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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-01-19
Latest From LadySmith lndi-
Gates That Bombardment
Is Suspended.
THE PUBLIC STILL ANXIOUS
Silence Regarding Movements
of Butler Cause of COnSld-
cradle Worry.
General Warren Moves From
Frere and Finds COlenSO
Evacuated.

LONDON, Jan. 15.-Lord Roberts en-
igmatical announcement, mo change
in the situation" does nothing to allay
public anxiety or to explain the silence
surrounding Buffers movements on
the Tugela, although there is DISPOSE
ton to regard the dispatch as disposing
of Saturdays adverse rumor, the week
has opened in state of suspense al
most equal to that of last week, because
it is recognized that failure in General
Buffers present attempt would seal the
fate of Ladysmith.E
Presumably mo change in the situa-
ton" refers to previous dispatches sent
to the war Office which have not yet
been revealed to the public. Except
the announcement of the seizure of
Potgeiter's drift and of the advance of
General Warren, there has been no
news from the Tugela for week. A
ray of hope is in the fact that the same
silence prevails from the Boer side.
Has Not Met a Serious Check.
Thus, it may, perhaps, be fairly in
ferred that General Butler has not yet
met serious check. ~
If the announcement Of General War
ren's movement be correct, it is evident
that General Buffers forces are spread
over a very wide front-perhaps 20
miles-and in the event of sudden fall
of the river, his operations might be
full of danger. 1t is believed that Gen.
eral Butler has no good survey maps of
the district. This will add to his diff
culties.
Sir Charles Warren's advance prob
ably means an attempt to seize Hang
wan hill, the main post of the Beers
south of the Tugela. Upon the success
or failure of these operations depends
the whole future of the campaign. Un-
til the result is known, Lord Roberts
will be unable to decide how to dispose
of the two divisions and the reinforce
ments now arriving. The news from
other points is of no great Importance.
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Sheriff's Execution Sale.

By virtue OF an execution issued out of and
under the seal of the District Court, in and for
the County of Blue Earth and State of Mime
sofa, upon Judgment duly rendered and dock
eted in said county, ON the 10th day OF Dec M
A. ID. 1899, Tor the sum of Thirty-Three and
SOIL o Dollars, ($33 $50 and One and 95-l o
Dollars ($195) added costs in an action where
in Martin Wiltg was plaintiff and John O..
Parry was defendant in favor of Martin
Wiltgen, p aintiff, and against John O. Parry.
defendant, have this Bird day of January 4 .
ID 10 levied upon all the right, title and inter
est of the said John o. Parry, in and to the
following described real estate, situate in the
County of Blue Earth and State of Minnesota,
described as follows, to-wit:
Lot Two (2) in Block Seventeen Il y Warren s
Addition to Mankato; also the Northwest
Quarter IN. W. ~ of Section Four AZ, Town
ship One Hundred and Seven (1O7) North of
Range Twenty Seven (27), West; also the East
One-Haf c. ~ of the Southeast Quarter
3. E.. ~ OF Section Thirty-Two C82),
Southwest Quarter e. w. ~ of Section Thirty
Three (33), in Township One Hundred and
klgnt l1OS), North of Range TWEEN ty-Seven
(27), West.
Now, therefore, notice is hereby given that /
will sell the above described read estate or so
said ex- cutlon and cost, to the highest bidder
for cash at public auction at the Eastery front
door of the court house, in the City of Mankato,
County of Blue Earth and State of Minnesota,
on the 9TH day of March, ID 1901, at Ten
(1O) O'Clock in the forenoon of that day, to sat
isfy the said execution, together with the inter-
est AMI costs thereon.
Dated this 9Th day of January, A D., 1900.
FRED GERLICH,
Sheriff of Blue Earth County, Mimi.
A. E. CLARK, Attorney for Plaintiff
Mankato, Minnesota.
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Dec. 29LJan 5, IL
ORDER FOR HEARING AND NOTICE OF
APPLICATION FOR APPOINTMENT
OF ADMINISTRATORS

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
y Earth, SIS. In Probate Court, Special
Term Dec. 2lst. 1899.
In the matter Of the estate of Owen
Murphy. deceased.
On reading and filing the petition of Anna
Taylor, OF The city of Mankato, Blue Earth
county, Minnesota, repIe senting among other
things that owen Murphy, late OF the city of
Mar kato. Blue Earth County on the 16tu day
of September, A. ID. 1890, at the said city of
Mankato, died intestate and being resident
of this county al the time OF his death, leaving
goods, chattels and estate within this county,
and that the said petitioner is daughter
of said deceased, and praying that ad-
miristration of said estate be to George M.
Palmer, of Blue Earth county, Minnesota,
granted.
1t is ordered, That said petition be heard be-
fore this court on Tuesday, the Both day of
January, A. d. 1900, at 10 o'clock a. M, 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 published
at Mankato, in said county.
Dated at the City of Mankato the 21st day of
December A. D. 1899
By the Court,
Probate Seal. VIM f. HUGHES,
Judge of Probate
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January 10. 1900
Nov. "a Dec / 5 Is q % JAM
MORTGAGES FORECLOsUREs Sal

MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE.
Default having been made in the conditions
W. Robinson and Maud Robinson his wife
mortgagors, to the Mankato Mutual Building
and Loan ssociation, corporation duly Gre
laws of the state of Minnesota, mortgages,
dated February 14th, 1896, and recorded in the
Office OF the register of deeds in and for the
sofa, on the 18th day of March, A. d. 1896, at
$50 clock p. M, in book 46 of mortgages on
page y, oy winch mortgage there was conveyed
and granted the following described real estate
situate In the county of Blue Earth aforesaid
to-Wlt: Lot number two % of Jas Cum
mings SUBDIVISION OF part of lots nine(9 and ten
(lO) of block thirty-fou (34) of Mankato, Mimi,
according to the plat of said subdivision on file
and OF record in the Office of the register of deeds
of said Blue Earth county, to secure the pay
ment of the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars
with interest thereon at the rate of eight ner
cent per annum, according to the conditions of
certain note bearing the same date as said
mortgage, made by said alexander w Rohin
son to said Mankato Mutual Bailding and Loan
Association, and there being due and unpaid
upon said note and mortgage at the date of
this notice the sum of twenty-four hundred
fifty-nne and 50-l00 dollars (S2459 5O), all of
which said mortgage now declares to be due
and payable to 1t. That said mortgag ors have
neglected to pay the taxes assessed and levied
against said land before the same became delin-
queent. and SAID mortgagee was obliged to and
against said land to the sum of one hundred
and ffty-six and 42-100 dollars, and the same is
uue anu payable 10 Salu mortgage, with eight
per cent interest as provided in said mortgage,
and no action proceeding at law or other
wise having been instituted to recover said
mortgage debt or any part thereof and said de-
fault on the part of said mortgagors has con-
tlnued for more than four months last past
Now. therefore notice is hereby given. That
! oV virtue and in pursuance of power of sale in
sad mortgage contained, and Herewith record
ed and OF the statute in such case made and pro-
Vlded, the above described premises will be
sold at public auction at the east front door of
the county court house in and for said county
OF Blue Earth and at the city f Mankato
therein, on Saturday the 9Th day of January,
A. ID 1900 at. ten o'clock in the forenoon to
satisfy the amount of said mortgage debt then
due and unpaid together with said ona hum
dred and ffty-six and 42-100 dollars taxes paid
by said MORTGAGE aforesaid, with eight per
cent interest thereon, from November 21st 1899,
together with the costs and expenses of such
foreclosure proceedings, including seventy-fiye
dollars attorneys fees, as stipulated in said
mortgage, and said mortgage will hereby be
foreclosed.
Dated November 21st 1899
MANKATO MUTUAL BUILDING AND
LOAN ASSOCIATION,
Mortgage.
Thos. Hughes,
Attorney for Mortgage,
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Declares That in His Opinion
This Was the Cause of
the Rebellion.
SAW THE MESSAGE HIMSELF
Was in Hong Kong When tho
President of the Junta
Received 1t.
Senator Hoar Shown the State.
ment but He Declines to
Notice 1t.

CHICAGO, Jan. 15.-John Barrett, ex-
United States minister to Siam, for the
first time publicly named Senator Hoar
at Lake Forest university as the United
States senator whose anti-expansion
speech was cabled to Hong Kong and
subsequently put into the hands of the
Filipino soldiers, causing, as Mr.. Bar
rett believed, the open Instruction 1t
appeared further from the ex-minister' s
speech that the government has dis
covered privately the stages by which
the anti-expansion address reached
Luzon.
was on the general subject of the
Philippines, the speaker said it had
been discovered in the government in
vestigation that Senator Hoar's speech
was cabled in cipher and in fragments
to Paris where it was put together and
forwarded to Hong Kong. The message
included several thousand words and
the cost for transmission was said to
have been $4,000. 1t interested the
government to know what friends the
Filipinos had at this time who were in
position to send the message.
Sent to the Filipino Officers.
ST was in Hong Kong at the time, "
said Mr.. Barrett, land l remember the
incident distinctly. l was coming down
stsirs in the hotel when l met the
president of the Hong Kong junta and
he had in his hand the long dispatch he
had just received. 1t gave large part
Of Senator Hoar's speech in full and a
summary of the rest of it. l asked the
president what he was going to do with
it, and he told me that he meant to
send it to the officers of the army in the
Philippines. He was urged not to do
SO, but he protested that it had been
printed in the United States and was
public property.
-Four days after that speech had
been delivered it was in the hands of
those who saw an opportunity to make
political capital of it. The speech was
published and distributed among the
soldiers and believe it was the culmi-
mating influence that brought about
the open instruction. This speech, you
must remember, was delivered before
sE.raa. as an open insurrection.
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Jan l2 1896

ORDER TO EXAMINE ACCOUNTS.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
Earth-SS.-In Probate Court, Special Term
January 4th, 10 ~.
In the matter of the estate OF William
G. Oliver, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition of George B,
Owen, one OF the executors of the estate of
William G. Oliver, deceased, representing among
other things that they have fully administered
said estate, and praying that time and place be
fixed for examining, aud allowing the
final account OF their administration, and for
the assignment of the residue OF said estate to
the parties entitled thereto by law:
1t is ordered that said account be examined
and petition heard by this court on Wednes-
day, the seventh day of February, A. D., 10 lat
10 o'clock a m, lat the Probate Office in the City
OF Mankato, in said county.
And it is further ordered, that notice thereof
be given to all persons interested by publishing
a copy of this order once in each week for three
successive weeks prior to said day of hearing in
the Mankato Free Press, weekly news
paper printed and published at Mankato in said
county.
Dated at Mankato, the 4th day OF January
A. D., 1900.
By the Court:
Probate Court Seal. VIM. F. HUGHES,
Judge of Probate,
Thos. Hughes,
Attorney for Executor.
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ORDER FOR HEARING AND NOTICE OF
APPLICATION FOR APPOINTMENT OF
ADMINISTRATORS
Thos. Hughes,
Attorney for Executor

ORDER FOR HEARING AND NOTICE OF
APPLICATION FOR APPOINTMENT OF
ADMINISTRATORS
CTATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
- Earth, IS. In Probate Court. Special
term, January, Sth, 1900.
In the matter of the estate of Walter
Smith, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition of Charles
H. smith, of Mankato, Minnesota, rep
resenting among other things, that Walter
Smith, late of Blue Earth county, Minnesota
on the 10th day of september. A. D. 1899. at
Mankato, Minnesota, died intestate, and
being a resident of this county at the
time of his death, leaving goods, chat
tells and estate within this county and
that the said petitioner is the father OF
said deceased, and praying that administration
of said estate be to him, said Charles III
Smith. granted.
1t is ordered, that said petition be heard be-
fore this court on Friday, the 9th day OF
February, A. d. 1900, at 10 o'clock a. M, 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 q weekly newspaper printed and published
at Mankato in said County.
Dated at the City of Mankato, the 8th day
of January, A. d. 1900.
By the Court:
probate Court Seall VIM. F. HUGHES,
Judge of Probate
Thos Hughes,
ATTORNEY for Petitioner.
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DISPATCH FROM ROBERTS
Commander.in- Chief Reports No Chan
in the Situation,

Commander.in- Chief Reports No Change
in the Situation.
LONDON, Jan. 15.-The war Office has
issued dispatch from Field Marshal
Roberts, saying:
"There is no change in the situation. y
The war office simultaneously issued
the following:
''Methuen's cavalry reconnaissance
returned on Jan. II. Went % miles
into Free State. Country clear of en-.
envy, except patrols.
"All quiet at Modder River.
"French reconnoitred around the en-
emy's left flank on Jan. 10. Advanced
from Slugger's farm on Jan. II, with
cavalry and horse artillery to lombard
Boer lager east of Colesberg Junction,
but was unable to outfank the enemy.
"Gatacre reports no change.
Gail we'll on Dec. % at Mafeking."
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WARREN'S ADVANCE.

Marched Eastward From Frere With
Eleven Thousand Men.
LONDON, Jan. ia dispatch to The
Daily Mail, dated Jan. 10, from PETER
maritzburg, says:
.'Sir Charles Warren marched with
II, 600 men eastward from Frere by way
of Weenen. His scouts found no sign
of the enemy at Grobler's Klopf and
Colenso was described to be deserted.
There are rumors that the Beers are
preparing to leave Natal discouraged
by their failure to reduce Ladysmith.
All the colonials and irregulars have
been placed under General Warren's
command"
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Dec 80 Jan 5 IL
ORDER TO EXAMINE ACCOUNTS

ORDER TO EXAMINE ACCOUNTS.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
Earth,SS. In Probate Court, Special term,
December 1899.
In the matter of the estate of Oliver
Ashley, deceased
On reading and filing the petition of Mary
Ashley, executrix of the estate of Oliver
Ashley. deceased representing, among
other things, that she has fully administered said
estate, and praying that a time and place be
fixed for examining and allowing the final ac-
count of her administration, and for the as
signment of the residue of said estate to the
parties entitled thereto by law:
1t is ordered that said account be examined,
and petition heard, by this court, on Saturday
the goth day of January A. D. 1900 at 10
o'clock a. M, at the Probate Office in
the City of Mankato, in said county.
And it is further ordered, That notice there
of be given to all persons interested by pub
fishing copy 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 published at the city
of Mankato, in said county.
Dated at the city of Mankato, the 21st day
of December, A. D. 1899.
By the Court
{ Court. 49, Judge of Probate.
S.. Wilson,
Atty. for Executrix.
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Mr.. BRYAN'S POSITION.
Draws = Line Between Expansion and
Imperialism.

Draws = Line Between Expansion and
Imperialism.
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 15.-W. J. Bryan
passed through Kansas City for Column
bia, Mo-. where he was to speak in the
afternoon. Asked about his Minneap-
oils interview in which he was report
ed as expressing views favorable to ex-
pansion, Mr.. Bryan said:
81 have for one year been discussing
imperialism and / have tried to distin-
guish between such an extension of the
nations limits as would not change the
character of the government, and an
Gus republic into heterogeneous en-
pire. When the annexation of any given
territory is under consideration, the
question is first, whether the people want
to come in, and second, whether the
people are capable of sharing in the
government and destiny of this nation.
believe that all people are capable OF
governing themselves, and that the Fill
ipinos should be allowed to govern
themselves, but do not think they are
sufficiently advanced to share with us
in the government of the nation. If the
Philippine islands are annexed the peo-
pie there must either be citizens or sub
jects. am not willing to admit them
as citizens and do not believe that a re-
public can have subjects, therefore l
ask this nation to give them independ-
ence and then protect them from out
side interference. Each proposed an
nexation must be considered upon its
own merits, but in considering these
merits the conditions of the people
should have more weight than geo.
graphical position or commercial ad-
vantage"
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American Goods Released.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-Secretary of
State Hay said that the British govern
ment had released the American goods
on the Dutch vessel Maria and that
they were now in Delagoa Bay. The
goods consist of flour and other pro-
visions, which the English authorities
seized as contraband of war intended
for the use of the Transvaal troops.
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STORIES DISAGREE.
News of the Colombian Revolution Yer
Contradictory.

News of the Colombian Revolution Very
Contradictory.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Jan. 15.-Ad-
vices just received from Colomb ia re-
iterate the statement that the main
body of the Colombian revolutionists,
after occupying Bucamanga on Jan.
and securing large quantities of stores,
proceeded toward Soccorro to which
other bodies were converging with a
view of forming a junction and deliv-
ering concerted attack upon Bogota.
On the other hand the government
dispatches reafirm the reports of a
complete rout of the main body of the
insurgents in two heavy battles near
Bucamanga and Cereti, entirely frus-
trating the insurgent plans.
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ALL WELL AT LADYSMITH.

Message From There Says the Boer Guns
Guns Are Quiet.
LADYsMITH, Friday, Jan. 12.-The
besiegers have been quiet for two days
but can be seen in active movement on
the distant hills.
We have perceived two small bodies
galloping with two machine guns. The
Boer heavy piece on Bulawana hill has
not been fired for two days.
More Boer dead have been found al
the base of Caesars camp.
All ia we'll here
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.enator Hoar Ia Silent.

g sToN, Jan. Ex-senator Hoar de-
clined to take any notice of the state.
ment attributed to Mr., Barrett, ex.
minister to Siam, in an address on the
Philippine question. The senator said
that General Otis reports give him the
fullest accounts of the events that led
to hostilities, and that he expects, al
he has already given notice, to deal
with the whole matter in the senate.
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CARRY YOUR SUNSHINE.

The following pretty poem is fl
The pen Of Attorney A. J. Stackpole, o
Lake Crystal
Garry your sunshine with you,
Whatever path you may tread,
For the light is yelled in heaven
If love in the heart is dead.
Love is the life of the universe,
And It's fount is the throne OF God,
1t sparkles in stars without number.
Its kiss woos the rose from the sod.
Life is boon of the Giver
And tbrobS through His Infinite plan.
But what is life to Us mortals
With no love in the heart of man?
Is not beauty something that cheers us,
Whose radiance filleth the land?
Buthow can we know it is beauty
Without love in the soul of man?
Wisdom is what Solomon prayed for
And what Gcd in his wisdom gives,
But love only can trace His footsteps,
For in love the Infinite lives.
Light is power potential,
Slowly evolved from the spheres
AS love is evolved by the soul
OF man-knowing no days or years.
You cannot depart from nature
'Tis sunlight or darkness within,
For all things hold of the soul, and
By no other path can you win.
So carry your sunlight with you
1t never need to depart
If you Will heed the souls teaching,
Then love will o'erf1ow from the heart.
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DIR. Downing, President of the Down.
ing Medical Association and Ger.
man Medical and Surgical insti.
tuce, Chicago, Illinois.

This eminent expert specialist, we'll and favor
ably known throug hout the United States for the
many wonderful cures of all forms of Chronic,
Nervous and Special Diseases that bafed the skill
o. other physicians and specialists, ably assisted
by full staff of skilled physicians and expert
specialists, whose experience in the largest hos
pitaIs of both Europe and America, enable them
to successfully treat obscure and chronic dis
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and universal success entities them to the conf
dence of the afflicted eyeruVhere
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Engine No. 276 went west on the
Omaha road Saturday afternoon. This
is the engine that made the famous run
between st. Paul and Chicago on the
newspaper trip. Another huge engine
also went west Saturday. These will
be used to speed the new fast trains be
tween the twin cities and Omaha
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Two Denver Editors sh ct.

DENVER, Jan. 15.-Frederick G. Bon
fils and II. FL. Tammen, proprietors of
the Denver Evening Post, were shot at
noon in their Office by w. w. Ander-
son, lawyer, with quarters in the
Cooper building. Bonfils will probably
die. The tragedy is an outgrowth of a
pardon case which The Post has been
agitating.
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My farm of 100 acres 1875 acres in
high state of cultivation, balance
timber and pasture Farm is all well
fenced, good room house, barn room
for 10 horses and IA cows, hay, grain
and two buggies. Will be sold at q
bargain. Inquire at g. q. Stoner,
Vernon Center, MINI.
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ABSOLUTELY REFUSES.

Carter Harrison Not Candidate for
Governor of Illinois.
CHICAGO, Jan. 15.-Mayor Carter
Harrison has refused formally the offer
of the Democratic nomination for gov
ernor. He was waited on by Chairman
Watson of the Democratic state COM
mittee, in company with ex-Congress-
man Henrichsen and NJ. F. Dunlap of