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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-12-01
More OF Free Hides.

Coupled with the interview with Mr..
Hefflefinger, published in The Free
Press last evening, the following from
The st. Paul Dispatch makes interest
ing reading: "When the president re-
piled to the committee of the National
Boot and Shoe association, he told them
that he had just received letter from
Lieutenant Governor Childs, governor
elect of Massachusetts,, upon the same
it. There is sentence in Governor
Guilds letter that should make even
the most hide-bou standpatter sit up
and take notice. 4 believe he said,
that the republican ticket would have
platform contained plank indorsing
the position taken last spring by our
delegation in congress favoring imme-
date tariff revision Guild, standing for
immediate revision, was elected by
over 10000 plurality. Draper, his as
sociate, candidate for lieutenant gov
ernar standpatter, scraped through by
a plurality of between l,S00 and 1900
as against Whitney, democrat, running
for tariff revision that would free list
hides, coal, iron and lumber and cut
rates down on other commodities And
Draper owes his narrow margin to dem
ocratic opposition to Whitney growing
out of his record in the state legisla-
ture"
Free hides and free lumber are two of
the things that would be of great bene-
fit to the people.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-12-01
EXCITEMENT O STRONG.
Woman Dies Of ApopIexy at Her Silver
Wedding Anniversary.

st. Peter, Nov. 23.-Wrought up to
an unwonted degree of excitement by
the celebration of her silver wedding an
niversary, Mrs. William Studtman suf-
fered stroke of apoplexy and is dead
at her home near the village of Court
land. Last week Mrs. Studtman and
her husband issued invitations to a par
ty of friends to assist them in observ-
ing the twenty-fvth anniversary of
their marriage and the festivities were
held Sunday. While they were in prog
ress Mrs. Studman appeared to be in the
best of spirits and enjoyed herself
greatly, but the following day she was
taken sick. 1t proved to be her final
illness, for an apopletiic stroke followed
and she died three days later.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-12-01
Square Deal All Round.

The Slayton Gazette consoles itself
with the thought that 'after we have
arranged square deaf with the rail
roads we will be in better shape to han
die other combinations" Now if The
Gazette will only give the tip as to
just when the socalled square deal'
is going to be arranged, the people
might exhibit a little more patience.
Meanwhile, however, it would be well
for those who want a square deal" all
around to keep up the agitation for
tariff revision, reduction of the duty
on hides, the wiping out of the schedule
on lumber and other minor changes
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-12-01
FOUND AT EAGLE LAKE.
Personal Gossip; Religious Meetings
and News Notes.

Eagle Lake, Nov. 23.-J. L. Burgess
has posted bills announsing an auction
at his home in this village on Nov. 2Sth,
He intends moving his family to Mis-
souri,.
Mr.. James Pressnall is taking va
cation from postoffice work and his wife
wife is taking his place in his absence.
Among the Mankato visitors last Fri
day were Mrs. Heath, Mrs. Thomas,
Mrs. Van Kirk and daughter, Mr.. M. B.
Cook, Mr.. Pickle, Mrs. Mary knott, all
of whom drove to town, probably being
urged out by the pleasant weather.
John Pickle is home.
Miss Daisy Reynolds spent Saturday
and Sunday at home. She is attending
the normal at Mankato.
Rev. Childs, former pastor of the
Disciple church of this place, held a
weeks meeting at the church last
week, closing the services with the Sun
day services. All seemed glad to see
and hear Mr.. Childs again.
Guy Gordon, who has been travelling
on the road, looking after the interest
of Gordon Bros & Co.'s mill, is home
for few days.
The house formerly occupied by Will
Macbeth, is being papered and painted
on the inside, and a new tile drain IS
being laid from the cellar 1t is under
stood that Mr.. Heath, the miller, is to
move into the house in a few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jonathan Pressnall are
moving into the house with their SON
in-law, Mr.. VanKirk, for the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. M. Pressnall are pre-
pairing to make an extended visit to
their daughter, Mrs. Cornish, who lives
at Alton, Iowa.
Will Macbeth of Mankato is in town
for a few days.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-12-01
COIN FOR LESUEURITES.
Much Gold From a Mine Located
From Dream


lie Sueur, Nov. 22.-W. III. Rethwill
of lie Sueur received this morning from
Rogers, Ark, the following telegram:
Rogers, Ark, Nov. %, l905.-Ship-
ping today carload of ground gold ore.
Value of the mines, $lO,00OOO0. w. H.
Kruse, j. p. Huber, HI. G. Kruse, /. NJ
Proctor"
The names signed to the telegram are
those of the persons comprising the
partnership of L. M. Proctor & Co., en-
gagged in the mercantile business at
Rogers, and for some time past they
have been digging an excavation in the
form of triangle seventy five feet on
each side. They have been paying nearly
double wages to men and teams employ
ed and also employ ladies at 81 day
each to serve lunches to the men at
work.
They claim that the location of the
mine was revealed to w. III. Kruse in a
dream. All the men except Proctor
formerly lived in lie Suerr, and none
of them are in any way related to the
lie Sueur Tyre.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-12-01
ROLLETTE GIVEN THE BOUNCE
Son Of Famous Joe No Longer Holds
Job at Capitol.

From Fridays Daily.
Henry Rollette, son of Joseph Roll
cite, the legislator of an early day who
made away with the bill which was
about to be passed removing the capitol
from st. Paul, has been discharged from
the janitorship which he held in the new
capitol.
Henry Rollette secured his appoint
ment in part because of his fathers
having saved the capitol for the sanity
city. Henry says his discharge is a
piece of spite work. Several witnesses,
however, bore testimony that Henry
was intoxicated and used language of a
very Objectionable character in the cap
itol corridors, which could be heard a
long distance without the use of tele-
phone. As a result somebody else now
pushes the broom formerly welded by
Henry over the marble floors of the new
statehouse.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-12-01
BOY RUNS AWAY.
Blue Earth Lad, Asked to Speak
Piece, Takes Train to Mankato.

From Thursdays Daily.
Clark Bell, the fifteen year old son of
H. ID. Bell of Blue Earth, formerly of
Mankato, ran away from home last
evening because his teacher wanted him
to speak piece in school and he re-
fused to do it. Fearing a flogging he
took some of his belongings and came to
Mankato on the p. m. train. His faith
er in the meantime had taken notice,
and had learned of the lads taking the
train. He telephoned to the police de-
partment, giving description of the boy,
and asked that he be held Officer Robb
was at the depot when the train came
in and had no difficulty in picking out
the boy. Mr.. Bell was notified and sent
back instructions to hold the boy until
he could arrive this morning.
Mr. Bell arrived on the Z a. m. train
and left an hour later for home with
his son. The boy had but sixty cents
when he reached Mankato, and his plans
for the future were somewhat hazy.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-12-01
Joe Cannon and the Tariff.

The Chicago Record Herald reads the
genial Joseph Cannon a lecture which is
applicable to other standpat congress
men. The Record Herald says:
Speaker Cannon, distinguished among
other things for his homely and racy
philosophy and his Illuminating saws
and illustrations, has attempted to bring
home to the mass of humane people the
practical wisdom and virtue of stand
patism. ira. a, ss,
when we were boys he says we
used to swing dogs by the tall not
realizing how cruel the practice was to
the suffering animals. Now that we are
older and more kindly, even to animals,
shall we deliberately hang the country
up by the tail?' For one, the good I'M
Gle does not propose to sit quietly by
and see the sport tried.
'The altruistic sentiment prompting
the earnest declaration should be APP
plauded But it is ones painful duty
to point out that Uncle Joseph is doing
the very thing he so emphatically says
he will not do BE is hanging up whole
industries and great bodies of consum-
ears by the tail, or sitting quietly by
pastime.
''The Massachusetts, boot and shoe
men, with the whole state of Massa-
chusetts behind them, ask for free hides
and Canadian reciprocity on the ground
that the existence of their industry is
threatened by the present tariff situa-
ton. Oh, says Mr.. Cannon, let them
continue to hang by the tail; we must
sit still, stand pat"
practical men show that certain
rates and schedules are no longer needed
or useful either from protective or
revenue point of view, and, of course,
every excessive duty is an injustice to
a whole class of consumers. Oh, serene
" remarks Uncle Joseph, the humanitar-
ian, let them hang by the tail. The ex-
tortion entained by overprotection does
not interfere with the quiet enjoyment
of the standpatters.
Manufacturers, farmers and export
ers meet in reciprocity conferences and
demand tariff adjustment as means of
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-12-01
Square Deal Republican League.

The Square Deal Republican league
has been organized. It's birthplace is
Iowa, and one of its prime objects is
the humiliation of the machine in poll
tics. Also the forcing of corporations to
the rear of the political procession. It's
platform is made up of the following
planks:
'To prevent by law the use of free
railroad transportation to influence pub
lie officers and political delegates.
ITO Danish by law from our state and
national capitals the corrupt lobby main
tanned there by selfish corporate inter
ests
'To destroy the corporation caucus
and restore to the whole people the
power of selecting their candidates for
United States senators, congressman and
all state, district, county and township
officers by means of state primary
based on the Australian ballot system.
ITO secure the honest and thorough
revision of the interstate commerce law
as recommended by President Roosevelt,
so as to prevent unfair discrimination
in railroad rates and to provide speedy
hearing and adequate remedy in case of
abuses.
10 oppose and endeavor to break
down by law monopolies and harmful
corporate combinations of every sort,
which serve to prevent the fair and
equitable distribution of wealth among
those who are creating it by honest in
dustry, and to support the repeal or
reformation of laws which foster the
interests of such monopolies at the ex-
pense of Independent industry and the
public welfare.
'To carry into effect the republican
doctrine of reciprocity, as proposed by
James G. Blaine and advocated by Will
liam Mckinley; also to secure the re-
vision of the tariff on articles controlled
by monopolies and sold cheaper abroad
than at home."
All good republicans can endorse such
principles. They are of such broad
character that no one who has the good
of the party at heart can recline to sub
scribe to them.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-12-01
GIRL LEADS 4 DUAL LIFE.
Countess of Bailmar" Had Nice
Time at Others Expense.

Dee Moines, Nov. ga Des Moines
girl, wearied of the monotony of home
life, disappeared last July, and it is
discovered she has since been masquerad-
ing as countess.
Miss Hattie Pinegar, member of the
Christian church here, left home sudden
ly last summer and all efforts to find
her were unsuccessful. Yesterday, when
the police arrested the Countess
of Ballmar" for obtaining money UNI
der false pretenses, the real identity of
the young woman was discovered and
explanations followed.
She broke down and wept and admit
ted that she had been leading a dual
life. She said that she had often COM
inundated with her parents indirectly,
but that they were unable to get any
trace of her whereabouts because she
had discarded her old name and became
real lady whom none of her former
associates would recognize. That the
countess enjoyed herself she admits
through her tears. She spent almost a
month at Monte ColfaX, a summer re-
sort, and left with the announcement
that her bankers in Chicago would for
ward check for her bill The proprie-
tor of the hostelry is said to be still
waiting for the check.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-12-01
MINNESOTA Is SECOND.
Has Almost as Many Libraries as the
State Of Ohio.

As Herbert Putnam, librarian OF con-
gress, recently put it, the library move
ment "has passed beyond the stage
where it needs to prove its right to ex-
list, or where it must continually dig
up its beginnings to see whether it is
growing" With it's 223 public libraries
Minnesota stands next to Ohio, with 266
libraries, but Ohio has much larger
population than Minnesota. If ANYTHING
were needed to show the intellectual
advancement of our people it can be
found in the wide distribution of 223
public libraries among less than two
million population of this state. The
growth of libraries is unmistakable evi-
dence of general public enlightenment.
New York leads with rs Libraries,
Massachusetts comes next with 57l.
Pennsylvania 40l, Illinois 3O9 all vast
ly larger in population that Minnesota,
which has more libraries to its popua-
ton than any state in the union. This
is record to be proud of.
As proof that public libraries are
sure sign of educational advancement,
just look at the south. Among the
southern states, Tennessee leads with
seventy seven libraries, and is followed
by Kentucky with seventy-six. Virginia
has sixty-four and the states below the
southern boundary of Virginia, Ken
lucky and Missouri, range from sixteen
i'll Florida to ffty-seven in North Caro-
lima. The least number of libraries is
in Indian Territory, which has three.
Here the ratio of books to population is
less than ten to every hundred persons,
and it is the same in Oklahoma, with
eight libraries and in Texas with thirty
nine libraries. This is the lowest ratio,
which goes as high as one book or more
for each inhabitant in the New England
states, Minnesota, New York and Cali
fornia. Minnesota's splendid educational
institutions are fast making this one of
the most progressive and enlightened
states in the whole country Winona
ReDuhIiran
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-12-01
Postal Department EXPENSES.

One of the most important depart
nents of the government service is that
which has to do with the handling of
the mails This department comes in
touch with the public more than any
other and it is therefore one of the most
expensive to maintain. The annual re-
ceipts of this branch do not balance
he expenditures by many millions of
dollars For instance, the deficit for
he fiscal year, ended June 80, this year
was $l4,572,5S4, a stupendous fortune
in itself. In recent report
submitted by Postmaster General Cor
telyou, to the secretary of the treas
ury, it is explained that this amount
the difference between the expenditures
and the revenues of the department
may be said to represent the actual cost
Of the postal service to the people. If
recent calculations are as accurate as
they have been frequently in the past,
they afford good reason for believing
that the deficit for the present year end
ing June 80, 1906, will be considerably
less. This is indeed consoling. 1t is
an interesting fact that the total
revenue for the fiscal year 1905 exceed
ed the total expenditures for the fiscal
year 1904 by nearly 100000
Postmaster General Cortelyou has pre-
pared an estimate of the department for
the year ending June 80, 1907, and de-
spite the fact that he has cut here and
there, using the pruning knife with jul
dicious care, there is an increase over
last years appropriation of about $l2,-
100000 The estimates for the service
at large, the field service, run up to
&l93,0Q0,000. This increase, it is claim
ed, represents the normal growth of the
service based upon what the postal Of
ficials regard as the most careful and
conservative estimates. The principal
items in the increase are the rural de-
livery service, railway mail service,
compensation to postmasters and their
clerks, and the compensation of letter
carriers. For the maintenance of rural
delivery service and its proper extern
sion over $39,0OO,OOO will be required.
This increase is $3,0OO,O0O over the APP
preparation for the current year, which
in turn is over $5OOO,OOO more than of
last year, so that the present estimate
is $l,4OO,OO0 less than the increase of
the present over the preceding year.
That the extension of the pneumatic
tube service is contemplated is shown
by the fact that the estimate series
$4,000 more than the current appro-
priation.
One of the most expensive items is
for mail transportation. There is gen.
eral feeling that the railroad companies
charge too much for this service, and
that something should be done by con-
gress to cut the amount.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-12-01
TALK OF NEW DEPOT.
Good Thunder Folks Look Forward to
More Substantial Structure.

F. J. Buchholz, former resident of
Good Thunder, now located at Madelia,
was renewing old acquaintance here
last Monday. 81 +at'
Miss Maude Rupert of Mapleton was
a caller here last Sunday. 81
Mrs. Herbert Cornell is spending the
week with her husband here. Herb is
using some of his persuasive powers to
induce Mrs. Cornell to make Good
Thunder her home this winter
DIR. Faulkner, an old practitioner from
here, but now located at Lonsdale,
Mimi, was a pleasant caller here Tues
day and Wednesday of this week.
A goodly share of the Good Thunder
ers were down to Mankato counting
this week.
The machinery for the new mill has
arrived and is now being placed in po-
sition.
The hotel has changed hands once
again; w. M. Nelson of Mankato has
taken possession today, and will imme-
diately assume the duties of landlord.
Rudolph Rosin is on the sick list
this week
Again there is rumor current that
Good Thunder is to have a new depot.
The hub of Blue Earth county with
prospective branch lines radiating to all
corners of the hearens, yea, even unto
Jericho, should be supplied with a
more commodious and more substan-
tial depot.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-12-01
COST OF@THE CENSUS.
Nose Counting in Minnesota Is an
Expensive Affair.


The enumeration of Minnesota's pop
ulation cost the state $54,303.36. This is
in addition to the compilation which is
still in progress.
The total cost of the entire work will
be $4,000, of which $4,000 was appro-
priated by the Legislature and $1,000
later by the state finance board.
For the expenditure of $4,000 the
enumerators returned total of $l,979,-
9l2 names, an increase of 22S,5lS per-
sons over the federal census of 1900.
The counting of Hennepin county's
population cost the most, $6,ll0, Ram
sey county came next, with an expendi-
ture of So ,S67.6S and st. Louis county
third, with an expenditure of $3,475S4
In point of population Ramsey's emu
meration cost less than that of any
county in the state.
Because of this fact, the citizens of
st. Paul went down in their pockets to
the extent of $3,S642S. Hennepin sup
plemented its appropriation with an add
ditional amount of $3,469.60, and st.
Louis county $2l6.
In all 1870 enumerators were EN-
ployed, and their counties was at the
rate of cents a name.
Advance sheets of the work of the de-
partment up to date were issued to-
day, and calls for them from over the
state were numerous. The report sim
ply covers population and gives in de-
tail the number of persons in each coun
ty. city, town and village in the state.
OF all the counties in the state, only
nine show decrease in population, and,
oddly, they are the Oldest in point of
settlement. They are Houston, Winona,
lie Sueur, Fillmore, Rice, Blue Earth
Waseca, Goodhue and Sibley. In the
others the increase ranges from to
100 per cent.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-12-01
Praises Rev. KerfOot.

From Saturdays Dailv-
Hon. S. J. Abbott: "Rev. S. ID. Her
foot, who preached Sunday morning in
the Methodist church, is one of the
strongest pulpit orators in the west. He
is young man, and if he lives the COM
ing years will find him power for good
i'm all the land. Winnebago Press
News Rev. Kerfoot is a resident of
Mankato, and is engaged in raising the
$4,000 endowment fund for the Metho-
dist church.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-12-01
Assessments Completed.

From Thursdays Daily.
The board of public works met this
afternoon and completed the assessment
for curbing and guttering Clark street
from Center street to Prospect avenue,
curbing, guttering and improving Byron
street from Lincoln to the south line of
Lewis & Shaubut's addition, the curbing
and guttering of Hickory street between
Broad and Fourth, and for constructing
the sewer on Bradley street.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-12-01
BRAIN INJURED.
Elmer ScuIIen Struck on the Head by
Skinny" Block.


Elmer, the thirteen year old son of
A. ID. Scullen, the dairyman, met with
a bad accident Tuesday noon. He and
some other lads were playing shiny
when block of wood that was being
"shinnied' struck him forcibly upon the
head. He was rendered unconscious,
and remained in that condition until
yesterday afternoon, when he was able
to realize little. His physician states
that his brain was injured by the blow,
and that his condition is serious.
Young Scullen has been an unlucky
youth. Several years ago he was kick
ed in the face by a horse and later was
injured in dynamite explosion. He
has suffered number of minor bruises.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-12-01
GOES INTO BANKRUPTCY.
TheopoIds at FaribauIt File Petition
in St. Paul.

Francis A. Thepold, a wholesale
grocer of Faribault, has filed petition
in bankruptcy. The liabilities are sched-
uled at 1862 ,9l3.59, assets at 1927 ,644.69,
of which $500 is claimed as exempt.
Herbert c. Theopold, a Faribault
wholesale grocer, has filed petition
in bankruptcy. The liabilities are $345,-
1862, assets $3G,25O.l5, of which $500
is claimed as exempt.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-12-01
GOES INTO BANKRUPTCY.
Byron Street Grocer Has More Debts
Than Assets.

From Thursdays Daily.
Enos Kloss, who has been conducting
a grocery store at the old W. 3. TORY
stand on Byron street, yesterday after
noon filed petition in voluntary bank
ruptcy. His assets are $3.50, claimed ex-
empt, and $500 in stock and fixtures
that can be applied upon the debts. The
liabilities are $l,7OO, of which about
$50 are secured.
Mr.. Kloss' friends will regret his
financial embarrassment.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-12-01
SCORED A BIG HIT.
Attorney L. w. Prendereast Appears
Before the Footlights.

From fridays Daily
'My Friend From India" was played
by local talent at lie 3Sueur Center last
Thursday evening and scored a success.
L. w. Prendergast, formerly of Manka-
to, handled the role of ''Keene Shaver,
or Nv Friend From India" and The
Leader says that he "was shining star
throughout the rendition of the entire
program. He showed knowledge of
stage work and was exceptionally fine
at all times. He came in for a goodly
share of favorable comment and was de-
serving" The company will produce
the play at> Waterville on Saturday
night.