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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-12

BY carefully scanning the columns
of the FREE PRESS to-day, it will be
seen that candidates for some of the
responsible offices i'm Blue Earth cOun-
ty have already stepped to the foot
lights. This is bold, manly and
proper. Time was, in our remem.
brance even. when such step would
have been regarded rs the height of
immodesty, and for a candidate to
vote for himself, fairly shocking.
Now it is entirely otherwise, and we
have heard it pertinaciOusly argued
that candidate receiving u fair nom.
nation from his fellow-citizens who
would not vote for himself, i. G. vote
for the whole ticket without scratch
or erasure, ought to be defeated.
And this Is sound orthodox political
doctrine. Let us see: One vote is
often decisive Of the triumph or de-
feat of Il candidate for whose success
his friends have labored late and
early, in season and out of season,
and it is clearly the duty of that can.
didate to supplement in all legitimate
ways the efforts of his friends. Speak
out friends, the audience will give
you u fair hearing.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-12

THE first thought and the first en-
quiry which greets each succeeding
morn is. % How is the President :"
While we have not given in the FREE
PRESS the minute details of the many
bulletins issued by the Presidents
attending and consulting physicians,
we have aimed to keep our readers
posted as to his real progress and
promise of final recovery. Since our
last issue, a new incision has Eeen
made to accelerate the discharge of
pus from his wound which had be-
come INSTRUCTED or new abscess
formed, giving rise to more fever and
unrest. This operation, like the pre-
vious ones. was successfully perform
ed, and the expected relief followed.
But it must be remembered that all
these new missions occasion new suf-
ferings to be borne and new wounds
to be healed. Add to this the eX.
treme heat of Washington city, and
the long confinement to his bed, and
it is not strange that the progress to.
wards recovery is vascilating and
slow. His physicians continue to
speak most encouragingly of the pros
poets of speedy recovery, but we
notice a qualification now and then
in their bulletins, which they will
not fail to fall back on in case all their
care and skill are bafiled in the final
outcome. The pretty close retention
of his consulting physicians. Drs.
Hamilton and Agnew, are suggestive
of the very delicate condition of the
President, and the possibility of some
unforeseen emergency demanding their
immediate presence and counsel.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-12

DIR. HAMILTON, one of the eminent
surgeons in attendance upon Presi.
dent Garfield, says, in regard to re-
moving the pistol ball that lies i'm
bedded In the body of the President,
that "if any body has an idea that
we can reach that ball through the
back, where it entered, l can only
reply that we have never been able
to follow the whole length of the
track with any instrument, however
flexible. The supposed situation of
the ball is fully twelve or fifteen
inches from the point of entrance,
and although great many ingenious
instruments have been devised for
following tracks through which balls
have passed, every experienced sur
geon in the world knows that to fol-
low such Il track with irregular mar
rowings and widenings in its course,
and successfully remove the ball in
this direction, is totally impractic
able. have received half u dozen
letters from gentlemen in various
parts of the United States suggesting
that it he removed by suction with IN
air.pump, they forgetting that the
track of the ball probably is much
smaller than the ball itself, and the
atmospheric pressure or supposed
suction would act quite rs much upon
the sides Of the yielding canal rs up
on its extremity. In my opinion, the
ball is lying very quietly in its pres
ent position, and the grave portion Of
the symptoms with which we have
had to deal were due to the fracture
Of the rib"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-12
THE WinOna Republican of the 10th

THE WinOna Republican of the 10th
inst, says that by recent re-arrange-
ment of the sub-districts in the First
collection district of this State. the
counties of WinOna, Olmsted, Dodge,
Steele. Rice and that portion OF HOus-
ton adjoining the river, have been as
signed to the control of Deputy w.
q. Dye. with headquarters at Winona.
The remainder Of Houston, and the
counties of Fillmore. Mower, Free.
born, Waseca and Faribault are at.
tached to the chief office al Albert
Lea, while the western portion of the
district remains divided substantially
as before, with deputies at Mankat0
and st. Peter, respectively. The col.
lectiOns of internal revenue for the
First district during the month of
July amounted to 81, lO3. 80. of which
the sale of beer contributed $4 ,O97 40,
cigars 81 ,92O.9O. and the balance to
special taxes.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-12

CAN any man name twelve men in
these United States, who, on being
challenged before acting us jurymen,
would on their Oaths swear they had
never formed an opinion as to the
guilt or innocence Of Guiteau, the
assassin of President Garfield. II
not, how will the enforcement of the
old rule of disqualification. applied in
Guiteau's case, ever result in finding
the qualified twelve? Per contra-if
our memory serves us accurately,
Hon. Amaziah B. James, now Repre-.
sentative in Congress from the 10th
district of New York, held pertina.
ciously that no man who did not take
u newspaper and post himself as to
the worlds dOings and form an Opin.
ion on what he read ought to be en-
tirely disqualified from sitting as a
juryman. Mr.. James was one Of the
Justices of the Supreme Court of that
State, and acquired u distinction on
the bench Of which any man might
be proud.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-12

IT is said that Texas will soon have
a school fund Of astonishing proper.
tiOns. by law of that State. all the
proceeds arising from the sale of her
public lands are added to the school
fund. The State has now a school
fund already accumulated amounting
to nearly $4,000, 900, and they have
40,0O0. 900 acres of unsold public lands.
The educational standard of that State
now so lamentably downright be
raised to an elevated plane by simply
making a draft on Minnesota for a
corps of teachers, male and female.
The graduates Of our State Normal
Schools annually is quite large, and
their training thorough and expan.
sive. Come and get them!
"'Tis education forms the common mind
just u the twig is bent the trees inclined"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-12
IT needs no affidavit or attestation

IT needs no affidavit or attestatiOn
to convince the inhabitants Of this
section of Minnesota that the weather
for the past ten days has been intense
ly hot, sending up the mercury to
from 90 to over 100 degrees Fab. in
the shade. Although the nights have
been cool and refreshing, the c0ntinu.
ance of these sweltering days has
rendered the surface of the ground so
extremely dry that the movement of
teams raises an impalpable dust.
almost suffOcating to man and beast,
which hangs suspended in the air till
some favoring breeze comes along to
move the offender away. 1t is in no
wise strange that with such pres
ence, men not imperatively driven by
the force Of circumstances, such Us
bank notes overdue and appointments
to be filled without delay, gather in
little cOteries in all the shady places
to fan themselves, fight the flies now
grown wickedly saucy, and discuss
the current topics of news possessing
the most elements of the truly sensa-
tional. Even in these shady and cool
ing retreats, it is noticeable that the
nicely laundried collars and shirt-bos.
oms hang limp and habby, like the
ears of the old and Ovcr.driven horse
as he shuflles along the heat and the
sitting dust of the highway. Yet,
this is truly favorable, driving har-
vest weather, and this reflection
comes up to assuage the discomforts
under which we are suffering. And
then, how rapidly the corn is hasten
ing to maturity. and other crops
responding to the genial and i'ructify-
ing influence of warmth in the soil.
We ought not to fret or murmur or
exhibit ill.humOr because we are sub.
ject. momentarily, so to speak, to a
little disquiet because of the intense
heat. since its presence subscrves
such great and beneficial ends.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-12
DAKOTA LETTER.

CLYDE, d. T., Aug. z, 1881.
Editors Free Prs":
Crops at this place are excellent,
and harvest is nearly ended. Your
correspondent has been binding on a
harvester for a week and it makdth
his fingers sore.
Never saw corn looking finer-and
potatoes will be drug in the market
If they turn out as well as they look.
The railroad company are as busy
as bees, and the cars will he running
into New Ashton within ten days.
SchOfield & Gibson, Of Minneapolis,
are the pioneer merchants at the new
town.
In answer to many inquiries, we
would say through the FREE PRESS
that there are plenty Of good home
steads still open for entry, and we
want all the energetic, Christian peo.
pie for neighbors we can get. Our
previous letters to the FREE PRESS
were the means of finding US an editor
and a hardware dealer. We don't
want any saloon keepers. for the
county will not grant license under
any consideration. If some enterpris-
ing man would ship two or three car.
loads of COWS here, he could sell them
at big margin. We want mich
cows and young stock. Judge Monet,
of New Ashton, wants to buy one
hundred head of the latter, while
many others would each invest in a
few head.
We must acknowledge that some of
the boys would get homesick if it
were not for the ever.welcome FREE
PRESS, which tells Us of everything
at home and abroad.
DAKOTA DAVE.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-12

THE st. Paul Globe of the 9Th inst,
in noticing the exercises of the pre-
ceding Sabbath ut the First Method
list church in Minneapolis, presided
over by Rev. I. McClary, says that
this enterprising church should be
congratulated upon its advancement
during the three years of Rev. Thos.
McClary's work, not only in addition
to their members, which has been
very encouraging, but also by making
such courageous efforts to relieve
themselves from the burden of church
debt, which they have accomplished
the present season. Lifting church
debts engages many minds nowadays,
work in which women are import
ant factors.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-12
PROBATE NOTICE.

CTATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
y Earth.-ss.AIn Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of Samuel ID.
Brown, deceased.
Letters of administration on the estate of
Samuel ID. Brown, deceased, having been
issued to Amelia Brown:
1t IL ordered, that six months from and
after this date be and are hereby allowed for
the creditors of said deceased to present their
claims Tor examination and allowance, at
the expiration of which time all claims not
presented to said Court, or not proven to its
satisfaction, shall be forever barred, unless
for cause shown further time be allowed.
Ordered further, that all claims and de-
mands of all persons against said deceased be
received, examined and adjusted by this
Court ut the Probate office In said county on
the following days, viz on the 9th day of
October, 1881, and on tho 10th day of January,
1882.
Ordered further, that the administrative as
aforesaid, shall cause notice of the time and
place of the hearing and examination of said
claims and demands, by publishing a notice
thereof for four weeks successfully, In the
MANKATO FREE PRESS, II newspaper printed
and published ut Mankato In said county.
Dated August Q, 1881.
BY the Court. G. w. MEAD,
7w5 Judge of Probate.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-12

then your land will be in excellent
condition for wheat. Don't break in
the fall or spring calculating to sow
wheat. for it will not do; besides, if
you break in the spring for flax you
will have the fall and spring feed of
the land for your cattle-and l tell
you tame grass does agree well with
cattle. Wild grass will do If you have
rs head Of cattle to quarter section,
but turn Is head into a 20.acre field
OF tame grass and then see the sleek
hides and the rich, flowing pals of
milk your cows will give instead of
the scrawny-loOking creature and the
little driblets Of milk OH wild grass.
Raising cattle on wild lands, unless
you have large and wide range, is
like cropping wheat ten to twenty
years cOnsecutively on one piece of
land. And while the Hessian fly
"never hurts calf, a sheep, horse
or a hog" remember, too, that tame
grass Is most beneficial to stock of all
kinds. Diversified farming is best
ten years Of consecutive wheat rails
ing will wear out the richest land in
Minnesota, and that means in all the
whole world to raise consecutive
crops of this marketable cereal. YOU
must add to the soil as much fertility
as you take therefrOin.
While l place the wheat crop in thi!
township at or near an average of ten
bushels per acre, there are some tina
|, will not go five indeed, there arr
some farmers south and east of her
who will hardly get their seed ant
bread from this years wheat crop
and how many are going to pull
through another year by what the
, have raised this season, is more thai
l can comprehend.
=, Let us hear from every town il
Blue Earth county!
JOSEPH DOBIE.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-12
M0plotOn,

The Methodist society are building
an addition to their parsonage.
Our Normal students are making
preparations to return to their studies
In September.
Mr.. VIM. Matthews and Mr.. Mead
have lately visited our town, looking
up their respective organ trades.
Mrs. w. N. Plymat has been sick.
Mr.. w. H. Leighton spent a couple
Of days in town this week.
Mr.. J. X. Norton has gone to Mil
waukee to visit friends.
Mr.. Chas. Pease and wife, of Min
nesota Lake, visited Mapleton one
day last week.
Mr.. Peter Johnson and Miss Emily
Cornell have been engaged to teach
our school next term.
The first threshing in this vicinity
was done on Wednesday by Charles
GROCER yield, six bushels per acre,
grade No. 8, which will be Il fair
average in this vicinity.
About thirty Irvine binders have
been sold here this season.
John Morris has bought steam
thresher.
There will be Sunday school con
vention held here some time next
month to which the neighboring Sun
day schools will he invited, and we
hope the vice. presidents will consider
it their duty to see that the Sunday
schools in their respective vicinities
are present.
There will be a Baptist quarterly
meeting at this place in September.
The Free Methodists will hold their
annual conference in Mapleton about
the middle of September. All these,
with Mrs. Fixen's lecture, will make
a pretty full month.
--S-&---
I'M hnriuO nm ort ooiov xuo1l ~ X.pl>
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-12
sJudsOn,

The farmers are through harvest.
ing, and no complaints were made of
the weather, but comments were fire..
quent on account of the thinness of
the wheat. Oats and corn are fair.
Stacking will be completed in short
time with favorable weather.
Rev. VIM. NJ. Jones is having a
new house built on his farm.
The stone culvert. and the grading
approaching it. over Thomas creek,
are progressing slowly, and when COM
pleted will afford very convenient
and long needed improvement on the
MankatO and New Ulm road.
Mr.. VIM. Jones, in the town of But.
ternut Valley, has completed very
fine residence, which adds greatly to
his convenience. He has now the
best equipped farm in that neighbor
hood.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-12

On Thursday, the 4th inst, they
had a small-sized cyclone in St. Paul,
damage small but the scare of very
large proportions. 1t is well to watch
the cloud formations in this climate,
and when you see Il formidable one
with lower extremity of wonderful
evenness stretching around the hOri.
ION and moving with rapidity, we
always regard it as highly prudential
TO take i'm sail.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-12

SOUND, practical, good sense sug-
gestiOns come to the FREE PRESS this
week from our respected friend and
patron, Mr.. Joseph Dobie, of Sterling.
Like many other Scotchmen we know
of, he is always earnest and truthful,
and whether expatiating on farming
or engaged in that favorite winter
pastime Of all who hail from Scotia
Isle, "curling," his motto always is,
"Swoop.er.up! swoop.er-up.boys :"
attended with a vim. We commend
the suggestions in this days FREE
PRESS to every farmer into whose
hands this paper may fall.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-12

GENERAL ROB'T PATTERSON died
at Philadelphia last Sunday, in the
seth year of his age. This brief an.
nouncement in our daily papers is not
apt to create much, if any, thought in
the mind Of the casual reader but if
by chance there he any FREE PRESS
readers who participated in the first
battle of Bull Run in 1861, they will
remember General Patterson as in
command of the Union forces at that
time, who. through indiscretion or
mistaken generalship, allowed his
forces to suffer defeat when an easy
victory was apparently in his reach.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-12

Politics are warming up i'm Old
Virginia to fever heat. Their cor.
yentiOns are being held, and we will
soon hear sharp talk from the " Re-
adjusters, "Recalcitrant Raids" the
"Coalitionists," &c. All the parties
there should beware of sun-strOkc
these hot days and wear cabbage or
horse-radish leaves In their hats to
avoid cO,p de soieH.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-12
THE reticence of Sitting Bull since

THE reticence Of Sitting Bull since
his surrender to the u. s. authorities
is construed by many of our OK.
changes as indicating contemplated
treachery and wholesale butchery Of
U. s. soldiers should an opportune
moment arrive. Look out for him.
We have had experience enough Of
indian atrocities and bad faith to
make our action proof against another
slaughter of u. S. soldiers.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-12

SOME years ago, bankrupt Michi.
gan editor offered his creditors war.
rant for 100 acres of land in satisfac.
ton of their claims. and they refused
it, preferring to take other property
valued at $3.50. The despised 100
acres now yield the former bankrupt
editor an annual income of $50, 900
from its ore mines.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-12

SOME unknown person last week
sent the editor of the LIE Sueur Senti.
mel a whole case Of Heinman's far.
famed La Crosse bottled beer for in.
valids, with peremptory instructions
to the drayman not to reveal the
name of the sender. The modesty of
some men passes our comprehension.
If any man should serve us such a trick
we would hunt him with blood.
hounds!
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-12

WORD comes to us from Buffalo, n.
Y, that Mrs. Willard Fillmore, wild.
ow of eX.Presldent Fillmore, is lying
at the point of death at her home in
that city. She had a second stroke of
apoplexy last Sunday the first one
occurred last fall, } and her physicians
have given up all hope of recovery.
She is sixty-two years of age.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-12

WHITAKER, the colored cadet of
West Point. whose case has heen
sat down on by various tribunals
called court martials-it is now con.
fidently asserted will be declared
guilty of having committed the com.
planned of outrages on himself, and
will be dismissed the service.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-12

DEvILTRY seems TO be increasing
on every side. Only last week as a
steamer was approaching Portsmouth,
Ohio, fourteen shots were fired at her
from a wagon in the road near the
river bank. The pilot was compelled
70 lie fiat down, balls having entered
The engineers room and the cabin,
barely missing a lady passenger.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-12

Two infants were recently born in
the Canton Vaud, Switzerland. joined
in the same manner rs the famous
Siamese twins. 1t being thought that
the ligament might be severed with
out danger, it was performed. and
both are now we'll and hearty.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-12

ONE by one the aborigines of this
country are passing away. 1t is now
asserted that the somewhat famous
Indian chief. Spotted Tail, has at last
gone to the happy hunting ground,
where all good "injuns" go. a special
dispatch from Pine Ridge Agency,
Nebraska, Of August 9th. says:
"Crow Dog, Captain of Police AT Rosebud
Tail about 3 O'Clock yesterday afternoon
There had been an ill-fecling between them
for some time. Crow Dog went to Fort Mo
brara tn remain until further Developments.
Trouble Is anticipated"
The experience of our government
In its varied efforts to improve and
elevate the condition of the Indians
is not very encouraging. That the
government has made Herculean
efforts to that end every reader of our
past and current history is familiar.
New men, irreproachable men. Chris
tian men, have been sent to the vari-
GUS Indian agencies from time to time
full of confidence in their ability to
correct prevailing abuses and elevate
the Indian character. They have been
met with the stubborn fact that free
association and traffic with irrespon.
sible white traders who are always
sure to squat in close proximity to
where the Indian annuities are receiv-
ed and dispensed, and by the adroit
use Of pretended Friendship SO man.
age to get the Indians in debt to them
as to nearly exhaust the government s
annual benefactions. Worse still is
that other stubborn fact which out
crops in the Indian character, the
readiness with which they take OH ali
bad habits incident to contact with
bad white men and never any of their
good ones. And still the government
through new men in its various de.
partments are seeking to solve this
problem, how to live with these tribes
and avoid the sad experiences of the
past and present and avoid their repe.
tition in the future-Of thefts, MUIR
ders and war. That they cannot live
in close proximity to the daring white
pioneers who crowd upon their res
ervatiOns without conflict, is clearly
proved, while the ever remembered
Indian atrocities are fresh incentives
to that arbitrary rule that might
makes right, and that ever-ready
promise of old, if not impaired by the
new revision, - will give thee the
heather for thine Inheritance and the
uttermost parts of the earth for thy
habitation!" is quoted rs clincheI
in palliation Of the crOwding process
now in vogue.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-12

OFFICIAL statistics show that dur.
ing the past ten years the annual pro.
ductiOn of buckwheat in the United
States has increased about 1900, 900
bushels. Barley has increased II, ;.
O0O, 900 bushels, and rye 5000, 900 in
the same period.