The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1915-12-16

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THE   PIERZ   JOURNAL
VOL. 7.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, DECEMBER 1(3. 1915.
NO. 27.
FRED B. LYNCH.
His  Candidacy for   Democratic
Chairman   Opposed   by   Bryan.
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Two interesting stories'have leaked
out concerning the political activities
of William J. Bryan. One is that ha
h&B served notice on the Democratic
national committee that he will not
stand for the election of Fred B.
Lynch of Minnesota as the committee's
chairman.
The other story is that through second parties Bryan has conveyed the
Intimation to Speaker Clark that he
ought to get into the running for
president and that he would support
the speaker.
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Hundreds of men from Minnesota
farms, and large numbers of woman
from Minnesota homes, are expected
to attend Farmers' and Homemakers'
week at University Farm, St. Paul,
Jan. 3-8, 1016. The members of the
committee at tlie College of Agriculture are predicting an attendance of
from 1,200 to l.^CtO, and they look for
this number to be increased in 1917,
and from year to year until the week
has become one of the most important
Statpwijie gatherings pf farmers aqd,
jiorne fplk in the entire country, fhe.
program for this, year is, an unusually
strong one.
Minnesota's potato cfod fpr W5
showed a big increase oyer last years
npt onjy in, tptal yiel4 hut in acreage
and in yield per acre, according to ft
bulletin isgued by Fred B. gjierman,
commissioner Pf immigration, His returns show that 304,424 acres were
planted in potatoes this year, with an
average yield of 119.7 bushels, and a
total of 35,376,000 bushels. The estimated value of the crop on the farm
was $17,688,000,
Word has been received at Canby
by his family that John Bowc, former
maypr pf that place, who l^as bepn
se'ryipg }n the French sjrjny', \va§ rg-
f'ently founded and if! in' a hqspttal
Bpwe is an Englishman, by hirtl] ancj
served, in fhg Thirteentjj Miniiegoia
rpgiment    \n    Uie    Spanish-American
VAX-.
Thompson Orant, county commissioner of Winona county, is dead as
the result of injuries received when
a gasoline road roller went off the
Witoka hill when the engine died on
the way up. Mr. Grant jumped, but
his foot caught in the machine and
hp was fragged about forty feet
Payments pn contracts for. twine de:
liy'erpd tjiis fall from th,e Stillwater
prison tptaletl $T.7:"i7,9r.9.»1 -4 on Dec. fy
according tp figures, made public by
^Vaiter ,1. Smith, state treasurer, Tdie
tptal payments will be more than $2,-
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Mrs. Martha A- Miller, pioneer reg-
iclejit of St. Paul, is dead at the age of
seventy-four years. Mrs. Miller is
said to have been the owner of more
real estate than any other woman in
the Capital City.
The ore shipping season has closed
for this year with shipments for the
season aggregating 43,780,829 tons,
against 31,990,260 last year. The season is only 5,297,649 tons short of
1913, the record.
Eighty registered sheep owned by
John Fox, a farmer residing near
Rochester, have disappeared and al)
efforts to find the herd have failed.
It is the belief that some one stole the
entire flock.
Mrs. Margaref Lewis, seventy-eight
years' of, age, pioneer of Blue Earth
county! is dead al Mankato. She came
tp America from Wales when three
years old.
TJie court pt claims at Washington
has  awarded  (ho  Mille   i.acs  bund  af
fhippewas   Of   tins   state   the.   sum  of
.000 ln a suit against the United
Stat
The arrival of 35,400 hogs at South
St.  Paul  in °ne  day has  set ft new
record fpr the yards, being 1,100 more
than the former high mark of Jan. It,
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A,   H.   Rose,   aged  eighty  years,  a
pioneer   druggist   of   Minneapolis,   ig
Mr Rose had becu a resident
pf tbe Mill City since 1S58.
Lost His Life
In Fish Lake
Leo Wermerskirchen lost his
life by drowning- in Fish lake
about 5 o'clock last Sunday
evening-. He was skating- and
pushing- Cresence Faust on a
hand sled ahead of him when an
area of thin ice directly north of
the Ashcraft cottage was struck
and both submerged into the icy
water.
"Now we'll both have to die"
gasped Cresence between short
breaths produced by the sudden
chill.
"No" reassured Leo, "I can
swim and can keep you afloat
until help arrives. Keep hold of
my arm and don't g-et  excited."
To give him free scope of the
arms and to facilitate as much
as possible his work among- the
cakes of ice, Cresence released
her hold on the shoulder and
reached for his collar. But he
was g-one. He sank without the
least struggie and resistance
when she released her hold.
So much for tlie version of
the tragedy given by Cresence
Faust.
All this occupied less time
than it took you to read it.
Let us now look at the trag-?
edy from the spectator's point
of view. This view is cast from
interviews with F. X, Faust,
Jos. Hauch and W.E.Filler, who
were directly instrumental in
saving- the life of Cresence, and
from the stories of a few others
who were eye witnesses to the
strug-gie.
F. X. Faust was at the boat
house when he heard a call—
and it was then to him only a
call and. not a pry qf distress.
But when Minnie Jiauch told
him Pf the opeu place in the
lake they at ou^e started toward
it. After skating a few rods,
they again heard the call—this
time clearer and more distressful and ominous. Frank now
left Minnie and struck out at
full speed, with JoeKauch, who
had also heard the cry, a close
second. Frank, in his, !ias|e,
passed. {hp liple by a few rods
and. sped pn tptlie outlet, where
he fell into ft shallow opening-,
from the mud of which lie climb
out with much difficulty. He
now listened and again heard
the cry aud turned on his
tracks.
In the meantime Jos. Ranch
had arrived at the scene and
tried to help presence, but broke
through himself. By that time
a score of skaters had gathered
there. W. E. Filler threw his
coat to Jos. and pulled him to
satety.
At this moment, Frank Faust
came from the outlet and seeing
someone moving in the hole,
plunged into it. This is his story:
"Cresence grabbed tne and recognized me.We swam towards
thc side where the crowd was
gathered   waiting. Mr.   Fil
ler proffered his hand, but at
tirst I could not reach it. They
Jpid formed a chain. After a
few efforts, I finally got a firm
hold of his hand.They pulled me
half way up, when Cresence lost
consciousness and let go. I
was then lying with my breast on
the ice and reached out and
caught her coat, The chain
pulled again and pulled me out,
but Cresence's head went under
the ice.
She   was   then   pushed   back
j from under the ice and pulled out.
j While we were working- over her
'someone mentioned Leo's name.
I then inquired where Leo  was
and what was wrong with him."
Cresence, Frank and Filler,
all drenched, were put into Hart-
mann's auto truck and brought
to town. Jos. Rauch went home
to change clothes. Suddenly the
thought struck him that Leo
must be iu the hole; and he
rushed down stairs half dressed
and gave the alarm. P. L. Poster and others, nailed long
spikes into the end of long poles
and by turning- this in every direction in the bottom of the hole
finally succeeded in raising
Leo's body and landing it on the
ice. The water was twelve feet
deep. For more than an hour
attempts were made to restore
the sparks of life, but all efforts
were futile.
The news of Leo's death
spread rapidly, and the manner
in his g-oing cast a gloom over
the community. "It cannot be;
saw him only in the afternoon,"
were remarks frequently expressed in the evening.
The funeral, which by point ot
attendance, was the largest ever
held in Pierz, occurred at 10
o'clock Wednesday morning.
The esteem in which Leo was
held, was. in ft measure eyideiv
ced by the lai'ge floral offerings,
"He slept last night beneath
a wilderness of flowers,''
The band of which he was a
member played his funeral dirge;
and his brother tiremen attended with badge and uniform.
All places of business were
closed from 10 to 11 o'clock.
Tke following  are those from
News From The
County   Seat
(From Transcript.)
Woman is Killed
By Horse's Kick
Mrs. Anna Janseu of Belle
Prairie was killed Tuesday noon
by being kicked and trampled
by a horse. Her husband, T. P.
Jansen, found her late in the
afternoon lying behind the horses in the barn. Her chest is
crushed and the face and body
cut and bruised,
She had gone to the barn to
feed the horses and Coroner
Chance, who was called to view
the body, thinks that In pass*
ing behind them one of them
kicked her in the chest, She
was 56 years old. The Jansens
live on a farm about three miles
north of Little Falls, formerly j
occupied by Sheriff Paul Felix.'
Shots Fail To Stop Burglar
Two shots tired by Patrolman
Anton Collinger Saturday nigiit
at a fleeing burglar who had just]
been frigiitened from the rear of j
the M. A. Engstorm hardware
store on the West side failed to j
stop the man and no trace of;
him can be found. He dropped
two axes and two half-gallon I
of paint a the first shot. Noth-1
ing" else is missing, as nothing-j
but heavy hardware was kept in 1
the back room.
Mr. Engstorm thinks thati
when his clerk came back to the '
store  during  the  evening-   and
and went ont the rear door to do
out of town, who came tg ftǤadja(wa work at the barn, tlie man
the funeral; r^
Rose and Theresia Wermers
kirchen, of St. James, Minn.
Co. Commissioners    i News Gathered
Proceedings       Hereand There
At a meeting of the county; John Albright is here sel-
commissioners, held December ling gas lighting plants for
8th, the following amounts were farm houses,
allowed to parties living in our
neighborhood:
Roy Bruber, work on county road $20.00
Aug.Drews, work on county road    15,00]    Crops feed  the  live stock
Clara Neisius busked com
at John  Jariish's   this week.
Frank Wurzer  shot a ffolf
last week.
ABOUT THE STATE
News ol Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers,
FOUR IIF THEM BEHIND BARS
Henry Ferg-uson, work on
county road     20,00
Chs. Scott, work on county road    20.00
Jos.  Schmidtbauer,  work
on county road    63.00
Aug. Janorski, work on
county road    28.25
\V. Huwer, work on county road     9.50
John  Schraut,    work   on
county road     12.00
and live stock feeds the soil.
Fred Gravel of Onamia w;is
in Pierz between 1 rains last
Monday.
P. J. and John Mueller of
Buckman  motored   to  Pierz
Sunday evening.
John    Rassier,    wife    and
daughter  Hilda, and .Mrs. .1.
M. Blake and daughter I
lia   visited with   the Hubert
Bares family last Sunday al-
Quintette   of   Youthful    Bandits   Hold}
Up   Bank  at  St.   Paul, Securing
Over *3,000 in   Ca»h.
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Reds Get Big Money
John Seifert, Lawrence Hart-
inann, Cas. Wermerskirchen, J.
Deusterman and Otto Mueller
of Jordan, Minn.
slipped into the back room of
the store and concealed himself
locked in the back room and in
trying to get into the store he
attracted the policeman's attention.
I It is not   thought  that either
Mrs.   J.Domerler  of  Bethel,1   e ..      .   .   , .. ..
', of the shots hit the man.
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John Boegeman, Chaska.
Philip Krey aud daughter, Mrs,
Peters, C^ld. Spring,
Joyriders Take Car, Return It
An automobile belonging to Dr.
Mr. aud Mrs,  Jos, Jaeger and  ,; G' Millspaugh wastaken from
son Ntyk. Staples, ,his   private   8faraee   Sat»rday
Miss Marie   Kurtz and Jos. J.  night by joyriders and  returned
Hennen, St. Paul. ,earli'    Sunday    morning.      Dr.
A. C. Hitter, Minneapolis.       , Millspaugh missed the car about
A. Mathuson and John Keider,  U o'clock  aud   found   it in  the
Duluth. alley    near    the   garage   from
Henry Paul, Superior. j wllich jt was takea earl? in   t,ie
Mr. and Mrs. Anton Hartuun,  -norning.     It  is  thought  from
New Prague. Itne condition of the car  that it
Miss Alma Puff, Andrew Vir-, was drlven ;ibout 70 ,niles-
nig, Frank Macho and JohnKel-! —	
ly,st cloud ! Serious Accident
Helen Johnson, Mr. and Mrs.  dCllUUO   rtCWUUU
Barney Burton, George Kiewel, !
j Mr. and   Mrs. Chas. Vanherke,
John Kingen and Steve Simouet1
Little Falls.
At Elrosa.
Peter Theisen,  Adams, Minn.
Minnesota Chippewas have an
additional sum of $712,000 in
their tribal funds as a result of
a decision by the United States
court of claims, announced in
Washington. The award is made
on account of the removal of
the MilleLacsbandol'Chippewas
from their reservations of 61,000
acres around the south shore of
Mille Lacs lake.
The land was opened for entry, but the Indians claimed and
the court decided that under the
Nelson act of 18*9 they relinquished only about balfjthe land,
and the rest should havs been
sold for the benefit of the tribal
fund. The award, according to
George B. Edgerton of St. Paul,
attorney for the Indians, includes interest from the time of
the act.
The money goes not to the
Mille Lacs band alone, but to
the general tribal fund and the
government willdistribute the interest annually untilthe end of
the 50-year period, when the
principal will be paid to the Indians then of the tribe.
Joseph Janorski, work on
county road    10.00,' ternoon.
John Janorski,   work  on
i i-) oa      >'■ J- Brummer.    wife   and
county road    <5J.00
. • ,.      „ n „ .daughter motored to Onamia
J. Borgerding & Co., sup- ,        6
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pHesfor bridge No. 1203 234.301 J ^    r
^^^^^^^^^^ ed in Ihe evening.   I hey went
by the way of Sullivan, which
route has good roads.
J.J. Hennen of St. Paul
was here visiting his father
and other relatives the tirst
of the week. He just sold
14,434 acres of land. 20 miles
north of Ingonia, Rosebud
county, Montana.
John Macho ami wife and
tlieir son   Tony   and wif.
Philbrook, visited at theThe-
ser home in Agram last Sunday.    They came by auto.
Peter Theisen of Meyer,
Mitchell, Co., Iowa, was here
visiting with tlie Math. Valentine family last week.
Robert  Fuchfi  of Daggetl
Brook, Crow Wing county, is
here on business — buying
and selling horses.
At the meeting of the county commissioners last week
the following amounts were
appropriated for road and
bridge purposes: Buh $80.00,
Agram $50.00, Pierz $110.00,
Hillman $100.00, Swanville
$100.00.
A serious   accident   occurred
     on the road a quarter   of a mile
 —— south   of   Elrosa    last   Friday
Whether Eden Valley, a muni-' night. An automobile and a
cipal corporation with its seat team collided head on. The auto
of government practically in carried a lantern as a headlight
Meeker county, which is dry, and could not be distinctly seen,
can legally issue licenses for sa- The car was driven by A. Pel-
loons in Stearns county, may jjng- and there were three other
come before the courts for de. occupants in the car. The team
termination, We gather from 0f horses was driven by Ben
the Journal of that village that Carding. The car was going at
the council expects to issue a &Dod rate of speed when it
three saloon licenses -on loca- hit the wagon. The horses were
tions just over the county line torn from their places, the
in Stearns county, but inside of tongue of the wagon smashed
the village limits, and by no into the front of the car and
means half a mile from dry ter- windshield, tearing off the steer-
ritory. The local option law int.- wheel and missing the driv-
provides for this half mile limit, er by inches. Anton Felliug
but the county option la^ is si- was severely injured about the
lent on this point— Litchfield face by falling glass.-1.
Independent.
Market Report
Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
Wheat, No. 1,  (1.01
Wheat, No. 2	
Flax,        1.80
Barley   __. ..     55
Rye	
Oats 	
Ear Corn	
Hay       5.00
Butter, Creamery ..       37
Dairy       W
Eggs         30
Flour.Koyal      3.00
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Low grade flour	
Bran 1.20
Shorts   1.25
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.40
Ground Feed     1.40
Beans      2.00
Onions        06
Tlie auction at Ole Olson's
Saturday was well attended
a'id the sale was good.
Among the applications incepted for membership in the
Teachers' Insurance and 1!>-
tirement Fund association at
the capitol Saturday were
two Pierz teachers. Alois
Philips and Nick Staub. Thej
are the only ones from Morrison county.
Nick Meyer, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Wm. Meyer returned
home from Detroit. Mich..
last Saturday, where he had
been working in a boiler shop
for the hist right months.
Warming water for the cattle   sa\- !P'"g   ,)Ul   tlie
Thr. men strolled into the;
■    bank   at   St    Paul,!
stuck a   under   the
three   phi; and;
fled   with   two   companions,   who
been waiting outside in
Within   a   Tew   bot the   rob-;
>hrep of the  bandits  wore  t
ap by  the  Minnoai'.
mined   tlieir  euilt. I   morning:
•   fourth.   Albeit   Skinn-
from   a   train   bound   foi
La    Crosse.    Wis.      The     M
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ty-two
k Maloney.   The |
r  B   man
to he the fifth member of tl
isplcfbua landlady, who  wondered  why  her new  roomers had $5<
paper  and   silver  money   tucl
in   their   pillow ml   two   i
ses. gave the
the  tip that   II
of   l.ohr   and    I.owe.
they  reached   Minneapolis  from
ton   recently       They    said    r
two of the tnreewhi the bank.
KILLS   CHILD AND   HERSELF
Temporarily    Deranged   Woman    Uses
Knife as Weapon.
While      temporarily      Insane      Mrs.
David     Marsh     of     Cleveland.
thirty-two,  wife of a  t.
man. cut the throat of her Bix-yei
Bon, \ nd then, using the
m,   a   butcherknlfe i   her
own  throat      Both were dead
■nan  hail
planned   to   kill   her   husband    and   a
on   who
gather, bul
band,  who I   by  the
of  the  dj he   could
5tny her hand, how ■
knife   aero
Marsh  had  been  in
in   St   Peter,  but   was  discharged as
cured.
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+                550 MILES  LONG.
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v    dale.   V. an-   put
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+   th> saloon  at   Randall,
th-    Falls,    will   be
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v    111 Mont.
■5-   The dry zone of 560 miles thus
■   will    probabl
•$•   longest In the United  States.
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IVERS0N ISSUES PLATFORM
feed bin.
Hubert Bednar of Canada,
now here on a visit says that
where lie   lives the Germans
are   treated  as   well   as   any
Canadian and he has no
plaint to make.   He says further   that   property   in   his
neighborhood   has  not   I
reduced in  price, aud that  it
- valuable today a
the war.    This Be
'to be  oontradi to what
i well's letter stated.
John Hoppe of \ dli-
van wae allei in
town  Y - Mr.
Cook is  not on the  sick list.
•k invited  Mr. H
to come skating with him ou
Circulates   First   Campaign   Letter   to
Voters of 'he State.
uel   G.   Iverson,   former   slate,
auditor  and  now  a  Candida'
lican  gut U  nominal
has   issued   his   first   eampni
to the i oters of Ml
son filed his papers Saturday.
In  his letter  Mr. Iverson  si
m       It   contains   five   ,
my, law >
of public health, a
state's land and wa and
ale by th I Iron op
der the beds of lakes, tl In to
he   used   in   building and  maintaining
PROFESSOR ROBINSON DEAD
Former Member of University of Mia-;
nesota faculty Stricken.
Professor  E.   V.   H
n
professor;
, Is dead in New York;
of heart disea
The rep as a shock to his:
at   the   T
:i. with whom he was associated;
until   last   fall.     Professor   Robinson!
was    rapidly    attaining    a    po
among the leading economists of thej
country.
Three Girls Lose Lives.
While skating on Boot lake, north-
f I'ark Rapids. Miss Gale Hughes
and two girls named Knight sisters,
broke    through    the    Ice   and    were
A broth Hughes.
who was of tlie party, broke through
but managed to save hi a;
First  Minnesota  Veteran  Dead.
mas H. Pressnell.
commissioner  and   rt
of the federal district cou
Duluth, widely known as one or
' -    .ors   of   the   famous   First
Minnesota   regiment and  one of  Ou,
luth's "era, is dead.
High School Girls Outnumber Boys-
Girls   in   Minnesota   high   schools
great
high schools th boys and
tal number of high
of  whom
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