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total amount raised in the church
was $6,607.52.


Maccabees of the state will hold
a convention in st. Paul, beginning
Thursday next and continue two or
three days.
will read their annual reports. In the
afternoon there will be election of
officers, and SO far as known the
present regime will be continued for
another term of -four years. Routine
business will finish this session.
In the evening five prize degree
teams, will participate in an in%itiatory
contest for $3.50 in prizes and a sill
yer loving cup. A great deal Of rival
ry has developed in this contest and
the convention.
Friday morning the first degree
will be fully exemplified by members
of the local bar who are also mem
bers of the order. This will be a
feature of the encampment.
Form a Theatre Party.
In the afternoon the delegates and
their wives and friends will go to
the Empress theatre.
In the evening there will be a
banquet at the Hotel Ryan, where
Mayor Keller, Governor Eberhart and
officers of the convention will speak.
There will also be a musical and
vaudeville program.
The 300 delegates will be housed
at the Hotel Ryan, which has been
AT the same time as the Knights
are in session the Ladies of the Mac
cabees will convene, with 800 dele
gates in attendance. Their program
will extend through two days and is
about the same as that of the
knights.
Large Membership in Minnesota.
The Knights of the Maccabees
have more than 1000 members in
Minnesota belonging to lat tents, an
increase of more than 1000 members
in the last year. Minneapolis has
1900 members in three tents and st.
Paul more than 1000 members in
two tents. The order has enjoyed a
year of wonderful growth.
Minnesota, though N of the
youngest great encampments of the
order, has a splendid record in the
forty-four states in which great en-
campments are now organized. The
order throughout America has more
than 35G,00 members and $~10,500,000
assets, and expends about $5,O0O,OOO
annually in aiding widows and or
phans of members and in endow-
mentS
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vice, which will probably be held in
son of Waseca was examined for IL
cense to preach. and his statements
also were very satisfactory. He was
granted a license to preach for one
year.
"Mankato and the Indians"
The principal address of the after
noon was given by Mr.. Thomas
Hughes on "Mankato and the In
dian" He said that Mankato was
noted not so much for the hanging
of thirty-eight Indians, after a hasty
and general unfair trial, but for the
revival the following winter among
the Indians in the Mankato prison,
in which three hundred of them con-
fessed Christ. The revival had been
genuine and permanent. When taken
to Dakota after a few years these
Indians had renounced their wild
ways, given up the government boun-
ties. opened farms and built
churches. Today in South Dakota
there are a dozen Indian churches
of the Congregationalists and a
thousand church members, made up
of descendants of the Indians con-
verted in the Mankato prison.
Admitted to the Conference.
Two new churches on the Alphabet
road were admitted to the confer
ence, st. Clair and Mattewan. The
Freedom church has moved into Penn
berton but will retain it's old name
in the new location. The meeting
next year will probably go to New
Richland.
Strong resolutions in favor OF an
arbitration treaty and perpetual
peace were passed. as is being done
by the Congregational churches
throughout the United States and
England.
Some changes were made in the
conference committees for the COM
ing year. Rev. E. l.. Heermance, who
has served for a number of years as
head of the fellowship committee.
was made head of the committee on
benevolences, taking the place of
Mrs. Richardson, who was unable to
serve longer. Rev. Constant of Fair
mont was made head of the fellow
ship committee, and George X. Carter
of St. Clair, registrar.
Officers and Committees.
The full list of officers and COM
mittees is as follows: Moderator,
Rev. Edwin Ewell. Waseca; scribe.
Charles Nj. McGlashin, Edgerton;
registrar, George K. Carter. st.
Clair; resolutions: Mrs. George X.
Carter, l.. B. Steel, Belgrade; Miss
r.. F. Chalice, Freeborn; finance:
David E. Bowen, Cambria; Thomas
Hughes, Rev. Edward Constant; re-
vision of ministerial roll; Rev. e. L..
Heermance, Rev. Edwin Ewell. Albert
Geary, Pemberton; place of meeting:
w. F.. Brundage, Sherburn, Charles
NJ. McGlashin, Mr.. Olson, Freeborn;
fellowship committee. Rev. Edward
Constant, Thomas Hughes, George K.
Sutherland, Fairmont, and the moder-
ator and registrar; apportionment,
Rev. e. L. Heermance, Mrs. w. j.
Richardson, Rev. Edwin Ewell, Mrs.
George K. Carter and Miss Carrie
McCune, Worthington.
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enic used. The poison acted as an

senic used. The poison acted as an
emetic.
There was enough arsenic in the
jar analysed. according to Chemist
Hortvet, to kill an entire family. A
copy of the findings were sent by
the chemist to both DR.. Davis and
Secretary Harries. This report is the
basis of the investigation.
Put Chief o'connor on Grill.
st. Paul, May 13.-Chief of Police
O'Connor, Attorney General Simpson,
Mayor Keller and County Attorney
O'Brien in turn came in for criticism
at Hamline Methodist. church last
night. The special committee ap-
pointed in March made it's report on
the alleged non-enforcement of liquor
laws in disorderly houses. The COM
mittee gave a full report of it's meet
ings and correspondence with the
attorney general and his correspond
ence with the chief Of police.
The chief of police complained of
lack of evidence to arrest and con-
vict any n and the attorney gen.
eral said there was not sufficient evil
his office. The members of the com
mittee said evidence was abundant.
They reported they had visited the
county attorney and the mayor, with
not much better satisfaction. The
county attorney promised to help
them bring the matter before the
grand jury, and the mayor said he
would take it up with the police com-
mission but expressed doubts as to
his power of doing anything.
Affidavits Are Presented.
Coupled with Chief O'Connor's let
ter saying he had no personal knowl-
edge Of the sale of liquor in the
houses mentioned and was not in
possession of evidence, the commit
tee presented affidavits by Rev. A..
D. Harmon and David Morgan, say
ing when they called on the chief
as members of the committee from
the Civic league in relation to the
removal of these houses from the
business district he told them he had
ordered no beer sold for less than
81 a bottle in the places. Accord
ing to Harmon's affidavit the chief
said:
81 will give you some private in
formation; the beer is sold for 81 a
bottle. This is u regulation, in or
der to keep those who simply want
beer out Of such places"
Testimony Of Morgan.
The laymen's committee. consist
ing of E. w. Young, A. NJ. Lawton
and M. E.. Hardin, was appointed to
take up this phase of the vice ques-
ton, and shortly after March 1 ar
! ranged a conference with the attor-
ney general at which they gave him
the names of seven women who had
a government license, but no city IL
cense. The attorney general wrote to
the chief about the matter and called
his attention to the law, which pro-
vides that the government license
! shall be prima facie evidence that
liquor is being sold On the premises.
The chief sent his letter back, saying
he had no convicting evidence, and
Simpon so notified the committee.
They called on him again and told
him the chief had said he knew of
and regulated the sale. The attorney
general asked them to put this in
writing, which they did.
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From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
Discoveries in archaeological re-
search that may contribute invalu-
able information of prehistoric
times may be made in Nicollet
county if money can be found to
carry on the research work and
some competent man with sufficient
time will give it his direction, in
the opinion of Professor N. H. Win
chell, former state geologist, who
has returned from Cambria township,
about twenty miles north of Man
kato. Professor Winchell was di-
rected there by long-continued re-
ports of the existence of underground
| relics of antiquity. There is the
greatest of opportunities" said he,
ito bring to light in Minnesota that
which may contribute in the most
important manner to the knowledge
the world now has of the prehistoric
would be needed to do it. / went
to the place where it is supposed
that a prehistoric city existed and
where many things SO indicating
were brought up, on behalf of the
, State Historical society. What |
found, although not SO conclusive
perhaps in some respects as might
have been inferred from recent re-
ports from Mankato, and as yet
more hypothetical than certain, a
rants the belief that if the work of
investigation were continued there
might be something added to arch
aeology of great value.
81 do not expect to ask the State
Historical society to make an appro-
priation for the work, although there
is a fund that | understand might be
made available for such a purpose
said Professor Winchell yesterday.
Personally, | would not have the
time to undertake the direction of
the work, but I believe the oppor-
tunity is there and that by some
means advantage should be taken of
it. It is probable we do not of
course know about those things in
a way that We a speak with GER
tainty, and in detail, but it is prob
able that at a period very remote
there was, on the Nicollet county
land over which | carried my inves-
tigation, a city, inhabited by a con,
siderable number of people. The
ground that gives back the evidences
of this covers several acres.
"The pottery finds were of great
interest and in some instances they
are indicative of uses about which
there can be little doubt, while in
other instances hypothesis may be
drawn, and there must still remain
doubt. If it were possible to go
upon the field again and with suffi'
cient money and ample time to make
a thorough and diligent study OF
everything unearthed, l have little
doubt that there would be much
more that might then be set down
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and definite language. 1t Is hard to
see how an appeal could be based
on faults within it. Even the defend
ants said they considered it an i'm
partial presentation.
Scathing Denunciation.
For two hours yesterday afternoon
the court room steamed with the
heat of former Attorney General
.Sturdevant's d%enunciation, as he made
his argument to the jury. Scorn, rid
icule. contempt and vilification
sprang at the martyr of the lumber
trust from the cool lips of an attor-
ney who is a past master in sticking
the knife into soft places.
Never thinking of the possibility
of attack from the angered quick
trigger man, and convinced, as he al
ways has been. that the man is phys
ically a coward, Mr.. Sturdevant met
every intersection by coming back
twice as hard. When Deitz appealed
to the court, with a dangerous note
in his voice, to stop the flood of con-
temptuous references to his past rec,
ord, S%turdevant only stepped closer
to him, pointed his finger in his face
and smiled a thin-lipped smile as if
he were addressing IN impotent, ex-
posed bully. There was a fire In the
states attorney that blazed higher,
in it's controlled way, than any in the
heart of John DeitZ. Although Sher-
iff Fred Clark, fearing trouble, moved
to a position close to DeitZ, and a
solid phalanX of deputies who emp
tied rifles at him in the assault on
the cabin were within easy reach,
the "Old Man" finally quit his OBJ
jections and suffered the terrific ar
raignment in surly silence.
Smile Did Not Desert Him.
The smile with which Deitz has
always faced things that have hap
pened to him did not desert him,
smiled as the judge read the verdict
handed to him by the foreman of the
jury. He made no demonstration and
showed no inclination to do violence.
Was Sentenced for Life.
Hayward, Wis, May 13.-JOhn
Deitz was sentenced today to a life
term in the ~penitentiary by Judge
Reid. On October 8 of each year he
is to be placed in solitary confine-
ment for t~wenty-four hours to medi-
tate on the crime he committed. This
is in accordance with the Wisconsin
statutes. His motion for a new trial
was denied. He is given ten days,
however, to file exceptions and IN
other motion. He is undecided
whether to appeal.
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From Tuesdays Daily.

From Tuesdays Daily.
Murder was committed near Sher-
burn during Saturday night, but the
crime was not discovered until late
Sunday afternoon, and strange to say
neither the sheriff nor county attOr-
ney of Martin county was notified OF
the d~astardly deed which ended the
life of A. Case of Estherville. Ia.
Late Sunday afternoon G. w. Sails
bury of Sherburn, while out walking
with a friend and when in the shade
of a clump of trees nea the water
tank east of the village, and on the
shore of Temperance lake, came upon
the body of an old man lying upon
his back with his hat owe his face
as though asleep. 1t struck him at
once that the nan did not lie in
quite a natural position and on closer
examination it was discovered that
the old man was dead.
He at once gave the alarm in the
village and Coroner Brodt of Fair
mont was notified. Mr.. Brodt and his
u OllcI, OItObSI, WIFI ohOi IL
by auto as quickly as possible. The
body was found by him as represent
ed, and deeming an inquest neces-
sary, he had the following persons
summoned to act as a coroner's jury:
William Masters, P. A. Peterson, A.
w. Sanford, Axel Baxtrom, ]. e.
Baldwin, Chester Brodt.
Life Had Been Clicked Out.
Examination showed finger marks
on the old mans throat and it was
apparent that he had been choked
to death. Mr.. Brodt was assisted
in the examination by DR.. Robert
Parrish of Sherburn, who proceeded
in a scientific n to examine
the throat and neck of the dead man,
What is commonly termed the Adams
| apple, the doctor found to have been
torn loose and it was simply held
in place by the outer skin, the
muscles and tendons having been
torn away so that it would swing
loosely from one side to the other.
1t was the. opinion of the doctor
that the mar had been seized by the
throat with great violence and liter
ally choked to death.
The verdict of the coroner's jury
was soon rendered and was to the
effect that deceased probably met
with a violent death at the hands
of a person or persons to them I'M
known.
Resident of Estherville.
The identity of the old man was
soon discovered. His name was A
Case and his home at Estherville
His age was sixty-six years. AS soon
as he could get to Sherburn a son
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Minneapolis, May 13.-Investigation
of the finding of arsenic in coffee
served DR.. E.. j. Davis and five men,
bers of his household at the Soldiers
Home has beer begun by the board
of trustees at the home. The mat.
ter has not been placed before the
county attorney, but members of the
board say that if evidence is obtain
ed the case will be taken before the
grand jury.
The poisoning took place after the
recent investigation of complaints by
some of the inmates that conditions
at the home were not sanitary. Com
plants were also made against the
food. DR.. P. M. Hall, city health
commissioner, gave the Soldiers
Home a clean bill of health on the
sanitary charge, and then James G,
Matchitt, secretary of the state board
of visitors, after an investigation, de-
clared the charges concerning the
food were unfounded.
Will Sift the Matter.
w. H. Harries, secretary of the
board, said today that the trustees
intended to sift the whole matter
thoroughly. 1--WE are going to find
| out who was behind it if possible
said Captain Harries today. 1.-THE
! board las given us full power to act
| and we are now at work. | cannot
say how we shall proceed"
Levi Longfellow, a trustee, said
the matter was under discussion.
The jar of ground coffee in which
the arsenic was found is in the pos
session of State Chemist julius Hort
vet. A small portion of it only was
subjected to analysis, and it showed
| clearly the presence of the poison.
DR.. Davis Still I'LL.
DIR. E. j. Davis, who suffered the
most severely from the poison, is
! still unable to attend to his duties
as chief surgeon at the home. Thu
only thing hat saved him and thu
members of his household from deatf
was the excessive quantity of the ar
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From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
The Congregational district con,
ference closed last evening. with in.
spring addresses by Miss Emerson
of Carleton college and DR.. Robert
p. Herrick of Minneapolis. DR.. Her
rick showed slides of Northern Min,
nesota lumber and mining towns and
pioneer churches, with some very
similar pictures of the twin cities
fifty years ago. The attendance has
been good and the spirit of he meet
ings excellent. 1t is considered one
of the best conferences held in re-
cent years.
Men were particularly in evidence
at the conference sessions, but the
women mustered a good company FOR
their sectional meeting yesterday ait
ernoon. This was presided over by
Mrs. w. J.. Richardson of Fairmont
in her inimitable way. Mrs. Carter
of ST. Clair led in a brief devotional
service, after which reports from the
state meeting were given by Mrs.
Richardson and Miss Emerson. They
brought many plans for c~ultivating
an intelligent interest in missionary
work.
Mrs. Heermance then spoke on the
plan of consolidating the missionary
and Ladies' Aid societies, instead OF
having two separate societies, com
posed partly of the same women
Plan Now Being Worked.
The plan now being worked out by
the Mankato church is to have a
woman's club to include all the WON
ems interests in the church, so that
every Oma old or new, may be
given a definite work to do, as in the
Christian Endeavor society. The mis-
sionary interests would take their
dignified place among the other In
terests of the women at work. Every
woman would be liable to be given
some part in the missionary meet
ings during the year, as in the En-
deayOr. This idea was a new one to
most of the delegates but was dis
cussed with a great deal of interest
There seemed to be a general feel
ing that the plan might remedy diff
ficult situations in their own
churches.
Special Plea for Devotional Side.
Mrs. Carter closed the hour with d
special plea for the devotional side
of the Ladies' Aid meetings. She
illustrated this by the practice OF the
remarkable aid society in st. Clair
which gives from two o'clock to foul
to sewing, followed by five minute
of devotional exercises, a short bust
ness session. fifteen minutes Of pro
gram, which might include mission
study. and refreshments. This briet
devotional service has brought den
mite results in the lives of the won
en-. They all consider it an indis
pensable part of the meeting.
While the women were holding
their meeting downstairs. the confer
ence continued its main session am
examined Mr.. George X. Carter TO,
ordination, at the request of the st
Clair church. Mr.. Carter's state
ments were satisfactory and it wa'
voted to recommend him for ordina
ton. The conference will c%o-operat'
with the st. Clair church in the sci
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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
Piles iniure the general health, produce indigestion
FLOATING and nervousness. Often cause untold Suf-
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even though you have been told a surgical operation
was necessary, Hundreds of such cases cured,
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Boston Transcript: Te~legrapher-
The message must not exceed ten
words. Fair Sender a add a
postscript, can't 1?
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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 thou
sands given up to die.
Consultation Free and Confidential
Reference, Drexel State Bank
Address DR.. ADDISON.JONES
764 LAKEWOOD BLVD, CHICAGO.
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THE DEITZ JUROR

c. r. Smith, Oma Cayo,
Frank Sabin, Ed lindholm,
Gust Olson, Steve Suther-
land, Peter Swanson, Tom
Husky, Ed Johnson, N. {. An
derson, John LilIiquest, John
Laske. Steve Sutherland is a
brother of DR.. Sutherland Of
Mankato.
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Chronic Diseases of Men and
Women a Specially

Space forbids the mention of but a few of the
Chronic Diseases which l treat Of both men ape
women. 1T YOU are nervous, e~xcitable and irritable
respondent, weak aud easily tired out. fyou have
lack of energy. want of confidence, depositin urine
or If you are a woman and Ia We headache. Blackjack
or pain in side. my treatmeutis remarkably success
full. Married ladies' should be accompanied by theI
huc chm nhc
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VERDICT OF THE JURY.

"John Deitz, guilty of muir
der in the first degree. Hattie
E. Deitz, his wife, not guilty
of murder in the first degree;
Leslie Deitz not guilty of MUIR
der in the first degree"
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MUSHROOM CORNS
Most Painful of All Foot Ailments.
How to Cure Them.


The Mushroom corn is so called from
Its pitted cone top. resembling a tiny
mushroom. 1t burrows deep into the
toe and gets infamed than other
corns. For the quick relief and cure of
these and all corns and c~allouses the
following is the most effective remedy
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sin of hot water. Soak the feet in this
for full fifteen minutes, gently mas
saying the sore parts. Less time will
not give desired results.) All sore
ness instantly disappears and the corn
or callous Ear be easily peeled off. 1t
may be necessary to repeat this for a
number of nights for a complete cure,
but IL adhered to 1t will surely succeed.
A little olive oil rubbed on the part
is very beneficial. This Calocide is a
very remarkable preparation for all
foot ailments and is no longer confined
to doctors use. Any druggist has it
in stock or will quickly get it from his
wholesale house. A twenty-five cent
package is usually sufficient to put the
worst feet in fine condition. Bad smell
ing feet and tender feet need only a
few treatments, likewise with inflamed
bunions. This item will be welcomed
by persons who have tried Intellectual
powders and tablets.
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known to sci
ence: Dissolve
2 tablespoonfuls
of Calocide COM
mound In q ha.
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Resident of EsthervjIIe.

The identity Of the old man was
soon discovered. His name was A.
Case and his home at Estherville.
His age was sixty-six years. AS soon
as he could get to Sherburn a sol
of the old man came and took the