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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-11-29
WHEAT IS MOVING NOW
MONETARY CONDITIONS SHOW
AN IMPROVEMENT.
Receipts of Grain at Minneapolis Are
Showing Decided Increase,
Favorable Prospects.

Minneapolis, Nov. 27.-There is a
vast improvement in the general con-
ditions as relating to the monetary
stringency today, resulting from the
good reports being received regard
ing the crop movement, and it is
believed that the weeks record will
be the best of the season, especially
the movement of wheat out of the
Duluth port.
1t is now predicted that 3,5OOOOO
bushels of wheat will have been
shipped out during the week from this
port In addition to. this reports are
received to the effect that Il lot OF
wheat has been sold to arrive Dec.
l, SO that it will be possible to ship
it out before navigation closes at
the head of the lake.
The receipts show 0l3 cars of wheat
at Duluth, which is, one-half durum.
These are record breaking figures.
The Minneapolis receipts have also
shown good increase. The receipts
for Yesterday were 337 cars, as against
297 cars for the same day last year.
This is resulting in loosening up con-
dtions here and throughout interior
towns. The farmers are selling more
freely, the railroad companies are
meeting the requirements of trans
portation facilities and the weather
conditions are ideal.
One of the best features in con-
nection with the crop movement at
this time is the fact that the railroad
companies have not had the physical
handicap that they had last year.
As whole then the crop move
ment in the west appears to be
larger than in 1906 AS far as the grain
movement is concerned the monetary
stringency at first served to increase
days until plans for handling the
business on check basis could be
devised and now again there is an
increase.
Attention was turned to Duluth
early during the period of monetary
stringency, it being deemed of the
utmost Importance by the bankers
here, I'M St. Paul and at Duluth that
the port be kept open as much as
possible to the shipment of grain, as
every bushel sent east would bring
back just so much money. TO this end
the aid of James j. Hill was solicited
and sufficient credit was established
in the three cities to keep the crop
on the move until conditions would
most satisfactory, and this week will
be a record breaker, for the ship
ment of wheat out of the Duluth
port.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-11-29
GOLD|sTHE B|GCROP

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field if they have the price. We paid
$40 for cord of wood yesterday !;
didn't ask the price of coal, not caring
to invite an attack of heart failure.
Water costs us S. per month, and elec.
trio light So.
It's Railroad Facilities.
We have now two railroads in Gold.
field, the Clark road was completed
last week. If | judge correctly, all
in position to say that this is good
place for business or professional
man. The spirit of buying stocks seems
to be in the air here, and no one
cents in mining stock the other day
and when | sell I'm going to buy an
auto, they are the style here, and as
common as dogs in Mankato.
As to the people, they are the
finest ever; everyone is ready to give
you the "glad hand" and help you
every way they can. There are people
here from all parts of the world. We
have met with nothing but the great
est courtesy on every side. While the
streets are crowded with men in min
ers' clothes and muddy boots, | think
a good woman is much more safe at
night on the streets of Goldfeld than
in any of the large cities of the coun-
try. However, everyone carries fire
arms; for instance, young gentle
man who called on us the other even
ing, while we sat talking, removed his
revolver, and placed it upon the table,
remarking it did not feel comfortable
in his pocket.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-11-29

Boards of county commissioners in
Minnesota cannot escape paying con-
tractors for the construction of drain
age bitches on the technical ground
that the bitches were not completed
within the time first set by the county
engineer, according to decision filed
Saturday by the United States circuit
court of appeals. This ruling was es-
tablished in suit brought by the
Interstate Drainage and Investment
company the board of county commits
sioners of Freedom county.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-11-29

Alderman Atchison has returned
from .nicago and Manchester, Iowa,
where he attended horse sales. He
traded four trotting horses at Man
chester, that will be shipped to Man
kato in few days. He did not get
anything at Chicago He found the
horse market stagnant. The price of
dray and work horses has fallen off
one third, but harness horses keep up
in price. Many Chicago firms have let
their dray men CO. owing to the hard
times, and the men who borrow money
from the banks to buy thin horses and
feed them up and sell them were
ordered by and banks to sell, and did
so for what they could get. The mar
ket is "all shot to pieces" to use
the words of Aid. Atchison.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-11-29

st. Paul, Nov. 26.-Sacrifcing home
and beauty for the man she loved,
Ethel Mason, formerly the pride of a
well-to-do family in Northern Mime
sofa, is dying of consumption at the
Minneapolis city hospital as a result
of her endeavors to secure money with
which to clear the murder charge from
the name of Charles Harmon, her
sweetheart.
Harmon, together with Orlin Kali
derwit and John Kolb, was tried and
sentenced to Saltwater for the muir
der of Freddie King in the holdup of
the Columbia Heights saloon three
years ago. The girl stood by her lover
at that time and secured the money
for his trial by singing in cheap con-
cert halls.
Possessed of rare beauty and a good
voice the girl easily secured employ
ment in tawdry concert halls. The
trial resulted in verdict of guilty,
but she did not give up. She went
on trying to earn money and secure
Hammon's release.
At length the life she was leading,
with its attendant dissipation, under
mined her health, and she sank lower
and lower. She has been in the police
courts a number of times recently
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-11-29

and is now under a suspended SEN
tence to the workhouse Her condition
prevented her imprisonment and she
will probably die before sentence can
be imposed. Her loyalty to the Grim
inal at saltwater, and her devotion,
which she shows even on her death
bed, have made her marked figure
at the city hospital.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-11-29

way to prevent such frauds is to re-
quire the original manufacturer to put
up oleo in packages suitable for the
retail trade and to affiX the proper
stamp on each of such packages"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-11-29
Purchased Half a Block.

Walter V. Garvin purchased yester-
day through NJ. G. Wizards agency,
the east half of block one hundred and
ffty-four in West Mankato, for $l,2S7.
Tt is Mr.. Garvin's intention to build
a modern residence on the property
next year.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-11-29
From MONDAYS Daily.

From MONDAYS Daily.
j. B. Rattcliffe, an old and respected
citizen of Lyra township, met with a
serious accident last Friday morning.
He was engaged in cutting some
branches from tree in the yard and
fell from the ladder, sustaining a
fracture of the hip. A Mapleton physi-
clan was called and reduced the frac-
ture, and he is getting along as well
as can be expected Mr.. Rattcliffe is
between sixty and seventy years old.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-11-29
DIR. A. w. Chase's
Nerve Pills

VIII cure you just as rapidly as new blood
can be formed and new nerve force created.
or they cure in Natures way. by building up
the nervous system and for this reason you can
be absolutely sure that each dose is of at least
some benefit to you. The portrait and sigma
ture OF A. w. Chase, M. D.. are on every
box OF the genuine. SO cts. a, all dealers or
Dr.. A.W. Chase Medicine Co., Buffalo, NY
MIR. James Squires, CORTLAND, Mich,
states:
MY daughter was helpless with nervous pros
tration tor three years in spite of the efforts Of
the best doctors in surrounding cities. SIX
boxes of Dr.. A. w. Chases Nerve Pills CON-
pletely cured her, so that she does the work Of
awoman. and is as well and vigorous as ever"
LAAck DRUG CO., MANkATo. MIMI
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-11-29
Something to Be Thankful For

Chicago Record Herald: A strike has
been inaugurated by the Teddy bear
makers union. We may as well give
up the effort to have thankful
Thanksgiving and cheerful Christmas
now.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-11-29

John j. Brown, farmer living near
Madison Lake, sustained the loss of
between twelve and sixteen tons of
hay by fire on Monday. 1t is suspect
ed that small boy playing with
matches caused the blaze. The hay
was insured. so it is reported.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-11-29

Albert Lea, Nov. 26-In testing
cattle for tuberculosis, the veteri-
narans make some very strange discov-
cries. One recent example was the
discovery of "a nail in the lungs of a
cow The tuberculin test was employ
ed and although there was not the
reaction usual in tuberculosis, yet the
cow seemed to be affected The ami
NAL was slaughtered under the di-
rection of Federal Inspector Niven, and
the nail was found in the lungs, and
it had created an inflammation that
brought about an liberation that re-
suited in mystifying the veterinarians.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-11-29
"IWant the Proof"
YOU SAY.

When told that nervous exhaustion and
prostration are cured by Dr.. A. w. Chases
Nerve Pills, and we refer you to many thous-
snds Of cases similar to the one reported below.
Because you do not look sick and are not
suffering great pain. and because they do not
realize your awful feelings Of weakness, help
lessness and encouragement, your friends fail
to show much sympathy for you. and most
doctors are simply helpless in the face Of
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-11-29

Charles Piper is seriously ill at his
home in st. Anthony Park with an
attack of acute pneumonia. Mr.. Piper
is brother of G. f. Piper and of
the late C. II. Piper of Garden City,
and having formerly been a resident of
Mankato and vicinity, has numerous
friends here who will regret his ILL
ness
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-11-29

District court convened at two
o'clock this afternoon after recess
since Saturday noon. The case of the
state against Emmett Carey was ar
gued, and the court gave his instruc-
tions, and the matter is now up the
Jury.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-11-29

Houston Post: "He was perfectly
at home at the banquet" "Why, he
he didn't have a word to say!" SWELL
that's being perfectly at home for him.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-11-29

The ladies of the Presbyterian church
are making preparations for a Dutch
Market to be held in the church early
in January.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-11-29

Don't place too much confidence in a
man who thinks he understands
women.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-11-29
ODDS AND ENDS.

In order to accomplish what seemed
an almost impossible task and enable
a contracting company to collect $780,
900 from New York city for work done
on the anchorage of the new Manhat
tan Bridge, Hartwell, NJ. Webb, New
ark inventor, devised flexible drill,
with which he was actually able to
bore around corner. This Webb oper-
ated at great personal risk in boring
out a drainage pipe which had become
clogged with Genet. Several methods
were used to accomplish the work,
but without success until Mr. Webb
came to the rescue with his new device.
An interesting record in construction
work was made recently on the new
lamp factory for the General Electric
company at Newark, ~ j., which was
run up in twenty nine calendar days
without any overtime or Sunday work.
This work was done in spite of the
fact that after work was commenced
on the foundation it wac discovered
that it woul1 be necessary to go
down sixteen feet instead of four and
one half as originally specified. The
building is a very large, one, and,
while it is at present only one story
in height, the work is of substantial
character, erected with the idea of
putting on three more stories if de-
manded. In eleven days 100000 were
laid, an average of $4,000 per DAY.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-11-29
Health Being Endangered.

"In the meantime there are certain
bad features of the present law which
| believe, even the friends of the tax
will favor remedying. Honest grocers
obey the law, pay the tax and sell
cleo made under proper conditions,
but their butter trade is being destroy
ed and the public health is being en-
dangered by the coloring and peddling
of oleo by illicit cOlorers who avoid
the tax and melt and color the oleO
in stable lofts and other unsanitary
places. and whose activity is made
possible by defects in the present law.
While oleo is subject to tax of one
fourth of cent a pound colored, to
II tax of 10 cents under the present
law the manufacturer is required to
put the colored oleo up i'll lO-pound
firkins, on which tax stamps are af-
fixed, and the retailer is permitted to
make and sell l-pound packages from
such lO-pound firkins and to not de-
stroy the tax stamps until the firkins
are empty.
Method of MOOnShlner.
The 'moonshiner' buys certain
number of firkins of colored oleo and
a certain number of firkins of the I'M
coored at the same time. He puts up
retail packages of | pound each from
the original stamped firkins of colored
oleo and sells that until he has sub
stantially exhausted his supply of col
ored He then takes some of the white
oleo, and, by the use of coloring mat
ter. stransforms it into colored and
then continues selling colored oleo of
his own manufacture, and whenever
his dealings are called in question says
that it was taken from the original
stamped packages of colored oleo. The
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-11-29
Health of People Endangered
BY a Queer Practice.
Trade of Honest Grocer Is In
jured BY the Method.
Revenue Officers Put II Down
As Real Moonshining.

Washington. November 27.-The gro
terested in "a bill to stamp out oleo
"moonsining" which is to be introduced by
Representative Henry S. Caultield when
congress cOnvenes. He has worked on
the bill since early last summer and
since arriving here has taken up the
matter with the revenue department.
'NOonshming," rs the illicit coloring
of uncOlored cleo has been termed by
the revenue officers and grocers, has in
creased to an alarming extent within
the past few years. INSCRIPTIONS ped
dlers not only defraud the retailers of
butter and uncolored oleo of a large
share of their profits, but, according
to Mr.. Caulfield, to great extent i'm
peril the health of the purchaser by
cQloring the cleo in unsanitary stables
and sheds.
Means of Protection.
In order to protect the grOcerymen
and other dealers who will not color
uncolored cleo Mr. Claufied intends
TO introduce this bill.
In preparing and collecting material
on which to base and argument he
might be called upon to make in de-
Tense of his bill, Mr.. Clauield has read
Il number of decisions of United States
Judges in cases where defendants were
before them charged with selling
"Moonshine" OleO. In one of these
Judge Amidon presiding in the United
States district court, suggests the pro-
prietv of such an amendment as will
be embodied in the bill Mr.. Claufield
is to introduce.
Il do not believe in the oleo mar
garine tax" said Mr. Clauield. ''Oleo"
is pure food better than many but
ters. Millions of pounds year are
consumed in st. Lopis alone. The tax
is levy upon the people of cities
for the benefit of the people of the
country 1t is therefore class legisla-
ton of vicious type, but | doubt
whether its repeal can be accomplished
at this time
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-11-29
national BANK
Of COMMERCE
CAPITAL 500. 900. 90
MANKATO'S :
Financial In .
stitutions

OFFICERS.
A. o. OLSON, President.
JOHN e. DIAMOND, Vice President.
C. L. OLSON, Cashier.
w. J. FLAcHSENHAR, Asst. Cashier
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-11-29

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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-16
NEEO NOT FORECO CHEESE
No Less Than Sixteen Different varie.
ties Of Dairy Product in One
Grand Forks Store.

The epicurean who delights in the
Welsh rarebit and other delcacies of
the chatting dish into which cheese
enters largely need have no misgiv-
ings of shortage of the article in
Grand Forks if the word of Connois-
seur Mayer OF the Mayer Delicatessen
store counts for anything. And Mr.
Mayer knows whereof he speaks for
behind his own immaculate counters
and in his finely appointed cupboards
he has no less than sixteen different
varieties Of the mass resultant from
the union Of coagulated milk and rem
net.
Few people realize that as many as
sixteen varieties Of the dairy product
are for sale but a glance over the
stock in the Mayer Delcateseen es-
tablishment discloses tho following
which are about half of the names at
tached to the wares:
Debrie cheese, camenbert cheese,
liedrkranZ cheese, full cream brick
cheese. roquefort cheese, imported
Swiss cheese sedeost cheese, CANINE
lost cheese, limburger cheese.
Mr.. Mayer reports very good pat
ronage and on the strength of his
present prosperity and what is in
store. is today giving away samples,
taken home both internally and ex-
ternally, OF coffees and teas.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-16
RAILROAD REFORMERS.

Before the election last fall the So
called reform wing of the republican
party made loud pretensions Of what
1t would do in the way of reducing the
rates now charged by the railroads
In case it was placed in power in
the state. The people took it largely
at its word and the house of repre-
sentatives which convened at Bis
marck on the eight of January was
completely in the control of that fac
ton, and they with a few democrats
held the chairmenship of the COM
mittees. Representative White of
Trail county, the most fanatical of
the railroad reformers, was made
chairman of the committee on rail-
roads. The work of reforming the
corporations was on.
MIR. White became the author of
some drastic railroad measures in the
AouoC oIiouS WHICH Was TWO cent
passenger rate bill. He coupled with
this measure an anti-pass one so that
members who cared little for the
matter of passes and were willing to
vote for their abolition on principle
were at the same time forced by the
whip which Mr.. White was enabled
to use, to vote for a two cent rate
bill or allow themselves to 20 on
record as opposed to the abolition of
passes. 1t was cunning political
scheme, but it failed to work. White
with as much tyranny as was ever
exhibited by Russian aristocrat.
forced his measure through the house,
using all the power of the organiza-
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-16
LITERALLY WORN TO BITS
Conductor Says Body of c. Wall. Man
Killed Near Munich Was Ground
Up Like Mfnce Meat.

Conductor ]. J. Stansbury, of La
kota. who is in the city today, had
charge of the train which was instru-
mental in the killing of Cornelius
WALL near Munich several days ago.
The railway man states that the larg-
est piece of the body that could be
found after the sixteen miles of wear
ing and grinding, was one hand.
Wall was literally chopped to mince
meat. Two days after the tragedy,
section man on the route gathered up
pail full of mangled bits, none larg-
er than good sized marble.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-16
MRS. ANDERSON
FEARS UELAND'S
NEW Law
Admits Democratic Measure
Endangers Prohibition
Must Be Defeated

The executive board of the state
w. G.. 7. U. met at Fargo Thursday
to formulate plans for the state con-
vention, which is to be held in that
city Sept, q and 81. 1t is expected
that several speakers of national repu-
tation will be in the state during the
year under the auspices of the w. C.
T. IT,, among them Mrs. Florence
Richardson of Chicago, Mrs. Isabella
Parks, also of Chicago, who will speak
at the Devils Lake Chautauqua, and j,
G. Wooley, the leading prohibitionist
of the United States. who spoke in
Fargo number of years ago.
AT the reception to Mrs. Anderson,
president of the state union, and
other state officers, the president gave
an interesting address upon prohibi-
ton legislation. Mrs. Anderson stat
ed that the legislature just adjourned
had enacted more legislation tending
to strengthen prohibition in the state
than any other legislature in years.
She cited the growth of the prohibi-
ton sentiment, comparing the time,
several years ago, when resubmission
was defeated by the narrow margin
of one vote, with the present time,
when the vote against resubmission
was more than two to one.
Mrs. Anderson expressed satisfac-
ton with the passage of the temper
ance commissioner act, which she
stated dignified the enforcement of
prohibition in the state. She referred
to the passage of the act which pro-
hibits solicitation of liquor orders and
commented with pleasure upon the re-
cent decision of the United States su-
preme court, which declared similar
law in South Dakota constitutional.
Mrs. Anderson stated that she re-
GREETED the passage of the initiative
and referendum act on account of the
constitutional amendment She stated
that, first, she was opposed to making
it easy to amend the constitution, as
she believed that constitution ought
to be more stable than legislative
enactment, and she also regretted the
constitutional clause, as it opens a
way for resubmissi6n. Mrs Ander-
son in her address stated that the
union should devote its efforts in the
next two years to the stirring up of
sentiment against that portion of the
initiative and referendum act refer
ring to constitutional amendments
She also expressed satisfaction with
the law legalizing searching for liquor
without search warrant, believing
it would make life harder for the
bootlegger.
Mrs. Anderson expressed regret
that the child labor bill and the anti
cigarette bill did not pass.