The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-02-07

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in German, the former typewriter.
In the last letter. which was type
written in plain English and was
short and to the point, Quitting was
informed that bill had come to
the company from a hotel in Wa.
terville. 1t ordered Quitting to send
in his contracts with the company
and made some personal illusions
to his habit of staying around ho'
tells and runnin Cup board bills and
not getting out in the country and
doing business with the farmers.
The firm threatened, if he did not
send in contracts at once to get
out postcards advertising the fact
that he was no longer connected
with the company At the time
when these letters were written
Quitting was in Miles City, Montana.
The firm called his attention to the
fact that he had been in a scrape
over a board bill with the CONNER
cial hotel in Faribault and evident
ly the company settled this bill.
They now warned him that he
would have to take the consequent
,ces if he was caught.
Contract For Land.
A contract was also found in Dut-
tings room whereby he became the
owner of piece of land in Custer
county, near Miles City, Mont.
There were also cards from several
nursery companies all over the
United States. A picture postal
was found showin~ Quitting and an,
other man standing near an auto
mobile.
The council approved this morn
ing the appointment of Officers j.
G. Scbrodt, Mic Tbilgen and A. f.
Carlson to succeed Officer Joseph
Budde, deceased, and Officers A. O.
Hovig and Charles Scoville, re-
signed. The promotion OF Frank
Bienapfi to the office of desk ser
geant was also confirmed The
bonds of Mic Thilgen and j. e.
Schrodt, each for $500. were ap'
proved and as Mr.. Carlson has not
had sufficient time yet to get his
bond ready, Mayor Taylor was au-
thorized by the council to approve II
when it shall be presented.
Chief of Police J. w. Donahue re
ported that for the month of Janu
airy ten arrests had been made and
fifty-three lodgings given. The IL
quor bonds of Oscar Olson and
George j. Grabowinski We're ap
proved.
The following building permits
were granted. Inside fire limits: TIC
Ole Nelson, on lot 8. auditors plat
of Nelson's subdivision to block =
Warren's addition, remodeling front
of present dwelling, estimated cost
$3.50. Outside fire limits: To H. j.
Roberts, on ga acres in the neA
of the swA of the swA of section
IS, Mankato township a frame
dwelling, one and one-half stories
"a by &c, estimated cost $1,000.
Worcester, Mass, February g.
Clarence Z. Upper, as counsel fol
A. L. Hilton of Worcester, has sued
the Mankato Mill company of Man
kato, Mimi, for $4,000 in an action
on contract. The action will be
heard at the February session of the
superior civil court.
w. l.. Hixon, at sthe head of the
mills company, had not heard OF the
action until Informed by The Free
Press. Mr. Hilton was formerly q
carder at the mills, and the action
grows out of his having left the
employ of the company. The com
pany claims that Hilton violated hi:
contract.
Eldora, Iowa, February 3.-Press
reports state that Mrs. Irene Thorn
as of Spirit Lake, Iowa, who died
recently, was the last survivor Of
the Spirit Lake Indian massacre
But Mrs. Abbie Gardner Sharp o.
Spirit Lake is alive and in goo(
health, considering her age and the
terrible sufferings she endured
in the early days through trouble
with the Indians She was in cap
tivity for several years, but secured
her release through the friendlines:
of one of the chiefs, and returned
to her people.
Owatonna, Mimi, February g.
The chief of the police system o.
the rock Island railway today raid
ed a shack erected on railway prop
erty one block from the business
district by a band of boys, all son;
of well-known families. The hui
was well furnished, even to having
a telephone installed, and bore the
terror-striking name of mine o
Diamonds or House of Death" The
chief believes he has broken III
a band which promised to become
inimical.
ST. Paul, February George Mac
Kenzie of Gaylord, member Of the
last house, who introduced the bill
abolshing capital punishment, wa:
defeated in the primaries on tina
issue last fall by Ernest c. Ples'
of Gibbon, and Mr.. Pless has intro
duced bill to restore the dealt
penalty in Minnesota. His PROPOSE
ton differs from the old law, how
ever, in that he would leave it t.
the jury to say whether the con
victed man should be hanged or 81
! to prison for life.
| Late Friday night seven dollar:
/ in money was taken from the safe
in the office of E. Coy's livery ant
barn. None of the attaches of the
barn was in the office at the time
! but about eleven o'clock two call!
came in asking for hacks to be sen
out, but both calls proved to b.