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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-15
Fair and Unbiased.
Amboy Herald:

Amboy Herald:
Whatever other sins can be laid at
the door of the daily papers of Man
kato, they must have credit for hav-
ing given fair and unbiased reports of
the trial of VIM. Conway, who has
just been tried in MankatO on the
charge of murder. tits too common
a practice with the daily press of
cities to become either volunteer pro-
secutors or defenders of those charg-
ed with crime, and to make every
effort, without regard of principles, to
sway the mind of the public, the
court and the jury to the papers view
of the case. This is clear outside of
the legitimate province of news
paper, and the FREE PRESS and Re-
uieao have abstained from such ques-
tionable methods in the case of state
VS.. Conway, much to their credit.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-15
SUPT. KENASTONS REPORT.

Superintendent Kenaston has made
his annual report to County Superin-
tendent Scherer. He reports the
number of scholars entitled to ap-
pOrtiOnment as 1865; number not en-
titled to apportionment, 1854; total
number of scholars enrolled at the
fall term, 1,464, winter term, ,4SO:
spring term, 1,434; year, 1929; num-
Der between five and eight years, 1896;
number between eight and sixteen
years enrolled, 1,1O9; number between
sixteen and twenty-one years enroll
ed, SO; average daily attendance, fall,
1,179; winter, LIZA; spring, 1,251;
year, 1,204.
Systematic and regular instruction
has been given in temperance ny
giene. There are three male teachers
and twenty-nine female teachers.
The average monthly wages of the
male teachers is 1921, and of the fe
male teachers $57. The average num-
Der of months they have taught is 80.
Fourteen of them are High school
graduates, nine Normal graduates,
and three college graduates. OF the
others, seven have attended summer
schools, six have attended High
schools, four have attended Normal
schools, and one has attended college.
Sixteen of the teachers have taught
in the city continuously the past
three years or more, five have taught
two but less than three years, and
six one year but less than two years.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-15
Do you Know 2

That more ills result from Ar
Unhealthy Liver than anv
other cause-Indigestion, Consti,
patton, Headache, Biliousness,
and Malaria usually attend it.
DR.. Sanford's Liver Invieorator
is a vegetable specific for Liver
Disorders and their accompanv-
ing evils. 1t cures thousands
why not be one of them? Take
DR.. Sanfor1's Liver Invigorator.
Your Druggiss will supply you.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-15

What is worth doing is worth do
ing well. When we make cut in our
prices, we make good big ones. Boys
bicycle black hose worth rs cents for
half price, now two pair for % cents.
MODEL CLOTHING AND SHOE HOUSE.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-15

Suits that are worth $1,000, $1,000
and $500 now sold for $3.50 at the
MODEL CLOTHING AND SHOE HOUSE
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-15

On Saturday the wind blew down
the large DR.. Brown barn, near Ger
mania park.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-15

The gun recently broken from
the grasp of the soldier standing
guard in Lincoln park is to be re-
placed.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-15

$500 Russett Tan Shoes are now
sold for $3.50 at the MODEL CLOTHING
AND SHOE HOUSE.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-04-12
Troublesome Initials

Some years ago several wealthy
men OF Memphis, Tenn, built a
steamboat, and named It after one
Of their best citizens. Charles B..
Church. But in painting the
name on the paddlc-box, as they
wanted the letters large, they put
simply the initials, 50 that the name
read &C. b. Church
When the colored people first
caught sight OF the boat they puz-
Zled themselves not a little over this
name. Such of them as could read
reasoned about the matter at great
length.
What kind oh church am dat G..
B. Church," they quericd. what
does de c. b. stan for: OATS what
We want to know"
At length a bright thought struck
n Of them, and he exclaimed ioy-
fully, Il know what dat ere stan
for. Wonder | didn't see it fore.
Dat c. B. stan for Colored Baptis'-
it's de COlOred Baptis' Church, OATS
what it u.s."
The steamboat went by that name
for some time, until the owners. in
desperation at the jokes about IL.
erased the initials, and had Charles
b. Church painted in full.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-04-12

The strange case of ex-State Treas
urer Hemingway Of Mississippi, who
has now been -four years in the peni-
Tertiary upon the charge of embez-
Zling several hundred thousand dol.
lars, is a genuine romance OF crime.
1t was proved on his trial that he was
treasurer. that when his term ex-
pired the vaults were empty, and
that no one but himself had access
to the vaults or knew the combina
tiOn. In the face OF such evidence
he was convicted and sent to the pen
itentiary by a Judge that was his
personal friend, though not a cent of
the money could be traced 10 him.
He had made no increase in his eX-
penditures; had not s%peculated, and
had no bad habits. Moreover, ht
gave every dollar he possessed to help
make good the loss. All the time he
has protested his innocence, and now
after four Of the five years Of his
imprisonment have expired the truth
is out and it shows that jury. Judge,
and public opinion were wrong. He
had testified on the trial that he
alone had access to the vaults and
knew the combinations OF the safes,
but he did not know that thieves had
stolen that knowledge from him aud
were robbing him. The grand and
petit juries and the court, as well as
prominent citizens all owe the State,
have asked the Governor to pardon
him and he soon will be free. The
most that Can be charged against him
is carelessness, but it was careless.
ness that came rear being criminal.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-04-12
\ Western Heroine.

Not all the hcroism Of which West.
ern women are capable comes along
the line Of startling reforms or new
departures in customs Of living. The
everyday experiences otmany a from.
icr woman are not less notable. Sucl,
was the case with Mrs. Mclean, who.
with her husband, settled on the
Nebraska frontier early in the '70s
Her bravery is yet told Of by the cat
tlcmen who then drove their great
herds up through the Platte bottoms.
Her husband had with great diff.
Guilty gotten together q bunch Of
cows, about fifty in all, and was en-
deayoring to start a little herd in or
der to rescue his family from the
poverty which hung over the claim.
Mrs. Mclean had the herding o.
them, as well as the are of the
house. One day, when her husband
had gone twenty miles to the store,
she was compelled to leave the cattle
grazing while she looked after a sick
baby at home. Suddenly she saw
two men ride from behind the hills
and start the cattle of full canter,
abductIng the whole bunch. She
wasted not a minute, but, mounting
her bronco, was after them.
The men evidently thought them
selves undiscovered, and in the hustle
Of hurrying on the stock did not hear
the pattering hOOfs of the pursuer's
pony as she came c~antering up he
hind. Suddenly one OF the mel gave
a yell and tumbled backward of his
saddle, with the moose Of a lariat
tight around his throat. Frightened,
the other turned to see a furious
woman facing him, says a writer in
the St. Louis Globe Democrat
what are you doihg?:" she demand
ed, iercely.
Who are you:" he responded, with
equal gruffness.
Il own these cattle, and you have
got to help me drive them back where
you got them"
As she held a cooked revolver 10
ward his head he decided to submit
and, with her following closely, RODE
around the scattered herd and turned
their heads homeward. For three
miles the stock was driven, and then
with a warning not to look bacE-
ward, the d%epredator was dismissed
He fed without a backward glance
His companion, choked to death
and with neck broken, was found Oh
the prairie, but there was never any
inquiry rs to the manner OF his tah
ing of. 1t was enough In those days,
as it is now, to know that he mao
been engaged in cattle stealing. r."
such the prajries have scant pity.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-04-12

family prayers. Mrs Young SAYS he,
married life was supremely hanny
Il would sacrifice anything for The
surviving wives of President Young .
she remarked, land their feeling %.
ward me, ! think, is the same"
Speaking Of the position of The
Mormon Church in this country, Mr..
Young said: The ~ill-feeling thatba
heretofore existed toward the Nor.
mon Church is fast dying out, and
the people Of Utah have learned to
treat the Mormons as any other 70.
ligious body. AS old p~reiudices dis.
appear the good work Of the Mormon
Church becomes apparent, Through
the tithing house this church distrih.
utes more goods to the poor each year
than any other church organization.
the amount in Salt Lake City alone
being 800. 900 annually. Homes are
built up and cooperation practiced
with beneficial results. The misrcp.
reservations of the pcst are being
supplanted by the truths Of the pres
ent. which fact points 60 a bright
future for the church."
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-04-12

enable the passage from southampton
or Liverpool to New York to be made
in four days. The rollers are to enter
the water to a depth Of about twen-
ty-siX feet. and revolye within a plat
form placed about twenty -four feet
above the water, so that there will
be a rolling instead OF a gliding body,
As is the case in ordinary ships. The
rollers presumably are to be worked
nv engines 10 secure propulsion. NJ.
Bazin claims 70 have settled by ex-
periment that the stability OF the
roller type of vessel is at least as
Srest as that OF the ordinary type,
sui believes that the construction OF
rs design Of ship will be much less
N>.-y than that OF the usual descrip-
.lou. according T." French report. it
: proposeo to put NJ. Bazin's plans
u \ PRACTICAL test by constructing a
ye$<el about 400 feet long and OF
about ninety foot beam. with rollers
sevsnty-hve feet in diameter and
.hir,y-dve feet wide. The latter are
10 MAKE twenty-five revolutions per
minute.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-04-12
THERE is encouragement in

THERE is encouragement in the
fact that the Partisan anarchists
havt lately been more successful in
blowing themselves up than in kill
ing other people. In every recent
ease Of bOmb.throwing the engineer
has been hoist with his own petard.
The bomb-thrower, seeking to assas-
sinate innocent women and children.
has succeeded only in filling his own
system with horseshoe nails, slugs
and broken glass, while his Intended
victims have escaped unhurt or with
triflng injuries. 1t is to be hoped
that the good work will go Oh.
Nothing can be more gratifying and
useful than the spectacle OF an an
archist blowing himself up.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-04-12
~lAFAYETTE'S

Amusing Mistake Caused by His Lack OF
Acquaintance with English.
When Lafayette, in 1924, made his
memorable tour through the United
States, many amusing incidents oc-
CURED. Lafayette spoke but little
English, and understood less. He
had retained a few phrases, such as
Thanks" My dear friend" Great
country" Happy man." "Ah, l re-
member" And, though he usually
uttered these in an effective manner,
they were sometimes ludicrously NAL
apropOs. At Halifax the cortege was
met by General Daniel, who had sta
toned a company Of soldiers by the
roadside, thanked by the ladies who
has assembled to do honor to the
guest of the State. 1t had been ar
ranged that the ladies should wave
their hankerchiefs as SOC as Lafay-
cite came in sight, and when Daniel
exclaimed, welcome, Lafayette"
the whole company was to repeat the
words after him. Unluckily, the la
dies misunderstood the programme
and waited too long. only to be re-
minded Of their duty by a SteDtorian
command of "Flirt, ladies, firt, |
say" from the general, as he walked
down the line to meet the marquis.
Equally misunderstanding their part,
the soldiers, instead Of shouting
Welcome Lafayette." in unison at
the close Of the generals speech, re-
peated the sentence one by one in
varying tones down the line. Gen
eral Daniel, frantic at this burlesque
OF his order. vainly attempted to
correct it; but as he unfortunately
stammered when he was excited, his
"Say it all tO-to-tO geth-er.." could not
overtake the running fire Of "Wel-
come Lafayette" which continued all
along the line. Great country. great
country replied Lafayette, turning
to General Polk, who was vainly try
ing not to smile. Recognizing an old
acquaintance, Lafayette greeted him
with great etfusiOn: All. my dear
friend, so glad to see you once more.
Hope you have prospered aud had
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-04-12

AS EVERYONE expected, the Coro.
ner's jury in the case of the woman
killed by the Cornell sophomores has
returned a verdict that she came to
her death at the hands Of persons
known. The jurors we're Of course
servilc tradcsmen of the town Of
Ithaca, who were willing to gloze
over murder rather than lose the pat
ronage Of the students. 1t would be
a righteous retribution if some Of the
sycophants were themselves tC suffer
from the hOmicidal ef~ervescence Of
the young gentlemen whom they
have saved from the criminal dock.
1t is not necessary to say anything Of
the Faculty OF the college. the mem
berS Of which have done their part
toward defeating Justice. The whole
crowd-dOctorS of divinity and all
are beneath contempt.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-04-12

THE dread of whipping having been
found to be very s~alutary as a deter
rant in the commission OF garroting
and certain other crimes, a measure
now before the New South Wales
Legislature proposes to give the courts
discretionary power to order whip
ping in addition to imprisonment for
burglary, robbery, wounding with in
tent to do bodily harm. resisting ar
rest, picking pockets and working
confidence games.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-04-12
The Postal Service.

The first mention Of a postal ser
vice in the United States is that of
the General Court Of Massachusetts.
1T is ordered that notice be given
that Richard Fairbanks his house in
Boston is the place appointed for all
letters which are brought from he.
yond the seas or are to be sent thith-
er, to be left with him. and he is t.
take care that they are to be deliy-
cred or sent according to the direc.
ton. And he is allowed for every
letter a p3nny, and must answer ali
miscarriaees through his own neglect
In this kind"
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-04-12

In Capada perhaps ten thousand
women rear trousers during the
winter-of course with the skirt. In
this country the popularity of the
masculine garment is growing with
remarkable rapidity. The trousers
are now, and have been for years. in
use for horseback riding. The fen.
cling costumes. also trousers. are
worn without the skirt, and in the
gymnasiums Of the fashionable board
ing schools for young ladies trousers
are worn exclusively and with excel
lent effect and comfort. In Europe,
for the past two years, Turkish trou,
sers are worn by fashionable women
for climbing the mountains. The
same are worn in the Scotch High.
lands by English women. The bath.
,ng dress shows marked signs Of fol.
lowing the general movement: at the
French resorts the most fashionable
ladies appear with the close-fttine
bathing-suits, with knee-trousers
leaving the skirt of entirely.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-04-12
A Throne OF Thrones.

Those who have seen the Car OF
all the Russias sitting. scepter 10
hand, on his great white throne.
agree in pronouncing the sight one OF
the few impressive things connected
with nineteenth century royalty.
The Car, being an absolute des-
pot, cannot be said TO have an on1-
cial residence, for the chair OF state
wherever he sits is the throne OF
Russia. But in the palace OF re-
tersburg, there is an apartment N
which his Imperial Majesty's ad-
visers assemble on such occasions as
it suits him to call them together
Of]cially. $3.50.
It is an immense marble hall, with
an Enclosure at one end vaguely sug-
gestive Of a cathedral altar. On a
dais, formed by an elevation Of some
steps, stands the throne itself.
The very few to whom dread OF
Nihilists has not denied access to the
royal parsonage in state pronounce
the chair a triumph in ivory and gold
and costly woods. The jewels gilt
tering all over it would alone enrich
a state. on the authority OF GOrtscha-
kof himself. The rests are four
heavy pillars, representing, at their
extremities, bears claws The arms
seem great tusks. gnarled and twist
ed like the roots OF a centenarian
oak.
The back is Enthusiastically elaborate,
the rampant eagle. il the king OF
birds, may be said EVER to assume a
favorite armOrial pose Of the king OF
beasts, tlaring c~cnspicuOusly in gold
and silver.
The only cushion is the plenitude
Of erminc, which. when the royal
despot seats himself, gives him the
air OF = snow image. The ceremO-
MES in which the Russian throne fig
ures are largely religious, the Car
being head Of both church and state,
and it is not strange, therefore, that
this mere chair has become an object
almost Of veneration in the land of
the ROmanoffs.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-04-12

A GENTLEMAN Of musical tastes
and patriotic instincts writes u i
New York paper 10 ASK why the
States OF the Union should not have
State songs. Yankee Doodle he
says, goes As a national air. but
there is no reason why each State
should not have its individual tune. "
The New York gentleman is mis-
taken; he is of the key. so to speak.
In the first place. Yankee Doodle
is not recognized as the national air.
Some patriotic assemblages sing or
attempt to sing-"America," a song
with a tune stolen Immediately
from God Save the King" others
murder The Star-Spangled Banner"
others still attempt Hail, Columbia"
and in the Northwest The Red,
White and Blue" is the favorite.
Yankee Doodle" isn't sung at all ex-
cept by children. But the trouble
with all these songs is that no one
seems to know all the words, and
few know the entire tunes. That is
the humiliating fact. The average
Fourth of July crowd will tackle
1.-The Star-Spangled Banner" with
patriotic fervor, but by the time "the
rockets red glare" is reached three
fourths Of the singers will be silent
and the remainder will be trying to
hum the air without singing the
words. State songs would only make
a bad matter worse We don't know
our patriotic songs, and we don't
seem to are to learn them.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-04-12

NOTHING more has been heard up
t. date from John Bulls astonishing
assumption that Uncle Sam ought to
apologize to him for taking care Of
the British sailors for whom the
Union Jack had no protection. Since
the suggestion OF the Pail Mall"
that Admiral Benham should be
hanged as Il pirate for simply attend
rig to his own affairs in the harbor
OF Rio, nothing more refreshingly
impudent has been heard. But John
Bull is full of these delicate little
surprises. They lend a certain
piquancy to his character.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-04-12

Cody's Biography Written Abroad.
The following sketch Of Buffalo
Bill is credited to an English paper
by the Savannah News:
1.-The cablegrams announce that
Colonel Cody, who will be well re-
membered in London, has returned
as Mayor of Nebraska. No better
selection could be made. Colonel
Cody was a friend Of a man named
Boon. who discovered Kentucky in
1869. After marrying the grand
daughter of a distinguished gentle
man named Sitting Bull Frog, Cody
was twice Governor Of Chicago, and
at one time was made Mayor OF the
Arkansas Legislature. He also served
in the Confederate army under Ben
Butler, who so gallantly defended
New Orleans against General Long
street. The province Of Detroit re-
warded him for his military service
by sending him to Congress, where he
introduced a bill for the relief of the
citizens Of Buffalo. 1t was in this
that he got his name OF Buffalo Bill
While Mr.. Cody has a large ranch in
ST. Louis, he finds time for litera-
ture, and writes for the Atlantic
Monthly, a newspaper edited by
Mark Twain and Uncle Thomas
Cabin, a gentleman who made fame
by his negro dialect sketches"
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-04-12

80 We Ourselves would have said
that the duel was an institution and
would so remain in the South; but it
has disappeared-has been ridiculed
out Of existence. And now the "per-
sonal dif1culty" has got to go also,
and 20 IL will very rapidly when once
public opinion has set its face firmly
against it. Already it has been pan
ishcd from the centers OF population
in the South, and fingers in out-of-
the way places only. The formation
OF g0od.ordcr leagues in such places
would be almost instantancOusly CT
fective in putting a stop To it there
also. Let the Southern people re-
move the rcprOach. When they have
done 50 they can invit immigration
and have the invitation accepted:
but not before.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-04-12

THERE is one field in which The
trolley system will meet with no OPP
position. That is in the conStrnc-
tiOn of roads through country dis.
tricts where some sort Of t%ransporta-
tion better than wagons and not 40
expensive AS a regular railroad IS
needed. Such Il road is TO built from
Cleveland to Akron. Il distance a
thirty five miles. 1T will connect
half Il dozen villages. and will trans
port both passengers and freight.
The advantages Of the electric road
for this class OF work ar many The
trolley road will admit II grades I'M
possible to the steam railroad. The
cost Of construction i M 4 ten N
its favor. No skilled trainmeu are
needed, and the equipment. o-lr1
simpler and lighter, is ,av ie>S "
penSivc. while the maintenance {,
the roadbed is practically nOthi1.
The power plant is really the hsavi-
est item OF expense. and with cAs:
once installed the road mus, IL :
very poor business II il does ~
make money. The TROLLEY W.. 1r1
its ultimate field OF usefulness n -he
rural districts. where II w, tcr1t>h
cheap and rapid transit, and have
few opportunities Of killing people.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-04-12
WAY To KEEP ICE

is placed on top Of this drumhead
and covered loosely by another piece
Of flannel. In this condition the ice
keeps cold and even freezes to the
flannel Thus a small piece Of ice
cal be kept near the patient all
night. so as to avert many weary
marches up and down stairs to the
refrigerator. To break the ice a
sharp needle o r hat pin is the best
thing. Force it in and you will be
astonished to see how easily it will
divide the ice.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-04-12
NINE WIVES REMA,,.


IUOWD - 1V0UB WIN A.
/. Living. Nov
ct the nineteen wives wh,u
great head OF the Mormon ~. thc
Brigham Young, married. ninorch'
now living ut Salt Lake City, I,. are
The most interesting of these w.ah'
is Amelia Folsom Young, the on'en
teenth wife and the favorite ~ s'et'
husband. She was born A. ~, -
in 1888, and In 1850 her family ~"
West and joined the Mormon Chn,sea
She and Brigham Young saw avn
other. II was a case Of love A. . s'In
sight and they soon welded, w u,st
Young has lately been intervier"1
as to her married life, and what Se
says is very interesting. Eacb Ut,
Young's wives, she says, had a en-,
arate room in his dwelling, and ~
household altogether numbered sn
"nty-fve. All dined at the sam. :.
BILE and all met in the evening "a.