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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-08-12
MARRIED AT MINNEAPOLIS.
Miss Stella Lundberg W0Oed and Won
by q Soldier.

Word was received in this city Tues
day of the marriage at Minneapolis,
July 10Th, of Miss Stella Lundberg
and Mr. VIM. Baker. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. Mat. Hughes,
of Wesley church, The bride is a
daughter of Mrs. Olof Lundberg and
granddaughter of ]. r. Tinkcom, of
this city, and has wide reputation
as singer, and is an accomplished
and attractive young lady. Mr.. Baker
is adjutant's clerk, Fifteenth Mime
sofa volunteers
The many friends and acquaintance
of the bride in Mankato will extend
their best wishes for the future ha
piness of Mr.. and Mrs. Baker.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-08-12
REUNION OF OLD SETTLERS.
Arrangements Being Made for Big Day
at CORTLAND on August 18th.

Mr.. J. 81. Doty. of CORTLAND, was in
the city Tuesday in the interest Of
the old settlers reunion which will be
held in his park at that place on
Thursday, August 18th. Everything
possible is being done to make the
undertaking success, and the indi.
cations are that it will be. The @. &
N. W. R'y will run an excursion train
from this city leaving here probably
about 500 in the morning and return
ing in the early evening. Mr.. Doty's
park is a beautiful place covered with
fine trees, and watered by spring of
pure cold water. While the plan is to
have a basket picnic, there will be
place on the ground where meals
and lunches, ice cream and lemonade
can be obtained.
Judge Fiandreau, of St. Paul, will
deliver an address, as will also Thos.
Hughes, of this city. These addresses
will deal with old times, and will
doubtless refer largely to the uprising
of the Indians. Several others will
also be called upon for addresses
Sheriff j. II. Block, of st. Peter, will
give an exhibition of shooting at glass
balls. Mr.. Block is very proficient in
this line and the exhibition will be
good one.
A ball game has been arranged for
between the St. Peter and Mankato
ball clubs, and also game between
the CORTLAND and Cambria clubs. A
good band will also be in attendance
to furnish music for the occasion.
The reunion will close with a dance
in the evening
1t is the present intention to or
ganize upon that day an old settlers
association of Nicollet, Brown and
Blue Earth counties and to hold re-
unions at CORTLAND each year.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-08-12

Judge Wilson today made an order
to hear the guardians final account
in the case of Abial G. Wood; an order
to show cause on filing petition to IL
cense mortgage land of the Johanna
Mahoney estate; an order appointing
an administrator Of the Augustus f.
Hilton estate; and an order allowing
the final account of the administrator
of the Elizabeth Jones estate.
The board of public works invites
bids for grading Fourth street from
Jackson to Warren, for setting curb
and gutter around the Rosenberger &
Currier corner, and for grading West
Ninth street from Baker avenue to
the Milwaukee track. Bids are to be
opened at 200 p. NJ, Aug. 18th.
Twenty-one persons took the teach
ers' examination at Lake Crystal Fri
day and Saturday. One applied for
first grade certificate, and the balance
for second grade.
Pass & Schippel are preparing plans
for large Catholic church to be con-
structed at Hoven, S. D.
Four young women paid $546O into
the city treasury this morning, on the
charge of disorderly conduct.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-08-12
OFFERED $4,000.
Schiller Lodge, |. O. O. F., Has the
Money to Put Up.

Now that Mankato lodge No. Is, l..
0. o. f., has discharged it's commit
tee on the Odd Fellows home, Schll-
lier lodge No. 80 does not know what
to do. With the co operation of No.
Is, there was a good chance Of get
ting the home, but the task is larg e
one for one lodge alone. Schiller
lodge raised among it's own members
So, 900 and wanted Mankato lodge to
do the same. If Mankato lodge could
do more than that, it offered to raise as
much as the former did. 1t was pro-
posed that the balance of $4,000
should be raised among the citizens
outside of the lodges. This sum,
with the ten acres donated by Geo,
Peter Hoerr, was expected to bring
the home to Mankato, which has all
of the other required advantages.
Schiller lodge is wealthy organiza-
tion, and understood to have about
$4,000 sailed away somewhere. 1t
also contains many wealthy mem
bers. On the other hand, Mankato
lodge has expended it's wealth upon
its building, which is not quite clear
of incumbrance. Its membership
does not include as many men of
wealth as the other lodge, and the
raising of $4,000 in cash among it's
members means much more of sac
rifice to it than the raising of a
similar amount does to Schiller lodge.
1t is hoped that Schiller lodge will
not drop the project, but will preserve
and seek the cooperation of the citi-
zens. The quarry is worth the chase
in this instance
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-08-12
ASSESSMENTS LOWERED.
County Board Takes no Action OF
Alleged Mortgage Inequalities.

The county board Of equalization
convened monday afternoon and re-
NAMED in session Tuesday. The board
refused to take any action in regard
to equalizing alleged inequalities in
assessment of mortgages. Stephen
Lamm made the claim that the Man
kato city valuation on these is seventy
five per cent, while the valuation as
as made in the townships of the
county is fifty per cent. The board
takes thesstand that it does not know
what the valuations are and there
fore cannot proceed to equalize them.
The board is satisfied with the re-
turns on real estate from the city and
made no general change. Several in
dividual changes on real and personal
property were made, as follows:
W. D. Willard. reduced S1,275 on
mortgages paid,
Mrs. Anna M. Willard, reduced
s., 452 on same.
Lucy Boynton, $3.50 personal prop
erty assessment stricken off because
she is nonresident.
d. L. Clements homestead lot re-
duced $780, The council had raised
him 1,5O0, and the county board puts
him back half way.
Anna.C. Widell, reduced on struct-
ure 500.
M. J. Hotaling, reduced on lot 5000.
Hanson, Lampert Co., reduced 1914
on mortgage paid.
Stephen Lamm, reduced $3.50 on an
uncollectable mortgage.
Evangelical association, reduced
5000 on church structure.
Lewis Davis, reduced 800 on lot and
800 on structure.
A. L. Miller, reduced 800 on struct-
ure.
Standard Cement Co., reduced on
structures from $4,000 to $4,000.
The company mas been taxed on the
first figure for eight years.
r. DeRosia, reduced ON structure
S4OO.
]. S. Anderson, reduced on land in
Lime township 800.
Ell. J. Roberts, 800 on structure
stricken off because there is none.
Chas. N. Norton, reduced S7O7 on
mortgage paid.
Ella Simpson, reduced sS17 on mort
gage paid.
Lampert Lumber Co., reduced 81 1916
on mortgage.
The city assessor and the city board
of equalization failed to assess the
vacated Omaha right of way and other
railroad property in the city, and au.
ditor Gunders has informed the board
that he will notify the railway COM
pany and city assessor of this fact
Mr.. Gunder's action will result in ad-
ding at least $40, 900 to the real estate
valuation Of the city.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-08-12
H. r. HANSON DEAD.

n. R. Hanson, who resides three
miles south of the city, died Tuesday
morning of cancer of the stomach,
after having been confined to his bed
for three weeks. He was So years of
age, and leaves wife, two daughters
and one son. The latter is member
of the firm of Fuller & Hanson, of
which the deceased was assignee un
til recently succeeded by Geo. II.
Clark. The funeral occurred Thurs
day forenoon from the house, and the
interment was had in Decoria.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-08-12
SPANS REPLY.
1t Accepts All Our Conditions
For Peace.
But 1t Elaborates Upon All Points and
INDUCES In Many Ques-
tons.
Special to the Daily Free Press.
tons.

Special to the Daily Free Press.
Washington, Aug. 9-Spain's reply
is an acceptance of all the condi-
tions for peace laid down by the
United States, but Spain presents an
elaborate view of each point involved
and on questions which would natural
ly arise, when American conditions
were carried into execution. Whether
this will be considered satisfactory
remains to be seen.
Secretary Of War, Alger, has stopped
the dispatch Of further reinforce
ments to Porto Rico.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-08-12

Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Hope Jones
are the proud parents of a fine boy,
whose advent occurred Sunday and
weight is over ten pounds. Mrs.
Jones and son are at the home of the
latter's grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. 81. Shepard.
Peter Olson, of Waseca and Sophie
Olson, of Medo, were married at the
Stahl House at five o'clock Tuesday
afternoon by Judge Shissler.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-08-12
SEVERAL JUDGMENTS TAKEN.

The calendar was called in the
municipal court Tuesday, and the fol-
lowing cases were disposed Of:
j. M. Irwin VS.. Currier & True, set
for trial Aug. 22nd. at 900 a. m.
ID. ii. Hilger VS.. d. Carroll, order
for judgment .....
w. K. Landau VS.. Faddoul Kouri,
order for judgment for $3.50.
j. w. Andrews VS.. Albert Thiessen,
order for judgment for 1920.
Samuel Seminal & Bros. vs.. Faidoul
Kouri, order for judgment for $6S.24.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-08-12
FOR CONGRESS.
JnO. A. johnson, of St. Peter,
Talked of.
Democrats Have Hard Work to Find
Anyone to 90 on the
Ticket.

The Democratic congressional con-
vention will be held in this city a
week from today, and yet if you ask
almost any leading party man who is
being talked Of for the nomination he
will answer, Il don't know" This re-
presents the condition Of the party in
the Second district. Without the
slightest hope Of defeating Congress
man McCleary, no one seems willing
to accept the nomination. 1t is prob
ably not saying too much to say any
body who is fairly we'll known in the
district could have the nomination by
simply giving it out that he would &C.
cept it. 1t is possible that some
young attorney or professional man
might be induced to take the nomina-
tion simply for the advertising and
acquain tance campaign would bring
him.
Judge Severance having positively
declined to allow his name to 60 be-
fore the convention, Jno. A. Johnson,
one of the talented editors of the St.
Peter Herald, is now being mentioned
among those who are delegates to the
convention. The only objection raised
is that Mr.. Johnson is sick and may
not be able to take the field. How
ever, that is too trifiing an objection
to have much weight, as it is not like
ly that whoever is nominated will de-
vote much valuable time to the cam
paign, with defeat certain. Mr.. John
son is we'll known throughout the dis
trict and would grace the ticket.
A. M. Hannay, who is attending the
meeting of the county board of equa-
lization. is now an out and out cand1-
date for the legislature. II nominat-
ed, he would 60 before the people with
an excellent record as county commits
sioner. Mr.. Hannay is the kind of
man that the state needs in the legis-
lature. While looking after the in
UClCSUS VI ulS q
careful eye, he would advocate the eX.
ercise of economy in the management
of the affairs of the state. He is also
familiar with the needs Of the farm
ing community, upon whose prosper
ity depends much of the success of all
other lines of business, and would as
sist in shaping legislation to the in
terest of the farmers. Mr.. Hannay
will 60 into the conversion with a
good many delegates but will have to
do battle with VIM. Jameson and
Eugene Thompson, who are candi-
dates from the same portion of the
county, and who will have their fol-
lowing of delegates.
Many of the candidates were lined
upon the streets yesterday. They
realize that this is not a favorable
time to get out among the farmers,
who are at their busiest now, and are
looking after the big list of delegates
from the city.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-08-12
BATTLE AT MANILA
The Spanish Attack Americans
and are Repulsed.
Spanish Loss From 200 to 300 While
Two Americans are Killed, Forty
Wounded
Special to the Daily Free Press:

Special to the Daily Free Press:
Washington, Aug. 9,-Advices just
received from Manila state that
Spanish soldiers to the number of
three Thousand attacked the Amer1-
can forces there on July 3lst, but were
driven back with oss of from two to
three hundred. Two Americans were
killed and about forty wounded. The
rebels remained neutral.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-08-12

Ike Griffith put ''sub" on his route
yesterday while he looked after the
advent of a new mail carrier who ar.
rived at his house. The young Welsh
man weighs nine pounds, and Ike says
he is dandy.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-08-12
SAME BIG FIGURES.
A Years Receipts and Disbursements
of the County Treasury.

Following is statement of the re-
ceipts and disbursements of the coun-
ty treasurer from August l, 1897, to
July 81, 1898:
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-08-12
FARMING LANDS
CITY LOTS FOR $,

Several quarter sections, ir
near Mapleton.
Wild and improved land
wood Falls, also near c
and other Minnesota V
No. l wheat, corn
Small tracts near
to suit purchasers
Cheap lots, we
choice residen1
erty. 1 take
ing propertr
agreeable
Now is
era of 8
and r
of +
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-08-12

Many of the candidates were lined
upon the streets yesterday. They
realize that this is not a favorable
time to get out among the farmers,
who are at their busiest now, and are
looking after the big list of delegates
from the city.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-09-17
TAXES IN PHILIPPINES.
Spain Had Worked Ont a System of
Absolute Robbery.

The revolt of the natives of the Phil
ippines is the result of SPANS worse
than prehistoric methods of colonial
government. Misrule on gigantic and
incOnceivable scale fiourished in this
island empire-"The Pearl of the
Orient"
The actual number of these islands is
as yet unknown. for the Spaniard
makes an unprOgressive pioneer. but
there are estimated to be about 400 Of
them, great and small, nesting away
just north of the equator. The total
area is in the neighbOrhOOd of 100000
square miles. The population can only
be guessed at; perhaps 100000 Of
souls is fair figure at which to place
it,
The native population Is of the Malay
family and from all accounts simple.
easy-going people when left to. them
selves, but capable of both persever-
ance and courage of high and com
mendable order when keyed up to the
fighting pitch. There is often a large
admixture of foreign blood in the veins
of these islanders. 1t may he either
Spanish or Chinese, and this mixed
race, "Metizas." as they are called.
forms one of the most influential class
es in the Philippines.
The Philippine islander has been
probably the most persistently taxed
creature The sun shines on in the world
to-day. for the Spaniard's whole theory
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-09-17
How 1t Came to Be Victoria.

The primate had been told by the
prince that he liked good historical En-
glish names that everyone could under
stand. What better name, he thought,
than Queen Elizabeth. He mildly sug-
gested elizabeth" ION no account"
said the prince regent. Charlotte, at
ter your royal mother and the child's
royal aunt" Certainly not" The
Duchess of Kent relieved her feelings
by flood of tears. The Princess Mary
kissed her and the baby cried. This
spurred the mild archbishop. "What
name is it your royal highness' pleas
ure to commando whats her moth
er's name?' "Victoria.' answered the
Duke of Kent But his intervention
was met by an irate look from the re
gent. The Duke of York, seeing that
the christening must be FASTENED for
ward if it was to be got through with
at all, took on himself to say. "AleXau-
drina Victoria" And so the queen
missed being known in history as Geor-
glana, fitting name for the last of the
Georgiana dynasty. qu'elle resume, ex-
prime, ct termine but less suitable for
a glorious reign of sixty years than Vic
oria.-COntemporary Review.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-09-17

desperate bravery which occurred dur
ing our war with Tripoii. 1t is hardly
credible that this country once paid
large sums to the piratical Barbary
states for leave to navigate the seas
without assault. During the admins
trations of Washington and Adams the
ships of our navy were several times
employed in carrying silver coin by the
barrel to the Dey of Algiers and the
Bashaw of Tripoli. BY command of the
Dey the American flag was hauled
down from the mast of the George
Washington, and his own flag hoisted
in it's place, and the country suffered,
for long time without protest, similar
indignities from the Bashaw. At last
the insolence could be tolerated no
longer and war was declared The next
year the frigate Philadelphia struck
rock in the harbor of Tripoli, and was
seized by the enemy, the officers were
thrown into prison and the crew of
three hundred men reduced to slavery.
The Turks raised the vessel, and began
to reft her for use. Lieutenant De
catur. In a little vessel named the In
trepid. with a half-dozen daring young
fellows crept into the harbOr at night
fall and made fast to the Philadelphia
under pretense of wanting anchorage.
AS they grappled the huge ship the
Turks leaped to their arms, but the
Americans were already on board.
They drove the crew over the side.
heaped combustibles in the hold. set
fire to them, and escaped in their little
boat to the war frigate waiting for
them, while the Philadelphia burned to
the waters edge. Six months later the
harbor of Tripoli was blockaded by
Commodore Preble. Lieutenant Rich
ard SOmers and eleven men volunteer
ed to fit up the Intrepid as a fire-ship
to take her into the harbor and explode
her In the midst of the Turkish fleet
to destroy it, Twenty thousand pounds
of powder and two hundred shells were
packed her in her hold, and slow fuse
attached On a dark night Lieutenant
Somers sailed with her toward the
Turkish squadron; but she was seen.
struck by bomb, and set on fire. She
exploded and sank, doing no damage to
the enemy. Richard SOmers and all OF
his crew were lost. But when we talk
of the brave deeds of to-day which are
successful. let us not forget those
American boys who long ago gave their
lives to their country-in vain.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-09-17

paid a tax of $14. This tax was col
lected, too. Any attempt at evasion
was promptly and sternly dealt with;
If the culprit was a man the thumb
screws were used and if a woman she
was stripped and publicly beaten.
But this poll tax was merely the
start. If the native was small farm
er, he must secure a license before he
could pick and market the cocoanuts
from his own trees. If he wished to
butcher a COW or bullock or shear his
sheep or cut down tree, he must first
pay the inevitable license fee Should
he fail in this he was sold out of house
and home, sent to prison, or what not.
according to the pleasure and whim OF
his Spanish master.
He had to pay tax if he owned n
beast of burden of any sort-fOr this
was SPANS helpful method of encOur-
aging him to thrift. Every article of
furniture he used was taxed. If he was
townsman or villager and wanted to
keep shop he was taxed for the priv
ilege; not content with this. the very
scales and measures he used in the car
rying on of his business were subject to
an additional tax. He paid tax when
he married. and taxation kept its Grip
ping grip upon him up to the hour Of
his death, and then the very grave he
filled was made to render tribute to his
oppressOrs. 1t could not be dug until
tax of $3.50 had been paid either by
his family or friends. AS sasnple of
rapacity-the Spaniard's rule is proba-
bly, without a parallel The revenue
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-09-17

There is a perfect reason for the at
tachment of the immigrant to the Uni
ted States. 1t is because 1t is the coun-
try of his choice. No portion of this
country has ever been a penal colony.
a Botany Bay or a Siberia. The immi-
grant to the United States from the be-
ginning has been volunteer-One who
considered the matter and concluded
that his condition would be bettered in
some way in the great new, strong
country beyond the Atlantic, where
there was more land. more room. more
work, more money. more opportunity.
more liberty for him and his children
and their children.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-09-17

of taxation is nothing more or less than
wants the natives last copper. and gen
orally speaking he gets it. One must
take into account in considering this
question of taxation that the laborer or
small farmer in the Philippines earns
on an average of from five to perhaps
10 cents a day, and work is no more
steady there than elsewhere, yet he
yielded up by way of poll tax the neat
little sum of SIS a year. while his wife
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-09-17

thus collected found its way to the
northern country, where it forms an
Important item in the budget required
for the maintenance of the army and
navy
Not content with taxing the unlucky
native for the enrichment of the home
Government, the officials, big and little.
bent all their energies toward feather
ing their own nests as well. Great for
tunes were amassed in the briefest pos
sible space.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-09-17

Shrewd operators have become con-
WINGED that with the end of the war
will come a break in the mule market
This will be due to two causes. Con-
sumption of mule meat by the Spanish
soldiery will cease, and the Govern
ment will enter the market as a heavy
seller, with large. variegated assert
ment of browns blacks, claybanks,
offs. highs and every other known spe-
cles of the patient animal. Good clay
banks that have been paying the Gov
eminent 8 per cent. on the investment
since the war began, will cease declar-
ing dividends and prepare for liquida-
ton. Bell mules that have guided pack
trains half over the province Of San
tiago de Cuba, will find their occupa-
tions gone and no fodder for the hun
cry Choice spring mules. lust pass
ing the pin-feather stage. good, little.
bandy-legged broilers. will fall off.
along with the older Spanish boarding
house favOrite that used to work M
into salmiS and ragOuts and pate a la
Toral in Santiago before the advent Of
Skaters army. Buyers will turn sell
ers and mules will stand on the bar
gain counters eight deep. adding their
soulful songs into one great paean like
the twittering harmony of "A bird store
and making the mule market blossom
with the flowers of song.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-09-17

But while your mirth holds carnival
That every man is shot.
In the rear you'll never find him
Where clash of arms sounds faint.
He'll not let lips of others
His own word pictures paint.
He's In the thick of battle,
He's where the strife runs red,
He's grinding out his story
In that flying sleet of lead.
He loves to write Of others
In whose yalor he delights:
He ofttimes makes them famous
'Twixt darkness and daylight.
He longs to spread In detail
On the flaming scroll of fame
The way that they won glory,
But he never tells his name.
He dies to serve his paper.
His life's the price of news.
There's no one to sing his praises
And few can I'LL his shoes.