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Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-03

LIST YOUR LAND-for sale or ex-
change. Have some cash buyers and
several good properties to exchange
for Imperial property. Just now
have fine ten room home In the
best resident section that can ex-
change for Imperial land, either i'm
proved or REIMBURSEMENT. A. l..
BLISS, 32S Bradbury Bldg, Los An
geles. tt
FOR SALE-640 acres alfalfa, soft
land, $155 per acre. Easy terms.
viii accept part exchange San Diego
property. EDGAR BROS. REALTY
CO., 500 Main St.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-03
LOS ANGELES GRAIN MARKET

Los Angeles, Dec. 3-Following is
range of quotations yesterday fur
nished by the Los Angeles grain ex-
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-03

FOUR BIG WORK MULES.
Choice $75 per head or $275 for all
four; good workers and will make
good Fresno or farm teams; big bar
gain for cash; must sell. 905 Fifth
ST., Ell Centre. If
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-03

240 acres, only l mile from station, 40
acres of this land is in the river and
the rest is the finest kind of soft
soil. No waste. Price $4,000. This
ranch is a bargain at the price.
ALLEN & ALLEN
1856 52Sb Main st.
FOR SALE-Assignmen on west side
property, partially improved, at $40
II sold this week. Best yet. Liens
Agency, exclusive agent. 107-108-
100. over First Natioral Bank. II
5Ox14O. Price $4,000. Terms, $4,000
cash, balance l and years at
per cent. EDGAR BROS. REALTY
CO., 500 Main st.
FOR SALE-A $500 large modern
house on a $4,000 lot, cream OF loca-
tion. for $4S00 half cash. Inquire at
Press office. IT
FOR SALE-Relinquishmen 240 acres,
sandy land, miles south Of Holt
Vile; 40 acres leveled; 1876 shares of
water stock. Price $4,000 an acre.
ALEXANDER G. INGRAM, Real Es-
tate, 506 Main st.
FOR -sALE-At the right price, 100 q:
Main street frontage. VARNEY
BROS. & CO. If
FOR SALE-S0 acres soft land near Me-
loland. 500 per acre. HARRISON
LAND CO. If
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-03
FOR RENT-REAL ESTATE

WE WILL build business block 65x100
on oC~ eth and State street corner, to
suit responsible tenant Five or ten
year lease. JONES INVESTMEN :,
CO. tt
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-03
PROFESSIONAL CARDS

POWERS, MARIONEAUX &c RITTER
Attorneys and Counselors
Suite 726 Washington Building
Los Angeles, Calf.
o. w. Powers Thomas MarioneauX
B. F. Rither Roger W. Powers
General Practice All Courts
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-03

FOR SALE-14 Duroc Jersey brood
sows with pigs. Both pigs and sows
in fine healthy condition Address
GEO. w. WRIGHT, Box 332, Holt
VILE, Calf. x1S7
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-09
BODY FILLED WITH LEAD
Charles Tessmer. Ir., Shot Sell In His
Room at Sanb0rn; Tired OF
Living

Charles Tessmer, Jr., son of G. G.
Tessmer of Sanborn, committed sui
eide in his room in the Sanborn
hotel. He had gone to his room in
the afternoon. About 4:30 several
shots were heard by Mr.. Yeager,
proprietor of the hotel, who rushed
upstairs and found the door locked.
Mr.. Yeager went to call the mar
ishal and several more shots were
heard When the marshal arrived
the door was opened and the unfor
tunate man found lying unconscious
on the bed with thirty-two calibre
revolver in his hand, and three bull
let holes in his head behind the
right ear There were also two bull
llet holes in the window easing near
the bed and one bullet had gone
through the window pane. The man
showed remarkable vitality, in the
fact that after he had emptied the
revolver once, shooting five times,
he took the empty cartridges out of
the gun, put them in his trunk. locked
the trunk, reloaded the gun and fir.
ed another shot, all this with several
bullets in his head.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-09
SAvESBRICK FROM HARM
New Device Installed at Stations AIonq
The Omaha Road; "Anti-Baggage
Smasher"

The Omaha road, like all other
railroads, is not especially noted for
the gentle way in which some pas
sengers' luggage is handled, and it is
alleged that the new contrivance at
the union depot was not designed for
the purpose of saving the trunks,
but to save the brick platform, when
the heavy sample cases and trunks
fall upon it from the baggage trucks.
The "anti-baggaga smasher" is the
result of bright idea of an EN-
ploye of the Omaha road. He made
one for his own use in a small up
state station, and his idea has been
confscated, and now the officials are
distributing them all along the line.
The principal material used in con-
struction of the device are short ends
of two inch air hose, which cannot
be used for anything else. The hose
is fastened transyersely across a
wooden base about three feet long
by two feet wide. This makes a
very efficient mat to keep the iron
shod corners of the trunks from cut
ting hicks in the brick platform and
making big dents in the baggage
room floor.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-09
HIS CLAIM is ALLOWED
Eli PettijOhn Wins In His FOry-Two
Year Fight With the Govern
meDt

A claim for which Eli Pettijohn
ninety-four years old and Mime.
sofas oldest pioneer, had been fight
ing for forty-two years was allowed
yesterday by the government court
of claims in part, and the aged
man within another year will re-
ceive $S,400.. .-y.zI.s, -~,.-.-,-.-s~a.>
Mr.. Pettijohn's claim arose from
the appropriation by the govern
ment in 1861, as result of the
opening of the Civil war, of his 1856
acre farm near the fort and all that
went with it. The Federal soldiers
took possession of it and his house
and ate up his cattle and stores. In
1871 claim for $4,000 in com
pensation was presented to the gov.
eminent.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-09
That City and Ramsey County
Will Spend Sc, 500
BOARD DISCUSSED MATTER
Association OF Commerce In Sanity
Town Gives Its Endorsement
To Proposition

Ramsey county proposes to expend
$4,000 in Hennepin county to ex.
tend the post road selected by the
United States government running
from Mankato. The road will be
tapped at the Bloomington bridge
and brought into st. Paul. A plan
was discussed yesterday by the Ram.
sey county board and the st. Paul
Association of Commerce In addi,
ton to tapping the road the city OF
ST. Paul will help Hennepin and
Ramsey counties to build the road
Under recent law the road will
be built by Ramsey county, although
it is in Hennepin county The road
will be tapped at the Bloomington
avenue bridge, and this will make it
from a quarter to half mile nearer
st. Paul than Minneapolis.
At a meeting of the roads and
street committee of the Association
of Commerce yesterday, it was Stat
ed that the boosters for the road
had the impression that st. Paul was
opposed to the road because it was
working for the Faribault highway
which will come directly into st.
Paul
Found Strong Sentiment For It.
When John III. Hohmann of Man
kato appeared before the Association
of Commerce tomorrow he will find
that organization strongly in favor
of the road and willing to raise sew
eral thousand dollars to help it
along.
The tapping OF the new post road
is considered a ten-strike by the
jobbers and merchants A number
who attended the meeting went on
record as willing to help raise the
amount that the ADMINISTRATORS
people thought st. Paul ought to
give.
With the Faribault and Mankato-
Shakopee roads ST. Paul will have
Continued on Page Two.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-09
MISS WAKEFIELD WEDS
Daughter ofFOrmer Governor, Maryland,
Married to Count LedoChOwsM,
OF Germany
rspecia, to The free Press.l

Baltimore, Nd, May Miss Louise
Warfeld, daughter of former cover.
nor of Maryland and Mrs. Warfeld
was married today to count Vladimir
Ledochowski, of Poland, in this city
The ceremony took place at the Lin
den avenue home of the bride, and
was performed by Cardinal Gibbons.
Count Ledochowski is Catholic
The countess is a Presbyterian.
The date of the wedding marks the
sixty-fifth birthday of the brides ia,
Their. 1t was arranged that the cere,
mony would be of a simple nature, due
principally to the fact that Miss War.
fields grandmother died a few weeks
ago.
Following the wedding the couple
went to New York and soon leave
for Europe, where they will be met
by the brother of the bride, Mr. Ed
win Warfield Jr., who is now in
Turkey. Young Mr. Warfield will ac
company the bride and bridegroom to
the ancestral estate of Count Ledo
chowski, near Warsaw, where the
couple will make their home.
Count Ledochowski is a graduate
of the University of Vienna, and an
officer of the German army
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-09
THINKS j. C. B. Her SON
Woman at Wilmington. N. c.. Writes
Concerning Man Of Mystery
AT Rochester

Nation wide interest has been
aroused in the identity of the mys,
terious -. c. r. or Richard Roe, .
who has been o patient at the Ro-
chester state hospital for the insane
for four years. Yesterday C. J.
Swendsen, member of the state
board OF control, received two let
tiers of inquiry, one from Whining
ton, N. c.. and the other from Hol-
land. Mich.
The Wilmington letter is from
Mrs. A. f. Loftin who says her son,
Joseph M. Loftin, disappeared in
1907, about the time the Rochester
patient was found at Waseca, Mimi.
The last she heard from him was a
letter dated ST. Paul. He has a
wife and two children in Atlanta
Ga. His father was DR.. l. C. M
Loftin.
81 would love so much. if you
think it might be my son, to get
his picture" writes the mother. my
boy served in the Spanish-American
war"
The letter from Holland, Mich.
was from Thomas P. Eastman who
says he had a brother in the navy
who disappeared about 1907.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-09
GIVING OF THE MARKINGS
Visions of 500 Fines and Sixty Days
In the BastiIe Haunt Cigaret
Smokers

Visions of 500 fines and sixty
days sentences in Jail have been
confronting users of cigarets who
give "the markings" to friends and
acquaintances, since it has been
discovered the new cigaret law con
tains provision applying to the
giving away of cigaret papers and
tobacco.
This is the section that has pro
duced the visions and caused the
fear and trembling in many quar-
tiers.
The law provides as maximum
penalty for violation of the provi
sion sixty-day Jail sentence and
500 fine for each offense.
1t has been discovered, too, that
the law for licensing the liquor
traffic has the same provision about
giving away drinks.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-09
LOUISBISHMAN, SR. DEAD
An AGED Resident Of Mankato Passed
Away After Suffering With
Pneumonia

Louis Bishman, ST. died last night
at the family home, 322 East Lime
street, after suffering with pneu-
monia. He was eighty-five years of
age and has been resident of Man
kato for number of years.
Mr. Bishman was born in Hessen,
Darmstadt, Germany and came to
America when he was about twenty
years of age He located in Mooney,
H., and was married there in 1860.
In 1867 he came to Mankato with
his family and has been a resident
of the city since that time
He leaves six children to mourn
his death. They are c. A. Bishman,
Louis Bishman and Herman Bish-
man of this city, Mrs. William Stree
bel of Mankato, Mrs. Frank Tixley
of Montrose. S. d., and Mrs. Burtin
Alderman of Mapleton. all of whom
have been here during his illness.
The funeral will be held from the
home on Lime street at 2 o'clock Fri
day afternoon. Rev. A. F. Winter
will have charge of the service. The
interment will be made at the Ger
man Lutheran cemetery.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-09
DOES NOT DRINK LIQUOR
Theodore Hansen. Young Man Who
Suffered Epileptic Fit and Had
TussIe With Police

1t seems that an injustice has
been done Theodore Hansen, the
North Mankato young man who was
injured very seriously a few weeks
ago and was seized with an epileptic
fit Saturday evening and had to be
cared for at the police station. Some
trouble was caused the chief of po-
lice in handling the unfortunate
young man while in the fit, and the
chief had a fierce struggle to SUBJ
due him and still not hurt the young
man. The injury to his head, which
he sustained some time ago in a
runaway accident is not yet well,
and slight bump on this part of
his head might result very seriously.
The condition of the young man
after having the fit led the chief to
believe that he had been drinking,
but the attending physician, DR.. J.
w. Andrews says that Mr.. Hansen
does not drink at all and that he
certainly had not been drinking on
this occasion. DR.. Andrews states
that Mr.. Hansen is an exemplary
young man and that the epileptic
fits are the result of a nervous at
Fiction, and of that only. DIR. An
drews also declares he did not in
fer that the injury to his head
might cure his epilepsy.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-09
DEATH OF LITTLE GIRL
Daughter of Oscar Olson Is Victim oil
Spinal Meningitis; III Two
Months

Ranghild Anna Carolina Olson, the
eight year old daughter of Oscar Oh
son died last night at the home of
her father, 127 South Front, of tu
bercular meningitis The little CIR
was quite sick about two months
ago but improved and was able to
return to school About two weeks
ago she again became very i'll and
gradually grew worse until her death
occurred. She leaves her father
two brothers and sister, all Older
than herself. The funeral will be
held tomorrow afternoon at the
Swedish Lutheran church at 1870
when Rev. o. J. Arthur will have
charge. The. interment will be
made at the Swedish Lutheran Gem
etery
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-09
SHOT ENDED HIS LIFE
Melvin EngeDsen Become Despondent
And Committed Suicide: Lived
Near gisgham Lake

Melvin Engelsen committed sui
eide by shooting Monday forenoon.
The Englesen family lives on the
Diemer farm, about one mile south
of Bingham Lake. He had been de-
spondent for a few days previous
but the idea that he would attempt
to do himself harm was hardly
thought Of Monday morning he
arose and soon after took twenty
two rifle and with twenty-five long
cartridge shot himself through the
head. He lived about five hours
after the shooting He was thirty
three years of age.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-09
BURGLARS AT W|NoNA
Latest Invasion Of These Gentry Is
Studio; No CIeW to Unlawful
Providers

Winona, Mimi, May THE dia-
mond glass cutting burglars are con-
tinuing their operations in Winona,
although without noteworthy sue
cess in recent attempts since the
burglary of two weeks ago at Nc
Me & Co.'S store, when a haul of
was made. The latest place where
entrance was attempted was the
studio of ]. l. Van Vranken, where
a rear window was cut open con-
trolling the bolt on big ventilating
window. The intruders were evil
IDENTIFY frightened away at this point,
for nothing inside the place indicat-
ed their presence.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-09
SEVEN DAYS PROGRAM;
/. FINEST THINGS BOOKED
Arrangements Make For Holding
Chautauqua In Mankato
OPENING DATE is JULY nth
Number of Supurb Attractions Listed
Many Prominent Men Will Deliver
Lectures Here

Builders of the chautauqua pro-
gram for this year believe that they
have succeeded in outdoing all previ-
Gus efforts. This claim is made, not
only with reference to the quality of
talent to be presented, but in the
arrangement and artistic balance of
the program.
AS heretofore. there will be seven
musical organizations. one for each
day. The headliner among these is
Thaviu's International band that
comes this time forty strong. Ac-
companying the big band will be
twelve grand opera singers, among
whom We find the names of Signore
Bartossi of the Lumbardo Opera
company and Giacconno of the Bos-
ton Opera company. This great
band, REINFORCED and improved will
be the most expensive of all chau-
tauqua attractions offered anywhere.
Six Musical Companies.
There are six more musical COM
panies. The Spanish Ladies' orches-
fists appearing in Spanish costume.
The Jacob Reuter- company is the
concession of classical taste and is
very strong and pleasing organiza-
tion. The Dunbar Male Quartet and
Bell Ringers are without a peer in
the musical entertainment line. The
Harmony Concert Company is ver-
satile and very popular. The Riner
Sisters are coming back; and they
ARE the kind that can come back.
The Edwin r. Weeks company, head
cd by Edwin r. himself brings fun
ana frolic in plenty
The program is strong in lectures.
Judge A. u. Blair the nervy jurist
Continued on Page Two.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-09
Where Did Swindler ]. C. La
France Procure Corpse
ADMITS HIS OWN IDENTITY
Further Than That He REFUSES to Dis
cuss Case; Had Much Money
Slowed Away

Further details relative to the ap
prehension of j. c.. LaFrance, the
man who is accused of swindling
insurance organizations, the Modern
WOodman of America, among them
are found in the following story
from Marshfield, Ore.
Sheriff W. w. Gage and Detective
Morris left this morning with j. c
LaFrance and his wife, who were ar
rested at Coquille on a charge oil
obtaining money under false pre-
lenses from the insurance companies
Three little children of the couple
were also taken to Portland. A fourth
child, aged ten, was left at Coquille
The Modern Woodman lodge, from
which the couple is alleged to have
obtained $4,000, has attached $500 in
cash, found in the LaFrance home al
Coquille, and also a sawmill and some
timber land near Bandon, which La
France had purchased.
Don't Talk Much.
Neither the man nor the woman
have talked much of the case. La
France has shown much anxiety
about his wife being connected Will
the affair. The officers left by over
land route to Drain, where they vii
meet train to Portland some time
tomorrow LaFrance and his wife
were brought from Coquille last nigh
and allowed to remain until morning
in a hotel under guard.
About all LaFrance has said to the
officers is that his wife thought the
body found was that of himself.
Detectives Are at Work.
Convinced that James G.. LaFrance
does not intend to tell how he came
ifrtU- possession of the dead body tina
was found in the Clackamas river ant
identified as his own, detectives are
reported to have begun an investiga
ton to ascertain whether the body
was not taken surreptitiously from
Continued on Page Two.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-09
BIC BRIDGE NEAR DONE
Philadelphia and Reading Officials Are
Sending Out Invites 10 the
Dedication
fsrecia, to The Free Press. ]

Philadelphia, May within few
days the final touches will be put on
the Philadelphia and Reading double
track concrete arch bridge on the New
York Division on the Delaware river
near Yardley and the officials are
sending out invitations today for the
dedication of the structure. The
bridge which the new one replaces
was built in 1875 and has been in con.
tinuous service. ever since.
The new bridge consists of IA
arches, II of which have span OF
80 feet inches and three So feet II
inches. The total length between
ends of abutments is 1855 feet. The
bridge is 33 feet wide from out to
out of coping, with tracks IS feet
centre to centre. The base of rail
is about 20 feet above low water in
the river and about 80 feet above bed
rock.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-09
FILLED WITH OPTIMISM
Minnesota Anti-SaIoon League Super.
intendent Says County Option
Will Win

Fergus Falls, Mimi, May THE
Minnesota Anti-Saloon league had
rally day here Sunday, representa-
tives of the league occupying the
pulpits of several churches in the
forenoon, and the day closing with
big mass meeting at the Lyceum
theater in the evening, this meet
ing being addressed by Superintendent
A. G.. Youngdahl of the league and
Rev. Mr.. Hanson, who comes from
the southern part of the state. Mr..
Youngdahl declared that he had
every reason to believe that the
county option forces would elect
enough members to carry a bill
through at the next legislature. All
efforts will be devoted to that end,
he said.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-09
SENT TO THE HOSPITAL
Or. L. I. Aldrich of letters Was Found
To Be Suffering From In
sanity

Sheriff Peterson of Cottonwood
county were to Jeifers and brought
to Window DR.. l.. l. Aldrich, who
was showing unmistakable symp-
toms of insanity. He was given an
examination in probate court and
it was found advisable to commit
him to st. Peter. He imagined that
enemies of his were beneath the
floor and had shot holes through it
in an attempt to kill them. He also
imagined they had the floor full of
electric wires and he had to wear
rubbers, or stand on rubber pads to
protect himself against shocks.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-09
new PLAY IN BOSTON
The Child Will Be Presented at Castle
Square Theatre Tonight;
Problem Drama
ISpeciai to The Free Press. !

Boston, May Harrison Grey
Fiske will present at the Plymouth
Theatre, this evening 1.-THE Child" q
play by Elizabeth A. McFadden, au
thor of "The Product of the Mill" one
of the Harvard prize plays produced
at the Castle Square Theatre. The
play deals with the moral and phys
a child not their own, of man and
woman who have sunk low in the
social scale. Miss Emily Stevens viii
be featured" in the leading role
and prominent among the others il
the cast will be Howell Hansel, Ions
the favorite leading man of loca
stock companies.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-09
Band viii Give Concert.

The Mankato Harmonic band will
give concert next Saturday, which
is also Tag day in the city. The
concert will commence at SIS p.
M, and the band will play on vari-
Gus corners along Front street
There will be a special rehearsal to-
morrow night and all other players
band music are requested to be pres
ent. The meeting will be held at
the city hall at p. m.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-09
AGED MINISTER is DEAD
Rev. John w. Roberts OF Lake Crystal
Died at Age the OF Eighty
Four

Rev. John w. Roberts of Lake
Crystal passed away early this morn
ing. Mr.. Roberts was one OF the
old settlers and was well known in
the community. He was eighty-four
years old last March and leaves a
widow and four sons. The funeral
will be held Saturday at 1870 p. m.
at the WEIGH church in Lake Crystal
and the remains will be buried at
Judson cemetery. The family has re
quested that no flowers be sent.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-09
Decides For the prys.

Judge Kingsley of the district
court has filed decision at Albert
Lea in the Alden contest over the
recent license vote, in which he gives
the disputed ballot to the drys and
thus shuts the saloons out of the
village for another year.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-09
Meeting of Commission.

The park, play grounds and chart
ties commission will hold meeting
this evening at 1880 o'clock in the
office of J. E. Reynolds. the chair.
man, Free Press building. The
meetings are open to the public and
anyone who has any suggestions to
make that will assist the commits
sion in its labors should not hest
tate to attend The commission in
vites advice and the help of the citi
zens of Mankato in its labors.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-09
EXTEND CIVIL SERVICE
Purpose of Administration to Take In
Second and Third Class Post
masters
Isnecial to The Free Press. !

Washington. ID. c., May Post
master General Burleson announced
today that it was the purpose OF
President Wilson and himself to take
into the classified service, probably
during next year, all postmasters OF
the second and third classes. The
fourth class offices are already COW
cred by the executive order