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1 5H5J HUNTING SEASON TO ENTElfWITH RUSH Will Open on Holiday and Hundreds of Sportsmen Will Take Advantage of Opportunity to Hunt. SEASON PERFECT FOR DUCKS Game Wardens Prepared to Protect Laws From Now Until September 7Guns Are in Readiness. One week from next Monday, Sept ember 7, marks the opening of the shooting season in Minnesota. It will also be Labor Day and that fact will result in an unusually large num ber of shooters going afield on that date. The last three years have been bad in that respect. In 1912 the season opened Saturday and there were more people out than ordinarily go. It was worse in 1913 when the season opened Sunday and the holiday combination this year will give many people an opportunity to get out who do not hunt on week days. Ducks Are Numerous. Therer will be more ducks than ever before in this vicinity. The portection given for several years in protection given for several years in the spring by the state laws and last year* by the Federal laws as well, have resulted in more ducks stopping within the boundaries of the state. The fact that the early spring and summer rains filled the sloughs and coulees gave the ducks better op portunities than before and the state waters are covered with them. "Sooners" Are Warned. Because the season opens on Mon day there will be a temptation for hunters, especially in the less thick ly populated sections, to slip out a day ahead and shoot on Sunday. The state game board is preparing to overcome this danger by the ap pointment of special deputies who work on reward, and they will also have the secret service men over the state where violations are most likely to occur. Most sportsmen are already secur ing their hunting licenses and pre paring their guns and dog's fOr the sport. MANY OF THEM WOUNDED Fugitives Prom Belgium Pouring Into Holland. Maostricht, Holland, Aug. 26.FUf gitives from Belgium continue to ar rive here. Many of them are slightly wounded. The total nuumber of these fugitives is now nearly 7,000 and they are being cared for in sheds at Calvarienberg. Those who have made their way here during the past few days are mostly from the vicinity of Malines. There has arrived also a large num ber of Belgian farmers who consider it no longer safe to stay on their lands. They say the treatment of Bel gians by the Germans has been none too good, but the opinion prevails here that this treatment is due to overt acts on the part of the peasants. MAY CALL OUT THE MILITIA Governor Threatens Action Unless Strike Conditions Improve. Trenton, N. J., Aug. 26.A strike of machinists for higher wages and shorter hours has partly closed the John A. Roeblings Sons wire mills and the Mercer automobile works, which they control, and there have been reports of disorder. Governor Fielder said he would call out the militia to preserve order in this city and vicinity unless strike conditions improved. USE THE TORCH IN ALSACE French Said to Have Destroyed Six Towns. Basel, Switzerland, Aug. 26.News has reached here that a French force of Turcos, Zouaves and Senegalese, during. the fighting in Upper Alsace, entered and almost destroyed the towns of Flachalanden, Jagsdorf, Landser, Brunnstatt, Heiweiler and Marschweiler. Wounded French soldiers who have crossed the Swiss frontier and are in terned here say the German soldiers evidently think nothing of their lives in their efforts to gain a victory over great odds. Gile to Visit Nary. Bueford M. Gile, high school ag riculturist, has accepted an invita tion to talk at a meeting of the Navy Farmers' club which is to be held at the home of J. E-. Boobar next Sat urday. Rev. Father Philippe will leave tomorrow afternoon for feAHi.% PARLEY, *0& .x A Hopes New Pprv^ Able to End EurtfpV in Bemidji ver Be Rome, Aug. 26."The entire sacred college is praying that God may guide us in the election of a new pontiff who may be able to bring about peace in war stricken Europe." This is the statement of Cardinal Farley, an American prince of the church, who arrived here for the con clave at which a successor to the late Pope Pius is to be selected. Cardinal Farley came here from Switzerland after fleeing from Austria following the declaration of war. SITE SELECTION HELD UP Slight Opposition Made to Placing of Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Bass LakeSt. Paul Man Architect. WHITE ON BUILDING COMMITTEE Unexpected opposition to the Bass Lake site for the locating of the $50,000 tuberculosis sanatorium was made at the meeting of the board Tuesday afternoon and as a conse quence no decision will be reached until action is taken by the advisory board of the State Tuberculosis commission, which will visit the va rious sites suggested next week. Every member of the board, which comprises threes members frogn Bel trami county, and two each ^qffi Koochiching and,Hubbard counties, Wfts.prjesent'-at the meeting. E, Hv Sund, an architect of St. PauV, was appointed to draw plans for the sanatorium. He has had much ex perience in the work and this will be his fourth sanatorium. It is planned to have the basement com pleted this fall and to rush the build ing's construction next spring. It will be two stories high, fire-proof and the exterior will be of stucco finish. A building and site committee, comprising William Durrin of North ome, Koochiching county, Commis sioner Lake of Hubbard county, and Rev. S. E. P. White of this city, was named. They will meet with the state commission advisory board next week and their recommendation will then go to the board of control. Dr. R. Bosworth, of the advisory board, wasy yesterdaye much pleased with th progress which is being made by the board. He will again visit Bemidji when the site is selected. The Bass Lake site is owned by the county, is near the railroad and is considered by many as the most advisable location for the hospital. Advertised Letters. List of advertised letters "'UN- CLAIMED'* for week ending Au gust 24, 1914, at Bemidji postoffice: MenButcher, Mr. and Mrs. John, Blake, Mr. Phil, Crovch, Mr. Harry, Carter, Wm., Clark, Arthur E., Dahl, Mr. Iver, Erickson, Mr. Mons, En gelson, Mr. Engel, Frank Mr. Harry, Goerke, Mr. A., Goodwin, P. R., Ge row, Hubert, Lintrom, C, Langreen, Mr. Edd., Lange, Jim, Philippi, Frank, Ryan, Edward, Strand, Mr. Arthur, Torgeson, B. H.f Whight, Mr. Willie. WomenAnderson, Miss Anna, Brown, Mrs. Russel, Clark, Miss Ordella, Dearholt, Mrs. H., Haugom, Miss Marie (2), Moody, Miss R. M., Mayrand, Mrs. Homer, McDoubell, Mrs. Clyde, Nelson, Miss Ida. SCOO Puposky, where he will say mass Friday morn ing at 9 o'clock in the new St. Pat rick's church. He wishes to an nounce that a large attendance is desired at this meeting. The largest coal mines in France, near Lens and Bethune, have the finest mechanical installation of the kind in the world. GATHERING OF EXHIBITS FOR STATE FAIB BEGUN. *v* Charles Schroeder, secre tary of thev Beltrami County Agricultural society, and who is in charge of the Bel trami exhibit at the State Fair, -this morning announced that the gathering of dis plays for the latter will be gin tomorrow. All who have' exhibits are asked to leave them at 117 Third street, where they will be prepared for shipment to Hamline. The exhibits will be sent to the fair September 3. MRS. MARKHAM DEAD Mrs. Bell Markham, of Virginia, for many years a resident of Be midji, died at Duluth this afternoon following an operation for gall stones^ according to a telegram re ceived from her son,. Walter J. Mark ham. Mrs. Markham had been ill for several weeks, but not until last Sunday, when she was taken, from her home to Duluth, did her condi tion become serious. Mrs. Markham was born in Barron, Wisconsin, Oc tober 31, 1860. The funeral will be held in Bemidji. NORTH END TO CO-OPERATE. Baudette and Spooner to Assist in Making County Fair Successful. Although in past years the north end of the county has felt rather in different towards the Beltrami County Agricultural society, claim ing that it was conducted more for the benefit of this section than for that surrounding Spooner and Bau dette, such is not to be the case this year, according to Charles Schroe der, secretary of the county associa tion, who has just returned from a visit to the "Twin Cities of the North." Mr. Schroeder says that the Baudette fair on September 15 and 16 is to be a hummer and that many duplicate exhibits are to be sent to the Bemidji fair. "They are a bunch of boosters up there," said Mr.. Schroeder, "and they are planning on co-operating with us When possible. We have the same conditiomrandn^^ oima ahnnlid hrilnnfrla aims shoul coincide,' and wa OJB THE v. REPORTER /fatWW UA5 STATIONED /A SW^PSHOOTeROVEfcTtT VMLL^oNoee WHO & SNIPING- OIW? AW?MEN-SNEA*i OV/EfcTfteSEAN'SlOW Hfc HEAD OFF-_ .MA3DRI. installation of the Vs."^-V'^, ,i *jfc IJlHr ^Vj' 7M MERCHANTS WILL ATTEND. Bemidji Men Plan on Being Present at Farmers' Meeting. At least ten members of the Be midji Merchants' association are planning on being present at the meeting of the Better Farming club which is to be held at the George Walker farm next Saturday. An ex ceptional program has been arranged and a very successful meeting is an ticipated. Tarns Bixby Here. Tarns Bixby, prominent in Minne sota for many years, formerly of St. Paul but now of Muskogee, Okla., arrived in Bemidji this morning and will spend several days here with Mrs. BiXDy. Mrs. Bixby and son Edson, have spent the "past month here, residing at the head Lake Bemidji, where they have established a camp. Mr. Bixby is president of the Bemidji Townsite and Improvement Co. Club to Exhibit. Several of the farmers' clubs of the county have announced inten tions to enter club exhibits at the county fair, the last one being the Port Hope Farmers' club, of which R. A. Krohn is secretary. It is urged that every club have an exhibit. Loses Three Fingers. George Kusba, an employe at the Palace Meat Market, had three otf his fingers crushed in a sausage ma chine yesterday afternoon. He was' immediately taken to St. Anthony's hospital where it was found neces sary to amputate the fingers. Frank Arnold, the Kelliher hotel] man, formerly of this city, spent to day in Bemidji on business. P-55-ST- L0COOP-IHAt A HUNCH wmjz AT0URA5WW Defective Pag BOYS AND GIRLS TO HAVE BMf tt j^e -%^t* s^rw -y School Premium ''Liifj^tt Beltrami County Fair to Be Bigger Than EverMuch Interest Shown. NEW BUILDING IS Forty-three in Acre test^Two Hundred, pected in Pouli IN VIEW til Corn Con- Every visitor to jhe Beltrami County Agricultural ^Society fair, which is to be held the 16, 17 and 18 of next month, should inspect the school exhibits. Thie\ department, as in the past, will Vfe 'one of the most important features of trie en tire fair. Every indication is that the work of the boys and girls fof the county Which will be enterm as- exhibits will be of^a larger ifariety.and of higher standard thai| .ever before. This is because of theJefforts of the pupils, instructors ajd'-o~fficials to have ah exceptionaUdfspiay, using the occasion as an Opportunity to further the probabilities of a separ ate building for the School exhibits next. year. The Corn Contest. In the corn contest there are forty-three boys enrolled, and of the acre plots every one must have ex hibits at the fair. The acre yield corn contest is conducted both by the county andiW the state, and the fol lowing conditions govern, and the points considered are:^u Largest acre yield 60 How I grew my crotf 15 Twenty-five ear samples of corn grown 10 Cost of growing 10 Punctuality in making reports. 5 Special Prises. There will be special prizes for the best ten ears of corn, best pair of chickens and the acre yield corn contest! The cash prizes- for the school exhibits will amount to ap proximately $300, a .larger amount than in former years.- i Many in Poultry Contest. More than two hundred contest ants are expected to make entries in forty-four prizes wiiMte awarded. Each contestant will be required to exhibit a cockerel and one, pullet. There will be three hundred boys and girls in the garden and poultry contests, says B. M. Gile, high school agriculturist. The Bread Contest. Great interest is being shown in the girls' bread contest. To the rural school having the best exhibit will be given the School Banner. Ail May Enter. Every school in the county may enter exhibits in section A, corn and vegetables D, Language I, Poul try and J, special premiums, while all the other sections are open to all rural and consolidated schools which have no special departments. Agriculturist'Gile and W. B. Stew art, county superintendent of schools, are devoting much time to the school department of the fair and are encouraged by reports which are being made from around the county. Show Appreciation. In asking the support of the teach ers in providing exhibits, Supt. Stewart says: "Teachers are earnestly urged to make a special effort to interest the children of their schools in this prac tical work. It matters not how small the exhibit is send it in and let as many schools as possible be represented, An offer of nearly three hundred dollars, twice as much as ever before, is made to the chil dren by the Fair Managers and pri vate individuals to encourage more and better work. Let us all do our part and show our appreciation of this generous offer by making the school exhibit of Beltrami county for 1914 the largest and best yet made." The Episcopal Guild will meet to morrow afternoon at 2:30 at Mrs. Harding's, corner of Eighth street and Bemidji avenue. fit* *!$- frt4"!H"f'Hr4+4"|"!' &&P -M^, If NEPHEW OF KAISER RE ^PORTED CAPTURED. & 1 4- others.. 4 4,"4,-4?.'d,'-4* Contest. 4*4- J. r Paris, Aug. 26.A dispatch 4- to the Excelsior from Courtral 4*. 4 says the kaiser's nephew, 4 Count von Schwerin, has been 4* taken prisoner. He was in 4* 4* command of a detachment of 4 4 Uhlans who reached Harie- 4* 4* beke. French chasseurs, being 4* 4- informed of the presence of 4* 4* the Germans, arrived on the 4* 4 scene and killed one, wounded 4* five and made prisoners4*4th,e4 ,4 4 of 4 4 4*., 4r4 4 4 MUCH BEFORE CONGRESS Judge C. W. Stanton Returns From WashingtonImpressed With Im portance of Business Pending. HAMMOND WILL BE DELATED Whether the campaign of W. S. Hammond, candidate for governor of Minnesota is to be opened at Red Wing or Bemidji, his keynote speech will not be delivered until after the middle of September, pressing busi ness of national importance con fronting Congress at this time in connection with the European situa tion being the cause of his delay in returning to the state. Judge C. W. Stanton has just re turned to Walker, where he has temporary ehaembers, from Washing ton, and what* interviewed by a St. Paul Dispatefc representative said: "While ia^Washtngton on Sat urday I was ^deeply impressed with urday I waa^sdeenly tmjressed with the importawe of the duties just at this moment^confronting our nation al lawmakers and especially with the responsibility' resting upon the mem bers of thelSnportant committees of both the Senate and the House. "I met attfl conversed with several members of" the ways and means committee of the House and know from the statements made that Con gressman Hammond is regarded one of the ablest members of that im portant committee and that his con stant presence there during the con sideration of the great questions now pending is much desired and by many deemed imperative. "Just at this time Congressman Hammond is needed at Washington and be cart~renderHrfte^hes^pe^Me service -there" ^'y PICTURES MUCH ENJOYED. Large Audience See Norway Films At Brinkman.* Last evening the Brinkman the atre was packed to the doors with an enthusiastic audience. A feature picture, "Scenes of Norway," in six reels, was thrown on the screen, ac companied by a lecture by O. J. As pen. Those in the audience who were born and raised in Norway ir who were there- during the present year, recognized many familiar spots. The king and queen and the crown prince were shown in a large number of the scenes. Governor Hannah was among: the prominent men from the United States. "Clouds and Sunshine," a comedy drama played by the Ethel Alton players, was^put on between the first and last half of the pictures. This is a three-act drama, with a good moral story and a splendid view of comedy. GIVEN RECORD SENTENCE. Eric Salo, Convicted of Robbery, Gets Ten Days in County Jail. One of the longest jail sentences ever rendered by Judge Growell of the municipal court, was given to Eric Salo yesterday afternoon when he ordered that Salo, who had been convicted of robbery, be sent to the county bastile for ten days. Salo was arrested Monday night, follow ing a complaint by John Dalton, who informed the police that he had caught the former in an act of rob bing Ruben Smith at the Dalton res taurant. Smith's watch was found in one of Salo's socks, and a pocket book was also found in the accused man's clothing. Scoop's General Smokes Good Cigars *HOF it 3* *& W SIR C. W. H. DOUGLAS. Chief of Imperial Staff of the British Army. Photo by American Press Association. BEMIDJITEACHER ATTENDS Edna Hill of Normal Department One of Eighty Instructors Present at First Conference of Methods. TOLD OF GREAT EESPONSIBHiITY One of the eighty teachers of the state attending the first conference of normal department instructors, which is now being held in St. Paul, is Edna Hill, the efficient head of the normal courses in the local schools. The conference will be in session until Friday. C. G. Schul'z, state superintendent of education, itold the !teachers ihey were assembled, -for interchange of ideas and impressed the importance on them of getting the most out of the conference. Miss Mabel Car ney, supervisor of high school train ing departments, is conducting the conference. "There is no larger responsibility in any line of school work," said Miss Carney, "than that the training teacher has. There are 122 train ing .departments in the state. This means an expenditure each year of about" ?125v000. It is for us to see that the state gets, value received. We are training between 1,500 and 1,800 teachers. They will be the instructors for from 25,000 to 30,- 000 country children." Much time was devoted to sug gestions from the teachers them selves as to the best methods of teaching in the training depart ments. Some of the points touched on by the teachers follow: Teach pupils to think. Train them well in grammar and arithmetic. Teach current topics.. Dwell on preparedness of teachers themselves. Foster teachers' clubs. Visit rural schools. RETURNS TO NORWAY. Aged Sea Captain Leaves for Home in Old Country. Seventy years of age, but still ac tive, with, a record of forty-seven years as a sea captain, Alexander Johnson left this morning for New York City, from where he sails Sep tember 1, on the steamship Kristi aniafjord for Trondhjem, Norway. He secured his bookings through R. E. Fisher, Union station agent. E. A. Cummings, the Farris farm er, left last evening for Good Thun der, Minnesota. *V ,%G*. CANADIANS TO BATTWF OiPm ENGLAND LEAVETOMORROW RUSSIANS i DEFEATED GERMANS ATTACK OSTENiE (AMERICAN PRESS.) LONDON, AUG. 26BECAUSE OF EXIGENCIES, THE CANADIAH CONTINGENT OF TWEHTT THOUSAND MEN WILL SAIL THURSDAY DIRECT FOR SOME CONTINENTAL FORT AND WILL BE CONVEYED THE ENTIRE DIS- TANCE BY A STRONG FLEET OF WARSHIPS SENT ACROSS THE ATLANTIC TO MEET THEM. IT IS EXPECTED THAT THE CANA- DIANS WILL BE IN ACTION WITH IN A FORTNIGHT. I PARIS, AUG. 26.WAR OFFICE JUST BEFORE NOON TODAY IS-' SUED THE FOLLOWING: "AD- VICES RECEIVED FROM THE FRONT DECLARE THAT A BIG BATTLE IS NOW IN PROGRESS, AND IS PROGRESSING FAVOR ABLY TO THE ALLIED CAUSE." LONDON, AUG. 26.REPORTS FROM OSTEND SAYS: GERMAN ATTACK ON THAT CITY HAS BEEN RENEWED. SCOUTS RE PORT HEAVY BODIES OF TROOPS COMING UP AND IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE CITY WILL BE FORC- ED TO SURRENDER. LONDON, AUG. 26.RUSSIAN EMBASSY IS IN RECEIPT OF TELEGRAMS FROM THE GENER- AL STAFF AT ST. PETERSBURG WHICH ANNOUNCE FRESH RUS- SIAN VICTORIES AGAINST BOTH GERMANY AND AUSTRIA. THE MESSAGES DECLARE THAT THE RUSSIAN TROOPS NOW OCCUPY THE WHOLE EASTERN AND SOUTHERN HALF OF EASTERN PRUSSIA. LONDON, AUG. 26.OFFICIAL^ REPORTS MADE PUBLIC IN VIEN- NA AND TRANSMITTED FROM BERLIN BY WIRELESS TO fflfp tint, DECLARE /THAT\TfTO AUSTRIANS HAVE WON A COM- PLETE VICTORY AT KRASNAX, IN RUSSIAN POLAND, AFTER A THREE DAYS' BATTLE ENDING YESTERDAY, RUSSIAN FORCES WERE RE PULSED ALONG ENTIRE FRONT AND ARE IN FULL FLIGHT IN DI- RECTION OF LUBLIN. THIS IS THE FIRST OFFICIAL NEWS OF AN AUSTRIAN ADVANCE INTO RUS- SIAN TERRITORY. KRASNAK IS ABOUT TWENTY MILES NORTH OF GAUCIAN FRONTIER. London, Aug. 26.With the city of Namur, capital of the province of Na mur, thirty-four miles southeast of Brussels, fallen before the German advance, five of the Namur forts cap tured by the Germans and the cap ture of the remaining four forts im minent, German arms, by forcing the allied armies back to the vicinity of the first line of French fortifications, practically have cleared the way for the movement of large numbers of German troops to the French frontier, with Paris as the objective. In Paris the official announcement was made that "the German offensive movement in the north,- which was stopped Monday, appears to have been resumed, but that the enemy is being held back by a French army, acting in conjunction with an Eng lish army and a Belgian army. "The armies of the allies surprised the enemy and drove back their ad vance, detachments," says the an nouncement. "The allies have gone beyond Malines. The Belgian army came from Antwerp." Fall of Other Forts Imminent. A wireless message from Berlin by way of Nauen, Germany, and Sayville, L. I., says official announcement is made in Berlin that the city of Na mur and five of Its forts have been captured by the Germans, and that bombardment of the four other forts continues and their fall-seems immi nent. The English official war in formation bureau announces that Na mur has fallen, but gives no details, A reverse to the forces of the allies generally is admitted by the English 1 %/T5^=fe^^s=== *f W~ v tS&fi v and French newspapers,- which say the day's news is "decidedly bad." i Plainly expressing disappointment at the failure of their forces they de clare the retrograde movement toward the line of strong defensive works near the frontier has been carried out in good order. It is assured that the allies are falling back on their first line of defensive works. 1 A concentric advance of all the Ger man armies toward Paris seems probable, in view of official advices, from Berlin received by the German embassy in Washington. I) Nearly 40 per cent of the stock in all the large railroads of the United a*. States is owned by women. EM*.? w$ -m "S*? -^"V* V--J&5 ^OM "Mr: -f-4 4- .*f|*S "A ,P a