The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1915-06-24

              THE   PIERZ   JOURNAL
V^OL. 7.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, JUNE 24, 1915.
NO. 2.
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ABOUT THE STATE
News of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
DRYS WIN IN EVERY COUNTY
Option Elections Held in Meeker, Pope,
Pennington, Wright,  Big  Stone,
Marshall  and  Wadena.
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Pope County—Five at Glenwood, Sedan and Lowry and
two brewery branches at Glenwood.
Big Stone—Sixteen at Orton-
ville, Graceville, Clinton, Johnson, Beardsley and Barry.
Meeker—Nine in Eden Valley and Watkins.
Marshall—Five in Oslo and
Middle River, with three brewery hgu^-hes at Oslo.
PefflBngton ■— Fourteen saloons and five brewery branches at Thief River Falls.
Wadena — Two saloons at
Verndale.
Wright—Twenty-one saloons
at Delano, Albertville, Hanover, St. Michael, Waverly, Maple Lake and South Haven.
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Seven more Minnesota counties
have voted out saloons, making thirty-
two that are now in the dry column
as the result of county option elections.
The last counties voting dry were
Meeker, Pope, Pennington, Wright,
Big Stone,  Marshall and  Wadena.
The vote in Meeker county was the
big surprise. Most of the county has
gone dry under local option elections
and the wets conceded an easy dry
victory. However, the incomplete returns from about half the county gave
the wets a lead of 225 votes. Complete returns, though, showed the drys i
leading by 18 votes.
Wright, Big Stone and Pennington
counties, which were claimed by the
wets, voted dry by majorities of from
100 to 600.
Rhodes Estate
Locals of Pierz
Is Settled Up
Tlie estate of the  late   J.   H.
And Vicinity
June 21st, last Monday, was
The Ball Game       May Close Hotels if
Last Sunday^      Bars Have to Go
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Tlie Little Kails—Pierz ball1 All hotels in the province of
game played on the local diamond Saskatchewan, Canada, will be Rhodes, which han been in pro-' ^jie longest day of tlie year
last Sunday was lost by the home closed July 1st, or as soon after bate court since 1913, the year ]
team by a score of 5 to 3. It was | as possible, if the advice of the ' of Mr. Rhodes' death, has been' P> A. Hartniaiin is giving
an interesting contest and neith- 'executive of the. Saskatchewan'settled and divided among six t,,e outsicle of nis store {l llew
ei-team had the game in hand Licensed Vituallers' association heirs, the youngest of whom coat °* Panit'
utitil the last ball was pitched, is followed. A proclamation, has just become of legal age. Z N. Barnes of the Morri-
Lagerbauer was on the mound advisingall hotel proprietors to The will of Mr. Rhodes contain- SOn County Lumber Co., was
for the All—Stars and did some close their places of business on ed a proviso that the estate here in the interest of his
creditable work in the pinches. July 1st, is being sent out. j should not be settled   until   all company Tuesday.
Leo pitched giltedged ball   for.    There are 405   licensed hotels the heirs were 21 years old.
Math. Weidenbach of Little Falls, visited with his
brother Peter Weidenbach
over Sunday.
Glregor Vanbeck of Hastings was an over Sunday
visitor with the Herm. Koering family.
the*loealsand but for some costly in Saskatchewan  and it is esti-      Tbe estate is valued at $66,000
errors    should   have    won   the  mated that 5,000 employees will and includes 1,400 acres of farm
une. Pierz outslugged the visi-  be affected. land scattered over the   county
tors by a good margin.  Lack of      Members of the executive com-  and residence and business pro-
mittee of the association say itPei'ty   in the city.—Little Palls
team work is probably respon
sible for the loss of this game.
About 400 people, a large number of whom were from the
county seat were on the ground
to witness the game.
West Buh News.
G.   A
county
day.
will be impossible to conduct a
hotel without the revenue from
the hotel's bar which is depended
upou to meet the deficit which,
the committee says, has been a
monthly occurrence with fully
75 per cent of the hotels.
Transcript.
Rucker News.
A.   Olson  and   wife  were   Mny   (Inf ftnft/4
/seat  visitors last Satur-  lH«J    VJCl VJUUU
Crop of Corn t
Miss Hilda Hanson of Swan
iviver and her cousin, Miss Hilda
Petterson of Chelsea. South Dakota, spent Thursday and Friday at G. A. Olson's and H.Wie-
land's,
Walter Wieland, the Misses
Peterson and Hanson were
Freedhem callers Friday.
A  glorious   Circus   day,   the
nicest day of the season.  Every-
Folks say this is not the only
spring of late frosts.
On the night of June 30th.
1891, the corn froze off down to
the ground. But in spite of this
setback, there was a good crop
of corn.
Mr. ami Mrs. Probasco are the proud
parents of a fine baby boy, who arrival early last Friday morning.
Mis. J. A. Sanborn and Mrs. Charles
Sanborn of Hoistein Park were Eueker
callers last week  Wednesday.
Miss Bessie Benton, wlio has been
working for Mrs. Olson lately, returned to her home in Hillman last week.
Mrs. G. W. Waller visited her old
riend, Mrs. Osmer Leigii, of Hillman,
Wednesday of last week. She was accompanied by Clifford and Thelma
Waller and Marie Brown.
Mrs. E. L. Bruber and children visited at the Robinson home last Thursday afternoon.
There was a fair attendance at Sunday school at the school house last Sunday. It is hoped that there will be
many more next Sunday. Remember
the time, 10:30 a. m., and come.
Mr. and Mrs. Arba Waller spent
Sunday  afternoon at   Wm.  Penniman's
EDITOR MAY PRINT OPINION
Minnesota Newspaper Man Freed of
Libel   Charge.
The action charging criminal libel
brought by the state against J. R.
Landy, editor of the Olivia Times, for
articles published June 4, 1914, concerning the candidacy of Daniel W.
Lawler of St. Paul for governor, was
brought to an end by a decision of the
state supreme court reversing the order of the lower court in refusing to
sustain a demurrer.
"Newspapers may still be permitted to express an opinion upon the
merits of opposing candidates for political office and upon the influences
supporting them," writes Judge Holt
in his opinion. "Perhaps it is still
allowable to surmise that corporations
are not indifferent to the success of
political candidates in spite of the
stringent enactments to keep them
absolutely dormant In that respect.
"We fall to find anything unlawful
or wrongful in the article published.
Corporations are public interests, are
creatures of the law and not per se
odious."
The article asserted that Lawler
"has the backing of public service
corporations in the state that are not
ln  sympathy  with  the masses."
On July 4th.  1904,    corn   was
not more   than   6   inches   high,' 0f Hillman.
one from here that was able, at- j but a fair yie]d was   i,al.vested.[    The 1,cavy rains the ,atter l,art °\
the  week put a stof  to the road worli
tended.
Mr. aud Mrs. McGuise of Lit-
The state   farm   corn  expert  wni(,h was progressing finely
strongly advises reseeding corn      MJ- i'"1 Mrs. Fraud
J. J. Gross of  Little Falls
was here   today   testing   the
gasoline and   kerosene tanks
■ at New Pierz.
Frank Zuleger and family
went to Riee Sunday morning to visit Mr. Znlegers
brothers. Jos. and John, and
tlieir families.
Next Monday, June 28th
the town boards will meet in
every town in the state as a
board of equalization to look
over to assessors books.
Jos. Ries wrent to   Minneapolis Saturday  and   retimed
Sunday with   his   family    in
his auto. They will make their
\J home in the    Wm.    Preimes-
tle Falls  spent Sunday  at Geo.  dainaged by rain.   Even  if  the £* !™\ l™ V' VT?' ^'l
Swnnarai'a ■".   Retzlafl   has   disposed   of   his   farm
g   uneiv. .
is Tomberiin have Verger house in Upper town.
Swanson's
Mr. and Mrs. Muncy spent
Sunday at the Henry Wuellner
home.
Mrs. Herm. Wieland and Mrs.
Nordstrom and children of Gravelville spent Sunday afternoon
with Mrs. Chas. Johnson.
Edwin Johnson spent Sunday
at home.
Miss Ethel Johnson visited
with her cousin Madrid at Little
Palls Jast week.
Wm. and Ida Kohs attended
the surprise party iu Freedhem
Sunday afternoon.
SISTERS SERIOUSLY BURNED
spo
corn fails to mature, the farmer to Mr. Seelen of Pierz.
will be paid by the fodder   corn'    Mr- a11'1 Mrs- •lol,n Lovp an"1 ,laugh",,
. tsrs, Miss Fern  Love  and   Mrs.   Mercviliere     J lieSUay.
he can cut.    Corn planted   now!Adkins and husband, Ernest Adkins, of
may reasonably be expected   to  Litt,° Fal,s  topped   at  the home  of
_     , . O. W. Waller Sunday morning on their
return   a    crop,     rodder   corn1
may be planted as late as  July
12th.
Platte News.
way to Mille Lac for an outing. *
Miss Sadie Benton is working for
Mrs. Probasco at present.
The Dorman and Cates families were
visiting at the Waller home last Sunday afternoon.
John  Ferguson'made  g business trip
to   Pierz   Monday   to   purchase   house-
Mr.   and   Mrs.   Frank   Kleutch      and   keeping supplies.
Mrs.   B.  Richner  called at  C.  Reese's 	
Sunday. Darkest of Night.
Joe "Kainz drove to Brainerd Mon- I The darkest hour precedes the dawn
day, to help move the household goods '*» an old saying, but scientifically true,
of his brother, Mike Kainz, to Pierz.     though no explanation seems possible.
There  was a  dance at  Srhramel's on    W.   F.   Deming.  an   English  n
Saturday', but haven't heard any  more
T. C. Wing and J. Quiali-
van of St. Cloud were callers
They   were
partners   in    the   implement
business 25 years ago.
about it as yet.
Miss Kuiina Reese spent Sunday with
Sara and Theo Rychner.
Edward Richner and Lillie Olson visited Sunday at the Freeman James
home at Freedhem.
Mike Casey and ^rt Larson drove to
Swan River Friday.
Frank  Madson  returned  to his home
in  Swan  River Thursday.    While here
he  went   on  a   fishing  trip  and   took  a
1 5Q   nice string of croppies home with him.
Math   Valentine   delivered   cattle   to
GENERAL
MARKET REPORTS.
Grain and Produce
riarket Report.
Wheat, No. 1,     1.05
Wheat, No. 2.       1.08
Flax,	
Barley  ,.     60'
T 1     -.   Pierz Thursday.
Uye     l.UOj     c   |teege ,n)i, family, Andrew Kainz,
Oats       "*'-   Jr., and family, A. H. Nagel and Joe
Ear Corn .;        65  Kainz called at Kleutch's Sunday eve-
Two  Winona  County Girls May  Die
From  Injuries.
Two girls were burned probably fa-
tally when liquids they Were boiling   fc
took fire in their home near Lewis*
ton, Winona county. The girls, Catli*
eraine McDugal, seventeen years old,
and her sister, Ersy, thirteen years
old, daughters of Duncan MoDugal,
were preparing a compound of para*
fin and turpentine which they planned
to apply to the floor in preparing for
a dancing party.
Butter, Creamery ..
Dairy	
Rggs	
Flour, Best	
"   Straight	
371    Well, the  glorious 4th will soon be
.-,_   here.     Is  everybody  ready,  and  is  it
going to be spoiled agaiu by too many
and   make    it
Mrs. Louis Spaniel I ner returned from the hospital in
Little Falls Tuesday, where
she had been seven years alter undergoing an operation.
The Litchfield brewery,
one of the oldest in the state,
closed its door last week. The
proprietor decided that it
would not pay him to manufacture beer for outside of
county shipment.
A 12 year  old boy   of corduroy, Wis., caught and landed a 46   pound   muskalonge.
This is in strong contrast to
Hissina. the boasts of some fishermen
The hiss does not always mean   w|)0    ofteu     report    -finally
disgust and reprobation.    In Japan , '
it means delight.    A Japanese  in j landing a trout (or bass) alt-
greeting one hisses. In West Africa   er 10   minutes of hard   fight-
the hiss denotes astonishment.    In   •
the New Hebrides they hiss before       °*
anything   beautiful.     The   Basutos I      T      v       ,   „,,„.,„.■  aik^.i.
ui/8 in sign of cordial  agreement. |     l& Voilderhaar ot Albei l,-
Amoiig   the   Kabylcs   of   northern   ville   visited here   over  Siu-
Afriea the hiss denotes satisfaction. 'day<     He says ti,at   tJjB r..0bt
In «*iiills and  factories,  where  the
on meteors, says he lias often observed the phenomenon. He describes It
as a greater darkness dropping like a
mantle and blotting out objects which
had been plainly visible during the
previous hours of the night. He ndds
that the dense opacity of the air sometimes Induces n nervous sensation.—
New York World.
Locals of Pierz
And Vicinity
Sheriff Paul Felix returned
Thursday evening from Minneapolis with Frank Sullivan,
Harry King and Prank Dolan,
who confessed to robbinjr the
clothing- store of Charles Beck-
man here last Sunday night and
who were arrested by a detective
in a Minneapolis pawnshop.
They are willing to plead gnilty
and begin their sentences, they
told the police.
C. D. Huboard, foreman at the
Herald, had his hand badly injured Saturday morning while
working with the cylinder press.
His fingers were caught in grip-
pers and the first joint ot the
middle ringer was nearly torn
off. It will be several weeks before he is able touse the injured
ringer.
Indeterminate    sentences    to
the slate penitentiary werV given
Prank Dolan. Henry King and
Stephen Demerrit (alias Prank
Sullivan) by Judge Parsons in
district court Friday evening
after the trio had pleaded guilty
to burglary in the third degree.
They admitted robbing the
Beckman clothing store here of
clothing and were captured in
a Minneapolis pawnshop altera
struggle with detectives. They
will probably be taken to Stillwater by Shrill' Felix Monday.
The maximum for this crime Is
live years.
Stealing Honors
From Little Falls
Because a lew baseball stars
like Hush and Mender sprung
from the bushes of Brainerd,
doesn't indicate that all prom s
ing youngsters come from Crow
Wing's county seat.
The Minneapolis Journal sporting editor says: Dietrich, who
has been in Minneapolis since
the close of the college year,
left today for his home near
Brainerd for a short visit. Be
will return and start for Detroit
in time to arrive there July 8th.
Little Palls, Assert Thyself!
Hlliman News,
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H.f>0   all  join together
The liquor boiled over and both at- Shorts   .  1.45 j
tempted  to  throw  it  from  the  room. """       """"       """"" "",   ,-
Their clothing burst into flames and Cracked Com bO pounds. 1.40j
they ran screaming into the yard.    A Ground Feed      1.10
neighbor   succeeded   in   extinguishing Beans _   2.00
machinery   makes   so   much   noise  Seems to   have   been general
colebrahons?     \\ hv   can t   the   people .*> . . .   ,
0Ue   that spoken words cannot he heard,   over cent la I .Minnesota.     All
workmen hiss to one another to at- ■■., „,„„   ...   ■     . .   « ,i,.
3.,0gran,l good tunc tract attention.-Exchangc. .the way    up he passed   hehis
Low grade flour 1.80]    Mrs. Prank    Kleutch   and   children  f I   f and poU|toei,  j^ lf.
,-, .    tn1 called   at   Mrs.   Walter  Pelouski's  Fn-
Bran . 1.40
da v.
How th. cur. worked. 'covering from the frost.
A man suffering from a stubborn i
\\ el , c id vou ''0 to the lake Sundavf ,      .  . " ,   •     ,   ,
'       • '      attack of insomnia was advised by
I a   well   meaning   friend   to   try   a i
Mrs. Les. Murtitt of Fotey, 's
visiting relatives lure- She is a
guest at the home of her sister.
Mrs. \V. C.   I'enniman.
Among the Pierz callers   lasi
week   Wednesday      were    Mrs.
I Hanson, Miss Marie Drews, Miss
Julia Leigh,  Harold   Bain   and
John Love.
Mr. Bethel and family arrived
Thursday to take charge of the
s'ore which Mr. Bethel recently
purchased from O. 0. Leigh.
STATE NEWS BITS
Various Happenings of the Week
Throughout Minnesota,
We were a little surprised
the flames, but not until the bodies of .
both had been seared. I Unions
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PHYSICIAN    IS   SENTENCED iSouthSt' Pa,u.1
with two broken libs, a   severe
gash in his head and other painful bruises as a result of falling
Hog Market.! off the water wagon, more  gen-
Ave. Price,  erally known as thestreetsprink-
Thursday. 7.28  ler at yauk Rapids.
He was tilling the  tank   from
Minneapolis Doctor Will Appeal  Manslaughter Case.
Without a tremor in his voice or an
outward   indication   of   emotion,   ur.  Friday ' ••><■>
Charles H. Hunter, sixty-two years of   Saturday 7.4^
cue. a former president of the Hen-' MoiKiay" ..7.41  kydrant uear the Rudd   Lumber
7 35  Co.'s office, when he slipped and
George Lindt lies at his home   number of leg and toe exercises aft- j tlie other day lo find titty do
er retiring. Ilara  on   the road   beside  the
A few davs afterward he was ap-   ,     , .   ., .•
proaehed   by   his  friend   with   ^. ; hedge at the corner ot a prom-
quiries as to the. result of his sug-, inent    fanner s    house,    and
gcsti,01V,,,    .iU •    , 'more bo   that it had   lain for
"Well,   said the insomniac laconically, "I reckon those exercises are   Several weeks unmolested and
all right, Jim, but when 1 had tried   was beginning to look  much
them all it was time to get up." L^ ^.^ for ^^^     The
He Had the Best of It. niOlieV   Was ill  tile   shape of B
Nervous Passenger (on lake steam- CQm pianter  which will have
cr)—It must be really  terrible to T
think of an accident happening to to be   replaced by a new o:.6
Osmar   Leigh    left    for    Dora
.| Lake the   first   of   this   week.
.Mrs. Leigh and    Master    Frank-
will   remain   at   the
home for a few   days
Fenniman
Mr. and Mrs. Ar'ot Waller
spent Sunday atteinooii at Bill
Fenn's.
Miss Bessie Iteuton is working
at the Bethel home.
Mr. and Mrs. Irwin .1.    Drews
visited at Rucker last   Sunday.
riepin   County   Medical  society,  stood
In    the   crowded    courtroom   of   Dis- ' 1 uesday _
trict  Judge C. S. Jelley at Mlnneap-  Wednesday 7.85  fell to the pavement below.   He.
is  and. the bo:lt v       •vou are awaJ        n  before another season, unlet        Don t cry. Anyone, even r
was picked up uuconsciou
taken to h is home and a physician
summoned. While Ilia injuries are
cared for better. — K\.
Is your money  making moii'V
didn'tsay  good   bye   when   he
left you.
olis and  was  sentenced to from five
to  twenty   years   in   state  prison  on gouth   St. Pcllll
conviction    of   manslaughter   in    the . .    *
first degree by causing the death, Nov. Live StOCKiViarket.
1(i. 1914, of Lena Kumnierof Hastings. g(-eers_ _  $7 75 to 7.so
Minn,  by  an illegal operation.    Bail ' "V™".","  "   "m V r'        ..— ! not serious thev are painful and
SSiiraLS'SSSrSiS ^^r^^k^o'u:^  wUlcanO^Mmtoto^eforll.    to die botto„roftbe lake,   ■  u  in the   First  State  Bank
of appeal to the supreme cou«. pee-^ ^J^ ___$4,30 to 7.00 beveral Weeks. ChlcaS° lribune' New Pier*. adv suUs.
there in that hole
Stokeir—It's just the other way,
ma'am. If the boat sinks I won't
have to so through morc'n about
half as much water as vou will'fore   for you?    It will it   you dep,   it
A threatened increase in fire lnsur-
ence rates has been averted and
promise* of reductions which will save,
cwnert of dwelling houses and busi-l
ness buildings thousands of dollars;
have been obtained by the state in-;
surance department, according to au-|
nouncement made by Insurance Com-1
missloner S. D. Works. The proposed;
reductions will go into effect July i.j
These reductions are the first result;
of the fire Insurance rating bill passed;
by the last legislature, giving the in-'
surance commissioner power to super-;
vise ratemaking within the state.
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Henry Felg of Atwater, formerly!
state supervisor for country elevators;
and in thai capacity connected with:
the  railroad  and  wareh mmis-l
s'on, is dead' at the state hospital at;
St. Peter. For many years an active!
politician, he was compelled to retire:
about ■ year ago when he became;
mentally unbalanced. At one time he;
represented Kandiyohi county in the;
legislature.
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Mrs. Mary G. Eddy, aged
Fix years, a resident of Minnesota for
more than half a century. Is dead at
the Soldiers' home after a prolonged
illness. She was the wife of the late
John ,M. Eddy, veteran of the Second
Minnesota cavalry of the Civil war.
riorn in Rush, N. Y.. May 22, 1839, she
came to Minnesota in 1856 and
married the following year to Mr. Eddy.
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Sunrise banking or being on the |ob
at 6 a. m., which shatters thc popular
tradition   that   the   ban! down
at 10 a. m. and goes home at 3 p. m..
-will be started in St Paul .inly IS,
The newly organized Produce Hx
change bank of that city, when it
opens, will have tellers at their posts
at 6 a. m. to handle the financial business of market gardeners.
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Mrs.   Martha   Wilson   of   Warroad,
visiting   her   daughter,    Mrs.    .1
Thompson, at Lake  Park, Otter Tail]
county, tried to stimulate a Ore ln a;
stove   by    pouring    ker. 1    tho;
coals. An explosion that followed lit-j
erally wrapped her in dames and she!
was burned to death. Mrs. Thompson]
tried to put out the fire and was se-;
\erciy burned.
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Elks   of   Minnesota.   In   session   at!
Faribault, by unanimous vote e)<
James P.  Healy of st.  Paul assocla-l
tive   president   for   the   coming   year.;
R.  B.   Hldridge, the present
also of St.   Paul,  was re-elected   without opposition.   John B. Samuelson oil
Duluth  was the choice for trea
Duluth was chosen for the convention;
in 1916.
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John Munter, aged fifty years, a plo-;
neer of Hlbbing. shot and killed him-;
self. The shooting is thought to have;
been accidental, as he had never
despondent, members of bis family;
say, and had arranged to go ean>
with a party of friends. He was cleaning a rifle and was atone at the time
of his death.
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An inheritance tax of $32,340 will
be received by the state from t!
tate of Frederick Weyerhaeuser of
St. Paul multimillionaire lumberman, who died April I, 1914. This
was determined toUowtng a bearing
on the final accounting before Probate
Judge E. W. Ha/.ille of Ramsey county.
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Roy F. King of Litchfield must
n^ait the dealh of his wife or obtain
a divorce from her [n order to obtain
12,   from   the  estate  of his  father,
HInehart    Molitor,   plot. Paul
resident, who died June 6. The will
including this provision has been filed
in the probate court of Ramsey county.
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Henry Wrought, for mroe than
twenty years a mail carrier in Rochester, is dead as the result of a fracture,
ol the skull suffered in a fall when his
le, on which he leaned while
talking to a friend, slipped from under him and he was thrdVn backward, his head striking the curbing.
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Mrs. Jessie Dana, wife of Professor
E. T. Dana, department of psychology,
University of Minnesota, committed
suicide by drowning in the surf at
Nantucket. Mass. Mrs. Dana, 1
marriage, was Miss Jessie Halladay,
well known as a portrait pain>
royalty.
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More than  100,000 Immigrants have
been brought to Minnesota since Jan.
HO,  by   the  Ureal  Northern  railway,   according   to   figures   compiled
<-neral Immigration
agent of the line.
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Indictments against Chief of Police
Gait   and   Policeman   I,ane  of Austin
were dismissed by Judge Quinn, who
held   that   the   evidence  was   insufficient.    The men  were charged  with
taking $12.50 from a prisoner.
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Gundmund   E.   Akermark,   veteran
Swedish editor of Minneapolis. Is dead
at   his   home   at  Wood   lake,   near
Graatsburg, w->-