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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-08-07
FAIR DATES

The Mankato Fair and Blue Earth
County Agricultural association will
hold it's third annual fair on Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday, September
IL, Is and 10. This year the display
of fruits, vegetables and stock will
be larger than ever.
In several of the departments pre-
miums have been incurred over previous
years, which will encourage larger
and better displays.
The fair is now being advertised
throughout southern Minnesota, and no
doubt the city will be thronged with
visitors from all sections of the lower
half of the state.
Mankato now has street car line
to convey the public to and from the
fair grounds, and the street car COM
pany are planning to care for the
crowds that will want to see the
big show.
The officers, board of directors and
superintendent in charge of the fair
are as follows:
George Atchison, president; Fred
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OPINION RENDERED BY AN ASSISTANT
ATTORNEY GENERAL. -~~-'---..-s
Eagle Lake Denizens Refused to Pay the Tax OF
Work on the Highways; Hence the Ruling
Was Obtained

of the town have no control. While
section 49, subdivision 81, provides
for the levy and collection of poll
tax by village, the code seems to be
defective in not affording any machin-
|ery by which the collection of the
tax con be enforced. have been UNI
able to find where, if. at ALL the pro-
visions of section 1887, statutes of
Minnesota, 1894, are carried forward
into the code. Section 1887, statutes
1894, as amended BY chapter So, laws
1889, is repealed by section 553S, re
rived laws 1905.
''In the absence of the statutory
provisions applicable to villages pro
viding for the giving of notices ITO
work the poll tax, etc.. l do not
see how you could maintain prose
cution against one who has refused
to work or commute his poll tax in
the village. Possibly have overlooked
some statutory provision, and if you
are able to find any 1 will consider
it a favor if You will call my atten-
ton thereto. Very truly, c. Louis
Weeks, special assistant.
A number of villagers of Eagle
Lake refused to pay their poll tax
and declined to work on the highway.
Arrests were threatened by the vii
lage authorities hence the obtaining of
the opinion.
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From SATURDAYS Daily

From SATURDAYS Daily
If a certain two or three people are
siezed with typhoid. fever it will not
be their fault, for they have certainly
taken precautions.
Most sympathy, perhaps, will be ex-
tended to the badly frightened woman
who passed through Mankato on a
train yesterday. If she had been al
lowed her own way about it, the train
would have gone around the town or
at least never even hesitated at the
station. But the train simply had to
stop in Mankato, so the woman guard
ed herself against typhoid infection as
best she could.
She was prepared for the passage
through the stricken city" as she had
doubtless heard MankatO called When
the train reached the outskirts of town
and whistled she produced large
napkin and liberal quantity of spir-
its. of eamphor with which she satu-
rated the cloth. And when the train
stopped at the depot, the germs were
barred as far as this particular woman
was concerned. She had tied the large
icamphor soaked cloth across her face
and was breathing filtered air. All Man
kato people will join in the hope that
the woman got safely past.
-t Afraid to Use the Phone.
Then there is the story of a woman
whose. friend was sick with typhoid,
but she was afraid to call her over the
telephone because of the possibility
of a germ or two finding its way over
or through the telephone from the
home of the typhoid patient to hers.
In neighboring town there is
landlord who subjects his would-be
guests to thorough examination be-
fore he permits them to become guests
at his institution. He has perfected
a system of examination similar to
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-08-07
FROM THURSDAYS Daily.

rIOHl lHuTSudN 3
The village of Eagle Lake some time
ago levied a poll tax of one dollar
Recently the question arose as to how
to collect it, and County Attorney Ply
mat was consulted. He informed the
village that it could not collect il, as
the revised code had left out this part
OF the law through mistake. The tax
can be collected in townships, but the
provision for collecting the tax in
villages was omitted The village au-
thorities were not satisfied with this
opinion, and Mr.. Plymat then wrote
to the attorney general, and propoupded
the question to him, and yesterday re-
ceived an opinion in which he was
upheld. The attorney generals letter
was as follows:
Dear Sir: Answering yours of
oath instant, 1 beg to advise you that
it is the opinion of this office that
sections 1925, 1926, 1928, 1896, 1897,
and 1888 of the revised laws of 1905,
and chapter 324 of the generals laws
of 1905, do not apply to villages in
under the provisions of
chapter 8, revised laws 1905.
Gas pointed out by you in your
letter, under the provisions of section
732 village constitutes separate
road district over which the officers
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Sympathy for Woman Who
Covers Mouth With Napkin
Passing Through City On Train and Feared She Would
Catch Typhoid; Man That Stopped His Paper
How Soldiers liked; Bits of Humor.

! that maintained by the government
at Ellis Island i'm New York harbor.
And when man arrived from Man
katO day or two ago he didn't get
as far as the examinations-he was
lquarantined aboard ship-sO to speak
as far as staying at that hotel was
concerned.
There is man living in the country
some distance from NIankato. He
wrote The Free Press yesterday in this
way:
please stop sending The Free Press
to my address until | pay for same in
advance. AS | understand it, accord
ing to that typhoid fever statement,
prepared by DIR. W. H. Hill, the germ
of said fever may be sent out in the
country through the newspapers"
The Soldiers on Double-Quick
The troopers belonging to Battery G
scampered through Mankato as if the
germs were right at their heels pre-
of the greatest and best nation on
earth. With pistols drawn and looks
of defiance on their countenances the
.artillerymen assumed attitude that re-
sembled your old friend Ajax throwing
the scare into a microbe. 1t is limited
that the soldiers had their mouths
mnffled and they hardly drew a.
breath of air while passing through
the city for fear their systems would
be contaminated. It is reported that
a couple of the boys did manage to
get their lips to foaming beekers en-
route and it is not at all likely that
anything serious will result to them.
Mankato's sanitary condition is such
that the entire battery could have re-
manned "in our midst" for days and
none need have feared for his health.
Mankato is as healthy a town as there
is on the face of the earth.
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JOHN FRANKLIN ASH.
Well-Known Engineer Passes Away
After Two Weeks Illness.

After Two Weeks Illness.
John Franklin Ash, residing at $40
North Broad street, died at nine
o'clock Saturday evening of typhoid
fever, after an illness of two or three
weeks. He was a Single man, residing
with his widowed mother and sisters.
at $50 North Broad street The fam
lily moved to Mankato from Elysian
four years ago, and Mr.. Ash has been
following his trade of engineer Dur
ing the past year he has worked some
for the Mankato Gas and Electric
Light company.
The deceased was twenty-eight years
of age and member of the local camp
of the Modern Woodmen of America,
and was vice president of the engineers
union. He was faithful employee
steady man well liked by all who knew
him, and his death causes great regret
He is survived by his mother, one
brother and four sisters, two of whom
teach school.
Funeral services will be held tomor-
row at l:l5 p. m, at the Methodist
Episcopal church, and the remains
will be taken to Elysian on the $40
p. m. train for interment. Rev. Peter
Clare will go to Elysian with the fam
ily.
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Big Sum for Bridge Repairs.
irday's Daily

From Saturday'S Daily
The Nicollet board of county COM
missioners has voted aid to several
township that had roads and bridges
washed aut and destroyed by the
heavy rains early in the month. 1t is
estimated that the loss throughout the
county amounts to $4,000.
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| gregates. $l5,000,0Q0 and the university
fund 81, 800 900. The state lands still
unsold, including swamp, university
and school lands, aggregate about
2,75O acres, and when all these lands
are. sold, when the timber is cut and
sold and when the ore royalties are all
received it is expected that the gen.
eral school fund will reach $l00O00000
and the university fund Sl0,OOO,0O0 to
$l5, 900, 900, and that is not an idle es-
innate when it is considered that from
one forty acre tract there will be
taken 2o,OOO,O06 tons Of ore, on which
the state recfyfd ss J royalty of 25i
cents a ton, aefs $5,OO6,00O. The state
has cont rdctee;; Of Isiniihpl terms for
over 500 forties.
"The bonded indebtedness of the
state represented by the old rail
road funding bonds is now 100000,
and is being reduced at the rate of
$4,000 year. The certificates of
Indebtedness issued by the capitol COM
missioners for the building and fur
nishings of the new capitol which are
still unpaid amount to $2,50O,0OO.
These certificates are not held by in
dividuals or corporations, but are own
ed by the permanent school trust
funds and the swamp land fund of the
state.
'.The large railroad taxes are due
and payable March l, and the June
county settlement with the state brings
in a large sum to the treasury, SO that
during the summer months the states
strong box is full to overlooking. The
amount on hand dwindles gradually
from July to October, reducing the
cash balance of about $3,000,000 to a
little over S1,0OO0OO. In October the
legislature has made the school appor
tiOnment, which this year will amount
to about $l,000,0O0, and the state aid
to schools appropriation, which this
year was over $s56,OOO, payable. This
amount of nearly $2,OO0,0O0 is made
available at a time when the states
cash balance is only something over a
million. As a result, each year the
state is compelled to borrow from
100000 to Sl,75O,OOO, paying the mar,
ket rate of interest. A great many
people, even bankers and county treas
urers, who, perhaps, more than any
other class in the state, are familiar
with finance, do not know that the
state becomes a borrower each year
about Nov and continues borrower
until the spring months. These loans
are only temporary and anticipatory,
taxes having in all cases been levied
to pay such loans beforehand.
States Revenue.
Tine general administration eX-
penses of the state government are
paid out of the general revenue fund,
which has various sources, several of
which are as follows for the year
ending July 81, l9OS:I
Rallroad taxes ........... SO AIS. 76
General taxation ........... 1,559,570. II
insurance companies taxes. 365, 294 Al
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and the interment will be made at
Glenwood cemetery. They will be in
charge of Rev. f. H. Willisford. pastor
of the First Baptist church.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-08-07

Elect Jake jacobson governor and
we all can have pie-and none of us
will worry over whether the other
fellow is eating his pie with IA knife.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-08-07
Charles Ballard Sells Farm.

Charles A. Ballard of Route has
of his farm to his brother
and will move to Washington state
where he will engage in farming.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-08-07

IL may be of interest to Know that
there has been received from the two
per cent tax on liquor licenses for the
establishment of a state inebriate hos
pital $34.562.S7, to which may be add
ed Sl3,494.42 representing unpaid au-
ditor's drafts in process of collection,
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of the permanent trust funds which
are available for investment are loaned
within the state.
Fifty Years Ago.
Gin comparison with the volume of
business during the fiscal year just
closed the following is given as show
ing the business transacted during the
first year of the states organization.
SIAN. l, 1853, there was a balance
in the territorial treasury of $5,009.43.
The receipts for the first
years business were $500. $3.50. 902. &c
Disbursements ................ 2S2. 839. Is
Balance end of first year.. s4,06S IS
Two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars of the first years receipts repre-
sented the cash received from state
bonds which were issued July l, 1858.
The balance came from the organized
counties.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-08-07

making a total of $4S,057.29 for the
Fifteen months during which The law
has been in operation.
IS Condition of Funds. 1c 70
M 'fThe following statement shows the
cash on hand in the several funds at
the end of the fiscal year July 81,
1907, and, July g3lt 1908. It will be
seen that the cash balance is $751;
s5o.O2 greater this year than last. The
high water mark Of the states finan-
cial condition represented by cash on
hand was reached July %, 1908, when
there were $3,ll5,3ll.63 on hand.
1907 1908.
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& Totals .......$2, 400, 432. so so, 96S, 2S2. ga
The permanent funds of the state
invested in interest bearing securities
amount to $l5,72l ,l56.2S, of which
there are loans, as follows:
Local municipal corporations 81 COG, 1856. %
New capitol certificates. -. $500, 900 90
Gates ..................... 156. 900 90
New capitol certificates s.
Bonds of other states. 49,. 5,159, 900 90
Total SIS. 721, 1856 %
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States Revenue.

"Tne general administration eX-
penses of the state government are
paid out of the general revenue fund,
which has various sources, several of
which are as follows for the year
ending July 81, l9OS:/
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-22
LOCAL BOYS
ARE WANTED
Frank J. Earl, graduate ath-
letic manager of the Agriculture
al College at Fort Collins, is in
the. city in the interest of pros
pectiye college students.

indications point to a large enroll
ment at the Fort Collins institution
this year. The term begins Septem-
ber and 10.
In matters athletic Mr.. Earl is of
the opinion that the Aggies will be
strong In all departments this year.
Swan. Hinken and Cheeley of this
city are among the regular foot ball
men to report for practice. Cheeley
was picked up by some authorities
last year for the All State full back
and doubtless will make good at the
same position this year.
The Aggie base ball team, that had
such a pronounced success last year,
will be practically intact for the COM
ing year. Burkhardt, their star
twirler, who was with the Grand
Junction team this season, will try
out for foot ball. Hester at first base
has been lost to the Sioux City West
ern League club and his loss will be
severely felt.
Coach Rothgeb has returned from
the east and is preparing to take
charge of a large bunch of young
athletes expected from various parts
of the state.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-22

WILL HELP

Senator Horace II. DeIOng of
Grand Junction is now doing all
in his power to prevent the re-
nomination of Merle ID. Vincent,
the fearless young republican
representative from Delta coun-
ty.
AS announced by The Sentinel
some days ago Senator Guggenheim
has sent word that Vincent, who was
the only republican who had the
nerve to vote against the election of
Guggenheim, must be defeated, and
the western slope henchmen of SEN
ator Simon are getting busy
They are afraid of Vincent. They
know that the people are with him
and against the Guggenheim clique;
and they know that, if he gets a re-
nomination, he Will be elected and
will cause the Guggenheim men all
kinds of trouble. Every effort is be-
ing made to defeat Vincent for the
denomination and to send a Guggen-
helm man to the Legislature instead
DeLong, who helped elect Guggen-
helm (who was anything but the
choice of the people for United States
senator) is doing all he can to keep
Vincent out of the legislature and
thus defeat the will of the majority
of the people of Delta county.
In speech at Paonia Thursday
night Senator DeLong attacked Vim
cent in no uncertain manner, as did
Judge A. R. King and others.
None of the attacks did any credit
to any of the men who made them
and will not hurt the young repre-
sentative's standing with the people.
The Guggenheim leaders had their
friends to come from many points to
help swell the crowd at the Paonia
meeting, but the enthusiasm over the
attacks on Vincent was conspicuous
by it's absence.
More methods than one will be
employed in the efforts to defeat Vim
cent for denomination.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-22
BLIND WED TO BLIND
IN COLORADO SPRINGS
Young People Who Never Saw Each
Other Are to Marry.-Each is
Highly Accomplished.

+ A romance which had its be- +
1. ginning several years ago in the +
+ Deaf and Blind Institute in this +
+ city is to eliminate shortly in !
I. a wedding. The marriage will +
4. be unique in that neither the +
!. bride nor the groom has ever +
+ seen the other, says the Colora- +
+ do Springs Gazette. +
Both the principals, John F. My
ers of Denver and Miss Rose Fegan.
are blind.
The date for the wedding has not
been announced, but the event will
take place within a short time at the
home of the brides parents, and the
couple will make their home in Boul-
der.
Myers has been for many years a
well known figure in the streets of
equally well known in this city. With
his short, stout cane to guide him.
it has been his custom to go every
where, threading his way through
crowds and across streets with as
much ease as though he had sight.
He became blind when 3 years old
through an accident. Notwithstand-
ing this disability, he has acquired
an education, and is probably the
only blind piano tuner in Colorado.
He is quite skillful in this line. For
some time he was manager of the
Colorado industrial workshop for the
adult blind in Denver, but since re-
signing that position, he has been en-
gagged in his work at Boulder where
he has succeeded in establishing a
good business.
Miss Fegan, too, has made a sue
cess in spite of her handicap. She is
also a talented musician.
1t was while both were attending
the blind school at Colorado Springs
that they became acquainted. A
common liking for music first brought
them together, and in the harmonies
which they used to call forth in the
music room at the blind school. Gu
pid found a ready medium for ply
ing his trade.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-22

Tonight at Fraternity hall the G..
A. r. veterans will give big social
session, and all members of the Wom-
ans Relief Corps and their husbands
are invited to attend. There will be
40 admission charge for the guests.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-22

Louis James, the celebrated actor,
in a magnificent production of Peer
Gynt," staged under the manage
ment of Wallace Munro, is one of
the big attractions that will appear
at the Park opera house this fall.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-22

Mrs. Charles l.. Shively entertain
ed friends on Wednesday at euchre
at her home in, honor of Mrs. Todd,
of Grand Junction.-Salida Record.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-22

For the finest of Lrcad, the fresh
est and sweetest of pies and cakes.
for fancy and staple groceries, call
up the Progress, the old reliable gro
Gerry house and bakery. Prompt at
tention to all orders.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-22

GaIvanlzed gutterrns and spouting
galvanized chimney tops. tin valley,
hip shingles, furnace installing at
reasonable prices by Lowe Bros.
timers, 126 N. Fifth street, phone
black 1894. Call and get our prices
and save money.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-22

E. S. Andersons. a school teacher
from Morgantown, Ind, is visiting
in the valley this week. Mr.. Ander-
sons has fallen in love with this sec
ton of the country and is consider
ing locating if situation should be
presented in the outlying or rural
districts.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-22

According to an order issued by
General Passenger Agent Speers yes
terday, nine extra tourist sleepers per
week will be carried by west bound
train No. of the Midland, the SER
vice continuing in this way until Oc-
tober 81.
Some of these cars will start from
Chicago, taking on coast bound pas
sengers there. Others will run out
of ST. Louis. All will carry passen-
gers to California and northwestern
points.
The order provides for one car to
Los Angeles and the northwest every
Monday, one to San Francisco and
the northwest on Tuesday. two for
San Francisco on Wednesday. one
to Los Angeles and one to San Fran
cisco on Saturday.
Arrangements have been made
whereby passengers may continue to
northwest points after arriving in
California without change of cars.
The Pullman Company has turned
out these extra coaches expressly for
the use of the Midland and connect
ing lines in this service. The cars
are of the newest patterns manufac-
tured at Pullman and are termed
tourist sleepers." They are an i'm
provement over the ordinary Pull
man, inasmuch as they are lighter,
more airy and more sanitary.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-22

Gray has Groom, 2-story house; !;
modern; on Rood avenue; for So
100. This goes $500 down, pay
ments S25 per month.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-22

Whether Bryan or Tars will be
elected is a mooted question. But
Hilbert& Ricks have already been in
augurated for another term as dis
pensers of the best in groceries and
meats. Phone Junction 1874.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-22

Our turnouts for all kinds OF driv-
ing are away above the average
Blue Barn. 319 Colorado avenue.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-22

Mrs. Schwartz and her mother
Mrs. Weckel, who have been visiting
Mrs. Layton and other friends in
Riverside left last evening for their
home in Grand Junction.-Aspen
Democrat.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-22
JUMPS 5000 FEET
[By Associated Press. |

Heringsdorf, Prussia. Aug. 22.-
The bride of week of Professor
Rudolph Splitter of Sternberg, Neck
lenberg Schern, yesterday threw her
self from the top of the Bismarck
tower here, falling 5000 feet to the
bottom of the cliffs upon which the
tower is built.
The couple were on their honey
moon.
Prior to their marriage they had
been engaged for ten years.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-22

Heavy hauling gwen special at
tention by Barton & Terrill.- When
you have anything in this line. cal
them up. Prices are right.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-22

Just ordered one car of Front
Rank furnaces. Do you want oneF
See j. H. Lane.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-22

Groceries below cost would be a
foolish statement Quality comes
first with us and the prices are al
ways right. Hilbert & KICKS 4z'
Main.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-22

Your place viii sell better If it is
heated by a Front Rank furnace.
Sold and guaranteed by ]. II. Lane.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-22

Go to the livery parn that always
treats you right Blue Barn, ol9
Colorado avenue.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-22

If you want package delivered or
trunk moved, day or night, phone
the Diamond L express. Phones Me-
sa 466 or Red 1888. Curtis Lynch
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-22

If you want a good buggy or har-
ness right, let Fred Mantey figure
with you.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-22
Junction 3l7

Did you say it was hot? Appetite
poor? Our line of fresh fruits will
help some. Hilbert G. Kicks.
The daily sentinel., 1908-08-22

For that tired Keeling exercise pru-
dence in selecting your edibles. Hill
bert G. Kicks, groceries and meats.