Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1915-02-26
Mystery Shrouds Brandt
Knute Nelson's Protege Believed
Killed in Battle or by Dete-
ctives on Trail

Foulke E. Brandt. the young man
who received considerable notoriety IN
the newspapers some years ago because
OF the interest taken in him by Sen
ator Knute Nelson who found him in
Sing Sing prison, New York. is be-
lieved to have been killed in the Euro
pean war. Brandt came to Minnesota
upon his release from prison and
worked at Bemidji to few months ago
when he startled his friends by stating
detectives were shadowing him.
Brandt worked in the home of a rich
New Yorker few years ago. In
dispute he struck the man who had
him arrested. At the trial Brandt
was found guilty and was sentenced
to thirty years Imprisonment. Senator
Nelson heard of the case and thought
the sentence was excessive. He Sc.
cured Brandt's parole.
Thousands of acres of good land in
the Standing Rock Indian reservation
for settlement the coming spring &C.
cordng to the dispatches from Wash
ington. April Is or May are the
dates. The land will be allotted in
tracts of 100 acres each at the mini
mum government price. 1t is prob
able that several Morris parties will
try their luck in Uncle Sam g next
lottery.
Staples has an iron excitement.
Four of the business men have en-
gagged two drills and an expert iron
man and will prospect. The dip
needle indicates iron deposits in vari-
GUS places near Staples and it is pro-
posed to investigate thoroughly be-
fore giving up the job.
Sunday evening performances at
the Marshall theatres are to be stopped
if the council acts upon the advise of
number of citizens. A few months
ago Marshall was without theatre
and a man named Barrymore came
along and opened fine house and his
enterprise was successful and popular.
Some of the churches objected to his
show pr" grams on Sunday evening and
now there is movement by the citi-
zens. So far the Sunday night shows
have been popular and all of the per-
formances of a high class.
The women at Granite Falls are
qgitating for a rest room.
The Litchfeld commercial club and
sumo of the Farmers clubs in Meek
er county will work jointly in an
effort to Sring the Meeker county fair
to Litchfield. Twenty years ago the
fair was transferred to Dassel where
the business men and citizens in gen.
eral worked hard to make it success.
Now it if has the distinction of being
among the best in the state and Das-
sci people are not inclined to let 90.
The issue promises to become de-
cidedly hot contest.
Paynesville wants a tuberculosis
sanitarium located in their town and
will ask state aid.
A new butcher shop has been opened
at Willmar and will compete with the
bulI trust in that city. Skog & N.Y.
quist are the brave boys.
All the little jealous editors in Min
nesota aren't dead yet. One of the
Slayton pagers has started a piano
subscription contest and the other is
bowling about it.
Prominent residents in the village
of Perham and northern Otter Tail
county have organized for the purpose
of securing division of the county.
Northern and eastern sections of Ot-
tertail feel they are a sort Of back =
woods adjunct to the county seat, and
numerous attempts have been made
to secede but the odds have always
been too heavily against the PROPOSE