The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1916-05-11

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VOL. NO. 7
PIERZ, HORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, MAY 11, 1916.
NO. 47.
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STATE
News of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.
Electrical and sheet metal workers
of Duluth are on strike.
On May 1 tlie banks of St. Paul had
$111,817,107 in deposits.
R. F. Wahler, a wealthy real estate
dealer of Winona, is dead.
The village council of Aurora has appointed an official cowherder.
Peter Moline, aged sixty-one, a pioneer resident ot Blue Earth, is dead.
William D. Smith of Waseca, aged
thirty-three, committed suicide while
despondent.
The state has loaned the city of St.
Cloud $100,000 with which to erect a
new high school.
Julius A. Sehmahl, secretary of state,
has filed for renomination. This is
his fifth campaign.
Consolidated school district No. 8 of
Adams has voted $30,000 for a new
high school building.
Journeymen plumbers of Mankato
are on strike to enforce demands for
an increase of wages.
Congressman C. R. Davis of St. Peter has filed for the Republican nomination for the 3ame position.
Russell J. Wyse, eighteen years of
age, was shot and killed by St. Paul
detectives while resisting arrest.
An inmate of the St. Cloud reformatory attempted to escape and was shot
and badly wounded by a wall guard.
Fire destroyed the brick school
building at Glenville. Fire drill undoubtedly saved many children.
Captain S. W. Burgess, veteran of
the First Minnesota volunteer infantry, is dead at Mankato, aged seventy-
six.
Augustus M. Stearns, formerly a
well known mining and real estate
man of Duluth, is dead at Portland,
Ore.
Christian Schuelke, one of Steele
county's early pioneers, is dead at
Owatonna. He was ninety-two years
of age.
Governor J. A. A. Burnquist has
filed as a candidate for the Republican
nomination for governor to succeed
himself.
Mrs. A. Wade, widow of Captain
Edward F. Wade, is dead at Fairmont,
aged seventy-six years. Eleven children survive.
Pine City won over Hinckley in the
county seat contest in Pine county,
thereby retaining the courthouse and
county officials.
Goettlieb Keitzer, a farmer who
lived near Vernon Center, was gored
to death by a bull. A wife and twelve
children survive.
Associate Justice Albert Schaller of
the state supreme court, whose term
expires Jan. 1, has filed for renomination at the June primary.
Deposits of the national and- state
banks of Minneapolis on May 1 were
$167,853,005.75. The total is $35,000,-
000 greater than a year ago.
The First regiment, Minnesota national guard, will encamp at Lake City
July 10-19, tlie Second regiment July
20-29, and the Third regiment June
20-29.
Through efforts of County Attorney
H. O. Kjomme and a detective wholesale arrests were made at Thief River
Falls of persons charged with bootlegging.
About 150 paving block cutters are
on strike at St. Cloud as the result of
the failure of the employers to agree
to an increase of one quarter of a cent
a block.
John Ostapchuk has been indicted
by the grand jury of Dakota county
for murder in the first degree for the
killing of his wife at South St. Paul
March 16.
Rough fish to the value of $27,750
were taken from lakes in Martin county the past winter by seiners and the
state received a little more than $6,wj0
es Its share,
Mrs. li. T. She&'.z, prominent in Minneapolis club circles, died at Seattle,
Wash., when about to return to Minneapolis from California, where she had
spent the winter. '
A ten-acre tract of land three miles
south of East Grand Forks has been
sold for $160 an acre, probably the
highest price ever paid for land in the
Red River valley.
W, G. Calderwood of Minneapolis
has filed for United States senator on
the Prohibition ticket. Mr. Calderwood expects to make a statewide
speaking campaign.
Francis R. Seymour, a farmer of
Ahlrich, forty-six years old, is dead
at Brainerd from blood poisoning which
developed after he had all his teeth
extracted at Wadena.
.Mai I'^Jaakin-, n. forty-six years old,
committed suicide at Hibbing by shooting himself with a rifle. He is thought
to have brooded over a war argument
in which he was bested.
Under the provisions of the will of
his mother Dwight G. Cutler of Duluth,
aged thirty-one, must marry or wait
until he is forty-five years old before
he comes into his inheritance.
Storm Wrecks
Many Buildings
A heavy windstorm swept this
neighborhood last Sunday,
which, according- to all reports,
had all the characteristics of a
tornado. It was a twister, and
while its work was not as destructive as those we often read
about, it was a genuine tornado,
neyer-the-less, according- to John
B. Bednar, who observed it at
close range.
John was in town Monday and
his report in  substance  is this:
"I stepped outdoors after the
liist shower about six o'clock
when there was a lull in the
storm. It had quit raining and
the comparative calm led me to
think thc storm was over.
Looking- up I saw black fast-flying- clouds which formed the
base of a huge funnel moving in
a northeasterly direction. The
apex of the inverted funnel
seemed to dip and bound and
when it came close to the ground
it meant destruction to whatever happened to be in its path.
It passed between the house and
barn on Peter Girtz's place and
carried away and demolished
machine sheds, corn crib, etc.
In places trees 8 to 10 inches
thick were twisted off close to
the ground."
Since Monday damage by thc
same storm have been reported
From every direction. It seems
lhat this particular storm made
a .specialty of unroofing- barns.
It lifted the roof off Janson's
barn in Buckman, some of John
Lvapsner's and John Meishke's
barns and out-buildings in
South Pierz. Val- Schraut and
Peter Weidenbach lost their
barnlids. A number of smaller
buildings such as corncribs, etc.
were moved off their foundations.    ,
The storm covered a wide area
The following- from the Transcript:
The worst wind and dust
storm in years visited Little
Falls Sunday and Monday and
was spread over the entire state.
In the Twin Cities buildings
were blown down by the gale
and Parg-o, Crookston, Duluth
and other cities throug-hout the
state report conditions much
the same as at Little Palls.
Village Conncil
Proceedings
The Villag-e Council met in
reg-ular monthly session Saturday, May 6th, at 8 o'clock p. m.
The proceedings of the last
monthly meeting" were read and
accepted.
The  following-   bills  were allowed :
Pierz Journal, pub. financial statement, council
proceeding-   and   liquor
license notices $89.00
F. Priemesberger, painting- tower house      5.00
Otto  Fuhrman,   work  on
street,     3.00
John Gross, street work..   11.80
Emil Ziegler, work on the
dumpground      9.00
J. P. Faust, work on the
dump ground and hauling lumber     10.40
Resolution.
Upon motion adjourned until
Monday evening-, May 8th, 1916
at 8 o'clodk p. in.
Meeting- called to order by
the president.
Motion was made by B. Gross
and seconded by Peter Meyer,
that the St. Joseph's Church
Corporation pay $25.00 per year
for the following water services:
Parish House, School House,
Boiler room and one sprinkler
to be used on lawn in front of
the church; $3.00 more for every
additional sprinkler or faucet.
Also $5.00 more if they connect
out to the cemetery and only use
one sprinkler. $3.00 for every
additional sprinkler and faucet.
Upon motion adjourned.
S. Pmi<:.Mi<:sHWK.t!KK, Pres.
John N. Paust, Recorder.
Hoistein Park
Our warm weather has taken
cold.
E. M. Thompson and P. Brenner went to Pierz Tuesday.
Grif King- has his new barn
about done and is working- on
his house.
Mr, and Mrs. Jess King- and
Mrs. L. Kramer spent Sunday
at the Thompson Home,
Otto Rozene returned to his
home at Eldora Tursday.
Ruby Thompson and Jessie
Smith spent Thursday evenieg
with Nellie Martens.
John Linnehan is at Sullivan
again.
Mr. and Mrs. Jess King are
the proud parents of a 5i pound
girl, born Monday, May Bth.
Frank Perkins spent Monday
night with Arthur Thompson.
John Bollig drove school bus
No. 3 for a few days.
Read the Journal ads.
Juliet Viruig ami Miss Sue
Wimtner of St. Cloud visited
with the F. X. Virnig family
over Sunday.
Good reliable men are
scarce in all lines of labor.
Mrs. Fred Stangl of St.
Cloud, visited with Grandma
Stangl here Friday.
Theo. Thielen went to St.
Cloud last Friday to attend
the funeral of Nick Sell reiner.
father to Wm. Schreiner.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Waler
ius of Brainerd came here
Last Friday to visit Mrs. Valerius' father, Frank Wise,
who is seriously ill.
Skunk River is about down
to its normal depth, but Platte
is yet quite high. That
Platte   remains   high   much
longer than Skunk, after the
spring floods and after unusually heavy rains, has long
been observed. It is no doubt
due to the much greater water supply in its source. Platte
drains all the basin of Sullivan and Platte lakes, while
Skunk drains only a comparatively small area above
Rucker.
Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
Wheat, No. 1,  $1.14
Wheat, No. 2      1.08
Wheat, No.3...       103
Flax, 	
Barley ,.
Rye	
Oats	
Oorn	
Hay	
Butter, Creamery	
Dairy	
tr. Royal	
1.80
62
83
38
(55
7.00
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Pierz, Minn., May 2, 1916.
Paul O. Husting-,
Washington, D. C,
Dear Sir:—
At a mass meeting held here
the 30th day of April, 1916, the
following- resolutions were adopted:
Be it resolved that a committee of five be appointed to draw-
up a reply to the insinuations
made by you in the Senate in
regard to the telegrams sent to
our representatives, protesting
against war with Germany, being- paid for by the American
Embargo conference. We the
committee, wish to refute that
statement and brand it as false.
Every telegram sent from this
community was paid for by us
individually. In reply to your
plot assertion we say you are!
right Senator in saying there is
a plot to drive us into war, but
that plot is not on the side of
the people who are sending telegrams and are striving to maintain peace, That plot is being
hatched by the Ammunition
Fmg and all those who would
stifle the voice of peace, also
those Congressmen and Senators
who would call the Central
Powers to account for every
little infraction of international
law. But, on the other hand,
let the Allies have free reign to
violate every principle of international law without being called to account. The Allies open
our mails, prohibit us from sending Red Cross supplies to the
Central Powers for the alevia-
tion of the wounded; they stop
our commerce to neutral countries on the high seas, they dictate to the American meat packer* how much they are allowed
to export to the neutral countries; in tact they can do just
what they please, and we have
never heard you make any objections to this high handed piracy. Why have you not taken
exceptions to the actions oi that
treasonable committee of 500
who violated the American neutrality by petitioning the president to join with the Allies and
declare war on Germany.
If war comes, who must do
the fighting? We, the common
people. Who must carry the
financial burden? We, the common people. Why then do you
deny us the right to protest
against wars? Put it to a vote
of the people and there never
will be war.
In the present crisis make
England live up to international
law and we assure you there
will be no trouble between
America and Germany. We are
not pro German but pro American. We stand for our country
when she is right and when she
is wrong we are going to make
her right.
Respectfully yours,
P. A. Hartmann,
Carl Kapsner,
Mag. Hauch,
1'. X. Virnig,
H. Flicker.
Committee.
Three Injured
Wednesday Morning
While a crew of carpenters
consisting of Christ Langer.
John Smith, Norbert Brummer
and Louis Spanfellner were
erecting the rafters on the
barn on the Henry Langer
farm on the Little Falls road,
an accident occurred at nine
o'clock Wednesday morning,
which badly injured Christ
Langer, Louis Spanfellner and
John Smith. Each suffered a
fractured bone: Christ a broken
thighbone, Louis a broken nose,
besides a number of cuts and
gashes about the face; Smithy,
a broken arm.
About a dozen rafters had
been put up, when a gust of
wind broke the bracing and
blew them down. Christ and
Norbert were on the floor at the
time. Norbert ran clear, but
Christ was caught under the centre of the mass. Louis and Smithy were near the peak nailing
on braces and fell from a height
of about 25 feet.
Henry Langer and two boys
had just pone down to get some
bracing material, which perhaps
saved them from injury.
That Christ was not killed i
seems altr.ost a miracle, eye wit- j
nesses say. He got the full
force and weight of the crash,
and he was so enmeshed and
wedged in among- the wreckage
that it was difficult to get him
out. The taslc was doubly difficult on account of the broken
leg. And after extricating him,
the question was how to get him
from the second floor to the
ground. Finally a shoot was
made of plank's on which he was
slid down. Smithy and Louis,
sound on their legs, were able
to take care of themselves, as
far as getting down was concerned.
The accident is severe to the
stricken ones aside from the
sufferings from broken bones,
because it came at the beginning of a busy season.
Speaks Well of
Stock Shipment
J. N.   Rauch   accompanied   a
car of stock   for  the  Farmers
Shipping Association last week.
Mr. Ranch is  enthusiastic  over
the result of  the shipment   and
is now one of its stiongest supporters.    "Don't   you ix?li-
he said, 'that the association is
going  to  be  a   fizzle.    Let   no
stockbuyer    make   you   believe
that.     It   is   just   beginning   to
take root   and will  blossom out
into a large sturdy well matured
plant  in a   short   time.    Those
who knock us—and there are a
few—do   so    with    ar.    eye   to
personal profit.   Watch us grow.;
We'll ship a car next Monday.'
MEXICANS
GROSS LINE
Bandits Raid Three
Texasjowns.
SLAY FOUR AMERICANS
General Ponton Orders Reinforcements to the Scene.
West Buh News.
Frank    Kippley    went    to
 3.20 Sioux City,  Iowa, last  week.
"   WluteRose .    3.10 to bid on R.R.contract work.
Low grade flour 160 He recently  bought -2  teams
Bran. 1.25 0f horses,   one from   tr. Wil-
iShorts ..   l-30ikes aml olie frou] Math.Mey-
er.   which    he   will   ship   to
Sioux City  if he succeeds in
Cracked Com 80 pounds 1.40
Ground Feed,.  1.40
Beans
4.00
Onions JHH^HHH   60 landing
Rainfall Sunday afternoon
was 1.10 inch.
Joseph Otremba visited at
Staples lasl week.
Geo. Nelson of Rice Creek
lost a mare and colt last
week.
JohnCinken ot LittleFalls
called on friends hero last
Sunday.
Geo. Kiewel and wife attended the Faust funeral
here Saturday.
Ed. Tanner and Jim Y-'i-
nou of Little Falls, and Pat.
McKay of Brainerd, were
here Saturday.
Wm. Konen. who has been
confined to  his bed   for
eral   weeks  by   rheumatism,
has recovered and is now able
to be around again.
Fd. Konen. who lives in
northwest Buh. says, that
the windstorm Sunday evening uprooted pine trees nearly one foot in diameter, in
his neighborhood.
Jos.  Munzhuber, formerly
employed in the Farmers
Creamery, but now em;
ed in the same capacity in
the Freedhem creamery, was
in town Sunday. He expects
to make some butter uext
fall.
Mr. and Mrs. (',. A. Olson,
Arthur Walter and Miss Eleanor
Wieland and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Muncy and daughter Viola
were covnty seat visitors Saturday.
Mrs. Chris Johnson visited
with Iter daughter, Mrs. George
Swanson Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. H. Wieland and son>
Arthur and Walter and daughter
Eleanor motored to Little Falls
Sunday to attend servi.
Medeau Derosier has purchased a new Maxwell touring car
from F. P. Farrow of Little
Palls,
Quite a few cars will be purchased in this vicinity in the
near future.
Kdwin JobDSOU will soon return home from the college.at
Fergus Falls. 'I he trip will I e
made with his lun-a-bout which
he purchased a week ago.
Win. Balms and family spent
Sunday in I'ierz.
Miss Hilda Hanson will teach
the coming term of school in
Dist. No. 104. She is ;it present
.it her home in Swan River. In
the near future she will leave
tor Minneapolis where she will
attend the univdrsily.
The Sunday visitors at the
Wieland home uvie: Lilly, Ida,
Hilda and Ella Olson, Louis An-
non, Chas. Young- and Win.
Golgeit.
Monday evening a crowd of
card players met at the G- A.
Olson home. A pony kept the
crowd from getting too dry.
Mr. and Mrs. Charley Johnson
were Pierz callers Tuesday.
The year-old child of Mr. and
Mrs. Charley Johnson hail the
misfortune of burning its mouth
with Lewis lye last Thursday
while Mrs. Johnson was busy in
another part of the house- Tlie
baby was left in the kitchen and
crept to the sink where he got
hold of the box.
H. Wieland delivered a load
of hogs to Little Falls Tuesdey.
Kl Paso. Tex.. May 8.—Three American  soldiers   and
have lost their lives, six troopei
wounded and  two American   < i<
have been kidn
of  the   international   boundary   i
most  certain   death,  In  another   raid
of   Mexican   bandits   tli rank
with Franclsi-o Villa's fanio
on Columbus, N. M.
Whether   the   maraud' Vll-
Ii8tas or CarranHstas i* not known.
The   bandits'   foray,   carrying   them
through the southern  limits of  '
ster county, in the Big Bend dl
of Texas and takln
tlements     near     the     border    Glenn
Springs, Itoqulllas and  1
place Friday night and Saturday morning.
Within   an  hour   preparations   had
been   begun   foi tion.
General   Frederick   Funs ton   ord
that all troops of cavalry should  proceed   to   thi'   raided   section   to   n IB-
force   smnll   detachment
their way to  t'
Alpine and  other points.
It   Is  said   that   it'  the
the case di " lion they will
cross the border to run down and dis-
thc bandits.
The- I   of  two  troop-;   of  the
Eighth cavalry from Fort  Bliss, under
Major George T. Langhi i two
troops of the Fourth cavalry
Clark, under Colonel Fred
Sibley.
BORDER CONFERENCE HALTS
Raid on Texas the Only Topic  Under
Discussion.
Kl  Paso, Tax.,  M bile mill-
tary e voloplng with
rapldlt]   th
tion   of   American   and   Mi
soldiers   In   Mexico,   which   had
ich a culmination,
to an abrupt halt.
and   Pun
Ccneral   Obregon   and   Juan   Amador,
an   subset retary   of   foreign   affairs,   in   the   Immigration   station   ut
the American  end ol   the interna; |
bridge for what had
be their tbi.il conferem
le   i i   later,   however,   that
practically  the only matter !
was the bandit raid at '
What was said at the meeting waa
not divuk-
FORTY-TWO~EANDITS
SLAIN Bt AMERICANS
Picked Up On High.
The auto business seems to be
in full swing. Eight or ten cars
were bought here last week.
Among the buyers are: Mrs.
Math. Grows. Chervolet: John
nfrost. Chervolet; Mat I).
Z^irer, Ford: B. C. Butliel, Ford;]
Frank Gold. ienry Kieke.
Ford: Math. Lokowitsch, Ford;
Columbia Hotel, Ford Auto Bus;
A   M. Ranch,   Overland:   (
Faust. Allen.    Henry Gau  now
new Buick six demonstra-
: tor, and Mike X. Meyer a Ford.!
Henry    reports     a    shortage
in all kinds of  cars.     He   went;
Minneapolis   last   week   forf
• four cars,  but   two  was   all   he,
I could get.
Headqu irt ir Xamlquipn.
(by wireless to Columbus, N. M„
7.—A full squadron of :: >r the
'ry surprised and  routed a much sn. Villa bandits    at  OJo-Azules.    seveni
south of Cuslhuirachlc.
Forty-two Mexicans were killed and
a number  wounded.    There
American casualties.
The Amen, an command, undr
jor Robert I.. Howze. had b<
ing the Villistas under
Domlnguez and Julio Acoata  tot
eral days when the;
encamped In the huddled adobe huts
of OJo-Azules.
The Mexicans were utterly surprised and sprang from their pallets halt
clothed.
After flrlns a few wild shot* they
began a flight, each man shifting for
bis own safety.
Some of then;   were able  to
their   horses,  already
hard day's rid
made their way Into tbe hills afoot.
ZAPATA STRONGHOLD TAKEN
City     of    Cuernavaca    Captured     b;-
Forces of Gonzales.
May  4.—Ti
Cu6rnavaca    was    captured    bj
rai Pablo Gonzales
twelve hours ol fierce lighting
This Is the flrst time since the
of Presld' -o that t
of    Morelos   has   been   occupied    by
.an  those of  Emtllaao
Zapata.
NAVY   LEAGUE   SUES   FORD
$100,000  Dairages   Asked   for  Alleged
Libel,
hlngton.
league filed a suit for libel in ti.
trlct   supreme   conn    against   Henry
Ford.   Detroit    manufacturer,   asking
.images. it al-
-tales'
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