The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-25
MISSING PASTOR
MAY NOT Be DEAD
REV. MIR. EDMANDs REPORTED TO
BE IN WINNIPEG.
Inquiry Regarding Reward from Man
itoba City Suggests Theory that
Wahpeton Minister Was Not Drowned,
but Wandered Away While Temper
arily Deranged- Home Town Does
Not Credit Report.

Special to The journal.
Fargo. N. D.. Jan. 25.-Is Rev. Mr.. Edmands
of Wahpeton dead and in the Red river or alive
and In Winnipeg?
s This is the question that is now being asked.
After his disappearance from Wahpeton Dec. %,
the great majority of the citizens of that town
thought he had fallen thru hole in the ice,
as his cap was found at that spot, and he was
few persons thought he might have become
temporarily deranged by worry and i'll health
and wandered away. Dissa tisfact1on resulting
from suit had led to his resignation, to be
him to fall in faint across the pulpit a Sun
day or two before his disappearance.
Relatives offered reward for his body. Now
an inquiry has been received from Winnipeg,
asking If the reward is good for athe body alive.
1t is intimated that the reverend gentleman is
in the Manitoba city, and further that he did
wander away while temporarily deranged' and
that after his recovery he was SO sensitive over
the matter that he did not care to return to
The story receives little credence at Wahpe-
what in the nature of puzzle, unless someone
there has made a mistake in the supposed iden-
tifcation.
Fall Causes Death.
A fall down stairway caused the death OF
L. E. Strate, pioneer OF Neenah, Wis He
I lance Of about a dozen steps, fracturing his
skull. He was unconscious for several hours
and died. He was SO years of age. Two sons
| live in this city and wife and daughter In
Neenah where the burial will take place.
Trouble Over Ward Division.
The city election will be held under the pro.
visions of the new primary election law, despite
| the claims as to its unconstitutionality: The
opinion of the city attorney to that effect was
! filed with the city auditor. The city attorney
| also claims that Alderman Mcclellan Of the ole
sixth ward remains as a follower alderman or
| the new sixth. The old ward was divided, but
| the aldermans residence is still in the part tt
| be known as the sixth. .- .E..
| The city council has ordered more new paw
| ing in the business districts until the total II
! now forty-one blocks to be paved with creosot'
| blocks on a concrete foundation.
| After being the owner of two drugstores IL
! Fargo for about ten days. Ralph H. Tenney hal
sold both to Oscar Hallenburg and B. L. Bent
| gist here many years and Bentson travels for
drughouse.
! Hans A. Aarstad, the HiIIsboro man who wa
arrested in Washington early in December Will
endeavoring to obtain admission to the Whit
| House. has been committed to the asylum a
jamestown. @s t.ts
Aarstad explained to the secret-serevice me-
who arrested him In Washington that he ha
come to ask the president to release him from
hypnotic spell. He claimed that people Of Hills
boro were after him and that certain official
!. Of that place particularly active in pur
suing him. He was held for while at tn
detention hospital and then returned to Hills
boro. So syra5
,, Seven years ago ,Aarstad was an inmate Of til
! Medical Lake (Wash.) insane asylum.