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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

torially to a remarkable circumstance
in st. Paul: "a stranger i'm the city
reported to the police yesterday thai
he had been robbed of $410 and
some valuable papers. Three hours
later his property was recovered and
the man supposed to be responsible
was under arrest. 1t would be diff
ficult to beat that for prompt action
even by those who claim to know al
the criminals in the business"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26
OUR PENSION BILL.


Magazine contains most interesting
article from the pen OF Hilbert Bruce
Fuller on "HOw Congress Spend Our
Money" but more particularly does
he deal with the large amount of
cash that is paid out in pensions
annually. While no one will be-
grldge liberal pension to any vet
eran or surviving dependent of a
soldier wounded in service Of his
country, it seems remarkable that
forty six years after the close of the
Civil war the enormous sum of $685.
6S2, 900 should be spent in single year
for pensions. In 1909 the pension list
cost $164, S26,2S7. Since 1890 our pen
sion appropriations have been in ex-
cess OF $100,G90,C00 annually, and
since 1903 i'm excess of $150,000, 600.
If the so-called Sherwood bill be-
comes a law, more than $225,000,00O
sion budget for the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1913.
These figures are more impressive
when we consider the military pen
sion appropriations of various Eu-
ropean countries. In 1910 our pen
sion expenditures amounted to $780,
631, 1894 For the same year Eng
land expended $29,397 ,268; France
expended $31 ,960,607; the German
Empire, $4O,895,814 Austria, 2O,531,-
66S; Hungary, $6,49S,737. The total
expenditures of these five European
nations for that year combined were
1929, ,094, or $33,0O0,00O less than
those Of the United States alone.
For 1911, the survivors of the Civil
war on the Union side drew pensions
aggregating $14S,231 ,665, while in the
southern states the survivors of the
Confederate side drew but $5,780,S33.
In Virginia the Union veterans in
that year drew $14,S9553, while the
confederate veterans drew but $780,
OOO In Louisiana the UNI of $1,024,-
613 was disbursed among Union vet
Grams, and but $4,000 among the
Confederate veterans.
In 1872 President Garfield, then a
member of the house of representa-
tives, said: 1--WE may reasonably
expect that the expenditures for pen
sions will hereafter steadily decrease,
unless our legislation should be I'M
accountably extravagent." The pen
sion list for 1872 amounted to $780,
7O3,999. In 1912, forty years later,
we are devoting $153,6S2,0O0 to this
item five times that amount. Our
pension appropriations from 1866 to
1911 have amounted to the grand
total of $4,254, S1G,147, or almost a
billion dollars more than the total ex-
penditures of the government during
the years of war. The huse of repre-
sentatives has within the past few
months passed a general pension bill
calling for an additional annual ap-
preparation of $75,090,O0O, at a con-
sentative estimate. This bill is now
pending in the senate. Our largest
single expenditure is for pensions.
Twenty-three cents, of every dollar
spent by the government goes for
this purpose. This" is a charge OF
$3.50 against every family in the
TTnitad States
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26
URGENT NEED OF GOOD ROADS

The American farmer pays two
and onehalf times as much to send
his produce to market as do the
farmers of England, France and
Germany. The average cost of trans
portation in this country is twenty,
five cents per ton per mile, while
the cost in England, France and
Germany is only ten cents.
This great difference may be at.
tributed to the deplorable condition
of many of the American roads. 1t
is estimated that about fifteen to
twenty per cent of our public roads
carry from eighty to ninety per cent
of the traffic.
This improvement is necessary
With the roads in their present con.
dition it costs the American farmer
one and six-tenths cents more to
haul bushel of wheat nine and four
tenths miles from his farm to the
railroad station than it does to ship
1t from New York to Liverpool.
1t is to be hoped that the various good
roads organizations which recently
have been formed will prosecute their
work vigorously and ultimately Sc.
cure for the country modern roads,
enabling it the better to compete
with foreign nations in the matter
of trade.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

been running at top-speed in dan
ger-zone such as the North Atlantic
route is at this season of the year.
Criminal negligence and consum-
mate carelessness, with large mix
ture of speed mania together with
laundering crew, unframed and un-
fitted for the responsible duties they
were suddenly called upon to perform
combined to wreck the Titanic and
send more than sixteen hundred souls
to the bottom OF the ocean. a.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
From Tuesdays Daily.

From Tuesdays Daily.
Charles F. Guderiau to Carl NJ.
Pommereulse, nM of neA, sec. 35,
except one acre for cemetery, and
n1a of nwA, and e12 of nwA of swA
of nwA sec. SO, Myra township,
consideration $4,000.
Mary Westensee to A. j. Urban
WIZ of sell sec. %, Pleasant Mound,
consideration $4,56O. .'
Milwaukee Land company to Alick
Guddal, lot 5, block 4, town of Penn
berton, consideration E$6,175.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

The senate committee on foreign
relations Saturday agreed to recon-
mend to the senate the adoption OIL
fbe amended maritime, resolution look
ing to an international cooperation
in the regulation of ocean traffic. 1t
advises the president that the senate
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

Mrs. H. J. Allison of Ontario is
another woman who exhibited mark
ed devotion for her husband when
the Titanic was sinking. Instead of
taking refuge in one of the life
boats, she refused to leave. the side
of her husband, and went down to a
watery grave with him. Such WON
anly devotion is worthy of more than
passing notice. ,s -,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

The Albert Lea Standard says:
"If the Southern Minnesota Better
Development association obtains rail
road stop-over privileges for home.
seekers, it will we'll repay all the
time and expense involved and in
this alone will make good for the
support the public gives it."
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

The Jackson Pilot was one of the
Minnesota newspapers that urged the
passage of law to do away with
legal hangings in this state. 1--WE are
now ready to repent in sack cloth
and ashes, if the next legislature
will repeal their action of two years
ago, and make it legal to hang every
mothers son. found guilty of pre-
meditated MURDER" says The Pilot.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26
BLUE COUNTY PREPARE
EXHIBIT TO STATE FAIR

County commissioners will
hold an important meeting
Thursday and Friday. One of
the matters to come up will be
that of making an apprOpria-
ton for an exhibit from Blue
Earth county at the next state
fair In order to make a suit
able exhibit, $500 will be re-
quired. A committee from the
Commercial club, composed of
George AtchisOn, e. NJ. Zuel
and j. Fl. Hohmann, will appear
before the board on this matter.
1t will be up to the board to
say whether the county shall
have such an exhibit. The
Nicollet county board recently
appropriated $500 for the pur-
pose. ...
IllS ID Dut oilc vi ll1OI
actively pushing this section of
the state into greater promi.
hence, in the hope of acquiring
more settlers. The action of the
county board recently in APP
propriating 5000 toward the ad-
vertising booklet to be gotten out
soon is another means. Such
appropriations are justified by
the ends sought for, but the
board will be asked, no doubt,
at this meeting, to again pass
5000 for the booklet, in order to
have it's wording comply with
the suggestions of the public ex-
aminer.
The good roads committees OF
the Mankato and Good Thunder
Commercial clubs will also ap-
pear before the board to take up
the matter of permanently i'm
proving the state highway be-
tween these two places, via the
Red Jacket road and the Strand
ravine. This is an important
matter, and the policy of the
board will be learned. 1t is
hoped that it will become the
policy of the board TO take the
main highways through the
county, one at a time, and COM
plete them.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

More than two hundred of the I'll
tanic's crew were saved. Did it re-
quire that extraordinary number to
manage the fifteen or sixteen life
boats? 1t does seem passing strange
that SO many members of the crew
were permitted to take refuge in the
boats and passengers who were en-
titled to be saved were turned bru.
tally aside only to perish in the sea-
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

would favor treaties with the mari
time powers regulating speed, routes
and life saving and wireless equip
ment Searchlights were especially
recommended. Every maritime power
on earth should readily agree to the
| proposition.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

The ST. Paul Pioneer Press pays
Major Butt this well-deserved trib-
ute: Major Archibald Butt has been
the subject of many a good-natured
joke, but his memory will be bright
with honor. His quiet bravery as he
faced the death he knew was inevi-
table will long be remembered. He
died like a man and a soldier"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

"Autoists are complaining of too
much ball playing in the public thor
oughfares and in violation of law
says an exchange. No doubt the au-
toists would have the ball players
quit the streets so that they could
speed their machines to their hearts
content, regardless of life and limb,
and in violation of the law.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

If all reports be true, that wireless
operator on the German ship Frank
fort needs a severe dressing down.
If he had attended to his duty that
boat could have rushed to the rescue
of the sinking Titanic and no doubt
saved many lives.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

Resolutions authorizing $4,000 ap-
preparations for the families of each
of the three United States postal
clerks who lost their lives on the
Titanic, were introduced in the house
yesterday by Representative Reilly
of Connecticut This is money that
could be worthily appropriated.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26
Looked Over Improvement.
I'M TUESDAYS Daily,

Yesterday afternoon the city coun-
cilmen went over several Of the
improvements for the coming sum-
mer, and made an investigation as
to the progress of some of the con-
struction work.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

The dispatches tell us that a mum
Der of crooks, gamblers and crimi'
nails went down with the ship Ii
tanic. The world is better off with
these undesirables at the bottom OF
the ocean. -
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

Managers of President Taft's cam
paign are getting dogtired of seeing
advised him to show his teeth-and
if need be--bite. Mr.. Taft may do
that same thing when he arrives in
Massachusetts.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

Had the Titanic been running slow
ly amidst the icebergs the chances
are that the disaster would not have
occurred. Oh, speed, how many Grim
inal acts are committed in sthy
name!
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

University of California students
have performed remarkable feat
in propagation. They have succeed
ed in growing tomatoes on potato
vines. But no one has yet been
able to grow figs from thistles.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

with bowed heads i'm their hall al
Kansas City, Friday night, in mem
DRY of Mrs. IsadOr Straus, who went
down with the Titanic when she re.
fused to leave her husband Many
wept. After talking on the cause
Of the disaster and the bravery of the
men, a woman said: Ladies, / think
there is one whose remarkable hero.
ism has had no mention in our meet.
ing. She is Mrs. IsadOr Straus"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

Ismay told the newspaper reporters
that the senate inquiry into the I'll
tanic disaster was brutal. Not half
as brutal as his own actions at the
time of the wreck.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

The Titanic appears to have been
fitted out with all the Injuries that
wealth Graves, but very few neces-
stiles were aboard to save human
life.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

Of what good use is sleeping wire
less operator on a transatlantic ship
that may be called upon at any time
day or night-to aid a vessel in
distress?
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

The Mortified News says that
Ed Weaver is now basking in the
warmth of California" Well, Ed no
doubt would rather be there than
in the heat of state politics..
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

Ismay is ANXIOUS to return to Eng
land. We should think he would
be. This country may get too hot TO
hold him.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

Mrs. II. B. Harris declares that
the people who went down with the
Titanic were murdered. Mrs. Harris
is not far from the truth
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

Ismay had better hide himself
away in darkest Africa. He probably
will find his life as uncomfortable
in England as it now is in America
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

That 1smay fellow rs not an Ameri-
can. Thank goodness for that.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

Fifty women, members of the Kan
sas Equal Suffrage association, stood
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

The st. Paul Dispatch refers edi
The Winslow mail., 1912-11-16

Rev. A. w. Atkinson, Super
intendent of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church for Arizona, spent
last Sunday in Winslow, visiting
his son Paul Atkinson, who is an
assistant in the trainmaster's de-
partment, and conducting servic-
es in the local church. He also
visited Holbrook on Monday. He
expressed himself as pleased with
the outlook while the people were
greatly pleased with his ministra-
tions and will gladly welcome him
again.
Engineer Ira Hayes is the own
er of the fine iron-grey Buick
touring eaEthat made it's appear
ance on our streets this week.
The Winslow mail., 1912-11-16

DR.. and Mrs. Fred Waite and
daughter left Sunday for Los An
geles to reside temporarily in the
hope of benefting the Doctor'a a
health. Previous to their depar-
ture several partys were given in
honor of Miss Winnifred, One by
the Mayfower Club, which pres
sented her with a pretty souvenir
teaspoon.
Mr.. H. A. Funk has presented
his wife and daughters with an
elegant Schuman player-piano. I
Mrs. Richard Ball of McCarthys
was in town on business Friday
and Saturday.
The Winslow mail., 1912-11-16
Stock Market

AdHOdS OlIy SGCCA l oICS, NOV.
II, 1912. Small receipts of cattle
last week favored sellers and the
close Of the week saw Is to 40I
cents higher than those of previ-
Gus week. Stockers and feeders
gained Is to rs cents during the
week, cows and heifers 10 to 20
cents, bulls 25 cents, veal calves
Is to so cents. There was not
quite enough cattle for anybody,
hence the market quit with good
prospects for this week. The run
of II, 900 today did not alarm
anyone, but when actual receipts
counted up to 26,000 today, in
Guiding 5000 calves, middle
grades of fed steers displayed
some weakness. Short fed steers
sell at $500 to $500 largely,
prime steers quotable around
$1,000, though the top last week
was 1915. Short fed steers are
the weak point in the market,
and they will remain under sus-
picion until it is proven that no
excessive run of that kind are to
! be expected. More than $50 cars
of range cattle came in today,
and sales of same are strong.
! Beef steers from Montrose weigh
ing 975 pouns brought Sc. IS, Gun
nison COWS $5.40 New Mexico
yearlings S6. 10. Top beef steers
from the West bring $7.25, heif-
ers $6.75, panhandle calves $6, SO
to $3.50, feeders $3.50 to 81. 90.
Quarantine cattle advanced 10 to
Is cents last week, and are steady
today, run today "a cars. Arkan-
sas and louisiana stuff is coming
freely now, little old steers sell
ling at So. so to $3.50. Quarantine
cattle can now be taken into ma
tive territory for feeding under
certain restrictions. A Missouri
buyer took out 1000 of these
cheap steers last week. Good
quarantine steers bring $3.50 to.
$6. 35, COWS $4.00 to $5. Is.
Hogs regained some of their
late losses last week, but the hog
alleys are still the scene of a fight
for lower prices. Receipts are
5000 today, market 10 lower,
top SITS, bulk $7.40 to $7.70.
Packers have announced that they
expect to buy hogs around $500
this month, but the country re-
fuses to ship freely when prices
are going down in that direction,
thus defeating the purpose Of the
packers.
Sheep and lambs are selling
irregularly, though a bullish feel
ing prevades the sheep house.
Run is $4,000 today, market weak
to Is lower, under the influence
Of a break. of Is to 40 cents in
Chicago today. Top lambs brought
$3.50 here today, feeding lambs
around $500, fat ewes $4.50I
wethers $5. Is.
J. A. RICKART,
Market Correspondent.
The Winslow mail., 1912-11-16
Colonial Danes
Beautifier

A perfect substitute for face
powder; a perfect skin food, with
marvellous cur ative properties.
Removes b'ackheads, pirnples,
tam or any chappen condition
OF the skin. Our rouge and mes
sage creams cannot be equaled-
No hair growing ohs. These
goods. comply with the pure
food and drug laws For sale by
Winslow Drug Co.
The Winslow mail., 1912-11-16
VITALIFE

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY DISCOv-
ERY FOR MEN AND WOMEN
Acts More Like Miracle than a Medicine
For nervous debility. premature weak
ness. less of power, reproductive made
qnacy, lost vitality and other nervous dis
eases. VITAL1FE restores the vigor of
youth and removes the effects of early
dissipations. Results are MARVELLOUS.
Either sex. Send for this wonderful rem
edy TODAY, $500 Box, postpaid. Plain
wrapper.
CALIFORNIA MERCANTILE ASSN
California St. Dept .135, San Francisco
The Winslow mail., 1912-11-16

Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Kaufman,
Mrs. A. j. Ratelle, Atty Burbage
and DR.. O. S. Brown autoed in
the formers car Sunday to Leupp
Indian School.
The Winslow mail., 1912-11-16

MILLINERY. My Fail and
Winter line of Millinery has ar
rived and is on display at my res
idence next door to the City Mar
ket. Mrs. c.. B. Newton.
The Winslow mail., 1912-11-16

NVONliio'l VI AlAlSI lNo VIII SlNC q
big Masquerade Ball Thursday
evening Nov. 18th Thanksgiving
night, at the Electric Theartre
after the regular picture show.
The price Of admission will be
one dollar and everyone who at
tends is assured q good time.
Chairman w. P. Geary Of the
State Corporation Commission
and Marshall C.. NJ. Bledsoe left
Tuesday afternoon in the Kauf-
man auto for the mountains
where they go for a ten day
hunting trip in quest Of deer.
Mrs. Barney Stiles is the pos
SCISSOR of a Schuman player-piano,
d gift from Mr.. Stiles.
DR.. and Mrs. R, G. Bazelle,
Messrs. Harry Asbury and Hor-
ace4MeCauly were dinner guests
Sunday Of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Powell
Mrs. E. J. Gibson is visiting in
Los Angeles this week.
DR.. r. G. Bazelle was called to
Holbrook Wednesday to assist
DR.. J. W. Bazelle in an operation.
Mrs. Cline Asbury is improving
from a severe illness Of pneumo-
mia.
/ Mrs. Horace Luce and son re-
turned Thursday from Emporia,
Kans., were guests of Mrs. Ri
Estine, -enroute to Ashfork.
/ C. N. Cotton of Gallup was a
business visitor in town the last
week in connection with his in
terest in the large Gypsum claims
near this city of which company
he is part holder.
S. S. Elliott arrived in town the
last week from his home in
Georgia.
Marshal Bledsoe is now the
proud possessor of a brand new
auto which arrived last Saturday
and to say that Charley is work
ing the same overtime is putting
it mild.
Fireman F. L. Riley returned
Thursday morning from his visit
with relatives and friends in In
diana.
Harvey Powell and Dad Dye
came in from their hunting trip
in the mountains Tuesday with
five fine bucks.
i A large building contract was
let this~week by the Santa Fe to
Contractors Fairbanks e. Morris
who are to erect new coal chutes
where the new round-house is
now being built. Work will be
commenced on the same immedi-
.ately.
Mrs. N. S. BLY, and the child
rem left last week to visit with
relatives and friends in Phoenix.
Mr.. A. j. Henderson proprietor
of the local telephone system in
forms us that they have recently
been connected with some more
new lines and that anyone may
now phone to any part Of the
state and as far as FL Paso, Tex.
H. M. Williams a recent arriv-
al from Gallup has taken a posi-
ton with the Santa Fe as car
carpenter. Mr.. Williams expects
his family to arrive this week and
will make his home here in the
future.
Q BORN. To Mr.. and Mrs. E.
T.. Olson November the 7th girl
which they christened Margeret
Elizabeth.
Attorney Clarence H. Jordan
of Holbrook was visitor in town
fho fret of tho wool o1, 1oUo1
The Winslow mail., 1912-11-16
LETTER LIST.

List of letters remaining un.
called for in the Winslow post.
office for the week ending Satur-
day, November 10Th, 1912.
AMERICAN LIST
A. Bird, Gallit V. Cor, Mrs.
Melvinia Callanay, H. R. Cooper
D. L. Daily, w. E. Holsinger,
H. w. Klotz, John 10y, Mrs.
B. C. McCray, JOS. E. Miculmic,
j. B. O'Brien, C. |. Smith, R. B.
Walton, E.. A. Wayne.
The Winslow mail., 1912-11-16

FOR SALE. Completely fur
nished new four-room house with
bath, newly decorated. If you
intend to buy a home this is a
bargain. Must be seen to be ap-
preciated. Inquire of owner, L.,
Schmitz, painter and decorator.
The Winslow mail., 1912-11-16

FOR SALE. Furnished house
corner Warren and West 1st St.
Apply e. F. Tarr.
The Winslow mail., 1912-11-16
Mail Classified Advertising

FOR RENT. Store building
on Front Street formerly occu-
pied by the Bank of Winslow.
Apply at the Fl. H.. Smith Co.
FOR SALE. Two 2e-foqt cor
ncr lots, $50 feet deep, good To-
cation. Inquire Navajo-Apache
Rank & Trust Co.
The Winslow mail., 1912-11-16

FOR SALE. Electric fiat-iron
never been used, cheap if taken
at once. Call at the Mail Office.
The Winslow mail., 1912-11-16

FOR SALE. A genuine Par
ker double-barrelled, breach-load-
ing, 12-gauge shot gun, in good
oder. WIN sell cheap. Cali at
Winslow Mail Office.
The Winslow mail., 1912-11-16

FOR SALE. Brand new Royal
Typewriter No. s, with tabular
a tachment. One Of the latest
m akes direct from the factory.
Easy time payments. Apply at
tle Mail Office.
The Winslow mail., 1912-11-16

FOR SALE. One Remington
No Z Typewriter in good condi-
t on. Price $25. Apply at Mail
Office.
The Winslow mail., 1912-11-16

WOOD. Good ! cedar stove
wood for sale, delivered anywhere
ia the city. B. f. Ketchum,
Phone 119.
The Winslow mail., 1912-11-16
MEXICAN LIST

Juan Babtssta, Nolberto Bas-
ques, Manuel B. Garcia, Joe
Karpio, Pragedis MARTINEZ, Dor
teao G.. Tobar. 3.