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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-02-24

Mrs. c. E. Brown, Of Tallahassee, is
among the people from the Capital
City now in Pensacola She came in
yesterday and is at the San Carlos
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-02-24

The Journal Will pay $500 reward for
evidence SUFFICIENT 70 convict any boy or
person found stealing subscribers papers
after delivery Of same BY carrier.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-02-24

J. ]. McCaskill, of DeFuniak, is
again in the city. He is, as usual
here on business, making his head
quarters at the San Carlos.
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Watch top page 2 to-
morrow.
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Railroad Promoters
Again in Pensacola

CONTINUED from First Page.
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w. A. Mcleod and III. 8. Bates and
wife. OF Milton. were among the many
Santa Rosa people In Pensacola yes
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-02-24

DR.. Rufus Thomas is In Pensacola
on q business and pleasure trip.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-10-04
500 Reward, 500.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at
least one dreaded disease that
science has been able to cure in
all it's stages, and that is Catarrh
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positive cure now known to the med.
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directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system, thereby des.
troying the foundation of the dis.
ease, and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing it's
work. The proprietors have SO
much faith in it's curative powers
that they offer One Hundred Dol
lars for any case that it fails to
cure. Send for list of testimonials
Address F. J. Cheney & Co., Toll
edo, Ohio.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for con
stipation. ADV
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tied with Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Rose
of Eagle Lake Sunday
Phil Glasgow who has been work
ing at Good Thunder is now accom-.
panying Ansel Goodell and Alfred
Jaeger as pitchers on McCullom' s
threshing rig.
A pleasant surprise party was
given at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Conrad Hafner last Saturday even
ing. The evening was spent in
dancing and playing cards. Selten-
reich brothers furnished the music.
Those who were present were Will
liam Deef, Clinton Larrabee, Her.
man Jaeger, Frank Renne, Paul
Renne, John Hafner, Andrew Half
ner, Frank Albrecht, Lena Jaeger,
Anna Renne, Cecilia Renne, Rose
Jaeger and Lenora Renne, Mr. and
Mrs. Wendell Drummer and Mr.. and
Mrs. John Reinhart. The guests de-
parted at late hour after having
delightful time.
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Kerns

Mrs. Eva Burrill Voss has beer
visiting her brother Roy in Tracy
Joe Mann and family and Miss
Jessie Morson visited friends In
New Sweden Sunday.
Mrs. Evenson stayed at the Wi
can home for few days the lat
ter part of the week. ..t-
! Mr. and Mrs. Eldred are visiting
in Mankato. They have rented the
/ Keene place in North Mankato and
will live there.
| Mrs. H. D. Trask and Miss Elsie
Trask will entertain the Ladies' Aid
society Friday afternoon. A cordial
invitation is extended to all.
| Mr.. and Mrs. William Spear gave
ia pleasant party to. the young PEG
pie in the neighborhood Friday
evening. All who were present had
a nice time.
Mrs. Rus Burrill and son, daugh
ter and little granddaughter, took
dinner Saturday at the Hodgson
home and spent the afternoon with
Mrs. Frank Loucks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Burnett gave
a party to the young people in the
neighborhood Tuesday evening in
honor of their son Earle, whose
twenty-first birthday came on that
day.
| Mr.. Quick had a fainting spell
and fell from his load while on his
way home from the Jefferson mil!
one day last week. He was helped
to his home by Charlie Vulcan, but
is still sick at this writing.
Mrs. Frank Jefferson received an
interesting bit of news on card
a. few days ago. The card read as
follows: 81 came to Mr.. and Mrs
Roy Hodson the twenty-fifth of Sep.
TENDER. My name is Ida Eaton
Hodson. My weight is ten pounds
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Sharp en-.
| tertained at dinner Friday evening
for their daughters, Misses Edna
and Hazel. The guests, who were
friends of Miss Hazel, were all
from Mankato. After fine chicken
pie dinner the young people spent
a pleasant evening and left for
Mankato before midnight. Those
present were Misses Edith Wilson,
| Winifred Wilson, Marian Best, Ruth
Whitmore, John Valesh, Emil Lapic,
Joseph 'Turic, Joseph Campion and
Harold Pew.
Charlie Vulcan died very sudden
ly Friday morning. The funeral
was held Sunday afternoon and was
very largely attended. The children,
who are now left alone, have the
sympathy of the entire community
Relatives who came to attend the
funeral were John Houlm, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charlie Anderson, Alfred Peter
son, Frank Vulcan and Albion Vulcan
of Hector, Mimi, Mr.. and Mrs. Cador
Peterson of Kasota, Frank Peterson of
LIE Sueur, Mr.. and Mrs. Carlson of
Mankato, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Pc
terson Of Mankato, Mr.. and Mrs.
Gust Gustafson of Kasota and Mr..
and Mrs. Nyquist of Mankato.
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BREWER DIGS UP THE
GINSENG FOR SHERIFF
Continued from Page One.

den City a year or so mis- rowing
disposition got the better of him
and he and another man whose
name he would not mention, went
to Montana to hunt and trap. He
trapped in the mountains of Mon
tana for two seasons, and then came
trader.
Recalls Dead Wife.
Continuing his narrative, Brewer
said: 81 was married once, too, but
don't you see, she died and if ii
wasn't for that l wouldn't be here
today" He says that he came
through Lake Crystal to trade horses
and after renting a barn near the
village, he made trip to JudsoD
and stole the chickens on the way
home. His story of the theft is as
follows: 81 went to Judson that
day and bought ten chickens and
traded horses. On the way home
took the wrong road and around a
hill and brought up in a blind al
ley. l got out of the wagon to
see where l was and was going to
a house to ask for Information, when
the impromptu posses stumbled on.
to me, armed to the teeth. l put
my hand in my hip pocket as if
had a gun, and the crowd began to
step back and yell, Look out, he's
got gum If I'd had gun you'd
have seen them 'rubes' pikin' into
the woods, shotgun and ALL"
At the barn, near Lake Crystal,
Brewer has three horses, a covered
wagon, cart, which was used to
transport the ginseng, and a good
top buggy.
Writing His Autobiography.
Brewer is writing his autobiog-
raphy, and had a considerable por.
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Oct. 4-11718.
CITATION FOR HEARING ON
FINAL ACCOUNT AND FOR
DISTRIRIITION q .

DISTRIBUTION.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of
Blue Earth, In Probate Court.
In the Matter of the Estate of Mel
lie Corbin, Decedent
The State of Minnesota to all per-
sons interested in the above en-
titled matter: Whereas, Wilbur A.
Corbin has filed in this court his
final account of his administration
of the estate of, the above named
praying for the adjustment and al.
lowance of said final account and
for distribution of the residue of
said estate to the persons thereun-
to entitled: 1t is ordered, that said
petition be heard, and that all per-
sons interested in said matter be
and appear before this court on the
Goth day of October, 1912, at ten
o'clock a. m, at the probate court
rooms in the court house, at Man.
kato, in said county, and then and
there, or as soon thereafter as said
matter can be heard, show cause,
if any they have, why said petition
should not be granted; and that
this citation be served by the pub
LEGATION thereof in The Mankato
Free Press, according to law.
Witness the Honorable Evan
Hughes, Judge of said Court, and
the seal of said court, this 28tk
day of September, 1912
EVAN HUGHES,
Probate Judge.
(Court Seal)
Benjamin Taylor,
Attorney for Petitioner
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Attorney for Petitioner.

Oct 4-11-1S.
ORDER LIMITING TIME TO FILE
CLAIMS, AND FOR HEARING
THEREON.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, County OF
Blue Earth, in Probate Court.
In the Matter of the Estate OF
Hannah Kennedy, Decedent.
Letters of administration on said
estate this day having been grant
ed to Michael Kennedy.
1t is ordered, that the time with
in which all creditors of the above
named decedent may present claims
against her estate in this court, be
and the same hereby is, limited to
three months from and after the
date hereof; and that Friday, the
31st day of December, 1912, at ten
o'clock a. M, in the probate court
rooms at the court house at Man.
kato in said county, be, and the
same hereby is, fixed and appointed
as the time and place for hearing
upon and the examination, adjust
ment and allowance of such claims
as shall be presented within the
time aforesaid.
Let notice hereof be given by the
publication of this order in The
Mankato Free Press, as provided by
law
Dated September Goth, 1912.
EVAN HUGHES,
Judge of Probate.
probate Seal.)
j. E. Haycraft, Attorney.
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Monday night, and when he came
back from the plant north of the
barn he took a fork and walked rap
idly down the Omaha tracks to a
point on the edge of the lake. Here
he disappeared for about three min
utes and then came back. Deputy
Ario says that he may have a plant
there. Brewer also spoke of a
plant just west of the bridge over
the ,Watonwan river west of Garden
City. He claims that this was spok.
en- of by the pal" but he says he
does not know the place. The Off
GERS think differently. What his OBJ
ject is in refusing to locate the rest
of the ginseng is yet to be found
out. He was rather chagrined TO
find that Deputy Ario was watching
him Monday night, and was taken
aback when all his movements were
described to him. But he still sticks
to the statement that the ginseng is
all discovered. Deputy Ario says
that he thinks that Brewer hates to
admit that he was discovered in all
his movements Monday night and
wants to have the satisfaction of
proving that the deputy is in the
wrong. But the evidence shows that
he will be denied this satisfaction.
Up to the present time about one
hundred pounds of ginseng has been
found, the two large sacks contain
ing probably thirty pounds each be-
long to G. II. Schendel at Rapidan,
according to Brewers confession,
and one of the other sacks, weigh
ing less than twenty pounds, belongs
to Charles Peterson at Garden City
and the other sack, containing about
twenty pounds, was taken from Dr.
Burrows garden at Lake Crystal
The ginseng can be identified by the
earth clinging to the roots, but This
has not yet been done.
$500 Worth Recovered.
The ginseng now found is worth
probably $500 at the present prices.
Wild, dried ginseng brings $14'
pound, but the cultivated product
only about IS, when dried. The
plants that Brewer stole are yet
green and will not bring over four or
five dollars pound In the early
days ginseng grew wild and was not
worth much until a comparatively
short time ago. Pioneers in this Sec
ton used to trade ginseng for candy,
but at that time the Cinnamon were
the only ones that would pay enough
for it to pay for digging They
claim it has great power in the pre-.
vention of diseases of all kinds and
they also use it in the preparation
of opiates.
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the haymow. He says he will fin
ish it up to date in Saltwater.
Brewer is fifty years old, medium
height, and has a goitre on the left
side of his neck; his complexion is
sallow. At present he weighs less
than $50 pounds. He has four
brothers and four sisters living
but their names or whereabouts he
will not divulge. an
On the return trip from Lake
Crystal yesterday afternoon Brewer
seemed very cheerful and careless
as to his fate. 81 have to take
things as they come" he said, "and
l amt laying up no grudge agin
nobody except my pal" Sheriff Os.
ten and Mr.. Ario both treated me
fine, but when Mr. Ario got me last
night l says, the stuff is off, and
back to Mankato he remarked: "Say
I could just as, well have dug up
them other two sacks this mornin'
but did want an automobile ride
awful bad
H. G. Brewer was arraigned be-
fore Judge Comstock in the munich
pal court late yesterday afternoon
on a charge of grand larceny in the
second degree. He was held on
bail of $500, but as he could not pro-
duce a bondsman he was intrusted
to the care of Sheriff Osten for
safe-keeping. He made application
to plead guilty of the charge and was
to be heard this morning but on
account of the absence of District
Judge Pau this did not occur. Judge
Pau is holding the regular term of
court at st. James and is not ex-
pected back until the end of the
week.
In the meantime Brewer will be
held at the county jail and further
attempts will be made to persuade
him to locate two more bags of gin.
seng. On Monday night Deputy
Sheriff Ario saw him carry white
sack from his barn to the road just
north of his barn and there he was
lost in the timber Brewer claims
that he took this sack to the creek
across the Omaha tracks and says
| that this was found yesterday. The
deputy, however, says that the sack
he carried was white and was near.
ly full, while the sack which was
found was brown gunny sack
] When confronted with this evidence
Brewer says that he changed the
sacks but did not give any reason
for so doing. Also the place where
the last sack was found yesterday
was over mile from Brewers place
and when he carried the sack into
the woods Monday night he was
not gone over ten minutes. AT. an
other time Brewer said that he had
corn in the sack that Ario saw him
carrying. Just before this he had
been out in the cornfeld and the
deputy heard him breaking off corn
but he brought this up to the barn
and left it.
! All this occurred about midnight
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so forth. Brewers companion had
a thirty-eight ealiber revolver with
him that night and Brewer thought
the men around the store saw it,
and became suspicious.
Thought They Were Watched.
Brewer then thought that some
one was watching them, so instead
of going across the river, they
the railroad to Lake Crystal, and
then drove back to where they start
ed. They then drove to a place
about two miles east of Oshawa
and made this trip in the buggy.
They went from Oshawa to Kerns.
Brewer sat in the buggy there and
his companion went into the store
to get some crackers and cheese
and two bottles of pop. Harris said
that there wasn't anyone in there
and that he was going to try to get
some money. He was there about
five minutes and woman came
out. Harris came out with a money
drawer and they took the money
out and dropped the drawer or box
into corn field nearby. They then
went to st. Peter. m
About this time they bought the
chickens from Mr. Peterson. That
night they also stole some chickens
from whom he could not tell. They
stole them on the way to st. Peter,
about four miles from Nicollet.
Had Forty-five Chickens.
They got the chickens from three
different places and in all had
about forty-five. They took them to
st. Peter, getting there a little after
noon. This was on Sunday, so
they put their team in a livery
barn and fed the chickens, shipping
them to the Eisenmenger Meat
company in st. Paul. One of the
chickens was a thoroughbred Rhode
Island Red, and Brewer was afraid
the people in ST. Paul to whom he
shipped them would be suspicious
if he sent that kind of a chicken,
so he kept that one.
Brewer then went to Lake Crys-
tai by train. There was very little
doing around there so one day the
two men put two chicken coops
on the wagon and went to Garden
City. They then drove along the
Vernon Center road until they came
to Mr.. Fuller's place. There they
met man who was a horse trader.
Brewer had wanted to trade with
him before but they could not
agree on terms. He went over and
talked to the horse trader and final
ly traded horses with him that day.
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TALE TOLDBY BREWER :
TO COUNTY ATTORNEY

With a view to throwing himself
on the mercy of the court and OBJ
tanning the good will of the pro-
scouting attorney, H. G. Brewer,
chicken and ginseng thief, whose
recent operations have stirred up
the countryside reaching from Lake
Crystal to Garden City and Rapidan,
asked for a conference with County
Attorney J. w. Schmitt, which was
granted yesterday forenoon.
The statement made to the county
attorney is quite lengthy, covering
about twenty typewriter pages. In
substance it is as follows:
Brewer said that he wanted to
plead guilty, but first asked what
the various degrees of larceny were
and what the term of Imprisonment
for each degree is. He seemed
quite worried when the county at
torney told him that the court could
not decide upon the length of term of
Imprisonment, and that the matter
was left in the hands of the board
of parole. He finally decided to
plead guilty to a charge of larceny
in the second degree. He then told
the following story of the thefts.
Brewer said that another man,
whom he had known in Iowa about
fifteen years ago, came to Lake
Crystal and met Brewer at the
hotel where he was boarding. Brew
er did not recognize the man at
first, but the other fellow recog-
nized Brewer. The man asked what
business Brewer was in and Brewer
told him, that he was in the chick
en- business. The man then said
that he had been working in the
harvest field near Garden City, and
that if he had a little money he
would like to go into the chicken
business with Brewer
Would Pay Pals Board.
Finally Brewer agreed to pay his
board and to have the man help
him in his business Brewer de-
scribed the man as being about
five feet seven inches tall and
weighing about $50 or 1873 pounds.
He was fifty years old and his
hair was dark and turning gray.
He has red face and no beard.
He has one finger off on his left
hand, the fore finger, which is off
just 'IhO JOluI uC
man went under several different
names, Ed Ellis, Ed Crystal and
Ed. Harris. He used the name Har-
ris in Iowa, and that, so far as
Brewer knew, was his right name.
The fellow said he was married and
that he had run a lunch room in
North Dakota, but he had trouble
with his wife and left her.
Bought One Batch of Chickens.
The man stayed with Brewer
about three or four weeks. Dur
ing that time Brewer bought one
batch of chickens near Judson. At
that time Brewer noticed that some
men looked suspicious of them.
They first talked on the ginseng
business at that time.
Brewer and this companion then
decided to rent a place in Lake
Crystal so that they could drive
back and forth from ST. Peter,
and have some place to keep the
stuff
They then sold the chickens in
ST. Peter and then Brewer went to
place belonging to Mrs. O'Brien,
which he rented for 81 month.
About a week later they went to
Judson and Brewer bought some
chickens from Charles Peterson.
They went to the store at Judson
and bought some matches, fruit and
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court Seal
Benjamin Taylor,
Attorney for Petitioner.
Oct. 4.11-18.
Oct 4-11-1S.
CITATION FOR HEARING ON Pc
Triton FOR DETERMINATION
OF DESCENT OF LAND

T..
CITATION FOR HEARING ON Pc.
Triton FOR DETERMINATION
OF DESCENT OF LAND.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of
Blue Earth, In Probate Court.
In the Matter of the Estate of Mel
!, lie S. Blethen, formerly Nellie S.
Funk, Decedent.
The State of Minnesota to all per-
sons interested in the determination
of the descent of the real estate of
said decedent. The petition of
George F. Blethel having been filed
in this court, representing that said
decedent died more than five years
prior to the filing thereof, leaving
certain real estate in said petition
described, and that no will of dece-
dent has been proved nor admins
tration of her estate granted in this
state, and praying that the descent
of said real estate be determined
by this court
Therefore you, and each of you,
are hereby cited and required to
show cause, if any you have, before
this court at the probate court room
in the court house in the city of
Mankato, in the county of Blue
Earth, state of Minnesota, on the
26th day of October, 1912, at ten
o'clock a. M, why said petition
should not be granted
Witness the Judge of said court,
and the seal thereof, this first day
of October, 1912.
SEQ EVAN HUGHES,
Probate Judge.
G. E. Phillips,
Attorney for Petitioner.
court SeaIl
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Oct. 4-11-18.
CITATION FOR HEARING ON Pc
Triton FOR ADMINISTRA- ID.
-..-e". TION

OCI. f-1l-1o.
CITATION FOR HEARING ON Pc
Triton FOR ADMINISTRA- -
7rs~ ~"r TON.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of
Blue Earth, in Probate Court.
In the Matter of the Estate of
Louis M. Balzer, Decedent.
The State of Minnesota to all per-
sons interested in the granting of
administration of the estate of said
decedent The petition of Ida Bal
Ter having been filed in this court,
representing that Louis M. Balzer,
then resident of the County of
Blue Earth, State of Minnesota, died
interstate on the 23rd day of Sep
TENDER, 1912, and praying that let.
tiers of administration of his estate
be granted to Albert He'll, and the
court having fixed the time and
place for hearing said petition:
Therefore, you, and each of you,
are hereby cited and required to
show cause, if any you have, be-
fore this court at the probate court
rooms in the court house, in the
City of Mankato, in the County of
Blue Earth, State of Minnesota, on
the 18th day of October, 1912, at
ten o'clock a. M, why said petition
should not be granted
Witness, the judge of said court,
and the seal of said court, this first
day of October, 1872
EVAN HUGHES,
Probate Judge.
(Court Seal.)
c. o. Daley,
Attorney for Petitioner "a
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MINNEAPOLIS Grain.

Minneapolis, Oct. 2.-Wheat-Dec.,
8SA @8SAc; May, 93Ac. Cash close
on track: No. l hard, S9Ac; No. l
Northern, S6& @88Ac; to arrive, S6A
@S8Ac; No. 2 Northern, S3A @S6Ac;
No. 8 Northern, 82A @S4c; No.
yellow corn, 69@69hc; No. 4 corn.
66la @6Sc; No. 3 white oats, 3O@3Ohc;
to arrive, soc; No. oats, 2S@2Skc;
barley, 41@67c; fax, s1.71; to arrive,
S16S.
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WANTED-By the st. Peter state
hospital, young women and young
men to take up work as nurses
on the wards. A training school
of long standing is conducted,
giving thorough instruction Men
may enter also. Women receive
SIS per month, increasing rapidly
to 1915. Men receive $23 per month,
increasing rapidly to $50. Gradu,
,ates of the school receive farther
increase or go into private nurs-
ing at greatly increased compen-
sation. Board, lodging and laun-
dry free. For detail information,
address R. M. Phelps, superintend-
ent, st. Peter, Minn.-Adv.
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CD. H|LLES CONTRASTS
TAFT AND ROOSEVELT
Continued From Page One.

Bryan's demand, "Let the people
rule" and has now stolen it.
Taft was nominated by majority
of the delegates in the republican
national convention who were seat
cd by every law and precedent of
the party, and Roosevelt is wear
ing his voice out shouting "thief'
and thou shalt not steal"
Roosevelt sent 200 fake contest
ants to the republican national con-
vention by his own admission, and
he was praised for it, and now he
is yelling murder because a few
contestants were not seated.