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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-13
ROYAL NEIGHBORS OFFICERS
Mrs. Margaret WieIey Is Elected Or
acle, Other Positions Filled.

The Royal Neighbors have elected
the following officers:
Oracle, Mrs. Margaret Wigley; vice
oracle, Mrs. Georgia Davey; past ora
Gle, Mrs. Alice A. Smith; chancellor,
Mrs. Alice A. McCullum; recorder,
Miss Ida r. Funk; receiver, Mrs. Sus-
an E. Radcliffe; marshal, Mrs. Esther
Culbertson; inner sentinel, Miss Grace
Kohler; outer sentinel, Mrs. Clara
Schender; managers, Mr.. Joseph Hampl,
three years; Mrs. Della Stevens, two
years; physicians, DR.. LYDIA Osborn,
DR.. A. +. Schmitt; delegate, Mrs.
Alice A. Smith; alternate, Mrs. Della
Stevens; pianist, Mrs. Lula Harter.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-13
BOY LEAVES A GOOD HOME
Floyd e. Persons, Aged 13, Runs Away
From Owatonna.

The police department has received
a postal card from Sheriff William
Leehy of Oawtonna, asking that Floyd
Z. Parsons thirteen year old boy,
be held if found. Parsons ran away
from good home Dec. 4, and was
last seen at Faribault last Friday.
He wore a dark suit with knee pants
black sateen shirt and moccasins.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-13
HELLER ARRAIGNED IN COURT
Admits Having Struck Steinbsrs With
His Fists.

Ferdinand Heller of Lyra township
came to the city this afternoon and
was arraigned on the charge of assault
in the second degree upon William
Steinberg. A. R. Pau appeared as
his attorney and he waived an exami-
nation and was bound over to the
next term of the district court and his
bond was placed at $500, which he
furnished this afternoon.
Mr.. Heller admits that he struck
Steinberg, so it is stated, but says
that he did it with his fists and not
with club, as alleged by Steinberg.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-13
MUST MEND HIS WAYS
Ben GerIich to Be Given q Chance to
Reform.

Marshal Donahue went to st. Peter
today and got Ben Gerlich, as the
latter's trial on the charge of truancy
was to have taken place this after
noon. A defect in the warrant was
found, however, and Judge Olson adj
vised that the boy be discharged, to
be rearrested upon new papers if he
does not mend his ways. Consequently
the boy was discharged. He must at
tend school regularly.
The proceeding was started under
the 1905 law instead of the 1907 law.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-13
Claims That Husband Is Too
Severe With the Child.
Rigid Discipline Cause OF Eric
tion Between Couple.
Family Formerly Resided in
Mankato; Well Liked.

The Aberdeen Daily American pub
fishes a story which will interest peo-
pie in Mankato. The leading charac-
tiers in the little legal drama are for
mer residents of this city. The story
is as follows:
Mary Buholz yesterday commenced
an action for divorce against E. j.
Buholz. Papers were filed yesterday
in the office of the clerk of courts
and a preliminary hearing will be held
before Judge j. H. Mccoy on next
Monday morning at ten o'clock. The
plaintiff alleges in her complaint cruel
ty as the grounds for her action.
The case seems to have originated
over the treatment by the defendant
of one of their children. The plaintiff
alleged harshness the complainant says
strict in enforcing discipline. To this
alleged harshness the complainant says
that she objected and from these OBJ
jections the estrangement between
them has come. Mr.. and Mrs. Buholz
have two children, the Oldest being
son about thirteen years of age. The
plaintiff admits in her complaint that
the defendant has many admir-
able qualities; that he has always
supported her well and that he has
never denied her any comforts. She
seems to base her claims for divorce
upon incompatibility of temperament,
aggravated by what she thinks is too
rigid discipline on the part of her hus-
band with their child.
Mr.. Buholz is the manager of the
International Harvester company. Both
he and his wife have been very prom
inent in Aberdeen society since they
came here little more than two
..-- -
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-13
MRS. LL0YD'S CASE MARCH 9
Trial Of Fair Defender ut to Take Place
on That Date

Rochester, Dec. ll.-Judge Snow has
decided that the trial of Mrs. Aimee
Lloyd shall begin on March 9.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-13

The family resided in Mankato sew
eral years, and had numerous friends
who will regret their domestic troubles.
Mr.. and Mrs. Buholz were prominent
socially while in Mankato.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-13
AMONG THE SICK PEOPLE
Case Of Diphtheria,' Another One OF
Smallpox, Murphy Well.

A case of diphtheria has developed
in the family of Leonartz Zajen, re-
siding at the rear of 525 Front street.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-13

Mr.. Murphy, who was the first to
come down with smallpox, was dis
charged as cured Sunday, and his resi-
dence on Center street fumigated. No
other cases developed in his family.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-13

Mr.. Lundburg or Columbia park is
down with smallpox.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-13

George Craver, one of the four
found in the box car, was charged
with disorderly conduct and paid a
fine of s. and costs.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-05-18
Great Stunt. by Geronimo.

In single day Geronimo, when in
his prime, ran forty miles on foot,
rode 500 miles on one stretch, as fast
as. he could change horses, and so
completely wore out the column which
finally captured him that three sets
of officers were needed to finish the
chase, and not more than one-third
Of the troopers who started were in
at the finish.
Wrinkled and crafty and cruel is
his swarthy face to-day, but the fire
of his internal energy has died and he
is no more than a relic Of the Geron-
mo of whom Gen. Miles said after
their first meeting.
He rode into our camp and dis.
mounted, prisoner. He was one OF
the brightest. most resolute, determin
ed men ever met, with the sharpest
clearest dark eye. Every movement
showed power and energy.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-05-18
NEW WOMAN IN TURKEY
WANTS FREEDOM AND
UNLIMITED HUSBANDS
Story of a Woman Who Forced Her Husbaod to Take
Second Wife Because She LoDed Him.
BY PERCY LINDoN-HOWARD.

choose another. Think of the beauti
full husband one might have if she had
not allowed to have more than one
husband-that is, one at a time-she
said that seemed very silly. Yet this
woman was quite intellectual, and her
new idea of freedom did not seem 70
shock her sense of refinement in the
least.
'You see, there is a tremendous
simplicity of nature to be considered.
The Turkish women are just like chill
dren, considering them in connection
with moral viciousness, as we under
stand it. The Turkish new woman
fled in having four husbands when a
man is justified in having four wives.
The justification of the man is never
questioned. Her Turkish sister of the
old school explains in vain that Allah
has not SO intended-that man and
woman are differently constituted
The thought of bringing into the world
a large number of children is not
shocking to her. On the contrary, to
be mother is the supreme happiness,
and she cannot seem to conceive that
children cannot be disposed of in
America, just as they are in Turkey.
Surely, she thinks if they cannot be
sold into slavery, then the state will
make an allowance for them.
II continued the conversation with
this young girl just to gather her view
point. When I told her the state in
America never takes charge of chill
dren and that parents have to accept
this financial and moral responsibility
of their rearing, that this is regarded
as private and not government af-
fair, she said ooh, dear! What wick
ed gOvernment'-and then, as if sud
den inspiration burst upon her-'But
all this will be changed, won't it, be-
cause you elect your own government,
don't you, and they will put a new
ruler in power?' l told her that the
American men had no idea of chang
ing their laws in this respect, and this
seemed to delight her greatly. 1t came
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-05-18

literature of their own. Many of them
are clever writer's. They don't jam
their heads full of Henry Jameses and
Laura Jenesses, of course, but really
they are not to be blamed for that.
The European literature shocks them
They can see nothing but wickedness
in the American women-for, they
say, does she not force all sorts Of
vice by refusing her lord to obey the
viii of Allah. She wants her husband
to love her and her home, yet she
drives him to desertion and deceit
The seemingly logical arguments
and the wonderful views Of the new
woman of Turkey show clearly what
an amazing influence environment and
custom have On life. The new Turkish
man is totally different He is moth
ing more than the Turk of depravity.
He has discarded his religion and he
finds his delight in parading French
and other women of lax character in
public, much to the general disgust.
He is generally stunned. And usually
he dies quickly. Drink kills him. The
Turk is not used to alcohol. Allah for
bids it. Alcohol is rarely seen in
Turkey, and when the Turk becomes
a New Turk and runs to license he
gets crazy and dies. The Turk brought
to manhood in the faith of his fathers
and then reformed is doomed more
surely than the murderer in his CELL"
But the heart aches, the dull, sick
ening pain of love that is lost, that
must be felt at least in some in
stances" said, what OF these?''
Let me tell you, = said Mrs: Brown,
of my first visit to the harem after
my return to Constantinople, where 1
found that two OF my girl friends had
married the same husband Nassarah
and Tsakran. They were beautiful
girls. natural comedians, intellectual.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-05-18
MAKE KIDNAPPING
A CAPITAL CRIME;
Presidents Efforts to Find MarUin Boy Foreshadous
Movement to Make Crime Punishable BY Death

Unless all signs fail, the Marvin
case is going to make the way of the
kidnapper harder than it has been.
Washington was brought into the
case, when the frenzied father of the
four-year-old boy, Horace Marvin, who
in the interval of seven minutes dis
appeared as completely from his
Dover, Del, home as if the earth had
closed on him, appealed to President
Roosevelt to aid in the search for the
missing lad
Canada, England and other foreign
governments were also communicated
with and Mr.. Roosevelt expressed the
opinion that save only for assaults on
women, kidnapping constituted the
most serious possible assault on the
home.
Many members OF the national legis-
islative body believe that the stealing
of children to hold them for purposes
OF ransom ought to be elevated to the
rating of capital crime, punishable by
death.
The police authorities favor such a
law. They say that the kidnapper is
the hardest of all criminals to appre-
mend. The man who steals a child
and keeps it near him ever has pow
er which holds the authorities at his,
mercy. The instant they make q
threatening move or seem to be clos.
ing in on the quarry, the kidnapper
has only to drop a letter in any mail
oox informing the police that unless
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-05-18

those of the Ross kidnappers His
name was Keen, and he took the boy
on his way from school,
But for more than a week the kid
napper, Charles Keen, sent special de-
livery letters, cunningly contrived TO
drive father and mother to frenzy.
These missives told that Freddie was
sick, that he was crying for his moth
er, that anything might happen unless
$4,000 were promptly deposited at
place named in the letters.
Pat Grove, who kidnapped Edward
Cudahy, the heir to the Cudahy mill
ions, for ransom of $4,000, was
more fortunate, for the public dislike
OF the millionaire meat packer actu
ally resulted in an acquittal for Grove,
though there was no doubt whatever
as to his guilt. In this case the ran
som was paid, and the boy walked
home unframed.
Stringent laws against kidnapping
are more needed in the United States
than anywhere else.
In England and the countries Of Eu-
rope, the child whose parents have
money enough to make it worth while
to kidnap him, is guarded like hot
house plant, and there is little or no
opportunity to get him.
Under present conditions the risk
ofttines seems worth while to des-
perate man crazed for cash The worst
penalty that can happen is term in
Jail, and this is ever likely to be ter
minated years before it ends by All
allowance made for good behavior.
But if, as many lawmakers desire,
kidnapping be advanced to the place
Of a capital crime, with the gallows or
electrical chair as certain punish
ment, it would take hardy criminal
indeed to run the risk.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-05-18
ST. PAUL MINNEAPOLIS MINI. SATURDAY NAY 10 1907

will vote soon, I know. Then all this
wickedness will be swept away. You
cannot keep advanced ideas down in
America, ! fancy, any more than you
can in Turkey"
But, Mrs. Brown l said, lis not
this the reasoning of ignorance, and
surely ignorance is not happiness?''
Il suppose it is, was the reply, but
it is not the ignorance. you mean. It
is an ignorance of the manners. Gus
toms and viewpoint of America, but
see how little you know of the man
ners, customs and viewpoint of Tur-
key And then she laughed, a rip
pling, silvery laugh that smacked OF
merriment rather than moekery while
she gave me time to think it over
'.Some of the most refined women Of
Turkey are not educated perhaps in
the American sense continued Mrs
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they draw off he will kill the child.
Then pursuit is paralyzed.
This has been the case in nearly
every notable instance Of Kidnapping
Christian Ross, father of Charley
Ross, principal Of the most famous
kidnapping case in American annals,
went to his grave convinced that his
son had been done to death by kid
pappers when the latter feared that
they were on the eve of capture, and
could not afford to take the chance Of
being convicted on the evidence of the
unfortunate boy.
Ross had money. He lived in Ger
mantown, Philadelphia, and was
prosperous merchant. On July l, 1874,
his four-year-old son, Charley, was
carried away in a wagon by two men
believed to be Mosher and Douglass,
two New York thieves.
The abductors demanded $4,000
ransom, which the frenzied father was
willing to pay in order to get his son
back, but unfortunately in their eager
ness to capture the criminals, the po-
lice laid a trap, which in some way
came to the knowledge of those who
had the child.
Six months after the kidnapping;
Mosher and Douglass were shot and
killed while robbing the house of
Judge Van Brunt, in New York.
In September, 1875, Theodore West
eryelt, a brother-in-law of Mosher, was
arrested, charged with completely in
stealing the Ross boy. He managed
to disprove this, but was convicted Of
being an accessory in that he knew
where the boy was during the time the
authorities had been searching for him.
Westervelt was sentenced to seven
years in jail. He could have gained
his freedom at any time by telling
where the boy could be found, but as
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-05-18

and Of the best families. / found them
extremely happy in their new condi-
ton, far happier il fact than when I
had left them, for they had accom-
plished the one great ambition of the
followers of Allah both were moth
ers. NV welcome was warm and sin
cere. Yet I had hardly removed the
dust of travel and enjoyed the luxury
of a bath before Nassarah said to me
with the usual Turkish candor: Silver
cloud of the sky We are SO happy to
see you, but youI have changed so
much; your face Isl not as beautiful as
it was; the cruel people you have been
with must have caused you much ag-
ony of mind. You do not smile as you
once did-and see we are so happy 9"
"'Tell me- said, how you came to
marry the same husband Both girls
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for they were little more than girls
began to laugh.
Tell her, Nassarah,' said Tsakran,
tell her And then little lJassarah
began, after the manner of the Turks,
in beginning to relate story: The
beginning of the tale good evening,
most honorable company. When
married Hilmi Pasha was SO much
in !. love with him IIs4was nearly q luna
tic with delight and happiness. I
could not sleep, but just lay there, and
watched him while he slept, and"
Here the other wife broke in the
narrative. You must see him. she
said. He is an ideal lover, so tall, so
handsome, blue eyes, and how be
walks, So and she began to stalk
across the room after the manner Of
her lord and master. Nassarah
grabbed her quickly and sat her on a
cushioned divan. Keep quiet she
said. This is my story Then the
girls giggled for moment, when Mas
sarah continued. Soon my other little
girl came she went on, and suffered
greatly. The doctor said should not
have any more children. And I had no
boy for Hilmi Pasha. It was then
thought Of plan. Tsakran came to
see me- She was young, beautiful and
ready to marry. She knew how noble
and good Hilmi was. So we laid our
plan. That night put my arms around
my lords neck and told him he must
marry Tsakran. At first he thought,
and then l told him he must not think
at all about it. Tsakran has brought
us two sons, and Hilmi is just as hap
Ply as we are. Both women laughed
with delight.
What is done," I said, in cases OF
infidelity? Does the law punish?"
NO. Such cases are very rare.
When they do happen"-with an ex-
pressive shrug of the shoulders-"th
result usually is a, little poison in the
tea. Sometimes the man disappears.
sometimes the woman, sometimes
both.''
And is there no Investigations"
+ None. You see, the law requires
immediate burial. There is no official
reports of deaths, and never is there
any inquiry into the private affairs of
the household. But you sea there are
SO few opportunities for intrigue. Per-
haps the practice Of part of the Turk
ish system would be disastrous. But
IN its entirety it seems to produce
very happy people. The Turkish hus-
band is always lover He is always
counting. He does not spend all of his
time with one wife. And somehow or
other, love seems to last longer than
it does under the European system. l
have told you before, however, I do
not endorse or condemn: simply re-
late facts and results
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-05-18
1910 PER YEAR.

he maintained his silence till the end
of his term, till he died, in fact, it is
accepted as certain that the kidnap-
pers had killed the boy. Westervelt
would have gained nothing by such an
admission, rather public indignation
would have made his punishment even
more severe. Hence he kept silent.
The man who kidnapped Freddie
Muth of Philadelphia a few years ago,
made exactly the same threats as
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-05-18
Confidential.

HusbandBut, my dear, if Mrs.
Nextdoor told you In strict confidence
you shouldn't tell me.
Wife Oh, very well; If you don't
care to hear it can tell It to some
body else. I suppose. 81
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-05-18

Brown, yet they are intelligent, and
l tell you they are happy. :. don't
think American education absolutely
necessary to happiness"
"But do these women read?"
Eyes. And they have very sweet
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-05-18

What He Deserved.
Suppose should sing Rocked in
the Cradle of the Deep?'" ventured
the brassy young man with the fog.
horn voice.
In that case, replied the gentle
man with the protruding chin. eyou
wouldn't be rocked
Il wouldn't, eh ~
NO; you'd be stoned
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-05-18
Prom Boston.

From Boston.
Jane asked Mrs. Hiram Often,
are the eggs boiling %
Most assuredly not, madam" re-
piled the new servant, lately from
Boston. But l may safely say the
water in which the eggs are immersed
isl
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-05-18
That's What Hurt

81 don't like that there Mrs. Swell
man at all, said Mrs. Nuritch.
well, you amt got to take no no
fice of her." replied Mr.. Nuritch.
But the trouble is she don't take
no notice o. me.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-05-18
Something New

That burglar over there says a let
ter that somebody wrote him put the
idea Of q criminal life into his head 2 (.
Eth! didn't know they were
teaching burglary by correspondence"
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within hailing distance Of her new
found hobby, I see,' she said. And
that is why the American women want
to vote! Isn't that noble-and they
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-05-18

The villain in the play never chews
tobacco, probably for the reason that
the Juice would interfere with his
aneer.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-07
FORTYMENAREEATEN
AMERICAN COLLIER WRECKED
OFF CAPE HORN.
Savage Islanders Make Away with
Crew of Wrecked Vessel on Noir
Is1and-Mail Clerk Detected I'm
Theft by Postmaster.

That the big sailing ship Arthur Sew
all, laden with coal for the American
fleet in the Pacific, has been wrecked close
to Cape Horn and her crew of forty eaten
by cannibals who infest the islands near
Terra del Fuego and the straits of Ma
gellan is believed at the Maritime Ex-
change in New York Since the Sewall
sailed from Philadelphia ON April B.
bound for Seattle, via Cape Horn, not
word had been heard from ii until the
other day, when a letter was received at
the Maritime Exchange which seems to
indicate that one of the biggest square
rugged ships in the merchant marine has
foundered. The letter was from the
straits under date of Aug. 81. 1t stated
that on Aug. % the sealing steamship
Fridtjof arrived and reported that while
cruising near the southeast headland of
Noir island, half way between Cape Pillar
and Cape Horn, it sighted a derelict
which is believed to be the Sewall. The
derelict was four masted, square rugged
snip. Only the topnlasts were above the
water and the royals were set. The
Fridtjof cruised about the neighborhood
in the hope of getting some trace of the
crew. On the shore of Noir island in
dica tions were found that they had land
ed, but, though searching parties were
sent out. nothing further was discovered
The Sewall, which had been out 2OS days,
was commanded by Captain Gaffey. 1t
was owned by Arthur Sewall x Co., Bath,
Me-, and was 2,119 tons.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-07
NEW YORK.

The country at large has this week
felt the after effects of last weeks
financial disturbances at New York
and other eastern cities Naturally
there has been some dislocation of the
country's business, notably in the item
of the domestic exchanges, which has
reacted on the collecting and forward
ing forces by for a time stopping the
buying of wheat in the Northwest and
of cotton at the South, and there has
also been a sensible quieting down of
jcbbing trade activities, some reduction
of forces in railroad improvement work
and in other industries, and some effect
also upon retail trade. which. however,
aided by fine fall weather, has given a
good account of itself this week. In
the dry goods trade there is a greater
disposition to concede that a lower level
of values for several lines of cotton
goods is likely. Business failures for
the week ending Oct. 81 number 223,
against 300 last week, 163 in the like
week of 1906, 16O in 1905. 200 in 1904
and PIG in 1903. Canadian failures for
the week number %, as against 80 last
week and p in this week year ago.
Bradstreets Commercial Report.