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The Washington times., 1912-03-15
SUBCOMMITTEE TO
GRANT HEARING ON
PHTH|S|S HOSPITAL
Congressman Dyer and Lo-
beck Hear Charges BY
Welfare Women.

Congressman Dyer ani Lobcck, sub
committee of the House Distri,t Com
mittee to investigate the 1upt rculosis
Hosrital. will conduct a puolic hearing
on hospital conditions toda/ TT ey will
not disclose their dndmgs until they
make report to the House District Com
r'ttee. Their personal investigator.
made yesterday afternoon, was, they
say, thorough ard comprehensive.
The hearing Or'erCd by the subcom-
mittee began at o'clock in the COM
mitt,e room of the Ho i.e Distri t Con-
mittee. Women of the welfare depart
ment of the National Civic Federation
will be at hand II give evidence in be-
half of the charges Of insantary Condi-
tions which Mrs. Medill Mccormick and
other welfare department leaders made
at tho recent convention Of he Civic
federation.
Mrs Mccormick sad LCtore the hear
ing began today That her Investigate IN
OF the hospital had come about because
reports on hospital conditions had been
coming to the welfare department of
the federation fer nor" than two
years. Finally the welfare department
decided that these charges ought to be
looked into, and asked Mrs. McCor-
mick to undertake tho Investigation.
"Ev'd"TCr sub"tantatlng tn" report
to the welfare department will be in
trohuCcd this afternoon. said Mrs.
Mccormick, "and | shall tAko the stan !
myself because Congressman Dyer rs
so requested. I do not wish to make
public the names o' cert: in other wit.
messes we have. for their testimony may
not be called for. But if it Is deemed
necessary this testimony will be forth
coming"
CongrcSemsr 7. DbeCk said this morn
ing that conditions at the hospital, iLs
he and Congressman Dyer observed
them Yesterday, might possibly be a
little different from what they were be-
fore complaints were made public. Mr..
LobeCk declared that he and Congress
man Dyer will he disposed to give con-
siderable credeuCc to evidence which
thoN may obtain from patients at the
hospital. past ard present.
while know how things looked out
there lurinE our visit. said Mr. LO-
heck, i can't discuss tn" matter at
any length. beCause ! am not familiar
enough with the charges
The Washington times., 1912-03-15
No Volcano At Canal.

PANAMA. March l5.-Aftcr an ex-
haustive examination of the entire tract
y. T.. Mcdonald. GeOlOgist OF the Canal
Commission. today labeled as false the
report that volcano was slumbering
under Culebra Cut in the canal. The
steam reported escaping from small
openings. he discovered, was caused by
intense heat generated by the enormous
blasts Of high explosives used in open
ing channel through the deep rock.
The Washington times., 1912-03-15
Policemen Save Lives
Of Six Persons At Fire

NEW YORK. March 15.-Policemen
saved from almost certain death to-
day half q dozen persons in a fire
that destroyed a three-stOry room
ing house on Sylvan place. Beres-
ford Bellinger, deaf and dumb and
partly blind, was carried down three
flights by Policeman Wagner, who
was badly burned.
George Hornung, hurt jumping on
to. an adjoining roof, was swung
across an eiCht-foot chasm to an ad-
joining building and safety.
The Washington times., 1912-03-15
Pitney Congratulated.

At the meeting of the New jersey
Repunican Club at 1857 Pennsylvania
avenue northwest, yesterday the con-
gratulations of the club were extended
to Chancellor Mahlon Pitney on his eIe-
vation to the United States Supreme
Court. Resolutions were also adopted
favOrinE the candidacy Of President
William Howard Taft for return tG
office.
The Washington times., 1912-03-15

Only One "BROMO QUININE"
That is LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE. Look
for the signature OF L. w. GROVE. Used thu
World over to Cure Cold in One day. 2Sc
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-17
WILLIAMS IN AN AUTO CRASH
Athletic Director at University u
Painfully Bruised.

Minneapolis, May 9.-Dr. Henry L.
Williams, athletic director at the
University of Minnesota, was thrown
from his automobile and painfully
bruised, the machine tossed fifteen
feet and practically demolished, by
a collision with a Great Northern
passenger train at the east end of
the Tenth avenue south bridge at 8
a. m. yesterday.
Dr. Williams was going down hill
ON the way to his office when he
saw the eastbound train few feet
away and turned his machine sharp
ly to the left, but. it ran onto the
track and was struck in the rear by
the engine.
DR.. Williams was taken to North
wester hospital, where he probably
will remain not more than two or
three days, as the bruises he re-
ceived upon the legs. are not seri-
Gus. He said he did not hear the
train nor see flagman.
John Tierney. flagman, said he
was at the crossing, but DR.. VIII
liams did not see him. The gates
had been broken for twelve days,
Tierney said, and are being re-
paired.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-17
RURAL SCHOOL PUPILS
RECEIVED DIPLOMAS

The usual large number of pupils
in the common schools of Blue
Earth county took the county exam
nations April Is and 16 Nearly all
passed in the majority of the sub
jects. and twenty-five passed i'm all
subjects and received diplomas
which will admit them to the nor
NAL and high schools in the county
The following received diplomas:
Marie Musser, Leilah Harvey,
Dist. 3, Mankato township: Gwen
ME Evans, Dist. IL, Cambria; Will
liam Gustafson, Dist. 10, CerescO;
Harry Drews. Charles Stevens, Dist.
30, Sterling; Susan Grover, Dist 81.
Sterling; Edna Longworthy, Dist. SO,
Sterling; Roy Phelps, Dist. "a, Maple
ton township; Ruby Phelps, Dist.
sc, Mapleton township; Clara Case
beer, Dist. 50. Jamestown; Edwin
Kroeger, Ruth Eberahrt. Dist &C,
Rapidan Grace Preston, Dist. II,
McPherson; Merle Crook, Dist. so,
Shelby; Leonard Johnson, Josie o.
son, Dist IS, Lincoln; Elsie Pierce,
Dist. sc, Beauford; Effie Johnson,
Dist. 81, Rapidan; Avis Wright,
Dist. 119, Lincoln; Rosetta Hall,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-17

Dist. 131, Decoria; Walfrid Nyquist,
Clifford Nyquist, Dist. 1876, LIE Ray;
Mary Bowe, Dist. 1873, Decoria; Syl.
vester Mcnamara, Dist. 40, LIE Ray.
The teachers in the above nam-
ed districts are: Ellen Walsh, Dist
,; Zena Rasmussen, Dist. IL; Faith
Bowen, Dist 10; Lois Alderman,
Dist. 30; Della Borchert, Dist 81 !;
Eta Drews, Dist So; Sadie Ken.
ward, Dist. "a; Mabelle Atcherson,
Dist. SO; Grace Madigan, Dist. So;
June VanWinkle, Dist. Sc; Emma
Weir, Dist. II; Fern Wilder, Dist
so; Cary Johnson, Dist. IS; Annie
Hislop, Dist. Sc; Luella Baynes
Dist. 81; Myra Wilson, Dist 119;
Alma Carlson, Dist 1871; Ella Buch.
holtz, Dist. 1856; Jennie Fields, Dist
1873; Helen Smith, Dist. 40.
Blue Earth county throughout has
an excellent set of teachers who
are working diligently and in har
mony with the county superintend
ent and school boards for the good OIL
the schools. AS result of this
the standard OF the schools of the
county shows marked advancement
every year.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-17
From Fridays Daily.

From Fridays Daily.
Rev. p. X. Edwards has returned
from Fairmont where he attended a
meeting of the Mankato deanery of
the Episcopal church, and he re-
ports very pleasant and profitable
time. The meeting was opened
Tuesday evening by a service at
which Rev. j. A. Schaad of ST.
Paul's church, ST. Paul, preached a
splendid sermon. Wednesday morn.
ing there was a business meeting at
which the reports from the field
showed the church in Mankato Dean
cry to be in excellent condition and
standing up well under the rapid
change in population, which is char
acteristic of Southern Minnesota
This was followed by book re-
view by Rev. p. X. Edwards. After
a splendid luncheon served i'm the
Guild hall at st. Martins church
there was discussion on What Is
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-17
MICHIGAN EDITOR IN
PRAISE OF MANKA TO

pearance of Mankato mercantile es-
adjustments is proof enough that the
city is not only alive but that it is
prosperous in business. Yet what
is more suggestive is the amount Of
money spent on parks, the city beau
tiful and the aesthetic generally. The
educational and the religious side
similarly are evidently developed to
a degree worthy the emulation of any
town in any state in the union. Pros
porous as Mankato obviously is yet
the city is a long ways from being
thing more than the mad chase after
the dollar which characterizes SO
many American cities. Citizens here
are quite as much interested in d
better Mankato as, in bigger Man
kato.
81 have not been here sufficiently
long to have any decided opinions as
to who is responsible for this splen-
did state of public sentiment, this eX-
allied condition of the body polite,
but | suspect that an examination
would reveal Il few leaders, possibly
one man, who, perhaps unknown
even to his fellow citizens, has fos-
tered these sentiments and instilled
these principles. I have observed
that wherever anything moves there
is always motive power and that
when there is a public movement of
any kind search sufficiently long
and persistent usually reveals some
individual furnishing the motive
force, supplying the inspiration. AS
Stunning this to be the case in Man
kato, / trust the public will render
to him the honor that is his proper
due for judging him by the work
that he has done, the fruit of his
hands as shown in this beautiful
prosperous and happy city he is one
of the great men, of this country"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-17

home with the fields as they were
farmed the previous year. The sec
ond year he is required to make a
map of the farm as cropped during
the intervening year and to accom-
pany this with business statement
and invoice showing the kinds of
live stock used, sales and other data.
In this way each student is led to
keen appreciation of the advances
as well as the deficiencies of his
home farm.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-17

From thursdays Daily.
IF | were to tell you exactly what
Il think of Mankato," said T. M.
Sawyer, Of Ludington, Michigan,
who with Mrs. Sawyer is visiting DR..
c. ID. Snow, in answer to an inquiry
as to his impressions of this city,
you likely would think me full
some flatterer. The fact of the mat
ter is | do not remember when
have visited any city anywhere that
has impressed me with SO many evil
dences of progressive spirit. modern
methods and general all round lik
ableness as Mankato."
'For a number of years / have
been interested in town building and
the varied efforts of different com
nowhere have | seen such work SO
effectively done as in your city. Sew
eral years ago ] started the board of
trade in Ludington and was its first
secretary and later in similar man
ner organized the Western Michigan
Development Bureau, an organization
which included twenty counties, but
we never were able to create the
public spirit or develop the civic pa
triotism which seems spontaneous
here.
This spirit has manifested itself
in many ways which must appeal to
any observing visitor. The fact that
Mankato was the first city in the
state to adopt the commission form
of government is indication enough
that its people are alive to public
improvement. Your system of pave
ments is the best in quality and
amount | have ever seen in any town
Of it's size anywhere and many places
of larger growth and greater preten-
sions have no streets that will com
pare with yours. Your store fronts,
window displays and the genial ap-
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-17
BOYS LASSOED COYOTE
AFTER EXCITING CHASE

Mrs. F. w. Kinney, who is visit
ing her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. e. r.
Kennedy, has two rather active sons,
who promise to do thee bronco bust
ing stunt when they get a little old
err. About two weeks ago, the two
boys, Harold and Horace, thirteen
and eleven years old, were out
horseback riding i'm the mountains
in Montana, when they came across
full grown coyote, that was slight
ly lame in one foot
The boys had no gun or dog with
them, but started an exciting chase
after the coyote. After they had
covered about four miles, through
sage brush and up hills. they lassoed
the coyote and tied the animal to
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-17
DEATH OF CARL ZIMMERMAN
Aged Father Of Mankato Hesioent
Passed Away in st. Paul.
Eropo Eridav,S Dailv

Passed Away in st. Paul.
From Fridays Daily.
Charles Zimmerman OF this city
received a telegram yesterday stat
ing that his father. Carl Thinner
man, died Wednesday night at st.
Paul. He was eighty-seven years OF
age and is survived by his wife.
eighty-five years old, several chill
dren and grandchildren. His chill
dren are: Charles Zimmerman of
this city. john and William Tim
norman, Mrs Minnie Kammerer and
Mrs. August Diemers Of st. Paul.
Christ Zimmerman of Texas and
Mrs. Lena Besser of Minneapolis.
The grandchildren will be pail
bearers. These will be: Albert and
Harry Zimmerman, sons of Charles
Zimmerman of this city, Adolph
Zimmerman, John Diemer and
Charles and Louis Kammerer of st.
Paul The funeral will be held at
st. Paul tomorrow.
Deceased was in good health until
about year ago when he was TAX
en- i'll with bronchitis. and in the
last year broke down in Health.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-17
PROFITABLE SESSION
OF XA TO DEANERY

sof Most Interest to Churchmen of
Today" Rev. w. ID. Stires of ST.
Peter and Rev. w. A. Dennis of
Worthington led the discussion.
After a. children's, service at 4:3O
o'clock, at which a splendid mission
airy talk was given by Mrs. Conant
of Wells, the delegates were taken
for an auto ride about the town,
which is the most beautiful in South
ern Minnesota.
The evening session consisted of
an open forum promoted by ques
from the question box which had
been placed in. the vestibule of the
church. The floor leaders i'm the dis
cussion were Rev. P. K Edwards
for the clergy, and De Forest Ward
for the laity.
The church people of Fairmoni
certainly gave the delegates royal
entertainment and it was heartily ap.
preciated by all.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-17

the tree, until they could show him
to their father In riding to the
ranch house, Horace, the youngest,
jumped his horse over barb wire
fence, Drawing this obstacle rather
than go around
The two young lads are proud of
the fact that they will receive "a
state bounty and wolf belt as a
souvenir for their hunt This is
probably the first full grown coyote
ever lassoed in that part of the
country, near Glendive.
They are well known in Mankato,
as they formerly resided here They
are nephews of C. l.. Kennedy of
this city, and also of Hubert and
Walter Kinney of Amboy.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-17

can be increased easily to 10 per
cent, or 5OO,OOO.OOO.
s.
In the Minnesota School of Agri.
culture, where the plans presented
in the bulletin were worked out,
the students come from rural schools
and spent three winters of six
months each in the agricultural high
school course, and nearly all return
to the farm. During the first year
of the course each student is re-
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-17

From Thursdays Daily.
AT least one young man in this
city is not gloating over the victory
of the Olsen baseball team last
night 1t appears that he had made
a wager with friend of his that
North Mankato would simply walk
off with the game and that there
would be nothing that resembled a
contest His friend took him up, so
to speak, and having been chal-
lenged, the privilege Of making the
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-17
II LOST A BET, TALE
TOLD BY YOUNG MAN

conditions, was his. So he stated
that whoever lost the bet would
have to carry big cardboard sign
with these letters, 81 Lost a Bet, -
up South Front street and back to
the store.
This morning the young man was
mournfully making the sign and this
afternoon he fulfilled the conditions
OF the wager. He positively asserts
that hereafter he will either try to
have the game fixed" before it
starts or refrain from betting.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-17
Robbery at Round Lake.

A lone thief robbed the store of
Hart & Co., Round Lake, of $4 in
cash and appropriated a new suit
OF clothes, and from the store of A.
F. Diehn stole several pieces of silk
valued at between SIS to $10O. He
stopped at farm home to change
his clothes.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-17
FEDERAL ARMY IS NOW
.BA TTLLNG WITH REBELS

Especial to
FL Paso, Texas, May 10.-The
Mexican federal army repuIsed
the rebel advance guard of Gen.
eraI Orozco and a sharp skirm-
ish is now in progress prclimi-
nary to what is expected to be
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-17

the most decisive battle of the
revolution. Nearly fifteen thou
sand men are engaged on both
sides and the objective point of
the rebels is Torrean, the rail-
road gateway Of Northern Mexi-
CO.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-17

The rotation of crops is one OF
the simplest, least expensive and
most practical means known OIL
keeping the soil in a high state oil
productivity The bulletin covers a
wide field and has much to say in
regard to the planning of fields for
the rotation of crops. 1t advises
that in Minnesota three to six years
rotations prove the best. That farm
management pays is evident from
the statement that the cultivated
area of the farms of the United
States is approximately 500,00O,OO0
acres, and the value of the crops
is about 100000. Work already
done by the state experiment sta
tons and the general government
has shown that by better methods
of crop rotation alone this product
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-17

Especial to The Free Press.I
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-08-12
YOUNG man ELECTROCUTED
At THE MC'G|LL CONVERTER

h. To:nlir soma young man en-
ployed as a cranesman in the con-
verter building of the Steptoe plant
of McGill. was instantly killed by
receiving heavy charge of electri-
city from live wire while on duty
at the plant at seven o'clock yester-
day morning.
The heavy equipment in the con-
verter building is handled by over
head travelling cranes, operated by
electric motors. The work is
arduous and exactiDg and the crane
men work on six-hour shifts. The
craneman works alone in his little
car, high above the floor of the
converter building. Tomlinson was
thus employed yesterday morning
when he received the shock which
caused his daatn. Just how the
accident occurred is not known.
The body of young Tomlinson
was brought to the undertaking
parlors of the Wilson-Batcs company
in Ely and will probably be sent to
the former home Of the deceased in
Vermont for burial. Mr.. Tomlin-
son was about Fl years of age and
unmarried. He was a member of
Cyprus lodge No. 33. Knights of
Pythias, and the funeral arrange
ments are in charge of the lodge
He was charter member of the
lodge, which was organized only
little more than two month ago
and his sudden death causes the
first break in the ranks of it's men,
bership. Ely Record.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-08-12
ONWARD.
CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS

II does seem that the Bull Moose
convention might have RETAINED
from sacr;lege. We need more
religion in politics but not mockery
of religion; certainly it must not
come from the mouths of bypo-
critics.
: The spectacle Of Bill Finn,
Francis J. Heney, George w.
Perkins and Meyer Lissner singing
Onward Christian Soldiers" at the
birth of the third-term party un-
doubtedlI was calculated to awaken
a religious fervor for the cause.
To our mind, however, it was a
rank travesty and grossly sacri-
ligious.
We find ourselves wondering if
the campaign is to be carried on
that way if Perkins will go back to
New York and there stir the in
terest of his Wall street cronies to
the point of zeal. if Finn will re-
turn to Pennsylvania chanting the
Doxology; if Heney and Lissner
will come out to California hum
ming the hymns of the Lord.
The head of TIE Bull Moose herd
has never had any use for consis-
tency but we submit that the time
has come for him to draw the line.
Carson News
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-08-12
Rroaale WGhontn

Thinking they had seen q ghost"
number Of Dundee (Scotland)
townsfolk, while walking through the
cemetery recently, took to their heels
and summoned the nearest gatekeep.
er. Tho vision" which had aroused
their elarm-that Of a figure in scanty
attire standing behind a grnvestone,
had vanished when they returned with
reinforcements, and all there was to
be seen was largo piece OF red fan.
mel. II afterwards transpired that the
owner being greatly irritated by the
nannsl, which was next the skin, had
gone to the cemetery with the idea of
getting rid Of II, which he could not
do without shedding his garments.
Their Heavy Handicap.
How many women are born too fine
organised In sense and soul for tho
tghway they must walk with feet un.
od.--oliver Wendell Holmes.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-08-12
APPEALED TO THE PEOPl {

Sea Girt-"There are various
forms of coercion" said Woodrow
Wilson in a speech during his CAM
paiEn for governor of New Jersey.
ITO coerce by tie threat of with
holding patronage is immoral. 1t
is dishonorable and therefore i'm
moral to 60 to legislators home
district and there scheme and con-
spire against him and so bring him
to your feet. But there is All hon.
orable coercion. and if you elect me
governor. l will use it. am going
to take every important legislative
matter and stump the state with it
to find out how you think regard.
ing 1t. There is nothing immoral
in that"
How Governor Wilson made good
on that promise is told by former
republican member of the legisIa.
ture, who is now supporting him
for president:
at was in connection with the
employers liability bill, which he
was advocating, that 1 met up with
Governor Wilson's coercion he
remarked when asked about the
charge that Wilson had coerced the
legislature. Twas against the bill.
The governor Invited mes.to come to
the executive chamber and present
ed his arguments in favor of the
bill. l countered by saying the
leople of my district were opposed
to it. Then let's you and l go
over into your district, debate the
question before your constituents
and lot them say what they want.
suggested the governor. But we
didn't. l canvassed my district a
little over the week end and decid.
ed to support the bill. A lot vi
others had the same experience,
They found the people were with
the governor.
1t was the same with the Gerar
election bill, the public utilities
bill,th cold storage bill and other
measures. The governor carried
his appeal direct to the people in
public speeches, and public senti'
ment became 30 strong that the
machine" was forced to yield to
the governors coercion"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-08-12
Hard TO Appoint a limo.

Eyes; she promised to be mine some
day" "But when?" she can't ex-
actly say as yet. Seems she will first
have to break off four or five other
engagements"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-08-12
Largest Bird of Prey.

Largest bITd OF Frey.
The worlds largest bird Of prey
IS the bearded vulture. From tip to
tip Of wing it measures nine or ten
feet.