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4 Mmmwi REINDEER ME\T ON MA^lCEl". "The federal government thru its policy Inaugurated in 1892, to import reindeer W&i Liberia to Alaska, has caused to "ffi$ JpAxilt a great industry, which is now jg *&* beginning to bear fruit. In that year the first importation to that territory "was made. This importation continued for ten years, and in 1902, 1,200 had been brought over. From this nucleus the present Alaska reindeer service grew. In 1915, according to govern ment reports, there were a total of 70,243 animals distributed among seven ty-six herds. Of this number 46,683, •or 66 per cent, are owned by 1,140 aiatives 3,408, or 5 per cent, are owned by the United States 6,890, or 10 per «cent, are owned by the missions, and 13,262, or 19 per cent, are owned by Laplanders and others. The total in come of the natives from th3 reindeer industry for the year 1915, exclusive of meat and hides, used by the natives themselves, was $81,997. The reindeer have now been dis tributed over practically all of Western Alaska, extending from Point Barrow •down to the Aleutian Islands. The Copper River valley and the upper -Kuskokwim were the next to be stocked it the animals. Most of the larger »&* islands of the Aleutian group have been •£&/ stocked with small herd3, and the only one remaining unstocked, the Attu, will Give us your order today for immediate or future delivery KEYSTONE NO ADVANCE FOR THE PRESENT The suits we are making today were considered excel lent values for the money when prices were normal. Con trasted against the high prices that have been wrought by a time scarcity, they are real bargains. Don't take a chance on at clothing prices may be this winter. Buy now—your requirements for the next year to come. Our new Fall suit fabrics—worsteds, cheviots, stripes and plain colors, for dress and business wear—are on display. receive attention as soon"£S satisfactory transportation arrangements can be made. ., Tel. 375. 17 South Minn. St., New Ulm, Minn. We do not expect to sell you in this advertise ment, but we DO expect you to make a thoro investigation, with every probability of buying, if you send for our folder "Proofs" and get acquainted with this Money-Making, Lifetime-Lasting Keystone Silo. New Ulm Brick & Tile Yards This is interesting to the people,of the rest of the United States, owing to the fact that reindeer meat will be at a near future date on the market in the states. From now on, with the distribution of the animals practically accomplished, attention will be given to the subject of developing markets for the meat. Small shipments of reindeer meat have been made from time to time, the past few months h,avirig seen the exportation of about two hundred animals, but hereto fore no systematic plan" for exporting and marketing has been made. With thousands of surplus deer at hand each year, government officials feel that the time is now at hand to seriously consider ways and means by which meat may be satisfactorily and profitably marketed. The sale of the meat, up to the present time has been almost exclusively to residents of Alaska. While the natives of that territory expect to make a good profit off this new industry—new es pecially to the people of the States, it is felt that the importation will also be a great blessing to the country at large, as it is certain to help in lowering the prices of meat to the consumer. Under proper management Alaska may become in due time a source of a large meat supply for the people of the United States. $15 & up NATIONAL WOOLEN MILLS $15 Tailors Here's a Combination that will MakeYou Money SIDE from the fact that your stock will be bene fited a hundred fold (every money-making farmer admits it), this monument of farsightedness the KEYSTONE reip*orced Concrete Silo—will still be proving its use fulness after many barns have come and gone. There's a sort of "it can't be true" feeling in the mind of a farmer who owns a KEYSTONE Silo.v It's such a novel sensation to go, year in and year out,' free from the usual expenses for repairs and up-keep that this feeling of skepticism is apt to last quite a while, especially if he has formerly owned the ordinary wooden silo. IS THERE ANY THING YOU NEED In the line of new household furnishings? If so, let us know about it for we are cer tain we can supply you. Our line of rugs and fine furniture is most complete and up to date. PleasantQsur roundings add to your happiness. Why not have them? /*/-H*/*H-H-M-* E. F. BUENGER *1 **h S*. d2!tJ&>' k£M\^S^&^^M^^^S $ss3to& M&*$& H. ABOUT THE STATE s. -,*• «^f News of Especial Interest to Minnesota Readers, •%?fe 4* GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS Happenings of the Week Briefly Told for the Convenience of the Busy Reader. An anti-draft meeting on a street corner at Melrose was broken up by citizens. Postal savings in Minneapolis have touched the highest mark on record— $500,400 Mrs. Catherine Coffers, aged eighty se\en, a resident of St Paul since 1856, is dead. Iver Tollefson, member of the Min neapolis police force for twenty-eight years, is dead The Northern Rendering company's plant at New Brighton has been de stroyed by fire. T. Guinney, for twenty-five years prominent in Democratic politics in Minneapolis, is dead. Miss May Schnaith, a nurse at St. John's hospital, St. Paul, was drowned in Lake Phalen while bathing. Erick Sundkvist, prominent St. Paul furrier, is dead. He was sixty-four years of age and a native of Sweden. Burglars broke into the Daylight store at New Prague and escaped with $2,500 worth of silks, jewelry and clothing. Louis Yant, aged twenty-three, a fire man employed by the Northern Pacific railroad, was run down and instantly killed in the company's yards at Min neapolis S. L. Hanson, manufacturer of barn equipment of Albert Lea, was sen tenced at St Paul to ten days in the workhouse after pleading guilty to a charge of reckless driving. George F. Schrieber of Mankato has been elected president of the Minne sota Engineers' association, in conven-. tion at 'St. Paul. Duluth was chosen for the convention of 1918. Jorgen Nelsen, fifty-eight years old, a pioneer painter and decorator of St. Paul, is dead. Mr. Nelsen was a mem ber of the Builders' exchange and prominent in Danish circles Cash premiums to be offered at the Minnesota state fair, Sept. 3 to 8, will aggregate $93,455, including the purses offeied the automobile drivers who will compete in the auto races. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Swither were found tfead from gas'poisoning in their^^my apartments at Minneapolis. Both were fully dressed when discovered, the husband sitting upright in a chair. A dispatch from Vienna announces the engagement of Archduchess Hed wig of Tuscany to Count Bernhard zu Stolberg-Stolberg, born in Mankato, this state, where his father resided a long time. The Great Northern road is putting additional men at work on the addi tion to its yards at FridleV and when the work is completed the Fridley ter minal will be able to handle 2,000 ad ditional cars. There are 180,400 automobiles reg istered Minnesota, according to Sec retary of State 'Schmahl. Of the total number registered, Mr. Schmahl said, £1 per cent, or 110,044, are of the pop ular small variety. John W. Bergenholz, whose father died recently in Denmark, leaving him a fortune of 50,000 kroner (about $13, 400), committed suicide in his room in Minneapolis. Relatives in the Mill City could give no reason for his act. Representative Harold Knutson of St. Cloud has made application to the bureau of Indian affairs for the trans fer of the Cass Lake Indian school to within a short distance of Cass Lake. The school now is some six miles dis tant. An appeal to all patriots to join in the suppression of anti-draft action and other expressions of seditious sen timent now infecting some parts of Minnesota has gone out from the of fices of the state public safety com mission. Rev. C. A. Cressy, seventy-four years eld, a Methodist minister for fifty ears, who had served in many cities and towns of Minnesota, including Le Sueur, Minneapolis, Stillwater and St. Paul -Park, is dead at his home in Newport. Mrs. I. E. Burgan, prominent in state Women's Christian Temperance union circles and who inaugurated the first missionary work among the logging camps of Northern Minnesota in the early eighties, is dead at her home in Minneapolis. Thr state bureau of investments, created by the last legislature, has set aside a revolving fund of $100,000 to finance improvements on vacant state land. Applications for loans for new school buildings were received from several localities. Minnesota is a Northwest leader in orop__production this year, says a re port compiled by John H. Rich, re serve agent of the Federal Reserve bank, which deals with crop damage in parts of North Dakota, South Da kota and Montana. Minnesota Civil war veterans will past year resulted in a special inquiry have their annual reunion at the state fair grounds at 3 m, Sept 6. All Civil war veterans from other states are honorary members of the associa tion f^S"* William HUBS, for the past seven teen years chief electrician of the Aus tin municipal plant, .was .electrocuted while repairing wires. Julius Pleth of Plummer was found dead in a stateroom on a Soo train near Thief River Falls. Mr. Pleth was fifty years of age and was en gaged in the real estate business. Gus H. Beaulieu, sixty-five 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 Crow Wing, as he and his family were going to Qass Lake to fish. Thomas L. -Vought, who while a res ident of Madelia, this state, led the posse which captured Bob, Frank and Cole Your per, members of the Jessie James ga^g of bandits, after the fa mous Northfield bank robbery In 1876, is dead at La Crosse, Wis, at the age of eighty-five years. Austrian miners employed at the Gilbert properties at Virginia have walked out, saying they would not pro duce metal "to kill their countrymen." For' hundred and fifty men are in volved. Sheriff Meinlng says that German propaganda work evidently is behind the "sympathetic" walkout., Anti-draft sentiment in various Min nesota localities was discuussed 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 commission at a meeting behind closed 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 ot 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 swam to him, bringing both the man and the canoe to safety. Members of the Minnesota Bar asso ciation, 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, I 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. Hie has two brothers in the German Conditions threatening a car short age next fall and winter which may be far more acute than that of the being undertaken by the state railroad and warehouse commission with a view to sending out a special appeal to railroads and shippers in an at tempt to avert shortages so far as 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 sulted by legislative committees from different states. Although several state fairs have been turned down on their request to the secretary of war for a war exhibit Minnesota stands a good show of get ting both an army and navy exhibit. Every member of the state congres sional delegation has been asked by the fair board tq, take the subject up with the secretary of war and the sec retary of the navy. Fritz Bergmeier, president and man* ager of the Die Volkszeitung, a 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 president's procla mation of April 6. Minnesota's wheat crop this year will be 61,332,000 bushels, or approx imately 34,000,000 bushels more than last year, according to the United States department of agriculture esti mates. Prospects are for 15^000,000 bushels more corn, 33,000,000 bushels more oats, 11,000,000 bushels more rye and approximately 19,000,000 bush els more potatoes than in 1916.- Recommendations that the ethics committee of the Minnesota State Bar association investigate the conduct of Albert Pfaender, who participated in an anti-draft meeting at New Ulm re cently, were adopted by state lawyers in annual convention at Minneapolis. Charges of gross misconduct were placed against Pfaender and if they are found to be true he probably will be expelled from the association and barred from practice in the fetate. A. L. Sugerman, secretary of the rftate Socialist committee and one of the leaders of the Socialist party in St. Paul, has been arrested on a charge of attempting to cause "insubordina tion, disloyalty and refusal of duty in the military forces of the United States." It is alleged that on July 24 at Kelsey, near Arlington, in Sibley county, he urged young men, called by draft to appear for examination, to re fuse to report to the exemption boards. '^^^-^jnntmiajuunm temwrnr MATHIAS ERZBERGER. gp German Peace Leader Wi Now in Switzerland. Herr Erzberger, leader of the Catho« lie or Centralist party in the German reichstag, is still working for a world peace. He has gone to Switzerland, where he is carrying on secret nego tiations with Socialists and othen from the warring nations. LLOYD GEORGE FLAYS ARTHUR HENDERSON London, Aug. 14.—The course of Ar thur Henderson in advising the con ference of the Labor party to send a representation to the Stockholm con ference has been followed quickly by the tender of his resignation as a member of the war cabinet, which con stitutes the inner council of the•gov ernment, and the prompt acceptance of the resignation by the premier. Premier Lloyd George wrote' Mr Henderson a scathing letter of accept ance in which he virtually accused Mr. Henderson of bad faith and duplicity in his dealings both with his cabinet colleagues and with the Laborites and promptly gave the letter to the news papers. The letter of the premier makes it plain that the cabinet is opposed to the Stockholm meeting and also that the present Russian provisional gov ernment is lukewarm, if not opposed altogether. The gist of Premier Lloyd George's letter is that Mr. Henderson gave the cabinet the impression that he agreed with them. They expected him to advise the La bor party against the conference and were greatly surprised by his change of front. *-f-!*4--i-**-**4-*!**4-4*44"!* KAISER IS INDICTED BY SOUTHERN JURY. Meridian, Miss, Aug. 14 Upon the sworn testimony of Representative W. W. Venable of the Fifth congressional dis trict the Lauderdale county grand jury has returned an in dictment against William, em peror of Germany, charging "robbery, arson, murder, plot ting, bribery and conspiracy, all against the peace and dignity of the state of Mississippi." 4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.^. MAKE RED CROSS SUPPLIES Women Employes of Treasury Depart ment Doing Good Work. Washington, Aug. 14. Headed by Mrs. William G. McAdoo, wife of the secretary of the treasury, about 600 women employes of the treasury de partment have organized for making Red Cross supplies They are now pro ducing large quantities of bedding, pajamas, knit goods' and other require ments of the soldiers and sailors of the United States. Most of the work is done by the women in their spare time at home. Practically all of them are giving sev eral nights every week to the making of Red Cross supplies. Two German Raiders Destroyed. London, Aug. 14.—Two of the Ger man machines which raided the Eng lish southeast coast watering places were destroyed by British naval air planes. The official statement issued by the government says that one of the machines was a Gotha airplane and the other a May Postpone Hunting,Season. Salem, Ore., Aug. 14.—Because for est fire danger has not been as great in ten years as it now is State Fores ter Elliott has prepared a request to Governor Withycombe asking that the deer hunting season, due to open Aug. 15, be closed until such time as rains forestalled fire danger. American Ship Fights Dive. Washington, Aug. 14.—A half-hour engagement between a German sub marine and an American steamship off the coast of-Ireland, July 31, was re ported here., ^Neither scored a hit. PagwS TonrnmvoiD SOCIALIST MEET England Forbids Delegates Z% Going to Stockholm. & A statement by Arthur Henderson, the Labor leader and minister with out portfolio in the British war coun cil, who resigned Saturday, was ex pected in parliament and it was as sumed that Premier Lloyd George would reply immediately. It was re ported that Mr. Henderson would de mand the production of all communi cations between the British and Rus sian governments with reference to the Stockholm conference with a view to showing that the premier put a wrong interpretation on the Russian telegram he quoted in a letter to Mr. Hender son. It seems to be the general opinion of parliamentary writers that things will not be straightened without trou ble. The possible dissolution of par liament to ascertain the country's feel ings by a general election is suggest ed by the Daily News-, which supports Mr. Henderson. FIVE AMERICANS ARE LOST Steamer City of Athens Hits Mine and Goes to Bottom. Washington, Aug. 14.—Five Ameri can passengers were lost when the American steamer City of Athens struck a mine and went down near Cape Town, South Africa, Aug. 10, ac cording to state department dis patches. Ten other passengers and four of the crew also were lost, the dispatches say. The dispatches say four of the Americans were missionaries and name Mr. and Mxs. Naygard, Miss Rob inson and Carolina Thompson. •rfm c£ 43-* TROUBLE IS PREDICTED Dissolution of Parliament and Ap peal to Country One of Possibilities. Arthur Henderson, Retired Minister, Demands Diplomatic Correspondence. London, Aug. 14.—Andrew Bonar Law, the government spokesman in the house of commans, told the mem bers of the lower house that the gov ernment had decided that permission to attend the international Socialist conference at Stockholm would not be granted to British delegates.- 4 'v** 0 ~*"j -4 V^- T0 CONSERVE FOOD SUPPLY Petrograd Officials May Drive Out Idle Population. Petrograd. Aug. 14.—A partial evac uation of Petrograd by idle and non productive elements of the population, to alleviate the economic crises which, daily is becoming more acute, was fa vorably considered by the government at a conference here and the question referred to the minister of justice for approval. To ameliorate the food shortage such a measure is absolutely neces sary, according to the conclusions reached byvthe government. MACHINES RETURN SAFELY Two French Airmen Drop Bombs on German City. Paris, Aug. 14 —Two French avia tors dropped bombs on Frankfort-on the-Main, one of the most important cities of the German empire, having a population of 300,000. A French official statement announc ing the raid says: "In reply for the German bombard ments of Nancy and the region of -Paris two of our machines dropped bomb^s on Frankfort-on-the-Maln. Both machines returned undamaged." STANDARD OIL SHIP SUNK Captain and Four Members of Naval Guard Missing. Woshington, Aug. 14. Sinking of the American steamer Campania, a Standard Oil tanker, with the probable capture of its captain and four mem bers of the naval guard by the attack ing German submarine, was announc ed by the navy department. The Campania was the thirty-eighth American merchant ship destroyed through the operations of German and Austrian submarines and raiders since the war began. TWENTY-THREFARE KILLED German Airplanes Drop Bombs Forty Miles South of London.* London, Aug. 14.—Bombs dropped by German raiders killed twenty-three ^fJk persons and injured fifty at Southend, forty miles from London. Of those *^r% killed nine were women and six chil dren. z.x ,xj At RocfifoYd and Margate* where bombs also were dropped, compara tively small harm was done and but a few persons injured. & Dutch Paper Is Suspended/ *-**$ Amsterdam, Aug. 14.—The Endhoven '^f^ Dagblad has been suspended for a week by the general commanding the J^? Dutch province of "North Bradant for 3 publishing July 30 an anti-German ar tide about the sinking of Dutch fish* ing vessels. S»^8 $ & "-if-*,