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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-02-20
JUDGMENT REVERSED.
]. W. Schmitt as Trustee Wins an In.
teresting Case in Supreme Court.
From Saturdays Daily,

IIOul SATURDAY > DduN.
The supreme court has reversed the
judgment in the case of j. w. Schmitt as
trustee in bankruptcy in the matter of
Peter Ii. Dahl, bankrupt, appellant, VS..
Peter Ii. Dahl and others, defendants,
Amelia Dahl respondent. Dahl had pur-
chased same land in Texas, giving notes
for $1,000 in payment. When the notes
became due, he hefused to pay them, but
turned the land. back in settlement of
the matter, as, he claimed. He had
eighty acres of land in Brown county
worth $4,000 or more, and decided this
to his daughter, Amelia. He was sub
sequently sued on the notes, but allowed
judgment to be taken. Then he went
into bankruptcy. Mr.. Schmitt was nam
ed as trustee and commenced suit to
set aside the conveyance. Judge Web
Der decided the case adversely to the
trustee, and an appeal was taken.
The syllabus of the decision is as fol-
lows:
In an action by, judgment creditor to
set aside as fraudulent conveyance of
made prior to the entry of the
Judgment: Held:
l. 1t is necessary to prove that the
claim upon which the judgment is bas-
ed existed prior to the time of the con-
veyance, but the judgment itself does
not prove such fact. 1t is not required
to establish the fact that such claim was
lawful In such action tie grantee is es-
topped from setting up any defences
which might have been interposed by his
grantor i'll the original action. Such
judgments cannot be impeached in the
proceeding except for fraud.
2. Trustee in bankruptcy is entitled
to maintain such action to set aside the
fraudulent conveyance where the estate
of the judgment debtor is in bankrupt
court and the claim has been filed.
Judgment reversed.
Judgment reversed, with directions to
enter judgment for appellant for the de-
mand in his complaint.
Lewis, J.
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IMPORTANT DECISION.
Supreme Court Decides Case of In.
terest to Secret Societies.

From Saturdays Daily.
The supreme court has rendered de-
cision which is of interest to fraternal
societies. The court holds that the
amendments to the bylaws of the Royal
Arcanum to the effect that if member
became freight brakeman he forfeited
his membership, to be unreasonable, and
void. It was in the case of Elizabeth
Tebo against the supreme council of
Royal Arcanum, and the supreme court
overrules the Ramsey county district
court and grants a new trial. The appel
liant, Mrs. Tebo, sued to recover on a ST.
900 policy held by her son. The syllabus
by Justice Start says:
"The plaintiff is the beneficiary named
in a benefit certificate issued by the de-
PENDANT to the insured, her son. When
he became a member of the order he
agreed to his application and certificate
to be bound by its rules and regulations
then existing and those thereafter to be
enacted. When he accepted his certi-
ficate he had the right to engage in the
occupation of a freight brakeman, there
after the defendant amended its bylaws
to the effect that if any member should
enter upon or be engaged in the occupa-
ton of freight brakeman he should
thereby forfeit his membership and certi-
ticate. No provision was made for no.
tice of the damage TO pre-existing mem
bers, and the insured never had any no.
tice thereof and after it went into eff
feet he became freight brakeman and
was killed in the discharge of his duties
as SUCH
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-02-20
SHOULD PAY THE BET.

Two young men of this village have
consulted legal authority to learn
whether they have been joking or enter
ing into binding contracts. They and an
other young man agreed in writing that
if one of the number married within a
certain periods the others were each to
present him with $25 suit of clothes.
One of the young men has now married
and his chums are expecting demand
for the suit.-Rock County Herald
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-02-20
Citizens Write to Mankato Officials to
Confirm His Statements.
Reported to Have Claimed He Built a
Line in Mankato.

In reply to this we wish to state to
you, and ask you to kindly publish in
your paper, that we have not at any
time figured on a railway proposition at
Audubon, Ia, nor do we know any one
at that place. We do not know Mr.. W.
c. Elliott in connection with any rail
way construction which we are interest
ed in. His statements in letters to your
city officials are false from beginning to
end. No such statements have been made
to him, or to any other person by any
member of our firm. If he is connected
with any company for which we are do
ing construction work, we do not know
it. He is a malicious blackmailer, and
will be brought up with short turn
We have a contract for the construc-
ton of forty-two miles of electric rail
way in and between the cities of Creston
and Winterset, Ia, and if Mr.. Elliott is
connected with it, we do not know it,
nor have we had any business with him.
Our statements regarding the Mankato
proposition have always been that we had
a contract for the construction of a
street railway between Mankato and st.
Peter which was not carried out, but was
no fault of ours as we complied with our
part of the contract in every respect,
which is well known by your people of
Mankato, and had we been allowed to
continue with our contract, the people of
Mankato would have rapid transit be-
tween Mankato and st. Peter today.
Very respectfully yours,
JAMES II. COLLINS & co.
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CONTRACT AWARDED.

From Saturdays Daily.
Bids were opened this afternoon at
the office of Architect Schippel for the
erection of a six-room frame dwelling
house at $50 North Sixth street, for
Paul Goettl, as follows: B. f. Hurley,
Sl,9l5; Wolf & Olinger, $l,753; Klein
schmidt Bros, $l,750; Henry Kranz, ST.
GS7; j. Kotthof company, $l,657: E. A.
Salisbury, Sl,625. The contract was
awarded to Mr.. Salisbury at his figure.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-02-20
ANOTHER SCALES SECURED.

The council committe ON markets has
decided to lease j. j. Pihale's scales on
Main street as a temporary Official city
scales, paying S. month for their use.
F. 7. Enfield, the city weighmaster, will
begin his duties there Monday. The
council had previously accepted the Of
fer of the use of the Standard Lumber
company's scales, but Agent Morse and
the committee could not agree on who
should be the weighmaster.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-02-20
MAY ERECT BUILDINGS.

From Saturdays Daily.
j. B. Nielsen has purchased the cor
ner lot opposite the village hall in North
Manlato of the Hunt estate for $500,
through Davies & Turrittin. He may
erect an office building for his firm, and
also dwelling house, on the property.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-02-20
From Saturdays Daily.

A. G. WILDER was down from Vernon
Center today on business.
j. II. Chase, for two years block
man for the Mccormick Harvesting Ma
chine company, left this week for Port
land, Oregon, where he becomes assis-
tant general agent for the company.
His family will remain in Mankato for
some time.
Miss Bessie Jameson, daughter of
former Representative VIM. Jameson OF
Rapidan, who has been seriously i'll with
pleura pneumonia, was today pronounced
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-02-20

by her physicians to be out of danger.
John Villains of GAINESVILLE, a bro
ther of Mrs Nellie Lake of this city,
has been seriously ill with rheumatism
of the heart, but Mrs. Lake received the
comforting information yesterday from
his physian that he is out of danger.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-02-20
GERMS OF THE RIGHT SORT.

Blue Earth county will hold good
roads meeting at Mankato March fourth.
1t is to be hoped that these meetings are
contagious and that million or so
germs viii blow over into this county
st. James Gazette.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-02-20
MISPLACED CONFIDENCE.

A man representing himself as Great
Western official hired Edward Lundberg
to take charge of a bridge crew at Red
wing. Lundberg accompanied him to the
twin cities and roomed at the same hotel.
When he awoke his watch and roll of
bills were gone. Several others from diff
ferent cities have been trapped in the
same way.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-02-20

From Mondays Daily.
The taking of evidence was commence
ed this afternoon in the case of Day VS..
Mountain, before Senator Eberhart as
special commissioner. The case is now
in the United States court. A large
amount of land near Good Thunder is in
volved.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-02-20

America furnishes the idols that the
heather worship and then sends over
missionaries to convert the deluded
mortals to Christianity.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-02-20
OPERATORS SALARIES RAISED.

From Saturdays Daily.
Five hundred telegraph operators in
the employ of the Omaha road are to be
affected by an increase in salary.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-02-20
he Says He Is Not Constructing a
Road at Audubon.
BoeS Not Know the Officials of the
Iowa Burg.
Claims He Was Ready to Make Good
in Mankato.
Is Now Building An Electric Line ia
Cornstalk State.
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
James H. Collins the erstwhile cleo
trio line promoter, writes The Free Press
as follows:
Editor Free Press: Being a subscri-
Der for your paper, also interested in
Aankato news, we have before us an
article which appears in your paper
Monday, Feb. 9, 1908, headed as follows:
COLLINS HAS HIS NERVE.
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FOR TWENTY YEARS
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Engineers Street Railway Proposition
at Audubon, Iowa.
The Cook County herald., 1903-09-19
Old Cathedral Crumblinq.

Reports received in Rome from vi.
cenza, in the Venetian province, show
that the authorities are in fear that
the cathedral at that place is in seri-
GUS danger of falling. About a. year
ago large cracks in the walls were
covered over with glass in order to
test whether the damage was station.
ary or not. The other day the glass
coverings were snapped asunder, and
it was found that the yawning aper-
lures had grown bigger. The columns
supporting the central nave are alarm.
ingly out of the perpendicular. The
architect Moretti has had the edifice
closed to the public, and has issued
pressing appeal for, funds. The ca
thedral, which possesses a very fine
central doorway of white marble, was
built by the Franciscan friars toward
the close Of the thirteenth century.
The Cook County herald., 1903-09-19
Women in South Africa.

Openings for women in South Afri-
ca appear to be many and varied. A
woman writing on this subject says
the popularity of this country is it's
unfamiliar conditions of life. Lux
uries are more in demand than neces-
Stiles. The range of employment
open to women is a wide one, vary.
ing from domestic service to beauty
doctor, but everything is much more
expensive in this newly opened land.
Living in the Transvaal is at least
100 per cent dearer than in London
Laundresses are scarce and the call
ing in small favor among the women
at the Cape, who fear social ostracism
If they turn to the washtub. This
and the fact that doilies are being
sent out to some of the houses need
ing decent furniture throws a curious
side light on this country. There are
chances for much money to be made
by clever women caterers at railway
stations. These are few and far be-
tween and the rentals enormous.
The Cook County herald., 1903-09-19
The Man Behind the Fire.

worker at the Sailors Mission in
East Boston, has story of heroism
to tell. One night in January a fire
man on one of the ocean steamers
walked in the darkness down an open
hatchway. He fell to the hold, broke
his leg and received other injuries.
His outcry brought group of stev-
dores to his help, and they were ex-
citedly discussing what to do for him
when it became evident that he was
trying to speak.
"Be quiet, boys" said one of the
men. Maybe Jake's wanting to send
a word home"
But it was not of home poor Jake.
was thinking, even in that moment of
agonizing pain.
"Tell the fifth engineer to look.
after the boiler!" he whispered.
That is the sort Of fidelity and cour-
age to put to shame the theorists who
would have us believe that self-inter-
est is the only motive that rules men
in the workaday world.-Youth's, s,
Companion.
The Cook County herald., 1903-09-19

as she was the sponsor for tho tor
pedo boat Truxton, launched from
Sparrow's Point, Va, in the summer
of 1901.
Her father was Commodore William
Truxton, United States navy, and her
great-grandfather was the famed Com
modore Thomas Truxton, who did his
country such great service during the
war for independence, and later dur
ing the trouble with France.
Miss Truxton has seafaring blood
in her veins, and the torpedo boat
Truxton, named for her great-grand-
father, was christened under condi-
tions accorded few of the biggest bat
tleships.
The Pennsylvania will probably be
the next warship launched, and Miss
Sue Quay, the daughter if Senator
Quay of Pennsylvania, will be the
sponsor on that occasion.
The Cook County herald., 1903-09-19

ingly particular about his money
Bless you, there was no dearth of it!
He had bigger allowance than any
other youth in his class. The bills
were sent to him in sheets, just as
they come from the bureau of engrav.
ing and printing to our leading banks,
and it was one of his pastimes to clip
them apart with pair of silver steel
shears. In his mahogany desk were
seven pigeonholes dedicated to Nam.
mon. In one Bob piled his 500 bills.
in another his ffties, in third his
twenties, and so on down to his tens,
fives, twos, and ones. It was beau
tiful sight to the poorer students, and
one that filled many soul with envy.
Bob was careful of his money. No
one was permitted to disarrange it.
New York Press.
The Cook County herald., 1903-09-19
POPULAR SCENTS FROM JAPAN.
Oriental Perfumes Now the Fashion
in London Society,".

Oriental Perfumes Now the Fashion
in London Society.
The newest Of the fashions to be
brought to us is the Oriental per
fumes. These scents and smells of
old Japan are the ultra-fashion for
the woman who cares for luxury.
Instead Of violet she will smell the
lotus flower; instead of heliotrope it
will be sandal wood; instead of Law.
ender it is to be ambergris. Geisha
flowers can also be detected on the
fine handkerchief of the woman din.
ing at the Carlton. They are not
very expensive, either, these alluring
odors of old Japan. And some OF
them come SO quantity put up that it
is delight to have them on a toilet
table. y
The sachets are in Japanese paper.
covered with Japanese pictures. The
lotus-dower water is in an artistic
little glass bottle, covered with
queer seals. Other sachets are in
little fantastic silk bags tied at each
The Cook County herald., 1903-09-19
GREAT POETS POOR HAND.
shakespeare's Writing Not His Chief
&EEssg75% a Claim to Fame.

Shakespeare,s Writing Not His Chief
aS2sS a2sSz Claim to Fame.
". CareWHazlitt in recent article
on# Shakespeare's handwriting says:
We have to bear distinctly in mind
when we seek to criticise these some
what unclerkly examples Of penman-
ship that the great dramatist used the
court, not Cike Jonson and Bacon) the
Italian, hand, and that in the case of
n1s contemporary and = countryman,
Michael Drayton, the characters of the
signature are equally distant from full
nlnng~ technical postulates and, if pos
slble, still less elegant. The question
OF handwriting is, of course, independ-
ent OF that of educational acquire
ments, as we may satisfy ourselves
from lnnumerable instances, ancient
and modern, but if Shakespeare was
less happy in his calligraphy than in
other directions the circumstance
does not affect, as some have sought
to demonstrate, his general learning.
and was his personal idiosyncrasy
rather than the blame of the excellent
provincial school which had the
unique honor of being his alma
mater"
The Cook County herald., 1903-09-19

stances. Since it was the Maine the
Cramps, the builders, departed from
their custom of late years and threw
wide open the great yards, that all
might see. Fully 10000 persons com.
<prised the great throng.
Miss Anderson evidently realized
that the eyes of the nation as we'll as
many citizens of her native state,
were upon her, for she listened care.
fully to the instructions of Henry W.
Cramp, and sagely nodded that she
fully understood her responsibilities.
AS the order came to "Cut away
ALL" before the saws had ground
away the last inch of the shoes, there
came a creaking, ripping sound, and
the Maine started on it's first journey.
The girl from Maine raised her arm
and sent the beribboned and bold cord
bound bottle squarely against the hull,
and with the tinkle of shivered glass
came the sizzle of freed wine.
~ christen thee Maine!" said Miss
Anderson, as the hull started river
of the baptismal bottle had aided this
great mass of steel in starting. But
once started it went faster and ever
faster, until, despite oil and ta>low
lavishly laid on, the ways ground to-
gether and ignited by the friction.
Once clear of the ways the great
ship bowed. All ships do at this par
ticular stage Of their career. But the
Maine made no perfunctory dip. It
was essentially q graceful courtesy of
the old school kind. and was evidently
intended entirely for Miss Anderson,
who bowed in turn, in response to the
cheers that went up.
When the United States cruiser Des
Monies was freed from the blocks in
the Fore River shipyard, Quincy,
Mass, Aug. 20, last year, a novel de.
parture was made in the christening,
as there were two pretty Americans
concerned in the vent. :
One of them was Miss Elsie Ma.
comber Of Iowa's capital, who welded
The Cook County herald., 1903-09-19
THE BLESSINGS OF HUMoR.
Moral Drawn From Career of the
= Late Max O'ReU.


II there is a moral 10 he drawn
from the career of Max O'Rell it con-
Germs the practical value of sense,
Of humor in promoting the comfy of
nations. The satirist sets people by
the ears, but the humorist, by teach
ing them to smile at each others
amiable weaknesses, predisposes
them to friendship. We and the.
french are undoubtedly the better
friends and the more conscious Of
our common humanity for the genial
manner in which M. Paul Blouet al
ternately chaffed John Bull and Jac-
ques Bonhomme. AS the merry mu-
tual friend of the middle classes Of
the two countries he rendered a SER
vice to which they may now join in
paying tribute; and one wonders,
without feeling unduly sanguine,
whether there will ever arise among
our foreign language masters Ger
man Max O'Rell, whose kindly jests
will have an equally salutary effect
upon our relations with our Teuton
kinsmen.-London Graphic.
The Cook County herald., 1903-09-19

the bottle with which the huge bull,
was to be christened, and the other
was Miss Clara N. Carleton of Hayer.
hill, Mass, who severed the cord
which released the vessel on the ways.
AS the 5es Moines was the most i'm:
portant war vessel completed in q
Massachusetts navy yard since the
days OF the early American navy, it
was decided that the New England
state must be represented in the ,cere.
monies by one of her pretty women,
and the daughter of the former mayor
of Haverhill was the one on whom
the honor devolved.
Miss Isabelle Truxton. who is a per.
feet type of the beautiful southern
girl, will be entitled to membership
in the society after it's organization
The Cook County herald., 1903-09-19
The Silent Little Praver

My little boy knelt at my knee last night
And said the prayer my mother taught
mo long ago;
Then for awhile was silent, with his
head still bowed, - -
And when at last he rose to give the
For which waited, and withdrew his
arms, j -
asked him why he had kept kneeling
when
His Now lay me down to Sleep was
done.
Grave-faced. he said "ln Sunday schoo,
they asked =:
The children all, when they have said
their prayers. .~, -
To whisper, asking God, up there, to
+. bless -. = -,
The little ones in China and to put .
The love Of Jesus in their hearts, II
True, tender little prayer like that were
For me each night. I'd ask no more, and
The richest blessing God may send as
= hFy
The Cook County herald., 1903-09-19

White, the attractive and accom-
plished daughter of Albert B. White,
governor of West Virginia. : 49,.
The warship for which Miss White
acted as sponsor was the armored
cruiser West Virginia, the largest of
it's class, which was recently launched
at Newport News, Va, in the pres
ence of ,25,000 people, including many
prominent persons.
The occasion on which Miss Mary
Preble Anderson made her debut in
naval circles was July ~, 1901, the
day on which the mighty new Maine
was set afloat to take the place of it's
i'll fated namesake that was sent to
the bottom Of Havana harbor Feb. IS,
1898. No vessel ever glided into the
water under more auspicious circum.
The Cook County herald., 1903-09-19

launchings of national defender ever
held was that of the Colorado, which
added Miss Cora May Peabody's name
to the list of eligibles for the select
organization. In Cramps shipyard,
Philadelphia, she earned her right to
become member of the new society.
When the first meeting is held, and
the members proceed to recount to
each other their experiences, no one,
unless it be the Names sponsor, Miss
Anderson, will have a more interest
ing story than the pretty young daugh-
ter of Colorad0's governor, for not
only was her own state we'll repre-
sented but a party of foreign and ma.
tional statesmen and many others of
note were present from Washington.
AS the Colorado started down the
ways the girl stood a moment as
though petrified, then, springing for
ward suddenly, she smote the bows
with the bottle, and as the wine sprin-
killed. the hull her clear, girlish tones
rang out, II christen thee Colorado"
With a roar the crowds acknowl-
edged Miss Peabody's success and the
great vessel, sliding into the Della
ware, dipped it's Prov as Though in
salutation to it's fair sponsor.
Miss Brown of Baltimore, the pretty
daughter of Ex-Governor Brown of
Maryland, who is among those who
are at present intent on organizing a
society, has won fame in more ways
than one since she was selected to
name the Maryland, another of Uncle
Sans new warships.
If she had to do over again the act
that first brought her before the eyes
of her country, this southern girl
would not be so "frightfully nervous
as she was when she sprinkled the
sides of the Maryland with wine and
splintered glass.
Among the many American girls
who have been called upon Of late to
christen vessels of the navy, none
nave discharged that duty more grace
hlly than Miss Katharine Vaugn