The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-10-04

From Saturdays Daily.
Judge Cray of this city writes The
Fairmont Sentinel as follows:
Mankato, Sept 26, l9O7.-Mr. Edi-
tor: have read with much interest
your articles on the human skeletons
found while excavating for your new
court house at FairmOnt.
If they are skeletons of white men,
| they were not members of my COM
pany of the Ninth Minnesota, which
1868.
To the time of our departure from
Fairmont only four deaths all told
had occurred in our company, and all
of those occurred at st. Peter, where
we were stationed before going to
FairmOnt.
l think it hardly possible that a
soldier of the cavalry company which
preceded us at Fairmont would have
been buried there, because it was
ground upon which our pickets were
constantly posted, and over which we
passed and repassed many times daily,
and if there had been a grave there
we most certainly would have dis
covered it.
The company which succeeded us re-
manned but very short time.
The fact that remnants of a shoe
were found does not prove that the
of no
cause at that time many Indians wore
shoes instead of moccasins, which they
had done ever since they were paid
annuities by the government. Re-
spectfully, Loren Cray.
1.-THE shoe soles unearthed were of a
very square toe style and appeared of
coarse, heavy make. Perhaps Judge
Cray would have recognized it as of
the type issued by the government to
its wards at that time.-Ed.l
Emmett Carey had his preliminary
hearing before Special Judge w. R. Ged-
des this forenoon on the charge OF
being the father of Miss Cora BOgart's
child County Attorney Plymat and E..
G. Argetsinger, the latter of Mapleton,
appeared for the state, and S. b. Will
son for the defendant.
Miss Bogart and her physician testi-
fed for the state, and the defense Of
fered no eveidence, and the defndant
was bound over to the coming term
of the district court, and he was re-
lease on $500 bonds, furnished by his
father.
Miss Bogart is girl of rather slight
stature, nineteen years old, and had
the child with her, an infant of few
lweeks. She was employed as a domes-
tic in the Carey family for two and a
half years. The defendant is fifteen
years old, and well developed, He denies
the charge.
G. NJ. Henderson and his wife were
noticed walking together on South
Fifth street yesterday afternoon, and it
is rumored that there is possibility
of their again living together and all
proceedings being dropped. The stories
told on both sides have been good
deal exaggerated, undoubtedly. 1t is
to be hoped that Mr.. and Mrs. Handler
sen will be able to effect sediment
and gain live happily.
Some persons acquainted with George
Shostag, who disappeared early in the
week from st. Clair, while not believ-
| ing that he carried out his threat to
kill himself, are of the opinion that he
| is not right in his mind. They think
that he went away while laboring
under temporary insanity, perhaps in
duced by heavy drinking. In this case
he is apt to show up again later.
The following was the outcome of
the races at the Madelia fair yester-
day:
2:17 Pace.
Alice Medium, Duffy !......l l l
Removine, Gibbs. ...............2 2 2
Fred c., Graham. ..............3 3
Best time, 2:l9A