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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-06-03

''The chief priests stirred up the null
titude:" There are not words in the
English language with which to ade-
quately characterize the spirit of these
champions of orthodoxy, and it need not
be done. But think of the state Of re-
ligion in the land when such men were
it's official leaders! What then shall
[ do 49,. unto the King of the Jews"
PLATE was yielding by inches. There
are some matters on which men have
no business to ask advice. Conscience
told PLATE what he ought to do with
Jesus. That should have been the end of
it. The words: IF thou release this
man, thou art not Caesars friend" were
a threat, and it was that that finally
broke the opposition of Plate.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-02
PREPARING THE BONDS.
Mccarthy Company Will Employ
Mankato Working Men.
From Tuesdays Daily.

City Attorney Daley is busy prepar-
ing the bonds that must be given by the
Mccarthy Improvement company on
their paving contracts. There are nine
bonds to be given. A bond for the full
amount of the contract on each street to
guarantee the putting in of the improve
ment within the time limit of ninety
days and to insure the work being done
in accordance with the specifications.
On each of the streets a bond for
fifty per cent of the cost of laying the
asphalt pavement is given to guarantee
the pavement for ten years. On Front
and Jackson streets bonds are given for
fifty per cent of the cost of the brick
cutters to guarantee them for five years.
On Broad and Lincoln streets a bond
for fifty per cent of the cost of the &C.
ment curb and gutter is given to guaran-
tee the same for three years.
These bonds are to be furnished by a
surety company, and the cost of furnish
ing them will be considerable. They will
have to be forwarded to Mr.. Mccarthy
for signatures. They will then be re-
turned for approval by the council Fri
day night. The contracts will also be
signed up this week, so that work may
begin as speedily as possible.
President Porter informed Mr.. Nc
Carthy that it is expected that the
teams and laborers needed on the work
aside from the foreman and experts, will
be employed in this city and as few out
siders brought to the city as possible
Mr.. Mccarthy said that this. was entire
! ly agreeable to him. A number of peo
pie will be given steady employment al
the fall.
| President Porter also cautioned Mr.
Mccarthy that, although this is the com
pany's second asphalt contract, the work
must be first class in every particular
Mr.. Mccarthy replied that he had more
at stake than the city has on the charac
ter of the pavement. If the work dom
here should not prove to be first class h
might as we'll throw the new asphalt
plant into the river. The company ex
poets to get future business in othe
cities on the high quality of the worl
done at Davenport and Mankato, fo
whenever it seeks contract anywher,
it will have to show that it has been sue
cessful in the work that it has already
done.
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Sept. 1916.
ORDER FOR HEARING ON CLAIMS.

STATE OF MINNESOTA. County of Blue
Earth. 50. In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of Emma Lone,
deceased.
Letters testamentaty on the estate of
said deceased being this day granted unto
Ole T. eever-on of said county.
1t is ordered that all claims and demands of
ali persons against said estate be presented to
this Court for examination and allowance, at
the probate office in the city II Mankato in
said Blue Earth county, on the following day,
viz: Monday, the 9th day of March, A. D.,
1905, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of said day.
1t is further orderet, that six months from
the date hereof be allowed to creditors to PIE
sent their claims against said estate at the ex-
piratuon OF which time all claims not presented
to said court, not proven to its satisfaction,
shall be forever barred unless for cause shown
further time be allowed.
Ordered further, that notice of the time and
place OF hearing end examination of said
claims and demands shall be given by publica-
ton of this order for three successive weeks
prior to the day appointed for such examina-
ton, ia the Mankato Free Press a weekly
newspaper printed and published at Mankato,
in said county.
Dated at Mankato, the 9th day of August.
A. D., 1904
By he Court:
Probate Court Seal] WIN. F. HUGHES,
Judge of Probate.
W. E. Young, Attorney for Executor.
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Aug. 1926, Sept. 2.
ORDER FOR HEARING ON CLAIMS.

STATE OF MINNEsOTA, County of Blue
Earth.-ss. In Probate Court.
In the matter OF the estate of Sophronia E.
Garvin
Letters of administration on the estate of 81 id
deceased being this day granted unto alter V.
GarvIn, of said county.
1t Is ordered, that all claims and demands of
all persons against said estate be presented to
this court for examination and allowance
at the probate office in the city of Mankato in
said Blue Ear b comfy. on the following day,
viz Monday, the 2,th day of February. A. D.,
1905. at ten CLOCK in the forenoon of said
day.
1t is further ordered that six months from
the date hereof be allowed 70 creditors to pre-
sent their claims against said estate at the ex-
piration If which time all claims not presented
to said court. or not proven to its satisfaction,
shall be forever barred unless for cause shown
further 'ime be allowed
Ordered further that notice OF the time and
place of hearing and examination of said
c aims ana demands shall be given by publica.
ton of this order for three successive weeks
prior to the day appointed for such exam1na-
ton, in the Mar kato Free Press, a weekly
n Nv paper. printed and published at Mankato.
in said county.
Dated at Mankato. the 18th day ofAugust,
A. d. 1904.
BY the Court
Pr. bate Court seal. VIM F. HUGHES.
Judge of Probate.
Walter A. Plymat, Atty FIR Administrators r.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-02
From Tuesdays Daily.


A Jail delivery that was planned to
take place tonight was discovered by
Sheriff Williams and has been thwart-
ed by him. 1t was one of the best
planned schemes for wholesale escape of
criminals that was ever attempted, and
but for the untiring watchfulness and
detective ability of the sheriff half of his
prisoners would have been free men for a
time at least.
The ring leaders of the daring scheme
were Charles Sanders and Tom Murray,
the two prisoners who are held on the
charge of holding up freight train at
Minneopa six weeks ago and robbing sew
eral people. They seem to have planned
and all but carried into execution the
enterprise that was to let out the eight
prisoners on the first floor.
The plan was to have been put into
execution at nine o'clock tonight, at the
hour when the sheriff goes through the
corridor and sees that the men are ip
their cells, the windows fastened, and ev-
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-02

erything all right. Sanders was to have
reached through the bars with piece of
iron and knocked down the sheriff and
stunned him. Slipping through hole
made in his cell by saving off two of
the bars, he would have left the sheriff
unconscious, at least, and then secured
the keys and released the other prison
ers. The big padlocks that fasten the
slop holes of the cells were all broken,
so that the prisoners could have all made
their escape in few moments.
The billy that was to have been used
by Sanders in striking the sheriff was
taken from one of the trusses over the
prisoners exercise room, a piece three
feet long having been sawed off and
then cut in two. Both pieces were IN
Sanders cell.
Sheriff Williams states that he has
been aware for week past that there
was a plot to escape being planned out
among the prisoners on the first floor.
He sleeps in the Jail office, on cot, and
he has heard the men at work in the
cell room at all times of the night. He
has distinctly heard muffled sounds of
saving iron, and he made it a practice
to listen and observe, and finally to
slip into the cell room and stand oppo-
site an unoccupied cell on the side where
Sanders cell is and listen to the muffl-
ed conversation of the men as they plet
ted their escape and carried on their
work.
In this way, alone and in the darkness
of the cell room, when Mankato citizens
generally were asleep, Sheriff Williams
learned the details of the plot that was
soon to be carried into execution. The
versatile and active brain of Sanders
left TO detail out that would help in
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-02

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

hand. Mankato has fine poultry show
every year and there is no good reason
| why some of these exhibits should not be
on display at the annual state exposi-
ton.
The fair as a whole fully comes up to
the promises that its managers have
made for it? 1t is without doubt the
greatest and finest that ever was set
out on the Minnesota grounds,and the un-
disputed claim that it is the best state
fair in the country is readily believed by
all who so far have been there
At noon yesterday the paid admissions
to the grounds had already exceeded five
thousand. The total number of visitors,
all day, and evening, reached into the
|neighborhood of thirty thousand. There
is every reason to believe that this
years fair will surpass all its prede-
cessors in point of attendance as well as
in all other respects.
Senator Nelson, in the course of his
opening address, delivered in large tent
on the grounds yesterday morning, said
that great and interesting as was the
exhibit of farm produce and manufac-
lures, the greatest exhibit at the fair
was its great mass of humanity. The
founders of the state, with profound wis
dom, opened the doors wide to foreign
born immigrants and allowed them citi-
zenship on short probation, and the trust
imposed on these elements had not been
misplaced. He prophecied "a future in
which the Teutonic and Scandinavian in
dustry and perseverance, the Celtic
bravery and versatility and the Yankee
ingenuity and vim should be blended into
perfect type of American manhood, the
future Minnesotan. He will be like nei-
ther the Anglo-Saxon of Great Britain or
the Yankee of New England, but every
inch he will be American in language,
spirit and aspiration"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-02

ders' cell, and one was sawed clear
through foot or more above the floor
and the Others nearly through. The bars
were sawed just under a cross piece,
where the work would not be easily dis
covered. With these two bars off, a
small man like Sanders could slir
through.
Sheriff Williams is convinced that it
was the intention to use the blanket rope
and the wire as lever to break the
big lock that fastens the cell room door.
When the sheriff first made the dis
covery, he procured Winchester rifle
and other shooting irons and was ready
for any attempt to break out ahead
of time.
Sanders, when seen, was more talka-
tive than he has yet been. He was quite
bitter and said that there was a Judas
among the band. He lid not think that
it was possible for the sheriff to have
caught onto their operations, so quietly
did they go about it and with such
skill. He asked the reporter whether he
did not remember the portion of Scrip
ture where Judas betrayed Christ When
pressed to say who he suspected, he said
that he thought that the party who told
Sheriff Williams couud be no other than
Mike Sharon, the prisoner who was re-
leased from the Jail yesterday after
serving forty days sentence for drum
kenness. He is of the opinion that the
sheriff got his first information about
the plot yesterday.
Said Sanders: "What would you or
the sheriff or any one else do if you were
in my position, with long term staring
could not get fair trial in this county.
for have not people daily come here and
gone through the corridors and mad me
pointed out to them as a train robber?
They would come back again and again
and stare at me as though l was some
wild beast. In a civilized community I
might get fair trial. l intend to tell
the court about this when the time
comes.'
Murray was non committal, but his
at the failure of the en-
terprise was plain to be seen. Neither
he nor Sanders would say how long the
work has been in progress.
The slop holes are the small doors
leading from the cells to the exercise
room, and are large enough for persons
to get through, as the slop pals are
handed through them.
On one occasion, while listening in the
corridor, Sheriff Williams heard Sanders
say to Murray that this was the chance
of his life time, and that he would
commit suicide if he conuld not get out
Hereafter the prisoners will have to
remain constantly in separate cells. The
sheriff had previously placed much con-
fidence ON Madden, but now considers
him as much implicated as the rest. Mad
len denies this.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-02
Civil Service Examination.

On Sept. 2sth next, competitive ex-
aminations will be held at the federal
building for the following positions un-
der the civil service: Constable in the
Indian service; copper plate map en-
graver in the coast and geodetic survey;
and assistant superintendent of construc-
ton in the quartermaster's department
at large.
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a o 1925 Sent .

ORDER FOR HEskING On CLtI~S
STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF Blue
Earth SIS In Probate c urt
In the matter of the estate of Evan PAWS,
deceased
Letters ties ameptsry on the tate of
said DECEASED b ing this day granted unto
Timothy Reese, of said county.
IT. is orderet IA Il all claims and demands of
ali persons ag ,in-t SAID estate be prerented to
this court, fol exsmination and allowance, at
the probate Office in the city of Manka % in said
Blue Earth county. on the following day. viz:
Monday. the Goth day al Febroary 4 D., ~ 3
at ten o'clock in the fnren on of said day
1t Is further ordered, tnat six months from
the date herec be allowed TO creditors to pre-.
sent their claims against said estate at the
expiration of which time all CT inns not pre-
sented to said court or not roven TO lts satis.
faction, shall be forever ba red unle.s for
cause shown further time be allowed
Ordered further. th at notice Oft g time and
place of hearing and EXAMINATION IF said
claims aud demands shall be given by publica
tiop of this order for three CO. ssive weeks
prior to the day appointed for such examina-
ton. in The Mankato Free Press, a weekly
newspaper printed and published at Manksto
in said county
Dated at Mankato, the 1lth day of August,
a. D., 1904.
By the Court
WIN f HUGHES
probate Court Seal) Judge of Probate.
Thos. Evan Hughes, Att'ys fer Execxtrix.
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Sept. 2.9-16.
ORDER FOR HEARING ON CLAIMS.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
Earth.-ss In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of Hiram j. Fuller,
deceased.
Letters testamentary on the estate Of
said deceased being this day granted unto
Charles n. Fuller, of said county:
1t is ordered. thst all claims and demands OF
all persons against said estate be presented to
this court for examination and allowance at
the probate office in the city Of Mankato in said
Blue Earth county, on the following day, viz {:
Monday, the 9Th day of December A. d. 1904,
at 10 o'clock in the forenoon Of said day.
1t is further ordered. that three mouths from
the date hereof be allowed to creditors to pre-
sent their ella ms against said es at at the ex-
piration of which me all cl inns not presented
t. said court or not proven TO its satisfaction,
shall be forever barred unless for cause shown
further time be allowed.
Ordered further, that notice Of the time and
place of hearing and examination of said
claims and demands shall be given by puolica-
ton of this order for three successive weeks
PRIOR to the day appoin ed for such examina
ton, in the Mankato Free Press, a weekly
newspaper printed and published at Mankato,
in said county.
Dated at Mankato. the Goth day of August,
A. D., 1904
By the Court:
Probate Court seal Nm. f. HUGHES,
Judge of Probate.
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Aug. 28. Sept. 90.
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ORDER FOR HEARING ON CLAIMS.

ORDER FOR HEARING ON CLAIMS.
STATE OF MINNESOTA. COUNTY OF BLUE
Earrh-ss In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of Sarah j. Marsh,
deceased.
Letters testar entary the estate OF said
deceased being this day granted unto John Q.
A. Marsh of said county.
It is ordered. that all claims and demands at
ali pers ons against said estate be presented to
this Court for examination and allowance, at
the probate Office in the City of Mank ato in
said Blue Earth county, on the following day,
viz: Monday the 18th day of November A. D.,
1904, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of said day.
1t is further ordered, that three months from
the date hereof be allowed to creditors to pre-
sent their claims against said estate at the
expiration of which time all claims not pre-
sented to said court. not proven I'd its
satisfaction, shall be forever barred unless for
cause shown further time be allowed.
Ordered further, that notice of the time and
place of hearing and examination OF said
claims and demands shall be given by publica-
ton of this order for three successive weeks
prior To the day appointed for such ex-
animation in the Mank. to Free Press, a weekly
new, paper printed and published at Mankato
in said county
Dated at Mankato the Gath day of August
a. D., 1904
BY the Court:
WI. F. HUGHES,
probate Court Saal) Iudge of Probate
Benj Tallor. Atty for Executor.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-02
Railroad Accidents.

During 1902 there were S,455 people
killed and $3.50 injured by railroad ac-
cidents in the United States. This is
more than are killed in the majority of
wars during similar period. Accidents
will happen, but it was not an accident
that made Pillsbury's vitos the best GER
tai food in the world. 1t was the re-
suit of good wheat and lots of exper-
fence.
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Aug. 26, Sept 90.
ORDER FOR HEARING APPLICATION FOR
APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATOR.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County O: Blue
Earth.-ss. In probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of Barbara
Deubler, deceased.
On r, ceiving and fling the petition CT Gott-
fried bier, of the county of Blue Earth, rep
resenting among other things that Barbara
Deubler late of the county of Blue Earth in
the state of Minnesota. on the 18th day of
August, A. D.1904 at tie county of Blue Earth,
died intestate, and being an inhabitant of this
county at the time o. hee death, leaving goods,
chattels and estate within this county and
that the said petitioner is the surviving
husband of said deceased, and pra wing that ad-
minfstration of said estate be to >. 8. Wilson
granted.
1t is ordered, that said petition b. heard
before said cocrt on Saturday, the 18th day of
September A. D., 1904 at 10 ocls OK m. at thu
probate Office, in the court house in Mankato,
in said county.
Ordered further that notice thereof be given
to the heirs of said deceased and t. all persons
interested by publishing this order once in
each week for three successive weeks prior to
said day of hearing in the Mapkatp Free Press,
weekly newspaper, printed and published at
Mankato, in said county.
Dated at Mankato, the 22rd day of August,
A. d 1904.
By the Court
probate Court seal. w. F. HUGHES
Judge OF Probate.
s. B. Wilson, Attorney for Petitioner.
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Ang 1925, sept.2
ORDER FOR HEARING APPLICATION FOX
APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATORS
STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
Earth les. In Probate curt.
In tn tier of the es ate of John b. Far
T IL, dece sad
On rece wing and fling the petition of Mar
gar Farr of be county Il Blue Earth, repre-
setting among otter things, that j. hn b.
Farrell late Of the county of Riue Earth,
in the state OF Minnesota, the 9th
day of May. D.. 1904 at the county of
Blne Earth died intestate: end being an inhabi-
tant of this county at the time IF his death,
leaving goods chattels and state within this
county and that the sd d Ietit oner Is the sur
wing wife of said deceased. and praying that
administration of id esta q be TT her granted.
tits ordered that said petition ba heard before
said court on S4tu day the 10th day of Septem-
br A. D 1904 at 10 o'clock m. at the probate
o ce in the court house In Mankato ia said
county.
Crd-red further that ,tice thereof be given
to the heirs of said deceased and to all persons
ints rested by publ hing this order on in each
week for three successive weeks prior to said
day Of hearing n the Nj .nka'o F zee tress
weekly newspaper printed and ubiished at
Mankato IN said coun'v.
Dated at Mankato. the 1ltb day tf August.
A. D., 1904.
By the Court
probate Court Seal WM. F. HUGHES.
Judge of Prsbate.
W. R. & C. D. Geddes, Att'ys for Petitioner.
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George w. Sugden has gone to Illinois
to be gone until the middle of Septem
Der. slg
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Anc 1928. sept. 9

probate Court SeaD Tudgs of Probate.
Benj TAYLOR. Atty for Executor.