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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24

way can the superintendent come in
such close touch with pupils and teach
ers as by being in and out of the schools
at all times. He should know how each
teacher and pupil comes ON. If he
teaches he gets in touch with few.
In the high schools of the state having
over 100 students, the average num-
Der of pupils per teacher is 80, while in
Mankato it is 35 l-3.
Mr.. Davis then took up the question
of expense, and said that there had been
some increase in the salaries paid teach
ers, yet the expenses were not as great as
thought, as shown By the tax levy,
which was $4,000 in 1895 ,$2l 500 in 1896,
$2l, 900 in 1897, $2l 900 in 1898, $4,000
in 1899, $l9,50O in 1900, and $4,000 in
1901 and 1902. In the last four years
the tax levy averaged $l9,S75, as against
Splits in the preceding four years.
In the last three years $1,000 a year of
the levy was for sinking fund, and a
little less than $4,000 was for heat
ing plant in the Franklin building
Thus, with decreased tax levy, nearly
50 900 has been laid aside.
The total expenditures of the school
district for 1897 were $29,S20, in 1898
they were $2S,062, in 1899 they were
$685. 62, in 1899 they were $2S,Sl9, in
1900 they were $29,77l, in 1901 they were
$3l ,644, and in 1902 they were $2S,327.
In 1901 cement walks were put down,
a new boiler placed in the Pleasant Grove
building, and extensive repairs made on all
of the school buildings.
Mr.. Davis quoted from list of all
L. I,ctr iofo in, fha .fata xyhoro
the tax rate is less than twelve mills,
and the only ones as low as Mankato
were Duluth, Grand Rapids, ST. Paul and
Virginia. Grand Rapids and Virginia
are in a mining country, with very
large assessed valuation and very small
schools. In Duluth the rate is 81 mills,
and IN ST. Paul it is mills. In Mankato
it is 81 mills There is not another
town of the size of Mankato that APP
proaches this city. The Mankato schools
are conducted on as economical basis
as is possible without detriment to them
and the high school teachers are doing
more work than the average of the
state.
The election of>teachers was taken up,
and the following were elected:
Principal, Miss Caroline A. Fullerton,
$3.50 per year.
Latin, Miss Esther Fridlander, SIS per
month.
Algebra and rhetoric, Miss Emma c.
O'Donnell, $40 per month.
History, Miss Bonetta Cornish, sos
per month.
Science, w. E. Bush, SIS per month.
German and geometry, F. e. Crandall,
$50 per month.
Music and drawing, Miss Fannie
Pitcher, so per month.
Manual training, E. B. Pierce, SIS per
month.
The board then adjourned.
Treasurer Keysor states that the cur
rent expenses of the school district, in
Guiding salaries, was $24,S62 in 1898,
$24,740 in 1899, $25,906 in 1900, $27,-
43S in 1901, and $27 ,264 in 1902
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24
PERTAINING TO PEOPLE.

The career of the Chevalier Theodore
De Taussige of Vienna resembles those
of good many hustlers~ of this coun-
try. He was born in the ghetto of War
saw forty eight years ago of beggar par
entage and started life as a beggar.
From peddler he rose to office boy,
from that to clerk, then to superinten-
dent of a store and then, with rush,
to financial power. Now he is presi-
dent of about half the business enter
prises in Austria and director of the
rest, with fortune of $25,OOO,0OO and
is earning $l,OOO,OOO year in addition
to his regular income.
Brooks statute of Gladstone has been
placed in Westminster abbey near that
of Beaconsfield. The great commoner"
of the. end of the nineteenth century is
shown in the ordinary dress of men of
his time, while Reaconsfeld appears in
his robes of state. The sculptor has
intended to mark the difference between
these two statesmen, one of whom al
ways refused titles while, dispensing
them to others, while the other used
| all the means at his command to impress
the public with pageantry and whatever
else might tend to encourage British
admiration for the throne and the privi-
legged classes. There were no ceremonies
at the unwilling.
Eugene A. Philbin of New York has a
poor opinion of jurors, grand and petit,
in that city. In an address at Columbia
university on "The District Attorneys
Office" he referred as follows to the
compatibility of jurors: "There are men
on grand juries in New York whose first
object is to protect the political party
to which they belong. One jury recent
| ly refused to issue a presentment be-
cause the person affected was a good
political worker in the district of one of
the jurors The grand jury not infre-
iquently stands between the criminal and
| the just penalty of his crime. The dis
trict attorney is confronted with the
necessity of attacking police corrup-
ton which so clearly exists, but he finds
| il almost impossible to secure a con-
viction for bribery owing to the charac-
ter of the witness. | have seen cases
| where the moral evidence was complete
that certain jurors were corrupted, and
one has confessed to me-"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24
Business Opportunities for All.

Locations in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota
and Missouri on the Chicago Great West
ern railway; the very best agricultural
section of the United States where farm
ers are prosperous and business men
successful. We have demand for compe-
tent men with the necessary capital for
all branches of business. Some special
opportunities for creamery men and mil
lers. Good locations for general mer-
chandise, hardware, harness, hotels banks
and stock buyers. Correspondence soil
cited.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24
HOWARD BOUND OVER.
He Is Brought Back From Illinois
by Sheriff Williams.
From Wednesday's Daily

From Wednesdays Daily.
Sheriff Williams returned this fore
noon from Peoria, ILL.,, bringing with him
Roy Howard, who is charged with steal
ing coat from the farm of VIM Wig
ley, near Lake Crystal. Howard was
this afternoon arraigned before Judge
Shissler and waived an examination. He
was bound over to the grand jury in the
sum of $500, and was committed to the
county Jail.
Sheriff Williams reached Peoria before
the habeas corpus proceedings were
heard, and on his arrival they were dis
missed. Howard then made no further
trouble, although he seemed to have
plenty of friends there. He said very
little about the case, and has not said
whether he is guilty or not.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24
To Colorado in 1903.

The passenger department. of the Chi
cago & Northwestern railway has issu-
ed very interesting folder, giving infor-
nation as to reduced rates and sleeping
car service, with short description of the
various points of interest in Colorado
usually visited by tourists, these ex-
cursion rates applying on account of the
Christian Endeavor meeting to be held
at Denver, July 9th to 18th. Send 2
cent stamp for copy, to w. B. Kniskern,
Traffic Manager, Chicago.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24
TEMPORARY INJUNCTION GRANTED
From Wednesdays Daily.

From Wednesdays Daily.
The application of Trustee j. A. At
wood for an injunction restraining H. A.
Montgomery and the sheriff of Redwood
county from selling and disposing of prop
cry of Martin p. Montgomery and
Angus D. McRae, bankrupt merchants
of Redwood county, was heard before
Referee Flittie this forenoon. Horns &
johnson of Tracy appeared for the trus-
tee, and W. G. Owens of Walnut Grove
and A. E. Clark of this city for I'll. A.
Montgomery, who is one of the creditors
and plaintiff in an action.
Mr.. Flittie made temporary restrain
ing order until the further order of the
court.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24
LIBRARY MUST CLOSE.
From Thursdays Daily.

FROM lnuTSuay Ddily.
The New Ulm library board at spec
ial meeting Monday night decided to
close the library on the lst of May. This
action is made necessary because of lack
of funds. The city refuses to appro-
pirate money, and the passage of the new
library bill does not benefit the board,
as it is still more stringent than the
old law, and is almost prohibitive of
good to cities of this size. The library
has been well patronized by readers, and
has existed for four years in the hope of
legislation that would prove beneficial
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24
LARGE AUDIENCES.
From Thursdays Daily.

FTOm IHurSuayS Daily.
Conover & Smiths Glass Blowers con-
tinue to attract large crowds of inter
ested spectators to their wonderful ex-
hibition opposite the First National
bank. Everybody is interested in the
art of glass blowing and here can be seen
all kinds of glass working.
Open every afternoon from to 5 and
to $3.50 in the evening.
The admission is only ten cents and
every visitor receives souvenir
Saturday afternoon three hundred
glass ships will be given away to the
children.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24
AUTOMOBILE PARTIES.
From Thursdays Daily.

Chas. j. Macbeth's new automobile
will be started up tomorrow morning,
under the management of doc" Morrow,
and it will be confined to taking care
of call parties. Parties of eight to
twelve will be taken anywhere in the
city for 25 cents each per hour or out
to the park and back for the same price
Satisfactory rates will be made for out
of town trips. Parties. wishing the auto
mobile should send call to the Stahl
house, No. "A ON either phone.
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Half Rates to New Orleans. La.

Via the North Western line. Excursion
tickets will be sold at one fare for
round trip May l., 2, and 4, limited for
return by special extension until May 80,
inclusive, on account of annual meeting
American Medical association. Apply to
agents Chicago & Northwestern Ry.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24
AUCTION.

| will sell at public auction April 30th
all personal property consisting of farm
implements, horses and cows. Auction
will take place ON the old Len. Foster
farm three miles southwest of Mankato
on the Indian Lake road George Kiffe,
auctioneer, Lester Duffy.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24
Homeseekers' Excursions to the North.
west, West and Southwest, and
CoIOnist Low Rates West.

Via the North Western line. Excursion
tickets at greatly reduced rates are on
sale to the territory indicated above.
Standard and tourist sleeping cars, free
reclining chair cars. and "The Best of
Everything" For full particulars apply
to agents Chicago & Northwestern Ry.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24
WAS MAD ABOUT IT.
From Thursdays Daily.

Last week while the writer was rid
ing along the Northwestern line the
passenger train suddenly stopped, back
ed up half mile in the country and the
train crew investigated the cause of a
man lying quite close to the rails, sup
posing he had been hurt in some way,
but he was simply in a drunken stupor.
He seemed angry at the men for waking
him up.-Blue Earth Register.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24
LOW RATES WEST.

From February 18th to May LIST the
Great Western will have very low one
way rates in effect to western and Pa
cifc coast points. For particulars call
at ticket office or address w. M. Barr,
Agent.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24
One Hundred and Eighty Men Out of
Two Hundred Killed.
Slaughter Occurs in SomaIiland, Col.
PIunkett Among the Dead.
The Latter Officer Was in Command
of the Kings Forces.
Iews.Get Mixed Up in Bad Riot and
Many Are Slain.
Especial to The Free Press.l

Alden, Arabia, April 23.-The British
transport Hardings arrived here today
from Berbera, the capital of Somaliland
and reports a British defeat in Somili-
land. Ten officers and one hundred and
eighty men out of the total British force
of 22O men were killed. The dead
include Colonel Plunkett, who was COM
manding the force.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24
STOLE THE CHANGE.
Burglars Relieve the TivoIi of
Thirteen Dollars.
From Thursdays Daily

FROM thursdays Dally.
Burglars touched up the Tivoli saloon
Tuesday night or early Wednesday NOR
ming, relieving the cash register of $l3
in change. Entrance was gained through
the rear window, and the theft was dis
covered when the place was opened yes
terday morning, although it was not re-
ported to the police until along in the af-
ternoon. There is no clue to the robber.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24
TEMPORARY INJUNCTION.
From Thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
Judge Cray has made an order grant
ing temporary injunction in the case
of Horace Cummins against the village
board of Eagle Lake, restraining the
board from taking land which Mr.. Cum
minis claims tosown, and which the board
wants for road
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24
FUTURE MEETINGS.

From Thursdays Daily.
There will be business meeting of the
Ladies' Aid society at the Methodist
Episcopal church parlors Friday at p.
m. The ladies are anxious TO have a
large number present.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24
From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
M. E. Babcock has negotiated the sale
of John M. Roberts 220 acre farm north
west of ST. Peter to Charles Burnett of
Belgrade, for $45 an acre, and the sale
of Mr.. Burnett's l60 acre farm in Swift
county to Mr.. Roberts for $50 an acre
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24
CLASS OF THIRTY.
From Thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
The Royal Arcanum council is enjoying
a period of growth that is very unusual,
having received over Thirty applications
within month OF six weeks. Tomorrow
night class of thirty is to De initiated,
and extensive preparations have been
made for the occasion Refreshments
will be served and some of the grand
council officers will be present. Every
member in the city is urged to be
present.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24
METHoDIsTS WILL CELEBRATE.
From Thursdays Daily.

Members of the Methodist Episcopal
church in Redwing are making extensive
preparations for the semi centennial cele-
bration of the organization of the church,
which will begin on April 26 and continue
for week.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24
ST. PETER PHONE EARNINGS.
From Thursdays Daily.

Public Examiner Johnson has report
ed to the state treasurer 50, 1865 in
gross earnings of the st. Peter Telephone
company, which were omitted from the
return of 1900. The three per cent tax
amounts to $95.0l.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24
ALBERT LEA GAS PLANT.
From Thursdays Daily.

Albert Lea is to have gas plant The
council there has granted parties fran
chise to lay mains and operate gas
and heating plant for term of years.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24

For good house, well located in Man
kato, will exchange cheap land or an i'm
proved farm. Give location and best
price at once. Box rs, Madelia, MINI.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24
Excursions to the North
west, West and Southwest, and
Colonist Low Rates West.

Via the North Western line. Excur-
sion tickets at greatly reduced rates are
on sale to the territory indicated above.
Standard and tourist sleeping cars, free
reclining chair cars and ''The Best of
Everything" For full particulars apply
to agents Chicago & North Western R'y.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24
IN Ceremon-

Very Low Rates to Dedication Ceremon-
les of Louisiana Purchase Expo
sition, st. Louis, Mo-,
Via the North Western line. Excursion
tickets will be sold for above occasion
April 49,, 80 and May l, and on account
of Good Roads Convention on April 26
and 81, all with return limit until May
4, inclusive. Apply to agents Chicago
& North Western Ry.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24
KILLED IN A RIOT.
Kipineff, Russia, Is the Scene OF a
Bloody Affair.
Especial to The Free Press.l

ST. Petersburg, April 23.-Twenty-ive
Jews were killed and 275 were wounded,
many fatally during the anti-Semitic riots
at Kispineff, the capitol of Bessarabia.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24

For sale, l35 acres of land five miles
from Mankato. Inquire of Thomas
Hughes, over First National bank.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24

The Knights of Pythias will have
work in the second rank tonight.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24
Good Roads Convention, St. Louis, Mo-,
Anri1 o1-Mav O. 1oo2.

AplII X7-Hdy z, 19Oo'
One fare plus $500 for the round trip
via. Chicago Great Western railway.
Tickets on sale April 1928, good to re-
turn May 4th. For further informa-
ton apply to any Great Western agent,
or j. P Elmer, G. P. A, Chicago, Ill.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24

Bring your WOOL to the Manta alto
Knitting Mills. We pay highest mar
ket prices in any quantity. Mankato
Mills Co., Mankato, MINI.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-12-11
Seward.

J. A. Walter returned from visit
to his son-in-law at Gage, Okla,
last week and was very favorably i'm
pressed with town and country. AS
there was no election in Kansas Joe
thought he would go down and help
them out there.
The teachers association meets
next Saturday at Stafford and all
teachers should try to be there.
Miss Della Nash who YIELDS the
rod at Prairie Home Dist 81 is at
home on a visit for a few days.
Geo. Payton and family left here
Monday for California on account of
the failing health of his wife. Geo.
Woodruff and wife and Mrs. Jessie
Miller also departed for California
for visit.
The young folks had an old
fashioned spelling school at Eden
Valley school house last Wednesday
evening and all had fine time.
DR.. Van Scoyce, our popular young
physician was called to attend to Lee
Campbell, and bound up his wounds
with neatness and dispatch. The
Doctor is all right.
Corn husking is nearly all over in
this neighborhood and the boys will
have more leisure to attend school
and go to dances, spelling schools
and other entertainments, which are
the only sources of recreation for the
young folks in the country.
Lee Campbell met with a very
serious accident by getting his hand
and forearm caught in between the
beaters on a corn shelter such a way
that it was necessary to take out
several bolts before his arm could be
released. The skin and flesh were
torn away SO that it left the cords
and muscles exposed. Mr.. Campbell
is one of our popular young men and
all regret deeply his misfortune and
hope for his speedy recovery.
The following is list of the men,
bers of the Knights of Pythias Lodge
of this place who were in attendance
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has been here the last week on a visit
to Ellinwood friends and relatives.
Henry Remmert and Gus F. Koch
left for California Monday. The
former will visit his son at San Diego
and the latter his father, at National
City.
James A. Brown went to the state
of Washington last week, on a pro-
speeding tour. If he likes the coun-
try he he may decide to move there
with his family.
The Logan township creamery Peo-
pie have sold the skim station build
ing they purchased from the Parker
company, to Geo. n. IIelfrick, and he
is moving it onto his lots in the south
west part of town.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-12-11
Merry Winter.

There is no season of the year so
grossly mahgned as Winter. When
spring standing like priest, swaying
his censor ready to usher you into
the perfume of bursting buds, ladened
With the song of merry birds and the
umming of bees, and the signing of
leaves, everyone is thrilled with new
inspiration. When Summar covers
the meadow lands with rich luscious
grass, carpets the circling hills with
verdant nature, paints the great rich,
sky above with azure blue, adornS
the streams with butter cups looking
like ripples of gold. and fills the air
with song of merry reapers, and the
buttalions of thunder bolts piercing the
sky and Clashing against the earth,
almost everyone shouts with admlra-
ton. When autumn comes with its
orchards bowling with its golden fruits,
with its forests waving their crimson
banners dipped in sunsets blood-red
caused by conflict of frost and storm,
when autumn gladdens the hearts Of
toilers with their fields of ripened
SteAiy CNSi INV % > outoiuh - JN4ol
the season for me; but when old
hoary-headed and white-beared winter
steps forth, he is met with rebuffs
and fierce protestations. But desire
to show you that the most precious
scenes of your life and the happiest
times of the year are associated
with winter. 1t is in the winter time
that you can behold those falling
blossoms of the sky, those white wing
ed angels of the air, those shades and
odysseys of the storm known as snow
carpet the earth with beautiful con-
gelations. Did you ever stand on a
winters morning when the first furry
( of snow flakes came shutting through
the air, where the bright rays of the
4sun could strike it; what variety of
! fakes; what brilliancy of colors; what
palaces of Heavenly splendors were
kindled before your eyes? You can
see the shape of stars, the shape of
coronets, of cylinders, globular, hex
agonal, pyramidal all castellated into
one supernai art gallery Of unsurpass-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-12-11

ing splendor. 1t is winter time you
are thrilled with the music of child
hoods happy laughter, in playing
blind-man's buff, fox and geese and
in popping corn and taffy and telling
witch stories that make the younger
children so afraid when they go to
bed in the dark that they will tuck
their heads under the cover and
scarcely breathe. 1t is in the winter
time that young man with his girl
leaps into his fathers old red sleigh
with the finest prancing steeds, two
straps of sleigh-bells around each
horse, and lets them with snot in their
nostrils, fire in their eye and haunt in
their name go dashing down the road
with the jingle, jingle. jingle of the
sleigh-bells mingled with ha, ha, ha,
of two merry hearts, tuned to the mu-
sic of old loves Tyre with both hands
pulling back on the bits of the dash
ing span. 1t is in the winter time
that the wives and mothers drive up
in their sleighs and buggies all wrap
ped UP from the cold to the quilting
bee. After they lay aside their wraps
and warm by the stove, each one
seizes a needle. What a merry group;
how full of news. All the talk is
wholesome. except occasionally, old
Sister Grundy lets her needle slip and
makes little scratch on an absentee s
character. They finish not only one
quilt, but also quilt neighborhood
friendship; quilt connubial bliss and
warm sympathies.
Extract of sermon at Presbyterian
church by Rev. F. P. Jolly on Sun
day night.
Theater managers in this circuit
are playing kind of "pass the buck'
game with the National Stock COM
pany, which fooled Larned for three
nights. In their joy at getting rid of
the booze-fighting Thespians, the man
ayers cheerfully pass them on to the
next nearest town with strong letters of
recommendation, Manager Schnack's
effort iii this line being such a gem
that it is appearing in all the Great
Bend papers.-Larned Tilier and
Toiler.