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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09
AN INGENIOUS DEVICE.
Fairmont Sentinel:

Fairmont Sentinel:
It's a wonderful device that the
Milwaukee road is experimenting
with for the purpose of assisting the
engineer in carrying out train orders.
1t is suspended in the cab of the loco
motive and makes it impossible for
him to forget his orders lin fact it car
ries them out for him. If, for in
stance, he should receive orders to stop
at station to meet train or for any
other purpose, say thirty-two miles
down the line, he would set the device
at thirty-one miles, and when that
point is reached the automatic ma
chine. elbows the whistle and when at
thirty-two miles it stops the engine
without the aid of the engineer Be-
sides this, the little machine works a
cyclometer, telling the engineer just
how far he has run, and no matter how
dark or foggy the night he can fix at
a glance the exact location of his
train.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09
BATTLEON IN EARNEST
PRESIDENT SHAFFER ORDERS a
GENERAL STRIKE IN THE
TRUST MILLS.
GOES INTO EFFECT AUG. !

Conflict Will Be Fast and Furious
Many Thousands Will Be Idle and
Great Suffering and Even BIoodshed
and Death Are Looked For-No No.
tice Has Been or Will Be Sent to
the Managers. !
Pittsburg, Aug. THE die is cast.
The battle of the giants is on in earn.
est, whether to ignominous defeat OF
one side or the other, or compromise
remains to be seen. Up to this time
1t has been merely a skirmish. each
side trying to find the vulnerable spot
In the others armor. Now it is differ.
ent, brought about by the actual is
suance by President Shaffer of the
long talked of general strike order.
This order was promulgated to take
effect after the last turn of the mills
on Aug. 10. What the result will be
no man can foretell, but judging by
the expressed determination of both
parties to the controversy the battle
Will be Waged fast and furiously. Much
money will be lost, thousands upon
thousands of men will be idle, great
suffering is looked for, even bloodshed
and death are possible and feared. !
The strike call includes practically
all Amalgamated men in the United
states Steel corporations employ not !
now on strike. It was issued from the
Amalgamated association headuuart-
ers and mailed to all Amalgamated
lodge officials who are expected to call
their men into the strike. The text
of the call follows:
Brethren: The officials of the
United States Steel trust have refused
to recognize as union men, those who
are now striving for the right to Or
ganize. The executive board has au-
thorized me to issue a call upon all
Amalgamated and other
Union Men in Name and Heart
to join in the movement to fight for
labor's rights. We must fight or give
up forever our personal liberties. You
will be told that you have signed con-
tracts, but you never agreed to sur
render those contracts to the United
States Steel corporation. Its officers
think you were sold to them just as
the mills were, contracts and all. Re
member, before you agreed to any
contract you took an obligation to the
Amalgamated association. 1t now
calls you to help in this hour of need.
Unless the trouble is settled on or
before Saturday, Aug. 10, 1901, the
mills will close when the last turn is
made on that day.. Brethren, this is
the call to preserve our organization
We trust you and need you. Come
and help us and may right come to a
just cause"
President Shaffer added this state
ment: "The call goes to the vice pres
idents of the districts in which there
are mills, owned and operated by the
National Steel, National Tube and
Federal Steel companies, as we'll as
to the officials of the lodges in the
mills.
No notice has been, or is being
sent, to the managers of the mills.
We think their notice has come from
the other side and that they have had
warning Of this ever since the in
auguration of the strike. That ought
to be sufficient"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09

I have been observing for number
of years the trials which have been
made by our state experiment station
as to fodder plants, and barring the
one plant of rape, and also making
exception of Austrian bronze grass, we
state that there has been no new plant
brought out by all this experimenting
that begins to make favorable COM
parison with this old standby of In
dian corn. When the Puritan Fathers
took possession of the land occupied by
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09
Corn Fodder VS.. Hay.

full experience. and such experience is
in conformity with the most careful
investigation by trained agricultur
lists. that corn fodder becomes the
substitute plant for timothy. With
this fact in view we can let loose our
hold upon the timothy plant, place our
reliance upon corn fodder, and know
that we can grow many more tons per
acre of this newly recognized fodder
plant than the New Highlander can
grow of timothy. with, his great
quently said that the corn plant is the
timothy plant for the great middle
west.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09
Aug. 9-16-23, 1901.
ORDER FOR HEARING GUARDIANS
ACCOUNT

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
Earth-ss. In Probate Court,
In the matter of the guardianship of Christine
Meihofer, an sane person.
On reading and filing the petition of Ernestine
Malchow guardian of Christine Meihofer the
above named ward,
1t is Ordered Pursuant to the prayer of said
petitioner that time be fixed for examining
and allowing her account, that said account be
of this Court on the 30th day of August, 1901, at
10 O'Clock in the forenoon of that day, at the
court house. at Mankato in said county.
And 1t Is Further Ordered, That public notice
be given to all persons interested of the time
and place of examining said account, by pub
fishing a copy of this order In the Mankato
Free Press a weekly newspaper printed and
published at Manks to in said county, at least
once in each week for three successive weeks
prior to the day of such hearing. -
Probate Court Seal] VIM. F. HUGHES,
Judge of Probate.
s. B. Wilson, Attorney for Guardian.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09

1 shall never forget the interest with
which looked upon the display of the
Deering Harvester Co., when at the
world s fair, Chicago. There, for the
first time, 1 saw what was claimed to
be corn harvester. After the expo
sition was over 1 called at the Deering
Harvester works and enquired con-
corning the prospect, They frankly
told me that they could not at that
time recommend that harvester for use
but that they were in hopes to perfect
the machine and expected so to do.
They stated that they had put much
money into the enterprise, and then
asked me what 1 thought the outlook
would be for the sale of such ma
chine provided it could be made sue
cessful operating one. Il could not dis
cuss the machine from the standpoint
of machinist, but when they put a
question like that to mel was ready to
answer it, and expressed my absolute
faith as to the need for such machine
to be completed for the use of the far
mers of the northwest where grass was
the uncertain factor but where corn
was one of the grand reliable fodder
crops. I told them how difficult it
was to secure that crop from frost and
destruction. I stated positively that
with such a machine the stock inter-
est of the great northwest would be
placed upon far firmer basis than at
the present time. went on at some
length on these lines, making state
ments which were the outgrowth of
my experience and observation and
finally wound up my testimony by
stating that..I believed the time would
come when the farmers of southern
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09
Chicago Grain and Provisions.

CHICAGO, Aug. Z
WHEAT-Aug. 7OHc, Sept. 7lAc, Oct.
z Hc.
CORN-Aug 564c. Sept. 572sc, Oct
$3.50
OATS-Aug. 3l19c, Sept. 342sc, Oct
8 58c.
PORK-Aug. S13 72I, Sept. S13.S2I,
Oct. $l3 9319, Jan $14.S3@.
FLAX-Cash Northwestern, S163,
No. $1.6l, Sept 81 56, Oct. S1.511a.
POULTRY-Dressed chickens 7@12c,
turkeys sc.
BUTTER-Creamery 141102Oc, dairy,
IS 916Rc.
EGGS-Fresh, 14@ 40.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09
Special Summer Excursion Rates Mime
sofa ard the West.

The Chicago Great Western railway
announces the following low round
trip rates: July 1881, Aug. 11-31, st.
Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth, Denver,
Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Salt Lake,
Hot Springs and Deadwood, S. Oak.
One fare plus So for the round trip. Aug.
Ito st Paul and Minneapolis one fare
less 10 per cent. Special low fare rates
to Duluth, Denver, Colorado Springs,
Pueblo, Oregon, and Salt Lake city.
For further information inquire of
any Great Western agent, or j. P.
Elmer, g. P. A, Chicago.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09
Chicago Union Stock Yards.

CHICAGO, Aug. z.
CA TTLE-Sales ranged at $4.60@6. 40
for prime steers, 81 O0@j. 40 for poor to
medium, - 25G4.OO for stockers and
feeders, s.. rs 4.S5 for cows and heifers,
So O)04.5 80 for Texas fed steers.
HOGS-Sales ranged at $5.7O@5. 95
for mixed and butchers, $3.50 @625 for
good to choice heavy, 5.50@5. so TOR
rough hea Wy, $5.7O@5.9O for light, So 50
@6.0O for bulk of sales.
SHEEP-Sales ranged at S3.70@4Oo
for sheep, So. 5J05 % for lambs
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09

The old adage that circumstances
alter. cases. has many applications in
agriculture. Every farmer who opened
a farm in the early days of Minnesota
knows that he had much to learn be-
fore he found out what some of the
best things were to do. Among these
many things is the knowledge which
has come to him concerning the value
of the corn crop in Minnesota, and how
to use it. In the early day it was
simply the grain alone. Even then
that crop was considered a doubtful
one. Iowa was quoted as the corn
state, and Minnesota's corn was con-
sidered to be as unreliable as peach
crop. This was true to our personal
knowledge in southeast Minnesota,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09
Excursion Rates to the Pan.American
Exposition, Buffalo, N. Y.

Via. the North Western line, will be
placed in effect May list, and on Tues
day especially low rate tickets will be
sold with favorable return limits.
Direct connection with Chicago, with
fast trains GU all lines to Buffalo. For
further particulars, apply to agents.
An illustrated booklet will be mailed
on receipt of two cents postage by W.
B. Kniskern, General Passenger and
Ticket Agent, Chicago
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09
Very Low Rate Excursion Tickets to
the Pan American Exposition,
Buffalo, N v

Via the North Western line are sold
daily with favorable return limits.
Direct connection at Chicago, with
fast trains of all lines to Buffalo. For
further particulars apply to agents.
An illustrated booklet will be mailed
on receipt of two cents postage by W.
B. Kniskern, general passenger and
ticket agent, Chicago.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09
pan.American Exposition, Buffalo, N. Y.

The Chicago Great Western railway
sells through excursion tickets at very
low rates, with choice of all rail, or
rail to Chicago. Detroit or Cleveland
and take journey thence to Buffalo
Equipment and service unsurpass ed.
A valuable folder to be had for the
asking.
For full information and folders ad-
dress any Great Western agent, or j.
p. Elmer, general passenger agent,
Chicago.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09
Sioux City Live Stock.

SIOUX CITY, Ia, Aug. z.
CATTLE-Sales ranged at 81 5095 40
for beeves, 81 25@3 30 for cows, bulls
and mixed, 81. 5O@3. 40 for stockers and
feeders, 81 5O@35O for calves and year.
lings.
HOGS-Sales ranged at So 5000. Is.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09
Buffalo and Return.

Via. 500 line ..and the lakes. At
small additional cost we include Sleep
ing car berths on steamers, and all
meals enroute. Call on agents for fur
Their information, or write w. R. Cal
laway, G. P. A., Minneapolis MINI.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09
Il isn't the Cooks Fault,
It isn't your GrOcer's Fault,

that the bulk coffee you Just
purchased turns out to be differ
entfrom the 'same kind" bought
before. Coffee purchased in
bulk is sure to vary.
The sealed package in which
LION COFFEE is sold insures
uniform flavor and strength. II
also keeps the coffee fresh and
insures absolute purity.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09
NO SYMPATHETIC STRIKE.
Federation CT Labor Will Give Its Nor
al and Financial Support.

indianapolis, Aug. 7.-Business
Agent Collins of the National Ma
chinists' union, discussing the prob
ability of aid for the steel strikers,
said:
"The American Federation will not
go further than give it's moral and
financial support to the strikers; not
even if the Amalgamated association
were AFFILIATED with the American
Federation of Labor, which it is not.
The constitution of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor forbids the declara-
ton Of sympathetic strikes. 1 look
for trouble to result from this fight.
1t is going to be the biggest labor war
since the great strike of 1876"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09
ST. Paul Union Stock Yards.

SOUTH ST. PAUL, Aug. T.
HOGS-Sales anged at S5.6O45SO
CATTLE-Sales ranged at $50O@5. 40
for prime butcher steers, $3.S09425 for
prime butcher COWS and heifers, 5000
so for choice veals, So. 1898 40 for
choice feeders
SHEEP-Sales ranged at E4.O004 go
for choice butte her lambs, So 25@36O for
fat wethers
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09

be, the rough exercise which they got
out of tramping through the fields.
Today it is far different There are a
multitude of farmers in Minnesota
who know that while the ear and
grain are good, the stalk also upon
which that ear was borne has good
feeding value
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09

Most of the older settlers of Mime
sofa came from the New England and
eastern states, where the hay crop was
a great factor in stock raising. Tim
othy, or herds grass, as we'll as clio
yer, were the standbys in stock grow
ing. 1t is so there yet for the abund-
ance of rainfall make these crops to
be heavy ones, almost any year. AS
we go westward where the rainfall is
lighter and where drouth sometimes
dwells. then the timothy crop in par
ticular becomes an uncertain factor
as cattle food. Under such cir
cumstances we have found from care
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09

Jones-What would you do if your
burglar alarm went off in the nightP
Brown-Well, in the dark, you know
it would take me good while to find
my shoes and my pistol, and that
would give the burglar time to get
away.-Detroit Free Press.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09
MINNEAPOLIS Wheat.

MINNEAPOLIs, Aug. z.
WHEAT-Cash 6924c, Sept 6S7sc, Dec.
70Ic. On Track-No. hard 7lAc, No. l
Northern $3.50, No Northern 6S34c.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09

Jhioag0. Milwaukee n 81. Pau.
Trains Arriving. Departing.
30. Io1-1U:6o a. N. No. I22-6:25 Il n
No. 1873 2:30 o. N. No. 1oS-2%5 .. n
No. l28- 7:45 Q. N. No. 1SS---E:9cp. ii
No. 1872 makes connections at Austin Eos
Chicago, Milwaukee, Kansas City, st. Louis aI7L
Peoria, also for points west of Wells.
No. 1'S makes connections for Chicago, NIL
wsulee and points west of Wells.
J. G. MOORE. Agent
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Aup. 9-16-23, 1901
ORDER FOR HEARING AND NOTICE OF
APPLICATION FOR APPOINTMENT OF
ADMINISTRATOR.

APPLICATION EOk APPOlNIMENIO E
ADMINISTRATOR
CTATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
- Earth, SIS. In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of Emma E.
Widell, deceased.
On receiving and filing the petition of John
Gustafson, of Nicollet county, Mimi, repre-
senting among other things, that Emma E.
Widell, late of Blue Earth county, Minnesota,
on the 18th day of August, A. D. 1900, at the
county of Blue Earth, died intestate, and being
an iuhabitant of this county at the time OF
her death, leaving goods, chattels 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 petitioner granted.
1t is ordered, that said petition be heard be.
fore said court on Tuesday, the Bird day of
September, A. ID. 1901, at 10 o'clock a. m, at the
probate office in Mankato, in said county.
Ordered further, that notice thereof be given
to the heirs of said deceased, and to all persons
interested, by publishing 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 Mankato, the End day of August
A. d. 1901.
By the Court:
Probate Court Seal VIM. F. HUGHES,
Judge of Probate
Daniel Ruck Attorney for Petitioner.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09
Low Rates TO New York City Via Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul RY.

Tickets on sale every day until Oct.
90, 1901, at $42. 81 for the round trip,
good for stopover at Buffalo, Washing
ton, Baltimore and Philadelphia.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09

For long time after the farmers
grew a corn crop they considered that
the value of it consisted in the ear.
The stalks were left standing, to be
browsed little by the cattle in late
fall and winter months. with little or
no benefit to the stock, barring, it may
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09
Corn Plant More Available Now Than Heretofore.

frost came and the corn fodder was
ruined. The time was short between
the ripening of the corn and the frost
period. When a farmer owned a large
field of corn he was practically unable
to gether that crop which was so valu-
able to him in time so as to make it
available as fodder for his stock.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09
LATEST MARKET REPORT.
Duluth Wheat.

DULUTH, Aug. T.
WHEAT-Cash No. hard 1880, No.
Northern 7Osc, No. , Northern csc, No.
spring 64Bc. TO Arrive-No. hard
1920, No. Northern 6913c, Sept. 7O2sc,
Dec. 71Ac.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09
MANKATO STOCK MARKET.
Huunr EGATE pRTCES

Chappie-I'd just like to know what
you mean by being engaged to both
Cholly and me at once.
Miss Pinkie-Why, bless me, there's
no harm done. You can't either of you
afford to marry me, you know. New
York Weekly.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09
GIRLS /! GIRLS !!

Fifteen more girls wanted at the
knitting mill at once by Mankato
Mills Co.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09

For long time we were seriously
handicapped in securing the compliant
for fodder. 1t took good man with
not only strength but also with skill
to handle the corn knife and put up in
the shock one acre of corn per day.
1t was hard work. This work had to
be done within certain time else the
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09

Parents whose blood /. pois-
oned by their own misdeeds,
or who themselves may be
suffering for the sins Of some
remote ancestor, must re-
store their own blood 10 tn
normal purity and strength.
or they cannot expect
healthy, robust childrsa.
s. S. S. cures Scrofula, like
other diseases Of . deep
seated, constitutional chsrsc.
ter. bv restoring life and
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09
ScrOfuLa

the children of blood poisoned parentage must
accept with all its humiliating consequence It L.
an inheritance that makes one poorer; that brings
Wretchedness and disease instead OF health and
riches for the child whose ancestral blood L. tainted
with Scrofula or the oathsome virus OF Contagious
Blood Poison Is untitled for the arduous duties OF
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09
The Corn Plant
as a Fodder Plant
By O. c. GREGG Lynd MINI.
Superintendent of the State Farmers Institute.

uSH4a@&H4HA @H&n&H&aMH&&4#4&eAF
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-09

priv to the profoundly poisoned strong carried
evidences
TOMS dpoon medical depart
blood trouble to write
advice
BOOK
land Diseases free
~ THE SWIFT SPECIFIC COMPANY. ATLANTA. GA.
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Whom nineteen years old, and about one year
after the birth Of my hrst child, the glands on
the left side Of my neck began to swell. -Four OF
the places were lanoed and became open running
discharre was simply awful. The doctors said
had the worst case Of Sorefula they hsd ever
seen. took iodide Of potassium, bus This nor
relief. When the physioians advised me TO have
the glands removed, 7 decided to try q. .. 3. a
few bottles cured me complstsIys no SS2s ~
tha terrible disease are left.
MRS. RICHARD WATSON,
0oldeu Corners, ohio.
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the
neck and throat cat tne neaa mp none DISEASE unv
strength The
Sometimes affected breaking
and fh part Of the escapes ito