The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-07-04
new LAWS IN Effect
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Beginning today 'ten r the twelve
members of jury can return a
verdict in a civil action after twelve
hours elaboration. At the same time
the new rules of the supreme court
modifying procedure go into effect.
Other important laws, which are
now in effect are: Abolition. of pub
lie drinking cup, pure seed law, law
compelling physicians to report in,
dustrial diseases; law requiring FL
ing chattel mortgages with, register of
deeds instead of town clerks; law
amending method of serving sum-
mons; law. prohibiting directed YER
diets; uniform negotiable instrument
law, and law limiting appeals to SUI
preme court. nf Spt
Of these probably the most far
reaching in effect is ! the uniform
negotiable instrument lawpaa,Up. to
the present time the Minnesota laws
regarding commercial paper have been
in a chaotic state, and. the new act
makes them conform to, the most
approved practice in other states.
The passage of this. law was among
the recommendations of the national
commission on uniform laws and leg
islation.
The new law which abolishes the
public drinking cup is being enforc-
ed in Mankato today. The drinking
cups in the city hall have been done
away with, and the city officials
must either drink at the fountain
outside or furnish a private cup.
Park Commissioner Lack has given
| City Engineer ! Blomquist instruc-
tions to have installed in Sibley park,
a sanitary drinking fountain, and the
cup from the well has been removed.
/ It will be necessary to carry a pri-
vate cup to get drink from the
wells
The other new law which puts the
care of chattel mortgages in the
hands of the county register of
deeds, and incidentally the fees
charged for filing them, is also be-
ing put into effect, and City Clerk
F. w. Bates is carrying all the chat
ftel mortgages to the court house on
1.-THE hill
| G. F. LEM, engineer at the city
pumping station, says that Mankato
people should not be afraid, to drink
all the water they want, for the sup
ply is still far more than the amount
being consumed.
/ During June of this year there have
been sixteen days when more than
a million gallons has been pumped
In 1911 there were eleven days wher
tthe amount passed the million mark
and during June, 1912, there were
six days when the million mark was
passed. The largest amount pumped
any day during June of last year wa:
1,28S,000 gallons. During the entire
past week 100000 gallons have beer
pumped each day and ON one or tive
days the amount reached 100000
More than half of this amount i:
used in houses and the rest is pu
on the gardens and lawns.
The capacity is, 1,750,000 gallons
a day, although one day during thu
latter part of last summer the
amount went to 100000.
The water is supplied by four wells
one on Broad street, one on Secont
street and, two below Front, wher,
the pumping station is. located
Three of the wells are $50 feet dee
and the other one is 1850 feet il
depth. All of the wells flow into thu
pumping station and the water is forces
from there into the system, of mains
The tank on Agency Hill is also SUP
piled from the central station an,
holds about $4,000 gallons. TIL
: people supplied from that tank u.s.
about 100000 gallons a, week.
twenty-five hours-~is the longes
time. during any one day that tn
pumps have been operated and tn
average time of pumping is abou
nineteen hours. 1t is interesting t
: know that on Sundays about 10000
gallons less water is pumped than O
the. other days of the week.
: In response to suggestion from
E. T. Winship of .Owatonna, one @
the Capitol-National highway boost
1 ers, Mayor Keller has conferred wit
!, the state highway commission an
2 devised a plan to interest contractor
: in bidding on that portion of tn
2 road between Westcott, Dakota cour
ty, and the south line of Rice count!
t, AT the recent meeting of the Ran
G tsey and Dakota county commission
ers at Hastings only one bid 70
Y i building this stretch of the ,highwa
e was received,
Bids are now to be received o
three different specifications one fo
!. grading the road alone. one for pr
5 viding $50 cubic yards of gravel
the mile, and one for providing 80
CUBIC yards Of gravel to the mil
and grading.
|, A check found on the street t,
day, was turned over to Chief of p
!. lice Eli Klugherz. The check
drawn on the Citizens National banl
:. and in favor of one Gilbert Denve