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

and given fine or Imprisonment" said
the president ominously.
The university authorities still re-
fuse to reveal the names of the two
offenders who were sent away in dis
grace, but some additional facts have
leaked out
The culprits were apprehended by
two women detectives who were .at
work for a week looking for the per-
sons guilty of opening the safe in the
women's building last Saturday and
taking S4 from it.
The girls We're members of the fresh
man class and were aided by one of
the maids employed in the building
The servant was summarly discharged
New York, May lO-The nomination
of Theodore Roosevelt for mayor of
New York is proposed by General
Stewart L., Woodford, = the diplomatist
and former minister to Spain, in a
statement issued here today.
1t is admitted that 'the boom thus
launched has neither the knowledge
it is declared that IAN insistent and
unanimous demand on the part of the
people of the city would compel him
to accept"
General Woodford's statement is in
part as follows:
IF | had the power to nominate and
elect the next mayor of New York
city, | should without moments hest
tation make Theodore Roosevelt that
mayor. In dignity and Importance the
office ranks next to the presidency.
The problem of city government is
the greatest problem of the day, and
| am inclined to think that great
and good mayor of New York could
do more good to the entire country
today than evenat the president can
''Ar Roosevelt, was born here and
knows the cityaf He has been police
commissioner and should know the in
side workings of the one department
ON which the well-being of the city
largely depends. He has been governor
and knows the relations between the
city and the state. He has been pres-
dent and should be free from selfish
ambitions. By his peculiarly direct
and effect executive ability he seems
to me to be the best man for this
great civic trust and duty"
D., 10
was sentenced today to life imprison
ment in the Western Penitcntiary at
Pittsburg for the kidnapping of Billy
Whitla. Mrs. Boyle, indicted as Mary
Doe. received a sentence of twenty five
wears with fine of $1,000 and the
costs of prosecution.
Boyle did not create the scene in
court he had threatened and did not
utter a word prior to his sentence.
Both BOYLE and his wife collapsed com
pletely upon hearing their sentences
pronounced.
st. Paul, May lot was said at the
state executive department that there is
a possibility of Governor Johnson aban-
doning the lecture platform. He has
even now cancelled number of dates
that the bureau. with which he is en-
ployed, is making frantic efforts to
nave him reconsider
Governor johnson has shown de-
cided reluctance to fill any more lee
ture dates outside Minnesota" said a
member of the governors official fam
lily today. land he has ntimated on
several occasions that he might drop
the business.
THE governor suffers much from
stomach trouble, and he thinks more
of his health than he does of the rev.
enue he would derive. If he fills any
lecture dates this year, | think they
will be very few"
Those who claim to know say the
Minnesota executive realizes $500 lee
ture, and to many his turning down
of that revenue is inexplicable. Poll
ties, with a desire to get rid of con
siderable newspaper criticism, regard
ing his continued absence from his du-
ties and from the state, is advanced
by some as a reason.