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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-02-07
HITS AT LOCAL OPTION
AUTHORIZATION CAMPAIGN is
NOW BEING PUSHED.
Copies Of Two Pamphlets Are Being
Sent Broadcast, Made to Appear
Like Temperance Literature.

Minneapolis, Feb. 1.-The campaign
against local option, in which the anti
prohibitionists have said they will
flood the state with literature antag-
onistic to the work of the Anti Saloon
league and the prohibition party, has
begun. Thousands of copies of two
pamphlets filled with anti prohibition
arguments were sent out from st. Paul
Tuesday night by mali, addressed to
voters throughout the 'sstate4. Inc pam
phlets were sent out in plain envelopes,
and there is no mark Oh them of any
kind by Which the identity of the
sender can be learned.
One pamphlet is entitled County
Option, It's Aims and Purposes" and is
devoted to ATTACKS upon arguments
which are being ,used for, county OPP
ton, and the other County Option,
It's Aims and Purposes as Disclosed
by the Proposed Act
At first glance, both look like pam
phlets favoring county option and pro-
hibiton. In the first, some of the head
lines are: ''Ihe People Want County
Option" %Prohibition ina'thc South"
"Obiect of the, League" II
As "a concrete example" of what
county. option would bring about, the
pamphlet gives the following: "The
town of p, in o. county, is a license
town. There are hundreds of people i'll
o. county who have never even seen
the village of P. Under county option
these residents of the county should
vote upon the question of license for
p, and if the majority of the vote
cast in the entire county should be for
'no license" then p could not grant
license, although every vote in p.
should be for license.
"If the people want county option"
the pamphlet continues, "why does the
recent acquisition from Ohio, in the
person of the superintendent of the
Anti Saloon league, with his paid corps
of assistant agitators, find it necessary
to enter up a strenuous campaign to
make the people want it,"
Asking whether prohibition really
does prohibit, the pamphlet proceeds to
answer its own question by saying:
"The statistical statements generally
made by prohibitionists are untrue, as
will be seen from the following tables"
The tables given show larger pro
portion of arrests in four cities in
Maine, prohibition state, than in Min
nesota, with almost twice the number
of arrests for drunkenness. Many
figures are given to show that there
is a larger proportionate amount OF
liquor consumed in prohibition states
than in licensed states. Secretary Taft
is quoted as saying that prohibition
laws in communities where the people
do not want them are a dead letter.
In the pamphlet devoted to COM
ments on the proposed local option law,
the bill is declared to deny home
rule to certain cities and villages, and
to accord it to others. 8 A similar
law" it is said, 'if applied to matters
other than the temperance question,
would be promptly repudiated by ev-
eryone. Can the nature of subject
change wrong principle into right
one?''
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-02-07
Feb. Z. 1871, 1895
ORDER FOR HEARING ON CLAIMS.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
Earth.-SS. In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of Walter
AtchersOn, deceased.
Letters teStamentary on the estate of said
deceased being this day granted unto Frank
AtcherSon 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 i'm
said Blue Earth county. on the following day.
viz: Monday, the 10th day of August. A. ID.
1908 at ten o'clock in the forenoon of said day.
1t is further ordered. that six 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
isfaction, 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 publ
cation of this order for three successive weeks
prior to the day appointed for such examina-
ton. in the Mankato Free Press. a weekly
newspaper printed and published at Mankato
i'm said county.
Dated at Mankato. the 5th day of February.
ber A. ID. 1905
BY the Court:
PROBATE COURT WM +. HUGHES.
SEAL Judge of Probate.
Pfau& Pfau. Attorneys.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-02-07
OLD.TIME JOURNALISM.

Nathan Straus, brother of the Sec
retary of commerce and labor, has
been attending a series of lectures on
"Public Opinion, Journalism and the
Press" by Professor Adolph Koch of
the University of Heidelberg and has
sent this country fac -simile OF the
oldest newspaper, in the modern sense
of the term, now extant, says The
Minneapolis Tribune.
This sheet, which is one of numer-
GUS samples distributed by Professor
Koch among his audience, is quaint
weekly and bears the date of 1909.
On its title page is an deliberately en-
graved border representing David and
Goliah, glaring at each other from
opposite sides of the sheet, while three
chubby angels, symbolical of Faith.
Hope and Charity, adorn the foot of
the page.
We are told that the bound volume
tof this publication for 1909 contains
correspondence from seventeen different
O European towns, among them Rome,
Vienna, Cracow, Amsterdam and sew
u eral German cities. The publisher
of this weekly was Johann Coralus,
and it was issued from Strasburg,
where he conducted it until 1854, when
it fell into the hands of his brother.
It's most important piece of infor-
nation, in the issues of 1909, was the
practical demonstration of Galieleo's
great invention, the telescope, which
was announced to the world in May
of this year. This may be called the
most brilliant SCOOP" which the ven
cradle Strasburg newspaper, in its ca
reer of three centuries, has accom-
splished.
= Germany is the pioneer of journal
rism. Rome, in it's ancient days, is
issued a sheet called the Acta Diurna,
which, being only part of the
1public archives, had small circulation.
Most of the medieval newspapers,
Sfounded in Italy, fell under the ban of
1.-The pope and were soon discontinued.
The first British newspaper was found
ed in London in 1922 and was called
athe Weekly News. The Gazette de
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-02-07
Secure One Hundred and Two
Names to Their Lists
William H. Rabe Led in lndivid-
ual Scores big Bunch.
c. w. Angler Next on the Roll;
The List of Awards.
From Saturdays Daily.


One hundred l3lOS was a charm
that worked beyond the limit in the
contest for new members in the Young
Mems Christian association, which closed
last night. The Blues. won out against
the Reds better than two to one. The
Blues secured lG2 new members and
renewals while the reds were piling
up forty-four. The struggle for the
premiums for individual work resulted
in all records being broken William
H. Rabe pulled down the $50 Racycle
bicycle offered by j. A. Lewis & Son,
by securing forty eight memberships.
C. w. Angler will wear the gold
signet ring given by w. r. Crandall,
the jeweler, as a result of his securing
.twenty-seven memberships. Dan Muir
phy will have a 100 games bowling
ticket and a special prize as an appre
twenty-five memberships. Bowling tick
cts of eighty, sixty and fifty games
will 90 to Thomas Jones, fourteen
members, fourth place; F. H. Koenker
eleven members, fifth place j. J. Flach-
seminar and A. J. Smith each three
members, sixth place The prizes will
be presented to the winners at the
close. of the big lecture entertainment
next Monday evening in the associ-
alton hall
Contest a Success.
The contest was a success from every
point of view and will mean the most
successful year in the history of the
Young Mems Christian association. Over
100 of the memberships secured are
new ones, desiring to get the benefit of
the gymnasium, battles and many
other previliges of the association. In
the near future the prize winners will
be entertained at dinner by the Young
Mems Christian association as special
compliment to their labors
The wonderful record made by w.
IT. Rabe, which far exceeds any one of
the past stands as tribute to his
hustling ability and the influence of
his personality among his great circle
of friends in this city, and while he
is glad to secure the wheel he is equal
" pleased to have added to the stregnth
of the Young Mems Christian assoca-
tion half hundred men by his eff
forts
All members are urged to be present
next Monday night at the big jubi-
lation.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-02-07
STORIES FROM GOOD THUNDER.

Ice hauling has started and citizens
are putting in their annual supply.
Matt Farmer was doing business
with the merchants on Wednesday.
The Ulrich Bros. have put in big
10 cent counter. There are surely
dandy bargains to be found at that
place.
Frank Schwan was very i'll with la
grippe last week, but is now i'm
proving.
Mrs. H. Lehman and Mrs. F. Schwan
were Mankato callers one day this
week.
Mrs. S. Doty earned fine camera
for getting new subscribers for The
st. Paul Daily News.
Little Baby Wiedenheft has been i'll,
but is somewhat improved at present
writing.
Chickenpox and Group are the fash
ionable diseases that are contracted
by all the small fry, even older peo-
pie fall victims, sometimes very UNI
expectedly.
There will be services at the Baptist
church Sunday.
There will be an annual meeting
at the Fuller school house on Jan. 81
of the Good ThunderMapleton tele-
phone company. All interested are in
vited to attend.
Miss Olga Zieglar left Wednesday
for Chicago where she has taken a
position as nurse in a hospital.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-02-07
ATTORNEYS WERE FISHING
Examination Held Today Into the
Mailing Company Affairs.

From SATURDAY DoiIV.
An examination of the bankrupt was
had before Referee Flittie yesterday
in the case of Oscar Bierbauer and
the Mankato Mailing company, Mr..
Bierbauer being on the stand for some
time. He appeared to be in very poor
health, and said that during the time
that he was absent from Mankato last
fall he was at the sanitarium at Bat
tie Creek, Mich, receiving treatment.
The examination was in the nature
of a fishing expedition, but nothing
was developed that was not known
before. Attorneys were present repre-
senting the various interests.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-02-07
France, which still exists, was es.
tablished in Paris in 1881.


France, which still exists, was es.
tablished in Paris in 1851.
Political journalism dates only from
the French revolution. Until that time
there was no freedom of the press and
its duration was very brief. Every
newspaper was sure, sooner or later,
to offend the ruling powers and be dis
continued.
1t is only in modern times that the
press has enjoyed liberty which
sometimes degenerates into license,
and has gained power and influence
which justly entities it to the name of
the fourth estate" This liberty exists
only in enlightened lands, which enjoy
constitutional government and where
the real rulers are the people In
countries like Russia there is still q
very strict press censorship.
The first newspaper of any note is
sued in America was the Boston News
Letter, which appeared in l7O4 at a
time when it often took Americans a
whole year to obtain news from the
old country. In 1919 this sheet was
merged in the Boston Gazette, a pub
LEGATION conducted by James Franklin,
brother of the famous Benjamin.
Since that day newspapers have gone
on multiplying in our country.
When it comes to antiquity, China,
which claims to have invented the art
of printing, is in the lead, for there
still exists at Pekin a daily, the
Telling Pao, which began its slow jog
ging pace in the eighth century and
today is as slow and stupid as ever
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-02-07
FOR THE JAG CURE CONCERN
Money Sent City Recorder Hodapp to
the lnehriate institution.
From SATURDAYS Daily.

From SaturdaYS Daily.
City Recorder Hodapp today for
warded to the state treasurer a war
rant for $40, being the amount due
the state from this city under the
law that requires that two per cent of
all receipts from liquor licenses be
turned into the fund for the support
of the state inebriate asylum. From
the time that the law became effec-
tive, April %, until Dec. 81, the city
collected $4,000 from twenty-t
liquor licenses, and two per cent of
this is $40. Hereafter the amount is
to be forwarded twice "a year, in
July and January, for the preceding
six months
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-02-07
WHEN THERE is NO LYING.

Cannon Falls Beacon: ."Why does a
man lie to his wife?" asks a woman
writer. Dear me, does he?-Duluth
Herald.
No, he, doesn't, Not if he is a real
man and the wife is a real woman.
And there are many such men and
women in the land, notwithstanding
the horde of hypocrites one encounters
in his travels.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-02-07
OLD MAPLETON NOTES.

Judd Cornell was business visitor
at Mankato last Friday.
G. H. Phelps commenced putting up
his supply of ice Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Judd Cornell and fam
lily spent Sunday at the home of
Oscar Healy.
B. F. Taylor is going to Winnebago
Wednesday to attend the bonspiel at
that city.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-02-07
Rows Foot Crushed.

GAINESVILLE, Feb. Carl Bell only
son of Mrs. Minnie Bell was playing
on freight train in the yards yes
terday Afternoon when his foot caught
between draw beams and was so bad
ly crushed that it was necessary to
amputate it above the ankle.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-02-07
Wives Should Beware.

Saltwater Prison Mirror: In order
to break his wife of the habit of GO
ing through his clothes, Milwaukee
man placed counterfeit dollar in his
pocket, and when she tried to pass
it she was arrested and placed in
Jail.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-02-07
Funeral of Miss Mallon.

The funeral services over the
remains of the late Miss Rose
Mallon were held at st. Johns
Catholic church yesterday forenoon,
and the remains were then ac-
companied to st. Clair by num-
Der of the relatives and inferred there.
Six young ladies acted as pail bearers.
The floral offerings were numerous and
handsome.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-02-07
MADE MONEY AT SUPPER
High School Athletic Society Treas
ury Is Enriched.
From Saturday Daily.

The supper given last evening by
the high school students to raise funds
for the Athletic society was sue
cess in spite of the unfavorable wealth
er, that kept many people away, es
pecially ladies. The number who took
supper was between $50 and 300, and
the supper was served entirely by the
young ladies of the school, and the ia
bles were waited upon by the young
men. EIGHTY were seated at time,
and the supper was not only toothsome
and ample in quantity but was well
put on and greatly enjoyed. About
$40 was Melted for the Athletic society,
which has some expense that the funds
are needed for.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-02-07
New Ulm's Poultry Show.
From Saturdays Daily.

The Free Press is in receipt OF the
premium list of the first annual eX-
hibit of the New Ulm Poultry asso-
citation, to be held at New Ulm Feb.
10, IL, IL and l3. Over one hun
dred special premiums will be awarded
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-02-07
In Employ of Electric Railway.

A. A. Lightfoot of Hartford, Conn.,,
has arrived in the city in the inter-
est of the Mankato Electric Traction
companies He is an experienced street
car man, having had nine years. ex-
perience, and will make his home
in Mankato. His family will follow
later. Mr.. Lightfoot and family will
be welcomed to the city.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-02-07
Good Old-Fashioned Ideas.

Minneapolis Journals: Governor
Hughes believes that improving the
breed of horses is less important than
improving the breed of men. These
IDEAS are coming into
vogue again.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-02-07
Madison Lake Death.

Mr. and Mrs. w. Weber of Madison
Lake lost their six year old boy last
night The funeral services Will be
held Friday at 10 a. m, at the Cath
Ole church at Madison Lake.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-02-07

The school board will hold it's regu-.
lar February meeting this evening".
Only routine business is likely to be
considered at this meeting.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-02-07

A ten pound boy was left this
afternoon by the stork to bless the
freside of Mr.. and Mrs. Herman
Szamet.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-02-07
The Committee Personnel.

The commission is to consist of five
members, to be appointed by the pres
ident, without regard to their politi-
cal affiliations, as follows:
One member identified with produc-
ing interests.
One member a lawyer who has made
a special study of the customs and
tariff laws of the United States.
One member familiar with industrial
and commercial conditions in foreign
countries, affecting the competition of
foreign products with the products of
the United States.
One economist and statistician who
has given special attention to the sub
iect of prices and the cost of produc-
ing as affecting the tariff.
One member who has special expert
ence with the administration of the
customs and tariff laws of the United
States.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-02-07
Are to Request The Congress to
Pass Beveridge Bill.
Says the West Wants a Quick
Change in Schedule.
Politics to Be Kept in the Rear;
Offer the Suggestion.

Chicago, Jan. 30.-Chicago business
men will be represented at meeting
of commercial interests in Washington
next Monday, the purpose of which is
to bring pressure on congress to pass
the Beveridge bill creating a special
vising the tariff.
1t is pointed out that tariff revision
means much to Chicago and the mid
die west, and the various commercial
bodies will do what they can to bring
it about.
The delegates will compose the most
influential and representative indus
trial committee ever organized in the
country. The committee will call on
President Roosevelt, Speaker Cannon,
the ways and means committee of the
house and the finance committee of
the senate, and urge that the Bev-
eridge bill be made law as quickly
as possible.
Want Beverage Bill Passed.
The committee confidently expects
that the Beveridge bill will be passed.
If this is the case, the commission will
get to work at once and continue
every day until the assembling of the
new congress, which will be after the
next presidential election. Then the re-
suit of the commissions study will be
put before congress. 1t will be the
aim to revise the tariff strictly from
a business standpoint.
Politics will not be considered, and
to this end the members of the COM
mission, according to the Beveridge
bill, must be chosen for their fitness,
and without regard to politics. This is
the first concentrated effort by all
classes of industrial interests to bring
about revision of the tariff, and
there is absolutely no politics back of
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-09-17
HOW TO FILE FOR CLAIM
AT ROSEBUD
A Complete Account of the Work
of Throwing Open to Settle
ment Over 100000 Acres
of Land.

Any person desiring to register for
the opening of the Rosebud lands in
South Dakota "Trip county, under the
presidents recent proclama ton, and
the instructions issued by the secretary
of the interior, must go before United
States commissioner or Judge or clerk
of court of record, or notary public
in one of the following towns, viz:
Chamberlain, Dallas, Gregory, or Presho,
in South Dakota, or O'Neil or Valentine,
in Nebraska, and there sign and swear
to an application for registration which
will be furnished him by the officer be-
fore whom he makes his oath. This APP
plication must be sworn to between
October 5, and October II, 1908, and
after it is sworn to it must be enclosed,
unfolded, in an envelope, which will be
furnished by the officer administering
the oath, and the envelope must be ad-
dressed and delivered to "James w. Wit
ten superintendent of Opening" at
either Dallas, or Gregory, South Dakota,
before 4:30 p. NJ, Octooer II, and not
after that, either by mail or in person,
or otherwise, but not by registered mail,
and the envelope must not have the
name of the applicant written on it.
Soldiers and sailors who served for
ninety days during the war of the rebel
lion, the Spanish-American war, or the
| Philippine insurrection, will not be re-
quired to go to either of the above
named towns to swear to their applica-
tions, but they may appoint agents to
present their applications for them
and sworn to in any state or territory
| Tho int nf u al
der must be in writing on blank form
games W. Witten, General Land Office
Washington, D. c., prior to September
25, 1908, or at his headquarters at Dial
las, South Dakota, after that date, o.
from the officer in charge of the regis
tration blanks ut either of the towns
named above after October a. The APP
pointment must be sworn to by the sol
der, and should not be made on an,
other than the one prescribed for tina
purpose. The agents name must b.
written into the blank form of appoint
ment before the soldier swears to it, a
appointments cannot be made out il
blank and the agents name subsequently
written into them. The agent must g
to one OF the towns named above an
swear to an application for registration
which will be attached to the soldier
appointment, and he can then delive
the application and appointment to tn
superintendent of the opening, by MAJ
or otherwise, at either Dallas or Gregory
South Dakota. The agent may registe
both for himself and for one soldier, bu
the same person cannot be agent fo
more than one soldier, and no perso
will be permitted to take part in tn
drawing who presents more than on
; application in his own behalf, either j
person or through an agent. A soldie
who files by an agent cannot, therefor,
file in person. Soldiers who did nc
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-09-17
Cares and Worry Give Way.
When Your Stomach is WORKING
RiQht.

Worry is not a disease; it is worse.
1t kills quicker and ages you more
rapidly, because it is the outcome of
diseased conditions, and more especially
it is caused by stomach out-of-order
than from all other possible causes.
Like indigestion it is specifically caused
by body poisons; it is what the doctors
call kind of auto-intoxication. You
know what an automobile is-moves by
itself-or supposed to, anyhow; we'll,
that is the way self-poisoning works.
You are two things-the poisoned
and the poisoner. That describes worry
as clearly as | can, and don't feel ba d
about it if you don't quite understand
it. No one else does.
The surest way to escape worrisome
stomach disorders and score of an
noying stomach and bowel ills, like
constipation and indigestion, is to have
Bell & Robinson mix one ounce Prosene
Compound and Compound Tincture
Cinchona one ounce, with half a pint of
Sherry wine, to be taken teaspoonfuI
before meals ard at bedtime. This is
that wonderfully soothing stomach
tonic which was originated by the
Cooper Pharmacal Company of Chicago,
and they stand back of every statement
made as to the correctness and eff :
cheney of the Prosene Preparation.
Try it for week upon their advice and
see if you won't be the healthiest,
heartiest mortal you ever were.