The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-09-30
Chinese BANDITS
HOLD Nd WOMAN
Miss Marie Harstad, Mis-
sionary, Formerly Lived
in This State.
HAUGES MISSION
IN LOOTED TOWN
Party Believed TO be Prison
ers Says Hankow
Dispatch.

Marie Harstad. one Of the. mission
aries of the Hauges Lutheran church
at Tsaoyang, China, who are believed
to he in the hands of bandits who re-
Gently looted that city. was formerly a
North Dakota girl according to Mrs
II. Gunhus, wife Of the local pastor
Of the Hauges synod.
Miss Harstal formerly lived in the
vicinity of Wahpeton, which is. the
headquarters of the missionary So
ciety. At present her parents are un.
derstood to be living in. Canada.
REV. Reinholt Klein, who was also
believed to be in the party. died sew
eral months ago, according to Mrs
Gunhus. His wife is nov on her way
to her former home in Pennington
MINI.
Miss Ida Wales. another of the mis-
%sionaries is also a Minnesota woman.
mussen who completed the party are
from Norway.
The Headquarters Of the missionary
society Is at Wahpeton.
News Of the capture Of TsaoyanG
was contained in a dispatch received
at Hankow, China from a missionary
at Fanching, a city near Tsaoyang.
The dispatch states that eight for
eigners were captured by the bandits,
and it is supposed. that the Lutheran
missionaries are included among this
number.
Ofacials Get Advices. i.
Wal1peton, N. D., Sept. 3O.-Rev. L,
Lillehei, president of the Lutheran
bible school of this city and member
Of the mission board of the Norwegian
Lutheran brethren, said today that
great anxiety has been felt for the
safety IF tho m fccinra,. ste. Il, ~. vi
entity Of Tsaoyang, where the mali
station and some of the minor sta
tons of the Lutheran brethren's mis-
siOns in China are located.
According to the records here the
following missionaries are in the vi
cinity of Tsaoyang at present.: Rev.
George Holm. Rev. Marius Werdahl,
Rev. H. Fauske, all graduates Of the
bible school of this city; Rev. Elliot
Aandahl. formerly minister Of the Lu-
theran church of Wist, S. D.; Mrs.
Mrs. Aandahl and Miss Ida Sather.
Miss Sather left for China to, take up
the work in the mission field last
spring. She is also a graduate from
the bible school here.
Two Were Stabbed. 3:
A lew days ago a message was re-
ceived that the missionaries were at
tackled by bandits at the summe resi-
dence in the mountains. AT that time
Rev. Mr. Aandahl and Miss Sather
we're severely stabbed by some of the
bandits, but made good their escape
and have since recovered.
Information received by President
Lillehei indicates that a reign of ter
ror has existed in this part of the Chi
nese republic since the. outbreak of
the recent revolution. Organized
bands of outlaws have carried on a
campaign Of murder and plumber. The
authorities. it is said, have been un-
able to maintain order.
The Lutheran brethren maintain
their main mission station in the city
of Tsaoyang and in the vicinity Of the
city minor stations in charge of mis-
sionaries are located. The missionary
in charge of the main station is Rev.
George Holm, a graduate of the bible
school, who. with his wife, went to
China to take up his work four years
ago.
IF the eight foreigners, captured by
the bandits, are missionaries in the
service Of the Lutheran brethren, they
must have assembled at the main t a
ton because of the disturbances by
the bandits which made it unsafe at
n minor stations" said Rev. Mr.. Lii
1ehot