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EVAN HUGHES,
court Seal.)
Hughes & Ellsworth.
Attorneys for petitioner.
April 19-26-May S.

CITATION FOR HEARING ON FL
NAL ACCOUNT AND FOR DIS
TRIBUTION.
STATE OF MINNESOTA. County of
Blue Earth. In Probate Court.
In the Matter of the Estate of
Rhoda II. lockwood, Decedent.
The State of Minnesota to all per-
sons interested in the above entitled
matter: Whereas, Hattie r. Chap
man has filed in this court her
final account of her administration
of the estate OF the above named
decedent, together with her petition.
praying for the adjustment and al
lowance of said final account and
for distribution of the residue OF
said estate to the persons thereunto
entitled: Ii is ordered, that, said
petition be heard, and that all per-
sons interested in said matter be
and appear before this court on the
18th day of May. 1912, at ten
o'clock a. M, at the probate court
rooms in the court house, at Man
kato, in said county, and then and
there, or as soon thereafter as said
matter can be heard, show cause, ii
any they have. why said petition
should not be granted, and that this
citation be served by tho publica-
tion thereof in The Mankato Free
Press. according to law.
Witness the honorable Evan
Hughes, Judge OF said court, and
the seal of said court. this 18th day
of April. 1912.
EVAN HUGHES.
Judge.
Court Seal)
Chelsea lockwood,
Attorney for Petitioner.
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range twenty-seven (2D west, lying
and being east of the Blue Earth
river crossing the said last above
described premises. Also the north
one-half of the northeast quarter of
the southwest quarter (nR of nelI
of swh) of section seventeen (17)
in township one hundred and seven
tl0D of range twenty-seyen (27l
west, also the east five 90 acres of
the south ten u9l acres of the
north thirty (30) acres OF the north
east quarter OF the southwest quar-
ter tneh of swA) of section seven
teen 40 in township one hundred
and seven (107) north of range
twenty-seven f27) west. containing
forty tf0) acres of land more or
less.
Dated this 9th day of April, A. d.
1912.
MANKATo SAVINGS BANK,
Mortgage.
Benjamin Taylor,
Attorney for Mortgage.
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md over great waves. A man never

and over great waves. a man never
outgrows that
Captain Smith maintained that
ship building was such a perfect
art nowadays that disaster. involv.
ing the passengers on a great mod
ern liner, was impossible Whatever
happened, he contended there would
be time before the vessel sank to
save the lives of every passenger on
board
Il will 20 bit further" he said
| will say that | cannot imagine any
condition which could cause ship
to founder. cannot conceive of
any vital disaster happening to this
vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone
beyond that
The first misfortune came into
Captain Smiths life only recently
That was when the great Olympic
sister ship OF the Titanic. was ram
med by the British cruiser Hawke
off the Isle of Wight, on September
20. 1911. A great hole was stove in
TO its steel ribs and it was forced
to put back to southampton. The
Hawke, even more badly damaged
put over to Portsmouth for repairs
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TITANIC WAS RENT ASUNDER WHEN
SHE STRUCK HUGH STACK OF ICE

ST. Johns. y. T.. April II. From
the steamship Bruce. bound for
sydney, came the first detailed re-
ports of the sinking Of the Titanic
and the appalling scenes attending
her end
The Bruce obtained her story OF
the disaster from a wireless mes
sage picked np from several of the
ships which had been in closest
touch with the last hours of the
mammoth White Star steamship and
which were afterward in the zone OF
communication with the Bruccs APP
Paratus.
When the Titanic struck the noun.
tain of ice that sent her 10 the bot
tom within four hours after the i'm
I3c' IL. was steaming at the rate
OF eighteen knots an hour. The
shock almost demolished the proud
vessel, which her builders and her
captain had believed nothing could
master.
Hitting the impenctrablc ice mass
fairly with her towering bows, the
ship was almost rent asunder al
the first blow. Her decks were
ripped ana torn, her sides and bulk.
heads were split and shattered as
with the hammer OF some Titan
from the bow to u point almost
amidships.
Her upper works and some of her
boats were splintered, while show.
cr OF debris from her spars fell
upon the decks like giant hail
Though the ship had struck the
monster obstruction head-on as heI
bow rose clear Of the water, smash
ed TO (. an unrecognizable mass oil
bent aud shivered steel. the vessel
listed heavily to port and threatened
TO turn turtle before the recoil slide
Of what was left of her proud form
came hack 10 IN even keel.
Tho Titanic had forced her giant
bulk away mp on a submerged spur
Of the iceberg, a phenomenon which
is not linfrequcnt in the most disas
trous collisions with these ghost
Ike SEHlll1e!S OH inc DdHhS. II
mounting upon the jagged ice spun
and in sliding back from her posi-
ton the ship had torn out many Of
her bottom plates from the midships
section forward to the bow.
As a result, her compartments
from midships forward were speed
lily Hooded She took in water At q
rate that deficd the efforts of The
pumps and soon began TO settle bl
the head. listing heavily to port ant
rolling in the trough Of the sea rs
she became gradually disengaged
from the ice. many tons of which
had fallen upon her upper decks
contributing to the demolition and
inextricable confusion. The force
OF the blow had been so tremendous
that the fast ship was started in hcl
every joint and everything movable
throughout her superb equipment Of
luxurious cabins and salons was
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tossed into heaps like discarded
junk.
But British seamauship and disci.
pine prevailed and it did what little
might be done as well as dauntless
men coald do it, Every officer and
man leapcd to his post while Cap
tain Smith, mcgaphone in hand, bel
lowed his orders over the rolling
hulk that an hour before had been
the proudest ship in chrislendom.
Sufficient order was maintained 10
launch safely most of the boats, the
greater number of which had re-
manned seaworthy despite the ordeal
through which they had passed.
This work was progressing in a
way, the women and children being
given the preference in the life
boats. At first the evidences of
panic were well suppressed though
there was many painful scene as
wives and sisters, sweethearts and
mothers departed from their dear
ones whom they were leaving TO an
unknown fate as they took their al
lotted places in the boats.
Several times as the compart-
ments rapidly filed the vessel luch.
ed heavily. Then the cry went up
that. the ship was sinking and there
was rush for the small boats that
for the first time threatened to
transform brave and orderly scene
into one OF frenzied panic As the
Titanic settled lower under the
weight of the rapidly gaining water
in her hold it was said that some of
her boats were stove in before they
could be freed from the dayits and
that few were swamped in tho
effort to launch them
Within less than AN hour after
the doomed queen of the ocean
fleets had struck she had settled so
fast that the water had flooded her
engine rooms and then her wireless
apparatus went out of commission
At the same time the failing of her
dynamos extinguished her electric
lighting system and the mamotli
craft was plunged into styGian dark
ness except for such feeble CLEANS
as were afforded by the use OF
torches and lanterns. These served
only TO emphasize the horror of tho
midnight darkness, made more weird
by the reflections and shadows cast
by the towering masses of Arctic
pinnacles surrounding the stricken
ship.
In the darkness The work oil
launching the remaining boats was
made more difficult, but the Bruce
reports that all The boats, or nearly
all had cleared the wreck before
the Titanic took her final plunge
into the obscure depths of grave
two miles deep.
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CAREER OF CAPTAIN SMITH, WHO
SANK IN THE DEEP WITH TITANIC

New York, April l7-captain T..
sengers OH The Titanic intrusted
themselves on the voyage which will
never be forgotten in the list of
great xea disasters, followed the sea
from his boyhood. For forty years
ii was his proud boast that he had
had an uneventful life That is why
he was promoted 10 the highest post
in the gift of the White Star line,
Events came crowding upon him
only in the winter OF his life and
lie rose from the ranks. AS a
boy in 1869 he went on the Sena-
tor Weber, an American clipper,
serving as an apprentice. In 1876 he
shipped with the square rigger, Liz
zie Fennel, as fourth officer, and in
1880 he had risen to the rank of
fourth officer of the old White Star
line steamship Celtic-the nominal
ancestor of the present vessel OF
that name. In 1887 he went to the
W
the Baptic Thus he saw service
and held command on the old yes
sells for which the present giants
OF the White Star line are named.
Later Captain Smith took COM
mand of the freight Cutie and then
the Runic. Then he went 10 the
old Adriatic and Celtic, Britannia,
Coptic. in the Australian trade; the
Germanic, Majestic, Baltic and then
the Adriatic.
In all this time he served the line
quietly and his name was seldom
heard His rise in rank and impor-
lance was commensurate with the
safe uneyentfulness of his command.
When, in 1907, he came to this port
in command of the Adriatic on its
maiden trip he said:
when anyone asks me how ] can
best describe my experience OF near
ly forty years at sea | merely say
nneyentful. OF course there have
been winter gales and storms and
fog and the like, but in all my eX-
periencc | have never been III an
accident of any sort worth speaking
about. | have seen but one vessel
in distress in all my years at sea,
brig, the crew of which was taken
off in Il small boat i'll charge of my
third officer. ] never saw wreck
and have never been wrecked, nor
was ever i'll any predicament that
threatened TO end in disaster of any
sort.
"The love of the ocean that took
me TO sea as a boy has never left
me In way, Il certain amount OF
wonder never leaves me, especially
as | observe from the bridge a YES.
sci plunging up and down in the
trough OF the sea, fighting her way
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St Paul, April LITTLE commit
tee selected by the board CT trustees
of Hamline university at a meeting
yesterday afternoon decided to rec
ommend Samuel Kerfoot, president
OF South Dakota Wesleyan univer-
sity. as "A successor 10 DR.. c. II.
Bridsman, whose resignation goes
into effect at the end of the school
year.
The trustees will meet TO elect
the president today and it is said to
be practically certain that they viii
adopt the recommendation of the
committee as the committee was
unanimous in its action and was a
representative committee. Rev. F. a.
Cone of ST Anthony Park, a mem
Der of the committee, said fast
night: "Of course the choice of the
committee is not final action, but
nevertheless it practically means the
choice of kerfoot by the trustees
Sentiment of Students.
Sentiment among the students at
fidlnillle WIS ollUH6Iy III idNo VI ~
Kerfoot, according to campus talk of
recent days. When the Wesleyan
president spoke at Hamline last fall
he made a favorable impression on
the students in general and when it
was mentioned recently that his
name was considered for the posi-
ton of president of Hamline univer-
sity to fill the place left vacant by
the resignation of DR.. Bridgman in
terest in the South Dakota college
leader returned 1t is thought that
the announcement of his selection
by the committee will be met witt,
general approval by the student
body.
Samuel Kerfoot graduated at Ham
line in 1898 and after leaving the
local Methodist institution went to
the Drew Theological seminary,
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April. 1926 May
April 1926 May 5.
CITATION FOR HEARING OK III.
NAL ACCOUNT AND ron Dis
TRIBITTION

r
CITATION FOR HEARING OK FI-
NAL ACCOUNT AND FOR Dis
TRIBUTION.
STATE or MINNESOTA. County Of
Blue Earth, In Probate Court.
In the Matter of the Estate OF John
Elias, Decedent.
The State of Minnesota 10 all per-
sons interested In the above entitled
matter: Whereas, Benjamin Taylor
has fled in this court his final ac-
count of his administration OF the
estate of the above named dccedent,
together with his petition, praying
for the adjustment and allowance
of said final account and for distri.
button of the residue of said eatate
TO the persons thegeunto entitled:
1t is ordered, that said petition be
heard, and that all persons inter-
ested in said matter be ind appear
before this court on the 18th day OF
April, 1912, at ten o'clock n m. at
the probate court rooms in the court
house. at Mankato, in said county.
anu then ana tnefc, OF - loon
thereafter as said matter can be
heard, show cause. If any they have.
why said petition should not be
granted; and that this citation be
served by the publication thereof in
The Mankato Free fress. according
to law
Witness the Honorable Evan
Hughes, judge of said court. AMI the
seal of said court, this 18th day of
April, 1912.
EVAN HUGHES.
Judge.
Court Seall
BENJAMIN TAYLOR.
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class memorial will be presented and
the president of the class, Miss Ma
bel Rakness, will give an address
on professional subject. Thursday
afternoon tho alumni will hold q
meeting.
The year will close with The com
mencement exercises Thursday even
ing Seyenty-six seniors will receive
diplomas at that time. as forty-eight
diplomas have already been given
out since last June. the whole num-
Der of graduates for the year will
be one hundred and twenty-four
The address OF the evening will
be given by President George E.
Vincent of the state university, and
the diplomas will be presented to
the graduates by the Hon. L. A..
Huntoon of Moorhead. representing
the state normal board.
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SAMUEL KERFOOT SELECTED TO HEAD
HAMu|NE;, IS FORMER MANKAT0 MAN

where he completed his course.
Later he served for several years
as pastor of the Methodist church at
Winona and from that position adj
vanced TO the position OF presiding
elder OF the Mankato district of the
Minnesota conference. He was APP
pointed as secretary of the supcran-
nuated ministers fund by the Min
nesota conference and in this work
made Il great success, coming under
the approving observation of many
of the people. of the state.
Has Collected 100000.
For the last four years DIR. Ker-
foot has been the president of South
Dakota Wesleyan university and
during that period in office has had
remarkable success both as an edu.
Gator and in running the financial
side of the school affairs. For the
last three years he has collected
100000 year. or a total Of $500,
900 This record has been accom-
plished under circumstances that
were far from favorable at the
start of his term of office. The
school was young and undeveloped
when he took charge of it. The trus
tees were not together. People in
general were not greatly, interested
in the school. Kerfoot has changed
all of this. He has enlisted the big
men of the state on his side in
South Dakota and has built up build
ings and raised adequate school
funds.
Rev. Willard Kern of the King
street Methodist Episcopal church OF
St Paul said last night that DR.
Kcrfoot's work has been one OF
unihcation. "He has made the trus
tees unit, has made the faculty
a unit, has made the entire college
unit That is the best thing one
can say of the man." he said.
A
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Selling PrIcsa
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE.

WHEREAS, default has been made
in the conditions of that certain mort
gage executed by Alden s. Pink
ham and Della Pinkham, his wife,
as mortgagors, to the Mankato Saw
ings bank, corporation, as mort
gagee, dated the 8th day of January,
A. ID. 1909, and recorded in the Of
flee of the register of deeds of the
County of Blue Earth and State of
Minnesota, on the 18th day of jan
uary. A. ID. 1909, at 11:20 o'clock
a. III. in Book 40 of Mortgages on
page $40 thereof upon which there
is due and claimed TO be due at the
date of this notice the sum of Eight
Hundred forty-one and 74-100 Dollars
($841.74), which said amount in
cludes the principal of Eight Hun
dred Dollars (ss00.00) and interest
thereon from July sth. 1911. and
Five and 74-l00 Dollars ts5.7D of
taxes paid by said mortgage on
March Goth, 1912
NOW THEREFORE, notice Is
hereby given that by virtue of the
power of sale in said mortgage CON
tanned and the statutes in such case
made and provided, the mortgage
will be foreclosed by sale of the
premises, to be made at public auc-
ton by the sheriff of Blue Earth
County. Minnesota. at the easterly
front door of the court house in the
City of Mankato, Blue Earth County,
Minnesota, on Saturday, the first day
of June, A. d. 1912. at two o'clock
in the afternoon, to satisfy the
amount which will then be due upon
said mortgage, the costs and dis
bursements of sale. the said taxes
and interest thereon as provided by
said mortgage, together with Fifty
Dollars tS50.00), attorneys fees slip
ulated to be paid in case of a fore
closure of said mortgage. The
premises described in said mortgage
and so TO be sold are the following.
to.wit:
All OF the northwest quarter OF
the southeast quarter (nwA of SELL
VI SStllDn bSftlit1FH tltJ III NV III
ship one hundred and seven (107) of
range twenty.seven (27) west, lying
and being west of the center line Of
the public highway crossing said de-
scribed tract; also all Of the east
forty (40l acres of the south fifty
(50) acres of the east one-half of
the southwest quarter (e1k OF swA)
of section seventeen IT'D in town
ship one hundred seven f107) of
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MINNEAPOLIS Grain.

Minneapolis, April -Wheat-May
s1O77s; July. s109k. Cash close on
track: No. 1 hard. s1.10B; No. /
Northern, s1.10ss; to arrive. s1.os7s /;
No. 2 Northern. s1.08d1.0Sss; to ari.
rive, $1077s GLOSS; No. North srn.
s1.06; No. 3 yellow corn, 799S0c; No.
4 corn, 7567Sc; No. 3 white oats, "a
5534c; to arrive, 53c; No. oats, 520
54c; barley, 75c6s130; fax, s2.13H;
10 arrive, S215.
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CHICAGO Grain and Provisions.

Chicago. April -Wheat-May,
s1O0ss; July, S1.06A Sept, s1.o3.
Corn--May, 1859; July, 76bc; Sept,
75c. Oats-May. 56h 056ssc; jury,
53A @53asc; Sept, 42Ac. Pork-May,
$3.50; July. $1S.15 Butter-Cream-
cries, 2S@3lc; dairies. ga CSC. Eggs
--1S6l9c. Poultry-Turkeys lie;
chickens, 14c; springs. 15hc.
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CHICAGO Live Stock.

Chicago. April observation-disclosures,
s36098.75: Texas steers, s4.75G6.10;
Western steers, s5.606710; stockers
and feeders. s43066.65; cows and
heifers, $2.650700: calves, S5.00QS.-
90. Hogs-Light, s7.50@7.971a, mixed,
s7s00S.05; heavy, s7.65@S.07h;
rouch. s76567.s0; pigs. s5.o0G730.
Sheep-Native. s425@630; yearlings,
s3.90@700; lambs, S5.50@775.
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yivors it is estimated that not moro
than 100 were seamen required 10
man the boats. This would leave
approximately 4fo, and iii the ordi-
nary proportions OF women and
children in the steerage, where the
passengers in the Titanic's care mum
bcrcd 710. it seems probable that
The greater part OF these ITO were
women aud their little ones.
Vice President Franklin said late
today that his list Of survivors show.
cd that 202 out OF 80 first cabin
passengers and III ont of 2S5 see
ond cabin passengers of the wreck
cd liner had been accounted for
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EVAN HUGHES.
Court Seal.l
Thomas Hughes.
Attorney fer Petitioner.
Anril 1876. MY ).


ORDER LIMITING TIME TO FILE
CLAIMS. AND FOR HEARING
THEREON.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of
Blue Earth. In Probate Court
In the Matter of the Estate of Au-
gust Bachertz, Decedent.
Letters testamentary on said es-
tate having been granted TO John III.
Reeves
II is ordered. that the time within
which all creditors of the above
named decedent may present claims
against his estate in this court. be.
and the same hereby is, limited to
six months from aud after the date
hereof; and that Thursday. the 18th
day of October, 1912. at &c O'Clock
a. M. in the probate court roops at
the court house at Mankato. in said
county, be, and the same hereby is.
fixed and appointed rs the time and
place for hearing upon and the cx-
animation, adjustment and allowance
OF such claims as shall be presented
within the time aforesaid.
Let notice hereof be given by the
publication of this order in The
Mankato Free Press as provided by
law.
Dated April 18th. 1912.
EVAN HUGHES.
Judge of Probate
probate Court Scal)
II. L. & ]. w Schmitt, Attorneys.
April 19-26-May 5
ORDER LIMITING TIME TO FILE
CLAIMS AND FOR HEARING
THEREON.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of
Blue Earth. In Probate Court
In the Matter of the Estate of Ed
ward Dackins, Decedent.
Letters of administration on said
estate this day having been granted
to Griffith C. Dackins.
II is ordered, that the time with.
in which all creditors of the above
named decedent may present claims
against his estate in this court, be.
and the same hereby is. limited TO
six months from and after the date
hereof; and that Saturday, the 10th
day of October. 1912, at 10 o'clock
a. m. In tho probate court rooms at
the court house at Mankato In said
county, be, and The same hereby Is.
fixed and appointed as the Time aud
place for hearing upon and the cx-
animation, adjustment and allowance
OF such claims as shall be presented
within the time aforesaid.
Let notice hereof be given By. the
publication of this order In The Man.
kato Free Press, as provided by law.
EVAN HUGHES.
Judge Of Probate.
probate Co1rt Seal.)
Dated April 18th, fat2.
Thos. Hughes, Attorney.
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GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES
Duluth Wheat and Flax.

Duluth, April 16.-Wheat-To arrive
and on track-No. hard. s1.11ss, No.
Northern. $1.10ss; No. Northern,
s10S%; May, s1.09ss; July, sf10B.
Flax-On track and to arrive. s2.16h;
May. S216h. July. S2I3A.
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South ST. Paul Live Stock.

South St Paul. April 17.-Cattle--
Steers. s500@775; cows and heifers,
$f00@6.50; calves. s3.00@7.00; feed
ers, s27566.25. Hogs-s7 600 So
Sheep--Lambs, $400m7.5o; wethers,
s4.O006.00; ewes. s3.500575.