The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-08

are held up too much as ideals for the
children" There should be better
home conditions and better roads, Mr..
Atwood believes, and under the pres
ent system, he said, about 10 per cent
of the. road tax is wasted.
w. E. Parker, cashier of the Mer-
chants National bank of Wadena, at
tributes the trouble principally to lack
| of educational advantages and pleasant
home surroundings, and notes a dis
tinct tendency to flock to the cities.
Over two tons of rough fish-or 400
pounds of carp, buffalo and sheephead
| fish, to be exact-were shipped from
Madison Lake to the New York Fish
company at New York city Saturday
| by the company contracting to rid that
lake of undesirable species of the finny
| tribe.
The fish, which were taken from the
lake in the big draw which attracted
afternoon, were packed with ice in
barrels, and forwarded by express to
market.
Deputy Games Warden Jordan, who
is supervising the work, said this
morning that the fishermen were busily
engaged today in adding width to
the big seine which will be widened
from twenty-five to forty foot. This
is a big task and will not be finished
before tomorrow at the earliest. For
that reason, the next draw will not
be made until tomorrow afternoon at
the earliest and perhaps not until
Wednesday afternoon.
New Haven, Conn, Oct. AT the
| meeting of the Yale Corporation today
Treasurer McClung, who is to succeed
Charles Treat as United States Treas
| urer, rendered his resignation. He
will serve until Nov. l, when sue
| cessor is chosen President Taft
and Mr.. McClung are warm friends.
Both are members of the Yale corpo-
ration and of the leading secret socf-
| ETY., Skull and Bones. Mr.. McClung
| played four years on the Yale football
| team and in his senior year, 1901
1902, was captain of the greatest foot
ball team Yale ever had. He played
fullback and the song which cheered
the team is familiar to every Yale
man of the period:
Hold the ball, McClung is coming
Barber answers still.
Old Pa Corbin's in the center;
Win we can and will.
Mr.. McClung is a wealthy bachelor
and lives at the Kensington, an apart.
ment house.
Sacramento, CAL, Oct. 4.-When
| President Taft reaches this city this
evening ne will find a warm welcome
awaiting him after ride of twenty
| five hours from Portland. Governor
Gillett will meet him at the state line
and introduce him from the platform
at the large stations coming down the
| valley. Autos will meet the train and
conduct the president and his party
on tour through the city, and then
to Capitol park, where the president
will make an address. By request the
| plans for a public banquet have been
abandoned for the reason that the
president must leave Sacramento at
4:2O the following morning and will
have strenuous day of it in Oak
land and San Francisco. But after
the speechmaking in Capitol park this
evening he will be taken to hotel
and will dine semi privately with
few leading citizens as the guest Of
the mayor.
Spokane, Wash, Oct. 4.-The inter-
| state commerce commission, which
began sessions here today will spend
three in Spokane looking into rate
conditions.
| For some time there has been q
growing sentiment in the west among
shippers that the commission should
hold sessions on the Pacific coast in
the Rocky mountain region and in the
middle west, and in Difference to
many suggestions the commission de-
cided to hold sessions at several
points out there this fall. There are
many important cases pending before
the commission from these sections
and it will hear them, attended by
| Iull corps VI cielhS, SeoHoSAoPnoi03
/ etc.
| Other cities to be visited are Seat
tie, Portland San Francisco, Reno,
Ogden, Salt Lake and Billings.
New York, Oct. 4.-Charles W.
Morse, the convicted banker, appeared
in the United States circuit court of
appeals here today for a re-hearing OF
his case. Morse has been out on
S25 900 bail since last June and the
object of the present hearing is for
the court either to order a new trial
or affirm the sentence of fifteen years
Imprisonment imposed last November.
Since his release Morse has succeeded
in recognizing a number of compa-
MES with which he was connected be-
fore his first trial and is said to have
retrieved at least one-fourth of the
$2O,OOO,OO0 fortune which ne lost when
his troubles first began.
Governor A. o. Eberhart was the
principal speaker at the Governor
Johnson memorial services in the Hope
chapel, Twelfth and Washington ave-
| ,,oe NI;n,oopol;c Sunday ni0ht Com.