The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-01-24
Uncle Sans stamp store the hest
service they ever enjoyed


service they ever enjoyed.
The MankatO poultry show opened
yesterday with seventyfive entries
The towns which are represented in
the exhibits are Spring Valley, st.
Paul, New Ulm, Lakefield, Fairmont,
st. Peter, Kasota and NicOllet. The
number of birds entered is about
525.
Yesterday and today the show was
not opened to the public but every
one is invited and urged to attend
next week. The small breeders have
more exhibits there than they had
last year, and the grade of the ex,
hibits is very high.
J. w. HOLMAN, secretary and trea-
surer of the association is in charge
of the show.
The show is. at G25 and 627 South
Front street in the old Presley
building.
o. w. Walker. the real estate man.
| has sold for Albert r. Henning of
| Chicago thirty acres of the slough
lying between Front and Pleasant
street, to l. A. Pelton. The consid-
Grafton was $4,000. Mr.. Pelton owns
that part of the slough lying on the
east side of Pleasant street. He is
thinking of running a ditch through
both slonghs and draining the land.
| Mr.. Walker sold the Eberhart
fats at Spring and Broad streets
for Thomas Simmons of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, to Fred Stone, a re-
tired farmer from near Walnut
Grove, for $4,000. Mr. Stone has
purchased the property as an invest
ment. He will improve it and bring
the fiat up to date.
| The Minnesota Veterinary Medical
association held a business session
and election of officers in ST. Paul
yesterday. Clinics at DR.. e. C. Cot
tons hospital in Minneapolis con.
cluded the sixteenth annual cOnven
ton today.
The officers elected are: M. r..
IIiebee, Albert Lea, president; Il. La
Pointe, st. Peter, first vice presi-
dent: c. s. Shore, Lake City, second
vice president; G. Ed Leech, Wi.
mona, secretary and treasurer.
The new board of directors COM
prises, ]. " Gould, Worthington; r.
P. Dodds, Lake Crystal, and c. e.
Cotton, Minneapolis.
! A sale in partition was conducted
at the court house at 1870 o'clock
this afternoon. The property on
North Broad street known as the
Bruggerman house was sold to ST.
man Zeigler his bid being 5000.
A few days ago like sale was
made of the John Page farm of
forty. acres in Nicollet county to
Elmer Burnett. His bid was $4,000.
| Two pieces of silk, twenty-five
yards in each piece, and described
as laundry, having been wrapped in
paper, were left at the saloon of Al
and Joe, 237 South Front street,
Yesterday morning at nine o'clock.
The fellow who left the package
had been in the saloon several times
before and when he came into the
place yesterday. morning and asked
permission to leave his laundry there
for short time, nothing strange
was thought of the matter by either
of the proprietors. However, when
Mr.. Wagenhals learned last even.
ing of the invasion of George f.
Brett's Inc. store he at once made
an investigation of the bundle of
laundry" He was surprised to find
that silk made up the package. He
conveyed the silk to the police sta
ton and presented it to Chief OF
Police Donahue, who made a further
examination of the cloth.
The chief discovered blood on the
silk. This find convinced the chief
of the fact that the silk had been
taken from the Brett store, as the
man who had entered the emporium
had left the evidence by blood drops
on the floor.
This morning the silk was shown
to John Koch of the silk depart.
. ment of the Brett establishment and
he identified it as having been taken
from the stock of that establish
ment.
Mr.. Koch stated that the value OF
the silk was SO and So cents per
yard. Mr.. Koch could not say
whether any more silk had been talk
en- from the store.
Description of Stranger.
The stranger who left the silk at
AL and Joe's saloon, was dressed in
a brown suit of clothes, a cap and
no overcoat. He was about thirty
years of age and five feet ten inches
in height. He had been in the sa
loon several times, purchased few
drinks, was quiet in his demeanoI
land had but very little to say tC
anyone. He has not been in the sa
loon since leaving the package there
yesterday morning.
IT was stated at the police station
TODAY that the stranger attempted
on Thursday night to sell silk in the
Model restaurant, and that also he
requested man in the Al and Joe
saloon to purchase silk. This was
between 1890 and eleven o'clock
No one bought the silk, but it is
evidence that the burglary in the
Brett store was committed early in
the night.
This is the only clew that the of
. ficers have to the burglary. AS stat
!, ed in these columns last evening
there was no evidence against the
man who left his blood-staiEed coal
. and vest at a tailoring establish
ment to be cleaned.
!; 1t is evident that the fellow who
!, left the silk in the saloon got ''cold