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VOL. NO. 8.
PIERZ, flORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, OCTOBER, 19, 1916.
NO. 18
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Was  It an
Anniversary Ghost?
By WILLARD BLAKEMAN
One^ght—It was 12 o'clock—a cab-
mnn^vas jogging along through Wall
street, New York, half asleep on bis
box, when he was accosted, from the
fjldewalk   by   a   man   whose   apparel
made coachy blink his eyes to assure
himself that he saw aright.   To begin
at tho top  of  his   head,  he wore  a
beaver hat with a large bell crown and
a rim curled at the sides. His coat
was very high In the collar, his necktie was voluminous lace, the buttons
on his clothes were brass, his breeches
were what we call knickerbockers.
Coachy drove to the sidewalk, and
the gentleman, without asking permission, opened the door and stepped inside.
"To   Greenwich,"   he   called  as   ho
closed the door behind him.
"Up Greenwich street, sir?"
'Tes."
That part of New York which was
viginally Greenwich Village is several
miles from where the stranger entered
the coach, and the cabman would rather have declined to make a fare so
late in the evening. But there was
something about the stranger that was
compelling. When the cab reached
Greenwich and cabby asked for further instructions the man inside only
said, "Drive on." Cabby seemed awed
by the tone in which the words were
spoken and dared not ask another question, so he drove on in the direction
he was going, northward, till he reached the river bank. The man inside
stepped from the cab without calling
on coachy to stop, and when he touched the ground there seemed not to be
the slightest shock. As he walked
away he fixed his eyes on the cabman
with a look that made him forget all
about the omission to pay the fare.
Indeed, a cold chill ran down the
man's back. Going to the margin of
the river, his figure seemed to float
along, growing more and more indistinct till it was lost, as cabby thought,
in the water. But this could not be,
for there came from where he had disappeared a sound of oars. The sound
passed up the river, gradually dying
away in the distance.
Now, although the stranger had given no orders to the cabman to await
his return, the latter felt no power to
do otherwise. He did not think that
by going away he would lose the money he had already earned; he remained
fixed where he was by the look his
fare had given him when he walked
away with that unearthly tread.
It was the season when the days are
long and dawn begins about 3 o'clock.
Coachy sat for perhaps an hour, perhaps two—he could never recall hovi
long it was—waiting there on the river
bank, with no human being near, for
he says that he was not conscious of
the surrounding traffic of the present
day. He saw about him only the
green bank of the river, behind him
the village, in which all were wrapped
in slumber. But he Is not sure that
he was awake, not sure but that he
was dreaming. At any rate, he was
oblivious to the stranger's return, for
the first he knew of It he heard a voice
ordering him to drive home. Rousing
himself and looking down from the
box, he saw his fare's face thrust
without the window, looking up at
him. The cabman will never forget
that face. It was singularly handsome, though so pale as to be rather
of the dead than of the living. The
expression was that of one who had
committed some dreadful crime, one
who had killed some one. But in it
' there was no remorse. It was rather
triumph.
"Home!" said the stranger.
The cabman did not know and did
not dare ask where home was. He
knew that he had taken up his fare on
Wall street, and for that location he
headed.
In the twilight the city seemed
changed. All the landmarks of a metropolis were missing.
Turning out of Broadway at Wall
street, he drove down till he reached
the point where Broad joins it. This
was where he had taken up his fare.
Here, too, was not the office of the
great banking house which is there,
but a small brick dwelling. The
stranger called on him to stop, and he
drove up to the curb.
Coachy says that when this singular
being alighted he cast his eye at a
dwelling on the opposite side of Wall
street a short, distance down toward
the East river and looked for a moment at it with malignant triumph;
then, turning, without mentioning the
money he owed for his ride, he mounted the steps of a dwelling before him
and seemed to pass through the door
without opening it. ■>
Coachy was found that morning in a
stupor on his box and about to fall.
He was removed to a hospital, whence
he did not emerge for several weeks.
When he did so he narrated the adventure of that memorable night to a
gentleman who happened to be a
scholar. All the information he received was this:
The house the strange man entered
was once occupied by Aaron Burr.
Alexander Hamilton lived on the opposite side of Wall street a little way
farther down toward the East river.
The night of the adventure was the
hundredth anniversary of the duel
fought between Hamilton and Burr,
Jn which Hamilton was killed.
Perhaps the vision came to the cabman as he was entering a severe illness rather than being the cause of it.
The singular feature Is that It should
have come to an illiterate man.
Escapes Death In
Tank of Water
A. M. Bissel, a farmer residing in the town of St. George,
Benton county, narrowly escaped death when he was tossed
into a tank of water by an infuriated bull. The animal was
being taken to market when he
attacked his master.
The man was in danger of
being gored to death, when the
animal tossed him into a tank
of water in the barnyard. The
bull retreated when he performed his feat, thus sparing
the man's life.
Mr. Bissel suffered severe injuries and is now confined to
his home. The animal has
shown signs of viciousness to
other members of the family,
but the master had never had
any difficulty in handling him.
OBITUARY       OF        BOWEN
RATHBUN
The following clipping from
the Columbus, Mont., News
tells of the death of Bowen
Rathbun, who for over thirty
years was a resident of Agram
a few miles from this place,
and who was a relative of the
late Mrs. J. P. Leigh:
Death claimed another settler of the upland benches the
first of the week when Bowen
Rathbun passed away at his
ranch on the headwaters of
Keyser creek. Old age and diabetes were the complications
causing his death which followed an illness of many
months. Interment was made
in the local cemetery Wednesday afternoon, and many cars
and carriages conveyed many
of the friends which the old
man had made by his    honest
The Buekman
Bank Incorporated
The articles of incorporation-
of the Buekman State bank
were filed at the register of
deeds' office Saturday. The articles date from August 15.
The stockholders are John Ver-
tin and George, Joseph and
Frank Kiewel. The capital
stock is placed at $10,000.
George and Frank Kiewel and
John Vertin make up the first
board of directors and the officers are George Kiewel, president; John Vertin, vice- president, and Frank Kiewel, cashier.
The bank will open for business as early as possible, probably about Nov. 25. Business
will be started in temporary
quarters, but the new bank
will be installed in permanent
quarters next summer, the officers expect.
DONOHUE OR    DOUGHNUTS
Capt. Gravel is displaying a
"Donohue for Congress" banner on the rear of his car.
"What does that say behind
Capt's car," said one to another the other day after Capt.
had whizzed by on his way to
Genola. "I don't know for
sure," said the other, "but I
think it says something about
doughnuts."
MADE MONEY WITH SHEEP
Adam Bauer of Morrill has
faith in sheep as money makers
on the farm. He claims to have
made $800 with his flock of
about 125 which he pastured
on 20 acres of brushland. They
are fat and ready for market,
he says. Moreover, he claims
they require almost no care and
.        „       _    „„„™.. where hogs and    cat
dealings and generous hospital- jxi _,,   ^ _ °     ....
ity during his years in    Montana.
Mr. Rathbun was born at Racine, Wis., in 1845 and was 71
years of age at the time of his
death. When a young man he
moved to Leon Valley farm
where he met Miss Ellen Travis
whom he married in 1870.
Bight years later the Rathbuns
moved to Little Falls, Minn.,
country where they resided
until moving to Montana over
six years ago. Six' children,
five sons and one daughter,
were born to the union. The
wife and four of the boys, Clifford, George, Al and Joe,    re-
tle will starve. One night last
spring he had an increase of
50. The lambs will eat grass
the second day.
The schools of Morrison
county will get $19,208 from
the October state school apportionment this year. The rate
is $3.50 for each pupil and the
county superintendent's report
showed that there were 5,488
pupils in the schools.
The apportionment this year
is $356.05, smaller   than    that
in October, which    was    $19,-
564.05.    The number of pupils
is 23 less than v/ere paid for in
., ,      ■,     _    - „ , , the  1915  apportionment    and
side on dry land    farms    out! .   ,     .   _
,,.„.-, , ■     . i the rate per scholar is 5   cents
near their father, and were at!.
his bedside at the time of
death.
his
RUCKER
The road work is nearing
completion in this neighbor-!
hood. Mr. Huffman's crew is |
still working in the vicinity of
Hans Johnson's and Mr. With-
lam's men are up near the old
Heywood place.
Claude Brower of Kimball,
Minn., visited at the home of
his old neighbor, Geo. Waller,
last Monday.    He was passing
j lower.
The checks are not ready for
the school clerks.
Was Last Seen
Near Aitkin
In response to a telephone
call from Benne.tville last
Monday, Deputy Sheriff Luther
Olts    went    out    there      and
brought in a man   whom   the
through here on   his ~ way^to ;PeoPlet  f l}*\   neighborhood
after    some
suspected of being the   assail-
Sullivan to look    __ _      	
land interests Iant oi Miss 01ga Danl> tne Itaa"
Mrs/ Emmeline Wood of : ca county scn°o1 teacher. They
Mankato is visiting the family ;band their suspicions on the
of her son  S  D  Wood j man's peculiar actions. He was
Mr. and' Mrs.'Victor" Bruber a tramP and while beSginS his
accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Ir-lfood' wou?d not.enter a house
win Drews and William Drews to eat <*• and durin§ the day
of Hillman out to Burtrum, would sit by the side of the
Todd county, to visit at the road and mumble to himself.
Ward home last   Sunday.   Mr. 0n one occasion he picked up
Ward is a brother of Mrs. Bru-'one of the local    PaPers    and
I read the account of the assault
ber's.
Mrs. G
W. Waller and    her
on Miss Dahl, threw down the
,      , .       ,,        _, _, ,,     paper and exclaimed,   "I didn't
daughter Mrs. Ernest Goble,. £h*ot her „ Count Attorney
visited at the Axel Johnson Krelwitz and SHeriff Boekenoo-
bome at Peavey Lake last Fn-|gen      questioned     him    when
?_ T i-    T      •       . t, I brought here, but his    appear-
Mrs.    John Lewis, of Peavey■ ance&did not tally with the de-
__■      'a   w'n      cer, dausnter' scription of the man    wanted,
™     • ^ller' w ndoyu ,      J and b-e was turned loose.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Gobel and
to   Hill-
Three Accidents
During Past Week
Rice, Minn.: Little Gladys
Wipper was the victim of a
very painful accident Thursday
when one of the fingers of her
right hand was accidentally
caught in the clothes wringer
and badiy crushed. ;
O. A. Anderson was quite
badly injured Sunday when he
fell from the top of the barn
down through the opening
through which the hay is put
to the second floor..; No bones
were broken but it will be some
time before he is ab'Je to work.
Louis Christie m^t with a
painful accident Sun'day when
in scuffling he ran a crochet
hook under the cords and tendons in the back of his hand.
A doctor's services were necessary to remove the hook.
Local Happenings
Of the Week.
Charlie French went
man Friday.
John Hoffman went to Onamia Saturday afternoon, returning Sunday morning. i Richardson last week.
Mrs. Arba Waler visited at
Camp Ferguson last Friday.
Aitkin Age.
This is no doubt the  fellow
who passed  through  here  and
THE WAY OF   THE   EAGLE
AND THE WHALE
There are two animals, says
a writer in Pearson's Weekly,
that puzzle naturalists more
than any others. They are nature's submarine and aeroplane
—the whale and the eagle. It
is known that whales occasionally descend as far as three
thousand feet below the surface of the sea—a depth at
which, from the pressure of
water, they ought to 'be crushed flat. Why they are not injured, naturalists have yet to
discover. It is this pressure
that prevents a modern submarine from descending more
than some three hundred feet.
Eagles have been seen", through
telescopes, to fly with apparent
east from thirty thousand to
forty thousand feet above sea
level. At that height no human
being can live, owing to the
rarefication of the air. How
the birds live and fly at far
greater heights than man can
endure is another question still
unanswered.
WILL RECEIVE $7,125
FOR HIS POTATO CROP
Wadena, Oct. 13: John Ge-
ber's unbounded faith in potatoes as a farm crop prompted
him to plant 60 acres of the
lowly spud this spring on his
farm east of this city. Seven
thousand one hundred twenty-
five dollars is the cool sum he
will realize on his crop as soon
as it is dug and marketed for
he contracted the entire 'crop
at 95 cents per bushel, according to his own statement made
in this city. Digging has made
sufficient headway to give him
a good idea as to the average
yield per acre which he now estimates at from 100 to 125
bushels per acre.
iVIADE WAR Ori CATcSPlLLARS
Reported    Casualties    In    Philadelphia
Campeign Were 78.939.
Philadelphia:-—Complete reports from
the war of tbe school garden children
conducted for tho eiterroiimtion of
caterpillars have been prepared by
.Miss Caro Miller, directing the school
garden., and show a grand total of
78,039 caterpillars, cocoons and apg
masses annihilated. It was explained
that each egg mass contained 500 potential caterpillars, so that millions of
caterpillars were exterminated in the
egg stage by the children's campaign.
The purpose of the school garden director is to take the champion caterpillar exterminators to visit the mayor to receive his official recognition of l
their public service.   A girl .made the i
best record, killing 11,356 caterpillars.
WORRY  KILLS  ENGINEER.
Cries of Wrecked Passengers Haunted
Man Freed of Blame.
Toledo, O.—Dennis V*'. Leonard, engineer on the Twentieth Century limited train, which was wrecked at Amherst, O., March 20 last, was found
dead in bed at his, home recently.
Heart disease, superinduced by worry
over the wreck, is given by physicians
as the cause of death.
He was absolved from blame in the
catastrophe, but had been unable to
keep out of his mind the sight of the
wreckage and the cries of the mangled
passengers.
Leonard was fifty-two years old and
had been with the New York Central
thirty-five years.
H. A. Rider shook hands here
with old friends Tuesday morning. Mr. Rider is candidate for
the office of representative from
this district. See his announcement in this paper.
J. Wallace, the butcher, left
for Brainerd last Monday.
Theo. Brisk has taken his
place as sausagemaker.
Theresia Wermerskirchen returned last week from Duluth
and is now again working in
the Barney Burton store.
Mrs. John Feider was an over Sunday visitor at Wermer-
skirchen's.
J. Thienes of Little Falls visited his sons here Sunday.
A democratic rally will be
held at the court house in Little Falls next Friday evening,
Oct. 20. James C. Chamber-
layne of New York, Wm. F.
Donohue of Melrose and Wm.
Quinne of St. Paul will   speak.
John Hennen of Calvarz,
Wis., visited his brother Nick
here last week. John passed
through here from Fort Ripley on his way to Duluth, before
the civil war. He was well acquainted with Father Pierz.
A. E. Joslin of the Transcript called here Friday.
Jos. Reis is now living in the
rooms in the rear of the Pierz
Mercantile Co. store.
Arno Gunther threshed 18
bushels of Morgan's wheat to
the acre, says Peter Girtz. Henry Wuellner claims a yield of
15V_ bushels of bluestem to the
acre.
John Noll    returned    from
North    Dakota    Sunday.      He
claims to have had a good season threshing.
Mrs. C. Larson of Minneapolis
visited a few days last week at
the C. F. Christianson home.
Wm. Codwell returned from
Canada last week and stopped
over here to visit friends at
Sullivan. His home is at Win-
dom, Minn.
Aug. Sontag came down from
Staples last Sunday with the
Jos. Jaeger car. He had been
staying with Jos. Jaeger all
summer, but intends to stay at
Jacob's this winter.
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Reimer
and family came out Saturday
and stayed over Sunday at Mrs.
Adolph Stumpf's.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Herron,
Miss Gertrude Stumpf and Miss
Gagne of Little Falls motored
out to Pierz Sunday to spend
the afternoon with Mrs. Adolf
Stumpf.
Mrs. Gertrude Stoll of Little
Falls is visiting at Pierz.
Mrs. Pete E. Sauer is visiting
with her parents for a week.
Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Cairns
and family, the misses Bess
Wright and Martha Kampa
.and Peter Sauer all from Rice
.spent Sunday at the John Langer home.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Jaeger from
Staples autoed to Pierz last
Thursday on business.
J. J. Gross of Little Falls,
state oil inspector, was a business caller in our village last
Monday.
George Sigette and family
of Platte town moved to the
village of Pierz last Monday.
Mr. Sigette recently bought the
old Ignatz Preimesberger residence in upper town and will
make Pierz his future home.
Stanley Christianson of Buh
left for Duluth last Saturday.
Sale of School and
Other Lands
State of Minnesota,
State Auditor's Office,
Notice is hereby given that on November 4, 1916, at 10 o'clock a. m. in
the office of the County Auditor at
Little Falls, Morrison County, in the
State of Minnesota, I will offer for
sale certain unsold state lands and
also those state lands which have reverted to the State by reason of the
non-payment  of interest.
Terms of Sale.
Fifteen per cent of the purchase
price is payable to the County Treasurer at the time of sale. The unpaid
balance is payable at any time in
whole or in • part on or before forty
years from the date of sale at an interest rate of four per cent per annum,
due on June first of each year; provided, that the interest can be paid
at any time within the interest year
without penalty. In effect, this means
that the interest money may be paid
any time between June and May
thirty-first without penalty.
Appraised value of timber, when
so stated, must be paid for in full at
the time of sale.
All lands are sold subject to any
and all ditch taxes thereon.
All mineral rights are reserved to
the  State by the  laws  of the  State.
Lands on whiiih the interest has become delinquent may be redeemed at
any time up to the hour of sale, or before resale, to the actual purchaser.
Such lands are' listed uiider the caption, "Delinquent Lands."
No person can purchase more than
320 acres of lands as provided by the
General Laws 1915; provided however, that state lands purchased previous to 1915 are not charged against
such purchaser.
Agents acting for purchasers mu_t
furnish affidavit of authority.
Appraisers' reports showing quality
and kind of soil ere on file in this
office. List giving legal descriptions
of land to be offered may be obtained
of the State Auditor or the Immigration Commissioner at St. Paul and the
County Auditor at above address.
J. A. O. PREUS,
State Auditor.
ONE LESS AUTO THIEF
One automobile thief has
come to grief. While running
away with a stolen" car, W. A.
Carling was killed at Madelia.
The companion of the dead
auto thief gave his name as
Bob Lyons and claimed, of
course, that the dead man had
stolen the car and that he had
invited him to take a ride.
Unfortunately, all auto thieves
are not killed. Neither is there
-M.y chance to have them hang-
ca in Minnesota just now, because a beneficent legislature
has abolished capital punishment. But at one time they did
hang horse thieves and it had
a very salutary effect. Nevertheless, we have progressed a
great deal since the time that
they had a practice of stringing up horse thieves without a
judge or jury and most of us
think that our progress has
been for the better.—St. Cloud
Times.
Grain and Produce
riarket Report.
Wheat, No. 1, ... $1.67
Wheat, No. 2     1.63
Wheat, No. 3-      1.56
,FJax,       2.30
\ Barley      75-80
Rye    1.13
|Oats__      40
I Ear Corn      72
!Hay     7.00
Butter, Creamery _...      37
Dairy       27
Egg's       26
Flour.Royal     4.70
"   White Rose      4.60
Low grade flour 2.CO
Bran 1.40
Shorts  1.50
Cracked Corn-80 pounds 1.50
Ground Feed     1.50
Beans      5.00
Onions        60
News of Especia! Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happening!? of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.
M. L. Mclntire, former chief of detectives on the St. Paul police force,
Is dead.
St. Cloud will in the future carry j
its own liability insurance for all em-1
ployes of the city.
Nymore, a suburb, has been annexed!
to Bemidji and the latter city now has I
a population exceeding 8,000.
John A. Berg of Minneapolis, Civil;
war veteran and pioneer resident of;
Minnesota, is dead at De Forest, Wis.!
John C. Barton,'fifty-five years old,!
an early resident of Minneapolis, is!
dead. Mr. Barton had been an invalid i
for several years.
Peter Barnes, sixty-four years old,:
chief of police of Crookston, has beenj
arrested on a statutory charge involv-j
ing a ten-year-old girl.
Marion Darling, aged thirty, a Min-i
neapolis and St. Louis brakeman, was!
crushed to death in the Cedar Lake;
yards near Minneapolis.
Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser of St.!
Paul has been named a director of!
the Great Northern railroad to fill the!
vacancy caused by the death of James'
J. Hill.
Property loss of $617,358 resulted
from 251 fires in Minnesota during
September. In the corresponding
month last year 208 fires caused $317,-
662 loss.
Anthony Geering, aged eighteen,
was shot and perhaps mortally wounded at Winona when his mother snapped the trigger of a gun which she
thought was not loaded.
Minnesota state banks will number
1,290 with the opening of the Farmers'
State Bank of Wabasso, which has
just been chartered by A. H. Turrittin,
state superintendent of banks.
Albert   Pynckles   of   Kewanee,   111.,
was killed by a Great Northern train
south   of    Pipestone.     Letters   were
found  indicating he was  en route to.
visit his fiancee in South Dakota.
By smashing the hinges from a saie
with a sledgehammer found on the
premises robbers took cash and securities amounting to $814 from the
office of the S-P Lumber company at
St. Paul.
Dr. W. G. Sutherland of Mankato
was elected president of the Minnesota State Osteopathic association at
the closing session of the eighteenth
annual meeting at the West hotel at
Minneapolis. -       *
Mrs. Samuel G. Smith of St. Paul,
aged sixty-one years, widow of the
late Rev. Dr. Samuel G. Smith, a well
known St. Paul minister, is dead at
Chicago, where she was taken ill when
returning from the East.
Exclusive of all the expenses of administration the estate of the late
Thomas L. Shevlin of Minneapolis was
valued at $2,189,674.66, according to
the report of the . -ecutors who acted
as appraisers of the estate.
W. R. Fairley, speoial federal investigator sent to the Mesaba range by
the United States department of labor,
has returned to Washington, where
he will make his final report on the
recent strike of iron ore miners.
The thirtieth annual session of the
Southern Minnesota Teachers' association will he held in Mankato Oct. 19,
20 and 21. Speakers of prominence
will address the convention. An attendance of about 700 is expected.
The Minneapolis Society of Fine
Arts has received from an anonymous donor the celebrated Ladd collection of etchings, engravings, lithographs and other prints of an estimated value of more than $225,000.
Alvin A. Meyer, fifty-two years old,
accidentally set fire to a neighbor's,
property at Winona while demonstrate
ing a blow torch. He fought thej
flames valiantly, but in vain. Turning!
away from the house he dropped!
dead.
Helmuth Reinke, quartermaster aer-j
geant of Company A, Second Minna- j
sota regiment, waB shot through the;
leg by William Allen, ex-Louisiana!
soldier, at Midway, a saloon four!
miles from Llano Grande (Tex.) |'
camp.
Plans for the erection at the Uni-j
versity o£ Minnesota of hospital buildings which, with equipment, will cost
$1,500,000 and triple the present hospital •facilities at the university, are
ready for submission to the board of j
regents.
Marked growth among Baptist
churches of Minnesota and church attendance was shown in the report of
the denomination's state board presented at the opening session of the
fifty-seventh annual state convention
at Park Rapids.
Minnesota's 1916 wheat crop will be
only 29,000,000 bushels, as compared
with 73,420,000 in 1915, according to
the United States department of agriculture. Minnesota's 1916 corn crop
is estimated a 76,200,000 bushels, as
compared with ast year's crop of 62,-
100,000 bushels, an increase of more
than 14,000,000 bushels. Practically
all other products show a decrease in
production as compared with 1915,
TV