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The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1912-02-16
1.-THE ROSARY"
Popular Play Coming to the Ridge
Way Next Month

The success Of Rowland and Cliff
ford's play, THE Rosary" doesn't
even approach an end. Six companies
more of this play have been organic
ed and contrary to traditions, The
Rosary" is repeating it's last years
success. The unequalled character Of
the Catholic priest in THE Rosary"
leads the way to success for Edward
E. Roses ideas, and the intense hui
man interest settled in the body of
the play formulates the heart inter-
est that will bring success to such
ideas. THE Rosary" will be seen at
the Ridgeway, Friday, March /.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1912-02-16
WISE FOOL" AT PASTIME.
Neutrality-suspicious. Players for Linn
tied Engagement.

The patrons of the Pastime theater
have treat in store for them on Fri
day and Saturday nights, when the
Neutrality-suspicious. Players appear at
this popular little playhouse for a
limited engagement. This excellent
company numbers five people, all of
them clean and competant actors and
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1912-02-16
Women Voters to Meet.

The National Council of Women
Voters will meet with Mrs A. w.
Mechling Saturday, February "a at
2 o'clock.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1912-02-16

Don't forget the K. of P. MINSTREL
next Monday evening.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-11-30
COMMISSIONERS PROCEEDINGS

wa-Keeneo. Kans-, october 4 1912
Inc board OF co nm met toqay N
order by the chairman. F. B. Walker. and
remadneo N session auf f l6e tn, s 81 stn
Commissioner John McNaughton not be-
ing present until the Sth-
The minutes of the following ,meeSng3
were read and approved as read namely,
the meetings of August 5th. August nth Sth-
9th and 10th.
An appropriation of $40 was made to the
Trego County Farmers institute.
The board confirmed the recommendation
of the county superintendent and appointed
ers' examining board for the October exam
The board confirmed the county superin-
tendent's appointment of W 5. Gcrrel as
place of n E. Trip. resigned.
The quarterly reports of the county super
intendent. the quarterly statement of the
county treasurer and the reports of fees OF
the county clerk county treas9 So .h PTobae
court. sheriff and county attorney. were ap-
Peter Mondloch and A J. johnson were
appointed to assist in burning the ballots of
The bill for 5000 of A Hail for auto livery
of W. K Stalnaker was disallowed
The bill for $500 of A Lopp for cleaning
the Jail disallowed.
In the matter of a road petitioned for by
c asep A L eTn II: VIM Hack Ernes Bet.
rich. J. N Warren. Fred DIETRICH. H A
STAT su E sna ToS Soe 5Iss Clark Ray
Beginning at the southeast corner Of sec
ton IS. township H. range 81 and run thence
| north one mile and terminate at the north
east corner of section IS. Then beginning at
the southwest corner of section . said
township and range and run thence east one
mile and terminate at the southeast corner
of said section Said road to follow the sec
ton line as near practicable and be forty
feet wide except where in rough places it
NAV be necessary to have il sixty feet wide
In view of the fact that the owners of the
adjoining lands have signed and filed with
the petition and other papers in the case. a
written release of all claims for damages
and have donated to the use of the public
the requisite amount of land necessary for
the road. the board dispense with the usual
view and survey and grant the road as petit
toned for and order that said road be re-
corded on the records as road No 1913 and
that the County Surveyor issue such notices
as are by law required for the opening of
said road
IN the matter of a road petitioned for by
Ernest Dietrich. Frank c. Haber. Clearance
Christopher Hecter MusgraFe. Joshua Mus
grave F. c. Clark. Elizabeth L Wurst. L p
Brabb W. NJ Brabb. T. O. Brabb. Edgar
Cockreu, John Warren. Fred Dietrich. Fred
Kroeger. Louis Spilker-
BEGINNING at the southwest corner OF sec
ton g. township IL. range Fl and running
straight west four miles to the southwest
corner of section B. Thence south one mile
to the south west corner of section 4 in town.
ship IL range 81 This would bring the pro-
posed road between the following sections.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-11-30

when its foundation issundermined.
and if the foundation of health-good
digestion-is attacked, quick coll apse
follows. On the first signs of indi-
gestion, Dr. Kings New Life Pills
should be taken to tone the stomach
and regulate liver, kidneys and bowels.
Pleasant, easy safe and only 25c at
GibSonS.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-11-30
ssThere could be no better medicine

s'There could be no better medicine
than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
My children were all sick with
whooping cough. One of them was
in bed, had high fever and was
coughing up blood. Our doctor gave
them Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
and the first dose eased them, and
three bottles cured them," says Mrs
r. A. Donaldson, of Lexington, Miss
For sale by all dealers.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-11-30
Read our new ads

Correct Abstracts w H. SW1&ge66 a0
Pure home made lard at Bakers adv
Mr.. and Mrs John Frank autoed to
Hays last Sunday afternoon
For loans on your farm, call on the
Wa-KeeneY State Bank pit adv
Abstracts of title made promptly at
reasonable rates. W. H Swiggett- adv
Farmers, Don't forget to attend
Mrs. Fred Sauer's sale next Wednes-
day
Jake Hickman reports the turkey
business very good during the past
week. -
Lost-Gold necktie fastener. Find
er will be rewarded by leaving same
at this office
Last Saturday was a big trade day
in Wa-Keeney the stores being crow
ded to their capacity.
For Sale = Full blood rose comb
White Leghorn rooster, I months old.
Enquire at World office.-adv.
Don't fail to consult DR.. Avery
House, Monday, December 9th--ady.
Between town and Saline on
Route 1-girls gray striped coat. Find
er will please leave same at this office
Found on Ness City road, auto lamp.
Owner can get same by calling on
Daniel Deitz, r. ,. Wa-Keeney, Kan.
Money, Money!. Money.m on your
farms. When you want loan on
your farm call at the Wa-Keeney
State Bank. 81 adv
For earache, toothache, pains,
burns, scalds, sore throat, try Dr.
| Thomas Eclectic Oil, splendid
remedy for emergencies. adv
Mr.. and Mrs j. w. Spena enter
tanned Mr.. and Mrs. G. L. Hartman,
Mr. and Mrs c. Sellers and their
families at Thanksgiving dinner.
Bring us your eggs. We will pay in
cash any balance which you may not
care to trade out. No discount. Our
cash deal works both ways. The Star
| Grocery. - Adv
Itching piles provoke profanity,
but profanity won't remove them.
Doan's Ointment is recommended
for itching, bleeding or protruding
piles. soc at any drug store. adv
The next number of the lecture
course will be IAN entertainment by
Everett Kemp, Monday evening, De-
cember 9. Mr.. Kemp writes to say
that he will give us 1.-The Music Mas
ter" the play that was made famous
by David Warfield.
Don't waste your money buying
strengthening plasters- Chamber
lain's Linament is cheaper and better
Dampen a piece of flannel with it and
bind it over the affected parts and it
will relieve the pain and soreness.
For sale by all dealers. adv
Mr. and Mrs. Hafiicker, south OF
town, entertained fifty of theil
friends and neighbSrs last Sunday
At l o'clock the guests were seated
at long tables loaded with all the
good things of the season that west
ern Kansas farmers wife knows how
, to prepare. The guests departed fol
their homes late in the afternoon af
ter voting Mr.. and Mrs Hafiickel
royal entertainers.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-11-30

F. O. Sandstoe. --- 90
John J Aschenbrenner. coyote bounty 8 90
j c. Neuenschwander I 90
A. A Hendricks. IA bbIt bounty 65-
Thos- OToole, coyote bounty----------- 1 90
c. T. wilson. 90
Mrs = R. Moore. rabbit BOUNTY 70
J. J. keraus, miscellaneous hardware II 50
TAYLOR - a 90
John AIcNaughton. salary August .
October 500 meetings --7-- Is 90
meetings -..s IL 90
S~rneetines Ii 80
w s Berwick. Official printing 1919 43
There being no farther business on motion
the board adjourned size die.
(SEAL9 ". N.LARABEE.
L (AtteSte County Clerk.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-08-30
HORSE AND CATTLE b
SHOW At KHE FAIR

more animals in almost every class
than have ever before been shown
in the northwest. From the Shetland
ponies to the Clydesdales and Perch
erons, there are more and better en-
tries from breeders all over the
United States than ever before in
the history of the Minnesota state
fair.
Number tof Exhibitors.
In 1910 there were twenty-six sep.
arate individual, exhibitors. In 1911
there were fortytfve and in 1912
there will be seventy-three with a
total of horses entered of 494, $50
and 664 in the respective years. This
is an increase in the number of ex-
hibitors of nearly sixty per cent
over 1911, and nearly 200 per cent
over 1910. The growth of the popu-
larity of the Minnesota state fair
among horse breeders seems phe-
nominal, and is dues largely to the
popularity of the present manage
ment. VIZ.
The following tables will give a
better comparison:
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-08-30
Basis of Valuation for
Taxation Purposes.

holdings of poor man as it does
to correct an assessment involving
thousands of dollars; and the result
is that the small taxpayer submits
to the wrong because he cannot at
ford to do anything else, while the
large taxpayer, because of the large
amount involved, can afford to and
does usually fight for his rights and
get his unfair assessment corrected.
$50
Equality and justice in taxation
under our laws depend almost en-
tirely upon the assessor He is by
far the most important officer who
has anything to do with taxation. If
he makes his assessment in the way
that the law provides, or even if he
makes it at a uniform definite per
cent of true and full value" approx
innate justice will prevail between
the individual taxpayers of his dis
trict but if on the other hand he
makes it in accordance with the
agreements usually adopted at as
SCISSORS meetings, or if he omits
property from his list, the assessment
inevitably abounds in the grossest
inequalities they are Unequal
tiles that cannot be corrected by
equalization. If they could, the sit
uation would not be so bad, but as
a rule every attempt to equalize
simply tends to make bad matter
worse. Nothing short of doing the
work over again will correct such
assessments. The inequalities ex-
listing between assessment districts
and counties can be smoothed out
and equalized fairly we'll by boards
of equalization, but not SO the in
equalities between individuals that
result from following the illegal
methods above described. Never
until we are able to get away from
these conditions and have everything
assessed in strict accordance with
the law will we have anything even
approximately equality and justice
between individual taxpayers.
The next article will set forth
some Of the obstacles in the way of
assessing property cat its true and
full value"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-08-30

home in DEBORAH, Iowa, last night
NARROW
Mr.. and Mrs B. C. Togelson, Miss
Bradley and Gabriel Togelson of
Kenyon are visiting friends in Man
kato today.
Miss Gladys Whitaker of Pitts
burgh, Kansas, who has been visit
ing friends in the city left today
for her home.
The Misses Johnson departed to-
day for points in Montana One will
remain in Big Timber and the other
in Livingston.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. T. Bunger, Mrs
E.. Rickert and Waldo Bunger of
Luverne were the guests of friends
in Mankato today.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. C. Troy and fam
lily of Storm Lake stopped off in the
city today while on their way to
Minneapolis. They are making the
trip by automobile.
w. S. Chadwick, representing the
Great Northern railway, and L. P.
Gellerman of the Northern Pacific
railway of st. Paul, were business
visitors in Mankato today.
Mrs. E. B. Fagg and daughter,
Helen, arrived in the city today
from Minneapolis to visit friends,
and are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edgar Weaver and family.
DR.. Cecil Heidel, who has been
spending the past several weeks
with relatives, will leave tomorrow
for Chicago, where he will take up
his new duties at hospital
Charles Bevans, the popular trav.
cling representative of the L. C.
Smith Typewriting company of st.
Paul, arrived in the city yesterday
afternoon for a few days stay.
Mrs. o. c. Wyman, Miss Rather
inc Wyman, Miss M. c. Ristine of
Minneapolis, Mr.. and Mrs. H. ].
Mullin of Duluth and Chauffeur Pc
ter Johnson of Minneapolis formed
an auto party that spent the night
in Mankato.
Superintendent and Mrs. F. J
Sperry and family returned last
night from an extensive trip to the
west. They took circuitous route,
through to Los Angeles, Cal, Sc
attic, Wash, Portland, Ore, and
back through the Yellowstone Ma
tional park. They have been gone
four weeks and report a most en-
joyable trip.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-08-30
WORK IS PROGRESSING
From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily. ,-n
Manager r. E. Brown of the Con-
sumers Power company, and a Free
Press man motored to the Rapidan
dam and Lake Crystal Saturday after
noon to view the progress Of the
work of the company with its high
tension power wires, which are be-
ing strung into Lake Crystal.
A set of new transformers have
arrived and are now at the dam,
waiting the progress of the wires
stringing, which was begun some
time ago. In short time all the wires
will be strung and in about month,
it is expected to turn on the current.
One of the noted Improvements
in the village of Lake Crystal is the
elimination of the small and old
electric light poles. Manager Brown
intends not only to give the people
of that village good lighting sys-
tenn but also to beautify their streets
Formerly twenty-five foot poles
were used, and some were very
close together. Mr.. Brown has had
forty-foot poles put in, and only one
for every two of the old, thus set
ting them much farther apart. The
stringing of the wires much higher
in the air, and the elimination of
about one-half the poles, adds greatly
to the beauty of the streets.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-08-30
Taxation in
Minnesota

Coupled with the statute requiring
that property shall be assessed "at
it's true and full value in money" is
another, equally explicit, providing
that all property not exempt from
taxation shall be listed and assessed.
While this provision of the law is
not violated by assessors in the
same open and systematic way as
the one requiring full valuation" it
is, nevertheless, wiifully violated in
a great many assessment districts
every year. In many districts it
has long been the custom to assess
five horses as four; three cows as
two, and so on down through all the
classes on the list, the purpose in
most cases being to keep down the
assessment of the district by keep
ing up the average assessment of
each article in a given class, while
in few cases it may be resorted
to for the purpose of favoring the
assessors friends.
If all property was assessed at a
uniform given per cent of true and
Iull Vdlue>5N Ino result WOulQ De
square deal for everybody. If the
law permitted, there would be no
inherent vice in "undervaluation" so
long as everybody was treated alike.
But when property that should be
taxed is ommitted from the rolls;
and when every article in given
class is, assessed at fixed sum re-
CARELESS of value, a square deal is
impossible Such methods invar-
iably result in the grossest injustice
not only to districts taken as whole
but-sto individual taxpayers as well,
and are unquestionably the most
vicious and indefensible of all the
illegal practices that have fastened
themselves upon our taxing system
during fifty years of lawbreakipg.
They work almost invariably in ia
vor of taxpayers owning high grade
and costly property, and against the
owners of inferior and inexpensive
property. In short, they favor the
rich as against the poor, and, the
worst of all, they leave the small
taxpayer without any adequate
means of redress. 1t is just about
as expensive, and takes just as
much time, to obtain relief from an
over-assessment against the small
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-08-30

What has been one of the big
drawing cards in past years for the
Minnesota state fair. will this year
be trump, for every farmer who
attends the state fair this year will
have chance to see more than
forty per cent more cattle on ex-
hibit. Although many farmers go
to the fair merely for the pleasure
and relief from farm work that it
gives, large number of farmers go
there for the educational value given
them by observing the best of farm
animals, the best horses, sheep, hogs,
poultry and cattle.
Last year there was a total of
siXty-five exhibits of cattle, while
this year eighty entries have beer
made. OF these, the shorthorns had
the preference in numbers last year,
there being fifteen exhibits or 191
animals, while this year there will
be only fourteen exhibits and 1876
animals, but large increases are no.
ticed in other varieties. For exam
pie, last year there were only three
exhibits of Holstein cattle and this
year there Will be eight, and a good
increase in other breeds.
Increase Over 1910.
This also shows a good increase
over the number of entries in 1910
There were only fifty-five entries of
cattle that year. The Ayrshires and
Brown Swiss cattle will be shown in
the least numbers this year, while
the Jerseys have made a considera-
BILE increase, but there will be more
Guernsey cattle exhibited this year
than of any other breed.
The class and number of entries
made are very gratifying to Secre-
tary j. C. Simpson, to Superintend-
ent Garfield of the cattle department
and Superintendent Miller of the
horse department. These men have
made a strenuous effort to attract
the best animals of all breeds to the
Minnesota state fair This year they
have succeeded beyond expectations
and Minnesota will take her proper
place in the front rank of the coun-
try's great live stock shows.
But the exhibits in the horse de-
partment will almost eclipse those
of the cattle department. There will
be more horses, more breeds and
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-08-30
PLANS FOR LOCAL FAIR

The Blue Earth County Swine
Breeders association building at
the Mankato fair grounds is now
getting it's finishing touches and
will be ready for the big show at
fair time, September IL, Is and IA.
The Runneby Products Company
has secured space at the Mankato
fair for several carloads of ma
chinery, which will be shipped here
directly from the state fair
The Minneapolis Threshing Ma
chine Company of Saltwater has
also engaged space on Machinery
hill lia
Already twenty-five horses have
been entered for the races, and
more are expected within the next
two days as the entries close then.
races ever witnessed can be seen at
the Mankato fair this year.
The educational exhibit this year
will be a new feature at the fair
and will be one in which every par
ent and school child will be inter-
ested. The manual training and do
nestle science department will have
an especially attractive display.
= A Horticultural hall is now being
built and will be used hereafter for
the display of fruits. While the apple
crop is somewhat short this year the
fair management is promised a large
and varied display.
The Kalewaski aggregation of fun
makers will amuse the people during
the afternoon, giving their perform
ances on platform in front of the
grand stand.
Lovers of band music will be de-
lighted with the three bands that
have been engaged to make things
lively during the three days,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-08-30
BRANCH SISTER HOUSE


Milwaukee, Wis. August 26.-An-
nouncement was made today at the
convent of the Sisters of Notre
Dame that it will soon be necessary
to institute a branch sister house
in Minnesota Mankato has been
selected as the location, owing to
the rapid increase in the number of
nuns taking the orders. There was
class of nearly eighty taken into
the sisterhood today, including thir-
ty-eight from outside the state,
many of them from Minnesota. The
increasing size of classes will make
1t necessary for the mother convent
to locate branches in several other
states, but the Minnesota convent is
to be built within the next year,
will be the first of these.
Rev. Father Hartmann stated to-
day that this new addition for the
subsidiary convent will be built in
another year or two, and will be an
addition to the present Mother
house. Here the sisters will be
trained and retreat or home made
for the older sisters. The plans
for the present Mother house were
made with the view of making an
addition in a few years. The new
convent will care for the nuns of
the northwest territory, which will
become separate from the territory
over which Milwaukee, Wis, is the
headquarters. At present Mankato
is merely a branch of the Milwau-
kee headquarters, but later on a
new district will be formed with
Mankato as the central CITY,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-08-30

Rochester. Mimi, August 81
Frank NJ. Eddy last night opened
his campaign for the nomination for
congressman at large. This is Mr..
Eddy's old home and it was fitting
that he should begin his battle for
the nomination in this city where
he has so many friends. ''"
Among other things Mr.. Eddy said !;
Present political conditions have
made necessary two different and
distinct campaigns every two years.
A campaign within the party for
the nomination. A campaign be-
tween the parties for the election
1t is regretable that, very often, the
fight within the party for the nomin-
alton, is much more expensive, and
more bitterness is INDUCED in than
in the fight between the parties for
the election.
Now while / have always enjoyed
an election campaign, a fight be-
tween the parties, a conflict of ideas,
contest between policies and prin-
ciples, very much dislike a nominal
ton campaign for it is battle be-
tween men of the same political
party, a conflict that may, and often
does, become so intense and bitter
as to make party success an impos-
sibility at the election
Democracy Has Never Won.
Democracy never has, and never
can defeat republicanism in Mime
sofa, but republicans have licked
themselves out of their own boots
on more than one occasion and they
are liable to repeat the operation
this fall unless they speedily develop
case of ingrowing common sense.
"A nomination in which my own
candidacy is an issue is especially
distasteful to me; it places one in
position of sounding his own
praises, extolling his own virtues
and, by implication at least, decry-
ing those of his opponent
II shall endeavor to avoid self
laudation as far as possible and to
conceal the great admiration that
have for myself, and most Ger
tainly shall refrain from decrying
and abusing those that are contest.
ing this nomination. They are men
of integrity and ability and Will
know more when they get through
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-08-30

tary. He was mainly instrumental
in making Gordon candidate, and
is very bitter against E. T. Young,
who entered the race late and took
much of Gordons strength away
from him. 81 would soon see Eber-
hart nominated than Young" Arne-
son is reported to have said.
Gordon is reported to have said
that the move to have him withdraw
from the field was trick of the
brewers.