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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-03-01
ABOLISH GRAIN INSPECTOR.
Bill for that Purpose Before Legislature.
.--AIso a Measure to Tax Mortgages

st. Paul, Feb. 22-The friends of
patronage and the aspirants for ap-
pointment as chief inspector of the
grain inspection and warehouse de-
partment received yesterday morning
one of the jolts that the so-called re-
form faction of the present legislature
has passed out and still have in store
for the holders of political good
things. Representative Riley, intro
duced bill to abolish the Office OF
chief grain inspector and the attached
salary of 50, 500 per year.
The bill is in line with the policy OF
cutting off appointments to fat state
officers for payment of political debts.
The Riley bill relegates the work OF
the chief inspector to the Office of the
railroad and warehouse commission
and does not make provision for extra
clerk hire.
The friends of the measure say the
chief inspectors Office is political
sinecure and needless expense. Mr..
Riley said yesterday the chief inspec-
tors principal duty is to draw good
salary for doing nothing. He claims
the only actual work done by the office
is the compilation of reports submit,
ted by deputy inspectors, and that the
work can be done in the railroad and
warehouse commissioner Office, where
it finally goes, without additional cost
over the present running expenses.
Speaker Bowling yesterday intro,
duced bill for the collection of taxes
on mortgages and notes, which if en-
acted will result in the annual collec,
ton of taxes on several million dollars
worth of securities that now escape
assessment.
Mr. Dowling's bill provides that il
shall be the duty of town and village
clerks to keep an accurate register OF
all chattel mortgages and seed grair
notes recorded in their respective dis
tricts, and with the register of deeds
to furnish copies of the same to the
county auditor in time to secure the
proper assessment of the securitie!
when the general assessment is made
up.
1t is estimated that in every county
in the state such securities aggregat
ing in each case from $50, 900 up t.
$500, 900 annually escape the payment
of taxes Under the present system
they are not assessed unless voluntarily
reported by the owners
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-03-01

The bill introduced in the senate
authorizing city councils to provide
for separate elections for the considera-
ton of charter matters only is good
move and ought to be adopted. The
submitting of a charter for a city at a
general or local election where there
are other important questions engross
ing the minds of the people is apt to
push the charter into the background
and as result it does not receive that
attention which it ought to have. Then
there are always a certain class of
voters who care little or nothing
about charter matters, and fail to vote
for or against it, but their lack of in
terest causes their vote to count
against its adoption, as certain num-
Der of all the votes cast at the cleo
ton must be recorded in its favor. The
requirement of five per cent of the
voters in asking for the separate cleo
tion is guarantee against the abuse
of the privilege, or the taking of such
action by any city council.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-03-01

1t looks as though the state senat
was getting ready to play foot ball
with the oil inspector salary bill That
meaure has been referred to the com
mittee on Illuminating oils, with in,
structions that it be reported bac k
within a week. 1t is said that the pro.
gram is then to have it referred to the
finance committee because it provides
for an appropriation by way of sal,
airy. Then the Judiciary committee
wants it, and by the time it get. there
doubtless its opponents will have
Matched up two or three more com
mittees to which it can be referred, tC
further delay it. What the senate
should do when it comes back from
the committee now referred to, is tc
put it at once on the way of passage.
That is what the people want and
that is what they expect you to do.
Better face the music at once gentle
men and have it over with by passing
the bill. In the meantime the people
should mark the senators who are ac-
tive in opposing it.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-03-01
DONE AWAY WITH
The Board of Public Works to
be Abolished.
The Judiciary Committee Will Make Re-
concentrations that Will Save
the City $1,000 Annually.

The judiciary committee of the char
ter commission has held another meet
ing and made considerable progress.
1t disposed of that great stumbling
block, what to do with the board of
public works 1t has decided to abolish
! the board.
The committee will recommend at
the meeting of the full commission
Monday night that in the place of the
| board of public works the new charter
provide for superintendent of pub
lie improvements, who shall have gen.
eral charge of the streets and alleys
and public grounds and the improve
| ments thereon. This official will do
some of the work of the president of
the board of public works and will
take the place of street commits
sioner. His salary is to be 5000 per
year.
The treasurer, besides his present
work, is to do the clerical work now
done by the president and clerk of the
board of public works, and is to re-
ceive an increase of salary of $3.50 a
year for the extra work.
The city engineer is to have charge
of the waterworks and sewers, but is
to be under the control of the council.
His salary is to be 5000 year.
Every time that a special assessment
is to be levied, board of three dis
interested freeholders is to be ap-
pointed by the judge of the municipal
court to do the work. This board will
be given the amount to be raised and
will then proceed to assess the benefits
and damages. The members are tc
serve without pay.
It is estimated that the proposed
new arrangement will result in saving
the city somewhere from $500 tt
81, 900 annually.
Those who favor having the judge
of the municipal court appoint the
board of commissioners, instead Of
having this done by the judge of the
idistrict court, say that the charter
cannot make it the duty of the dis
trict judge, whose duties are fixed by
state law.
The committee also talked over the
matter of how best to collect specia
assessments, but nothing was deter
mined upon. This will form subjec
for future consideration.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-03-01

The Minneapolis journal says that
eight of the twelve jurors in the Ham
ilton case favored acquittal, but were
finally won over to a verdict of man
slaughter in the first degree. The rea-
sons given for their changing were,
the big expense of another trial ii
they disagreed, and the impossibility
of securing another jury in Hennepin
county to try it, thus necessitating a
change of venue to another county,
and that in such a case the jury would
likely bring in verdict of murder in
the first or second degree, and thus
result in hanging Hamilton or sending
him up for life But if these gentle
men really believed that it had not been
proved that Hamilton killed Day why
did they vote to convict him? What
had they to do with the case of another
jury. Their theory of it looks like
queer reasoning.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-03-01
SCHOOLS CLOSE.
Washington Exercises at the Normal
School Friday Afternoon.
recognize

SCnOOl FEtudy AlteI uUOu.
The normal and public schools were
closed Friday Washington birthday.
At the normal in the afternoon
the following program was rendered,
every part passing off we'll
Quartet, "Sweet and Low" Barnby,
Miss Gerlich, Miss Ridgway, Mr..
Carney, Mr.. Pettis; ga Dream of Fair
Women" Reader, Mr.. Detamore
Helen of Troy, Miss Booth; Iphigenia
Miss Pinney, Cleopatra Miss Harriet
Mccarthy, Jephtha's Daughter, Miss
Ella Mccarthy; Rosamond, Miss
Coughlan paper, 1.-The Life and Work
of Tennyson, Miss Soule; chorus,
"Home Sweet Home Frederick
Root, Ladies Glee club "The Defense
of Lucknow" Miss Gilmore; '.The
Day Dream Prologue and Epilogue,
Miss Brewster Sleeping Palace, Miss
Tenney Sleeping Beauty, Miss Weir ;
The Arrival, Miss Crist; The Rival,
Miss Rinkel; The Departure, Mi IS
Cahill !; Moral Miss Jones; L'envoi,
Miss Lawrence '"The Songs of Tenny-
son" Miss Upham; Solo, Crossing
the Bar, Dudley Buck, Mrs. Parry.
Special exercises were also held in
the public schools yesterday.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-03-01

Late Washington advices are that
congress will probably be convened in
extra session about March 18th for the
purpose of acting upon the Cuban
question. The president does not in
tend that the responsibility for settling
the Cuban question shall be shirked by
congress upon his shoulders alone. II
is thought by some that while Cuba
will accept some Of the suggestio ms
made by the president as to their re-
lations with this country, they will not
accept all, and it is not generally be-
lieved that the full solution of the
problem can be made by the constitu-
tional convention. For this reason it
is said that President Mckinley in
tends to convene congress in extra ses-
sion and in the message he will sub
NIT, will urge the necessity of that
body outlining the policy of the United
States to be pursued to Cuba.
The constitution, it is said, con tains
no reference to American relations,
but these it is said will be expressed
in supplemental convention. Until
this is done United States troops will
remain on the island. The president
believes that congress should share
the RESPONSE bility in settling the ques-
ton, and as congress foolishly tied the
hands of this country in dealing with
Cuba as it ought, it would seem the
president was right
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-03-01
MAPLETON.

From the Enterprise:
A business transaction of consider
able Importance is pending among our
citizens, whereby one of our most pro-
minent business men will retire from
business.
The quarantine at Theo. Weston
haver's was raised on Monday. No
new cases have developed and the town
is free from contagious diseases of
any kind.
Poultry to the amount of nearly So,
900 was marketed at this place during
the months of December and January.
The principal dealer was Mr.. G. G.
Spaulding who purchased S4,057
pounds paying therefor 81, 400. 90. Of
this amount 1926. 81 was paid for %,
$50 pounds of chickens, 1856. 80 for
s, $40 pounds of ducks and geese. and
So, OLA. 10 for 5.19S pounds of turkeys
In order to handle this large amount
of poultry Mr.. Spaulding employed
several men who were kept busy pick
ing and packing the same, the birds
being shipped largely to St. Paul and
Minneapolis and the feathers to st.
Louis.
The creamery men do not seem
overly anxious to form county organ
ization. We believe that meetings
held two or three times year would
prove the means of saving hundreds of
dollars to the creameries of the
county. We are reliably informed that
the average creamery is losing about
So per day through little leakages
which might be stopped through in
telligent consideration of the subject
of milk separation. AS long as the
state dairy commissioner offers to lend
his encouragement it would seem as
if it would prove profitable to hold a
meeting and confer with that depart
ment of state as to the best methods of
making the creamery pay. A loss of
So per day is worth saving in any
creamery. 1t amounts to $3.50, 600 an
nually in the creameries of Minnesota
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-03-01

The boards of the various state in
situations are making a desperate fight
against the bill for board of control
and many statements have been made
as TO how the experiment was not
working we'll in Wisconsin and Iowa,
where such boards are in vogue. The
report of the commission appointed by
Gov Van SAINT to inquire into the
working of the boards in those states
is likely to be quite favorable to a
board of control for Minnesota. The
commission mas made quite thorough
investigation in Wisconsin and finds
that the board works most satisfac-
torily there, that politics are entirely
removed from the management Of the
state institutions and matters move
along very smoothly, the institutions
being in much better shape than I'M
der the separate boards.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-03-01
DIED SUDDENLY.
Stroke of Paralysis Carries off Mrs.
Barbara Bartz.

Mrs Barbara Bartz died at her home
on Agency hill Friday night as result
of stroke of paralysis received at
about five O'Clock in the afternoon.
She was on her way to the stable to
milk, and fell over helpless. Her hus-
band carried her to the house, and her
condition grew worse rapidly. Medi-
cal aid was summoned, but nothing
could be done to avert the end. Mrs.
Bartz had not been we'll for a week
past, but it was not thought that any
thing serious was the matter. Several
grown children survive her. The de-
ceased was sixty-fve years of age.
The funeral will occur from the
house at two O'Clock Sunday afternoon.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-03-01
HAS SMALL POX.

Deputy Sheriff Albert Gerlich is
down with slight attack of the
smallpox, following an attack of ap-
pendicitis. He and the sheriff S
family are quarantined on the second
floor, and no spread of the disease is
feared. Sheriff Gerlich did not return
until today and is not quaranti ned !.
1t is presumed that the deputy got
the disease from the Madelia prison
ers. He has been quite sick with
appendicitis for several days.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-03-01
WILL BUILD.

Attorney Arthur Schaub has pur-
chased lot ten, block twenty-five, War,
ren's add, of Thos. J. Jones, through
Davies & Fiero. The lot is located on
Bradley street, just south of w. E.
Young's residence. Mr.. Schaub intends
to erect residence there the coming
spring and it is said that he intends to
become a resident of the Fifth ward.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-03-01

The house concurred in the senate
amendments to. the tax commission
bill and it has gone to the governor for
his signature which will doubtless
soon be attached and it will become a
law. This is one of the most import
ant bills the legislature has passed at
this session and it is to be hoped that
a strong commission will be selected
that will do the work well. 1t will be
a most difficult work and the parties
selected will not have an enviable job,
if they do their work well.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-03-01
FISH HOUSES DESTROYED.

A. G. Bennett has been appointed
deputy game and fish warden. A day
or so ago no visited Madison Lake and
notified. the people who have been
illegally fishing there to desist. He
went out again yesterday and found
some of the fish houses there. He de-
stroyed some of these. Illegal fishing
has been going on there and at other
lakes all winter, and should be
STONED.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-03-01

John Goetke to Joseph Tauer, -four
acres in lot eight, and all of lot seven,
section seven, Cambria, for $3.50.
Mons Larson to Elias Nelson, nel
sw4, sec. II, Medo, for So, 100.
Gus L. Monson to Chas. j. Macbeth,
lot sixteen, North Row, Van Brunt' {
add, for Sc, 600.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-03-01
DENIES THE CHARGE.
Elmer Tappey Says He Did not Assist in
Point Pleasant Burglaries.

Sheriff Gerlich returned at six
O'Clock Saturday from Nebraska,
bringing Elmer Tappey with him.
The train was two and half hours
late. Tappey will attempt to obtain
bail. He is under indictment, charg-
ing him with burglarizing cottages on
Point Pleasant.
Tappey denies the charge and says
that he did not participate in the bur-
glaries He says that he fled the state
for fear of being pounded because he
had told on Dolliver.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-03-01

Remember, we buy our hats
direct from manufacturers, and we
can give you better quality for less
money than you can buy else.
where.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-03-01

The Herald states that st. Peter is
attempting to interest Mr.. Carnegie in
making that city gift for library
building. Here is hoping they will
succeed.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-03-01

All of the schools and churches at
Blue Earth have been closed on ac-
count of the smallpox. The cases are
mild and no deaths have been reported.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-03-01
Pile and Fistula Cured.-Free
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Sure cure, quick reliable; sample treatment
free. Rea Bros. & Co., Minneapolis, Mimi.
Gilpin observer., 1901-08-08
To

drill or a short circuit in the electric
wiring is liable to set it off any mo-
ment.
troublesome to the contractors, Is
likely to be the cause of rapidly devel-
oping the surrounding country. The
oil has paraffine base and is ex-
tremely valuable. Already number
of companies have been formed to
prospect the neighboring hills.
What will be encountered in the re-
naming 600 feet no one can tell. We
understand that bets are even between
the laborers who prophesy Milwaukee
beer and those who are looking for
what is known N Kentucky as Noun
tain Dew.
The length of this tunnel will be
about $500 feet, and the cost some
thing prodigious, but when completed
it will be a monument to the enter
prise and perseverance of the Union
Pacific officials that will apparently
endure for thousands of years.
The rest of Friday was spent on the
run to Salt Lake City, short stops be-
ing made at Evanston and Ogden.
Over $15,O00,000 have been expend-
ed in these various improvements. AS
a result of them the Union Pacific has
not only much the shortest line across
the Rockies, but one simply incompar-
able for the ease of it's grades and the
smoothness of it's tracks. 1t is said
that the fuel consumed by railroad
averages forty per cent. of the entire
operating expenses. 1t will be seen,
therefore, what an enormous saving
there must be when this bill can be
cut right in two. This the Union Pa
cific has succeeded in doing.
To President Burt, more than to all
others, is due the credit for these
changes. 1t was he who had the
nerve to go before a board of directors
and ask for the enormous sum men,
toned above, not to open up new ter
ritory or to build new lines, but SIM
ply to improve an already existing
line. Railroading is, more than almost
any other, business of to-day. Off
cials and boards of directors are con-
stantly changing. Not one of those
connected with the road to-day may
be with it five years hence. For this
reason Mr.. Burt's daring and success
is the more noteworthy. 1t can be eX-
planned in only one way. and that is
chat the money kings of the East have
prodigious confidence in the quick
development of this western country,
and in the enormous growth Of our
trade with the Orient.
The people of Denver and Colorado
should be especially interested in
these improvements. Anything that
adds TO the ease of communication be-
tween Colorado and Utah benefits
both. Three things are essential to
ideal railroad raveling-safety. COM
fort and speed. In each of these re-
spects no other line can compare with
] the Overland Route. S. II.
Gilpin observer., 1901-08-08

sity. The latter has a national repu-
tation as a geologist and paleologist.
and added much to the pleasure of the
company by his description of the diff
ferent formations they examined. All
of the above gentlemen eXerted them
selves to the utmost to make the trip
a pleasant one to their guests, and we
believe have the assurance that their
efforts were fully appreciated.
The train only moved in the day
time. The first night was spent in
Cheyenne. After breakfast Wednes-
day morning the whole crowd found
seats in the observation car, which
was pushed in front of the engine.
with Superintendent Parke's private
car between them, and prepared them
selves ito be shown"
Heretofore one of the most difficult
pieces of track on the entire line was
that between Cheyenne and Laramie.
Cheyenne has an elevation of $3.50
feet above sea level. Sherman, thirty
three miles west, the top of the divide,
and the highest point between Omaha
and Ogden, has an elevation of S,247
feet. This made a rise of 2,200 feet
in thirty-three miles, an average grade
of sixty-six feet to the mile, while the
Although even this Is less than that
encountered by any other railroad
crossing the mountains, still it is a
pretty stiff climb, and a large number
of extra engines were kept constantly
employed in helping trains over the
hill. AS will be seen by the map ac-
companying this article, a very large
part of this line was entirely rebuilt
The work required the handling and
moving of 100000 cubic yards of
Sherman gravel and 100000 cubic
yards Of hard granite rock. and the
boring of a tunnel 1900 feet long. To
the average reader these figures con-
vey but little meaning. Some idea of
the immensity of the work may, how
ever be obtained when one is told that
there are three fills within a single
mile of track which contain enough
rock and disintegrated granite to bal
last the New York Central road from
New York to Chicago. Some idea of
the cost may also be realized when
we are told that the contractors who
bored the tunnel received a bonus of
100000 more than the contract called
for, because they competed the work
several months earlier than was
specified in the contract. AS result
of all this change the grade has been
reduced to forty-three feet to the mile.
An engine that before required a
helper to haul twenty freight cars
over the hill can now pull forty with.
out help. The saving in fuel, in wages
and in repair of rolling stock is pro
digious.
Like changes, with grade revisions
have been made between Howell and
Hutton's station, Lookout station and
Medicine Bow, Hanna and Dana
Cooper's Lake and Lookout. Walcott
and Fort Steele. Rawlins and Upton