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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-23
TO AVOID CRITICISM.
Why the Escape of Crazy People From
the Asylum is Not Reported.

Why the Escape of Crazy People From
the Asylum is Not Reported.
Fred Allen, a patient at the Topeka
Insane asylum, escaped yesterday and
was captured before shutdown. Allen
was sort of trusty and worked in the
the kitchen. He made his escape through
the back door of the kitchen and wasn't
missed for nearly an hour. The incident
was not reported to the police and the
capture was wholly accidental One of
the attendants found him on Kansas ave-
que, and notified q policeman, who took
him to the city prison.
When asked why the escape had not
been reported to the police, the attendant
said that escapes of insane patients were
never reported any more for fear they
would get into the newspapers. When
crazy man gets away he often goes
back to his home and is sent back. If he
doesn't go there. the asylum people await
developments. The attendant intimated
that escapes from the asylum were as
numerous as they ever were.
This may be nice. easy way of avoid
ing newspaper publicity, but it is a poor
policy. OF course, all escapes from the
asylum can't be prevented, out some
measure should be taken to make the
patient more secure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-23

The opinion of a prominent attorney
that the recent decision of the supreme
court regarding the income tax is appi-
cable TO the whisky and tobacco tax has
the appearance of plausibility. 1t IS
doubtful, however, whether the court
will ever be called upon to rule on the
whisky tax. The revenue tax and the
license system are the chief elements of
strength in the liquor traffic. Had it not
been for the immense revenue derived
from this business by the general gov
ernment and the municipalities the
traffic in intoxicants would have been
suppressed long ago From these sys-
TENS of taxation greater corruption
funds have proceeded with which to de-
bauch the politics of the country than
from all other sources. Whisky meu are
not anxious to escape the tax. The con-
sumers pay it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-23
eDIRT DEFIES THE KING THEN
s 4 OIL 10
Is GREATER THAN ROYALTY ITSELF
DELAYED By A DOG.

A Vicious Animal on Fourth Street Keeps
Man From Catching Train.
g. W. Courtney was arrested last even
ing for being the keeper of a vicious
dog The animal in question: big,
black brute, with no pedigree to speak
of, but an ugly disposition-created
great deal of excitement on East Fourth
street yesterday afternoon.
An Ottawa man, whose name the po-
lice neglected to get, was running on
Fourth street past Quincy to catch a train,
when the vicious dog rushed out and at
tempted to bite him.
The Ottawa man threw down an arm
full of books and legal papers which he
was carrying and ran. A man who ap-
peared to be in charge of the animal came
out and quieted him. and the Ottawa
man went back and got his books and
papers. He started again to run and the
dog again took after him.
The Ottawa man missed his train, and
he reported the matter to Officers Lowe
and Wellman. they hunted up the dog,
and found it under lock and key, and did
not feel justified in killing the animal.
After a consultation with the chief they
arrested G. w. Courtney, the owner of
the dog.
Courtney is a shoemaker. employed at
Payne's shoe store, aud lives in Parkdale.
Courtney protests that he left the dog at
home, and that the animal was enticed
away by neighbors.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-23

it clincher He neglected to call at
tention to the difference between 10 per
cent on 800 and 10 per cent on $1,000.
He would leave the inference that man
who sells 800 worth of wheat at 10 per
cent profit would have just as much
clear money as the man who sells the
same amount of wheat for $500 at 10 per
cent profit Yet any one can see that
there is a difference of SO with which
to pay interest and taxes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-23

The fact that Germany has decided to
await the action of England in the mat
ter of the restoration of silver settles the
silver question as far as Germany is con-
cerned. England will never admit sill
yer to her monetary system until com
PEELED to do so, and nothing can compel
her to do it but the Independent action
of the United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-23

THE Leavenworth side of the Topeka
base ball drunk shows that Topeka was
entirely to blame for the drunken mob.
Every Topeka man who visited Lsaveu-
worth carried bottle of Topeka whisky
in his pockek-Atchison Globe
This is Ed Hows's favorits style of
falsehood. It is one of his forms of
"humOr." In reality there wasn't sim
gle bottle of whisky to be seen on the
rip over to Leavenworth. Leavenworth,
like Atchison, is besotted, and the only
amusement to be found at either place
is getting drunk.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-23

EVERY day makes it more certain that
no silver party will be necessary 1t
looks now as if there would be scram-
BILE among the existing parties to see
which can make the strongest declara-
ton in favor of silver. 1t will probably
be the goldbugs that will be forced to
form new party. If they do Cleveland
is their logical candidate. John Sher-
man would make 4 good running mate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-23

UNDER free coinage, says Mr. Carlisle,
the silver dollar would not be worth any
more than the commercial value of the
bullion it contains It is now
worth double the commercial value
of the bullion it contains and
is therefore from Mr.. Carlisle's stand
point g dishonest" dollar. The advo-
Gates of free coinage would make it an
honest dollar" by making the bullion it
contains worth a hundred cents all over
the world
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-23

president of the
Whisky trus t,
once called Sam
uel NJ. Rice. The
words doubtless
cut at the time,
but Rice said
nothing. He
merely continued
to "saw wood, :"
as the saying
goes, and to wage
a d @ erm in ed
warfare against
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-23

If the railroads can succeed in getting
a reduction of assessments from each
successive board of assessors for few
years their names will disappear entirely
from the tax rolls
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-23

THE officers of the law at Kansas City,
Kansas, seem to have tired of waiting
for public sentiment to close the Joints
and are proceeding against them in the
ordinary way. by the statutes made and
DrOyided
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-23

WHO wants those SO electoral votes
which Mr.. Carter, cha irman of the
national Republican committee, says will
go to silver candidate?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-23

Two hundred thousand dollars was the
price paid to Mr.. Joseph Choate for de-
feating the will of the people in the mat
ter of the income tax. 1t was probably
cheaper than buying congress would
have been.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-23
Editor and Proprietor
Sworn to and subscribed April . 1895
lSEALl &. NJ. COCKRRLL,
Clerk of the District Court
shawnee County, Kansas
Circulation Growth
Weathar Indications

CHICAGO. May 20. - For Kansas,
Warmer tonight, with fair weather
in the eastern and showers in the western
portion: Friday, generally fair and
warmer; souherly winds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-23

y WHEN Mr. Carlisle stated in his speech
that free coinage would advance all
prices alike, SO that the man who makes
10 per cent profit now would only make
10 per cent then, he no doubt considered
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-23
THE WHISKY TRUST.

How Rice Triumphed Over His Old Enemy,
Ex-E'resident Greenhut.
''An obscure whisky salesman" is
what Joseph B. Greenhut, the deposed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-23

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Their Idea of Life.

''The great trouble with young men
who want to see life,'' remarked the
corn fed philosopher, sis that they
imagine that there is none of it worth
seeing by daylight. Cincinnati Trib-
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through any other paper This ia a fact
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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-11-08
THos HUGHES,
Attorney for Administered II
Mankato, MINI.

First ins. Nov Last Nov Is.
ORDER FOR HEARING ON PETITION TO
CONVEY LANDS ON CONTRACT.
CTATE OF MINNESOTA, County OF Blue
- Earth-ss. In Probate Court, Special Term,
October Goth, 1895.
In the matter of the estate of Victor II.
Thompson, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition of August
Ziels, OF the village of Lake Crystal in said
county, claiming to be entitled to conveyance
of certain real estate from the Executrix of
said estate, setting forth that Victor II. Thomp-
son, deceased, was bound by a contract in
writing to convey said real estate to the said
August Zels upon the terms and con-
ditions therein stated with a description of the
land to be conveyed, and the facts upon which
such claim to conveyance is predicated, and
praying that the Probate Court make decree
authorizing and directing the said Executrjx
to convey such real estate to said petitioner
as the person entitled thereto.
1t is therefore ordered that all persons inter
ested in said estate may appear before this
Court at Special term thereof to be held on
Saturday the 23rd day of November, A. d. i 800,
at ten O'Clock in the forenoon at the Probate
Office in the Court House in the City of Mankato
in said County, and oppose said petition.
And it is further ordered that this order shall
sive weeks prior to said day of hearing in the
MankatO FREE PRESS, a weekly newspaper
printed and published at the City of Mankato,
in said County.
Dated at Mankato the goth day of October,
A. ID. 1895.
By the Court,
GEO. W. MEAD,
[seal OF Probate Court Judge of Probate
LoRIN CRAY,
Attorney for Petitioner.
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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-11-08
Sept. 20-Nov. 1.
MOpTGAGE FORE(,I, OSUREscAI

Default having been made in the conditions
of certain mortgage, executed by John Habi-
ger, widower, mortgagor, to Joseph Salfer,
moItagee, datea tae sIH HaS % tpdy A. r. no 81
deeds in and for the county of Blue Earth, in
the State of Minnesota on the 2Sth day of July,
A. D., 1891 at $3.50 O'Clock a; m. in book
80 of mortgages, on page Y, by which mortgage
there was conveyed and granted the following
described real estate situated in the county of
Blue Earth aforesaid towlt.
Lots number three (3l and four I'd in block
No. thirty-nine (39) in Mankato City, according
to the recorded plat thereof, as recorded in
the office of the register of deeds in and for
said Blue Earth county to secure the payment
of the sum of one hundred 100000 dollars with
interest thereon at the rate of per cent. per
annum according to the conditions of one pro-
missory note bearing same date as said NOR
tgage and made by said John Habger to said
John Safer and there being due and and I'M
paid upon said note and mortgage at the date
of this notice the sum of one hundred 100000
dollars with interest thereon at the rate of s
per cent. per anumn from and since the 9th
day of July A. d. 1892, no action or preceding
at law or otherwise, having been instituted to
recover the amount of said mortgage or any
part thereof.
Now therefore notice is hereby given that
by virtue and in pursuance of the power of
sale in said mortgage contained and herewith
recorded and the statute in such case made and
provided the above described premises will
be sold at public auction, at the eastery frQnt
street, in the City of Mankato in said county of
Blue Earth and state of Minnesota, therein on
Monday the 4th day of November A. D. 1895, at
ten o'clock in the forenoon, to satisfy the
amount of said mortgage debt then due and
unpaid:
And the further sum of thirty and nineteen
one hundreds dollars taxes paid by the said
mortgage upon the above described premises
for the years A D. 1892 1898 and 1894 with interest
thereon and together with the costs and ex-
pense of such foreclosure proceedings includ-
ing fifteen (15.00) dollars attorney fees as stip-
ulated in said mortgage, and the said NOR
tgage will be thereby forclosed.
Dated September 10Th. A. D.. 1895.
JOSEPH SALFER,
Mortgage.
HARRISON L. SCHMITT,
Attorney for Mortgage,
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The CORTLAND correspondent of
the St. Peter Herald says: "The soap
man was here last week. He had %
pound boxes of toilet soap which to
some he represented as being damaged
by a recent fire in Mankato. To
others he said he was advertising the
soap by giving presents, as that was
cheaper than to advertise in news
paper. The presents were to be lace
or chenille curtains, hanging lamps
and rocking chairs, the purchasers to
take their choice, and were to be de-
livered on Monday of this week. The
stuff is worthless and those who only
paid Is cents for box think that was
dear enough. The presents are prob
ably on the way, but have not been
heard from"
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The Massachusetts Loan and
Trust Co. has commenced an action
against d. III. Eaton, of ST. Clair, to
secure the value of threshing outfit
sold to the defendant by the Minneso-
Ia Threshing Co. 1t is claimed that
the defendant agreed to turn over his
accounts of the seasons threshing to
the machine company, and that the
latter transferred them to the trust
company, and the latter has enjoined
Eaton from turning his accounts over
to anyone else. w. E. Young appears
for the plaintiff.
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First insertion Nov. last Nov. Is,
ORDER FOR HEARING ON CLAIMS.

ORDER FOR HEARING ON CLAIMS.
CTATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
= Earth.-ss In Probate Court. Special
Term, october 80. 1895.
In the matter of the estate OF Rufas Thurston,
deceased.
Letters testameutary on the estate OF
said deceased being this day granted unto
Frank G., Thurston, of said county.
1t is ordered, That all claims and demands
of all persons against said estate be presented
to this court for examination and allowance, at
the probate Office in the city of Mankato on the
following days, viz: On the 29th day OF May
1896, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of that day.
1t is further ordered. That six months
from the date hereof be allowed to creditors to
present their claims against said es-
tate at the expiration Of which time all claims
not presented to said court or not proven to its
satisfaction, shall be forever barred, unless for
cause shown further time be allowed.
Ordered further, That notice of the time and
place OF the hearing and examination of said
claims and demands shall be given by publishing
this order once each week, for three successive
weeks prior to the day appointed for such ex-
animation, in the Mankato Free Press, a weekly
newspaper printed and published at the city OF
Mankato in said county.
Dated at the City OF Mankato, the 3Oth day
OF October A. ID. 1895.
By the Court:
Seal of GEO. w. MEAD,
Probate Court Judge of Probate.
A. NJ. RUTAN,
Attorney for Executor.
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CTATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
- Earth, SIS. In Probate Court, Special
Term, October 31st, 1895.
In the matter of the estate OF John Wilson,
deceased.
On reading and filing the petition of F. E:
Auringer, of the city OF Mankato and
Blue Earth county representing among
other things, that John Wilson, late OF Cook
County, illinois, on the day of A. ID. 1S9, at
the city of Chicago, Illinois. died intestate and
being an inhabitant of Cook county, Illinois, at
the time of his death, leaving goods, chattels
and estate within this county, and that the said
petitioner is interested in the estate OF said de-
ceased, and praying that administration OF
said estate be to Ward B. Burril granted.
1t is ordered, That said petition be heard be.
fore this court on Friday, sthe 29th day OF
November A. d. 1895 at 10 o'clock a. M, at the
probate office in the City of Mankato, in said
county.
Ordered further That notice thereof be given
to the heirs OF said deceased and to all persons
by publication of this order once in
each week for three successive weeks prior to
said day of hearing, in the Mankato Free Press,
a weekly newspaper printed and published
at the City of Mankat in said county.
Dated at the City of Mankato the a1st day of
October, A. d. 1895.
By the Court,
Seal of Probate Court G.. w. MEAD.
Judge of Probate
H. L. SCHMITT,
Attorney for Petitioner.
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First insertion Nov. last Nov. Is.
ORDER TO EXAMINE ACCOUNTS.


STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
Earth-SS.-In Probate Court, Special Term,
October 31st, 1895.
In the matter of the estate OF David T.
Davis, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition of Evan j.
Davis, executor of the last will and testament
and of the estate of David t. Davis, deceased,
representing among other things that
he has fully administered said estate,
and praying that time and place be fixed
for examining aud allowing the final account OF
his administration, and for the assignment Of
the residue of said estate to the parties en-
titled thereto by law:
1t is ordered that said account be examined
and petition heard by this court, on Monday,
the End day of December, A. D., 1895, at 10
o'clock a M. at the Probate Office in the City Of
Mankato, in said county.
And it is further ordered, that notice thereof
be given to all persons interested by publishing
this order once in each week, for three success
sive weeks prior to said day of hearing in the
Mankato Free Press, a weekly newspaper
printed and published at the city OF Mankato in
said county.
Dated at the City of Mankato, the 1st day
of October, A. D., 1895.
By the Court
Seal of Probate Court. G. w. MEAD,
Judge of Probate.
THos HUGHES,
Attorney for Administered II,
Mankato, MINI.
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The Catholic school hall has been
newly decorated, and a new drop cur.
tain, made by some of the ladies OF
the city, and which by the way is a
very fine one, has been put up, and is
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Sunday evening by the Thalia club
Go and see the foolish man, which will
be shown in an able manner by Mr.. j.
B. Hodapp, who has developed con.
siderable ability as an amateur actor.
The club has worked hard and will
give a good entertainment,
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