The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1916-03-30

              THE   PIERZ   JOURNAL
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA,   MARCH BO,   1916. NO. 41.
VOL. 7.
VILLA MAKING
UTMOST HASTE
Mexican Bandit Heading for
the Mountains,
FOOD AND MUNITIONS SCARCE
Neither Men Nor Horses Being Spared
in Desperate Effort to Shake Off
Pursuing American Cavalry.
Casas Grandes, Mex., March 27.—
Francisco Villa, the outlawed Mexican
bandit who is fleeing before American
cavalrymen somewhere in the district
between Nomiquipa and the foothills
of the Sierra Tarahumares, is increasing his band by forcing, according to
army reports.
The bandit chieftain seized thirty-
five young men and boys in El Valle,
sixty-five miles south of here, and
forced them to accompany his column.
Half of the Constitutionalist garrison at Namiquipa, about sixty miles
south of here, has disappeared and It
is suspected that some of them at
least also have joined Villa.
The utmost haste is being made in
the flight toward the mountains, which
Villa ia nearing rapidly, neither men
nor horses being spared. It ls known
that he is practically without supplies
and ammunition and it is reported
that he is attempting to reach a neighborhood where he has ammunition
cached in three places.
Persons in the district through
which he has passed recently say his
men are ravenously hungry and are
practically in a state of starvation.
Dead and dying horses discarded in
l'if :- .1 arc- found almost daily by
American troops.
Tlie haste which the bandit is making in his flight would indicate the
American forces are close on his heels,
but General Pershing, expeditionary
commander, who returned from a two
days' inspection trip of the troops in
the field, says the reports that Villa
is surrounded are premature.
Reply to "Where
Our Taxes Go."
PRESIDENT ISSUES WARNING
Says False News Is Being Sent From
Mexican   Border.
Washington, March 27.—President
Wilson has issued warning that "sinister and unscrupulous influences" are
spreading alarmist reports in regard
to the Mexican situation, with the object of forcing intervention by the
United States "in the interest of certain American owners of Mexican
properties."
In a formal statement the president
tells the people of the United States
to be on their guard and not to credit
such stories.
He urges those who disseminate
news to test the source and authenticity of every report from the border
and calls attention again to the government's announcement that the
sole object of the punitive expedition
now in Mexico is to punish Villa and
his followers.
Villa Band Meets Defeat.
Queretaro, Mex., March 27.—General
Pedro Gozman and twenty-two others,
all members of a Villa band, were
killed in battle in the neighborhood
of La Guna and Dinamita. In this action between government forces and
bandits ten prisoners also -were taken
and summarily executed, according to
a message to the minister of war,
General Obregon.
CHINESE REPUBLIC
RESTORED BY YUAN
Peking, March '24.—A state department mandate announces the abandonment of the monarchy and resumption of the republic.
The mandate says the revolution
shows that the demand for a mon-
archial form of government is not
unanimous and that therefore Yuan
Shi Kai rejects the emperorship and
resumes the presidency,
The imperial documents, the mandate adds, will be returned by Yuan
S"hi Kai to the state council, which
will reconvene as the senate, preparatory to the resumption of the republic.
GERMAN   SOCIALISTS   SPLIT
New Party in Reichstag as Result of
Subsen  War   Dispute.
Berlin. March 27.—The long expected split in the German Socialist party,
as the result of the political situation
created by the submarine warfare controversy, occurred in the reichstag.
A new party, consisting of eighteen
Socialist members, was constituted by
the radical wing after a Socialist caucus had decided to exclude Deputy
Haase for a breach of discipline.
Troops Seize Irish Papers.
Dublin. March 26.- Tho military
and police visited publishing offices
and seized copies of five Irish publications and in some cases dismantled the printing machinery. This action was taken on the ground of disloyalty.
Read the Journal ads.
Little Falls, Minn.
March 25th. 1916.
Mr. Theo. Thielen,
Pierz, Minnesota.
Dear Theodore:
I read your article in the Pierz Journal and
was glad to see that any of the
tax payers were taking- interest
in the way and manner in which
the county funds are raised and
expended and think it would be
a good thing to always do this.
But you are a little mixed on
the county funds, not the
amount levied but in the way
same is expended. Now the actual facts are as shown by the
books last year. County spent
a little over §40,000.00 in building bridges in the various towns
and appropriations to towns
roads. They then expended
$2^,925.07 on state and county
roads. This all went for the
benetit of the taxpayers in various parts of the county.    •
Now in this levy for county
purposes you must take into
consideration this road and
bridge building. Also there is
included $10,000.00 for ditch
payments, and five thousand
dollars for sinking fund, after
which the levy for county purposes is not very large for a
county of Morrison County's
size.
I have nothing to do in making the levies only to figure the
rates, and as I said before, am
always glad to see any of the
taxpayers take an interest
the raising and expending county money, esyecially when this
interest is taken for the purpose
of bettering conditions and not
from any malice.
You were a little mixed in
your statement of the amount of
town levy but I  know  you   did
Farmers Warned
To Investigate
Long Prairie Leader:—Agents
representing a merchandise
concern that is to be organized
in Minneapolis have been busy
among Todd county farmers the
last two weeks.
The plan is to sell stock in
the new7 company at $25 per
share and the stockholders are
to get their groceries and other
merchandise at a rebated price.
The Leader has been investigating the proposition as well
as the company which is not
yet organized except in embryo
form, and that the commercial
agencies have no knowledge of
it.
Faith In Old
Customs Often Shaken
The experience of Nick Buhr
in curing his seed corn last fall
has caused him to think that
the old established customs are
not always reliable and that he
who sticks to them too closely
will sometimes loose out.
Mr. Buhr dried his seed corn
under the porch :md it now
shows a high test. Mrs. Bdhr
picked seed corn, put it upstairs
around the chimney—the old
standard place—but it will not
germinate
And his neighbor P. L. Virnig had the same experience with
seed corn as Mrs. Buhr, Nick
says. Mr. Virnig,   too,   put   his
Farmers Buy AH
Telephone Lines
North of Pierz
News Gathered
Here and There
Theodore Ortmann, John L.
Gross, Henry Stoering and F.X.
Buesseler, representing theLast-
rup farmers, went to St. Cloud
Wednesday and closed a deal
witli representatives of the N.
W. Telephone for all the lines
north of the village. This includes the old Lastrup line, originally built by P. W. Blake
and the old Boser line running
directly north to Otto Boser's.
According to Mr. Ortmann,
there will be no less than five or
six rural telephone lines organized to the north, which will
make connections where they
meet and where the connections
will best serve the patrons.
Into this compact will enter
tlie two lines already mentioned,
tlie Lastrup Rural Telephone
Co., the Skunk Creek Telephone
Co. and companies about to be
organized in Granite, the Henrv
Kruschelr. district and Platte.
The farmers of the Henrv Kru-
schek corner met today to discuss the project.
Foley  voted   "dry'
small lead.
by   a
ABOUT THE STATE
News of Especial interest to
Minnesota Readers.
News From The
County  Seat
(From Transcript.)
A meeting of all the farmers
in this section of the county
has been   called    for   Saturday
seed   corn     upstairs   near   the
chimney to dry   with the   result J f°'" tlie purpose of   organizing a
11 that the test is so low that it is farmers' co-operative creamery.
not safe to plant it.
Shipping Association
Held Meeting
The meeting will be held in the
district court room at the court
house.
Joseph Medved left Friday
afternoon for Minneapolis,
called by the critical   illness  of
The Farmers' shipping  as- \ his brother, Peter Medved, who
sociation had a   meeting   in j is not expected to recover. Pet-
not take into consideration the j Genola   Tuesday   afternoon, er Medved formerly   made   his
Hill Gets Top Price
One Mill Drag tax, which the
law compels me to extend the
same as the One Mill school tax.
A person from reading your ar-1 Another car will be   shipped
tide would think that the coun- j jn   the   near   future.   Theo.
ty alone nses this  large levy, Thielen was elected as assist- j
when the facts are, most of it islaut manager toeover the ter-
expended for the benefits of the }tory uorth of Pierz,
towns. I am conlident that  you
did not intend   to   convey   this
idea, but simply did not   understand the situation. Walter J. Hill, son   of  James
Yours truly,            J. Hill,  has demonstrated   that
/B. Y. McNairy.  he is one   of   the   good   cattle
raisers in the northwest.
A two year old branded steer
which Mr. Hill raised ou his
Northcote farm,Monday brought
the record price of 11 cents a
pound at the South St. Paul
market.
The prevailing price for first-
class steers at South St, Paul is
around 84 and 8i cents, and the
market at Chicago was only
$9.85 a hundred.
Mr. Hill's steer was exceptional ly choice and fat and
weighed l,7o0 pounds.
South Agram News.
Mr. and Mrs. Hanson and children who were visiting at the
Fred Sporlein home for several
weeks left for Minneapolis Mon
day where they will make their
home.
Mrs. Wm. Kippley and children left Monday for Golden
Valle}', where Mr. Kippley has
rented a farm and where they
intend to make their home. Mrs.
Kippley was here visiting the
John Kippley and Otremba lam
ilies. Miss Mary Kippley accompanied them.
Mr. and Mrs. JohnEidenshink
and Mr. Joe Janson were Little
Falls callers Monday.
Walter Sporlein and Casper
and Matt Thommes called at the
J. J. Brummer  home  last  Sunday evening.
Mrs. Peter Mueller and children of Buckman  were  visitors
Tlie report of tlie first ship-i home in Little Falls, but has
ment was read and was sat- been living in Minneapolis for
igfactory    to   the     shippers. | eight years.
Farmers who have studied
weather conditions for many
years state that 1910 should be
a good corn year and one man
on Thursday told a transcript
representative thai he was going to go iu mostly for corn this
season. He bases his prediction
of this being a good corn year
on the fact that this section
has had a real old-fashioned
winter with plenty of snow and
low temperature. He says this
condition is always followed by
a very warm summer.
M. E. Barnes, county superintendent of schools, who was operated on at St, Barnabas hospital, Minneapolis, Saturday,
is thought to be improving, although no information regarding his condition has been received today.
John Medved came from
Crookston Monday evening to
attend the funeral of his uncle,
Peter Medved.
Raising Tobacco
Around St. Cloud
Miss Emma Zimmerman  was
St. Cloud, Minn.— Tobacco J°8. Bchuh of Car]). Belt-
raising has been' begun on a rami county made a few-
considerable scale by a Dumber days' stay in our midst last
of farmers in the neighborhood week. He left again Friday
of St. Cloud, and last week ;i evening for his home. P. J.
carload was shipped from this Poster left with him to look Falls to Pier/.. Oilman
city. The farmers raising it   re-  at the country of which    Joe  he   measured  the   depth    of
the water all   tlie   way   and
K. X. Buesseler measured the
Miss Madge Hoppe is sick
with quincy.
A. P. Stoll was in Brainerd over Sunday.
Mrs. Wm. Kippley is here
visiting her-parents.
J. F. Pohlkamp was a caller here Saturday.
Tony Ziegler returned
from the woods last  week.
J. J. Gross of Little Falls
was a caller  here   Saturday.
Chas. Kohs of Freedhem
bought a new auto this week.
Mrs. Jos. Grell and Mrs.
Fred Rieke left for Brainerd
Tuesday evening.
Buffalo Otremba visited at
the Math Neisius home a few
days this week.
Mrs. Fug. Gendreau was
suddenly taken ill while visiting her mother Sunday
evening.
It   is   reported   that   one
i ot the area ol t ■
of Wfeeonin is Buffering from
floods.
Peter Girtz claims the distinction of having seen the
first robin of the season
Tuesday morning.
Miss Anna Grasserl returned home after a two"
weeks' visit with ber sister
Mrs. John C. Virnig.
A southern .Minnesota fai-
mers cow died tlie other day
from swallowing a board.
Bossie evidently thought she
was earning her board.
Karl Kapsner's son John
drove thru town Tuesday
afternoon with a lumber
wagon. Jake Neisius' child*
ren followed suit half an
hour later with a   buggy.
John Kingen of Little
Falls is here this week in
the Barney Burton store
while J. N. Faust is conducting the Jos. Ries Trustee
sale.
Herman Oltman arrived in
Pierz last week for a brief
visit with which he combined
a little business. Mr. Oltman
has been in Rice and St
Cloud all winter. He left
Monday for Bowlus from
which place he left for Tribune, Canada, where he
owns 600 acres of  land.
There is not so much water from the melting of the
snow as was expected. It is
running to tlie low places
about as rapidly as it is
melted by the sun. Perha] s
some of the old lumbermen
tell the truth when tli' v say
"Don't worry about the water when there is much snow. '
The Lastrup farmers' delegation returned from St.
Cloud by the way of Little
Falls. It took them from
midnight until six a. m. to
make the    tiip    from    Little
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.
Peter Medved
Died Saturday
Peter Medved, for ITS a
resident   of  Little    Falls,   died
Saturday afternoon at his home
182   west Winifred   stn
Paul,    from   Bright
Tne body was brought lo Little
Palls Monday morning,   ao
panied    by    Mrs.    Medved   and
several ol   their   children   and
his brother, Joseph  Medved   of
Little Falls, and was buried   in
Calvary      cemetery       Tuesday
morning after a    requiem
at the German Catholic   church
at 9 o'clock.
Peter Medved was formerly
one of Little Falls' most prominent men. having an extensive
merchandise business here many years ago. He was postmaster for four yea os and lor   many
In the la .ire.
years served as president of tlie      Mrs. Mary M
village and as a member of   the  '
board of county commissioners.
Later he was proprietor oi   the
Little Falls house and remained
Dr.  rj.   M.   a
I'alls.
piono^
al    o.    \v.    I
Wing
public schools.
rnor   Burnqt
proclamation designating April i
Arbor and  ;
uidma"    Seymour,    Din
• ihe Home for tlie
.ml.
aloon
..  has ui;
i eighty-four.
Dr. W. C. Hanscom, who was born
in   Hennepin   coun;
apo. is dead at Minneapolis.
Mis:    l.la   M.   Cowan,   liftv  I
;.,,., ,. ,   .     old, llutll   V.
in that business tne years, until    ,,,,,, , :,,,„„
J is dead illness.
he   moved    to   St.   Paul    eight      Contracts hai eon-
atruotlon of flft< en ditches in Tr
county '"
The  ten-room  hi
at Staples bai
entailing a loss of mor
years ago.—Transcript.
Fatal Accident
Albany
miles north df Alban^' was accidentally killed by his own
while     hunting      rabbits.     The
•e of
Charles 11. Peabody, ba M for
shotgun carried bv tlie son   was      M   u   B
one  of   Dul mJnent   r<
accidentally     di d,      the   and a widely known
charge   entering   the   body   ( i   is ll"'"1
Thirl
Mr. Malley allow the right  hip.    a,  ,„,. i,,,,
The accident occurred Thursday   '"", "'
I2d btrthd
afternoon at   four   o'clock.  Mr.      Agricultural I
Malley died Friday   morning at   (>n'l!,r> "f   Vl' wl"
hold  ■  three lin-
9:80 from loss oi  blood. ,„ .
The rabbit had been   unawing      To ,ow a"(1
it Minneapolis during January;
the bark ol  the   fruit   trees   in   and February cost $41,973.28, whicl
the orchard ot   Mr.   Malley.   lie   117.136.78 more ths ar.
I ia vis.
a wealthy  Minneapoll
..as know
contributor to worl
per  Wetn
a   farmer   bj r   of
Smiley,    Pennington    county,    is    the
r of sixteen children, all living.
Suit brought by v
of St
company   for   Infrli
and his son.   Andrew,   aged   -1
years,    bunted    lor   the   iv.
when   the   fatal     accident
curred.
When   tli.- dtisl   is oi,   the
counter  ;iti(! Hie  cobweb
the shelf,   there's   no one   in   has been compi nt of
fie store   but your  own <ii -  „, „
li  arte:;.''!      -elf,     ami
oi rail-
stock is gettmg sheil worn, v,.lV .
and everything looks stale,
when bills enough are coning in to make a banker pale.
Oli, tiien's the time a feller
is feel in' kind o' bim- and is
puzzled abou t the pr<
thing to do. in ;-;,. ii ;t situation but oiu- remedy applies—if you want to get the
ad-
yerl i
Market Report
Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
Vliea'
■ Vhea        i "1
	
hospital ai  Brainerd.
Under tie- direction of Rup
surgeon gel
public s'ir-
1  .Minneapolis will
be made next month.
Moorhead    will    build   u   i.
school
■
Ken-
eral comn
Civil  war. nt  In
the or
a Min:
AIoi. I   .od Is de;; kato
at the age as a
York, but reached
in   I860  and
ah  Its •
William    K.    Marvin,    for    twenty;
years  a   prominent  business  man  of!
one,  committed  suicide  by  tak-j
was to have been :
Flax, .
S., professor of theo
Far turn 	
Say
7.00
at Herman Terhaars last week,    ceive 9 cents per pound for   the speaks highly.
raw product  and state   that   it
at John Kippley's for a few days  ^'OVtHl   vo,'-v   Profitable.    They
last week, where  she did   some
sewing.
realized from   s7;i   to   $1:J6  per
acre at this price.
'Idle snow is  moving fast.
distance all tli
Try Journal want
bring results.
They
his   length
stick.
Butt' i nery	
Dairy	
Kiour.Koyal	
"
  	
Shorts  	
Corn 80 pounds 1.40
Grot.
Bean   --
Onions   -      60
been with tl.
baa.
finished   Its  cs
popular s<' pay off its in-;
be amount raised i
Deluding a donation of
mi.
B.    Chambt
uishop David
erbacker of Indiana. Is dc
 cl&lor at.
or.
auck of South St.;
who was shot
recent r husband as th- culml-
natio; / divorce pro-
>r>topchuck is held
on a charge of mur 1