The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-04-12

MIR. o. o. Pitcher has qualified as
receiver of the defunct State Bank of
Lake CRYSTAL. He has furnished bond
for s., $500, with p. w. Pitcher and q. +.
Piper as sureties. The assets amount to
between 81 900 and 81 800, mostly in real
estate. Besides this the creditors hope
to get hold of some property, including
the bank building, which they say was
fraudulently transferred. This will
bring the assets up to from $1,000 to 3D.
500. The law allows four months in
which to set aside transfer when there
is intent to evade the law. The liabili-
ties amount to about 1900, with more
to be heard from. 1t is possible that
the bank may appeal to the supreme
court from Judge Severance's decision
to appoint receiver, on the point that
banks cannot be placed in the hands OF
a receiver. The elevator company's
business is also mixed up with the bank
ana will have TO be investigated.
The game bill was debated in the
committee room of the State senate yes
terday by several senators, who proved
themselves thorough sportsmen by their
excellent discourses on the merits of an
August or September limit on shooting
prairie chickens. Senator Edwards
made an amendment to substitute Sept.
for Aug. 20 as the day to begin the
slaughter of chickens, in order to make
it to correspond with the day in Iowa
and Dakota. If Aug. 20 was fixed upon
the border counties would be overrun
with sportsmen from other States, who
would bag all the birds. Besides, he
said, on August 20 most of the grain in
the State was standing, and protested
against giving young sportsmen license TO
tramp through the fields and destroy
grain. Senator Goodrich opposed the
amendment, on the ground that the
chickens were old and tough on Sept. /,
and if the Ia;e date was sanctioned by
the legislature the result would be that
the law breakers would get all the sport.
Senator Brown emphatically indorsed
the remarks of Senator Edwards, and in
cidentally roasted the members of the
rich gun clubs. The Edwards amend
ment prevailed, and the bill was recon-
mended to pass in that form.
"A first, class contractor and carpen-
ter said to-day, in speaking of the pro-
posed contractors and mechanics I'M
ion, that good contractors stand no show
in bidding on ANYTHING any more. Those
who know nothing about the business
rush IN and get the contracts by bidding
so low that often the bondsmen are
obliged to finish the contracts. 1t was
the same way with the various mechan-
ical industries, he said, especially with
carpenters. Common laborers will en-
gage as carpenters, though they have
had no experience and do not possess
any tools, and will work for dollar and
Il half day; whereas good carpenters,
who have had years of experience and
possessed several hundred dollars worth
of tools should do the work and receive
regular mechanics wages. tie took no
stock in the attempt to lay these wrongs
at the doors of the rich, but said 1t was
all owing to the inexperienced men cut
ting each others threats in their bids.
A man will build house ut reasonable
price as quickly as at a very low price,
after he has made up his mind to build.
The difference between the two prices
should go to the labor in higher wages,
and would, were il not for labor itself.
He favored, as the only escape from the
existing condition of affairs, a law re-
curing persons to serve apprenticeship
before becoming mechanics or contract.
ors. He did not believe in strikes and
would not join any organization where
they would be allowed. IL WIS to try to
meet the above stated complaints that
the contractors union had been talked
of.