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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-11-08
NECK AND NECK IN IDAHO
Three Candidates Are Only 100 Votes
Apart.

Boise, Ida, Nov. 6.-The reelection
If Congressman French, Republican,
s the only fact indicated by returns
!rom twenty-five of Idaho's 676 voting
precincts. Taft, Wilson and Roosevelt
are only 100 votes apart. Hadley,
Democrat, and Martin, Progressive,
are equally close. ef'5t
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-11-08
Vermont Is rafts by s24.

White River Junction, VT, Nov. g.
President Taft carried Vermont by 924
votes. Complete returns show the fol-
lowing: Taft, 23.247; Roosevelt. o.
BPS; Wilson, 1887,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-11-08

soon learns to look forward to them,
but not with glee. He is relieved
and proud when they are over for
the day.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-11-08
UNCLE JOE CANNON BEATEN
Election Of o'Hair Conceded by For.
mer Speakers Son-in.LaW.

.Danville, ILL.,, Nov. 6.-Twenty-eight
precincts out OF sixty-seyen in Vermil-
ion county, including ten in the city
of Danville, give O'Hair a lead Of IA
over former Speaker Cannon. Indica.
tons are that OHair is elected by
about 500.
e. X. LEISURE, son-fn.law of former
Speaker Cannon, conceded O'Hair's
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-11-08
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WOMAN, WHO DANCED
AT TAYLOR INAUGURAL
f~7, BALL. PASSES AWAY

) Washington, November c.
; Mrs. Martha A. Trammeli, who
; came to the capital sixty
; three years ago to dance at
, the Inauguration of her cous-
; in, President Zachary Taylor,
; is dead here at the age OF
; ninety-one. She expired last
; night, and her funeral will be
. held today. =
Mrs. TrammeII probably wit
; messed more inaugurations of
. presidents of the United States
; than any other woman, for
; she lived continuously in the
. national Cd pitai after coming
; from her girlhood home in
; Virginia.
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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-11-08
Held Monthly Meeting.

TTOTFI "CUICSUdy . OdFy'
The public library board held its
regular monthly meeting last night
when it transacted it's routine bust
ness of allowing bills and acting
upon the report of the librarian.
small list of books for the library
was also chosen
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-11-08

Schuyler Hawkes., a former resi-
dent of Mankato, but now well
to do farmer in South Dakota,
was in town today. Mr.. Hawkes.
was connected with the Consumers
Power company for several years.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-07-13
DIR. WILEY ON ALCOHOL

Is l think there is a marked ten
adency in the profession to regard
the virtue of alcohol as very
questionable. The old idea that
if one is going to expose himself
ito extreme danger or extremes of
climatic conditions, the body
should be fortified by the use of
alcohol has disappeared.
br 1t is quite certain now that al
ccohol does not make one less apt
vto freeze, but more so, and that it
does not give any such amount of
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-07-13

you and papa are playing. See,
here are the pretty flowers you
frowed away, naughty man, and
I picked them up again. They're
all just for you"
And once more the fragrant
bunch was pushed toward that
sullen face; once more the limpid
eyes beamed upon him; once
more the red lips smiled greefully.
The descending knife stopped,
poised an inch from the steel
kings heart. Then the weapon
ratified to the floor; one big arm
sank down; the other relinquish-
ed its crushing grip on the in
tended victim. The anarchist
bent quicbkly forward, drew the
angel face to him and passion
ately pressed the smiling lips to
his own.
Then he Strengthened up, glar-
ed once more malevolently at the
millionaire and strobe to the door.
AS it opened he pushed the little
bunch of dropping flowers be-
meath the lapel of his coat, and,
passing out, uttered but one
word:
4. Live"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-07-13

energy as to be at all compensa.
tory for the injury it may pro-
duce. On the witness stand l
stated that l considered alcohol a
food because certain quantity of
it is burned in the body, with the
production of heat and energy.
In the light of recent investiga-
tons, however, and from theo-
retic considerations, l am inclined
to the opinion that the effort to
rid the body of even the small
quantities of alcohol mentioned,
may, perhaps, consume a great
deal more energy-that is furnish
ed by its combustion, and that, as
whole, it cannot be regarded as
a food, even in limited sense.
The susceptibility to certain
diseases of persons addicted to
alcohol has been noted by many
writers, and the records of death
by sunstroke indicate that a very
large percentage of the victims
are alcoholics.
The tendency which alcohol
has to weaken the bodily resist
ance, therefore, is a matter not to
be left out of consideration.
The general result of the study
of this problem has been an ac-
CELEBRATED movement to restrict
the use of alcohol in medical prac-
tice, and especially in hospital
practice.
Both as a means of preventing
disease and as a remedy, this
agent is rapidly falling into dis
repute, so that it bids fair to be-
The oasis., 1912-08-17

States district court. The plaintiffs in each are Ollie Glaze and Thomas Votoe. They allege that they were falsely imprisoned by the railroad company at Winslow on December 6, 1911, and that they spent sev- eral months behind the bars. Their prison sentences, it is alleged have caused their good names to be dam aged. They claim they were "trap- pers of wild animals" and that their jail sentences caused them to lose their jobs. It is said that the two men were en route west from Kansas, and that they refused to pay their fares; that when the auditor on the train approached them they pulled out guns and threatened him. At Winslow, it is claimed, they were put off the train and jailed by the Santa Fe officials.
 Arizona Star: Superintendent Dyer, of the Southern Pacific at this point, says that plans for the new shop buildings of the Southern Pacific i'll Tucson, which were re- gently received here from coast headquarters at San Francisco, after being carefully considered by the local officials, have been re- turned with suggestions for such changes in them as would give more pits and other machinery and tools than had been calculated on, by which Improvements more lines of work could be handled, and this would become a more important point in the mechanical operating work of the company, in a general way. The improvement, if the suggestions are accepted, will be mostly in the character of the machinery, by which, in particular, more engine repairs can be made. It is not expected that new work will be done here, though, as now, a great deal of the painting of both engines and cars will continue to be done here, perhaps even more of it. The force of men employed now in the present shops is said by Superintendent Dyer to be 50 per cent larger than it was a year ago at this time.
The oasis., 1912-08-17
ARIZONA NEWS.
An Interesting Column of Items CulIed
 From Exchanges.


 evening, it was decided to purchase light automobile to be used in transporting workmen and sup plies between Prescott and Del Rio The auto will be arranged for utility, the rear seat being removed and bed for the carrying of pipe, tools, etc, substituted.
 Yuma Sun: Kerr < Monroe, the enterprising real estate firm, are corresponding with parties inter ested in the alfalfa meal business with view to inducing some one to put an alfalfa meal mill in the Yuma Valley. The business of grinding alfalfa into meal has proved to be very profitable in many places and there is every reason to believe 1t would be so here where this crop is harvested almost all the year round.
 Tempe News: Roy. $. Goodrich of Phoenix, has been spending sev- eral days in the homestead section southwest of here. Goodrich is interested in several valuable tracts of land in that district. He is one of the leaders in the moment re- gently started among the land own CTS to build canals for the irriga- tion of their holdings, and he said today that things were moving nicely and that everything pointed to the early commencement of the work.
 Yuma Sun: l.. w. Alexander is the owner of unit on the reserva- ton in the San Pascual valley which he says is the finest in the land Flowing with milk and honey" Talking about watermel- ons, he said to Sun reporter yes terday that he believes that the San Pascual valley is the greatest watermelon country in the wide, wide world. On his farm on a vine that had not been carefully tended or watered he took off one melon the other day which weighed 418 pounds. There were thirteen other melons on the vine larger than this one which he had gathered, the combined weight of all would run to more than 700 pounds. The melon gathered was put on ice and later carved. It was found to be of fine flavor and color.
 Yuma Sun: The promise of the erection of big million dollar sugar factory in the Yuma valley IS assuming definite shape and proportions. MT. O. P. Cooper and and his son-in-law, s. s. Kelley. have been working on the matter for some time. They grew several acres of sugar beets this year and shipped them to Glendale. The crop turned out we'll and the sugar contained in the beets run above nineteen per cent. The Glendale people were so we'll satisfied with the Yuma sugar beets that they nave made proposition, through Kelly < Cooper, that if the farm- CTS will grow from five hundred to one thousand acres of beets next year, under contract to them, and the beets turn out we'll, that the year following they will install 8 million dollar sugar factory here In the Yuma valley.
 Anzona Gazette: Two suits against the Santa Fe Railroad com Paoy, each for $5000 damages, reached tho
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-09-20
, m: ke the boast that your ad.

c Is app 0prla ms hDJ aV liable and
tie est Iated cost of she J esent ses
sfon Of the general ass mbly. ar,
$463,OOo In excess OF the estimated
revenues, accruing % the state with.
the finances will become an actual
embarrassment to the treasury before
the end of the current year 1t can be
met only by borrowing money out.
right or by anticipating the revenues
for the next fiscal year.
1T Is due to two causes. First, to
the large appropriations made by the
last general assembly; second, to a
substantial invasion Of the general
fund for the purpose Of making pay
ments on the state debt. The sum OF
$l40.37s.45 has been taken out OF the
general fund during the last two fiscal
years. $416,703.25 In three years and
$521,091.5s In four years and applied
to the payment Of the states Indebted
ness not yet due. at time, too, when
the general fund was already over
drawn and when the revenues accru.
Ing to such a fund, were being antici.
pated far In advance.
Bonds were bought in the market
with money from the general fund in
the face OF the fact that there was
sure to be Eeavy deficit in that fund
ut the close Of each fiscal year. Debt
paying is commendable. but the pres
ent embarrassment could have been
saved by conserving the general fund
to the payment Of the debt. especially
SO as such fuRd would have been
ample to meet the entire bonded for
eign debt long before it would have
become due. The revenues for the
present year have been Anticipated to
the extent Of $529,64s"
To the average mind, Mr.. Durbin.
deficiency such as you left is not con.
sistent with q good business policy.
and the methods you pursued are too
much like robbing Peter to pay Paul.
You also boast, Mr. Durbin. of your
big payment on the state debt In 1902.
Have you so soon forgotten how you
did 1t. or do you merely expect the
taxpayers to forget! Don't you re-
member that over $500, 900 was turned
over to Indiana by the National Gov.
eminent on the war cl.,-a and that
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-09-20

Amateur HypnotiSt-See. l make the
passes--oEe-two three. Now try TO
step back. Iou can't do it!-Pick-Me
Nearly Through.
A stranger entered a church in
the middle of the sermon and seat
cd himself in the back pew. After
awhile he began to fdget. Leaning
over to the white haired man at his
side, evidently an old member of
the congregation, he whispered:
"lIow long hes ~ been preach
ing"
Thirty or forty years, l think" :"
the old mar wered. 81 don't
know exactly"
'I'll stay them" decided the
stranger. Gle must be nearly
done" ."-EverYbody's Magazine.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-09-20
Exasperating.

From the dark kitchen there EN-
anated a series of thumps and angry
exclamations. Jones was looking
for the cat.
'Pal" called the son from the
stairway.
'Go to bed and let me alonep
blurted Jones. GIVE just barked
my shins."
opal" insisted Tommy after a
moments silence.
'Well, what is it2 Didn't l tell
you to keep quiet?"
T-I didn't hear your shins
bark" -
And the next moment Tommy
was being pursued by an angry sire
With hard hairbrush. - Chicago
News.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-09-20

At a dinner one day, says o
writer in the Philadelphia Public
Ledger, some men were discussing
the merits of different kinds of
game birds. One preferred canvas
back duck, another woodcock, and
still another thought a quail the
most delicious article of food. The
discussion and the dinner ended at
about the same time.
Now, Frank" said one of the
men to the waiter at his elbow,
"what kind of game do you like
best?"
"Well, sub, to, tell the truf, al.
most ssny kind of game suits me,
bat what like bes' is an American
eagle served on silver dollar"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-09-20

that money was part or your payment
Of the state debt?
OK course, Mr.. Durbin, you don't ex.
pect an intelligent people to give you
credit for the s60o, 900 with which you
had no more to do than the man in
the moon.
1t seems, too, that you try to take
an unfair advantage In comparing the
cost OF maintaining the state benevo-
lent institutions when you were Gov
ernor with the cost today.
Do you expect the people to over.
look the fact that there are many
hundreds more inmates In the state
institutions TO be fed and clothed now
than IL years ago?
Do you expect them to overlook the
fact that we have state institutions
now that were not IN existence when
vou were Governor?
Do you expect them to overlook the
Act that material costs more nov:
hat food and clothing cost more now.
han when you were Governor? You
ought to know, Mr. Durbin. that there
isn't man in the state whose house
mold expenses are not from so to 100
per cent. higher now than then be-
cause OF the tariff you stand for and
the tariff-made trusts and monopolies
you defend
1t seems, too, Mr.. Durbin, that you
have found it we'll to utterly ignore
the happenings OF the four years of
rule by your party that intervened be-
tween your term and that Of Governor
Marshall-four years of extravaganza
and waste. that resulted In as bad a
financial condition when the Demo.
Gratis took charge as you left for your
Republican successor.
AS a matter of fact, politics aside,
don't you know that the Democrats
have made a magnificent financial
showing considering the fact that for
16 years your party kept running the
state into deficit after deficit.
You know that the 100000 on the
Coliseum bonds should have been paid
while the Republicans still retained
control of the Finance Board but that
no payment was made until the Demo
Gratis took charge when it was paid.
You know that the Democrats have
paid s150,o00 on the state debt three
years before it fell due and saved the
tax payers $4,000 in interest.
You know that the Democrats are
preparing to make another payment
of s135,000 on the state debt within
the next three Or four months.
You know that the Democrats have
been forced to meet the expenses of
maintaining the Southern Hospital for
the Insane and the tuberculosis Hos
pital at Rockville for the first time
and have done it.
And you know that with all this, the
Democrats have reduced the total tax
levy from II to Is and half cents,
reduction to the taxpayers of $500. 900
every year.
You know II because you are Q busi-
ness man and your own tax receipts
shOw ii, doesn't 1t. Mr.. Durbin?
Yours for truth.
CURIOUS CITIZEN.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-09-20
WlTCHCRAFT IN ENGLAND.
The Last of the Judicial Prosecutions
and Executions.

Sir Matthew Hale, it is true, had
hanged two poor women at Cam
bridge in 1864, but few years later
Lord Chief Justice Holt set him.
self strongly against such charges
and in every case tried before him
directed the jury to bring in YER
dict of acquittal In a celebrated
trial at Guildford in 1701 not only
was the supposed witch found not
guilty, but her false accuser, one
John Hathaway, was condemned to
years imprisonment and to stand
in the pillory three times. Yet,
horrible to relate. woman named
Hicks and her daughter, child Of
nine, we're hanged together at
Huntingdon on July 2S, 1716, for
raising a storm of wind in league
with the devil.
The last judicial sentence for
witchcraft in England was in 1876,
one Jane Wenham being actually
found guilty, according to the III.
dictment, of ''conveIsiag familiar
ly with the devil in the form Of q
cat" The judge, however, procured
a reprieve for poor old .jana. an1
she was ultimately released, to cH',
her days in peace.
Last, the witchcrGlt act wGS re
pealed for the Uritci Kingdom i
the same year. 1t vas quite tine
for only nine years earlier. In i12.
a woman was brought before Cap
tain David Ross, deputy sheriff oi
Sutherland. charged With "causinp
her daughter to be shod By the dcv
H." and so making her lame bot! il
hands and feet. The fact having
been proved to the captains salts
faction, the old woman was put into
q tar barrel ard burned at Dornoch
The weather being cold at the time
we are told tat she "sat composed.
ly warming herself by the fire pre-
pared to consume her while the 9th
er instruments of death were get.
ting ready
The la,t a'tcmpt to execute q
witch in England ended disastrously
for the perpetrators. In 1851 al
Tring two old people named Os
borne, mar and wife, being suspect
ed of witchcraft, were seized by {
crowd, stripped, cross bound ant
thrown into a pond. Both died Of
this brutal treatment. Bat tht
witchcrait at had been repealed
and, a verde; Of wii,fal murder hav
ing been rvt,rnad against one Col
ley, the chicl ia*t:gaior of the az
sault, he vas in dac course trb
and hauSc.. - Cornh!il sia.czine.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-09-20
Just Her Habit.

A widower was being married TO.
the fourth time recently. During
the ceremony one of the guests is
surprised to hear violent, sobs pro-
ceeding from a woman in a corner
of the church.
"Who is that lady who is crying
80 bitterly? he asks of the by
ISLANDERS.
"Oh, it's only Martha, our cook, "
answers one of the bridegroom's
children. "She always blubbers
when papa gets married "-London
Mail.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-09-20
Ought TO Be Thankful.

Doctor" growled the patient,
at seems to me that $500 is a big
charge for that operation of mine.
1t didn't take you over half min
ute"
"My dear sir" replied the famous
specialist, Gin learning to perform
that operation in half minute ]
have spoiled over eleven pecks oi
such eyes as yours. Success Mag
lzine.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-09-20

There is a certain Wilmington
business man, of a rather waggish
disposition, who contends that his
wife has no imagination. At dinner
one night he chanced to mention
tragic circumstance he had read
in the evening paper on his way
home. A passenger on transatlan-
tic steamer had fallen overheard in
midocean, and he had never been
seen again. "Was he drowned ?"
asked his wife. "Of course not, "
answered the irrepressible hubby,
'but be sprained his ankle, / be-
lieve."-Argonaut.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-09-20
4 German Dogberry.

BurgesWs;ster-What, ground for sus-
picion have'you that the prisoner Is ths
murderer
Constable Principally his denial o.
1t. sir. That's always a suspicious cir
eumstance.--Fiegend Blatter.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-09-20
She Felt For Him,

He had sat looking absentmind-
edly out of the train window for
two hours, whistling the same tune
and not on the key. The passen-
gers had become well nigh distract
ed.
A well known actress sat behind
the young man. Finally there came
a moment when the Whistler paused
for breath, and in that moment the
quick witted actress leaned over
and said:
81 know Just how it is. | never
could whistle either" - Ladies
Home Journal.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-09-20

Asked TO EXT hin hanly's Charge
That DurbIn Lit a 100000 De. !:
ficit---Other Leading Questions.

Dear Mr.. Durbin -
Your keynote speech has Just been
read by eur statistfcian, and I find 80
many omissions, SO many slide-for'
iifes, so many half-truths, that am
impelled to write you for informationl
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-09-20

= Madam, do you believe in wcm-
ans rights" asked the man stand
ing in the car.
81 do" she replied shortly
"Excuse me-" he went on. II an
but an ignorant male seeking light
May ask il you construe these
rights to include the privilege P'
spreading your really becoming
skirts over three seats ?"
Thereupon she condensed herself
hef took a seat, and conversation
lnGgsd-Philadslphis Lsdgu.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-19
Y. M. G. A. Delegates
Attend Church.

Bangor, Me-, Feb. B-The $50 dele
gates to the Y. NJ. C. A. students confer
ence at the University of Maine attended
church, this forenoon. in several of the
churches of Orono and Old Town, where
addresses We're delivered by the confer
ence speakers At 800 this afternoon, IN
the Alumni chapel, a mass. meeting for
men was addressed by David X. Porter,
and tonight the farewell meeting was adj
dressed by four speakers, as follows:
Brief addresses on the Y. NJ. G. A. N
Maine. jeff C. Smith; 1.-THE Christian
Student Movement" Harrison S. Elliott;
'The Association and the Preparatory
Schools" David r. Porter; What the
Association Does in College," James l..
McConanghy.
The attendance has been very large
and the interest keen, the conference be-
ing regarded as the most successful ever
held, in every respect
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-19

want this done or that they give their
consent freely to being separaed from
their children. l have reports that in
some cases they are intimidated into
letting their children go, and some of
these little ones are not the children
of the strikers.
Il am not going to stand idly by and
allow this to continue unless ! am or
dered to do so by higher authority. l
have notified Mr.. Yates by letter and
through him the strike committee that
will not permit the sending of little
children away fer any such purpose
without the consent of their parents.
These children are not starving, ana
no child or any one else will starVe in
Lawrence. The city of Lawrence Is
not dead: il will see that no one suffers
from want of food. and if necessary
my soldiers, who are Massachusetts
men, although they take no sides in
this strike, will never allow any one
to starve in their presence