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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-15

and how easy it has been for him to
catch on and fall in with the people"
One would suppose from the above
question that the opposition expressed
by Senator Sherman to retiring the
greenback, was something recent, but
it is not, as he has entertained these
views all along, and in a magazine
article year or two ago, took much
the same ground that he does in his
letter just published. Mr.. Sherman
has stood by the greenback all along
and has not been whiting around as
the Penny Press would have it readers
believe, at the so-called sound of
popular rage"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-15

The advances of science during the
last twelve months, says the Mime
apOlis Times, were phenomenal. The
most striking and sensational develop
ment during 1896 was the marvellous
discovery Of the Roentgen, or X rays,
by Professor Roentgen, of Wurzburg
Experiments with the horseless car
riage and the flying machine have
suggested endless possibilities in i'm
proved methods of locomotion. Elec-
tricity as motive power as we'll as an
illuminant, attracted large share of
public attention. Edison's f1uorescent
bulbs is notable contribution to the
scientific harvest of the year just
passed. The improvements in long
distance telephoning have been re-
markable. The same is true in the
progress of photography. Photograph
ing in colors is almost an accomplished
fact. But not the least of the adj
vances of last year was the advance
of Nansen to within 225 miles Of the
north pole.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-15
THE BOARD OF TRADE ORGAN.
lies FOR 'oz.
The Old Officers are Reelected, and
New Names Added to the List of
Directors = Committee on Redis.
tricting the County Enlarged and
Given InStructiOnS-Cu ResOlu-
tion Indefinitely POstp0ned-Other
Business Transacted.

The old directors of the Board of
Trade held their last meeting Monday
forenoon and wound up their business.
President Shoemaker said that
since the last meeting he had received
requests from Indianapolis and St.
Paul to appoint delegates to the none
tary convention to be held at the for
mer city tomorrow, but had been un-
able to find anybody who would go.
The committee on legislation re-
turned the bill to secure honest
weights and correct scales, with the
recommendation that it be sent to
Senator Barr to prepare bill cover
ing the points and present it to the
legislature. This was ordered done.
M. B. Haynes moved that the re-
solution introduced at the last meet
ing opposing the Senate committees
resolution declaring the independence
of Cuba, be indefinitely postponed.
No objection to this motion was made
by the author of the resolution and
it carried without opposition.
The committees of the board and
Commercial club on the Walnut street
sidewalk to the Omaha depot reported
in favor of petition to the council
asking for the walk. This was pre-
sented and signed by the members of
the board, and President Shoemaker
agreed to circulate it.
The election inspectors presented
their report, with list of the twenty
newly elected directors, and the old
board adjourned.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-15

Gov. Clough has appointed Elmer
Fl. Dearth insurance commissioner.
The Governor has made a splendid
appointment, as Mr.. Dearth is we'll
qualified for the position, not only
having filled the position as deputy
commissioner a few years ago, but has
also been connected with the insur.
ance business for sumo time back and
knows the business thoroughly. Mr.
Dearth's many friends among the
press gang will be pleased TO know OF
his appointment, and extend con.
CALCULATIONS.
Ex-County Treasurer Lloyd has
not yet decided what business to take
up, but has several things in view
He has filled he office Of county
treasurer for the past eight years in q
most satisfactory manner. His re-
cords are models of their kind, and be
goes out of the Office with the good
wishes of all.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-15
SENATOR RINGDAHL has introduced

SENATOR RINGDAHL has introduced
a bill into the state senate to fix the
maximum of freights and fares which
may be charged by railroads within
the state. 1t provides that after it's
passage the rates on freight within
the state shall not exceed 80 per cent
of those in force upon the first day of
January, 1897. 1t also provides that
the passenger rates shall be q cents
per mile. 1t further provides that it
shall be the duty of the attorney gen.
eral to punish violations of the law
by forfeiture of the charter of the
railroad. 1t is not probable the bill
will become law. He has also in
PRODUCED another bill which provides
for the adjustment of the railroad
and warehouse commission, and shifts
the duties of such commission to the
attorney general.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-15

The Day-Dunn contest is exciting
widespread interest and will doubt
less consume considerable time before
the senate for the next two or three
weeks. 1t is matter that should be
settled in accordance with the law ap-
plying thereto, and not according to
political prejudice, We fail to see
just how the fate of the Anderson law
can enter into the present question.
If a man cannot hold the Office of SEN
atOr and lieutenant governor at the
same time under the constitution and
Senator Day so acted at the time he
voted upon the Anderson bill, what
ever action the senate may take now
in retaining Mr.. Day in his seat will
hardly make an illegal act of two
years ago legal now. The courts will
doubtless decide upon this matter any
way, and their decision will likely
turn upon the point of law regardless
as to what the senate may do in the
present contest. 1t is true that so far
as party matters are concerned, Sena-
tor Day should expect no favors from
the Republicans, and this may pos
sibly haye some influence with a few
members of that body. But it should
not. The matter is one of law and
should be decided accordingly. The
decision of this case will establish a
precedent for The future, and the
members of the senate should act very
carefully in the matter. 1t is case
in which the best of lawyers widely
differ.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-15

The state printing committee has
reelected Mr.. G. G. Whitney, of the
Marshall Nea0S- Messenger, as state
printer. This reappointment is de-
served endorsement of the hdelity
with which Mr.. Whitney has looked
after the duties of his Office. 1t is nc
disparagement TO any of his predeces-
sors to state that Mr.. Whitney has
made one of the best state printing
experts that ever occupied that of.
fee In honoring him and the state
by reappointment, the committee has
no less honored itself, and demon.
strated the fact that it knows good
man when it meets him.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-15

WHEN it became known that Senator Dubois
would have hard time holding his seat in the
senate the Democratic national committee sent
Secretary Walsh to Boise to fix matters with the
legislators. The next dar after his arrival it
was stated in a disratch to the Anaconda
Standard that there was $1O,0U0 in Boise to bet
on the success of Dubois.-Sioux City Journal.
The Popocrat papers that have been
Matching rumors that Mark Hanna
intended TO take a hand in this and
that senatorial election and then 60
ing into hysterical fit over his in
reference with state affairs, will not
make any comments upon the Idaho
affair. 1t is horse of another color.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-15

and that he still controls the right
for the Canadian provinces, Mexico,
Central and South America. This
would make a total of 100000
already in sight for him. 1t is hard
to realize that the invention would Sc
soon realize him such fortune, yet il
what he claims for it is fact, it is
doubtless worth every cent of it, and
those who have purchased the rights
will realize vast fortunes out of it. II
these deals have been closed it means
that the capitalists back of it have
thoroughly Investigated the invention
and sare fully satisfied with all the
claims made for it. In speaking OF
his invention in an interview for the
Chicago Inter Ocean, Mr.. Brambel
says:
l first got the idea of rotary en-.
CINE from the turbine wheel. l could
not see why steam could not do what
water did, especially when steam had
qualities thai water lacked and that
were essential. You know that when
little turbine is hit by column OF
water no bigger than your pencil
something has to go. You take a
smaller wheel, mechanically correct,
and turn against it an inch steam jet
at 100 pounds or over, and allow fol
the steam expansion, and why won't
you get power?
knew what was necessary to get
the greatest possible development OF
the steam expansion in order to give
success 10 the idea, and l have been
working along this line. 1t took many
models and great many failures to
get the thing right. have had en-
CINE after engine that seemed to be
perfect, and would spin along like
top, only to stop when some uneX-
plainable point was reached. l have
had problem after problem, and finally,
about five years ago, hit the machine
substantially as it is today. Since
then all the experiments have been in
the line of possible improvements,
but | have not found many, and l
think it will be hard to get anything
more powerful or better in it's way
than what l have.
There have been fourteen of the en-
gines built, all eXperimentally, and
they have been tested everywhere L
could find place for them, except on
locomotives. | have run circular
saws with them up to 1920 revolu-
tions, emery wheels, centrifugal fans
and blowers, creamery separatOrs up
to $500 revolutions, and dynamos, all
coupled direct to the engine. They
have been in use in elevators, hoist
ing works, boats. and machine shops.
The Baldwin works offered to put one
on locomotive, but it would cost con-
siderable, as the drivewheels would
have to be changed, and extra weight
to give the traction power an ordinary
locomotive gets from the weight of
it's machinery would have to be added.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-15

THE st. Louis Globe Democrat calls
attention to the fact that "while the
annual cost of pensions is about $780,
100000, it will naturally decline to an
Insignificant sum within the next
twenty-five years unless fresh wars
add to the roll. 1t is debt of honor
and patriotism, and those who criticise
it might we'll turn their atten tion to
another great item of expense which
can be reduced with infinite advan-
tage to the whole country. The fire
losses in the United States in 1894 ag-
gregated S129, 500 700; in 1895, S128,
246, 400, and in 1896, S1l5, 295, 500. In a
decade over a billion dollars goes up in
flame and smoke, attended with many
deploraEle casualties. The remedy is
better building and inspection, the
value of which has long been estab-
lished in Europe" The fire loss of
this country is most serious one, and
some attention to it would doubtless
prove most profitable to the country.
AS the Globe Democrat says the remedy
is in better building and inspection
and a stronger sentiment in this d.
rection ought to be built up. Legis-
lation for better inspection would
doubtless help matters much, and
public sentiment ought to bear it out,
especially as it would result in such a
saving all around. The reduction of
our annual fire loss at least one-half
ought to be matter aimed for.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-15

WATERLOO, one of the growing
cities of Iowa, built 112 residences
the past season, at an average cost OF
1900. MankatO would do we'll to fol-
low suit. What our city needs is an
increase of residences of moderate
cost, and they would all be occupied.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-15
The new board organized by the re-
election of the following officers:
D=oriaont IaE,o.. Sl.oa .,,..IzIar

The new board organized by the re-
election of the following officers:
President-James Shoemaker,
First vice president-W. M. Farr.
Second vice president-John Klein.
Secretary-C. A. Chapman.
Treasurer. H. Stewart.
The election of these officers made
five vacancies in the directorate, and
four of these were filled by the cleo
tion of DR.. Follman, Q. III. Ausin, III.
E. Hance and John Nyquist.
The matter of securing a redistrict-
ing of the county into commissioner
districts was brought up, and the
committee reported that the county
board had refused to take up the
matter at it's last meeting, but would
probably do so at the next meeting.
The committee did not look for favor
able action, however.
The opinion brought out during the
discussion that followed was that if
resort to the legislature for justice in
the matter was necessary, it should be
made, but that the county board
should be given one more opportunity
to act.
On motion Of M. B. Haynes, the
special committee on redistricting
was increased from three to five, and
requested to appear before the next
meeting of the county board. The
original committee consisted of M. B.
Haynes, Thos. Hughes and o. o.
Pitcher, and f. M. Currier and John
Klein were added to it.
There being no further business,
the board adjourned, The standing
committees will probably be announc-
ed at the next meeting.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-15

THE production of gold in 1894 in
the United States amounted to $780,
100000. 1t increased to S4S,000, 900 in
1895, and for the year 1896 was SOL
717,726.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-15

MISUNDERSTANDING safe, 1000
or l, 800 pounds. Address lock box 43,
Mapleton, Mimi, stating price.
-LosT-A pocket book containing
about $500. Lost between corner
Byron and Front streets and 203 State
street. Finder please leave at this
office and receive reward.
Judge Mead today issued letters
testamentry to Ellen Drake in the
matter of the estate of Benjamin
Drake, and issued an order for hear
ing claims. He also issued letters of
administration to Thomas A. Sherk
in the matter of the estate of Hannah
Leisner deceased.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-15

In the last twenty-five years Kansas
has produced S776,OO0,00O worth OF
corn. This is good record. About
the only thing that troubles Kansas
is bad dose of Populism.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-15
THE BRAMBEL ENGINE.

Its reported from Sleepy Eye that
Grant Brambel, the inventor of the
zotary engine, has closed a contract
with the Allen Syndicate of England
for the right to manufacture his en-
zine in America, for So, 100000, and
shat he had previously sold the right
for England and Europe for 81, 900, 600,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-15

In recent Kentucky wedding, the
groom was 103 and the bride 1O1.
There can be no question but what
they were old enough to be married.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-15

The Minneapolis Penny Press prints
a letter of Joan sherman, written
last mo til TO Hon. a bert Walker, of
Conn scJicut, ia which he opposes the
retir, M Mt of The II, enbacks, and The
Pennu Fress sd} his ears have heard
1.-THE distaut rumOnng IF pupuIar Faye
at the move against The greenoack,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-15

THE Freeborn County Standard has
entered upon it's 10th year, and is as
bright and newsy paper as ever.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-15
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
City Recorder Browns Report on
the General Balance Jan. Ist.
Estimated Disbursements and Re-
ceipts of the City to April Ist.

The following is the report made
by City Recorder Brown to the coun-
Gil Saturday night, as to the city's
financial condition Jan. LIST, 1897:
General Balance Jan. 1, 1867.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-15

81.
The receipts of the city from July
1st, 1896 to January 1st, 1897, were as
follows:
Munich court fees S 443. 95
LIQUOR Iicens es.... 100000
Other licenses 3A. As
Mr.. Brown states that the bills pay
able which comprise the floating
debt, will be SO, 900 to $4,000 less on
April lst next than was the case on
that day a year ago. If this should
prove to be the case, it is good show
ing, and one that ought to be main
tanned.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-15

Judge Mead made an order today
appointing Fred w Force guardian of
VIM. III. Force, a minor.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-09

perintendency of John P. ellis of New
York. son of the great commodore
famed in American history. New York
money is doing that work. w. D. -Hig-
ginbotham, formerly of Ouray, is op-
Grating the White Rock mines profit
ably 20 miles north of Tuscarora.
BONDED COPPER MINE.
Roger Mcnamara, known to every
prospector of Leadville and Aspen, dis
covered, and has bonded TO another
New York firm, copper mines which
average almost 25 per cent and carry
from surface down to $50 feet. the
present depth. enough gold and silver
to pay charges and leave the copper
clear profit. Mr. Mcnamara is re-
GREETING the certainty of the taking up
Of his bond. Gold and silver run with
all copper leads and in quantity TO lay
hauling even % 70 so miles from The
railroad, and 500 TO 1000 miles or more
from smelters, while iron exists in such
per cent as TO reduce treatment to the
minimum.
The octopus which has long throt-
tied Nevada's industrial life is the Cen
trail Pacific railroad, which exacts he
most eXtortionate rates. has killei
every industry it should have fos-
tered and has prevented the occupa-
ton of magnificent areas capable of
producing equally with the best Colo
rado l&nds. Frank White, who knows
the possibilities of the state thorough
iy, sums it: Nevada neads north
and south railroad at it's east end. and
an east and west railroad on the south,
and thus equipped. can rival Colorado
IN mineral production -
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-09

the mineral will not only pay freight
and railroad charges. but that it will
also pay good profits
Before Mr. Peterson left Moab he
states that the owners OF this valuable
property QUILTED at his store and that
they were confident that kind row
dence had pointed out the road to
wealth to them, and the news Of the
discovery has created such a furore in
mining circles in southeastern Utah
that il is predicted that within 80 days
the northern portion of the La Sale
mountains win be covered with mining
men and prospectors, as this is an ideal
place for prospecting, the lodges being
large and well defined, and there being
an abundance of water and timber in
that locality.
Besides the ore deposits in which cop
per is associated with gold. there are
strong Lodges of free milling gold ore,
which, on the surface, ranges in value
from 81 to $40 to the ton, while float
and picked samples have been tested
that went UP into the thousands in the
yellow metal
The most direct route to reach the La
Sale mountains from Salt Lake is to
take the Rio Grande Western railroad
to Thompson's Springs. From there to
Moab, distance of 80 miles, there is a
stage line, while from Moab to the
mines the distance is 20 miles.
AS matter of fact, the country to
the southeast, an immense section rich
IN Its mineral wealth, has hardly been
prospected as vet, and there are many
Localities in this region where a white
man has never been.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-09
Elizabeth Lake Gold.

A special from Los Angeles, Cal, says:
News comes from Elizabeth Lake of
rich placer findings in that region 1t has
long been surmised that gold existed
there, the remains of ancient workings
lending color to the theory. Within the
past year Investigations have been made
and a field has been found sixteen miles
southeast of Elizabeth Lake said to be
richer than anything now known in Cali
fornia
The Investigations were made by Doc
Cooper of this city and James Powell of
Leaoville, Colo, who declare they have
rich placer grounds. Their men are now
engaged IN the construction of a ditch
which will bring 500 inches of water down
the San Franciscuito creek to the placer
fields. The ditch viii be carried / 900
feet above the bottom of the San Fran
cisquito canyon, along the course of an
ancient river bed. where several lodges
that are the feeders of the placer fields
below are now visible.
A crew of men IS engaged in the con-
struction of the ditch. under Contractor
w. G.. Huey of this city. who, it is said,
has experienced much difficulty in keep
ing them at work. for the reason that the
men Will desert and start washing out
gold on their own account This ditch
will shortly reach the placer grounds and
then the work of developing both the
former and the quartz veins syill be be-
gun. At present there are over 500 men
engaged in mining operations throughout
the district.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-09

time, found to be a solid mass of cop
per. the iron having passed off into the
liquid
1t is welI-established fact that cop
per held in solution in water can be
easily obtained by using iron as a pre-
cipitant, but as the precipitation of
copper in solution with iron is compar-
atively slow and in many instances
quite costly, more active and less ex-
pensive precipitant was much in de-
mand. But the Hon. Thomas Wren
late of Eureka, but now of Reno, New,
seems to have solved this problem be-
yond a doubt. Mr. Wren has made this
question a study, and after repeated
and numerous experiments with differ
ent substances. has discovered that
copper in solution in water can be
readily thrown down with alkali. Al
kali will precipitate the copper at once.
While iron requires from "A hours TO
several Notwithstanding upon the
amount or mass of iron used
All copper ore in the form of sui
plate is subject to the teaching process,
and if alkali, as precipitant for cop
per in solution, will do all that is
claimed for it. there is worlds of ore in
this (Robinson) district that is sus-
ceptible of being treated by this
process. and without doubt millions in
it for the parties who have the energy
and means to put the process in opera
ton.
Mr. Frank Paul, on behalf of Mr.
Wren, is now in Robinson, making
preparations to make a practical test
of the teaching Drocess-using alkali
as precipitant-wfth the ores in this
district, on a larger scale than has
heretofore been made. The result of
the experiment is being watched with
much interest