The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-08-16
CLAIM OF bumper
: CROP IS ALL BUNK
REAL EXPERTS RIDICULE CLAIM
FOR LARGE YIELDS IN
NORTHWEST.
GERMAN PUBLISHER Land JAIL
PUBLICATION OF NEAR SEDIT.
= IOUS ARTICLES CAUSE
TROUBLE.

OC. faul,' Aug. 14-What is in store
for those who indulge in loose war
talk was indicated this week in the
arrest Of DR.. Fritz Bergmeier, edito:
: and publisher of the Volkzeitung, a
daily German paper published in St..
Paul. Without warning federal of
ficers swooped down upon the plant,
arrested it's editor and he now
laungulshes in the Ramsey County
Jail with every prospect of being in
termed during the war period. Keep
ing him company in the same Jail is
j. o. Bentall, prominent farmer of
Litchfield. Near seditious editorials
by the one and anti-draft remarks by
the other are the charges and the
chances are excellent that the colony
will be increased. That a number of
the foreign language papers publish
ed in the state are under surveillance
, because of alleged anti-American ar
ticles was indicated last week when
this. same DR.. Bergmeier was on the
carpet" before the state safety COM
mission with the intimation that 9TH
er editors were to follow. Then came
the New Ulm meeting of protest
against the draft with similar gath
erings over the state and those it
seems have opened the eyes of the
government to what is on with de-
termination to stop such even to the
extent of wholesale arrests. Con-
spicuously displayed in every saloon
in St. Paul and Minneapolis is the
warning mix on the War Talk" and
with the events of the past week il,
mind the warning would seem very
much in order all over the state. At
.Athe present time former governor
John Linz of the state safety CON-
mission is in Washington and the
opinion is general that if not i'm
mediately responsible for federal
activity in Minnesota he at least sug-
gested the present as good time for
the government to busy itself in
Minnesota.
Accepting the statement of the
Twin City prints the northwest Is
about to unload bumper wheat crop,
but wold brought to the state capitol
by an expert is that the story is
largely hot air and that farmers VINO
hope for a decent figure for their
clop should not allow themselves t.
be fooled by such. The bumper fgur IS
given out he says emanate from the
grain control centers and are :or the
purpose of frightening the farmer
and forcing him to unload at the
spectators price. 81 know what ]
am talking about" said this particular
expert. Neither Montana ror North
Dakota has any crop at al and the
yield in Minnesota will by no means
be a record breaker. With know
ledge of such l attempted to correct
= the reports in the Twin City papers
but received nothing for my efforts"
julius A. Schmahl, secretary Of
state, came close to sitting on the
throne this week when in the absence
of the governor he practically answ-
cred to the title of his exceilency.'
Mr.. SchamahPs temporary possession
of the crown, which many friends hop
will later become permanent, came
when the governor with his private
secretary, Eric Thornton, hied himself
to polnus north for a brief vacation.
One of Mr.. Schmahl's first official acts
was to represent his excellency at
the state convention OF Stationer!
Engineers IN a speech OF welcome.
Later came other matters OF o1nciai
,acc winch the popular secretary eA-
ecuted in his own lnimltable way. Al
me present time Mi. Schmahl is re-
parueo as closer to his excellency than
any official in the state. lie wa .
with. the governors Legislative pro-
o,am last winter and has been active
in his support in other ways since. IL
was largely through his support trat
the governors scheme OF re-ofganl-
cation of the state immigration de-
nartment accomplished last week was
realized.
The biggest collection of lnherltancf
taxes in the history OF the state Is
reported by Attorney General smith
1o, me wear endlng with July. Al
together more than $2,5OO,OOO from
this source was turned into the state
treasury which is almost Sl,OOO,OOO IN
excess of previous years.
What the governor may have TO
saw of l. w. w. activities IN the
northern part of the state will be
watched with interest on his return
from a brief automobile trip through
that section. Without the hnowledg
of his official family or even close.ln
friends, his excellency, while at brain-
erd, Crosby and Ironton, is reported 70
have had s.veral visits with the iead--
ers of the clan and to have even
ATTENDED some of their strike meet
, jngs. The first intimation OF what ne
was doing was conveyed in newspaper
dispatches which were later followed
by frantic messages from several
mine owners contending that Official
fratenrizing was giving the !. w. w.
encouragement.