New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-15

dead in stateroom on 500 train
near Thief River Falls. Mr.. Pleth
was fifty years Of age and was en-
gagged in the real estate business.
Gus H. Beaulieu, sixty-fve years Of
age, agent of the Chippewas and editor
OF the Tomahawk of White Earth, died
OF heart disease two miles from the
spot where he was born, near Grow
Wing, as he and his family were going
to Cass Lake to fish,
Thomas L. Vought, who while res
ident of Madelia, this state, led the
posse which captured Bob, Frank and
Cole YOUNGER, members of the Jessie
James gag of bandits, after the IA
nous Mortified bank robbery In 1876,
lis dead at La Crosse, Wis, at the age
of eighty-fve years.
Austrian miners employed at the
Gilbert properties at Virginia have
walked out, saying they would not pro-
duce metal ito kill their countrymen."
FoC. hundred and fifty men are in
volsed. Sheriff Meining says that
German propaganda work evidently Is
behind the sympathetic" walkout.
Anti-draft sentiment In various Min
nesota localities was discussed and
a law enforcement campaign in Koo-
chiching county, particularly at Inter
national Falls and Ranier-through
local authorities at those places, was
agreed on by the. state public safety
rsNY pr,1ic OF III
doors.
J. o. Bentall, Socialist candidate for
governor of Minnesota in the last
primaries, was arrested on his farm
near Litchfield by agents of the de-
partment of justice charged with
wrongfully attempting to cause in
subordination, mutiny and refusal OF
duty in the military forces of the
country"
Ellen McCadden, a fifteen-year-old
girl, saved the life of Harvey H. War
wick, a st. Cloud architect, when the
latter was thrown into the Mississippi
river at ST. Cloud by the capsizing of
his canoe. The girl on shore saw him
struggling, jumped into the river and
swan to him, bringing both the man
and the canoe to safety.
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 counteract 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.
Conditions threatening car short
age next fall and winter which may
be far more acute than that of the
PAST year resulted in a special inquiry
being undertaken by the state railroad
and warehouse commission with a
view to sending out special appeal
to railroads and shippers in an at
tempt to avert shortages so far rs
possible.
M. 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.
Although several state fairs have
been turned down on their request to
the secretary of war for war exhibit
Minnesota stands good show of get
ting both an army and navy exhibit.
Every member of the state congress
sional delegation has been asked by
the fair board to take the subject up
with the secretary of war and the Sec
rotary of the navy.
Fritz Bergmeier, president and man
ager of the Die Volkszeitung, Ger.
man daily newspaper printed in st.
Paul, has been arrested on orders of
United States Attorney General Greg
DRY. 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 6.
Minnesota's wheat crop this year
will be 61,332,OOO bushels. or approx
imately 100000 bushels more than
last year, according to the United
States department of agriculture esti-
mates. Prospects are for 100000
bushels more corn, 100000 bushels
more oats, 100000 bushels more
rye and approximately 100000 bush.
els more potatoes than in 1916.
Recommendations that the ethics
committee of the Minnesota State Bar
s4ks ~