Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1918-01-10

| bakery owned by Carl Windamuta,
| u, Red Lake Falls. caused $4,000 dam
age TO the bakery and q millinery
sore in an adjoining BUILDING. Both
establishments will resume business.
Pardons for more than fifty in
mates of the state prison and reform
atory will be asked when the state
| board of pardons meets at the capt.
toll Jan. Ii. Forty applications are
now on file. Governor BurnQuist will
60 to Saltwater Jan. IL to hear the
pleas Of prisoners in that city.
c. w. Anding, county auditor OF WI
by Deputy United States Marshal JOS
eph Buisson and charged with an at.
tempt to cause insubordination. dis
loyalty and refusal of duty. Specific
ally, Anding is accused Of urging
Kurth Shellhas. Clarence Crawford
and others to refuse to take the FEEDER.
Al oath II drafted.
August Carlson, member OF the
town board and one of the best
known farmers of Bray township,
near Thief River Falls, is unable to
tell how he received q fracture of
the skull at the base of the brain,
the loss of his right eye, and a deep
cash in the side of his head, sus-
tanned when he went out to look for
colt. He staggered home several
hours later VITA his injuries, unable
to give an account of what happen d.
The surmise Is that in getting the
colt, which had returned in the
meantime. to its feet, he was kicked.
Daniel s. Hayward, proprietor OF
the Grand Central hotel, st. Cloud
has leased the hotel for twelve years
to w. s. Beard of Minneapolis, for.
mer proprietor of the Hotel Nicollet.
Mr.. Hayward has left for Riverside,
Cal, to spend the winter.
Five Winona boys, all classmates.
have arrived in France, according to
messages received by their parents.
They are: Privates William Riley.
Arthur Gallien, Paul Baumgartner.
Stanley Ollhoff and Corporal Clarence
B. Barth. All were enlisted early in
the spring and left New York as
members of the aviation corps two
weeks ago.
Gustavus Adolphus college at st.
Peter has been designated school for
instruction for the signal corps by the
War department. An instructor and
instruments, 20 sets in all. are fur
nished by the government, and all
young men eligible to draft age are
admitted free of charge. At the end
Of the course the government issues
= certificate which practically insures
; position in the signal corps.
Saving. giving. loyalty and constant
recognition of the difference between
right and wrOng-these are four great
lessons, which the year 1917 brought
to the American people, said President
Burton Of Minnesota university at the
University farm school. DR.. Burton
and President Fred B. Snyder Of the
University board of regents spoke
On "The Present Crisis" at the session
Of Farmers and Homemakers' week
at the farm school.
Reinhold Kintzi. publisher Of die
Freie Presse." at Glencoe, has been
arrested on charge of perjury in
connection with alleged seditious ar.
ticles published in his paper. Kintzi
was brought to Minneapolis by JOS
eph Buisson, United States deputy
marshal and taken before Howard 8.
Abbott, United States commissioner.
He waived examination and was COM
mitted to the Hennepin county jail
in default of $4,000 bail. He is to be
tried at the April term of the United
States district court.
Eat more potatoes" said A. u.
Wilson, state food administrator, who
addressed the Minnesota Farm Blu
reau association at the University
farm, In connection with farmers and
homemakers' week. Farmers must
realize the loss on their potatoes
this year. even below the cost OF
production" said Mr.. Wilson. There
are now between 100000 and 100..
100000 surplus bushels OF potatoes
In the United States. 1.-THE food ad.
ministration did not urge increased
acreage Of potatoes last spring. They
are perishable, and as war food, fall
below the production OF corn. beans
and wheat"
After eluding officers for more than
three months, Eugene Eagle was ar.
rested in Duluth charged with taking
mortgaged property and when arraign.
ed before Judge Crewe, pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to serve one year
In the state penitentiary.
Telegraphic offer OF the unprece-
denied price of SIS a ton, I. O. b. At.
lantic port. for the rails OF the Dan
Patch line reaching Minneapolis
brought crisis in the reorganization
plans Of the road On . decision that
must be made within the next few
days depends whether the road shall
promptly be scrapped. or reconstruct.
ed and electrified.
Six appointments from Minnesota to
take the March examinations for en-.
trance to the military academy at
West Point have been made public by
the War department They are Wal.