Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 3, 1915, Page 1

VOLUME 13, NO. 211, BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1915. = e SPECIAL GAME WARDENS WiLL WATEH SO°NERS O, Warden Bailey Announces In\.\%e, . to Make Hunters Live Up to % Letter of Law. NEW LAWS EMBODY SEVERAL VERY IMPORTANT CHANGES Hunting Ducks in water Prohibited Bag Limit Law Also Changed. Game Warden Sherm Bailey today announced that he would appoint sev- eral special men for the next few days to assist him in watching for ‘“‘soon- ers.” The season opens Sept. 7 but several of the hunters in this terri- toary become inpatient and usually attempt to begin the season early. Every “sooner” caught will be arrest- ed. New Features in Law. Several new features in laws em- bodying changes made by the last Legislature were outlined in a letter received from Carlos Avery, Game and Fish Commissioner, today. The letter reads in part: Licensed Revenue. “First, the hunting license law af- fecting game birds is so changed, as to require a license of all persons over twenty-one years of age for hunting birds except on land owned or leased and occupied by themselves. This exception applies also to members of the immediate family of such resi- dent. Minors between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one years may hunt game birds without a license Lut they should be granted licenses if applied for the same as to persons over twenty-one years of age. Boys under fourteen years of age are not permitted to carry fire arms or to hunt except in the presence of a par- ent or guardian. Duck Shooting Affected. ‘“Second, another feature of the new provision of the law which is of greatest importance as affecting duck shooting, is that which forbids Lunting or pursuing ducks on the open water. All experienced duck hunters realize that such methods are extremely injiirious to shooting, as the ducks, if not permitted to rest or feed will quickly leave the coun- try. Under this new provision, duck shooting may be done on passes or from blinds constructed within the natural growth of vegetation of the lake or from boats propelled by oars or paddles within such vegetation. It is unlawful to hunt or shoot aquatic fowl from a motor boat. Bag Limit Changed. “The bag limit law of birds has also been changed. An opinion has been requested of the attorney gen- eral for the proper construction of this provision, especially with refer- ence to the number allowed in a mixed bag. As soon as this opinion is received it will be announced.” NORTHERN GLUB TO GIVE PLAY TONIGHT Four-act Comedy Drama to Be Given for Benefit of Skoogland Family —Bemidji Citizens to Attend. The Young People’s club of the Town of Northern will present a four- act comedy drama, ‘“The Daughter of the Desert,” in the new barn of N. G. Reynolds tonight. The play is to be given for the benefit of Alfred Skoogland and family who lost their home in the Town of Northern re- cently by fire. Many people from Bemidji are planning to attend the production to- night. OLD SOLDIERS QUSTED BY SUPREME COURT DECISION St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 3.—Attorney General L. AY'Smith advised A. J. Rush, state oil inspector, today that he had prepared an appeal to the state supreme court holding that B. F. Glencoe, let out by the department in April, was entitled to his job as deputy inspector. The case will be argued during October. Three other deputies claim- ing to be old soldiers ,therefore, not subject to removal, will be affected by the supreme court decision. MAGKENSEN GIVEN ~ BLACK EAGLE ORDER Aisterdam, Sept. 3.—Kaiser Wil- helm today conferred the order of the black eagle upon Mackensen on ac- count of the quick capture of the Russian . stronghold, Brestilitovsk. KX KKK KKK KK KKK KK x * SOLWAY HAS RECORD CROP * From Solway comes the re- port of a record crop. When the five-acre crop of Swedish select oats was threshed re- cently on the farm of T. J. Lomman, near Solway, pro- duced 98 bushels to the acre. ¢, Another field of eleven acres ¢, “hich, according to the re- should be considered as . ncres on account of thy o ves being swamped, went ver 82 bushels to the acre. Barley went over 40 bushels to the acre. B. E. Tweeten, M. A. Dille, A. Fredrickson, Nels Saltness, Dave Powers, D. Powers, Nels Bye, Frank Jackson, Chris Siverud of Solway are willing to furnish affidavits on the accuracy of the number of bushels threshed. ok kok ok kK & o odkokk ok ok ok ok ok ok ok kA ok ok ok ok k ok k ok k ok k Xr Ak Ak Ak kA kkk ke kk kP TR KKK KK KKK KKK K GERMANS CAPTURE GITY OF GRODNO Russian Fortresses Fall Before At- tack of Field Marshall Von Hindenberg. BRITISH TRANSPORT STRIKES MINE; 600 BODIES RECOVERED 320 Officers on Ship Attempts En- trance to Dardanelles and is Sunk; All Drowned. Berlin, Sept. 3.—Austro-German forces headed by Field Marshall Von Hindenberg today captured the City of Grodno in Russia today. All the forts were captured and the forces en- tered the city after a desperate street battle. The western forts at Grodno were evacuated yesterday after two of them had been destroyed by the heavy Ger- man artillery and then stormed by German infantry. SHIP SINKS IMMEDIATELY Berlin, Sept. 3.—A British trans- port struck a mine off the entrance of the Dardanelles today and immedi- ately sank. All on board were drowned. It is believed that there were 320 officers, 1,250 men and a crew of 300 on board the ship. Over 600 bodies have been recovered. INDIAN AGENTS LOCATE SIX GALLONS OF BOOZE Indian Agents Carson and Conk- lin found two suit cases containing three gallons each of booze on the M. & I train from Brainerd to Be- midji yesterday morning. No trace of the owners were found. WILL' SHIP BELTRAMI COUNTY EXHIBIT TONIGHT The Beltrami county exhibit to the State Fair will be shipped to St. Paul tonight. e A complete list of the exhibits will be published in Saturday’s issue of the Pioneer. JAPS ARE SHIPPING MUNITIONS TO ALLIES London, Sept. 3.—Japan is ship- ping a large amount of munitions to the Allies, it was learned today. The British forces at the Darda- nelles are using Japanese rifles. It is understood that Japan re- cently sent artillery to Russia. GOLDBERG MOVES SHOE STORE Jacob Goldberg has moved his shoe store from Beltrami avenue to Third street, into the buidling formerly oc- cupied by the Beltrami Music com- pany. SCOO THE CUB REPORTER STORM IN MATITOBA DOES MILLION DOLLAR DAMAGE T0 CROPS Eleven Towns Hit by Cyclone; Buildings Blown Down; Grain Stacks Scattered. — Winnipeg, Sept. 3.—Late reports indicate enormous damage dome by the cyclonic wind which swept cen- tral Manitoba from Butte southeast to Gladstone yesterday. The wind swept clear a path from 9 to 16 miles and traveled nearly 150 miles.. Hay stacks and grain stacks were scatter- ed broadcast, while buildings were ‘unroofed and many moved from their foundations. Telephone and . tele- graph wires were blown down in all directions and it is generally re- garded as the worst wind storm in the province’s history, with damage near $1,000,000. Eleven Towns Hit. The towns visited were Butte, Riv- ers, Minnedosa, Beulah, Mineota, Gladstone, Plumas, Melville, Yorkton, Hamiota and Rapid City. In Hamiota buildings were blown down and roofs twisted around but the real damage is to the crop. Sev- enty per cent of the crop was in shocks and wind and hail has torn whole fields of shocks to pieces, threshing the grain out, while the standing crop was beaten flat. At Beulah, on the Canadian North- ern, a work train was wrecked. General Superintendent Brewer of the Grand Trunk Pacific has sent re- lief trains. The sections worst hit are partic- ularly unfortunate this year, for al- though the crop was delayed by frost in the spring, they had hoped to have harvested one of the best erops ever grown. FEDERAL AID COMES TO STATE AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 3.—The state school of agriculture was $12,144 richer today. The money is Minne- sota’s share of an appropriation under the Lever act, for federal aid for agricultural extension .work. MISS CARRIE KRAHN. . .. WEDS ROBERT KROHN Last evening at the home of the bride in Tenstrike occurred the mar- riage of Miss Carrie Lyle Krahn to Robert O. Krohn, also of Tenstrike. Rev. I. D. Alvord, pastor of the Baptist church of Bemidji, officiated. Miss Esther Fleischman was brides- maid and the groom was attended by Norman Knox. The rooms were prettily decorated with evergreens and the ceremony was performed under a large arch of evergreens and flowers, yellow and green being the color scheme carried out in the decorations. The bride carried a bouquet of bride’s roses and sweet peas. After the ceremony a wedding din- ner was served to thirty guests, im- mediate friends of the bride and groom. Mr. and Mrs. Krohn were the recipients of many beautiful gifts. RAILROAD EARNINGS DECREASE | St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 3.—Decrease of more than $100,000 as compared with the income from gross earnings taxes paid the state by the railroads will probably be shown in the corres- ponding period of 1914 and this year. JUNE SETTLEMENT FOR GITY WARRANTS George W. Rhea, city treasurer, today announced that the June set- tlement received from the County of Beltrami, $16,920.58, would be used to take up a portion of the outstand- ing warrants issued since May 1, 1914. All warrants prior to this time have been taken up, as announced in the Pioneer several days ago. Subscribe for the Pioneer. | phoid, fever. £ | CONDITION OF PRISONER IMPROVES—BACK TO JAIL ON STATUARY CHARGE The condition of George Clark, a homestegder of the Northwest Angle, who was operated upon by Dr. E. W. Johnson, county physician, at the St. Anthony hospital is reported im- proved today. | He will problflzly be released from the hospital Monday and taken back] to the county jail where he has been awaiting the action of the grand jury on a statuary charge. Clark was taken;sick at the county Jjail last Saturday. MexmANs; MURDER TWO' AMERICANS Bodies of Earl Donaldson and Edward Smith Are; Found Near Brownsville, Brownsville, Tex., Sept. 3.—Four hundred men of ithe United soldiers are teday scouring this section for the Mexican .bands that yesterday murdered two Americans. The bands escaped capture. The bullet-riddled bodies of two Americans, who were kidnapped by Mexican bandits were found in the bed of a dried up lake 12 miles north of Brownsville. Lived in Missouri. The bodies are :those of Earl Don- aldson, who recently came here from Missouri and engaged in farming, and Edward Smith, engineer in charge of the construction of an ir- rigation canal. Ancieto Tizano, who engaged in a fight near the border over a month ago and escaped to Mexico and whose name was. later found signed to circulars inciting the Mexicans to revolt, is said to have been the leader cf the bandits. FUNERAL OF FOREST RANGER HELD TODAY L. F. Johnson, .forest ranger, left this morning for' Big Falls, Minn., where he will attend the funeral of Gust Peterson, forest ranger of Dis- trict 15, who rec?ntly died from ty- Mr. Johnson will remain in Big Falls for a few days and make ar- rangements to supervise the work formerly entrusted to Mr. Peterson. BAND TO TAKE PART IN FAIR GELEBRATION A Northern Minnesota day cele- bration, culminating in an evening reception at the West hotel in Min- neapolis, is to be a new feature at the Minnesota State Fair this year. Saturday, Sept. 11, has been picked as the day. The Bemidji and Hibbing bands which are to play at the fair all week are expected to take part in the celébration. BOARDING HOUSE RAIDED; 132 BOTTLES SMASHED An Austrian boarding house at Woodrow, a mining town six miles from Brainerd, was raided recently by Deputy Indian Agents Carson and Conklin and Chief of Police Harry Squires of Brainerd. Over 725 bottles of beer were smashed. No resistance was made by the occupants of the boarding house. i PAYS TO ADVERTISE ¥ * x That it pays to advertise is & evident from the returns re- ¥ ceived from two want adver- % tisements recently published % in the Daily Pioneer. Eugene Berman and Dr. E. H. Mar- % cum sold their Ford and Case * automobiles, respectively, as ¥ a result of the advertisements. * ¥ ¥ * ok ok kkk ok ok ok ok ok ok kK HHH KK HK KKK KKK WILLIAMS-MLOUGHLIN FORNATIONAL NETTITlE Only Four Players Remain From a Field of 128 in Champion- ship Games. Forest Hills, N. Y., Sept. 3.—Four players today survive the 128 tennis experts who started in the national championship tournament. Present indications this afternoon are that R. Norris Williams, the pres- ent champion, and Maurice McLough- lin of California will survive the con- tests and will play off the fial matches. Both men have been a trifle off form during the contests, but at that, they appeared to have a sufficient edge upon all comers. Kahl Behr, who has been playing a star game may survive the contests and get into the finals with Williams and McLoughlin. OH! WILLIE, ARE YOU GLAD THAT YOU DON'T LIVE IN DETROIT Detroit, Mich.,, Sept. 3.—Time clocks will be installed in the new $300,000 Highland Park high school. Pupils will be required to ring ‘“in” and ‘“out.” PAYROLL AT POST OFFIGE OVER $1,200 The monthly payroll at the Be- midji postoffice is between $1,200 and $1,300 per month. Checks for this amount have been received from the St. Paul office far the month of Au- gust. "Postal savings now amount to near- ly $10,000, according to a statement made by an official today. Insurance rates on parcel post have been changed. Any article up to five dollars value can now be in- sured for three cents instead of five cents. Anything over $50 can be insured for 25 cents, the government having recently increased the value limit to $100. GERMAN ASS'N AFTER ~f; . SOUTH- AMERICAN- TRADE Berlin, Sept. 3.—Germany is going after the Central and South Amer- ican trade, according to plans made at a meeting of the newly formed German Economic association here. The delegates decided that Ger- many should not lose good connec- tions in these countries on account of the war. Doctor Barnard Dernberg is' the president of the association. He plans to go to South America in the near future. ONE PLEADS GUILTY T0 ELECTION FRAUD Indianapolis, Sept. 3.— BEarnest Rider, former roadhouse keeper, who wag indicted with a hundred other people on charges of corruption in Marion county elections, today plead- ed guilty. He is the eighth of the hundred to plead guilty. JUDGE SPOONER WINS GCOMPENSATION AGT GASE The case of James Murso against Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bancroft, Interna- tional Falls, a suit under the work- ingmen’s compensation act, heard recently at Walker before Judge Stanton, has been decided in favor of the defendants who were represented by Judge M. A. Spooner of Bemidji. Murso contracted blood poison while working for the defendants and brought the suit. VISIT IN BEMIDJI Mr. and Mrs. E. R. King and daugh- ter of Red Lake are visiting in Be- midji today. GERMANY FOR PEACE, SEEKS IDEA OF LEVYING TRIBUTE DEFEATED Persistency of Demands Under Present Conditions Means War to Devas- tating End, Says Mason. (By J. W. T. Mason.) Germany has now recognized Sir Ed- ward Grey’s charge that the Teutonic people are fighting for tribute. No de- nial is made to the charge. Instead, the German papers taunt England with being more fearful of paying a war in- demnity than of see- > Ing* her allies lose IW T Moson any territory. British Are Angered. This is declared in Berlin to be the reason why the British are soon angered at the mention of the. word “tribute.” The argument, however, is not legitimate. England herself, with her grip on the lost colonies and her successful blockade of German shipping, is certainly not in a posi- tion of disadvantage. There can be no levy of tribute on England, nor any seizure of British territory either under present conditions, or any con- ditions at all likely to arlse before the conclusion of the war. Newspapers Not Ignorant. The German newspapers are not ignorant of these things. Probably they are attempting to. confuse the issue of war indemnities; or they are trying to create international excite- ment and trepidation so as to reap a reaction in their favor if they an- rounce later that they want no trib- ute. There is a hint in the official North German, gazette that the lat- ter possibility may be the right one. England is accused of misinterpreting remarks of the German finance minis- ter concerning . Germany’s internal financial situation. It is possible .the:North German Gazette may short- ly announce-the-finance minister’s re- marks about Germanys’ enemies pay- ing for the war are similarly misun- derstood. i Cannot Infer Outcome. But it is not legitimate to infer this outcome for the moment. Germany knows the Allies now believe the Ger- man army is now fighting for tribute. As long as that imp$ession is allowed to Eo uncorrected, it must be assumed by the Allies to be true. If it be true, -there eertainly can be no peace’ until one side or the other is so finan- cially exhausted that all possibility of obtaining an indemnity would have vanished. Tribute Preferred. That is, since exhaustion rather than tribute is preferred by all of the belligerents, the idea of levying a tribute really defeats itself. There can be no tribute—that is, no tribute worth fighting for—collected from a nation that is bankrupt. To persist in a demand for tribute, there- fore, under present conditions means to persist in fighting the war to a devasting end. Such a conclusion would leave the victor scarcely better than the vanquished, and certainly unable to make good the losses such a conflict would entail. MISS EMMA NOESON WINS PIANO GONTEST The piano contest at the Huffman & O’Leary furniture store was com- pleted yesterday. Miss Emma Noeson received 75,- 947,835 votes and won the piano. Miss Ellen Crothers won the second prize, a_coupon for a part payment on a‘piano or a watch. She had 72,327,258 votes. 5 The contest was very successful. You can never tell from a girl’s |batmng suit how shrinking she is. HELP OF U, S, Embassy at Washington Hints of Country Moving for Early End of War. = Enlistment of President’s Support Is Given as Reason for Curbing : Submarines. TERMS THAT WILL BE GRANTED BY KAISER ARE OUTLINED Influence of United States Necessary. to End War Says Ambassador Von Bernstorf. . KRR KKK KKK KKK KK KE GERMANY’S REPORTED PRICE OF PEACE : New York, Sept. 3.—Infor- mation from an authoritative source gives the following as terms which Germany will demand for peace at the pres- ent time: Erection of an independent kingdom of Poland as a buffer state between Russia and Ger- many. Cession of a part of if not of _ all of Courland by Russia to Germany. . Provision by Russia for the autonomy of Finland. Partition of Serbia between. Austria and Bulgaria, with. i3 possibly a portion of the little: 3 kingdom going to Greece. : Cession of the Belgian Con- 80 to Germany as compensa- tion for the evacuation of Bel- gium. . Cession of African colonial - territory to Germany by France as compensation for the exacuation of northern France. 4 Restoration of African col- 94 onies to Germany by Great Britain. : An international agreemgnt _ on the freedom of ‘the guaranteeing private property. at sea immunity from attack by naval forces.* - KA AKX A XA A XA LA A T AA XA T AKX AN AXRKTA A A KA AR KA A KAk kK KRR KRR KRR KS Washington, Sept. 5.—An. .au- thoritative although unofficial state- ment emanating from the German embassy today a representative of the embassy today to a representative of the United Press is that the object of Germany’s action in presenting the 3 note of assurance to the American government was primarily to join for- ces with the United States in fts ef- fort to establish the freedom of the seas and to promulgate an early Eu- ropean peace. The settlement of the question of principle at stake between the Amer- ican and the German governments was a secondary object. Germany’s Attitude Given. From ‘this source also came this statement of Germany’s attitude to- ward peace: “That the Allies six months ago could have accomplished a peace wherein Germany would have sought nothing but freedom of the seas. That the Allies can at this time establish a peace by agreeing to Polish free- dom, to freedom of the seas, and that the Jews of all countries be unequiv- ocally accorded their inalienable rights as human beings. “That a year from now, when Ger- many’s conquests and victories have mounted higher and higher, the Al- lies can establish peace only by more and greater concessions than those outlined at present.” : Formal Note ted. The administration expects a for- mal note from Germany on the gem- eral subject of submarine warfare, in addition to the ‘“‘memorandum’’ Ambassador Bernstorft presented Wednesday, the state department ad- mitted today. It was reported, however, that Ber- lin would first report on the Arabis’ incjdent. - z With the situation growing out of the Arabic incident out of the way, Germany’s reply to the last American - note on the Lusitania will be forth- coming. If that is satistactory to the United States it is believed that the Washington government will then turn its attention to the problem of neutral commerce. % - New York, Sept. 3.—*“In my opin-- ion peace could be achieved at this time only by the influence of .the president of the United States.” This is the purport of a personal message which Count Von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, sent to the Kkaiser two days before the ‘sinking of the Arabie, according to informa- tion obtained today from official Ger- man sources. 7 The Want Column will give you the desjred information.