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1 ffc II POtTB S' flw lininti 4 14 At TJ BISMARCK TRIBUNE COMPANY Publication Offices: 202 FOURTH COR. BROADWAY Dally established 1881 Weekly 1873 BY MARSHALL H. JEWELL Oldest In State Dally by carrier 50 cents a month Daily by mail $4.00 per year Weekly by mail $1.50 per year Bntered at the postofQce at marck, N. as second-class matter under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Mnmber Audit Bureau of Circulations Foreign Representatives ijcgan Payne York unicago Boston Detroit TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1916.

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For the 24 hours ending at 7 p. August 28, 1916: Temperature at 7 a. 53 Temperature at 7 p. 78 Higest temperature 83 Precipitation None Higest wind velocity 12-NW Forecast: North Dakota: Partly cloudy and cooler Tuesday Wednesday unsettled and cool. ORRIS W.

ROBERTS, Meteorologist 250 MIL Owing to a typographical error in an editorial, Sunday, the number of miles "of' Toad" 3 worked in Burleigh county last year was given as twenty miles, instead of 250 miles. The agraph in question should have read: "Last year 260 miles of road were this year, with more men. mora equipment and more only MILES It looks as though the Alllies' pol icy of watchful waiting at Salonixr may bring its reward. GREECE NEXT? Roumania's entrance into the world war has been anticipated for some time. Neutrality in the face of recent Balkan developments was no longer possible.

This powerful and prosperous kingdom has been trying to pick a winner for more than two years. Russia's successes and the reverses of the Central Powers on the east and west fronts have forced a decision in favor of the Allies. This declaration of war places garia and Turkey in a most perilous position and adds to the burdens of Austria-Hungary by increasing her war front on the east by several dred miles, which must be defended against the veteran troops of mania, seasoned by two years of mobilization and the various Balkan wars that preceded the present great conflict. Italy's declaration of war upon many- is- a diplomatic development that was inevitable. Germany ered relations formally when Italy went to war with Austria.

Hostile declarations were withheld because German capital is heavily interested In Italy and merchantmen valued at millions of dollars are tied up in ian waters. These willl be ated, giving Italy fresh resources v'ith which to continue her campaign against Austria. Roumania is equipped to be of real service to Russia and the other lies in checking the aggressions of Bulgaria and aiding the great Slavic drive toward the Plains of Hungary. This Balkan state has an army rior to Turkey, Greece or Bulgaria. Its total war strength is 580,000, and the total available unorganized strength is 921,602, factors that must not be overlooked now that all ligerents are showing evidences of the heavy strain.

Roumania has a population of nearly 8,000,000 and has prospered greatly because of the trality which she has just terminated, ed. The decision of Roumania merely makes the condition of Greece, the only remaining neutral, more acute. Two years of vacillation between ily ties and popular demand, have brought matters to a crisis In the Hellenic kingdom that must soon mit in some definite declaration. Greece is practically in the hands of the Allies. Their troops occupy Sa- loniki and a cordon of battleships hem in her navy and stand ready at a moment's notice to blockade her ports.

Greece is neutral but humiliated. Present conditions cannot continue indefinitely. Roumania is the fourteenth power to enter the struggle. The other teen are: Germany, Austria, Turkey, Bulgaria, France, Russia, England, Italy, Belgium, Serbia, Montenegro, Japan and Portugal. The total man power of the tral Powers is 14,800,000, while that of the Allies is approximately 29,000,000.

No, reader, it is in Sioux county, not Burleigh, that they build 20-foot span bridges with steel piling for $1,200. POOR DEFENSE. In a long, wandering article in a weekly paper, Albin Hedstrom, a county commissioner, attempts to fend the four ornamental concrete bridges over Apple creek, built at a great and unnecessary expense to the tax payers. He states that two of them were "built to replace two ancient and safe wooden structures, but he fails to explain adequately why the others are being built. As a matter of fact, the county missioners could have removed the two wooden bridgges built some teen or twenty years ago and laid a road around the creek by securing a right-of-way at a nominal outlay.

Mr. Hedstrom also wri'ec: "The other two bridges were put in where, if they had not, we would have to condemn land around a ural water course, and we would have to build a cattle way to the water, which is practically impossible st this point." Anyone who has studied the ation knows that the road traveled for the last twenty years around thp and in better shape now than most of the county roads, has never worked a hardship upon the catth3 or their owners. We would venture to add not nearly the hardship the county board is imposing upon thf tax payers by building four sary bridges. No, Commissioner Hedstrom will have to find a better al'bl than the cattlw, especially when the owners of the land were willing to eivo thp rounty a thoroughfare around crppk nt. reasonable price, so far below $20,000 that the cost would have been of little moment to the I payers.

I The Tribune's criticism does not I apnlv nnlv to the Red Trail. We are interested in good roads connecting all the enterprising towns of Furle'gh county, with its equally prising farmers. The Red Trail was used because it was the "most rible example" of all that a road should not be. It is silly and futile for the county commissioners to raise the hue and cry of the "city against the country." That is the usual uge of the parish politicians who are seeking a convenient shield for their incompetency and extravagance. Now that the farmers know that only fifty miles have been worked this year as against 250 a year ago, it will take more than a windy cle Bigned by Commissioner strom to explain away conditions ap parent to everyone who has to use the roads.

NECESSITY DEMONSTRATED. Sunday demonstrated the necessity for a bridge over the Missouri. (From 5:00 a. m. until dark, one ferry gled valorously to get some seventyfive or a hundred cars across to Mandan and as many bound for this side of the river.

Probably 100 more cars turned back during the day because facilities for getting across were in adequate. Some waited from 11:00 a. m. Sunday until 3:00 p. m.

to make the trip. Not all were people bound for the baseball game in Mandan. Many of them were enroute to Yellowstone Park or returning east from the Pa ciflc coast points. Seldom has there been finch a congestion of traffic at the river. Nr time or energy should be spared In organizing to secure a passenger bridge over the Missouri.

Now is the 1 time to lay plans. No single improve ment will benefit the Slope more than a traffic bridge over the Missouri. Cheer up, barbers. A Chicago man committed suicide with a safety zor. Cabinet meetings will be filmed in England.

The only motion in such movies, we imagine, will be that of the film. The Colorado beauty who jilted an army captain to marry the heir to the Ingersoll watch manufacturer's millions no doubt 'believes time is money. -t, BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE The Old Gang (Pembina Pioneer Express) Recently a Fargo newspaper referred to the Pioneer Express as one of the "old gang papers," etc. This writer, personally, is rather proud to be credited as an associate of the men who are called by many by the intended insulting name of the "old gang." As a writer in the newspaper field for thirty years what this writer has stood for and what he has opposed is printed in the files of this paper. Looking backward at this time we have little to regret and little that we wish to have explunged.

Personally, the newspaper man writes his own autobiography in his daily or weekly issues. But the men with whom we associated and some forty years ago are known to this generation as the "old gang." Most of these men are now lying in their graves. A few still live but practically all of them are out of politics. Most men have or ought to have the common decency to let the dead rest. But that word "gang" is rolled in the mouth of the political demagogue as a sweet morsel.

It insinuates so much and means so little. When the demagogue says "gang" he means all that is mean. The epithet includes, every possible political crime and probably includes all the crimes on the criminal calendar. Who composed that "old gang?" They were the pioneers of the then territory of Dakota and later of the new states of North and South Dakota. They were the legislators and territorial and state officials.

They were the business men, the professional men, the farmers and in those times this new state was mostly located in the Red river valley. They were the men who built up Fargo, Grand Forks and a thousand smaller towns. They were the men who turned the first sods of the unbroken prairie and who helped build the net work of railways that opened up this wilderness and rescued it from the Indians and buffalo. That these men ran things in those early days much to their own liking is certainly true it had to be true because there were no other sons to run things. But the supposed theory that a certain few men bined to run things political and otherwise for their own special benefit, without reference to the good of the territory or state, is a lie.

In the first place the political combinations were such as are made in any year in any state or locality. Then as now, but more than because or new conditions, new questions were constantly arising and consequently new combinations were being made. But at the present day, these are all lumped into the significant term of "the old gang." In those early days Dakota was situated politically like Texas or any southern state is now. There was but one political party. Nominations at the state conventions meant certain election.

That any set of men in those early days controlled without question the Republican party is nonsense. The fights at the state conventions in those days were something of the dramatic and approached the tragic. As a result the "gang" for the ensuing two years were those who had won out at the last state convention. times it was one set and sometimes it was then as now it was "the gang." For then as now success politically was termed by the defeated as "the gang." Who were these men? Personally they were very much like other human beings. In fact their posterity now living in this state show the usual human characteristics.

Some of these men drank whiskey. You might remember in this connection that President Lincoln wished that he knew what brand of whiskey General Grant drank so that he might present some to his other generals. Some of these men played cards. Some would swear when things did not please them. They were living among environments that appertain to all new countries.

They lived in the wild and wooly west. "By their works ye shall know them." Grant that these men were as bad as the term "offl. gang" insinuates grant as we must that these men in those early years, controlled the tinies of this young state grant as is certain that these gangsters and blers and whiskey drinkers started and steered this ship-of state, then we must also grant that the present state of North Dakota was begun by them. We must grant that these gangsters laid the foundations and helped to build this great state. It was therefore these "whiskey drinkers" that gave this state at its very outset, the best and strictest prohibition.law tha.t qxists on the statutes of any state in the union.

It was these "gamblers" planned and jected the school land funis that in a few years no state will have so great an interest bearing fund for the support of schools as the state of North Dakota. Educationally their only mistake was the establishment of too many schools of higher learning at the heginningt and it took careful financially to keep these schools running, and as a matter of fact-they went down into their own pockets to help out or some of the schools would have had to close. These "profane gangsters" were the men who helped to build the churches, these "lawless ones" made the statutes which are now kept so well that criminality is less than in almost any other state in the union. But we cannot longer specify. If these men, "the gang" ran things in those early days then the verdict must be when we look at the present North Dakota, that they did well.

if it were true that these men were as bad as insinuated, that they did so well is something of a paradox. "Can any good come out of Nazareth?" If thtse bad men did so much good then they certainly deserve just so much more credit. But these men were not bad men. As we said they were human. They had their faults.

But they were great big-hearted fellows, always ready to help a friend, just as they were always ready to fight a political enemy. They were liberal to a fault. They played politics just as they would play a game. They had their rules of honor, they would give and take and lose without a in no case has the word "grafter" ever been applied to any one of them. As we said most of these are dead.

Their work lives after them. As they lie peacefully in their graves over them rises the great state of North Dakota. No men, no set of men have a greater monument. This great building whose first stories are just completed and whose future extensions will form an edifice so broad and so high that it will equal that of any sister built on the foundations laid by that bad "gang." Sometime this state will honor the men whom the thoughtless times call "the gang" and history will tell the truth about the men who laid these foundations so broad and deep. This writer was never one of the gang.

He never had the brains or the power to be a political leader. He has no share In the beginning of things in this state except as the editor of a local weekly paper, but as a humble helper he was and is glad that he was connected with the "gang" that started things right, in this glorious "state of opportunities" good old (new) North Dakota. Bex Beach, author of the e'er at the Auditorium next Monday aad Tuesday. Do Well," ffeUg't ten-red in a. I ORPHEUM BU SH AN-BAYNE-FIGM AN.

Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne, the foremost stejlar tion in motion pictures, Will be seen on the screen here at the Orpheum theatre matinee and tonight only, in "A Million a Minute," a. strong fivepart Metro wonderplay. This feature was produced by the Quality tures Corporation for the Metro gram under the direction of John W. Noble and his assistant, William Failey, who also plays an important role.

It is a thrilling story of mystery, mance, intrigue and adventure, ing two continents and containing many interesting characters. There are scores of interesting scenes made in and around New York and others with a true atmosphere of Paris and its underworld. Some of the striking situations were graphed aboard a transatlantic er as she was coming up the bay, and afford many glimpses of the famous New York skyscrapers an dthe city's wonderful water front. A prominent New York restaurant was used toy Metro players to obtain some of the big scenes, the cullmination of which is a realistic fight. 'Mr.

Bushman and Miss Bayne are surrounded by an unusually strong supporting cast in "A Million a ute." There are a half dozen artists who hae appeared in leading roles in other productions, including Helen Dunbar, Robert Cumminggs, John Daidson, Charles Prince, Carl Brickert, Mary Moore, iWalker and rome Wilson. "A (Million a Minute" promises to be one of the sensations of the season, and both Mr. Bushman and Miss Bayne are seen at their best in roles especially suited to their tinctive talents. In addition to this iMetro wonderplay Max Figman, Bismarck's most popular stage favorite, will be seen in his first comedy under the Metro banner, entitled, "His Birthday Gift." Comments nthis refined comedy are very good an deveryone who has seen Max iFigman when he appeared in Bismarck on the stage knows very well that he is a sure fun maker. Specially arranged music will be ed for this program by the Orpheum orchestra that sets the pace.

you are not going to start a serial ture then see thi sail-star feature gram, which is complete from start to finish, with no advance in prices. Again, we say, this is the best Bushman-Bayne picture produced under the Metro company. The matinee starts at 3:30, and the first evening performance at 7:30, with the ond at 9:00. GRAND Manager Wolf of the Grand theatre today has one of the best and est programs for his patrons of the season, opening the serial Miss Billie Burke in "Gloria's Romance," which holds the exclusive rights on for marck in conjunction with the noted screen offering he will present the laugh in one comedy in one reel "When It Rains It Pours" by the Vitagraph company and a 3 reel cial Lubin Expation. The Grand has enlarged its tra to 4 pieces Mrs.

Cook at the piano, Mr. Clifford Reckow at the violin. Athol Newall Druns and Leo Hassel who arries in the city today from troit, and- who plays cornet and 'cello. This same orchestra will play all matinees and night shows ing Friday will see the opening of the vaudeville season and the Unconquered! management has selected one of the best bills possible for this' event ing direct from the Grand in Fargo. I BISMARCK In all the thousands of motion tures which have been given to the public, never has a star been gowned with the sort, of frocks, hats, shoes and lingerie that Miss Billie Burke is to wear in "Gloria's Romance," the new motion picture novel from the pen of Mr.

and Mrs. Rupert Hughes, which the Bismarck theater has ed, and the first chapter of which will be seen on the screen today. In stageland Miss Burke is famous for the wonderful gowns that have graced her person, each season ing to have found her with a more gorgeous array than the preceding one, but during the course of the new animated novel she is going to wear1 costumes especially designed for her by Henri Bendei, Lucile and Balcom, that will outshine any gowns in which she has been seen in the past. In "Gloria's Romance," in which Miss Burke portrays the role of a weailthy society girl, a $15,000 sian sable coat will be seen, together with a ermine coat, a $9,000 chinchilla coat, a blue and gold and metal embroidered evening coat, med with a silver fox fur, valued at $2,500, and a dinner gown trimmed with lace that was priced at $150 per yard. Feminine picture goers will find the picture a regular fashion zaar and undoubtedly will follow it with interest.

JUST IN FUN HEARD IN A CAFE. "Waiter, two eggs and boil them four minutes." "Yes, sir be ready in half a second, sir." EDUCATION. "Edward," said his mother, "I want you to stop taking the toys away from him. It isn't a bit nice of you to tease your little brother." "I'm not teasing him, mother. I'm just trying to teach him to keep his Y.

World. MUCH ALIKE. "Dear me! Isn't that just too voking!" exclaimed Mrs. Van Style as she opened the parcels which had just arrived from the department store. "What is it dear?" asked her band.

"Didn't they send you the things you ordered?" "Yes, they sent them right enpugh, but I can't remember which is the bathing suit and which is the street Y. World. LIKE FATHER, LIKE DAUGHTER. Mr. Mr.

Bonds posed to you, eh! Well, he's worth a cool million. Did you accept him? Miss exactly, papa but I secured a ten days' option on him. PROBABLY NOT. An implement has been invented to enable a blind person to thread a needle. If it works could a with two good ey.es use ville Courier Journal.

FRESH. "Johnny Jones," the teacher severely. "Is that chewing gum you have in your mouth?" "Yes, ma'am." "Bring it to me this instant." "If you'll wait till tomorrow, er. 'Ill bring you a piece that aih't World. NO, INDEED.

"That comedian is a wonderful mimic. Hie can take off anything." hasn't got anything on the glrla Y. World. TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1916. STATE BRIEFS Glen A.

Lethert left on Sunday for his new parish at Freeport, Minn. Des Lacs: Winter rye just ed in this section has yielded from 12 to 15 bushels an acre, and of fairly good grade. Van new natty uniform coats worn by the Scandinavian state bank staff gives them quite a military aspect. xie.H-i'V two-year-old ter of Mr. and Mrs.

Joe iBohrer of Stanton fell into an open well with the result that her collarbone was Grand Forks: St. Michael's chial school, for the establishment of which a movement was begun a year ago, in connection with St. Michael's parish in this city, is now nearing completion. of a wheat hed, which stuck in her throat when she attempted to eat the grain, caused the death of Helen Chapek, 11months-old daughter of Fred Chapek of Anamoose. he drank ly of turpentine, the 17-months-old child of 'Mr.

and 'Mrs. son, of Kildeer will recover. The baby's plight was discovered almost immediately, and that fact made it possible to save his life. Van Vines was the first depositor in the Fanners' State bank new building. Sunday last while out driving he chased a Jack rabbit into town.

Reaching the new ing the rabbit made a miscalculated leap and landed in the opening for the now vault where it was captured. Hyder, Charged with shooting game out of season, resisting an ficer and threatened assault, Ed. flchoffelboln, living six miles north of (Ryder, had a warrant for arrest ed on him by Deputy Game Warden Emll Eckholm. Scheffelbein was given a hearing and bound over to the district court under $300 bonds. the opening of the schools throughout the country but a few weeks away there are about a dozen vacancies to bo filled.

Mrs. Sabin, the county superintendent, stated the first of the week that ry calls had been sent to state mals and to employment bulreaus for first grade teachers of experience. threshing machines started up the first of the week hut as yet we have ibeen unable to get any definite reports on yields. Will Engelhom threshed afield of oats that yielded about 29 bushels per acre, weighing 28 lbs. He also ed in come velvet chaff that weighed 54 pounds.

Hans Solberg threshed some durum wheat that weigher 58 pounds which he thought would yield 12 bushels per acre. Barley is testing all the way from 36 to 42 pounds per bushel. New B. Hanson of this city thinks two robbers who costed him on a highway between Douglas and Max went a step too far when they removed his othlag and cut it to shreds, seeking more money after they already had tftken $70 in cash from him. The robbers were under the impression, they told son, that he was earning about $1,000, and so determined were they to get the loot that they cut son's clothing to bits.

In the ness of the night, Hanson returned to town, and notified the police, Two -suspects have been-arrested..