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GREAT BATTLE SOON
FRENCH MINISTER OF WAR SENDS
WORD OF CONDITIONS UNDER
WHICH ARMIES WILL FIGHT.
MILLIONS OF MEN ON LINE
Owing to Extended Lines This Vast
engagement viii Differ From Bat
ties of Other Times.-Each
Mas Advantages.

Paris, Aug. 16.-The conditions un-
der which the great battle between
Germans and the allied forces probably
will be fought are made the subject
of an official communication issued
by the French minister of war this af-
ternoon. By it's development and the
nature of the ground over which the
battle will be waged, the communica-
ton says this waste engagement will
differ profoundly from the battles of
other times.
by reason of the abandonment of
the attack which the Germans plan
ned against Nancy" says the commu-
nication, "our concentration has been
carried out with regularity and in it's
entirety, and thus the whole of the
French army will battle with the whole
of the German Forces, with the excep-
ton of those German troops concen-
trated on the eastern frontier of the
empire.
"The violation of the neutrality of
Belgium has extended the Belgian and
French lines to the frontier of Hol-
land. The next battle, therefore, will
be from Basic to Maastricht, with sew
eral millions of men engaged an each
side.
Fighting Front 266 Miles.
1T is this enormous extension of eff
fectives and of front which will char
acterize the battle, and it will be pro-
foundry different from all other bat
ties.
when two adversaries engage in
battle along a front of from 20 to 80
kilometers (13 to 20 miles) the en-
gagement is characterized by two fea-
tures-it is rapid and Immediately de-
cisive. With a front extending over
400 kilometers (266 miles it is not
likely to be the same.
1t would appear impossible, from
all the evidence, that one of the ad-
~versaries would be able to gain deci-
sive advantage upon this front of 400
kilometers. The operations along so
great a line would have varying for
tunes.
Advantage About Equal.
1--WE will have an advantage at one
or several points; the Germans viii
have an advantage of other points, and
the line of battle will continue to be
modified until one of the adversaries
succeeds by coordination of move
ments and mass of effort in gaining
some point the superiority of which
will dislodge the adverse front and
mark the end of the first battle.
These observations have for their
object the preparation of the public
for a battle in new form and without
precedent in history
The communication adds that news
of definite results need not be expect
ed before Aug. "a.
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JAPAN TAKES HAND
GIVES GERMANY UNTIL AUGUST
% TO GET WARsHIPs AWAY
FROM THE ORIENT.
WILL SAFEGUARD AMERICANS
This Is the First Blow of the War So
Far Struck Toward the Disrnem-
berment of the German
Colonial Possessions.

Toxic, Aug. 16.-Japan sent an ulti-
matum to Germany Saturday night at
8 o'clock demanding the withdrawal of
German warships from the orient and
the evacuation of Kiau-C hau, and Civ
ing Germany until Sunday, August 23,
to comply with the demand. Other
wise, the ultimatum states, Japan will
take action.
The general expectation here is that
the ultimatum will be followed by war.
Takaaki Kato, the Japanese foreign
minister, simultaneously with the dis
patch of the ultimatum, consulted with
George w. Guthrie, the American am
~bassador, and made to him a broad
statement, calculated to assure the
United States that American interests
in the far east would be safeguarded
and the integrity of China upheld.
Owing to doubts whether commune
cations with Berlin were assured, Jap.
an, in order to assure the arrival OF
the ultimatum, forwarded it to Berlin
by six channels, including Washing.
ton, London and Stockholm. The gov.
eminent also notified Count Won Rex
German ambassador to Japan, and
likewise retarded the time limit for q
reply until August %.
AS Washington Sees 1t.
Washington.--Japan's ultimatum tc
Germany was received by American Of
ficials as one of the gravest develop
ments in the war situation, bringing
for the first time the great military
power of the far east into a range Of
conflict heretofore held within Europe
Japan's action was taken on the
proposal Of Great Britain which led tt
the determination that the Anglo-Jap
anese treaty of alliance applied to the
present situation; the two allies, Great
Britain and Japan are therefore co
operating in the action now in prog
ress.
Germany's Colonies in East.
Germany's colonies and dependen
cies in China and the Pacific threat
ened by Japan's ultimatum consist IL
kiau-Chau, a pr~otectorate in northeast
ern China on the Yellow sea; and il
the Pacific, German New Guinea, com
posed Of Kaiser Wilhelm's Land, tht
Bismarck archipelago, the Caroline isl
ands, the Palau islands, the Marianne
islands, the Marshall islands and the
Samoan islands of Sayaii and Opolu.
These Pacific islands have an esti
mated area Of 96,160 square miles
and a population of 1890.
Kiau-Chau has an estimated + o.
200 square miles. This is exclusive
of the bay, with an area of abou'
200 square miles, and the neutral zone
of about $500 square miles, havina s
population of 100000. The estimated
population of Kiau-Chau is 1853, 900, o.
which the whites number 1896, almosr
exclusively Germans, and including the
garrison on peace footing.
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IDAHO NEWS NOTES


Two s~eparators burned near Julietta
recently.
The third annual st. Maries-St. Joe
valley fair will be held September 8,
4, 8 and 6.
The forestry officials report seven
new fires within the confines of the
Occur d'Alene reserve.
Herbert Davis, a 1~7-year-old fire
fighter was recently killed near Mos
cow, when a tree fell on him.
Numerous timber fires in the vicini-
ty of Rathdrum require continual
watching, but are all under control.
Two serious forest fires have broken
out in the G~rangeville section, one on
Joseph plains west and one near
Florence.
Fire from the forest adjacent to Gem
got into the town Sunday and burned
a church, a schoolhouse and three
dwelling houses.
A threshing machine belonging to
Emil Won Berg of Denver blew up rec
emily on the Joe Mcdonald farm, west
of Grangeville, and burned completely.
Fire which broke out in the home of
p. T. Whalen, Sunday, Genesee, de-
stroyed a half block of residences and
the Methodist church, at a loss of &c.,
900.
Dramatic was the suicide Tuesday of
James F. ellison of Wallace, Idaho,
who leaped from the Morrison street
bridge at Portland to the waters of
the Willamette river, 80 feet below.
Francisco Estinosa, the California
Indian charged with having attempted
to burn the grain of Farmer Simmons,
near Pennington, recently was held
for trial in district court at Moscow
and bond was fixed at $500.
Stricken with a fainting spell, Mrs.
G. A. Thunburg, aged 20, of Spokane,
toppled owe the edge of a rowboat
and drowned in Occur d'Alene lake
Friday afternoon, while her husband
sat at the bars, helpless to aid her.
The body has not been recovered.
Two more members Of the staff of
the agricultural college department of
the University of Idaho and expert
mental station have rendered their
designations. Professor John f. Mich
olson, head of bacteriology and Profess
sor F. L. Kennard are the members.
1t is reported from Cottonwood that
the forest fire on Joseph plains, which
was reported under control, famed by
the high winds Sunday is raging
again. Men from Grangeville and Cot
tonwood are being rushed to help those
already on the ground in trying to
control the flames.
Twelve days after he was drowned
in Lake Pend Oreille the body of Max
Coolidge, 10 years old, son of Alfred
Coolidge, capitalist Of Spokane, was
discovered Sunday not far from Sand
point, Idaho, by a boy fishing . The
body had risen to the surface and had
drifted to the shore.
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Surely Was Crazy.

Spring Green, visa mad chef,
armed with a handax, Saturday wrote
the last page of the romance of Man,
nah Bouton Borthwick. formerly Mrs.
Edwin Fl. Cheney, of Oak Park, ILL.,.
whose affairs for five years have been
named with those of Frank LLOYD
Wright, a wealthy architect, and her
neighboi. She and three others
were killed. three others were probably
fatally injured and two less seriously
hurt. The elaborate love bungalow"
built by Wright for Mrs. Cheney was
burned and Julien Carlton, a negro
cook employed by Wright and accused
OF the crimes, surrended after a
search OF several hours had been
made for him. He was hurried into an
automobile and rushed to the Iowa
county pail. No eason is known for
the crime.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-08-21
NEWS.OF THE WORLD
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FRESH FROM OUR DAILY
NEWSPAPER SERVICE.
GATHERED OVER THE GLOBE
happenings National, Historical and
Political and Personal Events
Herewith Selected for Our
Many Readers.

A Southern Pacific operators strike
is on in Texas.
The European war has resulted in
sending up the price of coffee 8 cents
a pound in the u. s.
The director of the Hotel Astoria at
Paris and seven of his staff, all Ger
mans, have been shot as spies.
Prince Aage of Denmark, who rec
emily was arrested by Germans as a
spy and later was released, arrived
at Copenhagen Sunday.
The death of General Won Emmich,
the German commander at Liege, is
confirmed. He is to be succeeded by
General Won Der Marwitz.
Russia is said to have gathered to-
gether over 1000, 900 men on the Ger
man and Austrian frontier, and a half
million on the Turkish border.
Aug. Is being Assumption day in all
400 churches of Rome special prayers
were offered by direct instructions Of
the pope for the cessation of the war.
The Spanish cabinet has agreed to
the suppression of customs duties on
flour, corn and coal and to a decrease
in the import duties ON maize and rye.
According to instructions from the
postoffice department at Washington
the local postoffice will not receive
parcel post packages for transmission
tn Germany or France.
Advices from Trieste, Austria, say
the population Is in a panic. Besides
the rigor of the police they fear a
bombardment which may be followed
by a landing.
Lieutenant Colonel Junius l.. Powell,
the only remaining officer of the army
who served in the confederate army,
was placed on the retired list Saturday
as a brigadier general.
United States Senator Joseph L.
Bristow was defeated for the repub-
lican senatorial nomination in Kansas
in the recent primary by Charles Cur
tbs of Topeka by 1740 votes.
The excitement In the Italian capital
has become acute since the existence
of the state of war between England
and France on the one side and Aus
tria-Hungary on the other, was de
clared.
Miss Cornelia E. Bryce, daughter OF
Lloyd Stevens Bryce, former minister
to the Netherlands, and Clifford Pin
chot, former chief forester of the I'm.
tied States, were married Saturday In
the Episcopal church at Roslyn, L. L
The Germans pursue regular tactics
with their aeroplanes. Six leave Co.
logne daily. Three go to reoonnoiter
points of contact with the Belgians in
the field. The other three make a
methodical circling journey over the
chief towns and the rear of the troops.
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STOCK AND CROP NOTES.

1t is reported from the Lewiston
country that the dry weather has cur
tailed the hay crop to a considerable
extent.
A shipment of 16 carloads of cat.
tie was made from Cottonwood, Idaho
last week. Nine ears went to Spo-
kane markets and the balance to Port
land.
Estimates from the Yakima valley
place the total fruit shipments for
the season at between $50 and 900 car
loads. The movement of pears is now
at it's height and alberta peaches are
also moving in large lots.
The department of agriculture's bu.
reau of crop estimates announced on
July 81 that the condition of the cot
ton crop on July rs, reported as 1874
per cent of a normal, forecasts a yield
of 1850, 900 bales of 500 pounds gross
weight, as against 1916 on July rs,
1913. The past ten years average on
July 25 was 80. This is said to be
the first time the government has an.
nounced a forecast of the cotton crop
before December.
The United States department of ag-
riculture states that the area of sugar
beets planted in 1914 raj 1s per cent
less than in 1913 and amounted to
about $4,000 acres. In Idaho and
Utah a greater area was planted this
year than last year, but in some of the
other states there was a decrease. The
area harvested for 1913 was about 81
per cent of the area planted for the
entire United States. The average
price paid to growers for sugar beets
in 1913 was $3.50 per ton.
The sugar crop just harvested in
Iloilo province is the largest in guam
tity of any since 1908, according to J.
F. Boomer, Manila correspondent of
the Daily Consular and Trade Reports.
Notwithstanding the low grade of
much of the sugar turned out, and the
very low prices offered, large con-
signments r being shipped to New
York and China. Some difficulty is
being experienced in getting sufficient
vessels to carry sugar being put on
the market. Two forces are operating
to compel sales Of sugar at the low
prices now reigning-scarcity Of mon
ey among planters and insufficient
warehouses for storing the crop.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-08-21
SPORTING COLUMN

Fifty dollars per inning is Walter
Johnson's price for pitching in exihi-
tion contests.
Although there are changes
in the football rules for 1914, they
will not change the style of play from
last year.
Boxing throughout Europa is at a
stadstill, owing to the war, and the
knights of the glove have exchanged
their padded weapons for those Of a
far more dangerous character.
Sir Thomas Liptons' Shamrock ~,
challenger for the Americas cup, end.
ed her long transatlantic journey Sun.
day, reaching New York harbor short.
'ly before midnight. The Shamrock w,
came in under tow of Sir Thomas Lip.
tons steam yacht Erin. The cup yacht
is on this side of the water to be laid
up for the winter, probably after a
tuning up under racing rig, but not to
race in any event until next ear the
cup races having been postponed until
then. She left the English coast July
81.
Tennis Champions.
Forest Hills, N. Y.-After IL months
stay in the United States the Davis
cup, the trophy which carries with II
the worlds team tennis championship,
has resumed it's international travels.
On the turf of the West Side Tennis
club here Saturday afternoon the
Australasian team, challenger for the
trophy, clinched its claim to the silver
bowl by winning the third and decisive
match of the tournament from the
United States team, holder and defend
er of the much coveted prize.
Norman E. Brookes, captain and
leader of the A~ntipodeans, and A. Nor
ris Williams H., Americas second
ranking player, were the two which
marked the passing of the cup. While
the greatest gathering of tennis en-.
thusiasts that ever assembled for an
international tennis match looked on,
Brookes defeated his youthful op.
ponent, 81, GO, S-10,6-3.
The victory added to those of Wild
ing over Williams an August Is and
Brookes and Wilding over Mclaughlin
and Bundy in the doubles Angst Ia,
gave Australia the three out of five
matches necessary for possession of
the championship trophy.
Following this contest Mclaughlin
defeated Wilding, GO, 6-3, 2-6. e.
2, but the result had no international
bearing, being merely a masterful ex-
hibition of the court game such as
only players of this caliber can give.
Spokane's Baseball Schedule.
Spokane at Seattle. Aug. II to %.
Spokane at Tacoma Aug. "a to 20.
Victoria at Spokane, Aug. 80 to Sepa z.
Seattle at Spokane, Sept. 8 to 10.
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MONTANA BRIEFS

The state reunion of the Elks lodges
as held at Helena this week.
Rear Admiral Staunton n wife of
Washington, D. c., are making a tour
of Yellowstone National park.
Montana's golden and silver jubilee
closed Saturday at Great Falls with
fun and frolic after six days of cele-
bration.
A. j. Mcdowell, father af C. T. Nc
Dowell, prominent rancher OF Troy,
died recently at the ranch home of old
age, aged "a.
F. d. Williams, first assistant in the
office of the state bank examiner has
been appointed receiver of the State
Savings bank at Butte. His bond was
fixed at 100000.
Emma Goldman, the noted anarchist,
who used to create a police riot every
time she appeared in public, arrived
in Butte Sunday and there wasn't a
ripple of excitement.
Officers of the law are convinced
that highwaymen who held up IA stage
between Old Faithful inn and the
Thumb lunch station July q has made
his escape into the Jackson hole coun-
try where the highwayman whose hold,
up of the coaches was done in almost
the same manner escaped in 1909.
One hundred men from Great Falls
and Kalispell were sent to a fire in
the Blackfeet forest; IS men from Mis-
soula to Soudan and Stark; 25 men
from Missoula to Bonita for the Gill
bert creek fire; as men from Missoula
to Iron Mountain and Superior, for a
fire near Quinn's spur and six from
Missoula to Clinton, is the record for
Sunday.
Because of disturbed conditions re-
sulting from the European war, the
$3.50, 900 bond issue which the city of
Billings was to offer at auction re-
Gently was withdrawn. This will de-
lay acquisition of a municipal water
plant, but does not void the contract
Will Lie unOuLdud WdISI CUuupduy
from which it was purchased. Anoth-
er result of the wars effect upon fl
nancial conditions is the stoppage of
work on the largest paving contract
which was ever let by the city.
The senate has passed a bill which
permits publication of land office no.
tees in dailies, as well as in weekly
newspapers. 1t is now required by
law that these notices shall be pub.
lished only in weekly papers, nearest
the land affected, but Senator Meyers
bill permits publication of such notices
weekly in the Saturday issue of daily
papers, if the local land officers so de.
sire, the publications to run the same
length of time in the daily as in the
weekly. Another bill passed by the
senate permits homestead entrymen to
divide their five months leave of alb
sence each year into two periods, if
they so desire. This bill heretofore
passed the house.
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JAPAN IS READY FOR WAR.
Nation Would Act with Conscience
Sees Mo Necessity For Explanation
of It's Attitude to the U. s.

of It's Attitude to the U. S..
New York.-In Toxic a high official
of the foreign office says: Japan has
received no note whatever from the
American government in connection
with the present crisis. Even in case
a necessity arises for Japan to take
upon herself the duty of discharging
her treaty obligations to Great Britain
Japan sees 10 need of any explanation
for such an action, for she shall act
with a clear conscience in conformity
to Justice. We are confident that the
United States understands full well
this position of Japan, and consequent
ly we can not think for a moment that
our good neighbor, America, shall be
swayed by any ~uneasiness by the at
titude of Japan.
Count Okuma, Japan's premier, de-
clared that Japan, if forced to join
the European conflict, will do SO with
the single purpose of fulfilling her
treaty obligations to her ally, and of
UNFOLDING the of justice. Her
object Is the maintenance of peace in
the orient"
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-08-21

The term ~''stringless" beans Is not
applicable to any one variety. The
term refugee" is a class name ap.
piled to several distinct horticultural
varieties of beans which vary mark.
eddy In the quality Of stringless. Some
varieties developtbe earlier than 9th.
ers, anu on this account those varie.
ties which r slowest in developing
the fibrous character are classed by
seedsmen as stringless varieties OF
beans. 1t Is not thought that the term
'stringless" should be confined to any
n variety of bean.
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Better Baby Contest.

Over 400 entries have already been
made in the second annual Better Ba-
bies contest which will be staged at
the Spokane Interstate fair, Sept. 10 to
20. The entries this year include child
rem from 1 year to 5 years old. A
list of some 40 physicians will make
the measurements this year and with
the contest in a permanent building
it is expected to offer better facilities
all around for caring for the little
ones.
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Clerks Should Study Advertisements

Clerks Should Study Advertisements.
What Is more irritating than to step
into a store, after having seer a bar
gain advertised by the store, and be
told by the clerk, who should know his
business, that you were certainly mis-
taken, that the store had not adver.
tised the goods you asked for. This
thing happens too often, says Mer-
chants Trade journal.
Some time ago a nan was seen to
enter a large clothing store and ask
to be shown a wash vest advertised at
$1.98. The clerk behind the counter,
when approached by his customer,
sarcastically remarked, You must be
in the wrong store, neighbor. This
store does not sell goods of that
class" The customer protested that
he had see this stores announce
ment in the morning paper Inc he was
sure Of it. Just then the floor mana
ger happened to be passing and over
heard the conversation, and ap-
preached the customer and asked what
the trouble was. The customer, who
quite naturally did not like the atti-
tude of the clerk behind the counter,
told his trouble to the floor manager.
With a snap of his finger that floor
manager instructed his clerk to apply
at the office Immediately for his time,
saying that the store had no use for
a clerk who did not keep himself
posted on the stores advertisements.
Then he called another salesman and
directed him to wait upon the GUS
toner.
Now, there was an instance where
both the department manager and the
clerk were at fault. The department
manager certainly should have seen
to it that this clerk, and every other
clerk, has a copy Of the departments
advertising, and if the clerk had been
thoroughly alert as he should have
been he would have made it a point
to have gotten the morning paper con-
tanning the stores announcement in
order to know what was advertised
and would not have displeased a Gus
toner as he did. In some of the large
department stores of the cities 1t is
the duty of the aisle men, II floor
managers, to e that every salesman
in every department under them has
a copy of the stores advertisement.
The clerk should always know what
goods are advertised and the adver-
tised prices. He isn't thoroughly quail
flied to stand behind the counter aud
serve the public If he doesn't know
these things.
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PASS SHIPPING BILL
CONGRESS AUTHORIZES PRESI.
DENT WILSON TO ENLARGE
MERCHANT MARINE.
PRESIDENT HAS SIGNED sIT
Plan Is to Admit Foreign-B Built Ships
to American Registry-WhiIe Great
War Is on. Our Flag Is Not to
Be lnterfered With.

Washington, Aug. 18.-Congress on
Monday passed the emergency ship
ling bill, which will authorize the pres.
ident to admit foreign-built ships to
American registry, sc that commercial
fleets may sail the seas under protec-
ton of the American flag while bel
ligerents of Europe are at war and
securing the ocean for prizes. Presi-
dent Wilson signed the bill Tuesday.
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In the September Century.

Arnold Bennett win describe the
cafes, restaurants. ar~istocracy and art
of Copenhagen in his fourth paper
From the Log of the velsa." Hilaire
Belloc, well known in America for his
delightful essays, piquant humor, and
brilliant historical achievements, will
begin a series of six vivid scenes from
the French Revolution.