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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1895-02-06
CHAPTER XII.
A RACE FOR LIFE,

A RACE FOR LIFE.
Major Burke's command was ordered
to guard the telegraph line extending
south from Rossville. The regiment
was strung out to a considerable dis
lance, each troop guarding certain
portion of the line. Corporal Ratigan
was placed in charge of a section of
two miles. Putting himself at the head
Of eight men, he led them to the end of
his section nearest camp, and dividing
them into two reliefs Of four men each
posted them at intervals Of half mile
along the line under his care. At sun
set, not being relieved, he prepared to
spend the night in bivouac Selecting a
olump OF trees under which to rest and
cutting some boughs for beds-or rather
to keep the men from the damp ground
the corporal established the relief, off
duty, there The rations were cooked
and eaten, after which the guard was
relieved. The corporal went out always
with the relief, posted his men and
slept between times.
1t was 2 O'Clock in the morning when
Ratigan started out to post the last re-
lief for the night The men followed,
grum and stupid, having just been wax
ened out of sound sleep and not yet
thoroughly aroused. The party rode to
the extreme end of the section, left a
man and turned back, leaving man at
every half mile Corporal Ratigan had
posted the Eastman half mile from the
blvouac and was returning when sud-
denly, turning bend in the road run
ming through wood, he deserted a
dark object before him beside the road.
He drew rein and watched and listened.
The dark object, as he fixed his gaze
upon it, grew into the dim outlines of a
vehicle, but it Was too dark for him uo
see IT it contained any one. The corpo-
raj, whose mind had been fixed on the
Continued next week.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-07
WILL PROFIT BY EXPERIENCE

In late magazine article, John
Bach McMaster, the historian, in
writing upon the currency question,
says that the historical presidents are
that while the people have always re-
jected cheap and debased currency,
it has only been after they have ex-
perimented with it, and found it to
be most costly lesson, and he is in
clined to think that Notwithstanding
the experience of the past, the people
will not be satisfied now until they
have experienced for themselves the
disasters which are attendant with
such a trial. In commenting upon
this view, the Keokuk Iowa) Gate
City says:
1t is for this very reason we do not
believe that the American people are
going to bring the hurt upon them
selves now. Those earlier people that
tried it had no experience to guide
them, and so the illusion and delusion
FEASIBILITY of cheap money theory
fascinated them, and they only cured
themselves Dy practical experience
OF cheap money and the evils of it.
But, we repeat, the American people
have the experience of those other
people to guide them, and certainly
mankind learns something and profits
something by the lessons of the past.
The greenbackers tried to get the peo-
pie to go through this cheap money
peril in 1879, but the American people
steadily resisted the attempt. The ex-
perience Of other countries was suffi-
cient for them, and they resisted fiat
money without going through the ex-
perience and hardship of it. We have
confidence that the American people
have as much sense now as they had
then, and they will no more try the
disaster Of the half dollar silver dollar
than they were willing to try the dis
aster of the fat dollar.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-07
CAME BY WATER.

]. G. Fowler stated today that he
is probably the only man who ever
came to Mankato from Europe entire
ly by water. He sailed from Liver
pool, went to New Orleans, to St.
Paul up the Mississippi river, and
from there up the Minnesota river by
water.
The question of navigating the
Minnesota and Blue Earth rivers
came up at the meeting with the
railroad officials yesterday, on the
question of drawbridge across the
Blue Earth. 1t was stated that many
years ago steam boat went some
miles up the Blue Earth river, but
that drawbridge would not be
necessary. Drawbridges are required
on the Minnesota river, but the draw
might not ever be required to be
ODened
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-07
DISAPPEARANCE OF THE PUBLIC
DOMAIN.

The recent proclamation OF Presl-
dent Cleveland opening the Yankton
reservation in South Dakota to settle
ment, serves to call attention to the
fact that the public domain is fast
vanishing, and that the chance to get
a farm at Uncle Sans expense is
about at an end. Here and there in
the hooks and corners can be found
farm or two, but the vast tracts OF
public domain from which farms were
but a few years ago freely taken, is
now among the things that were
Here and there is an Indian reserva-
ton which will, in the course OF time.
be opened up, but these are but a
drop in the bucket to what has
already gone.
Since the passage Of the homestead
law, through the agency OF the Re-
publican party, early in the COS, a
vast empire here in the west has been
opened up to civilization. The num-
Der of new farms opened up since 1860
has been 100000, which has brought
into cultivation 1875 100000 acres. The
history of the world does not show
another instance of such an extern
sive and substantial development as
the years which have lapsed since
1850 have shown. The average wealth
of the farmers of this country in 1890
was So, 505, and the most OF them,
especially those who have helped de-
velop this western empire, started
with but a few hundred dollars.
But the disappearance of the public
domain must operate to increase farm
values everywhere. That is the sim
pie logic of the situation. These
cheap public lands have for years
tended to keep down the price of i'm
proved lands further east from the
point they would otherwise have
reached long ago, and their value will
now year by year climb upward. This
will bring a new force to bear in social
and economic life, which the people
of this country will have to confront
and solve in some way for the benefit
of struggling humanity. In fact, the
disappearance of our public lands will
, in few short years entirely change
the condition of life in this country
and give an entirely different aspect
to the face of affairs as concerns the
great mass of the people, and more
and more will the old saying gain
force, that he who owns farm any
where is well provided for, and will
have no occasion to worry for the
future.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-07
THE ROLLER MATTER.

Some members of the council have
taken exception to the report of the
proceedings of the adjourned meeting
last week, as given in the FREE PRESS,
regarding the purchase of the street
roller, wherein it was stated that the
city had paid $500 more for roller
which was admitted to be no better
than the Russell roller which was
offered for less money. The aldermen
claim that the difference in weight
between the two rollers more than off
sets the difference in price, and that
dhe roller which they have purchased
is lin every way equal to-, if not SUI
superior, to the one which was offered
them at a lower rate, besides being
practically 14-ton roller.
We make this statement for the
benefit of the aldermen who feel
aggrieved, but at the same time the
FREE PRESS believes that it's report
was correct. The substance of the
discussion was written out at the time
it occurred, and as nearly as possible
in the words given.
The general public will hardly be
satisfied with the claim made that
the additional weight will offset the
additional price paid. A l24-ton roller
would answer every purpose for which
the city has any need for years to
come, and was what was asked for in
the call for bids, and the fact that
the roller purchased weighs some two
tons more than was called for was
giving it an unfair advantage, to say
the least, when 12t-ton roller was
supposed to be the one considered.
The FREE PEEss believes now, as it
stated editorially then, that the
council was too haSty in closing the
purchase, and that after opening the
bids and finding it could not reach
decision without more information
upon the subject, as concerned some
one of the bids, which was not then
Obtainable, it should have laid the
further consideration of the matter
over for few days until such infor-
nation was secured, and no one would
have been injured in the least.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-07
TOOK POISON.
LAURA TAUGHT WAS TIRED OF
LIVING.
A Lovers Quarrel, Followed by a
Dose of Arsenic This Was
Laura's Second Attempt--She Will
Probably Pull Through, But De-
cIareS She Does Not Want To.

Laura Taught, who lives On Poplar
street about two blocks off from Front
street, took dose of strychnine or
arsenic Friday evening with suicidal
intent, but took enough to kill a
dozen people if distributed among
them, but if taken collectively not
enough to kill one. 1t was an over
dose, and this is what saved Laura. 1t
was about 900 o'clock when the con-
dition of the girl was discovered, and
it was an hour and half later before
physician could be secured, and
then DIR. Brown responded to sum-
mons and found the girl vomiting
from the effects of so large dose. 1t
appeared to him to be a case of
arsenical poisoning.
The girl, or woman, for she is twenty
nine years of age, was better today
and the prospects were favorable for
her recovery. She stated to lady
for whom she formerly worked, and
who called to see what could be done
for her, that she had taken strychnine
with the intent of killing herself, and
that she had found this world SO bad
that she was not afraid of change, or
words to that effect. When told that
she would probably recover, she said
that she was sorry if that was so.
DO LOT
day afternoon on South Front street
with a young man who has been keep
ing company with her for the past
ten years, and apparently they were
having lovers quarrel. The young
woman, however, states positively
that this had nothing to do with her
rash act later in the evening.
Miss Taught and her sister, four
years younger, support their aged
father. She has worked in various
capacities, such as at the knitting
mills, etc., earning good wages for
one in her position by her hard and
faithful work. She mas always borne
gOOd reputation, ana ner IrlenuS
were sorry to learn of her despon-
dency, which she is said to have eX-
hibited considerably of late. We are
informed by the lady who visited her
this morning that several years ago
she took strychnine, but was saved by
prompt efforts.
Commissioner Roberts states that
the county has helped the family,
which is very poor, and that it will
probably have to do SO again, now that
Miss Taught will be una BILE to work
for time.
LATERAL APO p. NJ. DR.. Brown re-
turned from visiting the girl and re-
ported that she was in a
state of collapse and that
the chances were against here
recovering. She bought arsenic
yesterday of druggist to "poison
rats" and took some at 4:3O p. M, and
then visited neighbors. She will not
give any reason why she took it, and
wishes to die.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-07
MADISON LAKE GRADUATION.

The graduating exercises of the
Madison Lake schooltook place Friday
night. Prof. G. f. Koehler, of the
Normal faculty, delivered an address
on wendell Phillips" to an apprecia-
tive audience, and County Superin-
tendent Scherer presented the di-
plomas to the graduates-eight young
ladies and one young man. Mr..
Scherer also, on behalf of the class,
presented fine gold watch to the
principal, Mr., Campbell. The exer-
cises passed off well, with large and
attentive audience.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-07

this no doubt because here and there
they find college graduate who's a
total failure in life. But he is is just
as apt to have been failure had he
not attended college at all. There are
of course some who are inflated with
the idea that college education is a
certificate to success without any par
ticular effort on their part. But these
are exceptions. The fact is that a
college education will not make the
man unless the man is there to be
| made. While on the other hand, the
man that is equipped with college
education has the natural advantage
of an equally as smart man who has
had to equip himself in the broad
school of the world.
There is less of the tendency to
sheer at college-bred men as neces-
sarily effeminate, piggish and IN
practical, says the Minneapolis Times,
and to hold that the only genuine
American is "the self-made man. as
| if educated men were not quite as
much self-made as ignorant men. 1t
would be most unfortunate if it were
| true that want of education, or con.
| tempt of the best education possible,
were distinctively American. But
happily, no nation ever showed from
the beginning more truthful appre-
citation of that value, and no nation is
more indebted to it's educated men
than this. In the early colonial
epoch, the impossible and formula
tive period, the clergy were in the
great part the influential class, and
they were especially the educated
body. The leaders of the revolution
were largely educated and college
bred men. The great majority of the
members of the Constitutional con-
vention were from the college. The
number of graduates were compare
lively small, but their influence and
power were very great. Nouniversity,
of course, and no primary school, and
no workshop, and no degree of poverty
will make naturally dull man wise,
nor give common sense to a fool. But
a true self-made man is the man who
makes himself out of all his opportu.
mites. The larger and more varied
they are, the more he is likely to
make" himself. Abraham Lincoln
was very poor boy, who had very lit
tie schooling. But the boy who lay
upon the floor to read his books by the
light of the burning pine knots,
showed the true instinct of the self
making man to obtain all the educa-
tion possible.
Sam Adams was none the less an Or
ganizing, practical political leader
because of his college training, and
DR.. Franklin was not more saga
cious or effective public man because
he was not college-bred There are,
indeed, plenty of great men who
graduated at our colleges, as there are
plenty of them who have been in
valids, like Darwin, and superstitious
like Bacon. They were not great,
however, because they did not gradu-
uate, nor because they were i'll, nor
because they were superstitious. Col
lege is only larger opportunity, and
the men who have the ability to make
themselves use that opportunity when
it is open to them, as, when it is
closed to them, they use such op-
portunities as they have.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-07

RISING prices, says the Cleveland
Leader, are cutting the arguments of
the free coinage regulators all to
pieces. A little more of the upward
movement which has made the
markets for great staples delightful
to the bulls this spring, and there will
not be enough left of the rot which
Harvey and other hirelings of the
silver mine owners have flooded the
country with to make it attractive or
deceptive to anybody, however ignor-
ant.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-07
SEVERAL CONTRACTS.

Gus Widell returned Friday evening
from Minneapolis, where he was look
ing after contracts. He is building a
bridge at Carver for the Minneapolis
& st. Louis road. He also has re-
ceived the contract from the Iowa
Central road to furnish 300 carloads of
bridge stone, more or less, and is re-
quired to deliver ten carloads day,
which he is having no trouble in
doing. Very few contracts slip
through Mr.. Widell's hands when he
gets after them.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-07

H. P. HALL, who has been running
the ST. Paul Morning Call for nearly a
year back, has sold the same to the
Globe of that city, and the last issue
of the Call appeared this morning. II.
P. has made frst-class paper of the
Call, and every member Of the news
paper gang in the state will be sorry
to see him retire from the field.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-07

THE Mower County Transcript was
issued by the ladies this week, and
was most creditable edition, and,
Judging by the amount of advertising,
they must have realized a neat little
sum. 1t was for the benefit of the
Presbyterian church of Austin.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-07
A COLLEGE-BRED LIFE.

The annual commencement season
now at hand is calculated to draw out
more or less comment, wise or unwise
upon the value of college education.
There are still some to be found un-
doubtedly, who will hold that col
lege education does as much damage
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-07

DR.. D. r. Stockley, formerly of this
city, has assumed the superintendency
of the sanitarium for nervous patients,
at Lake Geneva, Wis, and will shortly
move there with his family.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-07
rIankato Savings Bank

makes it's loans on real estate so that
payments may be made each year if
desired.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-07

-S150000 or less to loan on farm Sc
curity at reasonable rate. Inquire al
this office
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-07

The output of iron ore for the
world has reached 52,500,00O tons, of
which the United States furnishes
One-fOurth.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-07
Corn HaryeSters.

J. G. Roller sells the Osborne and
Deering corn harvesters. The best
in the market. soil
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-07

Common Sense and Case DodgeI
Cultivators are good ones. III. G.
AKERS.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-07

Hay carriers, forks and sings and
barn paint. H. G. Akers. 49-t-3.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-07
PLENTY OF MONEY.
County Treasury Overlooking With
Wealth.

The receipts Of the county treas
urer during the past few days have
been as follows:
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-07
WHEN the census enumerator COM

WHEN the census enumeration COM
mences his rounds next week, these
are the questions he will ask you, and
prompt answers will help him greatly.
There are Oil enumeration districts
in the state, against 1900 for the fed
eral census of 1890:
Name.
Age, at last birthday.
Sex.
Color.
Place of birth.
How long a resident of the state.
How long a resident OF the enumera-
tion district.
Occupation.
Amount of time employed at regu-
lar occupation for the year ending
June l.
Soldier or sailor in the war.
Father of foreign birth.
Mother of foreign birth.
Previously enumerated in this
census.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-06-07

received S2S, sos 40 at this settlement,
and the city school district S16,471.
Probably the figures will be a trife
more this year, as the taxes have been
paid up better than usual. There are
fewer delinquents today than has
usually been the case, while the de-
linquent taxes of previous years have
been largely paid. T is ought to in
dictate prosperous condition of af-
fairs in this county.
The morning times., 1895-09-04

Yes, I am your partner. I didn't intend to
tell YOU until you had entirely recovered, but
somehow you have corDered me and can't
escape. / had started TO see YOU when this
thing happened. / intended TO 90 once be
fore, just after your husb band died, but Icon
Guided not 10 do so. I never fully under
stood before why 1 changed my Eiud that
time. Now I know il was a vaguely con-
ceived and presumptuOus fear that 1 should
want TO marry you and that you would be
lieve me to be prompted by uercsuary mo-
tives alone. I'm in the same dilemma now.
During all these weeks of constant watching
over you have learned 70 love YOU OF
course, you do not care for me-, and possibly
never viii, but can't help telling you.'
Why do you speak so bitterly about it,"
she said, gently. I promised my husband.
YOU know, that I would never marry, and
never shall: but it is that promise. and not
the loss OF money, that would prevent my
doing so. You seem TO blame me for it all
am not responsible for my husbands VIII
Besides, you are the last person in the world
10 whom one would attribute Uuscrup pulOus
motives.
He did not press the matter, and through
| out the remainder Of the day the subject,
which was eN4leGLlF GSJdSlrLAA 70 DoLlr
was avoided by tacit agreement She
went home the 1st OF Octo Der, and few
/ weeks later he followed her.
L must come to some definite under"
standing with YOU" he said, as If his com
| ing demanded some explanation If you
| should ever again care for any one, would
| YOU stiu feel yourself bound by an unreasOn-
| able promise TO a dead man? Would you
make yourself and others miserable for the
| sake OF a fancied duty to one whose happi-
ness is long since past all making or MARI
inge"
| 4 used to think so, she faltered. but Of
/ late 1 have commenced to believe"
! She stopped and smoothed out hefoIds OF
/ her black dress. He bent over and kissed
her.
Il understand" he said. There are
| some promises that are better broken than
kept Shall your legacy, which snail be
| forfeited To- the firm of Hadley & Brooks
upon our marriage, be returned To YOU as .
| dowry?"
AS you wish, " she returned, meekly.
The morning times., 1895-09-04
RECORD OF THE COURTS.

Circuit Court, No. l. Justice Cox
MCDANIEL VS.. Edwards; Judgment for
plaintiff on motion. Howe vs.. National
Economist Company; same decree. Tucker
VS.. Elliott; fiat on sci IA. Wells rs. D. c.;
and Others; order restoring cause TO docket.
Probate Court-Proceedings in estates
have been recorded as follows Eliza
Mayhew. VIII returned with CommISstoa
issued Charles 4. Johnson, petition OF
widow for letters Of administration filed.
Francis Tourney; inventory Of money,
S2T7 so. filed. Petition Of Annie E. Ford
TO be appointed guardian over orphan OF
Charles Ford. filed. Susan BriscOe: receipts
Of Lucinda Ridout, SI9T.61; Charles Gross,
S32-q5. and Annie NJ. Wheeler, S32 90,
filed
Equity Court No 1 Justice COx.-Pum-
phrey VS. bradley; pro CoufesS0 against
defendants ordered. Washington Gas Light
Company VS. NOulon; time TO file testimony
extended to September IS, 1895. Collins
VS.. Collins: appearance OF absent defendants
ordered. Henderson vs.. National Sanitary
Compauy:auditor's report finally confirmed
Pumnhrey VS.. PUmphTey; testimony before
eNauinerorIeradt taken. Couleyvs- SkaEgsi
decree Of revision granted. Petition OF
Francis Tovar: decree granting change Of
name to Osgood. Brown VS. Brown; exam
inerauthorized to continue "a king testimony.
Dorsey vs.. Dorsey. rule on defendant return
able September granted. Coates vs..
Coates: payment into registry and convey
ance Of part Of sub-lOt p. square 579.
Orme VS.. Calhoun; auditors sreportcCnfirmed