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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-09-09
RUSSIA'S PURPOSE.

1t is said that Russia's proposal for
was aimed as the Unit
ed States, which it fears will become
one of the great naval and military
powers of the world unless some steps
are taken to head it off. Russia
need not take any unnecessary steps
on account of the United States
This country is plenty able to
take care of itself, and will doubt
less do so. AS to an increase Of naval
armament, that will continue ia this
country for some time to come, and
any little scheme Russia may
have will not head it Off
But there is little probability
that anything will come from il, as
the powers Of Europe have hardly
rea ched that point yet where they
can drop their jealousies and put
much faith in the honesty Of their
neighbors. Again, whatever arma-
ment the United States may
resort to does not arise from
passions of jealousy, as in Europe, or for
purposes of conquest, but for self pro-
lection, in case trouble arises, as in
the case with Spain. 1t is an
armament that will be entirely in
the interests of peace, and will never
be carried to the extent it is 10
Europe.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-09-09
CRIMINAL ASSAULT ALLEGED.

County Attorney Hughes received a
telephone message fromMapleton Mon
day, asking him to go there Tuesday
to appear for the state in the prosecu-
uion of man named Welsh, who is
under arrest there on the charge of
criminal assault with intent to COM
nit rape on twelve year old girl.
The hearing had been set.tor Monday.
but was postponed until Tuesday.
Welsh denies the charge against him.
1t is likely that Evan Hughes will rep
RESENT the sstate, as Thos Hughes
cannot leave.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-09-09

The Times helped Mr.. Eustis to his
nomination in other words, helped
him tt: smash the machine. His elec-
tion is now in the hands OF his party,
and there the Times is content to
leave it.-Minneapolis Times.
The Times pursued very COM
mendable course in both particulars.
1t certainly did good work in helping
to smash the machine and it shows
it's wisdom in consigning Mr.. Eustis
to 1.-THE hands of his party" His in
terests will be properly looked after
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-09-09
STURGEON LAKE COLONY.

]. E. Morse, Of the firm Of Morse &
Morse. real estate brokers, left the
city Monday in scharge of twenty
three home seekers. These parties
are from Blue Earth, Nicollet and
LeSueur counties. Morse & Morse
have purchased from the St. Paul g.
Duluth r. r. Co. section of land
near Sturgeon Lake, Mum, and are
now erecting colony house for the
accommodation of settlers.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-09-09
WILL PAY THE TAX.
The Express Companies Finally Decide
So to Do.

A dispatch from Chicago to the
Pioneer Press under Fridays date
says: CAT a special conference today
of the representatives of the Adams,
American and United States COM
panies it was decided that the COM
panies would from this date bear the
expense Of the war lax, instead Of re-
quiring the public to stamp con-
signments." At the local office of
the express companies in this city
Saturday afternoon, Agent Drake said
that no notice Of the decision had
reached him, but be presumed that
he would hear officially of it before
night or by Monday anyway.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-09-09
SODeD|uB EQTIh County bQTQQIDS

*12 acres Mankato township-a snan
*20 acres MaDkato township, SS9O
worth $1,000.
*l3 acres Mankato township, near city,
So, 7O0-cheap.
40 acres LeRay township, 81, 500, worth
1000.
40 acres LeRay township, 81, 300, worth
$1,000.
40 acres Rapidan township 1900.
worth 81, 800.
% acres Rapidan township, 5000
worth 81, 200.
*135 acres Rapidan township, 500 per
acre-a snap.
40 acres Cambria township. S25 ner
acre-a snap.
156 acres Rapidan township. S35 per
acre, worth $40.
100 acres South ndtownship. $40 per
acre, worth S45.
1853 acres Rapidan township, $50 per
acre, worth $40.
acres Mankato township, near CITY,
S, 1904 snap.
$50 acres DecOria township, $40 per
acre, worth S45.
80 acres Mcpherson township. S45 Der
acre, worth $50.
100 acres MaukatO township, 3 miles
from P. Ga snap.
30 acres South Bend township, $50 pc
acre, worth $50.
%Can be traded for Mankato city property
Houses and lots in Mankato from $500 to $4,000
same on monthly payments.
zaRsS~-EEzzccUurrssiiOonnss august "a and g.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-09-09
SOLD HIS COTTAGE.
Mr.. c. H. Higgs Disposes of His Madison
Lake Property.

MICH, Higgs Saturday transferred
by deed Lis Madison Lake cottage
recently purchased from Mrs. Frank
L. Walters, to Geo. B. Owen
In addition to the cottage, Mr..
Owen purchased the fine new electric
launch from Mr.. Higgs and also the
furniture ETC., in the cottage. We
did not learn the exact amount paid
for the outfit, but it is something less
than 81, 900,
Mr.. Owen has certainly got cheap
property. He will spend the next
month or six weeks rusticating at the
Point.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-09-09
A PAINFUL ACCIDENT.

Mrs. Anderson, who resides in South
Bend, met with distressing accident
about week ago. She was engaged
IN gathering grapes, and twig struck
her right eye ball, severely injuring
it. The eye grew worse,s and when
she consulted physicians it was found
necessary to remove the eye. Drs.
Davis and James performed this
operation Wednesday. Mrs. Ander-
son suffered greatly from pain pre-
vious to the operation.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-09-09
The Army aud Navy.

Have covered themselves with glory
during the war. The Army and Navy
vest pocket memorandum book, pub.
lished by the Northern Pacific is a
compact digest of information rela-
ative to navies and armies of Spain
and the United States at the begin
ming of the war. 1t has a map of
Cuba, illustrations OF naval ships,
glossary Of army and navy terms,
translation Of Spanish words etc.
Sends ten cents to Chas. S. Fee, Gen.
Passenger Agent n. P. Ry., ST. Paul,
MIMI, for copy.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-09-09

The 18th and 14th Minnesota regi-
ments are to be mustered out, and the
18th has been ordered to camp Meade,
Pa, and will doubtless be sent from
there to Havana, when cool weather
comes. The Sd infantry has also been
ordered back to Fort Smelling.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-09-09
A Low DOWN TRICK.

st. James Gazette:
1t seems to be the concensus Of
opinion that the Demo Pop congress
sional convention of Mankato played
a low down trick on Mr.. Hammond of
this city when it nominated him for
congress in opposition to McCleary.
He can get even with the convention,
however, if he SO desires. He can re.
fuse 20 waste bis time, money and
in any such hopeless cause.
One sacrifice hit oy him should be
enough to satisfy his friends.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-09-09
LAKE WASHINGTON ITEMS.

Attorney J. "a. Long and wife
spent Thursday at Cliff Inn.
Chas. |. Thro returned Friday morn
ing from few day spent at the hotel.
Mr., and Mrs. j E. Hart, Mr.. and
Mrs. Maloney,aof Butte City, Mont.
and Mrs. j. W. Fowler spent Tues.
day at the lake, fishing
Mrs. DR.. Warner, Mrs. Lille Baker
and Mrs Sherman were at Cliff Inn
early in the week.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-09-09
The Anoka Union says, "Anoka has

The Anoka Union says, "Anoka has
right to haye fourth insane asy-
lum and Hastings has not" But why
have fourth asylum? There is no
especial need or call for it, and it is
too expensive a luxury. Far better
adopt the county system, and then
another great institution will not be
needed and great expense saved the
state. and the present asylums ade-
quate for all purposes.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-09-09

The Mankato Plumbing Co., the
next to the lowest bidder, was award
ed the contract for doing the plumb
ing for M. K. Armstrong; new build
ing at Sta James, at 81, 625.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-09-09
IT. is said that Major Bowler, candi-

1t is said that Major Bowler, candl-
date on the fusion ticket for lieu
tenant governor, has challenged VIM.
Fl. Eustis for joint debate. This is
simply scheme to get q large audi
ence to address, but Mr.. Eustis will
hardly be hoodwinked that way. lie
is not in the business Of drawing
audiences for opposition speakers
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-09-09

A correspondent in the Black Hills
says that it is so not there that apples
on the trees are thoroughly baked.
That correspondent can almost get
away with Weyler or Blanco for
stories.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-09-09

Senator Platt is said to be favorable
to Theodore Roosevelt as the Repub-
lican candidate for governor Of New
York. Doubtless it is one of those
instances where he has To be.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-09-09

The old fire bell that was once over
the city hall, but which became
cracked, has been recast by the Man
kato Mfg Co. and turned over to the
West Mankato hose house.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-09-09

If the war is over what is the mat
ter with reviving the Klondike talk.
--Fairmont News.
And if the Klondike is greatly over
estimated as seems to be the case,
what is the use of resuscitating it?
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-09-09
HORSE STOLEN.
A Farm Animal Taken From L, G. M.
FIetcher's Barn.

A horse was stolen from L. G. M
Fletcher's barn, north of the city,
Saturday night. The halter was not
taken, but was thrown aside. There
is no clue TO the thief, but the matter
is in the hands Of the sheriff. The
horse that was stolen is of a bay
color, with four white feet and a
white stripe on the face, and weighs
about 1,200 pounds. 1t is a farm
work horse.
Mr.. Woods, travelling man who
resides in Lake Crystal, lost a new
Columbia bicycle Saturday evening.
He had ridden to the postoffice and
went in TO get loaf of bread, He
was gone but two or three moments,
but when he returned, both the
wheel and a man whom he had seen
lettering about the entrance were
gone. Mr.. Woods purchased the
wheel but a month ago.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-09-09

From T7e-page Catalogue Shot Guns. % IS.
Winchester Rifles. s9.O3: Tents. 81 %; new Cook
Stoves, ~ Is Heating stoves. sl.9. up. Printed
Barb wire 81 IS per cwt GALVANIZED Barb wire, sl95
Cut Nails, Cd finish, &c per key Wire Nails. cod 81 81
'ttom, Soc. American Washing Machine 500, New
sreel, new Clocks, SIC, new Watches e7e, new Ham,
Trunks. acc; new Carpets per yd I0c; Ingram Car.
Sewing hachinr& si7 30 hest machine msdeL
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-09-09

Miss Myrtle Holmes is spending
several days at the Omaha exposition.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-09-09

n q The following Catalogues receipt OF &c each to
AE.n L pay postage them Baby Carriage Cat. Agr
vi Vcultural lmpement Cat. Harness. Buggies Gut
aAaa and Team Bob Cat. Drug Cat, Stove Cat
CUIG Musical Instrument Cat. Bicycle Cat Send 15c
FnEE and large Supply Cat of over ZIG pages 100
- - 600 cuts aud prices sil be cent postpaid.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-09-09
CITY TREASURER'S REPORT.

The following is summary of City
Treasurer Williams report for
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-09-09
A Few Prices

per key, Tin wash boilers, copper be
Organs, 1856; Musical Catalogue :
mocks, %2c; Croquet Sets. sc: new
pets Der I'd. -tse: tsamples freel 40
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-09-09
DAVIES Z HLHARIZ.

l03 Odd Fellows Block.
Nankato. Minnesota.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-09-09

A fight is said to have occurred at
Madison Lake Saturday night.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-09-09

The L. Patterson Mercantile Co.
purchased three Car loads OF prunes-
big order.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-09-16
CHAPTER w.

Ruby has now been the self-consti-
tuted instructress of Bob and Meg for
nearly a month. The novelty of her
voluntary task has worn off; the chill
dren too have taken off that feeling Of
restraint and shyness which caused
them in the beginning to sit
like little models of patience
during the two hours devoted
to lessons. They have now be-
gun to realize the fact that their lib
erty is restricted during the morning
visits to the Wilderness, and both are
beginning to regard their disinterested
benefactress simply in the light of
taller. Ruby possesses none of those
nualities so essentially necessary to
win childish hearts-she has no pa,
thence. no tact, and not an atom OF
real sympathy for her young charges.
One bright June morning Bob is la
boriously forming some strange hero
glyphics supposed to represent pot
hooks in very blotted and limpy copy
book, whilst poor little Meg, with an
ominous culver of her lips, Is stand
ing with her hands behind her in front
of Ruby, vainly seeking in her passive
little brain for the answer to the Oft
repeated question
"Now, Meg-wake up, and tell me,
like a good little child, what is three
times four"
"Tree times four-tree times four,
repeats Meg drearily-so often has the
same question been put in the same
words that it conveys no meaning to
her childish reason. Ruby has way
Of scanning the morning news whilst
she carries on her monotonous string
of questions, SO that her face is COM
pletely hidden from her poor little vic
tim.
"Yes-three times four. You will
stand there until you tell me, you know
very WELL" persists Ruby in tones OF
stern reproach.
This seems such an exceedingly
dreary prospect to poor Meg that her
two little fat fists are thrust suddenly
into her eyes,. and she breaks into
dismal howl.
"I say-you Miss Wilden-you just
stop bullying our Meg" cries Bob, sud
denly turning round on his high perch,
from which he cannot descend unaided,
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-09-16
VALLEY FORGE.
The Wonderful Endurance of Cold, Sick,
Hungry Soldiers.

The Wonderful Endurance of Cold, Sick,
Hungry Soldiers.
But, whether due to military expe-
diency or not, the story of Valley
Forge is an epic Of slow suffering 81
lently borne, of patient heroism, and
Of a very bright and triumphant out
come, when the gray days, the long
nights and the biting frost fed together,
says Scribner's. The middle of Deem
Der in the North American woods; no
shelter, no provisions, no preparations;
such were the conditions of Valley
Forge when the American army first
came there. Two weeks of hard work
and huts were built and arranged in
streets. This work was done on a
diet of flour mixed with water and bak-
ed in cakes, with scarcely any meat or
bread. At night the men huddled
around the fires to keep from freezing.
Few blankets, few coverings, many
soldiers without shoes, "wading naked
in DEFENDERS snows''-such were the
attributes of Valley Forge. By the
new year the huts were done, the street
laid out and an army housed, with
some three thousand men unfit for
duty, frostbitten, sick and hungry.
They had shelter, but that was about
all. The country had been swept SO
bare by the passage Of the contending
armies that even straw to lie on was
hard to get, and the cold. uncovered
ground often had to serve for sleep
ing place. Provisions were scarce aud
hunger was added to the pain Of cold.
Sometimes the soldiers went for days
without meat-sometimes without any
food, Lafayette tells us, marveling at
the endurance and courage Of the men.
There is often famine in the camp.
writes Hamilton, man not given to
exaggeration.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-09-16
The snine as a Surgeon.

1t has Just been discovered that the
snipe is able to repair injuries to his
own person. Whenever the snipe is
wounded about the body or his leg
broken he does not necessarily crawl
away to some quiet nook to die. Most
other birds give themselves up as dead
when such a misfortune befalls them,
but the snipe does not seem to mind
little thing like that. He simply flies
away to some quiet spot and tears
feather after feather from his side or
wing, or from any other part of his
body than the wounded place. AS
soon as the snipe has obtained three
or four loose feathers he quickly strips
off the downy part and allows the harc
quill to fall to the ground. The down
he places over the injured part, an6
before an unlocking bird would have
time to say Jack Robinson" the snipe
has stopped the flow of blood Tbs
crisis being over, the snipe finishes his
surgical operation more leisurely. This
he does by finding some east-off feath-
ers lying about the grass, and after
tearing out the quilts he lays fold after
fold Of the new down over the wound.
The blood acts as sort of gum to the
down, so that when the snipe has fin
ished his work he is completely out OF
danger. When in few weeks nature
provides some new cuticle for the
snipe's wound, the artificially applied
feathers are dropped, little by little.
until finally the snipe's breast looks
every whit as well as it was before
he was hurt. The person who dlscov-
cred that snipes are. their own surgeons
is the famous ornithologist, Fatio,
who announced his interesting discov-
cry to the International Physical So
ciety at their recent convention in Ge-
neva. NJ. Fatio says snipe do not
merely stop bleeding wounds on their
bodies. He has had evidence showing
that they are also capable Of construct
ing a splint to nurse broken wings and
broken legs
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-09-16

There Is nothing in the world / hate
more than oflicious meddling with my
affairs, and yet there Is nothing that
one is more utterly incapable Of sup
pressing without positive rudeness."
81 say, don't get waxy over it., old
boy!" suggests Ted, regarding his
brother with some amazement, for
Robert has as rule such an equable
temper that it seems strange to find
1t even in the least rufIled. For my
own part, l thought 1t awfully kind
Of Miss Widen to propose having the
kids oversize seems very unselfish
and kind-hearted."
81 don't doubt for a moment that she
Is most estimable woman" responds
Robert impatiently, "but she has no
tact, no common sense; she must have
seen plainly that l hated being put I'M
der such an obligation. If she insists
upon teaching the children, l don't see
how l can prevent her, only l shall
certainly send her a check at the end
Of the quarter for her trouble, and so
Iudh6 d DuSlucoS ludJISl VI ie'
"You can't possibly do that" cries
Ted, in a voice Of CONSERVATION; II am
sure she would take it as an insult! If
you want to satisfy your conscience,
the children could make her some pres
ent of jewelry or something of that
sort"
IT don't care so long as she gets
paid somehow remarks the elder
brother carelessly, and yet with good
deal Of annoyance in his tone.
Ted walks on for some moments IN
meditative silence; then he says sud-
denly
IT wonder what has come over Shell
since | met her last. She used to be
one Of the jolliest little girls in exist
ence, and now she seems to be full OF
selfishness and spite. Surely she can't
have been crossed in love; yet nothing
else that 1 can think Of would account
for the utter Indifference which she
seems for the world in general"
"Poor little She'll noticed great
change in her tool" assents Robert
dreamily. CAS- you say, she used to be
such a chatty child, and this evening
her behavior was almost rude; perhaps
she has had something, as. you sug-
gest, to sour her. thought she looked
quite pretty in that simple white
| dress"
81 might have thought her pretty If
she had condescended to make herself
agreeable" laughs Ted; "but, since she
did nothing but snub me at every turn,
| her hair struck me as being remark
ably red, and her temper uncommonly
bad. Wasn't that piece of music an
awful infliction?"
"Excruciating" agrees Robert heart
lily. "Her family ought to give her a
hint not to inflict herself on visitors,
or, If she insists on playing she should
limit her performance to five minutes.
ooh, we'll, l must own it was rather
my fault" confesses honest Ted. "She
warned me beforehand that I shouldn't
want her to play again If heard her
once"
"Well, she gave us quantity, if not
quality" laughs Robert.
Indeed she did" acquiesces Ted,
WITH almost a groan.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-02-24
II. N. HitChCOCk & Go,
THE RELIABLE DRUGGIST.

The St. Margaret's Guild will meet
with Myrtle Goodrich next Saturday
afternoon.
L. A. Guth is dangerously ill at his,
room in Hotel Francois. His parents
we're sent for yesterday.
w. P. Huntington last week sold
100 acres of land in section %, town
of Sherman, for Edmund G.. Walton
of Minneapolis, to Wilhelm Vohs of
Sherman, for $2,48O cash.
The Northwestern train made two
trips to and from this city last Mon
day afternoon and evening. The train
came up from Sleepy Eye on time at
4:15, without any mails, owing to the
fact that the train from Chicago had
been delayed four hours in Wisconsin
by reason of a severe storm in that
State. The engine, on it's arrival here,
was turned around, and attached to
two carloads of stock, and then the
train returned to Sleepy Eye where
the stock was turned over to the east
bound freight. The passenger from
the east reached Sleepy Eye by this
time and the stub train Immediately
turned around and came back, arriv-
ing here at 7:3O.