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KIMMEL MYSTERY
 STILL A MYSTERY
TWO WITNESSES TESTIFY AS TO SCAR ON EYEsALL RESULT
 ING FROM OPERATION.
5ertllllon Expert Says He Has Known White for Many Years as a
 a Prisoner.

St Louis, Feb. 21.-The Rev. Cor dello Herrick, former chaplain of the Auburn, N. r., prison, testified in cross-examination ia the Kimmel hear ing here today that he and Mrs. Kate. Noble of.Auburn found scar on the Kimmel claimants left eyeball in the place where Dr. Fred Bonine said he had inflicted scar on George A. Kimmers eye by surgery.
 Their examination. he said. was made after Dr. Bonnie had looked for the scar. Dr. Bonnoe has testified he failed to find it. The witness said Dr. Bonnie's examination was 'only glance and was not made in fa- vorable light
 The former chaplain did not un- dertake to describe the scar minutely, except as to location, but said he and Mrs. Noble both saw 1t distinctly The presence or absence of this scar is one of the chief points on which the famous identity mystery and $25,000 insurance depends
 The deposition of Mrs, Kate Noble, former acquaintance of Kimnel, was then read She said the claim. ant resembled KimmeL except that his mouth had changed shape through the loss Of his teeth.
 Herrlcks story Of the visit of Mrs kstelle Kimmel and her daughter, Mrs. Beasiett to the prison. differed in some ways from those told by the women in their testimony last week, and some points contradicted' them. He insisted that Mrs Bonstett spoke 10 the claimant as George"
 John M Shetland. bertnHon expert at Auburn prison, then took the stand and described A. J, White, according 10 Bertillion measurements taken of him when he was admitted 10 prison. He said he knew White by two alias, es and that he had served four short terms in iails and prisons in New York state before being sentenced to five years at Auburn for forgery
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5El TheNorlds Champion Bar

"Cn the day the champion ear was found l was at the house at dinner time -and-- one of the men brought it in and laid it. with number or oth- CT ears. upon the wigaaw sill in the well room for me to take and pat away in the seed House
 Well | said, do you think you have eot good ear there2
 "lt looks to me like a good ear he said What do you think Of 1t"
 T picked if up and looked it over well, | said finally, I thiak it Is the most perfect ear of corn I ever saw It's good enough to win the W K Kellogg $looO trophy this year at Omaha
 /. And I was confident the moment 1 saw IT, and looked 1t over, that held the trophy winner in my. hand 50 much SO that when r left fortOm- aha TO exhibit theISgT, nook it out of my grip and showed t to the sta ton agent with the words, That's the ear I'm eoiqg to win the $10oo tro phy with"
 So there's the story of the cham pion gar as Palm told it himself And on tho strengt9 of it who 0ill say that Fred c Palin doesnt justly mer- # the title. The Man Who Knows Corn?
 But that's not all Of Palms story. He tells it willingly. though modest ly. for he knows that his stary when. ever fold is source of great en- tcourasem6nt of the thousands of farm CTS who never had better chance than he had bimselE Palin was born and brought ID on a farm near Newtown, Ind. He has never owned 4 foot of farm Hand in 'hiss life. and the 360.acre farm ea which the cham. pioa ear of corn which won the Kel-
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fered to be awarded ia annual com petition for the best single ear of corn until won twice by tue sane producer
 Ihe Kellogg trophy vas wen in 1910 at Columbus Ohio by E A. James, of Charleston. lli, with ! Qas- nificent ear Of Reids Yellow Dent bnt not SO perfect an.4ear as. taat which orisL4+.u-x. won the trophy and which fas berome blown as "ihe best ear of corn ever grown
 The uexi award of this trop,y win Se mede at the next national coru exposition, which will be held i4- -Eeh- ruary. i9l3, at Columbia. s. C | iS planned to make this exposition much broader in scope than any held in the post. and consequently a qoen time will be required for preparation. Special buildings are being erected for the exposition the main 7.aildne to be 400xl67 feet ground measure ments. The show will last f0 days The state Of South Carolina has ap. propriatcd $40,00O for the expenses of the exposition and the prospect ls that Dixie will Hdo herself proud' in an effort to make this exposition lac greatest Of it's kind Ager held
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CO||i'|lR|i'llI''sssiHH ' X siH| sH||
66e Unique Story of its Discovery

.'sust countryman-that's all" is the way the grower of this remark able ear of corn. Fred C. Palin, styles himself. though he is admitted to be one of the leading corn experts in the country--one whose services are greatly in demand as a judge of corn exhibits, MT, Palin asks for no great CT honor or distinction than to be known as a plain Hoosier farmer, and while he openly professes a req sonabie pride in the achievement of growing the famous ear of corn which was adiudged the most perfect ever grown. it is without a shadow of os- tentatioa.
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The champion ear Of corn. was not an accident There can be no great er lesson in the value of, careful siudy ahd painstaking selection of seed and breeding than the experience of this same Palin The farmer who thinks ne stands chance 10 go into his corn field and by a.piece of luck pick out an ear which Nature has fashioned even more perfectly and with tt 'wrest the honors from this In- diana man. cannot do better to dis abitse his mind of this fallaojous no. tion. than 10 read the story of Plhn and his champion ear
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MINE WORKERS MEET.

McAlester Okla Feb 2i--The United Mine Workers of America Of this district, which comprises Okla homa, Texas and Arkansas. met hrrr in convention today and probably will be in session .sor a week Welcome addresses and speeches and reports ef the officers of the organization took up the day. The treasurer's re- port shows si20.00O to the credit of the defense fund"
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THE WORLDS GREATEST EAR OF CORN

yARIErY-Paus Corn Yellow. CNamed winning ". K. Kellogg Trophyl
 4 HYBRID-The seventh production.
 PARENT PLANTS-Nlae Yellow Fefae Alexand ders
 10 Circumference, 24 inches Number of of kernels nes of Thickness O a  of without well the tip grains poportton-corn
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REDUCE ARKANSAS RATES.

Washington, Feb 2t-Freight rates on wheat and corn and their products from Western Missouri points to Lit tle Rock, Ark. territory. were found today by the interstate commerce conn mission 10 be excessive.
 The commission suggested that the carriers readjuSt their tariffs so tha, the rate on wheat would be reduced from 23 eelis to 2Qia cents hun. dred pounds, and on corn from 10 cents to 171a cents a hundred
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logg trophy was grown is rented farm.
 Mir Palms real experience as farmer began about l6 years ago He had been on the road as a grocery specially salesman, when he toot notion that he would rather be an agriculturist. 80 he took few short courses at Purdue university and rented a portion of the farm he now occupies Nine years ago be began carefully breeding this new variety Of corn. For two years he planted two rows of Seids Yellow Gold, then two of Aiexander's Gold Standard, de, tasseling the Gold Standard. From the detasseled rows he picked Tor seed oaly the ears carrying the char aeterstics he wanted to reproduce, planting these in breeding plots aiid maintaining careful selection, so talt in nine years time he had dcyet oped '~ell-settled type
 The Paln champion ear was the first winner of the w. K Kenor ns- tional corn trophy, a handsome silver and enamel cup made by Tiffany of New York at cost of $l,010 Mir. Kellogg as the originator aud man. ufacturer of Toasted Corn Flakes, naturally 'has a deep interest in the development of the higher grades of corn, The Kellogg trophy was of-
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cELLAS SURRENDER.

New York, Feb. 21--In accordance with the recent decision by the court of appeals of the District of Columbia that the law prohibiting operation of bucket shops in Washington, D. c, was constitutional. Louis and Angelo Celia of St Louis and Samuel w Adler of this city surrendered to rne federal authorities here today They were held in 5000 bail each for fed eral examination in removal proceed ings.
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MEMPHIS WINS GAME.

Memphis Tenn, Feb 2l.-Another basket ball representative from the sister state 0f ArkaHsas fell before Central high schools fangs today when the Green and Gold crew sue ceeded in running mp a total of 65 points wAile the Hot Springs visitors were amassing seven markers. At no time did the boys from bathland have look-in.
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ing tine corn, and the harvest was a
 @ promising one
 We have a sort of corn show al my farm ali the time, and there is always an award fore exceptionally good ears of corn-ears sufficiently true to type to permit of their being exhibited There is Q small box ml every corn wagon in which the most perfect ears are thrown. These, when properly selected, constitute the seed corn, and. among these more perfect ears we occasionally find an ear that we are wiling to exhibit in q con faat
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KNOX CHANGES PLANS.

Washington, Feb 21-Because Of the severe storm a+ong the soajhern coast, Secretary Knox will board the cruiser Washington at Key West in. stead of at Palm Beach. Fla He will embark on February 9. This will not necessltate any change in his itinerary
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Dolan, will be made to the pury to- morrow. Today the state offered its last. witness in rebuttal, Reproduced the setting Of the tragedy of last fall h q Memphis hotel, and finally brought out in full the theory of the state that Hughes killed Dolan by stealth and not in a hand-t0-hand conflict. as the defense claims
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HOW THE TRAINS RUN
IRON MOUNTAIN TIME CARD.
 Trains Arrive

No. 8g3-From local points between Benton and Hot Springs on lpcal freight train (dally except Suuday. 7.l5 a m sas City Memphis, Little Rock. Texas and California. lb:05 a m No. iS-Fr0m St. Louis Kansas City. Fort Smith. Little Rock and Texarkana 2.2b ?. m.
 No. si3-From St Louis. Kansas City. Memphis, Little Rock, Pine Bluff and Texas, l0:l5 D. m.
 Trains Depart. Texas. California, Kansas City, Mem phis and St Louis. 7l5 a. m
 No S5f-For local points between Hot Springs and Benton on local freight train tdaily except snndavj SOC m No. Zo-For Little Rock Fort Smith and Kansas City. II la0 a. m
 No lS-For St Louis. Chicago, Kan SITS CilH-Memphis. Little Huck. Pipe Bluff. TeXds California and New Or leans, 5.30 D. m
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Tn the first place, Palln knows corn. -If there were no more proof ,of tllis fact than the bare story Of inc development and discovery of the champion ear. t would be enough And In proof Of this fact. here is the story as he told il himzelf-.
 + vas in November, 1910 and we were inst harvesting our crop The weather had been good, but we were a olittle late with the harvest Tne men were going through the fields with tlle wagon in the usual way gather
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Wherein George Wilmington and George Washington differ, according to no less authority than J. B. Wood
 This. too, Is the second day of Lent.
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Trains Depart
 ff-SSa .. I'll. daily, except sdnday, Nal vern local.
 7:55 a. m. dolly. Little Rock local. 1:30 D. m. daily. New York and Chi cago. Oklahoma ard Cslls4EHia. 7:25 D. m. daily, Little Rock. Memphis Limited, connects at Memphis for all points
 a.ao D m, daily. excer sunday. Nal vern local
 Trains Arrive.
 iG S5 a n5 daiy. t4om Memphis. Lit tie Rock and Oklahoma.
 lo:o5 a, m., except Sunday, from Nal vsFn.
 a:55 p m. daily, from New YorK and all points east.
 TAO ?. m. daily. from Little Rock Oklahom and points east.
 s;i5 D. m.. aeAeept Sunday, from Mag. vern. "
 No. 46, the 1:aO D, m, train, has through steel sleepers 10 Chicago and Kansas City, parlor car to Memphis aihAd dining car from Little Rock, all steel coaches to Memphis. Direct eogAection at Little Rock to Oklahoma California and all points west Connect at Mem iphis for .sll points. Quickest time to New York city without extra fare.
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HUGHES rsiAL CLOSING.

Memphis, Tenn. Feb. 2f.-Argu- ments in the case or ]. J. Hughes,
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RocK IsLANp rLME cAaa-
Tralne pepart.

All trains arrive and depart from Ben. ton street station. opposite the postof free
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ing the corn, and the harvest was a
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'gg trophy was grown is rented
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-04-26

LOCAL EVENTS II
Nine frame buildings in block
bounded by Church street and
Dodge, barrow and Lyons ayes,
Evanston, destroyed by fire, with
loss Of $4,000. Many persons
partially overcome by smoke.
James Hetherington, 1881 King
place, scalded about legs and
body when,he fell into vat of boil
ing water at plant of Boyle Ice
Co., lbs Eddy street.
Frank Pooler, Hammond Ind,
and his son, Earl, fought over
board bill at Harrison and Clark
streets. Clark street station.
Illinois State Bar association.is
meeting at Hotel LaSalle. Sim
plifcation of court procedure will
be discussed.
Frank Cannon, 6, 610 w. Goth
, street, struck and seriously in
jured by auto truck owned by Jas.
E. Curtis & Co. Chauffeur ar
rested.
IF you want to bum, bum
around with your wife. Husbands
should not be out after 9 o'clock
at night without good excuse. -
Judge Goodnow of domestic rela-I
tons court in passing on family
spat.
Edward Burian, 10, 5000 So.
Winchester ave-, fined SIS and
costs fot shooting birds with sling
shot.
Burglar enters home of A. ].
whitehall, SOB Winthrop ave-,
by climbing rain pipe. Escaped
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-04-26

y 4ADAO4O EOtNlA
Thomas NewboId, proprietor
Exchange Hotel, p E. Van Blu.
rem street, found guilty of oper-
ating disorderly place. Claims
conspiracy \
John Aboda, 1908 Gault court,
had four ribs and left leg brok-
en- when concrete mixer fell on
him.
Mrs. McGrath, 2712 w. Adams
street, and Miss Daisy, R. Will
son, 1884 E. 18th place. cut by fly
ing glass when window in store
of F. w. Woolworth & Co., Mon
roe aand State streets, was blown.
out by Wind.
Mrs. Mary Height, 3144 Flour
noy street, sent her children to
store and then ended her life by
opening burners in gas range.
Thomas Mccarthy, driver, en-
CINE Co. 80, seriously injured
when thrown from his seat re-
spending to alarm.
Fire early today did $4,000
damage to Star Theater, 1853
Milwaukee ave. Four families in
adjoining buildings rescued by
fremen.
Fifteen-foot f1agpole blown
from roof of Tobey Furniture Co.
building, Wabash and Washing
ton, narrowly missing Cottage
Grove ave. car. Passengers in
panic. Streets crowded. No one
hurt.
Frances Netzel, II, 1923 Gil
.rard street, who disappeared from
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19
SOLVING LIVING COST.

Frequently the people OF the
limits of this country that they may
be informed on how to solve a
problem From away down in Uru.
quay, South America, in the region
of the supposed perpetual revolu-
lions, the United. States government
has just secured solution of the
high cost of living problem. The
government of Uruguay made an in
veStigation of this question last
year. The verdict was the high cost
production, nor 10 increase of popu-
lation, nor TO the movement OF the
country people 10 the city, nor TO
the comparative cheapness of gold
on account of the heavy production
of that precious metal, all of which
reasons had been alleged in that
country, the same as in this; but
simply and solely to the rapacity OF
the middlemen who, placing them
selves between the producer and the
consumer, formed combinations and
took all the traffic would bear.
Having satisfied itself of the seat
of the trouble, the government au-
thorized the authorities of Monte
video to appoint market bureau
for the purpose of supplying rem
edy. This was done for the estab-
lishment of so-called free markets i'll
different parts of the city. The bu-
reau investigated the prices of the
various necessities of life, paying
particular attention to the questions
of cost and reasonable profit, and
placed large posters in all the free
markets stating the prices at which
the different articles might be sold
there. From the first the daily at
tendance at each market ran from
$500 to 5000 buyers. and the first
merchants and butchers to establish
stalls in the markets did so much
business that prices all over the city
were Immediately effected The at
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19
ENDORSING MAJOR SMITH.

Major W. w. Smith of Sleepy Eye
continues to receive favorable men
ton for delegate to the republican
national convention from the second
district. Most every republican
newspaper in the district has en-.
dorsed his candidacy and strongly
urges his election. The Free Press
does not know of republican in
the district who is more entitled TO
this honor. Mr.. Smith is one OF
those men who stands by the re-
publican party during storm and sun.
shine. He never has wayered in his
fidelity to the principles of the
party and has supported in sub
stantial manner its candidates. The
Free Press hopes the district con-
vention will elect Mr.. Smith dele.
gate by a unanimous vote. He Ger.
tainly deserves that signal recoGni
ton.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19
PROGRESS OF THE FIGHT.

Substantial progress in the anti
tuberculosis campaign will be re-
ported when the National Association
for the Study and Prevention of
Tuberculosis meets in Washington
on May 80 and 81 Dr.. Mazyck I.
Ravenel OF the University of Wis
consin is president of the associa-
ton, and Colonel Theodore Roose,
welt and Sir William Osler are
honorary vice-presidents.
One of the subjects that will re.
ceive especial attention at the meet,
ing will be that of the permanent
value of the cure of tuberculosis
in restoring patients to working ef.
ficiency Dr. Herbert N. King OF
the Loomis sanatorium, Liberty, n.
Y, will discuss the subject from the
point of view of sanatorium treat
ment.
DIR. II. X. NJ Lands. director OF
the clinical department of the
Henry Phipps Institute of Philadel.
phia will present the results of dis.
pensary treatment. DR.. w. j. Voge,
Ter of Yonkers, n. Y, will show how
discharged sanatorium patients fare
best when they return to work in
their original occupations.
Professor Irving Fisher of Yale
university will present revised fig.
ures. as to the cost of tuberculosis
and will show the economic loss
from the disease and the value oil
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19
Prepare. to swat the fly.
WORK OF THE DEVIL.

NJ ID. Nealy. the young man who
absconded three months ago with
$4,000 belonging to the several rail
road companies that enter the St
Paul union depot, where NeaIy was
employed as ticket agent, lays his
downfall to drink and gambling.
Nealy is not the first victim to fall
before the wiles of the cup and the
green cloth. Many have been drag.
ged down in like manner and
there are others Who will wind lip
their careers the same way. The
devil turks in the social glass and
he is ever near the gaming table,
and how he doth gloat over his work
Of destroying the souls and bodies
OF those who are weaker than him.
self.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19
WILL BE INTERESTING.

The Minneapolis Tribune says:
THE attitude of Congressman W. S.
Hammond on the presidential fight
will be extremely interesting and
will have an important bearing on
the result. Should the Wilson PEG,
pie develop sufficient strength to
show their candidate first choice,
Mr.. IIammond's influence may be
thrown 10 the proposed plan to en-,
dorsing Wilson for first choice and
Clark for second choice. Mr. Ham
mond's association with the speaker
in congress would naturally incline
him to favor the candidacy of the
Missourian. Yes. it will be decid-
eddy interesting to know where Mr..
Hammond does stand.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19
VISIT YOUR SCHOOL.

Paters TIousekeeper: To The
Households: To mothers, fathers.
older brothers, sisters. aunts, UNI
cles, grandfathers and grandmothers
Chis concerns you ALL, why don't
you visit the schools? You work
hard TO pay school taxes, teachers
wages, etc; YOU go TO socials got
ten mp 10 get a new clock or an
organ for your home school, you go
and help plant trees on Arbor day;
you go to the Christmas tree exer-
cises when the pupils and teachers
are on their good behavior; but
when do you visit the school TO see
what the teacher is doing during
the common everyday days? Fathers
and mothers, you send your most
precious possessions to school to a
teacher you don't know. Would you
give your pocketbook 10 stranger
and let him keep ii for you without
finding out about him first? No.
you would ask about him. talk with
him, invite him to your house that
you might note his ways, ETC., but
what do you know about your teach
er? Is she moral? Is she working
for the good Of your children, or Is
her only thought-wages? is she
controlling her temper and likewise
the children, or is she letting them
run wild?
You ladies in your Ladies Aids,
why don't you set yourselves to Wis
ting your schools Systematically?
Let two ladies go each week to your
school and stay several hours. Do
not pick out certain day and do
not tell the teacher or pupils that
you arc coming. Surprise them al
ways. Find out how your school is
run. Are you getting your moneys
worth9 Do you want the same
teacher again? Is it worth while
to have a school? And If the teach
ers are good, conscientious teachers,
they will welcome you most heart
lily. 1t will give zest to their work
to know that the parents are inter-
ested and have come to see the
good work they and their pupils are
doing. If she is not a good teacher,
find out about it. Does she neglect
the slow ones? Is she letting them
all play? You want your children
to get through your school with
good credits; you want them to 90
to high school. to normals, 10 enter
the battle of life in good intellectual
trim. Then visit your school. say
the whole family, the hired girl
and the hired man, Don't all go IN
a bunch, but go. And besides, you
will learn lot of things you did
not know about.