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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-21
NEW GArlBLING ORDINANCE.
1t is Intended to Correct the Faults of
the Present One.

The new anti-gambling ordinance
which was presented to the council
Saturday night is intended to correct
what City Attorney Pau considers to
be very serious defect in the pres
ent ordinance. The latter provides
fine but no alternative of imprison-
ment, so that it is question how the
fine is to be collected. County At
torney Benedict holds that the city
charter remedies the defect where it
provides for Jail sentence in all or
6inances that do not have it. The
new ordinance prohibits gaming with
cards, dice, and gaming tables or
other devices; makes it unlawful to
keep gambling place or gambling de-
vices intended to be used for gamb-
ling; makes it unlawful to deal with
cards at faro, pharo or forty-eight;
makes it unlawful to bet money; and
provides fine of not exceeding 800
or not over ninety days in Jail if the
fine is not paid. This ordinance is
likely to pass in due time without
opposition.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-21
BASE BALL ASSN.
Important Business Transacted at
SUNDAYS Meeting.

The base ball association held a
meeting Sunday afternoon and
some important business was trans
acted. 1t was decided to turn over
the active management to the asso-
citation to board of managers, COM
posed of E. V. Riley. Geo. Pond and
A. w. Robinson. The management
of the ball team was left with Cap
tain Jack Messerly, who will perform
all the duties of the business man.
ager who accompanied the team in
it's trips last year.
The board of managers was author
lied to proceed at once to prepare a
schedule for the seasons's games, and
to this end it will correspond with
such clubs as it cares to play with,
which will include the clubs of the
principal towns in the state.
The association voted that it was
the sense of the meeting that quar-
ter mile cycle track be constructed
and the matter was left with the
board of managers. To construct a
proper track of clay and cinders,
fifteen feet wide, would cost about
LOCO, it was estimated, and it was
left with L. Lampert to call meet
ing of the cyclists of the city to see
what aid They woula be willing to
extend.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-21
BASE BALL TEAM.
1t Will be Fifty Per Cent. Stronger
Than Last Year.


Capt. Messerly has completed his
team for the present year, although
he desires to add one more member.
The team is as follows:
Pitchers-C. L. Nickson, Harry
Howe.
Catchers-Ralph Wattles, Jerry
Griggs.
First base Jack Messerly.
Second base-M. j. MaryOtt.
Third base-Cy Young.
Short Stop-John Page.
Right field-Arthur Dea.
Center field Lee Hopkins.
Right field will be filled by the ex-
ira pitcher or catcher.
Page and Young are the new men
who have signed for the season, and
both are fiue players. Capt. Messerly
is proud of his team and declared
confidently to the FREE PRESS this
morning that it is fifty per cent bet
ter than last years aggregation. The
weak points of last years club have
been dispensed with. and strong fac
tors introduced ia their places.
Practicing will commence April
goth.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-21
THE CITY RECORDERShIP.
The Matter Considered in Secret
Session by the Council

There was a good deal of mystery
about the long secret meeting Of the
council during the recess Saturday
night, and again after adjournment.
The water question was not the only
subject considered. 1t was gotten
out of the way by postponing it until
the meeting a week from tonight,
when the call for the special election
will be made if the conditions are
complied with.
The matter which took up the most
time was the consideration of the re-
fusal of City Recorder Smith to re-
sign atnthe request of the council and
his decision to appoint II. w. Brown
as his deputy. The aldermen deter
mined that the appointment of a
deputy would be acceptable if the
right man was named, and therefore
withdrew the request to Mr.. Smith to
resign, the understanding being that
it would be renewed in case a deput,
COulu uOU NC dSIcCu upOu.
Having accomplished this much.
the aldermen proceeded to consider
the nomination of Mr.. Brown,
in order to decide upon his &C
ceptibility before his name should be
formally presented. 1t is understood
that two informal ballots were
taken, and'that the'tirst stood three to
three, and the second four to two in
favor of confirming the appointment
Of Mr.. Brown. The question then
arose as to whether it would not be
better to secure man who would be
acceptable to all of the aldermen,
but at the meeting after adjournment
a disposition is said to have been
shown to approve of Mr.. Browns ap-
pointment, and it is thought that he
will be formally confirmed at the ad-
journed meeting next Monday night.
Mr.. Smith has been attending
diligently to the duties of his office
since the meeting two weeks ago,
and Mr.. Brown has been working eve
nings in helping him to catch up. Mr..
Smith is a contentious official, and
is certainly endeavoring to the best
of his ability to fill the office, and if
he has fallen behind it was not be-
cause his heart was not in the work.
Much sympathy is felt for him on
all sides.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-21
ANOTHER ARREST.
j, F. orlando Pleads not Guilty to a
Gambling Charge.

Joseph f. orlando was arrested at
2:3O o'clock Monday on war
rant sworn out by officer GrOut, charg-
ing him with suffering gaming table
to be set up and used for the purpose
of gambling in his place of business,
125 South Front street, between Nov.
Goth and Feb. 9th. He was immedi-
ately taken before the court and
pleaded not guilty to the charge,
which was brought under the state
law. The examination was set for
Wednesday, Feb. Goth, at ten o'clock,
and the defendant was allowed to go
upon his own recOgnizance under $3.50
bail. Byron Hughes appeared as his
attorney.
The officials claim that they have
no lack of evidence to support the
charge, and say that number of
young men in the city are trembling
lest they be brought into court to tes-
tify.
Mr.. orlando denies the charge and
says that no gambling has been done
in his back room. He says that he
has frequently cautioned card players
there against gambling.
1t was Mr.. Orando's license that was
revoked by Mayor Weaver last summer
on the ground of gambling being con-
Quoted there. The council restored the
license at its first meeting thereafter.
There is talk that the license may be
again revoked, if the evidence shows
that he allowed gambling to go on.
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PAID THEIR FINES.
Stewart and LaDuke Change Their
Pleas this Afternoon.


Pleas this Afternoon.
Harry Stewart and Geo. LaDuke de-
cided to change their pleas to guilty
when their cases were called Monday
afternoon in the municipal court. The
authorities had several witnesses
present to support the gambling
charges against the defendants.
The court fined LaDuke $40 and
costs, total of S4S.95, which he
ppid. Stewart was fined S25 and costs,
total of S32 so, which was also paid
The court said that discrimination
would have to be made between the
man who conducts gambling room
and the man who resorts to it, which
accounted for the difference in the
amounts of the fines. He spoke of
the evil of gambling and said that it
ought to be rooted out.
Byron Hughes appeared as La
Dukes attorney.
The cases against Daily and Gillian
were continued until next Monday at
1900 a. M, on motion of the county
attorney, and they were released on
bonds.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-21
CIRCUS LICENSES.
The Attempt to Reduce the Fees,
and 1t Results.

The committee on licenses reported
to the council the following schedule
of circus license fees, Saturday night:
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-21
First insertion Jan. 81 Feb. IA.
ORDER FOR HEARING AND NOTICE Of
APPLICATION FOR APPOINTMENT
OF ADMINISTRATORS

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
- Earth 50 In Probate Court, Special
Term January 80, 1896.
In the matter of the estate OF Miranda
Cook deceased.
On reading and filing the petition OF Emery
l.. Cook, OF Mcpherson, said Blue Earth
county representing among other things, that
MirandaCOok late of sal I Is u Earth county, on
the 9th day of December A. d. 1888, at
Mcpherson, said county, died in
testat-, and being an inhabitant OF this
county at the time of her death, leaving goods,
chattels and estate within this county, and
that the said petitioner is a Son OF said
deceased, and aging that admin >tration oil
said estate be to said petitioner, Emery l..
Cook, gran ed.
1t i, ordered. That said petition be heard be
fore this court on Monday the Path day OF
February 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
interested, b publication OF this order once III
each wrek, for three successive weeks prior &c
said day of hearing, in the Mankato Free
Press, weekly newspaper printed ana publish
ed al the city OF tnk [ in said county.
Dated at the city of Mankato the 3OGh day Of
January, A. d. 1896.
BY the Court,
Seal of Probate Court. G. W. MEAD.
Judge of Probate
Fl. L ScHMITT,
Attorney for Petitioner.
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could not be replaced if lost. Mayor
Weaver said that he considered this a
most important matter and he had re-
ferred to it in his annual message.
The matter was referred to the COM
mittee on city property,
Engineer Haynes said that he
would like to have the city park sup
piled with some evergreens. 1t
would not be expensive.
Jno. Klein said that from his ex-
perience money so invested would be
thrown away.
The council adjourned.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-21

"A new hail insurance company
has been organized in Amboy, COM
posed of gentlemen Of experience, says
the Herald. f. III. Hilliker is presi-
dent, E G.. Cross is secretary, O.. G..
Chesley is superintendent of agencies,
and f. N. Ware is treasurer.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-21

This was referred to the ordinance
committee to prepare an ordinance.
A change will have to be made, or
nothing can be collected for shows of
26 to 20 cars. The scale is a consid-
cradle reduction over the present
charges, the highest now being $50
for an exhibition.
In speaking of the matter today,
Chief Yates said: "The present
charges are none to high, when every
thing is taken into consideration.
First, there is the extra expense to
the city. Thugs begin to arrive a
week before the show, and sometimes
houses are robbed and pockets picked.
Six or seven extra policemen have to
be appointed at So each. Then again,
almost all of the circus receipts rare
taken out of the city, as the men are
fed in their own tents, and only a
little produce is purchased and lit
tie advertising done, and some bill
posting A big show will take S. 900
away and leave only few hundred
dollars behind. The visits of circuses
do the city no good. There were none
here last summer, and the city was
better off for it.
"This new plan would lead to end
less pickering, as there would always
be the question of how many cars
were used, and what was intended by
the ordinance, ETC., and every effort
would be made to evade the ordinance
as much as possible"
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YORK WEEKLY TRIBUNE will be mailed
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-21
CITY COUNCIL.
ROUTINE BUSINESS TRANSACTED
SATURDAY NIGHT.

Clark Street Sewer Favorably Re-
ported on-City Scales Petition
Goes Over-Anti-G Gambling Ordi-
nance Observation-Disclosures Smiths
Semi-AnnnaI Report-Better Pro-
lection of Valuable Records
Wanted.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-02-21

"A farmers team ran away on
Second street yeste rday afternoon,
and brought up at the Minneopa
House with broken pole.
The herald., 1896-09-12
Automatic CUT off for Lawn Sprinkler


Mr.. John Burnham, who is now over
so years, is living at Orange, Cal. He
was the inventor of the first windmill
that the world ever saw put to the prac-
tical use of pumping water. Mr. Burn
ham is great reader and eXpermenter.
He, like many others, has to rely upon
tank water for his lawn and flowers
He has been troubled, as most every one
has been who relies on tanks for water,
of not always being on hand to shut the
water off when it should be, and has
found that his tank was often empty and
the water lost. So Mr.. Burnham invent
ed a very simple automatic cutoff,
which will stop the water at any desired
time. His invention consists in a SIM
pie chute about three feet six inches
high and one foot square. On opposite
sides of this chute are band springs.
which can be regulated by thumb
screw. These springs are SO adjusted
that they will hold a kerosene can.
Near the bottom of the chute is a lever
on the valve which shuts off the water.
over the top of the chute Is a. faucet.
This faucet can be opened to any de-
sired degree, SO that the can held by the
springs can be filled in any desired time.
say five minutes or one hour, according
to the size of the flow. When the can
gets too heavy for the springs to hold
it drops down, and in its passage carries
down the lever which shuts off the wa
ter There is no patent upon this inven-
ton and any one can use it.
The herald., 1896-09-12
Natures Plan the Best

Do you believe that a hen will lay more
eggs during the year if she is not allowed
to incubate? We do not. and it is not
merely theory with us. Ordinarily one
might think that the hen would start
right to laying the moment she was or
dered off her broody nest, but she won't.
She will loaf about week or two, and
keep growing and fussing, and fighting
with everything that comes In contact
with her, and if you pen her alone she
will keep from laying all the longer
Now, the way we got to be so smart on
this subject was by making an expert
ment, and this is what We found out:
A dozen of our best layers became
broody at the same time. Half of them
we penned in separate coops to break
up, and the other half was set, and the
The herald., 1896-09-12
POMONA
Doings In the sociai Worid-The Flower Girls
Cake Walk

Cake Walk
POMONA, Sept. 11.-W. T. Martin and
family are spending this week fishing at
Newport beach.
j. p. Bassett has left for Santa Bar
bara to remain indefinitely.
Miss Lille Millick of Redlands has
been the guest this week of Miss Mamie
Mock at her home on East Third street.
A farewell reception will be rendered
Miss Matte A. Reed this, Friday, even
ing at the home of S. c. Pitzer by the
Epworth league and Sunday school of
the Methodist church.
Miss Matte A. Reed leaves soon for
Pasadena, where she will enter upon her
duties as vice-principal of the Pasadena
schools.
The young ladies of the Fruit and
Flower Mission are preparing to have
big cake walk next week at the resi-
dence of Mrs. J. e. Packard on East Holt
avenue.
Miss Pearl Wilmington, who has been
the guest of Glendora friends the past
week, returned home this afternoon.
The Bryan Silver club is arranging
for q big time tomorrow evening, the
occasion being the visit here of px- May
or Hazard and j. L. Murphy. who will
speak from the stand on Second street,
just east of the postoffice.
w. It. Scott, Miss Beatrice Scott Miss
Ethel Thomas, Chas. Schwan and sis
ters and the johnson brothers, also Mr.
Wheeler, are spending this week in
San Antonio canyon. They will climb to
the top of Old Badly before returning
home.
The herald., 1896-09-12

t.' y
cisms on Profs. Hilgard and Woodworth
that have appeared in The Herald, it is
no doubt a commendable impulse that
has actuated Prof. Cook to fly to the
rescue of his friend; but in doing so we
think Prof. Cook rather oversteps the
mark in throwing out the hint that Inc
Herald is antagonistic to the state uni
versity. Nothing could be farther from
our purpose. On the contrary our crit
icisms have only been with the view OF
pointing out lamentable failures in the
work of one department of the institu-
ton, that it might be made all that Prof.
Cook would desire it to be, both in the
cause of higher education and also IN
the practical fruits of such education.
The head of one of the departments
of the university, The Herald deems an
incompetent official, and its criticisms
against him have been substantited by
facts. Prof. Hilgard has built up his
reputation upon ex-parte statements,
which do not bear the light of investiga-
ton. For example, he has told the puo-
lie, and he teaches his students, that he
tell what plant foods were necessary to
be applied" This statement, like many
other coming from him, as director OF
the California Agricultural college, was
accepted as true and the world accepted
1t as truth but investigation by putting
the question to the soil and getting the
answer in the crops show that Prof.
Hilgard was in error in matter of vital
Importance to the agricultural interests
of our entire state.
The object of The Herald in exposing
an incompetent and high-priced official
is merely that proper, competent ard
scientific official may preside at the
head of our agricultural college, to the
end that the university may have its
full scope of usefulness and be help to
the struggling ranchers, an honor to the
state and blessing to our people.
The Herald has had every confidence
in the ability and integrity Of Prof. A.
j. Cook of Pomona college, and it would
like to make him judge of its criticisms
and leave it to him to pass upon the truth
or falsity of the charges against Prof.
Hilgard, provided Prof. Cook will ad-
NIT that a scientific man would be will
ing to accept the facts, test them fairly
and then be able and willing to state
them in a case as they exist or in other
words, a scientific man must always
tell the truth.
The Herald would respectfully remind
Prof. Cook that it is not the province
of the modern newspaper to cover up
the incompetency and shortcomings of
high public officials by suppressing
their records or in CLOSING them over
with a thin coat of veneer, nor is it in
accordance with the genius Of our inst.-
tutions that we should reverence and
excuse high public official simply be-
cause he occupies a high Office, but we
should reverence, respect and honor a
high public official in proportion as he
brings honor upon his office.
No greater danger threat tens the body
polite today and the decentralization Of
our youth than the tendency to a low
standard in those who are high in posi-
tion and attempts to overlook the Short
comings and incompetency of those who
are feeding at the public crib and have
the spending of the public funds.
The herald., 1896-09-12
Walnut Culture

The following is a paper read by Will
lam McFadden of Placentia at the
Farmers Institute held at Fullerton on
Friday of last week:
To be successful as walnut grower
several things must be taken into con-
sideration.
First, and most important, must be
a rich, deep SOIL
Second, find a proper location
Third, where an abundance Of water
can be had for irrigation.
We hear occasionally that fungus
disease or some other trouble has at
tackled the walnut trees. l have made
this somewhat of a study, and my inves-
LEGATIONS have convinced me that where
there appears to be some ailment 1t
usually occurs where the roots either
reach water, alkali soil, coarse sand, or
cannot penetrate the soil on account of
hardpan or tough soil. Therefore, to
make success, as l said before, get
q deep, loose soil. with surface water
not nearer than twelve or fifteen feet,
but with plenty of water for irrigation
The location should be within the influ-
ence of the coast breeze, as walnuts do
not like too hot or too cold weather.
From this I conclude that the area of
walnut culture in California is limited,
confined to small part of the counties
of Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Ange-
les and Orange.
The nut trees can be grown on damp
soil, and for few years on land under
laid with gravel and sand; also. can be
grown fairly well for few years with
out irrigation. but to reap good crops
from healthy trees for period of years,
all of the above unfavorable conditions
must be avoided.
The conditions of success must be
good, deep soil, on the coast side of the
hills or mountains. free from alkali, not
too near surface water, and with abund-
ance of water for irrigation. Having Sc
cured the proper location and satisfac-
tory conditions, then plant your trees
raise crops between the trees while
The herald., 1896-09-12

third week they had all started again.
OF course those hens setting were not
laying. All the time they were busy
Matching, the eggs were beginning to
count up, for the six we would not allow
to set. In order that we could make no
mistake in our experiment we kept the
six hens in a separate flock. At the end
of three weeks we had six broods of
chickens, and in two weeks Otter that
the hens with young began to drop eggs.
Hardly had the latter began laying
when two of the hens we broke up again
became broody. 1t was nothing but
fight those first six. At the end of the
first year we found that the six hens not
allowed to set had given us several more
eggs than the six hens we set, while the
latter raised us but fortytwo fine chick
ens. Now which beat? The point, to our
way of thinking is this: That nature
gives the instinct to become broody as
much for the rest as for anything else.
and that to keep the hens from the re-
uuirements of nature is but to weaken
them physically so that they cannot lay
with that vigor they did before. We
look upon it as profitable to set hens, at
all times of the year, for two reasons.
First the rest gives stamina to the
stock; second, even at low market
price the chicks hatched and raised will
be worth at least twice what the eggs
would bring that the hens, if forced lay
at that time of the year. Now, those who
doubt the wisdom of this, though by
the poultry editor" should try the ex-
pertinent. We doubted it too, at first
and kept on fighting a pitched battle
with the poor hens with good intention.
We won't do so again, and if the readers
will give the matter trial they will be
with us in the belief and practice.-Iowa
Herald
The herald., 1896-09-12
To Excu,e Is to Accuse

(Address all communications of an agri-
cultural nature to the Agricultural Editor,
The Herald, Los Angeles Cal)
The herald., 1896-09-12

w. w. McEwan of Jackson. Mich, has
the distinction of having made more bal
loon ascensions than any other living
American,