The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-08-12

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The German foreign Office was, fully
prepared for Premier AsQuith's state
ment that Great Britain has not the
least disposition to obstruct Franco
German agreement in West Africa,
and now asserts that it had earlier
assurances that Great Britain would
not intervene so long as Germany and
France were trying to settle the mat
ter directly.
what will the harvest be-" will
soon be solved once more for North
Dakota. With the threshing of wheat
in some sections of the state this
week, together with barley and oat
threshing, but with the wheat harvest
becoming general the fore part of
next week, it will only be short
time before the threshing machines
will have told their annual story of
yields.
Barley seemingly yields well wher-
ever it has been threshed, being 40
and 4S bushels an acre. Oats reports
received up to the present have not
been of the most flattering, although
the yields have been very fair. Wheat
reports up to the present are only
from districts that had light crops
and where the grain was matured too
early because of hot winds and no
rain.
Harvesting has been general in the
southern part of the state for some
time, but it will only become general
over the northern part of the state
during the coming week.
That actual work on the construc-
ton of the Big Blackfoot railway in
Montana, admittedly of branch of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound,
will begin at once has been announced.
The contracting firm of Clinton and
Apologize will at once begin work on
the new roads first unit, a twelve
mile stretch from Bonner to McNam-
aras Landing. The road will tie up
with the logging road of the Big Black
foot Billing Company. The new road
will open up a rich country in the
Blackfoot valley, and it is expected
will eventually reach Great Falls.
Efforts are being made by the Dead
wood. S. D., lodge of Elks to get a
herd of elks from Wyoming for the
Black Hills. This movement COM
menced nearly a year ago, when it
was first taken up with Congressman
Martin Mr. Martin assured the local
men that he would exert every in
fuence at Washington to procure the
animals, but that first the Legislature
must pass a law creating closed
season in South Dakota for elk before
| the government would consider the
proposition. This was done by the last
Legislature and now the governors of
both South Dakota and Wyoming are
urged to use their influence to have
some elk brought from the Jackson
Hole country to the Black Hills, and
from present indications the local
Elks will be successful.
A. Beaumont (Lieutenant De Con-
neau) won the $4,000 prize offered by
the London Daily Mail for the circuit
of Great Britain aviation race of 1,010
miles. Vedrines, a fellow country
man, will get second honors, the two
Frenchmen having distanced all of the
competitors. For miles along the
route they flew neck and neck, with
their machines, going faster than a
mile a minute Both Frenckmen re.
ceived an enthusiastic reception from
a huge crowd at Brookland, England
the finishing point. Beaumont, on
alighting, was seized by admirers and
carried shoulder high to his tent.
Interesting sidelights on the pres
ent situation in Mexico and on the
probabilities of the return of the reg
ular army troops to their stations
are shown in an article in the latest
issue of the Army and Navy Journal
the official military organ of the gov
eminent.
i 1t is said in the article that de
velopments probably will necessitate
the return of the troops to the Dor
der in the near future; that the Mex
lean trouble has only begun, and thai
from all appearances news of any i'm
portance is suppressed by the new
government in Mexico, thus prevent
ing the real state of affairs in thai
country from being known in the
United States.
President Taft, governors of states
United States senators and profes
sors of the largest universities of the
country will unite to make the mex
session of the National Conservation
Congress at Kansas City, September
Is to q, an important event.
President Henry Wallace, follow
ing conference with Thomas r
Shipp of Washington, secretary of the
congress, this afternoon announced
that Mr.. Taft will be there without
, fail The government will be repre-