The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1915-02-04

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THE   PIERZ   JOURNAL
VOL. 6.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, FEBRUARY 4, 1915.
NO. 84.
STATE NEWS BITS
Minor Happenings of the Week
Throughout Minnesota.
"Dr." George Qulnn, a Sioux "medicine man," son of Peter Quinn, the
first farmer in Minnesota and one of
the mysterious figures in Minnesota
history, is dead, having passed away
in the little Sioux colony near Morton.
Quinn professed in his later years to
have had an important part in quieting the turbulent Sioux after the massacres in the Minnesota valley and
that he with two fullbloods, Maryaduta
and Huntkamaza, carried on negotiations between General H. H. Sibley, in
command of the forces against the
Sioux and Little Crow, their war
chief, which resulted, in the release
of the white prisoners and the disarmament of many of the hostiles.
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District Jndge W. C, I.eary of Minneapolis has granted l\\J? request of
the Great Northern and Minneapolis
Western Railway companies and suspended the order of the state railroad
and warehouse commission in the
famous Minneapolis switching cases.
Switching charges of $l.G0 a car on
cars sent to grain elevators off the
main line tracks were abolished by
the commission in a recent order.
Pending a hearing the railroads now
agree to keep check on all switching
charges and will return the money to
shippers if the court finally decides
the roads have no right to make such
charges.
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While neighbors slept peacefully
cracksmen, who left a trail of money
for two blocks, blew open a safe in
the drug store of the Kampff-Warneke
company at Minneapolis and got $150
In cash, stamps and money orders of
the postal substation and $109 in
money from the store. The charge of
nitroglycerin was so heavy that it
hurled the iron door across the room,
blew the bottom out of the safe and
lilted the heavy strongbox up against
the wall. The explosion shattered
rear and side windows of the store
and made a wreckage of bottles and
glass cases.
•j.    4.   4.
Treasurer Henry C. Hanke ot Hennepin county has received a check
for $394,578.54 in payment of the inheritance tax on the estate of William
Hood Dunwoody, who left $6,256,-
591.87. The estate Is the largest ever
probated in Minneapolis and the in-,
heritance tax the largest ever collected by the state. Under the law 9'J
per cent of the inheritance tax goes
to the state and 10 per cent to the
county.
4.   4.   4.
Mr. and Mrs. George Washington
Green of Minneapolis celebrated their
diamond (sixtieth) wedding anniversary at a family gathering at their
home. Mr. and Mrs. Green have
lived in Minneapolis since almost pioneer days of the city. Mr. Green is
a veteran of the Civil war. His father was a soldier In the war of 1812
and his grandfather took part in the
revolutionary  war.
4. 4. 4.
Collections of Inheritances taxes
due the state will hit the $1,000,000
mark, a new high record, this year.
In the first six months $780,185 has
been collected from that source of
revenue. This amount is an increase
of $563,888 over the returns in the
first six months of the past year. The
total for that year was $650,756. In
1912  collections  reached  $678,000.
4.   4,   4.
Rev. Allan Clark is dead at Akeley,
where he was in charge of the Congregational church.    Mr. Clark spent
the  greater  part  of  his  seventy-four
years   as   a   missionary   in   Northern;
Minnesota,   sharing   the   hardships   of j
the early settlers.    In later years he
was    stationed   at   Duluth,    Dawson,
Grand Forks and other cities.
4. 4. 4.
C. H. Davidson, Jr., Minneapolis
banker and capitalist, is dead. He
was forty-eight years old, and was
born and reared at Austin, this state.
He was interested in more than a
score of banks and other holdings in
Minnesota and  North Dakota.
4.   4,   4.
Mrs. Anna Fallang, who had lived
in Spring Grove township, Houston
county, for more than half a century,
lis dead. She was ninety-five years j
old and was born in Norway, coming |
to the United States in 1860 and settling in Spring Grove town.
, +   +   +
Moorhead will vote "wet" or "dry"
•t the city election Feb. 16. A petition for submitting the license question, bearing the signatures of 123
voters, has been filed. Moorhead
has thirty saloons which pay a license of $1,600 each.
4.   4.   4,
Not \ single saloon remains in
towns 4t'long the Soo line between
Flummer and Duluth, a distance of
232 miles, Remer and Shovel Lake
having been ordered closed by Special officers Brandt and Carson of the
Indian  department.
4.   4.   4.
In the year 1914 more than 184,000,-
000 nickels crossed the palms of
street car conductors in Minneapolis,
St. Paul and the allied lines of the
Twin City Rapid Transit company.
*   +   +
Felix Barbeau. prominent railway
bridge contractor of the, Kortbwest, Is
dead at Minneapolis.
ALL COMMITTED TO
STATE INSTITUTIONS
State Now Takes Care of Entire Glen-
wood, Minn., Family
The entire family of Alexander Guengferick of Glenwood,
Minn., has been committed to
the various state institutions.
Guengerick himself was ad
judg-ed insane and taken to the
Fergus Palls asylum. His wife
is sick with tuberculosis and
was taken to the Otter Tail
county asylum at Battle Creek.
The housekeeper, Leona Adcock,
was adjudg-ed insane and committee to an asylum. Finally,
the three Guengerick children
and the son of Leona Adcock,
ranging- in age from 3 to 10
years, were committed to the
state public school for dependent children.
Jurors Drawn for
the Next Term
Thirty Petit Jurors Selected as Result of Petition by Little
Falls Attorneys
FARMER   MEMBERS   CAUCUS
Organiration Formed With P. H. Prye j
of   Wlllmar   President.
Representative P. H. Frye of Will-
mar is president or the farmers' organization of the Minnesota state
legislature, which was formed at a
conference attended by thirty sena- '
tors and representatives. The sen- |
ators were invited for the first time
to participate in this organization
which in the past has been limited
to farmer members of the house.
Senator L. E. Porter of Springfield
was elected vice president, Representative C. M. Bendixen of Morgan secretary and Senator M. J. Holmberg
of Renville assistant secretary.
Sitting in committee of the whole
the house recommended for adoption
a resolution fathered by Representative C. M. Bendixen of Morgan, urging Minnesota members of congress
to oppose any steps looking to the
placing of an embargo on the exportation of foodstuffs to the warring nar
tions  of  Europe.
The joint resolution introduced by
Representatives Robert Carmichael,
Oscar Swenson and C. J. Malmberg,
providing for final adjournment of the
legislature April 7, about two weeks
ahead of the constitutional date, was
reported favorably to the house by
the committee on rules.
Senator George H. Sullivan was
elected president pro tem of the senate by a vote of 36 to 28 for Senator H. N. Benson. Sullivan and Benson did not vote and Senator John
H.  Healy was absent.
FOOD EMBARGO IS OPPOSED
Resolution of Protest Is Passed by
Minnesota House.
With only eight dissenting votes
the lower house of the legislature
went on record as opposed to an embargo on the exportation of foodstuffs
to nations involved in the European
war. A joint resolution fathered by
Representative C. M. Bendixen of
Morgan, urging members of congress
from Minnesota to fight steps for an
embargo, was passed by a vote of 98
to 8.
That the amount spent by the state
for printing is far In excess of its
actual needs is the assertion of a
resolution by Representative C. L.
Sawyer of Minneapolis, adopted by
the house, providing for investigation
of the entire matter by the committee on printing. The resolution instructs the committee to complete its
investigation and report to the house
not later than Feb. 22.
Senator F. H. Peterson'B county option bill was made a special order in
the senate for Thursday, Feb. 4 at 2
p. m., on motion of the author. This
was done following a favorable report
by the temperance committee after a
lengthy public hearing on the measure.
The panel of grand and petit
jurors for the February term of
court was drawn Wednesday (of
last week). The grand jury is
called for February 23 and the
petit jury is to report the next
day. Thirty petit jurors were
impaneled instead of the cus-
tomery 24, by order of Judg"e
Roeser, issued on petition
signed by most of the local attorneys.
The reason for the petition is
to avoid the calling of talesmen
during a trial and to secure a
better jury, drawn in the regular manner When only 24 jurors are impanelled and one jury
is out, the remaining 12 men are
not always all acceptable. With
30 jurors a sufficient number
would always be ready and it
it would never be necessary to
call talesmen from the crowd in
the courtroom. Those who
signed the petition say that it
would cost the county very little, if any, more than before, as
it was sometimes necessary to
call a special venire. Other
counties have found that the
system is much better than the
old. —Transcri pt.
The following from this section were drawn for jury service:
GRAND
Christ Tretter, Buh.
Robert Brazier, Buckman
John Mischke, Pierz
A. M. Rauch, Agram
P. L. Dage, Morrill
John C. Loidolt, Agram
John Lisle, Royalton
L. M. Jacobs, Buckman
Carl Meyer, Pierz
Herman Wieland, Buh
PETIT
N. H. Daniels, Buckman
John H. Langer, Agram
Christ Schlegel, Granite
NEW FIERZ VOTERS
DECIDE IN FAVOR OF
INCORPORATION
The election held today
to decide whether or not
New Pierz should incorporate, resulted in favor of incorporation. There, were
31 votes cast — 15 against,
and 16 for.
A Good Man
/    Passes Away
Jos. Preiner, Aged 56, Died al His Home
Sunday Following Attack ot Pneumonia
BELIEVES IN
HEAVY FEEDING
Advises Local Farmers to Make a
Move in That Direction.
A letter from Nick Faust, employed in the Elk River creamery, states that the total receipts of the institution amounted to $93,711 .(X> during the last
ten months. The output now is
105 tubs of butter a week. The
Elk River farmers, he says,
strongly believe in feeding heavy
food, such as oil meal and cottonseed meal which is bought in
carload lots. Nick advises the
Pierz farmers to make a move
in that direction and feeJNJieir
milkers something: more tlul
corn and wild hay.
HELPED ORGANIZE
NEW MINING CO.
Jos. J. Hennen One of Principals in
Deerwood  Company
At  the comparatively young-
age of 56 years, Joseph Preiner
died last Sunday morning-, after
a few days' illness with pneumonia.    Mr. Preiner   was   born   in
Abelon,   Hungaria,   August  23.
1859 and at  the ag-e of 21 came
to this  country of  promise and
was employed on North Dakota
farms for   twelve  years, before
he   concluded to cast his   lot in
Pierz.  Married to Anna Tschida-
in 1892, he   moved shortly alter
;onto the place on which he lived
at   the   time of   his  death.    He
, was   a   member   of   the   St. Joseph's society,   under the auspices of   which he   was  buried at
■ 10 o'clock   last   Tuesday  morn-
jing.    His widow and seven children—left   in   comfortable   circumstances—survive him.
While it is a trite remark that
a man must die to get praise,
the Journal, nevertheless, will
venture to state that, in its
humble opinion, Joseph Preiner,
as a good man.
	
Brainerd Tribune — Two St.
Paul men, Geo. Uquhart and
Joseph J. Hennen, are principals in a new mining concern;
the Pioneer Development Co.,
articles of incorporation for
which were tiled Saturday with
the secretary of state. The new
concern is on the Cuyuna range
in Aitkin county. The operat-
beadquarters are at Deerwood.
Rucker News
ABOUT THE STATE:
News ot Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
EDUCATOR   KILLS   INTRUDER
Professor   Allen  of the   State   Univerv
•ity  Shoots  Man  Alleged to  Be
Prowling   About   Horn*.
IN BUSINESS AT
NEW RICHLAND
ALB. BELL, JAIL-
BREAKER CAUGH
New Pierz Store Burglar, who Broke Ja
in Little Falls Taken By Sheriff
Felix Near Foley
—I
Albert   H. Belli alias  Alb
Stillmakeror Albjfcrt Heigl, wl
with  Rob. Olmstjfead   broke j
in Little Palls on  August 13
1914, has  beeir captured   and
again in the counfy jail to aw
trial   ou  a   charge   of   burgl,
and   another   of   jail   breaki
Sheriff Felix was notified by
authorities at Foley  the first
the week   that he  was  world
on a farm about three miles f
that  city, and   he brought  1
to Little Falls Tuesday.
C. I. Virnig Writes That He Purchased
Hardware Store
The Journal is in receipt of a
letter from C. I. Virnigf in which
he states that he had bought a
hardware store in New Richland,
Minn., and would hereafter
make that town his home. "No
more Montana homesteading for
me," he savs.
New Richland is in Waseca
county and has a population of
1,000. C. I. is a son of Mrs.
Peter Virnig of Buh.
Anton Veith of Buh has a son
in the european war.
TREATY "LID" ON DEBTS, TOO
Court    Holds    Liquor   Accounts   Void
Because of Indian Case Ruling.
In a test case that was brought before Judge M. A. Crowell in municipal court at Bemidji the Turner Dis- -t
tilling company of Cincinnati, O., is
denied judgment in the amount of $80
in an account against John Goodman
of Bemidji, who last October endorsed
the account of Tom McCarthy, then
proprietor of a saloon. I
The judge held that the ruling of
the supreme court on the 1855 Indian
treaty made all accounts for liquor in
the territory covered by that treaty
void.
The company has more than $5,000
in accounts for liquor throughout the
Indian territory and practically every
brewery and distillery in the Northwest, it is said, has accounts with former saloon men of the Indian "dry"
territory.
The case will be appealed.
Supreme  Court   Ruling   Means $65,000
to Minnesota.
Minnesota will be enabled to collect
approximately 65,000 alleged to be
due from lumber companies for tret-
pass through a ruling of the state supreme court. !
Attorney General L. A. Smith sued
the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber company
of .Minneapolis for $16,000, alleged lo
be due the state on timber cut un-,
lawfully in 1905. The defense maintained that the statute of limitatioas
prevented  recovery.
Judge  W.  L.  Kelly  of the  Ramaey
county   court   ruled   In   favor   of   the,
state.    The company  appealed.    The ,
supreme  court  upheld  Judge  Kelly.
The ruling affects actions pending
against three other companies for an
aggregate of $48,000.
Card of Thanks
We are   sincerely   thankfu
all who   were helpful   and' v
showed us svmpathv during
days of the illness and the dd
following' the death   of Jos
Preiner.
Mrs. Joseph Preine
and children,
GENERAL
MARKETREPOR
Grain and Produce
^>   Harket Rep
Wheat, No. 1,	
Wheat, No. 2	
Flax, 	
Barley	
Rye	
Oats	
Ear Corn	
Hay $
Butter, Creamery ..
Dairy       2.
Eggs    !       -a
Flour, Best      3.80
"    Straight      3.70
Low grade flour 1.80
Bran . 1.35
Shorts   1.40
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.40
Ground Feed     1.40
Beans       2.00
Onions ^        (30
Chas. Scott recently lost one
of his horses thru pneumonia.
Miss Marie Bollig returned to
Pierz with her father Tuesday
afternoon after a few days visit
with friends here.
A. S. Finn is surveying in
this locality. Came out last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Hans Johnson
have a daughter lrom Iowa,
witii her husband and two children, visiting them.
Mrs. J. A. Sanborn   and   son,
art,  visited   at  Ceo.   Waller's
Monday.
Ernest Coble shot a wolf re-
ently.
Miss Florence Wilmot of
wanviiie passed thru here Sat-
iday with Mi. Bollig on her
vay to Sullivan Lake where she
as been engaged lo teacli
chool.
Miss Bessie Benton was called
o her home at Hill man last
veek on account oi the serious
11 ness ol her uaby sister.
John Dorman shot a wolfSun-
Miss Elizabeth Waller was
he guest of Miss Mary Bollig
f Pierz a few days last week.
Messrs Finn   anil    Ward    left
eft here Monday atternoon   lor,
ittle Falls having finished their
urvey work in this locality.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Penniman
f Hillman and Mrs. Arba Wal-
r visited Mrs. Chas. Sanborn
unday.
Mrs. S. D. Wood was a Pierz
isitor Friday.
John Brown and Ern Goble
ach secured a tine mink recently.
Mrs.  G. W.   Waller  and   son,
'lifford, spent Sunday with Mr.
nd Mrs. Benton at   their  home
lear Hillman.
Mrs. V. Bruber visited school
ast week.
While returning home from
heir work one day   last   week,
rba Waller and A. J. Finn
ame upon a wolf who seemed
o be very tame and certainly
lade them wish for a gun.
Earl Nyrall. thirty years old, was;
shot three times in an alleged attempt to enter the home of W. !•'•
Allen of Minneapolis and died from
bis wounds a few hours later without
making a statement
He had a gunshot wound in his
right shoulder, a bullet wound in Ins
neck, caused by a shot from a squirrel
rifle, and another wound an inch below the heart caused by a bullet
an automatic  revolver.
Mr.   Allen,  who is an  instructor  at
the  University   of  Minnesota   in   die
department of anatomy, heard   >
in  the   kitchen   vestlbuli .-.   out
on the balcony above the vestibule lie
ordered the man to remain there, he
sa> s.
Tho shotgun then was fired Into the
air. tho instructor says, after the man
had  uttered   several  oaths  in  an
to Allen's command and that of
Allen.    The   man   got  outside   ot
vestibule   and   went  around   the   corner of the house and  was approaching the street when Allen tired again,
this time with an automatic revolver
obtained  from  his  wife.    Nyrall  fell,
but    regained   his   feet   and    started
away again only to be hit by another
bullet.
Professor Allen was held by the police pending an investigation of the
shooting of Nyrall. The grand jury,
wbicb is in session, promplv investigated the matter and Professor Allen
was exonerated and released.
FIRE LOSSES IN MINNESOTA
State   Marshal   Says   Incendiarism   Is
Qrave   Menace.
F'lre losses of nearly 11,000,000
were caused by incendiaries in the
state of Minnesota last year, Charles
E. Keller, state Are marshal, declared in his annual report. 1'lres
thai could be traced directly to Incendiaries did $162,000 damage, bat
in the list of conflagrations from "unknown cause," which totaled ?i
000, more than one-half, he declares,
were undoubtedly set deliber;.
The proportion of incendiarism Is a
great menace, he declared, and efforts of authorities should be diicited   to  stamping  it out.
The total loss, recorded from
fires, amounted  in  1914  to *4.3'.
as compared  with  a  loss  from  2,611
tires of *3,!»29,000 in 1913, an increase
of $454,000.    Tho bulk of the increase
lias   occurred   outside   of   the   i
principal cities, he points out, for although     Minneapolis    shows    an    in-
crease of $i27.ooo, st.  Paul and  Duluth reveal a decrease.
KNOCKS   OUT   LABOR  LAWS!
PLATTI
NEW©
Both Willing.
"He snid he'd rather go to jail than
pay his divorced wife alimony."
"Did she let him goV"
"Yes. She said she'd rather see him
save hi3 money behind the bars than
spend it over them."—Exchange.
$2,500,000 PAID IN REFUND
Minnesota Railroads Seek to Compromise Other Claims.
Railroads in Minnesota have made
approximately $2,500.000 refunds to
passengers and shippers during the
last eighteen months in the Minnesota
rate cases.
A conference has been held by Attorney General L. A. Smith with tho
Minnesota railroad and warehouse
commission and attorneys for several
of the railroads to discuss future ac-
-= refunds sttll  due.
South St. Paul
Hog Market.
Ave. Price.
Thursday 6.00
Friday 6.05
Saturday 0.70
Monday 6.70
Tuesday 6.80
Wednesday 6.80
South St. Paul
Live StockMarket.
Steers $7.75 to 7.85
Cows and Heifers.S4.25 to __tj.75
Calves, steady, $5.50 to  9.75
Feeders, stead v. _._$4.30 to 7-00
J. K. Taylor  and wife gave al
card   party  Thursday  evening.
.The guests were   Alva and Sam
Martin, . Hazal   Cajacobs,  Julie'
Mitchell and MerieLook.
"Col." Siebert   made a   flying:
(?) trip to Brainerd one day last
, week and came home via Little
Falls and Pierz.
Mrs. T: S. Look called at tlie
Martin home   last Friday after-,
noon.
Ole Christianson and wife and
, baby were  guests at   Raymond
Sims" Suudav.
Wm. Kroger   and   Julius  Van
Kure came  to the   town clerk's1
office   with a wolf  last Tuesday
which they caught in a trap.
Federal Supreme Court Decision Af-I
fects Mir-   sota Statute.
Under a decision handed down by]
the supreme court of the United:
States at Washington a labor law of;
Minnesota is held to be unconstitu-;
tional. The labor statutes of eleven!
states, among them Wisconsin and!
Minnesota, are held to be without ef-;
feet.
The opinion holds that statutes In!
many states which make it a misde-:
rieanor for an employer to require an;
employe to sign an agreement not to;
join a labor union during the term of;
hit employment are unconstitutional;
because repugnant to the Constitu-;
ti< n, as depriving a person of his lib-;
erty without due process of law.
The case was appealed from the;
Kansas supreme court, which held the;
: tatute to be valid.
W. J. Schauble   has bought a
lot from Barney Eller.
A boy arrived at the Otto looser home Tuesday.
Get out your rays. We understand that there is going to be a
rag dance soon.
Mr- and Mrs. Christ Reese
and daughter called at Sigette's
Sunday.
How was the dance at Sko-
chinski's? Haven't heard anything.
Katie, John, Matt  and   Fran-'
ces Sigette called  at Math   Ko-
walaek'S Thursday evening.
We bear that a wedding took
place Monday evening at Siget-
The names of the parties
most interested were kept secret. But we do know that the
bridal dance was danced. Ha!
Ha!
Sarah and Theodore Kychner
and Marceline Lemay called at
C-. Reese's Friday evening.
The Misses Yernie Smuda and
Helen Pischke and MikeTrettel
Pete Kowalzek, John Maletski
and St. Rozek spent Monday
evening at Sigette's.
MAY GO INTO LAND BUSINESS
Legislator Would Have Minnesota Sell
Direct to Settlers.
The state of Minnesota may go into
tbe real estate business.
A proposal to this effect is made
hy Representative ('. I.. Sawyer,
chairman of the house committee on
public  accounts  and  expendltur-
He says that settlers buy land In
Minnesota as a result of the inn
tion department's advertising. He
says the department turns over to real
estate men lists of lands for sale and
prospective purchasers and that the
real estate men then reap the benefits
as  middlemen
He thinks that if the state itself
had charge of (he lists the settlers
would not have to pay the profit ot
the real estate men.
BIG    FUR   PLANTS    BURNED
Albert   Lea   Fire   Loss   Is   More   Than
$125,000.
The  plants of the Albert l.ea  Hide
and Fur company and the Hlrsch Robt
and   Tanning  company  of   that  city
were    destroyed    by    fire.        Loss    to
stock and buildings exceeds $125,000.
Other   smaller   structures   also
burned.    Although ham
zero    weather    flraoe:.
dwellings that were th-
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