The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-01-23
THE HEIRS OBJECT
Threaten to Arrest the Board
of Health.
Mills TourteIIotte lnstructs HIS At
torneYs to Get Possession Again
of Hospital Building.
From Wednesdays Daily.

From Wednesdays Daily.
The present owners of Tourtellotte
hospital, who are the heirs of the late
Col. j. E. Tourtellotte, are seriously OBJ
jecting to the recent action of the board
of health in taking forcible possession
of the building and using it as quar-
antine hospital. The board did this
when the student was found i'll with
smallpox in the Union block. There was
no other suitable place to take him and
from the number of other students ex-
posed there was reason to fear that 9TH
ers would come down with the disease.
As it has turned out, no other cases have
developed, and the patient now there win
be discharged Monday next. The time
when the persons exposed should have
developed the disease has expired.
h. L. and j. W. Schmitt have received
the following letter from one of the
heirs
ia Crosse, Wis, Jan. 10th, 1908.
Gentlemen: Your esteemed favor of
the 18th just received. We do not like
at all the way the Mankato people treat
us in regard to this hospital building.
They seem to have no regard whatever
for our wishes and good intentions in
this matter and have not had any from
beginning to end, and what we
want done is to have the place
permanently closed, and the board
of health compelled to remove the
present patients and cause notice to
be served that if there is any reoecur
renee of any such proceedings that we
shall cause the arrest of the board of
health or anybody else violating the
rights of private property. Please take
such measures in this matter as is nee
essary to preserve our rights in the con-
troll of our own property. was in hopes
that we would be to no more expense
and that we could make disposition
and give to some good society this prop
erty for some excellent purpose, but
such continued violations of the Manka-
to authorities and their disregard of our
interests and feelings in this matter may
cause us to change our plans entirely.
We want you to take possession of this
property and look after it for us, and
prevent any dissertation of it of any
kind.
AYours very truly,
MILLS TOURTELLOTTE.n
In compliance with this letter, Fl. L.
and j. W. Schmitt today served the fol
lowing notice on Mayor Peterson, Re
corder Hodapp and Health Officer Hiel-
scher, the latter individually and Off
cially:
'In behalf of Jacob F. Tourtellotte,
Miss Nj. L. G. Tourtellotte, John F. Tour
tellotte and Mills Tourtellotte, we here
by demand that you will at once vacate
Tourtellotte hospital and deliver the pos
session thereof to the said Jacob F.
Tourtellotte, Miss M. J.. C. Tourtellotte,
John F. Totirtellotte and Mills Tourtel-
lotte."
The matter is now up TO the city to
take action.
J. w. Schmitt states that he is una
bic to find any law allowing boards of
health to take and use private property
for quarantine stations without the own
er's consent. 1t was under snch a law
that the health officer acted, or at least
in the belief that there was such "a law.
The opening chapter of THE Seaathern-
cers" will begin in next Saturdays issue
of The Free Press.