as­sumption that the stay-at-homes $rere republicans or democrats who- either did not approve of their candidates or were not sufficiently interested "to go to the polls. Wlien the republi­cans in a losing jfear with a candi

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Self-Murder

Verdon, S. D., July 11.-^No motive is known for the suicide of Miss Stella Phinos.,who killed herself with a .38 revolver bullet through the heart. She had been living with a sister between here and Conde.

Minot, N. D., July 11.—For probably the first time in the history of Amer­ica an organization of farmers repre senting the employing class is asked here today to ratify an agreement with a labor organization represent­ing the farm labor of America. The proposed contract is one which a com mittee selected by President A. Townley of the Nonpartisan league has tentatively entered into with committee representing the Agricul tural Workers' union.

The effect of the agreement, John N. Hagan, commissioner of agriculture and labor for iNorth Dakota, and who .headed the Nonpartisan league com mittee, will be to aspure the North Dakota farmer an abundant supply of

'skilled labor, when: and where it ' is needed; to eliminate the congregation of unemployed, which the commission er holds hasi been responsible for North Dakota's I. W. <W. troubles in the past, and to prevent any dispute between the farmer and the hands upon whom he is to rely for the har­vesting of North Dakota's much $eed< e<* bumper crops.

"t he independent farmer/ ' "Ratification'' meetings of league

members, called by President Town ley, similar to that in progress here today, will be held in Fargo, Valley City and Bismarck. The league's tarmer membership is reported as be tween 40,000 and 60,000. There are 80,000 farmers irt ̂ uNbrth' D&fctota Whether! thhse net'tih the'leagrid will be bound by ith<&'agreement, if l&tified by the league, is hot yet clear.

If the agreement is not acceptable to the farmer, "said Commissioner Ila gan today, "the department of agricul­ture and labor will seek to continue to supply the farmer's labor needs as it has done in the past. We have worked for weeks on this agreement, If it is approved, I believe it will go a long way toward ending harvest troubles in North Dakota. I am con­fident the union will live up to its contract.

Reduced Transportation. "This is the only means I know of

by which we can obtain reduced trans­portation for farm hands; it is thq one means I have yet discovered ,p£ making certain of skilled hands; it is the one measure which will give^us control of the harvest hand from the time he enters the state until he leaves it. It will mean absolute cer­tainty of .employment for the farm la­borer when he arrives at the end of his journey, something he cannot be sure of now. It is the frequency with which farm hands are brought into this state in large numbers, attracted through unreliable reports j of high wages and great need in some certain section, or sent in by irresponsible labor agencies that has caused our disturbances in the past. Men dead broke, without transportation, and with no money to pay for a meal, turned loose in a strange country, may sometimes be excused for feeling that the country which has called them owes them something."

What the Union Is. The Agricultural Workers* union

has its headquarters at Kansas City. Co-operating with President A. C. Townley in negotiating the recent conference at Kansas City was Arthur LeSeuer, former socialist mayor of Minot, and an attorney who has often appeared for the I. W. W. The pro­ceedings of the meeting were reported in full toy the Industrial Worker, the official organ of the I. W. W. These facts have led some farmers to regard the Agricultural Workers' union as their old enemy, the I. W. W. in dis­guise. The union, however, is vouched for by President Townley and Com­missioner Hagan.

Slew Sweetheart Who Scorned Hirh; FolloWed

Girl to Washington

Douglas, N. D., July 11.—Frank Mus-elihan, 29, who followed Miss Opal Harmescon, aged 19, to Oroville, Wash., when the family left Douglas two years ago, shot and killed his sweetheart at the home of her broth­er-in-law, is". A. Doyle, and made his escape. .Muselman had been courting Miss Harmescon tfom the time she wore short skirts, and she had repeat­edly scorned proposals of marriage. He left here vowing he would marry her. j

Washington, D. C., July 11,— Subject to approval of Maj­

or General $li'ss acting chief of staff,'North-Dakota Nation­al Guard willf.be assigned to concentration camp at Deming, New Mexico.

British Raid Turkey'sNavy;

Hit Goeben Air Attack Upon Constantinople

Harbor Does Considerable

Damage to Fleet

WAR OFFICE IS ALSO

HIT BY AVIATORS

BELCIAK LINES City of Dunkirk Is Objective of

Latest Maneuver in

Flanders

FIERCE BATTLE IS

STILL IN PROGRESS

SPLIT IH KAISER'S COUNCIL BERNSTOIHT SUITED Scene of

Slav Drive

London, July 11,'—An air raid on the enemy fleet •ofT Constantinople was announced in 'a statement by the British war office today. Bombs were dropped on ihe Turkish cruiser, Twuz Sultan Selin£. formerly the Ger» man cruiser, Goeben. The extent of the damage to .the vessel is not given. V

"Direct hits were obtained on tha Goeben and on other enemy ships near here," said the official report. Big explosiohs toqk place on board and several fires werej observed.

The war office was also attacked arid a direct hit was obtained. The enemy appeared to, hare been com pletelj^ surprised, as until the bombs had been dropped, .^ anti-aircraft battery opened fire.' '>uv> forces re ttirtied^itefy Without iiny casualties;

Sound of Heavy Firing Can Be

Heard in English Coast

Towns

Belgian

in Craft Capsized Last Night

Heavy Storm That Raged

/ Over Lake

BOAT CREW HELPLESS..

WHEN OALE STARTS K'Ortonville, Minn., July 11.—The bodies of Miss Belle i-arson, a cook at a local hotel, and one of her two nieces, all of whom were among the seven victims of last night's drown­ing accident here, were recovered to­day. The nieces of Miss Larson were residents of Fargo and visiting here. Their names are not known. Hope that the remaining missing persons who were on the steamer Muskegon when it capsized last night in a squall, was abandoned today, but the heavy storm still raged on Big Stone lake and made the work of searchers and divers very difficult.

Ole Tranberg, engineer, who, with 12-year-old boy whom he rescued,

were the only survivors, in telling the story this . morning, said that - the boat's crew did not liave a chance to do anything when the squall which struck them came up. >

SAYS WRICHT Dayton, O., July 11—This is the

last war, and.-aeroplanes will win this war, according to Orville Weight, the inventor, today.

"This is the last war. because aer­oplanes used in great number will make war futile. My brother and I were so convinced from the begin-, ning," said the inventor.

"What will become of the aero­planes after the war?" he waB ask­ed.

"It will become the most popular vehicle for sport," sairt WHght.

Thousands of young men who will have learned to fly will be coming back. They will not quit flying. It is great fun."

And while Wright was talking 400 United States fliers were training at the Wilbur field to help blind Ger­many and $nd "the last war."

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Just as the Russians in the east havfe'tdrh & big 'gap 'in the Austro-German lines in Gallcia, captured Ha* licz and pressed on toward Lemberg, the Galician capital, the Germans on the western front have started a men acing offensive near the coast.

Local Effort1. This movement, while it may turn

out to be a local effort or something with which the British can cope, after the shock of the first thrust has been met, nevertheless indicates the possi­bility of the determined attempt to bend back the British flank on the Belgian coast and reach the city of Dunkirk, about 17 miles distant.

The Germans succeeded in their in­itial rush by leveling the defenses through an intense bombardment for 24 hours, and then .attacking last evening, over the devastated ground. The bridges acros's thfe Yser were destroyed by the heavy fire, and the sending up of reinforcements was found impossible. Thus a penetration of 100 yards deep on a front of 1,400 yards, was effected, the Germans pushing as far as the east bank of the Yser, near the North sea.

There has^een no serious attempt by the Germans to break through (he British front in Belgium since their two campaigns for Calais in the early months of the war. The first was checked along the Belgian front by the combined Eritish > and Belgian de­fense. ,, ,. .'i. i;t i 11 > 1 'j'; BattleStillRageSi; <f' In the second battle of Yprea in the fall of 1914 the Germans; :s&cciflced thousands of men in a terrific drive, but failed to effect a penetration.

, Reports from London today indi­cate that the battle in Belgium is still in progress. The sounds of heavy firing heard in England all day yes­terday were again heard today, be­ginning at dawn.

In capturing Halicz, the Russians took more than 30 guns and numer­ous prisoners. The Russian advice to the war office state that they are continuing their advance, pursuing the retreating Austro-German forces,

The Russians have reached the Posiecz-Lesiuvka-Kosmacz line. In the fighting between Sunday and Tues­day the , Russians took more than 10,000 prisoners, arid 80 guns.

1 CAPTURE 1,250. Berlin, July 11.—More than 1,250

prisoners have been taken by the Ger­man marine corps in the Yser district in Belgium, the army headquarters announced today.

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Former Ambassador to United

States May Take Post of

Foreign Minister

HOLLWEOG'S LOSSES '

SUPPORT OF LEADERS

Nation Today Rings With Name

of General Who Is Con-t

.quering Galicia I T

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ONCE CAPTURED BY

AUSTRIANS HE ESCAPES

TAKE 2,000 PRISONERS. Petrograd, July 11.—In addition to

capturing Halicez the Russians took 2,000 prisoners and 30 guns. They also advanced to the left bank of the Lon-nica river, and pressed forward on the Bogorodohan-Zolotvin front. This announcement was made by the war department today.

I'IET MARRED BY DEATH

OF PRESIDENT Minneapolis, Minn., July 11.—Sor­

row was cast over the convention of the 'National Editorial association to­day by the death last night of the organization's founder, Col. Benjamin Herbert, of Chicago, editor of the National Printer-Journalist. Colonel Herbert was seized with an attecK of heart trouble Monday. Resolutions expressing sorrow of the delegates were adopted. —<c

Delegates were asked to urge their congressmen for legislation authoriz­ing the federal trade commission 10 fake over the operation of American papei mills and thus reduce prices.

Petrograd, July 11.—Russia is ring­ing with the name of the latest hero of the war, Lieutenant General Kor-niloff, victor of Galicia, whose aston­ishing feat first proved that the new advance is no mere flash in the pan. General Korniloff is the most daring, chivalrous and scholarly officer in the army.

From log cabin to general is the lit­eral text of the chronicle of his ca­reer. He was born 46 years ago, the ton of a poor cossack in western Si­beria. When barely 13, by his own exertion, he qualified to enter the Si­berian cadet corps. In the artillery school his amazing mathematical abil­ities .brought approva' from the facul­ty, even though suspected as being a secret revolutionary worker. In the Japanese war, Korniloff received the rank of colonel and was entrust­ed with a desperate mission—that of covering the retreat from Mukden of one General Kuropatkin's shattered army. It was executed with such skill he was given the St. George cross. In 1915, he repeated the Muk­den feat, but was wounded and cap­tured by the Austrians.

The enemy generals were so im­pressed with his accomplishments and noble bearing that the return of his sword showed greater honor to him than to their own victorious com­mander. His restless spirit did not long stand captivity. After a daring (Tight from an Austrian prison camp and astonishing adventures, he reach­ed Russia.

Earthquake in Samoan Islands

Washington, July 11.—A dispatch from Suva, Fiji Islands, says damage has been caused in the Samoan Is­lands by severe earthquakes and tidal waves.

The Friendly Islands also have ex­perienced an earthquake.

E LUTHERANS WITH

AIDING ENEMY Lincoln, Neb., July 11.—The Ne­

braska council of defense today is­sued a statement charging "certain professors of the University of Ne­braska" and "conspicuous representa­tives of the Lutheran church in the state" with "disloyal activity and pas­sivity that has tended to give aid and comfort to Germany as an enemy."

The statement declared the busi­ness men in German communities ex­hibited alarming antagonism toward the Red Cross and Liberty loan and some openly threatened business re­prisals against men who supported them.

One banker was quoted as saying: "I would commit suicide 'before tak­ing up arms against Germany."

The statement says: "Conspicuous representatives of

the Lutheran church generally refus­ed to co-operate with patriotic citi­zens for the support of the govern­ment."

Peace Party Growing in Strength

As Economic Pressure In­

creases

Copenhagen, July 11 (Delayed.)—A dispatch from Berlin to the Cologne Gazette says the retirement of Minis* ters Helferich and Zimmermann will be gazetted Tuesday. According to the Tageblatt the crown council is reported to have developed an almost irreconciliable difference 0; opinion between Dr. von Bethmann Hollwegg and a majority of Prussian ministers on questions of internal political re­form. , -,

Bernatorff Mentioned. ' Count von Bernstorif, former Ger­

man ambassador at Washington, Is mentioned in the lobby of the reich-stag as a candidate to succeed Zim­mermann. in case of'his retirement. The name of Dr. W. S. Zolf, colonial secretary is also mentioned.

The debate in the reichstag main

ports recefved here, wa% Jti^ncud^by Dr. G. Streaemann, national liberal, with a sh&rp attack on Chancellor von Bethmann Hollwegg's policy, par­ticularly that of foreign affairs, which he characterized as being based oft no definite consistent program. The chancellor replied by saying he was forced 'to look to all sides for supjfort because the reichstag offers no stabia majority. Give him this and he would be able to develop a consistent pro­gram.

The Vossische Zeitung adds that the chancellor expressed readiness and willingness to carry through neces­sary internal reforms.

Dualism Must Cease. Herr David, socialist, painted a pic­

ture of the difficult internal situation in Germany. He declared that the existing dualism between the govern­ment and the people must cease.

Afternoon papers yesterday gener­ally assumed that an agreement of all parties, except conservatives and ex­treme socialists, had been reached by joint Reclamation to the relchs^g on . peac^e fer^. and( internal refqrips.; ,

jis,. $aid, would contain. a Thjt£ i|t is,.$aid, would contain.* re­iteration of the chancellor's announce: inent of August, 1914, thatiGermany's purpose in the war was not,conquest but defense, and independence of ter­ritorial integrity, expressing a readi-i<e?r to conclude peace on that basis vith a provision readjusting all de­signs aiming at economic boycott and continuance of international hostility atter the war.

The declaration, according to re­ports, would also cover the formation of a coalition ministry with all parties 8nd immediate reform of the Prusslsg f^am hise.

1'he national liberals, however, at n jneeting in the evening, rejected the peac ? pact of the resolution. The whole matter, therefore, is ia doddt again.

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Washington, July 11.—Germany's latest political difficulties are regard­ed by officials here as due largely to internal problems and probably of a transitory nature only.

The dismissal of Foreign Secretary Zimmerman. Minister of Finance Half-ferich or even Chancellor von Beth­mann Hollwegg would be considered largely a surface movement, for not until the great army general staff it­self is reached, it is believed/ will the real crust of German militarism he broken.

The German foreign office, it was pointed out today, has served during the war merely as a means to get the leaders out of trouble. '

American officials agree with allied diplomats here that many of the Ger­man officials who picture so largely in the news are in fact puppets being pulled across the stage as a blind to the German people.

Their rise or fall, they say, has lit­tle significance oh Germany's military and foreign policies. Nevertheless, the German peace party is very active and general opposition to the unrep-i resentative form of government has centered attention to the extreme power of the junker and Pan-Ameri­cans who are being held increasingly responsible for the ills of the coun­try.

Austria's influence is becoming more and more insistent for a liberal peace. Austria is saicjl to be treated most contemptuously by German offi­cials.

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