The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-02

All of these apparatuses are manufac
tured by the company at its various fac
tories.
In the dairy building also promi
nent st. Paul dairy company has ex
hibits of several very pretty works o
art, all fashioned from butter. Anon,
these is a representation of an unrul,
COW, which two men are trying to con
troll, one clinging to the rope tied to thu
cows neck and the other hanging tt
her tail. The statues and the whole
pedestal are composed entirely of tn,
yellow product.
Park B. Garroutte was busily engaged
with few helpers, putting up his wire
& Wire company. His display occupies
a space of about fifty by hundred and
fifty feet on hillside not far from the
, center of the grounds.
Nearby a crowd of children were bust
ly Occupied with a merry ground. There
were several merry go-rounds on the fail
grounds, but this one had the peculiar
feature that it trained the boy in gal
lantry. Four swings hung from as many
long beams, joined at the pivot Little
girls sat in three of the swings, while a
boy sat in the other, which was equipped
with pedals, connected in such way
with system of rods and cog wheels.
that the young man propelled the entire
apparatus with his feet.
An agent from Faribault, who had
several gasoline engines to shOw, entered
in controversy with representative of
La manufacturing company of Freeport,
ILL.,, dealing in the same kind of goods.
The Freeport man declared that he could
start his gasoline engines by merely
giving the fywheel single revolution
by hand power. The Faribault man re-
piled that he could set his machines run
ming from a dead stand-still, without
touching the fywheel at all. A COM
petitive demonstration was agreed upon,
to be held some time before the fair is
over.
Old settlers of Blue Earth county
should not fail, on visiting the fair, to
step into the log cabin of the Minnesota
Territorial Pioneers association. Here
are a number of pictures and relics of
the early days of Minnesota. Promi-
nent among the rest is the well known
scene of the execution of the thirty eight
Sioux at Mankato in 1862. Judge Bucks
book on "Indian Outbreaks" is also on
display, and is perused in many of its
most thrilling passages by this and that
old pioneer, who has personal recollec
lions to associate with the terrible
events that are brought to mind so Wv
idly in the judges historical work. An
other book by NJ. X. Armstrong of st.
James on "The Early Empire Builders
of the Northwest is also on display and
treats of this same period.
Near the door at the right hangs a
pastel reproduction of the photograph of
Mrs. Helen Mar Carrothers- Tarble, a
woman who saw with her own eyes some
of the most frightful scenes of the In
dian troubles in southern Minnesota, and
who passed through ten days and nights
of more terrible anguish. mental and
physical, than one would think a human
being, especially woman, could endure
without unbalancing her mind Her home
was at the present site of Beaver Falls,
when the outbreak occurred, and she and
her children were dragged off into cap
tivity in the camp of Little Crow, and
miserably treated for a space of two
days by the very savages to whom she
had on many occasions extended the hos
pitality of her home. The redskins had
plotted to murder her and her two small
children in corn field, whittier the
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would undoubtedly have been accomplish
ed had not furious thunder storm oc-
Cured that night The violence of the
elements drove the Indians back to their
wigwams and the fugitives escaped
For eight days this mother, only nine
teen years old, with her two offsprings,
and with no other food than few raw
potatoes, found at the deserted agency land
some rice straws and roots picked up on
the way, scratched and torn with thorns
and brambles, preyed upon by myraids
of mosquitoes, and fearing to appear in
any open place lest Sioux bullet should
cut short the life of one of the children
or herself, made her way to Fort Ridge
ly, where she arrived in most pitiable
condition. She has just completed a
narrative of her awful experiences, that
has been published in pamphlet form.
Mrs. Tarble was at the cabin yesterday
and will probably be there during the
remainder of the fair week. She is now
living at Dodge Center. The two child
rem are also living today. They are
Mrs. Althier. Salisbury of Seattle and
Thomas Carrothers of San Francisco.
The horticultural hall is magnificent
and it seems too bad that Blue Earth
county is not represented here. Dakota
county has splendid department of its
own, and so have a dozen other coun-
ties, no better able to show fine products
of the farm that is the county. of Blue