Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1895 — Minnesota Civilization. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Minnesota Civilization.

A large number of Indians, who had been employed/nt 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 ths stake. Vance escaped and the Indians returned to their reservation