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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-03-08
Hebron
From Tuesdays Daily.

From Tuesdays Daily.
George Stevens is working fol
Chris Burmeister.
Eden Miles transacted business
at Mankato Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Hendley drove
! to Mankato Wednesday.
Roy Thurston was business
caller at Nicollet Friday.
Ralph Thurston spent several
days at Mankato last week.
| Johnny Hendley went to Mankato
Thursday with q load of hay.
] Charley Goodell sawed wood fol
J. C. Burns one day last week.
Miss Fitzpatrick was a caller al
the Arthur McCarger home Friday.
Miss Lulu Fitzpatrick spent Sat
urday and Sunday with friends at
F.; Mankato.
A number. of men from this neigh
borhood attended the auction at Her
man Heiser's Wednesday.
Herbert HodsOn spent several
days the latter part of the week
with. relatives at Mankato.
Frank Kenney, a brother-in-law OF
Mrs. Will Hendley, of Glendive
Mont, arrived here Saturday.
The Hebron Methodist Episcopal
! Ladies' Aid society met with Mrs
/ c.. s. Thurston Thursday afternoon.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley VroOmen are
/ the proud parents of fine baby
| girl. Mrs. Whitcomb is caring for
the little one.
The thaw has cleaned some places
but other parts Of the roads the
drifts are very bad to get through
or even around.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Parsons have
| left for their home in Washington
| after an extended visit with friends
and relatives here.
| Miss Florence Hodson departed
for Ivanhoe Wednesday where She
will visit with her sister, Mrs. Alice
Grain, and her brother, Roy Hold
son. r..
| Mrs. f. Whitcomb Of Princeton
Mimi, is visiting with her daugh
| ter, Mrs. Wesley Vrooman. Mrs
| Whiteomb was a former resident Of
Kerns.
The choir met with Rev. and Mrs
Re. C Farce at the parsonage
Thursday evening. Dainty refresh
! ments were served and a good time
| is reported.
I A circle of friends and neighbors
dropped in on Mr.. and Mrs. Miles
Saturday evening to give them a sur
prise, but as some fairy had no
titled Mr.. Miller, they were prepared
for the occasion. The guests as
sembled about 1880 with ready filled
baskets, and a two course dinner
was served shortly after. After din
ner the tables were cleared and
two of the more sturdy youths pres
ent treated the guests to an aero
plane flight which amused the spec
tators. Then a confessional box was
instituted and several of the girls
were brought before the king and
queen of love. who quizzed them as
to their affairs of the heart. The
guests departed at lake hour, hav,
ing spent a most delightful even.
ing -. - t'-@ - -s' - t''H
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APPENDICITIS: CLUB
ORGANIZED FOR LENT
The Social Leaders in Ohio Take
Opportunity to Have Appen-
dix Removed.

Cleveland, Ohio, March 5.--Seven-
ty-six Cleveland women are spend.
ing Lent in local hospitals, after
having had their appendices re-
moved. In addition to this number
who have found new way of spend,
ing the dull Lenten days, there are
a score of other women in Cleveland
hospitals from nearby cities.
These cases have been received
since Ash Wednesday, Milady ap,
parently having figured it out that
Lent is a good time to spend in
convalescence.
Social Leaders in Hospital.
Among the unique parties" OF
the Lenten season is that of three
social leaders of Ashland, Ohio, all
three now appendices and doing
Lenten penance in adjoining rooms
at a local hospital. ~.
The three met at a function
shortly before Ash Wednesday.
"Why not? It wouldn't be at all
unpleasant, we three together" said
all in unison when the plan was
suggested. And now they are con.
valescing rapidly and will be back
in Ashland before Easter, fully re-
cuperated and ready to begin a
strenuous social season.
Take Opportunity for Operation.
Ceases of persons taking the op'
portunity for an operation when
home, social or business duties are
lax, are not infrequent,' said a
well-known physician. There is the
fear they might have the attack
when the right surgeon is not at
hand, or other conditions would not
be so favorable"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-03-08
SEATTLE WOMEN VOTE
Erickson Single Tax Amendment
to City Charter is the
Issue.
rspecIa1 to The Free Press.J

Especial to The Free Press.J ~.
Seattle, Wash, March 5.-Almost
as many women as men Will vote IN
today's municipal election in Seattle.
In addition to the choice of a mayor
the voters will pass on the Erickson
single tax amendment to the city
charter, the essentials of which are
as follows: r sss:a'
One. The Erickson amendment at
fects only city taxes, and not county
or state taxes. -. &.
Two. 1t exempts from city taxes
all improvements on lands; that u.s.
buildings of all kinds, factories, per
sonal property, machinery, tools,
stocks of goods household goods, etc.
Three. 1t taxes land values only
whether there are buildings on the
land or not, and it taxes the franchis.
es of public service corporations,
such as the electric, gas and tele'
phone companies.
The total tax rate for state, county
and school is now So on $lO0 or as
sessment. The portion OF this tax
for city purposes Is IA mills, or $1.4o
on 500 assessed valuation, nearly
one-haff of the total taxation.
The general effect Of the Erickson
amendment, if adopted, will be to
take nearly half of the total tax for
all purposes, state, city, county and
school, off of buildings and personal
property, and this tax will fall on
land and franchises. Thus the bur.
den of supporting the, city govern.
ment will be largely shifted, from the
homes to business property. Taxes
on residence property will be much
less and on property, in the business
districts, whether improved or not
will be much larger.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-03-08
SENATOR NELSON MUM
Has minated to No One That
He Will Now Seek
Reelection.

Washington, March Aft Senator
Nelson has decided to be a candi.
date for reelection to the United
States senate, and has designated
bill" Rich, or anybody else to man.
age a campaign in Minnesota in his
behalf, no information to that effect
is obtainable from the senator him
SELF On the contrary, it may be
stated on reliable authority that
neither Mr.. Rich nor anybody else
has been commissioned to manage
a senatorial campaign fors Senator
Nelson.
The foregoing statements are made
on account of reports reaching here
of publications in Minnesota to the
effect that Mr.. Rich has announced
that he is managing a campaign for
the reelection of Nh. Nelson to the
United States senate. Whether Mr..
Rich has said anything Of that kind
is not known to anybody here, GER
tainly not by those who are in the
confidence of Senator Nelson.
Would Make No Comment.
When asked yesterday regarding
the report, Mr. Nelson would make
no comment upon it. 1t Is supposed
that this is due to the fact that the
senator has made no announcement
of his purposes with respect to the
senatorship. 1t may be stated upon
absolutely reliable authority, how
ever, that Mr.. Nelson has not des.
ignated Mr.. Rich. nor anybody else
to act as manager of his campaign,
nor has he made any announcement
indicating that he will be candi.
date or will not be candidate for
reelection.
It has been assumed for some time
by Minnesota people here. that in due
season Senator Nelson will make
known what he intends to do, but
up to this time he has said nothing
on the subject, hence it is recog-
nized that the denial that he has
designated Mr.. Rich as "his cam
paign manager" must be accepted
as beyond question "
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-03-08
ENGINEER CLEMENT is DEAD
Shot Himself Tuesday and Death
Came Early Yesterday.

Winona, March 4.-GeorSe Glenn
ent's attempt to take his life by
shooting last Tuesday morning ter
minated in his death at the Winona
General hospital early Sunday morn.
ing. The end had been hourly ex-
pected since early yesterday morn
Ing, when all hope had been aban-
doned and relatives were at the
bedside when state Of unconscious.
hess merged into death early today.
Clement, a former engineer on the
Northwestern road, shot himself In
the head while alone in his apart.
ments in the Morgan block early
Tuesday morning. He was found sew
eral hours later and taken immedi.
ately to the hospital. 1t was an.
nounced that he had faint chance
to recover.
The patient failed TO revive after
the shock OF. the selfinfiicted wounds
and he grew steadily worse until
meningitis developed early on Sat
urday. He had been conscious until
Saturday morning at three o'clock.
but since that time he sank rapidly
until death ensued.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-03-08
kerst May Be Candidate.
From MONDAYS Daily.

P. NJ. Kerst, former public exami-
ner, Is being mentioned as a posi-
BILE candidate for the democratic
nomination for governor. Mr.. Kerst
has been a resident Of St. Paul
for a number of years, but has
been engaged in business in Mime
apolis since he left the states serv-
ice. He is now employed by the
twin city banks as a special exami-
ner.
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kerns

From Tuesdays Daily.
r. j.. Grice is on the sick list.
L. P. Parsons has been quite sick
but is improving.
Mrs. w. H. Sharp entertained a
dinner last Sunday.
Eugene Culp is visiting his sister
at lie Sueur Center.
Philip Mynard visited relatives a
Eagle Lake last week.
Miss Ida Keene is visiting Mrs
Frank Loucks this week.
H. A. Hanson sold a fine span o.
young horses last Tuesday. 81.
Louis Holberg visited his sister
Mrs. Howard Cole, last week.
Esther Keene is home from the
hospital and is feeling real well.
Miss Vina Rist Of the norma
school is home to spend her vaca
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Parsons have
returned to their home at Spokane
Wash.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Goodridge
visited relatives at Judson week age
Sunday.
The Dave Severance house has
been sold and is being moved tC
Mankato.
M. M. Cram will move his saw
mill to the other place Tuesday OF
Wednesday. ,.,
/ Mr.. and :. Mrs. Alfred Lind wei
coined a little daughter, who arrived
February 20.
Hazel Sharp and Irene Jefferson
spent the latter part of the week
at their homes.
First sign of spring Saturday, be
on his motorcycle. s..
Minnesota day was observed al
the school, and F. E. Jefferson gaye
a very interesting talk in the after
noon. -@
w: H. Sharp. Arthur Sharp, L. B
Steel, Chester Steel and Erwin CulI
attended the Heidwinkel auction or
Thursday. r.
Howard Cole will work for #. e
Jefferson this year. He moved Out
Wednesday and will live in the house
formerly occupied by Mrs. i. j
Belts.
Herman Weiske of Iowa has
bought the Leverich farm, and sew
eral of his new neighbors kindly
helped him move his carload Of
goods out OH Saturday. ..,
A good roads, meeting was held
at the school house Saturday even
ing. The object of the meeting was
to see about improving the road be
tween Kerns and Mankato.
Clarence Grice, who has but one
birthday in four years, celebrated
very pleasantly this year, as he had
a postal card shower in the morn
ing and surprise party in the
evening.
George Culp had a bad accident
Friday evening, while driving home
on the lower road. Much sympathy
is expressed on account of the
series of mishaps which have lately
come to Mr.. Culp.
Joseph Hodgson had a bad chin
ney fire Sunday afternoon about
three o'clock, and for a time II
looked as if everything might go
but by hard work on the part Of
the family, no damage was done
aside from the fact that the chin
ney burned out from the furnace &c
tho TON p y +sfi
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DRIES TO INDORSE Mr.. LEE
That Is Claimed Will Be Their At
titude in This County.
From MONDAYS Daily

From Mondays Daily.
This piece of political news ap.
peared in The st. Paul Pioneer Press
today:
"One Of the first signs of county
option activity of the present cam
paign is the report from MankatO
that optionists in Blue Earth county
will indorse w. E. Lee of Long
Prairie for governor. This means a
fight on Governor Eberhart in his
home county from a new angle. 1t
has been general gossip that Ed
Weaver, county auditor, intended to
get into the race for governor, which
would start a fight in that county,
but apparently the county optionists
do not intend to be either for Mr..
Weaver or Mr.. Eberhart.
The county optionists in Blue
Earth have had a strong and hard
working organization, and although
they always have fallen short of
electing their men in the legislative
contests they have kept them busy
while the campaign lasted.
whether this means that Mr.. Lee
has made his peace with the option.
lists is not known. He Endorsed coun-
ty option two years ago, but this
year he said nothing about it in his
platform and the expressions of .he
members of the general committee
of the Anti-Saloon league, at their re-
cent meeting in Minneapolis, were
that they were dissatisfied with the
platforms both of Mr.. Lee and Mr..
Gordon. 1t is said that Mankato Op-
tionists consider Mr.. Lee stronger
man than Mr.. Gordon, but whether
this is the attitude of the league
members in other parts of the state
is not known" "a, ss-- .s..
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Ond.
Adolph Langhoff, 1926 North
Fourth.
H. c. Vosbeck, 921 North Second.
Steven Mates, 427 East Spring
L. L. Bedbury, 1904 First avenue.
P. Kohler, S19 Mulberry.
John H. Lang, At East Vine.
A. j. Kinninger, 316 North Second.
Charles Adamson, Patterson ave-
nue..
Nels Sandquist, 1916 North Fourth
Charles Wood, sos South Front
John Dueffenbach, 1901 North
Fourth.
John Johnson, SO North Front.
Charles Peterson, 1923 North
Front.
John Barrett 143O First avenue.
Louis Schweim, 1914 Second ave.
nue..
Carl Leo, 1928 Third avenue.
w. G.. Lang, 221 Wilson.
L. Swan, Patterson avenue.
William Marquardt, 1914 Third.
August HIM, 1928 Third avenue.
Ed Reed, 1918 Third avenue.
Gust Hoffman, 1920 Fifth avenue.
Louis Wolfe, 1903 Fifth avenue.
M. G.. Hoffman, 416 Van Brunt.
August Dealow, 1902 First avenue.
G. W.. White, 1912 South Front.
George Payer, 1902 First avenue.
John Kranke, 1905 North Seventh.
Gust Hoffman, 1920 Fifth avenue.
Louis Jubergien, 1107 Sixth.
Frank Schaffen, 1925 Third avenue.
w. G. Northrop, 704 North Second.
William Wagner, 1913 North
Fourth.
John L. Peterz, $50 Swiss.
Otto Turner ia Mulberry.
James McDuff, 213 North Second.
George Calcutt, 321 Van Brunt.
c. S. Hoffman, 416 Van Brunt.
Dave Hunter, 22O Van Brunt.
William Hagerty. 1872 Vine.
James Wass, 1857 Seventh avenue.
J. R. Simmons, $50 West Front.
C. Rhodes, 703 West Sixth.
John Pollei, 1919 North Fourth.
Charles Ellis, 125 Minnesota.
Henry Shurber, 1913 Minnesota.
Ed Hadt, 1875 Parkway.
H. r. Thompson, 207 North Front.
E. Buskey, 305 Minnesota.
William Jessup, 40S Poplar.
John Weber, 200 Hubbell avenue.
Thomas Edwards, 121 Walnut.
Walter Devens, III Walnut.
Elias Joseph, 422 North Fourth.
John P. Schmidt, 425 North Front.
A. Bierl, PIP West Rock.
Votes Cast at Last Election.
The total number of votes cast at
the last city election was 1888. Ac-
cording to the requirements Of the
charter there must be 1913 names
on the recall petition in order to
insure an election
Mr. Waters stated this afternoon
that he has a large number of names
in reserve that he can append to an
amended petition. --: o..
Among those who are said to have
been active in securing signatures
to the petitions for the recall of
the recall are Charles Bennett, Po-
liceman Budde, Tony Thompson, O..
Dolson and Jacob Hilgers.
Waters Is Some Busy.
E. v. Waters, promoter of the
recall petitions, was real busy man
today. He was appraised this morn
ing of what was being done to his
petitions and the number of names
that were being withdrawn. To The
Free Press Mr.. Waters stated that
he would institute proceedings to
prevent the names from being with
drawn from his petition.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-03-08
District Court Cases.
From Mondav's Daily.

It is believed that the case Of
Walter Redfearn VS.. r. L. Houk will
be continued and also the case OF
Henry Cropped VS.. Gus Munden, de
fendent and Louisa CROPPED, inter
vener. The case to be tried after
that of Frank Simon VS.. Ottiiiia
Henschel and John r. Bowen. spe
cial administrator. which is now on
is that of Rich J.. Hughes, admins
traitor In the estate OF Robert r
Evans VS.. Joseph r. Williams. ,ad.
ministrator of the estate of Marga.
ret Williams,
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Case Has Been Appealed.
rom MONDAYS Daily,

The case of Thomas H. Grannis
versus II, M. Hitchcock has been ap-
pealed to the supreme court. H. L..
and j.. w. Schmitt are attorneys
for the plaintiff and c. H. Howard
and Miles Porter for the defense.
The defense will appeal the case.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-03-08
Seed Corn Test Discouraging

Farmers in all reporting
suits from their tests of dcouragns,
not alarming In other the reports seed
FORTH
Is the thirty years.
Agricultural farm
about SO good
This that half of the planted will
Every farmer knows what stalks of
hill where
Representatives seventy.
eight samples of found
This that every farmer Wheth-
done before il year
he hopes to get good stand of
Corn be tested easily Putting
each cloth,
between plates will
the sprout.
deep nearly filled with nd
kept in place Any the
high schools will Agricultural
school No S
+ + = Il y + y 4 y i d. - + y 10 Il u Il +
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Death of an Infant Child.
cax,,rda We nsttv

The two months old son of SUI
perintendent and Mrs. F. j.. Sperry
of Warren street died this morning
of complication of pneumonia and
whooping cough. The baby had
been sick for some time and his
death is great blow to the par.
eflts.
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Johnson Would Kill President;
Also Finish Himself.
LETTER HELD UP BY CLERKS
Unfortunate Young Fellow Sent
to Hospital at Fergus
Falls, MINI.

President Taft: If you do not
answer and investigate this matter
with Congressman Miller at once
on receipt of this letter, you will
be prosecuted for neglect of duty.
can't stand it any longer and
will kill myself or somebody else,
If can't get justice. I'm wireless
operator in the first division, M. N.
M. under Lieut.. Smiths am going to
swear allegiance to England and
If can't stir up a war against the
United States, my own country,
which ! have served with honor,
etc, ! will kill myself today. z 81,
~ will wait your reply. If you
don't answer me ina week, will
ington and see you personally re-
gardips the - matter. Trusting to
hear from you by return mail,
beg to remain. Yours sincerely, c.
w. johnson, first division, M. N. NJ,
v. S. Gopher, Duluth, MINI.
an get revenge on you as head
of this god-forsaken country"
Duluth, March 4.-When the
Duluth postoffice clerks saw a let
ter addressed to President Taft and
marked Personal, Important, Rush"
OH the outside, they became sus-
picious.
The letter was held and opened.
1t was found to contain threats
against the life of the president.
The writer, Carl Walter Johnson,
315 Columbia building was arrested
charging insanity.
Taken In Charge. .:
A deputy sheriff, who took John
son into custody, took him before
Judge of Probate Gilpin for an ex-
animation. DR.. J. w. Ekblad and
DR.. o. A. Oredson were called in
and after a consultation, it was de-
cided to commit johnson to the
state hospital for the insane at
Fergus Falls. ~-~. III.
When asked about the letter which
he had attempted to send to Presi-
dent Taft, Johnson explained that
he was simply trying 10 get JUS
tice.'' 81 haven't had justice since
the day I was born," he declared,
"and so thought that would take
the matter up with the president.
In Hospital Previously.
johnson is twenty-one years old,
neat in appearance and talks ration
ally on most subjects. Twice be-
fore he has been at the Fergus Falls
hospital for the insane. He received
his last discharged from the hos
pital on June s, 1910. Since that time
he has worked as a stenographer
and also an insurance agent.
At his examination, he was found
to be laboring under the impress
sion that everybody was imposing
on him and he accused his father
of trying to keep him in the insane
asylum. He told the court that some
one had insulted him about every
day. ".
Would Fight For England.
"Well, what are you figuring on
doing?" asked Judge Gilpin OF John
son after the examination Johnson
replied that he guessed that he
would go to st. Paul and take
train for the coast and there join
the Pacific squadron. IF they don't
treat me right there" Johnson add
ed, Il would just as soon go over TO
England and stir up war against
the United States and hgnt the
Id old country as not.
The Judge guessed different and
changed Johnson's itinerary so that
he will travel in the direction OF
Enrpus HALLS .-'.-."
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-03-08
HOUSE WAS DAMAGED BY FIRE
Flames In Residence of J. M. Chap
man Near Garden City.
Eror, Mondav's Daily -.

Fire broke out Saturday morning
in the home of J. M. Chapman, one
half mile from Garden City, and
large number of residents of the
village went out, being called b,
telephone. BY their prompt assist
ance serious loss was prevented
and the damage was confined to the
loss by water to the house furnish
ings and the. tearing out OF the
floors and partition. The fire start
ed from an overheated chimney be
tween the upper floors. Mr.. Chap
man is away at present. having LEFT
on Friday for California.
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Taken to st. Joseph's Hospital,
From Mondays Daily.

Smith Fuller applied at the Pc.
lice station last evening for lodging.
He claimed he was sick and upon
examination this morning, 1t was
found that he was telling the truth.
and he was accordingly taken to st.
Joseph's hospital.
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Democratic Town Caucus.
m MONDAYS Daily. S7f

The democratic caucus in Man
kato town Saturday night resulted
as follows: Supervisor, Fred Schultz;
clerk, "A. L. veigel; treasurer, Gar.
|rett Seeberg; G. S. Haigh, assessor,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-03-08

Duluth, March 4.-When the
Duluth postoffice clerks saw a let
ter addressed to President Taft and
marked Personal, Important, Rush"
OH the outside, they became sus-