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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-06-12
FIFTEEN APPLICATIONS.
The City VIII not Lose by the
Change to $1,000 License.

Applications for liquor licenses
under the $1,000 fee were received
Saturday night by the council from
Kleinschmidt Bros, Ed. Cousandier,
Jacob Sontag, Wage & Monson, W.
Ditz, D.. Oster, L. orlando, John A.
Nelson, John Leas, Anderson &
Steinberg, Becquette & Ford, L. j.
Kietfe, John Trenhenser, John Hogen,
p. j. Callen.
This list includes all but six of those
whose license expire about July 1st.
If the fifteen all take out licenses the
city revenue will be no less for the
year than under the $500 license, even
if no more licenses should be taken
out. But it is every way likely that
several more licenses will be taken
out before the year is over. There
have been those who have predicted
that the city would lose money by the
change from the $500 to the 81 900 H.
cense fee, but these are now probably
seeing their mistake.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-06-12
NEXT WEEKS CONVENTION.
Program for the State A. o. ii. Meet
ing.

The seventh biennial state conven.
tion of the Ancient Order of Hiber.
mans will be held in this city next
week Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs.
day. The first biennial convention
Of the D. Of E., the ladies' branch, will
be held at the same time, in the A. 0
q. W. parlor, while the main conven-
tion is in session in the lodge room.
About 200 delegates will be present,
including sixty ladies.
On the morning of June 10th, the
local and Madison Lake divisions will
meet with full regalia at the hall az
500 a. m, sharp, and proceed to the
G. & n. w. depot and meet Division
No. 80, of Waseca, which will arrive
at 80 a. M, and escort it back to the
hall. The Hibernian Rifles, of Min
neapolis, have notified the local COM
mittee that it will be here if nothing
happens. If it comes, an exhibition
drill on the G. & n. depot square will
be held.
The parade will form at 900 a. M.
and proceed to The Saulpaugh, where
the order of march will be made up
as follows:
Six mounted police.
COncOrdia band.
WaSeca Division, A. D. II.
Madison Lake Division, A. o. III.
Mankato Division, A. 0. III.
Hibernian Rifles.
Delegates wearing badges.
Ladies and'state officers in carriages.
The line of march will be as follows:
Down Front to Rock, thence to Sec
Ond, on Second to Plum, thence to
Broad, on Broad to Walnut, on Wal
nut to Front, on Front to Record, on
Record to State, on State to Byron,
on Byron to Second, on Second to Lib
erty, thence to Broad, thence to ST.
Johns Catholic church, where SER
vices will be held at 1880 a. M, with
sermon by Father Prior.
Afterwards the delegates will go
to the hall where the convention will
open at noon. In the evening an en-
tertainment will be given, with good
speakers. The business session will
occupy Wednesday and Thursday
Mr.. d. P. Hayes, who belongs to the
state board of directors, and whose
efforts secured the convention for
Mankato, and Attorney C. o. Daley
are the delegates from the Mankato
division.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-06-12
Probing the Bills.

| Inc FOurth street grading was de-
: clared to be the special order for the
next meeting.
The bills were taken up, footing
up about 81, 700.
| One OF the bills was for 1920, the
amount of the tax on the lot used for
a city market, which the city was
expected to pay for the use of the
lot.
The street pay roll of S472 so, 800. 30
on water works, and $4,000 by Street
Commissioner Mahowald, were in
cluded among the bills.
Deputy Recorder Brown said that
the 81, 700 which the bills footed up
would have to be borrowed.
Aid. Andrews said that this month
there would be due to the city from
the county $50, 1870.
Mayor Weaver called on Inspector
Halstead to state why so much lum-
Der was used as the bills indicate, and
! Mr.. III. explained that the work was
necessary.
The lumber bill, $3.50, was probed
into little deeper, and it developed
that neither Engineer Haynes nor In
spector Halstead had any definite
idea Of where the money had gone to.
Aid. Bradley took a strong stand
against every city employee buying
what material he wants to and the
city paying the bills. Such way is
not economical.
Engineer Haynes said that the or
der system had worked well for a
time, but it is no longer of any ac-
count. There are today five or six men
who can go where they please and
/ buy material and nobody knows any,
thing about it until the bills come in.
Pres. Burgess said that he did not
like such lack of system. Nobody
in the board knows where the lum-
Der or other material goes to.
Inspector Halstead said that each
employ buys what he needs and marks
| it in book for the engineer to COM
pare with the bills. Some of the lum-
Der he knew nothing about.
Mayor Weaver directed that all
the lumber bills be laid aside, and
said that the indiscriminate buying
of lumber must stop.
All of the other bills were allowed,
and the committee on ways and
means was authorized to borrow
/ 900 and to renew all notes coming
due before the next meeting.
In reply to question, Engineer
Haynes said that the work on two
blocks on North Front street had cost
5000. This would be assessed on the
property.
Aid. Peterson urged that the Front
street work be done more rapidly, a
block week, SO as not to interfere
with business any more than neces-
sary.
Engineer Haynes explained that
one reason for the slowness had been
the delay in getting crushed stone.
Aid. Andrews brought up the
Fourth of July celebration again and
moved that the city light the four
arches in the decorations, limiting
the cost to 5000.
Aid. Peterson suggested that the
matter be referred to the lighting
committee, with the hope that the
price may be lessened. This sugges-
tion was carried out, leaving the COM
mittee power to act, on Aid. Andrews'
motion. The council adjourned.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-06-12
Health Report.

The health officer made report of
inspection, saying that 1,734 houses
have been inspected, 791 notices to
clean premises given, $50 Of which
were written and 355 verbal, divided
as follows: Premises, 1876: cellars, IL:
manure heaps, 16O; ash-piles, 36;yards,
"a; pig pens, 13; miscellaneous, lis.
Theyhad also condo mned the @. &
n. W. Rystock yards and ordered
same to be moved: also the old
Karmany slaughter house to be clean
ed and abandoned as a slaughter
house. Health of city is good. Mum
Der of deaths for May one-half per
1000, of population. No. of deaths for
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-06-12

year ending May 81, 1896, was 116, be-
ing 90 per 1000 of estimated popula
tiOn.
He recommended the laying of water
mains on Cherry between Third and
Fourth streets, in order that property
now supplied with sewer may be &C
cOmmOdated.
An amendment to the fire ordi-
nance was referred to the ordinance
committee, cutting off from fire dis
trict property east of alley between
Front and Liberty streets to Byron.
The chief of policies report showed
10 arrests and As dodgers during May.
Clerk of municipal court lelo
$51. 25 received for month of May. The
treasurer's report was read.
Aid. Bradley called attention to
the fact that the order of the coun-
Gil prohibiting the running at large of
cattle in West Mankato was not be-
ing enforced, and the city attorney
suggested that an ordinance be made
to control the driving of cattle
through the streets and the herding
of same within city limits, and the
committee on ordinances was in
structed to prepare such an Ordin-
ance.
The president of the board of pub
lie works reported water rents all COL
lected, with only a few shut off.
The care of Lincoln park came up,
and the board was authorized to en-
ploy Mr.. Shepard to care for same,
the expense not to exceed the annual
water rent now charged Mr.. Shep-
ard
Aid. Bradley referred to the broken
curb on South Second street and said
that same ought to be replaced at
city expense.
Aid. Peterson remarked that if the
city should stand any expense of re-
placing curbing it should stand all
that is defective in the city. Ita p-
peared that the. district spoken of by
Aid. Bradley was let by the city by
contract and the city was reimbursed
by the property owners, and that
such being the case the city must
keep it good. The matter was passed
for the present.
Aid. Zimmerman asked that Hick-
DRY street between Third and Fourth
streets be included in sprinkling dis
trict and same was carried.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-06-12
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ORGAN

Rev. Beatie and some of the mem
bers of the Presbyterian church have
been anxious to secure an organ in
time for the formal dedication of the
new building next September. There
is just such an organ as is wanted, in
the twin cities, and finances are get
ting in shape whereby an organ can
be purchased. Today Messrs. Geo. e..
Brett and w. M. Farr are in the cities
on business, and will take time to
look at the organ and ascertain what
it can be gotten for. 1t is in the pos
sibilities that an organ will soon be
purchased.
The interior of the front of the
church is nearly completed. The
hardwood finish is on, the doors hung
and the floor laid.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-06-12
Constipation

Causes fully half the sickness in the world. It
retains the digested food too long in the bowels
and produces biliousness, torpid liver, indi-
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-06-12
Telephone Ordinances.

The committee on ordinances pre-
: sented an ordinance granting certain
privileges to the Blue Earth Tele-
phone company, and it passed it's first
reading.
Geo. Eygabroad, on behalf of the
company, stated that work would be
started at once and pushed through to
completion. The maximum prices
charged by this company are $50 per
year to business houses and SIS for
dwellings:
The same committee also presented
an ordinance to prevent cOntagiOn
from books of the public library, and
it passed to its first reading, and up
on suspension of the rules also pas
sed it's final reading.
Aid. Petersen gave notice that at
the next regular meeting he would
present an ordinance to authorize the
North Central Telephone company tC
construct telephone, telegraph and
district telegraph lines and to operate
same in the city.
Mr.. Knight, of said company, ap-
.peared and stated that they already
had subscribed large number of
phones and that the material for the
erection of the plant would be ordered
Immediately upon the passage Of the
ordinance.
He also stated that the company
would consent to use the alleys for
their purpose and thus mar less the
appearance of the main streets.
The sidewalks adjacent to the fol-
lowing property were condemned, and
a resolution passed authorizing the
building of new walk for same:
North of lot 7, block l.
West SD feet of lot 10, block IA.
Lots and 8, block 3.
Lot 2, block 10.
Lots l, 2, 3, block 81.
Lots and B. block 10.
The committee on streets. alleys
and grades reported favorably on the
opening of highway connecting
Franklin and Adams streets. Such
opening could be done, SO Aid. Adams
remarked, free of expense to the city,
as a number of people interested in
Calvary cemetery had volunteered to
put on teams to do the same. The re-
port was accepted and the matter was
referred to the board of public works
according to order number one.
The engineer presented the profile
of Poplar street and same was ap-
proved.
The matter Of the grading of Locust
street was reported upon favorably,
and same referred to the board of
public works for an estimate.
The board reported favorably on the
grading and macadamizing and curb
ing of Jackson street from Front to
Third, and on Second street from
Cherry to Hickory and recommended
that more of Second street be in
cluded, say from Liberty to Main
streets. The expense would be S1.75
per front foot on each side. all to be
assessed except street crossings, which
would be paid by the city at large.
The report was laid over to the next
regular meeting and will be made
special order of business at same.
The board reported that they had
sold the grass at the park to 5. V.
Perry for S35 so.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-06-12

"A marriage license was issued
Wednesday to George Reb, of Maple
ton, and Miss Mary Nelson, of Nicol-
let village. The wedding occurred
yesterday-tS. Peter Herald.
The North Mankato Breeze comes
out this week under the editorial
management of T. Harry Belknap,
who has leased the plant and build
ing from S. V. Perry.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-06-12
4 Few Facts about Horses !!

Don't know that horses will bring high price as they
did within three years
Don't you know that the farmers of country never before
quit raising horses they have for the past three years
Don't you know that when you stop production of anv STA
plea rce for length of time there will scarcity consequently
good prices?
Don't you know that great that knocked
the bottom out of the horse market
Don't that there more horses in Use TODAY than
there before IN the history of this country?
Don't for minute take any stock in the bicycle or the
electric bugaboo who going away horse The great
est and most practical inventions of ages to
ton and feghting the locomotive and the ship failed
do with the horse fact the greatest of horses
have been raised and the highest prices paid advent of steam
If those great of steel splitting out fire
SMOKE defyg winds and floods hauling billions Of tons Of
freight and millions of have failed horse
what does the umpbacked boweggd bicycle to
have billiard table track and still day. order ride expect
do with the horse in the of killing him. The world large
enough for all Everything has its ups DOWNS but the horse
will hold it's against all corners.
DON'T fail breed your Don't breed to horse inst
DON'T breed horse just because right to your
place. although you few hours doing remember
that 1t takes SIX years to horse the Market and you should
not spend that time raising horse that will not SELL
DON'T breed you can find or
a large, fine stylish coacher.
DON'T you know that the time go or anything
ese when they cheap and sell when they high
DON'T let few dollars difference between horses hinder you
from breeding to the best.
DON'T forget that No horse sells many times the differ
DON'T you know that corners when it comes to
showing stations of colts and that thirteen first prizes out
fair in 1895?
DON'T you know this quite from the man who never
shows from home and who has mouth than
Our three grand stations Intrepid king of the carriage
horse Black Coco the heaviest and best draft stallion vicinity;
and the winning colt Agon will Mapeon
Fridays and Saturdays Beauod Mondays Good Thunder
days and Wednesdays; at home Thursdays
TERMS-To insure a colt week old-Intrepd $780,
Coco, S12 Aigon, So
WILLARD & FULLER, Props.
MAPLEToN, MIMI.
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Continued on sixth page.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-06-12
| GODS
geStion, bad taste, coated NEsyN
tongue, sick headache, in B-vW ~HH~
somnia, etc. Hoods Pills IS 8H @@
cure constipation and all its N -

results, easily and thoroughly 25c. All druggists.
Prepared by c. 1. Hood s. Co., Lowell, Mass.
The only Pills to take with Hoods Sarsaparilla.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-06-12
THE CITY COUNCIL.
A BUSY SESSION SATURDAY
NIGHT.

Two Telephone Companies Seeking
Entrance Into Mankato==The City'S
Lumber Bills Closely Scrutinized,
and a Lamentabie Lack of System
DeveIoped--Fifteen Applications for
$1,000 Liquor Licenses--RepOrts of
Officers and Committees.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-01-17

hp.ssDe6 60 Tez5te DsSs.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-01-17

ton is in session today The
gentlemen compo osing the com
mittee refused to talk concerning
the matter aud nothing further
than the faot that no prices have
been fixed yot could be learned.
While It is claimed that the as
.soclation is simply arriving At
an understanding for the benefit
Of the trade, men conversant
with the iron ore business say
that any limitation Of the output
such as IS proposed, with an ap-
portionment u the various mines,
amounts to d practical monopoly
which will be able to control the
non output of the United States.
Faeltsh Your Supreme Court Decisio~s.
Under a flaring caption of
Illegal" The Hustler attempts to
combat, the opinion Of the attor--
ney general relative* to the leg,l !
status of a newspaper, one Of
the arguments being the grave
accusation that the attorney gen,
eral is a ''wire puller.'' > s
The question is raised as to
whether or not q paper publish:
ed part In English and part in q
foreign language, is . legal pa
per. The Hustler says it is. The
city attorney, at one time, at
least, an interested member of
the Hustler Pub Co., says it is.
The Hustler says that the opin.
ion of the best attorneys Of the
state says iti is, and that accord
ing to the decisions of the ST.
preme court, it is . legal paper
But The Hustler, while quot &
laws and statutes with a volubili-
ty characteristic of a Taylor. of q
Prince or of a McGarry, fails to
quote any of those Sdec1sions Of
the supreme court. =
When those are published in
its columns, it will then have
quoted something which is Jaw.
Aud law is higher and more
definite than the opinion of even
the city attorney.
Until such supreme court de-
cisions are published, we shall
always question their existence
and the legality of the paper will
continue to be a matter of sus-
picion. -.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-01-17
pP 1RA,

Two houses and three lots on
Wyoming avenue. Part cash
easy terms on balance.
CHAs. CARlCNAN.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-01-17

The county commissioners
have. for obvious reasons look
lug to the legality of the bonds
to be issued, postponed the cleo
ton to vote upon the issuance OF
$3.50. GOO bonds for the building
of a road to Rainy Lake and 9th.
er road improvements. until
March 10th next. The matter
will not snffer any loss of enthu-
siastic support on the ranges
| however, by the delay.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-01-17
Sunday Ntget tRtaze.

a blaze which. might have been
of disastrous oportions4 was
nipped in the bud, on Sunday
evening. The fire started in the
rea1 of the bakery owned by
M;sdill 4 Moriarity and occupied
by NJ. -Edwardson. The fire com
pany responded quickly and
three streams were soon playing
upon the fire, which was hard 10
get at owing to the numerous
departments and separate por.
tions of the rookery. Every
thing was removed from the
building. as also from Judge
Princes Office, adjoining. Con.
siderable damage was sustained
by the hurried moving, Judge
Prince suffering the loss Of sew.
eral mementos of priceless value
to himself.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-01-17

The new Miners and Mer-
chants Bank, with VIM. Burtis
Mears as banker, opened its
doors to the public on Tuesday.
Mr.. Mears is a young man OF
pleasant address. and in a pros
pectus to the public states thai
the new institution desires the
patronage of the people and will
endeavor to make it to their in
terest to do business there.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-01-17
Outside The Ri,s0.


P. Ellard Bowling, editor of
the Eveleth Star, is not q be-
lever in prize fights. to judge
from his utterances through the
columns os the paper. But like
all editors who continually and
habitually interfere with the
business of others, he was re.
Gently caught outside the ring
by one of Eveleth's respectable
citizens, who swiped him in
right JUS wrath, and but for the
interference of a brother of the
noble specimen of journalistic
ability would have left a Cana
dian grease-spot to mark tht
place of CON bat, and given tht
devil an opportunity to scoop W
his remains.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-01-17

mined. There are a half a doz-
en- big mines either within the
city limits, or just outside, which
employ in round numbers, 2,OO0
men in the height of the ship
ping season. These 1900 horny
handed sons of toll furnish the
Drawn and sinew Of vigorous Vir
| ginia which as stated before has
a population which crowds the
4, 600 mark. And all this within
a period of three or four years.
Virginia does not come under
the caption of a "shanty town. u
1t is a permanently built city
with dwellings and business
blocks which have been erected
for the future as well as the pres
ent.
THE CITY ITSELF.
Even in its winter garment O
virgin white, Virginia has sl
aspect which attracts the strang
er. In laying out the townsit'
attention was gi9en 10 gtraigh
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-20
Temperance Rally.

The regular meeting of the
Virginia Temperance Associa-
ton, held at the Finnish Hall on
Thursday evening, was fraught
with more than usual interest,
it being the occasion of farwell
of Miss Emily Hobhouse, who
leaves on Monday next for a
visit to her old home in England.
The meeting was the largest ever
held, and the program prepared
was a most excellent one, consist
ing Of music, and select recita.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-20
Nely MeHt ,NnrEef.

j. P. Rossman, of Duluth, has
purchased the Rollenhagen prop.
erty on East Chestnut, the build.
ing on which he will at once
complete for occupancy, and in
ten or twelve days will open a
first class meat market therein.
The market will be under the
direct supervision of John Steed'
ly, formerly of Hibbing, Mr.
Rossman's many interests de-
manding much of his his time
elsewhere.
--,.z z--s ss
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-20

tions. NJ. G. Palmer. John Nc
Master, J. A. Prince, Mrs. DR..
Alden, Mrs King and Miss Teck.
la Farm participating in the ex
ercises of the evening ~. -,
During the short stay of Miss
Hobhouse in this city she has
formed the nucleus of a noble
work. Her visit to England will
absent her from the city for
about three months.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-20

jackson 81 Co. handle the best
tees and coffees in the city. -
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-02-09
TYPEwRITERs.

W. II. Ellis, in the Northwestern Lum-
herman. in discussing the new woman,
says:
All this naturally leads to typewriters.
and that brings out pretty good story
on John Ladd. OF st. Louis. the Western
manager Of the great tobacco business OF
Lorillard & Co. l don't know whether
cling the story viii make Mr.. I.add
mad or not, but Colonel Flournoy is re-
-ponsible for the printing of it. and it's
so seldom that Colonel Dick tells story
that can be printed that it won't do to
ose 1t. Mr.. Ladd was conspicuous for
writing a hand that nobody could read.
Poor handwriting. Bob Burdette said.
was a sure indication of genius. though
I Is true, as he added, it is the only one
that many people possess. A great many
ID that Same fault: Mind had to buy a
machine. Well. in those days Mr. Ladd
was sensitive about It, though Colonel
rick swears he e az over IL row. The
first letter Mr.. Ladd ever saw written
with a typewriter. or by one, was re-
ceived by him from Lorillard & Co.
hen he got 1t he was mad; he sat
down and wrote this reply;
Messrs. Lorlllard 4 Co.-Gents; have
received your printed letter. don't think
this is much of joke. Maybe you think
because l can't write reading l can't
read writing. Yours truly.
JOHN LADD.
Since then AIR. Ladd has bought many
ypewriters and also hired many-all
pretty presumably"