Emmons County record. [volume], December 13, 1917, Image 1

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STREETER WRITES
FROM CAMP DODGE
(Too late for last week.)
Co. I, 362d Inf.,N. A.,
Camp Dodge, Iowa,
Dcc. 2, 1917.
To the Readers of the Record:
After an uneventful, though tire
some trip, the four Lintonites arrived
in Camp Dodge last Thursday to
spen'd Thanksgiving. It
took two'
full days to make the trip because of
poor connections. Mrs. Strecter and
the children stopped off for a visit
with her mother and she will arrive
in Dee Moines on Wednesday, the 5th.
Rent is rather high in Des Moines,!
but, through the assistance of the
War Recreation Board, I was able to
get fairly good furnished quarters for
the folks.
The other three Lintonites are in
The men in camp are allowed to go
to town Wednesday afternoons, Sat
urday afternoons and Sundays, if they
are not A special details. They need
notlk'back in camp untiHJ:4fr-a. m.
the following morning. However, I
may not be able to do that well for I
have been detailed as company clerk
'in my company, and it is a pretty
busy berth. It has one redeeming
quality—$6 per nth additional'pay.
There seems to be no information
here as to when the next draft cont'n
gent will arrive. However, it is the
general opinion that it will be the mid
dle of the month before they are
callefl. Several hundred odlitional of
ficers have been ordered here froi
Fort Snelling December 16th, so that
~fi||gght be about the time.
The weather is not bad here, about
thetftome as at home. It is a little
more 'damp, and one feels it somewhat
more. The barracks are comfortable
,and well heated. Each man has a
real bed and plenty of blankets. Anc
the meals are excellent. Let me say
right here that any person who writes
from here complaining of the food
probably didn't have as good at home.
Our allowance is 42 cents per day per
man and the meals are far ahead oi
tlio^e at SneMing where civilian cooks
-V fed us on 65 a day. Here the
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COOKS
are enlisted men. We have been eat
fug absolutely as well here as at
"home.
The men in my outfit are mostly
—eastern North Dakota men. My cap
tain is Capt. DuaneT. Sarles, son of
-a former Nort Dakota governor, and
himself a graduate of the first Snell
'ing training camp. There are five
lieutenants assigned to the company.
Owing to the large number shipped
to Camp Pike, we have only eighteen
•enlisted men in the company and most
J* ^of them are non-commissioned officers.
There will be plenty of work, though,
B','-" -when th new men arrive.
The regimental Y. M.C.-A. is righ
across the street frotai'our company
barracks, and, as at Fort" Snelling, it
.-.is the same wonderful institution for
the men. In fact, right now I am in
'•'their private office drumming away on
their typewriter. The men in charge
are continually trying to be of as-
09^. J? sistance to the crn in the camp. Rev.
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Bruce E. Jackson, formerly of E*
maitjk, is stationed in this building
,-,,andhe is a mighty good man for the
jO£ place. He takes a number of bis
-jlmeals with us. Linton people will re
member him as having delivered a»
igajj address there last May.
,fe| It ia my intention to keep in close
iUr'"
teach with die Emmons county men
hem and to five news of them In my
letters, even though I ha vent been
able to do much along that line yet.
So ia future issues of the Record,
msdu win km what to expect
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NEGROES TrtlED
AND FOUND GUILTY
13 NEGROES ARE HANGED FOR
MUTINY AT FORT SAM
HOUSTON TEXAS.
Of the sixtyrthree negroes, of the
24th infantry, U. S. A., tried by
court martial at Ft. Sam Houston,
Texas, and found guilty of complicity
in the riot and mutiny at Houston
on August 23d, thirteen were hanged
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the
military reservation at Ft.
Sam Houston at 7:17 o'clock Tuesday
morning.
Forty-one were sentenced to life
imprisonment. One man was sen
tenced to dishonorbale discharge from
arn,y'
ohter outfits, Lynn and Chase going confined at hard labor for two years,
to the headquarters company of the
signal corps. He is a telegVapher ant
•*!38th artillery and Parent to the sip
also a Frenchman. Owing to rusth
of business I have not yet been able
to see any of the Linton folks. In
fact, I do not know if they are even
all here. Thousands of men have been
•hipped to Camp Pike, Arkansas. In
fy:t, a Minnesota man who was in my
company at Snelling came down here
after he left the training camp and
has already gone to Camp Pike.
There are some others of them here,
however. It took me all of Thursday
and Friday to get straightened out
and yesterday I went over town, ar
ranged for rooms, met several Des
Moines people who were in my outfit
at Snelling and went out to- the homt
of one of them for dinner Saturday
evening.
forfeiture of all pay and al
lowances, and to be confined *at hard
no'- for two and a half1 years.
Three men were sentneed to be dis
honorably discharged from the army,
forfeit all pay and allowances and
»u.e acquitted.
RAD HEALTH BROUGHT BRAVE
EMMONS CO. GIRL TO FIND
FORTUNE IN WEST.
Miss Annie L. Petrie, a brave girl who
with a sister broken in health came to
Emmons county in the pioneer days
of the county and who has "stuck it
out" as a homesteader and rancher
aver since, won a world's record when
she marketed at Chicago 40 head of
shorthorn steers weighing 1692 pounds
apiece and bringing $14 tha hundred
weight, or an average of $236.88 per
hend.
Telling her own story. Miss Petrie
says: "Sister and I came to Emmons
county in the early days of settle
ment. Her health was broken by
years of teaching, and I was a school
girl. For a Start we had two roan'
Durham heifers that father gave us,
which we shipped to North Dakoty in
an emigrant car. ^'Oui progrertPfcas
slow at first. Money was scarce. We
taught school for $26 per month, anil
took school warrants, which had to be
discounted 25 per cent to get the
cash, nnd only six-months term, for
pupils were too scnttsring ana weather
too uncertain to have winter school.
Even so, we saved little money.
We bought us two good saddle horses
and a good calf whenever we had an
opportunity." The sisters bought a
relinquishment on a claim and one of
them homesbeuded it. Later they
bought a store at Winchester to which
they had to freight their goods by
wagon 65 miles. Miss Annie Petrie
tbecame postmistress. All of their
savings went into their ranch. When
they firit paid a fancy price for a reg
istered sire the neighbors began talk
ing of a guardian for the young wo
men. Today the Petrie ranch is one
of the finest in the northwest its
shorthorns' are in demand for breed
ing stock on the country's largest
stock-farms, and the two sisters have
reaped their reward which their en
ergy, enterprise and intelligence has
ripely merited. They consider their
experience as typical of what may be
done in North Dakota with a little
pluck, diligence and sotfnd business
sense. Incidentally they can write
a check with a whole string of cypher*
after the initial digit and know that
it will be cashed.
Every Red Cross membership in
Emmmons .county will tell its story to
our soldiers in France on Christmas
morning. Our boys will know wheth
er or not we stand ready to help
Also, if people at home have friends
or relatives, here whom they would
like to have me iook up, send me their
address in camp and T'll take the first
opportunity to hunt them up.
Today the regimental band gave a
concert right near our barracks, and,
incidentally the band is a dandy and
composed entirely of men who dropped
in here in the former increments.
So far I haven't seen much of Des
Moines. I don't think much of some
of their narrow sidewalks and streets,
but their streetcars are the best I have
ever seen. The train to the camp is
nothing extra, however.
Well, I guess there is nothing much
more of interest right now, so I will
continue this in the next issue.
Very truly,
FRANCIS B. STREETER,
Co. I, 362d In/., N. A.
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GERMAN ATHOCITIES
34th'Year: Number 35 Linton, North Dakota, Thursday, Dec. 13 IV17 $2.00 per year, in Advance
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ARE EXPOSED
SOME OF THE? LETTERS THAT
GERARD RECEIVED FROM
GERMAN SOLDIERS.
We are publishing three letters
that Ambassador Gerard received
from German soldiers while he was
United States ambassador to Ger
many. They go to show that the
Kaiser soldiers could not stand the
atrocities that they were forced to
commit on account of orders from
their superior officers.
lie re is a protest oi' a German sol
dier, an eye-witness of the slaughter
of Russian soldiers in the Masurian
lakes and swamps:
"It was frightful, heort-rending,
as these masses of humr.n beings
were driven to destruction. Above
the terrible thunder of the cannon
could be heard the heart-rending
cries of the Russians: O 'Prussians!
O Prussians!'—but there was no
mercy. Our Captain had ordered:
'The whole lot must die so rapid
fire.' As I have heard, five m-jn
and one officer on our s'.de w?nt
mad from these heart-rending
cries. But most of my comraces
and the officers joked as the un
armed nnd helpless Russians
shrieked for mercy while they were
being suffocated in the swamps and
shot down. The order was: 'Close
up and at it harder!' For days af
terwards those heart-rending yells
followed me and I dare not think of
them or I shall go mad. There is
no God, there is no morality and no
ethics any more. There jare no
human beings any more, but only
beasts. Down with 'militarism.
"This was the experience of a
Prussian soldier. At pi
wounded Berlin, October 22,
"If you are a truthMoving
please, receive these lines fcoi
common Prussian soldier."
Here is the testimony of another'
German soldier on the Eastern front:
"Russian Poland, December 18, '14.
"In the name of Christianity I
send you these ^vords.
"My conscience forces me as a
Chr stian German soldier to in
form you of these lines.
"Wounded Russians are killed
th the bayonet according to or
cers.
"And Russians who have surren
dered nre often shot down in
masses according to orders, in spite
of their heart-rending pr:.yers.
"In the hope that you, as the
representative of a Christian State
will protest against this, 1 sign my
self,
"A Ge"ni«») Soldier
and Christian.
"1 would give my name and reg
iment, but these words could get
me court-martialed for divulging
militafy secrets.
•The third letter, from the Wester
front, 8iioWB-the same horror of t".i.*
system of which the writer was a
witness:
"To the
"American Government,
"Washington, U. S. A.
"Englishmen who have surren
dered are shot down in small
groups. With the French one is
more considerate. 1 ten whe"t
men let thmselves be taken prison
er to be disarmed and shot down
afterwards? Is that chivalry in
battle? It is no longer a secret
among the people one hears every
where that "few prisoners are taken
they are shot down in small groups.
They say naively: 'We don't want
any unnecessary mouths to feed.
Where there is no one to enter com
plaints, there is no judge.' Is
there then no power in the world
which can put an end to these mur
ders and rescue the victims
Where is Christianity Where
is right? Might is right.
"A Soldier fcnd Man Who Is
No Barbarian."
HOME GUARD.
A meeting of the citizens of Lin
ton and vicinity will be held at the
Court House in Linton, N. D., on Fri
day evening, Dec. 14th, at 8 o'clock
p. m. to determine the question of
forming a Home Guard and offering
its •erv-ce to the Federal Government
to be used at any time rr\ s!ace it
way desire, vrr
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NO CHRISTMAS FURLOUGHS
FOR MEN AT CAMP
DODGE.
Washington, Dec. 12.—Men of the'
national army will not be given
Christmas furloughs uless they live
within trolley distance of their can
tonments, the war department has de
cided
tSecirtary Baker, in an announce
ment today, assigned the harmful ef
fect the general leave would have on
camp discipline, and the heavy bur
den it would throw on the railroads
as the reason for the department's ac
tion.
Camp Dodge, Iowa, Dec. 12.—An
nouncement by the war department
that national army men would not be
given Christmas furloughs unless
hey live within trolley distance of
the cantonments seriously affects the
conditions in this camp. It has beer,
planned to give half the men here,
dividing them into two groups, one
furlough for Christmas and the other
for New Years.
Very few men have homes within
th« trolley, distance.
GRONNA HAS BEEN ASKED TO
SUPPORT THE GOVERNMENT.
*^he bar of Cass county has added its
protest to the course of Senator Gron
na jn opposition to the war policy, of
government, and has adopted a
lution asking him to "loyally anc.
tatingly support the govern
mjjnt and assist in every way th
raising and maintaining of a grea
Hlfty {um3 ,navy." .'-Several organiza
tions of .traveling men, railway train
and a host of citizens of other or
nizations, have passed similar reso
ons and it would seem appropriate
senator to pay some heed tc
his constituents.—Fargo Post.
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NO MORE VACCINATION.
The North Dakota State Board
Health has decided to stipend thei*
ruling that all school children shoult
be vaccinated. The reason announced
Unit the serum is impure and un
safe to use. We believe another
reason was that tli2 boaiu
was unable to onioi-.e (ho p:!..-*
However, til is !a:-t ...
given by the Board.—Dor.V:" Vo.u
CITY. SCHOOL NOTES
Hilda Timmck was absent two days
last week on account of illness.
Edward Heiser returned to school
on Wednesday after two months' ab
sence while the family lived on a
farm.
Ray bishop entered third grade on
Wednesday.
John Heiser has returned to school
after two months' absence.
Arhur Luchs was perfect in spelling
last week.
Six new seats have been placed in
the fourth grade school room.
Lydia Flegel had perfect spelling
lessons last week.
John Krick and Christian Timmcke
were absent half of the week.
This grade is preparing a Christmas
program.
Arthur Schott entered school on
Monday, Dec. 3d.
The girls of the high school and 8th
grade have organized a .Literary. So
ciety. The first program will be
given on *Wedneaday, Dec 19th.
The high school and 8th grade boys
have organized a boy's debating class
with the following officers: President,
Walter Mohn secretary and treasurer,
Ronald Schlangen. A program is be
ing arranged for.
There is no age limit on Red Cross
membership. Parents should make
a Christmas gift to their children
of Red Cross memberships. When
the child grows up he will treasure
his membership in the Red Cross be
cause it will prove that he helped
in the fight for Dmocracy and Jus
tice.
Join the Red Cross.
RECORD
STATE COUNCIL OP DEFENSE
A8KS FEDERAL GOVERNENY
FOR IMMEDIATE FUNDS.
DOINGS AT STATE CAPITOL
What Is Transpiring in the Different
Departments Where the Affaire Of
State Government Are
Administered.
North Dakota has reached^HB per
cent of its goal In the food pledge
campaign, figures now totaling 43.971
or 32 per cent of t'.ie total number of
Names Three to Office.
A certiiicale of the uppointment of
Patrick Al. Casey of Cass county, to
I Lewis, lornier chairman of the boar.l
whose resignation took ellei Decern-
liar 1 The new member's term of
office dates trom December 1.
Casey has been president of the
Kquity Co-operative Hacking Plant
Co. since its organization, and has
been prominent in league organization
work.
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Bismarck.
The North Dakota stale council of
defense has wired Secretary Newton
D. Raker urging that he recommend
»n immediate loun lo the I aimers of
North Uakota of lu.OUO.uuo for the
purchase of seed grain anil feed for
stock, as a war measure.
The council of defense found that
In accordance witli the aid that can
be given by counties in the issuance
part of the state.
The question of food, feed and seed
for tiie farmers In this section, the
reports say, is getting serious. Unless
some action is ta!:en, the reports say,
a serious problem will face the farm
ers of the western section of the state
and unless this is remedied the fann
ers will be able to do their duty to
the notion in raising bumper crops
next year.
N. D. Is Under Average.
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German Massacres
S5,aOO,OQOU.S.LOfiN
of seed warrants, under an act of tiers. The men were shot as well an
1909, at least $5,000,000 from same {.he women and children who were i"
other source will he required. »i_ i_ •_
the convent, since shots had been fired
May Ask 8pecial Session. ...
Farmers in the western part of
North Dakota who suffered heavily burnt it afterwards.
when their crqps were destroyed by I "The inhabitants might have es
!ust summer's record drouth, are con- caped the penalty by handing over
templating calling an extra session of the guilty and paying 1(5,000 francs."
the state legislature to secure .funds
lo carry them over the winter without ...
selling their seed wheat, according to
reports received from the western
0n,!
men^i
familles in the state. According to form you that I am a South Dakota
F'ederal Kuod Administrator Dr. 10 I". girl. 1 lived in Pollock when there
Ladil of the North Dakotn Agricui- (was nothing but a box car for a sta
tural College, this Is under the average
for the country.
bition and Injunction against Kobert
Muir, George Totten and C. E. Ver
mllva, restraining them from In any
manner interfering with the official
position or the petitioners
The injunction is returnable in dis
trict court at Qrand Forks where the
papers wore served during a session
of the board there.
100 Farmers Bring 8uit.
One hundred farmers holding un
satisfied claims against the National
Union Fire Insurance Co., or Pitts
burgh, Pa., on crop Insurance policies,
have begun suit in the owman county
district court at Bowman according
to advices received from Obert A. Ol
son by Insurance Commissioner Ols
ness.
Patriotism Displayed by Blind.
Ileal patriotism Is being displayed
by North Dakota's unfortunate wards
who live in eternal darkness at the
Bathgate institution for the blind,
writes Supt. B. P. Chappie to the
state board of control. Cornmeal, 'rye, I
barley and other cereals are replac
lng wheat flour to such an extent that
School Land Sale Approved.
The sale of 35,000 acres of school
lands has been authorized In Barnes
and Dickey counties by the board of
university and school lands, at their
meeting hare. Twenty-one thousand
be a member of the state hoard of living for seven and a half years
control has been tiled with Assi.-tnnt Mr. McKitrick stated in his
Secretary or Stale llilor by (ov that while pnzsin'-through Canada h«»®
ernor Frazler Casey succeeds 11. S. I. .,
never caw a man between til- ages of
The governor also appointed Her-
Courier-News, member of the stute
council ol defense, and appointed I,.
.J. Wehc of Kainsey county, chairman
of the military advisory board. Mr.
Wehe thus becomes custodian of the
military reservation at Devils i.a:e.
Officials Ask Injunction.
have procured from District Judge
M. Cooley, temporary writs of prohl-
bert G. Gaston, editor of the Fargo but these are all men who have mis-
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FXTRACTS FROM GERMAN WAR
DIARIES.
"A horrible bath of blood. The
whole village burnt, the French
thrown into the blnzing houses, civil
ians with the rest." (From the diary
of Private Ilassemer, of the Eighth
Army Corps.)
"Aug. 23d. Our men call
back and said that at the point wrn-r.
the vulley joined the Meunc we could
not jret on any further as the vil
lagers were shooting at us from ev
ery house. We shot the whole lot
1(! of them. They were drawn up in
three ranks the same shot did for
three at a tinu.
The -n had a'ready shown
their brutal instincts.
"The sight of the bodies of all th
inhabitants who had bu-en shot down
•vas indescribable. Every house in
tho whole village was destroyed. W
draggd the villagers one after ai
other out of the most unlikely cor-
rr(,m th: convent
wind°w8:
In the first place, allow me to in-
tion. Although I am a loyal Amei
ican, 1 do not like to se-j Canada run
down in such a manner, for. h:ts Can
ada not given me my education and
IK and 45 who war not either a cripplo
or an idiot I wi:.h very much to re
sent this statement as I know for a
fact that Canada has sent over f0r,
000 soldiers to the front, and can raise
another 500,000 if need be.
Moose Jaw has a Military Hospila
where some of the cripples are kept,
wered the call and who have done
their duty. As for the idiots, I have
seen very few.
1-ewls F. Crawford, president, and Well, I can assure you that Canada
Charles Brewer, secretary, of the has not come to that yet for she still
North Dakota hoard of regents througb
Attorney Andrew Lawrence of Fargo I
He also stated that the train oi,
which he travelled was engineered by
a young man not over 18 years old
has enoUKh able-bodied
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*nm "eventy-cghth Regi-
"weIf th Saxon Corps.)
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A LETTER FROM CANADA,
Moose Jaw, Sask. Can.,
Dec. IS, l'J17.
Editor Emmons County Record,
Linton, N. D.,
Denr Sir:
May I have a small space in your
much read paper to rectify a few
mistakes made in the. letter of on"
G. C. McffftWk, whl^h* rtppenred in
your paper of Nov. 2!lth.
men of the
right ages to run an engine. The
men th,s
coutry
must at
ye®1"8 °f age before they can run
a passenger engine.
The girls here work in munition fac
tories and such places, but I hav.
never heard of girls running switch
engines and throwing switches here.
the consumption has been reduced 50 ters at Minneapolis Dec. 6th. The
per cent. Sugar consumption has been
cut In half meat is served at but one
meal daily, and there is one meatless
day each week.
The reason I wish you to publish
this letter is that Mr. McKitrick's
letter would gjve the impression that
Canada had no men left and that Get
many had Canada nearly bested, and
I assure you this has not come to pass
and never will as long as there is an
able-bodied man in the country.
Yours respectfully,
MISS I.OUTZENHEISER.
BRADDOCK RED CROSS MAKES
SHIPMENT OF SUP
PLIES.
The Braddock branch chapter of
the Emmons County Red Cross mad*
shipment of supplies to headquai
following were the articles shipped:
15 sweaters, 25 pair of socks, 15 bed
-hirts, 10 pair of wristlets and 2 muf
flers. The Braddock chapter is now
sewing on pajamas and night shirts.
This is a very good showing for
chapter of this size. ,«
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