Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 28, 1920, Page 2

September 1.—Opening date of Be- + midji Public schools. Sept. 4-11--Minnesota State Fair. September 7.—Opening of fall term of Bemidji Normal school. Sept. 6.—Bemidji Business college opens fall term. Sept. 13, 14, 15—Red Lake Fair, Red Lake, Minn. Sept. 15, 16, 17—Beltrami County Fair. CANADA PLANS TRAP FOR SALMON EATERS Vancouver, B. C., August 28.—Be- sides being the greatest enemy of ‘salmon in the great Canadian fisher- ies in the Fraser river and Gulf of Georgia, the hair seal is a clever . -beast. 4 And that is why the government is planning a strategic ¢oup to bring to a climax its long war of extermina- tion against the destroyers. And be- cause the tricky seals have outwitted the fisheries agents on other occa- gions, the government is not going to let the seals hear an inkling of the plan until it is all ready for “pulling” it. ) For years these seals have defied all efforts at their extinction. When the tide is out, thousands of them may be seen sunning themselves on the sand near the railroad terminals here. They raid the nets of the fish- ermen, rob them of their fish and tear great holes in the nets, thru which the imprisoned salmon escape. They even train in the wake of fishing boats and steal the fish right off the lines. The government began by offering a bounty for their tails. But as get- ting the bounty meant getting the tails first, the plan was a fiasco, for riflemen could not get within range -~ -of the seals before they scampered away. Next the government tried explosives. It planted dynamite un- der the sand and when the seals had come out to enjoy the sun, the agents would touch off the explosive with electricity. The jolt merely threw the animals far out into thte sea, and it was not long before they came back to enjoy the sport some more. Very few of them were killed in that manner. Now, exasperated, the government ‘believes it has the idea that will turn the trick. It will stretch across the salmon beds long lines hung closely with short ropes, to the ends of which will be fastened great hooks of barb- ed steel. When the seals plunge thru the net like barrier in pursuit of a salmon dinner, it is believed they will impale themselves on the spars.” A few fishermen believe the seal will gee thru the trick and refuse to take the fatal plunge.. The seal, they maintain, is-a smart animal. : FRANCE'S PASSION PLAY . RIVALS OBER-AMMERGAU bl - By Henry Wood (United Press Correspondent) Paris, August 14, '(By Mail).—Af- ter having put over one In Germany in the matter of war, France has just decided to put over another one with a French Ober-Ammergau. This is the latest development of Franco-German post-war competi- tion. Reports from the Bavarian Passion Play ‘center, indicate that the Ober-Ammergau actors &nd ac- tresses consider France is taking an upfair advantage of them. The Passion Play at Ober-Ammer- gau which is given cvery ten years would ordinarily have taken place this year. Owing to the fact., how- ever, that the Bavarian population can’t scare up enough food for them- gelves to say nothing of Teeding hun- dreds of thousands of visitors who flock there every year for the sacred drama, this year's presentation had to be called off for the first time +ince the fnauguration of the drama. With food a little more plentiful in France, the latter has undertaken to see to it that the world won’t suf- fer for lack of a Passion play be- cause of 'the German food shortage. Incidentally France hopes to give her Passion Play such a eend off this year that hereafter she will be serious eompetitor of the Ober-Ammergau zhow. * " Prance’s Passion Play, which was founded in 1904, but which had to ue suspended ‘during the war, has just resumed business at its original stand at Nancy under remarkably encourageing and impressive circum- stances. The Nancy Passion was founded by the ‘Monsignor Petit, dean of the dio- <cese, and he is still in charge. Like 3y The Eight Lunatic Chinks, a New York Hippodrome act, will be a big vaudeville feature of the Min- nesota State Fair, Twin Citles, Sept. 4 to 11. A A A A A A A A A A A AP AP the Ober-Ammergau play it is given every Sunday and .constitutes an en- tire day’s performance. The play opens at 9 in the morn- ing and save for an hour and a half at noon for lunch continues till & in the evening. / The cast is made up of 400 actors and actresses all drawn from the peasant and workmen’s classes of Nancy and vicinity. During the war many of the or- iginal members.of the cast were kill- ed or wounded while the theatre in which the Passion Play is given was ‘badly damaged by a bomb from an airplane—hurled purposely the Nan- “LUNATIC” CHINKS " 'THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER l TIMBER SUITABLE FOR LUMBER IS BEING CUT 'FASTER THAN GROWTH|.. Original White Pine Stand Has Been Reduced to Eight Billion Board Feet ‘Washington, D. C., Aug. 28.—Out of a total original forest area of ap- proximately 112 million "acres, the lake states now have little, if any, more than 25 million acres; an or- iginal white-pine stand estimated at not less than 350 billion ‘board feet has been reduced to 8 billion board feet; the stand of timber suitable for lumber is being cut more than three times as rapidly as it is grown; in another decade the per capita con- sumption of lumber in the lake states must either fall from 300 to nearly 200 board feet per year, or nearly one-third of the lumber needed for home use must be imported. These are the outstanding facts regarding the Lake states contained in a re- port on timber conditions of the country made to the United States senate by the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agri- culture. | New York, Aug. 28.—The/ amonnt; of timber.cut each year from the for-! ests of the United States is about three times the annual growth, it is declared by the National Bank of Commerce in New York in a review| of the American lumber industry pub-| lished in the August number of its! magazine, Commerce Monthly. Lack of an adequate national forest nolicv together with speculation in:private- ly owned timber lands and the ab-| sence within the industry itself, have all. combined rapidly to reduce the country’s timber resources. Provi-, sions for reforestation up to.the pre- sent have been entirely inadequate and the oncoming growth is ordinar- ily of inferior species and grade. ‘The Government’s policy of aliena- tion of its timberlands, the bank points out, has resulted in only about one-fifth of the present stand being AUTHORITIES BUSY IN - MOST EASTERN STATES (By United Press) New Haven, Conn., Aug. 28.—Pro- hibition may or may not be a suc- cess in Connecticut. It all depends upon what standpoint is taken. In materfal, the enforcement authorit- ies have much to show for ' their work. But as far as getting some- thing to drink is c¢oncerned—well, that is another story. A day when a truck load of booze is not intercepted iz almost an ex- ception to the rule. Confiscated whiskey now in the hands of the authorities is valued at more than half a milion dollars. The value at pervailing prices. is much higher. Alcohol worth $750,000. according to enforcement agent’s valuation, has also been seized. The motor .rucks and pleasure vehicles, used in liquor running and confiscated with the centraband, number nearly a hun- dred and are worth more than $200,- 000. * The old Boston Post Road is daily the scene of as thrilling hold-ups as were ever enacted in the days of the stage coach. Many arrests are made CHIEF BRAND BUITER The best on the market, publicly owned, where as in 1870 the government owned approximately three-fourths of the country’s tim- ber. BOY. CLAWED BY CIRCUS ;; LION. NEAR DEATH the more you eat the better you like it. Ask your dealer for a pound today. Beach, N. D, Aug. 27.—Harold Eide, eleven, was near death in a Dickinson hospital today after a lion- ess had clawed him. The b6y got too near a circus animal cage. His scalp was half torn off, and his arms and shoulders lacerated. He was rescued after the lioness had been beaten twice with iron bars. cy players believe, by their rivals across the Rhine. ¢ ‘The theatre, however, has now| been fully repaired and the cast filled out with new members that are de- clared to be worthy of the original ones killed during the war. ¢ American and English tourists who have this year visited the Nancy Pas- sion in place of the usual one at Ob- er-Ammergau are most enthusiastic in their praise and declare it to be a worthy rival from every point of view—stage setting, music, tableaux, acting and sincerety and piousness of | ] production. Dean Petit has devoted practically his entire time since 1904 to the per- fection of the play.and the training of his big troup of 400 people. Many of the big tableaux are de- clared to be of the highest artistic| presentation. The people of Nancy have every intention of making their -Passion-a- permanent institution and of sharing in the future the world-wide fame and popularity of the Bavarian pre- sentation. GASTON SOLD TO NEW YORK Milwaukee, Aug. 27—Catcher Gas- ton of the sMilwaukee American as- sociation baseball club has been sold to the New York National League olub thru a player deal, the partic- ulars not being announced, and Pit- cher McWeeney has been disposed of to the Chicago American League club for $6,5600. "Minneapolis School ~ of Music Oratory and Dramatic Art 60-62 ELEVENTH ST. SO. Largest, best equipped and most Progressive School in the, Northwest. ‘Puplls only possible state schools. William M. Pontius, | Director of year. have advantages in endowed or Artist recitals once each week throughout the schook SCHOOL MAINTAINS.Own Lyceum an'd Chautauqua Company, Student Orchestra, String Quartette. 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