The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-08-31
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(From Saturdays DAILY FREE PRESS.
Flax has taken a Jump TO 81 .l6, that
being the price 10 paid at the linseed
oil mill.
The PIohibItionists are talking OF
securing Miss Francis Willard to speak
in this city Sept. IS.
Some of the Milwaukee passenger
conductors who were recently discharg-
ed have been taken back by the COM
pany.
1t is likely the lie Sueur Whites
will play a third game with the Mankato
boys during the lair next month. These
clubs are very evenly matched, and the
fair managers would do well TO offer a
purse that would be some object for the
boys to play for.
The state examiner has been look
ing over the accounts of the county aud
itor and treasurer for the past two days
and finds everything satisfactory. He
stated that there are but three or four
counties in the state where the books
are kept in such good shape.
Mr.. Messer, owner ofthe stores occu-
pied by Messrs. Brett and Piper &
Washburn, has decided not to add a
third story TO those buildings this year.
He has given up the idea of making the
third story a hall, and when he builds
will make offices of that floor and will
put in al elevator.
The citizens of Mapleton are max
ing arrangements to hold a farmers III
stitute and stock fair at that place this
fall. Committees have the matter in
hand. The institute will last two DAYS
and there is talk of inviting Prof. Maria
Sanford to deliver a lecture. These in
s~titutes have been demonstrated to be
very beneficial to a community and this
One should be made a success.
H. Fl. Hart, secretary of the state
board IF corrections and charities, re-
poris that the total population in the
state institutions for the year ending
July 81 is 3,0l5. There are l,7S5 insane.
1854 deaf, 43 blind, 1S2 feeble-miuded, SO
dependent children, 23S in the reform
school, 437 in the states prison and II
in the soldiers home. In 1887 the popu-
lation of these institutions was 1922,
and in 1886 it was 2,295. The amount
per cent increase is, insane IL; deaf
Is; blind, 10; states prison, 81; reform
school, 122.
Hog raising is bound to be one of
the best paving institutions that our
farmers can engage in. In fact, everv
farmer SDOulu 20 INTO III 10 some extent.
The Mapleton Enterprise saws that the
Larson boys, of Beauford, marketed last
Tuesday eighteen hogs whose aggregate
weight was $3.50 pounds, receiving 1886
for them. This is but another example
of the profit Of diversified farming.
Those farmers whose wheat crop is near
ly a failure realize this, If they have
stock to fall back upon, as no better year
could be had for stock raising. A boun-
teous hay crop ant the promise Of plen-
ty of corn will reduce the expense OF
carrying cattle through the winter
greatly.
Sheriff Barlow, of Window, landed
q prisoner in the county Jail yesterday
to await trial in his county at the next
term of court, there being no Jail in that
county. The prisoners name is w. r.
Simmonds, and his home is at Monda-
mon, Iowa. He is charged with incest
with his eleven year old st~ep-daughter,
who claims that he has kept up the init
macy for two years. Simmonds is forty
years Of age and is blind. He hasa wife
twenty-six years of age and four chill
dren. He is a beggar by profession, and
was wont to wander about the country
with the little girl leading him. They
have thus been in this city several times.
The criminal intimacy was not known
until a week or 80 ago, when they put up
at a hotel in Window. The guests had
their suspicious aroused, and an investl-
cation led to the arrest.