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BELTRAMI COUNTY TO OPEN SCHOOLS FOR FOREIGNERS W. B. Stewart, County Supt. of Schools enounces Local Institu tions\* With Government. TO BE INVITEL %f *Y AND Ji. "CHOOLS Lists to Be Secured and Imm^ ants Will Be Asked to Become Edu cated Means Better America. School teachers in Beltrami county will conduct day and night schools for immigrants, according to an an nouncement made today by W. Stewart, county superintendent of schools Many Do Not Speak English. In making the announcement Mr. Stewart said: "Government reports show that there are 2,953,011 foreign born in the United States ten years of age and up to 15 years who are unable to read the English language. Also that there are 2,896,696 from the ages of 15 years and over, who can not be forced to an education by the compulsory education acts, who are non-English speaking To Educate Foreigners. "A society in New York known as the National Americanization com mittee has co-operated with the United States Bureau of Education in securing interest in regard to edu cating the foreigners in the public schools The United States bureau has had large posters printed ask ing the foreigners to come to schools which will be opened in every dis trict in all the states. All rural and city schools have been asked to co-operate with the government by opening the schools. To Advise Superintendents. "The government department will advise the heads of the county schools of any immigrants who are locating in their county. In turn the superintendents will ask the teachers to locate the immigrants in their respective territory and ask them to come to the day school or ar range to take individual instruction at a night-school. "Of course, if night schools are established the teacher will be paid accordingly. To Become Active. "Beltrami county is going to be come very active in this campaign to educate the foreigner. I have re ceived 100 large posters which will be posted at various places in the county The posters are printed in several foreign languages and advise the foreigner to make himself known at the schools. We realize that a better education will give the for eigner better opportunities, better homes, better jobs, better chance for their children and a better America." INFANT SON OF MR. AND MRS. HUNTQSH DEAD Orick Alvin, the nine months' old baby of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Huntosh, died yesterday afternoon after a short illness. The funeral will be held from the Baptist church at 2:30, tomorrow afternoon, Rev. I. D. Alvord offi ciating. INJUNCTION AGAINST STREET CAR OWNERSHIP ELECTION IS DENIED Detroit, Mich., Oct. 16.The in junction against the election to be held in this city in November to de termine whether or not the street car system should be municipally owned, was this morning denied. Detroit will vote Nov. 2. BRITISH DECLARE WAR ON BULGARIA London, Oct. 16.Great Britain das declared war on Bulgaria, it was officially announced last night. The British foreign office an nounces that in view of the fact that Bulgaria has announced that she is at war with Serbia and is an ally of the Central powers, his majesty's government has informed the Bul garian government through the Swedish government at London, who is in charge of the Bulgarian inter ests, that a state of war exists be tween Great Britain and Bulgaria. Messrs. George T. Baker, A. Hal vorsen, L. W. Griffith and Dr. G. M. Palmer left this morning for Cass Lake where they will spend a week hunting. Mrs. F. Anderson, who has been a guest at the M. F. Wilson home dur ing the past six weeks, returned to her home in Duluth today. Milo Braaten is moving to the J. W. McGhee, Meadow Lake farm, in the town of Eckles. PUFFS CIGAR AS HE WALKS TO GALLOWS Murphysborough, 111., Oct. 16.Joe Deberry, a negro, 22, was hanged in the public square this morning for the murder of Mrs. James Martin. As he walked to the gallows he puffed rapidly at a ten cent cigar and continued to smoke while the shackles were being adjusted. His last request was for a ten-center, -fc TWO COUPLES ARE LICENSED TO WEO Gustaf Sherberg and Miss Clara Johnson, Clarence Johnson and Miss Nora Bratlin, all of Blackduck, were this morning granted licenes to wed by Clerk of Court F. W. Rhoda. SEVERAL ARE DROWNED WHEN TRAIN IS WRECKED Beatrice, Neb, Oct. 16.Several passengers are reported drowned when a Union Pacific motor car smashed into a washed out bridge today and went into a stream. Near ly every passenger was injured. BEMIDJI BANKERS RECEIVE STATEMENTS OF BIG WAR LOAN Bemidji banks today received state ments from J. P. Morgan & Co., and eastern bankers in regard to the $500,000,000 Anglo-French five-year five per cent external loan. It is re ported that none of the local bank ers will buy any of the bonds. Six Wolf Bounties Are Paid at Court House Today Warrants were issued for six wolf bounties this morning at the county auditor's office. This is the most bounty money paid in a single day at the county office for some time. Peter Radell of Spooner shot three wolves, Christ Brogen of Pitt, one, Oscar Lundten of Williams, one, and Franz Juneau of Blackduck, one. The bounty is $7.50. Wolves are very plentiful in this county and farmers report large losses of chickens and sheep. FOOTBALL ELEVEN TO GRAND RAPIDS TOMORROW The Bemidji football team will go to Grand Rapids tomorrow for a game with the city team of that city. The Bemidji lineup will be: Ripple, Andrew, lg O'Connor, It Bell, le Brinkman, rg Simons and Cam eron, rt Tanner, re Johnson, rh Fred Graham, lh Peck, fb Riley, qb Trafton, official. BAUDETTE MILL COMPLETES CUT Baudette, Minn., Oct. 16.The Engler mill has closed for the season. Over 400 men were employed in the day and night shifts which were used until two weeks ago, when the night crew was laid off on account of the scarcity of logs. All logs cut and in the river were made into lumber which was the reason for closing. 6RADE SCHOOL TO GIVE CHRISTMAS CANTATA Miss Jessie Phillipps, music in structor in the Bemidji schools, is planning a Christmas cantata to be given by the seventh and eighth grades before the Christmas vaca tion. SCOO THE CUB REPORTER CANADA WAR CRAZY, SAYS BEMIDJI MAN Charles Nangle Returns With Daugh ter From Visit to Old Home Says Much Patriotism Displayed. "Canada is war crazy." This was the remark made this morning by Charles Nangle of the Nangle department store who return ed last evening from a visit to his former home in Canada with his daughter, Claire. Mr. Nangle vis ited at Lucan, London, Toronto and other points. Believe They Will Win. "I never saw such enthusiasm in all my life as is being shown over there," he said this morning. Every body is talking war and everyone is of the opinion that their side will win. They all say that they will fight to the last man and they show enthusiasm enough to make their statements certain. Mothers are proud of sending their sons to the war and express themselves of being sorry that they have not more to send 5,000 in Training. "At London we saw over 5,000 men in training. My daughter attempted to take several snap shots but she was warned that it was against the rules and that she would not be al lowed to take them. Land Seems Cheaper. "Land in Canada, if anything, is becoming cheaper, at least at my old home at Lucan land is as cheap as when I left there in 1892. Beef and pork are very high priced, eggs sell for 25 cents a dozen, potatoes one dollar a bushel and butter sells for 38 cents a pound. The farmers are making money and the majority of them in the territory that I have vis ited are going into the cattle busi- ness." Mr. Nangle and his daughter left Bemidji on their trip, September 30. MISS ELLA POTJLIOTTE IS WED THIS MORNING Miss Ella Pouliotte was married to Raymond Salscheider at the Cath olic church at six o'clock this morn ing, Rev. Father Philippe officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Salscheider left on a short wedding trip immediately after the ceremony. SALVATION ARMY WANTS CLOTHING FOR THE POOR The Bemidji Salvation Army today made the announcement that they were very much in need of old cloth ing for the poor in this city. During the recent cold weather, all the clothing on hand was disposed of. The Army would be pleased to re ceive donations of clothing at its headquarters, 506 Minnesota avenue. Mr. and Mrs. George A. Johnson of Grygla, Minn., are in the city to day on business. Mr. Johnson is cashier of the state bank of that place. They will leave on the eve ning train for Redwood Falls, Minn., where they will spend sev eral days on business. THIEF RIVER FALLS ASKS FOR NEW POSTOFFICE Thief River Falls, Minn., Oct. 16. A concentrated movement to se cure for Thief River Falls a federal building has been started by the Com mercial club and Congressman Hal vor Steenerson of the ninth district. The receipts at the local postoffice at the close of the fiscal year ending March 31, were $22,000, an increase in the last ten years of $14,000, and it is advanced by those back of the movement for a new building that these are the largest receipts of'any postoffice in the district where there is no federal building. The present quarters are cramped and officials state wholly inadequate to handle the increased business at the local postoffice. J. O. Harris, proprietor of the Kel liher hotel, is in Bemidji today on business. T. L. Shevlin of Grookston Lumber Co. Has Big Life Insurance Thomas L. Shevlin of Minneapolis, 32 years of age, former Yale athlete, and president of the Shevlin com pany, Shevlin-Carpenier-Clarke com pany and Crookston Lumber company here, has insured his life for $1,- 000,000. Mr. Shevlin already car ried life insurance of $500,000. The closing today of the details for the $1,000,000 policy, which makes the total carried by him $1,- 500,000, puts Mr. Shevlin in first place in the United States, if not in the world, for a man of his age, in amount of life insurance carried. Seven Others in United States. Mr. Shevlin now is one of eight men in the Uinted States who carry life insurance of $1,500,000 or more. There are 80 men in the United States, each of whom carries $500,- 000 or more. Since the death' of Frank H. Pea vey, several years ago, there has been no citizen of Minnesotat whose life was insured for as much as $1,000,- 000. Of the 80 men in the United States who individually carry $500,- 000 or more of life insurance, 14 are residents of Minnesota and 11 reside in Minneapolis, fhe writing of the $1,000,000 Shevlin policy puts Min neapolis, in life insurance, in the class with New York, Chicago and Philadelphia, where notably large individual policies have in recent years been written. Four Agents Share Commission. Byron H. Timberlake of the Provi dence Life & Trust company, the Pru dential Insurance Company of Am erica, and the Mutual Life Insurance company of New York Lorin Hoyd, general agent of the Home Life In surance company, New York Telford K. Thompson of the Aetna Life In surance company, Hartford, and W. Meade Robinson of the New England Mutual Life Insurance company, Bos ton, handled the business. How Total is Divided. The $1,000,000 total is divided as follows: Aetna Life $150,000 Equitable Life 50,000 Mutual Life 100,000 Prudential Life 50,000 Jlome Life A. 150,1100 New England Life 50,000 Travelers 200,000 New York Life 200,000 Massachusetts Mutual 50,000 Mr*. Shevlin was declared a perfect physical risk. The insurance was taken because of Mr. Shevlin's prom inence as a factor in the large busi ness enterprises of the Shevlin-Car penter-Clarke interests. DEATH OF GENERAL VILLA IS DENIED isste. Washington, Oct. 16.The Villa agency here this morning denied the periodical rumor that Gen. Villa, Mexican leader, was dead. They said that messages were sent to Villa last night and that they were report ed received this morning. FAYS $3 FINE ON DRUNK CHARGE William Dickeson, East Grand Forks, was arrested yesterday on a charge of drunkenness. He pleaded guilty in the municipal court this morning and was fined $3. He was ordered to leave the city. BUCKMAN SAYS HE WILL FIGHT CLEAN St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 16.C. B. Buckman, candidate for the Repub lican congressional nomination in the Sixth district, was at the Merchants hotel recently. "It doesn't make any difference how many candidates are in the field. I shall make my own campaign and let them make their own," said Mr. Buckman. "I have been through a good many hot political campaigns, but I have never yet abused or criticized an op ponent, and I do not intend to do so in this campaign." A Fitting And Touching Farewell WIRELESS LINE MAY EXTEND TO TOKIO John Doe May Sit in Office in Be midji and Talk to Japanese Connections Are Easy. THIS IS THE WAY TO SIT IN NEW YORK AND THINK IN'FRISCO "Hello! San Francisco Bu reau of the United Press?" "Yes." "Well, this is the New York office Red Letter Editor speaking." "Why, how-do-you-do, New York. What's on your mind?" "We want a story, quick, about Carty, inventor of the +c wireless telephone that car ries voices from Washington to Hawaii." "I'll mail it tomorrow." "Fine. Goodby, San Fran." "Goodby, New York,"- NoteThe above assignment actually was given by phone from New York to San Fran cisco, over the lines of the Amer ican Telephone & Telegraph company. And here's the story. Editor, By C. D. Groat. (United Press Staff Correspondent) San Francisco, Oct. 16.J. J. Carty, T. & T. chief engineer, dreamer of dreams that come true (he perfect ed the wireless phone through which Wash-ington officials recently talked 5,000 miles from the capitol to Ha waii, and with which the human voice may some day circle the globe, you know), was in San Francisco the day the Red Letter Editor phoned his assignment to me from New York. Accordingly, I found Mr. Carty and he told me something of his dreams for wireless telephony. May Ring Tokio. Some day, he opined, Bill Smith may sit in his office in New York, Chicago, Seattle or San Francisco, ring up across the continent on the wire and be connected with the wire less telephone to Tokio. _From New York, that 4s-ikbout-8-,- 000 miles. But, Bill Smith won't be able to use a wireless telephone to talk to Tom Jones down in another office building in the same town. The wireless isn't meant for that, and it won't supplant the telephone or the wireless telegraph. The little man with the black hair, just tinging with gray, and the sharp black eyes peering out from under shaggy eyebrows, sat in the temporary office of the A. T. & T. Co., here and discussed his dreams of talking across the continent and thence to Hawaii, which had just come true. Not Any Pocket Phones. He personally has made wireless telephony a commercial possibility, but it was of his company that he spokescarcely ever, "I." "We don't expect that there'll be such a thing as carrying a pocket phone around and connecting up with anybody anywhere in the world," he said. "What we expect, though is that the wireless telephone will be avail able for ships, and particularly for small craft, so that one may talk to the other or to the shore. "It is easier to talk wirelessly over water than over land, and while we have talked across the continent, we think the practical outcome will be that the man, say in New York, will talk across the continent by wire and be connected with the wireless. I think it will be possible for him in this way to talk to Tokio. Very Easy to Talk. "The real development we expect, however, to be on ships. "You see it's very easy to talk across the country now," he said, putting up a connection between the United Press offices in New York and San Francisco for the correspondent. It was very easy. Just like talking through an open door to a man in the hallway. That, however, will be stretched WIDOW DEFENDS HOME AGAINST DEPUTIES Seattle, Wash., Oct. 16. Mrs. Sarah Bigelow, 47, a widow, armed and barricaded, is defending her home against deputies who are attempting to foreclose a mortgage. out so that it spans lands and the oceans. The feat accomplished in talking from New York to San Fran cisco and Hawaii, he pointed out, makes it a certainty that one may talk to Europe. There are three main reasons, ad Carty explained it, why wireless tele phony cannot -come into general use, that is, supplant the usual commer cial telephones First, a great roar that spreads through the other and transfers to the 'Wireless set second, the laTBk of secrecy and thiTd, the inability to spread so many communications on one "line" as can be done with the wire system. Are Interruptions. The roar he expects will be over come to some extent. Be has found he can hear clearly In talking to New York, but there are static in terruptions. He is now working to smooth out htis difficulty also on com pleting the system of response. On his original tests there was transmission in only one direction, but Carty is now working out both sending and receiving instruments. Carty has other big ideas back of those keen black eyes. But he isn't telling them. "You know, Mr. Vail's orders are to do it and talk about it afterward," he said. "What do you think will be the next great achievement in science?" he was asked. "I wonder," he mused. "Science has made great steps, hasn't it?" Rear Admiral to Be Court Martialed Neglected His Duty Washington, Oct. 16.Secretary Daniels late yesterday ordered the trial" by court" martial of Rear Ad miral William N. Little, retired, on "charges involving neglect and care less methods in the conduct of his duty while inspector of machinery at the Fore River Ship Building com pany of Quincy, Mass., in connection with the construction of the submar ine U. S. S. K-2." Will Meet October 18. TBef court will meet at the Boston navy yard October It and will be composed of Rear Admirals Fiske, Helm, Parks, Worthington, Gleaves and Dun and Paymaster General Cowie, with Lieutenant Commander A. W. Johnson as judge advocate. Action Radical One. "The action of the department in this case," says the statement issued by Secretary Daniels, "of ordering the trial by general court martial of an officer who has been retired, after attaining the highest naval rank, on charges relating to duties performed prior to retirement is somewhat radical and arrest atten tion. Want Better Care. "It can be accounted for only as an evidence of the department's de termination that the inspection of ships under construction for the navy shall be conducted with the greatest care and thoroughness." The K-2 was accepted in January, 1914, and troubles with her storage batteries have developed since that time, navy officials said today. SISTER OF BEMIDJI WOMAN DIES IN CANADA Word has been received in this city of the death of Mrs. E. O. Wright at Taber, Alberta*, Mrs. Wright is a sister of Mrs. J. C. Scharboneau of this city. "HOP SERBIA IS MAKING BIG FIGHT FOR LIFE AGAINST TEUTWB Allies Must Bush Help to Little Na tion British Force Not Sufficient. MACKENSEN ADVANCING REGARDLESS OP LOr'"" France Takes No Action in Trouble England Declare* War On Serbia. Paris, Oct. 14.Heavily beset u*- on three sides, Serbia, is *r"*HH last-ditch fight for life- Help from the Allies must reach the little nation immediately to bef availing. The Serbians are holding the Bul garians but the Austrians and Ger mans are steadily advancing. Field Marshal von Mackensen is de termined to advance rapidly and is hurling his men against the Serbians regardless of the losses. The British forces have landed at Salonika and are enroute to help the Serbians but they are insuflicient in numbers. The French are nothing. CZAR FERDINAND SATS GERMANS WILL WIN Sofia, Oct. 16.Czar Ferdinand has issued another manifesto justifying ~i his action in declaring war. He said that the war is rapidly being ended with the Germans victorious. RECRUITING IN LONDON DELAYS CONSCRIPTION London, Oct. 16.Great crowds are gathering where the German bombs fell from the Zeppelin raid of Thursday. Recruiting sergeants are working among the crowds with ora tory stimulus. The large amount of recruiting is delaying the conscrip. tion six weeks. OBSTINATE FIGHTING NEAR GREEK FRONTIER London, Oct. 16.-^bstinate_Jlfbt- ^lj ing by The Bulgarians and "S^jilattS-^ is continuing in the vicinity of the Greek frontier. "1 ALLIES TO APPLY FOR SECOND LOAN New York, Oct. 16.Lord Read ing's announcement that the Allies would soon seek another huge loan has caused sensations in the finan cial circles of this country. The action on the second loan is expected within two months. The Allies' expenditure of mil lions will mean much red tape. All Allied powers have represen tatives sitting as a committee in London and this committee must sanction every purchase before pay ment is made. RUSSIA SENDS TROOPS THROUGH RUMANIA Petrograd,*Oct. 16.It was an nounced today that Russia has sent troops through Rumania to help Ser bia, without Rumania's consent. SIR CARSON RESIGNS FROM CABINET London, Oct. 16.News was print ed here that Sir Edward Carson has resigned from the cabinet. ALLIES TO ATTEMPT TO BEAT TEUTONS Rome, Oct. 16.Although it is re ported here that the Allies will abandon the Dardanelles campaign, it is not believed here that it means that the Allies will abandon the at tempts to reach Constantinople. It is believed that the Allies will com bine attempts to beat the Germans to Constantinople through Bulgaria, leaving Serbia to her fate. SUBMARINES OPERATE FROM RUSSIAN BASE 4 Copenhagen, Oct. 16.People here are puzzled as to what means British submarines used to go through the ~M heavily mined entrance to the North sea where they are doing great havoc to the German shipping. It is be lieved that the British submarines are operating from a Russian base. Germany is being unmolested there on account of the insufficient naval strength of the Russians. A