The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-15
PERSONAL.

Mayor Evans, of Garden City, visitet
Mankato yesterday.
Stephen Thorn, Esq, of Lake Crystal
is in the city to-day.
Robt Thomas, Esq, is canvassing the
city for General Logan's new book.
Miss Matte Simpson left Monday for
st. Paul to attend school nj st. Joseph's
Academy.
S~ergeants Soaring, Pay and Evans
attended the military association in st.
Paul yesterday.
+. w. Force and wife left Wednesday
for their visit to Canada, mentioned in
our last issue.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. T.. Brown, of Maple
ton, were in the city Yesterday on bust
ness, and visiting acquaintances.
Mr.. l.. T. Shaw, of Garden City came
in this morning and paid his twenty :
ninth annual subscript ion 10 THE FREE
Press.
Miss Mary Moore of st. Peter will ac-
company Miss Fannie Rose of this city
to New York, where both will pursue
artistic studies.
Geo. Long, Esq, returned this week
from an extended business trip through
Montana, Idaho and Washington terri
tories. lie reports business on the qui-
vive throughout that region.
W. G. French, Esq, of this city, eft
YESTERDAY morning for a six months So
journ in Florida, IN hope of improving
his health, he being troubled with
bronchial difficulty.
l.. Karr, of st. Paul, representing the
Northwestern Guarantee Life Insurance
company ,ofthat city of which Capt. W. W.
Braden is president and John Douglass,
Esq. sec'y., is in the city looking up the
interests of his company.
Miss Eta Sherwin, of Lake
Crystal, has resigned her position in
the Madelia schools, and Miss Mikelson
of Delevan has been secured to the
vacancy. Miss NJ, is a graduate of
the Mankato Normal school, and is a
teacher of acknowledged merit.
1t seems by the council proceedings
that it cost the city $50 for detective SER
vice in ferreting out the gambling in
this city this winter. Inasmuch rs the
detective was The party that induced one
of the parties convicted to engage in the
game, and that the haul was all small
fry, the city paid pretty well for its whis-
tle.-Rerieo.
Just why Wise will continue to act n
~dissembler is hard to conceive. At the
time the plans to uproot the gambling
holes were consumated his fervor
of commentator was intense, but
here he takes II of his char
acteristic tlops and endeavors to be-
little what he so recently applauded;
and to break down the effect of several
months work on the part of the Mayor
and Chief of Police in behalf of the NOR.
al dignity of the city. because it involved
the expenditure of Il paltry sum of
The officers paid the money
out of private funds, relying III the good
faith of the city to reimburse them.
The "whistle" did not cost the city a
cent, because the parties arrested paid
fines and costs amounting to nearly 500,
hence the city is over $50 ahead. The
detective service cost the officers only
$50, that being the stipulated price be-
fore the detective commenced his work,
and he wdS not to receive that unless The part.
les "ere conrjsted. The remaining ten
dollars were expended in work done
previous to the employment of detec-
tive. In regard to the small fry" Wise
blunders again. One of the parties ar
rested, at least, was a thoroughbred pro-
fessional, and now lies in Jail at Mime
apolis for the same ~offense, because he
mas not uIc means ~ pa! mo nnC. nv
was ~colleagued with others in different
parts of the State in the same business,
as our officers had ample proof. When
we consider the expense involved and
the risks taken in uprooting such evils
with the help of qualified detectives, it
is easily seen that the authorities here
moved carefully, and did the work at
comparatively little cost. 1t is a good
riddaRce, even though it had cost the
city thrice thirty dollars. with no re-
turns.