The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-12-27
POLICE BREAK UP CARD
GAME; REFUSE CIGARS
From Saturdays Daily.

Soeos0oy SdHys
A quintet of jolly good fellows
were rudely interrupted last night
by the alert policemen, while hav,
ing quiet little game in an up.
stairs room on South Front street
1t had been reported to the police
department that gambling was going
on in this building and Desk Ser.
geant Charles Scoville sent officers
Simonds, Hovig and Budde to raid
the joint and pinch" the players.
Ahmed to the teeth, the upholders
of the law climbed the stairs as stealth
lily as a Milwaukee freight switching
across Main street, and entered up
on the alleged law-violators without
their having the slightest suspicion
that they were almost gazing at
prison bars and a ball and chain.
The happy five put on an air of in
in their fun, but were not inclined
to take the matter seriously.
Cards Were Declined.
They passed the cigars to the
policemen, but there was nothing
tible "cops." The cigars were dis
udlu uUWu anu INC llcu
were asked how they dared to pull
off poker game under the very
nose Of the law. The players re-
piled that they were not playing
poker and that they were simply
having a quiet little game of
smear" 1t was probably so, for
about fifty-three cents would have
been the limit of the entire bunch.
And they would have been glad to
sell out at that. However, the
smear" bluff would not go with
the police and the alleged gamblers
were taken to the station. There
was sort of lull in the progress
OF the game as the officers entered
the room, as the cards were on the
table and no money was visible, If
indeed their was enough coin in the
bunch to be termed legal tender in
poker game. There were plenty
of chips though, and two or three
decks Of cards. The blues seemed
to be most in evidence.
Ordered to Show Up.
The merry-makers were strictly
enjoined to put in appearance at the
municipal court at ten o'clock this
morning when the tale of their mis-.
conduct would be related to the
judge. However, when they arrived
at the court room, the judge decid'
ed that it would be wicked to lock
the "kids" up for just having their
fun and as on money was in evi.
dence, there was really nothing to
hold them for. So the now thor
oughly scared children" were allowed
to go their way, with caution to
make less noise the next time they
played smear, and that they had
better get rid of the chips, to be on
the safe side.
Probe to be Inserted.
The police department will investi
gate the matter thoroughly and il
it is found that the smear-players
were stringing the cops when they
denied that they were playing poker
they will probably be spanked by
the court. 1t is quite possible that
they had been playing, poker fo1
matches, but the fire-sticks had pro
baby all been used up in keeping
the cigarets burning.
Negotiations were completed yes
terday afternoon by which the Ne
vada Manufacturing company of Ne
vada, Iowa, agreed to take over the
Four Traction company, manufacture
ers of the Kato cars, for the pur
pose of building more Of the four
wheel drive cars next year. The
Nevada company has financed the
deal to the full extent of it's CAPT
talization, 100000, and will make
the cars at it's factory in Nevada
The company has not bought out
the Four Traction company, but is
simply promoting the company ant
financing the manufacturing of the
cars. So far, only sixteen or seven
teen cars have been built, but the
Nevada company will put out fifty
of them during the coming year ana
hopes to put out ten times thai
number the following year, 1914
The company will specialize in the
four traction trucks. This company
will also make a one-man controll
ed triple gangplow. ..
The president of the Nevada con
Germ is D. R. Speaker, cashier of the
Peoples Savings bank in Nevada
The other members of the company
are E. C. Button, r. A. Frazier
president of the bank just mention
ed, Claude Speaker, assistant cashier
in the same bank, M. A. Harrison
o. j. Benjamin, editor of Profitable
Breeding and Farming and of the
Nevada Evening Journal, and II
Schneckloth, factory superintendent
Of the Nevada Manufacturing com
pany.
Although Nevada is a compare
lively small city, it is a booster
through the efforts of the CONNER
cial club great deal of improving
has been done in it in the past few
years. They have a sewer system
an electrolier lighting system, {
state santarium worth 100000, {
state college worth $4,000 and will
start paving next year. They arr
well situated in regard to railroad
service, and this makes it an ad
vantageous place for manufacturing
The fifty-fourth annual meeting o
the Minnesota State Agricultural so
ciety will be held in thee.G. A. r
assembly hall, court house, Mime
apolis, January H., 15, Is and II
All meetings will be open to thu
public. Special rates of one and one
third regular fare, with minimum 0
2 cents mile, have been granted
on ten railroads. One of the larges
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