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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-19
Accused Of Stealing Fixtures
al Belle Plaine.
One of Prisoners Makes Con-
fessi0n to Chief.
Bunch Taken to the Scene OF
the Crime.
From Thursdays Daily.


Henry Clements of Agency Hill;
Dwight Clements of North Mankato
and Ed Kendel of Belle Plane all are
involved in a predicament that may
land the trio in the penitentiary. Chief
Donahue, on request of the Belle Plaine
marshal, Frank Halle, had been on the
lookout for some iron fixtures, a pulley
sprocket wheel and shaft, stolen at
Belle PLANE Sunday night from the
American Grain company's establish
ment. The well known junk dealer,
Swenson, on the Thompson Ravine
road, was notified to watch for the stol-
en- property, and last Tuesday after
noon at five o'clock he telephoned to the
police station that property correspond
ing to the description of the Stolen
goods had been brought to him. The
chief and Officer Vogel went out to
the shop, where the three men We're I'M
loading the stolen property. The Belle
Plaine marshal was notified by tele-
phone and came yesterday to the city
and Kendel and Henry Clements were
arrested. Dwight Clements had mean
time driven with the rig back to Belle
Plaine. Henry Clements declared that
he bought the iron in Belle PLANE, but
Kendel, being kept apart, confessed to
Chief Donahue that he and the others
had stolen the property. Marshal Halle
left for Belle PLANE with the two pris-
oners yesterday afternoon.
Yesterday morning Chief Donahue re-
ceived telephone message from Belle
PLANE to the effect that a milling COM
pany there had missed some valuable
iron. This property was found at the
same junk shop.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-19
Apr. 7-14-21-28, May sic, 1905.
SUMMONS.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
Blue Earth. District Court, Sixth Judicial
District.
Annie NJ. Wilder, Plaintiff, VS.. James s.
Knowles and also a ether persons or par ties
unknown claiming any right title, estate,
lien or interest in the real estate described in
the complaint herein, ID PENDANTS.
The State of Minnesota tn the alb we named
Defendants and all unknown pa ties in the
title hereof referred to:
You, and each of you are hereby summoned
and RI quired to swer the complaint In this
action which is now on file with thu Clerk of
said District Court in Hankato, MINES TIA.
and to serve copy of yOnr answer to the said
complaint on the subscriber at his office ever
the First National Bank in the City of Man.
kato, Blue Earth County. MINES TIA. within
Twenty COY days after the service of this sum-
mons upon you. exclusive of the day of such
service and if You fail to answer the said com.
plant within the time aforesaid the plaintiff
above named will apply tn the court for the
lief demanded in said complaint.
Dated this 18th day of march, A. ID. 1905
s. b WILSON,
rceber Attorney for Plaintiff.
20 fS3 Mankat:, Minnesota.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-19

The county commissioners met yester-
Blue Earth county on the county line
road at the LIE Sueur river and after
viewing the place decided to erect a
bridge. This will be done Immediately
we are. informed providing the town
ships will relay the road and work it.
According to reports it seems the road
has lapsed or reverted as it is termed
on account of non use. But in this
opinion it is Thought the commissioners
have jumped at conclusions. Undoubt-
eddy the road still exists notwithstand-
ing the fact that it has not been used
GAINESVILLE Argus.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-19
Sad Affair Occurred Early Sat.
urday Evening.
Boy Pitches Headlong Out OF
Upper Window.
Strikes on Steps Below and
Dies Instantly.
From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
Little Bertram Morrill,, the two year
old son of Mrs. Laura Morrill,, was kill
ed instantly in fall last Saturday eve-
ming at the family home, lO3 Locust
street. The child was playing upstairs
in room with a window looking out
upon the roof of the porch. A screen
was on this window, but was not well
fastened, and the baby, in running
against it, pushed it off. The window
sill was about eight inches above the
floor, so that the boy easily rolled out
after the screen upon the porch roof.
This roof was quite steep and there
was nothing there for the child to catch
hold of. He screamed, rolled off the
roof and fell to the porch steps about
eight feet below the edge of the roof.
His head struck against the edge of
one of the steps and he was instant
ly killed. The cnild's mother, who hap
pened to be in the room downstairs, adj
jacent to the porch, rushed out and
picked up the little one. Realizing in
a moment that he was dead, she became
frantic. Her reason left her for the
time and she was removed to the home
of her sister, Mrs. Peter Krost on
Broad street. The body of the child was
removed. to Lamm & Landowners un-
dertaking rooms. Mrs. Morrill, regain
ed possession of her faculties number
of hours later.
The child's death is all the more SER
ious to Mrs. Morrill, from the fact that
he was her only one. She is but TWEEN
ty-three years old, but is already wild
ow, her husband, Bert r. Morrill,, recent
ly warehouseman for the International
Harvester company, having died about
three months ago. She is sister of Mrs.
Peter Krost and Mrs. George Krost
The funeral was held this afternoon
from the st. Johns Catholic cnurch at
two o'clock.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-19
FARMS FOR SALE.
State Will Sell Land to An Army o.
Settlers.
Evnyv, TNa;l

Settlers.
From Tuesdays Daily.
1t is possible that 100000 acres of
state lands will be sold next fall by
State Auditor S. G. Iverson. This is
the maximum amount prescribed by the
law and is more than twice as many
acres as were sold by the state last
year.
Mr.. Iverson said yesterday that he
would hold several land sales next fall.
The dates and places have not been ar
ranged, but it is probable that sales
will be held in Aitkin, Carlton, st.
Louis, Crow Wing, Cass, Hubbard and
possibly Polk, Becker and Beltrami
counties. The sales will be held prob
ably in September or October.
Mr.. Warner, in charge of the state
immigration bureau, has prepared the
following statement explaining the
terms on which state lands will be
sold:
minnesota owns 100000 acres of
land which are sold at public auction
to the highest bidder. Not more than
800 acres can be bought by single
purchaser. Fifteen per cent of the pur-
chase price must be paid at the time of
sale; the balance may be paid at any
time within forty years, interest at 4
per cent per annumL
Several state land sales will be held
during the autumn of 1905, and an UNI
equaled opportunity is offered the man
of small means to secure home. Full
information will be furnished upon APP
plication of the state land commission
err at st Paul, Mimi"
1t is understood that a large guam
tity of the land that will be offered for
sale is located in settled districts with
in few miles of railroads and near
schools and churches. For this reason
a good price is expected. the average
price which state school lands
have brought has been 1926, but it is
thought that the lands offered for sale
by the state auditor next fall will bring
an average of at least $40 an acre.
estate land is better than home
stead" said Mr.. Warner yesterday.
''The terms are almost as easy, and
there is no trouble and expense of prov
ing up By buying state lands, more
over, the settler is able to locate in set
tied portions of the country, close to
railroads and schools and churches.
When settler takes homestead he
has to pay filing fee of $l4 or SIS
Besides many other incidental expen-
ses, it costs him about $50 to prove
up. gc
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-19
FORMER PASTOR CALLS HERE
Rev. Charles w. Savidse, An Early
Day Preacher.

From Thursdays Daily.
Rev. Charles Savidge, pastor of the
Peoples church of Omaha and former
pastor of the Centenary Methodist
Episcopal church of this city, is calling
on former members of his church and
old acquaintance. Mr.. Savidge is
stopping here for two days and on Fri
day will leave for Cleveland where he
gives lecture on that evening on
STRUGGLES and Triumphs," being in real
ity history of his own life. Cleveland
was his boyhood home, his father NOV
ing there in 1858. Many of the old res
idents of Mankato will remember Rev.
Savidge's father, who is now past
eighty and who served as chaplain in the
Fourth Minnesota during the Civil War.
While in one of the scrimmages his life
was saved by testament which he al
ways carried in mis- inside pocket.
Rev. Savidge's father and mother
now reside in Auburn, Neb., his mother
being also upwards of eighty years of
age. Rev. Sayidge came to Mankato in
the fall of 1870, having been sent here
by Bishop Peck with instructions to
minister to the spiritual wants of the
people of the Methodist Episcopal
church of Mankato and to pay off a
debt of $4,000 which was then owing on
that edifice
Mr.. Peck was the largest man physic-
ally who has ever held the high office
of bishop of this state. In the fall of
1882, Rev. Savidge was sent by Bishop
Merrill to Omaha, where he has re-
manned ever since and is now pastor of
the Peoples churc hwnich he founded
fourteen years ago. He is a pleasant
gentleman to meet and mis- old acquaint-
ances were delighted to receive a call
from him.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-19
METHODIST CAMP MEETING.
Old Fashioned One to Be Held at Fair
mont June 20 to July g.

mont June ~ 70 July y.
From Mondays Daily.
The Sentinel states that good old
fashioned Free Methodist camp meet
ing is to be held in Fairmont, begin
ming on June 20 and closing on July
9th. The meeting will be held in the
fine maple grove in the Ward pasture,
the place where large tennis court was
maintained some years ago.
Locally Mr.. S. A. Bradley of this
place is the committee in charge of
general arrangements. G. S. Phillips
of Smith Mills and John Sutton of Es-
therville are the other members of the
committee.
1t has been a long time since camp
meeting by this sect has been held in
Fairmont. Twenty to thirty years
years ago Free Methodist camp meet
ings were quite common in Martin and
Faribault counties every summer.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-19
COUNT BIRTHS AND DEATHS.
Enumerators Viii Assist the State
Board Of Health.

Board Of Health.
From Tuesdays Daily.
The state board of health is negoti-
ating to secure the cooperation of the
800 census enumerators who will be-
gin to count the people in Minnesota,
June |, in an attempt to get complete
returns of the births and deaths in the
state during the last year.
DR.. II. NJ. Bracken, secretary of the
board, has prepared circulars, which will
be sent to enumerators, requesting them
to inquire of all families visited if any
deaths and births have not been report
ed to the board. Circulars will also be
sent to clerks of the district courts re-
questing their cooperation.
This is one of seevral plans adopted
by the state board of health to make
the returns of Minnesota's vital sta
'tistics accurate. At present the statist-
les from Minnesota are not approved by
the United States census, so that Min
nesota is not so-called registered state
as regards its vital statistics.
''The state census is about to be tax.
en- and the enumerators can greatly as
sist us in making the returns complete"
says DIR. Bracken othe clerks of the
district courts. 'We are prepared to
put in the hands of each enumeration a
list of all the deaths that have been
reported to this office from his district
for the year 1904, and ask him to col
lect for us any death reports not re-
corded on the list furnished him.
"These enumerators cannot be ex-
pected to do this work without compen-
sation. The law provides fee for
health officers and town clerks for re-
porting births and deaths, but it makes
no provision for the payment of fees
to outside persons. We are prepared
to pay for returns made to us by the
census enumerators ont of the general
funds of this board. / think that the
United States census bureau paid 10
cents for each birth and death reported.
We are willing to pay the same to the
enumeratOrs.
"There are instances where town
clerks will act as enumerators. We will
furnish such clerks with list of all
the deaths which have been reported to
this office for tine district which they
represent. They are entitled to 25 cents
for each such return made to them"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-19
Wreck at GAINESVILLE.
From Tuesdays Daily.

from lTueSday'S Daily.
The west bound passenger train, No.
SOB, on the Northwestern road was four
hours late Sunday which was due to a
wreck early Sunday morning at James
vile, Wis. The wreck consisted of the
tender and two cars being derailed and
the time was lost in getting another
engine and making up another train
1t occurred just short distance from
the depot and no one was injured.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-19
M4RsHALL's BAD FIRE.
Double Store Building Burned There
Yesterday Morning.

Marshall, May l6.-The Parsons
building, double store, two-story brick
structure, occupied by P. H. Rose &
Co., as dry goods store, with $4,000
stock, was destroyed by fire at four
o'clock yesterday morning Loss on
building $4,000. The following stocks
in adjoining buildings were damaged:
Wilson Mercantile company, $1,000; j.
n. Barkee, furniture, $4,000; V. B.
GIFTS company, groceries, $500; Thomp-
son cigar factory, $500; S. E. Whitmore
dentist, $500; A. d. Hard, physician,
500; NJ. f. Mathews, lawyer, 800;
Thomas Baldwin, $lO0. All injured.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-19
Charles ]. Stannard.
From Thursdays Daily

from thursdays Daily.
Another old settler of these parts,
who helped to establish civilization in
the wilderness, Charles j. Stannard, has
passed into the unknown beyond. Mr..
Stannard died this morning at about
l2:l5 o'clock at his home. 222 North
Fourth Street. He had been i'll during
the past four or five weeks with
Brights disease and la grippe. He
would be fiftyeight years old on July
IL next.
Charles J. Stannard was born at
Rome, n. Y, being the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Benjamin w. Stannard. In 1854,
when he was but seven years old, the
family came to Mankato, and settled
on what is now the Fuller farm, a few
miles from the city. At the age of
seventeen, the boy enlisted in the artil.
lery service, and remained with the ma
TONS military forces during almost a
year of the Civil war. After the war
the family moved to the city, and the
young man took up the trade of carpen-
ter. In 1875, he was married to Miss
Florence Payne, also of Mankato. They
have mad two sons, Hale Stannard, now
American Express agent at Hibbing
MIMI, and Ben Stannard, who died
eight years ago at the age of fifteen
Mrs. Charles j. Stannard survives her
husband, and he also has one brother
H. r. Stannard, living at Springfield
Mo. Charles j. Stannard lived life OF
honesty and usefulness, and his home
life had all the happiness that true
family affection can give.
The funeral will be held from the
residence on Saturday afternoon at two
O'Clock, conducted by Rev. Geo. W.
Davis. The interment will take place
in Glenwood cemetery.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-19
Notice of Annual Meeting.

The annual meeting of the stockhold
ers of the Free Press Printing com
pany will be held at the company's of
flee in the city of Mankato, on Mon
day, June 5th, 1905, at ten o'clock, a
m, at which time the election of 6
board of five directors will occur an(
the transaction of any other business
j. w. True, Vice President.
E. F. Soaring, Secretary.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-19

There is a man in Mankato advertis-
were many peculiar people in Mankato
but this person is certainly something
remarkable for peculiar notions. When
the newspaper man from Sherburn lost
his umbrella, in Mankato, while look.
ing right at it and never to this day
mas seen neither hide nor hair of it, how
does the gentleman of that city expect
his rain shed to be returned when tax.
on by mistake ?"-Lake Crystal Union
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-19
May 5, IL, 10, 1905.
ORDER FOR HEARING APPLICATION FCR
APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATORS.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
Earth. In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate OF Annie La Favor.
deceased.
On receiving and filing the petition of James
Chase of the county of Blue Earth, representing
among other things that Annie La Favor, late
OF the county of Blue Earth, in the
state OF Minnesota. on the 18th day of
April, A. d. 1905, at the county of
Blue Earth died intestate and being an
inhabitaut of this county at the time of her
death. leaving goods, chattels and estate with
in this county, and that the said petitioner is
a SON of said deceased, and praying that
administration If said estate be to himself
granted.
1t is ordered, that said retition be heard be-.
fore said court Friday, the 10th day OF
May. A. D.. 1905, at 10 o'clock. a. m: at the
probate Office in the court house in Mankato,
said county.
Ordered further. that notice thereof be given
to the heirs of said deceased and to all persons
interested, by publishing this order o. ce in
each week for three successive weeks prior TO
said d 4y of hearing IN the Mankato Free Press.
weekly newspaper printed and published at
Mankato, in SAID county.
Dated at Mankato, the END day OF April,
A. d 1905.
By the Court.
4 Probate Court Seal.l WIN. +. HUGHES.
Judge of Probate
Sam. b. Wilson. Attorney.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-19
NlCOLLEr COUNTY COUNTERS
Enumerators Who Will Get Among
the People in June.

From Thursdays Daily.
Martin Larson has received the neces-
sary recommendation for the appoint
ment as census enumeration of North
Mankato. The other enumerators in
Nicollet county, as the recommends
tons appear, will be: Ridgely, Ernest
Kienlien; West Newton, Joseph Alt
man; Lafayette town and village, Mar
tin Retrum; CORTLAND, Kopperstein;
Nicollet town and village, c. H. Cut
kosky, Belgrade, Aug. Peterson; Osha
wa, E. w. johnson; Traverse, Theo
Holmberg; Lake Prairie, Albert Hanson
New Sweden, Arthur Hegstrom; Bern
adotte and Brighton, J. T.. Peterson
Cranky, F. d. Currier; st. Peter, LIST
ward, ]. A. Loehl; st. Peter, Cd ward
G. A. Blomberg.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-19
Mr.. MCCONNELL TO ATTEND.
Editor Will Meet With Dairy Food
Commissioners.


Hon. w. w. p. Mcconnell, editor of
The Western Farmer and Dairyman,
published by The Free Press Printing
company, will attend and participate in
the proceedings of the ninth annual
meeting of the National Association of
State Dairy and Food Departments, to
be held at Portland, Oregon, July To-
Ia, 1908. Mr.. Mcconnell is president
of the associa alton, position to which
he was elected in recognition of his
well-known efficiency as servant of
the public while on the Minnesota state
dairy and food commission. Men emf
nent in the science of analysing foods
and protecting the people from impure
eatables will assemble from many parts
of the country to hold their annual
conclave and compare notes.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-19
NOTICE OF LIS PENDENs.

STATE OF MINNESOTA. COUNTY OF
District.
Annie NJ Wilder, Plaintiff. vs.. jams s.
Knowles and also all other persons or parties
unknown claiming sny right, title, estate. lien
or interest in the real est ate described in the
complaint herein, Defendant.
Notice is hereby given that an action has
been 'mmencad in this court by the above
named plaintiff against the above nam ID
defeR fants for the purpose of parfecting
the title to certain real estate in the plain
tiff abov named and the premises affected by
said action are situated in the County of Blue
Earth and State of Minnesota. and are de-
scr,bed as follows: The South half ca If the
southwest Quarter of Section Nineteen Ua) in
Township One Hundred Five (t05) North of
Range Twenty-eignt (2s West.
Dated this 18th day of March. A. d. 1903
=. B WILSON,
Plaintiffs Attorney,
Mankato, Minnesota.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-19
BOYS ATE WILD PARsNIPs.
Very Close to Their Death; Physician
Saves Them.


From Mondays Daily.
Joseph Russell, the thirteen year old
son of Michael Russell, Fifth and Wal
nut streets, and Robert Alworth, eleven
years old, son of Martin Alworth, III
South Fourth street, had very narrow
escapes from death by poisoning yester-
day. In the afternoon the boys pull
ed up some wild parsnips that they
found growing in yard at Fourth and
Main streets and thinking them to be
horseradish, peeled and ate them. Some
hours later both were taken violently
ill and it was thought for a time that
they might die, but this morning both
were out of danger, physicians SER
vices having been promptly secured.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-19

The county board went to Waseca
Tuesday and all of the commissioners
with the exception of Commissioner
Paddock, went to the county line where
it is proposed to erect a joint bridge.
Mr.. Paddock returned to Mankato, the
balance of the commissioners having
been unable to return from the bridge
site on account of the rain. 1t is not
known what conclusion was reached.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-19
Bridge Repaired.
From Tuesdays Daily.

From Tuesdays Daily.
The bridge or trestle west of Court
land that sunk under Conductor Rich
ardson's train the other day has been
repaired. Conductor Richardson took
his train over it yesterday morning for
the first time since the washout.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-19
Retail Druggists Organize.

From Mondays Daily.
Blue Earth county retail druggists
have organized an association, electing
J. E. Seidel. Mankato, president; Julius
Doxey, Mankato, secretary; john
Schweitzer, Napoleon, vice president;
and E. Hirscher, Good Thunder, treas
urer.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-19
RETURNS WITH BODY.
Charles Gustafson Returns From His
Sad Errand to Chicago.


From Thursdays Daily.
Last night Charles Gustafson of Ka-
sofa returned to Mankato from Chicago,
with the remains of his brother, August
Gustafson, who was killed in that city
last Monday. The unfortunate man was
attending to mortar bed, when huge
stone, suspended from a derrick, slipped
loose from one of the hooks, and struck
him, breaking his back and neck, and
killing him instantly. The funeral was
held this afternoon at Kasota, and was
attended by large force of brother
workmen who came back with the re-
mains from Chicago. Many of these
workmen reside in Mankato.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-19

Ill-health induced Emil Lundberg, a
young nurse at the stat hospital at ST.
Peter, highly respected man of good
habits, to drown himself in the Mime
sofa river on Sunday, April 30 The
body was found eight days later, three
quarters of mile further down stream.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-19
a cuAeANTEEo CURE roR pILEs

Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding
Piles. Druggists refund money II PAZO
OINTMENT fails to cure any case, no
matter of how lond standing, in 6 to IA
days. First application gives ease and
rest. so C. If your druggist hasn't it
send soc in stamps and IL will be for
warded postpaid by Paris Medicine Co..
st. Louis. Mo.