The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1915-11-04

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THE   PIERZ   JOURNAL
VT>L. 7.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, NOVEMBER 4, 1915.
NO. 21.
ABOUT THE STATE
News of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers,
BANDIT WOUNDED BY POSSE
Threi   Others   Captured   After   Battle
With  Armed   Posse  of Citizens
and Farmers.
One holdup man was shot and three
others captured in a battle with an
armed posse of farmers and citizens of
Glenville after four bandits had held
up and robbed several harvest hands
and the crew on a Rock Island freight
train at Curtis Junction, one mile
south of Albert Lea, and escaped on
a Minneapolis and St. Louis freight
going toward Glenville.
The injured man, who said his name
is John Banks and his home is in Indiana, held the posse at bay for twenty minutes with a .44-caliber automatic revolver before he fell with bullets through his head and breast.
After the four had held up the Rock
Island train and jumped aboard .the
Minneapolis and St. Louis train the
operator at Curtis Junction telegraphed Glenville, the first stop. A posse
of citizens, heavily armed with rifles,
revolvers aad shotguns, met the train
when it arrived.
When Banks fell the other three
surrendered. The Glenville posse
held the prisoners until the sheriff
arrived from Albert Lea.
IS SIXTH   IN TWO  MONTHS
Another Minneapolis Murder Added to
Already Long List.
John Kupchanko, twenty-one years
of age, was shot twice by holdup men
in an alley in the heart of Minneapolis, dying two hours later In the city
hospital.
He is the sixth person murdered in
Minneapolis within two months, and
the third man found dead in the St.
Paul road passenger terminal district
within a week.
The sum of $55 was taken from
Kupchanko. Bystanders say they
heard screams, then two shots.
The police, who are attempting to
find the assailants, know that they
were with Kupchanko throughout the
evening, having supper at a restaurant and then visiting several saloons.
SHOT   BY   FORMER   SUITOR
Mill City Bride Wounded at Celebration   of   Wedding.
Michael Krake shot Mrs. John
Winch of Minneapolis in the hip at
the latter's home in the Mill City at a
dance celebrating the return of Mr.
and Mrs. Winch from their honeymoon trip.
Krake claims that Mrs. Winch, who
was Mrs. Laura Johnson prior to her
marriage a few days ago, had promised to marry him last summer and
that he had gone to the North Dakota
harvest field to earn money for the
wedding.
Krake also shot her partner, John
Yong, in the leg. Both were taken to
the city hospital, where it was said
their wounds are not serious.
WILL  MAKE   HOT CAMPAIGN
Frank A. Day Seeks Delegate Seat in
Convention.
Frank A. Day, editor of the Fairmont Sentinel and manager of many
Democratic campaigns, has announced
to friends that he intends to file for
delegate at large to the Democratic
national convention, and he announces
further that in the course of his campaign he expects to visit every county
in the state.
Mr. Day's friends say that liis will
be the hottest campaign on the Democratic side next year; that he is determined to show his enemies that he
is not a dead one and that he is not
to be thrown into the discard.
LIGHTING  PLANT IS BURNED
City of Rochester Returns to Use of
Candles.
Fire at Rochester destroyed the city
electric light plant, valued at $150,000.
This is a serious blow, as all of the
principal lines of business where power ib needed have used electric current and they have no arrangement
for substitute power.
The people have gone back to candles and kerosene for lighting and the
pas company will have its equipment
taxed to the limit.
Spontaneous combustion caused the
fire.
FLANAGAN ANDJURNER OUT
Former St. Paul Police Officials Convicted of Grafting Paroled.
.Martin Flanagan, former acting
thief of police of St. Paul, and Fred
Turner, once a detective, scut to
Stillwater prison April S. 1914, for accepting bribe:?,  have  been   paroled.
Flanagan and Turner went to Stillwater after being convicted of accepting a bribe. They were indicted
charged with sharing with Willie
Wolff and May Burke, underworld
habitues, a $3,000 bribe paid by Ida
Dorsey.
Would Create
A New Village
A delegation of Swan River
men was in Little Palls Tuesday
to gfet the approval of the county
commissioners on the proposed
incorporation of the settlement
of Swan River into a village.
They will change the name to
Sobieski if the incorporation
plan is carried out. The commissioners have not yet taken
any action.
It is also planned to incorporate Lastrup but no petition
has been tiled with the county
auditor and no delegation has
appeared before the commissioners.
Eastern Granite News.
Mrs. Francis Tomberlin visited at the Waller home last Sunday.
The Watkins man was in the
vicinity Inst week.
Elizabeth Waller visited at H.
Johnson's Thursday.
Nina and Gusta King left for
St. Cloud last Friday to visit
their sister.
Mrs. E Perkins and Alice
were Pierz callers last Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Faust of
Pierz visited Sunday at theKra-
mer home.
The Olson machine is threh-
ing in the city of Rucker this
week.
Mrs. Lawrence Kramer, Mrs.
Sam Perkins and Mrs. Jessie
King were Pierz visitors last
Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Tretter
visited at the Sam Perkins home
Sunday.
Alice Perkins spent Thursday
night with Elizabeth Waller.
A few weeks ago an item stated that Clarence King and wife
were here from Clearwater.
This was a mistake. Clarence
King is not married.
GENERAL
MARKET REPORTS.
Grain and Produce
flarket Report.
Wheat, No. 1,        84
Wheat, No. 2         82
Flax,        1.75
Barley ..     45
Rye       86
Oats      31
Ear Corn       65
Hay $5.00
Butter, Creamery ..       37
Dairy       27
Eggs       20
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        06
Potatoes       25
Mille Lacs Indians
Profit In Award
Locals of Pierz
And Vicinity
South Bull News.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Koll and
children Leonard and Helen,
Mr. Joe Jenson of Buckman and
John S. Reding returned home
from their trip to Morgan,Minn.,
last Wednesday, where they attended the wedding of Herman
Koll and Cecilia Reding, which
was celebrated last Tuesday in
St. Michael's church, Morgan,
Minn. They made the return
trip of 140 miles in John S. Red
ing's Ford car in 12 hours.
The Eller Bros, are building a
nice square house on Herman
Koll'& 80 acre farm, which he
purchased from liis father Peter
Koll.
Hillman News.
Over  thirty   guests    enjoyed
the   Hallowe'en party given at
the  Bethel  home   last    Friday
evening.    The rooms were very
appropriately   decorated   with
black cats, witches and  jack-o-,
lanterns.    The   light   was  furnished   mainly   by    jack-olan-
terns'    The evening was  spent,
in games, lunch being served at
1 midnight.    Miss Bethel was as-,
sisted by Miss Marie Drews and
Miss Carolyn Sutliff.
Don Summers left last Saturday for Lastrup, where he has
been engaged as teacher for the
coming term.
Roy Benton was a Pierz visitor Wednesday of last week,
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson of Mt.
Morris were in Hillman Wednesday.
Miss Anna Opalinsky and
Win. Drews returned last Thursday from Holdingford, where
they spent a few days at the
Opalinsky home.
Ernest Goble, of Rucker went
to Genola Tuesday.
MA and Mrs. Aug. Drews
spent Sunday with friends at
Rucker.
Mr. and Mrs. Arba Waller
were Rucker visitors last Sunday.
J. P. Leigh came up from St.
Cloud Monday.
The new bus, which is to be
used for transporting the pupils
to and from school, arrived
Monday.
Those in Hillman Tuesday
were: Mr. Johnson of Peevy
Lake; Mesdames Carlson and
Lansberber °f Mt. Morris-
Herman Peterson of Mt. Morris made a business trip to the
county seat on Tuesday.
About 300 to 400 Indians residing around Mille Lacs lake,
who have refused to move to the
White Earth reservation, are included among- the eight thousand Chippewas of Northern
Minnesota who are hopeful of
getting a Christmas present of
S2,500,000 this year. The court
of claims at Washington is the
prospective Santa Claus and is
considering arguments presented to it last week on the
strength of which the Indians
hope to get tlieir money.
According to George B. Edgerton, their attorney who has
returned to St. Paul from Washington, the Chippewas practically are certain to get an
award of between 81,300 000
and $1,000,000. The Interior department as trustee for the Indians is defendant in the   case.
The case involves the disposal
of Indian lands on the Minnesota reservations under which
the Chippewas were to be removed to the White Earth reservation and their other lands
sold and the funds held in trust
for them by the government.
The Indians contend that a
large part of their most valuable lands were given as homesteads to the soldiers for which
the Indians received no compensation.
Tlie case already has gone to
the Supreme Court of the United
States where it was sent back
to the court of claims to fix the
amount of damages.
If the full amount contended
for by Mr. Edgerton is allowed
each Indian, including the children, will receive between $300
and *400.
We had quite a heavy frost
last Monday night.
Ed
yesterday morning.
Two Argentinians
At Rucker
Argentine!      Who     has     not
heard of Argentine':    For years
Tanner   trucked   out: the  country  of Argentine  lias
1 K,»o,i miofiln aild Vaguely
the    farmer's
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Rural Route From Wahkon
While making an auto
drive Sunday with his new
car, one of our local citizens
found that he had left his oil
can at home. Just at the moment some parts of the machine needed a few drops of
lubricating oil. So he stopped
at a farm house and called to
a small boy, whom he saw in
the yard: "Say, sou, go in
the house and ask your mother if she can give me some
sewing machine oil, or if she
hasn't any of that kind, castor oil will do." Presently
the boy returned and said:
"Ma says, she hasn't got any
machine oil or castor oil, but
if you will wait a few minutes she will fix you up a
jdose of salts."
A Simple Problem.
Nursery stock sold and
delivered in Pierz during the last 25 years..
Nursery and fruit raised
and sold in Pierz the
last 25 years	
Profit or loss	
$9,000
$0,000
19,000
The first rural route in the
Mille Lacs lake country has
been ordered established by
the postoffice department, running from Wahkon. It will
have a thrice-a-week service to
start with, but this will probably be changed soon to the
usual dairy service. Nothing
shows better than the establishment of a rural route that the'
lake country is making headway
and that there are actual settlers there as these are required
in order to secure a route.
Advertising Must Bring Returns.
Ludlle Love at Faust's Opera
house every Sunday night.
Herman Rieke returned
from Breckenridge last Tuesday,
NickThommes of Ashland,
Wis., spent Sunday with liis'
parents.
J. T. Elwell delivered a
consigment of nursery stock
here Wednesday.
Rochus Kurtz returned
home from the Dakota harvest fields last week.
Kate Dahlmeier of Crete,
N. D., is here visiting with
Mrs. Anton Friedrich.
Mrs. Jake Pflepson and
child of Buffalo. Minn., is
here visiting relatives.
Lucille Love, the 30 reel serial, now runningatFaust'sOpera
house.
Karl Feucht of Perham,
is visiting his brother, Louis
and wife, iu this village.
Jack Boyd, wife and son,
Chippewas of Vineland, were
Pierz shoppers Monday.
President Wilson lias proclaimed Thursday, November
25th as Thanksgiving day.
Swanville will vote today
whether or not the village
shall  establish a waterworks
plant.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan of St. Paul last week, a
son. Mrs. Sullivan was Hose
Dombovy.
Mrs. Adam Billig of St.
Cloud visited her parents,
Frank Boehm and wife, several days this week.
Carl Thommes and his wife
visited Pierz relatives over
Sunday. They made the trip
from Roscoe by auto.
Auto and run-away accidents resulting in broken
bones, are occurring in Pierz
with precise regularity.
Four per cent and no worry
is enjoyed by depositors of the
First State Bank of Genola, the
bank vou cau trust.     Adv,
John Eisel was thrown
from a motorcycle Monday
night near Morrill and suffered and injured shoulder.
Is jour money making money
for you? It will if you deposit
it in   the First   State   Bank   of
brought    before
Ten thousand farmers from Minnesota. North and South Dakota. Montana   and   Wisconsin   are I   to
mind when  the price   of   wheat ' gather in St. Paul i and B for
..  ,,      IT ■,]    the   second   annual   farmers'   conven-
rose or tell.    He   was  reminded;
that Argentine was our competitor in the world's wheat market. And dm ing the last lew
years Argentine has been regarded as our chief competitor
in the production of beef. Argentine is 2,400 miles long and
on tbe average about 700 miles
wide. It is sparsely settled—has
about 6,000,000 inhabitants. The
40th parallel south crosses its
middle. As the 46th north latitude is at the section line east
and west one mile north of the
village, unless influenced by
ocean streams, the climate
should be that of the U. S.
turned north side south.
We now have   t ,vo   Argentinians living near Rucker.
tion under the auspices of the Equity
Co-operative exchange and the Association of Commerce. The feature of
the convention will be the laying of
the cornerstone of the St. Paul term!
nal elevator and a celebration of the
success of the open grain marl.
Bt  Paul.
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Taconlte.    M
Kelly Pake saloons have been OI
closed   by   the   Indian   department   of
the    Piiii' a    under
treaty With the Chippewa Indians
notices were served through the mail.
Calumet   is   the  only   town   iu   t!
dian   treaty   country   -■
received   notification   to   close,
saloons are affected at Marble, oi
Stevenson,   one   at   Kelly   Lake   and
one at Taconlte.
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The Western 1'nion T
Dan;   has  appealed   to  the   stat
preme court from a ruling of the state
tax   commission   relative   to   its   taxes
for this  year.    Tho commission
the assessment of the conn-
true   cash   value, 'ding
(44,040 taxes.   The company contends
\lemio   ""' Mwwnenl  should have be<
40 per cent of the true vali
Mennon,   originally   a   German which    would   yield   $17,61(1   in
farmer    near   the    North    —
near tlie rsortn sea,
spent a year in Argentine- Unable to reconcile   himself   to   a
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Mrs.   Beatrix Odrich   I
widow   of   Thomas   l.owry   of   Minne
', apolis.  is  dead  at  the  home  of  her
land where the sun rises  in   the i daughter.   Mrs.   Pel n,   iu
Colorado    Springs.    Polo.        Attending
physicians   announced   heart   di
as the ' her death.  Mrs  Lowry
left  Minneapolis Aug.   19  and  after r
short  visit in  Maine went to Colorado
northeast and sets in the northwest, and where almost every
Spanish and  Italian emigrant—
with which Argentine is largely Springs, where she since has been at
populated—and also the native
Indians, carry a knife for self
protection, Mr. Mennon came
to Rucker, where conditions
obtain which arc more in line
with those oi hid native country.
the  home  of  her dang!
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Knute  Bologue,  fifty-four  years old.
was  killed   In  a   mi. Idenl   on
the farm of Edward Johi ur st.
( barbs. BolOgUe was returning homo
on a gang plow when his hat blew off.
lb- attempted to fump to the around
and fell, his foot catching in the
.     ,  ■ frame.    He was dragged lift
And it seems by strange come-  Mnd th(, WghtenJ „,ftm nm1 „.
deuce      about      the     time    Mr.    resulted In a few hours.
Mennon began to make impfo +  +  +
Clarence n. lUnkman of Little Kails,
ments on his    place.     A.    Brick'    Fixili  congressional  district,  has
son,  who  worked   live   years   in   »
< harles A. Lindbergh in the house of
Argentine     as     a    blacksmith, : representatives.     Mr.   Buckman   lost
bought a piece of land close   by   the offlce ,t0 Mr'  '•«"«»»•"* ln   '
b after serving  two terms.    He served
and decided to make it his home. ! also  a  tana  as  a representative  ln
Minnesota and three terms as a state
I
i senator.
Otto Mueller of Jordan is
here to do some ditching in
this neighborhood.
Tlie town board of Pin/.
will hold a meeting Monday
Nov. 8th in the village hall,
at '2 p. m.
The First State Bank oi Genola, the bank you can trust, is
Active, Alert and Alive to the
needs of the farmer and business man.    Adv.
John Heach is dead.    Ow
ing to lack of  space and inn
tiplicity  of duties,   the  the
wi-ite-upol'liim has been post-   --"«"'/
1 r born in  Ireiai linne-
poned to next week.
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Linns    Brennan,    passenger    engine
ii on the Rock Island, was killed
at   Kllsworth    by   falling    beneath   a
freight  train.    Four tars passed
him.     H'-   war,   substituting   for   I
Veit. thr' regular fir man ofthefn
train, which  was 1 "ing  run as al
tra  to  Pipestone.    A  misstep caused
the accident
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lis   taken   in   excessive
quanl ■ the death  of Miss
Anna   Redding two  years
who   lived   near   Ooodhue,   physe
say.    She complained of having a se-
morning   and
•lie tablets.     B
ly ill a few hours later and died ln
agony.
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Robert Moody, a pioneer of Olmsted county and a veteran of the
Civil   war, is  dead  at  Rochester.    He
Hartford, Wis.—Robert J.
Winter, a Milwaukee clothing
merchant, has commenced suit
for SI5,000 against the publish- Genola, the bank you can trust,
ers of the Hartford Times and
several local retailers, alleging
It is an old saw that a
chain is no stronger than its
weakest link. The same is
true of a road. There may
be miles  of a  passable  road
on each side of a miry slough
i J °
hole, but the impassable bog
hole spoils the usefulness of
the entire road as far as the
traveling public is concerned.
,— Princeton Union.
that the defendants conspired to
prevent him fron securing newspaper advertising which he asserts was necessary to carry on
his business.
Winter was engaged in selling
clothing throughout this county
last February and claims that
the Times refused to sell him
advertising space after Hartford
merchants named in the suit
had threatened to   boycott   the
Adv.
John Noll returned from
North Dakota yesterday,
where he had been working
during harvest aud threshing.
Alfred, the 5-year-old sun
of Christ Lust, died last Saturday after a short illnes
with Bright's disease. Burial
took place Monday.
Jacob    Herman    returned
Saturday from  Galesbei.
paper  if  Winter's   advertising   J)., after a - i   at
was carried.    As a consequence  threshing.      Wheat,    he    re-
Winter says   he  suffered   dam- 'ports, averaged 25,  and   i
ages of $5,000, and be asks that 45   bushels   per   acre.     Corn
punitive damages of  £10,000 be in the Red   River   valley
added, total failure.
The possession of money signifies power.    Deposit your sur-
sota   In   IS'0,  settling   on   a  farm  in
Olmsted  county.
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While   working on  a  steel Junction
Northern  Power
plus   funds   in  the   First   State; rornpany  near f;ary   Ha nay-
Bank of Genola,  the bank   yo ri old. walked Into
can trust.    Adv.
Jas. Jager, wife and
Nick and Math, ami daughters. Barbara ami Minnie,
motored down from Staples
Monday ami celebrated All
Saint's Day among us.
Mille Lacs India bt •
ginning to make Pierz tlieir
principal t rad i ng poi ut.
There were more or less here
every day last week. What
class of goods attracts the
Nick Gross li
acres of land from Nick 1
lien. 4   llli! of   thi ,lTln«     at    Cottonwood.
drowned   in» Cottonwood   uUte   while
8  putting Up build-   hlIntlng  by  the  capsizing  of a  row-
IP-    in- -at.
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' the pi ! I     An epidemic of scarlet  fever ma]
no-volt wire and was knocked
to the ground. He died a short time
later.
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Frederick   C.    Rledesel   was   found
dead   in   the   ham   on   bis   farm   Ave
miles northeast of Worthlnc
oner Williams of Wllmont concluded
he had taken his 0 y poison
ing himself.
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William Saari. thirty years old, a
farmer ten miles north of Brookston,
was shot and killed by two highwaymen who are said to hare followed
him from the North Dakota harvest
fields.
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Louis Hersbel. a farmer near Park
Rapids, ran down a large wolf with
his automobile and killed it with his
hands after it bad been hurled into a
ditch.
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•raon, a veterinary sur-
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