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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-16
Northern Raised Grapes Now
Beginning to Appear.
No More Melons to Be Shipped
in This Season.
Oranges and Fall Apples Com
ing Upon Market.

The peaches now on the market are
the best yet received, and are equal to
the best ever offered here. They are
Albertas from Washington and in
two weeks more there will not be a
peach upon the market. The bottom
price of ninety cents a crate has now
been reached. and at this figure there is
nothing in it for the wholesalers. Very
few California peaches got upon the To-
cal market this year, owing to the blight
making a short crop there. There have
been few Crawfords from Utah, but
they are not of good quality.
The watermelon crop is also nearly
cleared up, the last shipments from out
side having been received. The melons
now on the market are from Muscatine,
Iowa, and are of very nice flavor. One
of the local fruit houses alone has re-
ceived fifty to twenty carloads of melons
during the season. After this week
it will be difficult to get any water
melons that are not home grown.
The real Rocky Ford cantaloupes from
Colorado are on the market, but the sup
ply is not expected to last longer than
this week, the last shipment having been
received. These melons are very nice.
The plums and prunes and Tokay
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grapes that are on the market are very
fine.
Grapes are just beginning to come
from Michigan, these being the first re-
ceived from a northern point. Those
heretofore on the market have been
southern grapes. The grape crop is good
this year, and the supply of this edible
and healthful fruit will be plentiful
New oranges are beginning to come in
from Jamaica, Mexico and other south
ern points. This crop, like bananas, is
now on the market practically the year
around. 1t is early yet to say how the
orange crop will be.
Another crop that it is uncertain to
forecast is the apple crop. The fall APP
pies are beginning to come in from
abroad. The market up to this time
has been mostly supplied by local APP
pies, and these have been shipped west
to points on the prairie that are not ia
Vored IN apple raising
Cranberries are now coming in from
Massachusetts. and are of fine quality
The prices range about the same as here
tofore.
Fine Jersey sweet POTATOES are on the
market, and are the finest that have
ever come TO MankatO These notatOes
will now be on the market all of the
fall.
Mankato people are consuming more
fruit than ever, and this saves doctors
ills and makes more nature than any
other kind of food than can be partaken
of.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-16
DRIVEN OUT BY FIRE.
Building Owned BY Great Western
Destroyed This Morning.

Building Owned BY Great Western
Destroyed This Morning.
About half past one o'clock today
the brick dwelling owned by the Great
Western railroad company at 507 Pike
street and occupied by the family of
George Williamson, was discovered to
be afire. The family was not at home
at the time. The fire department was
summoned and the blaze soon eXtin-
guished. The damage to the furniture
amounts to about $40 and that to the
house amounts to about 500. The Will
iamsons carried no insurance on their
household goods. 1t appears from the
fact that the worst of the fire was in
the basement on the ceiling around the
chimney fiue of the kitchen stove, that
the fire was due to some defect in the
chimney There is scarcely room for
doubt that the first started from the
chimney. There was but little fire in the
kitchen stove when Mrs Williamson left
the house this morning.
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FIRST DAY OF FAIR
Garden City Show Very Well
Attended Yesterday.
Large Number of Exhibits In
stalled in Floral Hall.
The Fruit Display Is Finer
Than Ever Before.
Much Interest Manifested BY
the Spectators.

Yesterday was the first day of the
Blue Earth county fair at Garden City.
Never before, the managers say, was
there such an attendance on the first
day, while the exhibits were being in
stalled.
The thirty eight acres of grounds on
which the fair is located, are presenting
n livelier appearance than ever before.
The exhibits are more profuse and Ella
borate, and the general interest greater,
than at any previous fair.
Floral hall is the main center of at
traction. Here one may see an ele-
CANT array of flowers, drawings, paint
ings, needle work and canned fruits.
Many of these exhibits are the work of
people of the village and the neighbor-
ing country, but the canned fruits have
for the most part come from Mapleton
and vicinity, the home of Editor Hotal-
ing, superintendent of the fruit depart
ment. 1t is largely owing to his efforts
that there is such a splendid exhibit of
sealed glass jars, filled with the preserv-
ed sweets that the careful housewife
puts up for her family's winter use.
A number of the spaces in Floral hall
have been taken by business firms. The
Overman Music company; Mrs. NJ. A.
Powers, the milliner; and j. r. Snow,
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The Depths Of Infamy to Which "Our
Congressman can Stoop in His
Present Campaign.
Desperation He Resorts Dsrepuabe Political

culars like the enclosed came to this
city from Mankato by mail That they
were mailed from Mr.. McCleary's head
quarters there can be no question. At
tached to it are the advertisements cut
from The Herald, Mr.. Miller's newspa-
per, which are referred to in the cir
cular. Doubtless it has been sent to
other places in the district. | send here
i'll protest from representative citi-
zens against this sort of campaign by
one republican against another. Mr.
Miller is absent and knows nothing
about this protest or this letter. Every
republican in this county will appreciate
it in the interest of decent politics if
you can characterize this kind of an at
tack at this stage of the campaign edi-
torially Yours truly,
JOHN KELLEY,
Chairman of Republican County Commit
tee.
Mr.. Miller has conducted clean cam
paign and has treated Mr. McCleary in
a gentlemanly manner. This circular has
caused intense Indignation here
We whose names are signed below. be-
ing all residents of Luverne, and for
years political supporters OF the Hon.
j. I. McCleary, protest against the
methods employed by him in his pres
ent campaign for a congressional nomi-
nation as evidenced by the enclosed cir
cular entitled MILLER a Self Confessed
Promoter of Gambling Dens." Hundreds
of these circulars were sent by mail to
this city today in envelopes addressed
to our citizens, and evidently from Nc
Cleary's headquarters in Mankato Mr.
Miller is absent, and, so far as we know
has not seen this circular, and has no
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-16

knowledge of this writing Mr.. Miller's
character needs no defense No Ian
guage can be framed strong enough to
express our diapproval of this unwar-
ranted attack. We respectfully ask
that you express in your journal your
opinion of this expedient of Mr.. Nc
Cleary's.
p. L. Brown, district Judge; John Kel-
ley, chairman republican county COM
mittee; c. S. Bruce, county auditor; p.
0. Skyburg, county treasurer; j. H.
Adams, register of deeds; O. Z. Fergu-
Judge of Probate; j. p. Haug, chairman
board of county commissioners j E Black.
sheriff; B. Z. Schuck, cashier Security
Bank of Luverne Harrison White, de-
partment commander Minnesota c. A.
r.; c. Z. Young, superintendent city
schools; E. H. Garfield, county attorney;
AXel Berg, merchants S. & d. Kennedy,
merchants; Chas c. Wright, NJ. D.; w.
j. Kline, grain dealer; E. A. Brown.
mayor; Jay S. Kennicott, attorney at
law; A. Ross, president Security Bank;
c. o. Halves, general merchandise; A. J.
Daley, attorney at law; j. A. Harrour.
marchant; William Jacobsen, president
First National bank; William Jacob
son Jr., assistant cashier First National
bank.
The attention of Mr. Miller was call
ed to the circular. He stated that he has
extra copies of the issues of The Rock
County Herald of May 20 and 81, and
they can be had for the asking. Here's
a chance for enterprising people to make
a piece of money. McCleary, through
his mouthpiece, is offering one dollar
each for copies of the paper.
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shattered their idol 1t has shown to
them the character of the man who has
represented this district in congress for
twelve years, and the showing is not
in McCleary's favor McCleary wanted
to arouse the people and he has done so,
but instead of arousing them against Mr.
Miller he has aroused against himself
the most intense feeling and bitter dis
like. Yesterday McCleary would have
received small vote in this county.
but beyond a question of a doubt he
will not now receive a single vote.
Shortly after the receipt of the let
ter last evening a petition protesting
against McCleary's method of conduct
ing his campaign was circulated around
the city and signed by every man to
whom it was presented. This petition
will be sent to McClearv and to the
daily papers of the twin cities and
Mankato. 1t would be impossible to eX-
press the bitterness which the letter has
aroused. Throughout the compaign
Mr.. Miller has never uttered one word
against his opponents personal charac-
ter, confirming all of his criticism to his
public policy, aaa for Mcglea to now
come out with so dastardly canard
clearly shows the desperate straights to
which McCleary is put and the low tac-
tics to which he will stoop to win. tac-
ties which are worthy of only the poll
ticians'' of the lowest wards in our
greater cities.
Mr.. Miller is now oic OF the city and
is probably unaware of McCleary's lat
est move" The attack is so absurd
and so contemplate that it seems UNI
worthy of answer. 1t is a matter of
fact which, no doubt, every person
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the photographer, all of Mankato, have
elegant displays, setting forth their re-
spective arts. Lake Crystal is very
well represented. Radichel, the harness
man; Over & Co., dealers in drugs,
paints, oils, and china ware; The Pho
neer Mercantile company; Davis &
Lloyd, the piano men; and Robinson x
Barney, the hardware people, all OF
Lake Crystal, have samples of their
goods very prettily arranged for the
public eye. W. J. Osgood, hardware,
lumber and coal dealer, of Garden City,
also has display here. There are
some fine cream separators and big
gasoline motor on exhibit in this same
hall. Samples of butter and cheese
from creameries all over the county,
sent in competition for the prizes, may
also be seen here.
The fruit department is located in
a tent. about the size of an ordinary
store room. Here Mr.. Hotaling has col
lected big aggregation of the finest of
apples, plums and grapes, produced in
the county. The vegetable house has a
great assortment of grains and vege-
tables collected from the neighboring
farms. The feathered flock is well rep
resented in Poultry hall. The sheds are
being rapidly filled with good specimens
of the horses, cattle, swine and sheep
that are raised in Blue Earth county.
The Omaha road brings eight passen-
ger trains to Garden City every day.
The four arriving from the north come
at $3.50 and ii :25 Il. m. and at l2:55 and
1855 p. M The four from the south
arriving at AIS and 80 a. m. and at
$3.50 and 6:20 p. m.
The best trains by which Mankato
people may go to visit the fair leave
at 1855 and lO:45 a. IN. and at l2:l5
p. m. These people can return the same
day, leaving Garden City at $50 or
6:20 p. m.
Visitors at the fair yesterday were
surprised to find the installation of ex
hibits so nearly completed, and every
thing in such excellent shape. The man
ayers intend to make this fair an i'm
provement on any other that ever was
held in the county.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-16
Prepare for Winter.

Captain Vosbeck Of the central fire
station suggests that the residents of the
city should at this season have their
chimneys cleaned and burn the waste pa
pers and other rubbish about their prem
Uses, so as to be prepared for winter,
when hot fires will be apt otherwise to
burn out the chimneys, endangering the
property.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-16

standpoint the bucket shop is demoraliz-
ing and pernicious &** Almost every daily
paper contains an account of some one
who has failed in business or has been
false to his trust. impOverishing his fam
lily, his employers and large numbers of
people who have entrusted their all to
his care In nearly all such instances
The Trouble is Directly Traceable to the
Influence of the Bucket Shops.
In his issue of May 9th, Mr.. Miller
said: "The bucket shop is veritable
hotbed for the termination of the most
vicious and pernicious forms of vice. An
earnest and umrelenting warfare should
be inaugurated and waged against it.
Thus did Miller show the evils of the
bucket shops, which were doing so much
harm among his very neighbors. He
sounded call to arms against these
bucket shops, and yet in that same issue
he was carrying bucket shop advertise
ment!
That is, knowing full well the work of
destruction being wrought by the buck
bishops, he was willing to betray his
neighbors and sell his principles for
money.
After his second attack on the buck
bishops the other bucket-shop in Luz
verne put an advertisement in The Her.
aid, and from that day to this in prac-
tically every issue he had been carrying
an adj for each bucket-shop, thus help
ing them to ensnare new victims. And
since he succeeded in making the second
bucket-shop "come down" he has not
said word against bucket shops! Evi-
IDENTIFY what he wanted was the money.
Wouldn't he be fine man to send to
congress? AS he has shown himself
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-16

knows, that advertising of the kind men
toned. in the letter always comes
through advertising agencies, without
the instruction of the advertiser as to
papers and without the solicitation of
the newspaper. 1t is sufficient answer
to state that Mr.. Miller in exposing the
bucket shops through the columns of
The Herald and warning his readers
against them ably did his duty to his
readers, and the fact that he did expose
them at the time he carried commission
house advertisements shows how fear
less he was in the performance of what
he considered his duty. The advertise
ments mentioned are the same as CARR
ed in all the leading daily papers
throughout the state, and no criticism
can be attached as it is clearly bust
ness proposition. McCleary might as
well charge Mr.. Miller with being the
cause of all of the drunkenness be-
'tuSe ne duNeieiSeS the SoouS ol IL
quOr house. One has as much sense as
the other.
One thing is certain and that is that
McCleary's efforts to besmirch Mr.. Mill
er's character in his home town where
he has resided for twenty five years will
only rebound to his own discredit in the
opinion and lower him in the estimation
of every man who wishes to see clean
and honorable contest between politi-
cal candidates.
A. o. MoreauX.
COrrpSDOndent
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SAYS He Is A SOLDIER.
n. L. CoIIey Is in Trouble Over Board
Bill at Albert Lea.

H. L. Colley is locked up at the police
station on the charge of having jumped
a board bill at Albert Lea. Colley ar
rived here this morning and went to the
City hotel. As he was dressed in the
garb of a soldier, Recruiting Officer
Buckley became interested in him. Col
ley claimed to be lieutenant in the regu-
lar army, First cavalry, but has not yet
been assigned to any company. He
stated that he graduated from West
Point in 1903. Sergeant Buckley has re-
ceived word from Fort Smelling to have
the stranger held here as he may be an
imposter.
Colley will be taken to Albert Lea on
warrant charging him with defrauding
hotel there. He is dressed in a service
uniform.
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Robert Pritchard Injured.

Robert r. Pritchard, an elderly gentle
man of about sixty, had bad fall this
morning at about eleven o'clock at his
home on Baker avenue. Mr.. Pritchard
was standing near the cellar door of
his house, when he suddenly grew dizzy.
He attempted in vain to catch himself.
He fell the entire length of the cellar
stairway, bruising his head and other
parts of his body.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-16

Saratoga, Sept. l5.-Frank Higgins,
of the O'Dell faction for gov
ernor, was nominated by reclamation by
the republican state convention. Timothy
L. Woodruff, the Platt candidate, ap-
peared on the platform and withdrew his
name after being placed in nomination.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-16
Our Rugged President.

President Roosevelt's rugged constitu-
ton is due to the fact that his life has
been natural. Taking Horace Greelev's
advice, he went west and grew up with
the country" He got close to nature
lived in the open air and ate natural
food, fresh from earths fields and gar
dens. Such, for instance, is pure wheat
food like Pillsbury's vitos. Have YOU
tried it?
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Suit For Civil Damages.

John Loomis has retained the services
of Walter Plymat and has commenced
an action in the district court against
William Fricke to recover $3.50 damages
for the assault committed upon LOOMS
by Fricke, and for which Fricke paid a
fine.
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Placed Under Arrest.

Jesse Barr, whom Bessie Cottrell char
ges with being the father of her child.
was arrested yesterday near Echo by
the marshal of that place, upon the re-
quest of Sheriff Williams. The marshal
will take him to- Redwood Falls, and
Deputy Sheriff Gerlich has gone after
him there, expecting to return at 4:45
p. m. today.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-16
BONDS FURNISHED.
Bond Company TeIegraphs Regard
ing Mccarthy Company.

President Porter of the board of pub
lie works this afternoon received tele-
gram from the Aetna Bond company
saying that it had accepted the bonds
of the Mccarthy Improvement COM
pany for the street paving, and that a
letter had been sent. 1t is thought that
this letter contains the bonds. If it
arrives tomorrow the council can act
upon the bonds at its regular meeting
tomorrow night.
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CONTRACT AWARDED.
Fowler e Pay Will Lay Curb ane
Gutter.


Gutter.
The board of public works opened bids
this afternoon for constructing a curb
and gutter on the east side of North
Fourth street between Lime and Frank
lin streets, as follows: Coughlan Ce-
ment Construction company, $lO7 per
lineal foot; Fowler & Pay, $lO5 per
lineal foot; Mr. Olson, Slip per lineal
foot
The last mentioned bid was not ac-
companied by bond or certified check.
as required, and was rejected by the
board. The contract was then awarded
to Fowler & Pay.
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CASH IN THE HEAD.

Fred Schmidt, Boy, Injured While
Climbing a Tree.
Fred Schmidt, the ten year old son of
August Schmidt, living six miles out in
the county east of the city, suffered a
severe cash on the right side of the head
under the ear this morning, while climb
ing down from a tree. August Schmidt
is cousin of o. w. Schmidt, the harness
man, of this city. The boy was
brought to the city to have the wound
dressed by a physician.
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ONE DOLLAR EACH

ONE DIDLLAK EANH
WILL BE PAID BY THE JOURNAL
FOR ROCK COUNTY HERALDS OF
MAY 20, AND 81, 1904.
In those issues of his paper Mr.. Miller
points out in long articles the terrible
injury being wrought by the two bucket
shops located at Luverne upon the people
of that city and vicinity.
In his issue of May 20, he said: "They
are simply gambling dens From every
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-16

After having lost his bicycle for a
week, Mr. Bradshaw found it at the city
hall yesterday afternoon. The finder
took it there, and it was advertised.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-16
A. o. MoreauX,
Correspondent.

The Free Press is in receipt of an
other communication from Luverne, dat
ed Sept. II, which states that +" at three
o'clock this afternoon hundreds of cir
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-09-16

Don't forget the harvest festival at
the Methodist Episcopal church Friday
evening from $3.50 until all are served.
Price ID cents.
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Luverne, Mimi, Sept. 1.-THE depths
to which Congressman McCleary Will
Stoop in his efforts to win in the con-
gressiOnal contest now on in this district
between him and Herbert ]. Miller of
this city, was clearly demonstrated last
evening when the mails brought from
McCleary's headquarters at Mankato.
thousands of printed circular letters pur-
porting to have been taken from The
Mankato Journal, in which is made upon
Mr. Miller's private character one of the
most vicious and unwarranted attacks
ever known in the political annals OF
this state. The latter, which is a canard
of the most vicious type, with its head
ings follows:
Extra! Mankato Journal, September
Is. 1904
MILLER A SELF CONFESSED PRO
MOTER OF GAMBLING DENS!
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WITH HIS EYES WIDE OPEN TO
THE AWFUL WORK THEY ARE
DOING MILLER HELPS THEM
ENSNARE NEW VICTIMS.
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EXAMINE THE HERALD.
MILLER 4 PARTNER IN CRIME
WITH THE BUCKET SHOPS!
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willing to betray his neighbors for even
little money, wouldn't he sell out"
his district if he got chance?
Every good citizen should help eX-
pose this partner of bucket shops And
therefore The Journal feels justified in
calling upon citizens of Rock county,
whose interests Miller is thus deliberate
ly betraying, to help gather up the evil
dences of his crime. The issues of May
20, and 81 are now hardest to get and
are the most value and for them The
Journal will pay one dollar each. But to
show that he is still carrying these ads.
The Journal will pay ten cents each for
all later issues that reach Mankato by
Friday next. Look the papers over first
yourself and see the ads. so that you
will have the evidence of your own
senses that Miller. with full knowledge
and with ''malice aforethought", is Civ
ing his friends the Judas kiss, betraying
them for money.
His action in the matter is so utterly
base and contemplate that people find
il difficult to believe
Be sure and send your name with the
paper, so that the remittance can be
promptly made to yo1. Help on the
work of exposing this rascally work.
Address The Journal, Mankato, Mimi
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The letter has created profound
sensation throughout the city and has
called forth the most bitter denunciation
against McCleary. Since its receipt it
has been the sole topic of conversation
and has aroused in Mr.. Miller's behalf
men who heretofore have been opposed
to him and would have voted for Nc
Cleary. For these men the letter has