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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-10-03

Read Sheldon's ad.
Ounces ut Bond Bros.
Flower pots at Sheldon's.
Wedding gifts at sheldons.
Pigs for sale CT. CHAMPAGNE.
Dark sugar for picking at Benedict's
Mixed spices for picking at Benedict's.
New" None-Such" mince meat at Benedct's
For SALE-Good maple sugar. II. NJ. Balm.
39t3
Chester white boar at c. ID. Mead's. 3Sf
Blank or printed calling cards at the REGIS
TER Office
Farmers pure cider vinegar and Heinz's
picking vinegar at Benedlct's.
FoUND--Fox terrier. Enquire at Register
ONCE.
Get your Lowney's chocolates at sterns'
Park Drug sore. They are fresh.
Everybody visit Pine Hall. sights, sights,
sights, Incompatible in the show case.
FOR sALE-A - stevens Rifle. Cost s2.15,
list 50. 40 HAL MELLEN.
See our assortment of lamps If you are on
the market. SHELDON.
Seven ladies' bicycles left; price cut square
in two just one half. BoND-PINE HALL.
Some odds and ends in paper and envelopes
cheap to close out at oJerns Park Drug Store.
am prepared to do bicycle repairing
promptly and AZ reasonable prices.
1877 c. +. RICH
WANTED-At once n good kitchen girl, also
one TO wash white dishes at the Addison
House.
A great many people buy their tea and
coffee here because they think we have the
best values r. s. BESEDIcT.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-10-03

TSE WEATHER IN MlODLEeURY
FOR WEEK ENDING WEDNESDAY, OCT l, 1902.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-10-03
LOCAL NOTICES.

Notices under this head ten cents per line
fl 1st insertions five cents per line succeeding
insertions. Count seven short words to line
or SIX long onesA
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-02-07

Attorney Peck in reply laid stress
on the fact that the circumstances of
the case had been before the public
through the papers for upwards of
three years. Judge Weber requested
that newspaper publishers in the
county submit figures showing the
circulation of their respective papers
in order to ascertain the extent to
which the people of the county had
become familiar with the facts in the
case. He then granted the motion of
the attorneys for defense for a new
trial. Blue Earth, Sibley and Rem
vile counties respectively were sug-
gested as suitable and convenient
counties for new trial. County
Attorney Davis objected emphatically
to having the case transferred to the
former place, alleging that the Man
kato papers, and one in particular,
had numerically roasted Coleman and
Whitney, the two detectives, who have
worked on the Tanke case which was
recently tried in Mankato, and in
which both had been witnesses.
Judge Webber then ordered the case
transferred to Sibley county, and IN
less Judge Caldwell of the seventh dis
trict calls special term the case will
not come up until the regular term of
court which convenes at Henderson,
Sibley county, in June.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-02-07
REORGANIZATION.
Meeting of Poultry FanCiers to be Held
For This PURPOSE.

A meeting of the poultry fanciers Of
southern Minnesota will be held at the
Office of T. q. Williams in this city on
Saturday Of this week for the purpose
of reorganization of the society. Re-
representatives. from Kasson, Zumbrota
and many other towns will be present,
and it is the intention to reorganize
an association which will be the
strongest in the state. A poultry ex-
hibit will be held this year. probably
about the same time as last year g ex-
hibition. Renewed interest is mani
tested by farmers in these poultry ex-
hibitions, and the prospects for the
sale of thoroughbred stock never look
ed more favorable than now. The
farmers as we'll as fanciers reap great
benefit from the annual exhibition of
thoroughbred stock and they are
afforded greater opportunity to select
birds, where all are brought together
for display.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-02-07
DISCUSSED FAMILY LIFE.

The Social Science club held a very
interesting meeting last evening, dis
cussing the question, ''Social Condi-
tions Tending to the Disintegration
of Family Life" S. d. Works was to
have read the paper, but was not able
to prepare paper. W. A. Funk, who
was down TO lead the discussion, had
jotted down a few thoughts on the
subject, which he presented and gen.
eral discussion followed. Features
cited which tend to disintegrate
family life were divorce evil, drunk
enness, money, multiplicity of lodges
and clubs, etc. These points we're
enlarged upon by those taking
part in the discussion, to considerable
length.
The club voted to hold a banquet at
The Saulpaugh on Friday evening,
Feb 21st.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-02-07

Fifty years As ii me is measured
by the lives of men it is long while.
Measured by the standard of moving
events it is but brief period. And
yet the changes wrought are great
Many of the men who came to Man
kato during the first years of its settle
ment have passed to their eternal rest.
but two of those who came here fifty
years ago today and spent the night on
Sibley Mound are still alive and in the
enjoyment of good health. P. z.
johnson, whose picture we here pre-
sent as a young man, was taken in st.
Paul in 1914 year previous to his
advent into a wilderness where now
stands the thriving and beautiful city
of Mankato and further along in the
article we present his photo taken
6fty years later, when he is an old but
hearty man. Mr.. johnson lives with
his son in Brainerd.
To Mr.. Thomas Hughes, whose in
formation on the early history of Man
kato qualities him to write intelli-
gently and Interestingly of the past,
we are indebted for the following
sketch:
The cession to the whites by the
Sioux Indians in 1851 of their vast
and rich domains west of the Missis-
sippi river created, especially at st.
Paul, an eager desire for its immedi-
ate possession. During the fall and
winter of that year the whole popula-
ttion of the metropolis seemed to be
in feverish excitement to plant
townsites in the great fertile valley
of the Minnesota.
Prominent among the business men
of st. Paul there was one Henry Jack
SON, who had maintained general
store there for some years and had
tt AIDED considerably with the Indians.
He, with his brother-inlaw, P. K
johnson, and mutual friend named
Daniel Williams being also infected
with the townsite fever, concluded to
plant city at the mouth of the Blue
Earth river, They we're led to select
this spot both because of its geogra-
phical position at the great bend OF
the Minnesota and because in the sum-
mer of 1850, while on an excursion
upon the steamer Yankee, they had
seen the country and been captivated
by its beauty. Accordingly on Janu-
airy 31st, 1852, these three, with one
John James and another man who
had been hired as choppers started on
their Journey Jackson and johnson
rode ahead in their cutter while the
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-02-07

came back to where Mankato now
stands and tsmped for the night. We
then picked out a place to build a
shanty and commenced cutting logs
and haulea them directly to the rear
of where Q. W. Schmidt's harness shop
stands AMI rolled them up in the shape
of a log louise. 1 think the shanty was
12x14 fet. We were four days at it,
When it was finished Louis Mareau,
who owned the team, and myself
went hack to st. Paul. All the feed
we had for the horses was browse.
Either we led them into thicket or
cut down young cottonwood trees,
which appeared to be just budding
out, and they ate them ravenously and
seemed to do pretty well on this kind
of feed. VA
"The day we commenced to chop we
had been at work about two hours
when looking up we saw an Indian
and squaw with pappoose, When
they came up to US they wanted SOM
thing to eat and seemed to be friendly,
"On leaving st. Paul we made al
old mans place about six miles thi
side of Fort Smelling. The next da.
we came to Tom Holmes trading post
where Shakopee now stands. her
we STAYED over night. The next da.
we came co another trading post
RIM by Nelson Roberts, that was abu
on the present site of Belle PLANE
The next camp for the night was nea
or where LIE Sueur is. In making to
that point when about half way, Mr.
David Faribault overlook US with tw
fine teams loaded with goods to trad
with the Indians, and he induced m
In get in with him and he drov
through to Traverse. There we stage
until the balance of our party cam
along. From thence we came to
Frenchman's by the name of lie Blanc
and there we induced him toipilot U
to our journeys end, as he hew tn
country and the Indians, and The lat
fer were in great numbers hGeabout
and rather objected to our crossin
the river at that point. .ButWith l.
Blanc we got along very welIwith n
serious mishaps until we reahed Sib
lev mound and back to the place wher
stands the finest little city j Mime
sofa. -,
.sFor.several years did Dt locat
in Mankato, but came here eery yea
mn 70 the time of locating aid Away
called it my home from my frs
visit. +"
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rest Of the party and the provisions
were conveyed by a Frenchman,
named Louis De Moresu in his sleigh
attached to two horses. Just as they
were leaving jackson s store VIM. W.
Paddock concluded to join the COM
pany simply to see the country.
The first night they spent with Hu gh
Quinn, who lived in an Indian lodge
with his squaw wife on the river bot
tom just above Ft. Smelling. The Sec
ond night they passed with Thos
Holmes at his new cabin which he had
just built at Shakopee. The third
night they reached the trading post of
Louis Robert near Belle Plain, then
in charge of his brother, Nelson.
Here jackson was taken suddenly i'll
and returned in the cutter with one OF
the men in the morning to st. Paul
The rest of the party pushed ahead
and camped the fourth night on the
present site of LIE Sueur, where. dur
ing the evening, they were visited by
Messrs. Cathcart and Christie and
their men all armed, who learning that
the destination of our friends was the
mouth of the Blue Earth soon retired.
johnson and his followers simply
thought their friends had been out
hunting and the real object of the visit
did not occur to them until next
morning they found the ground about
them covered with lot stakes and the
logs of small cabin hurriedly piled
together. The fifth day they reached
Traverse Des Sioux and put up for the
night at the cabin of Louis Proven.
celle, commonly known as Leblanc. "
which stood near where the st. Peter
asylum now stands. This Louis Pro
vencelle was son of the old trader Of
the same name at Traverse Des Sioux,
who had died the year before, and g
son-in-law of the famous Indian chief,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-02-07
Friday Afternoon.

When the last juror had been drawn
Judge Weber suggested that the re-
naming talesmen on the special
venire would in all probability be dis
qualified for the trial of Mrs. Tanke if
they remained at this trial and asked
the consent of the attorneys to dis
charge those remaining. The consent
obtained, he discharged them. At
thistime Attorney H. J. Peck, for the de-
Tense, addressed the court and informed
the court that at the trial of Mrs.
Tanke he should make motion for a
change of venue to try the case in an
other county, The county had been
scored for the jury in the present case
and it had been obtained after great
difficulty, and it would probably be
impossible to secure jury in the sue
ceeding trial. The motion will be
made and probably be allowed, so that
Mrs. Tanke will probably be tried
elsewhere.
County Attorney Davis opened the
case for the state and outlined the case
of the prosecution. He said the state
would prove that Tanke killed Well
ner that he was not in New Ulm on
the evening of the time the murder
was alleged to have occurred +;
that he did not go to New Ulm in the
afternoon, as he claimed, but that he
killed Wellner about o'clock on the
night of Dec. 81, 1898; that he rode
one of Wellner's horses to Klossner,
where he took the train to New Ulm
that Tanke was seen near the Eagle
mill in New Ulm that night; that he
threw his revolver into hole in the
ice in the river, and that the revolver
has been recovered and positively
Identified as his revolver.
Mr. Davis said the state would also
prove that Tanke and Mrs. Tanke had
stated that they had shot and killed
Wellner; that Tanke had been in
innate with Mrs. Wellner prior to the
murder, and that Immediately after
their conduct was scandalous. At the
close of the statement of Mr.. Davis
the court took recess until today
at 8 O. clock.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-02-07
Goes to SibIey County.

5 As stated in Tuesday evenings Free
Press. the jury in the Tanke murder
case at st. Peter was dismissed yester-
day because of the insanity of one of
the Jurors, and the defense asked for
change of venue, alleging an impos-
sibility to get an impartial jury and
that motion was being argued when
we went to press last evening. The
course of proceedings after the dis
charge of the jury was as follows
MIR. Davis, the county attorney,
made motion for special venire
and then wanted to proceed with the
trial forthwith. Mr.. Peck, for the de-
Tense, made motion for change of
venue and submitted an affidavit re-
citing that because of the wide pub
licity given all the circumstances con-
nected with the murder of wellner. the
arrest and examination of the Tankes
and the present trial by the local and
state papers, it would be impossible
to secure jury in Nicollet that would
fairly and impartially try Frank Tanke
and, therefore moved for change of
VENUE to another county.
lDavis. for the state, asked for per-
mission TO file counter affidavit and
announced that he would probably
Object to the affidavit of the defense
onthe ground that it was not author
izet by law. County Attorney Davis
in hs counter affidavit asserted that
the motion could not legally be
grained, since he believed that the
trial lad already commenced and hence
it wastoo late for motion of a
change of venue. In answer to the
claims If the attorney for the defense
that Jury could not be procured il
Nicollet county that would fairly and
Iimpartia1y try the defendant, thu
county attorney replied that most o.
the jurymn setting on the case hat
been drawn from territory lying
within a radius of five to ten mile
from st. Peter and that there woulC
be no difficulty in securing acceptable
jurymen in more remote parts of tn
county.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-02-07
TANkE'S TRIAL,
Taking of Testimony Begins at
st. Peter.
Nothing New Brought Out YETI Change
of Venue for Mrs. Tanke's Trial
is Asked.


The taking of testimony on the part
of the state began this morning in the
trial of Henry Tanke at ST. Peter on
the charge of numbering John Wellner.
Coroner g. F. Merritt was the first
witness called and testified as to the
inquest.
DR.. o. G. Stricken of New Ulm tes-
titled to holding the autopsy on the
body of Wellner and the finding of the
two bullet wounds.
County Surveyor Harry Daniels in
troduced map of Lafayette township,
where the murder occurred. ]. D.
Billingsley introduced plats of the
Wellner premises, etc. .
VIM. Bieraugel, brother of Mrs.
Wellner, now Mrs. Tanke, testified
that Tanke had made an appointment
to drive to New Ulm with him on the
afternoon before the murder, to attend
a dance there. He had waited until
4 80 p. m. and then drove to New UIm
alone. In doing 80, he drove past
where John Wellner was at work and
asked him where Tanke was, and
Wellner said he did not know, nor did
he know of his plans about going to
New Ulm. The object of this testi-
mony was to disprove Tanke's testi-
mony given at the preliminary hear
ing that he had started for New Ulm
at p. m.
Joseph Wild, administrator of the
estate of John .Wellner, and who was
the first man called to the farm on the
morning after the murder, was on the
stand late this afternoon.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-02-07
Fifty Years Ago Today, W. W. Paddock,
PIX. Johnson and Daniel Williams
Landed in MankatO.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE ADVENT OF THESE MEN INTO
THE MINNESOTA VALLEY, AND OTHER OCCURRENCES
INCIDENT TO THE FOUNDING OF MANKATO.

Sleepy Eyes. Across the river from
this cabin upon the Kasota prairie was
a large village of Sleepy Eyes band.
Here our travellers found their pro-
gress suddenly arrested as the old chief
declared that his young men would not
permit any white settlement at the
mouth of the Blue Earth as their prin-
cipal sugar camp was located there.
1t took all of Johnson's tact and a
little more pork than he had, for he
had to give the chief an order upon
Jackson for another barrel, to get
matters adjusted. This done they
were allowed to proceed and LIE Blanc
accompanied them with his pony and
sleigh. Arriving at the Blue Earth
they camped on its bank on the south
side of the mound, which even then
was known as "Sibley's mound from
the fact that Gen. Sibley had had a
trading post on it some years before.
Finding upon investigation next
morning that the land on both sides
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of the Blue Earth was subject to over
flow, as was clearly evidenced by the
debris strewn over it by the great
food of the prior summer, and that
there was no good place for a steam
boat landing our townsite seekers con-
cluded to return to the east side of the
big slough where in passing the day
before they had noticed with great
ia vor a beautiful strip of prairie ex-
tending along the river bank. This
prairie, except where dotted here and
there with clumps of brush and trees
was covered with tall dead grass
which waved in the breeze like field
of grain. On the east side of this
prairie was small pond about two
blocks in length and four feet deep
with its center about where the fire
station now stands and its outlet cross
ing Front street little north of the
Clifton House. This pond was fed by
large spring known to the old set
tiers as the Sulphur spring, which
gushed from the ground in a. big stream
summer and winter near where the old
ON aha depot stood. This pond was
encircled by number of tall poplar
trees and thick underground of will
lows and brush While east and west
the forest stretched unbroken to beyond
the LIE Sueur. At the south end of
this pond, about where the Masonic
building stands, two or three large
trees had fallen and beside these Mr..
johnson and his companions built
their camp fire on Friday night. Feb
ruary 9th, 1852. The next morning
they selected for the site of their first
cabin spot in the rear of Scott's sec
ond hand store on lot A, block 6. and
at once set about cutting and hauling
the logs for it. This done. Messrs.
De Moreau and Paddock we're allowed
to return home while Messrs. Johnson,
Williams and James remained to build
the cabin. When finished this first
building in Mankato was not very
imposing edifice. 1t was a low one
room structure, twelve feet square in
size made of small round logs with
the spaces between filled with chunks
plastered with some black loan gath
cred in thawing weather from some
pocket gophers' hills near by. The
roof was formed of clapboards four or
five feet long split with an axe and
fastened to poles and had but a very
slight elevation, the gable end being
toward Front street. In the center of
the side towards Front street was a
door of axe-hewn planks fastened
with paddock. There being no glass
or lumber then in town the floor and
windows were dispensed with as un-
necessary luxuries.
Soon after the building was begun
the provisions, owing to the frequent
tolls they had been obliged to
pay tnerefrom to the Indians,
became so low that Mr. johnson
started on foot to ST. Paul for
fresh supply. On LIE Sueur prairie
he met Henry Jackson with full load
and with him were John s. Hinckley,
Evans Goodrich and Col. D. A..
Robertson, a man of considerable
ability and prominence, the editor of
the Democrat, the leading Democratic
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-02-07
A GOOD SHOWING.
Rapidan Creamery Association Held
Annual Meeting This P. M.

The Rapidan Creamery association
held its annual meeting at the cream
cry this afternoon and elected A. Mitch
ell, Fred Bosin, Paul Kunkel, Frank
Nelson, JEFF Skow directors. The di
rectors then men and elected A. Mitch
ell president, Paul Kunkel secretary
and W. a. Just treasurer.
The report Of the years business
shows as follows:
Milk received, 1,671, 479 lbs. butter
fat, "a, 161. 80 lbs. average test. 1885 !;
butter made, 77,14O4 lbs. yield,
4611a; average price milk per 100,
$3.50; butter fat, 20 5-12; total paid
to patrons, $12, 95S. 30; sinking fund,
1899. 81.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-02-07

Krummell, having married the widow
of his late unfortunate comrade, Vein
heimer. brought his bride on the same
boat with her four children, among
whom was Louis and Charley Graf.
In May came the Hanna and Max,
field families and occupied building
which Minard Mills had started that
spring for warehouse, which stood
where the Young & Otto grocery now
stands. Henry Goodrich, Basil More
land, Joseph Guenther, Hoxie
Rathburn and many others arrived the
same spring. In the early part of
June came Thos D. Warren and George
E. Van Brunt with their families and
with them James McMurtrie and Mar
ha II 7. Comstock. Clements Kron,
Edwin Howe, Josiah Keene, Peter
Frenzel, John g. Layton came about
the same time.
During the first part of July Gen,
Leach, who had been appointed by the
TOWNSHIP company to superintend the
construction of the Mankato House
raised it's frame work and enclosed it.
During the same summer Capt. Reno
surveyed the Mendoza and Big Sioux
q. s. military road through Mankato
which gave the pioneers a good road
to st. Paul. Some twenty buildings
were erected on the townsjte this year
and the foundation of our future city
was laid. Space will not permit us to
more thsn glance at this first step in
our history. The stirring and import
ant events which have marked the
fifty years growth of our city and
made it the metropolis of southwest
ern Minnesota are full of interest to
the historian and some day we hope
will be suitably recorded.
In an interview this morning with
W. W. Paddock, one of the three orr
ginal settlers of Manksto, and for fifty
years resident of this city, an hon
ored citizen and at present county
commissioner, representing the city
on the county board, gave us the fol-
lowing particulars regarding his first
trip TO what is now the city of Man
kato and its early settlement. Mr..
Paddock said: 81
SIN the year 1851 I came to st.
Paul. MINI. I was then quite young
man, possessed of not very much OF
this worlds goods and sought employ
ment, which I found in that city, and
worked there until the latter part of
January, 1862. when was induced by
P. K. johnson and others to come to
the southerly bend of the Minnesota
river, which happened to be about
where Mankato is now located. We
left st. Paul with six persons in the
party, Henry Jackson, P. K. Johnson,
John James, Dan Williams, Louis De
Mareau and myself. We made the trip
to Sibley mound in seven days and
camped for the night, and looked
around until about noon the next day
when we hitched up our team and
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-02-07
IN PROBATE COURT.

Louisa Albrecht of Mspleton was be-
fore Judge Hughes yesterday for ex-
animation as to her sanity upon COM
plant filed by her husband, VIM. AL
brecht. The examination was con-
Quoted by Drs. aielscher and Bjelland
and she was pronounced not a proper
subjecJ for admission to the hospital
hr insane.
IN action for divorce is now pend
ing o Cse district court.