The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-09-02


car the sheriff returned but darkness
covered the mans fight.
A thorough search this morning
gave no clue to the whereabouts OF
BartZ
From Saturdays Daily.
On Monday, six Mankato young men
will put on five act back-to nature
playlet when they start on a canoe
trip down the Minnesota river. The
party will be made up of Robert
Hughes, Clayton Burmeister. Merle
Harter, Glen Daley, Herman Hayward
and Malcolm Merchant.
Chief Navigation Hughes stated
that they expect to be on the river
five days. Four of the party made the
trip last year, and where possible, they
will use their previous camping grounds.
On arriving at Fort Smelling, they will
ship their canoes back to Mankato and
60 into camp for several days.
c. j. Burmeister, head of the com
mssary department, has been busy
all week warning farmers and res.
taurant keepers along the route to be
well stocked with supplies. The food
consumption of six husky canoeists is
thing of wonder to the natives, and
Burmeister wishes his men to have all
they need. He will cook for the bunch
as long as they will stand for it, and
then lead the attack on the first eat
ing house.
Herman Hayward, who has been
spending the summer in Boston, is
expected to arrive this evening.
Chicago, August 3O.-Buletins on
foreign crop conditions: United King
dom: Weather wet and harvest de-
layed. Both condition and quality in
some parts very poor, otherwise the
damage is probably not very serious.
Dry weather and sunshine urgently
needed.
France: Qaulity of crop has i'm
proved as result of better weather,
otherwise outlook is unchanged.
Germany: Preliminary official re-
port for Prussia gives the wheat crop
at eighty eight million bushels against
eighty-four million last year. Rye,
800 millions against 3ls millions laSt
year. Oats, $50 millions against $50
millions last year. Some complaints
heard regarding quality of wheat crop.
Hungary: Outlook for corn crop is
favorable
Russia: Arrivals at ports are heavy.
Threshing returns of the southwest are
generally satisfactory. There are fewer
complaints regarding quality.
Romania: Outlook for corn shows
slight improvement as result of par
tial rains.
India: There are larger offerings of
new wheat.
Australia: Crop outlook is gener.
ally favorable
There was an exhibition of genu.
inc ''cussedness" on the part of a
driver who sent his auto spinning
along the Eagle Lake road late Sat
urday afternoon. Not content with
taking up more than his share of the
highway, he attempted and almost did
force a horse vehicle over six foot
embankment. The auto came up be-
hind the vehicle. in which a couple
OF gentlemen We're seated, and not
until he was within few feet of the
latter, did the driver toot his horn.
The gentleman who was handling
the rens made a quick movement to
guide his horses to the right so that
the auto could have plenty of room ir
which to pass by. The person in charge
of the auto steered close to one OF
the horses, so close in fact that the
machine touched the animal and forced
/ it TO the side of the road and almost
over the side. Had it not been fol
the fact That the gentleman who was
in charge of the team, handled then
with great skill, the buggy would
certainly have been precipitated owe
an embankment. The auto hurried OF
toward Eagle Lake. The driver ant
the occupants of the machine wer,
1 strangers in this vicinity.
From thursdays Daily.
Minnesota spOrtsmen will not b,
able to take advantage of the double
holiday. composed of Sunday, Septem
Der 4, and Labor day, September S, t,
take hunting trip this year, for tn
hunting season does not open until Sep
TENDER l. Formerly the season opene
earlier, but the last legislature change
the date to September I, week late
than formerly, and only every sevent
year will Labor day be the openin
day of the hunting season.
According to Executive Agent II.
Rider the prospects of getting goo
bags of game are excellent. All tn
wardens, he said yesterday, repor
chickens more plentiful than usual, an
duck prospects good.
The season for prairie chickens
!, wOodcOck, plover, turtledove, snip
ducks, geese and other aquatic fow
and all kinds of grouse except ruffe
grouse opens September 7. The seaso
for quail partridge, ruffed grouse an
pheasant opens October l. The seaso
for big game does not open until N,
vember l6.