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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1907-10-07
LOCAL NOTES

G. @. Long went to Alton this morn
ing on business.
FOR RENT Room house, close
in. Phone 204 2t
G. H. Hinshaw went to joplin on
the early Frisco train.
w. e. Halsell and DR.. Oliver Bagby
went to Muskogee today.
Miss Anderson went to Oswego Sat
urday night, returning last night.
G. S. Avery went to Kansas City
last night on official business.
Misses Edna Harris and Florence
Bayne visited at White Oak yester-
day.
We've got it; Wen get it, or it's not
in tOwn. Pure Food Grocery, Phone
1853.
Fuzzy Kerr will leave tonight Tor
Topeka to spend a few days with
friend
o. 6. Roberts returned from Tulsa
last night and left this morning for
Welch.
Miss Laura Swagee is here from
Foyil today visiting friends and shop
ping.
:" George White, who has resigned his
position with the Frisco at Chandler,
will be in vinita for few days.
WANTED TO RENT-A cottage
close in for family of three; must be
in good condition. Address III" care
Of Chieftain. d-tf
Mrs. d. M. Marrs, Mrs. E. N. Rat
cliff and Mrs. II. K. Bethel went to
Oklahoma City yesterday to attend
the Presbyterian Womens' Missionary
Board.
w. B. Raines has opened liverV
barn at the old Taylor Bros, stand on
South Wilson street and requests his
old friends and patrons to call at his
new place of business.
George Wilson, who was injured
Saturday by hosting bucket drop
ping in the pit upon him, returned to
his home in Joplin yesterday morning
but hopes to be able to return soon,
os he has bright prospects on his
claim west Of the city.
The Auditorium company, Of Vini
ia have erected building at a cost of
s27,5OO. Joe Wheat was the success
full contractor, and our sister city has
a atructure that she should be proud
of. The formal opening will occur in
the near future by some high class
attraction Grove Sun.
The Fortnightly Whist club members
went down in the vicinity of Pryor
Greek yesterday to look for
a location for a club house,
They found a suitable place and will
begin the erection OF handsome club
house in the near future. The club
numbers twenty members,
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Laforce we're
given happy surprise yesterday.
The members of the family, number
ing twenty-one, brought their dinners
and gave most tempting spread that
was highly enjoyed by all. Mr.. and
Mrs. Laforce knew nothing of the af-
fair until the crowd had arrived, each
conveying basket loaded with good
things.
Three Thousand persons, mostly ,
momen, tried to crowd into a store
on Main street in Kansas City that
had just opened Saturday. the crush
was $50 great that a dozen women !
tainted and three was seriously hurts /
It was special sale day IN 10 cent :
store and the proprietors had a1ver- /
tised to give away penny souvenir !
with every one dollar purchase. But s
women will be women and you can't !
check their economy on bargain day.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-07-05
WILL BUILD The bikes
lie Seuur County Farmers to Protect
Lands From Floods.


lie Sueur, Mimi, July 3.-As result
of the continued flooding of the valley
of the Minnesota river, supposedly from
the great extension of the drainage
systems of the state, much interest is
being taken here in plans formed by
owners of river valley land to protect
their broad acres from the floods by
means of dikes. On some of the tracts
which are least elevated above the sur
face of the river only one crop has been
harvested i'll four years. Fred Aohring
of lie Sueur purchased four years ago
a farm in the river valley for $50 an
acre and has taken but one crop from
it.
On most of the valley farms in this
vicinity dixie averaging six feet high
would turn all ordinary floods, and it is
estimated that inasmuch as it will be
necessary to follow the bend of the river
around the farms in nearly every case,
thanking the two ends of the dixie
against the bluffs, it will take about
one mile of dixie to every two or three
hundred acres of land and that the cost
will be about $40 per, acre. to protect
the land.
1t is intended that the bikes shall be
very broad, both to secure sufficient
strength and also that, being low and
board, they may not interfere with
farming operations, but they shall be
merely small, artificial swells on the
land, over which the pillow or the NOW
ing machine will run with perfect ease.
These bikes could not be made on high
land as well as they can in the river
valley, for in the valley the soil is SO
deep that sand, clay and other WORTH
less substances are not uncovered by re-
moving the material for the dikes, and
therefore no wide strips of waste land
are made. 1t is intended also to take
all the dirt for the bikes from the out
side and then the floods will soon fill
the shallow excavations level again.
At all points where the rising waters
would strike most heavily against the
bikes it is proposed to have them curve
slightly down stream away. from the
course of the current, and the water be-
ing caught and held in this: bay will act
as buttress. to- protect the bank. At
the points where the curving dikes again
come up against the force of the flood
protection will be afforded for a rod or
two by riprap, and then the dixie will
again curve away from the force of the
current and form a protective bay.
An actual estimate has been made on
one tract of flooded lands close to
town and it has been found that a sutfi-
cient dixie, broad and low, can be built
from bluff to bluff out around; a 200
acre farm at cost of $500 or SO an
acre. In cases. where the AMOUNT OF
land protected by the dikes MAS larger
the cost wouldu be- proportiopately less
per acre. ,;',ioi 4 rIfT2 hi.f
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-07-05
DR.. WEBSTER IMPROVING.
Plans Being Made for the Return o'
Family to Mankato.
From Mondays Daily

A letter received from Mrs. l. ID.
Webster last week gives an encouraging
report of DIR. Websters improvement.
She says: "We went in town yester-
day to see about our return passage.
We went to Cooks and they have writ
ten to Liverpool to engage passage from
there on the American line, Steamer
Merton, sailing for Philadelphia, Oct. 9.
Dr. Webster seems to be gaining right
along. He says he feels better than he
has for years, and his special symp-
toms continue to improve
DIR. and Mrs. Webster and children are
at Weisser Hirsch, near Dresden. Mrs.
Webster and Dorothy do light house
keeping and DR.. Webster is in the san
itarium, which he likes very much.
They 90 into Dresden once week, and
find much to see. 1t has been cold and
rainy there, and difficult during May
to keep fire enough in the big porce-
lain stove to keep warm.
The younger children are with rela-
tives in the east, and are reported as
gaining in height and weight, and very
happy and cOntented.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-07-05
FOWLER, Is IN CHARGE
Inspector Making a Record as a
JUDGE Of Good Butter.

From Tuesdays Daily. "a
The judges Of; the butter. contest
which is now Being held in st. Paul
under the auspices of the state dairy
and pure food department scored forty
one tubs of i, buStar today. They ex-
pect to score at least ninety tubs to-
day. - 4syss ..
well. It is of a a good havofns A11'he color
is all that could Pe desired. Only one
of the forty tubs sxamqlii llPfar this morn
ing fell below 80 per cent There The are
about 25s entries siip the c!9pn lttsSr There
will also be nineteen cheeS.es to eX-
anime. The judges in the butter con-
test are Messrs. Johnson and Sender
gard. Messrs. Parkin and Unger will
pass upon the cheeses, j. G. Fowler Is
experimenting the whole contest. They
expect to finish this work "Wednesday.
Eugene S. Slater of st. James and
Henry Goetcher of st. Paul are test
ing the samples for moisture. The
same test is used as was employed at
the first scoring. With this test the
butter can be examined quickly.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-07-05
TRAIN INTO ST. CLAIR.
That Village Is Now in Close Touch
With the World.

From TUESDAY S daily.
There was something doing at st.
Clair last night. The whole population
for miles round was on hand to welcome
the first train on the Alphabet road
which pulled into the village at 1880
o'clock. St. Clair is now in touch with
the world.
The alphabet" road has made. good.
The first train was operated into the VII
lage in accordance with the terms of
the contract entered into with the resi-
dents of Mcpherson township when the
bonds in the sum of $4,000 were voted.
The long cherished hopes of the st.
Charities have been realized. The train
which pulled into that village last night
was made up of several cars. E. l..
Tobie, general manager, and Chief En-
gineer Cox, were aboard. The citizens
received the party with cheers and a dis
play of fire works. Hubert Bruels, one
of the directors of the road and a resi-
dent of Mcpherson town, was feeling
happy over the fact that his promise OF
railroad into st. Clair, has been full
filed. Those who have been skeptical,
now take off their hats to the new mode
of transportation in and out of the
town.
The formal celebration of the road
entry will occur on July 4.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-07-05
STERNS CLAIM Is GOOD
Attempt to Have Referee OisalIow a
So, 1000 Claim Fails.

From Fridays DAILY.
A hearing on an order to show cause
WHY a $4,000 claim of ID. S. Stern of
Chicago against Nixon & Sickle, bank
rupts, should not be disallowed was
argued this afternoon before Jean A.
Flittie, referee in bankruptcy. Mr.
Flittie decided that the claim was good
and dismissed the order.
Mr.. Stern is the man who formerly
owned the clothing store that Nixon q
Sickle toog into their own hands after
their Incorporation. Mr.. Stern claimed
the $1,000 as the residue of the money
due him on turning over the store to
Nixon & Sickle The trustees in bank
ruptcy, w. ID. Willard, H. w. Volk and
a. C. Anderson, through Attorneys
Pau & Pau, petitioned to have the
claim disallowed, maintaining that an
attempt had been made to defraud the
other creditors by Incorporating Nixon
& Sickle and putting the business ell
tirely in their hands. Mr.. Stern himself
was present at the hearing this after
noon and his case was represented by
Attorney NJ. Rosenbaum of that city.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-07-05
Chester b. Runyan RObs the
Windsor Trust Co.
he GOT AWAY WITH $96,317
Carried the Cash Off i'm a Suit Case
Was Paying Teller OF the
Big Concern.
Especial Telegram.1

New York, July 3.-Detectives
throughout the United States are today
searching for Chester b. RuEyan, paying
teller of the Windsor Trust company,
whom, the directors allege, is missing
with s96,3l7 in cash. George w. Young,
director of the Trust company, confirms
the, reports of the defalcation which the
detectives say is one of the most re-
markable ever reported. Runyan is ac-
cused of having placed $96,3l7 in cur
rency in suit case last Saturday and
departed after shaking hands with his
associates. Since that he has not been
seen. Runyan, it is said, did not even
90 to his apartments to bid good bye to
his wife to whom he had been married
for five years. Runyan is said to have
taken all the cash available in the bank
last Saturday. The directors, it is stat
ed, have made up all the loss of the de-
falcation.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-07-05
CHATS ARE The PEST.
New Insect Makes Life a Burden to
Residents Of Hutchinson.

Hutchinson, July "A new insect
pest has descended on this region in
she shape of small, black fly but
little larger than a pin head and which
now swarms in countless numbers. Its
bite is poisonous to some persons
upon others it has no effect.
The most serious damage is to poul-
try Spring chickens, just ready for
the market at fancy prices, are dying
by the hundreds, the fly working up
under the feathers and sucking the
blood. Chickens young and old are
so pestered that they seek the shelter
of the coop and barns and viii hardly
leave them for food or drink.
Animals in pastures suffer severely
and the death of a few calves has been
reported. Some large poultry raisers
say their. profits for this year are al.
ready gone.
Old settlers say the pest is an en-
tirely new one in this region. Speci
mems have been sent to the state enty-
mologist.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-07-05
SOLDIER HAD SMALLPOX
Private Nelson's Case Created Con
sternation at Camp Lakeview.

When Private Nelson of Company II,
Third regiment, developed case OF
smallpox at Camp Lakeview few days
ago, there was CONSERVATION in the
medical staff at the camp.
Prompt action was taken to prevent
an epidemic in the camp. Nelson was
isolated in Il tent and strictly quaran-
tined and the other members of Com
pany II were all yaccinated. No other
cases developed, and DR.. IL. NJ. Brack-
en- of the state board. of health is sat
isfied that there was no danger of any
smallpox spread through the state when
the Third disbanded on June 26. Mel
son is still in quarantine, in charge OF
the Lake City health officer, DR.. Bailey
and no troops are in camp this week
The Nelson case, however, disclosed
an epidemic which was being deliberate
ly concealed at Olivia, where Company
II halls from. Several of the Company
III boys objected to vaccination because
they had just had smallpox. DIR.
at once sent an inspector. to
Olivia on June 20. The local physicians
told him they did not know of small
poX. Inspector Sink investigated for
himself and found twenty-four cases.
They had been attended by the physi-
clans, who told them to keep quiet at
home, but did not quarantine or fumi-
gate The inspector took one of the
doctors to see two patients and COM
PEELED him to admit that the cases were
smallpox. He then called the village
council together and gave notice that
the law must be complied with. He re-
ported that the local health officer and
the other physicians gave him no heT
whatever Neighboring towns are work.
ed I'D over the loose methods in Olivia.
The epidemic there is being closely
watched, and Dr. Bracken has not de-
cided as to final action.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-07-05
TAKE IN A LARGE CLASS
KNIGHTS Of Columbus Held Interest
ing Meeting Yesterday.
From Mondays DailS


The Knights of Columbus initiated a
class of something over fifty candidates
Yesterday Some of these were from
surrounding towns, but all went into
the local council Delegations from 9th
er towns, including few from st. Paul,
and more from Winona, Rochester, Red
wing, New Ulm and other points, were
present to assist in or witness the work.
The first degree was conferred by the
Mankato councils team, and after that
the entire body of members and candl-
dates attended high mass at st. Johns
Catholic church. Lamm's orchestra as
sisted the choir in furnishing music. The
knights, numbering about 200, occupied
reserved pews. Father Hughes was as
sisted in conducting the services by two
other priests. He spoke upon the Won
derful growth of the order of knights
of Columbus, and gave an able sermon.
The second degree work was conferred
bv the Rochester council, and the third
degree by the Winona council The work
was all well exemplitied. The second
and third degrees were conferred be-
tween two and six o'clock in the after
noon.
Last evening smoke social was held
at the A. O. u. w. hall, that was at
tended by all the members. Those from
out of the city mostly remained over
night.
Among those present were District
Deputies Nightingale of Minneapolis ana
Hill of Winona. Those and others gave
brief addresses at the smoke social i'll
the evening. "
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-07-05
TO ENLARGE MILL
Sleepy Eye Company to Increase Its
Capacity ~.

From Fridays Daily.
President Won Hagen of the Sleepy
Eye Milling company recently went
east to purchase machines for large
cereal plant. -Four additional electric
coffee IQasters will be installed; also
proper conveying, packing and handling
machinery, which will enable the com
pany to take care of its increased bust
ness in this line.
The company has decided to erect
and equip a new, large and modern com
plete cereal plant. Work in this struc-
ture will begin early III the spring.
This would have been undertaken this
summer, but it is too late to complete
for the fall business.
The new machinery will be installed
in the rooms formerly used as the en-
CINE and boiler rooms in the old plant.
The cereal department at the mill will
be. pushed with renewed energy and
vigor and the business will be built up
until it exceeds even. its present large
oportiOns.-Dispatch.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-07-05
FRUIT GROVE RS AT A MEET
State Horticultural Society Holding
Successful Gathering.

Six hundred and forty-three entries
were made at the annual picnic and eX-
hibit of the Minnesota Horticultural So
cicty, held in the armory at the univer-
sity farm school. This is the largest
society.
The exhibit consists for the most part
of strawberries, gooseberries, currants,
apples and flowers.
Huge banks of peonies covered tables
extending the length of the hall in
which 400 guests sat down to dinner
Roses and other flowers covered a long
table along tn eother side of the room.
Wyman Elliot of Minneapolis showed
fifteen varieties of Seeding apples, all
of which were sound and rosy. Pro
fessor n. f. Housen of the, Bookings.
S. d., Agricultural college, showed
twenty five varieties of strawberry
seedlings selected from 5000 varieties
The new South Dakota strawberry can
stand a temperature of 40 degrees be-
low zero without, covering. Besides
these, eiehty-fve varieties were shown
but this number is lower than in other
years, owing to the lateness of the sea-
son.
One of the. gooseberry seedlings at
tracted the most attention was the
Elliot & Redpath, grown at Mime
tonka. 1t is large and the thons are
almost entirely reduced.
A cross between Il Sioux Indian wild
cherry and a Siberian apricot is what
Professor Hansen of South Dakota has
developed, and pretty fruit it is,
with reddish purple color and a rich,
pungent flavor.
The, afternoon program, following the
picnic dinner, was devoted to an i'm
promptu program of speaking and sight
seeing about the grounds.
Among the speakers were President
Samuel B. Green of the agricultural
college of the University of Minnesota,
Professor n. f. Hansen of Bookings
S. d., and Professor Elliot of Mime
apolis.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-07-05

Charles Hamilton, a Juror, pies as
Jury Enter Court Room.
From Saturdays Daily.


Death today ended the trial of FL
mer Ii. Dearth, former insurance COM
missioner, charged with receiving a
bride. Charles Hamilton of Hopkins,
the first juror sworn, dropped upcon-
scous on his way to the courtroom at
1880 a. m. and died shortly afterward
in the office of Al j. Smith, county at
torney, where he was carried by fellow
members on the jury. When informed
of the death of Mr.. Hamilton, Judge
Dickinson dismissed the jury, bringing
to Il close the first trial of Mr.. Dearth.
Early today Mr.. Hamilton, who was
a hotel and livery stable keeper, in
formed Robert Hitler, deputy sheriff in
charge of the Dearth jury, that he was
not feeling well and that he wished
medical attendance. DR.. James Hynes,
county physician, was summoned to the
Jury room and after a half hour OF
treatment Mr.. Hamilton announced that
he felt well enough to take his place
in the jury box.
Game" He Said, Then Fell.
As Hamilton, leading the jury, APP
preached the courtroom of Judge Dick
inson one of the jurors commented on
his illness. Turning around Hamilton
said, 81 don't feel very well, boys, but
Pm game to see this trial through" AS
he spoke these words he fell to the floor
unconscious. Heart disease is given as
the cause of his death.
The news of Iiamilton's death was
conveyed to the attorneys in the Dearth
case, who were sitting i'll Judge Dick
inson's room waiting for the appear
ance of the jury. a number of arraiSn-
ments were being made before the Judge
at the time, but when these were COM
pleted, John Lind of Dearth's counsel
asked that the request of the defend
ant for an instructed verdict made yes
terday afternoon be modified and that
the court dismiss the case against
Dearth OH the ground that the evidence
had failed to indicate the commission
of a crime. Mr.. Smith then announced
Hamilton's death, and over the oblec-
ton of the defendant Judge Dickinson
ruled that Hamilton's death left the
case without jury and made unneces-
sarv his ruling on the defendants mo-
ton. He then dismissed the jury and
the county attorney asked that the
case stand for trial on the regular cal
endar. 81
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-07-05
GABRIELSON MISSING
Young Farmer OF Comfrey Disappears
Mysteriously.
From MONDAYS Dali

FROM MOuudy Ddhy-
A resident of Comfrey was in the
city Saturday afternoon, looking for his
brother. whose name is Oscar Gabriel
son. The latter is "A young farmer,
twenty four years of age, Swede, and
has an eighty acre farm in crop. He left
home Tuesday evening to 90 to church,
and has not since been: seen. He had
expressed wish to visit the poultry
wards around Mankato, and for this
reason his brother came here, but the
latter got no trace of him.
1t appears that Charleston is very
religiously inclined, and it is thought
that possibly he has become deranged.
He is unmarried, and his parents reside
at Comfrey. He was smooth shaved
when he left, and wore a good suit of
clothes and black sateen shirt. The
brother left photograph of him at the
police station.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-07-05
Minnesota Winners.

From Fridays Dali
At the drawing of lands in the Bill
ines. Montana, district the following
from Minnesota were successful:
John A. Van VIE, Minneapolis; H. 5.
Wilcox, Minneapolis; F. b. Thayer,- st.
Paul; William Shanks, st. Paul; Fred ID.
Ash, Duluth; Wallace III. Douglas, Os-
trander; w. b. Williams, st. Paul i;
Edith Corbitt, Grand Meadow; Nathan
iel Martin Clear Lake John f. Ziemer,
Waltham; Simon Summerfield, st. Paul |;
Fred Clark, ST. Paul; julius B. Dungee,
Minneapolis; James l.. Mckinney, st.
Paul; David E. Conbein, st. Paul
The drawers will be permitted to Sc
lect holdings in the order of their re-
spective numbers.