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Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-06-01
NEVADA EQUAL FRANCHISE NEWS

The most important Nevada suff-
rage news of this last week is the
organization of the women of Elko
county for woman suffrage. At a
large meeting addressed by Judge
Harrington and Judge Taber many
names were signed to the rolls. Mrs.
Z. Z. Game was elected president
of the county organization; Mrs.
A. d. Taber, vice president; Mrs.
Mcbride, treasurer; Mrs. Steele,
secretary, and press COM
mittee was appointed including Mrs
w. w. Booher, Miss Ruth Russell
and Mrs. Fitzgerald. A committee
of women was also appointed from
different districts of Elko county to
further the cause of suffrage in
each district Seven of the most
important counties of the state are
now organized.
Idaho and Woman Suffrage.
The editor of the Ely EXPOSE
tor recently stated editorially that
he worked for equal suffrage in
Idaho but was against it today be-
cause there was not particle OF
evidence to show that conditions
have been improved in that state
since 1896 when women were
granted the franchise.
The following Idaho statutes are
due wholly or largely to women'i
vote:
Law making gambling illegal
1899; raising age of protection foi
girls to IS, 1899; establishing
fund for school Libraries, 1901; pro
viding a department of domesti
science in the State University, am
for a course of lectures on domesti
science, 1903; establishing an In
dustrial Reform school, 1908;
Pure Food act, 1903; law givin
a married woman the same right t
control and dispose of her propert
as a married man, 1908.
The last five laws are mentione
as having been secured by the VIZ
mems clubs, in the report Of tn
Idaho State Federation bulletin fc
June. 1904.
Beneficial legislation along sim
lar civic and humanitarian lines hi
been passed in the states of w.
oming, Colorado and Utah sine
women won the vote, and the VI
men of Washington and Californ
have framed important program
Wyoming, Colorado and Utah a
have laws giving women teache
equal pay for equal work.
Mrs. Chapman Gait, president
the International Woman Suffral
alliance, in which 2S nations a
represented, and founder of So 90
has reached Sumatra in her TT
around the world. A recent lett
4 from her says: 1T was a mo
: curious experience to learn that {
l women of Rangoon, the metropo
] lof Burmah, have had the muni'
$ pal vote for years Parsee, Hi
D doc, Mohammedan. Chinese a.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-06-01
roNoPAH MANHATTAN AUTO co

Our company has three new pass
engers cars. built for the comfort
OF passengers We aim to please.
Courteous and careful drivers. Our
ears meet all trains and leave inn
mediately after arrival OF trains. No
waiting for mails
ART KEENAN,. Agent
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CONSOLIDATED AuTo coMrANY

Carrying United States mail and
express makes daily trips from
Tonopah 10 Manhattan and Round
Mountain. Cars leave Tonopah
daily on arrival Of mall and leave
Manhattan AZ 2is0 . M
W. c. HARDING Agent
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-06-01
Nrw AUTOMATIC SHOT
GUN GIVEN AWAY

The Nevada Club Is giving away
one n the latest automatic shot
guns Absolutely giving i away
Cail aud SOC the gun and End out
how they 40 u S-i-tf
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-06-01

"charlsy's Reform" great 50.
e,ai crufcr rarfrrt produced ~ tsr
rhos. A Edison CO. 10 cooperation
eth tho Russell sage Foan1siloa 81
View York nntisF. saturday mse
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-06-01

"Charley's Reform" at the But
Ter Saturday tells why Charley
stopped calling on his girl and how
she got him back again. -29m
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-06-01

Fresh vegetables daily Phone
7ts wan sooa be located 10 the
Glover uidr Main 81 4-zS-tf
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-10

st. Paul, May 7.-Counterfeit gold
coins having a face value of $11 900
we're seized in st. Paul and in Wa
terville, Mimi, Saturday by Secret
service Agent Thomas r. McManus.
The coins which are an imitation
of the Spanish 2~55-peseta piece, hav-
ing a money value of $4.7S in our
money, were discovered in a local
iewelry store, where 200 of them
had been plated with gold. The base
is brass. Mr.. McManus refused to
give out the name of the local jew
eler, who, he says, was not aware
that he was being implicated in a
vast counterfeiting undertaking.
Said Mans Name Is johnson.
He said w. HI. Johnson of Wa
terville, Mimi, was the man who
brought the coins to be plated.
Saturday Agent McManus seized
more than 1000 of the coins in the
possession of Johnson at Water
vile. He vas unwilling to give
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-10
MRS. @. O. PITCHER THE
PIONEER or THIS CITY

people on the steamer Clarion, of
which Mr.. Humbertson was cap
tain. AS the gang plank was low
cred the passengers could hear
Praise God From Whom All Bless
ings Flow" being sung in a build
ing near the river. They learned
that the singing was at a religious
service, which was one of the first
conducted here.
Mrs. Pitchers father, whose home
stead is now in the heart of the
city of Mankato, brought with him
a stock of groceries. They were
unloaded neal the river and covered
with tarpaulin until a building was
erected. The Warren Family were
all taken from the boat to a ho-
tel conducted by William Howe.
Everyone slept on the floor and
furnished their own bedding, pay
ing a dollar a day board.
Toward the end of the summer
the water in the river lowered,
and one day Captain Humbertson
brought a band with him on one
of his trips. The band paraded
through the town, playing immedi-
ately after landing and captain
Humbertson announced that it
would be impossible for the boat
to make another trip that summer.
AS st. Paul was the nearest post,
office the people here dreaded the clos
ing of the river season, and more
than one wept tears of homesick.
ness.
At the first election held in Man
kato, in the spring of 1853, twenty,
one votes were cast. The election
was held in the city hotel.
Other early settlers who came
soon after 1853 are John r. Beatty,
1857; Charles A. Chapman, 1857;
H. P. Jensen, 1866; James M. Kar.
many, 1866; Captain Clark Keysor,
1858; John @. A. Marsh, 1854; B.
d. Pay, 1856; Judge A. r. Pfau,
Sr., 1863; M. C. Willard, 1868; Mrs,
John A. Willard, 1856; George E,
Brett, 1868.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-10
BOUGHT Land in Arizona.

Otto Roerig, formerly OF ,Rapidan,
who went to Yuma, Arizona, several
months ago, has purchased eighty
acres of land, improved. and is rails
ing alfalfa principally. He likes the
country, and his parents expect to
ioin him this fall. Mr.. Roerig
writes his father here that he has
already cut the crop from forty
acres which Melted him about $500
or S14 an acre. He expects to cut
five or six crops during the year.
Mr.. Roerig bought the farm of j. j.
Wadden, who has several other
tracts there for sale,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-10

Fifty-nine years seems to be a
Tong time to be a resident of one
place, and yet there are at least
two people now in Mankato who
have been here that length of time.
They are Mrs. o. o. Pitcher and
Frederick Kron. Mrs. Pitcher came
here On June II, 1853, and Mr..
Kron came with his parents on
July "a, of the same year.
Mr.. Kron's father came from Mil
waukee to st. Paul in the spring of
1853 and came to Mankato in June
of that year, on the same boat on
which Mrs. Pitcher came. His fami.
ly, including Frederick Kron, who
was a baby, followed him a month
later. The elder Mr.. Kron opened
a saddlery and harness shop on
the corner where the Stahl house
now stands, but found that it was
not a profitable business, SO opened
a hotel, the Minnesota house, in
tel until his death, in 1873, and it
was a popular hostelry for many
years. AT his death Frederick took
the management of the hotel and
conducted it for two years, when
he engaged in the mercantile bust.
ness at 800 North Front. He re
manned in business there for ten
years, when he retired for four
years. He again engaged in bust
ness at his old location and in 1896
erected the building nov occupied
by his store.
Mr.. Kron has been one of Manka'
to's most substantial business men
for many years, and has a large
trade here as well as heavy real
estate interests.
Mrs. Pitcher, the only other person
known of who came in that sum
mer, is a daughter of the late T. d
Warren, remembers many interest
ing occurrences of these early days
In a paper read at an old settlers
reunion in 1899, Mrs. Pitcher told
Of her arrival here, and of the
first summer. She came with he
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-10
From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
State Bank Examiner Kelsey Chase
has inserted the probe deep enough
into the affairs of the State Bank of
Commerce at Winnebago to discover
that the probable poor loans of that
institution amount to not less than
$4,000, and possibly they will run
higher than that sum-. 1t is said
that some forged paper has been
discovered also. ss .a... .-,to
Mr.. Chase went to st. Paul today,
leaving Deputy Examiner Regan in
charge of affairs at the bank. The
investigation is still being pursued.
The affairs of the bank are being
investigation from the day of its
opening. 1t is expected that the ex.
animation will require ten days or
two weeks more. ...
People There Are Dazed.
Since last Wednesday no other
topic than that which deals with the
Bank of Commerce has been discus
sed in Winnebago. The people of
that community were. dazed and
stunned by the disappearanceof Har,
ny w. Parker, vice president of the
institution. No popular man
lived in the community than he. In
spite of the revelations there are a
great many people in the village who
refuse to believe him guilty of any
wrong doing.
Authorities in a Search.
However, every effort is being
made by the county authorities to
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-10

them up and said at first he had
only four or five but when threat.
ened with immediate arrest and a
search of his home he ordered his
wife to get the coins for the gov
eminent agent. They were in a bag
made from a piece of al old coat.
johnson Being Held.
Agent McManus has Johnson un-
der arrest at Waterville, pending
orders from the secret service de-
partment in Washington. Several of
the plated coins have been sent on
to be registered.
Johnson declared the coin was
made in Cuba and this will be in
vestigated by the department.
The face of the coin, besides the
profile of the king of Spain, bears
the words, limitation l.. Chr. Lauee
Nurnberg, 1887" The anne words
with the Spanish coat of arms ap-
pears on the reverse side of the
coin.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-10

Ed Gugisberg fappeafeds
council and wanted that body to
order the city recorder to file reso-
@lutions which were made on July l,
1876, in regard to some property
on Spence street, as a cal a
pending, and he wanted the record.
| The matter was referred to Com
missioner Bangerter.
Building Permits.
The following building permits
! were issued:
J. P. Krost, south % feet lot 5,
block IS, Mankato, r%emodeling and
! replacing front with plate glass. To
be completed May Is. Estimated
cost 1926. N1
Y. M. C. A. south 40 feet lot 5,
block 33, Everett's survey, remodel
ing present building. To. be COM
pleted June 1. Estimated cost, $S5.
S. N. Dobre, north As feet OF
south 100 feet lots 9 and 10, block
8, Van Brunt's addition, frame dwell
ing two stories, 24-3O. Estimated
cost, $1,000 =.
Fl. J. Roberts, north one-half OF
lot 9, auditors plat, block II, War
ren's addition, galvanized iron ga
rage. Estimated cost, 500.
H. G.. Roberts, lot 5, block 10,
Van Brunt's addition, moving and
repairing old frame house and new
cement plaster dwelling. estimated
cost, $4,000:
The Lowest Bidders.
The following were considered the
Lowest bidders for the curb n
gutter work, at the city council
meeting this afternoon: Fowler &
Pay and Johnson Brothers, Sixth
street; T. R. Coughlan, Second
street; E. D. Wilmont, West Front
street; Fowler & Pay, Washington
and Mulberry streets, and George
Charland and T. r. 'Coughlan, Lock
street. The lowest price for all
work was so cents per foot and Is
cents per foot for extra curb and
gutter, with the exception of the
Washington and Mulberry street
curbs, which was fixed at SO cents.
The council decided to allow pri-
vate porperty owners to put in their
own curb and gutter, if they wished,
but the contracts must be complete
ed thirty days from the time the adj
vertisements for bids were first in
serted, about two weeks ago, and
sixty days from today in which to
complete the contract work.
The contract for the curbing on
West Front street was let to E. ID.
Wilomnt at SO cents per foot, the
contract to be completed on or be-
fore June Is.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-10
POOR a WILL RUN
sA1 BEYOND @O,OOOM MARK

locate Parker. Sheriff Freer has set
the wheels in motion in an endeavor
to locate the man, but it is believed
that the officer will have a difficult
task in finding his Ia Mr.. Parker
was under a surety company bond,
and it is believed that that concern
will lend it's aid in trying to appre-
bend him.
B d. False Report Alleged.
1t is reported that Vice President
Parker, about a week before he
left Winnebago, made a false state
ment to the bank examiner as to the
condition of the banks overdrafts.
Parker was reprimanded by the
bank examiner and informed that
another examination of the institu-
ton would be made by the state
banking department. 1t is believed
that this was what caused Mr.. Par
ker to leave Winnebago with no in
tention of returning. The draft for
$4,000 which he had cashed at the
First National bank in Winnebago
just prior to his leaving the village
was drawn on a Chicago bank.
One of the pathetic features of the
unfortunate affair is the condition in
which Parker is said to have left
his family. They have NJ visible
means of support and the eldest
daughter, a girl of fifteen, is re-
ported to be dying of consumption.
She formerly attended scnoo at the
normal in this city. She went home
sick during the holiday recess.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-10
BOARD OPENED BIDS
FOR LADIES' DORMITORY
Mankato Contractors Put in Figures
Plumbing, Heating and the EIec-
trical Work. Ff
From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
The state board of control today
opened bids for the contract for the
normal ladies' dormitory. Proposals
for the general contract were as fol-
lows:
F. c. Norlander, ST. Paul. 80. $50, 1888
Kingsley & Cayant, Faribault SO, 900
Otto Neitge, Mankato... .... 48,711
j.. B. Nielsen company. Man
Erick Carlstrom, Mankato.. . $4,000
Miller & Champlin .......... 48,454
The Mankato Manufacturing com-
pany bid $4,635 for the heating con.
tract and its bid for the heating
and plumbing was $3.50.
C. M. Masters, Mankato, bid S., 997
for the heating; $5.392 for the
plumbing.
The Healey Plumbing and Heat
ing company, st. Paul, bid 1888
for the heating and plumbing. This
was the lowest combined bid for
that class of work.
AL Potts of st. Peter bid $4,55O
for the heating contract.
G.. A. KEGS, st. Paul, bid $4,534
for the plumbing contract.
The Mankato Electric company
bid $3,795 for the electric wiring
contract. ....
The lowest bidder for this class
of contracts was the Minneapolis
Electric and Construction company.
It's bid was $3.50.
No contracts were awarded and
probably will not be for several
days.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-10

The vessel proudly ~,cleaves the
plant wave,
AS speeds across the sea her giant
form: n ~ Fs If
Though round her pillows roar and
tempests rave, 81
Within herr heart the furnace fires
are warm q
On deck above, lin gay salon below,
In social mirth her happy pilgrims
swarm, :s-a5. .
The fires of love and lights of hope
aglow, - .sss,~
And joy undimmed by any dream of
coming woe. f~
Toward the sunny cline the ice
berg drifts: n ..~e
Through the dong arctic. night and
twilight day; naG@
In strong and silent majesty it lifts
It's glittering !, peaks to tease the
windssfhat play,
Where it phrsues it's solitary way.
Through fogD and mist, with valiat
heart n brave,
Needless of storm it glides and will
not stay. i
Intent to feel the kiss Of southern
wave, H|A
And find in native tropic' seas its
happy grave.
AS speeds the giant, bark elate and
free, 1ss~a,
In the deep noon of night when
dreams are sweet, g.,
Where starlight fails upon a peace
full sea-, g. ma .t
The iceberg" sand the ship Titanic
meet. dis az ~
Her keel lis acrushed, her engines
cease to beat, ".
Into her broken hull the waters pour,
Her PROV descends the icy wave to
greet,
The lights go out. and with a sullen
roar" 80.
The yawning sea engulfs the ship
forever more.
mistaken and answering in it's
The sovereign berg pursues its on
ward way; .'i'a'f'
The air is rent with shrieks and
clamors hoarse
OF those who hold an awful death
at bay, q"
yVb;lo ,uor,op IN, tho life boats waan
and pray rita o.
For gallant men who scorn them
selves to save,
But gladly give their stronger ives
to pay
The debt of love to weakness, and
who brave
The strangling waters and the un-
marked ocean grace
Almighty Ruler of the earth and
sky!
TITS only when we are in league
with Thee,
That we are safe and strong; for
we must die,
Unless we shun the berg Thou set
test free, "'
And guidest through the dreary
northern sea.
Teach us to need Thy law, to know
our place,
To own our highest lordship can
but, be ''
A sovereignty yielded by Thy grace,
Thou Lord of all the shining orbs
that move in space.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-10
BIDS FOR CURLING ARE !.
RECEIVED BY COUNCIL

, the hearing to be set for Monday,
May Is, when the bids would also
be opened.
City Engineer Blomquist reported
that everything was now ready to
test out the East Mankato water
works. The matter of putting in
a Flagstaff IN Baker park was re-
ferred to Commissioner Bangerter
and also the disposal of a transit
and level, which instruments are
getting out of date. These are used
by the city engineer in making his
estimates and surveys.
Commissioner Humiston moved
! that the city engineer be instructed
to prepare plans and specifications
for the grade and sidewalk on Pros
pect avenue. This motion carried.
The matter of moving some of the
trees on the Kelly boulevard at the
corner of Van Brunt and Willard
was taken up and the council de-
cided to have the trees moved out
somewhat, as they are now almost
touching the curb.
The ordinance relating to the
selling and soliciting of peanuts,
popcorn, fruit, meals and lunches,
was given its first reading. Accord
ing to this ordinance, everyone who
sells the above named dainties and
victuals must first secure a license
at the rate of $50 a year or SIS a
day and that for the violation of
this ordinance, the offender is liable
to a fine not exceeding 500 or i'm
prisonment not exceeding ninety
days.
Law Relating to Junk Dealers.
The ordinance relating to junk
dealers, second hand dealers and
pawn-brokers was also given its
first reading. This provided that
it was unlawful to buy anything in
the line of junk from minors with
out the written consent Of their par
ents or guardians.
The city treasurer's report as
i Fo1lnrIa urnc oannntoA.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-10
Kerns

Mrs. Belts has been visiting Mrs.
H. d. Trask.
Miss Bennett went home Friday
and returned Sunday.
M. M. Cram went to New Ulm
on professional business last We'd
nesday.
Mrs. Wesley Hendly is spending
the week with her mother, Mrs.
Parsons.
Mrs. Holberg and son, Louis, of
Rapidan, have been visiting Mrs.
Howard Cole.
A large crowd attended the Aid
Society last Friday. A nice sup
per was served.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Meyer and
Mr.. and Mrs. Kozinski spent Sun
day in New Ulm.
Mrs. Lily Melvin is able to be out
again after her recent experience
at driving a '%broncho."
Master Herbert Eldred of Man.
kato visited his aunt, Mrs. Jeffer-
son, Friday and Saturday.
If you have lost a watch lately
on the road north of the church,
just cali on Tom or Bert Hanson
and prove your property.
Sunday Mrs. Hanson entertained
Mrs. Van Dyke and daughter, Cecil,
also Mrs. Hicks and daughter,
Phoebe. The latter two are mother
and sister of Mrs. Van Dyke.
Aylmer LeBarron, Mrs. Keene's
nephew, who was taken seriously
i'll Friday night went to Mankato
Saturday and may be taken to Ro-
chester to consult the Mayos.
Mrs. Frank Currier, son, Harry,
and daughter, Ella, Miss Sunday
and Mr.. and Mrs. Kratzkie called
on friends in the neighborhood
Thursday afternoon after Mrs. Hor-
ner's funeral.
Mrs. r.. Purrier who has been in
a hospital in Minneapolis for some
time, came home Monday greatly
improved. Mr.. Purrier went to
Minneapolis several days ago to
accompany her home.
Mrs. Charlie Johnson and Mrs.
r.. e. Grice went to Nicollet Thurs
day to attend Mrs. Horner's funeral.
The same day they called on Mrs
Parsons at Nicollet and on their
neice Mrs. Vrooman at Hebron.
Mrs. Catherine Meurer, mother OF
j. p. Meurer, and old lady aged
eiehty-four, died at st. Joseph's hos
pital of pneumonia. The remains
were taken to Mr.. Meurer's home
Sunday, and the funeral will prob
ably be Wednesday.
Elmer Grice and Earnest Sepp-
went to Minneapolis Wednes
day where Mr.. .Seppman purchased
a. fine Ford auto. The return trip
was made i'm the new car, u
under difficulties as the weather
was bad and the roads poor on
account of the recent storms.
A Sunday school was organized
at the schoolhOuse in the lower
road Sunday with Mrs. Ruth Smith
as superintendent and Miss Char
lotte Culp as librarian. There will
be Sunday school every Sunday at
two O'Clock and preaching service
at three o'clock. A cordial invi-
tation is extended to all to attend,
and help make these meetings IN
teresting.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-10

FOR SALE-Three good residences
in the city of Mankato. One suit
able for retired farmer, with
plenty of room for a garden and
chicken coops, and pens now on
the same. One suitable for home;
n suitable for rOoming house.
all centrally located. Terms to
suit purchaser. Call on or address
C. l.. Benedict, Mankato. Mimi.