The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-12-27


lof the warm winds from the Pacific,
and where the chinook licks up snow
| like magic; why, even up at Edmon-
ton tennis is played in January. Now
that Chicago holds the snow-storm rec
/, ord of % months, Medicine Hat and
Alberta deserve now to be exqnerated
| from blame for cold weather in 1.-The
! States"
Moved a Railroad.
In the removal from one city to
another in the interim between two
business days, of all the books, files
! and papers of railway system the
Wisconsin Central officials accomplish
ed something unique in its way. On
Saturday the forces in all the depart
ments were gathering away at their
desks in the Milwaukee Office; the
following Monday unfinished and new
work was taken up again IN Chicago.
On Saturday. a special train had
brought the several hundred members
of the office forces to this city to
get the records and files into shape
for Mondays business. With the Wis
consin Central added, there are in Chi
cago terminals of 30 railway sys-
TENS, whose aggregate length is over
100000 miles-more than 40 per cent
of the total railway mileage OF the
United States. 1t is an interesting
fact that more sleeping cars leave
and arrive in one day at Chicago than
in any other city in the world.
Diseased Pigs in Chicago.
A shocking fraud which probably
has been perpetrated in other cities
than Chicago on purchasers of Christ
mas supplies has just been unearthed
by the health department, and now the
inspectors here are wondering whether
the farmer, in this part of the west,
is as "unsophisticated' as the comic
papers would make him appear. Incl
dentally they are touchy on the sub
ject of @pig'-the sayory kind that
is served on platter with an apple
in its mouth and eranberries in its
eyes. \ few days ago the inspectors
examined the carcasses of twenty five
little pigs that had been shipped to
Chicago to meet the demand of Christ
mas appetites. It proved that every
one of the carcasses was diseased and
that many of the pigs had probably
died of their ailments before the
Slaughter" took place. Upon this the
investigators did some hurryup inves-
tigating and discovered that large
number of farmers around Chicago have
made it practice for some years to
select their sick pigs and just as 1T
appears they are about to die, kill
and ship them to Chicago for holiday
consumption. Since then the inspec-
tors have watched the railroad sta
tions and have been working over
time guarding Chicago against fur
Their inroads of the deadly norkers.
Received Cheap Lead Pencil.
I'm the years / have worked for
Mrs. Letter | turned over to her be-
tween $s,OOO,OOO and $lo000000, as
serted Hugh Crabbs of this city who
has modestly claimed 100000 from
Mrs. L. Il. Letter for salary and conf
missions on the profitable investments
he made. Most of the Letter estate
is in Chicago real estate and Crabbs
figures as to the Letter revenues are
interesting when one recalls the fact
that J.. Z. Letter made most of his
fortune as so many Chicago million
aires have done-.as a partner with
Marshall Field, the firm being Field &
Letter Mrs. Letter who has pala-
'tial home in Washington and Joseph,
Fof busted wheat corner fame, now
is seen more in Paris than in Chica-
90. Crabbe has been factotum and he
alleges that the promises of hommar-
iaums for nimble wit in trades were
not kept-that the only token to him
from Mrs Letter was "a cheap lead
pencil sent from Germany He had
to get along on $500 a year.