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THE WEATHER

FAIR

Despite Efforts of Americans to

to Save Her Miss Edith

Cavell Is Shot

GERMAN AUTHORITIES

FAIL IN PROMISES

British Public Greatly Aroused

By German Ac­

tion

London, Oct. 21.—The fill! report of

the circumstances of the condemna­

tion and execution of Miss Edith Oa

vell, an English iwoman and head of

the training sdhool in Brussels, for

helping (English, iFrenoh and ,'E'elgian

soldiers to escape from Belgium, made

by B. R. Whitlock, the American min­

ister at Brussels, to Ambassador Page

at London, was issued by the 'British

government' this evening.

iHow the secretary of the American

legation, Hiugh Gibson, sought out the

German governor, von E'arr 'Langen,

late at night 'before the execution

and with the Spanish minister plead­

ed 'with the governor and the German

officers for the lEnglish woman's right,

is plainly related in a memorandum

from. 'Mr. Gibson. This document

makes reference to an apparent lack

of good faith on the part of the Ger­

man authorities in failing to keep

their promises to inform the Ameri­

can fully of the trial and sentence.

•Minister Withrop telegraphed to

Ambassador Page on the 12th inst.:

"Miss Cavell sentenced yesterday

and executed at 2 o'clock this 'morn­

ing despite our ibest efforts contin­

ued until the last moment."

Futile Appeals.

'Minister Whitlock's appeal was in

ihe form of a note sent 'by a messen­

ger on the night of the llth inst. to

Gov. von E'arr Langen:

"iMy ©ear iBaron: I am too sick

to present imiy request myself, tout I

appeal to your generosity, of heart to

support, it, and stay from death tihis

unhappy wpman.., Have pity on her!

"Ypurs. truly,

"BRAND WHITLOCK."

IMr. WhyJLpck also stated that-Miss

Cavell had nursed German soldiers,

vv JBWfCh of Faith.,

Secretary. Gibson's report says that

iConra^&^pfftcial.of the German civ­

il 'braijclj, ^ve positive assurances on

the lilth ityst. that' the American lega­

tion wpvvld be informed of the devel

opmenis.in the case.

Gibson's report, to Minister Whit­

lock continues:

"The circumstances of the case

were explained to von Barr Langen,

and your note was presented. He ex­

pressed disbelief in the report that

sentence had actually been .passed and

manifested some surprise that we

should give credence to any report

emanating from unofficial sources.

iHe wa,9 quite insistent on knowing

the exact source of your information,

but this did not come to him."

The report adds that von Barr Lan­

gen was induced to inquire as to the

status of the case.

Take 'Rapid Action.

"He telephoned to the presiding

judge Of- the courtmartial and return­

ed tosay Jjie facts were as we had

presented, them and that it was in­

tended to carry out' the sentence be­

fore morning.

"Wte then presented as early as pos­

sible our plea for delay.

"I even went so far as to point out

the fearful effect of a summary exe­

cution of thia sort on public opinion

iboth here, and abroad, and although

I had no authority for doing so, called

attention to the possibility that it

might bring atbout a reprisal."

English Say "Murder."

The story of the execution of Edith

Cavall, as told in the correspondence

sent by ithe American minister at

Brussels to the Ambassador at Lon­

don and printed in full in the British

morning papers, it is predicted, will

send a wave of indignation through­

out the country.

In Trafalgar Square, yesterday, all

heads were bared to the memory of

Miss Cavall. One speaker, holding a

whig in his hand to be placed on the

lintel of the Nelson Column to her

memory exclaimed:

"Who will avenge the murder of

this splendid English woman!"

Aids in Recruiting.

In response to this appeal many

new recruits came forward. The Lon­

don papers in editorials while pay

'ing tribute to the fine efforts of the

American diplomatic representatives

in her behalf, cursed her execution as

"the most damnable crime of the

war."

The Daily Telegraph says: "The

documents are a record of such foul

and damnable infamy as all Ger­

many's bloody crimes in this war

cannot equal, for this was cold, cal­

culated and deliberated murder. Not

Heaven itself nor the virgin of all

the Angels can find an amediatory

explanation."

TELEPHONE BY WIRELESS, ARL­

INGTON TO PARIS.

Arlington, W. Va., Oct. 21.—Oper­

ators here talked by wireless tele­

phone with Paris today. The 'Honolu­

lu operator also heard the talk.

'ALASKA SENATOR

TRAVELS 38 DAYS

TO REACH CAPITAL

Senator Frank A. Aldrich.

Frank A. Aldrich, a member of the

.Alaska, senate, travels thirty-eight

days to attend the sessions of the

legislature. Of these, thirty-three

days are spent travelling on a dog

sled from the Arctic circle. Mr. Al­

drich was born in Fort Wayne, In­

diana, fifty-eight years ago.

Traffic Into and Out of New

York Is Heaviest

Since 1907

MOST SHIPMENTS

ARE FOR EXPORT

iNew York, Oct. 21.—A general re­

vival of export traffic unequaled since

•li&07 was reported today by almost

every railroad entering New York

City or with terminals on the New

Jersey shore, across (he river.

(At the office of the Erie road, it was

3aid that the tonnage for last month

available today showed that the busi­

ness done in September, 1915, was the

(greatest ever recorded on the Iboaks

of the company during the operation

of the road. Tonnage on the Balti­

more & Ohio has increased 4ft per

cent, it was said, within the last 91!)

days.

The 'New iHaven railroad is imioving

more freight today than it has moved

for years ibefore.

Most of the big shipments coming

to INew York are for export, it is said,

and the shortage of ships has been al­

most acute, so conditions today are

reported as better than a month ago.

There is hardly a ipier in the city

where merchandise is not piled high.

IShip companies have pressed into,

service to carry tlhe enormous vol­

ume of exports across the Atlantic

all 'available (boats and are working

the vessels' at top speed.

AT NEW YORK

President Vincent of Minnesota

and Governor Whit­

man Speakers

Albany, N. Y., Oct. 21.—Governor

Whitman and George E. Vincent,

president of the University of Minne­

sota, were the principal speakers at

tonight's session of the 51st conven­

tion of the University of New York.

Governor Whitman reviewed the

works of the state educational insti­

tutions from the time the first college

was established in colonial days.

President Vincent said that state

universities were expanding with al­

most alarming rapidity and that in

some places those activities were be­

ing curtailed because of sufficience

that they were creating machines of

the alumni and officials to dominate

the affairs of the state.

He declared that to offset this feel­

ing, the universities must lay their

plans and admission fully and frank­

ly before the public.

"Our nation faces a new era." Mr,

Vincent said1, the national vanities

are numbered. We hope to avoid' the

stain and tragedy of war, but within

our border, we already face a ser­

ious situation, economic, racial, politi­

cal and moral. Our educational insti

tutions will be called upon to define

their purposes. In certain states the

public universities will bear the brunt

of this course, in other probably en

dowed institutions."

JAP IS ONE

OF DEAD LEFT

6YJPICANS

Brown Man Apparently Shot

During Fight With

Bandits

CIVILIAN POSSE

AIDS U. S. SOLDIERS

Less Than Thirty in Raiding

Party, Says Cavalry

Party

Brownsville, Oct. 21.—The body of

one Japanese was found today among

the dead Mexicans killed in a morn­

ing fight between United States .sol­

diers and Mexican bandits at Ojo d'el

Agua. This man had apparently been

shot during the fight, but there was

nothing to indicate whether he be­

longed to the leaders.

The Rio Grande was used twice to­

day by two separate bands of Mexi­

can bandits, to stop pursuit of Ameri­

can soldiers. Most of the bandits in

both instances crossing into Mexico.

The first was in the retreat from the

Ojo del Agua fight, 60 miles up the

river, and the second occurred about

30 miles up the river, where soldiers

and a civilian posse chased a small

body of Mexicans to the river. They

crossed in a boat.

Captain Frank R. McCoy, of the

Third cavalry, reported tonight his

belief that there were not more than

30 Mexicans in the party which at­

tacked Ojo del Agua.

Wounded Will Recover.

The number of Mexicans killed in

this fight .still stood at five, and the

American soldiers at three. All the

Americans wounded were expected to

recover.

Moonshine Conspirators Evaded

At Least $383,000 in Rev­

enue Taxes

Ft. Smith, Ark., Oct..-21.—That the

government has been defrauded of at

least $383,000 in the moonshine whis­

key conspiracy in connection with

which nine men were sentenced in

federal court to imprisonment and to

pay fines was announced1 tonight by

J. S. Barkman, revenue agent of Okla­

homa, Ark., and Kansas. This sum

has been placed in the official records

and assessed against the whiskey

making plants seized here. The fig­

ures are based on the amount of grain

the government investigators are

positive the conspirators purchased to

convert into moonshine whiskey.

It was said by government agents

that the local conspiracy was a part

of a giant conspiracy which existed in

the south for 16 years, in which time

the United States revenue depart­

ment has been defrauded of many

thousands of dollars.

PUNS ARE LIKED

Washington, Oct. 21.—Oct. 21.—

Confidence that the country will ap­

prove of the administration's plans

for strengthening the national defens­

es was expressed by President Wil­

son today in addressing a committee

on the national defense which called

at the White House. The committee

presented resolutions urging "ade­

quate and quick" defenses which

reached every department.

The President said he was certain

the people wanted the country ade­

quately prepared for defense, although

there might be some differences of

opinion as to how to go about the

strengthening of the army and navy.

THREATENS GOVERNOR

IF HILLSTROM HANGS

Salt Lake City, Oct. 21.—Threaten­

ing letters similar to those received

before Joseph Hilstrom was re-sent­

enced' to death, are being received at

the office of Governor Spry. One

mailed at Salt Lake and (received to­

day threatens the Governor and des­

truction to the city, if Hilstrom's sen­

tence is not commuted.

DOG LEADS TO BODY.

North Dakota Woman Finds Husband

Killed by Bull.

'Bowman. N. D„ Oct. 21.—A dog lei

Mrs. Arvid Pearson of Besse, this

county, to the 'body of her husband

in a pasture, near the Pearson home,

where he had Ibeen killed iby an in­

furiated bull.

JHtfmarck Srilmne.

THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR, NO. 262 (NEWS OF THE WORLD) BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY MORNING, OCT. 2 2 1915. (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) FIVE CENTS

Takes Stand for Government in

Case Against Directors of

New Haven R. R.

"CUT THROAT" TACTICS

AGAINST COMPETITORS

Federal Attorney Frankly. Ad­

mits Mellen is a "Hos­

tile Witness"

New York. Oct 22—Although

Charles S. Mellen, former president

of the New York, New Haven, Harti

ford Railroad company, characterized

by Frank L. Swatker, the federal at­

torney as "a frankly hostile witness,"

when he continued his testimony to­

day at the trial of the eleven New

Haven directors under the Sherman

law, the attorney succeeded, never­

theless, in introducing thorugh Mr.

Mellen what he deemed some of the

most important evidence against the

defendants contained in the govern­

ment's case.

"Cut Throat" Tactics.

Mr. Mellen conceded that the early

competition between the Xew Haven

road and the New York and New Eng­

land, which it subsequently absorbed,

was of the cut-throat character. He

testified' it was a state of rivalry be­

tween the Boston and Maine and New

Haven that led up to the corsair

agreement, in which the two roads

agreed to keep out of each other's

territory. He identified minutes of

the New Haven directors' meetings,

whereby steps were taken to enter

'into an agreement with the Xew York

Central to keep other roads from en­

tering .New York City. He told how

the New Haven had secured control

of two of the New York and New Eng­

land' connections with Xew York City

and cut them off.

With evident relish, he told how,

while manager of the Now Tngland,

he had brought the ?*Vw Haven to it*

feet by threatening a rate-cut and

making such a "nuisance," of himself

that he virtually bought oft by the

New Haven with an offer of the vice

•presidency of the foad, which he acj

cepted.

This was in 1892. All this came after

the witness had finished his recital

'begun yesterday of the New England

railroad situation in 1890 at the time

of the enactment of the Shprman

attti-trust law His testimony was

frequently interrupted by clashes of

counsel over the evidence.

M'Adoo Is

Strong'* for

U. S. Marine

'San Francisco, Oat., Oct. U.—In a

plea for the creation by the govern­

ment' of a naval auxiliary merchant

marine, Wiilliami G. MdAdoo, secretary

of the treasury, addressing memibers

of the ®an Francisco Commercial club

said today that if .private capital could

not afford to provide adequate steam­

ship .service between Pacific 'Coast

'points and the Orient the .government

should provide the facilities for the

protection of United States trade and

prosperity.

Secretary McAdoo* was speaking

with refernece to the seamen's 'bill

and the contention of the Pacific Mail

Steamship company that the passage

of the act forced them to discontinue

business on the Pacific.

Mr. McAdoo said that the steam­

ship service from the Pacific Coast

to the Orient is vital to the interests

of the United States.

REPORTED YET

Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 21.—'Pro­

fessor E. H. Harding, the representa­

tive of the University of Minnesota,

who 'went to Montana, to investigate

charges that Lorin Solen had ibeen

guilty of professional 'baseball last

summer, had not returned to Minne­

apolis tonight.

Tlhe eligibility committee, in whose

hands the matter now rests, have

heard nothing frcmn Professor Hard­

ing, but as soon as ho returns a meev

ing will be held to consider the case.

DIES FROM INJURIES

ON FOOTBALL FIELD

St. 'Louis, Mo.. Oct. 21.— Bryan

Scott, who was injured in the 'St.

Louis-Knox College football game

here last Saturday, died at a St. Louis

city hospital late today.

Scott was on the Knox team and

was injured while making a tackle.

He struck the opposing player with

his head instead of his shoulder, and

dislocated a vertebrae in his neck.

BEAUTIFUL NEW JERSEY RESIDENCE TO

BE PRESIDENT WILSON'S SUMMER HOME

Main staircase of Shadow Lawn.

It is said that President Wilson will not return to Cornish, N. H., next

year, but will spend the summer with his bride at Shadow Lawn, the home

of the late John A. McCal! at Long Branch, N. J. Shadow Lawn is a mag­

nificent estate, suitable in every way to accomodate the presidential estab­

lishment.

Telephone

Across the

Atlantic

New York, Oct. 21.—Announcement

that the human voice had been suc­

cessfully projected across the Atlan­

tic was made tonight on'"behalf of

John J, .CaU'ty, chief engineer of the

American: Telephone and Telegraph

compahV at the corfipanyy

1

offices

here. Later Mr. Carty telephoned

from Chicago confirming the an­

nouncement. I

To B. B. Webb, a telephone engi­

neer, fell the honor of being the first

man to span with the human voice

the.space between the old government

and the new.

In Honolulu, 4,800 miles from Ar­

lington, Mr. Espenchied, another tele­

phone engineer, at the Pearl Harbor

•Navy yard, also heard the message.

Have Test Figures.

Webb and Arlington had' a trans­

mitting instrument but no receiving

apparatus. He knew therefore that

he would have to wait for .the cable

to confirm the success or the failure

of the experiment.

Late this afternoon the expected

cable message came. It was address­

ed to the company here and said that

Webb's "hellos"' and goodbyes" had

been distinctly heard by the engineers

and' French officers in Paris and that

portions of his test figures had also

been picked up.

RESIGN AS 8UPT.

OF

Chicago, Oct. 21—Ella Flagg Young,

for six years superintendent of

schools, announced that she would re­

sign December 8. In announcing that

she would not seek reappointment,

the superintendent blamed "persist­

ent discussion of the superintendency

of the schools in the daily newspap­

ers" as her determination to quit.

Mrs. Young, who is 70 years old,

has been active in school affairs since

11862.

G. S. MS BETTER

HI USE DEIMD

Minneapolis, *JCI. (Fearing that

the vitality of George S. iLoftus, pre­

sident of the St. Paul Co-operative

exchange, may 'be too low an ebb to

wH'.s^nd the shock, the injection

of a cancer serum has been deferred,

it was said today at the Kitel hospital.

Xt had Ibeen iplanned by Dr. G. O. Eitel

to use the serum today, but as the 'pa­

tient showed signs of improving it

was decided to wait until his strength

had rallied still further. Mr. Lotos

was operated on last Thursday. His

condition showed improvement today.

The use of the serum is a new treat­

ment which has been tried in only a

few cases in the United States.

.» THE WEATHER.

North Dakota: Fair Friday

and probably Saturday colder

«S» Saturday.

Last Rites Today for Grand

Inspector of S. D.

Masons

Aberdeen, S. D., Oct. 21.—Funeral

services for the late Judge Edward

Teare, Taubman, Sovereign Grand

Inspector General Scottish Rite Mas­

ons for South Dakota, were held here

at midnight. Members of the 33rd

Degree of Masonry officiated at the

services. Kadosh Masons from all

over South Dakota and surrounding

states were present. Interment will

be made this afternoon following bur­

ial services by the Blue Lodge.

TWO KILLED III

BIPLANE FLIGHT

Redding and Bulman Drop to

Death When Framework

Collapses

Lynn, Mass., Oct. 21.—J. Chauncey

Redding, of Melroy, and Phillip Bul­

man, of Madden, were killed today

by the fall of a biplane in which they

were making an experimental flight.

Redding, who was manager of the

Saugus Aviation School, was the op­

erator of the machine, and Bulman

was his mechanician. They had ris­

en from the aviation field and were

flying over the marshes nearby when

the framework collapsed.

Both .men were buried to the depth

of two feet in the soft mud of the

marsh and' were dead when taken out.

Discover

Cure tor

Pellagra

Washington, Oct. 21.—Complete suc­

cess of the dietary treatment both in

preventing and permanently curing

the southern scourage, pellagra, is de­

scribed in reports tonight from feder­

al public health service officials, who

lhave spent the .past year experiment­

ing with hundreds of patients in Geor­

gia and'Mississippi.

iMore than a year ago, the service

announced that preliminary tests had

demonstrated that pellagra was caus­

ed by improper diet and that elimina­

tion of this cause iwould prvcet the

disease. Since then three experiment

stations have been established, two

at Jackson, Miss., and Vhe other at

the Georgia State sanitarium and in

them a large number of pellagra vic­

tims have completed a year's treat

iniients. All soon were rid of the dis­

ease, and the reports show that in

only one case at the end of the year

had there been symptoms of recur­

rence.

LAST EDITION

CWS TAKE

IKE

THREEJfiOKTS

Bulgars Drive Wedge Between

Main Serbian Army and

Anglo-French Army

•***IMW*

'J..W I

ALLIES MAKE NEW

OFFERS TO GREECE

New Offensive Started in Cham­

pagne Country and

Against Riga

London, Oct. 21.—The German arm­

ies, which for more than U5. months

have ibeen continuously fighting on

one front or the other, are now on the

offensive at 'three widely Separated

points—against Riga and Dvinsk, In

Serbia, and in the Champagne district

of France.

In the two former places they con­

tinue to make progress, ibut against

the IFrench their attacks or yesterday

delivered to the east of Rheims, met

with a complete repuLse, as did those

of 'previous days.

Separte Serbian* and Allies.

While if was expected that the Aus

tro-Germans' onslaught in the north

would be the most formidable, the

'Bulgarian attack against the Serbians

through the valleys from the east,

are proving the most dangerous. It is

now definitely settled that the Bul­

gars have cut the Saloniki-Xish rail*

way to the north of Vramya, thua

driving a 'wedge between the main

Serbian army and the (Anglo-French

forces which landed at Saloniki.

With the rapid sweep westward of

the Bulgarians, the .people of the al­

lied countries are watching with nerv­

ous interest negotiations which are

proceeding between the governments

and the king ajid government of

Greece. These negotiations arp being

carried on by the British foreign of­

fice in behalf of the Allies. Having

failed to convince Greece that it .was

her duty to abide Iby the Seiibo-Greelc

treaty, and help'Serbia' when &he

attacked, the Allies have made a fre^h

offer to that country, including the

cession by Great Britain of the island

of Cyprus.

Negotiation* With 'RoUm*nia.

This offer and an outline of possi­

ble financial help is now being con­

sidered toy the Zaimis cabinet.1 Shouid

these negotiations fail, it is expectect

that Greece will be asked to demobil?

iZe or clearly define her attitude.

Conversations also are proceeding

•with Roumania, which, it is under­

stood, are in charge of the French for­

eign office.

All Try for Big Victory.

Meanwhile all the belligerent na­

tions realize that the best way to in­

fluence the neutral states now is to

win a big victory. Austria, Germany

and Bulgaria are trying for this in

Serbia, Genmany in Courland, and

France and Italy in Tyrol and Tent

ino, and Russia near Solim, which,

oughly, is the center of the eastern

front, Bolhynia and Galicia.

Hindenberg Advance* at Riga.

Except for the German attacks in

France, all these are meeting with

more or lass success.

Field Marshal von Hindenberg in

his attack on .Riga has reached Olai,

which is half way between Riga and

Mitaif and only a dozen miles soutu

west of the Baltic port.

Russians Carry Positions.

SAs an offset to this, the Russians iby

a dashing attack have carried the Ger­

man poaitions southeast of Baramo

vici, an important railway junction

east of Slonin, on the Lida-Rovno rail

'way, taking more than 3600 iprisoners

and, according to a German official ad­

mission, have continued their success

in the middle Styr, south of the Prip

pa marshes in Bolimia and Galicia

marshes.

Charge Atrocities by Russian*.

Washington, Oct. 21—The Turkish

embassy today issued an official re­

port from the general Ottoman head­

quarters charging that meny atroci­

ties have been committed against the

Moslems on the frontier of the Cau

causis by Russian troops assisted by

the Greek and Armenian population.

Bands of Russians, Greek and Armen­

ians are accused of attacking many

women and having pierced the cheeks

of babes so that they starved to death.

Tortures of the middle ages are said

to have been revived by Armenians

in Azort.

British Los* Great.

London, Oct. 2'.—The Tages Zeit

ung says that during one period of

the battle at Loss last month, the

British fell at the rate of one hund­

red men a second.

"The British attacked in dense

rows of eight sections," says the Over

Seas News agency in a resume of the

Tages Zeitung dispatch.

Did Not Reach German Trenches.

"Their attack presented a spectacle

like that of a Napoleonic battle, be­

fore the days of machine guns or

long-range canons.

"The British advanced with admir­

able bravery, but they did not even

reach the German trenches. They

lost nearly 10,000 men in dead and

wounded and 800 were captured."

Pope Denies Report.

Rome, Oct. 21.—It is announced

that the official Vatican organ will

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