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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-03-10
LIMITED TO $4,000 /
knatvold'S Sugar Bounty Bills
recommended to Pass
in the Senate.
PUTS AN END TO SHARP PRACTICES
Measure Taxing Timber and
Mineral Lands Favored
by the House.

ST. PAUL, March 6.-The senate in
committee of the whole recommended
for advancement to the calendar the
two bills by Senator Knatvold, repeal
ing the present beet sugar bounty law
and enacting in its place laws limiting
the appropriation to $50, 600 a year for
two years. The bounty is to be divided
equally between the farmers who grow
the beets and the manufacturers who
make sugar. There was no debate on
the meas ures, senators appearing to
have made up their minds to settle the
matter when the bills come up on the
calendar for passage.
Senator Fitzpatrick's bill to limit the
time in which actions may be brought
to recover damages for personal injury
to two years was the occasion of sharp
debate, when it was taken up on gen
eral orders on Senator Fitzpatrick's mo-
ton to recommend the bill for pass
age. Progress was finally reported.
Recommended to Pass.
Fixing the compensation of judges of
probate and clerks of the probate court.
Exempting goods in hands of common
carriers from punishment.
To enforce the payment of taxes which
became delinquent on or before the first
Monday in january, 1897.
To authorize the common council or
other governing body of municipalities
tn 1,ota L.
cal improvements in certain cases.
Senator Du Toit of Carver county in
troduced S. F. No. 4O3, to place the
clerk of the supreme court on salary
of 81, 400 a year and requiring that all
fees collected in his Office he turned
over to the state treasury.
Seven Bills Were Passed.
The senate passed the following bills:
Relating to the compensation and du-
ties of village recorders.
Relating to the vacation of streets,
alleys, public grounds, etc.
Raising school levy rate per cent
from 9 to -.
Appropriating money for the erection
of monument in commemoration of
the victims of the Hinckley fire.
Relating to the taxation of freight
line equipment companies.
To require all railroad companies
owning railroads in this state of less
than feet SO inches guage to adopt
such guage within such reasonable time
as may be fixed by the railroad and
warehouse commission.
Providing for the organization of I'M
organized counties.
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Feb pa March3 1C '99
ORDER FOR HEARING AND NOTICE OF
APPLICATION FOR APPOINTMENT
OF ADMINISTRATORS

ORDER FOR HEARING AND NOTICE OF
APPLICATION FOR APPOINTMENT
OF ADMINISTRATORS.
CTATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
- Earth-ss In Probate Court, Special
Term, Febru ry 7Jh 1899.
In the matter of the estate of Allie B.
PINCH, deceased
On reading and filing the petition of Anna
Shaw. of kedfield s nth D. k0ta representing
among other things, that Allie B, P nch, late of
the city of Ma, k4to, OH th- 9th day OF
February, A. u. 1899, at t. city of Mans alto
died intestate, and being resident OF
thi county at the time OF her
death, leaving goods, chattels and es-
tate within this county, and that the said
petitioner is he n other OF said deceased, and
praying that administration OF said estate
be to Villa II II. Pay, granted.
1t is ordered That said petition be heard be-
fore this court on Saturday, the Sth day OF
March, A. D., 1899 at 10 O'Clock A. NJ, 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, by publication of this order once in
each week, for three successive weeks prior to
said day of hearing, in the Mankato Free
Press, weekly newspaper printed and publish
ed at Mankato in said county.
Dated at the city of Mankato the 7th day OF
February, A. ID. 1899.
By the Court,
Seal of Probate Court. VIM. F. HUG HE'S,
Judge of Probate.
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Lady Herschell Accepts.

LONDON, March cit is announced
that Lady Herschell has accepted the
offer of the government of the United
States of a war ship to convey the re-
mains of her deceased husband to Eng
land. The funeral has been fixed to
take place at Clyffe, Dorchester, about
March 81. The remains will be taken
to Westminster Abbey the day before
the interment, and the first part of the
funeral services will be celebrated there.
The widow, who is much Frustrated, is
still in the south of France.
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CALLED 1T A WOODCHUCK.

Senators Have a Lively Time Over the
Probate Judge Bill.
While at work on the calendar at the
morning session of the senate S. f. 223
was taken up. The bill provides that
no probate judge may act as an attor-
ney or draw any papers in cases appear
ing before him, ON the principle that no
man can properly be judge and attorney
IN the same case. While the debate was
under way Senator Miller of Rock de-
clared the measure was ''woC dchuck"
and warned his fellow farmers TO defeat
it. Senator Knatvold argued that the
bill was in the interest of lawyers and
meant extra expense to the people. SEN
ator Young of the judiciary committee
ridiculed this argument and said the
bill was framed for the general good.
The vote was "a to 20 and the bill was
passed. In all q measures were put
through, among them being:
Other Lucky Measures.
Repeating the law requiring the mott
fcation to district judges by the super
intendent of the state reformatory of
the number of prisoners there, and of
their record of behavior and physical
condition.
Toprotect bicycle paths and bicyclists.
Wheaton's civil rights bill relative to
serving colored men in saloons.
Allowing the managers of the st.
Cloud reformatory to discharge prison
erS who had been convicted of crimes
for which the terms have since been re-
duced by law, at the expiration of the
minimum term thus fixed.
Fixing the time for holding terms of
court in Goodhue county.
Repeating the law fixing the salaries
of officers in Fillmore county.
Repeating the law fixing the salary Of
the Ramsey county abstract clerk.
Allowing the annexation of part Of
Lac qui Parle county to Big Stone.
Limiting Time to Begin Actions.
TO limit the time within which &C
tions may be brought to enforce liabil-
ity of stockholders in corporations.
To enforce the payment OF taxes
which became delinquent in and prior
to the year 1897.
To prevent fraud in the sale of garden
seeds and grass seeds.
To enable parties in actions in the
district courts to secure an impartial
judge to hear and preside at the trial of
such actions.
To revise the laws relating to banks
of discount and deposit.
Providing for the care of the property
of persons committed to state hospital
for insane.
Relating to the regulation of employ.
ment bureaus and offices.
TO provide against fraud in the man
ufaeture of sugar, syrups, etc.
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ATTENDANCE LIGHT.
Senate Adjourned for the Day After
Brief Session.

Senate Adjourned for the Day After q
Brief Session.
But 80 senators answered roll call
when the senate convened, the others
being absent on visits to various state
institutions. General orders contained
AZ bills and the senate went into COM
mittee of the whole with Mr.. Roverud
in the chair. The first bill taken up
was the measure providing for COM
mittee to visit state institutions, thus
doing away with junketing parties.
Progress was reported. Senator Thomp-
sons bill allowing $1,000 state aid to
high schools instead of $500 was dis
cussed and finally referred to the finance
committee.
Other bills recon mended for passage
were Senator Wilson's S. f. 1884, fixing
the compensation OF judges of probate
and clerks of the probate court; FL. F.
256, providing for the organization of
unorganized counties in the state of
Minnesota; the Lydiard blind pig bill,
providing for the payment of all moneys
derived from licenses for the sale of in
toxicating liquors in counties having a
population of 100000, to the town
wherein such license was granted; the
Sivright bill, S. F. 26l, relating to the
compensation and duties of village re-
corders; Senator Knatvold's bill amend
ing the tax laws relating to tax levy
rate per cent for state, county and other
purposes, and Senator McKusick's bill
appropriating money for the monument
to the victims of the great Hinckley fire.
Senator Buckman's bill legalizing the
Little Falls water and light bonds was
slightly amended and referred to the
committee on municipal corporations
at his request.
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influenza Epidemic in London.

LONDON, March 6.-Influenza has
reached an epidemic form in London
being responsible for in IS deaths dur
ing the past week, when the deaths
from the disease reached total of 113
But the increase was accompanied by
the least number of deaths from pull
monary affections recorded during TIT
-~~cort winter.
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Society:

Last Saturday evening Miss Maude
Nixon was pleasantly surprised by
about thirty of her young friends, it be-
ing her birthday. Dancing was the
feature of the evening, music being rem
dered by the North Mankato orchestra
Supper was served at II 30, to which all
did ample justice. Then all took their
departure, wishing the hostess many
another happy birthday.
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Purse for Maher and Mccoy.

PITTsBCRG, March 3.--M. j. Con-
nelly, the manager of Peter Maher, the
pugilist. has received telegram from
the National Athletic club of San Fran
cisco, offering $40, 900 for contest be-
tween Maher and Kid Mccoy to take
place in April. Connolly has the mat
ter under consideration.
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WANT WAGES RESTORED.
Amalgamated Association Will Demand
Very Substantial Increase.

Very Substantial Increase.
CLEVELAND, March 3.-The Amalga-
mated Association of Iron and Steel
Workers is sending organizers to the
various industrial centers in order tc
strengthen the union. with a view of de-
manding sharp advance in wages.
The present scale expires July 1. The
new scale, which will be presented to
the manufacturers on that day, it is
stated, will probably demand an advance
of from % to so per cent. 1t is claimed
that the iron and steel trade is booming
and some of the numerous cuts in wages
during the past few years should be
restored
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Nominations Before the Senate.

Governor Lind sent to the senate the
nominations of three boiler inspectors,
j. B. Candan, to succeed Ira Padden,
First district; Clemens Debald, to sue
coed John Zelch, Fourth district; A. H.
Bryan, Morrison county, to succeed
Louis A. Larson, Fifth district
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Cure When Others Fail.

Diseases of the Eyes and Ears Granulated Lids,
Cataract, Cross-eyes Strengthened without pain or
danger. Discharging Ears, Deafness, etc. Dis
eases of Nose and Throat, Catarrh, Bronchitis,
Asthma, Diseases of Stomach and Liver Dys-
pepsia, Indigestion, Headache, Biliousness,
Jaundice, Kidney and Bladder troubles Blood
and Skin Diseases, Scrofula, Pimples, Blotches,
Eczema Ulcers, etc. Nervous Diseases, Head
ache, Hysteria, Insomnia Lack of Vitality, Nerv-
BUSINESS, Rheumatism Neuralgia, Functional
Heart Disease, Palpitation, Dizziness Shortness
of Breath, Heart Pains, etc. Glandular Diseases,
Tumors, Abnormal Growth, Cancers cured with
out paIn-new method. Piles and all Rectal Dis
eases. Diseases of Women, Deformities, Lack
of development of any organ. Small and weak
parts enlarged and strengthened.
MiddIe-A8 and Youn8 Men,
suffering from Lost Manhood Nervous or Phy-
steal Debility Seminal Weakness, Lost Vigor,
Decline of Manly Powers, Drains, Discharges
and Losses. Varicocele and all the train of evils
resulting from Excuses, Errors of Youth etc.
producing some of the following effects, as Nerv-
business, Weakness Emissions, PimpIes and
Blotches, Debility, Dizziness, Defective Memory,
Absence of Will Power, Confusion of Ideas, Aver
sion to Society, Sexual Exhaustion. Pain in the
Back, Dreams, etc, blighting the most radiant
hopes, rendering marriage unhappy and bust
ness a failure; sweeping thousands to an un-
timely grave No matter who has failed consult
the doctor. He has cured thousands when they
had given up in dispair. A Perfect Restoration
Guaranteed. Consultation sacredly confden-
tial. Delays are dangerous.
MARRIAGE.
Married persons, or those contemplating mar
riage, who are aware of physical defects or weak
nesses which would render marriage dsap-
pointment, would do we'll to call.
WEAKNESS.
In many cases drains occur unobserved by the
sufferer. To this hidden drain upon the vitality
may be attributed the cause of many diseases OF
the nerves, stomach, heart, kidneys and bladder.
LADIES'.
We have long given careful attention to the
treatment of diseases peculiar to women and our
method of treatment has been universally sue
cessful. No lady, married or single, need hest
tate to call for consultation either alone or with
friend.
REMARKABLE CURES perfected in old cases
which have been neglected or unskillfully treat
ed. No experiments or failures. Free Exami-
nation of the Urine, chemical and microscpical
and correspondence strictly confidential and
medicine sent to any part of the United States,
List of questions free. Address with postage.
DR.. DOWNING,
CHICAGO. ILLS
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DIR. Downing, President of the Down.
ing Medical Association and Ger
man Medical and Surgical insti-
tute, Chicago, Illinois.

This eminent expert specialist, well and favor
ably known throughout the United States for the
many wonderful cures of all forms of Chronic,
Nervous and Special Diseases that baffed the skill
of other physicians and specialists, ably assisted
by full staff of skilled physicians and expert
specialists, whose experience in the largest hos
pitals of both Europe and America, enable them
to successfully treat obscure and chronic dis
eases. Their long experience, remarkable skill
and universal success entities them to the conf
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It is no wonder that the rich foreign
corporations which now monopolize the
bulk of our overseas carrying trade are
dismayed at the prospect that American
shins will soon have fair chance in
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-03-10
PASSED A FEW BILLS.
Much of the Day in the House Spent
Debate.

Much of the Day in the House Spent in
Debate.
The house held two long sessions but
tee of the whole at all, and only dis
posed of - of the 10 bills on the calen-
dar. Five or six bills were passed I'M
der suspension of the rules, but the time
was lost in the debate that arose over a
couple of bills on the calendar The
first was H. F. 1919, proposing to amend
the probate code so that the sale of prop
erty under execution shall wipe out the
dover right. 1t was finally defeated,
AZ to As.
The other bill that had to be discussed
was II. F. $50, providing that the cur
rent tax on timber and mineral lands
must be paid before the removal of
timber or mineral The bill is designed
to put an end to the alleged practice of
stripping timber lands of the pine, al
lowing the taxes to become delinquent
each year, until when the time comes
to sell the property for taxes it is value
less. The bill was passed.
Some of the Bills Passed.
Authorizing cities of more than 90, 900
inhabitants to issue bonds to fund float
ing Indebtedness.
Authorizing counties to purchase land
for agricultural fair purposes.
Providing that the notice of attach
ment to enforce laborer's lien upon
logs and lumber may be filed in the
county in which the labor is done.
Increasing to $50, 900 the appropria-
ton to secure better condition of rural
schools.
Allowing the state treasurer to surety
bond and appropriating $500 annually to
pay for the same!
To protect the public health by regu-
lating the use of diseased, decaying or
unwholesome animal matter.
Appropriating $4,000 to carry on the
enforcement of the claims of the state to
certain lands which are in dispute.
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4 Big WHEAT FARM OF 987
ACRES FOR SALE CHEAP.

$50 acres under cultivation; II acres of grove
good frame house, with stone cellar, large frame
barn, four frame granarles, mac hine she'd,
blacksmith shop and hog and hen ouses, all III
good epair dug we'll of first-class water thai
will supply 200 to $40 head of sto *. One of the
best farms in the great wheat belt of the world.
Price only $1,000 terms TO suit. E j. Lam
DER & CO., Grand Forks, N. ID. Established
1881
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PAY EXAMINATIONS

Our Offices have the most complete electrical
apparatus in the west, including most power
full and perfect Ray machine, with which the
innermost organs of the body may be readily
seen and examined. Obscure and difficult dis
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He Was "On."

The Count hat lofed your daugh-
taire from re fairst time we met.
Her Father Who had told Won that
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Wanted at Once,

%. 00o bushels of corn, oats, rye, barley,
clover and timothy seed. beaus, rags,
hides andl furs at the highest quota
lions. J. G.. ROLLER.
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ORDER FOR HEARING AND NOTICE Oh
APPLICATION FOR APPOINTMENT
OF ADMINISTRATORS.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-01-13

dining room. The cups and plates are
English, the cutlery from Germany and
the walters wear a suit of German
clothes. There probably will not be an
article imported from the United States
in the house except a sewing machine. The
demand is there, but we have carelessly,
almost good-naturedly, made no effort to
sell.
I'm building up foreign trade our nat
ural course will be to begin with the coun-
tries where we shall meet least competi-
ton. In order to be profitable, trade re-
quires to move along the lines of least
resistance. Our geographical situation is
such that we are the natural producers
for all countries bordering on the Pacific
ocean. The relative distance of European
manufacturers, as compared with our
own, gives us great advantage. The
idea of trying to sell much of our products
to China and Japan is new to our people;
but those countries are entering on ca
reer of great development, and why should
not the American people have a share in
supplying their wants? The trade reports
tell the story of their awakening. The
purchases Of their silver were:
In 1885. $2S.OOO. 900
In 1894. .................. 100000 900
China bought from foreign countries:
In 1885. ..................$ 1892, 00O, 900
In 1894. ........... 243,OOO, 900
1--WE have not been alive to this demand
OF Japan's purchases abroad of $4,000.
600 in 1894, we sold her only $11, 900, 900.
We excelled in paying money to her, how
ever, for in that year we bought of her
goods amounting to $143,O 100000. OF
China's purchases from other nations of
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-01-13
Tolstoi's Colonies.

Tolstol colonies are increasing in
Russia. The Tolstoians, of course, live
together, having constructed their own
houses and their own furniture; there
Is nothing new in this, the tale has been
told before. What is remarkable Is
the arrangement Of the mutual dining
table In the Tolstoi table d'hote. The
bowl of the community-a bowl of
SOUPS shared among six persons,
each dipping into the same dish, but
having the right of personal property
in the matter of a wooden spoon and
salt. Bread also Is private to the in
dividuaL Thus the six consumers get
a fair start and then they are all Off
together. But one would have thought
this a fatal arrangement. Age, teeth
and digestion are sadly unequal. What
Is there to prevent the venerable grand
mother from being left hopelessly be.
hind by Ivan the Terrible, her youth.
full grandson, who treats the whole
course as a point-to-polnt race, and so
shows forth the eternal inequality of
things? 1t is added that there Is a
beautiful simplicity and decency In
these repasts, and that there are three
napkins to each symposium. Thus we
have six consumers to one bowl and
three napkins to six consumers. But
some will do well to avoid the table
d'hote la TolstOi.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-01-13

as an aid in building up our carrying
trade, could be made by the same author
ity. If any European complications as
to the use of the canal arose, our Govern
ment would not be hampered by the exist
ence of canal company, nor by being
obliged to obtain the current action of
Nicaragua and Costa RIGA, but would be
in position to decide for itself what
course to take. The possible claims of
England to joint control of the canal I'M
der the Clayton Bulwer treaty should be
ignored. Those claims could never be al
lowed, and we probably would hear little
of them after we had constructed the
canal with our own money and were in
full possession. The Suez canal has been
neutraliZed by an agreement between the
great powers, but that waterway is close
ly connected with the Eastern question,
the balance of power, and other large sub
Jects involving the nations of Europe
There, Is no analogy as to naturalization
between the situation at Suez and that at
Nicaragua"
Estimates of Probable Revenue.
Mr.. Sheldon's estimates of the probab Bile
revenue to be derived from the canal are
encouraging. "As the conditions are so
similar, 1t is necessary, in taking a broad
view of probable earnings, to consider the
business transacted by the Suez canal.
The results there shown are more helpful
than mere estimates; they are ascertained
facts. That company deals with the
worlds commerce, just as will be done in
Nicaragua. In 1895 it's business amount
ed to $4,000 tons. 1t had then been in
operation twenty-five years. The first
year, 1870, its business was only 436, 900
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-01-13

dean, "the best room available, and seat
her at my own table. should be proud
to have written her note myself; II lifts
her out of the impersonality of one of
the new girls into a young woman /
shall welcome as a friend" Another
example Of epistolary triumph comes
from recent biographer Of Carlyle.
The authors library had been papered
and furnished to his entire satisfaction,
but on the third day young lady next
door began to practice on her piano
forte. Another upheaval, involving the
tearing down of partition and the
building of new chimney, to fit up a
new library In distant part of the
house, seemed Inevitable. Suddenly
Carlyle snatched paper and wrote SO
seductive note to the young stranger
that she readily agreed never to play
until after two o'clock in the afternoon.
1t is reported that letter writing is out
of fashion. This is a mistake. The
neat, well-phrased and charming letter
has Its place in society to-day, and CON.
fers distinction upon its author.