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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-11-03
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known to every intelligent man that
these things were made to be sold
abroad, and upon contracts entered into
before the manufacture took place.
| 1t is also known that these ar
| ticles-and | am now speaking of
only the commonest and cheapest
eommodities--were sold abroad at prices
varying from SO to $40 ton less than
the same articles from the same factor
les were sold in this country.
1T means simply that our producers
of iron and steel are selling their prod
ucts abroad at fair profit after having
paid our own workingmen the American
compensation, and that they are selling
to the American people at more than a
fair profit, and they accomplish this
end through two agencies; first, com
bination, which subdues competition at
home, and, second, the excessive duties
which exclude competition from abroad
I am protectionist, born and bred, and
stand for the defense of our own
markets.
Il want our producers to take them
at fair American price, and | shall
fight the duty which compels our con-
sumers to pay more than fair Ameri-
can price so long as | have voice and
strength.
There is another thing that we must
do if we would preserve the confidence
of the farmer in the policies of the
republican party. We have not as yet
approached the limit of our agricultural
production, and the farmer must have
his fair chance for the export of his sur
plus products. With the exception OF
Great Britain, all the nations of Europe
are taking measures to exclude our meat
and our breadstuffs. They have been al
ready practically forbidden by the duties
imposed in France, and the doors of
Germany are. about to be closed upon
us.
"These farmers while greatly benefited
by the policy of protection, have, as we
all know, borne the burden of our tariff
laws. The time has come when states
manship demands that, through reel
procity in some form or other, our farm
ers shall be permitted to enter foreign
markets with their products upon even
terms with their competitors everywhere
1t will not do to answer their lmpor-
tunate demands in the language of any
game of chance. 1t will not satisfy
them to say that we are prosperous. The
republican party has always been fol
even-handed justice, and it will not per.
NIT the advocates of selfishness ane
greed to swerve it one hairs breadth
from the path of duty"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-11-03
THROW OUT M'CURDY.
Trustees ofth Mutual Life Insurance
Company Are Threatening.

New York. Oct. 30.-It was learned
today that several of the trustees of
the Mutual Life Insurance company, dis
quoted by the recent revelations of
mismanagement, We're on the point OF
resigning from the board, when the res
olution to investigate the affairs of the
corporation was adopted at Wednesdays
meeting.
The trustees who at first threatened
to resign consulted with financial lead
ers and were advised by one man to
this effect:
stay in and fight and throw the
McCurdy crowd out by the scuff of the
neck"
The resolution passed Wednesday was
practically the outcome of the decision
reached by these trustees and others
who came to regard the situation from
the same viewpoint.
1t was also learned today that Presi
dent McCurdy had intended to make
an elaborate defense at Wednesdays
meeting of the trustees, but changed
his purpose when he was told of the de-
termination of formidable group of
trustees to have an investigation of
their own.
The vacancy caused in the investi-
CATION committee of three by the in
ability of Effingham B. Norris of Phil
adelphia to serve, will probably be filled
on Monday by the two remaining mem
bers William III. Truesdale and John w.
Auchinclose. President McCurdy fatty
refused to say word about the house
cleaning which has been ordered in the
Mutual
Counsel for the Armstrong committee
decided today that the testimony of
Mr. Hartman was very necessary to
make clear certain phases of the Equit-
| able Life scandal. He will be sub
poenaed in due time. There is curiosity
in the financial district as to whether he
will be examined before or after James
Fl. Hyde.
Mr.. Hartman was not examined by
| State Superintendent of Insurance Fran
els Hendricks, the friend of former Gov
ernor Odell. There is a question of YER
acity between Jacob III. Schiff and Mr.
HYDE as to the actual facts about the
Union Pacific holding syndicate, which
dumped Il big block of the preferred
stock upon the Equitable Mr. Hartman
was the chief figure in this syndicate,
which is still in force.
When the Armstrong committee re-
sumes its public hearings on Nov 8
the present plan is to put John r.
Hegeman, president of the Metropolitan
Life. upon the stand and go exhaustive
ly into the subjects of child and in
dustrial insurance generally
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Oct. so-27-Nov. 8, 1905,
ORDER TO EXAMINE ACCOUNT

STATE OF MINNESOTA. County OF Blue
Earth.-ss. I'm probate Court.
In the matter OF the estate of Marie Nj. APPEL.
deceased
on reading and filing the petition of John
Klein. executor of the estate of Marie NJ. APPEL.
deceased. representing among Other things
that he has fully administered said estate,
and praying that time and place be fixed
for examining and allowing the final account
of his administration, and for the assignment
OF the residue OF said estate TO the parties
entitled thereto by law:
Ii Is ordered. that said account be examin-
ed. and petition heard by this court. on Mon
day. the 18th day of November. A.D. ,iA5. at 10
O'Clock a. M. at the probate office, In the city
of Mankato. in said county.
And IL il further ordered. that notice there
of be given to all persons interested by pub
fishing copy of this order once In each week:
for three successive weeks prior 10 said day OF
hearing in the Mankato Free Press. weekly
newspaper printed and published at Mankato.
in said county.
Dated at the city OF Mankato. the 18th day
OF October. A. d.. 1905
BY the Court.
probate Court seaLl WIN. T. HUGHES.
Judge of Probate.
Pau and Pfau. Attorneys.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-11-03
WILL HONOR ] I'm HAY.
Jews to Pay Tribute to One Who Wa .
Their Friend

Washington, Oct. Sion Ihanksgiy-
ling day, which has not yet been an
lnounced. but is unually the last Thurs
Iday in November, the Jews of the Unit
ed States will celebrate in every city
and village the two hundred and fiftieth
anniversary of the arrival of their race
in this land of freedom and equality.
1t is proposed to celebrate the occas-
ion and to express the gratitude of the
Jewish race for the privileges and
blessings they have enjoyed in America
| by erecting memorial in honor of the
late John Hay. who, as secretary of
state, did so mich toward the emeliora
ton of the condition of their co-relig
ionists in Russia, Roumania and other
countries of Europe. Lest future gen.
erations may forget, it is also proposed
TO place in every aynagogue in the
United States perpetual reminder of
Colonel Hay in the form of stained
glass window or tablet or marble or
bronze suitably inscribed.
No similar tribute was ever paid to
any human being-not even to a con-
querer or to king. 1t has not yet
been decided what form the national
tribute shall take. A monument, col
umn or statue in Washington or New
York has been suggested, but it is more
probable that school of political eco
nomy, international law and diplomacy,
will be founded under John Hays name
in connection with one of the American
universities. Brown University, at Prov
idence, where Colonel Hay was gradual
s
which he was an active trustee, and in
which he always took a deep personal
interest; Johns Hopkins, Columbia Uni
versity, New York City; George Wash
ington University in Washington and
other institutions have been suggested.
1t is desired to place the school where
it can bspt serve its purpose, and active
influences are at work in behalf of the
institutions named and others.
The committee in charge consists of
Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., bank
Smithsonian Institute, Professor Jacob
II. Hollander of Johns Hopkins Uniyer
sity, David Guggenheim, the smelter
king; Oscar f.. Straus, formerly minister
to Turkey; Mayer Sulszberger of the
beef trust, Samuel Greenbaum, Max j.
Kohler, Edward Lauterbach, Adolph
Lewisohn, Louis Marshall, Rev. Dr. Per-
EZRA Mendes. n. Taylor Phillips, Simon
w. Rosendale. William Solomon, Isaac
\. Seligman, the banker, and Louis
Stern of Stern Brothers, the New York
merchants. 1t will be noticed that the
committee is mostly composed of New
York men, which is natural, because
more than half the Jews in the United
States reside there; the first immigrants
of that race landed there, and it is prob
able that the larger part of the contrib
utions for the memorial will come from
that city. But it is considered desirable
that every jew in the country, however
poor, shall contribute his mite, to en-
phasize the significance of the move
ment. Committees will be appointed
in every city, town and village where
Jews are living, to secure a unanimous
and a perpetual token of gratitude and
Thanksgiving from the entire Jewish
race to the American republic.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-11-03
ECORD or FIRST CIR NE.
Il ls Found Among the Papers Of Gen.
erai Sibiey.

from Mondays daily.
Records of the first trial for a Grim
committed in the present boundaries o
Minnesota have been found in the let
ters of General Sibley, Major r. /. Hol
combe, who is engaged in writing his
tory of the state of Minnesota, founc
the record while going through the pa
pers of General Sibley.
The trial was for the murder of Al
fred Aitkin, son of 4. Aitkin, for whom
Aitkin county is named. The elder Ait
lin had established trading house al
Sandy lake. I'm the winter of 1887 3s
he Chippewas gave much trouble to the
raiders and missionaries in that region
They visited the trading post while
Aitkin was absent and shot and kill"
lis son, Alfred, who had charge OF J..
)ost Then they forced the other at
endants to give them all the goods they
wanted on unlimited credit.
Aitkin had made a common law mar
riage with a Chippewa woman and hat
several children. The children wert
sent to school and we'll educated an
Alfred then twenty-one years old, was
intelligent and accomplished. Aitkir
captured the Indian who did the shoot
ing and he wrote to Sibley that he had
"the monster in his hands. He had an
accomplice. | win send the monster to
st. Peter and then get after the accom-
plice. | will show these Indians that
they cannot murder with impunity."
The Indian named Che ga wa -skung
was taken to Fort Smelling by John Ait
kin, brother of the trader, and two
others. Soon after he was taken tc
Prairie du Chen, then the county sea-
of Crawford county, Wisconsin, of which
this whole country was then part. II
May, 1888, he was regularly indicted an
tried. Although no question of his guilt
was made, he was acquitted.
Thomas p Burnett, the district attor
ney who prosecuted him, in letter to
Aitkin, says the point made was wheth
er the man killed was an Indian or q
white. The act extending the laws o
congress to Indians excepted offense
committed by one Indian on the pror
erty or person of another Indian. The
Judge said the first rule of the law wa
that the character of the child followe
The mother, but that this rule was su
perseded by another which, upon proc
IF the legitimacy of the child, woul
give to him the character and condition
If the father. To do this it was no
necessary to prove actual marriage b.
certificate or produce license, but tn
sact might be established bv genera
equation and the acknowledgment o
he parents. In the case it was proven
that the parents were generally reputef
TO be husband and wife the deceasef
was acknowledged to be their Legitimate
child and pushed the business and hab
its oftemeiwohinr.c ndAc souaclutn
its of white men. According to the in
tructions of the court this gave hin
he character and rights of white, We
he jury decided he was not SUCH The
indian was then discharged and wen
Dubuque, fearing that Aitkin woulf
take vengeance for the death of his
son.
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Notification.
From Tuesdays Daily.

ciOiH lutSudy ldliy.
In the month of September / predict
ID that the first snowfall in the present
year will occur in Southern Minnesota
respectively Blue Earth county, on Dc.
.ober 2sth to Goth. This, my prediction
$ fulfilled and verified. The first snow
here covered the ground on Sunda,
morning, Oct. 29th, Notwithstanding that
The preceding day was a clear, pleasan'
md cloudless one. which in fact induce
some less skilled in the science of astron
Dmy and meteorology to turn my pre-
fiction into ridicule. Tales ad ignoran
tiae asylum recurreruntl" Meteorologia
ignota in vulgus.
Pupils of astronomy will have a
,hance to observe a spectacle. such as
'oes not occur every year. on Nov 18th
lbout ii o'clock, ID minutes p. M, cen
raj time, the star Aldebaran will oc-
,ult the moon throw shadow. The
,ccultation can be seen with an opera
,lass.
As there are not many who know the
exact position of all the stars of first
magnitude, | will here say, anyone car
find the way, who know the constella
ton Ursa major or dipper, which is q
group of seven stars. Draw a straight
inc from the Grear Bear, or dipper to-
ward the milkway, where it is narrow
md where close by is the bright star
Iapella, in the constellation Auriga,
cross the midway in the same straight
line and one will observe an other bright
star, which is the Aldebaran. North
Of the Aldebaran is group of small
stars, called the Plejades and below
these are the Hyades, group of five
stars and close to the Aldebaran. which
star. belong to the constellation of
Taurus. j. NJ. BRO0ME.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-11-03
COAL IN ALASKA.
Vast Fields Of Anthracite Said to Have
Been Discovered There.

Chicago, Oct. 30.-Word was brought
to Chicago today that vast fields OF
anthracite coal had been discovered il
Alaska. This discovery is of tremend
Gus Importance to all the west and
northwest, as coal prices are almost pro
hibitive because of freight rates. Not
the fullest Importance of the find car
ever be made until the fields are full.
developed and the people of the west
are given an opportunity to replace the
bitumnous coal they are now using with
good, ree-burning, smokeless anthracite.
The discovery was made less than a
month ago by John I. Griffith, Penn
sylvania coal expert in the employ OF
an English syndicate which has secured
control of the Alaska Central railway
He had been in Alaska only four months
and az soon as the cable between Seattle
and Seward, the southern terminus of
the railroad, was opened he made use
of it to transmit the news of his find
to the Chicago office of the railway.
The news was forwarded later by ex>
press with samples of both anthracite
and bituminous, which he found in the
Matanuska mining district in the Ia
mana hills, within a few miles of Fair
banks, the protected northern terminus
of the railroad.
The vein, according to the meager IN
formation obtainable, contains about 10.
900 900 tons of anthracite, but Mr.. Crit
fifth maintains there are infallible signs
of its presence all over the Matanuska
country.
The absence of vegetable matter in
both the anthracite and the bituminous
coal is indicated by the coke that has
been produced from it, which is close
grained and solid. The value of this
fuel in smelter mixing, which is made
possible through its presence in the gold,
silver and copper mining district, is said
to be almost unreasonable.
The land occupied by the coal depos-
its is owned by the United States gov
eminent and the development of these
fields is done only through the usual
methods of claim stalking and occupation
by the settler. 1t will be impossible for
a corporation to hasten the development
Immediately for this reason, and as a
consequence the beginning of spring is
expected to mark an unprecedented rush
to Seward and Fairbanks.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-11-03
Oct. 20. 27-Nov. 3. 1905.
ORDER FOR HEARING PROOF OF WILL

STATE OF MINNESOTA. County a Blue
Earth.-SS In probate court.
In the matter of the estate of Horace T..
Sager deceased.
Whereas. an instrument In writing, pur
porting To be the last will and testament of
Horace f Sager deceased, late of the
said County. has been delivered TO this court:
And whereas, Catharine T.. Sager has filed
Herewith her petition. representing among
other things that said Horace +. Sager
died in said county ON the 18th day of October.
lDO5. testate. and that said petitioner Is the
executor named In said last will and tesla
ment. and praying that the said instrument
may he admitted to probate, and that letters
testamentary be issued thereon TO herself.
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
said ely of Mankato. in said county
on Friday. the 10th day of November. A. D.lS1.
at % O'Clock in the forenoon when all persons
interested may appear for or contest the pro-
bate of said instrument:
And II is further ordered. that notice of the
time and place of said 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 10th day or Octo-
Der. A. ID. 1905.
BY the Court.
Probate Court Seal WIN. h. HUGHES.
Judge of Probate.
Jno. G. Noe. Attorney
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Second Visit of Burglars.

Albert Lea, Oct 3l.-The residences
of Col Charles Jorgenson, proprietor of
Hotel Albert, and W. A. NORM were
both burglarized, this being the second
time each has been ransacked this year.
In the former place they found some
silverware, but the greater part of the
plate was in the safe and locked, but
at the NORM house silverware, a watch
and some money were taken. AT the
former visit the Jorgensen home lost a
vast amount of silverware and at the
NORM home sealskin coat was stolen.
No trace of the thieves in either case
and they are thought to be the same
parties.
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to remember that the people of the
south are tenacious of their political
traditions and habits, and we should not
forget that events of the near future
may impair Mr.. Roosevelt's popularity,
not only in the south, but everywhere in
the country. 1t is theory among acute
observers here that the president is now
at the foodtide of his success. He is
on the crest of the wave. Henceforth
he is to go into slow but marked de.
cline.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-11-03
Receiver Is Asked For.

>
A petition was filed in the United
States district court at ST. Paul, Satur-
day by the American Tobacco company
and two other creditors of the Theopold
Mercantile company of Faribault, ask
ing that the company be declared bank
rupt and for the appointment of re-
ceiver to carry on the business and to
maintain the company as ''going bust
ness" until the appointment of a trus-
tee in bankruptcy.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-11-03
COLO BAH FOR HUNTERS.
Two Boys Have an Unpleasant Exper-
fence at Lake Whitney.

st. Peter, Oct. 3l.-Frank Guentzel
and George Hays, seventeen year old
boys of Lime township, Blue Earth
county, were nearly drowned while
hunting ducks at Lake Whitney yester-
day. Their boat capsized and for FIVE
hours they chung to the overturned
craft. When their cries finally attracted
attention and they were rescued. both
bows were helpless from exposure and
fatigue
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-11-03
Wins Promotion and a Bride.

Winona, Oct. 30.-R. b. Luttgen, who
has been the cashier for the Internation-
al Harvester company at this place for
a number of years, has been promoted to
tn, position of cashier of the Deering
Harvester company, Ltd. of London,
England. Mr.. Luttgen will take bride
with him to England and on next Thurs
dav he will be married to Miss LoelIa
Woodwork of Minneapolis at the home
of the bride. The couple will depart on
Nov. II. for England.
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Mr.. Monks the Lowest.
From Mondays Daily.

Congressman McCleary opened bids
Saturday evening for excavating for his
building on South Front street. Only
two bids were presented, one by John
Bowen. thirty cents a cubic yard, and
the other by George w. Monks, twenty
five cents yard. The bids for the
foundation will be received Thursday
evening.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-11-03
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
FREDERICK Fennern to John Fennern,
lot g, block 80, Mankato city, for $500.
REVEALS Increase Church Attendance,

Sleepy Eve, Oct. 3l-As result of
the revival meetings just closed, the
Congregational, Evangelical, German
Methodist and Baptist churches have
large accessions to their memberships.
More than two hundred of the 247 con-
verts will join these four churches. The
revival, conducted by Rev. Mr.. Lowry,
was the greatest series of meetings ever
held here and produced profound effect
among people of every class.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-11-03
CHILD FATALLY BURNED.
Elsie SteInke Victim Of Fire During
Mothers Absence.

From Tuesday DdIIy.
Sleepy Eye. Oct. 3l.-Elsie Steinke
was burned severely yesterday morning
at the home of her parents, in this city.
While her mother left the house for a
few moments the child was about the
stove with matches. Her skirts took
fire and she was enveloped in flames.
The doctors say recovery is almost i'm
possible
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-11-03
Mostly Liabilities.

From MONDAYS Daily.
William Raines, farmer whose home
is in Elm Creek township, Martin coun-
ty, filed a petition today in involun-
tary bankruptcy. His liabilities are
$8,l3529, of which $4,l2S.90 is secured,
and the assets are $l9l, all exempt.
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The forty-year ago column of The
st. Paul Dispatch contained this: "A
box of strawberries was sent us yester-
day by friend who picked them near
Princeton on Sunday, Oct. %. They
were second crop. Such a thing has
never happened before in our knowl-
edge"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-11-03
Trustee Appointed.

From Tuesday's Daily.
The first meeting of creditors of Ed
son James Morris, Truman bankrupt,
was he'd this forenoon before Referee
fhttie. J. +. Stockman of Fairmont
was appointed trustee and his bond was
placed at $500.
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Married at ST. Peter.

From Thursdays Daily.
Rev. Henry Osgood Harwell, pastor
of the Congregational church at Elmore.
was married today to Miss Matte Krohn
of st. Peter. The bride was formerly
principal of the high school at Elmore.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-11-03

MINNEAPOLIS received 81 cars. against $40
last year. Duluth 2s6 against los.
Minneapolis Cash Close
No. Hard SIS. No. Northern. Sos: No g
Northen s49s: No. 3 Northern Sj9s4.
DuTum 76GA
No. 3 yellow corn. 544: No. 3 corn. a314.
No. 3 White oats. 2Sls: No. 3 oats 26GIe1h.
Barley. 3SGSis
Rye. 66A@67&.
Fax. o.
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Cost of the Koch Trial.

Brown county expended nearly $4,000
in the prosecution of George Koch for
the Gebhard murder. The exact sum
was $22,734.47. The first trial cost 3d.
1884.