Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-08-16
Nearly zoo. 900 acres Of school and

MyrOn Z. Mooney, aged Slxty-tWO,
prominent in Minneapolis business for
nearly forty years, is dead at his sum-
mer home on Lake Bemidji.
Thomas L. Vought, who while res
posse which captured Bob, Frank and
Cole Younger, members of the Jessie
James gang of bandits, after the ia
nous Mortified bank robbery in 1876,
is dead at La Crosse, Wis, at the age
Of eighty-five years.
Edwin, D. Haskell of Minneapolis,
con of the late Mrs. Olga Won w. Has
hell, who gave so much of her time to
Serbian relief work prior to her death
Jan. 10, has been selected as secre-
tary of the American Red Cross mis-
sion which c. A. Severance of St. Paul
is to take to Serbia
Ninety of the recently graduated"
student officers at the Fort Smelling
training camp, nine from each of the
ten companies, have been selected to
60 to France Immediately with the
regulars. Three first lieutenants and
elk second lieutenants were chosen
from each company.
Austrian miners employed at the
Gilbert properties at Virginia have
walked out, saying they would not pro-
duce metal ito kill their countrymen."
Four. hundred and fifty men are in
volved. Sheriff Meining says that
German propaganda work evidently Is
behind the sympathetic" walkout.
In friendly scuff1e with his cousin.
Christian Estebo, Carl J. Monsoon,
twenty-five years old, of Leon town
ship, Goodhue county, suffered a bro
ken neck and died After investigation
the coroner held the affair to be
purely accidental and Estebo, who had
surrendered to the authorities, was re-
leased.
J. O. Bentall, Socialist candidate for
governor of Minnesota in the last
near Litchfield by agents of the de-
partment of justice charged with
"wrcngfully attempting to cause in.
subordination, mutiny and refusal or
duty in the military forces Of the
country"
Major Oliver j. Duane of St. Peter
has been returned to the Second Min.
nesota infantry and Major Alfred c..
Page of Austin, commissioned to sue
coed him, is automatically discharged
through an odd tangle resulting from
delay in official recognition for the
new Second Minnesota field artillery
regiment.
Wild rice, valuable food which is
as nOurishing as cultivated rice and
can be had for the harvesting, is going
to waste in the marshes of Northern
Minnesota, according to State Forester
are a few Indians and the epicures
who frequent big hotels or cafes and
order it with their game.
Minnesota prosperity is indicated by
state bank deposits of $226,007,7S0 and
assets of $3.50, S67 $3.50. according to the
summary of statements made under
the call of July %. The increase in
deposits is $32,026, 900 and that of as
sets 500, ,664, compared with totals
of June 80, 1916. The number of state
banks increased to 1881 from 994.
State Forester w. T. Fox, who is
recruiting officer for the Minnesota
detachment of the Tenth FAX and saw"
regiment, which will be sent to France
for forest service, announces that the
regiment is recruited to full strength.
Additional regiments are to be organ
lied. however, and the recruiting will
continue in Minnesota, Mr. Cox said.
Members of the Minnesota Bar asso-
citation. including some of the most
prominent citizens in the state, voted
to aid the government by going into
every section of the state to speak on
loyalty and patriotism. This action
was taken to counterfeit what was de-
clared to be an organized effort to stir
up unpatriotic sentiment in the state.
Rather than fight against my own
brothers and maybe kill them. would
kill myself was one of the state
ments of Joseph Schaefer. whose body
was found in Snail lake, near St. Paul.
The remark was made to companions
on a grading gang near the lake.
Schaefer registered in Guessing, Ind.
He has two brothers in the German
| army.
NJ. w. Fitzgerald, for eighteen years
register of deeds of Ramsey county,
is dead at st. Paul. Mr.. Fitzgerald
was the author of the Minnesota Tor
| rens law for the registration of land
titles and was considered one of the
best authorities in the United States
on this subject, frequently being con-
suited by legislative committees from
different states.
| Fritz Bergmeier, president and man
ager of the Die Volkszeitung, q Ger.
man daily newspaper printed in st.
Paul has been arrested on orders Of
United States Attorney General Greg
ory Mr.. Bergmeier is accused of be-
ing an enemy alien who may be dan
gerous to the country and was arrest
ed for violating the presidents procla-
nation of April s.
Judge Wilbur F. Booth Of the United