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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-07-20
July $500

cTATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
= Earth-ss. In Probate Court. Special
Term July Sd, 1900.
In the matter ofthe guardianship of Ignatius
W. Sontag, Alaysius +. Sontag and Olivia Z.
Sontag, minors.
On reading and filing the petition of Mary J.
Sontag, guardian of the persons and property
of Ignatius w. Sontag Alaysius e. Sontag and
Olivia G.. Sontag, minors, for license to sell the
undivided three fourths interest in lot ten Q0)
and the south half of lot eleven al in Shaubut's
subdivision of block twenty-five (22) in the city
of Mankato. Minnesota, and also the undivided
three-fourths interest in the westerly one hun
bred and twenty (I20) feet of the middle twenty
two (22 feet of lot five 90 in block eighteen Q0
in the city of Mankato, according to the plat
real estate of said wards, subject to the life es-
tate the.eln or Mary j; Sontag, and it appear
ing from said petition that it is neces-
sary and would be beneficial to said wards and
all persons interested therein that said real es-
tate or a part thereof should be sold,
tits ordered, That the neat of the kin Of the
said wards, and all persons interested in the es-
tate of said ward, shall appear before said pro-
bate court at the probate office in the city of
Mankato, in the county of Blue Earth afore-
said On the 18th day of July, A. d. 1900 at 10
o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause why a
license should not be granted for the sale of
said real estate.
And it is further ordered, That notice of
such hearing be given to all persons interested
in said estate by publication of this order for
three successive weeks prior to said hearing in
che Mankato Free Press, weekly newspaper
printed and published at the city OF Mankato,
In said Blue Earth county, Minnesota.
dated July Sd, 1900.
By the Court,
probate Seal.l VIM f. HUGHES,
Judge of Probate.
J. E. PORTER. Attorney for Guardian.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-07-20
CENSUS PROGRESS.

The supplementary count of Man
kato's cesnus enumeration is progress
ing satisfactorily, and Special Agent
Olmsted. expects to have it. completed
byssWednesday evening unless the rain
which has fallen so constantly today
shall cause delay Two of the enumer-
ators completed their districts at noon
today, and were assigned to other dis
tricts
Mr.. s,Olmsted did notsvolunteer any
information other than that the enum-
orators were finding more names than
the citizens committee first reported
and he feels that after the present
count is completed Mankato citizens
will have no good reason to feel that
the enumeration has not been thor
oughly and carefully finished.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-07-20
What China Might Have Been.

Red Wing Republican: We can see
now what colossal mistake it was for
China, what an advantage to the
world, that she refused quarter of a
century ago to arm herself after the
fashion of the great powers. Her ablest
men urged it earnestly and it was
wholly within her power. She had
the money wherewith to buy NUM-
tions of war and to provide railroads
for the carriage of supplies and the
mobilization of forces. Europe would
have been glad to furnish the best in
structors in the military art and the
most formidable engines known to
war. All this was easily within the
reach of China. Fancy her today with
nearly generation of such tuition
behind her, and with an army of five
million men ready for the field, which
would not be at all an impossible un
dertaking in proportion to her popula-
ton. and we may judge the likelihood
of successful aggression. The nations
today would be entreating China to
keep the peace, and accepting with
alacrity any wish of hers that was not
actually derogatory to the national
honor.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-07-20

DR.. q. @. Harrington and wife re-
turned to New York July 18th, after an
absence of fourteen months in Europe.
They are now visiting in Vermont
and Massachusetts and expect to ar
rive in Mankato the last of the month
or the first of August.
Amboy Herald: We had the pleas
ure of taking a drive through the
country the other day and found
crops looking in fine shape. !. In some
places it is believed that the yield of
wheat will reach as high as twenty
five bushels to the acre, while none
will go behind eighteen, and not only
that but the grade will be of the very
best Oats, barley, flax and corn look
fine and will yield good corp.
DR.. Bjelland has been appointed local
surgeon for the Chicago GreatssWestern
road, to succeed DIR. E. J. Davis, who
has moved from the city.
The Enterprise says thats.according
to the secretary's report, the Farmer S
warehouse at Mapleton did business at
a loss of $447. 4S the past year.
Miss Mary Nickersn, of Zumbrota,
is visiting the family of Col G. E.
j OhnSOn,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-07-20
LITERARY NOTES.

The Rev. D. T. Sheffield, for many
years president of the North China
college, an institution he helped to
found, discusses at length in the July
Forum, the actual attachments of
Chinese civilization as compared with
the ideals inculcated by Confucius and
the Sages. The comparison lis not
fiattering..to China
Railway Development in China, !"
by Mr.. VIM. Barclay Parsons, chief
engineer of the American China De-
velopment company, is of especial in
terest at this time because of the light
thrown on the rivalry of the European
powers, and on the political as oppos-
ed to the purely commercial aspects of
China S railway development.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-07-20
SEARCHING FOR 1T.
Menkaio Citizens Can Tell You
Where It's Found

If you have any itchiness of the skin,
Irritating eczema, itching piles;
You re looking for relief,
Searching for cure.
Mankato people have found cure
for itching skin diseases.
They tell about it. Read what this
citizen says:
Mrs G. B. Cheese, of 317 East Vine
street, says: ''For number of years
suffered from eczema, some called
it salt rheum. 1t broke out on my
hands and face, and 1 have awakened
in the night with backs of my hands
feeling as though they were on fire.
1 could do nothing but extend them
before me. Little pimples broke out
and became sore, and had the great
est difficulty in getting them healed.
The itching was most intense at times
and could not resist rubbing, al
though it made the affection worse. l
read about Doan's Ointment and pro-
cured it from the Seidle Drug Co. Be
fore had used it very long the itch
ing was better, and backs of my hands
were healed up and the cuticle render
ed smooth.
Doan's Ointment for sale by all
dealers, price so cents. Foster Mil
bonrn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. sole agents
for the U. S.
Remember the name, Doan's, and
take no other.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-07-20
DEFEAT CONFIRMED.
Admiral Remey Says Allies Met
Defeat.
Ia Attack at Tien Tsin on Friday
Losses of the Allies Prove
Quite Heavy,

Washington, July 16.-The navy
department has received official con-
firmation from Admiral Remey, of the
reverse to the allied forces at Tien
Tsin on the morning of the 18th inst
The dispatch says: "The allied forces
attacked the native city on the morn
ing of the 18th. The Russians on the
right with the ninth infantry and the
marines on the left. The losses of the
allied forces were large. The Rus
sian loss was 100, including an artil-
lery colonel; the American over 80
British A; japanese So, including a
colonel French % Colonel Liceum,
of the ninth infantry killed, also
Capt. Davis, of the marine corps.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-07-20
BOARD OF EQUALIZATION.

The board of equalization Saturday
night listened to W. G.. Hoerr, NJ G.
Willard land l. Longini Mr. Willard
argued in favor of leaving the valua-
ton on the knitting mill at So, 500,
where the assessor placed it. The
board had raised it to $4,000. Mr..
Longini wanted the assessor valua-
ton of So, 500 on his firms stock to
stand. The board had increased it to
So, 800, but agreed to put it back.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-07-20

Minister WI, the Chinese repre-
sentative at Washington gives it out
that Minister Conger and probably all
of the representatives of other nations
at Peking, have been killed, but adds
that if they have the nations are to
blame for it, and not the Chinese.
There have been fellows who have felt
the halter draw around their necks
that have made the same kind of a
plea
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-07-20
Puzzled.

! A Bangor shipmaster wrote home to
the vessels owner telling Of the condi-
ttion of the freight market where he
Iwas-out in the Windward islands.
Business was dull, and the vessel had
been in the same port for some time,
and the captain wrote, eve are in
,statu quo" The owner for the next
week was engaged in searching the at
las of the West Indies trying to find
out, as he put it, where in thunder
this ere statu quo isl"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-07-20

President Mckinley was formally
notified at Canton Friday of his re-
nomination for the presidency. His
address in reply was strong one and
will be one of the keynotes of the
campaign. Gov. Roosevelt was also
officially notified of his nomination as
vice president, at his summer home at
OYSTER Bay.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-07-20

ment issues of irredeemable money,
government ownership of business en-
terprises and numberless crank
schemes for state interference in the
peoples affairs.
THE national Democrats are not
tired They can wait. One more
smashing defeat will, let us hope, end
the movement towards converting the
Democratic party into Populist
organization.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-07-20
Wool importation.

Nearly 351 100000 pounds of foreign
wool were imported into the United
States during the fiscal year ending
June 3, 1897, just before the Dingley
tariff became law. Last year there
were less than 100000 pounds Of for
eign wool imported, difference of
274, 100000 pounds under protection.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-07-20

Buy the Osborn binder, it will cut 81
inches nearer the ground and save your
grain better than any other binder.
Their mowers and hay rakes, also ted.
ders'cannot be beaten. will make spe.
cial low price for the next 30 days. See
me before you buy your machinery and
Irvine. ]. G.. Roller.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-07-20

The deposits in the national banks
of the United States on Dec 10, 1898,
were $793, 100, 325. On Sept Z, 1899
they had increased to 81, 270, 766, 065.
This will illustrate the difference be-
tween the days of hard times and the
present ones of prosperity. The people
will hardly vote next November to &c
back to the times of 49,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-07-20

Seeing that Mankato has failed to
secure an electric railway, there is
some talk now of putting in automo-
bile service. That's what the Quarry
City wants, a service that has wind
in it. -A1nboy Herald
Well, where do you figure out 1.-The
wind about an automobile?
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-07-20

When Adlai Stevenson addressed the
crowd at Bryan's home, he did not
call them Democrats, but Bryan men.
Adlai was sensible in this. There is
not much Democracy left in Nebraska.
1t has been badly disrupted by Bryan's
Populistic notions.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-07-20

Sheep are worth more than twice as
much in Utah this year than they were
in 1895. This is probably one of the
reasons which led Gov. Wells, of that
state to predict that its electoral vote
would be cast for VIM. Mckinley in
spite of anything the fusionists could
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-07-20

Duluth News-Tribune Larry God
kin compares Bryan to a dose Of
physic. The majority of the voters
will have kind of castor oil antip-
athy for William, as sure as you live.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-07-20

Wendell Vahle, of Madison, S. D.. is
in the city and will go on to road for
A. J. Busch & Co. He is a former
resident of Mankato
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-07-20

The st. Paul Dispatch says that the
meeting of the Republican state cen
trail committee at st. Paul yesterday
was an enthusiastic one, and good re-
ports were given from all over the
state
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-07-20

The Duluth Herald remarks that
this is no year for ''has beens That
is the reason Candidate Stevenson will
drop into oblivion along with Bryan
in November next. The nation has no
further use for him.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-07-20

"The Star Spangled Banner should
have been injected frequently into the
proceedings at the Kansas City con-
vention. There is nothing patriotic in
what Bryan and his friends stand for
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-07-20
r. H. FINNEGAN.
kERkFIONEN, SWIFT CoUNTY,gN1NN.
MINNESOTA FARM LANDS.

of
the line the town Woods Chippewa county containing
winch
balance good prairie land to be broken This
soil
with stone full size house Barn 5sx1OO will
class shape recently painted There
windmill This makes of the finest and
formerly Frank Kennedy farm Deco township
good buildings
timber surrounding the buildings
havea timber county
There 20 of fine hay meadow
o Swi fanda
Write ricular
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-07-20

As to the situation there, nothing
definite is yet known. The story of the
massacre is again revived, later
date being put this time
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-07-20
The Globe Speaks A gain.

st. Paul Globe: The name of Steven
son was associated in the public mind
to some extent, at least, with the il
lustrious name of Cleveland and it
was Bryan's duty to qualify the vice
presidential reputation into eligibility
for admission to the soiled and select
circle of shady statemenship which on
Tuesday unveiled it's charms on the
plains of Nebraska If anything was
needed to justify to the true Demo
cracy of Minnesota the attitude which
the Globe has assumed in this cam
paign, the above incident would
suffice Mr.. Bryan in the first formal
address of the campaign, carefully
studied, fully elaborated, and, doubt
less, enthusiastically Endorsed by his
allies, splits in the face of every
Democrat who repudiated Organism
in 1896. We are told by his apologists
that four years of attrition with the
world has rounded his personality and
that increase of years had broadened
and liberalized his temper. We find
him the same in 1900 as he was in
1896. "Charlie" Towne and Corser and
the rest are no doubt enjoying the
buffeting which their chosen leader is
giving the old line Democrats but the
Globe believes that there will be an
awakening. The sturdy Democracy of
Minnesota is human and awake. The
old guard that fought for Democracy
under the leadership of Cleveland is
neither dead nor duped. The quiet,
thinking, undemonstrative thousands
of Democrats, who distrusted and dis
owned Bryan in 1896, are still voters
A Picture of Bryan
New York Sun: Four years ago
William Jennings Bryan stood on a
speech of fragments which had
been begged, borrowed or stolen to-
day he stands on the neck of his party.
Four years ago he talked of those who
would press upon the brow of labor a
crown of thorns; today he is the ty-
rant of the Democracy. Four years
ago he went up and down through the
land prophesying disaster unless the
destinies of the country were commit
ted into his hands. Every prediction
he made has been demonstrated to be
false. The republic is prosperous and
contented, is bigger and richer than
ever before. Yet today Bryan announ-
ces that he is in good voice and pos
sessed of the needed physical strength
for another campaign of calamity
bowling. Four years ago. lying pro-
phet that he was, he only went the
length of anticipating poverty, want
and industrial disaster for his country
men under certain conditions; now he
predicts the destruction of the nation
unless he is successful Under the Cir
cumstances was it not absurd that the
airs my Country lis Of Thee and
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1900-01-31
DoingS of Our Legislators the
Past Week.

senator Hough introduced a
bill in the Senate last Friday to
amend the law relating to drunk :
enncSS and shooting on the high
ways s" M to make the punish
ment more specific.
Nessrs EStridyo and Williams,
both voted to kill the house bill
creating two new judicial CIRCUITS
and right they were.
Representative Estridge intro.
duced bill Friday to repeal the
actcreutin NJ graded school dis
| trlct at the town of kershau
During the debate in the Senate
on the bill to prohibit the working
of children under II years of age
in factories, Senator Hough said
in Substance There is Il factory
within one mile OF his town. The
employees are happy md the EN-
pIoyers are prosperous. lie
thought that the safety Of the
, children would rest secure IN the
hands Ofthe mothers. 1t is not
Il question Of sentiment. 1t is
whether we will throw au obstacle
in the way of the States progress
The mill has given children OF his
co"nty snpport. On the pIanta-
tions, the children cannot help
their mothers There is in South
Carolina Il mutual benefit between
employers and empl yes which
ought not to ne disturbed by leg,
isiatiOn at this time
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1900-01-31
Former Lancastrians Married.


Our old friend, Mr. John Nj.
Hagins, received news the past
week Of the marriage Of his son,
W. j. Hsgins, who went from
this county to Texas several years
ago. The marriage occurred on
the l4th inst, and the name Of the
fortunate young laiy was Miss
Mary Nation, of Daphne, Texas.
MIR Widen Swsringen, editor
Of the Fer Bluff Times, was hap
PLY married on the 18th inst, to
Mrs. Nj. l.. Smith, at the home of
the brides parents at Fair Bluff,
n. G. , the Rev. j. A. Smith Of
fciating. Mr.. 5, learned his
trade with The Ledger and we
have always felt kindly interest
IL him. He gets on n good, red
hot democratic paper. We wish
him a Ing and happy welded life
and that prosperity which his
pluck and energy merits.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1900-01-31

of it. You need that money tho
very worst kind.
TO .our horror, but few of
them pay any attention to your
letter. Each one of them ap
parently says to himself: "WelI,
1t doesn't suit me just now. The
amount | owe is small, aod it
wont help much anyway. I'll
just let them wait"
Now where are you7 You
need $500 bad; you have $1,000
or 81, 500 coming to you, but you
can't get it How are you going
to meet your obligationsl 1t is
awfully provoking, isn't it2
That is just our condition right
now We need money. We hav Q
large bills due now and coming
due to pay. Our friends have
failed to send their portion.
Don't YOU sec the predic ment
we're in, ano that unless you help
us, out, we are going to get deeper
IN the mire
We must pay for everything
that we use. Ii we fail to settle
the first OF each m nth, we get no
more credit, that's all; and that s
quite enough
Now We are not willing to be-
lleve that you mean t" cripple us
Intentionally. We presume it is
just oversight; or, perhaps, you
have never looked at it the way
1t really affects us
We would like you to do to us
Just the way you would want your
nei ghbor do unto You. 1t gives
uF real pleasure to give credit tc
those who pay promptly; but we
must have money, and since paper
has almost doubled in price, we
can afford to wait long.
Now then, just come or send q,
mail t" us right away your dues
Then we can pay our debts, ant
keep tn" machine a-goimg.
The above letter wns writer
hy tn" publishers Of the Edge
field Chronicle to lis Delinquent
subscribers, but 1t suits our case
exactly ard we want all of uul
subscribers in arrears to regard il
As written by us to them. EDIToF
LEDGER
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1900-01-31
Letter to Delinquent Subscribers

Letter to Delinquent Subscribers
DEAR FRIEND: Quite nuns
her of people have the bad habit
OF letting their subscriptions to =
newspaper run along without pay
ing auN attention to the time Of
expiration. We are sorry to say
that Won are one of them.
Do Won ever think of the in
convenience it puts the printer tol
Take n plain, everyday view OF
the matter once
Suppose you had 1900 bushels
Ct wheat or potatoes, and that You
did the same as the newspaper
publIsher-soId it out all over the
country, one bushel to each in
dividual, delivered, and he said
that he'd call and pay for it "some
time.
Now, the selling is easy enough.
But some day you need $500 or
81, 600. Then you run up against
trouble.
You don't have the time to 90
and see each one of your indiyld.
ual customers.
You write them q letter. To
write to half of thsm-1, ,000-is
a big job, and then tho paper and
envelopes and stamps will cost
you $25, besides the time lost.
That makes pretty big item,
doesn't it'll
However, that is not the worst
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1900-01-31
Death OF j.. Ill TaIlcy.

Mr. J II TalIey, of Kershaw, q
machinist, died last Thursday of
pneumonia He WAS about so
years of age and leaves wife and
: children. He was II member of
the Methodist chu, ch and was
living consistent with his rrofes
sion. His remains were Inferred
at TnXahaw Friday.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1900-01-31

DR.. Poovey's little son, George
Fairy, came near meeting with a
serious accident Sunday afternoon.
He was in the lot when the Doc.
tors horse was turned out of the
stable and it ran over him, one
of its feet striking him on the
head, knocking him down and
raising a considerable knot on one
side. 1t was u narrow escape fol
the little fellow.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1900-01-31

Dept / 5 Marshal w + Swar>
ingcn has received notice that he
has been awarded $5c 10y the GOV
ernment for the efficient services
rendered by him in the detection,
capture and conviction Of the
rascally CDR" EIvin, who rob
bed the poetohicc at Dry Crock
and was using the mails for fraudu-
lent purposes.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1900-01-31

Mrs. r l. Simpson and little
son, Robert, spent several days
with relatives in Rock Hill this
week.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1900-01-31

Mr.. Henry Smith, who has
been with the 3 C's railroad for
eight years, moved to Camden
Saturday, having accepted job
on the Seaboard which is building
a road from Chcraw 10 that place.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1900-01-31

This is the last day for paying
taxes without the penalty. To-
morrow the penalty will be put on
all delinquents.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1900-01-31

Mr.. j A Bowers mules took
fright near the depot and ran
away Saturday, throwing Mr..
Bowers from his wagon near the
Episcopal church but not hurting
him. They came dashlng up
Main street with only the front
wheels Of the wagon but were
stopped at the crossing by run
ming into Mr.. Harper's horse and
buggy, which was turning the
Fitzpatrick corner. The mules
reared up rs they reached the
horse which threw the end of the
tongue of the wagon over the
horses back and that is all that
saved it from being killed. II
seemed not to be hurt.
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