The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-05-14

band. She has issued descriptive cards
and these will be sent broadcast.
1t may be that Ledbeter has gone to
1t is said that this land he sold when
he purchased the stock of goods.
| Mary, a bovine beauty OF tender,
years, sweet disposition, fine lines, color
and markings, distinguished ancestry.
and excellent promise as producer OF
golden butter and snowy cottage cheese,
has put to shame the nature fakirs'
tame yarns, and eclipsed the Indian
legends of pioneer days.
! Mary is suicide-driven to self
destruction by lonesomeness.
Yearning for the old home and the
associations of her calf hood days,
grew to unbearable proportions under
Mary's glistening horns or in the big
heart under her glossy coat of red and
white. She roamed the pasture among
strangers during three long weeks OF
disagreeable spring weather, her lone
someness growing at an astonishing
rate, until hope for better days was
lost
Mo0ed Sad Farewell.
Then Mary walked to the edge of
the precipice. mooed a sad farewell
and leaped into the dark chasm thirty
feet below. After she alighted on an
unresilient floor of stone, Mary's trou
bles on this earth were at an end.
She had crushed out her sorrows, her
life-crushed herself with sickening,
but splendid success.
Her loss-in the form of SIS in
United States currency, a sum which
she represented just three short weeks
ago-is keenly felt by r. Wachtler a
wel-known citizen of North Mankato
where this awful tragedy occurred Fri
day night.
Mary's finish was dramatic. Nobody
saw it but everybody knew Mary and
saw her mangled form at the bottom
OF the stone quarry is convinced that
it was. They picture her during her
long hours of lonesomeness, for she
was sentimental little heifer, and
they can see her walking to the edge
of the cliff, hear the plaintive note in
the last utterance of her grief stricken
soul, and they shudder to think of her
awful leap.
Discovered by the Son
MIR. Wachtler's son went out i'm the
pasture Saturday morning to pay
visit to the prize COW which his father
had purchased three weeks before and
it was he who discovered Mary on the
quarry floor--lifelcss, very dead. I.
Il am convinced that she committed
suicide is the verdict of Mr. WachtIer.
He says there is however, slight
possibility of COW slipping off the
edge of the cliff formed by the re.
moval of stone from the quarry that
abuts the pasture and which obviates
the necessity of fence along that
part of the tract.
But when it is considered that Mary
left the happy home of her frisky calf
hood days only three short weeks ago,
and the fact that she was of a shy,
retiring disposition, unwilling to make
new acquaintances among the other
COWS that grazed in the same pasture is
remembered, it may be readily seen that
dependency caused Mary to take the
fatal leap-nerved her for the friohtful
finish.
Related to Bill Nye's Cow.
Mary was direct descendant of a
show animal which Bill Nye once owned
and afterwards sold through the fol-
lowing advertisement:
Owing to my i'll health, | will sell
at my residence, in township 10, range
Is, according to the government survey
one plush raspberry COW, aged eight
years. She is of undoubted courage
and gives milk frequently. To man
who does not fear death in any form
she would be great boon. She is
very much attached to her present home
with stay chain, but will be sold
to anyone who will agree to treat her
right. She is one fourth Shorthorn and
three fourths hyena. | will also throw
in a double barrel shotgun, which goes
away for week or two and returns
with a tall, red calf with wabbly legs
Her name is Rose. | would rather sell
her to a nonresident
Later-Further inquiry along the line
OF Mary's geneology develops the fact
that Mary was originally named for
her grandmother-the true and original
COW owned by Bill Nye. Hence the
pretty sentiment:
Rosemary, that is for remembrance"
Herman konkopp departed from Man
kato more than two years ago and
the efforts of his relatives to obtain
even the slightest trace of him have
proved unsuccessful
krnkopp was a single man and about
thirty-three years of age. For a few
years prior to leaving this city he was
employed by the Omaha road as a
section hand. Before coming to Man
kato he lived in GAINESVILLE for period
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