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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-01-03
Faulty Financiering
Halts Prosperity's Chariot.

Opinions differ about the causes of
the money panic. and industrial de-
preston OF 1907, but no one disputes
the fact. There was breakdown in
the existing system of finance. 1t hap
pened right after the attempted Heinze
copper corner, OCT 18, when the ex-
posture of stock gambling bankers gave
credit q shock that 1t hasn't. got over
yet. Before that time the volume of
business had been up to the prosperity
level. although there had been a fear
full shrlnkage Of stock "yalues"-most-
ly water-and several gamblers panics
had disturbed Wall street. Morgan,
Rockefeller and Uncle Sam came to
the rescue of the big banks with cash.
Gold was imported to stop the gap
after the Knickerbocker Trust COM
pany had gone under. Clearing house
certificates and labor checks were used
everywhere. and banks suspended cash
payments.
Railroads and oil the big Industries
curtalled. Thousands were thrown
out of work. Extensive strikes were
those of the San Francisco Iron and
street car men, New York dockmen
Minnesota miners, commercial telegra
piers. Arbitration averted western
railroad general strike. The Manufac'
turers' association voted 100000 for
three successive years with which to
oppose the closed shop, and the Fed
Grafton of Labor took up the gage OF
battle. Atlantic ocean lines engaged In
a rate war; Marconi began transat-
lantic wireless service OCT. IL. The
new Cunarder Lusitania made record
voyage of 4 days 20 hours. OCT IL.
The cost of living increased. Crops
were good, the total value being ST.
50o,000,O00.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-01-03

ton. SWEDEN. Universal Suffrage
aud proportional representation we're
put into effect In Sweden. whose yen-
Aerabie King Oscar died DEC. s and
was slcceefed by dustay v. SPAIN.
King Alfonso ana gusetS gfcsoria pfe.
sentaa the Spanish people with. ma heir
to the throne. northumberland
ton TO the virtual dictatorship Of ire.
nier Rlanco under King Carlos almost
reached the point of,open rebellion ia
November. PRESEASON JANE, sfu.
zaffar ed Din died and was succeeded
by his eldest son, Mohamnlesl Ali Mn
"a. The long standing rivalry between
Great Britain and Russia over their
spheres of influence in Persia was set
tied by an agreement giving the south
ern section to. the British and tile
northern half to the Russians.
JAPAN.-The Japanese finished their
benevolent absorption of Korea by
forcing the resignation of the Korean
emperor in favor of Grown Prince
Euiwha zee JULY II, who became the
mere puppet of the japanese regime.
The anti-American feeling In Japan
rose to great proportions last spring
over the anti-Japanese riots In San
Francisco and the segregation OF ORR
entail pupils in the public schools OF
that city.
PHILIPPINES.-The first elections
under the American regime resulted In
a victory for the Nationalist or indie
pendence. party, and the first assem-
bly,. was opened at Manila OCT. 1G by
Secretary Taft. who said that no prom
ises could be made about the date of
granting full independence.
CENTRAL AMERICA.-Nicar
with the aid of Honduran revolution
lists, began war upon Honduras in
February, which eliminated MARCH
81 I'm the capture of the Honduran cap
ital and the flight OF President Bonilla
The war ended APRIL 10 with the
surrender of Amapala, Bonllla having
sought the protection OF an American
warship. Later all of the Central
American states were prevailed upon
by American and Mexican diplomats
to send representatives to q peace con-
ference which began at Washington In
November.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-01-03
Jan. 3. 10. Il. 1908
ORDER FOR HEARING ON CLAIMS.

STATE OF MINNESOTA. County OF Blue
Earth.-ss. In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of Thomas
Spence. deceased.
Letters II administration with the will an
reyed on the estate of said deceased being
this day granted unto Charles ID Geddes OF
said county:
1t is ordered, that all claims and demands
of all persons against said estate be presented
To this court. for examination and allowance.
at the probate Office in the city of Mankato in
said Blue Earth county. on the following day.
viz: Monday. the til day OF March. A. ID.
1908 at ten O'Clock in the forenoon OF said day.
1t Is further ordered.t that three months from
the date hereof be allowed TO creditors TO pre-
sent their claims against said estate, at the
expiration of which time all claims not pre-
sented TO said court. or not proven to Its sat
isfactioh. shall be forever barred unless for
cause shown further time be allowed.
Ordered further. that notice of the time and
place of hearing and examination OF said
claims and demands shall be given by publi-
cation of this or Ter for three successive weeks
prior to the day appointed for such examina-
ton, in the Mankato Free Press, weekly
newspaper printed and published at Mankato
In said county.
Dated at Mankato. the Goth day OF Deem
Der. A. ID. 1901
BY the Court:
lpRoBATE CoURr WIN. T. HUGHES.
SEAL Judge OF Probate
w.R. & c. d. Geddes. Attorneys.
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diet. President Meysr was released en-
heaKy bah. but Psttinone was held
and put on sriat IN December
Several other trials foE apitai crimes
stand out above. the mass That OF
Harry Thaw. fhs Sea1shy yonng Pitts
burger who shot STAFFORD White, tslakr
Ing an internationaI sehsatioA tlartly
because of the fkputatlon OF liz wife
and partly because ofthe appeal to
the '.nnwrittep. higher law for which
Counsel Delrnas invented. tie new
term. "demsntia Amerfcanas 4 avail
ed only to the extent saf~a Disagree
ment APRIL IL. The appeal to the
higher law" was not IN yain In the
Virginia cases Of the Strothers hoys
and, Judge Loving. the Maryland case
against Mrs. Bowie and the District OF
Columbia ease against Mrs. Bradley,
In all OF which the iii treatment OF a
woman was the basis, although In
sanity was used as the nominal de-
Tense, as also In the Thaw case.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-01-03
The Badge of Honesty

Is on every wrapper of Doctor Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery because full
list of the ingredients composing 1t is
printed there in plain English. Forty
years of experience has proven its superior
worth as blood purifier and invlgorat-
ing tonic for the cure Of stomach disorders
and all liver ills. It builds up the run
down system as no other tonic can in
which alcohol is used. The active medic
inal principles OF native roots such as
Golden Seal and Queens root, Stone and
Mandrake root, Bloodroot and Black
Cherrybark are extracted and preserved
by the use OF chemically pure, triple
refined glycerine. Send TO DR.. r. V. Pierce
at Buffalo, n Y, for free booklet which
quotes extracts from well-recognized med
ical authorities such as Drs. Bartholow,
King, ScuddeE. coe, Elllngwood and .
host OF others, showing that these roots
can be descended upon for their curative
action il all weak states OF the stomach,
accomplished by indigestion or dyspepsia
as we'll Is iDall bilious or liver complaints
and In dl/Twasting diseases where thero
Is losSflYfesh and gradual running down
OF tlystrength and system.
= The Golden Medical Discovery makes
rich, nlIre blood and so lnvIgorates and
Tegnlates lie stomach. -nY2I 2nd bowels.
aud. thrQuGh them lhe whole system.
Thus all skin affections, blotchesA PIN plea
and eruptions as well as scrofnldhS swell
iings and old open running sores or ulcers
are cured and healed. In treating old
running sores, or ulcers, It Is well to In
sure their healing to apply to them DR..
Pierce's All-Healing Salve. Ifyour drug
gist don't happen to have this Salye In
stock, send ffty-four cents in postage
stamps to DR.. r. v. Pierce, Invaiids' Hotel
and Surgical Institute, Buffalo. N Y. and
. large box OF the "Ail- Healing Salye :
VIII reach you by return post
You can't afford to accept secret nos-
trun as asubstitute for this nom alcoholic,
medicine or KNOWN COMPOSITION, not
even though the urgent dealer may
thereby make . little bigger profit.
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate
ard invigorate stomach. liver and bowels.
Sugar-coated, tiny granules, easy to take
as candy.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-01-03
The Administrators
Notable Executive Acts.

After considerable hesitation and the
tentative acceptance Of the lowest bid,
made by w. ]. Oliver, for the Panama
canal contract the president finally de-
cided last March to keep the whole I'M
dertaking In government hands and
appointed Major Cocktails of the army
engineer corps to head the canal COM
mission and take entire charge, both
Shonts and Stevens having resigned.
The president checked the California
legislature In It's anti-Japanese course
by promising to bring about the exclu-
sion of Jap. laborers by diplomatic
means and by congressional action
Secretary Metealf startled the coun-
try JULY by declaring that the en-
tire Atlantic feet of warships would
make the unprecedented mobilization
In Pacific waters, a statement which
was backed by the president and which
has now been borne out by the fact
of the sailing Of the great armada un7
der the command of Admiral Evans
from Norfolk Dec Is.
In March the president gave official
impetus to the river deepening move
ment by appointing waterways COM
mission, headed by Burton of Ohio,
and later In November made his great
popular journey down the Mississippi
with a dozen state governors to attend
the waterways convention at Memphis.
A general shakeup in the Roosevelt
cabinet occurred in March, when POST
master General Cortelyou was trans
ferred to the treasury portfolio upon
the retirement Of Secretary Shaw.
George Won L. Meyer succeeding Cor
telyou as postmaster general The In
terror department vacancy created by
the retirement Of Hitchcock was filled
by advancing Commissioner OF Cor
porations Garfield. the corporations
post being filed by Herbert K. Smith.
Giving up the idea of joint state
hood, the president signed NOV. 1G
the act by virtue OF which Oklahoma
became q state. and on that day Gov
ernor Haskell and his Democratic adj
ministration assumed office under the
longest and most radical constitution
In the nation. including such features
rs prohibition, corporation books open
to public. truth to determine libel suits
and the initiative and referendum.
This constitution. adopted APRIL 10,
had been ratified at the polls by an
overwhelming majority. and two of
the leaders In the constitutional con-
vention-T. P. Gore, who is totally
blind. and Robert L. Owen-were cho-
sen as the first Oklahoma members of
/ the United States senate.
The closing session. of the Fifty
ninth congress was remarkable chiefly
for the number of thi2-s which 1t did
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-01-03

Cures permanently the cases he I'M
dertakes and sends the incurable home
without taking a fee from them. This
is why he continues his visits year
after year. while other doctors have
made few visits and stopped.e DR..
Jones is an eminently successful spec
ialist in all chronic diseases. proven by
the many cures effected in chronic eases
which have baffied the skill of all other
physicians. His hospital experience
and extensive practice have made him
so proficient that lie can name and To-
cate n disease in few minutes.
Catarrh. Catarrhal Deafness Diseases
of the Ear. Nose. Throat and of the
Lungs fand Consumption in the earlier
stages) are to be cured when DR.. Jones
methods are applied
Granuiated Eyelids and Cataract per-
manently cured by his Absorption
Treatment.
Glasses fitted and Guaranteed.
Cross Eyes Strengthened without pain
Astonishing cures are readily made
in cases of Chronic rheumatism, Pa
ralysis, Epilepsy and Skin Cancer.
Treats all durable Diseases of the
Heart. Blood. Skin. Liver. Stomach.
Kidney, Bladder. and of the Nervous
System. and Female organs
never-failing remedy for Big Neck.
PILES, FISTULAE and RUPTURE,
guaranteed cured without detefltiou
from business. Special attention given
to all Surgical cases.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-01-03

not do or at least which one branch
did for the other to undo. The more
important bills which became laws
were for the trainmen's sixteen hour
Workday, for the service pension and
FOR the exclusion OF Japanese laborersl
The salaries Of senators and congress
men We're raiseds The session was
known as the first billion dollar ses-
sion. although the official figures for
the, appropriations were 1920. I9s, 149.
The Sixtieth congress. which came In.
to being DEC. 2 under the nn0n-Ald-
rich leadership. has started OF with q
do-nothing-hastily policy.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-01-03
Famous Ones Who
Went Over the Divide.

The following well known persons
passed away: Shah of Persia (Muzaf-
far ed DIM. ". CasimirPerier. former
president of France; Senator Pugh of
Alabama: John Alexander fDowie. III
onist leader; NJ. Berthelot. chemist; T.
B. Aldrich. poet; NJ. PobedonostZeff.
Russian statesman alusha A. GroY,
statesman: James II. Eckels. financier;
DR.. john Watson Qan ,Maclarenl.
writer. Mrs. Mckinley. wife of the late
president; Thomas II. Ruger. soldier;
John T. Morgan. senator; Julia Magru-
der. novelist: Francis Murphy. temper
anee reformer: Senator L. ". Pettus;
Richard Mansfield. actor: E. IL. Gries.
composer: Admiral j. G.. Walker: w.
o. Atwater, food expert: L. H. Crosby,
reformer; Josiah Flynt. sociologist:
Senator II. A. Alger OF Michigan: Rev.
II. NJ. Field: II. o. Pentecost, Reform
er: A. c. Gunter. novelist; Dr. W. II.
Drummond. poet: E. H. Conger. dip
lomat: Angelo Heilprin. scientist: Au-
gustus Saint Gaudens. sculptor: Joa-
chim. violinist: Moncure d. Conway
author; Oscar. king of Sweden.
Statistics lacking. 1t is safe to guess
that railroad slaughter exceeded that
of any previous year. Weak rails was
one excuse advanced. Earthquakes
took 400 lives and destroyed $4,000
600 of property at Kingston. Jamaica,
JAN. IA. killed GOO at. Mount Colina.
Mexico. APRIL 10. 10000 at Karatagh.
Turkestan. OCT. 81 and GOO In Gala
bria. Italy. OCT. %. The jamestown
exposition was a financial failure.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-01-03
Ian q 10 IL 10 8.

ORDER FOR HEARING on CLAIMS.
STATE Of MISSE,orA County of Blue
Earth-ss. In Probate Court.
La ths matter of the estate OF John A.
Arnold. deceased.
Letters OF testamentary on tue estate OF
said deceased being this day granted unto
Anna Magdaiena Arnold. OF said Cou ety:
1t is ordered, that all claims ana demands
of all persons against said estate be presented
to this court, for examination and allowance.
at the probate Office in the City OF Mankato In
said Blue Earth county. on the following day.
viz. Monday the 9th day OF April. A. ID.
1905. at ten O'clock in the forenoon of said day.
IL Is further ordered. that three months from
the date hereof be allowed 10 creditors TO pre-
sert their claims against said estate at the
4 ptratiou OF which time all claims not pre-
santt.d to said court. or not proven to its sat
Isfaction. shall be forever barred unless 70
cause shown further time be allowed.
Ordered further, that notice of the time and
place OF hearing and examination OF said
claims and demands shall be given by publ
cation Of this order for three successive weeks
prior 10 the day appointed for such examina-
ton. In the Mankato Free Press. a weekly
newspaper printed and published at Mankato
In said county,
Dated At Mankato. the soth dav 81 Deem
Der. A. ID. 1907.
BY the Court.
probate Court SealI WIN. IT. nCSHES.
pfau 4 Pfau. Judge OF Probate.
Attorneys.
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PRIVATE DISEASES OF MEN AND WOMEN
WONDERFUL CURES
Dec. %. 80. Jan. ;
ORDER TO EXAMINE ACCOUNT.

STATE OF MINNESOTA. County OF
Blue Earth.--ss. In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of. Sarah Critchley
deceased
On reading and filing the petition CT
Marshall NJ. Cram, executor. of the
estate of Sarah Critchler. deceased
representing. among other things. that he has
fully administered said. estate. and praying
that a time and place be fixed for examining
and allo ing the final account of his admins
tration. and for the assignment of the residue
of said estate to the parties entitled thereto
by law.
It is, ordered that said account be ex-
amined and petition heard by this Court.
on Monday. the 18th day of January. A. ID
1902. at 10 o'clock a. M. at the Probate
Office, in the City of Mankato, in said
County.
And Il is further ordered. that notice
thereof be given 10 all perons interested
by publishing a copy of this order once
in each week, for three successive weeks
prior TO said day OF hearing in the Man
kato Free Press. weekly newspaper
printed and published at Mankato. in
said County.
Dated at the City of Mankato the lIth day.
OF December 4. ID. 1907!
BY the Court,
probate Court Seal0
VIM. F. HUGHES.
Judge of Probate.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-07

LOTS
sio5o gisxis with right OF way Norih
81 iCo-asxps North Bench.
sl5O0-2isxS North Bench.
81 S5o--2isNi0 North Bench
81 250--2ioNlD East Bench
81 LOO 33xl.5 Popperton.
81 2i0--33xl0 Poppcrton,
Seol-gisx7 9Th Avenue.
tsJ0-2isx5 9Th Avenue.
SsS0-l 6xieO Denver Street. near Park.
sg5O-56xl50 Poplar Grove.
81 2DO--45Nli0 West Temple and lHt North,
s75O-I5xl5j--3 lots 7th East
81 1y0--G room frame 9Th East and 9Th So.
sle00-4 room Frame Norton Avenue
n@o-i room Frame 10 East eth south
s250o--4 room brick South West Temple
s2.S5O-5-room brick cottage tth Avenue
$780, room brick. modern North hencn'
81 $40 room brick cottage, ith Avenue.
$780, room brick cottage corner lot
eth South and lst West,
s9,lSO-i room cream brick cottage, NORTH
ss,i@-7 room red brick large rooms near
$500 room Preblc Dash cottage, North
Bench
Ss,oc0-5 room brick cottage 2llx9 rods 9Th
South and Sth East.
s3l00--5 room brick cottage Corner lot
9Th Avenue.
.s,oO0-s room story brick Capitol Hill.
1851 room brick. St near Sth Ave.
:4i00--5 room cream brick cottage Il
drcnm well built. u Street near eth Ave.
$4,000 room hrck.co lot, faces South
and west, Ord Avenue
Avenue.
81. 65N-i room cottage faces East, l., ID.
s. Hospital.
$1,000 room TX story faces east L.
$. Hospital.
S. 1000 room IL, story faces East II. u.
s. Hospital
$5,500--6 room 1ie story. corner lot Il. u.
8. Hospital
s6i0O--ii rooms near in street, modern.
se2cl--7 room new and modern, corner lot
list Avenue.
s7.750-S room new and modern story
best OF dnish near u and 18th Avenue
s3,00O--12 acre apple orchard. house. barn
all fenced and under high state of cultl-
walton a real bargain.
| s25. 90 down balance $1,000 per month
| buys young orchard In the best section
! of this state No other better for apples
| $500 down balance $1,000 per month
| for or 10 acres of sandy land particui
| nrly adapted to the poultry business Lei
| ug build YOU q house on the same.
| s.. ?s0-5 acres South east-Good for chick
J ems Many other good ranches in al
\ parts
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-07
MUSICAL FESTIVAL
FOR CANYON CREST
Commercial Travellers and Ranch
Association Combine in a
Big Undertaking.
AMATEURS IN DANCING ACTS
Nearly Thousand VIII be Entered
In Roles of CRYSTAL slipper to
BE Given In May.

\ musical carnival for salt Lake
on scale far outstripning the largest
OF tho larger offerings that are part
OF the towns history, is what is prom
Used for the coming May.
when the proceeds are gathered in
they will 90 to building q. boys home
on the Canyon Crest Ranch. to be
known as the United Commercial Tray
eler's house. aud to become part Of tho
ranch property.
Those backing the big carnival plans
are the Commercial Travellers and coli
lahorating with them. the Canyon
Greet Ranch association. 1t is serious
~ promised by Prof. f. NJ. Agostini,
who has Just come on from New York,
to take charge Of the big production.
that he will have 500 to 1000 people IN
the cast for n big production to be
known as 1.-THE silver slipper" as a
guarantee that Il will be successful he
has n record OF thiumphs in the cities
of the east, the south aud Canada;
sometimes the papers breaking forth on
| the morning after the first perform
ance with double pages given UP ex-
clusively to illustrating tho play. In
| each cNse local talent was used with
| the exception OF one actor, and the
| patronage Of the principal citizens was
{ extended.
REHEARSALS TO START.
| The rehearsals. which will be under
| fun swing at once, will all be open
, TO the public. and after each one n
! social soiree will follow the work on the
roles. The play as it VIII he worked
! up will consist of seven scenes, and an
| opening tablcau. Very few speaking
| parts viii be included. but groups of
| dancers and singers will move through
! the performance with typical songs and
| dances of Italy, Spain. France Japan,
| and America, the play beginning IN
| Fairy land and ending there, after tho
| journey through all these countries by
| the hero who Is given by Queen III
tania n crystal slipper as charm,
] which win lend him skill i'm the grace
ful arts of NIL countries. and a wish
ing ring allowing him to travel where
| he will,
The characters will consist OF ten
| leading women of voice and ability to
dance while singing, ballet of 500
| children. u number of quartets, and A
freely chorus of the final scene in
fairyland.
"VESTAL VIRGIN ALSO.
AS an after piece to the perform
ance. the ''Vestai Virgin" will be given
1t viii deal with the dawn Of Chris
tianity, and contest for Supremacy
between desarte worship In a heather
flower dance and Christian worship By
a band of Monks.
The terpschorean nature of the per
foramnce offers chance OF selecting
in Salt Lake with ability and the wo
men who win have charge OF selecting
: the performers intend that the hes
. the city can produce will be found
/. The performances will be in the Sal
9 Lake theater.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-07
HAM WAS HIS UND0INC
Ifonduc-s for Whisky Leads H. Hop
lSins Into Appropriating Part of
PorlIcr With Bnnefui Result.

Elmer Il. Hopkins. afflicted with a
bad cold and hang over from pro-
tlactod spree. awakened this morning
TO fnd himself ia jail. shortly after
being aroused from slumber he was
facing Judge Diehl on the charge of
stealing half u ham, valued at 49, lie
pleaded guilty and was fined $25 I'm de-
fault OF which he VIII do % days on the
rock pile.
Hopkins got into trouble and Jail be-
cause of his fondness first for whisky,
and secondly, for ham. Al an early
hour this morning he staggered into the
Occidental cafe, 20 east Second South
street. and seized half II ham He
dashed out OF the rear door, closely
followed by an lratc cook and AN angry
dishwasher, Hopkins ran down an alley
aud would have, I'm all probability es-
capped but for the sure aim OF illu cook,
who, armed with the other half of the
stolen ham. struck Hopkins on the head
with the same and knocked him Ia
the ground. He was quickly seized and
held until the arrival of Sergt. Rob-
orts, who placed him under arrest.