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The Mankato free press., 1904-10-21
Five Civil Cases on Calendar,
Noticed for Trial.
Grand Jury Will Have Much
Business Before It.
The Term May Continue for a
Week or More.
From Wednesdays Daily.

The United States court meets next
Tuesday, and the chances are that it will
be in session for some days, as there are
five civil cases on the calendar, all no.
ticed for trial, besides number of GRIM
inal cases to come up. Of course, it is
possible that the calendar may fall
through, and the parties indicted plead
guilty, which would reduce the length of
the term to two or three days at most.
The chances are, though, that it will at
least continue through the week.
The following cases are on the calen-
dar of the circuit court:
The Minnesota and Dakota Cattle
company VS.. the Chicago & Northwestern
Railroad company, Hoidale & Somsen for
the plaintiffs, and Brown, Abbott 4
Somsen for the defendants. This is an
action to recover damages alleged to
have resulted to the plaintiff from delay
or loss in the shipment of some cattle.
The Globe Automatic Telephone COM
pany vs. the Mutual Telephone company,
NJ. f. Foley for the plaintiff, and Stuart
& Finstad for the defendant. The plain
tiff sold some instruments to the defend
ant, which claims that they did not work
satisfactorily, and the plaintiff seeks to
recover for them.
l. L. Bratager vs. Jacob Lampert, 5.
B. Wilson and Joe Kirby for the plain
tiff, and w. E. Young for the defend
ant. This is a suit over some northern
land.
Eugene Masterson VS.. Patrick j. Nc
Elroy, Thomas Hessian and A. A. Stone
for the plaintiff, and Howe, Taylor &
Mitchell for the defendant. This is an
equity case. The other three are law.
There is one case on the civil calendar
of the district court, as follows:
Albert L. Young, as trustee in bank
ruptcy for William Webster, bankrupt,
VS.. John Webster and A. w. Webster,
w. A Mcdowell for the plaintiff, and A.
Z. Clark for the defendant.
The Mankato free press., 1904-10-21
DEFEAT FOR ST. JAMES.
Mankato Highs Win Football Game
on Saturday Afternoon,

st. James high school boys went down
to defeat on the gridiron at Sibley park
on Saturday afternoon before the resist
less onslaughts of the team of the high
school of Mankato. The game was real
ly too one-sided to be exciting. Man.
kato piled up score of forty-eight,
while st. James got good round goose
egg. Quite a number of brilliant in
dividual plays were made by members
of the home team. Murphy, left half,
made thirty yard run through the ST.
James line and secured touchdown
Gates, right end, performed several good
runs around the st. James ends. Cough
Ian, right half, made some good gains
for Mankato. The st. James team was
so clearly outclassed in every particu-
lar that there was no room for complaint
on the part of the vanquished. Gate re-
ceipts just about covered expenses.
Next Saturday the Mankato high
school team will go to Wells to play
against the high school team of that
city. For Nov. 5, this Mankato team
has a game scheduled to be played
with Blue Earth high school at Blue
Earth. 1t is hoped that Blue Earth will
not funk this time as she did in her
intended game with the Mankato nor
NAL last Saturday morning at Sibley
park.
Complaint is made that spectators at
the game played at Sibley park have a
way of erowding in upon the field, in
their eagerness to get close look at the
plays. This encroachment OH the grid
iron is extremenly embarrassing to the
players, and some means ought to be
devised to keep the lookers-on at con-
venient distance.
The Mankato free press., 1904-10-21
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS.
Of the Board of County Commissioners
of Blue Earth County, Minnesota.

of Blue Earth County, Minnesota.
Mankato, Mimi, Oct. 5, 1904, 2 p. m.
Special Session.
Board convened according to call, all
members present. Commissioner Upson,
presiding.
Minutes of the last session approved
Application by H. H. Edwards for an
Auctioneer's license was received. The
fees having been paid, on motion the
bond was approved and license ordered
granted.
Application by Gilbert Gutterson for
an Auctioneer's license was received
The fee having been paid, on motion the
bond was approved and license ordered
granted.
Hearing on school petition of John
Rose to be set off from district 81, to
AZ, was had and on motion of Com
missioner Bruels was granted and the
following order issued:
Whereas, The petition of John Rose,
a legal VOTER, freeholder and resident of
school district No. 81 in this county,
representing that he is the owner of the
lands hereinafter described, which are
situate in said school district, and ad
Join school district No. AZ, and asking
that he with his said lands may be set
off from said dictrict No. 81 to said ad-
joining school district No. AZ, for the
following reasons:
That the cartway which leads from
petitioners home to the said school dis
trict 81 is Travelled very little in the
summer months and not at all in the
winter. Also by two-thirds vote (ma-
jority) it was decided to remove the
school house from it's present location
three miles northeast and locate it on
land owned by John Mark, was present
ed to the board of county commissioners
of this county, at session of said board
aeld on the 9th day of September, A. D..
1904, for the action of said board there
on; and Whereas, it was thereupon or
dered by said board that hearing
should be had on said petition at ses-
sion of said board commencing on the
9th day of October, A. d. 1904, at the
county auditors office in the city of
Mankato, in said county; and Whereas,
it was further ordered in and by said
order that notice of the time and place
of such hearing be given by posting a
copy of said order in one public place in
each of the school districts to be affect
ed by said petition, and by handing to
and leaving with the clerk of said school
districts, personally. copy of said order
at least ten days before the time ap-
pointed for such hearing; and Whereas,
The Mankato free press., 1904-10-21
Mrs. Annie Hutterer.
From Wednesdays Daily.

Mrs. Annie Hutterer died last night of
at her home, 1887 North
Fourth street. She was born in Germany
in 1873, and came to America about sew
en- months ago. She leaves a husband.
The funeral will occur Friday at a..
m, from st. Peter and Paul's Catholic
church.
The Mankato free press., 1904-10-21

John r. Jones (Rome) of Lake Crystal
died this morning at one o'clock of pneu-
monia. He was an old settler of the
county. He formerly resided in Butter
nut Valley and has lived in Lake Crys-
tai for the past ten years. He leaves
a wife and family of grown-up chill.
dren. Deceased was about seventy five
years of age.
The Mankato free press., 1904-10-21

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of
Blue Earth District Court, Sixth Ju-
dicial District.
Thomas j. Jones, Plaintiff, vs. August
Finke, Westcott Wilkin, Roswell c.
Coleman, ST., Sarah w. Coleman, ST.,
Katherine ID. Colwell, Anna NJ. Cole
man, Sarah w. Coleman, Jr., Wilkin
Coleman, Henrietta Coleman, Roswell
c. Coleman, Jr., Alexander W. Cole
man, Eleanor c. Coleman, Leo S.
Lamm, City of Mankato ia Municipal
Corporation) also all other persons or
parties unknown, claiming any right,
title, lien, estate or interest in the
real estate described in the complaint
herein, Defendants
Notice of Lis Pendens.
Notice is hereby given that an action
has been commenced in this Court by
the above named Plaintiff against the
above named defendants for the purpose
of determining the adverse claims of
said defendants and each of them i'm and
to the real estate described in the COM
plaint herein and hereinafter mentioned
and for the purpose of quieting the title
to said lands in this plaintiff.
The premises affected by said action
are situated in the County of Blue
Earth and State of Minnesota and are
described as follows, to-wit:
Lot numbered three (3), in Block ''B'',
in the City of Mankato according to the
recorded plat thereof made by T.. ID.
Bruner, on file and of record in the office
of the Register of Deeds of said Blue
Earth County.
Dated July 30th, A. ID. 1904.
BENJAMIN TAYLOR,
Attorney for Plaintiff,
Mankato, MINI.
The Mankato free press., 1904-10-21

Leo S. Lamm has awarded the con-
tract for finishing off the third floor of
his business building in block fourteen
to Kleinschmidt Brothers. The floor is
to be finished off very. nicely for the
Sons of Herman, who have leased it for
term of years.
The Mankato free press., 1904-10-21
Freight Train Stranded.
nm Sat,,rda va NaSlv

Omaha freight train No. Is last night
was stranded on the track at Stone by
the pulling out of two draw bars. AS
a consequence, Omaha passenger train
No. Is, due at Mankato at Has p. M,
was delayed more than an hour.
The Mankato free press., 1904-10-21
DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE.
War Horses Are Named at the Meet.
ing Yesterday Afternoon.
From Thursday's Daily.


War Horses Are Named at the Meet
ing Yesterday Afternoon.
From Thursdays Daily.
All of the old democratic war horses
that assembled yesterday afternoon in
the office of w. L. Comstock, chairman
of the recent democratic county conven-
ton, for the purpose of organizing
county campaign committee, were plac
ed on this committee, and about three
times as many more were added to fill
in the list. A. R. Pfau Jr. was elected
chairman ,of the committee and H. w.
Volk of Lake Washington, secretary.
The committee then adjourned to meet
again on next Wednesday afternoon at
the office of A. r. Pfau, Jr. Following
is the list of the committee in full:
Mankato Township Schwickert,
George Schultz, Daniel Foley, John Mag
ley, George Kiffe Jr.
Ceresco-Thomas Rooney, Geo. Cool
ing, VIM. johnson.
Beauford d-Homer Mullin, P. H. O'Con-
nor, Ralph Healey, Chas. Lentz.
Mapleton Village-H. M. Quinn, Henry
Pagel, L. j. Greiner, j. H. Dobie, S. H.
Lewis.
Mapleton Town-Chas. Jones, A. j.
Knight, John Rabenhorst, Herman Lentz
Sterling-Geo. Keith, John Drews, Ole
X. Olson, G. B. Lamp, Edward Fisher.
Danville-Louis Kaufman, Alex. Lat
ourell, Michael Ryan.
Medo-Malcolm Atchison, G. n. Ack-
erman.
McPherson-D. F. Rasdall, Hubert
Bruels, John Bestman, Chas. O'Connor
LIE Ray-Joseph Stagmeier, NJ. j.
Ryan, Ed Dunn, Lewis Silkey.
Jamestown. j. Sullivan, F. R. Volk,
Anthony Baynes, Patrick Smith.
Lake Crystal Yillage-D. A. Reed, w.
H. Cole.
Lime-Mark Wildes, Henry Schultz,
Matthew Saenger, M. Lenertz.
Butternut ValIey-Erick Shaw, Sam
Evans, Henry Nelson.
Lyra--C. w. Graft, Michael Mountain,
Peter McGrath, Chas. Hertzberg.
Good Thunder Village: F. H. Grif-
fin, Ed Flynn, Robert Malzahn.
Rapidan Paul Kunkel, Fred Bosin, w.
A. just, Geo. Yaeger.
Amboy Village Thomas Randall, c..
w. Chamberlain, F. NJ. Schwartz, C. d.
Cooper, A. NJ. Stevens.
Shelby-Geo.. Randall, w. H. Look,
Ben Baumgartner, A. H. Corbett.
Vernon Center Village Henry Krause,
IC. A.. Mobiles, DR.. O. H. McMichael,
George Gray.
Vernon Center-Thomas Hayes, E. T.
Champlin, G. Z. Francis.
Pleasant Mound-J. A. Schwartz, Ed
Bartholomew, August Urban.
i Judson- n-Jerry Shannahan, Arthur Nc
Givney.s
/ Lincoln n-Sivert Kelly, Ernest Hart
wig, John Murphy
Garden City Village-T. r. Glynn.
Garden City Town-William Schultz,
E. I. Edgerton, c. E. Marston.
Decoria-Martin Bowe, Henry Ho-
dapp, Geo. Painter, Henry Lortz, Albert
Madison, Anton Oberle.
South Bend-Laurie Hook, Chas. NJ.
Yaeger.
Madison Lake-Julius Reinsberg, Wal
ter Sichler, L. L. Pitcher, John Poetz, T..
B. Murtaugh, Dan Sullivan.
Mankato City-First ward, Joe
Schlingerman, A. Deebach, August John
son, Joe Wilmes; second ward, j. j..
Pihale, H. Zimmerman Jr., DIR. Hiel.
scher, John A. Nilson third ward, Nj. l..
Fallenstein, John Krost, Tom Ryan,
Frank Kiffe; fourth ward, c. o. Daley,
Nelson Weed, P. X. Wiser, A. T. Wal
lace; fifth ward, Hans Jorgensen, C. N.
Andrews, Ole Throdahl, Patrick Jordan;
sixth ward, A. Lille, c. F. Hallman,
Jacob Hoy, Thomas Dunlevy.
Eagle Lake Village-Dr. Smith, Erwin
Wells.
The Mankato free press., 1904-10-21
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why doctors have been pre-
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all wasting diseases, coughs,
colds and bronchitis for
almost thirty years.
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The Mankato free press., 1904-10-21
LAKE CRYSTAL NOTATI0NS.
Items Piucked From The Union Of
That Village.
From Thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
John ID. Evans and wife, for several
years residents of this place, left last
night for Los Angeles, Cal, where they
expect to make their future home. This
move is made necessary by Mr.. Evans
poor health and advancing age. Last
Friday afternoon, quite number of
old settlers and friends in this place
gathered at the home of this estimable
couple, surprised them, and wished
them Godspeed on their journey. The
visitors carried their baskets from which
a nice supper was enjoyed. Many
friends in this place wish them health,
happiness and prosperity in their new
home.
Attorney Haycraft of Madelia was in
town early Tuesday morning on legal
business. 1t seems Messrs. Buck &
Scott traded some land in North Dakota
to w. E. Miller in Lincoln for six head
of horses, paying the difference in cash.
Mr.. Buck trades span of the six head
of horses after they were delivered, to
Mr.. Mccarthy of same town for a span
of colts and paying a difference, giving
a check on bank, afterward protested
the check. Whereupon Mr.. Mccarthy
brought Attorney Haycraft to this place
gets out an attachment and levies on
several head of horses belonging to de-
PENDANTS. Mr.. Scott, partner of Buck
was in Mankato at the time and was
notified of the situation; he came up at
once bringing with him Attorney Ply
mat, and the matter was satisfactorily
adjusted.
Last week story gained quite start
here that E. c. Williams at Pasadena
California, was dead, but since that
time his aunt Mrs. Hugh Edwards re-
ceived letter from Mrs. Williams say
ing Eddie was recovering from severe
hemorrhage of the lungs, but was bet
ter. His many anxious friends will be
pleased to learn the first report was un-
true, and that he is improving.
The Mankato free press., 1904-10-21
Real Estate Transfers.

Henry Rafferty, to James p Rafferty,,
one acre in section five, Garden City,
close to Lake Crystal, for $500.
The Mankato free press., 1904-10-21

Lewis, j. A. & Son, labor. 49,. 100
On motion the board adjourned.
NTtf E. A. UPSON,
Chairman Board of County Commits
sioners, Blue Earth County, MINI.
Attest: Edgar Weaver,
County Auditor and Ex-Oficio Clerk
of Board.
The Mankato free press., 1904-10-21

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of
Blue Earth, District Court, Sixth Ju-
dicial District.
Thomas j. Jones, Plaintiff, VS.. August
Finke, Westcott Wilkin, Roswell c..
Coleman, ST., Sarah w. Coleman, ST.,
Katherine ID. Colwell, Anna NJ. Cole
man, Sarah w. Coleman, Jr., Wilkin
Coleman, Henrietta Coleman, Roswell
c. Coleman, Jr., Alexander W. Cole
man, Eleanor c. Coleman, Leo S.
Lamm, City of Mankato Ia Municipal
COrporation) also all other persons or
parties unknown, claiming any right,
title, lien, estate or interest in the
real estate described in the complaint
herein, Defendants.
Summons.
The State of Minnesota to the above
named Defendants:
You and each of you are hereby sum-
moned and required to answer the COM
plaint of the plaintiff in the above en-
titled action which is on file in the
office of the clerk of said Court, at the
City of Mankato, in the County of Blue
Earth, Minnesota, and to serve copy of
your answer on the subscriber at his Of
flee in the said City of Mankato, in the
County of Blue Earth, in the State
aforesaid, within twenty days after the
service of this summons on you ex-
elusive of the day of such service, and if
you fail to answer the said complaint
within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff
will apply to the Court for the relief
demanded in the complaint herein.
Dated July 30th, A. ID. 1904.
BENJAMIN TAYLOR
Attorney for Plaintiff,
Mankato, Minn.
The Mankato free press., 1904-10-21

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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-08-24
ADMIRAL WATSON RETIRES
The Navy Loses Today One of Its
Ablest And Most Honor
able Officers.

Washington, d. c., Aug. 24.-With
the retirement today of Rear Admiral
John q. Watson, the navy loses one Of
its ablest and most honorable and use
ful officers. His career, from the date
of his graduation from the Naval
Academy in 1860, has been full of
honors and credit, and few officers of
the navy have seen more active service.
Admiral Watson belongs to a family
that has distinguished itself in peace
and war since the early days of the
American republic. He was born in
Frankfort. KY, August "a, 1912. His
father, Edward Howe Watson, was a
skillfuI physician of the old school,
and his mother, Sarah Lee Crittenden
Watson, was daughter of John Jor-
don Crittenden, the famous kentucky
Statesman, rival of Henry Clay, gov
ernor at one time of Kentucky and at
torney general in William Henry Har-
rison's cabinet. Admiral Watson en-
tered the Naval Academy in 1856 and
graduated four years later, standing
high in his class. He was Immediate
ly assigned to the rank of midship-
man, and on August IS, 1860, Joined
the Susquehanna III that capacity for
cruise to Europe.
broke out and he returned at once to
take part in it, He was commissioned
a Lieutenant in 1862, and, in January,
1864, he was made flag lieutenant to
Farragut. He was at the battles of
New Orleans, Mobile Bay, Vicksburg
and Port Hudson. In a letter to his
son, Loyal, during the war, Admiral
Farragut tells him of young Watson's
volunteering to slip off and blow up
blockade runner. fIt was an anxious
night for me, as | am about as fond of
Watson as | am of your own dear self. -
1t was Admiral Watson, then a young
lieutenant, who lashed Farragut TO the
rigging during the battle of Mobile
Bay. phe powerful Confederate
iron-clad Tennessee attacked the
Hartford fiercely. Farragut took up
his position in the port mizzen rig
ging, the better to observe the fight,
and to direct and cheer his men. Lieu
tenant Watson, seeing the great danger
to which the intrepid admiral was ex-
posing himself, procured rope and
lashed him in his place.
The relations which existed between
Admi raj Farragut and his flag lieuten-
ant were of the most affectionate de-
scription. In his official report of the
Mobile battle, Farragut showed what
he thought of young Watson ''Lieu-
tenant Watson, he wrote, ''has been
brought to your attention in former
ties. He was on the poop, attending to
the signals and performing his duty
as might be expected, thoroughly. :"
During the war with Spain it was
Admiral Watson. then commodore,
who was ordered to sea with a squad
ron to destroy Admiral Camara's S fleet,
which was believed to be preparing
to return to Spain from the Suez
canal During the later period of the
wax he distinguished himself with
the squadron in West Indian waters
Lately Admiral Watson had been on
special duty abroad to report what i
being done for the betterment of the
enlisted personnel of foreign nayies.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-08-24
SLOT MACHINE ORDINANCE
The Test Case Heard This Morn
ing Decision In Matter
Is Withheld.

The case of the city of Annapolis
against Joseph w. Trautwein, inyolv-
ing the right of that body to pass an
ordinance imposing tax on slot ma
chimes used in stores and other places
for vending small amounts of merchan-
disc, was tried before Justice Charles
q. Feldmeyer this morning. The case
has given rise to much public interest
and number of spectators were pres
ent at the trial, including several
members of the City Council and mer-
chants who owned machines of the
character.
The present City Council did not
pass the ordinance. but it was in the
City Code when they went into office
and had fallen into disuse. Mr.
Robert Moss appeared for Mr.. Traut-
vein and City Counsellor Hugh r.
Riley for the city. Mr.. Moss argued
that the city had no power under its
charter to license any slot machine
unless it was a gambling device and
that this particular machine was not
of that character. He claimed that
the powers of municipality to inn
pose a license were only those granted
them by the Legislature and that the
settled policy in Maryland was TO re-
fuse TO grant the power to municipali-
ties TO impose a license on general mer-
chandising and that these machines
were simply automatic clerks. Mr..
Moss also urged the fact that the in
tent of the ordinance was merely to
apply to gambling machines and that
the decided cases so recognized the
term. He laid particular reliance on
the contention that none of the
granted powers to license by the city
charter would apply in this case.
City Counsellor Riley contended
that the City Code requiring a license
from all ''slot machines of every de-
scription," was perfectly clear and
that the power of the Council to pass
the ordinance was covered in every
phase by its express rights to license
games and other similar devices,
amusements and exhibitions and ven-
dors of different articles. He held
that the Council was not to be pre-
sumed to have intended to license
gambling at all, still less to limit the
license TO that and that the language
of the code was absolutely broad and
clear. Finally he urged that the
plain duty of the Justice was to inn
pose the penalty provided by law in
the case and to leave the intricate
question of the validity of the ordi-
nance TO the courts. Any other
course. he urged, would be to give to
the Justice the power of review over
every revenue measure passed by the
City Council.
Justice Feldmeyer withheld his de-
cisiOn in the case for the present.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-08-24
Sent to Marine Hospital

John II. Flynn, about AS years old,
an old soldier, who has seen 16 years
service. was picked up in the market
house yesterday afternoon suffering
with fits and supposed to be drunk.
He was taken to Jail by Chief of
Police George Hahn and physician
sent for The man was found to be
suffering with epileptic fits. He was
furnished transportation to Baltimore
and left for the Marine Hospital, that
city. Flynn arrived here ON the
pungy Maid of Erin. that anchored
off the Naval Academy. He was in
jured yesterday by a heavy bucket
falling Oh his feet He served during
the Spanish American war, in Com
pany @, First Regiment of Virginia.
He also was trumpeter in the cavalry
and fifer in the marine corps. He
was not allowed to re-enlist on ac-
count of disabilities incurred while in
the service.