The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-11-10
THEY SEEK THEIR MONEY.
Threshers Having Trouble With Their
Employer, He Owes 500.


who has been running the tow mill on
the Northwestern right-of-way for the
past two years, started out at the open
ing of the threshing season with the ex-
pectation of getting rich on one seasons
work. He wound up the season last
week, claiming that he was bankrupt,
and with proceedings in garnishment
against him for various sums amounting
in the aggregate to over 500.
The major portion of that amount, if
not all of it, is due laboring men. Greene
purchased a machine of Farrell & Keefe
of North Redwood three or four months
ago. BY close watching that firm man
aged to get all of the 1905 payments,
for the balance but with his threshing
crew Greene had an entirely different
experience Those who quit working
| for him during the earlier portion of the
the season finally received their money
| by keeping up continual "dunnng" for
the same, but those who continued the
work to the finish, and made only par
tial salary calls, are now on the re-
greet list. James Laird has 1920 coming,
Walter Brown has 500, Peter Yungst,
has $50, Albert Stanley $50.25, Charles
! Zollner $685., William WOrtley $50,
and Vern Baldwin, the young son of
Mrs Monroe Baldwin of the Redwood
House, $75.
| When these men compared notes on
what they had coming from Greene,
about ten days ago. and being unable TO
get any satisfaction out of him, they
made rush for attorneys, with the
result that three were employed, A. c.
Doliff and Bowers & Howard of this
city and John A. Dalzell of Morton.
Each attorney got out separate garnish-
ment papers and the party garnisheed
in each case was J. F. Greenslit, farm
er residing near Morton, who was then,
or is now, owing Greene about $500 for
threshing done. When the papers were
prepared the men demanded their mon
ey. A refusal followed. The garnish
ment papers were served The men
struck. The machine suspended opera
tions, and now Greene is figuring on
passing through bankruptcy, thereby
cutting down the share that the men
will receive for their falls work to
about 25 per cent of what they had
coming. 1t is the worst handling of a
threshing crew recorded in this section
| for many a year.
Following close upon the heels of the
threshing swindle, and a case in which
nearly the same attorneys are interest
ed is that of III. J. Dove, who has been
residing in Sherman township for some
| time past. Dove was a tenant on one
of the farms of that township for sever
al years and during his tenure succeed
ed in placing a chattel mortgage on sew
| eTdl VI SlOCh, T. ~ VI
that town holding the mortgage. A
week or more ago he was preparing to
do the Arab act Farrell & Keefe, a
creditor firm, heard of it, and in fore
ing the collection they were given a
horse covered by the chattel mortgage,
a mortgage which they knew nothing
about. Dickmeier heard of the animal
being taken and made demand for the
return Farrell & Keefe moved rapidly
and caught Dove in the act of leaving
the country The marshal at Fairfax
nailed him on the train at that place
and he was brought to this city and
placed in the Redwood county Jail on
the charge of disposing of chattel mort
gagged property.
Mccoy & Smith were his creditors to
the extent of $780, Saturday morning
Mr.. Mccoy called at the Jail, threw the
''iolly" into the prisoner, whereupon the
latter went down into his pockets, ex-