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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-05-20
NOTICE OF LIS PENDENs.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, In District
Court. County OF Blue Earth, 9Th
Judicial District.
Arthur II. Spaulding, plaintiff. against
Samuel Leech, William II. Leech.
Josiah b. Heyln. Charles A. Ballard,
II. u. Hanna, Andrew p. Johnson.
the unknown heirs of Samuel Leech,
deceased the unknown heirs of Will
liam II. Leech. deceased and al
other persons unknown claiming any
right title, estate interest, or lien,
scribed in the complaint herein, de-
PENDANTS.
Notice is hereby given that an action
has been commenced i'm the district
court aforesaid by the above named
plaintiff against the above named de-
PENDANTS: that the object of said ac-
ton is to determine the adverse claims,
and the rights of the parties respective
ly to certain real estate which said real
estate and premises affected by this
action are situated i'm the county OF
Blue Earth. State of Minnesota, and is
described as follows:
All that portion of the southeast
quarter 90 of the southeast quarter
90 of section No. seventeen 90 in
town one hundred and eight QOS) north,
of range No. twenty-siX (26) west of
the 9Th principal meridian that lies
east of the center line of the highway
running through said tract known as
the agency road. containing about y
acres. excepting therefrom any nigh
ways thereon.
ANDREW C. DUNN.
Plaintiffs Attorney.
Winnebago. MINI.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-05-20
May 13-20-27
ORDER TO EXAMINE ACCOUNT.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County OF
Blue Earth.-ss In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of Lowry
Hook, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition OF
Mary f. Hook, eXecutrix of the estate
or Lowry Hook. deceased, representing
among other things, that she has fully
administered said estate, and praying
that time and place be fixed for ex-
amining and allowing the final account
of her administration. and for the as
signment of the residue of said estate
to the parties entitled thereto by law:
1t Is Ordered, That said account be
examined and petition heard by this
court. on Saturday the 4th day of June,
A. d. 1910, at 10 o'clock m. at the
probate office. in the city of Mankato.
in said county.
And it is Further Ordered, That no
tice thereof be given to all persons in
terested by publishing a copy of this
order once i'm each week, for three sue
cessive weeks prior to said day of hear
ing i'm The Mankato Free Press. a
weekly newspaper printed and pub
lished at Mankato, in said county.
Dated at the city of MankatO the 4th
day of May, A. ID. 1910.
BY the Court.
VIM f. HUGHES,
Judge of Probate.
probate Court Seal)
John G.. Noe,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-05-20
May 6. IL, 20
ORDER TO EXAMINE ACCOUNT.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of
Blue Earth.-ss. In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of
Semira j. Glaucke, deceased
On reading and fling the petition of
Gottfried Glaucke. representative of the
estate of Semra j. Glaucke. deceased.
representing. among other things. that
he has fully administered said estate,
and praying that time and place be
fixed for examining and allowing the
final account of his administration, and
for the assignment of the residue of
said estate to the parties entitled there
to by law.
1t is ordered. that said account be
examined. and petition heard by this
May. A. D. 1910, at 10 o'clock A. NJ.
at the probate office, in the city of
Mankato, in said county.
And it is further ordered. that no.
tce thereof be given to all persons in
terested by publishing copy of this
order once in each week. for three sue
cessive weeks prior to said day of hear
ing in The Mankato Free Press, a
weekly newspaper printed and published
at MankatO i'm said county.
Dated at the city of Mankato. the
30th day of April, A. ID. 1910.
BY the Court
VIM F. HUGHES
Judge of Probate
probate Court Seal)
C. L. Benedict, Attorney
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-05-20
SEVERAL GUESTS MISSING
May Have Persisted in Hotel Fire at
Phoenix, Ariz.

Phoenix, AriZ., May 18.-Only sew
enty-one out of more than 100 guests
who were in the Hotel Adams, which
was destroyed by fire, have been ac-
counted for and fears are expressed
that some may have been burned to
death.
The register of the hotel was de-
stroyed in the flames, which caused
damage of $275,0O0, but many of
those whose names were recalled by
the clerks of the hotel have not been
found.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-05-20
April l522-29. MAY e-l3- 20.
MMONS. SID
Peter Lloyd.
Secretary

STATE OF MINNESOTA. In District
Court. County of Blue Earth, 9th
Judicial District
Arthur II. Spauldng. plaintiff. against
samuel Leech, William II. Leech.
Josiah b. Heylin, Charles A. Ballard.
4. p. Hanna. Andrew p Johnson.
the unknown heirs of Samuel Leech,
deceased. the unknown heirs of Will
liam III. Leech, deceased and all
other persons unknown claiming any
right. title, estate interest. or lien,
IN the real estate and premises de-
scribed in the complaint herein, de-
PENDANTS.
The State of Minnesota to the above
named defendants:
You and each of you are hereby sum-
moned and required To answer the COM
plant of the plaintiff herein, which has
been and is filed i'm the office of the
clerk of this court at his office in
Mankato i'm said county, and to serve
"a copy of your answer thereto, on the
subscriber. the attorney for the plain
tiff, at his office in the village of Win
nebago in the county OF Faribault in
said state, within twenty days after
the day of such service, and if you
fail to answer the said complaint with
in the time aforesaid the plaintiff will
apply to the court for the. relief ask
ed for in the said complaint
And you will further take notice:
That this action is brought for the
purpose of determining the adverse
claims to the following real estate sit
uate in said Blue Earth county to-
wit:
IAN that porten Of the southeast
quarter Of the southeast quarter of
section No. II in town 10S north of
range No. % west. that lies east of the
center line of the highway running
through said tract, known as the
agency road containing about q acres,
excepting therefrom any highways
thereon" San 81.
And that no personal claim is made
upon you or any of you defendants.
Dated this 23rd day of March, a. ID.
1910.
ANDREW c. DUNN,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
oil At 20,
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dated Dec. "A, 1908, and dispOses Of
$4,000 worth of personal property and
$1,000 worth of real estate The sum
of 5000 is left to Jessie B. Conrad, $50
to the Sterling Cemetery association,
and the rest of the estate to the
widow, Mrs. Edna b. Potter. and the
adopted daughter, Gladys +. Potter, in
equal shares. The widow is named as
the eXecutriX. Mr.. Potter died
April 26.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-05-20
Despondent Man a Suicide,

Bird Island. Mimi. May lS.--W lille
IN respondent mood Chris Schmidt
committed suicide by hanging him.
self He leaves large family.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-05-20
HELPS A CEMETERY SOCIETY
Sum Bequeathed BY R. l.. Potter to
the Sterling Association.
From THURSDAYS Daily.

The will of the late Royal L. Pot.
ter of Mapeton was filed for probate
today, in Judge Hughes court. 1t is
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-05-20

President Taft did not advise Sen
ator Nelson to "burn this letter.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-05-20
National Bank of
Commerce
lNankato State BanI
MANkATO MIMI

CAPITAL $4,000
Surplus & Undivided Profits S25, 900
z. c. n, ',INGTON, President.
FRhNr> FOWLER, Vice President.
JNO. r. THOMAS, Cashier.
E. SCHONEN, y Assistant Cashier.
DIRECTORS.
Frank Fowler John c. Noe,
H. G.. Harrington, A. G.. Lack
&C. w. Babcock, Geo. II. Boynton,
Geo. b. Owen, John r. Thomas,
Fred Kron Mic Jnlar
Michael ID. Fritz. Chas. X Otto
Nj. o. Sundt.
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probate Court SealD
G. l.. Benedict, Attorney.
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GRAIN QUOTATIONS.

MANKATo. MINI. MAY 10. 1910
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-25
THE NORFOLK WEEKLY NEWS. JOURNAL FRIDAY MARCH 25 1910

them. How shall men be we'll born,
well fed well trained-these are ques
tions pressing for solution. For 1t is
realized as never before that If the
new order of things is to prevail, If
men are to act in truth and deed as
If they were brothers they must of
necessity live upright lives, with every
power finely skilled and dominated by
a superb self control. These are not
the qualities of weaklings. Such men
need not be afraid of any comparison
with the Caesars or Napoleons in the
prime requisites of courage and phys.
ical virilty.
And this strong and mighty empire
of civilization led by men with their
faces toward the eastern sky, il.
lumined by the radiant kindness OF
fraternalism will usher in the better
days-the golden days-of good will
and universal peace.
Never was there such a call for
courage and brave hearts as there is
today and the call is morally certain
to grow stronger for men who in bust
ness can be fair, in politics honorable,
in the home true, and everywhere just
and kind.
The world is growing better. Men
are beginning to comprehend that they
are brothers. The truth is overwhelm.
ing that civilization based upon the
teachings of the Fraternal Nazarene
II came not to be mlnistered unto but
to minister" is the goal of human en-
deavor-worthy of being promoted by
the strongest and most courageous of
the earth.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-25

Among the innumerable models to
be found in the u. S. patent office
many of them useless, is a contrivance
for stopping runaway horses. 1t con
sists of long steel rod with heavy
hook reaching out to the middle OF
the horses back and operated by a
mechanical combination in the car
riage, so that when the animal begins
to show signs of running away the
rod is lowered, the hook passed I'M
der a loop in the harness and by
means of levers the unruly horse is
raised in mid air, where he is kept
suspended till he promises to be good.
Presumably the person who studied
out this complicated rigging expected
to make fortune by the popularity
and sale of his contrivance. Just
imagine a couple of ladies out drivi
ing and suddenly feeling it necessary
to check their steed by hanging IL
up in the air for a SPELL Most of us
would find it cheaper and more sat
isfactory to sell tricky horse rather
than buy such a ridiculous contri.
vance. Hence the disappointment of
the inventor.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-25
Good Substitute For Maeadsn,.

One example Of the road bureaus
work will show it's usefulness. Roads
for the state of sticky gumbo soil have
been almost hopeless problem. There
is a whole belt Of such states along the
south, and there is another belt along
the Missouri where wheels sink hub
deep and horses founder to death in a
mire more treacherous than Guicksand.
The road bureau discovered from
many practical tests that by burning
gumbo soil roadbed compact as mac
adam could be obtained at half the
cost Of macadam or at practically only
the cost Of labor and Of fuel to do the
burning. There is no longer any ex-
cuse for lethargy in road building
through the gumbo states.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-25
South TO Build Hiahways.

Eight hundred miles of improved
roads are to be undertaken by the
Southern Appalachian Good Roads as
ISOLATION. or these 300 miles are to
be in North Carolina. Poor roads are
said to cost that state 100000 a
year. An enormous number OF tour.
lists go to the southern Appalachian
region, but because OF the poorness OF
the highways in general they see but
n small portion Of 1t. The great sys-
tenn OF roadways now proposed is plan
ned to make that wonderful region one
of the most attractive In all the world.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-25

Cumberland mountains west to st.
Louis. from Virginia up through Penn
sylvania to Pittsburg and when emf
grafton began to roll westward from
st. Louis to Oregon. With these ex-
ceptions the highways of the United
States were a system Of pig track
trails.
Then came the great railroad build
ing era down to 1880, when public
roads were forgotten In the expecta-
ton that railroads would supplant
them, but as population grew the ne
cessity for roads to link farm with
market became daily more insistent-
Agnes c. Laut in Golfers.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-25

When we become discouraged at the
apparent triumph of evil and think
that right is forever on the scat.
fold, wrong forever on the throne"
it is we'll to remember that nineteen
hundred years ago Paul was an out
cast spurned and despised by the
proud and powerful Nero. Today we
revere Paul and name our boy for
him, but we can our dog Nero.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-25

recently visited America. He came
to scoff, but remained to praise. Like
many Europeans, he believed that the
Americans OF wealth who conected art
treasures in the old world merely
sought to display them to add to their
social prestige, and had no real APP
probation of their artistic value. He
frankly confesses himself mistaken
able to observe it, the artistic taste
OF Americans will rank in all respect
with European communities. He sur
prised himself by counting more Rem.
brandts in America than Germany pos
sesses.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-25

An ADDITIONAL price or even ~ cents a
bushel would mean Si5.000,Oo0 more in
the pockets of the Minnesota farmers.
similar amount TO the farmers OF the
Dakotas and to the wheat farmers of
the Pacific coast.
New York farmers do not raise vcgc-
tables In quantities because untll re
Gently roads did not permit them to
market such pcrishable product In
quantities. This holds good in New
England, The same condition exists
In the COW country and the grain coun.
try. Potatoes aud onions your Dakota
farmer can market In quantities.
Therefore ne raises them. but because
bad roads cut him Off from the market
half the year he does not raise the
more perishable vegetables. Vegeta-
bles he buys from California at fancy
prices, another tax for bad roads. In
fact, owing to bad roads, there have
been seasons when New Workers. were
paying 81 bushel for their potatoes
and western farmers were glad to sell
them at 10 cents for pig feed and
starch.
With access to market and best rul-
ing prices, net returns increase and
farm lands jump in value. 1t is an
actual fact wherever good roads have
gone land has increased in value from
81 to 50 an acre. In Jackson county,
Ala, bond issue OF S250000 built
125 miles of macadam road. The sell
ing price of land was from Sc to $15
hot Ian h,,uN n.x Al
completion land values went up from
$50 to 500.
The effect of good roads on school
attendance needs no proof. In the five
states having the best roads the aver
age attendance is II per cent of en-
rollment. In the five states having
the fewest good roads the attendance
averages only 80 per cent.
With these figures on schools 1t Is
not surprising to find that ignorance
and bad roads go together. In the
four bad roads states, with total
population of 100000. are 10000 men
and women. white and native born
who can neither read nor write. In
four good roads states, with popu.
lation Of 100000, are only 10000 ilit-
crates.
The movement for good roads is so
recent that 1t need not be retailed
here. When colonists first came to
America the roads followed buffalo
trails and Indian wilderness paths. AS
farms became fenced roads ran along
between boundaries without regard to
the shortest distance or grade, and
these were kept in order Tor disorder)
by statute labor-farmers turning out
for day once a year for road pic
mic, filling I'm holes that ought to have
been filed in months previously, tink-
ering and trifing away time with no
special director. The results were
what might have been expected. Men
do not employ blacksmiths as doctors,
and why should farmers be supposed
to possess the technical knowledge OF
an engineer? During various wars
two or three good roads were hacked
through the wilderness across coun-
try, from New York up to Boston
along the old post road. from the
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-25
CHAUTAUQUA POLITICIANS.

Now the regular" republicans are
the latter's own ground and go in for
a campaign of sentiment moulding by
the way of the chautauqua circuit.
1t is just as fair for the regulars to
take this mode of campaigning as it
is for the insurgents and the an
nouncement from Washington that
this plan is to be tried out serves
to emphasize the enormous leverage
which the radical spellbinders such as
La Toilette and his ilk have been
working up through the chautauqua
means.
And the hub Of the whole plan lies
in the fact that the people pay these
men for working up political capital
for themselves.
La Toilette, for example, received
$3.50 for speaking in Norfolk at the
chautauqua two years ago this sum
mer. Yet, despite the fact that he
received his money from a non-par
tisan audience belonging to all polit
ical parties and of all sorts Of politl
cal creeds, Mr.. La Toilette took ad
vantage of his hearers to eXpound La
Toilette insurgent politics and thus
to work up his own political future.
This year Cummins, now able tc
draw bigger pay by reason of the
fact that he is a senator, will come
to Norfolk and though paid big
price, take advantage of the occasion
to work up Cummins' political doc
trines for the political benefit of him
self at some future date.
This country formerly thought II
did we'll enough to give its time tc
spellbinders seeking Office through or
atory. But the tables have turned
when, as under present conditions
the public will pay extravagant figure'
to these self-same self-seekers to worl
up their own regulations.
AS a matter of fact, the officials
drawing pay from the people to at
tend to public work, have no RICH
to devote the peoples time to foster
ing personal campaigns or persona
purses.
United States senators are well pait
by this government. They are wei
enough paid that their entire tim'
should belong TO the government. Ant
when they make their public worl
merely a stepping stone to the chau
tauqua platform for personal none!
or publicity gain, starting radica
propagandas in Washington for thu
sake OF getting in the limelight ant
thus commanding more dollars TO
their chautauqua speeches, the situa
tion takes on an aspect of comedy
And it must occur to most people tina
a resolution in congress asking con
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-25

Governor Folk of Missouri wants to
be a candidate for president on the
democratic ticket on a strictly free
trade platform. It's encouraging at
least to find a democrat with posi-.
tive convictions and who isn't afraid
to express them. But Governor Folk
evidently does not expect to ever oc.
cupy the white house. Half the de-
mocracy would run away from such
slogan.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-25

Captain Sverdrup, Nansen's naviga-
tor, adds to the complication of the
north pole controversy by giving it
as his opinion that it is impossible
for anyone to prove that he has been
at the north pole. If this is true and
Cook and Peary seem to add proof to
the statement, isn't it about time to
stop hunting for something that you
won't know when you find it?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-25

1t is most essential that American
exporters should visit South American
countries and observe for themselves
conditions there. The American bust
ness men should study the needs of
their customers and the proper meth
DDS of packing to resist the climatic
changes and pay attention to the de-
tails which will please South Ameri-
cans fancy. This country can i'll af-
ford to have these near neighbors es-
tablish trade relations with European
countries.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-25
NOW LET CONGRESS ACT.


President Tafts interest in the
house rules fight has all along been
confined to the effect which the row
might have upon the republican party
program. He was anxious that the
platform pledges be kept before in
ternal dissension interferred and made
legislation impossible.
1t is possible the change in the
rules, however, may prove of more
benefit to the country at large than
some of the legislation which has been
pending. That is the theory of the
insurgents, at least. And now that the
broader committee on rules has been
made possible, it is to be hoped that
the republicans in congress may get
together and enact the work laid out
by President Taft. The fact that the
regulars and insurgents joined in
practically re.electing Speaker Can
non after the rules night had ended,
indicates that solid party action is
possible.
The country will welcome action on
pending bills in preference to the
grandstanding of a few chautauqua
circuit lights seeking notoriety for use
during the coming summer.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-25

Colonel Peter Kozloff, leader OF a
Russian exploring expedition to cen
trail Mongolia, after spending two
years in unearthing the buried city
of Chara-C hoto, the capital of a pow
erful Monaghan nation which was
overthrown seven centuries ago by
the Chinese, has returned to st. Pet
ersburg with great quantity of val
liable relics and art treasures which
will be handed over to the Asiatic
Academy of Sciences.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-25

In China today there is not a chris
tian church without a medical practi'
toner or a hospital attached to it, and
the more important churches even
maintain a medical school. In these
countries where for years the physi-
cal well being of the people has been
so grossly neglected and so ignorantly
and cruelty prescribed for when any
attention was paid to the sufferers the
missionaries find it necessary in many
cases to first heal the body and then
appeal to the soul.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-25

time to the legislative problems OF
the nation. as they are paid to do,
in preference to charging the public
for their own partisan ideas, would
not be out of order
Heretofore the radicals have been
allowed the chautauqua platform to
themselves, and it was bad enough
Now that the regulars are to meet
them on their own ground, the situa-
ton grows more unique. But 1t is
eminently as fair for one side as for
the other.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-25

DR.. f. G. Longstaff, in his recent
exploring expedition in the Himalayas'
discovered new chain of the Kara
koran range which contains group
of immense peaks, the tallest of which
he found to be 27,610 feet high.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-25

1t is stated by automobile authori.
ties that the 500 car of today, with
in reach Of the purse of the doctor,
the lawyer and the average business
man, is decidedly more reliable, econ
omical comfortable and handsome
than the $4,000 car of five years ago.
in automobile construction.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-25

Walter J. Hill, the son OF the st
Paul magnate, doesn't have any time
for the aeroplane. When it comes to
sports young Hill is recognized ex
pert with horses, autos and motor
boats. He says he can fly high
enough with the things he can manage
away among the clouds.