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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-29

ago left Minneapolis upon his last trip.
just where he went DIR. Butler did not
know, as he was not very familiar with
his fathers business When he left
Minneapolis he was not feeling well.
DIR. Butler states that his father dis
posed of his Board of Trade member
ships at Chicago and Minneapolis at the
time of his failure.
DIR. Butler is assistant city physician
of Minneapolis. His uncle, James Maher
arrived from Ellsworth on the noon
train.
Chief Donahue last night wired to
Conductor <. j. Murphy of the train
that brought Butler to the city, asking
where the man got upon the train. To-
day he received the following reply
"Man got on at Wells. Appeared to be
insane. Think he came from the east
train. Wanted to go to Ellsworth,
Mimi"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-29
GERMAN N. E. CONFERENCE.
Session Now Being Held at Waseca;
Bishop Fitzgerald Presides.

Waseca, Sept. 23.-Rev. c. |. Bublitz
preached the conference sermon last
evening at the nineteenth annual ses-
sion of the Northern German conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Bishop j. \. Fitzgerald of st. Louis is
presiding at the gathering.
Rev. Emil Uhl was reelected secretary
and he appointed Rev. c. H. Souter and
Rev. Jacob Hoffman as assistants. Rev.
Henry Knauff was elected statistical
secretary with Rev. f. Brinkmann and
Rev. w G. Boemmels as assistants.
Rev. John Schneider was reelected con-
ference treasurer, with Rev. Emil Christ
as assistant.
The presiding elders, Rev. J. Hauck of
the South Minnesota district. Rev. C.
l.. Lehnert of the Minneapolis district
and Rev. H. E. Young of the st. Paul
district, read their reports.
Rev. H. Z. Young, having completed
his term of six years as presiding elder
will be superseded at this conference.
| DR.. P. J. Maveety of Battle Creek, Mich
representative of the eleventh general
conference district on the general mis-
sionary committee, addressed the confer
ence, reviewing the development of mis-
sions during the last century and the
outlook for the future.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-29
Mrs. Fannie L. Fancher.

From Thursdays Daily.
Mrs. Fannie l.. Fancher died at hel
home at Dodge Center. Mimi, at sever
o'clock this morning, as result OF
Bright's disease. She had been confined
to her bed for two months, and hel
health had been poor for several years
She was fiftysix years old and is sur
vived by her husband and three sons
the latter being Mark ID. Fancher OF
this city, l.. d. Fancher of Reading
Mimi, and J. C. Fancher of Clements
Mimi, where he is agent for the LairC
Norton Yards.
Nj. ID. Fancher took the noon train
to Dodge Center. where he will join his
wife who went yesterday. The funeral
will probably not be had until Sun.
day.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-29
Mrs. A. N. Douglass.

From Mondays Daily.
Mrs. A. n. Douglass, mother of Mrs.
w. A. Funk, of this city, died at her
home in Minneapolis yesterday morning.
Mrs. Funk was with her for week be-
fore her death, and Mr.. Funk and fam
lily went to Minneapolis yesterday after
noon to attend the funeral services to-
day. The body is being taken to Mar
settles, ILL.,, where Mrs. Douglass two
daughters and other relatives are buried.
Mrs. Jennette (Lathrop) Douglass was
born in Genesee county, New York, and
was married to A. n. Douglass at Ba-
taTia, n. Y. forty six years ago. She
is survived by her husband, and a son
and daughter, Mrs. Funk of Mankato,
and H. n. Douglass, a grain dealer OF
Minneapolis. Mrs. Douglass was mem
Der of the Presbyterian church and a
most excellent woman.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-29

all this increase has been due to larger
purchases from the United States. In
lO94-'O5, for instance, trade with Eu
rope was practically stationary, Ger
many's gain being only $4,000 Spain's
only $747 900 and Great Britain's only
$4,000. We furnish now 44.5 per cent
of Cuba's imports. At our present ra
ito of progress we shall soon be furnish
ing 60 or Is per cent.
ut was argued by the opponents of
reciprocity that Cuba, with her two
great export staples, sugar and tobacco,
enjoying preferential theatment in our
market, would monopolize the advantage
of any trade compact. 1t is true that
our concession of 20 per cent on Cuban
products has led to increased eXporta-
tions to this country. Cuba exported in
1901 'O5 goods valued at 500, of
which we took all but Sl4500,000. But
the fact that the trainers of the reel
procity treaty had to face was that
there exists here an almost unlimited
market for sugar and tobacco, and that
Cuban sugar and tobacco would come
here in enormous quantities whether du-
ties were lowered or not On the other
hand, Il market for American goods in
Cuba had to be won against well es-
tablished and active foreign competition.
The substantial advantage given us by
the reciprocity treaty is shown by the
surprising gains we have made in the
last two years-gains greater than those
made by Cuba in our market. In 1902
'O3 before reciprocity, we bought from
Cuba goods valued at $62,942,790 and
sold her goods valued at $2l ,76l 1913. Our
imports were three times as great as
our exports. Now we are buying prod
ucts valued as $S4,655, 900 and selling
products valued at $37 ,60l 900. Cuba S
sales to us have increased 80 per cent.
Our sales to Cuba have increased 50 per
cent. Our imports are now only Il lit
tie more than twice as great as our eX-
ports. We have every reason to be sat.
isfed with this showing. The reciproci-
ty treaty with Cuba was based on sound
provisions. Its success illustrates the
conditions under which compacts of this
sort can be concluded with national prof
it,"
If reciprocity with Cuba has worked
to our advantage why should it not do
likewise if the same trade relations
were to be entered into with other ma
tons? Is it not worth the trial? Why
not elect men to congress who will favor
reciprocity and assist in extending ou1
markets abroad? This would seem the
part of wisdom.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-29
ANENT THE GIRL.
Storm Lake Hotel Keeper Writes Con-
corning Former Employe.

From Tuesdays Daily.
Several days ago The Free Press pub
lished an item from a st. James news
paper which referred to Mankato girl
who has been employed in hotel at
Storm Lake, Iowa. She left there, was
that village to Mankato. The proprie
tor of the hotel at Storm Lake, w. B.
lows:
''The young lady referred to, will not
mention her name, from the fact that
myself and wife held her in the highest
esteem. This girl has not been well
for some time and during the summer
months we advanced her money to go
to doctor and when we were getting
ready to move here we were pleased to
fetch her with us but did not suppose
a girl of twenty-five would become hys
terically homesick. She cried herself
sick before leaving and was told that
if she was going to feel that way she
had better not come anyway, so we paid
her fare to Storm Lake via lie Mars,
$3.50. took her to a specialist in nervous
diseases here expecting her to repay us
by faithful work; so you can see that
in her short stay of eight days here
favoring her on every corner and work
ing on short time or just when she felt
that way We paid her fare, not to
Mankato but to her home, GAINESVILLE,
Mimi. She stayed over night in Nam
kato with her sister.
eff she was without money for an
emergency we did not know it as she
had been buying different articles
short time before and the fare was all
she asked for.
Gas return we have received this
calumny by mail by some one who did
not care to sign his or her name. [
will ask the GAINESVILLE paper to please
copy this and all who know how we use
our girls know we treat them Justly at
least"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-29
OLD SETTLER GONE.
John .. Evans, Formerly Of South
Bend, Dies.

! From Mondays Daily.
John ID. Evans, a former resident of
South Bend, and one of the very earl
lest settlers in the county, died Satur-
day evening at the home of his sonin-
law, John d. Jones, in Judson. He was
i'll while in California last winter, and
returned in the spring. He leaves a
wife, two sons and one daughter. The
sons are Elmer Z. of North Dakota, and
Arga d., of Minneapolis, and the daugh-
ter is Mrs Effie Thomas of North Da-
kota. ID. ID. Evans of this city, who
lives on the McMahan hill, is brother
of the deceased.
Mr.. Jones was well and favorably
known, and his death will cause regret
among his wide circle of friends. The
funeral services will be held at the resi-
dence of John d. Jones tomorrow at ten
o'clock, and the interment will be had
lat Glenwood cemetery.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-29
Reciprocity in Practice.

The New York Tribune, that great
exponent of republicanism, believes in
reciprocity, and is well pleased with the
reciprocal trade relations which this
country entered into with Cuba. ''The
efficacy of our reciprocity treaty with
Cuba" says The Tribune, sis shown
more clearly with every fresh compila-
ton of Cuban import and export sta
tistics. Recent dispatches from Havana
summarize the islands foreign trade for
the fiscal aver 1904 'O5-the fiscal year
in Cuba extending as ours does, from
July l to June 80 The Bliss Zaldo con-
vention went into effect in January
1904, so that the fiscal year from July
/, 1904, to June 80, 1905. offers the first
full test of its qualities as trade slim
ulant This test meets, and more than
meets, the most sanguine expectations
of the advocates of reciprocity. 1t dis
poses of the charges uttered so persis-
tently in and out of congress, when the
convention was under consideration, that
we were making worthless trade in
vestment, surrendering everything and
getting nothing. After an eighteen
months trial it is apparent that we are
making substantial gains in the Cuban
market, and that if the treaty remains
in force for the next ten years we shall
practically close that market to the Eu-
ropean rivals who up to two or three
years ago were supplying two-thirds of
the volume of Cuba's importA
"Cuba's imports in l904-'05 amounted
in value to $S3,95l, OOO The share of
the United States in this total was $751;
COL ,OOO--or 44.5 per cent. In l903-'04
our total was $2S 100000 and in l902-'O3
S21 ,76l $685. In one year we have made
gain of 100000, in two years gain
of Sl6,OOO,OO0 Cuba is now enjoying
exceptional prosperity and the islands
consuming power is rapidly expanding.
Imports have increased about $20,000,0 900
in the last two years. But practically
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-29
Arnold Stokes.
From THURSDAYS Daily.

From Thursdays Daily
The remains of the late Arnold Stokes
arrived at l2:l5 p. m. today from Far
go, n. d., for burial He was a railroad
man, and formerly lived here. He has
a brother, Ed, living on the Mapleton
road. The remains were taken to the
undertaking rooms of Lamm & Land
hammer. and the funeral will be held
tomorrow at 9 a. m. from st. Peter and
PauPs Catholic church.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-29
Court Denies Motion.

From Thursdays Daily.
Judge Cray today filed an order IN
the case of Joseph W. Davies, admins
traitor of the estate of Henry w. Da-
vies, deceased, VS. Charles w. Johnson.
The plaintiff had moved for an order
striking from the files the defendants
demand for a re trial of this action. The
court denied this motion.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-29
Peter Show.

From THURSDAYS Daily.
Peter, the six year old boy of Mr..
and Mrs. Jass Skow of Rapidan, died
at 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon of
diabetes. He was a promising lad and
the family have the sympathy of their
friends in their loss. The funeral will
take place from the house at noon to-
morrow, and then from the Norwegian
church in Rapidan.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-29
SOME SPRING ISLAND SPICE
What Happened to a Hearty Eater CT
That Town.

A Spring Island resident nearly chok-
ed to death on an inch section of hame-
strap and piece of bit, in the saus
age. Hearty eaters of this famous table
delicacy are often heard to neigh in their
sleep. In Rapidan they spell it equine
wurst and lead it to the table with a
halter.
All Spring Island went to the Gar
den City fair to see the sights, eat
peanuts, and have real nice time. The
band played most all the good old tunes
that have been popular for seventy five
years and pleased everybody heartily
After all, there is no music like 'Annie
Rooney" and "After the Ball." nicely
played by good looking well uniformed
band.
Bert Matthews and family will short
| ly leave for a new home in Spokane.
! They will sell at public auction Oct. Goth,
all household goods, machinery, stock,
etc.
The many friends of Mrs. Sarah Mat
thews will be pleased to learn that she
is nicely located in Wells, where her
daughter Miss Winnifred, has posi-
ton in the graded schools. Robert Mat
thews is student at the high school
there.
Mrs. Higbee, mother of Mrs. Eliza.
beth Hynson, left for her home in Rock
ford, III. A party of ladies were nicely
entertained in her honor Wednesday aft
ernoon. 6
Miss Bessie Mitchell visited relatives
here last week.
The problem of what to do with the
surplus crop money has been neatly
solved by the bright people of this
neighborhood. They will simply invest
a large part of it in winter fannels.
County Surveyor Brooks has surveyed
the Mitchell crossing north of Rapidan
and finds the erection of an overhead
bridge over the railroad track, neither
difficult nor very expensive.
Adjacent property owners of the very
bad slough near the school house met
and voted $40 toward draining the same
and the surveying has already been done
Mr.. J. A. Williams is suffering from
a very lame back.
Joe Phillips has returned to Spring
Island.
Mr.. Knoss is laying the foundation
for a new barn on the poor farm road
Corn is in fine condition for cutting
A team belonging to Seymour Leavitt
attached to a hay loader, made lively
sprint all over the farm one day last
week The horses were all right when
caught but the machine was so badly
broken that the owner has been busy
ever since making repairs.
Miss Abbie NIorey of Wisconsin is the
guest of Mrs. Robert Hynson.
w. A. Just and family of Rapidan
left Wednesday for points in Dakota, to
visit relatives and look after his extern
sive land interests
Miss Esther Cheney handsomely cele
brated her eighteenth birthday anniver-
sary Wednesday night with lively par
ty of sixteen young friends. An ex-
ceedingly pleasant evening was closed
with the serving OF delicious refresh
ments.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-29

The Breeders Gazette very timely
says: Here is the latest result of oul
present policy in matters affecting in
ternational trade. Cablegrams from
Argentina have been received by leading
exporters in New York stating that the
government has given notice that it viii
levy prohibitive tariff at once on al
parts of agricultural and industrial ma
chinery used in repairing and calling OF
American manufacturers to ask the
United States government to interfere
More than thousand car loads of ma
chinery are shipped every year from this
country to Argentina, but the profitable
end of the business is the exporting OF
parts used for repairing, on which the
duty has averaged less than the twenty
five per cent levied on machinery itself
Some day we will realize the economical
truths set forth by President Mckin
ley, The period of exclusion is past
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-29

Fall and winter showing of fashion
able high grade clothing at right prices
at Henry Z. Hance's.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-29

Frank j. Burke of Lake Crystal has
been granted an embaalmers license by
the state board of health.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-03

apparition. The bridge was not crossed
that night. the women accepting the
hospitality of Mr.. Mccormack, at his
house, close by, until the next morning.
The matter has been placed in the
hands of the police, but private citizens
are also investigating. for the com.
munity is thoroughly aroused.
Reports have been current before OF
the appearance of ghosts and the utter
ing of piteous walls in the vicinity OF
the bridge, but little credence was
placed in these reports. There is
story that years ago, when Arnprior was
dense wood, a party OF explorers lost
their way and were drowned in the
creek at the point where the bridge
now stands
On the advice of her physicians, Miss
Lapointe was taken to hospital at Of
tawa. as it was feared that the shock to
her system would prove more serious
than at first anticipated.
News was received by her friends later
informing them that the doctors at the
hospital hold but little hopes for the pa
tents recovery.
Miss Savior, another member Of the
party is also reported as being seriously
i'll as a result of the fright, and she is re-
ceiying medical attendance.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-03

President Roosevelt 1t is persistently
reported that Mr.. Frick will at some
time in the near future enter President
Roosevelt's cabinet. The portfolio
which is to-be offered him has not been
SO positively predicted. There is a
strong impression, however, that ii Sec
rotary Shaw retires next February as it
has been intimated he may, then Mr..
Prick will be invited 20 become the fEan-
cial head Of the government.
Mr. Frick has had a phenomenally sue
of high rank. He has amassed great
wealth in the coke business and in the
steel business in connection with the
Carnegie interests. He is much more
democratic than the Laird OF
Skibo.' He has had taste OF politics
and in quiet way has had good deal
to do with local and state affairs. He
was very warm friend and supporter
of the late Senator NJ. S. Quay, Of Penn
sylyania, and is close personal friend
of former Attorney General, now Sena-
tor p c. Knox.
President Roosevelt became personal
ly acquainted with Mr.. Frick three years
ago this summer, when he attended
Fourth of July celebration in Pittsburg.
as the orator of the Gay and guest OF
honor, and was entertained by Mr. Prick
at the latter's palatial home in the
Smoky city. Since then the Pittsburger
has been a frequent visitor at the white
hOpSe and a fine naintinS rpuresenring
Pittsburg with her glowing furnaces
which hangs IN Mr.. Roosevelt's study is
token Of MIR. Tricks regard for the
president. Mr. Prick also engaged the
French artist. Chartran, to paint q pic
ture of the signing of the peace protocol
with Spain, and presented that to the
late President Mckinley as an addition
to the white house collection CT paint
irgs. The picture cost $4,000.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-03
spook FRIcHTENs GIRL
INTO SERIOUS ILLNESS
Party Of Young People Terrified by
What They Describe as the
Form of Giant.

Arnprior, Ontario.-The following
ghost story is vouched for by all the
persons whose names appear in it, and
all are persons of responsibility;
On Monday night last a number OF
young women anda gentleman, Mr.. John
Mccormack, were returning from a
party and when approaching a bridge
over a small creek near the sawmills OF
the Ottawa Lumber company, at Sandy
Hook, they saw sight which sent q
sniver through them.
Right on the bridge in front of them
stood the form of man of Herculean
proportions. From his mouth appar-
emily issued low muttered sounds, as i!
pleading with somebody.
Several of the women tainted and all
the party was terror-stricken by the
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-03
YOUTH "cOFFINED" AT
STRENUOUS INITIATION
Goes Coasting IN Burial CasEet as One
Of Stunts at High School Iaz-
;ng-Now Very I'll.

Grand Rapids, Mich.-Huron Lake,
high school student. has been i'll for a
month as result of g strenuous initia-
ton given him when he became MEM
Der of the Mu Delta Sigma.
Painting after the ninety-ninth degree
he was assisted home and has since been
lowering between life and death on .
farm near Morley.
The young man has borne up bravely
and refused to divulge even to his moth
er what was done to him and what he
was required to do, but it is learned that
one of the trials he was compelled to
undergo was being placed in a burial
casket, the top screwed on, and the coffin
started down the snow path at the crest
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-03

a,ff,culty in gaining the knowledge de-
sired. The war department recently n
v,ted the japanese minister here to fur
r;sh what information he could on the
.ffects OF bayonet attacks in the present
war hut Mr.. Takahira very politely de-
o,;ned and the general staff has been
obliged to proceed with the investigation
81 such information as had been 10, Oh
t.,ned from our own officers in Man
Churia. coora+.rv
r.st that the japanese government Iei1
.s 81, to adhere strictly to the policy
- retaining all information OF whatever
s . until after the war; when tins gov "
- svnment viii be placed in possession OF
sa 11' facts and figures This appears to
-. On overcautious policy, ana the army
% ~ here cannot understand what
JIM JIM. could come to the japanese by re-
~ a-.ing the effects of their bayonet anu
polu la attacks in the recent battles in
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-03
Garn-Proof Man.

1t has already been suggested that
the appendix should be removed from
every infant as a routine measure.
But this is clearly insufficient, says
the British Medical Journal. The sur
gerry of the future must include far
more than this. The tonsils and tur-
binate bones of the nose must be cut
out, because they may harbor germs.
What Arbuthnot Lane calls the hui
man cesspool" (that is, the large in
testine), must be removed along with
a considerable part OF the upper por-
ton of the alimentary canal, because
it won't be reeded when We begin 10
live on NJ. Berthelot's tabloids and
pills. The; too readily cecaying teeth
will be pulled out in early life and
the germ proof store variety inserted.
The failing human eye will be antici-
pated by spectacles in early youth.
Deficient moral sense and degeneTacy
will be treated by ventilation OF the
brain and removal of the offending
areas. Thus protected against the per-
lis Of Civilization, the man of the conn
ing centuries will be able in his Jour
ney through life to defy the countless
enemies that seek to rob him of health
sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste,
sans everything.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-06-03


of the Crescent avenue hill It is said
he coasted for nearly two blocks in his
CHASTITY toboggan. Returning to the
rooms of the fraternity he is said to have
been placed in the casket at an early
hour in the morning and lowered to the
street by means Of ropes which were let
out hand-over-hand by his fellows.
Swimming in a snow-flled gutter was
part of the programme ard another
ridiculous demand made upon him was
to melt the snow in the street with q
poker heated over gas jet in the fra
ternity rooms.
The climax is said to have been
reached when he was compelled to climb
enc of the trees in the Crescent hill
park to the very dizzy top and sing:
Nearer my God to Thee, nearer than
| ever expect to be-.
Finally he was introduced to the mys-
teries of the black bottle kept for that
specific purpose and which was not filed
with an intoxicant.
Young Lake remained home Ill for q
few days after his initiation, but started
to school when he could no longer stand
the taunts Of his brother fraternity men
who passed his home and yelled to him
as be reclined at Nindow:
How do you like it. Red ~
Painting at school he was compelled
to give it UP and has since been trying
to recover his strength. Bitter feeling
has been aroused by the reve,etion.