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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-06-16

From Mondays Daily.
Acceptance of the resignation OF
City Clerk A. II. Scherer, the cleo
ton of Mr. F. w. Bates to succeed
Mr.. Scherer, and prolonged dis
cussion of the question of installing
electric power in the pumping sta
ton were the important features of
the regular meeting of the city
commissioners this morning.
Mr. Scherer rendered his reSig-
nation TO take effect July | because
OF his i'll health. In accepting it,
the commissioners expressed their
regret that Mr.. Scherer found 1t
necessary to surrender the duties
Of his office. Mr.. Scherer said that
his relations with the council had
always been most pleasant and that
he regretted keenly to server his
connection with that body. On mo-
ton of Mr.. Lamm, Mr.. F. W. Bates
was elected city clerk.
Representatives of Power Company
Messrs r. E. Brown and Callahan
of the Consumers Power company
appeared before the COMMISSIONER
and reopened the matter of the in
stallation of electric power in place
of steam at the pumping station
Mr.. Brown asked for the services
of the city engineer for purpose OF
securing data for submitting a fiat
rate per million gallons. This mel
with objections on the part of some
of the commissioners and LONG
discussion of the whole matter fol
lowed.
Mr.. Henline suggested that the
company furnish their own engineer
and paraphernalia should they de
eide to make any tests or eventually
install electric power. Mr.. Brown
objected, saying that the city shoult
either dispose of their plant or man
age it themselves. After some com
parison of expenses in which the
commissioners and Mr.. Callahan
failed to agree, the discussion was
dropped and Mr.. Henline appointed
to make further Investigations
A petition was submitted by, prop
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any other name than Anna Cole"
the young lady said. 81 do not know
where you picked up those names.
The only name ever had is the one
I use-Anna Cole.
BIames the Newspapers.
Il do not understand why the
newspapers are attempting to run
down my character and hold me up
to the public in the light of ridicule.
have committed no crime and have
not attempted to wrong anyone. Mr..
Mason's arrest on charge of for
gerry was as much of a shock to me
as it was to any Of his friends, but
intend to stand by him until he is
proven guilty. / am not going to
turn him down without giving him a
chance
While Miss Cole declined positive
ly and again woman-like to give The
Free Press the history of her life,
she went SO far as to say that She
came to Mankato last fall from Min
neapolis. She stated that Mime
dpOllS was uOL HeT HOHue. one llNou
with relatives there. She would not
say where her parents lived. 81 do
not want to drag the names of my
parents into this unfortunate affair.
Came Here Last Fall.
81 came to Mankato last fall from
Minneapolis, and have not been en-
ployed in any other family than the
one l am now working for. There
is nothing in my past that l need be
ashamed Of | never have been mar
ried. There are several foolish stor-
les floating about connecting my
name that are too foolish to deny"
Identified BY Citizen.
In spite of the story told by Miss
Cole, a wellknown citizen and one
who occupies most responsible
position, has identified Miss Cole as
one who was employed in his family
year or more ago. He is quite pos
tive that she and Anna are one and
the same and that while she was
employed at his home she did not
go under the name of Anna Cole.
Maybe Miss Cole has double.
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st. Paul, June 9.-Omaha freight
train No. 81, bound from Merriam
Junction to Minneapolis over the
Minneapolis and st. Louis line,
plunged into an open space left by
a burned trestle at 3:1S yesterday
morning, one mile north of Carver,
and the engine toppled into a slough
twenty feet deep. Engineer William
Hartl, forty years old, 626 Cullen
street, ST. Paul, was seriously in
jured, and his fireman, A. E. Ander-
son, Warsaw and West Seventh
streets, st. Paul, painfully hurt.
Were Rushed to St. Paul.
Hartl and Anderson were rushed
to ST. Paul on a special Minneapo-
lis and st. Louis train and taken
to their homes in an ambulance. The
formers back is severely wrenched
and it is feared that he received
internal injuries. Anderson's injuries
consist of bruises and sprains.
A bolt of lightning is believed to
have set fire to the trestle which is
over swamp. The train consisted
of an engine and twenty-five cars
and was travelling slowly.
Morning Was Misty.
| According to Fireman Anderson,
| the early morning was so dark and
misty that he and the engineer could
scarcely see beyond the front Of the
locomotive. There is a slight grade
after leaving Carver and the heavy
train had been unable to gain much
speed, otherwise the accident would
have been more serious.
/ Hartl was too seriously injured TO
be seen.
How Air Brakes Were Set.
AS soon as the engine dropped
over the brink of the burned trestle,
the coupling broke, automatically set
ting the airbrakes. Only the engine
and tender went over the end.
Officials of the Omaha road and
the Minneapolis and st. Louis said
this morning that the accident can
be placed in the fortunate accident
class, A fast freight train was due
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MANKATO FREE PRESS

Divorced persons, within six months
after decree.
Persons related in nearer degree
than second cousins.
Epileptics, imbeciles, feeble-mind-
ed and insane.
The prohibitions are not new ex-
cept as to the degree of relation
ship, which under the old law did
not prohibit marriage of first cou-
Sins.
Automobile owners are Interested
in III. F. 400, by 0. Hauge, which
is chapter 1853 of the 1911 laws. 1t
prohibits the sale after July 1 of
tires of castings for motor vehicles,
unless the name of the manufac-
turer and the year are marked in
raised type, cast with the tire cas-
ing.
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From Mondays Daily.
The annual custom of decorating
the graves of the departed members
of Mankato Lodge, knights of Pyth-
las, was complied with yesterday
forenoon. The committee appoint.
ed for the purpose consisting of D.
S. Evans, William Rabe and M.
d. Fritz. The party went by auto
and was accompanied by Elmer
Glenn. Glenwood cemetery, where
twenty-one brothers now rest, was
first visited, then Garden City, Lake
Crystal and Minneopa.
Members and brothers whose
graves were bedecked with flowers
at Glenwood cemtery were: A. w.
Bean, Frank Allen, Robert l.. Lind
George Fl. Fox, Frank r. Sparrow
Victor e. Johnson, Charles N. Mel
son, Fred j. Emory, j. e. Hegger-
ness, Fred w. Boehmer, j. A. Lin
der, DR.. e. d. Steel, F. E. Brett, A.
II. Wheeler, John r. Thomas, Dr.
Camp, w. r. Jones, and William
J. Lorentz All were members OF
the local lodge except the last three
mentioned.
At Lake Crystal cemetery rests
the remains Of Stephen Thorne, al
Garden City, Judge William n. Ply
mat, and at Minneopa, w. r
Hughes.
The Memorial Sermon.
! The annual sermon to the Knights
| Of Pythias was preached at the
Welsh church on State street last
evening, and the pastor, Rev. w. e
Evans, spoke on "Brotherly Love.
Rev. Evans is a member of Man
kato lodge and for several years
with one or two exceptions, has
delivered the annual sermon. Las
evenings address was an excellent
one, overlooking with beautiful sen
timents, nicely and impressively ex
/ pressed.
| The decorations at the church
were beautiful, including cut flow
crs, wild flowers, palms and pottet
plants The Welsh church choir
and the K. of P. quartet furnished
nice music. The quartet consisted
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the Christian church. Besides her
parents, three brothers and two SIS
tiers survive her, all residing at
home, and they will have the sym
pathy of all.
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Indignation snapped out of her
black eyes when Miss Anna Cole,
woman-like, informed The Free
Press that she had not used assum-
ed names either before or since she
came to Mankato last fall.
ut is not true that / went under
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half hour later, and had it not
been tagged after the accident, a
much more serious one would have
occurred.
Reported No One Injured.
Nleagre reports of this accident
were received in Mankato yesterday
and it was said that none of the
train crew was injured. But from
the story related above it would
seem that both the engineer and
firemen are painfully hurt, the for
mer seriously so.
Omaha Train Hit Auto.
Merrill, Iowa, June 9.-One man
was killed and two were injured, one
fatally, when five-passenger motor
car was struck at the crossing of
the Iowa Central railroad track,
three miles south of Lemars early
yesterday morning by Omaha Train
No. 8 from st. Paul. Two persons
escaped injury.
John HEIGHT, 60 years old, was kill
ed. Theodore Hoffman, Sr., 60 years
old, was injured internally, and will
die. Frank Wool, 35 years old, had
shoulder broken. All are of Ada
Vile, three miles northwest of Mer-
rill.
Bert Hoffman and Mrs. Frank
Wool who occupied the back seat
with the man who was killed, es-
capped by jumping.
HEIGHT was thrown forty feet by
the shock, his ankle was broken and
his skull was fractured. Hoffman
was thrown thirty-five feet over a
fence. The machine was wrecked.
The train carried the dead victims
into this town.
Trees at the crossing made it i'm
possible for the auto party to see the
train, and passengers assert the en-
gineer did not whistle for the cross
ing.
Vigilence of the crew operating
train No. 80 on the Sioux Falls
branch of the Omaha road prevented
wreck last night. A burned out
bridge was discovered at a point
ALONG IUS llHc III W HCdu VII OH
accident.
Mix-Up Of Trains at Merriam.
The Omaha passenger train due
| here at 1920 a. m. was about one
hour late today on account of a
mix-up of two trains that occurred
this morning at Merriam Junction.
| A Minneapolis and st. Louis wrecker
that was engaged in clearing away
the debris where an Omaha freight
engine and three box cars plunged
through a bridge yesterday morning,
backed into Omaha passenger train
No. 10, and tipped over the mail and
baggage cars. This train passed
through Mankato at $50 this morn
ing. The accident occurred while
the train was standing on the Min
neapolis and st. Louis crossing at
Merriam No one was hurt. The
mail and baggage cars were badly
damaged, and traffic was tied up
about four hours. % Superintendent
Nicoles and his assistant, Mr.. Stock
well, were on the scene. A wrecker
and crew from the Wisconsin di-
vision were pressed into service.
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Wonderful Cures

Perfected in old cases which have been
neglected or unskillfully treated. No
experiments or failures. We do not un:
dertake incurable cases, but cure thotr
sands given up to die.
Consultation Free and Confidential
Reference, Drexel State Bank
Address DIR. ADDISON.JONES
764 LAKEWOOD BLVD, CHICAGO.
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Chronic Diseases of Men and
Women a Specially

Space forbds the mention of but few of ths
Chronic Diseases which treat of both inen ane
women. 1t YOU nervous, excitable and irritable
despondent weak Ind easily tired out. II you have
lack of energy, want of confidence depositi In urine
if you are u woman and have headache. blackjack
pain in side, my treatment remarkably success
full. Married ladies' should be accompanied by thei
huSha ndc
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man history. He was eminently
successful as farmer and owned
and developed one of the most beau
tiful and profitable farms in the
Minnesota valley. He devoted much
thought and attention to the raising
of thoroughbred stock and grain
and met with excellent results along
this line.
On December Is, 1871, Mr.. Hold
son was united in marriage with
Miss Anna Gill of Hebron, Nicollet
county, who survives him: He also
leaves six daughters. Mrs. V. d..
Grain of Hendricks. Mimi, Mrs. II.
o. Graaf of Panora, Iowa; Mrs. f..
Fl. Conklin of Mankato; and Misses
Una, Ella and Florence and two
sons Roy and Herbert. Two broth
ers, Henry of Ipswich, S. d., and
James of Mankato.
Active in Church Work.
Mr.. Hodson was an active mem
Der of the Congregational church at
Kerns. He was man of strong
religious connections and Jealous
worker in church and Sunday
school, where his loss will be keenly
felt. For many years he was
president of the Nicollet Sunday
School association and was an able
and willing worker in any move
ment for the advancement of soci-
ETY..
DT,li .itTin n
gagged generous share of his at
tention and few men were better
informed on current history and
few indeed enjoyed a larger ac-
Quaintance with prominent public
men. He was repeatedly honored
with local township and school Of
fees and was frequently urged to
enter the race for higher positions.
He served one term on the state
board of equalization with much
ability.
The deceased was an hOnored
member of the Alexander Wilkin
Post, Grand Army Of the Repub-
lie. and served three terms as
commander. This organization will
have charge of the funeral which
will be held from the family resi-
dence in Hebron, Nicollet county,
at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday. lnterment
will be made in the beautiful He
bron cemetery.
Members of the Wilkin post are
requested to meet at NJ. Hanna S
store, South Front street, and trans
pOrtation will be furnished them to
the funeral of their late cOmrade.
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Piles, Fissure, Fistula

Guaranteed Cured without Surgical
Operation or Detention from business.
All kinds OF piles and rectal d seases treated
bloating and nervousness. OFTEN cause untold suf
fering and much loss of blood. Come and nae
even though YOU have been told surgical operation
was necessary. Hundreds of such cases cured.
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The marriage Of first cousins will
be illegal in this state after July L.
The Revised Statutes. section 1854,
are amended by chapter 222 of the
1911 laws, SO as to pohibit marriage
of the following persons:
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Marked by an enthusiasm that
means the completion of the la
dies seminary in this city at date
that will be satisfactory to those
who contributed their money toward
it's building, members of the Evan
gelical Lutheran Educational asso-
citation held their annual meeting in
Mankato Thursday afternoon. The
session was convened at the Lu-
theran school house. Rev. A. f.
Winter, pastor of the local church,
presided.
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From Tuesdays Daily.

From Tuesdays Daily.
Five important laws passed by the
last legislature become effective on
the first day of July.
A blow to the blind pig industry
is struck by the A. l.. Hanson act
pohibiting the sale OF malt liquors
whether Intoxicating or not out
side of licensed drinking places and
drug stores. This makes it easy
to convict while in the past it has
been necessary to prove that the
Identical article sold has an intoxi-
eating effect The time for making
the act effective was made July l
in order to give proprietors of candy
stores and other places handling
the product a chance to dispose of
it. The law exempts the wholesat
ers and manufacturers. Any one
else selling malt outside of licens-
ed saloon, or a drug store selling
for medical purposes, is guilty OF
a misdemeanor The offense is sub
ject to a fine of SIS to 500, or i'm
prisonment for not more than ninety
days.
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during the month of May the post.
office force there handled 60,335 sep
arate pieces of mail, total of eight
and three-tenths pieces were handled
per minute. OF the outgoing mail
9,O34 pieces were first class, namely
letters, 2,134 second class, or pa
pers, 400 third class circulars, 119
fourth class merchandise. There
were fifty-three pieces of franked
mail, twenty foreign and twenty
registered, total of Hts. Each
piece was handled an average of
two times and a total Of twenty
four hours and twenty-six minutes
was consumed in handling it.
The incoming mail numbered 49,
557 separate pieces, of which 16,3O9
was first class, indicating that our
people receive nearly two letters for
every one they send out. That they
believe in having plenty of reading
matter is shown by the receipt OF
24,152 papers. Outside advertisers
went after the trade to the tune OF
mailing them 1923 circulars and 1856
packages of merchandise was the re-
suits received in fourth class mail.
Congressional frank matter totaled
seven departmental franked letters,
ETC., ninety-eight, foreign communi-
cations forty-one, and registered
forty-one, a total of 48,557 1t took
ninety-seven hours and fOrty-five min
utes to handle this mail, the number
of pieces handled every minute be-
ing eight and two-tenths.
On the rural routes No. | leads the
list in the amount of mail received
and dispatched. A total of 7,474
pieces were delivered and 9O4 col
lected There are 10S patrons on the
route and they received on an aver
age 69.2 pieces of mail during the
month and sent away S3 pieces.
On route four the amount received
and dispatched per patron was a lit
tie higher, although there are not as
MANY patrons. Mr.. Bowman, the car
rier, delivered $500 pieces and col
lected 764. The average delivered
being TAT and the average collected
90
Route two delivered APO pieces
and collected 853; route three de-
livered $50, collected 657; route five
delivered 1916 and collected II. The
total on all the routes was as fol
lows: Collected, 3,949, delivered,
2S.222. The carriers all unite in re-
porting the month one of the light
est they have had, but even at that
the carrier on route one handled an
average of 1922 pieces of mail every
day he was out, indicating very
plainly that the rural routes are not
only appreciated, but used.
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She Was Former Well-knoWn
Resident of Mankato; Funeral
at lie Sueur,

DR.. C.. d. Snow today received a
telegram announcing the death at
st. Joseph, Mich, of Mrs. A. B.
Moffatt, a former wellknown resi-
dent of Mankato Mrs. MOffatt had
been ill for some months with a
nervous trouble, and the end came
at midnight last night. She was
born in Minneapolis in 1858. Her
husband, four sons and a daughter
survive her. One son, Ebert Moi
fat, is national secretary of the
Y. M. G.. A. at Calcutta The other
sons are DR.. George S. Moffatt,
Pittsburg, Kan; Charles Moffatt,
connected with the United States
Steel company, Chicago; Gordon
Moffattv who runs a newspaper at
Barton, Mich. The daughter is
Mrs. Helen Sawyer. wife of a news
paper proprietor at Ludington, Mich.
Mr.. Moffatt was at one time con-
nected with the knitting mills in
this city. The family left here
about thirteen years ago for St.
Joseph, where Mr.. Moffatt is sec
rotary of a knitting mills company.
Mrs. Moffatt was an estimable
lady and her many friends in Man
kato will regret to learn of her
death.
The remains will be brought to
LIE Sueur where the funeral will be
held on Wednesday afternoon.
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Funeral of Mrs. D. M. Bornath.


The funeral of Mrs. d. M. BOr-
narth was held from the home of
her mother Mrs. A. Deuser, 629
North Second street, at two o'clock
yesterday afternoon. The floral Of
ferings were many and beautiful.
Those from out of town who attend
ed the funeral were her two sons,
Charles and Louis. Mr.. Anthony
Deuser, Milwaukee, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Deuser, Minneapolis; Mr.. and
Mrs. N. Fl. Writ, WatertOwn, S. D.;
Mr.. and Mrs. John Deuser, Miss
Margaret Stahlman, L. Schleck, j.
Niemyer, Mrs. Heck, Mrs. Foote,
Mrs Hart, Mrs. F. Niekoline, Mrs.
J. Nicotine, st. Paul; Mrs. Doody,
Shakopee. Her brothers acted as
pallbearers.
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A new state department is created
by chapter 156, which is II. F. GIT,
by Representative John P. Nash OF
Minneapolis. The department is plac-
ed in control of the state railroad
commission, with commissioner OF
weights and measures at it's head.
AS many deputies may be employed
as necessary, and their authority
extend to the inspection of scales
and of measures used in buying
and selling all over the state. The
department is to fix fees which will
pay for the cost of the inspection,
but to start it an appropriation or
$4,000 is provided. The railroad
commission has not organized the
department yet, being busy with
other matters, but has been making
some inquiry into the workings of
uniform weight and measure laws
in other states, and will establish
the service as soon as possible.
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Old Officers Reelected.

presided.
Old Officers Reelected.
The old officers were reelected as
follows: President, Rev. A. f. Win
ter, Mankato; vice president, Rev.
H. C. Brinkmann, Blue Earth; secre-
tary, William A. Gerber, st. Paul;
treasurer, A. G. Detloff, Mankato.
The board of trustees is made up of
the president and secretary and Rev.
H. c. Brinkmann, Rev. H. Heine-
mann, Truman; Rev. o. Cloeter, Ver-
non Center; Rev. E. A. Pankow, st.
James; John Gloeser, Chaska; Will
liam Gerber, st. Paul; C. E. Will
deau, st. Paul; F. w. Meyer, st.
James; A. G. Detloff, Mankato; f.
H Schweppe, st. James.
Named Building Committee.
The building committee is William
Poppenberger, st. Paul; F. III.
Schweppe, st. James; G. p. Wildung.
st. Paul.
The finance committee is Rev. f.
Soil, Burlington, Wis; Rev. H. C.
Brinkmann, Blue Earth; Rev. H. G..
Haase, st. Paul; Rev. R. Siegler,
West Salem, Wis; Rev. A. F. Win
ter, Mankato.
The auditing committee is made
up of w. A. Gerber, C. P. Wildung
and A. G. Haase.
Money Expended Up to Date.
The report of the treasurer showed
that up to date $43,075 has been ex-
pended in connection with the con-
struction of the ladies' seminary.
The association will put forth
every effort to have the main build
ing completed by September 6.
Work on the structure is progress
ing nicely.
AT the next meeting Of the asso-
citation the faculty will be elected.
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The Benson oleomargarine bill Is
the most sweeping and drastic meas
ure ever devised by the dairy in
terests to wipe the rival product OIL
the map. It's chief purpose is to
prevent the use of animal fats In
oleomargarine which give it a vel
low color, so as to resemble butter.
The law has been very strict against
the use of coloring matter, but by us
ing beef "stearine" the manufacture
ers have been able TO give straw
yellow tinge to their product. This
will be barred under the new acl
but il is probable that the manu-
facturers will contest its validity
The new act also prohibits the use
of trade names for oleomargarine
which suggest that it is butter, but
deceive the purchaser.