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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-02-23
GARDEN CITY GOSSIP.
Receptions and Other Social Func-
tons Of the Week.

Lyle Norton was a Mankato visitor
Saturday.
Charles Scott was in Wilder last week
visiting at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Will Duffield.
A reception was given in the Knights
of Pythias hall Friday evening for Mr..
and Mrs. John Camp by the Z. F. U.
lodge. About thirtyfve of Mr.. and
Mrs. Camps friends were present. The
couple were the recipients of some very
nice presents. Mr.. and Mrs. Camp will
leave for Idaho the first of next week.
Their many friends will be sorry to
have them go.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Bixby were Lake
Crystal callers Tuesday.
Vernon Center Knights of Pythias
lodge No. SO, invited Garden City lodge
No. 1853, and Winnebago City and Lake
Crystal No. 80; also members of other
lodges, the occasion being the forty
second anniversary of the founding of
the order of Knights of Pythias. The
third rank will be conferred on three
candidates.
Wednesday dinner will be served in
the Baptist church.
Sherman Thurston's youngest children
Wayne and We're are sick with pneu-
monia.
Wednesday evening the N. w. A.
lodge is going to Vernon Center. A few
members are installed.
E. w. Gates went to st. Paul last
Monday on business trip.
jim Nelson Is very i'll with cancer of
the stomach. He formerly lived here.
The silver medal which was given in
the Methodist Episcopal church Thurs
day evening was well attended, and Miss
Rhoda Chapman received the prize.
Wednesday evening, Mrs. Josie Ray
and Mrs. Albert Bier joined the Rath-
bone Sisters lodge. A fine supper was
served after the work.
Mrs. Ezra Gates and Miss Lucy were
in Mankato on Monday.
Charles Scott was pleasantly surpris-
ed on his birthday, Monday, by his
friends and neighbors. All enjoyed a
fine time.
Howard Hazel visited Mankato on
Friday.
Miss Loura Buckles spent Sunday at
home.
Otto Goldenstar. who is attending jury
in Mankato, spent Sunday at home.
Ezra Gates was in Mapleton last
week
Lake Crystal high school will give a
concert in the M. w. A. hall Friday
night.
A dinner will be given at Mrs. Geo.
Goodall's on Friday.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-02-23
ACCUSED OF PERJURY.
Five Men From Triumph in Trouble
With Uncle Sam.

James Meehap, Abraham Catlin, John
D. Hildengorf, Perly R. Stiles and Henry
Groth of Triumph, Martin county, were
brought before United States Commits
sioner Eberhart today on charge OF
having made false affidavits to final
proofs in homestead entries, Chamber
lain land district. These gentlemen were
indicted by the federal grand jury sit
ting at Sioux Falls, S. D., but their ar
rest had to be made by the authori-
ties in this district. This was done at
Triumph this morning by Deputy Unit
ed States Marshals Rich and Mallory.
Each defendant gave a bond in the sum
of 81 900 for his appearance at the Sioux
Falls term of the federal court which
convenes April 3.
1t is alleged that the perjury was
committed June 10, 1904.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-02-23
ALL TO ST. CLOUD.
Three Prisoners Get Their Dues This
Afternoon.

From Thursdays Daily.
Three of the prisoners received their
sentences in the district court this after
stand up, and said that he is twenty
one years old, and has done painting
He had been convicted of petit larceny
twice. Judge Plymat spoke upon his
behalf, asking mercy, saying that liquor
had caused Williams downfall each time
This time only few rags had been
stolen. The court said that he had little
patience with one who gets drunk when
he knows the consequences of it. He
sentenced Williams to the state reform
atOry at st. Cloud.
John Dotson said that he is twenty
one years old, and farm laborer W.
r. Geddes spoke in his behalf, and asked
IL Jail sentence for his client. The jury
had recommended mercy in this case.
The court said that he was not in favor
of Jail sentences for offenses as serious
as this one was, as a rule, for it left
the prisoner in idleness, when he ought
the state reformatory.
Edward Wilson said that he was thir-
ty-three years of age, and stationary
engineer The court decided to send
him, also, to st. Cloud.
Edward Pierce will probably be SEN
fenced tomorrow or next day.
The suit of Alexander Morrison VS..
William r. Barnes and others went to
the jury this afternoon.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-02-23
Met Former Minnes0tians.

From Fridays Daily.
Editor Hotaling of The Mapleton En-
terprise has been down to French Lick
Springs. Indiana, and this week regales
his readers with couple of columns
of excellent reading matter descriptive
of that famous resort. Mr.. HOtaling
was attending meeting of the executive
committee of the National Editorial as
ISOLATION and he had the pleasure of
meeting several former Minnesotians
Among them was Willard Johnson.
publisher of The Memphis, Texas, Her.
aid. Mr. johnson is former Blue
Earth county boy and his father is
still living in Mankato.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-02-23
SENDS OUT AN INQUIRY.
State Highway Commission Is Seek
ing Much information.

The state highway commission is get
ting active, but before any work can be
done it is necessary for the state to
familiafize itself with conditions The
commission has sent to officials in the
several counties the following questions
to be answered.:
How many miles of county roads in
your county? r...t
How many miles of town roads in
your county. @
How many miles of gravel and macad-
am roads?
WHAT is the general character of soil
and surface?
Amount of road tax raised by your
county in 1905? ,.,.,
Amount of road tax raised: by your
towns in 1905? n $50
Under what method is your county
road and bridge fund expended?
Under what method is your town road
and bridge fund expended?
How many of your towns use the stat
ute labor tax system?
What is the general sentiment in
your county toward abolishing the stat
ute labor tax in favor of cash pay
ments?
What road machinery is in use in
your county?
How many road overseers are there in
your county?
Average yearly amount paid your
road >overseers either in cash or rebate
on taxes?
What is the general sentiment in
your county as to the highway commits
sion and better roads?
What is the sentiment as to increasing
the state road tax from one-twentieth
to one fourth of a mill?
Have you any good road associations?
If so, send names and addresses of Of
ficers.
Can you suggest the name of some
competent person, interested in the
good roads movement, to act as COR
responding agent for the highway COM
mission?
What information can you give as to
availability of road material in your
county? $50
The l-2O mill tax for roads and
bridges has been levied, but will not be
available until March, 1907.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-02-23
FIFTY YEARS HAVE PASSED
Pioneers of CRANKY, NicoIlet County
Will Hold a Celebration.

Fifty years ago there came to Nicol-
let county from Wisconsin, eleven fam
lilies of pioneer citizens, who settled in
what afterwards became the townships
of Brighton and CRANKY. OF the par
ents who came at that time, only one
is living, Mrs Mary Peterson, mother of
S. o. Peterson, of Brighton, and who
now resides with her daughter, Mrs. E.
L. Scholert, in Iowa, at the age of sew
ty-five wears. These old pioneers
brought with them children, who were
then young pioneers, but who are now
among our old pioneers, and splendid
citizens of our county, says The st. Pc
ter Tribune.
Fifty years ago they with their par
ents left the state of Wisconsin and
crossed the trackless prairies by OK team
to found a home in Minnesota, then a
territory, and have lived to see our now
MAGNIFICENT commonwealth one of the
greatest and progressive states in the
Union. These four pioneer citizens that
came to Minnesota when boys are:
Christopher and Andrew Jensen, and S.
O. Peterson of Brighton, and Peter G..
Peterson, of CRANKY. And now, after
lapse of fifty years, in June next, they
propose to have an anniversary celebra-
ton in honor of the event. Some time
AGO. Senator Knute Nelson, who came
from the same county in Wisconsin as
did these four pioneers, promised Peter
G. Peterson of CRANKY that some time
he intended to make him visit and it
has been decided that the fiftieth ami
versary of these old pioneers will be the
opportune time to have the senator with
them, and every effort will be made to
have him with them at that time, and
we hope they will succeed. Between
now and the date for the anniversary,
the preliminaries will be arranged, and
we hope to be there, as we know the oc-
casion will be an event in the lives of
the old pioneers, and interesting to all
who may. be fortunate enough to take
part in the happy event.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-02-23

ing constant payments for labor and ma
terial.
The company's assets consist mainly
of machinery and tools, very large
amount having been invested in the
same, and in the percentages held back
on government and other work until the
contracts are completed. The receivers
appointed by Judge Lochren were w. j
Merchant and Fred kron of this city
and John A. Nelson of Minneapolis.
Those creditors who stand to be losers
are all individuals. and in one or two
instances those who placed their entire
means at the disposal of the company
in the effort to keep it on its feet find
themselves suddenly deprived of all
even to their homes. They had mortgag-
ed everything to the limit in their con-
fidence in the solvency and ability of
the company to complete its contracts
A great deal of sympathy is felt for
these as well as for all other losers.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-02-23
Banks Have Money Galore.

Albert, Lea, Feb. l6.- According to
their statements, the three banks in this
city have combined capital stock and
surplus of $247 800, and the nine in
Freeborn county, $35O300. The loans
and discounts of the three in this city
reached $942,6lS.92, and added to the
other six in the county, the total was
81. 1928 ,655.lO. In the matter of deposits,
the figures were decidedly interesting, as
the banks in this city have $l,0s2, 256.57,
while the total of the nine in the county
foots up $l,4S96SS97.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-02-23
KERNS AND HEBRON.
Evangelistic Meetings; Mr.. Foster
May BE Operated On

Rev. y. NJ Leichliter of Spencer
Iowa, began a series of evangelistic
meetings in the Kerns church last Sun
day evening and will continue them two
weeks.
Mrs. William ii. Sharp, who under
went an operation last week in the hos
pital in Mankato, is doing nicely.
II. d. Trask, who broke his hip some
time ago, sat up in his chair last Sun
day, the first time since his. injury.
Mrs. George Cole has gone to Balaton
to visit relatives. Her husband is trap
ping there this winter. af'l
Eugene Culp who has been working
for T. Z. Jefferson underwent an opera
ton at st. Joseph's hospital last week.
The oyster supper at the parsonage
last Friday evening was well attended,
considering the storm. 7
Miss Winnie Rist, who is attending
the high school in Mankato, spent Sat
urday and Sunday at home. eolsy
There is considerable sickness in this
section with colds and the grips,
Rev. Young of the Hebron church has
been on the sick list for two weeks and
service was held in the church last Sun
day.
Mrs. a. C. Wolcott, widow of a for
mer pastor at Hebron, visited in this vi
entity last Saturday and Sunday. Mrs.
Willis Wolcott accompanied her.
William johnson shipped a car load
of fat cattle from Judson last week.
Rev. Teachout of Lake Crystal will
hold series of meetings in the Judson
school house this week, beginning Mon
day evening.
L. Foster is still on the sick list and
staying with his sister, Mrs. L. L. Bur-
rill. He may have to 90 to the hospital
for an operation.
Envoy Mark Brooks of the Salvation
army is visiting with Mrs. MCGOWAN his
sister in-law and Herman Heiner's fam
lily.
Mr. Leverich has moved onto the John
Keene place that he purchased recently.
Mrs. Oric Noble. secretary of the la
dies farmer institute wishes to an
nounce their meetings will be held the
first Thursday of each month in Man
kato All farmers wives are cordially
invited to attend and take part in said
meeting.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-02-23
OVERHEAD CROSSING.
Omaha Road Will Put in One Near
Minneopa Dairy Farm.
From Thursdays Daily.


The county board and I'll. p. Barlow,
right of way agent for the Omaha road,
yesterday decided upon the place where
the road to Lake Crystal shall cross the
new route of the Omaha track. There
will be a cut of some eleven feet where
the present road will cross the track, so
it was decided to make jog in the road
and have it 60 west twenty rods, where
there is a cut of twenty feet, and
have an overhead crossing. The road
agrees to put in the overhead crossing
free of cost The commissioners were
well satisfied with this arrangement, and
will vacate the present road where it will
cross the track. The crossing will be
at point about twenty rods this side
of the Minneopa dairy farm.
To have an overhead crossing will do
away with all danger, while making the
road very little longer.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-02-23
WIFE LEFT HIM.
South Bend Man Tells His Sorrows
in This City.

in This City.
From Wednesdays Daily.
A man named Sawyer from South
Bend was in the city yesterday look
ing for his wife, who left him the night
before after a violent quarrel. 1t APP
pears that Sawyer is addicted to drink,
and that for this reason his'-wife had
had occasion to demonstrate with him,
thus causing quarrels at different times.
Neighbors were called in several times
Monday night, owing to the threatening
attitude of matters. The outcome was
that Mrs. Sawyer declared that she was
through with her husband and left She
was not located yesterday.
Sawyer on Monday night threatened
to take poison, and it was partly for
this reason that neighbors We're sum-
moned He is also said to have had
revolver, and to have threatened suicide
on previous occasions. The family in
cludes several children, and Mrs. Saw
yer's father. Sawyer declared to the po-
lice yesterday with tears flowing that
he had not had a morsel to eat since
Friday. He said that he turned over his
weekly pay to his wife every time that
he drew it, retaining only fifteen cents.
According to his story he was much
abused husband, but others say that
sympathy should be with the wife.
Sawyer has had a position on the
Omaha grading work, watching the rock
to see that none of it falls over. He has
also done teaming.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-02-23

DR.. Weiser was telephoned for Thurs
day evening to come to CORTLAND vii
lace to attend a sick man, and when he
arrived there he found Moritz Koehne
sitting in chair in saloon, dead. He
was sixty years old and had been sub
ject to severe attacks of asthma, which
no doubt affected his heart. He had
worked on a farm for Louis Bode in
NicolIet the past year, and his relatives
are unknown.-New Ulm News.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-02-23
Rudolph BOsin.

From Tuesdays Daily.
Rudolph Bosin, barber of Coco
Thunder, died Saturday afternoon after
a long illness with Bright's disease. HI
was middle aged man, and had resid
ed in Good Thunder for years, and ha'
many friends who regret his DEATH HI
leaves a wife and several children. The
funeral will take place tomorrow.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-02-23
Blacting Breaks Windows.

From Mondays Daily.
The blasts set off in making the
rock cut for the Omaha road in South
Bend have been so severe that windows
in the neighborhood have been broken. 1t
has been impossible to keep the VIM
dows on the Mlnneopa dairy farm from
being broken.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-02-23
ON THEIR WAY TO CUBA.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nicholas longwor'F
Will Visit Havana.
Especial to The Free p

Especial to The Free PTesS.I
Washington, Feb. l9.-Mr. and Mrs.
Nicholas Longworth this morning board
ed a special car on the Southern railway
for Tampa, Fla, where they will take
a boat for Havana, arriving in Cuba
Thursday.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-02-23

S. ID. Works returned Saturday even
ing from Bemidji He states that in all
of the northern towns A. L. Cole OF
Walker is being favored for governor
because of the drainage and state land
bills that he got through the legisla-
ture.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-02-23

Jacob Barge has returned to his first
love and is again running the finest cafe
for gentlemen and ladies in Minneapo-
lis When in the city drop in. 240 First
Ave. S.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-02-23

The funeral of Mrs. Frank Boyer will
be held from st. Peter and Panl's
church on Saturday at nine o'clock.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-09

because both We're i'll. While the faith
er and son drove over the mountains.
the mother and daughter went by boat
down the Columbia river. A French
man carried them safely over the dam
derous falls in a skiff. Vilinda was
the first white child to pass the Cas-
cades and her mother, it is said, was
the first woman to go over the falls
in a skiff
The family made its way to Oregon
City, where it was awaited by Rev.
Edward E. Parrish, Mrs. NickersOn's
father, who was a missionary, Meth
odist clergyman and physician. Here
Mr.. Nickerson took up land and made
his home.
When the child grew to womanhood
she met Milton Houston, who had
crossed the plains in AS and they were
married. Two children were born to
them, both of whom survive their
parents, Mrs. H. N. Frazer and Clar-
ence Houston of Goldendale, Wash.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-09
GARFIELD'S FINE STREETS.
Has Finest Thoroughfares of the
Smaller Towns,

T1aS TInSSt in0Tou9nTareS OF The
Smaller Towns.
Perhaps no other town in eastern
Washington has made greater strides
this year than Garfield, Whitman
county. There have been made SUBJ
stantial improvements all over the
city. The streets have been put into
fine condition under the supervision OF
j, McPheters, who has had charge of
road work not only in many western
cities but in cities of the east. Gar
field has expended in her streets this
year $4,000, and Mr.. McPheters says
the work has been done for one third
of the usual cost of such work in ci-
ties the size of Spokane, Seattle, Ia
coma and Portland.
The streets so far put into condition
are California street from Fourth east
| to the Northern Pacific depot, Main
from Fourth east to the Northern Pa
cific railway crossing and Third street
from the o. R. & N. depot north to the
Grammar school building. B street
will now be graded and macadamized
from the o. r. & N. tracks to the
Northern Pacific depot. This will
when finished, put all the business
| streets in first class condition and from
now on they will be free from mud
and dust. The streets are Sc feet wide
and after they have been put in condi-
ton will receive a coating of crushed
stone hauled by teams from the quarry
near town and spread on the street:
II inches deep in the center and
inches deep at the curbing.
The work done this season on thu
streets of Garfield is significant a.
marking the beginning of scientifi
road improvement by the county WITT
the use of crushed stone. The farmer
throughout the Garfield district ar
said to be delighted with the cit
streets since they nave been macad
amized, and with few exceptions,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-09
PERSONAL MENTION

T. D. Taylor of Pendleton, is in the
city.
Mrs. NJ. J. Lee of Touchet, is visit
ing in the city.
c. S. Jerard of Dayton, is registered
at the Dacres.
S. F. Patton and wife were Waits
burg visitors yesterday.
E. B. Newman of Waitsburg, was
in the city yesterday.
w. B. Shaffer of Waitsburg, was in
the city on a brief business visit
yesterday.
Will R. King spent yesterday in
Pendleton attending to business be-
fore the supreme court.
Senator Levi Ankeny and John An
keny have gone goosehunting in the
Horse Heaven country.
U. F. Corkrum and family of Dry
Creek, have taken up their residence
for the winter on Park street.
District Attorney Phelps of Pendle-
ton, was in the city yesterday on Off
ciaI business
Deputy Surveyor George w. Wrinkle
| went to Wallula today to look over
work on the steel bridge near that
place.
| Henry Boswell and wife Of Spokane,
will make their home in Walla Walla-
Mr.. Boswell will assume temporary
charge of the Holt Manufacturing
company's office here during the alb
sence of Ben c.. Holt.
| F. E. Foster and wife of Union
Ore, are in the city today for the
purpose of attending the golden we'd
ding of Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Fargo OF
this city. Mrs. Fargo and Mr.. Foster
are brother and SISTER.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-09
PASTORS SON GOES WRONG
Hugo Albright is in Jail at Salem,
Oregon.
FORGERY AND HORSE STEAuNG
LATELY DISMISSED FROM RE-
FORM SCHOOL WILL LIKELY
LAND IN PEN.
FORGERY AND HORSE STEALING

SALEM, Ore, Nov. 9.-Hugo AL
I, BRIGHT, the 17-year-old grandson of
under arrest here on the charge of lar
ceny. Tuesday evening he stole a
! team and buggy from the White
| Bros livery barn at Candy and
! horse and buggy from Charles Yannke
of this city. After his arrest he made
complete confession to the officers
and was locked in the county Jail. He
| will appear in Justice of the Peace
Webster's court to answer to the
charge Of larceny.
Young ALBRIGHT called at the local
stable and obtained a single rig, which
he drove few blocks on South High
! street, tied the animal to a tree and
came to town and sold the harness to
a second hand man.
Wholesale Business.
Sheriff Culver was also notified that
a team was brought to the feed sheds
near Center and Front streets and that
the owner had failed to call for it. 1t
was soon ascertained that the team
belonged to a livery firm of Candy.
The White Bros. came to the capital
city last evening and identified the
team and buggy as belonging to Them
and also ALBRIGHT as the young fellow
who had hired it and who sold the
harness to secondhand man. 1t
seems that ALBRIGHT went to Portland
on horseback last week then returned
to oregon City and disposed of mis-
horse and saddle for $40. After hav-
ing spent the money he walked tC
Candy and secured the team that he
drove to Salem. After arriving here
in order to have some spending money
he sold his harness for Sc. When this
sum had been spent ne got another
rig at the Yannke stable and sold the
harness for $3.50
Formerly Forger.
In July, 1905, ALBRIGHT appeared be-
| fore the circuit court Of Marion county
and pleaded guilty of having forged
two checks. He was sentenced t.
serve two years in the state prison
but Judge Burnett used the clemency
of a special law and recommended thai
the county judge commit the young
, forger to the reform school. About
five weeks ago he was dismissed from
, that institution on parole
, His grandfather, Rev. Lossner, has
made every effort to have the boy
, mend his ways and many times the
7 good old man has been the victim o.
the wrongdoing of his grandson.