The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-02-15

evening. 1t will be corn festival for
the benefit of the M. +. church of Gar.
den City. All of the eatables will be OF
corn in some form, and great number
of articles, made of corn or corn cobs OF
husks or stalks, will be for sale. People
will be surprised at the number of ar
ticles that can be made of corn.
e. l.. Schwartz, of Amboy, dealer in
general merchandise, has failed, and
was expected to make an assignment to.
day. Suit was brought by Patterson &
Halfhill yesterday, on claim amount
ing to $S7. The liabilities are estimated
at S., 600 and the assets at 500. There
are very few accounts outstanding.
Schwartz is young man, and his father,
who is weil-to-do farmer of that neigh
borhood, has been aiding him TO untan-
gle himself from his financial involve
ments.
Geo. Connell, Henry Jilson and
Chas. Loeffier, of Madison Lake, were
arranged in the municipal court to-day
charged with riot, OH complaint OF
Stephen Alden. P. A. Foster, attorney
for the defense, moved to dismiss the
action on the ground that the facts al
legged constituted not a roIt, but a
chariyari. This was overruled. The ex-
animation was set for Thursday, Feb. 81,
at IL a. M, bail being fixed at 500 in
each case. The plaintiff is looking for
the other participants in the disorder.
The street commissioner will put
couple of men at work on the new Bun
ker Hill road tomorrow. 1t is expected
that half dozen OF more farmers will
turn in and aid ingrading the road. The
road-bed will lie along the bottom of the
creek and the grade will be as easy and
the scenery as romantic as that of the
cemetery road. When this is complet-
ed the old road will doubtless be aban-
doned. The farmers living south and
east of the city have long complained of
the steepness of the Bunker Hill road.
Prof N. III. Winchell, the State ge
ologist, has issued second volume on
the geology of Minnesota, devoted to
the central portion of the State. His &C
count establishes the fact that while the
great glacier covered the northern part
of the State the Minnesota river was its
principal outlet, and that this river how-
ed III a mighty stream with its shoreline |
nearly as high as the tops of the bluffs.
At that time and for considerable time |
after the commencement of the retreat |
Of the ice the Mississippi above Fort
Smelling was merely a small tributary to |
he great Minnesota. On the continued
of the glacier a northern out
let was formed, thus draining Lake Ag-
Issiz in that direction instead of by the
Minnesota valley, and gradually this
,reat glacial river shrunk to its present
Prof. WInchell's conclu-
ions in these matters are accented us
uthority by all biologists, and are of
reatyalu to science.
Quite an interesting suit was tried
'efore Judge Severance yesterday and
o-day, it being the case ofThos. Glaucke
8. John N. Hall and NJ. Ii. Willard for
he possession of lot 10. block 26, Man
alto City. In case the plaintiff is I'M
uccessful he wants the amount which
e has spent on improvements, which
10 says is 81 200. Thos, Hughes APP
ears for the plaintiff and Freeman &
'fau for the defendants. The evidence
4 the case shows that one Thos. Druner
a 1857, secured judges deed to the lot,
ut as he paid no taxes he lost the prop
rtv. S. Lamm got tax deed to the
md in 1862 and in 1879 gave special ,
'arranty deed to the lot to John Schulz
nburg. The latter built a house there
nd in 1881 lost the property on mort
age owned by Thos. Roger, who sold
he land TO Glaucke, the plaintiff, who
as since resided there, making sub
tantial improvements. Harry KnowIton
former Mankato man, in 1883, found
ut that Druner was alive and secured a
eed from him. Messrs. Hall and Will
lrd got the property from Knowlton.
hey brought an action for ejectment
gainst Glauke, who refused TO give
ossession.