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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-08-09

916; wheat and -four in hands OF
manufacturers, $6,470; wheat and
-four in hands Of retailers, $4,000;
all other manufactured articles,
$25, 1928; manufacturers tools, i'm
plements and machinery, 1924, 299
money other than bankers. $4,295;
shares of bank stock, 1921, TIT; stock
and furniture of saloons and eating
houses. $15,007; elevators and ware
houses on railroad lands, $27, 062;
improvements on leased lands, S.,
OBS; all other property, $33,731;
making a grand total. of $2,5O5, 745,
of which 81, 1888, GAS is in the city OF
MankatO.
The principal changes made by
the county board of equalization
were on household goods, farm ma
chinery and retail merchandise.
Exempt Real Property.
County Auditor Weaver has pre-.
pared for the Minnesota tax commits
sion a statement of all exempt real
property in this county as returned
by the assessors. The totals are as
follows: Public school property
$406,S7; all other public property
$437,19O; churches and church prop
erty, $72S.431; cemeteries, $9,O52;
property of charitable or benevolent
institutions, $4,000; total exempt
property, $1,656,543.
A large part of this, such as the
count house and Jail, state normal
school, Lutheran seminary, Catholic
Mother House, and the two hOspi
tails, are situated in the city of Man
kato, and the above figures are fan
less than the real value of the prop
erty.
More than 1875 men sent out Of
Minneapolis for section work on the
Milwaukee road near Montevidco
! Mimi, bolted for the harvest fields
before the train pulled into Monte
video yesterday, only three of the
number appearing to take the jobs
for which they We're hired. OF 1,50i
men that the Milwaukee road had al
work between Minneapolis and Alb
erdeen Saturday, only 900 now re
main, the others having been enticed
into the fields by farmers-with of
fers of higher pay.
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ORGANIZE FOR AUCTIONS

Mankato is to have an auction
company, which will be known as
the Martin Salvage and Auction COM
lpany. j. d. Martin, well known in
Mankato, and formerly of Marshall,
Mimi, is at the head of the company
and has rented an office building at
|413 North Front. He employees five
statesmen, and will handle all kinds
Iof sales, from farm machinery to
stocks of merchandise. Mr.. Martin
has been in this business for twenty
years and is very we'll known
Throughout the western part of Min
|~nesota particularly, although he has
Operated in North and South Dakota,
Iowa and Wisconsin also.
The Mankato headquarters will be
open all the time with someone IN
charge and the company will handle
all kinds of sales from here. This
lis the first venture of the kind in
lMankato and from the success that
similar companies have met with in
Iother cities, should be a good bust
mess, both for the company and for
the city.
Mr.. Martin will bring his family
from Marshall as soon as he finds
"a suitable house and will live here
permanently.
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SUN SPENT FOR
u~ u TON IN STA TIE

st. Paul. August 1.-More than 25
per cent of Minnesota's entire in,
come for the last fiscal year ending
today, was spent in the cause of
public education.
Figures compiled by State Treasur.
er Walter j. Smith show that a
total OF 1851, 04O.39 was distributed
during the year among the state
schools. This amount included in,
cone from the general revenue fund,
appropriations, bond interest and
other sources.
Mr.. Smith will credit more than
81, 500, 900 to various school funds,
tomorrow, the beginning of the new
fiscal Year. This money consists OF
school appropriations and will be
divided as follows; high schools,
1891, 800; graded schools, $154,300;
semi-graded schools, $144,000; rural
schools, $4,000; agricultural train,
ing in high and graded schools, $751;
$50, 900; agricultural departments in
public schools, sos, 900; teachers in,
stitutes, 10000; travelling schools,
$35, 1000; public school libraries, $2a,,
500: travelling school Libraries, $13,,
500. ..-.
In an unofficial report for the last
fiscal year issued today Mr.. Smith
estimates the total disbursements OF
the state for the year at $16,325,0OO
and the receipts at SIS, 800, 900. These
cures do not represent the actual
disbursements as some of the money
has been %reinvested by the state.
The report shows that the bonds
held by the state INCLUDING school,
municipal and eastern state bonds
and exclusive of state school land
contracts amount to $19,1SO, 1876
State loans during the year were
S~2,O29,3T1. The increase in securities
held by the state was 81, 763,431.Ol.
Approximately $500. 900 was receiv-
ed by the state from stumpage and
$25O,O00 in ore land royalties.
st. Paul, Mimi, August ITO
conduct the business affairs of the
state of Minnesota, twice as much
money is collected and spent as was
handled in the, year 1903, according
TO a statement issued today by S.
G.. %Iverson, state auditor.
Broadening out of all lines of in,
dustry, improvement of natural re,
sources, extension of the educa.
tional system, and general develop
ment into a mighty state are given
as the causes of the enormous ad-
vance. All state business ten years
ego was handled at SIG, 000, 900. In
the year just closed $32, 900, 900 was
required.
Approximately $3,5OO,OO will be
disbursed as aid to schools this fall,
according to the statement showing
Minnesota's financial condition. Mr..
VERSIONS report says:
"The records of the state auditors
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St. Clair

Mr.. and Mrs. III. Thielman were
Mankato callers Tuesday.
Miss Fannie Fields was a Mankaso
visitor Wednesday afternoon.
Misses Ernestine and Edith Frank
were shopping in Mankato Wednes-
day.
Rev. Dysterheft of Sanborn is
spending some time visiting friends
in st. Clair.
Mrs. Warwick of Alden, MIMI, is
visiting with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. Wolcot.
Misses Sybil Dotson and Jenny
Fields returned the latter part of
last week from Mankato, where they
attended summer school at the nor.
NAL.
A large number of ST. Clair people
attended the Ringing circus in Man
kato last Thursday ana quite a large
number went to Albert Lea on the
excursion train to see the circus
there.
The Ladies Aid society of the
Congregational church was entertain
ed by Mrs. John Fields at her home
Wednesday afternoon. A delicious
lunch was served and everybody had
a pleasant time.
Another interesting game of ball
was played here Sunday afternoon
by North Mankato and our home
team. Some good playing was done
by both teams, but the locals were
too much for the visiting team. The
score stood 4 to in favor of st.
Clair.
Considerable threshing is being
done in this vicinity. Mr.. Brucks
had some fine winter wheat threshed
which yielded twenty-five bushels to
the acre of No. 1 wheat. Mr.. Camp
bell has started his rig and threshed
some rye for Mrs. w. Frank, which
is some of the best in the country.
On account of the rain the ice
of Mrs. Frantz Saturday evening,
the attendance being greater than
was expected considering the wealth
err. Ice cream was again served
Sunday afternoon under more favor
able conditions. The whole affair
was a success both socially and
financially. Miss Sophia Pagenkopf
was the lucky person winning the
piece of fancy work which was dis
posed of Saturday night through the
bean guessing contest. The Ladies'
Aid society realized $500 from the
social.
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office for the fiscal year ending July
81, 1912, shows the past year to have
been the most active of any year in
the states history The receipts from
all sources were $15,S05, 302.71 and
the disbursements were $16,321, 065.41
making a total business amounting
to $32, 1885, 68.12.
State Work Has Doubled.
For the fiscal year of 1903 the to
tai receipts and disbursements were
$16,17O,079.67 81. The business of this
department has therefore doubled
within ten years.
1.-The treasury of Minnesota is iE
a healthy condition, even though
the total cash is somewhat less thai:
it was a year ago. The reduction is
largely accounted for by the very
heavy demand upon the revenue fund
for many new buildings and other
extensions of the states affairs. The
revenue fund, which closed the year
of July 81, 1911, with a balance OF
$~443,576.49 has at this time a bal
ance or $S9,1l3.b3.
"The treasury will be called upon
in the fall to meet very large pay
ments for state aid to higher educa.
ton, and these, with other demands,
will produce the usual lean period
in our finances in the latter part OF
the year and the first two months
of next year. This is because our
railroad taxes and other large
, sources of income are paid into the
treasury between March and August
of each year under existing laws.
Much Relief in New Tax Plan.
"The proposed change increasing
the railroad taxes from 4 to 5 per
! cent and making those taxes payable
twice a year, will remove those an
nual lean periods, and thus save the
state the necessity of paying many
thousands of dollars in interest on
temporary accommodations to tide
us over until these large taxes have
been received. The people will, no
doubt, ratify this proposed change
in our revenue law"
The state yesterday, at the close
of the fiscal year, had $19, 1S0, 1877. SO
of its permanent trust funds invest
ed in securities, according to w. ].
Smith, state treasurer. During the
fiscal year just closed, a total of
$2,029,371 was invested and there
vas paid back to the state from fcr.
mer loans $765, 1899. Iron ore roy
alties brought $780, 900 to the perma,
nent funds during the year and
stumpage $325,O00.
During the year 1911-12, a total
of $3,551, 04O.39 was spent for school
purposes. OF this, $1,531,7 700 came
from the revenue fund and $2,019,-
340.39 from the general school fund.
The exact financial condition of the
state will not be known until the
close of business today.
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Good Thunder

Miss Pearl Best of Lakefield IS
the guest of Miss Olga Wrucke
this week.
Mrs. George Shanahan and little
son were guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. F. Mccarthy last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sperlach and family
drove through Sterling and west.
ward in their auto Sunday.
Harvest is in full swing and the
hum of the binders join in one
effort to convert the golden grain
fields into beat we'll bound bundles,
ready to be put in stack for the
thresher.
julie Borchardt has made his home
more cozy by adding a well screen
ed porch. This will make the warm
days and summe evenings a de-
light to these good people as they
sit safe from the mosquitoes.
Miss Maggie O'Connor is home
from Mankato for a vacation. She
brought several very nice oil paint.
ings, her own work, with her, which
are greatly admired by her friends.
Miss Maggie is very ambitious and
we wish her great success.
A large number of people attend
ed the big National Biscuit Co.'S
demonstration and Old Golden coffee
demonstration at Wiedenheft Bros
store Saturday. Mrs. Fred barge
woC IN ohornn IF tho oDffoa ou1
the National Biscuit dainties were
enjoyed with the coffee.
Whooping cough has found many
victims in our vicinity. and we be-
lieve the youngest are u little
neighbors, Page Benedict and Baby
S%onnabend, who are suffering great
ly. The little children are brave
and bear their affliction with Spar.
tan courage. We trust that this
siege will be of short duration.
Good Thunder Herald: Ever since
the installing of a local telephone
system in this village, the central
has been located in tn drug store
conducted formerly by V. A. Hir-
thS ILL III IdICl yColS ny ". w.
Seaquist. The business of the COM
pany-Mankato Citizens-has gradu-
ally increased and is becoming so
extensive as to require the entire
time Of an operator, and as a con-
sequence the conditions have been
radically changed.
The booth has been taken out of
the drug store and placed in the ho-
tel office, and another booth is con.
templated; these to be used as ton
lines. The switch board connecting
numerous farm lines and operating
forty phones in the village, has
been placed in rooms over the drug
store, and Miss Stella Rosenow has
been engaged as day operator. Con-
tinuous service is hereafter to be
furnished, day, night and Sunday.
Miss Elna Manthei starts i'm with the !
night shift. The Citizens telephone
under the able management of p.
M. Ferguson has ~endeavored to fur
nish us the best possible service
consistent with the patronage ac-s
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be made for a vigorous campaign,
Although the prohibitionists have nc
hope of electing their nominee, they
predict that they will make great
gains in state votes and carry a
number of smaller towns and cities
of the country.
Bethel, VT, August 2.-Wallace
Batchelder, head of the progressive
party in Vermont and close personal
friend of the third term candidate
in a series Of kilograms which have
| passed between him and the aspirant
made it plain to the third term can
didate that he will no longer sup
port him for the presidency. Within
a year he said of the candidate:
He is a man whose friendship is
dearer to me than that of any other
man in the world, my w blood
and kin excepted"
Batchelder Found For Roosevelt.
Mr.. BatcEelder was one of the
men who fought for the third term
candidate during the Chicago con
vention and has spent much time
at the candidates home in Oyster
Bay.
Mr.. Batchelder's decision to break
away from the third term candidate
came after he received a telegram
signed by the aspirant saying:
eve cannot indorse any candidate
of either party who will not sup
port Roosevelt electors in the com
ing election"
Telegram From BatcheIder.
In a telegram to the candidate to
day Mr.. Batchelder said: 81 sup
posed that | was fighting for the
real rule of the people and against
bosses and bossism. Your telegram
makes it plain that you direct me
and men in every state that we
must not vote for any candidate fol-
office, no matter how honest, able
efficient and progressive he may be
unless that candidate will. agree tc
pay for u votes by supporting
Theodore Roosevelt for president Of
the United States again, by support
ing Roosevelt electors.
Member of His Regiment.
81 was a member of your regi
ment in 1898. For fourteen years
| have felt more affection for you
than for any other person on earth
except the members of my own i'm
mediate family. 1t is a terrible
wrench, colonel, but | cannot foo
myself and | must be straightfor
ward and frank with you as you
know ] always have been.
with grief, the depth of which
you cannot know, | have decided
after n of the hardest fights
have ever been forced to put uI
that l cannot longer support you fol
president of the United States"
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SHY ON D|AMOhDs,BUT
LONG ON HOGS ANOL
From Thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
The abstract of personal property
as returned by the assessors ant
tabulated by County Auditor Weaver
shows the following figures: Mum
Der of persons assessed, exclusive
of firms, ASH.
There are assessed in the county
1902 one-year old horses, valued a,
$l7,25S, or an average of $1l.4!
each; 1862 two-year old horses
value $25,632, average $22.06; 10.
6S3 horses three years old and over
vame 1852, COS, average $3S.01; for
ty-ive stations, value $7,495, aver
age $166.5 So. There are also assess
ed in the county 6,543 cattle, one
year old cattle. valued at $32,7S2
average $5.01; two year old cattle
4,007, value $32,072. average S.; LIZ,
go cows, value $199.215, average
$l2.03; 359 bulls, value !$5,207, ay
sewing machines, value 21,126, aV
erage, $14.50; 1916 sheep, value
$3.50, average $1.51; 14,463 hogs
value $53,266, average $3.6S; 5,3S!
wagons and carriages, value $S2,S01
average $15.51; Ais automobiles
value $93,472, average $225.23; 3,17!
erage $685.; 1926 watches ant
clocks, value $6,245, average $1.29,
CSC organs, value $S,l02, average
$11.S1; 1888 pianos, value $84,212
average $71.19; 1921 dogs, value
ST, G06, average S..
Value of Household Goods.
The total value of household goods
is $3.50, $3.50; office furniture, $32,755
farm machinery, $93,101; threshint
machinery, $14,661; gold and silver
ware, $3.50; diamonds and jewelry
$l,055; annuities, $1O,0 900; boats AM
launches, $3.50; wholesale merchan
disc, $99,935; retail merchandise
1888, 7O5; legs and lumber in hand:
of manufacturers, $6,463; logs ant
lumber in hands of retailers, $31,
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Washington, August Limited
States Senator Root, chairman OF
the notification committee of the
national republican committee, lee
a distinguished committee of repub
licans to the White Huse today
and when President Taft Joined
them on the p~ortico, they notified
him that at the republican nationa,
convention held in Chicago in June
he was named by that party as
it's standard bearer during the presi
Dental campaign of 1912.
Mr.. Taft himself arranged to
have the notification made al
the White House. because here
he could nor conveniently en-
terrain the members of the
notification committee afterward
Mrs. Taft and the children came
down from their summer home al
Beverly to attend the ceremonies.
Gathered on the lawn about the
White House, President Taft deliv
ered his speech of acceptance tt
the committee, and distinguished re
publicans from all parts of the
country. Among the principa
things in his address. Mr.. Taft re
viewed the record of his trust pro
secution, ~endeavoring to show how
the policies he has planned have
been the best for the country, al
though they have been opposed by
some of the big interests of Wal
Street. The president does not be-
lieve that he has so antagonized
the big financial interests of the
country that they will prefer either
Governor Woodrow Wilson or Col
onel Roosevelt to him as chief ex
ecutive of the country.
He also laid stress on the tariff
predicting general business disaster
for the country should the tariff
plank adopted by the democrats at
Baltimore be enacted into legisla
ton. 1t is said that he hopes by
today's speech of acceptance tC
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ST. peter YOUNG MAN
BROWNS IN THE RIVER
From Fridays Daily.

From Fridays Daily.
While in bathing IN the Minnesota
river at st. Peter last night, Dana
Hodge, seventeen years old, was
drowned. The drowning occurred
near the Omaha depot, at a sharp
bend, and in a deep place in the
river. The body could not be found,
and a searching party worked all
night with boats and graphing irons,
and this morning at about $3.50 their
labors were rewarded when the limp
form Of the young man was located
a short distance away from the
place where he went in swimming.
Was in With Companion.
Hodge went in bathing in COM
pany was Wayne Sawyer a boy
friend about twelve years old, about
seven o'clock last night. The rail-
road company has built a current
breaker there to keep the river
from wearing away the embank-
ment, and the water is very deep,
from fifteen to twenty feet, at that
place. The river is shallow for a
short distance and then suddenly ana
very abruptly goes straight down.
Neither Hodge nor Sawyer could
swim, but the former waded out in
the river a ways.
Did Not Heed Warning.
Sawyer called to him not to go
Cow oc tho ,iunr "o uarv lonnar-
Gus at that point, but Hodge ignored
the warning and continued out, when
he suddenly slide over the bank and
went under. He anne up once, and
then disappeared without rising again.
Sawyer gave the alarm and in a
short time a searching party was
formed, headed by Chief of Police
Michael Dempsey. The party search
ed all night without result until this
morning, when the body was found.
Oldest of Family of Six.
Hodge is the oldest in a family
of six, he having five sisters. He is
the son of Mrs. Frank Hodge, a
widow, and vas just reaching the
age where he could be of assistance
to the family. During the summer
he worked as a delivery boy at st.
Peter and then attended school. His
father met with accidental death
about ten years ago while doing
some railroad construction work.
The place where the drowning oc-
cured is a particularly t~reacherous
one, John Schneider, eighteen years
old, drowning there ten years ago.
His body was never recovered.
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The new state park embracing the
battlefield of Fort Ridgely will be
ments are being made for a large ex-
cursion from the twin cities to parti-
Icipate in the exercises.
An effort will be made to have all
the defenders of ort Ridgely, now
living and able to travel take part in
the exercises. Samuel G. Iverson,
state auditor, will present the new
park to the state and Governor A. O..
Eberhart will receive it on behalf of
the state.
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Sterling Center
From thursdays Daily.

From thursdays Daily.
r. r. Raul was a Mankato visitor
Wednesday,.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Roberts were
Mankato visitors Tuesday.
A. Hurth left Tuesday for his
home in Ames, Iowa, after spending
a month with the Troy family here.
Verne Fleming of Vernon Center
is spending the week with his
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Long.
Peter Benedict left Monday for
Minor, N. d. He was going by a
of Valley City, N. D., to attend the
teachers convention there.
Mrs. Harriet Smith, who has been
visiting her nieces, Mrs. Parks and
Mrs: Grover, the past month. return
ed to her home in Minneapolis Mon
day.
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LOOK OVER MANKAT TO-:
THEN GIVE IT PRAISE

looked over the trucks. Mayor Wag
ner said that he was entirely in ia
vor of a motor truck, and Fire Chief
Lulsdorff advised him that a motor
truck would be the only thing to
get, as horse outfit was already
out/of date and a%ntiquated. They
thought very much of the fire sta
ton itself, and complimented Man
kato on this station. Last evening,
they visited with Mayor Taylor and
went w some of the streets. From
Mankato they went to Minneapolis
to see about getting a truck.
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C. A. Wagner, mayor of Water
town, S. d., and c. K. Snyder, man.
ager of the Kampeska hotel at Wa
tertown and also a commissioner of
that city, were in Mankato yester-
day afternoon looking over the city.
especially the paving and fire sys-
TEN. Watertown has the commission
form of government now, and is
planning on putting in about thirty,
six blocks of paving this year. They
are also .going to install a new fire
truck, but were net certain whether
a horse or motor truck would be
used.
They visited the fire station and