The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-01-17

have no direct evidence that Mrs.
McCloskey gave $25 to the man who
called on her Friday morning
St Paul, January 1.-THE state
board of control has chosen Charles
G. Reed, the present superintendent
of the Washington state penitentiary
! at Walla Walla, to be superintendent
of the state reformatory at st. Cloud,
succeeding Frank l.. Randall, who
resigned some months ago, TO take
effect May 1, 1913.
Mr. Reed was born in Clay coun-
ty, Ill.,, in 1862. His people removed
to Indiana while he was still young.
He was graduated from the teach
ers' department of the Central nor
NAL school at Danville, Ind, in 1883,
and taught school for two years. He
removed to Kansas in 1885. He was
appointed census taker of Scott coun-
1 ty, Kansas, by Governor Martin in
1886, and later appointed temporary
county clerk of said county, and af-
/ terward was elected to fill the same
position. He removed to the state or
Washington in March, 1889, and en-
gagged in the abstract business with
the Whittlesey Abstract company of
! Seattle for three years. He was APP
pointed clerk of the police depart
ment in the early spring of 1894,
and in April, 1896, was appointed
chief of police of Seattle, serving
during all the Klondike gold excite
ment. He resigned his position as
chief on January 1901, and was ap-
| pointed member of the state board
| of control of Washington on April
! l, 1901, serving until July l, 1903,
when he took the position of super
| intendent of the state reform school
! at Chehalis on the request of Gov
ernor Mcbride. He served in that
| position until September IS, 1907,
when he was appointed superintend-
ent of the state penitentiary. He is
president of the National Wardens'
Association of the United States and
member of the executive commit.
tee of the American Prison associa
I ton.
The board believes the new super
intendent 10 be in every respect well
equipped for the important position
at st. Cloud.
St Paul, January 14.-Representa-
tive Thomas Kneeland of Hennepin
! county introduced recall bill in the
house last night, providing for the
recall of both administrative and jul
dicial officers.
Kneeland's bill provides that a Pc
IN DIM in iStr nj
ficer must bear at least % per cent
of the number of voters at the last
election; for judicial officers 80 per
cent is required. The bill provides
that persons who circulate the petit
tons are to receive no compensation.
The officer whose recall is sought
remains i'm office until the election
determines whether he is TO be re-
moved. In case there is but one
candidate against him at the election
that candidate must receive a major
ity of votes; in case there are three,
the highest candidate must receive at
least 40 per cent of all votes cast,
and if there are four or more the
highest candidate must receive at
least so per cent of the votes cast.
Otherwise the incumbent remains in
office.
The recall, under provision in the
Kneeland bill, cannot be made ap-
plicable until the man whom it IS
sought to recall has been in office
at least six months. Representatives
and senators in the state legislature
are exceptions to this provision.
They may be recalled twenty days
after the opening of the session to
which they were elected.
st. Paul, January 14.-Out of twen-
ty-eight applicants for pardons or
Communication of sentence whose cases
were considered yesterday afternoon
by the state board of pardons meet
ing in the Governors office at the
Capitol, only three were acted upon
favorably
Albert F. Bulman, seventeen years
old, sentenced to the state reforma-
tory from Kandiyohi county last
October for stealing a check out Of
a grip, was pardoned on condition
| that he go home to his parents in
! Ohio. 1t was his youth and the fact
! that he made no effort to cash the
check that appealed to the board
Frank Wilson and John Kelly, both
sentenced from Hennepin county,
September 90, 1906, for highway rob-
| berry, to serve fifteen years, secured
Communication of sentence to ten years
which makes them eligible to parole.
Both are young men, and the board
considered they were victims of evil
companions and have now reformed.
Among the cases in which commu-
tation or pardon were denied were
those of John Ryan, sentenced from
| Ramsey county for swindling last
May, and Sam Adler, sentenced from
Ramsey county, June IA. 1911, for
shooting Mrs. Mamie Kane. The
woman recovered. The case of Tim
othy Murphy, a former captain of
the Volunteers of America, serving a
sevcn-year sentence for embeZZllng,
was continued
The $3.50 reward offered by Cover.
nor Eberhart for the arrest of III.
w. Parker embezzling Winnebago
bank official now serving a sentence
at Saltwater. will be paid to ]. T,
Johnson of West Point Ca, and F.
c. McEntire and A. g. White OF
Gainesville, Ga Parker was arrest
ed in West Point, Ca
r. A. Hopkins, charged with petit
u, haf Nm, iptY mol