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The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-07-26
DEL BURGESS INJURED
Foot Severely Cut While Fighting
Fire at Tom Newton Home.

Del Burgess, manufacturer of the
Don Almo cigar and member of Be
midji's fire department, was severely
injured this morning when his foot
was cut by a piece of glass at the
Tom Newton home on Irvine avenue
while fighting fire. Burgess had
kicked in window and was with
drawing his foot when it was cut just
below the ankle. But slight dam
age was caused by the fire. This is
the second time during the past year
that the Newton home has been vis-
tied by fire. Yesterday the f1remen
were called to the yards of the Box
factory where a fire, discovered in
pile of lumber, was quickly >ex-
the chemical being used.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-07-26
STATE BOARD TESTS
BEGAN THIS MORNING

Pupils who were enrolled at the
summer school which closed last Fri
day, today began writing state board
examinations. Several persons who
did not attend the term are also TAX
ing the tests. The examinations are
being given under the direction of
w. B. Stewart, county superintendent
of schools, and he is assisted by men,
bers of the summer school faculty.
George Franklin, conductor of the
summer school, goes to Deer River
where he has accepted the superin-
tendency. He was formerly at Fer
gus Falls.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-07-26
ALLEGED GUNFIGHTERS ON
TRIAL AT MARLIN

Marlin, Tex, July 26.-Five men,
alleged to have been involved in the
Walker-E Elder all-night gun battle
near here recently, in which a baby
was fatally injured, faced trial here
today.
Three members af the Elder fam
lily, owners of a big plantation, are
among those to be tried. It is claim
ed that the gun fight resulted from
the Elders efforts to eject tenants
named Walker and Smith from their
houses on the plantation. Hints Of
essential circumstantial evidence,
aside from the details of the actual
shooting, were circulated today:
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-07-26
WINS PLACE IN FINALS
M. j. Brown Defeats Lindebergh and
Hedges in Tennis Tournament.

BY defeating George Lindebergh in
straight sets, 6-1 and GO, and John
Hedges, 6-1 and 6-3, yesterday, At
torney Montreville J. Brown won a
place in the finals in the tournament
being conducted by the Bemidji Ten
mis- club. Brown is the first man to
reach the finals, or sixth-round, and
his opponent will be either B. w. La
kin, E. H. Denu, Nat Given or Forest
Halgren. There are three games
to be played before the tournament
is concluded. The tournament COM
mittee announces that the doubles
series will start during the week.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-07-26
500 ATTEND PICNIC
Bemidji Socialists Enjoy Outing
Plummer and Zeigler Debate.

With 500 in attendance, the picnic
given at Diamond Point yesterday by
the Bemidji socialist local was big
success. One of the chief features
Of the day was a debate between John
Plummer and John Zeigler, the topic
being, Resolved, That the Capital
ist is More to Blame for Conditions
Than the Worker The affirmative
was discussed by John Plummer and
the negative by John Zeigler.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-07-26

| back upon her accomplishments of
the first year of the war with salts
faction. The Germans believe the
events of the past twelve months have
| demonstrated to the world that the
Teutons are the mightiest race of all
history. No other country could
have withstood the combination Of
world powers which Germany has
kept at bay since last August, de-
clare the Germans, and no other
country has ever so deeply stirred the
imagination of the world.
Germany has won her claim to a
place in the Sun. The German en-
pire has added brilliant chapters to
the history of Teutonic might begun
under the Hohenzellerns of the king
dom of Prussia. The kaiser himself
has earned for himself the title of
William the Great, which posterity
surely will bestow upon him. These
are the dominant beliefs of the Ger
| man people at the close of the first
year of the war;
Has Changed History.
Germany has shown up the world
in all it's littleness, and all it's boast
ings of false greatness. Only the
Germans themselves have withstood
hn 0f 1,o
Germans have gained victories during
the past fateful twelve months. Ger
many believes she has changed the
whole future course of history. Ger
man influence upon the future of
civilization for generations to come
will be far beyond the influence of
any other nation. Germany will not
dominate the world by her armed
might, but by her virtues which have
given to her a greater capacity for
organization and discipline than all
the rest of Europe combined pos
sesses.
When the Germans look back to
last August and recall the threats
that then we're being made against
them, and the penalties that were
imposed by England, France and
Russia in advance of the trial of bat
tie, the nation laughs. The world
didn't understand Germany last sum-
mer. It is beginning to learn now
that the Hohenzollern empire has
progressed during the years since the
Franco-Prussian war in ways unsus-
pected by the rest of mankind There
is nothing in the German of today
that wasn't put there by the disci-
pline and study that the world knows
under the name of Teutonic Kultur
Changed to Contempt
| The increasing respect paid to Ger
man Kultur is not one of the least
victories the Germans declare they
have won for themselves during the
| (Continued on last page.)
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-07-26

The captain of the submarine had
ordered the Leelanaw to stop while
he inspected the cargo, which con-
sisted of flax He decided it was
contraband. The crew was ordered to
the boats and the torpedo was then
shot.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-07-26
CONTINUED on last page
Supt. Over Returns.

w. p. Dyer, superintendent Of the
Bemidji public schools, returned to-
Bemidji Saturday from Fergus Falls
where he has been the conductor at
a session Of summer school which has
been in progress there during the past
month. He says that the term was s.
big success and that there was e.
large enrolment. ss
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-07-26
GERMAN ANPRESSC0NDEMNS
AMERICAS LAST NOTE
(Undted Press)

Berlin, July Fisherman people
are practically unanimous in their
approval of editorial utterances of
the press which are condemning the
latest American note. Officials and
people are surprised at the United
States note.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-07-26
BRITISH SUBMARINE
SINKS TURKISH SHIP

Athens, July 26.-For the second
time since operations began in the
Dardanelles q British submarine has
penetrated the harbor of Constanti-
nople and sank a Turkish transport,
two gunboats and a steamer laden
with ammunition. -..'.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-07-26
Witnessed by Bemidji Man.

Daniel Moore, a young Insurance..
man of Bemidji, returned to the city
from Chicago this morning. He
reached the Clark street bridge less
than ten minutes after the Eastland
toppled over and he witnessed the
work Of rescuing. 3.
He states that all Chicago was
stunned by the catastrophe and that
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-07-26
ONE YEAR OF EUROPEAN WAR AS seen
FROM ,>'pWP0INTS OF FIGHTING NATIONS
Ed L. Kesn Carl % and William Philip simms Write Series
of Articles Tellin. 7ions as They Exist After
Twelve M + Struggle.
Germans Satisfied With Progress Made and Believe That
Demonstrated That They Are the Mghest Race All History
France Found Herself

articles, written by three of the prominent
the United the first
n during They up the
struggle of fighting
Friday July will be followed Saturday
J. w. r. Mason, writer
daily feature, What the W ar Moves Mean"
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-07-26
Nymore Team Defeated.

BY a score of 6 to 2 the North Side
Baseball team yesterday defeated the
Town of Northern nine. The game
was we'll. played. In game played
at Nymore the team of that village
was defeated by score of II to
by nine from Bemidji. Several
"Big Bemidg" players we're in the
lineup. -.@.~ r..
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-07-26

Mr.. and Mrs. William Galbraith Of
Superior, who have been the guests
of Mr. and Mrs. r. GulbransOn, have
returned to their home. Mr.. CAL
braith is superintendent of the Great
Northern elevator at Superior.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-07-26
GERMANS TORPEDO
AMERICAN STEAMER
(Un1ted PreSs)

London, July 26.-A German sub
marine has torpedoed and sunk the
north coast of Scotland, while enroute
from Arch-Angle to Belfast. The
crew of the vessel was landed at
KirkWall. The steamer was flying
the American flag when torpedoed.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-07-26

Washington, July 26.-The Leela
naw's American registry was confirm
ed today.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-07-26
GUNsALUS ], ! ? PLACE |. L
RAIDED By INDIAN
OFFICERS TO-DAY
Government Agents, Led by Chief
Larson, Search Third Street Estab-
lishment- Find Much Liquor.
PLAN TO MOVE BAR FIXTURES
Injunction Interferes - Saloons Of
Grand Rapids and Big Falls
Closed-Hibbing Next (?)

With Henry A, Larson, chief spe-
cial officer Of the government Indian
service, at their head, four officers
bravely entered the Third street soft
drink place operated by Harry Gun
salus, this morning, ordered the pat
ro1s to depart and locked the doors.
Just what then took place is not
known, but it is understood that a
systematic search of the entire es-
tablishment was made, the result be-
ing that a large, quantity of liquor
was fOund
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-07-26

New York, July 26.-The torpedo
ing of the Leelanaw has caused in.
tense excitement here, bordering up
on decentralization.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-07-26

DR.. G.. Hoey is spending several
days at Littlefork and Big Falls on
professional business. ~ n
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-07-26

One year of the great war as
seen in England, follows. This
article is written by Ed l..
Keen.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-07-26
Would Move Fixtures.

The agents endeavored to move .the e
bar fixtures but were unable to Sc
cure drayman to do the work. An
injunction, restraining the agents
from moving the furniture, was serv-
ed on Chief Larson this afternoon.
The injunction was drawn by Judge
Marshall A. Spooner.
The restraining order, signed by
Judge D. H. Fisk, court commission
er, this afternoon, is made return
able before Judge c. w. Stanton, at
his Glengarry chambers, on August
IA, at which time 5the government Of
fcers will be~reqlired to show cause
why a temporary injunction should
not be issued. The order was served
by Sheriff Andrew Johnson.
Officers who took part in the search
were Larson, Brandt, Benson, Thoma-
sen and Carson. They will not dis
regard the courts order, and Gunsalis
was permitted to aropen Misplace. -
Two Towns Are Closed.
During the last several days the
saloons of two towns in the "dry''
zone have been closed by the agents,
one being Big Falls and the other
Grand Rapids. At Grand Rapids 16
saloon keepers and one brewery agent
were ordered to close their places of
business on or before July 80. The
order came as a surprise to Grand
Rapids for the liquor men believed
that they were not to be molested by
the government. Big Falls is the last
town in the northern part of the dry
territory to have saloons.
Is Hibbing Next?
On his arrival in Bemidji today
Chief Larson, who served the closing
order on the Grand Rapids saloon
men, was asked whether the ''lid" is
to be applied at Hibbing, Chisholm
and several other range towns To-
Gated within the borders of the ter
ritory. He smiled, he always does
when questions of the kind are asked
and said that only time will tell.
It is understood that several rail.
roads running through, Hibbing have
been ordered to stop liquor shipments
to that village.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-07-26

Pioneer want ads bring results.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-07-26
Other Attempts Fail.

On several previous occasi ions the
Indian officers have searched the
Gunsalus place, but never were able
to find liquor, although they claimed
that whisky was being sold there.
Gunsalus for many years conducted a
saloon here.
Evening star., 1915-12-26

William Freak Morris freeman. jeremiah Cock,
Martha Jackson, George. tailor.
Matthews. Hannah Ford. George a smith.
1641-Francis Anchill, Richard Harvey. Charles
Bdward Ward. Robert King. Mary Phillips, John
Wheatley. Wheatley's wife.
1642-Thomas lockwood, John lockwood. EliI-
lsi6-Masdalene wittle
lsSl,Rosert Curtis, % William =, sincklrsrs Sin
lande, John Eston and Sarah Indie
In supplementary account he gives
these names: 163334-John Hallowes.
John Holden. Roger Walters and Roger
Morgan; 1635-william Penshoot. Roch-
ard Cole, John Medley, Richard Brown
and Richard Brook"
fair number of these immigrants
became prominent in the province.
head and John Medley became mem
bers of the assembly and otherwise
prominent. and Nicholas Gwyther be-
came sheriff of st. Marys county.
There Is a record that CORVALLIS. in
November. 1859. entered into con-
tract with George Canada, who came
over as servant under Gov. Green. TO
deliver Sc, 900 well burned brick before
June, 1858. and $4,000 before June. 1854.
all to be delivered near Potopaco. Corn
wallis was building his great house for
the reception of his bride, for in 1854
he went to England and took as his
wife Penelope, daughter of John Wise-
man of the Middle temple and of Tyr
rels in Essex. and with her returned
to his new mansion at or near Port
Tobacco. The site of that house has
not been located by the Rambler.
As you journey over the road and ap-
proach Port Tobacco you Will notice
that the hilltops are crowned with big
old houses. There is quite a bit Of de-
cay now. but one cannot help getting
the impression that this was a region
of wealth. About many of these old
places is an air of aristocracy. The
village itself is nearly a ruin. Two lit
tie wings of the old court building are
standing. Brawner's Hotel is no more.
but you stand on its debris-strewn
site. Old natives will tell of Brawner
and a fine horse called Rebel which he
owned. A man named Shackleford kept
the hotel before Brawner, and it was
last run by a man named Birch. That
was many years ago. Middleton's Hotel,
which was still operating in 1876 under
the name of the Centennial Hotel, is a
tenantless shell: where Christ Episco-
pal Church stood is a tree-grown lot.
All around the town on the ridges
above 1t are the old farms and homes
of the Brawners, Meals, Floyds, Jen-
kins, Hamiltons. Mitchells and Win
gates. Some other time the Rambler
will write more of the old families of
the Port Tobacco region.
Evening star., 1915-12-26

hard to get a seat in any cafe in Berlin.
and the city has cafe on every corner.
A cafe in Germany is not the same as
in America. 1t is place where people
go to meet their friends and to read the
papers. The usual drink is cup of cof-
fee, and the people stay for <hours-and
everybody pays for his own drink
Every German has his favorite cafe,
but with tourists Cafe Victoria. Cafe
Bauer and Cafe Josty are now the most
popular. Kranzler's cakehouse Is another
popular place, and the people are all
jammed together. looking SO very uncom-
Portable that 1t is quite impossible to
imagine that they are having a good
time. The Picadilly Cafe. opened with
splendor two years ago, has changed its
name to the Vaterland.
The larger cafes have small war bull
letins hanging in prominent places. The
pasting of great flaming bulletins on the
newspaper windows has not yet reached
Germany. but 1t has gotten as far as
Copenhagen. When something real ex-
citing happens the newspapers issue a
small sheet which they distribute free.
And so the war goes on, and the nights
IN Berlin are a blaze of lights. The old
cabbies still hang around looking for
fares, but after II o'clock they do not
find SO many as in other days, for the
Berliners go to bed earlier They cannot
be SO gay; they are thinking Of the dear
ones at the front.
Evening star., 1915-12-26

and teaching the women improved
methods of basket and rug weaving.
One organization known as the Noun
tain Industries Association of Tyron,
N. c., in the three years of its ex-
istence has put into the hands of the
mountain people $4,000 as a result of
the sale of their products. Something
of the value of the money is shown
in this quotation from report of the
society:
To-day the interesting old looms.
themselves handmade, which for more
than a century were the only means
that the housewife had of clothing her
family, have come into renewed act
ivity: they now, under her skilled and
pat industry, bring forth things
that find place in the worlds market.
The money that comes to the home is
spent in better food, in enlightened
comforts. in education of the younger
members of the family, and in the
decencies and necessities of hygienic
value. In fact this money creates an
appetite. desire for civilization, and
in the creating OF the desire the road
is open for progress"
So
1t is with this spirit that the ex-
change in Washington has been work.
ing. The articles on sale are all the
products of the women who work
in their cabins The things are sent
schools however small profit is
retained toward the expenses of the
exchange and the bulk of ii returned
to the women to whom cash is most
precious The remaining expenses of
the exchange are met by means of
donations made to the Southern Indus
trial Educational Association.
The door of the exchange is open
from until 4:3o. and a peep through
l, hall nj he
is AN invitation 10 enter. The fur
niture and walls are covered with
products of the mountains. In fact.
the furniture itself was made by a
mountaineer trained in carpentry. The
bedspreads and coyerlets are probably
the most attractive things in the room.
Most of them are made OF heavy white
or unbleached cotton worked in de-
signs Of knots or tufting that are
decidedly ancient in their origin.
The woolen coverlets are in colors,
and are all made on hand looms. From
these the blue mountain room was fur
nshed at the White House. Baskets
of all varieties are on the walls. and a
shelf is filled with quaint wooden dolls,
furniture and miniature log cabins.
There are two dolls that even Kris
Kringle has probably never seen. They
are carved from wood with dried corn
silk for hair. "Poppets," the children
of the mountains call them. Perhaps the
things that most suggest romance are
the reed pipes bound together by cords.
They produce a weird sort of music, and
one that is heard throughout the noun
tain region.
Beyond the romance of these noun
tain products lies the fact of the good
accomplished by their sale. A part of
the money turned over to the women
is used by them for the education OF
their children, and this, no doubt, means
the future of the mountain people. The
settlement schools where the children
live during the school year are doing
much to improve the habits of the chill
dren as well as their minds. =
Evening star., 1915-12-26

they have taken a more serious turn
and today instead of the scampering,
Kicking ballet girl. one finds sweet
singer of patriotic songs.
The most popular show in Berlin is
at Citrus Schumann. 1t is a spectacular
production with about 500in the cast. and
all the substitutes are war prisoners.
The men have been picked from the
prison camps around Berlin, and they
are mostly English, French and Rus
sian. They are greatly pleased with
their jobs. for 1t gives them a chance
to get out and see something, and you
can imagine what treat It is after
being penned UP SO long. They are
paid a mark day, and that mark is
to them fortune.
OF course. in every one of the play
scenes the Germans win, and some of
the prisoners take the parts of the
German soldiers. One scene that is
very popular is where a large party of
Cossacks are attacked by a small party
down their arms and beg to be taken
prisoners. The whole show is gotten
up in very realistic manner and they
have real powder. many horses. cannon
and guns. In one scene cooking
wagon drives in on the stage where
some Italian soldiers are camping. The
soldiers rush around the wagon and
grab the sausages and pans of spa
ghetti. The spaghetti Is excelsior.
The prisoners act very sheepish. but
they do their parts very well. The
theater is well guarded. but 1T is hardly
possible that any of the men would try
their foreign costumes.
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Music is always good in Germany
and the people love 1t. Every day a
band plays in front of the iron Hin
denburg, great wooden statue of the
hero that the people are covering with
iron nails purchased at a mark apiece
The money collected goes to the fam
lilies of the fallen soldiers. Another
band plays each day in the Lustgarten
after the change of the guard. The
guard change is one of the greatest
sources of amusement for all Berliners
and now since the war SO many people
many policemen are needed to keep the
court clear. The soldiers do the goose
step, and the old court and the music
and the bright blue uniforms take one
back to medieval times.
Moving picture shows are just as
popular in Germany as they are in
America. But instead OF paying OF
10 cents the admission fee here runs
are beautifully decorated. and one Is
compelled to check hat and coat. Char
lie Chaplin hasn't gotten here as yet
being delayed on account OF the war
though he Is the rage in London.
Going TO art exhibitions is another
fayorite pastime with the Germans. and
the war has not stopped the art exhi-
bitions The Berlin sessionists are now
having a very large show Most of the
motives are war motives, and the tech
nique is Just as cubic as ever. Foot ball
is favorite game, and the soldiers have
a game every day.
Sitting In a cafe always has been. and
always will be, the favorite amusemen,
of the German people. and since the wal
the cafes are more crowded than ever
From to Z O'Clock in the evening 1t is
Evening star., 1915-12-26

lage of Port Tobacco is five miles up
Port Tobacco creek, north of the Po-
tomac, and no steamboat or other
boat. unless it be a skiff. could go all
1t being a mile ABOVE navigable water
and three miles above the wharves
Brentland and Chapel Point. at which
steamboats, make regular landings. Blu,
one can walk from Glymont on the
Potomac to Brentland on Port To-
bacco creek in eleven or twelve mics
and the steamboat distance between
those wharves is thirty EIGHT miles. and
a steamboat in making its usual land
ings first on one side of the river and
farther. But the question may come
into the mind of some reader. who
wants to walk to Port Tobacco?"
Port Tobacco creek has its birth in that
highland which geologists have named
the Lafayette terrace. Many small
branches in the White Plains district
of Charles county unite to form this
creek and those that join it on it's
way to the Potomac are very many
more. Some of these little branches
carry the name of the man who owns
farm, or did own farm, through
which they run. The creek flows from
north to south and for five miles is a
branch which has worn a fiat
valley a quarter of a mile wide and
~'i' AoV W wv iSSe oSAO" k.S W -
the surrounding country The slope
on each side of the valley is gentle.
the top of the land lying from half
to mile back from the floor of the
valley. These slopes are generally
clear and under cultivation. The
lateral streams flowing into Port To-
bacco creek have secured wales in the
valley slopee so that the country is
much broken and the crest of each
ridge cut into succession of hilltops,
on nearly every one of which IS home.
and most of these are very old, gen.
orally surrounded by a garden and a
grove of fine trees.
Five miles from the head of the creek
stands the village of Port Tobacco.
There the floor of the valley widens
and becomes a marsh in which the tide
flows, and. of course. ebbs. Here the
slopes of the valley. are quite steep. A
mile below Port Tobacco this marsh,
half mile wide, ends. and the clear
water of Port Tobacco river begins. At
the head of the river and on the east
side is an old landing called Warehouse
a name that is descriptive of
what it once was. The clear water of
the Port Tobacco river. from a half to
a mile wide. extends south from Ware
house landing to the Potomac, dis
tance of about three miles. The places
of interest along the navigable part of
Port Tobacco river are Wills Island.
Fourth point. Deep point, Henson