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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-28
Oct 14-21-28.
ORDER FOR HEARING PROOF OF WILL.
STATE OF MINNESOTA. County

STATE OF MINNESOTA. County of Blue
Earth.-ss In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of Franz jacob,
deceased.
Whereas an instrument in writing purport-
ing to be the last will and testament of Franz
jacob. deceased, late OF said county, has been
delivered to this COURT
And whereas, John Klein has filed there
with his petition, representing among other
things, that said Franz jacob died in eaid
county on the Gath day of September 1904, testate
and that said petitioner is the executor
named in said lat will and Testament and
praying that the said instrument may be ad-
mItted to probate. and that letters testament
airy be issued thereon to him.
1t is ordered, that the proofs of said instru-
ment, and the said petition be heard before
this court at the probate Office in the
city of Mankato, in said county, on Mon
day the 18th day of November A. D.. 1904,
at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon, when all
persons interested may appear Tor or contest
the probate of said instrument.
And it is further ordered. that notice of the
time and place of laid hearing be given to all
persons interested by publishing this order
once in each week for three successive weeks
prior to said day of hearing in the Mankato
Free Press. weekly newspaper printed and
published at Mankato, in said county.
Dated at Mankato the 8th Gay of October,
A. D., 1904.
By the Court.
[seaIl VIM #. HUGHES,
Judge of Probate.
Pau & Pfau, Attorneys for Proponent.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-28
GARDEN CITY GOSSIP.
Comings and Goings Of People In the
County Fair Town.


Mrs. George Swift is home from Ne
braska. Her sister, Miss Nellie Leather
man, and Vera and Jennie, the children
of her brother, Joe Leatherman, came
home with her.
Mr.. Croswell has returned from his
trip to Luverne, where he has been buy
ing stock the last of this week.
Mrs. William Norton was called home
on account of the severe illness of her
son, frankie.
Mr. and Mrs. Wagner went to Manka.
to Saturday.
Mrs. Thomas Glynn and daughter,
Mary, went to Mankato Saturday
Mrs. William Thomas returned home
last Friday after visit with her sister,
Mrs. Marian Jones.
Mrs. Fred E. Lamberton and daughter,
Margaret, visited at the home of Mrs.
Lamberton's sister, Mrs. A. w. BiXby,
Wednesday and Thursday, on their way
home from a visit in Estherville, Iowa.
They also visited in North Mankato
at the home of Mrs. Lamberton's sister,
Mrs. Ora Swan. Her mother, Mrs. i. A.
Barton, accompanied Mrs. Lamberton
and her daughter to their home at st.
Paul Saturday.
Mrs. Kelly was Mankato caller
Saturday.
John Miller went to Lake Crystal on
the 6:2O train and returned home on
the lO:45 train.
Ward Bixby, Jr. went to st. Paul last
Tuesday to be examined for night watch
at the depot at Garden City.
Walter Wagner has been i'll with a
very sore throat for three days this
week, but is able to be around again.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Griffith have
gone up in the northern part of the state
to visit Mrs. Griffith's parents, DIR. and
Mrs Garrett Murphy, formerly of Gar
den City.
w. H. Cartwright had relapse and
was not able to teach school more than
two days this week. The board may
be obliged to hire a substitute for few
weeks
Gusta Goldenstar is gaining fast after
her very severe illness of the past two
weeks.
The Hunt supper Wednesday evening
was not very well attended, owing to
the rainy weather of that evening.
Bert Richardson's baby is sick again
and there is not much hope for his re-
covery.
Allie Osgood and Mrs. Jim Tierney
were Mankato callers last Tuesday.
Mrs. Frank Fairchild and daughter,
Beth, were visiting in Mankato last
week.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-28
One Man Dead and Another Is
Manned For Life.
Attempting to Uncap Cartridge
Fired by ArtiIerymen.
Missile ExpIodes and Men Are
MangIed Badly.

New Ulm, Oct. 24.-One resident of
this county was killed Saturday and
another was hopelessly MANNED by a
shell fired Friday by the Seventeenth
battalion United States field artillery.
The victims were Manicus Klossner, ag-
ed twenty one, and his brother Edward,
aged twenty-five, the sons of Fritz
Klossner, prominent farmer in Lafay-
cite township. They found shell Sat
urday that had failed to explode when it
was fired by the artillery during their
practice on a range near the Klossner
farm. The young men had seen an ar
tilleryman load a shell. They believed
they could unload the shell they found.
Stalwart brothers, with military
tastes, the Klossner boys had spent
many hours about the field where the
Fort Smelling artillery-the Tenth and
the Thirteenth batteries-were engaged
recently in gunnery practice. The broth
ers performed small services for the
artillerymen, stood as close to the can
non during the firing as the rules permit
ted, and evinced a youthful pride in
their familiarity with the ammunition.
They even decided to enlist in the ar
tillery at the first opportunity, although
that intention was opposed by their
father.
When the artillerymen started for
Smelling Saturday morning they were ac
companied to the train by the Klossner
brothers. On their return homie the
boys redoubled their interest in the
mexploded shell they had found on the
range Friday and had carefully hidden
it under the barn. Their father warned
them, however, to leave the shell alone.
Then he started for town.
After arriving here the old man talk
ed with Lieutenant Stoz, of the New
Ulm company, n. G. S. NJ, about the
loaded shell. Klossner asked the lieu
tenant incidentally to dissuade the boys
from enlisting. The farmer said he had
given them a good education and he
wanted them to either run the farm or
60 into business. He would furnish the
money. The lieutenant advised that the
shell be buried in some QUITO theway
spot.
Just before he reached home again
Klossner heard an explosion and saw
the flash of shell beside his barn.
Whipping his horses, he soon found his
youngest son lying on the ground UNI
conscious and wounded. The older son
was leaning against the barn. His right
arm, blown off above the elbow, lay at
his feet. His remaining hand was
mangled. Fragments of the shell had
splintered the planks each side of him.
The wounded men were brought to
the st. Alexander hospital here, where
the youngest one died in the evening
He had been partly disembowled The
other brother will probably recover,
although his one hand must be amputat-
ed. He explained that he was trying to
show Manicus how the soldiers fixed
their shells.
Since the accident some of the par
cnts here say they will try to prevent
target practice near New Ulm in the
future.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-28
Insurance Money For Relatives.

The late Mrs. Emma Harkee was a
member of Superior Lodge No. 5, D. of
H., and her beneficiaries will receive the
amount of $1,000, at the end of this
month, when the death report will be
presented to the finance committee of
the Grand Lodge. She also held certi-
ficate of $50 on the funeral fund, which
was paid Immediately after her death.
The lodge was complimented on being
SO prompt in making the payment.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-28
Most Complete and Interesting

The Mankato Free Press of last Fri
day contained thirty-two pages. 1t was
largely patronized by Mankato business
men as an advertising medium. 1t was
finely illustrated and contained good
but conservative write-up of Mankato
and of every village in the county. 1t
was the most complete and interesting
edition ever issued by The Free Press
Amboy Herald.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-28
DREW ON ALL The BANKS
Money Needed for the State School
Apportionment.

A warrant for $SO2,2 was yes
terday made out on State Treasurer
Block by State Auditor Iverson, with
which to pay the October school appor-
tionment.
Every school in the state will partici-
pate ON the basis of 1920 pupil, and
the checks will be sent out at once.
Ramsey county's share of the amount
is $6O,l30.4O.
To meet this heavy demand, every de-
pository used by the state was order
ed to send in the funds belonging to the
state.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-28

Milwaukee Orator Arouses Enthusi
asm at St. Clair.
From MONDAYS Daily.

Mr.. Wellrich of Milwaukee addressed
a political meeting at st. Clair Satur
day night, that was largely attended
He spoke for two hours, telling his hear
ers why the continued prosperity of the
country depends upon the continuance il
power of the republican party. He
aroused much enthusiasm, and his ref
erences to Dunn and McCleary were par
ticularly applauded. w. A. Plymat at
tended the meeting, and states that the
speaker was well received and gave a
good talk.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-28
Boy Killed by Threshing Engine.
From SATURDAYS Daily.

Mike Sullivan received the sad news
Tuesday, of the death of his six year old
nephew, which occurred at Belle Plaine,
from being thrown from a threshing en-
CINE. 1t appears that while the crew
were in the house eating supper, the lit
tie boy climbed up onto the fly wheel
and took hold of the throttle lever
Thinking it was the lever to the whistle
he pulled it. This started the engine at
full speed, throwing him head first onto
the front wheels of the engine, where he
was instantly killed.-Madison Lake
Tribune.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-28
Collar Bone Broken.
From MONDAYS Daily.

Robert Harlin is laid up with brok-
en- collar bone and an injury to his wrist
as the result of an accident Friday af
ternoon. He was exercising Judge Cray's
horses on the ST. Peter prairie road,
when he unexpectedly became caught
between the Great Western and Omaha
tracks. A passing Great Western train
frightened the horses, and they turned
short, breaking the pole, tipping the bug
gy over and throwing Mr.. Harlin out.
A farmer caught the horses short dis
lance away.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-28
Away in the Front Rank.

The Mankato Free Press has installed
a new perfecting press and issued a
thirty two page edition last Friday, just
show how easy it is with the new ma
ehinery. The Free Press is away up
in the front rank of Minnesota papers,
Winona Independent.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-28
STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of
Blue Earth, District Court, Sixth Jul
dicial District

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of
Blue Earth, District Court, Sixth Jul
dicial District.
Thomas j. Jones, Plaintiff, VS.. August
Finke, Westcott Wilkin, Roswell C.
Coleman, ST., Sarah w. Coleman, ST.,
Katherine d. 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
plant 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, MINI.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-28

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of
Blue Earth, District Court, Sixth Jul
dicial District.
Thomas j. Jones, Plaintiff, VS.. August
Finke, Westcott Wilkin, Roswell c.
Coleman, ST., Sarah w. Coleman, ST.,
Katherine ID. Colwell, Anna M. Cole
man, Sarah w. Coleman, Jr., Wilkin
Coleman, Henrietta Coleman, Roswell
c.. Coleman, Jr., Alexander w. Cole
man, Eleanor G. Coleman, Leo S.
Lamm, City of Mankato "a 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 in and
to the real estate described in the COM
plant herein and hereinafter mentioned
and for the purpose of quoting 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 E. d.
Bruner, on file and of record in the office
of the Register of Deeds of said Blue
Earth County.
Dated July 30th, A. d. 1904.
BENJAMIN TAYLOR,
Attorney for Plaintiff,
Mankato, MINI.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-28
MACS STRENUOUS LIFE.
Littiefork Guardian Editor Sets Forth
His Manifold Duties.

His Manifolo OutteS.
ID. X. Mcpherson, formerly editor of
The Minnesota Lake Tribune, but now
at the helm of The Little Forks Guar
dian, is achieving some notoriety because
of a letter he wrote to II. l.. Shepherd, a
Duluth land attorney, who logged" the
editor up for not answering his COM
munication more promptly, and also for
not attending to the publication of land
notices. Littlefork is away up in the
wilderness, in the Little Fork valley,
where the whistle of the locomotive has
never been heard, and where the mecca
sin telegraph is in vogue. Mr. Shep-
herd received letter in reply that dis
counts anything yet published as de-
scribing the manifold duties that may
fall to the country editor. 1t was as
follows:
Received your registered letter read
your complaint and accept same with
good grace. While / have neglected to
answer your letters 1 have always got
the affidavits away in ample time before
the date of proof. | offer the following
excuse for neglect to write answers to
your letters:
''First-I am the editor, the printer,
the devil and the chore boy in the office.
Second am village recorder and in
a new town like this there is much to be
done.
"Nhird-I am the town clerk of
Jameson, and that work has to be at
tended to.
"Fourth-I am the chief forester in
the local camp of a secret society and
have to devote three nights a week to
this.
"Fifth-E have rented a farm here
have plowed it myself and worked it,
and am now digging the crop. l have
200 bushels of potatoes, forty-two BUSH
els of onions and lots of other farm
truck. BY the way, / have a cabbage
that weighs 37H, pounds. l have cleared
an acre of land on my claim this sea-
son.
"SiXth-I have built barn l2xl6, and
have built an addition to our house, Tx
%. 1 have brought provisions for us
to live on this winter from the Rainy
river in a canoe, twenty miles, and l
canoed over the same route 1000 pounds
of brick and helped to build the chin
neys on our house.
Seventh am in the hog industry on
a small scale, and we have twenty one
chickens. | have to feed these three
times day.
"Eighth-I have to bring in water and
cut wood and bring that in, Lord knows
how many times a day.
81 have no love for labor, but you will
observe that | am moderately busy. A
person saw fit to contest my claim to a
piece of land, and it has cost me a
good deal to defend my rights. My wife
is i'll in a hospital at Winnipeg, and her
way must be paid 1t is a mighty strug
gle and only time will tell the survival
of the fittest.
81 am glad you roasted me. 1t brings
us to an understanding. You are at lib
erty to roast me just as much as you
see fit, but don't forget that l need
your business. Don't forget that l am
mortal and that l fall into the pitfalls
along the journey of life, and again let
me remind you that you can roast me
at any time you see fit, providing you
continue to do business with mel need
the business"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-28

child met it's death by a fall from a
train on Saturday forenoon, Oct. %,
1904.
County Attorney Wilson may look up
the case further.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-28

The Maple River Curling club will
meet in Mapleton Wednesday afternoon
to consider the plans for the construction
of a rink.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-28
TO cuRE a colnIN ONE nAy

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
ALI druggists refund the money if it fails
to cure. E. w. Groves signature is on
each box. 25c.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-28
FARMS.

Improved farm homes at prices and terms in
reach OF of all. We have just purchased an
other tract of 1000 acres of hardwood timber
land, timber consists of maple. Eastwood, birch
and hemlock, no pine slashings or sand. Lands
are all within / to miles of railroad, near good
market town, schools. churches and creameries.
good wagon roads to all our lands. With
every purchase of land We build a good log
house IS it, wide, rs # long, 12 #. high. with
good roof, floor, windows and doors all COM
plete, ready to move into at prices with house
complete, SIS to SIS Per Acre.
Terms, cash, balance in equal annual pay
ments, at per cent interest.
SAW MILLS WANTED.
to cut one hundred million feet hardwood tim
Der. Here is chance for man with a small
portable mill to buy small tract of timber and
do custom saving for his neighbors. We own
several thousand acres of timber that will cut
from to 10 thousand feet per acre
Buy your tickets to Gable. on G d N. W. Ry.
Low rates to land seekers. r. X. fare refunded
to purchaser of land. For maps and further
particulars address
UECKE'S LAND AGENCY,
CUMBERLAND, WIS.
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of a rink.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-10

Chamber up to the top stories by
means of hooked ladders. A more
realistic performance could not be
imagined, and the audience is worked
up TO the same pitch of excitement as
a crowd at a real fire.
The Indian Durbar, probably the
greatest pageant the world has ever
known, is reproduced with wonderful
fidelity to the original, crowds of ma
tives, drawn from sixteen Indian
States, taking part Maharajahs, e1e-
plants, camels, sacred zebus, nautch
girls, snake-charmer British grena-
diers, the Guides Cavalry, now busy in
Tibet; the feudai soldiery of ancient
Hindostan, clad in all manner of
strange and brilliant raiinent, join in
a gorgeous procession down street
of Delhi
Afterwards many queer stunts are
done by trained elephants, snake
cilarmers, Indian 5acrobats and other
native performers. The famous basket
trick and other wonders of Oriental
magic are shown.
But the Hindoos are by no means
the only strange foreigners in the
shows at Luna Park. AS many I'M
known tongues are spoken there as
were ever heard at the Tower of
Babel On the "Trip to the North
Pole"-a most remarkable mechanical
|illusion-you can see and talk with
real Esquimaux, living on the ice in
real Esquimaux villages. An Esqui-
maux baby was born at Luna Park
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-10

by mern1aids and prehistoric monsters.
These are not 1.-THE of the attrac-
tons at the Park. for they simply defy
enumeration, and no two of them are
alike. There is plenty TO interest every
body at Luna Park, from the college
professor to the street urchin.
Luna Park, in brief, is an ideal place
for decent peoples pleasure. 1t is the
best thing yet done in the summer
amusement business. Even St. Louis
man, who came to see it the other day
IN a superior spirit born of his own
big show in Missouri, was obliged to
admit that sit gave the Pike a clean
knockout" With so many first-class
attractions it is hardly surprising that
Ia crowd of two hundred thousand
paying guests in one day IS 70
longer looked upon as amazing by
those most enterprising of showmen,
Thompson and Dundy.
Naturally, their success has created
a crop of rivals, who appropriate their
ideas just about the time they have
finished with them and are getting out
new stunts But they still hold the
palm, and, in the minds of most visi-
tors, Coney Island spells Luna Park.
Nowhere else is there the same vast
crowd, bubbling over with fun and
high spirits; the same infinite variety
of amazing novelties and thrilling
spectacles. Rival shows which try to
steal Luna's thunder are much like
Hamlet" with the Prince of Denmark
left out.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-10

+ and so was dear little baby elephant,
which daily gratifies an inordinate ap-
petite for peanuts. Turks, Moors,
japanese, Chinese and men and wo-
men of a dozen other nationalities
walk about the grounds and discourse
amiably to the crowds about their
native lands. For this reason Luna
Park gives man almost the same lib
eral education that he could gain by
extensive foreign travel.
One OF the most popular resorts in
the Park is the japanese tea garden.
which is suspended nearly a. hundred
feet above the central lake. 1t is the
largest garden of the kind outside OF
Japan. and it was designed and con-
structed by Japanese artists, who took
some of the most famous temple gar
dens OF old Nippon for their models.
1t would be. impossible to devise a
more delightful spot in which to rest
and enjoy cup of tea after the siren
uous pleasure of doing the round OF
the shows.
For those who like novel stunts"
of the loop the loop" order, "whirl
the whirP will provide a new thrill,
Passengers are wIlirled through space
IN string of airships and enjoy ali
the sensations of sailing up in the
clouds. When this pals upon them
they can shoot the chutes, ride upon
the finest switchback railway in the
world, dash through long tunnels be-
hind a miniature locomotive, and drift
Through subterranean river inhabited
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-10

making money in the show business
were running TO waste.
Give these people something really
worth while, something they haven't
seen before. something a man can
bring his wife and his Aunt Hannah
TO see, and there will be millions in
ii, he reasoned.
! Dundy thought so, too. They had
Hardly any money between them, but
DGndy has convincing way with
capitalists and a great reputation for
making good on any financial propo-
sition for which he borrows money.
He raised the needfu1. and Luna Park
was created and made a brilliant sue
cess IN one summer season. The loans
were promptly repaid, and this sum-
mer the Park has been reopened with
bigger and better attractions. Thornp-
son and Duldy are justly proud Of
their financial reputation They have
been so straight in all their dealings
that now they have only to mention
how much money they want and the
greatest capitalists in the country has
ten to advance it. Yet there is prac-
tically no security beyond their bare
word, inaSmuch as fire insurance can
not be obtained for amusement enter
prises at Coney Island.
Where so much i, good, it is diff
cult TO pick out the leading attrac-
lions. There are at least a hundred
big shows comprised within the forty
acres of Luna Park, and the small
side-shows number over a thousand.
One of the most thrilling and dra-
matte. spectacles offered this year is
the bornbardmert of New York City
by an enemy's feet. The stage of an