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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-10-19
From a Small Beginning.

Frank w. Hunt beIieyed in the build
ing up of small factories. He related
the story of how one of Mankato's fac
tories has grown from small begin,
ago. One man and two boys were en-
ployed therin. The business has gradu-
ally increased until now the employees
number forty five and the monthly pay
roll is never less than $500 and some
times it runs above $4,000. The bus
mess last year amounted to more than
any other like institution in the state
with one exception, and this has all been
accomplished in spite of the excessive
freight rates. Mr.. Hunt urged the sup
port of small factories.
The catalogue houses came in for
their share of attention. j. r. Snow
considered the question of department
stores serious one to MankatO. He
thought the Commercial club should try
to obtain an estimate of the amount of
money that is sent out from this coun-
ty to the department stores in the cities
and then some plan devised to divert
the trade to Mankato apd the surround
ing towns.
A. NJ. Stein agreed with Mr.. Snow
and stated that the hardware trade
seemed to suffer the most from the OPP
erations of the department. stores. The
hardware stores have no leader that can
entice people to trade with them. They
should hold sale once in a while.
George E. Brett stated that he had
identified himself with every good move
ment that had been started since he be-
came resident of Mankato. He has
visited towns in the west and on re-
turning here wondered why Mankato
was so slow. The secret of it all is
everybody in those towns pulls together.
IL everybody had been as energetic and
pulled for Mankato as heartily and as
theoretically as H. p. Christensen has
this city would be three times as large
as it now is Mankato is deserving OF
better freight rates. Men should be elect
ed to the legislature who will legislate
for better rates. lie believed that the
Commercial club will do much for Man
kato. He had faith in Mankato He
believed in competition for it is the life
of trade. One of the duties of the Com
mercial club should be to enlighten the
people on the quality of goods sold by
the big department stores.
Food Law Is Help.
Fl. A. Patterson gave out the infor-
nation that the national pure food law
will sound the death knell of the cata
logue houses so far as foodstuffs are
Now there should be some
hardware legislation
Mr.. Patterson felt that a greater in
terest should be created in Mankato |
That is one of the first things to be con-
sidered. He was pleased at what has
been accomplished already and was con-
WINGED that more can be done if all
will pull together. A greater interest
should be displayed in the Commercial
club. Members should attend the meet |
ings, act on committees and if necessary |
should sacrifice little time
from their own business for the good of
the community. He believed that re-
luction in the coal rate could be brought |
l,n,,f &c q cfro,n dalona ION Shorld ho |
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-10-19

Senator A. O. Eberhart, it was an
nounoed. was to have led the discussion,
but he being absent from the city, Mr..
Andrews called on F.. NJ. Currler who
DR.. Webster on his paper.
1t was an exhibition of courage on any
ones part to show up just the condl-
tions that exist in a community. 1t was
a test of patriotism to show the disad-
vantages which confront the people. The
fact might as well be recognized That
Nankato has not the industries to make
a city She has no special advantages
to offer eastern capitalists who ale look
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-10-19
NATIONAL DANkOF COMMERCE
Capital S1oo,ooO.OO

OFFICERS.
A. O. OLESON, President.
JOHN e. DIAMOND, Vice President
C. L. OLESON, Cashier.
w. J. FLACHSENHAR, Asst. Cashier
DIRECTORS.
A. L. Wheeler. c. l.. Oleson.
Peter Lloyd. William Jacobsen.
Jean a. Fiittie. j. r. Brandrup.
John E. Diamond. G. l.. Alleman.
w. f. Hughes. Louis Janda.
W. j. Morehart. J. 3. Nelson.
5. b. Wilson. A. o. Oleson.
G. c. Huntington.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-10-19
Doctor Is Optimistic.

DIR. Andrews is optimistic as to the
future of this beautiful city. If there
is any drawback it is the freight rate.
But the people have the remedy in their
own hands, They should elect the prop
err men to the legislature and the state
offices who will stand by them. He IS
opposed to members of the legislature
accepting passes. He claimed that al
dermep-~ are in the habit of epting
passes. He had been member of The
council and knows that aldermen before
and since his incumbency were supplied
with. railroad passes. Passes are a bride,
declared the doctor, and they do in
fluence legislators vote. He will not
vote for man who would accept rail
road pass.
"What has Mankato to offer manu-
facturers ?" asked the doctor. "Noth-
ing" declare some of you. 1t is a mis-
take. Mankato is most excellent dis
tributing point. Forty-two passenger
trains run in and out of this city every
day except Sunday. The freight facili
ties are the same The freight rates
are too high and the passenger rate in
Minnesota should be reduced to two
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-21
The Midwest Life

This is Nebraska company with a
capital stock OF $1O7,S0O all fully paid
up. 1t has on deposit with the Audi
tor Of Public Accounts for the security,
of its policy holders 100000 in first
mortgages on Nebraska farms. 1t is
an old line company organized on a
correct basis.
The little touch of dry weather Me-
braska has just experienced should be
a gentle reminder to those who wish
old line insurance of the Importance Of
taking policies in home companies.
When by reason of crop failure Me-
braska has nothing to sell, conditions
here are made doubly hard if life in
surance premiums in large amounts
are sent out of this state. In 1905,
there was paid to outside old line life
insurance companies the enormous
sum of $2,629,S933
The Midwest Life can take care OF
all of the people of Nebraska who are
insurable up to $4,000, that being the
limit it carries on any one life
THE MIDWEST LIFE,
1907 o Street. Lincoln, Neb.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-21

gen and oxygen, in the simple asso.
citation existing in carbonic acid gas
and water, will under certain condi.
tons bring about Encouragement of
the elements till at length carbohy-
drates are formed. 1t is stated that
by merely passing a current of def
mite potential through soda water or
water impregnated with carbonic acid
gas series of products is formed
eliminating in sugars. First of all
is formed oxalic acid, then tartaric
acid, next citric acid, until at five
volts and three amperes grape sugar
appears.
The value of this discovery, in case
these facts are correct, can not be
overestimated The entire world has
an abundant supply of carbonic acid
gas and water, and to convert these
simple substances into complex food
stuffs, for the supply of which we
have to look. to far countries, by
simply manipulating them with the
electric current, promises to bring
about one of the greatest revolutions
in the history of the world.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-21
The Superior Martians

Camille Flammarion, the astrono-
mer, talking on the ever green sub
ject of Mars, declared that the inhab-
itants of that planet are much more
highly developed than the inhabitants
Of the earth, than whom it would be
difficult to imagine less intelligent
human species, inasmuch as they do
not know how to control themselves.
The Martians are much older race
than the inhabitants of the earth, rep
resenting what the latter will be sew
eral million years hence. Belief in
their great intellectual superiority
strengthens yearly with constantly in
creasing preciseness in astronomical
observations. M. Flammarion sup
ported his views by arguments de-
rived from well known phenomena in
Mars.-Paris Letter to New York
Sun
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-21
Creating Food Electrically

Electricity. it is believed, is ca
pable of producing food substances
III mitch more direct way than that
already known. 1t is generally known
that when electrical discharges occur
in air nitric acid is produced which,
when neutralized with soda, potash
or lime, furnishes the indispensable
nitrate for plant life. But according
to recent researches, carbon, hydro
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-21
Save Our Disappearing Forests

The indifference shown by the Anne
rican people to the wanton and waste
full destruction Of their forests Is lit
tie short of criminal.
A hundred years ago the supply of
timber in this country seemed mex
haustible but within the past decade
1t has become apparent that, If a
check is not soon put upon the de-
mutation of timber lands, the forests
will be practically destroyed within
5 few years. Such a condition would
be serious injury TO the entire ma
ftion, for it would involve drought
and famine, and probably great
change In our climate All America
would probably become an arid re-
gion, and universal suffering would
result.
This alarming state of affairs is
chiefly due to the fact that the high
tariff prevents Americans from draw
ing upon the resources of Canada, not
only for lumber, but also for wood
pulp. American newspapers must
have white paper made from wood
pulp, and the paper trust, aided by
the tariff has obtained monopoly
of this country at the rate of hun
dreds of acres day, and its work of
destruction increases every month.
The monopoly is not merely oppres-
sive to American newspapers, but it
is also menace to the entire coun-
try. II it is permitted to maintain
.t,,A1 -
tons forces before many years have
passed.
Congress should put wood pulp on
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-21
Meat Cheaper in Germany

For the first time since 1894 there
are indications that the price of meat
is about to become cheaper in Ger
many. The month of November
showed a decided decrease, and it is
hoped by the consumers that this
state of affairs will not only become
permanent but will continue to go
down the scale until normal prices
have been reached During the last
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-21
JUNE 81, 1909

six months of 1905 the price of pork
was, on an average, fully so per cent
dearer than any other kind of meat.
The price of pork, however, has now
fallen with the same rapidity that
characterized its rise.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-06-21

the free list and thus save the for
ests, whose destruction would be an
unpara.ied calamity to future gener-
ations.-New York Journal
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-14
The Origin of Radium.
New York Tribune.

ANCW IOTh AElDun6.
 Lord Kelvin's recent dissent from the supposition that one chemical ele- ment may be evolved from another has created stir among those who are openly committed to that doctrine Hi.i short note to The London Times on the subject has been followed by oth- CTS from champions of the views which he condemns. In the course of the correspondence. 1t appears. the question was asked by R. J. Strutt how the existence of radium in the earth at present could be accounted for. Laboratory experiments indi- cate thatt that strange substance dis inteRrates at such q rate that any given piece of 1t would completely dis. appear in 5000 or 1000 years. As the world is believed to be much more than 1000 years old. the followers of Sir William Ramsay hold the original supply of radium must have entirely evaporated long ago. They therefore suspect that there must have been a. fresh production by a process of transformation from some other ele- ment, perhaps uranium.
 Lord Kelvin points out that at least one other hypothesis is tenable. He claims no credit for originating the itiea. but merely shows that he agrees with others by whom it had already been advanced. It is possible. he says, that radium may have been much im- prisoned in the crust of the earth un- der such enormous pressures that dis integration was impossible. To use his exact language. the constituent atoms may have been safely protec- ted against the explosive flying asun. der by which they produce the heating effects discovered by our labora tories !" Whatever be the final opinion, 1t Is evident that the world Is not just now tied down to any single explanation of the fact to which Mir. Struts inquiry relates.
 Lord Kelvin's reply Is interesting for other reasons than because 1t shows what he thinks of the antiquity of ra- dium It will be observed that he ae- cepts, provisionally at least, the the ory of Professor J. F. Thompson that atoms are composed of particles much smaller than themselves. for 1t is by the explosive hyfngs asunder'' of the particles which enter into the structure of an atom of radium that Professor Thomson explains the once mysterious development of heat from that substance. When Lord Kelvin was last in the United States he hes itated to express himself regarding the hypothesis that the atom is a com posite His present frankness shows that he Is not so conservative as might have been supposed
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-14
SERVED TERM FOR ANOTHER.
Irishman Did Not Disclose Fellow
 COuntryman,s Guilt

Arishman Did Not Disclose Fellow
 COuntryman's Guilt.
 Baltimore, Sept. 13.-The story of an innocent man serving a sentence in the penitentiary here was told to Cover nor Warfield today by the man for whom the prisoner is said to have shouldered the blame
 A letter from Chicago signed Mich ael J. Healey, related how Patrick Mo- manus has suffered in silence for nearly two years for an offense for which Healy says he Is to blame. On re- turning to his home in Ireland Healey confessed to a priest who made him promise to see that McManus was vim dicated.
 In the letter Healey says that in 1905 he induced McManus to accom- pany him from Ireland to Baltimore. They became stranded shortly after arriving here and Healey, who claims to have been a bank clerk. forged a check which he gave to McManus to cash.
 Healey said he counted on receiving a remittance in time to cover the amount of the check. The check was dishonored and both were arrested. McManus, according to Healey's state ment, pleaded guilty and assumed all responsibility, hoping that HeaIey. when released, would be able to set things right McManus was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary.
 When informed of Healey's action McManus declared that he (McManus) was innocent of any wrong doing, but that as his term would expire in De- cember he preferred to remain a pris- oner until then rather than have any more publicity given to the case.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-14
ADAMS AGAIN NOMINATED.
Democrats of Colorado Complete the
 State Tickef.

State Ticket.
 Denver, Col, Sept. 13.--After three days of strenuous sessions, the Dem ocratic Stae Convention adjourned sine die. The following ticket was nomi- hated:
 Governor. Ava Adams; Lieutenant Governor. Elias M. Ammons: Secretary of State, Horace w. Havens; State Treasurer. Edward E. Drach; Attorney General, William B. Morgan; State Ad- jutant, Andrew Sandberg; Superin- tendent of Public Instruction, Miss Honore Maloney.
 The action of the convention, which is considered by all concerned as the most momentous. was the reading out of the party of the Speer faction of Denver County. because of their alleged subservience to local utility corpora tions The debate on this matter last ed nearly day and the matter was before the Credentials Committee most of one night,
 The renomination of Ava Adams was demanded in the platform and was practically unopposed because Of the general opinioa among Democrats that he should be vindicated in his claim that he was robbed of the Governor ship two years ago In the Peabody Ad- ans contest before the State Legisla- ture. The platform endorsed Bryan, took decisive stand against corpora tion domination of political parties and pledged the party to the enactment of a law making 1t a felony for corpora ton officials to contribute to campaign funds
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-14
MAY GO TO SWEDEN
PLANS OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL
 DEMOCRATS.
Report of the Emissnry Sent to HeIs- fngfors of Such Nature as to Cause a Change in
 the Program.

St Petersburg, Sept. 13.-.Next week perhaps will witness the spectacle of an organized political party going abroad to hold a Congress and plan an electoral campaign. The report of the Constitutional Democratic emissary who was sent to Helsingfors to sound the Finnish authorities on their atti- tude with regard to the holding of party congress there September 2l was of such a nature that the Constitution al Democratic Executive Committee Is altering its plans and an agent was sent to Stockholm today. The commit tee is arranging to have special steamer in readiness to convey the dol- egates.
 Professor Mouromtseff, who presided over the late lower House of Parlia :. ment will not attend the Congress. He went to Germany today ostensibly to visit his son but it Is no secret that he is out of sympathy with the Viborg address and unwilling to further com promise his political future by par ticipation in an outlaw congress The Constitutional Democratic leaders pre- fer also that his availability for the presidency of the coming congress shall not be impaired The ministry makes no conceaIment of It's intention to re- sort to all legitimate means to keep the more radical of the Constitutional Democrats out of Parliament.
 A member of the Cabinet reiterating Premier Stolypin's views that the Con stitutional Democrats are undesirable as party in Parliament because their "respectability" was a cloak for highly dangerous sedition and criticism, gave additional Justification today of the Premier's prohibition of the congress because fthe effect of such con- gress upon the universities which are on the point of opening. This Cabinet Minister said that it was inevitable that if the congress were permitted and should violate the limitations nec- essarily imposed upon 1t. entailing it's dispersal. 1t would precipitate a stu dents strike and possibly a repetition of the general strike of last October The Government" said the Minister, may be strong or it may be weak, but 1t cannot be so foolish as all that :"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-14
ANntion,s Strong Box.

Moody's Magazinue.
 From 1883 to 1894 the net deposits in all of the national banks of the coun- try increased from a little more than $1, ,O00, ,000. 900 to $2,0o0, 100000. They fell away rather sharply in 1897, follow ing the bad year of 1896. They rose from about $1, 750, 100000 in 1897 to more than 5000, ,0O0,000 in 1905. The increase in the eight years was not far from 300 per cent
 If we add to this the $3,250 000, 900 held by the savings banks and the $4,- 250 0, 900 900 of deposits of State and pri- vate banks and the loan and trust com panies, we have an aggregate of de- posits of near $13,000, 100000. This is an average bank account of more than $150 for every man. woman and child in the country. of an average Of $750 flor every family. from tenement houses or fishing village to $5,000,000 copper kings palaces on Fifth avenue. There were in 1904 and 1905 nearly S.000,OOO individual deposftors in the savings banks of the country. Their deposits were three times greater than all of the United Kingdom or Austria or France, and half again as large as the hoards of thrifty Germany.
 Neither the savings banks nor the total deposits of every sort of banking institution give any idea of the mar vicious wealth of the country. More than 5,0o0,OO0 individuals in the United States are paying in annually to life insurance companies more than $600,- 000 900 year. This is more than $100 for each policy and represents In large part a savings bank account. The growth of the form of savings invest ment has been especially rapid within the last eight years. Even the enor- nous business of 1897 Representing an income of $500, ,OOO.0 has been doubled within this brief period The revelations of corruption and graft and the still more serious fact of the prostitution of their immense surplus i account to stock jobbing purposes on Wall street. hinted at rather than laid bare. seem to have impaired but slight ly the general confidence of the people in the safety and solidity of the compa- nies. The accumulated force of rising tide of four or five years sufficed to offset the effect of the scandalous disclosures. and the increase of the year scarcely fell be- hind that of the preceding periods.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-14
~CHICAGO MAY" IN BRAZIL.
Notorious Woman Criminal Not Deat
 As Reported.

NON0EAOu8 W oman OEAnImHL NON DGM0
 As Reported.
 New York, Sept. 13.-The Herald to- day says:
 Instead of being dead, as she has been reported from a French prison to which she had been sentenced for her part In the robbery of the American Express offices in Paris. which sent Eddie" Guerin to Devils Island for life. Chicago May perhaps the most notorious woman criminal in Ameri can police annals. is alive in Rio de Janeiro.
 May Churchill, alias Chicago May" alias May Sharpe" alias May Guer- in," alias May Miller" was a concert hall singer in this country before tho detective bureaus of America and Eu rope, assumed an ective interest in her career and whereabouts She had married, or. at least, It was so re- ported young man of wealthy fam fly She played a large part in the robbery of the American Express Company in Paris in the following year and in the resulting trial, George Miller, who appears on the records as her husband, turned States evil dence, and upon his testimony Guerin was convicted and sentenced to penal servitude for life. He was incarcera- ted on Devils Island. which had shell, tered Dreyfus, anu run '"i9 PieNN. "' 1905. he escaped In a manner replete with sensation.
 Sentenced 10 jail for five years ir 1902, the woman's death was reported and generally credited, and 1t Is not known in what manner she succeeded in escaping service of her entire sem tence.
 Leaving France, she surreptitiously visited America, and then went to Brazil. Passing as a widow, she re- ceived the attentions of young man who recently killed himself. It is believed by those who know the wo- man. that she will soon return to this country.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-14
Origin of Ice Cream.

London CnEOHlcte.
 Though the ancient Greeks and Ro~ mans used ice for table purposes to get through even hotter weather than we have had lately, they knew noth- ing of ices" These were introduced into France from Italy about 1880, and known at first as "fromages glaces.~ iced cheeses. although they were made of strawberries, apricots. and so forth. and contained not q drop Of cream. From 1762 the use of 'glaces'' in the plural was sanctioned by the Academy. but not before 1925 did tune giaces force its way into recognized accept ance. Tees" are referred to from time to time in the eighteenth century in English peoples letters abroad. "Iced creams" however, were known as early as the year when William of Orange came over, and by the middle of the eighteenth century ice cream figured In cookery books.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-14

According tc the best information to be obtained. the rebel force under Pino Guerra Is moving to the eastward along the southern edge of the Finar del Rio Mountains and other bands, which constantly receive additions from the localities through which they pass are committing depredations along the line of the railroad. All indica- tions point to the concentration out side of Havana city of the rebel forces in Pinar del Rio and Havana prov iLces
 Ii was persistently rumored today that the managers of the insurrection are seeking to foment a general strike in Havana, and that an entrance to the city will be attempted coinci- dent with the outbreak of internal dis crders. This rumor finds no. verifca- tion whatever up to the present time. among the laboring men of the city.