The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-10-28

day before the children died. Wit.
ness described the appearance Of the
boys body just about the same as Mrs.
Kudlik, previous witness. On Sun
day morning / was there again and
the defendant asked me to wash the
boy. He said that he had asked Mrs.
Kudlik to do it but that she vas
afraid. I told him that the boy died
too suddenly and that they should
have doctor or coroner there. He
told me that he would wash the boy
himself but if he did the people woulo
say that he poisoned him. When DR..
Moench came the defendant told him
to look at the boy, that he knew
what DR.. White had said and he
wanted to know what he, DR.. Moench
would say. DR.. Moench said that it
was case of poisoning and wrote
out prescription and told the de-
PENDANT to hurry and have it filled at
once. The doctor examined the boy
and then the girl. OAIallcy picked up
the girl from the cradle and handled
her roughly. He took her to the win.
dow and held her so that the doctor
could examine her throat. Afterward
Mrs. kudlik and l washed the boy
and we rubbed the white OF an egg on
the child's face as it was turning dark.
OMalley asked me why not dig the
two graves at the same time and
said while there was life there was
hope. He spoke about digging the two
graves at the same time more than
once. He complained about the cost
funeral | went to the OAIalley home
and defendant told me that his wife
did not return but that he would get
her the following Sunday. The day
ne was released from Jail ] rode home
in the same rig with him and he told
me that if it hadn't been for good
lawyer and two good doctors he would
have surely gotten the rope.
The Mankato Citizens Telephone
company has commenced an important
and somewhat unique suit against the
Consumers Power company, to restrain
it from building and operating its
line from the dam at Rapidan to this
city on the public roads upon which the
plaintiffs telephone lines run.
In it's complaint, the plaintiff says
that it has over 1000 patrons and over
100 farms connected with its lines. Ii
is necessary to have q steady and deli
cate current of electricity TO operate
with. Unless restrained by an order
of the court, the defendant will soon
construct such a power line to the city
as to carry as much as $4,000 volts
of electricity, and will generally carry
in the operation OF its business $4,000
volts. This current, the complaint fur.
+ ther alleges, will be irregular. uneven
in pulsation, varying in quantity and
frequently changing in volume anc
force.
Complain of Buzzing Noise.
If the defendant is permitted to con.
struct and operate its power line along
the said roads, parallel with the plain.
tiff's lines, injury will result from in.
dllction or parallelism, and there viii
be induced upon the telephone lines {
current of electricity whose variation:
will correspond with the variations OF
the electrical current on the defend
ants power line, and by reason OF this
disturbances will be produced on plain
titf's lines as to render the use of the
telephone plant impracticable. A buzz
ing noise will be produced, the com
plant alleges, preventing persons from
talking, and causing confusion in the
central office and ringing the bells al
| patrons homes.
Wherefore, the plaintiff demands judg
ment that the defendant be forever
restrained from constructing and operat
! ing its power line along the public
road from the Blue Earth bridge in
section s., Rapidan, easterly two ant
three-quarters miles, and from the
northwest corner of section 81, Man
kato township, cast one mile, theme,
north two and one-half miles.
| a temporary injunction was secured
and an order to show cause why i
should not be made permanent pend
ing the trial of the cause, and this was
returnable at a special term of the dis
trict court Monday afternoon of thi.
week. AT this time, the defendant pre-
sented affidavits to the effect that The
/ telephone lines could be fixed by certain
modern appliances so as to resist tn,
effects OF the outside current
Hearing Adjourned to Nov. 2.
An adjournment of the hearing wa,
taken until November 3, that the tele
phone company might have opportunit,
to look into this phase of the case
If it is convinced of the truth of this
it will only ask that the Consumers
company equip the telephone lines wit!
these devices at its own expense, il
all probability.
S. b. Wilson is the attorney for tn,
Mankato Citizens Telephone company
The attorneys Tor the Consumers pow
er company are A. r. Pau, Jr, ant
G. j. Laurisch of this city and Cum
mings, Stearns & Milkewitch OF Chi
caSo.
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ton of the Schwestern-L oge, the auxil
larry of the Sons of Herman is beine
held in the Knights of Columbus haI