Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1895 — Minnesota Civilization. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Minnesota Civilization.

A large number- of Indians, who had been employed at Deer River, near Grand Rapids, Minn., by Frank H. Vance to harvest his hay crop, went on a strike for $4 a ton, and because their demand was not granted surrounded Vance and threatened to scalp him and burn him at the stake. Vance escaped and the Indians returned to their reservation.