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The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-24

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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-05-08
THE AUSTIN PLAN.
Dairy Merger That Could Be Followed
in MankatO.

From Tuesdays Daily.
The state dairy and food department
has investigated a new plan of collecting
and distributing milk, which, Commits
sioner w. w. p. Mcconnell thinks, if
generally adopted, will aid the depart
ment in stopping adulteration.
The plan has been originated by the
Ausin Cooperative Milk company of
Austin, recently organized by residents
of Austin and farmers of the neighbor-
ing country. The company has one
building in the city equipped with a
boiler, separator, milk rocks and an oven
for sterlizing milk. All the milk fur
nished by members of the company is
taken to the building, mixed, sterilized
and bottled. Two wagons distribute the
milk over the entire city, whereas here
tofore innumerable individual dealers
peddled milk.
Deputy Inspector H. E. Vroman, who
has just reported an investigation order
ed by Mr.. Mcconnell, says that the plan
has proved very satisfactory. While the
legal test for milk is 3.5 per cent fat,
the milk of the cooperative company
has tested from 3.S to A per cent, and
the cream has tested from 2S.5 to 50
per cent fat, while the legal test is 20
per cent.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-05-08
MADE LARGE CONTRACT.
New Malt Company Buys Machinery
of Chicago House.
From Tuesdays Daily

From Tuesdays Daily.
The Mankato Malt company, which
was recently organized, expects to have
its plant in operation by Aug. 10Th.
Mahlke & Frankeson have the contract
for remodeling the buildings, and have
already commenced the brick work.
The company has contracted with a
Chicago house for complete outfit of
the new process mailing machinery,
known as the drum system. This con-
tract foots up to $4,000.
The amount of money which the COM
pany will eXpend in charging and
undermining its plant will foot up to
$4,000 or 100000. The enlarged capac-
ity and the new process will enable the
company to malt from 100000 to 700,-
900 bushels of barley yearly, instead of
5000 to 100000 as was formerly the
case The new plant will be ready for
this seasons crop and it will make a
market for much more grain in Mankato
than has hitherto been bought for home
use.
The old company has wound up its
affairs so far as doing any work is con-
cerned.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-05-08
Is Not a Conspiracy.

Newspaper publishers throughout the
state will be interested in decision
handed down by Judge Baxter of Otter
Tail county district court The case
involved the rights of newspaper publish
ers under the anti trust laws.
The publishers of Otter Tail county
have for some years had an understand
ing whereby different papers bid in the
publication of such matters as the finan-
cial statement and a delinquent tax list
at legal rates. and furnished the other
papers with supplements, the amount
received for the work being divided by
the publisher who bid in the publication.
Last fall an appeal was taken from
the allowance of the bills on the ground
that the arrangement was combine
and conspiracy, and was forbidden by
the anti trust laws of 1899 and 1891.
The case was argued at the recent term,
and Judge Baxter holds that there is no
ground for the appeal and orders judg-
ment in favor of the publishers
Judge Baxter takes the ground that
the anti-trus statutes do not apply in
any case of this kind, and that the facts
set forth are not sufficient to constitute
a conspiracy at common law.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-05-08
MANKATO FREEPREss.
ADULTERATED FOOD.
Two Dealers Charged With Selling it.
1.-Two Pay Fine.
From TUESDAYS Daily

FROM tuesdays Daily.
}. G. Fowler, deputy dairy and food
inspector, today procured a warrant for
the arrest of w. Deuser and G. L. Cor
don, on the charge of offering adulterated
food for sale, not properly labeled
1t is charged that on April 18th Mr..
Deuser exposed for sale food jelly in
bottles containing glucose mixed there
in, depreciating its quality and purity,
without having affixed on the side of
the bottle label showing that the con-
tents were adulterated, as required by
law.
MIR. Deuser appeared before Judge
Shissler this afternoon and pleaded
guilty. He paid fine of $40, including
the costs. He took receipt for the
amount, and it is understood that the
wholesale house that furnished him with
the goods will refund the amount to
him.
Mr.. Gordon is charged with offering for
sale on the same day strawberry preser-
YES that contained glucose and other than
fruit and graduated sugar. He will APP
pear before the court this afternoon.
Gordon pays $40 and costs.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-05-08
ALONG THE RURAL ROUTES.

Tell your farmer friends about this
column in your paper.
1t is said that gray horses attain a
greater age than those of any other color
Manure adds to the productiveness of
the land as soon as it is applied, but
all the substance is not used up in one
season.
The young man who is starting out in
life our advice is be farmer. You will
never have to beg to sell your corn or
eggs or butter.
If You have an incubator on the prem
ises at work you had better see your in
surance company and thus avoid possible
trouble in case of fire.
Encourage the young folks to excel in
some special work on the farm. Raise
a certain breed of hogs, cattle and chick
ems. The young folks will be interested.
See that the collars fit your horses
WELL A man who never has horse with
with a strong decoction of white oak
bark.
The matter of deep or shallow cult
walton is one that is frequently discussed,
yet the question is unsettled so far as
the cultivation of some crops is concern
ed.
With the rural free delivery of mail,
the telephones and hard roads, what is
the necessity of the man and wife NOV
ing to town. You will be more contented
in the country.
By grating tomato vine onto po-
tato plant the state experiment station
of Minnesota now has plant on which
the roots are potatoes and tomatoes on
the same plant above ground.
Why is it that some farmers make
money and have good time while others
have nothing but drudgery and nothing
to show for it. There must be something
in the business management.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-05-08

miserable. The greatest regret | have
now-in fact, my only regrets that l
am no longer able to read a word for
something like fifteen years, and l miss
my books as / do my old friends. Some
times caller drops in and reads to me,
but it doesn't give me the same salts
faction that reading myself did. But
then, / suppose, l ought to be thankful
that l have ears to hear, if not eyes to
see.
'Those three old books and that old
coat and hat hanging there in the corner
are all l have left me in the world,
but still, as L said before, L don't want
to complain, [ have a comfortable bed
to sleep in and plenty to eat, and kind
attendants and my memories, and, best
of all, an infinite hope for a life beyond
the grave. Why should | be unhappy"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-05-08
NICOLLET THRESHERS' UNION.

From Tuesdays Daily.
The Nicollet County Threshers' union
was organized in this city yesterday af
ternoon at the Masonic hall. The meet
ing was brought about through National
Organizer Meyer of Chicago assisted by
Mr.. Kruger of Mobiles county. About
twenty owners of machines were present.
The following officers = were elected !:
President, And. Young; vice president,
H. F. Mas, Belgrade; secretary, Peter
Olson, Lake Prairie; treasurer, Ole Hau-
gen, Lake Prairie. A general commit
tee consisting of one member from each
town was also elected. The next meet
ing will be held in the same hall on Tues
day, May 26, at one o'clock. The object
of the union is to agree upon fixed
scale of prices, which will be maintained.
1t is not intended to raise present prices.
st. Peter Free Press. fe
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-05-08
SoiaCe in Books.

Josiah L. LyuE was at one time 4
millioaaiTc- one of the richest men in
the country in hi, palmiest days. He
died in the poor house at Washington, n
j., few days ago, and to the last was
happy and a philosopher. Before pass
ing to the great beyond he delivered him.
self OF this bit of good humored pLiloso-
ply:
"After al, there is nothing in this
world that can happen to us which
really ought to cause US moments UNI
happiness. | have been a wealthy man
in my days-a wealthy man with plenty
of friends and a wife whom loved de-
votedly. They have all passed away
wife, friends and fortune. Could [ have
forseen such an end when 1 was an ambi-
tious young man, or even so recently as
twenty years ago, should have gone
mad, | suppose. But instead of that I
find myself not discontented, not unhap.
Ply certainly very much happier than
many socalied fortunate people.
Fright living and welI-stored mind
are the, essential factors to happiness. 1
always made it a rule of my life to try
to read at least ten minutes every day
from some good book, the Bible or
Shakespeare, 81 Some the good old au-
thors. | read one time the saying of
some great man, l, don't remember who
the man was, but l never forgot. the re-
mark. This man said he had never suf-
fered grief, sorrow or loss that one
hours reading from good book did not
make it easier to bear Nobody ever said
anything truer than that, and it's pity
that more people couldn't be persuaded
to profit by the advice. One of the surest
foundations to happiness is The cultiva-
ton for a taste of the best literature.
81 do not think it is possible for the
real lover of books to ever be hopelessly
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-05-08

The grand jury in Redwood county re-
turned eighteen indictments against IL
quor dealers in Wabaso and Walnut:
Grove who have been defying the Sunday.
law. In other portions of the state
grand juries have been making it exceed
ingly interesting for the saloonmen who
have held the laws lightly. In view of,
the fact that grand jury is the only
body that would have the courage to get
after violators of this kind it is serious
question whether the people will vote to
drive such an institution out of exis-
tence. At the next general election the
people OF this state will be called upon to
vote on the adoption of constitutional
amendment to abolish the grand jury.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-05-08
NEW CITY SCALE.
Mankato Now Has the Best Wagon
Scale that Money Can Procure
Long Felt Want Supplied.

Our new scale has just been completed
under the supervision of Fairbanks, Morse
& sCo.s expert scale builder, and is a
model of accuracy and perfection. This
new scale is fitted with Fairbanks Eat
ent registering beam which prevents mis-
takes, in copying the figures, for the ma
chine stamps your correct weight on
your ticket.
We wish to have it understood that the
city scale is run in the interest of both
buyer and seller. and that this weighing
machine combined with our responsibility
should create a demand for city scale
stamped weights.
We invite the public to inspect the new
scale and our mode of weighing
Yours to serve,
PIHALE & HE'LL,
Weighmasters.
Nos IiS and 100 East Main Street.
May 9TH. 1903,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-05-08
WANT A DITCH.
Vernon Center Farmers Will Ask
County Board for One.
From Tuesdays Daily.

From Tuesdays Daily.
Harry Paddock has prepared petit
ton to be presented to the county board
at its next session, asking that ditch
be constructed in Vernon Center town
ship to run into creek that empties in
to the Watonwan river in Garden City
township. Fifteen of the property own
ers to be affected have signed the petit
ton. The proposed ditch would be about
seven miles long, and it is expected would
drain several hundred acres of land. 1t
would have two branches and would run
through five or six sections The cost
would be several thousand dollars, to be
assessed on the property benefited.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-05-08
Treatment of Insane.

1t NAV seem to be the part of i'm
pertinence for a layban to disagree with
such a high authority as DR.. II. A. Tom
linson on the treatment of insanity
cases. but we feel compelled to do so
after reading a synopsis of the paper
which that eminent gentleman read be-
fore the state board of control in St.
Paul on Tuesday The Free Press will
not attempt to go into lengthy treaties
of the subject, but there is one point
which the doctor lays stress. upon. If
he is reported correctly he made the
statement that the public is not much
more enlightened on the subject of in
sanity than it was 500 years ago, when
an insane parson was supposed to be
possessed of evil spirits. One of the
serious problems confronting those in
terested in the treatment of the insane
is the education of the public concerning
insanity. The people should be made
to understand that demented person
Is sick. not the subject for treatment
such as is accorded to criminals. The
present method of committing the insane
by hauling them into court for eyamina
ton is illogical and an injury to the
patient. who should be sent to the asy
lum by the attending physician"
The public does realize that an insane
person is suffering from disease, and
for that reason they have, through the
legislature, contributed literally to the
support OF the five hospitals in this state
wherein the unfortunates can receive the
skilled treatment they are so justly en-
titled to- From the frequent complaints
that are made against the attendants in
some of these hospitals it would seem that
they are the persons who are in need of,
enlightenment upon the point the doctor
refers to. Again, DR.. Tomlinsou objects
to the present method of examining into
insanity cases, declaring it to be illogical
and an injury to the patient. The pres
ent plan is pursued in order that the pa
tient may be surrounded with the protec-
ton of the law. There is no telling
what might happen if these inquiries
were carried on in secret. One great rea-
son for the adoption of the present sys
TEN was to prevent the Incarceration of
persons of sound minds in private re-
treats, thus removing them from the
pathway of those who were tesirous of
getting rid of them. 1t is extremely
doubtful if as great advancement has
been made during the last century in the
care and treatment of any class de-
pendant upon the public as has been
made in the care and treatment of the
insane of this country.
DIR. Tomlinsou seems to think that
the matter of the commitment of these
unfortunates should be left entirely to
the physician As matter of fact the
law requires the presence of two ply
sicians at the examination of each case
of alleged insanity. An attorney to rep
resent the patient is allowed at the
examination and he is provided by the
state.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-05-08
AGAIN DOING BUSINESS.
From SATURDAYS Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
The Saulpaugh is once more doing
business, after having been closed for
four weeks. Lodgers were taken in last
night, and the entire hotel will be in run
ming use tonight. The dining room will
open for breakfast tomorrow morning.
Mr.. Kent has put in a new Intersection
range, twelve feet long. a new dish
washer. a heater and warmer, and. in
fact, all of the latest hotel kitchen fur
nit;Ie and fixtures.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-05-08

The Springfield, Mass, Republican re-
fers to the manufacture of binding Irvine
in the Kansas state peniten.iary as an
unique use for convicts to be put to. In
the Minnesota state prison Irvine has
been manufactured for number of
years and North Dakota's convicts are
engaged in like work There is moth
ing unique in the making of binding
Irvine by prisoners.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-05-08
THROWN FROM HIS BUGGY.
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily
A. Z. Salisbury, the contractor, was
mixed up in a lively runaway yester-
day afternoon on Broad street. The
raising of an umbrella frightened the
pony that he was driving and the little
horse started off at fast pace. Mr..
Salisbury was thrown out, but chung
to the lines and with the assistance of
another gentleman succeeded in stop
ping the pany. No damage was done,
fortunately.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-05-08

Dr. Muedeking will make his next regu-
lar professional visit to Mankato from
the 18th to the 22d of May and take or
ders for his white flint spectacles which
are SO much admired by all who wear
them. Office hours at the Clifton house
from IL to 2 p m. Price of glasses no
higher than common spectacles.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-05-08
ELECTION EXPENSES.

The following additional expense ac-
counts have been filed by candidates: A.
G. Meyer, SIT; G. w. Eichstaedt, SIS;
A. G. Roemer, $3.50; C. w. Durkee, $40.
All of the accounts had been fled this af-
ternoon except those of three Republican
candidates.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-05-08
LIBERATED PIGEONS.
From Tuesdays Daily.

At 3:45 p. m. yesterday Agent Pfeffer
liberated dozen Ahoming pigeons that
had been sent him by Fred Day of Min
neapolis for the purpose. Four were old
birds and eight were young ones. The
birds started off northward and no doubt
reached home within couple of hours.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-05-08
NEW PRINCIPAL SECURED.

From Wednesdays Daily.
A. h. Brown, principal of the Belle
Plaine schools, has accepted the princi-
palship of the Vernon Center school for
next year at a salary of $75 month.
He is a graduate of the advanced
course of the state normal school at st.
Cloud, and has had three years. expert
ence as teacher. He was offered $S5
a month to remain at Belle PLANE.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-05-08
WILL BE BROUGHT BACK.
From SATURDAYS Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
The Minnesota building at the st.
Louis exposition will not only be club
house for the people of Minnesota dur
ing the exposition, but it will be brought
back to Minnesota after the fair, and it
will probably be set up on the state fair
grounds as one of the permanent build
ings. This is the plan of the Minnesota
board of commissioners for the Louisiana
Purchase exposition.-St Paul Pioneer
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-05-08
A FINE PREMIUM LIST.
Minnesota State Fair Makes Liberal
Offers.-The New List lust Out.
Nos II8 and 100 East Mali
May 9TH. 1908.


Offers.-The New List Just Out.
Liberal premiums in all departments
have characterized the offerings of the
Minnesota state fair for many years,
but this seasons premium list, which
has just been issued from the press,
rather excels all previous premium sched-
ules made by the society. Over $4,000
is offered to exhibitors. This is divided
among the usual classes, but includes
many additions, such as four or five
premiums for a lot where before there
were only three, OF the insertion of new
lots, or the actual increase of the amount
of a premium in standard classification.
The list includes full details of the ma
tional exhibitions of the herefords and
shorthorns, which will be features of the
cattle division again this year. Among
the interesting items in this department
is new class for Minnesota shorthorns,
in which outside breeders may not COM
pete. HI. f. Brown and n. P. Clarke have
generously agreed not to enter their cat
tie in this competition, thus leaving it
open for the smaller breeders of the
state. Arrangements for the county
exhibits have been made even more
generous than heretofore, and for far
mers' individual exhibits there are new
premiums. The same is ture of poultry,
sheep, swine, and other classes. The
Minnesota state fair always pays its
premiums promptly and is especially
liberal in its treatment of exhibitors.
1t is believed that the revised premium
list for 1908 will lead to much larger
exhibits and that there will be more
general participation by all classes of
people than ever before. Premium lists
may be secured without cost by address
ing the secretary of the fair, E. W.
Randall, Hamline, MINI. The fair opens
on August 81 and continues 10 Septem-
Der 5. Among the new buildings this
year will be the agricultural implement
building now being erected at a cost of
$4,000, and the new Swine Exhibition
building. Many other Improvements
are being made on the grounds.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-05-08

The grand commandery of the Knights
Templar of California, have decided by
unanimous vote that hereafter no wine
shall be served at Templar -banquets.
The innovation has been introduced. it
is, claimed, so that the order on this
ccoast might fall in line with the general
movement of the same kind in the east,
and because the use of wine in the lodge
rooms for all official functions is con-
trary to the principles of Masonry. 1t is
said that the grand lodge of Masons at
its annual meeting next October will
take the same decisive action and order
that all banquets given under the aus
pices of any Masonic lodge of the state
be strictly temperance.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-05-08

Think of getting an atlas of the world
for sl.9o as handsome in every way as
the one now being offered by the Free
Press!
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-05-08

banda, Lewis, goods to poor. -.
John & Thurston, goods to poor.
Juliar, a. A., taking poor to hos
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-05-08

Nine O'Clock forenoon May lst, 1908.
Board convened as agreed. All present
Meeting called to order by Chairman
Bruels.
Application by the supervisors of the
town of Garden City for five hundred
dollar appropriation to aid in the i'm
provement of the Boynton Hill was re-
ceived and the following offered
Resolved, That there be, and is hereby
appropriated out of the Road and Bridge
fund three hundred dollars to aid in
the improvement of the Boynton Hill in
Garden City township payable when
money is available not otherwise appro-
priated, on condition that the township
appropriate and expend at least an equal
and complete the work on same
hill. The work to be done by the town
ship under the supervision of the County
Surveyor. Resolution adopted.
Application of James T. Davis for cor
rection of 1902 personal property assess
ment on account of error, was on motion
approved.
Application by Chas. A. Chapman for
of assessment in 1902 on
house in South Bend in error, was on
motion approved.
The following named residents and tax
payers of Blue Earth county were select
ID as jurors for June term 1908.
Grand-John Eckman, jamestown;
Andrew Fuchs, LeRay; S. S. Babcock,
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-03-07
Bridge Meeting.

The meeting called for last Tues
day evening to discuss the question
of raising the funds to be subscribed
by the citizens toward the building
of the Snake river bridge, was
poorly attended. People seem to be
taking but little interest in the mat
ter. The bridge will not build itself.
We should wake up and get hustle
on us. Our friends on the Oregon
side are working necessarily to assist
US, and we should certainly meet
them half way. Another meeting
will be called shortly, and 1t is to be
hoped that everyone will attend and
show an interest in the matter.