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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-10-06
AID FOR THE SCHOOLS
NEARLY HALF AMIlLION DOL LARS
is APPORTIONED.
High Schools Get $4,000, Graded
$4,000 Others receive $751;
600: Deficiencies Allowed.
From Tuesdays Daily.

From Tuesdays Daily.
State Auditor Iverson and State Sup
erintendent Olson have begun the dis
tribution of state aid to the various
high and rural schools. Included in it
are the deficiencies for the years 10000
provided for by the last legislature.
For the year ending July l, 1905, Ia
high schools each received 81 200, or a
total of $2OS,65O This is $500 less than
the full amount each high school may
receive.
For the year 1908, l27 high schools re-
ceive a deficiency of $l2O each, or $l5,-
24O. tr @
For the year 1904, Isl high schools re
ceive deficiency of $l75 each, or $780,,
1875. eat4 let,a
The total amount distributed to high
schools this year is $250,3l5.
One hundred and forty-eight graded
schools each receive this year 1925, or a
total of $77,7OO. There is no deficiency
to be paid the graded schools for the
past two years.
For the past school year 2S7 semi
graded schools each receive $3.50 or a
total of $66OlO This is $40 less than
the full amount that may be allowed
each school.
For the school year 1903, the 27j
semi graded schools which in that year
were entitled to receive the aid receiv-
ed deficiency of $40 each, or $3.50
making total distributed to. semi
graded schools this year of $6S,760
For the past school year 96S first
class rural schools each receive 500, OF a
total of $S9,O56. The full amount which
may be allowed each school of this
class is 1925
Deficiencies are allowed rural schools
for the years 1908 and 1904, amounting
to $1,000
For the past school year 249 second
class rural schools each receive $37, or
1928.
The full amount which may be al
lowed to each class of schools is as fol-
lows: High schools, $500; graded
schools, $3.50; semi graded, $3.50; first
class rural, 1925; second-class rural, $50.
The full amount appropriated by the
legislature for each class of schools is:
High schools, $2l7 900; graded schools.
$4,000; semi graded, $67 900; first and
second-class rural, 100000
The law provides that where the
amount is not sufficient to pay each
school in full, it should be apportioned
pro rata, which accounts for the fact
that this year each class of schools did
not receive the full amount
The total amount distributed as spe-
cial state aid to the various classes of
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-10-06
SUFFERING WITH CANCER.
Or. Welcome; the Aged Physician, Ex.
amined BY Specialist.

From Mondays Daily.
Drs. Stricken, Schoch Fritsche and
Weiser went to Sleepy Eye Monday aft
ernoon to call on DR.. j. w. B. Welcome
ST., and were there met by DR.. Moore
of the University medical department
and Dr. Welcomes two sons, Dr. Fred
Welcome of Minneapolis, and DR.. j. w
B. Welcome, Jr, of Sleepy Eye. DIR
Moore made a critical examination OF
the aged doctor, and concluded and Sc
informed the sufferer that his disease
on the side of his neck is cancer. None
of the physicians in counsel dissented.-
New Ulm News.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-10-06
Will La Toilette Be a Candidate :?

Governor Robert NJ La Toilette is a
candidate for the presidency. The Free
Press expected such an announcement
Some months ago this paper predicted
that Wisconsins chief executive would
get into the running. La FollEtte Will
add spice to a pre-conventioD campaign
He is an able man, an orator and has
the courage of his convictions. He has
Travelled over the country and has spok-
en- to great many audiences. The
people know who Robert NJ. La Toilette
is. They know what he stands Tor
He is a second Roosevelt in many ways
tie is opposed to all forms of corrup-
liou-both in public and privte life
He believes i'll the government regula-
ton of railroad rates, and is not an
ardent standpatter. He will brook nc
foolishness in the enforcement of the
law, and has declared that heightened
thieves should be given no better treat
ment than the low browed villains who
resort to petty burglaries. If the gov
ernor should decide to become a presi-
Dental candidate he will give this coun-
try an exciting exhibition of a strong
man seeking public preferment. People
can look forward to Il whirlwind cam
paign. La Toilette is a campaigner
worthy of the name. He never tires
He is never at loss for word and ne
could measure swords with an able OPP
ponent at any time, at any place. Tie
might not secure the nomination, but
at the end of the race his opponents
would know that they have been trav-
cling fast pace.
La Toilette certainly has had a most
remarkable political career in Wiscon-
sin. He was made county attorney OF
Dane county when a young man, and he
did not ask the permission of the bos-
ses-E. W. Keyes and his crowd, who
ruled things political with an iron hand
if he could become candidate. lie
went before the people on platform
of his own construction and was cleo
ted by big majority. He was reelec-
ted and later he went into the race
for the congressional nomination, and
was laying his wires well before the
machine was aware of that fact. Tie
was nominated and elected. He was
not returned to the lower house, the
corporations not liking his style. of ma
neuvering Years sped by and La Fol
lette became possessed of an ambition
to be governor. He waited until al
other candidates had announced them
selves and then he entered the fight
Immediately there was scattering o.
the other fellows forces. La Toilette
was nominated in the convention with
out struggle. He was renominatet
twice thereafter and his each succeed
ing election was by increased major
titles; and this, too, in spite of the grea
opposition put up by the 'stalwarts" il
his own party. In Wisconsin the PEG
La Toilette. He has driven needed re
forms into the body polite with sledge
pie admire the brainy and plucky Boil
hammer blows. He does not equivo
cate; he does not hesitate to place him
self on record on questions which affec
the public welfare. Bob LaFolette
a trump.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-10-06
Should Organize Clubs.

From Thursdays Daily.
Congressman McCleary's standpa'
ideas do not suit the Mankato board oil
trade any more than they suit the peo
pie who are being robbed by the lumber
trust, so faithfully defended by our con.
gresham two years ago. The next
thing the people should do is to or
ganize reciprocity clubs throughout the
district and prepare to fight the trusts
WINDOW Reporter.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-10-06
FAY DYER is DEAD
Eagle Lake Man Suscumbs to Injuries
at St. Joseph's Hospital.

FROM tuesdays Daily
Fay Dyer of Eagle Lake died at St
Joseph's hospital late yesterday after
noon of injuries which he received in
the threshing machine accident on the
Herin farm near Eagle Lake last Thurs
day morning. Deceased was twenty
seven years old and he is survived by a
wife and two children. The funeral
took place at 2:3O o'clock this after
noon and the remains were inferred in
the Eagle Lake cemetery.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-10-06

that the time has come to have the
big fellow stop crowding the little fell
low off the face of the earth and en-
act and enforce laws which shall put a
quietus on the discrimination which
has been practiced.
Congressman Davis talks like man
who has some regard for the rights OF
the people.
BY the way, where does the second
district congressman stand on this rail
road rate proposition? Is he in favor of
remedial legislation, or is he so lost in
the study of standpattism that he has
not found time to expresses his views
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-10-06
Our Busy President.


President Roosevelt has been busy
man during his incumbency, and his rec
ord of achievements is long one as well
as one which he has right to feel proud
of. The Kansas City Star sums up his
record as follows:
Appointments for Merit - Higher
standard of federal appointments estab-
lished, particularly in the south, and po-
litical pull eliminated from the army.
Civil Service Reform Classified
service extended from $4,000 to $4,000
positions.
rigation-I.aws of 1902 adopted large
ly through the presidents influence.
The Hague Court = Tribunal saved
from failure by reference to it OF Plus
claims.
Roumanian ws-Remonstrance in
behalf of an oppressed people sent to
the Roumanian government.
Coal Strike-Struggle of anthracite
miners settled by the presidents arbi-
tration board
Cuban Reciprocity -Justice done Cuba
at extra session of congress called by
the president for that purpose.
European blockade of Venezuela stop
ped through the presidents intervention
and claims referred to The Hague court
Alaska Boundary-Long standing dis
pute sent through state department to
commission and satisfactorily settled.
Beef Trust-Suit brought by the gov
eminent to prevent conspiracy in re.
straint of trade and trust officials indict
ed for violation of federal courts in
junction.
Postoffice nquiry-Grafters hunted
out, prosecuted and sent to prison.
Kishineff- Protest against massacre
of Jews laid before the car in spite o.
diplomats predictions of failure.
| Panama Canal = Panama republic
promptly recognized, bloodshed ayertet
| and canal work made possible; unweild
ly commission reorganized by the presi
dent after failure of congress to act.
Northwestern Securities Suit-Anti
merger proceedings brought and won il
the face of tremendous pressure from
Wall street.
| Turkish Claims-Fleet dispatched tt
Smyrna, compelling Turkey to keep it
promises.
| Second Hague Conference = Invita-
tons sent by the president to the ma
tions to supplement work of first con
gress.
Santo Domingo-Dominican customs
house administered by executive order
resulting in averting European seizure
and in stopping revolution.
Monroe Doctrine = Extension o
Monroe doctrine definitely announced a
result of American procedure in Vene
Zuold anu IodHlO DOlnlllSO.
Excision of Red Tape-Departmen
efficiency increased through investiga
tions and suggestions to keep commits
sion appointed by the president.
Railroad Rate Control-Governmen
regulation of railroad rates made a def
mite issue before the nation and congress
The Trust Problem = Publicity adopt
ed through the presidents suggestion a
an essential preliminary to the correction
of corporation abuses.
Protection of China Observance o
Chinese neutrality in recent war insure
by note to the powers.
Negotiations between Japal
and Russia arranged by the presiden
and rupture prevented later by his in
tervention to urge settlement.
The Square Deal-Public attention
centered through the presidents effort
on equality before the law and the prin
ciple of ''the supare deal to every man
no more and no less"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-10-06
Archbishop Will Conduct Services.

From Mondays Daily.
The new Catholic school building al
New Ulm. will be dedicated on Sunday
Oct. %. Archbishop John Ireland viii
conduct the services.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-10-06

WANTED Gentleman or lady OF
good standing to travel with rig oil
by rail- Salary, $l072 per year and ex-
penses; paid weekly and expenses adj
vanced Address with stamp. Jos. A.
Alexander, Mankato, Mimi.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-10-06

There is a feeling on the part of the
people that President Roosevelt should
not invade the yellow fever district In
spite of this the president will 60 to
New Orleans.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-10-06

The fact that champagne costs $50
per bottle in Panama is mighty good
excuse for sobriety, declares The Du-
luth Herald.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-10-06
Sale of State Lands.

State Auditor Iverson is advertising a
land sale to be held in this city on
Nov. 4. A notice of the sale appears
elsewhere in this issue.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-10-06

Willis L. Moore's request for an ad-
ditional appropriation for the weather
bureau will stir up a storm of opposi-
tion in congress.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-10-06

1t was hoped that Governor La Fol-
lette would enter the senate and give
that dignifed body an exhibition of the
strenuous life.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-10-06

schools this year, including the def
cheney for the past two years, is
$5l4,744.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-10-06
Be Sure to use a
CreamefTartar
Baking Powder
0uF -

ROYAL Baking Powder is Made Of Cream Of Tartar
and is Free From Alum or Phosphate Acid
Royal Baking Powder is pure and wholesome beyond
question There any doubt of the heathulness
nor of the superiority of the food it leavens.
Consumers sometimes solicited to buy baking
powders other than Royal because they less. 1t is
evident costess they be made onerior Ingredients
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-06-21
Doegie Has Teeth Cleaned.

New York.-"Doggies dentist" That
Is the latest Mrs. Conquest of Boston
probably has the distinction of owning
the first dog that ever underwent the
experience of having his teeth scraped
and polished. She brought Muggins,
for that is his name, all the way here
from Boston to have it done.
Muggins is a Yorkshire and weighs
only two and half pounds. Most of
the two and half is long. wiry hair.
He was seven years old on his birth
day the other day. Mrs. Conquest
noticed that Muggins didn't eat with
his usual gusto She looked him over
and found his teeth were covered with
carbon and tartar to a frightful de-
gree.
Mrs. Conquest brought Muggins t.
New York and gave the case to DR..
Andrew Armstrong.
Muggins was etherized, spool was
put between his jaws and his upper
teeth were cleaned. He was then re.
vived. and the next day was etherizee
and the lower set cleaned.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-06-21
TAR AND FEATHER
SUSPECTED WOMAN
hudson, MICH, SEES WORK OF
VIGILANTES.
RIOTERS FACE PRISON TERM
-Avenging Angels" May Be Lodged
Behind the Bars as the Result Of
Their Work - Reason for
Dastardly Act.

Hudson, Mich. = Twenty centuries
ago, IN Jerusalem, band of yayilantes
prepared to take a woman who had
Deen lndiscreet without the walls of
the city and stone her. Seeking ad-
vice from a lowly Nazarene whose
teachings the majority of the Civilized
world now processes to follow the
regulators" were told to "let him
who is without guilt cast the first
stone"
On April 10, in the year of the same
lowly Nazarene, in this little Mich
1gan town of 5000 inhabitants. a band
OF men and women, ali of whom. so
far as they are known, profess to abide
by the laws laid down by Jesus of
Nazareth, heaped worse indignity
than stoning upon a woman against
whom they had less proof of sin than
had the men against the woman they
would have mobbed save for the inter
probation of the moral law as expressed
by the Great Teacher.
On the night indicated, Mae Post. a
woman who has lived in Hudson for
the greater part of II years, was WIS.,
tied in her home, fiat in the bust
ness center of the town, by a body
OF men and women whom the public
has since dubbed "avenging angels"
Entrance to her home was forced at
the point of revolvers, her companions
one her divorced husband, who was
visiting her, and the other man
whose friendship for the woman was
well known to the people of the town
were kept in submission with re-
volvers at their heads, while the
women angels cut off her hair, adj
ministered a coat of hot tar and en-
bellished the nasty mess with a storm
of feathers. Not content with per-
forming these outrages, the woman
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-06-21

Srie story of a bank cashier whose
aaRculations with the money of the
SauR; that employed him were to the
3fnfit; at the institution although the
cashier himself gained nothing through
ais deals. The story is accurate in
every particular, and the man who fig
1res in it under the name of Brown"
Is multi-millionaire we'll known in
Ghicago and New York. He is called
Blown for the reason that his name is
something else.
When he was IA years of age and at
Aerlded winter school in a backwoods
district in New York state he fractured
some rule of the school into glittering
fragments. Diplomatic intercourse be-
.Eeen Brown and his teacher was rup-
tHTrd at once. Open war followed, with
The result that the strong-armed peda-
4ng1ne beat the boy nearly to death. Ir-
respective Of whatever Brown might
Awe deserved in the administration OF
kiC&ory oil. the thrashing he received
WIS unnecessarily brutal and violent
Brown, however, was not the boy to suf-
9sT for nothing when there was a profit
n sight. His father was dead, and he
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-06-21

who was apparently the leader among
the female vigilantes despatched the
walls and floor of the room, the cloth
ing cut from the woman's body and
her other wearing apparel with ancient
eggs. The vandalism was carried to
such an extent that the woman's en-
tire wardrobe was ruined, embryo
chickens being found in practically
every drawer of her dresser.
The alleged reason for the acts of
these men and women, most of them
prominent residents of the town and
community, was the supposed init
macy of Mrs. Post with Loren Barrett,
well-to-do stockman living near
Hudson. Barrett is a married man.
and at least three of the band of
"avenging angels" were members of
his wife's family. Two others were
his owr brothers.
AS result of the outrage a large
crop Of suits at law have been start
ed, among them damage suits aggre-
eating nearly $4,000, a divorce suit,
and criminal proceedings against four
of he members of the mob In the
criminal proceedings, which charge the
defendants with rioting, the penalty
which the four men who were mem
bers of the party face is a term OF
two years in prison or a fine of $500
or both
Mrs. Mae Bennett Post, the victim
of the "avenging angels" has made
Hudson her home since she was about
15 years of age. She has been twice
married. Her first husband. a worth
less wight named Bennett, whom she
married at the age of 10, failed to sup
| port her, and she was compelled to
earn living for herself and her baby
| boy as a waitress in a local hotel
After few years Bennett died. and
following brief period OF widowhood
the young woman married Gordon
Post, musician of Mansfield. o. She
lived with Post until about a year ago
Her SON had been kept by his grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Hodges. in this
city. Mrs. Post wished to live near
him, and returned to make her resi-
dence here.
Her second husband secured a di.
vorce from her on the grounds of de.
| sertion, but has, it is claimed and
evidence is offered to substantiate the
claim, contributed an amount ayerag.
ing $50 month to Mrs. Posts support
since the divorce was granted
Friendly relations have been main.
tanned between Post and his divorced
wife. and he has on . number OF &C.
casion3 visited her IN her home here
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-06-21
MINNEHAHA.

minutes after her arrival she was pur-
ring and bubbling contentedly, evil
IDENTIFY approaching to the full the ex-
cellence Of my pet brand of the weed,
and utterly oblivious of the fact that
according to the ordinary standards
she was stranger. l fancy that her
unfailing good humor might become
monotonOus if one were to be con-
stantly brought into contact with it.
but as a remedy for the irritation and
worry caused by the vagaries of the
arisrocratic Miss Beauchamp- Cholmod-
eley, Kitty is absolutely infallible.
There is romance connected with a
brown-cIay and reed Indian pipe,
which. with rare originality, has been
christened "Minnehaha" l rescued her
from a disgusting old Piegan brave,
who was continually stuffing her with
vile mixture of "kinnikinnick" and
"black-strap" and blowing her up to
no end when her delicate nature. re
belled at such treatment. Il bought
her for the price of drink, and, after
carefully eliminating all outward
traces of her horrible experience, tried
to bring her gradually to a. state of
utter forgetfulness of her past 1 sup
pose you think that her gratitude is
unbounded. and that she seeks to show
it by her works. Far from it! She is
the most obstinate and sulky member
OF the whole harem. Her temper is
simply awful. and when smoking her
l am never certain that the next in
slant may not witness fiareup which
will be, to say the least, decidedly un-
comfortable for one so near. More
over 1 am not at all certain that have
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-06-21

quite succeeded in divorcing her from
her previous mode of life, for somee-
times when she is consuming the very
best brand of English tobacco l fancy
l can detect faint favor of the old
mixture which, until I rescued her.
was her, sole article of diet.
But the gem of the collection-tte
one which l could least afford to lose
is Nan. She is short. straight-stem
briar, of the form commonly called
bulldog" and the truest friend man
ever had. She has no foibles or. fam
cies; she gives no exhibitions. of tenn
per or petty spite. Changes of cir
cumstances affect her not in the slight
est degree|she is just as happy out
in storm as before a grate-fire and
does her work equally well. Although
she has a decided preference for good
tobacco, yet when for any reason that
is not available, she will take what
ever comes, and do her very best to
consume it as if it were an expensive
brand. She scorns plush-lined cases.
and all other marks of an effete aris-
tocracy. Towards Miss Beauchamp-
Cholmodeley her attitude is one of
amused contempt. And yet in spite of
her bon-hommie, the slightest attempt
to abuse her confidence will cause a
display of that quality colloquially
called "spunk," of which one would not
have thought her capable. Do you won
der that it is Nan who is my constant
companion-my best beloved?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-06-21
NAN

Marie Smythe," and my troubles be-
gan. | found that she required infin-
ltely more attention than before. She
insisted upon being smoked calmly and
smoothly, and rebelled at the bare sug-
gestion of filling her with anything but
the choicest brands of tobacco. 1t was
extremely annoying; and when one
day she fell from the rack in a vain
attempt to assume a naughty manner
towards a humble and inoffensive
"corr-cob' near her, and broke her
poor little imitation-amber heart. l did
not consider it worth repairing.
Fatalism has devotee in the per-
SON of Turkish hookah, whose name
as matter of course is F'atima All
her inherited tendencies ard her early
training fit her foc the station in life
which she now occupies-it is her des-
tiny. Consequently she sees no cause
for worry or ill-temper in the fact that
for weeks at a time she sits in a cor
ner, neglected and almost forgotten.
while some one of her companions oc-
cupies the position of favorite, which
was unquestionably hers for some time
after her advent. She is member Of
that large class who would be spoiled
by too much attention. Ii l were to
smoxe her for week. completely neg
lecting the others. she would become