The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1915-09-23

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THE   PIERZ   JOURNAL
VOL. 7.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, SEPTEMBER 28, 1915.
NO. 15.
ABOUT THE STATE A Rattlesnake
* News of Especial Interest to ■      billed Near Town
Minnesota Readers.
ANXIOUS TO RETAIN LEASES
Hibbing Mining Companies Operating
on State Lands Pay'Taxes Due
That Village.
Taxes and penalties aggregating
$67,794.84, covering all mining property at Hibbing affected by state
leases, were paid into the treasuryof
St. I^ouis county by the Oliver
Iron Mining company and the Pick-
ands-Mather   company,    two   of   the
tiven operators which have refused
pay their taxes on their Hibbing
holdings for the current year on the
grounds that the amount levied for
village purposes is exorbitant and invalid.
The action of the two mining companies is taken to mean that tbe operators aVe taking no chances with
the question of state leases, but is
not regarded as an indication that
they have abandoned their light
against the alleged extravagances of
Mayor Power's administration at Hibbing.
Except for the $67,794.84 no portion of the $1,500,000 taxes remaining
unpaid since June 1 last will be turned into the county treasury at this
time.
Payments Only About Half Cash.
Of the total amount paid $61,631.67
represents taxes and $6,163.17 penalties. Practically half the total amount
was paid in village orders, which will
mean that in the apportionment of the
taxes the village of Hibbing will not
get any cash, but about $30,000 ln cancelled paper.
Pentlcost Mitchell, vice president of
the Oliver Iron Mining company,
when interviewed, said:
"The mining companies feel confident that a lessee under a stabs
lease has the same right as any other
property owner would have to contest
high taxes and to permit them to go
unpaid after June 1. They also feel
that by making this small payment
now they are avoiding all possibility
of litigation over a question that is
really without merit, is really well
settled and which is of no particular
importance. The payment does not
affect the general contest on the taxes
claimed to be invalid and improper."
SUFFRAGISTS  MEET  OCT.  7
Convention Call Says Half United
States   Has   Been  Won.
A call has been issued by the officers of the Minnesota Woman Suffrage association for the annual convention which will be held in the
Saint Paul hotel at St. Paul on Oct.
7, 8 and 9. The call is signed by
Clara Ueland, Sophie Kenyon, Eva W.
Morse, Maud C. Stockwell and Isabel
Troendle.
It is declared that "in nearly half of
the territory of the United States
women are politically free. Eleven
of the states and one territory have
granted full suffrage to women. One
state has given presidential and municipal suffrage. In twenty states
won\en have partial suffrage. Four
great Eastern states are to vote upon
the question this fall. In congress
one-fourth of the senate, one-sixth of
the house and one-fifth of the electoral vote comes from suffrage states.
"Minnesota women are rapidly organizing the state by legislative districts and voting precincts and in most
of the congressional districts committees have been formed to Influence
federal legislators."
John Bollig, living on the old
John Mandt place, two miles
east of the village, killed a rattlesnake last week. It was about
four feet long and had four rattles. The snake had made her
home under the kitchen floor
all summer. John knew of the
reptile's presence by her whistle,
which is somewhat like that of
a gopher, but much shriller and
piercing, and his long longed
for chance to get at her with
a club came when the snake
tried to make her way from
her hiding place under the
kitchen floor to the woodpile.
John says there is at least one
more rattlesnake making her
home in his yard.
Mike Tschida, living over the
bakery, says he is certain that
there is a rattlesnake making her home close to the mill
engine house. He has heard her
whistle at different times during
the summer.
P. X. Virnig says he is convinced he heard a rattlesnake
between his tent and his house
one night about a month ago.
So with this evidence at hand,
one must come to the conclusion
that we lmve real rattlesnakes,
and that these reports are not
of visions of the ordinary cases
of "snakes."
With beavers to the north of
us and rattlesnakes among us,
it is beginning to look as if we
were drifting back to primitive
conditions.
Unknown Man
River Victim
A mysterious drowning Monday afternoon has the coroner
and sheriff and farmers living
along the river in Belle Prairie
puzzled, as no body can be found
no one has been missed and there
is nothing to indicate who the
victim is.
Between 3 and 4 o'clock Jean
Brunette of Belle Prairie town
saw a man fall from a boat into
the river opposite his home.
The man did not reappear, but
the boat was blown to shore and
he recognized it as belonging to
a farmer named Henderson living farther up the river.
He did not recognize the man
who fell into the water and no
one has any idea who it might
have been taken from its moorings. Sheriff Felix and a number of farmers searched the
river shortly after, but were unable to find the body and it is
thought that it was carried under
a log jam a short distance downstream.
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+ INDIAN    TREATY    AFFECTS +
* TWO   MORE  TOWNS. +
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•{• All saloon keepers and drug- +
+ giBts    of    Coleraine    and    of 4*
4- Bovey   were   notified   by  mail 4»
•J- that the Indian bureau of the 4-
4* interior      department     wants +
+ them   to   cease   selling   liquor 4*
4» on   or   before   Sept.   20.    The 4>
•i' parties    affected     said    they 4*
•J' would  obey  the  order,  which +
* is  made  under  the  terms  of 4>
4- the Indian treaty of 1866. 4»
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YOUNG    GIRL    RISKS    LIFE
Gau-Philippi.
Henry Gau and Mary Philippi
were married Tuesday morning.
Lizzy Gau was bridesmaid and
John Philippi Jr. was best man.
The wedding was celebrated at
the Philippi home. The young
couple left the same afternoon
for a honeymoon trip to Cam-
rose and Spring Lake, Alberta,
Canada.
The Journal   want ads for results.
GENERAL
MARKET REPORTS.
Little Falls News
(From Transcript.)
Miss Mamie Van Hercke has
resigned her position as cashier
at the Milo theatre.
Sheriff Paul Felix drove to
Morrill town Monday morning.
He received a telephone call
saying that a man there had
been robbed by a pickpocket
and another had been held  up.
John Meyer of Morrill was
arrested Monday afternoon
by Sheriff Felix and was arraigned Tuesday morning on
a charge of picking pockets.
His examination was continued until Monday with his
bond at $500. It is a bind-
over case, if the evidence is
sufficient.
South Agram News,
Rescues Brother and Sister From
Burning   Home.
Rushing through n wall of flame
nine-year-old Gertrude Hubbard res-
rued her baby brother and younger
lister from almost certain death when
a lamp exploded in their farm home
two miles south of West St. Paul.
All tbe children were seriously
burned, the eighteen-months old baby
dying at the city hospital several
hours after the accident.
FIRE   LOSSES   CUT  IN  TWO
August Figures for Minnesota $168,-
448, Against $320,762 in 1914.
Fire losses in Minnesota in August
were so low that the total of 161 fires
would not equal the loss in one bis
city outbreak. Tlie total loss was
$168,448, only about one-half as much
as the total of $320,762 for August,
1914.
Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
Wheat, No. 1, 86
Wheat, No. 2         .84
Flax,        1.50
Barley . __     42
Rye..       80
Oats     -28
EarCorn      65
Hay.  $5.00
Butter, Creamery       37
Dairy        27
Eggs        13
Flour, Best     2.80
"    Straight ...     -2.70
Low grade flour 1.80
Bran . 1.40
Shorts  1.45
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.40
Ground Feed     1.40
Beans      2.00
Onions        60
South St. Paul
Hog Market.
Ave. Price.
Thursday 6.50
Friday 6.40
Saturday 6.25
! Monday 6.25
I Tuesday 6.90
(Wednesday  6.99
Those that visited at J. J.
Brummer's Sunday, were Mr.
Frank Bolster and Mr. and Mrs.
John Eidenskink.
Eva Brummer called at Herman Terharr's Sunday.
While BenTerharr was feeding
cattle in the barn Sunday he
heard loud cries for help up in
the silo. As he went up he saw
two strangers trying to make
their escape. But the silage
had fallen so much in the night
that they wouldn't get out. So
he took out one door. They promised him never to go up in a
silo again.
Mr. Joseph Gruber is the
owner of a new ford.
Bertha Leidenfrost is employed by Mrs. Peter Thommes for
this week.
60 No Further.
"Well-regulated stock ranches
now provide facilities for periodically giving sanitary baths
to stock t° kill disease-bearing
vermin," says a current magazine. What will be the end of
this germicide-sanitary-steriliz-
ing-antiseptic craze! — Transcript.
It will go no further. The
craze has run the circle and is
now getting back to the masculine bovines which gave it
birth.
Lucille Love at Faust's Opera
house every Sunday night.
Locals of Pierz
And Vicinity
Jos. Doty of Royalton was
a Pierz caller Monday.
Show at Faust's Opera house •
every Sunday night.
The town is full of strangers these days.
Todd county will have no
saloons after December 6th.
Andrew Kroll of Melrose
threshed 45 bushels of Marquis wheat to the acre.
John N. Faust and Barney
Burton made a trip to Minneapolis in a auto Sunday.
Marie E. Bolster opened
her millinery store in Onamia last Saturday.
The mercury comes close
to the freezing point almost
every night (these days.)
Mike Schraut is building a
large barn  on the back end I
of his place in upper town.
These are chilly September 1
morns, and the first question!
is, "did it freeze last night?" 1
Chas.Gabbo and a few other indians of Mille Lacs were
in town Monday.
The postoffice safe at Star-,
buck was cracked one night
last week.
Jos. Duerbeck made a business trip to the Twin cities
last Saturday, and returned
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wise
left for Pipestone, Minn., last
Monday to visit Mrs. Wise's
brother, who lives there.
T. S. Look of Sullivan
worked for John Gasserl a
few weeks in the meat market.
Tim says that pushing on
the lines does not amount to
half so much as pulling on
the whiffietrees.
Jos. Jaeger and wife and
son Frank were over Sunday
visitors with the Theo. Gross
family.
Mrs. J. A. Fritz of Alice,
N. Dak., was here last week,
visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. P. J. Bollig.
F. E. Hall, local manager
of the Northwestern Telephone Exchange Co. was a
taller last Monday.
John Wallace of Brainerd
is working for John Gassert
as butcher. Mr. Wallace formerly worked for C. W. Koering for several years.
J. M. Thienes of North
Prairie is building a garage
in Pierz, north of the Gravel
mill in lower town. The
building will be 40 by 60.
C. E. Look of Sullivan was
in town Friday after a load
of lumber. A new floor is
being laid in school house in
district 88.
O. H.Goodmanson, a Little
Falls bee-keeper, carried away
honors on his exhibits of honey at the state fair last week.
Mr. Goodmanson exhibited in
the largest class of honey exhibitors at the fair, those who
have 25 colonies or more, and
therefore had the most competition. He now has 115
1 colonies.
Boys Burglarize
Store at Motley
James Murphy, 19, and Joseph
Vincent, 17, were taken to St.
Cloud Saturday afternoon, where
they will plead guilty to a charge
of burglary in the third degree.
They were captured at Motley
Friday night in the act of robbing the Cale store and were
brought to Little Falls Saturday
morning. When arraigned before Municipal Judge Lyon they
asked to be allowed to plead
guilty to the charge and Judge
Roeser will hear their pleas and
sentence them this afternoon.
Sullivan News
Onamia visitors last Tuesday
were Kobt Adkins and wife also
Mrs. Frank Sims.
J. C. Beggs and family left
for their home in St. Paul Tuesday. They were accompanied
by Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Linnelian
and Mrs. J. J. Linnelian who
will remain some time.
Little Dolly Britton was very
sick last week with cholora in-
fantium. She is some better now.
Frank Sims returned from Dakota Tuesday.
C. E. Look and wife took dinner at A. W. Cook's Wednesday
the occasion being A. W's seventy first birthday.
D. V. Plants spent Thursday
at T. S. Look's.
Frank Sims drove to Onamia
Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Iloskins returned to their home in Stearns Co.
after a visit with their daughter Mrs. Wm. Lynn, they were
accompanied by their grandson
Fred Lynn.
A cattle buyer from St. Paul
was in this vicinity Thursday.
D. V. Plants and Mrs. C. E.
Look visited with Mrs. Peter
Adkins Friday, also called on
several other families in the
neighborhood.
Mrs. Walter YVaffensniith and
children are   visiting   with her
parents Mr. and Mrs Peter Adkins.
Mrs. Frank Britton and Dore-
tliey Lynn called on the C. K.
Look and A. W. Cook, families
Saturday.
Rodney Look visited with his
friend Billie Adkins, Sunday.
Mrs. T. S. Look and Miss Ida
Look called on Peter Adkins,
and John Britton families Sunday.
Ed. Thompson and Sam Perkins weie fishing in Sullivan
Monday. And again the fish
refused to bite.
D. V. Plants left for his home
in Long Lake, Tuesday.
Some "Tall"
Crop Stories
Hillman News
Mrs. .las. Love left last week
for Moose Lake, where she will
visit relatives.
Miss Marie and Ben Di
spent Sunday afternoon at I
Bethel's.
Misses Caroline Sutliff and
Anna Opalinsky took supper at
the Aug. Drew's home Sunday
evening.
Nels Peterson, county survey-
er, came out from Little Falls
Monday, and now has a crew of
men at work in this town.
Miss Elizabeth Waller visited
Marie Drew's Monday afternoon.
Mrs.    Arba    Waller    returned
Monday afternoon   from   Rock
ford, Minn., where she has been
visiting her parents.
There are either some excellent crops or some excellent
liars throughout the northwest.
Among the recent things Northwest newspaperscorrespondents
have reported are:
Watertown, S. D.—Chased by
a bull, John Davis sought safety
in the upper branches of a corn
stalk.
Huron, S. D.—Hens are laying
because crops are growing so
fast they make a buzzing noise
that keeps the hens awake and
they do nothing but lay.
' Hettinger, N. D.—The oats
crop is so large that when Olaf
Olson attempted to put a bushel
of oats into a bushel measure
much was left over.
Breckenridge, Minn. — No. 1
hard wheat is so hard that a
sledge being used to crack a ker-
nal on a sidewalk glanced off
and went through a plate glass
window across the street.
Churches Ferry, N. D— Business men are using a kernel of
wheat for a paperweight, "Bumper Crop 1915" being engraved
on each kernel.
Velva, N. D. — Detectives
caught two yeggmen, by pursuing them over the top of wheat
fields, after the roads had been
covered by the sea of wheat.
Lecle, S. D.—A stove iias b
invented to burn wheat straw in
place of   coal.    The straw is so
heavy that it is worthless  for a
fertiliser or %iot - bedding.
Harvey, S. J). Persons who
must go in the vicinity of wheat
fields, are equipping tliemsi
with compasses, to prevent being lost, and hatchets to blaze
their way out.
Grand Forks, N. D.—Shocks
are so thick that binders an- unable to get out of the fields,
alter they have finished cutting
the grain.
Oakes, N. D.—Animals sleeping on wheat straw have developed "lump ribs,'' from moving
in their sleep on the straw, resembling bed slats in size.
Mitchell, S. 1). A meteor
that weighed over 50 pounds,
struck a wheat stalk was shattered.
Fosston, Minn. — Because it
shaded his barnyard too much.
Julius Johnson look his ax and
cut otf a eorn stalk growing at
the edge of his garden. It fell
the wrong way. crushed in the
roof of his barn and killed two
horses and a calf.
Roseau, Minn.—Amos Whitney has provided servicable
feeding troughs for his hogs, by
splitting bailey straw length-
between the joints which
serve as end pieces, and placing
the hollow sections about his
barnyard.—Ex.
Piens can beat   that all to
When Jake Sibnieski ran short
of fence posts the'other day. he
used bailey kernels instead. He
drove the sharp ends into the
ground and used the beards for
top rails.
How much   should I feed   the
jes of   the new   oal
Mrs.   Bollig   Monday   morning.
rt em slow." said Joe.
a kernel   intwo  and  give  each
half.
And there  is Christ. Sch.
to be heard from y<
R. W. HARQADINE.
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Willing to  Become  Democratic
Committeeman   for   Minnesota.
R. W. Harsadine, Minnesota state
fire marshal, ls said to bo a receptive
candidate    for    Democi tlonal
committeeman from Mli
event  thai   Fred   B.  1 < nch  pulls out
n reported that  Mr.  1
is considering moving I
Mr. Hari
state Democratic committeedurln
last   1
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BUSY
Arranges      Details      for      Minnesota
"Newspaper Week."
Thr
editors ha-- M in-
nesotn will  i»' the second of its
ln   the   United
H.  C.   Hoi nt   of  tli'
eoutivi The
Which of   the   state    will
unite   in   telling  of   the .s  of
Minnesota  are  Oct.   I"  to   IC.
Mr.   rlotallng   said   that   California
tried   the   booster   publicity   week
that   durfi
people   were   attracted   t"   the
than in any
The   executive   eoninn
at  the  capitol,  complet
the   work   for  supplying   editors   with
material   about    tie
Two   full   pages   of   matter   boosting
Minnesota   will   he   pr< pared   for   use
by  the pa]
The boosting of localities will bo
left to the editors themselves. Mr.
Hotaling of    the
scheme   win   be   realized   by   lu
support   of   the   people,   who   ap
<i  to mail copies of their papers
to friends outside the si
BIG   GRAIN  STEAMER  SINKS
Once Pride of Lakes Goes Down With
110,000   Bushels   of  Wheat.
Thi
vator
company, sank while off Knife i .land,
fourteen miles out from Duluth.
almost  without  a  moment's  warning.
None of ti lost
Whi steamer
aptaln  v ,1 or-
•     OUt  and
hip.    Th' I up later
and taken back to Duluth.
The   value  of  the   boat   Is  un
1. but in Its day It was the pride
of the lakes. The Onoko was launched  in  1882.
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WOUNDS WIFE. TRIES SUICIDE
Mill     City     Man     Attempts     Double
Killing.
Mrs.    Abraham    Has
was fatally wounded by her husband,
Abraham Ilasf r room at the
Home hotel at   Minneapolis.
She is al ineapous city hos
pital. Her husband Is at the same
hospital with a slight wound ln his
scalp   in Hi himself  in  an   at-
temp-
The attempted murder and suicide
was tbe result of jealousy, the police
say.
The f   of   Mrs.   Hassen   Is
doubtful.    Hassen's injury ls not se-
RACE EXCITEMENT IS FATAL
William   E.   Walker   Stricken   at   St
Charles Fair,
lement incident to the races at
the county  fair at  St   Charles is be-
:  to have brought on an attack
of heart disease which resulted fat
to    William    E.    Walk. < Ight
years of ;•-
Near the close of an exciting race
Mr. Walker sank ln his seat in thc
grand stand.    He died In a hospital.
Aeronaut's Drop May Be  Fatal.
Sept. 19.—Hospital attendants here believe that Ben
Grauex. Chicago aeronaut, cannot recover from the Injuries received when
be dropped fifty feet from a parachute
at the state fair grounds. Grauex
lost his hold in dropping and fell before the eyes of many thousands
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