The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-03-14

| pltdi DIT New Ulm after ner nine
weeks of wandering about the coun
try. 1t is said there is no hope OF
saving the foot by treatment, it was
so badly frozen.
MISS Jennings has not given the
attending physicians or any member
OF her family the slightest clew or
hint as TO where she spent her time
between her escape from the Alex
ander hospital in New Ulm and on
the evening when she arrived at
the home of her brother, Henry
Jennings, near Morgan. All efforts
to obtain any information from
the young lady have been in vain.
In answer to all questions, she re-
plies Il can't remember"
| No one has put in an appearance
to even claim that he saw Miss Jen-
nings during her wanderings. When
ever the young lady is questioned as
to where and how she spent the
nine weeks, she becomes very much
excited and borders on the hysteri-
cal.
Oscar NJ. Olson, the agricultural
college professor who has confessed
to the shooting of Clyde Darling, a
laundry wagon driver, was in Man
kato short time ago and consulted
with Henry Hance, former manager
OF the street car company here and
a number of agricultural experts up
on the advisability of hiring a soil
expert for this county.
| The Free Press told the story Of
the Staying last evening. Olson
claims that his wife has made a
confession to him regarding her rela-
| lions with Clyde Darling. He will
be arraigned in the municipal court
of Minneapolis tomorrow morning and
the formal charge of murder will be
preferred. His defense, it is Said
will be based upon the "unwrtten
| law" The professors at the uni
! versity claim that Olson must have
had some prOvocation for the killing
of Darling, and it is alleged that
| Darling had been warned to stay
away from Olson's residence. Oar
| ling was sentenced to the state re-
formatory in 1902 on the charge of
! embeZZlement
The investigation into the doings
of the state game and fish commits
sion has reached Blue Earth county.
| At the session of the house commit
tee yesterday M. n. Lupinski of
WinOna testified that he had bid $500
for the fishing privilege AT Washing
ton lake. Blue Earth county, two
years ago, but that Joe Williams had
thn nt
He said that he had tried to bid for
Lake Tetonka, near Waterville, in
1910, but that Marquis of ST Paul
got to the contract through politi-
cal influence" 81 have been black
| listed SINCE" he said. Mr.. Lupinski
said that he was working in 1911 on
Budd lake, Martin county, and that
the commission refused to let the
men who had contracted for the lake
proceed with the fishing He said that
several dead shad had been found on
the ice, that the fish had been killed
by the cold weather, but that the fish
ermen were charged with illegal fish
ing and $4,000 worth of fishing out.
fit confiscated. He said the case had
afterward been dismissed but that no
further fishing could be done by the
contractee. Mr.. Rider told the com.
mission that there's had been viola
tions of the game laws and that it
was for this reason that the commits.
sion permitted no further fishing.
During the past three weeks Man
kato has been rapidly developing
into a modern Utopia. Not an ar
rest has been made by the police de-
partment since February 16. There
has been a remarkable dearth of
even dodgers" at the police station
and the number OF plain DRINKS"
has been correspondingly few. No
complaints have been filed with the
city council for some time. There
have been no rows or disorders in
the city and it appears that every
one is perfectly satisfied, happy and
everything is lovely. In the words
Of Chief of Police J. w. Donahue,
regarding the work of that depart
ment: There is absolutely nothing
doing" This speaks well for the eff,
ficiency of the policemen.
c. J. Mershon. who has the can.
aliZing project of minnesota before
the legislature, has decided not to
attempt to put his proposition before
the Southern Minnesota Better De-
velopment league, as he had plan.
ned
]. P. Ahrens, Jr, of the Automo
bile Blue Book Publishing company
of Chicago was here day or two
ago, trying to interest the hotels
and garages of this city in being
listed in the new publication. Man
katO will no doubt have a write-up
as well as map of the city. show
ing the roads leaving and to what
towns they lead.
The Commercial club has received
letter from w. e. Upton, secre-
tary of the Northwestern Surety
| company of Mitchell, S. D., in which
Mr.. Upton asks how the Mankato
Commercial club is supported and
managed and also what methods it
has in helping the city. The in
formation is to be used by the
Mitchell club. A letter has also
been received from the club at Fort
Dodge, Iowa, asking the same ques-
tons.
Judge Lorin Cray will attend the
big road meeting at Springfield to-
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