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Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-07-14

xX5ANTED-A good efficient girl to do gen.
" eral homework. Wages $500 per week.
Apply to MRS. GEO. II. HAND.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-07-14

DULLES OF PRACTICE-Second Judicial
~ District. for sale Mt the Press d Dakotaian
office. Price, twenty-five cents.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-07-14
Gorden settlers for sale.

4. w. HOWARD'S Book Store
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-07-14

EOR SALE-A fine team of Horses. Apply to
l. George r. Scougal, banker, Yankton.
The Red Cloud chief., 1886-05-21

\ pl>rhT'H from Chattanooga pur-
porting :" -INc the story ii a romantic
:t.achmru; between = son IF the late
W /. no,!-r. of New York. and =
daughter II Senator N"orh,r>, has
been extensively copied in newspapers.
Mr.. Voorhees, has been very much an
moved ~ the story. and >ta;cia,N ash
in"f"n rrcrntly that he felt much ont
raced 10y H. publication. said he: 1T
Wi! hc hard 10 conceive more ml>>ta;c-
mrni> IN the same space. | have huI
rn" daughter AMI her name, i nu,
Rose. She was never in the South and
never received any attention from NJ.
h"dGc. know Dodge very well and
esteem him highly. Ii, i = zen
i!cman Of refinement. If high >oyia,
standing. and l. = business man II
large means. and a SON of William !.
hod-c. al New York. and | never
Know a gentleman more utterly inca
pablo Of couduc; attributable him ihan
l., j."
The Red Cloud chief., 1886-05-21

HrNIE\"E >wl>EF"Ep. Il Alaska.
i"li some remarkable thir.~ ,o H.,
n3,m"rT> 81 the House Trrri:.r, Com
r.i;rr recently. The u1ivc, a.: ms
N,.; 1" lie commii;ccwa> - ~, .h.,u
I" prepare Congress !" give q terrific
IL! form Il government - Alaska. H
tod iar committee the Uu... = states
got - ttra>ur" when they Dough, that
Icg!on: that almost any kind II n-o-
ducc could he raised there: that Goa,
WIS abundant. and a gold mine
worked there N = mos; primitive man.
mr. Welded Fifteen dollars Yer Ton and
cost "nly one dollar and twru,y->N
cents per ton 10 mine. There Ms. he
said. enough COY" in >i-a: !" "a, onc
Hundred Wears al this ra:c. I; the
Il, mhc3s would - 20 Alaska with HIM
he would show them = canoe cut from
a single log which would hold s.Nty
people iur avoyscr. In the ci-a; >"..-
son of the wear hc would tax them on
voyage i'm The stream Where the Sal
mon would ar - thick they woU.d stop
ti!s progress If the boat.
The Red Cloud chief., 1886-05-21
CURRENT COMMENT.

LAEKIS g. MEAD, tie Boston sculy-
Tor, has finished mr. Mis- ppi
Rive, Winch Is a cniossA wi.r--.!.
surrounded be cmblcm- 81 ~. msj.-
tic stream.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-07-23

THE statement was made i'm the session
of the Associated Charities cOnfere nee
at st. Paul, on Friday, that there are in
the United States 100000 paupers and
2j0,0 900 tramps, who may be classed with
the paupers. SD far rs their earning ca
pacity is concerned. The fact suggests
to the Winona Republican that we are
rapidly becoming II rival of the United
Kingdom in this respect. The official
English report of the current year shows
that there are in England and Wales
7SS,902 paupers; in Scotland, 9l,09l; in
Ireland, 4lG, 9s2, or total for the king
dom of ,296,975. Already We have hal
As many. This is one of the conditions
of our growth of population which IN ny
well excite grave apprehension and in
quiry for the future.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-07-23
JUSTICE DICKINSON

OF the five Justices on the supreme
bench i'll Minnesota, the terms of three
expire this fall, and among the number
is Judge Dickinson of Mankato. He
has sat on the supreme bench about
seven years. 1t is the universal desire
of the people of Southern Minnesota,
regardless of politics or political pre-
delictions that he should be continued
in his present office. There is no MEM
Der of the supreme court who stands
higher i'm the estimation of the people
of the state, or whose decisions of law
points are more readily accepted than
those rendered by Mr.. Dickinson. His
thorough legal and business education,
his long service OH the district and su-
preme bench, coupled with his great,
good sense, quick perceptive faculties
and mind broad and clear, renders
him not only valuable i'm his present
position, but quite Indispensable.
Justice Dickinson will be candidate
for denomination, or at least he will not
decline such if rendered him. We have
heard of no name mentioned in opposi-
ton to him, and it is no way probable
that his friends will have the slightest
difficulty in securing his nomination by
reclamation. So far M Justice Dickin-
son is personally concerned he will do
no log-rolling or political wIre-pulling.
His position is entirely above and out
side of this sort of work, and he Is like
wise above it. His retention upon the
bench, therefore, will be through the
spontaety Of the people, and not, as il
is too often the case with positions of
this character, through political ma
noeverings.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-07-23
AMONG OUR NEIGHBoRs.

ItSim Register: On Wednesday last
when Dunnell was here button-holing
those friendly to him, some one suggest
ell that perhaps he thought the people
of Austin and especially the soldiers, had
forgotten about the petition discarded
by him, and signed by nearly every
Austin man, To appointa soldiers widow
postmaster here. Austin has not for
gotten il.
Fergus Falls Journal: An immense
cloud of grasshoppers settled down yes
terday afternoon on grain field seven
miles east of SanbOrn, and in short
time had eaten every green thing on
about fifty acres. One or two other
fields were also injured, but not so SER
Iously. Before shutdown the hOppers
rose and winged their way southeast
IL is not learned where they alighted.
but it was probably in southern Mime
sofa.
NeiG Ulm RerieW: Patrick ii. Finn, the
young man shot by Gibbon constable a.
bout eleven months ago, died from the
effects of the wound on the 18th inst.
An autopsy disclosed the ball imbedded
in the seat of the brain, i'm the region OF
the forehead near where 1t had entered
How Finn survived his injury SO long
is a miracle.
| FdirmOm Sentinel: John Lind's nom-
nation for congress is well received
throughout the district. 1t is admitted
that he is a man of energy and brains
and his personal and official record il
without blemish. What more do the
people want in Il public servant?
.JanesriHe Argus: 1t looks very much
as though Mctiill would go into the state
convention with Il majority of delegates
from Southern Minnesota.
FdirmOm Sentinel: The festive Doc
Ames has his eve on the gOvernorship
Doe. may do very well for Minneapolis
but il he attempts to cover the whole
state he would spread out awful thin
The masses of the people of Minnesota
don't have the the sublime respect for q
notorious hummer that possesses the
hearts ofthe saw-dust city denizens.
81. Cloud Journal Press: If Mr.. Il. b
Herbert, of Red Wing, expects to get to
congress from his district he made the
biggest kind of mistgke when he
"slopped over" about tho restoration t.
the army of the traitor Fitz John Por'
ter, i'm his paper. the Red Wing ldrdnct
san. The Republican press all over the
district condemn HIM and predict that
il will cost him the support OF all the
old soldiers.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-07-23

ALBERT SCBEFFER, of st. PAU, who has
been talked of for several weeks as one
ofthe several candidates for governor on
the Republican side, formerly announc.
ed his withdrawal from the field Mon.
day. This now narrOws the contest
down between McGill and Gilman. II
is entirely useless to seriously consider
the candidacy of Mr.. Gibbs, and his
friends should be able to see this. 1t is
not believed possible, by those best
posted on the situation AZ 1t appears to-
day, for Gibbs to secure over forty or
fifty delegates at the outside. In a con-
ventIOn of over four hundred delegates,
this number will cut no figure, unless il
should be made up of trading timber,
which is not likely. Our understanding
of the relative position which one can
didate holds toward the other is, that il
Mr.. Gibbs cannot succeed himself, he is
more friendly toward McGill than Gill
man. This being the case, McGill will
naturally draw to his support the Gibbs
strength. Indeed, if Mr.. Gibbs were
not a candidate, McGIll would carry
every county i'm the First, as he will do
i'm the Second district. As 1t is, he will
get pretty big slice out of the First dis
trict. The whole southern part of the
state should unite upon McGill and
make GIlman's defeat assured. 1t would
be most unfortunate occurrence for
Gilman TO secure the nomination, not
alone for the Republican party, but for
the good name of the state and her
great industrial interests.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-07-23

TIE oleomargarine bill was passed by
the senate Tuesday by vote of 81 to "a.
The tax was reduced to cents Il pound
and the clause fixing a minimum pen
atty stricken out. leaving the penalty To
the discretion Of the courts ~ to the
maximum. The bill now goes TO the
conference committee, when Mr.. Miller
will try to have the tax raised To the
figure fixed by the House, cents. All
the negative votes were Democratic ex-
cept Riddleberger, of Virginia. The
section ~ 10 penalty as amended, reads
as follows:
Every person who knowingly sells or
offers for sale, or delivers or offers To de-
liver any Oleomargarine in any other
form than i'm new wooden or paper
package as above described, or who
packs in any package any oleomargarlne
i'm any manner contrary to law, or who
falsely brands any package or aflixes a
stamp on any package denoting less
amount of TAX than that required by
law. shall be fined for each Oiiense not
more than 81 900 and be imprisoned not
more than two years.
1t is unfortunate that the tax was not
allowed to remain at 5 cents, but it is
very likely the reduction to 9 cents was
demanded IN order To secure the pas
sage of the bill.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-07-23


A GoopLY number Of the papers of
this district have given publicity Ia AN
erroneous idea-that Hon. Jno. Lind is
high tariff man. Now the fact is, and
We have it from Mr.. Lind, and do not
take it from second hands, that he oc-
cupies practically the same position
which congressman Wakefield has pur-
sued. Mr. Lind believes in reduction
of the tariff. He believes that q REVISION
is demanded, but he is not a free trader.
neither is he more desirious to relieve
the people of some of the excessive tar
if rates than is Mr.. Lind. Let us have
a mutual understanding as to Mr.. Lind's
position and not misrepresent his tariff
ideas.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-07-23

and Effie Cornell, of Old Mapleton, were
married last Wednesday at the residence
of the brides sister, Mrs. |. ID. Annis
They took the evening train for their
home in Dakota.
Rev. Mr.. Moses preached the bes,
, sermon last Sunday delivered i'm Maple
ton in some time, TO a good sized au
dience. He will have hearers if he
continues to give us such intellectual
treats.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas Rogers have lady
friend visiting them from Rockford II.
linOis.
Father Duane, Catholic priest of the
Minnesota Lake and Good Thunder
churches has been removed to the
church at Mendoza. He was unive rsally
respected and liked by the citizens OF
our town. He was very popular with
the little boys of our village who will
miss his sleigh rides this winter.
=. q. Johnson has bought two lots adj
joining M. f. Berry's residence Hot.
These little things look suspicious.
Hone il is so.
Schools are generally closed. Misses
Vera and Retta Plymat, Miss Eta
Wishart, Miss Ida and Eda Clark are
through for the summer, leaving Mrs
nj. +. Plymat and Mrs. Nellie Taylor
with two weeks each before finishing
their terms.
NJ. T.. Berry and VIM. II. Tenney are
out collecting this week,
Miss Anna Wells, who teaches in
Duluth this year is ut her home i'm Ster
ling, spending her vacation with her
parents.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-07-23
1T Is RuMORED !,

That the Democrats are all at sea over
their county ticket.
That j. w. Fowler has things pretty
solid for the Democratic nomination for
Sheriff.
| That Jno. Diamond will be retired
from the Board of Commissioners this
fall.
That j. I. Williams has things fixed
quite satisfactory TO himself on the SEN
atorial question.
That Frank Waters will be nomlnat-
ed on the Democratic ticket to down
Williams If the Republicans nominate
him.
That with Burgess candidate from
the city and Spaulding and Fletcher
from the country, j. Il. will have hard
task i'm getting the nomination for the
senate.
That Norton has got 5000 names on
his petition, including the small boys,
all pledged to support him for sheriff.
That Thos. Wilson, of Butternut Val.
ley will be a candidate for commissions
er from the Third district.
That Frank Merrill has got more or
namental dogs than any man i'm the
| country.
That o. o. Pitcher would not object
TO being sent to the legislature from this
county, and that he would make first.
class representative.
| That the contest on the sherifIalty is
waxing warm and good-naturedly.
That there is liable to be music ut the
session of the Board of county commits.
siOners next week.
That this is excellent harvest weather
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-07-23

TIE National Conference of COrrec-
tons and Charities was i'm session i'm St.
Paul last week and most of the present.
No meeting of its kind was ever held in
this country where the interest kept up
TO such high degree. Ex-President
Hayes and his estimable wife were
present throughout the entire confer
ence, and aided very materially to the
interest Of sessions. The Ex-President
was received with marked courtesy by
the people Of st. Paul, and all with
whom he came in contact speak in the
highest terms of him. lie made friends
ola great many people who had before
looked upon him with anything but
favorable eyes. AS speaker he is for
chile, logical, and thoroughly interest
ing.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-07-23

ACCORDING To statistics officially gather
ed and published, the United States III
ready has 800 more miles of railroad.
in operation than the whole of Europe
From 1880 TO 1884 the growth of our rail
way systems was $50 per cent. or more
than three times the increase in al
Europe for the same period. In this
country at the close of 1884 the tota
share capital and Indebtedness of al
kinds of all the roads figured up the
enormous sum of $500, 1884, 5l; Will,
for the whole world u; the end of tn,
same year this SUM reached the fabulous
quantity of $50, 1000, 900 600. And still
railroad building goes grandly on.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-07-23
FOR COUNTY CLERK

The only name thus far mentioned on
the Republican side for the office oil
Clerk of Courts is that of Mr.. Stephen
Thorn, of Lake Crystal. 1t is not prob.
able that Mr.. Thorn will have any OPP.
position in the nominating convention
and that he will be elected by popular
majority is thoroughly believed by those
best acquainted with him.
Mr.. Thorn has been resident of the
Lake for nearly ten years, and is num-
bered among the best citizens of that
handsome and pushing little town. In
point of business ability, education and
all the fine points which 60 to make a
man popular with his fellow men, he is
especially equipped. He would make
a clerk, the superior of whom this coun-
ty has never had. GENIAL and obliging,
a rapid penman and swift at the dis
patch of business, he is just the man for
the place, and it is fortunate for the Re-
publicans of the county that an Oppor-
tunity is given them to nominate and
elect such man.
For the past two or three years Mr..
Thorn has held the Office of Justice of
the Peace at Lake Crystal, and in all
matters coming before him has shown
himself to be man of conviction and in
no way vascillating. Where he is best
known there he is strongest, and no sec
ton of the county can be more enthusi-
astic in his support than the place in
which he resides. Home endorsement
is the strongest possible testimonial 10 a
mans character. Mr.. Thorn has this.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-07-23
HARVEST HOME.

Major Evans, of Garden City. was in
Mankato last week, and suggested the
idea of holding Harvest Home picnic
ut some convenient point i'm the county
after the farmers shall have altered
their bountiful crop. The suggestion is
good one, and will no doubt receive a
hearty second by the farmers of the
county and all possible encouragement
by the people generally.
If the people of Blue Earth county
ever had cause to rejoice over good
usage and special Providential favors it
is this year. We have been more than
well used. While other sections have
suffered greatly by drouth, and while
hail and storms have laid waste hun
dreds of acres of promising grain we
have escaped with very slight injury.
We venture the assertion that small
grain will show a greater average i'm this
county than i'm any other i'm Minnesota
or Northern Iowa while our corn can
not be excelled if even equaled by any
STATE Ill the UNION.
The idea of a Harvest Home, reminds
the writer of the annual gatherings OF
this nature which are held i'm Delaware
county, Iowa. The good farmers of that
county would as soon think of emitting
to gather their grain as 10 fail to cele-
brate Harvest Home. For more than
| fxua MT bac h., "A
up, and with each recurring year the
interest and enjoyment increases. A
regular organization was formed years
ago, and upon the officers devolves the
work of making all arrangements for
the feast. The officers are president,
one vice-president from each township
in the county and secretary. The
meeting Is usually held early in Septem-
Der, and previous to the date fixed up
on, large posters are freely distributed
announcing the programme, the papers
keep the facts connected with the gath
ering prominently be fore the people,
and the result is monstrous gathering
and a royal good time. There is no
movement which the farmers can
inaugurate that will rebound to their
profit and enjoyment equal to a Harvest
Home. 1t affords an opportunity not
only to get together after the years
wotk shall have been practically ended
and the result known, but it also gives
the wife and children an opportunity to
enjoy u day with neishbors, renew old
acquaintances, make new ones, and
above all, it gives the women folks a
wide scope of gossip and an unusual
prove rare treat for the ladies'
But let us have real old-fashioned
Harvest Home. 1t is just what every
one wants.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-07-23

THE Albert Lea Standard sees in the
"scores of letters Dir. Glib bs is constant
~ receiving" elements of strength fol
that gentleman in his candidacy for
governor. Now if this is the only string
the Standard has to tie to it is liable to
break in twain and drop its man long
before the convention assemblies. II
would be more to the point, and the
people could gain far more ineligible
estimate of Mr.. Gibbs real strength, il
the Standard could give few of the
counties that are supposed TO be so solid
for him. Talk is cheap, but it take
delegates to nominate. And don't let il
slip Your mental cogitation
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-07-23
Middleton.

At the school meeting last Saturday
evening G. Ii. Spaulding and A. b
Stevens were chosen as members of the
school board. 1t was decided to have
but two departments to our graded
school on account of the extra amount
of money to he raised this year.
Harvesting is commenced in real ear.
nest, and from present indications
this promises TO be the best crop i'm
years.
Our machinery agents are kept busy
now setting up new binders of which
many have been sold i'm our town this
season.
Edward Healey, of Marvin, Dakota,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-07-23

Tue Minneapolis Journal, i'm speaking
Of the rejection of Goode by the United
States senate, on account of his disgrace
ful record, we'll SAYS that eff the Presi-
dent would put in as much time care
fully studying the records Of the men
ne appoints to high offices as he does in
finding excuses to veto bills granting
pensions to disabled Union soldiers, his
party would not be saddled with SO
many egregiOus blunders."
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-07-23

=. J.. CHILD, Esq, of Blue Earth City,
who was recently suspended from the
service, has been re-commissioned as
Post-otlice Inspector, and, it is stated,
Is pursuing the discharge of his duties
ln New Mexico. Sim" may be some
what offensive" in his Repubiicanism,
but Democratic administration even
has been forced TO recognize the fact
that he has no superior as a postoffice
inspector. The service needs his at,
tention now more than ever.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-07-23

THE Prohibition convention held i'm
Mankato Tuesday last for the purpose OF
placing a candidate i'm nomination for
congress for the Second district was
very meagerly attended, only five Of the
twenty counties being represented.
Very little interest seemed to be mani
tested and the enthusiasm usually OBJ
served in such gatherings was conspicu-
Gus for its absence. Whether or not
Mr.. Day, the nominee, will accept the
proffered honors of a nomination is not
known, but TO accord the gentleman the
benefit of the doubt, il ID fair to pre-
sumo that he will.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-07-23

TIE Fergus Falls Journal says that the
unpublished statements in the metro
politan papers that 4. A. Gilman has
the Fifth district solid on the governor
ship question il the sheerest kind 81
nonsense, and is believed by no one
living inside the district To say the
least. The Journal has figured the stu
alton over and at very liberal allow
ance claims that Gilman will not secure
much ifany more than halfthe delegates
Gilman will mot be govonor Of Minnesota
He won't get a halfdozen delegates
south of St Paul.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-07-23

PkEsInEST CLEVELAND must feel proud
of the record he is making as reform
er." lie has, by his vetoes, cheated the
widows and orphans of deceased sol
diers out of the paltry pittance of s., 900
and approved bill sppropriating $50,
900 for new furniture with which to en-
rich the interior of the White House.
This kind of discrimination illustrates
the size of the present high executloner
of ciVi! service reform.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-07-23
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE
Sterling.

q. b. Dolby and family has moved in
with Jonas Boyer.
w. Wells is home from Saltwater to
join i'm the harvest.
A dance at Furman's mill last Friday
eve, was fairly well attended.
j. q. Fowler and wife were visiting
with Mrs. VIM. Ellis one day last week.
The greatest share of the grain will be
harvested this week, if weather contin-
ues favorable. So far it has been very
favorable, and the farmers are improv-
ing every hour. One party we know of
had 65 acres cut Saturday night the 18th
INST
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-07-23

GLADSTONE has resigned his premier
ship. The new parliament will be
called together about the 9Th of August.
Gladstone and Parnell, although badly
scooped in the election, will relax none
of their vigor in favor of Home Rule,
and will pour hot-shot into the camp of
the nnnnsitiOn.